Singapore Standard, 12 February 1958

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  • 23 1 SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Coble: "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1958 Vol. VIII. No. 224 •15 c ts. •14 Pages [FINAL EDITION]
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  • 354 1 SUMATRA ULTIMATUM FLATLY REJECTED Soekorno Flying Back To Meet Mounting Crisis JAKARTA, Feb. 11 (Reuter)— The Indonesian Government in o statement today rejected the five-day ultimatum from defiant Central Sumatra calling for the resignation of the Djuanda cabinet. Mr. Ganis Harsono, the government spokesman in Jakarta charged
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  • 217 1 CHOU GIVES UP POST OF FOREIGN MINISTER .Army Man Ta/ces Over 7/ie Rems HONGKONG, Feb. 11 (Reuter) Mr. Chou Enlai, Chinese Communist Prime Minister, was today replaced as Foreign Minister at his own request. Mr. Chou has been both Prime Minister and Foreign Minister since the Communists won power in
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  • 24 1 KING FEISAL of Iraq arrived 1:1 AfWim* 1 yesterday to discuss with King Husseiii of Jordan fcdpr^l union of their kingdoms.- Reuter
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  • 118 1 Europe Most Affected LONDON, Feb. 11 (Reuter)— A major disturbance IH |he upper atmosphere due to sunspots today blackrd out radio communications over a large area of the world Europe's radio links with the Far East and North and South America were particularly anected,
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  • 78 1 'Double Face Charge Refuted LONDON. Feb. 11 (AFP) Foreign Office spokesman today rejected the charge made by Chinese Communist Premier. Mr. Chou En-lai that Britain has adopted a -double faced attitude' towards China. The spokesman said tne British attitude wa F lear D r Britain recognized the Peking Government as
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  • 47 1 NEW DELHI, Feb. 11 (Reuter) King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan arrived here this afternoon on a 15-day State visit to India. He was received at the airoort by President Raiendra Prasad." Prime Minister Mr Nehru, and members of the diplomatic corps.
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  • 29 1 A FORCE of 200 Communist and Karen ;n- the town of Paung in the region of Thaton. 100 miles east of Rangoon on Frid»« learned yesterday. A.F.P.
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  • 323 1 BRITISH Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan will rave a "clear look" at Chinatown when he arrives in Singapore today on his way back to Britain. Soon after his arrival, Mr. Macmillan will hold talks with Chief Minister Mr. Lim Yew Hock at Government House. In the
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  • 69 1 ATHENS, Feb W (Reuter) Mr. Selwyn* Lloyd, the British Foreign Secretary, today put forward British proposals for a settlement of the Cyprus problem when talks Britain and Greece opened here. The Foreign Ministry, where the talks are taking plate, was cordoned by Police and a special
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  • 62 1 PORT SAID, Feb. 11 (AFP) —Suez Canal traffic came to a standstill today when two Medi.erranean-bound tankcr.s ran aground in the canal at kilometre 152 near Suez in dense fog. One tanker, the 8,046-ton Liberian-flag Mariverda. was freed after four hours but the oUier. the 12,843-ton
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  • 71 1 LONDON, Feb 11 (AFP)— Wearing a long blue sequinstrewn gown, Queen Elizabeth today conferred knighthoods on 50 of her subjects in a ceremony dating back to medieval days The Queen smote the new knights on the shoulder with the flat of a sword, as earh
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  • 45 1 EGYPTIAN President Gamal Abdel Nasser stands with Yemeni Crown Prince, Emir Seiful-Islam Mohamed ElBadr (tall man next to Nasser), and members of the Yemeni delegation, prior to the opening of talks on the Yemen's federation with the United Arab Republic. photo. UP
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  • 130 1 UN. BORDER PATROLS FOR TUNISIA PROPOSAL LONDON, Feb. 11 (Reuter) Interest was aroused] in usually well-informed quarters here by Washington Press reports that the United States government was considering a proposal for stationing a United Nations team of observers along the Tunisian-Alger-ian border. Such a proposal was thought likciy to
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  • 52 1 JARROW. England. Feb. 11 (Reuter) The rosy-cheek-ed widow of Windy Nook, Mary Elizabeth Wilson was today committed for trial charged with murdering two husbands with rat— or insect poison. In a voice a little above a whisper. the 66-year-o:d three-times-widowed woman pleaded not guilty and reserved
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  • 67 1 WASHINGTON. Feb. 11 (UP) Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, at his news conference today, said that a Foreign Ministers meeting was not essential to a summit conference between East and West. He indicated that any preparatory work that would pave the way to a
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  • 20 1 King Mahendra and Queen Retna Rajyalami of Nepal have accepted an invitation to visit the Soviet Union.— AFP
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  • 121 1 MALAYANS AT TALKS IN LONDON From Andrew Roth LONDON. Feb. 11 A Malayan team of officials, led by Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman and including Messrs Lock and Burgess of the Commerce and Industry Department, today completed the first day of their preparatory work for the Commonwealth Economic conference
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  • 210 1 LOURDES. Feb. 11 (Rcuter) —Flames six feet high shot up in the sacred grotto of Saint Bernadette today when candles set fire to a thick coating of grease on the grotto flour The fire began during a mass in the grotto to celebrate the centenary
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  • 192 1 LONDON, Feb. 11 (AFP) —The 14th meeting of the International Rubber Study Group will be held in Hamburg from June 9 to 16, rubber circles disclosed here today. No agenda has so far been drawn up. but it Is considered likely that the
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    • 83 1 0/3 ur Family's Health /aa> <4fot w fc-^v APOLLO'wn BRAND FSSENCE of CHICKEN V I §9SME3PH 9 f r: K Pcnang, Kuching Jetsclton r* s Wins \L CHARITY PREMIERE X f e Wor/d in 80 Days v hat 83a p.m I i. 11. MAT A SHAW BROS. iTTTh the most
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  • 610 2 SEOUL, Feb. 11, (UP) A 35-year-old Malayan woman, who as a young girl defied family, tradition and bureaucratic red tape to join her Korean husband here, is wasting slowly away in a Seoul Salvation Army hospital the victim of unrequited love.
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  • 71 2 SECRETARY of the 10,000 strong Singapore Naval Base Labour Union. Mr. Wee Toon Boon yesterday said the Union's representative council will meet next week to consider strong action, possibly a strike, in its dispute with the Admiralty. Mr. Wee said this was because the Admiralty would
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  • 97 2 ANGRY THUG TEARS UP VICTIM'S I-CARD IPOH, Tues. Disgusted at finding that two women vegetable sellers had only $2 between them, one of three thugs tore up the identity card of one of their victims before making off. The women, Soo Moi. 39 and Chow Say. 50, of Guntong New
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    • 389 2 NOTICES EXAMINATION FOR MIDWIVES j AN Examination for Midwives (Private Candidates) will be held at the District Hospital, Ipoh, on Tuesday, 25th February, 1958. 2. Candidates from the State of Perak only, who are desirous of appearing for this Examination, should forward their applications together with the necessary Certificates of
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    • 208 2 p ij SbL I H t^BVHHHj^mHv vBl Cr I *V fc v I ™^^^HbwHb> 5 |^P^ 1 r Remember Suits mcj*. t, U4 I .ftfe/^/? Morgan j her SONG! I her SINS! T dno star et*r climbed high* Jj "T* arid a u o j *"i" BHBbV B^l^^^B^r ■f II
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  • 594 3  -  Corruption Lk r.sh Prime Minister, Mr. n j:s Singapore today, he may that he is in a Chinese colony. s Singapore is the only other s 3 huge concentration of V -:n ask himself whether the yfigrfm*' more appropriately apply to British. European colonialism C o frht world is
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  • 26 3 tlock X m Koaa. i Pore f No 156J Cables IICEkNEWS" (5 lme«) AM departments .i cc 8d«. 174. Batu i BS •Utffici, ffi 555
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  • 1176 3 fHE prD^pect on support costs for Allied troops in West Germany is now one of approaching deadlock, following the fruitless visit of M. Paul-Henri Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to Bonn recently. The question is partif" 1 1 urgent in regard to the
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  • 880 3 We the PEOPLE UMNO TEACHERS Sir— While the likelihood h tiNfl the threat by the Malay teachers to withdraw tram UMNO on the issue of Malay secondary education wk: not be carried out to the hill, it however, serves as a good eye-opener to the Alliance Government. It gives' the
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  • 274 3 Poor Conditions In Estate Sir Through the medium of The Standard may I draw the attention of the City Council authorities, particularly the Member for the Al.iunied Ward, to the appalling condition in and around the Kolam Ayer estate, where I am a resident. This, and the adjacent areas have
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  • 56 3 With the granting of her independence by Great Britain (effective August 31, 1957), the Federation of Malaya became the 18th country to receive freedom from a free world poicer since the end of World War U. This is in contrast to the 1 1 countries enslaved by
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  • 535 3 the NEWS as it Atrikes me V\ LLCOME lo Singapore, <ir. or, as the Malaya sai Sclamat Dalang. Since the div Sir Stamford Raffles purchased from xState of Johore a lump <.f in d and transferred it to one of thworld's most important ports and trading centres. Singapore has enjoyed
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  • 239 4 COUNSEL'S WITHDRAWAL REJECTED Judge May Refer Matter To Higher Authorities A SINGAPORE Magistrate, Mr. Robert Chee, yesterda.v rejected counsel's application to withdraw from a maintenance case, adding that he might consider referring the matter to "higher authorities." Mr. Chee made this decision after hearing the counsel. Mr. K. E. Hilborne's
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  • 152 4 Writer On Murder Charge A WOMAN' still clutching betel-nut and betel-leave in cno hand died on the roadside following a stabbing incident, the Singapore A^ize Court was told yesterday. In the dock was Mustaffa Abu. 31. a petition writer, who was charged with the murder ol Rajammah Ramasamy in Rochore
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  • 62 4 IP Vtl T; c< The first .Tirr.iBal trial in Per.:* un ler the new pay pateon will take i V d a; ti v Perak Assize C -p. Fob 27 when a Spec;.K C artal c en the i rr.:r ■> -e har.^e.i I UM MUte
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  • 25 4 HEAD of the British Foreign Office Personnel Department. Mr. J. P. E. C. Henniker-Major, arrived in Singapore yesterday by KLM. Standardpic
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  • 73 4 NEWLY elected officebearer or the Chinese Association of Singapore are: Patrons: Mr. G. H. Kiat and Dr. Lav Peck Hiong. President Mr. Loh Ah Fong. vice-presidents: Messrs. Gek Choo. Chow Sow Sbong, Yap Chye Koon and Dr. Loh Poon Lip. Secretary: Mr. Michael Lee Kon, asst. secretaries:
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  • 24 4 GIRL KILLED A 17-YEAR-OLD girl. Thang Lai Kum. was killed instantly after a collision with an oil tanker in Pahang Road, Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
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  • 171 4 PENANG. Tues.— A woman d.wer Tan Cheng Kan. told the Coroner's Court here today that she applied her brakes when she >aw a g-.rl fall from a motor cycle in front of her car. Immediately afterwards, her car hit the girl, she
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  • 117 4 PENANG. Tues An anonymous letter, writ' en in Chinese characters with a "death threat." was received by the secretary of the Chinese Town Hall. Mr. Lee Poh Kwan, who has handed it over to Police. Mr. Lee was warned no* to interfere with the affairs
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  • 64 4 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Tutl A 20-year-old woman, Lav Phck Xya. was found itabbed to death in her bed B| Karapong Cress Street here last night The husband. Goofl Beck Chin, 33, who itiirenderad to Police, was produced ta Uii Magistrate's Court in Butterw irth today and hid a
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  • 189 4 Mr- Au Ah Wall said in court here today that it vrti ftnnff that not a single passenger ha;l OOHM forward to give eviicrve on 'now girl had fj|Utß dQ I moving bus. He returned an open verdid at the er> °f inauest
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  • 179 4 THE Singapore Improvement Trust has decided that only citizens of the Colony will in future be eligible lor Trust accommodation Announcing this policy yesterday th. S] a statement said thai alter application^ l Quarters would b- c n cd only if the
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  • 68 4 the Singapore City OoubcU Local Senior Officers Association held an annual dinner at the Cathay Restaurant .a.-t night. Mayor. Mr. On? Eng Guan speaUng at the dinner, said hat co-operation between the Mayor and the City Council star! was necessary to run the City efficiently. Mr.
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  • 67 4 POLICE GO TO THE PEOPLE SINGAPORE Police, instead of waiting for people to come to a Police Station, took a mobile Police Station to their door-steps, yesterday. This move is to make it easier for the public to report extortion cases instead of dialling 099 and waiting for the Police
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  • 35 4 MR. GORDON Van Hion. conductor of the Singapore Musical Society, has retired. Mr. Van Him had been with the Soc.cty for the last 18 years. He retired due to pressure of other work.
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  • 18 4 0/ I the isOiiii^l The J^ I n :v- -j i J .-.r 1 .1 rr.a* i
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  • 1308 5 All Because 34 Charges Had To Be Amended THE Singapore Assize Court, hearing 34 charges of breaches under the Exchange Control Ordinance involving 155J,694,575 against Aik Hoe Co. Ltd., spent the greater part of yesterday considering the question of an amendment to the charges. The Court was faced with
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  • 56 5 !*d (ft* c w? ijourdes m V rV■".:- i KW strains I Waled ou who. V". fe.tr-5 R* concluded I. KsW n v fc by fisj** at her I legion. was I tit B« vd v Lfcale to the K3Ti6 when I? Vfc* will be Lfcsar S adium. RJVji
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  • 72 5 BORN 1881. STILL GOING STRONG MEET Mr L A Trouvat, born 1881 and still munir strong. H e is one of Singapore's newest visitors with a difference. The oldest of a batch of 4t> evacuees who arrived in the Colony from P:ilembang yesterday aboard the Tereisas. Mr. Trouvat, who looked
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  • 27 5 ABOUT 4.000 Indians, in the X lala Langat district wUI rt.y take the rath to be- Federal citizens. Mr. L\ir.i'l Jayaratnam president •:-•> Kuala Lan'gat M.I.C today.
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  • 60 5 ALOR STAR. Tues. About 400 Malay families here will soon be given land in Sungei Tiang for development. A member of the Land Development Board, Inche Azahari Taib, said that each family will get ten acres. Inche Azahari said he would be visiting Kota Bahru.
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  • 24 5 A LALLANG fire which broke ou^ in Telok Wan Jah last night, was nut out with the use of nioah palm leaves.
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  • 168 5 Covt. Bid To Clean Up District KOTA TINGGI. Tues. The District War Executive Committee and the Special Branch here have launched a one-week campaign to persuade the Communist terrorists to surrender. Psychological warfare officers, members of the committee and the Special Branch have
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  • 41 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— A 40-year old PWD workman, Arumugam, on his way to work this morning, collapsed and died. Arumugam, who died on the Sungei Besi Road, is survived by his wife and six children.
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  • 69 5 ALOR STAR. Tues. A padi-reaper who begged for employment later stole from his employer, the Magistrate's Court here was told today. Sulaiman bin Haji Yusoff, 23. was sentenced to six months' Imprisonment when found guilty of stealing $790 worth of jewellery from Ahmad bin Abdullah, at Ayer
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  • 660 6  - KENTUCKY PRIDE DOES IMPRESSIVE WORKOUT Windsor Lad By KI'ALA LUMPUR, Tues: Due to overnight rain only a few horses were sent out against the clock at this morning's gallops. Outstanding among them were Kentucky Pride, St. Vitus, Marigold and Miralda who broke 40 sec. for three furlongs. Kentucky Pride iKhamis)
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  • 122 6 THE S.r.-apo-e Hotkey As- v. invite a repre*c:itative of tne Singapore Combined Schools Sport- Counc. :o >.* a: server in all I Man C-.--V Th < -v led at the monthly cc. meeting the SHA he a: the Singapore Re rear. List r.igh: r-.<? osal was
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  • 86 6 ADELAIDE, Feb. 11. (Reuter) Dawn Frattr of South Australia, one of Australia's 193 m Olympic champions tonight broke the worr.e:.'> world swim* m;r.£ record for L!l!0 yards with i line ol hi i minutes lee at t '.o Olympic o here Ibii beat by m lee Urn
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  • 421 6 ROYAL Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Singapore) beat 'nd Ba f talion 2 King Edward's VII Own Gurkha Rifles (Malaya) by four goals to three in the FARELF interunit triangular hockey championship at Ayer Rajah Road yesterday. B tne teams will be :ng :^r Hongkong
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  • 207 6 SOMERSET, Feb. 11, (Reuter).— Star British woman high jumper Miss Mar> Bignall, 18, told reporters yesterday she had been ordered to leave the exclusive Milfield School here because of her friendship with a Siamese boy. The boy, Thiti Burakamkovit. son of a Government official
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  • 126 6 Shield For Services Competition A shield has been donated b y Messrs. Fraser and \eave to be competed for each year as the Singapore Inter-Services Trophy for hockey. This year the competition will be a straight fight between the Army and the RAF the Royai Navy having withdrawn owing to
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  • 28 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Imbi Road Youngsters were too good for Dynamic Dynamos whom they btftt 13-2 in a soccer match on the Imbi Road ground today.
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  • SPORTING WORD
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      377 6 JAPAN'S third-ranking featherweight, Kiyo s h i Miura, who is billed to fight popular Ray Ming Chan at the Happy World stadium this Friday made a wish yesterday HE HOPES THE JAPANESE CONSUL FOR SINGAPORE AND ALL HIS COUNTRY-MEN HERE WILL BE AT THE RING SIDE THAT NIGHT TO
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    • 90 6 SELETAR -B" beat Ro> a Signals "B" by 18 points Uwo goals and a try) to I (a try* to beco:n e the second team to enter ;he quarter-finals of the 9CC seven-a-side rugby tournament on the padann yesterday. In the second game *rhich was played in heavy
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    • 94 6 JOHANNESBURG Feb. 11. i Renter >— In 1 dour to save the T( Africa we c s .ill 109 hind Australia with eifht sec »nd mr.\i:z, wicki at tea o n the I irth iur:h Tc^: c:< The S j:h Af::< .ns S^ f,.r :-am v.".cv:cs 7.. iwed on
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    • 36 6 THE following are bearers M.-.1.v- Bfts ««ecuive Pn-.dmt: Mr. Rahim K*dir; I Vice-president: S.:r Of- hnm prneral Mr. C -isvt B«n >•<; Mr! M X tnasur.T Mr F Ebe: sports secretary: ch e X Membc:
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  • 884 7  -  Jack Peart Says LONDON, Tucs.— For Pete's *akp w* v,,, X*K Cup more fashionable clubs in the You'd almost think Scun thorpe and Darlington had committed a crime against football by daring to tan the hide off their "big brothers." Clear Lesson VTHY must the carping
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  • 196 7 Matt Busby Not Out Of The Wood Yet' MUNICH. Feb. 11 (Reuter> M.*. Busby. Manchester United team manager. was moved the emeraencv ward of Rechts Dcs Isar Hosoital today to join the less critically injured on the second Ffc«* Taylor of the News Chronicle was also moved ::om the fourth
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  • 563 7 LONDON, Feb. 11 (Reuter)— The handicappers for the Lincolnshire handicap to be run on March 26, and the Grand National steeple-chase, on Mar 29, seem to have achieved the difficult task of pleasing the big majority of the owners and trainers with horses engaged. Of a
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  • 271 7 MANCHESTER. England. *eb. 10 The Manchester United dead returned home tonight fr«>m Munich in a British Luropean Airways Viscount treignter Aj the plane carrying 17 p.ifflns taxied from the runway to the apron the Lorn Mayor club supporters. local aews papermen and relatives of the Hr id
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  • 246 7 SINGAPORE S O C C E R—S.B.H.F.A. LEAGUE COMPETITION— DIV. 2— Jacks vs. S.C.S., Farr e r Park; Mercantile Bank vs. Pulo Bukom, M.F.A. around; Breweries vs. Hongkong Bank. Farrer Park; China Bank vs. Ford, S.C.C. ground. DIV. 2 1. C. I vs. W e a m c
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  • 217 7 H.I. FINAL CRICKET TRIAL WELLINGTON. Feb. 11 (Renter)— Only two players who were on the last tour in 1949 are included in the final trial learns rhosen last night for the New Zealand cricket tour of England this year. They are John Reid. 29. who hai played fur New Zealand
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  • 87 7 LOXDON, Feb. 11, (Reuter> England will stage the 1958 world modern pentathlon championship at Aldershot. Hampshire, from Oct. 13 to 17. it was announced here today. It is expected that at least 16 countries. including the Soviet Union will compete in the event. wheh will cost between £6,000
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  • 51 7 REFERRING to yesterdays report on the I unbeaten Pirates XV of Ipoh. a Taiping rugger fan pointed out yesterday that the Pirates have suffered defeat. They were beaten by the Ta Ding Garrison on the Taipine Esplanade by six points to nil OB Oct 2.? last
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  • 168 7 Pakistan Need 195 Runs For Victory PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb. 10 (Reuter).— Pakistan, with seven wickets in nand, need 195 more runs to beat the West Indies in the second Test which ends tomorrow. Pakistan scored 161 for three wickets in their second innings by the close today after
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  • 423 7 Patterson— Erskine Fight Controversy LONDON, Feb. 11 (Rcuter) The proposed world heavyweight title figiit in London this summer between Floyd Patterson, the holder, and British champion, Joe Erskine, has sparked off one of the biggest arguments in British boxing for many years. It is generally agreed that Erskine must first
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  • 496 8 Valentine's Day Custom Started In Early Rome |/AR back in the dim, half- forgotten past the festival celebrating February 14 as Saint Valentines Day originated. How or why is as hazy as the records that tell the *:-.in^e tale. What we know of St. Valentine is a mixture of m\th.
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    42 8 COSEY SOH, a primary IV student of BaJestier Road Mixed School, celebrated his eleveiith birthday on Feb. 2. He is seen (above) getting ready to give a big puff at the candles while hit school-mates and friends look on. (Standardpic).
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  • 222 8 Three new languages for St. Thomas TIINDI. Malay and Chinese lan?ua?es may be added to the curriculum of the St. Thomas School, Singapore, says the Principal. Rev. V.E. He also reveals that Govt nent may take over to r ike the school a fully-aid-ci institution, but Rev. Thomas adds the
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  • 956 8 Demi Tasse writes again... 'Segregation' in a Singapore School WHATEVER the reason, and no matter how much of the tax-payer's money is saved by this undemocratic pr a ctice we cannot condone with the Principal of the Pasir Panjang English School who DID regroup her students into
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  • 104 8 By ERIC W. M. Goh— Form 118, ACS, Singapore. rTHE lightning is flashing, The thunder is roaring, The rain is coming down. Pitter patter, pitter patter. As it hits the ground Umbrellas go up. Wipers go on, And many a soul Has his raincoat on. 'THE streets are tho-
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  • 37 8 VIJAI KUMAR. 17, whose hobbies include stamp, view cards, correspon dence, history and geography, wishes to correspond with Malayan pen paJs. His address is T-9 8. I.N.A. Colony. Safdar Jang Airport, New Delhi 3 INDIA.
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    • 371 8 QUOTATION: "Timid men prefer thf calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty. 1 Thomas Jefferson. WEDNESD A V F<> r EVERYONE: Exert tact, o: ganization, pa:.< r severance to -..-r ~< obstacles and to V> ■<■■ ,<> of trouble today. Avo.d volvements. inh a r rr.oopposition and f
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  • 209 9 INDIAN DOCTORS WILL NOT COME Govt. Delay Blamed For Hitch In Recruiting IPOH, Tucs. The majority of 70 doctors trom India selected last year for service in Malaya will not be coming, The Standard was told today. The reason, it is understood, is the delay by the federation Government in
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  • 99 9 They Plan A Union For The Jobless MORE than 40,000 unempSyeu people in Singapore will soon nave a union Singapore Unemployed Citizens' Union U) represent them. Mr. G. Sundararaju, organizer ol the Union, told The Standard yesterday that the constitution was being drafted to enable the immediate functioning of the
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  • 100 9 DIRECTOR of information Services. Mr. G. G. Thomson, yesterday told a group of Malay residents of Pulau Tekong that Singapore's welfare and political future depended on them. "The Government of tomorrow will not be selected by Government House but by the people. And you are
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  • 97 9 FIRING OF CRACKERS: NEW DATES SINGAPORE Police have revised the dates for the firing of crackers during the Chinese New Year season. The letting of fireworks, except sand crackers. squibs or any cracker containing any ingredient other than blark gunpowder, is now authorise on the following dates and times: From
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  • 167 9 MORE than 129 families living in attap houses in Singapore will have to quit their homes within two weeks or face eviction. The City Council yesterday served quit notices on them because they are living faj unauthorised attap structures. Head of the Council's Information
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  • 38 9 SINGAPORE Customs seized •iOO pounds of cigarettes from a motor boat in the sea off Tanah Alerah Besar early yesterday. The motor boat wa? impounded. The duty on the S2 S 5O0 UeS WaS aSSessed al
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  • 78 9 A LARGE crowd of excited spectators braved yesterday's rain to view an "oily man" at the roof of the Cathay building in Singapore. Cries of "Orang Minyak" brought more people out and one of them rushed across the road to the theatre lobby to dial
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  • 53 9 MAJOR-GENERAL J. M. Kirkman. Commis-sioner-in-Chief, St John Ambulance Brigade, who arrived in Singapore on Monday night, was entertained to a tea party at the Colony's Brigade Headquarters in Gilstead Road, yesterday. The general is on a tour of the Far East and will be leaving for
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  • 98 9 Envoy Of Archbishop Due Today THE Right Reverend S. W. Betts. the Archbishop of Canterbury's representative with the Forces, arrives today in Singapore on a visit to Army. Navy and Air Force units in the Colony. He will be ir.c? on .irriva! by Air Marsha!. The Earl of Bandon. Commander-in-Chicf.
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  • 49 9 THE Singapore Council fcr Adult Education i s planning to hold an exhibition of local painters and foreign artists on Malayan themes at its headquarters at the Cultural Centre. The exhibition will b? open for a month. Interested persons are asked to contact the Cultural Centre
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  • 166 9 RUBBER TIN PRICES ILUMNIi rubber prices (cents per Ib.) i 0 Singapore yesterday were: Savers Sellers Spot (nom.) 772 78 RS.S. No. 1 772 78 March R.S.S. No. 1 77i 771 RS.S No. 2 February 74* 75* RS.S. No 3 February 70? 7U Tone: Steady Quiet. The price of tin
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  • 43 9 THE following were elected this year's office-bearers of the Chcttiar's (Nattukkottai) Chamber of CommercesPresident Mr. L.A.A.N.M. Suminathan Chettiar; vicepresident Mr. PR. a.M Vellayappa Chettiar; hon secretary Mr. AR. M. AR. Arimasalam Chettiar and asst. secretary —Mr M.S. SP, Perianan Chettiar.
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  • 43 9 SEEXI Mohammed bin My din, 30, was yesterday acquitted In the Magistrate's Court, Penang of using violence against Omar bin Hashim and Noordin bin Mat in order to compel them to abstain from working at the Eastern Smelting Company on Jan. 10.
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  • 271 13 WERE AMERICAN PLANES USED IN TUNISIAN ATTACK? WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UP) President Eisenhower, "profoundly disturbed" bj the French air attack on a Tunisian border town, conferred at length with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles yesterday about the incident. Dulles later scheduled a conference with Tunisian ambassador Monvi Slim.
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  • 249 13 11 (Keuter) Soviet scientific ,rd to switch their best chemists tute> to the task of making the try the most advanced" during the next lew years. Srn r ■'■■'< best 'known earrh worker and •:n X i>sun to win a J? rize s *ated in an arti- -'^r... :-.v.p
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  • 39 13 Kjl itah.Ft*. fw- v faced wis wife for I' H i H l m l# the I rapped M nI I I 1 ft 'v I' •>.! id ■Wkfi dis- .45 let «»iT B i l»l ronv •n o
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  • 36 13 B Reum the H Too<«tse have been Fjflm to attend f told that >tism. cy. is I ascs. with all I -moral m Jwort by the I read from B!? 1 tllrou Bb Too* vcek-end.
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  • 111 13 Chinese School Ban Is Lifted BANGKOK. Fi b. 11. (Rev- r 1 A middle-school to mve Chin< language instruc-;-n will .p- n in Bangkok next month for the first time sin the Korean war. a spokesman for the school authority today. Be taM permit for the school had been issued
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  • 31 13 THE Duke of Edinburgh Vfl] visit Cherbourg. France. (a Iha Royal yacht Britannia, m June 2 for the openiTni? r>f the n«w clubhouse of the Cherbourg Yacht Club. Reuter
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  • 205 13 Calwell Is Against New Immigration Proposal MELBOURNE. Feb. 11 (Rcuter) —For- a Labour Immigration Minister, Mr. Arthur Calwe I, wh i was many times criticized :or hij refusal to allow certain Asiani to b Australia, todaj attacked a proposal for a quota of selected immigrants Crom India and Pakistan He
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  • 75 13 NAMED after the ballet of Francoise Sagan, here is a creation from the '58' collection of Parisian Molinario. "Le Rendez Vous Manque' (The missed da!e). elegant and Huffy mask for evening galas which gives a very "mysterious" aspect to the person wearing it two green sculptured
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  • 88 13 CAIRO. Feb. 11 (Renter).— The Egyptian National Assembly last mqht approved the 700 million rouble (about £60 million) Soviet aid agreement drawn up with Egypt last November, The Assembly gavt its unanimous approval after Mr. Aziz Sidky, Minister of Industry, had given a report on
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  • 175 13 SAIGON. Feb. 11 —(UP)— Vietnam will continue to withhold from the 1954 Geneva accord which ended the Indochina war although the Truce Commission is moving lU headquarters to Saigon, Foreign Minister Vu van Mail said. '"The po>ition of the government remains unchanged" Mau told the
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  • 94 13 AMMAN. Feb. 11 (Reuter).— King Hussein and King Feisal of Iraq today begin talks in Amman on the possibility of a federal union of the Hashenute kingdoms. The two kings are first minim Kin^ Saud of Saudi Arabia is to MVi a rtpratotativt
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  • 27 13 SEVEN people d.ed and 12 were seriously injured in a bus which caught fire near Sijia, on the B;har-Wrst Bengal border yesterday. Reuter
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  • 147 13 23 Die In Blinding Snowstorms NEW YORK. Feb. 11 (Reutcr> Blinding snowstorms. Sleet, freezing rain and subzero temperature* in the united States have doted mar.v schools, ket>t thousands of workers from their jobs and were responsible for the deaths of at least 23 people. Patches of frost were reported as
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  • 63 13 THE HAGUE, Feb. 11 (Reutcr) A spokesman for the Royal Dutch Navy last night denied that the Dutch destroyer Pie; Hem was operating in waters off North Celebes, as reported from Indonesia. The spokesman said the ship was being rebuilt as a frigate t n Den
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  • 60 13 CANBERRA. Feb. 11. (Reuter) Australian Minister for Immigration. Mr. Athoi Townley wa s sworn in today as Minister for Supply and Defence Production. He takes over from Mr. Howard Beale, who is on his way to Washington as ambas-sador-elect. Prime Minister Mr. Robert Menzies said today
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  • 31 13 CANADA is making available for international relief purposes a large part of a 30 million pound surplus of dry skimmed milk, the Canadian External Affairs Department announced yesterday. Reuter
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  • 207 13 By RUSSELL JONES BUDAPEST. Feb. 11 (UP) The graves are gone from the public parks of Budapest. The bodies of the men. women and children who died for freedom in October and November of l^ti have been moved to tfce cemeteries. Only the dates on
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  • 368 13 THE WAY IT GOES, UN. MAY BECOME ONE BIG WOMEN'S CLUB UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 11 (Reuter) So big a part are women playing in the United Nations, that some observers here predict that if the present trend continues, the world organization could become one big women's club in about ten
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    • 290 14 Muscular Woman Theory On Bus Stop Murders' LONOON, Feb. 11 (IT) Detectives worked today on the theory that a powerful and muscular woman may have committed England's three "bus stop murders because she thought the victims were too plump. The victims were 53-year-Cld Miss Lilian Chubb, a shy s^iruster never
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    • 134 14 WASHINGTON. Feb. 11 (AFP) Rear Admiral Howard Rickover. "father" of the atomic submarine, yesterday startled the House Sub-Committee on Education by declaring that Congress ought to cut defence appropriations and use the money to raise teachers salaries In the United States. He said the American system
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    • 181 14 45,000 Tons Synthetic A Year With Aid From U.S. Companies TOKYO, Feb. 11 (AFP) Three leading American synthetic mbber companies have agreed to give technical aid to the Japan Synthetic Rubber Company to develop iU» enterprise on a large scale, it was learned here today. Shujiu Ishibashi,
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    • 90 14 SEATED in a barrel fashioned by himself, ginger-haired Frank Edwards. 21, undergoes the centuries-old initiation ceremony marking the end of his Cooper's apprenticeship and his promotion to Journeyman at Barclay's Brewery. Tower Bridge. London. Frank's ordeal began when he was put in the barrel which had
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    • 123 14 London. Feb. li (Reuter) Membership of the British Communist Party about 34.000 before the Soviet intervention in Hungary is now around 25.000, it was disclosed yesterday. A statement trom the political committee of the party said that 24.670 members, or 95 per cent of the
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    • 79 14 NEW DELHI, Feb (Reuter).— The In lian Communist F has same 1 1 l 1,000 mem- n Qm past loui months i i< pa v H18.5 )0-strong. the :•■•'.< General Secretary. A Kumar Ghosh, here t iv r o a Pre>> conference t m largi si imbei
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    • 71 14 HONGKONG. Feb. 11 te.-t— Women here are bettor drivers than men. according to the Colony's traffic superintendent. Woman drivers, he maintained, are usually safer because they have more patience and show more consideration for other road users. In talk on road safety Superintendent Alexander
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    • 165 14 American 'Spaceman' Is Holding Up Well SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Feh 11. (UP).— Airman Donald G. Farre!!, who is spending a week in a small steel chamber to find out whether a man's nerves can stand a rocket trip to outer space, bore up '■exceptionally*' during lirst -4 hours. "He is
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    • 51 14 Washington. Feb. it (Reuter>— Marshal Sarit Thanarat Commander-in-Chief of Thailand's Army, will be operated on at Walter Reed Army Hospital here to relieve I chronic liver condition, it was announced last nisht A hospital spokesman said the operation would be performed on or about Friday this
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    • 17 14 SOUTH VIETNAM is conduetins a contest to select designs for four new postage stamps.— U.P.
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    • 171 14 TUNIS, Feb. 11 (AFP) President Habib Boursuibj is determined to go "to the end" to obtain the evacuation of French troops from all parts of Tunisia, including the aero-naval base of Bizerts, informed Tunisian sources said today. He announced after last Saturday' incident, in
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    • 37 14 MONTE CARLO Feb 11 <Reuter) Princess Grace of Monaco expects her second baby towards mid-March, palace officials said here today. They denied Press reports that the princess was expect- ing twins.— Reuter
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    • 26 14 GEN. SIR HUGH Stockwell, Military secretary at the War Office, arrived in Hongkong yesterday on a four-day visit to inspect army units. Reuter
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    • 25 14 THE Ford Foundation an?0 0 0?0 C osn yGSterday E rantS $z.233.000 to aid in development of small indust.riPs in India.— U.P.
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    • 125 14 PRAGUE, Feb. 11 (Reuter) Regalia for a king's coronation, including two golden crowns and a sceptre and ball. hav e been found by a boilerman in the cellar of a small Prague church. Puzzled by the unusual shape of a wall in the
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    • 456 14 ZOOM! THERE GOES ANOTHER ROCKET AND IT IS MAKING ALL JITTERY NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (Reuter) --Spitting, fizzing, often bursting with a roar of exploding gases, home-made rockets are now zooming their way into the lives of teenagers across North America to the delight of the young, the consternation of
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    • 297 14 Closing A Accounts^ Adding up s~l'^\ Statements? <s ro* I HAND .//> j OR f V^s# j ELECTRIC V"\ J OPE RATION%^> SHOA Rr, CM 154 CLEMENCCAU Avt. X j s s >Arcc BEHN, MEYER 0 in SINGAPORE KUALA LUMP UR i^^^^^__^^^^a JUST ARRIVED Ccntoins VITAL HORMONE Qn d w
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    15 15 the Australian House of ho arrived at the Kuala .l two-day social visit.
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  • 121 15 je." I-, m V L »M£D 2- -_n nroof of their pat;jtism and the spirit to »erve when they fought r. the Japanese during i war. He hoped that they would n to give the same as long as they were > and encourage others their example of voluntary
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  • 362 15 Quit UMNO' Move May Mean End Of Their Association KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Government today warned the Federation of Malay Teachers Association that it would be closed down if it was found to be acting beyond its powers. A Government spokesman, commenting on the recent order by the Association to
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  • 97 15 IPOH, Tues. Perak tin miner and a leading member of the Kheh community here, Mr. Hew Kiaw. 55, died at the District Hospital here at 10 p.m. yesterday after a short illness The late Mr. Hew was a member of the board of directors
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  • 89 15 1 HT the statutory interest when articles came up tor newal." We have two cases tv- us now. Because the n bers of the public corated with the Police. culprits will now have to appear before a court. With the Chinese New V ir approaching fast. many people will
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  • 349 15 Gunfire From R.I. Patrol Boat THE Straits Steamship freighter Segamat, which was intercepted by an Indonesian marine patrol last Sunday and detained at Tandjong Pinang, arrived in Singapore yesterday with her cargo of 254 tons of wax intact. Capt. Mohammed Said bin Mohamed Dros told The
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  • 41 15 MALACCA, Tues.— Mr. Rickey Holden. American folk and square dance expert will demonstrate folk dancing at the High School Hall on Thursday. Mr. Holden is on a tour of Malaya as a representative of the International Recreation Association.
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  • 214 15 CLUB TO PRESENT PERIOD PLAY KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Theatre Club here will inaugurate its eleventh year of existence with a period play, written and produced by one of its members, Mrs. Cherry Gates. The play. "The Regency Ward," is a light comedy based on the complications involved in the
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  • 240 15 Workers' Party Denies Rumour SINGAPORE'S Workers' Party yesterday denied rumours that it would be aligning itself with the Liberal Socialists and the Labour Front. A statement issued by the party's executive council yeaterday said: "Because the Liberal Socialists and the Labour Front supported the Workers' Party motion to give the
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  • 65 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Malay Otherwise-trained Teachers' Association has applied to the Registrar of Societies for change of status into a trade union. The new body is to b* called the National Union of Primary Teachers. President of the Association, Inche Ahmad bin Abdul Rahman,
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  • 74 16 Plans To Open Branches MR. P. GOBLE, (seen here), general manager of Dominant Allied Chemicals Pty., Limited, who is now in Singapore for a short stay. He arrived by QantasBOAC from his head offices in Sydney, to study possibilities of opening branch offices in the Federation and the Colony. Mr.
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  • 195 16 A STUDY has been made of market research faciities in Singapore and Malaya, and considerable planing has been carried out with trade fairs and exhibi- lion organizers. Mr. K. If, Palmer, the retiring president of the Association of Accredited Advertising Agent of Malaya, said this
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  • 128 16 Rubber Up Cent RUBBER gained 5/8 cent n Singapore yesterday i International firs; grade Tor rebruary was quoted buyers < it 77J cents per lb. against J ?7i cents on Monday. J The tone of the close was steady qutet. The market opened slightly l lower on overseas advices md
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  • 47 16 ..^PORTS of rubber into c M^ayain January amounted to 31,811 tons, of which 15,155 c tons came from Sumatra Next biggest supplier was c Indonesian Borneo which sent 8,609 tons. Other imports included those from: Thailand 3 156 tons and Sarawak 2,037 tons.
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  • 26 16 LONDON, Feb. 11 (Reuter) -Two British brewery firms, nth a combined share capital f nearly £11,000,000, plan to malgamate, it was announced. J
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  • 97 16 SINUAPGKh Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: copix. Jan.-Feb. UK/ Continent $30* buyers $3li sellers: coconut oil in bulk $454 sellers; in drums $49 sellers Muntok white pepper $102 sellers; Sarawak whito $101 sellers; special Sarawak black $63. Singapore Copra Association closing prices: fair merchantable
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  • 78 16 Board Members TANJONG MALIM, Tues.— rhe Rubber Supervision Lisensing Board for Batang Padang district in South Perak announced the following officers for the board luring 1958: Tuan Syed Zahiruddin bin >yed Hassan (chairman), In:he Abdul Majid bin Moharned Yusoff, Inche Johan bin Vfohamed Yassin Toh Muda Jaib bin Che'Rose, Captain
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  • 197 16 SHIPS IN PORT Iron Ore Exports To Japan Rise OUTER ROADS Felipes. Teireisas Danakill, Pyrrhus, Hercales. Tabinat, Tees Breeze. Glory, Vietnam, Grat Okas. Cyclops. Umaria. Dihvara, Dukat, Tai Seung Hong, Roggeveen. INNER ROADS Hua Heng, Torina. Senggarang, Tong GOan. Nangkachindr, Auby. Kah Kheng, Selangor. Tong Hong. Teck Thong. Giang Bee,
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  • 147 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues "he Minister of Transport Pm? Ul R ahman bin 'alib, will ride In the bus laugurating the service to etaJng Jaya on Peb 15 perated by the only Malay us company in the Federal ap.tal. .The route to Petaling Jaya 'I" 5
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  • 211 16 OUTLOOK FOR TIN GOOD: DR. ISMAIL jpggj paaa 1 World Buying More WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, (UP)— Malayan Ambassador, Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman said today that he is firmly of the opinion that the long term outlook for tin is "basically sound and promising." He acknowledged that "there may
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  • 12 16 JIMAH'S rubber output for i January was 40,200 lb. j
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  • 39 16 THE Malayan Exchange Banks' Association's rates quoted to merchants yesterday wereCanada buying T.t. 32|, OD 32J. 90 d/st air mail 32j, credit bills. 32 15/16 trade bills Sellin ff T.T./O.D. (Ready); Belgian Francs 1615J, Itaha^ Lire *****.
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  • 31 16 RUBBER outputs of the i following companies for last i month were: Aver Panas 99.000 lb.. Glenealy 86.000 lb.. Kluang 71.000 lb., Pajam 160,000 lb.. Ulu Benut 37,500 lib.
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  • 88 16 Tins And Rubbers Irregular INDUSTRIALS were firm, while tins and rubbers were irregular in the Malayan share market yesterday. Prices changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers 8.8. Petrol 37/- 39/Fraser Neave Ords. 2.56 2.61 Gammon 2.20 2.25 W. Hammer 2.02 2.07 Malayan Cement 1.25 1.30
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  • 138 16 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done: F. N. ords $2.57 A: Gammon $2.20; Hammer $2.02; Henry Waugh $1.475; McAlister $1.42J; M. B9X $1.53; Cold Storage 90c. overnight and yesterday; S. Traders $1.72; U.E. ords. $1.24. $1.25: Wearne $3; Jacks $1.97. $1.97*. Austral Amal. 11/- to 10/9; Ayer
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  • 58 16 MR. William Lyons, export sales manager of George Homer Ltd. (an English sweet manufacturing firm) is due in Singapore on April 30 on a visit to his local agents, Guthrie Co. Ltd. Mr. Lyons, who will arrive in Singapore from Borneo in the course of a
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