The Straits Times, 20 May 1954

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    EDS MARCH ON DELTA
    184 1 ),000 rebels head )X rice bowl OCE OUTNUMBERED I HANOI, Wednesday !ii,ooo menu marching on the Red River Delta in Northern Indo-China, the French Ili-h .ilions in the rich rice-growing area where by some 70,000 Vietminh Ruerillas and •heir. r attacks t hey highI by the
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    E OF FORT TODAY
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    Enough uranium
    19 1 KHOI M, Wee 1 Sweden uranium to last >ands years, the r. Mr. Ta« Bri- sterday. Reuter.
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    U.S. MAY GO AHEAD ON PACT
    170 1 U.S. MAY GO AHEAD ON PACT May leave Britain out says Ike WASHINGTON. Wed. PRESIDENT Eisenhower 1 said today it might be possible to form a united front against Communism In South-east Asia without the participation of "Britain. Mr. Eisenhower told a news conference that whether or not the United
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    DRIVE ON THE DELTA
    16 1 MAp shows the next taract of the rebels— the Red finv Delta
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    Mr. MacDONALD'S TENANT ACCUSED
    250 1 1%500 art treasures vanished Krom HALL KOMNEY LONDON. Wednesday. VALUABLE paintings and books missing from the Hampstead home of Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. Commissioner-General for South-East Asia are subJecl of a charge against an art adviser lan Roland Ritchie, who has been sent for trial. The
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    The buffalo charged—so planter lives
    99 1 The buffalo charged so planter lives CALCUTTA. W.d. a WILD bullalo attacked a i-\ pain-maddencn t :ti»-r and saved the life Of a tea planter a was maullnf, the Canceling correspondent of a Calcutta it reported today. lid 32-year-old. Syed Gholam Hossain and another planter named R. Grey wounded a
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    New car for the family
    59 1 LONDON. Wed Details of a new British six-seater family ear with a top speed of more than TO m.p.h. were announced yesterday by the Nuftleld tion. The car. a lamer edition of the Morns Oxford, is claimed to oe the most comfortable of on thr
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    Tablet to mark Royal tea
    52 1 PERTH Wed A rommemt ablet will mark the pot near here "Here the and the Duke of Edinburgh had tea on their last country trip in AuatraHa. The Royal party .stopped 3.1 milea from here to have ten j, a bush clearlnn under a ,:ni
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    Ho Chi Minh 69
    17 1 lIONO KONG. Wed. TW Vletmlnh leader. Ho Chi Minn is 69 today.- UP.
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    Oliver Hardy is taken sick
    42 1 PLYMOUTH, Wed Oliver Hardy, fat man of the famou.s Laurel and Hardy comedy team, was taken ill shortly be- fr.rr he was due to appear at a music hall last night. The show was cancelled A P
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    Trade worries
    38 1 LONDON Wed. -^Resolutions expressing concrrn at the Britisii trade agreement to lm- j port Japanese goods will be discussed at the annual conferi nee of the National Union ol Hosiery Workers at Eastbourne next month.-- Reuter.
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    'Afraid of trap,' Mrs Petrov wrote to husband
    613 1 'Afraid of trap,' Mrs Petrov wrote to husband CANBERRA. Wed. \IRS. EVODKIA PETiTI ROY wrote to her husband Vladimir from the Soviet Embassy after he had sought asylum in Australia, saying that she could not meet him "as I am afraid to fall into a trap", the Royal Commission on
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    Test pilot is killed in crash
    46 1 RUGBY, Wed. Mr. Edward Griffiths, chief test pilot of Armstrong Siddeley, the motor car and aircraft engine makers, was killed near here yesterday when hi.s single seater naval plane crashed The plane, a Westland Wyvern, was burnt out. j Reuter.
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    Now Surina enters the Miss Malaya Quest
    152 1 SIKIVA VIAKIKH is another Singapore entrant in the .Miss Malaya Quest. Surma is 5 ft. V. in. tall and weighs 123 Ib. Her measurements are: Bust 3M in. waist 24 in. and hips .'(6 in. Singapore entries dose at noon on Monday. Kuala
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    U.S. accuses Russia
    55 1 WASHINGTON Wed The State Department yesterday accused Russia of trying to intimidate and discredit the Austrian Government. It was commenting on the action of the Soviet Hieh Commissioner in Vienna. Mr Ivan Ilyichev, who warned the Austrian Chancellor and Vice Chancellor about alleceri hostile and subversive intrigues
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    Balloon flies 21 miles high
    37 1 MINNEAPOLIS. Wed. The biggest plastic balloon ever made soared to a record height of 21 miles yesterday. It was 200 ft. in diameter and its length before inflation WES 300 ft. —A.P.
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    Suez hold-up
    34 1 i CAIRO. Wed.-F:v e Egyptians armed with Sten guns and pistols held up two British civilians near Suez terday and fired at and ■lightly injured one. a British military spokesman said. Reuter
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    U.S., PAKISTAN SIGN DEFENCE PACT
    135 1 WASHINGTON. Wed. The US. State Department announced that Pakistan and the United States today tlgned a mutual defence agreement under which the United states will provide military equipment and training aid to Pakistan. The agreement wax signed in Karachi by the Pakistan Foreign kllnUter, Mr.
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    Actress is seeking separation
    83 1 Actress is seeking separation HOLLYWOOD. Wed. ACTRESS Gloria De Haven said today that she and her husbana, Martin S. Kimmel have parted after less than a year of marriage and that she will seek a legal separation She blamed "diversified Interests 1 for the breakup "Martin's business Is in New
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    Reds lose this battle—but it's only an ant war
    172 1 Reds lose this battle— but it's only an ant war KOTA BAHRI". Wed DOOM "f P r °P |p gathered here on Monday l<> watch trim t»;iHle between lecions f Kiant Mark and rev ants. The MtlleurouM.l w is a motor Th'V'mvner his car out when he saw thousands of
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    Raids on the road users by Reds
    54 1 Raids on the road users by Reds K. LUMPUR. Wed. TERRORISTS in Johoro stopped vehicles in threo different areas and took cigarettes and biscuits on Monday. Twenty armed men held up a timber lorry and a biscuit van in the Pagoh district. robbed the lorry driver biscuits from the van.
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    STOP PRESS
    162 1 POWI R I \f Kn IN DO iiin N W'.l 1 nltrrt piiil Bi itlsh i"i fi\ \>> Ii nii- >> m IVa.shinxtnn Inn i ilhuiit ilwr nations will lastralia and N .m.i -t :i i>> Ml \< K II \V>; U>d.— Whninh Ihrrr violent .it i i
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    REBELS POSED AS MONKS
    104 1 RANGOON. Wed. REPORTS reaching here today said that two rebeli masquerading as yellow-robed Buddhist monks on Monday ntfjht killed four armed police acting as escort to a river boat a few miles North of here With thr 1 aid of accomplices on the lower deck of
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    Off to Italy
    28 2 new york. MM.-Seventy-two American union workers, all of Italian descent, will fl\ to Italy tomorrow on a comblned good will tour and holida A P
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    ARMY THEFTS? ONLY 6, COMMONS TOLD
    162 2 LONDON. Wednesday. \f R. J. K. H. HUTCHISON. Under-Secretary for War. told the House of Commons yesterday that estimates of the loss of War Department property in 'Singapore had been "exaggerated" Mr I tcLean Conservative had a^ked what thefts of such property nad there
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    Burma pledges support
    52 2 Burma pledges support RANGOON. Wed. The Burmese Prime Minister U Nu to- j day pledged his Government's support to defend the faith ol Budtjliism against all errors I witho.it :uiv far. He was giving an address ol veneration at the >econd day >f the opening of the sixth Buddhist Council
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    Admit China call
    30 2 GENEVA. Wed. Thr Exe- •utlvc Committee of thr World j Pederition of United Nations yesterday called for the admission of Communist China to the United Nations. -A.P
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    Airport row is over
    66 2 LONDON, Wed Workers at London airport yesterday endod an cisht weeks' dispute i by resuming maintenance work on BOAC Hermes airliners which have been grounded with th< c«i:r.!!]'4 of more modem airliners. The men refused to prepate the aircraft for sale on the ground that their
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    1,800 flooded out of homes
    54 2 ROSWELL. Nrw Mrxico. Wed -Floods forced more than 1.800 persons from their homes today causing U.S. $1,000,000 damage here and U. 5.5500,000. 5500,000 at Livington. Two-thirds of the homes In livinirton. were hit by the swilling waters. At icast.soo homes were damaged In Roswell. a
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    No cigarettes
    38 2 BUENOS AIRES. \V< ri Argentinians wont without cijjarrttrs yostordav ;ind Oil rpflnorios and other lnduv were paralysed or Ruins: slow as striKinjj unions refused to accrpt alO per cent waqr increase suggested by the Government. Reutor.
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    POLICE HOLD CROWDS AT ISABELLA'S MASS
    164 2 PARIS. Wed HU<IE BLACK draperies emblazoned with the initials "P.f;." hung over the front of the Church of Saint llonore Drylau today when a I funeral mass was said for 18-year-old Isabella Patino Goldsmith. Wrr.iths and floral sprays brought by several lorries were caried
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    All or nothing, insist the Reds
    302 2 All or nothing, insist the Reds WEST WANTS STATE BY STATE PEACE BUT— INDO-CHINA TALKS GENEVA, Wednesday. THE Communist bloc yesterday rejected Western proposals to work out an Indo-China armistice by stages and insisted that a settlement of the war must be worked out simultaneously for all threi States Vietnam,
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    New atom plague on Japan?
    151 2 New atom plague on Japan TOKYO. Wed RMS with a radioactive count of BH.OOO per minute in a litre ol water fell over Kyoto city last Sunday night, a Japcinor professor of physics .it Kyoto Inivcrsity said today. Professor I'Minahiko Shidei today revised an earlier esti ■ate of radioactivity in
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    50,000 idle
    19 2 TEGUCIGALPA Wed.—Near"i 000 peop'..' were idle yesterday In a general strike on f he Honduran north coast
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    Soviet award
    25 2 faris wen m firm cm pre-war Left-wing French Air Minister, last n:sht rpce;ved a Stalin Prize from the Soviet \!r Ilya Ehrenburg Reuter.
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    MALAYA'S FILMS HONOURED
    119 2 MALAYA'S FILMS HONOURED Win two awards at Tokyo Festival TOKYO, Wed. FHE federation of Malaya won two bronze trophies in the first SouthEast Asian Film Festival today for the bost photography and best planning In documentary films. Five Malayan Film Unit contributions were judged by the nine-member iury as the
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    'Gun-pencils' in streets
    44 2 TRIESTL. Wed. Police said today explosive pencils have been found in Trieste streets recently md warned the public that they could serkraa or tatal Injuries it tampered with. A twist of the cap fires a small but powerful explosive, said. U.P.
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    Stolen Rubens is safe
    34 2 TORONTO W.d A £10.000 Rubens masterpiece .srolen from the Toronto Art Gallery last night was found undamased today on the law the Provincial Parliament I building a m;le away.— AP.
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    Trips to the moon-via Russia
    83 2 Trips to the moo n- via Ru ssia MOSCOW. Wed. RUSSIANS can build a spaceship to travel to the moon, said a Soviet scientist Mr. H. A. Sternlela today Such rockets are passible with materials now available he sain but added that an i-Her-pianetary rocket built at pratent would be
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    SHOT IN TAXI LONDON HUNT LIMPING
    60 2 LONDON d<>a ri 'n th. hi London tonight U of the ritvs most manhunls. All l.nii(l..n\ n.iiiin |M1 been mobilised to Nathan Goldberg wounded three of them teriouslj ints in Kattered London fluring the da> Ex (Juarclsm.in armed with 0 piMol. ha,| a -try,
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    CHIANG PLAN HIT RED
    116 2 Third clash in u rn VATIONALIS'I S a1 south of Shani the third straig] quarters claimed oi and probably The National! i :hi warships trfui I aerial clash— the thii a week. The Air Poi Russian-built MIG while all returned The three engager] Rrn bu thiee
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    Spy Su tur up in
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    TOM-FOR-PEACE—BRITAIN LEADING
    244 3 TOM-FOR- PEACE BRITAIN LEADING So Mr. Foster shows way for US come-back WASHINGTON, Wednesday gRITAIN leads the Inrted States in theh.dustri.l and commercial development of atomic lower, .Mr. William Poster, former \mcrican Deputj Director of Defence, said yesterday He told the oversew organisation of writers and 1 that Britain would
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    stone an M.P. attles boxing
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    en's rights
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    Revolution in Russia 'inevitable'
    63 3 A AMilNlilUN. Wed RITION In Russia la bli Russian born nstantln W. BoldyU.s. 8< nati nlttee thai the revolution layed by indecisive i Western pow< rs. Boldyreff, lanpuaße town Unl- Was!. based on im- i In Russia at tin- hearings I that the U.S. diplomatic relations
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    Record harvest
    11 3 Wed.- Communist aid it harvested a 'vi.Boo.ooo t IP
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    19 Mau Mau die
    16 3 ■obi. Wed. Eighteen sts have been 24 hours, East Africa ported yesterday.
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    Queen praises k of Church
    39 3 >aid that in the Church Union in the Church had conuch to the furtherCOds Kingdom. ere still discovering n«th and unity K :::::ig the truth, so di of the people in ,i!id other lands.—
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    Terror attacks
    27 3 CASABLANCA. Wed. A Moroccan was shot dead and another wounded in two terrorist at the Arab quarter o: Casablanca last night. The terrorists escaped.— Renter.
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    Training in U.S.
    23 3 WASHINGTON. Wed. West my's Director of Civil Bauch, and >ix nave bemin ai -week training course in I America.— A.P.
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    NEW DEFENCE FOR CITIES
    46 3 A BATIFKY 4>f Nikes. the IS. Army's new ground to air untied missiles, on a desert proving ground. The device, electronically -controlled, can track an enemy plane and destroy it. Batteries will he installed soon near stratei;it all> important cities. AP. picture.
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    Attlee denies sell out on A-bomb
    185 3 WO Si /{RENDER FOR AW LONDON. Wednesday. TMIE FORMER Labour Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee hotly drnied yesterday that he "sold out" Britain's veto o\ci American use of the atomic- bomb for more American aid in 1948. Mr. Attiee denied that then M any
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    Labour bid to discipline Bevanites
    107 3 Labour bid to discipline Bevanites LONDON, W. d rE National Executive oi the British Labour Party yesterday decided on a new code oi discipline to prevent public criticism of official policy by the Bevanlte rebels. ri at by maiorltj vote are binding upon the .National Executive Committee unless otherwise decided
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    Fiji Indians on the march
    65 3 SUVA. Wed. -Latest population figures show the Indian racial group is still making the largesi Increase* in the FIJI Islai Since 1946 there have been more Indnns than Kijians m these tropic isles. Present figures show 154.000 Indians and 139.000 Fijians In a total population
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    Teachers strike
    30 3 SANTIAGO, Wed. School.s were closed throughout Chile j yesterday by a strike of 15,000 teachers and 4.000 professors who demand a 20 per cent pa\ Increase,- -U. p.
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    US $30,000 theft
    22 3 TORONTO, Wed. Thieves h;ive stolen an oil painting by Rubens, valued at US$3O,OOO, from Toronto Art Gallery. A P.
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    Prince escapes
    23 3 THE HAGUE. Wed. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands escaped unhurt when his ear somersaulted after a collision with a track. Renter.
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    Crash kills one
    27 3 STOCKHOLM. Wed One person was killed and 17 injured yesterday when a gravel freight train rammed a night express between Malmoe and Stockholm. -U.P
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    LONDON STOCKS
    302 3 LONDON STOCKS LONDON. Wrxi THE new account got away to a good start. Glltrdged esUblished some useful gains aiuW the lead of the lrreaet-ma#lp which were again in demand on institution account Mm ChatMOUor of liie Exchequer'-statsmt-nt that ihe marked improvement in United Kingdom reliad be< n due to normal
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    LONDON TIN
    25 3 LONDON. May 1!).— Cash Biimts t"M; Sellers V!7'i.">: Inruard Buyers £724; Sellers V 7'* l Settlement UIIK^; TurnoM-r .mi ."»<• tons; pm. l~i tnilv
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    LONDON RUBBER
    34 3 LONDON. MM 19.— Spot 19d. June lPd July-Sept. 19' id.. Oct.Dec. 19'- d. J.in -Mar. 10 .d.. Apr.June in id., M;i> c.i.f. 18 7 vd 18". ci.. July t1 r. 19d. :ICV.
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    Reds defeated in the Philippines
    111 3 CHICAGO. Wednesday. THE Philippine presidential envoy. Mr. Carlos P. Romulo. yesterday said that the surrender of the rebel leader Luis Taruc meant the Communist movement In the Philippines had collapsed "For the first time, there can be real pence and order throughout the Philippines. 1
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    Limits on French are eased
    75 3 Limits on French are eased new DO Hi. Wad. INDIA yesterday said that she would trictlons on French .settlements The relaxation is designed Ul Dromote good will and .i better atmosoherc for the neaotlations now being held in Paris on the future of the French possession* The order provides tor
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    Oil tanks go up in flames
    56 3 SANTA FE SPRINGS. California, Wed ExDlosions yesterday Ignited 500.000 gallons of gasoline m 11 tank.s in the Santa Fe Springs oilfield. The explosions ripped through the Rothschild refinery and tank farm, injuring two persons and. for a time, threatening to sweep thrnuqh one of
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    Nine arrested
    35 3 KARACHI. Wed. -Nine alleged Communists were arrested yesterday after the Prime Minister. Mr. Mohamed All. had charged that Reds wew involved in the Dacca riots in which more than 300 people died— UP.
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    Danube pact
    19 3 LONDON, Wed Hungary and Au ci day signed reement in Budapest regulauni navigation on the Danube Renter
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    New air link
    20 3 LONDON Wirt BOAC last ninht !n the first Bntish direct trans-Attanttc air line link between London and
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    VICE TRIAL VERDICT UPSET
    161 3 NIW YORK. Wed TIIK Appeal Court yesterday reversed the conviction of Minet .lelkc. l-ve;ir-nld heir to a margarine fortune, on charges of i oiiipulsnrv prostitution and ordered his retrial He had been sentenced to three to si\ rears' imprisonment. The majority of the Appr.nl Court ruled
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    Istana is 'rescued' to house museum
    208 4 Istana is 'rescued' to house museum SEREMBAN, Wed. QNE OF THE Federation's j finest old istanas Is to house Negri Sembi- j lans State Museum, which will be opened i here by the High Commissioner. General Sir Gerald Templrr, tomorrow. The istana. believed to be 104 years old. VII "rescued'
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    Single duty now on these machines
    106 4 Single duty now on these machines KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. i SINGLE rate of duty on air conditioning and refrigeration machinery will De mitroduced tomorrow. The new tax of 10 per cent ad valorem replaces the 20 per cent duty on all air conditionins machines and 10 per cent on all
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    Car owners fined
    32 4 Chew Menf chew of Tank Rrad was fin^d $150 in Singapore yesterday for failing to furnish particulars o$ a driver on demand by the Traffic Police on Oct. SI.
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    Lecture date
    33 4 Mr. D. W Le Mare. Director of Fisheries, will lecture on time and ecology at the Eu 'Tong Seng Hostel of the Univi rsity of Malaya. Cluny Road. I Singapore, tomorrow.
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    NEW GOVT. LAY-OUT Win READY FOR NICOLL
    421 4 When he flies in today THE Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, will this week consider proposals for regrouping Government departments under the ministries recommended by the Rendel Commission. Mr J D Higham, the Colony Under-Secretary. told the Straits Times last night that
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    Talk on manners
    28 4 Geylaug Methodist Youth Fellowship. Singapore. will hold a diieuasion on toclmJ etiquette at the Methodist Girls' School hall, Aljunied Road, at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday
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    PLAN TO LET THESE KEEP VOTE
    214 4 ARRANGEMENTS are now beitiK made by the Singapore Government to enable an estimated 25.000 Commonwealth citizens resident here to become citizens of the I'nitcd Kingdom and Colonies if they so choose. This IMM now on the Colony's roll will lose their voting rights as
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    MacG. will open St. John talks
    36 4 KUALA LUMPI/R. Wed. The Deputy High Commissioner. Sir Donald MacGillivray. will open the annual officers' conference Of the St. John Ambulance Brieade Solangor at the Methodist Boys* School on Saturday
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    Going on leave
    35 4 IPOH. Wed. -Mr. A. S Barham. Deputy Chief Police Officer, Perak. g<v.s on lonu leave early next month. Mr C. A. R. Lawrence Stall Officer at Contingent Headquarters will take hLs place.
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    TRADERS PROTEST TO SHIPPING AGENTS
    134 4 PENANG. Wednesday. OENANG CHINESE importers and exporters last night decided to protest to Paterson Simons and Co. Ltd., agents for the OSK shipping lines, against their refusal to allow overside delivery of goods which arrived here by the Atlas Mam yesterday from Hong Kong The
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    Today's Radio SINGAPORE
    130 4 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 715 a m lime Signal A: Opennis Announcement; 716 Morning Star; 7.30 News; 7.35 Melody Mixture; 8.00-8.30 London Studio Melodies. 857 English Schools Broadcast; n.io English Schools Broadcast, 1.00 p.m. Pr Summary; 1.01 Lunchtlme Music; 130 Time Signal and News 1 4"> Dance Music. 2.00 Eng'tsh Schools
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    Income tax fine
    29 4 KUANTAN. Wed Ne Sianß Ljm. 54. was fined $100 in the Circuit Court here for failing to furnish his income tax re- i turn for 1953.
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    LOWER AIR FARES TO MANILA NOW
    132 4 PAN American Airways announce that new low-cos' j tourist fares between Singapore and Manila will be introduced today. Mr Stan Oluck. the concern's district traffic sales manager, told the Straits Times yesterday that the new fares would he 20 per cent cheaper than first
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    MENTRI BESAR SEES STATE'S BEST PADI
    36 4 nil MENTEI BEBAB of K.dah. Yam; Malta rengku I mail aod the State Afrfealtv ral Officer, Mr. P.G Co examine arfawwinnlng padi la tin- state's emnpetH ■alal Bisar Alor Star.
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    Pensioners pushing us out of jobs, they say
    88 4 GOVT. OFFICERS PRO I KUALA LUMPUR. Wedni day. THE Government Non-Pensionable Officers tion has officially protested against th< E tion Government's re-engagement of pensioner: •temporaries" are threatened with largi trenchment. The association the Government was ing more and nmr' officers, retired A:
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    $30,000 flag day target
    59 4 Aftout 1000 bojrs and g:rb will sell flags for the Sincapon Youth Council on Saturday t( raise fuuGs for the World Youth Assembly to be held in the Colony during A Mr Eric Wee Sian Ben<^. president of the Youth Council told the Straits Times yesterday
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    Bible woman is fined $25
    44 4 JOHORL BAHRU. Wed— Kua Hwee Khenr a biblewoman rorUm at Pontian. »ai fined! In the police court for > moving R blanket and four of cloth from Johore to Pontian without a M rmit. The coods were returned to her
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    Loiterers held
    17 4 Three MalaVh found i in Nallur Road. Sii i 12.15 a.m. yesterday (arrested by two
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    NEW CHILD WELFARESO
    17 4 KUALA U in council lor chi Lady Templer. commission': a meeting at King's H
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    5 FUL BURN IN $25 BLA
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    305 5 BOSSESJORDER pELAY^ DECEIT, NO DIRECT CLASH F HE COMMI MST PARTY has 2,000 members in Sinpport with orders to infiltrate into legal man.> .t.ons, U am control of them and then me 11 swa the masses to Communism, says he 1953 report ot the
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    94 5 :\vi INA a npanv tanker, was Mekong River In Indoi crew member trouble to the H Evans. May 12 and the ted a wrek until the hed the inner roads •ore and Lee Piu Yok, r was am id d guilt] ft tterday the commands of
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    16 5 indred and ttfi I ved 13,710 I 856 had inthe "W9" more
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    62 5 L o observe the iration of General Chen the former Prime who has been elected ident. 1000 people are cxi attend todays rally Chamber of nerce, Hill Street. Conuratul.it ions will be cabled to President Chiang and Yier-Pi(\sident Cher, their headquarters In Taipeh. A dinner will
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    136 5 They regard a driving licence as proof of a social accomplishment MANY applicants for driving licences neither own nor expect to own vehicles but reeard thp acquisition of a ■riving licence as a social accomplishment or an insurance acainst unemployment Mfl the Singapore Police Force report for
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    Bomb-thrower of K.L. is dead
    264 5 SHOT IN JUNGLE BY COMRADES T KUALA LUMPUR Wed. HE KUALA LUMPUR terrorist who threw a grenade into the printing offices of the local newspaper. China Press, and killed a watchman in 1950 is dead. He was Lee Chee Choonu. Utea Lee Kirn Hua. alias
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    42 5 IPOH. Wed. Bai, of $80f) was allowed to Rud Sinch aged 50. who was charged today with criminal breach of trust of two bullocks. Rud Singh claimed trial and the ca.<e was postponed to May 26
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    131 5 Thieves 'go without' during fast ALOR STAR, Wed. T*HE present fasting month— which is keeping Muslims awake at night had scared thieves away from Sebrans Perak. Alor Star Town Council wai told today. "But they will strike again when the fa.st la over," warn- Inche Azahari bin Taib i independent.
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    44 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed— J. A. Taaffe, of REME Workshop, Kluang. was charged in the police court here today with driving a motor car without a driving licence and third party Insurance. He pleaded not guilty and the case was adjourned.
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    28 5 Mr. LOkc Wan Tho was one of vhe 15 winners of the 18th Rochester International Salon of Photography. He submitted a nature print "PheasantTuled J:n';in;i."
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    135 5 THE Singapore City Architect, Mr. W. Irving Watson, has assured a City Council committee that it is safe to increase the seats at the Victoria Theatre irom 40u to 800. The modernisation of the theatre, which has been held up since last year, is
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    71 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Fraser and Neave Ltd. of Kuala Lumpur were today fined $100 for allowing a motor vehicle belonging to the firm to carry goods without a haulage permit on Mar. 18 along Mountbatten Road. A second charge of permitting the vehicle to be driven
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    358 5 POI.H E BAM): Public concert Kinc George V Park. 5.30 'p.m. to ti 30 p m. SPORE CIVIL DBRN4 I (>K PS: Headquarters section train- Ing— detailed duties of control centre stall- Kolam Ayer lan« |3n p.m to 7.30 p.m. imGAPOM VOITH COI X( II.: Exhibition of oil
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    29 6 20 Wnrdt $10 i minimum) H COOMBS at 3fi4V .on 17th May. aged 64 .v w.R. al CataelHi Dome XC' rema, Cyprus, on May 13. husband of Pat.
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    167 6 AC KNOWLEDGMEN TS 2» Word* tin i minimum) k MRS. FKANCI? XAVIER I ir.ends and relatives 'or valuable gifts, cood t presence nt :he wedding. T. SHAWYER to Mrs Nich Singapore Registry on] A Thanking all friends for :i messages. I MARRIAGE between lee Aun and Maggie An ai pH
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    95 6 M l»(ird« flfl (minimum) m pkdam r e-..: you want to win DO ora puzzle. 9 BF.EN AT my Romary's Bake Uecutts? s for Agents Robinson's. WENT Stiff Nylon circular are available in limited Short and ankle lengths. 34 High St.. Spore. \PORE ARTS THEATRE enU Christopher Fry s
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    707 6 Singapore, Thurs. May 20, 1954. Dilemma at Geneva The more old fashioned brand of diplomacy is now having its chance at Geneva— open covenants secretly at.. There is much to be said forj the secrecy: what chance there is of agreement is strengthened if both sides can forget for a
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    Fourteen Days' Notice
    545 6 Fourteen Days' Notice Organised labour in Singapore will welcome the Legislative Council's opinion that the emergency regulation requiring fourteen days' notice of a strike or lockout may now be safely repealed But the disappearance of this safety valve does cut both ways, and while Mr. Lim Yew Hock, who moved
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    1188 6  - Roads— key to development of remote Pahang's wealth ¥>AHANG with its 13,830 1 square miles, is the largest State in the peninsula, yet at least ninety per cent, ot its 8,844,800 acres is still unused State land and forest reserve. Its potentialities in mineral and forestry development are tremendous. Rich
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    393 6 'It is within discretion of the Chief Justice' IT is interesting to read that the matter of the right of Mr. Christopher Shawcross. Q.C.. M.P. to be admitted to the Singapore Bar without residing for a certain period at Singapore before such admission has been the subject of discussion
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    The pseudo loyalists of S'pore
    144 6 The pseudo loyalists of S'pore WITH what degree of revulsion must the mothers of British National Servicemen have learned of the recent events in Singapore Their sons are "jungle-bash-ing" with, in many cases, consequent disruption of education, and professional training, ard frequently financial stringency for those at home. Sir Winston
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    Schools service
    45 6 AS SOON as the English schools re-opened recently the S.T.C. "For school i children only" buses resumed their regular .service But be fore that date. Chinese school students were not on holiday. W-iy did the S.T.C. stop the special service? DAVID h Singapore.
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    He was also a victim of pawnshops
    129 6 T SUPPORT the complaints of N.K.B. that the printed rates i of interest on pawnshop tickets ar; only intended to comply wi h the Government regulations. This Is not peculiar to Kuala Lumpur only but to almost all the Federation, including Penang. I
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    22 7 I KE NOTICE: NEXT MOVE neeting. thought this re;ld be dropped. ;>->ld the Straits At the rao- have to be -onsir. carefully."
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    330 7 HE UNVEILS PLAQUE AND TAKES A STROLL Xl ALA LIMP! R Wcdncsd f" H Kh toda> oponed the new Templer National Park and declared it ;l trul\ lovely place. dICU ll :i. Sir Gerald Templrr also unvf>ii P ri o i
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    90 7 IPOH Wed. FIRST Emerpency trial held in Perak since itlor. of the crimi- code on the stem a 22-year-old per, T Murucan was and discharged by Buhagalr in the faced a capital having consorted rmed p rson in the area of Chemor 4 but his
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    24 7 ■cc of \r\\r City Barangapany, waa Sii gapore yester- vorth Sl5 from Grove trial and bail of surety was allowed.
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    56 7 K.LALA lIMFLK. WOQ.—A former Special Constable. Abu H.i.-Min bin Ifohd. Ballen, 18. charged today with dishonestly retaining a stolen bicycle, said he bought it and produced a When asked whether he produce the friend from ivhom he said he had bought it, he replied "no." He
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    POLICEMEN WANT AN EARLIER PAY DAY
    131 7 MALACCA policem- n want Weir salaries to be paid earlier this month so that they will hay > enough time to do their shopping for Hari Raya Puas :i which »alls on June L\ In a letter to the' Strslta Smos. signed "All members
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    Five Special Air Service men accused
    91 7 FIVE BRITISH soldiers were charged here today with disorderly behaviour at the Bukil Bintang Dance Hall on Monday night They were privates D. T. Wyah, 22, J. Cockburn. 20, T. O. Price, 20, R. Copenram, 24. and A. Thomas. 21. of the Special Air
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    72 7 Dr Andrew Gih. an evangelist is arriving in Singapore by air' tmm Indonesia today to conduct a series of prayer and revival meetings. He will open his campaign at the Presbyterian Jubilee Church. Outram Road on Sunday Meeting! will be held daily MM place up to May!
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    BACKSEAT HID DOPE -POLICE
    107 7 BACKSEAT HID DOPE -POLICE PRTY pounds of opium in emht packages were found under the back seat of a car. which police overtook and I stopped in Bukit Timah Road on Jan. 127. the Singapore Second Criminal District Court wai told yesterday. Before Mr E H DNetto. the Judge, were
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    42 7 >ore shop.-; did roarinc business yesterday when 3.000 French Foreign Legion troops arrived in the 30 000-ton troopship Pasteur. The teglotmairea took advantage cf a few hours' leave to buy gtfti to send home The Pasteur sailed last nieht
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    Office holiday
    23 7 The Indonesian Consulate in Singapore and :ts Information Bureau will be elost d today In memory of the rerelat the Koran.
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    Gift from Raub
    24 7 RAUB, Wed. More than $3,600 has been collected by the Raub District Appeal Committee for the Lady Templer T.B. Hospital Fund.
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    COUPLE ORDERED TO QUIT TEMPLE
    113 7 PENANG. Wed. APENANO magistrate. Group Captain G. V. Howard, today ordered a couple to vacate a temple in Paya Terubong Road and ret.irn thf possession to a nun within a month. Ton Sau and hia wife, Lim Choi Im. were fined $250 or three months'
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    He rushes away free of murder
    169 7 MOHAMMED Shariff bin Md. Kassim. charged with the murder of a seaman. Loy Sin Weng. rushed out of the dock in Singapore Ass!/. ourt to the waiting arms of his mother a free man v.s tolftj «"<•" tM(> iury A rr turned a unanimous
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    Templer
    53 7 SIR GERALD TRIES THE PARK STEPS ACCOMPANIED by Hie .Mentri Besar. SHansor Inche Oth•11.111 bin MI.II iMit-il. 'in- High Commissioner. Gen. Sir Gerald Templer. descends from <he spot where he had unyeil- (I a plaque at the Federation's first national park. Walking: in Iront is the Sultan of Selangor.
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    Hcuse not built in time, he says
    281 7 Hcuse not built in time, he says MAM SUES SENNETT ESTATE 4 SEREMBAN ousinessman. Mr Oan Kirn Huat, who brought a suit against Sennett Realty Estate in Singapore High Court nearly collapsed while giving evidence yesterday. He was applying for a res(incline order to a contract he had made with
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    Clerk bound over
    55 7 Clerk bound over PENANG. Wed- Cheah Wee Heck. clerk employed by a Chinese firm, was today bound* over in S5OO for three years forcriminal breach of trust of a cheque for $1 036.20. The cheque had been given to him for payment of a telegram bill. Cheah promised the court
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    Thief gaoled
    37 7 PENANG. Wed -Cheah Chooi Rng. 42. was today sentenced to one year's Raol for stealing i a bicycle and raincoat belong- Ing to Extra Cons-able Ahmad hii, Osman at Dfeto Kramat Road on May 11.
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    The girl who didn't speak the language
    169 7 The girl who didn 't speak the language A I Hi;i YIP. IS, a former 1 Sinsapore girl who could mil speak a word of English when she arrived in Australia with her parents in April I i-t year. recentl> lopped a class of 32 after she had been in
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    93 7 MINIMI M TEMPER ATI'RE: (1 30 p.m. on May 18 to 73n am on May 19: Singapore 76 d/rees Penang 76. Kota Mahni 75. Kuala I umtfur 76. Ipoh 73. Kuantan 73 MAXIM! M TEMPER ATI Ri: (7 30 a.m. (o 730 pm on May 19 1 Slngapon
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    88 7 TODAY: siniMpoie 1249 am <7 ft 8 In. 1 11.59 pm. (9 ft 1 In i Pur! Dickson 745 a.m. < 7 ft 8 in 1 815 p m (8 ft. 6 In); Penanjj 150 j a.m. (6 ft. 3 In.) 1.51 pm. .7 ft 6 in TOMORROW
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    19 7 TAIPINO. Wed The Chine so Recreation Club. Taipinu will hold its first anniversary dinner on June 2.
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    $323,000 BILL WAS NO ONE'S BUSINESS
    158 7 THE SINGAPORE City Council now knows why the Harbour Board was allowed to our over $323,000 for electricity without being |MHi to pay. No particular officer was responsible for taking action, vivs an investicatinc subcommittee of Councillors, in its report. Vhr committee recommends that
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    Liberty group officials
    103 7 Officials of the Liberty Musical and Dramatic Association are: President. Mr Robert Loke vice-presidents Messrs Choo 1 Kirn Chwee. Goh Eu Aun. Wee Thian Lee and Eddie Lim: secretary. Mr Wee Bee Lee. as- < sistant. Mr Wee Swee Lee music conductor. Mr. Philip Chin: treasurer Mr
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    Woman missing
    18 7 Bibi binte Sharif. 20. nas been missing from her house in Geylang Serai. Singapore, since Monday.
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    NEW PLAN FOR RUBBER WAGES
    130 7 NEW PLAN FOR RUBBER WAGES K. LUMPUR. Wrd. FIRST phase of the Malayan rubber industry's lonpest and most comprehensive negotiation bet worn employers and workers ended in Kuala Lumpur today. A revised wage structure was formulated and will be amon? 54 items to be put before a full joint, meeting
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    A 3.15 a.m. drive costs her $150
    100 7 A DAN. j, Lily Eu Slew Har. 19. pleaded guilty in Singapore yeste two charges of traffic offences. She was fined a total bf $150 and disqualified from getting a licence for one y< ,ir for driving without a lice; cc an'l thi-d
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    Stole petrol
    42 7 Abdul Rahim bin Mohamed NtSlb, a private in the Royal Army Service Corps. Nee Soon. led for three months" m Singapore >■>■ t< rday for iteailni eight gallons of petrol from a military truck in Unper on Road on April 27.
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    NO LOAN, SO HE FIRED CAR
    53 7 A man set fire to a carbecause the owner refused to lend it to him, Singapore Ponce were told yesterday. The car owner parked his car outside his bouse when he went to work on Tuesday. He returned after work to find one of
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    1173 9 Mammy Pleasant— the vice queen TIMES special FEATURE F f la f w courts listened to a case so bizarre, sinister and Fnn, 7* v" S that Which the lus 'y y° un "ty of San the s thc A dosing months 18 »3. The central figure was one of
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    235 9 Macabre wedding The redding. hurnea through in Belli mansion in 1877. presented a macabre scene. A priest was sinusslec: into the house and induced to perform the ceremony in the belief that a child Bell was keeping there was Teresa's son Bell himself was <o drunk that he could scarcely
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    NO MOVEMENT IN SHARES
    180 10 Rubber and tin rise THE Singapore Share Market was duller th.in ever yesterday with the official French announcement that a Vietminh arim of 30,00(1 men was marching on the Red River Delta, last French stronghold in Northern lndo-('hin;i. Sellers were unwilling to sell, preferring till the
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    134 10 The Malayan Share Brokers' Association reported that: "Bion the local share market was of mMLKiticant proportions and the improvement in the commodity prices was totally disreearded." Members of the Association reported the followlnp business done yfstcrlay: Gammon $3. W. Hammer $3 (odd lot i Singapore Cold BI $4.75:
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    World tin production increases
    198 10 World tin production increases THE HAGUE. Wrd. LATEST tin .statist lc.s issued by the Internationa] Tin Study Gioud here show that mine production in tin concentrates during March *U 4,977 long torts in Malaya and 902 tons ir Belgian Congo. In April Indonesian production was 2.684 tons and BrlrJan Congo
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    116 10 Singapore Chinese Produce K\rhange: noon prices per picul were Copra: quiet; May S31 1 buyei $32 sellers; June $30 'j buyers. $31 sellers. Coconut oil: quiet: $55 sellers Pepper: quiet; no bu.slne.ss uportert; all \arleties down $10: Muntok white $250, Sarawak I ampony black $200. Lewis and Peat
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    SYNTHETIC SALE
    87 10 NEW YORK. Wed An An synthetic rubber corporation has been formed by «roup of 39 compuriM to place h .single bid to buy MM Of the Government -owner, thetic rubber plant*, up for I prtrat* industry Which of the T, Government unit* it seeks to acquire is not
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    62 10 The Malayan Exchange Ranks Association made the following changes In Its rates to met yesterrhiv Rivals selling T. T. <>r o D I IR rr.ulv On the free mchangt m.trket In llniiK Koiir yesterday Ihe US dollar qUOtM at 5.7"fi25 (or cash and 5 7925 (or T.T. StetlinK
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    21 10 SINGAPORE, M T.N IMS p.-r piuil un MJt). Rl BBKK 641 cents a Ib. (tip five-iiKhlhs of a cent).
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    124 10 MELBOUR.v investments continue 1 pro\e on the BU today with sizeablr r1 i in many issues. Mining better but :n\> ing time. Bond:, pj m oil ma.'' the \aiious dr::: tail woo eastern I Loan 3' H 1«>56-59 £!)4 7 Loan 3 1 1156A.P.M. tNew, If) Bank of
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    127 10 Rubbo in Sin-apore yesten: Tuesday s closing On better and New York ove: with the news from I: opened thrre cent above Tv some short covering n profit ta^. sorbed. the price ad ct-nt.s business done I or June bii^ Later however tli' and closed quiet, fivi cent
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    99 10 Ships bini; ilin^sid. t pore H-irtiour Um.iiil ■sycctol tadaj ■<■' P., Benwpbi Aeneas 11. Benin:.' Tomori 1 S Tkkaaag 19/20. sun: 4, Sedlll N V Raiah Brooi Kasin Nfeonia l' 9 3 SI 32. Laomedon 18 39. Gleni!'. 42 ta O1TH! BOADB ;lina. Un. Biern Stange. Sunkov Ei.
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    53 10 AT Ike •lid <>f Xp thcr,- were A li:; U rav<'l-piiini> „,,d 75 ..th.r tin minr workine in the Fedei i'" 1 fMmt a t»t ot 644 tin mints statistic show \t th,- end of thr month there w*re U. 9& i' emplo-.fd in minlns and J'«>tiO pfrMins
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      528 10 NOTICE THE < Ol M 11. OF STATE IIXM I KIN M (.lI.ATION!., 1951 NOTICE OF COMPLETION OF REGISTERS Notice is nereby Riven unrter Regulation 3 161 tint the Krci-ters of Electors for all constituencies I have been completed and that ccjiies theieof are available for inspection on ill working
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      1476 10 NOTICES NOTICE SZE HAI TONG BANKING AND INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED NOTICE* IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fortieth Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of the above I Company will be held at Sze Hal Tong Bank Building. No. 57. Chulla Street. Singapore, on Saturday May, 1954, at 2 p.m. NOTICE
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      18 10 vaJ Tiil JEYEI ifmtrJk i RELATIVE I I MITSUI WHT.BOUNO KOI- Jfl C.F. SHARP MM OF CM.NA BU.IDIN-
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    But some books just MUST be banned
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