The Straits Times, 14 August 1956

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    14 1 The Straits Times. Nat**" 1 Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1956 IS CENTS
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    Lock icon UEZ and YOU-by CASEY
    685 1 Indonesia advises; Silence suns— let eommonsense talk (See P. 2) |blaya has vital iterest' I iUSTBALIAN Eternal Af«" |ter. Mr. R. <• W e>(crda> told In and Malaya the Sue/ (anal i* ,rtant to thorn. vital to atfid other Asian L is to Australia Suez Canal
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    Lock icon He died to cure his pimples
    45 1 TOKYO, Mon. A 19--irear-old farmer's son was told .hat he could get rid of pimples on his face by taking small doses of rat poison. He followed the advice and lied seven days after taking -he first dose.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Tokyo tremor
    19 1 TOKYO. Mon. A slight a arth-tremor shook Tokyo md the surrounding area without damage on Sunday. -Router
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    MOTHERS QUEUE UP TO GET THEIR CHILDREN INTO SCHOOL
    219 1 SINGAPORE MOTHERS broke all rules yesterday in registering their children for admission into schools next year. It was the first day of the Government registration scheme to admit 20,000 children. The mothers were told not to bring their children. They brought
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    Crisis if mines are deserted, warns. Tengku
    324 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THE Chief Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, today 1 appealed to the Malayan Mining Employees' Union not to cause dredges to sink by withdrawing safety crews from mines in its coming nationwide strike, set to start on Aug. 21. He said
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    Border shooting
    28 1 JERUSALEM. Mon. An Israeli Army spokesman said Egyptians in the Gaza strip directed fire across the border at Erez settlement at noon yesterday.— A. P. I
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    COURIER FLIES IN WITH 'DYNAMITE' IN HIS SATCHEL
    74 1 COURIER FLIES IN WITH 'DYNAMITE' IN HIS SATCHEL ME. SALAH OSMAN. the Egyptian courier who lart Saturday delivered a secret memorandum to the Indonesian Government <ai Egypt's Sues Canal policy. Be flew through Singaturn to Cairo. Mr. Osoian, an assistant secretary in the Egyptian Foreign Affairs Ministry, told reporters at
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    Lock icon Gas plant in mine
    76 1 Russian report MOSCOW, Mon.— An underground gas plant— claimed to be the finest in the world— which gasifies coal at the face without the necessity to mine it, has been commissioned at the village of Novo-Basovo, the Soviet News agency Tass reported. The plant, with a
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    Baking powder shock cure
    50 1 WASHINGTON, Mon. A teaspoonful of table salt and a half teaspoon of baking powder dissolved in a quart of water could save as many lives as blood plasma injections in the treatment for shock from severe burns, according to a US. public Health Service report here.
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    'Informer' killed in coffee shop
    55 1 NICOSIA, Mon.— A Greek Cypriot was killed in a "coffee shop execution" outside Nicosia yesterday. He was the sixth Greek Cypriot to be killed in four days. All of the dead were alleged informers. The underground terrorists organisation EOKA has boasted it would kill 15
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    THE RED ROAD TOLOVE IS SO ROUGH
    354 1 No kissing until a report is submitted to party chiefs TOKYO. Mon. riTHE road to love and mar--1 rlage is still a rocky one in Communist China. Young men and women are finding it difficult to even get together to talk, to say
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    BBC man for Australia
    52 1 Mr. James Mudle, former head of the British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service in Singapore, has been appointed BBC representative for Australia and New Zealand with headquarters i in Sydney. Mr. Mudle will leave Lon- 1 don for Sydney with his i wife and family in mld-Sep-
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    JUNGLE SURVIVAL EXPERT BATTLES WITH PYTHON.
    67 1 JUNGLE SURVIVAL EXPERT BATTLES WITH PYTHON. rE commanding officer of the R.Af.'i jangle sarvivs school at Chanel, Singapore, was badly bitten In tin hand in a 15-mlnute struggle to captare a 12-foot-loni python at the school yesterday. Flt./Lt. Geoffrey Morton said he would keep th« python at the school's miniature
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    Lock icon Korea votes
    27 1 SEOUL, Mon.— South Korean voters today went to the polls to elect 437 members of the Seoul city and nine provincial councils. Candidates total I,s39.—Reuter.
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    Lock icon REBELS KILL 20 FRENCH SOLDIERS
    74 1 REBELS KILL 20 FRENCH SOLDIERS ALGIERS. Mon. An insurgent band which ambushed a French military patrol in the Beni Sliman region. 80 miles south of Algiers yesterday, killed 20 soldiers according to latest reports here today. The reports said that 19 other soldiers were unaccounted for and that about 20
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    Lock icon Bigger papers
    16 1 LONDON, Mon.— British newspapers will get a larger newsprint ration from next Sunday.— Reuter.
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    THE RULERS WILL GET EGYPTIAN EMISSARY'S MESSAGES
    161 1 THE RULERS WILL GET EGYPTIAN EMISSARY'S MESSAGES l\f ESBAOES which an Egyp- Man official did not have time to deliver last week to the Malayan Rulers, because he was ordered to leave Singapore within 48 hours, are to be passed on by Dato SXO. Abagoff. Dato Alsagoff, chairman of the
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    Lock icon Russo-Jap talks
    59 1 suspended MOSobW: "iion.- japan and the Soviet Union today suspended peace treaty negotiations until after the London Sum conference. Japanese Foreign Minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, who flies to London on Wednesday to attend the Suez talks, said a decision on signing the treaty on Soviet terms was now "a
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    Storm strikes
    24 1 SAN JUAN, Mon.— A hurricane smashed across Puerto Rico yesterday, killing a man and cutting San Juan's power and transportation systems.— A-P.
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    Lock icon Strike over—but no work
    188 1 Strike over—but no work BIRMINGHAM, Mon.— Workers chanting victory songs marched back to Birmingham factories today at the end of the big British car strike and found there was no work for them. Though the three-week dispute with the British Motor Corporation had been settled, short-time was again operating and
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    Lock icon STOP PRESS
    33 1 I SfW: LATEST LQaJpo* Mon-Bfi-tish Labmir f arty leaders in statement after a meeting tonight called on Government to make plain that Britain's military measures in Mediterranean are purely precautionary.— Reuter.
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    We didn't 'grab' the Canal—Nasser
    621 2 We didn't 'grab' the Canal— Nasser 'BRITAIN WANTS SUBJUGATION— THAT'S WHY I WON'T ATTEND' CAIRO, Monday. PRESIDENT NASSER said in a broadcast last night: "We did not 'grab' the Suez Canal. We just nationalised the canal company. This is our just right." He said: "We do not want to be
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    Lock icon First ship to go the long way round
    79 2 LONDON. Monday. rH)B the first time since the start of the Sue* crisis, r a British liner has been ordered to g* round the Cape of Good Hme instead of through the canal. She is the *****-ton Largs Bay, which leaves Southampton
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      24 HURT IN BEAUTY CONTEST RIOT
      50 2 VIENNA, Mon_A Polish beauty queen contest at the resort of Zoppot ended in a riot. Radio Warsaw said. The contest, arranged as part of the first Polish jajsz festival, was about to start when a number of youths stormed the scene, breaking down fences.
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      34 2 To avoid being beaten up by the rowdy teenagers, the jury as well as the scantily dressed contestants fled. The beauty contest then turned into brawl that left at least 24 people injured.—A. P.
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      31 2 WASHINGTON: A B-66 Jet bomber has flown from Hawaii to Long Beach. Call- f ornia. at an average speed of more than 400 miles per hour, the VS. Air Force announced.—UJ».
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      36 2 NEW YORK: Jackson Pollock. 44. internationally known abstractionist painter, was kflled over the week-end when his car went out >of control and struck an embankment. A woman riding with him, Edith Meteter. tt. was also killed.—AJP.
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      29 2 TOKYO: A Japanese war eraveg registration mission is on its way hjome from MM. Sarawak, after locating the remains of 599 Japanese soldiers kflled in th» Pacific battlefields. AJ>
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      Registered letter was delayed —he gets $3,600 damage
      130 2 Registered letter was delayed —he gets $3,600 damage WASHINGTON: President Elsenhower signed a bill to pay U. 541.230 ($3,600) to Frank R. Davis as damages for losing a contract because his registered letter lay around a post office for two days after it was posted. The post office: Ten Sleep,
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      Texas cheer for Nasser
      26 2 are J SSJ?^r SLISI "T*" Louisiana are jaMlaat ©ver Nassers Son grab. Far months US Producers J»? bee. etemourlit* foY* Ctevemmeni"£•£,- them.
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    Lock icon THE DUKE TAKES HIS ROYAL GUEST SAILING AT COWES REGATTA
    79 2 THE DUKE TAKES HIS ROYAL GUEST SAILING AT COWES REGATTA THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, a keen yachtsman, teak King Faisal sailing- during the Iraii monarch's state visit to Britain. The Duke Is a* the beta in the picture above. The King Is ea the right, facing the camera. They are
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    Lock icon ROYAL YACHT SAFE AS STORMS HIT SCOTLAND
    88 2 ROYAL YACHT SAFE AS STORMS HIT SCOTLAND OBAN (Scotland), Man. The Royal yacht, Britannia, with the Royal family aboard, anchored tonight In the sheltered waters of a loch near here as gal* warnings were broadcast. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were on the second day of their cruise
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    DOLLAR GRAB
    122 2 Nasser rejects all other currencies —so onions stay in Egypt 17ORTT-EIGHT boon after President Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal, the Egyptian Government was demanding VS. dollars only for payment of port dues and cargo. Chief Officer N. Hiwata, 38, of the new Mitsui Line freighter, Mogamisan Maru, told
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    THE BAR-BOUND TOURIST
    67 2 LONDON, Mon. Six undergraduates from Oxford and Cambridge, who last year set out In two Land Rovers from Hyde Park to drive across Europe and Asia to Singapore and back, will finish their trip on Thursday at the Grenadier public house, Knig-V.'s :'-i don. It was that
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    DIVORCE FOR THE HAPPY PATIENT
    111 2 DIVORCE FOR THE HAPPY PATIENT Patient^ iiJ^H leave ir *B JwntS S^v'^^B WeVrJS *1 ends. -:M H Pemant ritjJ| cause her -3«H Ury ard H *S^B deserted' he- <^H The judge mv I husband-. .^H tai home ii-I. fortablp. dr/'.'.'lf'^^B claUrrrip; "He IS r.i-7 >. B lon* as he mental
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    'Escapee' fraud
    57 2 'Escapee' fraud BERLIN, y.-:-. _«H te. y unr.kv.i ;fl a man who c^m escaped at 5 i:::« German freigtttt Russian-made ass S nltion and Sonet ,4 EgyptRene Ms: week tshnU beaches r.e;i-B polir he aboard the German vesa. route from arms and 30 Sere: '-H Instructors '■'■^'M He later i""''''
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    Lock icon SUEZ AIRLIFT IRKS MALTA
    264 3 promises to 1 gite full co-operation after talks on island MALTA, Monday. tut Prime Minister of Malta, Mr. k al f n l ff forcibly cut the British-licensed P*" j /Rpdiffusion) off the air yesterday Pj^r Suez policy with the British ritif!i< this action when the
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    Lock icon Russia, U.S. in film festival
    62 3 VENICE, Mon.— Ten nations, including the U.S. and Russia, have entered a total of 14 films In the 17th international film festival here from Aug. 28 to Sept 8. The countries taking part are: U.S. (two films), Russia (one), Japan (two), Spain (one), Germany (one,)
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    Lock icon LICE FIRE AGAIN IN RIOTERS
    137 3 1 students go protest strike fijABAD. Mon ZL fired at violent Sistrators in two H this city this %n as riots L again. There n0 immediate £t s of casualties. g :r. protest against JW H people UtbflM days of If Ahmcdabad *<t the setting
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    fact signed
    11 3 ÜBTA.Mon Indone- Rasia today signed kipwment but details dis-
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    Lock icon BRITANNIA TOURS AMERICA
    44 3 DON. Mon. -The fijrgest airliner, the «Wned turbo-prop Brlstem 100. left London i?!il^North America. Before take-off Mr. Peter Mansfield, managing director of Bristol Aircraft Company, said it was hoped to sell Britannia's worth US$2OO million to main United States airlines. Reuter.
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    Lock icon French release journalist who met rebels
    84 3 PARIS, Mon. Madame Claude Gerard, French Journalist and resistance heroine charged with violating the external security of the state, was released on ball yesterday. She was arrested In Paris In May after the publication of an article in a French weekly magazine In which
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    Lock icon Luxury yacht sabotaged
    57 3 KYRENIA, Mon A bomb explosion today sank a luxury yacht owned by Captain Charles Worthington, chief of the British security detail assigned to protect the Governor of Cyprus Sir John Harding. There were no casualties. Investigators said the bomb had been placed next to the bull below
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    Lock icon Football chief badly hurt
    45 3 ZURICH, Mon. Mr. Ernst Thommen, vice-president of I the International Federation of Football Associations, was severely Injured in a car accident between Basle and here last night. He was driving with his wife when their car collided with another vehicle. Reuter.
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    Their Singapore trip is delayed EIGHT LITTLE FORCES WAIT FOR A SHIP
    77 3 Their Singapore trip is delayed EIGHT LIT TLE FORCES WAIT FOR A SHIP SK *£££w* ET st ff Serjeant Arthur F? i.^,*!;' was on her way with their family to join him in Singapore when the troopehip Dnnera was ordered to return to Southampton Ftom the left ire S»-jJ" 16.
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    Syria drafts women for the army
    104 3 DAMASCUS, Mon. Syria yesterday announced a na-tion-wide call-up of civilians including women. They win go into military camps for 30 days of training "to defend the Arab nation against the existing foreign threat," the Ministry of Defence announced. The draft will start In a
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    Lock icon 11 Britons off to China
    56 3 LONDON, Mon. An allparty group of 11 members of both Houses of Parliament left London airport today on then- way to Peking via Copenhagen and Moscow. They are to stay in China for three weeks as guests of the Chinese Institute of Foreign Affairs. There
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    Lock icon Crash death
    29 3 BRENDENBURY (Canada), Mon. One man was kilted and at least five others injured yesterday In a twotrain collision here, some 230 miles northeast of Moose Jaw. U.P.
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    Lock icon 500,000 battle to save Harbin
    178 3 Floods reach record levels HARBIN, Northeast China, Monday jLIORE THAN 500,000 people are battling to save ITA this Industrial city from the threatening floodwaters of the Sungari River. Already dykes in the northern suburbs have been breached and an area of about 14 square miles
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    LONDON STOCKS
    258 3 LONDON. Mon. CTOCK markets resumed very P quietly following the weekend developments In the Sues situation but conditions generally were steadier than at the end of last week. Prices mostly moved within narrow limits but small gains predominated In some sections at the clow, following a llttks support
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    Lock icon Adlai faces election setback
    198 3 Adlai faces election setback pHICAGO, Mon.— The possibility of a deadlock between Mr. Adlai Stevenson and Governor Averell Harriman and the emergence of a "dark hone" as the Democrats' presidential candidate faced party leaders today at the opening of the annual nominating convention here. According to an authoritative poll last
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    China attacks Press ban
    59 3 HONO KONG, Mon. A Chinese newspaper yesterday accused the United States of dropping Its own "iron curtain" by refusing to allow American correspondents to visit the mainland. The Kwangming Dally, of Peking, said the State Department's decision shows "that its slander and rumours about China will
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    Lock icon He advised the Duke
    43 3 LONDON. Mon.— The death of Sir Albert Allen, legal adviser to the Duke of Windsor at the time of his abdication as King Edward vm. was announced today. Sir Albert, 68, died on Friday In a London hospital.— A.P.
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    End-strike call
    29 3 JAKARTA, Mon. The Central Labour Mediation Board today ordered 3,300 striking workers of the Dutch-owned Deli Railway Co. in East Sumatra to return to work.— U. P.
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    This 'happy birthday' message will make history
    145 4 This 'happy birthday' message will make history JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. TOR the first time in the history of Johore, all the communities in the State will present a joint congratulatory address to the Sultan, who will be 83 on Sept 17. In previous years the different communities had always offered
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    Money, money...
    17 4 Money to circulation In Malaya to August totalled $929,--770,503, $38,116,010 Of which was to coins.
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    TAXI DRIVER: I WAS FORCED INTO CAR AFTER ACCIDENT
    199 4 A TAXI DRIVER who came into a collision with xx another car was set upon by two men and forced into their car, a Singapore court was told yesterday. In the dock were Chan Tan Fatt and Chan Peng Kee. accused
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    'ACCUSED GAVE ME $1,000 TO KEEP SILENT ON MURDER'
    360 4 says witness GUPPAN KATHIRAVELU, car cleaner, altefed in a Singapore court yesterday that he wa§ given $1,000 not to report a nnrder. Kathlravelu was leauiying at we preliminary Inquiry into a caae in which Sulalman bin Habib it charged with murdering
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    He comes from a family ot fighters
    97 4 He comes from a family ot fighters UECT.-GKNERAL Sir Francis Festlng, new Com-mander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, comes of a family of fighting men, which in the last three generations has produced three generals. His grandfather was Sir Francis Festing and his father was Brigadier General Fes Mag, who served
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    JOHORE BoHRU,
    76 4 IQOlL^^mOlili iifgi |Msj rain eMM tlmhtA throash paddles here today |c peer tat* cam and even their fcoeta aa rain hammered down on the hoods of vehicles. Federation travellers returnta* from Singapore grahhad their parcels and raced to the shelter of the Cmstoms boildlnrto be made without ■hotter
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    Tattoo war: Police 'no' to union
    116 4 Tattoo war: Police 'no' to union QINOAPORS police will not £> be deterred from continuing with their lawful duties to combatting secret society ecttvitiea. This was made dear by the police to a letter to the Traction Company Employees' Union, a police spokesman told the Straits Times yesterday. It was
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    AIRPORT FIREMEN
    59 4 After 12 months, of negotiations, the Singapore Government has agreed to revise salaries of airport flre-flght-ing personnel. The secretary of the Department of Civil Aviation Workers' Union, Mr. Lee Tong Mto. said last night that leading firemen, firemen drivers and firemen would get Increments ranging from $14 to
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    Librarian off to U.S.
    58 4 Librarian off to U.S. Mr. Chua Whye Hong, of the United States Information Service library to Singapore, will leave for America by air on Thursday for a three-month orientation tour. An old boy of the AngloChlnese School, Mr. Chua was a shipping clerk before he joined UJBJJS. to 1960 as
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    Any grouses?
    39 4 The Tek* Ayer branch of the Singapore Labour Front will resume Its "meet the people" sessions at 84-B Cross Street, from S pan. to 9 pjn. every Thursday.. The Education Minister, Mr. Chew Swee Kee will preside
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    Witness fatted to appear
    53 4 m JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Mr. f Oorbally. presidenT of Bahru Sessions Court, today issued a warrat.of.arrert for Lie* Wan for failing to attend court as a prosecution witness. He was to appear to a Customs case to which Tan Chee Tee is charged with Importing 19
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    Co-op party
    32 4 JOHORK BAHRU. Mon. The Johore Bahru District Farmers' Co-operative Marketta*: Society will celebrate the opening of its premises in Jalan Ah rook tomorrow with a party beginning at 9 ajn.
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    AUNT MATILDA, 80, SAYS HELLO TO THE BRIDE
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    Now a man to check hotel vice
    130 4 Now a man to check hotel vice rl Singapore Social Welfare Department has appointed a full-time officer to keep a tighter check on the activities of hotels to the Colony. The appointment of this officer. Mr. S. T. Ratnam, follows the Government's recent Introduction of regulations designed to maintain better
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    Colombo award
    24 4 TAIPINO. Mon. Mr. Pakianathan of Taipinjr has teft for Britain on a Colombo Plan scholarship. He will study engineering: at London University.
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    46 will meet—to choose a bishon
    187 4 46 will meet— to choose a bishon hv»iiiha acMsgßieg irom Malaya. Burma. Bumatra and Sarawak are meeting: in Singapore this week to choose a new bishop to succeed Dr. Raymond L. Archer as bead JESS'S!? Oh "w ta The delegates among: whom ministers and laymen are equally represented, are attending
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    Five men face the music
    318 5 oJS NAME AMOHO THE COMPETITOR* LAHRY AOLER I^jjjreadful SGBS LISTEN ft 45 ANTHEM CONTEST TUNES KI \LA LUMPUR, Monday. IS faced men, including the Chief rl Tpneku Abdul Rahman, sat in a Mio Malaya today and listened critic- f the 80 entries received for the
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    AN TO TRAIN MEN FOR SKILLED JOBS
    67 5 Spore Pn l UniOnists and representatives of eenng bui Wing and transport ?tr^inS r /m W t0 study the Possibility of sen are mwjgfgj" al the skilled trades. they reP* and employed |X: sho rtag? 1Vi of tpe cv committees bit*?** ali^ is
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    Army OK HATED BOKING.
    145 5 Army OK HATED BOKING. ;GA PORE court yesterday Zlt an Army prirate George fto one year's because his I cooking led -sei' without >r ife days; ;.-v an order yj ha;:; and j Rrtb of equip- a the Army ■i corps, attached V 3r. the Queen's w. Regiment, has yen-
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    Brains trust on youth problems
    54 5 A brains trust on the problems of youth will be held at the Katong branch of the Labour Front— l 33 Koon Seng Road at 8 p.m. today. The Minister for Health, Mr. A. J. Brasa, and the Deputy Speaker. Mr. R. C. H. Urn,
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    Fingerprint children? M.I.C. man terms school plan 'disgrace'
    108 5 Fingerprint children? M .I.C. man terms school plan 'disgrace' IPOH. Mon.— The first protest against the proposed fingerprinting of children to be registered for admission to schools has been raised by the Perak branch of the Malayan Indian Congress. "It is a disgrace to society, as the children are not
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    Bosses urged: Use the exchange
    281 5 And Lim tells workers: It's no farce A CALL to employers to make greater use of the r% free services of the Government's employment exchange was made in Singapore yesterday by the Minister for Labour and Welfare, Mr. Lim Yew Hock. On Sunday at a
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    Sampanmen ask Lim to interveue
    88 5 Sampanmen ask Lim to interveue G ING APORE 'S motor samM panmen yesterday took their troubles to the Chief Minister, Mr. Urn. Yew Hock. They told him why they considered they should not be compelled to carry full safety equipment, as required under the regulations. Twice previously the Minister for
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    MOTHER. 22, JUMPED INTO THE SEA WITH 2-MONTH BABY AND 3-YEAR-OLD BOY
    95 5 M OTHER. 22, JUMPED INTO THE SEA WITH 2-MONTH BABY AND 3-YEAR-OLD BOY A 22-YEAR-OLD MOTHER. Phua Chye Jean pleaded guilty in Singapore yesterday to a charge of attempting suicide by jumping into the sea off Sembawang Road on Sunday afternoon. Phua was in court with her sons. Tan !>oon
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    New home for mission school
    65 5 New home for mission school BISHOP Raymond L. Archer. •L* retiring head of the Methodist Church in South-East Asia, yesterday laid the foundation stone of the new $750,000 Anglo-Chinese School building In Coleman Street Singapore. He received a silver trowel from the architect, Mr. Ng Keng Slang, for the ceremony.
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    STRIKER FAMILIES TOLD TO QUIT
    185 5 STRIKER FAMILIES TOLD TO QUIT 'THE strike-bound Fred x Waterhouse Qompany in Singapore has warned families of 100 strikers occupying the company quarters to vacate them by Thursday. Notice* posted at the doors of the quarters said court proceedings would be taken if 'they did not quit. The company's 250
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    Wins world trip
    45 5 Mercedes Talt, 24-year-old air stewardess, who was chosen Miss Speedblrd 1956 in competition with other 8.0.A.C. girls, left London Airport iast Tuesday on a round-the-world flight. She will arrive in Singapore on Sunday. The trip Is part of her Miss Speedbird prize-
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    Cyclist killed in accident
    35 5 Koh Kirn Ann, 15, wasl fatally injured when he was hit by a lorry while cycling in Changl Road, Singapore, yesterday. Koh died in the hospital shortly after he was admitted.
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    DEATHS
    112 6 i 20 Word, $lt (minimum). MR. KARUNAKARAN Who Was a Clerk in The Central Police Station passed away at The General Hospital on 12.8.58. He was cremated in Hindu Cemetery in the Presence of Superintendent Mr. E. j. LlnseU Area-l, His Subordinate Officers and clerks *ho helped financially V
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    150 6 23 Word, %1$ (minimum). MR. MRS. WALTER DIAS cordially thank all Relatives, Friends who Attended, Assisted and gave Valuable Presents on the Occasion of their Wedding. LIM CHOON LOCKE and Family gratefully thank all Relatives and Friends who attended the Funeral of his beloved Wife, sent Wreaths and Messages
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    29 6 20 WonU $1» (minimum). COULD ANYONE KINDLY Inform me of the Address or Whereabouts of Jennie Sim Say Eng, my wife. Contact Lim Kens Hock, Chartered Bank, Seremban.
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    The Straits Times. Spore, Tues. Aug. 14, 1956. Nasser Soft Pedals
    588 6 The Straits Times. Spore, Tues. Aug. 14, 1956. Nasser Soft Pedals Since Colonel Nasser was not expected to accept the three-Power invitation to a conference on the administration of the Suez Canal it is to other passages in his two week-end statements that attention most profitably turns. Principally Egypt's President
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    Not So Madly
    353 6 American pundits who have been gaily predicting that the Democratic Convention would go madly for Adlai must now consult their crystal balls once again. Up to last Saturday all the portents pointed to a landslide for Mr. Stevenson at Chicago. Mr. Kefauver*s h»"«*fyn'e guj.. render after his
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    HI-Advised
    223 6 The Malayan Trade Union Council was ill-advised to launch an attack on the Sultans in its memorandum to the Reid Commission. The result has been strong protests from many Malay trade unionists, who have threatened to resign and form a rival organisation. The secretary of the Penang division of
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    REMEMBER PU
    1039 6  -  David Chipp OiK« ho was big now*. Ho wot tho Son H*avn, ft* Emptor p§ Mamhukt-", fh% pupp^f of Japan. Today th* Itut at Mancbu •mpmrors Iht In a priMom ttmdylng Monism tmd rmpwtfing M* sins. And Iw Us roam hrnngs a portrait of Moo 'THE last of
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    CAN ANOTHER SUEZ BE DUG?
    234 6 IS the Saex reauy indispensahie? Lord HoreBelisha has proposed that a second canal should be dog 4h*s«gh non Egyptian torrttsty. He. and others, made the same proposal roan ago. One suggestion was for a •anal from Haifa via the Dfad Sea to the Gulf of
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      285 6 g. pROFESSOR T. H. Silcock of tee University of Malaya was reported in s tee Straits Times as having said teat tee fixing of a E Pan Malayan minimum wane scale would be futile s at tee present time. He f urE teer stated teat just ralsE
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      Six buses for 5000
      158 6 Six buses for 5000 fIPHB STC Bus Service No. M (Airport-Raffles Qu«p > j« Inadequate, espefor the following reasons: 1. There are more ttian S OO people llTlns around MacPherson Road, Sennett state, Happy Garden, Kampong MeNlece, Aljunled gjjj and New Airport SL Only six buses serve fete route, three
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      customer is never right
      110 6 customer is never right T RECENTLY received an offer to compound a traffic offence with a fine of $10. The offence, for which I then gave an explanation, was parking within 20 ft of a junction. Rather than go to court. which mear.: i off from wtm a ring fttrttaa
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    Girl; ' I wanted job he offered marriage'
    664 7 Girl; I wanted job he offered marriage' W^tj^ji^ tM Mend (52) ACCUSED OF USING FORCE TO EMBRACE M kiss HER IN HIS HOUSE L.4CCA. Mon. 5 in the Map*Lj the manager Seal firm. *h» m U her h J7j«ed and Sher.andbegJto marry him tcret- ffC Pavanaris me before f g
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    I was with my girl, he tells court
    287 7 MAN ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING rwfßO KNO BEE, 25, of Kota Bharu, accused of ab- ducting a Chinese millionaire and firing a revolver at three police officers in Woodlands Road on March 23, denied the charges in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. Teo
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    New members
    31 7 Mr. Chang Sow Thy* and Mte Helen Kboo have been I appointed to replace Mrs. A. W. Perera and Miss Alice Chia on the Singapore Nurs- < ing Board. i
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    'He begged me to say that I would marry him some
    220 7 She then alleged that Acton knelt down, lifted her dress and kissed her thighs again. He also lifted her up and kissed her neck, she said. "He begged me to say 1 would marry him some day," Miss Pavanarls
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    'Code book case' trader is cleared
    131 7 'Code book case' trader is cleared LIM BAK HONG, of Bencoolen Street, was acquitted in the Singapore First Criminal District Court yesterday of four charges under the Exchange Control Ordinance. Mr. J. W. D. Ambrose, the judge, agreed with the submission of Mr. M. B. Brash, defending, that there was
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    Discussions an detainee
    64 7 A five-man delegation from the Singapore Trades Union Congress met the Chief Minister, Mr. Urn Yew Hock, yesterday to discuss the detention of Tan Lay Boon, an official of the Army Civil Service Union. Tan, chairman of the 40 Base Workshop branch of the A.CJ3.U., faces detention
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    HIS LONELINESS MELTED LIKE ICE CREAM
    93 7 HIS LONELINESS MELTED LIKE ICE CREAM A LITTLE BOY, atone in a strante city that could mean a lot of tears and bottler, flhigapogs officials of Garuda Airways decided So when they found no one at the airport to meet Mohamet Asoad Mn Ha* Baifirtwi. aged five, from Indonesia, tbey
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    Tax woman
    29 7 Miss Lucy Chen and 27 men have been appointed to the Income Tax Board of Review. The chairman of the Board Is Mr. R. H. Green. i
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    One of these seven may be typical Singapore cutie
    165 7 LIPS mrgf 1 reporter John Porter, who Is looking for a beautiful woman typical of Singapore has found seven candidate* for the title. Three are Malay, three Eurasian and one Chinese. llTporter told the Straits Times ye«terday: "Atleast one to 10
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    DISPUTE OVER NEW DUTY SETTLED
    150 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. AN AGREEMENT was reached today by the Customs Department and chambers of commerce on the controversial "open market value" customs duty on Imports into the Federation. A spokesman of the FJfJB. Chamber of Commerce said that details were to be worked out.
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    POLICE TOLD—THEN SHE SAW IT WAS A TRIVIAL MATTER
    522 7 POLICE TOLD— THEN SHE SAW IT WAS A TRIVIAL MATTER that ever happened to me before. "When he took me to his house, there was nothing to stop me from running out to the road. My home Is about half a mile from his. "But I was frightened and did
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    FRONT HANS
    55 7 $200,000 BUILDING The Singapore Front, wfak* has a «oenma office In the Bank of China Buildint. is plan-three-storey head quarters. The bnOtHnc will be available to all "democratic ■CKTiiit— tl— a," Front ■Boi— nan told the Straits Time* last night. To raise money for the project, the Front
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    10,000 TO STRIKE FORA DAY
    131 7 10,000 TO STRIKE FORA DAY KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Ten thousand estate workers In Selangor will go on a one-day stoppage on Wednesday In support of the 180 strikers at the Seaport Estate, ten miles west of here. The workers, members of the Selangor branch of the National Union of Plantation
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    Film shows in comfort
    48 7 Members of the Singapore Film Society will soon be able to see all their films in airconditioned comfort. The society has made arrangements to use the airconditioned hall of the Singapore Council for Adult Education's new building, which is nearing completion at Canning Rise.
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    Gunners lose
    40 7 a gun The Singapore Regiment, Royal Artillery, at Blakang Mati has lost a rifle. An army spokesman told the Straits Times yesterday that the loss occurred during an operation by a unit of the regiment In the Federation.
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    TWO STUDY AWARDS OFFERED
    61 7 The Sheu Company In Malaya win award two scholarships annually for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering at the University of Malaya. One of these scholarships Is open to all candidates entering the coarse and the other Is open to Malay candidates. Applications should
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    Fashion favours luxury
    188 8 LONDON, August 13. Latest fashion accent In the top London collections Is on the complete ensemble, from head to toe. There are only few long ball-gowns in the collection of London's top 12 designers, but short evening dresses are seQulned, studded and draped, made of velvet, satin,
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    FOR GRAND OCCASIONS
    52 8 This fabulous evening dress was designed by Julie Harris for blonde film star Belinda Lee. It is pink lace-re-embroider-ed in gold, over pink chiffon. Spanish influence is strong in this dramatic dress also by Julie Harris. The sheath gown of black taffeta curves away to show billowing
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    Mumps are quite popular with young children
    465 8  -  Chritine w *r MONDAY WHAT delights me most about our city is the unexpectedness of things. Today at lunchtlme we hear the strains of a flute from the garden and looking down we see two men. One has a bag over his arm
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    Local wood has beaut
    183 8 TOE rich beauty of Malayan t I A flooring in the home &>> fr. *1 interest for the home-low c of Exhibition at The Happy wL* 1 c IS^H Samples of the parquet™-!! 01^ '-h: l^M in such lovely timbers as balau, kempas, mengkulang and melawis
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      47 8 buy them one or two at atirM do you know I m I I as low as t^ \JL a month I YOU CAN BUY 1 VsjHCER SEWING MACHINE I I dK^^iMMildlflßKk ii I IBfll Bfl mj l^^^g^i^*^ B 9 A THAOI MARK OF TNI SINCU M*NO»*C
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      122 8 Straits Times Crossword ACBOBB v Uttte pvpow in b«mH* workT 10 Pool's game? StombUng block l a^\ fMaiM 1 mMkm bof "r^rsr 1 »swrig? a. 14 Sob aid on Icy dope rt). Sf LJS^SLJSI;-* m 16 Pack point to potet (4). X Sjffiitaff^iL ,!n* 11 Wordnrarib'a lambs bound aa ISSLK?
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    Lock icon STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE Russia hired him to fight his countrymen
    1021 9 STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE Russia hired him to fight his countrymen r MASTER M MIND OF M v CRIME f rfififi coaih f > one j 1804. S« nther <7r Jno money lor Sn»rv fare and a was head-i f 2 military com- *:.>„, entire city. ft IBS by tM
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    The fabulous career of an impoverished Count who became the lover of the Czar's mistress.
    345 9 was cousin by marriage to the two brothers. The Duke had served hi the Russian army since 1790, when he first fled the revolution. In 1804. he was GovernorGeneral of the huge province rf New
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      359 9 QUICK-FROZEN STRAWBERRIES SWEET AND LUSCIOUS j f Birds Eye feeing you delicious red-ripe strawberries their fresh L goodness captured by quick-freezing. Gathered at the peak of perfection, the strawberries with all their fresh* flavour are rushed to f the Birds Eye quick-freezing plant. They don't have a chance to get
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      51 9 if ex Morgan. MM. The visitors Dick Tracy V<'. attack Ace O'Hara A »»*r*ti*"> H| Lt> i %J H*Vc^ I Ptjf^yy^iJ S&V&b^a^—— l^^^a^ tf^m CMPTV** 6a?lJM>9* y-f"^ -J^^^^-^^^S^^L-^X I J 6-» bPB/\V V''""'''''^b» *""^^^ll< O»U*"* *^m I VC^ V D jISZ ▼Xl Mat^aH 9^3^ar^aV UiOOl rt |.j. i a iaa
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    77 10 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS ITTTnWiIfBWXB w«r» price on th* Stock Bwbaafe Bfcr* ggy. Mtolngs were aettfa^ jarOcularly urantama but wrafl prices moved variably. Loans w«ra sliahthr easier. Sau»4 ltM-M fft» 3J/33. Loans 3% IM-U «t» 33^U Con. Zmc nnajioton BmnkofMJßwW SM% M-mtl**.. H. Broken HW U*/» Bin so w* M«mt Morgan 3./3J
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    RUBBER PRICES
    123 10 BSJIVBJB7B S^KcBV 181 Easlßsßpni^pßßrw yeaterday at 103% canto per down 1% canto on Satanaya claa> lt %£T3iatoc toa» waa attghUy Ctastng nriees m cents par tt. yesterday were:-No. 1 RJSjS. Spot fjo.b. buyers 103. sellers 103%; Ko. 1 RJSJS. Sept buyers 103%, sellers 103%; Mo. 1 BJSJB. Oct.
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    154 10 pore narb—i Beard wharves er anaatol taamy an: Canton 1-3, City of Ottawa 4-5, Kyova Man CP.. Tlmegara 6-f. Sunda 8-8, Wonosarl 11, Patrodus 11-14, Amerskerk 16-16, Ceylon 16, feu Mara 19-30, Serampang N. Wall 3. Sedili N. WaU 4, Petallng N.VsU 6. BstreUa del Amor 31-33, Proycon 33-34,
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    ALL COLONY MARTS OPEN WEEK ON QUIET NOTE
    655 10 ALL COLONY MARTS OPEN WEEK ON QUIET NOTE By Our Market Correspondent ALL Colony markets opened the week yester day on a quiet note with no particular f ea tores in evidence and operators generally con fused on the latest developments in the Sue? crisis. No pointer was available as
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    111 10 MriKJM Battaag* Banks "■■■ilitliii made the 1 oUowtag <*»7*H <& Ita ntea to mercbanU yeatatOay:— »rw Tee*: boytog airmail; T.T. "IW^OD. tt *****, 90 d|«t 83% credit Wlla. n 15U6 trad* bUla. Ca— in: buylns airmail- TT ■ofltag T.T. or O.D. ttmij: New Tanks? 5|16; Caamia 31%; Swiss
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    KOMBOK OFFER
    50 10 TMBOKfI of Kombok (P.M.8.) Rubber aimoiinoie that an offer taM been received (or the purchaae oTth* company's Kombok Mat*, at R*nUu, Negrl Sembltan. aa gotog oonoero. Btockholden will be advised of MtoMd detaila within the next taw «>e Dacembar Si balance sheet t»T* ttw oaUto value of £U5,T75.
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      465 10 NOTICES NOTICE Notice is hereby given that W. H. Brennan 4j Co. Ltd. are not •aaociated with H W. Hooper Company of Plantation House. Fenchurch Street, London E.C. 3 as stated in the 1955/1858 issue of the straits Times DirectoryW. H BRENNAN CO. LTD., Chartered Bank Chambers, Singapore. Renewed Zest
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      398 10 NOTICES FOR SALE BY TsUaMDR PARTICULARS OF ATBABA ESTATE. punted before IMS sesdttnf 15» acres UM/1940 Bodded/Clonal seed 1M Total Mstur. M 1710 H Imssatarri: Planted 1950 Budded M acres 1994 61 111 i Total Planted lCtf Beads, sites Reaerv es, etc 3» UM j Less: T.OX.'s Planted 18 acres
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      823 10 NOTICES uammmmtMtm of Malaya). NOTIC* SB HBRBBT OOVEM that a dividend, the fortieth, of one shffilng and Uueepenra S, 3d.) per share, leas income at the rate of thirty ncr cent, baa been declared due andpayable to aha—hold— a on the register at the Mth August, l»M,,in respect of the
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      330 10 TENDERS I TENDERS INVITED PBOVISION. INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE OF A CONTINUOUS TKANSLATION SYSTEM IN THE MALACCA SETTLEMENT COUNCIL f a~»— ■>_ MALACCA Tenders are invited for tbe provision. Installation and maintenance of a continuous translation system in the Malacca Settlement Council Chamber. Malacca. Detailed specification may be obtained from tbe
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      454 10 Announce the inauguration of M EXPRESS Service from Sinnlll 25 DAYS to LIVERPo I via GENOA, MARSEILLES, TANgiqH nlso calling ANTWERP, ROTTEBD«B BREMEN, HAMBURG. I M/ 8 "SAGAMI MARU" loading Singapore 10-l2s-_g_j M/S "BATSUMA MARU" 10 12 1 M/S "SANUKI MARU" io., 2^'J M/S "BADO MARU" !0. 123t 8 AND
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      804 11 mm '-■'ilk ood/or Par loot PANAMA nO 9 S<HOm SUMRAWA '"Z7Z /l?Al IV»»Ah -iUTLANOIA- o'bJZ-1 "/"Aob "t^KHLA- V 4*" »/I»aopt IVUSopt IS/14 Sapt Spof* P. Shorn panong CaoaraJ AaaoH tar SCANDINAVIAN AIRUNIS mTW AMIRICAII lfc p J l HH l>lanp PRIIIDENT ORANT 11/90'%1! P S<hOm .fS?"? P.WO.HT P,LLM«. „Jg K
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      833 11 MeAUSTER cfc CO»» LTD. Tos»t Ha.i 2RS4I and tor OiA, North Atlantic Ports liiijtiiaj ooaja far Cstiol ft Seatk l B lj B uliat i~iliaaai»»i Aass^aaol^uak •no wSflßsMai via votoniDO asnrjm CITY OP OTTAWA tVNNTVHU r pora p. S'hom Panang S>pra P. S'hom Panang Odf.4-(/14 Ah IS/17 AH 14/24 Aob
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      Malaya trade value highest for five years
      586 12 J)ESPITE an easier price for rubber at the beginning of the year the Malayan economy, in the six months January to June, has proved remarkably buoyant with the best trade figures recorded since the first half of 1951. It is only now possible
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      JAPANESE BANKER FORECASTS MORE TRADE
      173 12 JAPANESE BANKER FORECASTS MORE TRADE r iADE between Japan and 1 Malaya will increase when the Bank of Tokyo opens its branch in the Colony, a representative of the bank, Mr. Yasuo Ishii. predicted yesterday. Mr. Ishii said that the branch. which will begin business in January, weald give every
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      German finds we only buy what is best
      314 12 German finds we only buy what is best \|R. CARL SCHT.TEPER, the owner of a West GeriTA man private concern, The Firm of Carl Schlieper, one of the world's biggest manufacturers of tools and cutlery, yesterday described the Malayan market as "most discriminatory." Mr. Schlieper, who first came to South
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      A.P.L'B newest ship in huge programme due
      286 12 AM*. N.E. Bspey, managing 1»1 director. Southeast Asia, for American President Lines announced in Singapore yesterday that the President Adams newest ship in A.P.L-S $825,Mf MO replacement programme is due in the Colony on her maiden voyage on August 24. Like her sister-ships
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    716 13 FA League begins on Saturday By J. A. BAIN r TBE Test series may be the topic of the day Just now among; British sports fans bat soon cricket is going to be forgotten amidst the excitement of the preparations for a new football season.
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    174 13 OLYMPIC TRIALS MOSCOW, Mbn. PERFORMANCES of athletes in the Sparta Had, the Russian Olympic trials here, were considered unsatisfactory by sports writers in yesterday's Soviet Press. Mr. K. A. Andrlanoy chairman of the Soviet Olympic Committee, writing in Pravda, paid tribute to those who had
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    139 13 DRROrr Hon. M RS PAT McOORMIGK eomiTi pletod a "double" In the VS. Olympic swimming trials when she won the final of tfie women's higbboard diving bare yesterday. Mrs. McCormlck. who earlier this week won the springboard, was first hi both evente In the 1062
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    281 13 THE FIRST seven members x of Japan's 1956 Olympic men's swimming team were named today but the selection of 10 -others was postponed because of slow times In the national The seven were' announced after 2% hours of haggling by officials at the end of
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    Second win for Indians
    37 14 Indians beat Europeans 3-1 to gain their second win in the SAFA Community League at Jalaa Besar stadium yesterday. Scorers were S. Krishnan. Mahesa and Narayanan for Indians; Van der Meij for Europeans.
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    ONG WILL NOT DEFEND TITLE
    516 14 MALAYAN TBHMB IRUS AT MBBCY Of «YUMT« 'HITAOIBB' Hee Chin and Gladys are also absentees By OUR TENNIS REPORTER rrHE Malayan champion, Ong Chew Bee, will not be A defending his title at the forthcoming Lawn Tennis Association of Malaya championships at Penang on August
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    ENG YOON SPRINGS A SURPRISE
    109 14 ENG YOON SPRINGS A SURPRISE From HALL ROMNEY LONDON, Mon. SINGAPORE athlete Tan Eng Toon sprang a big surprise when he won the 229 yards low hurdles event for English Universities in a match with the Amateur Athletic Association and Combined Services here on Saturday. Eng Toon won in 25.9
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    74 14 GOALKEEPER HAMAD RUSHES OUT TO SAVE AN AWKWARD SITUATION Hamad Amat, Harbour Board Boys' Club goalkeeper, rushes out to clear while a Pasir Panjanf Boys Club forward (right) makes an attempt to stop the ball— an incident in the soccer match between Harbour Board B.C. and Pasir Panj»ng B.C. on
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    Richardson scalps his fourth Australian
    294 14 Richardson scalps his fourth Australian SOUTH ORANGE (New Jersey), HAM RICHARDSON, 22-year-old Rhodes scholar from Westfleld, New Jersey, took only 65 minutes yesterday to beat Australia's Neale Fraser 6-3, 6-3, 6-2 and capture the Eastern Grass-Court tennis crown. This made Richardson as the "scourge" of the Australians in this tourney.
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    457 14 The entries for the Malayan tennis championships are: MEN'S SINGLES R. D. H. Farthing. R. Ferdinands, B. L. Pinto, S. A. Adzman. D. R. Clarkson. G. T. Holloway. S. Karalak. Anek Duangudom, Ketje Sudarsona. Tan Liep Tjiauw Ling Liong Ching. Kwok Yoke Yen. A. G. B. Pakir,
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    84 14 LONDON, Mon.— County cricket tea scores: At Oval. Middlesex 69 and 37 for four. Surrey 176 for nine dccL (Warr four for 32). At Cheltenham, Sussex 264 (Cook five for M). Gloucestershire M for six. At Lord*, Royal Air Force 65 for one v a Army (two-day match).
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    31 14 BUKNOS AIRXB, Mon— The Combined Oxford and Cambridge Untonitis* rugby team beat SanMdr* Athletic dub by 21 points to three here yesterday. They led 11-0 at hall time. Renter.
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    TWO WALKOVERS
    36 14 Both yesterday's S.A.F.A. Junior Cup ties were not played. Young Men Sikhs' Association pooeaded a walkover to. Boocerttea C A" at Batostler Road and BXB. Police gave a walkover to Bedok B.C. at Oeylang.
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    HEAH CUP BADMINTON
    90 14 IPOH, Moo-Seven ititu have entered for tlw first women tatter•tote badminton for the Heah Joo Seang Cup The competition will be run on the name line, as .the Foonc Seong Cup. The draw: Nerth soae: Kedah v FWU| at Alor Btar. winners to ■wet Parak (bye) at
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    CAN A BOWLER'S CAP BE A DISTRACTION?
    419 14 By OUR CRICKET REPORTER m Fwhat happened last Sunday was all in dead earnest there Is more character in Singapore cricket than ssJSr* been led »eiieve. Can a batsman object to a bowler wearme his cap while hnwltno-o Dowimg. This question arises from
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    180 14 The objection would have been good, I imagine, if Perera was wearing a very loose cap and If the peak flapped so much as he ran in to bowl that it could be a distraction. And it could conceivably be a "distraction" if, for example, the cap was
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    200 14 AUSSIES GAIN Ist INNINGS LEAD OVER DERBYSHIRE DERBY, Monday. A SPLENDID display of controlled pace bowling by £X Ray Lindwall, who took seven for 40, was mainly responsible for the Australian cricketers gaining a first innings lead of 35 runs over Derbyshire on the second day of their
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