The Straits Times, 12 July 1957

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  • 19 1 AVERAGE DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEED* 80«000 Mo****. The Straits Times Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1957 15 CENTS
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  • 763 1 HISTORIC MOMENT: CONSTITUTION ACCEPTED A warning, too: All races must live in peace if there is to be prosperity Tengku: Let us give it a trial l A LUMPUR,! R Thurs.— WWi acclamation and shouts of "merdeka" the Legislative oday accepted the draft constitution. ll v. moment
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  • 56 1 STRIPTEASE QUEEN Rose Chan yesterday married the Indonesian manager of her revue, Inche Mohamed Nazier Kahar, according to Muslim rites in Singapore and announced that she would peel no more. Here she is in Malay costume signing the marriage book. Straits Times picture. (More
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  • 216 1 RAUB, Thursday. A RUBBER tapper speared a seven-foot tiger to death in a battle on an estate four miles from here last night. Three times the cornered beast sprang at Yang Kam Hooi, 34, Each time he warded it off with his long spear and finally
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  • 27 1 ROME, Thurs. Italian employers have averted .1 threatened steel workers 1 strike by agreeing to inquire into the possibility of a 40--hour working week.— Reuter.
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  • 71 1 Malaya to raise £10 mil. loan KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. —The Federation is to raise a loan of £10 million in the London market between now and 1960 for development purposes. The Finance Minister, Sir Henry Hau Shik Lee, announced this in the Federal Council today. He was introducing a Bill
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  • 164 1 LONDON. Thurs. The Prime Minister of Eastern Nigeria, Dr. Azikiwe, left London for home today complaining that the "white magic" of British diplomacy had defeated Nigerian attempts to get independence in 1959. Dr. Azikiwe left London by boat train for Liverpool to sail
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  • 352 1  - THAT PICTURE— GOVT. TELLS MADAM WONG: SO SORRY SET YIN FONG 'All a big mistake please accept our deepest apologies' says statement By THE Federation Government apologised last night to Madam Wong Siew Heng, 42, of Singapore for saying she was the wife of an executed terrorist leader. It was
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  • 139 1 Wife and sons at his bedside pENEVA. Thurs. The Aga Khan died today aged 79. The Aga Khan, head of the Ismaili Muslim sect, died at his lakeside villa, Barakat, near Geneva. Hp arrived there three weeks ago to recuperate from a setback in health during a
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  • 53 1 Two men were hurt, one seriously, when a motor cycle crashed into Anderson Bridge early today. They were Wee Tai Kum, 21, and Ng Lieu Long. 28. John McDermott. 20. of the R.A.F. was hurt slightly when his motor cycle also went off the road
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  • 111 1 HOSPITAL CORRUPTION CHARGES: LEGAL CHIEF TO DECIDE T<HE Singapore Attor- ney-General's Department will decide if prosecutions will be instituted in connection with the graft investigations at Kandang Kerbau maternity hospital. The Attorney General, Mr E. p. shanks, said yesterday I am studying the evidence. I have been doing so for
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  • 46 1 PARIS, Thurs. France has formally refused a request by the U.S. Army for custody of Army Specialist De Wayne jMcOsker. 21. I The soldier is held in Sante Jail on charges of murdering an Algerian during a quarrel over black market cigarettes.
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  • 65 1 Red attach on Negri main road SKKKMBAN. Thurs. A military scout car returning to Kuala Lumpur from Seremban was fired on la*t night by terrorists eight miles from bere. The two British soldiers in it returned the fire and wounded one terrorist who escaped. The soldiers were unhurt. The Seremban-K
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  • 37 1 ACID ATTACK Driver and conductor of Tay Koh Vat bus trratrd at General Hospital for acid burns aftrr bottles were hurled at bu«, in Arab Street while it was on »ay to depot early today.
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  • 360 2  - Mr. K SLOWS DOWN HATE CAMPAIGN TO WOO THE WEST DON DALLAS ♦r—fa,,.**' fa there so Georgi gets new jot By Reut«r'« former Moscow correspondent LONDON, Thursday. THE announcement that Mr. Georgi Malenkov sacked in viet purge last week, has been appointed manager 01 a puwn station created a sensation
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  • 186 2 Aborigines do death dance for doctor FfcARWIN, Thurs.— Aborigines in Australia's lonely Arnhemland are performing death dances in mourning lor a white man. The wailing natives are dancing throughout the nights to keep "debil debils" from the spirit of Dr. James Tarleton Rayment, who was their friend and adviser. It
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  • 45 2 DUBLIN, Thurs. Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist party, last night accused Mr. I Eamon de Valera, the Prime Minister, of making an "extraordinary attempt to smash an open constitutional movement." The party was referring to the arrest of 60 of its members.—Reuter.
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  • 51 2 NDOLA (Northern Rhodesia), Thurs.— Chief shindi, one of about 30 African chiefs who attended a garden party here yesterday, presented a witch doctor's doll to the Queen Mother. The doll is about two feet tall is carved out of wood, and is dressed in animal fur.
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  • 87 2 LONDON. Than.— Actress Ann Todd. 47, today filed a divorce petition against her third husband, film director David Lean, charging desertion. Miss Todd met Lean during the filming of "Brief Encounter" and married him in 1949. They separated in March. 1955 The uncon
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  • 270 2 Mr. M. is sent East to step up the volts lONDOX, rhujj Moscow Radio nounced last aai that Georai Male-? had been uppo- manager uf a rj£J station in thp Ea?-. "virgin lands' 2 miles from •>-., 5,. caDitai Th e radio said the a:y. ment provrc. Soviet Communist ft
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  • 123 2 WASHINGTON, Thurs. The United States Army today ordered the release and deportation of a British mother serving a life sentence for the murder of three of her children while stationed abroad with her American soldier husband. Mrs. Eunice Brillhart, 30. c Rochdale, Lancashire, Is serving a
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  • 108 2 LONDON. POUR men sentenced to death in the 1 Supreme Court last January for th Mrs. Ursula Margareta Ernst,' had their P e;i for special leave to appeal to the Judicia Uwi»' Vice-Cow burns she suiv mob had fctta I Hong Kong on 0:~
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  • 33 2 MEXICO. CITY, Thurs Mr. Enrique Salcedo Ledesma. editor of Todo, one of Mexico's largest magazines, was shot and seriously wounded yesterday by a man who. police said, was mentally unbalanced. A.P
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  • 204 2 SAIGON, Thursday. f HOSTS are haunting Communist officials in North Vietnam and undermining the current Communist mistakes-correction programme. Reports of ghosts are cir- culating through the coun- 1 tryside and distracting villagers from their Communist duties, the Hanoi newspaper Thoi Moi (New Times)
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  • 91 2 POSTER MEN BACK THE COLONEL JAKAKIA, Thurs— Radio Menado reported today that posters demanding the re-appointment of Col. Ventje Sumual as commander of East Indonesia were carried by demonstrators at a reception for the military commander of North Celebes. .Major Somba and other leaders on a tour of the province
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  • 28 2 WASHINGTON. Thurs Mr. H. S. Suhrawardy. Pakistan s Prime Minister is expected to pay a short official visit to Ottawa towards the end of this month.
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  • 70 2 TOKYO, Thurs.— Police reported today that Rintosu Yamaguchi. 46. committed suicide and left a note saying: "I am putting into practice what I decided at M a.m., Dec. 26, 1956." That was the hour and date Yamaguchi was returned from Russia after 1! years as a
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  • 248 3 Khrushchew to Ike: Clean bomb Nonsense! LONDON, Thursday. ;IT A KHRUSHCHEV said in Prague hat President Eisenhower was talking when he said that scientists had o produce "clean" nuclear weapons. uld be ashamed," Mr. Khrushchev, First the Soviet Communist Party, told a according to Ceteka, the Czechoslovak news agency. "Clean
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  • 119 3 U.S. 'tests birth control pill' t^iih'K Thurs. A M-stcrday re i.:i thai a birth conrntly tested i would be sold on hnut the trd States in a few n.: i Telegram and H that the pill was K thetii hormone claimtlmost 100 .»er K .is an oral fc.:-.t,. ptiTC L
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    • 18 3 ■>M>ov British Eu- ropean Airways expect oo open direct service from London to Moscow by early next year.—UP.
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    • 22 3 BELGRADE* Mr* All Sastroamidjojo, former Prime Minister of Indonesia, arrived for a sevenday private visit during which he will meet President Tito.—Reuter.
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    • 25 3 CAIRO: A crop-destroying inasion by locusts, heaviest in 27 years, has hit North Africa and the Middle East and is spreading despite international counter measures.—Reuter.
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    • 16 3 LONDON: Japanese film star Izumi Yukimura arrived to discuss possible film contracts in this country. —UP.
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    • 24 3 LONDON: The famous Jewish writer Sholem Asch died in London, aged 76, while on a visit with his wife to see his daughter.— U.P.
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    • 17 3 TOKYO: Fourteen people have contracted sleeping sickness in Tokyo during the past 24 hours. Two died. —Reuter.
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  • 224 3 HUSBAND IS JAILED FOR LIFE NUREMBERG, Thursday. pEORG ALT, 54, a balding bespectacled dairyman was sentenced to life imprisonment here today for murdering his wife by electrocuting her in her bath. There is no death sentence in West Germany. The prosecution alleged that alter
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  • 53 3 TEL AVIV. Thurs. Mr. David Ben Gurion, the Israeli Premier, and Maj.-Gen. Moshe Dayan, Chief of Staff, yesterday toured the Huley area, scene of a mortar battle the i previous day between Syrians and Israelis. One Israeli was killed and 1 seven wounded in
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  • 34 3 HOLLYWOOD, Thurs. Film and television actress Lucille Ball underwent surgery on both feet today. This was to correct a condition resulting from injuries suffered while making a film in 1949.— A.P.
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  • 50 3 ROLL UP, ROLL UP— AND CHURCHILL IS RIGHT ON TARGET SIR WINSTON Churchill, 82, tries his hand at the coconut shy during his visit to a Conservative garden fete at his constituency, Woodford. Essex. At right he admires a bottle of beer which he won as a prize. A.P. picture.
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  • 38 3 VIENNA. Thurs. Three Hungarians, under sentence of death for taking part in the October revolution, escaped from a Budapest prison today. Budape,t Radio called on the por ulation to assist the authorities in recapturing them. Reuter.
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  • 40 3 CAPETOWN. Thurs. Mr Richard Stanley, grandson of the explorer. Sir Henry Stanley, arrived here today to lead a four-man expedition along the route across Africa from east to wesl which his grandfather tra versed 83 years ago. Reuter.
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  • 29 3 TOKYO, Thurs. Peking Radio today reported the rice crop in the Chinese provinces of Kwangtung, Kiang&u and South chekiang had been hit by heavy rain.— U.P.
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  • 149 3 The last Spitfires are retired BIGGIN HILL, Kent. Thurs.— Nearly 17 years after the Battle of Britain, the last three Spitfires of the breed which helped to win it flew in here today to retirement The three veterans were accompanied by a flight of modern Javelin jet night fighters and
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  • 52 3 TOKYO, Thurs. The Japanese Prime Minister, Mr. Nobusuke Kishi. at a press conference today after the formation of his new Cabinet said Japan would not recognise Communist China under the present circumstances He said he would aim to strengthen economic co operation with South-East Asian
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  • 45 3 HONG KONG, Thurs.— Lt.Gen. Banyat Deuahastan, Siamese Minister of Communications, said here today that he was on his way to the United States to take delivery of three Super Constellations for expansion of the Thai Airways services between Bangkok and Tokyo.— Reuter.
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  • 191 3 GIRARDTO FACE TRIAL IN JAPAN WASHINGTON, Thurs. The Supreme Court today authorised the United States authorities to turn over Army Specialist William Girard to Japan for trial. Girard faces manslaughter charges, arising from the shooting of a Japanese woman The court verdict was unanimous. All the Court's nine justices, except
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  • 22 3 TAIPEH, Thurs. Violent thunderstorms swept Formosa yesterday. Two fanners were killed by lightning In Chiayi, in Central Formosa A.P.
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  • 46 3 HOLLYWOOD. Thurs. Actress June Blair took almost everything off when she raised $30,000 for charity by doing a strip-tease. But the last successful bidder had to wait until she returned from her dressing room fully clothed before he could collect her bikini.
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  • 295 3 LONDON. Thurs. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not including stamp duty were: RUBBER LONDON Thurs.— Spot 27'4d.. Aug. 21\A., Sept 27<*d.. OctDec. 27 '-jd., Jan. -Mar. 27 '^d.. April-June 27 Ud. July c l.f. 27d.. Aug. elf. 27'sd.. Sept. c l.f. 27'» d. Tone: Steady. TIN LONDON.
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  • 305 4 Thrones, coats of arms and flags will add to 'Coronation 9 glitter KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. griLDING workers are toiling day and night to complete the $150,000 audience chamber in the grounds of the Ruler's palace here for the Paramount Ruler's installation ceremony on Sept. 2.
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  • 109 4 11-1 fine for two who went to races r PAVO men went to the Singapore races on Saturday. They did not have membership cards. Questioned by police they admitted they were non-members and said they had just walked in. Yesterday Sein Leng, 23, from Penang, and Chean Sai Mini. 27,
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  • 33 4 Members of the Singapore Junior Chamber of Commerce will visit the Malayan Textile Mills in Princess Elizabeth Estate, off Bukit Timah Road, tomorrow for their monthly industrial tour.
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  • 176 4 RUBBER 'WAR' MOVE BY CHAMBER SINGAPORE rubber broker and associate members of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association have made the first move in a drive to end the rubber brokers' "war". A sub-committee has been appointed to formulate concrete proposals for consideration by the SCCRA on steps needed
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  • 22 4 Mansfield Local Employees' Union in Singapore held its second annual general meeting at the Islamic Restaurant, North Bridge Road, yesterday.
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  • 49 4 ALOR STAR, Thurs.— Seven employees of the De Luxe Theatre, Simpang Kuala, returned to work today after a two-day strike. The men projectionists, ticket-collectors and a sweeper stopped work on Tuesday in protest against dismissal notices served on some workers. These have now been withdrawn.
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  • 24 4 The annual meeting of the Malayan Nature Society will be held today at 5.30 p.m. at the Zoology Department. University of Malaya.
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  • 130 4 SINGAPORE police yesterday took over from villagers the search for sex maniac who waylaid a young girl and stripped and assaulted her at Woodlands last Thursday nifht. For the past week angr> farmers and squatters in the area have tried
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  • 66 4 LEADER OF BRITISH DELEGATES KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The Lord Chancellor. Viscount Kilmuir. formerly Sir David Maxwell. Fyfe (above), will lead the British Government delegation to the Federation's merdeka celebrations The other ministers In the delegation will be the Earl of Perth. Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, and Mr. C.
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  • 42 4 A verdict of misadventure was recorded by the Slnga pore Coroner. Mr. K. T. Alexander, yesterday at an inquest on a cyclist. Yeo Ban Lam, 12. who collided with v bus at the sixth mile. Chang: Road, on June 11.
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  • 256 4 PLAN FOR COUNCIL: 32 MEMBERS —AND ALL ELECTED THE Select Committee on the Local Government Bill, in its report published yesterday, has recommended that the City Council should have a fully elected membership of 32. The committee has also recommended that the three district councils should have an elected membership
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  • 42 4 Mr. O. Tar a Singh, of the Eighth Magistrate's Court, will on Monday become the First Traffic Magistrate. Singapore. Mr. T. S. Binnathuray will be the new City Magistrate. Mr. Robert Chee will succeed him in the Sixth Magistrate's Court
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  • 19 4 Singapore private marke: owners have formed an association to look after the in terests of market owners.
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  • 156 4 VISITING American folk song artiste. William Clauson. last night brought down the house at the Canning RV i Cultural Centre, when r sang the Malay song. Terang Bulan. accompanying himself on his guitar. Before that he played the lovely old Portuguese song. Glngll Nona. which
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  • 134 4 RAF IS MYSTIFIED: 'WE DID NOT STRAFE PIRATES' ROYAL Air Force authorities in Singapore were mystified yesterday by a report that an R.A.F. plane had strafed 50 sailing vessels manned by pirates off the coast of British North Borneo. Th e pirates' powerful outboard motors helped them to escape, said
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  • 30 4 Mr. Lim Chu Guan has taken over as technical ay sistant, P.W.D., Singapore, from Mr. Henry Dorvillt. who retired on July 6 this year after 31 years' service.
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  • 138 4 Minister Beware these gossips and Industry V Jumabhoy, y censured j rre J; politicians f o r? ing propa£ra n( j a y would fidence in the future. He waj o Nanyang Insurant Circular Road. Mr. Jumabhoy s^ the opening of the« wr.s concrete P rr, of J fldence amoi
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  • 17 4 The Aust: Defence. S;r will arrive today by q a three-d. Colony and the ftdol
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  • 280 5 ALA V CONGRESS MEN: WE WILL CONTINUE FIGHT AGAINST JUS SOLI Special rights for the Malays KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. UMNO Malay parties have abandoned r plan to send a two-man mission to to make representations to the Brivernment on the
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  • 53 5 Three brothers and their father. Choo Eng Cheong. 46. were acquitted in a Singapore court yesterday at their joint trial on a charge of armed rioting in Lorong 3, Geylang. on Dec. 19. The brothers were Choo Che v Lim, 21; Kirn Lim. 19. and
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  • 126 5 Pay day for Govt. men twice a month now TTHE Singapore Gov--1 ernment is making a start with the twicemonthly pay system. First to benefit will be 1.000 daily-rated Ministry of Health workers who will be paid on July 22. The system will be extended to more daily-rated men in
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  • 54 5 The British frigate H.M.S. Alert, which is the despatch vessel of the Commander-in-Chief. Far East Station, will recommission next Monday under the command of Commander Sir Peter Anson of the Royal Navy. The men have been flown from England, and the former crew will leave for
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  • 78 5 A woman. Tin Kirn Te-\ was yesterday charged in 3 Singapore court with housebreaking by entering into tho building of the Malayai. Breweries at Alexandra Road and stealing 200,000 Tiger and A.B.C. stout labels, valued at $218. She faces an alternate charge of dishonestly retaining 200,000 labels
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  • 86 5 MERDEKA DRESS: UMNO YOUTH MAY BOYCOTT BIG CELEBRATION BUTTERWORTH. Thurs.— Province and Penang UMNO youths will boycott the merdeka parade in Kuala Lumpur if their uniform of white shirts and trousers is not changed. They want to wear their national costume of white baju, white trousers :nd blue sarongs. But
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  • 172 5 BACK AS A BARRISTER AM R. A. E. G. Blades, director of Singapore Speciai iTI Branch, will soon be succeeded, it is understood, by Mr. Khaw Khai Boh, 39, a superintendent in the Colony police force. Mr. Khaw returned to Singapore by BOAC
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  • 153 5 ANAGAPPAN, 27. a car driver, was jailed for sevrn years by Mr. Justice Chua in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday on two charges of armed robbery. Nagappan was found guilty of robbing a Tamil woman. Mari Katht. of a gold necklace and $10 in
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  • 62 5 Marathal Munuradiar. 40, who was alleged to hav>' jumped into a well with 12 feet of water in an attempt to end her life, pleaded not guilty in a Singapore court yesterday to a charge of attempted suicide. She was allowed bail ot $100 in
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  • 37 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— The Regent of Johore will open the inaugural meeting of the Johore Bahru Goodwill Committee at 2.45 p.m. on Sunday at the Assembly Hall of the Government Offices building.
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  • 55 5 Evatt and Co., Singapore, yesterday gave a tea party at the Robinson's Cafe, to its senior partner. Mr. E. L. Peake, who leaves for England today on retirement. The party was also for Mr. J. B. Neubronner, a chief typist, who retires after being with the firm
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  • 26 5 The Maria Kumbablshegam Hindu festival will be celebrated tomorrow at the Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple, Ceylon Road, Singapore, from 5.30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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  • 332 5 SOLDIER TO SERVE 112 DAYS IN JAIL Tried to put Sgt. into trouble A SOLDIER, accused of trying to put a sergeant into trouble was sentenced to 112 days' detention by a Singapore court martial yesterday. Acting L/Cpl. Kenneth McKenzie, 31, was found guilty of improperly counselling and inciting LCpl
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  • 56 5 A Singapore coroner. Mr. Giam chong Hing, yesterday recorded an open verdict after an inquest on Chan Pack Seng, of Tras Street, who way found dead in his room on May 23 this year. Chan died of a fractured skull, believed to have been received
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  • 23 5 Mr. Tan Sim Hong was elected president of the Singapore District Incorporated Secretaries Students' Society at the annual meeting on Wednesday.
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    • 367 5 CHINESE V.M.C.A. (Prince Ed- Road): Photographic exhibition w:ird Road): Movie Club show by Tham Yew-fun. Ang Kok-hu;it, "Kirn" 8 pm.: Chinese shadow Tim Siong-teng. Wong Yue-kong. boxing 6.45 a.m.. 830 p.m.; bll- Kwan Chee-yew— 9 a.m. to 5 30 liards and bodybuilding 2 p.m. to p.m. 10 p.m.; wrestling and
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  • 1417 6 Two lawyers spr*»« *> defend critic of constitution: are against Ms views MCA chiefs to meet to discuss speech KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. TWO Councillors came to the defence of Mr. S. M. Yon? after he had been criticised by Chinese
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  • 944 6 'In time Malayas, too, will reject race privileges' \IK. G. SHELLEY (Eurasians) said the Eurasian community unreservedly accepted the constitution. "We shall carry out oui obligations and responsibilities with all the resources in our power," he said. Referring to the speciai position of the Malays, he said: "Let us look
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  • 48 7 A man was charged in Singapore yesterday with a murder committed two years ago. Lee Chiang Hoi, with five others, is alleged to have killed Pek Boon Yiam on June 15, 1955 at about 12.45 a.m. in Cross Street. He was remanded for a week.
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  • 28 7 The Singapore Teacheri' Training College will hold its annual college exhibition in its Paterson Road prrmist-s on July 29 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
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  • 359 7 A* a new protest move against the board by the staff association Men urged to keep their 'go slow' up piCKETS, carrying placards, yesterday appeared at gates leading to the Singa- pore Harbour Board wharves. It was the first time pickets had been out since the
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  • 106 7 MALAYA'S C-PLAN STUDENT No. 2,000 TO BROADCAST THE 2.000 th Colombo Plan student In Australia, Che Ummi Kelsom of Kuala Trengganu. will speak over the Blue Network of Radio Malaya on Sunday Sept. 1 at 3.30 p.m. Che Kelsom, who is studying nursing at the Royal Perth Hospital In Western
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  • 238 7 THE Singapore Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, said yesterday that the Government would continue to use military technicians to help run the telephone service during the strike. He was replying to the Singapore Telephone Board
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  • 33 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— A verdict of death by misadventure was recorded by the coroner today at an inquest on Ahmad bin Hassan who was killed by a military truck on April 6.
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  • 48 7 They surrender SEREMBAN, Thurs. —Two terrorists gave themselves up to a tapper in the Kuala Pilah district of Negrl Sembilan The police later found a shotgun, a grenade, and ammunition. The surrender was on May 9, but the news had been withheld for security reasons.
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  • 19 7 The Australian Minister for Defence, Sir Philip Mcßride. will tour the Singapore Naval Base on Monday.
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  • 90 8 20 Word, $10 (minimum) MR. AND MRS. M. H. PHANQ l Blank all Friends and Relations for their Attendance, Good Wishes. Assistance and Gilts on the occasion of their Wedding on 6-7.57. YORK KEE RESTAURANT (ChK-ken Rico 51, Beach Road.! Singapore thank friends and I business associates for their
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  • 1102 8 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri. July 12, 1957. Acclaim In The Council In approving, by acclamation, the Federation's new Constitution, the Legislative Council has endorsed the i public's reception of this i charter of freedom. The Constitution is not perfect. But it is doubtful whether the Working Party and the
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  • 1071 8  - Civil Service must not become the tool of politicians ALLINGTON KENNARD FRAMEWORK FOR A NATION -5! IN HIS concluding article Ls THIS SERIES ON THE NEW FEDERAL CONSTITUTION OUR COMMENTATOR TELLS HOW THE INTEGRITY OF THE CIVIL SERVICE, THE JUDICIARY AND THE POLICE IS PROTECTED BY SPECIAL SAFEGUARDS. HOWEVER IN
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    • 724 8 IT is most elating to controvert with Dato Megat Osman who writes with sincerity, fairness and good humour. With neither bitterness nor contrition for being corrected and admonished, I return to the healthy debate Involving religious re. formation and social progress. In defence
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    • 49 8 IN reply to Miss B. M. Griffin. Principal Matron. The Ministry of Health Singapore, may I sugees* that we name the Malo Staff Nurses, as Junior Nursing Brothws. and when promoted to Mile Sisters be put under the caption of "Nursln" Bro*rHrs JOSEPH FFFNANDEZ. Pulau Tekong.
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    • 699 8 r I Strait* Timet Free Prew j For th e c venitnee of odver- i Hmi our rcprexntotivM at Ml I floor, SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE, r ORCHARD ROAD, will r*c.lv« -»ic II advertisements ond onswers z to box numbers. Classified odvertlMmtnts may i also be handed to: CITY BOOK STORE
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    • 85 8 How Life Begins A tiny male spermatozoon fertilizes the female egg. Later, as egg and sperm blend into a completed cell, it splits Into two cells, then four, eight, sixteen —finally. Into the billions that compose a new-born baby. What recent research has revealed about one of nature's greatest wonders.
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    • 104 8 By Dire I who invented the ballpoint it's right on the ball the citizen )i| A Biro a genuine Biro That means a handsome plastic case in a choice of colours a precision-point and the perfect ink. Biro Blue-66 is smudge-proof, fade-proof and absolutely non-transferable. Always be sure you get
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  • 72 9 i »RMER director of pore's Raffles Mr. M. W. P. 50. leaves today i iv on retireune to Mala..ii assistant •.<■ museum, after c In natural imbrldge UniverIfalaym, Mr. uthority en ■it* on one ol Uoni to PahPlea tor reserves 'alaya broadhe siid hat
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  • 50 9 re police yesterday Colony court warrant! for of Tan Leo'.ig -year-old unliceus- Reason: Tan. who had long evaded arrest, was recently found dead in Exeter Road. The warrants were issued over a period of a year when Tan failed to attend court to answer summons charges.
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  • 94 9 Ridley's widow to get £300 a year KLALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The Federal Legislative Council today aproved the payment of a special allowance of C3OO (52.572) a year to Mrs. H. N. Ridley, widow of the "father" of the Malayan rubber industry. The Minister for Finance, Sir Henry Hau Shilt Lee.
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  • 454 9  -  HENRY PAUL 13 YEARS OF WEDDED LIFE HE SAYS: 'FROM THE START WE COULDN'T GET ON' Prom IPOH, Thursday. T Raja Muda of Perak, Raja Idris ibni Sultan Sir Alang Iskandar Shah, has divorced his first wife, the Raja Puan Besar of 1
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  • 21 9 An August Bank Holiday Fete will be held by the RAF. Seletar, on Aug. 5 in aid of cnarlty.
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  • 453 9 'AFTER PEELING FOR FIVE YEARS I WAS GETTING A LITTLE TIRED Strip Queen Rose 'abdicates' to wed her manager STRIPTEASE queen Rose Chan yesterday married the Indonesian manager of her revue, thus censoring forever her near-nude stage career. Never again will 28-year-old Rose now Rosminah binte Abdullah peel provocatively before
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  • 20 9 Family remittances from Malaya to China last month totalled $1,466,917 of which $1,007,280 was from Slngarxire.
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  • 211 9 'An essential element in a free state' KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The senior assistant Minister for Home Affairs, Inche Bahaman bin Samsuddin, assured the Federal Council today that the Alliance Government would always try to ensure the complete freedom of the Press in Malaya. Inche Bahaman
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  • 113 9 TUIE Chief Minister, Mr. ■1 Lim Yew Hock, yesterday met leaders of the Singapore City Council Labour Unions' Federation, to discuss the findings of a court of inquiry which investigated its wage dispute with the council. The council had accepted the findings and was ready
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  • 65 9 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Thurs. The biggest single donation to the Province Wellesley merdeka celebrations fund has been promised by Mr. Voon Hean Looi, of Bukit Mertajam. Mr. Voon has offered to pay for a memorial clock tower for Bukit Mertajam, his home town. The site will be decided
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  • 349 10 Susan Bar rie *eeM the week's new films THOSE who have seen the Folies Bergere in the flesh may find the screen version too watered down for their taste. In all but a couple of fleeting long shots the statuesque show-girls, who
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  • 60 10 MAN WHO JUST FADES AWAY V N IVERSAL'S "lncredible s h r i nking Man" really lives vp ur down to its name. It is quite incredible. It is about a young businessman who. because of a radio active fog, shrinks from a husky 6 ft. lin. to nothineHis wife
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  • 227 10 Astaire still shines in his nifty fifties BACK WITH HEPBURN rnHIS is our week for 1 Paris settings. Paramount's Technicolor musical "FUNNY FACE," which stars unlikely partners Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn, is madly Parisian and introduces some very unusual photographic effects. Add to this Oeorge and Ira Gershwin's music,
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    • 297 10 Refer teachers' dispute to arbitration board A r their extraordinary general meeting tomorrow the normal trained teachers of the Singapore Teachers Union will decide whether to go on strike or not over their dispute with the Ministry of Education with regard to their status in the teaching profession. It is
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    • 178 10 Students will be most hurt AS an old normal-trained teacher and a one-time president of the Singapore Teachers' Union, with the interests of the profession and the normal trained teacher very much at heart, I weld like to appeal to all th c members of the Union, who are concerned
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    • 291 10 Let strike be last resort I should like to add -iy appeal to the Teacher* Union not to strike until all avenues have been ex plored In the quest to find a solution lor a compromise between the normal tea chers and the Education Ministry. There is the offer of
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    • 120 10 I AGREE with Dr. Urn Tay Boh's suggestion of an Independent commission of Inquiry Into the dispute between the Normal-train-ed teachers and the Ministry of Education. The commission should consist of leading educationists from outside Malaya. It Is urgent that the whole problem of teachertraining of
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    • 540 10 a "fl^ 31 it .i v S-haw »hau> it a the UitM >huw m f^^Qt phone '^^M W> Ml 1 llVi iI l I 29 59 11.1.45.4, :II "folies I "*r i I H BERGERE" #|Jl II 1 111 TECHNICOLOR W BK^^ 88l starring JEANMAIRE V^^BP^^^^k French with Part English
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    • 358 10 mm 2 mm I I ODEONI 6 15 9 30 PM J J V~y KX +HB LA ST 4 DAYS! <r SEASON OPKNS AT PAVILION XI,. PREMIERE JULY 17th at 930 pm. 1 fif.yll Katherine DUNHakT I J±*f Her dancers, singers, musicians t \\*J i Also Featuring J (Ssl J^L
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    • 161 10 RADIO MALAYA Klonal Announcements 6.56 Singapore Share Market Report- 7 00 Singapore 476 metres. 41 metres. 5 ew 7 10 News Ta^: 7.15 At Kuala Lumpur 341 metres iS" 1 R «iuest: 8.00 Mustc Prom Penan r 366 metres. M^ ts^, 830 rht R°ad Malacca 297 metres h n W
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  • 791 11 The Aga Khan gained the reputation of world citizen MA AT REVERED BY MILLIONS IN THE EAST AS THEIR SPIRITUAL LEADER WAS A KING OF TURF IN THE WEST BRITAIN BESTOWED THE ROYAL TITLE fHE Aga Khan, who died yesterday, was famous in the West as a multi-millionaire king of
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    • 82 11 '^■a^aS^S 4 J MODEL 460 BO^^ HooELSiiao C. rm.in Qplima. Typewriter SY-PAYMCNT TERM £NT S3O/--12 monthly paymentt or $17.55 "TITHES"! IL PHOTO SUPPLY, LTD. ::..ad. Spore. 7. PHILATELISTS! MWMaI <.-Jjf Sump -rN Slit Aot> i j n,r Rajaa* I I 'R^T DAY 1 far i "mine i! i .UuloffUP* 8,
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    • 220 11 Only Pears lets you seehowpureitis! Hold a tablet of Pears up to the light. Yes, you can see right through it that's how pure it is. And it's a by treatment every time you wash. Pears brings tired dull skin wonderfully alive leaves it fresh and •^l"'"' J "',fj- petal
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    • 160 11 ffe.v 3targan .?#.#>- M^ack missing *^H I■ f NO--JU&T TW6M HE MU C I V T C*tCK C-rZ !*ATIEN T S NbBbSB Uick Tracy Piecing together BVHHUa^BKBMOBfIS V i figged on making a \7~"7 that right? this yes. macv. when papfv took us v LP^^^BHPSnS^! f HEAP OF MONEY OUTTA
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  • 721 12 INDUSTRIALS HOLD FIRM IN MODERATE SHARE TRADING By Our Market Correspondent THE Singapore Share Market was again mainly 1 steady throughout all sections m moderate bUS Sst y r^we a r^ fl nner, tin, showed a continued firmness while rubbers were practically unchanged apart from a slackening of interest in
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  • 46 12 The Federation's Minister of Finance has fixed the following prices for calculating Customs Duties for the week from July 11: Rubber K.i cts. a lb. Copra *396 a ton. Coconut oil $714 a ton. Falm oil $721.75 a ton. Palm kernels $356.50 a ton.
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  • 153 12 August first grade rubber buyers f.o.b, closed in Singapore on Thursday at 93 i cents per It), up one-quarter of a cent on Wednesday's close. The closing tone was steady quiet Closing prices In cents per It), yesterday were:. OFFICIAL: Int. 1 R.S.S. Spot fob. buyers 93, setters
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  • 116 12 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchance: noon prices per ploul yesterday were:Copra: steady: July /August $24 buyers, $25 sellers. Coconut oil: steady; bulk $40 i sellers, drum $45 sellers. Pepper: steady; about 50 to 70 tons of business reported done: Muntok white $108. Sarawak $107, special Sarawak black $73 (all
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  • 81 12 Ships lyUir alongside the Sinrapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Hessenstein 1-2, Corfu 4-5. Akakurasan Maru 6A. Agamemnon 6-7, willem Ruys 8-9. Benvannoch 11. Batjan 13-14 Gorgon 15-16. Celebes 18. Resang N.Wall l. Po.KldJang N.Wall 8 Kampar 21-22, Tong Hoa 23. yP|? Katong 25-26. Elisabeth Bakke
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  • 29 12 SINGAPORE, j llv RUBBER: 9JI l *U pet Ib. (up one-,^ 1 of t cent). TIN: $371,871 picul (down 7") oi. n COPRA: |-nq uo t% h
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  • 120 12 MELBOURNE, A MORE variable :on» corded throughout tn. vestment section of n le M Stock Exchange today moves generally were sma'i" Ing overall was again a. Mining lltti. played in a dull mmm, and price movemci.ts uV, :i> row Loeng were lrrejuS?* moderate trading volume Loans 3,. 1956-59
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  • 62 12 The Malayan Evchanff n^. Association made the f change In its rates to mV--- yt-t«.-day (the rate is to JIOC Seliiof T.T. or OD Canada 30 It/lfl On the free *x<han> Hong Kont yesterday, the ri dollar was quoted at 6 03\ k cash and 6.03*4 foor T.T.
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    • 1374 12 COMPANY MEETING THE RUBBER PLANTATIONS INVESTMENT TRUST LTD. three or four years from now: from say 1960 on progress in output will quicken up; and the reduction In costs also which goes with expanding crops will be shared by many more producers. By then it will not be surprising if
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    • 564 12 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS MALACCA MUNICIPALITY Applications are invited from Registered Nurses for appointment as Assistant Health Visitor In the Municipality of Malacca. Candidates must be Federal citizens or British Subjects and i must have passed recognised exI animations in Nursing and Midwifery. Prelerence will be given Ito candidates with experience or
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    • 754 12 NOTICES ANNOUNCEMENT THE TOTAL AMOUNT collected for the Choon Ouao School Buildins Fund from 30th December 1956 to 20th June 1957 was $13,332. CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE NOTICE ib hereby given pursuant to Section 103 of the Municipal Ordinance that the plan, specification, estimate and apportionnunt of expenses of the
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    • 652 12 NOTICES NOTICE MR. LAN PENG MING has left our services from today and Is no longer authorised to transact any business on our behalf GEORGE LEE LIMITED. NOTICE As from 9th July. 1957. Mr. RONALD WEE (Wee Soon Whatt) Is no longer in our employ and will not be authorised
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    • 456 12 JSljKf/CSRtEx KNUTSEN LINE orient service FROM CANADA/US. PACIFIC PORTS 30 DAYS Sailing San Vancouver Francisco Spore P.S'wet Penant F'mn' Elisabeth Bakka Cdn. 27/28 14 July I6|il»:£. Cjertnid Baake 4/ 6Aug 7 Au« 9 Aug 21 At Ellen Bakke 13 July 27 |uly 26/28 Aug 29 Aug 31 Au| II5« Kristin
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    • 1193 13 uv 1405 MANSFIELD <Sc CO., LTD. t* itu >raiea in iingopore) (12 in sHpom, XHE BLUE FUNNEL LINE JS? or MorseHles, P Nn-n. Duth In Port J«| y 14 July /v ,err,ool Glasgow In Port j u |y v J«'y j uly 25 xsS J siinr Mr a a Aufll
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    • 1063 13 I ill I pKii i u u Axrrf/4 inn A EAST ASIATIC LINES OUTWARDS SAILINGS FOR BANGKOK AND/OR FAR EAST 1 VIA SUEZ Penang P. Sham S'pora JUTLANDIA" (Bangkok enfy) God 29/30 "MOMBASA" God 42/41 "FALSTRIA" (Bangkok only) 14/15 Jury U/17 Jaty 18/19 Jury HOMEWARDS SAILINGS FOR ADEN, PORT SAID,
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    • 967 13 building THE BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD %frF* SINGAPORE (Incorporated n the Umteo Kingdom) I LINES SAILINGS TO UK ft CONTINENTAL PORTS Spore P. S'hom Penang BENLAWERS for London, Hamburg, Antwerp 13/18 July BENMHOR for Liverpool, Rotterdom, Hull 17/24 Jury 11/14 Jury 25/24 Jaty EBNVRACKII for London, ..18/13 Jafy 23/24 Jury
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    • 1216 13 McALISTER dc CO., LTD. TEL.: No.: ***** ILUINAI LIMBS KLAVBNESS LIMB LNODON, HAVRE, ROTTERDAM LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO HAMBURG SEATTLE, VANCOUVER ft PORTLAND and for U.S.A., North Atlantic Ports «"9<> »or Central ft South and Canada vio Colombo Amertce CITY Of OTTAWA* BOUGAINVILLE Spore P. Sham Penang Spore P. Sham
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  • 180 14 Main courses agriculture, fisheries, small industries MORE trainees from Singapore and Malaya are expected to be sent to Japan thie year for courses in agriculture, fisheries, and to study cottage and other small industries under the Colombo Plan. The Japanese Vice-Consul General in
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  • 188 14 JAPAN is making a bid to expand sales of its high efficiency soft cream-freezers, claimed to be an improvement on the American type, to the Malayan market. A new product In Malaya, the machine, which is for commercial use, is already finding a good market
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  • 245 14 NEW RAIL CARS FOR MALAYA THE Malayan Railways have recently released a M 52,450,000 contract for the supply of six diesel-hydraulic railcars, to be built wholly from stainless steel, to an Australian company, say reports from Australia. The contractors. Common wealth Engineering Co. Ltd.. of Oranville, New South Wales,, secured
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  • 110 14 THE latest and biggest building to adorn Petaling Jaya is the $1,250,000 Pepsi Cola bottling plant claimed to be the most modern in South -East Asia Built on a site of 180,000 square feet the plant Is capable of turning out 50,000,000 bottles
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  • 101 14 Tour bid to expand market rE works director of George Kent Ltd., England, Mr. W A. Hartop. is visiting Singapore and Malaya this week in the course of a round-the-world tour to stimulate and expand the company's export markets. Mr. Hartop will discuss and review matters of mutual interest with
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  • 119 14 Two top executives of the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society Ltd. have arrived in Singapore on a visit to the Malayan organisation before leaving for Australia on an extended tour. They are the general manager and actuary. Mr. B Robarts. and the assistant secretary. Mr. K. H.
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  • 113 14 Members of the 20-Year Service Club of the Stan-dard-Vacuum Oil Company were honoured by the management at a function where lone service emblems were presented. Recipients of the emblems were (from left to right) Messrs. W. S. Hoover, Employee Relations Manager; Tan Miang Theng. Employee Relations Department
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  • 168 14 MINING of deposits of good grade bauxite in the Sematan area of the Lundu District, in Sarawak, is to begin soon, according to government reports from Kuching The project is being undertaken by Sematan Bauxite Limited. Two of the directors, Mr. W. A. Conrad and
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  • 135 14 t»itt>pipr nrices in Singapore have eased only P E^ion a ily dipite In almost complete lack of overseas demand in recent weeks. According to a Singapore i pepper dealer, the small arrivals of the commodity are mainly responsible for the small decline in
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  • 85 14 The world rice narvesi ior 1956-57 is estimated by the Foreign Agricultural Service jf the United States Departnent of Agriculture to be 141,800,000,000 pounas, or 3.7 jer cent above the record :rop of the previous year. Referring to Malaya, the Service's report said the year jrought
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  • 203 14 Rubberised roads are 'on trial' ALTHOUGH thi steady comm* rcial fo mand for rubb. r pi use in road i obvious, says the a: i port of the National Rubber Development Board, that r, really large consume rubber can be the economic adv.;' using it are proved con. clusively over
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    • 191 14 U/UICI/V m. wVrflS&Vi 1 m ff^Mwlfttiyr^si tS^^'^r vv\ hEIH sB »>^L \*f g% £s? t- tR J JMBk A H^H A -SbßE?**^ 0 t t ?v^ MMs^sA nu^^^K S^MMMpMrtM'BA^ 'fvS9^^^^B^sffsESFC i ytf 1 ROUST? AQ V^»«,-4^^ Jm WVWlfT'sml'f'PSinfjporc. K Lumpur. Pen.ins, IMsM, Port Jw«tt«nhjm, Ipoh, Tcluk Anton. K Bhjru. Tumpat.
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    • 121 14 iOSA-31 tAT CH a BATCHELOI. Patent Flallened SI rand Rope PATENT FLATTENED STRAND. ordinary or langs lay. Advantages Creater wearing surface, therefore longer life for rope and less wear upon the pulleys. Creater strength, thereby admitting of smaller ropes being used for existing loads, or of increased loads without increase
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  • 594 15  - NEW FLARE-UP LIKELY OVER SCHOOLS BAN ON CLUBS NORMAN SIEBEL -By- THE ROW over the schools ban on "outside" sport, which has iKen smouldering under the surface for the past month, is likely to flare up soon into a violent eruption. And this eruption will, I hope, bring an end
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  • 122 15 PENANG, Thurs. THE PRESIDENT of the Penarg Rugby Union, Mr. T. P. i Caldicott, pays tribute to Malaya's "Mr. Rugger" in hi? annual report. "No one has done more for the game In Malaya than has Maurice j Pestana during the 20 years he represented Penang,''
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    • 366 15 „n t ,nurd from Page 81 \TIONS VACANT ■hj .*trm. secretaries: 5 1 Female/2 Male Correspondence/ i ry clerks: Female r niploymcnt 748 I Kxperlencea Rubber near Kuala Lum--950 acresprevious expert :crences of inteApply in writing] S T.. K.L. ED IRONMON- 1 liable of workntly from DrawlnßS, blished Com- I
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    • 468 15 SITUATIONS VACANT 2» Word. SS (Min.)-Box SO ctt. txtra. PUBLIC APPOINTMENT— Applications are invited from Federal Citizens or State Nationals for the appointment as Probationer se SocliU w e»are Assistant' N in the salary scale of ,$137.50x7.50-152.50 175x7 50 i 205/224x14-336/352x14-422 with C.O.L.A. at current rates 2 Applicants must have
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    • 718 15 j ACCOMMODATION VACANT 120 Wordt SS (Min.)— Box SO ctt. txtra. TO LET:— 2 Rooms with Bath attached in Modern Flat Orchard Road. Furnished/Unfurnished. Board optional. P.O. Box 1133, Singapore. BUNGALOW, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, garage, pleasant surroundings, Braddell Heights, to Let from Ist August. Apply Box A 3576, S.T.
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    • 881 15 HOUSES LAND FOR SALE 20 Wordt SS (Mill.)— Box SO ctt. txtrm. NEW MODERN TERRACE Houses at Hemmant Road, off Guillcmard Road, Modern Sanitation, on Bus Route 7 minutes to Heart of Town. Easy Terms can be arranged. Phone ***** or *****. 2 STOREY TERRACE House. Excellent locality naif mile
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    • 948 15 VEHICLES WANTED 2l> Wordt Si (Him.)— Bos SB ctt. txtrm. OOOD USED CARS wanted. Preference 1951—1957 Ford. Austin, Morris. Hillman, Opel, MO, Plat. Volkswagen. Tel. *****, ***** or writ* P.O. 1848. Spore 9 WANTED Mercedes 220 or 190 and Ariel Square Four Motor Cycle. Please state model and date of
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    • 589 15 FOB SALE to Words U (Min.)— Max M ctt. tstrm. RUBBER ESTATE of 700 acres planted with high-yielding rubber In white area In Selangor SUte for Sale. Details to principals only. PO. Box 12. Muar. 2000 GRAMOPHONE RJBCORDB, popular standard/Long-Pwy, cleared cheap before 12-7-57. Art Music Depot 32/36, Orchard Road.
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  • 87 16 St. Joseph's beat St. Patrick's by 43 runs in a game of cricket at Bras Basah Road yesterdayScores: S.J.I. 129 for 9 dec. (T. Martens 31. D. Vaz 26 C. Francis 26, M. Nathan 2-36, LDrewell 2-30). St. Patrick's 86 (L. Nathan 26 H. Scully 5-24
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  • 377 16 Weights for Bukit Timah last day WEIGHTS for all eight races on Saturday, final day are: atiM* i— 6F. Caracas 9.00 Artina 813 Alu Alu 812 H Line 8.11 Trinidad 8.10 Straight Flight 8.09 The Torch 8.08 All Things Nice 808 Dancing Water 807 Rio 8.06 (.inibira 8.06 Superscope 8.05
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  • 108 16 "JUST made it!" says tbe smile on jockey Garnet Bougoure's face. A furlone out, his mount, Shaw Stable's Full House, had hit the front and looked set for an easy win. Then, from "out of the blue 1 came Mickey Donnelly on Grey
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  • 489 16  - GOLDEN MELODY IS FANCIED AGAIN EPSOM JEEP Mirophli also stakes claim WINDING-UP GALLOPS AT BUKIT TIMAH TRACK... By POLDEN MELODY, winner over the Bukit Timah mile on Saturday, is asked to carry topweight of 9.0 in the Stewards Cup over 9f tomorrow. Golden Melody is likely to start favourite in
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  • 141 16  -  EPSOM JEEP By rPHE special airlift service for racehorses, introduced last year by Qantas, is beginning to catch on with Malayan owners-. Yet another racehorse is coming by air from Australia. He is Blue Swell, a two-year-old by Channel Swell out of Blue Sox. He
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  • 96 16 LAST MEETING BEFORE MERDEKA AT KL THE last race meeting In the Federation before Merdeka will b e held at Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 10. 14 and 17. Entries will close on July 31. Distances and staxes are: Class 3- First run s '/if or 7f: second run 6f or
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  • 41 16 Dockyard eliminated Royal Navy 2-1 in the S.A.F.A. senior cup-tie at Naval Base yesterday. Allan and Obed scored for Dockyard and Beazley for Navy. In a S.A.F A. Div. 3B match at Farrer Park Kebeneran Club beat X.M.L. 2-1.
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  • 24 16 The Community League match between Europeans and Eurasians, scheduled for Jalan Besar StadiunJ today, has been cancelled. Europeans have given a walk-over.
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  • 539 16 'Action committee' plan to revive Singapore soccer SOCCER TOPICS... by 808 PIDGEON NOW that Singapore has been cold-shouldered out of the Malaya Cup tournament the tasks that confront soccer officials in the Celony take on added urgency Kuala Lumpur is rapidly establishing itself as the focal point of Malayan soccer,
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  • 93 16 LONDON Thurs. Tea score* in today's cricket matches were: At The Oval: Derbyshire 79 and 73-2. Surrey 264. (Stewart 87. May 68). At Manchester- Lancashire 2"0. Sussex 110-3 (Suttle 58 no.). At Gloucester; Gloucester 268 Middlesex 49-5. At Yeovil: Somerset 248. Northampton 25 for none i rain)
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  • 35 16 BELFAST, Thurs.— The West Indies match against Ireland v ;r--abandoned here today because of heavy rain after the tour team's first innings had closed for 198 in reply to Ireland's 119. Reuter.
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  • 164 16 COUTH CHINA, Hong Kong's foremost footballers, arrived in Singapore yesterday with a promise to play attractive soccer "whether we win or lose." South China have just I completed a two-week tour of Indonesia and open their Malayan tour with a floodlit match against
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  • 107 16 SEREMBAN. Thurs. M. T. RETNAM, the South cricketer, Is back In the Negri side to meet Singapore In the two-day match here this weekend. The selectors have dropped Yawanarajah, Clarke and Metclafe and have replaced them with Retnam. T. Gore and S. S. Sathiapalan. The game
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  • 113 16 AS FORECAST In the Straits Times yesterday. Singapore players Lee Kok Seng and Quah Kirn Beng have been refused permission to play for Malayan Chinese against the Kowloon Bus tourists in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. They are required for weekend matches against South
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  • 178 16 KOTA RAJA, defending champions in the S.A.F.A. junior knockout cup competition, showed good lorm yesterday when they eliminated iR.A.F. Changi 3-1 in a firstround tie at Geylang. Kota Raja took an early lead through Rashid Giman. Ismail Che Par hit an upright ofl
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  • 177 16  - 'Big 3' clash a Chang' SAUL JOSHUA ATHLETiqA By iFHREr r tic club Achilles :nu' bineri a tram:at Chan p.m. The :i. Swifts, clubs comi other for season in be a prevli pore chami Swift part in 01 meet tin, a star--stn In the Lxm Jit Imi both »nra Chan
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 49 16 SOCCER S.A.F.A. Div. 3B: Bedok v Serangoon Malays, Geylang; Bintang Bulan v Cosmos, Farrer Park. ATHLETICS Singapore Bass District championships. Nee Soon, 2.30 p.m.; Dunearn School I and II; Bukit Panjang Malay School; St. Gabriel's School I and II; Tan Jong Katong Girls' School ;Triangular meet, Changi, 5 p.m.
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