Singapore Standard, 10 August 1956

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    32 1 Singapore fe Standard STANOARO ***** (5 tint*? POL ICI 2400 .it -m jl GENERAL HOSPITAL 2414 FIRE BRIGADE 2811 Vol. VII. No. 39 SLNGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1956 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon BRITAIN CALLS OFF AIRLIFT
    218 1 Mystery Switch fa Plans May Be A Peace Sign LONDON, AUG. 9, -BRITAIN TODAY POSTPONED FOR "AT LEAST 24 HOURS" THE START OF A GIANT AIRLIFT TO FERRY TROOPS TO THE UNEASY MIDDLE EAST. THE SURPRISE MOVE CAME AFTER THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER. SIR ANTHONY EDEN
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    Lock icon West Applauds Eden's Report On The Crisis
    185 1 THE West yesterday Eden's report on the Suez n-as "plenty of room for applauded Sir Anthony Canal crisis and said there working out a negotiated 1 settlement.' Washington officials pointed particularly to Eden's statement that the conference scheduled for ne: week "can produce
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    Lock icon Past With Russia Reports In Cairo
    158 1 Past With Russia Reports In Cairo CAIRO. Aug. 9— Reports c: dilated here today that P. evident Abdel Gamal er is negotiating a cWence pact with Russia and arranging a visit of Soviet fleet units to Egyptian ports during the Lonconference period. W*oth these reDorts, however, e been denied. Sources
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    Lock icon Hope Lost For 243
    70 1 MARCINELLE. Belgium. Aui 9 tUP> Blistering heat drove rescuers back from the blazing bottom of the "Bitter Heart" mine today and re•euen abandoned hope for r. irly 250 missing miners. Nine were known dead and only six were rescued alive in the 32 hours after flames
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    Lock icon HAPPY BIRTHDAY
    36 1 THE Sultan of Kelantan, Sir Ibrahim ibni Almarhum Sultan Mohamed, Ruler of Malaya's exotic north-eastern "sentinel" State, whose birthday is being celebrated with great pomp and pageantry in Kota Bahru. He was 59 yesterday.
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    Lock icon RAZAK TO SCHOOLS: BEWARE THOSE HOLIDAY TOURS'
    249 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Federal Education Minister, Dato Abdul Razak, has issued a warning to heads of schools in the country about holiday "tours" by their pupils to Singapore. More than 700 students from 12 Chinese Middle Schools in the Federation plan to
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    Lock icon It's Not Cricket
    52 1 LONDON, Aug. 9 (UP) Australian cricket team vicecaptain Keith Miller has received a letter threatening his death if the Australians beat Warklckshire, it was reported today. Birmingham police were informed Miller did not take the threat seriously, and bowled ten overs and took two wickets for 13
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    Lock icon Ban On Newsmen Is Off
    106 1 Ban On Newsmen Is Off SINGAPORE Chief Minister Mr. Lim Yew Hock, announced yesterday that Colony journalists will be allowed to visit Red China with the unofficial trade mission. In a letter to the Singapore Union of Journalists, Mr. Lim said he had reconsidered the matter in the light of
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    Lock icon Mystery About This Bang
    68 1 Mystery About This Bang A SINGAPORE junk shop assistant Chee Lim Chang. 53. was seriously injured when an explosive he was tinkering with blew up in hi s shop in Chitty Road, yesterday. ?hrapnel hit him in the st and face and he was admitted to the General Hospital. Police
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    Lock icon Rubber, Pepper Tumble
    61 1 Rubber, Pepper Tumble EASING of tension in the Middle East following the speech by the British Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, caused rubber to tumble 3& cents to Sl.Ol i cents per lb., in Singapore. White pepper nose-dived to $125 per picul, (down $7). In the Malayan share market, the
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    Lock icon LATEST
    48 1 BRITAIN will reject Russia's counter proposals announced in Moscow. Western diplomats forecast tonight. The Soviet plan for calling another 22 nations to the meeting was seen as an attempt to weight the voting in the conference against the Western plan to put the Canal under international control.
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    Lock icon 23 To Die For Murdering Five
    65 1 PIETERMARI T Z B U RG. South Africa, Aug. 9 (Reuter) Twenty-three of 26 Africans charged with the murder of five policemen during a raid on an African tribal area on Feb. 22 were sentenced to death tcday. Council for the 23 men said
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    Lock icon A Ship Goes 'Absent Without Leave'
    126 1 SYDNEY, Aug. 9 (AP) A young U.S. Navy man left here by plane last night to chase his ship to Guam, declaring emphatically it was the ship, not him. who was AWOL (Absent without leave). In fact he had a certificate to prove, it.
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    Lock icon MOSCOW SAYS YES, BUT ASK CHINA, TOO
    249 1 MOSCOW, Aug. 9 (Reuter) The Soviet Union today accepted the Western "Big Three" invitation to a London conference on Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal, it was announced here today. But in a statement issued here by Tass, the official Soviet news agency,
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    Lock icon Shippers Say No To Suez Cargo
    145 1 MESSRS. Islay Kerr Company, agents for Peninsular and Oriental Line and British India Steam Navigation Company in Singapore, yesterday told The Standard they have "temporarily stopped accepting cargo for Port Said." i This is the third major shipping line that has banned temporary acceptance
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    Lock icon Luncheon For Dato Nik
    49 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Commissioner-Designate of the Federation of Malaya. Dato Nik Kamil, ha s arrived in Canberra. He was guest of honour at a luncheon given today by the Australian Minister for External Affairs, Mr. R. G. Casey, on behalf of the Australian Government.
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    Lock icon Mr Marshall Is Pleased
    45 1 HONGKONG. Aug. 9 (UP) David Marshall, former Chief Minister of Singapore, said here today he was pleased with the progress made by the Singapore and Malayan trade missions in Japan. The missions, he said, were working in harmony and in unity.
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    Lock icon Revolt Is Put Down
    35 1 QUITO. Ecuador. Aug. 9 (AP) Minister of Interior Rafeael Arizaga Vega said yesterday night the revolt in Manabi province has been crushed and that all rebellious centres are under government controL
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    Lock icon Plane Crash
    33 1 RANGOON. Aug. 9 (Reuter) Twelve people were officially reported killed and 10 severely injured when a gov-ernment-owned Union of Burma Airways plane crashed southeast of Mandalay, it was announced here today.
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    Lock icon Service Wives For Malaya In Blackpool
    138 1 LONDON. Aug. 9 (Reuter) At Southampton today, about 200 Army wives and children who were bound for Malaya and Singapore aboard the troopship Dunera before she was recalled at Malta last week, were being redirected to an army reception centre. Many of them had
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    Lock icon Rewards Co Up, Up, Up In Bid To Wipe Out Reds
    276 2 44 TERRORISTS EQUAL $40,000 PENANG, Thurs. Police, who are staging on all out war against terrorists for an early end to the Emergency, are offering increased rewards for the elimination of top-ranking Communist terrorists here and in Province Wellesley.
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    Lock icon Tolstoy On Celluloid
    54 2 NEW YORK, Aug. 9 (Reuter)—Mr. King Vidor. director of the made-in-Italy film of Tolstoy's classic "War and Peace," soon to *be released on the world's screens, said here the film would have a running-time of three and a half hours— making it the longest film exhibited since
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    Lock icon It'll Be A Tough Strike, Miners Told
    180 2 It'll Be A Tough Strike, Miners Told KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Malayan Mining Employees Union which hopes to paralyse some 120 tin dredges in the country when it goes on strike on Aug. 21 today issued a 26--point "directive on the strike" to all its members. Reasons for the strike
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    Lock icon Victorian Old Boys Officials
    93 2 Victorian Old Boys Officials THE fol' owing have been elected office-bearers of the Old Victorians' Association President Mr. Ong Eng Lian; vice-president Mr. Low Win? Kee; hon. secretary Mr. Ng Kian Seng; asst. hon." secretary—Mx Won? Yew Koey; hon. treasurer Mr. Tan Khoon Hai. Hon. auditors— Messrs. W.K. Almushayah and
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    Lock icon He Gets A New Post
    79 2 He Gets A New Post MR. Lee Thiam Swee. who has just completed his Social Studies Course at the University of Malaya, has been appoint ed acting Assistant Directo» of Social Welfare. (Community Centres) Singapore. Since taking his professional examinations at the University in June, Mr. Lee has done six
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    Lock icon VEHICLE BAN
    30 2 VEHICLES above two tons in weight will not be allowed to use the road from Lukut to Sepan? in the Port Dickson area for the next two dafs.
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    Lock icon SIX-MAN LAND TEAM FLIES IN
    77 2 SIX-MAN LAND TEAM FLIES IN A six-man Ceylonese Land Commission led by the former Surveyor-General of Ceylon, Mr. R. L. Brohier. flew "into S.r^apore yesterday. The Commission, set up bv the Governor-General of Ceylon a year a so. k here to Study land alienation, tenure and related problems The team
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    Lock icon A Stranger Gives $25 To Hassan
    108 2 A SELANGOR planter. Mr. R. A. E. Morris of Sungei Tua Estate. Batu Caves, has sent The Standard a cheque for $25.25 to be handed over to driver Hassan bin Abdullah who was kidnapped along: with Singapore millionaire Mr. Ng Quee Gam a few
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    Lock icon Day's Jail And $250 Fine For Bigamous Trader
    227 2 Day's Jail And $250 Fine For Bigamous Trader A YOUNG merchant, Lim Soo Whee, yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy, at the Singapore Assizes and was sentenced to a day's imprisonment and fined $250, in default three months' jail. The court was told that Lim married Tan Nget
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    Lock icon LIFE BRIGADE GIRLS GO CAMPING
    152 2 JOHORE RAHRI Wed.— For the first time in its history, members of the Singapore Battalion of the Girls Life Brigade made camp here today. Attending the camp are 73 girls and officers from tut Singapore Companies, v The camp is at the site of the
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    Lock icon AN ENYIABLE RECORD
    126 2 SINGAPORE enjoys an enviable health record, both as a City and a port, Dr. J. H. Strahan, Public Health Administrator to the Western Pacific region of the World Health Organization, told The Standard yesterday. Dr. Strahan, who has been 26 years in the East, is leaving for
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    Lock icon Back With A Degree
    61 2 RICHARD KUAN, who left Singapore seven years ago to study civil engineering in Michigan University, flew back yesterday with a degree, an American wife and two children. He met his wife, Barbara, at the university. Mr. Kuan, 28, has not made up his mind whether he
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    Lock icon Delegation To See Mr. Lim
    202 2 Detained Unionist A FIVE-MAN delegation from the Sing-apo^ Trades Union Congress will meet the Chief Minister Mr. Lim Yew Hock, tomorrow in connection with the detention of a local trade unionist, Mr. Tan Lay Boo^ Tan has been detained under the Public Security Ordinance. He
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    Lock icon Plaque To War Dead
    56 3 IPOH. Thurs. Sultan Sir Yusuf Izzuddin Shah will unveil a memorial marble plaque to those who fell in the Second World War on VJ-Day, Aug. 15. at the Ipoh Cenotaph. The ceremony will start at 9 a.m. and all those attending have been requested to be
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    Lock icon RAIDS NET SIX
    17 3 SINGAPORE Police in the raids on gambling dens detained six people on Wednesday ni^ht.
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    Lock icon PRESENT POWERS ENOUGH TO CURB PIRATE TAXIS
    91 3 PRESENT POWERS ENOUGH TO CURB PIRATE TAXIS SINGAPORE Government has turned down a request from the City Council for more powers to curb "pirate" taxi operations in the Colony. The Council wanted certain loopholes in the Municipal Ordinance closed but Government said this was not necessary. The Minister for Communications
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    Lock icon To Fill Chair?
    83 3 THE University of Malaya has offered its Chair of Physics to an eminent Briton in Iraq. He is Dr. G. T.P. Tarrant. one-time senior lecturer at Canterbury University College, New Zealand, and now holding the Chair of Physics at the University of Iraq. Dr. Tarrant is no*
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    Lock icon POLICE TO KEEP CAMERA
    59 3 A $300 "Robot" camera which went through several hands. including cinema magnate, Mr. Loke Wan Tho. was yesterday ordered by Singapore Magistrate, Mr. K.T. Alexander, to be "kept in Police custody." The order was made after Mr. Alexander had heard the evidence of three prosecution witnesses
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    Lock icon HK EXCHANGE
    36 3 HONGKONG. Aug. 9. Special Standard Service: Closing price of the Hongkong Exchange were: $16.15 to £1 Sterling; 56.088.75 to US$l: $1,835 to Malayan $1; $0.1905 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $264,875 to a tael.
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    Lock icon More Pass But More Are Wanted
    89 3 More Pass But More Are Wanted ALTHOUGH more people are qualifying to give first aid. the St. John Ambulance Association, Singapore Centre, is still urgently in need of more members, the hon. secretary, Mr. Lim Keng Her, told The Standard yesterday. The Association intend."; to expand its work in factories
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    Lock icon Good News For Attap Dwellers
    184 3 Good News For Attap Dwellers Plans Afoot To Pipe Them Water SINGAPORE'S attap population, long plagued with the ordeal of obtaining water from standpipes, may soon have supplies laid on in their homes. The Singapore City Council is considering plans to take piped water supplies to all attap areas. Chairman
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    Lock icon Colony Wedding
    26 3 liviK. and Mrs. Gilbert Noronha after their wedding at St. Joseph's Church, Singapore, recently The bride I is the former Miss Theresa Frois I
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    Lock icon She'll Tell Them How We Live
    72 3 She'll Tell Them How We Live A SINGAPORE schoolteacher will lecture on "Life in Malaya" at the Sclly Oak College in Birmingham. .Britain. She is Mrs. Martha Holloway who leaves the Colony tonight for Britain 'in the Willem Ruys on a year's Dorothy Cadbury Fellowship. Mrs. Holloway. who was educated
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    Lock icon Colony Lawyers Plan Alarms Local Shy locks
    217 3 WAYS TO 1 STOP HIM DISCUSSED i ILLEGAL moneylenders, are sparing no pains to trace the identity of a Colony lawyer in an effort to influence him to withdraw his proposal to form a Debtors' Association, The Standard was told yesterday. The lawyer,
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    Lock icon Two Are Chosen For Training
    60 3 Two Are Chosen For Training TWO officers of the Singapore City Council have been selected for training on organization and methods with the British Treasury. They are. Mr. N. Mohan and Mr. R. F. Ephraums. Asst. Organization and Methods Officers. Mr. Mohan will leave Singapore for London in November, while
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    Lock icon COLONY INCOME TAX HITS $396 M. MARK
    179 3 SINGAPORE'S Income Tax Department has collected approximately $396,000,000 since the introduction of income tax in 1948, the 1955 report of the Comptroller-General revealed yesterday. The report pointed out that $286,040.12 was collected as tax and penalties after court proceedings were instituted against defaulters
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    Lock icon Remanded On Rape Charge
    49 3 TWO Royal Army Service Corps' men, Ahmad bin Haji Daros and Othman bin Idns. were charged in a Singapore Court yesterday with the rape of a married woman at Pulau Brani on Wednesday night. No plea was recorded and both were remanded till Aug. 16.
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    Lock icon He Seeks Assurance On Airways
    91 3 He Seeks Assurance On Airways NOMINATED Assemblyman and Deputy Speaker. Mr. R. C. H. Lim. will ask the Minister for Communications and Works. Mr. Francis Thomas, at the next meeting cf the Singapore Legislative Assembly on Aug. 29. whether he would give an assurance that the text of any new
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    Lock icon When Papa Says *No, 'Bang' Goes The Romeo'
    330 4 Home Guard Charged With Murder Of Lover's Father IPOH, Thurs. At the Supreme Court today before Mr. Justice Thomson, a Home Guard of Ayer Tawar, Dindings, Pang See Teik, 22, was accused of killing his lover's father with a shotgun because the
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    Lock icon A PRIZE FOR HIS 'CLEANEST THEATRE'
    182 4 MR. TEO Hock Tang, manager of Capitol Theatre. Singapore, was a happy man yesterday. His cinemahall was voted the cleanest of five Colony theatres owned by Shaw Brothers Ltd. And, in acknowledging this. Mr. Runme Shaw presented Mr. Teo with a special challenge shield.
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    Lock icon QUICK THINKING TEC SAVES DROWNING GIRL
    125 4 THE presence of mind of a Singapore detective early this morning saved a girl from drowning off Clifford Pier during a rain storm. The girl. Chow Ah Hong. 16. an orphan, had fallen into the sea after wandering around for some time with a
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    Lock icon BREAKS THIGH IN ACCIDENT
    40 4 TAN SIEW JOO. a 19-year-old girl pillion rider, was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital last night with a fractured thigh after an accident at Braddell Road. The motor cyclist was treated for a broken wrist.
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    Lock icon T.B. FUND
    14 4 DURING July. 53,366 was donated to the Lady Templer Tuberculosis Hospital Fund.
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    Lock icon New 60-Room Hotel In Penang
    51 4 PEXANG, Thurs.— Penan? s newest hotel Peking Hotel will be declared open by the President of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Saw Seng Kew, on Aug. 19. The three-storey building in Penang Road has 60 bedrooms. All have telephones and bathrooms. Some rooms are
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    Lock icon Vesta' Concert To Aid Youth Work
    154 4 KLANG. Thurs.— "Echoes of Pesta" a variety concert sponsored by the Methodist Youth Fellowship to raise funds to send 40 young people to the Youth Leadership Training course at Morib will be staged at the Anglo-Chinese School hall here, tonight. More than 100 youths
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    Lock icon Lucky Numbers
    49 4 THE following numbers won prizes offered by the Redhill Community Centre for souvenir programmes sold at the Centre's F" I"- 4 c J -v First— 222s; 2nd— 1536; 3rd— 2073; 4th '^It'o, jin— _u_i. Consolation Prizes: 2037. 2130. 1789. 2264, 1551. 1410, 2198, 2014, 2036 and 2170.
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    Lock icon Strike In 7th Day
    51 4 SUNGEI PATANI, Thurs. As the strike by the 150-strong. labour force of Foothills Estate, Kulim, entered its seventh day today, the Labour Department offered to negotiate a settlement of the dispute. The workers are demanding salary rates equivalent to those adopted by the Malayan Planting Industries
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    148 4 CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 RSS Spot (num.) 101 i IOU August No. 1 RSS 10U 10H No. 2' RSS 96i 971 No. 3 RSS 94} 95i Tone: Uncertain. STORE TIN The price ot (in on the ioeal market
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    Lock icon Man Scorned Turned To Violence— court told
    298 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— A man charged with attempting to murder a married woman, claimed in court today that the last baby born to her was his child. Abdul Jabbar, 23. said this at the cross-examination of Valli. 20. mother of four children at
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    Lock icon HELPING THEMSELVES
    46 4 Thefts from parked vehicles in Singapore have increased during the last three days Police Secretary Mr. Peter Clague said yesterday. Four cameras, a radio set and spare wheels had been stolen. Motorists are urged to lock up their cars when they are left unattended.
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    Lock icon SACK NOTE OUT TO STRIKERS
    436 5 ...And Signalmen Now Say Yes To Arbitration KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Less than two hours after the Railway Administration had warned its 80 striking signalmen this afternoon that their participation in the strike rendered themselves liable to dismissal," moves were afoot to effect a settlement of
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    Lock icon THE APEX OF SERVICE
    163 5 MEMBERS of Singapore's first Apex Club have pledged themselves to do their best in service to mankind. Formed with the object of developing by precept and example a more intelligent, aggressive and sen iceable citizenship (one of its three aims) the Club held an inaugural dinner
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    Lock icon Where's That Beacon?
    46 5 Where's That Beacon? PENANG. Thurs. A beacon, opposite the railf wav pier here has dis{^j appeared. A temporary beacon has been installed in its place, and all pilots have been informed. The lost beacon may have sunk as a result of a battering by heavy waves.
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    Lock icon Lawver Protests Conduct Of Exchange Case
    362 5 Lawver Protests Conduct Of Exchange Case I HAVE TO SIT WAIT' PROTESTING that he had to "sit and wait," lawyer Mr. M. B. Brash, yesterday criticized the way proceedings were being carried out in a Singapore court. i Requesting District Judge Mr. J. W. D. Ambrose to record his objections,
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    56 5 SINGAPORE Police Secretary, Mr. Peter Cl&suc, yesterday assured innocent people* with tattoo marks they have nothing to fear from the Police. Policemen on "Operation Dagger" can distinguish secret society insignias from decorative tattoos. Even if a person had tattoos used by secret societies, he can always explain how
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    Lock icon Falling Cement Kills Two
    88 5 THE proprietor of a Singapore lighterage firm and a labourer were crushed to death yesterday, when 20 bags of cement fell on them. The proprietor Tan Kim Lian. 34. owner of Tan Lighterage Company died on the way to hospital. His labourer, Xavler Deruce. 30. was
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    Lock icon Merchant Now A Haji
    45 5 INCHE Ten£ah bin Baol, a flsh merchant of Sandakan, North Borneo, flew into Singapore a Haji and wearing Arab headgear. Haji Tengah visited Bahrein. Teheran. Karachi. and Colombo on his way back from Mecca. Haji Tengah is flying to Sandakan today.
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    33 5 ?.TR. Ng Quee Lam, vicepresident of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, yesterday opened an exhibition of Chinese paintings by Professor Lai Kin Chen, at the Chamber's premises in Hill Street.
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    Lock icon 'Woman's Death Is Murder'
    130 5 THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. K. T. Alexander, yesterday returned a verdict of murder against person or persons unknown, at the conclusion of an inquest on a woman cakeseller. Bunah binte Haji Abdul Manan, who was found battered to death at her home in Kampong Bahru, on
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    Lock icon Claims Trial To Theft Rap
    46 5 ONN AH MENG, yesterday pleaded not guilty to a charge of theft of gold watch straps, seven gold bangles and two geld rings, worth $553. belonging to Lau Chee Hong, on Aug. 8. He was allowed $500 bail till Aug. 16.
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    Lock icon Conducted Overland Tour Offer
    100 5 Conducted Overland Tour Offer TO make travelling more attractive to Malayans the American Express Company in Singapore have announced a special series of conducted overland tours for tourists making round trips to Japan on the Chusan next year. A choice of three itineraries is being offered between Yokohama and Kobe.
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    Lock icon Claims Trial To Charge Of Mischief
    89 5 Claims Trial To Charge Of Mischief GOVINDAN Natarajan, principal of a Singapore commercial school yesterday claimed trial in the Fifth Magistrate's Court to a charge of committing mischief by causing damage, estimated at $548, to the property of the Asia Insurance Company. Natarajan, who has his commercial school in the
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    37 5 A TAXI-DRIVER. Dalib bin Othman, was acquitted in the Singapore City Court yesterday on a summons charge of stationing his taxi within 60 yards of a bus stop. The prosecution offered no evidence against him.
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    Lock icon MEET HIM I WILL, BUT HARAKIRI I WILL NOT
    162 5 JAPANESE REPLIES TO BIG GUN' TOKYO, Aug. 9 (UP)— A former staff officer of the Japanese Imperial Army said today he would meet "any time" a Chinese businessman from Singapore who threatened to force him to commit suicide for alleged World
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    Lock icon TRUCK HIT CYCLIST, YOUTh TELLS COURT
    165 5 A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD schoolboy told a Singapore court yesterday he saw a military truck hit a cyclist and throw him "off his machine." Seow Hock Swee, was giving evidence in a case x in which two R.A.S.C. servicemen were charged with causing the death of
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    946 6 Singapore Liberal Outlook J^N UMNO official, Raja Mohamed bin Raja Allang, in countering the suggestion made by Tuan Haji Suleiman of Butterworth that Tunku Abdul Rahman should relinquish the leadership of UMNO because of his increasing official commitments, said. "The Tunku must stay because, after him, there is no other
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    562 6  - Asian Fears Over Canal Dispute Rawle Knox By RANGOON. pOMMUNICATIONS have J now passed between all the Colombo Power Capitals concerning the Egyptian nationalization of the Suez Canal. The suggestion of Mr. Bandaranaike, Premier of Ceylon, that the five countries < India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia) should hold an
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    555 6  -  BRITISH Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, has spoken. The world waited anxiously and impatiently to hear what he had to say about the Suez Canal in the hope that his words would be the magic spell to banish the dangerous war clouds ever the
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    879 6  - FRANCE BATTLES INFLATION ANNE by PARIS, rPHE Suez crisis has thrown yet another unknown quantity into the financial problem France has been -anxiously debating for some weeks: the double one of how to pay for the 400,000 soldiers in Algeria and how to cope with menacing symptoms of inflation. The
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      509 6 Sir; Being a wage-earner who has been in debt all his working life, I have read with interest your comments on the question of indebtedness among wageearners, the efforts of a Singapore lawyer to form an association of borrowers with a view to eradicating the evil of
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      182 6 Bad Policy Of City Council Sir; As an ordinary ratepayer I have to J protest against the methods of the City Council. For water, electricity and gas supplies the City Council makes u s pay a deposit sufficient to cover the cost ot approximately one and half month's supplies. This
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      218 6 Sir; Judging from the observations now made by the Labour Department in its latest report, it transpires that all the troubles in the country during the last three or four years have been caused by bad leadership in the trade union movement. I have watched the
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      269 6 Sir;. ln his recent speech Mr. Aneurin Bevan flatly accused those who fail "to give a lead on the banning of Hydrogen bomb tests" of "blasphemy." This is something our religious leaders ought to think very seriously about. It seems that the only remedy for our sick
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      49 6 Sir; With reference to your news published on Page 4, Column 6 dated 7th August. 1956. I shall be grateful if you will publish in your paper that I, CHOO SENG CHYE of 212R, Rangoon Road, Singapore am not the person referred to CHOO SENG CHYE Singapore
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    200 7 RAPED FIVE TIMES IN 15 MINS.SAYS GIRL W lERZ BURG, Germany, Aus. 9 (AP) A 15-> ear-old German schoolgirl, testifying in tears that she was a victim of mass rape a month ago, Wednesday identified two American soldiers as participants. men Pte. James Gora ..>n. 23. of Alachua, Florida ?FC.
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    56 7 Photo. v\\\\\\\\\\\\\\w\\\\\\\\\\\v vwwvwt iw\\\\\\» THE aircraft carrier, 2 1 HMS Theseus, 13,350 j» tons, lined with men of j the 16th Independent 2 Parachute Brigade group, and carrying all their 2 equipment and transport, sails into the English Channel on Aug. 5 from 2 Portsmouth on her way
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    247 7 General Strike Brings] Cyprus To Haiti Protest Against Hanging Of Three Terrorists NICOSIA, Aug. 9 (Reuter) —A general strike gripped Cyprus today in proI test against the predawn hanging of three Cypriot Greek terrorists. In Nicosia's Central Prison, where the executions took place under the eye of senior British I
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    167 7 Parents Forbade Marriage < TOKYO, Aug. 9 (AP) Masae Suzuda, 19-year-old atom bomb survivor, drank poison mixed with fruit juice and ended her life on Wednesday because she could not marry her atomic tainted sweetheart. Both were burned in the 1945 atom bombing of Nagasaki.
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    109 7 SANTA MONICA. California. Aug. 9 (A?> Fcrmer world heavyweight boxing champ:on Primo Camera lost the decision on Wednesday In a court battle over what he contended was a motion picture portrayal of his ring career. Superior Court Judge ?*areey Mosk ruled against Italian giant in his
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    62 7 SAIGON. Aug. 9, (UP)— V-.-tnam Government a arrested 62 rebels, inns two women, during the first week of August in a cr.vp to crush opposition 1 *nz the Western border, a VP mment spokesman announced yesterday. The drive is sweeping the I* provinces of western South r
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    46 7 KARACHI. Aug. 9. (UP)— Pakistan will enter two documentary pictures in Manila's first international film festival. Pakistan film producers said they expected to send the films "River Indus" and "Planned Prorgess of Pakistan" to the Philippine exhibition on Sept 8 to 15.
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    45 7 RIZE.. Turkey, Aug. 9. (AP>— Kasim Gulek. a leader of the chief opposition to Turkey's government, was convicted yesterday of violating the country's new law against political demonstrations. He was given a six months suspended sentence and fined 1.000 Turkish lira tM$l.O5O).
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    62 7 THE United States Air Force's stainless steel X-2 rocket Plane, shown above, has flown more than 1.900 miles an '""'r to spt an alltimp high speed mark for piloted aircraft. Authorities disclosed on Aug. 2, that the speed iiark was set on July 25. The X-2 was
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      38 7 UNITED NATIONS, New York. Aug. 9, (AP) The population of the world increased 40 million people at mid-year 1955 over the previous year, the U.N reported on Wednesday. The new estimated population is 2,692,000 000.
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      45 7 BUENOS AIRES, Aug 9 (UP)— The Central Bank' approved the Transport Ministry's contracts for the purchase of 100 locomotives valued at US$2O million. Fifty locos will be purchased in U.S.A.. 25 in France and the rest in Japan and other countries.
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      35 7 MILAN. Italy, Aug 9, (UP> Piero Pirelli, the man who provided the tyres for Italy's booming automobile industry, died of heart failure at his home here on Tuesday night. He was 75.
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    423 7 SUEZ: AN ACT OF PLUNDER, SAYS EDEN! 'Dictator Nasser Cant Be Trusted' LONDON, Aug. 9, (UP)— The British Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, called Egypt's President Nasser a dictator last night and warned that the seizure of the Suez Canal was a life and death matter to Britain. "We do
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    54 7 DR. MOHAMMED MOSS A DIG H, former Prime Minister of Persia (left), is helped by his driver, Hr\s>an As ha (centre) as he leaves Ghassar Barracks. on Auk. 4. near Teheran, where he has been imprison, ed for three years. He was convicted in 1953 of attempting to
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    118 7 Peron— A Believer In Destiny PANAMA CITY. Panama. Aug. 9, (UP)— Ex-Presiderit Juan D. Pcron of Argentina departed by plane for Caracas yesterday after telling news--men hi s future depends on destiny. As he ended his eightmonth stay in Panama. Peron was in buoyant spirits. He told newsmen at Tocumen
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    Lock icon Nine Killed In Ambush
    43 7 ALGIERS. Aug. 9, (AP) Algerian nationalist rebels shot up a truckload of French soldiers in an ambush, killing nine of them. French sources reported on Wednesday. The attack took place on Tuesday near Camp-Des-Chenes, 25 miles southwest oi Algiers.
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    159 7 No H-Bomb Tests In Australia MELBOURNE. Aug. 9, (Reuter) The Hydrogen Bomb will never be tested in Australia, Mr. Howard Beale. Australia s Supply Minister, said in an article appearing in Australian newspapers this morning. His government had consented to holding nuclear tests in the remote parts of Australia under
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    62 7 NEW YORK. Aug. 9, (UP) Near-panic broke out yesterday when a tourist excursion boat crowded with 195 sightseers, most of them women and children, went out of control and rammed into a Harlem River bridge while cruising around Manhattan Island. Police said at least 33 persons
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    50 7 TEHERAN, Aug. 9. (UP) Ex-Premier Mohammed Mossadegh called for extra guards yesterday after reporting that "enemies are trying to exterminate me." The Military Governor of Teheran at once sent an extra company of troops to the home of Mossadegh's son, where tne one-time Premier is staying.
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    30 7 HONGKONG. Aug 9. (AP) —Peking Radio charged on Wednesday that Nationalist Chinese gunboats seized six fishing boats with 27 fishermen aboard off the Fukien coast on Tuesday.
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    79 7 BOMBAY. Aug. 9 (AP) Troops were called out to quell bitter language riots in Ahmedabad where five people have been killed and 24 injured so far today. Casualties in the two days of violence now stand at 12 dead and 200 injured. This afternoon police were battling
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    198 7 Front Page Headlines LONDON, Aug. (Reuter) Britain's national Press today hailed Sir Anthony Eden's radio-television speech last night on the Suez Canal crisis with flaring front page headlines. Most of the newspapers carried the bulk of the Prime Minister's speech but early editions published
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    95 7 US Sixth Fleet Is Ready LONDON'. Aug. 9. (AP)— I Vice-Admiral Harold Felt, new deputy chief of U.S. naval operations, said on Wednesday the American Sixth F.ect in the Mediterranean is "ready, willing and able" but that no special orders have been issued over the Suez crisis. Felt, former commander
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    40 7 LONDON. Aug 9. < Reuter) Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret went riding in Windsor Great Park yesterday on the two Russian horses given to them by Russian President. Marshal Nikolai Bulzanin. during hi* recent visit here. Photo.
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    561 8 Italians Level Charges Against Swedish Line Andrea Doria -Stockholm Disaster NEW YORK, Aug. 9, (UP)— The battle over the blame for the Andrea Dorto Stock holm collision raged on yesterday with a charge by the Italian Line that the fault of the Stockholm was flagrant." The Italian statement replied to
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    61 8 NEW DELHI. Aug. 9, (UP)— Two persons were trampled to death and six others injured on Monday when several hundred pilgrims rushed from a special train to religious beach bathing on the Ganges River. The stampede occurred at Garhmuktesswar. 30 miles east or Delhi during a
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    88 8 WASHINGTON. Aug. 9, (AP)— Senator Hubert Humphrey (Democrat-Minnesota) on Wednesday attacked as "incredible" Secretary of Defence Charles E. Wilson's statement that the Suez Canal situation is a "minor upset" which he thinks will have no impact on U.S. defence planning. Humphrey, a member of the Senate
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    69 8 photo. CLARK AIR BASE. Philippines: Two clowns and a contraption made up of old tin cans patched together, a fire bell, a street lamp shade and wheels, provide a light touch in the second Clark Field Soap Box Derby races. The "car" lost a wheel midway down
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    194 8 WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (Reuter) The head of the Federal Maritime Board, Mr. Clarence Morse, said yesterday that the government hoped to have its first atom-powered merchant ship in operation before the end of 1959. i Mr. Morse told a news conference the Maritime Board hoped
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    73 8 BURBANK, California, Aug. 9 (Reuter)— The Lockheed Aircraft Corporation has announced that it Is testing a "plane with an umbrella top" which is to be used by the Navy as a flying radarpicket. It said the plane, a modified Super Constellation, had a 30-foot discus-shaped structure
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    36 8 WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, (AP) Executives of leading American newspapers, press associations and radio-tele-vision networks have protested to the U.S. State Department because of its ruling against possible visits to Red China by American reporters.
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      1302 8 Standard c&lmanac Information at a Glance W— ■WggL*— V and 9.15 p.m. HO pm. Home News from Bri--3fljN(GfA^PlOlßflE SA O^° V: n2 W H r 3> RED NET P w r ORK F OUnd UP «S;A aWl^*'™*?'^^ 1^ A -"^r 815 pm RADIO MALAYA (Regional): 7lj *B SUN: Stxeet Comer
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      63 9 EARNING to husbands who have had' this idea ~.aven't yet Dut it into practice: A man in California, V 5..4., cut his phone wires and was sentenced to f -e days in gaol for damaging telephone equipment. His motive? "I GOT SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING MY
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      342 9  -  TERRY PILLAY I By_ I THE ANIMAL WORLD is a difficult film to review. It is very good in parts. It tells the fascinating life story of animals and their fight for survival among themselves and against and alongside Man. It begins in the weird twilight
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      547 9  -  STEVE NEOH says x FEAST of colour and space wonders— LESSON on interplanetary science AMAZING! Metro-GoldwynMayer take you on their maiden flight into Space with thrills galore and classes on electronics and atomic power. On to FORBIDDEN PLANET Altair in the year 2200 aboard a
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      38 9 CROUPERS at the casino at Monte Carlo are now forbirir'.en to talk slang among themselves in the gajning rooms. This is to prevent them from exchanging comments, about customers in the belief that the customers cannot understand.
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      43 9 4 WAITER in California, U.S.A.. hotel attacked the chef with a knife, slashed the wrist of a dishwasher, hurled a pot of hot coffee at another dishwasher, then explained that he didn't like the way the chef was mixing a salad.
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      286 9 Same Old Stuff— but with some novelties ITH any Injun uprising you can expect some excitement even if it's old stuff. So it is with MOHAWK. This Edward L. Alperson presentation in Wide Y r ision Eastman Color has all the ingredients of the familiar American frontier story peaceful tribes,
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      145 9 THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA. dramatization of Ernest Hemingway s prize winning story cf the Cuban fishermen, went into action in Havana after more than a year of preparation !r is a Lcland Hayward production for Warner Bros., starring Spencer Tracy ond directed bv
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      244 9 Standard's I CROSSWORD PUSZLE IfIIII I BB I'Tlir** Q ueerer formation of river I>LUL3 about a pennv (5) ACROSS 32. Bolt, farm or horse (4) 1. Toothsome? Yes but not DOWN usually sweet (4) Bo x up the cad in a fall 3. Form of 4 down (s)' 6. Early
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    145 10 FINANCE COMMERCE TENSION EASING HITS OUR RUBBER -3 /8-cenf Drop REFLECTING the easing tension in the Middle East following the British Prime Minister's speech, Singapore rubber prices yesterday dropped 3| cents to $1,011 Per lb. for first grade August shipment on an uncertain market. Prices opened lower and only small
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    34 10 NET profit for the Indian Overseas Bank Ltd., Madras, for the half-year ended June 30, 1956, subject to audit, including the amount brought forward fr»m last year's account totals R5.17.21.271.8.3.
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    40 10 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday:Selling: airmail. T.T. or O.D. ready were: French Francs *****: Belgian Francs 1609J; Deutsche Marks 135J; Italian Lire *****. Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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    61 10 TOTAL imports of rubber, all grades frcm all countries Into Singapore and the Federation during July amounted to 38,571 tons. This preliminary total Includes 14.704 tons Imported on provisional permits in previous months for which final documents have been received and excludes about 13.649 tons imported
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    185 10 New Fed. Duty May Hit S'pore Trading CHAMBER WARNS THE present* Federation Government method of assessing import duty will hurt trade between the mainland and Singapore, worns the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Federation duty is now based on the market value of commodities. Writing to the Ministry of Commerce
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    67 10 THE sheikdom of Kuwait, which now operates the world's largest seawater evaporator plant, will soon double the production cf drinking water for its capital city, the municipality of Kuwait, it was announced today. Westinghouse Electric Corp. will instal two new flashtype water evaporators, each capable of
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    63 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The levy of 4.5 cents a pound towards rubber replanting: cess will be reduced to two rents a pound from September, the Government announced today. The reduction in ihe rate of replanting cess is made with the object of returning to rubber smallholders the
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    100 10 SHARES: MODERATE TRADE ALL sections of the Malayan share market generally were quietly steady with small price variations, according to the Malayan Sharebrokers* Association yesterday. Few prire changes were reported and moderate business passed. Price changes announced by the Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Fraser Neave: Ords. 1.90 1.95
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    33 10 OUTPLT/S from estates and mines in Guthrie Group in July announced are: rubber 9.451.486 lb.: tea (black) 180,--000 lb.: palm oil 1.337 tons: palm kernels 372 tons; tin ore 1,776 picu'.s.
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    42 10 NEW YORK. Aug. 8 (UP) Dow-Jones closing averages* STOCKS: 30 Industrials 518 74 20 Rails IRB 82 i.> Utilities 71.09 65 Stocks 183.21 BONDS: 40 Bonds 94 94 The Dow-Jones commodity futures index (1924-26 average equals 100) closed at 168.83.
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    145 10 IPOH, Thurs.— A S3 5 million housing project will be launched here in November by Chin Brothers Co., Ltd. Over 200 low-priced houses will be built on 30 acres of land in Jalan Pasir Puteh. "Evergreen Park" is to be the name. It is
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    511 10 GOOD progress is being made in Malayanization in commerce which has been speeded up in the past two years, according to a Standard survey. Lever Bros. (M) Ltd. and Shell of Malaya, pioneers in this field, report good results in their
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    249 10 Natural Usage Ahead Of Output WORLD consumption of natural rubber ran well ahead of production during the first six months of 1956 and stocks declined, the U.S. Department of Commerce said in Washington It reported production of 852,500 tons, as against consumption of 947,500 tons. This compared with 875.000 and
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    105 10 MALAYAX sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: F N ords $190 to $1.92*: Fed. Disp. $2.02; Gammon $1.90: Georgetown Disp. $2.15; Metal Box $1.45 to $1.46xd; Robinson ords $1.45; Sime Darby $1.82J; Straits Times $2.85; Straits Traders $24.75; Wm. Jacks $2.75, $2.1 I 2Austral Amal 17/1J
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    127 10 OUTER ROADS Chucchi. Iskra, Arsuat, Baud. Van Waerwiick. Stella Lykes, Anking, Resang, Lasem. Sarensk, Tokyo Breeze. Nasera. Asov Bayon. Tyndareus. Kota Agoeng. Asphalion, Astafa, Lampong. Lam Ann. Sanana. INNER ROADS Tong Hock. Senai. Sadao. Manihine. Hua Li, Hibiscus. Tg. Pinang, Hin Chuan. Hua Heng. Lipis. Van Den Broek,
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    194 10 LACK of buying interest in the Singapore pepprr market resulted in sharp drops in prices yesterday. Muntok white pepper 1 P I! by $7 to $125 per picul and Sarawak black by $4 to $37 per picul. Traders said the drop xra? due to what they termed
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    82 10 MALAYA'S trade in the first half of this year showed a favourable balance of $7.5 million, according: to preliminary figures issued for June. Imports for th e period totalled $2,081.2 million and exports $2,088.7 million. But trading in June showed a balance of $25.1 million
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      480 10 BOY 41 ROTTERDAM LLOYD m.r. "WILLEM RUYS" Is due from Djakarta on Friday 10th August between 2 and 3 p.m and will berth alongside godowns 1 and 2 (Gate No. 8). Embarkation of passengers will take place between 5 and 6 p.m. The vessel will leave for Europe the same
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      102 10 NOTICES PERAK MALAYS HIGHER STUDIES SCHOLARSHIPS FUND THE Board of Trustees invites applications from Malays of Perak birth for a second scholarship to be awarded in 1957 for a course of study i-. FORESTRY overseas. Applic ts must possess a Grade 1 or Grade II Cambridge School Certificate with a
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      553 10 CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE TENDERS (a) Architect's Department: Extermination of White Ants in City Council Buildings. Tender Deposit $50/-. Particulars from City Architect's Department during normal working hours. Close 12 NOON —17.8.56. (b) Health Department: Installation and maintenance of a 25-line private automatic Telephone Exchange in MLddleton Hospital. Particulars from
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    305 12  -  Audrey Frost By_ time you take out your eyebrow tweezers think hard before you use them. Glance at your mirror, and if you like what you see BE CAREFUL. You can alter your whole appearance be changing the line of your eyebrows. Audrey Hepburn did
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    523 12  -  NORAH LITTLEJOHN WWUWUI I By measure tiro and a half inches icide ichen complete. Join frill to hem. 4. Tie ribbon in a bow and streamers, and stitch to centre front of nightie. Underneath* a Strapless and also a SLEEP-IN MOST girls wear strapless dresses or sun-tops, so as
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    436 12  -  TERRY PILLAY DISPLAY OF IDEAL HOMES Bv gINGAPORE is Retting exhibition conscious. We are only just finishing with the Trade and Industries Fair at the Great World Park, and now tomorrow the Ideal Home Exhibition opens at the Happy World. Ideal homes are of inter-
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    274 12  -  PAT DRAKE'S YTHEN Mrs. V. C. moved into her house about three years gqo, she found the doorstep, which had been polished red, needed attention. So she repolished it. But the step became so slippery none of her jamily could keep their feet on, it. "After many complaints."
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    271 13 LONDON, Thurs. How utterly sick I am getting and I guess every cricket fan shares my nausea —with this global sniping a^runst the present Test series between England Australia. r -we had trigger-happy tics firing in Sydney, miles away, a:ainst captain lan JohnHe silenced their
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    74 13 :\'G. Thurs— The Taip- League starts on > wm nine team particir season The follow* e opening fixtures: 13 REME vs 2 Malay P Aug 17: Indian AssoW Tigers: Aug. 20: v- Kttat; AUg. 22: Survey Sports Club vs Colts; I IRC vs Winners of the fi.-;- ma'rh.
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    37 13 Thurs: The Perak QUDOI Football Federation .~> it soccer competition ftna] between Perak Chinese l I and Ramblers Sports r the Chin Sem Lin I has been fixed for Aug. the Chinese Assembly
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    92 13 have played on since their defeat by Surrey way back in May, have been "made to humble Australia's batsmen." I presume he would charitably exclude the Lord's Test. Oxford and Cambridge, and Bristol— where the Tourists won. He goes on: Of ccurse. Kacdar's entire diatribe is fantastic
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    237 13 NOT ENOUGH POOLS TOO MANY YANKS AND TOO MANY JAPANESE MOSCOW, Aug. 9 (AP) Not enough pools, too many Americans and too many Japanese. This is the answer you get from Russians when you ask them why their swimmers can't win outside Europe. The Russians are
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    108 13 ITS UP TO THE ATHLETES MELBOURNE, Aug. 9 (Reuter) Amateurs could turn professionals a minute after they had competed in the Olympic Games and no Olympic or other amateur body could do a thing about it, Mr. Edgar Tanner, secretary of the Australian Olympic Federation, said here yesterday. Mr. Tanner
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    67 13 PARIS, Aug. 9 (AP) Former world bantamweight champion Robert Cohen announced on Wednesday that he was abandoning boxing. The 25-year-old Frenchman, who was born in Algeria, was seriously injured in a motor accident last year. Cohen only fought once since his accident and on that occasion
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    38 13 GOSHEN, N.Y., Aug. 9 (AP) The Intruder, owned by Leonard Buck's Allwood Stables of Far Hills, N.J.. won the U*****,603.99 Hambletonian. taking the third heat in 2 02 after capturing the second mile in 2:02 2/5.
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    359 13  -  EDIN PETERS By PERAK Motor Club has drawn up plans to hold their second motor rally on Sunday Aug. 19. This rally is specially designed to give practice to rally crews in regularity section driving at varying speeds. The rally will start from
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    34 13 TAIPIXG. Thurs.— Volunteers Sports Club scored a two-one victory over the British Military Hospital at the Esplanade "esterday to enter the final of the annual KO soccer competition for the Bayley Cup.
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    185 13 TENNIS TIT- BITS SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey. (AP) Angela Buxton, forced withdraw from the Eastern Grass Court Tennis Championships because of a severely sprained right wrist, will return to England on Friday, she announced. Miss Buxton; runner-up to Shirley Fry for the Wimbledon women's crown, was the top-seeded foreign woman
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    141 13 SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, Aug. 9 (AP) Ken Rosewall, the Australian Davis Cup star who is top-seeded among the foreign entries in the Eastern Grass Court Tournament, sees the Aussies holding a "bit of an edge" over the United States in the Cup challenge round
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    356 14 CEYLON'S 10 for the malayan games FLY IN ON MONDAY A SPECIALLY chartered Air Ceylon plane will bring in 10 athletes from Ceylon on Aug. 13 for the Malayan Amateur Athletic Association Championships on Aug. 1? and 18 at the Municipal Stadium in Penang. Disclosing this to The Standard, Ceylon's
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    264 14 Entries Wanted For SASAs, 1st 'Open' ENTRIES are being: called for the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association's 13th annual championships to be held at the Singapore Swimming Club pool on Sept. 25. 26. 28 and 29. It will be the first 'open' meetmg of SASA. and entries are expected from neighbouring
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    137 14 U.S. Butterfly Ace Breaks World Record DETROIT. Auc 9 (Reuter) Billy Yorzyk. 25-year-old national champion, claimed a world long course record when be won the final of the men's 200 metres butterfly in 2m: 19s. in the U.S. Olympir Swimming trials here yesterday. Ford Konno, second in the 400 metres
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    94 14 I A Cricketers THE following are Indian Association teams for SCA tourney matches this Sunday. Against the Police at Thomson Road at 11 a.m. (senior tourney) S. D. Williams. Rajenrira. Hussein Shah. Y. Angullia. Harcharan Singh, Harbans Singh. Lall Singh. H. E. AshraJT. P. Vythilingam. M. Appuni. Verity .Gill and
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    367 14 THIRTEEN Companies of the Singapore Boys' Rrirade held their l'.th annual athletic meet on the Victoria School ground on Monday. Eighth Company. with 89 points, became champion* while runners-up were Fifth Company with <>7 points Results were: SENIOR DIVISION 10© yards: 1 Tan Chwee
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    218 14 Aussies On A Spree: 424 For 4 Vs Warwickshire BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 9 (Reuter)— An unbroken second wicket stand of 279 by Jim Burke and left hander Neil Harvey sent the Australian total to 314 for one by tea against Warwickshire at Edgbaston to At close of play, the Australians were
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    65 14 Cricket close of play scores: At Clarton, Essex 193 and secondly 40 for two. Surrey. 310 for nine declared. Stewart 166. Constable 59, J. Bailey five for 100. At Leicester, Leicestershire 163. Yorkshire .T>.l. Close 58 Watson 89. Illingworth 67. Yorkshire all out at close.
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    22 14 TAIPIXG. Thurs.— ln a thrilling knock-out soccer fixture for the Baylev Cup yesterday. Xilat Club eliminated Chinese Recreation Club 2-1.
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    193 14 THE staff of the Anchor Brewery at 365 Alexandra Road, Singapore, will now be able to use an up-to-date canteen and clubhouse cont aining an ideal badminton court. Mr. H. Wanschers, Technical Manager of Malayan Breweries Ltd., told The Standard at the official opening of the clubhouse yesterday: "The building
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    136 14 KEDAH AMD NS MAKE HISTORY SEREMBAN. Thurs— The Negri Sembilan Cricket Team will play their last inter-State match of the season this weekend here against Kedah on the Negri Sembilan Club padang. The meeting of these two teams will be a historical one. as these States have never yet met
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    74 14 A Y.M.C.A. Members' Tennis Drive will be held on the Association's courts. Bras Basahßoad, on Saturday, Aug. I] commencing at 3 p.m. Entries close on Friday, Aug. 10. 5 p.m. Entries for Y.M.C.A Members' Autumn Tennis Tournament close n Aug. 11 at 10 p.m. The events include:- Singles
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    56 14 THE team to represent Shell Sports Club against Royal Air Force Teneah in a friendly cricket match to be played at Paya Lebar cround on Saturday at 2.15 p.m. will be: L.E. Fencott. I. Goonesegram. I.C. Roberts, R Farthing. M.M. Hull. B Philpott, R.W. Lowe. E. Kruseman, G.
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    182 14 Ali Saves Customs AtTheEnd CUSTOMS Sports Club held Bintang Bulan Sports Club to a 4-4 draw in a SAFA Junior Cup match played at Geylang Stadium yesterday. Bintang Bulan took the lead, and opened the score in the sth minute through rightwing Dollah. Bintang Bulan increased the score in the
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    29 14 THE Singapore Royal Engineers Civilians Association beat the Tamil Brotherhood Association by three goals to nil in a S.A.F.A junior cup tie at Farrer Park yesterday
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    104 14 Off To Bangkok THE second Colony team of junior players to leave the island in two days was the band of five players led by the Singapore Badminton Association secretary, Mr. Leow Kim Fatt, which left for Bangkok yesterday. On Wednesday, a team of juniors flew for matches in Kuching.
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    253 14 Lifters curry burden oi defeat to Jakarta Insufficient Strength DUE to insufficient funds, Singapore's weight lifting contingent to defend the Aw Cheng Chye trophy in Jakarta on Aug. 18 and 19 has been cut down from 15 to seven. "This will reduce our chances of retaining the trophy
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    297 14 2 Fans Get Angry Rush In To Fiqht JALAN Besar stadium, venue of yesterday's first division league match between Star Soccerites and the Indian Recreation Club, almost became the venue, too, of a soccer f r e e-for-all yesterday, when two spectators charged into the field. Rough play crept into
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    107 14 Dutchmen Play For Amstel Cup VETERAN 7 Dutchmen and Junior Dutchmen will meet in a friendly soccer match for the Amstel trophy on the Fraser and Neave ground tomorrow at 5 p.m. The Amstel trophy named after the river that stands on the banks of Amsterdam has been contested for
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