Singapore Standard, 9 January 1958

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    19 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Coble: "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1958 Vol. VIII. No. 190 15 cts. 12 Pages
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    Lock icon JAKARTA BOMB BLAST
    271 1 14 HURT IN EXPLOSION Terrorists Hurl A Handgrenade At Suburban Crowd JAKARTA, JAN. 8 (REUTER) POLICE SAID TODAY 14 PERSONS WERE INJURED BY AN EXPLODING HANDGRENADE NEAR RIVOLI CINEMA IN A JAKARTA SUBURB LAST NIGHT. JAKARTA RADIO SAID TODAY FIVE OF THE VICTIMS WERE STILL IN HOSPITAL.
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    Lock icon P.A.P. PLAN FOR A CITY
    468 1 P.A.P. PLAN FOR A CITY THE Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, announcing the Peoples Action Party's blueprint lor the City Council, yesterday said that government would be asked to approve a revision of the Council's 1958 budget so that money was spent on essential needs rather than en
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    Lock icon Police Strike Called Off
    69 1 OSLO, Jan. 8, (Reuter) The week-old Oslo police strike was called off last night. This was announced by officials of the Oslo Police Union after four days talks with the employers the government. About 850 members of the Oslo city force resigned at midnight on New
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    Lock icon TWO UNION JACKS FOLLOW THE CITY MACE INTO COLD STORAGE
    233 1 Two British flags (The Union Jack), which fluttered m the Singapore City Council Chamber since the British reoccupied the Colony m 1945, are now locked up m the Council's strong room together with the mace. The flags were taken down
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    Lock icon Daring $27,000 Payroll Grab Off Colony
    172 1 POLICE HUNT ARMED GANG GUNMEN m a speedboat escaped with a $27,000 payroll after holding up an estate manager's boat off Pulau Tekong Besar, east of Singapore, on Tuesday. Before leaving, the gang removed the outboard motor from the boat and threw it into
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    Lock icon World's Richest Bachelor Dies
    63 1 NAIROBI, Jan. 8 (Reuter) Dr. John T. Williamson, Canadian multi millionaire "diamond king" died last night at his mine at Mwadui, Tanganyika, aged 52. Dr. Williamson, reputed to be the richest as well as being one of the shyest bachelors In the world, last November presented
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    Lock icon Radiosonde From Sputnik?
    36 1 TOKYO. Jan. 8 (Reuter) A Soviet radiosonde believed from a Russian rocket or Sputnik fell on a farm near Ashahikawa City. Northern Japan, shortly before dawn today, the Defence Board (Defence Ministry) announced.
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    Lock icon Thugs Stab Woman In Robbery Bid
    153 1 A WOMAN was knifed m the stomach when she resisted two robbers who were ransacking her attao hut IB Lordng, 1. GeylansL Sln£u pore, at dawn yesterday. The woman. middle-aged Ah Ming, screamed f° r help, and the thu«s lied without taking anything. In
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    Lock icon 'Kashmir Lion' Is Freed
    50 1 SRINAGAR Kashmir Jan. 8 Reuter) Sheikh Abdullah, former Prime Minister of Kashmir, was released today after being detained for nearly four-and-a-half years. The 52-year-old Sheikh, known as the "Lion of Kashmir," was deposed and arrested by the present Prime Minister. Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed, m August 1952.
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    Lock icon BLIZZARDS SWEEP CENTRAL EUROPE
    168 1 LONDON. Jan. 8 (Reuter).— Blizzards and 100-miles-an-hour icy winds howled through Central Europe during the night and early today, causing extensive damage and sending the temperature tumbling m many areas. Winds reached 168 m.p.h. on top of the Zugspitze m West Germany, near the Austrian border.
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    Lock icon R.I. WORRIED OVER BARTER TRADE IN PROVINCES
    303 1 R.I. WORRIED OVER BARTER TRADE IN PROVINCES 1 I JAKARTA, Jan. 8 (Reuter) A spokesman said today the Indonesian Government would soon issue directives on barter trading between the Republic's outer regions and foreign countries. The spokesman. Mr. Sudibjo. Information Minister said the directive would be issued by Dr. Djuanda
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    Lock icon SUEZ TRANSIT
    33 1 THE Danish ship Jens Toft which was held up for 24 hours, was allowed to transit the Suez Canal yesterday. The ship is carrying potash from Haifa, Israel, to Japan. Reuter
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    Lock icon Foreign Office Chief For S'pore Meet
    89 1 Foreign Office Chief For S 'pore Meet LONDON. Jan. 8 (UP)— The British Foreign Office is sending its permanent Undersecretary Sir Frederick Hoyar Miller on a "study tour" of the Far East, it was officially announced today. A Foreign Office spokesman said Hover Miller will leave by air for Singapore
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    Lock icon BANDITS DIE
    39 1 FOUR Algerians were executed at the Constantine Penitentiary yesterday on charges of having killed Policemen, soldiers and civilians m a series of terrorist attacks spreading from Aug. 20, 1955 to Nov. 30 of the same year AFP
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    Lock icon MAC GETS WARM WELCOME FROM NEHRU
    209 1 NEW DELHI. Jan. 8 <Reuter) The British Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, wa* warmly greeted by Minister, Jawaharlal Menru. on his arrival m Delhi for y four-day visit. About 2 000 people, includng schoolchildren with garands of marigolds and seveM handled British residents greeted
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    Lock icon 'UN Must Act On Irian Claim'
    153 1 'UN Must Act On Irian Claim' LONDON, Jan. 8 (UP) Dutch Prime Minister Dr. Willem Drees said today that Indonesia had destroyed all chances of a compromise solution on Dutch New Guinea, and the United Nations will now have to act. "The Netherlands dipl< itic representative m Indonesia has officially
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    Lock icon 'No More Pacts With The PAP'
    57 1 CHAIRMAN of the Singapore Labour Front, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, announced yesterday that his party would no longer align itself with the Peoples Action Party. Mr. Chew said his party, m alliance with the United Malays National Organization, would contest all seats m the
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    Lock icon Partial Dock Strike Disrupts Colombo Port
    114 1 COLOMBO, Jan. 8 (Reuter) A partial strike, involving 1,700 dock workers, today "disrupted and disorganised" the Port of Colombo, Mr. D- G. Dayaratne, the Port Commissioner said. The men, constituting about a fifth of the total labour force, struck last night as m protest
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    Lock icon COUNCIL MEETS
    29 1 THE Permanent Council of the 15-nation Atlantic Pact met m Paris yesterday to consider western draft replies to Marshal Nikolai Bulganin'g "peace" letters of last month. Reuter
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    Lock icon WARNING TO CRACKER IMPORTERS
    236 2 WARNING TO CRACKER IMPORTERS Obey The Rules Or You May Be Fined $1,000 SINGAPORE Government has warned importers of fire crackers that all crackers brought into the Colony must bear the name and address of the sender. A notice, issued under the Explosives Act and sent to importers, draws their
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    Lock icon Row Over— 3 Seats Won By Alliance
    171 2 Row Over 3 Seats Won By Alliance PAKIT. Wed. After the row between the M.I.C. and the M.C.A. was settled on the eve of elections, the Alliance won al 1 three contested seats m the Parit local council here yesterday. The M.I.C "rebels" Mr. N. VelUsamv < North Ward) and
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    Lock icon DUE FOR TOUR
    32 2 MR. JOHN F. Wilson. Director of the Commonwealth Societv for the Blind, will arrive m Singapore on Jan. 30 for an extensive tour of the Colony and the Federation.
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    Lock icon Alliance To Probe Ipoh Polls Defeat Minister Will Head Inquiry
    192 2 Alliance To Probe Ipoh Polls Defeat Minister Will Head Inquiry KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The defeat of the Alliance at the Ipoh and Menglembu by-election last December is to be investigated, The Standard was told today. UMNO General Secretary. Inche Ismail Yusoff said that the Alliance Executive Committee had already appointed
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    Lock icon No Licence Till Firearms Are Inspected
    63 2 No Licence Till Firearms Are Inspected SINGAPORE Police, yesterday, warned those m possession of firearms to produce them when applying for fresh licences at the Arms and Explosives Branch. Hill Street. Firearms will be inspected before new licences are issued. This, a Police spokesman explained, is because a person had
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    Lock icon Sick Accused Delays Case
    53 2 A Singapore Court yesterday granted postponement of a preliminary inquiry into an alleged extortion attempt as the accused was reported ill. M. Suppiah, was alleged to have attempted to extort $100,000 from Mr. Makhanlall Mahawar. a businessman between Nov. 1 and 11, by putting him m
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    Lock icon OFF TO INDIA
    40 2 MR. K. I. MOHIDEEN, managing director of the Malaya Nanban Press left the Colony yesterday by air to attend the Tamilnad Muslim conference m Thiruchirappaly, South India, as the representative of the Tamil Muslim Union of Singapore.
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    Lock icon ROADS CONFAB
    33 2 MR. T. W. LENG. Senior Roads Engineer of the P.W.D., left Jesselton by air on Tuesday for New Delhi to attend a conference on low-cost roads under the aegis of ECAFE.
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    Lock icon Assize Opening: Traffic Plans
    82 2 NO TRAFFIC will be allowed m St. Andrew's Road between High Street and Coleman Street on Monday from 10.55 to 11.20 a.m. during the ceremonial opening of the Singapore Assizes. Traffic from Collyer Quay and Empress Place will be diverted into High Street. From 8 a.m.
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    Lock icon Case Against The Ipoh Students Opens Today
    120 2 Case Against The Ipoh Students Opens Today IPOH, Wed— An application by A.S.P. H'ng Soon Poh to have the evidence of the 0.C.P.D., Ipoh, Mr. P.B.G. Waller, recorded first m connection with the trial of students arrested during the schools trouble last November, was granted by Magistrate Ibrahim bin Abdul
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    Lock icon In Bridal White She Stepped Off Plan
    211 2 Grooms Dramatic Air Da To Fetch His Future Wit A LOVELY youn R girl stepped oft a Malay* ways plane shortly before noon yetteitfaj rrsn frci m a flowing white wedding rawM. She was Miss Ons Vat who had been b: ig Kuala
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    Lock icon Flood Fund Up To $5,000
    14 2 Flood Fund Up To $5,000 THE F A. ft to < KB c p Quay
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      626 2 NOTICES NATURALISATION NOTICE is hereby Riven that MISS LEONG AH Ol of No. 30-A, Banda Btreet, Singapore, is applying to the Governor for naturalisation and that any person who knows any reason why na- turalisation should not be granted should send a writ- ten and signed statement of the facts
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  • EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
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      499 3 THE shock resignations of Britain's Chancellor t b e Exchequer. Mr. Peter Thorne/croft, and his aides horn the Conservative Government are kTnd to bring quick reaction from the opposition our Pi rt The im P act disagreement which IH to the Chancellor's leaving the Government not be
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      Lock icon Adulterated Food
      342 3 ORDING to a chest surgeon, many howI ond shop assistants m Malacca are suffering rom tuberculosis and are spreading the disease He suggests that, as a precaution ory measure, all hawkers must be x-rayed before ces are issued to them. This idea should be dopted not enly throughout
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    Lock icon COMMONWEALTH TOUR OF MR. MACMILLAN
    761 3 COMMONWEALTH TOUR OF MR. MACMILLAN THE six-week Commonwealth tour to India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand which the British Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan began last Tuesday, is primarily a mission of goodwill and personal contact with no cut-and-dried political objectives. A considerable part of it will be
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    Lock icon The Gaither Report
    402 3 r VHE wildest and most partisan Ipe c ?dnfion noic m Washington surrounds a document that very few hire seen the Gaither Report' The report is a frank and secret appraisal of the American defence position vis-a-vis Russia. and owes its origin to a proposal made last
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    Lock icon .K. Will Continue Aid
    680 3 T^HE emergence early next year of the scattered islands of the British West Indies as a Federation will not mean an end to United Kingdom assistance. Until the West Indies attain independence within the Commonwealth, they will go on receiving share of whatever funds the United
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    Lock icon The NEWS as it strikes
    454 3 The NEWS as it strikes WOME people believe m what the stars foretell and so great is their faith that they will not move an inch without first consulting thrir horoscopes; others sneer and laugh at the superstitious. Some believe they are stars m their own right. What ever our
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    Lock icon Dedicated To Guard Citizens' Livelihood
    177 4 THE SINGAPORE government was dedicated to safeguard the livelihood and prosperity of its citizens, said the Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy yesterday. He was replying to a question raised m the Legislative Assembly by Mr. John Ede (Lib.-Soc.) on the future
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    Lock icon AGONG TAKES OVER POWERS OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER
    149 4 THE POWERS previously exercised by the High Commissioner of the Federation of Malaya jointly with the Singapore Governor on the appointments of persons to certain statutory boards will now be exercised by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. This was the result of a
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    Lock icon ASSEMBLY REMEMBERS MR. ONG
    106 4 ASSEMBLY REMEMBERS MR. ONG AT THE COMMENCEMENT of the ordinary business of the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday the Speaker, Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers, on bcha I f of the House, expressed regrets on the passing away of a nominated member. Mr. Ong Piah Teng. The Speaker, m expressing the
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    Lock icon Girl Killed In Road Mishap
    48 4 IPOH. Wed.— A 17-year-old girl, Maimuna, was killed m a road accident at the 1222 Miles, Kampar, last evening. Maimuna was riding pillion on a bicycle with her brother when >he was involved m a collision with a lorry. Her brother escaped injury.
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    Lock icon Malayans In UK Forces Can Be Citizens
    462 4 Malayans In UK Forces Can Be Citizens Detainees Have Forfeited The Right IT WAS only fair that persons recruited m Malaya into the British armed forces should be entitled to become citizens of Singapore, said the Chief Minister Mr. Lim Yew Hock m the Legislative Assembly yesterday. Mr. Lim was
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    Lock icon Gambling Farm Breaks Up Family Life
    113 4 Gambling Farm Breaks Up Family Life ALOR STAR. Wed. A terror gang has organized a racket to "give protection" to a gambling farm, now operating on a largescale a:, Kuala Kedah, a fishing village here. Residents of the village have appealed to the Kedah UMNO to do its best to
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    Lock icon 4,551 SIT Houses
    124 4 THE SINGAPORE Improvement Trust built a total of 1.274 and 70 shops last year, the Minister for Local Government, Lands and Housing, Inchc Abdul Hamid bin Ilaji .In mat said yesterday. He said this m reply to a question raised by Assemblyman Lee Choon Eng Ind >
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    Lock icon Open Verdict On Ship's Cook Found Drowned
    293 4 AN OPEN verdict wa s returned yesterday by the Singapore Ccroner, Mr. Giam Chong Hin at the close of the Inquest into the death of an Australian cook, Alan Campbell Cooper, 24. Cooper, who failed to report for duty while working on board
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    Lock icon KUALA LUMPUR WEDDING
    36 4 pic. MR. and Mrs. Hong Kin Chan after their wedding reception held at the Lee Wong Kee Cafe. Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday. The bride is the former Mis s Chew Git Lam. Standardpic
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    Lock icon Envoy Flies In For Top Level Talks
    84 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— A senior diplomatic official of the Saudi Arabian Government flew into Kuala Lumpur last night for top-level talks with the Federation Government. He i* Sheikh Yusof Alfozan of the Middle East nations embassy m India The Standard learnt that his
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    Lock icon It's Fun To Be Eccentric, Says Author
    211 4 It's Fun To Be Eccentric, Says Author OUR EDUCATIONAL system here is a failure. Mr. Donald Moore, a Colony author, publisher and bookseller, said yesterday. His reason: Children are made lo spend their entire school lif c utilizing text books out they never seem to learn how to read other
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    55 4 pic. FEDERATION Telecoms department will soon replace the standardtype phones with 5,000 new "1.000 type" instruments which have just arrived. Seen above is Miss Nellie Chan of Telecoms using the new triephone which has a greater range of volume and better articulatory tone added to its
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    53 4 Five To Study In N.Z. Universities FIVE Sir. M.dd> School have been Plan awarn Zealand Ur leave the Color p:2r;^ r Ti school child The stud. Woon and who will 1 or of Art thematic It is rx > students v. New ai 7 Jjew /j aland to """I them
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    13 4 7,166 Citizen Papers Issue KUAI f bor of under Th since Nov. N
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    Lock icon $2 Mil. Loan Wil Provide Homes For Junior Officer
    272 4 $2 Mil. Loan Wil Provide Homes For Junior Officer SINGAPORE Government OffircrV n* Housing Society will *et a loan RSmSTH Colony government, it was decided m MtellriSJ Assembly yesterday. The Financial Secretary. Mr. T. M. Hart, tabling the motion, said that the Housing Society, while seeking the loan, had given
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    58 4 IPOH. Wed. statement rel afternoon state tory that the I be flown m U following <)<■'» Otlioial birtl Yani? di-T which falls on nesday In June Merdcka Dunn the occa m al visit by I State Ministries and 1 partment.s vt fly
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    58 4 POTENTIAI Ihl British Vi Other Ranks viewed at I i Charitable A Wolferston It Major H. Br I cruiting officer, 01 I 29 from H ;;n Candidate! born, and must up to at lea 1 English or Ma < be at least 5 ft. t j
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    Lock icon FENANG LOSES 20 EXPATS
    341 5 They Quit Under Malayanization Plan, Says Wong PENANG, Wed. Twenty expatriate officers have retired under the Malayanization scheme while serving with the State Government. No more are expected to retire before the end of this month. Disclosing this today the Chief Minister, Mr. Wong Pow Nee,
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    Lock icon Violence During New Year Week
    48 5 Wed. a promithe New s. ingor, Poday, the taxi-drirer a rib tailor was .lain m Estate. of a ttlng m mining f iioi, 49, nds on his been Koi. already .> ction i etion I c f;ixiI r ind< i d i lenta of
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    Lock icon JUDGE EXPLAINS COURT RULING ON STRIKE QUARTERS
    238 5 I -Mr. Justice Rigbv m the High i grounds of decision m a written iting an injunction sought by the rn Smelting ompaay to restrain a striking asindore, Omar bin Haji Mokhtar. his agents trom remaining m or upon the Kampong Java Bharu.
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    Lock icon More Teachers Refurn After UK Training
    36 5 More Teachers Refurn After UK Training r Ml I l Malai vening and-a- Teases m were [-national m 200 as well ication a to- returned ifter training, will take t ng with a ns for England.
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    Lock icon Hit And Run Driver Traced
    44 5 Hit And Run Driver Traced Wed. spokesman fc a hit X was m Ident B hop t :<a ad yesterm i iod into •h. nboard •n? accidH v "i« latter p:: Tramc lit w f v p r, tar the Involv- iaD earll•t! okesman
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    Lock icon Garpenter Used Parang On Mahiong Player
    63 5 Garpenter Used Parang On Mahiong Player I* Insoec}U k d the lay to I- 1 W Ol the r. Tan wa found I ol causing mechanic, with a > Btreet on Id the Jid to have en he in1J Cheong'a jas jailed $300. no conviction. Another carpenter. Kam Mun Thony.
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    Lock icon Party For Indian Envoy
    79 5 MRS. V. M. M. NAIR, wife of the Indian High Commissioner m the Federation, greets members of the community m the traditional Indian manner at a reception m Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. The reception was organised by Selansor Indians to honour Mr. Nair. the first diplomat
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    Lock icon Penalties For Call-Up Shirkers
    125 5 Penalties For Call-Up Shirkers NATIONAL servicemen who fail to appear for medical examination are liable *o imprisonment up to six months, or a maximum fine of $2,000 or bcth, the Singapore Government announced yesterday. Medical examination will be e.ther at the General Hospital, Outpatients Department, or at the Tan Tock
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    Lock icon For Training In UK
    71 5 ONE Officer, two potential officers and five Other Ranks of the Federation Army left by air last Saturday for further military training m Britain. Front row from left to ri~ht: Potential Officer Mm ad bin Haji Jaafar, Lieutenant Loh Sai Kee, Potential Officer Chen Wah. Bark
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    211 5 THE Returning Officer is required by law to publish notices m contested elections m the Government Gazette and also m "such newspapers as he thinks fit" but not m any particular newspaper, said the Acting Chief Secretary Mr. S. T. Stewart yesterday. He was
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    Lock icon New Villagers Object To Central Cooking
    241 5 5,000 Make Strong Protest IPOH, Wed. Five thousand inhabitants of Gunongr Rapat new village, situated on the main road three miles south of here, are to make strong representations to the authorities against the institution of central cooking m their village. They contend tha;
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    Lock icon TALK TO YOUTHS
    43 5 MR. A. N. KRISHNASWAMY, newly appointed Asian Secretary for the World Assembly of Youth, now on a short visit to Singapore, will address representatives of the Colony's youth organisations today at 5.30 p.m. at the S.Y.C. Hall m Orchard Road.
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    Lock icon New' Aussies Get Their First Brush With Reds
    190 5 IPOH, Wed. The newly arrived «'>rd Koyal Australian Regiment, who were pMted to Perak early m December last night had th. ir first brush with Communist terrorists m the notorious Sungei Siput area. c member of the fourman patrol of the regiment
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  • SPORTING WORLD
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      125 6 Perak Asians To Meet Penang On Saturday A >v Final IPOH Wed. The Perak Asian XV to meet Penang m the Northern Zone final of the All Blues Cup rugger competition at Ipoh on Jan. 11 will be Lee Kooi Meng. Ismail Abbas. Nq Boon Bee. A Rodrigues. Yau Seng
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      115 6 SEREMBAN, Wed.— A young side will do service for Negri Sernbilan m the All Blues Cup main against Singapore Asians on Saturday. The majority of the players come from St. Paul's institution's crack fifteen. The Negri Blues has a new throoquarter line with the exception of
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      60 6 THE Jobore Asians to meet Belangor Asians m the All Blues Cup Southern Zone final tomorrow m Kuala Lumpur will be: A. Ali. Ungku Ibrahim. Ungku Sulaiman. Leong Ah Pec. Padmanathan Uneku Ismail P. Kendal, Gunaratnam. J. Clarke. Sivara.iah. Y. Ismail. Sival'.r.cam. Sharani and Ec Peng
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      60 6 A SOLITARY goal m the first half by Hon Yam enabled Singapore Chinese Recreation Club to bent Wanderers 1-0 m their SHA Div. 1 league fixt'iro nt the Girls Sports Club gmund yesterday. Both te:im> have now completed their fixture m the league The
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      104 6  - BARRIER TEST FOR NEWCOMERS By WINDSOR LAD IPOH, Wed. Three horses who will be making their debut at the current Ipoh meeting were given a barrier trial this morning by SRA official starter Mr. N. MacLachlan. They were Flood Hero (Johnson). Kolar Bay (Donnelly) and College Tutor <West). They were
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      236 6 SINGAPORE Business Houses Football Association will m future have the opportunity of meeting touring >occer learns when they play m the Colony. The re-elected President, Mr. R. B. Allen, told members at the association's annual general meeting yesterday, that SAFA have agreed to give
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      157 6 SINGAPORE Cricket Club "A" scored a run-away 33 points (three goals and six tries) to nil victory over an injury hit Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers team m their rugger friendly on the padang yesterday. The Engineers began promisingly but when they lost standoff Powell (m
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      28 6 THE Jurong Club entered for this season's Singapore Government Services Football Association division 2B league is marie up of employees of the Telecommunication and Broadcasting Departments.
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      52 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Selangor stat e final for the Malayan Estates Football Cup competition will be played here on Saturday at Princes Road at 5 p.m. between Coalfield Estate and Selangor River Estate. The winner will represent the state for the Malayan finals. No gate admission will
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      489 6 Ten Service Stars In Team For Final KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Johore Rugby Football Union Selectors have named a powerful team to meet defending champions Selangor m the final of the HMS Malaya rugby competition at the Merdeka Stadium here on January 18.
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      151 6 Hanif Hits Unbeaten Century ST. LUCIA. Windward Islands, Jan. 8 (Router) Test opening batsman Hanif Mohammad scored 100 not out for Pakistan m their drawn game with Windward Islands here yesterday It was the" first match of their West Indies tour With his brother. Wazir who made 26. Hanif put
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      140 6 Quan Chong s Hattrick Puts Police Out I P O H. Wed. A fine hat trick by Chan Quan Chong gave Perak Chinese Recreation Club an upset 3 l victory ov^r Ipoh Police m a Div. 1 Hockey match on the Upper Padang today. Police, who had a chance for
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      84 6 RETURN FIGHT PLANNED NEW YORK. Jan. 8 (Reuter)— The International Boxing Club hope to stage the return fight between Carmen Basilio. world middleweight champion, and former titleholder 'Sugar' Ray Robinson m Chicago m March. Mr. Jim Nonis. 1. 8.C. president, said last night that television and film rights were being
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    194 6 Ali Aims To Knock Andres Out NOW recognised officially as the logical contender for the world heavyweight title by the National Wrestling Alliance of America, Sheikh Ali bin Yousofl cannot afford to take chances when he fights the Greek newcomer, Andres Lam. brakis, at the Happy World stadium on Saturday
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    51 6 IPOH. Wed. Pcrak and Federation Police rugger representatives P/Lfalt "Joe'" Zalowski who has been stationed m Tapah for the past eight months, has been transferred to Batu Gajah District m charge of the area security units. P/Lieut. Zalowski represented the State and also Perak South throughout the rugger
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    361 6 KHALSA Association made a promising start when (hey scored a convincing 4—l victory over Singapore Harbour Board Police m the first round of the SHA senior knockout competition at Bukit Chermin yester- This is the only match m the competition played yesterday There
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    143 6 LONDON, Jan. 8 (Reuter). —A Moscow Radio Broadcast m English today confirmed that Soviet lawn tennis players will appear at the Wimbledon championships this year. It is expected that some members of the Soviet team will be teenagers aged 16 and 17. This was the hint
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    224 6 THUGS ATTACK FOOTBALLER AFTERGAM TBA Players R U( For Their Lives HOOLIGANS attacked tootballers i. leaving the field after playing mi n the r soccer semi finals at Farrer Park v«o,, mil F^ After the match, m which the beat the Tamil Brotherhood Assoc thugs rushed on the field and
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    45 6 SWEEP TICKETS [?****£> j^^^^^^^^^ Sir: Kor the be&efk thousands of tS memoers both ing l all n SingJiJ sh IJI be g]a d 11 hn <r ciub authonJ exol medium m riumir'cdl r^nt-.-uir/: prln kcts Issued by the c little m: i Ulegil 4 numbers racir
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    621 6 Only The Rich Can Use M Stadium Standard Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Many sportsmen In' Federal Capital are wondering whether the mil.. dollar Merdeka Stadium was built lor sport or jusi stand as a grandiose monument of .Merdeka. The dream of the Federation's irj'nfl on came true when Tunku
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    52 6 PERTH. Australia. Jan. K. UP)— Australian Davis Cup players Neale Fraser and Mai Anderson scored three-sc; victories today against West Aus tralian players m the quarter finals of the West Australian tennis championships. Fraser beat Bruce Robinson fi-4. 6-1. ti-4. while Anderson defeated Doug Napier G-4
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    73 7 I w* rootIs i It- is I The vil] be iary vrai Far r solve ns durAfter the •ne Soviet r c been I nal team matches rt of May n Baltic a climate on. The es for Sweden I start of -mean />
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    14 7 7 (Renter) Wimbledon io Gonrofessional 5-7, 'i-3, i Adelaide, matches h rro-
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    291 7  - Waterman Can 't Get At His Big Fight Pay PETER WILSON By LONDON, Wed. |>ETER WATERMAN, British welterweight champion who meets Emilio Marconi for the European title at Hamngay on January 28, moves down to Bournemouth on Sunday by train, cars being one of the many things forbidden to him
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    93 7 Boxer Wants Only Ist Class Air Travel BRISBANE. Jan. 8 (Reuter. Warner Batchelor, Australia's flyweight champion, has cabled the Johannesburg fight promoters that his Empire title fight against Denis Adams (South Africa), arranged for January 24, is 'ofT unless they provide him with first class air travel. Adams is the
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    54 7 SYDNEY, Jan. 8 (AFP).— Australia's twcrve-year-old Jan Hogan became the youngest swimmer ever to win an open title m Australia when she won the final of the 220 yards breast stroke. She clocked 3 mm. 4.6 sec. beating the Olympic swimmers Barbara Evans and Lynette Willier
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    486 7 BRITAIN'S SOCCER STARS NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD LONDON, Jan. 8 (UP) When Prime Minister Harold Macmillan remarked m a speech that British workers "never had it so good," he could have easily used the word "footballers" instead of workers. The Er.Riish soccer pro today Ls paid 17 sterling a
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    87 7 BAD GASTEIN, Jan. 8 (AFP)— A stock of snow worth around £10,000 (sterling) is to be held m reserve for the worli Alpine championships to be held here next month. The championship organising committee has planned this reserve m case of poor snow conditions at the
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    96 7 Boxing Rules Dispute BOWING London. Jan. 8 (AFP)— America's Floyd Patterson must accept British boxing rules if ho wants to defend his world heavyweight title m Britain said Teddy Wa'.tham, Secretary cf the British Boxing Board of Control, here yesterday. Waltham was commenting on American news agency reports saying that
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    137 7 MANILA, Jan. 8. (AFP) Ten professionals led by Japan's Torakichi Nakamura. and ten amateurs comprise the '20 foreign entries m the Sixth Far East Open Golf Championships which start on January 16 m Manila. Here is the full list: PROFESSIONALS: (Japan:) Torakichi Nakamura. Koichi Ono; (Nationalist
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    82 7 LONDON, Jan. 8 (AFP) Soviet grand chess master Paul Keres yesterday defeated Swedish champion O. F. Sterner m the eighth round of the Hastings Chess Tournament, and thus assured himself of final victory. Keres played and won this vital match on his 42nd birthday. He has
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    45 7 JAKARTA, Jan. 8 (Reuter). The touring Czechoslovak soccer team, Redstar, from Bratislavia beat an Indonesian armed forces team by one goal to nil yesterday m Bandung m their second match m Indonesia. The Redstar's outside right Gajodz scored just before halftime.
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    104 7 Italian Team For World Cup ROME. Jan. 8 (AFP)—Sixteen players have been selected for the Italian team which plays Ireland m the qualifying round of the World Football Cup at Belfast, Northern Ireland on Jan. 16, it was announced here yesterday. The original fixture at Belfast on December 4 was
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    208 7 'WHAT CAN WE DO?'- 1.0.C. LAUSANNE, Switzerland. (UP).— Sports segregation m South Africa is regrettable, the International Olympic Committee commented recently, but said i.O.C. Chandellor Otto Mayer here "it is practically the law of the country, so what can we possibly do?" Mayer was
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    268 7 BEAUTY QUEEN IN QUEST OF TENNIS CROWN MIAMI, Florida. Jan. 8 (Reuter) Karol Fageros, nailed last year as the beauty queen of international lawn tennis, is training hard to win the crown of top player as well. Miss Fageros, 23-year-old former model, works on her game five days a week
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    379 9 NISHI CALLS AT PENANG P ts\M« W«i. The Japanese Ambassador to Great Britain Mr H Nishi lh today, that Britain's strict economic policies might have caused the 1 ion of Mr. THer Thorneycroft. British Chancellor of the Exchequer who has been his country's ambassador to
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    37 9 Share Market Cautious Ed I terd < v ide. r .van n said j It I by INDIBTIIAIS < 12 233 I m 52 xd v 60 S 3 12 We L MININGS L X Tor i V LOANS
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    106 9 f It I and yesterday; Mem l 8j ovtr{ht and yesterday; Pahang 9 4*; Petaling $2 42J Puket 39; Rantau $1 72 S. lyan 8 104. 9 S. Way c 25; Tongkah Harbour 13 Lmtang 11.70; Benta $1 ived overnight; Jimah $2 9TJ. Kluang 11.52, $151: Kunng $3.05;
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    110 9 Shell's New Federation Office Ready SHELL'S new Federation office m Kuala Lumpur will be occupied by the Company's staff, numbering about 130, on Jan. 20. The million-dollar, fivestoreyed building at Suleiman Road was recently completed. Shell disclosed that although its employees will be working m the new office, the building
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    102 9 HONGKONG. Jan. 8, (Renter) A private West German trade mission arrived here today for a 48-hour stopover on its way to Formosa for a two weeks' study of the National Chinese economic and political situation and ways to improve trade relations between the two countries. The
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    19 9 DECEMBER rubber crops announced are: Kempas 345,--000 lb. (326,050 ]b. m November); Radella 18,500 lb. (19,--000 lb.).
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    238 9 Tunku To Open Co-op Talks KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman will open the first South-east Asian Conference on Co-opera-tion to be held here from Jan. 20 to 23, sponsored by the International Cooperative Alliance. The main purpose of the conference is to consult with I.C.A. affiliates and
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    99 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: copru Jan. -Feb. UK/ Continent $29$ buyers. S3O sellers; coconut oil m bulk $46$ sellers; m drums $50 sellers. Muntok white pepper $97 sellers; Sarawak white $96 sellers; special Sarawak black $62. Singapore Copra Association closing prices: fair
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    47 9 AN 18-rnan Egyptian trade delegation met Chinese businessmen m the Federal capital earl\ this week and discussed mutual problems and expansion plans m trade between the two nations. Standardpic shows members of the two delegations m the conference room of the Chinese Assembly Hall.
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    185 9 New Anti-Pest Treatment For Timber A NEW anti-pest anti-rot protection for boat timber made its debut at the National Boat Show m London where a twelve-foot national class racing dinghy built of treated ply was exhibited. Organisms such as teredo or shipworm and limnoria are responsible f«r heavy damage to
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      393 9 Improved Quality, Too KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. By the use of a new type of natural rubber, called superior processing rubber, a substantial saving may be made m the manufacturing costs of rubber products with an improvement m quality. Full details, including
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      121 9 Price Slips 1⅞ Cents INTERNATIONAL first grade rubber for January shipment closed yesterday at 70J cents per lb 1 J cents lower t*an Tuesday's price. The tone was barely steady. The market opened lower on disappointing overseas advices and eased further on some liquidation, which was well absorbed at the
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      63 9 Total imports of rubber into Singapore and Federation of Malaya during December amounted to 24,867 tons as shown by final documents received. The figure includes 9.466 tons imported on provisional permits m previous months for j which final documents have been received and excludes 17.741 tons
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      70 9 A SECOND party of Indian engineers to come to the United Kingdom under Colombo Plan auspices for training m steelworks and factories are expected to arrive at London Airport today. Like the first party of 10 who came last October they are to be given a
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      25 9 A NEW mine at Chingola (Northern Rhodesia) producing about 250,000 tons of high-grade copper ore yearly, is expected to start production next month
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      121 9 Tin Exports Lowest In Three Years MALAYAN tin exports m 1957 totalled 70,064 tons, the lowest m the past three years. In 1956 73,276 tons were exported while m 1955 the figure was 71.161 tons. Other previous years' export figures were: 81.801 tons m 1950; 64.957 tons m 1951; 64,117
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      260 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Malaya could tide over the crisis brought about by the prevailing tin control by approaching the World Bank for loans. This statement was made today at the extraordinary general meeting of the Miners' Association of Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Pahang, by Chin
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      63 9 BRITISH Motor Corporation is to spend £13 million on expanded plant m Sydney to produce a new Australian family car. The plant will be capable of producing 1,000 vehicles a week, and will treble the number of its workers to 7,000. This car will be
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      39 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association's rates to merchant! yesterday were: Selling T.T /O.D. (Ready Canada 32 1 '4. French Frcs. *****. Belgian Frcs Ifil7 1/2. Holland Gldrs. 122 7/8, Italian Lire ***** Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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    144 10 NEW DELHI: The Posts and Telegraphs Department of India issued three special postage stamps m the denomination of lOnPs each to commemorate the centenary year of the Universities of Calcutta. Bombay and Madras. In addition a multi-coloured folder and first day cover was also issued simultaneously at a
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    535 10 Keeping Up With The Sputniks THE AMERICAN SCENE: 'THE technical and propaganda successes of the Russians have as vet produced no noticeable speed-up m American scientific defence programmes. But the shock to the American military nervous system has produced a little information about what is already being made, or designed,
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    418 10 Anthony Sampson writes from London rpHE i traditional British celebrations of Christinas and New Year are apt to resemble— X like many other British institutions the heavy, elaborate Victorian furniture which young married couples sometimes find themselves inheriting from their grandparents, without much usefulness "or their small, low-
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      1368 10 AS usual New Delhi has just had its annual springcleaning, and if a distinguished visitor is not allowed to peep into Old Delhi he may be pardoned if he tells people back home that Delhi is one of the most beautiful cities m the world and
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      443 10 I ODAYS QUOTATION: IB^^l J "As lone an a woman \s viM« enough (o let m man IHH Kit down and talk about IT^B^Bl himself all the time. she l^^fl IvAW|H need not bother to rack her I^^A EMjAlfl brains thinking how to en- WiVttfil tertain him hell entertain himself."—
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    229 11 IPOH, Wed.— The Mentri Besar of Perak, Inche Mohd. Ghazali bin Jawi 'last night told 15 relatives of terrorists m the Batu Gajah district that it was m their own interests to persuade the Reds to surrender before they were destroyed.
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    117 11 Xl ALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Another 1,250 teachers under the Razak Plan will shortly leave training centres and start teaching m the Federation, an education spokesman told The Standard today. Two- hundred and fifty day-trained teachers from Kota Bharu the first batch under the plan have
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    152 11 Anti-Graft Bureau Suggested MALACCA, Wed.— Steps to start an all-out war against graft by setting up an anticorruption bureau here is being suggested by certain Municipal Councillors, The Standard was told. This move to clean up the Municipality If m line with the Ipoh anti-corruption committee which was proposed and
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    54 11 THE Singapore City Council Services Union will submit its wage demand to the new council m a few days, a union spokesman said yesterday The union had earlier demanded wage increases ranging from $21 to $26 a month for monthly-paid employees. But this was rejected by
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    162 11 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) m Singapore yesterday were: Bayers Sellers Spot (nom.) 79* R.S.S. No. 1 79J 80* February R.S.S No. 1 B*4 B©i R.S.S. No. 2 January 77i 78 R.S.S. No S January 74* 75* Tone: Barely steady The price of tin m Singapore
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    337 11 MURDER INQUIRY HELD IN CAMERA Press, Public Barred Despite Protest By Defence Counsel KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. For the first time m the annals of criminal trials m Malaya, a preliminary murder inquiry was today ordered to be heard m camera despite protests from two defence lawyers. The order was made
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    57 11 MALACCA. Wed. H.M.S. Alert, commanded by Sir Peter Ar.son will visit here tomorrow. The Ccmmander-in-Chief. Far Eastern Station. ViceAdmiral Sir Gerald Gladstone will pay a courtesy call on th* Governor, Mr. Leong Yew Koh. Later, Sir Peter and his party will be guests at a lunch
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    63 11 SEREMBAN, Wed. The Negri Sembilan Indians Cooperative Investment Society Ltd. will be inaugurated at a public meeting at the Adult Education office, near the Cooperative Development office here, at 3 p.m. on Saturday. Convenors of the meeting, appeal to all Indians m the State who are desirous
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    228 11 Cardinal Sultan Are Brothers In Philately FRANCIS Cardinal Spellman, a Prince of the Catholic Hierarchy and Sultan Sir Ibrahim, head of the Muslim State of Johore, are brothers m philately. This wa s revealed by the "Flying Cardinal" himself just before he emplaned for Bangkok after a short visit to
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    23 11 AUSTRALIAN destroyer H.M.A.S. Tobruk, which is now on operational visit to North Borneo, is expected to leave Labuan for Singapore tomorrow.
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    Lock icon Sputnik Refuel oration
    222 12 175 HOURS TO THE MOON MOSCOW. Jan. 8. (Rcuter) A Soviet scientist said yes.erday that it Is now technically possible to send a rocket to the moon but tha.t rockets intended to return to earth must refuel from a Sputnik. Mr. N. Varvarov, chairman of -he space
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    156 12 LONDON, Jan. 8— (UP) Britain's august Brigade of Guards put its tongue m its aristocratic check today and frowned on men "dying without prior consent of their superior officer." "This practice will cease immediately," it declared m the current issue of the
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    22 12 RADIO MOSCOW ieported yesterday that a ".straight cir." similar to the Paris "sack look"' is sweeping the Russian fashion world.
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    Lock icon ECHOES OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: THREE CLEARED
    144 12 BOWLING GREEN. Kentucky. Jan. 8. (UP) Three Confederate generals yesterday were cleared of M-y ear-old treascn and conspiracy charges lodged by a grand jury here during th€ Civil War. InJictments were brought m 18G2 after Confederate troops were forced to withdraw from
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    149 12 IKE WANTS $1,260 MIL MORE FOR DEFENCE WASHINGTON. Jan 8 (UP) President Eisenhower yesterday asked Congress for an additional U551. 260,000,000 to develop space missiles and strengthen defence of the Strategic Air Command. The money would be m additional appropriations for the ci'irent fiscal year ending June 30 The President
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    157 12 MOSCOW. Jan. 8 «,Reuter> Russia yes.erday replied to a Japanese note protesting against the Soviet decision of July 21. 1957. clos.ng Peter The Great Bay to foreign ships and aircraft, the So vie: news agency Tass said today. The United States and Britain have also
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    Lock icon JETS CRASH: FIVE KILLED
    54 12 veilheim. Germany, Jan. 8 (UP). Five persons were killed today m the crash of two U.S. Air Force supersonic F-100D jets. German Police said the jets crashed into a group of forest workers near here. killing three of the workers and injuring one. The two pilots
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    227 12 LONDON, Jan. 8 (Reuter) The British Labour Party faces a dilemma as a result of the government crisis caused by Mr. Peter Thorneycroft's resignation as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Socialists fighting hard to win over votes m preparation for the next election
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    388 12 Colonial Office Has No Comment On The Removal (From Andrew Roth) LONDON. Wed. "No Comment." wa.s the reaction of the Colonial Office to the Singapore City Council's jettisoning of the Union Jack and Mace. Sir John N.coll. former Governor of Singapore, now chairman of :he South-east Asia group of the
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    86 12 CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Jan. 8 tßeuter* Reports leaking oir, of the Government's Missile Test Centre here this mornine indicated that a countdown on the fourth firing of the ip-?r-continental ballistic mLssile, the Atlas, was under way. The countdown runs from eight and a half to
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    35 12 THREE state corporations were idle yesterday as 7,000 government workers m Manila went on strike m what is considered to be the biggest walkout recorded m the history of Philippine government-owned firms. AFP
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    168 12 TRINCOMALEE. Jan. 8 (UP). A meaicai team aboard the U.S. carrier Princeton rushed here by President Eisenhower to give aid to Ceylon's flood victims found yesterday that giving immunization shots to Ceylonese women had to be {one m a strange
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    49 12 PRESIDENT Soekarno of Indonesia bids goodbye to Mrs. Djuanda Kartawidjaja. wife of Indonesia's prime minister and other high government officials just before leaving for his "rest* holiday. Soekarno. who is now m New Delhi, will include India. Pakistan. Egypt, Burma. Thailand and Japan m his tour
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    75 12 BANGKOK. Jan. 8 (Reuter) Caicnnal Spellman, Archbi.shop of New York, arrived today from Singapore for a two-day visi:. Card.nal Spellman. who was greeted at the airport by 'a number of American soldiers and their families, said the first concern of his trip was to visit American
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    52 12 BARNET. Her tfordshire, Jan. 8. ißeuten An 80--year-old retired school headmaster married an 84-year-o!d retired schoolmistress here yesterday. It was -he first wedding for both Mr. Hubert Thornton and Miss Amy Stephens. They first met as students m London and have known each other
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    314 12 U.S. AIR FORCE j t FORCED DOWN IN 3 INCIDENTWITHINWf MLNICH, Germany, Jan. 8 (II 1 Albanian planes forced a I.S. Air down over Albanian territory yesterda, such incident within a week. lJl c A Droadcast by the official rad o capital of the tiny Balkan
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    74 12 PNOMPENH. Jan, 8 (AFPH —The Cambodian Cabinet un a nimously recommended the dissolution cf Parliament In a special meeting last night. The Cabinet protested what it described ii continual legislative interference with the Government, to a degree which paralyzed government action. They charged that actions of certain
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    139 12 FUCHS AN HILLARYS FRIENDS ONCE MORE Sir EclmUßd Hill-.'- annoi,,,., dh r ,;V;v.l carters of the r^ it Indicated thai agreement beu-u-n explorers over the i cross thr wh »rom coast to c .i patc.Tvi Dr H>chi had /d not to bother to meet" Wthe last phase or thi Jo
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    31 12 LOND r bishop Mar...:' vr. i fH pr ierably cd sources Thi> is p*rl troversia by Cyprus Foot m cons I■" British Go< i n these
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