The Straits Times, 27 July 1955

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    27 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27. 1955 15 CENTS Todays the big day -.and official view is: All will go well at the polls
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    ALLIANCE FAVOURED to WIN
    933 1  -  HARRY MILLER By party machine in top gear kOMEN MAY SWAY THE RESULT t i'iH forecasts gave the Uliance be- nd > il l s I ederation's election ■olis in itituencies ii c three cornered produce i results. obserthat the ign. ral opinion that the >n-;anisa-been
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    ALLIANCE 33, NEGARA 11 (INCLUDING ONN) —SO SAYS THE CRYSTAL
    107 1 ALLIANCE 33, NEGARA 11 (INCLUDING ONN) SO SAYS THE CRYSTAL A SPIRITUALIST in Kuala Lumpur, Mr. T. R. P. Dawson, said last night that a crystal into which he gazed for 42 hours gave him the following election results: Alliance 33 seats. Xesara 11, Islamic Party four. National Association of
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    I'M NO RED: FONG
    157 1 I'll work for democratic Malaya* says released union boss THE secretary of the Singapore Bus Workers' Union. Mr. Fon£ Swee Suan, told the Straits Times yesterday: "I am not a Communist Mr. Fong. who was released on Monday after 45 days detention, said the Government would
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    Lock icon Price control
    31 1 MELBOURNE, Tues. The New South Wales Government Ls to reimpose price controls because of the rise in the cost of living. Labour Premier, Mr. John Joseph Cahill, said today.—Reuter.
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    Lock icon Admiral's death
    28 1 LONDON. Tues. The death here of Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Commander-in-Chief of the Western Approaches from 1941 to 1942 was announced today. He was 75.— Reuter.
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    LIM LEE the cafe singer IS HOME with two degrees
    69 1 LIM LEE the cafe singer IS HOME with two degrees THE smiling girl in the picture above has good reason to smile. Her name Is Lim Lee and she left Singapore as a cafe singer in 1952. Yesterday she returned to the Colony with two decrees from the Royal Academy
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    Lock icon TEA STATE IS CUT OFF
    52 1 SHILLONG, Assam, Tues. Racing flood -waters from the swollen Branmaputra River have completely isolated the rich tea-growing state of Assam in North-East India. Ali three rail links with Inciia were washed away early today. The only communication with the rest of the country was by
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    No 'meet people'
    22 1 Mr. David Marshall, Singapore's Chief Minister, has cancelled his "meet-the-people" session on Saturday because it is a public holiday.
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    Mr. Marshall: This is how Britain can make me stay
    430 1 I SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. David I E Marshall, last night said that he would not resign iHhe British Government would say that it was prepared to review its I attitude to the granting of self-government to the Colony. i
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    Lock icon IN HONG KONG, BOYD says: I'M IN NO HURRY
    240 1 HONG KONG, Tues. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Alan Lennox Bovd, said today that he would not cut his five-day visit here because of the situation in Sinßapore. Mr. Lennox Boyd. who spent the morning sight-seeing, said he
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    Visit to Russia
    26 1 NEW YORK, Tues. The United Nations announced last ninht that 13 Asian experts are going to Russia soon to study mining and geology.
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    FORCES KILL 12 REDS IN 48 HOURS
    557 1 FORCES KILL 12 REDS IN 48 HOURS 5 die, 3 surrender in swamp KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. TWELVE Communist terrorists were killed, three surrendered and a woman suspect was captured in the past 48 hours the security forces' bipgest success for several months. Four of the kills, the three surrenders and
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    Lock icon Fall kills 4
    30 1 HONG KONG, Tues. Four Chinese, including a woman, were killed in Macao yesterday in a landslide, according to a report reaching here. Two others were injured. U.P.
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    $20,000 in the post
    67 1 'Monthly' contest rpiIEKE have been no valid A rescrutiny claims in the Malayan Monthly 'L' competition. The list of winners published in the Sunday Times of July 17 is, therefore, confirmed. Winners will receive their cheques .through the post. In the July issue now on sale
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    STOP PRESS
    77 1 US. READY IOK TALES WITH CHINA WASHINGTON. Tnrv— tilted states Secretary of ->i -I. John Foster Dalles iid today that 0.8. ;\<>uld be trllHag to fiNru^ with o'liimmisl China QUesttoaa dirri-tiv •ffeettas the two ctuntrifs with vkw to amvms; at iifacrful settlement. Beater. (Sr? Parr WAR DANG IK
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    Lock icon FAR EAST TALKS URGED BY SENATOR
    182 2 FAR EAST TALKS URGED BY SENATOR WASHINGTON. Tues. CENATOR Walter F. George said today that next week's diplomatic talks with Communist China may help clear the air for a twonation Foreign Ministers' conference on the Far East. Senate Republican leader, Mr. William F. Knowland. however. that there should be no
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    Farewell to MacD
    38 2 The Singapore, Chinese and Indian Chambers of Commerce will hold a combined farewell tion in honour of the Commissioner General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, at the Raffles Hotel ballroom at 6.30 p.m. on August 8.
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    Club leaders
    28 2 Twenty-one young people, including five girls, la.st niuht took a club leadership examination at the Singapore You i Council. The examination will I :id on Friday.
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    Lock icon IT'S A DEAD LOSS. . .
    64 2 IT'S A DEAD LOSS NEW YORK, Tues. A Tvoman who lost every bet on the horses on her first visit to a racecourse, yesterday lost her suit to recover what she lost —US$425. Justice Harold Stevens, in the New York County Supreme Court, dismissed the suit and ruled Miss Paula
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    Lock icon HATTA'S TASK: FIND A NEW LEADER
    154 2 HATTA 'S TASK: FIND A NEW LEADER Talks with parties on Indonesian crisis JAKARTA, Tues. TH E Vice-President, Dr. Mohammed Hatta, today opened talks with Indonesian political parties on the forma- tion of a new cabinet. Dr. Hatta devoted five hours to the consultations which will i continue until Thursday.
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    Lock icon A Royal pilgrim's progress
    95 2 From tht orchidateous to thm glamorous but graciou%—and than on to the not so conspicuous oVJre home oft* a 4 a.m. dance Poty uj orchids at the nostei Off-the-shoulder at the show, vVEDNESDAY last week was a busy day tor Princess Margaret. In the morning she
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    Lock icon Ike shocks doll makers
    58 2 NEW YORK, Tues. The president of the National Association of Doll Manufacturers yesterday wired an "official protest' 1 to President Eisenhower over his purchase in Geneva of oome dolls for his grandchildren. Mr. David Rosens tein told the President that the entire American toy industry was
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    Lock icon 85 marries 83
    25 2 LONDON. Tues. Mr. James Filer, 85. married in Somerset yesterday for the third time His bride was Miss Ann Pitts 83.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Lord's in an uproar over girls in bikinis
    285 2 Lord's in an uproar over girls in bikinis 1 WILL WEAR PYJAMAS' THREATENS C.B. FRY LONDON, Tues. IT may not have been cricket but a group of maidens clean bowled over at least one spectator of the noble game when they promenaded around the dignified Lord's cricket ground here in
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    $183 FOR THE SELANGOR TRIPLETS
    74 2 $183 FOR THE SELANGOR TRIPLETS The Straits Times yesterday received seven gifts totalling $183 from readers In Singapore for the triplets of Hassan bin Mat Kaji, a tin mine labourer at Ulu Yam Bahru, Selangor. The gifts came from Mr. Wee Kong Koon $100, Inche Mohamed Salleh bin Haji All
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    Lock icon Arms inquiry
    26 2 WASHINOTOON. Tues. The Senate yesterday authorised the appointment of a committee to study proposals on disarmament and "control of weapons of mass destruction." Reuter.
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    £155 for atlas
    20 2 LONDON. Tues.— One of Britain's earliest atlases, published in 1611. brought £155 at an auction here yesterday.
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    Lock icon COLONEL MADE LAWYER REMOVE PANTS
    377 2 LONDON, Tuesday. AMONOCLED ex-army officer told the Lewes Court yesterday that he forced an elderly solicitor to take off his trousers so he could fly them "in triumph" from his flagpole. 1 The soldier. Lt.-Col. Alirea Wintle. 57. said he lured the solicitor. Frederick Nye,
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    Lock icon Stumbled — and hung 20 minutes bu toes
    82 2 Stumbled and hung 20 minutes bu toes BOSTON, Tues. George A. Lacasse, 26, bung by is toes from the roof of a five-storey dwelling for almost 20 minutes until rescued yesterday. Lacasse had gone to the roof for fresh air. He stumbled at the edge. "Somehow," Policeman Hush McGonagie said,
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    Lock icon Call-up stays
    28 2 LONDON, Tues.— Mr. Fitzroy Mac Lean, Under-Secretary for War, last night said that no drastic reduction in Britain's two-year period of conscription was possible now. Reuter.
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    Lock icon HE DIDN'T TURN UP FOR A $25 MILLION CHEQUE
    101 2 NEW YORK, Tues. Multimillionaire Howard Hughes received a U5525,000,000 cheque today. The money was paid to him for his RKO. Pictures Corporation by Mr. Thomas F. O'Neil, president of Genera) Teleradio, Inc., a subsidiary of the General Tire and Rubber Company.
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    Hollywood aid
    23 2 HOLLYWOOD, T Gary Cooper yesfc dally adoi>' old Russian boy a German diaP^^S nUB. She nt £S US3IS ($45) a montß
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    No tax returns
    18 2 Quek Ah Kg the Public was fined yesterday t the income 1940, 1952 and I!
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    Food and fun
    10 2 The Bedok M Singapore. v BToml Saturday.
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    Lock icon NOBODY WANTS WAR, SAYS NIKITA
    120 2 Russian leader's Geneva iueom BERLIN. Tin THE Soviet Communist Party Secretary-Gem Nikita Khrushchev, yesterday said the Gen< ference showed that neither Russia nor the V,'-* Powers want war. The East German rai Mr. Khrushchev I in Halle: "At I ference both sld conviction that neil
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    Lock icon Stay-behind men to be arrested
    60 2 WASHINGTON, Tues.— Three American soldiers who stayed in China after the Korean armistice but recently decided to return home will be arrested when their ship reaches San Francisco, a government official said here last night. The men will face a court martial on charges Including
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    Lock icon On way home
    39 2 HONG KONG, Tues. Twenty-nine Russian members of the crew of the Soviet tanker Taupse, seized by the Chinese Nationalist navy, arrived here today by air from Taipeh on the first lap of their trip home. Reuter.
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    Could this lead to the road to
    112 2 Could this lead to the road to LONDO" I THE Bvenini l said todaj demand foi the Labour ernment of would certainly I doubled when "\jr II Lennox Boyd, I of State for the (7* arrives in Sit. "it is equally f, Mr. Boyd should i^ori The interests of the'
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    No alternative
    91 2 "To suspend the hmml tion would be to ruk disorders. Yet if Mr Ih3 persists in hLs present loam for instance, by demand next the abolition ofGovernor's respoi defence, foreign other reservcii may leave Britain irith i ternative. "Of all places, ainm, can least afford the n alarums
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    Lock icon Morandi dies
    18 2 MILAN, Tues.— SignorH* fo Morandi, depub of Italy's C Socialist Party, dii day. aged 53— Reuter.
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    Red herring
    17 2 LONDON, Tues— Bri". sOld Russia 135.0 d cured herrin». II red last night.— A. P.
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    Dr. Evatt blamed for Red victories
    130 2 CANBERRA. Tues. The Prime Minister and Opposition leader clashed bitterly today when Mr. Robert Menzles blamed Dr. Evatt, Labour Party leader, for Communist victories In recent trade union elections. Mr. Menzies, at a Press conference, said that recent Communist successes, which he described as
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    MOROCCO: CURFEW after DAY OF RIOTS
    242 3 Police open fire on fanatical mob at Meknes 0 agitators get through security net into city MKK.NKS, Morocco, Tuesday. j.|.| M II Resident-GcMral in Morocco, crl (irandval. imposed a tight curfew niirht after violence and bloodshed h the city during his visit here on
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    Lock icon ALL LIT UP—BY A-POWER
    46 3 ALL LIT UP— BY A-POWER Strauss opens West's first plant THIS oversized electric bulb lit. up at West Milton. New York, when Mr. Lewis Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, threw a switch to open America's first commercial atomic electric power plant. A.P. picture.
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    [onfidential gets new libel suit
    106 3 H i BoMentUU 1 1 ises in "■iiibniit uellilities, is bring t.ii of I ,S. ver, Air. Jerry i, f ,,r filed .i I .5.52,500,0W ifn magazine on ii| ii| ici.revi Elizabeth thai conlidportrayed her in a It rous ;ind manner. Hi iln irtitlc "was
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    Lock icon rower fails for Queen's visit
    26 3 Tups. A house near Queen spent thoul electric hours last Igh tension cut power od of Goodhome of the of RlchReuter.
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    Lock icon DICK HA YMES CAN STAY IN AMERICA
    69 3 DICK HA YMES CAN STAY IN AMERICA WASHINGTON. Tues The Justice Department yesterday abandoned its efforts to deport Argentine-bom crooner Dick Haym.es, husband of film -star Rita Hayworth. A spokesman said that it had decided not to appeal against a rullne in favour of Haymes. A judse had ruled that
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    Lock icon Face lift for Niagara Falls
    47 3 NIAGARA FALLS. Tues. A 1.000-ton rock overhanging Luna Island wa.s blasted into the gorge yesterday as engineers gave Niagara Falls a face lift. Three blasts, the beginning of a series designed to preserve the beauty of the falls, removed the rock.— UP
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    Talks on Sudan
    35 3 LONDON. Tues. Britain is discussing with Egypt the setting ud of an international commission to supervise the prooen of self-determination in the Sudan, the House of Commons was told yesterday. —A P.
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    Lock icon I MOTHER BILL FLIES IN
    35 3 I Mr. whom he had not seen for 42 knock years, day and William, of Ellwood City, a.- his 78- Pennsylvania, said: "I just deim, cided to fly over."— Reuter.
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    Faith could not save prophet
    286 3 LEADER OF SNAKE CULT BECOMES UNLUCKY 13TH AI.TIIA (Florida). Tues. The founder and prophet of a stra.ngc mountain snakrhandling cult died today from a diamond-back rattler's bite, refusing medical aid to the end in the belief that his faith would save him. George Went Hensley,
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    Lock icon IT'S AUSTERITY AGAIN JIBE AT TORIES
    187 3 Labour attacks Butler's policy LONDON, Tuesday. Yf EMBERS of the Labour Opposition shouted "austeriTl ity again" today and launched a big attack on the Conservative Government's five-point anti-inflation crackdown. Mr. Hugh Gaitekell, former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, attacked the Government for delay in
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    Lock icon Chinese envoy sees Minister
    48 3 LONDON, Tues— Mr. Huan Hsiang. Communist Chinese charge "d'Affaires in London, today called on the Marques of Rciding, Minister of State, at the Foreign Office, at the Chinese envoy's request. A Chinese spokesman said later that the visit was for a general discussion."— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Freed-a man who didn't call boycott
    83 3 Freed-a man who didn't call boycott DOVER. Delaware, Tues. A COURT has found Mr. Bryant Bowles, president of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, not guilty of charges that he violated state laws by counselling and conspiring with white parents to keep their children from school. The
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    Lock icon Bonn's choice
    34 3 BONN, Tues. Dr. Adenauer's Government last night announced the appointment of a former Wehrmacht Colonel, Count Adolf von Kielmannsegg, as its chief representative at Supreme Headquarters of Allied Powers In Europe.— A.P.
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    Force? Nehru's no
    29 3 NEW DELHI, Tues. The Prime Minister. Mr. Nehru, rejected demands in Parliament today that India acquire Portugal's Indian colonies by a limited war or police action.
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    Lock icon AD. DREW 17 WOMEN, BUT ROY IS A BACHELOR TYPE
    68 3 SYDNEY, Tues. Mrs. Jean Fox brooded about her bachelor 37-year-old brother, Roy. He was, she decided, good material for a husband for some deserving woman. She advertised in local newspapers to find a wife for him. Roy fled when 17
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    LONDON STOCKS
    283 3 LONDON. Tues. 'THE recovery In after hours x dealings which followed the Chancellor's statement yesterday continued In stock markets at the opening this morning but the expected buying failed to materialise. Markets consequently presented an uncertain appearance and the early rises were not always held. Rubbers moved to
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    LONDON RUBBER
    29 3 LONDON. July 26.— Spot 38 i d.. Sept. 37"yd., Oct.-Dec. 37>,d.. JanMar. 35 '-d.. Apr-June 33 id. Aug. c.i.f. 37 »d.. Sept. c.i.f. 37'- ,d. Tone: Easy.
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    LONDON TIN
    24 3 LONDON. July 26.— Cash Buyers £769; Sellers £770; Forward Buyers £761; Sellers £762; Settlement £770 Turnover a.m. 90 tons. p.m. 55 tons.
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  • All the party manifestoes
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      THE ALLIANCE
      155 4 INDEPEM>INC:K in four years. Immediate steps: Appointment of a constitutional reform commission to provide for a fully elected legislature, appointment of a special independent commission to study the position of the Malay Rulers and the question of nationality. (General amnesty offer to the Communist terrorists and review of
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      PARTY NEGRA
      119 4 INDBKKDBfd by I960; convocation of a constituent assembly to prepare the way; Malay Rulers to be retained as constitutional monarchs. Fstahlishmcnt of a planning commission to take stock of the country's economic resources; diversification of the ••ronomy: encouragement of foreign capital. Malayanisation of the civil service. No further
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      THE N.A.P.
      100 4 IMMEDIATE self-government as a step to independence; preservation of the status of the Malay Rulers. Termination of the Emergency as soon as possible. Improvement of the economic position of the Malays: tightening of immigration laws. Maiayanisation of the public services. Free primary bi-lingual education with Malay as a
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      THE P.P.P.
      117 4 \H 1.1.1 eleitcd legislature; retention 01 the Malay Kulers as constitutional monarchs. Abolition of the powers of arrest and detention without trial contained 111 the Emergency Regulations: release or trial of those now under detention: general revision of the regulations. Maiayanisation of the public services at a rate
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      LABOUR PARTY
      133 4 ¥MMKI)I.\I "K self-government by provision of a fully 1 elected legislature; union of the Federation and Singapore and the creation of a common Malayan nationality available to those born here or resident here for the hist ten years, and willing to make Malaya the object ol their undivided
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      ISLAMIC ASSN.
      122 4 I,'i 1 elected Federal, state, settlement, district and toun councils as a first step to early independence. Investigation of ways and means of ending the Emergency; immediate release or trial of all detainees under tin* Ijner^eiuy Regulations. Provision of large scale economic aid for Malays; control of immigration;
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    BET IS ON ($5OO ONLY) SAYS TENGKI
    250 4 PENANG, Tues. nHHE UMNO president, J- Tengku Abdul Rahman, today betted S5OO with Party Negara officials here that the Alliance candidate. Inche Suleiman bin Dato Abdul Rahman, would defeat Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'afar. Negara's secretarygeneral, in the Johore ■Bahru constituency tomorrow. The
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    Results in main towns will be out in a few hours
    179 4 THE election results in all the main towns will be known within a few hours. ll' re arc the approximate times for tho start of the int: WEDNESDAY: 9 p.m Qeocve Town, Malacca Central, Malacca Luar, Ipoh and Menßlembu
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    Loudspeakers will keep padang crowds in tod
    160 4 where the votes for the two Kuala Lumpur constituencies of East and West will be counted. There will be four loudspeakers in the hall and another two outside. Admission to the hall will be by ticket. Only 400 tickets Inavc been issued because
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      971 4 ::::::::::::::;:ss;;;S;;;5^ -Sji^txJJlHJllfiHll|Ji™H|lß''?Ms;j;:;"r;;;;;;;«j.|::::;;;!.'.'»»«w 1 I All stations on the air for the results i.uiiii JOHORE JOHORE BAHRU (15,042) Suleiman bin Abdul Rahman (Alliance) Onn bin Ja'afar (Negara) Total votes Majority JOHORE SELATAN (29,090). Tan Luang Hong (Alliance) Kassim bin Awang Chik (Negara) Total votes Majority JOHORE TIMOR (14,155) Ismail bin Abdul
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    So many think Alliance will win—and so why vote at all?
    385 5 So many think Alliance will win and so why vote at all? KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. r THE-POLLS trends noted by Straits ters all over t: c Federation show i t orate is warmly interested but not Ol fever. c who can vote, want to but will i t they have
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    ALLIANCE ELECTION LEADER IN KRIAN DIES
    68 5 ALLIANCE ELECTION LEADER IN KRIAN DIES rue*. Mr. Kwi, chairman "-ti'mcom- died in "•*v. He was "HI while y O headquarreet. hi. aid and took him to hospital. Mr Wong, a leader of the Chinese community in Krlan, was president of Parit Buntar branch of the MCA. and served on
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    HOW MUCH FOR MINISTER — WILL IT BE $3,000?
    109 5 HOW MUCH FOR MINISTER WILL IT BE $3,000? KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— One of the first things the new government will decide is the salaries of the new ministers. It is understood that at recent top-level discussions in which the major parties participated, it was tentatively agreed that the salary of
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    A MERRY CHASE AT THE AIRPORT
    211 5 A MERRY CHASE AT THE AIRPORT DUPERT. a brindle li boxer dog. led the staff of Malayan Airways a merry one-hour chase in semi-darkness all over Kallang airfield last night and then disappeared. Excited after his flight from Kuala Lumpur. Rupert escaped from his kennel while it was being taken
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    2 weddings, now decree
    67 5 Madam Yap Guat Keow, who sued her husband, Lim Kay Tiong, merchant and company director, for separation on the grounds of adultery, was granted a decree in the Singapore High Court yesterday. They were married according to Chinese custom on Jan. 18. 1948. and on March
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    Six months' jail
    40 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Wong Kam Chew, 21, who pleaded guilty here last week to breaking into a woman's house in Jalan Kenaga on July 19. was today sentenced to six months' jail. He had two previous convictions.
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    $150 a kati
    35 5 JOHORE. BAHRU. Tues. A woman, Wong Hee. was fined $160, or 14 days' jail in the Sessions Court, Pontlan, for moving a kati of biscuits from a restricted area without a permit.
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    Sold bad coffee
    27 5 A shopkeeper, T. Abdul Rahman, was fined $75 in Singapore yesterday for selling adulterated coffee at his shop in Minto Road on April 19.
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    'A negative reply and I will quit' says Mr. Marshall
    303 5 'A negative reply and I will quit' says Mr. Marshall THE Chief Minister, Mr. L Marshall, will resign if the Governor, Sir Robert Black, gives a negative reply to the message sent to him by the Singapore Legislative Assembly. Mr. Marshall indicated this yesterday when he moved the adjournment of
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    PAY OUR SHARE'
    113 5 Teachers may TTHE Singapore Chinese Schools' Conference has asked the highest Chinese public educational organisation the Chinese Schools' Staff Management Association to call an emergency meeting on the Central Provident Fund problem. The Conference, with a membership of 120 of the largest Chinese schools, is against contributions
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    Gora shocks the doctors
    402 6 SHEEP-EATER CHALLENGES ALL COMERS TO A DINNER DUEL NO HANGOVER OR ILLNESS' Shocking, say men of medicine SINGAPORE doctors were shocked yesterday to learn that a man had consumed a full-grown sheep, or most of it, at one sitting. Gora Singh, a 542 lb. wrestler, ate
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    No dope, no work...
    58 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Teh Sin Kiew, a clerk, stated in the Sessions Court today that he was unable to work unless he had some chandu. He admitted he was an opium addict since before the war. He was fined $500. or two months' jail for having
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    Back to work
    31 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Mr. DA. Somerville, British Adviser, Johore. has returned from leave and assumed duties relieving Mr R.L. Peel who has left for Kuala Lumpur on transfer.
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    OUT GO THE PRESS—IN THE PEOPLE
    122 6 OUT GO THE PRESS— IN THE PEOPLE rr\HE ground floor of Assembly X House, now occupied by the press section of the Public Relations Office, is to be converted into rooms in which Assemblymen may give interviews. The Assembly's House Committee has agreed to draw up a special report to
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    Lock icon MURDER: PETITION REFUSED
    67 6 LONDON, Tues. Bldin bin Kia, who was sentenced to death at Raub Assizes In February last year for the murder of Monamed Adan. asked the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council yesterday for special leave to appeal against his conviction. The petition was refused. Kia pleaded that
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    Man with 'charmed' life is shot
    158 6 NO SILVER BULLET WAS NEEDED BUKIT MERTAJAM, Tuesday. A TERRORIST, who once boasted that only a silver bullet could kill him, was shot dead yesterday afternoon while trying to collect food at Sungei Bong. Yap Hock Kirn, alias Yip Fuk Kam, 31, who went
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    Teachers elect officials
    54 6 IPOH, Tues. The annual delegates conference of the Association of Teachers of English in Chinese Schools has elected the following officials for the year: President: Mr. Chan Kay Chong; vice-president: Mr. Loke Ho Thong; general secretary: Mr. Lav Nyuk Voon; assistant general secretary: Mr. Harcharan Singh; treasurer:
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    HE PAID 'GOD' FOR PROTECTION
    227 6 It worked— until price went up to $10.80 WHEN an ice-water hawker stopped paying subscription to a "god," he began to have trouble with his customers, the Singapore Second Criminal District Court was told yesterday In the dock were Yee Tiang Lye, 25. and Ang
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    ANYTHING YOU CAN DO, WE CAN DO...
    142 6 Picket war is on— placard men back the Progressives, too POLITICAL parties and trade unions yesterday were quick to proclaim their cause after the Singapore Legislative Assembly had oil Monday passed a resolution calling for immediate self-government. Pickets carrying slogan placards in several
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    BLOW AT BANDITS
    150 6 Curfew imposed for forces' campaign against Raub's last Reds KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. SECURITY forces have launched a new drive to rid the Raub district of Pahang of its remaining terrorists. All resettlement areas south of the 31st mile, Llpis Road, have been placed under a dusk-to-dawn curlew.
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    MEET US, BANKERS ASKED
    75 6 IPOH, Tues. The Malayan Federation of Clerical and Administrative Staff Unions is to ask bank employers for a joint meeting to discuss demands by their employees Representatives of the federation will first decide on their stand in a delegates' conference on Sunday. The conference will discuss
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    'Behave like a wife'
    81 7 'Behave like a wife' SHE LEFT ON HER fEDDING DAY hie magist--4 p. minor. young suppiah, husband. :iri, cm the wedding, I in have PacUrl for the Sixth maintained K Roy, for h< was not carriage ,st been d accordm," .said Mr. left her of their ed to stay Xhej
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    Shoe factory workers end strike
    30 7 BAHRU. Tues. Aers of the -nor factory I ..iv after v 18. submit their employers, ibmit rules to introduce. 1 nent will be ntinue during
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    Bicycle death
    33 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Chow Choy. 47, of Jinjang new village, was killed when his bicycle collided with a War Department truck at the junction of Maxwell Road and ipoh Road yesterday.
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    Unwritten code of ethics for health men
    128 7 The Johore branch of the Health and Sanitary Inspectors' Union. Federation of Malaya, has urged its members to observe an unwritten code of ethics. The appeal appears in the first issue of "Public Health." the union's bulletin, which suggests that the code be
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    Man found hanging
    56 7 IPOH, Tues. A former inmate of the Tanjong Rambutan mental hospital was found hanged in his home in Buntong new village this morning. The body of Lai Chew Weng. 38. was found hanging outside his house by members of his family. He \va-s released from Tanjong Rambutan
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    Variety show
    41 7 BATU PAHAT, Tues —Tengku Tun Aminah, wife of the Regent of Johore, is patron of a variety concert by the TrniengKonc; Ibrahim Girls' School,' Batu Pahat. at the Government High School hall here at 8 p.m. on August 3.
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    PROGRESSIVE PARTY IN TURMOIL
    321 7 Senior members kept in dark over 'independence now' move New policy may mean resignations JHE SINGAPORE Progressive Party, which has been one of the most united of parties, is seriously split today over the issue of immediate self -government. Members want to know why Progressive Assemblymen
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    The eagle on a marble mount —it spells efficiency
    91 7 The eagle on a marble mount it spells efficiency THE SHELL trophy to be presented to the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force this Saturday in the Officers' Mess at the M.A-A.F. Headquarters in Beach Road, Singapore. Air Vice-Marshal Kyle as Commander of the M.A.A.F. will receive the trophy from Mr. F.
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    CUSTOMER — 'I WAS TRICKED'
    199 7 CUSTOMER 'I WAS TRICKED' 'weir' was old, court told MALACCA. Tues. A FORMER managing salesman of a sewing machine company denied in the magistrate's court here today that he told a Malay schoolteacher that a machine he sold to him was brand new, when in fact it was second hand.
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    Police deserter pleads guilty
    49 7 RAWANG, Tues. Subramaniam, 38, was fined $200 or two months' jail by the Rawang Magistrate yesterday for deserting from the police force on May 13. He was arrested at Batang Berjuntai on July 19. He joined as a special constable in 1952. He pleaded guilty.
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    'FLOODING CAN BE STOPPED': THOMAS
    369 7 'FLOODING CAN BE STOPPED': THOMAS UROM investigations al- r ready carried out, it is evident that measures i can be taken to stop flooding in Singapore, the Minister for Works and Communications, Mr. Francis Thomas, said in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. "Very large works" would be necessary, costing a "huge
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    Home Guard is acquitted
    48 7 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Tues. Nr Lean Teik, 23, a Brapit new village Home Guard, was yesterday acquitted of a charge of having under his control without licence seven rounds of 12-bore ammunition. Nh said the ammunition represented unfinished rounds issued to him during range practices.
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    TEMPORARY? NO, NO —NOT ANY MORE
    173 7 After 20 years, security for some FOUR HUNDRED and fifty-four temporary clerks in the Singapore Government service, have— in some cases after 20 years been selected for appointment to the permanent establishment. They are among a total of 600 who have for the last
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    Road crash victim gets $2,500
    72 7 Road crash victim gets $2,500 CHUA KIAT CHEE, a motorcyclist who was injured by a Singapore Traction Company bus at the junction of Geylang Road and Aljunied Road in October 1953, will receive $2,500 and costs from the company. This settlement was announced in the High Court yesterday. Chua was
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    SOLDIERS GUARD TROOPSHIP ON MERCY CALL STOP
    145 7 Heavily armed, steel helmeted soldiers stood guard on the French troopship Skaubryn when it made an unscheduled call at Singapore yesterday to land a paratrooper who had been taken ill on the ship. Several hundred Foreign Leßionaires, who are being taken back to
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    191 8 20 Wurd* flO (minimum/. FOLLOW PEDANT Every Day In i the Malay Mail' If you want to win tii.i' $5,000 word puzzle. [ZLL£ FISHY to me" said c That's neither pleasant nor Then why not use Alrwick move the smell? BI A GUEST at your own Party. I sad
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed. July 27, 1955. Day Of Decision
    893 8 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed. July 27, 1955. Day Of Decision In the oft quoted phrase of a Singapore politician, today is a "solemn occasion" in the Federation. The people of the Federation will choose today the Government that can lead them to the Promised Land or into the wilderness.
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    Below The Summit
    367 8 The direct meeting of American and Chinese ambassadors at Geneva next month is a hopeful sign. Admittedly, too much cannot be expected from these talks. This is plain enough from the level of the negotiators and the limited nature of their discussions. These will be on repatriation
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    'So I am bound to be elected' Sir Onn is certain
    1066 8  - 'So I am bound to be elected' Sir Onn is certain WILLIAM FISH DATO Si* O\\ Bin JA'AFAH or TENGKMJ ABDUL HIHUW? Att*r fdmtf* election one of then* will be the lirmt Federation -prvntior' mm,,,,,,, i I A PERSONAL quality. 5" not often associated 5 with Dato Sir Onn bin
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    'We may win all 52 seats'-80 is Abdul Rahman
    1382 8  - 'We may win all 52 seats'-80 is Abdul Rahman KHOR CHEANG KEE I B 1 WHAT does the Alli- n ance really think of its chances in the Federation's first 5 natipnal elections on July 27? I put this question to the UMNO president. Tengku Abdul Rahman, as we drove
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    The three choices on future of Singapore
    707 8 The three choices on future of Singapore imiiiiiiiiimmiimimmmiiiiiiiiiiHHiiiiiiiiiiii fTHOSE forgotten men, the four would-be Junior ministers, have, through no fault or merit of their own, acquired an immense influence on the future of Singapore. And they have faced the Colonial Office with its most difficult problem since Dr. Nkrumah came
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      18 8 MALAYAN RAILWAY TRAVEL IN COMFORT ALL FIRST AND SECOND CLASS BEDS ARE NOW FITTED WITH FOAM LATEX MATTRESSES
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      145 8 IS FINANCIAL Security in practical sense is Finan- protection ap dal. You are presumably secure as misfortunes. hi< long at the dollar value of your total ore unprrdii I ibl< resources will provide y*u and your tinman |>o»t lo dependents with the necessities of wrest way of f> life. The
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    Honours for Singapore heroes
    419 9 TflE QUEEN RECOGNISES BRAVERY IN MAY RIOTS AND KALLANG AIR DISASTER „,1 rSTANDING LEADERSHIP, JUDGMENT, TACTICS' I [orris heads list of gallant police IN has awarded hijrh decorations to 11 bravery and distinguished service in ots and last year's Kallang air disaster. tnmissioner, Mr. Nigel Morris,
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    Saccharin fine
    19 9 the Ban San Factory, Mr. SlOO in for selling non barley, crush i In on May 2
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    55 WALK OUT AFTER SACKING
    58 9 ■R. Tues.— f« Hume tore downed and walked In protest ol one of ">rker was Mr. M. Subramaniam, president of thp local Hume Industries branch of the National Union of Factory and General Workers. Mr. V. David, secretary of trunnion, said tonight the 83 workers
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    LADY BLACK VISITS CRIPPLED CHILDREN I
    99 9 AND BENG HUAT, 5, GOT A BARBERS-CHAIR VIEW I ADY BLACK, wife of the Governor of Singapore, Sir Robert Black, yesterday visited the Red Cross Society's crippled children's home in Tanah Merah Besar. She is also the new president of the Singapore branch of
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    CAFES TO OPERA SINGING
    231 9 CAFES TO OPERA SINGING Lim Lee returns as a star —to stay A FORMER Singapore cafe singer, who has won success in England as a classical singer as well as an interpreter of Chinese and Malayan folk songs, returned to Singapore yesterday. Miss Lim Lee, aged 24, left for London
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    Alliance man's mother ill
    54 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Alliance's candidate for Selangor West, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak, spent today and tonight by the bedside of his critically "ill mother. She was removed from hospital today to her home in Gombak. Inche Aziz will go to Telok Datoh, his constituency
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    High tides
    74 9 TODAY: Singapore 4 a.m. (8 ft.) 407 pm. (8 ft. 6 In.); Port Dickson 11.27 a.m. (7 ft. 2 in.) 11.34 p.m. (6 ft. 2 in); Penang 5.22 a.m. (6 ft. 2 in.) 4.43 p.m. (5 ft. 5 in.). TOMORROW: Singapore 5.04 a.m. (7 ft. 3 lnj 4.56
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    Youth tells court: I urns asked to kill this boy
    322 9 Youth tells court: I urns asked to kill this boy TEMERLOH, Tuesday T<HE small courthouse here was packed with people 1 from riverine kampongs yesterday at the preliminary inquiry into the death of Hamzah bin Mat Dilu, 16. He was alleged to have been j murdered by Abdullah Awang ißingkok,
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    Girl sent to Muar ORDER BY COURT
    104 9 Girl sent to Muar ORDER BY COURT THE Singapore Fourth Magistrate. Mr. J. M. Devereuxj Colebourn. yesterday ordered 1 17-year-old Lou Hid Lio, who jwas taken off a China-bound ship on Sunday, to be sent back to Muar to face a theft charge Mr. Devereux Colebourn jsald that she must
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    Indian culture
    39 9 Professor Mariadas Ruthnaswamy, President of the Madras Legislative Council, will talk on "Distinctive features of the Culture of India" at tomorrow's meeting of the East-West Society at the British Council hall, Stamford Road, Singapore, at 8.30 p.m.
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    Stolen rings
    33 9 Lim Ah Seng was fined $250 Or two months' jail by a Singapore court yesterday for retoinine two stolen rings, worth $30, belonging to Ng Gek Choo and Tan Lian Ngee.
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    Law expert on way to Pakistan
    85 9 Law expert on way to Pakistan DR. ROBERT GL STOREY (above). Dean of the Law School at the Southern Methodist University, Texas, and a U.S. counsel at the Nuremburg trials passed through Singapore yesterday on his way to Karachi. Dr. Storey is on his third tour of the Far East,
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    Accused of rash act
    70 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues S. Suppiah, 29, of Batu Caves, was charged today in the Sessions Court here with causing the death of A. Louis, 40 by a rash act not amounting to culpable homicide at Bth mile Batu Caves on May 22. He was also charged
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    'POLICE OFFER OF A JOB ENDED IN LOCK-UP'
    122 9 'POLICE OFFER OF A JOB ENDED IN LOCK-UP A 70-YEAR-OLD MAN, sent by a Singapore magistrate to the house of detention, is waiting for the arrival of his son, a sailor, to release him. Husein bin Haji Ibrahim who was charged with begging for alms on July 22 at Arab
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    1,500 TO SHUN CITY STRIKE
    283 9 Rival Council union won't advise its members to stop work ABOUT 1,500 Singapore City Council labouri ers are expected to ignore the strike called by the I Federation of Labour Unions for next Wednesday. They are members of the Government and City Council Labour Union
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    BUBBLE TROUBLE
    193 9 Strike threat at Colony laundry today is decision day ANEW STRIKE is threatening the Seiclene laundry in Delta Road, Singapore. About 85 workers await a reply today from the management on their 11 demands for wage increases. The workers are members of the Singapore Factory and Shop Workers'
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    WHERE THE PARTY HAS NEVER MEANT MORE THAN THE CHURCH
    1393 10 WHERE THE PARTY HAS NEVER MEANT MORE THAN THE CHURCH These are the final extracts from the book by HARRISON E. SALISBURY, "Stalin's Russia and After," published by Macmillan. rpHE moment I got back from Siberia I booked a steamboat passage from Moscow, through the Moscow-Volga Canal, to the upper
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      268 10 Straits Times Crossword sss 8 Z H P_BlIBllllZiiZl!ZB~~H ACROSS He provides cover for residents 8. Old Salt., <8, 7.). (6). 9. A Marathon winner (8). 7 Bu n °t »H Investors like 10. Deferred, as a fielder might L^" 1 (9 6K be (3, 3). 13 Equality ii everything in
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    Lock icon Padre who 'rescued' girls was unfrocked, mauled by lion
    1406 11 Padre who 'rescued' girls was unfrocked, mauled by lion iiiiiiiiiii fe'ifj si j y K j f 'rj djl > I j^^MlTHYrB !|llllllll!!l of anxious men and women led round a gaunt, white-haired 5 his last in hospital at the resort of Skegness, England, July 1937. been mauled by a
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      131 11 Sherlock Holmes Mr. Melas goes down ylgr "i^-^MBJ-^HR I Br '''TOP WERE.' THIS I aaaaM^^^^^^^am m^aaaa^B ill ■*■/"> a aiJp v i-ncYj Aa^^^t B^aaa aarlaaaaaard GOOD PLACE I L^F^af^rv^^sMC ItKaV C z CO'JN!T2V, ■^^^^y'^^^^H VVaaW-^ a^^^^^^aaaal aa> aa^. tPick Travy Date with Corny rBUT. RUGHEADi EVERVTIME^I f LOOK- THINGS AREA
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    50 13 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS Melbourne. Tups. Ml today. rend tradtot re firmer in £95 9/16 P6 27 32 70 3 £34 i buyer 29 3 103/--55.4' i 8 I 112 12 si 20 lltt i :i' 2 43 9 17 Btt 36 6 51/--30 I 4 1R 9 21/I'--45 104 9 8'
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    43 13 .-id.- tlir Singa- ,1 li.ir\cs or WC" Uj v. •.:<■■' Jel'iyBrandar 4-5, p Drente 8-7, •r.^u li. 15-16, ]9-20. Itan N Wall 13 N Wall 10. leer 23-24, Kamunine iraU 29-30. r.vrackie 36 J K 40. Went FiilM iprsk. CamVi.( ta Star. Tal-
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    RUBBER PRICES
    144 13 August first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at $1.33 2 per lb., down a quarter of a cent on Monday's close The closing tone was very steady Closing prices in cents per lb No 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 133', sellers 133\: No. 1 R.S.S.
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    89 13 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the followinß changes in its rates to merchants yrsterday: Canada: buying airmail TT 32 3/16, O.D. 32 5/16 90 days 32 9/lfi credit bills. 32\ trade bill's Silling T.T. or O.D. ready: i an.id.i 31 7/0: Holland Gldrs 123 1 4: RrUian
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    U.S. CONSUMPTION OF RUBBER HITS NEW RECORD LEVEL
    427 13 U.S. CONSUMPTION OF RUBBER HITS NEW RECORD LEVEL By Our Market Correspondent ALTHOUGH the United States used 137,116 tons of rubber of all kinds in June, the share of natural rubber was lower than when the previous hiffhefit level of consumption was achieved in March this year. In June the
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    379 13 The Malayan Share Brokers' Association. Singapore section reported: ''On the local share market there was a moderate turnover, spread widely in all sections, with prices fluctuating irregularly between narrow margins. On balance industrials were slightly easier." Singapore brokers reported the following business yesterday: Con Tin Smelter ords 325.
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    106 13 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchance: noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra: slightly easier; July $27>4 buyers. $27* i sellers: August $28 buyers, $28 4 sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $41 S sellers, drum $44 Va sellers. Pepper: quiet but a total of 25 tons business was reported done
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    59 13 LEWIS PEAT LONDON.— Tues. Lewis Peat Ltd announce a group profit for the year ended December 31 last after all charges Including taxation of £45.331 sterling, compared with £73 909 the prevlouß year The company proposes a final ordinary dividend of 21 pence per share against nine pence. This mates
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    Holiday By the Sea
    953 14 Holiday By the Sea Rosemary flies to the rescue but the boatman is in no hurry Teddy, Golly and Rosemary go to the sea-side for a holiday where they have many adventures. One day Teddy and Golly make a paddle boat from their yacht and practise water skiing, but coming
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    Another exciting new puzzle for you to solve
    549 14 Another exciting new puzzle for you to solve Dear Boys and Girls, I have just finished Judging the entries you sent me for the picture in which you had to find all the objects beginning with *B\ My desk was piled up until it seemed impossible to put another sheet
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    No Swiss trip for Uncle
    269 14 No Swiss trip for Uncle Costa Rican Stamp Show? Home Produce CONTINUING a small tesearch into the coffee bean I find that Salvador has printed coffee stamps, Costa Rica >and Haiti two each, and Venezuela and Guatemala both have > issued one each y Puerto Rico also grows coffee. >but
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    TEN QUESTIONS TO TEST YOUR WITS
    295 14 IT'S a long time since we had a Quiz on this page, so try to answer these questions. The splution is given at the bottom of the page. 1. How many arms has an octopus? Is it six, or eight? 2. Docs the word
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    Early favourite South Pacific looks very fit
    729 15 PENANG GOLD CUP HOPES START SERIOUS WORK By EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Tues. SOUTH PACIFIC, early favourite for the $15,000 Penan; Gold Cup, has taken the 490--mile jo urn c y from Bukit Timah very well. He looked a picture on the training track,
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    S'GOR BID FOR HOMEAWAY SCORING SYSTEM DEFEATED
    397 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. OECAUSE of the considerable increase in the number of players, the quality of rugby in Selangor has been affected, as there was insufficient time and energy left to do essential practice and training, said Mr. G. W. Sommerville, president of
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    They had to cancel SRU meeting
    132 15 They had to cancel SRU meeting KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. BECAUSE six weeks notice had not been given to affiliated dubs, last night's annual meeting of the Selangor Rugby Union was declared "unconstitutional" and postponed for a week. The discussion came up only when the election of officebearers was taking place.
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    Corinthians to tour Fed
    112 15 SINGAPORE Corinthians, one of the leading sides In the S.AJP.A. senior league, will tour the Federation during the August holidays. They will open their tour at Ipoh on Saturday when they will meet the Perak state side. On Sunday they meet a Tatping selection In Talplng,
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    200 BACK STROKE WORLD RECORD
    63 15 LOS ANGELES. Tues. Yoshi Oyakana of Hawaii stroked to a new 200-metre world backstroke record at the National Amateur Athletic Union < AAU) swimming and diving championships. Oyakawa's mark of 2:26.1 eclipsed that of 2:26.8 set in Osaka, Japan, in 1950 by Jim Thomas of
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    Lock icon MIDDLECOFF IN U.S. GOLF FINAL
    64 15 DETROIT, Tues.— Cary Mlddlecoff. winner of this year's American Master's tournament, reached the final of the United States Professional violfers Association championship when be beat Tommy Bold four and three In the Zf^ hole semi-final here yesterda]^^ In the final he will maerDoug Ford (New
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    BUDGE IS COACH
    27 15 Nw Yofc, Tues. DonaTd BudgeVthe k% Wimbledon Champion, mis t«iay named a« coach for 1955 DaVls. Cup teanvOf the United Sta tea. lieu ter.
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    TULI TO FIGHT KEENAN
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    91 15 LONDON Tues. rkNE of Britain's top jockeys. w "Manny" Mercer, last night rode two winners within two-and-a-half hours at meetings 100 miles apart. At 5 o'clock Mercer, on Single Line, won at Birmingham. Then, still In his racing silks, he made a dash to Etaidon Airport
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    219 16 Only half Salzburg team arrive AFTER a day's delay at Jakarta. seven members of the Salzburg Football Club of Austria arrived in Singapore yesterday: The remaining players are expected today. The Austrian touring team, fifteen players ana two officials, include three Olympic Dlayer s In goalkeeper Krammer, right half and
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    Another protest against Barker's selection
    147 16 SEREMBAN. Tues. 'THE president of the Negri Sembilan Cricket Association, Mr. R. H. V. Rintoul, today sent another cable to Mr. Llm Khye Seng, president of the Malayan Cricket Association, strongly opposing R. G. Barker's selection in the South team to meet North at Kuala
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    INDIANS GET A WALKOVER
    48 16 Indonesians gave a walk-over to Indians In a SAFA Community League fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. But the Indonesians recruited a few guest players and played a friendly game, which Indians won 2-1. Scorers were Krtshnan and Palaniappan for Indians; Ismail for Indonesians.
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    TIE FOR TITLE
    44 16 Green House won the team championship at the Playfair School sports yesterday. Abdul Latiff and Sea Hong Chye tied for the A' Division championship. Yeo Mog Gin won the Girls' 'A' division title. Mrs. S. A. Atherton gave away the prizes.
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    522 16 MAY (97) OUT AT 204 AND ENGLAND LOSE LAST SIX WICKETS FOR 52 RUNS TAYFIELD, GODDARD SHARE THE SPOILS LEEDS, Tuesday. gOUTH AFRICA sained a comfortable victory by 221 runs over England in the fourth cricket Test here today to level the
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    742 16 MORE REWARDING IF STAGED AT K. BHARU BY THE SPORTS EDITOR SINGAPORE have waited 17 years for the Malaya Cup football final and now that they have got the premier fixture of the year it looks as if the game on
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    373 16 Surrey, Yorks gain pre-lunch victories SUBBA ROW SCORES 260 N.O. LONDON, Tuesday CURREY, and Yorkshire, leaders in the county cric- ket championship race, stayed well ahead today by winning their matches before lunch. For Surrey, today's eightwicket victory over Worcestershire was their 15th out of 17th matches and brought their
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    66 16 KINGSTON. Tues. A rSTRALIA'S captain lan i* Johnson says England's Peter May and Colin Cowdrey are among "the best five batsmen in the world today." Writing In a local newspaper he rates Everton Weeks and Clyde Waicott of West Indies and Australian Neil Harvey as "probably
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    104 16 Aussie team for S-E Asia boxing A USTRALIA will send a team A to take part in the proposed South East Asia amateur boxing championship, to be held in Singapore Aug. 29 to Sept. 3, Mr. Bertie Dunsford, hon. secretary of the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association, the sponsors, told the
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    74 16 GOODWOOD, Tues— Mr Walter C. Tarry's four-year-old colt King Bruce won the Steward's Cup over six furlong., today In a photo-finish with Mr. A. H. Moralee's Roman Vale. King Bruce, ridden by W. Rickaby, won by a head. Mr. Clifford Nicholson s Wicket was four
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    SERVICES XI v. CIVILIANS
    58 16 Singapore V/omoinea services a cricket team to meet Singapore Civilians A f at Nee Soon on Saturday and Sunday Is: P'Lt. Howard, Capt. Evans, Lt. Alway, P|O. Davies, SQMS Lambert, FSet. Brown, Sgt. Johnson, Sgt. Young. Cpl. Mac Ghee, L'Sea Barnett, Pte. Chalk. 12th man SAC
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    68 16 a special meeting of the Singapore Cycle Racing Association over the resignation of the secretary. Mr. J. H. Clarke, wUI be held at S.A.F.A. Club house, Jalan Besar on Aug. 18 The meeting will elect a new secretary. Mr. Clarke's resignation has been accepted. He
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    23 16 The annual general meeting of the Singapore Hockey Association will be held at 5.30 p.m. today at the Singapore Recreation Ciub.
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    HK tourists too good for Perak State team
    227 16 TAIPING, Tues. TTONG KONG Chinese soccer tourists scored a convincing 7-3 victory over a Perak State XI, which included five Services players on St. George's School ground today. Attacking from the start Hong Kong scored four quick goals and held a commanding
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    Lock icon Dai heads merit table
    91 16 LONDON, Tues. DAI REES, the British Ryder Cup captain, retained nis position at the top of the professional golfer's order of merit table after the British close championship last week. With only one more stroke play event the Dunlop Masters on Sept. 20 and 21 he
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    SPORE CFA TO PLAY IN K.L.
    65 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.—Singapore Chinese, holders of the MCFA Cup', and Perak Chinese Recreation Club will visit Kuala Lumpur during the August holidays. Selangor Chinese R.C. will meet Perak Chinese R.C. at soccer on July 30. Singapore Chinese will meet Selangor Chinese on July 31
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    72 16 Singapore's Ceylon Sports Club will play Tamilian Physical and Cultural Association at cricket on the P.W.D. ground, Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday and Monday for the Modr. Nagallngam Shield which CSC. won in the inaugural match last year. The CSC. team Is: S. Yogorajan (capt.), S.
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    98 16 LONDON. Tues. AT the invitation of the West Indies Board of Control Mr. E. W. Swanton, wellknown in English cricket circles, us taking an invitation team on a five weeks' tour of the West Indies next March. Although it will be largely
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    SELETAR SET RECORD WITH 10-0 VICTORY
    78 16 SELETAR SET RECORD WITH 10-0 VICTORY RAJ*. Seletar trounced Royal Army Service Corps 10-0 yesterday at Ayer Rajah Road to set a goal-scoring record in the first division of the Singapore United Services soccer league. The airmen led 8-0 at halftime. Opening scoring in the fifth minute, Seletar gained their
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    SAAA TEAM CHOSEN
    53 16 The Singapore Amateur Athletic Association at a meeting last night selected the Colony contingent to represent Singapore In the Malayan A.A.A. Championships at Ipoh on August 26 and 27. The selected team will be released to the press after it has been submitted to the management commltee
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    243 16 An Olympic champion watches Mary Klass ALYMPic v hurdles cha Shirloy Bt?tt| watched local ath training SRC padang a §J passing throi pore on her athletic- m( Europe. The Australian particularly t, sprinter Mary v•' was having padang, wWr shiri ran when she laatySLj about Singapore's lives at the h,st
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    24 16 Jack S.C beat Boys T«M a friendly soccer match it nc Park yesterday. Scorn I Muniandy i2j and C\rJ Till Beck.
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    64 16 Sukaramal and Town Rangers drew one-all at CYMA ground yesterday in their SAFA Div. 3B league soccer match. Zain Ahmad scored for Rangers and Francis for Sukaramai. Cosmos conceded a walkover to I Dockyard "A 1 in jmtentyf Dlv. 3A fixture scheduled i lang In
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