Singapore Standard, 30 October 1957

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  • 27 1 Sigapore Standard Singa STANDARD POLICE ***** (5 ImcsT 2400 FIRI BRIGADE GINIRAL HOSMTAI 24M Vol. VIII. No. 120 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1957 14 PAGES ft <*\i-
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  • 381 1 Plane With 64 Aboard Overshoots Paya Lebar Runway All Smiles As Passengers Emerge Safely FIFTY-FIVE passengers including women, children and babes-in-arms and a crew of nine escaped unhurt when a giant Hermes air-trooper overshot the water-logged runway at Paya Lebar airport yesterday and slid down a
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  • 146 1 JERUSALEM, Israel, Oct. 1 Reuter) A hand-gren-ade tossed by a youth from I the visitors gallery exploded Ki the Israeli Parliament to- i ay wounding the Prime ter. Mr. David ben n. the Foreign Minister, Golda Meir, and three other m.nisters. Blood spattered the government
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  • 224 1 0 4 a.m. Exclusive JOHORE Special Branch this morning detained more than 20 left-wing trade unionists and subversive elements in simultaneous swoops on towns and villages ranging from Pontian in the West to Kulai, Scudai and Johore Bahru. Several of the men
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  • 178 2 Police Chief Orders Island Force Disarmed p«i MA JiL I LA Oct 29 Re uter) The Philippines I once Chief Brigadier General Manuel Cabal todav ordered a series of precautionary measures to prevent Killings and alleged terroristic activities in the Philippines elections. i He ordered the entire police force of
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  • 46 2 BELGRADE. Oct. 29 (Reuter). President Tito may not so to the Soviet Union to attend the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution on Nov. 7, followmedical advice not to for the time being, reliable sources said here today.
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  • 32 2 THE Bnti>h Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday that the latest Soviet disarmament proposals for abolishing the United Nations Disarmament Commission and its five-natKn sub-committee appeared to be with effective ation." Reuter.
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  • 199 2 Seamen's Strike Has Jap Ports Crippled TOKYO, Oct. 29 (UP) The worst Japanese maritime strike i n history threatened to hit foreign shipping as the waterfront tie-up entered its fourth day today without signs of a settlement. Unconfirmed newspaper reports said the All-Japan Seamen's Union planned to apply a "complete
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  • 158 2 CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) in Singa pore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot 80 i 80} Int. Nov. R.S.S. No. 1 80i 802 Dei R.S.S No. 1 80S 805 R.S.S. No. 2 November 79 794 R.S.S. No. 3 November 76i 77 Tone: Steady. Tbe price of tin
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  • 36 2 PRESIDENT Klementi Vo. roshilov of Russia has wished the Turkish people "'peace and happiness" in a message to President Celal Bayar, on the anniversary of the proclamation of the Turkish Republic yesterday. Reuter
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  • 300 2 8,000 Opposition Partisans Attack The Mayors Office ISTANBUL, Oct. 29 A Policeman and a boy were killed and seven people injured today when 8,000 opposition Republican Peoples Party followers rioted and attacked the Mayor's office at Gaziantep, Southern Turkey. The rioters also attacked the
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  • 168 2 Adenauer Calls For German Sacrifice To Help Asia BONN, Germany, Oct. 29 (AP) Launching his third term as West Germany's chancellor, Konrad Adenauer today called for a vigorous programme of aid to underdeveloped countries of Asia and Africa. The Bonn RepubLc, he said, feels "an incumbent obligation" to do what
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  • 122 2 'Zhukov Will Get A Job To Fit Him MOSCOW, Oct. 29 (UP) Nikita Khrushchev said tonight that Marshal Georgi Zhukov soon will get a new job corresponding to his "experience and qualifications." Speaking to newsmen at a reception in the Turkish Embassy, he said "I saw Zhukov today. I spoke
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  • 30 2 PRESIDENT Eisenhower yesterday called in some of his leading scientific authorities for a conference on "very serious and very important scientific matters," a White House spokesman announced. Reuter
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  • 130 2 Polish Reds Are Due For A Purge WARSAW, Oct. 29 (AP)— The Polish Communist Party announced last night it is setting up purge teams to conduct a nationwide cleanup of the membership. A 2,000-word communique issued after a session of the policy making Central Committee said that everyone of the
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  • 214 2 LONDON. Oct. 29 <AP> Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons today he would welcome a mee'.lng of all the heads of government of the North Atlantic Treaty powers. There have been suggestions tha: Mr. Macmillan and President
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  • 25 2 AMERICAN Airlines, the nation's air carrier, announced yesterday that t plans to convert to vir 100 per cent Jet operation* by 1961. U.P.
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  • 141 2 HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 29, (AP)— Elvis Presley, wearing a gold jacket, made his Hollywood concert debut last night before 10.000 hysterical members of the coke and malt set. Few, if any, ever heard a note from the gyrating rock 'n roll singer. Every time Elvis did
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  • 86 3 Customs Seize $27,380 In Smokes SINGAPORE Customs yesterday made a record haul of $27,380 worth of contraband tobacco at Pulau Senang. The tobacco, weighing 3,300 lbs, was contained in 66 neatly-packed gunny sacks. A Customs official told The Standard that a Customs launch on patrol heard the throb of outboard
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  • 96 3 $19,337 In Gold Bars Reported Lost SINGAPORE Police are investigating a report that nine gold bars, worth $19,337. were stolen from an iron safe in a North Bridge Road shop, over the weekend. The proprietor of the shop told the Police that he locked the safe on Saturday. When he
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  • 79 3 THE annual delegates' conference of the Singapore Trades Union Congress, scheduled to be held on Nov. 3, has been postponed owing to delay in circulating its annual report to members. A TUC spokesman said yesterday that the Representative Council will meet soon to finalize arrangements and also
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  • 46 3 Car Worth Only $250 Is Stolen A CAR, worth only $250, was stolen from Paya Lebar area of Singapore on Monday night. Another, worth $1,000, was also driven away from MacPherson Road the same night. Police believe that both vehicles were stolen for their spare parts.
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  • 30 3 SINGAPORE and the Federation are among 19 other countries which will attend the 1958 Colombo Plan Consultative Committee meeting to be held In the United States next year.
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  • 210 3 A MASS re-housing plan, involving more ttian j^ 50,000 people living in Singapore slums, will begin next /^fy^SS RE -HOUSING PLAN The slum dwellers who comprise 3,500 families— T^ CTVIDT M£T VT KAf^KITLJ will be re-accommodated in modern, multi-storied Sin- IKJ OIMK I IV
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  • 76 3 Chain And Pipe Attack On Proprietor THE proprietor of a coffee shop in North Bridge Road, Singapore. Chua Eng Hoe. was yesterday lashed with a bicycle chain and hit on the head with an iron pipe, when he refused to pay protection money. Three thugs had walked into the shop
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  • 150 3 SINGAPORE UMNO has set up an agricultural and fisheries department to help promote agriculture and improve fishing in the Colony. UMNO Information officer, Inche Darus Sharif, said yesterday that with the establishment of the department, the party would be able to extend its
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  • 189 3 More Local Officers Are Needed— Denman Battalion Offers Bright Chances THERE is a bright outlook for local officers in the Colony First Infantry Battalion, Col. P.D. Denman, Commandant of the Singapore Military Forces, told The Standard yesterday. Col. Penman said that local blood would get accelerated promotion because of the
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  • Article, Illustration
    48 3 THE Commandant of the Royal Air Force Regiment (Malaya), Group Captain G.M. Gillan, who is shortly leaving Headquarters. Far East Air Force, for Britain, is seen above bidding farewell to his personal driver. Senior Aircraftsman Radzi, who has served with the Regiment since 1948. R.A.F. photo.
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  • 112 3 Charged With Bribing A Sergeant AN 18-year-old youth who wanted to wear a soldier's uniform attempted to give $5 to a recruiting sergeant, it was alleged in a Singapore court yesterday. The youth, Mohamed Kadir bin Haji Bidin, pleaded not guilty in the Ninth Magistrate's Court to a charge of
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  • 106 3 AN attempt by the Singapore Labour Ministry to end the dispute between the representatives of the Wah Hing Engineering Works and its 23 employees failed yesterday as the firm's management did not attend the proposed talks, a Ministry spokesman told The Standard. The dispute arose
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  • 111 3 PMU To Discuss Elections THE Singapore branch of the Peninsula Malays Union will meet early in December to discuss the position of the party and election matters. PMU secretary, Inche Isa Zain, whose recent application to resign from the party had been rejected, said yesterday that the meeting would make
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  • 81 3 THREE representatives of the Singapore Trades Union Congress yesterday met the Harbour Board authorities to ascertain details of their dispute with their staff association The association, a TUC affiliate, had earlier requested the Congress to intervene in the dispute. After the meeting, TUC secretary, Mr.
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  • 36 3 HONGKONG, Oct. 29 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: $15.65 to £1 Sterling; $5.***** to U.S.$l; $1,838 to Malayan $1; $0,132 to one Indonesian Rupiah: Gold $258,125 to a tael.
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  • 188 3 SARAWAK. Tues.— The Sarawak Government will introduce a new plan on the admission of students into aided secondary schools next year. The plan, adopted after consultation with the Advisory Committee on Education, aims at ensuring more effective use of public expenditure on Sarawak's
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  • 984 4 Lee Tells Graft Probe Commission LIBERAL SOOIALIST PARTY candidate for Tanjong Pagar, Mr. Chong Wee Ling, offered voters $5 to $7 for a vote, the Election Corruption Commission was told in Singapore last night. This was alleged by PAP Assemblyman, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew,
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  • 292 4 'Learn More English' Chew To Students..., SINGAPORE'S Education Minister, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, yesterday urged 50 students from the Kallang West Chinese Government Middle School to "learn a bit more of English," because English is now an international language. Mr. Chew said he understood that even in China today, students
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  • 46 4 THE farewell parade to the Singapore Governor. Sir Robert Black, by members of the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve at H M S. Laburnum, Telok Ayer Basin, was postponed yesterday because of heavy rain. The parade will take place on Friday.
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  • 134 4 THE M.C.P. SEEKS INDIAN RECRUITS' KUALA LUMPUR, Tues The Malayan Communist Party is seeking: "suitable" Malayan Indians to be trained as "leaders," an official of the Special Branch told The Standard today. "The M.C.P. has hardly any capable Indians in its ranks. They are attempting to recruit Indian intellectuals to
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  • 121 4 Lim To Get Report On W.D. Issue THE Tripartite Consultative Committee yesterday discussed a memorandum on the distinction between the local citizens and non-citi-zens in the redundancy issue regarding civilian employees In the armed services in Singapore. The memorandum was. submitted by the Sembawang branch of UMNO and the Council
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  • 27 4 THE new Commander-in-Chief. Far East Station. ViceAdmiral Sir Gerald Gladstone, will pay a courtesy call on Singapore Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, tomorrow niorning.
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  • 187 4 'Only Way To End Dispute' THE Fred Waterhouse Workers' Union has threatened to take ''dynamic, militant action without delay" ii the Singapore Minister for Labour, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, does not settle the union's dispute with the management by Nov. 11. Yesterday, the union in a
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  • 139 4 Secretariat Of Five For Front SINGAPORE Labour Front yesterday announced formation of a "secretariat" of five members to expedite the work of its central committee. It consists of Mr. Chew Swee Kee, the president. Mr. Tang Peng v eu> the generalsecretary, M;. J. M. Jum?bhoy. Mr. R. C. H. Lim
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  • 34 5 Swan Bee moments after a giant fourengined Hermes troop-carrier with 55 passengers and nine crew overshot the runway at Paya Lebar Airport. These exclusive pictures were taken by Standard reporter-photographer Chan
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  • 701 5 STANDARD reporters and cameramen on tne spot recorded the following description of how the passengers escaped from the plane: After the plane ended its dizzy skid all emergency exits were sprung open and an escape chute lowered from the side of the
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  • 470 6 Singapore Standard Stupid Truculence T^HE fit of temper in which Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio attacked the English Press in Singapore by charging them with printing unfavourable news items about his country has done the Indonesian Government a greater disservice than he realized. He carried his stupid truculence back with him
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  • 398 6 TT is good news from the Emergency front that two terrorist gangs have recently been wiped out in North Johore. One of the gangs was active in the upper reaches of the Muar River. In 1950 this gang attacked the police post at Bukit Kepong In the
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  • 939 6 D. A. Rahman writes from South Kedah 'On Earth there is nothing great, but Man, In Man there is nothing great, but Mind../ JTOURTEEN years ago today, it was a great moment of decisive, universal advance when on October 30, 1943, at Moscow, Molotov, of Russia, Hull, of
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  • 585 6 We the PEOPLE Sir The Federation's Minister for Education. Inche Khir Johari, advised Malays that they should not try to get rid of a language just because It was foreign. India, with a comparatively small foreign population, still finds i*, hard to get rid of English fdr ten years. And
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  • 909 6 Technical Education In Malaya Sir— From time to time there appears in the local Press suggestions for improving technical education in Singapore and Malaya to enable students and apprentices to qualify as members of the engineering institutions in the United Kingdom, These engineering organizations are, the Institutions of Civil, Mechanical,
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  • 632 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME Aster Gunasekera By "T ORD. what fools these ■L* mortals be!" Tomorrow 150 former employees of the Singapore Harbour Board, who were among those victimized into staging the recent "goslow" move in the harbour, will have to quit their quarters. Many of them have
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  • 400 7 Christopher Columbus, He Says The... And Sputnik Is Not Circling SYDNEY, Oct. 29 (Reuter) The Russian satellite. Sputnik, is not circling the earth "because the earth is flat," according to a man quoted in the Sydney Morning: Herald today. The man, Mr. George Fowler, said: 111 give
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  • 16 7 THE United States has sent Russia its first official report on Sputnik sightings.— UP.
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  • 274 7 Moscow Keeps Mum After Crucial Marathon Meet PARTY LEADERS STUMPED BY THE MARSHAL'S CASE? MOSCOW, Oct. 29 (Reuter).— Official silence about the future of Marshal Georgi Zhukov continued to prevail in Moscow this morning as a crucial meeting of the powerful Central Committee of the Soviet
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  • 73 7 MEETING at the White House on Oct. 25, are, top row, British Foreign Minister Mr. Selwyn Lloyd and the U.S. Secretary of State Mr. John Foster Du'les. Front row (from left): British Premier Mr. Harold Macmillan; President Eisenhower, and SecretaryGeneral of NATO. Mr. Paul Henri
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  • 183 7 PARIS, Oct. 29, (Reuter)— The French National Assembly by a 281—278 vote early today rejected M. Guy Mollet the Socialist leader as prime minister. M. Mol let's chances of getting the Assembly's confidence disappeared when the Conservative Party which has
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  • 72 7 NEW YORK. Oct. 29 (AP)— Two large American automobile firms announced price increases yesterday for their 1958 cars, which will be on the market next week. General Motors announced its increases will range from 2 per cent on Oldsmobiles to 5.7 per cent tor Pontiacs. Studebaker-Packard
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    • 42 7 MANILA, Oct. 29. (UP^The Constabulary today tiirred over to U.S. Navy authoritips the American driver of a tru^k which killed three Filipinos and injured 23 others in an accident on the national highw;v in Fa:npanga Province en Sunday.
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    • 40 7 NEW YORK, Oct. 29, (UP) A new line of "atonic ia»^p^ capable of providing powerfree uninterrupted illumination for periods up to 10 years were on display at the trade fair of the atomic industry which began here yesterday.
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    • 35 7 WASHINGTON. Oct. ?9 (UP). Assistant Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield said today a full-scale Congressional inquiry may start early next month on the U.S. position in the battle with Russia for missile superiority
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    • 37 7 PARIS, Oct. 29 (AP).— Funeral services were held today for Christian Dior in a church scented with Lillies of the Valley and filled with invited guests seated as carefully as for a fashion showing.
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    • 37 7 KINGSTON, Jamaica. Ot. 29 (AP)— Fire of unknown origin destroyed three stores and damaged several other buildings in the resort citv of Montego Bay on Sunday night. The loss was estimated at U*****,000 dollars.
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    • 28 7 LONDON. Oct. 29, (AP) Polish Communist Party chief Wladyslaw Gomulka is going to Moscow for the revolution celebrations next month. Warsaw Radio announced last night.
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    • 33 7 CANBERRA. Oct. 29 (Reuter) Australian observers will attend a SEATO joint training exercise in the Philippines from Nov. 1 to Dec. 11, the Minister for Defence, Sir Ralph Mcßride, said today
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    • 25 7 TEHERAN, Oct. 29 (AP) King Faisal of Iraq left Teheran by plane yesterday after a 12-day State visit to the Iranian capital.
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    • 37 7 NEW YORK. Oct. 29 (UP)— The first American trade fair in the Soviet Union in the 40-year history of the Communist regime will be held in Moscow next summer, it was disclosed here yesterday.
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  • 79 7 Jap-R.I. War Demage Talks Pull Again TOKYO, Oct. 29 (AP) Japanese and Indonesian negotiators failed again yesterday to agree on World War Two reparations. The meeting to negotiate the technical aspects of the reparations issue was held between Osamu Itagaki, chief of the Foreign Office Asian Affairs Bureau and Dr.
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  • 89 7 Nato Will Fight orstad WASHINGTON. Oct. 29. (AP) The Supreme Corrmander of NATO. Gen. Lauris Norstad. said yesterday the Western allies "would respond forcefully and effectively" *o aggression against any member. Norstad, who had just conferred with President Eisenhower, said this in answer to newsmen's questions about how NATO would
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  • 71 7 TOKYO. Oct. 29 (UP) A mission representing the Egyptian Aswan High Dam Authority said today that construction on the "great dam" will begin late next year. Colonel Samir Helmy. head o! the three-man group, said that bids for construction of the dam will be accepted
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  • 153 7 TAN CALLS FOR STABLE RUBBER PRICE GENEVA, Oct. 29, (AP) Malaya's Minister for Commerce and Industry, Tan Siew Sin at a meeting of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade iGATT) called for a stabilization of prices for rubber his country's principal export. "We in the Federation view with concern
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  • 51 7 CAIRO Oct. 29 (DP) Russia is now Egypt's largest client and supplier. During the period Jan. 1 Aug. 31, 1957, Russia purchased £23,093,558 worth of goods from Egypt. She sold Egypt SI 4.694,558 worthof exports as compared with £5,555,666 and £7,889.102 respectively daring the whole of
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  • 140 7 A Weekend Vacation On The Moon OTTAWA, Oct 29 (UP) The Soviet embassy gave an imaginative preview here yesterday of the timetable of space travel round trips to Mars and the moon and back upon which Russian scientists currently are working. The de-luxe tour for space-minded travellers, who definitel> will
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  • 68 7 LONDON. Oct. 29, (Reuter) —The Queer arrived back in London today by overnight train for Scotland after spending the week-end privately with her cousin. Lord Elphinstone. at Drumkilbo. The Queen has been resting since her return from her strenuous 10-day tour of Canada and the United
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  • 54 7 GUAIBA. Brazil, Oct. 29 (AP) Mrs. Maria Santos yesterday gave birth to a 15.4 pound baby 28 inches long, and doctors said this is the average weight and length of a child aged five months. It is the eleventh child for Mrs. Santos and
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  • 114 7 NEW U.S. ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE WASHINGTON. Oct. 29 (UP) The U.S. Army yesterday announced development of a new cinti-aircraft missile and reported encouraging progress In perfecting a rocket to intercept and destroy enemy ballistic missiles. The new anti-aircraft weapon—the Hawk will knock down low-flying planes, even those as low as tres-top
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  • 165 8 India Will Get A Deputy Malayan High Commissioner KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Federation Government today confirmed that the post of a deputy Malayan High Commissioner to India is to be created, but not before 1958. The earliest that the Government can find a man to fill the post will be
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  • 133 8 IPOH, Tues. Two monitor operators attached to a tin mine were buried alive when several hundred tons of sand broke loose from a mining dump and slid into a 150-foot deep mininp pit at the bottom of Kiedang Hill in Buntong last night. Another monitor
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  • 62 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A former Malayan High Court Judgd Dr. Justice William Buhagiar, has been installed President of the High Court in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, The Standard learnt today. This is revealed in a letter sent by Sir Charles Mathew. former Federation Chief Justice, to a
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  • 58 8 MALACCA, Tues. A Police party led by the C.I.D. Chief, Mr. Jogindar Singh, raided an attap house at Alor Gajah yesterday and recovered countefeit ten and 20-cent coins to the face value of $15. Moulds, lead plaster and other articles used for counterfeiting were also seized
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  • 29 8 POLICE Inspector Ng Hoong Fuan and Det.-Sgt. Loh Thean Guan, have been held by the Penang Police on a warrant and will be produced in court today.
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  • 68 8 CHE Mohammed Idris (left), a Scout official from Bruas District, Perak, who is at present receiving teacher training: in the United States under the auspices of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, presents a kris to Mr. William F. Bayler, Jr., an American
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  • 248 8 Philippines Plan Legation In Fed. Next ear MANILA, Oct. 29, (UP). The Philippines feels the need for "closer relationship" with Malaya and will establish a legation in Kuala Lumpur next year, the Foreign Office said today. A spokesman of the Department of Foreign Affairs said at present there was no
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  • 116 8 UNIVERSITY of Malaya's Arts Lecture Theatre will be converted into a blood transfusion centre for the day on Nov. 13. On that day undergraduates will donate blood to the Blood Bank as part of their Welfare Week programme. Mr. Dieu Sie w Chuan, chairman of
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  • 231 8 FOUR persons have been conferred the Honorary Membership of the University of Malaya Archaeological Society. They are: Dr. QuaritchWales, Professor G. Ccedes, Dr. Gibson-Hill and the Kathi of Kota Kuala Muda in Kedah. The conferment is in recognition of exceptional work done in the field
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  • 124 8 Girl Stabbed And Robbed In Katong HELEN CHIA. 23, was waylaid, robbed and then stabbed in Ramsgate Road in Katong, Singapore, last night. She was admitted to the General Hospital with stab wounds in the chest and arm. Police have not been ab's to record a statement from her. Miss
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  • 40 8 MR. ONG KEE LIN of the Chartered Bank in Penang is going on promotion as Staff Officer of the Battery Road branch of the Chartered Bank in Singapore. Mr. Ong will Take up his new appointment on Nov. 1.
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  • 23 8 THE inaugural meeting rf the Bagan Jermal branch of UMNO. Penang will be helrt rt the Dermawan Muslimin Club on Sunday
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  • 153 8 PENANG, Tues. Three men, Ismail bin Awang Mustapha bin Ahmad and Ahmad bin Abdul Razak, were each sentenced to seven years' Imprisonment by Mr. Justice Hill in the Assize court today for gang robbery at a house in Ai Tong Estate, Alor Star, on March
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  • 110 8 MALACCA, Tues— A 31--man committee was formed by the MCA here yesterday to help register more than 200,000 Chinese in the State for Federal citizenship. More than 200 representatives from various guilds and associations attended the meeting at the MCA headquarters at Tranquerah Road. Mr.
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  • 117 8 PENANG, Tues.— The Senior Assistant Comptroller o f Inland Revenue. Penang, Mr. R. G L. Barnes, today said that a large number of taxpayers in Penang, Kedah and Perlis lad not submitted their ii>"ome tax return forms for the urrent year although the forms were issued to them
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    • 135 8 Top-gnade ■VvJrgJnl^B flavour Those natural cork tips. V as cool to your lips as the 1 >^^^fi^^^( fine tobacco is smooth C fyVEfiMPJf lo your throat /imSi^Mffl CHANGE TODAY TO >^ CRAVEN A' KIND TO YOUR THROAT Steve Neoh (SUNDAY STANDARD) writes: snappy wholesome, extremely funny film. Laurence Olivier Marilyn
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    • 208 8 COLONY OF SINGAPORE PART TIME NATIONAL SERVICE ONLY 7 DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER if you are a young man born between Ist December 1937. and 2nd December 1939. and a Citizen of the United] Kingdom and Colonies DO NOT MISS YOUR LAST CHANCE Penalty for non-registration: Imprisonment on conviction, for
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  • 553 9  -  MR. GOH -BY 'SHORTAGE OF SCHOOLS WILL AFFECT MANY THE HIGH COST OF BEING A MAYOR IPOH Tues. The Alliance Government's education policy, as outlined in the Razak Report, was .everely criticised today by the Malayan Student, a monthly magazine devoted tb educational topics i
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  • 187 9 h IPOH, Tues. The Mentrl i ir. Perak Inche Mohamed alii bin Jawi, last night nted "Letters of Appren" to 28 men and one woman for outstanding serrendered during the Merdeka celebrations in the State. Laer, they were entertained to a "Satay" party
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  • 45 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues The Federation government today paid $9,700 to the Kelantan and Trengganu songket weavers and silversmiths for the costumes and regalia of state which were used 3t the installation of the Yang-di Pertuan Agong and his consort last month.
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  • 424 9 Govt. gives $250,000 for K L flood victims AS 5,000 PREPARE FOR MORE RAIN... KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, disclosed today that the Social and Welfare Lotteries Board would make an immediate donation of $250,000 for the victims of this week's Kuala Lumpur floods. Damage suffered by
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  • 177 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A Siamese housewife alleged in a Magistrate's Court here today that a man had kidnapped her, imprisoned and raped her. Kin j at Eh Dum alias Gurnam Kaur. who embraced the Sikh religion when she married Bhan Singh, said
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  • 89 9 BIG SCHEME FOR RURAL AREAS SOON KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Federation Government has begun to step up its rural development programme designed to improve conditions in Malayan kampongs and smaller towns. The multi-million dollar scheme, now in the blueprint stage, envisages the promotion of kampong and cottage industries through co-opera-tive
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  • 291 9 —The world's best? I'll say she is! KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Despite unkind allegations that Malaya is a cultural desert, America's own Marian Anderson came to Kuala Lumpur. She sang last night and she conquered. Never was there a more appreciative audience. Wearing a lovely grey ball gown, which was relieved
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  • 164 10 Oil Drilling Platform For S-EA A MILLION DOLLAR contract for British engineers an export contract with part payment in dollars for the first mobile oil drilling platform to be built in Britain has been obtained by Steel Structures Ltd., one of the Howard Group of engineering companies. It will be
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  • 128 10 DURABLE PLYWOOD FROM LOGS A BRITISH firm is now making durable plywood direct from logs. This, it is claimed, will give the firm the largest production potential in Europe for the manufacture of high class waterproof and boilproof plywood up to British standard specifications. This specification means the resin used
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  • 95 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices p*t picul yesterday were: coDra, Oct./Nov. $25 buyers, $26 sellers: coconut oil In bulk $41} sellers; In drums $45 1 sellers. Muntok white pepper $106 sellers, Sarawak white $105 sellers ipecial Sarawak black $64. Singapore Copra Association closing prices: fair merchantable
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  • 26 10 PYRENE Company has been registered with a nominal capital of £A200.000 as a preliminary step to establishing a fire extinguisher manufacturing plant at Melbourne.
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  • 200 10 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done: Fed. Disp. $1.95: F. N. ords 52.57J, $2.55. $2.57* delayed; Gammons $2.325; $2.36. $2 35; Hammers $2.15 overnight and yesterday; H. Waugh $1.72. $1.70; M. Breweries $3.60. $3.62J delayed M. Cement $1.50. $1.47i; McAlister $1.70: M Box $1.92*. cr: OCBC
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  • 203 10 ALL sections is the Malayan share market eased throughout yesterday and closed weak at the lower levels. The turnover was small. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: Allenbv 1.85 1 95 Batu Lintaritf 2.10 2.20 Bukit Sembawang 2 9 3/Connemara 1.25 1.35 Indragiri
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  • 271 10 New Boilers For Luton Oil Refinery TWO new package boiler units weighing 36 tons each were supplied recently by a British firm to the Shell Petroleum Company's oil refinery at Lutong in Sarawak. The boilers, which are of the water tube type, can generate 33,100 lb. of steam per hour
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  • 25 10 Spore-Laos Air Service Due To Start NextMonth A 817 four-engined stratoliner which will be used by Air Laos for its service between Laos and Singapore.
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  • 125 10 THERE have been two latest gold finds in Sarawak, but they are uneconomical to mine, according to a geological survey conducted on the discoveries. 1 The gold were found in remote mountainous and sparsely inhabited parts of the country. The survey has this to add:
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  • 79 10 MR. LIM THIAM CHIN, 34, (pictured here), »n accountant of Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation Limited, Ipoh Branch Office, u-ho will be leaving for the United Kingdom on a sevenmonth advanced training course in banking. A former Perak tennis doubles champion, Mr. Lim will probably be attached
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  • 121 10 RUBBER closed at 80 i cents per lb. for first grade International November shipment, cent below Monday. The closing tone was steady. The market opened lower reflecting overseas and fluctuated within narrow limits with fair business passing. There was fair interest in lower sheets with the accent
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  • 144 10 OUTER ROADS Arekeldy, Pdidawnyunt, Eastern Maid. Eastern Venture. Inchulva. Adm. Hardy. Batoela, Baud. Zuiko Maru Inchewells. Mikuma Maru. Eastern Prince. Capt. Georgis. Trein Maersk. Reinrich Jensen. Agapenor, Sabang. Hamilton Harbour, Obokil, Peda. Lily. INNER ROADS larantuka. Senai. P. Kidjang, Bentonsj, Hong Tat." Pahepa, Segamat, Moonfish. Flying Lark.
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  • 679 10 A SUSTAINED effort to strike a balance between economy and power has enabled a British motorcycle company to produce machines which save money by reducing fuel consumption. The newly-published 1958 designs of the firm (James Motor-Cycles) have several new features. The "Comet 100" does
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  • 156 10 THE average United States factory worker had more cash on hand and could buy more with it last September than he could in August, the U.S. Department of Labour reports. The Department's monthly Bureau of Labour statistics announcement shows that the rise in earnings, resulting
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  • 41 10 Photo shows (from left): Messrs. V.M. Suzuki, Y. Ushiyama. Teh Chiew Oo (managing director of Tithes at its head office in Penang), Teh Bee Heng (sales manager Singapore branch) and Goh Ewe Kheng (Singapore br^n^h manager). Y.C. Lee photo
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  • 197 10 A BRITISH company, which earlier this year launched the perforated card accounting machine capable of printing 42 thousand characters a minute, has inaugurated a new computer and accounting machine research establishment near London. Housed in a modern, threestorey building, the new establishment embraces the research
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  • 98 10 A NEW industrial air-condi-tioning heat pump, suitable for offices as well as factories, is now in production in Britain. It provides five different services— heating, air circulating, cooling, air cleaning and dehumidifying. The unit, which delivers about th-ee units of heat for every unit of electricity it
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    • 1191 11 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 lines) (Incorporated in Singapore) (12 lintt) *tT THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAIUNCS to LIVERPOOL. CLASCOW, LONDON CONTINENTAL PORTS Carriers option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo (Via Suez with liberty to proceed via Panama or Cape of
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  • 754 12 hundred young Malayans are being trained today under a unique system of education at Nee Soon, "Singapore, in the Army Trade School which forms a Company of the Malayan Basic Training Centre. There, these teenagers of various races undergo military training, study normal school lessons for boys
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  • 173 12 "0.4L8/R SINGH of 153. Adarsii Nagar, Jaipur in India is interested to have pen friends from Malaya. He is 16 years old and his hobbies are collectivp stamps, coins, picture cards and reading magazines. Balbir also has a number of friends of both sex icho desire to
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  • 509 12 WEEKLY STUDENT REPORTS: r pHE clock struck ten and outside the house all were quiet and asleep except the twinkling stars in heaven peepiug with curiosity towards the earth. It was just another ordinary night. So, after saying goodnight to my parents I retired for the night.
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  • 243 12 STANDARD'S youth Pa 9 e SCHOOL HiKS! CORNER A Young Scientist lI TOTI L a I of Raffles Ins- ifr^^JHk keeen student f^ of Chemistry JF' and has won \y*><P'jW several prizes in that field. He is one of the few boys in Singapore who possess miniature private laboratories at
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    • 165 12 The world famous family of TIGER medicinal products CHEE THONE SAN Provides Instantaneous relief for Toothache, Earache Stomachache Muscle Pain, Indigestion, Backache Colds, Sore Throat, etc. ENG AUN TONG THE TIGER MEDICAL HALL 1 BAKED BEANS (m That Folks Like Best! r* olden-brown mealy as a baked potato G steeped
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 299 12 Im||mmlmLJ^^^B^^ merit. use care in transit, imnrove surroundings, health. |Ljl kill ll>y L'ANCEU— Jane 21 to July ra I ■^■V 1 1 I im ß^l lie economical; keep LjLj^^^fl*^ I9^Rq busy, further routine matters ■kfl and abilities, be saving. Bl^V^^K^T^F^ l.i:<»— July 23 to Aug. 22— WBIIpIIIIiIUmI Be reserved with
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  • 274 13 Rhodesia Face An Inns Defeat SALISBURY, Southern Rhodesia, Oct. 29, (Reuter) —Centuries by three New South Wales batsmen put the Australian touring cricket team in a position to force an innings victory over Rhodesia here yesterday. Rhodesia will start the final day still needing 228 to avert the innings defeat,
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  • 192 13 Turpin Gets Off Floor To Blast Opponent BIRMINGHAM. Oct. 29 (Reuter).— Randolph Turpin (Britain), former world middleweight champion, beat Sergio Burchi (Italy) here ia.st night, the referee stopping their ten rounds light-heavyweight match in the second round. Turpin, now British lightheavyweight champion, handed out, tremendous punishment in the one minute,
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  • 63 13 HONGKONG, Oct. 29 (Reuter) A group of ten Commonwealth professional golfers, including Australian Peter Thompson, left here today for Sydney to play in the Ampol tourney on Oct. 31. The other players are David Thomas, Peter Alliss, Bruce Crampton, Harold Henning, Gary Player, Eric Brown, John Panton,
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 280 13 ACKNOWLEDGMENT MR. KOH BOH CHUA and family sincerely thank all relafriends and helpers for kind services rendered, in of cars, condoscrolls and their e at the funeral a beloved wife the late m Sect Gek Choon. SITUATIONS VACANT \Y"AN*TED acflve man not over 40. Essential thoroughly exrerier.ced on large mechanical
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    • 265 13 CLASSIFIED ADS ACCOM. WANTED LARGE firm desires three houses minimum three bedrooms Holland Road, Tanglin, Bukit Timah, Dunearn area Apply Box No. T3183 S.S. TUITION MODERN BALLROOM DANCING $8 Monthlv starting 5.30 p.m. 4.11.1957. Rock-n-Roll $5 starting 8.30 p.m. 4.11.1957. Cha Cha Cha; Rock-n-Roll; Mambo $10 Complete starting 5.30 p.m,
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    • 225 13 AT YOUR SERVICE tpOR ail Silk-9creen Printing Jobs Consult Bright Signcrafts Co., 43 Prinsep Street, S'pore. 7. Tel ***** *****. Factory 400-E, Kim Chuan Rd. S'pore Branch 78 Cross St. K.L. Tel: 3953. Factory 34, Peel Rd. K.L. No job too big or too small. HOTO STAMPS— Reproduced from your
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    • 299 13 WHERE TO EAT A I HOU KEE BAR RESTAURANT. 21 Killiney Road. Lunch: Mulligatawny Soup. Roast Chicken Stuffing. Bread Sauce. Roast Potatoes, Garden Peas. Stew Apple Custard. Coffee, $1.80 per person. TIEN TSIN RESTAURANT (Air-Conditicned) 161 New Market Road (Behind Southern Cabaret) Singapore, Telephone *****. Delicious and Genuine Northern Chinese
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    • 381 13 NOTICES GOVERNMENT OF FEDERATION OF MALAYA COLOMBO PLAN SCHOLARSHIP TECHNICAL SCHOLARSHIP TO BE AWARDED BY GOVERNMENT OF CANADA IN FISHING GEAR TECHNOLOGY IN 1958. A PPLICATIONS are invited -tx from persons who are Federal Citizens for a Technical Scholarship to be awarded by the Government of Canada to enable the
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    • 317 13 CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE TENDERS 1. ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENT: (a> Supply of 4 Nos. Portable Petrol Engine Driven 3" Centrifugal. Self-priming Non-chokeable Pumps. Tender Deposit $50/-. Close 12 NOON —18/11/57; (b) Supply of 4 Nos. Self propelled Motor Scythe on Pneumatic Tyres. Tender Deposit $50/-. Close 12 NOON— I9/11/57; (c) Supply
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    • 1030 13 NOTICES SALE BY TENDER TENDERS are invited for the sale of one Bradford Jowitt Van BA. 2158. year of manufacture 1948. The vehicle can be inspected in the Malacca General Hospital Compound during normal working hours on any working day. Tenders in sealed envelope marked "Tender for Bradford Jowitt Van
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 304 13 LilAbner By Al Capp frr rAi<r tKt Tue>T7gyii i -^.o^gn*.^-^ aJ A<T iTff !Z. SUM-TAN.NOrHINV? /^ZrrirZ^eTr^ MAI UCMI EF --</ HHOPE IT'S A FAKE.? •vTqLcc^ xnrcr A IT f f £VS?£S£? joust like allT so, i sent mv BEST > X S|S > S™S A X/ BREATHES IJ VfcAIHES i
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  • 487 14 After Ten Years, Mother's Blessing For A Chinese Champ Matman Lee Makes A Sentimental Journey STOCKY, broad-shoul-dered, world ranking Chinese wrestler, 252--pounder Lee Leong Fc, made a quick air dash to Ipoh and back immediately on arrival from London yesterday morning. The reason? He wanted his mother's blessings for his
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  • 212 14 LONDON. Oct. 28. (Reuteri The England team against Ireland at Wembley on Nov. 6 is unchanged from the eleven which beat Wales 4-0 in the last home International. The team is: Hopkinson (Bolton Wande- Howe (West Bromwich Albion). Byrne (Manchester -d). Clayton (Blackburn Rovers), Wright (Wolverhamp-
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  • 66 14 IPOH. Tues.— Dusun Bertam Estate scored an easy 6-0 victory over Kings Dragoon Guards in a Div. 2 hockey league match on the Upper padane today. K. Subramaniam 4 and V. Raju 2 scored. In another second division match on the Lower padang, a solitary goal
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  • 94 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— The Selangor Rugby Union team to meet Hongkong touring team in a floodlit match at the Merdeka Stadium here on Saturday Nov 2 is as follows: lan Chandler. Yeoh Cheang Swi, Hugh Forbes. Thomas, Robinson, Malcolm McCaw, Pat Edington, Mike Newman. Jope.
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  • 268 14 Blacks Avenge Defeat: Raffles Lead And Lose ALL Blacks avenged their first defeat when they beat Raffles Institution by 11 points (a goal and 2 penalties) to five (a goal) in their return rugger match on the school ground yesterday. Blacks lost their first encounter a month ago, to the
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  • 116 14 Syntax Tipped To Win The Melbourne Cup MELBOURNE. Oct. 29. (Reuter). Syntax, a New Zealand gelding, is favourite for the Melbourne Cup, Australia's greatest horse race, to be run over two miles at Flemington here next Tuesday. Syntax was scratched from the recent Caulfied Cup because one oT its fetlocks
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  • 77 14 SRC Police A Try Each SINGAPORE Recreation Club and the Police drew 3-3 (a try each) in their rugby match yesterday. The Recs took the lead in the first half through a try by Keith Molloy under the posts. A. Rennie failed to add the extra points. In the second
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  • 361 14 DISASTER almost struck 22 Singapore cagers and officials when the Nationalist Chinese plane, carrying the Colony team to Taipeh for the Chiang Kai Shek Cup basketball competition, crash landed at Manila on Monday. The Singaporeans, however, survived the crash-landing without injury, but they have
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  • 305 14 Fed. Services Will Give H'Kong A Hard Time KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Federation Combined Services will meet the Hongkong Rugby touring team on Thursday in the first of two first class mat. which the tourists will play in the Federal capital in week. Services selectors have scoured the Federation for
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  • 273 14 Effortless 'Best Time' By Misty Line TRACKWORK AT h\L. KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Misty Line 11, a gallant runner-up to The Torch at the previous Kuala Lumpur meet, shaped extra well on the training track this morning when he easily disposed of three furlongs in 38| sec. in the company of
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  • 76 14 BANGKOK, Oct. 29 (Reuter)— Thai Badminton Association officials announced yesterday the Japanese Badminton Association has cabled conceding Thailand a walkover in the second round of the Thomas Cup tournament Asian Zone. The officials said Thailand will now meet Pakistan in the Asian Zone final.
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  • 77 14 1st. Innings Points For Queensland BRISBANE. Oct. 29 (Reuter). Queensland took first innings points from New South Wales, Sheffield Shield champions, in the season's opening Shield match which ended here today. Final scores: New South Wales 165 and 252 for eight: Queensland 478 for nine declared. It was largely due
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  • 24 14 THE Singapore division 1 league hockey match between Singapore Cricket Club and Royal Air Force Seletar yeiterday was postponed due to rain.
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  • 33 14 SERANGOON Garden Sports Club edged Star Soccerites 2-1 in a friendly soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday. A. Green scored both the goals for the winners while Soccerites replied through Corthine.
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  • 142 14 TODAY'S SPORT In The Colony RUGBY Police S.A. vs University at Bukit Timah; S.C.C. "A" vs. S.E.R. at S.C.C; R.A.F. Seletar vs. R.N.Z.A.F. at Seletar; R.A.F. Seletar 2nd XV vs R.A.A.F. 2nd at Tengah' Naval Base vs R.A.F. Tengah at Tengah: South Johore R.F.C. vs R.N.Z.A.F. Tengah at Tengah. SOCCER
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  • 87 14 Ibbotson Is Sportsman Of The Year LONDON. Oct. 29, (Reuter) —Derek Ibbotson, the world mile record holder, was today named Sportsman of the Year by the British Sports Writers Association. The 25-year-old Yorkshireman topped the poll held by the Association. Runner-up was Stirling Moss, the first British driver to win
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  • 174 14 Ramblers Trounce Cheng Wah In Replay IPOH, Tues. Defending cup champions, Ipoh Ramblers scored a runaway 7-1 victory over Cheng Wah A.A. in their Royal Devon Yeomanry Knockout soccer semi-final replay on the Assembly Hall ground today. In the first game, Cneng Wah held Ramblers to a 2-alI draw. Today,
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  • 47 14 THE following will represent Wearne Brothers "A" i n the SBHFA knockout cup final against National Carbon at Jalan Besar Stadium today. Chie Poh Nan; Latiff Abdullah. V. N. Lopez: Shariff. Victor. Anwar: Kasani. M. Ah. M. Salleh. Wee Seng Pah, Charles.
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