The Straits Times, 3 December 1956

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  • 24 1 Avt>< imit R t r t n ,'sM QJ&PsJ EESi flea***!* 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1956 15 CENTS
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  • 1387 1 First on the Singapore Malayantoatton list -the posts of the Permanent Secretaries Switch starts -the word is immediate 9 MINE key post> in the permanent Civil Service of Singapore are to be Malayanised immediately The Government erf Singapore, in a state it published today, soys
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  • 59 1 LONDON Sun— The wom«n"» institute in suburban "otter s Bar has decided six qualities make the ideal husband He must be: As cultured as a Frenchman: As athletic as a Greek: A.s rich as an American: A* generous as an Australian: As diplomatic as
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  • 45 1 HUNGARIAN REFUGEES CROSS BRIDGE TO FREEDOM HUNGARIAN refugees cross a border canal into Austria on a narrow log bridge on the Austro-Hungarian border. More than 82.000 Hungarian refugees have fled from the Russians and escaped into Austria. A.P. picture. (Refugees in Singapore see page 8).
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  • 28 1 LONDON, Sun.— Five tankers from the Persian Oulf are arriving here today after the 11,000-mile voyage around the Cape. They carry 97,000 tons of fuel. UP.
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  • 36 1 AUGUSTA Sun. The V£ Secretary of State. Mr. Dulles, ending a month's convalescence after his can- cer operation, flew here to- j day to review the world situ- atlon with President Elsenhower. Reuter.
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  • 490 1 Compensation for the expatriates THE compensation scheme for expatriate officers of the Singapore Government who will be asked to retire or who will choose retirement because of the policy of Malayanisation will be similar to that approved by the Federal Legislative Council recently. The scheme is set out in a.
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  • 92 1 NEW USE FOR WINE-MIX WITH PETROL ROME. San A Member of Parliament. Mr. Alessandro Scotti. has asked the Italian Minister of Agriculture to distil the country's surplus wine and mix the alcohol with petrol to make it go further. He said that this would not only help combat the serious
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  • 53 1 LONDON, Sun. Moscow Radio said today that Russian prospectors have found diamond deposits In Siberia "equal to those in Africa and Brazil." The broadcast said the diamond fields were along the upper reaches of the Vllyuy River, a tributary of the Lena River, centre of Russia's biggest
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  • 19 1 TOKYO. Sun. Two electric railway trains crashed in a Tokyo suburb today, injuring 72 people.^AP.
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  • 221 1 PORT SAID. Sun. United Nations troops holding the Suez "buffer zone" reported that Egyptian soldiers opened lire early this morning but all the shots went wild. Major Niels Larsen. com- 1 mander of the Danish contin- gent of the U.N. troops en- j camped-
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  • 338 1 Big search still goes on for survivors KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Thirty two bodies have so far been recovered from the storm-battered Mersing coast after the monsoon and flood devastation last week. The number of kelong dwellers who survived the storm is 402 and the
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  • 134 1 BOMBAY, Sunday. AN arch erected in honour of the Communist ChinA ese Prime Minister, Mr. Chou En-lai, collapsed here today one hour before he was due to pa^s through it. One man was Injured, i Police immediately began an I investigation to determine j whether
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  • 51 1 MOSCOW. Sun. The Soviet Union today gave Marshal Oeorgi Zhukov. the Defence Minister, an unprecedented honour the Order of Lenin and a fourth gold Star. The occasion was Zhukov's 60th blrtnday. Marshal Zhukov now has one gold star more than anyone else in the Soviet
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  • 27 1 !UMM) ISKAKI IS IM II SINAI TEL AVIV Sun Israel has withdrawn 'i nun troops from the Sinai prninsnta. Isrnrli Army spokesman s.urf tnd;i> A.P.
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  • 238 1 Planter shot dead by sentry I{AJANG, Sun. A young planter, who was to have flown to England for eight months leave on Tuesday, was accidentally shot dead by an R.A.F. sentry while returning to his estate from a farewell party at 1.30 a:m. today. The tragedy occurred out- side a
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  • 1262 2 Malay ani«at ion- brakes are applied in wme department. rpHE Singapore GovA eminent in its White Paper on Malayanisation rejects the Malayanisation Commission's .view that the Police Force can be completely Malayanised without loss of efficiency in three years. Instead, it has
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  • 1244 2 promotion prospects to Chief Officer. Three posts of assistant superintendent and 25 additional sub-offlcer posts will be created. They will be reserved for Malayans. Legal Service The commission's recommendations that the service excluding Supreme Court Judges can be completely Malayanlsed in one
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  • 487 3 Friendly Iraq in danger a. R«Mlan build-up in Syria continues Eisenhowers offer of oil checks rising tide of anti-American feeling Troops in Port Said rush for presents LONDON, Sunday. rrHK Western Big Three closed their ranks 1 toda> to counter the threat of a new
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  • 221 3 COPENHAGEN. Sun. Mr. Igta Gaitskell. British Labour Party leader, said here that Britain and nac lost all their fain the Arab states and that a solution to the Middle ■oiem could come only irom the United States. Speakinc at a ■■vorld affairs in the
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  • 46 3 THE WRECKAGE of a Soviet-built Czech airliner which exploded over the Swiss-German border and plunged to earth in flames with 23 passengers on board, including 10 members of the famous Peking Opera Company. All were killed instantly.— A.F. picture.
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  • 141 3 PRINCESS WANTS TO WED CLERK -'STOP IT PLEA NEW DELHI. Sun.—Members of India's Royal caste have asked the Government t 0 stop the proposed marriage of a beautiful princess and commoner. Princess Usha Dcvi Holkar, heir to the Maharajah of Indore, and Satish Chandra Malhotra, a Bombay clerk, plan to
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  • 270 3 HUNGARIAN LEADER ARRESTED VIENNA, Sunday. HPHE RUSSIANS "have lured Mr. Jozsef Dudas, chairA man of the Hungarian Workers' Revolutionary Council, into a trap and arrested him in the Budapest parliament building, the West German news agency DPA reported here last night. It said Mr. Dudas, the most
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  • 156 3 NEW YORK, Sun.—Lieutenant General Minorn Genda. the man who planned 1941 attack on Pearl Harbour, declared in a magazine article yesterday that Japanese forces should have occupied Hawaii and California after the surprise attack. General Genda said: "It they had only listened to me
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  • 51 3 I BRUSSELS, Sun.— The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions yesterday accused the Moral Rearmament Movement M.R.A. t of interfering with trade union movements in Tunisia, Northern Rhodesia and Nigeria. The M.R.A. was "pursuing. I interests opposed to those of the workers." said a stateI ment.—
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  • 32 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Sun— A sharp earthquake, centred in San Jose but felt from San Francisco to Watsonville woke thousands of people at 6.11 this morning. No damage was reported Reuter.
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  • 216 3 HONG KONG, Sun. Two American soldiers, Arlie Pate and Aaron Wilson, who chose to go to China at the end of the Korean war, came out of Communist China this afternoon for a life of "peace" in the United States. They plan to be
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  • 62 3 NSW YORK. Sun. Mrs. Frances Hall, 35, a former member of the U.N. interpreting staff, perished with her three small children early yesterday as fire swept their home. Firemen said they believed the mother had delayed to put clothing on the children because of the chill
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  • 268 3 Jakarta bribe shock in court JAKARTA, Sun.— Mochtar Lubis, Editor of Indonesia Raya. yesterday presented photostatic copies of testimony and letters at his trial on charges of libel, allegedly proving that Foreign Minister Roeslan Abduls mi accepted a $375,000 bribe. I Lubis shocked tne court by reading for 40 minutes
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  • 76 3 Anti' Red resigns JAKARTA. Sun. People wept at the news in parliament last night that Dr Mohammad Hatta. the country's strong anti-Communis: Vice President, had resigned The resignation split the 30-year partnership with President Soekarno, which had become a symbol of Indonesia's struggle for independence. It is
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    • 125 4 r '^^^^J- t I*, v*:-: r -■■•i^v I J HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS 0F PEOPLE IN MALAYA USE I I I PAR PAINTS X^ I I r£kK paints are made in the tropics for the tropics. m~~~~^ II DAD P Jinfrs are r «her no months of travel to I J
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  • 271 5 GIRL EVEN FOOLED 'HIS' CLOSEST FRIENDS "JOHNNIE SO HAR, v the girl who posed as a boy in a Singapore boys' English school for seven years, is now in hiding. After behaving just like a boy so long, she showed the first sign
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  • 264 5 UP— SO HE QUITS UNIONS Election spate follows his resignation Tifß- N. A. Kularajah, 111 leader of several Sin^aDOrp Gnvprnmpnt tions and driving force behind the co-operative movement, has decided to auit union artivirip* npvt quii union activities next monui. This decision came when the Government announced his promotion to
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  • 79 5 MAUREEN COOPER, a young Scots lassie from Gourock, went "tae tak' a look" at flooded Kota Tinggi, Johore. A teacher in the Raffles Girls School, Maureen will give a first-hand account of the floods to her pupils ("some of the nicest in the world"" today. Before
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  • 120 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Local rubber goods manufacturers are not justified in increasing the price of locallymade canvas footwear and other rubber goods, the Ministry of Industry said today. The manufacturers had said that they were "reluctantly compelled" to raise the price by five cents a pair
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  • 115 5 EMPLOYEES of the Ruby General Insurance Com- pany in Singapore, who have been on a "goslow" for more than a week, may stop work altogether if the company refuses to negotiate on wage claims. The staff of two other insurance companies, however, are likely
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  • 59 5 The two men who will examine the possibilities of the University of Malaya becoming a training centre for obstetricians and gynaecologist .arrived in Singapore on SaturIday. They are Professor A. M. Claye. of Leeds University. ,and Dr. G. F. Gibord. of Guys Hospital, London. They have
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  • 41 5 The Minister for Local Government, Lands and Housing, Inche Hamid bin Haji Jumat! who is also Singapore UMNO president, yesterday appealed to all Malays and Muslims to contribute to a relief fund in aid of Egyptian war victims.
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  • 126 5 Ra'ayat has unity as its main platform ANEW Political party withi the aim of uniting Singapore and the Federation as a single nation has emerged in the Colony. The Singapore Government yesterday approved the registration of Party Ra'ayat, which enables it to participate actively in Singapore politics.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 299 5 SHELL THEATBETTE (Collyer Escombe at the Queen Street Boys' Quay* Free film show— "Pesta" Hostel. 7 p.m. to 8.30 1 p.m. and -BrtUsh News". 1.15 p.m. V.M.C.A. (Orchard Road): BodyRAFFLES MI'SEIM: Special building, welghtllfting. Judo. 5.30 exhibition cf "Photographs of p.m.: motorists' self -repair class, Sarawak" by Hedda Morrison. 930
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  • 21 6 20 Wordt lit (minimum). HUMPHRIES: On 25th November 1956. passed away peacefully at Pebworth, England, George Humphries formerly of Singapore.
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  • 328 6 20 H ards 110 (minimum). MULCHANDS X'MAS SALE. Starts Today for One Week Only. DRESSY MATERNITY 2-piece Just arrived. Town Country, Meyer Chambers, Raffles Place. BANISH UNPLEASANT ODOURS from your house by iisln»r a bottle of Alr-wick Alr-wlck kills all smells good shops sell it. SPECIAL X'MAS SALE at
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  • 78 6 20 Hard, lit (minimum). MR. AND MRS. THANKATHURAI thank all Friends and Relatives who attended their Wedding, sent Presents and Congratulatory "Messages on the occasion of their Wedding. TO ALL THOSE who attended the funeral of the late Rev. Father S. Lee. sent wreaths and condolences, gave mass oflerlngs,
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  • 672 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon. Dec. 3. 1956. The Crisis In Indonesia Indonesia has been living so near to crisis for so long that the customary consequences of familiarity have begun to conceal the shape of events. Attention has now been attracted to the growing chaos, and to the Government's
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  • 355 6 Four-fifths of Malaya's 51,000 square miles is virgin jungle. To the Federation's Minister for Agriculture, this uncharted land is a challenge to the country's youth. To a Malacca audience which complained that there was no land in the Settlement for them to develop the Minister gave the advice:
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  • 170 6 Among the worst offenders when it comes to housing for employees sxe the Federation Government, the Malayan Railway and the municipalities. This allegation is contained in the latest annual report of the Federation's Labour Department. Half the labourers employed by Government and most of those employed by its
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  • 1301 6 The case of the frightened leaders CONFESSION: here is the first report of the secret PARTY MEETING THAT SHOCKED POUSH COMMUNISM INTO REVOLT The eighth meeting of the Polish Communist Party last October may bo compared with the Twentieth Party Congress in Moscow last February. Polish Communists were frank in
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  • 631 6 MAN-IN-THE-STREET The passengers are risking their necks 11/ITH the installation of VI a traffic light at the Junction of Newton Road and Thomson Road, the S.T.C. bus stop for Service No. 1 buses coming from town has been shifted from Thomson Road to Moulmein Road. The majority of passengers who
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  • 112 6 IITITH reference to a re- port published in the Straits Times of November 23, on a low cost housing plan, the residents of Kuala Trengganu would no doubt be grateful to the State Government for public confirmation. It is a known fact that the Housing Trust had
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  • 482 7 'IT WASN'T THE BPDOET~JT WAS CHUMP UHC-AMP INTERNAL SQUABBLES* Big Alliance post-mortem on that election trouncing 1 rpHE Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman^ B L^t r o R 'cal^S d m^etilllr 1 of the Alliance National Council, the party's policy mikeT tS analyse the
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  • 69 7 A SCHOOL LOSES PREMISES rvDUR hundred pupils and 11 teachers of the Poon Yue Chinese School in Singapore voted out of their New ije Road school yester- Members of the Poon Yue tion, which owns the rliool premises decided by a Vote of 29 to 17 to reclaim the building.
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  • 59 7 Singapore police are seeking f\e-witnesses to an accident which occurred at Sembawang Road at 9.30 a.m. on Saturday in which a Chinese woman. Tan Choo Whye, 61, was knocked down by a car and died later the same day without regaining conscious- r-vdtnesses are asked to contact Inspector
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  • 22 7 The Pali section of the Sinpaporp Buddhist Association Id a Remembrance Day service at the Sri Lankaramaya Temple last night.
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  • 25 7 Lady Black, wife of the Governor of Singapore, yesterday attended the annual inspection of the Junior Red Cross at the Geylang English School.
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  • 196 7 K.L. LAD STARS IN SECOND MOVIE SINGAPORE will go on television In London and the European capitals In a 45--mlnute documentary fim shot yesterday by a Dutch team of four. Mr. W. Mullemeister. film and radio producer for Radio Holland, told the Straits
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  • 153 7 MORE THAN 200 people including the Governor, Sir Robert Black and the Commissioner General for South East Asia. Sir Robert Scott, attended the morning service of the Presbyterian church in Orchard road yesterday to mark the centenary of the Presbyterian movement in
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  • 380 7 HERE WITHIN 20 YEARS— C££. CHIEF'S FORECAST V OU N G Malayans should be chosen for training soon to operate nuclear power stations which will probably be built in the country in 15 20 years. This is the opinion of Mr. J.
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  • 210 7 AN Indonesian ConsulateGeneral spokesman in Singapore yesterday defended the refusal by the Indonesian Immigration Office in Blakang Padang to renew the visa of Inche Jaffar bin Mohamed All, a Singaporean, who worked In Pulau Samboe. Inche Jaffar, who had been employed by a Dutch oil company
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  • 169 7 Clerks' union alleges agreement on wage dispute arbitration has been broken rFHE Singapore Government. Administrative *and Clerical Services Union has accused the Government of failing to honour an agreement made with the staff side on the question of submitting claims 1 to arbitration. The union's general secre
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  • 31 7 The Singapore branch of the Chinese Seamen's Union will celebrate Seamen's Day with a cocktail party at the United Chinese Library in Armenian Street on Wednesday at S p.m.
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  • 170 7 Arts Ball sleuths find lost horse fIRGANISERS of the v Singapore Arts Ball turned sleuths to track down a winged horse which mysteriously disappeared. They solved the mystery without police help. The steed was found locked up in a Standard Vacuum Oil Company godown. The company had given the white
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  • 29 7 The Long Say Lee Association in Singapore held a dinner last night to mark their 50th anniversary and the opening of their new building at Jalan Besar.
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  • 47 7 A Swedish freighter. Kyoto. bound for Singapore with a general cargo, is among the 15 vessels trapped In the Suez Canal. The cargo Included refrigerated grapes, mellons and pomegranates and a consignment of radios as well as large quant: Lies of other goods.
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  • 31 7 The Singapore Blood Bank is in urgent need of Group "B" donors, and appeals for members of the public in this category to donate their blood without delay.
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  • 67 7 The Singapore Government is returning to the Japanese two Buddhist temples which were confiscated after the war. The assistant Custodian of Property. Mr. c. W. Pearson, said yesterday that the temples, In Bencoolen Street and Wilkie Road, are now being used as dwelling homes. After the war,
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  • 168 7 Council to get 11 more demands THE Singapore City Council Electrical Workers' Union is tr submit 11 new demandfor better working cc Iditions in the next .f< days. The union, at its genera meeting yesterday, also agreed to ask the Minister for Labour, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, to open negotiations
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 55 7 High tides TODAY: Singapore 10. 55 a.m. Port Dickson 6.56 a.m. (Ml Nn.) 7.12 p.m. Bft. 31n.); ■trans 12.48 a.m. <.7ft. JJin.) l.:s pjn. (6ft. 61n.). TOMORROW: Singapore 12.21 in. >Bft 9ln.i 11.29 p.m. Oft. Bin.) Port Dickson 7.32 a.m. Oft. lin.t 7.44 p.m. (Bft. sin.): Penane 122 am. ("ft.
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  • 40 8 JESSELTON, Sun. steps are under way in Jesselton to improve the town's water supply. Equipment for a new pumping main from Penampang to Jesselton has arrived, and work is to start soon on laying the pipe line.
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  • 310 8 To liberty— in a box Hungarian tells how he got hit wtte out ot Budapest FUGITIVES FROM THE REDS START THEIR ENGLISH LESSONS IN SINGAPORE REFUGEES GO TO NEW LIFE RITTER FERRINC told in Singapore yesterday how he smuggled his wife Robertine out of Budapest in his double-bass case as
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  • 158 8 r But Stephan was worried 1 about his mother, a Journalist who had refused to work for the Communist Press, and his brother. He returned to Budapest and planned the family s flight. He found an old horse-cart, put his brother on the driver's seat
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  • 23 8 The Willem Ruys arrived in Singapore yesterday with the first batch of Christmas mail from Europe and Britain in 5,000 bags.
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  • 155 8 Service for physically handicapped SINGAPORE'S physically. £3 handicapped people want the Artificial Limb Centre of! the General Hospital to be; kept open. An announcement was made recently that the centre might be closed. It was urged that the service be made permanent because there was
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 303 8 Straits Times Crossword > -,H ~Z —1— Z Z 1. —I— Z Z X B 2O Z 1 Z "23" 11 2 H 25 ~28 """^"29" ACROSS 10. CharacterUtlc of broody hen? 1. Where hanging, drawing, and (12). quartering are still done (.5. 14. A common plant (5). 7). 15.
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  • 32 9 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. A. Abdul Pahim. JJ., r "en nominated to be a of the Johore Bahru incil in place of Mr. inlah Pillai, who for India on a vaca-
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  • 365 10 By Our Market Correspondent THERE was an improved sentiment on the Singapore Share Market last week and overall a good volume of business was written. Considering the easier tendency in overseas markets as the result of the interminable Suez crisis, this might on the surface
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  • 332 10 rpHE price of rubber in Singapore last week was taken to its highest level since January under covering pressure for thousands of tons of rubI ber ordered by Russia for December shipment via the United Kingdom. Although during business December first grade buyers went as high as
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  • 430 10 rpHE following business done X in the Singapore Share Market last week was reported by one firm of brokers for the period November 24 to November 3#:— INDUSTRIALS: Alex. Brick Onto. $1.75. British Borneo Petroleum 48s. 3d.. Praaer A Neave Onto. $2 15 to $2.20, Praser A Neave
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  • 670 10 rr»HE following revised list of X share quotations was issued by the Malayan Share Brokers Association after their last meeting on Friday:— M. Alex Brlcx* Mto 1.80 1.70 Or<U 1.7J in Atlas Ice 13.00 (buyers) B. B. Petrol 48/- 30/B. M. Tnuteei «.io 6.50 Con. Tin Smelt
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  • 333 10 /COMPANIES operating \j in Malaya announced the following dividends last week: RIVERVIEW RUBBER ESTATES LTD.: an interim dividend of 15 per cent, less 30 per cent income tax for the year ending March 31, 1957 payable on December 19 to those registered on December 8. Books will be
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    • 734 10 NOTICES ANNOUNCEMENT ALL holders of the Hindu Devalaya Sabah Tamil School (Talplng) Building TunA Lottery Tickets are hereby Informed that the drawing date from 16th December, 1956 has been extended to 17th February, 1957. M. R. KASINISUNTHAN. Hon. Secretary. Hindu Devalaya Sabah, Talplng. NOTICE MR. D. c. MILLS has not
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    • 529 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS CENTRAL ELECTRICITY BOARD or the FEDERATION OF MALAYA Applications are invited for the post of Assistant Secretary. 2. Necessary qualifications are previous experience of secretarial and administrative duties in a large commercial organisation or public undertaking. Preference will be given to Federal Citizens who possess a Degree in
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    • 598 10 NOTICES PENANG HILL RAILWAY NOTICE NOTICE Is hereby given that the Penang Hill Railway will be dosed from 7 p.m. on Friday. 7th December, 195« to 6.45 »jn. on Saturday, Bth December ISM. for the purpose of repairs to the winding machinery. The last trams before closing time will be:
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    • 753 10 NOTICES NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that the ownership of the Oriental School, Kuala Trengganu has been handed over to Mr. K. V. George by Mrs. Robaon Miranda as from Ist January 1957. Any claims and all creditors oi the above mentioned school are hereby notified and required to take
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    • 423 10 KNUTSEN LINE orient service PROM CANAPA/U.S PACIFIC PORTS— 3O DATS Sailing San Vancouvei Frjnchco Spore P. Swet. Penan; PM Elisabeth Bikke "5 Cj«rtrod Bakke 14/16 Dec 17 Dec 19 Dec lib Elian Bakke S Dec 9/10 |an 11 |an NfsaUl Kristin Bakke 15 Oec 29 Dec 28/30 |an 31 |an
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    • 1347 11 t^»4Os MANSFIELD tfc CO,, LTD. Ti ti4l i )—> (Ircorpoiotro in Singapore) /i% y__i THE BLUE FUNNEL UNE iAa»W"^P^r-LiS^ ,nt,TIQN OF VESSELS WHICH HAVE LEFT MALAYA HOMEWARD* VIA CAPI LTCAON (Dakar 6.l l— Liverpool 11.12) k CAPI LAOMIDON (Dakar 10 1" -London 17.12) v A CAfI PELEUS (La, Palmai 12.11—
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    • 919 11 A^H EAST ASIATIC UNES OUTWA «W SAILINGS FOR BANGKOK AND/OR FAR EAST Panong p. Sham S'pora "■UMDODIA" 4/ 4Dm 7/ I Dm tDm "SELANDIA- 12/11 Dm 14/11 Dm 14/17 Dm "I""" 29 JW IJa. WOMiWAMI AIUH «HOA, ANTWERP. ROTTERDAM, HAMBUR6, COPENHAOEN, OOTHENBURO), o*s S'pora P. Sham Panang lILANDIA- l/»Jaa 10/10
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    • 983 11 gu »5SSi THE BEN UNS STEAMERS LTD^i^" SINGAPORE (Incorporated in the Unrtad Kingdom) I UNO) SAILINGS TO U.K. A CONTINENTAL PORTS 5 pot** Po S nofti PafncnQ •ENALDER for Lrvarpoo', Rotterdom, Hamburg Antwerp *W7/ 4 Dm BENVENUE for London, Rotterdam •eaJJ/#*»/ ovM •■■■> •INCLIUCH for London, Rottardom, Homburg 2» Dm/
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    • 1263 11 McAUSTER tft CO., LTD. TEL.: No.: ***** SUmUBMAM OTo BDCKMALL LONDON, HAVRE, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG < ond tor U.S.A., North Atlantic Ports ond Conoao via Colombo CITY OF MANCHESTER S'pora P. S'hom Pen ing 4/12 Dm IS/IS Dm 14/18 Dm CITY OF PERTH S'pora P. Sham Penong 4/12 Jo. 11/1S Joa
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    • 54 11 KLAVBMKSS UNI LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, tEATTLE, VANCOUVER 4 PORTLAMC Accepting cargo for Control 4 South AntarlM BOUGAINVILLE S'pora P. Sham Penono 1/ 4 Dm 1 Doc IUNNYVILLI S'pora P. S'hom Penang U/10 Dm 4 Jm 1 Jan 2nd Coll S Jaa f. Sham: Angls Frsnih Trading C. Ltd Panang:
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  • 423 12 TWO FORWARDS DROP HINTS TO ENGLAND SELECTORS UK SOCCER REVIEW Quixall stakes his claim with two good goals LONDON, Sunday. AT LEAST two players in yesterday's English football league programme dropped hints to the England selectors who meet tomorrow to name the team to play Denmark in
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  • 195 12 SHEFFIELD'S SHUFFLE A DISMAL FAILURE They each have 28 points. Sheffield United tried a daring experiment at Liverpool by putting fullbacks Graham Shaw and George Smith on the wings and sending centre half Howard Johnson ud cen-tre-forward. It failed dismally and Liverpool won s—l.5 1. Southampton, leaders of Division Three
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  • 112 12 30,000 SO WILD AS MAY IS OUT FIRST BALL JOHANNESBURG, Sun. 'THE M.c.C. touring team had scored 149 for three wickets in reply to Transvaal's first innings total of 212 by the end of the second day's play in their match here yesterday. South African Test player Peter Heine had
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  • 38 12 THREE SINGAPORE basketballers Wong Kirn Fob (8). Wee Tian Siak (13) and Jerome Henderson (extreme right) in a tussle with a towering French de- fender. R. Vevron, during an Olympic Games match. A.P. picture.
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  • 1063 12 Man. United 19 13 4 2 47 28 30 Tottenham 19 12 3 4 51 28 27 Leeds 20 9 6 5 36 29 24 Birmingham 19 9 5 5 37 27 23 Blackpool 19 9 5 5 46 34 23 Burnley 20 8 7 5 29 23
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  • 372 12 Poor form in first England trial LONDON Sun. ENGLAND selectors came away from the first of three International Rugby Union trials at Bristol yesterday with little indication of how to build a side to meet Wales on Jan. 19. Whites, containing most ot last season's England side, beat Colours by
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  • 60 12 BAC J. Steele won the Slazenser Trophy for golf, when he beat J/Tech. G. Talt by five and four at the Royal Air Force Seletar Golf Club yesterday. Talt won the "A" division monthly medal for stableford bogey with 34 points. He also won the ball sweep. The
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  • 34 12 LONDON, Bun. CamDrldge, who lost the athletics relays on Thursday, defeated Oxford 6-0 to win the inter-varslty squash rackets match for the sixth successive year at the Bath Club here yesterday.— Reuter.
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  • 84 12 LONDON, Sun. T> esults of rugby league games played yesterday were: Second Test: Great Britain 0 Australia 22. League matches: Barrow 5 Leeda 17; Blackpool IS Halifax 19: Doncaster 5 Cagtlefort 14: Hull 33 Dewsbury 12; Leigh 2i Whitehaven 10. Liverpool City 9 Batley 14;
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    • 332 12 CATHAY ORGANISATION ATTRACTIONS irATHAvi OW SHOWING! I S=3ope§|aint©aSdßw I w ;TMAr©ertawiPMaH© I COMING! PAUL NEWMAN in m-g.m-s j Timely! "THE RACK" Exciting! I with Wendell Corey Walter Pidgeon Edmund O'Brien I Anne Francis Lee Marvin. (odeHnl th day TODAY! I W VJ C\J IXI 11a.m. 1.43, 4.15, 6.45* 5.30 p.m.
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    • 532 12 SHAW BROTHERS OROAi\j-.*TU)\ ATTRACTION j LAST DAY CAPITM &n J ll ajn.. 1.<5, 4, 6.3* 9.30 p.m. "ftl I|U L K BRIGITTE BARDOT «the french ntn*., j ...sh*s SO NAUGHTY, but 00-So W C c j ''MAMZELLE PIG ALEE (stM w.th MISCHA AUER French Film with English Subtitles In fin.I
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    • 872 13 I sill MIONB VACANT il,-.;— Box it cU.ixtrm. ORE CITY COUNCIL: ed for Markeu Hawkera rtment: Superintendent to ile $78f>xA45-1.280/Quall- 325-1.370-1.420 plua > Allowance. Appointment ;n a 3 year agreement In instance, (a) Must h*v« >;nd education, and hay« :.'-:(ierable admlnlstratlv* Government, the or other public aur coMlderable experience executive
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    • 782 13 ACCOMMODATION VACANT to W.H, U (Mln.)~B n M eu.ntrm. FULLY FURNISHED •elf-con-u*s. M/S, Telephone CeUlnsfans. Frige avails. UnpTt«DOUBLEROOMB Now Available. HjO. Longbath, M/S.. S^ FURNISHED BUNGALOW for Phone all ameoitU \lvsJliEE quietest comfortable Sennettlsv Ute. share with WortongabS •STia^iW m chSS WHO WANTS modern furnhbed selfcontalned natlet own enhance 1
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    • 771 13 TUITION ta^^jnTO raiVATB TUITION 2 JS?* 11 r*" 1611 eonvarsatton Marine or early afternoon. Apply •gj^ alsttacttaa? 0 loT'sSßgto BOOKS ft PUBLICATIONS M W.rU U <mbu)-a*, 1$ H^ntrm. HAVE YOU OMXBUD your tent there la itUl Urn* to send one to your iit m sea Mends for OtvlataiMramd H.MpSr copy
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    • 792 13 VEHICLES FOR SALE M WtUt U (Mlm.)—Btm M rtt. artrn. BOROWARD Convertible In agw condition. $8,250 0.n.0. Ring XL 2TM for Appointment. BAN HOB 4k CO., 191 Middle Road, Singapore. "The Horn* of Motor Cycles, Spares AccesCITROEN LIGHT IS Model M/ 61 rebuilt 1956 new engine nuPtnUon ate. Resprayed black,
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    • 479 13 MISCELLANEOUS M WmU U (Mln.)-a.M M eU.^trm. AMERICAN DRES8E8!!!! (WMhmble, $12 each, in all Also locally-maoe dr«ues at $20. SS®si*,.*-* Orcbart SERVANTS AGENCY (EBTD 1911) for domestic servant* trained In European and Asian horn*. 17, Dhoby Ohaut, near Cathay. Tel. M 897. DANCING TONIGHT? Lifebuoy Toilet Soap la the secret
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    • 535 13 TENDERS P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE Tenders from Claw D and above registered Contractors will be received by the State Engineer, Fersk, Ipoh, up to 3.00 pjn. of 21st December. 1956 for Construct. Ing 4 unite of quarters (one block of double storey) for firemen Including site and ancillary works. Ail] particulars
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    • 478 13 TENDERS P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE "Tenders from Class D Mid above registered Contractors will be received by the State Engineer, Perak, Ipoh up to 3 p.m. of sth December. 1958 for the Conversion of P.W.D. No: 12, tad construction of one Class P Qrs., One Class H Qrs. MT. Oarages. Chain
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  • 509 14 Duke of Edinburgh has a Joke with Singapore team during his lunch visit DEFENCE WILL BE BELOW STRENGTH vs NEW ZEALAND FrM NORMAN SIEBEL MELBOURNE, Srt. I 1 HE DUKE of Edinburgh had a joke witf Singapore when he visited Olympic Village and lunched
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  • 161 14 Our cagers weakest at Games referee "PHE Singapore basket- ball team were the weakest in the Olympic tournament at Melbourne although they finished 13th out of 15 in the final placings. This was the opinion of Mr. U. Simari. the Israeli basketball referee who officiated at Singapore's openIng game when
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  • 121 14 The Olympic programme for today MELBOURNE. Sun. OLYMPIC schedule for tomorrow (Malayan time) to: 5.30 ajn. Snooting (running deer); 6.00 Fencing (team sabre): 8.30 Shooting (small bore rifle): 8.30 Gymnastics (women); 8.30 Wrestling (Greco-Roman) 9JO Yachting (large classes). 10.00 Yachting (Intermediate classes); ie.3o Yachting (Olympic dinghy class): 11.30 Cycling (1,000--metre
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  • 134 14 P"E THIAN HAN, a comparatively J < new member of the Singapore Gun Club, Joined a select band of Colony marksmen when he shot 25 straight single rise at the club's monthly shoot at Buklt Ttmah yesterday. Twenty members contested for a shield, presented by Mr.
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  • 65 14 Singapore Teacher's Union scored their tenth successive victory of the season when they beat RKMB 2-1 in a SHA Dlv. 2 hockey match at Ayer Rajah yesterday. Oon San and Fong Weng scored for STD, and Wey Ah Kuan for RKMESTU. who are unbeaten leaders of
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  • 179 14  -  EPSOM JEEP By Greatest ever money spinner WITH his win in the $35,000 Singapore Gold Cup on Saturday, THREE RINGS has become the > greatest ever money spin- ncr in Malaya. Three Ring's Cup I triumph teas worth $24,500 >
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  • 166 14 Australia, India bid for Empire Games MELBOURNE I AUSTRALIA and' 1 *T would b hold the 1962 Br. Empire and Common*. Games. Mr. K. s. Dun retary of the Br:\ Empire Comn Games Federation. a day the venue woul decided at the nrxt n ing of the Fed Cardiff In
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  • 74 14 THE first price 877,579 in the x anHmlted big sweep drawn at Bnkit Tlmah on Satnrday was. th« lowest an record. This was because ef the additional ten per cent tax recently imposed by the Government. The Gorernnienfs' "share" (89 percent of the pool) was $103,The' Geld
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  • 50 14 Royal Air Force Ch&ngl won the Sembawang Shield for yachting when they beat R.A.F. Tengah by 20V points to 19 at Changi yesterday. At Seletar on Saturday Royal Air Force Tengah eliminated RAJ". Seletar by 20*4 to 19 points It was Seletar's first defeat of the season.
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  • 510 14 weights for SECOND DAY 1 WEIGHTS for all eight races on the second day I (Wednesday) of the Singapore Turf Club's St. Leger I Meetin c are: Cl 1, Dlv. 1 —6V. DUtlne 947 Shamrock i Supper 8.19 Rubber Planter 8.08 The Ringer 8.07 Aquarua 8.06 Amoaement Park 8.05 Avantl
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  • 108 14 \M RS. MARION Zampatti, the for.ner Queensland champion, cleared her first hurdle In the 19th Singapore table tennis championships at the Chinese V.M.C.A last night. She beat teammate Tham Ylng Lin, of the All Stars, 21-10. 21-5. 21-14 In a first round match. Two other women's
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  • 49 14 Singapore Cricket Club beat Postal Athletic Union, of Kuala Lumpur, by 4-0 In their women's hockey match on the padang yesterday. Mrs. D. Mills (2), Pat. Sewell and Mrs. Wlntenton scored for S.O.C. The Kuala Lumpur team beat Girls' Sports Club 4-1 at badminton.
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  • 149 14 MELBOUBNE, Sun. T ABZLO PAPP, of Hungary, by defeating Jose Torres (U.S.) In the llghtmlddlewelght final, yesterday made Olympic boxing history by becoming the first boxer ever to win three gold medals. He won the middleweight title In IMC and the llghtmlddlewelght title In
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  • 125 14 TIGHT FOR TITLE' CHALLENGE CHICAGO. Son. rOYD Patterson, the 21--year-old New York negro who on Friday night became the youngest ever heavyweight champion of the world, today called upon Rocky Marciano to return to the ring for a title fight "for probably the biggest gate
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  • 232 14 Indian Davis Cup men leave for Perth today yHE Indian tennis players, Ramanaihan Krishnan x and Naresh Kumar, will leave Singapore this morning for Perth where they are due to play America in the Inter-zone final of the Davis Cup competition on Dec. 14, 15 and 16. Winners of this
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    • 902 14 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Contlnattd from Pare SITUATIONS VACANT 20 WordM Si (Kin.)— Box it eta. extra. CHAKTERBO or Incorporated Accountant remnred by Singapore Commercial Firm. Apply Box A6HO S.T. WANTED CHINiESE OIRL. Healthy, reliable, energetic, appearance. Domestically trained. No Experience, Will Be Trained, Willing, able speak little Malay or English Ability
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    • 134 14 I t-OTr& the new i ENGLISH ELECTRIC 1 Automatic Cookers U ALSO with the Heart-High Oven avaiuw nPHB U the cooker that's realty »»nm ln<i I it Fully »utomicic o»««— new. First in Britain with the on u>4 off v f—""" S»«o»l'bo<»ctr'eoM'° l( oven at the right height. First to
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