The Straits Times, 28 July 1957

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    12 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES No. 1,144. 20 CENTS SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, JILY 28, 1957
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    HARBOUR BOARD GO-SLOW TO END
    866 1 M CONDITIONS ACCEPTED slow campaign at I Singapore Harbour I will end tomorrow n involved will themselves for normal work. inquiry laid I i'tions yesreturn to nor- I "an interim without preJtimate find- Lee Kuan the SHB whose working !2, pli ciizrd ild call off
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    Lock icon NOW-AN ORCHID SITTER
    42 1 NOW -AN ORCHID SITTER K sat. Add ng ii>t of dog sitters, cat E:dmund S. McCawley. of the U.S. Navy. Is away from home, he hires an orchid sitter to regulate the temperature for the delicate plants in his orchid house. A.P.
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    JUNGLE HIDES ALL SIGNS OF 21 MEN
    440 1  -  Tan Tock Sailk Gone a month... and only silente since then By Overdue 7 days for village rendezvous Kuala Lipis, Sat. TWENTY-ONE MEN ARE LOST IN DEEP JUNGLE IN THE WILD, UNMAPPED KELANTAN-PAHANC BORDER AREA. THEY ENTERED THE JUNCLE A MONTH AGO. SINCE
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    Detainees: Mr. Lint receives a petition
    126 1 Detainees: Mr. Lint receives a petition RKI.ATIVES of 63 political detainees in Singapore yesterday sent a petition to the Chief Minister Mr. Lim Yew Hock, asking that the prisoners be tried openly or released immediately. Listed in the petition are the People's Action Party AssemMjman, Mr. I.im Chin Siong and
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    EAGER FOR TRADE
    32 1 NEW YORK. Sat. Mr. H. S. Suhrawardy. the Pakistan Prime Minister, announced here yesterday hi s country, "very anxious" to expand its trade, was offering incentives to foreign investment
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    Lock icon PERSIAN GULF SULTAN APPEALS FOR HELP
    46 1 THE SI'LTAN of .Muscat and Oman. Said bin Taimur. has asked Britain to help him put down a tribal revolt against him led by the Imam of Oman. Ghalcb Mb \li RAF planes have carried out warning raids.— A.P. picture
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    A RAW DEAL
    21 1 MADRAS, Sat. Russia Is buying about a million pieces of raw skins a year from India— A. P.
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    THE (JAZZED) LORD'S PRAYER
    223 1  -  PETER BUCHAN By LONDON. Sat. A JAZZED recording of the Lord's Prayer is on sale in this country. It. Is part of what is called a Twentieth Century Mass —an ordinary Mass set to music in the popular idiom, using the rhythms of the foxtrot, waltz,
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    'Away from it all' holiday for Tengku
    70 1 'Away from it all' holiday for Tengku PENANG. Sat.— The Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, arrived in Penang today to b e "away from it all" for the week-end. "I am going to nave :i complete rest." he told the Sunday Times. The Tengku. who is having a slight attack
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    Lock icon Ex-runner hit by javelin
    80 1 LONDON. Sat.— Stan Cox, former British Olympic runner, was struck under the heart by a javelin during the Amateur Athletic Association junior championships here today. Cox was officiating in the centre of the arena when a javelin thrown by one of the competitors hit him in
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    Lock icon Jap flood toll rises to 618 deaths
    222 1 TOKYO, Saturday. THE dead and missing toll officially reported by the Japanese police from Japan's southern island of Kyushu this morning rose to 618 The latest nolirn renorts on the nightmarish series of flash floods, torrents of water and landslides from the stricken
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    Lock icon Woman. 20, has five children
    53 1 NEW YORK. Bat Mrs. Jodean Miller, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has ftve children and she's still not old enough to vote. The 20-year-old woman Is the mother of twins born on Nov. 19. 1954. a daughter born on Oct. 12, 1956, and twins born
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    4,000-in-OHE WEDDING
    33 1 MEXICO CITY. Sat.— Four I thousand couples ar c scheduled to get married here today in a mass wedding, which, will legally bind poor couplea who havp been living together on|
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    Lock icon The busmen go back to work
    40 1 LONDON, Sat Britain's 100,000 provincial busmen who h£tve been on strike for more pay for the last eight days decided today to accept an industrial disputes tribunal offer and return to work tomorrow— Reuter.
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    Flu hits 5,000 in California
    33 1 SAN FRANCISCO. Sat.About 5,000 civilian cases of Asian flu have been eported in San Diego during the last. 30 days. The navy estimated 7,000 cases among its men.
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    CANADIAN M-ENVOY
    28 1 OTTAWA. Sat.— Mr. J. M. MacDonnell, Minister without Portfolio, will represent Canada at the independence celebrations in Malaya nexr; month, the External Affairs Department said today.
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    Lock icon SULTAN'S FLAG IN REBELS9 TOWNS
    195 1 SULTAN'S FLAG IN REBELS 9 TOWNS DAHREIN, Sat. The red flag of the proBritish Sultan of Muscat has now appeared at three places in Oman which are in rebel hands. an official spokesman said here today. The flags had been seen at Izki. Araqi and Ainain following the three-day demonstration
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    GUATEMALA President shot dead
    30 1 ASSASSIN WAS PALACE GUARD GUATEMALA CITY. Sat President Carlos Castillo Annas was shot dead by a palace guard last night. The guard committed President Castillo Annas
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    Lock icon STOP PRESS
    550 1 TWO STABBED Two labourers. Yronc Cheng Siong. 22, Thcnu Ah Say, 18. were stabbed last night while playing mahjonc in Palembani; Road. Singapore. suicide immediately after the shooting, it was announced. President Annas was shot twice in the chest as he was walking through the palace dining hall
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    Judicial Outrage
    1187 2 Edgar Lusgarfen begins a new series which examines the occasion when the man on f/g Bench, for one reason or another, has betrayed the high principles of his office. JLDICIAL outrages nre not always the work of inliiiin;in monsters. Most often the contrary is the case; they arc
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    THE JUDGE WHO LOVED CRUELTY
    390 2 No. 1 IN THE SERIES wouldn't. Jeffreys, on the other hand, was dishonest, and determined that he should. As Dunne enters the box, Jeffreys greets him with a scowl intended as a portent of forthcoming favours. And these are not long delayed. For prosecuting counsel
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    World's most exclusive school
    218 2  -  INGRID ETTER By QENEVA, world's most sive school a where blood flow and richer than t» Eton in Great t even. It is 1 where the pupi', are either heirs to til heirs to millions, both. And my visit to it n a moment too soon.
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    CHAPTER ONE THE BROKEN SHOULDER-STRAP
    532 3 .DAY TIMES VERSION OF THE TORY BY TERENCE RATTIGAN B\f K STAGE it "The Coconut Girl" I round ;t rush, a bother, swish of bust- call-boy \\;is darting about in ol me shouting: "Everybody on stage, All principals to meet the royal party." d in
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    The Prince & The Showgirl
    795 3 The Prince The Showgirl k. w m w 9 B» A J F i W .^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^r^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^W^^^^^Pl^^^^L^^H^^^^^^^^^P^^^^^H The Earl of Binfield, <C la* of the Office. ex-Am-r to Paris, is a i Tvin in his ■Hi with a live- ltion of the when he was the ?ctcr Northbrook made a dashing
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    Miss Kerr's big puzzle: Shall I be a body or a mind?
    561 3  - Miss Kerr's big puzzle: Shall I be a body or a mind? LOGAN GOURLAY THE PERFECT FEMININE COMBINATION By LONDON, Sat. QEBORAH KERR shuffled across the lounge of her hotel suite in slippers and said: "My feet are killing me. 1 danced all night last night. And the night before.
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      99 3 Do you know? That The MALAYAN RAILWAY Now offers facilities to passengers proceeding abroad by Airlines from the Singapore International Airport at Pnya Isobar to be met at Singapore Railway Station by a private hire-car which will convey them to the Airport for as little as $5.00 for up to
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      308 3 WHO HAVE ALWAYS DONE THEIR OWN SEWING will be able to accomplish the most difficult sewing steps without attachments without "Sending Out". Literally, at the mere flick of a switch they will be able to sew everything at home ...witha RAHI CTTI Even jour child will soon learn to embroider
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    HELP MAKE MALAYA STRONG, SAYS MacG
    146 5 HELP MAKE MALAYA STRONG, SAYS MacG CHANCE FOR ALL COMMUNITIES IPOH Sat. Th* retiring High Commissioner. Sir Donald MacCillivray. ■htc today that the constitution provided |f«Jt opportunity for all -nmunities to play a for.ether in building strong. democratic Malifa. to the Suna whirlwind •our of the Great progress* that the
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    Night at terror estate
    112 5 Night at terror estate I I'OII Sun Sir Outlaid ami I >4j M;m <.illivra> M>ent last night M Phin Sooti tatetc, in >uneei Siput as quests ■4 Mr. and Mrs. lord. Thiv v.is the estate that trig«<-red off the I MfgMM "ii June It, I 'IX. with the murder of
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    NEW PARTY FOR WORKERS ONLY
    310 5 IT WANTS TO ELIMINATE MANS EXPLOITATION Of MAN, SAYS STATEMENT Unions get copies of draft constitution Convenor named THE first step towards the formation of a new political party exclusively for Singapore trade unionists was taken yesterday. A draft constitution of the party to be
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    Girl killed, another hurt by train
    55 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— An 11-year-old girl was killed and another injured when \hey were bit by a goods and passenger train at the 3 2mile Cheras Road this morning. Yap Soon Moi. daughter of a vegetable gardener, was killed. Yip Piang Mooi, 12, daughter
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    1.30 a.m. raid netted 42
    81 5 Forty-two people, including 15 young women, were produced before Mr. Choor Singh, Singapore's Fourth Magistrate yesterday on separate charges of gambling in a common gaming house earlier in the morning. They were rounded up In two houses in Geylang Road and Muar Road when detectives
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    Busmen see the Chief Minister
    72 5 Representatives of the Singapore Bus Workers' Union met the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday in a bid to settle the dispute between the union and the managements of the Hock Lee and Tay Koh Vat bus companies. After the meeting, the Assistant Commissioner
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    Merdeka levy on Govt. men
    55 5 KUALA KUBU BAHRU. Sat Government servants in Ulu Selangor are to be asked to contribute one per cent of their pay to the Merdeka Fund. The District Merdeka Celebrations Committee expects to raise between $1,000 and $1,500 in this way. The committee will spend about
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    FOUND HANGED
    30 5 An unemployed man, Lim Beng Seah, 51. of Bukit Timah Road, was found hanging from a rafter over the five- foot-way at Ah Hood Road, Singapore, yesterday morning.
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    PEOPLE PITIED Mr. GOH-his SON HAS JOINED THE ARMY
    297 5 PEOPLE PITIED Mr. GOH-his SON HAS JOINED THE ARMY NOW ASSEMBLYMAN'S A PROUD FATHER U/HEN 19-year-old ww Goh Sah Nee joined the army 16 weeks ago "old-fashion-ed" neighbours offered his father, Mr. Goh Tong Liang, a Singapore Assemblyman, their condolences. Yesterday, a proud Mr. Goh saw his son marching smartly
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    No squeeze after merdeka: Tengku
    136 5 No squeeze after merdeka: Tengku PENANG. Sat. The Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, today assured the Chinese in Malaya that no economic pressure would be exerted on them after mi-rdeka. "In fact we have provided adequate protection for every one. including foreign investors. In our new constitution." he told the
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    A forum on loyalty
    65 5 The Literary. Dramatic and Debating Society of the Teachers' Training College. Singapore, will hold a forum on "How we can achieve a common Malayan loyalty in the schools" at Upper Serangoon community Centre, Lim Ah Pin Road, at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday. It is one of
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    POLICE WILL STAND BY AT BIG MCA SHOWDOWN
    303 5 IXUALA LUMPUR. Sat Malayan Chinese Association officials here gave an assurance today that tomorrow's big showdown between two rival factions the "old guard and the "young blood"^-of the association will be a clean fight. Police have been asked to stand guard. It
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    Broke man's arm 18 months
    45 5 •RE BAHRU, Sat. bong, a elm and lather of eight who broke the arm I. e<>:. sales Dunlop Rubber ore, was [ailed for Mr. N. L. Cohen Kiuang Sessions Court. day. alleged that Lim his wife by embrac:.im denied this.
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    TAMIL HERITAGE
    25 5 M Rajakannu, Pro- Tamil at the UniM ikiya. will speak > the Tamil at the next meet- flub to be Cathay Hotel. >n Wednesday.
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    Colony gets its own Soap-Box Derby
    139 5 WINNER of Singapore's first soap-box derby, to be run in December, will win a trip to America to compete in the annual ail-American derby. The Singapore Junior Chamber of Commerce announed its plans for the event at its weekly luncheon at the Capitol restaurant
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    DERAILMENT DELAYS BANGKOK EXPRESS
    181 5 ALOR STAR, Sat.— The Bangkok International Express was delayed for five hours at Arau, Perlis, by a derailment at Kubang Tiga. 11 miles to the south. The derailment occurred at 12.39 p.m. yesterday when an oil tanker attached to a Prai-Padang Besar passenger train left the
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    'John in the Sack9 is a delicious cake
    268 6 'John in the Sack 9 is a delicious cake THIS week's recipe is an old Dutch favourite called "John In the Sack." and In spite of Its funny name it Is a delicious, fruit-filled cake. You need: 1 package of yeast (active, dry or compressed); cup warm, not hot, water
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    Bold bright colours dot the beach today
    350 6 The Susan Barrie Page for Teens and Twenties CASHIONS for outdoor girls are smarter and gayer than they have ever been and a girl with a good figure has every opportunity to cut a dash on the beach. In Malaya, where it is
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    Keeping fresh despite heat
    236 6 Keeping fresh despite heat IN our warm, tropical climate. not even several baths a day will keep you really fresh all day long without the use of a deodorant or nonperspirant under the arms. Many girls seem to nave trouble finding just the rigri, one, and there is only one
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    Good Samaritans bring cheer to tiny sufferers
    507 6 Good Samaritans bring cheer to tiny sufferers BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT AT the far end of Tay Lian Teck Road off the East Coast Road in Singapore is a little home for the sick known as the St. Andrew's Orthopaedic Hospital. It has six wards, quarters for nurses, and an
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    Her cousin betrayed her What should she do?
    613 7 II ur.s old and ibout $500 a unths who In a bar. I 1 much and All .md trust- r< promised I was home ight by the l>eople as r-ag< I still Maybe she did la but still i. rv her and
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    gane Leis HUMAN CASEBOOK
    271 7 gane Leis HUMAN CASEBOOK loct, unfaithfulness, hate and all other evils? He is convinced he is living and acting like a normal husband. Please don't say the wife is mentally unbalanced. She is quite sane. She is jealous but will not admit it. Is mutual happiness possible under these circumstances?
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    DEATH ON HIGHWAY IT'S TIME FOR STERN ACTION
    429 7 DEATH ON HIGHWAY IT'S TIME FOR STERN ACTION Address your letter: The 'Know Alls', The Sunday Times, Cecil Street, Singapore 1. r«AN moles be removed? If so, how? LAM CHANG Singapore Moles are caused by changes in the outer surface of the skin and if interfered with are capable of
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    The KNOW ALLS'
    766 7 homes where Malay or English is used a?id we see no reason why, if Malay is a suitable lingua franca, there should be any compulsion to learn another language. BUT obviously the more languages any person speaks the better equipped he is to understand his neighbour. IS
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      41 7 <SAMBOLg <g /bo/i/tv- I/if sounds as if <3*org*tiS]\t(e's very quiet O 1 'AADI2NINK3, QAGUNG. 1 TCieo] CD brtn<? my o^^ I f»«-_^ c I NOT TO VJAUEr s/o«J tt/MILE- I d wnakfiast up 6o me v* I WAS COOiil>^ mv 6CEAi<:rA<ST))
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    'Baby-killer'S' pleads: Come
    258 8 'Baby- killer'S' pleads: Come OUR CHILDREN ARE READY FOR SCHOOL, I CANT SUPPORT THEM' JANJONC KARANC, Sat. The attractive wife of the "baby killer" terrorist, Ah Hoi, today appealed to the people of Senkinchan to help induce her husband to return from the jungle. With tears in her eyes Ah
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    On show in Colony: Finest works of French masters
    205 8 On show in Colony: Finest works of French masters CROM the art galleries of London, Paris, and Washington, works by masters have been reproduced and brought to Singapore for display. Fifty reproductions will be exhibited at the Alliance Francaise in Laidlaw building. There is a painting of the snow-covered Rue
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    Hong Kong goods to go on show
    71 8 Sixteen members of the Hong Kong Chinese ManufacI turers' Union, led by Mrj Chuang Shun Yen, arrived in Singapore by air yesterday to finalise plans for the fourth exhibition of Hong Kong products which will be held at the Happy World on Aug.
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    HOLIDAY SHOOT
    22 8 The Singapore Gun Club in Bukit Timah Road will hold its August Bank Holiday shoot from 9.15 a.m. next Sunday
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    Pilgrim ship six deaths
    71 8 PENANG, Sat— Six pilgrims I three men and three women died on board the Anking on the way from Mecca to Penan<r. The boat, which arrived here this morning with the ,first batch of this year's returning pilgrims, also carried a seriously ill passenger. HaJI Omar
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    Hong Kong owes much to Malaya, says top doctor
    157 8 MANY Malayans hold top posts in the Hong Kong public service. Dr. Yeo Kok Chiang said in Singapore yesterday. Dr. Yeo, himself a Malayan, retired recently as Director of Medical and Health Services there. "Malaya should be proud of its children
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    wife back
    97 8 the village. Teenaged girls in shirts and black trousers carried spears in their hands and dragged straw effigies of Ah Hoi and four of his comrades on bic vdes When the procession returned to the padang and the effigies were burned Ah Ying wept. She told thp Sunday
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    RAMA WAS ONE OF YOUNG ARTISTES
    50 8 AH YIN(. "Help me to get of the junqlr Rama Issac, 10, dancin the Spanish Jota, in Afternoon of Ballet" the YMCA hall, Orchan Road, yesterday. Sh< one of the pupils i Taylor Dance L f which staged a ba: show. Sunday Tin picture.
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    Call to Reds: Come out of the jungle
    91 8 Call to Reds: Come out of the jungle KUANTAN, Bat.- A state councillor. In j him bin Arshad, today J on the terrorists to I of the jungle before i day, and lead a nen Inche Ibrahim South Perak) was a a motion by th< i retary approvinu constitution for
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    I WILL make good (sai Barbara) -anti site has
    876 9  - I WILL make good (sai Barbara) -anti site has RONALD BAXTER From LONDON, Saturday I WILL make good, Singapore's larfoara Lee vowed. as not easy to go saying it when the agent did not the film panics were inrent, the televiproducers unful. time Barbara he would have Hefeat and quit
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    Malaya's 'blackest' town rich in gold, tin and iron
    601 9  -  KHOO SIAN HOCK GUA MUSANC (A WHITE' TOWN NOW) LOOKS AHEAD WITH CONFIDENCE BY QUA MUSANC, the south Kelantan town in north Malaya, which was occupied by Communist terrorists for a week in 1949, promises to develop into one of the
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    How August bank holidays started
    184 9 YOUNG man couldn't get time off to see a eric- j ket match. He was so dis- appointed that he decided to do something about it. His name was John Lubbock. He was born in 1834 the sun of a wealthy banker. In those days
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    THE LONG
    1508 10  -  Harry Miller High Commissioner aim [Pfffy 1 SfVSCv:. officers have done it fairly casually since the end of the war. Sir Donald, however, is the first High Commissioner to undertake such an expedition and he had a time limit of five days. He has been an inveterate traveller
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    1579 11 J2l jingle miles in five days -by rail, by boat and on foot East Coast 'escape route' in reverse ac:ed, iretched luec'a mess- n Kuala .< istA packs r backs, nd began ige ->f a long r.-,f turned to I iital. follow the It is only [m wide but
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    36 inches below a green lawn will be an underground church to 20,000 people—largest pillarless building with an altar in /fit centr
    142 12  - 36 inches below a green lawn will be an underground church to 20,000 people— largest pillarless building with an altar in /fit centr J. P. GALLAGHER mil By A million tons of earth was dug out to take the basilica. Two hundred men are working on it. The site is
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      THE WAY TO END GRAFT
      301 12 ACT against graft. Don't try to hide it because it may be difficult to prove or because its exposure might affect the moraie of the public services. Bring it out into the light. That is what the average man thinks and what he wants the
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      Long memory
      173 12 jMOST original suggestion for a permanent Merdeka Day memorial comes from a Seremban town councillor. He wants about $10,000 of the celebration money, collected or voted, to be spent on an air strip for the town. So far few towns have bothered to think about permanent memorials. There
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    THE NEW MARVEL AT LOURDES
    1360 12 THE NEW MARVEL AT LOURDES CLOUDS of dusf are swirling over the beautiful little town of Lourdes, blackening the white robes of nuns and nurses, dusting the open-air altars with a grey film. Nobody minds, for it is a sign of progress in a fight with nature to complete by
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    THE GROTTO OF ST. BERNADETTE
    22 12 Pilgrims at the Lourdes grotto where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirou s in 1858.
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    UNTUTORED MUSICIAN GETS RARE HONOUR
    198 13 UNTUTORED MUSICIAN GETS RARE HONOUR ONE OF FOUR ASKED TO SEND ANTHEM A,APORE Malay no formal mv- „c ation is one of c invited by the n Government to a score for the 'hem. a Zublr Said, 50. c o m p osed three tunes within a week. They sent
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    COPRA PRICE
    38 13 ttafftporr Copra Ansoriatlon es per picul yesterday rait*. Borneo copra: July I ers, $24 sellers. Tone Ftlr merchantable Bombay ■pra: July $27 buyers, Tone quiet. re Coconut Oil Millers aworUtion: bulk $41 sellers, .-pliers. Tone steady.
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    TIN PRICE
    24 13 I The lift price in Singapore yesterdty «v $373.62 a picul. m Friday. BLACKMAIL HOLD ENDED: DOZENS OF OFFICERS ACCEPT HELP OFFER
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    40 COVT. MEN TO GO BANKRUPT
    351 13 They seize opportunity to clear themselves of moneylenders QOZENS of Singapore public servants are taking advantage of the Government's recent offer to help them extricate themselves from moneylenders' clutches, a Government spokesman told the Sunday Times yesterday. In the past month 40 Government officers
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    ITALIAN TENOR BACK FOR RECITAL
    64 13 ITALIAN TENOR BACK FOR RECITAL The Italian tenor Luigi Infantino will give a recital at the Victoria Memorial Hall, in Singapore next Saturday after an absence of two years from the Colony. The recital, presented by the Singapore Musical Society, will include early Italian songs, Neapolitan songs and a number
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    Theft of motor bike alleged
    43 13 A charge of stealing a $800 motorcycle was explained to Rahman bin Abdullah in Singapore yesterday. He was alleged to have ridden away Tay Boon Wah's vehicle parked at the Capitol Theatre in Johore Bahru on July 1.
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    'L' DRIVERS-53°0 FAILURES
    29 13 'L' DRIVERS -53°0 FAILURES More than half (53 per cent) of the 2,571 learner drivers, who took their tests in June, failed, rding to a Singapore Traffic Police report.
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    G.P.O. men are on alert
    95 13 Singapore Postal Department authorities have taken special precautions to prevent the theft of first-day covers bearing the latest Malayan stamps. The covers were posted last Thursday. The Director of Posts, Mr. A. Mackay, said .yesterday: "We are hoping there will be no more complaints of
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    VISITING SHIP
    32 13 The Dutch destroyer. Groningen arrived In Singapore yesterday on a threeday informal visit. The ship, under the command of Cmdr. J. Smith, is on her way to Dutch New Guinea.
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    BRIGADIER TALKS TO RECRUIT AT THE PASSING-OUT PARADE
    51 13 Brigadier W. H. F Hickie, OBE, brigadier-in-charge of Administration, and acting Commander, Singapore Base District, talks to Recruit Hassan bin Karim, one of the 77 recruits of the Ist Bn. Singapore Regiment, at the passing-out parade at Nee Soon yesterday. Sunday Times
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    16 died on the roads in June
    72 13 16 died on the roads in June Sixteen people were killed on the roads in Singapore last month, compared with nine deaths in May. According to a Traffic Police report, accidents of all types increased to 1,984 in June, compared with 1,837 in May, and 1.767 in April. Last Wednesday
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    Photographic contest for schools
    127 13 Photographic contest for schools rE Singapore Junior Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a photography contest for school children throughout the island. A bulletin giving details ot the contest is being issued to about 400 schools. The chairman of the Chamber's All-School Photographic Contest, Mr. P. L. Chan, said that the
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    Lock icon BETTER TRADE FORECAST BY ENVOY GUNN
    69 13 SYDNEY, Sat. Malaya's High Commissioner' designate to Australia, Mr. Gunn Lay Teik, said today speedier trade negotiations between Australia and Malaya would follow Malayan independence. Mr. Gunn, who will take up his post next month, said Malaya hoped to appoint a trade commissioner and
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    IGNORE RUMOURS, TEACHERS TOLD
    276 13 DENANG, Sat. The Minister for Education, Dato Abdul Razak, said today that Malayan student teachers at training colleges in both Britain and Malaya must be prepared to teach in any part of the Federation. "I know it Is not very easy to teach in the rural
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      318 13 What's on TODAY] ROYAL ARMY SERVICE INDEPENDENT MISSIONARY CORPS parade at old Kallang air- MOVEMENT: Free nlm shows at field Mountbatten Road entrance, Changt Prison -8 a.m., Rehabilita--10 a.m. Salute by Brigadier W.S.F. j tlon Camp 7.30 p.m. Hickie: music by Band of 2. 10 KATONG BOYS 1 CLUB (GuilleGu'kha
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    Imagination and ingenuity catch I the attention of judges
    297 14 THIS week's Picture Contest theme. "On the Highway" apparently failed to arouse the same en- thusiasm among readers :as more recent ones did But though entries were small they were of high quality. It is noteworthy that all prizes went to
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    Nutmeg mania gripped the early settlers
    576 14  - Nutmeg mania gripped the early settlers DONALD DA VIES Historical Corner by THE once great East India Company owes its origin to the early adventurous trader-captains who made perilous journeys to the Malayan Peninsula and the surrounding islands of the archipelago, taking back to Europe rich shipments of pepper and
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      TRACK TRYING TO BAIT KATE, GETS MANTRAPPED'
      483 15  - TRACK TRYING TO BAIT KATE, GETS MANTRAPPED' DOUG LACKERSTSEN TWO OLD-TIMERS SPARKLE IN SHARP BATTLE OF WITS By YOU'VE got to hand it to the oldtimers! They know the business of show business like it's no business of yours Give them a juicy script and they tear into it with
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      It was hard to tame Mame on old cotton farm
      236 15 I WARNER Bros. "VS- TAMED YOI'TH" gives I out with some of the hottest I rock 'n' roll music since the! Comets hitched their wagon i I to Bill Halev. All that ani Mamie Van Doren too Mamie, blonde, beautiful
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      Rains swamps the star of 'Lisbon'
      131 15 Rains swamps the star of 'Lisbon' CLAUDE Rains walks off with the acting honours ln "LISBON", a Republic picture with a cloak-and-dagger theme. Even though Ray Milland. the star, is also the director. He offers a delightful study of a polished thief with sadistic leanings, Jealous of his reputation for
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      Record Playtime
      403 15 rpwo new Polydor offerings Indicate an interesting, and pleasant, change in their approach to entertainment. The result is a mixture of Percy Faith's attractive orchestrations and the strings of Andre Kostelanetz. There is a smoothness In the Interpretations as gentle as the names— Tender Moments, and Strings, Moonlight
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      Slim Jim nearly lands in a mid-Atlantic stew
      383 15 Slim Jim nearly lands in a mid-Atlantic stew TO a new generation Lindbergh possibly is merely a name, but in the Turbulent Twenties he was the first man to fly a single seater airplane across the Atlantic from west to east The story of this now fabled flight— and the
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      GLAMOROUS GRANDMA WINS AT MONTE
      183 15 THAT "glamorous grandma" Marlene Dietrich turns in just about the slickest, smoothest, sure-shot performance of the season in the American-Italian produced "MONTE CARLO STORY," to be released by United Artists. As a money-needy Marquise seeking a wealthy man to prop up her penniless state, Marlene
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      FRANCE INVADES FULL-LENGTH CARTOON FIELD
      112 15 FRANCE INVADES FULL-LENGTH CARTOON FIELD FROM France there is an ambitious bid to make an impact on the fulllength cartoon field with "Johnny. The Giant Killer,' but the impression is just a shade more than faint. Technically, it is an outstanding piece of work which won awards at the Trieste
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      178 15 SINGAPORi: 11 metre*. Summary: 101 Music ln a MldKL'ALA LI'MPIK 'Al metres. day Mood: 130 Time Signal and PENANG 3GB metres. News; l 45 Sweet and Sentimental; MALACCA 297 metres. 200 Hit Parade; 230 Concert Hour; 330 Australian Magazine; A.M- 7 15 Opening Announcement: 345 At the Piano; 400 Listeners'
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    DO DIFFERENCES IN AGE MATTER?
    1317 19  -  Philip M. Bloom Concluding: Vetting Married' Special By IF I made an analysis of all fhe causes of disharmony histories, ire I would only a rela- role played by a parity in mply indimany such n^ ulf spe- advice, or it chance that ■I factor
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    460 19 Come aboard with UFFA FOX THERE is nothing in yachting to surpass the thrill of a small craft scudding across the top of the waves through a singing wind as the tingling spray peppers your face And there Is no more exciting little boat for
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    QUICK QUIZ-Over to you
    136 19 QUICK QUIZ -Over to you 1. Reassemble 4 As. 2 H s. 1 M, 1 R, and 1 I to make a familiar word. 2. What is the difference in meaning of the words that begin with ECCL and those that begin with ECL? 3. Would you most likely find
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    693 20 HOME v BY THE SEA FOR 100 TINY TOTS Children's Society needs $46,000 to keep up good won. A FEW months ago a little girl just six years old was taken to the General Hospital in Singapore. She was suffering from malnutrition. This is a condition which may mean anything
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    THE COUNTRYMAN'S JOURNAL
    436 20 THE COUNTRYMAN'S JOURNAL The Tuan goes to a dance and finds it exciting CRIDAY. July 19. 1957 Last Sunday we made one of our fatuous predictions that a dry spell was possible; instead the rain has increased in volume and frequency. ON the 13th. the Tuan emerged from retreat to
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    JUNGLE GREEN MEN 'INVADE' THE DUSUN
    363 20 for my husband!" Instead of congratulating her he asked if it was in the papers: she did not know. He then told her of a planter who returned from home leave on three occasions with a new wife without any notice in the papers
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    Union chief apologises to reporter
    82 21 Union chief apologises to reporter THE president of the Singapore Transport Employees' Union, Mr. Sin Swee Seng, yesterday apologised to a Sin Pao reporter, Mr. Chan Kwai Chee, who was assaulted by a union member last Monday. The incident occurred in the Labour Ministry. In a joint statement to thr
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    Pardon for Red helpers if they tell all
    97 21 Pardon for Red helpers if they tell all TANJONG KARANG Sat. Th e Federation Government will pardon terrorist helpers if they voluntarily come forward and promise to make a clean breast of the support they hav e given to the communists. This was disclosed by the Minister for Transport. Mr.
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    Magician takes actress bride
    62 21 MR. RON KNIGHT, overseas representative of the National Carbon Co. Ltd., and his bride the former Miss Sylvia Powell, after their wedding at th c Garrison Church, Tanglin, Singapore, yesterday. A keen magician, Mr. Knight is well-known as a charity entertainer and amateur "escapist." His bride
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    Lock icon New trade rules anger industry leaders
    107 21 JAKARTA. Sat. Indonesia's industrial leaders today joined labour unions and the opposition Press in attacking the exportimport regulations recently introduced by the Government. Mr. Omar Tusin, chair, man of the board, predicted that "large-scale unemployment" would result from the present trends in industrial and
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    Lock icon $20,400 FINES FOR Dr. ADAMS
    186 21 $20,400 FINES FOR Dr. ADAMS I ONDON, Sat.— Dr. John Bodkin Adams, Eastbourne doctor recently acquitted of murder, was fined a total of £2.400 ($20,400) at the Lewes Assizes yesterday. He pleaded guilty to 14 charges ranging from forgery of prescriptions and wrong statements on cremation certificates to obstructing the
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    Off to the U.S.A.
    40 21 PETER NAI. youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Nai Seng Hiang of Singapore, who will be leaving for the United States this week, to take up radio and television engineering at Warren Wilson College, North Carolina.
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    Secret device to open $150,000 UNESCO power exhibition
    195 21 THE Singapore Minister for Education. Mr. Chew Swee Kee. will use a secret device tomorrow to on^n the UNESCO travelling science exhibition at the Gan Eng Seng School. Insured for $150,000, the exhibition is being taken to all Asian member countries of
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    Paramount Ruler will not have a crown
    203 21 POMP AT INSTALLATION CEREMONY BUT... KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Two war clubs, 20 umbrellas and 20 spears will be used at the installation of the Paramount Ruler on Sept. 2. The Keeper of the Rulers' Seal, Tuan Haji Mustapha Albakri, said in a radio
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    Lock icon Jap cars for U.S.? Europe rivals take a calm view
    223 21 Jap cars for U.S.? Europe rivals take a calm view I ONDON, Sat. European reaction to statement from Tokyo that fast and cheap Japanese cars were to be marketed in the United States today ranged from a cautious "wait and see" attitude in France and Italy to "calmness" in West
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    WAR OPENED ON TALISMAN SELLERS
    79 21 WAR OPENED ON TALISMAN SELLERS KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. The Federation Police will put a stop to the selling of talismans and passages of the Koran by peddlers who claim that their possession will make their owners ''invulnerable.'' The office of the Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, in a statement today,
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    32 21 VIENNA, Sat. Hungarians should go back to the old custom of calling each other "Mr." and "Mrs. instead of comrade," a speaker over Budapest Radio said last night. Reuter.
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    28 21 ROME, Sat. A Mexican businessman, Bruno Pagaliai has announced that he and movie star Merle Obe r o n planned to marry "very soon. —UP.
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    49 22 (1) Maharajah. (2) Ecclesiastu. etc.. rel.ilm: to the Church; Eclectic, clmmine from varii.us idrus or <.w terns. (3) An agricultural tnstltltt (Science at fruit < ullivation (4) AiiMi ilun football followed by puul iim-stor*. (5) A I S.ind^.itc and down. (6) Ironmonccrs. ct<.— colour ing used in vami-hev
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    654 22  -  Edin Peters NIGHT DRIVING IS INTRODUCED AS TEST FOR THE FIRST TIME By SEVENTEEN women will be among the record 230 taking part in the second Shell Malayan Motor Rally starting at 6.30 a.m. on Saturday. Four women are co-drivers and 1
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    I DRIVE IN CITY OF GOOD MANNERS
    978 22  -  GRAHAM BY But there's reason for V.I.P. treatment SHORT CVER dreamed of a town of well-man-nered motorists right here in Malaya? I have found one; a place where there was no loud, prolonged blasts on the horn when I failed to take off
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      119 22 A MASTERPIECE IN THE MEDIUM PRICE RANGE m The Classical design of this truly ff magnificent Grundio; Radiogram, 9 7056 WE. will appeal greatly to those JfLSfc^fi vvith modern homes. A masterpiece in the medium price range, this Sgp*- v model embodies all the features that MS, ifiP* have made
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      78 22 Crossword solution ACROSS: l B Camel; 13 AH 15 Riven; 16 Eventuate; lf» N Act; 23 Phri; Second; 30 Cem 32 Rats; 33 I Lad; 38 Sell 44 Oaken; •».> Alert; 47 Eagle; DOWN: X Bareness 2 Olive 3 Rivet; 4 Even; Maraud; 7 C Miracle; lo Eve; n Met€:
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    BEARER BOND PAYS $258
    2299 23  -  EPSOM JEEP SIAPA TAHU ($104) TOUCHES OFF A DAY OF SURPRISES C-G Cup goes to Three Rings By REARER BOND, winner of the Singapore Gold Cup in 1955, made' a spectacular comeback to pay |258 for a win at PeMßf yesterday, first day of the August
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    50 24 St. Joseph's Institution beat Beatty Secondary School by 61 runs in their cricket match at Bras Basah Road yesterday. SJI scored 119 (Rajah 57. Vaz 32, Raja 6-40 > and dismissed Beatty for 58 'Gomez 18. T. Martens 4-18. F. Rajah 3-10. C. Morris
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