Singapore Standard, 30 June 1955

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  • 19 1 Singapore Standard jfi M 4 01. V. No. 359 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1955 i 4 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 346 1 BUT IT WON'T BE USED UNTIL WEST COMPLETES ITS TESTS KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.-The United States today gave Malaya the formula and first monographs of the Salk Polio Vaccine but the 6er U Z!L s Medical Services declared: We have no practical interest m it The
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  • 148 1 THE COST TO PLAY HOST$3OO,OOO SINGAPORE is to spend $300,000 to play host to ministers and deputies of member countries of the Colombo Plan Consulative Committee which is to meet here m September. This was revealed yesterday when the Financial Secretary. Mr. T. M. Hart sought approval from the Assembly
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  • 43 1 I XNARD, California. June \o (AP) Movie Actress Loretta Young was to undergo an operation on Wednesday for abdominal adhesions. Miss Young was stricken ./ith peritonitis while vacationing at her ranch on Easter Sunday and has been m hospital since.
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  • 27 1 PRESIDENT Ho Chi Mlnh of North Vietnam, now on an official visit to China, gave a reception m Peking last night for Chinese leaders. Reuter
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  • 69 1 Standard nhntn by AT a ceremony m Kuala Lumpur yesterday, Mr. Walter K. S c h w i n n (right) Director of United States Information Se r vices, Singapore and the rapcrqtion, is seen handing over: the formula of &IR Vaccine, a drug for the
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  • 363 1 British Troops To Remain In S'pore SAYS CHIEF MINISTER BRITISH troops will be maintained m Singapore until such time as "we are m a position to provide the means for our defence", said the Chief. Minister, Mr. David Marshall at the Legislative Assembly yesterday. The Minister was answering a written
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  • 103 1 Weekly Air Service For Malacca MALACCA, Wed. Mala-' yan Airway j will soon be operating a weekly afternoon' air service to Malacca from Singapore on Thursdays iH the near future, said Mr. C. F. Gomes of Messrs. C. F. Gomes and Company, secretaries for the Malacca Chamber of Commerce. The
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  • 61 1 HENLEY, England, June 29 (Reuter) Crack Russian oarsmen who earlier today withdrew from the Henley regatta because a strike was holding up their shells were tonight readmitted. Their racing craft arrived at Henley after a change of heart by dock strikers who had at first refused to
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  • 38 1 PRESIDENT and Mrs. Eisenhower will celebrate their 39th wedding anniversary on Friday when they will be hosts at a picnic for White House staff members and their families at the Eisenhowers Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) farm. Reuter
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  • 109 1 Four men were injured by knives and flying bottles m a brawl which started outside a small stall m Jalan Bcsar, Singapore, last night 2, hS^nadmitted to General' Hos- pital m a critical condition. He had been slashed across his stomach Another injured man
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  • 376 1 THEY'RE MONTHLY-PAID STAFF THE strike at the Hume Industries took a new turn yesterday when 62 monthly-paid employees of the firm went on strike to join their 1,250 daily-paid colleagues who downed tools 23 days ago. This action, according to their spokesman, follows the ''pianagrement's
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  • 36 1 OSLO, June 29 (Reuter) King Haakon, 82, who entertained Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh during their State visit last weekend, has broken a thigh and was taken to hospital today.
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  • 454 1 MARSHALL PUTS HIS FOOT DOWN Harbour Board Men Picket Assembly House As... We Will Use Force GOVT. READY FOR ANY EMERGENCY SINGAPORE Government will use force to meet any emergency that may arise m future. This warning was sounded by the Chief# Minister, Mr. David Marshall, when he spoke at
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  • 75 1 Mr. Tai Yew Kuan, the Nanyang Slang Pau cameraman who was arrested on Tuesday afternoon m connection with the May riots, was released later m the day on $10,000 bail. Mr. Tap Pheng Geek and Mr. George Lee stood surety for Mr. Tai. He did not
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  • 245 1 ANOTHER STUDENT WON'T GO TO CHINA Mother Singapore Chinese school sttident Has 1 given up the idea eft going to Communist China along with 1,100 students from Singapore, Malaya and Indonesia, Reuter reports from Hongkong. The second student Is a 20-year-old girl. Tan Lian Huan, whose brother Tan Hup Lian
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  • 82 1 HONGKONG, June 29 (UP) More than 1,000 Chinese from Indonesia and Singapore crossed into Red China today, loaded down with paraphernalia that will be out of place under the austere Communist regime. There were no incidents as the Chinese, almost all of whom are students, loaded on
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  • 32 1 BUENOS AIRES. June 29 (UP) The Argentine Cabinet today announced the end of the state of siege that had been declared following the recent abortive uprising against the Peron government.
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  • 92 1 ANTI-U.S. TERROR CAMPAIGN BEGINS SAIGON, June 29 (Renter) Anti-American pamphlets today threatened a reign of terror against United States citizens here if they did not leave i-'-- **-i Vietnam. Cyclostyled pamphlets scattered about the streets said m English that an "action committee of the cold and blood arrow" had started
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  • 101 1 Assembly Sessions At Night! LEGISLATIVE Assembly sessions may be held at nights m future if the recommendation o* the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall i s accepted by the Standing Orders Committee. Moving: the motion calling for a review of the Assembly Standing Orders, Mr. Marshall suggested that Assembi* meetings
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  • 106 1 Attack On US Planes A 'Mistake' WASHINGTON. June 20 (Reuter) President Eisenhower said today that the attack on a United States plane by Soviet fighters m the Bering Strait last Wednesday appeared to be a misunderstanding and a local occurrence and was not matter of Soviet policy. The President told
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  • 102 1 WELLINGTON, New Zealand, June 29 (Reuter) The New Zealand Workers Union said today that James Henry, the paralysed 23-year-old Irishman for whom it has raised nearly £3,000 to send him to England, cannot be admitted to a British hospital because he is not British. Henry, who comes from
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  • 703 2 'Let Us Take Revenge/ Cried Mob Witnesses Tell The Coroner TWO young Chinese said m the Singapore Coroner s Court yesterday that they carried the body of a wounded student through the streets of Singapore during the recent riots because
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  • 156 2 LAND REFORM WILL BEAT THE RED MENACE COMMUNISM will have no chance of corrupting the lives of 12.000,000 South Vietnamese when the distribution of free land to nearly a million people is completed m the next five months, the Director of South Vietnam Land Reform, Mr. Trinh Van Hi. said
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  • 155 2 CLOSING robber prices (cents per Ib.) m Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 R.S.S. Spot Loose ll'A H"2 No 1 R.S.S. f.o.b July 1141 114* No. 2 107 108 No. 3 100* 10U Tone: Easier. slightly easier. TIN PHICE The price of tin yesterday was S36U per
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  • 43 2 THE Public Services Commission last year interviewed a total of 766 candidates, states the 1954 report of the Commission published yesterday. Of the candidates interviewed, 225 were teachers applying for posts created by the implementation of the Singapore Education Service.
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  • 272 2 IPOH, Wed.— Six detainees testifying at the inquest into the death of three of their colleagues m the Ipoh Detention Camp on June 4, claimed they saw and heard no disturbance. They did not see or hear of detainees fighting among themselves, nor
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  • 359 2 DON'T TREAT THE EX- JAIL BIRD AS OUTCAST-SOCHON PEOPLE are sent to prison as a punishment, not for punishment, Major W.L.P. Sochon, Commissioner of Prisons, declared yesterday. He was giving a talk before the International Women's Club m Singapore, on the history and evils of prisons from the 18th Century
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  • 37 2 HONGKONG. June 29. Special Standard Service Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.64 to £1 sterling; $579 to US$l: $1,837 to Malayan $1; $0,121 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $251.00 to a tael.
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  • 31 2 SUNDRY shop proprietor, Koh Seah Ree, 32, was stabbed with a screwdriver during a family row m his shophouse m Tanglin Road. Singapore yesterday. He was admitted to hospital.
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  • 35 2 AIR Marshal S. Mukerjee, Indian Chief of Air .Staff, left New Delhi yesterday to watch the Soviet air display at Moscow on July 3. at the invitation of the Russian Government.— Reuter.
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  • 470 3 EYES ON PHEASANTS ONE of Singapore's most distinguished visitors of 1955 spent yesterday as the guest of Mr. Lokc Wan Tho. a lons-time friend, touring the city he first saw 45 years ago. He is Dr. William Beebe, 78-year-old Director of the New York Zoological Society's
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  • 171 3 Secret Society Suspected SINGAPORE Police yesterday combed the city m a bid to track down a gang of kidnappers believed to be secret society gangsters, who 0 whisked away a labourer from Outram Road on June 24 and kept him prisoner for two days and a
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  • 123 3 Pressman Faces 3 Charges THREE charges of abetting the offence of rioting m Alexandra Road, on May 12, was preferred against Singapore press photographer, Tai Yew Kuan, m the Seventh Police Court, yesterday Tai, an employee of the Nanyang Siang Pau, claimed trial to all three charges Making a statement
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  • 63 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Ahmad bin Mohamed, a soldier, owed his wife $350 as a result of a court order made m December for maintenance. Mr. N.L. Cohen m the Sessions Court told him to pay his wife $200 or go to prison lor a month.
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  • 44 3 COMMISSIONER General lor South-east Asia. Mr. Malcolm. Mac Donald, will be a guest of honour at a farewell party of the Pan Malayan Students' Federation on Aug. 3 at Raffles Hotel. The Chief Minister and other ministers of Singapore will attend.
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  • 68 3 THE Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday gave sanction to the City Council to raise a $30,000,000 loan to proceed with the extension of its electricity. gas and water undertakings and such other works of a permanent nature. The Financial Secretary, Mr. T.M. Hart, told the House, it
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  • 232 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Singapore sawmills are perturbed over the Johore Government order imposing m So per ton levy on logs going out of the state from July 1. A spokesman of the Colony's sawmills said they were m sympathy with Johore lumber merchants who have
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  • 102 3 A PATROL of the Ist Royal Hampshire Regiment ambushed and killed a Communist terrorist m the Waterfall Estate. Rawang. m Selangor yesterday. A rifle and ammunition were recovered. An Area Security Unit and Police Special Squad patrol found a bandits' food dump containing four gantangs of
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  • 61 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. /The Rotary Club here, will flhold its Installation Dinner tomorrow at the Royal Johore international Club at 8.15 p.m. The Regent of Johore, will le the chief guest. The president for the new I'totary year. Mr. Yap Kirn F lock, will be
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  • 47 3 photo. THE "Misfits and Mistakes" sales held m the Memorial icing of the St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday m aid of St. John's Appeal Week teas a complete sell-out. Picture shoics Singapore housewives, some with their husbands, queueing outside the entrance to the wing. Standard
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  • 82 3 Accused Of Threatening Workmate U. NAGARETNAM, 32. of High Street. Singapore, claimed trial m the Eighth Magistrate's Court yesterday to a charge of criminally intimidating Rangasamy at the Diamond Theatre on Monday morning. The prosecution alleged that Nagaretnam threatened Rangasarwy with injury if he did not stop work at the
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  • 50 3 THE Malayan Airways Local Employees' Union will hold an extraordinary general meeting tomorrow at the P. T. Union premises at 7.30 p.m. The Union, which is now run by a pro-tern committee, will elect new office 'bearers at the meeting to replace the management committee.
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  • 104 3 'Rejection Of Offer Was Hasty' THE Peninsular Malay Union yesterday criticized as hasty. Government's rejection of the Communists' offer to negotiate a settlement of the war m Malaya. In a statement issued yesterday, the P.M.U. said. Government should have consulted the people before acting as it did. The president of
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  • 73 3 THE following candidates were successful m the Trinity Bar Examination, held m Singapore from May 9 to 13. J. T. Hudson and G. Murugaiyan: Constitutional Law and Legal History. Third Class. Mrs. B. M H Beattie and J. O. Kiddle and A. L. Pearson: Contract and Tort.
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  • 174 3 SENTENCE of six months' imprisonment imposed on a clerk, Choo Seek Cheow, m the lower court was reduced to four months by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray Aynsley, m the Sineannrp Hiflrh Caurt yesterday, on appeal. Choo was convicted on three charges
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  • 303 4 Assemblymen Quiz 125 Hems Among the applications for supplementary votes were personal emoluments for the Sergeant-at-arm s ($5,410); the salary for Mr. T^P.F. McNeice's successor ($lO token); entertainment allowance for the Speaker (s2,oooi>: Customs for rewards ($200j,000); new furniture for Chief Minister's office ($B,OOO
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  • 167 4 'FINEST PLACE IN THE WORLD IS SEREMBAN' A FIFTYISH, travelcheery Britisher pronounced at Kallang Airport m Singapore the other night that the finest place m the world is Seremban. "No. I'm not a planter there," he said, "I'll give you 50 guesses, you won't find out viy profession... l'm a
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  • 108 4 Abandoned Baby Mow Cared For THE seven-day-old baby girl found abandoned on the outskirts of a kampong. off Aljunied Road, Singapore, on Sunday, was removed from tbe General Hospital to tbe York Hill Home yesterday. .It is now established that the baby's name is Chua Long Lee. She was taken
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  • 793 4 THE Colony Central Provident Fund, after a two-month postponement, comes into operation tomorrow A Bill amending the original Ordinance which was formulated m 1953 wa s yesterday passed through all stages by the Legislative Assembly under a Certificate of Urgency from the Officer Administering
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  • 58 4 MOTORISTS are warned that, unless their vehicles bear special labels, they cannot enter Empress Place car park during the installation of the new Governor of Singapore Sir Robert Brown Black, on the morning of July A Police spokesman said yesterday that the ban will apply from
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  • 77 4 MR. CON O'Neil flew into Singapore yesterday on his way to take up his new post as Cliarge d'Ariairs m Peking. He was the head of the news department of the Foreign Office and a member of Sir Anthony Eden's party that
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  • 254 4 SELECT COMMITTEE TO PROBE NEW LABOUR BILL A SELECT Committee will study and report on the Labour Bill which passed its second reading m the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday. Moving that the Bill be sent to Select Committee. Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall said he hoped the Committee's report would
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  • 125 4 'Abundant Need For Expansion THE need for an elaborate i expansion m the field of Adult Education m Singapore was stressed at the eighth annual general meeting of the People's Education Association, yesterday. Mr. B. G. Sahai. Hon. secretary, said that there was abundant need for further expansion
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  • 240 4 mnuafukiss uniei Minister, Mr. David Marshall, said m the Legislative Assembly yesterday that the appointment of an Economic Adviser and Economic Commission some time this year will assist m blueprinting an overall commercial, industrial and fiscal policy for the next few years. Replying to a
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  • 256 5 'EXPATS ANXIOUS TO PRESERVE THEIR JOBS' LABOUR FLAYS POSTS FOR LOCAL MEN PLAN KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.- The Malayonization Committee appointed by the Federal Government had brought forth a mouse out of a mountain of labour, Mr. Tan Tuan Boon, Labour candidate for Kuala Lumpur Barat, told an election rally this
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  • 204 5 A 2 A.M. fire yesterday gutted a godown m Martin Road off Mohamed Sultan Road, and destroyed $300,000 worth of rubber stacked m one of the three godowns belonging to William Jacks and Company (Malaya) Ltd., Singapore. The fire which turned the godown into a
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  • 69 5 A SINGAPORE European yesterday reported to the police that on June 26, he discovered $1,000 missing from a brief case, which contained $8,000. He had kept the case m an unlocked room m his horns m Paterson Road. The money was wages of his employees.
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  • 142 5 Govt. Asked To Consider Television GOVERNMENT was yesterday asked whether it will give early consideration to, the inauguration of television as a government department; or would it allow private enterprise to establish such a service. The question, which was not for oral answer, was put m by Mr. William Tan
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  • 49 5 Poodle Flies In .UNO, the three month old French pedigree poodle made a dash to Singapore yesterday from London to join his mate, another three month old noodle Lulu, who arrived m the Colony three weeks ago. Standard picture shows pretty Shirley Holden hugging the puppy at the airport.
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  • 83 5 pnoio. IV\\AAV\A t 1 DATO S. Q. Wong, (left) a director of over 20 2 M mi 2? ni n S Ji n sin sapore, accepts a silver salver from j Mr. G. P. Noakes to commemorate the 25 years he 5 served as a director of
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  • Singapore Standard
    • 475 6 /^HIEF Minister David Marshall's exposure of the masquerade by a clique of politicians m the People's Action Party as trade unionists m order to force mob rule on the Colony is a pointer to the need for the continued vigilance that must be exercised over the political scene
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    • 468 6 1 ACK of a more encouraging attendance did not deter seven Singapore women, who got together recently, from going right ahead with their intention to set up what is called a Married Women's Union and to make immediate preparations for ridding the Colony of a great many
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • 450 6 'Remove This Injustice Sir:— l write this from the standpoint of a localborn Chinese who believes that the British should never leave us. and my daily prayer is: May the Lord give wisdom and integrity of purpose and a keen sense of justice to all those m authority over us,
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    • 183 6 Sir;— At the farewell dinner given by the Friends of Singapore. Sir John Nicoll remarked there was room for much improvement m the RafTles Museum exhibits, or words to that effect. The descriptions over some of the portraits are incomplete, viz.. Col. William Farquhar, Col. Butterworth Col. Orfeur
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    11 6 "It was the starting handle got a kick like a mule!"
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  • 380 6 HOW TO BE A VERY GOOD UNIONIST Sir;— The recent reports m the press on the expulsion of a trade union member because of (apparently) a breach of its regulations makes very disturbing reading. I myself am a member of one of the Municipal Unions. In my union, one of
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  • 142 6 Sir; —I now see workmen engaged m erecting a shed at the Children's Playground opposite the Cit^y Council canteen and Tennis Courts. I presume it, ite for the purpose of constructing the long awaited Swimming Pool that. it 1 can remember correctly, was promised by some politicians during
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  • 86 6 Sir. The members of the Operations Committee made a commendable gesture when they poohpoohed the idea of a round table conference with the M.C.P. In the event of such a flat refusal it is tantamount to outlawing the M.C.P. and this shows that our Malayan leaders have brains and
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  • 140 6 Sir;— Your editorial] headline "Integrity Report" prompts me to cdniment briefly. As far as money Es concerned, it is the root) of all evils. The present viee bribery and other forms of corruption —was oaused by the roots and legacies of the Japanese. Immediately after the reoccupation
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  • 67 6 lighted so also with Carlisle, Truro and Cambridge Roads. Dorset Road is a very busy thoroughfare and yet it is kept very dark at nights. Sometimes the gas lights installed there do not burn at all. Can something be done about this?. Or do we have to
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  • 751 6  - The Future Of The United Nations WILLIAM CLARK By LONDON. TT is an! astonishing x tribute to the vitality of the United Nations that 38 Foreign Ministers, including the Big Four, should ha?ve deserted their offices, at the height of the diplomatic season, to attend a purely formal celebration of
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  • 138 6 Sir;— Your Aster Gunasekera, though not an Englishman, appears to behave like a Colonial His last paragraph (Standard 25/6/55) stamps him as having a one-track mind when he says that the- remedy i for a trouble-free S.T.C. isijor the S.T.C. to refuse to Keep on its pay-roll non-umion
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  • 359 6 VIEWS REVIEW OF I Labour Disputes £jT is imperative that a solu- !> tion is found to the ■i Hume Industries, Firestone and Harbour Board strikes, !> declares Sin Chew Jit Poh. KjTime and again we have S pointed out that any labour k dispute and strike action N resulting
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  • 260 6 Sir; Very recently the Naval 1 Base Labour Union served a strike notice to the Admiralty authorities m protest against the dismissal of a labourer. The Union's* argument was that the labourer was not given a chance to hear the charges for. his
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  • 461 7 Accused Kept Me Away From 'Death' Block Witness ULi^fcUJOKF, WEST GERMANY, June 29 (Reuter)—A prosecution witness at the court martial of Sergeant Frederick Emmett-Dunne said today that the accused had kept him away from the entrance of a barrack block where the body of Sergeant Reginald Watters was found hanging
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  • 66 7 NEW DELHI, June 29 (Reufen—lndia has protested to Portugal m "very strong terms" against the Portuguese authorities' manner of dealing with Satyagrahis (passive reMstence) who have been entering Goa according to official sources quoted by the Press trust of India today. The protest was made m a
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  • 70 7 LONDON, June 29 (UP) Britain served notice today it will use warships if necessary to keep the sea lanes open lor its merchant ships to trade with Communist China '•Her Majesty's ships m the tar East have instructions to afford protection to Brit:>h ships on their
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  • 75 7 BEAUTIFUL Samia Gamal (right), the Egyptian oriental dancer with a million dollar wiggle, points out the land marks of Cairo to her guest, American film star Ann Miller. Samia entertained Ann at her house and presented her with the native Milaya dress and veil which she wears
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  • 269 7 LONDON, June 29 (AP) A pert little blonde climbing on to a third-storey window ledge sent Central London into a dizzy on Tuesday night. Three fire engines, an ambulance and swarms of police cars gathered at the foot of the apartment house with crowds of
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  • 290 7 At. P. Drops A Question LONDON, June 29, (Reuter)— Mr. Norman Dodds Labour Member of Parliament, gave notice last week that he would urge the War Office to discharge Michael Frank Gazzard, RASC national servicemah serving m Malaya because he had bad feet and
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  • 75 7 BOMBAY, June 29 (Reuter) The Panamanian freighter, Pacific Harmony, with her cargo of 8,000 tons of manganese ore from Goa bound for Japan was still lying crippled off the Goa coast today, according to a message received m Bombay. The British naval frigate, Flamingo, which
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  • 33 7 GENERAL Matthew B. Ridgway. who is retiring as United States Army Chief of Staff today, yesterday received from President Eisenhower a third oak leaf cluster to his Distinguished Service Medal. Reuter
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  • 41 7 LONDON. June 28 (Reuter) A five year agreement was signed m Moscow today between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan on the free transit of goods of each country through the other\s territories, Tass. the official >oviet news agency, reported.
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  • 53 7 LONDON. June 29 (AP) Jean Brampton, 4-year-old British actress, was found dead m her London home today. The red-haired comedienne complained of stomach pains on Tuesday and was unable to go on m her role m the ice show "Wildfire." Police said there was no suspicion
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  • 61 7 JERUSALEM, June 29 (Reuter) Israel's four-party coalition government led by Mr. Moshe Sharett, resigned today after a split between its main parties. The split is between the moderate Labour Party. MAPAI, and its main partner the right-wing, General Zionists Party. It occurred when the General Zionists abstained
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  • 58 7 TAIPEI, June 29 (Reuter) Usually reliable Chinese Nationalist sources reported today that Nationalist Air Force planes have increased their patrols over Nationalist held islands off China's mainland coast, following the shooting down of a Nationalist jet trainer and an attack on an amphibian airliner by
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  • 48 7 NEW YORK, June 29. (AP) General Sir Gerald Ternpier, who will become chief of the Imperial General Staff m the autumn, left here by plane last night for London after a 10-day visit during which he had discussions with U.S. and Canadian defence chiefs.
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  • 187 7 JAPANESE MOVIE STARS ARE ANGRY TOKYO, June 29 (UP) The threat of a general boycott by Japan's first line movie stars hung over the Japan Broadcasting Corporation today as a result of its "Movie Actresses and Prostitutes" broadcast last week. Miss Asami Kuji. beautiful Toho Studio star, refused yesterday to
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  • 52 7 DORSET, June 29 (Reuter) The 13 men killed when the British submarine Sidon sank after an explosion on June 15. were buried m the Cliffedge Navy Cemetery here yesterday At the foot of the cliffs, the wrecked submarine is beached for investigation into the cause of
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  • 280 7 MASSAPEQUE, New York. June 29 <AP)— -A 62-year-old multi-millionaire was seized on Tuesday as the alleged promoter of a series of sex orgies recorded on motion picture film. Some 20 girls from 12 to 17 years old were involved. Authorities said a hidden camera filmed
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  • 404 7 System Linking NATO With East Blocs A Fraud WASHINGTON, June 29: (Rcuter)— Mr. John Foster Dulles, the United States Secretary of State, said yesterd ay .that a European security system Unking the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with the Eastern Bloc forces was unacceptable. Mr. Dulles, at a
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  • 86 7 8 Drowned When Ship Capsizes BOMBAY, June 29 (Reuter) The 9.561-ton Panamanian freighter Pacific Harmony which grounded 150 yards off the coast of the Portuguese settlement of Goa last Monday, capsized this evening, according to reports reaching Karwar, Indian port about ten miles south of the spot where she stranded.
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  • 274 7 The Masons File $1 ¼M. Libel Suit &AINIA MUIWLA, (JaUlornia June 29 (AP)—Britishborn actor .James Mason and his wife. Pamela, yesterday filed a USsl,iyy.OOfl libel suit charging that the New York magazine. "Rave," accused them of immoral conduct. The suit, tiled m Superior Court, asked U*****,000 for damages for Mason,
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  • 83 7 LONDON, June 29 (UP) Britain's giant Trades Union Congress called 19,000 wildcat dock strikers back to work today, declaring the in-ter-union dispute which has wrecked the nations foreign trade for six weeks is "at an end." But there was no immediate word that the small Stevedores
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  • 60 7 LONDON, June 29, (AP) A Coast Guard spokesman said yesterday that planes and 500 troops have been launched against Hashish smugglers hiding out m the mountains south of Suez. He also claimed Government forces successfully ambushed a gang of smugglers capturing 2.000,000 Egyptian pounds worth of
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  • 172 7 Summit Talks Can Ease World Tension, Says Ike WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuter)— President Eisenhower told his Press conference today that the chances of easing: world tensions through next month's Big Four meeting were better today than he thought they were two months ago. The President replying to questions about his
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  • 34 7 THE Lord Mayor of London. Sir Seymour Howard, plans to visit Moscow for a week next month. He had an invitation from the Moscow city Soviet and cabled acceptance on Tuesday AP
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  • 270 8 FORMER CO-OP OFFICIAL ON 'TRUST' COUNT SOCIETY'S FUNDS MISSING RAMASAMY faced a charge of criminal breach of trust of $4,830.49 belonging to the Singapore Government Health Deportment Labourers' Co-operative Credit Society m the Singapore Second Criminal District Court yesterday. The offence was s/ud to have been commit: between July 1,
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  • 89 8 The Fish Was Stolen... A POLICE corporal. Babu bin Rahim, saw two men behaving m a "fishy manner" at 2.20 a.m. on April 28 near the Beach Road market. When the two men caught sight of him, they threw away a basket and after a short chase, Babu caught one
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  • 56 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— The following have been appointed to serve on the Licensing Board, Kluang. The Administrative Officer (chairman), the District Officer (vice-chairman), the Health Officer, Johore Central, and Inche Adam bin Husin, Mr. Woo Sze Tham, Mr. S. M. Pillai and the chairman of the Central
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  • 30 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed Siew Chew Hong, a lo::v driver, was fined $5,000 or 2{ years' imprisonment f.ir attempting to smuggle 11 cases of sparklets ibunsa api) into Johore.
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  • 36 8 Sin Guan Kirn. a licensed dealer m restricted goods who failed to keep a record of saies of such goods, was ftn< I $300, or two months imprisonment m the Pengerang Sessions Court, yesterday.
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  • 273 8 Union Plans To See Marshall THE Singapore Fire Brigade Employees Union may consider boycotting all future meetings of the Whitley Council because of the refusal by the Deputy City President, Mr. J. T. Rea, to consider a new pay scheme for firemen, a Union spokesman told
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  • 67 8 Belgians Relax In S'pore Club MEN of the Belgian Contingent to Korea, who are returning to their homeland after operational duties, relax at the Britannia Club. Singapore (above) on arrival yesterday. In the afternoon they were entertained to a tea party, and later conducted on a tour of Haw Par
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  • 348 8 RARELY does one have the opportunity of hearing such supremely beautiful singing as we did last night m the Victoria Memorial Hall. Mattiwilda Dobbs, the celebrated young American soprano, gave a recital for me the recital of the year. Miss Dobbs is not only
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  • 192 8 MANY of the people who attended the representatives' meeting on Chinese education on June 6 were there to intentionally disrupt the proceedings, charged Mr. Chuang Hui-tsuan at yesterday's meeting of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. IHe revealed that, the next ay. June 7, he received a
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  • 35 8 THE office hours of the Philippine Consulate, Singapore. will be 9 a.m. to Ip.m. Monday to Friday from July 1 to Sept 15. The regular office hours will be resumed on Sept. 16.
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  • 63 8 photo. SIXTY-TWO monthly-paid employees of the Hume Industries yesterday i«i n ~i daily-paid coleagues who have been on strike since June 7 J£uJ£ thiv «»i* management insisted on them performing duties other than thei? n^rnS fLSk tJ h they consider would "constitute strike-breaking." In pic?uVe mmJ *F?h? i«^t\
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  • 169 8 Jobless Ask For Bigger Dole THE ad-hoc interim committee of unemployed people m Singapore has appealed to the Chairman of the Public Assistance Board to work out a scheme under which unemployed persons will obtain aid corelated to a minimum wage. The appeal, contained m a memorandum that was s<
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    • 293 8 TRACTORS I "^^jSkmM areworking m Malaya V vM^^^R^jp^-- \\O) ■«^-^M^^^W^W^ n rubber estates, on oil palm S V>^Rlo^jblr^~-^T--»-s\\ JIB a "d coconut estates, m padi frf <v >— Jjt-v fields and small holdings, m <^ «v.?^^^ deep jungle forts, on public >y W works, on docks and industrial T^ undertakings:
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  • 1854 9 PAP Told Govt. Can Meet Any Emergency Peoples' Welfare Comes First/ Says Marshall THE Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, yesterday warned the People's Action Party that Government has the strength to meet all emergencies that may arise and will use that strength when "we consider it necessary for the
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  • 205 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Municipal Council is to ask the State Government for land, totalling almost a quarter of its present area, to resettle the bovine population of the Federal capital, whose unending straying has annoyed humans for years. The Council
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  • 89 9 'Old Vic' To Be Closed For Repairs SINGAPORE'S Victoria Memorial Hall will be redecorated m time for the Colombo Plan Consultative Committee Conference from Sept 22 to Oct. 22, this year. For this purpose, the Upper Hall will be closed to public booking from Aug. 15 to Oct. 25 and
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  • 121 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Chemists of the Rubber Research Institute are waging a war against a new disease carrier latex. They have found that latex teems with microbes and provides conditions for their growth, seldom found m any other substance. Latex m collection cups one
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  • 70 9 DOLLAH bin Kadlr was yesterday sentenced to one year's imprisonment m the First Criminal District Court, Singapore, for housebreaking and theft. The Court was to]d that Dollah was seen emerging from the home of a woman, Salbiar binte Scmin, with a bundle cf clothing m his
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  • 30 9 GIRLS from Senai village "look-in" at Istana Stulang where they had tea with the Tungku Mahkota. The girls had come to Johore Bahr.ii on a civic course.
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  • 58 9 photo. TO draw the attention of the peoples' representatives and the Ministers to their two month old strike, members of the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association, yesterday picketted the Legislative Assembly Hall. The pickets left at the end of the meeting. Here some pickets stand outside
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  • 253 9 BRITISH PLANTERS 'WORRIED' ABOUT DUTCH RECRUITS IPOH, Wed.— Some British planters, who prefer to remain unidentified, expressed concern over the news that certain rubber agencies were planning to recruit more Dutch planters into the country. They believe that Britishers should be given priority since the estates concerned are British-owned and
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  • 174 9 He Wants Fair Play From Papers PENANG, Wed. The Labour candidate for George Town, Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew, today called on all newspapers for fair play m their reports on election campaign meetings of all the candidates. Mr. Ooi, who was speaking at an election rally m Dato Kramat Road,
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    • 551 9 ■'T**^ a»f at 4avEaE V"aaaaS^^ aV^aaaV «sbbb*b> SERRAVALLO'S (Bark and Iron Tonic Wine) Since 1348 In Enteric Fever: T have prescribed "Serravallo's 1 iiic" m cases of Anaemia -alting from Malarial Fever and m convalescing cases of Enteric 1 -ver and have much pleasure -aying that the beneficial r from
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    • 108 9 STANDARD Thursday, June 30, 1955- feINGAPORE TIGER Builds Bonny BABIES FREE GIFTS' XT' p Lids from total 15 lbs of NUTRICIA (combinations of I Ib., 2* lbs., and 5 lbs., allowedi can v W J»3y be exchanged for a dainty Dutch Doll m national costume 4^_^A j^li|A or y 1
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  • 208 10 Standard Market Reporter PROFIT-TAKING and hedging against Indonesian arrivals were largely responsible for the sharp reaction m the Singapore rubber market which declined by 1J cents to $1.14£. per lb. for first grade rubber for July shipment, yesterday. A section of the trade attributed yesterday's
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  • 170 10 U.K. Exhibits At Atom Trade Fair BRITISH exhibits at the Atom Trade Fair. Geneva, will stress one fact above all others that British industry is ready to supply the world with everything it needs for the production of nuclear power and for the use of radio-active isotopes, m their many
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  • 89 10 A NEW type of inexpensive, portable wall is now being made m South Australia by a firm m Hilton. It can be moved to make a permanent or temporary wall for the dividing of a room into two smaller ones, and after use can be moved back to
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  • 63 10 OUTPUT of railway rolling stock by a U.K. company m 1954 reached a new record m value and much of it went overseas. The company The Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., included m their deliveries of passenger coaches a number of lightweight vehicles constructed m
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  • 43 10 THE Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd. will open a new branch office at Nos.< 167 and 169 Selegie Road. Singapore on Saturday. A reception will be held to celebrate the occasion and guests including prominent businessmen. industrialists and bankers have beepinvited.
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  • 195 10 WHEN the Society of British Aircraft Constructors stage their 16th flying display and static exhibition m September this year. The Royal Aircraft Establishment. Farnborough, will once again become for a week the focal point of the aviation world The Society have staged 57 separate
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  • 224 10 linanvv And Commerce j MALAYA s foreign trade during Ma\ showed an adverse balance of $3,164,537, wirfi imports including parcel post, ship's stores and bunkers (but excluding bullion and specie] amounting to $300,231,395, and exports $297,066,758. Bullion imports amounted to $8,275 with exports
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  • 201 10 FEW CHANGES IN SHARE QUOTATIONS QUIET conditions prevailed m all sections of the Malayan share market yesterday due to the half yearly closing of the banks. Very few "changes m prices were reported, with fluctuations within narrow limits. The Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday reported the following price changes. INDUSTRIALS Buyers
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  • 99 10 Business In Shares Business In Shares SINGAPORE sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: Gammon $2.575; Malayan Cement 51. 50: M Coils. 77 cents; Metal Box $1.47; cd. $1.50 cd (overnight) and $1.48 cd; Singapore Traction ords. 28/3 9 British Insur. $26.00; Straits Times $2.90; Wearne Bros. $2 70 xd.
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  • 117 10 THE produce market at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange was quiet yesterday and noon prices closed at quotations similar to those prevailing on Tuesday except for black pepper which fell by $2. HOLIDAY. CUTLER, BATH CO. LTD. Copra 5 P-m $282 $288 The market was
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  • 473 10 PRODUCE CHIEF HITS AT BUY DIRECT POLICY 'Retaliation If, Overtures Fail' SINGAPORE should still look into every possible way of finding means to maintain its vital entrepot trade, Mr. Tan Siak Kew the president of the Singapore Produce Exchange, said yesterday. Mr. Tan who was recently re-elected to the office,
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  • 33 10 AMERICANS will buy more tyres this year than m any previous normal year, Mr. Arthur Kelly, head of B. F. Goodrich Company's tyre and equipment division, predicted at Minneapolis.
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  • 156 10 SALES of Dutch "Lighthouse" milk m Singapore alone amount to 5,000 cases per month. The local agents, Shriro (China) Ltd. held a dinner m honour of Mr. W. B. Boomsma, factory representative of Karaper island Milk Works. Holland, when he recently visited the Colony
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  • 96 10 AN unusual use of versatile plastic material m Australia was" made recently when a house m Sydney, New South Wales, was completely covered with a plastic sheet, so that the interior could be effectively fumigated. The material was polyethylene, which retained the fumigant. methyl bromide^ for
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  • 452 10 PAA Flew More Miles DURING the first quarter of 1955 Pan American World Airways flew 565,955,000 passenger miles and 17,799,854 plane miles. This compares with 450,492,000 passenger and 15,428,400 plane miles flown m the first quarter of 1954. For flying 5.143,672.000 passenger miles without a
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  • 81 10 OUTER ROADS Hem Hover. Camphuys. Laos. Bustler^ Anking. Eastern Venture Rajula, Batavia, Devonshire Tankhaven. INNER ROADS Tong Thay, Sin Weng We Salong, Resang. Selangor. Puseng Indari. Yong Ann. June. Perintis. Pooleng. Aik Leong. Liois. Taype S.H.B. WHARVES Hoegh Silvercrest 1, Eumaeus 4 Breconshire 8. Benattow 10. Benreoch
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    • 582 10 NOTICES MALAYAN TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE, KOTA BAHRU. TENDER NOTICE. riIENDERS will be received at X the office of the Principal. Malayan Teachers' Training College, Kota Bharu. Kelantan up to noon 25th July. 1955 for supply of cooked food, for about 300 students for a period of about 4 months commencing
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    • 498 10 CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE $30,000,000 4% DEBENTURE STOCK 1955 (Repayable 1975-80) AUTHORISED BY A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE PASSED ON 24TH JUNE, 1955 AND SANCTIOt* .t BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMELY OF SINGAPORE ON 2S JUNE 1955. PRICE OF ISSUE $96 PER CENT. THAT IS TO SAY $96
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  • 579 12 SINGAPORE Telephone Board chalked up their third successive victory m the Singapore Business Houses Group A League and Cup competition when they whipped Singapore Traction Company by seven goals to three at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Old-timer Yusoff, who led the p.:;»ck m place
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  • 30 12 KEN ROSEWALL, the favourite for Wimbledon singles title, was surprisingly eliminated m the semi-final by Kurt Nielsen of Denmark yesterday. —The AP picture shows the Australian m play.
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  • 83 12 RESULTS of the SGSFA Division 2 League matches played yesterday were:. Marine Department were held to a three-all draw by Public Works Department on the P T ground. Ah Leong 2 and Ramlee scored for the Marines, while 'Amad Kadir 2 and Ali replied for the PWD.
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  • 778 12 Nielsen Upsets: Meets Trabert For The Title WIMBLEDON, June 30 (AF-Keuter)— Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, runner-up m the 1953 Wimbledon championships, and unseeded m the present tournament, created the upset of the year by topping Australia's favourite, Ken Rosewall, to enter the final of the men's singles championship.
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  • 410 12 MEN'S SINGLES Semi-final: K. Nielsen (Denmark) beat K. Rosewall (Aus.) 11-9 6-2, 2-6, 6-4. T. Trabert (U.S.) beat B. Patty (U.S.) 8-6, 6-2, 6-2. MEN S "DOUBLKS QUARTER FINALS: N. Rose and G. Worth m; ton (Aus.) beat J. Ager and P. Eisenberr (IS) 6-3. 6-1. «-2. V.
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  • 119 12 Today's Sport SOCCERS AF A LEAGUE: Div. 3B: S.C.S.A. vs. Darul Afiah at Geylang; Alexandra Football Team vs. Windsor Rovers at Clerical Union; Arab Union vs. Social A.P. at C.V.M.A. GOVERNMENT SERVICES LEAGUE: Div. 2: Radio Malaya vs. Prisons at Farrer Park; Survey vs. Income Tax at Farrer Park. ARMY
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  • 156 12 LONDON. June 29 (Reuter)— Cricket close of play scores: At Derby. Derbyshire 172 for five. Carr not out 75 versus Glamorgan. Rain curtailed play. At Oval. Worcestershire 77 Kelleher rightarm medium fast five for 23. and secondly 32 for one. Surrey 148 for live declared. At Bournemouth,
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  • 73 12 S'pore Invited For Inter-Port Regatta MACAO, June 29 (Reuter) Macao has invited Japan. Singapore, Borneo. Manila, Saigon and Hongkong to participate m an interport regatta here m November this year, it was announced today. The race was organised to celebrate the 400 th anniversary of Portuguese rule m Macao. Japan
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  • 541 12 THOUGH no records were broken at the annual athletic meet of RAF Changi held on the Pagar sports ground yesterday, competition was keen m the various events. Outstanding athletes were A.C. Howard, Cpl. Wood Sgt. Morgan and Sgt. Oldfield. Howard won both
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    • 765 12 CLASSIFIED ADS situahons vacant 4 PPLICATIONS are invited for the post of Assistant Superintendent (Settlements) :n the Department of Soc.al Welfare, Singapore. Salary $235 x 15A 445 plus Variable Allowance. Total emoluments at present range from an in:tial salary of $305.50 with annual -r.crements \o $578.50. The successf al candidate
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 169 12 M f l Abner By A/ Copp W^^^nr* c^N^utAxol^^pPS^^^i L fM ES THI^ I I#M GONNA 'J VO' GOT A RIGHT TQ. I W^SfSh^^wlS 5^ Mi S*M > A H- 7 MOCM NICER X L ENJOY IT. MAH IS TH'PROPJTTV A WARNED THAT IF I WAS f U'U THAN BEING
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  • 2101 13  -  WINDSOR LAD By Scores Maiden Victory In The Straight IPOH Wed.— AH the cneers were ior ugu «*"j r~*Zf rn.\7« SmarOvawav at the barrier rise, this five-year gelding owned by Mrs. Chua sion^today swond day of the Perak Turf Club's June-July meeting. High Hobes^aid
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  • 610 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— A total of 144 Class 4 and Class 5 horses have been entered for the Selangor Turf Club's July, 1955 meeting which opens m Kuala Lumpur on Saturday July 9. HORSES CLASS 4. Ist Ran 2nd Run abt 5i 17 I 61 9
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  • 50 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A time trial for cyclists wishing to participate m the Singapore/Kuala Lumpur road cycle race will "be held on Sunday, July 10 Entries should be sent before July 7 to the Hon Secretary, Selangor Cyclists Association, c/o No. 1 Gallagher Road, Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 33 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The Kuala Lumpur Methodist Boys School will meet King George V School of Seremban m a cricket match on June 2 on the Davidson Road ground.
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  • 370 13 THE key match of the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association water polo league between the Singapore Swimming Club and the Chinese Swimming Club this Sunday will decide the senior league championships. Each team will have to play one more game with RAF Singapore, but the
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  • 879 13 This Year's Colony Tennis Tourney... WHILE the men and the boys have entered to make it a record entry for this year's Singapore Lawn tennis championships starting on Saturday, there has been a poor response from the Colony's women for the singles tournament.
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  • 627 13 Champion Joyce is Built For Speed Wins Raffles Girls School Title MEET JOYCE X £«L$L Sfe£ LT*e y £JS and winning the school championship. Joyce broke the 100 yards record with a time of I-*.* seconds, improving on that set D y Patricia Higham last year oy .2 seconds. She
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  • 308 13 MONTEIRO SWEEPS THE BOARD WINNING five events, the 100 and 220 yards, 100 yards hurdles high and long jumps. Monteirg became division 1 champion t St. Joseph's Afternoon Scm 7th annual sports held o: c school ground on Tu< morning. Wong Ah Guan was division J champion. Results were: DIVISION
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