The Straits Times, 18 May 1955

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    14 1 The Straits Times r i Estd 1845 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1955 15 CENTS
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    GOVT ACTS on STUDENTS
    904 1 t *o thousand boy and girU barricade thwn— to Chung Cheng High School The Chung Cheng boys tell a British journalist: 'No picture*— then might be an incident* ...And be finds those 'spontaneous' classes 'just as spontaneous as May Day in Moscow 1 RUSSELL SPURR. chief
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    ouble ikers st be gelled
    1027 1 WT... Tlliil SAND h;Pt t middle itadents last rinded themn i school in nKiiiid a> the f^vernment n drastic leaders who IB last Thurs- i. in Singa[LSION (1 j neen-day Imticc I H NOTICE to show I ild not I I I Chinese I I
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    OUR FROGS ARE SENT TO PRISON
    331 1 OUR FROGS ARE SENT TO PRISON Feted in Singapore, feted in the Cocos, feted in Mauritiw but oh! The change when they got to Johannesburg KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. THE MALAYAN "Olympic" frog team was clapped under armed guard behind locked doors when it arrived by air in Johannesburg yesterday. The
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    Lock icon HE FLED FROM INDONESIA
    245 1 So accused man 's wife is questioned now JAKARTA. Tuesday. INDONESIAN authorities today questioned Mrs. Her- man Bouman on the flight of her lawyer husband from Indonesia to Holland. Mrs Bouman was called lo the chief prosecutor's office late this morning. Meanwhile the chief prosecutor himself
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    Lock icon Govt. defeated
    31 1 THE HAGUE. Tues. The Dutch coalition government formed 32 months ago. was defeated in the Lower House of Parliament today in a debate on its controversial rents bill. Reuter.
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    Passenger is taken off
    56 1 A 25-year-old Italian. Francisco Cantone, was last night taken off the ship in which he was a passenger for an emergency operation at the General Hospital. Singapore. Cantone, who is on his way to Australia, is expected to remain in hospital for a few days. His
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    Lock icon A-blast in sea
    30 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. The Defence Department announced today that the U.S. Navy had exploded a small atomic device underwater off the west coast of the United States.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Less temptation
    31 1 NEW DELHI, Tues— lndia and Pakistan have agreed to cut their border forces and the arms theY carry to prevent frontier incidents, it was an nounced here tonight.— Reuter
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    Lock icon CHURCHILL'S a CHAMELEON'
    203 1 Attlee goes all colourful in slanging duel PORT SETON, Scotland, Tues. m|R. CLEMENT ATTLEE, the A Labour Party leader, told an election audience here today that Sir Winston Churchill was a chameleon— "which turns blue if you set it on a blue tablecloth and red if you
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    Policemen rush to stop riot threat
    241 1 Policemen rush to stop riot threat 150 SEAMEN MAKE SCENE AT BUREAU A SQUAD OF POLICEMEN was rushed to the Seamen's Registration Bureau, in Fullerton Building, Singapore, at noon yesterday when it was feared that about 150 Chinese seamen were threatening a riot. An umbrella and office stationery were thrown
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    Lock icon Johnny is so happy he could cry
    112 1 AMERICAN KOOMK Johnny "Cry" Ray, who has announced his engagement to singer Sylvia Drew, a 21--year-old Londoner, said in Birmingham last night he would "fade from the picture" if she preferred her career. Ray. who described the three weeks "we have been going
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    Lock icon Test cricketer executed
    38 1 KINGSTON. Tues. Leslie Hylton. former West Indies and Jamaica cricketer, was hanged today for the murder of his wife. His appeal for reprieve was dismissed by the Privy Council in London on May 7.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon House buries 5
    23 1 NAPLES, Tues.— An apartment building under construction on a hill overlooking Naples collapsed today, killing; at least five workmen.— AP.
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    Poll warning
    23 1 LONDON. Tucs. The Bishop of Chester today warned that public apathy over the general election could pave the way to dictatorship.
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    MALAYAN DRIVERS in RECORD JOURNEY
    178 1 MALAYAN DRIVERS in RECORD JOURNEY Calcutta to London in 17 days, 17 hours A CIVIL engineer and a rubber planter, both Englishmen from Malaya, have established what they believe to be a record time 17 days and 17£ hours for the overland trip of 7,800 miles from Calcutta to London.
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    Ex-editor dies
    25 1 HONG KONG, Tues.—Frederick Percy Franklin, 65, who retired in March as managing director. South China Morning Post, died today at his home here.
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    Boy is stabbed in city street
    138 1 Boy is stabbed in city street A SINGAPORE student, Tan Swee Kirn, 18, was stabbed by three Chinese armed with daggers in Change Alley yesterday afternoon. Tan screamed and collapsed In a pool of blood while his attackers escaped into the crowd He was wounded In the chest and forehead,
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    Lock icon STOP PRESS
    41 1 PLANE ('HASHES INTO CARRmrS IT'XNEL PORTSMOUTH, Tups Naval plane today crashed into funnel of KJtt-ton British aircraft carrier Eagle II miles out at sea from Portsmouth. Pilot was seriously hijur.-d.—Kculrr. TEST LATEST BRIDGETOWN. Tucs Australia all out I>GB. Reuter.
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    VISITING TROOPS WARNED: AVOID SIDE STREETS
    90 1 MORE than 1,000 troops and 131 service families, who arrived in Singapore from i Hong Kong yesterday in the j troopship Empire Orwell, were i warned to look out for trouble in Singapore's side-streets before they left the ship for a few hours' shore
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    Siam wants proof
    228 2 A diplomatic hush covers the question: Just how many Red bonnets are over the border? KUALA Ll'MPl'R. Tues. A CHALLENGE b.v unnamed "high Siamese officials" in Bangkok to the Federation Government to "prove", there are 500 Malayan' Communist terrorists along the MalayanSiamese frontier is not hems taken
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    Narriman's husband says 'No' to divorce, 'Yes' to wed
    105 2 Narriman's husband says 'No' to divorce, Y es to wed CAIRO. Tues. Dr. Adham Nakib, husband of ex-Queen j Narriman of Egypt, last night I confirmed that he intended to marry again and have two wives. "Narriman will never have her divorce,' he said. "She cannot get it ever and
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    SERGEANT SHARIF is HOME in ENGLAND with AMINAH
    55 2 SE RGEA NT SH AR IF is HOME in EN GLAND w it h AMINAH HOME: Sergeant Sharif, fits wife and baby Zain (above) squat cosily on the floor of their new home in Surrey. In true Muslim style (right) Aminah walks a few paces behind her husband to his
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    Lock icon 'Admiral' quits the polls
    247 2 'Admiral' quits the polls HE WANTED £150 AND 60T 4/- LONDON. Tues. AR ET I RE D naval officer today dropped his plans to fight two parliamentary seats at once in the May 26 general election because he could not raise the £150 deposit which is required from every candidate.
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    Thank you plaque
    39 2 LONDON, Tues. Ma j .-Gen. H. P. Romswinckel. Commander General of the Netherlands Royal Marines, yesterday presented a plaque to the Royal Marines here commeorate the hospitality offered to Dutch marines in Britain In the war.
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    ....and grandmother pets baby Zain, says: I'm so proud
    306 2 ....and grandmother pets baby Zain, says: I'm so proud FOR SOPP, a Hampshire lad who loved cricket and joined the Army straight from school, sailed away to the East four years ago. Last week he arrived at his home in Farnborough (Kent) as Sgt. Sharif bin Abdullah. -W. With him
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    Lock icon SEPARATED, THEY FLY TO SIAM
    161 2 Children back in time for birthday CHICAGO, Tuesday. PRISSANA and Napit Polpinyo, Siamese twin girls i who were separated in an operation here, left for Siam yesterday. The girls, happy in their new. separate lives, are due in Bangkok on Thursday in plenty of time
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    Lock icon He leaves all to Govt.
    72 2 NEW YORK. Tues— A Ger-man-born rubber importer left his US$7O,OOO (Malayan $210,000) estate to the United States Government because of the "blessings enjoyed as citizens of this country", his will showed today. Mr. Julius Lehmann and his wife, lika, came to the United i i
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    Lock icon Back to Moscow
    20 2 VIENNA. Tues. Mr- Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister, left by special Soviet plane for Moscow today. Reuter.
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    BRITAIN GETS SHOULD
    30 2 BRITAIN GETS SHOULD sau land 8no» f^h ar. land a, motorists ov <rfforu r 5 >ng count:-,.".'. Traff, weather preceder year:In thp squalh ar storms. rain for tj many nort
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    Trieste sta blessed by
    27 2 VATICA Pius XII window of tils n Virgin Marvin of 5,000 Roniei ers. T> Wi statue ma which v.. Yugoslav aernm tho fro/,
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    INSTON SEES A NEW LOOK AT THE KREMLIN
    79 3 INSTON SEES A NEW LOOK AT THE KREMLIN ph, fiwfr /a/to are Jmrf of fo gef a/fer g^^ efecfore fofrf LONDON, Tuesday. N (HI EN lIH^ declared at Woodlid nkht that there might be i the Kremlin following |VJl downfall which tould be "most erwhelming masses of people Britain, the
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    'Khrushchev will meet Big Three'
    118 3 'Khrushchev will meet Big Three' LONDON, Tues. ryitV. Communist Party leader. 1 Mr. Khrushchev, and not ihr Soviet Premier, Marshal Nikolai Huliunin, may re-prej-ent Russia at the* forthcoming meeting of Big Four heads of state. a London newvpaper suggested today. The Liberal News Chronicle >aid: "This is to be a
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    Lock icon Germans make polio serum
    36 3 HAMBURG. Tues. A German anti-polio vaccine deveioped by the Behring Works, s pone on sale in all Gerpharmacles, the company .announced. Several thousand children are already been vaccinated •ith the serum. A.P
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    Siamese twins die
    17 3 DETROIT. Tues— Siamese twin girls born here on Sunday died in hospital last night.
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    Lock icon PAY WAS LATE
    44 3 ii last to death is planned would Bhatt. Hindi The Working Journalists' Union, of which Bhatt is former secretary-general congratulated him on "his courageous stand against injustice." t asked the government and the newspaper management to "avert the impending tragedy."— U.P.
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    Lock icon China wants Formosa talks
    313 3 China wants Formosa talks CHOU REPEATS THAT OFFER TO AMERICA HONG KONG, Tues. TTIE Prime Minister of x Communist China, Mr. Chou En-lai, has repeated his offer to negotiate with the United States "to ease tension in the Formosa area." the New China News Agency reported today. China supports the
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    Lock icon JOAN CRAWFORD WEDS SOFT DRINK KING
    31 3 JOAN CRAWFORD WEDS SOFT DRINK KING JOAN CRAWFORD, aged 47, the film actress, and Alfred Steele, president of the Pepsi -Cola Company, after their wedding at Las Vegas. Nevada. A.P. picture.
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    Lock icon Communism? It's ALL bad
    210 3 DEMOCRACY BEST—T.U.C. LEADER LONDON, Tuesday. MR. Charles Geddes, chairman of Britain's eight mil- lion strong Trades Union Congress, said here today he preferred democracy "even in its worst form" to a Communist dictatorship "If I have to choose between a Communist totalitarian j state and a
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    Lock icon Mystery of the whales
    59 3 WELLINGTON, (New Zealand), Tues. Seventeen whales stranded last week on the beach of Paraparamu, a holiday resort 30 miles north of "here, may belong to a hitherto unknown specie*. Dr. W.R.B. Oliver, an authority on whales, said last night that he had searched all available records
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    Lock icon Decoys attacked: Ten years
    44 3 LONDON, Tues. WUliam George Barnett, 29-year-old labourer was jailed for 10 years at the Old Bailey yesterday for attacking two policewomen who were decoys to catch him. The policewomen were injured when Barnett pounced on them along a footpath. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Nancy won't forgive Churchill
    108 3 Nancy won't forgive Churchill LurrDON, Tues. LADY Nancy Astor, Americanborn former Conservative M.P., last night told a meeting at Oldham, Lancashire, of "the crime for which I will never forgive Sir Winston Churchill." "He never made a speech about the women of Britain during the whole six years of war,"
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    Lock icon New envoy for Peking
    57 3 LONDON, Tues.— The Hon. CD W. O'Neill, head of the Foreign Office News Department, has been appointed British Charge D'AfTaires in Peking in succession to Mr. Humphrey Trevelyan, the Foreign Office announced today. Mr. Trevelyan will be Britain's next Ambassador to Egypt, in succession to Sir
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    Lock icon On the map
    35 3 BERLIN. Tues. An unnamed Briton bought the first printed sea atlas at an auction here for nearly 100, beating i eight other would-be buyers. I The atlas was printed in 1584. —Reuter.
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    Lock icon Naval trials
    27 3 LONDON. Tues.— British, United States and Netherlands submarines, surface craft and planes will take part in exercises off Iceland between Friday and June 4. A.P.
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    Lock icon RIOTING STUDENTS STORM COURT
    187 3 PAPHOS, Cyprus, Tues. CEVERAL hundred Cypriot students yelling "Enosis" (union with Greece) and "liberate the prisoners" stormed barbed wire barricades erected by the police around Paphos courthouse todayIgnoring appeals of a group of priests and the opposition of unarmed police, they heaved aside three rows of
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    LONDON STOCKS
    390 3 LONDON. Tues. AFTER early hesitancy reflecting the setback on Wall Street overnight, prices went ahead again in the London stock market today. Oilts again advanced on expanded activity and it appeared that the institutions were back in the market. The marked strength of German State bonds featured the
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    LONDON TIN
    23 3 LONDON. May 17.—Cash Buyers £7122: Sellers £713: Forward Buyers £715: Sellers £715>i: Settlement £713. Turnover a.m. 25 tons p.m. 25 tons.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    33 3 LONDON, May 17.—Spot 28' id.. June 27 7*d. July-Sept. 26 Tsd., Oct.Dec. 26Vtd.. Jan.-Mar. 25 :l«d. Apr.June Unquoted. May c.if. '26 "^d.. June ci.f. 26^d.. July cl.t. 26' 2d. Tone: Steady.
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    'Cockpit' loses case—must pay cabaret performers
    428 4 'Cockpit' loses case— must pay cabaret performers ARTISTS CLAIMED THEY WERE SACKED BEFORE CONTRACT ENDED THE Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, gave judgment in the Singapore High Court yesterday for two cabaret artists, W. D. Currie Fryer and Sylvia Mary Martin, who claimed damages against Hotel de TEurope Ltd. ("The
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    Altered his age
    37 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues— Lee San Aun, who altered the age on his identity card to make himself three years younger in order to join a school, was fined $30 in the Magistrate's Court today.
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    MEDALS FOR 48 FROM DR. BLAND Iron man9 wins blood award
    150 4 MEDALS FOR 48 FROM DR. BLAND Iron man 9 wins blood award WRESTLERS, boxers and physical culturists have been regular donors at the Singapore Blood Transfusion Service. Yesterday, one of 48 people who received silver medals for giving blood 10 or more times was a young weightlifter. The "Iron man."
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    Ruler's son hurt in road crash
    86 4 Ruler's son hurt in road crash SEREMBAN, Tues. fFENGKU Laksamana Muna--1 wir, son of the Yang diPertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan, was injured last night when his car collided with a Police Land Rover at Port Dickson. The Tengku, a Home Guard officer at Tampin, Was returning from a training
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    He chopped up table
    86 4 7 was drunk KOH TONG WAH, 28, pleaded guilty in Singapore yesterday to chopping up a hawker's table on Monday at Joo Chiat Road. Inspector T. S. Zain told the court that a couple of police officers saw Koh chopping the table, worth $5 and belonging
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    Reward for HGs
    36 4 IPOH, Tues. A substantial reward is to be paid out to members of an aborigine Home Guard patrol who charged a terrorist camp on Saturday morning and killed one terrorist and wounded another.
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    BETTER THAN BEAUTY—PERSONALITY
    372 4 BETTER THAN BEAUTY— PERSONALITY That's what the gentlemen with an eye for charm all say A RE Chinese women the most beautiful In the world? Singapore men, gallant and ungallant. yesterday agreed on one point: That beauty is not confined to one race and it's personality that counts. The controversy
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    'MEN WE ARE PROUD OF'
    272 4 Sir John at anniversary parade They bagged 61 bandits, wounded 12 MEN OF THE Royal Air Force Regiment (Malaya) Wing are rapidly taking a front place in the defence of this country and should be a source of pride to all Malayans, the Governor, Sir
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    TWO MORE BUSES FOR HOCK LEE
    240 4 S.I.T. join list of trade disputes HPHE Hock' Lee Bus Company increased its fleet by two yesterday the second day it has run a normal service following a 24-day dispute. There were 59 buses on the road. The Singapore Bus Workers' Union again provided
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    THE CHINESE LADIES PLAN DANCE
    66 4 THE CHINESE LADIES PLAN DANCE The Chinese Ladles Association will hold its annual dinner and dance on June 11 at the Victoria Memorial Hall. There will be an eight-course Chinese dinner. Tickets at $8 a person, are available from the managers office. Cathay Theatre The money raised will go to
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    RIOTS HIT SALE OF CONCERT TICKETS
    113 4 THE riots in Singapore have reduced tike advance ■1 sale of tickets for the choral and orchestral concerts to be conducted by Mr, Kurt Woess at the Victoria Memorial Hall f- The concerts will be held today at 8.45 p.m. and again at the
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    M.Y.F. leaders
    31 4 The Singapore District Methodist Youth Fellowship will hold a three-day leadership training course for officials at Mr. Foo Hong Toon's bungalow. Telok Mata Ikan, from May 28 to 30.
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    Bail allowed in 'hurt' case
    53 4 Ong Heng Hong, 19. of Shaik Madersah Lane, claimed trial in a Singapore police court yesterday to a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to Ong Seng Kee with a knife on May 6. Ball of $250 was allowed and the case was postponed to next
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    DONATIONS TO RIOT VICTIMS
    98 4 The Straits Times has received gifts totalling $72 for the families and dependents of the two Singapore policemen who died of injuries during last Thursday night's rioting In the Alexandra area. The gifts were from: Anonymous (for family of Volunteer Special Constable Andrew Teo Bock Lan)
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    Patrols get two Reds
    59 4 Seven escape KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. -I An area security unit patrol killed a terrorist in the Baub 1 area of west Pahang yesterday. Four others, two of whom were wounded, escaped. No. 1 platoon of the 4th Police Field Force killed anothrr terrorist, Tay Kong Swee.
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    TRACT COMPAN MUST DAMAG
    88 4 TRACT COMPAN MUST DAMAG THE j C;v' siotuton.,, his c i a sair. Tractio^ limited a s *hich t? Thp j n n,. prK *pfcfifc, Ch- A machine jw juries alleged of the 'was entii ButI signal', P roc eed beja/ vehiei< first ap line •'•topped beipT lrjie.'' Obliged i*
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    Schools for
    18 4 The Schoolhold 3 month to rest fare wort ana Trafalgar B The on Jur> studen'p.m. for
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    NTER WITH OKIE: FINE
    7 5 NTER WITH OKIE: FINE fterii* i i
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    Peking at ncil hall
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    woman councillor quits arty Negara for MIC
    52 5 woman councillor quits arty Negara for MIC H i><\.iki Krishnan. < lotted to the H Council from Buntrsar. has quit .upport the Malayan Indian Congress. •iiifPirt> \'~iti tud'v slip said "l!ir iiffercacea I-. P.-tv N-ir.i uid Ihr Alliance, of which the H ontrrss i-. incinUor. arc srowinc. uid rrsisn irom
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    A MINOR LAPSE—MAN KILLED
    316 5 A MINOR LAPSE— MAN KILLED Coroner told how labourer was buried alive as trench caved in Supports taken out hour before accident SLIGHT error in judgment was responsible for the trench cave-in that killed a labourer, K. Thiruvengedam, at the Singapore Airport, Paya i.obar, on April 21, the Singapore Coroner,
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    New village gets aid
    66 5 KAJANG. Tues. The Sclangor State Government has set aside 53 1,000 for development of Sungei Chua new villas- 0 just outside Kajan?, Mr. J. L. M. Gorrie, Ulu Langat District Officer, said today. Siinßei Chua new village has mere than 5.000 people, nearly all rubber tappers
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    School trickster convicted
    87 5 School trickster convicted KLANG. Tues. 'I'HANGARAS Duraisamy, 21,, was convicted here today j i two counts of cheating. tense was postponed tc May 25 at Kuala Lumpur. The court wa.s told that on Jan. 1-. Thangaras went to two achers, Mrs. M. Rasiah and r R.ijadurai, both of the Methodist
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    PATROL KILLS TERRORIST
    71 5 KULIM, Tues.— A Commun- Ist terrorist, Hoi Chan, was shot dead by "C" Company, Federation Regiment, in the Kulim district of South Kedah yesterday, A patrol contacted four armed and uniformed men about 1,000 yards east of Padang Lembu new village. It opened fire, killing Chan with
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    In Malaya to visit agents
    48 5 MR. R. PEEL of S. C. Johnsons Son#, Sydney, a firm which manufactures wax polish, who flew into Singapore yesterday to visit Kian Guan (Malaya) Ltd., sole agents for the polish in Malaya and Indonesia. Mr. Peel leaves for Bangkok on May 25.
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    Bird society to hold show
    44 5 The Singapore Cage Bird Society will hold its first monthly show at the British 'Council Hall on July 17. The society is also holding a joint show with the Singapore Aquarium Society at the Happy World Stadium in September.
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    Union dues demand ended in murder DEATH PENALTY FOR TAPPER
    214 5 Union dues demand ended in murder DEATH PENALTY FOR TAPPER MALACCA, Tuesday. A DEMAND for union dues by an estate man from a rubber tapper resulted in a quarrel and the murder of the man's wife, the High Court was told I today. P. Ramasamy, 23 was sentenced to death
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    Charged in hospital
    51 5 KUALA LUMPUR Tues Two young Chinese who lay in a ward of the General Hospital here were charged today before Inche Ismail, the First Magistrate, with consorting with armed terrorists. They were Ho Soo Lin, 21, formerly of Serdang Bahru, and Soo Kirn, 22, formerly, of Kuchai
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    Cadet corps boys pass
    43 5 PENANO, Tues. Thirty non commissioned officers and men of the St. Xavier's Institution Cadet Corps today received their proficiency certificates issued by the General Officer Commanding, Malaya. The presentation was made by Col. J. D. Palmer, of OHQ FARELF.
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    School to celebrate
    52 5 IPOH, Tues. Week-long celebrations will begin on June 6 at the Anglo-Chinese School, [poh, to mark the 60th anniversary of the school The programme includes the opening of a new $80,000 twostorey library block. A reunion dinner of old boys of the school will be held on
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    WAYWARD POSTCARD TURNS UP
    148 5 It arrives a year late P.ENANG, Tues. A POSTCARD mailed A in Singapore on April 22 last year was delivered in Penang today. The card had been sent by a Singapore shipping company to Messrs. A.M.N. Wahab and Co., Chulia Street, Penang. It advised them of
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    31 5 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Tues.— Idris bin Saad, who had seven previous convictions, was sentenced to three years' jail for housebreaking and theft of $2,298 worth of jewellery on April 25.
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    43 6 20 H'oVd- fin (minimum). CHENG: Mr. Cheng Yin Yee. «cc 54. Proprietor of Yee Hcng Sawmill, passed away on l*th May, 1955. at 6.30 a.m. Funeral will take place at 23. J;ilan Datoh, Ipoh. on i Wecnesd.,-.. May 18th, at 11 a.m.
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    90 6 211 Wmm §10 (minimum). THE FAMILY of the late Madam i Koh Ah Ning thanks all Relatives and Friends for their Wreaths, BcroUt, expressions of Condolences etc. nnr: attendance at the Funeral. THE WIFE nnd family .>f the > late N Mr. Lim Giok Kirn wish to express their
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    18 6 POTGER— IN LOVING Memory j oi Constance Maud Potger passed j away on 18.5.47. Deeply regretted.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed. May 18, 1955. The Chinese. Schools
    700 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed. May 18, 1955. The Chinese. Schools A notable passage in the Chief Minister's speech to the Legislative Assembly said that "it is our primary duty as a Government to protect Chinese education in Singapore, and we intend to do it whether you cry destruction of
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    Penitential Pilgrimage
    575 6 Penitential Pilgrimage We have had Russia's belated signature of a peace treaty for Austria, her acceptance of an invitation to a toplevel four-power meeting, her production of a new and much more constructive plan for the limitation of armaments. We have had such lesser indications of a change of policy
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      MARSHALL'S GIFT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ANONYMOUS
      115 6 rMr. David Marshall's gesture in sending J2OO I to the mother of student I Chong Lon Chong, killed I in Thursday's riots, was I actuated by sympathy and i not by a desire for publl- I city, the recipient would i have benefltted equally
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        17 6 STUDENTS or no students, if they choose to be hooligans, treat them accordingly. CHEE TER KOOK. Singapore.
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        30 6 SOME blamed the police for using violence. This is utter nonsense. It was a ridiculous thing for the Chinese students to interfere in the bus worker's problem. ANTI-COMMUNIST. Singapore. ft
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        25 6 PEOPLE at the back of the riots should be sent to their "ideal country." Their presence here only .causes dissension and discord. ft PAUL. Singapore.
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        50 6 IF it is only to show that peaceful methods In .bringing forward grievances are just as effective, it Is time a more positive action were made to end the S.H.B. staff's strike which, it must be admitted, has been carried on in a very proper and orderly manner. CANDID. Singapore.
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        22 6 WHY didn't Mr. Lee Ku«n ?T Yew tour the troubled areas and try to calm the unruly students? JAN GHEE SIANG. Singapore.
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        31 6 SEVERAL correspondents have condemned Dr. Lin Yutang's statement that the Singapore Chinese schools are full of Communist indoctrinated students. Who can now say that he was wrong? T. C. SAN Singapore.
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        19 6 I BLAME the lenient attitude of Government for the present unrest caused by Chinese school students. M. NOOR. Singapore.
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        33 6 rE people of Singapore, have now experienced the way Communism works. Will Mr. Lee Kuan Yew say whether he is pro-Commu-nist or anti-Communist, as the people have a right to know. SINGAPOREANS. Singapore.
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        29 6 MR. Tan Khlang Khoo said Mr. Marshall is riding a tiger; the very forces he Is trying to serve now appear to be swallowing him up*. K.S.D. Singapore. it
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        24 6 CHINESE students are real young Communists working for the overthrow of authority. Their schools should he be closed down permanently JOSEPH CHANG LO Singapore.
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      301 6 'WE DON'T WANT COWARDS IN GOVERNMENT TN HIS broadcast to the 1 people of Singapore on Thursday night, the Chief Minister referred to a small element in this country working for the destruction of the democratic process......" Are we going to get an assurance from "his Government that that small
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      Time to help each other
      72 6 11/HY are trouble-makers in Singapore trying to hurt Mrr Marshall? 1 appeal to all who have been taking part in the various disputes to come to their senses. Now is the time to put aside our minor differences and help each other. There are certain
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      Why they 'aped the British'
      165 6 MR. LEE KUAN YEW. when he made a tilt at the S.C.B.A., accused the babas of aping the British. Yes. Mr. Lee, they did. but they did* so from personal contact and association and from the knowledge that .they have adopted Malaya as their country
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      90 6 rpHE Governmerit is spend- ing nearly a quarter of a milion dollars a day fighting Communism. How long does It expect to continue this colossal waste? Indefinitely as long as their present educational policy continues. While fighting the communists, let the government open as many schools as
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      139 6 1 WOULD like to express the t, t J iev L of the ma J°"ty of British Servicemen. It is obvious that a vrrv small minority of schooichif dren causes all this trouble but it gives a deplorable name to students in Singapore a whole in the
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      75 6 ISN'T it about time that the Government Education Department took over the Chinese schools? From the behaviour of the students during the past few days and previously, it is apparent that the so-called "Chinese culture" that is beins taught in the schools is present-day Communist hooliganism. If
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      61 6 NOW that the tension of the past week has been eased, we are again confronted with another threat from the Chinese school students against the closure of the three Chinese schools. Every right-thinking person abhors the attitude of these students and I. for one. would like to
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      269 6 NEITHER Mr. Lee Kuan Yew nor the force which Instigated the Chinese students to go against the first elected government can do anything If the British Government cancels the constitution and assumes the responsibility of running the govment itself Nobody can deny the fact
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      40 PER CENT. NOT LOYAL
      474 6 JT IS deplorable that, as a representative of Singapore Chinese, Mr. Lee has made statements without consideration for Malay feelings. On a not-too-distant day, the proposition for a union of .the Federation and Singapore will receive earnest consideration, but if Chinese moral strength across the
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      40 6 WHY is Mr. Lee Kuan Tew torturing himself by TT staying here? If he cannot afford it, I (and many others) would be only too glad to buy him a one-way ticket. ANTI-PAP. SINGAPORE.
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    140 6 On the mar i n A of th I actr fs> o a 9 I do n O affect, thmk. B "if, on O v. fror: It »ili Presence-^ our c And annti ANOTHZ?. k quaint ln *«S h»fc the AnKj became a yJ P° r e. anii^J n otorious"ft3
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    365 7 CHINES^ WRITING EXPERT SAYS: THESE DOCUMENTS ARE ONE MAN'S WORK AUTHOR OF TERRORIST PAPERS GOES TO JAIL FOR THREE YEARS pHUA (HEW TENG, a shoo assistant, who wrote several terrorist docunTente, including one, headed Ihe report on the enemy," which desrribed the movements of police officers,
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    THE PRICE OF FREEDOM: HER EARRINGS IN PAWNSHOP
    116 7 THE PRICE OF FREEDOM HER EARRINGS IN PAWNSHOP KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. V. ALAMALOO, 20, had to pledge her earrings today for her freedom. She was fined $10 in thr Second Macistrate's Court here for fighting with another woman but she had no money. She looked across the i ourtroom to
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    16 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Bight terrorists partly burned latex station on Johore Labis Estate yesterday.
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    45 7 Free- head could not hear or see vehicles overtaking them. I do not want to interfere uith women's styles,"' he said, "but the wearer of this hoad dress is most accident prone because hearing and vision are hampered." 1
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    Minister's funeral
    53 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Rev? G. D. Thambidoria. 56. Methodist minister for Raub. Kuala Lipis and Bentong. died last night in the General Hospital here. He was admitted on May 4. He leaves his wife, two sons and a daughter. The funeral took place this afternoon at the
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    'FLYING DANCERS' FLY IN
    128 7 They are a team^-on stage and off MICHAEL and Jane Friedman, known as "the Australian flying dancers," arrived in Singapore by air yesterday to open a sixweek cabaret season at Raffles Hotel. Using the stage name "The Micheles," they have just completed a three-month engagement at
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    KIND BOSS FORGIVES GUILTY WORKER
    159 7 KIND BOSS FORGIVES GUILTY WORKER AN EMPLOYER spoke A up for his employee who had a previous conviction and refused compensation from him when the man was found guilty in Singapore yesterday of criminal breach of trust of five brass taps. Gani bin Raub was fined $20 and jailed for
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    Capital hit by heat wave
    72 7 94.8 IN SHADE KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A heat wave has hit the town. Except for 0.04 in. of rain which fell on Thursday it has been dry for a whole week. The temperature has been averaging 82 degrees in the shade. Yesterday it went up
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    More Fijians arrive
    26 7 Sixty Fijian soldiers flew into Singapore yesterday in a special BOAC Constellation flight from Fiji to join the Fijian Infantry Regiment in Malaya.
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    DETECTIVE IS SHOT
    118 7 Probe on report bandits killed him TANJONG, MALIM, Tues The police here are investigate a report that Detective sergeant Kumara Nar 28, who died in h 9 o g •ident on an estate in the slim River area yesterday was tilled by terrorists. Sergeant Nair was out
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    GET US JOBS—OR WE GO INTO THE JUNGLE'
    180 7 GET US JOBS— OR WE GO INTO THE JUNGLE' Two unemployed men take their case to Mr. Tyson pWO men yesterday told Mr. p. O. Tyson, Singapore's ~hief Employment Officer, SSwTS. 35*22« S3 employment exchange for the last 12 months. The two men were among 22 people who saw Mr.
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    Musical evening
    27 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Selangor Malay Teachers' Orchestra of Klang will play at the Lake Gardens here next Tuesday from 5.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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    Teacher claims $200,000
    304 7 FOR LAND HE BOUGHT FOR $20,000 A FORMER schoolmaster told Mr. Justice Tan in the Singapore High Court yesterday that he refused to sell his land for a profit of $140,000 because he thought some nearby properties were fetching better prices. Mr. George Neelankavil, the owner, said
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    Had stolen wire charge
    64 7 Two men claimed trial in Singapore yesterday to possession oi a gunny sack containing stolen cable wire. Tan cheng Wee, 23, and Foo Win Loo, 40, were said to have been found with the wire in front of a shop in Jalan Besar on Monday. Bail
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    CONFERENCE 15 SPLIT OVER FREIGHT 'WARSO IT GOES ON
    156 7 CONFERENCE 15 SPLIT OVER FREIGHT 'WARSO IT GOES ON r'O of Japan's biggest shipping lines, the Osaka Shosen Kaisha and the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. at a recent meeting of the Malaya-China-Japan shipping conference voted for the continuation of the freight "war" which began on Jan. 13. The third member of
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    Three named for talks
    73 7 The Government last night named three people to represent Singapore as observers at the International Labour conference in Geneva from June 1 to June 23. They are: Mr. D. I. Goodwin, the Commissioner for Labour; Mr. j G. N. Dalton of Harper, Gilfillan and Company; and
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    PRESS CHIEF'S CLAIMS 'INACCURATE'
    278 7 PRESS CHIEF'S CLAIMS 'INACCURATE' Wrong about Symonds— police A POLICE spokesman in Singapore yesterday said that Mt. Ernest Hoberecht, United Press vicepresident for Asia, "appears to be deliberately repeating inaccuracies" regarding the circumstances of the death of U.P. correspondent Gene Symonds, killed in last week's riots. The spokesman had been
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    SLANDER CASE HEARING POSTPONED
    85 7 SLANDER CASE HEARING POSTPONED The hearing of a suit brought by a Legislative Assembly member was postponed until June 7 by a Singapore district court yesterday. Mr. Lim Koon Teck (Prog.. Paya Lebar) alleges that during the Assembly election campaign he was slandered by Mr. Chuang Hui Tsuan. He claims
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    Mother who cheated is forgiven
    125 7 Mother who cheated is forgiven THE Singapore Fifth Police Magistrate, Mr. R. B. I. Pates, yesterday discharged a mother of four children who cheated the Social Welfare Department of $48. Kartijah binto Rabu, 40, pleaded guilty to falsely inducing the department to give her four monthly payments of $12 from
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    Drunk, he halted the traffic
    46 7 Tan Guan Hons, 51, pleaded guilty and was bound over for six months in Singapore yesterday for being drunk and disorderly at Aljunied Road on Monday afternoon. He stood in the middle of the road and obstructed traffic, it was stated.
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    Ballet in the capital
    47 7 Goh Soonee, Goh Choo Chiat and Blossom Shek, the Singapore ballet dancers, left for Kuala Lumpur last night to give concerts there. Dates for the concerts have not yet been fixed, but the dancers are expected back in Singapore in three weeks' time.
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      84 7 aids to finer family grooming /V "iTh« Marchioness A ladies' toilet set of very high quality execute by craftsmen in lusttous tortoiseshell or grained ivory. Halex Toothbrushes AM models hygienical] y sealed in J/W'jflß^ b«bWe-packs and made with smooth "^rfm/jnj^^ rondatcd tips to prevent gum irritation. Halex jf 7 'jf
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      161 7 The weather MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: (7.30 p.m. on May 16 to 7.30 a.m. on May 17 >: Singapore 79 degrees, Penang 76. Kota Bharu 75. Kuala Lumpur 75, Ipoh 76, Kuantan 74. MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE: (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 pjn. on May 17): Singapore 91. Penang 90, Kota Bharu 91. Kuala Lumpur
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    MacDONALD WILL GET FREEDOM OF CITY
    204 8 —'He deserves it more than anyone:' Mr. Nair rpHE Commlssioner-Gen-X eral, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, is almost certain to be given the Freedom of Singapore before he leaves in September, r A city councillor, Mr. V. K. Nair, said yesterday he would propose Mr. MacDonald
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      143 8 The Greatest Grip ±»3tt&im*>^' |«ttt pag ll a^ VV^kllial hIBhH c I HKl^aV'^^Pi^/^^v j' '//Ai^^^Km t'l* AMm A A MS aa /^HraD^^Hlß B^lHrlt4^Ba^^Sr Ml ff m- U DUNLOP AGRICULTURAL TRACTOR TYRES THE DUNLOP RUBBER CO. I MALAYA) LTD. SINCAPORI KUALA LUMPUR PENANC. T^^~ U 2=? < Children are always on
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      338 8 Straits Times Crossword I I |2 I |3 I |4 I 5 I I |7 I I I 1 in H '2 13 20~ 2' 1| 22 23 |H 26~ 27 i|| 28 m |H 32~ ACROSS 8. Newer hay (anag.) (8). 1. Unsociable train-bearers? (8 14. Tim* to expiate?
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    1594 9 World sighed in relief when Europe's nightmare ended usiE^^b^^h^^SEH ll1 TEN years ago this month the dark nightmare of Hitler's war lifted from shattered and plundered Europe. On May 4, 1945, five dejected Germans v "dor On. Admiral von Friedeburg, arrived at the Lnneburg Heath headquarters of Field-Mar-shal Sir Bernard
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      24 9 Sherlock Holmes iHck Tracy Blindfolded Jvt Scott resolution I 111 1 W I 'if <>ff£AVY PAN' THAT 6 THE Kc»OLU'IW«. j I -"'ll li.'tTttCJPJL\!\f >
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    SELECTIVE DEMAND FOR INDUSTRIAL SHARES CONTINUES
    366 11 SELECTIVE DEMAND FOR INDUSTRIAL SHARES CONTINUES By Our Market Correspondent KSSKNING tension in the Colony resulted in further Rains in certain industrial shares on the .Singapore Share Market yesterday, but business reported was meagre. Operators seem to have got back som e of the connee they lost during the past
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    223 11 Malayan Share Brokers' Assorted: -Selected indus|g continued cautious advances nice on the local share market IUsiMM remained sparse. Tins dull and irregular and rubbers I members reported the ;sines s done yesterday nd N'pave ords t1.70; Gamv.mtehti. $2. 62',. »2.65; Kown Dispensary $2.70; W. U Jackson and Co.
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    68 11 .•:.-<n Exchange Banks! iation made the followinjr □gea in its rates to merchants lay: gefflag rates, T.T. or >.D. ready si Fi-.incs 142",. Deutsche Marks Rivals 1117 S.7 7 S •he free exrhaiure market In Hone Kong yesterday, the UJS. H Quoted at 5.82 r s for rj
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    188 11 June first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at 90 s 4 cents H>-. one-eighth of a cent above Mondays closing price and the closing tone was quiet. There was little inclination to trade in the morning but a certain amount of business was transacted in
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      759 11 NOTICES CHINESE BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, LIMITED (Incorporated In the Colony of Singapore and Registered under the Trust Companies Ordinance) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Seventeenth Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of the above Company, will be held at the Registered Office of the Company. Third Floor, China Building,
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      577 11 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS we Invited for appointment as Laboratory Assistant In the Department of Chemistry, Federation of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. SeJary Scale: Division 111 Probationers: $102xA6-IH/Exam. Timescale: $156 x Al2 240/ Exam/ 252xAi2-360 (Vacancy Bar). Special Grade: $3 96x A lB- 486 plus C.O.L.A. at current rates. Age 17 to
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    Holiday By The Sea
    833 12 Hol id ay By The Sea HOW NICE IT IS TO SPEND A NIGHT BY THE SEA AND BE WOKEN UP IN THE MORNING BY BIRDS SINGING IN YOUR EARS Teddy, Golly and Rosemary decide to spend a week at the seaside. They set up their house and in the
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    STAMP CORNER SOCIAL MEETINGS URGED
    298 12 A SHORT time ago, I mentioned that Y.T. Cheong of 12-C, Boon Tiong Road, Singapore, wanted to loin a stamp club, preferably somewhere near his home. This has brought an immediate response from Goh Seng Kay. who writes to tell me that he is Hon.
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    The best jokes
    385 12 Dear Boys and Girls. Here are six winners of I our best ioke contest. Tham I Keng Hoong, aged 14, 245 j > Tembeling Road. Singapore i J 15. Chang Ec Mei. aged 10, >66 Farleigh Avenue Scran- I > goon Carden Estate, Singa- pore 19. Anthony
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    BEST LOAFER
    294 12 HERE are a few more jokes sent in last week. Mrs. Chan: "Can you enlarge this portrait of my cousin?" Photographer: "Yes. madam." Mrs. Chan: "Can you remove his hat too?" Photographer: "Yes, madam. On which side does he part his hair?" Mrs. Chan "I haven't seen him
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      173 12 Crossword Puxxle CLI'ES ACROSS.— I. The beating of the heart which can be felt at the wrist. 6. Machine for turning and shaping wood. etc. 7. Person who usually works in an office. 9, Male voice of the highest pitch. 10. Seaport In Dorset famous for its pottery. 11, English
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    China Town 11, Clever Bug and Court Jewel
    681 13  - China Town 11, Clever Bug and Court Jewel EPSOM JEEP EPSOM JEEP'S STAR THREE FOR TODAY'S RAGES. f By PHINA TOWN 11, Clever Bur and Court Jewel should make a good treble at Penang today, second day of the Penang Turf Club Summer Meeting. Court Jewel (Race Five) has all
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    BICARDI GETS VOTE IN OPEN RACE
    663 13 BICARDI, Passing Fair and Glittering, all recent winners at Kuala Lumpur, will dominate the betting and probably the finish in a fairly open affair in Race Six. Bicardi gets my vote. This Greek Star four-year-old won with plenty in hand when he finished a
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    AT PENANG TODAY
    38 13 rE going up to last evening: was food. Www There will be no race broadcast today. Treble Tote will be held on Races Three, Five and Six. Big Sweep will be drawn on Race Seven.
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    135 13 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER Race 1 2.30. CHINA TOWN II Dynasty Goring DYNASTY China Town II Matinee CHINA TOWN II Great Tradition Clear Vision Race 2. 3.05 MAJULA Projector Silverfort PREVIEW II Majula Projector PREVIEW II Hollywood Star Majula Race 3. 3.40. CABARET II Raratonga Grandeur
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    TODAYS RACE CARD
    1015 13 Race 1 2.30: Class 5, Div. 3 7 Furs. 1 859 Clear Vision 4y Bagby 9.00 Mrs. A. Gordon BagDy 2 063 China Town II 5y Donnelly 8.12 L C Stable Ellery 3 007 Unaware 7y Smith 8.11 Mrs. R. Yeap Manning 4 373 Dynasty 6y Wahab
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    ALLEN SCORES 3 AND DOCKYARD WIN 5-4
    154 13 KEEPING up their consistent form, the vastly.improved H.M. Dockyard scored a narrow but well deserved, 5 4 win over unpredictable Chinese Athletic in a keenly-contested SAFA Div. 1 match at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Dockyard owed their victory to their dashing centre forward,
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    RASC, Sappers share 8.goals
    84 13 RASC, Sappers share 8. goals Royal Army Service Corps held Royal Engineers to 4-4 in a Div. 1 tie of the United Services football league at Ayer Rajah yesterday. Snell, Hovan, Phillips and Shuker scored for RASC. and Tong (2), Flinton and Mason for Engineers. The other Div. 1 match
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    COCKELL BLASTED IN 9 ROUNDS
    736 14 A savage and relentless Marciano is still world champion His great fighting heart won cheers From DESMOND HACKETT (Special to the, Straits Times) SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday. DON Cockell ended his world title fight bid after fiftyfour seconds of the ninth round against Rocky Marciano. Cockell
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    FAM MOVE ON HOME AND AWAY CUP FINAL
    153 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THE Football Association of Malaya will reconsider on June 12 a proposal by the Singapore Amateur Footbball Association for a home-and-away Malaya Cup final, the secretary, Mr. Kwok Kin Kens, said today. This proposal was originally made by Singapore
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    Tessensohn 62 and 5 for 13
    58 14 St. Joseph's Institution beat St. Andrew's School by 136 runs at Woodsvllle yesterday. S.J.I. 199 for 2 dccl. (E. Tessensohn 82. P. Mowe 55 n.0., T. Martens 16. E. Wicks 36 n.0.). The first-wicket partnership between Tessensohn and Mowe brought 110 runs in 159
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    SIKHS KEEP WIN RECORD INTACT
    51 14 Young Men's Sikh Association maintained their 100 per rent record with a 2-1 win against Gymkhana S. C. in a hard-fought S.A.F.A. D*v. 2B match at Gey lang Stadium yesterday. I. J. Singh and Avtar Singh (penalty) scored for the winners: Da wen for Gymkhana
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    FAIRFAX DEAD
    25 14 LONDON. Tues. Alan Fairfax, former Australian Test cricketer, died at his London home early today. He, had been ill since just before Christmas.
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    Lock icon Rocky was 'dirty,' they all agree
    337 14 ROCKY Marciano and his manager had high praise for the gallant Cockell. Said Marciano: "I don't think I have ever fought a braver guy. He is top for guts. Al Weill. Rocky's manager, sqid that Cockell deserved a lot of credit for a creat
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    Danes in with their strongest team ever for the Thomas Cup
    571 14 WOW, It's hot here." Those were the first worn uttered by the Danish Thomas Cud plavm when they arrived at Kallang airport yesterday to take part in the final stages of the 1955 interna tional badminton championship in Singapore
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    ONG, 001 LOSE AT PRACTICE
    218 14 ONG, 001 LOSE AT PRACTICE CHOCK result in the Malayan Tho mas Cup squads practice .•>. sion at the Badminton Hall v night *as the defeat of t he "L doubles combination. One p O h 1 and Ooi Teik Hock, by Lim X™ Fong and Tan Jin Eone. Lim
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    46 14 LONDON. Tues. IJEAVY rain throughout last night and this morning brought earij decision."; to abandon the five flrstclass cricket matches which were d.;e to be concluded today. The Nottinghamshire Sou; Africans match at Nottingham was also abandoned without a ball being bowled. Reuter.
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    India's best forward coming with Delhi
    136 14 TNDIA'S centre-forward Balbir x Singh and full-back R. 8.1 Gentle will play in Singapore asain next month with the New Delhi team which is touring Australia and New Zealand. Also in the New Delhi team will be one of India's greatest forwards, inside right
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    15 14 Australia take, to 565 in sap?! "*H9 ToUli,, BOWLBg S Sobers H.J.JJ Whites, LATEST „2
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      375 14 VEHICLE FOR SALE Words fS (Min.)— Box SO ett. extra. MORRIS MINOR 4-door Saloon late 1953. mileage under 3.000 miles. as new $3,500 or near otter. Phone Kuala Lumpur 3962. TRIUMPH MAYFLOWER 1952 one European owner. Regularly serviced in good condition. Offers Bryant, P.W.D.. Ipoh. 1949 SINGER SPORT $1,150. 1949
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      414 14 FOR SALE 20 Wordt $S (Min.)— Box SO rtt. extra. FOR RADIO BAFOXINS visit 12. Orchard Road, Singapore. PEDIGREE PRAM. As New with Canopy and Shopping Bag to match. $120 0.n.0. Phone Mason *****. PEDIGREE ALSATIAN PUPPIES For Sale. MKA Class I Regn. Can be seen at 41 Victoria Park,
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