The Straits Times, 23 August 1956

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    18 1 AVIT ft A €'E' 'Da The Straits Times. New***'' Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2S, 1956 15 CENTS
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    CANAL: THE BIG RIDDLE
    810 1 Last day of talks; *Who should go to Cairo?' delegates ask Will Nasser consider this 17-power plan? LONDON, Wednesday. iir Fortipi Ministers of Pakistan, Turkey. Persia j Ethiopia met today to w m proposals on how -,t should be approached enter negotiations on a for international
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    ARSITY MEN ACK FTER 30,000 TRIP
    88 1 ARSITY MEN ACK FTER 30,000 TRIP BON. V .-.x young im Oxford rsities ndon yesternd of a 30,000 to the which set a yar ago. I thi to ethf 18.000 mile over- •i s ngapore over* through the Burma and her Channel •nicies for the 1 flight across hanne] and
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    Strike is over
    7 1 »ortes -which bo harL'P.
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    Lock icon Nehru's visit
    14 1 NEW DELHI. Wed. Mr. Nehru will visit Saudi Arabia next month. Reuter.
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    Lock icon HEADHUNTERS ARE STILL ON THE RAMPAGE
    228 1 More mutilated bodies found by Jungle patrol SYDNEY, Wednesday. 'THE remains of four Papuans eaten by a tribe of headhunters were found today by a police patrol in the wild Telefomin area of New Guinea, according to reports reaching here. Two of the dead
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    BIGGER LOAN MAYBE SOUGHT
    103 1 BIGGER LOAN MAYBE SOUGHT KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, said today that the A'liance Government may ask for a loan of more than $S,«M million from Britain to finance its five-year development pi a* Besides himself and the Minister for Finance, Col. H. S. Lee, the
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    Dad's ghost breaks up a wedding
    89 1 Dad's ghost breaks up a wedding ASTI. i Italy >, Wed. The priest was at the altar and the organ playing Mendelssohn's Wedding March as Veglia Bonis, 34, entered the Grazzano Badoglio Church yesterday to wed Giuseppe Tabacchetti, 42. Suddenly the bride shouted; "My fathers ghost!" and ran out of
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    Lock icon Squatter threat
    32 1 JAKARTA. Wed. Five Dutch tobacco estates in East Sumatra may shut down next year because squatters have occupied 80 per cent of their seed lands, it was learned today U.P.
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    Lock icon Flood havoc
    26 1 LAHORE, Wed. Rainswollen rivers flooded 55,000 homes in West Pakistan today. First reports said about 70 people were killed and hundreds are missing.— U.P.
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    S.H.B. men want more pay
    53 1 About 4,000 daily-rated workers of the Singapore Harbour Board will today submit 11 demands for better pay and conditions. They want $1.75 a day wage increase, 40 days' wages as annual bonus and a housing allowance of $20 a month for those who are not
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    Lock icon Rebels raid Burmese ferry town
    82 1 Rebels raid Burmese ferry town RANGOON. Wed.— A strong force of Karen rebels were reported today to be battling garrison troops at the rail, way ferry town of Martaban at the mouth of the Salween River, opposite Moulmein in lower Burma. Two armed motorboats with army reinforcements have been sent
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    Lim ends 37-day strike in 90 mins.
    175 1 Lim ends 37-day strike in 90 mins. HE PERSONALLY TYPES THE AGREEMENT SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister and Minister for Labour, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday settled the 37-day-old Fred Waterhouse strike in 90 minutes. He personally typed out the agreement ending the dispute between the company and its 250 workers. Two
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    Lock icon Smugglers' haul
    38 1 JAKARTA. Wed. Since 1953 nearly 40,000 tons ol copra have been smuggled from Indonesian Borneo into British Borneo and in recent months the amount has been increasing, according to reports from Tarakan in Indonesian Borneo.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Cyprus offer
    32 1 LONDON, Wed. Sir John Harding, Governor of Cyprus, has announced terms of surrender for terrorists who are now prepared to lay down their arms, the Colonial Office announced tonight. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Mr. M starts the talks
    80 1 PEKING. Wed.— Mr. David Marshall, Singapore's former Chief Minister, today had talks with Mr. Yeh Chi Chuang, Chinese Minister for Foreign Trade, during which they exchanged views on future prospects of trade between China and Singapore, according to the New China News Agency. The discussion
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    Why change the country's name to Langkasuka? ask MCA and MIC
    306 1 IPOH, Wed.— Malayan Chinese Association and Malayan Indian congress circles are planning to oppose any suggestion that the name for an independent Malaya should be changed to Langkasuka. The Alliance political committee has recommended in its draft memorandum to
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    ANGRY MOB BEATS UP 2 'SCABS'
    257 1 Bagan Serai strike flare-up BAGAN SERAI, Wednesday. AN angry mob of strike sympathisers chased and x assaulted two new employees of the Red Omnibus Company, here today. Jian Singh, 38, was pursued for 200 yards along the main road, cornered and beaten with sticks
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    Man escapes from police lock-up
    91 1 Man escapes from police lock-up SEREMBAN. Wed. A PRISONER, Jantan bin Daud, escaped early this morning from the lock-up of the Seremban Police Station after breaking open an iron grating. Jantan was arrested on August 13 for alleged theft of cash from a Chinese hotel and was being detained pending
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    Lock icon Japan offers study gifts
    43 1 TOKYO. Wed. Plans to invite a group of South-east Asian students to study in Japan were approved here today by five leading Japannese universities. Entrance examinations will be held in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore and Manila during September. Reuter.
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    Lock icon STOP PRESS
    65 1 ADJOURNMENT BID KK.IF.CTKI> LONDON Wed.— Sue/ onlVn-iUe this afttrnooti refected proposal by Indian delegate Mr. Krishna Mt-non that it adjourn until tomorrow. Mr. Mellon made pl«-a that America-spon-sored proposals should not he endorsed liecaiise they would har door to negotiations with Kuypt. After adjoiirninu to consider India's attitude
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    Lock icon 4-TIMES D.S.O. FOR CYPRUS
    63 1 LONDON, Wed.— Brigadier Douglas Kendrew. one of the only eight men in British Army history who have won the Distinguished Service Order and three bars, is to be general officer command- ing the Cyprus district, from October, the War Office an. nounced last night. Brigadier Kendrew,
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    Lock icon Boston alarmed by fire scare
    141 1 Boston alarmed by fire scare DOSTON, Wed— Extra police were posted today in the wake of six incendiary nres and telephoned threats to burn every abandoned building in this city. Authorities said the flres and two false alarms that kept firefighters busy last night apparently were the work of a
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    The odd box
    65 2 NEW YORK. Wed.— America's top-paid baseball star, Ted Williams, of Boston— U.S. SlOO.OOO yearly— will show a profit on the $5,000 fine imposed on him for spitting at booing spectators. Tax laws rule the fine is a deductible business expense, so the Government loses $4,200. And fans
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    Claim to U.N.
    28 2 THE HAGUE, Wed. The Netherlands will submit Indonesia's abrogation of its payments agreement to the nest session of the U. N. General Assembly.— U. P.
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    Lock icon Ike flies in to city of political prattle and beauties in bikinis
    164 2 Ike flies in to city of political prattle and beauties in bikinis SAN FRANCISCO, Wed. President Eisenhower arrived here in his private plane yesterday to attend the Republican Party convention. Vice-President Nixon and Mr. Harold Stassen. White House department disarmament adviser who recently started a "dump Nixon" campaign, were among
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    Lock icon Same as Mamie's
    19 2 SAN FRANCISCO. Mon.— A beauty salon here Is advertising the latest Republican hairdo: "Mamie bangs."— A.P.
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    Lock icon OH DIANA..C
    148 2 OH DIANA.. C Was that party free-for-all a fake? London newspaper thinks it was LONDON, Wed. The Daily Express suggested today that Diana Dors and her husband may have staged their party plunge into their Hollywood swimming pool and the ensuing brawl as a publicity stunt. The paper printed a
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      Lock icon He slashed his wrists for an actress
      128 2 ROME, Wed. A Chinese cut his wrist with a razor during a party at the apartment of beautiful British film actress Tarrara Lees, on Monday night, police said yesterday. Charles Tse-chen. 46, formerly of Shanghai, was treated at a hospital and held for
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      Lock icon Bang goes a romantic rumour
      113 2 ROME: The Egyptian Embassy has punctured the widely published report of a romance between a teenaged English girl and the son of Egyptian President Nasser. The Embassy pointed out that Nasser's eldest son, Khald, is Just six years old. A.P. CALCUTTA: A dozen villages of
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      THE SCREAMING HANDBAG
      29 2 NEW YORK: Latest anti- snatch thief devlcn for women— an 'escort alarm" for handbags that screams like an air-raid siren at a flick of a switch.
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    Lock icon Democrats meet —and they're madly for Adlai
    99 2 DEMOCRATIC delegates from aH over the United States parade through the lobby of Chicago's National Ampitheatre proclaiming their support for Mr. Adlai Stevenson as Democratic candidate for president. Mr. Stevenson won the nomination with 910 votes. Mr. Averell Harriman, backed by ez-presi- dent
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    Lock icon Bound for tests
    24 2 ADELAIDE, Wed.— Britain's atomic energy chief, Sir William Penney, arrived today on hit way to next month's A-tests at MaraiL^ —Reuter.
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    atomic rainbow diamonds
    71 2 atomic rainbow dia monds lONDc; 1 "1 the I,*'-::' micks. D1 Th c colour h* atom-srr.a Green Produced by J gems itattS I A rainbow v What aabuto ut m No dan*.: The stones «ty rafe fe di W iUi Can the cow* passed off Phires or e«n&9 the real
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    Lock icon WINE, WOMEN and SONG JAIL
    283 3 rn^issio«»e> resign.: *8»«k ,k- out with wardresses an d one cooked books riUPALA, (Uganda), Wednesday. ,*«I1IISSION of inquiry into a "wine, I mr n md song" prison scandal yesterday •"""ndi-d dismissal of Uganda'e Comjoinm" j, rM ns an d the former superin''""""of the I anda
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    Lock icon Police censured
    42 3 RANGOON, Wed. The Government yesterday censured police, a magistrate and educational authorities for the shooting of student demonstrators whoo were protesting against a leak in scheduled seventh standard examinations on March 22. One student was killed and several injured. U.P.
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    T.B. NO MORE A MENACE, SAYS EXPERT
    82 3 'L Wrri-JTofes-ffS-r, here $rrulo^ «ay broken. hi vrars tuberi 5 bf h a itti» fearfd a> lne E dreaded rWMJ, ffTfr ,s today he uic UM mediral men ta fin countries atOTdmc «hr fourth 3 i,mati..nal ioa|TMi < r hfari and lung JHIMM
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    Pro-Nasser men freed In Pakistan
    57 3 Pro-Nasser men freed In Pakistan BiCEI Mr, Moha- mi I Mirtsrtfrl I rday order-' ase of all those nth- arrested in Karachi a regulation! sac praecsi oj and as- 1 city. It arrests started last i Karachi workers j (a strike in support of pts nationalisation of ■&i« dual bar.
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    ACTRESS WAS ALL AFLAME
    70 3 ■I Wed. a movie "a tatr. g part in the of Fire Down Be- caught fin at Elstree wJidf yesterday. MMgntted the crinoPten wo.-:, by Miss tenr. Rtaner-Carter, one '«C extras used in a carnival scene in the picture which stars Rita Hayworth and Robert Mitchum.
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    Lock icon PRESIDENT NASSER'S POLITICAL ADVISER OBSERVES' AT SUEZ CONFERENCE
    39 3 WING COMMANDER ALT SABRI (seated), chief political adviser of the Egyptian President. Colonel Nasser, is surrounded by reporters on his arrival at London to "observe" the Suez Canal conference. A.P. picture.
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    Lock icon They took wrong baby home
    147 3 They took wrong baby home A MIX-UP WITH A HAPPY ENDIH6 SUVA, Wednesday. i/TLUAME Sawamatua is an Indian with a Fijian name. Tahir Ali is a Fijian with an Indian name. They were mixed up at birth at the Colonial War Memorial hospital here. The Fijian parents took home the
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    105 not out
    24 3 MONTREAL, Wed. Mrs. William F. Rinkey, who immigrated to Canada 101 years ago from Germany, celebrated her 105 th birthday yesterday.
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    Lock icon HE HEARD TALK OF 'BIG DEAL'
    148 3 Witness at bribery hearing HONG KONG, Wednesday. A GOVERNMENT official gave evidence in court A today that he had heard William Murray Keay, then Superintendent of Mines, say he was getting HK$2O,OOO out of a certain transaction. Keay is on trial charged with corruptly
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    Lock icon BARS TO BARS
    99 3 t Drunken driver ordered to spend his nights in jail for a year CHICAGO, Wed. A father of five children was today sentenced to spend every night In jail for a year to keep him off the streets. John Flemminff 34, sentenced on two counts of drunken
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    Lock icon Ana cancels her trip to Russia
    102 3 BUENOS AIRES, Wed. ANA LEWCZUK, 17, returned here yesterday after slipping off a ship rather than go to Russia. Ana had sailed last month for Odessa with a group of Russian repatriates, but she changed her mind and slipped off the ship at Genoa.
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    Lock icon Nasser's book
    25 3 PEKING, Wed.— A Chinese translation of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's book, "The Philiosophy of Revolution," has been completed, it was announced today.—UP.
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    Lock icon Trams crash
    27 3 MILAN, Wed.— Thirty passengers were injured yesterday when two trams collided in the crowded Cordusio Square here after the failure of an automatic switch.— UP.
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    Lock icon Postponed
    20 3 LONDON. Wed. The Soviet and Japanese Foreign Ministers agreed today to postpone peace treaty talks until after September. AP.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    143 3 TIN LONDON. Wed. Cash Buyers £766: sellers £767; Forward Buyers £764; sellers £7644; Settlement £765' Turnover, a.m. 50 tons. p.m. 50. RUBBER LONDON. Wed. Spot 29d., Sept. 28 7 id.. Oct.-Dec. 28»id.. Jan-Mar 27\d., April-June 26% d.. Sept. ciX 28'<. d.. Oct. c.l.f. 28Vtd. Tone: Barely steady. Woolworth
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    Lock icon We didn't call for truce: Church
    206 3 We didn't call for truce: Church T^ICOSIA, Wed. The acting leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus denied yesterday that the church had any connection with the recent truce announcement by the EOKA terrorists. Bishop Anthimos of Kitim, who has been deputising lor Archbishop Makarios since his deportation in
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    Lock icon RED TRADER A SPY, SAY SWEDES
    124 3 RED TRADER A SPY, SAY SWEDES STOCKHOLM, Wed. PETER MIROSJNIKOV, member of a Soviet trade delegation, has left at the request of the Swedish Govment after allegations that he received secret military information from a Swedish citizen. Mirosjnikov was said to have received secret military information from Ana t o
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    Wheat wanted
    14 3 OTTAWA, Wed. Egypt wants 100,000 tons of wheat from the Western countries.
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    SARDON TO EXPATS: I HOPE YOU'LL STAY
    335 4 *Wt n—d you to •mrry mat tfalt d«velopment plarr KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Malaya win need the British expatriate officer for some time to come and those who choose to stay and serve will not regret their decision. This assurance was given today by
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    A PROVERB FOR A TERRORIST LEADER
    93 4 A PROVERB FOR A TERRORIST LEADER KULIM. Wed.— A surrendered bandit, Wong Loke San alias Lim Chim, 24, quoted a Chinese proverb in a personal message urging his former cell leader Kwok Fu and his wife Ah Heong to surrender "without delay." Wong, whose message was also addressed to his
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    I saw 'knife death' says policeman
    352 4 TWO MEN CHARGED WITH MURDERING MANDORE •CEASE AROUND FOUNDRY' A POLICEMAN told a Singapore court yesterday that he saw three men stab another man to death near the Junction of Kampong Bahru and Bukit Teresa roads on July 2. Corporal Mohamed Noor bin Ahad
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    Governor visits South Winds
    35 4 The Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, yesterday visited the Singapore AntiTuberculosis -Settlement at South Winds, Jurong. Accompanied by Lady Black, he later toured the Arrr Boys' Trade School Training Camp.
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    Teachers' fund
    27 4 The 400-strong Singapore Chinese Primary School Teachers' Association has collected $40,000 from concerts and in public donations as a welfare fund to help its members.
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    HE HIT BOSS's SON
    177 4 HE HIT BOSS's SON Court v hammer, $36 > Hi dent of thi :e SJ 1951 he in Trial ru, «P when Vcafe 1 tt| ru «of the shi »i2 The account k 1 Leo. showed V**\ excessive amou-f^JI lubricating oil i^t Ch ?n said the -v, be postponed a
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    Howlers? They're screamers
    160 4 "PCLIPSES of the son happen once in a bine moon," writes a candidate for a Telecommunications Department examination. Other (ferns from a list of bowlers given in the current issue of Mercury, the department's magazine were: A centre of gravity is because the earth is a huge
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    Lock icon Red dies in ambush
    43 4 Another e«W ALOBSTABJ-; terrorist was^ «JJ other oMdJrm when theyfllW "5 police «»«*2sn miles from the der. in Siamt* The k j since the com W-Jj, Siamese pol« opi started last AP" 1 The dead <f llW been identified.
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    Thief raids church
    9 4 1 a brass ca'- on Monday
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    Portrait talks
    6 4 DT.IJ««SSI member o. fy
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    Ipoh plans war on thugs
    64 4 IPOH, Tues.— Alliance councillors of the Ipoh and Menglembu Town Council are to discuss how to eradicate gangsterism in the town Police will be urged to take "concerted- action" aeainst th* thugs, who operate in crowded places like theatres, parks and markets. Letters have been
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    HAVE YOU SEEN HER?
    52 4 HAVE YOU SEEN HER? WONG 11 ET MEN 15, (above) I. as en missing from her home in Ipoh since last SaturdayShe is a pupil of the Aye Maria Convent and the daußhter of Mr. and Mrs Wong; Kok Chor of Leong Sin Nam Street Has anyone seen her? Straits
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    REVERSE LETTER 'R ON PASSPORT
    199 4 Re-entry permit was forged, court tik THE letter "R" written in reverse in thj 1 "passport" led Immigration officials to s that a re-entry permit was forged, a Singapore was told yesterday. Abdul Latiff bin Mohammed Noor, who arrived by air from Rangoon in Penang
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    Jailed for a year
    42 5 -U ÜBsTOfc Wed. bsHir.. 32. of Singapore. to or.c year's kR today for breaking a ltd residence order. kdden to enter klanpur, Dang, Kuala I Lar.cat. Kuala p md Din Seiancor on MM slated to have had eonvictiooti
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    Malay bank plan,hits snag
    108 5 >.tfEAK v»<,«.«x,v K -o R $5Ma wio^ct be D roP»ED I4SOS FORBWUE* TO TAKE INTEREST: sO IVTION IS SOUGHT fIjALA LI'MPUR, Wednesday. lT l0N" Malay leaders who are to start |[R i inn bank are troubled about accept- >SB a .Muslim taboo. nU r tn 'appoint
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    'White' tag for another 900
    163 5 'White' tag for another 900 KI'ALA TRENGGANU, Wed. Nine hundred people living in the nukim of lin Besut, North Trengganu. were freed from Emergency restrictions today when their 171 square mile district as declared the fifth "white" area in the state and th 41st in the Federation. There now remains
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    Farm show
    23 5 BRUNEI. Wed— The Brunei State Agriculture Department is holding its annual exhibition at the Sultan Yohamed Jtmabul-Alam Malay School on Sunday.
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    Indonesians give a snub to their Schweitzer
    255 5 Indonesians give a snub to their Schweitzer 26 YEUT DEVOTION -TKI TK BOOT THE "Dr. Schweitzer" of Indonesia has been refused a reentry permit after serving for 26 years as a medical missionary to the Dayaks of Indonesian West Borneo. He is Dr. John Bremen, of the American National Association
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    Servicemen join youth camp
    50 5 MALACCA, Wed. Three servicemen, two from the Royal Air Force and one from the Army, are among 157 delegates from Singapore and the Federation now attending the eight-day Pan-Malayan Anglican youth camp here. The servicemen took the opportunity of their local leave to attend the camp.
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    MOSQUITO RACE—IN SIX AIRLINERS
    164 5 MOSQUITO RACE— IN SIX AIRLINERS A CARGO of live mosquitoes will be flown from Singapore to Washington on Sept 4 the whole trip to take less than 45 hours. It Is a race against time. The mosquitoes, to be studied by an Army research group, will not live more than
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    Club film show
    28 5 The film, "Stage to Tuscon" will be shown by the Joo Chiat Youth Club at their Community Centre at 7 p.m. and 9.15 p.m. tomorrow.
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    A winding-up petition
    52 5 A winding-up petition A petition for the wind-lng-up of Happy Cabaret Company Ltd., Singapore, has been filed by Mr. Ng Kirn Lee, sole proprietor of Chop Ban Seng, of Joo Chiat Road, to whom the company owes $1,42 on a judgment debt. The petition will come up for hearing on
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    Phone lines cut
    18 5 KOTA TINGGI. Wed. Terrorists yesterday cut telephone wires for half a mile ontheKota Tinggi-Mer-slng Road.
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    Higher studies
    27 5 SITIAWAN, Wed.— Mr. P. Swamy, son of late Dr. S. parampalam. leaves here on Aug 31 f° r Britain for oneyear post-graduate course in dentistry.
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    $600 WHATISIT? — IT WILL SURELY CATCH THE EYE AT THE FARM SHOW
    162 5 $600 WHATISIT? IT WILL SURELY CATCH THE EYE AT THE FARM SHOW THIS IS THE "s6o* Thing:," a curious structure being put op for Singapore's first agricultural show, which opens at the old Kallang airport site on Sept. 1. What is it? Nobody really seems very sore but, in form,
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    Minister asks to see test papers
    129 5 'BASED ON COMMUNISM' CHARGE OPHE MINISTER for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, has asked the Chung Cheng High. School for copies of their recent test papers on world afI fairs. This follows allegations by an anti-Jted Chinese student group that the school might become
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    'Whistle' signs stolen
    25 5 Two railway signboards with the word "whistle" on them were stolen on Tuesday. The signboards were near the line at BuMt Panjang.
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    Police seek doctor in swimming tragedy
    118 5 VfARINE POLICE investlgating the drowning of Lino Jit Leng, 29, who gave his life to save a girl on Aug. 12 in the sea off Nicoll Drive, Changi, Singapore, yesterday appealed for witnesses of the tragedy to come forward. The police are anxious to
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    SHE WED HER SISTER'S HUSBAND
    271 5 SHE WED HER SISTER'S HUSBAND (CHIANG GEOK LOOI, told a Singapore court yesterday that when she became the wife of Lav Kirn Yong after the death of his former wife, her elder sister, he treated her welL But about four years later, she said, after the birth of their second
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    Fined $5,600
    32 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Leo Penang Kee. a cigarette seller, was fined $5,600. or eight months' jail, here today for knowingly being concerned in dealing in 150 cartons of uncustomed cigarettes.
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      258 5 POLICE BAND: King George Wesley Church hall. 4, Fort V Park 530 pjn. to 6.30 pjn. Canning Road, 4 pjn. ART EXHIBITION: Opening SINGAPORE ART SOCIETY by Mr. Lee Slow Mong of exhlbi- CUm In Intermediate painting and tion of Chinese calligraphy by Mr. drawing from model— British Tsui Ta
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    393 6 10 Wordm fit (minimum). PRINCES RESTAURANT may be exclusively reserved for private parties, etc. at No Extra Charge. FOLLOW PEDANT Every Day In the "Malay Mall" If you want to win that 55.000 word punle. COCKTAIL HOUR— Dry Fly Sherry by Flndlater's Prelude to a Oood Dlnnerl Sol* Agent*—
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    148 6 J0 Word. U» (minimum). MR. S. N. SIREGAR and Family thank all Friends and Relatives for their kind Expressions of sympathy in their bereavement. MR. MRS. TAN BAN SWKB thank Relatives and Friends for their Assistance. Valuable Gifts end Generous Good Wishes on the Occasion of their Marriage. RELATIVES
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    The Straits times S'pore, Thurs. Aug. 23, 1956. Support For Dulles
    522 6 The Straits times S'pore, Thurs. Aug. 23, 1956. Support For Dulles The closing stages of the Suez Conference found seventeen of the twenty two nations represented ranged behind the Dulles plan. Western satisfaction with this massive support derives not merely from the counting of a large number of delegates' heads.
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    Protection Or Refuge?
    421 6 The Singapore Government is reported to be toying with the idea of giving tariff protection to local industries. State protection Is essential for the industrial advance of any country and particularly in the early phase of such a development. Even countries as industrially advanced as America, Britain
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    Nation-Building
    188 6 The Federation's Director of Education, Mr. E. M. F. Payne, in a recent broadcast appealed to parents to allow their children to grow up as Malayans by sending them to schools where they would be moulded to fit in as citizens of a Malayan nation. There is more to
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    Canal crisis as seen British weeklies
    632 6 Canal crisis as seen British weeklies I'M as tired of cxx pressing my rather lonely point of view about the Canal crisis as you are of reading it. So today, let the British "weeklies" do most of the talking— the Conservative "Spectator," the Liberal "Economist" and the Socialist "New Statesman."
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      142 6 A LOT of hysterical nonsense is being talked and written about thumbprinting children who register for admission to schools in the Federation. If thumbprintlng is 'for criminals only* why do we all place our prints, without protest, on our identity cards? What does G.A.C mean by 'ordinary statistical
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      The coat of training
      121 6 The coat of training lITTTH reference to the case of Mr. Lee Slew Luan, of Singapore, who is now at the Gurney TrainIng Centre for the Blind, your report In the Straits Times of August 17. omits mention of the fact that Mr. Lee i* being trained under the Singapore
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      Bullied by S.I.T.
      146 6 Bullied by S.I.T. WHEN will the Singapore Improvement Trust look Into Its neglected estate at Kampong Silat? The roads are so full of holes, that they present hazards to pedestrians and motorists alike. Road names on sign posts have been completely effaced by the sun and the rain. As regards
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      Three girls in a car
      76 6 Three girls in a car Iwas Indeed surprised to read in the Straits Times of Aug- 17 about the adventure of the three girls in a car. Don't you think that the policeman on duty should have noted the driver's licence number, and issued her with a summons for disobeying
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      Water rates in Alor Star
      149 6 MANY payers of water rates In Alor Star are most anxious to settle their dues with the Town Council monthly, so as to avoid having to pay several months' arrears all at once. But the Alor Star Town Council however seems to have a peculiar
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      150 6 F would be extremely interesting to learn from your reader signing herself "More than surviving", how she manages to budget on f ISO per month on food for two, which Includes "friends continually dropping in for meals" and "extra commodities such as soap, shoe cleaner One hundred
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    FIX A MINIMUM WAGE
    298 6 M AY 1 refe to Mr. Coll- iUins' letter "What is a Just wage." Mr. Collins blinds u< with marginal productivis ty, market wage, dlminlsh- ing returns etc., but fail sto take account of two s points. s Firstly, he treats wages s as part of
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    CHANGES WORRY RUBBER COUNCIL
    132 7 CHANGES WORRY RUBBER COUNCIL K^-ALA R ]bber p r o ffd ,T Council has told Constitutional tf» S on that it is co^nld overconstirhaners in MaTo^ *«™J central Goyern- ffl same time allow■LSe autonomy the •Jf^d settlements. ffiSitrv cannot hope to matter such as .r-Jr.ure. "protection pica »,Terr.orandum says that
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    $50 oath
    34 7 IOHORE BAHRU, Wed j l Bums, of 221 t:.( Bn., *ai fined $50 it »<iay for using bad TMt to Police Lt. R. H. ecus at the All Night Cafe A* 5.
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    One killed, two hurt in collision
    66 7 One killed, two hurt in collision KUALA LUMPUR, Wed Motor cyclist. Mr. F. John. 29, was killed early this morning in a head-on collison with a taxi in Batu Road. Mr. B. L. Francis. 30. who was riding pillion, was thrown off and seriously injured. The taxi driver, Mr. R.
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    Going back...
    34 7 Antiques dating back 5.000 years were produced yesterday by Mrs. Helen Ling at the Singapore Rotary Club's ladies' day meeting to illustrate her talk on the "Joys and Trials of a Collector."
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    DUTCH QUARTET DELIGHTS YOUNG AUDIENCE
    105 7 DUTCH QUARTET DELIGHTS YOUNG AUDIENCE S Dutfh Opera Quartet yesterday deliehted 600 ten at the Victoria Meri Ball and gave them a •as* of the per.erally *i programme which sr parents and elders will lie to hear next Saturra a certain amount of Kind acting the quartet ■pd without costume
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    Aquarium plans
    30 7 Singapore's Van Kleef Aquarium, now an established popular resort, will have 24 sets of new tanks If the City Council approves them at its meeting on Friday week*
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    TUC to meet
    35 7 The representative council of the Singapore Trades Union Congress will meet on Sunday to discuss what action to take on the detention of Tan Lay Boon of the Army Civil Service Union.
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    Holiday studies
    31 7 Twenty-four teachers from Singapore and the Federation have applied for the vacation course In biology to be conducted by the University of Malaya from Aug. 27 to Sept. I.
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    2 students injured
    50 7 Two University of Malaya students, Mr. Urn Ban Seong, 23, and Miss Yong Choy Sax, 23, were slightly injured in an aoddent in Oeylang Road yesterday afternoon. Mr. Lim waa riding a motor-cycle with Miss Yong on the pillion when they came into collision with a taxi.
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    Year's jail
    30 7 Mohamed Nor was sentenced to one year's Jail in Singapore yesterday for attempting to break into the house of V. A. All at Jalan Hapang on June 15.
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    Governing Malaya— Alliance way
    379 7 POSITION OF HEAD OF STATE SHOULD BE LIKE THAT OF QUEEN FSSSaSSBg the main features of the <i«.*S3u^^ or their own states th^ o Proposals the Upper Houae wUI oompriae 44 members —two repreaenttof each of the 11 State, and Settlements and the another 22 to
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    37 7 THIS IS Hie twilight scene along Nicoll Highway and Merdeka Bridge, Singapore. The white lines are from the lights of cars. Stralta Time* picture by SAM KAI YEE lIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIi
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    Rumour frightened a kampong
    230 7 BUT COURT CLEARS TWO BOYS BUKIT MERTAJAM, Wednesday TOE 0.C.P.D., Mr. N. Nadarajah, told the Sessions x Court here yesterday that when he went into Kampong Permatang Rawa on the night of June 23 he saw women and children evacuating the village. I "It waa all
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    NEW BISHOP PRESIDES OVER TALKS
    70 7 NEW BISHOP PRESIDES OVER TALKS Bishop H. B. Amstutz, yesterday opened and presided over the Malaysia Chinese Annual Methodist Confer-^ ence in Singapore— his first official act since his election as bishop for South-East Asia last Saturday. More than 100 ministers, supply pastors, bible women and lay leaders from Chinese
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    Body found
    17 7 The body of an unidentified Chinese was picked up from the Rochore River, Singapore, yesterday.
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    ALL-STATION LINK-UP FOR MALAY SONS FINAL
    152 7 ITUALA LUMPUR, Wed All four of Radio Malaya's broadcasting stations wUI be linked for tt» last night of toe Malay amateur singing contest. The programme will start on Sept 5 and the final is expected to be on Nov. 17. The Malay programme organiser
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    Skymen from whirlybirds: It's the new jungle war idea
    212 7 KAJANO, Wed. The latest aerial technique in the lungle war was demonstrated near here today as 180 paratroops jumped from/ hovering helicopters. Most scored buflseyes on toe dropping zone, a cleared patch of jungle. But some were soaked when they fell
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    GASMEN: WE STRIKE TONIGHT UNLESS...
    164 7 SINGAPORE'S 383 gas workers Intend to go on 0 strike at midnight tonight if their demands are not met. The men are members of the City Council Gas Department Workers' Union. They were due to strike at midnight on Tuesday, but the union's committee after
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    Thief flees with loot
    58 7 A pawnbroker, Mr. Chong Khin 800, living in Lloyd Gardens, Singapore, woke up at about 4 a.m. yesterday to find a stranger ransacking an almeirah. Mr. Chong grappled with the man in toe dark but he struggled free and fled. The thief escaped with valuables, including
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    Girl is found poisoned
    37 7 A schoolgirl, Tan Hong Choo, 15, was found suffering from caustic soda poisoning in her house in Henderson Road. Singapore, yesterday afternoon. Bhe was admitted to the General Hospital In a serious condition.
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    THE $1,800 OATH
    165 7 High Court claim ends with visit to a Hindu temple A CIVIL suit in which an Indian claimed $1,800 on a promissory note from two other Indians, was decided In the Singapore High Court yesterday, after he had taken an oath before a temple that he actually
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    Her marriage is annulled
    61 8 The Chief Justice, Mr. I Justice Whyatt, in the Singapore High Court, yesterday granted the petition of Kwa Sor Hwa who sued her husband, Ang Yee Siong, for a decree of nullity on the ground that he had wlKully refused to consummate the marriage. They were
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    SQUATTERS WON'T TAKE THE NEW CITY FLATS
    449 8 SQUATTERS WON'T TAKE THE NEW CITY FLATS 451 shanty town families block big development plan. MULTI-MILLION dollar development plan at Singapore's shanty town in Covent Garden is being held up because 451 squatter families still living there won't move to modern homes offered by the Improvement Trust. The stay-put families
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    600 pledge support for strike over Doris
    115 8 600 pledge support for strike over Doris QLX hundred employees O of ether Insurance companies in Singapore have pledged to support their 53 colleagues at the Union Insurance Society of Canton if they strike ever the dismissal of a stenographer. Miss Doris Fb.ua. Mr. E. M. Christian, secretary of the
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    YWCA appeal
    32 8 Lady Black, patron of the Singapore Y.W.C.A.. will broadcast at 9.25 p.m. on Sunday an appeal for funds for the association's Flag Day, which will be held on Sept. 1.
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    3 Formosa men for Nanyang
    99 8 CUNQAPORE's Nanyang •3 University, which started the second term of Its first academic year on Monday, has engaged three new professors from Formosa. They are Prof. K. Fan, prof. Chung Shin Plow and Prof. Phan Chung Kwee. All of them had been at various Formosa
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    Police probe arson try
    41 8 KLANG, Wed. Police here are Investigating a report that arsonists last night attempted to set fire to a house occupied by a watchman at the Lee Rubber Factory, Kapar Road. Two men have been detained for questioning.
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    COST OF LIVING INDICES 'FAULTY'
    138 8 COST OF LIVING INDICES 'FAULTY' KUALA LUMPUR Wed —A 10-man committee has decided that the present data used for compiling cost-of-living indices in the Federation is 'unreliable and inadequate,' it is understood. The committee was set up in June and is headed by the Registrar of Statistics, Mr. H. FeU.
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    Pilgrim ship
    21 8 The pilgrim ship, Anshun, is expected to arrive in Penang on Sept. 2. and in Singapore the next day.
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    FREE LEGAL AID: LIM SEES BAR COMMITTEE TODAY
    192 8 rE Chief Minister, Mr. lim Yew Hock, wMI meet the Singapore Bar Committee this afternoon to discuss a free legal aid scheme. The committee has strongly criticised the present Legal Aid and Advice Ordinance. It was to have called a meeting of
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    Anti-flood plan row: Govt. starts talks
    239 8 DISAGREEMENTS ARE 'NORMAL 9 SINGAPORE'S Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, said yesterday that the Government and the City Council were discusing the best method of flood prevention and water storage. Any technical disagreement between the Government's Chief Drainage Officer. Mr. F,
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    'INSPECTOR' CHONG, MEET THE INSPECTOR
    81 8 'INSPECTOR' CHONG, MEET THE INSPECTOR A YOUTH, after drinking at a bar in High Street, Singapore, on Tuesday night, told the waiter he was a police inspector and that as a policeman he carried no money. The youth described himself as "Inspector Michael Chong" of the Central Police Station. The
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    Union meeting
    28 8 The Inaugural meeting of the newly-formed Singapore Harbour Board Workers' Union will be held today at 5.30 p.m. at the S.H.B. Staff Association in Cantonment Road.
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    Skiers sign up
    18 8 Members of the Malayan water-Ski Association yesterday signed up with the Singapore X-Ray Club yesterday.
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    Teacher and his bride
    51 8 MR. AND MRS. P. H. NESARETNAM, who were married at the Sri Senpage Yenayagar Temple. Singapore, recently. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J S. Kanapathipillai of Singapore. Mr. Nesaratnam is a teacher In the Government English School at Teluk Anaon. Straits Times
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    Seremban pair wed
    57 8 SEREMBAN, Wed. The marriage of Mr. John Rainam, Rider son of Mr. and Mrs. O. Ratnam, to Miss Beatrice Patrick took place at the Church of the Visitation here today. The brldgroom Is with the relecommunications Department here. The bride Is the laughter of the late Mr.
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      161 8 radio MAtAYA Regional •Procramme. thu marked can be SINGAPORE received by Iktenon In Halaeea Short war* 49 62m. Medium (Short ware Urn. Medlun wave wave 47« m, 34Sm, 3(4m. and «76m.) AM. 7.1S Time Signal And P.M. *1.00 Famous Conductors; Opening Annct; 7.16 Morning •1.30 News; »1.45— 2.00 Ladles Serenade;
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    1627 9 STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE Noel Coward: 'The spoilt child' of English drama {Mirrored the bright 1 Jaaz- crazy 'twenties I QNE day in 1910 the landlady of a shabby suburban boarding-house hauled her 11 -year-old son off to a London theatre. She had just read an advertisement calling for a
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      221 9 ppax PI Mtim Lglewfivorcls. LnKPufP M ofTamp W> I t .omen ronrt comfort. li'^r mi at lhe KT^nmh. her need mwm pcrtc-ied by O .»hou^ci.hepnnciple :abwrp t.onlfn f known >B BJic.lpwf»» ion |j,d. T»wp" made of I «asM- utttfiM) mean* of the need not louch II la!nru«'- ni: n manytime
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      282 9 I The fisherman's long dream I how has come true at last. I It's (flsrikni FISHING NET that NJ Bfe^Mtf IB^^^hlbW^^^J bS> nQi rcaiizoa lie I 1. II brings yew larger catches than conventional types of net, particularly In the cose of an AmJlan gill net. 2. It 1% strong,
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      146 9 Rex Morgan, MM. (setting late HR^E^?"VHH^^i~PUe a OSeLY T I r V WEN n 4*€TTIN« n£**£. JUNE DCmi I£AVE L^^- m •m^ i f SBttte WBRv I wETZE «N»*H6O MSjn. UwflMS* UPB --J yET.' «rr down AMD TMx C«t I Dick Tracy To the city BBbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbVHHl r SANTA CLAUS TO
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    2 10 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
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    RUBBER PRICES
    147 10 oepeaaayer aww rww I, bsgets f a>. eleaad hi Slagapare a yesterday at 96% cents per k up 1% cenu on Tuesday^ closing is price. L The oleshig taskt wag quietly r steady. I. Clesing pHbes in cents per lb. yesterday wen:- ¥o. 1 &AB. I. Spot f.o.b.
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    73 10 1 Ship lymg ilmrmtsi the glnga--1 pen Marisaar Board wharves or •xpeetei today an: Captain Oooke 1-2. Peter Maersk 4-5, Amaglsan Maru C.P.. Euroaeus 6-7, Blsabsth Bakke 8-9, Snillong il. Lot. esn 13-14. Ulysses 15-16. Adrattui 18. Oorgon 19-30. Segamat N.WaU 6. Mul Heng 21-23. Belaga 33. Rajah Brook*
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    36 10 On the free exefcaage market m Haflg Kong yesterday, the U.S. •Wlar waa quoted at 6.06% for cash and 6.07 for T.T. SterUnr waa quoted at 15.93 and •ne tad W r*M at 363.
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    REMBIA OFFER
    59 10 From information coning to tbe nottee ef tbe feoard of tbe Rembla Rubber Cejnpany it Is possible that an oiler may shortly be made for the holdings of the members. In tbe event of sum an offer being made a further communication will be sent Tbe company owns
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    BANK DIVIDEND
    23 10 The Mercantile Baa* ef India Lti. has declared an Interim dividend of 7 per cent, toss tax, payable on September 35.
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    COLONY SHARE MART QUIET WITH SMALL BUSINESS DEALS
    630 10 COLONY SHARE MART QUIET WITH SMALL BUSINESS DEALS By Our Market Correspondent THE Singapore Share Market yesterday was quiet generally and compared with Tuesday the volume of business transacted was small Despite the better rubber price and a rise of S2 in the tin price to $384.50 due to the
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    154 10 glMifre Ctalneae Produce Exohaaw*: noon prices per plcul yesterday were: Coprm: quiet; August *26 18 juyers. $36 5|S sellera. Coconut oU: quiet; bulk $39 3|« sellers, drum $43 3|4 sellers. Pepper: lulet; no business reported done; kCuntok white $134, Sarawak 1133 (both unchanged), special Sarawak black $M (sown
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      These Dutch women live for their music
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