Singapore Standard, 31 December 1957

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  • 31 1 Singapore Standard JHGFJGJHGJ STANDARD ***** (5 lines) POLICE 2400 FIRE BRIGADE GEN E RAT HOSPITAL 2811 2414 jmr \»1. Mil. No. 181 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY* DECEMBER 31, 1957 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 317 1 Cash Lure To Bring Colony Into Red Orbit THE Chinese Communist Party is making a bid to brinz the Colony of Singapore within the orbit of the world Communist bloc. The CCP is now luring into its web extremist political organizations and trade unions with financial assistance to help fight
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  • 122 1 MCP Sends Ministers XmasCards HE Malayan Communist Par y yesterday sent Christina-; cards to Singapore Ministers. political leaders tnd organisations. F.rst to receive the MCP's fT.-eting* was the Minister 1 r Local Government, Lands and Housing, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat. who also :he chairman of the S.ngapore U.M.X.O.
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  • 100 1 ALEXANDRIA. Egypt, Dec. UP)— The Chief of Stall c Egyptian Navy reveal- last night that Egypt is reWftrshlpfl from a f power. B Adm. Soliman I/.zct. I visited Russia last month, the shins were on the He did not disclose c the ships were coming I the
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  • 32 1 A SOVIET scientist said m Moscow yesterday that new Sputniks would soon appear, followed closely by the first rockets, to blaze the trail to the moon and other planets. Reuter
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  • 113 1 Famine Stalks 83,000 In Java JAKARTA. Dec. 30 'AFP) Social Affairs Minister Muljadi Djojomartono said today that 83,000 people In central Java are suffering from famine. He said ht had found on a rrcont visit there that some people had been forced to eat rats because of the food shortage.
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  • 425 1 FLOOD MENACET COMES TO K.L. $10 P00 Damage Skyscraper Flats t KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— More than 1,000 families were made homeless here today following last night's torrential rain which swelled the Klang and Gombak Rivers beyond all control. The waters caused more than $10,000 damage, mainly of the
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  • 209 1 SINGAPORE RUSHES AIR AID TO CEYLON FOUR-ENGINED Hastings aircraft of the Royal Air Force, Far East Transport Command, will take off from Changi at dawn today on their mercy mission to Ceylon. They will carry flood relief supplies consisting of medicine, serum, food blankets and clothing. Meanwhile, RAF Valetta transport
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  • 38 1 SIR HUGH FOOT. Cyprus' unconventional new Governor, wis dre to leave Nicosia yesterday by air for London to recommend to V\c .British Government a so t?£ secret plan 'Ln ,th«- future &fr>AUntt of ihe Cyprus Reuter
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  • 90 1 SINGAPORE Government baa given one of its medical officers two weeks m which to answer allegations of "irregularities," The Stan- dard learnt yesterday. This followed months of investigations by the Police and the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau. Mr. R. Hoffman, of the Establishment
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  • 83 1 Grantham's Pledge To HK Dockers HONGKONG, Dec. 30 (Router) Sir Alexander Grantham. retiring Governor of Hongkong, today assured the 4,500 Chinese workers at the Royal Naval Dockyard here that everything would be done to find them alternative jobs when the dockyard closes. The assurance was given m a reply from
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  • 52 1 TOKYO, Dec. 30 (Reuter)— Two United States Navy jet fighters crashed into the sea last night off Southern Japan, the Japanese Maritime Safety Board reported here. The Board said the two pilots had baled out. One was picked up this morning by a United States
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  • 121 1 Delegate Walks Out On Meet TOKYO, Dec. 30 (AFP)— The delegate of the exiled "Republic of Formosa" walked out of the current Afro-Asian conference m Cairo protesting against the domination of the conference by Communist countries, it was reported here today. In a special news bulletin, the headquarters of the
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  • 29 1 PRESIDENT Carlos P. Garcia, 61, was installed fourth President of the Philippine Republic yesterday, and pledged to preserve "our historic relations of friendship" with the United States. U.P.
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  • 161 1 TUNKU MAY GO TO BANGKOK FOR TALKS TO END EMERGENCY ALOR STAR, Mon. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman may soon go to Bangkok to seek more co-operation from the Thai Government m ending the Emergency* This step, The Standard was reliably told was discussed at a clo&^TWm* meeting somewhere m
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  • 163 1 HOME OF SCHOOL HEAD SEARCHED, PAPERS SEIZED THE home of a Chung Cheng High School acting principal, Mr. Wong Chong Tee, was searched and several documents were seized by the Singapore Special Branch, at dawn yesterday. Mr. Wonaj was not detained. The seizure of the documents had no connection with
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  • 39 1 Reuter UNITED States Defence Department officials said yesterday there would be no advance notice of the next U.S. attempt to launch an earth satellite. Wide publicity preceded tne unsuccessful launching attempt on Dec. 6 at Canavsral, Florida.
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  • 224 1 SYDNEY, Dec. 30 (Reuter) —A 38-year-old British war hero shot and killed his wife and two children on Saturday because he feared their future was insecure, suburban Liverpool Court was told here today. His solicitor, Mr. J. Thorn, said the man. Spencer Cartwright,
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  • 166 1 MALTA CUT OFF U.K. TIES VALLETTA, Malta, Dec. 30 (Reuter) Mr. Dam Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta, will ask the island's Parliament today to sever .ties with the British Government, r He wants this action taken until a dispute over the employment of naval dockyard workers is settled. Mr. Mintoff
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  • 29 1 THE death roll m a petrol tanker explosion m Kingston, Jamaica, on Christmas Day rose to 18 yesterday with death of four more people m hospital. Reuter
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  • 231 1 JAIL FOR NON-COMPLIANCE JAKARTA, Dec. 30 (Reuter) A Government spokesman said today Indonesia had empowered the Army to assign work to civilian experts under the pain of fines or imprisonment. The spokesman said this new law applied to "A" foreign nationals living m
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  • 163 1 Govt. May Take Over Oil Sales NEW DELHI, Dec. 30 (Reuter) The Indian Government is considering the nationalization of oil marketing m India m view of the refusal of distributing companies to agree to price reductions, the Times of India reported today. The newspaper said prices of oil products were
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  • 353 2 'Conditions Will Improve At Mental Home' (POH, Mon. Minister lor Health \t banthan today gave an assurance the vc"r AV T s>ma general improvement m the condition f .u*° ul <ls(* M «t«l Hospital at Tanjong Kambu an the He said this after a tour of. the hospital, which he
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    • 743 2 A LITTU lIT THi^^^^^SA tO N G WA V J DEATH LEE At No. A Chepstow Oo« Serangoon Garden Estate, on 30tl Dec. 1957, Mr. Lee King Van. Age 8i yr«. Formerly proprietor of thi Eastern Studio and Lee Brother Leaving behind r sons, 4 daughters 6 daugnters-in-law, 2 sons-in-law,
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    • 425 2 SITUATIONS VACANT WANTED ENGLISH TEACHER passed Senior Cambridge, with Chinese Junior 3 Middle School Certificate also. Apply c Pei Hwa Public School. 383, Yio Chu s Kang Road, 10 m s., Singapore. 28. I ACCOUNTANT QUALIFIED, must d know Chinese, possess initiative. Only t those with experience need apply, s
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    • 872 2 NOTICES CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE. THIS is to advise that REVISED CHARGES FOR THE SUPPLY OF GAS. Messrs. Universal Agencies THE CITY COUNCIL at a Special (Budget) Meeting of 6F Asla insurance Buildheld on Friday, Bth November, 1957, approved the following j ngf Singapore have been reduction m the tariff
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    • 272 2 TENDER NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE, JOHORE FEDERATION OF MALAYA. TENDERS are invited for the supply and delivery of ration including Rice and Fuel for the period. 13th. January 1958 to 30th. June. 1958. both dates inclusive, to the Social Welfare Camp, Mersing. 2. Tenders should be enclosed m sealed
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  • 95 3 'THE WORLD IS VERY SICK' THE world is "m a very sick condition/ said Mr. William Yaremchuk, Singapore branch representative of the Watch Tower Bible and Traci Society m Pennsylvania. Mr. Yarem 'huk, was speaking ai the conclusion of a fiveday assembly of .Jehovah's witne ses from all over Malaya,
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  • 42 3 .1 AH VAT claimed trial li re Ninth Magi's Couri ye terday to four c irges of t heating. Kam v. ts alleged to have < ited three persona of a sum of $2,140, between vary an I May this year.
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  • 193 3 Rush To Declare Liabilities Expected TODAY is the last day ior indebted employees m the Singapore Government service to declare their liabilities or face disciplinary action. A last moment rush by civil servants to declare their debts is expected at the Empress Place today.
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  • 49 3 RESIDIiNTS of Golnbak Låne are moving by boat to drier land in Kuala Lumpur as floods again swecp the cr.pital. This family used a raft for some 200 v ar ds to seek refuge. Standardpio by Yong Poh Fah. (See story on Page 1).
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  • 31 3 HARUX bin Said yesterday pleaded not guilty before the Singapore Ninth Magistrate Mr. R. B. I. Pates, to a charge of carrying a dagger at Grange Road on Sunday.
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  • 95 3 A ROYAL Navy attempt to free the freighter Flying Endeavour. aground near Raffles Light, was "unsuccessful,' an Admiralty spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman told The Standard the Royal Navy vessel Baronia had tried unsuccessfully to refloat the stricken vessel early yesterday. He said the
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  • 115 3 Less Expenses, Bigger Output At New Plant THfc price of gas is to be reduced by 15 percent from next month, an official of the City Council told The Standard yesterday. At present, consumers pay $6 for every 1,000 cubic feet of gas. I Reasons for
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  • 63 3 $200,000 Opium Haul By Customs SINGAPORE Customs yesterday seized 500 lbs. of opium worth $200,000. A Customs launch was patrolling the sea off Changi when the crew sighted a smugglers' speedboat. Realizing they were being trailed, the smugglers sped towards shore, beached their boat at Pasir Ris, and escaped. Customs
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  • 57 3 PENANG. Mon.- The Penang Buddhist Association youth circle will be celebrating its third anniversary on Saturday with a get-together m the reception hall of the association at 7.15 p.m. A special anniversary service will be held. Yen. Sumangalo (Robert Stuart Clifton), an American Buddhist monk^who is now
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  • 77 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong will broadcast a New Year message to the people of the Federation of Malaya on New Year's Eve. He will speak m the Malay service at 8.30 p.m. and m the English service at 9 p.m. A Chinese translation
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  • 180 3 MALAYA'S largest student organization, Gabongan Pelajar Melayu Semenanjong (Federation of Malaya Students' Union), describes the recent protest by Chinese students m the Federation against the expulsion of overage pupils as "irresponsible and insincere." In a lengthy resolution passed at its tenth annual conference m
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  • 92 3 A "PIRATE taxi driver, Tay Yew Liat, was yesterday fined a total of $295 m the Singapore City Court on three traffic charges. Tay. who claimed trial, was found guilty of using a car for hire without a taxi licence, paying a lower licence fee
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  • 73 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. K. Nadesan, 28, who had a string of previous convictions ranging from petty thefts to robbery, laughed today when he was sentenced to two years' jail and 12 months' Police supervision by Sessions Judge Inche M. M. Hashim. Inche Hashim convicted Nadesan of
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  • 44 3 A YOUTH. Salih bin Osman. was yesterday charged m the Singapore Ninth Magistrate's Court with causing grievous hurt to Osman bin Mohamed Raffik at Bussorah Street on Sunday. Salih pleaded not guilty and was allowed $1,000 ball till Jan 6.
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  • 191 3 MORE than 200 daily-rated employees m the Singapore City Council's gas and water departments will lose their jobs next month. The redundancy m the gas department, totalling some 170 workers, is the result of the installation of a new plant at the Kallang
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  • 92 4 Council Of World Affairs KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— A Malayan Council of World Affairs is to be formed with Pri ne Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman as the principal patron. The council aim? primarily to promote interest m international affairs. It will also provide opportunities for Malayans to meet and hear international
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  • 353 4 I'LL LET OUT MANSION, -MAYOR It'll Help To Bring In Little Revenue To City Council' PENANG, Mon. The official residence reserved for the Mayor of the City of George Town will be let out to bring m a little revenue to the City Council, Mr. 6. S. Ramanathan, newly elected
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  • 121 4 POLICE KEEP GUARD PENANG. Mon.— Police guarded the City Council building today when the Council with an elected Labour majority held its first session. There were frantic hand clappings by a lar&e crowd, consisting of daily-rated workers and teenagers, who had assembled m the public gallery. The retiring Mayor, Mr.
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  • 54 4 PENANG, Men. Kedah State UMNO plans to launch a campaign to raise funds and collect clothing: for itricken Indonesian! m Java, where famine is reported to be xarv 03" t The State UMNO will shortly issue circulars to al] its divisions and branches to put
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  • 45 4 IPOH. Mon.— Mr. Chen Wen Hsi. noted Anger-printing artist, will hold an exhibition of his painting? and give demonstrations of his work at the Han Kang Association tomorrow. Mr. Chen was a guest of the King of Thailand m Bangkok recently.
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  • 172 4 KUALA I LMPIR. Mon. On March 1. 1958. the Malay Regiment will celebrate it§ silver jubilee. Highlights of the celebrations will be the unveiling of a memorial to the regiment's 423 officers and men killed on active service. "Few regiments could have had such a
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  • 223 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Twenty -eight ingredients used m the preparation of Chinese medicines were examined for arsenic and lead content following reports of some Chinese children having symptoms of lead poisoning, states the annual report of the Department of Chemistry published today. Arsenical compounds were
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  • 47 4 KUANTAN, Mon. The body of a 74-year-old Fisherman was found floa'ing m the sea near the beach opposite the harbour on Saturday. At Gambang. near here, a youth. Lee Yoke Pow was reported drowned m a mining pool while bathing with two fr.ends.
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  • 61 4 by Fah. Mr. Lie Kok Seng, a Singapore polito inspector and son of Mr. Lee Hock, helps hi s bride, the former Miss Moaica Ong Sirw Eng. a teacher and daughter of Madam Tan Ngoh Moi of Selangor to cut their wedding cake at the
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  • 279 4 ELEVEN STRIKERS FACE CHARGE OF OBSTRUCTION PENANG, Mon. Eleven strikers of the Eastern Smelting Company Employees Union were produced m the Magistrate's Court today on a charge under the Trades Disputes Ordinance, of besetting the approach to the workshops of the company at Dato Kramat Road on Dec 30. They
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  • 127 4 Raid On Gambling Den: 7 Arrests IPOH, Mon. A section of a crowd of about 20 people was sent fleeing today when a Police party raided an open-air gambling "haunt" behind the Malay mosque m Hume Street here. One pair of trousers, a shirt, six pairs of slippers and five
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  • 135 4 PENANG, Mon. The case against Lionel Foley. furnace superintendent of the Eastern Smelting Co.. Ltd.. came to an abrupt end m the Sessions Court today, when the judge, Mr. B. J. Jennings acquitted Foiey of the summons charges of using insulting words, without
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  • 119 4 COMMODITY PRICES Pore yesterday S '"«a February' P,\ 5.8.8. No. January WI Wl No. I Xl »1J Januar> tf Stetdr Mn^X** m $3581 per V ljv $1), Prr )1( "l 'Down H<>i:^o Torms (ttlorn »nt Monday's nmu, ft session uer omn?0 mn? fir^t February BU oor'. r rs Sp| lo
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  • 83 4 1 HERE will be n mation of the Liber il-S t Party and the Lai if iporc, Dr .->:-tant tecretary of i Front, said m a <• y\ iter lay. He was rcplyii gto a pronosal pi v g Sunday for an an of all moderate
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  • 204 5 THUGS NET $23,000 IN DAWN RAID Shop Assistant Sleeps On As Robbers Work KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Armed robbers early this morning broke into a High Street broker's office and made off with a 100-kati safe containing $3,000 m cash and $20,000 m cheques most of which were "crossed." One of
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  • 214 5 Teachers Ask For Exchange Scheme KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Federation of Malay Teachers' Association will ask the Education Minister, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, to legislate for a "teachers exchange prog ramme" next year to overcome the shortage of teachers m all types of schools m the country. This proposal, to
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  • 95 5 Further Training In The UK KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Sergeant George Smith. 24. of the Federation Armoured Car Regiment, now based m Kuala Lumpur, will leave for England on Jan. 4 for further training. Sgt. Smith, an old boy of the King Edward VII School, Taiping, will attend the RAC Gunnery
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  • 62 5 AUSTRALIAN BANKING EXPERT MR. WILLIAM Howard Wilcock, Assistant Governor (Administration) of the Commonweal h Bank of Australia, who will arrive m Kuala Lumpur about mid-January, to become banking adviser to the Government of the Federation of Malaya. His main function will be to advise and help the Government to establish
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  • 127 5 63 WILL SPEND NEW YEAR IN THE AIR SIXTY-THREE Dutch evacuees left Singapore yesterday m a chartered British plane and they will spend New Year m the air. The evacuees 28 women, 21 children, and 14 men had a pleasant surprise when they boarded the plane. They found that the
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  • 25 5 THE Queen has approved the institution of a medal to be styled "The Colonial Special Constabulary Medal," according to a Singapore Gazette notification.
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  • 31 5 THE Student and Youth Department of the Chinese YMCA will hold a New Year's Eve Party for students at the YMCA premises m Prince Edward Road at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 57 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Four youths were today charged before Magistrate Inche Harun bin Haji Idris for stealing a motor car on Boxing Day. A. Ponniah, alleged to be the leader, was allowed bail of $1,000 while the three others. D. Manikkam. N. Suppiah and R.
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  • 264 5 200 Attend First Session \IALACCA, Mon. More than 200 delegates from social and cultural organizations m Malaya and Brunei today assembled at the High School here to attend the first Malay Cultural Congress. The Congress. which will be m session for four days, will discuss ways
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  • 43 5 A SOCIAL and dance will be held at the Civil Defence Club, Kolam Ayer Lane, tonight from 9.00 p.m. to 2.00 a.m. Barney Morrier's band will be m attendance. Tickets at $2 per head are available at the clubhouse.
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  • 143 5 G.O.M, of photography is dead SINGAPORE'S pioneer m photography died yesterday. He was 80-year-old Mr. Lee King Van, official cameraman to Dr. Sun Vat Sen. "Father" of the Republic of China, when the latter paid visits to tbe Colony. Mr. Lee was also a founder member of the Kuomintang Party
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    • 499 6 r JpHE United States has been pouring a seemingly endless flood of dollars into several Asian countries with the object of helping their inhabitants to improve their economic status and thus dulling the allure of communism. While some of the money has been converted into good uses, there
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    • 410 6 Tft'E extend our sympathies to the people of Ceylon m this hour of their distress. In spite of the anti-British and anti-American attitude of their government, the British and Americans are rushing help to the victims of the flood. The religious-mind-ed may regard the flood as divine
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  • 2208 6 Events of the year m S'pop c I and the Federation a recalled by T. H. Ong. THE most important event of 1957 m Malaya occurred m August when the Federation of Malaya became an independent sovereign nation within the Commonwealth. She was admitted to the United
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  • 788 6 ROBERT DUFFY REPORTS FROM OTTAWA /"^N the word of businessmen, labour and agricultural leaders, economists, politicians and practically everybody else who has a voice. Canadians face more uncertainties m 1958 than m any year since the end of the war. They face also the probability that, as the
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    • 79 6 The Listener Has the Last Word Do you hear everything that Is said to you? Can you follow long complicated lectures and arguments? The average listener takes m only about half of what he hears. A stimulating article m the November Reader's Digest (now on sale) gives many useful tips
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  • 217 7 NAMES HIM AS ITS MAN OF THE YEAR NEW YORK, Dcc. 30 (Reuter)— Time Magazine today namcd Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Communist Party leader, as its "Man of the Year." "Unquestionably, in the flearily give-and-take of the Cold War, the high score for the year belonged to Russia," the
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  • 181 7 'Abominable Snowman' Stole His Flour KATMANDU, Nepal. Dec. 30 (UP) A fherpa tribesman yesterday described the "Abominable Snowman" which he claims broke into his mill and ate his flour. The sherpa by name Phurpa arrived here on Friday to ask government help m preventing the Yeti or "Abominable Snowman" from
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  • 85 7 MELBOURNE. Dec. 30 (Reuter) Australia's holiday road toll was worse than that of the United States, Australian Road Safety Council chairman, Mr. T. G. Paterson, said today. The United States road death rate over the holidays worked out at three deaths a day for each
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  • 402 7 MINISTER PAINTS A GLOOMY PICTURE COLOMBO, Dec. 30, (UP) Two weeks of disastrous floods have cost Ceylon at least 50,000,000 rupees (M $30,000,000) Minister for Transport, Mr. Maitripala Senanayake said today. More than 300 persons have died so far m the
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  • 492 7 And calls for new 'summit 9 meeting BELGRADE, Dec. 30 (Reuter) President Tito of Yugoslavia called today for a new-type "summit" conference on major international problems at which all countries of the world would be represented. The Yugoslav chief of state said it was
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  • 140 7 PARIS, Dec. 30 (UP) Tanker tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis will buy the fashion house of Jean Desses as a New Year's present for his wife Tina, it was reported today. Thus Onassis hopes to be one-up again on his brother-in-law
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  • 112 7 'Unfinished Business' Of Goa BOMBAY, Dec. 30 (AFP)— Indian Defence Minister Krishna Menon stated yesterday that Goa, which was "part of our unfinished business," would not remain unfinished for ever and advised his countrymen to exercise a degree of patience as regards the question. Addressing a mass meeting here last
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  • 27 7 MELTING snow and ice have forced the U.S. Navy to close the runway for big air force supply planes at MoMurdo Sound, New Zealand. UP
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  • 32 7 LEBANON yesterday turned down the offer of Soviet economic and technical aid, made last Friday at the Cairo Afro-Asian conference and indicated preference for aid from the United States. AFP
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  • 102 7 The Rocket Just Wouldn't Budge AUSTIN, Minnesota, Dec. 30, (UP)— A "Mousenik" rocket designed by 11 high school boys and a Roman Catholic nun turned out to be a "Flounik" yesterday. The rocket, containing a white mouse named "Ulysses," never got off the ground. As 50 persons
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  • 337 7 Now Tessa talks of a kidnap attempt... EDINBURGH, Scotland, Dec. 30 (UP)— Runaway heiress Tessa Kennedy charged today that a man who claimed to be a priest twice tried to kidnap her m an apparent attempt to prevent her marriage to playboy Dominic Elwes. She said the FIRST attempt failed
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    • 814 8 MITSUI |J\ LINE Spore P Shorn Penon. FOR JAPAN Hoguroson Maru via Manila Mikogesan Maru via Manila, Akigisan Maru from Japan 16 Jan 19 Jan FOR COLOMBO. KARACHI, BOMBAY Amagison Maru 10 Jan 1 3 Jon 1 5 Jan FOR RANGOON. CALCUTTA Hakubasan Maru from Japan 5 Jan 8 Jan
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  • 150 9 $4 Mil. Housing Estate For Ipoh IPOH, Mon. A new 54,000,000 housing scheme is to be launched here early next year on a 30 acre site m Kampar Road. Promoters .of the project are Messrs Chin Brothers Company Limited, who have already put up a number of housing estates m
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  • 97 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes m its rates to merchants yesterday. New York: buying, T.T. 32--13/16. O.D. 32-15/16. 90 day? airmail. 33-1/4 credit bills, 33--1/4 trade bills. Canada; buying, T.T. 32-5/16 O.D. 32-7/16. 90 days 32-13/16 credit bills. 32-7/8 trade bills. Selling. T.T. or
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  • 108 9 Rubber Steady Up Cent INTERNATIONAL first grade rubber for January shipment closed steady at 83i cents per lb. yesterday cent higher then Friday's close. The market opened lower m sympathy with overseas advices but steadied during the day on short-covering and some overseas inquiries. Demand for lower sheet and remilled
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  • 38 9 A FIRM m Vienna, Austria, has developed a new type of tyre for lorries, the tread of which has five wide flat longitudinal bands ensuring good contact of the tyre with the surface of the carriageway.
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  • 195 9 SINGAPORE sharebrokers reported the following business done Fed. Disp. $2; Fraser and Xeave ords $2.60. $2.63 delayed, overnight; Gammon 52.23A $2.22 i: M. Breweries ?:i.40 overnight and yesterday. M. Cement $1,274; M. Box $l.*SO overnight. ?1.51J. rights 51.42 i; Robinson ords 51. 78 overnight; Spore Cold Storage
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  • 118 9 Industrials And Tins Dull INDUSTRIALS and tins were dull and slightly easier while rubbers were irregular m the Malayan share market yesterday. The turnover was small. Price changes announced by the Malayan sharebrokers Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Gammon 2 22 2 26 Straits Times 185 1 90xall Wearne Bros.
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  • 32 9 NIGERIA'S first oil field at Oloibiri m Eastern Nigeria went officially into production with the arrival at Port Harcourt terminal of a barge-cargo of 12,000 barrels of crude oil. AFP
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  • 45 9 tween Sarona and the California ports with a cargo of 1,000 cars each trip. The second ship Italmare also has a capacity of nearly 1.000 vnerated cars and carries Fiat antos to the Atlantic ports. A third Fiat garage-ship, the Italvega. is planned.
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  • 355 9 JAPAN will be sending more cars to Malaya soon, Japanese vice-consul m charge of trade, Singapore, Mr. K. .Muraoka, told The Standard yesterday. He said Japan was keen to establish a lucrative motor trade with Malaya. Up to now. this trade was "very small," compared
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  • 108 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per plcul yesterday were: copra Dec. -Jan UK/ Continent $29? buyers, $30{ sellers; coconut oil m bulk $48 i sellers; m drums $52 A sellers. Mun:ok white pepper $101 seliprs Sarawak white $100 sellers special Sarawak black $65 Singapore CoDra Association
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  • 174 9 DUTCH SHIPPING BUSINESS MAY BE HIT HONGKONG. Dec. 30 (Reuter) Dutch shipping officials said today their business would be seriously affected by the recent signing of the Japan-Indonesia private agreement under which Indonesia will get 75,000 tons of shipping from Japan. Indonesia Is to use 26 Japanese freighters, tankers and
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 366 9 INDIA TO STEP UP CLOTH EXPORTS TO S-E ASIA INDIA is making a bid to expand her export trade m textiles m South-east Asia, Mr. R. H. Notaney, Overseas Officer, Cotton Textile Export Promotion Council, told The Standard yesterday. He said the main type of Indian cotton piece goods sent
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    • Article, Illustration
      47 9 FIAT have fitted out one more motorship for carrying cars across the Atlantic m order to cope with the growing sales of their cars m the United States. The first Fiat "garage-ship" Italterra— has been m service since last May and has already made several voyages be-
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    • U.S. Aid Cuts
      • 170 9 Formosa To Boost Exports TAIPEI, Dec. 30. (AFP) The Nationalist Chinese Government has taken drastic steps to boost its export trade and to cut down the dollar expendituure m 1958 m order to head off any economic uncertainty arising from U.S. aid cuts. Most important of all Is the relaxation
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      • 39 9 Thp Dma Corporation, overseas branch of the Italian Fiat company, plans a flvp-fold capital increase m H;5B and the production m Mexico of all parts going into the construction of Us vehicles, the company recently announced. UP
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  • 1444 10  -  Bernard McElwaine ~By^ What's behind all the GLAMOUR and BEAUTY of the BLUEBELLS BEGINS TODAY— AN EXCITING REPORT FROM PARIS ON THE BRITISH GIRLS WHO RISK EVERYTHING FOR FAME... z^S you read this thirty daring, beautiful girls from Britain will be
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  • 59 10 Seldom before has Miss Bluebell permitted such a photograph to be taken— back-stage just before the show opens. There are several British girls m the picture, including Sheila Masters (third from left), who comes from Birmingham, and Molly Dexter (first from right), who
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  • 155 11 'i T nOLR«E. Dec 30 (Reuter) American Davis C-* flayer vie s>e xas. was non committal today when asked about his future m big tennis. Seixas, who completed his seventh successive challenge round on Saturday with a great win over Quecnslander Mai Anderson at
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  • 80 11 Trainer of unbeaten Pharis dies PARIS, Doc. 30, (Reuter) Mr. Albert Swarm, the Englishman who became one of the top trainers m France before hi» retirement m 1940, died yesterday at his home m the French horse raring centre of Chantilly, near Paris. He was 87. He scored brilliant successes
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  • 441 11 Injury Shatters Morgan's Ambition 3 NEW CAPS IN AUSTRALIA'S INTERNATIONAL XV CARDIFF, Dec. 30 (Reuter) Cliff Morgan, the flying Welsh stand-off half, will miss the Rugby Union International against Australia at Cardiff Arms Park next Saturday because of injury, it was announced late last night. Morgan twisted a knee when
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  • Article, Illustration
    33 11 STO CKHOLM Weapons clash m the fencing event of the World Modern Pentathlon Championships at Stockholm; on the left is the Russian, Novikov, and his opponent is Koronen of Finland. United Press Photo.
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  • 20 11 ADELAIDE. Dee. 30 (Rcuter) South Australia and Queensland drew their four-day Sheffield Shield match which ended her? lodny.
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  • 201 11 NSW BEAT VICTORIA BY 170 RUNS Sheffield Shield MELBOURNE, Dec. 30 (Reuter) New South Wales the Shield holders beat Victoria by 170 runs m their Sheffield Shield match here today. Final scores: New South Wales 143 and 330 for six declared (N. O'Neill 175 B. Booth 73): Victoria 106 and
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  • 38 11 MARLBOROUGH. Wiltshire, Der. 30, (Reuter)— Sir Gordon Rirhards, for many years Britain's champion jockey, became a grand-father for the first time yesterday when his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Peter Richards, gave birth to a boy
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  • 59 11 MADRID, Dec. 30, (Reuter) —Results of First Division football matches played m Spain yesterday were: Atletico of Madrid 2. Real Sociedad oi' San Sebastian 0. Zaragoza 3. Real Madrid 1. Granada 0, Barcelona 4. Espanol 1. Atletico of Bilbao 0. Sevilla 0. Valencia 1. Tsauna 5. Jaen 1.
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  • 224 11 HOBART. Dec. 30. (Reuter) A below-decks split m her mast failed to prevent the big Victorian yacht Kurrrwa IV from setting a new time record for the 680 miles Sydney-Hobart yacht race Despite the damage to the mast, which developed 200 miles from the finish, and a
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  • 67 11 BORUSSIA BEAT BUCHAREST BOLOGNA, (Italy) Dec. 30, (AFP) Germany's Borussia Dortmund qualified for the quarter-finals of the European Football Cur> when they defeated CCA. Bucharest 3-1 here yesterday Halftime score was 1-1. This was their deciding match m the eighth finals played on neutral ground. The two teams level pegged
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  • 413 11 Speedboat Champion Ezio Selva Killed In 100m.p.h. Crash MIAMI BEACH. Florida, Dec. 30 (UP) Aging Italian speedboat champion Ezio Selva, driving the final race of his career, was killed yes srdsy when the speeding powerboat overturned dining the international Grand Prix. Selva's sleek racer, clipping over the waves at more
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  • 97 11 AUCKLAND. Dec. 30 (Reuter) —England and New Zealand drew the second and final women's cricket Test here today after an exciting finish. The first Test was also drawn. New Zealand set to make 228 m 210 minutes to win, were 24 runs short of the
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  • 247 11 MILAN. Dec. 30 (Reuter) The ball suddenly disappeared during the key Italian first division match between Mila.n and Fiorentina here yesterday and a new ball was "captured" by the Fiorentina players and hidden away m order to force the referee to stop the
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  • Sports Letter
    • 346 12 SlR,— The Singapore Amateur Football Association cannot expect good results from the Singapore soccer team which will be competing m the forthcoming Asian Games tournament if the association is unwilling to get first-class practice matches for their players. I was bitterly disappointed
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  • 40 12 CALCUTTA, Dec. 30. (Renter) Ramanathan Krishnan. India's number 1, entered the final of the All India Lawn tennis, championships here today when he beat Billy Knight, Britain's fourtn-ranking player m the semi-finals 7-5. 6-4. 2-6 6-4
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  • 98 12 Hickey Loses In Manila MANILA, Dec. 30. <AFP> Malaya's chess champion. John Mickey, was beaten yesterday by Philippine titlist Melit Borja m the current Asian zone chess tournament held m Baguio City. In other matches. Australia's Karl Ozola defeated Iran's Youeof Safavat. while international chess master Rodolfo Cardoso of the
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  • 390 12 Base fail despite 2nd half superiority THE District Signal Regiment entered the semi-final of th« v\nviu i first match ousted favourites, the Brigade Of Gurkhas, early m tne tourney, were lucky to win yesterday. After leading 1-0 at half-time, they were forced to
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  • 1236 12 Unhappy New Year For Colony Sport... M9S7 STABS MAY LOSE THEIR SHINE IN 1958 Unless Drastic Steps Taken Govt. Gives Encouragement By OUR SPORTS REPORTER IN the New Year, the eyes of the world will be on Tokyo, where the cream of Asia's athletes will be on show m the
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    49 12 A PROUD moment for the skipper of the Young Mens Sikh Association, Jasbir Singh, who is seen here receiving the Slater Cup from Mrs. P. Slater after the Sikhs' 3—o victory over the Singapore Cricket Club m the annual hockey match which started on the SCC ground on Saturday.
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  • 78 12 Aussie Davis Cuppers Mai Anderson and Murray R ose (right of net) walk off with Vie Seixas and Barry Mao Ka u (of US) after they had won the game that gave Australia the right to keep the Davis Cup for another year recently. The Aussie
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  • 220 12 The Importance Of An Olympic Pool PENANG. Mon. The President of the Chinese Swimming Club Mr Heah Joo S-ans:. staled at their annual general meeting held yesterday, that if they aimed at producing swimmers likely to achieve Olympic standard, then a swimming pool was not only a pre-requi-site. but was
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  • 92 12 MANILA. Dec. 30. 4AFP> A little known Chinese table h C p n r!I IS i pl f a >' er Sobbed headlines he fe last night when he elinainatfnn a f n H c the national champion, from the naI*P nal .°Pen table tennis cham2Ullf.
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  • 228 12 Big Plans To Hit SOSCTarget Of $150,000 SINGAPORE Olympic and Sports r committee will meet on Friday to fin, lin *<"* the Councirs Asian Games Fund thf ddry«i v« Z The SOSC target is $150 OOf to send an estimated 75 official* and Gamesmen to the Asiar Games m Tokyo.
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  • 26 12 Bu lgarians Win Indon Tournament Jakarta d ten loccerte; corner* the team v a tion;. gusarian Nati 1 Bulgari one s first teat fa (both icoredir.
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