The Straits Times, 3 April 1956

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    TENGKU DECIDES: IT'S WAR
    852 1 'I refuse to be deceived a second time by Chin Peng" He orders blitz on bandits T HF CHIEF MINISTER OF THE FEDERATION, TENGKU ABDUL 1 RAHMAN, YESTERDAY REJECTED "WITH GREAT PLEASURE"—THE LATEST COMMUNIST PEACE OFFER. HE ANNOUNCED IN SINGAPORE: "I HAVE ORDERED FURTHER INTFN^IFK ATION
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    FOR THE RECORD
    59 1 FOR THE RECORD K„A L A LUMPUR Mon. The Chief Minister, Tenfkn Abdul Rahman said here tonight that he wanted a full record of the Baling talks to be made public. "We must release it," he said "so the people can read about what took place. "1 will discuss it
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    BOY GRIPS PEN WITH HIS TEETH
    145 1 Near top of the class KUALA TRENGGANU, Mon. 4 TEN -YEAR-OLD Malay boy who was born without arms or legs has surprised his teachers here by finishIng near the top of a class of 30 children in a recent examination. The boy. Mohamed Jaafar
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    2 racers killed
    28 1 GOODWOOD. (England), Won. Two British drivers Jere killed in crashes at yoodwood auto racing meet today before a holiday crowd y about 40.000— A P
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    AIRLINER DELAYED 17 HOURS
    101 1 A54-SEATER BOAC Argonaut was forced to turn back to Colombo a few hows after take-off yesterday morning due to the failure of one engine. The airliner, due to Singapore yesterday evening witti passengers from London and the Continent, made a safe landing at Colombo airport on
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    Lock icon French nip rebel plot
    68 1 ALGIERS, Mon. French police have uncovered a rebel plot to blow up the Oued Fodda dam and flood the densely populated Orleansville area, it was revealed today. In a weekend round-up, police arrested 10 rebels and seized 87 sticks of dynamite and several 90-volt batteries. An
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    Lock icon Formosa bid for anti-Red pact
    44 1 TAIPEH, Mon.— Mr. Ku Cheng Kang, a member of the central committee of the Kuomintang, today called for a security pact between Formosa, South Korea and Japan. Be said such a pact was imperative to safeguard against Communist expansion.—Reuter.
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    Lock icon Plane in sea 34 saved
    53 1 SEATTLE. Mon.— A Hew York-bound Stratocruiset airliner crash-landed in Puget Sound after take-off here today and the Coast guard reported half an hour later that 34 of "the 37 people aboard had been picked up. The Coast Guard reported that rubber boats were dropped from
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    Lock icon Scott in H.K.
    36 1 HONO KONG. Mon. Sir Robert Scott, CommissionerGeneral for South-East Asia, and Lady Scott arrived here from Singapore today for a four-day visit. They will be guests of the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham. Reuter.
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    Ttiieir big moment Childhood sweethearts marry
    111 1 Ttiieir big moment Childhood sweethearts marry TWO childhood friends. Leading Aircraftman Malcolm Buckeridge. of the Royal Australian Ah- Force, and Miss Evangelina ftayney, daughter of Chief Police Inspector T. P. Ray- ney, were married at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd yesterday. LAC Buckeridge is the first Australian serviceman to
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    Tengku changes his Cabinet
    225 1 ELECTED MEN TAKE OVER KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. A LLIANCE Ministers today took over control of the Finance and Economic Affairs in accordance with the merdeka agreement reached at the London constitutional talks. I Col. H. S. Lee became Minister for Finance and Dr. Ismail bin Dato
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    Better memory?
    32 1 NEUBIBERG, (Germany), Mon.— The UJS. Army's library here recently acquired a book called "Three Weeks to a Better Memory." Naturally, the first borrower forgot to return it in time.— AJ-
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    IPOH DRIVER WINS ECONOMY RUN
    229 1 MR. K. H. YEOH, of 1"1 ipoh, is the winner of the fitanvac Economy Run, the results of which were announced yesterday evening. Mr. Yeoh, wno has nevei entered for an economy rur before, drove a Sunbeam Talbot 90, and achieved 133.11 ton-miles per gallon.
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    26 1 AMMAN, Mon.— An Arab Legion patrolman was killed today in a clash on the southern outskirts of Jerusalem, a Jordanian -official source reported.— AP.
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    149 1 NEW YORK. Mon. Seven plane crashes in the United States killed 38 people yesterday. The worst tragedy was the crwh of a Trans-World airliner near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last night. It killed 22 of the 36 people on board. The 14 survivors included
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    JUMAT WANTS MERDEKA SAFEGUARDS
    672 1 JUMAT WANTS MERDEKA SAFEGUARDS He may quit London mission if the answer is 'No' THE Chief Minister of Singapore, Mr. David Marshall, will today be asked to include economic, religious and political safeguards for the Malays and other minority groups in the draft agreement which he win take with him
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    'MALAY ONLY' DEMAND BY UMNO PARTY
    101 1 'MALAY ONLY' DEMAND BY UMNO PARTY KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. rpHE executive committee of 1 Selangor UMNO, at a special meeting yesterday, decided to send a memorandum to Tengku Abdul ■bKii.ii president of UMNO, protesting against certain demands by Chinese. The committee is opposed to: The principle of jus soli being
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    Beaten up by 20 men
    61 1 A City Council fitter. Sebastian Fernandez. 33. was attacked by about 20 people while cycling in the Kandang Kerbau area last night. The mob, carrying bricks and sticks, set upon Fernandez when he fell off the bicycle after being struck by a missile. He was
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    King of Greece 'grieved' at U.K.
    147 1 King of Greece 'grieved' at U.K. fYPRUS, M( o n. Cheered on by the Gteek Parliament, King Paul or Greece today officially entered the Cyprus controversy. He said the nation and the Church will follow the great tradition of the exiled Archbishop Makarios and pursue with unswerving will their efforts
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    30 1 •SUPER-BOMB' TEST WASHINGTON. Mon. Reporters and press photographers will be permitted to observe "su-per-bomb" test about May 1 at Eniwetok island in Pacific, it was announced today. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Apathy can cause collapse
    292 2 WAKE UP BRITAIN, CARDINAL DECLARES FROM EASTER PULPIT "ITS NO USE WORRYING" REPLACES THE OLD "I COULDN'T CAKE LESS" LONDON, Monday. THE Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Bernard Griffin, said here last night that unless Britons made a united effort to overcome the apathy which
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    NEW UNION OF MECHANICS
    103 2 Caltex row: Union to meet A BOUT 500 motor mechanics and transport workers Am Singapore plan to form a union— the Singapore Vehicle Operators' Union. me inaugural meeting win be held at 8-D Wayang Street today. Mr. 8. H. Hoon is president and Mr. Son Chuan
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    Newsmen form association
    29 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.Malay Journalists in Kuala Lumpur are ni«t lt>1 "g to form A meeting held here last night elected five members to draft the constitution.
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    Lock icon Youth meeting
    55 2 The Singapore Federation of Boys' Clubs will hold its fifth council meeting at the Queen Street Boys' Hostel at 5.15 p.m. today. A. I. MIKOTAN, a Boviet deputy prime minister, sits between the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, and Nehru's daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, daring a short visit
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    Lock icon Plague—so CPA skips Saigon
    104 2 Plague so CPA skips Saigon HONG KONG, Mon. CATHAY Pacific Airways today cancelled their regular flight to Saigon after receiving- a cable that bubonic plague had been detected there. An official of the company said the plane would fly straight from Hong Kong to Singapore without stopping at Saigon, otherwise
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    Grass . fires all day
    48 2 Grass fires all day Army fire-fighters extinguished two big lallang fires near Slim Barracks and in Nee Soon, Singapore, yesterday. The City Fire brigade was also busy throughout the day attending lallang fires near the Lornie Road Chinese Cemetery, Anson Road and in other parts of the island.
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    Lock icon REDS HAVE PLASTIC CAR
    45 2 MOSCOW, Mon. Russia The newspaper Komsomol has produced an experimental *£g*j*i ftcKftaJE sports car with a plastic body "consisting of fibreglass and between five and six times artificial resins," and was as lighter than a metal body. durable as steel. Reuter.
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    The Easter marksmen
    63 2 Twenty members of the Singapore Gun Club took part in the club's Easter shoot on Sunday. Winners in the open shoot were E. J. Meyer, who scored 235 points out of a possible 275. O. Westerhout was run-ner-up with 210 points. In the handicap shoot. J. B.
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    Didn't pay fine
    37 2 Ler Peng Lura, arrested for failing to pay a Traffic Court fine of $150, Imposed last December, yesterday told the 6-ngapore Emergency Court that he still could. not pay. He was remanded until today^
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    $1,000 gift to Music Society
    39 2 The East Asiatic Company has donated $1,000 to the Singapore Musical Society fund for "enlarging and im- proving the musical life of i this city." Smaller donations have been received from other business houses.
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    Lock icon GIGGLES, A CHASE AND THEN SURRENDER
    171 2 GIGGLES, A CHASE AND THEN SURRENDER PRAGUE. Mon. GIGGLING Czechoslovak women and girls ran for cover today as ■their menfolk chased them with whips and buckets of water. The women hid In their homes and gardens but few escaped their pursuers, many of whom launched their "raids" in the early
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    Hawkers fined
    25 2 Eleven hawkers were each fined $3 by the. Singapore Emergency Court yesterday for causing an obstruction in various Colony roads during the week-end.
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    Expert studies our problems
    307 2 I HAVEN'T ANSWER TO ANY OF THEM, HE SAYS A NOTED British economist spent a week making a private study of Singapore's economic p ro blems. Yesterday he said: "I have no answer to any of them." The cautious expert, «»-year-oia r roressor James Meade, was
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    Off for training
    24 2 Mr. George Chia Chin Hong, chemical salesman < Rotterdam Trading Company (Malaya) Ltd.. has loft for Holland for f urtln r training.
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    Mr. R. Jumabhoy
    26 2 Mr. R. Jumabhoy, LiberalSocialist Assemblyman who is in the Singapore General Hospital with an eye complaint, was reported yesterday to be progressing favourable
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      184 2 NEW DELHI, Mon. Mr. Nehru announced today. that India had agreed that two survey teams should begin demarcating the Indo-Paklstan border. The teams would be headed by senior survey officials. Any dispute would be referred back to the two governments to be settled at
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      Lock icon 2 saved in 200-feet peak fall
      58 2 LONDON, Mon.— A man and woman who hurtled 200 feet over the edge of a snow slope 3,M0 feet up Ben Nevis —highest peak in Britain— were saved by an R.A.F. mountain rescue team aided by police. The climbers, Christina Me.Math and George laddie,
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    Lock icon BID TO GET MAKARIOS IN LONDON FOR TALKS
    244 3 BID TO GET MAKARIOS IN LONDON FOR TALKS LONDON, Monday. iTHENS RADIO said yesterday that the I nited States may ask Britain to let Arch-bi-hop Makarios go to London to resume nefotiatioM on the future of Cyprus. The Athens broadcast, monitored here, said it umoured that there will be American
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    Lock icon New riots in Cyprus: Many hurt
    167 3 NICOSIA. Mon. SEVERAL British soldiers md two British civi- injured today in ■orisl attacks and nots itaged by Cypriot supportl ol union with Greece. geuewed disturbances as King Paul of ild the Greek parliament In Athens of the ition'a support for [hti of our
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    Lock icon Top Red flies in
    41 3 HONG KONG. Mon. A big crowd welcomed the Soviet First Deputy Prime Minister. Mr. Anastas Mikojan. on his arrival in Hanoi today by air from Rangoon, Hanoi Radio reported. He is en his way to Peking. Router.
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    Lock icon Helicopters on up and up
    36 3 WASHINGTON, Mon. Helicopter sales to military and civil customers have doubled in three years, the Aircraft Industries Association said yesterday. Last year they totalled U*****,500,000 compared with U*****,000,000 in 1952.— AP.
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    Lock icon Dies at 93
    25 3 NEW DELHI, Mon. Raja Beldevdas Birla, one of In- I riia's leading industrialists, died at Benares yesterday. 1 He was 93 —A.P.
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    Lock icon SLIM HIM PLAN BY WIVES
    70 3 COPENHAGEN, Mon. A housewives association here has organised a correspondence course in slimming for men as well as women. Each subscriber pays 35 kroner 'about Sl4i and gets |an instruction book -called "Be slim and healthy". At 10-day intervals stretching over 100 days a new
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    Lock icon Cathedral mob storms Georgi
    163 3 Cathedral mob storms Georgi LONDON, Mon. CANTERBURY Cathe- dral worshippers .scrambled from their seats during the evenins service last night to irive a- fantastic reception to Mr. Georjfl Malenkov. The tubby, former Soviet prime minister was mobbed when he entered the nave of the vast cathedral with the "Red Dean"
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    Lock icon 2-gun Cohen flying home
    69 3 HONO KONG, Mon.—General "Two Gun" Morris Cohen, once bodyguard of the late Chinese leader. Dr. Sun Vat Sen, left here by air for London today after a threemonth visit to Communist China. He denied reports that he had been t vying to mediate between the Communists
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    Lock icon April Fool
    38 3 TAIPEH. Mon.— The China News explained that a story it published yesterday saying that Red China boss Mao Tse-tung had blasted Stalin was a fake "in line with the spirit of April Fools' Day.' 1 'A.P.
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    Margaret visits the Easter Gardens
    24 3 PRINCESS MARGARET admires the Easter Gardens at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, which she visited over the weekend— AJ. picture.
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    Lock icon NEW DELHI BUYS BRITISH
    213 3 Ilyushins OUT— Canberra* IN NEW DELHI, Monday. INDIA HAS decided to re-equip her air force with 1 British Canberra Jet bombers rather than Ilyushin Jets offered by the Soviet Union, it was disclosed here yesterday. The decision has been taken in principle but the number of
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    Royal family go riding
    48 3 LONDON. Mon. Prince Charles and Princess Anne went horse-riding in public with their parents for the first time during the Easter weekend. The children, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh went for a six-mile gallop outside the private grounds of Windsor Castle.— UJ».
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    Lock icon Teacher stabbed to death
    45 3 LONDON, Mon.— Miss Nora Pierce, 55, assistant matron of a reform school at Gilwern, Wales, was stabbed to death yesterday on her way to church to attend an Easter service. Police arrested a 16-year-old youth, one of Miss Pierces pupils. AP.
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    The big bite
    31 3 LOS ANGELES. Mon. A 28-ft. python yesterday bit a veterinary surgeon on the hand and held on for nearly 15 minutes before Its Jawi were cried loose.— AJ.
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    Lock icon 'DIVORCE CASE' WIFE DIES AT WHEEL CAR NITS TREE
    145 3 'DIVORCE CASE' WIFE DIES AT WHEEL CAR NITS TREE ASHBOURNE, Mon. LADY Cunlifte-Owen. 29, whose husband. Sir Dudley CunliffeOwen was cited in a divorce ease last week. was found dead in a wrecked car near this town in Derbyshire on Saturday night. But a postmortem showed that she had died
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    Lock icon Cairo moves
    41 3 CAIRO, Mon. The secre tary-general of the Aral League, Mohamed Abdel Kha lek Hassouna. is contactlni Arab, African and Asiai countries for their attitude "in face of French aggressioi in Algeria," according ti Arab diplomatic circles her today. Reuter.
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    Lock icon The war bill
    32 3 MANILA, Mon.— Mr. Tor Nakagawa of the Japanes Foreign Ministry, arrived her today to discuss the Philip pines demand for US$BO million as war reparation I from Japan.— Reuter.
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    35 3 1 TOKYO. Mon.— Mr. Mamo 1 ru Shlgemitsu, Japan's For eign Minister, today said h Is willing to go to theKrem 1 lin to press for a peac treaty with Russia. A.P.
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    BOMB THEM? GAD SIR, NO
    80 3 LONDON, Mon.— The "Mad Major" who flew under 15 Thames River bridges in a 1 sports plane three years ago 1 yesterday suggested that he "bomb" the Soviet cruiser 1 bringing Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khrushchev to Britain this month. Major Christopher Draper, 63, told
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    Lock icon Teenage Teddy finds a champ
    138 3 Teenage Teddy finds a champ LONDON, Mon. A BRITISH Communist yesterday defended British teenage Teddy boys against attacks by "bishops in gaiters." Mr. George Matthews, aststant party secretary, said tt the 24th Communist Party :ongress here: "Bishops, statesmen and generals lecture them day in md day out "When we talk
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    Xmas Island for the H-test?
    97 3 Xmas Island for the H-test? LUNUUW, JMOn. rraE British atomic energy X authority declined comment today on a press report that Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean had been chosen as a base for Britain'^, first hydrogen bomb explosion The Dally Express said that the bomb would be dropped from
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    Mollet hunts the dodgers
    268 3 PARIS. Mon.— The French Prime Minister, Mr. Guy Mollet, has drawn ud a "hunt the dodgers" plan to move about 30.000 men from noncombatant jobs to Algeria, which is being reinforced at a daily rate of about 1,000 men, it was reported here today. He called
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    CROWD AIDS PRISONER'S ESCAPE, BOOS POLICE
    51 4 TWO police con- stables were booed and jeered as they chased a fleeing prisoner along a busy Singapore street yesterday. A crowd made way for him as he turned a corner. Nobody tried to stop him. Weekend cases It happened In South Bridge Road
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    Round table talks to end rubber wage row
    295 4 Round table talks to end rubber wage row VORKEIS ME STHYIHG TIE PLAiTEM' OFFER ITUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association has offered to meet the National Union of Plantation Workers at a round table conference to discuss their wage dispute. The M.P.I.E.A. had earlier offered to discuss
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    Chinese leader to tour U.S.
    53 4 TAIPINO, Mon. A wellknown member of the Chinese community in Perak, Mr. Ton Eng Hoe, has left on a tour of the United States on a U.S.I.S. Leader Grant. He will be away for three months. Mr. Toh hopes to attend the Rotary International annual
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    Rotary guest
    100 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Miss Irene Kohler. the celebrated pianist, will address the Rotary Club here at Wednesday's luncheon. years. A Selangor estate owner had suggested that Emergency dangers were exaggerated by his tappers and the contractor to keep him away. 'Reluctant* "But," the report adds, "he is still
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    Hundreds see ceremony
    166 4 PENANG, Mon. The Siamese Consul, Nal Suphot Phiansunthon, today declared open the new temple of Penang's famed "baby god" (Slan Chye Tong Choo) at Hye Keat Estate. The ceremony was witnessed by hundreds of devotees from all over Malaya and Bumatra. few minutes before the Emergency Court
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    TEACHER SHOWS HOW TO SMILE
    124 4 LUCY FANG was a radiant Easter bride. She was married to Mr. Charles Chong Toh r »at Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church, Singapore yesterday. Formerly a teacher at Kuala Lumpur Methodist Boys' School she was transferred recently to the Anglo-Chi-nese School, Barker Boad, Singapore. She
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    Owners still scared to visit estates FEWER BANDITS, BUT FEAR REMAINS
    50 4 Owners still scared to visit estates FEWER BANDITS, BUT FEAR REMAINS KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. lifl ANY rubber estate owners are still reluctant to i'l visit their plantations despite an improvement in the Emergency situation. The Labour Department's annual report, published today, says some owners have not visited their estates for
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    A WATCHMAN AND A LOAN
    12 4 7 would have paid for ever': Shopkeeper
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    Offered bail
    25 4 REGAMAT. Mon. After he was charged In the Segamat Court with enticing a married woman, Meenachl. from her husband. Suppiah was offered bail.
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    The suburbs are so healthy
    86 4 The suburbs are so healthy SINGAPORE'S suburbs are remarkably healthy places to live in. Statistics released by the Government Health Department on rural health record only one case each this year of whooping cough, poliomyelitis and enteric fever up to the end of February. The disease with the highest Incidence
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    R.A.F. man weds in Malacca
    61 4 MALACCA: Mon. The wedding of Mr. R. T. Stacey, of the R.A.F. in Singapore, to Miss Ivy Fernandez took place at St. Francis Xavier's Church here today. The bride, who is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Fernandez of Malacca, is a teacher
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    Cordial approach slowly vanishes
    147 4 Cordial approach slowly vanishes If UALA LUMPUR, Mon. A severe strain is being imposed upon industrial relations in Johore, says the monthly report of the Federation's Labour Department, published today. The cause, says the report, Is due to workers in secondary Industries becoming more organised, and this is "unsettling both
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    Narayanan to pep up his officers
    140 4 Narayanan to pep up his officers IPOH. Mon. A TWO-DAY training course for executive committee members of the National Union of Plantation Workers, Cameron Highlands branch, will start tomorrow at Tanah Rata. Talks on trade unionism and industrial relations will be given by Mr. P.P. Narayanan, general secretary of the
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    Indian Assoc. officials
    79 4 KUALA KANGSAR, Mon. Dr. K.V.B. Pillai and Mr. Naraln Singh were elected president and vice-president of the Indian Association here at the annual meeting on March 28. Other officers: Mr. P.R.M Tampy, secretary; Mr. S Palaniappa Chettiar, treasurer; Mr. S. Rajamanickam. sports secretary; Mr. S. Thayan. literary
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    Easter service
    32 4 SITIAWAN, Mon. The Yen. A. C. Dumper, Archdeacon of North Malaya, will officiate at an Easter communion service on Wednesday at 6.30 p.m in the Wesley Methodist Church at Sitiawan.
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    Fair opened
    37 4 KUALA KANGSAR. Mon. The Raja Perempuan of Perak declared open the food and fun fair at Clifford School yesterday in aid of the Boy Scout Association. THE WIFE WHOSE GUARDIAN ANGEL WAS A TIBETAN MONK
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    A Buddhist-but she didn't know
    431 5 A Buddhist-but she didn't know T HF only Europeai woman in Singa mart ho is a Bud Hhisl >* Vrs. Doroth: Wells, wife of a lecturer at the University of Malaya. Two things Helped to change the course of Mrs. Wells' life a faith-healer in 1941 and a chance conversation
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    Harmony a must for merdeka
    38 5 ESD TO RACIALISM PLEA MALACCA, Monday. IT i? time different races in Malaya got together and put an end to narrow-minded racialism, lays Tonaku Jaafar bin Tuanku Abdul Rahman, District Officer of Tampin.
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    100 boats saved from fire
    232 5 100 boats saved from fire PROMPT action by the Fire Brigade last nignt prevented a tongkang blaze from spreading to 100 other vessels lying in the Telok Ayer Basin Singapore. 6cores of liahtermen helped to moor the blazing tongkang at a safe distance. T tarpaulin covering a about 500 sacks
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    SPECIALS ASK WHY WERE WE SACKED?
    89 5 PENANG. Mon. FOUR special constables here have sent a petition to the Police Commissioner protesting against their dismissal from the force. Hie men (Hitman bin Mohamed Noor, Nayan bin Men, Anuar bin Yunus and Desa bin Mat state they have been served with notices
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    Amin heads mine men's union
    200 5 Amin heads mine men's union IPOH. Mon. FCHE Mohamed Amin bin Mohamed -tli of Tapah was elected president of the Union of Asian Field Officers, Mines Department, Federation of Malaya, at an inaugural meeting in Ipoh yesterday. More than 40 representatives from all over the Federation attended the meeting to
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    Burglar used a 'paper torch'
    43 5 IPOH, Mon. A burglar broke into the Sam Choy Chinese School here last night and stole three silver cups and a radio worth $250 Police said he burned pieces of paper to light his way through the school.
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    Controls off
    30 5 ALOR STAR. Mon.— Food control In South Kedah will be relaxed for three days, April 4 to 6, to enable Chinese to observe their annual Cheng Beng festival.
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    New PWD chief
    17 5 SBOAMAT. Mon. Mr. G. N. Cheek, is now acting as P.W.D. Executive Engineer here.
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    True blue Tory party planned
    30 5 RULES BEING DRAFTED pLANS have been drawn up for the formation of a r new right-wing political party in Singapore. 'I'kiA nnrttr Vifkr +V^« knnlritinr
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    New office bearers
    63 5 Dr. A. W. S. Thevathasan has been elected president, and Mr. John Ede chairman, of the Singapore Musical Society. Other officers are: Mr. G. O. Van Hien, conductor; Mr. W. B. Bellam, treasurer; Mr. R. H. B. Benger, secretary. Committee: Mrs. T. M. Hart, Mr. V. C.
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    Licensed
    26 5 SfiOAMAT, Mon. The Rev. David T. S. Yang and the Rev. J. R. Schad have been granted licences to solemnise Christian marriages in Johore State.
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    Tudor gives ultimatum declare yourincome
    167 5 Tudor gives ultimatum declare yourincome THE Singapore Comp- troller of Income Tax, Mr. D. H. Tudor, yesterday warned taxable people who have not received any forms on* which to make a return of their income to declare themselves to the Tax Department within the next 11 days. Those who ignore
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    Deputy chief starts work
    39 5 ALOR STAR. Mon.— Mr. H. W. Strathalrn arrived here today to take up duty as Deputy Chief Police Officer. He succeeds Mr. F. A. Fielding, who is being transferred to police headquarters In Kuala Lumpur.
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    No staff cut
    36 5 The Indian Commissioner's office in Singapore yesterday issued a statement that the Indian Government's decision to nationalise life insurance "would not result in mass retrenchment" of employees of the Indian companies in Singapore.
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      187 5 7,231 listed 'jobless' —but many just want better money THK Singapore Employ- i chance finds jobs for 1 mem I\< liange is being about 350 people a month. uspd by a large number of Mr. Kok said that this figure ]'">i>lr who already have i could be improved if more
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      417 5 RADIO MALAYA Heglanal SINGAPORE •Progmunme* thus marked CM wave 476 m., 543, 366ra. and 297 m. AM 715 Qpen,,^ Annct.; 7.16 A.M. 8.57 and 11.08 Broadcasts Piano Playtime; 7.30 News; 7.35 For English Schools. A Date With Music; 8.00 News P.M. *1.00 Prog. Summary; •1.02 Headlines: 8.03 A Date With
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    BIRTH
    145 6 to Word, $1» (m(nlmmm). I.EE: To Lucy and Yoon Kee. at Salmon Maternity Home, on 28th March, a son, both well, grandson for Mr. and Mrs. Poh Chin Chai. 20 W,rdm lit (minimum). WONG-CHAN: The engagement was announced on 2-4-56, between Kum Poh, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    284 6 10 Word* 11* (minimum). MR. MHS. CHAN CHENG ANN Thank all Relatives and Friends for their Kind Attendance, Valuable Presents, and Best Wishes on the Occasion* of their Marriage. DR. AND MRS. M. BALASUNDRAM Thank those who were present and sent messages of congratulation for their wedding on 31.3.56.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Apr. 3, 1956. Reply To The Reds
    605 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Apr. 3, 1956. Reply To The Reds Any lingering hope that Chin Peng may meet Tengku Abdul Rahman again presumably vanishes with the distribution by the Central Committee of the Malayan Communist Party of a fresh statement on the Baling talks. The Central Committee demands
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    Bowl Of Rice Economy
    295 6 Bowl Of Rice Economy The day is gone when labour would work for the price of a bowl of rice. Now that the competition of immigrant labour has been ended for good, Malayan workers are in a position to bargain for their wages. Never having known the depressingly low levels
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    Burma Parallel
    197 6 The Communist war in Burma has never claimed in Malaya the attention it deserves. There is a striking parallel, however, with the present situation in this country which is too remarkable to be overlooked. Last October the Burmese Government offered for third time an amnesty to its Communist
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    The faces hope to launch a thousand friendships
    468 6 The faces hope to launch a thousand friendships S f AST MONTH Earl Mountbatten flew s Into New Delhi for the s first time since he held I office as the last ViceI roy of India. Very s shortly another plane, I travelling in the op--3 poslte direction, Will be
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    Covering a riot is not easy
    337 6 I HAVE read my colleague John Ridley's reply to the attacks which have been made against him. I was away from Singapore at the time of the Kallang riots and cannot therefore offer my own eyewitness account of these events. But as a journalist
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    PROUD TO BE COLONEL BLIMP
    144 6 PROUD TO BE COLONEL BLIMP IF having implicit faith hi the greatness of the Brtlsh Empire and its wonful record of peace, tolerance. Just laws, fidelity— If having supreme pride in the glorious heritage handed down to us by generations of British Rulers— If deploring the present loss of faith
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    TRAFFIC COPS ARE AWAKE
    542 6 NOW I see in the papers that the Ipoh traffic cops are beginning to wake up and prosecute the could-not-care-less cyclists High time, too, but wouldn't it be possible (and proper) to examine the riders bicycle to see whether it has good brakes, a bell and
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    The Menace of Traffic Signs
    419 6 HOW right you are when you say Singapore needs a real highway planning authority. An example of the incompetence of the present authority was the complete confusion that arose when traffic signs had to be put up at the junction of the Yio Chu Kang
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    Referendum in Cairnhill
    144 6 I SB no reason why a secret merdeka referendum could not be held among the electorate in Mr. Marshall's own constituency of Calrnhill, hi which the River Valley voters live. Cairnhill contains a fairly well balanced electorate, and while the voting would not be conclusive, it would
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    THE VACANT SEATS AT TELOK AYER
    149 6 T am a member of the x Telok Ayer Branch of the Singapore Labour Front. Seats on the well-arrang-ed and nicely-decorated platform reserved for 'big shots' like Ministers, Assistant Ministers and Assemblymen, were conspicuously empty. This apathy shown to a branch which is trying
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    TAX RELIEF
    75 6 BEING fully In support of "Merdeka's' 1 views on personal tax relief. I wish to emphasise that the allowances particularly $3,000 a year for a single man are not in conformity with the present day cost of living in Malaya. Wages do necessarily go up when the cost
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    IF YOU ALLOW BRIDGE, WHY BAN MAHJONG? LA WYER ASKS
    76 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday |F members of the Selangor Club can play cards on i the premises, why can't members of Chinese clubs piiN mahjong and pai kow? This question was asked in the First MagisOourt here today by Mr. S.
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    Cost of a daily toddy
    116 7 Cost of a daily toddy ESD DRINK CALL TANJONC MALIM. Mon. Thf Federation*! Minister i for Labour yesterday told toddy drinkers here to habit and use the I for worthy objects. Addressing members of i the Malayan Indian Congress at the Hindu temple mid that Indians spend more than J7fl
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    First full-time pastor
    271 7 SITIAWAN. Mon.— Rev. Nga Tien Chiang, pastor of the Wesley Methodise Church and r teacher of the Methodist English School, at Ayer Tawar. has left for Singapore on transfer. The Rev. Edwin Hoo Wi.o is expected soon from Singapore will be the first fulltime pastor of the
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    Art exhibition
    36 7 IPOH, Mon— Miss Sunyee Lo will give a three-day exr hibition of paintings at the Perak Kheh Association, beginning on Wednesday. The exhibition will be cpened by Mr. Chong Sam. vice-president of the association.
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    Inspection parade
    33 7 KAJANO, Mon. All divisions of the St. John Ambulance Brigade here will hold an inspection parade on Thursday. The inspection will be by the Selangor area commissioner, Mr. Chong Hoi Fan.
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    Terrorists quiet
    283 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. So casualties or terrorist incilents have been reported in :he Federation today. KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Malayan doctors have protested to the Federation's Ministry of Health against any recruiting scheme which may Jeopardise the chances of Malayans studying medicine in Singapore or abroad. They opposed any
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    Martial music
    76 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. rhe Corps of Drums of the Ist Bn., Federation Regiment, will perform at. the Lake 3adens here tomorrow from I p.m. to 7 p.m. llflcations are not reglstrable in Malaya. The Alumni Association oi the King Edward VII Medical College and 1 Faculty of Medicine
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    They get ready
    31 7 Singapore Buddhists have started preparations for their biggest-ever Wesak celebrations on May 23. The programme Includes a mass rally at the Victoria Memorial Hall and an illuminated procession.
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    'Haunted' house mystery
    38 7 LOCKED DOORS FLY OPEN MALACCA, Monday. 3TRANGE things have been happening in an un- occupied building in Church Street here for the last few days. People living nearby believe that a ghost has been responsible.
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    ALUMNI PROTEST ON CHINA DOCTORS
    13 7 Govt. told: Safeguard future of Malayan medical students
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    TIMER TELLS COURT OF ALLEGES ASSAULT 'Two police officers punched, kicked me'
    347 7 TIMER TELLS COURT OF ALLEGES ASSAULT 'Two police officers punched, kicked me' TAPAH, Mon. A second hand dealer, M. Sundram Chettiar. 35, alleged in the Sessions Court here today that two police inspectors and a detective had assaulted him. ■"I was kicked, slapped and punched, and had m fingers twisted
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    Week's holiday
    61 7 Singapore Chinese schools began their one-week Spring vacation yesterday. The holidays coincide with the Cheng Beng festival. Officials of the association would not comment The association's letter to the Minister followed reports that the Federation was considering to recruit doctors aualifled in China. A member of the alumni
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    Big opium haul: Man arrested
    76 7 Big opium haul: Man arrested ABOUT $150,000 worth of opium was seized by Singapore Customs men after they stopped a car on Saturday night. A young Chinese, who abandoned the car in a side lane off Telok Kurau Road after a chase by Customs men, was later arrested. His dash
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    Claims for replanting
    61 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon rhe board of administrators' )f the Federation Government's rubber replanting scheme for estates announced today that the closing date lor claims for replanting carried out in 1953 and 1954 has jeen extended from March 31 x> April 30. The closing date for appli:ations regarding
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    Cashier charged
    196 7 SEGAMAT. Mon. Loot Theok Hong, Hi. former ashler of the Segamat ►ranch of Shum Yip Leong lubber Works, was charged lere with criminal breach of rust in respect of $54,655. lail in 130.000 was offered. was not against the "importation" of doctors from overseas i to help tide
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    Boy's death verdict
    63 7 RAUB. Mon. A verdict of death by misadventure was recorded at an Inquest here yesterday on a five-year-old boy. Tan Ah Chal of Sempalit new village, who was run over by a lorry. The lorry was parked on a hill. But somp children playing nearby released the
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    Teacher weds
    37 7 TAIPING, Mon. Mr. Llew Wan Khai, a teacher of English at the Hua Lian High School, married Miss Hwang Yueh Choong, fourth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ng Chong Eng, at the Wangtung Association today.
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    School concert
    30 7 TANA RATA, Mon. The Malay Sphool here will hold a variety concert on Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Highland Theatre in aid of the school building fund.
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    ON THE WRONG TRACK
    185 7 RAWANO. Mon. —The track and killed one of them. northbound day mail train t f v yesterday ran into a herd of The accident took place cows crossing the railway about two miles from here. MONDAY ANOTHER ex- traordinary i communication from I India comes through
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    CHEESE DISHES APPEAL
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    543 8  -  KMIM Do your children like cheese? If not, try to introduce it to them in different ways and in disguised form, because cheese is good for them. Cheese is such a good body-builder that dietitians recommend it for infants from nine months onward, starting with a teaspoonful of grated
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    KNOW TOUR OWN SKIN
    264 8 Selecting the right makeup shades depends on classifying your own skin correctly. If you are aware of your own colouring, you will pick shades which reveal your beauty instead of camouflaging it. The basic colour pigments of the skin are yellow, brown, red, blue and grey.
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    What A Life
    51 8  -  tZAWWU* YOUR BABY'S SEX WELL it be a boy or a girl? Expectant parents need wonder no longer for doctors now have an infallible method of determining sex before birth. For some years medicine has known tnat every cell in the body is as male or female
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    DOCTORS CAN PREDICT
    254 8 the whole person. Strained in a certain way and examined under a powerful microscope, a cell from any part of a woman's body has a dark speck in the nucleus which a man's cells lack. A year ago doctors carried out a test on 140 people. Their
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    Elegance
    299 8 Evening elegance is expressed in this draped dress of peacock blue lace by Aus-tralian-born London designer Victor Haffenden. school as soon as they are born. If a few parents are going to "Jump the gun" and get in six months ahead of the others, there will be much ill
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      261 8 tor a song 93. Front changed Into rear (t). Straits Times Crossword jHanrr*" >^^^^___ I^^^^___^^^^ > iP >^^^^^_^^^^ > 27. Leather largely nnmatured Hi -H Hi [SB 1. A goddm^embrmces an 6 111 H' I I I I I I American soldier In flight I^^ 2 Mal c >er n(1
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    Wilkes—the profligate who fought for human rights
    1581 9 Wilkes the profligate who fought for human rights -f CLASS I 1 CHEWING M MATMAN \M 1 London mob fought g i and died for him I OF ALL THE wayward and amazing characters that float through the history of eighteenth century none is more fascinating than the amazing profligate,
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      868 10 PL«UC APPOINTMENTS AFTOINTMENT OF INSPECTOffI OP ZAXAT AND FITBAH. PEBAK ZAKAT 4k FRKAH BBANCH OP THE DEPABTMBNT OP BEUGIOVS APPABM, PEBAK Applications are Invited for tbe above mentioned post. The salary scale Is: Probationer $180/x518.50=«1»7/--2 yean. Inspector $265/x515.00 $934/ 36«/xs4so/-. 2. Cost of living allowance and Housing allowance will be
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      1566 10 APPLICATION sre Invited from il ■Mtfigill Federal Cttteens age 17-23 for Co* MW" sinJA 7JA-IS2 BA/17K 7 50- il LaOtuoe 9—9 m norm, fto/M x 14°- IKSff?I4 X 3W/ f*«».^^-^^Sr-SLim^e*: nhu current COLA. Application The "Aenos" is lying approximateon form Oen 147 obtainable from ly quarter mile from the shore
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      798 10 NOTICES CITT COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE NOTICE is hawby ghwn that two sections of Outhrle Lane will be closed on Sth April. 1956, to thrwsjh tnflte for three weeks for tbe purpose of constructing a Wtl BY ORPBt. INCOME TAX ORDINANCE, 1947 WAKNING In order to comply with section 59 of
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      869 10 Terrorists prevent ne\J Malayan land deal TERRORIST activity has interrupted a pc «jJ land dear between Petaling Rubber Estat, v and Southern Tronoh Tin Dredging Ltd. The directors of the rubber company state that under an agreement last October Sou- LOAN PLAN them Tronoh were given Singapore prospecting rights for
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      Malaya sago exports fell sharply last year
      292 12 EXPORTS of eago flour from Malaya declined sharply last year as a result of the continued lack of buying demand by India. Statistics show that exports during 1955 which amounted to $7,339,717 were the lowest since 1950. The export value was $3,320,935 less
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      MR. BATZNER FINDS GOOD DEMAND FOR HIS CARDS
      203 12 ft/f ALAYA, like many other ill countries in the free world, provides a food market fer the sale of playing cards, according to an executive ef an American company who arrived in Singapore on a bnsiness-cum-pleasure visit last week. The visitor Is
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      NEW CHASSIS PURCHASES
      101 12 i-wo o r a c r s lotaume £150.000 have just been received from Asia for a wellknown make of British bus by Guy Motor Ltd of Wolverhampton. One order is from the Singapore Traction Company Ltd. and is for 43 single deck Mark Four Arab passenger
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      U.K. firm developes new shield
      211 12 A British firm, which specialises in producing items for better and safer motor-cycling, has developed a new shield made of perspex which cuts -out wind roar and buffeting without reducing speed. The firm, Ferldex Ltd.. shipped 11,000 accessories to Indonesia recently. Motor-cycle dealers in Singapore
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      German official to watch company's car market here
      247 12 OJiHE leading German manufacturers of Daimler- Benz oars have appointed an official to keep track of demand and other problems concerning the sale of their vehicles in Siam, Malaya and Indonesia. The official is Mr. F. A. Wolf, who is now In
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      More ships
      31 12 Increased launching output of British shipyards continued in 1955, when a record post-war total of 1,467,562 tons gross was achieved. This was about 58,000 tons more than In 1954.
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      Crude coconut oil sales up by over 1,000 tons
      198 12 TOE export of cnide coconut 1 1 oil from Malaya daring January totalled MM tons worth $4*42,544, compared with 5,*lS tons vataed at »4.493,7»5 in the same period of IMS. While the exports of crude oil showed a rise In tonnage
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      MALAYANS INVITED TO PAWS MADE FAIR
      177 12 MALAYANS INVITED TO PAWS MADE FAIR MALAYAN businessmen have been Inrltod to attend the forthcoming Paris International Fair to be held at Porte de Versailles in the south of Paris from May 5 to 21. The fair wltt beoneof the biggest of its kind crer organised to France Mid overseas
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      TWO LIGHTERS MAKE HISTORY
      263 12 Aluminium alloy used in Penang r7O cargo lighters made completely from alumin- ium alloy are to be built for the first time Wi' tt Malaya by the Penang Port Commission. f\..Er The lighters, each with a capacity of 150 tons, have been designed by the naval
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      Eastern Bank
      61 12 The Eastern Bank Is exr pected to be in occupation of its new premises in Kuala Lumpur, the former John Little Building, within the i next few months. The Bank acquired the property las: i year and it is now being rei modelled to house the Kuala Lumpur
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    Lauriston beats McMullan to score third success
    602 13 BRILLIANT PUTTING DECIDES MALAYAN «OUF FIMJU* KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. ORILUANT putting and accurate approach to the greens gave Bob Lauriston, of Selangor, a 3 and 2 win over David McMullan, of Singapore, in the final of the Malayan golf championship here this morning.
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    Lock icon SPORE BEATEN BY JAPAN, HK
    307 13 TOKYO, Monday. SINGAPORE lost both their matches on the open*3 ing day of the world table tennis championships here this afternoon. Host nation Japan handed a 5-0 beating to Singapore in the first Swaythling Cup match and later Hong Kong beat the Colony en The
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    Lock icon Colony team too good at badminton
    142 13 JAKARTA. Mon. CiNGAPORFS badminton team O left for Sesnarang today after scoring two brilliant victories ■gainst selected teams hi Jakarta. Playing to capacity crowds. Singapore won 5-1 on Saturday night and 4-1 on Sunday night. Two of Indonesia's leading nlarcrs Eddy Vusuf and Lie
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    Don't judge Test team now. says Manager
    165 13 09 From JACK FINGLETON FREEMANTLE, Mon. WJ. DOWLING, man- ager of the Australian cricket team to England which sailed from Freemantle last night, asked critics not to prejudge his team. In pre-saiUng matches in Australia the team had a poor record, making under
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    SAINTS TO ENTER BOXING TEAM
    43 13 Bt. Andrew's School will enter a team for the S.A.BA. annual youth tournament on April 13 and 14. The S.AJB.A. have sent out more than SO entry forms to various boys' clubs and schools. Entries close on Friday.
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    NARROW WIN FOR MINTO
    90 13 Minto C.U. beat Workers Education 2-1 In a S.A.FJL Div. 3A league fixture at the C.V.M.A. ground yesterday. Ismail and Suhalnl scored for Minto and Chong Boon Pens; for Workers. In the other THv. 3A games Badan Keaenlan beat Perhimponan Stla 3-0 at Oeylang and Paebltau
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    Opening ties
    76 13 The YMCA open tennis tournament will start tomorrow with eight singles fixtures at Bras Baaah Road. Men's singles: P. Vythillngam v J. Riches: T. H. Quek v O. T Oartland; I. A. Alsagoff v R. J. Tungatead; Pang Keah Swee v P Hayes. Wemen's atagles: Mrs. M. Heng
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    ANOTHER TRIPLE FOR ONG CHEW BEE
    406 13 ANOTHER TRIPLE FOR ONG CHEW BEE KLANG, Mon. MALAYAN champion iT Ong Chew Bee won three titles in the Klang Club Easter tennis tournament which ended here today. Chew Bee beat The All-Malaya Malays runner-up, EL Khamis, 6-1, 6-4 in the men's singles final. Partnering Dr. Chan Ah Kow, of
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    Lock icon EX-NAZI MAY GET TOR BRITISH HONOUR
    221 13 LONDON, Man. nE}T TRAUTMANN. former D Naal paratrooper taken prisoner in the German collapse In 194 ft may soon be elected Britain's Footballer of the year. The forecast was mads yesterday by J. Ll Manning, sports columnist of the Sunday Despatch who wrote mat
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    NEW TYPE OF SOCCER FOR MALAYA
    165 13 PBNANO, Mon. TUT ALAYA will see a new brand M of soccer when the "Small Frys" from Thailand visit Penang and Singapore next week under toe Penang Jaycees* Brotherhood Comprising schoolboys .of IB and under, the visitors will meet Penang Combined Schools In a
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      73 13 SOCCER S.A.F.A. Leagaw, Div. 1: Star Soeeerltes v Tigers. Jalan Beaar; 7 p.m. Div. 2A: S.C.C. v Halkowyu, stadang; Div. 3A: Kaiang v Bintan* Bulan, Geylaag; Cosmos v Arsenal. Farrer Park. YOUTH competition: Star Soceerltes Juniors v St. Patrick's. Jalan Besar, 5.15 pj*. i UNITED SERVICES League. Div. 1: R.E.M.E.
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    Lock icon SAILOR'S GUIDE WINS CUP
    86 14 SYDNEY Mon.— Sailor's Guide gained his fifth consecutive success when he won the £10.000 sterling Sydney Cup over two mites at Randwick here today. The Melbourne-owned colt, the favourite finished a short head* In front of Beaupa, who was third In last year's race. Miss High
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    Budgerigar's $116 best
    2206 14  -  EPSOM JEEP MATRIX COMPLETES DOUBLE. SOLD FOR $***** B 7 JONES RIDES THREE WINNERS f ISTED for auction after his race, Matrix, an up and coming four-year-old by The Phoenix, scored a splendid double to pay $59 for a win at Bukit Timah yesterday, concluding day of
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    BEG SWEEP
    56 14 TOTAL FOOL: $330,637 IST: NO. *****6 ($148,788) 2ND: NO. *****7 74,393) 3RD: NO. *****5 (f 41,329) STARTERS ($2,952 each): Nos. *****1; *****8; *****7; *****8; *****5; *****7; *****6; *****8; *****8; *****5; *****5: *****3; *****3; J*****. CONSOLATIONS ($2,479 each): Nos. *****4; *****8; *****5; *****8; *****8; *****7; *****8; *****8; *****5: *****7.
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    AAA rally to score six times
    282 14 AMICABLE A.A., the most Improved first division team this season, maintained .heir unbeaten record when they defeated Pulau Brani Union 6-2 in yesterday's S.A.F.A. League, match at Jalan Besar Stadium. In a retoust hard-tackling game. Ah Hoe of the Pulau Brani had his name
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    Youth final claims weaken Soccerites for Senior game
    264 14 CTAR Soccerites will meet liters in tonight's S.aj.a. First Division match under floodlight* at Jalan Besar Stadium without their five under- 18-year-old stars. I Coach Choo Seng Quee said last night that the five .boys— Tony Sanctuary. Wari Basrt, Mapod Basil. Quah
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    Lock icon Ong and Ooi beat top Danes in three sets
    245 14 Ong and Ooi beat top Danes in three sets NEW YORK. Mon. ANG POH LIM and V 00l Teik Hock of Malaya won the men's doubles title In the Niagara Falls Country Club International badminton tournament here yesterday. They beat the Danish holders of the AllEngland doubles title. Finn Kobbero
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    MALAYANS BEATEN
    96 14 JAKARTA. Mon:— The three Malayan tennis players have been eliminated from the men's singles of the Indonesian tennis championships which are being played at Semarang. Two of the players reached the semi-finals and the third was beaten in his third round match. In the third round Llm Hee
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    VIJI SCORES 3 IN BANDOENG
    71 14 JAKARTA, Mon.— The Singapore hockey team now touring Indonesia scored their fourth straight win against an Indonesian team in a match at Bandoeng today. Singapore defeated a Bandoeng Selection 8-0 but the victory was not scored as easily as yesterday's. The local team played well
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    SONNY BEATEN AT BANGKOK
    46 14 sonny vma. Singapore ugntweight professional boxer, returned yesterday after being beaten by Nai Usman in Bangkok on Saturday. The fight was stopped by the referee in the third round when Sonny sustained a deep cut on the right side of his nose.
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    KEW SAN BEATS WEI LON IN 3 SETS
    204 14 MAUICCA, MOB. ATCHSD by a large crowd a Federation team beat Singapore by three matches to two, with two matches drawn. In their charity badminton match in aid of the Malacca Badminton Hall Fund bark last night. Highlight of the match was
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    SIVAGNANAM IN 5-13 SPELL BEFORE SOUTH BEAT NORTH
    760 14 PENANG, Mon. 2OUTH beat North by 3 five wickets in their annual cricket match which ended on the Western Road ground here today. Left with five hours to score 67 for victory, South got the runs with two hours and 50 minutes
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    SPORE 'A' BEAT JUNIORS
    92 14 SINGAPORE "A" defeated a Junior Selection 3-1 in a soccer match played under floodlights at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. After a scoreless first half. Boon Kirn put Singapore "A" ahead in the 55th minute with a 20-yard drive. In the 60th minute, out- side-right Ibrahim
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