Singapore Standard, 28 May 1953

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  • 20 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD fe J& 9H Jl Vol. 11l No. 825 f SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1933. TWELVE PACES 10 CENTS.
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  • 1262 1 Troops Are Closing In END OF CRISIS? THE ENTIRE Communist Johore State Committee, which, viet secretly about eiQhl miles from Kluang near Sembawang River, are being smoked out of their jungle retreat as a result of one of the largest helicopter operations launched since the
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  • 225 1 RUSSIANS SHOOT 4 ACCUSED OF SPYING FOR U S. May 27: (Reuter) Four men for America have been shot m nq dropped by parachute m the night of April 25/ the Soviet M r said today. m Pravda and -.1. had lour AmericanS >viet and foreign ell as plat 'S
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  • 313 1 AFTER questioning more than 40 persons, Singapore Police yesterday detained two men m connection with the shooting of 22-year-old Detective Johnson Lee. Detective Lee was shot dead by a gunman at the junction ot Chin Swee Road and Hare Street, while on his
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  • 15 1 ALBERT SPALDING. Ame-rican-born world famous violinist, died suddenly m his New York apartment
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  • 101 1 LOXDOV May 2»>. (Router) The Suliana of Johore. Se'angor. Kelantan and Perak. tonight saw the documentary Him "Terror In the Jungle." The Aim shows how the villagers m Malaya no longer remain placid when Communist terrorists raid them and stea! 'heir household stocks of rice and
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  • 58 1 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG. Tues.— The Penang police has so far been unable to identity the Chinese woman who was found dead m a drain if) Mount Erskinc road, early yesterday morning. The police is requesting the public to help m the identification. The description
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  • 56 1 CAIRO. May 27, (AP)— The Egyptian Ministry of National Guidance said last night that British forces m the Suez Canal Zone had razed to the ground a vii age near Genefa, m the Canal area. The Ministry said tfr& action had left inhabitants of
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  • 30 1 THE Queen had lunch yesterday wi'h six of her Commonwealth Prime Ministers first time m history that the Commonwealth Parliaments have joined to entertain liie sovereign. Reuter
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  • 32 1 THE wife of former Premier Mustapha El Nahas and three ex-ministers will be triec' m the anti-graft court established by the military Junta, an official Cairo announcement said yesterday. UP
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  • 31 1 RESCUE workers yesterday toiled through piles of masonry m an effort to find three women feared trapped under the debris of a convent which col'apsed In Rome yesterday. Reuter
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  • 89 1 NEW YORK, May 6. (USIS) American manufacturers can absorb the world surplus of natural rubber, estimated at 190,000 tons a year, if the price remains at the present level, Mr J. L. Collyer. president of international B. F. Coodrich Corny "aiy attid here on Monday. Mr
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  • 39 1 A BRITISH farmer, Mr. Alex Smith Hedge. WM released by United States Immigration authorities In I-os Angeles, yesterday, on signing an undertaking not t«> M>Ociato with any known Commumst Party number. tl\e Immit;ratioo D«yartmeut »aid. Reuter
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  • 153 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The tir?t people m the Federation to celebrate the Coronation are the inhabitants of Aulong. a tiny Chinese new village m the heart of Perak. A Comet jetliner Ka taking photographs of the celebrations already he'd ir. his little village 10 London for
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  • 139 1 HANOI, May 27, (AFP).— Franco- Vietnamese forces last night evacuated the post of Yenvi, m the Red River Delta, it was learned here. The evacuation was not due to any fresh Vktminh attack, but was derided upon after a battle lasting several days a
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  • 122 2 MORE than 16.000 dai rate 1 workers of 'he Singapore Government and the Cty Council will g<" L a Daid holiday on Coronation Day. If they work on that day, they will gel doub o w;i^es. Coronation Day is not included In the 11 annu.il
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  • 185 2 CHIA YEE CUOY (18^ who took a friend's car for a drive was disqualified from obtaining a driving licence for the next two years' by Mr. R. C. Hoffman In tho First Singapore Traffic Court, yesterday. In addition he was fined a total of
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  • 55 2 AdvertisementFees Halved Standard Staff Reporter HALF FEES will be charged by the Singnpore City Council j fur advertisements m the amusement parks as the dis--1 play value of such advertisements is limited to certain i hours every evening. Amendments to allow thi? were made to the relevant Municipal By-laws at
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  • 24 2 THE Singapore Kamala Club will hold a dinner on June 5. at the Club premises jin Moulmeifl Road, to celebrate the Coronation.
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    28 2 Mr. R Jumabnoy of Singapore, a mrmber of the Legislative and Executive Councils, and one of the official Singapore representative* for the Coronation, arrives at London Airport. UP
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  • 102 2 On Coronation Day, all casual stevedore and whart labourers as well as the P< rmancnt labour force, will receive a day's pay. irom the Singapore Harbour Board. Tne inclusion ot casual labourers m this Coronation concession was suggested by the Singapore Wharf and Ship
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  • 36 2 ALL employees of the Utusan Ifclayu Press, will now have a provident fund scheme by which employees contribute ten per cent of their basic talaij to the fund and the employers a similar amount.
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  • 307 2 FAMILY LIFE OF MANY COULD BE JEOPARDISED' A SINGAPORE special grade postman, Hui Ah Hung, was yesterday sentenced by Mr. Tan Ah Teh m the Singapore First Criminal District Court to 18 months' rigorous imprisonment on each of three charges of theft of letters and postal
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  • 400 2 SATA RECEPTIONIST CHARGED A SINGAPORE tuberculosis patient, testified m the Fourth District Court yesterday that he was told by a receptionist, Agatha Cheong, that he must pay $300 or he could not get treatment at the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association Clinic m Prince Edward i
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  • 256 2 The Glitter The Gold Reaches Colony In Time IT IS quite fitting that one of the prettiest m, lasting and most leminhie of Coronation mm come to Singapore should be the rrcation oi uum.in who. herself, is a Princess. Called •The Glitter and Tin Gold** it Is a rosmetlc Corona-
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  • 177 2 2nd KAR's HERE Standard Shipping Reporter THE weird voodoo rhythm of African tom-toms, beating out the death knell for more Communist terrorists m the Federation jungles will soon be h^ird when the 2nd Battalion King's African Rifles, who arrived m Singapore yesterday, go into
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  • 51 2 MR. R s TUFNELI Comptroller of ditto I>v said ft terdav ha the monthly opium consumption 1.1 Singapore is about :{.()00 pounds and that there .ire about 20.000 opium addicts m the Federation and the Colony. Pre-war there wai a re; ed number of about IG.OOO to 17,000
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  • 43 2 KTALA LUMPUR. W«d. The Central Kit ity Board m Kiiala Lumpur has re» over 200 application! for cv.r.i power for the Coronation. A spokesman of the CEB said th* board WAI receiving applications »1 the rate of about 15 per clay.
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  • 252 2 T3EADEKS of the Singapore Standard are asked to mxc for Ihe man or woman who. m their opinion, ha* contributed moit to the enrichment of the social cultural politiral economic or sporting life of Malaya. The winner will be riven a two months' vacation round the world
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  • 42 2 Head Of Giant Sea Dragon j |)hot(». L THE head of the; monster sea-dragon be- lag loaded on a lighter at the Telok A\«t|' Kasin yesterday. The dragon will glow ill over its 500-foot Isagtli on the niijht or Iww t, Standard
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  • 41 2 Brisk Bidding At Equipment Auction A LARGE i two-day oi equipment 01 DOW dofunct M i-r* I' nit a' ll S ie Works P S W.i- r ru'.arly for od I a«J .1 )s. bi.i .-ctri^al fl The mai.i loti I
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  • 10 2 Another 51 Dogs Have Been Shot I I I I
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  • 25 2 TAN CHING HENG R 1 I. Who \n •ttendani to c W»t oi iv in g all the First Sinj re I Court, jr.
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  • 170 3 I than 1000 Singapore Government clerks i»d back-pay tor 2K months, by the recently will share over a million mos iirohal h next month. I ie Deputy Financial Secretary. Mr. M. C. Compton, told The Standard yesterday that arrangements are being made by Government to
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  • 22 3 mm- left the pract m m to reiwn the cx--1 v c tO this i pri--1 Harage
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  • 63 3 CHAN Keng Fatt who on 3 isl year, pleaded v by or to speed! i i:i Scudai, Johorc Bahru. and was asked to send $80 to the Police Court. Johore B has so far failed to do i In -he Mahmood, the Magis- w;i> informed
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    21 3 photo. AT Tallin G.H.Q.. Singapore, yesterday. •ertM»tepforta« Sjf""^?"^. EmVrr bit. C. a£ BraUshaw; and VVO 3. U. E. Fairweathcr (RAOC). Standard
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  • 20 3 photo. ANDERSON Bridge and the Victoria Theatre, Singapore floodlit for Coronation m a tryout on Tuesday night. Standard
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  • 103 3 THE Singapore Malay Teachers Union will hold a meeting after Hari Raya Puasa to discuss ways and means of providing financial aid to Mr. C. V. Devan Nair, former teacher and a released detainee Che Abdul Rahman bin Haji Mohamed Said, president of the Union
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  • 269 3 MALAYA'S BALANCE IS APPROXIMATELY $30 M. Standard Staff Reporter M J"u E l r d b n J m^ ed b i lndonesi "Hier this month does not affect the barter trade and goods can still be exported from Singapore, Penang and Hongkong against their accumulated
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  • 157 3 A HOT WAR which has been raging for the past three weeks m Malay newspapers between Singapore Malay teachers and Malay undergraduates of the University of Malaya will soon end m a debate. The Malay Teachers Union yesterday nominated five representatives to a debate
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  • 173 3 THERE is no possibility of repealing :he colourful Coronation processions after Coronation Week. Mr. Tan Chin Tuan. Deputy President of the Legislative Council, told The Standard yesterday. Mr. Tan said that once the celebrations were over they will be finished as celebrations to mark Her
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  • 106 3 CHINESE families m Indonesia are flocking into Singapore by air to see the "most decorated city of the Far East." And Colony Immigration authorities are making it easy for Coronation visitors from Indonesia. Yesterday a group of Chinese merchants, their wives and children arrived
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  • 79 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— Dr. Yeoh Bok Choon. State Surgeon. Johore, and his wife were injured m a motor accident at Batu Pahat on Monday. They were returning to Johore Bahru when the car skidded and collided with a bridge. Dr. Yeoh suffered a fracture
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  • 49 3 THE Malabar Muslim Jamaath, representing Singapore Malabar Muslims will celebrate the Coronation on June 2 by prayers at 1 p.m. at Malabar Mosqu/. At 6 40 p.m. the poor will be fed at the mosque. The entrance to the mosque will be decorated with flags and illuminations.
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  • 336 3 A HONGKONG firm is bringing two new industries to Singapore m the shape of a combined hat and canvas weaving factory to be built on a. new building lot m Alexandra Road. The managing director of the firm, Mr. Hui Ngok, told The
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  • 85 3 At the annual general meeting of the Singapore Government Junior Staff Union held recently the following were elected office bearers for 1953: President: S Katang Pi!lay; VicoPresident: Taib bin Indin; Secretary: Ali bin Rasim; Assistant Secretary: Rostam b. H. A. Majid; Treasurer: Ambika Rai; Committee Members:
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  • 46 3 CHIN Lin Otin of Plentong was fined $10 m the Police Court, Johore Bahru, yesterday for moving curry leaves from the New Village restricted area without a permit, and $40 for offering a bribe of 50 cents to the constable at the Police barrier.
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  • 98 3 THE Asst. Recruiting Officer. Major W. H. Blakemore. will be visiting Penang. Telok Anson, Ipoh and Bukit Mertajam. to interview potential British Army Recruits, Malayan Other Ranks, as below: Penang: June, 4, 5, 6, from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. daily at the Recruiting Office 41 Northam
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  • 184 3 Bus Drivers, Conductors Not Labourers Davis THE Singapore Labour Department considers that bus conductors and drivers are not "labourers" within the meaning of the term used m the amended Labour Ordinance, the Commissioner for Labour, Mr. G. W Davis, told The Standard yesterday. He said that the Labour (Amendment) Ordinance
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  • 43 3 PROFESSOR O. R. Frisch, Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy m the University of Cambridge, will give a public lecture m the Chemistry Lecture Theatre, The University, Cluny Road, on June 3 at 6.30 p.m. on "The Cavendish Laboratory and its Work."
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  • 23 3 THE management of Seashore Hotel, m East Coast Road, Singapore, will give a cocktail part on June 4, at 7.00 p.m.
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  • 39 3 Queen For A Day photo. MISS LIAU SIEW S^ KHENG. of the Singapore Nanyans Girls School, who was "Queen" at the Chinese combined schools rehearsal at Bukit Timah recently m preparation for the Coronation celebra t ion s. Standard
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  • 281 3 "THE University of Malaya is now the largest nf Britain's colonial universities and university colleges," writes the Manchester Guardian. Like others, it has an historic part to play, for it is forming an elite which will determine the destiny of an entire nation. 1 "Malaya's
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  • 85 3 Professor Sheares For U.K. PROFESSOR B ii thearat, Professor of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at- the Univervi f til Malaya will leave for England by air on Saturday On medical leave. Professor BhcafU WM taken ill recently and has been advised to seek a further diagnosis of his illness >n England.
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  • 50 3 THE Singapore East-West Society will hold a meeting at the British Council at 8 30 p m. today Dr. A. W S Thev.ithasan, Prof. T. I! Silcork, Mr. Cbeong Hock Hal and Mr. Aiiington Kennard will form j "Brains Trurt" with Professor R. E. Holttum m the chuir.
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  • 26 3 A spfcial service of praiNe and thanksgiving will be hold m the Blngap re Tamil Methodist Church <><i June L\ at \*.AU a m.
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  • 227 4 The Queen's Standard Arrives In Penang INK Quern lias given special permission for Her personal M.v: the Royal Standard. (o be flown m Penang at the Coronation parade on June 2. at which members of the armed forces Mill take part. Holdine the Royal Standard are Mr. (I. C. Dod\
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  • 87 4 THE first port of the Singapore City Council meeting yesterday was recorded electrically as an experiment to And out if ihe council can do without shorthand reporting. The 'city President. Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, --aid 'the recordIng instrument watg channeled through each microphone In
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  • 86 4 MR Tan Ah Tan, ttoh o Singapore First District .Judge, yesterday sentenced a labourer. Aw Chwee Seng, to 16 months' rigorous imprisonment for illegal possession of a dagger. The Court was told that Aw was 'aught after a party of detectives laid an
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  • 183 4 IPOH. Tues. The Federation Government has not done anything to conserve the boom revenues has been having for a few year to meet the Inevitable slump, said Mr. A. C. G. Pienne, retiring president of the Malayan Mining Employer't association at its annual meeting here
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  • 248 4 Councillor Warns: A WARNING that to prevent sawmills from using Singapore's waterways would have a serious effect on the Colony's timber industry, was given m the City Council yesterday by Mr. Yap Pheng Geek. He was referring to a recommendation of the Council's Public Work-
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    18 4 MR. and Mrs. Philip Tan Chee Chuan after their marriage at the Wesley Methodist Church, Kuala Lumpur, recently.
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  • 177 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The Qv»een has approved the award of the Colonial Police Medal for gallantry to Mr. Godfrey Douglas Hodgson. Assis'ant Superintendent of Police. Last October, an Inspector of Police. Wan Omar, who was a suspect m a corruption case and was participating m
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  • 125 4 SINGAPORE City Council President Mr. T.P.F. McNeice, said he had not heard that the public has been vociferous m objecting to giving up when they were m the cinemas. Replying to an adjournment speech made by Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy (In.-City) at
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  • 73 4 TELOK ANSON. Wed.— Govindasamy s/o Jaganathan. ngcf] 30. a tindal working on Rubnna Estate was found dead jn the estate yesterday. His body was found lying m the rubber near Kampong Sarang Tiong at the back of the estate He had been shot through the shoulder
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  • 37 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Elephants will take part m the Coronation procession m Perlis o n Tuesday June 6. Perli s is the only place m the Federation which will feature animals m the Coronation procession.
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  • 32 4 A LABOURER, was killed by a power saw m Sin Koh Road, Singapore, yesterday. He was found dead by his rollengues with his head, arm and knee badly mutiliated.
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  • 80 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Seven stallholders of Serdang Baru market who staged a "hartal" last week m protest against injustices have agreed lo shift their stalls to a new site m the market to make way for extensions for seven bigger shop-stalls. The "big bosses" of the
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  • 79 4 CHINESE farmers have formed a Co-operative Farming Society i a Bakri New Village. Muar. The main aim of the society is to improve the economic and social conditions of the poor peasant farmers through co-operative efforts by joint sale of their produce direct to the markets, bulk
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  • 103 4 PENANG, Wed. As a result of recommendations made by the Automobile Association of Malaya m Penang, the Penang Municipality has completed the widening and straightening of Green Lane, a former traffic danger 6pot m the town, says a statement from the Penang branch. Witn the co-operation of
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  • 118 4 KUALA LUMPUR Wed Britain wil] see the Coronation j-e.fbraUons m Malaya on T V through arrangements with the Malayan Film Unit The BBC have made arrangements with 50 countries to rjciivt flijxu ©x the Coronatioa celebrations. Eleven cameramen of the Malayan unit will record a composite picture
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  • 541 4 KL WILL SPEND $1 MIL. ON C- CELEBRATIONS Brightest Lit Town In Fed. KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Th« Federal capital will spend nearly $1 million on Coronation celebrations. The Chinese community alone is expected to spend about half this sum. v# Kuala Lumpur will oe me Drigniest m wwu m the
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    55 4 Ng pirturr THESE three Bum. or women. Hearing thrir colourful national cos tumr paid a «horf visif to Kuala Lumpur before ronti'iuint: their journey by pi irn- in Sini:.i|ioi«yesterday The\ are Miss Na Myint Than and Miss Ma Sann I. win taetatvn in R^nfinon ('nivrisiu and MLss Ma N'u Xu
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  • 72 4 KOTA BAHRT W< British Adviser. ICelanUn, Mr A. N. Ross arU leave about mid-.l i K. •< ence to this was made Mentri Besar wbm Kelantan State Council ing adjourned last week-end The Mentri Basaf «i II hoped on the txpiration of hii leave
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  • 72 4 KUALA LUMPITR. Wed While putting the final touches to the Coronation decorations of Robinson <Sc Co.. m Mountbatten Road, a young Chinese labourer accidentally fell from the first floor to the ground floor 20 feet below and was fatally injured. The accident occurred just before
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    • 89 4 Weather MINIMUM TEMPER ATI'RE: from 7.30 p.m. on May 26 to 'Ji? m o" May »7 Singapore <<<» I"). Penan* (76 F), KoU Bahru (72 F), Kuala Lumpur «71 Fi h i7i FK Kuanitan Maximum Temperature: front T-SO a.m. to 7.30 pjn. on 27 Singapore (87 F), Penanf <&*> h)
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  • 67 5 London Not So Gay As S'pore I 21 -London are not porj Mr. r ;iy LegiSi at a Sultani at S »ciety. M a laya *s m 'ity m Assembly Maiay- fresh from the arrived othen mrt, ndlineu > es. Mr. George Relations ird yes--000 to be n the ns
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  • 44 5 n of ipe to m i 40--the re, to will »morrow. this main y Singaion gal- The re has ion gal- the i The that the to get I 7! from swage lily the to ■es iong than
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  • 151 5 <»; MKNDATION that the Singapore City take a Court injunction to prevent a <" th,. iHMKhbourhood was attacked by Miss Laycock (Prof.-Ewt) at the Council meeting yesterday. Miss Laycock pointed out thai it was for the neighbours «k«« the injunction and not the City Council. -What
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  • 10 5 1 as son- rigorin the Court I two
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  • 197 5 Official Exceeded Powers Conviction Quashed IN taking down a statement Tai Keng, who was fined $25,000 by a lower court fur failing to offer for saie 130 gold valued at $15,000. Mr. W. Gordon. Assistant Controller of Foreign Exchange, exceeded his powers, said Mr. Justice Brown m the Singapore High
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  • 104 5 A LARGE XHMBER of insufflciently prepaid air-mail *lers are still being posted the publ' are reminded Wai such letters are surrnarged with double the denciency, the surcharge being paid by the recipient when the amount' actually paid is less than a given percentage of the
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  • 57 5 LOW (hong Soo was fined 550 m ti, e Singapore Fifth **oiiee Court yesterday for assaulting a taxi-driver. He was fined a further $5 for oeing drunk and disorderly I'Ow admitted being drunk. "c taid that when he paid hi* i^ie the driver demanded for
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  • 152 5 SINGAPORE S Traffic Police! Chief. Mr. W. R. M. Haxworth In a radio broadcast on Coronation week last night asked the motoring public to be as tolerant as possible and lo.low directions by notice boards or his police officers "without unnecessary arguments." "A s you know."
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  • 96 5 SIR Cheng-lock Tan. president of the Malayan Chinese Association, is understood to have written to Dr. Victor Purrell. honorary Adviser m Britain to the M.C.A. that he is entitled to express his personal views on Malaya. Dr. Purcell wrote to Sir Cheng-lock recently resigning
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  • 78 5 MAJOR .T. R. Hunt, a senior instructor m the Royal Army Educational Corps. spoke on 'The Coronation" at a Singapore Rotary Club meeting yesterday. Referring to the Royal salutes which will be fired, he said that the first salute will be by 41 guns m
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  • 71 5 ATAN bin Awang was sentenced to 14 months' rigorous imprisonment m the Singapore Second Criminal District Court yesterday for stealing a bunch of keys and a fountain pen from Mary Tan. This will be followed by 12 months' police supervision. Atan was also sentenced to a
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  • 53 5 ROUTE numbers at the rear of Singapore Traction Company buses can be "quite valuable." Mr. T. P. F. McNeice. City Council President said yesterday. He told Mr. V. K. Nair (Lab.. South) at a Council meeting yesterday that he will write to the Company to
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  • 137 5 AFTER four years. the Singapore Government has not found a satisfactory solution to the hotel problem Mr. T P. F. McNeice, President of the City Council, said at a Council meeting yesterday. He was replying to MV. V. K. Nair (Lab.. South) who spoke
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  • 28 5 SINGAPORE City Council want to study again the question of taximeters. At a Council meeting yesterday several Councillors successfully asked for the policy to be discussed again.
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  • 22 5 WESAK DAY was celebrated at the Singapore Regional Centre of the World Fellowship of Buddhists at Geylang Lorong .'*4, yesterday.
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  • 171 5 A CHARGE that there was a racket m Singapore on seats for the public on the Coronation route on June was made m the Singapore City Council yesterday by Mr. Lee Choon Eng (Lab.-West). Mr. Lee made this charge when a recommendation of the Estates and Fire
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  • 464 5 and hSP 710 8 f hat there woi complacency ond half-heartedness by the Singapore City Counal tackling the flood problem !n the Colony was emphatically refuted yesterday bj McNeice Uncil/ Mr T P F c^ r oMh^ iC i e Va u Te V y
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    22 5 Photo. TWO Singapore customs men wei«h the 3,280 pounds of opium which was soiled on Monday in the Orchard Kind area. Standard
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    19 5 photo. SINGAPORE British Red Cross officials (m uniform) distribute gifts to Russian refugees on board the Ruys yesterday. Standard
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  • 272 5 Standard Shipping Reporter MORE than 200 Russians refugees m SimrannrP yesterday were full of praise for the BriUsh m particular, and for the West m general, after receivtalc a van-load of gifts from the local branch of the British Red Cross Society. I
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  • 111 5 Standard Market Reporter ,|fALAYA can learn housing lesson from Cyprus. Dr. T. A. L. Concannon. Federation Town Planner said m Singapore yesterday. The lesson is of an enterprising Cypriot who financed. laid out and built up a "neighbourhoqd unit" of 800 houses near Nicosia.
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  • 112 5 THE Singapore City Council has been responsible for the designs and erection of decorations alons the whole of the Coronation procession routes, the City Council president, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice. said yesterday. He agreed with Mr. Yap Pheng Geek and Amy Layeock that there
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  • 59 5 THE question of banning Singapore's meat hawkers from the vicinity of meat shops is to be reconsidered by the City Counril. At a Council meeting yesterday it was decided to refer back to the City's Health Committee a proposed it had made of not allowing
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  • 68 5 Standard London Coneipondenr LONDON, May 27 The following ore the closing prices of rubber and tin on th« London market: LONDON RUBBER S*or ZOld. July/Sept. ZOid. Oct. /Dec. 20|d J«n./Mor. 2Ofd June c.i.ff. ZOid Market: Dull. LONDON TIN Spot £740 per ton buyer*, £742 M ll«n.
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  • 188 5 'Court House A Disgrace FOUR members of the Singapore Bar. led by Mr. P. F. de Souza yesterday said at the opening of the Seventh Police Court, that the building was a disgrace to Government. The Seventh Police Court is housed m a Nissen hut on the outskirts of the
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  • 206 5 AN RAF Police Corporal, said m the Singapore Coroner's Court yesterday at an inquest on the death of Corporal John George White recently, that when he closed m on Corporal White, who was m the swamp with a gun, two shots ran^
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  • 78 5 Standard Staff Reporter MR Soh (I'.u'e Soon (Pro West) yesterday asked why gome women employees <>f tn«- Singapore City Council tIM not receive any maternity benefits. Speaking during the adjournment at the Council meeting yesterday, Mr. Boh said the women stafT of Ihe Middleton Hospital
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  • 163 5 lUAI.A U'MPIR. Urcl When MM Quern Mm the Coronation vow that she will ili-.i,. .itr her life to the service of her peoples the people of Malaya have to Uke another vow. said the federation High I'omn i>sioner. Sir < i i] t
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  • 45 5 I >\'c. LAn Hoon hM w6 Hire i rharges «>r abbetm t»i of of IMO hj^ of iim' m the Singapore F.fih Police Court ye iterday M«. mi >„ natively rhargm with Ing, Chua Hwa Chuan, to i < ;ur! diapo of |he ri'<*
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  • 756 6 ]\J[R. PETER WILLIAMS' lengthy letter to the Colonial Secretary has been criticised on the grounds that its language has been intemperate and that he has made too pointed references to "racial discrimination" and "exploitation." Discrimination may be an undiplomatic word to use but it has been used very
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    902 6 The first of two articles on the crisis m the British Labour Party IF there were an election tomorrow the Labour Party would not win it. That is the grim fact the Labour Movement is trying to face. That is the fact after eighteen months of a Tory Government
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  • 10 6 "Tha< darned convict would be an ex-Channel swimmer!"
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  • 852 6  -  JOHN WALTERS Korean Lowdown .By TOURING the past few days I have met many prominent South Koreans. And now I feel strongly that the United States, Britain and other U.N. countries should make a concerted effort to win the confidence of the South Korean people. Once
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    • 232 6 Sir; Distressed Clerk's complaint is a typical case of 'Biter Bit." Both the Straits and Federation Governments can aptly be named Kiy Governments due to their clerks holding up public applications, correspondence, documents etc, indefinitely. Matters which could be settled m days or weeks take months
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    • 197 6 Sir. For the past few days I have come across many letters written about the sad plight of Deyan Nair. The last one which deeply affected me was a picture of his lying sick with malaria m a poor ward at the General Hospital. The only people
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    • 160 6 Sir In your issue of 21st May. "L.D.A." complains of v- f eceipt of Parcels from which the stamps have been removed. Il would be appreciated II L.D.A. and any other person having a similar complaint could write to the nearest Controller of Posts m the Federation or
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  • 81 6 Review of Views i Tea hers' "Crime" I CIV < I s< s i for h i rv j lay i con.; |j Mo < de\. v i,, hamed i i chcrs m Cht: m w Hi I as per- Iki "Wi wh the: with r why had Th« S
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    • 156 6 Tomorrow is the SOOth anniversary of the tall of Constantinople to the Turks. The signi. ficance of this great event is reassessed by ARNOLD TOYNBEE, one of the most outstanding historians living today, m tomorrow's issue of the Standard. Don't miss It! and ALEXJOSEY will write on THE THREAT TO
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  • 42 7 photo. II F/aiikfll D< Kooscvclt received a bouquet of flowers mm hn arrival in Tokyo recently, and was greeted by hisaburo Nomura. rij;ht. former Japanese Ambassador to Washington and Takashi Komatsu. president of the America Japan Society.- UP
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  • 155 7 LONDON, May 27 (AP)— The big three western nations last night curtly rejected Russian arguments uainst holding four-power talks on an Austrian Independence Pact. In a new message to Moscow they said they "fail to understand' why the Soviet's have suddenly objected to a longstanding
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  • 69 7 27 (Reuter) Britain arra, a Captain p [ranian N ber, has I n Office leave spokesman i I been a m Iran, was thout trial after publicly a' -used of I m ommented authorities put him in- 'he time of arrest, the F ireign OflTi<
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  • 74 7 'GTON, May 27, ted States Govwhs a>ked yesterday ng forbidding Morris, 62- pacific leader Pacificism m tore an appeals f the Immigration f of Morris. tamed on Ellis arrival from •'i American tradiPiril of the law. ase, Ennis said Americans to their
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  • 63 7 NEW DELHI, May 27, (Reuter) Thirteen robbers mounted on camels swooped on the house of a rich merchant at Bayawar Kalan near Jodhpur and stole £10,000 worth of property including a hoard of gold and silver, it was reported here last night. The robbers were a gang
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  • 177 7 ANKARA, May 27 (AP)— U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his party, rounded up their tour of Middle East countries m Ankara yesterday with talks with Turkish leaders. Turkish dignitaries welcoming Dulles at the airfield included Foreign Minister Fuad Koprulu, Ankara Governor
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  • 129 7 T he Why's Of Prostitution D h (UP; -a uid yesl i turn to 4 1 ii protest A B mal^j sex. enting the i»il <?f on man*? lcv mget times plunders him and usually submits to her client passively and frigidly. This la often the way s he demonstrates
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  • 18 7 Se ven Released Jg Soviet authorit >ts good offices Australia,, governfl ie weir release.— X Jareckl, 21, ■■> M°iG*\is
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  • 430 7 U.K. BACKS NEW TRUCE PL ANS CHURCHILL CLOSES GAP OVER PANMUNIOM TALKS II i '■ONDON, May 27.— Britain's Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill last night announced the full support of the British Government for the new Korean armistice proposals put forward at Panmuniom vester«tn« by the United Nations negotiator, General
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  • 214 7 WASHINGTON, May 27. (UP) Highly placed congressional sources said yesterday the Allies have proposed letting the United Nations settle the fate of Communist prisoners who decide under Red threats to return to their homelands. Refusing to be named, the sources said the truce offer proposed
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  • 98 7 Himalayan Attempt Progresses GILGIT, West Pakistan. May 27, (AP)— The German mountaineering team which plans an assault on the 26,667 foot Himalayan Peak of Nanga Parbat is now negotiating Qakhiot Glacier. The glacier 17.480 feet above sea level, is notorious for the stones which often crash down on those who
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  • 36 7 THE 4-Po\ver conference on the repatriation of General Li Mi's Nationalist forces from Burma i s considering visiting the Shan states and making direct contact with the commanders of th e Nationalist forces.- AFP
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    36 7 the photo. THE switching: on of the Coronation lights creates a pattern of beauty in London's Piccadilly. wher e the delicate tracery of the fold cafe around the statue of Eros forms th~ central theme UP
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  • 66 7 WASHINGTON. May 27. (Reuter)— The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Mr. Fred Vinson, late yesterday denied a stay of execution to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg the convicted atom spies. The denial of a stay followed the Supreme Court's refusal yesterday for the third time to review
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  • 32 7 A FOUR-engine Canadian bomber was missing off the Pacific Coast yesterday with 10 men aboard. It left Vancouver Island at midnight on a 1,200-mile flight 10 San Diego. California.- AP
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  • 199 7 But Rhee Is Against TOKYO. May 27 Syngman Knee, the South Koi. President, may threaten t<» break relations with the Un Nations command if it st.mds by the eompromist plan it sub- mitted yesterday to the Com- j munists, according to semiofficial sources m South Korea yesterday. The fact that
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  • 93 7 BANGKOK, May 27 (UP) Meagre press reports r—rtltl Bangkok yesterday stated a group of 85 soldiers, presumably Laotians, mi n full ball uniform who crotaod ih, l i dor Iron I-anehang into Thailand at Province Loey, northeast Thailand, had 1" M rtttad by Thai
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  • 57 7 WASHINGTON. M.i.v IT, (AP) President BtMhoWtl yesterday nomirutod \hrce foreign service oflictfl for posts they presently bold under recess appointment by ex-President Truman. They are: Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr., Ambassador and United States H.gh Commissioner for Austria; Harold Shantz. Minister to Roman. and
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  • 284 7 FULL STORY OF RED BLACKMAIL BID WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuter).— Rumanian born Valeriu Georgescu, educated In England and now working mi n America, broke down and wept yesterday as he told how he refused to become a Communist spy for the price of his two sons' release from a Rumanian
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  • 83 7 BON, May 27 (AP) The West German Government has rejected an invitation to enter into direct trade negotiations with Russia, a spokesman for the Federal Economics Ministry said yesterday. Any dealings with Moscow to reopen EEast-Wets t trade must go through th e United Nations Economics
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  • 176 7 TEL AVIV, May 27 (Reuter)— Growing tension along the Israeli-Jordan border has led to recent intervention from both the United States and Britain, usually reliable sources here said yesterday. Attacks on Monday night on three Israeli villages East of Lydda m (he coastal area
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  • 153 7 NEW DELHr, May 27 (Reuter) Mr. Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister, said yesterday that his participation m t n e Coronation next week would not "m the least compromise my dignity, the dignity of the country or of th c people I represent." Mr. Nehru
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  • 24 7 CAPTAIN Manuel Fernandez, one of the two Korean jet-aces, said m Washington yesterday "the only shortage we had was MIGs to shoot down."— UP
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  • 68 7 NEW YORK. May 27. (AP) —North American Aviation, Inc of Los Angeles, announced yesterday it has designed and 'can build a small atomic plant to produce electricity lor civilian use. Company officials said they could proceed with construction if government or private industry put up US$lO,OOO,OOO
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  • 44 7 DR. K. C. WU. Minister without portfolio in the Chinese Nationalist Government, said in San Francisco yesterday that the forces of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek could invade the Chinese mainland "if America will supply us with military equipment. air anrf naval «UDDOrt.' Reuter
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  • World News In Brief...
    • 39 7 LONDON, May 27 (Reuter) Communist Czechoslovakia tonight announced almost apologetically that she had sentenced two accomplices of Rudolf Slansky including his brother Richard to jail for life and two others to 25 years on charges ol treason and spying.
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    • 22 7 EAST Germany is trying to prevent people listening to West Berlin radio station. 1 by building jamming transmitters. Reuter
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    • 24 7 THE Atomic Energy Commission urged Congress yesterday to amend the taw to permit private industry to helo develop atomic power for industrial uses. UP
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    • 12 7 MRS Eleanor Roosevc.t will visit Yugoslavia iruiu July 2 to 18. UP
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    • 15 7 THE Communist-led General Confederation of Labour ha« called off the 24-hour national railway strike. Reuter
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    • 23 7 AMIR Abdullah. Crown Prince of Iraa and uncle of King Feisal II left yesterday by air to represent Iraq at the coronation. AFP
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    • 23 7 MR. Nehru indicated terday that he had asked American Secretary «>f St.ite Mr Foster Duller noi to in--I'i.tie m the Kubhnuj: uueitioa. AFP
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    38 7 THIS photograph, cut from a film, is the first action pic™lS \°x?? re I eased of Fa^ey V.T.O. (Vertical Take Off) model being fired on the Rocket Range at Woomera The zebra-post is the measuring initial acceleration. UP
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  • 202 8 LONDON, May 27 (AFP)-The Peninsular and Oriental liner, Chusan, brincing: several Coronation ruests and visitors from Malaya and India docked at Tilbury, m the Thames estuary yesterday. IUU The notable passenger icluded Sultan Abdul Karim f Lahej, who boarded the essel at Port
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  • 145 8 WASHINGTON, May 27. (UP) A number of European officials told the United Press today that th e United States Department of Commerce has undjr active consideration a plan to withhold ship spare sparts from any foreign shipowner whose ships trade with Communist China. They said this,
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  • 112 8 TOKYO, May 27. (AFP)— Research on supersonic speed aircraft suspended ever since Japan was defeated m the Pacific war will be revived shortly m Japan with the completion recently of high speed wind tunnel at the Tokyo University Science and Technology Institute. The wind tunnel, capable
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  • 21 8 SHIPPING services between New Zealand and Japan are to be resumed toward the c"d of July, this year. UP
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  • 108 8 WASHINGTON. May 27. (UP) A United States Navy department spokesman said yesterday that U.S. submarines did not photograph sh.pping alone; the China coast. He was replying to rumours that a United States submarine had taken photographs of one or more British ships carrying Communist
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  • 55 8 BRITAIN'S improved dollar position now ables her to pay lor American tobacco which she could only take On option last year. The latest trade figures for April, s how 37,000,--000 pounds imported at a cost of Cy, 500,000 sterling, the highest figure m any month since the
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    • 721 8 Fa-t Irm^paciht Servut to San Franc I* o and Los Angeles via Hongkone and Japan Penanft P Sham Spore CANADA BLAR 24/25 June Ai»' nt« ANGLO— FRENCH «c BENDIXSENS LTD. 1H X I umpui 311 Spore WSZBI/I P Sham 296 Mjurra 45b Pcnang 875 B&miLiNE FOR ll R /CONTINENT Spore
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    • 1129 8 m BLUE FUNNEL LINE m lln «> MANSnOJI CO- LTD. ?L£Z? lncurp«.j»t«o la Singapore Heot farrier* option to procerd rta orber port* to loao and Ilflrtiarrr cariro rtAIIJNCIS to LI\tHP()C»L OIABOHW LOMMI\ A rONIINKNTAI PC>BTl> Out Sail* P 8 harr Hanani Astyaoax fat Liverpool Ulas* May3B/M May 11/ gow June
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  • 31 9 TP)-; l| a made i Interna- Comm rday. The inrent t i this month. r that r the a president i Economic hope all i PP° rt
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  • 17 9 ithorized •mic mission a1 the end of I the Brst mis- ayi a to visit;
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  • 111 9 May tl (IT)— Japanese businessmen are <IKY( ,1 ihr niospett of the Korean war comWW dhl if it does end, they fear that United lan ''"rlmeiit orders for steel, ships and sandsfi ni(i Such spending amounts to about wlli ,i n and is the main thing that now enrronomv
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  • 179 9 WASHINGTON, May 27. 'se of domestic animal fats m place of imported palm oil for tin plating m the steel industry is now possible, the Department of Agriculture said today. Should the process be adopted generally, officials said, it would eliminate the demand for
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  • 110 9 DETROIT. May 27 (AP) Ford Motor Co. and th c C.1.0. United Auto Workers reached i new and mor c liberal wage tnd pension agreement today. Ford agreed to increase vagcs for skilled workers from 0 to 26 cents hourly, dependng upon classification. The agreement
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  • 67 9 TAIPEI. May 27, (UP)— The Nationalist Cabinet is making specific regulations to induce investment m Formosa by foreigners as well as Chinese overseas industrialists, press reports said today. These regulations, the reports said, would offer investors better protection but less delay and red tape. Nationalist China
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  • 20 9 DR. WALTER SCHREIBER. the deputy Burgomaster of Western Berlin yesterday rereived members of a Japanese Trade delegation.- AFP
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    70 9 AN annual production of i 7.500 tons of acetone and other solvents will result I from this new t2m. pet- < roleum chemical plant now operating at Berre. near Marseilles, which *M opened recently. Piopylene gas obtained from the nearby Shell- Botr r Oil Refinery will j
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  • 160 9 WASHINGTON, May 27 (AP) -Republican Representative Paul W. Shafer called on Congress yesterday to authorize sale of the I.S. Government's synthetic rubber industry to private interests. In a prepared speech, he said he will introduce a bill today providing for the disposal of 26
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  • 72 9 THE Registrar of Malayan Statist ;rs has been requested by the Rubber Trade to compile a special return of exports of ribbed smoked sheet by grades. To enable this return to be compiled it will be necessary for exporters to show the grades of ribbed smoked
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  • 59 9 THE Chersonese (F.M.S Estates Ltd. reported a profit of £30.423 for 1952 (£49,653 m 1951). after charging United Kingdom and Malayan taxation amounting to £20,100 (£58.000). Transfer to depreciation of buildings and machinery €20,000 (£14.000), and dividend of 6$ per cent less tax £10.460 (£16,640), amount carried
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  • 69 9 TOKYO, May 27, (UP)— Iran may seek a trade agreement with Japan, swapping oil for industrial products, the Bank of Tokyo's weekly review reported here yesterday. The report came on the heels of purchases of Iranian oil and gasoline by a Japanese firm, with
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  • 186 9 WASHINGTON, May 27. (Reuler) The Office of International Trade of the Commerce Department yesterday announced it had denied all export trading privileges m strategic goods to Victor England, his San Francisco firm. Victor England Agencies, the Capital Company of Hongkong, and Peter
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  • 251 9 Free Market Imports Allowed After July 31 notionfl Wh^Tl rheimportot.on of wheot flour under rh« International Wheat Agreement will be issued to Malayan importers for tho L, W heot X eor s *"»'"9 *rom August 1, 1953 P Malayan importers may now apply for licence* lo
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  • 108 9 CLOSING rubber prices («*-m> pet ih > tn S i n u d p n r vevterdtf* were: Buyer* >r\\r r» No 1 KSS Spot Loose 70 No. 1 R.b.S. 70 1 7«; No. 2 R.S.S. 67 i t»;i No. 3 R.S.S. 64 uii SINGAPORE, VVrd The Price
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  • 147 9 Moderate Rubber Turnover Standard Markrt Reporter THE RUBBER mi.-kot In Singapore rcmiiincH dllU f9+ terday with no iaclfoaUoa on the part of tr;«der s to d«» v> I^l--ness. Quotations opened around 71 cents per lb. for .lutic shipment of first grade rubbet but closed at 704 cents, or 1 /fi
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  • 99 9 HONGKONG. May 27. (UP) A CHlo <>f gold bul worth 1412,061 (Canadian) was unloaded from ,i( nadian Pacific plant here ye rdn.v The carßo. one of the gcbt to eoine into •n recent fun \va« Imported from Toronto, Canada. Hongkmm's artive and «pe••ulative d
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  • 116 9 Standard Market Reporter SINGAPORE. Wed The Malayan share market ope.ied quietly today with transactions m tins on a small scale. More interest was shown m industrial shares with business at quota ions Rubber shares remained neglected. Changed prices were: Buyrrs Sellers Gammons 2.70 2 80 McAlisters
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  • 40 9 RED CHINA and Poland signed a trade agreement m Pciping on Monday. A Peiping Radio broadcast said Poland would send machinery, metals and "other important commodities" m exchange for soya beans, grain and other important goods" —A. P.
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  • 97 9 Standard Market Krpoitrr QUIET conditions ruled m the produce market In S pore yesterday with only h.nall business passing. Copra quotations per pictll were: $37? buyers and k (8J sellers for May. and June Bhipment. and |57 and M7| for July shipment. Coconut -oil Quotations were
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  • 46 9 HONGKONG M-v Spcrial Standard Bcnrice Cl< prin on the Ifnncknng f change 1 idav were 11 5. 5 i In I 1 sterling %ti O7.'> (o U S d $1,829 to Malayan $1 Wl one In,' :.m Rupp: ih < i $27(15 to one t:»el.
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  • We, the PEOPLE
    • 481 10 MALAYAN SUSTAINS THE BRITISH Sir, On Saturday your paper's comments headed 'Malayan Dollar Weakens' that the slight fall m the market conversion ratio "is an indication of what would happen to the country's currency if it had not been pegged to the pound", offers some surprise. Perhaps your reporter had
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    • 233 10 Sir; May I. through th« medium of your newspaper, otfer th c following suggestions for Coronation Week? 1. That the illuminations be on throughout the night during Coronation Week. 2. That motor traffic be allowed through the official celebration area after midnight. The above two suggestions will
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    • 266 10 Sir; I am a Singaporeborn Indian, aged 43 years old. educated locally, and a British Subject. Mv parents were also born here. I served faithfully as a Volunteer m the former Straits Settlements Volunteer Force from 1934 to the fall of Singapore. In order {o save family
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    • 185 10 Sir: Coronation Day is drawing very near, and almost the whole town of Kuala Lumpur has been brightened up. Extra lights have been provided at the Lake Gardens, Government buildings and many other roads, and these must hay« cost the authorities a considerable sum of money. In a
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    • 152 10 Sir, The bus fare from Kuala Lumpur to Klang is 90 cents for the distance of 25 miles which works out at the rate of 3J cents per mile and his bears out the statement made by a spokesman of the Transport Association m a local paper a
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    • 380 10 Sir; Although politics do not form part of the curriculla m our schools. I think it does not mean that we must avoid any form of political discussion. We are the young people that, one is always being told, are to take up the reins of
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  • 64 10 Rosalind Ratnam THE COUPON READ THIS BEFOKt YOU ORDER YOl X PATTERN: You must enclose three te n cent stamps if you want your patt tp <«ut It I don't «ci the stamps, you don't £et the pattern. A num ber of orders have come to me without
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    • 240 10 1 Attempt ike cm and never st.nH to doubt" will Hiiil it out.— llrrrirk Recheck judgment. < nanges VOrK ItlKMHMiiANO munisK.N l9 AUIF rri" l3:t>h 1 !o April reticent or proud •>O TUi L l e S Ani! 1o May BtfSWBBSitf 1 Ex;)CCt sssfofin^- Don>t jet i '^"-J'Jly 23 to
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    • 160 10 Contest No. 17' Can You Name This Actor? R^ Standard ALL (hrough thl« week ljJj!pBj!L|p%?; -~_^gJ._ presents its seventeenth «tar Vj All ?oo've col 10 do is m/g to rolled the pictures and coupons tor all sis days iAA «nd send ih»m together with l=±r* 0^ Iflil the n;imcs <,i
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  • 25 11 R \V. i 1 1 I s Selangoi Boys lennis i S A Azmar Seni Soo bt v lohd Noi (.4. t;-^.
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  • 103 11 Lead Div. 2 socrpr pi, a ys Singapore Business Houses throughout. The Tractionmen are now leaders of division 2 league with a tclal of 12 points from nine games. tKerr, STC's out^deleft was strumental m Arshad openg the score m the fifth minute. Arshari returned twice
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  • 53 11 wh l i N division 1, venue of the J5? r sfenred from 2L SCC to Jalan Besar JH' U^K.OTEC consolidated ineir position o» divis'o 1 jeajue by bea<ine Stanvac tr SJ EC have nine PoJnts mm seven games, while eteht*?Lj ar t behilld with ei^ht points
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  • 136 11 THE 1 irprlie of the day was pr.)V!decl by Cable and Wirewss, wwoh o beat a strong Hong Kong Bank C team 2—o m Qtvislon 3 league. The Cablemen held the attacking bankers m the first naif and made an allout drive m the second to score the
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  • 71 11 Other results were* Hongkong Bank B beat Baia NX. 3—2 at Larrer Park m division 'i. Millikan. Peng Hock and Theseira scored for the Bank. Kee Sian* and Peck Whve scored for the losers Overseas Chinese Bank beat Rotterdam Trading Company 4— 1 m division 3. Swee Thor
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  • 27 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed-In tlie Scljngor Badminton inter team junior singles league played last night. Nanyang beat Spnngdale 3-2. Lien Hwa beal iacw Kwong Hon 4-1
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  • 139 11 LONDON May 27 <Reulcr> Twenly-citflit final acceptors for the Derby, to be run over 12 furlongs at Epsom <> n Saturday, June f, were announced here today as follows: Aureole. City Scandal. PharH. Rarrowby ourl. Prince marina. dood Brandy. Kithyra, Durham Castle. Rihjf of the Tudors. Timberland.
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  • 347 11 THE Singapore Chinese Swimming Club is well represented m the Coronation swim festival where the cream of the CSC's swimmers, both men and women, will be participating m the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association's meet on June 6 at the CSC pool He id inn
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  • 209 11 STIRDY EDWARD ARCHER with a splendid all-round performance became champion at the 18th annual athletic meet of Radin Mas Schools (Morning: and Continuation) held on th c School ground at Mount Faber yesterday. Mr. R.M. Young, the Director of Education, Kuv e away the prizes. 100
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  • TODAY'S Sport SINGAPORE
    • 45 11 SOCCER: HK CMnesf r. Sino-Malax/s at Jalcn Besar stadium; SAFA Div. 2—T. Bahru Rangers r. Rocklitcs (it Geylang: Div :>B Rovers 'A' Indian Bro S.C. at BODCA; Die IiA—SCSA 0. Selctar F.C. at CYMA. SPORTS: Can En a Senq School meet at GES. 2.30 p.m.
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  • 24 11 KUALA LUMPUR Wed T.P.C.A. beat Selangor Eurasians 3 o m a div. 1 league played on the Princes Road ground this evening.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 146 11 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY VGENCY for Electric Cables (Plastic) available. Weil known. competitive and approved m Colony and Federation. Apply P.0.80x Ml Singapore. NOTICE AUCTION SALE OF 13 cases kitchen knives. 50 cartons Manifold Writing Paper, 17 cases padlocks. 7 cases razors, 9 cases nickel plated shoe Eyelets. 6 cases enamelled spittoons.
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    • 744 11 THHE engagement is announe- ed between Mr. Thong ricng Slew, eldest son of Mr and Mrs. Thong Khieu and Miss Yap Swee Lian youngest daughter of the lat« Mi Y.ip Ah Mm and Madam Tan' Siew Heah, both of Ipoh on 28th May, 1953. SITUATION \ACAM Singapore i mproveMENT TRUST
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    • 650 11 NOTICBS iiknry w \rc;n co~ i m. (locorp la *s i u i«> IJAVK ploasirc In semosjox cinq '<)rjfirm;ition oi their appoint i| by the CALIIOKMA PACKING CORPN as BroSBOl foe Malaya. S.r wak. U N Borneo ami Ih. iland Impoit i- nre advised applications for a share I brokerage
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 194 11 WOulD?^D^ATri Ai? GO TOO r r 2^ -OXUM WftCTE HE I YO' IS > HOW COULD X)' )aG.N MAH BOOZUM. t 1( X *S STAY AN' FACE TH' /SO YO' < *VO 'GOT NO 1/ NOISE VO' HEARS »S s^ y Vf^" MOOSC. r r < KNOWS HEART ?/A MAMMTS
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  • 449 12 195 CLASS 3 4 HORSES FOR IPOH JUNE MEETING iron. Wed total of 19.V en trie comprising 92 from chix* and lo.i from class 4 has been ent« 1 1 H for the IVi;ik Tun Club June mi'.'tir)« <m 6 10 ami 13 B«Umv i- the full IU1 o( cnli
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  • 2273 12 Treble For Whitney-Daniels By WINDSOR LAD INDIVIDUALITY, a five-year-old Ujiji gelding, trained by 5. K. Tjoa and brilliantly ridden by Billy Bagby, scored a spectacular win in the main sprint event for clas^l division 2 horses over 6 fur longs at Bukit Timah yesterday when he successfully beat
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  • 142 12 THERE will be a total of 26 races, making up of nine races On the first and third day and eight on the second riav. for the Perak Turf Cub's" June meeting on 6. 10 and 13. The racin? schedule is. Ist Day June v Class t. div
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  • 50 12 Total Pool: s:,t First Prize No: 383:,<is Mv Second Prize No: fiWi.M* I Third Prize No: :nil;. u Starters (S4.433 earh) Nos: \n U *****5. *****3, 5057'M. 1^ *****0. Consolations ($2,659 rach) Mw *****7. *****7. 6805M, IM *****5, *****4. l x Double Tote: 138 Tickets of si u
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    • 83 12 EMBASSY KOiH CORONATION WEEK CEIEBRATWMS EXiENiION TO 2.00 a. w NIGHTLY FROM Ist JUNE 10 6th M STEGIAL COBIWATHW W> ON Tl EBOAI -'•••< HNI „l l<( > HAVE HI I. VIE! I* Mil M*"" m;\ mku.on MHM I <|N Ol X KOOK CABIN > I)\N<K NM.Min I* l KNriIVNIIN*.
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