The Straits Times, 29 April 1956

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    16 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES f/ettSote* in Moby* «o. 1,079. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 1956. 20 CENTS T
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    ABDICATION & SECRETS
    165 1 ABDICATION SECRETS QID THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR REALLY BELIEVE SHE COULD ;OME QUEEN OF ENGLAND? iv to the King in those ama that ended with g up the throne? those questions by in the world ivho can give them are about to be made public. NEXT WEEK the Duchess of
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    THE OFFER TO SINGAPORE
    314 1 mhe merdeka men (three up) are still in a tangle over who's who in internal security summing-up after one week of talks From HARRY MILLER LONDON. Saturday. fIrTW 4 WEEK of negotiation this is the bilmz.: sheet before the 1 3 men who have ome hero
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    No. *****43 wins that $350,000
    140 1 r IS THIS YOUR LUCKY DAY? KAJANG. Sat. Ticket No. *****43 sold at the post ollice here, won the first prize of f. $350,000 in the 37th Social and Welfare lottery draw, which took place in this town today. The second prize of SI *5.000
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    Chamber man gives 'sink or swim9 warning to labour
    193 1 Chamber man gives 'sink or swim 9 warning to labour KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday THE president of the FMS Chamber of Commerce, Mr. H. B. Hussey, warned today that excessive demands by trade unions would have a bad effect on trade de- velopment in Malaya. He was speaking at the I
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    Lock icon To Ceylon with love—a gift of Slsm.
    108 1 To Ceylon with love— a gift of Slsm. COLOMBO. Sat. THE United States has made a grant of US$5 mil lion i515.000.000> to Ceylon, according to an exchange of notes between the two Governments published today. This is the first U.S. grant I to Ceylon. Previously the island was barred
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    Lock icon Hong Kong is dry
    45 1 HONG KONG. Sat. The water situation in this colony is becoming more and more serious. The Government an- nounced today that as of May 1 water mains will be shut off except for three < hours a day every other day. UP.
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    Lock icon Trade quest
    16 1 COLOMBO, Sat— A Y-iuo-slav trade mission has arrived here on a two-week visit. Reuter.
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    Lock icon PLOT TO KILL RED LEADERS DURING LONDON VISIT
    188 1 PLOT TO KILL RED LEADERS DURING LONDON VISIT LONDON. Sat. A PLOT to murder Marshal Nikolai Bulgar.in and Mr. Nikita Khrushchev while they were in Britain was foiled by British agents according to reliable sources in London today. A hint of the plans came from British Security men on the
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    Lock icon Gunmen kill man in Cyprus
    43 1 NICOSIA, Sat. Gunmen today killed one Cypfiot ai d narrowly missed another. Troops cordoned off the market area of Famagusta while they searched for the gunmen who shot down a resident there while he was playing cards— A.P.
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    They're off to go off the air
    193 1 PENANG, Sat. Radio Malaya plans to stop its racing broadcasts after the Singapore meeting next month. This decision has not been officially announced but the Sunday Times learns the four turf clubs at Singapore. Kuala Lumpur Penang and Ipoh are being advised that
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    Marshall (sad and glad) speaks of those riots
    568 1 Marshall (sad and glad) speaks of those riots LONDON, Saturday. MR. DAVID MARSHALL was both glad and sad when he broadcast a ten-minute message to Singapore tonight. He led off with a confident note. He said there was room for hope that the talks would reach a successful conclusion. Then
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    Woman wins $5,000
    63 1 Woman wins $5,000 For the third succes- 1 sive week only one en- j trant a woman j l won the Straits Times i word puzzle "ZZ." She is Mrs. K. S. Tan. i 225, Jim Chi;it Road, i I Singapore 15. The §5.000 orize will be I sent to
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    Lock icon Beach open to 'swimming lovers'
    52 1 TAIPEH. Sat. The English language China News today published the following announcement: "The beach bathing resort at Keelung will be open for swimming lovers beginning May 15. Admission tickets will be sold for $20 each with half fare for servicemen." The paper did not elabo-
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    Lock icon Ship sinks with 44 aboard
    42 1 LOURENCO MARQUES. Sat. The Portuguese ship Luabo sank off the coast of South Africa today with 44 men aboard. Search planes have sighted one raft with eight men and two lifeboats wilh a number of survivors— A.P.
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    Lock icon S'pore-N.Z. trade
    27 1 WELLINGTON. Sat. New Zealand is to have trade offices in Singapore and NewYork. Mr. Eric Halstead, Minister for Industries and commerce, announced last night. Reuter
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    Dag in Cairo
    28 1 CAIRO. Sat. The UN. Secretary General. Mr. HammarskjolcJ. arrived in Cairo from Beirut today. He will spend three days before going to Israel. A. P.
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    Lock icon Atoms for peace
    28 1 COLOMBO, Sat. A team of United States nuclear scientists today discussed the peaceful uses of atomic energy with the Prime Minister Mr. S. Bandaranaike. Reuter.
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    Red Sue dies in lonely ambush
    244 1 Red Sue dies in lonely ambush TELUK ANSON Sat DED SUE, Malaya's most ruthless woman terrorist, is dead. Sue real name Siu Sim was shot yesterday by men of the I Malay Regiment 4fh Battalion Although only 20. Sue was feared throughout Lower Perak. She went underground in 1951 and
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    Pact for reactor
    34 1 NEW DELHI. Sat. Indi and Canada signed an agree ment here today to set up high-powered atomic rf search and experimental t actor at Trombay near Bom bay costing $45 million.
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    Plane on fire
    25 1 NICOSIA. Sat. A Cyprus Airways Dakota was seriously damaged by a fire and explosion here last night but there were no casualties
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    Ash trays flew when furious Governor called Mr.s a_liar
    3477 2 Ash trays flew when furious Governor called Mr.s a_liar AN ASIAN PRIME MINISTER'S STORY by SIR JOHN KOTELAWALA drifted for 78 hours in an open b 0 Q I A kris for the author AN EARLIER Governor of Ceylon in the Donoughmore days is said to have described the country's
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    Chew its at defiant udents
    12 3 Chew its at defiant udents i r day the ::l( confl- j
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    Cathedral wedding
    11 3 ywterday. The bride attached > II r Cart edral Singapore.
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    Handbag found on bridge led to a girl's rescue
    206 3  - Handbag found on bridge led to a girl's rescue PATRICK CHEE By A WOMAN'S handbag left on Anderson Bridge, Singapore, yesterday, led to a dramatic rescue of the owner from drowning in the Singapore River. Minutes before the handbag was found, the woman. Fong Lim Kiew, 24, a hairdresser of
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    Having babies without a doctor is best
    160 3 Having babies without a doctor is best ■J-HE American gynaecologist and obstetrician Prof P. Ueennill. made some startling statements during a talk to doctors in Singapore last week. This is what he said about: CHILDBIRTH: Having a baby is a normal function. Ninety-five per cent of women could deliver themselves
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    Sharifa, 17, is elected Kebaya Queen
    76 3 Sharifa, 17, is elected Kebaya Queen o.uuu n.arMDO iar.s and whistled in the Worid Stadium last pretty Miss Shanfa Alawiyan. a 17-year-old Arab girl, was crowned the Sarong and Kebaya Queen of 1956. The most disappointed glri o! the evening wa tan Gur.i. who was beaten to the title by
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    Oh, it was all so very wet
    32 3 FOXG LIM KIEW. 24. all drenched after being resrued from the Singapore River is seen on the way to the General Hospital. Sunday Times picture.
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    Nails in tyres for the trip
    235 3 DUNLOP SHOWS TUBELESS DRIVE MOBODY deliberately drives nails into his car tyres at least, not if he wants to use the car. But In Singapore yesteri day, people were amazed to i see a man doing just that. The man was Mr. C. Woodward
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    Saved from river
    32 3 Koh Ah Kow 34. of Tembiling Road. Singapore, was i rescued from drowning in the Kallang River at about 3.30 a.m. yesterday. He was admitted to the General Hospital
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    The top jobs men meet tomorrow
    41 3 The Malayanisation Commission will hold a public session tomorrow at 5 p.m. in the Conference Room, of Assembly House. Singapore. The Commission will deal with the Malayanisation of the staff of the Singapore Improvement Trust.
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    3 nails dragged out and nine flattened
    120 3 And this is what the driver of the car, Mr. Edmond Wong, a Dunlop sales assistant, reported on arrival in Kuala Lumpur: "Three ol the nails caught oi projections in the road and were dragged out Because of their sealing properties the tubeless
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    5 FOR BANDUNG TALKS
    77 3 A delegation of Malayan students will attend the Afro-Asian students' conference to be held at Bandune frum May 20 to 2A At a meeting sponsored by the Pan-Malayan Students Federation It was decided that the representative of the ■P.M.S.F. will head the delegation comprising a representative
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    TWO BOAC FLIGHTS EACH WEEK FROM XL
    167 3 TWO BOAC FLIGHTS EACH WEEK FROM XL KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. THE Federation will soon be on the map of a world air route. From August BOAC will route one tourist class Argonaut and one first class Constellation through Kuala Lumpur each week. This means that Federation passengers bound for overseas
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    Fingerprints!
    643 4  -  PELHAM GROOM By ...THEY WERE A Msjjo OF IDENTIFICATION IN ANCIENT BABYLON. BUTWHICH MODERN AUTHOR FIRST USEDTH&gyjHCRIME FICTION? I F you were faced with 1 the $64 question "Who was the author who first used fingerprints as a clue in crime fiction?" What would your answer be? C.man Doyle?
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    SPY...key ntnn in $var
    132 4 SPY.. .key ntnn in $var I ETTERS are steamed open and a Petrov spills out confesions telephones are tapped and a nations intelligence service harvests State secrets. Such is the pattern of the new, undercover warfare. Spies bar no holds and make their own rules. Their missions are too urgent
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    WHO BUNGLED DIEPPE!
    1433 4  - WHO BUNGLED DIEPPE! MILTON SHULMAN 3~Pf a Canadian who was a major in the Canadian army. Shulman i» Hie author of Defeat in the West, an authoritative account of the fall of the Cccman army. DEATH crooked a beckoning finger at the 252 small ships churning their way across the
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      208 4 lndr« Abranjibai Mt ix l «Pm& Jet sHIPs. ~3&*~ roily Lim |T «l Happy babies are healthy babies and n^^B^n^^^^^^^^^^^n #«6>*m a heathy start in life is the greatest gift < with which a baby can be blessed >r<^ 0 Iheir proud parents put these lovely m ttfye*. little people
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    Somersault in Empress Place —and men ask for equal pay for women
    200 5 Somersault in Empress Place —and men ask for equal pay for women TTER HALVES WEREN'T GOOD ENOUGH ONCE, NOW THEY ARE JUST AS GOOD o/OMEN AND MONEY will be the main subsubjects for discussion tomorrow between ff prescnrativcs of 3.000 Singapore Government c C rks and Empress Place officials. i,
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    Star is away so the weekly show falls flat
    128 5 Star is away so the weekly show falls flat THE Chief Minister of Singapore. Mr. David Marshall, is the star attraction at his weekly "Meet the People" sessions. His absence has proved this. Since Mr. Marshall went to London for the mtrdeka talks the number of people seeking help at
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    BIGGEST SOCCER RESULTS
    206 5 l>l\lsl<>\ 1 Bromwich it .tial 1 IVIackpnol 1 Boltan 1 ralej I M.iin ii. *trr 4 Sheffield 1 M.i land 1 DIVISION I iM-r pool 2 ii I Id. 4 Donrutcr R. o Bl M kl-urn K. 1 il<II«--.l>n>ut h Stoke < ii> 1 1 i Itj
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    SANG HIS WAY TO THE FINALS
    125 5 SANG HIS WAY TO THE FINALS CTRAPPING Warrant Officer, Fearn Stear (above), a physical training instructor with the R.A.S.C., is a man with a warm heart and a velvet voice. Taking time off from his physical ierks. he has won a series of amateur singing competitions. Next month he meets
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    Lock icon I St. Helens win Cup
    17 5 I--- 1 I n the Ei I hey Ide, by Keuter. I
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    40 learn to be leaders
    40 5 40 learn to be leaders T Federation la week 40 youth be "activity have to qualify r< creation, art. and culpxpected to end ot the Keng, 'he i retary said "nUi later be with variKpand their "ion has 20 affldubs.
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    Schoolboy, 12, is missing
    22 5 A 12-year- anthanasamy allway i. has been home since lent of St. ft home in and has not
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    New president
    11 5 Ir io ni SinBahru Indian nual meet- held last
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    Appeals day
    21 5 The Singapore Court of Criminai Appeal will hold a sitting in the High Court next Thursday at 10.30 a.m.
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    Now look you, our Billy is no normal mascot, no sir
    432 5 Now look you, our Billy is no normal mascot, no sir THE DAY HE MET THE QUEEN HE ATE HER BOUQUET OF FLOWERS DO YOU know Billy? If not. you ought to because he is a unique personality. Four years ago he was leading a wild and carefree lifr on
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    Malaya needs religion most now—Dr. Jones
    116 5 Malaya needs religion most now— Dr. Jones MALAYA is at a stage of development when religion is most important. Dr. E. Stanley Jones, the evangelist and author, told the Sunday Times yesterday. 1 He said the social march in Asia must be guided into channels of freedom and democracy to
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    Women tears up dollars
    57 5 PENANG, Sat— Chong Swee Jin 22. tore up $200 worth of currency notes before she umped from the first floor of a house in Kimberley Street, the First Magistrate. Mr. Au Ah Wah, was told today. Chong who was charged in hospital, pleaded guilty to attempted
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    Many firms keep up own fund
    144 5 Many firms keep up own fund MOST of Singapore's big firms are still continuing with their own provident fund schemes in addition to the Government Central Provident Fund. A few are winding up their funds. The Singapore Cold Storage recently paid out more than $1,000,000 to 600 employees. A spokesman
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    Round the world in new type lifeboat
    193 5 A DANISH seaman, Walter Vestbors, is coming to Singapore in a new type of lifeboat which resembles a SU I b t m ?s ri an enclosed cylinder with pointed ends and measurea 23 feet by 6'i feet. There is a hollow mast
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    Drunk AND incapable: Only together do they constitute otfence
    208 5 Drunk AND incapable: Only together do they constitute otfence ANYONE in Singapore who has had one too many drinks and is unfortunate enough to appear in court is charged with "being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself." Does this make drunkenness in itself an offence? This auestion was
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    Those traffic jams to end
    153 5 POLICE PLAN A NEW CAMPAIGN THE traffic bottle-necks in Singapore in Market Street, Cross Street, and Robinson Road are soon to be cleared up, the Sunday Times was told yesterday. The congestions are caused primarily by the haphazard way motorists have been parking their vehicles.
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    Film stars join the X-ray club
    93 5 Film stars join the X-ray club SEVEN film stars have recently joined the X-Ray Club and sent signed photographs to the club with messages to the people of Singapore. They are Pier Angeli, Leslie Caron. Stewart Granger, Gene Kelly. Ann Miller. Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Taylor. In their messages the
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    Stolen pens
    39 5 A man held recently by the police was found with four fountain pens. Three are Sheaffers and the fourth a Parker. Any claims should be made to Inspector Chia Cheng Poh, at the Central Police Station. Singapore.
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    Flower thief
    22 5 Forty five orchid plants, worth about $135, were stolen from a City Council nursery in Alexandra Road, Singapore on Friday.
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    Special shell planned for philharmonic orchestra
    417 6 GAIN Singapore is to be visited by a major symphony orrhestra. Last year the •Symphony of the Air (previously known as the N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra conducted by Toscannini) pave two concerts in the Singapore Badminton Halt which were enormously successful. For many Singaporeans those
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    Light tackle will catch big fish
    271 6 Light tackle will catch big fish T'VE always said it and now I'm vindicated. Light tackle will catch heavy fish. If you don't believe it take a look at the photo on the right of Mr. Siong G. E. Lim. a Singapore angler. That fish he's holdinK is a tensirri
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    MISSION OF MERCY POSES A CHALLENGE
    610 6  -  FELIX ABISHEGANADEN St. Andrew's Hospital— -a story o£ faith, hope, charity— and hard work by CAITH, hope, charity and hard work. That is how Singapore's St. Andrew's Mission hospital has cared for thousands of destitutes over the past 40 years. Despite various setbacks financial
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    A TREAT I FOR SPORTS FANS
    382 6 A TREAT I FOR SPORTS FANS ALTHOUGH the new Saturday afternoon sports programme appears under a different title each week "Sports Preview," "The Week End Sport," "The Week End's Sport," et.!. it is something that sports fans have been waiting for a long time. It is a snappy well-pro-duced little
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    A storm hits the dusun but no wind
    637 6 A storm hits the dusun but no wind NO more complaints of lack of rain! On the 17th. there occurred a terrific thunderstorm with heavy rain. Luckily it was not accompanied by hich wind. It may be considered to be the prelude to the chanpe-over to the Southwest Monsoon. In
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    DROP US A LINE
    1109 7 Anpjihiny in say*? St»nti yaur J in "Mi turn-" A its," Sunday j: linn's. t'vil Si m 9 .Siiifjtt/n>i-i>-l. j; 1 ln-if cannot vngayv in pvr» sihuil o*oi-i-f\/noinii'in'«' m WHAT would be your attitude to a churlish, i[ vain, conceited, lazy, spoilt S young girl of
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    CASE BOOK
    804 7 She tried to kiss I him ij A LITTLE more than a ye.ir «J ago, one of the most charm- S ing men I have ever met cair.e to work in our office. He is J' strongly built, has a charming face and a very strong character. «J
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    WHEN'S & WHEN
    596 7 WHEN'S WHEN lET me know the Chinese J date for March 30. 1933. H M —ili.- sth Day of the 3rd Moon of the Mai Year of the Republic of China a year of the Fowl and the loth year of the *7th Sexagenary Cycle, or Kuei Yu. I was
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      35 7 M^?f E PIP v<ot ÜBA^ /n 1 CSTOP MAggIMC WeLL. \F I ASU VOCI ONCeI AND IP- I ASt^ YOU TWtCE% lit m I^B 1 *r Oo^'. T ce:r IT >^^ J^TJ I>M HA&ttKt&j i j
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    The SUSAN BARRIE Page
    541 8 OSsESSE in thro** lessens by Him star jliu cm CASH lONS, photographers and film fans are all in the day's work for glamorous Hong Kong film star, Liv Chi, at present visiting Singapore. As I threaded my way through a crowd of eager school outside her
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    A CAREER in beauty
    173 8 SiyGAPORE girls who want to become professional beauticians will soon have a chance to train in the art of make-up, facial massage, manicuring and eyebroic arching. Australian beauty expert, Mrs. Joanna Murray -Hobbs, uho recently arrived here with her husband, will conduct the beauty culture course
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    And now Susan turns i 0...
    450 8 J^e 'Teens and Twenties |^0W to become a successful career girJ with a real future ahead is one big problem that thousands of teenagers have to work out for themselves every year You may be one of them the girls who left school, took
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    BLACK FLATTERS AND SLIMS
    187 8 F)R the mature, soph ist ica ted woman the most popular, convenient and elegant colour for evening wear is black, which is often even more strik- k ing than a M bright colour. J/^ It is the most slimming of all colo v rs and is
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      183 8 y hfpil n r c TUJIYA' BRAND Cultured Pearls I are real pearls J Modern science has merely learned fl how to control their growth J ON SALE AT ALL HIGH-CLASS |EW£LU J -OR D.RECT FROM j}fOli/(M\ B Th« Arcod«, Singapore. P 0 I Mushrooms and cream make a hcav/enly
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    HARDER THAN USUAL BUT ENTRIES' STANDARD HIGH
    902 9 Again many miss by one word B Y THE COMPETITION EDITOR THE committee thought that Straits Times Word Puxxle Contest 4 ZZ' was slightly ff.cult than usual, but entrants genemtained the high standard of recent wfC ks. There were a S ain man
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    112 9 1 i fabulous •ii rusted nylon a tiara of solid "ith diamondv i ci Philomena looked like a priaeea when •il to Mr 6 *> nsapore •tiding reception more than white doves when the !Ki a replica of the bride's home was cut.
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    19 9 da. the forKoiik. after ni at St. liurch. KamRoad, Stank] > ii. s pit turr.
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    55 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. Jagir Singh, a contractor of Kluang. was in the Magistrate's Court today, fined $150 or two months jail tor failing to furnish his income tax returns for 1954_ In 1953 he was fined S^o for a similar offence. His defence was that
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    75 seek jobs In Borneo
    26 9 Singapore agreed to Governoba if they 85 was Labour ':.:> :or work to Borneo, 1 <:r.modation. ployed end the ..d later on
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    Aussie envoy for Ceylon
    79 9 The Australian High Com-missioners-designate to Ceylon, Mr. A. J Eastman, who has been Deputy Australian Commissioner in Singapore, will leave on Wednesday to take up his new appointment. Mr. Eastman has been stationed in Singapore since August last year. Before that he was with the Australian
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    TOP jobs going as party spoils?
    109 9 ATTEMPTS are being made to ".slip friends. relative and supporters tain politicians into vman-nt Civil Sergei the City Counrvice" in Btagap Who *ays sc "Torch", the Libcral-So- cialist weekly newspaper. In today's issue "Torch says- "Politicians are becoming bolder and bolder. •It is common
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    30,000 for Singapore May Day rallies
    140 9 ABOUT 30,000 Singapore workers are expected to take part in May Day rallies on Tuesday. Three rallies will be held, plus a meeting of 1,000 union representatives at the Victoria Memorial Hall. There will also be smaller meetings at union premises. No major public
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    Colony seamen high on TB casualty list
    90 9 Seamen have the second highest tuberculosis rate In Singapore. Records taken from a list of 700 patients receiving free treatment at S.A.T.A. show that the biggest class of T.B. victims arc the labourers. I Second on the list are the seamen. Then came
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    Sultan honours the Colonel
    59 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Lt Col. P. H. Man. the departing CO. of the Ist Bn. the Royal Hampshire Regt. was presented with the Selangor Meritorious Service Medal by the Sultan at a special investiture in the State Council Chamber today. He leaves for Britain on Wednesday.
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    Teachers are back home
    112 9 The first batch of 165 Malayan school teachers to make an educational tour of Japan returned to Singapore yesterday on the Santhia. Mr. A. B Samuels, organising secretary of the National Union of Teachers, told the Sunday Times that the tour was a great success. A
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    27 9 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat. A May Day rally will be held in johore Bahru on Tuesday on the padang opposite the Railway Station at 9 a.m.
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    Aussie wives want to settle here
    149 9 Aussie wives want to settle here PENANG. Sat. SEVERAL Australian Army families stationed in Penang said today they would -like to settle permanently in Malaya after their j discharge. "My husband and I like this country and we have talked the matter over seri- ously." Mrs. Edna Ommundson of Sydney,
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      322 10 Mr. LEE AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WfE ARE not among those who scoff at Mr. Harry Lee (pardon, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew) when he attempts, haltingly, to express himself in unfamiliar Kuoyu. Nor is there any feeling but sympathy when this very able speaker in English gropes and fumbles in
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      152 10 TT IS unwise to leave control of broadcasting in the hands of the Government. The temptation to use this powerful medium of publicity and propaganda for party ends is always great. Tengku Abdul Rahman's proposal to investigate the question of turning Radio Malaya into a public corporation
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    I duped Western security as a spy for Kremlin
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    TOO OLD AT 70? Don't you believe it!
    764 10  - TOO OLD AT 70? Don't you believe it! Harvey Day Don't let aye yet you tlotvn—plan tar the tutu THE idea that a man is old merely because he has spent 70 years on this planet is so repugnant to me that I refuse to accept it. This may have
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    MODERN OFFICE 'BAIT' ATTRACTS STENOS FOR SINGAPORE FIRMS
    244 11 MODERN OFFICE 'BAIT' ATTRACTS STENOS FOR SINGAPORE FIRMS By TERRY PILLAY QOOD stenographers are hard to find in Singapore. To get them, some employers are saying in their advertisements that they have modern, air-conditioned 1 offices. This was revealed yesterday in a round-up of big Singapore firms and employment agencies.
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    Rubber drops half cent on quiet market
    183 11 May first grade rubbrr buyrrs f.o.b. rlnsrd in Singapore yesterday at 87 < i rent per lb.. half a rent below yesterday's closing price. The closing tone was quiet. Prices drifted to lower levels on upcounlry selling and trade buyers cautious. Turnover reasonable.
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    COPRA PRICES
    29 11 The Singapore Copra Association 1 p.m. prices for Straits mixed copra yesterday were: May buyers $29.25, sellers $29.62>2; June buyers $29.50, sellers $29.75. The tone was quiet.
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    355 11 I Mother of 5 backed family planning) and is now in hot water I lIIIIIMIIIMIIHMIIIIIMMm,,,,,,, milllllllllllllim **********11 l ***************111 l I lIIIIIIIIIMIIIIUIIIHIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIU HOW DARE YOU SAY SUCH THINGS?" SHOCKED ELDERS CHIDE CHE ZAHRAH 1 By NAN HALL W HEN Ch z h h binte Za'aba, j mother of five young
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    229 11 'Malenkov Curl' our girls "THE "Malenkov Curl", popularised in England by Princess Margaret, won't be catching on in Singapore. for more than one reason according to Colony hairdressers and the girls who have to wear the styles. Miss Maria Chua, who is in charge of the hairdressing department of a
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    Off to America
    29 11 Mr. Chee Keng Cheong, a sub-accountant of the First National City Bank of New York, leaves Singapore today for a three-month visit to the United States.
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    $40,000 FOR THE BLIND FROM COLONY BAZAAR
    116 11 An hour before the open- dresses and Japanese curios. in 3 tl ?H T^We 1 V B .r he Serrwi O 3 °ha S d tall a S f M r en?o C rSWaU th Sin V g t S^^ »> pore, yesterday.
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    151 11 KAJANG, Sat. Results of the draw of the 37th Social and Welfare sweep are: Jjst prixe ($350,000): No. IW-6143- 2nd prize (S125.00O): No *****80; 3rd prize (S50.000): No. *****06; 4th pri-.es (525.000 each): Nos. '95)842. *****50, *****71. FIFTH PR'ZK (H0.0C0) 1PP1099 *****58. *****15. ji V'B I7»WM 1008'".
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    Little SaUeh flies off with a new suit
    114 11 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Sat. Limbless 14-year-old Salleh bin Ariffln will take a copy of the Koran (Muslim Bible) with him when he flies to England next Tuesday for special medical treatment at the Rockhampton Hospital. The Koran is a gift from Che Bee
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    $50 m. rubber plan for Dunlop in Malaya
    134 11 WORLD FAITH IN NATURAL RUBBER' MALACCA, Saturday. BUBBER manufacturers have great confidence in the future of natural rubber, said Mr. C. H. C. Kinahan, director of Dunlop Malayan Rubber Estates here today. Mr. Kinahan, who Is also the deputy president of the
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    36 11 Mr. Justice Whitton, judge, Singapore High Court, left for Britain by plane yesterday on six weeks' leave. Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah, now on local leave, will resume duty tomorrow.
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    29 11 Dr. C.S. Pichamuthu, Professor of Geology at the University of Mysore, will lecture on "Our Wandering Continents" on Friday at 5.30 p.m. at the University of Malaya.
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    155 12 0 i 88 E AC i? Week the Sunday Times is awarding H cash prizes for readers' pictures. There is a first pnxe of S3O. a second of I $15 and runners-up each receive $5. If you wish to enter for the competition send your entries to
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    874 12  -  Donald Davies Historical corner by rkXE of the first merXJ chants to cross to the Raffles Place side of the Singapore River and to establish himself in the new commercial area allocated by Thomas Stamford Raffles was A. L. Johnson. A friend and confident
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    29 13 Eddie Albert and Margo. who appear in M-G-M's 'I'll Cry Tojuottou- and their son. Eddie Jr., make music in the living room of their Hollywood home.
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    98 18 Colony seeks an Olympic cyclist J"HE Singapore Cycfc Racing Association organising a special m au Ed-start 1 ISUmiles j^ run to find i cyclist represent the Colony Jt the Olympic Games Melbourne this year. rhe ru:. Sunday. rhe dlstan with the Olympic G; rhe or Singa] 'No trial i was
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    230 19 TRI MEET? MAAA MEN ARE SCEPTICAL VASAGAM: IT DIDN'T COME OFF LAST TIME ()IFICIALS of the Maw layan Amateur Athletic Association, though pleased about the prospect of a triangular' meet between Singalon, are rather sceptical pore, Malaya and Ceyabout it coming off. "It did not come off the last time
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    60 19 SEREMBAN, Fri. KEDAH Cricktt Association has written to the Negrl 1 Sembilan Cricket Association proposing cricket matches between the two states. The secretary of the X.C.A.. inche Shuaib bin Osman, said in his letter that the Kecran team could travel to 1 Seremban and play on
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    94 20 :n KaA Jl« (Minimum) WILSON: Harry Leslie WfIKIB, Supervisor for the E.M.I. Group of Companies in India. China ?nd South Bad Aala, who died peaoelully ai 26. Chancery Lane, Singapore, on 27th April. 1956. YEO Mr. Yeo Soon Bee, Age 80 (Beloved father of Mr. Yeo Hock fceng) paawd
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    72 20 ;i, H,.rrf. $1" (Minimum) THE FAMILY' of the tftttl Madam Ho Ah Bee thank all j Relatives. Friend* and Associations for sending Joss Papers. Scrolls, i Lent Cars. attended Nlghl tHatta and Funiral m i IGIOI I \n<>< MCBMBm 2(1 H..rrf. ■>.■;« I minimum). 'I LECTURE BY DR. E.
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    2030 20  -  EPSOM JEEP Wins thrilling race near post By STARTING an odds-on favourite Flower Queen, with Garnet Bougoure astride, produced a beautiful run in the straight to beat the outsider. Conventional, in the Penang Stakes over a mile for Class 2, Div. 1 horses
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    51 20 UEAVIN "Killer" Hayes lies unconscious after being counted out in his light against the Fijian Isimcli Kadrodro on Friday night. Referee Nene is seen walking across to declare Radrodro the winner. Radrodro floored Hayes in the 80th second of the first round. Sunday Times
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    61 20 Total pool: $180,260 Ist: No. *****5 <554,078). 2nd: No. *****8 (524.335). 3rd: No. *****1 ($13,510). STARTERS: (51.201 each Nos *****2, *****1, *****5, *****7, *****4. *****0, *****4. *****8. *****7. CONSOLATIONS: (5540 each): Nos. ***** 1. *****3, *****1. *****5. *****6, *****1. *****9. *****4. *****6. *****4. Tickets Nos. A *****6
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    48 20 Straits Times' tipster Pointer was in excellent form with his selections yesterday, tipping the first live winners in a row. Epsom Jeep and Call Boy each tipped two winners. Jeep save Moneysmate and Flower Queen, and Call Boy cave Flower Queen and Opera 11.
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    160 20 BOURNEMOUTH, Sat. LEW HOAD, Australian champion and top-seed-ed player for the event, was beaten in straight sets by American International Ham Richardson in the British Hardcourts Lawn Tennis Championships semi -final here yesterday. Rirhardson, a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, won B—6, 6—3, 6—3.
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    246 20 VIENNA, Sat. OOLAND and Austria were level at 1-1 after the first two singles in their Davis Cup European Zone first-round match In Warsaw yesterday. Franz Salko (Austria) beat Andrzej Licis (Poland) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. 6-4, and Poland drew level when Vladimir Skonecki beat Alfred
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    116 20 LONDON. Sat. •J^ICKY GARGANO. British. Empire and European amateur welterweicht boxing champion, became the first boxer since the war to win an A.B.A. championship of Britain three years running at the *ame weight when he outpointed Tommy Gill in the final at Wembley last night. Britain's
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    49 20 LONDON. Sat. Glamorgan and Somerset drew in their friendly two-day cricket match at Cardiff yesterday. Glamorgan declared 238 for nine (Parkhouse 57. Hedges 52: Atkinson 4-25) ana 85 for seven declared; Somerset 132 (Tremlett 69 not out: Presdee 4-27 1 and 117 for four. Reuter.
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