Singapore Standard, 19 February 1955

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    15 1 Singapore Standard Singapore lit SINGAPORE, SATL T BIU¥; FEBRUARY 19, 1955 11 PAGES 15 CENTS.
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    Lock icon N'lists Smash Up Red Convoy
    115 1 N'lists Smash Up Red Convoy NationH Ministry that NaH naval forH i .<»ht Com- craft, five H hi motor- g sea bat- Communist H issued by H "Our air H returned to after the B lr mission." H nalists had H dash with was the* battle' of the H var."
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    Lock icon Mao Backs 10- Power Talks Plan
    59 1 Mao Backs 10- Power Talks Plan DNGKONG. Feb. 18 (Reummunist China In action to the Soviet for a ten-power on Formosa to■:^d the plan and rang opposition to Kai-shek repreattending the conofficial government l the Peking Peoaid the Nation"ca^t off and rr; the Chinese peor and couid not represent fine
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    Lock icon THRFE YEARS FO RKILLIG HER LOVER
    87 1 DR. Senga Florence Whittingham, a pretty 27-year-old blonde, who was sentenced in a Dunedin, New Zealand, court yesterday to three years' imprisonment for killing her former lover, a fellow doctor. She had been charged with the murder of Dr. John William Saunders, also 27,
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    Lock icon RUBBER: The True Story
    217 1 DropN&t Caused By 'Private War Merchants Were Merely Taking Profits On Hand MALAYAN rubber moguls yesterday strongly denied and deplored suggestions of deliberate price-depression manoeuvres by a Singapore group "ganging" up on Mr. Heah Joo Seang, Penang rubber tycoon. The president of the Rubber Trade Association
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    Lock icon BABIES BOOM PUZZLE
    127 1 Experts Are Confounded LOS ANGELES. Feb. 18 (Reutert A mysterious "boom in babies" in Britain, France and the United States was referred to by Dr. Charles Read of London University at a Pressconference here yesterday. Dr. Read, who has come here for an obstetrical and gynaecological post-gradu-ate
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    Lock icon RESTRICTIONS
    32 1 KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb. 18 (Reuter).— New immigration regulations restricting the "importing" of husbands from outside East Africa were approved last night by the Uganda Legislature against strong opposition from Indian representatives.
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    Lock icon Karens Kidnap Pretty Girls
    183 1 Saboteurs Attack Train RANGOON, Feb. 18, (UP)— Burma's dormant insurgent problem burst into flame recently when a strong band of Karen rebels sabotaged and attacked a Government mail train, looting it of arms and ammunition and kidnapping 40 passengers. The attack by a band of Karen
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    Lock icon HONEYMOON OVER
    21 1 MISS MARGOT Fonteyn, the British ballerina arrived back in London by air yesterday with her husband Dr. Roberto Arias,
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    Lock icon KOTELAWALA ON TEA PRICE
    57 1 COLOMBO, Feb. 18 (Reuter) —Sir John Kotelawala. the Ceylon Prime Minister, said today he expected the price of tea to go down for British consumers as a result of his visit to Britain. He denied on his return from the London Commonwealth Premiers' Conference that Ceylon
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    Lock icon NZ AIR CHIEF COMING HERE
    45 1 WELLINGTON. Feb. 18 (Reuter) Air Vice-Marshal WH. Metton. New Zealand Chief of Air Staff, leaves for Singapore on Monday to discuss moving a squadron of fighters and a flight of transport planes to Malaya from bases here and in Cyprus.
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    Lock icon UK Is After US Guided Missiles
    95 1 UK Is After US Guided Missiles WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (Reuter).— Britain is discussing buying American guided missiles, it was disclosed here today. The talks, still in the preliminary stage, involve the United States Army's "Corporal" missile, a Defence Department spokesman said today. The Corporal is a surface missile intended to
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    Lock icon They're Cold To Pineau
    70 1 PARIS, Feb. 18 (Reuter).— M. Christian Pineau. third man to try to solve France's twenty-first post-war Cabinet crisis, was this afternoon coolly received by a crowded National Assembly when he outlined his programme and presented his proposed Government to it. He was applauded by his own
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    Lock icon Not Art, But Pornography
    115 1 BALTIMORE. Feb. 18 (AP)— Federal judge looked critically yesterday at 112 prints depicting the erotic life of the ancients and ruled them obscene. Judge Rowel C. Thomsen refused U turn them over to Cecil A. Rush, an ama- teur archaeologist who tried to import thew from
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    Lock icon Handgrenades Left In Street
    39 1 MILAN. Feb. 18 (Reuten A parcel labelled "handle with care, contains bombs" was found in a street here last night. Army experts found that the parcel contained three handgrenades and several rounds of rifle ammunition.
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    Lock icon EXAMINING A TAPPER'S BACCY
    47 1 SIR DONALD MacGillivray examines the tobacco used by tapper Wong: Hing for his selfrolled cigarettes. The High Commissioner was visiting the labourers' quarters on the Bukit Merah division of Bahau Estate on Thursday during his tour of Bahau in Negri Sembilan.— D.O.L photo.
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    Lock icon 'Save Nanyang' Talks Today
    306 1 Failure Means Walkout A FINAL effort will be made today to bring about an amicable settlement to the dispute between the Chancellor-designate of the Nanyang University, Dr. Lin Yu-tang, and the trustees of the University. Mr. Tan Lark Sye, sponsor of the University and one of
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    Lock icon Rank Film: Not Malacca After All
    85 1 Rank Film: Not Malacca After All MALACCA Fri.— The Settlement will not, after all, be the locale for the shooting of the J. Arthur Rank film, "A Town Like Alice." Residents in the Klebang area who have offered their houses for use by the Rank film unit have been thanked
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    Lock icon $7,000 Gems Pilfered As Woman Sleeps
    70 1 $7,000 Gems Pilfered As Woman Sleeps JEWELLERY worth more than $7,000 was stolen from a woman while she slept in one of the rooms in the Capitol Flats. Stamford Road. Singapore, in the early hours yesterday. The woman said she left the jewellery in a handbag which she placed on
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    Lock icon Heah Is Not Perturbed
    736 1 The whole of yesterday Mr. Heah was kept busy receiving telephone calls from rubber mfrchants throughout i,he country inquiring whether it wa* true that a powerful group of Bin gapore rubber merchants were trying to smash him. Several European rubber dealers told Mr. Heah that if
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    Lock icon Officers For U.K.
    112 2 ELEVEN Cadet Officers of the Malay Regiment from all narts of the Federation, pictured at the Kuala Lumpur Railway Station prior to leaving: for three year's military training in U.K. They are from left (front row) 3 CDT Abd Manafkuldin (N.S.), O CDT Yaccob Tain (Kelantan), O
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    Lock icon 'Rebel' Students Back In School
    164 2 Face Disciplinary Action THE remaining 45 "rebel" students of the Singapore Junior Technical School who staged a walk-out on Tuesday, returned to their classes yesterday to face disciplinary action. The boys had been given an ultimatum to return to the school by 8 a.m. yesterday,
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    Lock icon Fed. Regt. Private Dies On Duty
    109 2 Fed. Regt. Private Dies On Duty BUTTERWORTH. Fri. Private Saad bin Shariff of the Federation Regiment today became its first casualty s. ncc the country's first ever multi-racial army unit became fully operational this V its' Day. He died whilst on operations in aid of civil power on Feb. 15.
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    Lock icon ROAD SAFETY EXHIBITION
    74 2 PEXAXG. Fri. —In conjunction with the world-wide celebrations for the golden anniversary of Rotary Internationa! next week, the Penan g Rotary Club will be holding a Road Safety Exhibition at Messrs. Wearne Bros.. Farquhar Street, at 5 p.m. on Feb. L'l. Following the opening ceremony which will
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    Lock icon FIVE PARTIES TO GANG UPON THE PROGS.
    268 2 FIVE PARTIES TO GANG UPON THE PROGS. Super Alliance Move Afoot FIVE Singapore political parties are understood to be planning a super-alliance move to beat the Progressives and the newly-formed Democrats at the forthcoming Legislative Assembly elections. The parties concerned are the Labour Front, Peo-|— pics Action Party, and the
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    Lock icon Electoral Rolls Open To Public
    78 2 Electoral Rolls Open To Public THE revised and certified Register of Electors for the 25 electoral divisions of Singapore for the April Legislative Assembly elections are now ready for inspection. The Colorvy Gazette yesterday published the list of places, one for each electoral division, at which the Registers may be
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    Lock icon Still Not Settled
    58 2 A SECOND attempt by the Singapore Labour Department to effect a settlement in the dispute between the Paya Lebar Bus Company and its 150 employees failed yesterday. Representatives of the company and the workmen who met at the department failed to come to an agreement on the
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    Lock icon HK EXCHANGE
    38 2 HONGKONG. Feb. 18—Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were 51 5.61 to £1 sterling; $5.90 to US$l; $1,834 to Malayan $1: $0,154 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $257.5 to a tacl. Ik
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    107 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSlN(.rubbPiprHr s (rents per Ib i.. singa pore yesterday were cMo 1 K.S S Sfof Loose f)7 n N« I RSS fob Mar. |7| n No. 2 96| S No. 3 nom. 94^ Tone: Steady. HA fKICK Ihe ji«ce of tin yrs terday was 5354 Po r pitul.
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    Lock icon Flying Loses $21,186
    34 2 Flying Loses $21,186 lvb N S*. said that rv Th vL*S J number" J\ t nu l th S Moths 2*l 0110 Of lvh n <raft **< ?diS yr J (lrs fit lron c *rrifd ?>
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    Lock icon IT'S LIFE WITH FATHER
    463 3 I children fold: Chnnco your parent OFF TO NEW HOME IN US. Suis Mvi, 6, And Brother Wai Kueng, 3, Fly To Uncle In San Francisco t first two children from Malaya to be admitted into America under the new Lnited States Refugee Relief Act. arrived
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    Lock icon Orama In Custody Hearing
    181 3 Orama In Custody Hearing lXt 11 MPIR, Fri. i*cpiß| childrenLear «ld Malay boy E r i»ht-year old sisrp a^ed today to 2 uhirh «f their did parents they would r to li\e u»thn was put to Mr. Justice chambers in iri he io. lidr I*' thamber the nt> waib-d anxiously.
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    Lock icon EW BENEFIT OFFICERS
    43 3 vint; were elrctrd of the Sing»- Benefit Soclfty annual meeting recentMr. N. N. Lel- -President. Mr. v Kok: secretprv. Mr. treasurer. Mr. Lee m: medical examiner. 1 L Tessensohn: audi- Loh Occ Kook Cheng Gum and a ir..*:.p of seven.
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    Lock icon BABY KILLED BY COCONUT
    30 3 BABY, 3] months o'.d. >otcrday by a co- i dropped from a I I bad been partially .< lire which destroyap huta at the 13th Road, Singapore.
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    Lock icon Woman Declared A Bankrupt
    37 3 A WOMAN, G. M. Brady, whose liabilities amounted to f1.500, was adjudicated a bankrupt in the Singapore High Court yesterday. She ottered to pay $20 a month for the benefit of her creditors.
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    Lock icon Bartley Celebrates A Double School Event
    199 3 „Y „i ls > nowadays con>.nd lhe hall mark Of gJ? aa J y education in I* «l the classics, the I l v> •>! Education. Mr. >"Un«. said at the k 4i op^nin; of the new K«h blo(k f Hartley +?**'> s <hool,
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    Lock icon Malay Officers Say It's SHEER EXTRAVAGANCE
    204 3 $1.8 Mil. Asian Seamen's Hostel THE Malay Marine Officers' Association, Singapore, has refused to nominate a member to the committee which will run the $1,800,000 Asian Seamen's Hostel to be built in Beach Road. In a letter to the committee chairman. Mr. T. B.
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    Lock icon This is THE ONLY complaint, he says
    124 3 THE Asian Seamen's Welfare Officer, Singapore, Mr. T. A. White, told The Standard that the Association's refusal to nominate a member to the Hostel Committee would not get the Malay marine officers anywhere. "They are cutting the ground under their feet," he said.
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    Lock icon TAPPER GETS SIX MONTHS
    56 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri.— For unlawful possession of 28 katis of scrap rubber on Jan. 1 at Bukit Paloh estate, Soo Ah Sing, a rubber tapper, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the Sessions Court. Kluang. yesterday, by Mr. N. L. Conen. The rubber was ordered
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    Lock icon 'INDIAN NIGHT'
    24 3 THE Singapore Theosophlc?\ Society will hold an "Indian Night" programme on Feb. 24. at 6.30 p.m. at its premises. 8 Cairnhill Road.
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    Lock icon $10,000 BAIL FOR SOLDIER
    66 3 I A MALAY soldier. Ismail bin Aziz, wps tentatively charged in the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday with house breaking and raping a Chinese woman in PuJau Brani. at 1.30 a.m. on Feb 1| H The Magistrate ordered him to be remanded in Military custody and
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    Lock icon Security Exercise For Police, Military
    110 3 Security Exercise For Police, Military IF you see troops and Police being deployed in the streets of Singapore on Tuesday afternoon, don't think that the third world war has been declared. It is only just one of the routine combined Police/ Military exercises Exercise Crack. This operation will last lroni
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    Lock icon SUICIDE?-AT YOUR AGE?-TUT! TUT!
    207 3 SUICIDE?- AT YOUR AGE?-TUT! TUT! Judge Admonishes Young Maid THE Singapore Fourth Police Court Magistrate, Mr. J. M. DevereuxColebourn yesterday told a young maidservant that it was a serious offence for a young girl like her to try to commit suicide. Earlier, the maidservant, Son Fong Meng. had admitted Jumping
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    Lock icon RAF Officers Sail Home
    131 3 FOUR Royal Air Force officers from Headquarters, Far East Air Force who have completed their tour of duty in Malaya and who left on the troopship Empire Orwell yesterday for Britain. W/Cdr. F. C. HornsbySmith. of Personnel Staff, H.Q.. F.E.A.F. (extreme right), will rejoin his distinguished
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    Lock icon STUDENTS' UNION HITS AT GOVT. BAN
    200 3 STUDENTS' UNION HITS AT GOVT. BAN THE University of Malaya Students' Union, in a resolution passed recently, criticised the Singapore Government for the measures it has taken to curb alleged subversive activities by some Chinese school students. Government recently banned all assemblies by Chine.se school students and threatened to u.se
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    Lock icon Gets Bonus, But Told: Pay Debt
    113 3 THE Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Aynslcy. ordered in the Singapore High Court yesterday, that $500 out of ist;. 380.80 gratuity, received by M J. Appadurai (45). who had been boarded out of Government service on medical grounds, be appropriated to the Official Assignee for
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    Lock icon Rich U.S. Tourists To Attend S'pore Dinner
    243 3 AMERICAN social registries, bankers, former diplomats and who's who'ers will arrive in Singapore today on the Swedish American luxury liner, Kungsholm, in time to attend one of the biggest annual social events in the Colony. the George Washington Dinner and Ball to be
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    Lock icon REMANDED TO THE POLICE
    44 3 A YOUTH. Ng Hork Sens, was tentatively charged in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday with unlawful possession of home-made bombs on Jan. 15. The Magistrate. Mr. RBI. Pates, ordered him to be remanded in Police custody until March 7.
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    Lock icon PRESS COMPENSATES MCA SECRETARY
    714 4 PRESS COMPENSATES MCA SECRETARY Tiihrl ff..i+ xottied Out Of Court Serious Mistake Realised A SETTLEMENT was announced before the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in the Singapore High Court yesterday, in a libel suit instituted by Mr. Tan Kan Jee, Executive Secretary of the Malayan Chinese Association, against the Nanyang
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    Lock icon Chinese Guilds Now Seek Multi-Lingual Council
    227 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Representatives from 85 Chinese Associations and guilds in Selangor, meeting in Kuala Lumpur today, voted unanimously to send a petition to the Queen asking for the introduction of "multi-lingualism" in the Federal Legislative Council. The meeting appointed a nino-man sub-committee to
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    Lock icon 'Severe' Rationing Is Likely
    86 4 BIKIT MERTAJAM. Fri Rationing of pipe water in Bu«rit Mertajam district may be more severe if the present drought continues This was revealed by Mr. M. A. Kidtier presiding at the meeing of thr Bukit Mertajam Town Council, yesterday Mr. Kidner told thr Council that he
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    Lock icon Sultan Pays Homage To Ancestors
    109 4 Sultan Pays Homage To Ancestors IPOH. Fri.— His Highness the Sultan of Perak accompanied by the Orang Kaya Besar Dato Megat Yunoos and the Orang Kaya Temenggong Dato Wan Kamarudin visited Makam .\arhom Bendahara Iskandar Teja to pay homage to the ancestral grave about two and a half miles from
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    Lock icon Jailed For Loitering
    77 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Second Magistrate today sent 20 -year -old Kamalanathan, of no fixed abode, to jail for the seventh time for loitering. disbelieving his claim of being arrested while waiting for a midnight "lift" to Singanore. Zainuddin. a police constable, sard he caught Kamalanathan lurking
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    Lock icon Charged With Murder
    47 4 PENANG. Fri. —A 34-year-old labourer, Sinnandy, was tentatively charged in the Magistrate's Court today with having committed the murder of another labourer, Sathan. in King Street, on Dec. 23. last year. A preliminary inquiry to hear the case has been fixed tor March 19.
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    Lock icon BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY
    41 4 TAIPING, Fri.-The Taiping District Branch of the British Red Cross Society will hold their Flag Day on March 4 The general committee of the Malayan Youth Council will meet at the MYC Heaquarters, Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday.
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    Lock icon RESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO VOTERS
    155 4 RESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO VOTERS PENANG, Fri.— During this year over twenty million dollars will be spent by the Settlement Government and elected Settlement Councillors will have to decide for future years how sums should be appropriated. This was stated by the acting Resident Commissioner. Mr. D. Gray, in his broadcast
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    Lock icon NO AGREEMENT ON SACKED MINE MEN
    201 4 IPOH, Fri.— A delegation of the Malayan Mining Employees' Union had a five-hour discussion with the managements of the Kampar Tronoh Mines, Ltd. and the Southern Malayan Tin Dredging, Ltd. regarding the stoppage of work in their respective mines early this month. 4V mMU
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    Lock icon Mentri's Secretary To Serve Sentence
    178 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri— Darus bin Haji Sa'ad. Secretary to the Mentri Besar of Pahang, lost his appeal in the High Court here today against the conviction for drunken driving and sentence of three months' imprisonment and a ban on driving for life. Darus was convicted
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    Lock icon Woman Tapper Gets 3 Months
    77 4 KUALA KANGSAR, Fri. 800 Che Moy, 41. a woman rubber tapper of Sungei Siput (North), was charged and convicted in court yesterday for unlawful possession of scrap rubber weighing 32 katis. She was sentenced to three months' imprisonment by Magistrate Che Jaal bin Jaman. 800
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    Lock icon RUBBER, TIN CLOSING PRICES
    76 4 Standard London Correspondent LONDON Feb. 18 The following ore the closing prices of rubber and tin on the London Morket. LONDON RUBBER S ot 28Jd. y a 'S h 28 <«• April/June 28 d. July/September 27 Jd. October/ December 27 Jd March c.i.f. 28 d. Tone:
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    Lock icon INSPECTOR APOLOGIZES FOR ARREST
    195 4 PENANG, Fri. The Deputy Public Frosecutor Mr D.C. Jackson, tendered an f£?o? gy in l hi High Court toaay on behalf of Police inspector Kong Fook Yue, 101 owing a motion by a gold- m Chln Yin Chew, claiming damages for. wrongnil detention wrongful sei- v
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    Lock icon 70 th Birthday
    40 5 a li I urnpur violin- nt i music teacher. l?S -»i.i v r h lt .«l I pictured h N uif»- children ra ntJrhildren. at home at Hicks Kuala Lumpur RU*3 Standard b> Yong Peng x, on;.
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    Lock icon They Paid $30,000 For Pritt
    97 5 oJ students spent $30,000 <-t the appeal their fellow:n th' High Court d in a state,ints released the pro-tern the unregisterChinese Stu■.on. the dissounregistered ilnese Middle U tor Exemption la announced, collected by the the student 13. last year $51,507.72. indonated for ol the students
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    Lock icon DANCE HOSTESS PAID TAXI FARE WITH JEWELLERY
    391 5 Refused To Show I -Card To Police At 3.30 A.M. -Remanded AN attractive 17-year-old dance hostess who after a quarrel with her foster-mother hired two taxis and travelled at random throughout the city, paid off the drivers by giving one her watch and
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    Lock icon UN CANCELS VARSITY TALK
    41 5 DR. LIX YU-TANG. Chancel-lor-designate of the Nanyang University, yesterday morning cancelled his talk on "Race anj Culture." scheduled to be given at the University of Ma.aya last night. No reason for the eleventh hour decision wa? given.
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    Lock icon Receive Awards At Retirement
    186 5 NOW that Mr. Tay Kirn Seng, 55, a special grade rk at the Singapore General Post Office, has more if to spare in retirement, he will not find hi s good f Nhort in the housekeeping accounts. riM will have ai I Irr» «ularity" recordher by
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    Lock icon New Officers For Centre
    68 5 THE following were elected office-bearers of the Alexandra Community Centre, Singapore. President— Mr. Goh Kirn Huat; Vice-presidents Rev. John Wong and Quek Moh Teng: Secretary— Mr. H. W. Young Asst. SecretariesMessrs. Wu Su Suan and K. K. Pillai; Treasurer— Mr. Seah Siok Kwang; AuditorsMessrs. Tan Loh
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    30 5 re Commissiont armed the and circu>uv of two Soutkj India. 32, No 44 Immi lllusited and puh•e by the t- barrister. Mr Malaya Nadu»«ya). published in
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    Lock icon Election Meet
    37 5 CAPT. T. D. Richards, the Labour Front candidate for Ulu Bedok division, in the forthcoming Singapore Legislative Assembly elections, will hold an election meeting at the Malay Welfare Centre. Geylang Serai, at 4.30 p.m. today.
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    Lock icon Mail Had No Effect On Young BOR'
    121 5 REMARKING that as previous sentences have had no effect on a young British soldier. Lieutenant J. E. R. Brunner told a Singapore District Court Martial, yesterday, a further period of imprisonment will do little good." Lt. Brunner. defending officer, said this after the
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    Lock icon 3 MONTHS' JAIL
    43 5 KUALA KANGSAR, Fri.— Jahaya bin Din 23, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and a fine of $100 or a further month's jail, by Magistrate Che Jaal bin Jaman for thef{ of a pair of trousers and $12 in cash.
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    380 5 REDS IN JUNGLE WRITE TO RED CROSS 'Paint Your Vehicles To Ensure Safe Conduct' KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The British Red Cross received two letters from terrorists in Pahang advising them to mark their vehicles promin ently to ensure safety in travel, Sir Charles Mathew, Federation Chief Justice who is the
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    Lock icon Mystery Device To Check Drivers
    177 5 Mystery Device To Check Drivers IPOH, Fri. -The Perak State Traffic Police today introduced one of the latest devices in checking speeding motorists within town areas. This electric device, is so efficient that it can return an accurate figure to within 0.5 of a second at 30 miles an hour.
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    159 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The learns of nursing sisters sent to the Federation by the British Red Cross will continue to maintain 21 posts in the remote parts of the country for another three years. Sir Charles Mathew. local director of the Red Cross, revealed
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    Lock icon IPOH GIRL (13) MISSING
    65 5 IPOH GIRL (13) MISSING IPOH, Fri.— A 13 year-old girl. Yap Kooi Mooi. has been missing since she left her home at No 30, Cockman Street here on the morning of Feb. 13. Anyone who has seen Yap. a slim and dark complexioned girl roughly four feet tall, is asked
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    882 6 Singapore Standard Undignified Politics \URIXG recent months there have been numerous instances and at least one incident of how undignified politics can be in Malaya to be exact in the Federation Party leaders have been hurling abuse at each other not because of any natural antipathy, such as the kind
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    740 6  - Molotov's Parting Injunction Sam w haf das fdasf adf WHEN I heard of the resignation of Malenkov my mind ranged through one recollection after another of my meeting with him and Khrushchev in Moscow last September. But as my thoughts began to group and regroup themselves into a pattern of
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    116 7 Battle To Get Rid of a Title If* r b. 18. (RevAnthony Bonn, 29--ir Member and heir Ujf starts a right to :icr's title. < :orc seven of I peers to .Mould not be me Viscount B bia 79-year- -.c falls kgwood Benn to give up his of Comiia legisid
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    77 7 B 13. (Reuter) H regular solH Kenya with «i ion Royal H Fusiliers were H to five year? B at a general ■> .ere today. B d guilty to six H suiting Paul Kaza- ya Police Reserve occasioning him ac- harm, shooting at intent to resist
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    57 7 BERNE. Feb. 18. (AP)— The Swiss government declared yesterday the four anti-Com-munists who Invaded the Rumanian legation and killed a chauffeur would stand trial before the Swiss courts. A government statement said "under no circumstances" would the four be extradited, as demanded in bitter notes to
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    168 7 WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, (AP)— Harold Stassen, Foreign Aid Administrator, said yesterday an Asian economic aid programme reputed to amount to about one billion dollars is in the final stages of consideration by President Eisenhower and his advisers. Stassen told a Senate foreign relations
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    400 7 WOMAN DISCOVERED THAT SHE WED BROTHER HEREFORD, England, Feb. 18, (Reuter) a 24-year-old mother of two children said last night that after l hree years of married life she discovered that her husband was her brother from whom she was parted when she was orphaned at the age of three.
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    421 7 Britain May Consider Small Experiments Only* LONDON, Feb. 18, (Reutcr)— A spokesmen for the Atomic Energy Authority sold lost night it wos possible that experiments useful in the development of the hydrogen bomb would take place in Australia. The spokesman declined to say whether actual hydrogen
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    121 7 MOSCOW, Feb. 18. (Reuten —Soviet Fleet, official organ of the Russian navy, yesterday accused Britain of adopting a "new strategy" ot active participation in American preparations for atomic war. It said this policy threatened Britain "with the greatest snocks in her history." Britain's rulers "unable
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    97 7 LONDON, Feb. 18. (AP) The British Colonial Office disclosed yesterday that at least 17 people were killed and 84 others injured when African workers and British troops fought a pitched battle last Friday and Saturday in the tiny West African colony of Sierra Leone. The Colonial
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    40 7 AN ANALYSIS of the 1951 census shows almost seven out of every ten Indians work in agriculture. The census analysis said 249,100,--000 Indians out of a 1951 population of 356.600.000— are employed in the fields. A.P
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    138 7 RANGOON, Feb. 18 (Reuter) Over 60 delegates from 14 Asian countries attended the opening session yesterday of the conference of cultural freedom in Asia. The keynote address at the conference was given by Mr. Jayaprakash Narain, founder of the Indian Socialist Party, who said it
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    38 7 LONDON, Feb. 18, (UP) Helen Keller, with her companion, Polly Thomson, had a half hour interview with Sir Winston Churchill at No. 10 Downing Street yesterday. The subject of their conversation was not revealed.
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    29 7 THE QUEEN has conferred a Viscountcy upon Sir Godfrey Huggins. Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. it was announced from Buckingham Palace yesterday. Reuter
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    95 7 RAAF Plan To Meet Any Crisis SYDNEY, Feb. 18, (Reuter) Australia is building up a •force of four-jet squadrons ready for use anywhere in the world, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sir John McAuley said here last night. The force will comprise two Sabre jet fighter squadrons and
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    102 7 LONDON, Feb. 18 (UP)— A band of children broke into a warehouse containing U552.800.000 in precious metals and escaped undetected, Scotland Yard announced yesterday. The warehouse is one of the most closely guarded buildings in London. The child burglars stole only 30 cents in coin,
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    214 7 DUNEDIN. New Zealand. Feb. 18 (Reuter)— Dr. Senga Florence Whittingham. 27, was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment for the manslaughter of her former lover, a fellow doctor. The pretty blonde doctor was originally accused of murdering Dr. John William Saunders. 27. found
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    241 7 Police Seal Off City Of Miracles' BUENOS AIRES. Feb. 18 (Reuter) A 14-year-old girl who claimed miraculous healing powers and attracted thousands of pilgrims to her humble home has been placed under medical supervision in Tucuman City, Central Argentina. An entire suburb of the city which has a total population
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    135 7 Labour Will Back Sir Winston On His Decision LONDON, Feb. 18 (Keuten Labour opposition parly chiefs are expected to back Sir Winston Churchill's Government in its decision to go ahead with the development of the hydrogen bomb, political sources said last night. But the Party is likely to criticize sharply
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    78 7 Helped Boy Friend Kill Her Mother NEW YORK. Feb 18. (Reuter> A sobbing 16-year-old girl. Theresa Gresh. was sentenced here yesterday to from 20 years to life for helping her boy friend kill her mother on March 4 1954. The boy. William Byers, 18. has already been sentenced to the
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    74 7 BASSETERRE St. Kitts, Feb. 18: (Reutcr)— Th c Royal yacht. Britannia. wa s today carrying Princess Margaret westward across the sunny Caribbean to Kingston, Jamaica, where she is due to arrive on Saturday for a six-day visit. The Prince^ left here after three crowded days
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    370 8 WEST COAST Mr. Nyak Hashim (Alliance) Municipal Councillor. Mr. Moo Cheung Fatt (Independent) Contractor's clerk in Balik Pulau. Educated at Penang Free School. BUTTERWORTH Dr. G. Y. Oon (P. W. La>our>. Private doctor. A nominated Butterworth Town Councillor in 1953. he was returned to office
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    256 8  -  KHOO BOON CHOO By MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE IN THE FIELD Standard Staff Correspondent TODAY is polling day for Penang's first .jftMeggj Council elections and it has b?en declared a public holida> on the island and in Province Wellesley which is admin THTn?y^hr P ee
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    272 8 And Here Is The Line-Up THEY RE IN 1 THE following four Alii- SOUTH COAST: Mr. &M. Hussain. who is also a Muniancc candidates have been Council]or returned unopposed in the constituencies mentioned: NORTH COAST: Mr. Cheah Seng Khim. president of the Old Xaverians* Association. He is also general manager
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    138 8 A GREEN-FACED figure, swathed in a silver-grey robe and sporting an incongruous turban, (right), drove through Singapore's Chinatown yesterday. Sticking out from the front of his car radiator was the frightening figure of a Witch, complete with outstretched skeleton fingers. The figure witTi
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    129 8 6 YRS. FOR THREATENING A WITNESS FOUND guilty on a charge of criminal intimidation. 31--year-old Tan .Chong Woo. alias Ah Tow. was sentenced to six years' jail by Mr.. Justice Taylor in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday Tan wab stated to have approached a hawker. Yong Chou Chuan, in the
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    29 8 ra^on or C H EIVING aml adJ^ilim Vul f Was made a ains in the ti Ce a former <*!erk. NBaP s "£,£2?* to $754 hablllties
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    363 8 Teacher Who Caned A Girl Gets The Sack Misguided Man', Says A Mother A STUDENT teacher was sacked from a Government Regional school last November for caning a seven year old girl on the leg "because she was a problem child." Corporal punishment for schoolgirls in Singapore is prohibited. Boys,
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    32 8 O E j n augural conference of the Johore State Govern ESS* kers Union wnf™; held at the Assemble Han Government Offices. Johbre Bahru at 5 p.m. on Mar 3
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    61 8 Stole Machine Six Months MOHAMED Ghazaly bin Osman was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the Singapore First Criminal District Court yesterday when he was convicted of breaking into a store and stealing a lead strip-making machine valued at $60. The offence took place between Dec. 22. last year, and
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    51 8 IT was erroneously reooried m our issue of Feb. 9 that p "i>>. chiti Health Inspector at Muar had been translerred to Johore Central and would be station. Ed at Batu Pahat from Feb 15 ?J:; It h P j llai is still Chief Health Inspector at
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    65 8 w^ H u R an L ak^hna Mission will hold a Tamil essay competition and an English elocution and recitation content today at 9 a.m. and 4 pm respectively. in the RaoTaKy R T o C a7 1C U «.11, Contes s in English ;ft ln l Tamif&cuttoS
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    215 8 Chief Warns About Sneak Raids KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— One hundred and twentyseven Home Guards, who took over the defence of Cheras New Village, 11 miles from here tonight, were told by the Federation's Inspector-General of Home Guards, Maj. Gen. E. B. De Fonblanque that
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    133 8 Reds Fail To Wreck Night Mail KULAI, Fri.— Terrorists in Johore made an abortive attempt to blow up the Singapore-bound night mail, but managed only to damage the headlamps of the pilot Wickham trolley. The railway 'ambush* was laid in the Kulai district with the aid of a 'bomb' and
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    39 8 THE Rotary Club of Singapore will celebrate the golden anniversary of Rotary with a Ball at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Mar. 5. The proceeds will po to the Singapore Children's Society > Convalescent Home.
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    41 8 A GOVERNMENT servant, Koh Chyc Tuan. whose liabilities amounted to $5,000, was adjudicated a bankrupt in the Singapore High Court yesterday. He was ordered to pay i a month for the benefit of his creditors.
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    81 8 MacG's EGG -FLOWERS' pnoto. CARRYING hand-made "egg -flowers" (decorated ha"! boiled eggs dyed ir different colours), the IHcn <«" missioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray (centre), the W" l Besar of Negri Sembilan. Inche Shamsuddin bin (left), and the British Adviser of Negri Sembilan. M. C. if Sheppard alight from their helicopter
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    202 8 Radio Apped Bring The Pol Wat To An En ..The Verdict l 5 N ow|| The Electorates H flnd! PENANG, Fri. n On c j cost over Radio Moloyo this cvln !l e| Choo Poon for Port/ N^ J J electorate to co-operote in creofi" L form of Government. 9
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    21 8 PARTY FO LECTURERS CALLED OF A TEA tomorrow Sim*" to the Muslim WJ beer. «j The tortuKff-* 5 C ■<top here.
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    438 9 PROMISING young woman composer has appeared on the. American scene and is gaining a reputation among her colleagues. At 27 Julia Perry has to her credit a successful one-act opera that had its premiere in New York City P and is under consideration by several European
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    1023 9  -  Anacrusis Music Notes By THE University of "Malaya Music Society is holding its annual concert in the Oei Tiong Ham Hall on Sunday, February 27, at 8.30 p.m. The University Choir and augmented orchestra will be conducted by Paul Abisheganaden in a varied programme in
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    176 10 MARKET DETERIORATES Standard Market Reporter EVENTS in Brazil are having a serio«s effect on the Singapore coffee trade, which is weakening daily, traders here told The Standard yesterday. Prices of coffee are gradually easing for consumers as a result of Brazil devaluing Us coffee dollars
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    251 10 'Jap Output Techniques Can Be Adopted' A REPORT of a study group of smallscale industry experts of their visit to Japan, published in Bangkok by the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, commends to the rest of Asia many aspects of smallscale industry in Japan. The group included
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    216 10 UKPioneers A New Jet Take-Off A REVOLUTIONARY method of using the power of jetengines by deflection to make take-ofT and landing easier has been devised in Britain. It was announced that a Meteor fighter fitted with "jet deflectors" was flown last May and has been recently handed over to the
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    47 10 THE Roya! Navy disc'osed in London the 8.580^-ton maintenance sh:o Girdle Ness is bcins converted into Britain's first ship for trial of guided missives. The vesse'. 439 feet long and 62 feet wide, is expected to be ready for trials late next vcar. AP.
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    179 10 New Engine Sealing Compound IX the production of modern jet and piston aero-engines, a sealing compound U required which can provide resistance :o heat and to the solvent action of lubricants, and simultaneously be flexible enough for use at engine and fuel joints. The Keniiworth Manufacturing Company has now developed
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    26 10 JAPAN said today it will soon authorize barter trade with Communist North Korea, the first snre the end of World War lI.— A P.
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    67 10 THE W T orld Bank said in Washington it made loans rutallinj ussi4D.4oq.ono in eight countries JUiring the last half of 1954 and received loan repayments amounting to US$5l) ."MO.OOO. Ti.r bulk of the repayments, the Bank said in its halfyearly report, consisted of
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    619 10 'QUEEN' OF SWEDISH MERCHANT FLEET ON FIRST VOYAGE Standard Shipping Reporter THE 22,071-TON Kungsholm, "Queen" of the Swedish merchant fleet, and new deluxe liner of the Swedish American Line, will be introduced to the Far East for the first time when she arrives here today on a world cruise with
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    61 10 Comfort Luxury THE 22,000-ton Swedish American Line passenger liner Kungsholm which arrives in Singapore today on fier first world cruise, from New York to the Far East under the command of Captain. G. Nordensen. Shown on left is one of the luxurious staterooms of the vessel which offers the extreme
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    97 10 WASHINGTON. Feb. 18— An investment guaranteed totalling U*****,000 has been granted to a U.S. firm to manufacture welded steel drums in the Philippines for storing and transporting petroleum products, the Foreign Operations Administration announced. The Rheem Manufacturing Company of Richmond. California, wiil also manufacture other products, such as
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    46 10 EUROPE'S biggest swing bridge, the Caronte bridge, has just been opened. It is 361 feet long and carries a double railway line joining Miramas to Estaque. near Mars eilles. The complete bridge, of which the swing bridge is only a section, measures 984 yards.
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    134 10 Standard Shipping: Reporter SOME 880 feet of Osram cold cathode tubing, numerous line contact circuit breakers and a comprehensive luminous call system have been supplied by the General Electric Co. Ltd., for the 22,000-ton Kungsholm, which arrives here today on her world cruise to the Far
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    102 10 A British car company Cooper's— has made a car chassis which will be powered by an aircraft gas-turbine engine. The engine is a Turbomeca. produced by the Blackburn Aircraft Company under This gas turbine racing-car project is the joint plan of Mr. Tom Sopwith (son
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    179 12 RUBBER STEADY ON MATSU SE BATTLE REPOR Finance And Com!* JiH INK NEWS of the biggest sea battle in the hi*** war" off the Matsu Island yesterday domino^"*' ftJ pore which recovered If cents to 971 cents ■>.. il I March shipment. per ">■ k,£ Yesterday was marked by irregular
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    130 12 Period For Replacement Is Confirmed THE General Services Administration, in announcing modification of rubber stockpiling policy, also extended from 30 to 60 days the time in which rubber purchases from stockpile must be replaced, says a Reuter report from Washington yesterday. Under the old rules, rubber ordered from stockpile during
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    49 12 The Singapore ChamboCommerce Rubber Associai noon prices < cents per yesterday were Buyer* v Spot loose 9.")' RSS fob. Mar. No. 1 96* Apr. No. 1 961 fttij Mar. No. 2 n»>m. 05j Mar. No. 3 nom. 921 RMA on reg. tender March 9f»i April 9Gi Tone Uncertain.
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    791 12 Weekly Rubber Review: IT is fairly evident that apart from political upheavals the relative values of natural rubber and synthetic must eventually, when the shortage in consuming markets has been alleviated, come more into line with each other. i The weekly market report
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    41 12 PAA CHIEF HAWAII TAL >'rect«r \m s« J laxa »nd Indont? he p a(in( Musum Traffi. HinfrntKf m h«Z Thirty di>tn,[ Zl the Pai-ific dn3 kp Part inthi< dinatmt and Plannins: (onffr^ wUnt in ]'.jv «i'l return U §iv Icb 28
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    40 12 Standard Shipping Reporter A BRITISH built u# and fire fighting duties. The vessel, which was vi for the Shell Company bj Clelands. of Ne^ a^ ce C ap-| >i Mr X 72 She x to <^r
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    67 12 THE sharp market terda> ua> dull ail turflpv* in all y< There was a slight m merit in the turnout Malayan Munbrota souation announce followins pncf ckns m bb M Rub.:. I 1 l I on r-n«. L« I B I ISM <WM 1 :> Bu.-rr. K.
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    508 13 YOUNG 'COLTS' SAVE NSW Bedser In Form out) Ed 5L «>»• (Reuter)-Brian Booth (74 not at the £«f ml Wlpott < 46 > wh «une «to the side 't,,^ P 11 16 ved New South Wales from beting with fine confidence put on 5 Ir two hours for the sixth
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    26 13 liR (Reuter) ired his fie ding fdr v South Brinn Booth, lop scorer. <^ An x-ray fracture. re Bill Edks' fifth and .< four slip
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    112 13 1i.,.! 11l U\l I S— l*l Inn*. Brd-cr 0 n Bedser 0 b t h Bedser 1 Ptdiir 4fi b la b Wickets fell at: 0. 1. 3, 16, 26 109 127, IH7. and lf>B. BOWLING O. M X W Bedscr 19 :J f>7 S Tyson lfi 4 27
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    239 13 J PENANG. Fri— The Pakistan Hockey Federa2 tion have already under consideration a scheme to hold an Asian hockey 2 championshir meet. Mr. S. M. Ayub. Mana- ger of the Pakistan tour- ists, speaking at a dinner given in their honour by 2 the Penang Hockey
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    25 13 INDIAN Recreation beat Royal Navy, Kranji 2-0 in a friendly soccer match played at Farrer Park yesterday Scorers were: Stevenson and Narayanan.
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    55 13 PENANG, Fri. Malaya's team for the first Test against Pakistan at Ipoh on Sunday. Feb. 20 will be: Annuar Baig; N. Monersingha, Chua Eng Cheng; P. Sankey (Capt), Selvanayagam, G. Toft; Ahmad Harun, Davindran, Bakar Said. Amninullah Karim and N. Arul. Reserves Aziz, Shanmuganathan, Chua Eng
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    34 13 ARSENAL S.C. team to meet Claymore Youngsters at soccer tomorrow at Farrer Park will be selected from. Abraham. Ramanathan, Jarnail Singh Pakkiri, Arumugam, Hassim. Roberts, Ganasen. Maniam Joseph, Harry William David Raiu.
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    854 13 Rain Stops Possible Upset By Fed. Champs Pakistan l. perak 0 ipnn Game abandoned early after the second half. ifUH, Fri.— The unexpected almost happened today when Perak, the Federation hockey champions, and the visiting: Pakistan Hockey Federation tourists met in a game that wal abandoned 14
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    52 13 THE following will represent the Indian Brotherhood S.C. in a friendly football match against H.M.S. Birmingham tomorrow at Farrer Park. S. Kandasamy. R. Kasipandian. D.K. Samy, Marimuthu. K. Krishnasamy. Ramanathan. V. Ganesan. Govindarajoo. S. Chithambaram, A. Sivadas. M. Muthusamy. S. Maniam. N. Suppiah. Duraisamy and
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    207 13 1. Dockyard Umpires: Messrs. Thiyagarajan and G. Tessensohn. AN opportunist goal scored by Edwin Doraisamy midway in the second half put the Dockyard Civilian Club out of the SHA Senior Cup competition when they met Ceylon Sports Club in the replay of the K.O. match
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    336 13 No All Malayan Team... A Singapore Hockey Association bid for an All Malayan team to meet the Pakistan tourists at Jalan Besar Stadium on March 3 met with a discouraging response from the Federation. The Standard understan \s that Federation Hockey Union has turned down
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    72 13 BARTLEY Secondary School Irounced Raffles Institution by six goals to nil in an InterSchool soccer match played at RI yesterday Razali (2) Jamil (2). Rahman scored for Bart ley The sixth was a 'gift goal. Raffles 2nd team, however, triumphed aver the Bartlcy boys in
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    29 13 SPRINGDALE S.C will meet Farrer Juniors S.C in a friendly soccer match today at Farrer Park Tomorrow, they prill pay against Pu:au Bukom S.C at Pulau Bukom
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      755 13 ACKNOWLEDGMENT MR CHOONG SAM A family wish to convey their grateful thanks to the Principal* and School Committee Members of all English and Chinese Schooli who sent deputations »nd wreaths, to all friends and sympathisers who sent letters and telegrams of condolence wreath*, scrolls and lent cars for the occasion,
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      359 13 I \S Se>nbaB Johore: B -nnals and p.m. B li Sports B Singles at B' '15 p.m. B :rr-House B et\c vs. B at Savril B VS CltarB rrtt Park. B Rex B.P. B Thorn 1 Abner By Al Copp S* Nj-hin' 'ICU-PC-S£ s \}ls y OH, *->. r TAIMT
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    177 14 Windsor Lad The Pilot Trundle BUI Scrutineer BROWN BOOTY ROSALIND iTUZ! F ICK ™er\a!ne" i aii^isr EnV^y* ti!?X«* s^inj^, nil: wasp niK wasp ft^,?'" N T SPSS? 2Rf(-oril Time Mnnl Manner* „5.1 I'^pHrld Mayfalr Music mm 'Hi "Hit Leonora Lord «.»mri<i_ __> MAiJIC EYK CHRISTMAS CAROL >M<;H "X
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    2633 14 RACE ONE ALTHOUGH the two last start winners Entertainer and Rosalind have been brought to ether in the class four division two field, I am giving Brown Booty a chance to atone for his disappointing display on the first day. Brown Booty could only finish sixth in
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    39 14 THREE RINGS BEST THREE RINGS WILL BE HARD TO BEAT. Lsost year's dual Gold Cup winner, and the 'horse of the year', Three Rings will be out for another Cup victory today, concluding day of the Selangor Turf Club
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    359 14 Windsor Lad Sums It up..... The GOLD CUP PROSPECTS meeting in Kuala Lumpur. Today's main event, the 1 i miles race for the Selangor Cold Cup, is the tenth of the series. And while I consider that Three Rings has the best chance, he will not have everything his way.
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    235 14 SHAMROCK SLIPPFR vi,« 1 Athol Mulley astride. save a mosi *3 himself in his first race ever in vhl! Üblf J when he finished second, a nosl \!v oD^ over six furlongs. 1 1 It was a great race and antirin,* I ment,
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