Singapore Standard, 24 February 1958

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    19 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Teleohone *****—5 Cable: "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1959 Vol. VIM. No. 236 15 cts. 12 Pages
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    Lock icon Rioters Clash In Rome
    66 1 Rioters Clash In Rome ROME. Feb. 23 (UP) Co'rmunists. Neofaseists and dub swinging police clashed in downtown Rome todav during ceremonies honouring Italy's wartime anti-Fascist partisan movement. Some 40.000 persons crowded Piazza Vcnc/.ia where dictator Benito Mussolini once harangued his Fascist followers. Scattered violence broke out between Rods and die-hard
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    Lock icon REBEL RADIOS SILENT
    532 1 BOMBERS KNOCK OUT ALL STATIONS Jakarta Makes A Good Start In Word War JAKARTA, FEB. 23— INDONESIAN AIR FORCE PLANES MADE FIVE SEPARATE RAIDS ON REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT AREAS YESTERDAY. ONE OF WHICH WAS ON THE "NEUTRAL" TOWN Ot DJAMBI. The other four places hit were Padang. Bukit
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    Lock icon WE'LL WAGE TOTAL WAR, THREATENS EOKA CHIEF
    332 1 Stand By, He Tells Cypriots NICOSIA, Feb. 23— New I EOKA leaflets from Digh-| ems. leader of the Cypriot I Greek underground orgtfnotation, circulated hnc today said "The hour is i approaching when I shall declare total war/' The leaf Uts said the
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    Lock icon Churchill Wins His Latest Fight
    111 1 ROQUEBRUNE. Cap Martin, Feb. 23 (Reuter) Sir Winston Churchill was spending his sixth day in bed here todav recovering from pneumonia and pleurisy. A medical bulletin this afternoon states that his temperature is back to normal. Though he is still in bed, he is beginning
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    21 1 THE Communist Chinese Government yesterday officially recognised the Egyp-tian-Syrian United Arab Rem,hi!r New China News Agency reported. A.F.P.
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    Lock icon HATTA GREETS SOEKARNO
    41 1 photo. FORMER Vice-Presi-dent Mohammed Hatta greets President Soekarno when the latter arrives at Hatta's home for a meeting on the explosive Sumatran and Celebes situation. Two days later. Dr. Soekarno announced his determination to "crush" the rebels. UP.
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    Lock icon NEW TRADE PACT
    20 1 Saudi Arabia and EdVOt have signed a trade agreement in Riyadh, it was reported yester- day.— AFP
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    Lock icon An Errand For Mother Ends In 2 Road Deaths
    148 1 THREE brothers returning home after buying sugar for their mother were knocked down by a motor car al the 18th mile, Lim Chu Kang Road, Singapore, yesterday. One cJ them, Jasmin bin Ibrahim, 7. was killed inttaaUneously. His elder brother, Sabar,
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    Lock icon HE DIED FOR HIS LOST LOVE
    143 1 HE DIED FOR HIS LOST LOVE NORTH BERGEN. New Jersey. Feb 23 (UP)— An Armv private joined bis Korean sweetheart in death yesterday a few weeks after he learned she committed suicide in Korea after she was told of his reassignment to the United States, it was disclosed today. Pfc
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    Lock icon Bringing 'Em Down, Quiz Is Solved
    124 1 Bringing 'Em Down, Quiz Is Solved LONDON, Feb. 23 (UP) Radio Moscow reported yesterday that Soviet scientists have solved "the problem of sending up rockets and returning them to earth." The broadcast for North America, heard here, said "Soviet scientists and engineers right now are working on the problem of
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    Lock icon POCKET PHONE
    29 1 LEONID Kuprianovich, a Russian, claims to have invented a pocket radio-telephone from which he can call up. or receive calls from, any number within a 60-mile radius
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    Lock icon RELEASE PLAN
    28 1 THE Japanese Government is seeking to speed up the release of all 45 war criminals remaining at Sugamo prison, Tokyo, by the end of March.- AFP
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    26 1 SUDANESE troop reinforcements are likely to be withdrawn from Sudan's northern borders before the general elections next Thursday, a Sudan Government spokesman said yesterday.— Reuter
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    21 1 DUBLIN ddckers returned to work yesterday after a ten weeks strike that tied up coastal and ocean vessels UP
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    Lock icon SOVIET ARMS GEARED FOR WAR
    184 1 SOVIET ARMS GEARED FOR WAR MOSCOW, Feb. 23 (Reuter) Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Communist Party chief, declared today that the Soviet armed forces were being maintained at "a high military level in every way" because of the Western Powers' arms race. Mr. Khrushchev was addressing a meeting in Lenin
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    Lock icon HE'S CAUGHT BY T.V.
    43 1 DURHAM, (England) Feb. 23 (Reuter) A magistrate imposed a C2 fine on a motorist who was seen "beating" a red traffic light on a television screen A Police officer said this was the first case of '"detection by T.V"
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    Lock icon Nasser Plans New Cabinet
    70 1 CAIRO, Feb. 23 (Reuter) President Nasser was today busy forming a new cabinet for the newly created United Arab Republic, following yesterday's announcement cf a 99 per cent vote in favour of unity between Egypt and Syria The Syrian Government resigned on Saturday but the Egyptian
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    Lock icon Hunt To Climb The Caucasus
    57 1 LONDON, Feb 23 'Reu cr. —Sir John Hunt, loader of the expedition which conquered Mount Everest in 1953. announced today that he would lead a British climbing oxpedition in the Caucasus, the Russian mounta.n range, in July Sir John said 'he Soviet authorities cave permission
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    Lock icon EXTINCT SHARKS
    34 1 TEETH from long extinct sharks, whose mouth? were big enough to hold 10 mon, have been discovered by Soviet oceanographors working in the central Pacific, the Sov.ct news agency, Tass reported Reuter
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    Lock icon RUSSIA STICKS TO CLAIM ON BAY
    177 1 GENEVA, Feb 23 (UP)—' Russia threw cold water yesterday on hopes for early agreement at the first global conference ever called to settle the spreading dispute over who owns the world's seas The Soviet Government organ, lzvestia in a timely waniing two days before
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    Lock icon VIOLENCE MUST BE AVOIDED
    140 1 THE Pripie Minister of Malaya, Tunku Abdul Rahman, said in Singapore yesterday that any acU of violence should be avoided. The Tunku. answering a question on the raids bv the Indonesian Government planes against the rebels ln Central Sumatra, added that acts of violence only caused
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    Lock icon WELL FIGHT FOR ALL THE ARABS, PLEDGES NASSER
    313 2 CAIRO, Feb. 23, (UP).— Col. Gamol Abdel Nasser pledged in a victory speech yesterday that the merged Egyptian-Syrian armies would support all Arabs against t«ie "common enemy/' which was I ned back at Port Said. He war. apparently referring to Britain, France
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    Lock icon KREMLIN GIVES NEW STATE ITS BLESSING
    195 2 LONDON, Feb. 23 (UP) Radio Moscow reported yesterday that the Soviet Government has formally recognized the United Arab Republic. The broadcast said that President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Marshal Klementi Voroshilov, congratulated Egyptian President Gama] Abdcl Nasser upon his election as
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    Lock icon DEATH AT 102
    22 2 GIOCONDA Messini, died at Pontassieve, near Floien e |USt after applying for an oldage pension. He was 109 Reuter.
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    Lock icon PRINCESS YET TO GIVE FINAL 'YES' TO SUITOR
    175 2 STOCKHOLM, Feb. 23 (Reuter)— Princess Margaretha of Sweden has only said "yes" provisionally to a marriage proposal from Mr. Robin Douglas-Home, the 26-year-old British commoner, circles close to the Swedish Court said today. Though the 23-ycar-eld Princess is convinced, the young British
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    Lock icon $76,500 SMOKES GRAB
    63 2 $76,500 SMOKES GRAB LONDON, Feb 23 (Renter) Raiders bound a night watchman ind boiler man ind ttole aboul l t ooo,ooo cigarettes —worth aho-,;t $76.500 from Loodoa rranaport'i iced centre laat Bight The gang es aped in a fiveton lorry ifter making the grab from ihe centre, which provides food
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    Lock icon GUARD TELLS OF RAID ON EMBASSY
    166 2 LONDON. Feb. 23 (Reuter)— A night watchman af the Indonesian Embassy am yesterday told a Couit how a bogus telephone call impersonating the Ambassador lured him into a trap set by raiders Ittt November The niden gacged and bound Urn, carried aim to the
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    Lock icon BISHOP OF MAIDSTONE
    73 2 FOLLOWING a service which he conducted at the Headquarters of 17 Gurkha Division. Overseas Commonwealth Land Forces, in Seremban. the Bishop of Maidstone, currently on a tour of Services units in the Far East, chats with members of the congregation. Here the Bishop (centre) accompanied by the
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    Lock icon MPs Ask Wheth Lloyd Will Be Replaced Soon
    367 2 LONDON, Feb. 23 (Reuter) Manx Me: Parlument lelt for their constituencies I.m ins whether Mr. Selwyn Lloyd will be rep. by another minister at the Foreign Office. Toe Foftffi BtCreUdy*! pm forma:. meat's foreign affairs debate ek made kn large* of one
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    Lock icon END OF THE CRUISE
    45 2 END OF THE CRUISE photo. FEDERATION Deputy Prime Minister and -Minister for Defence. Dato Abdul Razak bin Dato Hussion, inspects a guard of honour of the Royal Marines on board the HMS Newfoundland. on his arrival on Irida\. having made the cruise from Penang Royal
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    Lock icon Into Jail-And Out Again
    24 2 Into JailAnd Out Again i T Pi A 10 gfgjhy. spent aaa oSf a he'd callei ufl fled stufcr m AY -■C- V". c
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    Lock icon U.S. ENVOY IS OFF TO A 'TOUGH POST
    134 2 WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UP) Fifty -nine -year -old Howard Palfrey Jones left Washington yesterday en route to one of the toughest posts in the American Foreign Service Ambassador to Indonesia.. Jones, accompanied by his wife, expects to arrive on March 5 in
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    Lock icon SHE WAS OLDEST
    14 2 ill South Africa d Xy aged 116 in Knifersdorp. ar Acr_
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      499 2 TENDER NOTICES CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE TENDER ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT Disposal of Scrap Materials at AMunied Road and Newton Road Stores. Tender Deposit $200/-. Close Tender documents are available from Electricity Depart--1 menl (Room 109), on production of lhe City Treasurer's Deport Rc ipt which will be made in the name
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    Lock icon EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD The Chinese In South-east Asia
    804 3 February 24. 1953. THE Chinese in Singapore. Malaya, Indonesia, rJ other countries of South-east Asia in this y >jm_\ era find themselves in the same position as their ancestors had endured in the prepcriod. After several decades of basking ♦lie European
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    Lock icon TIGER STANDARD PRESS
    35 3 rt Nc 1563 Cables NCEKNtWS ;54^j' '5 «npst AM deoartiMtflSl lmh,R insurant* dldg 174 Bat u jo -ore S3 .can Sj fel- «g Le m St Tel- 72?? qi-A Bukit Otina i>i
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    Lock icon THE SAD ERROR
    1513 3 tragic bombing of Sakiet village fili tragic blunder of the bombing of the village of Sakiet in Tunisia by twenty five French aircraft is now enmeshed in a series of astonishing ♦,-xculpatorv statements by French politicians. ML Pineau. the Foreign Minister, ls up to his eye.s .n
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    Lock icon We the PEOPLE
    735 3 We the PEOPLE Temporary Clerical Officers in Govt. Frightful Night Sir Hats oil to foul widely circulated paper, the Champion Ol the underdogs. All readers of your paper who value justice are gratified to note that they have a champion in your paper It is certainly not justice for Malaya
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    470 3 the NEWS as ut strikes me DLf LYING to a question by a group of Victoria School students, who visited him on Friday last, as part of their civics course, (olony Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock said there will be no merger or alliance between the Labour Front and the
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    Lock icon 3,600 New Phones For KL
    240 4 3,600 New Phones For KL KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The main telephone exchange here will attain a capacity sufficient to meet tr.e needs of another 3.000 sjoscribers by the middle c: March, said a spokesman c! the Telecommunications Department yesterday. lecnnicians oi the department have been engaged in ex end.ng the
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    Lock icon NEW SHOWROOM
    33 4 .Mil LION AIRE Mr L an T n- declared open the r. >h of Asia M r Company in Farquhar Street Penan* yesterday afternoon A cocktail party f ..-wed the opening.
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    Lock icon IMMIGRATION MAN DISMISSED
    48 4 HORLINGTON Cmcr.g. a dec "y Assista.v Controller c: I v.gration in Smgaoore has been dismissed from serviee a ling to a Government Garette issued yesterday. The Gazette -.so announced the iismissal of Jaffa? M. Singh, General Clerical Offi ret bed ta the Chief Secretary's Office
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    Lock icon Civil Defence Men Not Trained For A-War
    244 4 Civil Defence Men Not Trained For A-War KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Federation Civil Defence Force is not giving its members instruction on how to combat the effects of nuclear attack. But piciont training could swiftly be adapted to include Midi measures said the Federation CommisnUMtm tor Civil Defence. Col. J.
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    Lock icon PRESS RAZED
    24 4 THE Office ot the Nassau Guardian, a daily newspaper established 114 vear> ago. was completely destroyed by flre on Saturday night Reuter
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    18 4 FEDERATION Fnme Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman speaking at the Arab Community Merdeka tea-party at Badminton Hall yesterday. Standardpic
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    Lock icon New Nursing Home Opens In June
    109 4 New Nursing Home Opens In June PLANS for the establishment of the Gleneagles Nursing Home in Napier Road, Singapore, have been firtaii/cd and the Home is expected to open in June- The MA-proflt making private home will provide the niqhest standard of nursing and will be equipped for normal day-to-day
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    Lock icon He Sold Stolen Buffalo, Jailed
    47 4 JERANTUT. Sun— A padi planter. Abdul Ghani bin Ibrahim, 43. of Kampong Doya. Kuala Tembling, Jerantut, wa.s yesterday jailed seven months for cheat. ng a butcher. Lam Nam. by selling him a buffalo he had stolen from his uncle, Awang Nong Muda.
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    Lock icon TUNKU SET FOR CLOSER ARAB TIES
    594 4 Let's Move With The Times, Says Premier FEDERATION Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman yesterday expressed the hope that relations between the Federation and Arab countries would become closer wheu diplomatic relations were established. The Tunku expressed this hope at a merdeka teaparty given by
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    Lock icon Thug Knifes Motorist
    56 4 A MOTORIST. Tay Yeow Tee, was slashed in the arm in Smith Street, Singapore, at 1 a.m. on Saturday. He was taken to hospital for treatment. Police Secretary, Mr. Eu Cheow Eang, said that a thug picked a quarrel with Tay and then attacked him with a
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    Lock icon Threat To Govt So Minister Wont Meet Teachers
    346 4 SING WOKE Minister lor Educalioi Mr O Swee Kee has rel used to meet iU !c:ai<-> <,; i Chinese Schools Conference becauM Mm recent decision of the conference "contained a \)m to the Go\ernment." The Minister's decision \vas core.man of the Conference,
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    37 4 THE Vicar of Selangor, Canon Chiu Ban It at ccmpanicd by his wife and daughter. Veronica. 8 returned to Kuala Lum pur on Friday after a six months holiday in England. Standardpk b. Fah
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    17 4 ARMY STORES GUTTED Ip O Sun- Three J re houses bekncfeal N Arm Abdul tboussnd doQvs *J
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    65 4 HELP THE AILING: KIRKMAN KOALA i ArabutaßJ Am rseas) 1 the tßmmW*^ general mßl' a parade of tin John Ambulance > More than 3W"3 "Members of tie WJj all over the g Sto« and woW^' rkm n m Tr.. -a scr.U il ;o Dr V. H Lr.: r-'"' 1 Br:.
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    6 4 New Way To 'Sell' Colony m
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    Lock icon English In Court: A Mockery, Says UMNO
    178 4 English In Court: A Mockery, Says UMNO KUALA LUMPUR. Sun Tne use of English in the Law courts of the Federation constitutes a mockery of the national language, the Kelantan branch of UMNO resolved mm night. The branch's annual delegates conference unan imou s 1 y agreed that it was
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    85 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— The U.M.N.O. branch here has proposed that Pr.me Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman should settle the dispute between Education Minister, Inche Khir Johari. and the Malay teachers on the question of Malay secondary schools. This was resolved at a representative meeting of the division
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    66 4 SINGAPORE Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers dramatic society's next play the farce "See How They Run" is due to be staged from Feb. 24 to March 1 at the REME Theatre in Rowcroft Lines. Ayer Rajah Road. Bookings to the public open from Feb. 25 to
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    Lock icon AVER ITAAA WANTS CURFEW LIFTED
    100 5 AVER ITAAA WANTS CURFEW LIFTED I Residents L'sgja Terubong and Thean btatc A i Itam u today petitioned the Ch e f Zjttr. Mr. Wong Pew Nee. to do his bes* to the curfew in lhe BPOe h was by r nts in the two -aid that the people Icred
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    97 5 is on his left. photo THE District Officer of J iihore Bahru. Inche Ibrahim bin Abdul Majid. (top picture) inspects a guard of honour from the Ist Battalion. the 2nd (iurkha Rifles, prior to presenting the battalion with a mounted Kris as a m -i- of <»«t«*«»*n from the people
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    Lock icon Auths Told: WORK For The Country
    108 5 Auths Told: WORK For The Country rr. z ra.< Aliianct lin the Count i r State Yip Yir ah. t da> a>k- youths in the state safeguard *:v. sor fli nbers and ■■< a- ry fc Tap. who Is also fenesecretary ot the Pi rak X ask' the v uths
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    Lock icon Widow Dies At 63
    68 5 IPOH. Sun— A former Taiping resident. Madam Au Yong Heng Thiam, 63. wife the late Mr. Tai Chong B 0, died at her home here yesterday Site leaves a daughter and -even sons one of whom is a Police Inspector, stationed Sl the Perak Pol.ce headquarters
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    Lock icon LEADERS OPPOSE WEDDING BAN ON OVER 50's
    356 5 ITS AGAINST MUSLIM TEACHINGS' ALOR STAR, Sun. Two religious teachers here a man and a woman today criticised a recommendation of the Pan-Malayan Islamic Moral Defence Organization that marriages between teenage Muslim girls and men above 50 years of age should be banned.
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    Lock icon AFTER 10 YEARS, GURKHAS ARE LEAVING MALAYA
    269 5 AFTER 10 YEARS, GURKHAS ARE LEAVING MALAYA KIAIA LLMFL'K, Sun. The First and Second ttattaion.s of the 1? Gurkha Division will leave South Johofi this week after 10 years of continuous service :igain*i the Communists. During their 10 years of "jungle bashing," they uave jeeounted for 270 terrorists, mainly in
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    87 5 Design Competition A COMPETITION for designs of the emblem of the International Union of Official Travel Organizations is open to all affiliated national travel organizations The winning emblem, which should embody the idea of international travel, will be used on documents of the lUOTO. It will have both the French
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    Lock icon THE NEW PASSPORT
    44 5 THIS is a photograph of the cover of the new passport issued by the Federation of Malaya. It bears the Federation Crest two tigers holding a shield bearing the flags of the 12 States with the Star and Crescent on top.
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    Lock icon TALK ON U.N.
    44 5 AN expert on political science. Dr. D.P. Singhal of the University of Malaya History Department, will talk on the structure and function<? of the U.N. General Assembly and the Security Council at the Guillemard Road Malay School at 7.30 p.m. tomorrow.
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    Lock icon Bad Health Forces Him To Resign
    122 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs. Inche Othman bin Mohamed is to resign from this Foreign Office job "1 have not been feeling well and. for the past five months, I have been in and out of several hospitals."
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    42 5 MALACCA, Sun.— Mr William Warfield, one of America's leading Negro baritones will give a concert in the French Convent Hall here on Wednesday. Mr. Warfield is on an Asian tour Tickets can be obtained free from the Education Department.
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    Lock icon BE PATIENT, MEMBERS TOLD
    100 5 KLANG. Sun Secretary General of UMNO, Inche Ismail bin YusolT, told Kaum Ibu UMNO members here yesterday that every member of UMNO should exercise patience regarding the introduction of Malay secondary education He was speaking at the Klang UMNO Kaum Ibu general meeting held at Dewan
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    Lock icon Thai Border The Worst Bandit Area
    177 5 BENTONG, Sun. Thai border is the worst of the three terrorist-infested areas in the Federation said Defence Minister. Dato Abdul Razak here today Speaking before an assembly ot the Bentong UMNO. Dato Razak said that there were about 500 terrorists at the Malayan-Thai border.
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    Lock icon CALL FOR A SCHOOL TO TRAIN SINSEHS'
    175 5 CALL FOR A SCHOOL TO TRAIN SINSEHS' PENANG, Sun. State Councillor, Dr. N.K Menon today called for the establishment of a school to tiain young men as Chinese physicians when ne addressed the fourth annual conference of the Federation of Chinese Physicians and Medicine Dealers' Association of Malaya. Dr. Menon,
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    Lock icon Policeman Foils Bid To Extort
    83 5 Policeman Foils Bid To Extort IPOH, Sun Two youths who attempted to extort money from a shopkeeper in Pasir Pinji Xew Village yesterday fled when a Policeman arrived The youths had earlier entered the shop and demanded $100 from the owner. Ng Tait Han. 37 A lorry attenJant, Wong Ah
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    Lock icon COLONY BABAS TO AID KRAMAT FUND
    103 5 THE Hiboran Bintang Bahru (a group of Singapore "babas") will stage a play entitled "Nasib Anak Tiri" (The Fate of a s ep-daughter) at the Happy World Stadium on March 5. The entire characters are men some playing the ro'es of women and is
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    Lock icon POST FOR NEW MAN CHALLENGED
    280 5 THE Senior Officers' Association of the Singapore City Council representing expatriate officers has challenged the decision of the Council's Staff Committee in appointing a local officer in an acting post, a spokesman lor the association's executive committee told The Standard yesterday. The association considered the
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    401 6 NORTH SOUTH SHARE HONOURS IN ANNUAL MATCH THE annual Pan-Malayan North versus South hockey 'classic* ended in two-all draw at Farrer Park yesterday. North, who were the better team, had to fight back twice to share the honours. All the goals were scored in the first hair. The defences of
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    311 6 Malayans Will Again Be Main Attraction At Wembley LONDON, Feb. 23 (Renter)- Malaya, the worlds leadu.g badminton nation, are again e xpected to provide the winner of the all-England l title lc ot the world championship when the tournament takes place at Wembley next month. The Malayans have alrr. mon
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    177 6 Woman Wins Penang Motor Rally \\v. S.v Mr> R F Parratt. driving an A won the first priz iQuad-the island motor car tally held here today. r A h vas her navigator, was adjudged best m the ra.-> en < tne Penang an. N rm Malaya Motor Club 3 Y
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    37 6 THE Singapore Island Club ho es mixe I fours :vo Bogey competition held yes- ijv was v.- on by Mr. and Mrs W. G C Gcss Rui r.ers-up were Mr. and Mrs J Mi.lken.
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    109 6 PINANG, Sun.— High scores were the order of the dav in today's friendly cricket match between Indian Association and Penang Sports Cub which ended in draw on Western Road ground. Taking first lease of wickets Indian Association declared at 103 for live. Sports Club,
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    95 6 (Scoops photo). SELANGOR Gold Cup winner, Prince Of Lalita (Larkin uni the Standarpic (above) leading the field home in the cup racr it k I last Saturday. He won by four comfortable lengths from On Ma* »> I while James Aitch (Millbanks) was third
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    68 6 IPOH. Sun. Twenty-iive-v ear-old Yahaya Mustapha captured the major honours in the 1958 Perak Chinese Recreation (lub open tennis championships which drew lo a close at the Town Council courts today. Playing extremely well. Ya hava. l ormcrlv o: Selangor. beat Leong siew Weng 6-2. 6-2 for the men's
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    81 6 ROYAL Air Force Jurong beat Jollilads by five goals to one in a triendly soccer match played on the Farrer Park ground \»sterdav At half time, the RAF led by two goals. Scorers for RAF were Humphreys 2, Atkins 2 and B»own. Rajaji Sports Club beat Keng Wah
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    40 6 THE first Inter-School cross-country run for the McLellan Cud will be held on Saturday, March I, at Bartley School, starting 5 p.m A total of 120 boys from 20 schools in the Colony will be participating
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    121 6 Takes Two PCRC Titles Ching and Lim Beng Chye u-4. t'-2 In an exciting match. ln the singles final. Vahaya steadv and confident outplayed a rather nervous and erratic opponent S.ew Weng was obviously overawed by the occasion, judging by the numerous errors lie committed. The doubles, a hard-hitting affair,
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    249 6 A Prince To Lead Perak Tennis IPOH. Sun. Tennis-play-ing Prince. Raia Musa Ibni Sultan Sir Abdul Aziz, the Kechil Besar of Perak. was today elected President of the Perak Lawn Tennis Association at its annual general meeting held here this morning. Rajn Musa's late father. Sui tan Abdul Aziz was
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    112 6 NEW MALAYAN RECORD KUALA LUMPUR, Sun-Well-known Malayan marathon runner K. Krishnan of Selangor today created a new national record for the five-mile cross country race. Krishnan beat last year's champion M. Johnson of the Royal Air Force (Perak) by a mere five yards in the AllMalayan five-m.le cross country, race
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    54 7 IPOH HOCKEY: Knockout Div. 1 —P.C.R.C. vs K.l. A.— Upper padang; Div. 2 Dnsun Bertam Estate vs 2 Workshop lotcer padangTAIPING HOCKEY: Div. I— Prisons vs Surveys esplanade. PENANG HOCKEY (League): Penang Malays Association vs Jolly Lads at Dato Kraynat ground at 5.51 p.m. State practice Indians Association
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    64 7 BUENOS AIRES. Feb- 23, (Reuter) Lazaro Koei, manager of Pascual Perez, the Argentine world flyweight boxing champion, said here that Perez would defend his title in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 19 against Ramon Arias, champion of Venezuela. Perez's last title fight was in December, when he
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    61 7 LONDON, Feb. 23 (AFP).— The Australians lost their thirtieth and last match of their Rugby XV tour of Britain against the Barbarians before 40,000 spectators at Cardiff Arms Park, South Wales yesterday. The famous British team won eleven points to six. The Australians now cross over
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    669 7 MELBOURNE, Feb. 23 (AFP)— A total of 17 world records, 25 national records and thirty state records were broken during the Australian national swimming championships which ended at Melbourne last night Stars of the championships were the brother and sister combination of
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    53 7 SYDNEY, Feb. 23 (Reuter)— Betty Cuthbert. Australia's Olympic sDrint champion, was beaten over 100 yards by Marlene Matihews, the Olympic bronze medallist here yesterday. Miss Matthews' time of 10.4 seconds equalled the world record held by Marjorl Jackson, but it cannot be submitted because she had a
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    224 7 PROVINCE FACE CERTAIN DEFEAT CAPETOWN. Feb 23 (AFP) Australia va* to Western Province first innings total of 104, li fci second day of t^eir cricket At clo.e of play, Western Province had iu! <>n 16 runs without 1 in a., secend innings. Alan Davidson, tl e Australian all r< unri'-r
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    68 7 MIAMI. Florida, F<b 2*?. (AFP).— The crack rum r lrom the Bro( keme; i e Stables. Oligarchy won tl e $130,000 "Widrner Handicap horserace nt tiie Hialea track here yesterday. Ridden by Sammy Boulmetis. Oligarchy easily bent the favour:- e. Iron L e^e. wmn r \j
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    697 9 U.S. ECONOMIC LETTER WASHINGTON, Feb. 23:— The coming weeks will be key ones for the Cnited States economy. For the advent of March normally signals the beginning of a seasonal business pick-up following the usual winter lull. This year, in particular, Government economics will ue watching
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    57 9 FIVE senior officials of a British company aie now visiting under-developed areas to advise their authorities on questions relating to improving aerial transport. The company, International Aeradio Ltd., specializes in aiding international aviation by operating numerous airfields and communications system* ns tar apart as Fiji ■nd British
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    64 9 TOKYO. Feb. 23 (Reuter) —The general manager, sales and service, of the Rolls Royce aero-engine division, Mr. F.T. Hinkley, is due to arrive here on March 3 to investigate possibilities of selling British jet-engines for planned Japanese airliners, an authoritative source said yesterday. Japan
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    35 9 AUSTRALIA ls extending her television services shortly to include Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Hobart. which wil soon have national and commercial TV stations. TV is it present available in Sydney and Melbourne.
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    34 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants on Saturday; Selling TT. or O.D. ready: Belgian Francs 1615*; Deutsche Marks 136g. Other exchange rates remain unaltered
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    25 9 EIGHT new merchant ships costing U.5.589.000.000 have been ordered by two shipping lines, according to the U.S. Federal Maritime Board.
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    56 9 HERE ON BUSINESS SURVEY Proprietor of the Gopika Garment Factory in Hongkong, Mr. A. Gopi, (above), is now on a three-week business tour of Malaya to survey the possibilities of setting up factories in this territory. Mr. Gopi leaves Singapore soon for Kuala Lumpur to continue his survey. The factory
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    87 9 US$27 Mil. Airline Terminal A NEW U5527,000,000 airline term. nal able to handle 1,600 passengers an hour and featuring "jet age" passenger service will open at Copenhagen's "European Ga.eway" airport in 1960. First stage of the huge expansion and building programme was completed recently with the extension of the airport's
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    406 9 By A Market Correspondent WITH THE Chinese New Year holidays, activity during the three days* trading in the share market last week was restricted. Industrials accounted for the bulk of the turnover and were somewhat irregular throughout The announcement by United Engineers of a 10 c
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    555 9 FREE TRADE AREA WILL BENEFIT C'WEALTH, EUROPE Finance Awed Comneerce BOTH Europe and the British Common wealth i would gain by Britain's participation in the European common market and free trade area, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr D. Heathcoat Amory, declared, when he opened in London a meeting of
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    174 9 New Night Landing Aid Tested A NEW g round aid r a r pilots making dark night landmgs has been g:\en its first operations trial* at Mangalore Aerodrome. V. toria. Ihe equipment, km wn '•Precision Visual G.id.-path (abbreviated to P.V.G e sign, and development conducted by two leading Australian aeronautical
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    439 9 THE Singapore copra market has been closed tor two days last week for the Chinese New Vear holidays, and, in accordance with tradition the volume of business transacted has been rather light, says the produce report of Lewis Peat (S'pore) Ltd. A few hundred
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    60 9 THE new 7,900-ton Blue Funnel cargo liner, Ajax, (seen above) which is expected to arrive at Penang on Wednesday and at Singapore on Friday on her maiden voyage. She is an improved version of the postwar Blue Funnel A Class vessels and Is the last ship to be
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    23 9 AUSTRALIAN expor.s to Asian countries .ncrr-ased gn-atly la>t year. b> :ng worth million '<aty 'mSI.HJ6.S n-..;..(;n) in the previous rear.
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    178 11 NANYANG: A PROBE ON DEGREES Minister Agrees To Varsity Plan For 5 -Man Team SINGAPORE Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, has accepted a proposal by Nanyang University for a fire-man committee composed of distinguished scholars from foreign countries to examine her academic standing. The Minister, in a letter
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    109 11 Children's Aid Society Fund Plea LADY SCOTT, wife of thc Commissioner General for South-east Asia. last night appealed to the public ior funds tor the Singapore Children's Aid Society. Speaking over Radio Malaya. Lady Scott said: "Valuable and rewarding work done by the Society could not continue if money was
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    126 11 Smart Turn Out Of SJAB Members SUNGEI PAT AN I. Sun. —I Member] of Vm st John's Ambulance Brigade here and from Aor Star turned no in force on Friday at the Malay School pi lang lo welcome their Commissi >ner-in-Chiel Ma ior General .1 M. Kirkmar.. Alter the Commi.->sioner-in-Chiel
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    117 11 THE managing director of Metal Box Company in Fns.and. Mr. D. Ducat, arrived in Paya Lobar Interna tonal Airport. S nßapore. yesterday from Calcutta. His first visit to the Colony, he is on an inspection tour of Metal Box facto -s in the Far
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    38 11 THE Malayan Indian Coogross Singapore, last night cabled condolence message to Indian Premier. Pandit Nehru over the death of Dr Maulana Aaad, Education Minister. A similar cable was illO sent to the bereaved family.
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    127 11 PENANG Sun.— The Ma\or of Penang. Mr D.S. Ramanathan, said that if the Straitt Chinese British Association were a political body it would undoubtedly be the grandfather of politics in Malaya Mr Ramanathan was speaking on behalf of the guests at the S.C.B.A. Annual
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    233 12 GLASGOW, Feb. 23 (Reuter) Students who pelted Mr R, A. Butk r, the Home Secretary, with rot- i bagi I QotU al his installation on Friday a A. y Glas^ w University, are to apologize. Mr. Douglas n. ai lander, F nt ol Students Represent
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    96 12 KI :r\ Ca. rnia. Feb Renter).— rhe abill y i I mod* i ao to keep people a On km be hurting the human race, according to a Umver- Cal rttia b: legist. 1 Hordn B Jor.es Science has kept alive r ms who or- it
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    71 12 NUREMBERG. Western Germany. Feb. 23 (AFP) Man-made satellites, space rockets, interplanetary stations, peoples with robots and other wooden of a space-conscious world were the prime attraction at the International Toy Fair which opened here yesterday. Toys for little girls showed a similar tendency towards mechanisation.
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    151 12 BRITISH ENVOYS TO REPORT TO LLOYD LONDON, Feb. 23 (Reu- >— Britain has recalled K-: :v itish ambassadors F: e i.i i Tunisia, S:r G nb and Mr. A: Ma lm respectively to repor :> tfaeFQragn S :ary, Mr. Selwvn in c nnc ct >n with I '.a.n's I fer
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    488 12 ANGLO-U.S. SPACE PACT 15 SIGNED Britain Provides 4 Bases, America All The Missiles WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, (Reuter). Britain and the United States today signed a space-age agreement providing for the establishment of ballistic missile bases on British soil, authoritative sources reported. Details of the agreement arc to be announced simultaneously
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    129 12 COMMUNISTS PLAN PROTEST MARCH ON U.S. AIR HQ LONDON. Fcb. 23. (IP)— The British Communist Party rallied its followers yesterday for a protest march on US. Air Force Headquarters here as soon as the Anglo-American agreement on missile bases is signed. The Communist leadership called on "thousands" to turn out
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    139 12 The Snark Has 6,000 Miles Range LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 (Reuter*.— The manufacturers Of the Bnark Intercontinental Guided Missile said yesterday .t now has a range of more than 6.000 miles and will be a "highly effective weapon well into {he middle *****." Mr. John Alison. VicePresident of the Northrop
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    38 12 LISBON. Feb. 23 (Renter) About 2,000 gypsies attended the funeral of Senhora Ana Botas, a 115-year-old gypsy who died nere. She left 18 children and 3(50 grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren
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    77 12 WORK is advancing on the new road which will link up Aldersgate to Ludgate Circus in London, and relieve traffic congestion in the City This view, looking down, shows a section of the new road, from Aldersgate Street (foreground) going towards Woorgate. A tunnel is
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    189 12 TWO ROCKETS LAUNCHED AS GEOPHYSICAL YEAR TESTS FORT CU U R CHILL. Manitoba, Feb. 2.3 (Reuter) Two rockets wen iired last nicht as pai I of International Geophysical Y< ar tests al this base of the icy Tundra, near Hudson Baj An Kt robee-Hi i .-.< n achi I an
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