The Straits Times, 13 July 1955

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    15 1 The Straits Times He** o***0 I std. 1845 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1955 15 CENTS
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    SWINDLE NETS $350,000
    231 1 A near -perfect racket fleeces ten Singapore shipping firms and banks ALL DONE 0,7/7 WEEKS Police hunt 2 missing men IqISGAI'ORE POLICE n\ estimating a swindle affectI |oa-l five leading companies d five banks in the with m any in lipvted to t two, Former bank official
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    Sawmill strike is over
    141 1 ITS BACK TO WORK TODAY THE four-day -oldj strike by 700 Singapore sawmill workers ended last night— with i their employers acceding to almost all the workers' i claims made a fortnight ago. Settlement was reached at tbe Labour Ministry after six hours' negotiations between representatives
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    Lock icon Siam twins flee
    31 1 BERLIN*. Tues. A German mother has fled from Communist East Germany with her Siamese twin children, seeking an operation to separate them. West Berlin officials said today. U.P.
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    VIRGINIA McKENNA (of MALAYA) FOUND -SHE'S BETTY (of AUSTRALIA)
    243 1 VIRGINIA McKENNA (of MALAYA) FOUND -SHE'S BETTY (of AUSTRALIA) 'j^HE Virginia McKenna ol I Malaya has been found. She is Mrs. Betty Ashley Cooper. Australian-born model, who has been living here for three years. Mrs. Ashley Cooper was chosen to double for the star of the film "A Town Like
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    RIOT CHARGES: TWO HELD IN HONG KONG
    214 1 RIOT CHARGES: TWO HELD IN HONG KONG TUVO Singapore middle school students have been 1 arrested in Hong Kong. They are wanted on a charge of being members of the unlawful assembly which caused the death of Volunteer Special Constable Andrew Teo Bok Lan in the May 12 riots, a
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    Hot—so wigs come off in the Lords
    104 1 Hot— so wigs come off in the Lords LONDON. Tues. THE death toll soared to more than 150 today in a Euro!>ean heat wave so stifling that Britain's perspiring members of the House of Lords doffed their wigs. At least 158 people have died in Europe from drowning or being
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    Lock icon The strike that nobody minded
    38 1 TOKYO, Tues. Japanese citizens were cheering the nations most popular strike today. About 30,000 tax collectors 1 have left work to enforce demands for summer allowances, wage increases and better working conditions. U.P.
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    TEMPLER FOR STORE, ARMY SAYS NOW
    151 1 ARMY authorities in Singapore last night issued a statement about General Sir Gerald Templer's visit to Singapore on July 19. first reported in the Straits Times on July 6. They said then they had no knowledge of Sir Gerald's movements. Last night's statement read:
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    I want NINE junior Ministers
    257 1 I want NINE junior Ministers MARSHALL EXPLAINS TO GOVERNOR THE CHIEF MINISTER, 1 Mr. David Marshall, yesterday wrote to the Governor of Singapore. Sir Robert Black, explaining the stand the Labour Front Coalition Government is taking nn the appointment of four junior Ministers. The letter was written after two meetings
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    Lock icon Two seek to appeal
    65 1 LONDON. Tues. A petition for leave to appeal to the Privy Council was lodged today in the case of two Australian journalists. Frank Browne and Raymond Fitzpatrick. sentenced to three months' jail by the Australian House of Representatives for breach of privilege. The two men were
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    Lock icon It's not smoking
    38 1 LONDON. Tues.— Tests which have gone on for more than 18 months have failed to revepl any connection between smoking and lune cancer, the annual report of the British Empire Cancer Campaign announced today. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Shooting affray on the border
    36 1 LONDON. Tues. Bulgaria accused Turkey of provoking a border "shooting affray" endangering peace in the Balkans. A Sofia radio broadcast heard said a Bulgarian guard was wounded in the skirmish A.P.
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    Lock icon Attack on ship
    33 1 SAIGON, Tues. Troops of the rebel Binh Xuyen private army yesterday attacked the Vietnamese Navy minesweeper Thuong Dong in the river at Saigon, killing one sailor and wounding six. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Back in London
    25 1 LONDON. Tues. Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd. the Colonial Secretary, returned here by air yesterday after talks with local leaders in Cyprus— Reuter.
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    Lock icon De Lesseps dies
    29 1 SAN SEBASTIAN, Tues. Paul de Lesseps, only surviving son of the builder of the Suez Canal, died yesterday after a heart attack. He was 75.— A.P.
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    'VICIOUS, FILTHY CAMPAIGN by ALLIANCE'
    410 1 Dato Onn alleges 'scurrilous insinuations' against his family JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'afar, leader of Party Negara. today attacked the UMNO-MCA Alliance for what ho called their "vicious and filthy" electioneering campaign. He accused the Alliance of carrying on a smear campaign
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    IT'S JAIL AT HOME FOR A VILLAGE
    227 1 Supplies went to Reds regularly TEMERLOH, Tuesday. fROOPS and police occupied Batu Satu village ut dawn today and clamped a house curfew on the whole village Last night the village Home Guard was stood down and 20 shotguns were taken away. The police
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    S. Africans win with over to go
    97 1 S. Africans win with over to go MANCHESTER. Tues. IN the most dramatic finish to a Test match in England for many years. South Africa beat England by three wickets in the third Te.>t at Old Trafford today. The winning tftroke— a boundary— was scored by Waite in the second
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    Lock icon Arise, Sir Robert
    182 1 Arise, Sir Robert the knight in a wheelchair LONDON. Tues. CIR ROBERT HO TUNG, Horn? Kong's "Grand Old Man," rode in a wheelchair today to be invested with the K. B. E. by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. The 92-year-old financier, wearing traditional Chinese costume with black satin skull cap.
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    STOP PRESS
    40 1 THOMAS REPI IliS TO ROOF.RS LONDON. Tu.s— Sir (nurse Thomas, donor of Thomas Cup. said here to day criticisms of treatment of rnitod states badminton team in Singapore attributed to W.vnn Ror«ts were ■'un.instifi«Ml" and "non M-ivse."— TJ.P.
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    Lock icon MOSCOW'S LOVE FOR HO
    90 1 MOSCOW. Tues. Vietminh leader Ho Chi Minn arrived here today and stepped off his plane right into the arms of Soviet President Voroshilov who greeted him with a kiss. Ho then threw hLs arms around Soviet Premier Bulganin's neck and kissed him on both cheeks. He
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    Trade unions—the Devil's work
    296 2 Trade unions the Devil's work BLESSED ARE THE STRIKERS, FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF MAMMON VICAR'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT (1955 STYLE) ANGERS 140,000 BRITONS LONDON, Tuesday. 1 EADERS of 140,000 trade unionists are to 1 consider how to answer a vicar's attack on trades unions as "instruments of
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    THE IRON CURTAIN OPENS FOR THEM!
    160 2 I British-born wife and children allowed to leave Prague MRS. PHYLLIS SISPERA, British-born Czech wife, was told last week that she will be allowed to return to Britain with her three children. The 32-year-old Englishwoman said: "I cannot tell you how wonderful I feel.
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    KILLER SGT. CANNOT GO TO GALLOWS
    247 2 LONDON, Tuesday. SERGEANT FREDERICK EMMETT-DUNNE, who was sentenced to death in Germany, for murdering the husband of the German singer he later married, cannot be hanged, legal experts said in London. Germany has abolished thei death penalty for murder, and now that she is
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    Lock icon All's well that ends well
    42 2 WASHINGTON, Tues. The State Department yesterday decided to allow a Russian newspaper correspondent to attend the opening today of a Shakespeare memorial theatre at Stratford in Connecticut a state normally out of bounds to Soviet citizens.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon On the line
    29 2 DAR-ES-SALAAM, Tues. UJiui. the Tanganyika village in which Dr. Livingstone and Henry Stanley met in 1871, was linked to the outside world by telephone yesterday. Reuter.
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    Lock icon ESCORT TO RED CHINA
    73 2 HONG KONG, Tues— Eight hundred Chinese students who arrived here yesterday from Malaya and Indonesia aboard the liner Tjiluwah on the way to China travelled to the border this morning in seven special rail coaches under police escort. The shipping company reported one of the Tjiluwah's
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    SOVIET CALL TO PRELATE AND BILLY GRAHAM
    191 2 SOVIET CALL TO PRELATE AND BILLY GRAHAM LONDON. Tues. SOVIET churchmen announced yesterday that they would like the Archbishop of Canterbury and evangelist Billy Graham to visit Russia. One of a delegation of Soviet churchmen now touring Britain, the Metropolitan of Minsk, said: "We would be very happy if the
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    Lock icon Epstein, 76, weds
    59 2 LONDON, Tues. Controversial sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, 78, married his 50-year-old model in secret last week, and sailed for America without her, the Daily Mall reported today. It said his tiride is Mrs. Kathleen Garman, a friend of 30 years' standing, who posed for many of his
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    Lock icon Stamp for 10 million
    42 2 BONN, Tues. The West German post office will issue a special stamp soon to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the expulsion of 10 million East Germans from their homes in what is now Polish or Russian territory. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Prices go up
    33 2 BELGRADE. Tues. Yugoslavia yesterday increased prices for bread, lard, tobacco and cigarettes by about one-third and. as compensation, put up average salaries, wages and pensions by five per cent. Reuter.
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    Lock icon DUKE JUST MISSES THE BEES
    162 2 BERLIN, Tues.— Bees and a car that would not start caused headaches in Huneburg yesterday just before the Duke of Edinburgh piloted his RA.F. Heron from Frankfurt to spend two days with British Service units in north Germany. Bees swarmed on the parade ground immediately
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    It got away
    32 2 PETERSBURG. Tues. A classified ad. in the Petersburg Press. Indiana: "Lost rod and reel with large fish attached to other end Finder please notify L. D. Biggs."— A. P.
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    Lock icon It's still news famine
    197 2 It's still news famine BUT STRIKERS TO START PAPER SYDNEY, Tues. YfIORE THAN 600 A members of the Australian Journalists' Association who are idle througn the newspaper dispute decided coaay noc to return to worK. They also agreed to begin production tomorrow of an evening paper to be called The
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    A new $95,000 floating clinic
    44 2 A $95,000 floating dispensary will soon bring medical relief to people on the islands off Singapore. The Rural Board Chairman. Mr. S. T. Stewart, will hand over the dispensary to the Health Minister, Mr. A. J. Braga, on Saturday.
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    Girl waylaid by robber
    36 2 A 16-year-old girl was attacked and robbed of a $30 gold ring in Koh Sek Llm Road, Singapore, on Monday afternoon. She was cycling home when she was waylaid by the robber.
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    Lock icon Nehru for home
    19 2 CAIRO. Tues— The Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru left by air for Delhi this morning. Reuter.
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    MEETING A
    32 2 LONDON, Tues. British. Russian and American Antarctic expeditions will be at the South Pole in mid-January 1958, and a French party will be nearby. "We hope to meet the Ame-
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    Big bomb raid destroys Red farms
    133 2 Big bomb raid destroys Red farms ALOR STAR t CANBERRA jet tJr bandit farms when h < attacked an Sj miles north of Sint/L 'north Kedah, it w t>k nounced today. The Canberra* dntn. j several I,ooolb. b, m Z^ the camps, south of Z Malayan-Siamese border The announcement sain
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    Lock icon 'LIVING DOLL SLAIN BY KIDNAPPER
    69 2 SIOUX CITY, lowa, TuesThe body of 21 -month-:' Donna Sue Davis, who kidnapped from her cr her parents watched in an adjoining room, i found late yesterday i n a ti:V about four miles from home. Police said the blonde, blue. eyed little girl had
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    Jet bangs: M.P.s get pledge
    52 2 LONDON, Tues. The Goternment yesterday j restrictions on supersonic i< ing over Britain to end bang of jets crashing throe the sound barrier. "We are aware of the turbance and anxi sonic bangs can cause," Supply Minister, Mr. Regim Maudling. told the House I Commons.—
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    Lock icon On the road
    40 2 MONTREAL, Tuts. A 'ravelling village" has here on its way round Noil America. Its inhabitants retired professional and I nessmen who live in 94 c; vans and hold a meeting eve day to decide their rout Reuter.
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    Lock icon THE POLE?
    26 2 ricans and the Russian the Pole, but nothing il ned," Mr. George Loaf Zealand member of the monwealth Tra: Expedition said here today Reuter.
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    NEW DRIVE AGAINST MAU MAU TERRORISM
    96 3 NEW DRIVE AGAINST MAU MAU TERRORISM NAIROBI, Tuesday. Krn>a Government today confiscated the V2\ Mau -Man jranjjsters as part of a ainsl terrorists who failed to respond fan ■mi*** offer. spired at midnight last night. "generals" Mwanyoeki Wangombe dead by Kikuyu and Embu Hall area within hours of its announce-
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    The sack if mixed races in classes
    79 3 The sack if mixed races in classes ATLANTA, Tues. HTHE GEORGIA Board of A Education yesterday placed a lifetime ban on any teacher who instructs raciaiiy mixed classes. It also created a secret committee, apparently to deal with the segregation problem. The Board adopted unanimously a resolution to .-trenßthen its
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    Lock icon 100 see death
    21 3 NIAGARA FALLS. Tues. Abount 100 tourists yesterday saw a man swept to his death over Niagara Falls.— A.P.
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    Lock icon HOW 1 BAN ON BIKINIS
    40 3 Italian ady Qghtti( i. have blow bikinis. Parliament was told yesterday tfa it the police had been <d to forbid twe -piece costumes at contests, and to bar jzirls under 18 from beauty competitions. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Paddy can't get a pint
    181 3 Paddy can't get a pint DUBLIN IS NOT SO FAIR NOW DUBLIN. Tues. TT WAS the longest, x warmest, driest, thirstiest week-end Dubliners could remember—and the new week Dromised more punishment. The barmen were on strike. The public houses were closed. Since Saturday the people of Dublin have been trying
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    Lock icon £105 DUTY, SO ACE SENDS PRIZES BACK
    65 3 £105 DUTY, SO ACE SENDS PRIZES BACK LIVERPOOL. Tues. Stan Brittain. 25-year-old British cycling ace, was told yesterday that he cannot have the prizes he won in the Prague-Berlin cycle race unless he pays £105. The prizes radios, cut glass and a canteen of cutlery are held by the Customs.
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    Lock icon 2 ministers resign
    58 3 BONN, Tues.— The two Refugee Party ministers in Dr. Adenauer's coalition government, Herr Waldemar Kraft, Minister without portfolio and Prof. Oberlaender, Minister for Refugee Affairs, offered to resign yesterday after quarrels within their own party. Prof. Oberlaender also resigned as party chairman. Both resigned from the party
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    Lock icon Money for Japan plan opposed
    52 3 WASHINGTON. Tues. The Department of Justice yesterday opposed legislation to return more than US$4B5 million in assets to German and Japanese individuals and corporations from whom they were seized during the war. The department wants to give up to US$lO,OOO to individual German and Japanese
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    Lock icon The day Jimmy went for a drive
    41 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Tues. Jimmy Callegas took his father's car without permission yesterday, went for a short iirive down a hill, hit another vehicle causing US$lOO ($300) damage, escaped injury. Jimmy if only two. Reuter.
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    Million refugees
    22 3 TRIESTE. Tues. West European countries still harbour more than one million refugees, a United Nations official said here last night.
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    Lock icon 1,500 'BUBBLY' PARTY ON THE THAMES Two Princesses among the guests
    78 3 1,500 'BUBBLY' PARTY ON THE THAMES Two Princesses among the guests PRINCESS MARGARET and Princess Alexandra are welcomed by the Duke of Devonshire (right) at the riverside at Richmond. The say youne Duke collected 230 guests, bought a bottle of champagne for ■ai-h. and took them aboard two River Thames
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    Lock icon MOTHER MUST LEAVE BABY TO GO HOME
    164 3 LONDON, Tuesday. A BRITISH woman married to a Pole who was told last week she could leave Poland will not be allowed to bring her younger child with her to Britain, a Labour Member of Parliament said. The M.P., Mr. George Brown, said
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    Slept late, wants $1,500,000
    110 3 Slept late, wants $1,500,000 NEW YORK, Tues. HOY, much is it worth to be awakened in the morning? A Milwaukee businessman estimates he is entitled to U. S.--$500,000 ($1,500,000) from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel because, he charges, it failed to wake him and he missed a profitable deal. Frederick G. Osborne,
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    Couple killed in their bath
    61 3 CHATHAM. Ontario. Tues. A man and his wife were found dead in the bath of their farm home yesterday. They had apparently been electrocuted by a faulty water heater. The couple are believed to have died four days ago. Their two young children were found
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    Disraeli link
    26 3 SOTTERLEY, Suffolk, Tues. Mrs. Louisa Killick. house keeper to Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister in the late nineteenth century, died here yesterday. She was 97.
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    Lock icon MURDER BID CHARGE MAN: 'I'VE WAITED 20 YEARS'
    91 3 LONDON, Tues. A 47-year-old metal worker pleaded not guilty here yesterday to trying to murder his wife by running over her twice with a motor-cycle. Sidney P. Tucker, who was sent for trial, was alleged to have run into his wife as
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    Lock icon Reds back the Govt in Army crisis
    169 3 JAKARTA, Tues.— The Indonesian Communist Party today announced it would back the 3overnment to the hilt against rebellious Army officers. Mr D. N. Aidit. secretarygeneral of the party, said: "In i situation In which efforts are >oing made to force the fornation of
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    Lock icon Fatal attack
    22 3 ADEN. Tues. A British soldier has died of wounds received In an attack by tribesmen in the western Aden protectorate.—Reuter.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    336 3 LONDON. Tues. CTOCK MARKETS were generally dull here today with sentiment depressed by the sharp setback in June export figures. Operators were reluctant and with some small selling there were widespread small losses although man; prices closed above their worst levels. Giltedged were lower In early dealings but
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    LONDON TIN
    25 3 LONDON. July. 12.— Cash Buyers £735: Sellers £736. Forward Buyers £731 2 sellers £732: Settlement £733. Turnover a.m. 110 tons pjn. 80 tons.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    35 3 LONDON. July 12. Spot 37* id Aug. 37d., Sept. 36d., Oct -Dec 34d Jan-Mar. 31 id.. Apr.-June 29 s id July ci.f. 36d.. Aug. c.i.f. 35d., Sept. ci.f. unquoted. Tone: Easier after firm
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    26 3 HONG KONG, Tues. Five Britons and two Germans arrived in Hong Kong yesterday aboard the British ship Hunan from Tientsin and Shanghai.— Reuter.
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    Swab found in her stomach
    244 4 SEVEN MONTHS AFTER WOMAN WAS OPERATED ON IN KUALA LUMPUR HOSPITAL— Sterility claim Alliance Queen can sing in Malay, Chinese MAN, WIFE AWARDED $20,000 DAMAGES KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. JUK Selangor (iovernment has paid 120,600 damages to a former police officer and his wife as a
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    MEMBERS FOR SINGAPORE IN THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT?
    236 4 Marshall, Democrats: Yes Progressive, PAP: No THE CHIEF Minister, Mr. David Marshall, indicated yesterday that be favoured representation of Singapore in the British Parliament. "It is high time the British Parliament had first-hand knowledge of what is happening here," he said. I'M
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    DEADLY KILLER: NO CLUE
    166 4 But it did not cause these 2 deaths KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. POLICE are still investi- gating the theft last Friday of eight drums of sodium arsenite from an estate in the Kuala Langat district of Selangor. The drums contain about 900 lb of deadly weed-Wller. police
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    Mail here soon
    21 4 British sea mail delayed by strikes will arrive in Singapore next Tuesday in the Oranje and the Carthage.
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    FISH ARISTOCRATS ON SHOW
    75 4 The new Singapore Aquar- 1 Ist*' Society will hold its first r xhibition of fish at the Happy World Stadium in September. More than 400 tanks holding tropical freshwater and marine fish, including rare species,' wi.'l be on display. Thore will be 50 classes of fish
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    CONFIDENTIAL
    155 4 A 12-LETTER WORD TOUCHES OFF A RUMPUS AMONG THE SECRETARIAT STAFF MUCH time was spent last night at the annual meeting of the Singapore Government Secretarial Staff Association on whether the word "confidential" before "stenographer" should be deleted or not. I The association, which has as members 102 Government
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    Truck down ravine: Special dies
    73 4 Truck down ravine: Special dies TEMERLOH, Tues. A Special Constable, Tan bin Buyong, 23, was killed when a police truck in which he was travelling with four others overturned and rolled down an embankment on the Temerloh Chcnor road last night. Three other constables were injured. The driver escaped unhurt.
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    School concert
    23 4 IPOH, Tues. Students of St. Michael's institution will stage a variety concert at the school hall on July 23 and 24.
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    Govt. staff council backs Byrne
    113 4 Govt. staff council backs Byrne REPRESENTATIVES of the Singapore Government Servants Staff Side Council yesterday supported Mr. K. M. Byrne in a statement he made last week calling for the complete integrity of public service. Mr. Byrne, a senior Government officer and a member of the staff side of the
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    Paper boy failed to deliver
    41 4 KLANG, Tues— G Rajaratnam, 19, a newspaper delivery boy, was remanded for a week here today for sentence after he had pleaded guilty to criminal breach of trust of $319 belonging to a vendor, V. Kandasamy.
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    New extension
    28 4 CAMERON HIGHLANDS, Tues. The District Officer. Mr. G. M. T. Osborn, will open the $50,000 extension of the Sam Poh Buddhist monastery in Brinchang tomorrow morning.
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    Tengku is now a grandfather
    36 4 ALOR STAR, Tues. The UMNO president, Tengku Abdul Rahman, became a grandfather last night when his only daughter, Tengku Khadijah, gave birth to a 61b. girl at the General Hospital here.
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    BITTER ODYSSEY OF A FOSTER DAUGHTER
    267 4 Now a new home is sought KUALA LIMPIR, Tuesday THE Social Welfare Department is seeking L 1 home for a 16-year-old Chinese girl f rfirn East Coast, who has a very poor opinion or famih- Given away by her parents a few daws al
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    Airways men have new committee
    62 4 AN emergency tn Malayan Air Employees' Union a new management n The meeting, held day, also eonflrmi Dragoon as gem i The previous which had been in the union was I April, resigned aftrconfidence" motion passed against it ;j on June 17. Earlier Mr Di
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    First meeting of new union
    45 4 The newly- formed u rn field's Local Empl will hold its first the end of this i secretary. Mr. S Dragoon a yesterday. He told the Straits Tim "The union was forn mote cordial relations betp the management and ployees
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    Malacca wants a training centre
    50 4 MALACCA. Tues.— The Settlement Government proposes to build an agricultural train- ing centre at Sunnei Udang. 12 miles from Malacca. It will ask the Settlement Council at its meeting tomorrow to apply to the High I Commissioner for allocation of I $25,000 from Federal funds.
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    Bandits fled
    29 4 KUALA LUMPUR T;-;. Special Constables on lea Estate, in the Muar of Johore. last nishttxcha fire with four or five torn who fled. There were known casualties.
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    162 4 rE publisher and printer of a Chinese bi-weekly newspaper, the Facts Review, were fined $500 each in Singapore yesterday for printing a defamatory article. The printer. Ong Hoe Chan, and the publisher. Lim Hong Teck. pleaded guilty in the Fifth Magistrate's Court to printing an
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    301 5 4 SOLDIER COUGHED— THEN THE SHOOTING BEGAN Four accused of consorting: Court told of three-day ambush 4 ambush 1 days man who not d the 5 arts ibbed d in See, Tang Ens Tye. Lee Yin You and Wei Cno On were in the second day of' their trial on
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    13 5 Boy found, mother ends her fast MBAN 1 yamal, t In him reward.
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    Surgeon going round world visits Colony
    71 5 DR. A. R. KOONTZ. ;ui American autgrti who devised a new operation for heali g wounds in the wall of the abdomen. He passed through Singapore on a world tour yesterday. Dr. Kooniz. a general surceon at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Baltimore. first performed an
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    Health workers elect officers
    21 5 "ion of initary Prrsid- I Mr. N Moorp. Mr. B. n iSelrndran Khoe its, Mr. Mi Tara
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    Inspection tour by film chief
    17 5 :5, vicr- Films Singa- ni :nspec- is in charge f hart i
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    Improvident
    34 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Lim Ek Mm. proprietor of a soft drinks factory, was today fined $150 for not sending accounts of contributions by his men to the Employees' Provident Fund. He pleaded suilty
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    CEMETERY FOR SOLDIERS
    58 5 CEMETERY FOR SOLDIERS Maj Gen. D. D. C. Tulloch. G.O.C. Singapore Base District. i yesterday opened a new rnili- tarv cemetery at Ulu Pandan. lie received the keys to the i cemetery gates from Mr. w. E. Warr, the Garrison Engineer. oefore the opening coremony. The cemetery has different nlots
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    DON'T NEGLECT US: PERLIS
    50 5 DON'T NEGLECT US: PERLIS I The Raja I the Fede"pay backward ters to Ight's time will ensure that the improvement of these states, including Perlis. will be in line with the progress achieved by other states." the Raja said when he declared open a new 5200.000 extension to Perlis hospital.
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    Ex-students meet
    24 5 St. Margaret's School Exstudents Association, will hold their annual meeting and i lunch at the School Hall on Saturday at 1.30 o.m.
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    $2,000 'TIGER' TAKEN-AND HE'S SO GLAD
    230 5 $2,000 'TIGER' TAKEN -AND HE'S SO GLAD PEMANG, Tuesday. 4 TEN-WEEK manhunt for Penan*? jail-breaker Ooi Ah Hoe, alias "Lav Hor" (Old Tiger), ended early this morning with his recapture in an isolated farmer's hut in Kampone Permatang Pauh, on the mainland near Butterwortn. Ooi, who crossed over to Province
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    Accused of murder —remanded
    71 5 Accused of murder remanded GAN Lian Siong was tentatively accused in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday of murdering Pek Boon Yiam in Cross Street on the morning of June 15. Gan was alleged to have been with five others. Pek. a driving instructor, was with his wife in a
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    Free show for children
    56 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Boys from the Sungei Besi School and orphans from the Selangor Children's Home will attend a song and dance show to be given by a Maiay troupe at the Lucky World Park here on Thursday and Friday. The performers include the Malay screen
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    Trade Council meets today
    35 5 The new Singapore Trade Advisory Council will hold its first meeting in the Commerce and Industry Ministry at 10 a.m. today. The Chief Minister, Mr. Marshall, will give the opening address.
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    Klang teacher dies
    45 5 KLANG, Tues.— A former tutor of the Royal household of Selangor. Mr. S. Itajadurai, died last night at the General Hospital in Kuala Lumpur after a short illness. He was 54. He leaves behind a wife, six children and the three grandchildren.
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    Mobile campaign
    18 5 IPOH. Tues. Trisha riders here have joined in election-ef-ring by displaying candidate's symbols on their vehicles.
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    HOW TO FIGHT VICE —BY MUSLIMS
    207 5 Quick trials and heavy sentences IPOH, Tues. OEAVIER penalties and 11 quicker tri?.ls are sought by some Perak Muslim organisations which are carrying out an intensive drive against, the increasing incidence of prostitution among Malay women. Mr. If. Y. Hussein, secretary of a committee
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    Pitches for hawkers
    187 5 Pitches for hawkers MAX-LEE REPORT TO MARSHALL SINGAPORE'S hawker problem could be solved if more permanent and semi-per-manent pitches were provided at proper places for hawkers. Labour Front Assemblymen, Mr. Mak Pak Shee and Mr. Lee Choon Eng said this in a ioint report to the Chief Minister, Mr. David
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    CALLING ALL 'LOST' NEW YOUTH CLUBS
    92 5 CALLING ALL 'LOST' NEW YOUTH CLUBS KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— So many youth clubs are being formed in the Federation that the Youth Services Adviser. Mr. A. R. Allen, cannot keep track of them. Mr. Allen told the Straits Times today: "We are .trying to find out where all these new
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    Band concert
    20 5 PENANG, Tues. The Federation Police Band will give an evening concert at Gurney Dive at 8 p.m. tomorrow.
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    89 6 10 Wordt $10 (minimum). S. RAJADURAI: Antlo-Chinc^e Ffhool. KlanK. Uncle of S. Ratnaui, Blxißapore. passed away peacefully on 11-7-56. at the Hospital, Klang. about S p.m. POORE: Cable received from ChanJcanal: Mrs. Daniel Poore pas.sed away; wife of late Daniel Pom, Institute Medical research, BOttMr of S. T. Poore,
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    36 6 20 Worda $10 (minimum). MCCORMICK. J. Passed away at < ood. Australia on 26.7.1954. Thou art gone but not forgotten. Enshrined in our hearts, Thou will always be. Inserted by D. A. J. Mallm Nuwar.
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    Singapore, Wed. July 13, 1955. End Of The Beginning
    582 6 Singapore, Wed. July 13, 1955. End Of The Beginning Nine years ago the Colonial Office invited British universities to set up an inter-univer-sity organisation to help the development of higher education in the colonies. What has been achieved since is remarkable, and the Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas, in
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    Publicity Or Simplicity?
    420 6 Mr. Lim Chin Siong has invited the Singapore GovernI ment to deprive him of his freedom if it dares. He has called upon the Goverment j either to release the two trade 1 unionists detained under the Emergency Regulations or "failing that, I invite the Government to
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    185 6 It may be that political developments in Singapore and in the Federation have made some investors so nervous that they are thinking of taking their investments elsewhere. They might pay some attention to the confidence that Japanese investors have in the future of Malaya. A Japanese firm is
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    The show place of Soviet culture in Central Asia
    1576 6  - The show place of Soviet culture in Central Asia HARRISON E. SALISBURY RUSSIA SINGE STALIN 1 1 1 1 ii ii 1 1 1 1 1 By iniiiiiiiiiiiii HAD hardly been out of Moscow since the 4 spring of 1951, but now, as one of its first acts in a
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      327 6 REFERRING to the letter by "Lone Ranger," the inspectors are not actually under the control of conductors—but they are in fact collaborating in the well known ticket "squeezing" racket. According to information I had from an ex-bus-con-ductor of the S.T.C. he had to leave the job
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    Inquiry into the problems of colonial students
    648 6 Inquiry into the problems of colonial students MEMBERS of the Singapore and Federation Governments will find much food for thought in a report which has just been published in LondonColonial Students in Britain (PEP 21s). The mere fact that the report contains 26 recommendations for improving the present system under
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    EXPERTS MEET TO HELP HE BUND
    56 7 rues. c trainthe blind tion will lay <' ()n--vt month. conls Kind. prove blind I and 'hods Ich will bo atand 15 n I a repreBl He three centres run the Kuala Elizabeth Johore s Home nd out Bl nd WelI) R. Times .ok'
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    inspect still critically ill
    24 7 ho was in Potong hi is still /.on in the kesman the police nnectlon in Paya ight tried to letectiv*.
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    O.V AGENDA—12 GRUMBLES
    46 7 I.: Labour will bring the City i nd Generai c on Fri- Representatives of the Federation have had four preliminary meetings with the Deputy President of the Council. Mr. J. T. Rea. The last of these was held at the Labour Ministry yesterday.
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    WO' TO RED OFFER WAS 'GRAVE MISTAKE'
    366 7 End war by negotiation—Councillor KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A SELANGOR State Councillor, Mr. Tan Tuan Roon (Labour), said today that the Government's rejection of the Communist Party's offer to negotiate i'or peace was a grave error. He said the Emergency was causing widespread frustration
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    Black Tuesday
    20 7 Ninety-six thousand students of 210 Singapore Chinese schools were back at their desks ye^erday after a month's hoiiday.
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    Junior Ministers: Opposition plans to form alliance
    515 7 ALL-PARTY MEETING MAPS OUT A SKIRMISH IN THE ASSEMBLY 'pHE Ktorm of protest over the Singapore (Jovernment's proposal to appoint more junior ministers may culminate in a united all-party stand at the next Legislative Assembly meeting on July 26. The Progressive Party yesterday
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    A 14,000 mile trip in 1944 plane
    231 7 A 14,000 mile trip in 1944 plane LONE PILOT HAS STILL 15 DAYS TO DO IT WITH only seven hours' supply of fuel in his tanks for each hop, 29--year-old Peter Palmer is flying an 11-year-old twin engined Dragon Rapide 14,000 miles solo from Southend, England, to Noumea, French New
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    Union delegates
    48 7 The Indian School Teachers' Union j n Penang and Province W-'ilesley has elected Mr. A. Rajagopal and Mr. M. Mayandy to the executive council of the Federation of Indian School Teachers' Union to see the Director of Education on Aug. 2 regarding grievances of Indian teachers.
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    Top jobs for Malayans: Heavy going
    135 7 Top jobs for Malayans: Heavy going AFTER a three-and-a-half-hour meeting yesterday, the commission appointed by the Singapore Government to inquire into the Malayanisation of the civil service issued this brief statement: "The commission lias decided to ask the Government whether it comes within the provisions of the Inquiry Commissions Ordinance,
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    New youth club
    29 7 ALOR STAR, Tues.— A talentime contest will follow the inaugural meeting of the Alor Star Youth Club at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College on July 20.
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    Records galore by Gladys the champion
    89 7 Records galore by Gladys the champion KUALA LUMPUR'S tennis star, Mrs. Gladys Loke Chua, who performed the unique feat of winning the triple crown at the Singapore tennis championships for three successive years when the tournament ended yesterday. Mrs. Chua, with ten titles in the Singapore championships to her name
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    Cinema man loses case
    58 7 Judgment for $1,926 was given in Singapore High Court yesterday in favour of Tan Khai Ong, trading as Ong Lee and Company, in an action against K. M. Oli Mohamed. Tan claimed that the money was due for work done and materials provided for the defendant
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    $1,620 a month
    34 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Selangor State Secretary, who gets $1,560 a month, is to be paid $60 more, with effect from January this year. The post has also been made pensionable.
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    SOLDIER HIT RAILWAY GUARD — JAILED
    157 7 SOLDIER HIT RAILWAY GUARD JAILED 'He insulted my regiment* TEMERLOH, Tuesday. PRIVATE Awang bin Deraman, 21, of the Malay Regi- ment, was sentenced in the West Pa hang Circuit Court here today to four months' Jail for striking a railway guard. Inche Ghazall bin Othman. ASP, said Awang was travelling
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    DROVE ON WRONG SIDE OF ROAD: 5 DIED
    430 7 THE collision between a car and a lorry at the 7i mile East Coast Road on tho night of June 12. which resulted in the death of two men and three children, occurred while the car was travelling on wrong side of
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    A POLICY OF MISERY
    282 7 'To replace good Europeans with bad Asians' KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. AN Indiscriminate policy of Malayanisation merely on A racial grounds should never be followed, said Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam, Perak Progressive Party general secretary and candidate for the Ipoh and Menglembu constituency in the Federal elections.
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    Johore man gets youth job
    105 7 Johore man gets youth job KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. MR. Michael Ang, of Johore Bahru. is to be the Federation's first full-time youth group leader. He will be paid by the Johore State Government Mr. Ang will run the youth leaders' training centre and hostel in Johore Bahru, the Coronation Boys'
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    Farmer dies in accident
    45 7 A 58-year-old farmer. Lee Chan Siang. was killed in an accident involving a Land Rover belonging to the Telecommunications Department in Paya Lebar Road, Singapore, yesterday morning. Lee was riding a bicycle when the accident occurred. He died on the spot.
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    TIN DREDGE UNCOVERS AMMUNITION DUMP
    59 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A tin dredge yesterday uncovered a wartime ammunition dump at Batu Caves, seven miles from here. The dump contained about 2,500 rounds of 9 mm. ammunition, a 100 lb. aerial bomb and a number of heavy shell heads. None of the ammunition
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      77 7 High tides TODAY: Singapore 3.40 a.m. (8 ft 2 in.) 4.10 p.m. (8 ft. 5 in.); Port Dickson 11.38 a.m. (7 ft. 7 ln.t 11.51 pm (6 ft. 6 in.); Penang 5.35 a.m. (6 ft. 4 in.) 5.19 p.m. (6 ft. 1 in.). TOMORROW: Singapore 4.50 a.m. (7 ft. 6
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    Suicide bid is alleged
    35 8 PENANG. Tues. A fisherman, Lok Gim Chye, was charged in court today with attempted suicide by cutting his throat on July 10. The case was adjourned to July 19 for mention.
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    Sampans on new stamps
    47 8 Sampans and aeroplanes are depicted in a colourful set of < new stamps to go on sale in Singapore from Sept. 4. The 15 stamps, all different in design, aim to show the importance of trade to Singapore, a postal service spokesman said yesterday.
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    FIREMEN ROW HOTS UP: YAP SHOCKED BY UNION
    260 8 ]%IR. YAP PHENG GECK, vice-chairman of the City Council's Finance and General Purposes Committee, was surprised yesterday by the statement of the Singapore Fire Brigade Employees' Union charging him with coercion of the union's officials. The union claimed that when its president
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    Four accused of double murder
    139 8 Four accused of double murder ijiOUR labourers alleged to M: have committed double murder at Lorong Lalat municipal quarters on the night of Feb. 28 last, appeared at the Singapore Assizes yesterday. The four men P. Rathinasamy, R. Nadaison, V. Vairappan and M. Vadivelu were charged on two counts of
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    180 8 'You didn't say this at the hustings' THE Singapore Traction Company Employees Union yesterday made another appeal to the Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall, to obtain the release of unionists detained under the Emergency Regulations. The union secretary. Inche Hashim bin Idris. also asked Mr. Marshall
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    THE BIG keng hua BLOOM
    206 8 THE BIG keng hua BLOOM 60 at once make it a rare occasion ONCE in a long while, the beautiful keng hua flower (Epiphyllum Oxypetalum* turns its face towards the night sky in full bloom. On Monday night, 60 keng huas opened their buds in the garden of Mr. Paul
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    Student teachers see Chew
    47 8 Thirty-one visiting student teachers from the Federation yesterday had an interview with the Singapore Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee. The teachers are on a panMalayan holiday trip and are in their second year's training at the Teachers' Training College, Kota Bharu.
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    Faith of a bank will rise 135 feet
    179 8 Faith of a bank will rise 135 feet rpHREE new storeys -1 costing $1 million are to be built on top of the four-storey Hongkong and Shanghai Bank on Collyer Quay. Work will begin next January and may be completed by December. The buildings height will be increased from 90
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    AMUSEMENT WORKERS FORM UNION
    131 8 AMUSEMENT WORKERS FORM UNION Employees of amusement parks and theatres in Singapore have formed the Singapore Amusement Workers Union to "organise and unite employees of all entertainment places in the Colony. The union «a s already more than 300 members. Its main object is to promote the industrial social and
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    Civil defence officers
    66 8 The Singapore Civil Defence Association elected these officers at its annual meeting: President. Mr. Soh Ghee Soon: vice-presidents. Mr. M. S. Menon. Mr. Mahmood bin H Yusof: secretary. Mr. Toh Teck Sung; treasurer. Mr. Tan Son Liam (re-elected); committee Mr. O. V. Wait. Mr. R. H. Barth.
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    Guard who slept on duty
    45 8 A private of the Singapore Guard Regiment, Salleh bin Chik, was sentenced at a court-martial at Fort Canning yesterday to 56 days' detention for sleeping while on duty at Colombo Camp on June 20. The sentence is subject to o-onfirmation.
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    Cathedral's first service at Christmas
    165 8 XUCHING, Tues.— The new Sarawak Anglican Cathedral Church of St. Thomas, the most modern in South-East Asia, will probably hold its first service at Christmas. The $400,000 cathedral will not be completed until next April, but church leaders want it opened this year to commemorate
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    RUBBER CLIMBING UP TO YEAR'S HIGHEST LEVEL ONCE AGAIN
    546 11 By Our Market Correspondent JHE rubber price in Singapore continued to improve yesterday and July first grade closed at 51. 26, three cents above Monday's close. The price movement was aided by* better overnieht London and New York and overseas acceptances
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    217 11 Share Broken' As- Singapore section, report- del cunaitioni conunuea to i tl] HCttOH of the local N market, lint, were inclined to a le\. instances while rub- •.:t wry .sirady." Singapore brokers reported the following business done: 8.8. (4 M. -odd lon, 455. 1%d.; and Nuavt orris $1.75;
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    SKIPPING
    117 11 Ships lying alongside the Sinpa- pore Harbour Board wharves or ex- i p< 1 ted Uidav are: Soudan 1". Neri- Una 45. Warm C.P.. Orestes 67. ipore 89. Bali 11. Aki Maru I Peleus 15 16. Trafalgar 18. < lak 20. Tung Song M W I 3 and 4.
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    RUBBER PRICES
    142 11 July first grade rubber buyers fob. closed in Sineapore yesterday at 51. 26 per lb.. three cents above Monday* close. The closing tone was steady. Closing prices in cents per lb. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose buyers 127 3 seller s 128. No. 1 R.S.S. July buyers 12G.
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    Poor old father
    106 12 CHAN. "Will you lend me ten dollars?" Chin. "Certainly. Here it is." Chan. "I'll only take five if you don"t mind." Chin. Why?" Chan. Because then you'll owe me five and I shall owe you five so wel'll be square." The other day teacher received a letter
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    An exciting new contest for you this week
    316 12 Dear Boys and Girls, Here are the six winners of our Bakar Bear contest. You remember you had to decide what was chasing the bear, and most of you seemed to think it was a swarm of bees. Two winners however had
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    958 12 Holiday By the Sea GAYLORD TEDDY— MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER BUILDS A PADDLE BOAT Teddy, Golly and Rosemary are on holiday by the sea. They sail over to an island where they meet a film company who invite them to watch the picture being made. Now read on. T»EDDY, Golly, Rose--1 mary
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    WHAT IS IT?
    139 12 QWHAT does no man wish to have, yet certainly does not wish to lose? A. A bald head. Q. Why are you tired on April Ist? A Because you have had a March of 31 days. Q. What is bought by the yard and worn by the
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    127 12 TESTS have indicated that dogs live in a world of black, tohite, and grey shades. The dog's sight is considerably weaker than man's but this is balanced by the Jact that his senses of smell, hearing and sensitivity to movement, however slight, arc much stronger than those
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    322 12 I WAS walking past a house I I "the other day and paused I |to look through the gate at I some flowers when a huge dog 1 folloped out .md began barking at me most fiercely. r It followed me all -.he way 1 afong the
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    STABLEMATES' CLASH THE HIGHLIGHT
    239 13 Majula for Class 5 top sprint By EPSOM JEEP 'THE CLASH of stable- mates. Passing Fair and Majula, in Class 5, Div. 1 over sif. (Race Six) is likely to provide one of the best races at Kuala Lumpur today, second day of the SelanKor Turf
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    PEARL SNAP GOOD BET ON 4-3-2 FORM
    623 13 oearl SNAP improves with x each outing her latest form figures read 4-3-2 and with a handy 8.0 I think she will get her winning turn in Race Four today. Pearl Snap ran two encouraging races Behind Glittering (sftf.) and Hollywood Star (61.)
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    STRAITS TIMES SELECTIONS
    111 13 EPBOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER Race 1. 3.30. BOUTHBRIDGE Big Andy BOVGAINVILLEA Southbrldge BIG ANDY Bougainville* Race 2. 4.00. MYSTIC CODE Santa Claus Mickey Mouse MYSTIC CODE Oblation Santa Clans OBLATION Mystic Code Rice Kinr II Race 3l 4.30. FREEDOM TRAIN Fay's Harvest Bucentaur FAY'S HARVEST Freedom
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    647 13 Race 1—3.30: Class 5, Div. 2—s* Furs. 1 007 Miss Brookfleld 5y Manning 9.00 Bogey Kongsl Ellerv 2 080 Remarkable 5y Bajby 8.13 Huka Kongsi Martin 3 323 Bouralnvillea 5y Donnelly 8.10 Pil Stable Slery 4 736 Hollywood Star 6y Bell 8.07 Brilliant Kongsi Martin 5 654
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    48 13 rE coins up to last evening was very good. FORECAST Tote will be held on Races Two, Four and Six; Treble Tote on Races Three, Five and Six- and the Big Sweep will h- drawn on Rac e Six. THERE will be no race broadcast today.
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    STORE TO KL CYCLE RACE
    128 14 THIS year's Phillips Classic, a 250-mile cycle race from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, is due to be run from July 30 to August 1. Chief Minister Mr. David Marshall has been invited to start the race at 7 a.m. from the Singapore padang. Riders will
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    Winning hit five minutes from time
    582 14 SOUTH AFRICA'S DRAMATIC CHASE FOR RUNS JUST SUCCEEDS ENGLAND LEFT THE TOURISTS 145 RUNS TO GET IN 135 MINS MANCHESTER, Tuesday. gET by England to make 145 runs in 135 minutes to win the third Test match, the South Africans made the required runs
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    Lock icon SCOREBOARD
    176 14 ENGLAND IST. INNS. 28* ><M Til AFRICA IST INNS —521 FOR ll(. ill DECLARED ENGLAND 2ND. INNINGS (OVERNIGHT SCORE 250 FOR 4) C'owdrry c Goddard b Heine 50 Lock c McGlew I, Adcock 17 Bailey not out 38 litmus c M.msrll |> Adcock 19 Tyson b Heine 8 Brdsor
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    Chinese held to draw at Naval Base
    261 14 A FINE 62 by Khoo Ong Lee highlighted the drawn S.C.A. senior cricket tournament match between Singapore Chinese R.C. and Royal Navy at the Naval Bast on Sunday. Ons Lee. who was at the wickets fcr two and a quarter hours, hit only
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    DOUBLES SETTLED BY 6-0 6-0 WIN
    294 14 DOUBLES SETTLED BY 6-0 6-0 WIN ONG CHEW BEE and Lim Hee Chin recaptured the doubles title in the Singapore lawn tennis championships that they lost last year and had won thrice previously when they disposed of H. Kamis and A. I. Alsagoff 6-0, 6-0 in the final yesterday. For
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    Seletar rout Sappers 3-0
    133 14 ROYAL Air Force Seletar, the Singapore United Services F.A. Div. 1 league leaders, beat Royal Engineers 3-0 yesterday at Gillman Barracks. The airmen were superior in all departments. Sappers' centre-half Bowley was brilliant in defence. Seletar scored in the third minute. Harrison gave Cornelius a pass
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    Malayans star in Aussie cup soccer
    327 14 Malayans star in Aussie cup soccer SYDNEY, Tues. MALAYANS recently iTI played a big part in the three-day Australian inter-university soccer carnival at Sydney. Sydney. Melbourne, Adelaide and Queensland entered teams. Of the 44 players, 22 were students from SouthEast Asia. Nine were from the Federation of Malaya, five from
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    ON WAY TO TITLE
    45 14 The 1955 Singapore doubles champions, Ong Chew Bee (left) and Lim Hee Chin, in the final yesterday. Above Chew Bee is caught in the way of the ball and he chooses an unorthodox way to volley his return.— Straits Times picture.
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    Lock icon SURREY LOSE, YORKS ARE BACK IN CHASE
    458 14 LONDON. Tues. YORKSHIRE, by beating Sussex by eight wickets at Sheffield today, jumped back Into the chase for. the English county cricket championship. Their victory coincided with Surrey's second defeat of the season, the county leaders being beaten by 13 runs by lowly
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    Singapore Services 20 ahead of H.K. with 5 wkts. in hand
    578 14 SINGAPORE Combined Services had scored 143 for five wickets in reply to Hong Kong Combined Services' first innings total of 123 on the S.C.C. padang yesterday at close of play on the opening day of the Hong Kong team's
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    SCOREBOARD
    154 14 HONG KONG COMB. SERVICES Prltchard c Bliss, tt b Muir 2 Green lbw b Evans 0 Spooner lbw b Burton 4 Ford lbw b Muir 30 Howmrd-Dobson b Major 22 Taylor b Barron 38 Lipscombe b Burton 1 Dhaber b Muir Chubb c Dauncey b Barton 1 St. Johnston*
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    LYON, SAWYER THE WINNERS
    146 14 The R.S.O.C. July Medal (Stroke) "B" Division competition played during the weekend resulted: Winner: J. Lyon 83-16-67. Other cards: J. D. Allan 86-17-69; C. Q. Starkey 84-14-70; H. D. Street 89-18-71; R. A. Flanagan 90-18-72; J. N. Hacking 91-16-75; J. P. Kemball 92-17-75; T. H. Suddath
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    CSC must beat RAF to earn replay
    265 14 CHINESE Swimming Club will meet R.AJ5 1 Singapore at water-polo at 10.30 a.m. next Sunday. This will b e the last "A" Division league match of the season. If the C.S.C. beat the R.A.F., then they will be level on points with Singapore
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    Weakened Rovers lucky to, draw 2-2
    193 14 Weakened Rovers lucky to, draw 2-2 inside left. Ho On enabled Roy Star Soccerti draw in a SAB sion league match Jalan Besai terday. Socceritcs were better thai. who were with their best player, Chia Boon Leon Misson and The you:. the small deft footwork, swilt n clever passing, sorry
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    CORPS CRICKET
    44 14 The RAOC team to meet Royal Signals in an inter-Corps cricket fixture at Princess Mary Barracks today will be: Lt. Col. Wiggins, Capt. Harper. Maj Maguire Capt. Grimblc. Capt. Moore, Lieut. Allway, WO Osman. SQMS Kelly, Sgt. Sheepwash, Sgt. Haw Pte Ash.
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    ASCOT STAB TO WILDM
    42 14 ASCOT. lues. —Mr William's four-year-i '.< won the Ascot Stall a half miles toda] i photo -finish. He beat Lord Ko-eberp i scription by a r.erk with B^fl F. W. Byilock Marsham Legend a* head further ai Fifteen ran.
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