Singapore Standard, 18 June 1955

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    18 1 Singapore Standard #ft an .jl Vol. V. No. 347 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1955 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon Marshall Terms PAP's Decision 'Face-Saying'
    230 1 Marshall Terms PAP's Decision 'Face -Saying' THEIR EXCUSE DECEIVES NONE' SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, last night termed the caH to end the five-day-old sympathy strikes" a "face-saving move by the discredited P.A.P. trade unionists Mr. Lim Chin Sfong, Mr. Devan Nair and Mr. S. Wood-hull." He said the
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    Lock icon IT'S BACK TO WORK AGAIN
    1642 1  -  LIM GIVES THE ORDER CLENCHED FISTS TOO ...AND WITH Union Chiefs Call Off 'Sympathy' Strike TRY DETAINEES WITHIN 14 DAYS' -ULTIMATUM SINGAPORE'S SYMPATHY STRIKE IS OVER— AT LEAST TEMPORARILY. The five-day-old strike by 16,000 workers in protest against the arrest of six trade union leaders
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    Lock icon NEW BID TO END HARBOUR DEADLOCK
    146 1 NEW BID TO END HARBOUR DEADLOCK A SIX-MAN delegation ot Singapore trade unionists. wteaded by the President of ■lie Singapore Trade Union PTongress. Mr. S. Jaganathan. I will be seeing the Officer AdI ministering the Government. Mr. W. A. C. Goode, today in an attempt to find a solution to
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    Lock icon FATAL COUGH
    23 1 GEORGE HILLDERG. 62. of Galena, Maryland, coughed so hard here that he swallowed his false teeth and choked to death. Reuter.
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    Lock icon ANOTHER CAR SET ABLAZE
    45 1 ANOTHER car was attacked by arsonists in College Road. Singapore, last night the 28th since the firebugs got busy ten days ago. The- whole vehicle was set alight and the fire was finally extinguished by men from the City Fire Brigade.
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    Lock icon Minister's Assurance Welcomed
    133 1 THE Peoples* Action Party last night .welcomed the assurance of the Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall, that the cases of the trade unionists who had been detained since Saturday night, will be reviewed next week. A PAP statement said that if Government had earlier preferred charges against
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    Lock icon Argentina Revolt Is Over —Peron
    144 1 Argentina Revolt Is Over Peron MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, June 17 (AP)—President Juan D. Peron ef Argentina said today the revolt was over in that country, which is under a stage of siege. President Peron addressed his countrymen by radio, as he had on Thursday night in„a previous announcement that* Thursday's revolt
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    Lock icon U.K. NEWSPAPERS HAIL SCOTT'S APPOINTMENT
    386 1 HE HAS WIDEST EXPERIENCE-TIMES LONDON, June 17, (Reuter)— British notional newspapers today hailed the appointment of Sir Robert Scott, British Minister in Washingtori, as Commissioner-General for South-east Asia in succession to Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. Most newspapers recalled that Sir Robert Scott was taken prisoner by
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    Lock icon LENNOX-BOYD TO VISIT SINGAPORE
    102 1 LENNOX-BOYD TO VISIT SINGAPORE LONDON, June 17 CReuter) The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd hopes to visit Singapore, Malaya and Hongkong in about six weeks time. He expects to include in his tour Brunei, Borneo and Sarawak. He made the announcement last night when he presided at the annual dinner
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    Lock icon Soviets Impressed Kjds Only
    116 1 MOSCOW, June 17 (AP) "But how will I come back from Mars?" That's what the little hoy asked a guide at the Soviet Aviation Exhibition on Thursday as he looked at a gleaming, silvery model of a spaceship. "Two big parachutes will open and let the
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    Lock icon $100,000 GOLD HAUL IN COLONY
    235 1 SINGAPORE Customs yesterday foiled a gold smuggling bid when they seized 54 pounds of gold worth more than $100,000. in the Colony black market at Kallang Airport. A member of the ground crew of an aviation company, employed as a security officer of the Pan
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    Lock icon Bid To Raise Sidon Fails
    55 1 PORTLAND, l»gland, June 17 (UP) —An attempt to raise the sunken British submarine Sidon by compressed air failed todajt Royal Navy divers reported that the torpedo room explosion which sent the 1,000-ton submarine on its last dive to the bottom yesterday with 13 men aboard
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    Lock icon Minister Will Visit Village
    45 2 THE Minister for Local Government, Lands and Housing, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, and the Chairman of the Rural Board. Mr. S T. Stewart, will visit Nee Soon Village and the West Hill area 13i milestone, Sembawang, Singapore, on Tuesday.
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    Lock icon OPIUM MONOPOLY BEST KILLER OF GRAFT
    370 2 Get It Back, Says Report KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Federation's "Integrity Commission" today strongly urged Britain to seek United Nations accord for the temporary re-introduction of the pre-war opium monopoly in Malaya, in order to deliver a death blow to the largest source of
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    Lock icon Girl, 6, Hurt ln Harbour Stampede
    125 2 PENANG, Fri. A six-year-old Malay girl, Afrlzah binte Ibrahim, was badly injured when'a crowd of 3,000 people rushed through the gates of the Penang Harbour Board ln a stampede to send off relatives and friends who were leaving on the Anshun for the pilgrimage
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    Lock icon OFFICER WITH 2 HONOUR AWARDS GETS CASHIERED
    260 2 OFFICER WITH 2 HONOUR AWARDS GETS CASHIERED KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Captain William Thomas Barratt, 36-year-old British army officer with two top gallantry awards, was today cashiered and jailed for a year by a general court martial which found him guilty on nine charges of fraud, the finding and sentence are
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    Lock icon Religious Lectures In Chinese
    59 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri.— The Religious Department. Johore. plans to give lectures on the Islam religion in Chinese. At present lectures in Malay on religious topics are given in kampongs by religious instructors and through Radio Malaya. An official of the Department states that there have been
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    Lock icon BRITISH SGT. FOUND DEAD
    36 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— A British sergeant of the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment was today found dead at the Coronation Park here, with a gunshot wound in his head. Police are investigating.
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    156 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 R.S.S. Spot Loose HOI 1112 No. 1 R.S.S. f.o.b. June 107| 107} No. 2 1041 105 No. 3 m 100 Tone: Quiet. TIN PRICE The price of tin yesterday was $3641 per picul. (Up
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    Lock icon MADE IN 1939
    26 2 ITALIAN railways hastily suspended services along one track of the Rome-Paris line when railway workers unearthed 22 mines from a former German minefield.—Reuter.
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    Lock icon $1,500 BURGLARY
    26 2 THIEVES broke into two rooms of the Hotel Majestic, Kuala Lumpur, in the small hours of yesterday and got away with property worth $1,500.
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    Lock icon BOYS ARE WANTED FOR THE FUSILIERS' BAND
    112 2 VACANCIES exist in the band of the ROYAL WELCH FUSILIERS for boys of British nationality who have reached their 14th birthday. Enlistments can be arranged in Malaya. Although previous musical experience is an asset it is not essential, because a fully comprehensive musical
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    Lock icon 12-Year-Old Girl Wins First Prize
    172 2 For Best Safety First Poster MISS Toh Choo Ai, 12-year-old pupil of Geylang Methodist Girls School, is the first prize winner of the Singapore Safety First Council poster competition. Runners-up are Idris bin Isa, 13, of Kota Rajah Malay School, and Oon Ah Bah, 12.
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    Lock icon Frustrated Teachers Complain
    118 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri.— Mr. V. Chandrasekram was elected president of the Johore branch of the National Teachers Union at the second annual general meeting of the Union which was held at Kiu ang on Thursday. There was a large attendance of teachers from all over the State,
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    Lock icon IN MEMORIAM
    56 2 IN loving memory of Lilavathie Perera. beloved wife of Victor Premaretna David of the Singapore Standard-. Singapore and mother of Jayaretna, Kulasena and Violet Cecila David. There will be an observance of a Pinkama ceremony at the Buddhist Temple. Brickfield*. Kuala Lumpur, tomorrow June 19, at 8 p.m.
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    145 3 Mother Tongue Drive In Schools A Colony-wide scheme to make children learn their mother tongue more efficiently is to be launched with all vigour by the Singapore Government, The Standard understands. Questionnaires for a pilot survey to ascertain the parents' preference of vernacular languages have already been circulated to all
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    Lock icon $20 Fine For Killing Two Dogs
    90 3 LIM Ah Seng was fined $20 fn the Singapore Eighth Magistrate's Court yesterday when he was found guilty of shooting, dead two dogs belonging to his ex-employee, Peh Sng, on Feb. 14. The magistrate. Mr. K. T. Alexander, also ordered that $5 be paid
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    Lock icon Naval Base Liberal With Blood
    82 3 Naval Base Liberal With Blood TWENTY-FIVE flasks of blood were collected by the Mobile Unit of the Blood Transfusion Service at the Dockyard. Singapore Naval Base, during the week ending June 14. In the same week, 107 people donated blood* including Service men and women and staff of two commercial
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    Lock icon NEW BAR MEMBER
    78 3 A LAWYER. Mr. Wee Tin Teck, was admitted to the Singapore Bar by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles MurrayAynsley. in the Singapore High Court yesterday. SIX a-my officers of Laos, Indo- China, arrived in Singapore yesterday for a fortnight's study of the British Army in the Colony
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    Lock icon The Jury Surprised The Judge
    114 3 MR. Justice Knight expressed astonishment in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, when the jury found a labourer, Goh Hai Chew alias Li Hai Chew, not guilty of housebreaking on a 5 2 majority verdict. Acquitting the accused. Mr. Justice Knight said: "By decision which frankly
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    Lock icon RIDA Will Aid Rural Schools
    147 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Schools in rural areas although directly under the care of the Education Department could turn to the Federation's Rural and Industrial Development Authority for financial aid, Mr. D. C. Horton, RIDA's secretary* told The Standard today. Mr. Horton said that the Authority
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    Lock icon WHO Expert Will Advise
    76 3 THE World Health Organization expert, Dr. J. N. DemelloJ u ho took part in the anti-yaws campaign in Thailand, immortalized ny Danny Kaye arrived In Singapore yesterday on his way to Sourabaya. He is now going as WHO exPert in laboratory technique te the treatment of
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    Lock icon SHAW ENTERS A LAND SUIT
    683 3 30 Concede But 2 Fight Claim ->c Lrtdi c m W recovery of possession of 25,500 square feet of land at Kallang was instituted by Mr. Runme Shaw, a director of Shaw and Shaw Ltd., against Chua Lian Chiat and Chua Cheng Hoe in the
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    Lock icon 27 CARS ATTACKED SO FAR
    98 3 27 CARS ATTACKED SO FAR SINGAPORE fire bugs struck again on Thursday night, when they set fire to the tyres of two more unattended cars, bringing the total to 27 during the past eight days. Thursday night's attack: Fifteen minutes after the owner of a car parked it in front
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    Lock icon WHITE HEAT ON ICE
    201 3 Its Shows Top Number WHEN the Dutch luxury liner Willem Ruys docks at Singapore at the end of this month she will disembark a whole bevy of beauties stars of the "Holiday on Ice" revue. The first show, according to advance agent Mr. H. W. Quast
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    Lock icon Loan Society Annual Meet
    33 3 THE annual meeting of the Singapore English School Teachers' Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society will be held at St Anthony's Boys School on Tuesday. June 21, at 3 p.m.
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    Lock icon Parley At Jesselton
    57 3 'A FURTHER meeting of the Sarawak-North Borneo-Brunei Inter-Territorial conference will be held in Jesselton at the end of this month. The" meeting, under the chairmanship of the Commis-sioner-General in South-East Asia, will review the progress made by all departments of Government in the three Borneo territories. in
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    Lock icon SHE LOOKED GIFT HORSE IN TEETH
    245 3 And Found Them False THEO KIM SAI was sentenced in the Singapore Second Criminal District Court yesterday to three months' imprisonment for possession of ten 20-cent counterfeit coins which he passed as genuine to a hawker on April 17. The prosecutor, Inspector Elam Din.
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    Lock icon 'Camillo' To Share Film Fare
    93 3 THE Singapore Film Society will screen two shows next week. The first a comedy "The Little World of Don Camillo" will be shown at the Pavilion Theatre on June 20. The other. "The Cabinet of Dr. Cagliari" will be screened at the British Council Hall
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    Lock icon Pinkama Planned
    48 3 A "PINKAMA" will be held at Sri Lankaramaya Buddhist Temple, on June 19. by Misses A. M. Leelawathie and A. M. Gunawathie. Following the "puja" at 7 p.m.. sermons will be delivered by Ven. Chandrasiri Thero and Ven M. M. Mahaweera Thero, ln English and Sinhalese.
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    Lock icon NO PERMIT FOR CAKES
    39 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri.— Goh Sai Hian, 17, weeder, was fined $200 or two months in the Sessions Court yesterday, for possession of a kati of Chinese cakes, without a permit, in a food prohibited area.
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    Lock icon Elephantiasis On An Estate
    116 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri.— Nine cases of elephantiasis have been found among the people living on the Buloh Kasap Estatenear Segamat. Dr. M. Z. Eville, Health Officer, Johore North; Mr. Thurairajah, Chief Health Inspector. Muar, and Mr. Tan Swee Tee, Health Officer, Segamat, examined the workers on
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    Lock icon Pageant On Nursing In Penang
    121 3 PENANG, Fri. Several schools and organizations here will be taking part in a pageant of the History of Nursing, which will be staged on the grounds of the General Hospital on Sept. 1, 2 and 3. The object of the pageant if to encourage young
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    Lock icon Driver On Symonds Attack Charge
    149 3 Driver On Symonds Attack Charge ONG AH TOO, a 25-year-old lorry driver was yesterday charged in the Singapore Seventh Police Court with being a member of an unlawful assembly, one of whom committed murder by causing the death of Gene D. Symonds. Ong. a local- born Hokkien, who was arrested
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    Lock icon Drowned In The River
    45 3 A VERDICT of misadventure was returned by the Assistant Coroner yesterday at the conclusion of an inquiry into the death of a 17-year-old girl. Koh Siew Kim. Koh. it was stated, was found drowned in the Ponggol River on April 17.
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    Lock icon Get Back Bribes Paid To Civil Servants
    495 4 Get Back Bribes Paid To Civil Servants KHK TAYLOR COMMISSION URGES CHANGE IN LAW KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. —The Taylor Commission today asked the Federation Government to amend its anti-corrup-tion law to facilitate the recovery of ill-gotten gains of public officials by civil action. However, the Commission expressed itself against the
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    Lock icon Govt. Asked To Ban Pin Tables
    95 4 Govt. Asked To Ban Pin Tables KUALA LUMPUR, Fri..— The 'integrity commission,' which probed the Federation's public service, today asked government to suppress the pin-table type of gaming stalls in amusement parks. "After opium, unlawful gaming is the next greatest cause of general corruption. Gambling cannot be abolished and must
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    Lock icon He Altered Cheque For Fun: Jailed
    103 4 He Altered Cheque For Fun: Jailed PENANG, Fri.—Twenty-one-year-old Cheah Guan Chuan, making his defence in the Sessions Court today on a charge of fraudulently using as genuine a forged Chartered Bank cheque, said that he altered the amount on the cheque from 50 cents to $9.50 "just for the fun
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    Lock icon Dato Refutes An Allegation
    59 4 KOTA BHARU, Fri.— Dato Nik Ahmad Kamil of Party. Negara, who is contesting the Kelantan Selatan constituency against Inche Khalid bin Osman (Alliance), strongly refuted the allegation that his Party is not striving for independence. He was speaking at the Party's rally where he explained the
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    Lock icon ANOTHER RED ELIMINATED
    49 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri,— A patrol of the Ist Royal Hampshire Regiment killed one of two Communist terrorists they contacted in the Kuala Langat Forest Reserve of Selangor this morning. The dead terrorist has been identified as Lum Weng Wah. A shotgun and a rifle were captured.
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    Lock icon 4,000 TELL OF GRAFT BUT ONLY TWO STICK
    193 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Old friends "Pro Bono Publico," "John Citizen" and several "men .from Shropshire" had rushed to post with long and turgid letters to the Federation's "Integrity Commission" since Oct 1952. But nine-tenths of them were cither malicious, mistaken or biased
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    Lock icon Tea Parties, A Subtle Way To Get At Officers
    537 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The "Integrity" Commission's report warns of the danger of corruption resulting from entertainment gifts and presents to officers' families. "A more subtle and serious abuse," it says, "is that some officers influenced by their wives in some cases,
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    Lock icon ITS UNFOUNDED CRITICISM-GOVT
    252 4 ITS UNFOUNDED CRITICISM -GOVT KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Federation Government today vehemently disagreed with portions of the Commission's report dealing with Ci e attitude of senior officers towards measures to prevent corruption. "These wholesale accusations are not supported by any evidence, and on the contrary, heads of departments are actively
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    Lock icon $50,000 SAWMILL BLAZE
    36 4 $50,000 SAWMILL BLAZE A FIRE which broke out early on Thursday morning destroyed the Hong Lim Sawmill near Sentul, Kuala Lumpur. The total damage is about $50,000. Nobody was hurt. Standard photo by Yong Peng Seong.
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    Lock icon ATTITUDE OF CHINESE CRITICIZED
    485 5 Orchestra's Vanguard Emergence Of A 'New Distinction Causes Concern LONDON, June 17 (Reuter)— The attitude of local Chinese leaders towards recent events in 'Singapore has been the subject of letters to the Times by Englishmen, who know both the Colony and the Federation. In a letter
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    Lock icon 4 Experts State Views On Schools
    132 5 THREE educationists gave evidence yesterday at the fourhour session of the All-Party Committee inquiring into the problems of Chinese education and culture in Singapore. They were the well-known Hongkong bi-lingual expert. Mr. Lim Hoy Lam. the Chief Inspector of Chinese Schools. Mr. G. P.
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    Lock icon 'Women Bring Out The Best In Men'
    205 5 Says Admiral Shattock A WOMAN is the sunshine of a man's life and it is her responsibility to bring out the best qualities in him, said Rear Admiral E. H. Shattock, Flag Officer of the Malayan area, yesterday. He was speaking to a
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    Lock icon Four Planes Bring In Symphony Men
    450 5 Four Planes Bring In Symphony Men SINGAPORE'S biggest 'Operation Music' went off without a hitch yesterday afternoon, as four chartered Civil Air Transport planes brought 102 members of the New York Symphony of the Air to Kallang, from Bangkok, as well as 10,000 lb. of musical instruments. "They don't look
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      Lock icon Terror Piot
      992 6 THE revelation by Singapore's Chief Minister that the present general strike was merely a cover for an island-wide terror plot by subversive elements to overthrow the Government and plunge the Colony into violence and revolt has not come as a surprise. From the time of the civil disturbances
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    Lock icon The NEWS as it strikes me!
    1887 6 The NEWS as it strikes me! QNE touch of nature makes the whole world kin. And how true this is has been proven in the past few days by the wonderful bouquets which replaced the usual brickbats hurled at the Marshall Government. The do or die attitude it took in
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    Lock icon REVIEW OF VIEWS
    202 6 REVIEW OF VIEWS Federal Elections pOMMENTING on the nomlnation of 129 candidates who are contesting the forthcoming Federal elec- tions, Utusan Melayu points i out that the Islamic Party is putting up eleven candii dates. Whether it will i achieve a substantial meai sure of success remains to i be
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    Lock icon TRILINGUAL CORPS
    249 6 Sir;— You' (and the Edu- cation Minister) refer to the Corps as "bilingual". It is, in fact, trilingual, in j that boys from local Eng- lish, Chinese and Malay Schools are members. Bej fore this attempt at Com- bined School Cadets was made, King Edward VII School, Taiping,
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    Lock icon AN APPEAL TO S.H.B. STRIKERS
    681 6 AN APPEAL TO S.H.B. STRIKERS 1 Sir;— The Trade Union 1 Congress representing 30 1 unions, the 10.000-strong Naval Base Workers' Union, I and two trade union federai tions representing more than i 25.000 workers have all i come forward and condemnied the present wave of i strikes as "completely
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      102 6 Sir; With reference to your editorial commenting on the Kedah Government's plan to use the 54.6 million interim Federal grant lo help padi planters redeem their mortgaged properties, the idea may at first sight seem good but it will not keen them out of debt indefinitely. Although
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    133 6 Sir;— The S.I.T. should exercise proper supervision over their estates in Tiong Bahru. The failure of the lights provided for the convenience of the residents in the staircases (and there are 64 steps in my flat) are a rule rather than an exception. In my 18 months' stay
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    199 7 PORT MORESBY, New Guinea, June 17, (Reuter) -An Australian patrol investigating a suspected ritual murder were forced to shoot dead five of a party of tribesmen which attacked them, according to reports reaching here yesterday. Sketchy reports reaching Port Moresby said five other
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    215 7 NEW DELHI. June 17, (Reuter)—Prime Minister Nehru is Uketj xo accept a British] i ernment invitation to visit j 1 .don early in July after his ta ks with the Russian leade it was learned here today. '."he invitation is understood have been forwarded by Indian External
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    85 7 CANBERRA. June 17 (Reuter) Mr. Richard Casey, External Affairs Minister, in a statement yesterday said that responsible Malayan leaders would welcome the presence of Australian troops to fight terrorists. Replying to the Opposition Leader, Dr. Herbert Evatt. Mr. Casey said Mr. Evatt had "a
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    Lock icon THE MAN WHO DIDN'T COME HOME TO DINE
    142 7 HOLLYWOOD. June 17 (UP) Australian film actor Ron Randall was pictured as the man who did not come to dinner by his estranged wife, Mrs. Marie Keith Randall, who received a default divorce. Mrs. Rendall told Superior Judge Harold W. Schweitzer yesterday
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    25 7 A NORTH VIETNAM Government delegation is to visit China at the invitation of the Chinese Government, the New China news agency announced. —Reuter.
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    83 7 MEMPHIS. Tennessee. June 17 (UP)— A young surgeon used a dull pocketknife to cut into a patient's chest and mas sage the man's heart until it started beating again. Dr. Thomas C. Turner borrowed the pocketknife from a medical student. The patient was still listed
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    233 7 OMAHA, Nebraska, June 17— (UP) Soviet Foreign Minister. Mr. V. M. Molotov, resting up from a hectic tour of Chicago, ran into a crowd of angry demonstrators when his train rolled into Omaha today. The train carrying him and his party to the
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    52 7 ELEVEN-month-old Mona Parson of Minto, New Brunswick, Canada, reaches for nurse Margaret Calbery in Toronto's hospital for sick children, where little Mona is recovering from a rare heart operation performed recently. In the operation, the lungs of a dead monkey were used to divert her blood flow.
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    188 7 NEW YORK, June 17 (Reuter)— The "big; three" "Western Foreign .Ministers agreed yesterday that recent peace moves were not entirely propagandist, a high State Department source said today. This source said the British, French and United States foreign ministers at their opening conference found that
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    23 7 SIR James Robertson was sworn in yesterday as Gov-ernor-General of the Federation of Nigeria succeeding Sir MacPherson, who is to retire.
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    83 7 LONDON, June 17 (UP) Another British liner cancelled sailing today when seaman walked off in a spreading wildcat strike now tieing up more than a quarter million tons of trans-Atlantic passenger ships, including the mighty Queen Mary. Cunard Lines cancelled the scheduled departure for Quebec, Canada, of
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    101 7 BERNE, June 17 (Reuter)— Mr. W. T. Curtis Wilson, British Vice-President of the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers, said yesterday he believed a newsprint famine was likely within ten years unless another means of supply could be devised. Addressing the final session of the Federation's
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    81 7 GLASGOW. June 17 (Reuter) Prime Minister of Burma. U Nu. began a two-day visit to Scotland today bv sailing down the Clyde river past the miles of shipyards that, line the river banks. On his way he saw workmen swarming over the 26,000--ton
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    34 7 SRINAGAR. Kashmir. June 17 (Reuter) Two Indian air force officers were killed and five others severely burned when a Dakota crashed just after taking off from Ladakh airfield. 150 miles from here.
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    47 7 CHICAGO, June 17 (AP)—A young couple went into a loan office on Thursday for a loan "to get married." Asked for identification, the young man, about 25, brought out a .45 calibre automatic pistol. The loan office manager handed over $245 and the couple departed.
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    53 7 VATICAN CITY, June 17 (AP)— Pope Pius XII, profoundly moved, today reaffirmed his goodwill for the Roman Catholic clergy and people of Argentina. The 79-year-old head of the church expressed his statements in a long, quickly called private audience with the two catholic prelates expelled
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    208 7 Innocent 'Murderer' Gets US $112,290 Award NEW YORK. June 17, (UP) A 41-year-old man who spent almost 12 years in prison for a murder of which he was later found innocent was awarded 1755H2,290 in compensation by a state court of claims judge yesterday. Louis Hoffner, a bachelor, had asked
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    455 7 ECONOMIST ADVISES MR. MARSHALL School Order Could Have Been Enforced LONDON, June 17, (Reuter) The Economist, leading British independent weekly, said today that Mr. David Marshall, Singapore's Chief Minister, had "returned to the tough line with those who are baiting him in the hope of bringing down the Labour Front
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    230 7 BANDUNG PLEDGE VIOLATED SAIGON, Indo-China, June 17 (Reuter)— The kingdom of Laos is threatened by an army of 10,000 Communist guerrillas commanded and trained by Red North Vietnam, the royal Laotian Government announced today. 1 A spokesman for Loatian Premier Katay Sassorith said the insurgents
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    70 7 RANGOON, June 17 (Reuter) A Burmese peasant woman has given birth to quadruplets in a village in the heart of the dense teak jungle about 230 miles north of Rangoon, a local vernacular newspaper reported today. The babies three girls and a boy were born
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    268 7 LONDON. June 17 (Reuter) —Sir Anthony Eden's Conservative Government won its victory in the newly-elected House of Commons last night by a majority of 81. Its majority over all other parties in a full house of 630, is 59. By 330 votes to 258
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    40 7 NICOSIA, June 17 (Reuter) The Cyprus Government yesterday announced new regulations to tighten up the island's firearms law. The new regulations follow recent bomb explosions in the island and the discovery of several arms caches.
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    246 8 Bukit Mertajam Project To Be Completed Next Year BUKIT MERTAJAM, Fri.— The rapidly growing town of Bukit Mertajam in Central Province Wellesley will next year have one of the most modern public markets in the Federation costing $100,000. The new market will be built on the same
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    7 8 Ex -S'pore Newsman MR J. G DOWLING
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    151 8 2,000 At Farewell Parade KUALA KANGSAR, Fri.— More than 2,000 people were present to watch the farewell parade of the First Battalion Malay Regiment at the Town Padang here this morning. Major-General S. D. ClareFord, General Officer Commanding North Malaya District, Mr. J. K. Creer, Acting British Adviser, Perak. Y.
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    106 8 TIME AND LIFE magazines' former Far Eastern correspondent, Mr. John Graham Dowling. 41, was killed in an aircrash near Asuncion, Paraguay, early on Thursday, reports Associated Press. There were 25 people aboard the Pan Air do Brazil airliner which crashed and exploded near the village
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    74 8 Friendship Club Is Launched MR. RUN RUN SHAW was elected president of the Singapore Dale Carnegie Club at its inaugural meeting held recently. Other office-bearers elected were vice-president. Mr. Chiu Nang Yang; secretary, Mr. Keng Ban Ee: treasurer, Mr. Reginald Quahe; auditor. Mr. Ee Peng Liang. Executive committee members: Mrs.
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    139 8 Threatened Wife With A Shot Gun PARIT BUNTAR. Fri.— Loo Tian Aik. a rubber tapper of Eng Guan Estate, Serdang, Kedah. and a member of the Home Guard, was bound over for a period of three months on his executing a personal bond of $100 when he was found guilty
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    67 8 PENANG. Fri. A preliminary inquiry will be held in the Magistrate's Court on July 11. when 22-year-old Ooi Chiow Lim of Pasir Hitam. Trong. Perak. will face a tentative charge of gang robbery. Ooi, together with Ong Choo •Hock and three others was alleged to have
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    85 8 AMERICAN producer Sam Spiegel, whose "On The Waterfront" was judged one of the best films of 1954 and won eight Academy Awards, will fly to Singapore on June 22, to look for sites for his next picture. The film, a screen version of the best-selling novel,
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    62 8 photo. THREE private-owned lorries arrived at Hume Industries in Bukit Timah yesterday morning to load goods from inside the godowns but pickets outside the main entrance persuaded the drivers and the labourers "not to work while we are striking." In picture the pickets are talking
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    88 8 A FLEET of 200 chartered lorries were on the roads all day yesterday ferrying thousands of school children and office workers. There were no incidents as Police escorted each lorry. Picture taken at the depot in Waterloo Street- shows the Chief Minister, Mr.
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    151 8 PENANG, Fri. The executive committee of the Malayan Federation of Clerical and Administrative Staff Unions today appealed to commercial workers to watch the trend of developments, otherwise their lot was going to be miserable and they would stand to 1 lose. The committee deplored
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    82 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Two men claimed trial before Group Captain G. V. Howard, the first magistrate to a charge of giving false statement to the Police The accused, Subramaniam Ponumalii and Visvalingam Kalimuthu, both of Batu Caves, were alleged to have given false statement in connection
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    68 8 THE Assistant Coroner, Mr. Giam Chong Hin yesterday returned an open verdict on the death of 55-year-old Png Koo Hang, who was found floating in the Kallang River on April 29. Png, it was stated, had been missing for 10 days from his home. Inspector T.
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    45 8 IPOH, Fri.— A ten-year-old boy, Chung Wang Kan, was killed instantly about 9 a.m. this morning, when he was knocked down by a threeton military truck, driven by Che Mokhtar bin Haji Tain at the main road in Menglembu.
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    42 8 IPOH, Fri.— Tne weather has been most unkind to local candidates contesting the Federal elections. For the past two days (since nomination day), rain has fallen in the evening forcing candidates to abandon three public meetings of the candidates.
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    51 8 TAIPING, Fri.— The Wesley Methodist Youth Fellowship will hold a campfire social on Saturday at the Lady Treacher Girls' School ground, as part of the MYF Week celebrations. The social will start at 7.30 p.m. The week concludes with an Installation Service on Sunday at 5.30
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    159 8 THE Prime Minister of Thailand. Field Marshal Pibul Songgram. will arrive in Singapore on Monday. June 20, on a brief and informal visit as guest of the CommissionerGeneral for South-east Asia, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. He will be accompanied by his wife. Mrs. Tan Poo-Yins
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    59 8 SINGAPORE'S City Council has recently adopted a specie procedure for the allotment of stalls and pitches in all municipal markets. Before completion of a market building, census is taken on three separate occasions all hawkers operating in the area. On completion of the
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    38 8 A LECTURE with experiments will be given by Dr. Toh Chin Chye, of the University of Malaya, at St. Hilda's Church Guild Hall, at 6 o'clcw k this evening. The subject will be "Poisonin Medicine."
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    39 8 MALACCA. Fri. Fr.o Sahib S. R. K. Arasu, assistant general manager of the Indian Overseas Bank, Ms ras. will be entertained to dinner by the Malacca merchants at the Capitol Dane Hall on June 21.
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      67 8 Weather Report Minimum Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. June 16 to 7.30 a.m. June 17: S'pore (73F); Penang (75F); Kota Bahru (72F); Kuala Lumpur (73F); Ipoh (74F); Kuantan (74F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. June 17 Singapore (83F); Penang (83F); Kota Bahru (87F): Kuala Lumpur (85F); Ipoh (84F):
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    800 9  - STAGE DOOR JOHN HALKIN lliJIffl MEMBERS of the Singapore Film Society have a particularly rich week before them. On Monday, June 20 at 9.30 p.m. at the Pavilion, they have a special Film Society screening of PON CAMILLO, and op Saturday and Sunday June and 26 there will be a
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    615 9 npEBNDS tn musical comedy are slow to spot, bet here *i» fam, pointed out by the very talented young co-autior Of 'Tlaln and Fancy/' Will OUckman: 1. More and more musicals are built around serious themes. 2. There is less dancing— the ballet phase seems to have >
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    567 9 JT is one thing to organise the two most ambitious concerts in Singapore's musical history, twice filling a hall which holds some 6,000 people. It is quite another thing attempting to do this without any public transport facilities. Yet this is what
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    149 9 UT.YING over New Eng- land, we looked down and saw the sun. It pursued us like a golden gopher, bursting up through lakes and rivers, flaming a trail to New York. Manhattan tilted as we banked: the towers and spires and mummy-cases reeled, the whole carnival of
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    789 9  -  KENNETH TYNAN by "ObserverY 9 Theatre Critic challenge them in brightness as they snuggle fatjowled up to the trafficlights. Each block spreads out the spectrum, and the very magazine titles are bricks hurled at tne sen' sibility smash and grab raids on the intelligence: "Rave." "Wink," "Click
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    515 9 THE Pascal Quartet's recording of Beethoven's great A minor string quartet. Op. 132, is a member of the complete cycle recorded for Nixa by this great French quartet (CLP 1213). It has many of the virtues of the Op. 135 and Grosse Fuge reviewed lost week, but these
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    454 10 PREMIUM FOR JUNE RUBBER JUMPS UPPERMOST in everyone's mind this week has been the distrust of the local situation and with several rubber millers and packers on strike the demand for. nearby delivery has been accentuated and the premium on June shipment has risen to 31 cents. Nor is the
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    107 10 THE Kuala Selangor Rubber Co. Ltd.'s rubber crop during last year was 484.644 lb., an increase over the previous year of 17% This larger crop was due to the use of stimulant and more intensive tapping of the area to be replanted this year, says the
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    201 10 HIGHER U.K. USAGE. US. STRIKE SEND RUBBER UP 15/8c Standard Market Reporter THE higher United Kingdom rubber consumption for May and the seaborne strike in the United States contributed to the sharp rise in the Singapore rubber market yesterday which closed at $1.07§ per lb., a rise of 1 1
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    140 10 WITH some overseas inquiries, copra was a steady market at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange, closing at noon yesterday, at S27J per picul for June shipment, 12J cents above the previous day's close. A firm tone also prevailed over coconut oil which closed at $42J for
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    59 10 NETHERLANDS' private enterprise will participate in studies on the industrialisation of French North Africa, it was announced at The Hague. For this purpose four Dutch concerns the Royal Dutch Blast Furnaces and Steelworks (KNHS). Wm. H Mueller Co., Billiton Co and the Rotterdam Coal Trading Company— have
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    77 10 IMPORT LICENCE EXTENDED NO special licences are now needed for the importation into Singapore, of cameras and radiograms originating from countries other than America, American account countries and Russia. The Controller of Imports and Exports. Mr. W. H. Walker, yesterday announced that the Singapore Open General Import Licence No. 1
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    44 10 MANUFACTURERS and importers in the United States are testing and inspecting various types of burlap bags to help the Burlap Council of the Indian Jute Mills' Association in its effort to establish a standard lightweight fabric for the 50-pound burlap potato bag.
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    309 10 THE world's oil Industry Is going into the chemical business in a big way, experts reported in Rome. One of them told delegates to the fourth World Petroleum Congress that in the United States almost four billion dollars worth of chemicals based on petroleum
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    255 10 LATEST Bausch and Lomb sun glasses that admit only 15 per cent of visible light which is necessary for clear and comfortable vision, are proving popular in Malaya since they were introduced here recently, according to Mr. K. S. Ong of Judson and Ningkwong
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    166 10 BRITISH Overseas Airways Corporation announced in London that they had placed an order with Vickers Armstrong Limited for 12 Viscount 700-D turbo-prop Airliners. Commenting on the order. Sir Miles Thomas. Chairman of 8.0.A.C., said. "We have already ordered four Viscounts so that we can put these
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    25 10 THE Ontario Hydro-electric Power Commission announced in Toronto that a $453,600 contract had been awarded to the English Electric ComDany of Canada.- Reuter
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    66 10 TWO Fiat "600" cars recently completed a Calcutta to Rome run in the record period of 11 days The driving team was seen off by the Italian Consul, Dr. Bocchetti, representatives of the Bengal Automobile Club and a large crowd. The route chosen was
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    269 10 Finance And Commerce Rubber Faces Keen Rivalry MR. K. M. G. ANDERSON, chairman of the Rubber Growers' Association, warned in London recently that synthetic production was in the threshold of a new era and emphasised the need for attracting new capital and restoring confidence
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    484 10 Weekly Letter From U.S. WASHINGTON, June 17 Washington's confidence in the economic outlook of the United States is being bolstered these days by reports of economic progress throughout the free world. Noteworthy among the optimistic views expressed here are those of the economists of the
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    365 10 THE improved sentiment continued in the industrial section of the Malayan share market with a fair turnover at slightly better prices. The main reason for the rises ih Robinson ordinary shares in the past weeks was the announcement that the company has acquired a majority interest
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    73 10 A NEW continuous coal mining machine, named th* twin borer, has been developed by the Joy manufacturing Company. The new machine. according to the company, can dig and load eight tons of coal a minute. It is equipped with two boring arms and top and bottom saw
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    1152 12  - Sleepwalking Children Sleep With Open Eyes MUM TELLS OF NIGHTLY PRANKS "SINCE THEY COULD TODDLE" Noel Whitcomb T HADN'T slept ft wink all I night. Here we were in i Souttasea for a restful I week-end, and here was Wbitcomb a wreck. I At dawn the blooming birds had started
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    197 12 WILLIAM MURRAY fell in love with four women. And he married them all two of them illegally. First there was Gladys... Murray married her in 1944, when he was 24. But after two years he left her and "married" Pamela. Four years later, in 1950, he
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      185 12 Miss Europe 1955 THE WINNER. M BEAUTIES from all over the B^^^^k Continent are seen here ISM"* I v'-'---« '-_a^_l _^k appearing in the two mcst Vfc j I important parts of the jr MISS EUROPE 1555 /jl ./W competition held recently in fe#£ A^ Helsinski, Finland— (right) W in
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      164 12 the doctor's round he called: "I say, doctor, what happens when YOU are ill? Does another doctor doctor you?" "Why, yes," said the doctor. "Well then, tell me this.** said the patient: "Does a doctor doctor a doctor ths way the doctored doctor wants to be doctored, or does the
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      267 12 hUUJm I MwMhl TODAY'S QUOTATION "On the ocean of life a 'joyous soul makes a good sailor." Anonymous. SATURDAY FOR EVERYONE: Gain sufficient exercise and recreation; also get around, see people. Enjoy a sense of relaxation, wellbeing; be friendly; entertain at home. YOUR BIRTHDATE AND BIRTHSIGN ARlES— March 21 to
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    321 13 ONLY A VICTORY MEANS ANYTHING TO SELANGOR'S CUP CHANCES TODAY Before them the Perak Bogey IPOH, Fri.— Perak, for long the 'bogey* team of Selangor, will strive once again to nail the chances of their much- vaunted opponents when the two teams meet at the Chinese Assembly Hall ground tomorrow
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    118 13 Mcateer Is New British Champion LIVERPOOL, June 17 (Reu|er I Johnny Sullivan of Preston lost his British and British Empire middleweight boxing titles dramatically last night when disqualified in the ninth round of his contest against Pat Mcateer of Liverpool. It had been a noisy fight but the roar which
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    49 13 TANJONG ItfALIM, FridayAfter a trial yesterday, the fo' lowing have been selected to represent Tanjong Malim Malay* against Kampar Malays at foccer for the Raja Muda Cup on Sunday, June. 19 here Hamzah: Aziz, Ghazali: Mohd. Zain. Che Yan. Taib: Jamaluddin. Ahmad. Baharom, Harun and Ani.
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    91 13 RASC Corps Week Starts Tomorrow R.A.S.C. Corps Week for 1955 is being held from tomorrow to next Sunday. Tomorrow, there will be an Officers versus Sergeants cricket match on the Ayer Rajah Road Ground commencing at 11.30 a.m., and on the following afternoon an inter-unit athletics meeting on the Lower
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    34 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.—Scoring four goals in each half, the Sultan Suleiman Club trounced Police Volunteer Reserves 8-0 in todays FAS Business Houses division three league soccer match on the Taylor Road ground.
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    60 13 SPORTS LETTER Dear Sir; We are very confident we could smash the recent record set up by Mrs. Joy McNaughton' from Penang to Singapore. We tuould gladly make this attempt anytime if we are supplied unth the same Jaguar Xti 120 used by Mrs. McNaughton as
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    67 13 LONDON, June 17 (Reuter) At Oval: Surrey beat Cambridge University by an innings and 23 runs. Cambridge University 112 and secondly 202. Pretlove 56, Singh 52, Loader, rightarm fast medium 5 for 52. Surrey 337. At Hull: Yorkshire beat Kent by ten wickets. Kent 249 and secondly 132
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    203 13 SCRC In Line For League Honours KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Selangor Chinese Recreation Club 'A' are in a strong position for league honours when they beat Tamilian Physical Culture Assn. 'B* 2-0 in a thrilling key FAS div. two soccer match at the Princes Road Stadium here today. The Recs. adapted
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    85 13 Office-bearers for the Aston Athletic Club for 1955/1956 are as follows: Patron— Mr. Chin Yong Lock; President— Mr. Tan Ewe Chee. Vice-Presidents Messrs Heng Seng Cheng. Choo Kim Chwee. Wee Eng Chye. Pek Tiong Seng; Hon. Secretary— Mr. Lim Fook Hee; Hon. Treasurer— Mr Wong Swee Wah:
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    402 13 But Walcott Makes History With Another Century Hit KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 17 (Reuter)— ln spite of another century by Clyde Wai co tt— his fifth of the series— West Indies faced defeat after the fifth day's play in the fifth and last test against Australia here
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    232 13 Two Records Go At S'gor PWD Meet KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Two records were broken at the Selangor Public Works Department Amateur Athletic meet which started on the Cheras Road ground here today. Krishnan clipped 37.5 sec. off the three miles record created by Rayappan in 1952 to establish a new
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    20 13 THE Colony's Achilles Club have postponed their intended tour of Malacca on July 10, it was announced yesterday.
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    68 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Fi;i.— The 16 Field Ambulance beat Military Corrective Establishment 6-1' in an Army league soccer match on the BMH Ground today. MRS. Tan Kee Gak cuts the tape to open the new Malacca Chinese Recreation Club basket ball court while Mr. Tan Kee Gak, the Club
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    364 13 SB A TURNS DOWN INDONESIANS VS. COLONY A PROPOSAL to invite the Indonesians to play against a Colony invitation team in a friendly badminton match was turned down by the Management Committee of the Singapore Badminton Association at a meeting held at the Badminton Stadium Ust night. Mr. Wee Kim
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    60 13 MALACCA Fri.— Outside left Sebastian and wing half Minhat who are on the injured list, will not be able to travel for the Malacca Police tomorrow for their Hanagan Shield interState fixture against the Sel angor Police. The Malacca Police team will be Boor Man. Jam Fernande?
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    162 13 JOHORE Cricket Club and the Police drew in a friendly cricket match played at Johore Bahru yesterday. JCC ,R. Wahid b Lee 56 Abdullah Osman c Raja Mohd. b Brockett 14 Sinthamani b Lee 3 Lingam b Rajasooria 7 Moore e Tan b Rajasooria 25
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    72 13 TAUNTON. Somerset. June 17, (Reuter) The touring South African cricket team gained their third victory in 11 matches in England when they beat Somerset by an innings and 32 runs here today. Somerset who lost seven second innings wickets yesterday for 130 runs, were all out
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    73 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.—Entries are invited for the Lake Club open invitation tennis championships which start on Saturday July 2 to Thursday 10 on the Lake Club courts. The events are men's singles. men's doubles, mixed double* and women's singles. An entrance fee of $3 per event should
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    241 13 SEVENTEEN TEAR- OLD Ow Mun Hong of 1 the St. Joseph's Institn- j tion smashed the existing i Singapore inter-school re- J cord for the pole vault i when the event was held at Victoria School yester- 5 J day. I 2 Mun Hong jumped
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    210 13 KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 1" (Reuter) Australia beat West Indies in their fifth and final test match here today by an innings and 82 runs. ic Standard's Selections Windsor Lad The Pilot Trundle HIM Scrutineer CARPENTER CARPENTER SAMROIG THE RINGER ISMWoI* The Ringer Willy L Samroig The Ringer samroig
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      293 13 »/^_ff77l^j ATHLETICS: Dunearn School 1 Annual Athletic Sports. WATER POLO: Tiger Swimming Club vs. Dockyard Swimming Cub at 5 p.m. RACES: Third Day, Singapore Races at Bukit Timah. SOCCER Singapore Malay Schools Final: Geylang vs. T. Tinggi at Jalan Besar. li I Abner By Al Copp /AHILSWWGAU. I I f
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    1786 14 DANTESQUE' S MY BET FOR S'PORE CUP Says Windsor ('Five Winners') Lad By WINDSOR LAD DANTESQUE looks like annexing the Singapore Cup run over 11 miles today, highlight of the concluding day of the Singapore Turf Club's June Meeting. This four-year-old Dante gelding has never looked fitter. He missed his
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