The Straits Times, 7 September 1957

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    30 1 AY E B A G E. Bu*ftW^WCJ^IET4JEI y,-£A'- F EXCEEDS B <F 3 O O The Straits Times. MaW* Nation* 1 Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1951 15 CENTS
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    PORT 'NOT GOOD ENOUGH'
    76 1 SHIPOWNERS EXPRESS DISSATISFACTION WITH S.H.B. FACILITIES 'Turnrctmd of vessels is slow, receipts based on proper tallies are not issued* />m r b rf.f/w rf.^^r Irf, M,»H m77IISS 1 (/rom left) Mr Colin c Black > Mr V c Sir lan Parkin, Mr F-anas H i <
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    Commission gets list of faults
    698 1 THE Singapore Shipowners' Association yesterday told the Port Commission, which is now examining all aspects of port activities, that it was dissatisfied with the service provided by the Singapore Harbour Board. In ;i memorandum, the association saui it appreciated the difficulties under which the S.H.B.
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    DAWN FLIGHT TO AID IRON LUNG BABY
    347 1  -  VALETTA RAF IN TWO MERCY MISSIONS By AN R.A.F. Valetta flew into Changi, Singapore A shortly after 7 p.m. yesterday from Medan, Sumatra with a one-year-old baby boy, seriously ill with polio, aboard. The 1 ifant, Diederik van Easel, whose Dutch father is
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    With blood for a sick mother
    225 1  - With blood for a sick mother 'COPTER KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. AN R.A.F. Sycamore helicopter flew to the east coast at dawn today to go to the aid of a Malay woman dangerously ill after giving birth. The flight followed an SOS from the Bukit Besi Hospital in Dungun. Trengganu. It
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    THE MARCH OF THE TIMES
    60 1 THE MARCH OF THE TIMES THE Sunday Times last week printed a record 120,709 copies. This was the largest print order ever achieved by a Malayan newspaper on a Sunday or any other day. THROUGHOUT the Federation and Singapore, the 32--page special Merdeka issue containing full reports and superb pictures
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    Lock icon Gloucesters back— with gifts
    87 1 Gloucesters back with gifts LONDON. Fri— The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and Prince William landed at Kinloss Airport, Scotland, today on their return from Malaya's independence celebrations. Aboard was a rare star tortoise, presented to Prince William in Ceylon, where the aircraft stopped. Other gifts included a box of
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    Malayans wed in London
    52 1 From RONALD BAXTER LONDON, Fri— There was a fashionable Chinese wedding In London this afternoon when Dr. John Chen Jan Thye married Miss Nellie Poh at the Methodist Chapel In Westminster Central Hall. The bridegroom comes from Wilkinson Road. Ka tong. and the bride from Serangrvn
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    THAT HELMET
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    Mr. Lim: No helmet for me
    506 1 Mr. Lim: No helmet for me SINGAPORE WATCHES ITS COMMENTS SINGAPORE Ministers were very careful yesterday not to offend their Federation colleagues about "those helmets" worn by Cabinet Ministers during the merdeka celebrations. But It was obvious from their remarks that they have no intention of wearing them. The Singapore
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    Tengku and Cabinet colleagues '—take over merdeka cars—
    178 1 Tengku and Cabinet colleagues take over merdeka cars KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Twelve of the 60 cars which the Federation Government bought for the use of foreign YIPs attending the merdeka celebration are to be taken over by the Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, and his Cabinet colleagues. The Tengku has
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    SALUTE FOR JUDGES, VISCOUNT KILMUIR
    81 1 VISCOUNT Kilmulr, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, stands at attention as he acknowledges the salute of the guard-of-honour formed by the Gurkha Police when he arrived at the Supreme Court in Singapore yesterday for a ceremonial sitting in the Court of Appeal Chamber. Behind him
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    UNANIMOUS UN COUNCIL MALAYA VOTE
    832 1 UNANIMOUS UN COUNCIL MALAYA VOTE NEW YORK, Friday. 'THE Security Council voted unanimously yes--1 terday afternoon to t commend to the General Assembly that Malaya i* admitted to the United Nations. The Assembly will act on the recommendation soon after its twelfth regular session opens on Sept. 17. No opposition
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    Bar thugs at work
    52 1 Customers scattered when secret society thugs entered a bar in Amoy Street, Singapore, last night and smashed bottles and glasses. The gang had been involved in a dispute with the bar owner, Yet Seng Huat 56. Yet told the police that the thugs had threatened to
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    Templer, Festing fly to Colony
    38 1 HONG KONG. Fri. Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Lady Templer, accompanied by Gen. Sir Francis Festing, Commander in Chief, FARELF, left Hong Kong today for Singapore.
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    45 1 LONDON Fri. Mr. Aneurin Bevan, leader of the left-wing of th P British Labour Party, and his wife, Miss Jennie Lee. also a Labour M.P., left London by air today for a four-day stay in Warsaw and a subsequent visit to Moscow Reuter.
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    STOP PRESS
    31 1 BRITISH BACKING FOR JAPAN LONDON, Fri— Britain will support Japan aKainbt Czechoslovak!.! for the United Nations Security Council seat being vacated by the Philippines, official sources said today I
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    UNIVERSITY INQUIRY: MALAYA KEEPS QUIET
    236 2 UNIVERSITY INQUIRY: MALAY A KEEPS QUIET JJOT a single memorandum has been received from the Federation by the University Commission. This is despite the fact that the future of departS e p n Jf I h°iP, t t he fK niverSit^ in Kuala L "mpur is one of th e
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    'Golden voiced' Christine wins the title
    52 2 'Golden voiced' Christine wins the title This year's "Golden Voice" of Singapore is 24-year-old Miss Christine ißozario, supervisor at the Telephone Board. Miss Rozario. a telephone operator for eight yean, won the title from 30 contestants. Miss Teresa Pereira, Malaya's "Golden Voice' last year, and Miss Beatrice de Silva tied
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    Colony morphine addicts on the increase
    230 2 (CUSTOMS officers believe morphine addicts in Singapore arc on the increase and as a result increasing quantities of the drug are being smuggled into the Colony. A fortnight ago a Customs interceptor speedboat was called to Investigate a fast, suspicious looking launch in the
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    HE HEARD THE BIG COME IN'
    24 2 TENGKU J A I AFAR, Malaya's Charge Affaires in Washington, attended the Security Council meeting as an observer.
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      SCARFACE COMER (THE SOHO GANG BOSS) IS TOLD TO GET OUT OF CANADA
      82 2 SCARFACE COMER (THE SOHO GANG BOSS) IS TOLD TO GET OUT OF CANADA k. OTTAWA, Friday TANADA has ordered the deportation of the Soho "V gangster Jack "Scarface" Comer the immiera "SpSfSSSS h a e nnounced came off a ship in Quebec City on Wednesday, will probably be shipped back
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      32 2 LONDON: The Foreign Office has announced that three Hungarian members of the British Legation staff in Budapest have been arrested by the Hungarian government authorities two of them without official explanation. AP.
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      39 2 NOVA SCOTIA: Dr. Jan Nel of the Transvaal, South Africa, has caught a 367 1b blue-fin tuna the second largest tuna taken this season. Dr. Nel was warmIng up for the international Tuna Cup match here next week. A.P.
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      27 2 TORONTO: Two were killed when their plane plunged into the harbour here before thousands of people who were watching the Canadian national exhibition on the waterfront. a.P.
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      40 2 NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru has charged that Portuguese soldiers fired twice on Indian border posts from the Portuguese colony of Daman, and ran down and killed a villager in the territory with a jeep. A.P. (f ■£> 9
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      34 2 ATHENS: Rain and thunder storms of unprecedented violence have caused 13 deaths and heavy damage i n widespread areas of northern Greece. Seven people were killed by lightnin* and the remainder were drowned. A.P.
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      27 2 UNITED NATIONS: The Lebanese delegation here is confident that Dr. Charles Malik, the Foreign Minister of the Lebanon, will be elected President of the U-N. General Assembly.
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      24 2 SAIGON: Indonesia and South Vietnam have signed i a custom tariff agreement giving "most favoured nation" treatment to imports of each other's goods A.P.
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      21 2 TOKYO: Japan's Defence Board may purchase guldM missiles from Switzerland, joint staff council chairman Mr. Keizo Hayashi has announced A P
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      23 2 ALGIERS: French military sources have claimed that 50 Nationalist rebels were killed In an action fought In the Mascara region of Western Algeria.—
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      36 2 GEORGETOWN: The new Executive Council of British Guiana at Its first meeting has invited Princess Margaret to visit the colony next year. Reuter. TOKYO: *The mush- rooming population of mci tSiT*" Tokyo r«ached UmL-S. *****22 on
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      24 2 stflN, EW DELiTI: India's state elephant, six-vpnr an S$* Wrl- who EX» a" *t&ti, Proce^i-lons turnf? hls vi attendant and trampled him to death
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    Saved-by skin of his teeth
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    to Britain new state
    189 2 to Britain new state (China) said Malaya was starting its independent existence with many advantages as well as with a "serious handicap.' 1 He said "it is well known that since the end of the second world war Malaya has beeen subjected to subversion by agents of International Communism Guerilla
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    THIS WILL STRENGTHEN PEACE, SAYS SOBOLEV
    300 2 "With our vote today the United States sends to the Government and people of Malaya good wishes for the development of our mutual relations as members of the United Nations." MR. SOBOLEV said that while Malaya had been "under the colonial yoke a few
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    NEW MID-EAST CRISIS BREWING
    574 3 4 reassurance to free countries ARMS TO BE AIR RUSHED TO HUSSEIN AS A U.S. 'SUPPORT GESTURE 9 rmrp tt jc. WASHINGTON, Friday. THE United States will fly a large quantity of weapons and military equipment to Jordan early next week in a dramatic gesture of
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    Lock icon Chou clinks glasses with 'rebel' Americans
    180 3 Chou clinks glasses with 'rebel' Americans OEKINCi. Fri. Mr. f chou En-lai, tonight clinked glasses and joked with 41 Americans touring China in defiance of the U.S. Government. The Americans swarmed round Mr. Chou, getting his autograph. taking photographs and asking question* at a reception for world youth delegates. lid
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    Lock icon Big five talks are off
    48 3 LONDON Fri.— The U.N. disarmament sub- mmittee resumed work here today at what is likely to be the last session of the present series of meetings. All delegates agreed yesterday to adjourn the discussions—but faiied to agree on a date for resumption. Reuter.
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    Lock icon 'Baby' A-bang
    20 3 NEW YORK. Fri.— A "baby" nuclear explosion was set off at the Nevada atomic test site today. Reuter.
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    Lock icon NO ORDER TO SHOOT AT JAPS
    177 3 NO ORDER TO SHOOT AT JAPS Officer's claim TOKYO. Fri.— William x S. Girard had no authorisation to flre at anyone the day he is accused of fatally shooting a woman metal scavenger, a statement by his commanding officer said today. The deposition from Lieut. Billy Mohon read in a
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    Cash control
    23 3 COLOMBO, Fri.— The Ceylon Government today announced a new set of exchange control regulations to conserve the country's foreign exchange resources.
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    Lock icon Cuba crushes uprising by navy rebels
    176 3 MAVANA. Fri. The High Command of Cuba's armed forces today announced 75 persons were killed or wounded in crushIng the rebel uprising nt Cienfuegos Naval Base yesterday. They estimated rebel caroalties at 40 to 50 and said the government losses wera 12 men killed
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    Lock icon IKE WILL BREAK HOLIDAY FOR M-E TALKS
    67 3 IKE WILL BREAK HOLIDAY FOR M-E TALKS YEW YORK, Fri.—Pre- side nt Eisenhower will break his holiday in Newport, Rhode Island, to fly back to Washington tomorrow. There he will hav c talks with the Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, on the Syrian crisis and possibly also on
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    Lock icon Early to, golf otter 'all quiet report on school row
    145 3 Early to, golf otter 'all quiet report on school row LITTLE ROCK, Fri.— President Eisenhower yesterday intervened in the Arkansas schools race integration crisis and warned that he would uphold the Federal Constitution "by every legal mean* at my command." 'Call it off The President made this statement in a
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    Lock icon Sun spots go
    19 3 LONDON, Frl. Radio reception Improved today after three days of Interference due to sun spots.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Named director
    30 3 WASHINGTON, Frl.— Mr. John C. Bell. 44-year-oli State Department career official, has been named director of the International Cooperation Administration for the Near East and South Asia.— AP.
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    Ingrid's new film
    36 3 PARIS. Fri.— lngrid Bergman said today she will star with Cary Grant in a new film "Kind Sir." to be produced by Jack Warner. It is based on the play by Norman Krasna.
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    Lock icon Haydn—with real clocks
    79 3 Haydn with real clocks PARIS, Pri.— Alarm clocks shrilled three times last night at the opening symphony concert of an international musical festival in Besancon a French watchmaking centre. Each time the bell vibrated off stage, Belgian conductor Andre Vandernoot stopped. with baton poised, while conducting Haydn's "clock" symphony. The
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    LONDON STOCKS
    240 3 LONDON. Pri. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not Including stamp duty were:— w mvo Consols £47% H Funding £90? i War 3H% «s'/4 V 4 BANKS Merc. (£s:£2'. a p.u.) «6H Chartered (£1) 42/S Hongkong ($125) £46> 2 INSURANCE Com. Un. (ute.) 78/1H Royal M/4V4 Prudential £40%
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    RUBBER
    27 3 LONDON, Frl. Spot 25Hd.. Oct.-Dec. 28d.. Jan-Mar. 26Hd.. April-June 267; d.. July-Sept. 27d, Sept. c.l.f. 25'4d., Oct. c.i.t. 25Hd., Nov. c.l.f. 25T;d. Tone: Quiet but steady.
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    TIN
    21 3 LONDON. Prl. Buyers £735 sellers £736. Forward buyers £737; sellers £737' i. Settlement £735'-j. Turnover ajn. 35 tons. 50 tons.
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    Lock icon GHANA DEPORTS CHIEFTAINS
    133 3 Two more told: Pack up ACCRA. Friday. 'THE Ghana Government last night announced A that two more deportation orders had been served on tribal leaders. The orders announced In the gazette were made under the 1957 Deportation Act They were signed by Mr. Krobo Edusei. the new
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    Lock icon Oh! what an example, says Mr. B
    101 3 Oh! what an example, says Mr. B LONDON. Frl.— The British Government "has given a deplorable example to governments which emerge toward Independence." Mr. Fenner Brockway. Labour Member of Parliament, said yesterday in a letter to the Spectator. Writing is the right-wing independent weekly, Mr. Brockway said that since the
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    Boy cleared of forging cheque
    90 4 Boy cleared of forging cheque A SCHOOLBOY was allegA ed to have used one of his father's cheques to settle a $700 debt with a bookmaker. Yeo Khle Soon, 17, was unconditionally discharged in a Singapore court yesterday of dishonestly using a forged cheque as genuine. Mr Leslie Rayner, defending,
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    Club birthday
    29 4 Members of the BukU Timah Youth Club in Singapore will celebrate their club's third anniversary at the club premises In Bukit Tlmah Lane tomorrow it 7.30 p.m.
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    Life guards meet
    23 4 The Singapore Life Ouard Corps will hold its annual meeting at the YMCA hall. Orchard Road, at 4.30 p.m today.
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    BOY AIDS IN $350 THEFT
    69 4 KUANTAN, Fri. Thieves yesterday used a small boy to break into a shop at Sun gei Karang. eight miles froir here. They took $350 worth of goods and cash. They forced open a plank at the front ot the shop Thp boy then slipped in
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    400% boost in COL is suggested
    136 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Frl. A special committee of tne Government Services Stall Council has recommended an immediate rise of 400 per cent in cost ot living allowances for civil servants in the country. The cummlttee, neaded by the former president ox the Union of Post
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    A SCHEME FOR 200 EXPATS
    270 4 Aim: To enmre efficiency -io Federation finalises- They will all be on contract —hundred from Britain, rest from Commonwealth KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE Federation Government has finalised plans to recruit more than 200 expatriate officers both European and Asian to ensure continued efficiency in the
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    LADY KILMUIR VISITS A CHILDREN'S HOME
    40 4 LADY KILMUIR. wife of the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, leans over to study the work of a little boy at the Tanah Merah Crippled Children's Home, which she visited yesterday. Straits Times picture
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    CRIPPLED CHILDRENS' HOME A JOB WELL DONE, SAYS LADY KILMUIR
    154 4 CRIPPLED CHILDRENS' HOME A JOB WELL DONE, SAYS LADY KILMUIR ""THIS is a job well done." said Lady Kilmuir, wife L of Britain's Lord High Chancellor, after she visited the British Red Cross Crippled Children's Home ut Tanah Merah yesterday. Lady Kilmuir told the Matron. Mrs. J. MackintoshWhite that she
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    A Cheshire Home open soon for 10
    70 4 IN two months the first of the Cheshire Homes. Malaya— at Telok Paku. Chanfi— will be able to accept 10 patients. Working in their spare time men from the UAF at Changi and Selrtar have completed the outer structure of the firs! phase
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    Earring clue to woman
    53 4 The body of a 50-year-old Chinese woman, weearing one earring, was recovered from the sea off Princess Elizabeth Walk, Sinsjapor.-* early yesterday morning. The woman, who Is still not identified, wore a black samfoo, two bangles and had long hair. Information .should be given to Marine
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    Mooncake party
    29 4 The president of the Singapore China Society, Mr Lee Slow Mong. will hold a party for mooncake festival at his Ascot Rise home tomorrow at 7.30 p.m.
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    New president
    24 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri Mr. Yap Kirn Hock has been elected president of the Johore Bahru District branch of the Malayan Chinese Association.
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    STB wage talks
    26 4 The Singapore Telephone Board yesterday held th,» seventh wage negotiation meeting with its employees' union. No date was nxed for the next meeting.
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    Bus row: Next step is inquiry
    177 4 Bus row: Next step is inquiry NO AGREEMENT was reached yesterday in talks between the Sinj gapore Bus Workers' Union and the management of Hock Lee Bus Co., to end the 103-day-old strike by some of the company's workers. This mean s that the dispute will now be referred to
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    Training in schools
    72 4 The Tanglin branch of tlu* Labour Front will ask the Government to Introduce technical training for students in secondary schools in Singapore. This resolution passed by the executive committee wiii be submitted to the Educa tion Minister, Mr. Chew But Kee. today. The branch assistant gene ral
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    Two face smokes charges
    64 4 Goh Pch Sze, 25. and Lim Koon Chwee. 23, were yesteriday charged in Singapore with having in their possession 167J1b. of uncustomed I cigarettes at 11th mile stone. I Changi Road, on March 31. They face an alternative i charge of abetting known or unknown persons
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    Armed robbery charge trial
    68 4 Two men. Ng Cheng Guan and Lim Pang Seng, were yesterday sent for trial be fore the Assizes in Singapore on a charge of armea robbery. Both were alleged at i preliminary inquiry to have entered the home of Lee Kum Cheung, in East Coast Road,
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    Teachers plan a merger
    37 4 Teachers plan a merger Seven Chinese educational bodies in Singapore have decided to amalgamate into a central organisation to speak for the 2.000 teachers in Chinese schools. A five-man committee was appointed yesterday to plan the merger.
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    CLEARED OF SAUCE BOTTLE ATTACK
    125 4 C P Jj,,? amee J? arican bin Moydin, of the Royal Military Police, was acquitted by a Singapore Sir" 141 yf st erday of a charge of maliciously s^^uvsss^iya.^ jagged end of a Cpl. Hameed told the court that he had been intensely provoked when
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      64 4 RADIO MALAYA SINGAPORE 478 metresXl vi. Ml'l'K 341 metre*. PENANG 366 metre*. MALACCA 297 metrei. A.M. 7.15 Opening Announcement; 7.16 Morning Serenade; 7.30 Time Signal and News; 7.35 A Date with Music; 8.00 News Headlines; 8.30—9.00 Hospitals Half Hour; P.M. 1.15 Programme Summary Saturday Date Part I; 1.30 Time Signal
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      73 4 2.30 The Malayan Amateur Athletic Union Games 1957; 600 Federation of Malaya vs. Ceylon: 6.30 Programme Summary; 6.32 Light Music; 7.00 Time Signal I and News; 7.15 Today's Sport; 7.30 Yours Sincerely. 8.00 Listeners Calling; 8.45 the Band cf the Federation of Malays Police Band; 9.00 The Malayunaires: 945 Interlude
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    Row brewing as rail drivers protest at new hours
    238 5 Row brewing as rail drivers protest at new hours THE DIESEL TRAINS WILL BE BETTER TO WORK BUT.... 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. A DISPUTE is brewing between the Malayan Railway administration and its 200 locomotive drivers over a new working time table which the administration is to introduce soon. It
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    CHINA SOCIETY PRESIDENT OPENS ART EXHIBITION AT YMCA
    88 5 MR. LEE SIOW MONG, president of the China So. ciety, yesterday opened the Singapore Chinese Y.M.C.A.'s fourth annual art exhibition at Prince Edward Road. Miss Sun Yee, who is chairman of the Art Club and its instructor, told the Straits Times that
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    JOHORE BAHRU MERDEKA CELEBRATIONS BEGIN
    247 5 Sports, dondang sayang, wayangs and variety JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. J Merdeka celebrations begin here tomorrow. The programme will open with sports for children at their schools at 2 p.m. The entertainment includes Dondang Sayang, Malay dances. Chinese wayangs and an Indian. variety show from 7.30
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    Fell to death: Open verdict
    59 5 An open verdict was returned in Singapore yesterday after witnesses were unable to say how a sand-pit worker, Chia See Tan, fell off a bus. It was stated that Chia fell to his death while standing in the doorway of a bus on the night
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    Union meeting
    28 5 The 600-strong Singapore Insurance Companies Employees 1 Union will hold its second general meeting at the Chinese V.M.C.A. auditorium. Prince Edward Road, at 2 p.m. today.
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    Court hears waitress's tale of kiss
    142 5 Court hears waitress's tale of kiss /CHARGED in a Singapore \j court yesterday witn misappropriating a gold chain worth $70, a waitress, Sohaya binte Tahir, said she refused to return the chain to the owner because ne kissed her. She said that on June 14 the complainant, UtalChand gave her
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    Gift ambulance
    38 5 Mr. Aw Cheng Chye, a Singapore businessman, will present an ambulance to the chairman of the St. John Council, Singapore. Dr. C.H. Withers Payne, at the St. John Ambulance headquarters in Gilstead Road on Sept. 16.
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    ACCOUNTANT: WHY I FAKED ENTRIES
    123 5 XTEO HAY KONG, a former accountant employed by Universal Cars Ltd., yesterday told a Singapore court that bad company and gambling led him to defraud the firm of $7,171. Neo made false entries in the wages and salaries account book between last November and May.
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    Merdeka gifts for poor
    54 5 KAJANG, Fri. The An. glican and the Lutheran religious communities yesterday evening toured the district hospital and houses of the poor her e distributing food parcels to spread merdeka cheer. In all 130 parcels were given away. They contained a few bars of chocolate, biscuits, tinned
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    Scouting show
    26 5 Singapore's biggest scoutcraft exhibition will be held at the Victoria School today and tomorrow. It is part of the local scouting golden jubilee celebrations.
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    Four-day-old baby suffocated in cot: 'Nobody to blame,' says coroner
    148 5 A four-day old baby died after smothering himself in his cot in the British Military Hospital, a Singapore coroner was told yesterday. Capt. Margaret Stack, a member of the hospital staff, said it was usual for babies In the hospital
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    Annual display
    26 5 The 7th Singapore Girls' Life Brigade will hold their seventh annual inspection and display at the Prinsep Street Presbyterian Churcli today at 7.45 p.m.
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    Moon cake joy
    34 5 KAJANG. Fri. Members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade here will celebrate the moon cake festival with an open-air party at the Yu Hwa Chinese School at 7 p.m. on Sunday.
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    SHE DELA YED: 3 ACQUITTED
    110 5 A housewife, Mrs. Augus tvs de Souza, agreed In Singapore court yesterday that she did not report housebreaking at her Tampenis Road home until eigrit days after it occurred "I did not do so earlier because nothing was stolen Mrs. de Souza told ihe court
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      134 5 YMCA (Orchard Road): Movie Circle show East of Sumatra" 8 p.m.; Senior Cambridge Malay classes beginners 2.30 p.m.. advance 3.30 p.m.; Chess Club 3 p.m.- bodybuilding, weightllftin<r 43n p.m.: ludo 5.30 p.m. CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN'S ASSOCIATION: Movie Circle show ■Sraramouche" at 96 Bras Basah RC SINC.APOR»? MALAY FARM GIRLS' CLUB:
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      143 5 MALAY WOMEN'S WELFARE ASSOCIATION: Malaya's merdeka celebrations variety show "Aneka Warna" at New World amusement park 8.30 p.m. Admission free. YOUNG MEN'S MUSLIM ASSOCIATION: Talk on "Islam In the new Malaya" by Mr. Mohamed Ali Alsagoff at YMMA premises, 31. Lorong 12. Oeylang, 5 p.m. RAFFLES MUSEUM (Stamford Road): Exhibition
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      93 5 annual general meeting 1 p.m CHINESE V.M.C.A. (Prince Edward Road) Art class 9 a.m.; brass band 1.30 p.m.; bodybuilding, billiards 2 p.m.; chess session, square dancing 5.30 p.m basketball 7.30 p.m. KATONG BOYS' CLUB (Guillemard Road): Boxln e 4 pan.; ballroom dancing 7.30 p.m BUKIT TIMAH YOUTH CLUB: Table-tennis, bodybuilding,
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    69 6 20 flu (Minimum). THE PARENTS of Susan M.-- Leod wish to thaiiK the docton.l sister Ashweil and suff of the Marque Nursing Home of Se«?m<u for their very kind nursing and excellent attention during Susans Illness. KENG SEOW KUAN Brothers r.nd Sisters thank Docto;s, Friends, Relatives for their Services,
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    IN MEMORIAM
    40 6 20 M J|» (Minimum) TAIT: In loving memory of our dear son the late Inspector John Tait who departed on this day last year "though departed from our midst, loving memory of you still persist." Mum and Dad.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Sat. Sept. 7, 1957. Welcome To U.N.
    555 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat. Sept. 7, 1957. Welcome To U.N. Twice in seven months the permanent British delegate to the United Nations has proposed the admission to I the world body of a new Commonwealth sovereign nation. Malaya's application, like Ghana's, has gained the unanimous approval of the Security
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    Arms Deadlock
    282 6 After nearly six months of hope deferred the fivenation disarmament talks in London have reached deadlock. Russia's rejection of the Western package plan for disarmament leaves the sub-committee of the United Nations no option but to acknowledge failure and report back to the Assembly. The Western Powers maintain
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    Off With The Hats
    253 6 Barely a week after Tengku Abdul Rahman proclaimed the independence of Malaya, his ear s are assailed by rumblings of rebellion. "Off with their hats," is the battle cry of everyone who has recovered from the spectacle of Malaya's ministers sporting helmets crowned with plumes. Protest
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    Lock icon As I was saying
    1039 6  -  CYNICUS by ONLY slightly less ridiculous than the Cabinet's plumed hats is the fuss that is being made over them. What's on the hat is more important, it seems, than what's under it. It's certainly more visible, for some of the hats appear to be a
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    WHEN IN ROME MIND YOUR DRESS
    907 6  - WHEN IN ROME MIND YOUR DRESS LLOYD MORGAN By AN item of particular A significance for Malayan women who contemplate a trip abroad, appeared recently in the news columns of The Straits Times. The Item, from Rome, reported that "foreign tourists in immodest clothing will no longer be tolerated on
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    FIFTY YEARS AGO
    90 6 (From the Straits Times of September 5, 1907, A SEMI-OFFICIAL statement from St. Petersburg denies the reports that Russia has entered into a secret agreement to make for the concessions to Japan In connection with Northern Manchuria and the inclusion of the Sungari valley in Japan's sphere
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    Civics students
    28 7 KUANTAN. Fri. More than 50 people i n eight kampongs in the Kuantan and Pekan districts today completed civics courses organised by the Pahang Information Department.
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    FORMER CALL GIRL JAILED
    57 7 PENANG. Fri. A former girl .Chung Ah Wah. 40, was today jailed for six months for living in part on the immoral earnings of an- other call girl Lam Ah Mooi 18. The First Magistrate, Mr. Au Ah Wah, told Chung that if she had been
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    Kota Bharu man off to study surgery
    39 7 Kota Bharu man off to study surgery P. DAS, 19. a former student of the Sultan Ismail College, Kelantan, who left for Britain yesterday to take a seven-year course in medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons. Dublin University.
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    English law—our great heritage
    512 7 English law our great heritage THE PRINCIPLES OF COMMON LAW HATE BEEN ADAPTED TO NEW COUNTRIES AND CONDITIONS 'TODAY IT IS USED TO GOVERN MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION 9 THE Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, Viscount Kilmuir, said in Singapore yesterday that even if the law courts
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    DETAINEES' FUTURE IS UNDECIDED
    66 7 The future of the 38 detainees who were arrested in recent police raids In Singapore was still undecided yesterday The Council of Ministers which was to hav P met yesterday postponed its meeting until today to decide on whether detention orders should b e issued. Among
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    Students for conference
    50 7 Two representatives from Malaya will attend the 7th international student conference to be held at Ibadan Nigeria, next week. They are Inche Agoen Salim, 24, of the University of Malaya, and Mr. W. A. Ounendradas, 20 of the Malayan Teachers' Training College, Penang. They left on Thursday.
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    Rape bid charge
    38 7 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Frl -Charged with attempting to rape a 19-year-old (?ir! on July 29. Gunner 'V J Wilson -of the 105 Field Battery Eoyal Australian Artillery was further remanded m military custody until next Friday.
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    Secret society suspects held
    40 7 Detectives arrested six secret society suspects in an ambush at the Junction or North Bridge Road and Temple Street, Singapore, last night. The roundup was made following a gang murder in Pagoda Street on Monday night.
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    $5 SEEDLING TAKES THE BIG PRIZE
    47 7 MADAM Ng Hay Noi, who won the Challenge Cup lor we best plant in the Orchid Show, is shown in this Straits Times picture with her prises and her plant, a huge Vanda Tan Chay Van, valued at more than $3,000.
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    Police guard plants worth $60,000
    275 7 Mr. LIM OPENS THE ORCHID SHOW rwcHE first post-war Singapore Orchid Show, con--1 taining 1,200 plants valued at $60,000, was heavily guarded by police when it opened at the Happy World yesterday. In his opening speech the Chief Minuter, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, said "I
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    University all set to open new division in the capital
    314 7 IfUALA LUMPUR, Fri. —The University of Malaya will be really Malayan in 10 days when its Kuala Lumpur division is opened at the Technical College here. Everything is being done to make students from other parts of the Federation and
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    Two cleared by court
    57 7 PENANG. Fri. A constable. N. Nadarajah. 23, and a police wireless operator. Ong Foong Lam. 24 were cleared in the sessions court today. The court president. Mr. David Anthony, acquitted and discharged Nadarajah on a charge of corruptly accepting $20 from a maidservant. Phoon Ah Chat
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    War hero Machado dies, aged 50
    185 7 IPOH. Frl. A Malayan educationist who was awarded the M.B.E. for a daring escape while working on the Siamese Death Railway during the Japanese Occupation, died here this afternoon of a heart attack He was Mr. G A. Machado. 50. an Executive Assistant in
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    'Bid to encourage romance? It's a waste of money9
    203 8 'Bid to encourage romance? It's a waste of money 9 Nanyang professors, students complain about sheds pROFESSORS and 1 students of the Nanyang University are complaining that the university has wasted a lot of money on building oriental-type sheds merely to beautify the compound. Seven of these sheds, costing more
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    TWO DUMMIES FOXED LOCK-UP OFFICERS
    256 8 TWO DUMMIES FOXED LOCK-UP OFFICERS AN island-wide search is being made for a 19-year-old Abyssinian stowaway who escaped from the Singapore immigration lock-up at East wharf. The stowaway, P. Gabriel, used a cunning manoeuvre to get out at night with a fellow Abyssinian, Abdol bin Mohan. ed, 18. They hoodwinked
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    BOAC TO FLY BRITANNIAS ONLY
    79 8 BOAC TO FLY BRITANNIAS ONLY Britannia turbo-prop airliners will be used exclusively on Boac flights to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur by Sept. 24. a BOAC spokesman sairf yesterday. The present once-weekly first class Constellation an? tourist class Argonaut services operating through Kuala Lumpur will be replaced by a once-weekly mixed
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    M-guests leave for home
    55 8 Merdeka celebration guests who left Singapore for home yesterday included the Netherlands representative, Count Willem F. L. van Bylandt and the Moroccan Minister for Justice, Mr. O E. Bengellou, who left by KLM. and the Indian delegate. Mr. S. K. Patil, Minister for Irrigation and Power,
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    Flag day
    28 8 A flag day will be held by St. Andrew's Cathedral on Sept. 14. The proceeds will go to missionary work in Singapore schools, hospitals and homes.
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    HUSSIN (THE CABBY'S SON) WHO'S OFF TO CANADA TO BECOME MINE ENGINEER
    122 8 HUSSIN (THE CABBY'S SON) WHO'S OFF TO CANADA TO BECOME MINE ENGINEER HUSSIN HASSAN, 20, son of a Singapore taxi driver, left for Canada by BOAC yesterday to take a five-year coarse in mining engineering at the University of British Colombia, under the Colombo Plan. At the airport Hussin he
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    Brunei merdeka men leave for London
    149 8 A THREE-MEMBER Brunei mission left Singapore for Britain by Air India yesterday to ask the Colonial Office to give a new constitution to their country. The mission led by Inche A. Azahari, the president of the Brunei People's Party, spent about a fortnight in
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    $400 birthday gift for SATA
    47 8 The Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association has received a gift of $400 from Mr. and Mrs. Tan Kai Yong and Mr. and Mrs. Tan Kai Chian. The money was raised through the purchase of SATA gift coupons by guests attending a family birthday party.
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    Bath hits at critics of rubber merger
    197 8 Bath hits at critics of rubber merger BY GEOFFREY BOLAND THE rights of Chinese brokers belonging to both the Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association and the Rubber Trade Association will be fully protected without prejudice if, and when, the proposed Singapore Rubber Association is formed. This was announced yesterday
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    'Beggars' Opera'
    41 8 There will be a film show. "The Beggars' Opera," in aid of the charity fund of the Singapore Young Men's Malayalee Association on Sept. 15 at the Pavilion Theatre at 9 a.m. Tickets are available from Robinson's and Winston's.
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    OFF ON SECOND HONEYMOON
    116 8 The retiring Immigration Controller, Mr. M. C. compton, left Singapore aboard the vessel Pyrrhus yesterday. He was accompanied by his lovely young red-haired wife, Gillian. "We are setting out on a second honeymoon." he said. And as they were only married last March it will be
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      526 8 Jf if* a Shaw &how it s tin Jg« >r I I ACTUALLY FILMED IX AUDIE MURPHY ®fJM < KEIKO SHIMA KEEKAN WYNN SE GEORGE NADER BURGESS MEREDITH jfjew^ Today 9 a.m.: Toni,,r,,, H I "VER A CBUZ" SScope Tech. "Man with v 1 Tonight M'niteSCREAM-IERE! jgBT THE CORSC OF
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      337 8 f, ■> r i the avenue (S). Sttaitc TimaC I rOCCUfAr/i 25 MUd> but consumed with Ollallb I Illlcb anger at first .9). 26 Though it's apt to floor one. I respect Manx art, somehow 'I V 1 I 3 I 4 I I 5 1 TM M <99) DOWN
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    The hand of Johore's Sultan reached out to Perak 400 years ago STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE
    1326 9 The hand of Johore's Sultan reached out to Perak 400 years ago STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE F^jHlilllllllltJllllN IUIIIIIIIIIINHIIIIIIIIIIIICIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIMIII'-: f HE royal families of Malaya are I descendants down the centuries of the fabulous kings of Sri Vijaya. White biooj runs in their veins; their divine f r ight is unquestioned,
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      156 9 fesv Morgan Power over women j, LL gE BACK IjT AY < I'VE 6OT TO GO NOwT^H||^^H| I OON'T KNOW WHERE LITTLE PRESENT/ GET REST I"\ *OA*£N--OF AU. *^^>^gßJfc^ gfe* Trmem Mnr f clutf I rVEATUER TRIMMINGS? I|H WAX^eS^TWiMMED T WEVE I I CETTINC DEEPER.' WMAT» ■> N j^ivO\ TWEV
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    SINGAPORE SHARE MART STILL LACKS BUYING POWER
    657 10 SINGAPORE SHARE MART STILL LACKS BUYING POWER By Our Market Correspondent ALTHOUGH there was a little more support on the Singapore Share Market yesterday than of late investors at the moment seem to be pausing to consolidate their positions. The dull period which set in last month after the busy
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    Rubber surplus problem
    488 10 'THE rubber market A opened the week on a quiet note with upcountry centres closed on Monday for Independence celebrations and with no New York advices on Tuesaay after their Labour Day noliday, report Holiday, Cutler, Bath and Co. Ltd. in their current review ot the Singapore
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    STORE SHIPPING
    198 10 Ships lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Ferncllffe 1,2, Maas Lloyd 45, El Brenon 6A, President Grant 67, Soudan 89, Hying Eagle 10 11, Tak&ang 13 14, President Monroe 15 16, Garoet 18, Maetsuycker WSEDE, Burnslde 19, Lawu N. Wall 1. Sadao N.
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    RUBBER CROPS
    38 10 The following August rubber crops are announced: Allenhv 37,000 lb.; Rent a 95.000 llv Jeram Kuantan 73.000 lb;: K undone 49.000 lb.: Mentakab 78.000 lb.: Sunrei Btpg 140,000 lb Koala Reman 160,500 lb.: Brnieh 48.500 lb.
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    RUBBER PRICES
    153 10 September first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore on Friday at 87 H cents per lb. up three-eighths of a cent on Thursday's closing price. The closing tone v.is steady, quiet. Closing prices in cei.ts per lb. yesterday were OFFICIAL: Int. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 87V
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    73 10 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in Its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100). Selling T.T. or O.D. ready: Belgian Francs 1615'j Deutsche Marks 135; Italian Lire *****. On the free excange market in Hone Koni yesterday, the U.S. I dollar was quoted
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    TIN OUTPUTS
    32 10 In August the following tin outputs were achieved: Pahanc Consolidated IS .OOO tons of tin ore Surifei Kinta 244 piculs; and No. 3 j dredge Ipoh Tin tPuchonj) 372 piculs.
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    116 10 i Singapore Chinese Produce Ex- I chance; noon prices per plcul yes- terday were: Copra: Quietly steady; Septem- I ber October $25 buyers, $26!* I sellers. Coconut oil: easier; bulk i J $41 U sellers, crum $45 sellers |J Pepper: steady; about 20 tons of business reported done;
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    OFFICIAL PRICES
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    78 10 x the day ii, U on the Melbourne'stoday was a rS after th, 'or 9 bonus i this yea ment average turn Minin K .v,,,. with continued Loans 3\ Loans 3 Bank of N.S.W Con. Zinc Mount Lyell *«7^ Hlll B^" 111 i ssr ,Weste:i. lAmpol Ex Oil
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      432 10 NOTICES NOTICE Mr. CHIAM H. PECK our Resident Salesman, Kuantan, has loft our employment and is no] lmger authorised to transact any; business whatsoever in our nameTHE BORNEO COMPANY LIMITED, Kuala Lumpur. Dated: sth September, 1957. LION LTD. Will all customers please note that with effect from Sunday, Bth Sept.
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      301 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are invited for the post of DEPUTY ARCHITECT to the Central Electricity Board of the Federation of Malaya. The salary scale of this appointment la I $628 x 34 934/982 x 34 1254 basic, I C.OL.A. at Government rates being payable in addition. Initial salary
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      562 10 APPLICATIONS are invited from medical practitioners male or female, preferably unmarried and registered in the Federation of Malaya, for the post of resident junior HOUSE PHYSICIAN at THE LADY TEMPLER HOSpital. to commence duties on Ist October next. Basic salary $730; per month dependent upon experience and C.OL.A. on govern-
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      763 10 NOTICES TIN OUTPUT The directors of Austral Malay Tin Limited announce the following outputs for the month of August, 1957: PUNOAH TIN DREDGING LIMITED PICULS 432 AUSTRAL AMALGAMATED TIN LIMITED PICULS 2.558 (Puchoog No. 1 dredge closed down for ladder and other repairs trom the 10th to the month end).
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      98 10 SHIPPING NOTICES ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD m.s. "MAAS LLOYD" Arrived 6th September. 1957 Damaged packages may be tendered for survey at godowns 4, 3 on 16.9.57 as from 8.30 am No further survey will be held ROTTERDAM TRADING CO. (M) LTD., Shipping Department Tel: ***** AcentaOSAKA BHOSEN KAISHA "AFRICA MARU"/Lighter arrived
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      471 10 KNUTSEN LINE fKOM C.ANAPA/U.V PACIfIC PORTS Q Sailing San Vancotivoi Francitcc Spore Ci» h o i Annaßakk. 1S «p 1/ 40c !<£ Sfc 7 EliMbeM, Bakke 24Se P r 9 Ocf 8/lONoV I llNoT 13 No 2! »«c.p», B 8 C»r,o »o. fr.rn.ntl, "Uy fKOM WESTERN AUSTRALIA :*i!int FramantL S'por»
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      1364 11 i405 MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. .incorporated m Singapore. 2 B THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE T D cp SWINGS to UYWOOi. GLASGOW, LONDON ft CONTINENTAL PORTS v, 0 iuei with liberty to proceed via Panama or Capo ot Good Hope) ptian to proceed via other ports to toad ono dischorge cargo
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      1160 11 ■T777^B(!^7T7TJ7yXT??B^W77T3 EAST ASIATIC LINES OUTWARDS SAILINGS FOR BANGKOK AND/OR PAR EAST VIA SUEZ Penong P S'horv- j'pora "LALANDIA" 14/18 Sept 19/20 Sopt 21/13 Sept Bengkok only "SONGKHLA 29 Sept/ 1 Oct 2/ 2 Oct 3/ 4 Oct 'JAVA" 4/ 4 Oet "SELANDIA" 2/ 3 Oet 4/ S Oct Oct Bangkok
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      995 11 BUu.L°Dmc8 U u.L°Dmc THE BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD "Wrr SINGAPORE (Incorporated in the United Kingdom) 3 LINES SAILINGS TO U.K. ft CONTINENTAL PORTS S'por. P. S'horr Penang BENVENUE for Aden, Jeddah, Port Sudan, London, Hull In Pert/10 Sapt 11/12 teat BENAVON for Liverpool, Rottardom, Hamburg In Port/13 Sopt 14/14 Sept
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      1261 11 McALISTER CO.. LTD. TEL: No.: ***** «I.f.BfIMAH LINES KLAVBMBSS LINE LONDON, HAVRE, ROTTERDAM, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, HAMBURG SEATTLE, VANCOUVER ft PORTLAND ono for V.SJK., North Atlantic Ports Aeeoptino cargo tor Cen rol ft South ond Canada vio Colombo America •CITY OF POONA SUNNYVILLS S'pora P. S'hom Penang S'pora P.
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  • The STRAITS TIMES Saturday forum
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      REDUCE BUKIT TIMAH DANGER
      224 12 REDUCE BUKIT TIMAH DANGER LAST Friday morning, from my hou SP I could clearly hear the screams of an unfortunate accident victim at the Holland Road/Bukit Timah Road junction, where I have seen so many accidents in the past two years. On the way to town last Saturday morning along
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      Let us also queue up
      40 12 Let us also queue up A FRIEND who returned from Ceylon recently tells me that people there queue at bus-stops for their transport. There wer c no jostling or Inconvenience. Singapore could well adopt this procedure. CHRIS. JACK TAY. Singapore.
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      Drop 'merger' quest
      466 12 ACCORDING to the A Straits Times of Sept. 2 the secretarygeneral of the Liberal Socialist Party said that by next year we will know where Singapore stands on the "merger issue." As a loyal Singaporean, I do sincerely hope that by then it will be clearly manifested
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      Library fee is unfair
      79 12 Library fee is unfair rnHE rates of membership J. subscription of Raffles branch Libraries are the same as that of the main library. This is quite inappropriate and unfair to branch members particularly in the light of the fact that branch libraries have comparatively very few books in circulation. The
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      Speed op on jobs urged
      21 12 TT IS two months since candidates for Part II of the Higher Services (Singapore) were inter-
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      No lights for S.I.T. house
      55 12 COULD the Singapore Improvement Trust enlighten us as to whether the staircase and corridor lights in Block 73 are on strike for the last two months because they have to do their duty free of charge? If so could the quarters concerned be called in
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      Why are they paid more?
      127 12 rfVHE City Council is exA ploiting its bachelor employees in the payment of variable allowance. A singly officer receiving a basic salary of $500 pm. is paid a maximum variable allowance of $90 p.m. (even though the basis of calculating variable allowance is 30 per
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      Repair Iluku Road plea
      63 12 Repair Iluku Road plea STILL ROAD at one time was a bad road- but now It is one of the best constructed and illuminated in Singapore. W e residents of Duku Road would be happy if the City Council would reconstruct or at least attempt to mend the road which
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      Discontent in civil service
      204 12 WITH reference to the recent controversy on appointments to the Executive Service in the local Civil Service, it appears from what I hav e heard that there are grounds for complaint. It may be contended that the selection board found the junior officers more suitable for
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    'CHAMPS' CLASH IN THE MERDEKA CUP
    516 13  -  EPSOM JEEP By AMATEUR CARD "THE MERDEKA Cup (It) in today's amateur races at Kuala Lumpur brings together the two "gymkhana champions" Entertainment II and Ambassador. Ambassador has such a good record in amateur races that he must again start at a short price
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    Cooper beats Patty in U.S. singles
    64 13 Cooper beats Patty in U.S. singles pORtST HILLS, Fri Ashley r Cooper, the Australian champion, gained a surprisingly easy win over former Wimbledon champion Budge Patty (U.S.) In the United States lawn tennis championships here yesterday. He took only 51 minutes to beat the American 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 in the
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    Lock icon IN BRIEF
    11 13 by outpointing Martin Hanscn (Liverpool) over 15 rounds Reuter.
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    UK soccer results
    55 13 I LONDON, Fri.— Results in last nlcht's English football matches: DIV. 2: Leyton Orient 2 Doncaster Rovers 0, Rolherham United 1 Mlddlrshroueh 4. DIV. 3 (SOUTH): Walsall 1 Southampton 1. DIV. 3 (NORTH): Scunthorpt United 1 Tranmere Roren 0. I IRISH GOLD (IP (Ist round): Colerainr 1
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    Lock icon Rugger result
    17 13 LONDON. Fri— Neath be.it Auvergne Llmonsln 11-3 In a rugby union match last night. Reuter.
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    Lock icon ISRAEL WON'T AGREE TO VENUE SWITCH
    254 13 THE HAGUE. Fri.— The Israeli Football Association has, it was< learned from th» Israeli Legation j here today, rejected a sugcestlon that their World football Cup eliminator with Indonesia be played on a neutral ground They insist that it be played In Tel Aviv
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    Lock icon Oh, lucky day for sprinters Kesavan and Mary Klass
    497 14  -  NORMAN SIEBEL B» THEY RAN 5 YARDS MORE —AND NEEDED IT! KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. 'fODAY was the lucky day for Singapore's champion sprinters Kesavan Soon and Mary Klass in the Federation of Malaya Amateur Athletic Union championships being held at the
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    Van Bay outplays Dao in final
    356 14 KUALA LUMPUK. Friday yO VAN BAY, of Vietnam, today beat Hong Kong's K. C. Dao 7-5, 6-3 to win the men's singles title in the Selangor Lawn Tennis Championships on the Selangor Golf Club courts this morning. The slim 25-year-old Vietnamese took only 51
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    Four golds to S'pore lifters
    342 14 Four golds to S'pore lifters KUALA LUMPUR Frl Singapore led 'by an overwhelming margin of 23 I points to the Federation's four and Burma's six at the end of the first night of the Merdeka weightliftins championships which started here tonight. Singapore won four gold medals and one silver, Burma
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    Singing giant star of the day
    395 14 Singing giant star of the day I/-UALA LUMPUR, Fri.— 1V A giant Fijian. 6ft 4in. 14-stone Mesalame Rakuro, today dominated the second day's competition in the Federation of Malaya Amature Athletic Union's championships at the Merdeka Stadium. He established Malayan records and improved on Asian Games marks in the discus
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    SECOND DAY'S RESULTS OF HEATS AND FINALS
    566 14 SIX MILES WALK FINAL: 1. Noel Bui lc n (Spore), 2. James Hvslop (Spore), 3. Syed Ibrahim bin Syed Isa (Pg). 54mln 39sec (record). JAVELIN (WOMEN) FINAL: 1. Chua Han Kee (Spore) 2. Chern Chin Lim (Spore), S. Foong Swee Heng (S'gor). 97ft
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    WEST INDIES DRAW WITH LANCASHIRE
    130 14 WEST INDIE S DRAW WITH LANCASHIRE BLACKPOOL. Fri The West Indies drew their cricket match against Lancashire here today Scores were: West Indies 174 and 181-5 dccl; Lanca- shire 176 and 108-2. Lancashire had been set to make 180 to win in 90 minutes after the West Indies declared their
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    WALK GOES TO BULLEN
    202 14  -  SAUL JOSHUA By KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. SINGAPORE'S Noel Bul- len, 36, walked his way to a new Malayan record in the six miles final this morning, second day of the Federation of Malaya Amateur Athletic Union Championships at Merdeka Stadium. Bullen, of RAF Tengah, led from
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    FMAAU MAY HOLD JUNIOR MEET
    212 14 KUALA LUMPUR, FrL A Malayan Junior athletics meet may be held from next year onwards to encourare more schoolboys to take to the sport more seriously. A proposal by the IVnang A.A.A. to stage a Malayan junior meet annually shortly before the Malayan Games was
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    MALAYA ALL OUT 129, THEN CEYLON HIT 139-2
    217 14 IZUALA LUMPUR, Fri. j After dismissing All-Malaya for 129 runs on an easy wicket, Ceylon put themselves in a commanding position when they replied with 139 for two at the end i of the first day's play la I their three-day "Test"
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    SCORE BOARD
    156 14 MALAYA Ist INNS (irindrod b Buhar 12 McCaw b P. I. Pieri» Woodhonse c Alwis b Pierls 20 Shepherdson M- C. Fernando b Peris 21 Dews b I), nrerasinghe Delilkan Ibw p. I. Pleris Slvarnanam c Vatawara r> P. I- Pierls g Gnrucharan b Buhai Shepherdson C. b
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    MHF will invite S'pore to 'Quads'
    47 14 MHF will invite S'pore to 'Quads' Singap. in future L tournaments ta?^ eration the annual fore s from will year. A gpok< ln 4U told in, M.H.f. the "fr Singan both m gular mi g ■<:■. cnampioi,- North eluding M.H.F. comptt. Game. < They Pl tingent JJ" officials. clue
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    Quick ends for three fights
    132 14 Quick ends for three fights "THREE x Pederata- youth boxing Dunsfo: distance I I Arena last night In anwalkova from the B i failed to torn ip I Re su; -,e~. Germ: 1 !goon, (KCBt. Qurter-IM, Chuar. I bm Ahmad iRBc/ rli Mahmuci bin Yong Sent; Mohan 1 1 Leans
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    TEAMS AGAINST VISITOR
    70 14 'J'HE R.A.F. Singapore soccer team to meet the Indonesian national side at Jalan Besar stadium tomorrow (8.15) will be: Moseley (Seletar); Stanbury (Changi), Laylor (Chanpii- Lawrence (Seletar), Meadows < Seletar i, Holmes (Chaagl); Davey (Seletar) Dewar < Seletar) McVey (Seletar), McHardie (Te- ngah>, Tilley The Singapore Seleaix
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      108 14 RUGGER: SCC v REME. Ayer Rajah Road; RAF Tengah v Police, Tengah. ATHLETICS: Singapore Medical Services Union championships. Jalan Besar, 2.15 pjn.; Siglap Secondary School meet Siglap. 3 p.m. SOCCER: SAFA junior Cup: C.A. "A" v Bedok, Ge.vlanc, 5.151 pjn. BADMINTON: SBA schoolboys championships, SB.\ hall, 7.30 p.m. CHESS: Singapore
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