Singapore Standard, 10 February 1959

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  • 22 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone ***** 5 Cabl« "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1959. Vol. IX No. 222. 15 cts. 12 Pages. (FINAL EDITION)
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  • 447 1 Premier to devote all time to election battle Dafo Razak to take over reins of the Government KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, announced this morning that he will resign as Premier to devote all his time to fighting the coming
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  • 293 1 'A MAN OF SACRIFICE' -SO SAY COLLEAGUES KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A noble gesture and a sacrifice that is so typical .of the great man These and other praises were showered on Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister if the Federation of Malaya, soon after the dramatic announcement of his resignation as
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  • 61 1 BEGINNING tomorrow, THE SINGAPORE STANDARD publishes the first of six dramatic articles on "The Secret War by LieutenantColonel John Baker White. It tells, FOR THE FIRST TIME, the full, astounding story of the "N.T.S." an international organization of emigre Russians who seek to overthrow the mighty Kremlin.
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  • 74 1 TWO children, a girl and a boy. died in the General Hospital last night of food poisoning. The children, Rahimah binte Amat aged 7 and Abdul Rahman bin Ahmad, 5, were members of a Malay family of eight, all of whom were rushed to
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  • 46 1 WASHINGTON. Feb. 9 (Reuter) The Defence Department announced last night that the United States Army in Korea is being augmented by Koreans They are dubbed KATUSAS (Koreans attached to the United States Army). Their pay 30 cents a day. (Malayan 90 cents).
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  • 95 1 A LABOURER, who waj seen running away from a gang fight in Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore, yesterday, was found seriously Injured some distance from the scene of the clash, shortly after. The man, identified later aus Tan Eng Joo, 20. soon after being taken
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  • 332 1 He can now help to unite all parties against PAP in Colony How Spore took it:\ FEDERATION Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman's resignation was interpreted in Singapore political circles yesterday as a sure sign of a hands-down victory for the SPA-UMNO-MCA-MIC Alliance at the forthcoming general elections in the Colony.
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  • 245 1 SELANGOR S ELUSIVE BANDIT PACKS IN: IT'S BIGGEST k ANG POW KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The elMsire Selongor bandit, Ah Fey, surrendered to the Police this afternoon. He is the last known communist terrorist in the state and his surrender was hailed today as the biggest "ang pow" of the Chinese
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  • 148 1 Thugs beat boy (14) to death in 4 a.m. shop attack THUGS armed with bottles early yesterday beat to death a 14-year-old boy in a coffee-shop in China Street, Singapore. The victim, Chia Teng Kiat. was having a drink in the shop at 4 a.m. when the gang set upon
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  • 60 1 Boycott elections? No! S'pore UMNO told KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Prime Minister and UMNO President, Tunku Abdnl Rahman, told Singapore UMNO delegates attending: the party's special assembly today, not to boycott the Colony's coming general elections in protest against compulsory voting. **U Singapore UMNO boycotts the elections it will mean that
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  • 44 1 AN Algerian workman, Nehari el-Hachienne. accused of defacing a statue of tht French General Hocne in f Versailles Park, told magistrates in court: "I was getting rid of a complex. M3 sister has been misbehavinj with French soldiers bact home in Sidi-Bel-Abbes."
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  • 247 1 They planned fo spend New Year in Spore ALOR STAR. Mon. Eighty Kedah Chinese, including 30 women, who intended to spend their New Year in Singapore, yesterday turned "P at the appointed time to v ait 'or the "manager" of the trip and the bus
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  • 242 2 (BELOW): Two Malayp-.il journalists. Mr Han Swee ken. Chief Reporter of the Sin Chew Jit Poh. Sinea>ore and Inche Rahim bin Ishak of the I'tusan Melayu. iuala Lumpur, Irft last week for an 11 -day tour of Vest Germany, sponsored by the Bonn Government. Hr. Han
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  • 59 2 Balinese Temple Offering jßtanqarK. m/cri/Rf\ I THE PRIME MINISTER Tunku Abdul Rahman examines a "mountain of fruit" on a fruit bowl which is a replica of the templp offerings which Balinese women carried on their heads at the Exhibition of Indonesian Art held at the National Art Gallery last week.
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  • 192 2 (ABOVE) The Sultan of Selangor (extreme right) and the Tengku Ampuan of Selangnr (extreme left) are seen showing their distinguished guests, the Sultan of Perak and the Ra.ia Perempuan of Perak, some of the rare orchids in Hhe garden of their private residence fhe Istana Pantat at Morib
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    • 449 3 VUNKU ABDUL RAHMANS announcement m resignation from the Premiership, is not as ■ng as it sounds. There is no rift within the ■et nor is there any split in the unity of the mcr It is purely a piece of election strategy ■*as anticipated more than a month
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    • 399 3 i REPORTS that Chinese communist forces have engaged in landing exercises along the "inn coast*' of South-east China focuses attention i on the uneasy truce that prevails in the ForStraits. The warning has to be studied in asso>n with the statement made by the U.S. Secre- of
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    • 58 3 -£3 Lim Teck Kim Road. S'pore PO Box No 1563 Cables riCEKNEWS' LA lump no J_ 2548) (5 lines; All departments ruR! Ch.na Insurance Bldg.. 174. Batu Rd THepnone 8836e C fi f°^f n It i e 829 ACCA: 9? A r S J l e
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  • 848 3  - Subandrio's Mission To Australia Charles R. Smith By JAKARTA JNDONESIA'S Foreign Minister, Dr. Subandrio will seek Australian support on the touchy, West Irian issue by trying to convince Australia her future lies with South-east Asia, informed sources here said. Subandrio held lastminute strategy meeting on Sunday with Indonesia's top political
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  • 351 3 the NEWS as it strikes me HAS the heat turned on by the Singapore Police led to known, wanted gangsters and secret society thugs fleeing across the Causeway to menace the Federation? This question i s posed by the report from Kuala Lumpur that prompt action by the Police foiled
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  • 710 3 Japan Faces A Challenge by A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TOKYO, f J > HE Japanese nation is facing a challenge described here as "unprecedented in the country's history." Problems created by modernization are raising economic and social problems in Japan even more serious than those which led her militarism in the
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  • 27 3 Scientists say a red-haired person has an average oj 90,000 hairs on his or her head; a brunette about 105,000 and blond about 140,000.
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  • 603 3  -  ROBERT FRANKLIN By HONGKONG. JJONGKONG has long been a cave of winds for rumours from China, but never before have they whistled through the Colony in the bewildering variety and profusion of recent weeks. Some of these (gathered in only the most reliable tea-houses) are listed here
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  • 65 3 "THE terms in which the ordinary man in-the-bus expresses his agreement with somebody else's opinion, vary in implication according to his mother tongue. In France the phrase most often heard, in trams and round market stalls is: 'Vous avezraison.' This implies debate In Germany the equivalent phrase, 'Stimmt,'
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  • 47 3 Shorts from the Talks off poorly if held merely by a minority. An Englishman's "That's right' implies disinclination for debate and a faith in his own opinion so firm that he does not ask what backing he has." Novelist Margaret Kennedy speaking in the BBC Third Programme.
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  • 570 4 RA'AYAT TO GOVERN MALAYA AFTER THE POLLS First taste of Parliamentary Democracy on way— says Tunku KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman declared today that the country would have her first taste of Parliamentary Democracy this year with the establishment of the nation's first "Dewan Ra'ayat" (House of
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  • 463 4 SIX SPANIARDS IN CHINESE JUNK TELL OF THEIR HORRORS IN CHINA WATERS SIX ADVENTUROUS Spaniards yesterday sailed their 60-ton Chinese junk into Singapore waters from Hongkong:, and told of "three nights of hell" in the China seas. I "It was hell. I thought we would never come out of it
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  • 141 4 No boycott of polls Tunku (From Page 1) thatch" t a°rtioi he of dHrealrS councillors To quit "he pore Assembly during the debate on compulsory voting s£t SfS*" 1 that UMNO was against compulsory voting ins le said other parties in the Colony wanted compulsory fTMvfi u"? th «f ore
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  • 286 4 Tunhu warns PPP leader: Many tongues un-Malayan KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman today warned that no changes can be brought about within the country without the support of the Malays. The warning wa s contained in an address he delivered at a special delegates' conference of the
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  • 121 4 THE mystery of the Sea Fox deepened as silence from the million-dollar yacht entered its eleventh day last night. Mr. Bob Marshall, mana- ger of the John Calvert i show, due to open here on j Feb. 17, said yesterday, he still
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  • 211 4 'I QUIT' NOTICE BY THE PREMIER (From Page 1) years. "We pledge to give ou* full support to the Tunku in carrying out hid work," the Dato added. The Minister for Interior and Jus. ice, Inche Sulaiman bin Dato Abdul Rahman, in seconding the motion, inIdicated that the Tunku had
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  • 50 4 ADELAIDE. F<>b. 9 (Reuter> Twenty-six countries will be represented at the second World Health Organisation dental health seminar opening In Adelaide tomorrow, but there will be no language difflrul lea -all delegates speak English The Commonwealth Health Minister. Dr. Ronald Cameron will open the seminar.
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  • 591 4 TUNKU: I AM NOT SURPRISED -SAYS TUN LIM (From Page 1). It was also stated that Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat. who is the Minister for Local Government. Lands and Housing, may also follow suit to boost up the election propaganda of the Singapore UMNO of which he is
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  • 278 4 Any loss U.S. bases Pacific will world thrt KUALA LUMPUR, Mon T) America's strategic positions in n ground gained by the commurv. fore, be a threat to thr secuntv ol Admiral H. D. Felt. Commander-in-r States Pacific Forces, declared on evening. The Admiral flew in by a U.S. naval aircraft
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  • 99 4 e Oil enters W m i th( 1 crackers ffi throughout )NDOr I w h worn I Wan art a excel... yegt favour ion co Yi r t Ha rh laitica r tnc« 1 with t lent. 5 packets muiic < numl enter. ainrr^nt t to r J and
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  • 126 4 l an iKrmti Pi. JJ* en x« Router s gra> Jakarta qunt.fi urini Ministry si •k> ;entc (•anift Har\on<» "The Indoi -h e wishes Tunk'j '.art. in h: n hi' a fo vote his time > wii par' Brit Mr. H ied Tunku ar.d H > to "who w
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  • 38 4 k; a i I The UMNO B commits prei Rahimah I I Ibu, The SI M today She I ahoi Hei won;. to •(>• jj^S campa.. 1 MR j{en< Efl Pi. an Ral |H from Tai| interview. lH
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  • 28 4 J \K.\i. 1 v I Two [nd H 'ffltvr.v l^| crash i i luring tU< I «W« tgeni-y The t* a search for a »i^ port aircraft.
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    222 5 ppi DEBUT K, Feb. 9 (Reuter) H> young Chinese .'lie to Britain iw two months ago H areer in the ve his first the Royal ft: n he wai enH; i.ed by an Hi- .-.in* the Duchess K -known Briim H f Chinese were H their 24-year-old H>' 10
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  • 284 5 AN LOTTERY— CALL TO GOVT. Islamic body says it creates misery, ruins morals of our youths PENANG, Mon. The Muslim Youth Society, at its first annual general meeting last night, passed a resolution requesting the Government to put an end to the Social Welfare lottery, "for it breeds misery among
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  • 168 5 Govt.urged: Ban sale of alcohol by Muslims PENANG, Mon.-Hon. secretary of the Muslim Youth Association, Mr. G. Ebrahimsa, at a meeting last night deplored the fact that "leading Muslim grocers in Penang and Kuala Lumpur sell fresh pork and alcoholic drinks." Speaking at the Society's annual general meeting, Mr. Ebrahimsa
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  • 67 5 PENANG, Mon. Senior Air- > craftsman David John Hancock, 22, on a holiday here, J was bitten by a sea-snake i while swimming oil Tanjong Bungah beach yesterday. i SAC Hancock, who be- longs to the Transport Section i of the Royal Air Force in Sini gapore.
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  • 78 5 WOMAN (81) SLASHED TO DEATH ALOR STAR, Mon.-An 81--year-old Thai woman, Onn Ing Kew, was slashed to death in her home at Kampong Matang in Jejawi. Perlis yesterday. She sustained head injuries. The woman was still alive when her grandson. Earn Battarn, found her lying near the main door of
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  • 286 5 Plan to step up business efficiency of Colony firms THE recently-formed Society of Industrial Management in Singapore, plans to "stabilize local industries and place them in position to compete with outside producers."' This was stated by the :hairman of the Society's pro-tem committee, Mr. P.S. Dass. yesterday. Mr. Dass said.
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  • 135 5 Student problem has UMNO worried PENANG, Mon. The Penano and Province Wellesley Malay Students' Union will hold a mass meeting at the Penanc UMNO hall on Saturday, Feb. 21, to consider the present position of Malay schoolbo3's who have passed out from Malay schools. The decision was made following an
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  • 115 5 KOREANS IN US ARMY -A SECRET WASHINGTON. Feb. 9 (UPI) A Pentagon spokesman said last night that the number of Korean soldiers used in U.S. divisions in South Korea is a military secret. He labelled as speculation a published report that half of the 14.000 men in the U.S Ist
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  • 31 5 TUNKU AID AH, 39, daughter of the Yang di-Per-tuan Agong. was admitted to the Bungsar Hospital on Sunday. She has a temperature and is undergoing a general check-up.
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  • 81 5 WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Feb. 9 (Reuter).— The current hula hoop craze did not seem to have harmed New Zealanders, a health department officer said here He was commenting en reports in the British Medical Journal that an unusual number of hula-hooping children and adults
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  • 61 5 BID TO FIND PITHO'S CREW FAILS STRONG tidal currents yesterday prevented attempts to find the four members of the crew still trapped in the engine room of the sunken Harbour Board tug. Pitho, in Keppel Head. Earlier in the day. one attempt was made to salvage the tug but operations
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  • 134 5 PENANG, Mon.— Seven motor-boats and a marine police launch searched the sea off the harbour for 20 minutes before they found an exhausted girl who had fallen from the ferry, "Penang" last night. The girl, Tan Ah Keow, 17, was travelling to Butterworth.
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  • 58 5 Mary crowned the 'New year Queen 9 ONE of the highlights at the Chinese New Year Ball held at Sea View Hotel was the "Miss Chinese New Year Queen 1959" contest. This photo by Benson Fong shows the winner, a 26--year-old model. Miss Mary Lim (centre), with Miss |enny Kan,
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  • 109 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon President of the UMNO. Tunku Abdul Rahman, today presented his first "presidential colours" to the Kuala Lumpur division for fiood work done for the partv in the past years The Tunku presented the colours during a simple ceremony at UMNO headouarters here,
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  • 238 5 IPOH, Mon. An estate kepala, Chan Ah Sens. 19, of Tanah Hitam new village, received a pleasant surprise today when the O.C.P.D. Ipoh, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr. Albert Man, rewarded him with a handsome Chinese New Year "ang pow" for
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  • 71 5 He'll study economics in Sydney MR. Lee Choon hu.uisr. who has been awarded a scholarship to study In Australia. The grant was Riven by the Ngee Ann Knngsf la Singapore. Mr. Lee left last Sunday to take up a course for a Bachelor of Economics degree at the University of
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  • 91 5 SYDNEY. Feb. 9 (Reuter) A man lost for four a in den.se bush near here sa;ri he maintained his strength by eating grasshoppers «nt> grubs and berries Mr. William Jnrirs 50. stagprred into civilization yeMrrday after Police, civil scarchrr^ and service aircraft had
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  • 188 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Federation National Union of Teachers is not likely to support any move for mass absorption of Indian university graduates into the Graduate Establishment of the Education services, The Standard learnt today. A senior official of the N.U.T.
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  • 47 6 A PORTRAIT of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong done in water-colour by Miss Elva Blacker during the last Christmas holidays. The portrait was one of the many paint* ings of Miss Blarker at the recent exhibition at the Penanjj Library and British Council Hall.
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  • 38 6 THE Malacca Youth Council Will hold a Chinese New Year social on Saturday at the Meng Seng hall. The highlight of the night will be the election of Miss and Mr. Malacca Youth Council 1959.
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  • 41 6 SINGAPORE City Councillor, Mr. N. Karuppiah (Far«?r Park) yesterday asked residents in his division to present their problems and complaints on City Council services when the Mobile Squad of the Inquiry and Complaints Bureau visits the area tomorrow.
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  • 120 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Income Tax Officers' Union has protested to Government about the "slowpace" of Mai ay animation in the tax department, The Standard learnt today. Malayan officers feel they are capable of tackling income tax problems and that the recent recruitment of
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  • 96 6 Four Thugs Gag, Rob Kiosk Man Of $2,000 IPOH. Mon.— Four thugs, bound and gagged a 19-year-old petrol kiosk attendant. A. Nagamuthu opposite the Odeon Theatre in Brewster Road about 2..'W a.m. today and escaped with a loot of 52.000 in cash and jewellery. Nagamuthu was stated to be sleeping
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  • 159 6 Indian films not popular in HK— he says HOXGKON'G. Feb. 0 (Renter) An Indian film distributor says Indian films have not found favour either with Chinese or European audiences in Hongkong, although they enjoy fair distribution in other cities in the Far East. He is Mr. Nirmal II Kirpalani. who
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  • 64 6 Forum Delegate Plays Vietnamese Harp KUSTIJAH PRODJOLAL ITO, 18, far left. Indonesia's delegate to the 1959 New York Herald Tribune Forum for High Schools, looks at the Vietnamese harp played by Vietnam's deipg-ate. Phan Thi Ngoc Lan, centre. Carol Bronbacker, American teen-ape student looks on. Pan American World Airways flew
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  • 345 6 Malaya Good Example Of Racial Harmony KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. If the little multiracial community at Tebrau. Johore, the British Broadcasting Corporation's Far East relay st.-uon, is any criterion," the Federation of Malaya States are a brilliant example of inter-racial amity and harmonious co-existence." This opinion was expressed to The Standard
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  • 409 6 Tunku tells UMNO meet for, capital provides jobs for p e < KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Prime Minister and UMNO p rfV( Abdul Rahman, told the party's special delegates Mftfereact foreign capital invested in this country would provide tmp!r)\m»nt j, tion's population. The Tunku said the capitalists were prepared to
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  • 223 6 Record crowd 180,000 thrown S' pore's big A RECORD number of nearly IRO.nnn nj the Singapore Constitution Ezp Chinese New Year celebrations over the %3 On New Year's Eve day, the crowd came to almost 60,000 the same number of T' who attended the opening day ceremony. And on New
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  • 52 6 PFN f Fi U9TU m p»< a M nt I h U ME NE. 1 Irin to k v€ arc n groups. Shop the vis shops at of the 1 year a fl After ear TS anre, the I and split collecti' H Tt from the I perform 'io
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  • Now Business HIGHLIGHTS EVERY TUESDAY
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      632 7 the advent of motion pictures the greatest •tiinment medium ever devised by man m\ public has hoisted a constant hue and he demand for more comedy. these cinematic supplications never have fcmpletely fulfilled. Comedy is hard to come hs a rare commodity. The wizards of show k candidly confess
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    • 113 7 »!> -International pj>!' t (1 negotiations ■i;\ (.RANT to coIth TONY (TRTIS fccr.ition Petticoat." I will portray the IflVr <>f i submarine. I BRANDO has F> with \NI in TEN- MS 1 "Or- for 1/ after L his "One-Eyed I ,i oi, S. upon W The Fire Prnf I
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    • 376 7 DESMOND O'Donovan. the British producer of "Operation Icebreaker." is in Hollywood hoping to land Gregory Peck to appear with Russia's top actress, Tatiana Samoilova. in the British Soviet produotion venture. Spencer Tracy may b<* competing against hn?.se!f lor best acting Oscar rvxt March because of his outstayiding performances
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    • 170 7 THE prospect of "coming to grips" with Brigitte Bardot Ls enoguh to make the average male's bloodstream agitate like a turkey in November. And in Brigitte's latest and sexiest film, "La Parisienne," she takes on all comers in an on-screen slutrfest that ends in a
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    • 253 7 gINCE he arrived in Hongkong to start work on Ranks £500,000 film "Ferry To Hongkong," production manager John Dark has had many strange experiences. But few stranger than teaching a group of Chinese musicians to play Rule Britannia. The musicians were "singsong people," who are normally
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    • 67 7 Now GIGI influencing the jashioyis of Paris! For the first time in the history of Paris' greatest department store, L? Printemps, it has devoted not only its display windows but clothes In every one of its fashion sections to models inspired by GIGI. British Cecil
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    • 85 7 NINETEEN YEAR-OLD Diane Baker, a recent graduate of 20th Century-Fox Talent Training programme, has been cast as Margot. Anne Frank's older sister in "The Diary of Ann* Frank." The George Stevens production marks this youn? actress* first film. Bom in Hollywood, the sft.. 6in.. 116-pounJ budding star
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 299 7 Rita del mar Dnvs <>i m \tion: keen spirit seizes occasion Hannah More •SI)\Y FOR \\l\i\ Rcche^k decis:n:.> sociability or use tact in deal- iers. Be suave, do not insist r»n Hovn vay. Be sens:B' the reactions uf in order to chalk up rOUI BIRTH LTF AND BIRTH SIGN ■1^
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    36 9 at Kuala Lumpur Bdon recently. They hero inspecting the »n of the new Klang low nearing comple- I C GAMMON, the and chairman of I .1 large onzinrerronsfructional firm, jov in several counBd Mrs. Gammon
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  • 110 9 INBI t>. 9 <Rcuten tern Hts Minister ird teed md falls negotiate a airl eement, prof Id irne, within next her talks, whirh d t .if possible re 11, would It Id menta jry countries. jiad: Pacific Airline.s tnr a- il l Dnttr ;;.s--a or Aiuan ea are "ada-
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  • 46 9 B IA has agreed to India with P.OOr) tons t alued at approxii ..M.nnn, under the Pan. will be sold by r ("Government on the irket and the funds p its sale will he I ♦-> development proY' "<£rced to hv the kn and Indian govern-
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  • 115 9 Rise In Exports To China LOXDOX, Feb. 9 (Renter) Lord Dundee, Minister without portfolio said that the noteworthy increase in Bnti. .i exnorts to China in recent months ha r j covered a wide variety of goods. Answering questions in the House of Lords, he said there was little evidence
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  • 199 9 Fair To Invite Malayan Visitors VISITORS from Malaya and other countries to the 43rd Swiss Industries Fair to be held in Basle from April 11 to 21 will be given special badges entitling them to free admission to the fair during its entire duration. Disclosing thus to The Standard yesterday
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  • 523 9 WASHINGTON —Enough time has elapsed since Soviet first deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan's departure on Jan. 20 from his tour of the United States to obtain a representatives sampling of Government and business reaction to the rather unusual ways in which he tried to
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  • 53 9 Handloom Week On INDIAN handloom emporia in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in conjunction with similar emporia in India, observed Handloom Week as from Sunday. During the Week, buyers of handlooms will be given a special five per cent discount on all purchases. Picture shows visitors at the emporium's Pavilion in
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  • 275 9 CANBERRA. Feb. 9 (Reuten The Australian Government is preparing amendments to its controversial bank reform legislation following strong pressure by a group of New South Waies liberal MP's and the private trading banks. However, the 14 bills comprising the legislation will be re-introduced to parliament unchanged
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  • 62 9 HONGKONG. Feb. 9 (Reuter) Mr. Peter Thorneycroft. British M.P., has urged South-east Asian countries to ease import restrictions on Hongkong manufactured goods. Mr. Thorneycroft said this while on an inspection tour of four leading factories. He said he was impressed with the steady increase of
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  • 161 9 AIR India International have provided Nairobi Airport with a new type of radio communication equipment. This device known as "Selcal", is an advance on existing types of equipment in that it works on a principle rather similar to the dial telephone. Each airline has its own code
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  • Finance and Commerce
    • 258 9 MALAYAN INDUSTRIES ATTRACT US CAPITAL KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. If the present atmosphere in the Federation for attracting industries is encouraged, chances of many overseas industries starting regional factories here are very great, said the manager of the International Division of W, P. Fuller and Company, Mr. A. H. Brawner Jr.,
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    • 163 9 TOKYO, Feb 9 (Reuter) Japanese camera manufacturers are hoping to increase their sales to the United States this yoar overcoming stiff competition from the German camera industry, as well as breaking into the western European markets where the position of the German cameras is predominant,
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    • 29 9 RUBBER crops for January announced arc. Maaka Pinda 144 800 H United tfalac ir :> Aver Molek 41,280 Ihf.; Leong Hin San. Ltd. 60.500 lbs.; Nyalai Ltd 53J34 lbs.
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    • 64 9 HONGKONG. Feb. 9 (Reuter» Russian-made matches are now on sale in the colony. A dozen boxes are selling at HK$5O. But a government spokesman said Hongkong did not import a single box of Russian matches last year. Hongkong usually imports matches from Macao. China, Sweden. Japan and
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  • 437 9 THE British Treasury last week gave general consent in pursuance of their powers under the Control cf Borrowing Order, 1958, which further relaxes control of borrowing and the raising of money by the issue of shares and other securities in the United Kingdom This was announced
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  • 64 9 JAKARTA, Feb. 9 (Reuter) The newspaper. Pos Indonesia said Czechoslovakia has offered to Indonesia 300.--000 pound sterling worth of yarns, textiles and gunny bags from India and Pakistan through a triangle trade deal this year. The newspaper said the triangle trade would be conducted
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  • 259 9 SAN FRANCISCO, major aerial gateway of the United States west coast, now has an airline bus terminal of modern design for the convenience of passengers going through the city. Pan American and four other major airlines cooperated in financing of the US $2,000,000 structure, which
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  • 153 10 YON'S ON WAY TO THE TITLE AGAIN KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Reigning champion Yon Main is on the way to the Malayan Malays singles crown again when he scored an easy 6-2, 6-1 victory over Mohamed Shahabuddin to enter the semi-final of the tournament being played here. Yon's challenger is likely
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  • 324 10 West Indies Hit Back With 408-4 India s Limping Attack Gets Slaughtered NEW DELHI, Feb. 9, (Reuter) The big-hitting West Indian batsmen surged to within seven runs of India's 415 first innings score on the third day of the final test here yesterday. Opener John Holt led the way with
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  • 46 10 19 AIR Formation Signals entered the final of the FARELF hockey competition when they beat DEO. Gurkha? by two goals to nil at Tang'.m yesterday. There was no score at halftime. The Signals will meet detenning champion-. REME in the final, tomorrow.
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  • 125 10 SERVICES WHIP THE ASIANS 21-11 COMBINED Services. Sinjrapore, beat All -Malays Asians by 21 points (six tries and a penalty) to 11 (a try and a penalty) in hard fought rugby match on the padang yesterday. Roy Strickland 2, Haddow, Delany. Prosser and Marshall scored the trie* and Mulholland converted
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  • 674 10 MEN'S SINGLES First Round Dnm Janudin beat Azman Hashim 1-6. 6-2. 6-3 Shahrin Osman iS> beat Abu Bakar Mahmud 6-0. 6-0. Daud Amin (S^ beat Mohamed Arshad 6-1. 6-3. Second Round Yon Main <S^ beat Musa Ahmad 6-2. 6-0. Aziz Ali beat Syed Mohd. Alkadry 6-2. 6-4.
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  • 173 10 The 'Power' That's Johore THE emergence of Johore, the usual wooden spoonists of inter-state hockey competitions, makes the quadrangular tournament being played in Singapore the most interesting of the series. Johore held the Malayan Hockey Federation champions. Negri Sembilan. to a goalless draw on Sunday, and it was only because
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  • 145 10 Selangor ha^ t« earn their 2-0 victory against' Johore in the inter-stat* quadrangular on the Girls Sports Club ground yesterday. Johore put ud a fighting performance, and if victory went to Selangor. then the glory should go to Johore. Those who watchcrf the came yesterday saw in
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  • 134 10 IPOH, Mon. A former Davis Cupper and Malayan tennis champion. S. C. Beatty of Penang qualified to meet the defending champion, T. M. Welsh in the final of the North Malayan golf championship played here on the Perak Turf Club Sports Club course
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  • 26 10 SINGAPORE HOCKEY: Inter-state quadrangular: Selangor v$ Negri Sembilan, SCC 8.30 a.m. Singapore vs. Johore, SCC, 5 p.m. Friendly: SCC vs Serangoon Garden Mix, Padang.
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  • 855 10 Defending Champ Sadali Falls in Selangor's Shaari KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Shaari Abdullah of Selangor, put himself in line for the singles crown when he toppled holder M. Sadali from Singapore. 9-15, 15-10, 15.10, in the semi-final of the men's singles of the Malayan Malays badminton championships which continued at the
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  • 592 11 SLIPPER PRINCE SHOULD BEAT THIS LOT fghyuklt Slipper Prince found Erik too speedy for him over the sharp sif. on the first day and had to be content with fourth placing. Carrying only 5-lb. more in this lower division he should be good enough to win with an extra half
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  • 409 11 SILVER MISTRESS Silver Mistress, a good looking four-year-old grey, proved her real worth at the last Singapore meeting when with 8.11. she beat Roman Galley II in a thrilling finish to score her maiden win over 6f. Now that she has hit her true form she is certainly
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  • 315 11  - HIGH SOCKS TO WIN SCRUTINEER By WEIGHT WILL NOT STOP HIM HIGH SOCKS, despite carrying 9.5, should beat this smart Class One Division One field in the main 6f. sprint at Kuala Lumpur this afternoon, second day of the Selangor Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting. The High Peak five-year-old rarely
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  • 199 11 OVERSPIN OVERSPIN who finished fifth to Erik over s*f. on the first day is worth another chance, and given a reasonably good track he can beat this field. The 6f. is much more like his correct trip. The seven-year-old gelding scored over an identical trip at Ipoh in
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  • 2 12 WORLD NEWS
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  • 198 12 Peace reigns for third day over Formosa Straits TAIPEI. Feb. 9 (Reuter) Peace reigned over the Formosa straits for the third consecutive flay todav as both the Chinese Communists and the Nationalists kept their promise of a three-day ceasefire which started > l last Saturday. A Defence Ministry spokesman said
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  • 83 12 No water, so wine flowed ALICANTE. Spain Feb. 9 (Reuter) Red wine flowed instead of water to inaugurate a new irrigation canal at the village of Agost. near here. The authorities had gathered for the inauguration but when the time came for the ceremony, the canal remained dry. due to
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  • 34 12 THE North Sumatra military district commander has assigned 57 army officers to run the Dutch Water Supply Company in Medan. which was taken over by the Indonesian Government last year. Reuter
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  • 70 12 The Atlas Production Plant NESTED in elevated docks in Saji Diego, California, at th e Convair (astronautics) Division of General Dynamics Corporation axe gleaming U.S. Air Force Atlas Inter-continental Ballistic Missiles. They are assfm bled and checked out in this section of the plant. Shown in this first photo of
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  • 102 12 RANGOON. Feb. 9 (Reuter> It will take a year to eliminate all the 8.000 insurgents in Burma, the director of military training. Colonel Maung Maung. told a Press conference here yesterday. He said the rebels were losing men in clashes every day and
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  • 377 12 ALONE IN MY CAGE by a Queen THE HAGUE, Feb. 9 (Reuter) Princess Wilhelmina. Queen of the Netherlands for 50 years, describes her official life and duties as "The Cage" throughout her memoirs "Lonely but not alone," published here today. The former Queen, now 78, who abdicated in 1948 in
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  • 263 12 The equipment wilt be used to maintain law and order JAKARTA, Feb. 9 (Reuter) President Eisenhower has approved the sale of light arms to Indonesia to equip 20 army battalions, U.S. State Department officials disclosed last night. 1 They said that rifles, lorries, Jeeps,
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  • NEWSBRIEFS
    • 240 12 BANGKOK. Feb. 9 (Reuter) —The Constitutional Assembly unanimously voted by secret ballot to support Field Marshal Sarit Tanarat. leader of Thailand's Revolutionary Party, as Prime Minister, sources close to the Assembly reported. These sources said the President of the Assembly would report the result of the
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    • 60 12 M. MICHEL *DEBRE.*French Prime Minister. left for his first visit to Algeria since he too* office last month During his three-day visit he will hold taUs with official make a speech expected to deal with immediate policy in Algeria. and preside over the inaugural session of a council set up
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  • 222 12 DARTMOOR PRISON TO BE REBUILT LONDON, Fein 9 (Reuter)— Dartmoor, one of tne grimmest and most hated prisons in Britain, is to be rebuilt under Penal Reform plant, just announced by the Government. Britain's criminal population, however, can temper tneir joy at the news— no date has been fixed for
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  • 64 12 STOCKHOLM. Feb. 9 (Rcuter) Professor Herbert Olivecrona. The Swedish brain surgeon, was yesterday reported to have been hastily summoned to Cairo to operate on a woman patient suffering from a serious brain tumour. The Serafimer Hospital, where the professor has his c\inic, refused to give the
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  • 43 12 BANGKOK, Feb. 9 (Reuter) Twenty-one Thai fishermen released by Cambodian authorities arrived in Bangkok this afternoon. They were permitted to return to Thailand in their fishing boats. Their release followed an agreement between Thailand and Cambodia to resume diplomatic relations.
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  • 185 12 The West Irian Issue tic.sed the continued Dutch occupation of West New tL t^toT d> had better Clal Mr. Callaghan was speaking in a Press conference following a week-long private visit to Indonesia. He said: i really d o not think it very
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  • 106 12 NEW DIAL YOURSELF SERVICE NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (Reuter) —At one minute after midnight last night, 500,000 telephone subscribers were ab'e to dial any one of the 45 million telephones throughout the United States. u nouT The new system is one of the most ambitious project* ever undertaken by the
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  • 13 12 ffiBWMSIES He decided on the ruse of "confessinir" in mmmmmm
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  • 82 12 SYDNEY. Feb. 9 (Reuter> A 23-year-old man ran anok with a claw hammer amongst invalid pensioners and inrap-i--ritated workers here today and injured lour of them. The pensioners and workers were employed in a factory run bv a club \vhi~h sponsors work for Rich people. One
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  • 230 12 Victory Sor Mintoff as VALLKTTA. Feb. 9 (Reutcn iU day wiped out a complete iay'i (lrillM --and provided at least a part.., l political i Mr. Dom MintofT and his Malta Uktw Parti The rain, which atarttf ■4 a eady pre-dawn dnzzj and increased throughou the day, dashed the
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  • 102 12 9 <rpi> \s-r,M who a feu h<', M had said sr\ j#H in the mind „1 to the u.ik; I party uofrv i!i| ball in a hot yesterday > later i>n« Jto u. isn't arur> iust Rot a Itttlf I she viid "I had little the hosnm «>f n
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    44 12 ADMIRAL H 1) FELT (Irft, (nmm.nH all US forces in the Pacific «h« KEmC to Thailand, is pictured here heinc c re" tl- I'^B al in Bangkok hy Vice Adm M c k ,^1 korn. Deputy Chief of ThtilandS hr? r UPI Phntr
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