The Straits Times, 19 May 1955

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    18 1 ICOMPT.TMTWT ARY The Straits Times Nat*** 1 Ik*** Estd i 845 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1955 15 CENTS
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    BIG PROBE on SCHOOLS
    233 1 HAT is WRONG 9^ VERNON BARTLETT, Straits Times commentator, examines the situation ,jtit SINGAPORE arising from the riots and the continuing student problem in PAGE 1 o vt sets up all-party inquiry committee IPORE Governmeßt last night anJthcsetting up <><" an all-party co»--teHooseol Assembly to investigate
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    e're ready to help, key tell Marshall
    1730 1 I ABOVE POLITICS, THE LEADERS AGREE s anponse Party help." Pro- roblem ■JJf Party poli■jl be tackled he add- 'o help solve any issue that involves the national interest and security of the people of SingaThe Democratic Party leador. Mr. William Tan. was
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    RTS OFF-BY ORDER
    51 1 RTS OFF -BY ORDER ■eattM last nicht announced that the -<hnnl sports mretinc. scheduled for to- Saturday, had been cancelled. »ment v»id the cancellation was made llv »>ur of pupils of the Chung Cheng Hitli Srhool this morning;, and to f inj demonstration at the Jalan In NMUncer other pupils
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    Get your 'M M' today
    115 1 Get your 'M M' today I" T*HE Malayan Monthly \l for May is now on «J sale packed with topical !j articles, picture stories J» and colour illustrated jl jl fiction. «J ■J Special features in- IJ Hj elude: S l" THE MARSHALL > ■I STORY— for the first I'
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    GAMBA
    55 1 Rumour denied A statement from the Chief Minister's office last night quashed a rumour which had circulated in Singapore all morning, that the arbitrator in the Hock Lee Bus Company dispute, Mr. Charles Gamba, had resigned. The statement said: "The rumour is without foundation. Mr. Gamba is the arbitrator,
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    Lock icon Disarm talks
    36 1 LONDON, Wed. The five- 1 nation disarmament con- 1 ference which adjourned its three-month-old secret talks here today will meet again in New York on June 1, a British Foreign Office spokesman said. Reuter.
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    Lock icon No appeasement
    21 1 WASHINGTON, Wed—President Eisenhower said today that he would not support any appeasement at the forthcoming Big Four conference. Reuter.
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    Lock icon N.Z. Labour backs 1. airmen 2. self-rule
    209 1 WELLINGTON, Wed. A spokesman for the New Zealand Labour Party's annual conference said the sending of a New Zealand special air service squadron to Malaya as 'part of her responsibilities in Commonwealth defence was unanimously endorsed by delegates today. The endorsement, however, was,
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    Lock icon Mine kills two
    30 1 TEL AVIV. Wed. Two Israeli soldiers were killed and three others wounded when their military patrol car struck a mine near the Egyptian-held Gaza strip yesterday.— Reuter.
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    Row over Raja Muda's allowance
    323 1 Row over Raja Muda's allowance 'THE SULTAN PROMISED ME AN EXTRA $6,000 A MONTH AS CHAIRMAN OF COUNCIL* J IPOH, Wed. THE RAJA Muda of Perak today confirmed there was some sort of "misunderstanding" over the allowance that was to be paid to him as chairman of the Council of
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    Lock icon Molotov on his way out?
    146 1 Molotov on his way out? HINT TO WEST LONDON. Wed. HPHE possibility that Mr. Molotov is diplomatically preparing the way for his "retirement" as Soviet Foreign Minister in favour of a younger man is being studied by Western observers after remarks which he made in Vienna last week-end. Mr. Molotov
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    Lock icon Boyd agrees
    41 1 KAMPALA. (Uganda). Wed. —Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd. the Colonial Secretary, has agreed to receive in London a delegation from the Lukiko African Council) of Buganda to discuss the return of the exiled Kabaka. it was announced here today. Reuter.
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    Lock icon THE MAN WITHOUT A LAWYER
    189 1 JAKARTA, Wednesday. AN Indonesian woman lawyer, Mrs. Nany Razak, withdrew yesterday as defence counsel for Leon Jungschlaeger, who is charged with leading rebels against the Indonesian Government. Her action left Jungschlaeger without a lawyer. His chief defence counsel, Mr. Herman Bouman, withdrew from the case
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    Lock icon U.K. strike talks
    38 1 LONDON. Wed.— The Labour Minister. Sir Walter Monckton. conferred with port chiefs yesterday in an effort to avert a nation-wide dock strike set for May 23. only three days before the I general election. A.P.
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    Lock icon CONSULAR OFFICIAL PLUNGES TO DEATH
    134 1 HONG KONG, Wed. rpHE ITALIAN Trade Commissioner here plunged to his death from a sixth floor hotel window today. Dr. Roberto Pioppa, clad only in undershorts, crashed into the street below and died before he could be rushed to a hospital. Police opened an investigation
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    Lock icon Ali's No. 2 drops in a faint
    46 1 NEW DELHI, Wed— Begum Alya Mohammed All fainted yesterday while purchasing handicrafts in a New Delhi shopThe begum, who is the Pakistan Prime Minister, Mr. Mohammed Ali's second wife, is with her husband on an official visit here.— U.P.
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    Salk vaccine: It's 74 down
    43 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. The Public Health Service said yesterday it has confirmed 74 cases of polio among children inoculated with Salk vaccine. The total is up one from the previous report. The new case was. reported from California. u!p.
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    Harbour threat averted
    294 1 5,000 get 50-cent pay rise T<HERE is almost no A danger now of Singapore Harbour Board labourers joining the monthly-rated staff on strike. The Board yesterday gave the 5,000 labourers a 50-cent-a-day rise and met all their other claims but one back pay. The three unions of
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    STOP PRESS
    30 1 IKE: NATO NAVIES ARK READY WASHINGTON, WYti.— President Elsenhower said today he was satisfied that North Atlantic Treaty n;ivi«-s were well prepared for new battle of the Atlantic—Renter
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    Lock icon KILLED FIVE? NO, JUST ONE
    54 1 TULSA, (Oklahoma), Wed.— Mrs. Annie Doss, 50, accused of killing four of her five husbands and her mother, pleaded guilty yesterday to kill- ing one husband. She faces either jail for life or death in the electric chair, but will rot be sentenced until I
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    Canungra—school for toughness
    703 2 Canungra— school for toughness IN A RAIN FOREST, AUSTRALIAN TROOPS UNDER ORDERS VM* MALAYA ™AIN^ UNDER A COLONEL WHOSE MOTTO IS; 'YOU ARE EITHER QUICK OR DEAD'" i MASSEY STANLEY j Straits Times special correspondent I sees a jungle school where veterans I of the Korean war act as the
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    Lock icon And the 'skymen' get ready, too
    296 2 VOLUNTEERS SEEKIWO A 'KICK' t* «*B*_gA»ATMCg MAPOEt j SYDNEY, Wed. DAKOTA aircraft trundling across the sky over New South Wales are playing a major part in training Australia's second battalion for service in Malaya. When the battalion goes there, dozens of its members will
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    Lock icon BRITAIN'S FREAK MAY
    93 2 Blizzards sweep the country LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN'S freak May weather continued today with more snow in northern England and Scotland, and non-stop overnight rain swamping the rest of the I country. Winter blizzards struck many parts of the country. In the Peak district of north-west England, it
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    Speed kills 11
    24 2 GUADALAJARA. Mexico. Wed. Eleven people were killed and 57 others were inI iured yesterday in three road accidents caused by speeding.
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    23 2 SAO PAULO. Brazil. Wed Ten people were killed and 39 others were injured yesterday when a bus crashed. U.P.
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    IN SIGHTHOPE FOR BLIND BATS
    70 2 PARIS. Wed.— Bats may no longer be blind if French Professor Christian Champy's experiments succeed. Professor Champy. of the French Academy of Sciences, has found he can open the eyes of the moles, most short sighted of animals, by dropping a hormone solution on their
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    Lock icon Who wouldn't like to meet pirates
    52 2 Who wouldn't like to meet pirates FROM THE Mediterranean area, once notorious for its pirates, comes this buc-caneer-style playsuit. Topping the Italian creation is a "pirate cap" a continuation of the front oanel of white and rreen lattice work. Brilliant rreen and white heavy cotton are used from the outfit.
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    Lock icon Actor to marry third time
    53 2 NEW YORK. Wed. French stage and screen actor Claude Daupin and actress Norma Eberhardt marry in New Jersey on Saturday. Daupin. aged 51. was divorced earlier this month from his second wife. Maria Mauban, a French actress. Miss Eberhardt is 25. It will be her
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    Lock icon The 30s are the years of danger
    281 2 The 30s are the years of danger AN EXPERT REVIEWS BROKE* HURBUBES LONDON, Wed. TTOE EARLY thirties are the danger years for divorce, especially if a marriage is between 10 and 15 years old. Britain's Registrar-General, Dr. George North, has given this warning in the 1953 civil statistical review for
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    Lock icon FRANCE RUSHES MEN TO ALGERIA
    135 2 PARIS. Wed. 810 reinforcements of troops and police are being sent to Algeria to quell the latest outbreaks of terrorism. The Ministries of Defence and the Interior announced last night that these steps had been taken as a precaution and would accompany political, economic and
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    Lock icon Progressing
    25 2 YORK. Wed. The Archbishop of York, 80-year-old Dr. Cyril Oarbett. was reported yesterday to be making "real progress* after a serious intestinal operation.— Reuter.
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    100 2 HELP THERE BEFORE THE CRASH JOHANNESBURG, Wed. AMBULANCES sped to the scene of a train crash 50 miles from here yesterday and arrived before the accident occurred. Station masters at Devonettoevlug and Toevlug, north of Johannesburg, realised that two goods trains were speeding toward each other on the same track.
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    Lock icon Royal lunch
    30 2 LONDON, Wed. King Qustav and Queen Louise of Sweden, who have just started a fortnight's private visit to England, lunched "with the Queen at Windsor Castle yesterday. Reuter.
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    23 2 BUENOS AIRES. Wed. President Juan Peron of Argentina was yesterday reported to be suffering from Influenza. He is 59. Reuter.
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    Order for Franco
    23 2 MADRID, Wed. Marshal Pibul Songgram. the Siamese Prime Minister, yesterday decorated Gen. Franco with the Order of the White Elephant
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    66 2 The who his Polico j kno the, HE 5&- chiljho ana t "larriea n court sister. their ft this yea started immeel;,,'has 8toc» H ailallo, 'The sister M ther's story marriaise d»w»L r E C.jgJ Hesairi t| her chili and thai S j father o; K:r Geoff:- 1 form;;;,Knowledg and
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    $135m.—N0 QUESTIONS
    68 2 WASHINGTON, Wed— The Secretary for the Army. Mr Robert T. Stevens, asked Congress yesterday for 5135 million for construction work so secret that even he does not know what it is. He testified before a Senate armed services surj-committer-that the Budget Bureau added the $135 :v.....-- j tion
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    THE TIDE BEGINS TO TURN IN WORLD AFFAIRS
    117 3 THE TIDE BEGINS TO TURN IN WORLD AFFAIRS ■„g n «*frgfc </ broadcast from President's office goes on 41 channels mfS Austrian ti nil! spread iINGTON- Wedneiday. Mr. Dulles, 1 ni? hl that recent iurn.nu point in the astfrom Mr. Dulles and the ad events lust re- lelevite in the
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    Lock icon BANDIT FIGHTER WILL BE PRINCESS' ADC ON BONN TOUR
    111 3 BANDIT FIGHTER WILL BE PRINCESS' ADC ON BONN TOUR BOXN, Wed. 4 LIKITENANT. who a few months ago w.i* bandit hunting in Malaya, will attend Prin- m Margaret as an aide-de-eaap during her two-day visit to West (■ermany on Monday. He i> I.t. Richard WMsan from the Ist Battalion the
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    Lock icon SUDIE A BLIND GUIDE DOG SHOWS PRINCES THE WAY
    50 3 SUDIE A BLI ND GUIDE DO G SH OWS PRI NC ES TH E WA Y PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, blindfolded, is taken round six. obstacles by Susie, a Labrador guide dog. at a training centre for the Blind Association at Leamington, Warwickshire. The Princess is president of the association. A.P. picture.
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    Lock icon THE U.N. MUST BE KEPT GOING
    156 3 THE U.N. MUST BE KEPT GOING Truman gives U.S. alternative to war NEW YORK, Wed. FORMER president Harry S. Truman yesterday said that the United States must help to keep the United Nations going or face the prospect of a world war 10 times more destructive than in the last
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    Lock icon For the summit
    43 3 NEW DELHI, Wed. The Chief of the Indian Air Staff, Air Marshal S. Mukerjee, yesterday presented flags of the Indian Union and the Indian Air Force to a Royal Air Force mountaineering expedition to plant on any peaks climbed. —Reuter.
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    Lock icon Vijaya days: Britain and India can show world how East and West can work together
    312 3 Vijaya days: Britain and India can show worl d how East and West can work together LONDON, Wed. AIRS. Vijayalakshmi x Pandit, former president of the United Nations, declared in London last night that Britain and India could show the world through the British Commonwealth that East and West can
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    Lock icon SEVEN DAYS TO MAKE UP HIS MIND
    144 3 NAQPUR, Wednesday. OABU RAO, a rickshaw puller, who has been sent for 13 trial on a charge of attempting to cause the death of the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, was brought before a court here yesterday and given seven days to decide
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    21 3 LONDON, Wed A 30-man British expedition into the unexplored parts of Amazonia expects to leave London in July. U.P.
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    Lock icon Ex-head dies
    19 3 LONDON, Wed. Dr. Cyril Argentine Alington, a former headmaster of Eton, died yesterday. He was 82. Reuter.
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    50 3 CHATHAM, Wed. Lieut: Commander George Richard Grimes of Manitoba, Canada, was found dead last night in his cabin aboard the British frigate Owen in Chatham dockyard. I Commander Grimes, 41, had apparently collapsed while shaving. His death was believed to be due to natural causes. Reuter.
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    32 3 NEW YORK, Wed. Mr. Adlai Stevenson. Democratic Presidential nominee in 1952, said here on his return from Africa yesterday that the recent peace moves of Russia and China were very heartening.—Reuter.
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    Lock icon BOMBERS REFUEL IN AIR
    49 3 NEWCASTLE. Aus- tralia. Wed.— Four American Thunder jets, capable of carrying atom bombs, landed here today to complete a record non-stop 4,840-mile flight from Tokyo. The jets refuelled in the air three times during the flight over Guam. Manus Island and Townsville, in Australia.— A.P.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    367 3 LONDON, Wed. XT OPES of a Conservative Party victory at the General Election and further flow of good company news produced generally cheerful conditions in stock markets today. Buying expanded, notably in the Industrial market where prices advanced on a broad front. Engineerings, steels, electricals, textiles, stores and
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    LONDON TIN
    25 3 LONDON. May 18.—Cash Buyers £714; Sellers £714' 2: Forward Buyers £716: Sellers £716' 2: Settlement CTIMi. Turnover a.m. 20 tons p.m. 75 tons.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    28 3 LONDON. May 18.—Spot 277sd., June 27Tsd., July-Sept. 26'14d.. Oct.Dec. 26<xd.. Jan.-Mar. 2534d., Apr.June Unquoted. May c.i.f. 26!, d.. June c.J.f. 26V. July c.i.f. 26'2d. Tone: Easier.
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    25 3 SAIGON, Wed.— Rebel sharnshooters slipped into the South Vietnam capital today, killing two loyalist army officers and seriously wounding two others. Reuter.
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    HIRED A CAR, ARRESTED FOR THEFT
    80 4 HIRED A CAR, ARRESTED FOR THEFT A CONTRACTOR told a Singapore police court yesterday that four days after he had hirrd car he was arrested at the sixth mile Bukit Timah Rnad for stealing it. Ho Po Keng was giving evidrncp in the Fifth Police Court against Ho Chwee Geok.
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    New dates for fashion show
    62 4 The Festival of Fashions «nd the masked dance in aid of the Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association '•ill be j held on May 28 and 29 from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at the West Point Garden. Pasir Panjang. I Ticket holders for May 13 find 14
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    Alliance book of faith—Chapter One: Road to freedom
    263 4 Alliance book of faith— Chapter One: Road to freedom 'VOTE US IN— AND IT'S SELF-GOVERNMENT IN FOUR YEARS' KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE triple Alliance will call for an election once the demand for a fully-elected legislature has been met. This promise is given in a book "The Road To Independence"
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    Rains won't hold up ceremony
    106 4 Rains won't hold up ceremony rE SINGAPORE City Council has prepared a "dry" and a "wet" programme for the ceremony of presenting the Freedom of the City to the Governor. Sir John Nicoll. on May 27. The ceremony will start at 5 p.m. In case of rain, the "dry" programme
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    Woman loses appeal
    66 4 Tan Poh. 61. who appealed against a fine of $2,000 imposed on her in a lower court, lost her appeal in the Singapore High Court yesterday. Tan had pleaded guilty in the Fourth Police Court, to assisting in a chap-ji-ki lottery at Boon Tat Street on Dec.
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    THE SON WHO REFUSED AID...
    54 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Hlndon binte Mohamed Yacob, whose son refused to bail her| out when she was originally charged with not obtaining an identity card, today was sentenced to 33 days' jail, the sentence to date from the time of her arrest. The sentence expired
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    IT WAS A MATTER OF 'FACE'
    202 4 But court president ticks off debtor JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. The president of the Sessions Court Mr. N. L. Cohen, today said It would be far better if people thought less of losing face and more of paying their debts. Mr. Cohen said this when
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    Job-or-jungle man out of wood now
    130 4 Job-or-jungle man out of wood now WONG KOK CHAN, 43, a clerk who asked Mr. F. G. Tyson. Chief Employment Officer, for a job on Tuesday has now found one. In desperation. Mr. Wong, unemployed for a year, pleaded with Mr. Tyson: "Get me a job, or I will have
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    Crash—3 in family hurt
    55 4 Crash— 3 in family hurt Two Singapore sisters and a brother were last night admitted to the General Hospital after a car in which they were travelling crashed into a lamp-post along Havelock Road. The brother, Cheng Chee Kai, 22. sustained head injuries. Lian Yin, 18, and San Yio. 17,
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    Council meeting
    21 4 KANGAR. Wed.— The Peril* State Council will hold its next meeting at the Balai Besar Arau. on June 12.
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    'I MAY DIE IN PRISON'
    184 4 but girl seller loses appeal T IM LIAN HING, 52, a widow, lost her appeal against v sentence of eight months' jail in the Singapore High Court yesterday. She had been found guilty In a district court of attempting to sell a woman. Chew Ah
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    Union meeting
    28 4 TANJONG MALIM. Wed. The annual meeting of the Batang Padang District Estates' Staff Union will be held at Trolak, South Perak, on Sunday at 2.30 p.m.
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    He obstructed pavement
    54 4 A vegetable dealer, Ch'ng Ah Teck, was fined $25 or one week's jail for obstructing the flve-foot-way at Boat Quay with six empty baskets and four baskets of cabbages on the afternoon of Jan. 2. "It was raining, so I left the things there," he said when
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    Luxury homes
    19 4 SEREMBAN, Wed. Eleven quarters for Division 1 officers, costing $430,000. are being completed in Jalan Kilat here.
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    TEACHER WEDS KUALA LUMPUR
    46 4 TEACHER WEDS KUALA LUMPUR ALL SMILES as they leave St. John's f W t pur. after their weddine are Mr I \u, I l Miss Nora Murray Mr. Marsh fa iißM tion Armoured Car Regiment i n lobon and h J teacher—Strait*. Times pi, tut l
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    No baton—but plenty of music
    223 4 No baton but plenty of music SINGAPORE, still jittery 1 about last week's violence, gave a poor welcome last night to Kurt Woess, one of Europe's fastest rising conductors. To hear the most polished orchestral-choral concert for years (and perhaps for years to come) there was no more than a
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      136 4 A familiar sight I When you next cross the Johore Causeway, you cannot fail to notice H the steel pipeline which conveys Singapore's water supply from the. I Tebrau Reservoir 17 miles away. Each day over five million gallons I of water flow through this line. I THESE LARGE DIAMETER
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    STUDENTS GROW RESTLESS IN MORE
    60 5 STUDENTS GROW RESTLESS IN MORE -^rru'A: You will be rewards »m. one bullet— and it will be only one f schools sent aid to Singapore rr in .'ohoro ;«rc Keeping a close 01 tfl( h state's eifkl Chinese middle P. 1 attended by nearly 10,000 that the Sineapore student hore.
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    HOMES FOR PENANG
    41 5 no let rh are :nmrnt has agreed to alienate 25 acres I Crown land in the suburbs to the council on a 99-year lease for this project." the Resident Commissioner. Mr. D. Gray, told the Straits Times today.
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    MOTHER PLEADS FOR SON
    137 5 MOTHER PLEADS FOR SON VMAN. who was fined $10 for being drunk, had his sentence revoked in a SingaP'llice court yesterday when his mother appealed on his behalf. Feo Bo m Hce. 40. of Carp•l Road, was charged with nncss and behaving in i disorderly manner at the J to
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    Bail of $50
    25 5 bin Ahmad pleaded •v in Singapore vasterI eham of disorderly behaviour on Tuesday nicht. He waj allowed $50 bail till S irday.
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    The Special Branch: Bulwark of democracy
    230 5 The Special Branch: Bulwark of democracy IT'S BEST WEAPON AGAINST REDS' KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. QELANGOR S Chief Police Mr. J. B. Masefleld, said here today that, a police Special Branch was a democratic country's most effective weapon against Communism. •Without the Special Branch! here." he said, "we would make little
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    $1,000 bail in driving case
    48 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. See Kirn Yen, of Singapore, was charged in the Magistrate's Court here today with causing the deaths of Tee Yeng Bing and Tan Eng Keok on April 17 at Jalan Tai Heng by negligent driving. He was given $1,000 bail.
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    Smokes stolen
    22 5 About $300 worth of cigarettes and provisions were stolen from a sundries shop in Woodlands Road. Singapore, on Tuesday night.
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    A SINGAPORE REGULAR IS CHOSEN AS THE 'QUEEN OF THE AIR'
    175 5 A SINGAPORE REGULAR IS CHOSEN AS THE 'QUEEN OF THE AIR' ANNE PRICE, a BOAC air hostess who visits Singapore regularly with the airline's Argonaut services, won the "Queen of the Air" contest held in Johannesburg. Anne, a blue-eyed brunette who lives at Uxbridge on the outskirts of London, won
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    'NAMES'DEMAND TO MARSHALL
    212 5 'NAMES' DEMAND TO MARSHALL Progressives challenge: No facts T*HE Progressive Party has asked Singapore's Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, to name the persons with whom the party was alleged to have negotiated to bring about the Government's downfall. At the Legislative Assembly's emergency meeting on Monday, Mr. Marshall jaid that,
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    5 POLITE ROBBERS SAY 'THANK YOU'
    146 5 Get $400 and lift in victim's car PENANG, Wednesday. FIVE polite armed robbers said "thank you" when they took $400 from a merchant in his home in Khaw Sim Bee Road. They then made him drive them away in his car. Before they left
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    Postmaster dies
    34 5 Mr. Peter Kiong Chai Cheng, 52, postmaster of the Newton Post Office, Singapore, died last night soon after he was found unconscious in the lavatory of his house in Bukit Timah Road.
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    Crushed to death
    27 5 Teo Keng Whatt, 17, a labourer, was yesterday crushed- to death by rollers while working in a noodles factory In Lorong 35, Geylang, Singapore.
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    Church meeting
    16 5 SEREMBAN. Wed.— The annual meeting of St. Mark"s Church will be held on Friday.
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    Lawyer on the run— but it's all legal
    133 5 Lawyer on the run— but it's all legal IyJTCH lawyer Herman Bouman, who fled from Indonesia after bribery accusations, arrived in Singapore by ship on May B—legally.8 legally. He left by air for London on May 10 and is now in Holland. He did not visit the Dutch Consulate in
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    Speed trap bags 35
    59 5 IPOH, Wed.— Speed traps set by the traffic police along Kampar and Kuala Kangsar roads resulted in 36 motorists being charged in the traffic court today with exceeding the 30 miles per hour limit Thirty-five pleaded guilty and were fined $40 each. The 36th man claimed
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    Peacemaker hurt
    38 5 A 16-year-old boy Annamalay Paklri, who tried to stop two boys fighting in Potong Pasir, Singapore, on Tuesday night was stabbed in the back with a penknife. He was treated at the hospital and sent home.
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    Municipal clerk denies fraud
    126 5 Municipal clerk denies fraud KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. rE Municipal Architect, Mr. Eric Taylor, told the First Magistrate's Court here today that a Malay clerk in his office admitted misappropriating money due to the Municipality. The Municipal Treasurer, Mr. C. J. Potter, was present when the clerk made the admission, he
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    Food, fun fair at church
    56 5 PENANG, Wed.— The Women's Society of Christian Service. Penang, will hold a food and fun fair on Saturday at the Wesley Church grounds in Burmah Road from 2to 8 p.m. There will be Chinese, English, American and Indian food, game stalls and sale of baby
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    47 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— Mr. W.L W. Hinks. Controller of Telecommunications, Johore region, will go to Britain on leave at the end of next week. He will be succeeded by Mr. Dennis Smith, who is due back from leave in a few days.
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    23 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed— The High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacOillivray, today visited johore Bahru and had talks with top Government officials.
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    66 6 20 H ..rrf« flit I minimum). MRS. GITTA TATE Wishes to thank all her Friends for their Sympathy, Assistance and Floral Tributes in Her Recent Sad Bereavement. THE FAMILY of the late Mr. Gene D. Symonds and the United 1 i A. ■-(Ki.itions .sincerely thank tno.se who attended the
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    Singapore, Thurs. May 19, 1955. The Duty To Govern
    901 6 Singapore, Thurs. May 19, 1955. The Duty To Govern Even while the Singapore Government was announcing on Tuesday night its orders to the boards of the Chinese High School and Chung Cheng school to expel a number of black-listed students, it seemed doubtful that these measures would prove effective Large
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    Workers Behind The Curtain
    316 6 Many British visitors to the Communist countries have been at first gratified and later annoyed by the immense success of Charles Dickens among Communist readers. Their annoyance springs from the discovery that these readers are led to believe that the Eatanswill election is an exact pattern
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      628 6 INVENTS since the new 5 government has held office are a great H lesson to those who E were apathetic and did i not exercise their right to vote at the last election. S The Chief Minister was E quite right when he stated E
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      A PICTURE OF COMMUNISM
      359 6 AFTER reading Mr. Lee Kuan Yew's statement, I should like to tell hip something that happened in Communist China, through letters sent by friends and relatives who went back to Red China after the Communist occupation. Those who possessed properties left by their fathers had them
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      119 6 rE agreement which ended the Hock Lee bus dispute does not provide for strike pay for the whole period of the dispute, as stated in our editorial comment on Monday. May 16. What has been agreed is that, while the arbitrator is arriving at his decision on the
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      55 6 BY comparing extracts from the U.N. Charter of Human Rights with Soviet law we realize what an unbridgeable gulf exists between the rights of people in the democratic and in the communist world. Charter, of Human RightsArticle 4: No-one shall be held in slavery or servitude:
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      247 6 The fond mother* must also be, stern IT is most refreshing to find that the Straits Times is still "pro-Government" today, even at the risk of antagonising those who are so vociferous in their cry for ''merdeka". Your leader, "Left Foot Foremost." could be twisted by certain people who are
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      267 6 LET us not be deluded by the present peace Ik n /L Qulet Bf** 11 e^«»t» have proved that there exists in Singapore a group of people who aim to overthrow law and order and to establish anarchy in Its place. Murder and arson would
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        58 6 MR. Lim Swee Siong has the solution in his own hands if he wishes to use his influence the right way among the students. It is no good to preach the ridiculous conception "Chinese for the Chinese" to them. Singapore is a cosmopolitan territory and there should be a non-communal
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        46 6 TK) Mr. Lee *Kuan Yew and his ilk I would say emphatically. "From selfgovernment at the present juncture deliver, us O Lord" I would add. "Modify your ways of thinking, and so go through a long life of peace and happiness." THREE SCORE AND TWELVE. Singapore.
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        46 6 IAM totally unable to understand the kid-clove tactics used with the students. Their Communist organisers and ring-leaders must be known to the police. Why cannot they be imprisoned or deported immediately? Are we going to look in vain for strength and leadership? C. T. Kuala Lumpur.
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        44 6 ris the duty and responsibility of all parties with the interests of this country at heart to unite and strive for the goal of self-govern-ment and ultimate independence, instead' of undermining the economical, social and political welfare of the country. W. K. CHAN. Singapore.
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        25 6 Fwas very unfortunate that a person of Mr. Harry Lee's calibre should have made such an ill-con-ceived and irresponsible statement 'to the Sydney Daily Mirror.
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        23 6 Foreigners will be inclined to believe that his view is shared by a large section of the Malayan populace. D. ABISHEGAM P. Kempas.
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        40 6 REPORTS show that the Singapore police have been very lenient towards the strikers. I am sure that if this strike had taken place during the Japanese occupation period there would have been dozens of machine-guns trained on them. ANTI-VIOLENCE Perak.
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        52 6 rE statement made by Mr. Lee Kuan Yew that anyone who leads the Chinese people In Malaya cannot afford to be anti-Red, has not yet been negated by any responsible Chinese leaders. Can their silence be interpreted as acquiescence? Will the Malayan Chinese Association leaders express their views? J. M.
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        28 6 ITNLESS drastic and timely measures are taken. Singapore looks like going the way of many other countries during post-war years behind the iron curtain. KUMBANG BETINA. Ipoh. ft
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        50 6 MR. Lee Kuan Yew, whom A are you trying to fool? Certainly not me. Why don't you take a long vacation and see for yourself what Communism is like? Are you so blind as not to know what tnese so-called liberators are doing in Malaya and Singapore? ABDULLAH BATAJ. Penang.
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        74 6 IFEEL the time has come for us to ask ourselves how far are we responsible for the open defiance to law and order shown by our young people during the last few days. Do we take sufficient interest in their welfare, do we understand the minds of our adolescents, do
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        39 6 IT is pity to see students. blindly enter into politics which they do not understand. It is the prime duty of the parents to see their children attend schools and not become involved In aggressive movements. M. LAWRENCE Singapore.
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        40 6 SOME of us are Inclined to forgive these hoodlums on the ground that they are children. I wonder how their parents can condone their actions and keep quiet as it nothing had happened to jeopardise their reputation. D. ABISHEGAM. Rantau.
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        38 6 IITE are grateful to "Fduca- tion Officer" for uarnintr our parents and guardians about the great danger facing us in the English schools. It is up to our principals to stop the rot. S. H. L. Singapore. i
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    75 6 On the marg a? and to incompt Chinese 1 S' ra "science „.**>( least there i, Ration *JW these 8k B «t what are orchards V*l ley Road existence J > swamp? S'nppore m memories dlm the hero w! and the ChS Pronounce sS unhappy But whit We t w
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    92 6 SINGAPORE Oft who Rfari t somebod; ther. wtl the stri ner's claim to a Labour Front, fc J different by the famovl British R±;L j rane. Cochrar.. ton Division c! Db the riny be num He was and, cr champion t sent b i porters resist:: 1 At
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    802 7 What is happening to Sh^pm? Who nuk* the place, anuwau? asks VERNQN BARTLETT \\HAT IX THE N A M E OF HEAVEN IS HAPPENING TO SINGAPORE? Who runs this country, anyway? Students bring aid to sal strikers and then riticise a
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    'RED LORRY' WAS A GREEN VAN
    216 7 That put a different colour on the case pERHAPS there is somewhere in Singapore a man who looks just like Chan Hon Lum and who drives around in a red lorry with the same number as Chan's green van. For in the First Traffic
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    A union sets a record
    54 7 A union sets a record KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. I'HREE hundred workers on an estate in the Sungci Siput district of Perak have joined the National Plantation Workers' Union arecord one-day enrolment. They joined after hearing a speech by the union's acting general secretary, Mr. John Emmanuel. The 320,000-strong union has
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    $1 gift ledi to assault
    76 7 PENANG. Wed. A lorry driver demanded money from his mistress, and when she gave him only a dollar, assaulted her until she lost con- 1 sciousness, the Sessions Court here was told today. Kirn Hock, the driver, was I bound over by Mr. G. H.
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    Malay front may contest polls
    236 7 UNITING FORCE FOR MANY PARTIES KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday.. T<HE MALAY NATIONAL FRONT, set up 'by the All- Malaya Malay Youth Congress here last April, is to consider contesting the Federal elections as soon as the chairman of its steering committee, Dr. Burhanuddin El-Helmy, arrives in
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    3,000 troops on way home
    44 7 The 30,447-ton troopship Pasteur arrived In Singapore yesterday from Indo-China with 3,000 homeward-bound French troops on boardThe trooper stayed in port for a few hours to take on water, supplies and bunkers, md to allow the troops shore leave.
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    One-leg man. jailed for murder bid
    122 7 One-leg man. jailed for murder bid ALOR STAR, Wed. p RIPPING the dock, a onevl legged man, Mohamed Ali bin Ail. today heard the Kedah Assize judge, Mr. Justice iHill, sentence him to 15 years' jail for culpable homicide not I amounting to murder. Mohamed All was originally charged with
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    Five terrorists fired, then fled
    34 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed— Five terrorists fired on a patrol of No. 4 Police Field Force in the Kluang area of Johore yesterday and then fled. No casualties were reported.
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    Officers to meet
    30 7 SEREMBAN, Wed.— An officers' conference of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, Negri Sembilan area, will be held at 4, Jalan Dato Klana. on Friday at 5.30 p.m.
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    Mr. Marshall My inheritance of hate
    228 7 Mr. Marshall My inheritance of hate THE Chief Minister, Mr. x David Marshall, yesterday indicated to 600 students and faculty members of the University of Malaya that his government had inherited a tradition of hatred for constituted authority. He said this hatred had been engendered in the past few years
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    $200 gift for two heroes
    54 7 The Straits Times yesterday received an anonymous gift of $200 to be shared equally between the families of Volunteer Special Constable Andrew Teo Bock Lan and Detective Corporal Yuen Van Pang who died during last Thursday's rioting In the Alexandra area. Gifts for the two
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    BISHOP AT Y.W.C.A. OPENING CEREMONY
    63 7 THE Rt Krv. H.W. Baines Bishop of Singapore, officially opened the Y.W.C.A. tea room at Raffles Quay, Singapore vrsterdav Picture shows (left to right): Mrs. R.K.S. Adams, Madame Sainte Susaane, wife of the French Consul-Gen-eral Rt R«v. H.W. Baines, Bishop of Singapore. Mrs. Loh Poon
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    NEW DRIVE TO SMASH OPIUM RINGS
    193 7 NEW DRIVE TO SMASH OPIUM RINGS And cure centre is planned KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. TTOE Federation Government is drawing up a plan to x stamp out opium smoking and smuggling, the Straits Times was told today. This has been ordered by the Chief Secretary following disclosures about opium rings by
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    WAR OFFICE MAN HERE ON TOUR
    55 7 WAR OFFICE MAN HERE ON TOUR MaJ.-Oen. J. C. Walkey, Engineer-in-Chlef at the war Office, arrived in Singapore from Hong Kone; last night to begin a 14-day inspection tour of engineering units in the Federation. Maj.-Gen. Walkey is on his first tour of inspection in the Far East since he
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    Wedding at the Residency
    65 7 ALOR STAR, Wed— A wedding took place at the Kedah Residency for the first time today when Lt. J. B. Akehurst, of the Ist. Bn., Malay Regiment, married Miss S. A. Webb, daughter of Major W. G. Webb, Superintendent of Kedah Prisons. The couple met three
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    Lady Cross arrives in Singapore
    50 7 LADY CROSS, wife of the Governor of Tasmania, Sir Ronald Cross, who arrived by air from London yesterday. Lady Cross is flying to Tasmania today after attending the wedding of her daughter, Diana, in England. She spent last night at Government House. Straits Times picture.
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    A terrorist gives up
    50 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A terrorist yesterday surrendered to two civilians at Triangkap, in the Cameron Highlands. He was Yip Choo alias Yip Chow, formerly of Kampong Kepayang Ipoh. He went underground in 1949. Another terrorist has surrendered in the Federation but details are not yet available.
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      140 7 The- weather KINIMIM TEMPERATI RE (7.30 p.m. on May 16 to 7.30 a.m. on May 18): Singapore 76 degrees, Penang 74. Kota Bharu 77, Kuala Lumpur 75. Ipoh 76, Kuantan 73. MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on May 18): Singapore fl2. Penang 85, Kota Bharu 91. Kuala Lumpur
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    BLIND CHILDREN'S BIG SUCCESS
    173 8 BLIND CHILDREN'S BIG SUCCESS On tour, their amaze villagers IPOH, Wednesday. V"EW villagers and school students are amazed at the proficiency of a team of six blind teen-agers from the St. Nicholas Home in Penang, who are on a oneweek tour of Ipoh schools and new villages. "It is amazing
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    Gambler lost
    31 8 Tan Tian Slew pleaded guilty in Singapore yesterday to a charge of gambling in public in Tras Street last Tuesday. He was fined $10 and his takings were confiscated.
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    COSTUMES OF THE NATIONS' AT GIRLS' CLUB DANCE
    110 8 COSTUMES OF THE NATIONS' AT GIRLS' CLUB DANCE rE SIGLAP Girls' Club will stage a parade of "Costumes of the Nations" at its Midsummer Ball to be held at Raffles Hotel on June 24. The girls want to include in the show the national costumes of Italy. Persia, Egypt, Turkey,
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    1729 9 Police and thugs fought running battle in street car chase iiiii FATE WAS UNKIND TO DESERTERS TO the crackle of gunfire, a tramcar hurtled at tfreat speed through the north London suburb of Tottenham one day in 1909, closely pursued by another tramcar on the parallel lines. On the platform
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    TIN SHARE PRICES IMPROVE ON ACQUISITION TALKS
    332 11 TIN SHARE PRICES IMPROVE ON ACQUISITION TALKS By Our Market Correspondent a FEATURE on the Singapore Share Market yes- tcrdaywasthe jump in prices of three tin counters on the announcement that negotiations for the acquisition of their interest by Siamese Syndicate Ltd. was now taking place between the boards of
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    216 11 me Singapore section of the ayan Share Brokers' Association The local share market ,ii nil sections with only i selected industrials register.improvements. "Tins conillar and rubber s quiet." ».ipore members reported the iwing business done yesterday:ad Neave ords 11.72' i: Dion *265; Malayan Cement II 48, Metal Box
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    57 11 New funds for the Federal and 'Monial Building Society, which perates in Singapore and Malaya .re being arranged through loans of up to $20 million from the Hongkong ar.d Shanghai Banking Corporation. .nnounceflj in the annual re- of the Colonial Development Corporation. Previously it had been stated
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    41 11 On the free exchange market in long Kong yesterday, the U.S. >:;.\r was quoted at 5.82' s for cash and 5 83 2 for T.T. S-erling was quoted at 15.72 and one tael of pold at 251 n 4
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    178 11 June first grade rubber buyers fob. closed In Singapore yesterday at 91 5 8 cents a lb.. seven-eighths of a cent above Tuesday's price. The closing tone was steady. The price varied between 91 n cents and 91 4 cents, the improvement being due to increased oversea Inquiry,
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    133 11 increase in port charges LONDON. Wed.— lncreased dock dues and charges for handling Imports and exports at Port of London Authority docks, which came into effect on Monday, are unlikely to be reflected in freight charges for some time to come, according to shipping circles here. The P.L.A. and London
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      706 11 NOTICES W. HAMMER ft COMPANY UNITED NOTICE is given that delivery of water to ships and installations, by waterboate. will be curtailed on Monday. 23rd May 1955 the occasion of Hart Raya Puaaa. NOTICE FEDERATION OF MALAYA $10,000,000/. 5% REGISTERED STOCK, mz/72. NOTICE is hereby given that the Register of
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      547 11 NOTICE THE PERAK RIVER VALLEY RUBBER COMPANY LIMITED (Incorporated in the Federation of Malaya). (In Voluntary Liquidation). In the Matter of THE COMPANIES ORDINANCES, 1944-46. NOTICE is hereby given (pursuant to Sections 229 and 275 (1) (b) of the Companies Ordinances 1940-46), that a Meeting of the Members of the
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      244 11 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA APPLICATIONS are Invited for appointment to two Lectureships in Physics. Candidates should hold a good Honours degree ln Physics. They will be expected to conduct research in atmospheric physics and preference will be given, for one of the appointments, to a candidate with experience in
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      180 11 NOTICE IN THE ESTATE OF TAN SIAKUANG ALSO KNOWN AS TAN SIA KUANG, DECEASED (Pursuant to Section 29 of the Trustees Ordinance Chapter 59). NOTICE is hereby given that all persons having claims against the estate of the abovenamed deceased who died at Singapore on the 6th day of November,
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      78 11 NOTICE RURAL BOARD, SINGAPORE The Singapore Rursl Board invites tenders for the supply of Village Refuse Bins. Forms of tender and full particulars and specifications of the refuse bias required can be obtained from the Office of the Rural Board, Empress Place, Singapore-6. Tenders will close at 12 noon on
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    THE 3 p.m. DROOPS
    260 12 THE 3 p.m. DROOPS Just rhythm, reports CHAPMAN PINCHER rAT d-r-o-o-p-y feeling which steals over you at about three In the afternoon so that you cannot concentrate on your work Is natural and normal, doctors report. Studies of human alertness spread over many years nave shown that the power of
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    HOW TO FLIRT
    891 12  -  RENE HacCOLL By A few old tips on a subject that still interests us THE copious sunshine was kindling the spring day into a gentle explosion of happiness. I was cleaning out the boxroom and suddenly came across a tiny tome, whose title seemed deliciously appropriate to
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    RUDENESS DOESN'T MATTER, IT'S THE NOISE
    549 12 RUDENESS DOESN'T MATTER, IT'S THE NOISE OUR head gardener is an excellent worker and understands a good deal about growing things unlike most socalled gardeners. Have had some who would water a plant with the roots sticking up in the air and never notice, if you know what I mean.
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    37 12 WEARING a home-made hat of ermine tails and erminetail earrings to match, the Danish-born sculptress, Mrs. Eva G. Castle, photographed as she arrived in London recently for the Royal Academy's summer exhibition. Reuter picture.
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      266 12 What more can y Ou ji KEEPING A FAMILY FIT AND WE L I sure they get good meals and p cnty of 8 nottJ M still they pick up infections and Ulncssc M this? Yes— give them daily Ri^ way to take Vitamin C— is a great H I
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      427 12 34. A model question (5). Tp« I 26. Plat out— but not at speed <9). Straits Times Crossword 2 '^vr >even of tempera 28. Like a lion, he's with the -p-^ imps 7 K^B Muses (7). l^i §1^ 1^ 1|& H^ H^ 1. Sounds as If a female leader Is
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    Clever Bug just made it
    246 13  -  EPSOM JEEP PATERSON, DONNELLY SCORE DOUBLES By MARCELLE LEADS ALL THE WAY TO UPSET JOCKEY Don Paterson was again in top I riding form and followj ed his first day's successes with a splendid double j on two favourites, Clever Bug and Glittering, at Penang
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    Spore C.S. win at golf
    159 13 SINGAPORE Combined Services beat Combined Services Malaya and Hong Kong by 11 to six in their golf match played at the Royal Singapore Golf Club course yesterday. Results (Singapore first): Capt. Benson bt F O. Brown. Lt Col. Gardner bt Capt. Walker. A/C Jones lost
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    RACE RESULTS, SWEEPS and DIVIDENDS
    1705 13 (Winner trained by Manning) Won by 2, l 2 Vi. Time 1 mm. Tote- $21, $6; $15; $21. Cash sweep: No. 1761 ($121); No. 1007 ($60); No. 1146 ($33). Starters ($7 each): Nos. 1728. 1193. 1045, 1520, 1365, 1597, 1291. Extra Sweep: No. 1555 ($67)
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    ENTRIES FOR K.L. RACES
    754 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. ONE hundred and sixty horses —69 Class 3 and 91 Class 4 have been entered lor the Selangor Turf j Club May-June Meeting on I May 28, June 1 and 4. Entries are: NOTE: Kntrien of Flaxley Oreen and Lady Wrarjgler In Class
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    BELGIANS MAY JOIN IN THE GALA
    373 14 Macao write for matches THE International Hockey Federation will shortly discuss the post-Olympic tournament in Singapore next year between India, Pakistan, Britain, Holland, Malaya, and Singapore. Mr. R. Frank, the I.H.F. secretary, has written to the Singapore Hockey Association saying that the tournament plans
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    283 14 W. INDIES ARE IN A BAD POSITION BRIDGETOWN. Wed. WEST Indies were in a seemingly hopeless position against Australia at the end of the third day of the fourth Test here yesterday. Needing 519 to avoid the follow-on they were 187 for six in reply to Australia's total of 668.
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    ROSS LEADS STORE REST
    67 14 SINGAPORE Rest team to meet Europeans in the annual Clarke Cup match on the padang next weekend was selected last night as: D. C. Ross (capt.) C. Thurais:ngam. S. Kulasingam, S. Paramathevan, E. Le Mercier Dr. Harcharan Singh. A. E. Delilkan, S. Nagaiah. M. C. Sethupathy.
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    SPRINGDALE WIN
    34 14 Sprlngdale S.C. beat Malayan Airways S.C. 4-2 in a soccer friendly at Fairer Park yesterday. Ah Chye (2 1, Kok Meng and Hamzah scored for Sprinpdale; Weng Chone netted twice for Airways.
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    SPRINGBOKS 180-2 AT TEA
    41 14 LONDON, Wed. HPHE South Africans were 180 for x two at tea on the opening day of their match against Cambridge University at Cambridge today. McGlew (85i and Waite (.78) put on 137 for the first wicket.
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    GUTHRIES WILL MEET AT SOCCER
    42 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Guthrie Sports Club. Kuala Lumpur, are sending a soccer team to Singapore over the Hari Ray a Puasa holidays (May 22-24) to play Guthrie Sports Club. Singapore The team will travel by train.
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    CSC ELECT OFFICIALS
    93 14 Mr. Lee Kong Chlan has been I made an honorary president of the i Singapore Chinese Swimming Club. Other officials are: President. Mr. G. H. Kiat: vice- presidents Messrs. Goh Cheng San. i Robert Tan Hoon Siang and Run Run Shaw: hon. auditor: Ng Cheng Rang; hon.
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    KOBBERO & HANSEN SURE OF PLACES IN 'WORLD TEAM'
    571 14 KOBBERO HANSEN SURE OF PLACES IN 'WORLD TEAM' By The Sports Editor WHO AMONG the overseas Thomas Cup badminton players are good enough lor a place in the Malayan team? After watching the Danes and the Americans practise at the Singapore Badminton Hail this week. I can name three. Finn
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    LAST DAY TO COLLECT YOUR TICKETS
    144 14 LAST DAY TO COLLECT YOUR TICKETS T«OOA\ is the UM day for those who have been allocated Thomas Cup tickets to collect them from the Cathay ofticrs. All tii-krts not collected after today will be resold to the public at Robinson's. Winston's Low Ton Hyc\ and Majestic Hotel. Any left
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    RETURN FIGHT LONDON OFFE MAY BE TAK
    273 14 RETURN FIGHT LONDON OFFE MAY BE TAK SAN FRANCISCO Wpd OOCKY MARCIAXOs manager, Al Weil] said yesterday at aPress conference that he was "seriously considering return match for Rocky Marciano with Den Cockell in London, probably in September" He said: "We may take match if the terms are right and
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    Somkiat wins in one
    95 14 "VAI SOMKIAT of Siam U24-lb> I scored a sensational first-round I knockout over the Singapore featherweight. Lim Kee Cnan ill6jlb.>. in their scheduled ten-round fight at Happy World stadium I night before a i;rowd of 2.000 fans. The knockout came ]OM on second minute Ahen the
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