The Straits Times, 18 September 1956

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    18 1 »»"v ""ITIIiB FTfrrPS 71.M1 The Straits Times Hoi** AW**** Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1956 15 CENTS
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    DEARER EVERYTHING
    695 1  -  GEOFFREY BOLAND tLSS Dill if ->"-•*' •ma a•• m jnc iitf^fd BILL- this is how it will hit your pocket By It's inevitable, say traders Definitely up beer, fruit, drugs and tinned food I ...when stocks run out cigarettes and whisky i U'MP in the cost of living,
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    Lock icon U.S. offers allies more oil if the tankers are stopped
    209 1 U.S. offers allies more oil if the tankers are stopped feMDIGION, Mon.— The Secretary of State, Mr, John Foster Dulles, said Way that the I nited Stales was prepared to help finance, through the Ex-Pwt-Import Bank. increased exports of American oil to Western nations if transit through the Suez dual
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    Lock icon Menon (in Cairo) still has hopes
    62 1 fURO Mon Mr Krishna Mcnon. India's Minister without Portfolio, arrived here today with hopes still J'"» hi a peaceful solution of the Suez dispute. He told Ih'Prevv; There is still a possibility of a settlement. Hf conferred with President Nasser for nearly two hours
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      Two days that Egyptians are proud of
      71 1 Two days that Egyptians are proud of ISMAILIA, Mon. The Pre--1 sident of the Egyptian Canal Company, Dr. Helmy Bahgat Badawy. last night described as "most successful" the first two days of operation of the Suez Canal by Egyptian pilots. As Egyptians we are proud of this achievement," he said.
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      A pilot predicts 'suffocation'
      58 1 PARIS: Mr. Pierre Dumas, a senior Suez Canal pilot, said the Egyptians will not be qble to keep traffic moving without the pilots who resigned. "It is certain that without pilots bottlenecks will arise which will end in suffocation. That is why Egypt has called on
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      Admiral: Canal isn't essential
      50 1 WASHINGTON: Admiral Arleigh Burke, United States Chief of Naval Operations, said that he thought the Suez Canal, 'as an economic proposition, was not essential. "I think the Western world could get along without it." he said. "It is cheaper to use. but it Is not essential."
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      17 countries to attend
      45 1 LONDON: These countries have so far indicated their willingness to attend next Wednesday's "users' association" conference, sponsored by Britain. Prance and the United States: Australia, Denmark, Italy, Japan, Norway, Pakistan, Holland. Persia, Sweden, West Germany, Turkey, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain.
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      P and O says: This Is last
      54 1 PORT SAID: Agents for the Peninsular and Oriental Line said here that they had received order* that only one more of the line's vessels will use the canal. Two P and O ships cleared the canal on Saturday night. The Somali, next Thursday,
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      More gunners in Malta
      39 1 VALETTA: The British troopship Empire Ken has arrived in Malta with men of the 37th Light AntiAircraft Regiment. They landed in barges. Men of the 16th Light AntiAircraft Regiment sailed meanwhile for an undisclosed destination.
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    50,000 strike
    29 1 CALCUTTA, Mon. About 50,000 mine workers in 30 coal mines and colliery workshops in the Raningan] area of Bihar came out on strike today for increased wages.
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    Model marries
    24 1 LUGANO. Mon. Miss Fiona Campell-Waiter. 24, a beautiful English model, was married here today to Baron Heinrlch von Thyssen, 34, Swiss multi-millionaire.
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    Lock icon Gen. de Gaulle in Australia
    40 1 DARWIN. Mon. Gen. de Gaulle paid a 15-minute visit to Australia yesterday. Gen. de Gaulle has been visiting French possessions in the South Pacific. His Francebound plane made a brief stop here to refuel.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon 'Bribe paid to man who never was'
    215 1 HONG KONG, Mon. The prosecution said in court today that the Superintendent of Mines. William Murray Keay received HK525.000 from the' Bohespic Mining Syndicate for man called E T. Tsao knowing that no such person existed. It was also alleged, that three members
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    FUSILIERS KILL FIVE TERRORISTS
    201 1 SEREMBAN, Monday. jyjEN OF THE hard-hitting: 2nd Bn., The Royal Welch Fusiliers, yesterday killed five terrorists in jungle between Tampin and Kuala Pilah. I The dead Reds are believed to be remnants 3f the bodyguard of Malaya's No. 2 terrorist tfeung Kuo. They fled when their
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    Lock icon Police save counsel from mob
    94 1 Police save counsel from mob JAKARTA, Mon. A MOB of angry Indone.'l sians besieged the Jakarta District Court for several hours today and threatened to attack a woman defending a Dutchman on trial for alleged subversion. The accused man, Henricus Schmidt, read a statement pleading not guilty to the charges
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    100 demand pay rise
    51 1 JAKARTA, Mon. Four hundred employees of the British firm of Harrisons and Crossfleld plan to strike on Thursday for better wages, it was reported today. The workers, members of the Nationalist KBK union, are understood to have submitted a 17-point demand concerning wages and social benefits.—
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    FIRST DEATH ALONG NICOLL HIGHWAY
    105 1 Traffic police seek eye-witnesses A SEAMAN was killed along Nicoll Highway, SingaA pore, last night in the first fatal accident on the road since it was opened a month ago. Toh Kee, 57. of Ball Lane. was knocked down by a taxi at 7.2i> p.m.
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    Lock icon Stand collapses
    21 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. About 33 spectators were Injured when a special reviewing stand collapsed during the President's Cup Regatta yesterday.—AP.
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    Lock icon Big tea plan
    21 1 COLOMBO. Mon. Plans for the new Rs. 18.000.000 tea rehabilitation scheme in Ceylon are now being finalised.— U.P.
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    Lock icon Peking call
    34 1 PEKING, Mon. Marshal Chu Teh, vice-president of China, today called on the civil and military authorities in Formosa to "take a patriotic stand and return to the fold of the motherland." Reuter,
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    Lock icon Strikers return
    25 1 SYDNEY, Mon. Sydney's mall strike ended tonight and 2.900 postmen returned to tackle a huge backlog of millions of letters and parcels. AP.
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    AN AMERICAN BEAUTY FLIES THROUGH
    73 1 AN AMERICAN BEAUTY FLIES THROUGH ONE OF America's top fashion mannequins, glamorous Gloria Case she loves chewing gam and has a "beau in every city that she passes through" who flew into Singapore from Sydney by BOAC yesterday. She represented America at an international fashion parade held recently in big
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    Lock icon $850 BID TO SOLVE RIDDLE
    80 1 SUVA. Mon. A reward of £100 ($850) ha s been offered by the New Zealand Government for information on the whereabouts of the passengers and crew of the ketch Joyita who were lost in October last year. The Joyita sailed from Apia. Samoa, on Oct.
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    Woman bites police officer
    173 1 Woman bites police officer A POLICE officer was A bitten by a woman and another injured by a stone during a melee between a police party and strikers at a rubber godown in Robertson Quay, Singapore, yesterday. Thirteen women and live men, among 123 on strik since Friday, were arrestei
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    Lock icon STOP PRESS
    40 1 MORE F.S OIL WASHINGTON, Mon. The U.S. Government has taken steps to get the nations nil prod in mi; states to abandon limitation on production to meet Western Europe's demands in the light of the Suez crisis. Renter.
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    Lock icon 'We will block Canal to West'
    354 2 NASSER ('I AM NOW READY! WARMS FBOPOSKD USERS* ASSOCIATION; U.S. MOVES PUZZLE THE LEADER OF A NATION ON TRIAL CAIRO, Monday. T»HE Western-proposed Suez Canal Users Association would not be allowed 'to function through the Canal," said the Egyptian President, Colonel Nasser, las night.
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    Lock icon The odd box
    56 2 WELLINGTON. Mon. Three youths were stated in court to have stolen cars and driven head-on at each other at speeds of up to 90 m.p.h. This "game" is called "chicken" the driver swerving away first being "chicken-hearted." The three youths pleaded guilty to using the "ars illegally
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    OLYMPIC WASHOUT—INSURANCE PLAN
    130 2 OLYMPIC WASHOUT— INSURANCE PLAN SINGAPORE agents for an Australian insurance company are offering Malayans who are going to see the Olympic Games In Melbourne a policy against bad weather. Known as the Pluvius Policy, it Is designed to compensate ticket holders against excessive rain while visiting Melbourne during November and
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    Back to work
    23 2 WASHINGTON, Mon. President Eisenhower returned to Washington last night, after a five-day ioliday at his Pennsylvan<» '->.rm home. A. P.
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    Lock icon You MAY see 'home-made moon' in space
    118 2 TH^4TELim^ THE EARTH IF YOU'VE very keen sight or have a telescope handy, you may see this man-made satellite circling the earth during the International GeoPhysical Tear in 1957. This is an artist's conception of the earth satellite which, under the name "Project
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    Lock icon Britannia joins in sea search
    119 2 PORT ELIZABETH, Mon— The Royal yacht Britannia yesterday searched unsuccessfully for a man lost overboard from another ship northeast of here in Algoa Bay. The yacht, on its way to meet Princess Margaret In East African waters, was told of the mishap when it called
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    Lock icon Big opium haul in Brisbane
    40 2 BRISBANE, Mon. Opium worth more than M 585,000 has been seized by customs officers here on the Dutch cargo-liner Straat Banka. The 448 ounces of opium was Brisbane's biggest drug smuggling find since 1948— Reuter.
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    BRISBANE SECT WHERE Wives ARE <SHARIS
    117 2 BRISBANE SECT WHERE Wives ARE &lt;SHARIS BRISBANE, Mon The Queensland Government has ordered police to investigate charges that members of a sect living near Brisbane are sharing wives. Police will inquire about the religious beliefs and movements of a sect who live on a farm at Kuraby, 13 miles from
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    Lock icon General will see 3 Negroes expelled
    244 2 THEY'VE NO RIGHT AT THIS SCHOOL A GENERAL today will escort thS^Ne^SL A to a previously all-white school where thi: tendance has sparked off racial unrest Then the principal will read the children a ban on their attendance ordered by the school board. The
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    Lock icon SYDNEY SAYS 'HULLO' TO TV
    77 2 SYDNEY SAYS 'HULLO' TO TV SYDNEY. Mon-: made its debut in A-/.:.^ last night as Sydney cat mercial station TCN teji; transmission. More than 100.000 peop*:: and around Sydney a--the first programme i: television parties in pi vate homes, note! and dealers' show.-ocs specially opened for occasion. About 3,000 television
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    A ban on pills
    40 2 LONDON, Mon.-Ar. E: tian doctor told Ms cour.:/y men over Cairo Rac:o night to boycott foreign pirins. pills and drops. Egypt imported abroad at the cost of m than 12 million Ezypm. pounds annually.— Re» r
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    Professor's death leap after gay party
    123 2 SAN FRANCISCO, Mon. —I An Englishman. Michael Wyatt, who has been a Stanford professor for four years. leapt to his death yesterday from the Golden Gate Bridge after a gay dinner party. Coast Guards recovered a; body 12 hours after his car was found
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      MAKARIOS ILL IN HOSPITAL
      195 2 MAHE (Seychelles Islands) Mon. Exiled Archbishop Makarios under police guard in Victoria Hospital here is receiving twice-daily injections of penicillin. The nature of his illness has not been disclosed. He is guarded by Police Superintendent Philip Le Geyt, who has been the Archbishop's shadow since the
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      Lock icon Bitten, he took kiler-spider to hospital for identification
      39 2 doctor, were able to S "J^Son J, to give him an anti-venom Ing «i«in* life. His dauihter. a nursr dne&gt; rt m drove swiftly to the only nospi*»' spider serum— Reuter.
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    Lock icon PEASANTS, DAYS OF MILK AND HONEY ARE COMING!
    505 3 Cho« outltoey^ComgHMUat CM*.'. *.w ww rKiM'- Vlon&lt; P Chinas second L.year plan, begin- Yin 1058. envisages thenaf«nil income, a doubl- f capital investln£ and substantial Sases in peasant inJw&gt; and workers' &lt;°* e es h e Chinese S. "5 c hou En
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    Kisses: The best are brief
    90 3 Kisses: The best are brief BALTIMORE. Sun. BUgf kisses are much O r c hygienic than oged ones. Dr. Artryan of Baltimore College claims, ./found, after tests he I put on the bactericoc- and hygiene of .hat the number transferred was proto ihe duration v tta* dry lips ua bacteria
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    Eva Bartok to get divorce
    31 3 BERLIN. Mon. A West B:r.;r. newspaper today coted film actress Eva Barto!: as saying she will divorce sutrian actor Curt Jurgens. He is her fourth husband.
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    Lock icon HOLLAND RECLAIMS MORE LAND FROM THE HUNGRY SEA
    50 3 HOLLAND HAS reclaimed more land from the sea. At a press-button ceremony performed last week by Queen Juliana a 56-mile dike enclosing 133,000 acres of the former Zuyder Sea was sealed up and pumping operations began to drain the area. A.P. picture.
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    Lock icon OLIVER HARDY IMPROVING
    65 3 LOS ANGELES. Mon. tUver Hardy, 64, the plump h.f of the Laurel and Hardy ■ocdjr team, showed slight Improvement yesterday at St. Hospital. Doctors reported that he spent a comfortable night and responded well tp treatment. But he was said to be still in a serious condition
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    Crew goes down with freighter
    131 3 ONLY FIVE MEN ARE SAVED OSLO, Monday. AN air-sea search for survivors of the American ore freighter Pelagia (7,238-tons) which broke in half on Saturday off the north Norway coast, was abandoned last night after five of the crew of about i 50 had been
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    Lock icon COLOMBO STRIKE WORSENS
    173 3 COLOMBO STRIKE WORSENS 1,000 lightermen stop work fOLOMBO, Mon. Over 1,000 lightermen struck here today worsening the serious situation already created by the dock strike. The lightermen are demanding payment of a salary increase retrospective to Hay last year instead of September as agreed to by tne employers. Forty-three ships
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    Lock icon 'Freda' kills 5
    27 3 TAIPEH, Mon. Typhoon Freda's 18-hour rampage of northern Formosa left at least five dead, 5,000 houses flattened and some 4,000 persons homeless today. UP.
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    23 3 CALCUTTA, India, Mon.— Rail lines between Calcutta and all up-country points including New Delhi have been flooded by heavy rains.— A.P.
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    Ex-Mayor dies
    19 3 COLOMBO. Mon.— A former Mayor of Colombo and prominent leftist leader, Dr. Kumaran Retnam. died here yesterday.
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    Cafes 'bombed9—4 killed
    46 3 Cafes 'bombed 9 4 killed ALGIERS, Mon. Bombs were tossed last night into two Algiers cafes where soldiers are the main customers. Four people were killed and nine Injured in the incidents, including two bomb throwers shot by a military patrol as they fled.— A. P.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    233 3 LONDON, MOO. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not including stamp duty were: Consols £51 U —3/16 Funding *r,* £86U War 3%% €70% —M BANKS Mercantile (£5) £4 1/32 Eastern (£5) £7 .4 Chartered (£1) 353 Hongkong ($125) £89* —1 INSURANCE Con. Un. (uU.) 87/4 Vt +/3 Royal
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    RUBBER
    22 3 LONDON. Mon.—Spot 29H&lt;J, Oct.-Dec 28' id., Jan.-M»reh 27'4d., April-June 26Hd., JulySept. 2M.. Sept. cJ.f. 27Hd., Oct. c.l.f. 27% d. Tone: Ewter.
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    TIN
    23 3 LONDON, Mon.—Caah Buyer* £808: sellers £810: Forward Buyer* 1797 H; aellers M 00; Settlement £81S",. Turnover, ».m. 120 tout, p.m. 69 ton*.
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    Lock icon 13 die in Cyprus after end of truce
    324 3 13 die in Cyprus after end of truce SELF-RILE CMCTITITIQI PURS ARE OH WAY NICOSIA, Mon. l" Thirteen people have been killed and 32 injured in Cyprus in the 15 days since Eoka, the Greek-Cy-priot terrorist organisation, called off its truce offer. These casualty figures were the second highest for
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    Tiger General' wins appeal
    338 4 Lower court had no grounds for conviction, says judge secret society expert failed to explain his 'tree-stump' tattoo PENANG, Mon. Tan Ah Leng, 21, of Singapore, alleged to be a "Tiger General" in a secret society, walked out of the High Court here a free man
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    THE SO HAPPY BUS WORKERS
    127 4 PENANG, Mon. While other bus firms In north Malaya are facing strikes, the Central Province Wellesley Bus Company, of Butterworth. last night received a pledge from its workers to "co-operate and enhance our em-ployer-employee relations." The workers were hosts to their employers at a dinner
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    A nine-day tour of Malaya-all for $137
    236 4 A SINGAPORE man, A Mr. E. O. Symes, has disclosed how he recently made a nineday, 975-mile tour of the Federation at a cost of less than six cents a mile for transport. Writing in the current Issue of The Highway, the magazine
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    Weaver leaves for India
    40 4 An official of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Mr. George Weaver, left yesterday for India after a threemonth stay in Singapore. He will return to America a/ter touring India, the Middle East and Europe.
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    New YWCA centre
    38 4 Hie foundation stone of the new Young Women's Christian Association centre, will be laid at Outram Road, Singapore, tomorrow evening at 5.15 p.m. by the wife of the Commissioner General for South-east Asia, Lady Scott.
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    COMING UP: FOUR SUNDAY ATOM RAIDS
    259 4 pOUR mock atomic bombs will be dropped on r Singapore next month when the Civil Defence Corps stages the biggest exercises it has ever held. Exercise Satu-Dua-Tiga- Ampat, the Colony's first atomic test, will assume enemy attacks on four consecutive October Sunday mornings. About
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    Getting the feel of Hong Kong
    50 4 MRS. ROSE MINIE (above) passenger relations officer with Qantms-BOAC, left for Hong Kong yesterday en a familiarisation course She will return on Saturday. Bin. Mlnle— the airport is her "second home"— is the sister of the former Chief Minister. Mr David Marshall—Straits Times picture.
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    HE HARBOURED FIREWORKS: $10,000 FINE
    61 4 HE HARBOURED FIREWORKS: $10 ,000 FINE BATU PAHAT, Mon. Nira Lik Ho, 34. of Jalan Klnang, wa« fined SIO,WO or two years' jail, by Mr. N. L. Cohen, president of the Batu Fahat Sessions Court, for harbouring fireworks. The court was told that seven cases of fireworks were found on
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    Decree nisi for wife
    52 4 Yeo Geok Lan was granted a decree nisi by Mr. Justice Knight in the Singapore High Court yesterday dissolving her marriage with Yeo Kirn Sai, a clerk, on the ground of adultery. The decree is to be made absolute in three months. The couple were married
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    HE WINS $100 FOR HIS COURAGE
    176 4 AN employee of the Singapore Swimming Club, Ho Kuan Kirn was awarded $100 in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday by Mr. Justice Whitton for his courage in arresting one of two Malay thieves who robbed a man and his girlfriend of $30 and a
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    Boy accused of bid to murder
    59 4 Tay Choon Hock, 15. was charged in a Singapore court yesterday with causing hurt to Tan Kok Hu, alias Ah Gong, with intent to murder him in the backlane of Eng Hon Street at 6.45 p.m. on May 15. No plea was recorded. The
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    $100,000 appeal launched
    203 4 $100,000 appeal launched r THE Singapore Wesley Methodist Church launched a $100,000 building fund and church extension appeal last night at a dinner attended by more than 100 church leaders and campaign workers in the church hall. The Minister for Education. Mr. Chew Swee Kee, a Methodist and chairman of
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    The big pay-out for the needy
    33 4 The Singapore Social Welfare Department spent $478.--950 on its public assistance scheme last month. In addition, it paid out more than $171,000 to people suffering from tuberculosis.
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    Sultan's birthday honours list cut
    291 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— The honours list on the Sultan of Johore's birthday today was considerably shortened. There were no new datos and no awards of the Royal Family Order. The Regent of Johore, the Tengku Mahkota, replied to addresses from Government officials, read by the
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    MCA MOBILISES for MERDEKA
    307 5 .rttfsggfr-tafc, interest hi etoe itoai to him sets Malaya's Malty standard: oon h party 2, race 3. KUALA LUMPUR, Monday rFl r MALAYAN CHINESE ASSOCIATION I tt ill be completely reorganised and "reto meet the political changes now ,L place in the Federation. F Li m
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    'I never did like that job'—Leong
    79 5 'I never did like that job' Leong r KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. E Minister for Health and Social Welfare. Mr Leong Yew Koh, whose post of deputy president of the Malayan Chinese Association was abolished yesterday, said today that he had never favoured the creation of that Job. He had accepted
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    8 REDS TOLD: 'DON'T BE FOOLISH'
    81 5 8 REDS TOLD: 'DON'T BE FOOLISH' MALACCA, Mon.— The Malacca Government has dropped 110,000 leaflets by air in the Jasin area calling on eight terrorists including two women to "come out and renew yourselves." The leaflets pointed oat that their comrade Phang Kong Yee, who ignored the Government's surrender terms,
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    MONEYLENDERS ARE UP IN ARMS
    227 5 200 per cent interest? 'Nonsense* (pICIALS of Singapore's moneylending associations yesterday dismissed as "nonsense" a sugP«ion that dishonest money- lenders can charge 5 to 200 per cent interest if they wish. «3 were commenting on I «atement by Mr Leslie ■l»er, president of the Sinwore
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    Police medals
    30 5 The Governor, Sir Robert Black, will present awards to members of the Singapore police Force at the Thomson Road Police Training School at 5.45 P- m on Thursday.
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    Chew cancels meeting
    31 5 Chew cancels meeting **Ati gapore Minister for hto Mr chew Swe V^.cancelled his "meet «»slon at the ks, ai »d Telok Ayer Vr b, Thursday, but furt* jpßgs will resume on
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    STATE SURGEON RECEIVES BIRTHDAY AWARD FROM REGENT OF JOHORE
    54 5 STATE SURGEON RECEIVES BIRTHDAY AWARD FROM REGENT OF JOHORE DR. YEOH BOX CHOON, state surgeon of Johore, receives the insignia of the Order of the Crown of Johore from the Regent of Johore at the Is tan a Beaar, Johore Bahru. during the Sultans birthday celebrations yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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    Top education jobs for 3 local men
    181 5 MINISTRY CONFIRMS POSTS Ttfß. CHAN JOON GEK, secretary of the Singapore iTI Graduate Teachers' Association said yesterday that the association was "happy to learn of the confirmation" of the appointment of three local men to senior posts in the Ministry of Education. The
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    Big day for Muslims
    67 5 The anniversary of the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed will be celebrated here on Oct. 16. The Perak branch of the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society yesterday named a committee under the chairmanship of the Datoh Panglima Kinta, Tuan Haji Mohamed Eusof, to make the the necessary
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    $5 EACH FOR FIRE VICTIMS
    128 5 $5 EACH FOR FIRE VICTIMS HTHE Singapore Social WelL fare Department yesterday paid out $5 to each of 106 victims of the fire, which gutted 14 shophouses and damaged eight others at the junction of Paya Lebar Road and MacPherson Road on Sunday morning. The Young Liberal-Socia-lists will distribute clothes
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    Beware that smile!
    66 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malayans were warned tonight to be on their guard against the Communist's smile the grin concealing the levelled gun. "Behind the smile la a trained and cunning mind working to a destructive plan," the Director of the Information Services, Inche Ya'acob bin Abdul Latin*
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    Flow of dollars to China
    40 5 Millions of Malayan dollars are still finding their way to Red China In family remittances. Official figures reveal that family remittances to China last month amounted to $2,129,698. The flow from Singapore alone was $1,431,044.
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    Art exhibition
    23 5 The Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus in Victoria Street will hold an art and handicrafts exhibition on Friday Oct 6.
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    A WARNING TO MALAY LANGUAGE CONGRESS
    131 5 A WARNING TO MALAY LANGUAGE CONGRESS AN Indonesian language expert. Dr. Seuunat Muljono, yesterday told delegates to the Malay Language and Literary Congress now In session at the University of Malaya that it would not be wise to follow Indonesian methods blindly. He said Indonesia had made mistakes —in language
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    CONCERT BAN: OLD BOYS APPEAL
    164 5 CONCERT BAN: OLD BOYS APPEAL rrHE Sheng Hwa Old Boys' Association, Singapore whose concert was banned last week, will ask the police to rescind their decision. A spokesman for the association told the Straits Times yesterday that they were prepared to give a special preview to the police. Legislative Assemblymen
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    BIG RUSH FOR CITY DAY TICKETS
    169 5 Thousands expected to see show BETWEEN 2,500 and 3,000 people are expected to attend City Day celebrations on the Singapore padang on Saturday night. Among them will be 500 special guests. Another 800 tickets for seats have been issued to members of the public.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    119 6 M Word, $1$ (minimum). MR. A MRS. W. D. ALOYBIOD3 thank all Friends and Relatives for their Good Wishes. Message of Congratulations, Valuable Gifts etc. on the occasion of their Marriage. MRS. CHIA HOCK CHWBB and children thank relatives and friends far their night visits, expressions of sympathy, wreaths,
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Sept 18, 1956 Rulers And Alliance
    646 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Sept 18, 1956 Rulers And Alliance For three months the Reid Constitutional Commission has been hearing or reading the view* of the Federation's lesser political parties, associations and individuals. While no doubt these will be given due attention, it has been recognised from the beginning
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    Borrowers And Lenders
    413 6 Hie Singapore Co-operative Union has decided to press for amendments to the Moneylenders Ordinance. It suggests that all moneylenders should be registered and that all loans should go through a "control centre" before they can be regarded as valid trans, actions. In addition it calls for a
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    Malayan Outlook
    112 6 The president of the Chinese Primary School Teachers' Association in Singapore believes that geography and history text books in the vernacular schools should not be Malayanised. He maintains, in a letter to the Minister for Education, that children would not become disloyal by studying the history of their
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    PEKING HAS CHANGED
    1882 6  -  Allington Kennard by Peking is becoming a different city. The glitter and colour is not prosperous and i% not yt splendid. But in thelasf i»Z I***1 H improved. The shops are no longer grim, empty shells and~h^ir prices are stable. Allington Kennard of the Straits nmes7noiTi^«r^\* mission
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      Language issue in Ceylon
      480 6 MAY I be allowed to make a few remarks on Mr. Lee Kuan Yew's reference to the language Issue in Ceylon in his speech in the Singapore Assembly. He Is reported to have said, "It is no use our trying to escape historical trends. Nowhere in
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    FIVE DIE, 15 HURT IN TWO CRASHES
    117 7 FIVE DIE, 15 HURT IN TWO CRASHES Mon. 3 five people were ki Hed and 15 others injured in motor acSents in Negri Sembi f an yesterday. r r died when a military JL 'collided with a taxi on Tampin-Kuala Pilah E On danger list Thp tod's passenjrers. two minese
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    Suicide by teacher
    55 7 A verdict of suicide by tanging was recorded by the gngapore second corner, Mr. Cam Chong Hing, yesterday it the inquest on Jennar Serfca: 28 a former English teacher in a Chinese school. jennar was found hanging tv the Hex of the electric r the bathroom of
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    Full moon
    21 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. September full moon day will 5* celebrated at the Buddhist -r.pie »t Brickfields here on Wednesday.
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    Govt. unions vote to join TUC
    64 7 Govt. unions vote to join TUC T^E Singapore Federation nLn*°ti? n lonB of G°wnnjent Employees wants to •OUat. with fee StoJlpcE Trades Union Congress. The federation which represents 14,000 Government employees will ask the Chief Secretary, Mr. w Ac Goode, to lift the ban restricting Government unions from affiliating; with
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    Holland speaks
    30 7 Mr. D. G. E. Middleburg. Consul-General for the Netherlands in Singapore, will speak to the Anglo-Chinese School Geographical Society at the school in Barker Road on Oct. 5.
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    FOUR HELD AFTER GANG BATTLE
    96 7 Two r;val secret society gangs. Groups 36 and 32, dashed near the junction of Ord Road and River Valley Road. Singapore, on Sunday noting. More than 50 in all took part in the nght which was fe-ken up by the police In a lew minutes.
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    The merdeka tussle for rights
    466 7 *yo CHANGES DRAFT... AND ALLUMCK MEMO TO REID IS READY UMNO COMPROMISES ON SPECIAL PRIVILEGES AND LANGUAGES THE Alliance wUUA fflEft 11 write into the ™LSi. J^" 1 Commtarion to Malay, an iSJScSiEESE tm }«^^»t by the Head of State «K "^f"? of W™ Privileges
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    2 WOMEN DROWN IN RIVER
    82 7 Swell capsizes sampan If OTA BHARU, Mon.— Two Malay women were drowned yesterday as they were crossing the Golok River in a sampan. Two women travelling with them swam to safety. The Oolok River separates Kelantan and Siam. The women were returning to Pasir Mas
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    WANTED: KINDLY 'GODMOTHER'
    191 7 —To repair broken lives T»HE Singapore Social Welfare Department yester- day advertised the new post of a "godmother" to young ex-prostitutes and other "bad girls." Officially, she will be aftercare officer to them when they are discharged from two Social Welfare girls' homes. But Mr. CJ\ de
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    50 RAIDS ON COLONY BROTHELS
    70 7 50 RAIDS ON COLONY BROTHELS Social Welfare officers made a record number of 50 raids on Colony brothels last month but not a single girl under the age of 18 was found. Normally, about six or seven teenage girls are detained every month by brn-thel-ralding officers of the department. No
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    RAF photos for exhibition
    62 7 ..KUALA LUMPUR. M on. Photographs of some of the latest R.A.F. planes in service have been flown out from the Air Ministry in London, for inclusion hi the Royal Air Force Exhibition of photography now on display at the British Council cultural centre here. Bhote of
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    T.B. experts for talks
    44 7 About 30 delegates from Borneo, Sarawak and the Federation will attend the Pan Malayan Tuberculosis Conference to be held in Singapore in November. The conference, sponsored by the Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association, is the first ofSkind to be held in Malaya.
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    Old students
    37 7 Former students of Gan Eng Seng School. Singapore, have decided to form an "old students' association", Instead of an "old boys' association," because the school plans to enrol girl students for its post senior classes.
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    Routine trip
    21 7 Mr. Michael Berghers, vice president of Columbia Pictures International Corporation, arrived in Singapore last night on a routine trip.
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    Boy, 7, falls IS feet
    33 7 A seven-year-old boy, Tan Keng Weng, fell about 15 from the first floor of a house in Orchard Road, Singapore, yesterday. He was admitted to the General Hospital.
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    Public debate on women
    49 7 Public debate on women The Literary and Debating group of Upper Serangoon community centre will hold a debate at its premises In Llm Ah Pin Road. Singapore, at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Topic will be that women are equal to men in all respects. The debate is open to public
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    Audition for singers
    39 7 The Singapore Musical Society will hold an audition in the Victoria Memorial Hall at 5.15 p.m. on Sept. 24 for singers who wish to appear as soloists In the society's performances of Handel's "Messiah" in December.
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    'HELP ME FIND MY SON' APPEAL
    314 7 I But German mother's clues all lead to nothing KUALA LUMPUR. Mon i%e Straits Times here today received a letter from a German mother appealine for help in finding her son whom she has not seen since the war Mrs Etna Paneke, of Hanin
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    HE LIT HER CIGARETTE AND STRUCK THE LIGHT THAT LED TO LOVE
    158 7 HE LIT HER CIGARETTE AND STRUCK THE LIGHT THAT LED TO LOVE TWEY MET in a Klan g res- taorant early this year. She was trying to ligrht a cigarette. He stepped in and held a match for her. Their eyes met. "And that's how it all began," said Corporal
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    Housewife: They hit him with hammers
    181 7 FIVE CHARGED IN MURDER CASE A 24-YEAR-OLD housewife yesterday alleged that after her father-in-law had been beaten up, he was stripped and carried out of the house. Ho Ah Poh, the housewife. was giving evidence at a preliminary Inquiry in a Singapore court against
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    STRIKE PROTEST BY 28 WORKERS
    186 7 STRIKE PROTEST BY 28 WORKERS TWENTY-EIGHT n--1 luctant strikers-to-be wrote to the Singapore City Council yesterday saying they had not been consulted before strike notices were served. In a petition asking that H* 1 "■PS? be kept secret, the 28 daily-rated workers complained that no general meeting: had been called
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    Radio station
    23 7 Singapore's Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, yesterday opened the $2,500,000 civil radio receiving station at Ylo Chu Kang.
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    DEATH
    28 7 EDWIN EARNEST WARS, 55, pawed away peacefully In Singapore on Sept 17, 1956. Cortefe leave* L 17 aiut Road at 110 p.m. on Sept. IS for funeral.
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    Science aids women
    106 8 Science aids women A new water resistant wrist watch which housewires may keep on even ichen they wash up, is the latest gift of science to women. Until now, water resistant watches have been too large and masculine to interest fashionable women, but the new one is both small and
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    FOR THE AND-BOX BUSINESS GIRL
    75 8  - FOR THE AND-BOX BUSINESS GIRL SUSAN BARRIE TOPICS FOR WOMEN ....BY That 'right out of a band-box" look is a big business asset as well as a social one. and any career girl who wants to achieve it will do well to stock up on crisp, pretty blouses. The dark-eyed
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    Royal visit styles
    101 8 Royal visit styles SINGAPORE women who are planning to "splash" on new clothes for formal occasions during the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh, will have a pre-view of some of the latest fashions at a morning mannequin parade on September 29. The parade, which will be arranged by John
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    Pictures gave amah a very good laugh What A Life
    495 8 Pictures gave amah a very good laugh What A Life MONDAY II7E are looking at some old photographs when Amah comes in and wants to see them. They seem to amuse her to the point of hysterics, but the climax comes when she catches sight of me in evening dress
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      166 8 Straits Times Crossword ACBOBS 7 "The great man down, you 1-A Daatol com. to judgment" H (Hamfct) 9 ParUamantanr occasion for S School for oratory? (11) 10 SSSSX&ft** M SE^tfc. planffld and gating thing, (7. ?£?s« ™*J» »£•?"»*"*»"»&gt;»* aiOddTeK^lTm^^nt 15 A Mioney-maker, h« hw the C^S. I.i» /m Naty aTheart
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    Lock icon STRAITS TIMES Special Feature Terror swept America when Martians 'came'
    1512 9 STRAITS TIMES Special Feature Terror swept America when Martians 'came' Radio play that was taken too seriously (J the Inited States. Thousands of horrible creatures fith leathery skins and slavering mouths descended from jpace sh ips, and blasted New York off the map with death OVS and poison gases. lt
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      7 9 Princess M I and the m equerry
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      115 9 Hex Morgan. 3M.D. tol t'- 'll Jg^lPqßßß— LILA A*P 1 CAVT V W&lt;LL,PEKMAP&I YOU tMSI _9B_A W .™*B&gt;.*L\ 1( g66 J^BK^B -_^»B=:^"^= 1 fc I^^^ &gt;1 B«BJr EAT THEM ALL' J 1 I CAN TAKE -&gt;j MINP-REAPEU, JUMC feAgLlgt J Ii lMHir 1.11-l'"i'i'i mi' J rniTn" TiTTrT I™ iilT n
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    New aid for rubber industry
    161 10 ANEW type of industrial thermometer, designed to be of particular use to the rubber, plastics and food industries, is being exported by a Devon instrument manufacturing company, ffIFAM BectftoJ Instrument Co* Ltd., Leigh Court. Higher Uncombe Road, Torqna^Denm. It is a psnSineter with a needle
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    SHIPPING
    155 10 Bklpa tytaMC alisgriti th« Blnga■m Bsriear Beard ■■■lisa m tDMtH today are: Straat Bat 1-a. Sunda 4-5, Irkutsk: C.P. Abbekerk 6-7, SongkhU Flylm Bnterprlsa 11. Star Arcturui 13-14, Ludwlgshafen 15-16, Bans* Maru 18. Itrla 19-20, Stla N.Wai 3. Serdang N.Wall 4, Estrella de Amor N. Wall 6, PetaUng N.WaU
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    Lock icon VIETNAM RUBBER
    77 10 PARIS. Man.— Rubber production rrom Vietnam and Cambodian plantations totalled S.4OS tons m July compared with 8.155 tons In June, according to provisional figures released here. Vietnam produced 5,575 against Ml 3 and Cambodia 3.833 against Gp. EsDorts from Vietnam only totalled 5.612 tons In July against 7.700
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    TIN SHARES EASIER IN SYMPATHY WITH METAL PRICE
    257 10 TIN SHARES EASIER IN SYMPATHY WITH METAL PRICE By Our Market Correspondent FOLLOWING their rise of five to seven per cent last week, tin shares on the local market yesterday were inclined to ease in sympathy with the drop in the metal price This fell by $18.25 per picul on
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    181 10 The Malayan Exchange Bank* Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday: London: Selling T. T. or O D 2/3 7/8; buying airmail: TT 3/4. OU, 2/4 1/16. 30 d/si 2/4 7/32. 45 d/st 2/4 9/32 60 d/st 2/4 11/32, 90 d/st '2/4 d'/ftiV" 2/4
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    352 10 The Malayan Share Brokers &lt;sasnlstten reported: '-Industrial* were quietly steady, rubbers were quiet while tins were inclined to eaae." Singapore and Federation broken reported the following bmi- jrcßjtcrdityc- Ftxi. Dlspensary $3.07 IJ3 (overnight); Gammon $141 (odd lot), $1.9112 (Overnight); Georgetown Dispensary J2.JO; W. Hammer $3.95 cd, |2.«6 xd;
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    RUBBER PRICES
    138 10 OcUber first grade rabber b«yen lAb. ceawi fern ghigapere yes* terday at 93H cenU per lb; unchanged on Saturday's closing price. The eieainc tone was quiet. Claolna price* In cents per lb. yesterday were:- No. 1 R.SjS. Spot f.o.b. buyers 93K. sellers 93 Vi; No. l R.S.S. Oct.
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    129 10 Slaravore Chin ear Prodnre Exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday were;Caata: steady quiet; Spet. $36 1/3 buyers, $37 seller*. Coconut ell: steady; bulk $40 3/4 sellers, drum $43 3/4 sellers. Pepfer: quiet; do business reported done; Ifuntok white $134. Sarawak $133, special Sarawak black $85 (all unchanged). Wtnginsri
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    RUBBER CROPS
    21 10 Aagaai rubber Crop* aanomacea are;. Cfc.iiMs.iit Derriepment 157.000 lb: Imfragn-I 99,986 1b: NayaJa. 41.733 lb and Tapah 74.8W lb.
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    OFFICIAL PRICES
    9 10 Rlb'bfr E L -r, U P 2a &gt;.
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    44 10 SSswJ tan tai „",!*"»■&gt; SSL' Con. Zlr, c c1955 -»8£38 3;;\&lt; Western MuiinV S/6; Ampol. Ex. i&lt;/; Oil Search •oA«t c onsol in •..i :-&lt; a.p.M. new) m .r, Bradford a. hiu Pro;*;; Courtauld Dunlop Hee. Zinc.".*.' ?J Woolworth 4 «/5&gt; Swan BreweriM*"* iffi
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    MORE U.S. CARS
    31 10 «EW YORK, Mcn-D. of passenger cars b*^*? the U.S. and Canada 'I*. ended Pridav fc JL*? Ward's Automotive Aj 621 compared, ith^^ In the previous week j r^
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      595 10 TENDERS SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST Tenders are Invited for the construction of sewers at Buklt Panjang Housing Estate Buklt Panjang Village, Singapore. Tender form etc., may be obtained on payment of a deposit of $100/. which will be refunded If a bona fide tender Is submitted. Sealed tenders are to be
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      563 10 PUMJC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS an Invited fa the post* of (a) ELECTRICAL INSTRUCTOR &lt;b) MOTOR MECHANIC IN. STRUCTOR, and i (c) MACHINE SHOP INSTRUC TOR, Junior Trade School, Singapore. The appointments wiu, in Urn nrat instance, be on three yean probation after which permanent appointment will be considered. SALARY SCALE: |230x15A
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      151 10 DIAMOND Today t Shews: S A fJ* »jn. VAANT' (TAMIL) Starrinc: 8. A. Natarajaa, 8. V. Snppaia, K. Saranga Fany, K. LaHtha. A. gafcaatata, P. SweeU. Baby Padmini. Baby Saroja and Many oftera. Last Day! S.IS. *M t.U TM. n. v. rntBA*rs FESTIVAL-AWARD WINNER (Malay with English SaotlUes). Next Change!
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    WHY BOTHER WITH A TRAVEL AGENT?
    324 12 Yw, ttMMied traveller k»ow. thit he can mat* his air. tea •r rail twokings direct with the Companiei concerned bur he dot Mr do M. The reason for Hiit W the fact that h. IS a seasoned traveller and knew* just what a Travel
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    Further plans for $10mil.Ipoh cement works
    469 12 JF present plans materialise, Ipoh will soon have a thriving industrial works which will produce 7,000 bags of cement daily to meet the growing demand in the Federation of Malaya for this essential building material. The man behind the new project is a 54-year-old
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    AIMS AT BETTER STYLES
    166 12 AIMS AT BETTER STYLES A Hone Kong tailor, Mr. Kwong Man Be, who has been aa expert tor over 2&gt; years espeelally as an American-style cotter, la now in Singapore to help improve the styles of dresa for local men. Mr. Kwonr, who holds an American diploma In tailoring, comes
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    LARGE STEEL FIRM'S MOVE
    245 12 Open office here A LARGE, well-known British steel pipe manufac- turing company, Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd., Glasgow, have opened an office in Singapore to cater for local customers. Mr. D. j. a. Waller, who ar- I rived from England last week will be the local technical
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    'A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR SIAM RICE SALES'
    284 12 'A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR SIAM RICE SALES' MALAYA, one of the biggest consumers for Siamese rice, was still a most favourable market for the grain and the future was bright, Mr. Winai Pachimsawat, the Siamese Trade Commissioner in Singapore said yesterday. Mr. Win.il said most Malayans had shown their appreciation
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    Qantas Airways to buy 7 Boeing jet airliners
    359 12 SIANTAS Empire Airways, of Australia, is to buy seven Boeing 707 Jet airliners at a cost of £AlB.Bm. (Just over £15m.) for use on its international routes, including its service to London. Announcing this Mr. Atholl Townley, Australian Civil Aviation Minister, said
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    Lock icon LONDON 'BOBBY' IS OUT FOR A WORLD BEAT'
    56 13 LONDON 'BOBBY' IS OUT FOR A WORLD BEAT' In November, London policeman Ron Roberts will have another "beat" to pound— he'll be all out to crash world opposition in swimming events of the Olympic Games at Melbourne. Roberto, 33, wUI be swimming for Britain to the 100 metres freestyle and
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    Lock icon Brighter cricket paid dividends for Essex
    351 13 S\N£ of the wettest summers \J on record has had a serious affect on the gates of many county clubs this year but one bright spot emerges. That is that the exponents of brighter cricket have suffered less than those sides which so often
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    Lock icon Melbournce stadium riot: Games men to investigate
    211 13 MELBOURNE, Monday. 'THE Chief Executive Officer of the Olympic x Games, Lt. Gen. Sir William Bridgeford, said last night there would be a full inquiry into overcrowding and rioting at Saturday's soccer game at the Melbourne cricket ground the main Olympics Stadium. Sir
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    Lock icon PRO TITLE TO TONY TRABERT
    77 13 r PARIS, Mon. NY trabert, 1955 Wimbledon champion won the men's singles today in the professional lawn tennis tournament here. He beat another American, Pancho Goniales), «-3, 4-6, 5-7. 8-6, 6-2 after a three-hour battle. Frank Sedgm&n. of .Australia, took third place in the singles
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    Danes win
    15 13 HELSINKI, Mon.— Denmark beat Finland 4-0 in an International soccer match here yesterday.
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    DISPLEASED, SO HE ROLLED OUT OF RING
    202 13 DORTMUND, Germany, Mon. EUROPEAN middleweight boxing champion Charles Humes of France scored a knockout victory over Germany's Peter Mueller in the third round of a scheduled 10-round non-title bout which ended hi turmoil here last night. The fight, which saw the clever Frenchman
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    Lock icon OUTSIDER WINS EASILY
    72 13 PARIS Mon.— M. R. Beamonte's Arabian, a 25-1 outsider easily won the Prix Royal Oak, the French Bt. Leger at Longhamp yesterday. A furlong and a half out. Jockey Jean Deforge brought Arabian through with a strong run to beat the odds-on favourite, Mmc Leon Volterra's Vattel
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    168 13 Swaps may undergo a minor operation ATLANTIC CITY, Mon. CWAPS, the American *3 champion racehorse, may undergo a minor surgical operation shortly. Swaps was withdrawn from Saturday's US$lOO,OOO United Nations Handicap because of a recurrence of an old hoof injury. The rich 9% fur. race was won by Mr. C.
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    55 13 WHITTIER. California; Mon. Diminutive Marlene Bauer Hagge won the US$5,OOO women's professional Golfers Association Invitational Open Tournament yesterday. Mrs. Hagge took a final round 73 for a 72-hole total of 292, four strokes under par. second was Joyce Ziske at 296. Tied for third at 297 were Patty
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    30 13 BUENOS AIRES, Mon.— The Combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities Rugby Union team beat an Argentine national selection 11-3 here in the last match of their tour yesterday.— Reuter.
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    22 13 BELGRADE, Mon. Hungary beat Yugoslavia 3-1 in an International football match here yesterday. Hungary led 2-1 at half time. Reuter.
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      ARMY SET MARK FOR CHINESE, MALAYS
      367 14 ARMY SET MARK FOR CHINESE, MALAYS ARMY, the pace-setters in this year's S.A.F.A. Community League, ended their campaign yesterday with a 4-2 victory over Eurasians at Jalan Besar Stadium. Army thus maintained their unbeaten record with 14 points from eight matches gained from six wins and two draws, against holders
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      Malays keep soccer Cup
      139 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. A FTER TWO sessions of extra r time. Johore Malays retained the Tong Seng Cup today by defeating Johore Chinese 4-3 In a keenly-contested soccer game. Malays opened scoring when Wan Abdullah netted. Then Ahmad Bakar put Malays two up. Just before half-time
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      ACS OLD BOYS FOR HOCKEY
      56 14 All ACS. Old Boys who wish to represent the association In friendly hockey matches are requested to Rive their names to Tan Soo Hian (Tel *****) or Teo Tye Hln (Tel *****). Mr. Koh Boon Chiang has donated the H. M. Hoislngton Cup for this
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      THROW-IN MEET
      25 14 The Singapore Amateur Football Association annual McOrtgor Watt Cup throw-in competition will be held at Jalan Beaar Stadium on Sunday at 4 p.m.
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      WINNING GOALS BY SOOCELERAJ
      32 14 Ceylon Sports Club beat Singapore Recreation Club Blues 2-1 in a friendly hockey match on the padang yesterday. Ceylonese scored through Sooceleraj &lt;2j while Valberg replied for SJR.C.
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      Injury may be end of his playing days
      302 14  -  SAUL JOSHUA By piVE years ago Desmond Kennedy, one of Singa- pore's best rugby forwards, met with a motorcycle* accident in Ireland. Now he has been advised by two specialists to give up the game. It will be a tough decision to
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      HAT-TRICK WINS
      30 14 Playing their first hockey match this season, Gan Eng Seng School beat St. Patrick's 3-0 at Anson Road yesterday. Bakar Palll scored a hat-trick for Oan Eng Seng.
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      Ritchie Cup to RAF Seletar
      48 14 RAF Seletar won the Ritchie Cup yachting competition at Selftar over the weekend. Seletar beat RAP Changl on Saturday, RE. Yacht Club by 23 to 18 on Sunday morning and then Royal Singapore Yacht Club by 20 to 16' t in the afternoon.
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      Saints down SCC 'B and signal Asians' rugby revival bid
      301 14 CT. Andrew's Old Boys signalled the determination of Singapore's Asian rugger players to make this their best season when they beat Singapore Cricket Club "B" by nine points (two tries, penalty) to nil on the padang yesterday. It wai a
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      Kesavan deserves a trip if anyone does
      696 14 Kesavan deserves a trip if anyone does SAAA INVITES CRITICISM OKf ITS CHOICE FOR MELBOURNE j By THE SPORTS EDITOR npHE Singapore Ama--1 teur Athletic Association has left itself open to criticism by not including Singapore champion sprinter Kesavan Soon among the athletes it has recommended to be sent to
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      SCRC'S NEW 5-ACRE FIELD READY SOON
      366 14 Building Funds Appeal fTHE Singapore Chi- nese Recreation Club's new ground at Shenton Way is in the final stages of completion and the committee is now appealing to members and friends for its building fund. First to put his name down on the donations
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      'B TITLE TO LIAN CHYE
      80 14 Lee Llan Chye (15.3) won the V.M.C.A, handicap "B" singles tennis championships when he beat Tay Kirn Seng (scr) In the final by 6-3. 0-6, 6-0 at Bras Basah Road yesterday. Other results: Handicap "A" singles: Tan Hua San (scr) beat Our Swee Keng (30-3)
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      CHAMPION AT 18
      21 14 Keaavan Soon, the Singapore champion sprinter m action. 'Size, pace to burn and the will to win Oliver
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    114 14 SYDNEY, Mon. T*HE programme of matches to be played in Britain by the touring Australian Rugby League team Is: Wednesday. Oct. 10 v Liverpool; Oct. 13 v Leeds: Oct. 19 v Hull (floodlit); Oct. 18 v Barrrw; Oct. 20 v Whitehaven; Oct. 24 v
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    Khalsa take four off Teachers
    148 14 IT HALS A Association defeated Teachers Training College 4-0 In a Singapore Hockey Association Div. 2 league game at the P. T. ground yesterday. Khalsa were the steadier team and on their performance yesterday have a good chance for the Dlv. 2 title this season.
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    91 14 ZATOPEK NOT SATISFIED WITH FORM VIENNA Mon. EMIL ZATOPEK is planning to give up running if his present form docs not "considerably improve" within the next four weeks, reports a Ciech newspaper. The newspaper said Zatopek is "very unsatisfied" with results reached in training recently. He resumed training a few
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    302 14  -  EPSOM JEEP By A T°S7» j 2 ut for thJ 1 vn derstand Bet a clfaran aile &lt;» 'i thevet. ance fro! .season— the «5,, i. Zp «f L ack of stayers Daybrook his hart markablerLseCi^ Cla^s 1 m«de thr Pc win may sk lp hu &gt;^ H SS
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