Singapore Standard, 18 May 1954

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    18 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD it m z Vol. IV. No. 320. SINGAPORE, TUESftAY, MAY 18, 1954, TWELVE PAGES 15 CENTS.
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    NEW STANDARD FEATURE
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    ROYAL TOUR WAS MOST IMPORTANT
    44 1 I I mmon- ther I for add* d "1 ::.e the Queen where she h:i--5 of th I opie do get I I seeing .ire a Com- an Empire f free peothe head f this ever imI th« non-
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    2 GUN DUELS OFF CHEKIANG
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    WILSON TALKS TO PRES. RHEE
    32 1 SEOUL, May 17. (AFV— U.S. •y of Defence Charles E. Wilson and several top-rank-U.S diplomatic and milit officials conferred briefly today with South Korean President Syngman Rhee.
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    VISITS CAIRO
    20 1 PAKISTAN'S Foreign Minister Sir Mohammed Znfrullah Khan returned to Karachi yesterday alter a two-day visit to Cairo. AFP
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    FOUR ASPECTS OF RED ACTIVITY IN AUSTRALIA
    71 1 J Keeping in touch with persons in Australia recognised in some sense or another as Soviet agents and helpers. 2 Bringing Russian spies into Australia and recruiting active helpers willing to supply information. 3^ Deliberate preparation of a fifth COfMmn or underground movement
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    SPY PROBE OPENS
    593 1 retrov was to head sth Column; Soviet Envoys Use Blackmail CANBERRA, May 17, (Reuter).-Vladimir Petrov, former Soviet secret police chief m Australia, who was granted asylum last month, had the task of preparing a fifth column to operate m Australia m the event of war, the Royal
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    P.I.HUK TERROR GIVES UP: BLOW TO ASIA'S REDS
    295 1 MANILA, May 17— Luis M. Taruc, Hukbalahap rebel chieftain, today surrendered to the Government and is now confined m the Philippines Army headquarters at Camp Murphy, near Manila. Taruc was supreme s surr «?r)de r was intercornrnander of the Huk- gj^ to
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    French Bombers Pound Vietminh
    321 1 Evacuation Pact Off HANOI, May 17. French bombers yesterday struck against Vietminh troops massed m hill positions threatening the Red River delta of Northern IndoChina. The bombers pounded Communist troops 35 miles south-west of Hanoi with 25 tons of bombs m a bid to smash what
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    EXPELLED ENVOY
    45 1 photo. Charles P. R. Landon. 3b-year-old British military attache in Moscow, who was expelled by the Russians. Major Landon is now in Britain and wa s due to return on May 24. The Russians charge him with spying of her military secrets. AP
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    Q.E.A. MAKES AIR HISTORY
    54 1 SAX FRANCISCO. May 17, (AP) A QantaJ Empire Airways' Super Constellation landed at International Airport here yesterday to open two new chapters in aviation history. It was the 32-year-old Australian airline's, first flight to the Western Hemisphere and it was the first Trans-Pacific flight by any
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    US$2,OOO MIL. FOR I-C WAR
    32 1 WASHINGTON. May 17 (AP) Senator Homer Ferguson (R-Mk'higan) said today the United States has provided more than USS2,TDO.OOO,OOO of aid and military supplies for the Indo-China war.
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    VARSITY MEET IS ILLEGAL
    58 1 AX extraordinary meeting of the Students* Council of 'he University of Malaya was held in camera yesterday to discusi whether an emergency meeting held on May 14 In connection with the student-police *tesh was in violation of the constitution. The Council decided that the President had
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    C-in-C PROMOTED
    20 1 LIEUT. General Sir Charles Loewen. C-in-C. Far East Land Forces, has been promoted to the rank of General.
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    Doctors Find No Broken Heads
    238 1 Doctors Find No Broken Heads SINGAPORE'S Police Secretary, Mr. Peter Claque. said yesterday, medical evidence shows .> Police Constable AbduT Rahman did suffer from a fractured skull following the police-students clash last Thursday. Mr. Claque said Constable Rahman was taken to General Hospital with five other policemen at 9.23 p.m.
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    AD SIGN AIDS HiS LOVE AFFAIR
    131 1 MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, May 17 (AP) A Milwaukee salesman has rented a huge advertising sign on a busy street to help him with his love affair. Robert Bi-at'hman. 29, said e thought up (he idea to re- gain the girl following a quarrel. He identified
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    From Blacksmith To Secret Police Chief
    153 1 CANBKRKA. May 17: (Renter) The life story of tli< son of i peasant who rose to In- .1 Russian secret poli<v tklcf was rev«\ili>d here to<l.i\ Thr man L Vl.idimir Petrov. Mr J V. Windryrr. senior Commonwealth Counsel, told th<> Royal Commission on espionage
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    'TOO OLD' MAN MAKES UP WITH WIFE...
    251 2 'TOO OLD' MAN MAKES UP WITH WIFE KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. -A young wife today forgave and took back her husband to whom she had once written: "You are too old" after he had sworn before an Indian temple god that he would stop drinking and quarrelling. The pledge, made m
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    29 2 photo AIR crows of the aircraft carrier Warrior "manhandle" a Sea Fury of ..Squadron 811 into position on the Sembawang airstrip, after its return from a training flight. Standard
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    Warrior's Planes May Bomb The Red Hideouts
    247 2 Warrior's Planes May Bomb The Red Hideouts .WHILE world attention is centred on recent developments m the South-Easi As an i:it atre, unit of tho Royal Na% la n .'i constant vjgil m the Fur East, ready for any emergency. Tile aircraft carrier Warrior. <>M«' of the :>i'd Batopfl to
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    Ships Hit Terrorists
    54 2 THE DAY after two ships arrived In Singapore from Hongkong on May 5. they were railed to bombard the terrorist* who staged an ambush at Rengit. The ships were the H.M.S. Cardigan Bay and Whitesand Bay. The bombardment was to deny the terrorists an escape northwards out
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    PASSBOOK THEFT
    28 2 THE theft of S6O cash. a fountain pen and a bank, passbook from a house m Tank Road. Singapore, was reported to the Singapore Police yesterday
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    Clerk Says: I'm Public-Spirited — And Gives Evidence
    240 2 Clerk Says: I'm Public-Spirited And Gives Evidence A BANK CLERK. Lee Tio Cheng, told the Singapore Second Criminal District Court yesterday that while standing outside a timber yard at Tarn pen is Road one morning m February this year, he noticed a lorry turning at high speed into Tamponi s
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    FOOD DRIVE GOES INTO FULL SWING Swamp Filling Shelved
    265 2 FOOD DRIVE GOES INTO FULL SWING Swamp Filling Shelved A BIG food production scheme m the Amo Keng area of Singapore, will go into fuir swing by the end of this year, the Colony's Agricultural Officer, Mr. T. E. Cobb, said yesterday. Mr. Cobb revealed that 266 farmers were already
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    COMMODITY PRICES
    110 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (rests per ib m Singapore Monday were: Kuv«t> SMlrr* No 1 X S.S. Spot Loose i.-.'i tt| No. 1 R.S.S. 62; 63* No. 2 R.S.S. Sll Bi No. 3 R.S.S. 60; 61* Tone: Q■i c t after steady. TIN PRICE The price of tin yesterday
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    OPIUM AS A HEALER
    136 2 A SI RVEY made on or>ium addicts sent to Singapore: prison revealed that neax'y a 1 of them seemed to have great faith in opium as a healer rather than a s a pain-kii!er The 1953 annual report of' he Singapore Prisons sai i there were
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    Prisoners Will Get Milk Soon
    87 2 PATIENTS m Singapore Prisons will soon be provided with milk from cow* reared by their ie!:o\v prisoners. The Changi Prison Farm continued to make good progress last year. Two rowc were Imported from the Federation and !x>th of these produced calves. Their mi'k was used
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    TWO DRIVERS FINED $100
    48 2 FOR driving a lorry i n an inconsiderate manner, Lim Buk Leng. WM fined S5«> by the Singapore First Traffic Magistrate. Mr. T. Ku".asekara:n. yesterday. Another lorry driver. Oh Bail Chee. wa« also fined S50 in tin? same court. o n a similar charge
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    Freaks May Not Be Shown In S'pore
    174 2 Freaks May Not Be Shown In S'pore SINGAPOREAN'S may not have the opportunity of .>ee:ng the three Filipino lreaks. .Jt»e. (IM. Jesus (7) and Mary Dodoles (5) who are to be brought to the Colony for exhibition. A Colony Law bar> any juvenile under the age of 12 from taking
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    Officer Faints In Court
    160 2 Officer Faints In Court KUALA LUMPUR. Men. Capt. Percy Jones, a former quartermaster of the Malay Regiment Depot at Pert Dickson, fainted today when he heard a sentence cf three months imprisonment passed on him for corruption by the President of the Sessions Court. Capt. Jones. 49, pleaded guilt y
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    MATRON WAS LATE, SACKED
    81 2 THFRE were 204 disc p ..nary olTeri«*es committed by subordinate >*arr t vt Singapore Prisons last year when 15 of them were dismissed. According to the 1953 annual report of the Singapore Prisons, an Assistant Matron was among those dism:.-<tii fur reporting late. Other uflender> were
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    No Executions In Colony Prisons
    164 2 FOR the first time s :nc e the re-ocviipation, there were no executions m Singapore prisons last year. ♦u Th o- 1953 annuj »l report of the Singapore Prisons states mat five prisoners were concfemned to death. The sentences of three of them were commuted
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      41 2 BARGAIN BUY! You can advertise your needs for as little as ten cents a word m the classified columns of the Standard. Advertisements accepted at 128, Robinson Road or at the branches of the Standard m Kuala Lumpur, Penan* aiui Ipoh
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      80 2 Weather Report Minimum Temperature: From 7Jt pjn. on Ma y 16 to 7..Tf a.m. on May 17. Spore (76F». Penanf i7r.Fi, Kola Kahru (7^Fi. K. L. <7IF>. Ipoh (7::Fi. KuanUn i7OF). Maximnm Temperature: From 7-"»* a.m. to 7.3# p.m. on Mar 17. Spore i»3Fi. Prnini: IfBFl, Kota Bahru ii»F>. K.
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    RADIO LINK-UP WITH FRISCO
    199 3 lift Your Phone And Call USA June 1 LA LUMPUR/ Mon. From the beginmonth, anyone m Malaya has t to i U P his telephone ne wished fo to anyone living m the United States m of the radio link-up between has made this possible. The
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    Big Fires In Spore Weren't Arson
    10 3 Big Fires In Spore Weren't Arson 1 1 j 1
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    BIRTHDAY OF TAMIL SAINT
    43 3 IE birth lav of the great Saint, Thiruvalluvar, lived m the first century B.C. will b e celebrated m SinMpore at the Ramajcrishna -ion Hall, N uria Road toA talk the life of the S nt will be given.
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    18 ARRESTED IN FOOD CONTROL AREA
    13 3 18 ARRESTED IN FOOD CONTROL AREA md ked g paid en a c
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    21st Birthday
    48 3 2 1st Birthday MISS ELSIE UN, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lim Choon Tee of Singapore, seen cutting her birthday cake on the occasion of her 21st birthday which she celebrated with a dinner and dance. Picture shows (from left): Elsie's grandmother, Mr. Lim, Elsie and her mother.
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    37 3 photo. MR. RUN RUN SHAW, (second from left) Singapore film magnate, seen talking with Japanese film star Shirley Yamaguchi at a reception held at the Tokyo Kaikan recently in connection with the South-east Asian film festival- U.P.
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    G.O.C. TO MEET W.D. WORKERS
    68 3 G.O .C. TO MEET W.D. WORKERS KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The General Or^cer Commanding. FA.R.EI..F. has agreed to meet the V > "ation War Department n Staff Association on the question of free transport and the employees have stopped talking about striki Fq a n.-i emergency meeting ot its Executive Commits
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    New Cigarette Plant To Open
    213 3 I Production In July Standard staff Reporter A NEW cigarette factory erected at a cost of $250,000 and which will have a production capacity of 1,500,000 cigarettes a day, will be opened in Howard Road, Singapore, in July this year. About 70 employees mainly women
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    OVERLOADING
    26 3 MESSRS. Lian Ho e Om. Co. Ltd.. Muar. were fined $50 by the Muar Magistrate. Inche Ibrahim bin Abdul Manan, for carrying seven excess passengers.
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    He Saw Man Beaten With Stool COURT TOLD
    167 3 He Saw Man Beaten With Stool COURT TOLD AN allegation that he beat a man to death with a stool was made in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday against Mohamed Shariff bin Mohamed Kassim. Mohamed faces a charge of murdering Loy Sin Weng at the Kampong KaporDesker Road junction on
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    Woman Is Acquitted
    87 3 PARIT BUXTAR. Mon. Holding that the prosecution had not made out a prima facie case against the accused and that there was an element of doubt, Inche Abu Bakar bin. Haji Hussein. Circuit Magistrate, acquitted and discharged a middle-aged woman. Ng Ah Eng. without calling for her
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    MAH DETAINED
    23 3 SINGAPORE Police yesterday held a man believed to be responsible for robbing a taxi driver m Braddell Road on April 29.
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    27 3 photo. MR. AND MRS. HO LAI YANG, who were married at the Registry of Marriages, Singapore, yesterday. The bride is the former Miss. Mok Yeow Thye. Standard
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    'Refund' Order To Private Schools
    167 3 'Refund' Order To Private Schools Standard Staff .Reporter SEVERAL private English schools in Singapore have been requested by the Education Department to refund certain fees to students who have been overcharged, the Senior Inspector of Government Schools, Mr T.P.M. Lewis, told The Standard yesterday. Any unauthorised "additional" fees which pupils
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    Woman, 68, Says She Was Assaulted
    109 3 Woman, 68, Says She Was Assaulted A fiB-YEAR-OLD woman reported to the Singapore Police yesterday that she was raped and robbed of $6 by a man at a lonely spot In Kirn Chuan Road on Friday. The woman said the man waylaid her as she was returning home. He dragged
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    $250 BAIL IN OUTRAGE CASE
    66 3 ABDUL.AZIZ Makadad was charged in the Singapore Seventh Police Court, yesterday, with entering a house at Selangor Street, at 7 a.m. on April 22 with intent to assault and outrage the modesty of a woman, Indun binte Ibrahim. The case was postponed f >r hearing
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    Grenades: Man Charged
    59 3 TEO AH MONG, a labourer, was tentatively charged m the Singapore Fourth Police CouTt yesterday, with unlawful possession of 15 grenades, on May 15 at the 9i mile, Thomson Road. The Magistrate, Mr. A.W. Ghows, ordered Teo to be remanded In the Central lock-up till May 19,
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    TWO TERRORISTS KILLED IN BOAT
    120 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Two terrorists were killed yesterday by a mortar platoon of the Second Battalion. the King's African Rifles, as they were travelling down a river m the Kemaman district of Treng- garni. The terrorists had a large quantity of supplies m their boat
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    PRINCIPALS INQUIRY HEARD IN CAMERA
    140 4 PRINCIPALS INQUIRY HEARD IN CAMERA THE preliminary inquiry into the tentative charge of attempted murd< against Dong Chui > c nj:. headmaster of St. Andrew's Middle School. Singapore. wa s yesterday held m camera m the Ninth Police Court. No forma] application lor a >'< mc »n camera was mudo
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    THEFT OF CAR CHARGE
    48 4 OSMAN bin O:nnr. and Chip ed with t hef 1 ;i motor < Singai t Fifth Police court, y, day. Ii ged the two i stole th< on ghi i lay, 15, at S at K<- i was postponed, and I of $504 one s
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    34 4 photo. MR. AM) MRS I). F. BARTON after their uedding ai si. Mary's Church. Kuala Lumpur, recently. The bride is MargarH Hopkinsoii Graham. The bridegroom i s attached to Ihe Malayan Civil Service. Standard
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    Girl Missing
    26 4 A 21 -year-old girl. Toh Ah GhU, was reported missing from her house m .1 oho re Road. S:ngapore, since 7.00 p.m. on Sunday.
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    MTUC Warning On Retrenchment
    193 4 PENANG, Mon. The Hon. Secretary of the Penans Division of the Malayan Trade Union Council, Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew, today, warned workers m Malaya that employing: interests are expected to stiffen, under pressure of trade recession, capitalist economy at its worst— which are retrenchment, and cuts
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    AN AMBULANCE FOR ANIMALS
    69 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— The Malayan Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. South Johore Branch. is running an Animal Ambulance on trial for a month. The ambulance may be called out by ringing *****. The following were elected office-bearers: Chairman Dr. .T. If. Dugdale; Hon
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    Faces Tentative Murder Charge
    77 4 YEOH KEK LENG ill tentatively charged with murder, and causing grievous hurt with a chopper, when he was brought before the Singapore Fifth Police Court magistrate. yesterday. Yeoh was alleged to have killed Ng Wan, and grievously hurt two other persons. Ng Kim Kuow. and Tan
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    Struck Man Till He Collapsed, Court Told
    271 4 Struck Man Till He Collapsed, Court Told KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— A young woman, Ramlah bi^ite Omar. 24, told the first Magistrate's Court here how she struck a man with a stick until he collapsed. Ramlah said she struck the man. Mohamed Gul. 34. a charwallah, because lie was trying to
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    Govt. May Not Buy Kedah Surplus Rice
    128 4 KIALA LI'MPI'R. Mon.— There is very little likelihood that the Federal Government will buy all or even a part of the 10.000 tons of locally produced rice offered by the Kedah rice millers. According to somt rid merchants. Government's policy if to purchase
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    Motorist Carried To Hospital
    105 4 Motorist Carried To Hospital THE Singapore First Traffic District Judge. Mr. T. Kulasekaram. disqualified a business man. Lim Chin Seng. from driving for a ptiiod of three years, when ht pleaded fuilty to driving a car while under the influence cf liquor on May 16. He was also fined $500.
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    HK EXCHANGE
    41 4 HONGKONG. M..\ 17— Special Standard Service: Clocinfl price* of the Hongkong Exchaii^t today were $15 71 to jl I sterling: $5.***** to US$l; «1 K2O to Malayan $1. 50 228 1.. »:.t Indonesian Rupiali; Gold $248 to 1 tael.
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    100 More Register For Service
    75 4 100 More Register For Service ABOUT 100 youth* have registered for National Service since Saturday bill none of them were from the Chinese High Sermol or the Chung Cheng High SchooL On Saturday. AS WCTc registered and yesterday more than 60 registered. The National Service OflWr. Mr. A. C Loggia.
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    MAY 22 IS FINAL DAY
    50 4 REGISTRATION for National Service* has In:, (x'tnded ta Saturday, May 22. ;,nd not May 27. The Centre at Diill I!.. Beach Road, frill be <^pen from Monday to Friday from B.'AO a.m. to 5 p.m. and en Saturday from BMO a.m. tc 1 p m.
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    HK GOVT. SHOULD ENCOURAGE CHARITY WORK BY TAX FREE DONATIONS-SAYS AW
    734 4 HK GOVT. SHOULD ENCOURAGE CHARITY WORK BY TAX FREE DONATIONS -SAYS AW HONGKONG. May 17 Mr. Aw Boon Haw commenting on a donation which he had intended to make to Our Lady's School at Diamond Hill. Kowloon. reiterated to^ day that income tax should not be assessed on donations given
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    DATO HAS 'SAFE' SEAT – ISMAIL
    273 4 DATO HAS 'SAFE' SEAT ISMAIL UMNO's Answer To Thuraisingham KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Dr. Ismail bin Abdul Rahman, Member for Natural Resources and a vice-president of the United Malays National Organisation, said here today, that if the UMNO-MCA Alliance should control the Federal Legislative Council, it would do so as representatives
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    NAIR ON LEAVE
    29 4 MR Js. NAIR. chairman of the Army Ci^it Service Union. Singapore. Portsdow n branch. eaves by air for India on a three-month holiday this mom* photo
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    LORRY AND ALL?
    27 4 LORRY AND ALL? THE DRIVKK of this Imt. inndencr that m swfrvinc t< V I traffic Jjeht (he v, -hirle tr^,,,, Ju^t outside a paunhop ft Standard
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    52 5 Ml; ii HOONG Chwee „il limps after iK Sinu House at nimaya Ter- pie premises. Looking o n are Mr. 11. O. Abeyratne. Secretary. Singapore Buddhists' Association. Mr. Frederick Sena, who was mainly res- ponsible fo r the building and Mr. T. A. Simon, President of the Singapore Buddhists' Association.
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    $1,040 BROOCH LOST IN SHIP
    30 5 I c;ER aboard the I anchored m the i J R ads. report- i 8 a platinum and I I rse" bro<H-h I her cabin
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    Couple Offers Compensation
    84 5 A couple, Low I. in Moi, Tan Suan Ngoh. charged with causing grievous hurt to a woman, was set free m Uk* Singapore First District Court! erdav after they had offered to pay $50 to Lum Ah How as compensation The couple said the? wished to have
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    78 5 SINGAPORE lawyer Dr. C.H. Withers-Payne (right) receiving: from the acting City President. Mr. J.T. Rea. the silver salver presented to him by the Municipal Councillors of George Town, Penang. m appreciation of his services m designing the Penang Council's new Armorial Bearing and arranging with the College of Heralds for
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    Wesak Observed In Colony: CG At Rangoon Synod
    97 5 Wesak Observed In Colony CG At Rangoon Synod WTesak of all ang n of I ta way main S i c I a I -ilver I salute B irmese guns marked the opening ol the sixth world Buddhist synod m "the great cave*" near Rangoon yesterday. Inside the rave. 2.500
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    Progs To Set Up More Ward C'ttes
    165 5 Standard Staff Reporter WORKING committees of the Singapore Progressive Party m the West and North wards are meeting this week to prepare for the setting up of Party district committees m these areas. Mr John Edt>. the Party Secretary said yesterday he was
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    Operation Done At Sea
    60 5 "Hill If MS. C'omus. wa m Borneo water (.iivcrnor o V»rth Borneo, Mr. R. E on hoard o n M.i; developed acuti 4is Tho wardroom mess \\.»s ris;fed a» an •peratiag theatre. and. with the assistance of I toou-co estate doctor and his wife, a successful
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    He Reunites Families
    92 5 A MAN who last year helped reunite 28.000. families scattered throughout t h c world, arrived m Singapore yesterday, on his way to Australia. Be is Mr. William T. Kirk (above), director of International Social Services m Oeneva. which helps the reunion and settlement of families m
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    129 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Mr. Justice Wilson, In the High Court, here toii.iv. dismissed a claim by a lorry owner. B. Rayah, for $1,135 from a'contractor, V. Sangili Tiv money. Rayah alleged. was due to him [or the hire of his lorry to Sangili, at agreed *aV> S;mgi!i, h e added,
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    POLICE HAVE BICYCLE PUMP
    46 5 SINGAPORE Poii.-e recently detained a man m connection with the theft ot a bicy U pump outside K;it.>ng Park I p.m. on May 9. The person who lost this pump is asked to contad Supt. \nanda Rnja)i at Beach Road Police Station.
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    HONG FATT MAKES $905,883 PROFIT
    214 5 HONG Fatt (Sungei Besi) Ltd. reported a profit of $905,--88: i for the year ended Dec. 31. 19.">: i, according to th e Chairman. Mr. W.T. Dunne, who stated that the profit for the previous year was $514,128. The additional profit had been made m
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    CITY APPROVES $30M. LOANS
    254 5 'Most Favourable Interest Rates For Short- Term Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE City Councillors took about five minutes yesterday to unanimously agree to a series of short-term loans with local banks totalling not more than $30,000,000. The decision, taken at a special meeting of the Council, is
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    S.C. EXTORTED -FINED $250
    82 5 •IOHORF. BAHRl'. Mon Alter Lee Swee. a rubber tapper on Fraser Estate, Kulai. had killed a wild boar and taken it home. Ifohd. Yuno*. a Special Constable. visited him and told him he had committed an offence. He then demanded So from Lee stating that if
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    DRIVER CINED ON 3 CHARGES
    59 5 PLEADING b rlty to a charge of inconsiderate driving, Tan. Chee Teck who had several convictions, was fined 1100 by the Singapore- First Traffic Magistrate. Mr T. Kula>okaram. yesterday. On two other charges of sounding his horn unnecessarily and cutting across the double white line
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    Opium Den Discovered
    68 5 .TOHORK BAURl'. Mon- A police raid in Fontian resulted in an opium smoking den being located. In the Sessions Court yesterlay before Mr. XL Cohen, the < President. Tan Keng. 69. was < convicted on a charge of allow- i ing his premises to be used for
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    LIFTING OF IMPORT CONTROLS WELCOMED
    152 5 LIFTING OF IMPORT CONTROLS WELCOMED THE lifting of control ion the import of motor cars, watches and radios from non-cterliiif and noni dollar sources announced by the Singapore Government over the weekend brought favourable comment from those concerned m the trade Tra de circles felt oVlightcM at the removal <,f
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    $50 FOR NUT
    41 5 SKI. A MAT BIN KADIR sentenced la one d«<r*i imprisonment tnd i for robbing a tailor of nut on M;ir.h f>. at the Ml Farm. ('h.ifi!»i Road. Singapore Thii wrai rtvualtd In the Thrd Police (.'ourt ytsttrd n
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    He Picked Queen Of His Heart At Beauty Contest
    143 5 He Picked Queen Of His Heart At Beauty Contest FOUR months ago. 37-year old Michael Phua K<e Juay was among the thousands who flocked to see "Miss fer^iSiuiS^* chosen fiom gaiaxy f youns 2t v£^i°i lh f'na'kfc w »s the only Indonesian entrant, -petite Julia binte Mohamed U wa s
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    LAWYER FOR ROTARY TALKS
    94 5 ONE of Malaya's leading rnmiria; lawyers Mr. R. PS. Rajasoonya leaves Singapore today by plane to attend the annual Rotary World Conference winch i, being held m ti .1 j This is tne second Ume that Mr. Rajasooriya ha, been ■elected to represent the many I
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    Burmese To Study Malayan Market
    120 5 A FOIR-MAN Burmese iim ber delegation arrived m Singapore vrvterdav to study the Malayan market for Burmese timber. I. Tun Kyaw. Director of Marketini;. State Timbrr Board. Burma, told The Standard yesterday that Malaya buys only second grade teak from Burma for its furniture trade.
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    Unsuitable Bill SINGAPORE STANDARD
    786 6 Unsuitable Bill SINGAPORE STANDARD dfddfdfdf 'THOUSANDS of temperamentally unsuitable civil servant and hundreds of their colleagues suffering from serious defects of character will watch with interest the proceedings, today, m the Singapore 1 gislativ.e Council. For this unfortunate category of bureaucrats will I affected by the Pensions (Amendment) Bill which
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    Review of Views
    195 6 Review of Views Public Inquiry Wanted IT IS clear from reports m the Press that the deplorable in-| cident between the Police! and Chinese school children < on Thursday could have been| avoided had the police not acted i" a way M if the schoolchildren were intent jii destroy ins
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      SEND POLICE TO WATCH! GUY FAWKES' DAY
      277 6 SEND POLICE TO WATCH! GUY FAWKES' DAY Sir: From the display of strength exhibited by the c force anil the urgency with which military per- sonnel were a k c fi to report to their units Thursday one would have ght that a situation had arisen m Singapore comparal c
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      Nausea & Irony
      112 6 Nausea Irony Sir It ll shot kDg to 1 read your paper's account of the police-Chinese school children ciash on Thursday. One's ieeling of nausea was made worse by the silly outpourings of our weak-kneed leaders The irony of was that Mr W. A C Good* < l er Administering
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      'YOU TOLD THE TRUTH'
      143 6 'YOU TOLD THE TRUTH' S -I r*\id with interest the reports concerning the the <)■ d M t students. What I in your paper is nothh <; but :he truth. I iras passing Penanp La t i ade tl t- charge with batons in }i(mds. 1 oas paralyzed for a
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      'One Stroke Lost Govt. Friends'
      170 6 S E ry deceni person ln Singapore must be proidly shocked the lack of imagination displayed by the authorities m using force againsi Chinese school children armed with no more than a petition to the Govemor demanding exemption from National Service. la place of imaginative
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    7 6 j I Poiitical Babe In the Wood
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    What Is A Leftist?
    963 6  -  Julius Gould r~By Julias Gould, lecturer on Sociology at the j London School of Economics has conlrihutcd mumrous articles lo periodicals on political and trade union questions. He had a di-linguised academic career and *a* a I mcholar of Balliol College, Oxford, before j becoming Asriatant-Lectwrer
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    Too Disgusted!
    220 6 S T/i€ pditorin/ o.^ the Suiidnu Timtt o; May 16 iraj a clever ntteniot to i the iacis o* the fßtudeni dajh. The stttdewtj were n' to fv carrying k> \s No h es harei howevtr, bti t red f P° il posttble ft of the wounds Wi
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    Ask MacD
    176 6 Sir: Your report on the Police action taken against the Chinese School Students unlawful assembly was very Interesting. I agree that an Inquiry Commission be setup to deal with this matter. It If with regret that the Police authorities had to take such drastic action against the innocent
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    A Drop of INK
    36 6  - A Drop of INK R.B.Ooi by I i. I I I g^BB I gfl g^g^gfl I H I I g^ga H I H aY w i I nt the I* < H I I 1 (i I
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    NO BASE FOR ANY SIDE, HE WARNS
    29 7 NO BASE FOR ANY SIDE, HE WARNS May IT H G. SenaMinister and Trade, that if ell as a either a a Combloc the limes ruing [I i tn
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    CHEN READY FOR NEW POST
    24 7 W i I Vice P. heduled <»t hi> Chiang .i. premier, has yet to '.■<!. will be Formo a. O.K.
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    Her Dress May Be Ripped...
    80 7 Her Dress May Be Ripped 17— be m movie hei kaway i.v tO qic points and no farther- foi a scene wheHein she scuffles with Rory Calhoun. The two roll down a long embankment. "That's when the dro.-s is supposed lo start emoting," l says Colleen. •By the time we
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    48 7 '"••"u,;' 1 1 7^<«...u up lee. listening to the Dirksen resolution, seem to exemplify the old proverb of "Hear no KviJ, Speak no Evil. See "•> Evil." J.eft to right arc Senator John McClcllan of Arkansas. Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, and Senator Henry Jackson of Washington. U.P. photo.
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    IKE GIVES ORDER TO U.S. GOVT. EMPLOYEES
    148 7 WASHINGTON, May 17 (IP)— President Kisen hower today ordered government employees not to tell Army-McCarthy investigators anything about conversations purely within the executive branch of government. In a letter to Defence Secretary Mr. C. E. WiNcyi. the President bucked up the instructions ot"
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    DR. CLEMENS KRAUSS DIES
    47 7 VIENNA, May 17 (Reuter) Dr. Clemens Krauss. famous Austrian conductor, died yesterday a few hours after conducting a concert m Mexico city, according to reports published here to lay. Dr. Krauss. 61, regularly conducted the Vienna Stale Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
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    World War I Tank
    68 7 photo THE British Army's Southern Command mounted a demonstration of some of Britain's latest armoured equipment recently. But not all the mechanical monsters shown were modern. Here, at the Bovington Centre of the Royal Armoured Corps, is a tank of World War I. In striking camouflage,
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    REDS ARE BLAMED FOR DACCA RIOTS
    136 7 KARACHI, May 17 (Reuter)— Mr. Mohamed Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan, today blamed the Communists for the week-end riots m Dacca, when 200 people lost their lives. A statement issued after a cabinet meeting here said, '"inlormalion with the Pakistan Government indicates that the
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    The Thief Takes Cue From TV
    64 7 TOKYO. May 17 (AP) Only the rich tan afford television sets m Japan. That was the cue taken by a weekend thief. He only broke into homes which had TV antennae on the roofs. Before police caught «P with Hisao Sato. M. on Saturday
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    30.000 MORE FOR THE WAR
    59 7 HANOI. May 17. (Reuter)— Genera] Paul Ely. chief of the French General Stall, is on his •o Indo-China today \<j sum up the need tor reinforcements following the loss of the Dien Bien Phu fortress. A Tordinjj one report, the eh High Command here will
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    U.S. Town Is Flooded
    84 7 PKABODY. Massachusetts, May IT (Reuter) A dam bursi last night under weight ol water accumulated during two week-- of rain and flooded more than a square mile of this leather-making of 23,000 people, IS n northeast <>f Boston. Water surged downhill into the central business area.
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    Shot Dead By Mistake
    61 7 NAIROBI. May IT. (Reuters A British officer lea ling ti-Mau Man operation wa! -hot dead and two of his Injured when an army pati mistook them for terrorists, i was officially announced today East Africa Command hea 1 <] lartera withheld the name oJ the officer
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    'NO ASIAN PACT YET'
    380 7 Britain Awaits Geneva Result, Says Churchill LONDON, May 17, (Reurer)— Sir Winston Churchill told the House of Commons today, that until the outcome of the Geneva conference was known, final decisions could not be taken regarding the establishment of collective defence m South-east Asia. The Prime
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    Curtain Drops On The I-C Talks
    157 7 Curtain Drops On The I-C Talks GENEVA. May 17 (Renter' The first secret session of the nine-nation Indo-China peace talks opened in the Palace of Nationa here today. It marked what was generally regarded as the start of the most decisive week ot the IndoChina conference. Mr. Anthony Eden. British
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    Boy Saved From Trunk Under Lock
    100 7 F A X E N HAM. Norfo k, May IT. Renter > A Unite I States Air Force corporal yesterday rescued a boy here who had locked himself inside an airtight trunk Corpora! James Milbert, 2L, of the United States air ba.-v. Sculthorpe, Norfolk,
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    She Seeks Queen's Aid
    83 7 PARIS. May IT: (Reutei I A French mother. Georgette Gledek, announced *he will ask Queen Elizabeth, as head of the Church <>t England, to annul the allegedly unauthorised baptism of her two child--1 ren by an Anglican priest i:i Paris. She i s suing the priest,
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    SECRET MEET ON A-CONTROL
    57 7 LONDON. May 17 (Renter) The live-power disarmament conference meeting m secret here will consider again tomorrow the basic Communist and Western standpoints on atomic arms control. Russia, the United State?. Britain, France and Canada are represented at the conference which has to report to the United
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    Old Crocks To Race In Britain
    143 7 Old Crocks To Race In Britain EDINBCRUH. May IT. Americans and Britons, who have j competed against each other m practically everything from war to chess, meet here In September m an Old Cro k Rally. An "Old Crock* 1 In England is an ancient car which still runs. Five
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    HUNG HIS WIFE FROM BEDPOST
    48 7 SOXTRA (Germany). Miv 17 (AP).— Helnz-Lothar Walther, a 34-year-old construction worker, last night gtrangled iiia 26-year-old wife and then huiig her from a bedpost, police said. He told police he killed his wife to relieve her from the pains of a kidney ailment.
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    RUBBER, TIN CLOSING PRICES
    77 7 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, May 17. The following are rh c closing prices of rubber ond tin on the London Market. LONDON RUBBER Spot 18tid. June 1 8 d. July/September 18 K d. October/December 19id. Jonuory/March 19id. April/June 19,! d. June c.i.f. 18 9/16 Tone: Very
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    DRIVING IN STYLE
    64 7 photo DRIVING to visit Parliament and in the roarh In which their aunt drove in thr Coronation procession are two nieces of Queen Salote of Tonca. PALU VAVAi; TUPOt (Jeft) and VIFONGO PAKAUR. Queen Salote en. deared herself to Britons when, despite pouring rain, she refused to
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    Goldsmith To Bring Up Heiress' Baby
    207 7 PARIS, May 11 (Reuter)— The wealthy r.itinn and (ioldsmith families have agreed that Jimmy Goldsmith will bttag up the haby daughter ieUver«4 by a Caesarean operation on his wife's deathbed. Jimmy's Father, Ar. Prank Ismith, wild I i rector of the Savoy H<>i« London
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    12 Sailors Arrested
    71 7 TAIPEI. May IT i I > Nationalist Chii the 8.000-ton Polish freit ttwaldoo May 13 fiava taken 1 2 Chinaac en and will court-martial th< mimi^t agents, pi said .<>■ Thr Gottwald O(i ea^t of Pormoss whih for North China with I of medicine and othei ipp
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    KNEE DEEP LITTER
    28 7 THE dustmi n, win up the met left by < which \\>' i Quern on vii irdai lorry loadi ol Buckingham Pi "It v... man In R<
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    WIVES ARE UP IN ARMS AGAINST A BEARD GROWING ORDER
    261 7 WIVES ARE UP IN ARMS AGAINST A BEARD GROWING ORDER MONTICELLO, New York. May 17 <IP> Two house wivtvs were freed <>n S.M hail .votfiday on charges of threatening to get after their hearded hushand.s with razors. The indignant pair brushed with the law simply because they wanted their mates
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    PRODUCE
    143 9 THE produce markei m Singapore remained (juiet m mon sections. with small business passing. Copra was quietly s*vady all day. with about two hundred tone changing hands. Coconut oil at Penang indicated $s:< per picul sellers on a dull market. Lew 15 and Peat co^ra quotations for June and
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    Burma Rice
    55 9 RA^'C^OO\ May IT. (UP) An agreent.it whereby Burma will svipp.v Mauritius with rice for four years was signed ve.>terday by both nations. Burma will supply 40.000 ton s this year and from :<0.0,»0 to 50.000 tons during each .>ujseqwent year cf the pact. Purchases this year will total
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    MALAYAN TIMBER IS FACING A CRISIS
    350 9 Standard Staff Reporter THE Moloyan timber trade is facing the worst crisis of its time. The trade has been declining since 1952, forcing mony saw-millers out of business. Mr. CO. Flemich, the Forest Officer. Singapore, said: "As far as I know there has been
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    MARKETS
    129 9 IHE rubber market m Singapore yesterday opened at slightly higher levels than at the^ weekend and closed at 62 7/8 cents per lb. for first grade rubber for June shipment (62] cents on Saturday). Some Australian orders help- j ed to maintain prices at the higher level! Small turnover
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    THAI DELEGATES
    30 9 THE THAI GOVERNMENT ha.s accented the invitation I i send representatives to the rice conference opening m Sin^iipor c This month, it was disclosed m Bangkok tcdav. AFP
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    49 9 phi>4o. IF THE mrfag chores beconir too monoton > you just reach out with your left hand, ending thr •natrrUI with your riRht. and fcwitrh on thr built in radio on this sewin* machinr. sho WB by thr West German Pfaif *.,,k' at a recent exhibitioa in West Berlin A.P.
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    Share Matt Opens On A Dull Note
    806 9 THE Malayan share market yesterday opened the week on a dull note with industrial shares irregular and tins slightly easier. The volume of business i> ne* ligihle. INDISIKIAI X Buyer* v.'nAlex Bucks Ord« S.afl :M0 I iff. 1 fh 2 03 A!la.« In
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      206 9 fllley O°P By V.7. Hamlin curt Ol Juliet Jones By Sfon Drake cilia s Pop By 4/ Vermeer s I Oh. Lester, fair minute »J (coußse you were <!^X^\ vvC-A-i^ J y eT RHYME 1 y Vrnrt- yfaL'W k^'' are ot tn€»e. j s p-^-^ \>^ v\ »vj Cu^iy Kayoe
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    CLICK! And up springs beauty
    113 10  - CLICK And up springs beauty HELEN HUGH says IF you are ih«« uirl wlio ran never timi her powdt-r rompacl In a hurry iln- Is lor jun. IIIK BRACELET- CO.MPA4 T No more delving m >«>ur hanill>;iK No mure seanhinn—lor a le«lne to balance >oiir lookiiiK-Kn^S? In t!i.- day time
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    Good Sport-Or Prude?
    597 10 MARY BROWN deals with a problem that worries Pauline I'll Mil-, was time when a woman could show open displeasure at uninvited familiarity from a man, or at coarse conversation from anyone She was then recarded not as a "prude" but as a lady. Nowadays, women seem
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    Burn Up That Fat!
    451 10 Josephine Lowman tells you how with two roailnes \l.\\Y women an- amazed it the Igvre faults which drstrnd On them unexpectedly around middle age. They may have made it j point to keep their weight correct through diet and general outdoor activity; sports. walking or swimming,
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    88 10 Photo). Photo), THIS bt'( oming evening 5ow n is really a form fitting onepietv bathing suit. Parisian sports fashion designer Andre Ledoux created this mod;*l tor the swimming-crazy woman who wants to stay on the beach until it's time to so to the Casino. The top of the bathing suit
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    SEASON'S 'SPIRIT' INSPIRES FASHION
    541 10  -  DOROTHY ROE By ANEW fashion may be born on a restaurant bill of fare, a tablecloth or a hotel room blotter. Paris designer Christian Dior reveals m his first book, 'Talking About Fashion." The quiet Frenchman, whose fame has spread around the world since he fathered
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    P.S: IS YOUR CHILD ALWAYS NAUGHTY?
    618 10  - P.S: IS YOUR CHILD ALWAYS NAUGHTY? C. B. Achworth asks CHILDREN are 'naughty.' It i s part of their make-up. This is a half-truth, and, like all half-truths, dangerous. Not because half of it m false, but because half of it is not. Children are 'naughty" m so far as
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    THAT MYSTERIOUS LOOK
    160 10  -  AILSA GARLAND A VEILED hat is the mo>t feminine and alluring accessory a girl can have. It flatters the skin and accentuates the eyes. But a girl can achieve that mysterious veiled look with skilful make-up. A lightly-tinted concealing liquid foundation is the easiest way to make
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      35 10 n|» o ((i mi HIM lII -n n Mil' <M fill f»i«- Imli's »ul<- r<i i it <•■ In\rr»n> v ril>lMl MM MillOKI I I.IKIIII'\M \M. ItIKIII\KII I \l I.! 4.1 MINI w,, I HIM ft
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    DEATH
    57 11 IVCOTTA. At the^ General .tTu J iospi 1 Singapore, on 14th May. 1954, Dr. ADRIAN MILNES D'COTTA, 60 year? rhe funeral cortege will leave his late residence No 187 Leedon Road, at 4-30 PM. on FUESDAY, 18th May. 1954 for the Church of St. Joseph. Victoria Street, and thence
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    Roger Sets Off A Chain Reaction
    552 11 LONDON, May 17 (Reuter)— Roger Bannister's startling world record for the mile of 3 minutes 59.4 seconds seems to have set off a chain reaction that is flaring up m a series of world record challenges to be made m Britain this season. The
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    Richards To Ride Landau
    90 11 Richards To Ride L andau I.ONDOV. May l€ (Renter) —Sir Gordon Richards. Britain's champion jockey iias decided to ride Queen Elizabeth's I COlt Landau m the Epsom Derby on June 2. Captain Charles Moore, the Queen's racing manager, announced tiiis at Lingfield Park races today. Sir Gordon was pleased with
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    80 11 LONDON. May l& (Reuter) Emil Zatfxpek. triple gold medalist at the 1952 Olympic Gan^fes, ran his first serious race of the season at the Houstka Stadium. Prague, today and covered 5.000 metres m 14 minutes four seconds, according to Prague Radio. Although this is 2.6 secorrds faster
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    Davis Cup European Zone Ties
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    SASA Diving Competitons
    93 12 Singapore Amateur Sv n a viev the standard of 1 the propose 1 la series oi diving i very two n petitions en to a afl .;ited >s a the first of these will 1 at the Ti-cr Swimon Satui ay .Tune 12. tn. the first competition
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    42 12 Recce "Cuut^e" Tatum holds the ball during the Harlem Globetrotters vs House of David basketball match at ondon's Wembley Stadium. The Globetrotters series at Wembley X the start of a M.M#-mile tmir thu summer, during which they will plaj m 1«! rountries.
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    57 12 Officials of the Singapore and Malayan second Asian Games team at a party Riven by President Magsaysay of the Philippines. Left to right are Messrs Lim Thy? Hee (Malaya), G. H. Kiat (Singapore). R. B. I. Pates (Sinuapore), Bertie Dunsford. (Singapore). President Magsaysay. Dato C. J. Paglar (Singapore). Messrs Ted
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