Singapore Standard, 7 June 1955

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    18 1 Singapore Standard ji m m Vol. V. No. 336 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1955 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon FED. COUNCIL DISSOLVES & IT'S NOW FOR THE POLLS
    164 1 FED. COUNCIL DISSOLVES IT'S NOW FOR THE POLLS KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The High Commissioner. Sir Donald MacGillivray. today issued a proclamation formally dissolving the Federal Legislative Council, as politicians of all shades were getting ready to line up candidates for Nomination Day. Nominations will be received between 10 a.m. and
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    Lock icon MOB CARRYING DEAD BOY KILLED SYMONDS
    1839 1 Cab Driver's Dramatic Evidence A HOWLING mob which bore the body of a shot student on o comp cot, was responsible for Ihe brutal assault on United Press Correspondent Gene Symonds m Delta Road, Singapore, on the night of May 12, resulting m his
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    Lock icon DIEMS SOLDIERS ENCIRCLE REBELS
    149 1 DIEMS SOLDIERS ENCIRCLE REBELS Army Declares A Total War' SAIGON, June 6. (UP)— The national Vietnam army declared "total war" on Hoa Hao sect troops today, trapped strong rebel units and captured two companies without even a tight. •This is a total war of annihilation." an army spokesman said as
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    Lock icon MINISTERS TO MEET IN NY.
    42 1 WASHINGTON. June 6 (Reuter)— The State Department announced today that the Foreign Ministers of Britain, France and the United States would meet m New York on June 16 as a prelude to discussions with the Soviet Union.
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    Lock icon BIGGEST YET A-EXERCISE
    42 1 BIGGEST YET A- EXERCISE FONTAIN BLEAU, June 6 (Reuter) Allied Air Forces Command, Central Europe, will hold one of its largest ever air exercises, "carte blanche," between June 20 and 28. during which atomic warfare will be simulated, it was announced today.
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    Lock icon BIG THREE TO INVITE RUSSIA
    38 1 PARIS, June 6 (UP)— The French Foreign Ministry said today the Western Big Three will formally invite Russia soon to the Big Four conference "at the summit" —favoured for July 18 at Geneva.
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    Lock icon 11 BAD HATS' ARE PACKED INTO JAIL
    363 1 Camp Unrest Dies Down As... KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Eleven detainees— officially classified as 'very black' because of their suspected Communist leanings were ordered removed from the Ipoh Detention Camp to Taiping Prison to- night. This step was decided after attempts by warders and
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    Lock icon HAIR-RAISING STRIKE
    73 1 UTSUNOMIYA, Japan. June 6 (AP) Two hundred High School youths boycotted classes today because school officials ordered them to cut their hair. Ryoji Funada, school principal, said the school no longer would tolerate the duck-tail haircut style imported from America. M The boys were assembled m a nearby
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    Lock icon TRIED TO GIVE AWAY BABY
    60 1 DETROIT. June 6 (AP) Willie Robinson stood on a street corner on Sunday night and offered to give away his nine-months-old baby daughter, Darlene, police reported. He was held for investigation. Passersby told police Robinson tried for more than an hour to get someone to
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    Lock icon Relaxing Drug Tames Bad Children
    125 1 ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey. June 6 (UP)— Relaxing drugs are being used successfully to tame the "wild beast" m bad children, two doctors reported yesterday. The doctors, pursuing a policy of spare the rod and soothe the child, adminis- tered a tranquilling drug known as
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    Lock icon END STRIKE' CALL REJECTED
    383 1 Union Defies Eden GOVT. PLANS NEW SETTLEMENT BID LONDON, June 6 (Reuter) Three crippling strikes m Britain worsened today as the Government and leaders of organised labour worked to find the key to industrial peace. The gravest threat to the nations life and economy the nine
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    Lock icon Cut In Tea Export Duty
    56 1 COLOMBO, June 6 (Reuter) —The Ceylon Government decided today to reduce the tea export duty from one rupee to fifty cents a pound and to suspend the export subsidy scheme, a ministerial source said. A gazette notification is expected shortly indicating the date from which
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    Lock icon Stricken Strangers Stranded
    151 1 LIVERPOOL, June 6 (Reuter) —About 100 of the 550 passengers aboard the 14,400-ton liner Ascania, held up here by the strike of some crew members, may themselves "strike" today against plans to disembark them. Last night some passengers came ashore by tender and reported that about 100
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    Lock icon Margaret For Ceylon
    28 1 COLOMBO, June 6 (AP) Princess Margaret will visit Ceylon m February next year to open a trade fair m Colombo, a reliable source said today.
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    Lock icon Thugs Sang As They Looted House
    299 1 $7500 Haul In Gems, Cash FOUR masked and armed thugs on Sunday night threatened to shoot up a Singapore chief clerk's family m a house m Dunbar Walk, Frankel Estate, then sang as they ransacked a house for 45 minutes. At the end of
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    Lock icon Governors Rule Ends In Pakistan
    155 1 DECCA, Pakistan, June 6, (Reuter)— East Pakistan's first parliamentary government for a year which was sworn m today, brought to an end the governor's rule imposed m June last year after labour riots m which more than one thousand people were killed. The new United
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    Lock icon SOEKARNO IS 54
    18 1 PRESIDENT Soekarno of Indonesia celebrated his 54th birthday m quiet fashion m Jakarta yesterday. U.P.
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    Lock icon THEY WAIT IN VAIN FOR THAT TRAIN
    51 1 THEY had been waiting since 8 a.m. at Poddington Station. It is now past 12 and there's still no sign of the train which they hope will take them to Exeter. They were among the hundreds of people affected by Britain's railway strike.
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    Lock icon Raft Adventure
    37 1 MONTREAL, June 6 (Reuter) Four French Canadians leave here on Wednesday m an attempt to sail to Europe on a 26 by 14-foot raft, on which their only shelter is a six by 10-foot cabinet.
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    Lock icon Adenauer Resigns
    89 1 BONN. June 6 Dr. Konrad Adenauer, West German Chancellor, today resigned from the post on Foreign Minister which he has held since 1949. It was officially announced that Dr. Adenauer, who called on President Theodor Heuss today, had proposed Dr. Heinrich Von Brentano, Parliamentary floor leader of his
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    Lock icon THE ROAD OF DEATH
    47 2 THIS sketch plan of the area m whl r h Mr. Gent Symonds met his death at the bands of a not mob was produced at the Inquiry today The route taken by Symonds is shown thus:— Into Riot area After being beaten
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    149 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb) m Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 R.S.S. Spot Loose 9«J 97 No. 1 R.S.S. fob. June 961 96} No. 2 932 94 No. 3 91 91 i Tone: Uncertain. TIN PRICE The price of tin yesterday was $3571 per picul.
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    Lock icon CARELESS TWO
    26 2 TWO lorry drivers, Lew Wing and Yong Kirn Swee. were fined $100 each m the Mersing Magistrate's Court yesterday on charges of negligent driving.
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    Lock icon HAD NO LICENCE
    25 2 CHOXG FUTT was fined $50 m the Johore Bahru Magistrate's Court yesterday for carrying on a motor repairing business m unlicensed premises
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    Lock icon Decides To Quit After Meeting
    140 2 Decides To Quit After Meeting JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Because he disagreed with a new high level poliry at a Communist commit bet meeting, a District Committee Member, Goh Siong Poh, decided to give himself up to the Police. The meeting In the jungle decided on a new policy of attacking
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    Lock icon IF YOU WANT COLONIALISM, I'LL GO'
    749 3 Marshall Is Pledged To Malayanize With Whim SELF-GOVERNMENT ond independence are "meaningless words unless we can have a truly Malayan Civil Service/ said the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, m a speech yesterday at the Raffles Institution Founder's Day ceremony. "The Public Services of
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    Lock icon Tops At Raffles
    38 3 LIM PIN receives his prize from Mrs. Lim Yew Hock for exceptional scholastic merit. Young Lim gained first place vi jour subjects and second m a fifth. He was also awarded the Medal for Character.
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    Lock icon Showman Arrives
    44 3 > MR. Charlie Grey, the J Ice Show manager ar- < rived m Singapore yes- terdav by the Cathay j j Pacific Airways, to plan 2 5 details of the show to J be held here at the end j of this month £»\\\\\\\\v\\\\\\\\\w\\\\\\\^^**>*
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    Lock icon HE HUGGED HERJAILED
    189 3 A MAN. Ellamuthu Saminathan. alias Samy Dorai. pulled a married woman close to him by her hair and then pave her a big hug. the Singapore First Criminal District Court was told yesterday. Saminathan was convicted on a charge of entering the room of the woman. Veer-
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    Lock icon YW'sAnnual Meeting
    49 3 THE annual meeting of the Singapore Y.W.C.A.. Raffles Quay, will he held tomorrow evening at 5-15 m the lounge, following a dinner at 7 p.m. to which all members are invited The programme includes a talk. 'Singapore Looks Ahead by Mr. George Thompson. Singapore Public Relations Officer.
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    Lock icon FOUND HANGING
    20 3 A SINGAPORE mandore. M. Rengasamy. 42. attached to the Naval Rase was found hanging m a store yesterday.
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    Lock icon 10 Years' Jail For Robbing 3 Women
    129 3 10 Years' Jail For Robbing 3 Women CANTEEN boy. Tan Ah Seng, alias Ah Kirn, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment by Mr. Justice Knight m the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, for robbing three women. He robbed them of $200 In cash and jewellery at a club m Rochore Road
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    Lock icon Tapper Is Acquitted
    48 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Balam, a 22-year-old tapper of Sungei Tiram Estate, was today acquitted on a charge of causing hurt to a 11-year-old girl by stabbing her with a broken bottle on March 27. Owing to conflicting prosecution evidence the court was unable to convict.
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    Lock icon Dazzling Frolic On Ice Is Slated For July Opening
    287 3 "HOLIDAY on Ice," the fabulous ice revue staged m Singapore last year, will open again at the Happy World Stadium on July 1, with a completely new show. Sponsored for the second time by Fraser Neave, the show will have a
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    Lock icon JOHORE PARADE
    41 3 UNITS of the Army, Police and Johore State Home Guard, will take part m a Queen's Birthday parade at Johore Bahru on Thursday. There will also be a fly-past of planes of the Royal Air Force during the oarade.
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    Lock icon THIRTY-FIVE GLAMOUR GIRLS All In One Packaee
    50 3 THIRTY-FIVE GLAMOUR GIRLS All In One Packaee ICE-SKATING star, Inge Dorn, who is returning to Singapore with the ice revue, "Holiday on Ice" which opens at the Happy World Stadium on July 1. Also coming back with the show is little Lydia Cloots (above), a star m her own- right.
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    Lock icon CHILDREN REST HOME
    125 3 C.G. To Lay Ist Stone THE foundation stone for Singapore's first Convalescent Home for Children will be laid by the Commissioner General. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, on June 14. The Home to be built m two units on a site granted by Government at Tanah Merah, will cost
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    Lock icon Love Finds A Way
    141 4 Love Finds A Way A LOVE-SICK jrtr? of 17 ran away from her house m Kampong Amber twice m two days because her grandmother objected to her friendship with a former fireman. She first slipped out of her house one Sunday night, after smashing open her bedroom window which the
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    Lock icon 800 REDS IN JOHORE
    239 4 Still The No. 7 Hot Spot In Malaya JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. An official source estimates there are about 800 terrorists m Johore, out of the estimated total of 3,500 or more m the whole of the Federation. Because these Johore terrorists form the hard core of
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    Lock icon Proposals For Chinese Education Unanimously Passed At Noisy Meeting
    718 4 A near riot, which threatened to break up a meeting of 300 representatives of Singapore Chinese organizations yesterday, was averted after the Chairman, Mr. Ko Teck Kin, submitted to insistant demands that members be allowed to discuss the proposals put before
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    Lock icon St. Anthony's Old Boys
    70 4 MR. EDMUND Tay was reelected president of the St. Anthony's Old Boys' Association Singapore, at the eighth annual general meeting held recently. Others elected were: vicepresident Mr. Chia Kirn Chwee, hon. treasurer Mr. Goh Jwee Jin, hon. secretary Mr. Lee Eng Kee. Committee: Messrs. Peter Pong,
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    Lock icon Councillor Seeks Change
    56 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The question of elected councillors serving as chairmen of sub-committees was raised at a meeting of the Town Council on Saturday by Inche Sardon Jubir. He pointed out that other Town Councils m the State had appointed councillors as chairmen of sub-committees and thought
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    Lock icon CITY WORKERS THREATEN TO DOWN TOOLS
    178 4 NEARLY 2,000 workmen employed by the Singa* pore City Council's electricity department are threatening to go on strike as a protest against the alleges "victimization" polfey of the Council. The City Council Electrical Workers' Union, which represents them, will hold a meeting on Sunday
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    Lock icon Lamp Mantles
    31 4 THE Siingapore Controller of Imports and Exports, Mr. W. H. Walker, last night announced that applications for licences to import incandescent mantles from Dollar sources will now be considered.
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    Lock icon Loretta's 4th. Year
    46 4 MISS Loretta Lim, f ehjest daughter of f Mr. and Mrs. Rudy i Lim of the Singapore i Harbour Board, cele- brated her fourth f birthday at her home > m Telok Blangah Road recently. Pic* ture shows Loretta 1 cutting the cake. wwwvwwwvwwvvwwvvwwvv^
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      68 4 Weather Report MINIMUM Temperature: Fran 7.3J> pjn. Jane 5 to 7.30 a.m. Jaae 6 Singapore (76F), Peaaag (76F), Kota Bahru (73F), Kuala Lumpur (74F), Ipoh <73F>. Kuantan (71F). Maximum Temperature: 7.3§ vi. Jaae 5 la 7-3§ pun. Jaae 6. Singapore <»F), Penang <MF), Kota Bahru (88F). Kuala Lumpur (92F), Ipoh
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    Lock icon School Politics? Yes, But With CA Civics Accent
    416 5 School Politics? Yes, But With CA Civics Accent SINGAPORE'S Education Minister, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, and educa- tion chiefs yesterday agreed with the Bishop of Singapore, Rev. H.W. Haines' call that all schools should teach a certain measure of politics. However, they p-fded, what the Bishop floplied was most prob*ply
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    Lock icon FIRST CHORE
    84 5 MORE than 300 people were present at the wedding service yesterday at the Tamil Methodist Church, Singapore, of Myrtle Rose Dana and John Samuel Jeyaratnam. The bride Is the youngest daughter of Mrs. R. Dana of Singapore and the bridegroom is the only son of Mr. and Mrs.
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    Lock icon GOVT. HAS 20 HRS. TO END THIS ROW OR 10,000 STRIKE
    211 5 THE Singapore Government has hardly 20 hours left to settle the dispute between the Harbour Board and its Staff Association to avert a threatened strike by 10,000 industrial waterfront workers. Yesterday, a seven-man action committee appointed by 13 waterfront
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    Lock icon University Plans Six Extensions
    134 5 SIX academic developments will be given priority m the next five years at the University of Malaya, according to the University's annual report released yesterday. These are engineering and agriculture, both to be inaugurated as soon as staff can be obtained. Political, economic and social studies
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    Lock icon HK EXCHANGE
    37 5 HONGKONG. June 6 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.69 to £1 sterling: $5.81 to US$l: $1,835 to Malayan $1, $0,126 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $251,375 to a tael.
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    Lock icon Observer
    62 5 AN AUSTRALIAN member of the United Nations Military Observers Group, Col. R. I. Perkins, (above) passed through Singapore yesterday on his> return to Kashmir, after a four-month holiday m Australia. He said the main contention m the Kashmir issue at present seems to be the number of Indian and
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    Lock icon MY HUSBAND SLAPPED ME' WIFE TELLS COURT
    159 5 MY HUSBAND SLAPPED ME' WIFE TELLS COURT A WOMAN, holding her five-week-old daughter m her arms. yesterday told the Singapore Sixth Police Court that her husbani slapped and punched her because she didn't earn enough money. The woman, Poon Swee Har. was giving evidence against her husband. Cheong. who had
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    Lock icon COLONY HAS NO FEAR OF WATER SHORTAGE
    203 5 SINGAPORE'S water supply is nor likely to be affected even if the present drought lowers the Tebrau River level one of the Colony's sources of supply the City Water Engineer, Mr. W. S. Stredwick, told The Standard yesterday. "At present we get an
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    Lock icon One Round 5 Years
    86 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Yong Heng, found m possession of one round of .303 ammunition at Menpas Estate, Paloh, on March 14, by a security force patrol was sentenced to five years' imprisonment by Mr. Justice Storr today. Yong, who pleaded guilty, said he had the round
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    Lock icon Soldier Disliked Duties In Jungle
    124 5 FEAR of having to return to the jungle led a young British soldier, Eric John Winterbourne, to rest his chin over the muzzle of a loaded rifle m an alleged attempt to end his life, a Singapore District Court Martial held at Nee Soon, was
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    Lock icon Unionist Leader
    54 5 THE Indonesian trade unionists, who went to Peking to join the May Day celebrations arrived m Singapore yesterday by Cathay Pacific Airways on their way back to Jakarta. Mr. R. Djokusudjono, the leader of the 30-man delegation handed out a six -point statement that appreciated the happiness of
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    441 5 INFORMATION AT A GLANCE 5.10 Interlude: 515 'Forgotten Men'; 5.45 Sporte Round-Up; 6 p.m. Commonwealth Club: 630 News Commentary: 645 Exploring m North Greenland: 7 p.m. Boxing at the Ice Stadium. Nottingham; 7.30 Billy Mayerl; 7.45 Cricket— Lancashire v. The South Africans: 8 pm 'The Wondrous Story'; 815
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    Lock icon REDIFFUSION
    81 5 REDIFFI'SION (Sliver Network): 7 a.m Top O' The Morning; 7-30 News: 7.35 Breakfast Session; 8.15 From Now till Eight Thirty; 8.30 Songs from the Shows: 1 p.m. Spotlight on Charm; 1.30 News; 1.45 Hot Rhythm: 2 pm. Melodies that Never Grow; 215 Violin and Piano: 2.30 Red for Danger;
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      389 5 YMCA: Institute of book keepers examination 5 p.m. Cricket practice 5.30 p.m. Malay class 530 p.m. Gymnastic class 5.30 p.m. Chess club 530 pm Table tennis 7 p.m. Public Relations: Mobile Film Units shows at West Coast 8 m-s Havelock Road Lab. Qrs. Chinese YMCA: Table tennis 2 p.m. Body
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    Lock icon Singapore Standard inter-Island Trade
    681 6 Singapore Standard inter-Island Trade gMALL Chinese shipowners m Singapore are feeling keenly the competition of Indonesian shipping lines. Indonesian traders for patriotic reasons are patronising Indonesian ships. This is part of their policy to be independent of Singapore which has dominated the inter-island trade for many decades. In the years
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    Lock icon Ivory Tower
    226 6 gPEAKING at the Raffles Institution Founder's Day ceremony yesterday, the Chief Minister, Mr David Marshall, said that the present Government was not living m an ivory tower. The people need this assurance because a Government cannot afford to emulate absentee landlords. It has to face stark realities and
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    Lock icon Sayings Of The Week
    145 6 Sayings Of The Week Underdogs change with the times Lady Violet Bonham Carter. 4» We strain everything m our Courts far too far m the favour of the accused. Mr. Justice Hilbery. I am immensely impressed with the positive danger done throughout the world by people talking about what they
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    Lock icon Will Mr. Marshall Ever Learn This?
    354 6 Sir; The numerous letters which have appeared t in your paper daily m regard to the past conduct ofpthe students m the Chinese High Schools have aroused anxiety m the minds of many people and. m particular, of the weakness of the Labour Front.
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    Lock icon Political Changes In Egypt
    767 6  -  Russell Thomas By T CAIRO. HE only thing certain about Egyptian Premier, Colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser's recent promise of a parliament is that it does not mean democracy for Egypt. Not three months ago Colonel Abdul Nasser told a mission of Indian journalists that he would
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    Lock icon SITE OF BIG FOUR MEETING?
    101 6 pnoto. me western Big Three" have proposed to the U.S.S.R. that the forthcoming "Big Four" meeting be held at Lau- M "EftS*'' accor <jinff to authoritative sources m Washington. The exact date was not disclosed, but litJS^S.^^*^ date is "m the vicinity of the July
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      Lock icon Due To The Wrong Interpretation
      88 6 Sir; The backwardness of the Malays is not at all due to the religion of Islam but is due to the wrong interpretation of it. The Muslims rose to their heights of glory and civilisation when they adhered strictly to the teachings of Islam m
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      Lock icon Why It Was Necessary
      178 6 Sir; May I attempt to explain why it was necessary for Councillor Mohamed Rastrid to request the Government to ban the recent issue of "Life" magazine which published the picture of Prophet Mohamed? Prophet Mohamed and all the prophets before him were human beings, although highly
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      Lock icon 3 CHEERS FOR THEM
      298 6 Sir;— Three cheers to Mrs. J. Ede, Mr. Chan Kum Chee and Mr. A. P. Raj ah 1 We, the Katongites, salute the Progressive City Councillors for keeping the flag flying. There is certainly plenty of life m the old party yet as evidenced by the
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      Lock icon FOOTING THE BILL
      68 6 Sir; I am m entire agreement with "Citizen" that the City Council workers are better paid than those m Government service, and this is brought about by Councillors playing politics. The political parties appear anxious to pamper the staff m order to get their votes while we.
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    Lock icon Reciew of Views
    369 6 Reciew of Views tyoch-Making I C^niar Shlng Jit Pan x^J I t*at the conform,. rcp^entatives fan 500 Chinese orgar.?v stm y the pnb. Chinest^ducation v;. unprecedented, epoch-maS Ing even, Indicating^ popular concern over future of Chinese Bcho. H \r\% nutshell. the resolui I Jte conferen* will b I thaPL n
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    98 7 TAIPEI, June 7 (AP) A Chinese Nationalist news agency charged yesterday that the Chinese Communist had decided to organize an underground army for the "liberation of South-east Asia. The Tatao agency said the decision to form a "democratic peoples' liberation army' for South-east Asia was
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    170 7 A Mistake Makes Her Wife No. 2 SEOUL, June 6 (AP) A Seoul newspaper reported ypsterday it had located the wife and son of a Korean found still hiding m the jungles of Pelellu, 10 years after the end of World War 11. The Seoul Shimmun said 6hin Kum Soon.
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    75 7 CHARLESTON. South Carolina, June 7 (AP) A man telephoned firemen that his wife had fallen down a chimney, that he could hear her m there scrambling about. The firemen hurried out to the apartment and began tearing down brickwork and t. rubers. Soon they realised
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    99 7 LONDON. June 6, (AP) The ancient Great Hall of Westminster. where some British kings have been condemned to the gallows and others lain m State, may be turned into a dormitory during England's railway strike. Plans are underway to lay out mattresses m
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    116 7 Death Met Those In The Know' SOUTH BEND. Indiana, June 6. (AP) Attorney General Browneli said yesterday violent death has silenced those closely associated with the arrest and imprisonment of Catholic Cardinal Mindssenty and hence the world may never know the full story of that affairs. "Dead men tell no
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    83 7 Alter 5-Years Bell Hears One In His head OLYMPIA. Washksgton June 6 (Reuter)— Otho G.\ell', one of 29 American prisor>> r s of the Korean War, who (X, cided to remain with the Communists, after the armistice 18 months ago has written to his wife saying that he wants to
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    44 7 SCARBOROUGH, New York, June 6 (UP) John L, Curtis, retired assistant vicepresident of the former National City Bank of New York and for many years m its service m the Far East, died yesterday of heart attack. He was 64.
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    78 7 MISS MARGARET ROWE, 19, of London, poses after being elected "Miss England 1955" at the Lyceum, Strand. She was chosen from 20 girls who reached the final via eliminating contests held at different towns m England. She is five feet seven inches tall and her other measurements are
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    250 7 Colonies Will Always Look To Britain— Times LONDON, June 6 (Reuter) The Times pointed out today that some colonies m the Commonwealth may always have to retain "some permanent dependence on Britain." The independent newspaper said -that until quite recently all colonies have been allowed to assume that they were
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    134 7 Conference With Tito Is Discussed BELGRADE, Ju*^ 6 (Reuter) The date of a oanference between Yugosla^fekj/^nd the United States, Britari\arld France on East-West relathsW m Europe is expected to be* announced here soon, according to usually reliable quarters. The ambassadors of the three Western powers are believed to have discussed
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    32 7 Paris June 6 (AP) Billy Graham, launching his back-to-the-bible campaign on the European continent, jammed a sports arena with 8,500 Parisians on Sunday night and won 623 "decisions for Christ."
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    186 7 NEW YORK. June 6 (UP)— Timothy B. Harnett, chairman of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, urged smokers today not to be "misled by sweeping generalities" m a doctor's report on the relationship between smoking and lung cancer. Harnett, whose organization is conducting
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    418 7 SIGN OF GOVT'S UNSURE GROUND LONDON, June 6: (Reuter)— Two British national newspapers warned today that even m the British Commonwealth there is danger of encroachment on the freedom of the press. They were commenting morrow of the meeting of on the opening
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    190 7 Germans Day Of Mourning BERLIN, June 6 (UP) Thousands of German families tomorrow mourn the tenth anniversary of one of the greatest mass kidnappings m modern history. It was exactly 10 years ago that Soviet troops abducted more than 16,000 German youths on the pretext that they were members of
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    84 7 TAIPEI. June 6 (Reuter)— General Maxwell Taylor, the outgoing commander of the united forces m the Far East, said here today the situation m the Far East was better now than it had been two-and-a-half years ago when he first arrived. General Taylor said he
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    143 7 THE FORD STRIKE DETROIT. June 6 (AP) Ford Motor Company and the United Auto Workers Union reached agreement yesterday on a historic guaranteed wage plan and other contract terms. The settlement was expected to halt immediately widespread walkouts that idled 68.000 of Ford's 140.000
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    81 7 She Almost Had Internal Combustion MIYAZAKI CITY, Jin., 6 (AP) That craving fojr matches finally landed Mitsuru Nagao m the hospital. Doctors at the Nichinan Hospital said they had removed more than 300 chewed up matches from the stomach and intestines of the 31 -year-old woman barber m an hour
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    36 7 PRAGUE. June 6 (Reuter) —Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, arrived here today for a 24-hour visit and declared that India would "always gladly cooperate with every country" m working for world peace.
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    374 8 Settlement With Algeria Not Easy PARIS, June 6, (Reuter)— Tunisia will become a self-governing nation within two months after 64 years of being ruled from Paris. The Franco-Tunisian Treaty signed on Friday, giving home rule to the North African Protectorate, will go into force as
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    197 8 Drank His Coffee And Shot Him I ALGIERS. June 6. (Reuter) —Algerian terrorists chalked > up another French victim during the night— farmer killed by a burst of machinegun fire as Governor-General Jacques Soustella. flew to I Paris to report to the French Premier. M. Edgar Faure, on the situation
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    41 8 WEST HAVEN, Connecticut. June 6 tAP) Police stopped the music m a small hotel ballroom on Saturday night. They arrested the bass violin player who. they said, was playing an instrument stolen from a music store last January.
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    117 8 Third Polio Death From Contact BOISE, Idano. June 6, (Reuter) A 33-year-old mother, whose two children were inoculated with Salk anti-polio vaccine, died yesterday of polio after an illness lasting only 24 hours. The woman, Mrs. Anna Belle Nelson, was the third fatality and the 38th person to develop polio
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    30 8 CAPETOWN. June 6, (Reuter) Sir Herbert Stanley, a former Governor of Ceylon and of Northern and Southern Rhodesia, died m Capetown resterday at the age of 83.
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    417 8 STRIKE PUTS BRITAIN BEHIND IN EXPORTS RACE And The Quicker It Ends The Better' PRIME MINISTER TELLS THE NATION LONDON, June 6, (Reuter) The Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, told the notion of the deodly seriousness of the rail ond dock strikes m o personal radio report last night and
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    59 8 SEOUL, June 6 (UP) Police disclosed yesterday they have arrested a South Korean professor because he told his students that coexistence between Communism and democracy is possible. Authorities said Prof. Lee Dong Hwa was suspected of violating the national security law by making the speech
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    213 8 TAIPEH, June 6 (Reuter) Major General George Smythe, newly appointed Deputy Chief of the United States Military Advisory Assistance Group m Formosa, arrived here yesterday to assume his new post. General Smythe is also Chief of the mission's army section. "That is how the stoppages are weakening the
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    133 8 Captives Used As Shields BOGOTA. Columbia, June 6 (UP) Communist-influen-ced bandits m Tolima Province are using captives as "human shields" m their attacks on military posts, the army announced yesterday. A communique said the bandits have seized 104 farm families as hostages. The prisoners are forced to march m the
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    255 8 BAGHDAD. June 6. (Reuter)— The Iraq Foreign Minister, Mr. Burhanuddin Bashayan, told the Egyptian Ambassador here that Iraq was "fully ready to render all military help to Egypt to meet any Israeli aggression against the Gaza area." He added: "Iraqi troops are always
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    83 8 HELSINKI, June 6 (AP) Twelve of Europe's most beautiful girls went on an offensive yesterday to conquer the male hearts of the Finnish countryside. Missing was "Miss England," Mar_jaret Rowe, who was expected to arrive during the night. The girls were on parade m the busy industrial
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    40 8 GLASGOW, Scotland, June 6 (UP) Nervous bridegroom Hawthorne Stewart fainted at the altar and three times later at his wedding reception here on Saturday. "Dizziest day of my life," the 24-year-old insurance clerk said.
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    123 8 LONDON, June 6 (Reuter) The Foreign Office will be asked today to speed up an "on the spot" inquiry into the death of Miss Muriel Freda Taylor, one of the two Britons reported to have died of thirst while crossing the Sahara by
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    51 8 PALERMO, June 6, (Reuter) —Italy's oldest woman, 108--year-old Rostalia Spoto, voted yesterday In the Sicilian regional election. She was accompanted to a Palermo polling station by a 67-year-old granddaughter. Women outnumbered men by 168.915 among the 2.736,185 Sicilians entitled to vote m the nine provinces of the
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    359 8 LONDON, June 6: (Reuter) Tomorrow there will be something of a scuffle m Britain's House of Commons. The authorities know that it is going to happen but they are taking no steps to prevent it. In fact when It happens it will be greeted by
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    135 8 3ROOM AT 68 TRIPOLI, Libya, June fi, (Reuter) Guns fired m salute and Tripoli was illuminated last night as Libya celebrated the second marriage of the 68-year-old Libyan monarch, King ldris, m Cairo to French educated Aliyah Lamlum, 37, daughter of a Bedouin chief.
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    44 8 ISTANBUL, June 6 (Reuter) Flames and smoke jetted high m the sky last night when 12 tons of gunpowder exploded at a military ammunition store near the headquarters of south-eastern NATO Land Forces at Izmir, Turkey. One soldier was injured.
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    172 8 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, June 6 (AP) Jacqueline Francois, the French singer who provoked a noisy demonstration when she sang with her back to a radio studio audience, explained yesterday that she was not accustomed to "live" broadcasts. In France, she said, it was the custom to
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    696 9 MANS BEST FRIENDS' PVERY day a brave little dog called Benito sal outMJ side a Naples, Italy, classroom where his master, was a pupil. When school ended they went home together. One day Benito waited until long after the usual time, sensed something was wrong
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    413 9 1* Housewives: NEW YORK. JF you think you can make over a man like last year's dress, stop kidding yourself, advises Celeste Holm, blonde and piquant star of stage, screen and plushier night clubs. Celeste. married three times, sums up her philosophy of marital adjustment m
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    93 9 Evelyn $50,000 treasure chest) West Some of Hollywood's bosomiest actresses have at least added six inches to what their bust measurement* really are, says Evelyn W*«t of New York, who boasts of a 39\4nch bust "and 45\ inches when padded." Evelyn's bosom is insured with UoyoVs of London for US$5O,OOO
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    586 9  -  LEWIS ONSLOEW Br from NEW YORK Z She gave 4 "CHOICES" California, are going to a "charm school." They will be taught offioe courtesy among themselves and to the public, how to handle "difficult" taxpayers with, tact, how to say "no" politely, yet firmly.
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    252 10 Step To Meet Growing Demand For Products: Aw aranaara mamer Reporter MR. AW CHENG CHYE, Chairman of Haw Par Bros., Ltd., who are proprietors of Eng Aun Tong, the manufacturers of. the famed family of Tiger products, revealed yesterday that two new branch
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    283 10 Standard Market Reporter PAKISTAN'S textile and jute mills now have an export surplus and Malaya can expect these goods shortly, the Pakistan Trade Commissioner m Malaya, Mr. M.H.E.A. Baig, told The Standard yesterday. The Pakistan Government has announced that licences for the export of
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    129 10 Revenue Rises To $32.9 M. GROSS revenue collections at $32,965,000 for the first five months of this year represented an increase of about $1,500,000 from the same period of last year, according to the Singapore Customs Department statistical report. Revenue from tobacco amounted to $13,698,000. a slight increase from $13,398,000
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    103 10 THE most important I group of Hongkong mann- factnrers arrived by the Tjiicangt yesterday to participate m rhe exhibi- tion of Hongkong pro- ducts at the Happy World from June 10. ihe group included the leader of the 61-man delegation. Mr. Haking Wong (standing sixth from the
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    235 10 RUBBER SHARES ARE FIRM THE Malayan share market opened the week on a quiet note with both tins and industrials showing variable trends. Rubber shares continued firm. The turnover was moderate. Business m Robinson ords continued to be transacted at higher levels, with buyers unsatisfied. Other industrial counters came m
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    488 10 'Natural Rubber Need Not Fear Price Competition' NATURAL rubber need not fear price competition from synthetic, says Sir Eric MacFadyen chairman, Lanadron Rubber Estates Ltd. m his annual report for 1954. He added that although Malaya must expect to see American private enterprise improving the synthetics, and to some extent
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    173 10 SINGAPORE sharebrokers reported th P following business done yesterday Con. Tin Smelt ords 32/6 overnight; F and N ords $1.75; Gammons $2.67 overnight, $2.68 and $2 67. today, $2.65 (odd lot) overnight and today; Malayan Cement $1.47 overnight M. Collieries 77 cents; Metal Box $1.37 overnight: OTEC.
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    28 10 KENT (F.M.S.) Tin Dredging Ltd. has declared a further interim dividend of 15%, for the year ended December 31. 1954, payable m England on June 11.
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    18 10 BURMA-Malay Tin Ltd. May tin ore outputs were: Katu 700 piculs: Renong Consolidated 943 piculs.
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    35 10 EXPORTS of tin from Malaya dropped m May compared with April, official statistics showing 5,101 tons for May (5,177 m April). Exports last month were the lowest since the oegining of the year.
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    215 10 THE dock strike m the United Kingdom, unless very prolonged, is not likely to cause a shortage of cement m the Federation. say s the Malayan Cement Ltd. m a Press statement. Increased production from the Rawang works of Malayan Cement Ltd. now ensures
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    55 10 CARGO discharged from vessels at Singapore roads and wharves m February amounted to 767,420 tons, 1,521 tons more than m January. The total amount loaded, which was 391.990 tons, was however. 3,881 tons less than m January. These figures include transhipment cargo but those discharged and loaded
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    35 10 BAMBOO plantations m Scotland may make Britain self-sufficient, m the chief raw material for the making of rayon. The possibility is already being put to the test by the British Rayon Association.
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    139 10 SMALL overseas inquiries for copra strengthened the market for this commodity at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange yesterday, when it closed at $284 Per picul for June shipment, (up 12 cents). Other noon closing prices at the Exchange were: coconut oil; steady; $42 for bulk and $45i
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    110 10 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes m its rates to merchants yesterday New York: buying, airmail, T.T. 3213/16, O.D. 32 15/16, 90 days 33 1/16 credit bills, 33 1/8 trade bills. Canada: buying, airmail, T.T. 32 3/8, O.D. 32 1/2, 90 days 32 3/4 credit
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    185 10 U.S. Strike Threat News Hits Rubber NEWS of the impenriin. strike at the Ford Motor Works m Detroit dominated the Singapore rubber mar. ket yesterday and prion closed j cent lower than the weekend levels, first grade rubber for June shipment being quoted 96] rents ncr lb. The market was
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    323 10 COLONY MOTOR WORKSHOP TO BE BEST IN F. EAST ONE of the most up-to-date motor workshops m the Far East which will feature the latest methods and equipment for repair and service, is being built at Penang Road, the centre of Singapore's motor industry. The manager of this workshop is
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    79 10 AN artist's impression of the new motor workshop at Penang Road, Singapore, which will feature a control tower, latest labour devices for speedy and efficient repair and service. (Left): Steam clean m? of cars has become a necessity for the protection of rust and corrosion. Picture shows
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    2703 12 46th Annual General Meeting to be held Bth June 1955, at 19, Fenchurch Street, London, E. C. 3. SIR JOHN HAY'S ADDRESS In a recenf statement relating to the affairs of an associated company, I have had occasion to refer to the lawlessness
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    264 13 Hutton Is Still Unfit WILL MISS THE FIRST TEST LONDON, June 6: (Reuter) Leu Hutton,* Engjnd\ cricket captain withdrew from consideration lir England's team for the first Test match against iouth Africa starting at Trent Bridge, Nottingham rhursday. The lumbago from which he has been .offering led to this decision.
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    96 13 A goal scored ten minutes before time by centre half ldris, enabled Gymkhana Sport c Club to beat Star Soccerites "A" by two goals to one, m a Colony Div. 2B league soccer match played on the M.F.A. ground yesterday. Gymkhana opened score m the
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    49 13 SPRINGDALE Sports Club trounced the Social Athletic Party by seven clear goals m a S.A.F.A. Division 3B League game played -t the Jalan Besar Stadium under floodlight yesterday. Tian Soon (3), Cyril Van der Berg (2) and Kok Meng (2) were the scorers. Mr. Breckell refereed
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    40 13 MR. Peter Cazalet, trainer of Queen Elizabeth's stable of jumpers, arrived m Singapore yesterday from Bali accompanied by his wife, for a twoday stay m the Colony before going to Bangkok en route to the United Kingdom.
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    81 13 MILAN, June 6: (Reuter) Fiorenzo Magni. of Italy, won the Italy Cycle Race which ended here yesterday. His aggregate time was 108 hours, 56 minutes 12 seconds. It was his third victory m this Italian cycling classic. Fausto Coppi, of Italy, was second, only 13 seconds
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    67 13 photo. INDIANAPOLIS: The badly burned Hopkins Special m which ace driver Bill Vukovich was burned to death, smoulders at Indianapolis Speedway with its driver pinned underneath. Vukovich, two-time winner of the 500-mile classic, was m the lead at the 140-mile mark when his racer tangled m a 5-car
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    325 13 Americans Fail To Sweep French Tennis C'ship PARIS, June 6, (AP)— Davis Cup champions Tony Trabert and Vie Seixas won the French International tennis tournament men's doubles crown to complete a near clean sweep by Americans for the second straight year. Trabert and Seixas throttled Italians Orlando Sirola and Nicola
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    468 13  - JAPANS PLEA FOR 1960 GAMES LESLIE NAKASHIMA By TO BE HEARD IN PARIS TOKYO, (UP) Japan will make a strong bid for the 1960 Olympic Games at the International Olympic Committee Congress which meets June 13 m Paris. Pleading Japan's case will be [OC members Ryotaro Azuma, President of the
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    43 13 WOODLANDS Sports Club drew with the Government Printing Office one-all m a S.A.F.A. Division 3A League match played at the Farrer Park yesterday. Wabab Bachik scored for the Printers while Ya.ob replied for Woodlands. Mr. G. Suppiah refereed.
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    34 13 THE Singapore Division 3A league soccer match between the Western Sports Club and S. Kerala Samajam which was scheduled to be played on the C.V.M.A. ground at 5.15 p.m. yesterday, wa Q cancelled.
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    309 13 photo. FRANCO-CHAMPS. East Belgium, June 6 (Reuter) Juan Manuel Fangio, Ar- gentinian holder of the world championships, led from start to finish to win yesterday's Belgian Grand Prix m a German Mercedes. Stirling Moss. Britain, was second, also m a Mercedes, with Italy's
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    178 13 BERLIN, June 6 (Reuter)— West Germany and Poland were the most successful countries m the European amateur boxing championships here, each winning three titles when the finals were decided last night. England and the Soviet Union each won two of the remaining four titles. All 10 finals
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    44 13 BRISBANE, June 6: Renter) Jack Rayner. the Queensland champion yesterday won the Australian amateur golf title beating Barry Barren, New South Wales m the final by four and two. Warren, had earlier eliminated Doug Bachli, the 1954 British amateur champion.
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    Lock icon This 'Apollo' Raced With Broken Bone
    302 13 This 'Apollo' Raced With Broken Bone FEW people, including members and officials of the Singapore Motor Club who watched the roaring speed cars climbing the Bukit Batok Hill oa Sunday, realised that one of the competitors risked his life by driving a sports car with a cement jacket plastered on
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    45 13 CLASSIFIED ADS DEATH YEO POH KIEW died peacefully 61 years on sth June leaving hij beloved wife two sons and two daughters. Funeral cortege leaves 5 Kuo Chuan Avenue 3.45 p.m. 7th June for Bethesda Gospel Hall. Bras Basah Road and thence to Bidadari cemetery.
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    124 14 THE envoys of sport from the fighting kingdom of Nepal left the foothills of the Himalayas especially to watch the Thomas Cup challenge round m Singapore on Saturday and Sunday. The envoys are S.S. J. B. Rana, brother-in-law of the King of Nepal and Mr. K. B. Varma,
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    138 14 TAPAH, Mon. Police Constable S. Venkatasen won the individual championship tof ether with Insp. J. Putra of lim River and Police Lt. Kenworthy of Tapah m the annual Tapah Circle and Telok Anson District Police sports meeting at Tapah on Saturday. Because of his
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    109 14 Paramalingam Hits Bright 103 For ACS TELOK ANSON. Mton.— C. Paramalingam won the distinction of being the first schoolboy m the district and probably m the State, to score the first century, when the Anglo-Chi-nese School. Telok Anson, defeated the Government English School. Tapah, by 108 runs m a friendly
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    94 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— The annual cricket match for the Vaithilingam trophy between the Ceylon Sports Club. Singapore an <i, the Johore Ceylonece will be played m Singapore on Thursday on the former's ground. The Johore team, which will be captained by L. Rajasooria. will be selected from
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    23 14 o!£?i o Mon -Anglo Chinese Old Boys by five goals to two friendly soccer game Slening 0 th tOWn I»WtM.
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    428 14 DELHI WANDERERS TEST S'PORE TODAY 'Babu' Leads Strong Team By Our Hockey Reporter THE Delhi Hockey Association, touring this part of the world as the Delhi Wanderers, fly into Singapore at 2.30 p.m. today, for a match which should assess the Colony's chances at the coming World Olympics. The Wanderers
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    641 14 Singapore "A" 6 Persidja 3 T. Misson, Harith, Kok Peow, Pattipeilohy, Anahar M "bjaAman Kastawi, Mansoor 2. miaat. Referee J. W. T. Murray. By VERITY GILL SINGAPORE "A," playing liken men inspired, sprung a big surprise at Jalan Besar Stadium last night, when
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    171 14 Today's Sport SINGAPORE ROCKET: fielfc Wander* /ers vs SJHJn A| h SOCCtRy DM MA—S.R.C. vs. $X.gJkit S.R.qX Piv. 3 A —R.E/\Civiliflns < CorinJhiani^A^a^frMLvng; SeAWfTvs. tUE.M.E. Civilians C.U. Div. 3B Alexander F.T. vs. Sukaramai S.C. at Farrer Parle United Services League Div. 1 R.A.F. Changi vs. R.A.S.C; RA.F. Tengah vs R.A.F.,
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    76 14 Indian Cuppers For Penang PENANG. Mon.— The Indian Thomas Cup badminton team will play exhibition matches at the Han Chiang School hall on Thursday night. The exhibition is arranged by the Indian Association, whose members will be entertaining tne Indian team to a dinner party on Friday night. Tickets for
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    75 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.This year's annual All-Malayan Sikhs athletic meet will be held here during the latter part of August. Mr Dhian Singh, President of the Selangor Sikh Union, will head the Organisation Committee of th e athletic meet. Other officials elected Ao the Organisation Committee are as
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    489 14 Watch Irish Elegance For More Victories By WINDSOR LAD, who reviews Saturday's races at Kuala Lumpur. C KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— After his second to Sooka over seven furlongs on Wednesday— he lost tho.,jace foUowing an objection for interference m the straitflf —Irish Elegance (late Stanbury) a four year-old Hindostan gelding,
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    32 14 The first prize number of Saturday's Big Sweep drawn on the Selangor races should read *****3 and not *****6 as published m the Sunday Standard due to a technical error.
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    197 14 Setia Jayas Trounce B. Bulan 5-7 SETIA Jaya Sports Club beat the Bintang Bulan Sports Club by five goals to one m a SA.F.A. Division 3A League match played at the Farrer Park yesterday. Setia Jaya opened the score m the ninth minute, when a Aziz shot was deflected into
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    91 14 THE Salzburg Football i Club of Vienna have cabled the Singapore *j Amateur Football Assail elation confirming their visit to the Colony m July t for three matches j This was announced at SAFA's monthly meeting I at Jalan Besar Stadium i yesterday. f The
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    108 14 Hannigan Shield SEREMBAN, Mon. —In the opening match of the Hannigan Shield competition, the Johore Police team defeated their Negri Counterparts by the odd goal iv three on the Station padang, yesterdar. The visitors, after a shaky start, settled down to play attractive football an^ deserved
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    23 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Sentul Works Recreation Club will hold their annual athletimeet on June 11 on the Sentul Pasar ground.
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    551 14  -  Trundle Hill <}cc Sits fiif TOPIC of conversation this _?*SL_*» the exasperating RUBBER PACKER, pride and joy of every bookmaker m Malaya. f Since his debut at Penan m 1954 this grey son of Air borne has run a dozen time without success. Over
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