The Straits Times, 29 July 1954

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    15 1 The Straits Times. Estd. 1845 ORCHARD ROAD SPORJ-9. SINGAPORE. THURSDAY, JI'LY 29, 1954 15 CENTS
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    Change mind' plea by leaders
    41 1 m|ii >ir Chenf-lock has resigned presidenc) Malayan hiioriation, the learned the ashowever, ..trie him signatht by t< lephone letter of ignation in week-end. made in ween the re, Mr. [pon and telephone i k m SinKcderation.
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    Near panic at MCA headquarters
    50 1 •ct'.-cd tn mi understood d to re- "angry and A." in news at MCA. b'»mbI tude. 1 nnH dot i indeI tai been oi the brcinninK in nco. S llni part In c UMNO- which baa in the 'hat n the 'intlo Sir hange hi.s
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    SINGAPORE 'MR. SPEAKER'
    52 1 ImS STRAITS TIMKS picture of .Mr. Oehlers m taken li»t "icht aftrr he had presided al a committee meetinc nf the Singapore lloc- Mr. Oehlers would make no comment on his new apI- .mime in explaining that the official announcement was not supposed i have been made
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    Mrgie gets night club offer
    33 1 1 Wed. Mi- |obs today as showgirls at is UBSISO iMs4so> a week In a Universe' 1 Hollywood nightclub. She has 'ifTered n< t accepted the offer.— UP.
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    MILLION CAUGHT IN FLOODS
    155 1 Entire villages swept away PATNA. North-Ea.st India, Wednesday. >*INE flooded rivers spread death and devastation 1 among a million Indians and swept away entire villages in North-East India today. Bodies of people and animals were seen floating: on the rushme rivers in Bihar State after torrential
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    Hope for 'free' sterling
    63 1 LONDON, Wed— Mr. Derrick Heathcoat-Amory. Minister of State at the Board of Trade, .said here today that he thought one could hope perhaps for the free convertibility ol rterllnf into foreign cumn ncles including dollars within the next 12 months. I do underline the 'perhaps. he
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    SIR CHENG-LOCK QUITS
    11 1 'Bombshell' for MCA NICOLL CHOOSES LAWYER AND SPORTSMAN
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    Frogman killed by shark
    162 1 Frogman killed by shark A TTACKED DURING DIVE FOR OPIUM A ROYAL NAVAL rating attached to H.M.S. Terror was tatally bitten by a shark yesterday while on a diving operation in Telok Ayer Basin. Sinuapore. Bitten on the rignt thigh and on both hands, he died i before reaching hospital.
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    Disturbance at Haiphong
    51 1 HANOI Wea— Civilians on the outskirts of Haiphong the port of Hanoi, and the nearby town of Dongtrieu yesterday demonstrated against the Vietnamese national army and regional troops. the French High Command announced here today. A spokesman said the demonstrators were Vietmlnh supporters There was no aggressive
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    Four hurt in HK fire
    43 1 HONG KONG. Wed. Fire Rutted three apartments in a tenement building tn Hong Kong today Four people were Injured. Flames swept through the ramshackle building just after n<">on but firmen got the blaze under control in 45 minutes.—
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    Moscow next stop
    27 1 LONDON. Wed— Mr. Chou I En Lai. the Chinese Cummunust Prime Minister, left Warsaw today for Moscow, i Warsaw Radio reported.— Rev- 1 ter.
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    RHEE'S PLAN TO BEAT RED CHINA
    295 1 RHEE'S PLAN TO BEAT RED CHINA A 2, 000, 000- man Asian army plus U.S. guns, planes, ships WASHINGTON. Wednesday. SOITH KOREAN President ByngßUM Rhee proposed today that an Asian army of more than 2,000,000 men. helped by Inited States Runs, planes and ships, should launch a "counter-attack" on Communist
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    $20,000 for Y-O-U!
    99 1 $20,000 for Y-O-U! z T*HL Malayan l Monthly's SL'O.I i) 00 Must-Be-Woti z "ontest is a simple. i lascinctinq word nuzzle with a dif- terence. It is a MALAY AS I ontest tor MALA- YASS ana within 'he scope of every E member ot the i family. MALAY ASS are
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    Mr. Pickwick in Moscow
    51 1 MOSCOW. Wed. Oversized newspaper advertisements in the Soviet press announced yesterday the opening tomorrow of a new British film. "Pickwick Papers." It will be the first new British film shown here in many years. It will be shown simultaneously in about 23 of Moscow's first-run theatres.
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    Oehlers will be the first Speaker for S'pore
    323 1 Oehlers will be the first Speaker for S'pore \IR G. E. N. OEHLERS. 46. well-known lawyer i and sportsman, will be j Speaker of the first Singapore Legislative Assembly. He ha.s been chosen by the Governor, Sir John Nicoll. The Legislative Assembly Is to be set up under the terms
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    Cheers and kisses in Cairo streets
    246 1 CAIRO Wed Egyptians ion- I i tin! i i.-d each other and embraced and kissed i" the squires and strrets of Caire today as the capital celebrated the agreement with Britain initialled last night. Cairo Radio broadcast hun- 1 dreds of words of news
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    PILOT MAY SEEK A FRIEND ON HAINAN
    171 1 HONG KONG. Wednesday. AN AMERICAN pilot. Mr. Terry B. "Mo- Cutburth. said here today he had hopes that Captain Leonard Parrish. missing with his two small sons from the shot down British Skymaster, is alive. Mr. Cutburth said he was willing to My
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    Experts rush to save a tribe
    70 1 CALCUTTA. Wed. Government engineers and agricultural experts are being urgently sent to the border areas of Bengal near Bhutan, to try to save the Totos, one of the smallest tribes in the world from extinction. The orange crop, sole sourrc of income of this
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    Come up and....
    45 1 LAS VEGAS. Wed Ma c f West, the international film J and stage actress, opened, for l two weeks at the Sahara Hotel t last night, selling the same kind of sexy entertainment," that launched her career 30 i years aso— A.P.
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    Ike fears split
    30 1 WASHINGTON. Wed. Pre sident Eisenhower said today i that the Communists were attempting to split the Allies over the plane attacks in the South China Sea Reuter.
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    First ice man
    27 1 NEW YORK. Wed. Italo Marehiony, said to be the originator of the ice cream cone, died yesterday at hi* home here. He was 86.-A.P.
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    It's gaol for stengun man
    71 1 HONG KONG. Wed —A full court today dismissed appeal by John Higginbottom. 21. British soldier from Fulham. London, against a sentence ot one year In gaol for shooting at a Chinese taxi-cyclist with a stengun. He was alleged to hnve committed the offence while on
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    Terrorists set fire to forest
    29 1 TUNIS. Wed. Terrorists seriously wounded a civil servant at Casablanca and .set fire to 250 acres of forest near Cacherou, Algeria, yesterday- U P.
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    No-brakes plane hits boathouse
    47 1 HONG KONG. Wed A Ro yal Air Force Hastings slammed into a boathou.sp at the md ■if the runway at Kaitak airrv.n tnrlay when its brakes t;i;ii d There were n<< ca ualtir ;ii I th'Mish thf Ha.tingi »a* 1 damaged. -U P.
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    Hilly to return
    26 1 NEW YORK. Wed.- American evangelist Billy Graham will return to Britain next spring for three or four months of revival preaching.- A P
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    Strike end in sight
    56 1 Strike end in sight Only one point to be settled rpODAY is crucial for the Singapore City Council and its 11 striking labour unions. By this evening, negotiations to end the strike will reach their climax and both parties are expected tn s;iy their last word on the issue under
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    STOP PRESS
    468 1 L1 i mms m M»\lH>\ \\.,i Britaso Covrrnmfnl tonight nnuiii'cd resignal Hhrrt l.vtit-ititn. (iiloni.ii il l i il\ in «i id Ii nlti. mill 111^ -rvrn p— ls. ft' ill OVTSIDU >" POOPWOQP v i Oatorne, IH 1 nun thr (fiiiiiluiHKl Stake! Ovrr I'l furlongs I, ftrml run
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    SHE WILLS DOG HER BED
    86 1 SAN DIEGO, California, Wed A doc w hose bite Indirectly led to hi.s mistress' deUh has been ieft U.S. $3,000 in ncr will with instructions that he sleep in her bed for the rest of his life. Mrs. Mac Murrv Green, 61. made the provisions
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    Captain will appeal
    79 2 LONDON. Wed. Captain Orald Selby Griffiths, former company commander in the Kings African Rifles, will appeal in London tomorrow against sentence ol five years' gaoi and dismissal from the army for ill-treating Mau Mau prisoners in Kenya. Captain Griffiths, who i s serving his term in Britain,
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    Both feet in the grave
    48 2 LETHRIDGE. (Canada >. Wed —A man here already has two feet In the grave. Hi.s lefts were amputated several months R ro. and he had them embalmed and placed in the family plot. Now they're lying there, waiting for the rest of him- AP.
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    Out of limelight
    27 2 VIENNA, Wed. Czechoslovakia's Communist Premier Villem Siroky, has been missing from public and political life since mid-June, diplomatic sources here reported yesterday.— A. P
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    Danube subsides
    32 2 BELGRADE. Wed. The flooded Danube river began to drop from record hizh levels north of Belgrade yesterday and the danger of a major flood disaster in Yugoslavia appeared over. A.P.
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    I'M FROM HEAVEN, HE TELLS POLICE
    213 2 I'M FROM HEAVEN, HE TELLS POLICE TURIN, Wed. ITALIAN police and 1 pa^chatrists werr trytoday to idrntify a man who Insists In fluent FrencnT English and German that hr is the Archangel Michael sent from heaven as a herald of peace on earth. The man, who does not speak Italian,
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    Escape from Red River Delt, —by a 'keyhole'
    358 2 <J THE PLAN FOR THAT 300-DAY DEADLINE HANOI, Wednesday. THE French High Command last night announced the details of its plans to evacuate the Red River delta and the shores of Tongking Gulf in 300 days. The spokesman said units had already
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    'MEMBERS' PLAN FOR CYPRUS
    116 2 'MEMBERS' PLAN FOR CYPRUS LONDON. Wed. BRITAIN is to offer a nrw j form of constitution to! Cyprus Earl Munstrr. Colonial: Under -S rcrptary told the Housr of Lords today. Earl Munster said: "The government have decided to Introduce in the near future a 1 modified constitution providing for a
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    NEWSMEN ALLEGE 'SILENCE PLOT
    178 2 'No talk 9 order on plane attack HONG KONG, Wednesday. YEWS correspondents yesterday protested at what Al they called a 'conspiracy of silence" by the Hong Konc Government and the U.S. Consulate when the Cathay Pacific airliner was shot down by Communist planes off Hainan Island
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    Jet-jaded farmers sue the U.S.
    91 2 Jet-jaded farmers sue the U.S. NEW YORK. Wed JjMRMERS at Glendal. Ari- zona. are suine the United States for Msl million damages. Because of the nearness of Luke air forre base and IU let planes, the farmers protested that: Dairy cows give less milk and the butterfat content is reduced;
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    BOXER BEATS BEAR
    74 2 and crowd wrecks arm BUENOS AIRES Wed.-Frar. dsco Escrlbano. a retlr professional boxer, defeated a seven-foot. 550 lb. circus bear at wrestling at Cordcr Argentina, but the nr- cus was almost wrecked. The circus had offered of M 52.000 to anybody who could throw the bear thr<^
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    The seekers of Noah's ark find a 'ship'
    94 2 The seekers of Noah's ark find a 'ship' ISTANBUL. Wed. Mr. John Libby, an American who set out to climb Mount Ararat in search of the remains of Noah's Ark has found "some form covered uith ice and snow which could possible be a ship.' He teas accompanied on /i>
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    A BUCKINGHAM PALACE SPY SLIP IN BEHIND THE SENTRY BOX
    43 2 livn-s Tkmrtdmy. July 29. 1954 THr (.IKI behind th< xnlrv bos eluded both the long arm <>f Ihe la i the Guardsman. O<easin n uavihr arriva Queen's garden party at Backinghaai Pi'v. picture.
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    fommies to go—but a war could bring'em back
    445 3 fommies to go but a war could bring 'em back CAIRO, Wednesday. rgBEMENT was reached last nijfht between P Britain and K»rypt under which all 83,000 Ljtjsh troops will be removed from the Suez C /..ru dcfcntis, with a provision that the a n ia> U«e the jrreat base against
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    'SECURITY BOSS FLED EAST WITH SECRETS'
    207 3 'SECURITY BOSS FLED EAST WITH SECRETS' BERLIN, Wed. I? AST German Communists said today that West German security chief Otto John, who disappeared into the East, carried with him his government's "most secret" plans, including those on rearmament. The official Communist Party newspaper Neves Duetschland in a front page story
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    2 LOVELORN SAILORS ARE GAOLED
    109 3 2 LOVELORN SAILORS ARE GAOLED BRISTOL. Wed. rO 18-year-old British seamen were sent to prison for nine months here yesterday for planning to delay the sailing of their ship because they wanted to stay in a British Columbia port to see more of a i girl. Robert Edmonds and Charles
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    Use these drugs with care
    45 3 LONDON. Wed. The British Medical Research Council yesterday warned aßainst free use of the drugs Cotisone and Acth in treating rheumatic conditions. "Undesirable side effects have become increasinplv evident." the Council said in it. 1 annual report to Parliament —A.P.
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    Radio operator arrested
    53 3 CALCUTTA, Wed. Police have arrested K. M. Gleeson, IrL«h radio operator in the 3,320-ton Hong Kong ship Ix>ksane on charges n smuggling contraband worth about i7OO. They said that 103 pens and nencils were recovered from the pocket of a raincoat and other contraband good£ seized trom
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    Three Jews held
    39 3 CAIRO. Wed. The Interior Ministry announced yesterday that Egyptian authorities have arrested three Jews on charges of complicity In the setting afire of the United States embassy libraries in Cairo and Alexandria on July 14.— U.P.
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    GALE GREETS QUEEN AT 'GLORIOUS GOODWOOD'
    161 3 LONDON, Wed. A GALE was blowing when the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh drove to Goodwood on the South Downs yesterday for the opening of the annual four-day race mcetinf, one of the biggest social events and fashion parades of the English summer.
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    MISS UNIVERSE HAS A VICTORY SMILE
    48 3 MIRIAM STKVKNSON. a 21-vrar-old American college stu dent, rives a special victory smile after being chosen as "Miss I inverse at Long Brach. California. Miriam, who comes from Winsboro. South Carolina, is shown with her trophy and pearl- studded crown. A.P. picture.
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    INDIA REFUSES SAFE CONDUCT FOR PORTUGUESE TEAM
    204 3 INDIA REFUSES SAFE CONDUCT FOR PORTUGUESE TEAM NEW DELHI. Wednesday. INDIA today rejected Portugal's request for a safe conduct for a delegation from Daman to visit Nagar Haveli to check on the situation there. Nagar Haveli. with an area I of 148 square miles, is part of the Portuguese territory
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    LONDON STOCKS
    250 3 LONDON. Wed A future today «v sharp line of Mercantur Bank of India share* on thr announcement of a vrlp issue and .subdivision of share*. Reut«r. "nn.sol* H'< Undine 4' 1O4 T >. War 3,; 90 BANKS Mercantile (£124 > M' 2 Eastern (IS) «T4 (ID 42 9
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    LONDON TIN
    24 3 LONDON. July 18— Cash Buyers VJ4B: Sellers €750. Forward Buyers CJ44J: Sellers €745. Settlement £748. Turnover a.m. 45 tons: p.m. 55 tons.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    40 3 LONDON. July 28— Spot 20'2<1 Sept Jo';d. Oct. -Dec 2O' d.. Jan Mar 20' id.. Apr -June 20 \<i.. A'.'s elf 20 5 IN Sept elf 20 5 l«d.. Oct -Dec. c.l I. 20 5 18d Tont: Quiet.
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    Getting to the bottom of it
    53 3 SANTA ANA. California. Wed. A physician removed an inch-long needle yesterday from tue right foot of Guy J. Gilbert. 83. Gilbert recalled he accidentally swallowed the needle 76 years ago when he was 7. About six months ago. he began feeling a dull ache
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    Bulgaria knocks
    34 3 Paris. Wed— Bulgaria yesterday became the seventh Communist country to ask for admission to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation. Russia took a scat in UNESCO earlier this year A.P.
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    580 emigrants
    22 3 BREMEN. Wed. -A group of 580 German emigrants left here yesterday for Canada aboard the Canadian motorship Beaverbrade. A.P. *r
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    Secrecy veils new 'mystery' move in world tin pact'
    245 4 IT MA V AFFECT THE CEILING PRICE KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. TIN miners in the Federation are considering an "important" development in the International Tin Agreement signed recently. It is understood that this concerns the ceiling price proposed for the operation of
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    Man who got ten years is freed
    121 4 ALOR STAR. Wca. A FTER two witnesses had given evidence, the Kedah DP.P.. Mr F G. Cooke. tnid the high court here today that the prosecution did not «rUh to co on with the retrial oi a padi planter. Ahmad bin Sa'ad Tustice
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    Today's Radio SINGAPORE
    78 4 Today's Radio SINGAPORE r.Tie Slgn.d and Opti..en;. 716 MornmK ktekjflj m.\- ;o Me!oB book Bio.<cir v riBM Itastc; IH»; ;00 EliElth DO Time Sifin.il and Proßrammr Dl C.iV.M.inhlnK and I 63C RaCio Book Shop X.55 Announrement* pora Share Market Report. ;;a! .inri News; 7.10 Rural Rnund-Cp; 7 15 Evenll 730
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    Parade at HQ.
    28 4 Recruit Flight of the Mala\an Auxiliary Air Porrr will hold a passing-out parade at the Singapore Military Forre headquarters. Brach Road, at 6 p.m tomorrow
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    Church bazaar
    25 4 Fatrfleld Methodist Church. Singapore, will hold a bazaar at the Fairfleld Girls" School. Neil Road, from 11 am to 7 D.m on Saturday
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    Dance Club
    23 4 The Folk Dance Club of the Singapore V.M.C.A. will meet it the tennis pavilion. Bras Rasah Road, at 7.30 tomorrow :>i«M.
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    A HAPPY START TO CHOPIN FESTIVAL
    268 4 A HAPPY START TO CHOPIN FESTIVAL LAN SMETERLIN Rave the Chopin festival a happy start last night when he appeared as soloist with the Musical Society Orchestra at the Victoria Hall. Most of the works were early Chopin so that it was an evening light in emotional content but facinatingly
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    HELEN COMES TO PREPARE ASSEMBLY
    58 4 HELEN COMES TO PREPARE ASSEMBLY MISS lIKI.Ka „.u.t. wWant general secretary of the World Assembly of Youth in Paris, who arrived in Singapore yesterday in a KIM Super Constellation to prepare the general assembly in Singapore next month. After the assembly Miss Dale hopes io visit the Federation to talk
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    TWO WIN THEIR APPEAL
    52 4 Rahin Ismail and A. Rahim Khan, inder .sentence of six months' and 10 months' ImpriMnnMai respectively for i.'.rqedly using a forged docu•nent as gfnuine. were clear- ed when they appealed to the Singapore High Court yesterday The Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Ayns'.cy set aside the conviction
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    Servicemen will adopt blind kiddies for day
    61 4 Servicemen will adopt blind kiddies for day PENANG, Wed.— British Servicemen on leave at Sandy croft leave centre at TanjonK Bungah will "adopt" 29 blind children from St. Nicholas' Home on Sunday Each child will be the sum or a soldier or sailor at a party. Toys will be presented
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    Suspect charged and remanded
    53 4 SEGAMAT. Wed. Teo Kek Toh. 30. was charged here yesterday with possession of supplies presumed to be for the bandits. He wa* alleged to nave Oeen causht on the Segamat-Labis road with fishing hooks, a steel caole and $100 in cash. Bail was opposed, and he
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    BIG CROWD AT FASHION SHOW
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    Proceeds io help Mission Hospital
    116 4 WHERE uas a record atA tendance at last night's fashion parade arid hair dressing exhibition at Raffles Hotel, Singapore. The parade uas a daz-liny shoic of glorious gowns, glamorous models and top fashions. Among them was a dress of spun horse hair, woven uith gilt
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    PUT THEM IN THE NAVY
    273 5 PUT THEM IN THE NA VY Che Khadijah plan for the girls who go astray They can help to defend Malaya, she tells council IPOH, Wednesday. \z> a method to curb prostitution among Malay women, the Perak State Council was today urged to consider recruiting those who were "energetic, healthy
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    'Worms in fish' scare revived
    169 5 A RED HERRING, SA V MERCHANTS PENANG, Wed. AFTER a lull of two years, stories of worms found in nsh have caused another scare i among Penang and Kedah housewives: Fishmongers are sceptical and say the rumour^ are part of a rase to bring down
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    Slept under a bus: $5
    48 5 For behaving In a disorderly i manner. Yen Huan Kia was ftned $5 in Singapore yesterday. Yen, the court was told, slept under a stationary bus between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. on July 14 at a bus terminus in Tanjong Pagar Road.
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    Found hanged
    23 5 A 65-year-old blind woman. Low Toh. was found hanged in the bathroom of a house in Duxton Road, Singapore, yesterday morning.
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    Holiday plans for consulate
    47 5 The Singapore office of the Indonesian Consulate General at K P M building and Its Information Centre at 108. Robinson Road, will be closed on Saturday and Monday. The Immigration and Shipping sections will be open from 9am to 10 a.m. on Saturday
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    8 ships open to visitors
    45 5 Eight ships of the Indian naval flotilla, arriving in Singapore waters on Monday for a six-day visit, will be open to visitors on Aug. 5They will be in the man-o'-war anchorage. Passes can be obtained from India House, Grange Road.
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    Intimidation alleged
    47 5 Kananlyan was charged in Singapore yesterday with intimidating Gurusamy Murugesan. a City Council worker, at Sfrangoon Road on July 20. It was alleged that Kananlyan tri»»d to prevent Murugesan from continuing his work. The court granted him $1,000 bail in one surety till Ang. 4.
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    WIDOW IN DIAMOND RING CASE CLEARED
    187 5 PENANG, Wednseday. A WIDOW, charged with criminal breach of trust of a diamond ring belonging; to a pawnbroker, told the Penang sessions court today that the pawnbroker made an improper suggestion to her at a cinema. "He took me to the cinema and then
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    $4,200 trust charge
    77 5 Allowed $5,000 bail KUALA LUMPUR. Wed— R. Kanapathipillai, aged 38, of Am pang Street, was charged In the Sessions Court here today with criminal breach of trust of $4,200 belonging to Kuala Lumpur Co-operative Society. The charge alleged that, as an employee, he converted the money to
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    No money yet to save the 'wrong track' girls
    158 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. rE Selanfor Religious Affairs Department ha« evolved a long-term plan to rehabilitate Muslim street-walkers, but it is not expected to start for two or three yean, Inche Patch Akhir bin Mat San, president of the department, told the
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    Watch found
    27 5 A 15-jewel Swiss wristwatch found in Mount Emily swimming pool. Singapore, on June 6 was turned over to the police at Kandang Kerbau station yesterday.
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    27 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Kuala Lumpur Second Magistrate's court today dealt with 150 summons cases. More than $800 was collected In fines.
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    STRIKE DELAYS COURT CASES
    46 5 DIE to the strike by 10.0 M City Council labourers, several case* in the Singapore City Police Court had to be postponed yesterday to August 11. City cleansing inspectors are busy supervising volunteer cleaners, so they cannot attend court to rive evidence.
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    Youth rally
    21 5 TAIPINO, Wed— The Perak Methodist Youth Fellowship will hold a youth rally in Ipon on Aug. 9 and 10.
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    $2,200 opium bribe accused knew high officials, says police officer
    241 5 EVIDENCE that Lian Teck Chew was seen in the company of high Government officials and that one of them was the head of a department, was Riven In the Singapore Assize Court ye&terday by Ray William Waters, an Acting Deputy
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    HE SPEAKS UP FOR THE MEN FROM GAOL
    181 5 HE SPEAKS UP FOR THE MEN FROM GAOL SINGAPORE lags behind many other cities in the after care of discharged prisoners and there is a prejudice against helping them, said Major W. L. P. Sochon, Commissioner of Prisons, yesterday. He said all efforts by prison authorities to rehabilitate offenders would
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    190 5 Emergency duties additional to their normal role KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. BRITISH police commissioners meeting in London this month learned of the lessons experienced by police in Malaya and Kenya in their emergencies and agreed that an emergency should not allow the police to detract from
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    Build houses for sale, Council told
    75 5 Build houses for sale, Council told PENANO. Wed 'TWE Municipal Town PlanX ning and Building Department committee has recommended that the Penang Council should now embark on a housing scheme. The houses should be for sale or lease. The success of such a scheme, the committee said. 1 would depend
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. July 29, 1954. Agreement on Suez
    765 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. July 29, 1954. Agreement on Suez Anglo-Egyptian agreement on the Suez Canal is the best news to come nut of the Middle Fast since the war. This settlement can be 'vrlcomed without any reservation. It will not pirate the diehards any more than it I
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    577 6 A somewhat sickening story of a sportsman's war on big game in Pahang is told in the Game Department's annual re- port. This poacher, for poacher he was, was a Government offi- cial. His favourite weapon was a bren gun. His last adventure was to turn
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    Indian representation in the new Federal Council
    1383 6  -  rpHERE has not so far been any serious attempt in the Federation to understand the problem involved in securing an adequate as well well as appropriate representation of Indians in the new Legislative Council. There ha.s been, however, much uninformed criticism. To dismiss
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    327 6 IN your leading article ThP Student Prince" -you imply that £218 a year is sufficient for the British student you mention. You also admit that to keep himself in thr vacations, he earns an other £200 odd. Indeed, the Government d«< not expect even a
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    The police lieutenants should learn courtesy
    208 6 WHILFT hesitating to classify police lieutenants as "wasters" I agree with "Malayan" that many are completely ignorant of the need for courtesy and consideration in their daily dealings with the public. Rather than condemn the individual police lieutenant for his shortcomings. I would say
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    105 6 Students and aid for strikers IN a recent report, you mention "three youths, who claimed to represent University of Malaya students." No-one, except the students' union, can represent the students. The students are now on their long vacation, and the students' union cannot therefore meet. The opinions expressed by these
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    IN DEFENCE OF EMPLOYERS
    187 6 •yOUR report from Seremban quoted Mr. Lee Moke Sant;. addressing the fourth annual conference of the Antl-Mala-rlal Staff Union, as giving a warning that there was still a large number of "reactionary employers" in the country, who would not hesitate to weaken the trade union movement
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    161 7 vflie cash will go mrther that way, I says director KUALA LUMPI X, Wednesday. i L-KNIT central organisation of the coun- social welfare bodies would yield far r ,(in»tnutive results with the same $4,500,--federal vote "<>« available to the Federation's ,ri> Department, Mr. J. C. MacDouall,
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    Talk on S'pore
    33 7 Maior J. Hunt will talk on Singapore before Raffles" at tomorrows meeting of the Business and Professional Women* Sports Club at the Singapore Y.WC.A.. Raffle.s Place, at 5 15 p.m.
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    15 7 Icitv Council's immlttee ha.- reserve roads R<ud should Avrnur. Jno .-"me Jno Walk
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    TENGKU AMPIAN AIDS FAIR
    47 7 lIPUH thodlst I fun fair on a black silk and a r the table pUftn <>t Srlangor. Artist Done Kingman has liven an autographed print ol :n ol his paintings. Mrs. Richard Nixon, wife of the United States Vice-President. ■I'm an autographed handkerehlef.
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    167 7 then they sail for home CIBkUUKAMT and Mrs. John Anderson returned to Sincapore yesterday from II 'ti, Kong but only for four hours. They arrived with other service families in the Lancashire. Mrs. Anderson. Sincapore -born Diana Lee. met Sgt. Anderson when he was serving
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    HE GETS HIS $3,000 BACK
    98 7 HE GETS HIS $3,000 BACK GIAM LEONG BENG. won his appeal against a conviction and fine of $3,000 on a charge of possession of chap-.il-ki slips, in the SinKaporf High Court yesterday. The Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray Aynsley. who quashed the conviction and ordered the fine to be refunded,
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    Welcome for Mrs. Pandit
    71 7 The Governor of Singapore. Sir John Nicoll. will preside at a public meeting at Jalan BeB ar Stadium on Aug. 12. organised by th? Indian community to H-rlcome Mrs. Vljaya Lakshmi Pandit, president of the United Nations General Assembly. Members of the diplomatic corps. Government officials
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    Remanded in hospital
    68 7 Mr. R W. H. Davies, a i Singapore macistrate, yesterday ordered Leo Tine Chew, who fae<\s a charge of attempted murder, to be remanded until Auc 11 in Woodbridße Hospital for examination. Leo. accused of the attempted murder of a married woman Low Ah Young, at Loronß
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    'Freedom' talk
    40 7 Former Owen's Scholar. Dr. Gwee Ah Ung of the General Hospital Singapore will speak on "Freedom 11 at the weekly .neetlnfj of the Telok Ayer Methodist Youth Fellowship at 235. Telok Ayor Street, at 7.30 p.m. on Sunday
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    ART CLUB A TOTAL FLOP, SAYS AN ARTIST
    201 7 ART CLUB A TOTAL FLOP, SAYS AN ARTIST Painter starts a civil war T*HE Singapore Art A Society has failed to do its Job of fostering art and encouraßinp artists, Mr. Arthur "Johnnie" Johnson said yesterday. "The last exhibition of the Singapore Art Society wa-s pathetic there was not one
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    The ban?—"and this is the reason why'
    220 7 The ban?— "and this is the reason why' BUT Mr. Ho Kok Hoe. chairman of the Art Society, had this to say in reply. "The art shows we Put on are ror the good of Singapore and not for a couple of people ■Mr Johnson Ig. probably very angry with
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    Oil company man is acquitted
    66 7 Ibrahim bin Ha-ssan. an employee of Standard Vacuum Oil Company, who was accused of stealing 7 3 4 gallons of petrol at 11 40 a m on Apr 13. was acquitted yesterday in the Singapore Fifth Police Court It was alleged that he stole the
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    NINE FEET HIGH BUT IT'S ONLY A 'BABY FROM AUSTRALIA
    52 7 lIIIS "BABY" windmill, nine fee l huh. was installed yesterday in the Australian pavilion at the Happy World Trade Fair. It will be displayed by an Australian firm which hopes to interest Malayans in replacing hand pumps with windmills— Straits
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    Thieves make $1,245 haul from three homes
    98 7 ABOUT $1,245 In cash and valuables wu reported stolen from three houses In Singapore yesterday From a Chinese woman living in Serangoon Road, a thief got away with a gold buckle, and a pair of diamond earrings worth $900. They were stolen from
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    This way, it's done with the wind
    212 7 MILLS MAY REPLACE HAND PUMPS AN Australian firm is try into the Malayan scene ing to introduce windmills I These, the firm claims, will save planters thousands of dollars now spent on pumping water. The first Australian windmill a "baby only nine feet
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    TWO ARE BACK ON COUNCIL IN PERAK
    72 7 TWO ARE BACK ON COUNCIL IN PERAK IPOH. Wed. Two of the three Alliance members on the Perak State Council, who had resigned over the Federal elections issue, resumed their stats on the Council today. They are Mr. Wone Benc Hea of Sitiawan and Mr. Woo Saik Hong of Teluk
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    88 7 MINIMI M TrMPKRATI HK: (7.30 pm. on Jul> 27 to 730 am. on July 28 1 Singapore 73 degrrfs. Penang 72. Kota Bharu 75. Kuala Lumpur 72, Ipoh 72. Kui>ntan 72 i MAXIMI M TEMP^RATIRI: I (7 30 a.m. lo 7 30 pm. on July 28' Singapore 85
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    High tides
    84 7 TODAY: Singapore 10 39 a.m. (8 (t 3 In*. i 927 p.m. i 9 ft. 4 Ins): Port Diclunn sO4 am. (7 ft. 2 In* i 547 p.m. 1 8 ft. 4 Ins i Pennng 11.37 a.m. <7 ft. 7 Ins.) TOMORROW: Singapore 11.6S h m 18 ft.
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    THE COLONEL ACTS LIKE A DRUNK-IN COURT
    232 7 THE COLONEL ACTS LIKE A DRUNK -IN COURT A Lieutenant Colonel showed a Singapore traffic court yesterday how a man, whom he thought was drunk, walked to hi* car at a filling station in Tanjon* Pagar Road on May 26. Lieut. Colonel H. L-ThMshyrf. swayed and fumbled In tnr witness
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    NEW METHOD TO GET MORE WATER
    192 7 NEW METHOD TO GET MORE WATER ANEW method of boring wells Will be used for the first time in Malaya next month whrn work oeßins on Singapore's latest water scheme. Thr>?e wells are to be sunk in the Bedok area to find out C a large underground reservoir '.here can
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    Man accused of fraud
    76 7 Lee Heng Sim. 34. claimed trial in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday to a charge of cheating K. Chandra of the East and West Trading Co. of property worth $2,348, j on July 2. Lee. it was alleged, induced I Chandra to give him R6
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    Out they'll go for a trip north
    166 7 Holidays star I a rush for season* UUNDHEDR Of Singa- porrans will begin the err;) rush north from tomorrow to spend tho August bank holidays in various parts ol the Federation. Hi ;ivy bookmu.i have been made both with Malayan Airways and the
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    Charged with having tobacco
    52 7 Teng Tong Sciir, 34. was. rharprri m Singapore yesterday with havmu H'J:^ in of dutiable Siamese tobiicco in a shophouse at Koh Srk I. iin Roiiri on Tuesday. Term. who claimed trial waj offered $5,000 bail in two sureties. The case was postponed to Nov 11
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    944 8 Witness seems to think he has to shield somebody judge j REFUSAL TO ANSWER QUESTION ON FIRE EQrip\n A SENIOR officer of l the Department of Civil Aviation was advised at the Kalians: air crash inquiry yesterday not to let loyalty to his senior carry him too far. Robert Rendle,
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    111 8 "Two things happened." said Rendle. "Holliday was given the job of improving the training of the firemen and freshening them up. "I got details of what would be a satisfactory fire service for Paya Lebar airport. The idea was to deploy the star! and
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    CPO WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS, JUDGE SAYS
    113 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Wednesday. TiHE PRESIDENT of the Sessions Court. Mr. N. L. 1 Cohen, said he would write to thr Chief Police Officer about the inconvenience caused to witnesses when a trial was postponed today, because the investigating officer failed to attend court.
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    Stage Club show
    28 8 The Stage Club Singapore will present Mary Hayley Bell's "Duet for two Hands' at the Victoria Theatre at 9pm on Aug. 12, 13 and 14
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    His 'back pay'—10 weeks of freedom
    93 8 WHEN Rahmad bin Abdulah. 19. swcipi r slven six months' gaol j lav for theft ha asked Mr. F. A. Chua. a Singatvire ludge, to backdate 1 the wnten< Rahmad pleadrd he had seen on remand Unee W >n Apr. 15 The jud«e agreed.
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    25 8 Miss Tan Joo Sim, 16. of Raffles Girls School, Singapore, has left on a scholarship to Vassar College, Poughkeepsle, New York State.
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    LAND-BUT THEY WON'T GO TO IT
    204 8 Indians slow to leave estates kuai.a LUMPUR, Wednesday. ALTHOUGH the Federation Government is anxious to settle south Indian labourers on cull land, the Indians are not enthusiastic, Mr. R H Oakeley, Commissioner for Labour, told the Straits Times today. "Labourers Ion? on rubber •states
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    Indonesian pilgrim plane due
    92 8 Indonesian pilgrim plane due I PORTY Indonesian pilgrims to Mecca are cxnecteri in Singapore tomorrow on the first "hajl Bight" in a < 1 Indonesian Airway j Convair Mr. W. J. K i Garuda spokesman In Singapore said yesterday that the Ind Oovt rnment had a.-keri for the 1 pilerim
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    Court interpreter retires
    43 8 :day was the ia-st working day at the Singapore courts for Mr. T V Bui a ten! >r Interpreter, who retires ait< r It He will spend his leave In India but intends to return to settle in the Coii
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    LIGHTS NOW FOR MORE ZEBRAS:
    50 8 LIGHTS NOW FOR MORE ZEBRAS: T".. on l,s! factor) md rood I < jr. ic m h ii..- «.o-. ri 1... ..i, liehts lik, worth Hid,-, i H iTh. < a bxin f.v.-rt Pcd.5t,,,,,. Iwwei ru*h adv,.-,: 0 J fill Iv I lifhfa and s,e th lr^ walkbr *2! arr
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    17 8 250 CAN GET THIS AID -IF THEY ASK FOR IT i LARG] app; thf por< The t\VO
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    1991 9 Jeers greeted maker of first 'horseless carriage' TIMES special FEATURE IN a screened compound at Mannheim, Germany, on a Spring day of 1885, six men carried out the first rites of a new religion. Their god i a dirty, evil-smelling wheeled platform with a wooden seat on which sat the
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    BRICKWORKS SHOW DROP
    703 10 Industrials are stead) A FEATURE of the Sinjjapnr,. Sh Hr yesterday was a sharp decline j n tJ|IH Brick ordinaries when it w;is annou there would be no payment thi tent bonus as well as a dividend. Last year the company paid 2! and Interim dividend of
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    22 10 SINGAPORE I SHIPPING Ivinr .ili,- Ship* Iwn; .ilnn.-il. I l»"tf Harbour ft ird «hi I prd.-d todli in I I I R
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    40 10 On the free exchange market i 1 Hong Kontt yesterday the U S dolla was quoted at 5.78 for rash v 5 7925 for T.T. Sterling was quoted al IB.M U one tael of (told at 250 625
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    47 10 Continued progress in the o*v» lopment and planting of Oban (Nl eeria i Rubber EMates I.id pre pertv was reported by Mr T. J dimming to shareholders of Kepon (Malayi Rubber Estaie.* I.'rl which, with two other comppnies. has a (hare Ir tiie pro teect
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    ADVENTURE! But first let your children feel SAFE
    612 12 AD VENTURE! But first let your children feel SAFE Lady ELIZABETH PAKENHAM.... is your rcncfion to this story of a reader*! stnall son, Andre, who saw a pictim of Buckingham PiUkc on television and immediately said he had been there. His mothrr. Joining in his imagination, asked what happened. His
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    TAKE CARE OF YOUR FEET-THEY'VE A LOAD TO CARRY
    350 12 Says Maxim Rakich I HAVE Just been through a nasty month of foot trouble the first time in my life but in a way I am bettor off for the experience and have learned a number of interesting things during this
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    ARTIST IN THE HOUSE
    115 12 WOULD ymi likr a dainty srarf with your name punt ed on it in gold leaf nr in a contrasting colour. Nicr idra. Un't It? In one of the Urer department store* in town there i* I I a well known Dutch artist who will do
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    PRESENTING the POLLY!
    234 12  -  SHORT MQHTII that MISS MINNIE made By ANNE EDWARDS and DRUSILLA BEYFUS V° l n w.7 to old tor VOIII1 idp T *k«- thr .asr of niKhtiJ 3nd M SS EFFIE nd th cambrir Th V...* r v U brisk lUtll •"»'«««•<• ladies who live in vprurel.tllr
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      116 12 f«w""* "spb mm wfti ft^i ask lot HEINZ IK Ketchup croau>s flavor aag,. i i W K% tans it adds t< M gives to soups and q C^— ~~^^,B ipes ade wifh succulent, pjrUt|Jl/7/^B sun-mellow Kir: tndipioei Hoinz Tomato i TOMATO Ketchup makrs an appetizing A KETCH UP/ dinner sensational
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      327 12 The Straits Times Crossword 5: (4) U He worship im I ilo. eventually 1 I 2 s lii s I U. mMMUHM'e n.«K c6<. Hi! k^^ Hol '.Vhnhni lonu of divent? «5> |m < A dIMHiil i-oiinty Mnner* de< lare I 4. A number K.ilned «c heHr 3 > -wjjs
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    Australia will have to be at best
    403 13 Australia will have to be at best HASSETT SAYS MELBOIRNE, Wed. LINDSAY HASSETT. Australian rrii Wet captain from If) 19 to 1?»53, said today that England had chosen i "good, strong team" for the coming tour of Australia. "Our chaps will have to liruiiiii c their ln-t crirket to retain
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    THE 17 FOR AUSTRALIA
    144 13 I he ispvrntppn players to tour Australia find New Zmland larr Ihw r.i: with (he English M.C.C. cricket I '.earn arc L. Huitnn (Yorkshire) captain, P May (Surrey. vice-captain. R T. i Simpson (Nottinghamshire!. W Ednrh (Middlesex), T. E. Bailey (Essex M C Co* drey <Kenw.
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    BEST SINCE WAR, BUT TOO MANY PACE MEN
    614 13 Australian view of England Tour Team From JACK FINf.LETON pREDDIE TRUEMAN and Tony Lock have lost favour with the M.C.C. and the England team announced yesterday for the Australian tour is all the weaker without them but it's still the best looking
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    LEAGUE & CUP RESULTS AND POSITIONS
    436 13 LEAGUE CUP RESULTS AND POSITIONS <;itorr a O.T.E.C. 1 Shell F. N 3 Honfkanc Bk 4 Palo nakom 1 Mercantile Bk 4 P W D L P APU OTEC S S 0 0 12 3 10 Mercantile Bk. S 4 0 1 1* f 8 Shell S 2 1 2
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    Salleh saved S.C.S. from bigger defeat
    176 13 CINOAPORE Traction Co went to the top of the Oroup B table In the Business Houses League ti Cup competition with a 3-1 victory over Cold Storage at Serangoon Road yiMerday Traction were superior In all departments to this bottom team and would ha\e
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    Telephone Co. lucky to beat Shell 1-0
    268 13 Telephone Co. lucky to beat Shell 1-0 JRIENTAI. Telephone and Electric Company, unbeaten leaders In Ornup 'A' of the Singapore Bukineas Houxe* P.A. League and Cup competition, maintained their record by beating Shell B.C. 1-0 In a second round fixture at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. OTEC were without Boon Khim
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    Three goals by Tahir but F&N lose
    262 13 I RESPITE three goals by Tahlr. Praser St Neave could not score their first point in six matches when they were defeated by Hongkong Bank 4-3 at River Valle> Road yesterday In a Greap A matrh of the SBHFA League and Cup com.
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    Attack one of the strongest
    417 13  -  VKRNON MORGAN ■y And the English view LONDON, Tues. PACE. It would seem. U the main Instrument of attack In England's bid to retain the Ashes In the Test cricket series against Australia next witter In announcing the 17 players for the tour, the selectors
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    BADMINTON: JNR RESULTS
    234 13 RESULTS of the lies in the Slnga. pore Badminton Association > junior championship* played at the Slngiipore Badminton hall last night Slafln 1 third roundl: Leong Yun Chan bt Rob-rt Llm 9- IS 15—9 IS— 3; Mat Noor bin Baba bt Chlem' Oo» Singh 15— IS— IJ;
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    ROBERTSON BEST IN RAAF SPRINT SWIM
    352 13 ROBERTSON BEST IN RAAF SPRINT SWIM PILOT Officer Robert. son of No. 1 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force was the Individual I champion M Hie annual swimniiiiK I gala of the H(<|.:il Air Porce. Teiißah i held at Ten :.iii yei>terday. He wus first In Ihr three sprints
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    Selangor supports State rugge on Home – Away basis
    302 14 Selangor supports State rugge on Home Away basis KUALA LIMPUK, Wednesday. CELANGOR Rugby I'nion, at its annual meeting last evening in the Selangor Club, unanimously agreed to the suggestion that the .Malayan Rugby Union should discontinue the present inter-State friendlies and count both home and away matcho as HMS Malaya
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    208 MAAA entries; Johore sending 17 fighting Fijians'
    1198 14 KIALA LI'MPIR. Wednesday. r p\\n HINKKII) and eight of Malaya's and North Borneo's best athletes will compete in the Malayan Amateur Athletic Association championships, which will be held on Auk 13 and 14. in Kuala Lumpur. Selangor have the most i number
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    Singapore hockey to raise $30,000 by 1956
    280 14 rpHE Singapore Hockey A.ssoX elation will soon appoint a special finance committpe to deal .solely with the ta.sk of raising $30,000 needed to senrt the Sinpapore team to the Olympic Games at Melbourne In November 1956. Mr G. E. N. Oehlers. president of
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    JOHORE SIDE v SINGAPORE
    63 14 SEGAMAT. Wed.— Johoie will meet Singapore m an Inter-state cri- cket match at Nee Soon in Singapore on Aug 14 and 15. i Johore team w.ll be: W. Vla.s i capt i A. B Bart helot. Bailward. Teo Cheng Chuan. L. Holt. Ket.-ail Slnch Dr rl
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    GOMEZ 5 FOR 22 IN BEATTY WIN
    68 14 Beatty Secondary School beat Teachers training College by two wicket* in a cricket friendly on the In. dian Association ground yesterday TTC. 57 for 8 dccl (Jake Kw-oni* 23. Anthony Gomez 18 n o Knshnan 4 23 Ooh Teck Yong 2 1 1
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    S.B.A. TEAM FOR MALAYAN MEET
    175 14 JINOAPORE Badminton A.w^htion last night announced the \»meg of the Colony players who 111 compete In the Badminton Asoclatlon of Malaya s open chamMonshlns this year In Penang from \\x 19 to 22. Wong Pens Soon, winner of the Malayan singles crown for the past
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    23 14 MM IfR > U I i.t itlv I Tiger S sK .Ulan Be«r. rßirsni V Indian RC v Fathal Karlb. rarrer Park
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    SPOTTING THE WINNERS.
    349 14  -  By KPSO..I .li.Kl'. MY ten to follow ar uir i Penang August Bank I Holiriav Meeting are: C.OI.DF.N I.OTI'S lor the Oold Cup: one of the outstanding stiyers In training; won Selanaor Gold Cup ovi i 1 1 4 miles In the course record time of 2
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    Lim accepts conditions
    120 14 ONLY 'he Badminton A> of Malaya s sanction worn for the international c :o ctlebrate the sliver kni if the Singapore Badmir. elation In November thi> year. The SB. A. hon MCTM Quek Keng Slang. I liwi Mr I.im Chuan Oeok 3resid*TH and Thnm.^ manager, who Is
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    53 14  - impress on Penang track rpOLY smartu at. P< when i Honda start km and 8a who an rroni and A Irlor II Smart gallop Ip"h 11 Ri X Hi. Ml I 801 I- linn P|| "lit to Malaya >hortl Tr.»in<i Don i hai mi-: i.in.lw: pp.** P" I*4 irrnr in
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