Singapore Standard, 22 January 1958

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  • 17 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1958 Vol. VIII. No. 203 15 cts. 14 Pages Final Edition
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  • 507 1 RI. MAY FREE SEIZED VESSELS Rubber For KLce Swap With Borneo Running Smoothly EIGHT Singapore Chinese-owned ships detained by the Indonesian Government at check points m Tanjong Balei, Tanjong Pinang and Pulau Samboe are due to be released soon, The Standard was told yesterday. This move
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  • 211 1 MORE SEA PATROLS TO GUARD FISHERMEN Preventing Thai Police Arrests KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Police have doubled their marine patrols along the West coast of Malaya to protect 800 Malay fishermen m Perlis and Kedah from being arrested by the Thailand Marine Police. This measure was taken after some incidents
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  • 222 1 Lib-Socs To Query Decisions THE Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong Ens Guan, will be attacked for the way he h running the City Council when the City Council meets for its annual monthly session on Jan. 31. The attacK will come from! Liberal-Socialist Councillor for
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  • 183 1 No Bank Rate Leak Tribunal LONDON, Jan. 21 (Reuter) An official tribunal which probed rumours that there had been a leakase of Information about Britain's bank rate rise last September reported today it had found no justification for the allegations. The tribunal, unanimous m its conclusions, found that two Bank
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  • 41 1 THE British Government ha s decider to permit three Hungarian refugee families who uriivtd m Britain from Brazil a.s stowaways aboard a British ship, to live m Britain. Mr R. °l Butler the Home Secretary, told the Commons yesterday. AFP
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  • 22 1 DEFENCE Ministers of West Germany, Italy and France met m Bonn vestcrdav to discuss common research and development ol weapons. UP
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  • 250 1 THE ARMY CLAMPS DOWN NEW LAW TO GAG THE PRESS JAKARTA, Jan. 21 (Reutcr) The Army said today that action would be taken against journalists whose criticisms were considered harmful to the prestige of the state. Maior-Crneral Abdul Han's Nasution, the Army Chief of Staff, told Indonesian and foreign journalists
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  • 217 1 2 Arrested After 'Money Or Life' Calls 'Grenade Man' Was Victim IPOH, Tues. Millionaire tobacco factory proprietor, jlr. Tan Boon Bak, 54, who was unhurt after a grenade attack on his home m Anderson Road last Friday, last night received seven anonymous "money or life"' phone calls demanding $5,000 from
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  • 109 1 BALING. Tucs.—Teachers m the Tunku Putra Enslish School here have asked that the name board outside the "Chin Pen?" classroom be scrapped. It was m that room two years aso that the historic peace talks to end the Emergency took place. The teachers felt that
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  • 130 1 'Commons Feel The Need For Summit Talks' LONDON. Jan. 21 (Reuter) Mr R. A. Butler, leader of the House of Commons, today undertook to convey to the Prime Minister. Mr. Harold Macmillan. now m New Zealand, the "undoubted feeling" m the Commons on the need for "a summit conference and
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  • 24 1 ARLENE 'S BABY ACTRESS Arlene Dahl, wife of film star Fernando Lamas, gave birth to a seven-and-half-pound baby boy yesterday m Santa Monica, California.
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  • 28 1 A SINGAPORE reserve unit squad last night made a surprise raid on a secret society hideout at 4J mile Pasir Panjang Road, and arrested eight peop'e.
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  • 34 1 A CROWD of 15.000 Ismaili Moslems welcomed the Ar.a Khan, world leader of the sect, when he stopped briefly m Damascus yesterday on his flight to Karachi for his coio nation. Reuter
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  • 223 1 YOUNG FIRE VICTIM IS BURIED NEXT TO MOTHER AGNES DEAN 7, the third victim of the Bencoolen Street fire, was buried next to her mother, Madam Theresa Tay at Bidadari Cemetery yesterday. There was a large attendance, including her lather, Mr. Joseph Dean. Her brother, Edward Dean, 12, was one
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  • 114 1 LONDON, Jan. 21 (AFP) One of the largest American Air Force bases m Britain, at Manston, Kent, near the Straits of Dover, is to be closed, the British Air Ministry announced today. At least five fighter squadrons and one fighter bomber squadron operate
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  • 47 1 JAKARTA, Jan. 21 (UP) Dutch nationals were sdvised today they must seek permission from the Jakarta War Administrator before withdrawing funds or valuable assets from Jakarta banks. In an announcement Lt.Col. Endang Dachjar said that or»p such authorization may be received each month. The financial and econo-
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  • 157 1 NEW YORK Jan. 21 (UP) Police today assigned 25 detecMves to hunt down the youthful assailant of an attractive French woman who was stabrM'ri m Central Park yestprriay morning. The attack against Mrs. Odi.e Mietbe' Villars 28. secretary t«» French ambassador to the United Nations. Mr
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  • 71 1 MOSCOW, Jan. 21 (Router) The Soviet Union tonight proposed that the Middle East ineludint* Bagdad Pact countries should become a zone free of nuclear and rocket launching sites— "2a zone of good neighbourliness." A Tass statement issued by the spokesman of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, Mr.
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  • 59 1 LONDON. Jan. 21 (AFP) Sir Robert Black left London airport today to take up his new post as Governor of Hongkong. With him were Lady Black and their 18--year-old daughter. Barbara. Sir Robert who succeeds Sir Alexander Grantham, served m Hongkong as Colonial Secretary until May
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  • 124 1 mic co-ordinator of Dachjar*s staff would determine the amount that could be withdrawn, the announcement added. The "transfer" of accounts held by Dutch nationals from Jakarta banks to those outside the Jurisdiction of the Jakarta Commander also was forbidden, according to the announcement quoted by
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  • 279 2 Ex-Finance Mini, Flays Jakarta Being Short-siok PENANG, Mon. Profe^.r s Finance Minister m the Indonesian t^ here yesterday that his countn v J strangulation" because of the staff the lawmakers m Jakarta. Prof. Sumitro, who was bif country, resigned m May. ment with President Sockarno He told The Standard
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  • 175 2 A SINGAPORE probation officer, Mr. Wong Tong Seng, is among 24 Christian leaders from 12 countries m South-east Asia, to attend a three-month course on marriage guidance and family life education, to be held at Chiengmai, Thailand; from February 1. Mr. Wong, who is
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  • 28 2 A MOBILE dispensary will pay its first visit to the Chinese Farmers Guild, oil Scransoon Gardens at 10.15 a.m., on Saturday, the Singapore Labour Front announced yesterday.
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  • 109 2 Anti-Graft Expert Arrives KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Pakistani Inspector-General, Mr. S. N. Alam, arrived here today to advise the Federation government on the establishment of an anti-corruption department. Mr. Alain, 51, of the Special Branch cf the Karachi Police, will stay here for two or three months and will visit various
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  • 97 2 STEWARD JAILED FOR THEFT OF WALLET A 2! -YEAR -OLD steward climbed through a portholo of a shiD docked at Naval Base and stole a wallet lrom the cabin of an engineer, a Singapore cour: was told yesterday. In the dock of the Third Criminal District Court was T. I.
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  • 13 2 THE the n for 2 In a to n Bix months requirem<
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    • 319 2 TENDER NOTICES MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, JOHORE. TENDERS are invited for the following: (a) Supply of Boots Leather Shoes; (b) Supply of Rubber Canvas Shoes (White Brown). 1. Separate Tenders which must be marked "TENDER FOR BOOTS SHOES" and "TENDER FOR RUBBER CANVAS SHOES" on the envelope and sent under sealed and
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    • 566 2 P.W.D TENDER NOTICE TENTDGRS will be received by State Engineer, Pahang, Kuantan up to noon on 11th February, 1958 for the Supply of Paint for period 1.3.58 to 28.2.59. Full particulars are obtainable from the State Engineer's Office, Pahang, Kuanian. NOTICES P.W.D. NOTICE BRIDGE No. l/l Connection Road, Seremban, is
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  • EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 353 3 uFKE o fC rwo si^ cs tn s question of whehcrs should discuss politics m om. The action reportedly taken of certain schools m Singapore ussions may have been fully justion knowledge that during the mii the Colony's student disturbances 1 30, it was discovered that some discussed politics
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    • 294 3 GAMBLING m all its various forms commands onnu-J turnover of between $80,000,000 to 30. end can claim to be the third ln ta f try m Malaya. No matter how hard the dubs rr;a V try to beat the bookies and character 1 will not succeed m
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    • 30 3 feck Kirn Koad. Spore No 15C3 Cables: "TIGEKNEWS" <5 lines). All departments Bl'-:k 174. Batu Ka >; 883C6 fcl: 3829 '-t [rl: 4055 r Chma T.I: 1471
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  • 1290 3 'We (in the West) may look out for fireworks...' warns Edward Crankshaw who writes: "So Mr. K. has changed his mind... not for the first time nor, indeed, one may hazard, for the last." [T was getting on for two years ago that Mr. Khrushchev announced to an unnecessarily startled
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  • 35 3 More than 500 Hungarian doctors have been deported to Siberia because they refused to disclose to the Communists names of the Hungarian free~ dom fighters they treated for u-ounds during the rebellion.
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • 249 3 Sir It was indeed bold of Mr Chew Seng, secretary of the Army Civil Service Union, to say it was the duty of every W.D. established employee, as a member of the union, to join the proposed strike for improved gratuity for unestabl^hed employees. As the dispute concerns
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    • 177 3 Sir Over a century ago, piracy on the high seas was rife m Far Eastern waters. It was put down by the strong arm of the Royal Navy. who visited just punishment upon these sea pests. Now piracy has again broken out m these waters, and Singapore
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    • 192 3 Sir— Wrien the PAP won the elections last December, they gays out that the elected councillors would help to bring down the running cost of the City Council by reducing the allowances given to expatriates, higher-ups and the middle class clerks and instead increase the wages and allowances
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    • 135 3 Sir— Hold back Merdeka! Better freedom and peace under today's colonialism than a premature independence with its resultant chaos and strife, a sample of which we are witnessing m the new City Council. To remedy a minor problem, the major and more advanced section of Singapore which has
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    • 180 3 from synthetic, "the greatest danger to the rubber industry," but helps to collect more revenue which is one of the main life-lines of Independent Malaya. Fragmentation means new owners, the majority of whom may know next to nothing about rubber, and will try to make most from their
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    • 76 3 Sir— At the Town Council meeting held here (Kuala Pilah) on Wednesday, Jan. 15. two important motions were tabled In both cases the voVn% was by a show of hands. It surprised the public that these motions put forward by the Alliance Party Whij were defeated by h'.s
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  • 350 3 of the messy state of public affairs In Singapore is due to lack of vision on the part of leaders who think it is sufficient if they uttrr a lot of complacent platitudes and then forgot what they said and why they did it. There
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  • 411 4 $1½ MIL. RANSOM NOTE CONTAINED THREAT POLICE Banker's Wife Got It, Court Told ALLEGED kidnappers of Singapore millionaire banker, Mr. Ng Sen Choy, handed his wife a ransom note demanding $1,500,000 for his release. The note was signed "The Secret Men/ —I This allegation was made m the Singapore Assizes
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  • 290 4 HORMONE TREATED MEAT AND SEX Prof. Monteiro Gives His Views DEAN of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Professor H. S. Monteiro, said yesterday that an excess of hormones could lead to a sex change m a person. He was commenting on a warning by a Cambridgeshire breeder, Arthur
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  • 69 4 SINGAPORE Traffic Police are asking for witnesses to two fatal accidents yesterday. An 80-year-old pedestrian, Embah binte Ahwood. was involved m an accident with a bus at the B*-Mile Bukit Timah Road at 9.05 a.m. She died on the spot. The second mishap occurred at IU-Mile Woodlands,
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  • 190 4 TEN persons, who appeared m the Singapore City Court yesterday on summonses to quit the crown land they trespassed, made a plea to be allowed to do so after the Chinese New Year. They were: Toh Ah Kow, Tan Heng. Cha See Heong,
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  • 116 4 Room Ablaze, She Dreamt Of Hot Bath A 63 YEAR OLD grandmother dreamt she was having a hot bath m Tokyo but woke, up to find her room on fire, yesterday when part of a lodging house m Lorong Enku Aman was gutted. Twenty-three lodgers were made homeless. Damage was
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  • 47 4 WONG YEO CHING yesterday pleaded not guilty m a Singapore court to a charge of being a member of an unlawful assembly who caused hurt to three Police officers at Eu Tong Sen Street on Friday Bail m $500 was allowed till Friday.
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  • 168 4 A SINGAPORE Coroner's Court was yesterday told that worries drove a special constable to suicide. The Coroner, Inche Ahmad Hussein, returned a suicide verdict at the inquiry on V. Krishnan Pillay who was found hanging m Mandai Road on Dec. 12. Pillay, who was an
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  • 30 4 ne r th Flne Art s soclety tt Malaya i s to stage a variety show mi n Kuala Lumpur to raisf funds for the Ceylon flood victims.
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  • 188 4 Vofers Doubled In 3 Years COMPULSORY voting introduced m Australia m 1924 swelled the number of voters from a mere 57.95 per tent to almost double m three years, The Standard I was told yesterday. A spokesman for the Australian Commission m Singapore said that
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  • 53 4 SARAL S. SHEW AN, Sadu Sareus, Ram Gathi, Ram Dhari and Inderjeet Singh were yesterday fined $75 each by the Singapore City Court's Magistrate, Mr. Philip Law. for selling milk without a licence. Inderjeet Singh, who faced an additional charje of selling adulterated milk, was
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  • 201 4 DIRECTOR of the Commonwealth Society for the Blind. Mr. John F. Wilson, who is himself blind, Is In for a busy time when he arrives m the Colony on Jan. 30 on a five-day visit The Singapore Association for the Blind has laid on
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  • 47 4 TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD. Kasnh k mun, of Grik, Perak, takes his first iLi' 0 ney Training Centrr m Kuala SSuS *1 under the supervision of the Ma iron Mr/'J Kasrah/s admission was sponsor,,! l. Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul R a hm I'fi by ran.
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  • 246 4 'PUBLIC LINKING FOR ONE BRAND CO-OP'S PROBLEM KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. One of ft, problems facing the co-operative movement was "brand consciousness" of the Malayan i director of the International Co-operative Mil W.P. Watkins, said here today. The Malayan public, he said, would i particular label "and it would be an
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  • 55 4 inrei oA point:? a Vh% I" ear.y dard i I They ir Public Scry. against the Si i 'ion Bo.r mended the I Th< were ga/- the poitii pending the appeal n officer*. The I ielect< tive Service, Executive Senior Exi The B offi-crs to live Ser i a-
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  • 19 4 A SHOI C victed by a for ro W rth > School c. D The Judge, postpone probation rer
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  • 17 4 HONGKON Special 3 Closing kong En £1 S $1.85 to M to Gold $25« 875t0r-
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  • 90 4 THE fate of hundreds of Malay children m Singapore who are forced to leave school after passing their Standard Seven m Malay, with ages ranging between 14 and 17. has created a serious problem for Colony parents. It year *mk l ron i ire
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  • 170 5 ALOR STAR, Tues. A member of the Kedah Royal Family, Tunku Shuib ibni Almarhom Saltan Abdul Hamid, was sentenced to two months' by Sessions Judge, Syed Hassan Aljaffri, here 'today. Tunku Shuib was found guilty of breaking a bond imposed on him by the Sessions Court
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  • 65 5 TELOK AXSON. Tues. Lightning struck dead a man ;.nd a woman, m Lower Perak i vcr the weekend. The man, 48-year-old Koh Than, a farmer, was struck .hile cycling home from his adi field at Chui Chak New 4e on Sunday. The other victim 21-year-old sewife, Sabariah
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  • 173 5 But Associations, Clubs May Have These Machines IPOH, Tues. The Perak Government is to impose a ban on pin-tables m licensed premises m th Stafe effect from Feb. 1. lnere is no discretion to issue or renew licences ior such pin-tables, and a total ban insofar as
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  • 98 5 VIJEYA MURUGASU, of Imbi Road, Kuala Lumpur, has gained the distinction of being the first girl ever as well as the first overseas woman student to be elected president of the University of Queensland International club. Vijeya. a third year Arts student, is studying at
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  • 269 5 HUBBY WAS A BOOKIE, WOMAN TELLS COURT PEXANG, Tues. A housewife, opposing an application for a reduction of maintenance, today alleged m the Sessions Court that her husband was a "bookie" with collections of 550,000 after each race meeting. Lim Seng Khim, who denied his wife's allegation, was asking Sessions
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  • 77 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues A patrol of the Ist Battalion, the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, wounded one of three terrorists they contacted m the Kuala Kangsar district of Perak on Jan. 6. The terrorists escaped leaving a blood trail which was followed. O n Jan. 13, m the same
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  • 61 5 PENANG, Tues.— A number of old Japanese bombs found m a dump m Sungei Dua, will soon be exploded by officers of the Army Bomb Disposal Unit. The bombs will be exploded m an isolated part of the Paya Terubong Estate. The danger area
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  • 37 5 AHMAD bin Sudin was bound over for three months m the sum of $100 m the Penang Magistrate's Court yesterday for using violence on a fellow worker during the strike at the Eastern Smelting Company.
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  • 187 5 KUALA LUMPUR Tues.— The Federation Court of Appeal today upheld a man's appeal against a sentence of 15 years' imprisonment for armed gang robbery with murder. But the man. Salleh bin Haji Said, will still serve a 15-year jail term on another count of armed
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  • 82 5 Police Lose Some 'Blue' Films PENANG, Tucs.— Police here are investigating the loss of one-and-a-half reels of "blue" films. It is understood that six reels of "blue" films were handed to a Police Inspector after a case was completed m 1956. Subsequently, the Inspector was able to account for only
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  • 346 5 Ten Years' Jail Too Much, He Says KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A man who said he had been disowned by his parents for being bad, asked the Chief Justice m the Federation Court of Appeal today to send him to China. Ooi Seng Kee,
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  • 125 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Government's million-d 01 1 a r scheme to conduct evening classes for overaged pupils went into operation when some of the 16 centres m Selangor started holding classes for registered pupils yesterday. About 1,500 students m the State have registered since
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  • 79 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Shakespearean International Theatre Company will stage piays for the University of Malaya Endowment Fund under the sponsorship of the Indian University Graduates Association. "Gas Light," "Merchant of Venice" and "Arms and the Man." will be staged at the Technical College Hall
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  • 180 5 IPOH, Tues. The management of Shaws' Rex Theatre here is offerins a scholarship to the Outward Bound School m Lumut to the boy who wins an essay competition sponsored by the theatre. The subject of the 250--word essay is "My Idea of Ouward Bound" and all
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  • SPORTING WORLD
    • 462 6 Coal By Gomez Does It *v SI NGAPORE Combined Schools hockey team yesterday lived to fight again another day m a Singapore Hockey Association senior division knockout match played on the padang. B1 They were trailing by three goals to four and all
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    • 71 6 FEAF Boxing Starts At Changi THE finals of the Far East Air Force novices boxing championships will be held on Friday at R.A.F. Changi, starting at 8.30 p.m. The Commander m Chief, Far East Air Force, Air Marshal the Earl of Bandon, will present the trophies to individual winners and
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    • 22 6 SINGAPORE Recreation Club heat Khalsa Association by four goals to nil m a friendly hockey match on the Padang yesterday.
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    • 118 6 PENANG. Tues A former North Rugby player, S. Dowse, today sent a telegram to the President of the Malayan Rugby Football Union Mr. O.H.R. Beadles, offering to donate a cup O r the HMS Malaya Rugby football competition. Dowse played for $clangor and the
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    • 212 6 It May Be The Clash Of The Year BACK from Australia where he 'scalped* two of that country's best before a total crowd of 130.000. Singapore citizen King Ron* fights his biggest fight m many year« this Saturday against old rival. Dara Singh. At Melbourne, before 50.000 p"f rv^° ng
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    • 58 6 Japan Want 1964 Olympics iOK\O, Jan. 21 (Renter) A committee of 120 officials politicians. sportsmen and journalists has been formed nere to campaign for Tokyo as the venue for the 1964 Olymfoniinr CS> W3S anno "^ed xrl he Prlm c Minister. Mr Nobusuke Kishi, is likely to be named chairman
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    • 64 6 Goddard Saves Natal PIETERMARITZBLTRG, Jan 21 (Reuter).— Natal saved their match with the Australians here today, scoring 2°4 for six m their second innings when bad light stopped play and left the match drawn Natal were following' on after being 301 behind o n the first innings— 2BB to 589
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    • 167 6 ANOTHER FILIPINO GOLF WIN MANILA. Jan. 21, (ReuteD Australian golfers Bruce Crampton and Eric Cremin tied with Formosa s Chen Chin Po ariri Hsieh Yun* Yu for the second g^ Hlt t? invitat ion four-ball Scotch eightsome here today The Australian and Chinese K am ouT re SIX st rokes
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    • 271 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— At their fourth annual general meeting held at the Victory Canteen here .ast night, the Selangor Amateur Body Builders' Association decided to change its name to "The Selangor Amateur Body Builders and Gymnasts Association" President for the third sue'e p s
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    • 758 6 Trachworh Opens At Buhit r,v Four Horses Touch 37 For 3 Furs. By WINDSOR LAD SANTIAGO, with Eddie Larkin astride, stole the *how in yesterday's opening gallops for the Singapore races which start this Saturday, with an impressive half mile in 39 3/5 sec. Santiago clocked the last three
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    • 112 6 Mathias Issues Warning HOLLYWOOD. California. Jan. 21. *Reuter» Bob Maihias. twice winner of the Olympic decathlon gold medal said here that he thought the Soviet Union would dominate the 1956 Olympic games unless the United Slates wake? up. He said too many automobiles and too much television had taken the
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    • 129 6 Queensland Lose First Innings Points BRISBANE. Jan. 21 (Router) Queensland saved their Sheffield Shield match with South Australia here today but had to concede first innings points, m a drawn match. Having been forced to follow on. 241 runs behind, they carried their overnight second innings score of 114 for
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    • 91 6 POLICE "B beat Post Telegraph "B" 3-1 m a Government Services F.A. Div. 2A league match played on the P T ground yesterday. Police scored through Awaludin 2. and Salim. P T's only goal was scored by P. Muniandy In another Div. 2A encounter Tan Tock Seng Hospital
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    • 595 6 COLLATERAL and Shamrock ta Hobbs candidates, showed up t 0 er pp matched over three furlongs ont? 1^ BukU Timah. They clocked 8 S e c d finishing same two lengths ahead of i across the line. T rhe y. wern Lomba }J Distribu, Gaiety La I Safp luym
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    • 200 6 Aim sh, mtn skipped! m 37 1/2 sec Ht Delivery lrlo "gs ia .;,i Wwujf md Easj together J l «Jfl m 41 1-!, Beechnut <Bar much better than when matched on ong« In 31 5 looks fit and «i find his urinnm meeting. Adjutant a -d did three
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    • 22 6 LON R is* i v da- i b> the H 11 ■I intci J club their si:m> *'2L »n and arrant
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  • 281 7 kj^ficiimf moment .it the Bristol Ctt/,r goality played Leyton Orient on* Jan. 3. 10. This Mirrorpic shows Citfy 's Cook MELBOURNE, Jan. 21 (Reuter) Japan has been drawn to meet Thailand m the first round of the Eastern Zone of the 1958 Davis
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  • Article, Illustration
    38 7 >p golfers participating m \lht Far htps at Wack Wack course Hiere are he flag-bedecked Scoreboard, at the right are Larry Montcs, PhVi ppines' A'istralia;Chen Ching Po, Nationalist Xakamura, Japan Duck Choftn Vern \o Tugot, Philippines. United press
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  • 38 7 PERTH, Jan. 21 (Reuter) Lew Hoad (Australia) beat Pan c h o Gonzales (United States) 12-10, 6-4 yesterday to lead by seven wins to five m their 100-match series for the world professional lawn tennis championship.
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  • 178 7 DUNEDIN, Now Zealand. Jan. 21 (Reuter)— Otago- won the IMunket Shield. N"e p Zealand's inter-provincial cri td :et championship. Led by th? Ncijv Zealand Captain, John Reid 'who batted brilliantly today fctf- 201 runs. ()tat?o clinched the dhield when they took first innings points m their
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  • 97 7 ZURICH, Jan. 21 (Reuter)— Northern Ireland's reauest to play World Cud matches on weekdays is to be discussed at a special meeting m Stockholm on Feb. 8, Mr. Kurt Gassmann, Secretary-General of the International Football Federation (F.1.F.A.) said here today. "Nothing can be said about the
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  • 263 7 Aussie Aces Express Disappointment SYDNEY, Jan. 21 (Reuter) Senior tennis stars today placed a virtual boycott on this year's overseas wur by an Australian team. Both Ashley Cooper and Mai Anderson today informed the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia Selectors that they are reconsidering their availability.
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  • 222 7 IN a statement on the water ballet display, the producer. Mrs. Alex Eady. said yesterday: "It appears that the decision has been taken eitner with or without the full consent of the Organising Committee to add certain attractions to the water ballet display produced by Alex Eady
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  • 26 7 TAIPING. Tues— Continuing their unbeaten run. Prison Sports Club chalked up a 2-0 victory over the P. T. m their league hockey encounter yesterday.
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  • 78 7 LONDON, Jan. 21, (Reuter)-The Duke of Edinburgh will open the sixth British Empire and Commonwealth Games at Cardiff, Wales, on Friday, July 18, Buckingham Palace, London, announced yesterday. On Tuesday. July 22, he trill attend the rowing events at Lake Padarn iyi North Wales.
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  • 124 7 SINGAPORE BOXING: F.E.A.F. Novices Championships at Changi at 8.30 p.m. RUGBY: S.C.C. "A" us. Police at Padang; Army Cup Final—South Wales Borderers vs. R.A.S.C. at Tanglin. HOCKEY: S.H.A. Senior K.O. Competition—University vs. R.A.F. Seletar at Bukit Timah. Friendly— Y.M.S.A. vs. Police at G.S.C. S O C C E
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  • 203 7 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jan. 21 (Reuter) Pakistan collapsed against West Indies when the first Test entered on its third day here yesterday to be all out for 106 m their first innings m reply to the West Indies mammoth total of 579 for nine declared. But by
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  • 88 7 United The Favourites For The Cup LONDON, Jan. 21 (Router) Manchester United, favourites for the English Football Association Cup competition, hardened half a point at last night'i Victoria Club callovcr on the cup and were quoted at nine to two. The United are at homo 1o Second division Ipswich Town
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  • 63 7 LONDON, Jan. 20 (AFP) Plans are being made to stage a British Empire Welterweight boxing title fight at Sydney, Australia, between Australian holder George Barnes and British challenger Peter Waterman. Waterman's manager, Sam Burns discussed the project here today with Jack Warner, a representative of
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  • YOUNG FOLKS
    • 473 8 What should be our object in life? WHEN one watches the hustle and bustle of the people, one often asks: What are they aiming at? What are they working so hard for? For what do they search day after day, year m and year out? What is the prize they
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    • 189 8 Value Of The Public Library PUBLIC library is essential for the full development of children, said the librarian of Raffles Library, Mr. L. M. Harrod. The Junior Raffles Library is a necessary supplement to school education. Children read up on hobbies, handicrafts and different fields of knowledge, relative to their
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    • 116 8 Young Off To Australia A LOCAL schoolboy artist. Michael Yap Eng Thong, leaves today for Melbourne, to further his art studies at the Swinburae Technical College. Michael is an art student of Mr. Ong Chye Choo, one of Singapore's leading artists, and a former senior pupil of the Can Eng
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    • 114 8 TANET Bloom wishes to correspond with pen-pols between the oge of 30 and 40. Her hobbies are sewing, cooking, dancing, reading novels, movies and post-cards, and her address is 19-A Chatham Garden Flats, Chatham Road, Kowloon, Hongkong. rpwO Ceylonese boys, both 20, welcome Malayan chums between the age
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 160 8 PUZZLE CORNER Bs^^^^ The wild CATTLE of r*R4CUayare 6a/O TO gE /\LMOST IMMUWE Tp-PISBASE Tbe irnNals of ff>c objects above cuben correct"' ly arranged «/icll Ibe names op flou-»«rj 1 *3< P" 'w i .'9 jßk ,<7^. I To sec ajbo is amu3ir>9 fhe f"ujo ficngums I connccf Hie numbers
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    • 495 8 MX)!) AY S QUOTATION: N|^^a^>M "1 Vhere flowers clejjem- Km Q^flj rate nan oannot live." NapW ton. Vsv^l WH DNESDAY for VCjIK EVER k'ONE: Keep active. B^^Uul make progress with regular K^^^^VtN tasks and contacts; try to MHkVvQ make minor gains financial- BlkT/Jl ly. Use tact, care m deal H2A911
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  • 824 9 STATE SOCCER CAPTAIN ON TRIAL Caused Death Of Team Mates, Court Allegation *1 lAIVL.I AI VL.? UNTAR Tucs.— Lee Sai Cheong, 31, the 1957 Perak State soccer captain, was this morning produced before Magistrate Raja Azian here on a charge of negligent driving at the 66 milestone Ipoh-Penang Road on
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  • 151 9 TOP UNION MEN SIGN UP FOR OLD JOBS PENANG, Tucs.—President of the Eastern Smelting Company Employees' Union, Mr. Sheriff Baboo, and the hon. secretary, Mr. Cheah Sin Kang, nave registered themselves with the company for reemployment after the 54--day strike was called off on Sunday. Of the 49 employees dismissed
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  • 56 9 SINGAPORE Police arrested four men m connection with two assault cases m the Colony. Two of them were detained for assaulting Police officers m Eu Tong Sen Street on Saturday, and the other two for assaulting an employee of the Rose Chan Revue on Monday. They
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  • 162 9 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) In Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot (nom.) 77i 772 R.S.S. No. 1 77S 77i March R.S.S. No. 1 772 771 R.S.S. No. 2 February 752 76* R.S.S. No. 3 February 72* 732 Tone: Easier. The price of tin m Singapore
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  • 206 9 Malaya Replies To Bulganin KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Federation Government has decided not to commit itself outright whether to accept or reject Russian Prime Minister, Marshal Rulganin's proposals for "summit peace talks." Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman who returned on Monday from holiday, has already
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  • 78 9 THE INTERNATIONAL Brotherhood of Magicians and the Wesley Methodist Church will present a grand "Fantasy of Magic and Music." at the Victoria Memorial Hall, on Jan. 25 at 8 p.m. The show fi m aid of the Siglap Methodist Church and Kindergarten m Frankel Estate. Eight
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  • 35 9 THE strike by 22 employees of the Singapore Norwich Union Fire Insurance Company was called off yesterday "after an amicable settlement" had been reached at a meeting between the Company and the employees.
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  • 112 9 Registration Teams For Offices THE services of citizenship registration teams are now available to firms, associations or government departments who have a minimum of 60 applicants for registration. Mr. T. P. Cromwell. Chief Registrar of Citizens, told The Standard yesterday. Three teams are available tomorrow and Friday, and one team
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    • 508 9 FXTT2T?T3Rnnrm!I^H building and Weightlifting 430 m J;ldr> Practice 5.30 p.m.; Ma. ay Conversational Class 530 Registration In (itv \rri- ontrai i?-. m Mala V Class 6.30 p.m.; Office Fort n cann^« r Road« 30 a 8 Motorists' Self Repair Class 7.30 p.m. Chinese Chamber of Com- merce 8.30-8 p.m. Seamen's
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    • 306 9 Port Dickson 8.00 a.m. (Bft 9in.) 8.13 p.m (9ft.) Penang 1.36 a.m (Bft lin.) 214 p.m. (7ft. 2in.) TOMORROW: Singapore 108 a.m. (Bft. 7in.) 12.36 p.m (9ft. sin.). Port Dickson 827 a.m (Bft. 7in.) 842 p.m. <9tt lin.). Penang 2.04 a.m (Bft 3in.) 2.42 p m 1 7ft 3in >
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    • 263 9 Danny Levan. 12 30 Radio Newsreel RADIO MALAYA (General >ervice): 857 to 9.45 a.m English Schools Broadcasts 12 noon-1.15 p.m. Chinese Programmes. 1.15 Footlight Parade. 1.30 Time Stgnal and News. 145 to 2 p.m Footlight Parade 357 to 4.20 English Schools Broadcasts. 6.45 Lights On for the Evening Programme summary
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    • 842 10 ANGLO-FRENCH TRADING CO., LTD. T«ll IJ92J/6. *****/4 32 /6 Robinson Ro.o THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE NORTH AMERICAN SERVICI T« Halifax, Boston. Ntw yorh. Baltimore. Philadelphia Cult Port. S'por. P. Sham Penang TIUCiR S7lOM*» 11 Mar 15/16 Ma. Carriers option U proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo NORTH
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    • 1165 10 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 lines) ilncorpcxafec m nwbcici (12 Ikies) THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL. CLASCOW LONDON fir CONTINENTAL PORTS Carriers option to proceed wia other ports to load and discharge cargo (Via Suex with liberty to proceed via Panama or Cape ot Cood
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    • 877 10 MITSUI tj\ LINE Spore P. Sham Penang FOR JAPAN. Nochisan Moru for Moji. Kobe Osaka, Yokohama 3 Feb Z Feb 31 Jan Azumasan Maru for Yokohama Mikogesan Moru vio Manila. ♦or Yokohama. Kobe Moji 20 Feb For New York, Philadelphia Baltimore vio Bombay Akogisan Maru from Japan G. 31 32
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    • 610 10 EAST ASIATIC i OUTWARDS Sailings rot BanaAok qnd/ Penang "KINA" 'SUMBAWA- accepts cargo for Japon. 2|i I "MEONIA" 26, 28 Jon Colling Saigon. Bangkok 25 I "LALANDIA" 21/23 Feb 4 fl KOREA 21/22 F cb 2 j>M Accepts cargo for Bangkok, So. Qo H. HOMEWARDS Sailing, r or Aden p
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  • 187 11 Beaver Service Cuts On March 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. With the improving situation of the Emergency m Malaya the Federation "Beaver" Air Service has decided to close down 12 ot its terminals beginning March 1. fe A J he .x Mala yan Railway Administration, which runs the Federation Air Service
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  • 152 11 BANGKOK, Jan. 21 (Reuter) A United Nations' committee is to study a Japanese proposal for regional trade promotion talks. The Japanese proposal has been included on the agenda of the committee which began its week-long meeting at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Asia and the
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  • 195 11 IPOH, Tues. Marginal mines m the State have been warned to "go slow" and regulate their production of tin at the present period of restriction m the output of the metal. A spokesman of the Perak Chinese Mining Association told The Standard today
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  • 101 11 OUTER ROADS Felipes, Ryusho Maru. Nor vets, Almalik, Flying Enterprise, Victoria. Sanfviken, Bela, Straat Torres, Ocean Fortune, Bendoran, Glory, Maria Christina, Halldor, Saroena, Tyndareus, Tadjouri, Erenda, Borus, Saidja. INNER ROADS Taype. Phol Nikorn. Aik Leong. Resang, Labuan Haji, Wayla. Perak, Kirn Hai, Selangor. Tong Lie. Nukha. Soon
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  • 185 11 THE effect of Intense radiation on the components of fu-ure power reactors is to be studied m a new building which has Just be«n completed at Harwell. Here, materials which have been subjected to radiation m Harwell's two materials testing reactors, "Dido" and "Pluto," will
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 291 11 SINGAPORE'S business leaders and promoters of tourism yesterday welcomed the call by the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East for the easing of Customs barriers to improve trade m Asia. E.C.A.F.E. urged this m a report presented to the Commission's Committee on Trade,
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    • 359 11 LONDON, Jan. 21 (AFP)-The International Tin Council meets m London tomorrow to decide whether or not the piesent restrictions of exports after March 14 should be maintained. The council will also consider whether any other measures are necessary m order to ensure the efficient
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    • 82 11 SINGAPORE Chinese PfOduce Exchange noon closing prices per plcul yesterday were: copr^ Jan.-Feb UK/ Continent $30i buyers, $31* sellers; coconut oil m bulk $46 sellers; m drums $50 sellers. Muntok white pepper $102 sellers; Sarawak white $101 sellers; special Sarawak black $63. Singapore Copra Association closing prices: fair
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    • 82 11 NEW DELHI, Jan. 21: (AFP) An agreement has been signed between the Indian Government and the Assam Oil Company at New Delhi for the formation of an oil company to explore and produce oil m Upper Assam. Accordine to the terms of the agreement, two-thirds of
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    • 480 11 TEN COUNTRIES INVITED TO BUILD GIANT DAM Highlands Hydro -Electric Project To Cost $260 m. KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Engineering companies of ten countries have been invited by the Federation Government to submit tenders for the construction of a giant $120,000,000 powergenerating dam m the Cameron Highlands. Countries invited include the
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    • 95 11 Industrials And Tins Close Quiet INDUSTRIALS and tins opened steadier but both sections closed quiet m the Malayan share market yesterday. Rubbers were dull. A fair turnover was reported. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Buvcrs Sellers B. B. Petrol 40^- 44/Con. Tin Smelt Ords.
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    • 164 11 Business In Shares SINGAPORE sharebrokers reported the following business done: C.T.S. ord s 27/9; Fed. Disp. $2.10; F. N. prefs. $4: ords. $2.65. $2.63; Gammon $2.25 overnight and yesterday. $2.27$ delayed; Hammer $2.09 ready and delayed: 19. Breweries $3.375; M Cement $1.30, Rights 16c, 17c McAlister $1.57; M Box $1.55;
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    • 33 11 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes m its rates to merchants yesterday: Selling, T.T or O.D. ready New York 32-11/16; French Francs *****. Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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    • 115 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Bentong is to have its first bank shortly after the Chinese New Year. It will be a branch of the Lee Wah Bank. Mr. Lee Yean Lian vicechairman of the bank told Tr.e Standard today that the building will cost about $100,000.
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    • 244 11 Casting Concrete Against Textured Rubber THE application of rubber sheeting to the surface of concrete to give it a decorative finish a development which has aroused considerable interest amongst architects and designers is described m a brochure dealing with the uses of rubber m building just issued by the Natural
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    • 82 11 Price Slips c. International first grade for February shipment closed on an easier market yesterday at 77| cents per lb., down 3/4 cent on Monday. The market opened slightly higher on overseas advices, but eased on liquidation brought out by reports of the release of ships held up by Indonesian
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    • 51 11 SINGAPORE Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association noon prices m cents per lb. yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot f.o.b. 78 78| International Feb No. 1 R.S.S. f.o.b. 781 781 Int. R.S.S. No. 1 March 78* 78* February No. 1 7GJ 76| No. 2 72} 73 k Tone: Quiet and
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    • 96 11 SINGAPORE rubber stocks at the end of December, ex- Y d ng forei Sn transhipment I°7 d 49>G21 tons a ainst 47,669 tons at the end of the previous month. 4PI J this dealers stocks totalled 41,972 tons (38,32!) tons end November), port stocks 7,609 tons
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    • 67 11 WASHINGTON. Jan 21 (UP) U.S. industrial production dropped two per cent m December and failed to register any net gain m 1957 over the previous year, the Federal Reserve Board reported. Industrial output previously had been expanding annually at a rate of nearly four per cent. The
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    • 27 11 ONE of the most modern buses m the western hemisphere with a fool-proof system of gear change has Jus* leU London docks for China.
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    • 232 11 m• wil HB 5 1 LINIEROCEAM LINES I cpan, South Africa, I i, Australia, I America. m Mr Ceylon Lpphire service, I fo Colombo 4 and Europe ji I WBSSS3BMM Insurance Bldg.. Singapore t ?ELNI-LINES B j: KCBiNSON ROAD. Through Cargo Dept). Tel ***** Manager). B Jan 22 H iianak
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  • 595 12 photo. MAJOR-GENERAL R. G. Colling wood. General Officer Commanding. H.Q., Singapore Base District, presented certificates and testimonials to service and civilian personnel at a brief ceremony in Singapore on Friday. The awards acknowledged their outstanding work and devotion to duty in Singapore. The Service personnel (above) from left
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    • 108 12 KUALA LUMPUR BANGKOK MALAYAN AIRWAYS With effect from Saturday 25th January yo. M.A.L. services ML3O6 and ML3OS will call This has necessitated slight alterations to I the schedules as follows: 0745 dep Singapore arr 1800 0920 arr K. Lumpur dep 1630 I 0940 dep K. Lumpur arr 1615 I 1055
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  • 126 13 I, 0 lan. 21 (IT) Defence Secretary S s 'told Congress that the Defence Dejjering plating intermediate range ij; bases m the Far Fast, it was revealed N" yesterday. McElroy testified recently m secret House Appropriations Committee on President Eisenhower's emergency military f.;n(is request, and his testimony was made
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  • 36 13 n 2\A ked ade treat •*c i r ;nto to ;n j sun- i.ds imrhan it •ithrr tn- jnizod rsons the comj chilL is the and CO Of it is now n is to ■n.
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  • 14 13 Emergency Landing Jan 21 i n Fai East an r I/m- raft suastetxi, Essex,
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  • 120 13 Maori King Greets Macmillan AUCKLAND, Jan. 21 (Router) Maoris chanting and waving branches today greeted the British Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Marmillan, and Lady Dorothy at Ngaruawahia. near Hamilton. Mr. Macmillan, on an eightday tour of New Zealand, was received by Maori King Koroki and his ciders during a brief
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  • 52 13 HONGKONG. Jan. 21. "iTi-Bamboo nail.s 1.000 irs oid have been found m ct condition m a pagoda oehow. East China. PekRadij reported today. Over one inch long "they nre used to fix a Isyer of clay relief patterns to a brick wall la th° tenth
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  • 159 13 CTO.V Jan. 21 I Department wwd tli.it John 8 HRfit U.S. to Indonesia. is H^d to another said m a it Alli- ;.n inter- plomatic he will 29 tor rcasi RJ> or will :"priate ever, ans to l -ret< m '.'>ne- This represents
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  • 166 13 JAKARTA. Jan. 21 <AFP) Shipping Minister Commodore Nazir today revealed that the government had earmarked 50.000.000 rupiahs for payment of wages and salaries to the workers of the Dutch KPM inter-island shipping company which was placed under government control early last month. A sum of
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  • 24 13 THE Soviet Union yesterday announccH the appointment of Mikhail Bodrov, former Ambassador to Bulgaria, as new Soviet Ambassador to Israel- AFP.
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  • Article, Illustration
    49 13 THE long-standing reparations agreement and the IndonesianJapanese peace treaty were signed m Jakarta on Monday. Top: Japan's Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama signing the peace treaty with Japanese brush and ink. Above: Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio and Mr. Fujiyama shaking hands after signing the treaties. U .P. Photo.
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  • 52 13 PARIS. Jan. 21 (AFP> A group of Algerian rebel prisoners escaped from a military road convoy yesterday when it was ambushed at the Tenira Pa?s near Sid] Bel Abbes, it was reported from Oran. After a long pursuit. French troops shot dead seven of the
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  • 80 13 GLAMOROUS actress Debra Paset and actorsinner David Street, warmly embrace after their wedding: on Jan. 15 In Hollywood. Dcbra Paset, aged 24, became David Street's fifth wife, and it is the first time that Debra li3 X been married. Les s than one hour bclore they
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  • 125 13 Canadian Govt. Told To Quit OTTAWA. Jan. 21 (Rcutc:)— Mr. Lester Pearson newlyelected lender of the Canadian Liberal (Opposition) Party yesterday demanded that the Progressive Conservative Government of Mr. John Dicfcnbakcr resign and called for the Liberals to take over the government without an immediate election. The former external affairs
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  • 102 13 COPENHAGEN. Jan. 21 (Reuten Danish Prime and Foreign Minister. Hans C. Hansen, stressed m Parliament today that the position taken by the Danish Government not to accept any offer for atomic warheads or devices for launching of 1.R.8.M.'s is not an expression of lack of
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  • 69 13 TOKYO, Jan. 21 (Rcutcr) Another 69 Koreans detained m the Omura detention camp m Southern Japan will be released tomorrow, the Justice Ministry here said today. The first croup of 69 Koreans was released on Jan. 19 following the recent agreement between Japan and
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  • 104 13 PORTCHESTER, Jan. 21 (Renter) Shirley Holmes, thp 2'S-year-old fiirl with a "hole m her heart," may marry her Italian soldier sweetheart on Saturday, her mother said here last night. Mrs. Holmes had just been told that permission to marry m Britain had been granted
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  • 281 13 I SHALL BE THE BOSS, SAYS IKE President Starts 1958 Election Campaign With Pep Talk On Defence CHICAGO, Jan. 21 —(UP)— President Eisenhower said last night he will personally boss a prompt and effective reorganization of the Defence Department. In a speech kicking off the 1958 Republican congressional campaign. Eisenhower
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  • 155 13 Britain 2nd, W. Germany 3rd LONDON, Jan. 21 (Renter) Japan boosted her !ead last year as the world's premier shipbuilding nation by launching vessels totalling 2,424,000 tons, Lloyds announced today. Lloyds Register of Shipbuilding returns revealed that this figure pu*, Japan more than one
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  • 130 13 FRANCE BACKED ISRAELS INVASION AMIENS. France, Jan. 21 (UP)— Former French Premier Guy Mollet went on record yesterday as having sent arms and airplanes to Israel at some time during the Suez crisis of late 1956. "In the same manner m which one aidei the Spanish Republicans m 1936. I
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  • 77 13 'Nerve Gas' That Kills Instantly HAMBURG. West Germany, Jan 21, (Reuter)— Dr. Josef Brehm. wartime head of the German Chemical Warfare Experimental Station, said here that the Russians could attack the United States with an invisible, tasteless, odourless "nerve gas" which killed instantly. He told reporters that German chemists developed
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  • 67 13 TOKYO. Jan. 21. (Reuter) —Talks on a proposed Japanese loaj of 18.000 million yen (L lB 000.000) to India opened at the Foreign Ministry here today. A team of Indian government negotiators headed by K.B. Lall. Joint Secretary of the Commerce and Consumer Industries Department.
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  • 30 13 BRITAIN'S atomic scientists yesterday asked for Day rises up to £50 a week. The request was made on their behalf by the Institution of Professional Civil Servants. UP
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 98 14 Foreign Aid Is Best Deal Nixon NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (Reuter) —Mr. Richard Nixon, United States Vice-President, departed from the text of a speech last nisht to lay stress on the urgent need for continuing the United States foreign aid pro- gramme. He was addressing a Republican Party political rally
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    • 418 14 NASUTION REPEATS PEACEFUL MEANS' TO GAIN W. IRIAN JAKARTA, Jan. 21 (Reuter) Major-General Abdul Haris Nasution told reporters last night that Indonesia would use peaceful means to gain Dutch New Guinea. Answering questions m a rare meeting with foreign correspondents, General Nasution said he thought
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    • 181 14 They Sleep, Eat And Live Like Pigs' On Xmas Isle LONDON, Jan. 21 (Reuter) Allegations by a Royal Air Force Corporal that servicemen "sleep, eat and live like pigs" on Christmas Is'and. the British nuclear testing base m the Pacific, are to be raised m Parliament. Mr. Richard Winterbottom, a
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    • 80 14 BUENOS AIRES. Jan. 21 (Reuter) Argentina last night reasserted her claim to Deception Island m the Antarctic In a communique commenting on the exchange of notes between the captains of British and Argentine ships now m the Falkland Islands dependencies. Commander Philip Arnold of the British
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    • 40 14 MAKARIOS SPELLMAN THE EXILED Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus (loft) is greeted by Cardinal Spcllman of New York as he visils Spellman at the Athens Palace Hotel m Athens. Cardinal Spellman is on a world tour of United States bases. U.P.
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    • 138 14 Dynamite In Little Rock School LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas. Jan. 21. (AFP).— Little Rock police acting on a tip to a local radio station, found a stick of dynamite hidden m a locker at the Central High School yesterday. The police chief said after the discovery that the dynamite had no
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    • 110 14 Snowball Kills A Skiier OpgJVA, Jan. 21 (Reuter) Znt2* yt ar ol cl Swiss was killed by a child's snowball wnii 0 skiing m the Jura Mountains, near Porrcntruy It was learned here today The mar. Martial Etienne wa s sy«ns with his fiancee yesterday when the children Playmg higher
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    • 22 14 SCANDINAVIAN Airlines System has opened a new route from Stockholm to Tokyo via India and the Middle Ea^t U.P.
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    • 116 14 Bid Fails To Merge Australian Airlines SYDNEY. Jan. 21 (Reuter)— A bold attempt to integrate all major private airlines m Australia failed by «nly minutes today after weeks of preparation including a mass airlift of shareholders to a special meeting here. Mr. R. II Ansett, youthful man a sing director
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    • 89 14 Coalminers To Be Put 'On Trial' LONDON, Jan. 21. (Reuter). Lancashire coalminers who stay away from work without good reason are to be put "on trial" by their workmates with the prospect of losing their jobs if found "guilty" This revolutionary scheme to reduce absenteeism was announced yesterday by Mr.
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    • 209 14 TOKYO, Jan. 21 (Router)— A spokesman for the Japanese businessmen sponsoring a middle Eastern oil development project announced today they were "determined to go ahead with their plan" to explore the undersea area off the neutral zone jointly owned by Saudi
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