The Straits Times, 16 June 1954

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    13 1 The Straits Times He**** Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1954 13 CENTS.
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    THE MCA HANGS BACK in case Govt, gives way
    496 1 THE MCA HANGS BACK in case Govt, gives way in (Bill still i the lenda m the hitivc Id back until (I the ij lor teeting .nears by lephone and, Johore Bahru. MCA and UMNO| headquarters are still sending OVt letters of resignation foi their members to sign and despatch.
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    REDS TO SEEK 9 BRITONS
    231 1 Peking promise on missing sailors GENEVA. Tuesday. COMMUNIST CHINA told Britain today that she is v making Investigations "at one. 1 about nine British jailors missing on a yachting trip from Hong Kong, a British spokesman said here. Hoim Kong reports, quoting a Communist newspaper,
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    Ex-Malayan in London death fall
    79 1 LONDON. Tues. MR. PETER NUTCOMBE HUME, organiser of the ng Corporatoll to his death from his top floor Oat* in South West London last night. s believed to have been attempting to climb through a window into a locked room, the which was mislaid. Mr.
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    $900 traffic fine for Joe Louis
    48 1 NEW YORK. Tues— Former world heavyweight champion Joe Louis paid a $900 fine yesterday for six traffic summonses. Twelve daws in gaol aa the alternative. A warrant wa.s Issued for Louis on May 20 after he failed to answer 20 notices-— ft.P.
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    Cricketer dies
    31 1 LONDON. Tues. George Brann. a famous Sussex cricketer who toured Australia. South Africa and the United ii the 1890s died jrestCThis home at Surbiton, Surrey. He was 89— Reuter.
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    POLICEMAN DIES IN BANDIT TRAP
    164 1 SEREMBAN. Tuesday. ABOUT 30 terrorists ambushed a police Land Rover 10 miles north of Seremban on the main trunk road yesterday afternoon, killing ;i police constable and Ivoundine a policeman and three "specials." They Charged the Land Rover and took thr dead constable's revolver. 12
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    WE WON'T GIVE UP SAYS M. FRANCE
    178 1 WE WON'T GIVE UP SAYS M. FRANCE PARIS. Tiles. FRENCH Premier de sicnate, M. Mcndes Franco. speaking to reporters last nipht described his policy for Indo-China as "the exact opposite of capitulation." ■Parliament musi be given a concrete prnsrammi' for putting v end t" the indoChina problem." he said. "I
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    Degree for Menon
    41 1 LONDON. Tues.-Mr. V. K. Krishna Menon. personal representative of India's Prime Minister. Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, who arrived here last night from Geneva, is flying to Glasgow today to receive an honorary doctorate of law from QiasgOW University.— U.P.
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    JPs tour S'pore to nail big clash lie
    325 1 M RlSoum^ C i F C N ALCRT FTER MAUCIOUS AND UNFOUNDED kumqurs OF COMING BATTLE Rtrwrru rmuccc auk uikvc \IR. D. K. BROADiT1 HURST, actin K Commissioner of Polin yesterday described as "malicious and unfounded" rumours prevailing in Singapore ol in
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    Prince quits in Vietnam
    58 1 SAIGON lues The Vietnam i tovernment of the Premier Prlnoe Buu Loc will resign tonorrow, it pi authoritative!) learned tod#V. Trends of Prince Buu Loc cousin Oi Emperor Bao Daisay he has chosen to relinquish his post since he has achieved til;; chief goal which is
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    Navarre leaves
    22 1 SAIGON. Tues. General Henri Navarre, former Su- 1 prcme French Commander In Indo-China. left today for Paris by plane. UP.
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    Open to all
    34 1 KANSAS CITY. Missouri Tues —Hope Park .swimming I pool. Kansas City's largest wa.s reopened yesterday for negroes and white people after being closed two years because of the segregation issue.— AP.
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    Told to quit
    30 1 WASHINGTON. Tues.— A report reached official quarters here last night that the Army In Guatemala has given leftist President Jacobo Arbenz an ultimatum to resign by today.
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    Open daily
    22 1 TOKYO. Tues —Japan's Imperial Palace was opened to -ighUeers today for the first i time on a daily basis.— A.P.
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    'Dead' man gets ex-wife off in court
    116 1 LEXINGTON, Tennessee. Tues. A judge yesterday dropped a charge of unlawful cohabitation against attractive Mrs .1 .imcs Hern who re-married while her husband was a prisoner of war in Korea. Judge A. T. Taylor took the I action at the request of the
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    LITTLE FANNY (lost 47 days) IS HOME AGAIN
    28 1 LITTLE FANNY (lost 47 days) IS HOME AGAIN the losg-lust child of Madam '-lury Tan. fanny W( '.2. finds warm comfort in her mothers arms at her home.
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    Hint from mystery man—and she is found in Batu Pahat
    348 1 Hint from mystery man and she is found in Batu Pahat I ITTLE FANNY WEE. tr.e 2£-year-old toddler who J vanished outside a hairdrcssina: saloon in Singapore 47 days a«o. was found yesterday in Batu Pahat. one wa.s in me care oi a younjr Malay woman who claimed to have
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    Watch kept on 100
    61 1 —IN BANGKOK BANGKOK. Tues, A H.u v kok police source said today that about 100 Communist su.spoct.s may be arrested fotlowing the arrest yesterday of 28 Chinese merchants and school teachers The source said it was believed those already arrested had been to Communist China to
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    Fanatic held
    31 1 RANGOON. Tues—Mohammed Cassim, former Indian Army Major, who leads MM fanatical Muslim "mujahlds" of Western Burma has been Bengal and charged with illegal entry, according to reports here today.
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    Red exit ban
    37 1 MACAO. Tues A Chinese traveller who arrived her' day from the China mainland report' d that Communist authorities in Canton had suddenly banned all Chinese exCantonese from leaving China for Hong Kong or MaR"Uter.
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    RAJA SIR UDA MAY RESIGN
    64 1 From HALL RO.MNKY LONDON. Tues. Well-in-formed quarters In I expect Raja Sir Uda Commissioner ror Malays In London, to resign his appointment and return to Malaya towards the end of the The commissioner's friends md probably the commissioner hin der that he can be ol
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    No mass favours says Nicoll
    169 1 No mass favours says Nicoll PETITIONS by Sinca--1 pore Chinese students <>r exemption from military service Show that the purpose of thp National Service Ordinance has been persistently misunderstood." Governor, Kir John aid this yesterday in to the suncrvi. i nine; Cheng. Chinese High and Yoke Henß Schools. The letter
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    ALL ALIVE IN CABIN FIRE, SAYSKALLANG PROBEEXPERT
    1054 2 ALL ALIVE IN CABIN FIRE, SAYSKALLANG PROBEEXPERT TENTH day of the inquiry IT WAS PROBABLE 1 that none of the 33 people who died in the Constellation crash at Kallang on March 13 was actually injured by the impact, an expert witness told the Court of Inquiry yesterday. The w
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    Hillary is fit again
    60 2 NEW DELHI. Tups Sir Edmund Hillary, thinner but fU again. Is expected to reach Blratnagar. first outpost of civilisation <>n the Nepal-India frontier, tomorrow. The conqueror of Everest is reported to be In excellent condition after lung trouble and malaria while he was on Isolated Barun
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    Foreigners to be registered
    49 2 JAKARTA. Tom Thr registration of all foreigners In Indonesia has started. Jakarta Is tho first city tn start a register. Other places will begin soon. The only foreigners exempt from registration, with its accompanying duties and fees, are diplomatic representatives and those with .short-visit permits.
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    Smokes and drinks—at 11
    106 2 Smokes and drinks at 11 CHICAGO. Tues— Psychiatrists were questioning Marion Gregory, an 11 y^ar old whisky-drinking boy, yesterday in connection with a flre last Friday in which snrn people were burned to death. The polit said .Marion told them he aciidently started the fire by flipping; a match on
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    Tip-toes Deanna is spirit of the dance
    39 2 DEANNA TAN (14), talented Singapore O«il!et dancer, who will perform a numb of solos in the Taylor Dance Studio recital to be held at the Capitol Theatre short 1 Straits Times picture.
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    British actress told: 'Leave U.S.'
    159 2 British actress told: 'Leave U.S. LOS ANGELES, Tues. British actress Simone Silva, who caused a flock of photographers to fall into the sea when she stripped to the waist to pose with Robert Mitchum on the French Riviera, was ordered ye<terday to leave the United States within 60 days. Herman
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    Don't me cris the nak redhea
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    Press peer
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    HURCHILL, EDEN TO VISIT IKE
    309 3 Informal talks (with no agenda) from June 25 S« Winston aJKfffflS 1 Vn T t U ho S n da> FH ion's JS^^^ Ki^«-inTas^ haye T a^o B p r ;,ofan i^fta^io n n S n Pr t a For <^n Secretary House spokesman said
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    Reds honour the Everest leader
    79 3 Reds honour the Everest leader BERLIN Tues tflß JOHN HUNT, leader of O British expedition which conquered Mt. Everest is now "Soviet mountain 'climber First Class." The order was conrerrea on sir John in Moscow during his recent three-day visit, he disclosed yesterday in Berlin He said he had a
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    700 gem men strike
    47 3 \NTWERP. Tues. More than 700 diamond cutters and setten went on strike rday for thr maint. nance of their present wages The strikers claim that they no longer get the agreed rate v- for cutting diamonds because there is short. i work. Rt'utor
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    15 released
    22 3 HONG KONG. Tues.— Fifteen Britons arrived here yesterday in the freighter Pakrioi after years of confined living in V P
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    Wilson in Moscow
    53 3 MOSCOW, Tues.-Mr. Harold Wilson, former Labour President of the British Board of Trade, arrived here by air last night tor a two-week visit to dscuss East West trade. Mr. Wilson, now economic consultant to a British timber firm, flew to Moscow from Leningrad, where he spent two
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    More pay sought
    32 3 MANCHESTER. Tues —Leaders of the three main trade unions in the cotton spinning industry decided in Manchester yesterday to seek an increase in wages for 280.000 1 workers -Reuter
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    1,000 released
    16 3 BOGOTA. Tues The Colombian Government has released 1.000 political prisoners under an amnesty— Reuter
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    L ducks payed Lord's..
    83 3 L ducks payed Lord's.. i' K>h h i c h fP Ldfd h«»usos. 'and railwayi f .his almost the jon« the iff «*W reo on ;,,1 thOU,:ikrrs, who ,iiis.>on. spokesman i onseKine since deil at I mi more ..nth. it \M-ttest ihished fteM at ii been r.lshire. inn. i red
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    'Stop tests' plea
    31 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. Congmi was asked yesterday to give utmost consideration to a petition from the people of the Marshall Islands to stop nuclear tests in their area. Reuter.
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    Court can't decide on £800,000 question
    147 3 Court can 't decide on £800,000 question THE HAGUE. Tuesday. THE International Court of Justice today ruled that it is not competent to decide whether £800.000 worth of Albanian gold should co to Britain or to Italy. Kgold. at present in Brias claimed by Italy, said more than two f
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    SHOT GUN BLAST FOR A SLAP
    110 3 SHOT GUN BLAST FOR A SLAP NEW YORK. Tues. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN RIPPLE. 39, awakened his father. Marion. R4. sleeping in a rockine chair in their home early yesterday and told him it was t*mi! to bo upstairs to bed. Hie father went upst «irs. <ame down with a shotcun and
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    Politicians warned
    42 3 LONDON. Tues.— Thr Syrian Army yesterday warned politicians that it would take over the supervision of new natiui il elections unless they v to lorm a coalition. Cairo Radio reported. Syria has been without a rnment for four days.— Renter.
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    78 cheat death
    37 3 NEW YORK. Tues. A nonscheduled DC-4 pasaeng< r plane with 78 people mac emergency landing at Oklahoma, early today. Shortly after the passengers and crew left the ship it was destroyed by fire. A.P.
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    Sails for home
    28 3 NASSAU. BAHAMAS. TuesTic Royal Navy tank landIni ship Ben Lomond has sailed for England after com Dieting Kerm warfare testa la the Caribbean area. -Reuter.
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    50 hurt in right to wed clash
    98 3 50 hurt in right to wed clash TOKYO. Tucs MORE than 50 Japanese factory girls were in hospital today after a fierce fight iast 1 night between opposing unions at Omi Silk Spinning Factory. F'.ijimiya. Strikers demand the right to marry and freedom of religion. Their union alleges that I
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    BRITAIN WANTS A CHINA ENVOY
    104 3 LONDON. Tues. A N official source said today thai Britain has asked hi exch aog< .mba.ssaSanand thai the Churchill government wpects the P<'kinc regime to agree. I The Chinese delefsttoa at [the Geneva Asian conference promised to consider the request. The Prime Minister. Sir Winston
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    OUR CROWNING GLORY
    50 3 I HUH' mv h.urstylcs shuwn m London nj Uesißner-coif-feur Rithe at the opening of his new salon. The styles, modelled on men's fashions of the Beau Brummrtl period, are suitable for day and rveninc wear and are named (left to rieht): Berkeley. Syon and Alberniarie.— Popper picture
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    SELF-RULE DEMAND BY EUROPEAN IN NORTHERN RHODESIA
    186 3 SELF-RULE DEMAND BY EUROPEAN IN NORTHERN RHODESIA 1.1 SAX.V Tuesday. A .MOTION demanding immediate self-government for Northern Rhodesia, will be placed before the territory's Legislative Council on Saturday Sponsor ot the motion ks Mr John Gaunt, a European He recently resigned from the Confederate Party The motion asks the council
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    The men who are ever in demand
    94 3 The men who are ever in demand LONDON Tues,. MX HENRY HOPKJNSON. Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, told civil engineers here they were needed more than ever before In the colonies. He said It was Impossible to foresee a time when there *ould not be a pressing need 1
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    LONDON TIN
    23 3 LONDON. June 15. Cash Buygero f",W-: Sellers C 725: ForwaM Buyers ETM|; Sellers X~V>: Settlement K'l\ Turnover a.m. .">."> tons; p.m. K
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    LONDON RUBBER
    45 3 LONDON June 15— Sept 19 .d July 19 d. Aug 19 S.d. Sept IOH4-, O< -Dec in yd.. Jan -Mar 19 ,d.. Apr -June 19 T v.. June c.l f 19' id July ci.l 19 5 16d Aug c.l t. 19 -d lone
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    The Minister complains...
    47 3 LONDON Tues— Mr. Ladislav Stoll. Minister of Education addressing Czechoslovak Communist Party Congress yester day complained of the low standard of education Prague Radio reported The number ol pupils tailing examinations was also serious reaching 20 per cent in some districts he said -Reuter
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    Arms smuggler shoots himself
    41 3 GUATEMALA CITY Tues Guatemalan police yesterday said that Alfredo Aba lunch Sabatig shut himself in the piv.s. nee "i th. pohei itter the discovery of a big quantity of smuggled arms and ammunition in his home. Reuter
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    LONDON STOCKS
    243 3 LONDON, Tue« Closing middle prices of selected Itocha, not including stamp duty, were LOANS Consols 65 -i Funding 4% 103* War 3 >. 86. t'» BANKS Mercantile (,12'it 20 Eastern i£s> 8 7 H Chiirtered (£1) 42/HongXong <*125 i 94 INSURANCE Com. Un. cuts.) 3 9 16 Royal
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    THE GOAL: 100 DOCTORS A YEAR
    443 4 Step up training to this output, committee urges a SPECIAL committee of inquiry has recom- mended that medical education in .Malaya be expanded to supply at least 100 medical graduates year for Singapore and the Federation. Thr committee, under thr chairmanship of Sir David
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    30 years in police force
    56 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Mr. W Poundall. a member ot the Federation Police Force for 30 years has retired. He was in charge of a!! Kuala LuT.pur courts and was prosecuting officer in tbi n« ■> art. Mr. Po-.ndall intend.- U> settle in South Africa. He
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    They can vote in Colony
    78 4 I'he Singapore Government I vestrrday *a\r a rulin*; on the voting rights of paVMM horn in the Settlements of I'lii .111: and Malacca who are no* permanent residents of the Co'nnv. These people are considered I citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies and will,
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    THIS DID NOT DISTRESS Mr. GOODE
    216 4 THIS DID NOT DISTRESS Mr. GOODE SINGAPORE Legislative Councillors with complaints against Government departments should ?ry other means of getting satisfaction before bringing them up m public, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode. said yesterday. He was replying to a complaint by Mr. Lim Yew Hook iLab. Keppeli
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    Negligent: $100
    38 4 Tan Kum Itei of Devonshire Road was fined $100 in Singapore yesterday for negligent driving. He collided with another car at the junction of Serangoon Road and Boon Keng Road at 7.45 p.m. on April 5.
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    FOOTBALLER WEDS
    37 4 INCHE S SAI.IM BIN ABOILLAII. of the Oriental Telephone ami Flectric Company, centre-forward of the Argonauts Football Club, and his bride, (he Aminah binte Silleh after their wedding in Singapore on Monday. Straits Times picture.
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    ACCUSED OF CHEATING: $50,000 BAIL
    63 4 ACCUSED OF CHEATING: $50,000 BAIL MALACCA. Tues.-Lim Hong Chiow. 41. a merchant tailor was today allowed $50,000 ball on charges of cheating. He was charged in the Sessions Court here ten days ago with having cheated a millionair Mr Tan Koh Poh. by dishonestly inducing him to deliver 40 cheques
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    Variety show
    29 4 KLANG. Tues. Indians in Klang will hold a variety concert in aid of Lady Templer's T.B. Hospital Appeal Fund at the Anslo-Chinese School hall hem an Friday
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    SEPARATE CIVIL SERVICES SOON
    187 4 Old system now 'outmoded' THE Singapore and Federation Governments propose to abolish the Malayan Establishment lrom July I and appoint all senior Government officers, both local and expatriate, to either the Federation Establishment or the Singapore Establishment. A Government paper tabled in the Singapore Legislative Council
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    Engineer is found dead in room
    91 4 Engineer is found dead in room KUALA KUBU BAHRU Tues MR Cheah Cheng Kooi. a Central Electricity Board engineer, was found dead in a hotel room here. He was 55 He had been supervising the construction of a Dower plan? at Krascrs Hill His body was fou/>d by on< of
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    Perak plans a reception
    78 4 IPOH. Tues.— A public meeting of repri'srut.if.vrs of different communities and organisations in Perak is beinc convened by the local branch of the Malayan Indian Conl to form a committee to receive to Madame Vijayalakshimi Pandit. President of the United Nat: >ns General Assembly, when she
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    Rail dispute hearing set
    69 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. secret hearing of the disput. between the Malayan Railway Traffic Operating Union and the management will start here tomorrow. The three-man arbitration tribunal consisting of Inche C M. Yusuf (chairman), Inche Mohamed Sopiee union > and Mr. V C. G. Pienne official! will
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    'COUNCIL CAN TALK ABOUT STUDENTS'
    198 4 'COUNCIL CAN TALK ABOUT STUDENTS' i mHE DEPUTY President! 1 of the Singapore Legislative Council, Mr. I Tan Chin Tuan. made a I statement in the Council i yesterday about speeches I at the last meeting which I referred to incidents connected with the arrest of Chinese school students demonstrating
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    100 seek jobs
    32 4 SEREMBAN. Tues. More than a hundred oeooie have registered for work with th. one-month-old Seremban era ployment exchange They include skilled workmen, fitters, drivers, conductors, clerics and office boys
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    7,761 TRUST HOUSE TENANTS GET QUIT NOTICES
    99 4 Quit notices had been sen ed on 7.761 tenants of the Singapore Improvement Trust At the same time they were offer- ed new tenancy agreements at higher rentals. None had yet been evicted. This was stated In the Legislative Council yesterday In re-
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      213 4 SINGAPORE 7.16 am Time Signal and Open- D n <-> ing Announcement; 7.16 Morning 0.1f.C Star; 7.30 News; 7.35 Melody Mi\I ture; 8.00-8 30 Invitation to Music. 5.00 p.m. FYom The Editorials 857 English Schools Broadcast; 5.10 Islt of Man; Tourist TronM 11.10 English Schools Broadcast: Motor Cycle Races 515
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    o on strike talks fail
    210 5 SHORTAGE OF HOIIWKr 10 c/o/iYG- IS THEIR BIGGEST COMPLAINT MALA LUMPUR, Tuesday firemen in the Federation may'jro on I Cfthe Government ignores their 'request Ltrages* more housing facilities and bet- conditions. will be discussed at the annual me union will first ask for negotiations Failed
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    MISS PIGTAILS (NINE) CHASED THIEF AND TOOK BACK HER BAG
    199 5 MISS PIGTAILS (NINE) CHASED THIEF AND TOOK BACK HER BAG AMNK-YKAR-01-D girl in pigtails chased a man who had taken her purse and grabbed it back when he was not looking. Yesterday the man, Suppiah Subramaniam, a gardener, was sentenced to four months' gaol for insulting I the girl's modesty
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    OL-BUT TARES WILL GO
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    Lane meeting
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    Children's Day '
    35 5 Children's Day TAIPING. Tues. Children's Day will be observed at Hua Lian Hish School on June 21. There will be a concert in the evening of June 20 at the school ground in Temple Street.
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    AT PLUNGING NECK
    77 5 mining our culture' boys I m of winid.son R. D. that forgotten. rhe girls— Wong Balk Im, Teoh Kirn Yean and Low Beng i Poh— said that Western civilisation had improved Eastern living standards, health and sanitation. It had brought freedom from fear and superstition, had improved
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    BOURNE VISITS FORTS AGAIN
    60 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Li- ut.-Grn. Sir Geoffrey Bourne, Director of Operations, revisitrd three Jungle forts in north Malaya during the we< kpnd. it wms announced today. He also met officers and men of the Royal Scots Fusiliers who began operations last week in the Butterworth and
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    $5 MILLION TECHNICAL SCHOOL FOR S'PORE
    339 5 $5 MILLION TECHNICAL SCHOOL FOR S'PORE PHE Singapore Government has been advised to build a $5,200,000 Polytechnic at Shenton Circus. While it is being built the heads of the departments of commerce and education. It is suggested, might begin activities in Raffles Institution. The report of the adviser. Mr A
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    Injured workers bill under fire
    327 5 SELECT COMMITTEE TAKES IT UP YEW proposals to provide compensation tor workers injured or killed on duty were restrictive and unfair in certain sections, said members in Singapore Legislative Council yesterday. The proposals are in the Workmen's Compensation Bill. which was given a second reading
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    Ex-convicts' jobs plea is rejected
    107 5 TiE Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode. in the Legislative Council yesterday replied to give an assurance thut Government jobs were open to ex-prisoners. Mr M. P. D. Nair (Ind Selotari suggested during thead-jou-nment that if the Government would sot a lead in employing
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    Decree nisi for stenographer
    40 5 PENANG. Tues.— A Pmang stenographer. Maria Ethel Castillo, was granted a decree nisi for the dissolution of her marriage to a protrsslonal boxer Alphouse Castillo. The application filed on the ground of desertion was not contested
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    $3,000 bail for woman
    45 5 $3,000 bail for woman TELUK ANSON, Tues. A woman, Wong Kirn Lian, 21 was granted bail ot $3,000 after she pleaded "not guilty" here to a charge of assisting in running a "1,000 characters" lottery at Immigrant Road. The case was postponed to June 21.
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    Mission on rubber sees estates
    99 5 Mission on rubber sees estates KUALA LUMPUR. Tues THE MISSION which Ls studying Malaya'.s rubber industry visited estates in the Kuala Lumpur area today. They were shown production statistics by estate managers and talked with workers. Before arriving in the Federation la-st week, the U>am had talks with rubber trade
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    STILL TWO YEARS TO MAKE A TEACHER
    200 5 r FHE Singapore Education Department, which tried A last year to start a three-year teachers' training course, has had to abandon its plans and go back to the former two-year course. The Director of Education. Mr. D. McLellan. who announced thLs yesterday. said
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      185 5 THE SINGAPORE DIARY < I.OTHIX*. SHOP: St Andrew s| 10 am., ballet 345 p m to fi p m Cathedral, south side. 3 p.m. to 530 KATONG CUB: fish-scale hand- P m work Presbyterian Boys' School. 6 EXHIBITION: Teachln? Aids by p.m. Education Department, Victoria Me- UI.M SHOW: Play Volley
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    49 6 M WtMl $10 (minimum) WONG SZE KIM and Family gratefully thank all Friends and Relatives for their help. Condolence ar.d attendance at his Wife's Funeral. THE FAMILY of the late Yong Chan, Kampar. thanks all friends and relatives who sent wr< messages, loaned cars and attended his funerak
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    60 6 20 H OTH% $>Jw (tflintftttltH BOESCH Hans Suddenly at Fenang on 13 6 M. Assistant of Diet helm and Co., Ltd. Funeral took Tuesday. O 0001 THIANG formerly o; Perking Municipality, died yesterday Funeral from 66, Jalan Benriahara. at 4.30 to Roman Catholic Cemetery. Ipoh. He 1* survived by
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    The Straits Times. Singapore, Wed. June 16, 1954 The Effective Majority
    1314 6 The Straits Times. Singapore, Wed. June 16, 1954 The Effective Majority Some of the Alliance members of the Federal Legis- lative Council who have been called on to resign are reported to he waiting to see if the elections oills are on the Orders of the Day for next week's
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      Teachers: Think less of rights, more of duties
      792 6 \f R. H. ENGLLEMEN says the Singapore Education Department should re-examine its policies. He forgets that while it may have a say in policy- j making, the Education J Department does not havei the whole say. Its main J business is to
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      Hospital assistants forgotten
      121 6 SINCE the liberation, several agency houses and board of directors of rubber estates have given responsible executive posts to Asian staff In recognition of their services. But so far, no hospital as- sistants have been promoted to executive posts. Only clerks, conductors and factory clerks have been
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      INDIA'S EFFORTS FOR WORLD PEACE
      170 6 THAT India, which has, after her independence, been devoting herself to the cause of peace, was not allowed to take part in th Geneva conference, the failure of which is fraught with the gravest consequences, was very unfortunate. Her participation would have produced a power
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      Member for Education and query
      234 6 RECENTLY the Malay Society i of Great Britain addressed a letter to the Member for Education in Kuala Lumpur requesting information in respect j of the number of students dis- 1 missed from Government Eng- lish schools in the Federation in 1953 owing to failure
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      Bus stop plea
      47 6 A REQUEST stop at Chia Keng village, oft Yio Chu Kang Road for users of S TC 18A buses should be put up at once. At present, one has to go a long way to get to a bus stand TEO AI CHOOX Singapore.
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      Help smallholders now before it is too late
      168 6 INDEED it augurs well for the future of this country that some smallholders are replanting "twice as much as they were paid for" as revealed recently by the Chief Replanting Officer. These smallholders have srxnt most or perhaps all of their savings
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      111 6 IN your issue of June 15. you published an extract from a letter ovrr my signature. I •wish to make it clear tl at the interview was not given oy any I member of the staff oi Ewart and Company as reported in j your issue
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      Affairs of branches and party
      203 6 Affairs of branches and party AS agreed at the Malayan Labour Party annual conference in Penang, the Singapore Labour Party is hereafter, to function as a branch of the Malayan Labour Party. This, automatically, makes the Singapore party .ollow the constitution of the M.L.P. According to a spokesman of the
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      Kuantan needs a co-op store
      183 6 Kuantan needs a co-op store ABOUT 18 months ago the starting of a co-operative store In Kuantan was mootrd but because no suitable premises were available the matter was left in abeyance. The Pahang Government head offices are being gradually moved to Kuantan. the State capital. A co-operattvr store is
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      Bring students back to senses
      125 6 IT IS time the camping- out high school students of Singapore stopped their stupid pranks. They must try and make amends for a mistake which they did In a flush of exuberance. They have brought discredit to themselves and to their Institution. The students must
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      14 6 On the Margin Orde, 0 Malayan pJ Gun site s I 1 STAM.EI STI
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    Rifle went off while I was kylarking-corporal
    307 7 BRWE_OF SIXj^EKS kOOKED UP mum THEN SAYS COUNSEL «r, |li;; rues. Killl'dKAl. M B m in with H> rt;i r on i practical I|M "J. h B here that iol while 3 kins;-" He 1 itemenl Inr liis md mur- him kntt I
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    THE MUCH BINDING MAN FLIES INTO SINGAPORE
    25 7 THE MUCH BINDING MAN FLIES INTO SINGAPORE 8.8.C. and television star Ke nneth Hornr and his wife Marjorie. at Kalians Airport yrstrrday. Straits Times picture.
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    ENTRY LAW ENDS VICE TRAFFIC
    213 7 But few girls still sneak in from the Federation the new Immigration Ordinance came into force in- Singapore last August, trafficking in women and girls for prostitution has ended This was stated yesterday in the annual report of the Singapore Social Welfare Department. The report
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    Pensions Bill is law now
    47 7 The Pensions < Amendment) i Bill was passed in the Singa- j pore Legislative Council yester- j day. At the last meeting the Goveminent Rave an assurance that the amended law would carry no new powers for dismissing officers under amended Colonial regulations.
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    Singer sees the press
    61 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tups Rp- porters met the Hong Kone film star and singer. Mlss Hoong Sin Nui. at luncheon, soon after her arrival here to- 1 day During her three weeks here I Miss Hoong will make personal atace appearances at the Pavilion Theatre, which will
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    HIS HOBBY IS BEING RADIO AND TV STAR
    144 7 HIS HOBBY IS BEING RADIO AND TV STAR 4 BRITISH businessman k with a "very profitable hobby" arrived in Singapore by Qantas airliner from London yesterday. To bit business associates, he is Mr. Home, sales director of Triplex Safety Glass Co.. Liri. To mi. lions of radio listeners and television
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    Bill to protect pensions
    69 7 A Bill to preserve the existing pension rights of officers on the Malayan Establishment on the termination of the Establishment was read a first time in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday. The Bill will regulate the granting of pensions, gratuities and other allowances to officers who
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    Driver fined
    35 7 An Air Force lorry driver, i Ahmad bin Senawi. was fined $45 in Singapore yesterday for negligent driving. Ahmad collided with a bus at 6 3 4 m.s. Tampenis Road on Feb. 5.
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    MAN WHO IS SORRY GETS SEVEN YEARS
    183 7 He helped the terrorists PENANG, Tuesday. i RUBBER tapper, Chan Foo Tai. aged 53, who promised to turn over a new leaf and co-operate with the Government was sent to prison today for: seven years for consorting with bandits. The sentence, the maximum.
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    Body in sea
    9 7 Thr unidentified body or an yesterday.
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    Indian view of Malayajust bandits
    137 7 KUALA LUMPUH. rues pEOPLt in India are still lg 1 norant of the economic and political progress Malaya Is making today. Mr R. Ramani a Kuala Lumpur lawyer told the Straits Times today Mr. Ramani returned yesterday after a month in India Hr said- "There
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    Indians pick officials
    64 7 The Batu Gajah Indian Association officials are: President. Mr. M. Govinda-r-amy: secretary. Mr S. P. Subramaniam: treasurer. Mr. A. R Annamalal. sports secretary. Mr. G. S. Raj; committee: Messrs. T. K. Sinnappan. K. Sockalingum. K R Vllvanathan. Packrisamy. E. Duralsamy Nadar. V. Kayambu Pillay. Vadlvel, V. Retnam.
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    Consul-General is leaving
    26 7 Dr. F. A Van Woerden. the Netherlands Consul-General in Singapore, will leave on June 30. He is to represent the Netherlands at Warsaw.
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    Guidance talk
    44 7 Mi.ss J. M Robertson, senior lecturer In social studies at the University of Malaya, will talk on vocational guidance in Britain at the Association of Engineers Building, 11 Raffles Quay. Singapore, at 5.30 p.m.. tomorrow. The meeting is open to the public.
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    BE OUR GUEST, SAYS GOVT.
    67 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tups. The Federation Government has sent an official invitation to Madamp Vljayalak-shml Pandit, president of the United Nations General Assembly, to be Its guest during her stay In this country. The Invitation has been conveyed to Madame Pandit through the Representative of the
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    Now a race to give us better petrol
    148 7 r'O fuel companies in Singapore are racing neck and neck in an all-out struMle to be first on the market with better petrol. They arc the Shell and Stand-ird-Varuum Oil companies. ■hgl announced ye»terda> that hy the beginning of September thr> expect
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    KEPT IN SAME CLOTHES 2 WEEKS
    123 7 KEPT IN SAME CLOTHES 2 WEEKS ABDUL LATIFF BIN YAHAYA, a former court usher, asked a Singapore magistrate yesterday to be allowed to go home to change his clothes. He said tie had been wearinu them for two weeks. Tho magistrate. Mr D. H Chapman, looked at Abduiv buttonless shirt,
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    'Use' less water' appeal
    42 7 TELUK ANSON lin The current drought is giving concern to the rublir Works authorities who have appealed to the town people to use le t On Sunday th° water supply It off for <hree hours in the alternoon.
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    PATROLS SHOOT AT EACH OTHER
    104 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday TWO area security unit patrols firrd at each oth( r in mistake in the Mentakab area of Pahang last night. A Special Constabulary sergeant suffered a slight cut in che hran. No 4 Police Field Force killed a terrorist and seriously wounded
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    10 pupils escape in smash
    75 7 10 pupils escape in smash BUT MAN DIES ipoh. Tuea. TEN schoolchildn escaped when the Army lorry in which tru were travelling arc a five-ton civilian lorry were In collision in Gopeng Road. Ipoh, today. Thi civilian lorry overturned and an attendant, Chont? X" S' tis. wu plnn< d He
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    Board studying planting costs
    43 7 Kl'Al.A LUMPUR. Tues. The Rubber Replanting Board Is collecting statistics from smallholders about, their replanting cost" inquiry follows criticisms by Penghulus and small holders thai the present ing grant of $400 an acre was insufficient to meet their needs.
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      179 7 The weather MIN I M I M TKMPERATIRE: i 7.30 p m. on June 14 to 7.30 am on June 15) Singapore 77 degrees, Penan- 74. KoU Bahru 75. Kuala Lumpur not received, Ipoh 73, KuantHii 73. MA X 1M I M TKMPKRATI'RK: (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p m. on
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    RAJ ASKS NEW DEAL FOR ARMY MEN
    191 8 RAJ ASKS NEW DEAL FOR ARMY MEN MR. C. R. DASARATHA Raj (Lab.— Rochore) will move at the next Singapore Legislative Council meeting that the Secretary of State for the Colonies be asked to 1 improve the position of locally recruited employees of the armed forces in the Colony. He
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    Aston Athletic Club officials
    84 8 The Aston Athietic Cnib officials are: Patrons. Messrs Chin Yons j Lock. Wee Eng Chye and Yeo Hock Sens: president Mr. Tan Ewe Chee; vice-presidents Messrs Tan Chee Sens. Soh Geok Pitt. Loo Cheng Lim Hens: Senc Cheng; .-.ecretary, Mr. Lim Tin Soon: treasurer. Mr. Wong
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    Night robbery
    20 8 Two men robbed a man of $6 in Cheng Van Place, oft* Victoria Street. Singapore, on Monday nisht.
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    Prize films at Lake Gardens
    42 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Five Malayan Film Unit productions which won awards at the film festival in Tokyo will be shown at the Lake Gardens this weekend. The film on General Tern piers departure will also be shown.
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    HOSPITAL SHIP IS A LINER AGAIN
    127 8 Jutlandia due on Monday JUTLANDIA. which served as a hospital ship in Korea. J la expected in Singapore on Monday as a passenger liner. Built in 1934 for the Copen-hagen-Singapore-Bangkok run of the East Asiatic Company. the vessel was .switched to the Copenhagen-New York
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    Visitor from Tasmania
    70 8 IPOH. Tues— Mr T. G. Pearsail, whip of the Tasmanlan Liberal Party, who represents the Tasmanian oranch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, was the guest on Sunday night of the chairman of the Council of Perak District Planting Association. Mr J E S Crawford. atPhlnSoon •state Sungel
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    Lottery fines on two
    45 8 Lottery fines on two Urn Ah Hions was yesterday fined $2,000 or three months' caol in Singapore for Milsting in running a ch;ii ii lottery at Kallane Road on June 14. Tan How Tin was fined $3,000 or three months' saol for a similar offence.
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    Top jobs for the local men
    327 8 Top jobs for the local men REPORT TELLS OF DIVISION 1 VACANCIES IMPORTANT ROLE OF OVERSEAS TRAINING IMPORTANT recommendations opening the way for local officers to take over top public service jobs which will fall vacant in the next 10 years were tabled in the Singapore Legislative Counci yesterday. The
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    MALAYANS TO MARRY IN LONDON
    77 8 MALAYANS TO MARRY IN LONDON MALACCA. Tues.— Robert Chee Tiang Teck and Miss Ann Lam Yee Cheng, both Bachelor of Arts graduates of the University of Malaya, will be married in London tomorrow. Robert, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Chee Koon Kay, of Malacca, and a former AngloChinese School
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    4 newsmen for Britain
    62 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Four Malayan journalists have been chosen to join a Press party which is to visit Britain next month as guests of the [Colonial Office. They are Inche Ahmad Zaki. of Warta Negara. Mr. Tan Sior.g Hoon. of Malay Mail. Mr. Wong Yit Cho.
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    TEN-HOUR FIGHT IN SHIP FIRE
    142 8 TEN-HOUR FIGHT IN SHIP FIRE Sea water saves a freighter rpHE CREW of a freighter X fought a raging fire for ten hours at the height of the south-west monsoon. The ship, the 6.789-ton Tour coins of the Wilhelm WUhelmsen Line, was a day out j of Aden when the
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    TRUCK HIT BUS SHELTER
    130 8 TRUCK HIT BUS SHELTER On reliability test WHILE a Naval Ba.se lorry was or. a reliablitv test it crashed into a bus sheltrr killing two ueoule in it. Mr. T Kulasekaram a Singapore fudge, was told yesterday In the dock was Chia Kum charged with caiutnf the death of Milakanta
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    Council expert attends session
    43 8 Ml D W S. Lidderdale. expert on Council procedure and standing orders, attended his first meetina or the Singapore Legislative Council yesterdayHe had oeen invited by the Government to advise the Council He will be here until next month
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    A.A. insurance concession
    41 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Seiangor and Panang branch of the Automobile Association is to discuss the Singapore A.A.'s insurance scheme at its next meeting. Sinpapore today announced its plans for a 10 per cent motor insurance concession for members
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    THEY HELPED THEMSELVES
    72 8 Coffee shop theft IPOH. Tues— While the proprietor and the assistants of a Chinese coffee shop in Cowan Street were busy last night attending to eight Indian customers, one of the Indians slipped behind the counter and stole $100. The Indians arrived about 9.30 p.m. and ordered
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    Boy, 11, stabs hawker
    42 8 An 11-yoar-old boy stabbod a hawker in China Street. Singapore on Monday afternoon. The boy was earlier beaten oy his father for annoying the hawker. The hawker was wounded in the shoulder. Police have detained a boy. 1
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    15 COMMUNITY JOBS TO BE MADE PERMANENT
    138 8 I^IFTEEN jobs as temporary i supervisors in the chililicn's social centres in Singapore are to become permanent posts of community centre instructors. An officer of the Social Welfare Department. Mr. A. B. Weathcrall. yesterday said that as more community centres were built, the
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      351 8 rl%^». Ci...'l. T' I 28. Sounds ominous in the wood Ihe Mraits Times Crossword 2.1. thou mnrble-hearted flend i~2~l T5 4 i"~T 6 (King Lean 1 11 V SSS 1 I I I I 2. At whose knee sits the older §i§ 7 <^ t§^ fe.v^ fc^\»* [^H student 1
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    1903 9 First step to war when madman burned the Reichstag TIMES special FEATURE I UST after 9 p.m. on Febr to sec tnndu r Germonv'c ph Uame llck »n£ "P the gilded dome of vatbu Idin* meiU H USe c Reichsta F later the whole filled rolt W r f tted>
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      148 9 ShvrUtvk Uolntvs This is ihv huiloi I L^7 AT i f A9T WE APF SU<?E OP vf9, IT IS THE CO<?«?FCT ThEn this 15 THE WEAPON T«AT KILLEP s~^ iLiik' ONE THING. THIS "5 THE CAL IBEP TO PIT INTO M HZb. GiBSON 'IT PPOVFS *1IS& DUUBAR 1 s* f
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    LONDON HITS SHARE MART
    562 10 Transactions dwindle THE weakness of the London Stock Exchange 1 which has been badly hit in the last t, market days by a depression induced by the deve lopments at Geneva and the fall of the French Government, is hitting the Singapore Shan Market. Although for
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    RUBBER PRICES
    182 10 July first grade rubber closed in Singapore yesterday at 66 cents a ;b a quarter of a cent below the price for the July position on Monday. The market opened steady around 66 1,8 cents a lb but sagged off to t>s 7 8 cents with trade inquiry
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    29 10 The Malayan Exchange Ban*s Association made the following changes in Its rates to merchants yesterday. Rivals selling T. T. or O. D. M 8 1 4 ready
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    22 10 HNGAPORE Jim, is TIN: S3b2 2:. per im.il (no change). RIBBKK: M cent Ih. (down a quarter n! i cent.).
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    JERAM SHAMES
    115 10 The share circular ol ing brokering firm ij November 1953 the Government Required acres at Petallng from Jeram Rub.. and according to a i respondent in a local i papt r. the purchase pru been fixed at $1,200 per b "Assuming this to b< th< sale proceeds won!
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    115 10 Ships Ivinc alongside the Blafapore Harbour Board wharves peeled today arc: Slrrl Vcn Cai-nnus 4 5. Enkei A^apenor 6 7, Celebes 89. coing 11. Straat Bali 13 H 15 16. Burma 18. TJimenU n Angby N. Wall 4 to 5. Wall 6. Sediii N Wall 8 i 21
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    103 10 Singapore Chinese Produi chance: noon prices per pi Copra- stead-: .'uly $3: $32 sellers: Aucum $30 I $31 4 sellers. Coconut a $66 sellers. Peppe: ties up $5. am ill bu Muntoi white Si' in 8 Lam pong black 114 H C. B. Ltd. closinc nut oil: $53
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      457 10 1 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS VACANCY FOR THE POST OF A TEMPORARY VETERINARY OFFICER, PAHANG Applications are Invited from Citizens ol the Federation o: Malaya, for the post of a tempoiary Assistant Veterinary Officer in Division II on a salary scale of S4OB-A24-528 576A24-720 per mensem plus Cost of Living Allowance at
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      907 10 TENDERS CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE TENDERS WATER DEPARTMENT: (a) PurchaM of Scrap Materials Close N00N— 21.6.54. (b) Supply of Brass Stop Taps. Tender Deposit $50. Close 4 p.m.— 21.7.54. P. W. D. TENDER NOTICE Tenders will close at 12 noon on |28lh June 1954. at the offlre of the Director
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      449 10 TENDERS P. W. D. TENDER NOTICE Tenders will be received from Registered Contractors Class "E" and above at tht Office of the State Engineer. Negrl Sembllan. up to I Noon of the 25th June. 1954 for the Construction of Additional Police Buildings at Port Dlckson. Plans and Specifications may be
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      88 10 ARGENTINE BUYS For the third successive month ihe I nited lUtef was Malaya's best cus tomer for rubber in Mi\ purchasing 16.251 tons against Great Britain s 14.351 tons. In the first five months of the year total exports to the IK. tot-tl 81.791 tons against America's 72,048 tons. Total
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      108 10 FOR,, i be ev eryw he r. Killed in 7 M MOicNINGCOi Help Kidi Stop Back. Cystex F«r KMltfl Those Who fa Preier BOHT nil. if RIM.U MEW YORK Fi> Pan American I „a Bangkok through Euro>» I on *t, ij 1 Mfc* i Pa/vAMEHI^ j Th.7r«.*. MESSACERIES MAKITI"^ I
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      890 11 MANSFIELD <& CoZvrDT^TZ^ >opore) ,"0 line, DCOE FUNNEL LINE tW' ptotccd vio other port, to load m --J-J.v'ERrOOL. GLASGOW, LONDON, ft oSS^gg^^gf* P Shonl Penang Ju iVU Jur- I V G. 33/34 June 17 J un iunc2 Jun SZM is: 2,/,o June 28 July 4 Ju.y s/4 Ju(y f June
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      950 11 EAST ASIATIC LINES Aoen, Port So',d G Gen? o CON f TININ T/SCANOINAV|A "MALAYA" Spor p S'hom Peno-ig I TaS!&sr i^ "o/^rjn. 4/ Juhf iu "«> Call,' L^n 01 1 nd K «"«»om a lS OmHt 6y ll SAILINGS FROM SCANDINAVIA/UK /CONTINENT -ASIA" to, Kor»khong ft ypO P S horn
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      1063 11 BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. SAILINGS to U.K. and CONTINENTAL PORTS Spore P. S'hom r'enong Benalder for L'vcrrvioi. Oublln, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg 20/24 June 27/29 Jun. 30 June/ 2 July Benlawer. for Avonmouth, London. Newcattle, Hull 28 June/3 July 2S/27 June 4/ S July Benvorlkh for Liverpool, Gkngow, Rotterdam, Antwerp 11/17
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      1175 11 McALISTER tft CO., LTD. TEL: No. ***** BLLERMAN A BUCKNALL KLAVENESS LIKE LONDON, HAVRE, ROTTERDRAM, LOS ANGELES. SAN FRANCISCO. HAMBURG ft HULL "OBTIAND SEATTLE, ft VANCOUVER and fnr U <■> North Atlontlc Porti Accepting corgo for Central ft South and Canada via .Colombo American Pert. CITY Of CHICAGO CASTLEVILLE Spor.
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    A VIEW OF GALILEE
    337 12 I II ItILICAL tcentM art *mon§ the landscapes that are a feature on the MW airmail stamps tutted by Israel. Thc^e uill certainly help to round of the (/rowing collection of rs for this country. You may remember that the ..of Israel caused quite a stir
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    Conundrum
    36 12 Q. What Ls the difference between a seagull and a >.u--lor? A. The seagull sees over the ■•111 and the sailor sails over the sea. Q. What ship is the best of all? A. Friendship.
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    798 12 Ah Kirn and Kciui Wee su allow two more magic pills which carry them forward in tune to the year 2.000. They are taken into a flying Htueer and told to lie flat on thr tin, r for the take off. NOW READ ON. AH KIM and
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    Those First Radios
    413 12 MRENOASAMY, of Serendah wants to know who first discovered radio. No one person discovered radio. The knowledge of it was gradually built up and added to by many men. In 1827 a man called Savai y experimented with a steel magnetized needle but the first patent for
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    Some Good Advice From Mother
    365 12 Dear Poys and Girls. Here are the six winners of our Knights Of The R^und Table painting enntc t Hannah Chenvan, aged Damansarj Rrad. Kuala Lu-ri-pur. Chew Tcng )m. 14, 3C Parting R ad, Pen.»n<. Tru-n Kent 245 Tembelmg Road. Singapore 15. Nashim Rahman aged
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    114 12 HERE Is a quiz based on folk lore and ancient tales. How many answers do you know? 1. Who appeared when Aladdin rubbed his lamp? 2. What was the name of the giant bird v the story <>f Sindbad the sailor? 3. What is the name of the
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      296 12 1&& LIFT THATstfVEIU v» in »h«npoo» V'mcKhc** Liquid [1 Srun:r* ><l contains no map... its huhM\ V"^ p lather rinvcv "in cumplctcK lca\rs your ruir i[ Jtnl line' Give your hair this soft 011 (h ful loveliness.. ugK- *^1 jß^Pd********* dive you 1 it this loft, youthful knrdim 1 V'ur
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    TAKE WIDE SCREEN IN TOUGH RACE
    262 13 TAKE WIDE SCREEN IN TOUGH RACE YEW '.EAR, Wide Screen ana Neveradoubt three stylish winner* at Bukit Tim.ih last month dash in Rare Seven, which may be the nioM interesting race in today's card. Wi-h Pi ny out. CoUMgua Bin II all in tip top In the iine-up die ta.nly
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    TODAY'S GOING
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    THe Cydaris suited by straight 5½ firm track
    1124 13 THF cviHD Hy BPS °M JKEP 1 nn \l has been sh aP>"«: like a winner Hill tri i rami K traCk THe Stra 'K ht »^W« cham-n f Persian (;ulf the md in. H°fi m t ke the best of his
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    319 13 PEATURE FILM showed promise In his las' appearance at Bukit Timuh In Ma* wlit-n he BUM IB third to P"a<il Ftel^uver 7f. With h handy weight of flo this threc-yeur-old is certilnlv worth backing each-WttV In Knee Five today. It-. nine Film should go
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    494 14 ENGLAND LEAD BY 30 ON Ist INNS Then Pakistan get 121 for 3 LONDON, Tuesday. THE WRST Test (Ticket match between England and Pakistan, which was reduced by rain to less than a day and a half's play out of the scheduled five days, ended in the expected draw at
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    M'sex regain county lead
    220 14 LONDON. Tues. \f IDDLESEX, by beating Somers* iT by nine wickets today, have regained the lead In the county cricket championship. Ri Milts ol games ending today are \t Batii: Midri:. .~'mcrset by nine wickets. Somerset 88 iTHmus 5-27 1 and If 5 < Tltmus 5-57
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    S'gor BA action endorsed
    552 14 SPORTS LETTER T<HE SELANOOR Badminton Asx soctation has decided that an apology Is to be proferred by Abdullah Ptnu and Lim Koon Yam 1 two of the four players who went on the unauthorlstd tour of Formosa 1 before they are readmitted Into the Association. These
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    277 14 By TIIK SPO] VVEK heard of the music; j l^ Chelsea football team full-strength Snnderland eventually lost h—Z beca 1 delayed by fog, turned v Well, into tn funny stor'e.s must ro pore's very own fum the one about the diose. modern. \n I
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    TIGERS ON HUNT IN EARNEST
    306 14 Ticer S..\ 6; KotaKa.ja I TMGER Sporting Association, br.itm I— l by R.F..M I in their last game, took up their championship hunt in earnest again and did almost as they trilled with struggling Kota Raja in this S.A.F. V. first division game at Jalan
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    ANNUAL MATCH
    27 14 nual soccer m?.tri Singapore Cricket Club ai Club will be played nn I ground at 5.15 p.m tomorrow. troohv has betn donated r )mch Club.
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      124 14 >(K KR SBHI liaicue and < up: DIV I ulir Bukum v llongkonc Bank. Jalan Brsar: F S v <).T.l.< I {round: Mercantile Bank V Shell. SIIB (round: I»IV. B: Slme Darby v Singapore (old Storage Shell grounj. Breweries m.p.h.. Qaytuw: s.r.c i li iriiitd Bank. ST( ground. DIV. Cl
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