Singapore Standard, 8 October 1955

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    16 1 Singapore Standard 3ft ft vH adf dsf af SINGAPORE, OCTOBER 8, 1955 14 PAGES 1% CENTS
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    Lock icon DOWN ARMS, REDS TOLD
    587 1 Tunku's Condition For A Ceasefire COME OUT HELP MERDEKA' KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Federation Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, declared today that he would order a general ceasefire if Chin Peng accepts his amnesty terms and orders all Communist terrorists to lay down arms in the
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    Lock icon ARAHAP PLEADS FOR A CHANCE
    52 1 ARAHAP PLEADS FOR A CHANCE m U Indo- I the II a I \dj to I I r.ew I I I I > to I I :ne I gov- i bi the I r until d par- re ::cial v the one i ol the riiated .v gave 181, thei
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    Lock icon dm. Koh Dies In Accident
    19 1 I Madam i in a near w.ic ol well;bber ed by B I two
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    Lock icon Watnen Saw Blue Film And Magistrate Sees Red
    507 1 PENANG FrL— "Blue" films at Selangor Road were specially screened on the night of Sept 26 in a private-bouse for 12 women who were found' by the Police, the Magistrate's Court was told today Most of these women were married. Their ages
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    Lock icon India's Worst Floods
    120 1 India's Worst Floods 100 KILLED NEW DELHI, Oct. 7 <Reuter> More than 100 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless in three days ol floods which have swept north -western India. Most of the deaths were caused by the collapse of houses und<r torrential rain which has now stopped.
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    Lock icon Police Grab 'Pay-up Gang'
    388 1 MR. X HELPED TRAP THEM SINGAPORE Police yesterday broke up one of the biggest extortion gangs on the island when they detained 12 suspected secret society thugs. The Police swoop started at 8 a.m. when they successfully ambushed a man in Kirn Yam Road for alleged
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    Lock icon Patrol Shoots Running Reds
    56 1 A COMBINED Police and Home Guard patrol at Simpang Rengam New Village in the R( ngam area of Johore yesterday opened fire on three iigures outside the perimeter lence as they ran away on being challenged. The patrol's attention was fir>t attracted by noises outside the
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    Lock icon Cow Posted To Market
    71 1 BOURNE END. Buckinghamshire. Oct. 7 (Rcuter)— Flossie the cow went to market by post from here yesterday because her owner wanted to test the Post Office boast that it could deliver anything. And they were dead risht. She got there and it only cost me £3.
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    Lock icon MISER'S HOARD
    31 1 POLICE searching the rubble-filled home of a Greekborn peanut vendor who lived in abject poverty in New York found 54,500 and bankbooks showing deposits of more than $2,000. Reuter
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    Lock icon DEATH SENTENCES
    25 1 SEVEN southern Sudan policemen have been condemned to death by firing squad for murdering northerners during the August mutiny in Southern Sudan.— Keuter
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    Lock icon DR. DANNY KAYE
    26 1 AMERICAN International College announced yesterday it will confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities on comedian Danny Kaye on Oct. 20.- UP
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    Lock icon VOTES BY PIX
    26 1 VIETNAMESE citizens will use photographs Instead of ballot papers to decide on Oct. 23 whether to depose Bao Dal. Chief of State.— Reuter
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    Lock icon Wed In Piccadilly
    53 1 photo. MISS JULIA CHIN Gaik Yeap. 20, and Mr. Heah Hock Menjj, 29. leave the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Piccadilly. London, after their wcddin? on Wednesday. Miss Chin, who is a Malayan barrister, has known Mr. Heah, a Malayan chartered accountant, since they were
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    Lock icon West's Guarantee To Russia Ready
    149 1 80l RNEMOITH, Oct. 7 <Keuter)— Mr. Harold MacMillan, the Foreign Secretary, said today the West was ready to rcdispose its forces in Europe to back legal guarantees of security to Russia alter Germany was re-united. Addressing the Conservative Party's annual conference here, he said these
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    Lock icon RUBBER MARKET RECOVERS
    82 1 RUBBER MARKET RECOVERS THE RUBBER market In Singapore regained confidence slightly and prices Improved by 4 3/8 cents to $1.29 3/8 per lb. for first grade October shipment on a steady market. Good overseas acceptances and trade support contributed to the rise in prices yesterday. The heavy liquidation of the
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    Lock icon Police Raid Open Air Opium Den
    77 1 Police Raid Open Air Opium Den From Our Own Correspondent SANDAKAN. Fri. Police today arrested three suspected opium smokers alter laying in ambush positions around an open air opium den concealed on a hillside near Kampong Gelam. When the Police party arrived earlier, they climbed a winding lootpath and when
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    Lock icon RED CHINA'S NAVY
    30 1 THE Nationalist Chinatone News Agency said Russia had recently turned over three destroyers and two gunboats to the Red Chinese navy in the Central China area. UP
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    26 1 FOUR British servicemen on leave were attacked by a crowd of Cypriots in Lima.ssol last nUht. One man was injured in the lace. Router
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    Lock icon $100,000 RISE FOR PAT
    226 1 HOLLYWOOD. Oct. 7. (UP) —Patricia Morris, pretty 19--year-old hypnotized television contestant, may become the richest college freshman in the country if she can summon enough will power to overcome the hypnosis tonight. Pat has- a chance to win US$lOO,OOO on her return to the "Truth Or
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    Lock icon THE BIG THREE
    39 1 SIR WINSTON' Churchill. Mr. Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines and Mr Herbert Hoover. Jr.. U.S. Undersecretary of State, yesterday were listed 1955\> winners of gold medals awarded by the New York Board of Trade. A.P
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    Lock icon CRASH: 65 DIE
    26 1 ALL 65 persons aboard a United Airline piano, reported missing yesterday are dead. The piano crashed Into a peak in Southern Wyoming. UP
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    Lock icon MALAYA NEEDS OWN ART
    214 2 MALAYA NEEDS OWN ART SINGAPORE Chief Minis- ler, Mr. David Marshall, open- u.z the 14th. Intor-SchooJ Ari Exhibition yesterday, .said he hoped that one day a iru'.y Malayan art speaking for a truly Malayan nation will emerge from the diverse styles a:ul cultures in the country. In the exhibition, he
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    Lock icon Labourer Remanded In Hospital
    91 2 AX unemployed man. P. Rajoo, lonnd guilty in the Singapore. S:xth Magistrate's Court yesterday of a charge of rausing hurt to a City Council*labourer. Ham Xath. with 8 knife, was ordered by the Magistrate. Mr. J.P. Trainor to be remanded in t ho Woodbridge Hospital for
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    Lock icon Elections Were Valid, Says Cheng – lock
    193 2 Elections Were Valid, Says Cheng lock Decision On MCA Dispute KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The president of the Malayan Chinese Association, Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan, today ruled that the recent Kuala Lumpur district sub-branch committee elections which caused party controversy were valid and constitutional. His memorandum outlining reasons for his final
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    Lock icon Tec's Trap Netted 4 Dud Note Passers — Court Told
    205 2 Tec's Trap Netted 4 Dud Note Passers Court Told INSPECTOR Wong Loong 'he i nercial Crimes Bra:, 'h the Singapore Fourth Magistrate. Mr. J. M. Devereux-Coleburn, yesterday thai posing as a Djarkarta businessman, he trapped four men trafficking in forged Indonesian currency. He said this at a preliminary inquiry in
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    Lock icon Acid Attack: Woman Convicted
    82 2 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri Low Wan Hong. 28-year-old mother of two. who. in a fit of- passion, threw acid onto the lace of a younger woman who shared a hotel bed with her husband, was today convicted on a charge of causing grievous hurt. Low. wife
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    Lock icon CITIZENSHIP: MR. M. AWAITS SUGGESTIONS
    149 2 CITIZENSHIP: MR. M. AWAITS SUGGESTIONS Chiof Minister. Mr. David Marshall, yesterday told The Singapore Chinese Chamber I of Commerce that he would welcome from the Chamber "any constructive suggestions" on the question of Singapore Citizenship. He said the matter was of so important and so sensitive a character that any
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    Lock icon TUC May Look Foolish —Marshall
    132 2 TUC May Look Foolish —Marshall PRESIDENT of the Sing* pore Trades Union Congress, Mr S. Jaganatnan yesterday received sharp rebuke from Chief Minister. Mr. David Marsha! lor having released to the Press iiis letter on a taxation policy seeking to increase the tax on white-collar income In a letter to
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    Lock icon FACE-TO-FACE
    21 2 ICE PRESIDENT Richard M. Nixon will fly to Denver on Saturday lor a face-to-face bedside conference with President Eisenhower. UP
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    Lock icon St. Theresa's Feast Day
    81 3 THE (east of St. Theresa will be celebrated at the rch of St. Theresa. Kami pong Bahru. tomorrow when there will be Low Mass at H 6.30 a.m. followed by a i Mass at 8 a.m. At 5.30 p.m.. a Low Mass will fn .owed :\v
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    Lock icon 'Jail For Those Who Hinder Malayanization Witnesses'
    255 3 Lee Warns Against Threats THE secretary of the Malayanization Commis- j sion, Mr. Lee Siow Mong, yesterday warned the public that threats or insults to witnesses of the Commission either before or j after they have testified constitute an offence punishably by a
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    Lock icon Smouldering Fire Uncovered
    74 3 Smouldering Fire U ncovered SCENE aboard the Norwegian freifihter Troia yesterday after No. 4 hold was opened and the Singapore Harbour Board firemen tackled a copra cake fir*-. The men. all wearing respirators to combat the carbon dioxide eas previously pumped into the hold to keep the fire from spreading,
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    Lock icon Two Years' Jail For Opium Smuggler
    164 3 Two Years' Jail For Opium Smuggler A seaman. Goh Kum Chu. who was arrested in a tongkang which lield opium worth $110,000 duiinLi Singapore's biggest ever Customs' sweep was sentenced yesterday in the* Third District Court to two years' jail and also fined $5,000 in default an additional year's jail
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    Lock icon Industrial Union To Be Formed
    91 3 Industrial Union To Be Formed AN industrial union comprising about 10,000 workers employed in several Singapore 1 business houses will be formed soon. President of tiic Trades Union Congress, Mr. S. Jasanathan. told The. Standard last night. 1 10 said the proposed union The Singapore Business Houses Employees' Union— will
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    Lock icon General Pay Rise For Ford Men
    234 3 Firm Union Come To Terms TWO hundred and eighty employees of the Ford Motor Company, Singapore, will get a general wage rise and improved working conditions as a result of an agreement reached between the management and Factory and Shop Workers' Union yesterday. A
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    Lock icon Open Verdict In Death Of Patient
    99 3 Open Verdict In Death Of Patient THE Singapore Coroner. Mr. K. T. Alexander, returned an open verdict yesterday at the inquest on a General Hospital patient who fell from a second floor ward, at midnight on Aug. 30. Stall nurse Lai Souh Wnh told the court that a lew minutes
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    88 3 MacG. Hands Insignia To Gurkhas SUXGEI PATANI. Fri. Insignia of Honour, awarded by the Queen, to the ofliccrs and men of the Brigade of Gurkhas, were presented to the recipients by the High Commissioner, Sir Donald Mao Gil.ivray, at a passing out parade held at the Depot of the Brigade
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    Lock icon $9,750 FOR TIONG BAHRU FIRE RELIEF
    128 3 A TOTAL of $!),750 has been received by the Chung Khiaw Bank. Singapore for the Kampong Tiong Bahru F.re Re'ief Fund. Lee Foundation $2,000; Tai Joo Co.. Ltd.. si.oori; Lam Choon Factory $1,000; Bee Seng Co.. Ltd.. $500; Building Construction Co.. Ltd.. $500; Tat
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      71 3 Weather Report Minimum Temperature From 7..J0 p.m. Oct. <» to 7.30 a.m. Oct. 7: Singapore <7»iFi: Penang (71Fr. Kota Bahru (77T): Kuala Lumpur (71F): Ipoh (7lr); Kuantan (not received i. Maximum Temperature: From 7.: i!) a.m. to 7..: d p.m. Oct. 7 Singapore (89F): Penang (88F): Kota Bahru (87F»: Kuala
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    Lock icon CHINESE BUSES MAY FAKE OVER
    243 4 Unions To Meet Soon And Decide CHINESE bus companies may soon operate on routes normally run by the Singapore Traction Company. This follows a reconsideration by the Singapore Bus Workers Union of a proposal for Chinese-owned bus Company employees to serve S.T.C. routes for the
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    95 4 THE Advertising Manager of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, Mr. John Wilson, arrived by air on a round the world tour to see for himself the advertising situation in South-east Asia. Mr. Wilson, who \v\\\ be here for five days, will later visit Hongkong:. Japan. Australia,
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    55 4 THE Singapore Factory and Shop Workers' Union yesterday welcomed the Progressive Party's move to introduce a charter for the benefit of shop and factory workers. Said Mr. Devan Nair, one Union's secretary: "We wish the best of luck to all those who try to secure a
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    153 4 COMMODITY PRICES CI.OMNs. rubber prices (cent* per ib in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers. Spot fob (norn l? 0? I?*); Xo. 1 R S.S Oct. 1292 120; No. 2 I^B I2BJ No. > \m 126^ Tone: Steady TIN PKICE The price oi tin yesterday was S.'JTli per picul. (Down SSJ
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    Lock icon 2 Stabbed At City Food Stall
    114 4 2 Stabbed At City Food Stall A BROKER and his friend were stabbed while having super at a roadside stall in China Street. Singapore, on July 12. the Seventh Magistrate was told yesterday. In the dock was Lee Say Seng, a labourer, who was committed to the next Assizes, after
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    Lock icon Bankers' Air Odyssey Covered 60,000 Miles
    94 4 Mr. K. 11. BROUN (second from left), manager of the Travel Department, Bank of Sew South Wales. Sydney, and Mr. T. H Kellotk, lextreme right), travel officer of the Bank in Melbourne, have journeyed GO.OOO miles, mostly by air visiting 28 countries. photo They
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    48 4 A JOURNALIST. Neiison F Moddcr, who petitioned for a divorce from his wife, Lydia C Modder on the ground of desertion, was granted a decree nisi to be made absolute in three months by Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah in the Singapore High Court yesterday.
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    271 4 Cash In On Colony's Beauty' SINGAPORE should establish a travel development association, the manager of the Travel Department, Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, Mr. R. H. Brown said yesterday. Mr. Brown and Mr. T. H. Kcllock. Travel Officer of the bank in Melbourne, left
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    Lock icon HE DREW OUT HIS KNIFE LIKE TARZAN, COURT TOLD
    176 4 HE DREW OUT HIS KNIFE LIKE TARZAN, COURT TOLD A TWENTY-ONE-Y EARold beauty parlour owner. Miss Rosie Tay told the Singapore Second District Judge, Inche Ibrahim bin Ahmad, that a man drew out a knife -like a Tarzan" and robbed her. She said this, yesterday at a preliminary inquiry in
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    Lock icon 'Premature' Divorce Petition Dismissed
    160 4 A petition for divorce by Basilia Yolande Chapman against her husband, Derek John Chapman on grounds of desertion. wa s dismissed by Mr. Justice Whitton in the Singapore High Court yesterday. Mrs Chapman said she married her husband—of the Royal Engineers— in March 1952. Two days
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    Lock icon Ranatunga (91) Dies In Taiping
    77 4 Ranatunga (91) Dies In Taiping TAIPING, Fri.~Onc of the oldest Taiping residents, 91--year-old Mr. Francis Ranatunga. has died here. His funeral took place yesterday and was attended by a large gathering of friends and relatives from all over the Federation Buddhist prayers were chanten by four priests who had come
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    38 4 m HONGKONG. Oct 7 Special Standard ServiceClosing prices of the Hongkonc Exchange today were: $1537 }?o*, £1 sterli ng'. $5.***** to USSI; 1836 t0 Malayan $0,160 to the Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $253,375 to a tael. he
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    Lock icon Shoot Through The Roof In Case Of Red Attack
    386 5 Shoot Through The Roof In Case Of Red Attack New Alarm System For Home Guards KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Federation's InspectorGeneral of Home Guards, Maj. Gen. E. B. de Fonblanque today issued an order to his entire force: "If terrorists surround your house, shoot through the roof to warn police
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    Lock icon Firemen Beaten By Heat And Fumes
    233 5 Firemen Beaten By Heat And Fumes Copra Boat Still Burns Standard Shipping Reporter TIIK copra cake fire aboard the Norwegian freighter Tro.ja, active for the last 90 hours, is still burning. After more carbon dioxide i bad been pumped into the ship, I'.u- hatches were opened; yesterday. The copra sacks
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    Lock icon 2 Acquitted Of Driving Instructor's Murder
    223 5 2 Acquitted Of Driving Instructor's Murder GAX Linn Siong, a motor launch attendant, and Goh Tuck Blew, alias Ik Blew, a plywood factory worker, were acquitted by Mr. Justice Tay- j lor in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday of a charge Ol murdering Peck Boon i Yiam, a driving instructor
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    36 5 KIRKBY-trained lea cher. i Mr. Santa Singh, has been posted to Abdullah School at Kuantan. He take- the place of Mr. Kabal S:nsh who has been i transferred to Clifford School at Kuala Lipis.
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    935 6 Unfounded Feats PPHE Federation V Chi I Minister, Tunku Abdul Rabin thl t that fears harboured bo the breasts ol Chinese and members of other c- that they might in the near future be r. to the status <>: second or third class citiz» v mded We an
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    759 6  -  Andrew Roth dsaf dasf dsf dsa dsa faf ILTHOUGH long toyed with by the Egyptians and long rumoured as on the eve of achievement, the actual announcement that the Soviet bloc mil supply HUG fighter aircraft, heavy army equipment and small naval craft to Egypt has exploded with
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    303 6 New Policy r pilE Labour Party ol Malaya 1 must have done some serious heart .searching to assume now a more progressive outlook in its public pr< nouncements, the Utusan Melayu says in an editorial, commenting on the Party's statements urging negotiations with the MCP to end
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    Lock icon Let's fight our own battle
    374 6 s^r. it is a pity thai UMNO's Singapore Branch should drop their proposal to protest against the sending of Australian soldiers to Malaya to help us in our effort to get rid of Communist terrorists. As a step to train our youths to defend our
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    434 6 This Game of Politics Sir: A local columnist pays a back-handed compliment to Mr. Lee Kuan Yew by comparing him to Herbert Evatt But such a compliment it see#is to me is doi:i<: Mr. Evatt, a true Australian Nationalist, an injustice. The British always have the knack
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    441 6  - The Big STOR After the LU Cyril Dunn By NATION-WIDE PURGE IN S. AFRICA JOHANNESBURG TF the aim is to stage police raids on homes and offices throughout the land on a given day, it is clearly desirable to be armed with the element of surprise. In South Africa a
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    Lock icon Death For 23 Who 'Plotted' To Overthrow Peoples'Govt.
    171 7 Death For 23 Who 'Plotted' To Overthrow Peoples' Govt. HONGKONG, Oct. 7, (Reuter) Chinese Communist peoples courts in Shensi Province. Northern China, have sentenced to death 23 of 285 people arrested for plotting to overthrow the government, according to a Chinese newspaper reaching here yesterday. The 285 were all members
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    152 7 INDIGESTION? IT MAY BE YOUR HEART LONDON. Oct. 7 < Router* A British hrart specialist yesterday i»ued the warning that "indigestion* pain^ might mean heart trouble. Writing in the British Medical Journal. Dr. Kenneth Harris, senior physician and cardiologist at London's University College Hospital said: "It is so easy for
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    101 7 HENRY Williams, the tTi.OOO pools winner, photographed with his mother "She deserves the lot." said Henry. "She's had :i hard life bringing up us five kids. We have seen times when we have been desperately short of food and Mum has gone out and worked for
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    222 7 C'wealth PMs To Meet After Mr. B Visits Britain LONDON, Oct. 7, (IT)— The Prime Ministers of the nations of the British Commonwealth have agreed to meet here "about mid-summer 1956" to exchange views on the international situation, No. 10 Downing Street announced yesterday. No firm date tor the meeting
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    175 7 U.N. ASKED TO AID HK REFUGEES NEW YORK. Oct 7. (Rcutci)— The attention ot the United Nations geneial assembly's social committee was called yesterday to the plight of 670,000 Chinese refugees from the mainland now in Hongkong. The Chinese Nationalist delegate. Mr. CX. Hsia. speaking in debate on the refugee
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    93 7 Man Held For Damage In Ship LONDON. Oct. 7 < Router) The British Admiralty announced early today that a man had been arrested iollowing damage to the engineroom of the Royal Naval frigate Venus. The Admiralty statement said the damage occurred some days ago. It was not of a serious
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    19 7 WORLD noted scientist. Prof. Eugenio Milani died in Rome on Wednesday. He was 67 years old- UP
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    61 7 Don't Let Them Close Canal Plea To Queen BRISTOL. Oct. 7. (Renter) A petition to the Queen is beins organised in Western England asking he- to >top British transport authorities from closing the old Kennet and Avon ranal between Bristol and Reading. It calls on her to exercise her ancient
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    109 7 ALY KNOCKS RUMOUR COLD PARIS. Oct. 7 (UP)— Prince Aly Khan, looking as if he I meant it yesterday tossed cold water on all the speculation that he and Rita Hayworth will kiss and make up. "We are good friends." he >aid. "that's all." Rita smiled coyly the other day
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    401 7 Colonialism Attacked In U.N, UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 7, (UP)— Arab and Latin American states brought Britain under fire in the United Nations yesterday for its claims to three territories, just six days after France walked out of the world organization because its rule in
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    112 7 GO/TTINGEN, Germany. Oct. 7 <AP> Twenty-four travel-weary ex-Wehrmarht generals returned to West Germany last night after a decade in Soviet Russia as prisoners ot war. They were the first of 9.G26 German prisoners of war whose freedom was promised by Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin durins
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    131 7 SPAIN WILL KEEP OUT RIFF REBELS MADRID. Oct. 7. (AP) Spain intends to keep her zone of Morocco out of the lighting, a high government source said yesterday. RifT Nationalists will not be permitted to use the zone a.s a base lor operations against the French. This informant r< fused
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    92 7 WASHINGTON. Oct. 7 <UP» The full band of the Scots Guards arrived aboard a British Overseas Airways Stratocrui-< r at tho military air transport terminal thus mornins, and went directly to the Marine Corps barracks where they will stay during their four-day visit here. The
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    152 7 V ONTAINEBLE A l\ FRANCE, Oct. 7 (AP).— A United States airman, held in jail on murder charge, married a French girl here yesterday with a pair of handcuffs round his wrist. As he knelt during the service in Saint Louis Church, a French
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    28 8 THE Australian Commissioner i n Malaya. Sir Alan S Watt, returned t o Singapore by air yesterday irom a li vena v tour of North Borneo
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    297 8 COMMUNIST propaganda in the Chinese schools of Sarawak was on the increase in 1954, says the Sarawak Annual Report which was issued yesterday. "More young Chinese students left Sarawak for China during 1954 than in any previous year,' the Report continues. 'There
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    237 8 'Officers Were Negligent' TAPAH, Fri.— Former District Officer oi Batang Parians. Mr. C. Blake, a witness in a criminal breach )f trust case against a revenue clerk, said under crossexamination in the Sessions Court yestcrda\ that there lad been negligence on the part oi
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    105 8 New Varsity Court Nominees KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.-. The Fede r a 1 Legislative Council will next Wednesday be asked to name its lour new representatives on the court df the University oi Malaya. Date Abdul Razak, the Minister lor Education, will propo>o that besides himself as an ex-offlcio member, the
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    100 8 Shortage Of Group 'B' Blood BLOOD GROUP "B" is the lowest in Singapore's Blood Bank at present, states a report from the Blood Transfusion Service at General Hospital. There are 120 flasks of various types now in the Bank. with 184 donors for the week ending Oct. 5. During the
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    34 8 RAUB. Fri.- Mr. S Visuvallngam, Post Master. Raub has been promoted to Assistant Superintendent Postal Services Department and transferred to Klang. Inche Jamidin bin Jamin will act as Post Master at Raub.
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    95 8 Learners Did Not Obey Law TAN.TONG MALIM. Fri.— C'\.\: E::^ Hock of Sungkai. Perak was fined $25 in the Magistrate's Court here by Mr E. V. A. Peers for not displaying an ""I-" plate on his car on A:.g. 7 when he was driving with a provisional v. On a
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    75 8 MR. PHUA B »n Liang was re-elected president of the Pulau Bukom Clerical and Ar[tisons' Club at 9th its Annual I General Meeting. Other club officials re-elected were: V. e-President, Mr. Chow Peng Kong. Hon. See. Mr. C'nia Buck Phuang. Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Ng Kuan Seng I
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    30 8 IPOII. Fri.— The Kinta Indian Association will entertain Mr. V. T. Sambanthan. Minister for Labour, with a dinner to honour his success in the Federal fleet ions.
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    25 8 THE Regimental Band of the Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment, will play at the Singapore Botanic Gardens tomorrow from 5 to 6.15 p.m.
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    21 8 MR. K. A. MOHAMED. a businessman, who left for India in Juno this year has returned to Raub.
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    60 8 TANJOXG MALIM. F.: Supptah Arumugam v 50 cents by Mr. E. V. A I in the Magistrate's Co iii lor carrying two passei bis toddy transport Iran 00 '2 when his ha not permit him to do Suppiah said that I passengen were I were
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    216 8 COUNCILLORSEEKS BETTER DEAL FOR ABORIGINES KUALA LIMPIR, Fri.— Datoh Haji Mohamcd Eusoff, Federal Legislative Councillor representing th< aborigines, today called for continued maintenance <>i the 'jungle forts' after the end of the Emergent t. protect the tribes and prevent them being exploited In his first public statement since being to
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    121 8 KUALA LX'MPUR. Tne Malayan Chinese A tion'< Central Fdj >ai mitico will meet <,n O I ronsider a tnemoran future education country. The meeting. The S1 i was io!d, is being pon-e to GoverniTM nt tion asking individu; public bodies to subn ii I
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    52 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A motor-cycle on fire today caused a major traffic jam along busy Petaling Street during lunch hour. The fire was put o;:t by the time a fire engine arrived. The Fire Brigade put out a 'allang blaze at Spooner Road in the Lake
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    62 8 MISS Lalita Ra.iasooria (centre) Guide Lieutenant of the Ist Coy, Kuala Lv in pur Girl Guides, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. S. Ra.iasooria. poses with Guides who bid farewell to her at the Kuala Lumpur Railway Station on Tuesday. She is joining the
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    55 8 IPOH. Fri. Perak appellate judge. Mr. Justice Thomson today ruled that the character lotteries, irrespective of whether or not they r.re two. three or tour digits, constitute a single lottery He gave a written judgment today in a case which he had called for revision himself
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    168 8 One Came— Judge sentence imposed on Woo Fong. who was fined S4oO or three months' imprisonment on each of two charges relating to the character lotteries. Mr. Justice Thomson said he thought justice would be done ii he set aside the conviction on the second charge and increased the fine
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    42 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Australian destroyers Arunta and Warramunga arc to make an informa visit to Port Swettenham on Oct. 11. the Royal Navy announced today After three days at Port Swettenham, the destroyers will g o to Penang
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    44 8 'L' DRIVER FOR 8 YEARS TANJONG MALIM. Fi A. Sinakalan o! Estate, who claimed lo provisional driving ii I eight years irii lined I Magistrate's Court hen having a competent <:: his >ide and |2S fot playing an "L" piaie drove a car on .Iw.y
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    53 8 IPOH. Fii. B.kit new villager. Voog Chiang wa? arrested at the XStation here pestefday noon lor travelling fi ping to Ipoh without a I Appearing before M Che Jamai bin Abdul Lati morning, Yonjj \va- m to three dayg' impn-<>: when he W9M unable to
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    367 9 I afds dsfdas V Chun Yee nnd an 0 cr Wilde's Importance of Being (Victor Lelah and H irk Boon). at $2 n>jd n 'v the St. edrol Ofjce C>:77) t,r from St. s Scl DOf Office i School's C in the same Ti. irsday next, t
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    211 9 N l»«s s j 1 1 1 i n tlirr .111(1 Ike rull ml I.V \.-\V nut t«»r of ru No. lo in E minor. Philips AL Orchestra of MOZART. Oboe Quartet, K370. Flute Q tartet K285. Divcrtifor two clarinets on, K. Anh. I Vienna artists. Nixa WLP
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    209 9 Eight Silent Soldiers 'sentenced' to tents LONDON. fPHE barrack rooms RleaniX cd in their coats of new paint. Then suddenly, mysteriously "It" appeared a dirty handprint on a freshly painted wall. Eight soldiers of 94 Location Regiment. Royal Artillery, lived in that barrack room at Luneberg Heath. Germany. They said
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    121 9 LONDON. OMEN out shopping glanced idly over the Is.-a-weok adverts in the shop window. Suddenly they stared. For there, among the "mangle for sale" and •pram wanted" adverts, was this card: YOUNG MAN WITH GOOD HOME NEEDS PARTNER WITH THE IDEA OF MATRIMONY APPLY AFTER 1 P.M. ADDRESS
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    550 9 STAGE DOOR in the town— for little is said directly except in the general terms of poverty and cynicism about life. The language is blunt and unashamed and, although I am tempted to give an example of it here. I must refrain as it would certainly not be suitable for
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    380 9 COLOGNE, W. Germany IN this small town of some 1 500.000 inhabitants, there are a number of professional theatres which play regularly during the winter season. The habit here, as elsewhere in Germany, is for the theatre to ha\e a repertory of plays, operas and
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    415 9 How Joe made £193,000 Out of Nothing YOUNG MAN WITH GOOD HOME NEEDS PARTNER 11 ITH IDF. OF MA TRIMONY. PPL V AFTER 7 p. m. ADD HESS II WHIN. appears in a shop window Bert Is divorced. He went have no purpose in life to live in Dudley after
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    226 9 LONDON. CHILD pickpockets, taught at "schools" set up by convicted criminals. are working in Midland towns and cities at week-ends. A twelve-year-old Walsall girl, well-known to the police, has been taught to operate with a young baby in a pram. She frequents multiple stores. Her innocent behaviour
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      61 9 3. Can! tho be Gmlk—n 1 i r > shirt-f roni i p oar:..! ol Sir John W Alt fOf it i .:w nbout pney iT) rtirular lime i.lv diabolical n k I -by although :..t 161 21 Smile «>f a hitch-hiker lets a lilt? ()>) f Solution lowoTTou:} ■3B
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    298 10 I Finance And Commerce THE Public Life Assurance Co. Ltd. h< produced satisfactory results, according to th first report and audited accounts. The company held I nnual genera] mectir at the board Yoom oi I office at 59—61 Robinsc Road. Singapore to review
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    181 10 RUBBER UP 4 3/8 C. TIIK rubber marun Singapore recovered from the sharp drops of tin past f»u days am 1 prurs rose by <rnts to SI .VJI per Ib. for first trail October shipment at thr (lose. Mces op*n» d at l| crnti above Thursday and con- .r. mproTt
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    31 10 The Malayan fxchan«ro Links Association ma( j c )0 lollowin? changes in its rates to merchants yesterday: bills: sellino;. IT. or O.I). ;>•> »> H> ready. Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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    117 10 THE first annual general meetin? of the Public Life Assurance Co. Ltd. was held in the rumpan.v'.s offices in Singapore yesterday. Picture shows (clockwise): Dr. Paul Y. Sieux M.D. (medical referee of the comp.my); >lr. Hu.m^ Tzu hiant; (assistant manager); Mr. Fun? Lok Nam. A.Comm. A. (manager); .Mr.
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    82 10 MALAYAN tin statist] *s red that foreign exports ot tin and tin concentrates during September amounted to 6.613 tons u>.o4t> tons in August) of i h 4.223 tons went to the United States. In Iho firs: nine months of this year exports amounted to tons, including
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    165 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Alliance Government will next week be asked to outline its policy rejjardins local industries in the Federation Mr. Leung Cheung Ling. Member representing the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce, will urge the Financial Secretary, Mr. C.J. Thomas, to state whether Government
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    300 10 Marshall To Open Great World Trade Fair Tonight THE Singapore Trade and Industry Exhir rion at the Great World, which will be official declared open by the Chief Minister, t* r Day Marshall, at 6 p.m. today, promises to be bright occasion with a big crowd. A cocktail party is
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    384 10 $1 M. Profit For Fraser Neave —Dividend, Bonus FRASER Xeave Ltd., reported a reasonably sue cessful year to June 30, 1955, with a net profit c §1,457,000 and will pay shareholders a total distributio of 20 per cent, in dividends if the declaration of fin;i dividend and bonus is sanctioned
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    142 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Pro duc-c Exchange noon rlosinj prices per picu] yesterday were Muntok white $mi sellers Special Sarawak white Sh>( sellers. Special Sarawak blai-l $112 sellers; coconut oil (bulk $41 sellers, coconut oil (drums 54.; sellers; copra Oct. S l 1 buyers, SL'Ti 1 sellers; Nov. $2J buyers. $28$
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    178 10 THE prosperity of Fraser Neave, Ltd.. has in the past and will in the future mean prosperity for the employees, says the Chairman, Mr. E. L. Pea Ice, in his statement to be presented at tlie annual general meeting on Oct. 29. The tiro tilings are
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    250 10 U.S. Natural Rubber Usage Good AMERICAN rubber consumption figures for August have been received and show that natural consumption has increased only one-fifth of the synthetic increase during the month, according to the weekly report of Holiday, Cutler. Eath and Co.. Ltd. Some operators, the- repor adds, look this as
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    19 10 KUBBER crops Biinuunred ire: Kompas August 341.600 Ib., September 335.250 lh.; Radella August 15.800 September 1.i.800 Ib.
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    163 10 S'pore-Made Coconut Shredders ArpDnnnlnr AUTOMATIC electric coconut flinders or shredders will be on displajr at the Great World Trade Exhibition. The machines were invented by Mr. Kay Mm Chong, who runs the Ming Engineering Works. The machine consists of a cylinder of stainless tool BteeJ and powered by an electric
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    156 10 MALAYAN industrial shares were a shade better with a lew counters making slight recoveries Malayan Cements, in particular, were steadier on overseas buying. Tin shares were dull and Irregular, while rubber shares were weak and lower. Price changes announced by he Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS B
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    36 12 Sl>i :irc over the X morn- j Cn Dcf^nrc a ChoBo of the ?*•> i Squ Roya Austra ian Air 1 making 1 i ng Ci Di the target fljit j'ju
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    41 12 JOHORF: BAHRU, Fr. the 1 I Jalan applic I to I 11, .1 chore I ion to ereci hi > permanent arches i the am c<; to |h e ket in ro:n: tiie S Diamoo I Jubi
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    496 12 Warders' Misunderstanding Cleared Up Sochon: I Never Intended To Cast A Slur On You THE misunderstanding between the warders at Pearl's Hill Prison and Singapore's Commissioner of Prisons, Major W. L. P. Sochon/ ended amicably yesterday. T\.s followed a friendly exchange of letters between Major
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    55 12 MX \M) MRS. KOBKKT BONNES, who were married ->t the Komaii Catholic Charra at r.a.f. Ckaafi, Singapore. rnently. Mr. Bon■et is employed as a line technician at K.A.I Chansi, While his bride, the former Miss Ann Francis Markham. is a telephone supervisor at the same
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    48 12 THE GENERAL M Ec of B. tish V- Mr. X.R. Sod, io M arrived by BOAC. ci t« to, Aus tra ia yesterday. Mr Seddon, arrived his wife the c i two days I n Aust- I the < pen- of a new refinery Perth.
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    177 12 •POST early for Christinas' was the message sent out by Singapore's Postal Department yesterday The messages were contained in B.OOU posters with the latest dates of Christmas postings The Acting Director of Posts, Mr. A. Mackay, advised the public to have their packages firmly tied
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    90 12 A CHEMICAL shop in thi 1.C.1. explosives factory a Ardeer, Scotland, blew up las night, waking the district am shattering shop and housi windows. No one wa« InJumi Reuter MISS Dorothy Tan (second from left), a trained nurse from the General Hospital. Kuala Lumpur who is studying operating
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    103 12 Two Men In A Tub May Call Here SINGAPORE may be a port of call lor two young Australian adventurers who are sailmg back to their home iro-n Britain to a 67-year-old wooden boat. The boat, which they recently Purchased while *in the United Kingdom, is being fitted out at
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    47 12 photographs by local employees of the She!! Company, entered for tho Berita Shell photo contest w^ in P s a h' C M °n PUblic «WWtfan r^m S s?i!iayf O^H SillgapOre The exhibition will' be open-! .vir. T. Haddock, on Oct. 13. I
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    41 12 a s™ola?shfn SrSS^ to be Slanted tenanto of P «2. I in the main-<r-ift viii I S l per Constellation" airAir"afi S l^ r in« A S Pandian (ri K ht), "Cons^liStio^ aircraft StUdiCd ab Ut
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    65 12 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri.-A delegates' conference of the All-Malayari Federation of Malaya Government Medical Employees' Union will be held at A!or Star, Kedah tomorrow. The Johoro Medical Workers' Union is submitting a resolution to the conference Iti- i tafr uni ons in the Medical Department be amalgamated
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    129 12 AN exhibition telling the Story of oi! from the search to Its distribution to the customer Will be sent on tour to various Lh:ne>e middle schools in Singapore from Monday, Oct. 10. The exhibition, sponsored by Shell Company, Ltd.. will be staged in the
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    47 12 A TALK on germs, particularly those which flourish in a warm climate such a< Ma"•'•"s and the body's resistance t 0 them will bo given tonight by Dr. James Nelson < i the Youngberg .Memorial Hospital at pm at the way ol Life" auditorium
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    64 12 THE Singapore F. yesterday announced that 1 Sin scheduled to be showi morrow wi:, now be I Cuiness comedy The The White Suit." The two screenings British Council Hail a at 8.3 i and a p.m. A will be to members i i Members of
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    205 12 'HOLIDAYSM MEAN SMAL RUBBER YIE Estimated 54.000.,,, PENA N G, Fri -.r 'I Molaya is bound to d M| t J 54,400 tons o year Qso d r s P ul > 51 getting poid hol.dov Mr. C. P. List. I said, this to The Si H '■Quite a formidal
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    142 13 JUNIORS FOR FED. TOURS THE Singapore Badminton A* sociation selected two '.cam. ol Juniors to tour the Federation in December. Following have been selected to undergo trial*. MEN: Robert Lim. Salleh Kur shi Hashim Haron. Quek Koon Chye, Bobby Hene, Long Pern Chan, Cheong Hock Lock. Pnun Yew Hong On*
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