The Straits Times, 28 June 1956

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    13 1 The Straits Times lieu**** Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1956 15 CENTS
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    'GO-AHEAD' FOR TREATY
    322 1 Rulers lay 'ye** to laws that will allow Britain to own strategic land Security for British bases W\ \L\ LIMPUR, Wed. The Conference of Rulers today agreed to introduce legislation that will enable the British Government to own land for military installations. This measure, it is understood,
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    RED BOSSES REWARD: $98,000
    305 1 RED BOSSES REWARD: $98,000 Dead or alive posters go up for Area chief among them IPOH, Wednesday. DEWARDS totalling $98,000 are offered for the 1V capture or surrender of 16 terrorist bosses, including a woman, operating in the Ipoh area. If they are killed by security forces as a result
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    GENERAL BROOKE FLIES IN
    29 1 THE FIRST General Officer Commanding of the Federation's own independent army, Gen. F. H. Brooke (above) flew into Singapore by 8.0.A.C. yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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    Lock icon Wool record
    20 1 MELBOURNE. Wed.— The Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics predicts a record wool clip in the 1956-57 season. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Atomic aid
    15 1 BONN. Wed. Britain has offered to supply atomic fuel to West Germany. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Fake V.C. Tom fools the Queen
    327 1 Fake V.C. Tom fools the Queen ON PARADE IN A WHEELCHAIR LONDON, Wed. A 64-YEAR-OLD cine- ma attendant hoaxed the Queen at yesterday's V.C. centenary barade. He does not hold the V.C. but h e joined the Hyde Park parade and talked to the Queen about his war experiences. The
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    Lock icon No love like mum s—she waits to save son
    119 1 No love like mum s she waits to save son HONG KONG, Wed—Madame Chow Fook Kee, of Singapore, arrived here by air today from Singapore to try to dissuade her 16-year-old son from going to Communist China. Madame Chow's son is j reported to have sailed from Singapore for Hong
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    Lock icon £1 a run—£2 for luck
    55 1 £1 a run— £2 for luck LONDON, Wed. A cheque for £901 has been handed over to a hospital near Lords cricket ground by an anonymous donor who promised the hospital £1 for every run scored in the second EnglandAustralia Test match. Only 899 runs were scored, but the donor
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    NEWLY-WEDS QUIT ARMY
    221 1 One last thank you to Major Bob- rpHE 20-year-old Army X couple whose whirlwind marriage in Singapore last month was arranged by a friendly major are both quitting the Army. After the wedding of WRAC Vera Taw and Signalman Dave Banstead all fixed at two days' notice
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    MISSING GIRL FOUND DEAD NEAR POND
    288 1 Blouse ripped off.,, face battered... scarf twisted round neck IPOH, Wednesday. pOLICE found the semi-nude body of a 16--year-old girl, Chee Lan Thai, alias Ah Lan, early this morning near a fish pond in Gunong Rapat new village, three miles south of Ipoh. The
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    A kiss for the happy bride
    101 1 A kiss for the happy bride NINETEEN-YEAR -OLD Signalman Peter Saltier, of the Royal Signals Corps in Singapore, and WRAC Corporal Gene Gilbert, 21, were married at the Singapore Registry yesterday. Only a month ago their plan to marry met a setback when Peter was posted to Hong Kong. The
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    The Peeping Tom wears swim trunks
    86 1 A YOUNG prowler wearing only swimming trunks and gloves has the residents of Crescent Flats near the Sea View Hotel. Singapore, worried. On Tuesday night a woman resident screamed when she saw him peeping at her through the bathroom window. Six male residents— R.A.F.
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    Lock icon Death roll now 32
    56 1 LONDON. Wed. British Overseas Airways Corporation today announced two more deaths from last Sunday's Argonaut airliner crash at Kano, West Africa, bringing the death roll to 32. A Mrs. Mills of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, and Navigating Officer C. F. Young, a member of the crew, both
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    Lock icon Out of danger
    30 1 NICOSIA. Wed.— Judge Bernard Shaw, shot and wounded by terrorists In the street here on Monday, is "no longer In danger." an official bulletin reported today.— Reuter.
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    Common aim
    23 1 BONN, Wed.— West Germany and Indonesia said yesterday that their common goal Is to maintain peace and to reduce world tension
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    200,000 radios
    20 1 There are now more than 200 000 radio licence holders in Malaya. In 1953 the total was 107,000.
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    Lock icon WHAT DIANA THINKS OF MARILYN
    77 1 1 COULD BE COMPARED WITH A LOT WORSE' NEW YORK, Wed. British film star Diana Dors arrived here yesterday in the liner Queen Elizabeth and told reporters she would like to meet Marilyn Monroe. She was asked how she felt about being compared to Mias
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    Lock icon Live chicken for a hat
    39 1 SYDNEY. Wed— Sydney 1 police axe searching for a woman who attended a ball last night wearing a strange "hat" a live chicken. The RJB.P.C.A. had complained to the police about the incident.— Reuter
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    Fall from flats
    30 1 A 23-year-old housewife. Chew Peck Kwee. was critically injured early this morning when she fell from the i third story of a flat in Boon Tiong Road.
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    Crowd sees police chase
    178 1 Crowd sees police chase SINGAPORE Police last nißht chased a gang of three young thugs for more than a mile through traffic, hedges and ditches in Yib Chu Kang Road. The thugs, believed to be members of the "Kui Tui" i devil's gang), were leaving a shop In Llcnneld Avenue.
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    Lock icon STOP PRESS
    68 1 s\ck FOH b.MO 1 <!MM)\. Wed. The (iant British Motor Corporate n will dismiss HUH) <> r ii> 5 iiim workers I'iis n< .vi*..- o, dims hire 1 1 bMe restrictions and rising costs Beater. IIOYI) DIMM, 1O\IM)\ \V.-,i Mr. Lennox Boyd denied tfcere were two types of
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    MET HIS BRIDE AT BIRTH
    50 1 CLIFTON FORGE (Virgi- 1 nia), Wed. Exactly 20 years i ago. 71-year-old Dr. Paul Argabrite. delivered a baby. "She'll be a beauty, he said. Yesterday he married the girl, now a lovely honeyblonde. Sharon Ann Kirby. "My motto's 'spot 'em young. he said.— A. P.
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    QUIT BASES: OFFICIAL DEMAND BY Mr. BANDA
    157 2 QUIT BASES: OFFICIAL DEMAND BY Mr. BANDA LONDON, Wednesday. THE Prime Minister of Ceylon, Mr. Solomon Bandaranaike, yesterday called on Britain to give up control of her Indian Ocean bases at Trincomalee and Katunayake, Commonwealth officials reported. This official demand {was made during a 30I minute meeting between I Mr.
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    Lock icon Herrenvolk Strydom — 'the new Goebbels'
    72 2 Herrenvolk Strydom 'the new Goebbels' LONDON, Wed. The Daily Mirror yesterday compared the South African Premier, Mr. 1. G. Strydom, with Goebbels as an exponent cf racialism. Cassandra, the paper's columnist, wrote: "For the Aryans the Nails offered the whole of Europe as loot. For the Jews they built pas
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    Lock icon WIMBLEDON LATEST: FRILLY SLIPS
    97 2 LONDON, Wed. Flaring miniature skirts bunched out over stiffened friny slips gave Wimbledon tennis courts a ballet-stage appearance when women played their first matches yesterday. Eleven of the players had chosen the same style— an up-to-the-minute high Empire bust line, close fitting waist and tiny full
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    It was all a (royal) family affair...
    80 2 Queen hands the Smith's Lawn r Duke, whose Windsor Park Po |n ?to th beaten Friar Park. team I* To round it off, the Duke (below, i three cheers for the Queen.— R Cuter t adj THE Queen presents a polo trophy with
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    Lock icon THAMES MURDER CHARGE
    128 2 Twins die in fire: Mother held BENFLEET, Essex, Wed. The mother of twin boys who died in a houseboat fire on the River Thames last month was charged today with their murder. A woman friend was similarly charged. The two-year-old twins, Colin am' Reginald Wright, died in
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    Lock icon Eden is the pin-up boy —of 35 pin-up girls
    96 2 Eden is the pin-up boy —of 35 pin-up girls HOLLYWOOD. Wed.— A group of models and starlets calling themselves the Bachelorettes today named the British Prime Minister. Sir Anthony Eden, as one of the 10 men they would most like to go oat with. The glamour girls placed Sir Anthony
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    Lock icon They disagree
    25 2 AMMAN, Wed. A Royal cteciee dissolving the Lower House of Parliament was issued yesterday following disagreement between the Jordan Government and Parliament. Reuter.
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    Lock icon The A-experts decide
    199 2 THOSE BIG BANGS DO NOT AFFECT THE WEATHER, SAY 20 SCIENTISTS: TWO SAY MAYBE LIXDAU, (West Germany) Wed. Have atom bombs affected the weather? Of 22 of the world's most eminent physicists, attending a Noble prize winners' international conference here, all but two said "no". Professor Frederick
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    Lock icon David, 7, took a spin in family car
    115 2 NEW YORK. Wed.— Seven-year-old David Mason, who took the family car for a three-mile drive by himself on Sunday, was given a ticket for driving without a licence. His mother. Mrs. Artie Mason, also received a summons charging her with allowing an
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    Lock icon Prince is jailed in drug scandal
    163 2 Prince is jailed in drug scandal OTHER NOBLEMEN ACCUSED nine others, i nc iuc£ another duke Z under penal char today as Rome's hteh society rocked i n Z biggest drug scand .'s Wi£a SUTS orgy" affair. During the night, detectives armed with arrest war rants drove to several luxury
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    Lock icon MORE $ FOR U.S. AIR FORCE
    113 2 MORE FOR U.S. AIR FORCE WASHINGTON, Wed. The U.S. Senate yesterday voted nearly U.S. $1,000 million for the air force over and above the funds asked for it by President Eisenhower. The increase was approved after a special armed services sub-committee had investigated relative U.S.Soviet air power. The Senate voted
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    Cable flashes
    132 2 GENEVA: The United Nations International Law Commission decided to recommend to the U.N. General Assembly that a world diplomatic conference should consider the draft of the "law of the sea" which the Commission has now completed. Reuter. WASHINGTON: A 12--natlon meeting here again failed to resolve disagreement over
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    Lock icon A HANDSHAKE ON HONG KONG
    254 3 Britain may open relations between China and Colony and Sir Alexander says: This is the way to improve our trade pffi COVEH^^r^^T Si, diplomatic relations between the People's ReWhen such diplomatic relations were estahiKh ed trade between the colony and ?hin a wouW improve, he
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    Lock icon THEY JUST HAVE TO GRIN AND BEAR IT
    140 3 THEY JUST HAVE TO GRIN AND BEAR IT HALIFAX, Wed. A Urge brown bear has unnrrved workmen on a secret mid-Canada radar station. The bear has been hanging around the construction camp for two weeks. To protect wild life, the Government does not allow construction men to carry firearms. In
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    THE HOUSE THAT BITES
    79 3 NEW YORK. Wed.—Copperhead snakes have driven a family of six from their farm home near Coffeyville. Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Wrpn and their children moved out after Mrs. Wren was bitten, for the second time. last Saturday. She was first bitten 10 days ago when
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    Lock icon Stalin out, Likhachev moves in
    100 3 Stalin out, Likhachev moves in LONDON, Wed.— The Moscow Zis Car Factory, which was named after Stalin, has been renamed the LiKhachev Car Factory, in memory of the Soviet Automobile, Transport and Highways' Minister who died this week, Moscow Radio said today. The decision to change the name of the
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    Film man dies
    20 3 LONDON, Wed. Maurice Arthur Dent, independent film producer, died at his London home yesterday. He was 68.
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    Lock icon MR. TRUMAN CHOOSES HIS OWN EPITAPH: JUST SAY 'HE DID HIS DAMNDEST'
    158 3 MR. TRUMAN CHOOSES HIS OWN EPITAPH: JUST SAY 'HE DID HIS DAMNDEST' MR. TRUMAN, former President of the United States, is shown in this Renter picture walking in procession with Dame Lillian Penson to the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, where they both received honorary degrees of Doctor of Civil Law. Mr.
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    Lock icon TWO HELD AFTER GANG KILLING
    152 3 Armed police comb West End joints LONDON, Wednesday. POLICE ARRESTED two men today following the shooting on Monday night of underworld gambler Thomas Smithson, in a West London, boarding house. Earlier the two men nad walked Into Scotland Yard and volunteered information after armed police
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    Lock icon Accord on bases
    77 3 RAF IN LIBYA I LONDON, Wed. Britain and Libya last night reached "full agreement" on R.A.F. bases and Britain's position in the Middle East. Mustafa Ahmed Ben Halim, Prime Minister of Libya, concluded eight days of highlevel conference in London and flew home with his team of
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    Lock icon 'Yes' to Viscount's Moscow flight
    128 3 MOSCOW, Wed.— The Russians have authorised a flight to Moscow of a turboprop Vickers Viscount airliner to fly home seven British aircraft industry experts. Dr. Walter Caywood, Direc-tor-General of Research and Development (Air) at the Ministry of Supply, who is among the British party visiting
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    LONDON STOCKS
    290 3 LONDON, Wed. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not Including stamp duty were: RUBBER LONDON, June 27. Bpot 26',d Aug. 26*, d., Sept. 26-\cl.. Oct.-Dec. 26 .d., Jan.-Mar. 25 7 »d., April-June 25 '-jd., July c.l.f. 26 7 «d., Aug. c.l.f. 26 7 »d. Tone: Erratic. TIN LONDON.
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    Lock icon Crisis in Peru as students riot
    121 3 Crisis in Peru as students riot LIMA, Wed.— A state < of siege was today < declared in Peru after rioting and strikes here and the neighbouring < port of Callao. Troops were posted at < strategic points in Lima after student-led groups rioted in several parts of the city.
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    Lock icon 11 MEN DIE IN 'FLYING TANKER'
    71 3 11 MEN DIE IN 'FLYING TANKER' ROSWELL. New Mexico. Wed.— A huge U. S. Air Force refuelling tanker crashed last night just after taking off in an open field ten miles south of Walker air force base, killing all 11 men aboard. The flying t tanker caught fire soon after
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    Lock icon Strikers riot in Peru
    61 3 LIMA. Wed. Violence flared in Lima and the nearby Port of Callao yesterday as Peruvian police tried to cope with strikers who virtually paralysed business activity in the two cities. Roving bands stoned shop windows and street-cars, set fire to two buses and a streetcar, and
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    29 3 JERUSALEM, Wed.— lsrael's leading bus companies yesterday proclaimed a 24-hour warning strike to support a demand to be allowed to increase fares by 20 per cent. U.P.
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    Lock icon Trade pact
    18 3 KARACHI, Wed. A trade agreement was signed here today between Pakistan and the Soviet Union. Reuter.
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    Out they go
    22 3 AMMAN, Wed. Kin* Hussein has dismissed Jordan's parliament at the request of the Premier, Mr. Said Mufti. A. P.
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    Union refuses to support mine strikers
    286 4 'WILDCAT' STOPPAGE BRANDED ILLEGAL, BUT WORKERS DECLARE: 'WE WILL GO AHEAD' BATU GAJAH, Wednesday. 'pHE Malayan Mining Employees' Union today disclaimed responsibility for the "wildcat" strike by 110 workmen at one of the dredges of the Malayan Tin Dredging Company's. Kampong (Jajah section, 18
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    5-DAY WEEK: UNIONS TO MEET
    88 4 5-DAY WEEK: UNIONS TO MEET KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The Government Services Staff Council. on which 43 unions with a total of 120.000 members are represented, will call a delegates' conference on July 8 to consider the Government's offer of a five-day week. The offer was made after the staff side
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    Protest on shooting
    63 4 Leaders of 10.000 Singapore Waterfront workers yesterday protested to the Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, against 'he shooting of Low Tua Tee, a 28 year-old foreman, by the S.H.B. Police last Tuesday. They asked Mr. Lim to conduct a full investigation i Into the matter The
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    TWO MEN MET ON A ONE-WAY GANG PLANK
    71 4 TWO MEN MET ON A ONE-WAY GANG PLANK T<EO LAI HUAT was A carrying fruit down the gang plank from a tongkang anchored in Rochore Canal, Singapore, yesterday, when he met another labourer coming up. Neither would give way. An argument followed and Teo was hit on the head with
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    Suicide bid alleged
    61 4 A charge of attempted suicide was read out to Gwee 'leek Hock in the remand ward of the General Hospital yesterday by a Singapore magistrate, Mr. J. B. Jeyaretnam It wi& alleged that Gwee drank a solution of caustic soda at his home in Belve- 1 dere
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    For jamboree
    21 4 KUANTAN, Wed.— Kuantan Boys Scouts' Association plans to send a Scout to attend the 1957 Centenary Jamboree in England.
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    CHEW FOR UNESCO MEET
    71 4 The Minister for Education, i Mr. Chew Swee Kee. will go I to Switzerland next month to represent Singapore at a UNESCO conference. Eighty- five nations have been invited to the con- ference. which will be devoted to education problems. Mr Chew will be accompaaftsd by
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    Man, an orange and puffs of smoke
    192 4 TO POLICE IT SPELT ZERO HOUR DLAIN CLOTHES police watching from a Bukit Timah bar saw an informer, Toh Kirn Sai, stand on the road outside peeling an orange. "That signal meant 'the gun has been sold to me,' Det.-Cpl. Charlie Leow said
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    Green Howards here again
    63 4 The Ist Bn., The Oreen Howards, with 103 bandit kills to their credit during three years In Malaya, returned to Singapore for less than a day yesterday in the troopship Empire Fowey after an absence of four years. The Green Howards, who are on their way
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    Word of thanks
    42 4 Sulong bin Bujang. a notice server, with the Rural Board for 25 years, will be presented with a valedictory letter at j the conference room of the j I Chief Secretary's Office at 10 1 l a.m. today. I
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    FIVE-YEAR PLAN TO CONQUER DARKNESS
    122 4 SINGAPORE can look forward to a brighter future. By 1961. there will be no more dark or badly lit streets in the city or thp rural areas. In the next two years. about 1.400 new flourescent lamps will be installed in the City area at
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    'ONLY CHANCE' —BUT IT CAN BEAT T.B
    252 4 'ONLY CHANCE' —BUT IT CAN BEAT T.B SATA wants its own house* f ur m 'THE SINGAPORE Anti-Tubrrculosis a A wants to build its own homos for thr' tuberculosis sufferers. The association-! director, Dr. O. H. Garlick, said yesterday Times^" rllCk to!ri traits the T* r UBe X h ai
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    She will study Australian hospitals
    84 4 She will study Australian hospitals MISS JANET LIM. matron of St. Andrew's Mission Hospital, will be combining "work and play" when she leaves for Australia on Saturday for a four-month holiday. Miss Lim told the Straits Times yesterday that she will spend most of her time visiting hospitals and child
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    LET'S PAY OUR SHARE OF SIR SYDNEY'S BIG BILL, SAYS CHEW
    133 4 LET'S PAY OUR SHARE OF SIR SYDNEY'S BIG BILL, SAYS CHEW HTHE Minister for Educa--1 tion, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, has recommended that Singapore should contribute its share of a 1200,--000 grant the University of Malaya is seeking jointly from the Colony and the Federation. Singapore meets 40 per cent
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    Assembly session
    31 4 The next Singapore Leglsi lative Assembly meeting I first of its second session will be at 10 a.m. on Aug. 29 at Assembly House, it was 'gazetted last night.
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    Leg was shorter after accident
    229 4 Leg was shorter after accident A LORRY DRIVER, A All bin Awi, whose right leg has been shortened by about an inch as the result of a motor accident, yesterday brought an action for damages against an Army officer, Col. W. A. Bickford. In his suit, heard before the Singapore
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    Judge leaves
    15 4 Mr. Justice Taylor left Singapore by Qantas BOAC yesterday for Britain on retirement.
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    Prowler is caught in the act
    118 5 Prowler is caught in the act A VOLUNTEER SPECIAL constable. So h Yeow Suan told a Singapore court yesterday that a hot night helped him catch a prospective thief at about 1 a.m on May 23 this year. Soh said he could not sleep and went out on to the
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    Pakistan party
    28 5 The Overseas Pakistan League of Singapore held a dinner party at the Jubilee Restaurant last night in honour of the Pakistani delegates to the SEATO conference.
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    A car-load of trouble
    67 5 MALACCA, Wed. Rostani bin Sulalman. a former Army employee, was today fined 51.937, or in default, seven months' jail, here for having uncustomed goods. The court was told that Rostani was found in a car at the Malacca General Hospital compound with a large quantity of
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    ITSY-BITSY AND THE TONGUE TIED TUAN
    289 5 ITSY-BITSY AND THE TONGUE TIED TUAN Stab at those who don+t know Malay— l 4 og 16 tailed exam KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. EUROPEANS who refused to learn Malay unless compelled by their employers or tempted by fat bonuses were criticised today by The Planter. One or the reasons for this
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    AFTER THE HONEYMOON BACK TO COLONY
    51 5 AFTER THE HONEYMOON BACK TO COLONY MR. PETER WISE of the Colonial Development Corporation, Singapore, with his bride. Miss Noreen Mallal. daughter of Mr. N. A. Mallal, of Singapore, after their wedding at Brompton Oratory, London. After honeymooning in Italy Mr. and Mrs. Wise are due in Singapore on July
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    New Alumni officials
    69 5 Officials of the Alumni Association (Southern Branch) of the King Edward VII College of Medicine and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, for 1956/57 are: Chairman, Dr. Mah Kee Lvi; chairman-elect. Dr. Foo Chee Guan; secretary. Dr. Ho Yuen; treasurer. Dr. Ghee Phui Hung; committee, Mr.
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    Seamen's new adviser
    40 5 The Singapore Government last night announced the appointment of Mr. Goh Sin Tub, the Seamen's Industrial Relations Officer, as the new Seamen's Adviser. Mr. Goh succeeds Mr. T. A. White, who left for Britain early this month.
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    Watchman stabbed
    31 5 A watchman. Sarup Singh, was stabbed in the back by a youth while controlling a crowd outsida the Sultan Theatre in Singapore on Tuesday night. The youth escaped. I
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    The listener
    60 5 PENANG, Wed. -While listening to a girl singing from across the road, a youth fell about 20 feet into a drain at Burmah Road last night. Lim Cbeok Hin, 17, a plumbing apprentice, later reported to police someone had pushed him while he was sitting at a window
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    THEY'RE GLAD TO SEE THE LAST OF THOMAS COOK
    138 5 rfiHERE were sighs of relief 1 on board the 10,315-ton Norwegian tanker, Thorshov, yesterday when the crew saw the last of Thomas Cook, who had been in the ship for four months and four days. For Thomas, an African, had been
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    Kelantan banishes its thugs, gangsters
    91 5 KOTA BHARU, Wed. The Kelantan Government has ordered the police to banish thugs and gang leaders to other districts. This follows demands by State councillors that strong measures be taken to end hatchet attacks on people. I The councillors complained against the high crime Incidence
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    A patriotic priority
    267 5 PART OF LOAN WILL GO TO BUILD SCHOOLS WHICH WILL TEACH CHILDREN TO LOVE MALAYA IfUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Schools will be springing up soon all over Malaya to teach the children of this country to be patriotic. The money, said the Chief Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman today,
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      149 5 viii 1 1 -k B*\D- Public concert, NEWMAN SOCIETY: Talk on V.M.C.A. (Orchard Road): Judo ww r» nr v 'Park 530 p.m. to "History and dlvorc* of King beginners class 5.30 p.m.; cricket g J? Henry IV by Lt.-Col. Reldy at practice 5.30 p.m., motorists 1 selfKHFii THEATBETTE- Free Klngamead
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    282 6 20 Word* $10 (Minimum) FOLLOW PEDANT Every Day 111 t.-.e "Mala<- Mail" if you want to win that $5,000 word puzzle. SPECIAL OFFER! Dress lengths Re:nnants. clearing at about half price. Modern Silk Store, 34 High St.. Spore 6. GANYMED PRINTS are the driest reproductions available today. Call and
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    40 6 i» Word* H» (minimum) MR. J. S. DE SOUZA and Family thank all relatives and lnends lor their attendance at the funeral .-en ice, at prayers, letters and uieerams of condolence on the ceath of Mrs. Isabel De Souza.
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    The Straits Times Spore, Thurs. June 28, 1956. A Political Attack
    620 6 The Straits Times Spore, Thurs. June 28, 1956. A Political Attack The Master Plan for Sings- I pore by its very nature is not calculated to win the loving regard of anyone except lawyers and builders find, of course, its authors. Too many people, big men, small men, will be
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    Fighting Synthetic
    341 6 One happy outcome of the wage dispute in the rubber industry is recognition by the National Union of Plantation Workers of the significance of synthetic's competition. Union officials agree with the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association that they must fight synthetic together. Leaders of the union have already
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    16,000 Jobs
    228 6 Fewer industries are being established in Singapore today. So warns the chairman of the Metal Box Company of Malaya Ltd., Mr. C. D. Yarrow. He is only one of a line of industrialists who have pointed to the increasing reluctance of capital to invest. Many firms which had
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    ALL IS FORGIVEN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
    836 6 ALL IS FORGIVEN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN ••••■>■■ Tito 'the traiiar* is rehabilitated hut nai posthumously "DECAUSE Marshals Tito and Bulganin have signed a cordial communique in Moscow, a certain number Of Congressmen in Washington at once want to cut off supplies to Yugoslavia. They would be wiser to double them.
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      1138 6 I SHOULD like to confirm, from personal experience, what Mr. Tregonning has written about the battle on Marina Hill on February 13. 1942. I was at that time a platoon commander in the 2nd Battalion. The Loyal Regiment, which, with the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the
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    LIVING ON $5 A MONTH
    124 6 F would be greatly appreciated if the social worker Mrs. Barbara Kinna could give the general public a detailed account of how she managed not only to feed a husband with two wives and six children on $51 per month but also in such a
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    WHEN THE RAINS COME
    63 6 1 think it unfortunate that the Government should have chosen the Lake Gardens as the venue for the forthcoming. "Pesta." The Lake Gardens Is perhaps the Capital's only beauty spot and tour attraction and with Dm rainy season we are now experiencing the whole area I
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    PARABLE OF THE RICELESS MEAL
    178 7 PARABLE OF THE RICELESS MEAL THE Kluang branch of be M.C.A. recently invited two Federation to dinner— md made them sit iwn to a riceless meal. I ussociation president Teoh Chze Chang, apoLised and laid the blame the severe food control ires imposed on the rinM June 4. old the
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    Union meeting
    39 7 KUANTAN, Wed. The ir.nual meeting of the Pah- I branch of the National i f Teachers will be i here on July 7. There be a curry tiffin and a at and dance on the same day.
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    Young prisoners build their own borstal
    124 7 YOUNG prisoners at Outram Road Jail have .-•.arted work on a new in•lon so that they and future juvenile offenders may have a better life. The new institution will be Singapore's first Borstal. Yesterday about 40 prisoners were busy breaking down walls to convert
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    Detained ship's fate unknown
    68 7 rE 2.500-ton British freighter Inchlslay, which wrs seized by an Indonesian patrol boat in the Celebes recently, has been released according to the charterers. But the Singapore agents of the ship's owners said yesterday that they had received no news. As far as they knew, the
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    New recruits for Rotary
    54 7 TAIFING, Wed.— Two new members of the Taiplng Rotary Club are Mr. Chung Ah Ree, and the Federation's new Curator of Museums, Mr. I Brian Peacock. The club's Installation dinner ha& been set back a month, pending the return of the president-elect, Mr. Toh !<;ng Hoe,
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    No squeeze: No STC fares rise
    513 7 TRAFFIC TAKINGS lIP SAYS STRANGMAN: 'THE MEN ARE WORKING WITH A WILL* BUT UNION THREATENS: 'A QUICK SETTLEMENT OR WE END THAT PACT' THE Singapore Traction Company has decided Annn V r? f c IK!* ***** of increasing bus fares. I ended in February.
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    Treasure trove: Official doubts
    277 7 $4 MILLION? SEEING IS BELIEVING THE Singapore Custo--1 dian of Enemy Property, Mr. W. G. Alcock, has doubts about the $4,000,000 wartime treasure trove which a Singapore woman claims she knows about. He told the Straits Times yesterday: "I have heard several stories of this sort.
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    Two injured in petrol fire
    49 7 Two labourers. Tan Ah Jiak, 32, and Tay Soong Kang. 30, were seriously burnt when some petrol they were using to clean a tank at a soft drink factory in Havelock Road, Singapore, caught fire yesterday afternoon. Both were admitted to the General Hospital.
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    AUSTRALIA WILL HELP TRAIN NEW ARMY
    114 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. i The Federation Is planning to send cadets to Australia for training as potential officers in the country's new independent Army. Negotiations between the two Governments are now in their final stages. The cost of the training will probably by borne
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    Widow, 100, dies
    14 7 RAWANG. Wed.— Che HaJJah Amlnah, a 100-year-old widow, died here yesterday.
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    PLANNERS PREDICT A STRONGER SEATO
    434 7 Talks have led to more unified viewpoint, says Loewen A MORE effective and flexible South East Asia Treaty Organisation Is expected to result from the S.E.A.T.O. Military Staff Planners' Conference, at Sembawang. S 1 ng a p ore, which ended yesterday. In closing speeches, the
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    SEXY MAMBO QUEEN IS JUST A LITTLE GIRL AT HEART-SHE PLAYS WITH DOLLS
    160 7 SEXY MAMBO QUEEN IS JUST A LITTLE GIRL AT HEART -SHE PLAYS WITH DOLLS AGNES GLORIA PADILLO earns her living by dancing sizzling, sexy mambos but she also loves *o play with dolls. Dolls, in fact, are Miss Padillo's hobby. She has collected more than 190, all dressed in national
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    GOOD NEWS FOR 1949 CHILDREN
    212 7 Room for all in schools T»HE Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, A yesterday announced a new system of registering pupils for Government Primary 1 classes in Singapore next year. R.lso said he was conplaces would be found children born in 1949 >ught admission.
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    MAN WHO HAD OPIUM IS JAILED
    82 7 KUALA LIPIS. Wed.—Considerable amounts of opium were being smuggled into Kuala Lipis from the Siamese border, said Inspector Hernam Singh prosecuting In a case against a Malayan Railway signal fitter In the Session's Court here yesterday. Abdul Hamld bin Mohamed All. 42, was sentenced
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    Opium in his shoe: $200
    46 7 Yep Mong Seng. 58, of Lorong 25- A, Geylang. was fined $200 in a Singapore court yesterday for having a packet, of opium at the gate of the Remand Prison. Pearl's Hill on Tuesday. The opium was found in his shoe.
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    9 more adult classes
    51 7 Nine new adult classes will be started in the rural areas of Batu Pahat by the Johore Adult Education Association. This was decided at a meeting of the Batu Pahat branch of the association on Tuesday. A sub-committee to assist in the Radio Literacy campaign was
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    Man's body found on rail track
    61 7 RAWANG Wed. Forty-slx-year-old Sucha Singh, was found dead on the Ku-ang-Batu Arang railway line, eight miles from here this morning. He had been run over by a train. He left home yesterday with his herd of buffaloes. They later returned to the cattle shed
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    POWER WORKERS: JULY 10 STRIKE...
    136 7 POWER WORKERS: JULY 10 STRIKE... TWO thousand five hundred Singapore City Council workers will go on strike on July 10. if their wa£e dispute is not settled by then. Yesterday, the Council's Electrical Workers Union, to which the men belong, served the Council with 14 days' strike notice. The Council's
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    TROUBLE AHEAD IF TAX IS RAISED, ECONOMIST WARNS
    199 8 TROUBLE AHEAD IF TAX IS RAISED, ECONOMIST WARNS 4 Thcre'U be widespread evasion* I)R. LIM TAY BOH, economics lecturer at the University of Malaya, is against a drastic increase in taxes to finance social services in Malaya. Writing in the first issue of the Malayan Economic Review he warns that
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    HE DRANK POISON TO SCARE MOTHER
    206 8 HE DRANK POISON TO SCARE MOTHER Social insurance has great advantages. DENANG, Wed. A 1 newspaper compositor, P. M. Soosay, 27, told the First Magistrate's Court today he drank caustic soda because his mother had refused him permission to marry the girl he loved. I "You should follow your heart's
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    'Bandit war can end in 6 months'
    124 8 'Bandit war can end in 6 months' KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Federation's Director of Operations, Lieut.-Gen. R. H. Bower, said today that the Communist terrorists have "quite enough to do to save their skin" to think of reprisals against people who gave information to the Government about them. Appealing to
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    'L' hath no fear for women drivers
    144 8 THEY OFTEN DO BETTER THAN MEN IT U A L A LUMPUR, Wed. Women learner drivers are far less nervous than men, Selangor's Senior Registrar and Inspector of Motor Vehicles Mr. B. Brunton said today. And they have more faith in their testers
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    Wanted: 'Fair treatment'
    45 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Ninety-four former police constables in Kuala Trengganu have sent a memorandum to the Reid Commission asking for "fair treatment" from the Federation Government. The memorandum criticises the Government for falling to give them any help since their services ended.
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    'Miner' fined
    37 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A dulang washer, Sim Kirn Sin, 38, was fined $30 in the First Magistrate Court here today for prospecting tin without a licence at Sungai Tua on April 20. He pleaded guilty.
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    HE KILLED FRIEND: 10 YEARS' JAIL
    122 8 BACHAN SINGH, 56, a City Council labourer, was sentenced at Singapore Assizes yesterday to 10 years in jail for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Before passing sentence, Mr. Justice Knight told the accused: "I cannot help thinking that you are somewhat fortunate that
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    Council meeting
    22 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The monthly meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council will be held at 8 p.m. on Friday.
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    Lindsay is leaving Malaya
    172 8 Lindsay is leaving Malaya NEW POSTING FOR THE GENERAL KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Major-General &S. (Peter) Lindsay, Principal Staff Officer to the Director of Operations for the last two and a half years, will leave Malaya on another posting in about a month's time. It was learned today. His post, a
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    CHRONIC INACTION ON THE ROADS
    307 8 Expert suggests Highway Authority IT IS the lack of A neither finance nor ideas which is the cause of the chronic inaction over Singapore's traffic problems, Mr. P. F. Kinsey. a retiring city solicitor said yesterday. "It all boils down to lack of co-operation between
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      59 8 High tides TODAY. SlngaDore 1.11 a.m. (9ft. 21n.i 2.17 a.m. (Bft. 4in.); Port Dlckson 9.09 a.m. (Bft. 41n". 9.27 p.m. (Bft.); Penang 3.19 ajn. (6ft. Bin.) 3.04 pm. (7ft. 6in.\ TOMORROW: Singapore 1.49 a.m. (Bft. 9in.) 2.50 p.m. (Bft. 3in.l; Port Diekson 9.40 a.m. (Bft. 21n/> 9.57 D.m. (7ft 7in.)-
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      Lock icon Farmboy who amassed $160 million fortune
      1504 9 IN April last year workmen demolished the last bricks of a once-great Chicago mansion. Scores of men armed with electric drills turned into rubble the threestorey show-place put up by department store millionaire Marshall Field 79 years earlier and predicted to last 1,000 years.
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    4¼ CENTS JUMP IN RUBBER PRICE ON LACK OF SELLERS
    239 10 By Our Market Correspondent fHE price of rubber took a sharp rise in Singa pore yesterday following the overnight rise in New York which at one time amounted to over two U.S. cents. The New York rise was reported to
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    48 10 JNVEST: tknt I iSS, 1 Con. 7.n Bank of N Mount I I mnT nil Mount M Peko Wester:. Ampol. Ex. Oil Bearcti Bradford B. Hill Pi 0 CourlauM 1 Dunlop I Elec. Zinc'" Pelt »r.c ♦<■« G.J. Cole. Herald 1.C.1. <Au.su Woolworth Swan Breweries'"" c. J
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    SHIPPING
    78 10 Ships lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Clement Ader 1 2, Somali 4.5, Eifuku Maru C P., Steel Vendor 6,7. Ettrickbank 89, Denbigshire 11, Hessenstein 13 14,; Benreoch 15.16, Eastern Saga 18, Charon 19,20, Sirusa N. Wall 8 Salong 21.22, Clydebank 23 24. Heather
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    286 10 The Malayan Share Brokers Association reported: "Industrials and rubbers were quietly steady on the local share market, but tins were a shade off." Singapore and Federation brokers reported the following business done yesterday:— B3. Petrol 565. xd cci; Fraser and Neave ords $1.76%, $1.77; M. Breweries $2.65 xci;
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    RUBBER PRICES
    150 10 July flrit grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at 94 cents per lb., up 4U cents on Tuesdays closing price. The closing tone was uncertain. Closing prices In cents per lb. yesterday were:— No. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 94. sellers 94' (Norn); No. 1 R.S.S.
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    158 10 Singapore Cnlnrse Fit>dwee Exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra: quiet; June $27 buyers, $27' 2 sellers; July $27 buyers, $27 H sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $40 sellers. $42*4 sellers. Pepper: steady; about 10 to 20 tons of business reported done on white, Muntok white $97,
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    108 10 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes In Its rates to merchants yesterday: New York: buying airmail: T.T. 33 3/4. O.D. 32 7,8, 90 d/st 33 1/16 credit bills, 33 1/8 trade bills. Canada: buying airmail: T.T. 32 3/16. O.D. 32 5/16. 90 d/st 32 5/8
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      364 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS WANTED Two teachers to teach ENGLISH in the Kuching Chung Hua Middle School. Salaries according to Government scale. Please apply to Board of Management stating qualifications and expertenca. SALE BY TENDER Huttenbachs. Ltd. have the following surphis materials for sale by tender. Approximately 2,000 pounds Cast Iron Appi
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      170 10 NOTICES SINGAPORE YOUTH COUNCIL This Is to inform the public that our receipts numbered 101 to 150 are lost and will not be valid. O. ABISHEOANADEN, Hon. General Secretary, Singapore Youth Council. NOTICE I. Lee Loy of Central Medical Store. Pahang, Raub, wish to announce that my name- Is Lee
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      566 10 NOTICES JAYANTI FUND LOTTERY DRAW to be held at Sri Lankaramaya Buddhist Temple on 30.6.96 Is now postponed, to 31st August, 1956. PRESIDENT, Singapore Buddhist Association. CHAPTER 216 (Paw«br»ken) UNREDEEMED PLEDGED GOODS AND JEWELLERY FROM THE FOLLOWING PAWNBROKERS' SHOPS No. 21 New Bridge Road. Chin Chong Pak and Chin Kin
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      698 10 NOTICES THE MALAYAN EXCHANGE BANKS ASSOCIATION All members of the above Association In the Colony of Singapore will be closed for business on Saturday 30th June and Monday 2nd July, 1956, being Gazetted Bank Holidays. NOTICE The Parker Pen Company of Janesvllle, Wisconsin, U.S.A. give notice that the design of
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      700 10 TENDERS TENDER NOTICE Tenders are Invited for the Immediate supply of 800 x 56 lb. reels of Barbed Wire to be consigned to Analc Buklt Railway Station. Kedah. Tenders will be received up to 12 noon on 4th July, 1956 at the office of the Executive Secretary. State War Executive
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      423 10 tLINALUX MARINE GLOSS FINISH beaut/fes and bmtetti all craft with fewer repaint. Obtainable from:IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES (M) LTD KNUTSEN LINE orient service FROM CANADA/U.S. PACIFIC PORTS— 3O DAYS Sailing San Arriving Vancouver Francisco Spore P. Swct. Penan; Fm>» Cjertnide Bakke 28 lun 11 lul lOAur Elisabeth Bakke 8 lul 21
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      968 11 EAST ASIATIC LINES OUTWARDS Sallmg. fer Banakok and For E.M Penang p. S'hom Spore fV!*' 29J«»*/3Jrty 3/ 3 Jury J.ty 4/10 July 11/14 Jaty IS/14 Jut> SELANDIA 14/17 Jaty IS/ 19 Jary B*/88 Jury MOMiAIA 19/3* Jaty 31/33 Jaty 33/34 Jaty Net earrylstg passengers. HOMEWARDS Selling, to, 6mm, Antwerp, Bott.ro.av
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    372 12 Dress for a formal occasion with all the right details For Cocktails, a blue linen sheath, with rhinestone and pearl embroidery. American lucite bag. Dress and accessories from New Yorker Salon. TOITH OF ELEGANCE ■■J Dinner at home. A hostess dress of flame red shantung with a sheath line, rounded
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    PARTY GROOMING MUST BE QUITE PERFECT
    264 12 PARTY GROOMING MUST BE QUITE PERFECT JETTING ready for a party begins with that faultless grooming and perfect make-up which go with formal clothes You must be fresh, immaculate and meticulously neat, right down to the fingertips, even if you begin the grooming job hours before you dress. BMtifl with
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    SCHEDULE OF RACING
    126 13 THERE will be eight races a day on the first and third days, and seven races on the second day of the Singapore Turf Club July Meeting. The schedule of racing Is: FIRST DAY: Cl. 1, Dlvs. 1. 2 and 3— lM. Cl. a. Divs. 1. 2.
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    POLICE SCHOOL WIN CRICKET
    48 13 Police Training School beat St Joieph'» Institution by 'five wickets in a cricket match at Thomson Road yesterday. S.J.I. 89 (C Francis 33, Cooke 2-5, Kok Seng 2-15). P.T.S. 133-9 (Sharma 28, Sohan Singh 19, Boon Ann 2-6, D. Christie 2-8. M. Quek 2-14).
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    39-RUN WIN FOR POLYTECHNICS
    41 13 Seletar Po!yt«chnlcs beat R.A.F. Tengah by 39 runs in an Interservices League cricket match at Seletar yesterdfiy. Polytechnics 96 (Meredith 37, Fiern 18. Maugnan 2-0. Bowshill 2-14). Tengah 57 rßeeves 22, Flern 2-4. Green 2-7, Dean 3-21).
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    171 horses entered for July meeting in S'pore
    792 13 A TOTAL of 171 horses— A 73 In Class One and 98 in Class Two has been entered for the Singapore Turf Club Meeting at Bukit Timah on July 7, 11 and 14. The entries are: Glass One 1st run 2nd ran
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    All set for national tourney
    181 13 pIFTY-SEVEN of Singapore's top amateur boxers are all set for the national championships which begin at the Great World tonight. The championships were origl- 1 nally planned to serve as an j Olympic trial as well but this object will not be served, as three
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    CHANGI'S EDWARDS SERVES NOTICE TO SPORE HALF-MILERS
    521 14 QNE of the fastest half miles run in Malaya sints the war was recorded at Changi yesterday at the RAF Changi inter-wing athletic championships. i Cpl. Edwards, who competed In cross country events earlier this year, clocked 2 mln. 2.2 sec. for the
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    Inns win for Malaya
    214 14 TTNIVERSITY of Malaya retain- ed the L.T. Ride Cup when they trounced the visiting Hong Kong University team by an innings and 133 runs In the first of the current Inter-varsity contests yesterday Hong Kong, who were dismissed for 45 In their first innings on Tuesday,
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    Lady Scarlet scores double
    2319 14  -  AIR RATE OPENS THE DAY'S RACING WITH $105 SURPRISE Race taken from winner Pleasure Park By EPSOM JEEP T ADY SCARLET, with Jackie Smith up, completed a splendid double to pay $71 for a win at Kuala Lumpur yesterday, second day of the Selangor Turf Club
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    Alice in wonder jump...
    392 14 Alice in wonder jump I ■CK>URTEEN-YEAR-OLD Alice x Tay of Methodist Girls School bettered the Singapore and Malayan records for the long-jump when she cleared 17ft. 41n. at the heats of the second annual Singapore Girls Inter- 1 1 i-hools meet held at Tmnjong I Katong Girls School ground 1
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    RAOC FINISH 22 RUNS AHEAD
    55 14 R.A.O.C. beat H.M.B. Terror by 22 runs In a inter-services cricket league match at Friendly Hill yesterday. RA.O.C. 121-7 dccl. (Orlmble 38. Gordon 26, Webb 17. Markensle 15. Morgan 2-55, Push, 3--30. Parrlsh 2-31). Terror 99 (Booth 21, Cox 39. Parrlsh 20. Walker 1-36. Lutterlock
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    MACKAY SCORES 116 N.O.
    213 14 SHEFFIELD. Wed. j T«HE Australians, fresh from i their triumph in the seconc j Test at Lord's, returned to "county" form when they started their i three-day match against Yorkshire I j here today. They had a disastrous start, losj In* three wickets for three runs.
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    Kai Sow flies in from HK
    55 14 Tan Kal Sow. former Selangor and Malayan Chinese right fullback, flew into Singapore last night ahead of the Eastern A. A. soccer team for whom he will be playing during their Singapore tour. Eastern, the league and cup I champions of Hong Kong, are
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    SIXTH VICTORY FOR SAINTS
    56 14 St. Andrew's School gained their seventh successive win this season when they beat Johore English College by six wickets in a cricket I match at Woodsvllle yesterday. College 79 (Mohd. Rahmat 22,' Sunderaj 4-27. A. L'Strange 4-19) St. Andrew's 80-4 (Sunderaj 28. G. Singh 13. W.
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    BYGRAVES WINS
    43 14 LONDON. Wed. JOE BYGRAVES of Jamaica. won the vacant British Empire heavyweight title here last night, gaining a 13 -round points decision over Kltlone Lave, the "Tongan terror" from the Friendly Islands. Bygraves Is the first Jamaican to hold this title.
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    Lock icon County cricket scores
    110 14 LONDON. Wed— County cricket championship tea scores are: At Lord*, Essex 194 for five (Dodds 82) v Middlesex. At Guiidford, Cambridge University 194 for six (Pretlove 51) v Surrey. At Hove, Sussex 188 v Leicestershire. At Rirmiuchun. Oxford University 264 for two (Allan 63. Walton not out
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    MERCANTILE UNBEATEN DIV. 1 CHAMPS
    488 14 MERCANTILE UNBEATEN DIV. 1 CHAMPS MERCANTILE BANK became unb< iT in the Singapore Business Hou sion yesterday. With six victories and a draw behind them. Mercantile set themselves the task of winding up their tournament campaign without blemish. And this they did In no uncertain manner, trouncing Traction busmen 7-0
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    Cooper puts out seeded Davidson
    72 14 Cooper puts out seeded Davidson AT pa .second .Ml x M| Second I; I Afrio bl a lf-J;N.Fi .ford .Us L. Boad (S. AM, 1 O'Brien (US) 6-0 (Den i b: 1-6 ,i-4 bt I. Verm I 1-6. 5-7 6-3 1 J. Molm.n il |O. Hrob (India i 2-6 K.
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      115 14 SOCCER S.A.F.A. Div. 3B: Srranfoon v Windsor Rovers, Farrer Park; Pondok r-r.in.ikan V S.H.A. Police "A," River Valley Road; Setia Ja y a v Yuan Mont, C.V.M.A. IXIIED SERVICES LEAGI'E. Div. i: R.K.M.K. V < hangi. Ayer Rajah Road; Div. I 2: R.A.P.C. v R. A. M. C. R.A.PC.; Crusaders
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