The Straits Times, 17 May 1955

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  • 12 1 The Straits Times £std. 1845. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1955 15 CENTS
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  • 7973 1 IHE GUILTY MEN— by GOODE WL ■vvk PAP and their covert Communist supporters and 'Chinese schools must be turned back from thuggeiy E hackxeat drivers wanted niolence. bloodshed. and violence, sous Marshall: And he hints that m industrial unrest'— Chief Secretary's indictment Government is considering doing it by a big
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  • 629 1 TTie 6o#s irere aggressive to photographers The barred students take over school 500 went over fence to classes STUDENTS FROM TWO SINGAPORE Chinese middle schools, closed by the Government after last week's rioting, yesterday turned their hostility against police and Press photographers, who called
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  • 79 1 U.S. Consul clears the police WASHINGTON, Mon. The United States Consul in Singapore. Mr. Lampton Berry. has vindicated the Colony's police of allegations of "dereliction of duty" in the death last Thursday of an American correspondent. Mr. Berry said in a report to the State Department that the available information
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  • 41 1 TANJONG MALIM, Mon. Police detective sergeant, Kumara Nair. was killed in a shooting incident on Kepala Bali Estate, Slim River, yesterday evening. He was out on a wild boar hunt with three Chinese when the incident occurred.
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  • 33 1 LOS ANGELES, Mon.— Joan Crawford left by train yesterday to join her fourth husband, Mr. Alfred N. Steele, the Pepsi Cola magnate, in New York for j a European honeymoon trip.—
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  • 136 1 HOCK LEE UNION SAYS 'NO' Won't man buses T\RIVERS and conductors in mJ the dissolved Hock Lee Bus Company Employees' Union refused to work yesterday. But 57 of the company's buses were on normal service. The buses were manned entirely by members of the Singapore Bus Workers' Union. The union
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  • 19 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon The Alliance headquarters was today investigating the leakage of the UMNO-MCA-MIC elections manifesto.
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  • 190 1 They're simply dazzling, says Englishman after world tour LONDON. Mon. Chinese girls arethe most beautiful in the world, says reporter John Walters in today's London vVa D ISr y s. M wrmng of his 29,000 mile world tour that, took him to Singapore, Formosa and
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  • 295 1 'ACHIN REBELS SET UP CELL IN SINGAPORE' Darul Islam has a shadow Govt. own currency in Sumatra Straits Times correspondent JAKARTA, Monday. AN INDONESIAN NEWSPAPER claims Singapore is the centre of communications for rebel gangs in Achin in the northern tip of Sumatra who have set up a shadow government.
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  • 28 1 LONDON. Mon. The United States and the Soviet Union will meet in an international chess tournament in Moscow on June 29 Moscow Radio announced today. U.P.
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  • 19 1 A Singapore police constable, Jalil bin Latip, 32, collapsed and died at Tanjong Pagar station last night.
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  • 195 1 Result: 4 bandits slain, 8 hurt KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. tK)URTEEN men from 1 a patrol of the Ist. North Rhodesian Regiment charged 40 terrorists in a camp in West Pahang, killed four, wounded eight and put the rest to flight. A British officer, Lieut. K. A.
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  • 35 1 •CAMBODIA NEXT ON REDS 1 LIST WASHINGTON. Mon.— Marshal Pibul Songßiam, Prime Minister of Siani, said here today that next Communist objective in South-east Asia would be Cambodia "though not by force.' —Reuter.
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  • 1677 2 'Black Thursday'— a diary of horror MAY 12— THE BLACK DAY I ■mnmr urn mmwii— ■mm. fl Goode tells Assembly of the events leading to the riots; Prolonged fiery speeches at bus depot whipped up hatred towards the police THE Chief Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode, yesterday gave the
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  • 186 2 THANK GOD FOR MEN LIKE THESE— GOODE SINGAPORE should "thank God" it has men and women like Andrew Teo, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode. said in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. Mr. Goode said that hundreds of men and women like Andrew Teo the murdered Volunteer Special Constable
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  • 81 2 Lilii ■$M Plii :!!;O IMliiiliiiiiik ACTOR JOHN GREGSONS eyes pop, but he politely i turns his head as he hands actress Diana Dors an armj ful of frilly underwear h i she appears naked at the bathroom door in the J. Arthur Rank film
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  • 236 3 REMLIN QUIZ: IN KHRUSHCHEV AND OUT ULGANIN? rj ic niamial akes a back seat on that goodwill mission to Tito t LONDON, Monchv. ■Minis* P«rty boss Nikita Khrurirged farther ahead in his drive f o U ssia d idence last night showed. rty chieftain whose denun,i of Mr. Georßi Malenkov
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  • 370 3 Amid the glitter and the gold -a note of cold conflict A VIENNA, Mon. \Af Blg Four Foreign Ministers clasped hands after signing the Austrian peace treaty yesterday a crowd of 18,000 Viennese chanted their demand for an end to the cold war. Although there was an atmosphere of cordiality
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  • 25 3 MS* j£!?a o J«nfe. |tV thflrCOI {ed (inference at [jU'tfd hx thelr Mr h s l(l d r\>r Mohamed olKuin null.
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  • 366 3 MacDonald for India —'a very wise choice' 'IN HIS OWN WAY HE WON THE ASIANS' LONDON. Mon. THE London Times today 1 welcomed the appointment of Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. Commissioner -General in South-East Asia, as Hi?h Commissioner in India. Mr. Mac Donald's ability to win the confidence of the
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  • 57 3 In. A v ible for c- pressed." said Dr. Franz Kallmann of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Research. iuch of it amons twins, shows that a person vhase famiiy has never been afTected by mental disorder has only one chance in a •lunrired of developing
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  • 24 3 OTTAWA, Mon —Mrs Malcolm Mac Donald wife o f the Commissioner General, win leave next week to join her husband in Singapore.-A.P.
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  • 42 3 PRINCESS MARGARET dances with Col. John Ward of the Household Cavalry during the "Pied Piper" ball held in London recently in aid of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.— A.P. picture.
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  • 198 3 Union plans to call out men at 4 key ports LONDQN, Monday.. PLANS for a dock strike tomorrow week in four key British ports were completed tonight. Mass meetings of dockers in Manchester and Liverpool endorsed the strike call for May 23. made earlier by
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  • 95 3 Uranium? Oh yes but A loan first TOKYO, Mon. JAPAN'S month-old atomic energy section said today it has received dozens of reports of rich uranium finds all unconfirmed and all accompanied by requests for loans. A few samples: Give us a loan. We struck vast uranium vein just behind our
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  • 48 3 BRUSSELS. Mon. King Badouin left yesterday by plane for a three-week state visit to the Belgian Congo During the trip he will cover 12.000 miles by plane, car and horseback through the colony which is 80 times the size of Belgium.— U.P. I
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  • 30 3 BONN. Mon. Nobel Prize winner. Thomas Mann, 79, who became an American citizen in 1940, was yesterday made an honorary Doctor to Philosophy of Jena University.— Reuter.
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  • 113 3 PARK FOREST. Illinois. iurnn Police chief Milan Playsays tie Wg crime problem in hi ci?y is shoplifting by h °pfavTs i ik cS said yesterday that stfitf sea."* rf i grftfaWS prosecuted for stealing-most-ly groceries. There is usually a terrible row, Plavsik said, when the news
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  • 24 3 NEW YORK, Mon. A huge lire the second in four days raged through a lumber yard 1 here last night.— U.P.
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  • 353 3 LONDON. Mon. ELECTION optimism brought cheerful conditions to the stock market today and widespread gains were recorded. Investment buying brought a sharp advance in giltedged securities. The feature of the foreign bond market was the demand for Russian bonds and Iron Curtain issues following the recent Improvement in
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  • 25 3 LONDON. May 16.— Cash Buyers £7152; Sellers £716: Forward Buyers £716' 2 Sellers £717: Settlement £714. Turnover a.m. 45 tons p.m. 100 tons.
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  • 36 3 LONDON. May 16.— Spot 27\d June 27 ">d., July-Sept. 26"id. Oct Dec. 26" s d.. Jan.-Mar. 25 ',d./ Apr.'June Unquoted. May c.i.f. 26 \d June c.i.f. 26' 2 d.. July c.i.f. 26\d. Tone: Quiet.
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  • 25 3 CASABLANCA, Mon. a terrorist sprayed bullets last night at three Moroccans chatting in the city, killing two and injuring the other U.P.
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  • 170 4 HOSPITAL PATIENTS TOLD TO BEHAVE KOTA BHARU, Mon. MALAY patients in the Kelantan tuberculosis hospital have been wuned to behave themselves or give up to their beds to deserving cases on the waiting list. Patients have "embarrassed" members of the Board of Visitors with demands for better food. Pedestrians on
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  • 73 4 PENANG, Mon. Malay Film Productions of Singapore have offered a film career to an Indonesian singer, Che Kamsaini, as a result of a talent contest held recently in the New World Park here. Che Kamsaini, who won the competition, has also been engaged
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  • 226 4 'BRITAIN, SINGAPORE -GIVE US MORE: AND YOU. THE U.S., A LOAN PLEASE* YES SAYS ALLIANCE: WE AIM TO CUT DOWN ALL CASH FOR THIS WAR KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. JHE UMNO-MCA-MIC Alliance considers that the Federation Government is spending too much of the national revenue
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  • 75 4 Canberras bomb jungle hideouts KULIM. Mon. rpHREE CANBERRA Jets 1 dropped 1.000 lb. bombs on terrorist hideouts in the Kulim jungle during the weekend. This bombardment followed a contact made by an area security unit last Friday night when it fired on a party of bandits. The terrorists, who were
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  • 29 4 PENANG. Mon. —Two swimmers reported the loss of cash and other articles valued at $171 from the dressing rooms of the Chinese Swimming Club in Tanjong Bungah.
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  • 224 4 1 Death crash mystery is unsolved BENTONG, Mon. HOW DID the Guards Brigade commander, Brig. M. D. Erskine, and an army pilot, Capt. John F. Churcher, lose their lives in October 1949 when an Auster In which they were flying from Temerloh to Kuala Lumpur crashed
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  • 40 4 Action committees are being formed by the Labour League of Youth in the various districts in Singapore for a membership drive. Those interested in joining should contact the secretary, Mr. Noel Carter, 76, Goodman Road.
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  • 36 4 Mr. Harro von Zeppelin. Far East chief engineer and recording manager of the Westrex Co arrived in Singapore by air yesterday to visit film studios and theatres. He leaves on Friday for Bangkok.
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  • 58 4 Three men were charged in Singapore yesterday with being In a mob which threw stones I and bottles at the police last Thursday evening at Alexandra Road. They were Tan Ah Chuan. Chiam San Leng and Lan Kirn Hong who were remanded till next Tuesday. Tan
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  • 70 4 THE KISSES OF PEACE BUTTERWORTH, Mon. Two neighbours kissed each other's hands in court here today. "With the approach of Hari Raya, it is our duty to forjive one another," the magistrate, Inche Hassan bin Hussain, told Sattar and Man bin Haji Ali. The men alleged to have fought over
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  • 55 4 SEREMBAN. Mon.— The manager of a NAAFI canteen at Gemas today appeared in court here on a charge of dealing in 53 cases of beer on which customs duty of 51. 102 had not been paid. Chow Cheong claimed trial and was allowed $3,000 bail. The case
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  • 143 4 TUC drive for blood donors rTHE Singapore Tracks x Union Congress has undertaken to launch a drive for donors to the Blood Bank. The T.U.C. president S. Jaganathan. told the Straits Times that he would urge members to "comnvr themselves to the laudablY service" of donating blood Donor Organiser of
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  • 36 4 An unidentified Chinese was pulled out of the spa oft Princess Elizabeth Walk last night. Police found no identity card on the man. who was i sent to the General Hospital.
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  • 63 4 ALOR STAR, Mon. Senior Asian government officers here are angry over a report that an expatriate officer had called one of their colleagues a "bloody fool." "This high handedness must be stopped," one Asian of- I fl< told the JM *»iai orficm |^H form a hrjrt!,
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  • 6 4 BAND SHOOT TAPPE A shotgun »$w
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  • 22 4 Food ban f or Hari R PEXAXG W ■strictin relaxed l* "fj^^r 2ff I into reflricttcTJW j apply for pe^H this period,
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  • 199 6 W,,rrf* flu (minimum). THE FAMILY of the late Mr. Young Vln Pin thank all friends and relatives for their monetary donations, wreaths, and attendance at the funeral on 10.5.55. MR. AND MRS. B. J. Thomas Thank all friends and relatives who bi tended, their wedding on Saturday, 14th May
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  • 68 6 :n Word* $10 i minimum). ONG TENG ANN, beloved father of On< Kong Koo, On? Kong Llm, Ong Urn Nro on 14.5.55. Burial game day, at Cheras Road Cemeicry. K.L. CHENG: Mr. Cheng Yin Yee, ace 54. Proprietor of Yee Heng 6awmill, passed away on 14th May. 1955. at
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  • 804 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. May 17, 1955. The Naked Evil Public opinion, outraged by the bloodshed of the riots, found full expression and met with full response in the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday. Speaker after speaker from both sides of the House rose to denounce the insensate violence that
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  • 470 6 Possibly no Englishman admittedly, he is a Scotsman has ever had so many and such varied tributes paid to him in Singapore as Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. The high regard in which he is held in Whitehall is proved by his reappointment by successive
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    • 177 6 OPPONENTS of family w planning are those to whom, by virtue of their circumsta nces, responsibilities and the miseries of unwanted pregnancies are something they know nothing about. Because they are not in a position to need the services of the FP.A.
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    • 163 6 POMMENTING on "DocV> tor's" letter, the estimated population of the continental USA. in August, 1953. was about 160 million, and the latest Catholic (NOWC) statistics from there show a little more than 31 million Catholics. That would mean a percentage of, not slightly less than 40,
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    • 317 6 Resounding leadership? -nonsense I .THE concluding senf 1 tence of your cdii torial of Friday is absolute nonsense. The speech made by the Chief Minister, David Marshall, is a pathetic I study of contradictions i and that of a champion I "fence sitter." Mr. Marshall said that his I Government
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    • 132 6 A STATEMENT on birtht* f f fo nt, tr ol by the chief Katni of Singapore has arrested my attention. I was under the belief that tne laws of man were made in conjunction with the law* Of God. I am glad that Mr. Braga has been
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    • 506 6 The Labour Front must still pander to the mob WVERY thinking man is in general agreement with the stand taken by the Chief Minister in the recent S3.W.U. dispute with the Hock Lee Bus Company and in the riot of hooligans and undisciplined schoolboys. He is certainly to be praised
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    • 330 6 This should gladden Mao's heart Lin I have seen a clipping 'of the A.P. report from Cannes, as published in Singapore. I wish to set the record straight. The Associated Press sent a representative to Interview me for substantiation of my statement in the New York Times about the terror
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    • 421 6 COST OF THE OPIUM CENTRE WE ALL know what a fT good thins the Opium Rehabilitation Centre at St. Johns Island is to the opium addicts. But we didn t think or expect, what a good thinp; it was gomto be for the medicu staff— some of them. St. John's
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  • 131 6 On the Margin SJ world other ttol\ cut. as n .«*2 Af nentio.:- > !>| visit a i**i enter', I brvari made. I sence I I tain c Wrthm s O ,i rbi^r M to cai back to bTJ hour.,. j-;i *J done' 1 Exactly my f, Passpor; n^J Thirty
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  • 29 6 AT a few new > This wa It had mm »J able aspects of jj ail the I recomn .prising need a deal ci« for it STANIXT J
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  • 612 7 er ing miners defied police warnings to break up Iclh court of dash with bottles and stones between striken and J j !l fj"» grf as 25 ex-wrkers nre charged ,mth unlawful assembly 1 •fro""' 1 L if ruddin j ippan. S:ngh I Fib. clerk lieu of notice terminating services
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  • 49 7 SHALL POSTPONES HIS GROUSE' SESSION II Mar-hall, has postponed his today to Saturday at the m from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. r M. Sundram. of the Ministry of Labr A. Baker, of the Singapore Imwever. be available for interviews n. today to attend those with or housing problems.
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  • 129 7 TALALLA DIES IN K.L. KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. ONE of Kuala Lumpur's "grand old men" Mr. H. B. Talalla, died in Bungsar Hospital last night. He was 70. Before the war he was a wellknown public figure here. He came to Malaya more than 50 years ago. As a member of
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  • 49 7 Mohamed bin Misri, who was caught by a husband when he spotted him peeping into his wife's bedroom, pleaded guilty in a Singapore court yesterday, to criminal trespass into the compound of Chua Sect Tecks house in Kovan Road on Saturday. He was fined $50.
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  • 36 7 Lim Cheng Hoe 21, of Joo Chiat Road, pleaded guilty in Singapore yesterday to a charge of being drunk and incapable at the Mvi Fong ResUurant on May 14. He was fined $5.
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  • 221 7 VILLAGERS PUT THUGS TO FLIGHT A 13- YEAR-OLD boy who heard three armed thugs demand money from his parents at 1 a.m. yesterday, sneaked out of the house and raised an alarm. Before the boy, Toh Hun Cheong, could reach the village police post a
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  • 111 7 City Council engineer gets divorce RAY SINGLETON, a City Council engineer, was granted a divorce in the Singapore High Court yesterday from his wife, Irene, on the grounds of adultery. The Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, ordered the decree to be made absolute in six months. They were married in
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  • 60 7 Collapsed after golf KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Mrs. Phyllis Carr, wife of Mr. M. H. Carr, of J. A. Russell and Co., died in Bungsar Hospital yesterday after collapsing at the Selangor Golf Club after a game of golf. She had lived in Malaya for many years.
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  • 50 7 The 10,000 th parachute jump of the Far East Air Force parachute training school at R.A.F. Changi will be made by a volunteer of No. 22 Special Air Services Regiment on Thursday. The jump will be from a Valetta aircraft of No. 52 Squadron, Far East Transport Wing.
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  • 28 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Sentul Methodist Youth Fellowship will celebrate itsseventh anniversary with a social at the Sentul Methodist Boys' School hall at 5 p.m. on Saturday.
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  • 146 7 rpHE Automobile Association of Singapore yesterday A announced a new type of Customs pass which will enable its members to go on cheaper European tours in their own cars. This is the insured pass for which a member has to pay a special insurance premium
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  • 40 7 The 16,500-ton troopship Empire Clyde arrived in Singapore from Britain yesterday with 500 troops for Malaya. The trooper also disembarked 55 service families. In transit to Hong Kong were another 100 troops and 99 families.
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  • 252 7 I ffi 8 daughter, 6, cries as coffin is carried off AS the funeral cortege of Detective Corporal Yuen Van Pang, who was killed by rioters last Thursday, slowly wended to way to C.I.D. Headquarters vwterday, his six-year-old Sfugnter following behind cried out, "Papa, oh papa!"
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  • 48 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Two shots were fired last night at Home Guards on the Ladang Bahru Gemas Estate near Segamat in Johore. The Home Guards had challenged figures seen near the perimeter fence. They fired back and the figures fled. There were no casualties.
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  • 373 7 Labour mourn Mendis' death THEY EXPECTED HIM TO RETURN THE Singapore Labour x Front yesterday announced the death of Mr. Victor Mendis, a senior member of the Front's executive committee, in Colombo on Sunday. The Front had been expecting Mr. Mendis' return to Singapore. A statement issued by the Labour
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  • 271 7 YOUTHS LIED ABOUT BOY'S DEATH He was not shot at station A SINGAPORE Government statement last night exA plained that the police detained the four youths who brought Chong Lon Chung's body to the General Hospital after he had been shot in the riots on Thursday to determine why the
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  • 59 7 DR. E. S. MONTEIRO, Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Malaya, returned to Singapore by air yesterday after six months' holiday in England and Europe. Whie on leave. Professor Monteiro visited the London hospital, post-gradnate medical schools in LondonEdinburgh, Spain and Portugal
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  • 36 7 SEREMBAN, Mon. Next Monday and Tuesday will be observed as Hari Raya Puasa holidays in Negri Sembilan, whether the new moon is seen on Sunday night or not, it was officially stated here today
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  • 81 7 Dorothy Tan, 28, a Kuala Lumpur nurse, left Singapore yesterday on the 3,700-ton Charon for Australia on a scholarship awarded by the Australian Imperial Forces every year to a Chinese girl from the Federation Or Singapore. She will take a course in operating theatre management and technique.
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  • 27 7 SEREMBAN, Mon.— The annual meeting of the Seremban YWCA will be held at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday at the N.S. Lodge. A social will follow.
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    • 163 7 The weather MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: (7.30 p.m. on May 15 to 7.30 a.m. on May 16) Singapore 75 degrees, Penang 75, Kota Bahru 75. Kuala Lumpur 75, Ipoh 74, Kuantan 74. MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE: Pshr shr shrd shr shrd sh (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on May 16): Singapore 91 degrees. Penang
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  • 20 8 A DELIGHTFUL frock for the teen-ager, sec?i in one of the recent fashion shows in London.
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  • 432 8  - A NEW FASHION NOTE FOR SARONG AND KEBAYA MAXINE RAKICH KEBAYA styles very seldom change and if they do they retain their simplicity so Malay women find that embroidery forms the highest fashion note in the fashion world of Malay dress. The kebaya is not really a pure Malayan fashion.
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  • 343 8 Why nat gangs far the girls ELIZABETH POH wants to know fLAMOROIIS "pin up" VI beauties and cuties receive a lot of well merited publicity. and "cheesecake" delights the eyes of all, but what can we give Madam Housewife? Why not make a start on long service awards? When a
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  • 447 8 Amah finds the way a dog's heart MONDAY rriHE" new Amah ar- rives today and is greeted by ferocious barks from Kirn, who obviously considers that the kitchen is sacred to our old Amah. "Never mind." I tell Amah number two. "She will soon like you when you begin to
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    • 188 8 w MALmI StWHIUW Naf^linum [^H >j: s /^E^E^Dk.v &l very good reasons I^l I Bl LACTOGEN is an all-milk product modilied M I and bahinred to resemhle human milk vprv closely indeed. ©LACTOGEN is easily digpsird by even I delicate babies (or the "curd*' is soft and I flaky and
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    • 354 8 Straits Times Crossword "Li* LT LT IT U* LTU To" V 1— "s^ ~U~ 15 111 75" 17 18 19 H| 20~ 21 22 IT 2* 25 "2T Hl^~ ACROSS Benumbed like rising peel (6). 1. A graduate's bed for luck (B>. 15 An °W "stinks" master! (Si 5. The
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    • 269 9 '-a^a^a^H S f* [TVj f ,£r t TaS B in atne t- W--f>O&Q^ n P* SCOTCH WHISK* Kin^GeorgelV ITw^ O&i Scotch Whiskti Mfrjtec«il grf P«Or*IITA«T lUND O» THE HICrfIST STAND AID B&y^ fW OlHHhn »t.nci Liniiid Ed.nk* .|h ~r£s\ •/BJfjffjSg^ MMHSK i:\HA TO., LTO I "•<""• SWETTENHAM. IPOH TEH! K
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    • 1319 10 mm S4os MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. t.u »4i» (IS lines) (Incorporated in Singapore) (11 line.) S DepT THE BLUE FUNNEL UNE Corner? cotion *o proceed via other ports to lood ond discharge cargo SAILINGS to LIVIRPOOL, GLASGOW, LONDON 1 CONTINENTAL PORTS Singapore Due Sails P. S'hom Penang P 7™os|ow L
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    • 2145 10 TIL.: No.: iMufITHE BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. Tlt i 3 i7°V SINGAPORE (Incorporoted in the United Kirvjdom) S LINES SAIUNGS TO U.K. AND CONTINENTAL PORTS S'pora P. S'hom Penong mm •~Tv2p£f, GS^Hamburg 22/20 Ma, lf/30 May 31 May/ 1 Jan. M* Mra* arrhra. LaMa. 22 Jun. !W f^ 00 im*~
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  • 337 11 .r Malayan Share brokers' As- ition reported: "There '*as a i p turn in .sentiment on the local .r miiiket and with a good many n withdrawn, a few industrials .showed useful is while others remained dull. Tins were quietly steady and rubbers neglected." >>ip members reported the
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  • 276 11 INDUSTRIAL SHARES FIND BUYERS ON COLONY MART By Our Market Correspondent p()R the first time for many days an upward trend in the prices of selected industrials took place on the Singapore Share Market, yesterday following the statement of the Chief Secretary to' the Singapore Assembly on the security situation
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  • 151 11 June first $rade rubber buyers fob. closed In Singapore yesterday at 90 cents a lb., unchanged on Saturday. The closing tone was steady, quiet. There was a fair turnover with some short-co -erlng activity reported. The differential on nearby widened to 1> 2 cents. Closing rubbw prices yesterday
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  • 149 11 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday: New York: buying airmail T.T. 32 78. O.D. 33, 90 days 33 18 credit bills, 33 3 16 trade bills Canada: buying airmaU, T.T. 32 7 16. O.D. 32 9 16, 90 days
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    • 304 11 PRICES p-ndU( c x m price: coco- ofclN Stafali «h>rvr» or i" I Ilghter !.4 Wavn fh 27 28 rt 33 34. i :«39 TUc!r:e 4? 43 KNUTSEN LINE nt i»d Rcs;uhr Service S PACIFIC PORTS— 3O DAYS S*n Arrivm, !n?aporc P Swcr Penang Fremantle :3Miv 25 May 27 May
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    • 215 11 SHIPPING NOTICES 'EASTERN SAGA' The above vessel due Singapore May 23rd has excellent single and double accommodation available to Antwerp/Hamburg. Contact Agents Boustcad St Co.. Ltd., Singapore Tel. 5161, for details and fares to North Continent or through to U.K JAVA PACIFIC LINE hit. "BAWEAN" has arrived from USA Pacific
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    • 1217 11 NOTICES NOTICE HONG FATT (SUNGEI BESI) CITY COUNCIL ELECTRICITY t miTEn DEPARTMENT LIMTfcD Work In connection with electrical NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS extensions in 9* mile Ylo Chu Kang Nottce te here by given that It Is wJSS? I^ intended to pay a final dividend of hour, rf gon /M^ 10
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    • 1440 11 NOTICES CLOSING OF TEMERLOH FERRY Th* vehicle ferry at Temerloh will be closed to traffic on the following dates: From 7 a.m. on 22nd May to 7 a.m. on the 23rd. May. From 7 a.m. on 1 the 25th. May to 7 a.m. on the 26th. May. The pedestrian ferry
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  • 393 12 Wounded student was carried through streets for four hours by rioters a 1.... ,HE MIGHT HAVE LIMED If BODY HAD NOT BEEN USED FOR PROPAGANDA E fHONd LON CHONG, a E \j student who died in last E Thursday's riots, .might have E lived "if his body had not 3
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  • 176 12 CT. ANDREWS CATHE- DRAL in Singapore thronged with mourners yesterday at the memorial service for Mr. Gene Symonds, the American newspaperman killed during last week's riots in Alexandra RoadThere were representatives from the Colony Government; Mr. David Marshall, the Chief Minister; Mr. Nigel Morris. Commissioner
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    • 425 12 NEW! IJIHSIIIHI' becoute the ball It half R 111 the usual lire, it- I toiaai&na 111 Evtrsharp pioneer I Hf in ball point I^R writing, now brings I UJ you the pen wit!t IIHI more exclusive I jHI features than oil other IMI ball point pent I HI combined/ I
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    • 167 12 AxYßEnecdstobcroughtostand I up to the constant bumping^ I jarring on the rough track. often have to serve for road< T 'j rugged Henley P.G. Tyre has b e I specially designed to give trouble I free service under the most arduous conditions. Whatever the jd Tyre specially made for is.
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  • 353 13 Epsom Jeep's Malayan turf jottings Trainer Jack Spencer expects him to be back for Summer meet at Bukit Timah JOCKEY Billy Bell, who is recuperating in Australia after an operation, will return to ride in Malaya, according to trainer Jack Spencer. He is expected back in time
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  • 242 13 Court Jewel strides out stylishly at Penang PENANG, Mon. (X)URT JEWEL galloped] stylishly on a weti track at Penang this morning. With Mickey Donnelly astride, this Hellespont mare strode out faultlessly over 3f. in 37 3/5. Court Jewel has made further headway since her pro- 1 mising win at Ipoh
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  • 36 13 The scheduled floodlit S.A.F.A. leacue first division match at Jalan Besar stadium between Rovers and Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers had to be postponed as the soldiers are still on stand-by duty.
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  • 47 13 BRIDGETOWN. Mon. Australia, who scored 243 for five on Saturday, were 342 for five at lunch on the second day of their fourth Test against West Indies here today. The not out batsmen. Miller and Archer, were 57 and 56 respectively. Reuter.
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  • 233 13 PARIS, Mon. England. start in« their European soccer tour, were beaten 1-0 by France in their international match here yesterday. The winning goal came from a first-half penalty scored by centre forward Kopa. France gained another success when their "B" side trounced Egypt 7-1
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  • 198 13 LONDON. Mon. RAIN in Vienna caused the postponement of the final two singles In Britain's second round European zone Davis Cup match against Austria Britain having won the doubles on Saturday, lead 2-1 and need to £in only one of the remaining Mn
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  • 375 13 SOUTH AFRICANS IN 41-RUN LEAD ON FIRST INNINGS NOTTINGHAM, Monday. COUTH AFRICAN slow bowlers lan Smith and Hugh Tayfield put the tourists on top in their match against Nottingham whom they dismissed for 231 runs here today. I The South Africans, who lave yet to win a game in Sngland,
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  • 189 13 LONDON. Mon. pK>UR counties, defending chamA pions Surrey, Yorkshire, Middlesex and Leicester, won their games in the county cricket championships in two days today. Close of play scores were: At Oval, Surrey beat Somerset by an innings and four runs. Somerset 99 and 121. (Lock five
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  • 117 13 Sunderland recover to win by 3-2 NEW YORK, Mon. A GOAL by Ken Chisholm •f* in the 36th minute of the second half gave Sunderland, the English First Division league club, a 3-2 victory over Huddersfield Town, another English Div. 1 side, in their soccer match before 9,324 spectators at
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  • 95 13 PARIS Mon. jVf MARTIN FABIANI'S colt Kla- iron, which ran third In the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket last month, won the French equivalent of the English classic at Longchamps yesterday. As at Newmarket the race, known as the Poule Dessai des Poulalns. was decided on a
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  • 84 13 BELGRADE, Mon. SCOTLAND made a good start to their three-match continental soccer tour when they held Yugoslavia, the Olympic silver medal winners to a 2-2 draw here yesterday. All the goals game in the first half. Yugoslavia twice took the lead but Scotland fought back to
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    • 55 13 SOCCER SAFA I.rapue. Div. I: I hinesr Athlrtir v H. M. Dockyard. Jalan Rcsar: Div. 2B: Gymkhana v V.M.C.A.. Grylane. SERVICES league. Div. I: R.A.F. Srletar v R.E.M.E.. Self tar; R.A.S.C. v R.E., Ayrr Rajah: Div. 2: REME v MRNVR. Ayrr Rajah. R.A.F. (hangi "A" v R.A.F. Spartans, hanji. Krirnrlly:
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  • 644 14 SUN-TANNED AMD FIT AMERICAN GUP MEN FLY IN YOUNG ARMANDARIZ IS LIKE MENDEZ WISECRACKS first. Badminton talk afterwards. And to round up a busy evening of arrival, a solid two-hour practice session at the Singapore Badminton Stadium. That was the order of events
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  • 220 14 Cup stars will not let us down Heah MALAYA can count on the invincibility of Wonp; Peng Soon and Eddie Choonsj, the world's best singles players, and Ooi Teik Hock and Ong Poh Lim, the world's doubles champions, to retain the Tho- mas Cup, said Mr. Hcah Joo Seang, president
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  • 52 14 SUCCESSFUL applicants for Thomas Cup ticke's whose names appear on allocation lists in Sincapore should collect their tickets before 4 p.m. on Thursday from the second floor bar of the Cathay Theatre. Tickets not collected before the day on which play is scheduled will be sold at the
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  • 280 14 U.S. TEAM BETTER THAN IN 1952 THE THINGS they have been saying about the United States Thomas Cup team are true the Americans, taken all round, ARE a stronger team than they were in 1952. The strength is most evident in the doubles, as was clearly seen when the Americans
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  • 312 14 TWO GIFT goals enabled Singapore Indians to score their first success in the SAFA Community League when they defeated Royal Navy 6-4 in a keenly-contested match at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. A draw would ha»e been a fairer result. Navy had to scrape
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  • 270 14 By i ROCKYMaA^no^,"" I'-,^!1 heavyweißht title Ban Francisco at in-u However. I give C ock, 1 chances of blasting the n T^^ from the strong D m "iron-boy" Mareiano Cockell can try M rounds by smarter rtag and boxing ability, h? chance is
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  • 99 14 rpWO changes have been made 111 x the Singapore team Kfala Lumpur for their a.::. state fixture against Selansor over the weekend. Left-hander R. G. Barker if able to travel and his place been taken by Emil Le Merck Chris Barron la, also not
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    • 130 14 REACH 75,000 FAMILIES— WITH A STRAITS TIMES CLASSIFIED ADVERT. FOR HIRE 20 Words $S (Min.)— Box SO r<». extra. LATEST MODELS Self-Drive Cars for Hire. Moderate charges. Special rates for long period. Please phone *****. Mr. Hoe. VEHICLES FOR SALE 29 Wordt SS (Min.)— Box S0 ctt. extrn ROVER 75
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    • 286 14 FOR SALE 20 Wordt SS (Min.)— Box SO cts. extra. I ESSEX ELECTRIC SEWING I Machine, Brand New, bought this month. Cost $97.50. Selling $79 0.n.0. Free delivery. Apply Box A 3752 S.T. ALSATIAN PUPPIES. Ist Class M.X.A.. Beautiful condition. Reasonable Price Apply Chong Yak, 379-A Yio Chu Kang Road,
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    • 299 14 MISCELLANEOUS 20 Words $S (Mm.) Box JO r»*. extra. YOUNG MAN (Asians. Just arilved in Singapore, seeks friends to show him the city. Box A 3754 S.T. USE SHELLTOX for rapid kill of insect pests in Your home. Costs $1.20 or $2.05 In pint or quart tins. PROMINENT wall space
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    • 24 14 WORLD FAMOUS jJ SINCE 1848 W\ ELECTK Sold by All Watch /W-- i Sole Agents:- UftW.^t 62. SOUTH BRIDGE RJAO- j^ EVERSHARP^ I OVERSEA^'
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