Sunday Standard, 8 August 1954

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    Masthead
    15 1 SUNDAY STANDARD oi. V. No. 37. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1954 TWENTY PAGES 15 CENTS.
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    Morocco Tribes Get Set For War
    153 1 Morocco Tribes Get Set For War VBAT, An sr. 7 (Rev- Thousands of Bertoei tribesmen waiting m three Kn the sun-baked Morocco for a a would bring )ping down on ties below. Mired and fifty who made I hammed Ben iltan, a year nth, are deterhim '.n power ast week
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    Plane Runs Into Birds
    47 1 s t. (Beater) strato-crulser :\x> carried th and S.r Churchili was night taking L a airport for •an n tt ran into bird! f! 'red damage edgr* o: and an ofl landed xgx:n r .s fuel engers spent L radon before plane Katei
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    BANDIT KILLED
    17 1 a communist terrorist W«a killed by the Gurkha.s in the Labis district of Johore yesterday.
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    HOPE FOR RUBBER
    566 1  -  Hugh Savage Mr. FJX Ascoli, Dunlop Chief, Reassures Malaya by who has just returned after a tour of Britain as guest of the Colonial Office. Among the places he visited was the headquarters of the Dunlop Rubber Company m London where he interviewed Mr. J D Ascoli,
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    McCarthy Is At It Again...
    119 1 WASHINGTON. Aug. 7, (Reuten— Senator McCarthy yesterday alleged Britain i was sending the Soviets "about lour times what they need for their domestic use m rubber." Testimony from a recent closed session of the Senate Appropriations Committee released here contained a charge by Senator McCarthy
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    Flying Tanker In Accident
    55 1 WASHINGTON. Aug. 7 •UP) The Boeing 707. America's fir. t jet transport plane, ran off the Boeing field runway here last night on landing alter a test flisrht. The plane landed m a sandy area alongside the r. way and Boeing officials said the damage was
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    Pole Given Asylum
    63 1 LONDON. Aug. 7: (Reuter) —The British Home O^ice announced last night that Antoni Klimowirz. the Polish stowaway taken off a Polish freighter m the Thames fve days ago had been granted political asylum The Home Offic* statement said the Home Secretary Sir David Maxwell Fyfe had decided
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    Lorry Destroyed
    15 1 FOUR armed Communist terrorists burned a lorry on Rengam Estate m Johore yesterday.
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    'Now I Shall Meet Mummy'
    163 1 'Now I Shall Meet Mummy' Standard Staff Reporter A STURDY six-year-old (•erman boy arrived m Singapore yesterday by a Qantas Empire Airways plane bound for Sydney. He is doing the trip alone to be reunited with his parents. The youngster, Siegfried Reimann. was left behind m Berlin with relatives when
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    Dulles Wants Strong Pact
    287 1 'We'll Draw A Defence Line 9 WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, (Reuter) Mr. John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State, has proposed that Burma and the non-Communist areas of IndoChina should be included m the area to be protected by a South-east Asian defence organisation (SEATO) against
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    Asian View On Pact Is Sought
    131 1 Asian View On Pact Is Sought LONDON. Aug. 7. (Reuter) —The attitude of South-east Asian countries to the proposed Western sponsored defence organisation m the: area, will be the chief topic of discussion during the tour there this month of Mr. Douglas Dodds Parker, the Britfsh Foreign Under-Secre-tary, diplomatic observers
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    GANG BEAT UP 2 MEN
    59 1 A GANG of seven men last night beat up two labourers as they were walking near the Tal Wah Chinese School, off Alexandra Road. At Albert Street, two Indians were stabbed at about 10.55 last night. Singapore Police rescued a 17-year-old boy. Low Chin from
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    TO VISIT U.S.
    24 1 LONDON". Aug. 7, (Reuter) —The Duchess of Kent and her daughter. Princes* Alexandra, will fly to New York on Sept. 14.
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    Malayan's Book To Be Filmed
    98 1 Malayan's Book To Be Filmed A MANY SPLEND- OURED THING" is to be made into a fitm by a HoUywood company. The autobiographical romance, set m Hongkong during World War 11, and published tivo years ago, has been purchased by Twentieth Century-Fox who last night announced that John Patrick has
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    JAP SHIP A TOTAL LOSS
    63 1 KARACHI. Aug. 7 (Reuter) The Japanese freighter Asahisan Maru was reported a total loss after catching fire m the harbour here just after midnight. Firemen fought the blaze for 16 hours before bringing it under control. The cargo of cotton. Singapore rubber and rice was
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    ATTLEE TO MEET REDS
    43 1 LONDON. Aug. 7 <UP) Former Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee will stop over for two days m Moscow next week on his way to Communist China, and he almost certainly will meet top Soviet leaders, it was announced today.
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    Emilie Dionne Dies In Catholic Hostel
    161 1 Emilie Dionne Dies In Ca tholic Hostel ST. AGATHE, Quebec. Aug., 7. <AP;— Emilie Dionne. one of the famous quintuplets, died yesterday at a Roman Catholic hostel near this resort centre m the Laurentian hills. She was described as a victim of epilepsy since she was three. The girl who
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    ENGLISH STAGE COMEDIAN DIES
    29 1 LONDON". Aug. 7: (Reuter). Arthur Riscoe, former Tasmanian farm hand who became an English comedy stage idol died at his London home yesterday, aged 57.
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    MENZIES: BULLETS THREAT
    92 1 PERTH. WTesf Austral: i. [Aug. 7. (Reuter)— The P.-nti newspaper, w.-st Australian. .as' night received an anonymous ielephon< call threatening to assassinai Mr. Robert ftlenzies, Hie Australian Prime Minister The caller said he was a Canadian and that "with two dt three Canadian friends I m on
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    HE WEDS AT 70
    75 1 A 70-YEAR-OLD food sup- plier. Mr. Choc Hock Bwee, >f Yio Chu Kang Road yesterday married a 35-year-oid woman. Miss Cht-ong Peck Neo, at ihe Registry. The couple was married by Chinese custom m Juiy. lit* waved the cameramen aside and Mrs Choo said: "We don't
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    Tungku Hussain In Hospital
    59 1 TUNGKU Hiusßfn bin Tungku Haji All. 49. a direct descendant of the late Sultan Hussain. of Singapore, is an inmate of the General Hospital. Singapore, surlering from a stomach ailment. He wa.s flown from Trengganu. where he lives with his son. Tungku Ismail His Singapore residence
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    MR. GRAY LEAVES
    64 2 MR. DAVID Gray, the Chief Secretary of the Federation Government who sailed for Britain nn vacation m the Oranje last night. Mr. D. K. Daniels deputy Chief Secretary will act m his absence until the High Commissioner Sir Donald MacGilJivray returns next week. Mr. Gray is expected
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    Police Had His Watch
    65 2 A Singapore Chinese who lost his watch while sleeping m his hou.se m Paya Lebar. reported the incident to the police the following day. Police then produced a watch and asked him to identify it To his: surprise the man found that it was his watch.
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    BANDITS RESPONSIBLE FOR CORRUPTION
    454 2 BANDITS RESPONSIBLE FOR CORRUPTION Johore State Hit Hardest JOHORE BAHRU, Sot.— The Malayan Communist Party is moinly responsible for the widespread corruption which has existed m Johore State since the Emergency began six years ago, The Standard learnt from reliable sources today. Thousands of people, including important public service men
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    First B'day
    29 2 First B 'day photo. MRS. YAP TONG Shing helps her daughter, one-year-old Patricia to cut her birthday take at their home m Hale Road, Kuala Lumpur, last week. Standard
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    RUBBER DOWN ½ CENT
    202 2 RUBBER DOWN CENT THE rubber market m Singapore was quiet generally yesterday, but some j covering purchases for Yugoslavia and Finland destinations supported the market which closed dull j at 67i cents per lb.. half a cent below Friday's levels. Moderate turnover of business was reported for a Satu'day morning,
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    MISSION GETS A DONATION
    58 2 SWA MI Vitasokananda, President of the Ramakrishna Mission. Singapore, has acknowledged with thanks the receipt of a donation of S4OO from the Lee Foundation, China Building. Singapore, through the good office of, Mr. Lee Kong Chian. THE Liberty Dance Orchestra which olaved recently f <h* u«u
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    Taximan Robbed In Dark Road
    89 2 A SINGAP taxi 6was assaulted and rubbed of $64 by three passengers m Riile Range Road. 7th Mile Bukit Timah Road on Friday night. The three men who boarded the taxi m the City ordered the driver to proceed to Bukit Timah Road and later
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    THEY PRAY FOR GOOD HUSBANDS
    55 2 "May we be blessed with good husbands pray the spinsters of the city. The priesi also prays for them. In the background arc costumes representing the seven virgins (Bottom photo). The girls sit around a table to chat about the type of husbands the\ would
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    Chinatown Hails The 7 Virgins
    139 2 SINGAPORE'S Chinatown went wild on Wednesday night as carefree boys and girls thronged the narrow streets celebrating the romantic festival of the "Seven Virgins and the Cowherd." The story is that the youngest of seven virgins broke the law of the gods by falling m
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    Anglers' postbag
    360 2 Q I vliall be obliged if you will describe fully the fish that are ought at the West Coast, and where they are caught. When is the best time to fish for them and what is the best bait to use? What do you suggest as tackle. QIEK
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    LAVE Tokyo City Elders Frown On Kissing In Public
    100 3 LAVE Tokyo City Elders Frown On Kissing In Public And Claude Shows How! MEET 37-year-old Frenchman Claude Marsan who claims to be the world's expert on love." He's just arrived m Britain from New York to teach the English the technique of love making. Claude is going on a countrywide
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    MISS CHENG MAKES SUCCESSFUL DEBUT
    203 3 MISS Cheng Shao-ling made' her debut at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Friday night, when she sang a selection o! Italian aria.s and Chinese songs to an appreciative audience. Fresh from a tour of Italy. 1 Miss Cheng rendered selections from "La Boheme" "Madam Butterfly"
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    Delegates To Be Met
    86 3 I THE President of the Singapore Youth Council, Mr. Eric Wee, lias appealed to heads of all youth organizations and their representatives m the I Colony to be at Kallang Airport half an hour before the arrival of two chartered planes carrying delegates to the coming
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    A Food Thief
    39 3 A .MALAY syce who saw a man steal two tins of provision from a parked car gave chase and finally overpowered him m Malacca Street yesteri day. The man was handed over to the Police i
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    NEW (And Old) NIPPON
    705 3  - NEW (And Old) NIPPON Michael Con nors By TOKYO. IHE uninhibited indulgence m love ploy by the younger generation m city porks is being frowned upon by the more discreet lovers of the old school. With the greater freedom now enjoyed by the young people, amorous couples ere flocking to
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    UMNO-MCA MOVE AGAINST MENTRI
    897 4  -  Aster Gunasekara By (")NE expected with the solution of the Alliance boycott that the curtain had fallen on the political farce of the year. This is not so. Today part two will be presented m Ipoh and Taiping. Still smarting from the sting of the refusal
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    Fined $50 For Outrage
    103 4 A LABOURER, Yeo Neo Chian. was yesterday fined $50 m the Singapore Fifth Police Court when h e ad-, milted having used criminal force on a woman with intent to outrage her modesty on the night of Aug. 6. The court was told that while Goh
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    DEATH
    54 4 AT the General Hospital on 7th. August. 1954, Lee Ah Poon, second son of Towkay Lee Woo of Kuantan. The funeral cortege will leave the Singapore Casket Company's premises m Lavender Street at 4 pm joday. Aug. Bth. for the Church of the Sacrc'J Heart and thence to Bidadari
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    A Tribute To Harry Counter
    106 4 A Tribute To Harry Counter Sir; Mr. Harm Counter, whose tragic death has come as such a shock to us all, was a man who. busy as he teas, always found time to help the poor and the institutions caring for them During the past lew months I had the
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    Qualam Is Answered
    60 4 ALTHOUGH bearded Qualam bin Hira did not look a day younger than his age which, according to his identity card, is 51. He insisted m the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday that he was only 24 years. Hira was charged with being found wandering without any visible
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    New Club Officers
    81 4 THE following were elected office-bearers ol the BODCA at its annual general meeting 1 held on Aug. 4 at the club I premises m St George's Road b:ngapore: President —Mr S T V Lmgam. Vice-president Mr' |v. C. Ooman, Hon. Gen Se-cretary-Air. S. Gopal. Hon. j assL
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    After The Service
    54 4 photo. THE late Mr. Harry T. Counter. Standard Advertising Manager, was buried at Bidadari Cemetery m Singapore yesterday. He was killed when the car he was driving crashed intj a lamp post m Bukit Timah Road on Friday. Rev. Chlu Ban It officiated. Picture shows the cortege
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    Mr. Ong Defends Queen's Chinese
    277 4 WITH the emergence of inter-communal political bodies m Singapore, the Straits Chinese British Association has toned down its activities so as to avoid any suggestion of communalism m politics, said Mr. T.\V. Ong, president of the 5.C.8.A., yesterday. "We Cully rea'ise Ihat we must move
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    Stress On 'Youth In Action'
    329 4 Stress On 'Youth In Action' I THE importance of the British Council Youth Exi hibition now being held m I its Hall m Stamford Road. Singapore, is being brought home to the Colony's younger generation by schools, social I organisations. clubs and I churches, said the acting Representative of the
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      345 4 t!?N?APO RfV 5? n i a ant nR 7 4 in 5 am gJI II MAK\J X CJ TOMORROW: "'sinsa on, 39 a m YM< A: Cricket match 2pm JRk JT^t^W^R CHINKSE YAICA: Art club 9am iHi^L XMS Sz^XmtI Buy Scouts' Parade 9am Hak- liilnißPMnra^r^; ka service am. Cantonese ■Mm-MMmJMMmM-J%:JS"
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    HOW TO SEND YOUR WIFE TO SLEEP
    1155 5 HOW TO SEND YOUR WIFE TO SLEEP By arrangement with The SUNDAY PICTORIAL POOR wife! Here she is on holiday m a deckchair on the beach-but she z***K«mt off to sleep. GU3 turned off at home? Areun'n.^ sLn right playing under the pier? Does the guest house charge extra for
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    Poaching On The Increase At The Gardens
    338 5  - Poaching On The Increase At The Gardens Michael Goh I i mi i pleasant uftermoam „-'f>! the rm eteaa. I I»h 1 a wonui'a tkower. I- *acta cad to f!; >■ ,gf ei:erhanainsr ret>s> Mack catpp/ies writfc t*e»r v 5 tinted cora! re* g ded throng* the pond. Eight bows
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    I ACCUSE...
    1035 6 HOW would you !ik<? if someone threw a jug of wGter over your new evening dress when you ornved at a party? Well, if you were wearing ths dress you don't hove to worry. For the dress is made of plcstic and is waterproof and nonstamable Just the
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    The Night Albert Fell In Love
    710 6  - The Night Albert Fell In Love PETER BAKER A plump vision m a nightie changed his life.. By ILBERX BATONNIER always fancied himself with the ladies lie never hud any trouble finding girl friends What with his dark, curly hair, black eyes and broad sbooMers, it was easy. He was
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    The Ocuopus is not so torrible
    332 6  - The Ocuopus is not so torrible JOHN STARK By I>ECENTLY James Antone, of Sonta Rosa, California, ripped an eight foot-long octopus from the sec bed and waded ashore with it thereby all but demolishing one of the favourite horror legends of modem fiction. The octopus Wad grappled with Antone m
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    OLD AND ALONE IN BRITAIN
    212 6 rpHEY just sit and look out A or the window That's the only fun m life for many of the old ladies who live alone, says an official report published recently And the old men? They just sit and smoke. This is the grim picture
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    Little Done For The Women In Long Bay's 'Pen'
    1424 7  - Little Done For The Women In Long Bay's 'Pen' WALLY CROUCH i By jn Long Bay Women's Reformatory. Australia, there are un v t-rage of 100 women I oft from the world I periods ranijmw; m a few days to Hit i;i.:; range m. vujii ar.ii Qwfl I murder. l
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    Sheila's Man Is Free
    491 7  - Sheila's Man Is Free ANTHONY RUSSELL By -HEILA WALKER has won her fight for her handsome Russian Army officer. She is coming home again to Britain. After four years, she can bring home to Wimbledon her man. H< r storj w 5 K>3 < iVt >l > .ail who 1
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    Back To The Army Like This
    164 7 Back To The Army Like This 1 HEAD popped round the guardroom duor and a cheery voice said: "Morning, Surge, I'm reporting for Reservist training." The duty sergeant at Warburg Barracks. Aldershot, the home of Army '"Redcaps." looked up and nearly had a fit. For the caller, twenty-year-old Michael Flynn.
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    ALL EYES ON 'RED ISLAND
    814 8  -  An Important Role Awaits Madagascar r J HE little-known island of Madagascar is now but a short flight from both southern Europe and North America. It is still, however, a land of contrasts, the "Red Island," as the natives call it, because of vast areas
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    'VANILLA ISLAND'
    174 8 pOR ail these n asons, Madagascar commands the attention of the military circles. The political situation is fairly .-table. The riots of 1947 have not been repeated and the population seems disposed to peace and order. Trave 1 li n g througout the island. 1 was c v
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    20th Century Piped Piper
    576 8  -  Dorothy Lun Wu Rats and mice have always been among the most obnoxious pests of mankind, the more so because they spread such diseases- as typhus and bubonic plague. Numerous methods to exterminate them have been tried, from the breeding of cats to the use of
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    Only The Half-Dead Complain
    225 8  - Only The Half -Dead Complain FTi S on s dead '■■■■->, a n c dead ipp li T rr, t- c !O E DO! f AnncbeMe V-ir 4 c Indicnc dc the cat c* 62 to hove c nev. cnc lecnt to tic braided rugc ter r iatei she hoc
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    SILENT PETER IS SO VERY CHOOSEY
    971 9  - SILENT PETER IS SO VERY CHOOSEY HARRY PROCTOR reports I from Brussels THE MAN GROUP CAPTAIN Peter Woo'dndge Townsend is 39. He was born n Rangoon, but educated at Haileybury College, in Hertfordshire. HIS JOBS HE worked in Buckinghem Palace tor nine years and at the tune of his transfer
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    HEART-THROB, Inc.
    864 9  -  KETTH WATERHOUSE WINIFRED ATWEIL The women behind the man who gets the girts THEIR BUSINESS IS SWOON BUSINESS hfo |UK CROWDS theer themselves silly. The teenagers swoon. The autograph hunters skarpM their ilkmm I >nd shWf« their wa> to the *tag« door. And Mi>ter Heart-throb comes out i>.
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    The Wives All Fall For A Clumsy Clot...
    414 9  - The Wives All Fall For A Clumsy Clot. RALPH CHAMPION NSW YORK, Saturday. W7OATBW force their hits- hands to help m the house, to wash v/), to mind the kids but they hate it the men become too expert. the men bangle things now\ and tiiia'm. drop a plate or
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  • SUNDAY STANDARD
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      Youth In Action
      647 10 r^NCE again the peop'.e of Malaya owe so much to so Tew; but the gallant few the members of the Singapore Youth Council can take heart that the etage Is set for action. For Youth m Action is the theme of all the delegates and observers from
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      Shut Up, Mr. Rhee
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    1708 10  -  ANDREW ROTH By LOnUUR. JUST before he relinquished the post of Minister of Transport for the higher calling of the Colonial Secretaryship Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd was attending an exhibition of old English carriages In Bedfordshire, which he has represented m Parliament for 21 years.
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    752 11  - VICKERS HOUSE COLONY'S IDEAL NURSES' HOSTEL Ch ristineDiemer By 'J.HE shortage of nurses m Singapore is not nearly so acute as it was two years ago, Mrs. E. R. Warr, Chief Matron, told The Standard yesterday. "We are comfortably staffed at present with trained nurses, she said, "but. with new
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    662 11  - FORSAKES MEDICINE FOR MAGIC Anton Fernando By V FULLY-QUALIFIED medical man who has forsaken the world of flesh and blood for the ••illusory world of occultism". is now touring Singapore giving performances, on his round-the-world tour with a troupe of talented Indian dancers. Dr. P. K. Chatterjee Cardo, a famous
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    1378 12 At The Cabaret Albert Street THE other night I fell into odd company. I was invited to a dinner a Chinese dinner. I had never been to one, but had heard so many wonderful stories about the food and the enthusiastic hospitality of the Chinese that I
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    379 12  - PLATINUM TO BE USED TO WEIGH THE KHAN FRED ZUSY TWf fabulous Aga Khan will X step on the scales m East Africa next month to be weighed three times m platinum. .He will begin this task on Sept. 15 m Dar Es Salaam, capital of the British run UN.
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    'Robe' Sequel—Powerful
    346 13 'Robe' Sequel— Powerful VfOyiE trailers are usually imlin.d to be heller than Ihc films they b«OSt And. like the publicists who make then, the catehltnes they speak ATf sometimes {rOSSIy exaggerated. The same, however, cannot be said of Demetrius And .The Gladiators" 2§th Cen-•tary-Fox's < inemaScope spectnele.. Fi»r it is
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    252 13 AT THE MOVIES WITH OSWALD HENRY With sets elabo tely s".-e m ■■The Kobe." recal th< >plenancient Rime, the film fills Teen cv greatness, telling Ihc iow far the Roma ent m the firsi cenlith the C Di s. a c of vietii c Ron c. and is forced to
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    60 13 itrpHE SHrcr C h a i ie c J. troupe hare been working on location at Paiin Springs, California, under a broiling sun with temperav res soaring to as high as its degrees. Heading the ■ho!" east m the CineinaScope picture, which Victor Seville is producing, for Warners,
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    273 13 Snippets From Hollywood II.AN LADDS dachshund Berel pined so much for his master thai the puppy was shipped to Arizona where the star v on location for Warner Bros. ■Drum Brat" Jay G. Plippen, who went to Germany to film "Carnival Story," now heads 'or Arizona and a role "Oklahoma
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    TOO MUCH HOTCH-POTCH HERE
    416 13 If Indian movir-makers want .1 better-type of foreign audiriue t«» appreciate tin ir pictures, it is high time thej stopped making epics ;md used the catting room more drastically. This failing to embi lish < production w itfa '< ast dozen .songs. I lal numb* r
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    136 13 '-TEMPESTUOUS and wild, the body writhes into its pulse-quickening contortions ;,< the dancer spins m ecslacy of pagan feeling. L«»ng graceful limbs writhe with the intensity of the dance. The onlookers hold their b at 1 Faster and faster -he ins every movement of h( i>
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    FOX GETS THE PICK
    376 13 r |"HE American movie in- dustry is taking more than a passing interest m Italian films. Not only are they screening them m the U.B. cinemas and raving about their techniques m the Press, but many of the major Hollywood companies are now vicing with each
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    A WESTERN WITH A DIFFERENCE!
    438 13 f' ET read.v to enjoy a very different kind of Western when you go to see Paramount's "Red Garters." Far from being' strictly horse-opera, this turns out to be a gay. colourful musical, full of girls, sags and garters, with everything: else from landscapes to
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    372 14 'DEAR SUSAN DIX...' I AM 24 years old and a teach»-r. Receatty. «»n«- m> pupils, a IT year t»UI cW, his asked me ti> Like her to iht- pii-mres dtn-inu the weekend*. We meet at plates .irr insjed by her. a> her father v very old -'ashioned and Aval not
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    536 14  -  Marjorie Proops I >OOK little Era Gator. There she sit^ m Bollywotxl wrapped m mink and glamour. labelled ••bombshell." "dynamite." "radio-active." ***** "blonde fission" while all she wants m litV Is t<» be taken seriously. T> i prove v she ts
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    BALMAIN HAS GOT YOU TABBED!
    509 14  -  AILSA GARLAND DIERRE BALMAIN puts J tabs on you and ties up the prettiest parcel of fashions I've seen for a lons time. His collection contains no fireworks but he steadily mounts to the top of the list of favourite designers with elegant women. The
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    289 14  -  Peggy Briggs LONDON- by FOCUS M IT isn't all fun and fame being a Royal dressmaker. 11 has its headaches, too. One of them was revealed when Norman Hartnell showed his Autumn Collection last week. I! your Royal customers happen to order new clothes round about
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    YOUNG FOLKS
    237 14  -  Ernest S. Kelly 5l lAreYouAßnck? /^KAY, .so your pa! is a swell fella. I'm not arguing. But. can YOU tell mo where that term '•Brick" came from? No you can't? Ilone-t fellow you're a brick! Interested? Okay, here goes. Plutarch. the ancient writer, m his "Life Of Agesilaus"
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    Why Did Jack Jump?
    85 14 WHAT was it that made Jack jump? There he was. paddling by the shore, when suddenly out of the water popped— WHAT? Here is what you must do to win a prize: Draw m on the outline above what YOU think Jack saw, paint or crayon
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    124 14 TVTOST dogs are quite conlfX tent to stay on the ground but not Spud, the terrier pet of Robin Smythe. 12, of Isipingo Beach, Natal, m South Africa. Robin has taught Spud to climb around m trees and Spud now shares a treetop house with hi s master
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    103 14 CAN you name the type of dwelling missing from I each of these song titles? Gt-t them all right and 1 you're a real home-body. l. Don't Rob Another j Man's 2. m the Sky. 3. In My Adobe 4. on the Hill. 5. Serenade. 6. My Little
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    60 14 SEE who can be the first to blow out a candle by blowing through a funnel This ran be done only if the i funnel is held so low that the top edge of the large part of the funnel is m line with the candle flame.
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    34 14 OBEDIENCE A TFACHER giving a fesi (old the class to write the words needed m the blank spaces. On one paper every on c oi the ten questions had the word "needed" written m.
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    Badminton Match Led To Altar
    141 15 Badminton Match Led To Altar A CHARMING Noung Indian sirl met a hand.some young Scot durinK a badminton match at the Young Women's ChriNtian \.ss«K-ia-tion premi>f> here and they fell m love. Vi-Ntrrday. m the prt->en»-r of a large gather ins; of h«ln t iid relations. Miss i K. Gill,
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    Strike Threat By Sago Factory Men
    161 15 TWO hundred workers of the Hock Gin Gtian Sago Factor) m Geattag Lane, Singapore, yesterday served a 14-day strike notice on the management. n notict which f.\pirt'> Ob m 2\ follows the IM nt*a decisloß to shui down the Factory temporarily on Aug. 23,
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    I'm Like Dr. jekyll & Mr. Hyde, He Says
    93 15 I'm Like Dr. jekyll Mr. Hyde, He Says SOCKS Eng I D lerd te Yotn :)ii^-f tWO Di kj Lee was pleading foi leni- icing pon\ l ed foi stwai -h fi onn Ah K\ Gej ang Road on July 2t Be vi i > he was "oui oi bis
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    New Varsity Buildings
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    WELFARE CHARITY PLAN
    224 15 Aim To Reap The Most Out Of The Public Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Social Welfare Department has a plan to enable the various charitable organisations m the Colony to "reap the most out of the public/ The Department's plan is to start a service to coordinate the
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    Carpenter — A Mental Case?
    42 15 Carpenter A Mental Case? NGOR Or Tliua. a carpenter, was remanded to the Woodbridge Hospital m Singapore until Aug. 20. after he was charged m the Fifth Court yesterday with wilful trespass on the new reservoir site, near Kam pong Chantek Bharu.
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    Measures To Help Citizens Register
    115 15 THE Singapore C v mcrv will station Ju* ol the Peace if iU registei mg Commonv i c:i Lzens as cif vzx n ol the United Kingdom and Colonies. Tiie urangi pedite r< gistraf io A ranting to arrangt meat, JP- v v tjenttes at(
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    120 15 Advised To Earn Fare Home tjik Sfattpon Criminal District Judg< Mi F. A. Chua, yesterdaj a youth. Sidefc bin taram thai must set k '■■'< ni m order to p I n »n< v :i< ha- no fund: I turn to Paining S;d'-k was convicted i f housebreaking and thet\
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    Indian Navy Vessels Leave Port
    130 15 Indian Navy Vessels Leave Port THE Indian Navy flotilla comprising the cruiser INS Delhi, the destroyers, Gomati, Ganga. Godavari, Rana, Ranjit. Rajput and the training ship. Tir. sailed yesterday for Trincomalee, Ceylon, after a five-day stay here. The eight warships which left India m June on a summer cruise have
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    University Awards
    63 15 AN AMERICAN, Mr. Gordon P. do Wolf, has been awarded the degree <>f Master of Science by the University of Malaya. Two Queen's scholars received the degree of Master of Arts. They are Mr. Arthur Lim Joo .Fork lor his dissertation on "Padi-Panning Activities ami Rainfall Regimes" and
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    64 15 MORE than 1.000 Singapore taxi drivers yesterday* donated their day's earnings to the Nanyang University Fund. One of them, Lim Eng Chok. did more. Just before handing over the money at the Badminton Hall m the evening. Lim took out a s.") 0
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    98 15 SIX delegates front India and seven front Ceylon arrived m Singapore by air yesterday for the World Assembly of Youth to be held here from Aug. 15 to 27. Tire nty -three vi ore delegates from Ceylon Will arrive on Aug. 12 \J 14. while India
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    1099 16  - Graduates Find Higher Degrees Do Not Pay DR. EMERY BARCS Our industries don't encourage original research By AUSTRALIA is >:o--bably the o:i!y country m the world u-here graduates m chemistry, and other scientific and technical subjects, are afraid to work for higher academic qualifications They fear that it*, afttJl t.u
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    341 16 NEW YORK. r PHE U.S. Tobacco Industry Research Committee has outlined a three-fold pro gramme on the basis of which it will award funds for scientific study of tobacco and its effects on smokers. Dr. Clarence Cook Little, scientific director of the coin m it tee, said
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    102 17 SHELL SCC DRAW Shell Sports Club went on a leather hunt when they held Singapore Cricket Club" to a draw on the padang yesterday. Taking first lease at the wicket, SCC scored freely m their match against Shell Sports Club on the padang yesterday. Their opening pair Dunn and Woodhou.se
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    34 17 A meeting of all Indian soccer veterans will be held at the Tamil Brotherhood Clubhouse m Farrer Park. Singapore, on Sunday at 10 30 a.m. All veterans interested are invited to attend.
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    26 17 KOTA BAHRU. Sat.—Kelantan won another tour games to beat Kedah by seven games to two when they ended their Foong S«ong Cuptie hert today.
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    712 17 wed the Civilians. *al ol 182 points :..an> 136 to win r the ftr^t time r -d Quree r. p. Tiang n record Mtei musing he :o >k h fourth lump 1 ma He broke re record with Ib Us sth 2; Inches a. .mp. 3 n
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    291 17 FEDERATION Police, with a score of 181 points, beat their rivals, the Singapore Police, who could only scrape up 100 points, m their annual athletic meeting at the Police Training School ground yesterday. Results were: 100 yds: Insp. Harman (Fed.): 2. Sgt. Syed Mohd. (Fed.): 3. i
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    TimeRobs Schools Of Victory
    297 17 TimeRobs Schools Of Victory COMBINED Schools tailed to beat the clock m their game against the Non-Benders Cricket Club at the Balestier plain yesterday. The Schools' were six runs short of the NonBenders' total of 87 with one wicket m hand, when time intervened. I. J. Singh's three for 15
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    233 17 IPOH, Sat.— Kowloon Busmen beat Perak 3-0 m a game which did not contain as much thrills as the capacity crowd on the Chinese Assembly Hall ground had expected today. The Perak team were a depleted lot throughout and had it not been for their
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    78 17 THE Johore Ceylonese cricket team to play against the Ceylon Sports Club at the English College ground at Johore Bahru on Monday will I be: V. S. Pillai (Capt) (JB), L j Rajasooria, (JB), B. Barthelot (Kota Tinggi), J. Woodhull (Batu Pahat), D. Jesudasan (Segamat), C. Selvadurai (Kluang),
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    28 17 RAF Seletar be;it Singapore Harbour Board Recreation C';jb G-4 m a thrilling aod excelleni contested quarter-final SAFA Junior Cup "..mpetition game at Jal£.n Be<-; >tadium j'e>terda.
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    428 17 AUSTRIANS FIND SERVICES WEAK SCORE FIVE GOALS OAK Austria 5 Combined Services t. THE third game of the GAK Austrian soccer tourists' Singapore interim against Combined Services last night at Jalan Besar stadium was perhaps their easiest; and inevitably then, they coasted through to a s—o5 0 victory. Faster to
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    153 17 TODAY'S Sport cricket: Senior Tovr> ney: CSC vs SCC ar Baiestier; Indians Army at Nee Soon: RAF S vs Police at Cha- j- SRC vs Navy at Padat g JUNIOR TOURNEY: RAF S vs RNAS at Sembawang ground: YMCA vs Wanderers at YMCA: FaF C M University o T Malaya
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    61 17 THE St; nvac "a tei ate :<j aamen! will star m September 4 and entries invited jot the open singles 1 -e:i-n sing c him the ope- I .c« championships. Entru i,; y be su tl 1 or befon A.ugusl to -ir Stan (v Gob ol the
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    36 17 THE SAFA Sen.;cr T p-fie came between IRC i-.-.->. RAF Changi scheduled to be played at Jelan Bcsar stadium 3* B.^o p.m. to-morrow, has beer, postponed ri.it to the Han Rsya Haji cc ebrations.
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    870 18 Nee Soon Sport BY SCRIBBLER AFTER bein? holders of the District Knock-Out 'Cricket Cup m 1952. and joint holders with the R.A. m 1993, the Regimental Fay Office met their Waterlot* on Wednesday when, against Base Workshops R.K.M.F. at the Aver Rajah Road, they were beaten
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    141 18 FREE WEEK'S LUXURY HOLIDAY IN MADRAS! •N jn •on v» t- S'23 OCO Squarevord Compel •> iea '-> PQ9I Thi S'~jaDore Tiger Star>d^rd is r ai t. Contest to choose the most pzipu'sr t^i c Ml D Moloya WhoexiW by popular \3te v.iH .v..r, ho idras, w^ere at the same
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    978 18 By RAFMAN THE final United Services League Senior game at Seletar last Wednesday between the Corinthians and Flying Boat Wing was a great triumph for the Corinthians Winning by four goals to nil, they played some of the best soccer seen at Seletar this season,
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    311 18 MBTC played RPO m the MBTC Gym on Tuesday night, and won by 28 points to 15. ■?.iy" were without Taylor their "strong" man, but they did enough to show that with more practice they will have an efficient side Some rough play crept
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      286 19 CROCODILE COMPETITION Win one of these valuable prises for judging the total weight of the flve t-rorodiles which are being exhibited at the Trade Fair m the Happy World Amusement Park until 14th August 1954. Ist Prbe— s2tt/- worth of Crocodile Brand Shirts aad Singlets 2nd Priie— SlOt/- 3rd Prize—
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