Singapore Standard, 7 June 1954

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  • 17 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD jfc 3fl Vol. IV. No. 340. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1954. TWELVE PAGES 15 CENTS.
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  • 243 1 Share More Of Amenities Cost MacG. KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The people of the Federation should increasingly share the cost of social amenities to relieve Government's financial burdens during the Emergency, Sir Donald MacGillivray, has stressed in his first tour since installation as the High Commissioner. Johore, the Federation's worst terroristmenaced
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  • 219 1 AN ISLAND-WIDE hunt is now on for the gunman who wounded two people, Defore escaping with $400 from a room in the Sun Sun Hotel, Middle Road, Singapore, on Saturday night. Description of the wanted man has been flashed to all Police stations. Policemen and
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  • 69 1 MEMBERS of two musical associations clashed with bottles and sticks In a Chinese cemetery in the Siglap area of Singapore yesterday afternoon. Four persons, including a 16-year-old boy, were taken to the General Hospital. The boy was admitted while the rest were given outpatient treatment. The
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  • 32 1 THE troopship Empire Fowey carrying the main body of the Ist Battalion the Royal Irish Fusiliers, passed through Singapore yesterday its way to Korea from the United Kingdom.
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  • 35 1 Scout— At 36 CHAN GUM FAI, charged in Hongkong with illegally carrying a knife, was sent for mental observation on Saturday when he claimed he was a Boy Scout. He is 36 year old. UP
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  • 42 1 Sultan Presents Colours Photo. THE Sultan of Selangor presented the battalion flag to the Ampang District Home Guards at an inauguration ceremony held on the Ampang Padang, six miles from Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Later, the Sultan declared open the Community Hall. Standard
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  • 189 1 Gotten Right Through* DACCA, East Pakistan, June 6 (Reuter) Major General Iskander Mirza, who took over as Governor of East Pakistan last week, after violent rioting at the Adamjee jute mills said here today, he would take the "most ruthless action" against Communists and would check
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  • 107 1 Churchill Pays Tribute To French ARROMANCHES, France, June 6 (AFP).— British Premier Sir Winston Churchill yesterday paid a stirring homage to the French Resistance Movement and its contribution to the Allied victory in World War 11. In a message read by the British Ambassador to France, Sir Gladwyn Jebb at
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  • 76 1 NAIROBI. June 6 (Reuter) An elderly European spinster was strangled to death, and a European fa rm c r fatally wounded, in a fresh outbreak of Mau Mau terrorism in the Nyeri district this week-end. The victims were Miss Critchley, aged about 55, who lived alone
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  • 168 1 Duties Praises Work Of General Tempter WASHINGTON, June 6: (Reuter).— The United States Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, yesterday praised the work of Britain's General Sir Gerald Templer in countering the Communist threat in Malaya. In a statement on the appointment of Sir Donald MacGillivray as High Commissioner
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  • 456 1  - STUDENTS' REQUEST FANTASTIC-LEE ANTON FERNANDO Chairman Issues Stern Warning By Standard Staff Reoorter A STERN warning to a student delegation that the occupation of the Chinese High School premises in Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, was endangering Chinese education and its future was sounded by Mr. Lee Kong Chian, multi-millionaire chairman
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  • 134 1 Eden: No Change In U.K. Policy LONDON, June 6 (UP) —Foreign Secretary Mr. Anthony Eden reported to the Cabinet yesterday on two "decisive" weeks at Geneva and authoritative sources said the government decided against any "drastic" changes in Britain's wait and see Far Eastern policy. Mr. Eden spent two hours
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  • 135 1 A STUDENT of the Chinese High School. Tan Beng Khiam (16), was drowned in the sea off Ponggol Point, Singapore, when a sampan in which he was with three of his friends capsized yesterday morning. The four boys were out on a picnic. They decided
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  • 88 1 HONGKONG. June 6: (AFP) Ten Chinese fishermen were rescued at sea by the British Blue Funnel liner Pyrrhus following a collision in Formosa Straits last Friday. Master of the Pyrrhus which put into port here yesterday said his ship, proceeding from Kobe to Hongkong, suddenly came
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  • 179 1 French Pound Rebel Convoy REDS THRUST SOUTHWARD HANOI, June 6 French planes scored direct hits with halfton bombs today on Vietminh convoys moving along routes the rebels are using in an attempt to close pincers behind this Red River Delta capital. In addition to attacking, the Communist-led rebels moving slowly
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  • 67 1 WASHINGTON. June 6<UP> Senate President pro tempore Styles Bridges said today the United States should use the atomic bomb in Indo-China "rather thon use American troops." "To save American lives I would use the atomic bomb anywhere." he said on a television show. He said the
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  • 159 1 India, Ceylon Agree COLOMBO, June 6, (UP) India hfis agreed to keep Ceylon and other Asian nations informed on developments of an Indian plan to end the Indo-China war, the Ceylonese External Affairs Ministry said today. India's Premier Mr. Ja- waharlal Nehru also agreed to a Ceylonese
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  • 308 2 PMLP TURNS DOWN THE WHITE PAPER PENANG, Sun. After o heated debate, the Pan-Malayan Labour Party at its annual delegates conference rejected the White Paper on Federal Elections. M"" 1 c conference also resolved that that the Party's nominees to the Council should immediately resign the moment the Legislative confirms
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  • 49 2 DR. CHUA CHOW TECK. aged 52. passed away peacefully at his residence. No. 13 Adam Road. Singapore at 9.30 p.m. on Sunday. 6th June 1954. He leaves behind his beloved wife Madam Lim Siew Leng. a son. Jin Tee and daughter May Lian. Funeral on Tuesday. Bth June.
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  • 288 2 Standard Staff Reporter MR. ALEX JOSEY, retiring president of the Singapore Union of Journalists yesterday recommended the formation of a "watchdog" committee to safeguard civil liberties in Malaya. Addressing the annual meeting of the Union in the British Council Hall, he said this when he
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  • 160 2 New Stamps For Sale On June 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Postmaster-General, Malaya, reminds the public of the forthcoming issue of some stamp denominations bearing the portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11. The Malacca 4 and 6-cent stamps will be on sale on June 9 while the 10-cent Malacca
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  • 148 2 Growing Interest In Art IF MALAYA Is to be proud of her artistic achievements, she will have to develop a vigorous cultural life, the Director-General of Information Services. Malaya, Mr. A. D. C. Peterson, said over Radio Malaya, last night. One of the signs of the birth of Malayan nation,
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  • 75 2 THE relations between Thailand and Australia are "extremely friendly and my two years' stay i n Bangkok has been the happiest.' Mr. B.C. Ballard, Australian Minister to Thailand said yesterday, at Kallang airport. He arrived in Singapore on his way back to Thailand after a three months'
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  • 192 2 THE Singapore Government was yesterday accused of not taking effective steps to combat the present trade recession by adopting measures like reduction of bank rates, relaxation of credit restrictions, lowering of taxes and further extension of freedom to private enterprises. Mr. R. Jumabhoy, Colony Legislative
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  • 36 2 A LABOURER. Tan Kon Kian (33) while working on the new block of Singapore Improvement Trust flats was seriously injured when a plank fell on him. He was taken to hospital in an ambulance.
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  • 29 2 THE cruiser. H.M.S. Newfoundland will arrive in Penang at 3 p.m. tomorrow and will be carrying out important operations tomorrow and Wednesday, a Press release revealed yesterday.
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  • 46 2 THE offices of oil deportments of The Singapore Tiger Standard are located ot 23, Lim Teck Kirn Rood, (off Tonjong Pogar Rd.) Singapore 2. Telephone numbers hove also been changed for the new address. Fire lines, *****-5, hare been installed for oil deportments.
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  • 117 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Over 200 delegates from the Federation and Singapore today decided here to form a Hindu Council of Malaya to "protect and promote the spiritual, social and educational interests of the community." P Council will also train > to implement its projects
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  • 34 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.—Private Raymond Long was sentenced by Mr. N. L. Cohen, President Sessions Court, to four months imprisonment and disqualified from driving any vehicle for 18 months, for dangerous driving, yesterday.
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  • 223 2 ACCUSED CLAIMS HIS BRAIN WASN'T WORKING JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Massa Singh was charged in the High Court today before Mr. Justice Storr with murder of Sanggara Singh on Dec 9, 1953, in Jalln Trus. Johore Bahru. In reply to the charge, Massa Singh said he was not in a position
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  • 298 2 Plan To Ease Traffic Jams In Raffles Place Standard Staff Reporter THE Singapore Police propose to experiment with a new traffic plan to ease and relieve the con-, gestion in Raffles F'lace during certain hours of the day, and it will take effect from Tuesday June 8, 1954. A Police
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  • 53 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Members of "C" Company Army Depot Police entertained their officers and friends to a Hari Raya dinner at the Hokklen Association, yesterday. During the evening. Inspector Abdullah took the opportunity to extend a welcome to Major T. W. Hind the new Officer Commanding.
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  • 158 2 KUALA LUMPI'R. Sun.— The Sultan of >. angor today opened an imposing: 530.000 commui,ity hall at the New Village of Ampang on Hitoutskirts of the Federal Capital and urged its Homr Guard to whom he presented Colours— to "Bull tain the trust bestowed upon you by
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  • 240 3 c Standord Staff Reporter THE Singapore City Council will pay the dependants of the five hoo The Flnan^ c and General Purposes Committee has recommended that these dependants should be compensated more than they were eligible to reOrdi e nance der thC Workmen s
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  • 120 3 RIDA Gave Most To 'Small' Man Photo. Standard Staff Reporter IF you want to start a hair dressing service, or dig a new pond for fish rearing, or if yoy have a flair for breeding goats, you can get a loan at very low rates of interest from the Federation's
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  • 135 3 CITY Council authorities have been asked to receive a deputation of the Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association of Malaya on the matter of the '"continued imposition of a I ix on cinema hoardings, both on mution picture premises a:id throughout the town." The Association reports that from
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  • 29 3 :OR promoting gambling In a Raub amusement park stall, two men. Wong Fei Sue nd Lee Wong Ying, were tined S4PO each in the Raub Sessions Court.
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  • 117 3 THE final date for anybody to submit written representations on the Hindu Monogamous Marriage Bill has been extended to June 30 the Select Committee, appointed to consider the report on the Bill announced yesterday. Representations should be addressed to The Clerk of the Legislative* Council Secretary's
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  • 33 3 PENANG. Sun. President of the United Malays National Organisation, Tungku Abdul Rahman has cancelled a talk on his recent visit to London, which was originally scheduled to be given today.
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  • 104 3 THE Scandinavian Airlines System will tomorrow Introduce a twice weekly tourist service connecting Bangkok, Hongkong, Tokyo and European countries. This will be in addition to the present four times weekly first class service. S.A.S. which is one of the few airlines that provide sleeping
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  • 106 3 ONE of Singapore's most popular methods of raising money for a good cause will be given a fillip today with a fete and fun fair to be Ijeld on the grounds of St. Hilda's School, Ceylon Road, Katong. Today being a holiday, a large crowd
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  • 198 3 Photo. Standard Staff Reporter ALL NON-COUNCIL employees of the Singapore City Council will be required to pay certain sums towards meeting rents if they live in Council premises. All those residing with the Council's permission with the authorised occupier other than the occupier's wife,
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  • 215 3 THE British freighter Philip Q. (ex-Leong Bee), which made world headlines some time ago when she ran the Nationalist naval blockade of Red China, has left for- the China coast again. This was revealed to The Standard by an authoritative local shipping source in the Colony. It
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  • 171 3 MALAYANS CAN JOIN ESSAY CONTEST MALAYANS with a Hair for writing are being invited by the International Institute of Differing Civilisations, Brussels. Belgium, to submit essays on the scientific study of problems arising out of contacts between differing civilisations. The best essay carries a first prize of $200 while the
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  • 81 3 A LABOURER working in Kranji Road Pineapple Factory was robbed by three men of $102 cash and a $:$0 wristwatch as he was walking along Adam Road, Singapore, on Friday. He had just got otY a bus in Dunearn Road when a thug sitting on a culvert shouted
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  • 128 3 Standard Staff Reporter INDIAN destitutes in Singapore will soon be provided with a "home". It will be known as the Indian Welfare Home and will be built on free-hold land given by the Colony Government. It was revealed at the annual meeting of the Indian
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  • 66 3 A unique fund raising campaign, ranging from shining shoes to selling gears of an old clock, netted $350 for the Malayan Union Seminary Seventh Day Adventlst Church mission. Most of the money raised by children for the campaign were made through the sale of home-made ice
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  • 50 3 THE "old" boys and "old" girls of Raffles Institution and Raffles Girls' School, Singapore, will hold a combined Chinese dinner and dance tomorrow evening at Raffles Institution Hall, to commemorate Founder's Day. Tickets at $5 each are still available at the offices of the two schools.
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  • 60 3 KUANTAN. Sun.— The 50th birthday of the Sultan of Pahang will be celebrated on June 15, throughout the State. The day will be a State holiday. Photo. THE GOVERNOR, Sir John Nicoll. with the acting: principal of Raffles Institution inspects a Guard of Honour formed by the
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    • 505 4 T HAVE recently been reminded of the joy an unexpected present can bring, especially if given out of season Have you ever received, on no special occasion, a perfect gift that has given increased enjoyment through the years? When I opened the box and saw the replica
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    • 156 4 CAN FRANCISCO, (USIS) —Merger of the American Academy of Asian Studies with California's oldest college, the College of the Pacific, was announced here. Heads of both institutions hailed the union as demonstrating a growing awareness among the American people of the need for a better understanding of
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    • 101 4 COME 400 U.S. high school students from every community in the State of Massachusetts recently were chosen by classmates to serve for one day in the State Government. All regularly elected officials and heads of executive departments of the State stepped a?ide in favour of Iheir youthful
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    • 191 4 WfHEN^I was five and my sister one. our parents and grandparents took us with them to inspect one of our house.«! which was a hundred miles from nowhere. Recent occupants had left and father wanted to board up the place. We walked through the rooms and
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  • 243 4 The Golden Rule in Ten Religions Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the Jaw and the prophets. Matthew 7:12. Islam: No one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother what he
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  • 784 4 Youth Forum Delegate Has 'Magic Carpet' Trip HTHERE are few high- school boys of any country who have travelled as far c who have seen as many strange sights as seventeen-year-old David Tin of Rangoon, Burma. A He went halfway w around the world. a He heard
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  • 224 4 Pete's Idea Pays Off AIEAR AGO. Pe!er ttilles «r Plains. New York. hU piJt«> bank that he had ictuni tidy sum. It could h i used to buy mam to th«r hr.vi of a such as adventure inordinalr amuuti* a baseball, glove i sizeable supph But Peter, a eye toward
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  • 73 4 As^^RLl^ T G boon terrorised town suburb of B'wme hours recently Then Bernard S i came on the scene IH> to the beast. spot's roflly and took one of in hu fiund. '"A< soon as the I Bernard it quietened <iia(c!y his amazed told a reporter. Bu< as
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    • 74 4 LET THERE BE MORE TALKING CHILDREN i n London infant schools for boys and girls aged five to seven years should •be encouraged to talk during lessons, says an official book on London County Council educational services. The book, states that talking is encouraged because "being able to express oneself
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  • 98 5 "SPEAKING 01- PICTURES" I Nam© 1 Address i Title l| Camera Used I, I Aperture j I j Speedy Film Right: "Homeward Bound" by Lupin Chang of 23, Dato Kramot Road, Penang. Airesflex, f 16,1/100, Agfa, Orange filter. Left! "Butterflies" by C. S. Chang of 17, Peking
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  • 68 5 HONGKONG, June 6, (AP) —"It will be two or three years before Nippon Yusen Kaisha shipping line resumes its pre-war passenger service," the company's managing director, K. Amemlya, said yesterday. Ameniya, nearing the end of a world survey tour, said in an interview that the expense
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  • 47 5 VESSELS of all tonnages at the roads and wharves in Singapore discharged 865.850 tons and loaded 460.450 tons of cargo during March, according to official statistics. Of the total. 203.250 tons were discharged at the Singapore Harbour Board wharves and 146,420 tons were loaded.
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  • 37 5 BRITISH airlines carried 97.--000 passengers 82.000 miles in February, according to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. The figures showed a two per cent increase on those for the same period last year. Reuter
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  • 162 5 THE WEEK'S SHARE MARKET INDUSTRIALS: Consolidated Tin Smelters 24/10J to 25/3, Eastern United Assurance $34 J, Fraser ie Neave Ords $2.00 to $1.95, Gammons $3.00. Hammers $3 00. Hongkong Bank London £95j including British Stamp Duty. £934 local. Wm. Jacks $2.75. Malayan Cement $1.33. Malayan Collieries 55 cts. McAlisters $3^o
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  • 185 5 THE AVER HITAM PLANTING SYNDICATE LIMITED:— Made a net profit of $46,940 (10.7 per cent) and a dividend of 5 per cent is recommended for year ended 31st March 1954. At balancing date net liquid assets equalled $101,884 vi 23.2 cents per share. Cost of production was
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  • 553 5 T.y A Market Correspondent THE continuing political uncertainty and the feeling that the normal seasonal falling off of interest is at hand, would appear to be combining together to smother any embryonic signs of enthusiasm in Malayan markets. The consequent reduction in the
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    • 264 5 lIINDISTAN: "Arman" fHlndi) 3 630 and 9.15 p.m. INITKD THEATBK SKNTt L: "Avvi.var" \T4in;! i 8 ar.d 9 p.m QUEENS: "Man la the Saddle' 2 and 7 p m. t APITOI.: Tarmaa Escapes 2 30. 7 and 9.30 p m. ODKON: "Escape From Fort Bravo" 1. 3 15. 6 3<l
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    • 755 6 far as Korea is concerned, the Geneva conference looks like ending not only in total failure 9 for the people of Korea, but in a victory for the Communist bloc in its propaganda battle against the Western democracies. The Korean conference, overshadowed by the discussion on Indo-China, has
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  • 777 6 I Didn't Feel That Tooth DOES HYPNOSIS REAtLY WORK?-2 J FELT not the slightest quiver of pain when the dentist gripped my bad tooth and without giving me an anaesthetic of any sort twisted it round and slowly pulled it out. For all the sensation it gave me 9 he
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    • 701 6 Sir,— When the National Service Bill was put up to the Legislative Council it was referred to a Select Committee of the Council and I was one of the members o[ that Select Committee. I now see in the Standard of June 3.
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  • 321 6 Sara's 'Astonishing' Statements Sir: As we all know, Mr. Saravanamuthu. CeyJon's Commissioner in Malaya, was the winner of the "Most Popular Figure" contest sponsored by the Singapore Standard, and is now on a world tour. Recently he made a few very astonishing statements in Washington in connection with Malaya. Mr.
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  • 476 6 S Sir;— -Mr. Hicham states that Government's only j responsibility was in the development of "Plan *B"' I -\\r HS a med ui ter PrograminWor telephones j in the future which, of course, is what the would-be 8 phone subscriber is complaining a hunt— it is all in
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  • 477 6  - A Drop of INK by R.B. Ooi A Penang Municipal councillor has again brought up the question of retiring age. Should it be 55 or 60? At what age Is a man really old?? II to^ Today more peopN ir changing their id.. age. A man la as old feels.
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  • 308 7 Retirement Jitters' Again LONDON, June 6 (Reuter)— Parliament closed down last week for a 10-day Whitsuntide holiday with many members trying to puzzle out when Sir Winston Churchill intends to retire and some confident it will be very soon, f s- Sir Winston's "retirement jitters" have
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  • 129 7 WASHINGTON. June 6 •UP) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles agreed yesterday that Thailand should send a military misMon here to discuss immediate expansion of their armed forces, according to diplomatic .source's. They said this was one of the subjects discussed between Dulles and Thailand
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  • 203 7 He Admits Three Murders And Rape-Assault NEW YORK. June 6. <AP).— A tall. 27-year-old steam fltler, who police said admitted three slayings and the savage rape-assaut on 14 -year-old Dorothy Westwater, was taken into custody yesterday. Police said they first arrested him for a minor traffic violation. The suspect was
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  • 420 7 ru GEN !X> A June 6 <*««*«')— Communist whina and Russia yesterday presented new proposals tor a Korean settlement both countries declaring that there was common ground between East and West on some of the basic issues. The United States Immediately rejected
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  • 182 7 Next 30 Days Are Vital Knowland WASHINGTON, June 6 (UP) Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland said yesterday -he thinks "basic decisions" must be made in the next 30 days to prevent South-east Asia from sliding behind the Iron Curtain. "It's going to be fatal to continue talking at Geneva
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  • 72 7 SANDHURST, June 6 (Reu^ ten A gang of Royal Naval cadets visited the Royal Military Academy here yesterday and white-washed a statue of Queen Victoria while the army cadets were on leave. The 30 cadets from the Royal Naval College at Greenwich also white- washed
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  • 91 7 WESTGATE. Kent. June 6. < Router >— An 11-year-old baronet, Sir Peter GrahamMoon, played in tho grounds of his school here on Friday unaware he had inherited a £242.637 fortune and a dog. The schoolboy baronet, son of Sir Wilfred Graham-Moon, once aide-de-camp to the Governor
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  • 257 7 WASHINGTON, June 6 (UP)— President Eisenhower yesterday put out a friendly bid to Russia on the tenth anniversary of the Normandy invasion to rejoin a grand alliance in search of ."peace, security and freedom." Mr. Eisenhower, who directed the massive air, sea and land forces
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  • 136 7 Storms Spoil U.K. Holiday Week-end LONDON. June 6 < Renter" Thousands of British families who streamed out of the cities to seaside resorts and country beauty spots in perfect weather yesterday morning, were drenched by freak thunderstorms in the afternoon and early evening. Many were on the beaches when the
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  • 27 7 GEN. James A. Van Fleet President Eisenhowers special fact-finding envoy to the Far East, will enplane for Formosa early this week, official sources said. UP
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  • 90 7 ARMARILLO. Texas, June 6. <AP>. An American pilot who flew for Nationalist China again.st the Japanese said yesterday he and a group of his friends are starting a campaign to sell the idea that the United States should intervene now in South-east Asia R. Holmes
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  • 125 7 New Turn In Scot's Dispute EDINBURGH. Scotland, June 6, (Renter) The controversy as to whether Queen Elizabeth is the first or second of Scotland has taken a new turn. A lawyer called to the Scottish Bar yesterday took oath of allegiance only to Queen Elizabeth. No numeral was mentioned. Many
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  • 122 7 WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuten— The United States j yesterday held out a promise of increased military aid to Turkey in the coming year and pledged quickened delivery of about $500,000,000 v£l 80.000 JU)O sterling) worth of military equipment already approved. This was disclosed in a
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  • 36 7 THE Government of India announced yesterday it plans to withdraw its troops from Tibet within three months in <irder to meet the terms of the recent India -China agreement on the Himalayan region. AP
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  • 170 7 HOLLYWOOD. June 6 <AP> The question of whether June Haver and Fred MacMurray plan to be married was settled yesterday. When it was learnt that they have ordered oagagement and wedding rings, the blond actress said they plan i to be married after MacMurray finishes
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  • 61 7 TOKYO. June 6. <AP)— The Chinese Communists said this morning they will create writ♦**n languages for minority nationalities which *">avp none. Peking Hadio. heard In Tokyo, said the minorities will be helped to create a phonetic alphabet or to choose the writing of one of the established
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  • 188 7 She Waited 48 Years To Marry Her Sweetheart VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 6. (AP) Prudence Coker, 72, of Philadelphia is bound for the altar after a 48-year wait for the sweetheart her father sent away because he "didn't think John was good enough for me." "Away" w.as half around the
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  • 215 7 'RUSSIA SHOULD RENOUNCE BELIEFS' COPENHAGEN. June (Reutei Mr. Clement Attlee. British Labour Party leader, said yesterday the one thin* needed for world peace was that Russia should "renounce her fanatical belief that it is her task to enforce throughout the world her Communist creed* Mr. Attlee, here for a wr»kend
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  • 111 7 Bevan Warns Of Egypt Turning Red MIDSOMER NORTON England, June 6. (AP).— Anciuin Bevan predicted yestndny that unless the British evacuate the Canal Zone there will be Communist activity in Egypt. The former Labour cabinet member who visited En.vpt earlier this year mad*- the prophesy at a Labour Party and
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  • 768 9  - BOOKS of The WEEK D.W. BROGAN By 'LE ROI JEAN' TT is one of the odd coincidences of history that the same small village in La Vendee should have produced Georges Clemenceau and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. And in their full, stormy lives the antipodes of French traditions and
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  • 283 9 We the PEOPLE WHAT'S THE PURPOSE Sir: In his letter '"Money and Money Lenders" (published in your issue of the 31st May) Mr. Cheah Kirn Swee of Ipoh dwells on the malpractices to which both lenders and borrowers have to resort to these days. He mentions a fictitious hire-purchase agreement
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    733 9  -  pATHER DIVINE is not, as I had supposed, the founder of a Christian sect: he is the God of the first successful indigenous religion of America. This sensible and welldocumented book, which usually resists the easy gibe, leaves powerful emotions of mingled pity and irritation, disgust and
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    • 335 9 By Al Capp ■/.EGOrOUP LirE- /I CESJT-SAWEEK L I TrTDAbrkT"! V A^ OUT H °**J CASES CALLED *EM PAUMS^ J J AK'AH $AYES A f ITOUT, AWRIGHT- ESWo fVAa^^ UJ"^ DAKJCED ALL fJKSWT. A#IOVOOfIf rENsrv a week^J V^__^ np v. >^~nTT^T^ /T> -/^T D»P*srf QfjlClf^ JS By V r. Horn/fa
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  • 806 10  -  Muriel Beckett The wife described as Incomplete' goes to Harley-street to ask about her sex By T CAME to London a few days ago on the most fantastic of all missions to see whether I, Muriel Beckett, 24, who was
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  • 272 10 We the PEOPLE No Square Deal Unless Pampering Is Stopped Sir; "A Planter" in the Straits Times described those Malayans agitating for quicker progress towards independence as self-seekers. It may be so; but had those, in the upper strata of our society rot been self seeking but rather imbued with
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  • 338 10  - A Poisonous Dust Helps The Blind To See RONALD BEDFORD Amersham, Bucks. TN futuristic laboratories x here, British '•scientists are taming death dust. This is the radioactive ash left over from the running of the nation's atom piles. And, until a few months ago, the only way of coping with
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  • 597 11 NORTH SOUTH RETAIN TENNIS HONOURS KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— South men won the uuillemard cup for the second postwar year in succession when they beat North by seven matches to four in the annual tennis classic which was concluded on the Lake Club Grass courts here this morning. The North women
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  • 101 11 Ipoh Win Inter-MAS Competition IPOH, Sun. About 140 boy s from Penang. Kampar and Ipoh rounded up their three day inter-MAS games competition at Ipoh yesterday. Ipoh Methodist Afternoon School emerged champions with thirteen points winning the Kinta Rubber Works Cup. Kampar and Penang tied for second place with six
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  • 49 11 TORQUAY (England^, June 5, (APi. Jaroslav Drobny defeated Jack Arkinstall 'Australia) 6—4, 6—3. in the final of the men's singles at the Torquay Lawn Tennis Club's annual tournament today. Miss Pat Ward < Britain) defeated Mrs. B. Abbas (Egypt) 6 o. 6 3, in the women's final.
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  • 308 11 Positions Averages LONDON, June 5: (Reuter)— Positions in the country championship cricket table after yesterday's fames were: O. M. R. W. Average Applevard 274.6 75 561 43 13.04 Statham 130.2 42 292 22 13.27 Trueman 257 69 585 44 13.29 Dooland 349.1 114 804 60 13.40 Wardle 321 129 619
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  • 89 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Leong Hoe Yeng's XI beat Chua Bok Loi's XI 3—o in a Chinese Football League match on the SCRC ground today. Centre forward Boon Hee opened the scoring in the seventeenth minutes off a pass from left winger Whi Chuan. Ten minutes later Boon He«
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  • 311 11 WHITE CITY. London, June 5: (Reuter) Stanisiav Jungwirth. of Czechoslovakia, won an international half mile event here today beating Roger Bannister. Britain's four minute miler. by two yards in one minute 50.7 second?. Jungwirth won brilliantly in a dramatic finish with rain pouring down on a
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  • 108 11 INDIANS BEAT COAST CLUB BY SIX RUNS KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A good batting and bowling feat by Amrick Singh enabled Selangor Indian Association to beat Selangor Coast Club by six runs at the Taylor Road ground today Selangor Coast Club taking first lease of the wickets were all dismissed for
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  • 131 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— Methodist Boys' School beat the Kiang High School by five wicket.N in an inter-school match at Klang yesterday. .Klang High School batting first SCOrfd 45 in their first innings and in their second knock wer c all out for 41. In reply
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  • 423 11 CARDIFF, June 5: (Reuter)— A last wicket stand of 45 by the 16-year-old Khalid Hassan and fast bowler Mahmood Hussain save a final gloss of respectability to the Pakistan cricket tourists' total against Glamorgan in the three-day match beginning here today. Pakistan were all
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  • 40 11 BIENNE (Switzerland) June 5, (AP). The Brazilian soccer team, training near here for the world championsh'ns scored five goals in 26 minutes today to defeat the Bienne Football Club, s—o, In [a 40-minute practice game.
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  • 488 11 LONDON, June 5: (Reuter)— Don Kenyon, Worcestershire and England opening batsman became the first cricketer this season to complete 1.000 runs when he scored 187 runs against Essex at Brentwood today. Kenyon reached the 1,000 when 102. It has taken him only 29 days.
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  • 127 11 ST ANDREWS. Junr S. (Reutrri Australia »>m th»- Bicentenary Commonwraith <;olf Tournament at the Koyal and Ancient (iolf Club here today when ther overwhelmed South Mri. 4 by five games to two with two halved in their final match The Australians* rtn.il record was three
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  • 78 11 OSLO. June 6 AP> Visiting Australians, Bob Howe and Neale Fraaer, I -t night teamed to ij^it. Norway \s top players, Rolf Pape and Nil.s Erik Hess i (i 2 6—3. 3-6. 6—l in tiie finals of the men's doubles in the international tennis tournament here.
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    • 633 11 SARAWAK GOVERNMENT APPLICATIONS are invited for a vacant post of Magistrate in the Sarawak Judicial Department. The candidate must be either a barrister or solicitor, preferably with some professional experience 1. Applicants must be British Subjects o r Federal citizens (or British Subjects born in Singapore) 2. The appointment to
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  • 168 12 EMIL Zatopek set up two records in Brussels On June 1, his third in three days. On Sunday in Paris he achieved new figures for 5,000 metres. Last night he clocked 28 minutes 54.2 seconds for the 10,000 metres bettering his own previous record by 7.4
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  • 285 12 By GILBERT FERNANDEZ o* l at *l egri Sembilan registered their first victory over Perak at cricket since the postwar series began when Stanislaus and Devendran ten"w?cklts vfcto" *"**—> hit up the squired runs to give the State a But the Player who
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  • 811 12 THE REST LOOK LICKED Europeans All Set For Victory Scoreboard By Our Cricket Reporter ONLY the weather can save the Rest from severe defeat today, last day of the annual Clarke Cup (Europeans versus The Rest) cricket match being played on the padang. When play was resumed yesterday morning Price
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  • 140 12 UNSPORTING and unruly spectators appear to be taking over at Farrer Park where most of SAFA's junior league matches are played every evening. Yesterday, while supporters of the Young Men's Sikh Association indulged in stone throwing at the Star Soccerites goalkeeper. Ismai! Abu Bakar, in their
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  • 63 12 McNair Youngsters beat St. Joseph Institution by 39 runs in a friendly cricket match played on the S.J.I, ground yesterday. McNair Youngsters 106 (Paramathevan 18. Wolffmann 16, Thambyrajah 18 not out; De Souza three for 9, Tessensohn three for 47.) SJI 67 runs (E. Wicks 30,
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  • 41 12 PRINCE EDWARD Road Boys Club "A" drew 2-2 with Technical Junior School in a friendly soccer match played at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers for Prince Edward:- Ragunathan and Swee Kirn. Richard and Ah Gan scored for the school.
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  • 69 12 TODAY'S Sport SOCCER:— SAFA Div. 1 RE ME vs. CA at Jalan Besar; Div. 2 Wonderlads vs. Woodbridge Hospital at Geylang; Rovers -A" vs Corinthians at F N; Div. 3B Kinta Rangers vs. RAF Seletar at Farrer Park; Div 3C Customs vs. Cosmos at MFA. ATHLETICS:- Lee Kuo Chuan Morning
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  • 312 12 YOUXG Men's Sikh Association and Star Soccerites "A", the two principal teams concerned in the race for SAFA's division 3C championship drew one-all in their 'needle' match in th e league at Farrer Park yesterday. Both teams are still unbeaten, having drawn two games each.
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  • 55 12 STOCKTON. (California) June 6, (AP) Wes Santee' America's greatest mller, last night defeated 880-yard wond record holder Mai Waitfield of the U.S in the half-mile run of the annual Pacific Associated Track and Field Championships. The time was 1: 50 on a track made soft by rain
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  • 32 12 RAF Tengah beat Indian Recreation Club 3—2 in a soccer friendly played at Tengah yesterday. Shower (2) and Kalin scored for Tengah and Stevenson and Krishnan scored for the losers.
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  • 119 12 How To Beat M arciano MONTICELLO (New York) (June 5 (AP). Ezzard Charles has drawn a simple battle plan for use against heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano, June? 17. It bolls down to the throe little words —"Keep him busy." The "now" Charles, tiger mode), was the man who knocked out
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  • 695 12 REDOUBTABLE Rovers, renowned for their fighting qualities, reached real rock-bottom when they were surprisingly held to a 3 3 draw by fledging Fathul Karib. fourth from the bottom, in yesterday's SAFA Senior Division league game at Jalan Besar stadium. The result came as a complete
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    142 12 American-owned "Never Say Die", a 33-1 outsider, ridden by young; jockey Lester Piggott, won the 175 th renewal of the Derby Stakes at Epsom, Surrey, this afternoon June 2. "Never Say Die" first Ameri-can-owned Derby winner since "Dunbar 11" in 1914, is owned by Robert Sterling Clark of
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  • 297 12 Trouncing Penang KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— For the first time in the postwar series of cricket matches between ><|. angor and Penang, the home State today won \< innings the biggest victory recorded by either side since the resumption of this match in 1947. This was Selangor's
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  • 86 12 KUALA LUMPUft, B Seiangor Eurasian A %B" entered the of the Navaratnain cricket competition they beat the Ta Physic;.! Culture A "B" by four Princes Road gro TPCA batting I sk.ttled out lor 4 4 the exeption ot C gam. who was v: 12 runs, none*
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