Singapore Standard, 21 June 1954

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  • 17 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD tit m Vol. IV. No. 354 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1954 TWELVE PAGES 15 CENTS.
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  • 187 1 HANOI, June 20.— French Union troops repulsed one of the biggest rebel attacks of the Indo-Chinese war against the Hanoi-Hai-phong rail and highway lifeline yesterday to prove France's new strategy in the Red River delta was meeting with success. Thousands of Communist boldicrs armed with
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  • 84 1 WOOD WINS KING'S CUP COVENTRY, Warwickshire, June 20. (Reuten Mr Harold "Wood, a test pilot, won the King's Cup air race here yesterday in a Mile's Messenger 2A with a halfmile had ever the other 14 competlton. Second was Flight Lieutenant M.A. Darcy in a similar plane. The only woman
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  • 19 1 POUR Indian warships will Islt Hongkong next month for one week, it was an-n--r,im-'-d yesterday.— UP.
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  • 48 1 JUNE LEE CROWNED MISS HK AIR HOSTESS June Lee. 20, daughter of a Chinese engineer was crowned Miss Hongkong of 1954 recently. Other contestants are seen standing behind her "throne." She will represent the Colony at the Miss Universe Contest at Long Beach, California, in July. A.P. photo.
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  • 190 1 MIC Will Not Withdraw Its Representative KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The Malayan Indian Congress decided today not to withdraw its representative on the Federal Legislative Council, though the party is in full moral support" of the UMNO-MCA decision to quit the government at all levels in protest against the election proposals.
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  • 35 1 LONDON, June 20. 'AFP)— Foreign Secretary Mr. Anthony Eden arrived here today from Paris where he conferred with Premier Pierre Nendes France on his way home from Geneva. SOCCER: England 2, Switzerland 0.
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  • 415 1 VICTORY IN FEW DAYS' Anti-Reds Now Nearing Capital Security Council Meets On Guatemala UNITED NATIONS, (New York), June 20.— The United Nations Security Council was summoned to an extraordinary Sunday emergency meeting to consider the revolt in Guatemala. Guatemala last night charged neighbouring Honduras and Nicaragua with "open aggression" in
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  • 58 1 MARRAKESH. June 20 (Reuter) General Dhauteville, Commander of the Marrakesh region of Morocco, has been seriously wounded in a revolver attack, it was reported here today. The General was shot early today by a Moroccan riding a bicycle. The attacker fled wounding two Moroccans who tried to
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  • 64 1 WASHINGTON. June 20--(Reuter).— Mr. Joseph Farrington, a delegate to Congress from Hawaii, was found dead in his office last night. He was 56 and had represented Hawaii since 1942. Police said death was apparently due to natural causes. A Republican, his death does not affect the
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  • 79 1 WASHINGTON, June 20 (AP)— The United States rejected a charge by the Redtinged government of Guatemala that it has been the victim of an aggression. A State Department statement said "the department has no evidence that indicates that this (uprising against the Guatemalan Government) is anything other
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  • 31 1 KANSAS CITY, June 20 < Reuter).— Former President Harry S. Truman underwent a successful emergency operation for the removal of his appendix and for gall bladder trouble early today.
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  • 38 1 A GOLD crown studded with diamonds belonging to the Hindu deity. Lord Madan Mohan, was stolen while in transit between two temples at Puri. in the state of Orissa. It was learned here Hast night. AFP
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  • 101 1 TEHERAN. June 20. (Reuter)—A negotiating mission of the International Oil Consortium, which plans to market Persian oil when production resumes, flew here from London today with new instructions for its talks with the Iranian Government. The mission had gone to London last month after
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  • 46 1 Mr. Khoo Seng Khua (23), a teacher attached to the Geylang English School, was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital after he was rescued by lifeguards from the new pool of the Chinese Swimming Club, last night. His condition was reported as "fair".
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  • 24 1 RIOT ING IN CEYLON RIOTERS fired rifles and flung home-made bombs, bottles and stones in urban council elections at Dehiwela, Ceylon on Saturday.— U.P.
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  • 204 1 THE missing Singopore schoolgirl, Miss Lee Chooi Eng, 1 6, for whom the Police hod scorched for unsuccessfully in rhe Chinese High School on Saturday, is now bock home. I A student of the Chung Hwa Girls' School, she returned to her house at 11 a.m.
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  • 100 1 Royal Tea On Beach Of Love KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Two Malay rulers and their consorts will today meet over a cup of tea, at X o t a Bahru's exotic "Pantai Chinta Berahi" Beach of Passionate Love —to celebrate a State visit of some importance on Malaya's East Coast this
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  • 75 1 Susan— An Icy' Woman BURBANK California. June 20. (AP) Counsel for actor Jess Barker, calling actress Susan Hayw a r d "an icy woman, an absentee mother," urged the Superior Court on Friday to deny the actress a divorce. S. S. Hahn, in flnal arguments in Miss Hayward's hectic divorce
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  • 140 1 Two Cats Steal Show At Flying Display KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— Two cats stole the show at the flying exhibition of the R.A.F., in honour of the R.A.S.C. Corps Week. They were dropped from a Valetta over the airfield headquarters of the 55th (Air Despatch) Company, where they landed safe and
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  • 131 1 WASHINGTON. June 20, (Reuter) The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) today reported a rising demand for synthetic rubber. "Sales of synthetic rubber for the month of September will be approximately 48,000 long tons, an increase of almost ten per cent over indicated August sales", the Corporation said.
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  • 57 1 TAIPEI. June 20. (UP)— The Governor of Formosa revealed today the 'Bikini fish scare" had slashed fish sales by 50 per cent in Formosa and posed a serious problem to the fishing industry. Reports of Bikini fish in Formosa first came from Japanese fishermen who claimed
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  • 64 1 AMBERSHAM. Sussex. June 20 (Reuter). The Duke of Edinburgh fell from his pony during a Polo Cup match here yesterday. But he was unhurt and soon resumed play. As the Duke turned his pony in the goalmouth, his foot caught the stirrup of another rider and
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  • 100 1 DUKE OF KENT HURT IN CRASH LONDON. June 20 (AFP) —The Duke of Kent wa» taken to hospital at Chert sey, Berkshire, today with head injuries after a car crash on the London-Sun-ningdale Road. Aged 18, he is the son of the Duchess of Kent and of the late Duke
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  • 73 1 THE PUBLIC inquiry into the Constellation crash at Kallang Airport with loss of 33 lives on March 13. will not i be held at the Singapore High Court today as one of the asI muan. Captain L. Metz. is indisposed. Mr. Justice Knight. Chairman of the inquiry,
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  • 104 2 Charity Board Formed IPOH. Sun. A board of Charity Commissioners has been formed by the Perak Government to cater for the underprivileged and bring relief to the distressed and destitute in the State. The principal duty of this Board is to receive, consider and make recommendations to the Mentri Besar
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  • 68 2 A FIRE broke out in the kitchen of a coffee shop in Serangoon Road. Singapore at dawn yesterday and gutted the wooden structure of the kitchen. A fire engine arrived and prevented the flames from spreading. MR. MRi,. CHANDRA Aloysius Silva pictured after their marriage at
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  • 255 2 REAL SELF-GOVT IS BRITAIN'S AIM Malaya's Turn Soon KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Britain's objective in South-east Asia is to bring about "real self-government that is enjoyed by India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon and which will soon be enjoyed, we all hope, by Malaya," Mr. Alec D. Peterson, retiring Director-General of Information
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  • 108 2 FORCES KILL 3 BANDITS KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. British troops of the Queen's Royal Regiment today killed three Communist terrorists in the Bahau area of Negri Sembilan and recovered two rifles, ammunition and four packs A Pahang Police security unit yesterday charged into a terrorist sentry who shot at them in
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  • 159 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— A nine-man committee of representatives from Malay, Chinese. Indian. European and Eurasian communities here was chosen today to organise a "fitting welcome" to Mrs Vijayalakshmi Pandit. President of the United Nations General Assembly, who is visiting the Federation in August. Mrs. Pandit,
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  • 54 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun Twenty-year-old Charles Wong, the only English Teacher at the Ulu Tiram Chinese School has been awarded a scholarship to study psychiatry at Paloma College in Columbia. The award was made through the United States Information Service. He hopes to leave for the United States
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  • 78 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun About 100 people attended a "beryatii" buffet given by the State Government on behalf of the elections office, ]ast night The party held at the residence of the elections publicity officer. Tuan Syed Othman bin AM. included the British Adviser. Mr D A
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  • 41 2 The third officer of the S s Mormaefir G W Pooler fell into a hatch at I a.m yesterday and was admitted "to the Singapore General Hospital The Mormaefir. is berthed in the Singapore Harbour Board Wharf.
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  • 53 2 MR. Christopher Shawcross. Q.C.. who Is now representing British Overseas Airways Corporation at the crash inquiry here will address members of The Insurance Institute of Malaya on some aspects of motor and aviation insurance in the Chamber of Commerce auction room. Fullerton building. Singapore, at 5.15
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  • 36 2 JunuKE BAHRU. Sin. Three girl s and a local agent or an ice cream lamifacturer in Kulai. Mr. Tan Kirn Chong raised 51. 445 for the Xanyang University fund. yesterday by selling ice rream.
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  • 154 2 SEREMBAN, Sun.— Concern over the lot of ITiE yev c c b Das° f thC eSt te Staff was expressed Mr. Dass said it is alarming to note that some employer* are trying to cut down the production costs by sacking senior members of Asian
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  • 226 2 S.J.A.A.B. NEEDS MORE FUNDS FOR BUILDING THE St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade need another $120,000 for the cost of building a new headquarters. They want money too to carry o n and extend their general activities. The Governor of Singapore. Sir John Nicoll, who is patron of the Association
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  • 274 2 Standard Staff Reporter THE United States aircraft-carrier Hornet which arrived in Singapore yesterday morning is the eighth ship of her name and has been bequeathed with a glorious heritage and traditions by her predecessors. SM is on a goodwill visit Many of the officers and
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  • 48 2 The five-day... i who was found in i i hind the Jubilee T. week Is reported I i graving sphndidly" Gentral Hospital. The Standard wx. t id v a so far nobody had the infant. The *!ir gjby want* to adop The Standard und
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  • 104 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— The fishing village of Cherangruku on the east coast of Kelantan with a population oi about 1,000 held its second local Council election yesterday. About 508 villagers equivalent to 99 per cent of the electorate, voted to create an "electoral record in Kelantan." Five
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  • 101 3 Rowallan To Visit B' worth BUTTERWORTH. Sun.— lt was announced on Friday at the first scouters meeting of the local Districts Boy Scouts Association that the Chief Scout, Lord Rowallan, will be here tor about two hours on Nov. 0 before proceeding to Penang, ihe Difctrict Commissioner. Inche Abdul Samat,
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  • 41 3 PENANG. Sim. The pilgrim ship Anshun due here from Singapore on June 29, will berth at Swettenham Pier. She vvil] sail irom here for Jedah at noon, Wednesday. June 30 and not July 1 as ori^ina'ly sc-hedwled.
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  • 16 3 MR. A. RAMALINGAM. Headmaster of Abdullah School, Kuantan. has been promoted to the special salary
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  • 196 3 THE Australian Commissioner in Malaya, Mr. G. S. Anderson states today that the recent price reductions in American and Canadian wheat has necessitated Australia to ensure the best advantage for exporters and importers of Australian wheat in whatever competitive circumstances existing from time to time.
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  • 33 3 craft display at the Singapore Gimson School for Boys, on Saturday. IHE Colonial Secretary. Mr. W.A.C. Goode and Mrs. Ooode are seen here admiring exhibits at the handi- Standard photo.
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  • 208 3 Road Transport Industry Standard Staff Correspondent THE Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce believe that increased participation of Malays in the road transport industry should be a gradual process as any drastic measures adopted may disrupt the prescn *■"<><*„ working transport system in the country. *f
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  • 92 3 PENANG, Sun. The final figures in the registration of voters for the Settlement Council elections are approximately 49,000 in Province Wellesley and 47,000 in Penang Island, the Supervisor of Elections. Penang. Mrs A S M. Hawkins said yesterday. In George Town only 30,000 have registered
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  • 129 3 FED. POLICE CLERK GETS 2 YEARS KUANTAN Sun X V Nathan, a Police clerk, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment by the Kuantan Sessions Court President Che Mahamud Hashim, for falsifying a Police Department statement. It was stated that as a result of the falsification by Nathan a shortage of
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  • 78 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The Registrar of Trade Unions. Federation of Malaya reported yesterday that at the end of May. there were 240 registered unions and 24 unions pending registration, wth a total membership of 109.589. This Is 1.777 less than the April figure. The Federation
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  • 95 3 IPOH. Sun. A Chinese public meeting called by the Perak MCA today decided on the formation of a Perak Admire and Services Bureau similar to that in Penang It has bee n suggested that the bureau should have two offices in Ipoh, one in the New
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  • 51 3 PENANG, Sun.— The Queen's Hall Fund, inaugurated last year, has now reached $75,000, which is more than a quarter of the target figure of $250,000. The fund is intended for the construction of a hall to serve as a memorial of Her i Majesty the Queens CoronaI
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  • 239 3 Woman Regrets 'Fun And Foolery' TANJONG MAI.IM. Sun. Kottarajah, a labourer in Changkat Asa Estate, Tanjong Malim. was charged in the Magistrate's Court with enticing Athiammah a young mother of three children on March 8. Mr. D.C.I. Wernham. the Magistrate, reserved judgment till June 25. Athiammah's husband. Kathiah, said on
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  • 78 3 BUTTERWORTH. Sun.— The General Purpose Committee of the Town Council has decided that it would not be practicable to enforce a byelaw to fine "on-the-spot" people who spit in public. The Chairman. Mr. J. L. H. Davis said "fining on the spot has never been
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  • 269 3 COMPLETE OUTFIT FOR KING' QUEEN' A COMPLETE outfit, including a free-round trip to Hongkong, will be presented to the lucky winners of the "King and Queen of Singapore For A Day Contest" a special attraction of the Singapore Youth Council's Food and Fun Fair to be held at the Victoria
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  • 454 4  -  M.A. GLASGOW By TN THE PAST, snow avalanches have caused much less serious destruction and loss of life than tornadoes or earthquakes. This is mainly because avalanches occur in remote, sparsely populated regions. But today, conditions are changing. Modern civilisation is pushing its way
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  • 161 4 Vu HEN 12 outstanding Explorer Boy Scouts visited President Dwight D. Eisenhower recently, they gave him a brief report on what the 3.395 884 Scouts in the United States have done during the past year to help other Scouts around the world. They reported that they have
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  • 34 4 RAYMOND, s on of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Singham of Singapore, is all smiles as he ruts his birthday cake, shaped like the letter "2". He celebrated this big day recently.
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  • 199 4 r fo PROMOTE student and x public interest in the great literary, artistic and philosophical work of Rabindranath Tagore, the great Indian poet, a centre of the Tagore Society, which has branches in most of the western cities, was recently inaugurated in Singapore. "The message of
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  • 128 4 WE ARE sowers on the field Which we have to toil and tillWe must come and pluck the weeds If we wish to soio our seeds. WE must look after our field. And water our crop with leal; We must wait our crop to grow. And
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  • 723 4  - Work Became Her Solace PHYLLIS DAVIES A.V\VV\VWWV\\ vWWWXWWWJ. QUIDING, that inspiring sisterhood of world-wide service which, irrespective of race or creed, has worked unceasingly to promote international friendship and understanding, i s 44 years old this year. For 24 years. Lady BadenPowell, widow of the great British soldier and humanist,
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  • 304 4 Art Of Four Countries Is On This Rare Screen A,s E and beautiful Chinese lacquer screen has the distinction of beine the first of its kind to enter a public art collection The City Art Museum in M. Louis, Missouri, has just received gifts of four art works from private
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  • 139 4 BUBBLES FROM BATTERIES y*"** WHAT YOU NEED n .No. .2. vinegar, j juice asi WHAT TO DO yulaiion from the en f> 12-inch piceo s of wir» distance of several Scrape Inwlatto Opposite ends ot the w a distance of tbo Pour vinegar in i Blase until the ha. f
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  • 90 5 "SPEARING 01- PICTURESName Address ##> Title Camera Used Aperture Speed Film ABOVE RIGHT: "Mood Contemplative" by Soh Kee Loon of Malaya Engraving Co., 76 Cross Street, Singapore. Rolleiflex. TOP: "Am I Sweet" by K. C. Lim of 22 Old Market Square, Kuala Lumpur. Rolleicord, f4, 1/25 th,
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  • 79 5 WASHINGTON. June 19, (UP) The Government announced yesterday it will buy lead and zinc for long term stockpiling at market prices now running about 14 cents a pound for lead and 11 cents for zinc. Last week the Office of Defence Mobilization authorized stockpile purchases of these
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  • 246 5 Ampat Tin Dredging. Ltd:—' Working three dredges made a profit, before taxation, of £162.742 (65.1 per cent.) and I proposed final dividend of 20 1 per cent, will make a total of 35 per cent for 1953. At balancing date net liquid assets equalled £107,661 or Is. Bid.
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  • 253 5 Industrial:. Frasor Neave Ord.s $195 to 51.92 J. Federal Disoensarv $2.95 cd Gammons $3.00. Hammers 53.00. Malayan Breweries $3.30. Straits Steamship $172, Union Insurance of Canton $453. United Engineers Ords. $12.15. Henry Wau»h $1.75. Wearne Bros!, $2,371 cd, Wilkinson Process $1.05. Tin:- Ayer Hitam 255. 4Jd.. Batu
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  • 563 5 Little Confidence In NY. London Ma rkets By A Market Correspondent TOWARDS the end of the period tidings of firm New York and London markets were greeted in this part of the world with little confidence. Realists regard the dropping of a sop by the Chinese delegate at Geneva, to
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    • 290 5 THE STARS AND YOU By RITA DEL MAR TOBAI'I QUOTATION I A great deal of talent i» last to the worltl tor '"I <»• a little eouraffe. i irry d;iy sends to their ;r;t\e«s «r»- men whom timMitf prevented from makin« i nr>t effort." Sydney ~iiiith. \«»IR ItIIMIISUiN AND I.IIMIII)
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    • 214 5 |Tl N G A P O RH AM I IMIMITIII.KIA CAMPAIGN: tree immunisation for infants and children will be given at the following maternity and child welfare clinics: Mandai and Pulau Übin (8.30—1 p.m.). Krela Ayer. Prinsep Street Joo Chiat, Tione Bahru and Balestier Road i» -noon and 2 4
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  • 728 6 r J^HE Roman emperors had an effective way of dealing with messengers who were the bearers of bad news. These unfortunate creatures were summarily decapitated. We approach our topic today with the disquiet of these unfortunate messengers. Our only consolation is that no Roman emperor rules this
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  • 597 6  -  SIR EDMUND HILLARY Ry who has recovered from his illness BASE CAMP, BARUN VALLEY. QN April 13 the whole of the New Zealand Alpine Club's Himalayan expedition camped at the village of Sedua on the west side of the Arun river. Many of our 120 coolies
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  • 531 6  - A Drop of INK R.B. Ooi By y DELICATE problem is mentioned in the report of the committee appointed to survey the needs of Divisions I and II of the Singapore Government Service. It says that the success of the programme designed for local officers to take over jobs in
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  • 937 6 EARLY next morning. April 16. Lowe. Hardie, Beaven, and Todd, with six Sherpas and six coolies, left our camp site and dropped steeply down thickly forested snow slopes towards the Iswa gorge. The rest of us prepared loads for carrying up the ridge. Our party now consisted of
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  • 213 7 photo. Says Mr. Shinwell BLAYDON COUNTY, Durham, June 20, (Reuter). Mr. Emmanuel Shinwell, former Labour Farty Defence Minister said here yesterday that the creation of a South-east Asia pact should be considered "with the utmost caution." '"We are already severely drained because of our
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  • 58 7 SOn HAMPTON, June 20. Hi utcr> The troopship Asturiag (22.425 tons) left Southampton yesterday for the Far East with 1.590 service.i!u) their families alter ing held up for two and a ';iy s with engine trouble. Biggest contingent are 850 otti- Mirl men of the first bat-
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  • 38 7 THE U.S. Air Force disclosed yesterday that a B-47 stra to-jet bomber of the Strategic Air Commagd had stayed aloft for 25 hours and 1!) minutes, setting a new record for refuel led-jet bomber flight.
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  • 108 7 New Airliner Turns Over In Mid-Air LONDON. Juno 20. Reuter). —A prototype Bristol Britannia turbo prop airliner suddenly turned upside down in mid-air because a nonstandard component failed, it was announced yesterday The 100-seat four-engined plane landed safely. The Bristol aircraft company said the component which caused the plane to
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  • 81 7 LONDON. June 20 (AP) I iMes have appeared among Ihe menfolk at the swanky Aac«t races. Tapricious fashion sud«>'nly decreed that really smart nirn should have mustaches. Many were tipped off too late to grow their own. "The rush for false mustaches, one guinea
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  • 419 7 Truce Talks For Laos Cambodia GENEVA, June 20, (Reuter).— The ninenation Indo-China conference last night took a big step towards ending the seven-year war. East and West agreed in calling on representatives of the two High Commands in Laos and Cambodia to meet here
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  • 155 7 50,000 Mau Mau Are Being Held LONDON. June 20. (Reuter) i The Church Missionary Soi ciety reported yesterday that the Kenya authorities in their campaign against Mau Mau terrorism have now imprisoned or detained more than 50,--000 tribesmen and women Many of these are held for "screening" and the missionaries
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  • 168 7 WASHINGTON, June 20, (UP).— President Eisenhower is prepared to throw cold water on any new move by British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill to sejt up a Big Three meeting with Russian Premier Georgie Malenkov, informed sources said yesterday. These sources said the
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  • 194 7 GENEVA, June 20. I Reuter —Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov. the Soviet Foreign Minister, flew out of Geneva early this j morning for Moscow. Swiss police and troops threw a. tight security cordon round Geneva airport for several hours before the Soviet t Minister left. Several close aides accompanied
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  • 71 7 ATLANTA. June 20. <AP> -Four young Russians saw Ford cars assembled and Coca Cola buttled during a hush-hush visit yesterday to Atlanta where they introduced themselves as Norwegians. Four members or the Russian Embassy stall in Washington, First "Secretaries Michail N. Smirnevsky and Ivan N. Kuzin;
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  • 210 7 From Cinderella Bride To Millionaire Divorcee RENO, Nevada, June 20 (UP)— Winihr'jp Rockefeller left here on mysterious flight yesterday and a spokesman for blonde Bobo Rockefeller hinted that the oil heir may have signed an agreement to make his "Cinderella bride" of six years ago a millionairess divorcee." Bobo and
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  • 356 7 Soviet Policy May Unleash A General War' LONDON, June 20, (Reuter).— The British Labour Party's leadership warned yesterday that the Soviet policy of expansion "might at any time overstep the mark and unleash a general war." It made the declaration in a pamphlet issued by the Party's governing body the
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  • 104 7 US Senator Found Shot I n T he Head WASHINGTON. June 20 KUPI -Senator Lester C. Hunt. Democrat. Wyoming, died yesterday ol a bullet wound in the he;td which police s.iid w;>s self-in-Ilicted. Hunt fi'. li;id been deeply concerned nbout his health. After a long check-up e.trlier thi.month at Beiiiexi.i
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  • 59 7 MANILA. June 20, Reuter) -President Ramon Magsaysay yesterday signed and put into force the controversial trade nationalisation bill which would take aliens out of retail trade in the Philippines. Local Chinese businessmen who are most affected by the bill, reacted immediately and they began
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  • 56 7 U'OODBRIDGE. Canada. June 20, (AP>.— A young motorist, failing in efforts to get a ride in passing tars after a tyre blow-out, lay down on the highway last night hoping it would force the next car to stop. Instead, it passed over his head and Bruce Henson.
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  • 232 7 France Playing Into Red Hands' WASHINGTON, June 20, (Renter). Senator William Know land (Republican, C,i nrnia) said rat day that the pledge of M. Pierre Mendes France. new Premier of France, to negotiate a peace in Indo-China within 30 days or resign would play into the hands of the Communists*.
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  • 107 7 Russian Planes With No Wings MOSCOW. June 2<i. •Rt 11. ter> Russians w^re told yestuday on the eve of the huee aviation d*7 flypast that they may expect soon to see planes without wing« and atomic powered Jei.s. Russia's foremo>t aviation engineer. Mr. A. Mikoy;ui. vi- ho is brother 01
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  • 768 9  -  Wally Crouch [Reviewed by\ Hugo Bleicher set out to write his war memoirs he apparently mistook his pen for a paint brush. Bleicher, telling of his role in the Nazi regime, bends over backwards in his efforts to whitewash his own name
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  • 475 9  -  JOHN GODWIN Byi THE HEART IN EXILE by Rodney Garland. (London: VV. H. Allen, Sydney: Dymock's. 15/6.) THE CHARIOTEER by Mary Renault. (London: Longmans, Green Co., Sydney: Dymock's. 18/9.) r pHE problem of what makes, or fails to make; homosexuals tick has fascinated novelists ever
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  • 986 9  -  ARNOLD TOYNBEE r PHE author of this book is one of the leading Atsjrtolofistl of our time, and his mastery of his subject is evident throughout. Moreover, he interprets his terms of reference broadly, for half the book is devoted to thought and religion. This is.
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    • 162 9 U 1 Abner W/Lij OOC'S TAKEN MV I P^^ THCRcS y/n«N ALLEyX I^"^ JUST iJ4^\V l-'TTLE PLAYMATE I-" lJ^ B H^^ E Mf^ Hlf ;> y4 I fS Z_^ ->USI PLAIN THE V V\BAC« HOME^V 'UW.k^- Tn 6sP%rdL I V COST yS«ZEOF(T'/ The Heart Ol Juliet Jones By $ton Drofc«
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  • 436 10 LALL SINGH SHORT MISS CENTURIES Army And Police Win BRIGHT batting was a feature of yesterday's SCA senior tournament in which two batsmen Captain Short (Army) and Lall Singh (Indians) missed the century mark by ten runs. Besides them Durai (CSC) and Flinders (Army) made useful contributions of 89 and
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  • 172 10 League positions after yesterday are: SENIOR P W L D Pts Aye. Army 9 7 2 0 42 77.77 SCC 9 5 3 0 30 55.55 RAF 8 5 1 2 34 70.83 SCRC 9 4 4 1 26 48.14 Police 8 3 3 3 18 37.50 Indians
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  • 29 10 HEATS for the Radin Ma* School Old Boys' Race (440 yards) will be run off at the school field on Friday, June 25 at 5.30 p.m.
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  • 632 10 Police v SCC Police won by 26 runs at Thomson Road. Police S.C. Chia Kirn Swee c Price b Kirkham 5 V. Devadass lbw b Harrison 0 R. Delilkan lbw b Armitage 21 R. da Silva c Price b Farmer 37 S.K. Sundram c Farmer b Armitage 0
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  • 42 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Selangor Chinese Recreation Club beat Rawang Tin Fields Sports Club 3—o in a FAS Div. two league match on the Pudu Road ground today. The scorers were right wing Kum Thong (2) and centre forward Wing Fook.
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  • 32 10 WOODBRIDGE Hospital beat Rovers 'A" I—o in their SAFA Division 2 league game at Farrer Park yesterday. In division 3C Police 'A* beat Cosmos SC 4—3 at Jalan Besar stadium. <
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  • 116 10 Fielding the Colony's Asian Games combination, Nanyang Siang Pau cagers just managed to beat the US Hornets 67--62 before a thrilled 3.000 crowd at the Happy World stadium. The Hornets, a team of class basketballers from the US I aircraft carrier now in port, had
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  • 398 10 INDIAN Recreation Club were decidely unlucky to lose 2-1 to Chinese Athletics when these two enigmatical teams met in their SAFA Division 1 league encounter at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. The Indians forced the pace, held the play and pressed frienziedly to put this fast and
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  • 413 10 SHUFFLEBOTHAM TAKES SIX FOR 8 SEASONS BEST THE highlight of yesterday's Junior Cricket tournament was a fine knock of 62 by Desmond Keyt of the SRC and Shufflebotham who bagged six wickets for 8 runs. Most of the pitches were waterlogged due to Saturday's downpour, and one of the eight
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  • 157 10 Corinthians' Tenth Win Beat Rangers Singapore Corinthians leaders in SAFA's Division 2 league yesterday, scored their tenth victory when they defeated Tiong Bahru Rangers <*■—•» at Geylang stadium Both teams played fast footpall but the game developed into such a scrappy alTair that referee H. Angullia had to I i
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  • 187 10 THE Malayan Chinese Sports Federation, at their Council meeting yesterday, decided to invite 14 countries for the first South East Asia basketball championships to be held at the Happy World stadium in October this year. The countries to be invited are: Philippines (Asian Game
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  • 531 11 Scotland Is Humiliated BASLE, June 19, (Reuter) .—Uruguay, world champions, became the first team to enter the quarter-finals of the World Soccer Championship today when they humiliated Scotland here by winning by seven goals to nil. The score by no means flattered the South Americans, who,
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  • 122 11 Maimed Arm Beats Best In U.S. Golf SPRINGFIELD. New Jersey, June 19. (Reuter) Ed Furgul, who has a withered left arm. today won the United States open golf championship here with a 72 holes total of 284 Furgul. 37-year-old farmer's son from Utica. New York, had never before won a
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  • 45 11 KAMPALA. June 19. < Reuter; Jonathan Lenemuria Kenya* beat the Empire high jump record with a clearance of six feet seven inches today when helping Kenya to beat Uganda in an inter territorial athletics meeting. The old record was six feet six inches.
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  • 86 11 KARACHI, June 20. <AFPh Sharafat Ali. a Pakistani heavyweight wrestler, yesterday, agreed to battle the woman wrestler, Hamida Banu. for the biggest stake of his career marriage. There is one hitch, however. Sharafat Ali is already married. But he points out that his
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  • 39 11 STOCKHOLM. June 20, AFP).— Swedish marksman. John Sundberg. yesterday broke the world's rifle marksmanship record for short distance target shooting while training for the coming world championship. He totalled 1.169 points, the world record being 1,167 points.
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  • 318 11 LATEST POSITIONS AVERAGES The English County cricket championship table after yesterday's matches was Ist Inns, lead PWL DTNDLD Pts. Warwickshire 11 7 1 3 0 0 0 3 96 Yorkshire 11 6 0 3 1 1 0 1 86 Middlesex 10 70 ***** 84 Surrey 11 4 1 4 0
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  • 485 11 LONDON. June 19. (Reuter).— Enjoying good weather the batsmen hit out in the county championship games today and a number of them added centuries to their records. Peter May, of Surrey, the county champions, became the second player to complete a 1.000 runs for
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  • 24 11 LONDON. June 19. (AP)— Twenty-five muscular Russian oarsmen flew into London to compete in the Henley Regatta, beginning on June 30.
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  • 78 11 STOCKHOLM. June 19. < Reuter Mr. Paul Lee. one 1 of the two British competitors in the Swedish Midnight Sun Rally and his reserve driver, Peter Easton were taken to hospital at Gaevle. East Sweden, with skull injuries today after driving of! the road. The accident
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  • 35 11 MOSCOW. June 19. <AP>.— More than 100.000 fans crowded into Dynamo stadium to see the Spartak, the champion Soviet soccer team, beat out a 3 2 victory over the Girdonins, of Bordeaux. France.
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  • 484 11 WIMBLEDON. (England). June 19 If Tony Trabert wins the Wimbledon tennis title which starts from Mon- day until Saturday July M and London bookies say it's a 6 4 bet he will the ailAmerican will have to wade through the toughest opposition Australia and Scandinavia can offer.
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  • 288 11 NOTTINGHAM. June I*: (Krutrri. Pakistan !>.m«-d competently against a 11 balanced \ottiiisli.tm-ltu ii tai-k to have .".19 for six on the board at Hose of nlav <>a the first day of their i n here. They might have fi:iuhtvl with a much larger total if later
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  • 77 11 Pirie Runs Fastest Grass Mile LONDON. June 19. (Re.uten —Gordon Pirie. the British middle distance runner, rxn the fastest mile ever accomplished on a grass track in Britain today when he returned a time of 4 mtnuten 5.2 seconds. He was running In an Invitation race at Beckenham. Kent, and
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  • 48 11 NEW YORK, June 19, »AP> —Plans for a September rematch between heavyweight champion Rocky Marclano and Ezzard Charles have begun to take shape after New York State Athletic Commission physicians found that the battered CharVs escaped serious Injury in his courageous title hid against Marcian-j
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  • 443 12 FIRST PERAK VICTORY A BIG ONE IPOH Sun.— Perak beat Pahang by an innings and ninety nine runs in an inter-State cricket match on the padang today. It was Perak's first victory of the season and much of the credit for this must go to Tunku Jaafar who scored a
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  • 36 12 SIXGAPORE Cricket Club beat Singapore Engineering Re-iment by 80 runs in I friendly game of cricket on the padaMg yesterday. SER 73 (Brotherton 12 Mc.Mahon 11). SCC 153 (Parkington 43 Murray 37 Neison 24).
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  • 60 12 *l™?i J?. < V lla o is dishina J* out < and poor Benny Salem, he's not liking it this first n n Sl J lg fH POre Fij X an champion looks all set to land the haymaker but never did, and the man from
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  • 335 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The annual two day cricket match between Selangor Civilians and Selangor Services ended in a draw today at the HO Malaya District ground. Only one innings was possible as the first days play yesterday was washed out by rain. Main highlight
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  • 181 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Liew Kwong Hon, became champions f Or the second successive year i n the Selangor Junior Inter-Team Doubles Badminton Championships, when they trounced Shell Sports club s—o at the Selanu°n Badminton Association nail this afternoon, after receiving three walkover. The champion, kept their
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  • 602 12 SELANGOR PRESTIGE TAKE A RISE Kedah Routed 5-0 lil/ALA Ll/wruK, Sun.— Selangor soccer prestige took a bie unw.r i today when the State team, after a listless and luckless fir*t hlu o SIIr Re element in the second and went on to beat Kedah five-nil in tL lto its section
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  • 627 12 Ml ke Ra y«lo/ bomber class one, welter, middleweight champion of Fiji I met him Saturday night when he outpointed Guam's welter, m.ddlewe.ght champion, Benny Salem, and I left the Happy World stadium, like the few thousands there, wishing I had seen ml
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  • 55 12 SINGAPORE Cricket Club soccer XI to meet Aston AC in the SAFA Div 2 leag i» game on the Padang to-day will be chosen from the follow, ing who are asked to turn up. Moon. Hamilton. Muir-Ben-ton. Patthington. Van Walsum. Hall. Barnes. Lawren Mathot. MacDona'.d. Van der Meij.
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  • 534 12 sESlgSS^KfiS&srmte tied for the runner-up position. Railway athletes set up new records in the Discus (by j Munro 72 ft. 3 ins). High Jump (by S Kanniaseelan I 5 ft 6 ins) and the high hurdles K. Mahalingam 19 6 sees). Records for two
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  • 381 12 By WINDSOR LAD IPOH Sun— The Perak Turf Club June meeting saw the formidable Rodgers-McCloud combination come into the fore. Irainer "Doc" Rodgers. who heads the list of successful trainers, sent out seven winners during the meet, besides two seconds and two thirds
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    • 83 12 SOCCER: SAFA LeagueDn 1 Marine Department SL v Pulau Brani United— Jalan Besar Stadium; Div. 2. SCC v Aston AC padang; SHB Recs v Tamil Brotherhood Assn. GeyJang Stadium; BODCA v YMMA F N; Div. 3B RAF Scletar v Malay SV Farrer Park; Div. 3C Farrer Junior s v Setia
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