The Straits Times, 21 June 1955

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    14 1 The Straits Times He**""* Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JUNE 21', 1955 if 15 CENTS
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    PERON 'ON the WAY OUT'
    193 1 New 'strong man' General Lucero will head junta to end the dictator's rale 01! OF HOURS cifS REPORT Military boss wields power ORK, Mon. reach i n j; today Irom correspond- nth America rial President i a> dictator tina is almost sted that klin Lucero.
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    'MEET the CHIEF MINISTER'
    30 1 Marshal introduced to Marshall MARSHAL SONGGRAM is introduced 10 the Chief Minister, Air. David Marshall by thi Commissioner-General, M*. Malcolm Mac Donald (left). Straits Times picture.
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    PRIESTS GREET PREMIER
    233 1 Orange-robed Buddhists welcome Songgram POUR orange robed r Buddhist priests went to Kallang Airport last night to greet Marshal Pibun Songgram, the Siamese Prime Minister, who arrived in the Colony on the last stage of his world tour. The diminutive Marshal .stepped from the Pan-American clipper Fortuna
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    Lock icon London dockers call off their strike
    145 1 OTHER PORTS LIKELY TO FOLLOW LONDON, Monday. STRIKING dockers in the Port of London voted today to end the unauthorised walkout, now in its fifth week, which has piled up shipping in Britain's six biggest ports. At a mass meeting outside the dock gates,
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    Lock icon Prince's son is alive'
    58 1 VIENNA, Mon.— The longmissing son of the former Japanese Premier. Prince Konoye, is alive at Alexandrovsk prison camp in Russia, Austrian returnees from Soviet slave camps said today. They said the young Konoye was living in the camp with some 400 other Japanese officers and men
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    Lock icon Olympic ruling
    35 1 PARIS, Mon. The International Olympic Committee provisionally accepted Communist East Germany as a member today oa condition it forms a common team with free j West Germany for the 1956 Olympics.— U.P. Com-
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    A noisy day for 'dog of heaven'
    543 1 A noisy day for 'dog of heaven' WHILE superstitious TT Chinese in the Federation took yesterday's partial eclipse of the sun as a bad omen, the inhabitants of Singapore's Chinatown greeted it with a more scientific interest. Federation Chinese said yesterday was the first day of the fifth moon and
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    Dance hostess falls in sea
    44 1 A dance hostess, Lucy Chan Loke Chan, 30, fell into the sea at the Master Attendant's Pier. Singapore, at 1 a.m. today. She was rescued by a sampan man and taken to the General Hospital. Later she was discharged.
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    Lock icon Firemen get no pay rise after all
    75 1 Firemen get no pay rise after all LONDON, Mon. BRITAIN'S locomotive drivers, whose pay claim recently plunged the nation into a 17-day railway strike, were today awarded a rise of between one shilling and three shillings a week. Railway firemen, who also took part in the stoppage, were not granted
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    End Emergency plea to Eden
    58 1 The Malaya Independence Movement, whose chairman is Inche Ibrahim Yaacob. a former colonel in a Japanesesponsored para-military force in Malaya, has sent a telegram to the British Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, asking him to abolish the Emergency Regulations in Malaya. The telegram was sent
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    One wife order
    23 1 BANGKOK. Mon. Police here have been forbidden to have more than one wife "legal or illegal"— under a new order.
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    LEE IS BACK—BUT WITH LITTLE TO SAY
    278 1 LEE IS BACK— BUT WITH LITTLE TO SAY On holiday, he was not always in touch with those strikes By FRANCIS WONG TANNED from a fortnight's 1 holiday, the secretary general .of the People's Action Party, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, received the Press yesterday. During his absence, Singapore went through
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    BIG BLACKOUT ROLLS OVER ALL OF ASIA
    363 1 Tin can concerto greets eclipse in Malaya: Clouds foil the scientists in Ceylon rpHE longest total eclipse in this century some A scientists say the longest in nearly 1250 years yesterday rolled an 18-mile wide path of darkness over Asia. The moon blanked
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    Lock icon Siberia mine captives revolt
    207 1 Siberia mine captives revolt WIENER NEUSTADT, (Austria), Mon. SEVERAL Austrians who returned here today from Soviet captivity told of a revolt in which "we simply tore Russian guards apart with our bare hands and trampled on them." The insurrection took place in what they said was a ura- nium mine
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    STOP PRESS
    42 1 ■RAN TO CONQI ER SIMGAPOaS 1 TAII'KH. Mon—Nationalist Chinese T.ii.m news .ncncv s.tid today lied China ha-, ohms for conquest Singapore and M.ilav.i within three years. Agency said the It id-. hoped la <<> this by su!>ver>ion and armi-d inlillralion. A.l'
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    Lock icon On the wedding night, they parted at 10.30
    266 2 On the wedding night, they parted at 10.30 TENNIS STAR HOAD AND GIRL MARRIED IN SECRET BUT— LONDON, Monday. i BRIEF honeymoon "somewhere in London" ended at 10.30 last nijjht for Australian Davis (up star Lewis Hoad and hies Australian bride, ennifcr Stanley, who married in secret here yesterday. Harry
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    Lock icon THAT GLOW OF JOY IS GOLDEN IN THIS CHAPEL
    83 2 IN THE NEW window less cylindrical chapel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the altar is bathed in golden light This picture was made by natural light which enters the chapel from the skylight and *is reflected by pieces of sold
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    Lock icon REDFLAGS ARE UP
    136 2 To mark seventh year of 'war' SINGAPORE police found six Communist flags in various parts of the City yesterday morning. A police spokesman said that they were to mark the seventh anniversary of the declaration of Emergency in Malaya. The Emergency was declared on June 20. 1948.
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    Lock icon Fires in Algeria
    26 2 PARIS. Mon. Algerian nationalists started big farm fires m the Constantine and Philippeville areas on Saturday night, reports reaching here today said— A.P
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    Lock icon De Gaulle loses
    29 2 PARIS, Mon.— Geh. Charles de Gaulle's former Rally of the French People was the biggest loser last night in the senatorial elections in metropolitan France. U.P
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    SON OF PRIME MINISTER IS ATTACKED
    108 2 SON OF PRIME MINISTER IS ATTACKED OSTEND. Mon. Rioting Catholics, demonstrating against a Government school reform bill, today attacked Mr. Frans Vanackers. son of Belgium's Prime Minister, while he was sitting quietly in a quay-side cafe here. A policeman rushed to Mr. Vanackers' aid. The mob. screaming insults and antiGovernment
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    Bombs thrown in bars
    64 2 NICOSIA. Mon. Terrorist I t nibs exploded la^t night in t .vo bars and in the garden of a house occupied by Brigadier A. H. G. Ricketts. Commander of British troops in the Cyprus district. No casualties were reported. Both the bars belong to an Englishman
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    CARS CHANGE COLOURS NIGHT AND DAY
    90 2 NEW YORK. Mon.— Well, after all these gaudy two-toned jobs turned out by the Detroit carmakers, it seems we have not seen anything yet. An entirely new burst of colours is promised for next season's models. A big dealer says: "Cars will change colours
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    Lock icon Out of the fog—lB4 'lost' men return
    200 2 Out of the fog— lB4 'lost' men return WIENER NEWSTADT, Mon. A TRAIN from Russia loomed out of the fog at dawn today and stopped at this little provincial station bring- ing 184 Austrian prii soners of war and internees back to freedom. A crowd of weeping, laughing and cheering
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    $70 armed robbery
    35 2 A young couple walking in Simon Road, off Serangoon Road. Singapore at 12.20 a.m. yesterday were robbed by three armed cyclists They lost two gold bangles and a wrist watch worth $70.
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    The early tapper gets a year
    57 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Daud bin Madl. 27. who was found tapping rubber before dawn with the aid of a lamp, was sent to 12 months' ia.il yesterday for illegal possession of rubber. A boy. Mohamed AH bin Kana. 15. who was with him, was
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    Pilgrim probe
    25 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Inche Albakrl Mustapha. Member for Industrial and Social Relations, will leave for Arabia on July 6 to investigate pilgrimage amenities.
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    BRITISH BOOKMAKER MAKES MILLION
    169 2 A problem LONDON, Mon. Tifß. WILLIAM HILL, 1T the bookmaker, of Piccadilly-circus, is richer by £1,050,000. But Just how that happened is a mystery. A company called Holders Investment Trust has bought Mr. Hill's football pools firm— which does an annual £8.000.--000 business with punters— for
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    Lock icon PROTEST NOTE TO AMERICA
    64 2 LONDON, Mon. The Soviet Embassy In Washington has handed to the American State Department a protest note on the Soviet tanker Taupse, detained by Chinese Nationalists in Formosa. Moscow Radio reported. The Soviet Note, the flfth since the tanker was seized in June 1954. -formally protested
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    NINEACCUSED OF POLLS ATTACK
    300 2 NINEACCUSED OF POLLS ATTACK 'Mob beat us up, two tell court TWO LABOUR FRONT supporters grave evidence in the Singapore Seventh Police Court yesterday at the trial of nine men who are alleged to have beaten them up at an election rally on March 13. The Labour Front men, John
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    Report on graft: Govt. acts
    214 2 Report on graft: Govt. acts GENERAL ORDERS TO BE REVISED KUAL,A LUMPUR, Mon. THE Federation Govern- ment is examining suggestions to reduce corruption put forward by the Taylor Commission which inquired into graft in Government offices. Some of the commission's recommendations have been put into force. -The others now under
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    38 2 f»IESD .V? pRWCESS i* will be Aueust 15. ha 9 and he is a a the Bini/Jgjl Thf> columnist Sirs;.Leonard horses' and met C J* at a riding stable Pfloce during on, of r "X* and E;
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    Royal weekend
    29 2 WINDSOR. M on Hussein and Queer. Dm Jordan spent the uwk"«H Windsor Castle £?,l Queen and the D I burgh as part of 1 visit to Britain.-fs"
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    Russians freed
    22 2 BERLIN. Mon -Five !>■•* civilians were rtleaspd by B tish authorities yesterday a being held overnight becac they were "acting suspicioi
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    MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN
    56 2 NEW YORK, Mon.— Tlii longest criminal trial in the VS. ended in New York yesterday, after 14 months less two days. Two contractors and three city workers were convicted of defra city by building a The jurors got MS9'a it expenses, phis lvi and received full
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    RAVE ON ARMS—TO SPEND ON PROGRESS
    172 3 RAVE ON ARMS— TO SPEND ON PROGRESS The munitions of peace are instil hn« M +y and reB pect for others' i Ike 's plan to banish f(ars of atomic war SAN FRANCISCO, Monday M1)K M EISENHOWER today appealed to rorfd lor an end to the present "race in He
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    Lock icon NEHRU CRUISES DOWN THE VOLGA An interpreter aids the visitor's daughter.
    63 3 NEHRU CRUISES DOWN THE VOLGA An interpreter aids the visitor's daughter. THE Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru (rignt) on a two-week visit to Russia, chats with the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister. Mr. Kuzneizov, as they cruise by yacht down the River Volga south ofStalingr ad. Leaning over the rail is
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    Lock icon No exchange of top atom secrets
    91 3 No exchange of top atom secrets B LONDON, Mon RITAIN and 'the United States will exchange a range of information on atomic defence they will partially the veil of atomic secrecy between them soon. Two government White Papers gave details of the Anplo American agreement signed in Washington on June
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    Lock icon Scelba cabinet reshuffle
    69 3 ROME, Mon. Premier Mario Scelba's Cabinet ministers resigned their portfolios tc him today to allow a reshuffle of the government. Mr. Scflba is expected to complete the reshuffling in time to present his Cabinet to parliament for a crucial test of confidence later this week. A.P. 3
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    Lock icon Doctors fight for girl's life
    251 3 ORDER TAKES CHILD FROM PARENTS NEW YORK, Mon. DOCTORS worked feverishly yesterday to save a critically ill week-old grirl who was taken away from her parents by court order after they objected to blood transfusions for her on religious grounds. Authorities at Englewood Hospital. New
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    VIETNAM REBELS PLAN A GOVT.
    204 3 Political move to oust Diem SAIGON, Monday. ENEMIES of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem have joined forces to oust him by political manoeuvring after they failed to do so by force of arms, informed sources said. The chief of the rebel Hoa Hao sect. Gen. Tran
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    WOMAN INSURED FOR TRIP TO MARS-NO CASH WITHOUT BODY
    100 3 WOMAN INSURED FOR TRIP TO MARS-NO CASH WITHOUT BODY LONDON, Mon. A BRITISH insurance company has agreed to insure an American woman waiting to fly to the planet Mars but a special clause in the policy reads "non -return is no proof of death.*' Reporting this yesterday, the Sunday Dispatch
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    Lock icon Reds are ahead in air power
    217 3 Reds are ahead in air power SENATE WARNED WASHINGTON, Mon. T<HE Soviet Union is A ahead of the United States in Jet fighters and jet light bombers, and is probably ahead in two more classes of air craft according to Senator Stuart Symington, former Secretary of the Air Force. In
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    Lock icon Children drown
    35 3 NEW YORK. Mon. Three children were reported drowned in a farm storm cellar near Juanah. West Texas. early yesterday as violent hail and rain storms lashed a wide section of the state.— AP.
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    Lock icon Seato economic experts meet
    45 3 KARACHI, Mon. Economic experts from the eight SEATO nations today opened a three-day conference on economic development in SouthEast Asia. Delegations from Australia, France. New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines. Slam, Britain and the United States began arriving here last week. —U.P.
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    Lock icon German demand
    41 3 HANOVER, Mon. The West German Refugee Minister, Mr. Theodor Oberlaender, has called on the Russians to return thQusands of German prisoners held since the war as a sign they are sincere about "normalising" relations between the two countries. U.P-
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    Lock icon Ridgway to be full general
    43 3 WASHINGTON, Mon.—President Eisenhower today nominated Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway. Army Chief of Staff, to be retired with the rank of full general. Gen. Ridgway will retire June 30. He will be succeeded by Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor.— U.P.
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    Lock icon Mutiny festival
    29 3 LONDON, Mon. The Russian Black Sea fleet Is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution when sailors mutinied aboard the battleship Potemkin in Sevastopol harbour.— U.P.
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    Lock icon Japs dare guns to 'saye9 Mount Fuji
    170 3 Japs dare guns to 'saye 9 Mount Fuji TOKYO. Mon. Japanese demonstrators shouting "kill us if you want" halted American artillery practice at the foot of Mt. Fuji today by foi«cing their way into an American camp and into the practice area. Firing was scheduled to DeKin soon after 9
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    LONDON STOCKS
    414 3 LONDON. Mon. HPHE stock markets were cheerful 1 here today, helped by favourable weekend comment and confidence In the long-term economic position, with industrials and oils particularly prominent. Government securities were better although in some cases their early gains were not fully maintained. Industrials were under good selective
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    Trainees bag 2 real bandits
    405 4 4 DIE AT THIS END OF THEIR SEVEN WICKED YgA tt<f SIX WALKED INTO PLATOON BASE AND BECAME LIVE PRACTICE TARGETS SEGAMAT, Monday. TODAY is the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the Emergency and four terrorists have been killed by the security forces in
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    Man run over by train
    38 4 A man was knocked down by a passenger train at Bukit Panjang. Singapore, yesterday. The man, Raman Veerasamy, a 35-year-old shop-as-slstant. died in Johore Bahru General Hospital 10 minutes after he was admitted.
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    Y.W.C.A. dance
    18 4 The Y.W.C.A. International Women's Club dance is to be held at Raffles Hotel. Singapore, on Thursday.
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    Wanted: Loan of $30 million
    128 4 Wanted: Loan of $30 million FINANCE FOR CITY COUNCIL JOBS THE Singapore City 1 Council will ask the public soon for a loan of $30 million to finance gas, electricity and waterworks expansion. The council will meet on Friday to consider the loan proposal. The loan Is to oe offered
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    500 attend bank reception
    44 4 The Oversea-Chinese BankIng Corporation yesterday opened a new branch in Malacca Street, Singapore. More than 500 guests attended a reception. Mr. Tan Chin Tuan. the bank's managing director, and Mr. Tan Hong Ghim. the new branch manager, welcomed the guests.
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    Trishaman had legs on handle
    59 4 PENANG, Mon. A trisha rider, Khoo Ah Poon. 26, who placed his legs on the handle bar of his trisha, was today cautioned and discharged for not having proper control of his vehicle while riding it in Pitt Street yesterday. For using abusive language to
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    RELIEF WORK PLAN FOR JOBLESS
    176 4 THE Singapore Government has land development schemes to give relief work to the unemployed. Much more planning remains to be done before the jobless can be absorbed into these schemes. One scheme is the reclama- I day tlon of land in the Jurong area, which
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    Riots: Youth acquitted
    102 4 Ooh Ah Pong. 18, whose plea of guilty was rejected last Monday, was acquitted by a Singapore court yesterday of a charge that he was with a mob which threw stones at the police during the May 12 riots at Alexandra Road. When Ooh's case came up
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    ROW IN STATION ALLEGED
    59 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. A planter, John C. Binns. Ulu Tiram. was accused in the Magistrate's Court here today of Intimidating the officer in charge of Ulu Tiram police station on May 2. He was also charged with behaving In a disorderly manner while carrying a firearm
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    Golden Rotary beauty looks to that California trip
    84 4 YESTERDAY'S entrant for the "Miss Malaya Quest" is Miss Wan Rahman Al-Ka-fawi. 24. a Singapore Malay beauty (above). Miss Wan Rahman was a contestant in the "Miss Golden Rotary" beauty competition in April. The organisers announced last night that there will be
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    Man with $30,000 love nest
    285 4 WIFE Mo. 2 PAID FOR IT- HE WANTS WIFE No. ftf PENANG. Mon. A cigar manufacturer, Yeoh Long Hoo, who disclosed in court that his second wife gave him $30,000 to buy a house, offered today to take back his first wife if she agreed
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    Westerling won't be allowed to land in the Colony
    108 4 "Turco" Westerllng. who is reported to be sailing to Indonesia in a yacht loaded with arms, has very little chance of being allowed to land in Singapore if his ship calls in the Colony. Westerllng, who fought and lost a war
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    BIG GUNS BLAST RED GANG
    71 4 BIG GUNS BLAST RE D GANG 4 RM?' Joh Mo Baturday^S?S J 5 Bonnatt* v of Bp nut Estat, MS bet* "a^ and cut the wH Benin Estau twS After Saturdail "I" 1 *h.ichMr.Bo r n nl tS^ 'y 'njumi in th? a V' ;r: rorists moved Vn tfc? 'J
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    Council meeting
    17 4 KUALA LUMPUR Ma The Selangor State Cm will meet here on Ml 12. 10 a.m. <•*•!
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    OH—NO FREE FILMS TO SWAY VOTERS?
    342 5 OH— NO FREE FILMS TO SWAY VOTERS? Time limit on election rallies cramps the style of these politicians $cc spokesman says: Our men need sleep IPOH, Monday. iJfICAL PARTIES in the Federation are onH ,|ainin>r that the time limit set by the rn nunt on election rallies will severely I
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    Joe and Ben are together again after 38 years
    306 5 Joe and Ben are together again after 38 years IT ALL STARTED IN RUSSIA By REX SCAMBARY KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. U/HEN 13-year-old Joe M Speelman was studying the cello at a music academy in Russia in 1917. he was told that if he sang as he played, his music would
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    Hong Kong's way sCHOOL POLITICS IRE OUT
    66 5 Hong Kong's way sCHOOL POLITICS IRE OUT Hong Kong xrellent and •ike no part M .i most :s taught ng schools in Chinese. in SingaMr. Lim Ith session committee into probtducation the Colony Hews sought il of the in Hung i.ist for. ntinuing his Lneae school Kong. Singapore last it
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    conductor appeals
    28 5 conductor appeals Traction Com- r Teo Swee fir a year rminal breach nts. In two sureranted by the Judge, Mr F. en Mr. N. A. Too. gave no-
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    BANK CLERKS TO MEET
    58 5 d Mon. Bank clerks 1 the Federation in Penang on '■i\ to consider working fe has the support of ederation of Clerical \dminNtrative Staff Unions which met in Penang yesterday. The Federation also resolved to back any move to form a national union of commercial workers
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    IT WAS ALL RUSH FOR ANN FOR 36 HOURS AND NOW SHE IS A SHIP'S STEWARDESS
    146 5 IT WAS ALL RUSH FOR ANN FOR 36 HOURS AND NOW SHE IS A SHIP'S STEWARDESS rIS IS Ann Wiebe, 21. a Canadian student of the University of British Columbia, who is using her summer holidays to take a trip as stewardess of a ship. She heard the job was
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    MAGISTRATE: YOU'RE A COWARD
    360 5 He warns witness who 'had been got at 9 A KEY prosecution wit- ness in a case of attempted murder, described as a coward and a liar, was ordered to be treated as a hostile wit- ness by the Magistrate, Mr. J. M. DevereuxColebourn, in the
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    17 pass Bar final exam
    92 5 The following Singapore and Federation law students have passed their tinal Ba* examination in London: Singapore T. S. Cheah, T. T. R. Chee, T. C. Ong. George E. P. Tan. Miss P. P. Tan. T. S. Tan, and S. C. Tang. Federation:— G. K. C.
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    'Use your vote' campaign
    49 5 JOHORE, BAHRU, Mon. All delivery mail now bears a special stamp on the cover to remind the public to vote in the first Federal elections on July 27. The stamp is part of a Government campaign to make the public conscious of their voting rights.
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    Chinese school planned
    215 5 Chinese school planned TECHNICAL AID IS NEW POLICY T*HE Singapore Governx ment is to establish its first Chinese technical school, the Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, announced yesterday. "This is in accordance with the new Government educational policy for Chinese schoel students," Mr. Chew told the Straits Times.
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    Annual meeting
    23 5 MALACCA, Mon. The Malacca High School Old Boys Association will hold its annual meeting in the High School hall on Friday.
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      530 5 Ml The Wind in the Willows; 10.30— RADIO MALAYA "°o Juke box. (■Programmes thus marked can |gggggggSfl|ggg<gggglggggggggggggggggggggggi be received by listeners in Malacca. li^RWHn Short wave 49 A 82m. Medina [|J"| f, wave 476 m., 343, 366 m. and 297 m.) HHRHKiakssMHlfl •8.57 and 11.10 a.m. English ««m»** a babb
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    136 6 20 Horrfs $10 I minimum MR. .x- MiiS. GUENTER LIENAU and Friends for Attendance, Congratulatory <. Gift-s on the occasion FAMILY of the late Mrs. I lun i including her I i,u thank all relatives lends for their donations, services, and I funeral. SPAI M -»nd Family Headquarters, 5.1.8.
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    IN MIMOKIAM
    55 6 20 HfirW* >V' (minimum). IN KVER LOVING MEMORY of in who passed away on i so dearly loved and PRECIOUB and loving irly Beloved husHussain Bin Lombai, Killed a 21 6.1954. Zainab. MEMORY of Hussein bin Lawrence Lance who irdered by cunmen whilst on 21sl June 10S4— Officer
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    127 6 ,i\ SJg minimum FOLLOW PEDANT Every Day in you ws&t to win >on word puzzle. COTTON DRESSES Larce ons of Office and round-:he-cottoni 135. S4B ;u.-: v Country Stores. DEI tOTTS FASHION Nl :i-.;ouch Denims by Carol, v California. Special Price pen till 6.30 p.m. Wednesdays. SURBBT TlP— Air
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    22 6 2i' H..rd» 55 (Win.)— Box .>« els. txlrn. IXDST in Belmont Road area. Black <Sc Tan. Dachshund I Information to 8.i523 please.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. June 21, 1955. The Promised Land
    761 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. June 21, 1955. The Promised Land Some people are inclined to respect an election manifesto not because it is a reliable guide to what a party would do if it came to power or because this generally ponderous document is eagerly read by the large
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    What's Their Line? .
    396 6 What's Their Line? Only extreme sensitivity to criticism could have accounted for Mr. Chan Kum Chee's wilful distortion of the editorial policy of the Straits Times. We are no more interested in '"getting into the good books" of Mr. Marshall any more than we are interested in pursuing a policy
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    Technical Training
    167 6 The Singapore Government appears to have lost no time in planning new measures to provide more opportunities for Chinese students. More student teachers from Chinese schools are to be taken into the Teachers' Training College at Cairnhill Road, and the Chinese section is to be given the entire
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      The cost of a home in Singapore
      296 6 I HAVE been in Singapore for a few months and find considerable difficulty in finding reasonably cheap accommodation. I pay $175 per month for a furnished room. I gather from a service family who put *p in the same house that they get
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      'GIBES', SAY PROGRESSIVES
      429 6 EVER since the Labour Front came into power your paper nas been trying very hard to get into the good books of Mr. David Marshall, and it is not surprising that the various gibes which you have been flinging against the Progressive Party have now blossomed into
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      Approval
      80 6 PERMIT me to congratulate you on your splendid editorial, headed "The Spirit of Me-tooism." You ask: "What on earth ar P the Progressives playing at?" I think they are playins at what are called a schoolboy's antics. Mr. C. C. Tan's attempt to blame the Government translators for the
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      'Thank you for the Week holiday
      157 6 'Thank you for the Week holiday conditioSofth?* 1 dta I and hatred *ay I &M I the Government of H t|»tH deration of MaLf I lagging behind y <(■ th^Vn 0" h?^>i eminent comes v? **M after the electionf k,'««■ to the granting ,f dle»«M holiday thfthi deration where i!
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      Muslims are grateful
      89 6 WE. the Muslims i:;ifl pen. are mis: ra'-icH to the Government o! H gapore for declar.r. ".fl birthday of Prophe; i!:ian^H mcd a public holiday j: Sa^B gapore. II It is al*o good to iiear VrjiflH the new Governmem :s taifll ing a keen interest mtieitfll ligions
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      WAKING I
      29 6 Fhas been nearly :'r.:e<Bi months since I ™M three letters to »<V Malaya Singapore for H« dustani requests, which ium not yet beSS™ I Alor Star. H
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      Naval Base men annoyed by statement
      518 6 Naval Base men annoyed by statement »T<HE statement issued 1 to the Press by .Mr. S. Woodhull, the Naval Base Labour Union Secretary, that his committee had advised its members not to go on strike for the time being cannot but be read by Naval Base workers with great annoyance.
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      When a strike is lawful
      210 6 When a strike is lawful mHE article by Tom X O'Brien should be an eye-opener to members of tirade onions and to every right-thinking individual. The present wave of strikes is unwarranted and has no bearing on industrial disputes at all. Members of trade unions should have the courage to
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      Sorry Malacca leads'?
      120 6 I WOULD refer to the letter in .your issue of June 18 under the heading "Singapore Leads" by M. Arlffln Hannah of Kluang, in which he states that a Singapore market has a weighing machine so that the public may check their purchases, and wishes that the
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      Damage to the Colony
      96 6 SINCE the people of Singapore elected a Labour Front Government, it is obvious that some elements among the workers are damaging progress towards the goal of a free and democratic independent Singapore. It seems that many poor workers have been misled. Wake up, workers, and realise
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      Give the workers the facts
      75 6 AS thousands of workers of "this lovely island" are ill-educated, they can easily be misled and intimidated by their remaining irresponsible leaders. Government can do one thing to defeat these leaders by printing thousands of leaflets in simple languages explaining the following points to the
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      Obligations of a citizen
      97 6 EVERY Malayan with a mature conception of citizenship has two special obligations First, to gain as accurate as possible an understanding, and as keen as possible a critical judgment, of the ideologies now competing for self-rule: second, to devote himself to the considerable effort of working
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      UNFAIR
      92 6 1 THINK Mr. S. V. Sarmas letter would be unfair to Mr. Lim Yew Hock, Minister for Labour and Welfare, if It were to pass without an answer. The main object of the amended Provident Fund Bill is to assist the majority of workers drawing less than $200 per
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      MALAY STUDY
      49 6 MALAY has been adopted as the national language of this country and Malay studies have been introduced in the University of Malaya. It is therefore time for the Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate to set Malay at principal level in the Higher School Certificate Examination. BONG BONGEK Singapore
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      469 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. 21. H i.rrf> $M (minimum). I <mi .lane. IM*\ pore, to Ettie <neo wife ol Major Royal scots Fusi- I hter. Tii H.,rrf< fit {minimum). MRAN.TAN SURJEET: Engaße'>ok place between Niranjan of 'he late Hay: Ui of Taiping, and ;hter of S. Inder iQ al Peel Road c.
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      41 6 GarrarD AUTOMATIC RECORD CHANGER. Suits any Radio. TROPICALISED MODEL RCIII AC Spore Penang: $105.00 Kuala Lumpur: $120.75 LESS 10% FOR CASH. Sole Agents: KEE HUAT RADIO CO., LTD. 122-124. ORCHARD ROAD. SINGAPORE-9. 223. BATU ROAD. KUALA LUItfPUR. 24. BEACH STREET. PENANG.
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      57 6 0 PORTABLE. I R (Mains/Battery) MODEL 94MBQ Here it the range and tonal I"^ f po't^ talle receiver, wirh M»«"**«" r jk( w.th j mains and battery set that you anywhere. >n <295 Prlc.; Singapore $2601 •I deration* Les* 10- for Caih I Factoru Rcp'^rr.tnt,^: SINCAPORE KUALA LUMPUK Branches: KU«
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    kurhanuddin defends his MNP
    183 7 CALL TO FREE DETAINEES Wotirn BE IN KEEPING WITH SPIRIT OP BANDOENG* jS$ GUESTS AT TEA ARE TOLD OF fllS BITTER HATRED Kl VNUDWN AL-HELMY, chairman of i outh on^ress, yesterday spoke in rt of his "bitter hatred" for colonialism Zfended the political aims of the
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    RUMS TO HELP RECRUITING
    48 7 ITJR, Mon —The tion Regiin Kuala Lum- <r;rins: a refor non-Malays in Solangor on Volunteers are needed for the Federation Armoured Car Regiment and headquarters of the First Federal Division. Loudspeaker vans from the Information Services will also be used in the recruiting drive.
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    Film to begin soon in Singapore
    130 7 Film to begin soon in Singapore T H t E flrs t Part of "A Town h« n. Allco Nevil Shute'si best-selling novel, will be filmed in Singapore and Penang by the J Arthur Rank Organisa- Hon. the director. Mr. Jack Qin^o sald vonu on his arrival >» Singapore by
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    Traffic town at show
    53 7 A children's traffic town has been included in the Singapore Safety First Week exihibition. which opens today at the Victoria Memorial Hall. The "town" has a set of j "kiddie" cars, traffic islands j and signs. The Chief Minister, Mr, David Marshall, will open the exhibition
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    ALLEY ASTRONOMERS i Eclipse was sight and topic of town I
    78 7 ALLEY ASTRONOMERS i Eclipse was sight and topic of town I Thousands of students, workers, hawkers, housewives and pedestrians in Singapore yesterday watched the eclipse of the sun with the aid of smoked glass, film negatives, and basins filled with water from their office and house windows, playing fields, along
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    TEARS FROM EX-TOWKAY TAXI DRIVER
    232 7 A FORMER building contractor, now a taxi driver, broke down and wept in the witness box of the Singapore Sixth Magistrate's Court yesterday when his wife claimed maintenance from him for herself and their youngest child. Ong Kan told the court tha.t her husband, Lim
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    Tamil musician arrives
    31 7 Esai Pulavar N. Shanmugaratnam, a Tamil musician, arrived in Singapore from Madras on Sunday. He will give a series of performances during his three months* stay in Malaya.
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    High tides
    58 7 TODAY: Singapore 12.15 a.m. (Bft 6in.) 11.18 p.m. (10ft.); Port Dickson 7.07 a.m. (Bft. 81n.) 7.41 p m (9ft 71n); Penang 1.24 a.m. (7ft. lln.); 1.27 p.m. (Bft. 7ta.). TOMORROW: Singapore 1 p.m. (Bft. 7in.); Port Dlclcson 7.52 a.m. Oft. 21n.) 8.22 p.m. (9ft. 61n); Penang 2 12
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    Johore gets a new exchange
    96 7 Johore gets a new exchange JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. PEOPLE living in Johore Bahru who want to make an emergency telephone call to the police, fire brigade or ambulance, need simply dial 999 from Thursday. The "999" service will be one of the advantages of Johore Bahru's new $150,000 telephone exchange
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    Home Guard fire on terrorists
    46 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— A Home Guard patrol fired at three terrorists in the Kemasek area of Trengganu on Saturday. The bandits fled. Nearby, the patrol found two bashas in which were a big pack, food and clothing. A follow-up was launched.
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    Eleven pass dental examination
    89 7 Eleven pass dental examination 17LEVEN students passed the University of Malaya's Faculty of Medicine examinations for the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery held early this month. They are: A Canaganayagam, Cheong Weng Hoon, Choo Teck Chuan (distinction in Preventive Dentistry and Periodontia) Khoo Gim Sooi, Miss Lim Keow Chim
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    RODE THREE ABREAST: $15 FINE
    65 7 SEREMBAN. Mon. Four cyclists were each fined $15 in the Magistrate's court here today on separate charges of riding three abreast in the town. They were the first cyclists to be prosecuted since new byelaws introduced early this month made riding three abreast an offence.
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    UMNO opens new youth section
    37 7 KUALA KUBU. BAHRU. Mon. The Ulu Selangor. UMNO division yesterday formed a youth section here. The secretary of the Rawang UMNO branch, Inche B. Kamarudln. was elected leader of the youth section.
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    Dance festival
    36 7 The Federal Association of Teachers of Dancing (Australia and New Zealand) Singapore branch will hold its Gold Medal dance festival at Raffles «Hotel on Aug. 19 and 26 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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    Sea Cadets win trips to Britain and Japan
    169 7 FOUR members of tha Singapore Sea Cadet Corps, chosen for their smartness and efficiency out of 350 cadets from seven units of the Corps, will soon sail on scholarship cruises. The awards this year were given to two cadets of "Nelson" unit
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    THE MEN ALL SAY: NOT FOR ME Singapore sniffs at scented citizens
    297 7 THE MEN ALL SAY: NOT FOR ME Singapore sniffs at scented citizens SINGAPORE men yester- day turned up their noses at the suggestion that they should use scent. A lawyer, a racing driver, a diplomat, a politician, a musician, a Scot and a woman member of the City Council all
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    LEARN FROM CHETTIARS, BANKERS ARE TOLD
    75 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Modern banks have a lot to learn from the Chettiars, who pioneered banking business in most of the Far East, the assistant general manager of the Indian Overseas Bank. Madras, Rao Saheb S R. V. Arasu, said here today. Mr. Arasu,
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    SECRET MOVE MAYSWAY STRIKERS
    289 7 SECRET MOVE MAYSWAY STRIKERS Another 56 down tools Ttf EITHER the Singapore 11 Harbour Board nor the S.H.B. Staff Association has yet decided to accept the new proposal for ending the 52-day strike by 1,300 clerks and other monthly paid workers. The proposal calls for a resumption of talks on
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    War with words
    132 7 150,000 LEAFLETS TELL 25 REDS IN SWAMP: YOU HA YE LOST KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. 4 IRCRAFT scattered 150,000 leaflets over the Sepang A swamp in South Selangor today giving a message from two surrendered terrorists to their former com- rades. "Do not risk your lives fo* a
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    $1,500 gift for society
    33 7 The Singapore Musical Society has received a Rift of $1,500 from Mr. Loke Wan Tho for its Katchen Scholarship. Funds for this scholarship have reached half the $5,000 target.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    55 7 The Family of late Mr. Teo Koon Beng, wishes to thank the European and Asiatic Stan's of East Asiatic Co. Ltd.. Singapore Chinese Producer Exchange. United Pineapple Growers and Canneries Co. Ltd. Lee Pineapple Ltd. and friends and relatives for sending scrolls, wreaths, loan of cars, lorries and the}r
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      86 7 yk The food of champions lOrvAy/y^ 1 Hardy men in every land Know M^-*\^j»tt how they can keep free from V^^^mlaV- coughs, colds and chest weakUViVW nesses. They take Cod Liver OiL SevenSeaS Pure Cod Liver Oil, V Nature's finest food. \y^s V Cod Liver Oil is a recognised v
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      89 7 C£- Ir^ii MOMOKOHGrj Hcz!j V tZffiirfjQk RANGOON rVXpNOMPENM /-^*.vs*f# PENANG A ANGOR PHONE ***** PASSAGE ENQUIRIES SIME DARBY CROSBY HOUSE, 7\, ROBINSON ROAD. lim rtght tot good faofcaaodjim jS Wm rich* for vmlu*. John White HfT gboea are mad* in England by Hw apart exaftamen. Tud to^fl Ml rrery t»ir
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      69 7 The weather MINIMUM TEK.'ERATURE: (7.30 p.m. on Jun. 19 to 7.30 a.m. on Jun. 20): Singapore 74 degrees, Penang 73. Kota Bharu 73. Kuala Lumpur 73. Ipoh 73, Kuantan 71. MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE: I (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Jun. 20) Singapore 87 degrees, Penang 35, Kota Bharu 87. Kuala
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    AMAH
    742 8 SUNDAY IWAKE up with a sore throat and a roaring cold, the worst I have had for years. You don't even get much sympathy when you can only say you have a cold, .md yet of all the moraleowering diseases this must b one of the worst, for one
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    LATEST DIOR JEWELLERY, CLOTHES ON WAY HERE
    349 8  -  MAXINE RAKICH By CHRISTIAN Dior Jewellery will be in the Singapore shops in a very short time. It will be the very latest, designed for his A-line. More interesting still Dior clothes will be available here soon. The very latest line included in
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    They work for mutual betterment
    253 8 They work for mutual betterment DUTCH housewives have found they can accomplish much by working together. Since 1912, Dutch women have worked for mutual betterment through the Federation of Netherlands Housewives. Today, the federation has 30,000 members and some 120 chapters devoted to showing the woman of the house what
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    The care of baby's hair
    330 8 By NURSE BRIDGET WHETHER your baby has very little hair or a luxuriant growth, the beauty treatment should be the same. Rinse his head well when you give him his daily bath but use little soap, for too much soap tends to remove the natural
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      102 8 *ftT V T V sl ;T*S i T A NECESSITY in every HOUSE^ fkt\jf y v t J I V it'- j I U,- JETES .y^^^'^ l ;y^^ v -__j-^^^- JD^^\^P HYGIENIC TOILET PAPER jjF \'&*£^^t *"i^L C More sheets, {^C^^3^^3i^Bßß'^3ia^^B •n iZ DISINFECTANT. f^^jjßl. tf J Keeps the home
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      277 8 <>^< >^, 1 NEW "STAY-SOFT KOtJv j gives you extra_comf ort I —extra confidence! ffik M 12 TOWELS i 2 Comfort- and confidence go M r hand in hand with the extra a ,J9 absorbency, safety and mo is A /B C ture-proof edging of "stay in la soft" Kotex
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      279 8 Straits Times Crossword HI 20' 21 H§ 22 25 n n "5T SP^ ii 28 k —k— P J_^ _k_ k ACROSS 14. Quite a lew enter this event 1. Best implement to cut (3. 3. 9. A hint of age maybe 17). 18 Sung for a little extra* charity
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    Lock icon 600 died when migrant ship ran aground in Atlantic STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE
    1689 9 600 died when migrant ship ran aground in Atlantic STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE Hiiiiiiir Efl^T^irflTuny ||||!||||i JUST before midnight on July 3, 1904, the little steam trawler Salvia nosed her way round the breakwater into the fishing port of Grimsby, on the east coast of Britain. Huddled under blankets in
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      103 9 (|EW! O.MKP J n'l H.ghcr. BUS TRADERS LTD., .jMPUR. JOKLAX^^ mi*juTivtl-^/a Y^ HPATION N^_ iHNIGHT •V'T"! ADDER OUBLE World- f^% ■j^a tut these two »rt»J if .wakened to nj the blood. eaeatat mnedr is De Witt's adsorption into the .uned in this >**<!-5 »b:c tc p« to the Jl* Tht
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      375 9 IIUIIIIIIIIIIIIHIMimilllllilllllllllMllllillllllllllMIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!. At last! A non-stiffening hair spray Sets your hair i i V^^^^S^^^^^^^^ I Comb it, «-jiray it. forgrt it! 2 I f I No more straggly ends, neckline H 1 I wisps, or drooping end curls! H I V •II I Hair-do lasts for hours! I vVllLrtMl I e
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      35 9 Shertoek Holmes m 9 h stakes y i^ s> *^H I J ViOOUS TUiEF AMD WLLKiN^^^B O\ Tu£ 3IAC^S^ZPJ^ ->W^j nivk Tram m Afagr be Ca PPV Jvt Stoit Dangerous man jet scott M^^i£jsg^ f^^^^ix^^^^^^^ym
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      1227 10 T.i: i 405 MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. Telt »4ii I (18 line«l (Incorporotcc in Singapore) (12 Unas) 1 "BC THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE J Carrier* crtion f o prjcood via other ports to loed and discharge cargo SAILINGS to LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW, LONDON CONTINENTAL PORTS Singacore Due Sails P. Sham Penang
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      1141 10 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINGS TO CONTINENT/SCANDINAVIA For Aden, Part Said, Genoa, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Coae""M— Gothenburg Oslo S'pora P. S'r-om .^K"? v. x) "MALACCA" S/7Jaly V% July -Ml! B "MEONIA" 20/24 July 2S/2J July 2T/28 July "FALSTRIA" 16/19 Aug 20/20 Aug 21/22 Aaa B Colls London (passenoars only), Gdynia. SAILINGS
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      927 10 SSSSim WHE BEN UHB STEAMERS LTD."^ SINGAPORE (Incorporated in the United Kingdom) f UNIS SAILINGS TO U.K. AND CONTINENTAL PORTS •onviH*.., for London. Hull Iffl 2t/"jOj2-o B#l^^ LW^° n M J^/.i^D^.n^.»-^.I»J-. 9m ISSUZ GtSo^mbur, «/1t Mr Rotterdam 24 July/ J Awj Dlract atriva. London 23 Aug 101^:'. »m *m W/J#
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      750 10 McALISTER ond for USA., North Atlontic Port, I Ace. V J CITY OF BROOKLYN Aflt^-Si lj S'ppr. p Thorn H p j 2«-J C=li j «H 23^ s ;,TS *?%> I Coll. Hull. Au 9 26^ 3 JJ. S'hom: Harrison Crosf icld rM) iv UST EAD-^TTT r^B (Incorporated in the
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    OFFICIAL PRICES
    22 11 ifOBE. JI'NE. 20. .I N K SI 081 per Ifff* cent.). l p«T picul n «1 J*Ji p,«ul (up 25
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    54 11 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS i-RNE. Mon. .derate turnover prices firm on today. Silversought at the and uraniums trading quiet. 1*195 17/32 S £96 15/32 til/3 unquoted i 25/7 -j 98/9 54/6 buyer 25/8 7/14 11/1 22/6 7/6 s«Her 48/9 22/6> 3 41/3 I. 41/7U 17/7', 33/6 4fi/3 28/10' a 19/2' a JO/1H
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    61 11 Ev-hange Banks le the following ii> merchants l| airmail. T.T. IStM, 90 days trade bills. .uimail. T.T. M days 32 11[]6 rade bills. I I or O.D. ready 32 9 16; Canada Ufc; Holland n»utsch > Marks 113P3; Bel- edi*h Kroner 226; NorweAden Shillings M Rivals .:»> market
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    SHIPPING
    56 11 >M<lr the SingaI! 'ltd wharves or txr. ;ndiv arc; Willem Ruy s 12, I ;ru C.P.. Ben•a 8 9. Somali Uyn 13 14, Frank- Bali 18. Mandama 4. Stia N. W i! 8 and 9. Bruas 33 24. Leise II :7 28. MandeI 32. President 13 34 Gleneam 36.
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER MART ADOPTS NEW RULES FOR TRADERS
    487 11 oimpSLo!™ Market Cor respondent SINGAPORE Chamber of Commerce Rubber maiorl?v la at° n by an overwhelm^ tTbril/thP nr 8 601 1 g^ neral meetin yenterday, market m PPr. r fe f. s »ona organisation of the local £r Wlth other »»ior world
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    384 11 e e ad O v Pcn t n f, h f tn week <£* closed y s lj nt !y higher levels Tins continued dull and irregular and over*u S a qI S sleady °v«aU r t u a r n n d over Has moderate." Singapore members
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    167 11 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices pw picul yesterday were:— Copra: steady; June $28 's buyers. $28; s sellers; July »28 buyers. $29 sellers; August 920 buyers, $29 »a sellers. Coconut oil: steady: bulk $42 sellers, drum $45 sellers. Pepper: quiet with no business reported; Muntok white $179.
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    RUBBER PRICES
    151 11 July first grade buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at $I.oBs a lb.. 2'i cents above Saturday's close. The closing tone was steady. Closing rubber prices yesterday in cents per lb. were No. 1 R.S.S. spot loose buyers 1 10 -V. sellers 110^; No. 1 R.S.S. July buyer
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    PETALING JAYA AUTHORITY
    69 11 TENDERS are invited for the purchase of 1 No. "International" T D 6 Tractor with Hydraulic dozing attachment. The tractor, which is surplus to the Authority's requirements, is in workinß order and may be seen on application to the Town Engineer, Petaling Jaya. Tenders endorsed 'Tender for
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      406 11 KNUTSEN LINE Fast and Regular Service M CANADA/U.S. PACIFIC PORTS— 3O DAYS Sailing Arriving in Francisco Singapore P.Swcr Penang Fremantle In port 23 |unc 24 |unc 2 |uly l 11 June 1 1 fuly 13 July 14 |ulv 21 July Eikkc 9 |uly 8 Aug 10 Aug II Aug 1
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      29 11 DAILY: 3.15. 6.30 9.15 P.M. ADVENTUROUS FABULOUS ROMANCE > SOUTH-EAST ASIA FIUICO \T£/W0- w *4W vjCE' 5««m.. HIMANI (MHO** I Itl I SAMPLES OF ■i.ll.l.ll\ll\ir HAIR OIL FOR AIX PATRONS!
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    U.S.A. is purchasing 100 per cent more of our latex
    769 12 jIf ALAYA'S latex boom continues due almost entirely to exceptional demand brought about by expanding American industry, statistics for -the first five months of the present year confirm. In the period January to May of this year, the United States
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    PANAM PLANS EXPANSION OF TOURIST AIR SERVICES
    236 12 PANAM PLANS EXPANSION OF TOURIST AIR SERVICES |>AN American World AirJT ways have plans to extend their services for tourists, particularly Americans, eager to visit Singapore, the sales manager for the airline's Pacific-Alaska division, Mr. J. D. Fessio, said on his arrival in the Colony. He added that these plans
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    EXPORT CHAOS AGAIN IN R.I.
    253 12 ABNORMALLY high xx prices paid for commodities and goods on the Indonesian home market are interfering with normal exports writes the Straits Times Jakarta Correspondent. Except for copra, sugar and tin which are controlled goods, it is reported the home market is prepared to pay
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    PRAISE FOR MALAYAN TIMBERS
    249 12 PRAISE FOR MALAYAN TIMBERS rpHE quality of Singa- pore's sawn timber products impressed a timber merchant from Australia who arrived in Malaya early this month to make a survey of the timber industry with tlie prospects of increasing the supplies lor the Australian market. Mr Arthur C. Clegg, a council
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    H.K. TRADE MISSION ASK COLONY MERCHANTS TO VISIT THEIR FACTORIES
    253 12 H.K. TRADE MISSION ASK COLONY MERCHANTS TO VISIT THEIR FACTORIES Afi.iniM&KS of Hon B Ko.n K 1 Chinese ManufacturersUnion, who are now in Sin gappre, have invited local businessmen to or R a-nise visits to their factories and annual exhibition of manu factored goods to be held in Hong Kong
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    Indian industry is making big strides says bank
    252 12 Indian industry is making big strides says bank OIG steps are now being undertaken by th P hi Government to increase the country's ten-™ industrial production under the second Five v (1955—60) Plan, said an Indian bank execution arrival in Singapore last week The banker, Mr. Raosahib S.R.V. Arasu, said
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    Top jockeys share spoils at B. Timah
    534 13 EPSOM JEEP REVIEWS JUNE MEETING HQBBS LEADING TRAINER TTCE three leading jockeys, Garnet Bougoure, Don Paterson and Mickey Donnelly, kept up their keen rivalry at the Bukit Timah June meeting. Bougoure and Paterson shared riding honours with four winners each. Donnelly had three
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    296 13 TM THROUGH' SAYS WEEPING HOGAN AFTER DEFEAT SAN FRANCISCO, Monday. JACK FLECK, little-known professional from Daven- port, lowa, won the United States national open golf championship yesterday in a dramatic 18-hole play-off with Ben Hogan, four times winner of the title with whom he tied on Saturday. Fleck played a
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    193 13 TAIPEI. Mon. A HIGH Nationalist Chinese sports official said today the sessions of the International Olympic Committee will be turned Into "dirty political propaganda gatherings" if Red China was allowed to participate in the 1956 Olympics at Melbourne. Gunson Hoh, chairman of
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    IPOH RACE WEIGHTS FOR SATURDAY
    478 13 WEIGHTS for all seven races on the first day of the Perak Turf Club June-July meeting, on June 25 are: Cl. 2, Dlv. 1 -6F. Robbie Burns 9.N Jame s Aitch 8.13 Malayan Scholar 8.13 Bracelet Boy 8.12 Undecided 8.12 Dragon Year 8.11 Native Ruler
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    Come on officials, there's much work to be done
    199 14 THERE has been no lack of activity among the athletes themselves, but it is not possible to say the same of our officials. So little has been heard of the AAA. that one needed the evidence, provided by the ratification of
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    'Lightning Levulas' set sights on oldest marks
    483 14 —^—^M^MW^^^M^^^ FIJIANS' TRAINING AIMED AT BIG MEET By JOHN MARKS THE three oldest records of the Malayan athletic championships for the 100, 220 and 440 yards which were set up 24 years ago, may fall to the fight- ing Fijians this year. All
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    Why this three-week interval after heats?
    234 14  - Why this three-week interval after heats? MERCURY By •THE Singapore Inter--1 Schools sports committee hit upon the unusual arrangement this yeai« of having a three weeks' interval between the heats (on June 15) and the finals (on July 7) of the schools championships. The reason. I am told, is that
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    BOYS' TABLE TENNIS FINAL
    71 14 The final of the Federation of Boys' Clubs table tennis championship for the Tan Thoon Lip Cup will be held at Queen Street Boy&" Hostel at 7.30 tonight. The holders of the cup are Serangoon Boy.; 1 Club. The final will be decided on three singles
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    SPOON SHOOT
    22 14 The Singapore Rifle Association will hold a Spoon Shoot at Bukit Timah Range on Sunday, June 26 from 5.15 am.
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    ENG YOON MAKES ANOTHER RECORD BID TOMORROW
    679 14  -  MERCURY By OE SPECTACLED schoolmaster T a n Enjf Yoon. whose lOsec. for the 100 yards done on two occasions this season, has been ratified by the Singapore A.A.A. a.s a record, will attempt to do even better when he runs in the
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    LEAGUE SOCCER ON AGAIN
    37 14 The Singapore Amateur Football Association's league competition, after a week's suspension, will be resumed today with a game between Marine Dept. and Woodbridge Hospital at Jala n Besar in the Div. 1 league.
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    23 14 The Singapore Indian Association will hold a tennis tournament for members, doubles and <nsles (handicap and open), from June 25.
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    93 14 SOCCER LEAGUE, DIV. 1: Marine Dept. v Woodbridge H., Jalan Besar. 5.15 p.m. DIV. 2A: Radin Mas v SRC. S.R.C. padang; DIV. 3A: Serangoon M.V. v Bintang Rulan. at Grylang; R.E. Civilianls v Junior A.A., at Clerical Union; Dockyard v T.M.0.8.A.. at CYMA ground. SERVICES LEAGUE: DIV. 1:
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    CALL ME MISTER
    229 14 IF Singapore's soccer selectors have their way, Jalan Besar fans will have to show much more respect in future for the men who represent Singapore. Cart injunctions, such as "Bakar. shoot" will be quite out of order. The correct thing to say will be "Mr. Bakar, please
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    148 14 HOVE, Mon. A FOURTH-WICKET stand of 182 by Jackie McOlew and Roy McLean— the highest partnership for any wicket by the Springboks (his tour put South Africa well on the road to recovery at tea against Sussex after losing their first wickets for 38.
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    80 14 TONY MOTTRAM (left) made a brilliant recovery to beat Naresh Kumar, the Indian tennis star (right), and enable Britain to enter the semi-finals of the European zone Davis Cap competition. The match was interrupted by rain with Kumar leading by two sets to one and the
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    322 14 LONDON, Monday. FREDDIE TITMUS, 22-year-old rightarm offbreak bowler and right hand batsman, is the only newcomer to Test cricket in the team named yesterday. He replaces the injured Appleyard. This is the only change from the side which easily beat South Africa in the
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    95 14 .IPOH. Mon.— Defending champion Leong Kliuen Nyean scored an easy second-round win against Cheong Kai Wong today in the men's singles of the Ipoh V.M.C.A. open tennis championships. Results of today's ties are: Men's singles Hirst Round): N. Caleb beat Lim Yeow Chong 7-5,
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    62 14 LONDON, Mon.— The revised order of running of races at the postponed Royal Ascot race meeting (July 12 to IS) will be: July 12: The Ascot Stajces; July 13: The Royal /lunt Cup and the' Gold Cup: July 14: The Gold Vase; July 15: Wokingham Stakes.
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    Lock icon COUNTY CLOSE OF PLAY
    57 14 LONDON, Mon. I At Tunbrid;r Wfl!s got County cricket close of play scores: and 3 At Westell!!: Essex 326-8 dccl At Lords: Somer:* 1« u& Gloucester 122 and 225-5. j MUMfcuti 288-5 i Robfrwe IJl| At Cardiff: Derby 254 and 101-4. At Nottingham: Leicwew.. Ola>^- 50.
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    95 14 ANOTHER WANT KILLER lpset in th'V lawn tonnk Gordon i s lfj "eafed a sent?" Porl 'ers .said ;hp V, a .5 y b J t .w brighten late- w pri W2 Lew Hoad. foui~h "ober, ri Ho,e h l 3 !e^,H none o f his SJ ni eta«. I)i
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    108 14 Merridale Badm:r.;on Par- Coronal B. P. by 5 came to played at 3a5 Balesutr Rom Sunday. Results i Merridale B P mas ed first i Singles: Swee Kee Chor.z Koh Mm Choo 15-10. 15-n Kok Men? beat Elkir. chua '1 15-12. 15-0; Sng Boon Ted ta
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