The Straits Times, 18 June 1955

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    12 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1955 15 CENTS
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    T's ALL OVER—TILL JUNE 26
    211 1 T's ALL OVER— TILL JUNE 26 Chief Minister names the three 'discredited unionists' who tried to coerce the Government 0 BACK TO WORK, PEOPLE'S ACTION PARTY LEADERS ORDER SYMPATHY' STRIKERS Rut the threat remains MUCIOUS, SAYS MARSHALL KES are over. They ended last night with dramatic sudden\iul today more than
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    the PAP clenched fist
    1005 1 SCHED FISTS of P.A.P. unicm bosses Mr. \m Chin Sionq 'the half-hearted ones m official, to signify the end of the strike. Straits Times picture. reviewed within 14 days and their ending to call off tho strikes which longer the power to continue deceives to save
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    Out go the furnaces —no jobs for 150
    208 1 Out go the furnaces —no jobs for 150 P.A.P. delayed decision —workers suffer MORE than 150 workers am will be without jobs for the next three or four weeks because the three Peoples Action Party trade union bosses delayed by 12 hours their decision to "recommend" calling off the sympathy
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    Gold seized at airport
    51 1 About 54 tb of gold worth $84,000 was seized by the Singapore Customs at the Kallang Airport on the arrival of a Pan-American airliner irom Manila yesterday afternoon. A Chinese security officer on the plane was arrested as he walked along the tarmac towards the terminal
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    Lock icon Cough of death
    23 1 GALENA. Maryland. Fri.— George Hillderg, 62. coughed so hard that he swallowed his false teeth and chocked to death.— Reuter.
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    Bait for a tiger —a chained dog
    47 1 Bait for a tiger a chained dog RAUB, Fri. A dog has been chained to a tree as bait for the tiger which killed six cows at Tranum, seven miles from here. Lying in wait for the tiger is the Game Warden, Pahang, Mr. A. K. Robinson.
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    Lock icon Airlift blunts effects of liner strike
    195 1 LONDON, Frl.-A miniature transatlantic airlift was in full B wing today as passengers from strikebound liners packed every available plane for the United States and Canada. Most of the passengers came from the Cunard liner Queen Mary which was unable to leave Southampton for
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    Lock icon Raiders fail
    30 1 RANGOON. Fri. A combined force of 300 Karen and Communist insurgents made an unsuccessful raid on Tuesday nisht on Danubyu. where Burma's most famous cheroots are made. Reutcr.
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    Ups-a-daisy—and off to school
    57 1 Ups-a-daisy— and off to school i HERE'S A HELPING HAND FROM UNCLE DAVID THE CHIEF MINISTER, Mr. David Marshall, *ent to the Waterloo Street "depot" at 1.30 p.m. yesterday to see for himself how the Government's "free lift" lorry service was being operated. Here he is seen helping a schoolboy
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    EDY'S LOST GEMS FOUND IN HER HOME
    191 1 HOUSTON. Texas, Friday. THE U.S. $51,000 worth of jewellery which was reported missing from the River Oaks home of actress Hedy Lamarr three weeks ago has reappeared. Mr. W. Howard Lee, the film star's husband, telephoned the police yesterday and said that the
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    Lock icon Bridegroom is killed
    88 1 By his crackers VIENNA. Fri. An old Austrian custom of waking the bride on her wedding day by exploding firecrackers under the window killed the bridegroom and injured the bride's two brothers at Krumbach Amt, near here. Johann Trimmel, 26, the bride groom was just setting light
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    Lock icon SAVED-BY 99 WIVES OF OLD EMPERORS
    187 1 SAVED-BY 99 WIVES OF OLD EMPERORS 'Depose Bao Dai' call unheeded SAIGON, Fri. TTOE Prime Minister, Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem, has no intention of declaring a republic in South Vietnam as a result of a motion by some relatives of ex-Emperor Bao Dai disowning him as Head of State, an
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    Lock icon $6,000 for a husband
    44 1 Dowries Red style VIENNA, Fri. Russian women are offering Austrian men up to $6,000 if the Austrians marry them. The Russian girls are serving with Soviet occupation troops and want to remain in Austria when Soviet troops are withdrawn. A.P.
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    Russia expels 3 U.S. envoys
    41 1 WASHINGTON. Fri— Russia has expelled three American Attaches stationed in Moscow, it was reporiod her? today. Officials hero said the Soviet Foreign Oflicr accused the men of improper activities and said they were no longer acceptable—Reuter.
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    Lock icon Sir James sworn in
    30 1 LAGOS, Fri. Sir James Robertson has been sworn in as Gnvor-nor-General of the Federation of Nigeria to succeed Sir John MacPherson, who is to retire. Reuter.
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    GET YOUR MM. RIGHT AWAY
    61 1 DID you swelter with the players at the Thomas Cup Challenge Round? Whether you did or did not, you should read "Hot Enough to Melt the Cup" in the June issue of The Malayan Monthly on sale NOW. MM. also presents another $20,000 Must-Be-Won Contest.
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    Lock icon The Red heads may roll
    137 1 The Red heads may roll BIG PURGE LOOMS IN CHINA HONG KONG, Fri. OALF a million members 11 of the Chinese Communist Party may be purged before the end of the year, according to Chinese refugees reaching here. They said the purge had been started by the expulsion of the
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    STOP PRESS
    38 1 SHARK ATTACK Body df ttooffkani labourer i-<><> Y<ok Saaw, 1.;. recovered fr<>:" Inner Ko.ul> last night with arm inissin; 1 believed bitten <>IV i)y shark. AUSSIES WIN Australia won Te»t by inn*, and 81 rams. ■eater.
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    Lock icon A UNITED NATIONS WEDDING
    97 2 3 languages used M BLE8WIG, Germany. Fri. II (,.ok three languaxcs— German, Dantek and Ef--h--to eet the three Tessin ~t. rs (if Schleswis married on the same <ia>. Si^run. the youngest at 19, married Flying Oflieer Adri;ui (olesman, 23. a Royal Air I tree JH fiuhter
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    POCKETKNIFE SURGERY ON A HEART
    71 2 POCKETKNIFE SURGERY ON A HEART MEMPHIS. Term.. Fri. A irgeon used a blunt to cut into a I ch< st and ma man's heart until it starl- ing again. Dr Thomas C. Turner bor- thi pocketknlfe from a sturirnt. patient's condition was i- ritical today Turner had answered an i
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    Academy Award winner coming here
    93 2 QAM SPIEGEL, a Hollywood producer, whose most recent picture, "On the Waterfront." won eight Academy Awards, will arrive in Singapore by air on June 22. He will make his headquarters in Singapore while he is looking for suitable location sites in (MLalaya for his next
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    Lock icon Revolt is crushed—Peron
    502 2 Revolt is crushed— Peron News blackout descends on Buenos Aires but from all around come radio reports: Government House bombed heavy street fighting.... churches in flames BUT NEIGHBOURS NOT SO SURE PRESIDENT PERON claimed last night to have complete control of a revolt which broke out among naval and air
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    Lock icon Hope for jailed airmen
    84 2 NEW YORK, Fri. Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld. the United Nations secretary-general gave a broad hint today that he expects the early release of the 11 remaining American airmen imprisoned by the Chinese Communists Asked at a Press conference whether he favoured visits by relatives of the fliers
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    Young lovers who wanted a loan
    45 2 CHICAGO, Fri. A young couple went into an office to ask lor a loan "to get married." Asked for identification, the young man brought out a .45 automatic pistol. The office manager handed over $245 and the couple left.
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    Lock icon Adenauer agrees
    44 2 NEW YORK, Fri.— Dr. Konrad Adenauer. Chancellor of West Germany, said here today that the world political situation looked better than in the last few years thanks to a policy of firmness, .strength and patience on the part of the West." Reuter.
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    THE DRUMMER BOY:
    113 2 If there's rhythm in your bl<»xl< here's a big chance ANY boy who wants to beat the drums of the army, has a chance to do so now if he writes to the Bandmaster of the Royal Welch Fusilier.s In Singapore. The only conditions are that the
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    Lock icon 2,000 at Le Mans funeral
    69 2 PARIS, Fri. Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss stood with bowed heads by a coffin piled high with flowers at the funeral yesterday of Mercerdes driver Pierre Levegh, who died in the Le Mans disaster five days ago. The Argentinian world champion and the British
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    A NEW SNEAK WAR 'WILL BE FAILURE,
    104 2  - A NEW SNEAK WAR 'WILL BE FAILURE, WILLIAM FISH From Radar in warship, bcahr,, :i ABOARD H.M.S. CONCORD, Fri. C^XERCISE A N Z E X. now being carrier out by Commonwealth warships 450 miles north-east of Singapore, has shown that infiltration of Malaya by small craft can be prevented i
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    MOLOTOV TO 'STAR' ON TELEVISION
    65 2 MOLOTOV TO 'STAR ON TELEVISION THE Soviet Foreign Minister. Mr. Molotov. will face a battery, of newsmen on the Columbia Broadcasting System's "Face the Nation" television programme on June 2(>. This i>. the first timo any Russian leader has agreed to submit to questioning hrforr a nation-wide radio and television
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    Ex-King rallies exiled subjects
    64 2 MADRID, Fri.— Former Kins Simeon II of Bulgaria appealed yesterday to his people in exile to unite while awaiting the day of liberation of their fatherland from the Communists. He read his proclamation alter a Te Deum service honouring his 18th birthday and legal coming of
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    He had a wife
    103 2 SO.IAPWARBRID] GETS $4,<jft) HARTFORD, C \ielvi>; t. jacksc: 1 L a former major the U.S. Air agreed to pay i girl, Ruth iToW] 1 Ikeda. USS 1.500 ($Ui because he married her j Osaka rive years as when he alreai i American wife. The agreement Superior
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    Two rebels kill in attack
    25 2 PARIS. Fri. were killed and I wounded when a KU| tacked a French 1 voy in North Al announced here
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    Buddhist bookli
    19 2 A booklet on I Buddha" la available free 1: the Buddhis: Union. 23 Ja Senyum. Singapore H
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    Rajah's romance flourishes
    61 2 Ihe ELDA GORI. of Florence, on board the Italian liner A-i.« in l <il n .n;.., U ni'ct I'] l Lahore, whom she plans to marry in Bombay next Dec* -iiibi-r i m m i at a party in London while both were studying there. The Rajan
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    SHIPSHAPE AGAIN, JUNK LEAVES
    167 2 mHE storm-battered Chinese junk Henq: Ann Lee, which limped into Singapore three weeks ago from Mersing with four members of her crew missing, left the Colony yesterday for the Red China port of Slnhan minus the four meh, who arc in jail. The four men, Foo
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    New layer
    5 2 I I Ig&pore
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    TURCO'(his yacht ready) WILL RETURN
    156 3 TURCO'(his yacht ready) WILL RETURN AMSTERDAM, Friday I RCO" WESTERUNG, who fought a private war against the Indonesian R( nen1 in 1950, announced today he is re- prevent the spread of Communism usked to return by rightist erourr consider it my duty to go," he said* Communism thpn Tv.V» r>v.n«
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    11 give up
    14 3 II Eleven Man ndered in bringing to urrenden to vnA on
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    Lock icon Twelve long years
    215 3 Twelve long years §336.000 FOR AN INNOCENT MAN NEW YORK, Fri. A 41-YEAR-OLD man Jr% who spent almost 12 yeans i n prison for a murder of which he was later found innocent was awarded U*****,290 ($336,870) in compensation by a State Court of Claims today. Mr. Louis HofTner, a
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    RUBBER SHOES END THE MINE HAZARD
    66 3 RUBBER SHOES END THE MINE HAZARD LONDON. Fri. The -War Office yesterday said that soldiers can walk over minefields safely. The shoes are 30 inches long, with soles of sponge rubber. They spread the wearer's weight over such a large area that even sensitive antipersonnel mines cannot detect the pressure.
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    Mitual murder probe: 5 shot dead
    138 3 ESBY, Fri. trol inves i ted ritual Guinea shot len xho at- cording to rereaching five other wounded in south of sava planta- The patrol led by an Australian Assistant District Offi-J cer. Mr. A. Allen, was investigating a revival of an antiEuropean cult
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    Lock icon A year ago were siamese twins...
    61 3 h?i L in N thr 18 month -"'d Siamese twins. Folkje (left) and Tjitske de Vries, are happy on£it?ni tL e 'u h ome I 1 Oenkerk year after they were separated in an operation. The girls were bor n on Nov. 8, 1953.
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    Lock icon Japanese demand
    34 3 TOKYO. Fri. A Japanese Foreign Ministry statement today said that immediate and unconditional release of all Japanese held in Russia was a prerequisite to relations between Japan and Russia being normal.— Reuter.
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    Cyprus tightens arms law
    42 3 NICOSIA, Fri. The Cyprus Government yesterday announced new regulations to tighten the firearms law. The regulations provide for the creation of a central register of all firearms and ban people under 21 from possessing firearms, including air suns.
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    Lock icon Plane crashes in fog: 16 die
    193 3 FORMER CORRESPONDENT HERE IS A VICTIM A ASUNCION -(Paraguay). Fri. N American correspondent, John Graham Dowling. and 15 other persons were killed here yesterday when a Tan Air do Brasil airliner crashed in a fog. Only nine persons aboard are known to have survived.
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    Lock icon DIVERS TOIL AT SUNKEN SUB
    250 3 DIVERS TOIL AT SUNKEN SUB Surgeon died in heroic rescue PORTLAND, Friday. THE steady beat of compressed air pumps echoed over the harbour here today as salvage ships pumped air into the sealed hull of the submarine Sidon which sank yesterday in 35 feet of water taking 13 men with
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    Lock icon THIS DISTILLERY WENT SO DRY THAT IT HAD TO CLOSE
    138 3 THIS DISTILLERY WENT SO DRY THAT IT HAD TO CLOSE LONDON. Fri. MR. R. A. BUTLER, Chancellor of the Exchequer, last mght said that British production had not suffered very greatly through the 17--day railway strike. The nation had been able to keep up a substantial level of exports, he
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    Lock icon BATONS IN BERLIN: 129 ARRESTED
    116 3 BERLIN. Fri. West Berlin police yesterday dispersed three Communist-led demonstrations and detained 129 people on the eve of the second anniversary of the 1953 anti-Communist rising in East Germany. The demonstrators, who came from East Berlin, distributed leaflets and shouted slogans against anniversary celebrations due
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    Lock icon Quadruplets: Three die
    48 3 NEW YORK. Fri. The last of the quadruplets born on Wednesday to a New Haven woman died yesterday afternoon. Two of the four boys died seven hours after they were born. The 39-year-old mother, Mrs. Kenneth Barnes, was reported m fair condition In hospital. -A.P
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    LONDON STOCKS
    328 3 LONDON, Frl. DRICES moved Irregularly In A rather quiet trading In the stock markets today. A quietly firm tendency prevailed In early dealings with sentiment aided by general satisfaction in the market with the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement in the Commons yesterday on the economic situation. later,
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    LONDON TIN
    26 3 LONDON. June 17— Cash Buyers £727' 2 Sellers £728: Forward Buyers £727' 2 Sellers £728; Settlement £731. Turnover a m 10 tons, p.m. 130.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    41 3 LONDON, June 17.— Spot SS^id., July 33 sd.. Aug. 32d., Sept. 31', d, July-Sept. 32' nd., Oct.-Dec. 30'sd.. Jan. -Mar. 29d.. Apr. -June 27 T ..d., June c.i.f. 31 ad. July c.i.f. 31d., Aug. c.i.f. 30 2d. Tone: Irregular.
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    GRAFT!
    912 4 '^,PROBLEJI: m Opportunine li ar !El E^^——~~B.!^,, /o catch wealth and transfer official* nti |..M»IIM.IM.Mt»"«'H« MMIHIH lIMIMMHI G /j KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A PUBLIC servant 1 who cannot explain how he acquires more wealth than his official income allows should have his unexplained assets confiscated, and, where necessary, be
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    CHEAT CAUGHT BY BANK'S CALCULATOR
    244 4 PENANG. Friday. 4 N accounts clerk was caught cheating when the bank where he worked installed a new type of calculating machine, the Sessions Court here was told today. Tan Cheng Ean, 22. was sentenced to six months' jail for criminal breach of trust of
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    GIFTS GALORE FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS The Quest gets under way
    232 4 GIFTS GALORE FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS The Quest gets under way WHEN Miss Malaya goes to California next month to compete in the Miss Universe Quest she will be able to make her own photographic record of the trip. It was announced yesterday that a valuable movie camera is among the
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    Smokes thief gets jail
    50 4 Tan Ying Yew was yesterday jailed for four months to be followed by 12 months' police supervision in Singapore for stealing 20 cents worth of cigarettes belonging to a shopkeeper in Geylang Road on June 8. Tan. who pleaded guilty, had three previous convictions for theft.
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    Back to jail for 50-cent cheque man
    146 4 PENANO. Fri. A WAR orphan, Che ah Ouan Chuan, said in court today that he made some alterations to a cheque for 50 cents because the amount was too small. "I changed it just for fun,"' he said. Cheah, who had eight previous
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    The target is $60,000
    46 4 The St. John Ambulance Council in Singapore hopes to raise $60,000 from its annual Appeal Week which begins on June 25. The money is for a new St. John Ambulance Brigade headquarters project and the general expenses of St. John Ambulance organisations.
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    Misadventure
    32 4 A verdict of misadventure was recorded on Koh Siew Kirn, 17, who was drowned in the Ponggol River on April 7, by Mr. Oiam Chone Hing, the Singapore Assistant Coroner, yesterday.
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    MAGNATE SUES TO RECOVER LAND
    170 4 A SINGAPORE cinema magnate, Runme Shaw, yesterday claimed in the High Court for recovery of possession of part of 25,000 square feet of land he bought in 1936. The land, at Kallang Road, wa.s rented to Choo 800 Cheong on the condition that Ithere would
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    TAPPER MOLESTED 2 GIRLS
    70 4 BENTONO, Fri. A rubber tapper. Leong Nyan, 23, was yesterday fined $75, or three weeks* jail, for using criminal force on two girls with intent to outrage their modesty. Leong came from behind and hugged the girls, How Mooi. 19, and Ah Mooi, 15, also tappers,
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    Innocent officials and tips to oil machine
    195 4 I THE SQUEEZE— HOW IT WORKS I OFFICIALS could broome unconscious partners t ft corruption. For instance, a nun may invite an nfliHji out to give the impression that tin > are clnsr associate and so increase the prestige and Lnfhießec of the
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    Anti-Alliance Front is off
    104 5 DATO ONX AND SIR rTfmr.u DAgH TQ Ip()H p()R SECRET TALKg PARTIES FEU 0 '>\ER 0; SEATS n'OH. Fri. (()M M,»\ FRONT against tbr li? ht K«l--,n> in I erak \o asreemeitjl ached to aliMitiicncies parties who form tho front in Ja'afar dough were In ■'•crot
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    N.C.O. found dead in billet
    49 5 U A I UMPUR r:-i A British N.C O. attached to I the Special Air Service Reg! < toronation i l "k hen Found dead In hi.s billet with a bullet wound in his temple, A pistol and a letter were found by his mcic.
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    ARSONISTS DESTROY A TEACHER'S CAR
    106 5 ARSONISTS last night destroyed a school teacher('ar parked in Colleffe Road, in the grounds of the Singapore General Hospital. This brings the number of oar arson rases in the Colony since June 8 to 28. The other 27 rases caused only slight damage, Owner of
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    P.C. ABDUL TO FLY STORE BANNER IN LONDON
    143 5 TRAFFIC Police Constable Abdul Rahman bin Mohamed Ali. of the Mobile Squad, will represent the Automobile Association of Singapore at the "Cavalcade of Motoring" in London today. lie- wi!'. ride a motor- ovrle with a Singapore banner bei side a Penane Chinese
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    Close, but Negara can win, says Onn
    143 5 Close, but Negara can win, says Onn KUALA LUMPUR, Fri THE Federal elections will be a "very tough fight." Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'afar. secretary-gener-al of Party Negara, said here today. But he is confident that Negara can win sufficient seats to form a government. Dato Onn will open his
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    Art exhibition
    27 5 A noted Chinese painter, Professor Wong Toh Fung, yesterday opened an exhibition of 100 of his works at the Chine~e Chamber of Commerce in Singapore.
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    Back from India
    19 5 Three hundred and twenty eight Indians returned to Singapore in the 8.500-ton State of Madras yesterday.
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    STRIKE DEL AYS PAYMENTS
    207 5 STRIKE DEL AYS PA YMENTS But city sends out warnings DISRUPTTON of transport in Singapore this week has prevented many householders from going to the City Coun- 1 cil to pay their water and electricity bills. Despite this the Council this week sent out 3.518 warnings that supplies would be
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    Islam in Chinese
    23 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. The Religious Department of Johore is arranging lectures in Chinese on subjects connected with the Islamic religion.
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    DEATH
    28 6 ,U fin i minimum). iCK BAIDWVN !.ue (if and Spore, beloved Essie Irene LDWICk and >lm m<i Bob. at tern Australia, after a on 17th June. 1955.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    43 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENT S minimum). the late Mr. i tan relatives and expressions ol services etc. D MRS T.m Geok Gim nd fnends for lam c (rood w i>he> and i MPOO \Mi UM■ll FYiends and presenting Wreaths the ■nr.eotion with the leir heaved Mother.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Sat. June 18, 1955. Cut Down To Size
    431 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat. June 18, 1955. Cut Down To Size Middle Road has acknowledged defeat. Messrs. Lim Chin Siong, Devan Nair and Woodhull last night "recommended" that the strikers should go back to work today, suspending their strike until the Government has reviewed the cases of the men
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    The Spirit Of Me-tooism
    503 6 The Spirit Of Me-tooism What on earth are the Progressives playing at? Three days ago the Singapore Chinese praM carried a remarkable .statement purporting to have come from the Party. This laid the blame for the upsurge i of industrial unrest in the past two months, on the Labour Front
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    Darker Shadow
    304 6 The shadow of subversion, says Sir Donald McGilßvray. is a darker one than that cast by gunmen in the jungle. In different words, the same warning has been given before. But it is now heavily underscored by the conspiracy against constituted authority which has thrown Singapore into turmoil.
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    As I was saying. „
    1188 6  - As I was saying. CYNICUS by ONE THING Singapore has been spared during the past week of strikes is the crank with fantastic ideas on how to settle the troubles, apart, that is, from the "put-'em-up-against the wall and-shoot->m" brigade which unfortunately is still with us. Not that some of
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    864 6 "'PROUBLE ashore, no ■■one to land," said the captain of the ship that brought me, a lone passenger among the crates and bales of merchandise, from Singapore. He spoke in tones oi" relish. All the way out he had entertained me to the highly coloured tales ol
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    FIFTY YEARS AGO
    87 6 From the Straits Times of June 15, 1905. rpHE arrangements of the A Kinematograph are decidedly better than those which have hitherto obtained in this class of tent shows and the result is apparently auite satisfactory to show Koers and the management. There is a stock of
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    angle girls tempt the soldiers
    98 7 <f ,.yiCE MEN'S WAR ON ABORIGINES WHO pV TO STREET WALKING X l ALA KUBU RAHRV, Friday. ice squads are trying to stamp out Jjgj In i tfroup of Aborigine women in (h SelanfK town. are co-operating with the civil drive the women off the
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    Conductor jailed for 8 months
    73 7 ONLY members of his family were present at the Singapore First District Court yesterday when Rosdon bin Mohamed. a Traction Company conductor, was jailed for eight months for cheating. Rosdon pleaded guilty. He asked .the court for leniency and said he had a wife and
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    WAGONS OFF RAILS: MAIL TRAIN SLOWED
    79 7 WAGONS OFF RAILS: MAIL TRAIN SLOWED TANJONG MALIM. Frl. Three empty goods wagons jumped the rails when the brakes of one of them jammed at Trolak. 15 miles north of here, at 3.30 p.m. today. The.27-wagon express goods train was bound for Kuala Lumpur from Ipoh. The three wagons were
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    Symphony of the Air arrives by air
    34 7 FOUR PLANES, 92 PLAYERS AND A MASS OF INSTRUMENTS Wearing gay clothes and a variety of hats are these five members of the orchestra. Straits Times picture
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    Prayer meeting
    25 7 A Buddhist prayer meeting will be held at the temple, 30, St. Michael's Road. Singapore, tomorrow a. 7 p.m. All are cordially invited.
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    ing. bang her dogs Dropped dead
    57 7 tapper an itate at .-:ngashots and i her pet docs man with 3ng, told the i '>!ico Court I !lm Ah Itti killing another. '.ere shot ling while nbber a r house. not guilty, i shot the dogs. 1 iri never Mr. K. T.
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    DEATH
    15 7 pund 30 p.m. WtfC MM mourn his loss, i Emerald Hill 2 p m.
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    ORCHESTRA CELEBRATES FIRST BIRTHDAY WITH A PARTY
    239 7 Ylf'TH the discipline of an army but the appearance of tourists on a spree, the 102 members and supporters of the Symphony of the Air arrived in Singapore from Bangkok yesterday. The 92-man American orchestra will give concerts in the Singapore Badminton Hall
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    UNION CLASH WAS FEARED
    513 7 afternoon and Monday morning will be back at work today. But about 2,700 workers who were on strike for industrial reasons before Sunday will still be absent. Buses as usual These comprise the 1,300 members of the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association and 1,400 employees of
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    SCHOOLS: EXPERT EVIDENCE
    70 7 Mr. Lim Hoy Lam, principal of the Tak Tun Collece, Who flew to Singapore at the request of All-Party Committee on Chinese education, yesterday r*Te evidence on the Chinese school system in Hong Kong. He had not finished when the session ended. The committee, formed to inquire
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    SHE BORROWED JEWELS AND VANISHED
    297 7 SHE BORROWED JEWELS AND VANISHED Woman gets 12 months 9 jail A 32-YEAR-OLD mother of three children, who borrowed jewels worth more than $1,800 "for a couple of days'* from two housewives next door, disappeared for four years, the Singapore Fourth Magistrate's Court was told yesterday. Zainun binte Abdul Manap,
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    'Mercy' dash to land sick sailor
    94 7 'Mercy' dash to land sick sailor AN AUSTRALIAN seaman who fell from a ship's ladder during the South China sea "Anzex" exercises arrived in Singapore yesterday after a 24-hour mercy dash. He is Electrical Mechanic Leonard George Curtis. 20. of Sydney. His condition is satisfactory. Curtis, from H M ..VS.
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    SYMONDS: MAN CHARGED
    80 7 Ong Ah Too, 25, was yesterday charged in the Singapore Seventh Police Court with being a member of an unlawful assembly, one of whom caused the murder of Gene D. Symonds, manager of the United Press in South-East Asia, at Delta Circus on May 12. Ong, who
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    Rating knocked down by car
    50 7 A British naval rating, R. Jones, 19. was critically injured last night after being knocked down by a car outside the Britannia Club in Beach Road, Singapore. Jones was unconscious when brought to the General Hospital. He was later admitted to the British Military Hospital.
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    'Gallant officer' jailed for year, cashiered
    522 8 BARRATT FOUND GUILTY ON NINE FRAUD CHARGES K. LUMPUR, Fri. fAPTAIN William Thomas Barratt, 36, was today ordered to be cashiered and sentenced to one year's jail by a general court martial. He had been found guilty on nine charges of fraud involving a
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    Terrorist shot by Gurkhas
    43 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A patrol of the 2/6 Gurkha Rifles wounded a terrorist in the Jplebu area of Negri Sembilan yesterday. The wounded bandit and another terrorist with him escaped. The patrol captured a pistol, bullets and two packs.
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    JUDGE'S WORD FOR IT
    166 8 'Astonishing 9 fingerprints man is free A JUDGE was astonished at the Singapore Assizes yesterday when the jury returned a 5-2 verdict that a man whose fingerprints had been identified, was not guilty. Goh Hai Chen was acquitted on a charge of breaking into a shop
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    Siam's Premier due for visit
    173 8 TALKS WITH TOP MEN IN COLONY ARSHAL Pibul Songgram, Siam's Prime Minister will arrive in Singapore on Monday. The Prime Minister and his wife, who are returning? home from a world tour, will spend two days in the Colony as guests of the CommissionerGeneral. Mr.
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    As bullets flew, Reds used woman tor shield'
    121 8 As bullets flew, Reds used woman tor shield' KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— A 20-year-old Chinese woman rubber tapper was killed by a police patrol in the Kalumpang area of north Selangor yesterday. She was seen talking with two terrorists on a rubber estate. When the patrol opened Are. the terrorists used
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    Carnegie Club
    30 8 A "Dale Carnegie Club" was formed on Thursday by 76 Singapore men and women who graduated at the eightweek Dale Carnegie course in speech- training conducted here recently.
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    HAD NO MONEY, SO HE USED DUD COINS
    151 8 T»HEO KIM SAI wept in the dock of the Singapore Second District Court yesterday when he was sentenced to three months' jail for buying cigarettes with $2 in counterfeit coins Inspector Elarr Din. prosecuting, said Theo bought a tin of cigarettes for
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    Receiving order
    32 8 A receiving order was made by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in the Singapore High Court yesterday against C. P. Li Contractors, whose liabilities to Inter-Trade Ltd. totalled $5,887.
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    Robbery on a bicycle
    64 8 PENANG, Fri. Two Chinese cyclists escaped with a $295 gold necklace which they snatched from a woman at the junction of Burmah and Perak Roads yesterday. Chan Ah Moe was walking home when the cyclists rode up from behind. Another woman has reported to the police
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    STUDENTS' BIG DAY IS NEAR
    66 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. hundreds of students in the Federation will know early next week wMether they have been selected for teacher training courses in England or at Kota Bham. Letters will go out from the Education Department headquarters here to the 425 students who have
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    Problem for Penny: Violin, piano?
    264 8 Problem for Penny: Violin, piano? BUDDING GENIUS MUST MAKE A DECISION TWO of Singapore's leadL ing artistes, one a pianist and the other a violinist, are anxiotfs to give lessons to Penny Walker, the gifted younff musician who arrived in Singapore on Wednesday. Miss Noreen Stokes, the wellknown pianist, who
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    Postal training school urged
    62 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A resolution asking for a post office training school will be considered at the annual delegates' conference of the Union of Post Offices Workers of Malaya here tomorrow. The resolution says that, until a school is started, the Postal Department should take into
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    42-year-old shield for museum now
    109 8 MALACCA. Fri. A shield donated 42 years ago by Mr. Yeow Kirn Swee, a Justice of the Peace, will be given to the Malacca Museum. This was decided by the Malacca Amateur Football Association today when they found that there was no space lon the
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    Union meeting
    21 8 A eeneral matins of tbp Singapore Shop Employes' Union will be held at IO.SoVm. tomorrow at IM. Anson Road.
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    1623 9 Million-dollar war in Naning was fiasco in minor key MALACCA WAS UNWANTED LAND IN the year of Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo, the glories of the allied feats of arras were celebrated at banquets in the City of London, in Vienna, in Berlin and in Moscow. In most places, in
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    41 11 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS NE, Frl. t.s active .^tnclc EXled to firm Minings ran higher u> ease. 13/32 >6 15/32 unquoted IS/4% •i/7 1 10/114 21/10', P 7/11', 48/10';, 23/1 ."«ller 41/3 buyer 11/7* 18/3 seller I 28/11% 18/11 buyer 19/11 buyer >/54
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    81 11 I'niducr K\I <■: picul <:7 7 8 ruly SJB 1 2 Aupust Ccconut I 4 sellers. •v r: quiet inquiries, no Dtok white Special Saraun- „|i■ \vox-iation 1 lixed copra: 28 :i 8 sellers; (21 3 4 sellers; (29 sellers. Mid mpr» prices: July. ;g 3 8 buyers.
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    HINGE RATES
    13 11 II market In the U.S. for cash 1 15.60 and ili
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    AND RUBBER PRICES AGAIN ADVANCE IN SINGAPORE
    281 11 By Our Market Correspondent f levXfn^ Un and rubber both went higher closed It Si i?f P re yesterda y and while rubber Driro fnt *h Pcr r IM>ulld the second h^hest Ser Dicul th 7^ a K SO ar tin was uot
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    SHIPPING
    89 11 Ships lying alongside the Slnga- < pore Harbour Board wharves of expected today are: Ceylon 1 2, Burma 4 5, Tantalus C. P.. Benvannoch 6,7. Agamemnon 8 9, Somali 11, City of Brooklyn 13 14, Bayerstein 15 16. Straat Bali 18, Mandama 19 20. 1 Hone Tat N. Wall
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    361 11 The Malayan Share Brokers', Singapore section, reported: "Ther* f lwmmtr in industrials at slightly improved prices on the local share market. Rubbers were £.7" uJV" 16 b U8»nese resulted despite higher quotations. Tins were quiet." Singapore members reported the following business done yesterday:— British Borneo Petroleum 35s. 4'
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    RUBBER PRICES
    136 11 July first grade buyers fob. closed in Singapore yesterday at •1.07 s t> per lt>., up l^i cents on Thursday. The closing tone wa s quiet. Closing rubber prices yesterday In cents per Ib. were No. 1 R.S.S. spot loose buyers 110'g.sellers ill-*;; No. 1 R.S.S. July buyers
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    LESS COAL MINED
    32 11 Coal output In the Federation last month was 18.573 tons compared with 20.210 tons In April. Bauxite production totalled 15,506 tons as against 15,293 tons in the previous month.
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    Big volume of business in rubber
    477 11 ITPPERMOST in everyone's mind this week has been the distrust of the local situation and with several rubber millers and packers on strike, the demand for nearby delivery has been accentuated, states the weekly rubber review of Holiday, Cutler, Bath Co. Ltd. The premium
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      117 11 SHIPPING NOTICE t.«.s. "STATE OF MADRAS" VOY: 10. Sailing 20th June, 1955 4 p.m. EMBARKATION TIME DECK ft BUNK Passengers 1 p.m. SALOON Passengers 2 p.m. All Passengers travelling per the above vessel are hereby notified that they should forward their heavy and excesa baggage for Inspection and loading en
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      192 11 SHIPPING NOTICE NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES is. "CHUNSANG" due Singapore Jane 17th from Shanghai and Hongkong. The above vessel will berth at the Singapore Harbour Board Wharves on Saturday, June 18th to discharge cargo, remaining after roads discharge. The attention of consignees is drawn to the Singapore Harbour Board's Press Notice
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      844 11 NOTICE SELANGOR COCONUTS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Federation of Malaya) Notice is hereby given that an interim dividend of 10 per cent less SO per cent Income Tax will be paid on the Ist of -July, 1955 to all Shareholders whose names appeal on the Company's Register as at 24th
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      702 11 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS an invited from suitable candidates for the poet or Assistant Plant Superintendent, Public Works Department, Federation of Malaya on a salary scale $604 x24-724/754x28-866 plus C.OX.A. at current rates and expatriation pay for officers so entitled. Candidates must nave served an apprenticeship with a large and reputable
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      1146 11 COMPANY MEETINGS THE MALAYAN CHAMBER OF MINES NEED FOR REDUCED TIN DUTY ENLIGHTENED LAND POLICY ESSENTIAL MR. A. G. GLENISTERS ADDRESS The 37th Annual General Meetlng of The Malayan Chamber of Mines was held on June 8 at 65, London Wall, London, E.C. Mr. A. O. OLENISTER. the Chairman, said
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      Public feels no sympathy
      229 12 IT IS heartening to the public that Mr. Marshall's Government is tackling the strike situation with firmness and commonsense. The harnessing of 200 lorries for public service is a step m the right direction and Mr. Marshall can be certain of the public's co-operation. The average
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      First round is won
      162 12 IT looks like Mr. Marshall is going to win the battle this time. He has already won he first round. The weapon he used? The one he hated most. The Emergency Regulations. This is what I heard from oik the strikers a driver for one of
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      'LET US HAVE PEACE'
      251 12 AS a worried mother. I beg the Government to settle the present unrest in the Colony with all possible speed. X and my children were born in this country. I have enjoyed years of peace and happiness, first as a schoolEirl of a humble family and
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      No need for a sell-out
      226 12 IyHILE it is not our wish to use the columns of your paper as a platform for a political campaign, it is necessary for me to correct some mis-statements occurring in Mr. Leslie Hoff- man's article on June 10 and Dato Sir Onn's letter in
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      SPEED ON THE ROAD
      257 12 SPEED ON THE ROAD MAY I add a few remarks to the comments of Mr. E. A. Crabbe, of the Singapore Motor Club, on Mrs. McNaughtan's so-called record breaking run from Butterworth? In the early '30's. there existed a very unofficial Cardiff to Marble Arch record which was regularly lowered
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      COST OF LIVING
      586 12 iiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimimii EN BRIEF ■•iiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmm I HAVE seen "Redress's" letter about his difficulty in finding cheap accommodation. Since he admits he is a visitor to this country one can understand his difficulty. For his information, rooms can be had for less than $100 if he only cares to
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      21 12 SPECTACULAR FEAT BY THE "600" -^8— GEORGE LEE LIMITED (MOTOR DIVISION) 200, CLEMENCEAU AVENUE, SINGAPORE. TEL: 5338 Represented throughout the Federation.
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      111 12 Modern slave-drivers IT NI N le .*^f rs rever t»*to* to Justify their policies :AL y l >tot fsLl OW v*" the employee are. When unions become Urge and powerful, they, too, can be 1 kL° PP /T li T ndl »««al work" as the slave-drivinj doss or the last
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      117 12 LIGTON chairs are of high qua |jt y C0 J able and durable. They have all the advinhJ the excellent Czechoslovak production of J wood furniture. V TRADE \Sm"^M #S m I Sole Agents: H LIM TECK LEE CO.. LTD. I Singapore Kuala Lumpur Penan;. I WATCHES of PRECISION M
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      841 13 r\,M. I UANTKI>. I v .:lloor pre- within rma and Jin ul Cta rilrn. omber- thirty ■k. Box I travellers me vutii c r'.iblew at home !,"::o<> Lta.. ,r>. extra. 1:1 the Inclusive Write Tele- Rata lIIM'IN -CHOOL ■IiXT Of test. L' 4790. erratically Motorindi\idual I ran ii on an
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      995 13 HOUSES LAND FOR SALE 20 Word. SS (Min.)-Box St et.. extra I .JV* SA LE No. 24 Dublin Road, 'P,«i? rey Terrhce Ho u s e. Vacant :;SL. M Apply 24 VEHICLES FOR SALE 20 Word, ti (Min.)-Bax St eU. extra. m .i 955 MG MAGNETTE 3 50(f I m
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      883 13 NOTICES JOINT CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE LIGHTERAGE INDUSTRY IN SINGAPORE NOTICE TO COMPANIES. I BUSINESS FIRMS AND MERCHANTS. We, the repreoenutlves of the t Lighterage Industry In Singapore, hereby give you notice by way of confirmation, that:--(a) All lighter owners will not be responsible for damage to goods loaded and/or
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      518 13 NOTICES S.S. GOVERNMENT V/o WAR LOAN 1953/60 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the transfer books of the above-mentioned loan will be closed from Ist to 15th July 1955, both days Inclusive, for preparation of Interest warrants. By Order, I THE CHARTERED BANK OP INDIA, AUSTRALIA Sz CHINA, Singapore. NOTICE j
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      762 13 but Doctor, £J[bfjWff^> why does 'Disprin' relieve pain W Wvjib so quickly? 'IMJ^fe^ SEE— IT DISSOLVES! Disprin tablets rcaHy dissnhe, instead This It Disprin This is not! of merely breaking up like most pain remedies. C^ 25} <3 _1I2) Because Disprin dissolves, it is more 11 ;i IJ I 7/
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      293 13 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS fit (0). 1. Stake a claim, we hear, for 15. A meat diet for this creature iron sulphide (9) !91 -9. It turns the litmus blue 16. To whom the plebs looked up (6) (9). 10. Woollen scarf for a dummy 17. Sink in It sinks
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    RECORD HOLDER STAR SIGNAL IS DAY'S BEST BET
    852 14 RECORD HOLDER STAR SIGNAL IS DA Y'S BEST BET CTAR SINGAL won by four lengths over 6f. in the record time of lmin. 11 1 5 last Saturday, and on that form I cannot see how he can be beaten even in this top class sprint field (Race Four). I
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    Ascot taken to win Williamson Stakes
    263 14 ONE of the most Improved horses in training this season is Ascot, and I take him to win the Williamson Memorial Stakes over 7f. (Race Seven; today. Ascot won three of his last six starts. On Wednesday he gave a sparkling display when he
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    Fair Weather for the Singapore Cup
    467 14 Fair Weather for the Singapore Cup I jeep's STAR 3 Star Signal Fair Weather Ascot UF only one-lb. for his splendid third to South Pacific over a mile last week, Fair Weather must have a bright chance of making amends in the Singapore Cup over ljm. (Race Five) at Bukit
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    STRAITS TIMES SELECTIONS
    133 14 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER Race 1. 2.15. CARPENTER The Ringer Willy L CARPENTER Willy L The Ringer WILLY L Carpenter The Ringer Race 2. 2.45. FLY. PRINCESS Little Papna Super Picture LITTLE PAPPA Flying Pilneess Canterbury FLY. PRINCESS Super Picture Little Pappa Race 3. 3.15. ZABAGLIONE
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    TODAY'S RACE CARD
    980 14 Race 1—2.15: Class L Dlv. 2—6 Furs. 1 572 surry 5y Mortimer 9.00 S. T. Tay A Mdm. C. L f tong 2 281 The Ringer 3y Franklin 8.13 Mr. KAik iobbs 3 022 Carpenter 4y Smith 8.10 Mr. A Mrs. H K Sec Tjoa 4 830
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    ARMY CRICKET XI TO PLAY SCC
    58 14 The Army team to Dlay S.C.C. In a senior cricket tournament match at Nee Soon tomorrow Is: Major Lewis (Capt). Major Biscombe. Major Whltmell, Major Evans. Capt Webb, 2/Lt Sumpter. 2/Lt Gray, 2/Lt Woods. WO II Barron. Sgt Dauncey. Sgt KenmVy Reserve: Lieut Wei
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    At B.Timah today
    44 14 At B.Timah today THE GOING up to last evening x m on the yielding tide. Yesterday was a dull and thowery *ay. TODAY'S Best Bet: Star Signal In Race Four. Best LragalMt: Josker II in the Singapore Cap. RADIO Malaya will broadcast nil races.
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    St. Joseph's boy adds 5 1/4-in. to vault mark
    227 14 St. Joseph's boy adds 5 1/4-in. to vault mark EIGHTEEN- YEAR-OLD Ow Mun Hong put St. Joseph's Institution further in the lead in the Singapore interschools championships when he won the Pole Vault final with a record 10ft. sin. at Victoria School yesterday. The old record, set up last year
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    HUI FIRST IN FIVE EVENTS
    109 14 HUI BENO SENG who won the 100 yards, the 220. the 440 the 80-yards Hurdles, trnd the high Jump, and was third ln the long jump, was the individual champion in the "A" uivision at the fourth athletic meet of the Trafalgar School held on
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    Holbrook's late penalty wins
    52 14 A penalty goal seorea by Holbrook in the last minute decided Thursday's United Services soccer league match against RAF. Changl "B". who were beaten 5-4 by their "A" side. Changi "A" trailed 4-2 up to the last five minutes. They scored through Holbrook (2). Coleman, Lodger
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    Lock icon RECORD BY WALCOTT BUT W.I. FACE DEFEAT
    229 14 'KINGSTON. Friday. IN SPITE of another century by Clyde Walcott— his fifth of the series— West Indies faced defeat in the fifth and final Test against Australia after the fifth day's play ended yesterday After making 357 in their i first innings, West
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    EDDIE-PENG SOON MATCH PUT SBA FINANCES RIGHT.
    147 14 EDDIE-PENG SOON MATCH PUT SBA FINANCES RIGHT. THE Eddie ChoonR-Wong p onP featured the final Thorrm r n match Singapore Badminton AsSn llp tr »al 2JJ J This was mentioned last niohV net Profit 5 ht ad not yet ar a Wee Kim P I ead( «t ow-tHW or t?
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    NEW MARKS ACCEPTED BY THE SAAA
    133 14 NEW MARKS ACCEPTED BY THE SAAA 'TWO new mark, were accept- c* at a committee meeting lihiVl" t SIn a l re Amateur Athletic Association held on Thursday. M T Enr Yoons 10 seconds f^T l 0« r»ria returned at the Swift* t Army meet at N Sj«" «»n May
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    Lock icon Yorks win easily with Close's 5-55
    267 14 LONDON. Fri YORKSHIRE, ihanks to the bat- ting of England captain Len Hut ton (85J. Lowson i 62 i Sutcliflc (107) and Wilson ("7j and a five-for-55 bowling performance by Close. beat Kent by ten wickets at Hull today. The scores were: Kent 249
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    Tourists With by innin
    138 14 TTAUNTON. F: HE touring South Al cricket team gained third victory in 11 matel England when they Somerset by an innings a runs here today. Final scores were: Som« and 170: Sou:h Africa 270 dccl. Peter Heine, the Souih i fast bowler, claimed one of 'Jv
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