The Straits Times, 30 April 1957

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    17 1 The Straits Times. avebace BAtfrv eEitTirri:ir-irsT"ir inrcOTii~s~"ltlF;l)oo He**** Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1957 15 CENTS
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    Saddest moment of my life—by Mr. Lim
    271 1 Saddest moment of my life— by Mr. Lim */F TEARS COULD WASH AWAY MY SORROWS I WOULD WEEP 9 THE Singapore Chict Minister. Mr. Lim Yt v Hock, said yesterday that Mr. David Marshall appeared to be suffering "an adverse effect" from the "mental strain" of leading the first unI
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    Lock icon NEHRU'S ELECTION 'UNFAIR'
    102 1 NEHRU'S ELECTION 'UNFAIR' Petition filed ALLAHABAD. Mon. The election of Mr Nehru, the Prime Minister, to the Indian Lower House of Parliament has been challenged on the grounds that he used the privileges of his office during his election campaign. Mr. Nehru represents Phulpur, in Allahabad. A petition has been
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    Japan and peace —by Menzies
    81 1 SYDNEY, Mon.— The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. R. G Menzies, said here today that to live in a peaceful Pacific, Australia must study Japan's need to earn foreign exchange. ."I think there is plenty of room for a great realisation that one thing that would
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    Lock icon Shove in park saved Sir Winston
    72 1 LONDON, Mon.—A welltimed shove from his son-in-law saved Sir Winston Churchill from possible injury in a paddock at Sandown Park on Saturday. Sir Winston, who is 82, was sizing up the horses when a fractious two-year-old Philodendron, reared towards him with front hooves flashing.
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    Lock icon 'No' to Evatt.
    39 1 CANBERRA, Mon.—Australia's Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies. today rejected a suggestion by Federal opposition leader, Dr. Evatt, that the Government should hold a a referendum to ascertain whether the Australian public wanted nuclear tests continued.— Reuter.
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    Mr. M QUITS POLITICS
    361 1 BY-ELECTION I BATTLE? 'NO, THERE j MIGHT BE TROUBLE' MR. DAVID MAR--1 SHALL is to quit politics "permanently." He made the announcement after the morning sitting of the Legislative Assembly. Among the first to know: PAP leader Mr. Lee Kuan- Yew, who last week challenged Mr.
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    Lock icon A-arms denial
    27 1 BONN. Mon. Dr. Heinrich Von Brentano. the Foreign Minister, today denied that the West German Government intended to equip its forces with atomic weapons. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Balloon rescue
    29 1 NEW YORK, Mon. Workmates of steeplejack Wallace Kanally yesterday borrowed a weather balloon to rescue him from the pinnacle of a 250-foot chimney-stack in Cleveland. Ohio. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Naval talks
    19 1 LONDON, Mon. A fourday Commonwealth naval conference opened at the Royal Naval College. Greenwich, London, today. Reuter.
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    They parade in protest at their father's dismissal
    180 1 SEVEN little "pickets" carrying placards yesterday stood outside the Chief Secretary's ministry in Empress Place, Singapore. in protest against the dismissal of their father. Two of them were twins. Three others in school uniform proudly wore their father's war and police medals
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    HUSSEIN PLANS NEXT MOVE
    160 1 Arab 'summit talks' proposed AMMAN, Monday. A MAJOR announcement is expected soon from King Hussein of Jordan who returned here today from talks with King Saud in the Saudi Arabian I capital of Riyadh. The two rulers, it was reported here, discussed the possibility of an
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    Lock icon H-TESTS PUT OFF—REPORT
    160 1 H-TESTS PUT OFF— REPORT LONDON, Mon. Britain was reported today to have postponed her hydrogen -bomb tests in the Pacific for several weeks. "A last minute decision to modify them," the Evening News said, "was believed in London to have been responsible for the delay." The story followed the dis-
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    Seven little pickets who didn't go to school
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    EJECTOR SEAT SAVES A VENOM PILOT
    188 1 EJECTOR SEAT SAVES A VENOM PILOT FLT-LT. MICHAEL PALMER, 28, a New Zealander. owes his life to the ejector seat of his Venom Jet fighter, which crashed into the Straits of Johore during a routine training flight yesterday. The fighter, of No. 14 Squadron, RNZAF. was only 1,000 feet above
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    Lock icon Formosa calling
    27 1 TAIPEH, Mon. Nationalist China is to start broadcasts to overseas Chinese in Hong Kong, Macao, the Philippines and South-East Asia, it was announced today. Reuter.
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    HARI RAY A PUASA IS TOMORROW
    68 1 HARI RAY A PUASA IS TOMORROW MUSLIM religious leader* scanned the Malayan skies for four hours last night in a vain search for the new moon that would usher in Hari Raya Puasa The Keeper of the Rulers Seal announced at 10 p.m that Hari Raya would be celebrated tomorrow.
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    Lock icon Britain may end Suez boycott
    36 1 LONDON, Mon— The British Government is expected tomorrow to withdraw its advice to shipping to avoid the Suez Canal and give a trial to Egypt's plan for managing the waterway.— Reuter.
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    $100,000 ransom demand
    360 1 $100,000 ransom demand Police silent on 'kidnap' report A SINGAPORE scrap iron dealer, Mr. Ng Hee Huat, alias Ah Kow, 25, missing since Friday, is believed to aave been kidnapped. Up to last night, however, the Police Secretary, Mr. Peter Claque, could not confirm the kidnapping, or a report of
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    Lock icon STOP PRESS
    22 1 NEW YORK, Mon Chairman Lewis Strauss of Atomic Energy Commission said today United atomic power plants producing electricity after 1%(I.-U.P.
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    THE QUEEN TAKES A DAY OFF.
    67 2 E THESE VISITORS to the famous Badminton horse trials are more E interested in the **oyal E Family sittlnr by the fence E than in the events. At left sis the Queen Mother, PrinE cess Margaret uses a slendEer cigarette holder, the E Queen
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    Broker: I have a 15-second cure for hiccups
    150 2 Broker: I have a 15-second cure for hiccups PENANG, Monday. A PENANG broker, Mr. E. E. Manasseh, today re- commended a 15-second cure for hiccups. Referring to a report from Johannesburg yesterday that a 17-year-old schoolgirl, Maureen Morton, had been hiccuping for 10 weeks without doctors being able to stop
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    MALAYA TO LONDON BY CAR
    72 2 MALAYA TO LONDON BY CAR LONDON, Mon. Mr. A. Rajah, the assistant Commissioner of Labour, Seremban, has arrived in London after completing his overland Journey from Malaya in a sports car in two months. During that time he spent 33 days in actual driving. Mr. Rajah said this was the
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    Shut for a day
    21 2 The offices ot the Commission for India in Singapore will be closed tomorrow n Harl Raya Puasa.
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    Jail for breach of trust
    53 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Ramll bin Hussln. of No. 7 Police Field Force, Kelantan. stationed at Kulai. was sentenced to nine months' Jail for criminal breach of trust of $279 belonging to the Government. The money represented commission collected by him from the canteen and dhoby
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    Mosque repair
    36 2 The Mosque Fund Committee of the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society has collected a total of $3,080 in Singapore in donations and from the sale of pamphlets, for repairing the mosque at Kampong Chantek Bahru.
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    Holiday trip
    28 2 Mr. Francis Thomas, Singapore's Minister for Communications and Works, will fly to Ceylon today for a month's holiday. Mr. Thomas will be accompanied by his family.
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    Safari on-as planned
    73 2 Safari on -as planned Don Prentice, Singapore bank official and amateur big-game hunter, has set off for Vietnam on a two-week shooting safari as plannedHe left the Colony by air for Saigon accompanied by an unnamed Englishman who agreed to partner him on the trip on a share expenses basis
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    Reds told Give up
    52 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.-La, Fatt, a terrorist who surrendered last month, Jus sent a message to the Fifth Independent Platoon, o which he was a leadin; member, advising members to come out of the jungle. Two hundred thousand copies of his message were air-dropped over the Kulai
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    Lock icon INDONESIA HALTS IMPORTS
    224 3 Raids on warehouses as crisis mounts JAKARTA, Mon Indonesia today ordered a complete halt to imports as the nations gold and foreign currency reserves reached an all-time low of 15.14 per cent of the money in circulation. The order, however, does not affect licences for Government orders,
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    Lock icon SHE HAS NO CROWNING GLORY
    64 3 RON SMITH holds his daughters Jane (left) and Ronita to have a close look at their mother's bald head. She had her hair cut off and head shaved in San Francisco to play in the film "The Girl in the Kremlin" She is —or was—
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    Lock icon BANDITS BEHEAD 22 MEN
    72 3 BANDITS BEHEAD 22 MEN BOGOTA. Mon. The Colombian Government announced today that 50 bandits in police and army uniforms beheaded 22 men in a raid on April 17 on the village of Veraquz. The bandits locked men, women and children in three different houses. When they realised that two had
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    Lock icon Britain's missiles armoury
    241 3 SECOND REGIMENT WILL BE FORMED LONDON, Monday. BRITAIN will soon form a second guided missiles regiment in reshaping her military forces for the nuclear age, the War Ministry announced in the army estimates today. The army's strength is to be cut in the coming year from the
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    Lock icon Mr. Lee, 80: Reds took wife, daughter and savings
    131 3 Mr. Lee, 80: Reds took wife, daughter and savings TOKYO. Mon. Mr. Lee Tung-dai, 80. a San Francisco laundryman who had gone to China to retire, left for America today blaming Communist torture for the loss of his wife, his daughter and his fortune. Mr. Lee said the Communists arrested
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    Lock icon Eden leaves
    19 3 BOSTON. Mon.— Sir Anthony Eden left New England Baptist Hospital today, a week ahead of schedule.— UP.
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    Lock icon He knows a snowman
    257 3 He knows a snowman KATMANDU. Mon. A lama here who claims to know the whereabouts of a yeti (abominable snowman) said today that he would offer his services to capture one if the Government gave permission. The lama, who is a high priest of a Buddhist shrine here, said he
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    Lock icon SECT LEADER WAS ABOUT TO CRUCIFY HIS WIFE
    116 3 MOSCOW, Mon.— The Communist Party Central Committee newspaper, Komsomollkaya Pravda, today reported the discovery of a savage religious sect which practises crucifixion and sexual orgies. The report said the group, in Kazakhstan village, Ivanovka, near semipalatin's Centasia, were caught in the act
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    Lock icon The Duce's treasure: 35 people for trial
    243 3 The Duce's treasure: 35 people for trial OOME, Mon.— The my--1%l stery of a fabulous treasure which Mussolini tried to smuggle out of Italy the day he died in 1945, will come before a court at Padua after a 12 -year investigation. The treasure was seized from the Fascist dictator
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    LONDON STOCKS, RUBBER AND TIN
    239 3 LONDON, Mon. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not including stamp duty were: LOANS Consols £53 9/16 +3/16 Funding 4% 9 V!? War 34% 72 3 16 H BANKS mercantile (£6) SM| aS^^ir.V-aahS -/i* Hongkong ($125) £964 -1 INSURANCE Com. Un. (UU.) 85/10 4 +/6
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    RUBBER
    38 3 LONDON. Mon- Spot 27' nd June 27 id.. July-Sept 27 '»d.. Oct -Dec 26 -d Jan-Bar. 26\d April-June 26 «id. May elf. 36% d., June c l.f 26 >,d. July c.l.f. 26 d. Tone: Quiet but steady-
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    TIN
    25 3 LONDON. Mon. Cash buyers £771 >/4. sellers £772. Forward buyers £771 M,. sellers £772 Settlement £772. Turnover a.m. 250 tons;, p.m. 75 tons- I
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    Lock icon BABIES STARVED BY STRIKERS
    256 3 BABIES STARVED BY STRIKERS T IMERICK, Mon. Hungarian refugees at the Knockalisheen Camp in Ireland began a hunger strike today in protest against delays in admitting them to the United State's and Canada. Mothers refused to feed their children. Cries of the 100 or more children were the only sounds
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  • THE BIG DEBATE -THE THIRD DAY.
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    SON SENT THREATS TO HIS FATHER
    134 5 SON SENT THREATS TO HIS FATHER IN the Singapore Assize Court, yesterday George Cheong Kong Chuan 22, who wrote two threatening letters to his father, Cheong Eng Cheng, demanding $500. pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal intimidation. Both the letters warned that if Eng Cheng did not Pay h*
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    'WE WILL CALL OFF LONDON TRIP, 1F...'
    218 5 Mission leader seeks guarantees KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. yHE deputation representing Chinese guilds and A associations which plans to see the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Lennox Boyd, in Britain next week on Malaya's new constitution, will call off its trip only The condition is that
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    Garage man cleared of cheating
    72 5 Garage man cleared of cheating Goh Soon Hin. owner of the now defunct Sumatra Motors, was acquitted in a Singapore court yesterday on two charges of cheating and another of using as genuine a forged hire-purchase agreement. Giving judgment. Mr. J. F. McWilliam in the Second Criminal District Court, said
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    Society gives $lm. in loans
    50 5 The Singapore Government Servants' Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society last year granted loans to 3,085 members amounting to $1,061,269, compared with 1.053 loans totalling $390,632 in 1951. Membership at the enrl of last year stood at 3.531, compared with 1.838 at the end of 1951.
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    The stranded Britannia flies through again
    117 5 ABOAC Bristol Britannia which got stuck in a broken bitumen airstrip at Cloncurry, 1.300 miles northwest of Brisbane on Saturday, passed through Singapore on its way from Sydney to London yesterday. The airliner, which got stuck after landing to airlift an injured pilot to
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    Helping to cook Reds'goose
    84 5 GEESE, renowned for centuries for their "watchdoc" abilities, have joined the jungle fight against the terrorists, being flown to deep jungle forts by R.A.F. Pioneers. Here Gussie inarches off with dignified step to take up her new post at Jungle Fort Legap. Recently when she was
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    WIFE WAITS AS YUSOFF PRAYS NEW MOON WILL BE LATE
    127 5 WIFE WAITS AS YUSOFF PRAYS NEW MOON WILL BE LATE VTUSOFF BIN ARIFFIN. X from Penang, is praying hard that Hari Rayah Puasa will fall OB May 1 —it will mean he will be able to return home in time to spend the holiday with his young wife. Yusoff. 20.
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    $25 fraud man fined $200
    56 5 Abdul Latiff bin Nek, 22, was yesterday convicted in a Singapore court of criminal breach of trust of $25 belonging to his employer, a food caterer, in Cheng Van Place. Latiff, who committed the offence while on probation, was sentenced to one day's jail and
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    25 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— New postal agencies will open at Kuala Besut, in Trengganu and Cheroh. in Pahang. en May 5 and 6 respectively.
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    DEATHS
    64 6 Hi Word, $10 (miktmmm). ADLER: Edmund Smitb Hyde passed away in his sleep OB 28.4.67. Remains embalmed pending instructions THE DEATH OCCURRED at 16, Jalan Tokong, Pa sir Puteh, Ipoh on 29.4.57 of Madam Leu Chlong Mi Kiew, widow of the late MrLav Ek Chlng. Cortege will leave the
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    219 6 10 Word* %U (minimum). SALE STARTED ON Monday at Mulchands. 82-1, Bras Basah Rd. Dresses &> Gowns Prices Slashed. SMELLS MAY COME and smriis may go, but I will kill for ever. Let me kill your unwelcome odours." Signed "Alr-wlck". OLDTIMERS "In the know" ltiM.-i on Peter Dawson Special
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    84 6 :u Word* Sit (minimum). MR. AND MRS. A. G. LEON thank all relatives and friends for thel r attendance, valuable gifts and kind wishes on the occasion of their marriage on 22-4-57. MR. MRS MYLVAOANAM thank their relatives and friends for their presence, kind wishes and gifts on the
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Apr. 30,1957. And Debate Continues
    673 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Apr. 30, 1957. And Debate Continues Towards the end of yesterday's session of the almost interminable debate on the constitutional proposals of the London conference, the Singapore Assembly was reminded that the Chief Minister's motion was an all-party motion. The Assembly is debating not the
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    False Economy
    274 6 The Federation Government's attitude towards adult education grows still more curious. There is fast developing what can only be described as a sullen indifference towards the work of the Federation Adult Education Association. Last year some of the association's branches were warned to be careful about opening new
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    Confessions
    155 6 Between a third and a half of Britain's professional footballers are expected to sign a "confession" that they have received payments which violate the Football Association's regulations. The scandal of improper payments has been an open secret for years. A maximum £15 a week and transfer fees which do
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    Indonesia's new cabinet must produce quickly ....or else
    763 6  - Indonesia's new cabinet must produce quickly ....or else DOROTHY RUSSELL "It is generally believed that no government could have been formed without the sanction of the army, principally of the Chief of Staff, Major-Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution." pRIME Minister Djuanda's cabinet faces the severe test of producing quick solutions to
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      Losing estate career
      471 6 RUBBER estates are being bought and divided into small plots of 10 or 20 acres and sold to smallholders, so that the subordinate staff on the estates can no longer be employed there. They are sent off wfth a month's or three months' salary. The more politic
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      Mare medical graduates
      66 6 IT is reported that the Federation Government intends to recruit about 100 doctors from India. This is an indication of the critical state of the medical services in the Federation. Minister of Health should adopt the "cadet scholarship' 1 scheme as this might increase the flow of
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    On the margin
    369 6 hum ABOUT twenty yj ago Mr. m^ [French Bheppar d "ti N. a city joufnjj knowing next to fin* of the uiu, on i forgettable trip Ik J*f ln our threei;, j da m ey- motor. S prfcu. bicycle, bJrw anl bu s In fro* river to
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    5 RADIO DAYS FOR HARI RAYA
    169 7 5 RADIO DAYS FOR HARI RAYA 17 UAL A LUMPUR. Mon A -a five-day Har j Kaya programme that will "find hard forget" will be broadby Radio Malaya from tomorrow. -hr Malay programme will \>e on the air almost continurom 7.15 a.m. to 10 pm will be features' musicals and
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    Painting show
    29 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. T.if Federation's assistant Mlt Education. Mr. Too Joon Hinc. this evening opened an exhibition of 142 painting.- by 100 Chinese artists c; Hone Konp.
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    DE-BAG BID COSTS $5
    43 7 Bob Yong Peng. 25. was fliW $5 in Singapore yestprday lor disorderly beha- ;r in Cross. Street by try- pull of! the trousers of an ambulance attendant. Soh committed the offence on Saturday during an argument with the attendant.
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    Man held in murder inquiry
    310 7 POLICE SHOW PICTURES OF BUTCHERED WOMAN AND ASK: DO YOU KNOW WHO SHE IS? KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. POLICE today detained a man for questioning about the murder of an unidentified woman whose battered body was found in an isolated stream at the sixth mile Salak
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    Back – that Govt. plan to license.
    124 7 Back that Govt. plan to license. KUALA LUMPUR, Mon— The Government h»s re-activated the committee to consider the licensing of bookmakers. The committee is headed by the Minister for Natural Resources, Inche Sulalman bin Data Abdul Rahman. Members are the Commissioner of Police and representatives of the Minister of Finance
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    19 police women for training
    38 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The second batch of Federation woman police inspectors will begin training at the Federal Depot here this week. There are eight Chinese, seven Malays and seven Indians in the batch.
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    'Don't quit' appeal by union
    114 7 'Don't quit' appeal by union From Page One Marshall, not to quit polltics. The union is generally regarded as the "successor' to the now defunct P.A.P.led Singapore Factory and Shop Workers' Union. In a letter to Mr. Marshall, the union said: "Your continued attacks on the Peoples' Action Party ha«
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    JOBS FOR 120 DOCTORS
    83 7 JOBS FOR 120 DOCTORS I£UALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Federation Government has finally decided to recruit 120 doctors out of whom 34 will be specialists to help to ease the country's acute shortage of medical officers. The Minister for Health and Social Welfare. Mr. Leong Yew Koh, told the Straits Times
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    THEY CALLED IT A DAY AND A HALF
    90 7 THEY CALLED IT A DAY AND A HALF PENANG. Mon.— Two young Kedah hitch-hikers who set out with one dollar on a 500--mile journey to Singapore last Friday, returned to Sungei Patani yesterday after failing t 0 get a free lift onward by plane from Kuala Lumpur. Syed Ahmad Idid,
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    New charge made
    56 7 SEREMBAN, Mon. A hawker, Teoh Eng Thai, originally charged with causing grievous hurt, had an accusation of murder explained to him here today. A sawmill labourer, Lim Soon Teck, died in hospital from stab wounds allegedly received In a fight outside a cinema on Easter Sunday night.
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    'STRENGTHEN BONDS WITH NEIGHBOURS'
    102 7 QINGAPORE should strengthen its relations with O neighbouring countries, Capt. F. E. W. Lammert said yesterday when he returned from Saigon on the Malayan seaward defence launch Panglima. Capt. Lammert, commandIng officer of the Singapore Division, Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, had accompanied the Colony's first
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    Catholic dinner
    32 7 The Catholic Social Guild and the Young Christian Workers In Singapore will hold a dinner at the C.V.M.A.. Bras Basah Road, at 7 run. today to celebrate Workers I Day.
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    Forgot his own tongue
    89 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— A local-born Chinese vho has lust returned to Kuala Lumpur after five and a half years In America could not understand v-hat his friends said to him on his arrival at the airport —he had forgotten how to speak Chinese. He is Mr.
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    Train death
    25 7 A 69 year old woman, Cheong Yee Mui. was killed yesterday when she was knocked down by a train at Buklt Timah, Singapore.
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    'HOT' OR SENTIMENTALANNIE'S AUDIENCES CAN TAKE THEIR PICK
    92 7 ANNIE BRAZIL, 23. a Fill pino sinter who flew into Singapore by PAA yesterday to berin a season at Colony nightclub. At the airport she promised to give her Singapore audience "anything from 'hot* to sentimental numbers. "I usually sing Jazz .nd
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    SERVICE WORKERS SEEK BONUS FOR LOSING JOBS
    259 7 SERVICE WORKERS SEEK BONUS FOR LOSING JOBS The memorandum said that the War Department had "definite responsibility* to its locally recruited civilian employees to provide them with financial assistance to offset the loss of Jobs. KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. T*HE Federation War Department Civilian Staff 1 Association today released the memorandum
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    No pressure, please
    44 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Municipal employees must be safeguarded from political pressure and interference by councillors in their normal duties. This decision was taken at a meeting of the Kuala Lumpur, Malacca and Penang Municipal Services Unions' liaison committee here on Saturday.
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    Singapore people are horrible, says 'crackpot club boy
    143 7 Singapore people are horrible or so says a Sungei Patani schoolboy who belongs to a club branded in his home town as a "gathering of crackpots." His club, the Kedah Fraternity of Adventurers, demands that to become a member one must be
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    Boy bather drowns
    37 7 TELUK ANSON, Mon. An 11-year-old boy, Mat Som bin Ngah, was drowned on Saturday while bathing in the Bidor river near here. He failed to surface after diving into the river from a log.
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    Japan trip
    28 7 Seventy eight Malayans, mostly from the Federation, have paid about $100,000 in fares for a month's roundtrip to Japan by the Sangola. The ship leaves today.
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    'Old man' in search of adventure
    65 7 MB. LAL TANG, 83. the Grand Old Man of a group of 24 Hawaiian tourists. who flew into Singapore by Pan American Airways yesterday. "This is the first time I have set foot outside my home in Honululu and I want to see what
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    MAN WAS PUSHED OFF TRAIN
    82 7 MAN WAS PUSHED OFF TRAIN KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— V. Gopal. a railway shunter, fractured his spine when he was pushed off a slowly-moving train and may be paralysed from the waist down. the first magistrate's court here was told today. The man who pushed Oopal. Mohamed bin Randan. 2?. a
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    Death crash
    35 7 IPOH. Mon The assistant foreman of Tambun Mining Co. Inche Amir Bashah bin Ibrahim Bhah. 30. died in the district hosnital here at the weekend, after a head-on collision with a military truck.
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    JACKPOT $65,000 -AND IT COULD BE YOURS
    53 7 JACKPOT $65,000 -AND IT COULD BE YOURS THAT $65,000 JACK--1 POT is waiting to be won in The Malayan Monthly's Contest H". And there's also $5,000 in consolation prises. The closing date is MONDAY, MAY 6 SIX days from today. Send your coupon, with postal order NOW. Full details in
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    Royal birthday
    27 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Netherlands Consulate here will hold a cocktail party at the Selangor Cluo tomorrow evening to celebrate the birthday of Queen Juliana.
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    ACTRESS MARIA MAY GET STAR ROLE IN HOLLYWOOD FILM
    196 7 OEAUTIFUL Maria Menando, the Malay film star, yesterday strengthened her bid for a bis role in a $6,000,000 production which Twentieth Century-Fox plans to make in Malaya nex 1 January. Mr. Sid Rogell. the produc tlon manager of the Hollywood film
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      MALA WOMEN ARE VERY BUSY NOW
      1020 8 MALA WOMEN ARE VERY BUSY NOW HARI RAYA CELEBRATIONS J)ECORATING their homes, baking cakes and preparing to keep open house tomorrow for friends and relatives, thousands of Malay housewives are extra busy this week, as always at Hari Raya. Others, who combined a career with marriage, are even busier, carrying
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      409 8 Advertisement READERS' POSTRAG T— thfui Wlisriiliri 7 trill be seventeen next birthday, end for two years I have suffered from a spotty skin. I cream my face night and morning, but it doesn't seem to help. Stop using cream on your face, and try a cleansing milk, instead. A good
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      310 8 BOVRIL PUTS S STRENGTH INTO m YOU 10-lki. of prime b«» |oti into 111 lllllilllllllll"") »k< riukiiif o» l-lb ol 80.... £gr -»m«. ~iS^ A»4 ttitn arc tlMitritl •it>min< ~^L at wtll 1 Sovril it «ip«cullf rick "^^La^^TsSßS^BSsS^i?" If) 11. B 2 3*4 112. Or.nk jtf cup of Bovnl every
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      250 8 Straits Times Crossword HI iii 13 :^l| 14 ACROSS points; there is always an 1. Mine, a source of unsteadl- odd one out (7, 8). ness? (3, 4, J, 5). 7. Words are Its components 9. Money is his charge, and (7). more certain end 8. Dues confused in the
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    School urges: Check your sons' night-life
    250 9 School urges: Check your sons' night-life SOME BOYS GO TO SEE THE STRIPPERS ipOH, .Mon.— St. Mi--1 mail's Institution, largest Kn£li«h school Perak (2,420 pupilJ has written to! parents urging them t n exerdfc a closer rjicfk on the afters,hiMi! activities of their children. letter states that ;irp a number
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    For May Day !
    23 9 For May Day .ipore City Council Unions Federation .'ild their May Day ns at the union ;n Race Course Road al 1" a.m.
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    WOMAN DEEP IN THOUGHT WALKED TO RAIL DEATH
    193 9 A WOMAN apparently \1 M P thought" had walked into th e path of a irain and receired fatal injuries, a Singapore inquest W a 8 told yesterday The woman was Miss Amanda Crawley, 43 a British Red Cross Society welfare officer.
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    $1,500 FOR COLONY TB HOME
    79 9 'THE Shell company yester- day gave $1,500 to SATA urf 5 ne T W Village at South Winds. Jurong Dr g.h. Garllck, BATA's medical director, said the three-week campaign for the Lee settlement at South Winds had progressed "extremely well." More than $5,500 had so
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    No casualties
    18 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mo. No casualties to Communißi terrorists or security fore-* have been reported f nriay
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    Alliance branch leader quits: 'MIC Haven't paid me'
    102 9 Alliance branch leader quits: 'MIC Haven't paid me KLANG. Mon— The Alliance secretary here, Inche Abdullah bin Mohamed Nor. resigned today because, he alleged, the Klang branch of the Malayan Indian Congress had not fulfilled its pro-, mlse to pay its share of his monthly salary. Inche Abdullah has been
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    Boy killer—'member of a horrible gang—is sent to a home
    175 9 Boy killer— 'member of a horrible gang is sent to a home PENANO, Monday. A 15- YEAR-OLD boy who stabbed another youth was described in court today as "a member of a horrible gang called The Four Holes." I The boy. who pleaded guilty to culpable homicide not amounting to
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    Trader dies in sleep
    41 9 A Singapore businessman Vir. Edmund Smith H. Adler 10. died In his sleep yesterlay morning. Mr. Adler. who had spent the last 48 years In the Colony, was the founder and 9rst chairman of the Ameri:an Association.
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    JAIL FOR DRIVER OF DEATH LORRY
    198 9 JAIL FOR DRIVER OF DEATH LORRY f»HUA CHENG TOH, a lorry driver, was sentenced to three months' Jail in Singapore yesterday for causing the death of a police corporal by negligent driving. Cpl. All bin Haji Mohamed Noor was killed opposite the Beach Road police station on the night of
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    Universal peace anniversary
    57 9 The Singapore branch of the Universal Peace Sanctuary will celebrate the 55th birthday of it s founder, Gnanavallal Paranjothl Mahan, on Thursday with a party and talks on his life at 945-A Upper Serangoon Road. The sanctuary, -vhich has branches in India and South. Bast Asia teaches
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    ILO Asian tour
    39 9 Mr. R. Llvchen, the Director of the International Labour Organisation's Asian Field Office In Bangalore, India, and his deputy. Mr. P. S Narasimhan, will visit Asian countries in May and June to discuss technical assistance needed.
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      85 9 ft*r Morgan %I.D. Martha eaiis ppW J ___J* '^t%%\~X tod, Mr. vvnuAAW «id^roin i |^*«tha/X «eewuFOK ju*W K cOMe imp mv off ice fJ^^^^M Dirk Tracy Drapes afire fe" S^ U- AUAQfi TUOS6 JT~I ¥IS THAT POWER- *W NOT 1 l^ m& THE NV^VESIBUT "T7, K<-( **"m9lT€tt^ /LA SMOVEL BOOM
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    'MONDAY-ITIS' BRINGS QUIET TRADING TO LOCAL SHARE MART
    778 10 'MONDAY-ITIS' BRINGS QUIET TRADING TO LOCAL SHARE MART By Our Market Correspondent THE Singapore Share Market yesterday suffered A from "Monday-itis" with quiet trading reported, but an essentially firm undertone in most sections. Movements were within narrow limits. The industrial section had levels generally maintained while tins revealed an irregular
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    RUBBER PRICES
    154 10 May first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore on Monday at 91% cents per lb. down three-quarters of a cent on Friday's close. The closing tone was Dull. Closing prices In cents per lb. yesterday were:OFFICIAL: Int. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 91%, sellers 92; Int. 1
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    S'PORE SHIPPING
    80 10 Ships lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Willem Ruys 112. Orestes 4.5, Pangkor 6A, Katong 6:7, Sydney 8 9 Bendoran 11, President Adams 1314, Bolsse«Un 15 16, Anshun 18 Serampang S. Wall 5, Petaling N Wai] 6 to 8, 3iang Seng N. Wall
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    149 10 The Malayan Exchange Banks A— oelstlan made the following changes In its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100) New York: Buying airmail; T.T. 32 5/8. O.D. 32 3/4, 90 d/st 33 credit bills. 33 1/16 trade bills. Canada: buying airmail: T.T. 31 6/16. O.D. 31 7/16.
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    OFFICIAL PRICES.
    23 10 SINGAPORE i_ RUBBER Vi Pf p«'«b. (down 1 1 quarters of a cm TIN: 8388.50 S' B1 (down Sb COPRA: rnquou,
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    85 10 MEUsr, Investments wm though movemei narrow on in* Exchange today. Tun not heavy but sail ly wide range 1,, stocks were slight other groups quiet r^- were m at firm prices. U>ans3'»^ 19SA.5S Loans 3V, 1951 Bank of NSW Con. Zinc Mount Lyell N. Broken Hill Hill 50
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    97 10 Singapore hi:,. Exchange: noon prices p yesterday were:— Copra: quiet: A pr $25^ buyers, Coconut oil: quiet: bulk j" sellers. drum $43 k Pepper: quiet; r.o t reported done; Muntnk wlr/. Sarawak $107, special black $72 (all down s: Singapore Copra Association p.m. prices: Straits 80-* copra: May
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      355 10 KOTICE With effect from MAY Ist., 1957, Hi* PUBLIC NOTICES RATE for Hie Straits Tim M will be $15.00 per single column inch and Hi* Sunday Tin*** $18.50 per tingle col. inch. REPUTABLE AMERICAN MANUFACTURING CONCERN I WISHES TO EMPLOY MECHANICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE With His following qualifications: 1. Preferably (but
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      729 10 PUBUC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are invited for the appointment of Assistant Organiser, Correspondence Unit, Ministry of Education. Federation of Malaya. (Salary scale 1754x28--866). Candidates must be Federal Cltisens not under 30 years of age who have bad not less than five years' experience of teaching in a Junior Technical (Trade) School
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      1297 10 NOTICES TELOK KRUDf TIN, LIMITED Notice U hereby given of the declaration of a first Interim dividend of 12V4 in respect of the year ending 31st October, 1957, less Income Tax at 30%, payable on 14th May, 1957 to shareholders registered on 7th May, 1957. By Order of the Board,
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      460 10 KNUTSEN LINE orient service PROM CANADA/U.S. PACIFIC PORTS 30 DATS Sailing San Vancouver Francisco Spore P.S'wet Penane F'nv Ellen Bskkt 10/12 May 13 May 15 May 24M* Kristin Bakke 29/31 Msy I|une 3|une I4|h Annaßakke 2 May 15 May 16/18|ane I9|une 21|un c 31* Elisabeth BBak e 22 May s|une
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      1260 11 d^. THE BLUE FUNNEL UMB SA.LINOS to LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW, LONDON I Cot^!.. Corr«r. opf«>n to proceed v, a other ports to iLf^III 1 1 1 1 fOtT w,th Üborty to pr*«**d via Saaa ni l! I^TL^J^SV eof Singopora > pt.mad for Avonmouth S Psnong L i v*rpool D«Hos for L
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      920 11 BAST ASIATIC LIMBS OUTWARDS SAILINGS POR BANGKOK AND/OR PAR EAST Penong P. Sham S'por. i™^. 1/4 MO, MLAW& 'B A < iii 'W*"" »«/l»Moy WmtSZ HOMEWARDS SAILINGS FOR GENOA, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN, GOTHENBURG! OSLO "PRETORIA" j/'HtW ''L^ H^ m •-MEON,A^.^."Tr^ 1/1 Mjy ,M^ UIAIW nS Loodm, SmWiT Wlffir -11Z&***..
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      969 11 BEN LmlfE STEAMERS LTD n 7 HNGAPORE (Incorporotad In the IMfod lUngdarn) S UNES IAIUIHE TO U.K. ft CONTINENTAL PORTS S'poro P. Slhm Ponosaj 1 lINVORUCH for Avonmouth, London, Hamburg In Port/ S May 7/ S Moy lEN BORAH tor Liverpool, Rottordam, Hamburg 18/14 Moy 27/29 May 38/31 May BEN
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      1159 11 MeALISTER CO.. LTD. TEL.: No.: ***** BLLBB.MAM LIMBS KLATIHIIS LIMB LONDON. HAVRE. ROTTERDAM LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, 11 A HA t a A SEATTLE, VANCOUVIR PORTLAND ♦o'UAA-, North Atlontle Ports Aeaeptmg cart* for Control I SouM. ono Conoda via Colombo Amsriie arr op ripon* sunntviuj S'por. P. S'hom Panong 2/'lMay
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      $20-m. plan advocated for mainland port
      213 12 BAGAN LUAR MA V OUST PENANG IN NORTH MALA YA THE Chairman of the Penang Port Commission, Vice- Admiral J. W. 1 Jefford, who is retiring in June, predicts that Bagan Luar, in Province Wellesley, could become North Malaya's most important port. Admiral Jefford
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      Better business for insurance
      101 12 The Manufacturers Life In. surance Co. In its 70th annual report for the year ended December 31, 1956, reveals that new business for the year amounted to C 5326,385,215, which was C 525,094,287 more than in 1955. The business in force was increased by C 5211,050,593
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      Japanese pen sales increase
      195 12 Japanese pen sales increase JAPAN stepped up its exports of fountain pens to Malaya last year and became the chief supplier in that period, ousting China from first into second place. Japan supplied 1,514,348 pens to Malaya last year, 757,062 more than in 1955, while China dropped its exports from
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      JAYCEES INVITE EXHIBITS FOR FAIR
      157 12 D EPRESENTATIVES from 14 Asian countries who attended the recent regional conference of the Junior Chamber of Commerce International in Saigon have been asked to send exhibits to the Merdeka trade fair in Kuala Lumpur in August. This was revealed by one of the Malayan
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      Straits Traders' $2.3 m. profit during 1956
      214 12 fHE Straits Trading Company Limited made a A profit last year of $2,370,556, after allowing for depreciation and making provision for income tax I and other items. This Is revealed by Sir Ewan Fergusson, chairman of (directors, in a report to be submitted
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      Dividend unchanged
      59 12 With an unchanged final dividend of ll»/4 per cent.. Union Insurance Society of Canton is maintaining the total for 1956 at 21 y 4 per cent. Subject to audit, consolidated net profit is £354,727 (£735.340). It is proposed to sub-divide the £10 shares into £1 units No change
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      Sound in industry
      41 12 Bound waves are used in the Australian State of Victoria to detect flaws in the axles of trains. The supersonic flaw-detector used can locate a hair-line crack in an axle without the axle* being removed from the undercarriage.
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      INVESTIGATING TELEVISION TECHNIQUES
      79 12 An unofficial adviser to the Singapore Government's technical advisory sub committee investigating television possibilities. Mr. P. H. B. Dowson, executive director of H. A. O'Connor and Co. Ltd., left Singapore last week on a round-the-world tour studying television in other countries. Mr. Dowson. who is combining a
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      Unilever oils show growth
      108 12 Unilever's report for 1956 shows that turnover of this oils and fats combine reached £1.671 million (M 514,203 million) an Increase of 10.3 per cent. The group's plantations Increased by 7,918 acres to a total of 174,353 acres. More than half of this increase was in
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      Sale proceeding
      49 12 Shareholders of Tempeh (Java) Rubber Plantations have been advised that negotiations are still proceeding In connection with a sale of the shell of the company the estates were sold in 1954 —but the Board does not feel in the position at present to submit any definite proposals.
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      Latest Dutch ship due in Singapore
      169 12 THE second of six new X cargo-liners belonging to Royal Rotterdam Lloyd, the Merwe Lloyd, specially buUt for the Europe-Malaya-Indonesia service Is due in Singapore on her maiden voyage next month. The first ship to be built for the company was the Mass Lloyd
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      New paint factory may open in Malaya
      183 12 a LEADING British paint company. E. Woorfir Malaya. This was revealed b managing director </ company, Mr. F. Alai who is now ioMuetH?* business visit in Ma v 8 Malaya offer, a en it for paint factorl, view of the extensive buLi 0
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      Two new ships
      34 12 The National Shipyards and Steel Corporation in Manila will build two 1,500-ton ships for use in inter-island .shipping. These will be the first inter-Island ships to be built in the Philippines.
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      88 12 IN 1956 I 2.330.000 I Hassenaens CHOSE II AIR PRANCE If THE WOMLDS LARGEST NETWORK MM CENERAL ACENTS MM MESSACERIES MARITIMES MM 66 .THE ARCADE TEL. 20J51 MM AND ALL (&*ZT H E TRAVEL ACEHCES I^^TfOREFROHT OF PROGRESS Infill „.c. a~* 0 s Look before you listen look In the
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      149 12 l.. n ..<.^— i¥Kl ft Jy /Jr m^^ m< f r (SKoXf *^***H*** *j^y j^ i iin i Sold b, I itM^mf///// PRECISION EXISTS All Leading [tW^^l/// TPIJITIJ Uatch-Dralrr. /j I fFMt ML E| I wft I I [£$&Ml PROVES IT BY MASTERINC fj^mff//////' 1^- STRICTEST OBSERVATORY COMPETITIO.NS lI I
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      570 13 Ws»B»BBBBBBmBB^^B^JJJ^E^B KAsUs^y^^^p^g^^^^^^^^^^^^^^T^^B ACCOMMODATION VACANT Wm*» ti fVtej-luMib.iiin. FULLY FURNISHED self-con-r .fd smaU cottage modern sanltB tlon suitable Services. Rent District 11. Apply 8 Barker Road. ;O LET Fully Furnished Ter- House at 201. still Road oom- ■<• »iTh Refrigerator, Heater, oker i-nd Ceiling Fans- Two I c c Bedrooms and
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      795 13 TUITION it Word, U (Ulm.>-m n i»»U.ntf^ 1 -J 0 I™o^1 0^ LADY DANCWO Teacher from abroad gives only Private lessons to Beginners on Walts, Quickstep, Slow roxtrot. Tango. Rumba. w»»whn IStt ft™"** CHA-CHA-CHA: JIVE; MAMBO- $10/- Complete Modern Ballroom Dancing $g/- Monthly Ttaothy Lee!%lloW Ex2Z£ FA.T.D. (Australia) Lee's School
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      871 13 HOUSES Jt LAND FOE SALE MWTdtU (Him.) Bom M cte. ntr*. SHOP HOUSES with Mat OB first floot separata entrmace at 4% mlto. Buklt Tlmah Road. IdssJ (or Qrocery. Sundry, Battaf House, Photo Studio etc Ready 6 months--127.800 (loan available). Apply Room 6C, Asia Building. Phone ***** APPROXTMATKLY 6.000 acres
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      570 13 MISCELLANEOUS M Word* li mm.}— Box M cte. Mtra. HI-FI DOBS FOR beauty what Higb-Fldenty Bound doss for Mask. Max Factor's Hl-Fl Fluid Make-Up end Rouge gives you that Natural Radiant Complexion. Try tt today 1 MABONITB PEG BOARD panek Peg-Board hooks fixtures are Ideal for home decoration end window
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      415 13 NOTICES NOTICE CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPOSI No collection of refuse and nlghtsoli win be undertaken by the City Cleansing Department on Wednesday. Ist May, 1957 Hart Raya Puasa. The City Council Incinerator at Kolam Ayer Lane will be closed on this day. BY ORDER JACKSON ft CO. LTD. (Incorporated In
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      247 13 THE TAMIL EDUCATIONAL TRUST OF MALACCA. TENDERS INVITED: Tenders are invited for the purchase of (a) Vacant land situate at junction of Banda Kaba and Banda Sah, Town Area XXV. Lot No 72. Malacca, having an area of 6.880 Square Feet. Freehold title. (b) Land situate at Buklt China. Town
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      182 13 NOTICE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, JOHORE. Tenders are Invited for the following (A) Supply of BooU and Shoes; (B) Supply of Rubber Canvas Shoes (White Brown i. 2. Separate Tenders which must be marked "TENDER FOR I BOOTB it SHOES" and TENDER FOR RUBBER CANVAS SHOE.S" on the envelope and sent under
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    Athletics again SWIFTS GET OFF MARK WITH MATCH v ARMY, ACHILLES
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    GOING SOON— THE BIGGEST AND BEST PAID JOB IN MALAYAN SPORT FOR THE RIGHT MAN
    340 14  -  808 PIDGEON By APPLICATIONS wiU soon be invited, I under- stand, for the best paid job in Malayan sport full-time secretary of the Merdeka Stadium in Kuala Lumpur. The post is likely to carry a
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    McCOOL TAKES 11 MINS TO SCORE 50
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    John will be in action again soon
    80 14 OOCCER FANS In Singapore have been wondering what has happened to No. 1 referee John Ferguson this season. He hasn't taken charge of a single match since his return at the end of last year from a study coarse in Australia, and the
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    Watch Jupiter this meeting
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    Lock icon Weekes out of match at Worcester
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    Lock icon THE BIG SOCCER 'CONFESSION'
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    Turner to lead S'pore v HK
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    FIELD OF 17 FOR 2,000
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