The Straits Times, 1 August 1957

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  • 12 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1957 15 CENTS
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  • 207 1 CABLES IN HIGH ST. MANHOLE TAMPERED WITH IN BROAD DAYLIGHT Extent of damage indicates it was done by someone who knows about circuits 3,000 out of order in the city ut the lines to 3,000 telephones n Singapore yesterday afternoon. wirts were encased in three thick were
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  • 600 1 LEFT-WING vs MODERATES AT ANNUAL MEETING TIIK long-awaited showdown between the Ri^ht and Lefl Wings of the People's Action Party 1 is about to take place. A head-on clash between the moderates and extremists will occur at the party's annual general meeting at
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  • 8 1 MR. LEE a showdown
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  • 47 1 NEW DELHI. Wed.— One man was shot dead and three others were wounded when police opened fire on demonstrating Municipal I streets sweepers here today. The sweepers are among I 15.000 Municipal workers who declared a lightning strike for better working conditions. Reuter.
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  • 29 1 HONG KONG. Wed— The British troopship Asturias passed through here today with the last batch of 1.100 men of the British Commonwealth contingent to leave Korea— Reuter.
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  • 23 1 Metropolihl broadcast tyo residents lard against nvercome by advised Avoid taking c hours of n most hen half- I 1
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  • 114 1 OMAN: R.A.F. PILOTS ORDERED TO GO IN SHOOTING DAHREIN, Wed.— R.A.F. planes destroyed six vehicles in attacks against the rebel forces of the Imam of Oman yesterday. Today an official spokesman announced here that new instructions— effective from yesterday— had been given to the flyers to move from mere demonstrations
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  • 102 1 MORE MINERS TO BE SACKED KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Malayan Collieries at Batu Arang is to dismiss more workers because of the falling demand for coal, a company spokesman said today. The number of workers at the colliery has been cut from 2.500 to 800 over the last three years. It
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  • 21 1 TOKYO. Wed— The Pope ha.s donated 718,000 yen for the relief of flood victims in Kyu.-hu.— A. P.
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  • 90 1 Missing tailor found dead A SINGAPORE tailor who disappeared last week has oeen found dead. Toh Ah Goon. 47. left his Tanjong Pagar home last Saturday night, telling his wife he would not be out for long a.s he had to get up early the next morning. And that was
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  • 20 1 KHARTOUM. Wed—Mirghani Hamza. Sudanese Deputy Premier, left today for a 10-day tour of Russian agricultural equipment factories.—Router.
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  • 31 1 CALCUTTA. Wed. -Seven people were killed and 50 injured today in an explosion at a railway yard at Asansol. a steel town about 120 miles from Calcutta. Reuter.
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  • 100 1  - Girl found walking naked SOLDIER' I WAS ATTACKED BY BU XI T MERTAJAM, Wed. A girl, found wandering naked at Kebun Sireh on Monday night, has told police that a serviceman who had given her a lift in his car had attacked her The girl. Joy Naragathabally Samuel, daughter of
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  • 219 1 LONDON. Wed. Britain today made it clear that she will resist direct loan requests from former coloniai territories, such as Malaya and Ghana, which achieve independence within the Commonwealth. A Government White Papor on Britain's role in Commonwealth development said firmly that the parent
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  • 246 1 KUALA T^HE Malay Rulers have the historic election o di-Pertuan Agonsj on Sati LUMPUR Wednesday, begun to arrive here for f the country's first Yang irday. They will stay on till Moni day for another big ceremony I the signing of a new agree- ment with
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  • 62 1 LONDON, Wed. The Queen today gave the Royal Assent to th e Federation of Malaya Bill to establish Malaya as an independent, sovereign country within the Commonwealth. This was done in the House of Lords through a Royal commission, a parliamentary instrument for conveying the Sovereign's will
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  • 29 1 VIENNA, Wed.— Czechoslovakia is holding at least 45.000 political prisoners in its jails and concentration camps, the Vienna independent newspaper Die Presse said today.— A. P.
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  • 29 1 CAIRO. Wed. The trial of 13 people accused of ati tempting to kill President i Nasser and overtnrow his re gime will start on Aug. 12
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  • 268 1 MALAY M.C.S. OFFICER IS MALAYANISED KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. gAJA AYOUB BIX RAJA HAJI BOT, 50, a senior officer in the Malayan Civil Service, has been permitted to retire under the Malayanisation scheme and receive compensation for loss of career because of "political pressure." He is the first Asian officer to
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  • 99 1 Indonesia arrests another newsman JAKARTA. Wed—Military police today arrested yet another reporter of Indo» -sia's largest newspar cT, the Chinese-lan-guage Keng Po. Lauw Pang Soei is the third reporter of Keng Po to be arrested. One was arrested last Saturday, the other yesterday. Eight journalists have been arrested by the
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  • 41 1 LONDON, Wed —The Egyptian state airline Misrair has ordered two British Vickers Viscount turbo-prop airliners costing between £600,000 and £800,000, Vickers Amstrong Co. announced tonight. The two planes are due to be delivered next year. Reuter
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  • 126 1 Jakarta: Nation faces collapse JAKARTA. Wed. In- donesia might collapse and sacrifices made during the independence struggle would be in vain if no halt was made in the present situation, the Government warned today. The warning was contained in an explanatory note accompanying instructions to the provinces in connection with
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  • 40 1 FORT SURRENDERS <S«t this pagr) >!!\K.I\II. Wed— 1/ki, lir>l rchrl fort straf< d l>> Koyul Air Force Vriiuiu .jrls has surrendered. Mr. N<i| M. Innes. l-'orrign Minister of Sultan of Oman, said in Mm t today. K< uUr
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  • 899 2  -  HALL ROM ME V CAPTURED DOCUMENTS REVEAL PLOT TO STOP DUKE'S TRIP TO BAHAMAS T OXDOJS, Wed.— Captured German foreign office documents published here today describe a wartime attempt by the Germans to prevent the Duke of Windsor leaving Europe
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  • 748 2 Hitler and von Ribbentrop on behalf of General Franco and. according to Stohrer, the Spanish Foreign Minister assumed "from certain impressions which Ymon had received in Germany that we might perhaps be interested in detaining the Duke of Wind- dence for an indefinite period. "Windsor has expressed
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    48 2 JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP, Nazi Foreign Minister during World War 11, was tried for war crimes and executed at Nuremberg in 1946. He created a sensation in 1936 when he greeted King George V with the Nazi salute at Buckingham Palace. He was then German Ambassador in London
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  • 186 3 the still defenH* the 'I*don't*hnovt>' ambassador: 'He can learn 9 Ceylon's Press gays: Send someone better informed pOLOMBO, Wed. lon's news- lashed today In they called the ippj case of -Mr. Gluck. ell H. Gluck, der and a chain of America's new [or to
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  • 76 3 NEW YORK. Wed. Dale was dreaming he swimming pool left his bed and :e<J laat nisht. bed on to a table md-floor bedroom :ved through a Indow. rents picked him up unconscious and rushed him to hospital. His chest and throat were cut One piece
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  • 157 3 Russia and America meet over lunch LONDON. Wednesday. THE United States Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, today conferred here with Mr. Valerian Zorin, Soviet delegate to the disarmament talks, in an attempt to break the deadlock at the London conference. The two
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  • 36 3 ISTANBUL, Wed.— Twenty people were burned to death and three more died of injuries when a passenger bus crashed into a ditch and caught fire near Edirne on Monday night.— A.P
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  • 51 3 FIVE veterinary surgeons work to save the life of Rocer. a five-year-old giraffe, at Lincoln Park Zoo. Oklahoma City. The surgeons straightened out an intestinal twist that may have caused the 14-foot 2.2001 b. animal to collapse. An anaesthetic kept Roger quiet during the operation -A.F.
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  • 159 3 Festival crowds take over Moscow IVIOSCOW, W e d.— Police loudspeaker cars toured Moscow's Gorki Street at midnight last night imploring thousands of aimlessly wandering Russians and foreign youths to clear the road for traffic and trolleybuses. A solid mass of swaying, dancing people took possession of central Moscow last
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  • 28 3 PARIS. Wed.— Mr. Christian Pineau. French Foreign Minister, told a Cabinet meeting that the French legation in Malaya would be raised to the status of Embassy.—Reuter.
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  • 251 3 Bound body of sunken ship's captain found TOKYO, Wednesday. trussed up body of a missing Japanese ship's A captain found in the sea near Kobe, Western Japan, today, deepened a mystery involving a sunken vessel and its missing anchor and engine. Coastguards found the corpse of the sunken ship's captain.
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  • 88 3 PREMIERE OF PLAY ABOUT MALAYA NEW YORK. Wed. Mr. Eric Kocher's prize- win nine play "Curfew in Malaya" was received with moderate enthusiasm by a near capacity audience at its world premiere yesterday at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis. Massachusetts. Mr. Kocher, former U.S. Consul-General in Kuala Lumpur and now
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  • 48 3 HOLLYWOOD, Wed. The Chinese actress Li Li Hwa \> coming to Hollywood to costar with Victor Mature in the film. "Time U A Memory." The actress, who heads her own picture company in Hong Kong, is due to arrive in Hollywood tomorrow.— A.P
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    • 52 3 JAKARTA, Wed.— Five hand-grenades exploded in five different places in Jakarta late last night, damaging property and injuring two persons. One of the grenades was thrown at the house of a senior army officer and another at the printing office where the left-wing newspaper Bintang Timur is
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    • 44 3 CAIRO: The Egyptian customs administration announced today that the Danish cargo ship Birgitte Toft which went through the Suez Canal bound for Israel on July 22 had been blacklisted by Egypt. She is forbidden t 0 load or unload merchandise at Egyptian ports.— Reuter.
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    • 29 3 FORT CHURCHILL (Manitoba 1: A United States test rocket, launched near here, crashed near the launching tower when its main rockets did not ignite. No one was injured. Reuter
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    • 36 3 LONDON: The Government today gave permission for the building of the world's largest nuclear power station near the small town of West Kilbride. on the west coast of Scotland. The cost will be about 37,000,000.— Reuter.
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    • 28 3 LONDON The Duke of Edinburgh, watched by the Queen, fell from his pony in a polo cup match last night It was his second fall this season— Reuter.
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    • 19 3 ALGIERS: A French gendarme was shot dead by an Algerian terrorist while having a hair cut. His assailant escaped—Reuter.
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    • 34 3 NEW YORK: Mrs Frank- lin D. Roosevelt ha s been granted a visa to enter the Soviet Union. Mis. Roosevelt said she hoped to leave for Russia by th e end of August. Reuter.
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    • 28 3 LONDON: The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd, said that tuberculosis in Hong Kong was the greatest single cause of death, but the death-rate was now falling. Reuter.
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    • 43 3 THEY TAKE DOPE AT 11 LONDON, Wed. Thousands of New York children, some only 1* years old, are drug addicts, says Mrs Sylvia Singer, a New York magistrate. Mrs. Singer is on a visit to study British juvenile courts and reform schools. —A.P.
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  • 262 3 LONDON. Wed. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not including Mamp duty were: LOANS Consols £50' 4 +'i Funding 4T<, 88 'i War 3-.% 67 916 +5/16 BANKS Merc. (£s— £2't! pu) H4 't> Eastern (£5) £8 7 Chartered (£1) 40 6 Hongkong ($125) £102V4 INSURANCE Com. Un.
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  • 36 3 LONDON. Wed. Spot 26', d.. Sept. 26 T sd.. Oct. -Dec. 27',d.. Jan.Mar. 27', d., April-June 27\d.. July-Sept 27 :1 ,d., Aug. r.i.f. 26'td.. Sept. c.i.f. 26 7 5 d., Oct. CiS. 27d. Tone: Quiet.
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  • 22 3 LONDON. Wed. Buyers £745 >,. sellers. £746 1 2 Forward buyers £743.. sellers. £744'^ Settlement £746.*. Turnover a.m. 255 tons p.m. IS.
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  • 262 4 SCHOOLS CHIEF OPPOSES 'HELP DULLARDS' PLAN, BUT COUNCIL WINS JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday. jyO Government in the world can supply brains. So it would be pointless for the Johore Government to wante money in trying to make doctors out of "dullards." So said Johore's Chief
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  • 116 4 The 40,000: Committee meets THE Tripartite Consultative Committee which is to look into the future of 40,--000 civilian workers In the armed services, held its first informal meeting yesterday behind closed doors. The Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, who presided, said after the meeting that it was agreed that
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  • 203 4 MAID WHO LIKED TO FIX UP POWER PLUGS A MAID servant, who liked to fiddle with elec trical appliances, was electrocuted by :i refrigerator which she had wrongly plugged in, an inquest was told in Singapore yesterda\ Wong Ying Mcc, 18. died in a house at Cotswold Close on June
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  • 37 4 Mr. P. C. Bandyopadhya/. director of the UNESCO science exhibition now on show in Singapore, vill speak on "The Contribution UNESCO towards International Understanding" at the British Council hall. Stamford Road, tomorrow at 8.30 p.m
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  • 59 4 Singapore police last night offered a $600 reward for information leading to the identification of the driver of a vehicle involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident I near Joo Chiat Lane at 7 p.m. on July 3. Victim of the crash was Menon Mohamed Khalid. Information may
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  • 142 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Kaji Othman bin Hajl Sa'at accused the Government in the Johore State Council meeting today of ignoring a decision of the council. The council had previously recommended that action be taken against the person responsible for taking down advertisements, the posting of
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  • 105 4 STELLA KELLY. 21. of County Galway, Ireland, has good reason to be happy for yesterday her I>REAM No. 2 came true. She used to tell her childhood sweetheart, Nicholas Greaney, of her longing to see the Far East. Her other dream, of course, was
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  • 88 4 CHUA GEOK HOE, a nurse of the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, yesterday that she found her mother dead in bed on the day she went home for her holidays. "I walked into her room, said Chua at the inquest on Ng Char Boh. 55,
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  • 26 4 The Singapore Battalion of the Boys' Brigade will hold their 13th annual athletics meeting at the Victoria School ground at 3 p.m. on Saturday.
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  • 37 4 Employees of a provision shop in Tiong Poh Road. Singapore, were having their weekly holiday on Tuesday whpn burglars broke In and stole cash and goods amounting to $1.?25 The t' was discovered yesterday.
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  • 100 4 Plea for new home for girls raises $8,000 THE Singapore Rotary Club has so far collected $8,000 from eight members after an appeal made by the Salvation Army last week to Rotatians to help raise money for a new home for girls. Announcing this at the club's luncheon meeting, yesterday,
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  • 41 4 A group of 33 students from the Ohio Western College for Women, arrived in Singapore by air last nighc from Bangkok in the course of their five-week tour of the East. They leave for Manila on Saturday.
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  • 21 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The British Council will give a film show at the Lake Gardens here on Sunday.
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  • 163 4 A 'BROAD SMILE' FOR THE WHITE PAPER T>HE Stai Johore. and Pc, unanimou the const; posals all by the Fi tive Con, In ABAC Secretary H. bin Rap n the Wnite I stitutionn: lised "a change tor thi 'True dream' He praia ernmeiu 1 1 Chief Mini dul Rahir.a: constitution
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  • 28 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. The Johore Government will spend $100,000 to celebrate Merdeka. The Federal Government originally ga\ the celebr;days State meeting, a I was appr
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  • 476 5  - 'If you want to die on feet, live on knees' NAN HALL VM AFRAID ALMOST EVERY RELAXATION CAUSES CANCER, SAYS NONSMOKING SENIOR SURGEON FROM BRITAIN By eminent British surgeon who has operated on many lung-cancer victims said in Singapore yesterday that most doctors studying the subject in Britain had given
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  • 44 5 Goh Yam Lim. a Government clerk, was acquitted in Singapore yesterday of cheating Toh Tien Hai at the Land Office in February this year, by inducing him to pay $25 as fee in respect of Toh's two houses in Sembawang.
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  • 73 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A typist in Radio Malaya. Miss Yong Siew Nyang, 39, and clerk of the Secretariat. Mr. Orley Sta Maria, 42, were injured in an accident at Jalan Rajah this afternoon. Miss Yong, who was riding pillion on a motor cycle, was thrown off
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  • 82 5 THREE NOT ASKED TO COME FOR M DAY LONDON, Wed. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox Bo.yd, told the House of Commons last night that Britain declined to forward invitations to Egypt. Saudi Arabia and Syria to attend the Federation merdeka celebrations on Aug. 31. "The British Government." he said
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  • 121 5 FOUR CONVICTIONS? 'NO, I HA VE FIVE' AN unemployed man admitted in a Singapore district court yesterday that he had more previous convictions than those given in his police record. Letchumanan Sundaram said this before being sentenced to nine months' jail on a charge of cheating a shopkeeper, Kavan Mohamed,
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  • 173 5 THE NEW SCHOOL HOURS ARE 'NOT LONGER' KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Governmentappointed General Syllabuses Committee has drawn up a curriculum for standard and standard type primary schools which will require a weekly total of 24 hours teaching in the lower standards lengthening to 27i hours in the upper classes. The
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  • 43 5 Representatives of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce are to discuss with the Minister for Commerce and Industry. Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy. this week the chamber's request for a free hand for traders to import rice without worrying about the stockpile.
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  • 117 5 FOR the first time the University of Malaya is granting aegrotat degrees this year to two students who were unable to appear for all their examinations because of illness. Both students will get their B.A. pass degrees, at the Convocation ceremony, although their
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    • 405 5 SHELX, THEATRETTE: Free schools" at Upper Serangoon film show— The Strongest Ma n In community centre. Llm Ah Pin lhe World Square. Dancing at He "I. 7 3 11 n m Shell Hou.se Collyer Quay. 1.15 i TEACHERS 1 TRAINING COLUUa: AIUtIUI exhibition at I'NESCO SCIENCE EXHIBI- j College premises,
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  • 106 6 20 Word, SlO (minimum). INSPECTOR BUANG HAJI HASSAN and wife Azizah thank well wishers for Attendance and Presents at their Marriage In Kuala Lumpur recently. MR AND MRS. V. T. GEORGE, EMMCO. Bukit Best. Thank all concerned for their attendance, messages of sympathy, wreaths md help at the demise
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  • 1276 6 The Straits Times S'pore, Thurs. Aug. 1, 1957. Whittled To Nothing Words, it seems, are beginning to lose their meaning. It is a bad sign. But i what else are we to think of the contented reaction in Kuala Lumpur to the strictI ures Lord Reid has passed |on the
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  • 877 6  -  RICHARD HUGHES The five million people of Sinkiang, most of whom are Muslims, have by shi and patient adjustment of party line, been won over by the Chinese Communists. They have also weakened Russian influence in this important buffer state. r»HINA'S Communist Party has undoubtedly
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  • 1102 6 Tax exemptions and overseas business THE Committee stage of the Finance Bill is now over and it remains to examine what the House of Commons has made of Part IV of the Bill, which deals with Overseas Trade Corporations. The major criticism which was levelled at the Bill was that
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    • 175 6 WITH reference to the unlortunate woman who was recently killed by a railway engine "because she could not hear a loud noise" and the various o piaions expressed on the subject, I offer the following explanation. The human ear can only cope with
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  • 61 7 IDR, Wed. per of the Rulers' Mnstapha t tire from in Civil Service birthday on 1 ars in ervlce. His retirement will not affect his present Job to which he wa s seconded from the M.C.S. jTuan Mustapha is the first Malayan to reach superscale
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  • 104 7 How many graduates do you need? rE Governments of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya have set up a committee to examine the demand for University of Malaya graduates in the two territories during the next 10 years, a joint statement said yesterday. All Government departments, firms, the chambers of
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  • 44 7 Tne Singapore City Council ysterday pa^cci new bytnake the reversal of future decisions harder. me new rule no member may move to rescind v decision unless he has a seconder and the support of at least one-third of thrcouncil.
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  • 169 7 U.S. WILL j BACK MALAYA AS U.N. MEMBER j i lis sup«.is assured lor Malaya's <l mission to N.itions after mi Aug. 31. ■i bin Dato "I Malaya's designate, 'id IN. told after a state hi call that agemeata for tdmissioa discussed with j (ieneral, 6 ll.uinn.irskjoeld. l orb this
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  • 370 7 'HE ONCE GAVE ME $700 A MONTH— THEN HE MARRIED AGAIN AND I WAS ONLY GIVEN $35' PENANG, Wednesday. jHL second wife of a Penang company direclin tor s^d in court today that her husband was like Solomon conducting an experiment with his
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  • 41 7 The Singapore Commission of Inquiry which has been set up to probe allegations of corruption in public services, will consider 24 writttn memoranda from members of the public today, when it will id Its ilrst sitting.
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  • 125 7 Now the 60 cars are 72— Twelve on hire only IfUALA LUMPUR. 1V Wed.— Besides the 60 American cars it is buying for the use of visiting YIPs during the merdeka celebrations the Federation Government will hire another 12. They will be hired from the firms importing th e 60
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  • 189 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A wealthy businessman held up a thief at pistol point in his house early on Monday morning and later handed him over to the police whom his wife had telephoned, the Sessions Court was told today. Wong Ming, 22, pleaded guilty to
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  • 31 7 IPOH. Wed.— Home Guards at Kota Tampin. in the GrU district of Upper Perak. fireu at lights they saw outside the perimeter fence last night. The lights vanished.
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  • 368 7 Kenny train expert and he's only 11 BOY. OH BOY, SEE THAT? THE DIESEL BUNGA RAYA HAS EVERYTHING KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday FRECKLED. 11-year-old "'expert" on trains stole the show yt the Malayan Railway's ceremony for naming the tirst main line diesel locomotive at Kuala Lumpur stalion today. Kenny Wright, the
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  • 87 7 HE'S OFF TO DISCUSS TEACHER SHORTAGE MX. LENNY KOINUGO. editor of the Teachers' Forum, who will represent the Singapore Teachers' I'nion at the annual delegates conferencr of the World Confederation of the Teaching Profession at Frankfurt, Germany, from Aug. 2 to 9. this year. The subject of discussion is "The
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  • 63 7 KLALA LIMPLK, ted— I he strike by 2«i employees of Sany.im.iu official publication of the National t limn of Plantation Workers, was railed off »oda> after negotiations between NI'PW representatives and the printing workers union. All 2G strikers, including 15 sacked because of redundancy, have
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  • 40 7 Fi:am Kam Cheong, 17. was acquitted at the Singapore Arizes yesterday of armed robbery in New Market Roa.l on March 17 when, it alleged, he joined two other* in .stealing $26 worth of proiiertv from Low Eng Tiong.
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  • 95 7 BUNGA RAYA. pride of Malayan Railway, was named and "launched* at Kuala Lumpur today. But surprise of the ceremony came from an 11-year-old boy who seemed to know as much about the 11( diesel train as anyone. Kenny Wright took a Straits Times reporter on a
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  • 120 7 MARINE police patrol boats could find no trace yesterday of a locally registered fishing boat reported to navy been seen in the company of a gunboat just outside Singapore territorial waters on Tuesday. The patrol boats had been alerted to investigate both vessels if they
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  • 187 7 MOVE TO AVOID JOBS DISPUTES TO avoid accusations oi party politics and tailoring jobs to suit individuals, the Singapore City Council should hand over staff appointments to the Public Service Commission, Mr. S. Jaganathan suggested to the council last night. With the move towards Malayanisation, it was vital, he said,
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  • 43 7 Five students passed U» Part II examination for the diploma in social studies University of Malaya. Thc.\ are: Miss Heng Hong Ngoh (with distinction) Pung Eng Huat E. J. Ross. Shamsuddin bin Abu Samah and Johnn\ Wong Geok Lin.
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    • 106 7 VETRp/^y susPEnsion \\l i n g Plcoic complete the coupon below for further information, i 1 To DUNCAN ROBERTS LTD., Crotby House, Robinson Rood, Singopor*. Tel: ***** Or P.O. Box 172. Kuolo Lumpur. Tel: 88*46 Pleoie forward details of Vetro Mobil Suspended filing to: s Nam* Address H-56-4 PARKER [}v!
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  • 854 8 Co-op ex-secretary: Rumours of $2 mi!, swindle JPOH, Wed. The Commissioner of Co-operative Development is investigating the now defunct co operative society of the Central Mental Hospital, Tanjong Rambutan. This was stated here today by Mr. S.V. Suppiah, former secretary of
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  • 231 8 Walk-out lawyer returns: 'All a misunderstanding Judge IPOH, Wed. Mr. S. P. Seenivasagatn, a counsel in the Central Mental Hospital inquiry, who walked «Mit of the court yesterday afternoon, returned today when the commission resumed it s hearing. He left the inquiry when the chairman. Mr. Justice Good, stopped him
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  • 157 8 Delegates from 14 countries will attend (^INGAPORE is to be the venue, for the first time of the International Labour Organisation supervisory training seminar from Aug. 12 to 23 at the University of Malaya. The chairman of the Supervisory and Management Training Association of Singapore.
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  • 161 8 KUCHING, Wednesday. ■pHE Kanowit District Council in Sarawak took steps, at a recent meeting, to curb two forms of gambling card playing and cock fighting which are prevalent among thp Ibans. Cock fighting is now to be restricted to once every two months,
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  • 36 8 The Singapore schoolboys' chess championship for 1957 will begin on Aug. 13 at tlv Victoria School. Entries close on Aug. 7. Further particulars may be obtained from Dr. Lim Kok Aun at the V.M.C.A.
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  • 241 8 Dolores gets a chance of stardom ATTRACTIVE Dolores A Anmano, who has neve: been out of Singapore, has been oilered a chance to make good in films in the Philippines Dcloies, aged 20, was given the news by a Straits Times reporter yesterday. I can hardly believe it," she said
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  • 89 8 TANJONG MALIM, Wed. Three Kerling youths who were fined a fortnight ago for breaking the curfew by cycling on the main trunk road, yesterday won the first three places in the five miles Kalumpang to Tanjong .Malim cycle rare. They were Anwar
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    • 400 8 m^wl J j Jf •^C 1-^ WONf 71. IM '^TT .1 I> ODE O Nf pens 1 «s. «i 5, )f <^( TODAY! 645 A 930 pjn. I J^- J OIR BIG AUGUST HOLIDAY ATTRACTION J g The Wildest Battle of the Lusty Giants! .r B'JRT LANCASTER HRKDOUCLAS J «g
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    • 144 8 piniA UAT tvt Regional Announcements 656 V DIALAZA Singapore Share Market Report 700 Time Signal And News, 7 10 Singapore 41 metres News Talk, 7.15 The Continental Kuala Lumpur 341 metres. Touch. 7.30 A Nation In The Penang 366 metres Making. 8.00 Music Shop, 8 30 The Malacca 297 metres'.
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  • 284 9 BOOKLETS TELL CLERKS ABOUT NEWDEAL THE Singapore Govern--1 ment is to distribute 50.000 free informative booklets on the Clerks Employment Ordinance i and the Shop Assistants Employment Ordinance j to trade unions and em- ployers within two weeks. Both ordinances governing the working conditions of thousands of clerks and shop
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  • 74 9 LABOUR BID TO HELP HAWKERS SINGAPORE Labour Front I City Councillors have all been I instructed to support a motion by Mr. Sim Beng Seng, calling upon the City Council to specify both Bugis Street and the Clifford Pier car park area as hawker sites after 6 p.m. Hawking at
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  • 1459 9 Gestapo plot misfired: Sir Walter Monckton 'saved' the Duke •fe From Page Two reported to Ribbentrop a plan to "urge tne Duke to go with the Duchess to a well-known resort in the mountains near the Spanish frontier, and from there to make excursions which bring him suddenly to a
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  • 164 9 BRIEFS from the captured documents THE documents aNo contain an alleged account of a conversation between a prominent German aristocrat. Prince Max Hohenlohe, and the Aga Khan, in which the Asa was quoted as saying that he considered "Italy better suited to rebuild India. that he had greater sympathies for
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 171 9 I £NT ERTAINMEfiT kxmiiv: I m. lIKST TO 1 BE ,imi to you I m 1 riME! I CARTOON I peur J BS# V /i I aaaf.r- Vl I Djnj»r. I OPENS TODAY 1 w Rovn, HXHRI I uicini 111 IT JZcLxlrnjcuL a(p r t ri r 35mm. M rontrol.
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    • 298 9 Bring your shaving v|fF<s^/ up-to-date with a modern ams'/ /N v Gillette Razor I/ I II GiDette quick-action razor. Iftgt**' j|a GiUette razor used T^y^a^^^Btl wito a Bloc Gillette Latest quick-action Oitletti razor, 'IST 9 Dispenser, *J^r^^~~l all in a I ONLY smart trarel I am m p I V
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    • 54 9 HI-FIOEtITV LOUDSPEAKERS High fidelity loudipeokers ore m tended to reproduce faithfully the scund which is fed into it in the form of electrical signals Lorenz loudspeakers are dedicated to that single purpese and there is nothing extroneous or unnecessary in the design or construction You ore buying oriy excellent sound
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 158 9 ffe.v Jlvrfjan Jf.H. Great IV>l#off* "^'[7 KEITH CAVEU. W WHO, MAY I ASK, o# WE WENT THROUGH VHE MUST g£ lg| Y~J WILL IBE &I.AP U's KEITH CAVEU. W MEOtCAL SCHOOL \ID &£T &X SBivh Travy Biita an Tracy anaaaaaMMaggaH W SURE SHALL WE I TRAMPO-IN, WERE 71 I TMAT>S
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  • 259 10 SLIGHT EASINESS IN INDUSTRIALS AS DRIFT CONTINUES By Our Market Correspondent THE drifting attitude which became obvious on the Singapore Share Market on Tuesda\ continued yesterday with some slight easiness in industrials. Limited business was done on the market. Tins and rubbers were quietly steady. In the tin section, the
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  • 10 10 BDfGAPEE i RIBBER P«r It, (up :r. j»,m
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  • 82 10 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS Bi! Loan.-, 3>, M Loans 3\ kfc Bank of K Con. Zuic j|S Mount Lyell 1 I 9 N. Broken Hi. Hi Hill 50 J Mount Morgan I IVPeko K Western U jW! Ampol. Ex i K Oil Seaich MB Aust. Con* I I 839! A. P.M. (N(
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  • 152 10 August first gradr rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore on Wednesday at 91 N cents per lb down one-quarter of a cent on Tuesday's close. The closing tone was dull. Closing prices In cents per lb. yesterday were: OFFICIAL: Int. 1 RS S. Spot f.o.b- buyers 91*8, sellers
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  • 38 10 Ships lying alcmiMd,. J porp Hjr!*i J expected lad Olenroy Yokohama Steel i 13 14, Dion > i Seramp.u.i; 21 22. W [I Kaloekoe 26 29 30, Xc 33 34. Be. machus 38 39 That 42 4
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  • 486 10 The Malayan Share Brokers Association reported: "Industrials were inclined to ease. Tins were Irregular and rubbers firm." Singapore and Federation brokers reported the following business done yesterday: Con. Tin Smelt ords 345. 6d. xd; Fraser it Neave ords $2.97 2 (overnight), $2.95- Gammon $2.68 (delayed), $2.65 and $2.68;
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  • 114 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exrhange: noon prices per picul yesterday were: I Copra: quiet; July /August $25 i I buyers $26> t sellers. Coronut oil: steady quiet; bulk $41 sellers. $45 sellers- Pepper: steady; about 10 1 to 15 tons of business reported done; Muntok white $110. Sarawak $109,
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  • 85 10 THE MALAYAN EXCHANGE BANKS ASSOCIATION made the following changes In Its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100): CANADA: Buying airmail- TT 30 OX>. 31. 90 d/«t 31 9/16 credit bills. 31% trade bills SELLING T.T. or OD. READYCANADA 30 9/16; FRENCH FRANCS *****; BELGIANFRANCS 1615 V
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 1053 10 FUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are Invited for the post ol Probationary Inspector in the Federattoa of Malaya Police Force. Candidates should be In possession of the Cambridge School Certificate or the equivalent thereof, and must be Federal Citizens. They should be at least 18 years of age and not more than
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    • 613 10 NOTICES THE MALAYAN EXCHANGE BANKS ASSOCIATION All members of the above Association In the Colony of Singapore will be closed for business on Monday sth August 1957, being First Monday In August. NOTICE Notice Is hereby given that we, The Parker Pen Company, of James VUle. Wisconsin. U.B.A. are the
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    • 818 10 NOTICES SUNGEI WAY DREDGING LIMITED The directors have declared In respect of the year ended 30th June, 1957, a second Interim Dividend of 5 per cent less Malayan Income Tax payable on 29th August. 1957, to all shareholders registered on Bth August, 1957. By Order of the Board, N K
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    • 833 10 NOTICES TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERNThe public is hereby notified that Mr. Kiong Chal Woon has ceased to be in the employ of Cheong Koon Seng Sc Co. Ltd.. as from Ist August 1957, and as from this date he has no authority whatsoever to transact any bust- ness on
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    • 762 10 NOTICES BOUSTEX LIMITED (Incorporated In the Federation of Malaya). NOTICE OF MEETING NOTICE is hereby given that an extraordinary General Meeting; of Boustex Limited will be held at the registered Office of the Company, No. 1 The Embankment, Kuala Lumpur, Federation of Malaya, on Thursday the 22nd day of August.
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    • 426 10 KNUTSEN LINE orient servici I FROM CANADA/U.S. PACIFIC PORTS I Sailing San H Vancouvei Francisco S'porr P.Swet* Pcnm; :> >fl I Gjerrrud Bakke 3/ 5Au« 6Au; I I Ellen Bakke 26/28Au« 29Au« jlAu; I Kristin Bakke 3 Aug 21 Aug 20/22 Sept 23Scpr 2SScvi I Anna Bakke 24 Auc 7Sepr
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    • 1093 11 1405 MANSFIELD tiTcoTLTD. T.i,i 4 ia THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE i' 0 Singopore QOd dlscharQ <=° r go h-llond jutpSl 5S 8388 S&« risir 538 i:;:: a»s stsss Aug 23 Aug 28 tan, asriUp*** J0 v 4 a /m •i"m**,— Sept 4 sw s/ Po.sengcr Accommodotion Available. P /17 ARRIVALS
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    • 1058 11 yh 1 pmci iI A JkHrWA ti Ift M EAST ASIATIC LINES OUTWARDS SAILINGS FOR BANGKOK AND/OR FAR EAST Penong p. Sham Spore KOMA 11/14 Aug INWA B/12 Auf 11/14 Aaf 19/17 Aug "MEONIA" (Bangkok only) 19/22 Aug 21/24 Aug 2S/27 Auf SARGODHA" u/M Aaf 27/21 Auf 29/10 Aug HOMEWARDS
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    • 933 11 Su.ldlng THE BEN UNE STEAMERS LTD Tfcp-T" SINGAPORI (Incorporated n tha Umteo Kingdom) 5 UNO SAILINGS TO UK. ft CONTINENTAL PORTS Spore P. Sham Penong BENVRACKII for London, Hamburg, Rotterdam G. 35-36/ 4 Aug London direct arrives 26 Auf BCNALBANACH for Aden, Jeddah, Port Sudan 9/11 Aug 14/14 Aug BENCRUACHAN
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    • 1201 11 McALISTER 6c CO., LTD. TEL.: No.: ***** ■LLBRMAM LIMES KLAVEMESS LINE LONDON, HAVRI, ROTTERDAM, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO HAMBURG 4 HULL SEATTLE. VANCOUVER <V PORTLAND and tor U.S.A., North Atlantic Port, 1 1 l l> and Canada via Colombo CITY OP OTTAWA •OUGAINVILLI s p£/ s ,x vn* 535 CITY
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    1088 12 STRICTLY FEMININE A FRIENDLY COUNTESS 4 CHARMING Australian-born countess, who piloted aircraft in England but says her interests are "all very feminine," is the new chatelaine of "Air House." She is the Countess of Bandon, wife of Air Marshal the Earl of Bandon, recently appointed Commander-in-Chief of the
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 305 12 Now the greale*! nam* in deodorant* bring* you NEW ODO-RO-NO Stick Deodorant Hi more economical! The handy push-up case gives you I more deodorant for your money It's easy to use up to th» very end With one quick stroke ODO-RO-NO protects you against peispiratlon odour all day. Try ODO-RO-NO
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    • 196 12 V Dr West s V AMAZING f NEW TOOTHBRi 3H KILLS GERMS BY I *^Bb W^MM fk \mm gßr4r IB B^BhS^ Blr Wf7/> :a' J B^Bißv HF youri. Gives you a new kind off health pre orta triumph of medical research fro the Dr. West's laboratories! Your new Dr. West's
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 333 12 Straits Times Crossword a- pur iff H 4 itr a 6 w rt i ip 9 1 ilililiillllli"! i_i jiii "ii i y i ■t i ijs 11 ii 9 fi ?o 3Z _y ij 1 ZlI -111 :lzl4j_^ till i-Ztz -JZJ--1 j-wiHl ZHZkSZiZ nil jfyi i I ACROSS 7
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 296 13 ■Ml from Tage 6) siTI ATIONS VACANT Urn.) Box SO cl*. extra. IMMEDIATELY: School MLstress, Receptionists, >pIM /Delivery/ en. Stenoftraph- Counter/Snlest" o $12 nightly Apply personally, I Bonham St. ADMINISTRATIVE d by British Corns must hold re- or secretarial ,c sound account.ive experience to v.'»rk In Sln- Federation. Com- $800
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    • 483 13 SITUATIONS WANTED 20 Word. (Mm.) g OX SO rt,. extra. EUROPEAN aged 34. 5 yrs. mm•- ing experience open cast dredging fi n t a rSf. W r° rkl flUent Malay excel lent references present employed Singapore. Box A 3913, S.T j rinm?, l^ 3 ?S* Singapore born and domiciled
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    • 519 13 ACCOMMODATION VACANT 20 Wordt tS (Mm.) Box 5# rts. axtrm. LUXURIOUS FLAT 4 rooms, j one Alr-condltloned. Fully Fumlsh- < cd. Telephone, All Modern Con- 1 veniences, Servant's quarters. Now I Vacant. Moderate Rent. Phone *****. LARGE THREE BEDROOM Luxury Furnished Plat in quiet congenial surroundings 1' 2 miles I
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    • 702 13 HOUSES LAND FOR SALE 20 Wordt is (Mln.) Box SO rtt. extra. I NEW SEMI-DETACHED TwoStorey House with all Modern Conveniences. 3rd mile Serangoon Road. Further details apply Box A 3901. S-T. VERY VALUABLE PROPERTY One 3 storey building in Robinson Road, near Dutch Banks and i opposite new skj-scrapers,
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    • 910 13 TurnoN 20 Words tS (Mln.) Box it rts. extra POBTAL TUITION BooKKeeplng. Accounts, Business Correspondence. Special coaching for LCC Exams. Success guaranteed Apply Principal, FECI. P.O. Box 1731. Singapore. STAMFORD COMMERCIAL COLLEGE: Beginners' BookKeeping 1 Malay (Romanised and Jawl), English Std. VIII (for Qualifying Test), Math*. (Std. 11l to IX),
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    • 476 13 HIRE PURCHASE 20 Wordt SS (Mln.) Box S* rt.. extra. SOON TECK FINANCE Com- 1 pany undertake to finance HlrePurchase on motor cars, new and secondhand (1952 Model upwards only); terms moderate. Apply 173-A South Bridge Road. Tel *****. MISCELLANEOUS 29 Words U (Mm.) Box SO eis. axtrm. YOU CANNOT
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    • 70 13 FiAJV MNMO fcjj for informofion end bookings 1 jBgS -W' coniu'f your Trovl Agtnt or W MALAYAN AIRWAYS m J^ m m W GfNmt SAIfS AGENTS TE1i. ***** I OCEAN lUUDING SINGAPORE A MEN'S II If I UNDERWEAR Ik mm exclusive U.f -U. "ylo»<L BRAND B.V.D. J&j ATHLETIC y^n^Ci SHIRTS
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  • 173 14  -  EPSOM JEEP APPRENTICE DRAGON LANDS $244 BIG RACE OUTSIDER TWO WINNERS FOR YOUNG 808 BAGBY By KENTUCKY PRIDE, with apprentice Chris Dragon astride, scored a spectacular upset to pay $244 in the P 0 Cup over six furlongs yesterday, second day of the Penang Turf
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  • 56 14 TOTAL POOL: $147,735 IST: No. *****4 ($39,321) 2ND: No. *****8 ($15,728) 3RD: No. *****6 7364) STARTERS ($1,966 each) Nos. *****1 *****4. *****5, *****7, *****4, *****0, *****2. *****1. CONSOLATIONS ($l,OOO each): Nos. *****4 *****2, *****5, *****2, *****5, *****2. *****2, *****0, *****6, *****1. TREBLE TOTE: No win. ning combination,
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  • 416 14 THE BORNEO THREAT AT M-GAMES GROWS SANDAKAN, Wed. THE British Borneo contingent will make a strong challenge in several events at the Merdeka Games to be held at Kuala Lumpur in a month's time. This is evident from the number of fine performances on an extremely wet and muddy track
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  • 1448 14 Race One CLASS 5, DIV. 3 1 MILE Madam Lee Cheng Kin's (6) GREAT TRADITION 8.8 1130—51) Smith 1 (1) Barracuda 8 7 (126—651 Mortimer 2 (7) Record Time 8.4 (73—42) Oeyer 3 (8) Kingsbeau 8.0 carr 7.7 (65—32) Khamis 4 (3) WELL-BEING
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  • 554 14  -  NORMAN BIEBEL By rpHE Kowloon Busmen, whe 1 have had hardly a good word to say for Malayan football, last night met 3 team who showed them that there Is still some life left In the game here. ailIng though it is. The
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  • 103 14 LONDON, Wed. Tea scores In today's cricket matches were: At Hove: Sussex 210-7 (Smith 69, Sheppard 96 n.0.) v Yorkshire. At Blackpool: Northampton 199-4 (Brookes 103, Barrlck 54 n.0.) v Lancashire. At Bristol: Gloucester: 240-5 i Emmet t 57. Young 97) v Glamorgan. At Portsmouth: Royal
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  • 76 14 Rafllf wirls 1 School finished champions of the first girls' schools triangular athletics meet between Cedar 0.5.. Crescent OS. and R.G.S. at the R.I. ground yesterday. Raffles scored 142 points while the other schools tied for second place with 119 points each. Raffles won all three
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  • 20 14 Police beat P.W.D. 4-2 to enter the final of the Government Services Dlv 1 knockout soccer competition.
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  • 94 14 Twenty-one year old Long Soo Chin won the Singapore Badminton Association's women junior singles title when she beat Ong Slew Yong 11-7. 11-2 at the badminton hall last night. In men's doubles semi-final, Noor Salleh and Ang Kiat 3ong beat Yusoff Daud and Wahab Sarkawi 14-17,
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  • 737 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. ONE HUNDRED and seven-ty-seven entries have been received for the Selangor Turf Club's August Meeting on Aug. 10. 14, and 17. They comprise 87 Class Three and 90 Class Fouf horses. Entries are: Adjutant All Things Nice Alu Alu Artlna 1st Run
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  • 161 14 W. Indie; put out Surrey for 210 LONTX iyEST ix n[ bawl, tine and Soni hin play part in hi touring t< Surrey for 2] the openi: match at Ti today. But the > hit back quid the first thr wickets for n.. of play reached 56 v loss. Roy
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  • 25 14 Raffles I:.. swimming > pi be held at the CM mlng Club pool p.m. Entries for breast s'roke event will be accep'<\; kl
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  • 133 14 'TWO IMPERIAL Chemical Inx dustries players. Thiam Slew and Ithnin. scored hat-tricks in a Business Houses league and cup match yesterday. They helped 1.C.1, to beat Borneo Company 6-1 at Farrer Park. Thiam Slew started the scoring spree with three goals In the first half. Then
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    • 706 14 CLASSIFIED ADS. "AT YOUR SERVICE" 20 Words $10 (Minimum). Daily 1 month. 1$ ~Vordi $2J0 (Min.) THE HOUSE FOR Bridal Gowns Gowns Vanity. ELECTION WATCH SERVICE Pintion, Chun Chong, 62 South Road, Singapore. CYMA WATCH SERVICE Station. 155 North Bridge Road. Capitol Bldg. Tel: *****PHOTOSTAT SERVICE. Documents rapidly copied. Potomatlc.
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    • 33 14 Oil) MODEL rV\/^ M 8 R £>.& -N *R/ gives you the brightest, steadiest, clearest, 8 m/m projection ever seen. £c/Xit £itrice F 0 *0X 121. tIN 9* *«*l Write for Uiustruted literature and
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