The Straits Times, 6 May 1954

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  • 15 1 The Straits Times 'lie*#<** X Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, THI'RSDAY. MAY 6, IDS 4 15 CENTS.
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  • 20 1 in ship for Britain H lay announced Schnmilt was he embarked on H second class SCHEMILT
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  • 61 1 Cut down -Chiang PAIPEH Wed.- The NationPresident Chiang K i is ordered the cancella- th( "no.ooo rally in front of Taipch's City Hall as th< presidential maunn ai< biationa on May 20. Id government agen- 1 last night to stop all lavish arationj to celebrate the it saying "In time
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  • 401 1 Weary French wait for new attack GUNS FIGHT IT OUT IN 'CALM' PERIOD HANOI, Wednesday. FRENCH AM) VIETMINH artillery fought more thundering duels today as the weary French on forces braced tor another Communist-led ssault on Dien Bien Phn'a diminishing defences. The French High Command said
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  • 178 1 M'Mlli; rilll.llll 111 111. A Minis Malaya quest is Sally Ann Henderson 18. a general clerk in the Royal Army Service Corps in Taiping. Sally is ."> ft. 4 in tall, wrighs 115 Ib. and her measurements are; Bust II in., waist 24
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  • 55 1 LONDON. Wed.— A tiny British yacht, disabled by gales on her maiden voya°e in the English Channel, was yesterday taken in tow by a French fishing vessel and is heading for the French coast. The three people on board, an Enclishnfan and a couple from
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  • 43 1 GENEVA. Wed. Mr Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, and Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister, will meet at dinner here tonight, Mr. Molotov will be Mr. Bden'i suest at his villa on the outskirts of Geneva— Reuter.
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  • 24 1 AMES. lOWA. Wed -Thirty people have petitioned Ames City Council for McCarthy Road to be changed "to some other, wholesome, name." Renter
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  • 177 1 Let her rest Maltese urged VALETTA, Wed. THK people of Malta are con- m.-d over the Quern .s health and .say -she looks much thinner £«**2 they saw her a.s Princes V S'n;! >( Raclio last ni,ht said the Queen WM very tired and needed all
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  • 170 1 GOLD 'HOPE' ONN LENG FAILS: ONLY A SILVER MANILA. Wed SINGAPORES goto medal hope Chan Onn Long, disappointed today finishing second by about four yards to Pakistan's Mirza Khan in the 400 metres hurdles final The Pakistani's performance was the day's big surprise. He finished third in the heats (winner
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  • 55 1 GROSSETO. Central Italy. Wed. -six Italian miners were killed and 11 injured by a blast in a brown coal mine ye.stcrday. The explosion caused a landslide which buried many of the 90 workers below. Firemen raced to the scene and doctors at the OrOMeto hospital .stood
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  • 27 1 lONDON, Wed. Russia is marking her "press day" today with an exhibition in Moscow shewing the developing of daily and periodical newspapers. I Reuter.
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  • 38 1 CAIRO, Wed.— The Revolution Council today withdrew the licence of Egypt's mass circulation newspaper Al Misri, whose owners, the Fath brothers, were given prison sentences yesterday for "corrupt ins the machinery of the Government." -Renter.
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  • 34 1 STOCKHOLM, Wed A Russian crui-ser. Admiral Ushakov, and four destroyers will pay a courtesy visit to Stockholm from July 16 to 21. At the same time, Swedish warships will visit Leningrad. Reuter.
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  • 29 1 LONDON, Wed -Sir Gordon Richards, Britain', cl.ampion jockey for more than 25 years. today celebrated his M)th birthday. He was booked to ride at Sanriown Park— Reuter.
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  • 46 1 NEW YORK. Wed. New York hotels have been asked to stop serving water with meals a.s a routine. City rrsen-oirs are only three quarters full and the h;* been made to impress people with the need for rnsiscrvins water.— Reuter.
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  • 34 1 LONDON, Wed. Russians will have much less meat than usual this summer, because the Government's plan to raise more cnttle would "result in difficulties for the meat market." according to Pravda. Reuter.
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  • 30 1 BERLIN. Wed. More than 9 600 East German policemen and officers have fled to West Berlin in th/ past four years West Berlin authorities said today.— Reuter. v
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  • 86 1 Four people, including, a European Police IJeutn -mt. were killed and three others wounded in a bandit ambush on the Penggarang Road on the west coast of South Johore yesterday. The bandits, about M slnnm and heavily armed, fired OH a Police vehicle, which
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  • 140 1 Vo fasts for peace in Indo-China GENEVA. Wed SWISS doctor will give a ruling today on whether Vo Song Thiet. 34. a Vietnam M "Gandhi." should go on \;th his hunger strike here "to peed the work of the Far East conference and bring peace to Indo-China." Vo. who began
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  • 314 1 He flies in from Geneva and says: Too early to predict results AUSTRALIA'S iMinister for External Affairs. Mr. Richard Ci. Casey, said on arrival at Kalians Airport last night that he was hopeful an agreement would be reached on the Korea and Indo-China
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  • 186 1 This proves we're united, says U.S. GZNKVA. Wed. \INITF.I) STATES spite*man dt-clared after yesterday's session of the (ienrva conference that it had been a "most impressive session" from the American viewpoint. He said that two of the speeches by Mr. Pearson and Mr l.uns rrfuted the Communist lie that the
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  • 23 1 COLOMBO. Wed -President Eisenhower has invited the Premier of Cey'on, Sir John Kotelawala. to visit the United States next month —Reuter
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  • 142 1 And in Paris a Govt. falters PARIS. Wed. FRANCE FACED the threat of a cabinet crisis toda-' following Premier Joseph Laniels bold more last night calling for a vote of confidence on his Indo-China policy M Luniel'.s diplomatic stroke canir as nine drirjrations tn the Geneva conference prepared to open
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  • 55 1 BRITAIN I" TALK <>\ UN r\( i GENEVA, Urtl— Britain has ai <i i<> i»'uin prcll nnn.irv ..ilk- mr South i i \m.i pail. Inform d diplomats *>;«>. Believed dm m.i\ Im> hehind Prc-i--d< n! I i^i-nhiiHcr's State nioiit toda.N that "rons del ililr progress" liad been ifi.ulf
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  • 56 1 SAN FRANCISCO. Wed I John Cabell < Bunny Breckinridpe. 60-year-old San Francisco millionaire. >ald ye.-t-rri.r. he is going to Denmark In August to be transformed Into Catherine. Breekinndge, who .says he has "the soul ot a woman." said ho believed an operation result In his compii
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  • 253 2 Police hold of a gang battle and detain five SOS FOR 'ALLIES' IN PICKPOCKET WAR PENANC, Wednesday. DENANC; police averted a secret society clash last ni*ht in the Chinatown area of tintra street and detained five men. It was reported that a local society sent for reinforcements from Kuala Lumpur
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  • 73 2 SPRINI SIAK McDonald Kai ley presents his friend and frllou -countryman. 13-year-old Wally Thompson, of Trinidad, with a set of starting blocks. Bailry. who is leaving Britain soon to live in British Guiana, has takf>n an interest in Wally. a
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  • 54 2 TOKYO. Wed -An unidentified man was caught last night tryinc to sneak into the closely guarded seaside home of the Premier. Mr. Yoshida. the newspaper Asahi reported today. The intruder denied having any Intention to take Mr. Yoshldas life and claimed he was only trying
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  • 28 2 LONDON Wed The Pravda Printing House nas been awarded the Lenin Banner and many of its staff have also been decorated. Moscow Radio said today. Reuter
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  • 29 2 TURIN. Wed. Five Italians were convicted by a military rourt yesterday of spying for Y-.icoslavia and Riven sentences ranging from one to 17 years 1 gaol. A.P.
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  • 110 2 BONN. Wed WOMEM members of the West German Parliament have launched a drive for more public offices for women They declare that aoout 54 per cent of the electorate at la.^t Septembers general ttoni were women and only 46 per cent men The Chancellor.
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  • 51 2 WASHINGTON. Wed —The D S. Air Force yesterday said that it had cleared 69 airmen of charges of questionable activities while prisoners in Korea, but had ordered 14 others to show cau.se why ihey should remain in the service. Some of the men made faise confessions of cerrr
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  • 23 2 NEW YORK. Wed. Three Persian police officials and one from Siam received diplomas yesterday after finishing courses in police administration. Reuter.
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  • 23 2 WASHINGTON. Wed— The U S Secretary of Defence. Mr. Charles E. Wilson, lrave.s for the Far East next Tue.sdav. -UP.
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  • 201 2 Malan: 'Neiiri our enemy 'HE HAS HIS EYES ov -i T\R. Daniel Malan. thi ter. told thp Housr of deliberately that > man." He said Mr. Nehru Minister of India, had I on Af.iea ajid wanted white man out. Dr. Malan. listing I gers threatening the Al continent, said United
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  • 97 2 Unarmed, he 'attacked' Red gunboat LONDON. Wed. rE Queen's commendation for brave conduct has been given to a fl"Rht sergeant who. flylnc an unarmed plane, attracted fire from a Communist gunboat t« himself to save a nival launch Flight Sergeant Patrick Rerns was leading a section of two Hornet aircraft
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  • 78 2 ZOMBA. Nyasaland. Wed. MR. Oliver Lyttolton. Se- cretarv of State for the Colonies, was severely bruised yesterday when he slipped on the stairs at O.nernment House here. His encasements were can- crl'ed for two days Mr Lyttelton arrived on April 27 for a 10
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  • 42 2 CALCUTTA Wed— Thf Inidian Government yesterday I authorised the All-India Rad'^ to relay daily private measafea I from th<> Japanese Alpine Club to the Japanese expedition In Nepal in an etTort to ascertain where the Japanese climbers are now— U.P
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  • 29 2 TORONTO. Wed Two Greek children, who had been m Communist prison camps for nearly six years, were rcuntei yesterday with their father here after eight years' separ?/ion—A.P
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  • 188 2 TOKYO. Wednesday. yWO leading Japanese are workine to restore to the A Emperor some of the powers stripped from him by the Allies, political sources said today. D-puty Primr Ministrr Ta ketora Ogata and Lower HoVK Member Shinsuke Kispi who hold high posts in
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  • 48 2 PENANG. Wed— Over 1000 Malayan pilgrims— the first batch for Mecca this year will embark on the Anking next Wednesday Revised .sailing dates from Pi'nani are- The Anshun on May 28. Anklne June 14, An- 1 .shun June 30 and Anking July 17. I
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  • 30 2 TOKYO, Wed General! Jnmes A. Van Fleet arrived in Tokyo by air today to be«in two to throe months military survey of South Korea. Japan and Formosa.— Reuter.
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  • 150 2 He helps his VALETTA. Wed. I PRJNCE Charles and Princess Anne stole the .show yes- terday in their first participation In Royal ceremonies during the Queens world tour. Prince Charles, five, showed his manners in escorting his three-year-old sister as if she were a queen. He carefully stood
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  • 130 2 GENEVA. Wed. A CHINESE Communist spokesman called last night for improved diplomatic relations between Britain and China, but when a.sked how this could be done he !o*ed the press conference he was addressing without answering. The spokesman said China "welcomed" Britain's recognition of
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  • 6 3 EVAN CUSED AIDING CRIES I n
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  • 4 3 kistan restricts ssian travel
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  • 160 3 GENEVA. Wed. »K M. G. CANDAU, Brazillan Director-general of ill-.- World Health Organisation, iled for a 20 per cent. In the organisation's for 1955. He urged delegates at the irenth assembly here to supporl a proposal for a US$lO.--.-i'ij.ooo allocation for 1955 gainst U558,500,000 in 1954
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  • 41 3 NEW YORK. Wed. A Coast Guard helicopter went 83 miles the Atlantic- yesterday I an injured fishing boat !.i re for medical aid. man became m ter> the whirling rotors to board the U P
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  • 27 3 HAVANA. Wed A Cuban j petroleum company yesterday >aid that it had struck oil in a well near Jatibonaco, about 230 miles from Havana.- A.P
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  • 312 3 scientists also want civil defence called off i uniin r JM^PNGHAII, Wednesday. A (.ROLP of snentific workers yesterday called on local authorities in Britain to drop their civil defence schemes because these had been rendered "hopelessly inadequate" by the I livdrogcn bomb. J Members of the West Midlands area of
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  • 69 3 HONG KONG. Wed The I New China New.s Agency to- i ■lid that five "aienta of Me American side violated the Korean armistice agreement on April 10. They were captured in a iunk near Taesuapdo Island. off the West coast of North!' Korea, the agency said. They
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  • 50 3 SOMF of the Kikuyu detained in Operation Anvil, the bi*ee«l anti-Man Mau screening: operation sine- the Kenya I mereencv beon 18 months af«. These men are at a reSionramp Nairobi After bein* screened many I were relied; others wre sent to detention camps. A.P. weie picture.
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  • 30 3 THfc LONG nerk of London Zoo giraffe Goofy arches willingly over the fence when Jacqueline Lewin, a three-year-old visitor, offers him the biscuits in her basket. Reuter
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  • 155 3 KOREA REDS TRIED TO MAKE CAPTIVES CONFESS CRIMES LONDON. Wednesday. LV4KL ALEXANDER, Minister of Defence, told the House of Lords yesterday that British prisoners in Korea werp asked to confess to "war crimes" and were punished if they refused to do so. So far as the BritLsh Government knew none
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  • 119 3 LONDON, Wed. THE Labour Party leaders reprieved one of the three Parliamentary whips who defied them in last Thursday's hydrogen bomb debate. They said that in view of a ktter sent to the chief whip iv Mr. John Taylor, his position would be reconsidered.
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  • 35 3 NIAGARA FALLS. Wed. V.iss Jennie 1 cc. Labour M.P. And wife of Mr. Aneurin Bevan. said yesterday that Canada and Britain should seek the admission of Communist China to the United Nations. -Reuter.
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  • 96 3 He can turn sawdust into wood LONDON. Wed A 48-YEAR-OLD Essex encineer has invented a machine which turns sawdust back into wood. The Riant £250.000 machine sucks in sawdust and wood chippings at one end ano churns out sheets of toujrh wood boarding; at the other The wood scrups are
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  • 63 3 LONDON. Wed- The hearing at summonses asalnst Mr Ar.eurln Bevan. Labour Party leader, for alleged dangerous driving and failing to stop after an accident was adlourned at Beaconsfleld. Buck*, yesterday uhtil Friday. The summonses relate to nn accident at Oerrards Cross on April 3 when there was
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  • 47 3 PARIS. Wed. The Foreign Ministers of France. West Germany. Italy. Belgium, Holland and Luxemburg have agreed in principle, te set up a sixnation parliament when the European Defence Community treaty has been ratified by all parties, the French Foreign Ministry announced. Reuter.
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  • 139 3 SUEZ. Wed. FUSILIER Edward McKinney iced 35, shot dead an Jf oolirr lieutenant istanco of nine n °Xr\ martial was told to*. HTheM lhOt« COUld not havr SJcldenti llv fired during nil i The'/ r< suited frOOl Intention." Colonel R.C. IJalse. tho prosecutor said,
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  • 237 3 LONDON, Wed. Closing middle prices of selected stocks, not including stamp duty, »tre: Consols 68', +"/4 Funding 4% 101", War 88U -t-Vi BANKS Mercantile CA2\i) 274 Eastern (£5) Chartered (IV) 42/9 Hongkong ($1) 92>i +V4 INSURANCE Com Un (uts..) 13>i »4 Royal 13 W Prudential* 39 Ji 4-V4
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  • 37 3 LONDON. May o Spot 18' .1 June 18' id July-Sept 18\C... Oct Dec. 18 T *<l.. Jan. -Mar. 19d.. Apr June 19'sd.. May c.U. 18', d June elf 18 3'l6d. July c.l.t. l»%« Tone: Steady.
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  • 24 3 LONDON. Ma> 5 Cash Buyers £722); Sellers 1724; Forward Buyers t719; Sellers 1*721; Settlement £'2H. Turnover a.m. 00 tons: p.m. 30 tons.
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  • 16 3 STOCKHOLM Wed— Agreement has been reached on a SwedLsh-Japrtnese goods exchange programme. -A P
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  • 161 4 Too tired, he asked girl to drive MOTORIST asked his unlicensed girl friend to take the wheel because he was too tired a Singapore couit was told yesterday. Maurice Moses. 32. was fined $150 and disqualified from driving for a year for abetting an underage girl to drive without third
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  • 61 4 r IPOH, Wed.— Tan Ah Seng. 19. arrested in Penang ye.ster- day. was today produced tn j the magistrate's court on a charge of murdering Low Choy Cheong. a national service po- i liceman at Clarke Street here I on March 24 last year. Tan was
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  • 49 4 Cyclist hit by car dies ALOR STAR. Wed. Lee K:m Weng. a pork seller, was killed today when a car ran oft* the road and hit him at Dersa new village. Lee who was cycling towards Langgar village. was dragged 100 feet and died two hours Inter in hospital.
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  • 64 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed— Plans of the new airport ter- minal building in Kuala Lum- pur were examined today by the Deputy High Commissioner Sir Donald MacGillivary. when he visited the civil aviation air traffic control office at the airfield. The new buildins. which will cost
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  • 30 4 KLANG. Wed— The Klanc Town Board todiy decided to hold its monthly meetings at 430 p.m. instead of 2.15 p.m as an experiment for the next three months.
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  • 36 4 Hoe Chun Min. a woman, was nned $800 or three months' gaol in Singapore yesterday for possession of 31 chap-ji-ki slips valued at $116 50. She had a previous conviction for a similar offence.
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  • 53 4 IPOH. Wed— A 30-year-old cigar roller, M. Simon, was charged in the Sessions court today with committinp; housebreakinu at the Tamil Settlement. Ipoh. on March 25 and stealing $1,000 from a woman Kan-.achi. Simon claimed trial to housebreaking but pleaded Ruilty tc theft. The case was postponed
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  • 264 4 $103*5 million blueprint for a better Singapore City decides to push ahead its pool, park programme THE constitutional reforms proposed for the Colony by the Rendel Commission will noi hold up the City Council's plans for a bettei Singapore. After three special meetings, the council's
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  • 31 4 PKna.nG. Wea. The next meeting of the Penang Settle- i ment Council will be held in 1 1 the Council chamber. Peel Avenue, on May ?t> at 1.30 p.m
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  • 218 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wednesday. A GENERAL HOSPITAL assistant, Syed Ahmad bin Haron. was acquitted today on a charge of breaking the poisons regulations by selling arsenic to a woman. Yap Swee Eng Yap, wife of a carpenter, told the Sessions Court htre that last year
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  • 110 4 IATIIKK round. ladies v and Irani how to cook the Chinese way. In the kitrhrn of tin- YWCA. Raffles Quay. Mrs. Esther Chen, author of two books on Chinese rooking, is now giving lessons in this world-famous art. In Mrs. Chen's class for beginners on Tuesdays
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  • 229 4 Fined $100, or month's gaol SEREMBAN, Wednesday. >TG KIM CHAN, a Seremban building contractor, was fined $100— a month in default— at his retrial in ■the Sessions Court here today on a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner while carrying a revolver. Chow Tan
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  • 73 4 PENANG. Wed— The Penang Malay Association nas decided tii raise funds to help Malay boys and girls in English schools in Penang. especially those in the school certificate class. Capt. Mohd. Noor. Che Gu J Abdullah. Tuan Haji G M. Yu- I soft. Che Gu
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  • 146 4 He'll visit a film studio in Britain MR. A. \V. PKRER.V a Singapore amateur photographer who filmed the Queen's visit to C o c o Islands for the Government, will visit the J. Arthur Rank studios to study film-makine technique while on leave in Britain. He sails by the Chusan
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  • 212 4 Zig-zag man crashed two cars A SPORTS car driven by Thorna, Peter Wood, a film producer, zig-zagged in the middle of the road, collided with an on-coming car and then .smashed into a taxi, a Sineapore court was told yesterday Wood, who was accused of dangerous driving along East Coast
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  • 24 4 Abdul Aziz. 37. found bleedig from the chest in a house 1 Dunlop Street. Sinsapore. esterday morning, was admit ed to -hospital.
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  • 42 4 THE POSTMASTKR-GKNKRAI. of MaLya. Mr. D. Smith, presented ■■■11n|__ of lon* servirr to two Smpporr postal rmplovrrs brforr thrir retirement yesterday The re.' mients I uirettor or rotU, Mr. 1.. Durant, after the presentation. Straits Times picture
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  • 67 5 NANTS AGED TO REAK' S.I.T. K f tenants rfflghtand si 1 ody" n Eng, iiul a litres I KS 1 1 r rii-t IS to kno« I Ihej il' mii in ..I rent 1 iion to Pi Iru-I. tivities oned. pxandra Vit must injustinr ,ni which seems K and mu^t
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  • 227 5 THEY BRIBE BANDITS, SHE CLAIMED KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THK Incorporated Society of Planters i s taking legal opinion into whether the American magazine The New Yorker libelled British planters in Malaya in a recent article by Emily Hahn after she visited the
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  • 63 5 K PR'- traction to Singapore's male moto- 1 :-.<nv appearinc in the t:rets— policewomen on point Mr. D. E. Nickels, the actinc Commissioner tDeichments), told the Straits yesterday that the men were recruits unInlng. H aid they would join the Branch for a fortnight Its
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  • 46 5 ("ioh Chun Song was charged llngapore yesterday with minal breach of trust of door takings and dopo- torla Thi atre ben Jan. 1 and April 15 this was alleged that the was committed while clerk at the theatre illowed $2,000 bail un- I
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  • 188 5 The ambitious Dyaks will rival Chinese as rulers: MacDonald TUFF Dyaks of Borneo will bem o a" itn«»orV» nt for« in their own country, the i tommissioner-General. Mr. >lalcolm Mac Donald. said in Singapore yesterday. "Their immense ambition, couPled with their (treat natural lifts, will undoubtedly make! them a ruling
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  • 250 5 CLAIM FOR RESERVED SEATS KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday iyJR. Padi A. Krishnan, former secretary-general of the Malayan Indian Association, today attacked as "insincere" the Malayan Indian Congress demand for reserved seats and separate election for Indians in the coming Federal elections. Mr. Krishnan, a Party Ne-
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  • 67 5 ENING OF SONG MEMORAL HALL Bach's Quod- a say satire. ?h of ensemble xpresslve phras- ome ended with teslteder" waltzes I aaa so gracefully and in Straussian lights of Vienna. Loi'thouse and g promising p: in Chit, were the acfc its in a beautifully m lied and impeccably ied demonstration
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  • 89 5 PENANG, Wed.— The public can help the British Red Crass society by sending books, magazines and toys to patients In hospitals, .said Mrs R p Bingham, wife of the Resident Commissioner, at yesterday's annual, meeting of the Penang and Province Welleslev branch of the society.
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  • 43 5 SEREMBAN. Wed Thieves broke into the Seremban office of the Foh Hup Bus Company early yrstorday morning and took $2,887 in cash. A clrrk discovered the loss. The money was collected during the weekend A man has been detained.
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  • 75 5 A THIEF with a special liking for open windows is operating around Dunearn Road, Singapore. On Tuesday the man enter- Ed three houses in the area I two belon<?ine to Europeans and the third to a Chinese. From the three houses he stole two
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  • 46 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Unless the Government pays $5 an hour, Malay teachers will refuse to teach Malay in nonMalay schools in Pahang. Pahang Malay TeachersUnion has also decided to urce the Federal Government to make Malay a compulsory subject in non-Malay schools.
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  • 50 5 SEREMBAN. Wed. R. Vee-ra-sami, 50. a labourer from an estate three miles from Sercmban wa.s accused in the Magistrate's Court here today or murder. Veers-Muni i.s alleged to have murdered his Wife. Letchumy. 45 at 7 p.m. yesterday. The case was postponed to May 11.
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  • 128 5 Swamp is becoming padi land PENANG. Wed. ANOTHER 192 acres of rej claimed swamp west of Penang Island will be cleared 1 for padi planting this year and a co-operative farmins .societv wil] be formed to cultivate It. The land is between Kuala Jalaa Bahru and Kuala Sunue! Pinang. north
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  • 37 5 Sainani bin Sutoh. an em- 1 1 ployee of Shell Company, was sentenced to a day's imprison- ment and fined $450. or 41 < months' gaol, in Singapore yes- terday for stealing two gallons of petrol.
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  • 49 5 PENANG. Wed. To protect i their harvest from hungry terrorists, padi planters from *hree Province Wellesley kam- pongs Tassek, Chempedak and Padang Lallang— have set jup two central stores near their Home Guard headquarters. The ■tom are wired ir md protected by armed home Guards.
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  • 40 5 KLANG, Wed— Klang's new $120,000 roit house at Watson I Road, Port Swettenham, is expected to be ready next month. The present rest house at Sultan Street, Klang town, BttJ be converted into a museum.
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  • 55 5 A BritLsh Army officer who ariived from Britain on the Wilhelm Ruys on Monday has been called to Kuala Lumpur to help police with inquiries into Iraud charges. The officer, Captain P. Stone, of the West Yorks served in Malaya until last September when he was
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  • 79 5 PENANG, Wed. The District Officer of Nibong Tebal, Mr. Yeap Kee Aik, too. y called on the people to help make southern Province Wellesley a i "whitcarea." In a message printed on I 17.000 leaflets, he said food controls were irksome but
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  • 231 5 KVTION-U' SKRVKK: Registration of all' other names not classified p cv oiMly. S.VC drill hall. Beach Road in to 6 p.m; rural area "«-ial <entre Lin. Ah Pin Road, of! 6', milestone Upper Serangoon [SS P.- st Andrew's CatSSyWM Memorial Mall. 5.30 p m MRITISII RH> <
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    • 43 5 W Yll "1 s^ •HCH OF HIGH PRECISION SUPER SHOCK RESISTING ANTI-MAGNETIC TROPICALISED. WATERPROOF. V *17 &21 JEWELS. Hi y/ CHOOSE TIME <L^l WISELY. i CHOOSE 'fotttS 155(0 ,ch,ha, LTD., in Hongkong) H mber la 1946. ■K^, hriro Calendar, take I H office.
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    • 236 5 jgw What (fou can do 2j>a with the saving! I TOURIST: Jp TO \r zrrf vmlff j^^/^^ Take your mother-in-IUP K I '^■^A law with you and p EUROrt LONDON, PARSS, 'WjSk GENEVA, ROME, etc. (FROM INDIA) Jf ywfi/ M II J"% Dictate for a week f\Vl U '"London I
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    • 127 5 Today's Radio SINGAPORE AM. 7.15 lime Signal and Open- I In.: Announcement; 7.16 Morning I Star; 7.30 News; 7.35 Melody Mixture; 800-8.30 London studio Melodies iM3i, P.M. 100 Programme Summary; 1701 Lunch Time Music; 1 .30 Time Signal News; 1 45-2.00 I Dance Music; 5.00 Time Signal and 1 Programme
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  • 67 6 M H.,,.1. fill minimum i THE I" UM lite Mr Lrendan Won- Checnc Wons. thanks all frier n^rir Won-:, thanks MR. ft MRS. ROBERT YANG T.il Honj gratefully t.-ank ai: i os .'or their DU, f.ov.ers and etc.. he ocrasion of lit M.iy, MR FOONO HEN RM nnd •cianon.
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  • 133 6 .'0 Hord, |M minimum I COCKTAIL HOUR- Dry Fiv Sherry by Findlater s— Prelude to a ,J°^ L PEDANT Every day In I the Malay Mail if you «ant to win Uiat So.ooo word puzzie STORAGE 3PACE AVAILABLE rate* iiven without Apply Singapore Basp.)ce Transnort Aeencv Limited Telephone *****.
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  • 762 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. May 6, 1954. Sugar Rice: Not So Nice There is a sour touch about the Federation Government's, decision to return the sugar t,rade to private hands in September. Sugar will then pay a standard duty of seven cents a pound (or a preferential rate of
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  • 323 6 Strongest fetters in the world are made of paper— the fetters that bind the feet nf every man, woman and child who wants to travel. Passes, permits, certificates, declarations, returns, photographs and statements covering even, possible subject that bureaucracy has been able to think up to impede movement
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  • 225 6 Lack of proper footpaths alongside the main and minor roads in Singapore is one of the chief contributors to tri«toll of death and injury tlmt present day traffic exacts from our growing population. Some little progress is being made in providing footpaths oti some roads, but precious
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  • 988 6  -  lain Lang By Who has just made a trip through Pakistan, India and Ceylon TWO days after the Geneva Conference opened another international meeting began in Colombo, when the Prime Ministers of five Asian countries India. Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia came
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    • 348 6 if ANY young Chinese leave Singapore for China every month. They 'cave with no thought of coming back. It is difficult to understand this trend, unless one knows the background of the.se young men and women. There is no doubt that propaganda
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    • 298 6 AFEW mchts ago, durinc thp ten or fifteen minutes which Radio Malaya aives to official information about the work the different Government departments are doing. I was shocked by the contempt shown by the speaker for things Malayan. Here we had an expatriate officer
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    • 86 6 I WAS amused to read, under the heading "The Crime File" in 'Mr District Attorney' now on sale here, the following erroneous report: "Singapore's corps of 400 policemen threatened to strike if the Government insisted on making them wear new uniforms, which sported red
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    • 84 6 rE decision of the Malayan Indian Congress to hold a varlrtv show to collect funds for Lady Templer's T.B. Hospital Fund is lnderd commendable. This i.s the first time that the Indian community as a whole (of course, many Indians have contributor! to the fund
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    • 117 6 He liked this film show MY FAMILY and I rnjoyrd the film show put on by the British Council. Kuala Lumpur, at the Lake Gardens recently. One of tho items was about elections. The item "How Britain Votes" (in Malay. is very topical a.s the Kumla Lumpur Municipal Council is
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    • 555 6 StraiU Time* Free Prcti Fof the convcnicnc* ot odvt-r--tist.-s, our rcprcicntotiv* ot lit floor, SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE, ORCHARD ROAD, will r*««i»« small odwcrtis^monti end aniw«n lo box numbers ol'o be hnnded to: CITY BOOK STORE LTD.. Winchester HOUkJ. Collyer Quoy, Sinqopor*. CITY BOOK STORC LTD. •3 Tnnglin Riod, Sinqorsnl. tt
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    • 26 6 u~* <a A WIPE RANGE OF BEST ENGLISH WOOLLEN SUITINGS fr WORKMANSHIP AT MODERATE PRICES BEECKOWCO. MIRCHANT TAILORS PHONE: 6535 2f, CHULIA ST., v SINGAPORE -1.
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  • 1003 7 'INSPECTOR TOLD ME TO ADMIT OFFENCE' CONFESSION DENIED in IN $200,000 CASE V i 0() Wee Wan, former chief cashier of the r 'Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, making defence yesterday in the Singapore Assize Court to charges of falsifying hank documents amounting to
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  • 68 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. P Imen found in a sampan 0 ring curfew hours dived n he Sungel Tebrau and i »ay when a police boat d them. police seized the sam- >(1 the owner and he two curlew breakers, t n bin Abdullah
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  • 43 7 Thief threw away shirt to escape XGER in a bus felt d in his shirt pocket aI, Singapore, on i round in .time to umplng off the i 1 ith another pass- ■nnstable, «he vie pickiae the thief i shirt and trd 553.
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  • 30 7 pore Chamber En- olr will r>rc.-ent a I Italian mus.c at the Memorial Hall at 8.45 on May 31 The concert U be conducted by Mr. Paul lsheganaden.
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  • 22 7 iunrp than 22.000 youths have so far reStered for national of the registration on May 12. ale liable lorjrgistratkm.
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  • 132 7 VIIKN General John E. Hull, United Nations Comirmi-der-in-Chief in the Far East, arrived in Singapore yesterday from Hong Kong in a special Constellation he expressed the opinion that Dicn Bien Phu will hold out. iith him were his wife and five aides as
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  • 43 7 The Perlis. latest addition to the fleet of the Straits Steamship Co. Ltd.. Singapore, has been launched at Dundee. The Perlus, about 1.350 tons, was named by Mrs. H. MeLellan wife of a former chairman of the company.
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  • 157 7 TALKS AT NEXT UNION MEETING KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. rHE SELANGOR Clerical and Administrative Staff 1 Union is to be asked to consider setting up an unmployment insurance scheme for its members. Mr Yap Chong Kuen, a committee member, will introduce the proposal at the committee's
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  • 177 7 WHAT WAS ALLIANCE TOLD? —asks Mr. Aicberu LONDON, Wed. MR. STANLEY AWBERY (Labour) will ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, several questions in the House, of Commons on May 12. First he wants to know what answer the United Malaya National Organisation and the Malayan
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  • 73 7 Soldier shot at Kota Tinggi camp KOTA TINGGI. Wed. FUSILIER H. SCOTT of the! Ist Battalion the Royal icota FusilkTs wa.- shot dead at his regiment's camp here en Monday night. Fusilier J. Thomson was yesterday charged by the police with causing death by a rash a-.t. The rifle was
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  • 64 7 IPOK. Wed. Nomination day for the Taiping Town Council elections the first ever in Perak scheduled- for today, has been postpon6d to Saturday. Elections Supervisor, Mr. E. A. Moissinac. told the Straits Times that the postponement was due to a delay in the publication of the
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  • 46 7 7 HIS SAILOR obviously has rWW to smile. He il O/S D. Willden. one of many seri icemen who attended a benefit performance of the Holiday on Ice revue yesterday. O/S Willden went backstage and met Daphne Mclntyre iright) and Josephine Morris.
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  • 75 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Thirty students— ls girls and 15 boys from Chinese middle schools in Nesri Sembilan thievenirc visited •Careosa." the I residence of the Deputy Higli Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray. Most of them were fron i schOOla in Seromban and Kuala Filah. They are on a
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  • 187 7 Ice show packed— but no profit THE "Holiday on Ice" revue company performed before a delighted audience of nearly 5.000 yesterday afternoon but did not show a penny profit. The company, in conjunction with the sponsors. Fraser and Neave. Ltd.. gave a benefit show for the British acmrd forces and
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  • 152 7 PRICE OF FREE RICE GOES UP $3.50 I News about your food KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. f THE price of free mar- ket Siamese Al rice rose another $3.50 a pieul today. This brings the increase in the free rice to $6.50 picul since last Saturday's Government statement an- nouncinc a
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  • 64 7 A Singapore Telecommunications Dpartment technician. Mr. Wona Gan Chang, will leave on May 23 for Kuala Lumpur for two months' special training at the Telecoms. Training Colic Mr 1 Wong is attached to the Carrier Station. Hill Street. Another technician, Mr. Sim Say Hai, who has completed
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  • 32 7 Singapore Petrol Dealers' Employees' Union is organi-n v; a variety concert to aid Mi builcline fund. About 1.000 members have I promised to give one week salary to the fund.
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  • 215 7 Sugar monopoly ends in September M. KUALA LUMPUR. Wed THE Federation sugar import trade is expected to be handed back to commercial enterprise in September after exactly nine years of Government monopoly. Import duty on .sunar will be i with this return or the trade to private bands, the Federation
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  • 30 7 Revenue collected by the po C tnsn.s trom Janto Apr! this year totalled 707.000. 51.20.T00n lea* than amount collectec 1 during I the same period last year.
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  • 72 7 IPOH, Wed— Returning with hie wife from the cinema last niRht. Mr. Mak Hoong Four. postmaster at Ipoh East po.-t office in Brewster Road, saw the front door open He found that about $1,700 in jewellery and $70 in cash kept in a cigarette tin
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    • 95 7 H I fig Ifqr B^NT NOTICE TO EMPLOYERS ft FEDERATION OF MALAYA. ■I »npinv»ni have implojMi sccidtnully ->■•.''*• pi Wnrkm^n's Com- forca in M April. IOC? anpinrw including ntbee i .-nTrip^n.-arinn arr prp.plnyfrs may b# Worknmi'i Comp^nfa[Ml Rl I iL I NION" M;t!p<l ■ArcirfenU to IllM UNION ASSIiR4A^T^-7 I >
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    • 193 7 PLASTICOTIZE rOUR CAR AND PRESERVE THAT ORIGINAL SHOWROOM SHINE what a virriKincz HSIGHBORjRH&PbuttctU IS REAM GQOJft Almost all car washing is done with a soap or detergent of some kind now you can get a polis 1 that will stand this treatment y*^^^ Th PLASTICOTE 1 stjndi up through L
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    • 43 7 The weather HIM I MUM TKMPEBATI-RI MIM 4.„ 7 30 a.m. 0:1 Pcnang n^,' r 75 Kuutu ,7.10 am- «o 7 ri 3 r«MI BAIM A I Singapore nil. °"n Kota Danril l nil. Ipo!. roT'ln.K.,^ Lumpur 0.55 in. Kuantan trace. High tides
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  • 351 8 Expert disagrees drug would deteriorate BOY DIED AFTER AN OPERATION KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE senior anaesthetist of the (Jeneral Hospital, Singapore, Dr. E. G. Hudson, disagreed at an inquest today with an opinionr that paraldehyde which induces sleep would deteriorate in a tropical country. He was giving evidence at the
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  • 60 8 The select committee appointed by the Singapore Legislative Council last month to 1 consider and report on the Hindu MonopamoiLs Marriace 1 Bill is invitinc public opinions. Any m;in or organisation wishing to present views should addrcii them to the clerk of the Legislative Council. ColoI nial
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  • 35 8 Radha Bai. 19. was bound over in $50 for six months in Singapore yesterday for trying to commit suicide by takin? caustic soda on May 1. in Kendan^ Kerbau Maternity Hospital.
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  • 136 8 ABDUL Rahim bin Abdul Kahab who was convicted in Singapore yesterday on a robbery charge, was ttoacribed by the prosecution as "one of those types who make Singapore unsafe for people to walk about." In.sp. Elam Din, prosecuting, pressed for a deterrent sentence.
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  • 31 8 Chonp: Kam Khwan and Lrong Chco Yenjt pleaded guilty In Singapore yestprday to fighting in tho grounds of Alexandra Estate School on Tuesday morning. They were cautioned and discharged.
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  • 26 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The rise in tin price has enabled many Chinese mines to restart work during the past three muntn.s. said on official
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  • 189 8 SINGAPORE ROTARIANS ADOPT A VILLAGE AIMS of the latest Rotary community service project in the Colony were explained by Mr. Francis Thomas in a talk to Singapore Roiarians yesterday. The project Is the adoption of the Malay fishing village at Ponegol Point by Singapore Rotary Club. Mr. Thomas, who is
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  • 258 8 Summons server took $120 SPECIAL Constable Mohamed Tahir bin Hussein, aged 21. of Singapore Traffic Police, walked into a police trap when he called at the home of Miss Helen Chin Soo Hin. of Chanei Road, to collect a bribe of $140 on Apr. 1. Soon
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  • 104 8 The Queen thrilled the Germans rpHE second German passenA ger liner to call at Singapore since the end of the war the 9.100-ton Hamburg, docked alongside Singapore Harbour Board wharves early yesterday She vs commanded by Captain W. Arfsten. who has spent 43 years at sea with Hamburg America Lines.
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  • 66 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed Kan Yu Yon. a labourer of Pekan Nanas. was fined $100 or one months" gaol at the Pontian sessions court for taking food out of a restricted area with- out a permit. The prosecution stated that Pekan Nanas was a black area
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  • 33 8 Lee Choo Mvi, 18, pleaded guilty yesterday in Singapore i to escaping from legal custody on Saturday night while she was at the Mount Emily Home. Sentence was postponed
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  • 43 8 A Singapore Traction Company conductor was conv.cted yesterday on two counts of criminal breach of trust of 30 cents, paid to him as faro-; Chinnappan Rakiannan was sentenced to six months' gaol on each charge the sentences to run concurrently.
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  • 70 8 oi the All Malayan Chinese Miners' Association today. This has meant more work for jobless miners, he added A Labour Department offlcla; said that the number of workers in tin mines was 37,327 In March this year c impared with 44.678 in January 1953. Mr. G.
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  • 223 8 pAMMON (M) LTD., wli had offered to lend little (five ton) train t the organisers of th St. John fete in Singn pore capped their offe yesterday with a pro mise to transport it t Government House. The organisers feared tha they would be unable
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  • 351 8 TAN YOOK SIAN, a Singapore Improvement Trust house investigation officer, won his appeal in the Appeal Court yesterday against his conviction and sentence of six months' gaol and a 52.00© fine on a charge of accepting a bribe of §1.000. A District Judge had
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    • 324 8 OPENS TUUAI IHI FUNNIEST -\IIKI HMO MNOTCHKA" «QKV "SCIENTIFIC" KISSES FOR /im *W- \the good of the state?.., TODAY! 11-1.45-4.00-6.30-9.30 The Blazing Adventures of History's Best -Loved Rebel. Outlaw, Hero! JtfA Performance Jkm^jOf/*^ Phone 5159 g —CapitOL MIDNIGHT SATURDAY SHE'S SIS? RfTA INTIMATELY HAYWORTH TECHNICOLOR <^^/ ALDO RAY PAULETTfc CODDARD
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    • 83 8 I_CATHA¥_ORjBANiSATioir>| |sThows daily r~»;,i 1100a.m.-14:, 1 9th BIG DAY In 1 %St t?*.. SRVTHERS More Fun Than v W Wm LUCILLE BAiil r #J DESIARNAII THE LONG LOMfitJ -v\ l l iiiiay 7n»S AntJ I|»O*I' •>! 11l mM»KI! i ILMED KNTIREI.V IN UTHENTIC SCENES i*l Win. IT BLOODED MOKIH 1^
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    • 20 9 r i W (If pr pa IPPIE BLOSSOM DAMASK ROSE CORONATION MIMOSA LAC ir lin ft I LEY "-used r-
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    • 204 9 F f re a Feeling tropical Thai's the time to wear 'Viyella' shirts, pyjamas stockings whenever roul comfort > rrallv counts, MTIIKM M1.*****1.1.111l day and 11 «^SB night wear Viyella IF IT SHRINKS WE REPLACE 'Oyittta v moit hy Ik. nu\tt, o) t „,lla' mnd kai tht HN fuorsnMt CAMEL
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    • 128 9 CHn^HBflH^H DISPATCH T BETTER VET. i"TUAT's A PRIVATE C3QGANI I MEANWHILE squads let^ call -rue zaton tviat guards the r -m r m AKin THEVVE GONE INTO- TO ALL ~BE>f^lUE BANKS." SAYS TRACV "TUEV fr a^?^l^t?2^aV^?o bgancm of Twe ciT^ seven?/ PROTBCTTON can alert all of 'em at r^^^ iuTvJArr
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  • 208 10 Commodity prices f HE Singapore Share Mark a little encouragement f prices and brokcr> u r(1 the volume of market increased. The price of tin time for several da $360.62^ per picul. Tuesday's overnight p ru London had remains lnspitc of the local <■ the report
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  • 101 10 The Malayan Share Brofc ciation rep- ••ted that: ed commodity pi t ing influence on the tin sections of the ket yesterday There over at fractionally hlghi Rubber how e Members reported Ihe business done yc.-.;fN. Neave ords $2.0:. tMalayan Coll;ene> 7' Cemenr $1.35. SloS21 all; Singapore 27s.:
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  • 102 10 Rubber Improved yesterday and at Um cents a lb.. a gain o: cent on TutThe market thin and bcstou price varied between S3 61 K cents. The eloac Closing pri per pound were:— No. 1 R.S.S. spot Ic r 61 Kl No. 1 R.Stf f.O.I buyers 61 selir
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  • 780 10 T their 4 p.m. meeting yesi\ terday members of the Malayan share Brokers' Association, in Singapore, issued the following; list of quotations: MM Brick* PreM Ords 3 AUVs U« B.B Petrol 39/8 < M r'i«te*« »0 Con. Tin smelt. Pref Ord* 2VEastcrn United S3 M> he.i LhasMoaanr
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  • 27 10 Tin ore outputs of Burm Tin Limited's companies for April were Katn Tin Dredemc Ltd. S'n piculs; Renong Con.solidated Tin Dredclng Co Ltd 427 pi
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  • 25 10 Rahman Hydraulics tin ore output for April totalled SPS plculv Renong Tin Dredctnß Co. Ltd April oii'put waa 710 piculs of tin ore
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  • 23 10 Takuapa Valley Tin DrcdKing 'No Uabllityi In April workrd 588 hcurs, covered 1 ln.--000 cubir yards and recovered 370 piculs of ore.
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  • 100 10 NEW YORK. V. here said that t rubber produce some consirieratior new stockpilinu of the Genera: S< riinistration. The new featui tion polirv the: the United Sta'* nir.st rep] grade rubh. of deterioration. This 'i- rubber because <>! det< replaced with duality rubber a the past
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    • 502 10 NOTICES NOTICE NOTICE ls hereby given th.r V n tor Lee Cheng Llm and Mr I V;ui have left our service v from l»( May, 1954 and they h.i\e liority whatsoever to a<t M our beh;ilf KEE HUAT RADIO CO, LTD Singapore. NOTICE Notirp ll Hereby Given that transaction oi
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    • 164 10 NOTICES REMINDER VALUABLE PROPERTIES TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION At Our Saleroom Nmv II A 16 Rnhinsnn Road, Singapore TODAY AT 2.30 P.M. No "HI Mountbatten Road. No. 120 Carpirwiel Roarl. Nor. 2 32 (even) LIANG SEAH IT. (To be sold in 16 lota). Nos. 103 109 (Odd l
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    • 218 10 TENDERS P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE Tenders from Class "D" nnd abo'p recistrred PWD contractors will be received at the office of the State Engineer P.W.D.. Johorr Johore Bahru up to 12 noon of the IMB May 1954 for the ErecUon and Completion of One No. Class "C" QlMltari (Bungalow Typei and
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    • 922 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS VACANCIES FOR TEACHERS IN JOHORE Applications are invited fo>- the following pos-,s: (a) Teachers in Govt. English Schools in Johore. Applicants mu.'t be Federal Ctti- I zens and should hold the i minimum qualification of a Cambridge School certifi-ite with credits in Enß'.i. h language and two other
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    • 502 10 .TENDERS H. M DOCKYARD, SINGAPORE Tender No. 206 54. RKMOVAI. OK OIL TV*L SM'DGK AND DIRTY OH. Tenters are invited for the annual contract to purchase on site, oil fuel slurige ->nd dirt;.- oil estimated to total 100 Tons per annum. Application for tender forms and conditions of contract should
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    • 10 10 1r— MITSUI |3J C.I SHARP S ANK OF CHINA lUItt)'.^
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    • 621 11 <CfltlD «C CO., LTD. Tel n 241, ifjSf* i=<"" Possoq FUN Ni:L LINE fll*' hr r,fts to lood ond discharge cargo I A CONTINENTAL PORTS P. S ham Moy 6 May 7 Moy 7/ 8 8 Miy 12 Moy U/17 May IB 5 v,oy 13 Mayl4/16 May 17/18 v v
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    • 964 11 EAST ASIATIC LINES For Aden »i*Wl ll W CONTINENT /SCANDINAVIA oen. Port Sold, Genoo. Antwerp, Retterdom, Homburg Gdynia Copenhagen, Gothenburg A Oslo *oymo. "MEONIA" 19/ aj P M- miJSfS. Penong "mVlVya* iV/Vi""" M/»*-8--s col 1 d o o ;,h"A a "K% B ?.rhar y) K rlit SAILINGS FROM SCANDINAVIA/U.K./CONTINENT "INDIA"
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    • 1048 11 BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. SAILINGS ta U.K. ond CONTINENTAL PORTS S'pora P. S'hom P<nnr<i Banmhor for Liverpool, Dublin rn^rnmt R-*t»rriom, Hi.ll G. 11 T/« May 9/10 Mey B# To^^%ar^g 18/24 May 21/27 May 28/29 Me, «Cy? H HuT UVtrPOi 17/22 May 21/2S M.y 24/27 M.y j Benledi for Liverpool Oubim,
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    • 1175 11 McALISTEP. 6c CO., LID. TEL No ***** KLAVINESS LINE ELLERMAN «c BUCKNALL los ANCtLt SAH t R AN CiSCO. LONDON, HAVRE, ROTTERDAM PORTLAND, SEATTLE, A VANCOUVEI HAMCURG A HULL Accepting corqe Mr Central A South ond for U.SA. North Atlont Ports Amorican Ports ond Conodo via Colombo m JUNNYVILLE CITY
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  • 349 12 THE HOUSE GETS a present from ALL the family I KNOW some people Who give their house "birthday" every year. II was ;i very u^l bungalow when they look il and had le\ modern conveniences. They wanted the nice* home they could afford and round, as we ;i find, that
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  • 92 12 And here come the new suits for bedtime Isy EILEEN ABCSOFT SUMMER Siccpct Suits in striped coth something ncn- from o. They o-r cool and young-looking, wtth tlwir cuffed shorts and pi Their companion i urns are unltned can 00 Into 'he '::b. Shirt-, can be worn loose, as In
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  • 660 12  -  CHAPMAN PINCHER by In a thousand homes this morning the same question will be asked: How did you sleep last night? Sleep, quite simply, is something no one can at without. For the thousands who feel they arc not getting enough sleep in these days of tension. Science Reporter
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  • 233 12 If you need it TWO 'WRONGS' SIGNPOST THE ONLY RIGHT WAY ing window, no matter how snug you may be. The sense of smell seems to disappear entirely during sleep, which explains why n many people are killed by escaping coal-gas whll> ing. Touch is
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    82 12 rrais Ea* i an oriental touch is made t 1 la ft m petit purl stt It reminds me of the men who pulled mv rickshaw in F 'Hi: Knn? last wiiv Tlip coolie b'Ti't fan b«* bought in both the April fl' 1Wi i he Brit i-h
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    • 325 12 The Straits Times Crossword I I Tt""~ 1,1 I I"W i r— I t I i t i i N "4 mm in ACROSS HM a.ssu> luted willi CMStSMM 1. Tied up in an estate the redun- 7 dam itrrn iSi. Jf- Am-stm* uttat? lltl 5. Oo baldheaded for this!
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  • 1717 13 vereign scores two-length win in mud at K.L. OURE RIDES THREE WHS; BIG MONEY $121 By EPSOM JEEP Uoujroure astride, flashed through I rain-soako ngth win in tho (1. 2, I)j v i__ Hf sprint J second day of the Selau-or Turf Club Ma on the win aye his supporters
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  • 793 13 4 I'OTAI oi I'j-i norses—B4 a* In Class One and 130 In CUm Three—ha.s bern entered loi the Sinßaporo Turf Club's M.tv mrfting on May 15. May 19 and May 22. The totaMsator of the Sinsapore Turt Club Is now c;'pablp oi catering for fields
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  • 101 13 rpHERE will be fight races, first x rare starttns 2 11, on each day by the Singapore Turf Club May meet me Schedule of racing is: First Pay: Class 1. Divs. 1 and 2 IM.; Claw 3. Divs. 1. 2. 3. 4 5 snd fi tip iMMki |»by: Class
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  • 213 13 U.K. CRICKET^ LONDON. Wednesday. T^HE touring Pakistan cricketers, keen to get as much practice as possible before •flleialty c)pening; their tour on Saturday next at Worrester. got some valuable experience yesterday of the typo of conditions they may meet during the tour when
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  • 72 13 BUDAPEST. WED. iiTNOARY advanreri info ihe the European i Zone tenni.". comrwtition of the Davis f"np (rwtantajr >»hen 'hey bett Rev Ze.iland by 3-2 here. They M*4 meet Germany v. who led 2-1 on Monday, were (urn the winning lead by Joseph Asboth who b«i' loha
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  • 61 13 rHKSTER Wed Mr. H;<r\rv ■:-ree-year-old COM VM .nnrr of the <• i un "ver one mile, five furlnriKx ana H yards here vever(i.iy Blue Rod s'Hitins at :U-1 »c.unst. won b» ft\e leni;th.s from Lord Rrv,e- mi: on. who started 6-1. By Thunder an 11-4
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  • 805 14 Japs take 17 athletic golds From ANG EAM HOCK MANILA, Wednesday. VI IRZA KHAN was something Pakistan had up their sleeves on Monday when the heats of j the 400-metres hurdles were being run off, because today he produced a record-breaking performance! to beat Chan
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  • 369 14 Asian Games boxing starts HALIM LAZAROO UNLUCKY LOSERS MANILA, Wednesday. CINUAI'OKE were right out of luck when the Asian >5 Games boxing tournament started here tonight. In our first flght, flyweight Abdul Halim lost a split decision to Aye Kho of Burma aud later our lightweight Denis Lazaroo. was knocked
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  • 277 14 MANILA. Wtd. INHERE were two sensational up--1 sets in the Asian Games footjall competition tonlcht when Hrn :::M\ !;i\oured Indians, the (le.endlii^ hampions. and Pakistan consW'-iKi to be their strongest rivals, were both beaten. Burma sprang the first surprise when they beat Pakistan 2-1.
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  • 91 14 MANILA, Wed. poi.LOWINC. are the unoffi.id team point MM for the Second Asian damn after the fifth day. I ndrr thr unofficial *vs(rm. Irn points are (Ivrn for each first pla>r. H\r lor miimkl four for third, three for fourth, two for fifth and onr fm M\lh Ist.
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  • 103 14 MANII A Wed. pyOTARO AZUMA ol J.ip.in today was elected, new pwaktwM of the Asian Games Federati Electinn of Japanese to the presidency was a to;m.,lrv -ince it customary to elect a* rre^-.dent a i member from the next Japan will slate the third Asian Games in
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  • 23 14 Hie kfpi Rifle Al will nold a .sn.»on slioot at 8 15 a.m. .it the Buklt Timah riin^e on SunI day.
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  • 145 14 Norma and Elsie in swim finals From AMI K\M IHKK MAMI.-.. Wed. OI'R girl swimmers Norma Hi;trhinson and Elsie l.im. qualif ed for their finals when the swimmin* events beean tonight. In the 4UO metres freestyle. N<"™ a was second of four entrant*. Mir led by a length at the
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  • 694 14 ATHLETIC FINALS MIN 200 MKTRKS: Miariff Butt I Pak) 2i.f>*ec. (rcrordl; Mohd. Aslam (Pak) 22.(1; Xavier Stephen (Honj Kongi 22.2: M. Cabriel (Ind) 22.3; Kiyufujl (.lap) 22.6; Shih Ah Yunj (China) 22.7. Old record Mi 22.0 sec by P. Pinto ilnd). Kult's best timr was 21.6
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