Singapore Standard, 10 June 1955

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    19 1 Singapore TIGER Standard 1% m 1. Vol. V. No. 339 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1955 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon QUEEN OPENS PARLIAMENT
    514 1 Rail Strike Dims Traditional Splendour As... Pledges 'Close Accord With US. SOVIET TALKS A HOPEFUL SIGN TOWARDS PEACE LONDON, June 9, (UP) Queen Elizabeth II opened Britain's new Parliament today with a solemn pledge of her Government's continued close accord" with the United States while "confidently looking
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    Lock icon AFTER THE SHOW WAS OVER
    36 1 THIS panoramic picture by Standard cameraman Wan Seng Yip shows contingents that took part in yesterday's Queen's birthday parade marching around the circus in Empress Place after the show was over.
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    Lock icon Police Are On The Hunt For A Busy Fire Bug
    282 1 FOUR CARS BURNT IN ONE NIGHT SINGAPORE Police have started an intensive hunt for a fire bug who is believed to be responsible for the arson attempts on four motor cars between midnight on Wednesday and dawn yesterday. Three vehicles
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    Lock icon Appeal Court Upholds Award
    62 1 NEW YORK. June 9 (Reuter > The United States Court of Appeal has upheld |«n aw?rd of $175,000 (about I damages to Quentin I eynolds the writer for a md in a column written by Wr.-:brook Pegler. The award made last June liter a jury trial
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    Lock icon High Hopes For End Of Rail Strike
    124 1 LONDON, June 9 (AP)— Union and Government negotiators met for two hours today in their first full talks to end Britain's crippling 12--day nationwide rail strike. They adjourned until Friday. Informed sources said the two sides traded views and th» adjournment does not
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    Lock icon RACER'S SECOND NARROW ESCAPE
    126 1 RACER'S SECOND NARROW ESCAPE Mr. D. I. Jansz. the wellknown Colony motor racer who escaped injury when his car caught fire during the recent Bukit Batok Hill Climb, had another narrow escape yesterday when the same car caught fire again whilst he was on his way to Malacca. Mr. Jansz
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    Lock icon ATTLEE AGREES TO STAY ON THE JOB
    206 1 Party Wont Let Him Go LONDON, June 9, (Reuter)-Clement Attlee, leader of the Labour Party, today agreed to put off his retirement after the parliamentary Labour group had unanimously invited him to do so. An official statement, issued after the parliamentary committee had
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    Lock icon Now It's M. Faure
    67 1 PARIS, June 9 (Reuter)— French Premier, Edgar Fau<-e, today told his Press conference that Mr. V. Moiotov had cordially invited him and the Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay "to come to Moscow some time soon." Asked what his reply had been M. Faure said: "Well, we gave
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    Lock icon He Seeks Mercy for Son's Killer
    148 1 NEW YORK. June 9 (Reuter)— The father of a 15-year-old boy who was shot dead as the innocent victim of a juvenile gang feud asked clemency in court here for 17-year-old Frank (Tarzan) Santana who killed him. He is Mr. William Blankenship, a civic
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    Lock icon TROOPING FOR THE LAST TIME
    52 1 ISMAILIA, Egypt, June 9 (AP) Under a boiling sun. crack British guardsmen trooped the colour on the Queen's Birthday for the last time in the Suez Canal Zone. Thousands of British officers, soldiers and their wives on the sandy drill ground of Moascar Barracks watched
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    Lock icon 32 Drowned In Ferry Mishap
    43 1 ALLAHABAD, India, June 9 (Reuter) At least 31 women and a 12-year-old boy were drowned yesterday when a ferry carrying 60 people capsized in the middle of the Ganges River near Shahidganj Village, about 10 miles from here.
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    Lock icon Cheers For The Queen
    38 1 photo. THE Officer Administering the Government of Singapore, Mr. W. A. C. Goode raises his hot and joins in "three cheers for the Queen/' called by the officer commanding yesterday's Queen's birthday parade. Standard
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    Lock icon Factory Blows Up
    59 1 SLOUGH, Buckinghamshire, June 9 (Reuter) A paint factory blew up at Slough yesterday, damaged surrounding works and caused widespread blast damage in the area. The explosion, one of the biggest in Britain since the enemy attacks of World War II woke the sleeping town bringing people out
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    Lock icon 12 AMBON REBEL CHIEFS JAILED
    171 1 JAKARTA, June 9, (UP) A military court in Central Java yesterday handed out prison sentences ranging from three to ten years to 12 leaders of the self-styled Republic of the South Moluccas. The sentences followed a military trial on charges of plotting to overthrow the
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    Lock icon Stage Is Set For Big Strike
    229 1 Stage Is Set For Big Strike GOVT. GETS ULTIMATUM TWELVE waterfront unions at an extraordinary general meeting last night decided to serve Government today with a 48-hour ultimatum to settle the Singapore Harbour Board dispute. On Wednesday, the Singapore Factory and Shop Workers' Union, together with 23 other closely connected
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    Lock icon Price Of Tin Up Higher
    67 1 THE price of tin in Singapore continued to rise yesterday when it was quoted $360. 12 i per picul (up 50 cents) the highest price this year. The decision of the United States to extend the operation of the Texas Smelter for another year and
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    Lock icon THE QUEENS BIRTHDAY IN MALAYA
    1014 2 Thousands Turn Out For Parades In S'pore And Throughout Federation MALAYANS paid fitting tribute to the Queen when they streamed out by the thousands to watch birthday parades held in all main towns in the Federation and in Singapore. And as planes of every description
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    Lock icon Factory For Tiger Products In Jakarta
    101 2 Factory For Tiger Products In Jakarta A REPRESENTATIVE of Messrs. Eng Aun Tong. manufacturers of the famous family of Tiger products, left for Jakarta yesterday to explore the possibilities of opening a factory in the capital of Indonesia. He is Mr. Ng Chce Yan, who is also the Secretary of
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    Lock icon Fancy Dress Ball Tickets Selling Out
    121 2 TICKETS for the Singapore Chinese Ladies' Association Fancy Dress Ball at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday are almost sold out, an official of the association told The Standard last night. Those who haven't booked their tables yet are requested to do so immediately
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    Lock icon Visas Abolished
    32 2 PORTUGAL and Greece have signed an agreement abolishing visas between their two countries from July 1 for tourist or business purposes, it was officially announced in Lisbon on Wednesclav.- Reuter
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    Lock icon He Films Stories Of Airlines
    112 2 He Films Stories Of Airlines THE man who films the stories of air services in unknown parts of the world arrived in Singapore yesterday. He is Mr. John Durst, a free lance director and script writer of a documentary on unusual air services, sponsored by the British Petroleum Co. Mr.
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    Lock icon HK EXCHANGE
    37 2 HONGKONG, June 9 Special Standard Service Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.68 t° £1 sterling; $5,802 to US$l; $1,837 to Malayan $1; $0,126 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $250.75 to a tael.
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    Lock icon Hai Hsuan Bare Of Red Ensign MYSTERY SHROUDS SHIP
    269 2  - Hai Hsuan Bare Of Red Ensign MYSTERY SHROUDS SHIP BERNARD WILLIAMS By UNDER the shadow of 20 Royal Navy vessels dressed for the Queen's birthday, the Communist freighter Hai Hsuan lay at anchor flagless, defiant yesterday. r— I boarded the vessel yesterday. It had undergone a strange transformation. Gone were
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    Lock icon POLICE REMOVE A TROUBLE MAKER
    188 2 POLICE REMOVE A TROUBLE MAKER THE Singapore Police move in to haul out this nuisance (see above) from the Padang during the feu-de joie when a 21--gun salute boomed in honour of the Queen's Birthday. At the start of the ceremony, this man wearing soiled white gloves, a jacket of
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    Lock icon FATHER FINDS HIS CHILD DEAD IN POND
    73 2 FATHER FINDS HIS CHILD DEAD IN POND A MAN found his five-year-old daughter floating in a pond in Lorong 1, off Geylang in Singapore, yesterdav afternoon. The girl identified as Ho Kwek Eng, had scratches on ♦he back, face and left arm. It is believed that these injuries were caused
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    Lock icon THE FLEET IS IN
    18 2 SHIPS of the Fleet anchored in Singapore Roads dressed overall for the Queen's Birthday
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    104 2 LONDON RUBBER No. 1 R.S.S Settlement House Terms. Thursday's opening prices first session were: Buyers Sellers July 29* 291 August 28J 29 Sept. 281 28* Tone: Quiet. CLOSING Spot 31jd. July 30 d. August 29 id. October /December 28£d. January/March 27R April/ June 26 id. June c.i.f. 29
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    Lock icon Off To A New Post
    49 2 MALACCA, Thurs. —<| S. A. Abishegam, Assist!^ Trade Union Adviser, left Malacca last week to take up a new appointment in tht Ministry of Labour, Singapore. Mr. Abishegam. is a Mai* yan youth leader and a re. presentative at the World Assembly of Youth headquarters.
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    Lock icon THRILLS AT THE PADANG SHOW
    180 3 THE FEUDE-JOIE. The shots rippled up, down and up the ranks again in a continuous crackle of musketry. THE Officer Administering the Government, Mr. W. A. C. Goode. inspects the parade from a Land Rover. ABOVE: A little boy gets a lift from father, all
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    Lock icon Hilarious Hats For All Occasions By 'The Mad Hatter'
    205 4 AAFA TWIRRUP, the Mad Hatter, believes in being prepared for all eventualities. During his hat show at the Sea View Hotel last Saturday, he even had a chapeau to go with the dress for a Mayoress (displayed by I Mrs. Jean
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    Lock icon Van Kleef Aquarium Can Open Any Day Now
    396 4 Stock Of Fish Sufficient THE ran Kleef Aquarium has a big enough collection of fresh and salt water fish to open its doors to the public any day according, to the f City Council. The Advisory Board committee, to sit on June
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    Lock icon TO STUDY IN U.K.
    53 4 NINETEEN TEAR-OLD Goh Seng Chee, former student of Raffles Institution and Chung: Cheng High School left for England yesterday in the Corfu for further studies. Seng Chee, son of Mr. Goh Chye Hin, the President of the Singapore Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation plans to study chemical
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    Lock icon Fluorine Dental Scheme Praised
    166 4 Fluorine Dental Scheme Praised FLUORINATION of Singapore water supply to prevent dental decay will be watched with great interest by all dental scientists, the World Health Organization consultant to Southeast Asian countries on dental hygiene, Prof. Robert Bradlaw, said in Singapore yesterday. Prof. Bradlaw arrived in the Colony from Jakarta
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    Lock icon New Curfew Orders In Temerloh
    101 4 TEMERLOH. Thurs. The main road from Lanchang Village to Durian Tawar through Temerloh town will be closed between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. to all traffic from tomorrow, the Pahang Government announced today. This order will not apply to members of the Security Forces and
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    Lock icon New Town Councillor
    63 4 KOTA BHARU. Thurs. Che Hashim bin Haji Mohamed, the State Development Officer, will take over the duties of the President of Kota Bharu Town Council from Dato Amar di Raja, who has resigned. Dato Amar is contesting the coming State elections. Che Hashim. besides his duties as
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    Lock icon Maths: The Hard Way
    36 4 PROF. L. Rosenhead of the University of Liverpool, will speak on "Mathematics under difficulty: Boole and Heaviside" in the Chemistry Room of the University of Malaya in Singapore at 5.30 p.m. today.
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    Lock icon Professor On Tour
    102 4 PROFESSOR Abdul Wahab Bukhari of Madras and Mr. Justice Baheer Ahmed Sayeed are now touring the Federation. They paid an official visit to the Muslim College of Malaya, at Klang, on Sunday, where Professor Bukhari addressed the students on religion. Seated in the front row with the
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    Lock icon Veterans Shooting Contest
    92 4 IPOH. Thurs. The Ipoh branch of the Ex-Services Association of Malaya will hold a shooting competition on June 26 at the Home Guard Training Centre. Cecil Rae Avenue. The competition will consist of two practices with the .22 rifle for a cup presented by Mr. H. W.
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    Lock icon Methodist Fellowship
    41 4 THE Singapore Geylang Straits Chinese Methodist Youth Fellowship will hold its annual meeting at the Geylang M.G.S. Hall at 4 p.m. tomorrow. The meeting will discuss amendments to the constitution and will also elect officebearers Tor the coming year.
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    Lock icon Golden Voice Contest
    49 4 PENANG, Thurs. The "Golden Voice" contest for 1955, will be held at Rediffusion studios here, on Tuesday, June 14 at 6 p.m. to select the three best "Golden Voice" telephone operators to represent Penang region at the AllMalaya finals to be held in Ipoh in August.
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    Lock icon TEACHERS STATE THEIR VIEW
    434 5 Suggestions On Chinese Schools the people were unaware of the facts of national life, nj real progress could be made. The Union also strongly recommends that prominence be given the teaching of Chinese, with English treated as a secondary language. "To assert merely that there is
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    Lock icon Kajang Red Cross Can't Find A Leader
    125 5 Kajang Red Cross Can't Find A Leader KAJANG. Thurs— The Kajang branch of the British Red Cross Society has been forced to close at least temporarily because of the difficulty in finding a new chairman. The Red Cross was started here in 1952 by Mrs. C. M. A. Shaw, wife
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    Lock icon Villagers Stop Kampong Fire From Spreading
    79 5 Villagers Stop Kampong Fire From Spreading A FIRE which broke out in the heart of a cluster of wood and attap shacks in a kampong off 6th. Mile, Bukit Timah Road, was prevented > from spreading by the kam-' pong people tnemselves before the arrival of the City Fire Brigade,
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    Lock icon A 'Dove' Flies In From UK
    91 5 A 'Dove' Flies In From UK A DE HAVILLAND Dove, below, the executive's private dream plane, flew into Singapore's Kallang airport yesterday on a deJivery flight to Sydney. The two-engined Dove is designed to fly four executives, a secretary and two crew at about 180 m.p.h. on their rounds. The
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    Lock icon 'Agitators Play Into The Hands Of Colonialism'
    357 5 INSTIGATORS of subversion and- terrorism are playing into the hands of the Colonial Government, states a motion to be tabled at the Progressive Party's annual meeting on Sunday. These people, the motion added, are not working towards the attainment of freedom of the
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    Lock icon Going Back To U.S.
    122 5 DELEGATES from Far Eastern countries who attend the International Cham her of Commerce Congress held in Tokyo recently have gained knowledge of American business methods, Mr. Eugene S. Gregg, president of Westrex Corporation, said on arrival in Singapore, yesterdayMr. Uregg who was an Americas delegate to
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    Lock icon Well Done Police—Says Marshall
    113 5 Well Done Police— Says Marshall SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, yesterday congratulated the Colony Police Force on the large number of honours conferred by the Queen. In a note to the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nigel Morris, the Chief Minister said he felt the recognition of their services reflects
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    Lock icon Lecture On Meditation
    48 5 THE Ven. Narada Thero of. Ceylon will give a lecture in English on Meditation at the Maha Bodhi Dihara Temple, 387 Guillemard Road, Singapore, at 7 p.m. on Sunday. The temple, is situated next to the Maha Bodhi School in Lorong 34, off Geylang Road.
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    Lock icon GARDEN PARTY
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    Lock icon 3,000 Guests At Govt. House Party
    120 5 MORE than 3,000 people attended the Garden party celebrating the Queen's Birthday at Government House yesterday given by the Officer Administering the Government of Singapore, Mr. W. A. C. Goode. The guests presented a rare picture of many colours, dotted here and there by
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    Lock icon Accountant Stands As Independent
    202 5 PENANG, Thurs. A pledge to work for free compulsory education for all children and more Government grants to vernacular schools was made by the independent candidate for George Town, Mr. Cheah Phee Aik, who is a certified accountant, contesting the Federal elections. In his 15-point manifesto
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    Lock icon British Cheated Malays, He Says
    150 5 British Cheated Malays, He Says KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The UMNO publicity chief, Tuan Syed Ja'affar Albar. said at a mass election rally at Setapak last night that the British came to Malaya to protect the Malays, but cheated them instead. Tuan Syed Albar told about 2.000 Malays, majority of them
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    Lock icon Sale Cost Him $300
    67 5 KUALA KANGSAR, Thurs. Khor Neoh Meng, proprietor of Chop Kong Huat. Jalan Kangsar. here, was fined $300 or three months* imprisonment yesterday by the President of the Sessions Court, Mr. J. D. Peterkin. He was charged with selling a box of matches on a Sunday, which
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    Lock icon Penghulus To Gather
    54 5 MALACCA. Thurs. The Malacca Penghulus Association will hold its annual meeting on June 18. Mr. D. F. Barton, District Officer, Alor Gajah, will open the meeting. Many, including the Resident Commissioner. Mr. H. G. Hammett. have been invited to the Penghulus luncheon at Alor Gajah at 1.30
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    Lock icon 3 Years On Food Charge
    54 5 KUALA KANGSAR, Thurs. Foon Fook. a 57-year-old farmer of Kati Liman New Village was sentenced to three years' imprisonment yesterday by Mr. J.D. Peterkin. President of the Sessions Court. Foon moved eight packets of Chinese rice cakes from the New Village in a food restricted
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      69 5 Weather Report MINIMUM Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. June 8 to 7.30 a.m. June 9. Singapore (7?F). Penan? (74F), Kota Bahru (75F). Kuala Lumpur (75F), Ipoh (74F), Kuantan (72F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 a.m. June 8 to 7.30 pjn. June 9. Singapore (88F). Penang (90F), Kota Bahru (90F), Kuala Lumpur (92F),
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      Lock icon A Warning Voice
      641 6 A LL sober-minded and thinking Chinese in Malaya, Indonesia, Thailand and other countries in South-east Asia realize that they have become a major problem in the eyes of the people and governments of these countries. The culture, economy and politics of overseas Chinese have been viewed through
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      236 6 JT has been laid down in the General Orders that no Government employee, under pain of dismissal, must conduct outside business or work for gain in his spare time. In special cases, such as teaching special subjects in evening classes, public servants must obtain the permission of the
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    Lock icon Imnressions Of Khrushchev
    857 6  - Imnressions Of Khrushchev Edward Crankshaw By ON his first contact v ith the West, Nikita Khrushchev (First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party) made a poor impression. Many Western observers in Belgrade. remembering Stalin, found themselves unable to believe that the clumsiness and evident second-rateness of his successor as leader
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    Lock icon REVIEW OF VIEWS
    128 6 REVIEW OF VIEWS garding the forthcoming > conference at the summit, stating that it will neither help to relax the existing world tension nor to bring about any satisfactory solution to the basic problems the world is facing today. Perhaps the only result of the proposed Big-Four talks would be
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    Lock icon France Has 41/2-million Unmarried Women
    818 6 France Has 4 1 2 -million Unmarried Women -And Less Than Two Million Unmarried Men THE River Seine has a fascination for the people of Paris. This probably dates back to when their ancestors took to the islands now known as St. Louis and Cite to get away from the
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      Lock icon —Now Here Is The Explanation
      449 6 Now Here Is The Explanation I Sir; Your correspondent Mr. Zahoor Ahmed has ask- ed me in a letter published in The Standard to give an j explanation of .some points raised by him about the Islamic institution of polyi gamy. In my detailed letter on this subject published in
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      Lock icon ALL OVER A HORSE
      89 6 Sir; A voice must, I feel, be raised in protest over your racing correspondent "Windsor Lad's," slighting reference to that great horse "Sun Chariot." Sir Gordon Richards when asked that inevitable question "which was the best horse he had ever ridden?" invariably asserted "Sun Chariot." Whether
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    145 6 TN the H-bomb we have a f. new horror, but also a new hope. Mr. Harold Stassen. 9mm YOU do one of three things: dig, die or get-out. —Mr. Val Petersen, U.S. Civil Defence Administrator, on how to meet the menace of atomic attacks. m m
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    Lock icon HOW KL SAW THE QUEEN'S PARADE
    62 7 HOW KL SAW THE QUEEN'S PARADE THE Police Contingent (top) fires the 'feu de-joie' SIR* Donald MacGillivray, the High Commissioner, chats with the Sultan of Selangor (above). Beside him are Sir Charles Mathew, the Chief Justice, and Lady MacGillivray. "WATCH OUT... it's guns galore..." and youngsters (right) plug their ears
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    Lock icon AT JOHORE BAHRU
    158 7 ■■..-.rr THE vanguard of the mechanized column, parading for the first time in the Federal Capital, passes the saluting base (right) and (above) the 100 -piece massed band under the 'baton of Mr. A. W. Crofts, Director of Music, Federation Police, brings up the rear at the
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    258 8 Molotov Accepts Wests Proposals For Big Talks PARIS, June 9— Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotor proposed ,odoy thot bygones should be bygones between East and West and he indicated to French leaders that Russia will accept the invitation to a Big Four conference next place
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    220 8 Cold Bug Bites Beauties HELSINKI. June 9 <AP>— The cold bug has bitten beauties competing for tne s "Miss Europe" crown. Lovely Vandesa Guida of Italy, who has the curves that made Italian movie star Gina Lollobrigida famous, was in bed at her hotel. So was the favourite, vivacious, dark-eyed
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    248 8 Eden Hopes Fears Will Be Removed LONDON, June 9 (Reuter) Sir Anthony Eden, British Prime Minister, said today he hoped "summit" talks at Geneva between the Western powers and Russia would be the "first step in relaxing international tension." He hoped it would "really remove fear from the minds of
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    43 8 ATHENS. June 9 (Reuter)— The Greek Government has extended the area in which Russia's embassy staff may travel without special permission, it was reliably learned here today. This follows similar facilities being granted to Allied diplomatic staff in Moscow.
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    98 8 SEOUL, June 9 (UP)— Some 200 celibate Buddhist monks and nuns began a new sitdown hunger strike today to demand that married monks be completely deprived of all religious privileges. The new hunger strike came as about 100 of the married monks met in a
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    77 8 HONGKONG. June 9. (Reuter) The Central Court, today, fined Lau Fung Chi, 36, HKss.oon or 12 months' imprisonment for being in possession of 26J lbs. of raw opium Lau, was a quartermaster on board the 6.013-ton Panamanian Freighter. San Rolando, which arrived from
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    78 8 DICK HAYMES FILES FOR U.S. CITIZENSHIP RENO, Nevada, June 9, (AP) A cheerful Dick Haymes, flush from a victory over the Government in its suit to deport him. flew into Reno yesterday seeking U.S. citizenship. "It's something 1 should have done years ago," the ccooner said. Haymes came up from
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    59 8 HONGKONG. June 9 (UP)— Civic groups are mobilizing for a campaign to have Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham's term extended. The Governor is scheduled to retire at the end of this year. The campaign got started this week when the Civic Association circulated a memorandum urging
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    40 8 FRANKFURT, June 9 (AP) Russia's invitation to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to visit the Soviet capital brought this wry jest today from a Frankfurt streetcar conductor: "Maybe Konrad will succeed in what Adolf failed to do enter Moscow."
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    103 8 EIGHTEEN- YEAR-OLD Bruna Vecchio, of Milan, Italy who made headlines in the world Press yesterday by being expelled from school because her photo appeared on the cover of a magazine in the best tradition of Bikini clad pin-up girls. Angry parents of other pupils told the
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    162 8 PERON'S ANTI-CATHOLIC DRIVE NEW YORK, June 9 (AP) Francis Cardinal Spellman said yesterday that anti-Catholic measures in the Argentine suggest "a resemblance of Nazism." He saw a strange hidden influence behind it. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York said he joins Catholic Bishops of Chile, Bolivia
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    137 8 First Plane Ride For Royalty LONDON. June 9 (UP) Prince Charles and Princess Anne enjoyed their first ride in an airplane today when the rail strike led Queen Elizabeth to assign one of her personal airliners to fly the children home to London from Scotland. The two royal children, flushed
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    61 8 NEW YORK. June 9 (Reuter) Miss Helen Keller, the deaf and blind authoress and social worker, said here today on her return from a 40.000-mile tour of the East that she had found a growing enlightenment towards handicapped people. She said "a staggering task remains ahead securing
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    57 8 TAIPEI, June 9 (AP) Red Chinese anti-aircraft shot down a Nationalist Chinese patrol plane on Sunday off the Fukien coast. Nationalist air force headquarters announced today. The air force said a pro-peller-driven Thunderbolt was hit near Swatow. It tried to reach Nationalist Quemoy 125 miles to
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    199 8 They Drank Sump Oil In Bid To Survive PARIS, Jvne 9: (Reuter)-The two Britons, schoolmistress Miss Muriel Taylor, 38, and Kenya farmer, Mr. Alan Norman Cooper, 48, who died of thirst in the Sahara last month drank radiator water and sump oil from their broken down car before dying in
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    234 8 Says Pearl Harbour Ambassador TOKYO June 9, <AP)— Kichisaburo Nomura, Pearl Harbour Ambassador to the uStedStaUnaW today that Japan may never ajata be strone enough u> stand atone future securit t things-Build-up of its own defence force and collective security with
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    128 8 JAKARTA, June 9 (Reuter) —One chartered foreign freighter and three Indonesian ships have been directed towards East Indonesia to collect 70,000 tons of copra which has been piling up in several harbours since early May. The Macassar agent of the Indonesian shipping company Pelni stated that
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    146 8 VINHLONG, Southwest Vietnam, June 9 (Reuter) The Vietnamese national army's area commander in this frontline town said today two battalions of the rebel Hoa Hao sect had surrendered to his forces which have surrounded the rebels in an "annihilation zone." He denied that Vinhlong had been
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    126 8 MARGATE, Southern England, June 9 (Reuter) German and Swedish seamen leapt from a blazing tanker in the English Channel today and swam for their lives as a wave of flaming oil threatened to engulf them. Rescue boats picked up at least 23 of them.
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    61 8 TOKYO. June 9 (UP) An undisclosed number of longrange fighter bombers designed to carry atomic bombs flew to Formosa yesterday from Okinawa, the U.S. Far East Air Force disclosed today. A "taslc force" of F-84G Thunderjet fighters landed on the Nationalist Chinese island and was ready to
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    31 8 LONDON. Underwriters yesterday reduced a number of war, strike, riot and civil commotion shipping risk rates for voyages to. from or between ports on the China coast. Reuter
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    142 8 LONDON, June 9 (Reuter) Crime decreased in London for the third year in succession in 1954, it was announced here today. A report by Sir John Nott Bower, Chief of the London Metropolitan Police, disclosed that indictable offences known to the police last
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    166 8 Moscow Workers Impress Mr. Nehru NEW DELHI, June 9 (AP) What does Indian Prime Minister Mi Jawaharlal Nehru think of tie reception he is getting in Moscow? If stories from Indian newsmen accompan>ing him are any indication, the Russians have made an immediate favourable impression cm Nehru. The correspondent of
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    88 8 SEOUL. June 9 <UP> Korean leaders of the Asian Peoples Anti-Communist League are planning to call the League's second conference at Saigon or Singapore in the near future. League chairman Young Pam Lee said he will send letters to member nations in a week to sound
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    728 9  - Fragmentary but Fascinating GLIMPSES of Coleman Christine Diemer by ONE of Mr. Hancock*s discoveries while in England, is ihis photograph (which he unearthed in the British Colonial Office) of the Old Court House in Singapore. Taken before the 1874-75 alterations, it shows the main elevation of the building as designed
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    335 9  - BOOKS of the WEEK CONSTANTINE FITZGIBBON By SIX AGAINST TYRANNY. By Inge Scholl. Translated by Cyrus Brooks. (Murray. Bs. 6d.) Courage IN the autumn of 1942 many citizens of Munich found hectographed leaflets in their letter-boxes or pushed beneath their doors. These leaflets recounted the horrors that were being perpetrated
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    556 9 "HHHANK you for loving me so much." 1 This was written by 10 > ear-old Choi Yung Ja of South Korea to her foster parents in the United States However, it might equally well have been written by anyone of the thousands of children of eight nations
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    526 9  -  Kenneth Tynan Maurice Richardson I BULL FEVER. By T»HE last time I was in Madrid the Ambassador was mildly concerned about the popularity of bullfighting among his staff. "Can't 'get any work done here my dear fellow," he said. "The typists are all passionate aficionadas, go to
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    725 10 UNIONS IN U.S. PIONEER IN CO-OP HOUSING A MERICAN labour unions have pioneered in the development of non-profit; co-opera-tive housing for moder-ate-income workers and their families. In the past quarter century they have sponsored close to 7,000 apartment dwellings, chiefly in the New York City area. These units have 28,000
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      76 10 A UNITED States world trade fair will be held in New York April 14-27. 1957. it was announced in New York. It will be held in the New Coliseum, now under construction, and will occupy all of the huge building's exhibition space. This will total 301.396
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      350 10  -  ARNOLD BRACKMAN B X Special New York Correspondent SOUTH Asia, including Malaya, exports about 40 million pounds of pepper to the United States worth US$23 million annually. U.S. interest in the Singapore pepper market in the past weeks has stimulated activity
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      Lock icon BIGGEST H.K. TRADE EXHIBIT OPENING TODAY
      221 10 BIGGEST H.K. TRADE EXHIBIT OPENING TODAY Standard Market Reporter THE third exhibition of Hongkong products in Singapore, which promises to be the biggest and best so far, will be formally declared open at 5 p.m. today by the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, in his capacity as Minister for Commerce
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      138 10 Progs Want Influx Of Capital BUY LOCAL GOODS 1 DRIVE THE Singapore Progressive Party believes that steps should be taken to encourage the influx of capital into Malaya, because of its importance towards the development of the country. The Party, which is embarking upon a "Buy Malayan Products" campaign, also
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      52 10 THE International Sugar Council which recently met in London has decided to release participating countries with a basic export tonnage of more than 75,000 tons from their obligation from their previous agreement not to export more than 80% of their initial export quotas before August 31,
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      Lock icon KOMBOK EARNED £49,150
      143 10 KOMBOK EARNED £49,1 50 IN income and profit taxes, and in export duty Malayan and United Kinga i Governments took 58 recent of the profit of Komh (K.M.S.) Rubber Co.. Ltd. which last year earned £49.15( or nearly £20,000 above W year before. The main reason for iM satisfactory result
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      14 10 BUKIT Hitam Estate's May rubber crop was 41,000 lb., it is announced.
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      130 10 Rubber Road Tests 'Promising A RECENT experiment with rubberized road surfacings has already begun to yield "promising results." according to the British Rubber Development Board. The experiment (which may be of interest to rubberproducing areas) wa s at a site In England where severe cracking had occurred in an asphalt
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      202 10 CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE Section 103, Municipal Ordinance (Chapter 133) Making Up and Draining of Duku Road From Joo Ctaiat Road to Tembeling Road. TVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the plan, specification, estimate and apportionment of expenses of making up and draining of Duku Road from Joo Chiat Road to
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      280 10 NOTICES LYTON CORPORATION LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore) TVOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of LYTON CORPORATION LIMITED will be held at the offices of Turquand, Youngs Co., Dll-16 Hongkong Bank Chambers, Collyer Quay, Singapore. on Tuesday, the 21st day of June 1955. at 11 a.m., for the
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      200 10 HPENDERS are invited for the A supply of rice to Sultan Idris Training College, Tanjong Malim for the period July to September, 1955. Details:— (a) Type: Medium grade local rice (send sample). (b) Amount: About 90 piculs required per month. (c) Delivery: Rice to be delivered to College store and
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      232 12 TALKS ABOUT GOING around town there are things we see and wish we didn't, and at the same time there are things we don't see and wish we did. The point of the preamble is that the other day I saw three women, all within the space of an hour,
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      127 12 TT seems that for the last few I months I have done noth- 1 ing but get my shoes mend-i ed Nine times out of ten. all they want is heeling, but] even this is expensive if it happens often. In England they have a very) handy and
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    24 12 Seeing 's Believing This flying saucer hat in pink tutte caused quite a stir in the paddock, when j the Derby wag held recently.
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    220 12 A DOCTOR who was asked whether i. was true that kissing spread germs replied: "Well, one thing at least is certain It lowers resistance.' "Do YOU believe kissing is unhealthy?" a boy asked a girl. "I wouldn't know," she replied. "I've never been "Kissed?" he cut in
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    1093 12 Something New In Fashions... IN BEAUTY NOW that the Parisian H-Line and A-Line are firmly established, Holland is trying to win over the capricious female with a new one —the 'Upsilon' line. This. I suppose, sounds much more romantic than the 'Y-Line.' but since Upsilon is the Gree'< letter 'Y'
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    422 12  - Like To Date The Queen's Sister JAMES F. KING 'J'HERE'S a set protocol on trying to arrange a date— and how to behave if you succeed according to a new book published in London this week. It sounds simple enough according to Noyes Thomas in his "THE QUEEN'S SISTER.' Just
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      130 12 QAMX SWISS MAOt Known the world over for its accuracy reliability. Superb craftsmanship and design make Corny watches one of the world's finest. SPRING I A 1955 Super FLAT MODELS AVAILABLE. Zig-Zag SEWING MACHINE (GREEN HAMMERTONE COLOUR) Make Buttonhole life) af^LaH Sew on buttons r ff tiß*E& llv Sew on
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      356 12 5 T°.V. AY g, UIOTATION: 22-Be alert U mlscor.ee; J 5 J. An optimist: Our who tions or faulty evaluat :nr» J nnn/.'r i^f «mily where funds. Journeys, point* planted in tlie air.— Anony- of law figure. i ni l It^1 t^ .x, LIBRA-Sept. 23 to Oct 22 1 nv£
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    51 13 DR. Roger Bannister, 26, the first man to run a fourminute mile in London with his fiancee. Miss Moira Elver Jacobsson, 26, an artist living in London. They will be married tomorrow. Dr. Bannister was awarded the CBE in the Queen's birthday honours yesterday a Royal wedding
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    104 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs— The Federation Police will field a irnidable side when they meet S 4:1 pore Police in their annual -day cricket match on June 11 and 12 on the Police Depot, G .ey Road, ground. The team announced by the s-.ee:ion committee is as
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    44 13 Old boy s of the Anglo-Chines? School. Singapore, who wish to represent the Old Boys' Association in friendly cricket and hockey matches are requested to contact Mr. Teo Tye Hin c/o Sze Hai Tong Bank. Chulia Street. Singapore 1. Tel: *****.
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    89 13 PENANG, Thurs. Three events, all over a distance of 1.000 metres, will be staged by the Penang Cyclists* Association on the Gurney drive on Sunday, June 19. They are 1.000 metres standing start time trial open, 1.000 metres massed start open and 1,000 metres standing time
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    Lock icon S'pore Pick 18 For Johore
    65 13 THE Singapore team to meet Johore in the Malaya Cup soccer match to be played on June 18 at the Jalan Besar Stadium will be selected from; Fook Teng Arshad. Yong Kong. Vass. Kok Cheng, Kim Bfng, A. Kastawi, Rashid Giman. Boon Khim. Osman Johan,
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    Lock icon 'STARS' MISS PENALTY & TIGERS WIN!
    363 13 'STARS' MISS PENALTY TIGERS WIN! Yang Huat Disappoints Tigers 2. Socccrites 1. Jimmy Tan Quah Kim Beng V. Roberts. Referee Mr. H. Angullia. TIGERS were not in a goal-scoring mood yesterday, but they did enough to edge Star Soccerites by the odd goal in three in a S'pore division 1
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    396 13 Partington Comes On Decides A GOOD move by the Singapore Cricket Club's skipper David Price, when he brougnt in change bowler Partington 15 minutes before close of play, helped them to gain a thrilling 66 runs victory over the Johore Cricket Club, in their annual cricket match on the padang
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    82 13 A "HATTRICK" by Noel Perera enabled the McNair Cricket Club to beat St. Josephs Institution by 18 runs on the SJI ground yesterday. Perera ended the day with five wickets tor 14 runs. McNair CC 51: P. Param 10, Mohd Laily 18, Royston Perera 7, E.
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    43 13 THE Persidja- soccer team of Indonesia will play an extra match in Singapore before they return to Jakarta next week. They will meet the Malays in a friendly game at Jalan Besar Stadium on Monday at 5.30 p.m.
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    282 13 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— India's Thomas Cup Badminton players received an enthusiastic welcome yesterday from Johore Indian badminton fans when they attended a tea party in their honour at the Rest House. Mr. Dominic Puthechaery of the Youth section of the Local Indian Congress, welcomed
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    372 13 CEYLON Sports Club scored an easy 178 runs victory over the Johore Ceylonese in their annual cricket encounter for the VythilinKam Shield at Balestier 'Road yesterday. CSC, winning the toss were off to a good start when their opening pair, Sundram and Kulasingam, put
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      495 13 CLASSIFIED ADS SITUATIONS VACANT A PPLICATIONS are invited for one post of Bailiff Rural Board. Singapore. Salary Scale: $152.50 7.50A 167.50 B/190 7.50A 220 '8/ 235 15A 355/B/ 370 15A 445 p.m. plus Variable Allowance. Candidates to be not over 26 years of age and must be British subjects or
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      452 13 MALACCA MUNICIPALITY A PPLICATIONS are invited i\. from British Subjects. Federal Citizens or persons eligible to become Federal Citizens for the appointment of Superintendent. Bukit Sebukor Filtration Plant in the Water Department. The Salary Scale is $396x18--$486 (consolidated) per mensem plus Cost of Living Allowance. The total emoluments at present
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    907 14  -  PETER KUM REPORTING The Flashy Finn Limps In Goes Down To 'Unknown' ijkkm\\m^ Malayan Champion Ong Scratches From Singles: Hansen Is Humbled By Selangor Stalwart OLICH PROVIDES THE FINAL SENSATION KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— There was a great deal of gloom among the Malayan supporters long before
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    726 14  - Kobbero Hansen Are Out: So Are The Aussies PETER KUM Reporting KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— lt was a bad day for the fighting: Danes, and it was a day of shocks. With the exception of Jorn Skaarup and Ole Jensen, all the other Danes were eliminated from the singles during the
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    261 14 PETER KUM Reporting A NEW combination from Perak. Lim Foh Thye and Chan Teng Koh created a surprise by beating Selangors Foong Seong Cup representatives. Lee Yew Seng and F. A. L. Gonzaga 15-13, 4 15. 15-10. The boys from Perak showed that they liked the game
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    610 14 Firm Track, Good Times: Parwaaz Dinna Forget Fastest Holiday Crowd Watch The Final Gallops trial. Hattrick was never off his oit across the line and he did his work in workmanlike manner. A fit pair. Langton Lady and Cypress Point were well within them- By WINDSOR LAD, at the Bukit
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    914 14 Several of The Van Breukelen candidates were seen to advantage and best workers were Bracelet Boy and Ever Victory II Working wide out. Bracelet Boy. with Bougoure astride was drawing away from Ever Victory II at the end of a testing three to return 38
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      251 14 Toh Boon Teng (Pg) beat Chan Teng Kok (Pk) 5 6-15, 15-2, 15-12. Lee Si Min (N.S.) beat Robert Lim (S'pore) 15-11. 18-13. Yeoh Choon Kang (Pg) beat 5 Lai Swee Peck (N.S.) 15-9, 9-15, 15-9. Kamaruddin (S'gor) beat Tan Lai Chong (N.S.) 15-8, 15-10. Omar 1 bin Manap
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      40 14 2 Lim Foh Thye Chan Teng Koh (Pk) beat Lee Yew 2 i Seng &F.A. L. Gonzaga (S'?or) 15-13, 4-15, 15-10. Ove 2 Eilertsen Ole Mertz (Denmark) beat Tan Teik Lim Yeoh Choon Kang (Penang) 12 15, 15-7, 15-4.
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