Singapore Standard, 11 June 1955

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    15 1 Singapore Standard Tol. V. No. 340 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1955 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon Firebugs Active Again
    335 1 Nine Colony Cars Damaged MORE cars were set on fire m Singapore yesterday a> special police patrols were organized to prevent further arson attacks on unattended vehicles m the harbour area of the Colony. Nine vehicles have been burnt over the last three days but damage is
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    Lock icon BELGRADE TALKS
    20 1 PRESIDENT Tito and the Burmese Premier U Nu, began talks m Belgrade on the international situation yesterday. Reuter.
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    Lock icon MacG WARNS FEDERATION
    572 1 *What Is HappetßCTiniSSpS^nuik^ REDS WILL TRY TO DESTROY NEW GOVT. Their Targets Schools Unions KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, sternly warned Malayans today that Communist subversion was likely to be "at its deadliest" m the Federation shortly after the forthcoming national elections. "If
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    Lock icon LAW & ORDER MUST BE OBEYED
    61 1 LAW ORDER MUST BE OBEYED POLICE REMOVE TWO DEFIANT STRIKERS Standard photo. Bv THESE two strikers of the Hume Industries (For -fast) use to be moved from the gate entrance of the factory m Bukit Timah Road yesterday. They had to be forced into one of the seven Black Marias
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    Lock icon PRICES OF RUBBER, TIN RISE SHARPLY
    148 1 PRICES OF RUBBER, TIN RISE SHARPLY SINGAPORE rubber and tin prices rose sharply yesterday, rubber by 2 I cents to $1.02 i per lb. for first grade June shipment, the highest since Feb. 16 this year, and tin to $362 per picul (up $1.87 i) the highest since October last
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    Lock icon 4 CONFERENCES FAIL TO RELIEVE TENSION
    2085 1 HUME STRIKERS DEFY POLICE CHIEF i Vl U R .f 0 r ferenc S s fhe h '9 hes level that continued until late last night failed to relieve tension concentrated around the gates of Hume Industries, Ltd., at the Ninth Mile, Bukit Timah
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    Lock icon 'NO POLITICS FOR US' – STUDENTS
    64 1 'NO POLITICS FOR US' STUDENTS SINGAPORE Chinese middle school students yesterday m a letter to the Education Minister, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, undertook not to indulge m politics and asked that their Student Federation be now allowed registration. Although Mr. Chew was not available for comment, it is understood there
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    Lock icon Marshall Tells The Unionists
    137 1 SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, last night told the 24 trade unions who threatened to go on a one day sympathy strike to force a settlement of the Harbour Board dispute, that their threatened action gives the "impression of political coercion." In a letter to
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    Lock icon STRIKERS TURN ON CAMERAMEN
    136 1 PHOTOGRAPHERS were not spared by the strikers at the Hume Industries. i At 8 p.m., an amateur photographer who was taking a series of pictures with a "flash" was asked to show his Press identity card. He could not produce his card to the strikers but
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    Lock icon TAIPEI'S CALL TO STUDENTS ABROAD
    106 1 TAIPEI, June 10, (UP)— Nationalist China's Education Minister Chang Chi Yun said today the government had "greatly increased" efforts to persuade more overseas Chinese to come to Formosa for education. Plans called for admittin^i^HHiHgMM| 1,500 university students anc* 700 middle school (higl* school) students year*
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    Lock icon No S.T.C. Buses On Roads Today
    146 1 NO Traction Company buses will ply the streets m tension-crippled Singapore, today. Nearly 2,000 employees of the Singapore Traction Company will take an "unofficial" holiday to go to the Police Courts, where one of their colleagues is charged with criminal breach of trust of
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    Lock icon Wolf Call Lures 95 Women
    48 1 Wolf Call Lures 95 Women NYLZEN Japan. June 10 (UP)— Choichi Kato, 28. inserted an advertisement m a magazine recently seeking feminine companionship "because he was lonesome and without a single relative or friend." Police now have arrested him for allegedly seducing 95 girls who answered the ad.
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    Lock icon 8 Unions Won't Join Big Strike
    105 1 EIGHT Singapore waterfront unions last night dissociated themselves from the threatened "sympathy" strike called by their sister unions. The unions have a membership of some 4.000 workers. In a joint statement, the Unions categorically denied taking part m the reported meeting of the waterfront
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    Lock icon COMMUNISTS ARE DEAD-SET
    6 1 Sir Donald MacGillivray
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    Lock icon Pickets In A Rumpus At Bukit Timah
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    Lock icon Four Hours Later, l27 Strikers Face Court
    252 2 Four Hours Later, l27 Strikers Face Court FOUR hours after they were arrested. 127 surprised strikers of the Hume Industries (Far East Ltd.) were packed into the Singapore Second District Court yesterday evening and charged with voluntarily obstructing a Police officer carrying out his public duty. The accused, the largest
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    Lock icon Children Find Guns
    37 2 MALACCA. Fri. Three children playing on the beach m Kampong Hilir this afternoon, found two .38 revolvers and a Colt automatic. The guns were m good condition. They have been handed to the Police.
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    153 2 CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb) m Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 R.S.S. Spot Loose 1022 102£ No. 1 R.S.S. f.o.b. June 102* 1021 No. 2 98} 991 No. 3 943 95 Tone: Firm. TIN PRICE The price of tin yesterday was $362 per picul. (Up
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    Lock icon HIGH COST OF LABOUR BROKE ME-CONTRACTOR
    157 2 HIGH COST OF LABOUR BROKE ME- CONTRACTOR A CONTRACTOR, Chew Peng Yam, who started m 1947 with a capital of $60,000, told the Singapore High Court yesterday, that by the end of 1954, he found he had incurred liabilities totalling $871,981.74. Testifying at his public examination before the Chief Justice,
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    Lock icon 'I Like To Drive A Man Mad Just For A Laugh' For A Laugh'
    660 2 'I Like To Drive A Man Mad Just For A Laugh' For A Laugh' SHE WENT GUT DANCING WHILE HER FIANCE FUMED GIRL TELLS COURT OF A LOVERS' QUARREL TERESA Tan, a 21--year-old girl, told the Singapore Second Criminal District Judge yesterday that while her fiance waited hopefully m her
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    Lock icon Artist's Impression
    18 3 ARCHITECT'S perspective of the new Anglo Chinese Junior School soon to be built on Coleman Street.
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    Lock icon Colony Jobless To Form Union
    211 3 Survey Of Borneo Conditions SINGAPORE'S unemployed yesterday followed Mr. David Marshall's advice and elected an 11-man interim committee with a view to forming a union for the Colony's jobless citizens. Nearly 100 people turned up at the meeting which was held at the Clerical Union
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    Lock icon ACCUSED OF LIVING OFF A PROSTITUTE
    92 3 ACCUSED OF LIVING OFF A PROSTITUTE A WOMAN. Mak Mvi Kee, of Cross Street and Lorong 20, Geylang. claimed trial m the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to a charge ol living on the immoral earnings of a prostitute. It was alleged that Mak was living on the immoral earnings
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    Lock icon ONE ON, THE OTHER IS OFF
    67 3 THE Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, will hold his weekly '"meet-the-people" session m the Public Relations Office Conference Room at Assembly House from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. But the Minister for Labour and Welfare. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, will not hold his
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    Lock icon Buddha's Teachings
    25 3 A BOOKLET on the teachings of Buddha, "Buddha Dhamma," can be obtained free of charge from the Buddhist Union. N0.28 Jalan Senyum, Singapore.
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    Lock icon 70 BE BURNT
    34 3 BALLOT papers and other secret documents used m the last Bukit Mertajam Town Council elections will be destroyed b.v the returning officer. Mr, M. A. Kidner at 10 a.m. on Monday.
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    Lock icon Union And Managers To Meet
    155 3 REPRESENTATIVES of the Singapore Cinema and Entertainment Workers' Union and the management of the Taj Cinema and Diamond Theatre, will meet m the Labour Ministry on Monday, to negotiate a settlement of the union's claim for improved conditions of service. The claims are: An eighthour
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    Lock icon LANDMARK GIVES WAY FOR $IM. SCHOOL
    332 3 Methodist Project Will Get Government Backing led down, Mr. Thio said, a model to scale would be made and mounted, to be placed m a glass case and shown prominently m the new building. A second A.C.S. project, for 1956-57. is A three-storey science
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    Lock icon Busman's Family Awarded $9,950
    159 3 Busman's Family Awarded $9,950 DAMAGES totalling $9,950 were awarded by Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah m the Singapore High Court yesterday, to the family of bus driver Loh Ngiap Tin alias Loo Hio Sing, 27, who died after a motor accident m Kallang Road on March 6, 1953. The suit
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    Lock icon Paper On Malayan Literature
    101 3 Paper On Malayan Literature A PREPARED paper on Malayan literature will be read out at today's International conference of the P.E.N. (Poets. Essayists, Editors, Novelists) Club m Vienna. It will be read out by a special delegate representing this country as the President of the P.E.N. Club of Malaya. Dr.
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    Lock icon $1,000 Bail For Woman
    77 3 YAP AH ENG. a woman living m Foch Road Singapore, claimed trial m the Eighth Magistrate's Court yesterday, on a charge of living on the immoral earnings of a 14-year-old girl between December last year, and May 20 this year. «V The prosecution alleged that the
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    Lock icon CHARGED WITH ROBBING GIRL
    49 3 SIA AH MOH was yesterday *-»ntativelv f^ar^ed m the Singapore Fifth Police Court with robbing a girl. Ng Young Moi. of $124.55 at about 3 p.m on June 8 m Duchess Road He was remanded and the case was postponed to June 17 for mention.
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    Lock icon ACCUSED OF CHAIR THEFT
    60 3 VICTOR Thio alias Tan Bu Hok, claimed trial m the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to a charge of stealing a deck chair worth $20 from a house m Lorong Stangee on May 23 at about 11.30 a.m. He was offered bail of $500 m two
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    Lock icon Sir Robert In U.K.
    32 3 SINGAPORE'S Gover-nor-designate, Sir Robert Black, leans over to converse with a guest at the Association of British Malaya Dance m London, last week Standard Photo by drew Roth.
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    Lock icon Noisy Affair' In The Good Cause Of Charity
    237 3 Noisy Affair' In The Good Cause Of Charity THE Garden Fete to b e held m the Singapore Police Training School ground, Thomson Road, on June 23 will be a "noisy affair" Mrs A. F. Taylor, chairman of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Appeal Week committee, told The Standard, yesterday.
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    Lock icon Housewife Wins Case
    82 4 A WOMAN. Aw Mvi Huay, who said she was driven out of, her house because her husband thought she had contracted leprosy when she was suffering from sores on her legs, sued her husband for maintenance m the Singapore Sixth Police Court, yesterday. The husband, Law Kirn
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    Lock icon WAGES ARE STILL LOW
    308 4 Try To Pay More —Sir Donald He Points At 'Darker Age Relic' KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray said he hoped that the new joint consultative council set up by the employers and unions of the Malayan rubber industry could devise some means
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    Lock icon Photo Show Opens
    164 4 Photo Show Opens THE Minister of Transport and Communication, Mr. Francis Thomas, opened the third Pan-Malayan Photographic Exhibition sponsored by the Singapore Camera Club yesterday at the British Council Hall. The exhibition was well attended and many applauded the winner of the President's Gold Medal, Ho Tat Seng, for his
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    Lock icon Study Of Malayan History Is Urged
    212 4 inHpsL2£l* ya to fa u e the future as a free P ro »d and independent nation she must overcome her apparent apathy towards local history, states an editorial m the annual of the Historical Society, published yesterday. ™««ya, The educational policy m Malaya,
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    Lock icon INDIAN CONGRESS
    26 4 The Annual meeting of the beletar branch of the Malayan Indian Congress (Singapore) will be held at the congress premises tomorrow at v a.m.
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    Lock icon Hmm! That's Nice
    34 4 pnoio. THIS four-year-old girl seen enjoying an ice-cone was one of the 58 children who enjoyed themselves at the Happy World "kiddies toyland" yesterday. Her name is Tan Swee Geok.-B STANDARD
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    Lock icon TRACTION UNION MEMBERS ROW OVER LEADERS
    145 4 THE 2,000-strong Singapore Traction Company Employees' Union is split over the union's present leadership. Members are divided into two groups one supports the recently elected union officials, the other opposes them. Complaints to the Registrar of Trade Unions and the company have been made
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    Lock icon Burhannudin Did Not Turn Up
    103 4 Burhannudin Did Not Turn Up MORE than 300 friends and admirers of the Malay leader, Dr. Burhannudin Al-Helmy, waited for nearly four hours at Kallang Airport for his arrival by air from Medan, yesterday. Among those who were disappointed were Party Negara leader, Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'af ar and
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    Lock icon Lights Up In Johore
    63 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri Attempts are being made to improve the- street of Johore Bahru. Negotiations are taking place with a view to changing the present light for vapour lights ?foii SOm v 0f the streets > espeStraft ne fronting Joh^ re Previously a suggestion to mstal
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    Lock icon Invalid Stamps
    47 4 ™7i? E Minlster Communications and Works, Mr Francis Thomas, has published m the Government Gazette that the Malayan 10, 15 25 and 50 cents Universal Postal union Commemorative postage stamps shall be invalid for the purposes of postage and revenue with effect from July 10
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    Lock icon HANDICAPPED CHILDREN GET SOME FUN
    160 4 HANDICAPPED CHILDREN GET SOME FUN JTFTY EIGHT handicapped children spent two and a half thrilling hours at the "Kiddies Toyland," at the Happy World Park. Singapore, yesterday evening, lesponsible for introducing a few hdurs of happiness into the usually drab lives of these helpless children many of them crippled by
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    Lock icon Fireman's Son Falls 20 Feet
    111 4 RICHARD King, 19-month-old son of Sub-Fire Warrant Officer King of the Singapore Fire Brigade, was injured when he dropped 20 feet from the window of the fire officers' quarters m Hill Street. As soon as the boy fell, Mrs. King ran downstairs and rushed out
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    Lock icon Accused Of Sex Act With Boy
    83 4 Accused Of Sex Act With Boy M KHTAR bin Othman of the Maiayan Basic Training Centre Nea Soon Camp Singapore, was charged m the Eighth Magistrate's Court yesterday, with having carnal intercourse with a boy, on June 8. *v h Prosecution alleged that +he offence took place m the changing
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    Lock icon Six P.A.P. Branches
    58 4 SIX branches of the People's Action Party have been set up m different parts of Singapore. They are m 140 Neil Road, 30 Kinta Road. 22 Bukit Panjang, 169 Upper Serangoon Road, 31-E Tampenis Road and m Sembawang. The PAP will hold its annual conference at Victoria
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    Lock icon HIT BY GANGSTER
    34 4 A SINGAPORE soup seller, Abu Bakar, 54, was hit with a stool by a gangster when U ed to P a y "Protection money. He was admitted to the General Hospital.
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    Lock icon RANGERS GIVEN OWN FLAG
    65 4 THE Sarawak Rangers, stationed m Port Dickson have now their own Standard presented to them on the Queen's birthday. Two Rangers who went specially to Sarawak last week to receive the Standard trom the Governor of Sarawax, Sn Anthony Abell returned to Singapore yesterda L en
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    Lock icon Marshall Opens HK Trade Fair
    164 5 WHEN Singapore's Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall. w ho is also Minister for Commerce and Industry, opened the third exhibition of Hongkong products m the Happy World Park, yesterday, lie said: i am informed that a few years ago. political development across your border aroused
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    Lock icon Superstition Diminishing Marut Tribe
    120 5 SUPERSTITION and their Inability to cope with the c .iplex white civilization is rapidly reducing the population of the Murut tribe m the mterior of North Borneo. Dr. John L. Landgraf told The Standard yesterday. Dr. Landgraf. Assistant Professor of Anthropology from New York University. who
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    Lock icon He Opened Trade Fair
    81 5 photo. THE third trade exhibition of the Hongkong Chinese Manufacturers' Union at the Happy Werld, Singapore, was yesterday declared open by Singapore Chief Minister and Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. David Marshall. In picture (from left), Mr. Hak i n g Wong, vicepresident of the
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    Lock icon ARMY SETTLES STAFF CLAIMS
    172 5 A THREATENED strike by the 12,000-strong Singapore Army Civil Service Union is off, following a settlement of the workers* claims by the Army, yesterday, i The Army agreed to reinstate 100 clerks who were retrenched recently as storekeepers without any reduction m their salary scales. They
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    Lock icon 19 MINE WORKERS PUT ON BOND
    380 5 19 MINE WORKERS PUT ON BOND Formed Unlawful Assembly Outside Union Premises KAMPAR, Fri. Nineteen of the 25 dismissed workers of the Kampar section of Tronoh Mines Limited were today convicted by Magistrate Che Abdul Kadir for unlawful assembly and using criminal force to prevent new workers from going to
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    Lock icon Presenting Mr. Harmonica'
    147 5 LARRY Adler. the man who converted a toy (the mouth organ) into a musical instrument, arrived m Singapore yesterday to fulfil five engagements m the Colony and the Federation. This 41-year-old virtuoso of the harmonica, which is today recognized as an important addition to the family of
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    Lock icon FATAL ACCIDENT
    36 5 THREE-YEAR-old Chua Ec Heng was killed at the 5J Mile. Thomson Road m Singapore when he was involved m a collision with a lorry yesterday. Chua's skull was crushed. He died on the spot.
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    Lock icon Council Workers Consider Walkout
    155 5 THE Singapore City Council Electricity Department Workers' Union is calling an emergency meeting of its executive committee tomorrow to take a strike ballot. Mr. K. Suppiah. secretary of the Union, told The Standard last night that the strike action is proposed as a result of the
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    Lock icon MacD To Be Freeman
    40 5 SINGAPORE City Councillors yesterday unanimously voted to admit the Commis-sioner-General for South-east Asia, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. to be an Honorary Freeman of the City of Singapore. No date has been fixed for the conferment ceremony.
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      75 5 Weather Report MINI M I M Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. June 9 to 7.30 a.m. June 10 Singapore (78F). Penang (76F). Kota Bahru 1 7 IF 1, Kuala Lumpur (74F). Ipoh (75F), Kuantan (75F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 a.m. June 10 to 7.30 p.m. June 10. Singapore (87F). Penang (86F).
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  • Singapore Standard
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      Lock icon No More Retreat
      541 6 'THE uneasy lull which followed the tragic riots and civil unrest of less than a month ago is giving place to dangerous portents which 'are again threatening the economic life and peace of the Colony. If this threat is permitted to develop and action to halt it
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      Lock icon Caribbean Pepper
      414 6 QUR New York correspondent reports that the Caribbean area is experimenting with Indian pepper cuttings with the hope of reviving the pepper industry which flourished m some of the Caribbean islands a century ago. Puerto Rico hopes to handle 5.000 acres of pepper eventually because the experiment is
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    Lock icon By 2000 AD America's Population
    11 6 One View Of New York's Skyline.
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    Lock icon Effect On U.S. Society
    194 6 Effect On U.S. Society "FINALLY, if the United A States has nearly double its present population at the end of the century, it will have a profound effect on the nature of structure of American society itself. The United States will have become a crowded land, In many area's probably
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    Lock icon Old Man Of The Mountains
    161 6 Old Man Of The Mountains THE United States is soon to issue a new threecent, stamp which will commemorate not one of its great men, but one of the most remarkable natural features on the continent. O This is the "Old Man Oof the Mountains," a perfect human face 0
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    Lock icon REVIEW OF
    806 6 Wide Difference JTTUSAN MELAYU says that ,%J a coalition of political 1 parties m Perak to fight against the Alliance giant would be ineffective. A difficulty posed by any i move to create a united front would be for the sponsors to reach a mutual i understanding on
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    Lock icon May Be 300 Million!
    930 6 In his review of the American scene this week Alastair Buchan says that four million babies were born m the U.S. m the past 12 months that if this figure is maintained it will have a definite effect on the continent Jhat the problem of race
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    Lock icon Can Industry Keep Up?
    31 6 Can Industry Keep Up? 2 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\y, r)NLY 10 years ago the V Census Bureau, extrapolating the population trend of the nineteenthirties into the future, predicted that the American population would be-
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  • We the PEOPLE
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      Lock icon Bahai Religion
      109 6 Sir; Although the Ahmadiyyah Movement m Islam is hostile to Bahai religion for its anti-Islamic policy and is the only movement at war of reason with this religion, I DO NOT approve the stand taken by the Persian Government regarding Bahai religion illegal and destroying its temples. Islam
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      Lock icon LOTTERIES
      77 6 Sir; I am told that it would be wrong for the Government to run State lotteries as, for one thing, they would soak the poor. I agree, but haven't the poor been soaked all these years at the races? I don't believe mi n gambling m any shape or
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    Lock icon THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME
    448 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME ASTER GUNASEKERA limiting foreign investments while working for the economic progress of the Malays. Its religious streak is further proved by the pledge to seek the prohibition of prostitution and all forms of gambling, also to pursue the Pussyfoot doctrine and make Maiava "dry."
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    173 7 Bid To Divert Shipping Fails PORT SWETTENHAM, fri. Top-level talks between Singapore Harbour Board and Port Swettenham authorities, over the possibility of diverting ihips here m the event of a sympathy strike by 13 Colony waterfront unions, have broken down. This is because Port Swettei am already up to the
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    73 7 Two Malayan Students Are Bound For Yale TWO students from Malaya will be among the 2.000 freshmen at Yale's University when the term begins on Monday. They are Syed Adam Edward Hogan-Shaidali, 240 Gopeng Road, Ipoh (Bachelor of Arts) and Myra Wang. 28 Barrack Road, Penang, (Master of Nursing). I
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    50 7 THE Paya Lebar Methodist Youth Fellowship will give a variety concert on June 11. at 8 p.m.. m the Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School Shaw Auditorium. 15 Boundary Road, Singapore. The concert, under the patronage of Mr. Lim Choon Ifong, is m aid of the Fellowship Fund.
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    41 7 THE office-bearers of the Air Ministry Local Staff Union for 1955/56 are: President A. M. Nair, vicepresident S. Jaganathan, general secretary Heah Eng Hock, treasurer. Chew Beng Seng, social secretary— M. C. Sequeira, secretary-H T. A. Kein.
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    43 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Special Constable, who was wounded m the engagettent between five SC's and M terrorists m the Geylang Pat ah area of Johore last Tuesday, died of his wounds today m the Johore Bahru General Hospital.
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    107 7 ABOVE: Mr. and Mrs. S. Kandiah (centre couple) leave the Sentul Vinayakar Temple after their marriage under Hindu rites. The bride is the daughter of Mr. T. Kandiah. Financial Assistant of the Department of Information Services, Kuala Lumpur. The bridegroom is on the staff of the Chartered Bank
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    191 7 PENANG. Fri. The proprietress of a fashion shop m Gurney Drive. Madame Chew Gaik Swee. told the Sessions Court today that she found her shop m disorder and many articles missing following a report made by her gardener on the morning of March 26.
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    503 7 C.J. Agrees With Assessors' Findings And... Drew Knife And Struck In Heat Of The Blood' KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Federation Chief Justice, Sir Charles Mathew, today agreed with the assessors that 19-year-old Kuala Lumpur schoolboy, Khoo feng Chwte, had acted m self-defence when he stabbed
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    39 7 THE office-bearers for the Union or Singapore Bank Employees for 1955/56 are: President Lee Choo Seng, vice-president B. Radjam, secretary —K. C. Thomas, assistant secretary M. Gopal, treasurer V.I. Abraham, assistant treasurer i Gan Siak Sin.
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    58 7 A SINGAPORE bean curd maker climbed the partition of his locked room In Boon Teck Road yesterday evening to find his 27-year-old wife, Chen Yeo Eng, hanging from a pole placed on the partition. Chen had cord marks on her neck and bruises on her hand
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    228 7 A FISH-VENDOR, Ocr Sok Lak, who was robbed by three men m Singapore early one morning was treated to a cup of coffee by the robbers. This was related at the trial of Tan Tiong Keng, Lim Mong Hock and Heng Thiam Yeow before the Third
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    31 7 A HOT WALK Standard photo by A Hindu devotee walks through a bed of burning cinders at a fire- walking ceremony at the Kaliamman Temple inPenan^jnJue^ day. -I Sam Kai Yee
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    33 7 MR. Run Run Shaw, the Malayan film magnate, leaves Singapore by air this morning for the United States. Mr. Shaw who is unwell is proceeding to America for treatment.
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    91 7 AN oider affirming the death of Omar bin Bedul. who had not been heard of since 1905, was granted by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles MurrayAynsle3\ m the Singapore High Court yesterday. The order was made as a result of a motion moved by Mr. C. L.
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    63 7 PENANG, Fri. The Employment Exchange will open a branch office m Bukit Mertajam on June 17 for the benefit of people living m Province Wellesley. This branch will be m the Information Department reading room m Cross Street, by the side of the bus stand, and
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    141 7 SERGEANT Abdul Manaf bin Siden. of the 6th Malay Regiment and Rifleman Narbahadur Thapa of the 2/6 Gurkha Rifles have both been awarded Military Medals for actions against the terrorists m March. Sergeant Abdul Manaf 's citation told of how he captured a terrorist m
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    216 7 RACE HARMONY, THE KEY TO A THRIVING FUTURE KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray warned today that Malaya could stand or fall on the issue of race relations. "If Europeans, Asians and Eurasians m Malaya can live together m harmony and goodwill, Malaya will thrive." he said.
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    65 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri A loan of $1,700 given to Abdul Rahim bin Mohamed, a Trade School trainee, to expand his tailoring business m the Malay Bazaar Kluang b y RIDA has not been a success, reports the State Development Officer. Owing to various factors customers fell
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    174 7 There Is No Slackening Of Effort KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Sir Donald MacGillivray, the Federation High Commissioner, declared today that contrary to views "which have at times been expressed, I think unfortunately," by some members of the planting community both m Malaya and m London, the Emergency effort against Communist terrorists
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    283 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. —Mr. P. M. Walker. President of the Malayan Planting Industries Employers Association said today that owners of some 400,000 acres of rubber m this country were proving a distinct source of embarrassment to both the Association and the Plantation Workers' Unions
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    232 8 JAKARTA, June 10, (UP)— Premier Chou En-lai indicated today Communist China was not willing to negotiate a Formosan cease-fire agreement with the United States. 4k Since there is no war between China and the United States the question of cease-fire does
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    143 8 LONDON. June 10 (Reuter) —Mr. Clement Attlee. the 72--year-old Labour Party Opposition Leader and Mr. Herbert Morrison, 67, his deputy, have both been returned unopposed to their offices for the coming session of Parliament it was announced today. Mr. Aneurin Bevan. the left-wing Labour chief,
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    60 8 LONDON.- June 10 (Reuter) —State railway executives and leaders of the 70,000 striking rail workers were engaged late today m new talks to settle Britain's 11--day-old rail strike. At stake was the nations current prosperity and jobs of probably 1.000.000 workers as failure to agree on
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    86 8 English Women Tour U.S. On Motor Cycles NEW YORK. June 10 (AP) Two British women London office workers vacationing m the United States left here for Washington on motor cycles yesterday to start a crosscountry tour. The women. Miss Noreen Fairweather. 27, of 71. Castleton Avenue, Barnehurst. Kent, and Mis
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    48 8 MOSCOW, June 10 (AP)— The Kremlin's ancient Grand Palace has been air-condi-tioned. The modern touch was noted by reporters who attended a gala banquet for India's Prime Minister. Jawaharlal Nehru last night m the Palace, parts of which date back to the 15th century
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    22 8 MR. VYACHESLAV Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister, sailed for the United States yesterday aboard the British liner Queen Elizabeth.— Reuter.
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    206 8 NEW DELHI. June 10 (Reuter) Members of a Scottish allwomen expedition to the Himalayas told Reuter m New Delhi that they had seen the tracks of what might he an "abominable snow woman." Mrs. Nonica Jackson, the leader, said while they were exploring the Jugal Himal range
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    251 8 DRY' SEASOH BEiiirc drinkers, their thirst whetted by an 85-degree heat wave, guzzled down the last mug of draught beer m Tokyo today on the fifth day of a nation-wide brewery strike. U.P. DELFZIJL, Holland, June 10, (UP)— A sleek 40--foot long armoured yacht slipped out to
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    128 8 LONDON, June 10 (UP) Scotland Yard today warned horse players that they may And themselves betting against a new and nearly unbeatable entry a drus which slows racing animals (or human beings, too) yet cannot be traced even by careful saliva tests. The drug, haxamethomium bromide,
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    48 8 HONGKONG, June 10 (AP) U.S. Roman Catholic Bishop Frederick Donaghy arrived m Hongkong today after nearly five years confinement m Red China. His return leaves only one American bishop m Red China. He is the Most Reverend James Edward Walsh, who is m Shanghai.
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    32 8 LONDON, June 10 (Reuter) —The Chinese Communist Party had sent 16 birthday greetings to the Soviet Premier, Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, whose birthday is tomorrow, Peking Radio said today.
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    52 8 WASHINGTON, June 10 (UP) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles urged today that the Senate approve the Austrian state treaty before the Big Four meeting. He said: "It may open the way to further co-operation to fulfil other wartime pledges." Dulles spoke before the Senate Foreign
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    44 8 LONDON. June 10 (Reuter) Signs of delay m the settlement of the rail strike found British investors m a more cautious mood on stock exchanges here today. Steel shares the "barometer" of investors' assessment of the strike situation -were quieter.
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    38 8 MR. Langdon Warner, a former Curator of Oriental Art at the Fogg Museum of Harvard University and a leading authority on Japanese and Chinese art, died yesterday m Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 73.— Reuter.
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    22 8 THE Four Power Allied Council at a meeting m Vienna yesterday removed all restrictions from civil aviation m Austria.— Reuter
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    196 8 Japan's 'Shady Ladies' Are in For Hard Times TOKYO, June 10 (UP)—Japan today started an "antiprostitution month" to take its half a million prostitutes out of brothels and off the streets into respectable work. The campaign, sponsored by the Labour Ministry. was keynoted on an appeal for "an orderly society."
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    320 8 I Taipei On Spore Riots By ARNOLD C. BRACKMAN, Special Standard Correspondent NEW YORK, June 10, In a special broadcast to the United States, Generalissmo Chiang Kai-shek's refugee government warned this week that the recent Singapore riots were just the beginning 0 f things to
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    141 8 SAIGON, June 10 (Reuter) South Vietnam declared tonight it is not committed to joining m general elections next year for re -unification with Communist North Vietnam as provided for m the Indo-China truce agreement. Foreign Minister, Vu Van Mau dissociated his Government entirely from
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    144 8 Embassy Bombings -'Very Improper' STOCKHOLM, June 10 (UP)— Soviet building have been bombed twice m the past three days but authorities today said the explosions were only "teen-age pranks." A bomb exploded m the yard of the Soviet embassy last night, destroying a diplomat's car and shattering windows m neighbouring
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    110 8 Blessed Are Workers For Peace LONDON. June 10 (Reuter) Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru. Prime Minister of India, stood beneath a bible painting m a Kremlin banquet hall last night and told Russia's top leaders: "Blessed are the peace makers." Facing Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Prime Minister, and Mr. Nikita Khrushchev,
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    97 8 M. Pinay Optimistic Over Talks PARIS, June 10 (Reuter) The French Foreign Minister. M. Antoine Pinay, said today he believed the Russians would not object to the date of July 18 for the Big Four conference though they would prefer a later date. M. Pinay. was asked at a lunch
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    27 8 THE Oxford University Union Debating Society last night carried by 88 votes to 79. the motion "that the right to strike must be restricted."—Reuter.
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    99 8 'Recruits For Malaya Were Duped' LONDON, June 10 (Reuter) An Army officer acted wrongly when he told conscripts due to be posted to Malaya that they would be sent to Germany instead if they signed on and became regular soldiers, the UnderSecretary of State for War. Brigadier Fitzroy Mac Lean.
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    160 8 -The A SI°A i mi., Ma^ acl l usetts Ju "c <Re«<«» Ro£ MaK^.^S o^^"^ Si sur*» nn rho *.L i*l loa ay that Communist presfor modest "bit b» progresM better witlfl Soviet Union, he added iifl speech at the Massachusetts Technology. had beerM relaxa-B that Communist
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    92 8 CHAIN GANG STUNT IN A BAR WELLINGTON. June 10 (Reuter) Mr. John McKay, a New Zealand businessman, was drinking with friends m a bar here when he heard a "click." Looking down he saw a 40-pound ball and chai» locked around his left ankle. Then he saw the coattaus of
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    37 8 TAIPEI, June 10 (Reuter)^ Brigadier-General Benjam» O. Davis Junior, Command?of the United States Thirteen th Air Force, arrived jgj from Manila today tc overall command of Amencj air operational units m (Formosa.
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    350 9  -  PETER STEPHENS SINGER INHERITS Ms 3 MIL. k BEAUTIFUL young nightclub singer has ist learned that she is to inherit Ms 3 million— about £357,000. It is the money left by her fiance who died m her arms as they were on their ,v.iy to
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    47 9 Twinkle TOES Four-year old Susan' Wilbourne of Kent prac- 2 tises dancing on her toes < and wTiar a pretty teach- > er she has to lean on m an emergency. For teach- er. Mrs. Rita Rose of Margate holds the title j* of "Miss Morgate." I —(MIRRORPIC). g
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    24 9 THE N.B.C. "Symphony of the Air 9 (100- piece orchestra) which will perform at the Singapore Badminton Hall next week.
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    870 9  - STAGE DOOR JOHN HALKIN TN October this year, there will be some unusual dramatic activity m Singapore. Beginning on October 25, a three-week drama school is to be held m the evenings at the British Council Hall. It will be conducted by Mr. Charles Thomas, from the British Drama League
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    549 9 Music NOTES by ANACRUSIS "J»HE N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra of Ame- rica, which plays in the Singapore Badminton Hall on Saturday and Sunday. June 18 and 19, has just nad a fantastic success in Japan. All concerts were sold out before the orchestra arrived, and at the openin; concert, with everybody
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    483 9  -  Victor Doggett Reviewed by CCHUBERT'S "Rosamunde" music consists of an overture, two pieces of ballet music, three entr'actes, a shepherd's melody for wind instruments, a romance for mezzo-soprano and three choruses. Philips have endisced it all most beautifully on one greenlabel LP (NL *****) by the Vienna Symphony
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    347 10 MINOR BOOM MAY HIT PRODUCERS ADVERSELY: M.P.I.E.A. p. VOT KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association said today that the progressive improvement m natural rubbers' assessed statistical position had been the dominant factor over the past year. "More than anything else, this caused prices .to rise m the
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    45 10 WESTREX Company, Asia held a cocktail party at the Adelphi Coral Room, Singapore on Thursday m honour of the visit of Mr. E.S. Gregg, president of the parent organization Westrex Corporation of New York, and Mr. R.E. Warn the vice-president.
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    181 10 INDUSTRIALS EASE ON LACK OF SUPPORT WITH the exception of both Singapore Traction Company ordinaries and 8.8. Petrol shares which rose on London buying, most industrials continued easier and were barely steady at the close due to a lack of support. Tin shares were quiet and irregular, while rubber shares
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    103 10 SINGAPORE sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: 8.8. Petrol $6.75: Gammons 52.57J: Malayan Cements $1.50; Metal Box $1.40; Robinson ords. $2.30; Singapore Cold Storage $1.70: Straits SteamshiDS $13.60: and William Jacks $3.05. Ampat 8/8; Ayer Weng 20/3 arrival: Batu Selangor 55 cents: Hong Fatt $1.23 xd and
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    223 10 Rubber Tops MarkTin Highest Since Oct. '54 Standard Shipping Reporter THE two most important commodities m Malaya's economy— rubber and tin— appreciated further m prices yesterday, rubber passing the $1 per lb. mark the second day this week and tin being quoted at $362 (up $1.87 jl), the highest since
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    437 10 THE rubber market has advanced rapidly during the past week with wider fluctuations than recently states the report of Holiday, Cutler, Bath Co Ltd me news oi the strikes m Ford and General Motors has been abundant and contradictory, and this has had an unsettling
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    190 10 PEPPER m the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange was a steady market yesterday with 15 tons of the white variety and ten tons of the black worth $68,000, changing hands. The copra market remained dull despite the news that four ships have been directed towards East Indonesia,
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    99 10 THE British Government sponsored Colonial Development Corporation have announced the closing down of its project to produce ramie fibre m the British Honduras Projects for cattle and banana production had been closed earlier, and the only project now operating is an hotel, which is
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    62 10 HONGKONG and Shanghai Banking Corporation has filed an application to establish an office m San Francisco. The petition will be considered by the California State Superintendent of Banks. The bank would engage both m commercial and savings banking. The Hongkong headquarters of the bank has maintained
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    37 10 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association rates for Canadian dollars are: Buying 32? (T.T.), 32| (0.D.), 321 credit bills and 32 13/16 trade bills (90 d/st); Selling T.T./O.D. ready 32 1/16. Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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    85 10 MR. J. D. FESSIO, PacificAlaska Division Sales Manager for Pan American World Airways, will arrive m Singapore on Sunday for a brief stay. He will meet local agents and discuss P.A.A. sales potentials and promotion. rhis will be Mr. Fessio's first visit to Singapore within
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    238 10 THE United States granted substantial tariff concessions to Japan on Thursday as part of a Western move to keep the Japanese trading with the free world instead of Red China. In return, Japan cut or froze present tariffs on nearly 50 per cent of its imports
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    388 10 'COLONY IDEAL SITE FOR H.K. INDUSTRY' Marshall Opens I Trade Exhibition SINGAPORE would welcome the expansion of Hongkong's interest here as an ideal location for m. dustry, and would give every encouragement to m. crease the two territories* mutual prosperity and capacity to make available work for the growing popu.
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    141 10 S'pore-HK Trade In Hands Of Chinese MR. HUI Ngok, Chairman of the Chinese Manufao turers' Union said m Hongkong the "majority oi trade between Singapore and Hongkong is m the hands of Chinese, who trade to the mutual advantage, always complementing but never competing with each other." He made this
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    126 10 CANADA. The United Kingdom and Japan m that orrie' were the United States' best customers last year. Canada led by buying over four times as much as any other country and selling the United States nearly three and a half times as much of its goods
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    687 10 Weekly Letter From US. DETROIT, June 10: Successful completion of contract negotiations between the Ford Motor Company and the United Automobile Workers Union (UAW), can have far-reaching implications for the American industrial scene. For the first time, a major company and a union m
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      596 10 NOTICES TENDERS are invited for the 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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      224 10 NOTICES CENTRAL ELECTRICITY BOARD of the FEDERATION OF MALAYA. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS are invited for the supply of:— 1,121,500 yards H.S.O.S. Cables. Full particulars obtainable from Purchasing Contracts Officer, Central Electricity Board, P.O. Box 1003, Kuala Lumpur, Tenders close on 11.7.55. P.WJ). TENDER NOTICE TENDERS from Class 'D' and above
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    615 13 gpUngor 3. Federation Services 2. Sulaimoa, Mohd. Nor Khamis, Edwards, Mathews. t; rindarajiu Rc-eree Greg de Silva (Singapore). By ANDY ROZARIO Xl ALA LUMPUR, Fri. A peach of a goal by outside left Govindaraju a minute from fulltime today enabled Selangor to collect full
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      82 13 THIRD BOUND Wong Pen* Soon (Spore) beat Chiew Chin Khoen (Pk) 15-8, 15-2, Chua Siew Hing (Set) teat Lim Koon Yam (Sel) w.o. Ferry Sonneville (Indon) beat M. Sadali (Spore) 15-7, 15-2. Lee Si Mm (NS) beat Toh Boon Teng (Pg) 15-6, 15-6. Kamaruddin (Sel) beat Lim Fob Thye
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      145 13 FIRST ROUND Don Murray and Rex Collins (Aust) beat Tong Hon Kone and Tan Kirn Kiat (Mai) 15-3, 15-7. Chan Kon Leong and Lai Fook Ying (Sel) beat Olich and Lie Po Dian (Indon) 15-12, 15-8. Foo Vong Khean and Soo Seng Fatt (Pk) beat Loong Pan Yap and
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      72 13 TELOK ANSON: Hamiltonia Estate beat the Lower Perak Estate's Staff XI by four goals to one m the division ong league soccer here on Wednesday Lim (Malaya) beat Robert Lim Lim Wei Lon (Spore) 15-5, 15-5. Jorn Skaarup Ole Jensen (Denmark) beat Foo Vong Khean Soo Seng Fatt
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    256 13 Tan Lim Win The Hard Way PETER KUM Reporting. THE doubles between Tan Jin Eong partnering Lim Kee Fong, and Yeoh. Teck Chye and Wong Peng Wah, produced some of the classiest doubles play m the tournament so .far. It was jet-propelled badminton, interlaced with terrific smashing- and lightning positional
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    641 13 PETER KUM reporting. KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Surprises never seem to cease at the Malayan open badminton championships. There were a number of them this afternoon but the biggest of them all was the defeat of Lee Hoo Chye, Malaya's candidate for the third singles
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    160 13 NOTTINGHAM. June 10 (Reuter) England were all out for 334 after lunch m the second day of the Second Test against South Africa here today. England first innings (overnight 244 for four). May c McGlew b Smith 83 T Bailey lbw b Goddard 49 T. G.
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    62 13 DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, June 10 (Reuter)— Geoff Duke, Britain's 32-year-old world champion, swept to victory m the senior International Tourist Trophy race here today astride an Italian Gilera machine. It was his third triumph m this blue riband of th e motorcycle sport, having won
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