Singapore Standard, 14 June 1954

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  • 19 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Vol. IV. No. 547 fc Zfc 9\ A SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1954 TWELVE PAGES 13 CENTS.
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    31 1 photo. TUNGKU Abdul Rahman, president of UMNO, and Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan, president of MCA, shake hands before the start of the Alliance meeting in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Standard
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  • 238 1 1,000 To Quit The Councils DECISION TAKEN WITH REGRETS' KUALA LUMPUR, SUN.— ALL UMNO-MCA REPRESENTATIVES ON FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT BODIES INCLUDING TWO "CABINET" MEMBERS, WILL BE WITHDRAWN' IT WAS DECIDED AT A JOINT MEETING OF TOP EXECUTIVES FROM BOTH ORGANISATIONS, TODAY. The Alliance also decided
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  • 390 1 Ambush In Selangor's 'Rice Bowl f Biood Trail Followed KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Six members of a Police-area Security Unit yesterday braved the bullets of about 40 terrorists who ambushed them from well-prepared positions in the Kuala Selangor "rice bowl" and
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  • 38 1 PARIS, June 13. (AP).— Si B njulloun Vice President of High Moroccan Court, was wounded in the left kid- v by a would be assassin's bullet last night, the French vs reported from Rabat.
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  • 173 1  -  P. C. CHAN. By Standard Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE bank clerk, John Yap Chia Shan, was stabbed in the thigh, when he rushed to the rescue of a woman who was attacked by a naked man last night. The incident occured at about 7.30 p.m.
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  • 64 1 NEW YORK, June 13 (Reuten With $1,250,000,000 worth of international aid. the Republic of Korea could support itself within five years, the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency said in a report today. The report prepared by Robert R. Nathan Associates, a firm of consulting economists
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  • 124 1 DERBY, England, June 13 (Reuter) Harry Clark, 79-year-old pensioner who publicly admitted "living in sin" to avoid a pension cut, got a vote of confidence here on Friday. Last week Harry told the National Federation of Old Age Pensioners' Associations at Brighton that he
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  • 69 1 IPOH, Sun.— Jockey George Straker. who was thrown heavily to the ground when riding Large Scotch in the last race yesterday and was unconscious, is reported to be on the road to recovery. He regained consciousness in hospital late last night. An x-ray examination showed no fracture.
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  • 52 1 NEW DELHI. June 13 (A- An 18-year-old Hindu widow committed suicide yesterday by throwing herself alive on her husbands funeral pyre in a village near Hansi. United Provinces. She was burned to death. Police arrested the girl's father and brothers-in-law on charges of not preventing the
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  • 64 1 Sex?— No Thank You LOS ANGELES, June 13, (UP) Mrs. Margarc McCarthy charged in a aivorce suit that her husband not only lied in saying he was 56 years-old when he actually was 86, but that "he never discussed sex." She told the court that he once stayed in bed
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  • 245 1 FRENCH GOVT. CRISIS PARIS, June 13 (Reuter) The French President, M. Rene Coty, #as today continuing his efforts to find a successor for a government which though technically still in being, was actually dead on its feet. i He had given himself 48 hours from last
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  • 339 1 MORE than 200 UMNO youths were today told by the vicepresident of their parent body, Dr. Ismail bin Abdul Rahman that the Chinese were the friends of the Malays. Addressing a Hari Raya rally of UMNO Youth Section here. Dr. Ismail said he was
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  • 76 1 Catholics Beat Off Red Attack HANOI. June 13, (AP)— Vietnamese Catholic militiamen, fighting side by side with French forces, beat off an after-dark Vietminh assault on their village. 15 miles north-west of this war capital, in the only heavy Red River Delta fighting in the past 24 hours. A French
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  • 103 1 HORSHAM, Sussex. June 13. (Reuter)— The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Noel Bowater, said here yesterday that boys at some of Britain's exclusive public schools do not get enough to eat. "1 am afraid" he said "that some of our public school
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  • 1019 1 It also entails the non-participation of Alliance members in elected Municipal and Town Councils To implement this decision, the General Committee of the MCA has appointed an Action Committee. This action committee will also deal with the question of MCA members who are on
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  • 266 2 FIRST GRAD TO WIN THESE HONOURS Standard Staff Reporter THE honour of being the first graduand in the history of the University of Malaya to gain honours with distinction in three subjects in Medicine went to 25--year-old, Penang-born Chan Kong Thoe, who had originally wanted to be an engineer. MR.
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  • 61 2 photo. THE two new deacons who received ordination yesterday at St. Andrew's Cathedra], Singapore, with the Lord Bishop, Rev. H. \V. Baines (centre) officiating. At left is Deacon Cheng Hing Ko. who will be Assistant Curate at St. Matthew's Church, Singapore. At right is Deacon Meerperdas Edward
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  • 58 2 IPOH, Sun.— Mr. Harban Singh, aged 30. a clerk in the Sessions Court, died in the Gvneral Hospital yesterday after admission the previous day. His death came as a shock to many of his friends as he appeared hale and hearty until Friday when he complained
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  • 106 2 KOTA BHARU, Sun.— Four hundred people today saw the Sultan of Kelantan open the new Government English School at Pasir Puteh. Chairman of the Advisory Committee, Che Abdullah bin Mahmood. District Officer, said the school had been buill through the efforts of the kampong dwellers. He
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  • 19 2 KUALA KANGSAR. Sun Hor Ha Mooi. 18-year-old farming girl from Talang. is reported missing since June 5.
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  • 585 2 COOPER'S WIFE WANTED A NEW DRESS' CO's Evidence On Fatal Shooting JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Major George Davies, Commonding Officer of Corporal Cooper, now on trial for the alleged murder of his wrfe, Vera, told the Assixe Court today that he disbelieved Cooper's story that he had accidentally shot his wife
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  • 24 2 A REUNION of Old CHffordians will be held at the Kuala Kangsar Clifford School Hall on June 19 at 4 p.m.
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    • 235 2 MiSSION ORAWGt 1954 is once ag;<in a year ot distinction. MISSION Orange ha? won the FIRST PRIZE MEDAL for the THIRD consecutive year. awarded by me wmld famous Interna lional Food Institute Expositions held in Paris the two preceding years in Lisbon and Brussels. MISSION Orange was judged amongst the
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    • 281 2 THxrn /fm **L REFRIGERATORS AND COOKERS j Ur-KitKhousc ItrlriKfralor 8 cubk It K«l\iruitor 7 i l *>* 'HM i i Ivw.nard liable 4 m t doors i« Kert(sen« 4 .Moffatt Cookfr Model tmt with plate* A Oten t'ookrr-atUf hrrf F^£E<»ne KnclKh lled-l.amp fur aay »f tb« ;.l«^r lir HARDIAL SINGH
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  • 195 3 Standard Shipping Reporter SINGAPORE shipowners are m HlMlijlTic about the proposed opening of trade facilities between the Chinese mainland and the West. r, i c °,i the leadin S Chinese shipowners in the Colony told The Standard that if free trade is encouraged, most
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  • 104 3 Culture Of India In Three Words DR. Kalidas Nag, Professor of Indian History and Culture at Calcutta University, said yesterday that Indian culture was represented by three inseparable words Shamtam. Shivam and Advaitam Peace, universal love and unity. Dr. Nag. who is in Singapore for a short stay, said this
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  • 57 3 IPOH. Sun. The death of Mrs. Wong Sze Kirn. whose husband i s a senior police inspector, took place at her residence here yesterday afternoon. She had been ill for some time. Senior Inspector Wong is prosecuting officer in the Sessions Court. Deceased was buried
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  • 82 3 Standard Staff Reporter THE Master P!a n fo r the development of Singapore will be laid before the Board of the Singapore Improvement Trust before the end of this year, after which it will be submitted to the Governor-in-Council. The Diagnostic Survey Team's Chief Planning
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  • 199 3 He's Optimistic About The Future Of Rubber ONE of the most encouraging features in recent months for the rubber planting industry has been the steady increase in the proportion of total new consumption in the United States which comprised natural rubber, according to Mr. G. M. Knocker, chairman of Allenby
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  • 145 3 Standard Staff Reporter A SLIGHT shower of rain yesterday morning failed to mar the success of the first out-door sketching party of the Singapore Art Society's visit io Bedok Village. The party ,led by their Chairman. Mr. Ho Kok Hoe met at the British
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  • Article, Illustration
    53 3 A GIRL Guide movement was formed for the first time in the Federation among children of Gurkha families at Majedee Barracks. Johore Bahru. yesterday The girls were sworn in and received badges from the Commissioner of Girl Guides. Datin H.E. Mackenzie, at a simple ceremony (above) to mark the launching
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  • 60 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Muslim Members of the security forces in Malaya wore entertained to a Hari Raya party at the Chinese Assembly Hall tonight. The party was given by the Security Forces Welfare Committee. Those who attended the party included the Sultan of Selangor and the
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  • 62 3 TAIPING, Sun. A Malay society wedding will take place here on June 16 when Wan Mohamed EusorTe, son of Ton Muda Orang Kaya Mentri Paduka Tuan (Haji Wan Mohamed Noor), marries Che Teh Mariam binti Ibrahim. The groom-to-be's parents will give a garden party at
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  • 280 3 1 THE Social Welfare Services Lotteries Board has made a further grant of $60,--000 to the Lady Templer Tuberculosis Hospital Appeal Fund. A donation of $1,000 to the Fund has been received from Mr Tay Chek Ming, c/o Tong Ah Co. Ltd. 45 Rodger Street,
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    34 3 photo. PROMINENT members of Singapore's Bombay community were at Kallang Airport yesterday morning to welcome Mr. Chandrakant M. Shah and his bride Miss Ansuya (above) who were married in Jakarta Standard
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  • 122 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Thieves broke into the Johore Bahru residence of Tungku Abdul Rahman president of the United Malays' National Organisation, on Friday night and took away his sports trophies and his wife's expensive sarongs. Gaining entrance through the window of a backroom, they ransacked the
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  • 126 3 $50,000 Bail For Tailor Withdrawn MALACCA. Sun.— Lim Hong Chiow alias Kirn Seng, the former Jonker Street tailor brought by the Police from Penang to answer two cheating charges here involving a total sum of $139,500 in the Sessions Court, last week, failed to get bail yesterday pending hi s
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    • 233 3 ±Wm W^ A sprinkle of Vim on a damp cloth a quick rub and greasy, dirty things shine and sparkle again. Vim is so easy to use, so quick and smooth it keeps surfaces polished and bright. Use Vim for pots and pans, paintwork, tiles all your cleaning. VIM pm
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  • 6 4 Youth A PAGE FOR THE YOUNG
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  • 793 4  - YE S, IT'S ALL UP TO YOU! NGIAM TONG-FATT I Says V'OU are the fellow who has to decide. Whether you will do it or put it aside: Yen are the fellow who makes up your mind, Whether you will lead or linger behind. Whether you will try for the
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  • 60 4 r THE National Council of 1 Churches in Nt-w York has alioteo nearly $2f><UK'() for its programme ol aiding world literacy. The money is contributed by individual church members Dr. Frank Latrbach. who originated the "each one teach one" literary system. will set up a Sintl ]anguage project
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  • 606 4 Click-And Your Picture Comes Out Of Your Camera IN the not -too- distant fu A ture, Press photographers will no longer have to carry heavy plate s or rolls of film about with them. And they will be able to make prints on the spot, directly they have taken their
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  • 449 4  -  M.A. GLASGOW ONE of the latest inventions is an amazing nrw method of recording sound maßiuticatlv. Scientists discovered that a mixture of rubber and iron-oxide formed into a band and mounted on a wheel c<iuld play back messages clearly millions of times. It is not only
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  • 100 4 A PROPORTIONATELY larger number of women college graduates in the United States are marrying today than in past years, according to Marguerite W. Zapolcon of the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics. Recent trends indicate that of the estimated 101.000 women who will receive their first college degrees this
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  • 228 4 TWO 'tern-ag^rs nrmtly made headlines in US papers and won plaudits lor their accomplishments Sixteen-year-old AdrU nne L. Pow<U. a Chicago highschool girl, won S2OOO <US> for baking a cake which she called "Blueberry Boy Bait." Her entry took lirst place in a nation-wide contest conducted by
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  • 85 4 OW I shall XC M The face I most Gone is sin- to an un land Where she found I i hand. CHE Ml my poor te>rrmnted A true lover she d< Mf love now g< A kjnei lovr >hr Ia iray. ALTHOUGH BhC x mri iiHer !;:<<■
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  • 53 4 E7G//T high X tlcnts will rt'])r< American Rid (TOM ScaJidinmian /vnioi Ostt study centre /<; Aii(jus( 5' c/ F/a Swede n. They Hill ttu Junior Red CrOtt /row 16 other coimtr erchunqe ideas M Tespectitv proqrammt Each, national group demonstrate at the ence a particular gramme that has
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  • 79 5 RIGHT: "Out-door I Girl" by Stephen Soh of 61-B Tiong Poh Road, Singapore. Leica. ABOVE: "Sou Kheng" by Loo Yuen Seng of 24 Kreta Ayer, Singapore. Rolleicord, H6, 1/ 100 th Super XX. EXTREME RIGHT: "Young Lady" by Lee Hong Kwong of 396 North Bridge Road, Singapore
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  • 290 5 Allenby Rubber Co Ltd.:— Made a net profit of $24,028 (5.3 per rent) and dividend of 4 per cent is proposed for year ended Feb. 28, 1954. At balancing date net liquid assets equalled $225,056 or 49 cents per share. Cost of production was 52.4 cents on a
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  • 289 5 Industrials:— Consolidated Tin Smelters Ord s 25/4s_ and 25/3, Fraser Neave Ords. $1.95, Federal Dispensary $2.95 cd, Gammons $3.00. Jackson Co. $1.60. Malayan Breweries $3.37 i cd. Malayan Cement $1.36$ and $1.35, Malayan Collieries 55 cts, Sandakan Dispensary 70 cts. Singapore Cold Storage $4.85 cbi. Straits Traders
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  • 534 5 By A Market Correspondent Whit Monday and Thursday's celebration of the Queen's Birthday reduced the period to a mere three-and-a-half days. Even the encouraging; rubber price of 66 cents a pound (July delivery) failed to overcome the holiday spirit and slight Geneva fever, which
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    • 631 5 IsT"n'q'apo reJ I r UTrriTi iiiiiruT raub i/vto?/^ 1 I RLI'ISh pesang I_^^**V. 7 ■•''V.^^M ODKON: Botany BiN (Tethni™fflteii iiiiiiiflriiSi™^ -iSlff^ Ibrtririßl 3 15- 6 and 913 kwivi* m, ATIIAV: Beneath The Twelve B i& M &S'Si, l H\3L J 1 bJ j KLVANG S%- c 5 5 aid '<
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  • SINGAPORE STANDARD
    • 710 6 far the South African Government's policy of 0 apartheid (the separation of the black sheep from the white goats) has gone on without much trouble from the white population. Until now apartheid had been directed only against the coloured population. The progressive reduction of Africa's non-white population into
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  • 891 6  - Coelacanth's Survival From Pre History Professor J. Millot By; l>inr lor af Imsiitmh Scientific ttem discovery about 15 yean ago of a tiring coelacanth caused a sensation in scientific circles. The very existence of this archaic fish had until then only been known through ancient fossil imprints, from which it
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  • 173 6 r PHE task of detailed 1 study, which was immediately undertaken, will be a lengthy one. and it will be about two years before all the structural details are brought to light. But the examination made during the past two months has already revealed
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  • 203 6 Sir,— Until we read his defence in the Press, we must confess that loe were totally unaware that Mr. John Laycock was responsible in so large a measure for the passage of the National Service Bill. We are not in agreement with the notion, currently circulating
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  • 77 6 Sir;— We give too little credit to our grousers and groaners. The people who get things done in this world are those who refuse to accept discomfort and inefficiency without protest. If slap-happy optimists had their way, we would still be travelling on wooden seats in open railway
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  • 562 6  - A Drop of INK R.B. Ooi by r PHE residents of an up- country village complained that the postman left their letters and Hari Raya cards at the local coffee-shop. The poor postman should not be blamed for dereliction of duty. A village or kampong is not a compact community
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • 319 6 Sir;— At the time the Legislative Council approved in principle a recommendation to raise the compulsory retirement age for government servants to sixty. it announced that the implementation of the recommendation would take time. Since then many months have elapsed, but no move has been
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    • 93 6 JUST IMAGINE Sir. "Vox PopuliV strictures on Malayans who become de-Malayanised after visiting "HOME" will undoubtedlyecanr n the approbation of all thinking Malayan nationalists. He has. however, left out one category of de-Malayanized Malayans These people have not yef been 'Home". But their attitudes, postures, accent and intonation would put
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  • 84 6 Sir. I read your reporter's article in your issue of 27th May. on the subject of the University of Malaya, with some amusement. If the editor of the U.M.S.U.M. thinks that most of the students in our university are unique in working for a degree solely for the purpose
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  • 538 6 r PMS is exactly what proved to be the CMC Thorough dissections have revealed an undeniable trace of the organ, in the form of a very short tube an inch or so in length, issuing from the ventral side of the oesophagus, and prolonged
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  • 15 6 "Thank goodness tli- mi«u« auardrd you (1800 I >n do with the monrv!'
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  • 205 7 BANGKOK. June 13: (UP) Thailand's "King of Landlords." Luang Sithi Tht'pakarn. has surrendered over 4.000 acres of farm land to the Thai Government with the request that {he Government do whatever it sees nt with the lands, according to press reports here. The
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  • 101 7 Knowland Supports McCarthy WASHINGTON. June 13 i ßenter) Senator William Knowland, Republican Senate Leader, yesterday sharply condemned Senator Ralph Flanders' move to oust Senator Joseph McCarthy from his Senate chairmanship as an unjustified mistake. Mr. Knowland said that if a fight broke out on the Senate floor over the Flanders'
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  • 72 7 BALTIMORE. MARYLAND. June 13. <Reuter) Mr. George Edward Grammer died on the gallows here early yesterday tor the .so-called 'perfect murder' of his wife who was at first thought to have died in a car accident. Grammer was convicted of bludgeoning his 33-year-old wife. Dorothy, mother
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  • 51 7 HOyGKONG June 13: (Reuter) Miss Virginia June Lee. a Cutha.v Pacific i Airlines hostess last night won the title of Miss Hongkong In the final round of t!ie contest. Miss Lee vvi!l represent Hongkong i n |h e forthcoming Miss Universe contest at Long Beach.
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  • 164 7 WASHINGTON, June 13, (UP).— Diplomatic officials said yesterday that Thailand Ambassador, Mr. Pote Sarasin will confer with Ambassador John Cabot Lodge (Jr.) head of the United States delegation to the United Nations, tomorrow in an effort to prevent the whittling down of the draft resolution
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  • 118 7 Booboo's Night Out Was Just Chaotic LONDON. June IS, (Renter) 800 boo. a two- year -old chimpanzee. decided to have a Saturday night out. First he dripped up the floor of his cage in a pot shop in North West London and climbed out. Feeling lonely with his new won
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  • 46 7 GUELPH Ontario. June 13, (AP) The Rev. Joseph R. Richard, oldest Jesuit priest in the world, died yesterday at the age of 100. lie served for almost Bii years >s a missionary to Indians and Whites in the upper Great Lakes region of Ontario
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  • 25 7 LADY Churchill arrived at London airport on Saturday from Geneva. She has been having treatment for neuritis ;it Aix Le Bain.-- in France.
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  • 199 7 TKL AVIV. June 13 (Reuter) Mr. Horbert Morrison, deputy leader of the British opposition Labour Party, said here today both the Government and the people of Britain were unwilling to send British troops to Indo-China. He told a press conference he hoped France would
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  • 381 7 U.S. CANNOT DO THE JOB BY HERSELF, SAYS NIXON WHITTIER, California, June 13, (UP) Vice President Richard Nixon declared yesterday that in the task of keeping world peace "we recognize we cannot do the job alone" and warned that Indo-China is in "grave peril" and its fall could be "desperately
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  • 137 7 His Head Is Worth £1,000 NAIROBI, June 13, (Reuter). General Sir George Erskine, Commander-in-Chief in East Africa, was to have flown to London last night by way of Athens instead of Cairo to avoid landing in Egypt where there is a price of £1,000 on his head. Army Headquarters here
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  • 74 7 BUENOS AIRES, June IS, (AP).— An English governess, who spent live years in a National Hospital for the insane, has been released by a judge who said he found she was only suffering from unrequited love. Court records showed Violet Hamakers Pritchard. 45. widow, fell in
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  • 216 7 WASHINGTON. June 13, (AP).— lifty-four American and Canadian cities will theoretically be blown into blazing: ruin on Monday and Tuesday under a simulated mass attack by 424 "Soviet" planes. This will be a make-oelieve on an utterly aertOOfl basis, to test civil defence^ on
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  • 52 7 This year's "Minn I'niverse" beauty pageant .il LMH X >ach. California, will include for tlu- first time an rntrant from Thailand. pretty Amora Asvananda. The 1 X year-old «r ir I ■peaks Siamese, hnglish and French. Ile r parents are to arcompany her to I. <<!•.■: Reach fr«»m
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  • 91 7 COLUMBUS, June 13. <AP> —Validity of a Georgia law against mixed marriages was questioned yesterday by the official who issued a marriage license to a Fort Benning soldier and a Japanese divorcee. Henry H. Hunter Jr. took full responsibility for Issuing the license to Robert David
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  • 62 7 LONDON. June 13 <Reuter> Queen Elizabeth yesterday reviewed 2.000 of Britain's part-time volunteer sailors to mark the 50th anniversary ot the foundation of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Rain spoilt the show. The Queen, wealing a bright yellow rain cape, had to hold a large unbrella
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  • 47 7 MANILA. June IS, «UP» Moro outlaws have killed six government solider.s and seriously wounded three others in Sulu Island, army reports received here from Sulu said. The dead were left in a wake of renewed violence which followed a week of comparative calm.
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  • 168 7 BOY (11) ADMITS SETTING FIRE TO A BUILDING CHICAGO. June IS IAPI Chief of Detectives. Mr. John T. OMalley said yesterday that a whisky- drinking. cigarette-smok- ing 11-year-old boy told him he started a tenement building fire which killed seven persons and injured nine. Mr. OMalley said the boy. Marion
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  • 506 7 600-Year Ceremony In Windsor WINDSOR. England. June 13.! ißeuten. --In a ceremony i going back more than 600 years. Queen Elizabeth will tomorrow instal Sir Win- ston Churchill as a Knight of the Most Noble Order of I the Garter Britain's oldest
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  • BOOKS of The WEEK
    • 921 9  - ONE SIDE OF THE PICTURE ARNOLD TOYNBEE I I By The European Inheritance, by Sir Ernest Barker. Sir George Clark and Professor P. Vaucher. (Oxford. Three Volumes. X.5 ss. > T^HE names cf the three editors cf this book and of their seven fellow-contri-butors raise expectations that are not disappointed.
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    • 649 9 They fame with llu Conqueror. By L. G. Pine (Evans. 215.) \Ti4JVY English people, 1 according to Mr. Pine, are anxious to lay claim to Norman birth. His aim in this book is to expose the falsity of ionic cf Uieir claims. Many noble English families are debunked
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    • 933 9  -  HAROLD NICOLSON roldy l(>s By books have been written about the RoadhiJl BOOM murder, which still remains one of the strangest cases in the history of criminology. Mrs. Bridges has now retold the story in a direct and quite lucid manner. being careful to verify her materials, to
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 301 9 M-l /timer l^. Alley Oop T r iwi^t »y V. T. Hamlin WfTr* (^emosc^.NOwju&THOM/)) 1 1 rscer vbe abh J =M" 1 fS THE LON&-SMOULDER.N& L VSuU X SSSf^n.'S^'V ST**** >OJ Nay s w J&\ y CNM!T> BETWEEN OOF l^sT UVOL pSS.'^L^ THROWN <XjSf DREAMER y r^S^ The Heart OtJuliet
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  • 704 10 BEING A WOMAN IN MOSCOW THE FRANK IMPRESSIONS OF A LONDON GIRL IN RUSSIA r JHE first time I noticed that being a woman in Russia is rather different from being a woman in Britain was at the door of a Moscow store. I thought a powerfully-built Russian was going
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  • 681 10  -  BRICKTOP PETER BAKER In The Night Club Near The Vatican vwwwwv jIMWJ X%XX%XXXN freckle-faced club queen of Rome Rome, BRICKTOP is a most remarkable woman. Her club is like any night club the world over. It is in a cellar; there is hardly any light. But
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  • 406 10 PARIS. ]V 0 one turns a hair in the Hue Poh let if a man pokes his head out of No. 39. then, in most unorthodox garb, scuttles a few yards down the road to the bar at No. 37. They don't think
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  • 728 11 New Special Beats Cooper LIM PENG HAN's J.A.P. 1097 cc powered 'Lim Special* built in six hectic weeks and built specially for the SMC's Dunearn 'Kilo— brought the owner-driver his 15th FTD award in many years as a hot rod specialist. Lim zoomed his way
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  • 33 11 NEW YORK. June 12. (UP> Middleweight contender Joey Giardello won an unpopular 10--round decision over Bobby Jones last nisht in their bribe-offer fight during which Jones was protected by six detectives.
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  • 63 11 TAN PECK NEO (58) passed away peacefully on Saturday June 12 at 8.30 p.m. at 22 Blair Road. Singapore, leaving behind her beloved husband Poh Hoe Ghee, one daughter Nancy, one son-in-law Johnny Chan Wan Kee. two grandchildren, one brother "C B." Tan Chit Bah and one sister Tan
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  • 93 11 COPENHAGEN, June 13 (AFP)— Denmark took the lead in their third round Davis Cup tie with Hungary here yesterday when Kurt Nielsen and Torben Ulrich beat Antai Janeson and Istvan Sikorsfci, 5—7. 6—2. 6—l, 6—4 fa the doubles. On Friday each country won a singles' In
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  • 71 11 LONDON. June 12 (UP^ The world's fastest miler. Roger Bannister, could do no better than tie when running the mile for his hospital at the inter-hospital athletic championships at Mothpur Park today. Bannister, who was suffering from a sore leg muscle, never really extended himself in the
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  • 70 11 SCC Win At Sembawang A Hurricane 31 by Muraile, j which included a six and five fours and Watson's four for eight enabled Singapore Cricket Club to beat RNAS Sembawang by four wickets in a friendly game played on at Sembawang yesterday. R.N.A.S. Sembawang: 69 (Mackey 13, Mann 12. Williams
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  • 272 11 Ist Inns. P W L D ND L D Pts Warwick 9 6 1 2 0 0 I 80 York 9 6 0 2 1 0 1 80 Msex 8 6 0 1 1 0 0 72 Surrey 9 3 1 4 1 0 4 52 Derby
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  • 428 11 Close of play scores were: At K ii slide n. Essex: 112 for two <Dodds 50 > versus Northamptonshire. Rain stopped play for the day. At Dudley, Glamorgan: 163 for three (Hedges not out 64 versus Worcestershire. No further play after tea interval owing
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  • 82 11 YOUNG Men's Sikh Association scored a convincing 3 o victory over Police "A" In a SAFA Division SC league match at Geylang Stadium yesterday. The Sikhs, who are making an impressive debut in competitive soccer this season, are making a strong hid for the championship. Only
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  • 170 11 LONDON. June 12 (Renter) The Queen received the English and Pakistan Test teams at Buckingham Palace today She and the Duke of Edinburgh were to have gone to Lord's to watch the first Test match. Mr. R. Aird. secretary of the Marylebone Cricket Club,
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  • 38 11 LONDON. June 12 < Renter)" By dominating the field events, the American Universities. Pennsylvania and Cornell, beat Oxford and Cambridge by nine events to six' in their athletics meeting at the White City here today. NAME
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    • 127 11 Government of the Colony of Singapore 3 r c 1946 Rehabilitation Loan (1962-70) "VOTICE is hereby given that L^ the transfer register of, the above Loan will be closed from 30th. June to 14th. July. 1954. both days inclusive, for the preparation of Interest Warrants. By Order THE HONGKONG SHANGHAI
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  • 591 12 Farmer Plays Havoc For Narrow SCC Win THE ARMY suffered their second successive defeat in the SCA senior cricket, tournament yesterday when they entertained the SCC at Ayer Rajah and lost by 21 runs. Their reverse was brought about by Farmer who took seven wickets for
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  • 576 12 ERIC RETNAM, of the Victoria School, was the hero of the cricket match between the S.C.C. "A" and the Combined Schools played on the padang yesterday which the Club won by one wicket. Retnam played a capital innings ©f 39 with powerful cutting and hooking. He
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  • 41 12 Corinthians went to SAFA's divi.-ion 2 league lead with a two-nil victory over Chinese Athletic A' "at Farrer Park yesterday. After a goalless first half. Osman and Ismail Ahmad put the game Corinthians' way. Sgt. J. Haw refereed.
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  • 37 12 TODAY'S Sport SOCCER: S.A.F.A. League: Div. I: Police S.A. vs. Marine Department Jalan Besar. Div. 2: Young Men Muslim Association vs. Tiong Bahru Rangers Geylang Stadium. Div. 3C Serangoon Malay Youngsters vs. United Sports Club MFA ground.
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  • 631 12 SCC Beat Army sec H. Wood b Angus 7 H. Sheppard st Oscroft b Angus 46 Wilson lbw b Evans lfi C. E. N. Arkell b Angus 3 D. Price c Smith b Evans 14 Blight b Evans 0 Armitage c Short b Evans 9 J. Kirkham c
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  • 162 12 MALACCA. Sun— Malacca beat Negri Sembilan by 102 runs in a game of fluctuating fortunes which ended here today. M.C. Kailasapathy, the Malacca skipper added another fine match average to his list by taking 11 wickets for 36 runs. Malacca, going in a second time, reached 140
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  • 507 12 UO oalk eepers— young Skinner of Singapore "A" and B. Smith of the Combined RAF— stole the thunder with splendid displays in yesterday's friendly representative soccer match at Jalan Besar stadium, which was won 2-1 by the Airmen, in a game which,
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  • 466 12 Retain Mclntosh Cup By One Wkt. FEDERATION Police beat Singapore Police by one wicket to take back with them the Mclntosh Cup when play resumed at Thompson Road yesterday. Since its inaguration the Federation Police have won the cup twice. The first match was left
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  • 354 12 IPOH, Sun.— Weights for Wednesday's races it Ipoh are: Class 3, I>iv. I—s]F.1 5]F. Remarkable 9.00 Pcrmiu Str. Ribu 8.1! Donne/ If Mentiek »00 »>»"*'«* Mil Silverfort gga&r iv sB- is v-- r;K p»rk ii «.O9 r r r jJi i iv ssssrvL a ffgk i P
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  • 41 12 IPOH. Sun.— linn- w,, no winning t-ombin.itioii the treble tote pool on Siturday, opening day of ti:, Perak Turf Clvb 1 Jm^ meeting. The total pool of Sl.l >1 has been carried forward '.■> the second day of Ikt in.-,t
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  • 55 12 A GOAL ITOrod in minute by Chi a Ki:n > atved Woodbridge n p beat Singapore Mar B Recreation Club one-nil SAFA Div. I match pay, Farrer Park jrettei The goal scored wu prise to the HarbourtiM had not „>..;. on passing between Zan din. Soad. and
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