The Straits Times, 13 May 1956

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  • 12 1 No. 1.081 10 CENTS SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, MAY 13, 195G
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  • 422 1 MERDEKA: TUESDAY IS CRUCIAL DAY D CLEARS DECK FOR ACTION AND STATES HIS TERMS HARRY MILLER Sat. T nc Colonial SeAlan Boyd. has recks for this r rhe Bnment car-cut ex- >:■■ 3nd *ore any of Singapore's constitution. Boyd last night nted Mr. Marshall .1 new memoi dum In which
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  • 25 1 $5,000 only one kin nc r (V lilt won the mes Word Shin Heng. Pctaling |aya. 3ur, prize will sent week. -or the Compel article.
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    55 1 Australia): airman takes a Colony bride lh c wcddin« kiss J» l»l r Australian-born Chinese Harold Doo and his Singapore sweetheart. Mary Lee. in Singapore yesterday. Thi.ir ofiam.il wedding date was m March but Harold who stationed in Malaya with the Royal Austnlian Air Force was posted home.
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  • 53 1 25.000 to be won in >l>l «•«>■■ le*l pR!ZE-MONEY of $25-000 can be won in The Malayan Monthly's Jackpot Puzzle Contest V. In addition to $20,000 in the first prize pool, there is ***** in consolation prizes. This great contest closes on Tuesday THREE days from today. Send your entry,
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  • 109 1 JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. A MAN who ran amok here yesterday died in hospital after 10 minutes of terror. The man a Chinese tapper from Bekok— lost control of himself in |alan Ungku Puan He slashed his neck with a meat cleaver,
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  • 547 1 Marshall: The going is heavy JYI R DAVID MARSHALL warned in a recorded broadcast over Radio Malaya last night that it would be wrong for the merdeka delegation now in London to accept half measures. He said: "If we return to Singapore with half measures and immediately campaign for more,
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  • 10 1 Calhern dies tar of I
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  • 36 1 VATICAN CITY. Sat. Monsignor Curie En Torald" 63. secret chamber2£nS the Pope and eh ol the Papal Noble Guard. •nd Jead in home mside the Vatican City today. He died ol a heart U.P.
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  • 23 1 Rear Admiral G. A. Thring arrived in Singapore by air last night to take over as Flag Officer, Malayan Area.
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  • 55 1 Thailand is strengthening hi r trade ties with Communist China, the Commis-sioner-General for SouthEast Asia. Sir Robert Scott, said at the Singapore Airport last night Sir Robert was returning from Bangkok niter a bimonthly meeting of Council representatives of the SouthEast Asian Organisation "to advance
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  • 186 1 LONDON. Sat. Britain today officially admitted apologising to Russia for the snooping of a frogman around a Soviet warship in Portsmouth harbour The admission came at 4 Foreign Office news conference. A spokesman hinted that Moscow broke diplomatic etiquette by disclosing the apology. Socialists have
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    70 1 IN the second instalment o f her own story told for the first time the Duchess of Windsor reveals how her first marriage to handsome American airman Lieutenant Earl Spencer Win- field ended after a futile attempt at reunion. She tells of her travels which took her to
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    55 1 MEET JACK IXI CARDIFF, the cameraman the stars ask for per- sonal'y the man who knows all the secrets of their fascinating faces Be sure to read his "Close-up of the Stars presented by David Lewin in the Sunday Times next week, for it will teach you a
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  • 220 1 ANTI-RED REVOLT GROWS IN COLONY SCHOOLS CINCAPORES ANTI-RED STUDENT REVOLT IS CROWINC. Yesterday students belonging to the Singapore Anti-Communist Corps plastered two of the biggest Chinese schools with posters condemning their Red-influenced colleagues. The schools were the Chung Wah Girls' School. Barney Road, and the Yock Enu School. Tanjong Katong
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  • 213 1 Go-slow claim 'a tall tale KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. THE SECRETARY of the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Assoc.ation, Mr. R. C. D. Houghton, today said that the union claim of complete success in its go-slow yesterday, wa; grossly exaggerated The National Uiv. Plantation Workers h;td said there was a 100 per
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  • 32 1 NOTTINGHAM. Sat. At ten innings of 135 b? Colin McDonald helped the llians to score 249 fo: three wickets by tea on th< of their match Nottinghamshire hen Renter.
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  • 45 1 JAKARTA. Sat. Police have broken a ring smuggling Malayan lottery tickets into North Sumatra, according To a report from Medan. The report said the police had confiscated 3.000 tickets and arrested a Chinese believed to be the leader of the ring. Reuter.
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  • 20 1 MOSCOW Sat M Zhukov. the Soviet Defence Minister. cording to diplomatic ow. The rep( the illness is serious.
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  • 3788 2 PART TWO THE erosion of a marriage is a harrowing experience, and I shall not chronicle all the details: they cannot be unusual. In the hope of rousing Wm out of himself I attempted to draw more people into the contracting orbit of our marriage I
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  • 2212 4  -  \IY HEART beat a 11 little faster as I stood at the reception desk of that hotel in Brighton, waiting for the receptionist to allocate me a room. .My masquerade as a man, which was to lasl for the next 30 years, had just that minute
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  • 116 4 HOWEVER. I decided it would be safer to use the stage name of "Ivor Gauntlet" when I moved to London with Freda, Tony and a new governess. I landed a part in "The Private Secretary" that took me all round the United Kingdom, then back to London. One
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  • 522 4 "mm SOON I to look another adn Unluckily mirer.s had over the spent q gether I saw this jealous. Hi that anothi might do At one or I was phone. Ai manded her flat in 1 once. The scene I I was more d in the sketi h storming
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  • 63 5 T aoore Youth is to conduct a about 1,000 or-, Defore devising .-•anr-ne to serve 'rom •lalaya and Dtpartlp. 'morundergraduates n d .sent out > ulsa- I aims ms. till the :hp Asia Founverj a grant of j tn begin next a probp Into and
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  • 64 5 I Director of G.H. Garlick, nted cash liOolboys of the recent :>etition. 2.000 children >i 12 and i the competii .resented pupils were Chan I i Bali i T;in Chee i 1 1 1 1 School.! :ored 25 marks The prize.-, were ■;iem. each was
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  • 59 5 YANG PEI YUEN is a girl who takes the ups and downs of life with a smile Widowed a few years after her marnoge to a Chinese millionaire, this queen of Singapore's singing stars, is now bock at the microphone to the delight of her fans
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  • 121 5 Citizenship plan gets a cautious welcome WTI an d poht.cal Mncapore 'I'-pted a "wait attitude on "nip and national»»ls outlined at Iks in Loniday. nave been acinmipW by the •"•vernment and *nted to Cornier*. countries for •j, 1 1 definition of a £*Mwe dtizen" b b»"aw ii up The chairman
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  • 480 5 POTENTIAL DANGER BUT NOT A THREAT, SAYS SIR SYDNEY THE political situation is a genuine potentiai danger to the University of Malaya but the danger will not become actual unless the situation deteriorates, the Vice-Chan-cellor of the Univers'tv. Sir Sydney Came. said yesterday.
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  • 418 5 THE Testing Deportment of the Singapore Traffic Police has come under a scathing attack for its "inefficiency" and "meek ond miJ4 excuses" for making the public wait up to five months for a driving test. Mr. R L. Lambert, of Lambert's Driving School, Singapore has
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  • 678 5 NO, says Mrs. Fozdar, it's like washing dirty linen §EX talks for young people are just another excuse for this degenerate age to indulge in its unhealthy preoccupation in the subject, Mrs. Shirin Fozdar, lashed out yesterday. Mrs. Fozdar, a Singapore Indian who is a
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  • 68 5 Top army chief arrives for Malayan talks MAJ.-GEN. J.H.N. Poett, Director of Military Operations at the War Office, arrived in Singapore yesterday for talks with Army chiefs in the Colony and the Federation. He flew on to Kuala Lumpur to meet the Director of Operations. Lt.-Gen. Sir Geoffrey Bourne. Gen.
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  • 34 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat —Dr. T.E.C. Barns, senior obstretician at the General Hospital here returned to Britain on completion of his contract and has been succeeded by Dr. S. Lourdenadin. of Pcnang.
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  • 19 5 The general council of the Singapore Labour Front will meet this morning at 40 Bencoolen Street.
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  • 160 5 N. PERUMAL, 29. was a carl cleaner. On the morning of April 27 he saw a shiny new j Jaguar parked in a lane behind Crosby House. Singapore. He tried the door. It 1 was open. The ignition key was in
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  • 490 6  - The monster on four wheels— a threat to Colony NAN HALL CARS AND MORE CARS— 42,OOO today and perhaps 84,000 in 1963? By |F THE NUMBER OF MOTOR CARS ON SINGAPORE ROADS COES ON INCREASING AT ITS PRESENT RATE THE CAR POPULATION WILL DOUBLE ITSELF IN THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS.
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  • 94 6 And here's the view of a leading member of the Singapore motor car trade: "We reckon on the average life of a modern car being about five years. On the basis of 40,000 cars there would be a potential replacement rate of 8,000
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  • 316 6 Meet Ahmad the stentorrian voice of Collyer Quay By S. Ramachandra r)O you recognise this *J man? You ought to if you work in, or frequent. Ocean Building in Collyer Quay, Singapore, on any working day. He is Ahmad bin Hashim whose special Job is to open and close the
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  • 418 6 A. convert to the rod and iine Angling by SPINNER VWHAT,' said a fner.d, "can you possibly see m fishing? You take a boat out into a sweeping current throw out an anchor and sit in the boat being sea-sick, all the time wondering when the fish are going to
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  • 412 6 Kingsley's offwith a load on his mind IfINGSLEY MORRANDO leaves for England today on a six months' training course. But he leaves as troubled by h s uncertain future as he was when I last wrote about him six mqnths ago He is still only a Division 3 Officer, and
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  • 508 6 Wanted: Information on tin coins SMrHfjir *f\Pj^[}|i^^^[T^gTß*Tl^^^TTf WE are hoping that the rainy spell is nearly over. After 18 days it was possible to do the second round of tractor ploughing. At least ten consecutive dry days are needed before the raking can be done; if the ground is wet
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    • 545 6 "INDOORS OR OUT POUSHES^^fe cemenPl tile floors x(**m Don't let MMX. that COLD take hold! A fbw drops ofVapex on your handkerchief and on your pillow at night fC^xSjv. clears the head quickly. toi Vapex relieves colds from < &^^~T >> V I the first deep breath. I fa*S -'-i*
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  • 936 7 ■I W HEN Mala ya and Sin- gapore get merdeka what will happen to our Thomas Cup players I* Will the two territories ■J combine together or enter as individuals P. N. DASS > Ipoh. 7/ Singapore and the Federation do separate I" completely it ii-
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  • 307 7 Here is how you can say 'No' and mean it! QO you find it hard to say "No"? The ;I older I get the more readily that jj little word comes. !j Take the art of saying "no" to a I j.drink. Having tried them irf UM 'I In my
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  • 843 7 > t AM 18-years-old and the youngest of < A iarpe fnmily. lam still at school and until re<ently. was a very studious boy' Now .some new neighbours have £rtv«l B«t door. Th.ir eldest daughter k nineteen She has blonde Into and fascinating eyes. I
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    • 43 7 TUt^^" <3AM6OLg /haAAu- AW-&0&— Fit's veov \.~Z?;S* :e f BuT |tuat nee*. linB is Tue^\ W/.>Y v& g peAP. Bur it didn't suit vie so) J Im yirpwLL^^^^^ ly&gv LA T^ s j T pjASMioj J we Nece isn't rue i ALT&geo it/
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  • 1316 8 Party Manners Go with Party Clothes IF you're sweet sixteen, or 1 thereabouts, and just getting ready for your first real party date, the odds are you re thrilled and excited, but perhaps just a little nervous, too. It takes plenty of poise and good KILN to be a social
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  • 318 8 U'E hear such a lot about materials which are Istant, uncrushable, permanently pleated materials that need no ironing: materials that are mothproof and shrinkproof. But how many women know how much to i from these '"wonder" fabrics? these claims literally Or should they be f
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    • 384 8 The Ladylike Look is Here IT'S the Ladylike Look that set everyone talking ar the recent Paris fashion shows. The new look is young but, at the same time, the clothes are sophisticated and uncluttered by fussy details. The new styles demand longer and smoother hair which can be worn
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  • 387 9 RAF's special jungle rescue team is ready for first call <„£ TEAM— ALL VOLUNTEERS |CH T Royal Air Force t mC n Hj*c volunteered scue work in ,r .in air crash, civil, anywhere nth Borneo or have been their duties d i mm B ill i| m ninhabited will be
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  • 69 9 In Singaking on a report now thr ■n here and lay be co-or-i c SoMversity of i the real Abidin bead ot the Department ol Malay Studies at the University, told the Sunday Times yesterday Inctie Abidin said the report would deal with such questions as
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  • 45 9 The Kiwi Members' League will hold a picnic and dance at South Winds, Jurong, today from 8.30 a.m. to six p.m. More than 300 people, Including about 120 women, will I take part in games, dances I and competitions.
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  • 47 9 A group of 37 youths from Tanjong Karang. Selangor. have arrived in Singapore to undergo a civics course. During their stay here they will visit, among other places of interest, the harbour, Sin- gapore Airport, Pasir Panjang Power Station and Radio Malaya studios.
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  • 146 9 IkJEET Miss Brenda Sampson, who is Mr. David Marshall's personal secretary in London during the current merdeka talks. SI m, pert Brenda takes the ups and downs of her job with a srmle. She has had long hours to work. Her longest
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  • 284 9 HUSBAND AND WIFE GRADUATE FROM MELBOURNE VARSITY STUDENTS from Singapore and Malaya were among the 270 graduates upon whom the Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Australia, recently conferred degrees. Some will return home soon to practice their professions; others will stay in Australia to do post-gradu-ate courses or to
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  • 109 9 i CINEMASCOPE will go into V> the Malayan jungle next month to entertain Service- i men who are unable to reach I cinemas. The Army has bought 70 special 16 m.m. lenses and a stock of special miniature reels from 20th Century-Fox. These make it
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  • 67 9 Ninety prosecution witnesses have testified at a Singapore preliminary inquiry into fchan-e agaiMt Soon Huat SenK accused of misappr..nriatinK $105,658 from thr Kh branch of the Oversea Chinese Bank. The inquiry entered its sixth day yesterday when Mr J. B. Jeyaretnam, the magistrate', heard evidence!
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    • 907 9 The keenest contest for W) V7'WV AN HERE ARE THE WINNING ANSWERS MM I/Li/ Iv^y TO STRAITS TIMES WORD PUZZLE 4 B* test 'B* was easily the most keenly contested fi' 1 MONDAY 'B 2 TUESDAY B 3 WEDNESDAY for some weeks. The Here are what the judges and accurate
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  • 34 10 2l> «..,</. tin i Minimum) SCINA of theP WD. I urn pur I io ton anrl Staff of the nent and Nursing a Oenerml Hospital. (he kind treatment ar during her recent i .on.
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  • 29 10 2(1 Hi.rrf, Sin (Minimum) EVER I A- [WO MEMORIES of irai 13th May 1951 r) the thoughts of beloved, wife, children, son-m-law, daugh- I grand-children and j
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  • THE SUNDAY TIMES
    • 260 10 rpWO million dollars have left Singapore for HongKorm in a fortnight. This works out at a million dollars a week. Or $52 million in a year, which is not very much short of tho Colony's entire rake-in from income tax. This is the sort of mental
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    • 224 10 gCHOO:., buildings do not account for a very large part of the cost of an education programme. In the Ff deration, the Razak Committee estimates that the annual hill will rise from $167 million this year to $203 million in 1960. Of this, only $25 million year is
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  • THE MAN BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 974 10  -  MAXINE TAYLOR by JHE MAN BEHIND THE NEWS that John Gilbert Graham was sentenced to death in Denver last week for what is termed the "greatest mass murder in United States history" the killing of 44 people aboard an airliner is Charles M. Wilson,
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  • 716 10  - He planned the 13 and M get-away ARSLAN HUMBARAGI By VOXiLLDMXG: The dossier at a v secret agent 4FTER three years as a secret apent under Russia's Sergei Kiktev in Turkey I noticed that many of my own countrymen were falling over themselves to give me what appeared to be
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  • 66 11  -  BILL FISH ey (jscovery of nine rijp^'* c sold ier on ,d has touched search for the 4Q million us NakaIft T-csure." -cc the world ~id^ stat- ected and 31 Captain i-^LJ-a +orr'ved a •~ent m 'imes. Indonesians Mid Naka- with his boasted :.dicate ne so. n nc with
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  • 56 11 -übbrr buT*r« >.nsapore yerter- r>" lb.. anMl« Thirvdar in quirt. support rnt* prr Ib.. Spot f.o.b. No. 1 sellers jnf buyers 1 R 8.8. No. 3 Filers 83 of (oramfrcf noon prices May 12; to 85', 85 85^ 83 83 85 Vi 85', 85
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  • 15 11 m Association 1 Strait* 5 rnomi- $30 s*lr 75 buyers, $30 aelI ct
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  • 11 11 t-.r. lr Singapore >t«3 a: i ■ti on Frl-
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  • 17 11 nen, carrybroke into a Street, Singa- 1.15 a.m. yesbbed a contracHuat. 23. and ad jewellery
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  • 408 11 He gave $10 miL t0 Carla his beautiful Eumsian mistress trie departments unredeemed goods. Evidence was produced after the war to show that Nakamura loaded the treaS«h tato 10 steel trun *s and five crates and moved it to his villa H"
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  • 216 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Semenyih women tappers can still be seen while being searched in the new search booth at the Kachau Gate every morning on their way to work but they do not mind. "We don't have to strip now. so we are not unduly
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  • 67 11 PRETTY SCHOOL TEACHER WEDS Mr Michael Koh then* Gek, a construction engineer with the Standard Vacuum Oil Company in Sincapore. and his bride Mis* Betsy Goh. a school teacher. Mr Koh. a graduate of the University of Detroit, is a son of the late Mr and Mrs. Koh Chio Oh
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  • 86 11 Clerks give the Govt. eight days i TWE 2.400-strong AdminisI A trative and Clerical Services Union yesterday decided to give the Singapore Government eight days to re- open negotiations on higher I wage claims, failing which I the unions negotiating will take a strike ballot without calling for a general
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  • 364 11 THE opening night of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra was met with tumultuous applause from a packed audience at the Singapore Badminton Hall last night. Conductor Alfred Waller.--1 stein was called back time and time again by the hundreds that filled the hall and gave
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  • 288 11  -  ANTHONY OEI By THE 18-month romance between an Australian airman and a Chinese girl in Singapore that has brought ioy and tears to both has ended happily. Yesterday morning, Aus-tralian-born Chinese LAC Harold Brian Doo. 27. and his Malayan sweetheart, pretty
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  • 204 11 Runaway girl will now return By A Special Correspondent HONG KONC, Sat kJISS Leung Pui Kum, wt 1 8-year-cW runaway girl student from Singapore, was intercepted here today by her father. Mr Leung Chee Sing, and persuaded to return to Singapore "to see my sick mother." Miss Leung said that
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  • 53 11 One of Singapore's oidest qualified midwives. Mrs. Seemah Bekhore. died in Singapore yesterday aged 95. She had been delivering babies for the past 70 years The funeral will take place today at 11 a.m. from her home in Short Street to Thomson Road where she
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  • 36 11 A boy Llm Guan Seng was charged in Singapore yesterday with having two rounds of .303 ammunition on April 14. He was granted bail. The case will be mentioned on Tuesday.
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  • 780 12 Thomson's greatest structure was Horsburgh Lighthouse IN August 1853 the Government Surveyor and Architect John Turnbull Thomson left Singapore on sick leave and did not return. That same month the "Free Press" reported that a well attended meeting of prominent citizens was held at the News Room cßatfles Place) "for
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  • 172 12 A FRACTION of a second the expression lasts the "clicks" and the expression iscaptured on film. are planned: seme are just lucky. These photographs which take the prizes in this week < Camera Contest have captured fleeting expressions. First prize of $30 was won by
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 119 12 Popular Vrosstroi'd ACROSS 1. Prfconrrived opinion 1 13 1 11. \mplul>i 13. Feaat |X) 14. Lissom 16l 16. Nuinhtr (5) l« 20. Plant (4) 21. Think idly M. Mim Lash (lamour (IJ II CMC iir (3) Sfi. Pertaining to a wall (I) 3* X.p. II" (6) 42. Emanation {II 43.
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  • SEEING THE SHOWS
    • 412 13 No pulled punches in this expose of boxing rackets 'They pay their dough and they want to see b100d. a decade now s.nce I first tat in the ringside Press seats at a big had my notes of the rounds splattered with blood. There's nothing t the tight game when
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    • 168 13 IF a film hi worth "dubbing' in another language it is worth doing properly—or not at all. One of the films which is not done properly is the French film "Oasis." That in itself. Implies it was not worth doing. Its soporific qualities, coupled with
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    • 178 13 ALTHOUGH open tv criticism in certain respects, N.C. Films' production "Rajdhani" in Hindustani, with English subtitles, is a good entertainer. The story, based upon the loyalty and passion of the Rajputs, has all the ingredients of an Interesting film, melodrama combined with action, dances and
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    • 720 13 This makes a farce of censorship! THIS LUSTY, sinful island of Singapore is being wrapped in a cotton wool cocoon by its Appeal Board of Film Censors. That's the conclusion from seeing a film banned in Singapore a French film called "Rififi" "Trouble." And guess where I had to go
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    • 271 13 Hollywood men are so dull says Anita ANITA Ekberg, engaged to wed a British actor, failed to find a husband in Hollywood because Hollywood men are "married, engaged or dull." This will no doubt be a blow to the ego of movie males, but the sizzling Swede declares it's true.
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  • 2943 14 Out: two 'jokers' from my cabinet CONCLUDING An Asian Prime Ministers Story by Sir John Kofe/ OWft ON October 12, 1953, I became Prime Minister of Ceylon. My appointment was warmly welcomed by the country. My friends and critics wrote things about me in the Press which gave me a
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  • 16 14 A GIFT FOR PRESIDENT EISENHOWER WHO ENJOYS A JOKE WITH THE AUTHOR.
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  • 264 14 rpHE reason why a 1 few drinks at lunch-time seem to be far more potent than the same amount in the evening has been discovered by scientists: There is a regular rhythm in your resistance to the intoxicating effect of alcohol. It is lowest
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  • 20 14 by CHAPMAN I PINCHEB ls likelj hangoi Alcohol collect to bun. The Roper Unlvei empt) body alcoho know X 1
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 377 14 AH! J TO FLY THE "CONNOISSEUR" J^™ TO AUSTRALIA fSM AND ON TO *f m M u.s.a. m Sa Champagne and cavaire the con- Fly "Connoisseur" to Australia and on genial atmosphere ot a club-like lounge to U.S.A. and Canada via Fiji ano Honothe relaxation of fully-reclining lulu Prompt connections
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  • 1238 15  - [HE MAN WHO SUED THE JOCKEY CLUB EDGAR LUSTGARTEN by Don Pat. Charles >n the High cap at SubJ-- v a stateng this uod by of the after ig SteKempton n r ders )f the vmg the icaminareferred stewards :r.vostiga- :nrnt con- rdsof the fled themhad been the horse the
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    • 276 16 LITTLE LULU SAYS STOP! USE KLEENEX I INSTEAD SOFT AND STRONG ECONOMICAL THE ONLY TISSUE 1\ THE SERV- A -TISSUE BOX IT POPS UP! ALWAYS KEEP A BOX HANDY SLOANS I SUFFERING I CC» hrat S qu. ngs flow i C b.ood to S .ndrrful Wu- -5 md all Meat
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1282 16 r .rrr/-^ U 1 I TAKZAN WAS PrST'jtclßEP i-^\\ ./V— >^s-^- 11/7 />ai JiV A WITCM nOCTOK IS USUALLY (■~IWAKIsIE7 AAY PEOPLE OP THIS TE ~~~~BP_| H_H_H^~~^_k v 'xjr% J I TAKZAN STAKEC AT TABULJ IN PIS6EUEP-- COMTINUEI7 TABULU, THE WITCM RDCTOC By *^J_K. ME MEAgP' A SMgILL TKUrAPETINJG eESOUNiP
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  • 151 17 SECRETS OF A HUSBAND STEALER -icie with a ike that is r trouble. r state, now, that in I am certain-<\-,sional husr and I •it to be. better or how proe me. r so far on and on the em to be oer- Insi i have playing Tthai ?eems iidcring
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  • 169 17 AS TOLD AND PLAYED BY BRITISH FILM STAR Delphi Lawrence It s a help to chain-smoke il yuu haven't a naturally husky voice, if you don't ftmoke try speaking your mouth is full of grave!. Or just chew olives. Oh, if you do smoke Quite a lot. one of your
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  • 259 17 Charlie Chaplin has two faces. WHAT will Mr. Charles Chaplin be up to next? After that exchange of purring compliments with Krushchev at Claridges where will he look for fresh publicity? He might pop up in the news anywhere, on any subject. In any company. For though he recently remarked
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  • 165 17 rs from Paris, their stock-in-trade a roulette-wheel and a few ■ncs, sought to set up a modest gaming-house in Frankfort, elecGerman Emperors. But Frankfort turned up its nose. went village caller,, they •i a room inn an lrom the I .irin^ in 18^7 mint
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  • Article, Illustration
    823 17  -  GEORGE FARWELL -By Where jungle peaks are wreathed in cloud there s the... A ~l SHOP who spends a large part of his life in the clouds is one of New Guinea's best-known figures. Almost every day of the week Bishop Leo Arkfeld climbs into the cockpit of
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • WORLD OF MOTORING
    • 922 18  -  < By CHRISTOPHER PAGE CINCAPORE and Malaya are two of the few places left in the world where taxing of cars is still based on the old, outmoded and inaccurate RAC horsepower rating. In this system, calculations are based on data which
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    • 689 18 MIKE HAWTHORN tests the family car with the stark, stubby look V^HAT a pretentious world we live in! How hard most of us show off We boast of our incomes. We even brag of the taxes we pay. What makes me so puritanical? Well,
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    • 283 18  -  CRUSADER' It gCHOOL soccer received another boost during the we< news that the Thompson Cup soccer competition, vvli confined to the "Old Boys" of the various schools, is t pre-war system of catering for regular school teams. This move is long overdue. Frankly, an
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 108 18 SPORTING SAM I, R(| ff Crossword Solution ACROSS: 1. Prr possession. 11, Newt. 12. Atom. 13. Rerale. 14. Supplr. 16. Seven. 18. Aid. 19. Rid. 20, \lni-. 21, Drram. 24. Blend. 25. Curious 26 Thong ?9. Noise. 32. Rap*. 33 Lot. 35, Ale. 36, Mural. 38, Gorgon. 40. Notion. 12
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  • 1004 19 lead on first innings then lose five wickets for 76 EUI^£ E INS h< the "PP" haI «l »ver Rest the lit ho!?n? n nBS Co apse of the Rest batting in Europeans yesterday re- r piled with 237 to Rest's first I Innings
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  • 69 19 HAMBURG. Sat. Hans Strets, German light heavyweight champion, beat Alex Buxton, former British title holder, on points over ten rounds here last nlKht. The decision displeased the crowd of 5.000. who received it with a three-minute burst of booing and whistling. Buxton tried from the start
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  • 34 19 jOHANNESrrJRG. Sat.-Oeorge Barnrs. Australian holder of the British Empire welterweight tttte w«5 outpointed over ten rounds here last night by Mike Hold, die sS.tr. African mW^'Jf I*'^plon. in a non-title bout— Reuter.
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  • 62 19 INNS. 266. it INNS. 5S ipillai 51 32 plUal b Naeaiah 31 FVrera 4 b Vpiltel 3* liah 5 0 i^aiah 1 14 1 :i. 146. 151, itaiah 17.1-3-41-I Harbam Prrera 22-3-46-2; j ■r b King 2 lUdley 0 23 1 dhooae II 1 b Barron 5 R 9
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  • 14 19 I- Top seedI .md seDrobny of .md P. in a > ual tennis
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  • 317 19 SOUTH MEN AND WOMEN LEAD IN CUP TENNIS KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. SOUTH led in both the Guillemard Cup and the McCabe Reay trophy at the end of the first day's play in the annual North-South tennis played at Uie Lake Club courts. In the Ouillemard Cup for men South were
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  • 502 19 ATHLETICS In Singapore se- condary schools got of! to a good start. Yesterday at Jalan iieiar siaaium, li recoras were smashed at the Anglo-Chinese School sports meet. Earnest Frida won the individual championship, taking first places In live event*. He set one record. In
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  • 270 19 KUALA LUMPUR Sat. VO qualifying times were iV .nualled on the second day of the first Federation Olympic dimming trials at Chlnwoo Pool gang's Fong Scow San return.a the best performance 01 tne 1 Sav Then h* clocked 64 sec In the foo StW men',
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  • 337 19 S'gor Europeans make 235 after a strong start Xl ALA 1.1 MPI'R. Saturday. HELPED by two good stands, the first of which produced 125 runs and the second 60, Europeans totalled 231 runs in the first innings of their twoday annual cricket match against the Rest which started on the
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  • 140 19 EUROPEANS— IST INNS McConaghpy lbw Gurucharan 59 Wheatlev b Klassrn 64 HollinKworth c and b Bin Keng 1 11. rim v b Sivagnanam 49 Brure at Kam Thong b Bin Kens iUiliv c Sivagnanam b Bin Keng 0 Stoke-Hughes c Bin Ke.ti£ B. Gurucharan 0 Martin c Ilarbhajan b
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  • 634 19 KI'ALA LI'MPL'R, Saturday. TWO second half goals by Selangor gave them a 2-1 victory over Singapore in today's soccer friendly at Prince's Road Stadium. Singapore led 1-0 at half-time. Selangor, who were without Abdul Ghani, their regular centre forward, played an especially good
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  • 113 19 St. Andrews School beat St. Josephs Institution by five wlckeu in an inter-school cricket match yesterday. S.J.I. 63 (M. Quek. L'Strange 6-21, Retnam 2-10). S.A.S. 75-5 (Ang Keat 19, L'Strange 18. T Martens 2-22). RAF Tengah beat Woodbridge Hospital by mx s at Tengah Woodbrldjre
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  • 53 19 RAP Changi beat Shell Sporta Club by 83 runs at Paya Lebar yesterday. Changi spln-bowler John Platt, wrecklnc havoc with his off-breaks, claimed six wickets for 16. Scores: Changi: 131 iPlckett 48. MarItia)] 49; Roberts 4-42. Maughan 3-16 1. Shell: 48 1 Krusemann 13, Pencott
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  • 234 19 MUAR. Sat. OINGAPORE won the Pan-Ma-la.van cycllne championship with 53 points in Muar today. Wi second with nine points. Mansor Sawi of Singapore won tha individual championship. Rasjl, also of Singapore, was runner up. Results: 32 miles trial race (open): 1. Mansor Sawi (Spore). 2. Hern
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    • 65 19 I was a social failure. Then I bought a Carrier Room Air Conditioner. I'm still a social failure but, boy, is my bedroom nice and cool! lISE^SfiSB For over fit *y y«« r Hie people who know jir-condiHoning bctt IL- INTERNATIONAL AIR-CONDITIONINC CO.. LTD. (Incorporated in Singaporel 68. MACKENZIE ROAD.
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  • 132 20 M II „,d~ %H Minimum) SINNATHAMHY. FATHER of C S. K Petaling Jaya (formei. UpU), paaaad amplral, Ceylon. Mr Yuen C. Shun. Late of Straits Times Press, aped peacefully at Ins n-Mnence 43F Genting Lane. S«vMcc tX St. Matthew's Church, Neil Road, at 3.30 p.m. Sunday 13-5-56 and then
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  • 2660 20  -  Straits Code in $91 triumph EPSOM JEEP IU TOLLY SAILOR, with Mickey Donnelly astride, followed up his Spring Cup success with a thrilling nose win from Nazakat in the Stamford Rallies St;ikcs over one mile for Class 1, Div. 1 horses at Bukit
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  • 59 20 TOTAL POOL: 5299.460 IST: No. *****0 (8134,756) 2ND: No. *****6 (S 67 378) 3RD: No. *****1 (S 37.4321 STARTERS (82.879 each) Nos *****7: *****3; *****8; V 287:;: *****5; *****2: *****T; *****7; *****9; *****5; *****1; 572.", JO; *****4. CONSOLATION (8,249 each): Nos. *****4; *****1; •?2'i<>9B; *****6; *****!; *****7; *****1;
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  • 341 20 By EPSOM JKEP THE Martin siaoic s Class One .sprinters, Mazooka. Stage Show II and Kentucky Pride .showed grand form on the training track at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. Recently promoted Stage Show 11. uith Gever up, went like a winner when he raced
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