The Straits Times, 22 July 1955

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    12 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1955 15 CENTS
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    CRISIS: OVER TO BOYD?
    192 1 THOSE RESIGNATIONS MAY BE DEFERRED EVEN AFTER TODAY'S DEBATE Secretary for Colonies may alter plans and rush to Singapore to give ruling on interpretation of constitution GOVT. INVOLVED, SO... Only he has the power to decide r Political Correspondent ial issues which have heen :;ipore\s Chief
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    Parties support the Marshall stand
    113 1 outright opposition to the second, and more important, resolution, Aii parties support the expression of determination to end colonialism but there were indications yesterday That both the Progressive and the Democrats would move amendments. The Progressives plan to move an amendment to the part of
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    But papers say: Please stay on
    380 1 FIVE Singapore ver--1 nacular newspapers yesterday urged Mr. Marshall to reconsider his decision to resign. They were the Nanfang Evening Post, the Sin Chew Jit Poh. the Chung Shing Jit Pao. Utusan Melayu and the Malaya Nanban. The Nanfang Evening Post, which has criticised
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    Templcr pleased
    29 1 Before he left Singapore last ni»ht W air for Australia, General Sir Gerald Templer said he was satisfied with the progreu of the anti-terrorist war in Malaya.
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    Lock icon £300 mil. empire faces a break-up
    280 1 £300 mil. empire faces a break-up A DEATH SHAKES THE MONEY WORLD LONDON, Thurs. THE DEATH of one little known man shook the world's financial circles today with the threat of a secret empire's breakup. He may have been the world's richest man and his empire threaded together vast Oil
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    Dunlops look for new estates
    53 1 LONDON. Thurs.— Mr. D. J Flunder. assistant general manager of Dunlop Plantations, and Mr. J. T. McElfrish. one of Dunlop's Malayan estate managers, two assistant planters and an estate engineer, have left for Nigeria to look for suitable land for new plantations which Dunlops plan
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    Lock icon Tax rebate
    32 1 WELLINGTON, Thurs— New Zealand's National (Conservative* Government today announced a budget giving a 20 per cent income tax rebate to all individual taxpayers up to a limit of £75.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Gift of gliders
    19 1 TOKYO. Thurs.— Poland yesterday presented Red China with two training gliders. Peking Radio reported today. A.P.
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    PART FOR A BEAUTY QUEEN IN 'ALICE'
    101 1 PART FOR A BEAUTY QUEEN IN 'ALICE' MRS MUKKKN MIDDLLWfcfcK, 23-year-old brunette, is to be the double for the part of "Mrs. Holland" in the film "A Town Like Alice." Mrs. Middleweek is a model and stenographer who has only been in Singapore for four weeks. Her husband. Colin, is
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    Lock icon Bomb blast
    31 1 BUENOS AIRES. Thurs— A bomb exploded early today in front of a Peronista political, school in Buenos Aires, shattering windows and damaging a car slightly.— A.P. (See Page 3>.
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    Lock icon Hanging to stay
    35 1 LONDON. Thurs. The British Government today turned down a demand by Labour Members of Parliament for the abolition of the death penalty following the hanging of Mrs. Ruth Ellis last week.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon PASHA ESCAPES BID TO KILL HIM
    145 1 MARRAKESH. Thursday. EL GLAOUI, the powerful Pasha of Marrakesh. today escaped unhurt when a would-be assassin shot at him. Police returned the fire and a number of people were injured The Pasha was on his way back from the Bahia Palace, where he had
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    SIR DONALD'S PLANE IS DELAYED
    53 1 SIR DONALD'S PLANE IS DELAYED Tile plane carrying the High Commissioner for the Federation Sir Donald MacGillivray, from London has been delayed. Sir Donald was due in Singapore yesterday afternoon, but he is now expected this afternoon. He has been away a month, reporting to the Colonial Office and takine
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    Lock icon Undersea atom
    18 1 GROTON. Connecticut. Thurs. The world's second atomic submarine, the U.S.S. Seawolf. was launched here today.— U.P.
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    Now U.S. joins the rubber and tin race
    178 1 By Our Market Correspondent UNITED STATES demand for Malaya's rubber and tin swept prices up to new records for the year in Singapore yesterday. Rubber was done up to $1.34 for August first grade and closed at $1,322. the highest closing price
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    52,000 PLEAD TOMr.M: DON'T RESIGN
    194 1 Union men will try to talk him out of it today A SEVEN-MAN delegation representing 20 Singapore trade unions with a membership of 52,000 will call on the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, this morning to ask him not to resign. The delegates were chosen
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    PROF. SHEARES ROBBED: 6 MEN TAKE $10,000
    439 1 OIK masked robbers, armed with a revolver and knives, last night held up Dr. B. H. Sheares, Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology at the University of Malaya, at his home in Eng Neo Avenue, off Dunearn Road, Singapore, and took $10,000 worth of
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    Lock icon A date with the Queen
    53 1 LONDON, Thurs. —Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald went to Buckingham Palace today to see the Queen on his appointment as British High Commissioner in India. Mr. and Mrs. Mac Donald lunched with the Queen. The Queen also today reiceived the Sultan of Johore and the Sultan
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    Lock icon Ceylon backed
    24 1 COLOMBO. Thurs. Russia has agreed to support the admission of Ceylon to the United Nations, the Times of Ceylon said today. UP.
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    1,250 go back to work today
    174 1 1,250 go back to work today SINGAPORE'S 1,250 workers employed at Hume Industries (Far East) Ltd., Bukit Timah Road, are to get more pay from today. Their 45-day-old strike was settled last night and all workers will resume work at eight this morning. The strike ended after 16 hours of
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    STOP PRESS
    47 1 IKLT. OFFEB IO RUSSIA GENEVA, Tlitu riri Eisenlwwei totU] o£fi red i« r,ivr "complete print if our military t lablbhmenii' 1 to Russia :l nmild tin :-,im<\ I- .1 Id pi'tpn.>ril .1 gre; ten pact between .xuniiL .md Warsaw P.»cl tonii:>. Xc utfi 'See Pa^t
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    MARSHALL IN THE CRYSTAL
    55 1 LONDON. Thurs.— Mr. Fennei Brockway < Labour i seems to have assumed that Singapore's Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, will resign. He will ask the Colonial Oflico spokesman in the House of commons on Wednesday lor a statement "on the po.sii tion in Singapore following the
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    Reality emerges at the summit
    972 2 GENEVA, Thurs. 'pHE pattern of this curious conference i> now becoming apparent and reality is bcgiMiwf to emerge. The supreme and tenlng fact la that all those on the .summit arc gradually but inrscapably adjusting their minds to the incomprehensible and hitherto unprecedented 'hat war
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    WATER TORTURE
    145 2 $25.7 million Comets to be smashed to check on metal fatigue LONDON. Thurs. SIX more Comet Jetliners are to be tested to destruction in the Farnborough "water torture" tank to check on pressure cabin fa.igue. Cost of the Comets: £500.000 (about $4,285,700* apiece. Total for the tests: £3.000.--000
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    Lock icon PINNACLE WASN'T AT SUMMIT
    79 2 PINNACLE WASN'T AT SUMMIT LONDON. Thurs.— Punters put two and two together and got a tip yesterday when Sir Winston Churchill paid a surprise visit to Kempton Park race course. Sir Winston had for several years urged international talks at the "highest level" and such talks were now going on
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    Lock icon Body in the kitchen
    76 2 Business as usual TAMPA. Florida. Thurs. A 57-year-old woman stabbed her husband to death in the kitchen of their restaurant last night, then calmly continued waiting on customers as he lay dying. Police said Mrs. Mary Shoutlz apparently stabbed her 65-year-old husband. Clinton with a kitchen
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    Lock icon Bulganin puts them all in the picture
    189 2 Bulganin puts them all in the picture GENEVA. Thurs. THE Soviet Premier Marshal BulganLn. joked and slapped photographers on the back at his villa ast night in the most rousing display yet of the new Soviet "happy look," The Russians had said that only four still photographers would be allowed
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    Redhill Centre's fun fair
    43 2 A Singapore Assemblyman. Mr. Lee Choon Eng, will open the Redhill Community Centre's fun fair at the car pane behind Redhll Road Market. Alexandra area, at 3 p.m. on July 30. The fair will be open until 10 p.m.
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    Trophy to MAAF
    27 2 The Shell Company will present a trophy to the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force in Singapore and the Federation for its inter-unit annual efficiency competition.
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    Lock icon DUKE FACES BAN ON DRIVING
    180 2 Th% Queen wants crash tfeteA LONDON, Tnu THE 19-year-old Duke of Kent, who has been i, in Three car crashes in 13 months. m n under a Royal Family edict banning him from diS? until further notice, according to the Daily political correspondent in a
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    She'll wed at 65 man she met at 17
    81 2 She'll wed at 65 man she met at 17 LONDON ThA silver-haired n y'- 65 has sailed i to marry a man when she was 17 It was 43 year Millicent Wlliian duced to Oliver B cendant of Captain Blithe Bounty at her hi Truro. Cornwall. But Mr. Biigh. a
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    MYF debate
    30 2 "Christians should part in politics' ject of Methodist Youth lowship debatn betwi Fairfield and Telo chapters at the Girls' School hall, N Singapore, at s.:sn p m morrow.
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    Boys' Flair Day
    22 2 A Flag Day in aid Ramakrishna Mission Bon Home in Bart ley Rr i pore, will be held on
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    THE FREIGHTER PLANE LIKE A FIGHTER
    102 2 WASHINGTON. Thurs— The United States Air Force has released details of its new fourengined turbo-prop freighter plane, the Lockheed Hercules C-130. which has a performance surpassing all present cargo planes in use in the United States. The plane showed fighterlike manoeuvrability at a display
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    Lock icon pERON FINALLY DEPOSED' REPORTS
    391 3 pERON FINALLY DEPOSED' REPORTS Mrs siceep Buenos Aires that Navy is still in revolt and will shell city Last-minute bid by Army to keep him in power DEPArra R *P DE JANERIO, Thursday. JJhl ()RTS» reading here today indicate that the Argentine Navy is once more in revolt and that
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    Our secrets the beauties
    33 3 Our secrets the beauties SOftP AND WATER, SAY HOST OF THEM ,'S Of t i Lipstick, spaghetti and the mambo j nothing I use I all the Barrel in ach." i ry little
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    T.V. STAR IS
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    GABLE WANTS TO BE A FATHER
    110 3 GABLE WANTS TO BE A FATHER HOLLYWOOD, Thurs. (lark (lahle. ;i veteran of four childless marriages, said today that he hoDes at the age of :>1 to become a father o%r the first time. (•;inlc and the beautiful K:i.v Spreckels arrived home after a week's honeymoon .ii-.il met the Press
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    Lock icon More leniency in Kenya
    66 3 LONDON, Thurs— The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd, today announced a reduction in the number of es for which death is the penalty in Kenya, where the G ivcrnment is fighting Mau Mi.v ten >ri.sm i his was being done by the Kenya Government with
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    THREATENED
    35 3 programme about the way in which flick knives are beinj; .sold openly to young gangsters, ho has been warned that "the boys will do you in.' 1 The writers say they are Teddy Buys.
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    Lock icon Taking pills is Susan's 'weakness'
    106 3 HOLLYWOOD. Thurs. ACTOR Jess Barker seeking full custody of his twin sons, filed an affidavit in court, here yesterday declaring that his ex-wife, actress Susan Hayward, "has a weakness for taking sleeping pills." On April 26 police saved Miss Hayward from a suicide bid in
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    No. 1 Baptist
    34 3 LONDON, Thurs.— Dr. Theodore Adams, an American, was elected president of the Baptist World Alliance yesterday for the next five years. He succeeds Dr. F. Townley Lord, of Britain. A. P.
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    Synthetic sale
    31 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs.— The V S. House of Representatives vestcrday passed legislation authorising the government to sel; its synthetic rubber plant at Institute, West Virginia, to private industry.— A. P.
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    Lock icon No objection
    29 3 WASHINGTON. Thurs.— The Congressional Atomic Energy Committee reported today that it had found no objection to n«w atomic exchange information agreements with Britain, Canada and Belgium.— Reuter.
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    HO flics home
    10 3 Mr Ho I v by H noi.
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    Lock icon Mrs. Sispera arrives home with V-Sign
    101 3 Mrs. Sispera arrives home with V-Sign MOM! AGAIN after eight un happy years in Czechoslovakia, Mrs. Phyllis Sispera, 32, British-born former wife of a Czech landed at London Airport with her three children Jaroslav Martin, 13, Clarence David, 1.1 and Jennifer Pearl, 10. They had flown from Prague to Amsterdam,
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    Lock icon SAIGON IS BACK TO NORMAL
    184 3 But guards still at hotels SAIGON Thurs COUTH VIETNAMS 1 capital remained 1 quiet throughout the night after yesterday's riots in which two hotels were sacked. This morning the city returned to normal and .shops in the centre of Saigon which had remained shut during
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    Lock icon GEMS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN
    146 3 pEOPLE are digging up d: 1 in the British colony oi LONDON. Thursday, iamonds in their backyards Sierre Leone, the House of Commons was told. Mr. James Johnson (Labour) said this referring to the black marketing of the shiny stones in the African
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    Floods rage in India
    93 3 CALCUTTA, Thurs. Steady I rains for the past few days have flooded 12,000 square miles of five districts of India, driving more than a million people from their homes, government reports showed yesterday. People and cattle from about 1.000 villages and surrounding rural areas were racing
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    28 3 ATHENS, Thurs.— The Greek Foreign Minister, Mr. Stephen Stephanopoulos, announced today that Greece would appeal without delay to the United Nations on the Cyprus issue. —Reuter.
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    Lock icon Frolics in the cemeteries
    31 3 LANCASTER, Ohio). Thurs. -Mayor John Harvey yesterday ordered superintendents of three city cemeteries to break up vandalism, drinking, card playing and "petting" in the burial grounds. A.P.
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    Lock icon Action, please
    41 3 NEW DELHI. Thurs. India has called on Sir Anthony Eden and Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov. chairman of last year's Geneva conference, to consider the new situation in Vietnam following the Saigon riots "and issue necessary directions to the parties." Reuter.
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    Lock icon Blonde Cariene is the new 'Miss U.S.A. '
    95 3 Blonde Cariene is the new 'Miss U.S.A. LONG BEACH, (Calif). Thurs. "Miss Vermont", a doll-like blonde, was yesterday named "Miss U.S.A." She is Cariene King Johnson She Is 22, but looks 16. Runners-up were the Misses Arkansas. Nebraska, California and Georgia. The new "Miss U.S.A." possesses the perfect "Miss Universe"
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    Lock icon More at work
    19 3 LONDON, Thurs. Nearly 21,000,000 Britons wore at work last year the highest ever peace-time figure.— Reuter
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    LONDON STOCKS
    453 3 LONDON, Thurs 'THE feature of dealings l n stock markets today was the strength of oil .shares. The shares advanced sharply ln early dealings helped by the overnight statement in the House of Common* on the future of nuclear and oil power to meet the deficiency in coal
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    LONDON TIN
    24 3 LONDON, July 21— Cash Buyers £772: Sellers £774; Forward Buyers £763; Sellers £765: Settlement £768. Turnover a.m. 100 tons p.m 75 tons.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    38 3 LONDON. July 21.— Spot 37 ',d Aujr. 39' 2 d.. Sept. 38' 2 d.. Oct.-Dec' 37\d, Jan-Mar. 35>,d. Apr-June 33 d.. July c.i.f. 38 2 d. nominal. Awr. c.i.f. 38d.. Sept. c.i.f, 37'« d Tone: Firm.
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    SCRAP RENDEL' 10 TOLD
    385 4 Committee will inquire into future of local government Instead of City Council, District Councils plan 'pHE Singapore Government yesterday named a UN man committee to carry out a Legislative Assembly order to scrap the Rendel plan for a City and Island Council. It will be headed
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    Twenty girls (from 4 to 40) will model hair-styles for charity
    189 4 mWENTY women and girls X in Singapore, whose ages range from four to 40, have volunteered to be models in a fashion parade of the latest hair styles in aid of S.A.T.A. The fashion parade will be held at
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    TRIAL PUT OFF FOUR MONTHS
    234 4 Counsel protests against delay T*HE TRIAL of Lee Yong Mm, secretary of the Singa- pore Labour Party and general secretary of the Singapore Entertainment and Cinema Workers' Union, on two charges of extortion and attempted extortion, will be held on Dec. I—almost1 almost four and
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    Cement bags kill labourer
    57 4 A bag of cement dropped on a labourer and knocked him down. Then three more bags fell on him and killed him, a Singapore inquest was told yesterday. Inspector C B. Wong said that Tew Ec Noo, a labourer, was carrying bags of cement from a
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    Agricultural show
    45 4 Agricultural show Un^ku Tun Amlnah, consort of the Rtegent of Johore, will open the three-day State agri-horticultural show In Kirn's Park, Batu Pahat, on Aug. 4. Prizes worth $5,000 are being offered. There will be fruit, vegetable, poultry, cattle and arts and crafts on show.
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    A man, a girl and a torn blouse
    132 4 A man, a girl and a torn blouse CHIN THYE stood in the witness box of a Singapore court yesterday, took out a torn blouse from a packet and put it on to prove to the magistrate that a man had at!tacked her. In the dock was Low Kirn !Yong,
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    Bazaar for Malays
    57 4 MALACCA. Thurs.— A $20,000 Malay bazaar, the first in the Settlement, is to be built on Padang Niru, at the junction of Mill Road and Riverside. Work on the building l s expected to begin soon and should be completed in two months' time. Stalls at the
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    Hammer attack in coffee shop
    44 4 Chua Kirn Seng, 26, was beaten up by two men with a hammer in a coffee shop in Ulu Pandan, Singapore, on Wednesday night. Police believe his assailants were members of a secret society. Chua was admitted to hospital.
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    'DINNERS AS USUAL' DESPITE STRIKE
    149 4 A STRIKE of some waiters, waitresses and cooks at the Happy World Tal Tong Restaurant, one of the biggest in Singapore, will begin today. But the proprietor, Mr. Ow Luen. last nigiht assured patrons: "Dinners as usual." Strike notice was served on the proprietor yesterday
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    Cameraman's loss
    26 4 A Singapore press photographer. Peter Anderson yesterday reported loss of two cameras worth $2,300. He missed the cameras from his car on July 17.
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    Tarzan touch
    150 4 IT'S BARRED IN PENANG, QUITE LEGAL HERE "T'ARZAN" knives, ban- ned in Penang this week, may be freely bought in Singapore without breaking the law. It is also no offence in Singapore to have this daggerlike knife, with a blade from six to 10 inches long. The knives
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    Road deaths: Police want witnesses
    135 4 Road deaths: Police want witnesses rE Traffic Police are appealing for witnesses of three fatal accidents in Singapore since July 12. NO. 1: LEE CHAN SIANG. 58-year-old farmer, was knocked down by a Land Rover at Paya Lebar Road at 7.30 a.m. on July 12. NO. 2: CHIT SIANG PENG.
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    Singapore plans a big farm show
    171 4 pLANS are being made by the Singapore Ministry of Commerce and Industry for an agri-horticultural show at the site ol Kallang Airport in November. The Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. B. Clegg. told the Straits Times yesterday that
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    Agents may yet win election
    173 5 SIX DAYS TO POLLING PAY-BUT TEMPO HAS NOT QUICKENED for the candidates KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. I day only a lew days away, there is ign of any active campaigning in I Province Wellesley, and unless the j r kens in the next few days the
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    MILITARY FORCES PRAISED
    116 5 IPOH, Thurs. YO party or combination of parties can do better than the security forces in wiping out the terrorists, an election rally was told here last night. Mr. W. E. Balasingam, Independent candidate lor Ipoh and Monglembu. said: "I am satisfied with the progress made by
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    Ho was trigger happy: Charge
    69 5 TELUK ANSON. Thurs.— A .special constable. Zainal Abidin bin Mat Ahkir. 24. of Sussex Estate near here, was charged with firing a round oi ammunition from his carbine In the direction of two other special constables on July 5, in a manner endangering the personal
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    Seminar man
    28 5 JOHORE BAHRU. TMmy Mr. Scab Siow Seoh, Chinese Affairs Officer, who attended a Colombo Plan seminar in Australia on puolic administration, returned to Johore Bahru yesterday.
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    CHINESE NIGHTINGALE MAKES TELEVISION DEBUT IN BRITAIN i
    133 5 MISS Chen Li thing, (above) known as the "Chinese Nightingale." who visited Singapore in 1952 and sang to a packed house at the Victoria Memorial Hall, has made her television debut in England. Miss Chen, is a lyric-colora-tura soprano from Shanghai. She
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    THE TEMPTRESS
    159 5 Soldier stole $117 gave her $40 SEREMBAN. Thurs.— A district court martial at Tampin today was told that a Royal Welch fusilier stole $117 from two other soldiers while he was on leave at Sandycroft military leave centre in Tanjong Bungah. Penang. Fusilier E. A. Prandle, 20. was
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    Malayan for conference
    43 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Swami Satyananda of the Pure Life Society, Petaling, will represent Malaya at the conference of World Religionists in Tokyo from Aug. 1 to 4. One hundred and sixty-five delegates from all parts of the world will attend.
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    SONGKOK GIFT AN HONOUR
    170 5 Candidate defends presentation KLANG, Thurs. IT IS an honour for the 1 Malays to give songkoks to people of other races, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak, Alliance candidate for Selangor Barat in the Federal elections, told a party rally here last night. lv. said his Negara
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    His big turn
    33 5 A Singapore amateur magician, Mr. j. Choo, has been invited to perform at the midyear dinner of the American University Club, Singapore at the Capitol Restaurant tomorrow at 8 p.m.
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    $1,000 offence
    32 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. For taking five katis of barley out of Geylang Patak without a permit, Chan Kok Wah, a cook, was fined $1,000 or eight months' jail here today
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    A HERCULEAN TASK
    228 5 32 men get an 'impossible' job to do it's the sack if they don't PENANG, Thurs. cigar rol- x lers today complained that they have been set an "impossible task"— and it's the sack for them if they fail. Their employer, the Penang India Cigar Company, has
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    ARRESTED AFTER TWO YEARS
    146 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A SUSPECTED Ang Bin Hoay secret society leader was arrested by the police at Port Swettenham today on a banishment warrant issued in 1953. A police spokesman said that the man was sought by the police in 1953. but he absconded to Singapore.
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    Swimmer's body is recovered
    43 5 BUTTERWORTH, Thurs. The body of a 19-year-old schoolboy. Ang Ah Kow, was recovered last night near Mitchell Pier where he had disappeared earlier in the day while swimming with some friends. Divers brought up the body from muddy banks.
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    BIG DRIVE FOR ROAD SAFETY
    166 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The Federal capital is planning a big road safety drive in a bid to improve courtesy on the road and cut down the daily toll of accidents. Schoolchildren, traffic police, military authorities Municipal Councillors and others will join in to make the
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    Oilmen seek rises
    189 5 SHOE FACTORY MAY CLOSE ABOUT 40 workers of the Lam Soon Oilmills at Robertson Quay Singapore, have submitted 15 demands to the company for better conditions of service. They include a 15 to 20 per cent wage rise and 11 paid public holidays a year. Women workers
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    Back to Ceylon
    35 5 JOHORE BAHRU Thurs Mr. P. B. Disanayake, Technical Assistant, Drainage and Irrigation Department has retired after 27 years' service, 20 of which were spent in Johore. He leaves on Saturday for Ceylon.
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    MYSTERY FIRE PROBE
    85 6 MYSTERY FIRE PROBE IPOH, Thurs. PERAK police are trying to discover the cause of a fire at Kampong Sungei Megat Aris in which three children were killed and eight people injured. A tin of petrol for an Alliance cinema unit at an election rally on July 6 burst into flames.
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    The ignorant woman
    75 6 The ignorant woman Jailed for 2 weeks IPOH. Thurs. A 63 -YEAR-OLD woman, Foo Yin. was jailed for two weeks here today for carryinß lib. lloz. of salted vegetables without a permit in a food res. tricted area in Clhemor yesterday afternoon. Foo pleaded guilty. She said she did not
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    Youth is potent force,' he says
    64 6 ALOR STAR. Thurs.— Youth forms a potent force in any country, the Kedah State Secretary, Tuan Syed Hassan, said at the first meeting of the Alor Star Youth Club last night. "We are on the threshold of a new era and this throws a
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    Three more quit
    22 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Three more terrorists have surrendered in the Federation. Details are being kept secret for security reasons.
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    BOYS' HOME OFFICER HITS OUT AT 'GOOD TIME' PARENTS
    169 6 BOYS' HOME OFFICER HITS OUT AT 'GOOD TIME' PARENTS Children suffer as mum and dad keep going out like when they were courting IPOH, Thursday. A SALVATION ARMY officer today criticised parents who neglect their children and go out seeking pleasure "in exactly the same way as when they were
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    TUC demands wage minimums law
    187 6 IT HAS PLAN TO END STRIKES WAGE minimums for Government unions with all workers in "in- "TW I adequately paid Indus- "^^ld T uc "RELD tries'- will be a top de- w R ™Jg» ™g mand of the Singapore tories, shops and farms to T.U.C.
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    MALAYA WON'T USE SALK SERUM
    154 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. ORITAIN'S DECISION to abandon the Salk anti-polio vaccine, because it is too dangerous, will automatically mean it will not be used in Malaya. "We had decided from the start to follow Britain's lead," the Federation's acting Director of Medical Services. Dr. M.
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    Istana picnic for children
    52 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Che Yah Shaari, a member of the board of governors of the Selangor Children's Home, yesterday took 30 of the children on a visit to the Sultan's istana here. The Sultan and one of his grandsons entertained the children who had joy rides
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    Round-the-clock curfew lifted
    39 6 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Thurs. —The round-the-clock curfew imposed on Bukit Mertajam hill areas last Saturday to enable the Royal Artillery to shell the hills was lifted today. But the old 3 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew remains.
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    Armed man jailed for 3 years
    90 6 Armed man jailed for 3 years PENANG. Thurs. CHARGED with carrying v^ arms, Hamld bin Ismail, 24, said in court today that if he had really been armed, he would have shot the inspector who arrested him. He was sentenced to three years' jail for having a pistol and five
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    'Let people speak' plea
    55 6 ALOR STAR, Thurs. A 1 Malay unofficial, Inche Khalid Haji Abdullah, yesterday urged the Alor Star Town Council to hold "meet-the-people" sessions. "These meetings would enable the public to voice their hardships and grievances." he said. Inche Khalid also proposed that a letter box be installed
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    Ex-film star visits Ipoh
    39 6 IPOH, Thurs.— Miss Butterfly Wu, a former Hong Kong stage and screen actress, arrived in Ipoh this morning on a business tour. Miss Wu will hold an exhibition of vacuum flasks here on three nights.
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    Boy, 18, a confirmed thief jailed for 5 months
    193 6 IPOH, Thurs. An 18-year-old boy was described as an "incorrigible" thief and jailed for five months here today. Hong An Kun. pleaded guilty to housebreaking and theft of property worth $150 from four houses. Hong was arrested on June 22, five
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    Failed to report
    25 6 A police supervisee. Eng Kirn Song. 26. who pleaded guilty to falling to report was Jailed for one month In Singapore yesterday.
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    Champion of the Queen due here
    215 6 Champion of the Queen due here HE'LL FIGHT THE FALSE TRAITORS a YOUNG British officer. A who stood ready to battle the Queen's enemies at the Coronation, is coming to Malaya to fl«?ht terrorists. He is Captain John Dymoke, 28, of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment the 34th of his family
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    Five may contest
    53 6 MALACCA, Thurs. The United Malays National Organisation may put up five candidates for the Malacca Settlement Council election on Sept. 10. The candidates are likely to be Mohamed bin Haji Abdul Raman. Hasnul bin Abdul Haidi. Haji Talib bin Karim. Haji Mokti bin Haji Hamld and Sudin
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    Fought in public
    24 6 K. A. Abdul Bathaha and M. Kamavadi who fought In Pahang Street were fined $10 and $5 respectively in Singapore yesterday.
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    Mr. QUEK IS BACK WITH DESIGN FOR SMART HOMES
    77 6 Mr. QUEK IS BACK WITH DESIGN FOR SMART HOMES MB. QUEK CHOON ENG. 30, of Singapore, who stepped ashore from the liner Victoria yesterday, determined to introduce to Malaya the latest in furniture designing: and colour schemes He has been studying Interior decoration for a year in San Fransclsco. "1
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    Councillor ill
    27 6 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. Haji Mohamed Noah bin Omar, Johore State Councillor, has been admitted to the General Hospital, Johore Bahru, suffering from a spinal complaint.
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    VILLAGE AIDS ITS FIRE VICTIMS
    161 6 Cash, rice, clothes roll in KUALA LUMPUR. Thursday. T*HE Ampang Village Local Council and the Sefansor 1 Social Welfare Department have gone to the aid of the 107 people made homeless by the fire which d stroyed 18 houses yesterday. The council has set up
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    HE DIES OF FOOTBALL INJURY
    53 6 KUALA KLAWANG, Thurs.— Inche Hamid bin Ahmad, 17, died in Seremban Hospital on Tuesday of an internal injury he received in a footl ball accident at the X" -'i Klawang town pad Monday. Inche Hamid is .he i son of Inche Ahmad Himzah of the
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    Alliance on Islam, Sultans
    142 6 Alliance on Islam, Sultans <WE WILL M;v KR IGNORE THEM 1 Ip OH, Thur* T HREE Alliance lei 1 have issued a i o ul statement, refuting legations that the aS ance intends to i ennr the position of Sultans and Islam The statement was' Men*. by Tengku Abdul Raffi
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    Council clerk is sent to jail
    42 6 IPOH, Thurs A clerk in the Ampang Bahru local coun. cil. Leong Chin Senp, 36 u- a today sentenced to nine months 1 jail for criminal breach of trust of $627 belor;. ing to the council.
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    THEY AIM TO 'SELL' JOB EXCHANGE
    85 6 PENANG, Thurs.— The Perang Employment Exchai? Service Local Advisory Co:--mittee first of it.s kind K the Federation will boH its first meeting next Frica; under the chairmanship of tfai Deputy Commissioner for Labour, Mr S. W. C. Dur.ic; The committee is be;:.j formed "to
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    The ordeal of little Ong Teck
    168 7 vK MARIA FOR FATHER MAGISTRATE WITH A HEART OF GOLD SAYS *THIS IS LIKE PASSING DEATH SENTENCE* y~ 0 sweet sorrow in this pacing magistrate .Mr. J. M. Dcvcreuxvesterday looked at a six-year-old abort to be parted by law from his poking father, and
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    Denies he tried outrage twice
    45 7 Muniandi Durairaj was •d in Singapore yesterseith attempting to out:he modesty of a girl in Loror.g Lalat on July 15 and 16. Durairaj. who pleaded not guilty, was allowed bail till July 28 when his case will come up again.
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    Food dump found
    28 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. An Area Security Unit patrol day found a terrorist food dump containing lsolt>. of rice in the Sungei Buloh area of cor.
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    HE KNOCKED OFF P.C.s CAP
    46 7 HE K NOCKED OFF P.C.s CAP A lice coni tion by a nat Tar- E. Melville. 22. of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, pleaded guilty to beins drunk and assaulting police constable Sharif! at Jelai village on June 25. He apologised to the constable in court today.
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    One month to appeal
    66 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Proprietors of publications banned under the Emergency laws now have only one month to appeal against the ban under a new ruling which comes into force tomorrow. This amendment to the Emergency Regulations was announced today by the acting Chief Secretary, Mr. M.
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    Woman charged in hospital
    66 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mr. N. L. Cohen, President of the Sessions Court, went to the General Hospital today .so that a woman, Wong Ah Y<:ke. could be formally charged v/ith having been found at Pl^ntong on June 24 in the comoany of Hor Yee who was in
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    Time off on Hari Raya
    43 7 The Muslim staff of Government departments in Singapore will be K r a nt ed time off between 9 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. on July 30. Hari Raya Haji. Hari Raya Ha.ii will be a normal working day.
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    A TRAFFIC SCHOOL IN SESSION Telecoms messengers learn to use roads
    62 7 A TRAFFIC SCHOOL IN SESSION Telecoms messengers learn to use roads J tlh Xl \l..\ UMPIK Trallic Poli<»- have started a two-w.ek training course for four Telecoms messenger boys who use motor-cycles for their work. The training includes maintenance of machines, road courtesy and safe-riding. Picture shows Sgt. Darus of
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    Wanted: Law to save our history
    194 7 Wanted: Law to save our history FRIENDS' MAY APPEAL TO COLONY GOVT. T«HE FRIENDS of Sin- gapore are considering asking the Government to indroduce legislation to make the preservation of historical buildings and monuments compulsory. The society's 1954 report yesterday named many subjects in which it is interested. Chief among
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    Opium car forfeited
    56 7 BUTTERWORTH. Thurs.— A car which was used to carry 80 tahils of opium was confiscated by the Sessions Court today. Shu Cheng Siew, 24, of Alor Star, pleaded guilty to possessing the opium, valued at $2,000. Sentence was postponed. Two others. Ong Kirn Soon and Hoe Kok
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    'Only if we win'
    49 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Alliance headquarters here today said that the choice of Ministers in the new Government will only be discussed between Tengku Abdul Rahman and the High Commissioner. Sir Donald MacGillivray, after the Federal elections, if the Alliance wins the majority of seats.
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    Sailor Lim looks and looks but it's 'Sorry, no jobs'
    120 7 The Singapore seaman. Lim Jew Yee, 27, who has betn looking for a job on a ship that will take him to his girl friend in Liverpool. England, is still out of work. He was still walking the beat from
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    USHERS ? NOT US, THEY SAY
    93 7 USHERS NOT US, THEY SAY Court men protest OINGAPORE court ushers want their "misleading name" changed because it might be mistaken for cinema or hotel ushers. Eleven ushers w..0 belong to the Colony's smallest union the Singapore Court Ushers' Union discussed this matter at their first annual meeting yesterday. All
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    A LITTLE SNACK: WHOLE SHEEP
    196 7 Wrestler will wash it down with 6 bottles of brandy he saus TN Singapore on Monday. 1 a man will eat a fullgrown Australian sheep at one sitting then wash it down with four to six bottles of brandy. This is enough food and drink
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    FRIGATE TO VISIT COLONY
    49 7 The Columbian frigate Al- i Her 120 officers and men will mirante Padilla wiil arrive in be taken on coach tours of the Singapore tomorrow on an in- j island and will visit places of formal visit for one week I interest, including a ferewery.
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    House-breaking charge denied
    39 7 Ahmad bin Saad was charged in the Singapore yesterday with breaking into the home of Mrs. H. B. Beck at Dunearn Road, and stealing $125 and ,£25. He pleaded not guilty was remanded till July 28.
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    48 8 Word* fit minimum). (HAN KOK I.EONO Tank ank al: Relatives Donations to the Met! odli Church and d Attendances at the Mr. Chan Kok I (HAN HCP SOON, Hup Chwee. Friends. Relatives for O;frs. Loan of Kind Services. Puneral of > Mm her. Madam Yeo B'y>n Noo 20-7-55.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Fri. July 22, 1955. The Crisis Debate
    731 8 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri. July 22, 1955. The Crisis Debate It is a highly skilful motion that the Chief Minister presents in the Singapore Legislative Assembly today. To grasp its political astuteness, it is first of all necessary to note that the motion falls into three parts. The first
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    Vietnam Tragedy
    541 8 On Wednesday when delegates from North and South Vietnam should have met, as agreed at the Geneva conference on Indo-China, to consult about general elections next year, supporters of the South Vietnam government occupied themselves with staging a riot in Saigon and assaulting members of the Indo-China Truce
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    Singapore faces an
    982 8 organised crisis "IT IS no longer a ques- tion of the appointment of assistant ministers," wrote Mr. Marshall in one of his letters to the Governor. But that question must not be forgotten; it is most important that the public should realise the extent to which these
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    THE PROPER WAY
    167 8 ""in MAX MX THE STREET minim* AS a citizen of this City, may I protest against the reprehensible tactics of our Chief Minister. Having been frustrated in his attempt to create lucrative appointments for his back-benchers, he now files a motion in the Assembly seeking suspension of
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    Denial at free speech
    93 8 piIIEF Minister Marshall yesterday harshly criticised one of your correspondents for very correctly drawing readers' attention to the incorrect behaviour of the President of the Republic of Indonesia on his recent visit here. It Is a frightening thought that the man who sets himself up to
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    Peking is wooing Borneo Chinese
    1351 8 fFHE huge, squat island 1 of Borneo Is fast becoming a new battleground in the Chinese Communists' constant war for men's minds. More than a half million Chinese now live in Borneo, half of them in the British territories. The Chinese Red regime of Mao
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    SNOOPERS CATCH UP WITH TAX DODGERS
    41 9 SNOOPERS CATCH UP WITH TAX DODGERS tax Singapore 1 income .i>eady alleged ro on this meI the door- critiomull, in Chamj it was C ID. holds lured Mr. ■.tied to ticised me- seriously artment ise who .rclare said. ssly unling pub-
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    He didn't halt for Sir Donald: $70
    92 9 He didn't halt for Sir Donald: $70 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A TAXI driver ignored a policeman's signal to stop to let the High Commissioner's car pass, the Fir.st Magistrate's court here was told today. K. Gamma, of Perkings Road, was fined $30 for disobeying the policeman's signal and $40 for
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    PERLE'S BUSTLE
    131 9 lith the mostest had no time at day's tour of Singapore MESTA. Washington's "hostess with the d a busy 24 hours in Singapore yester- aay. Mrs. Mesta wanted to do everything but had not even the time to visit the Malay Arts and Crafts centre in Fullerton Buildings
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    New blood from 123
    55 9 A total of 123 new donors cave blood at the Singapore Blood Transfusion Centre during the week ending July 19. Donations and transfusions during the week totalled 159 each and the present stock in the bank is 50 flasks. The centre will be open from 0
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    Rubber dealer, 69, dies
    43 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Mr. Law Sui Toh. a Kuala Lumpur rubber dealer and tin miner, died here last night, aged 69. He leaves a widow, a son, a daughter and five grandchildren. Mr. Law came to Malaya in 1914
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    AUSSIE TO PLAN 'FREEZE'
    50 9 AUSSIE TO PL AN 'FREEZE' in lAwrt, Dr in to advise Government lv lion of legisthe values of li property and ng up of a Va- department. Local Governind Bmtinf, h unid I"" Haj» jresterday that in (i:)vernment in make Dr. ej available i "It'iuho Plan. expected to arm \usu-t
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    Greetings from Jeddah
    18 9 ■R. Thurs. ay» that Ims headed Albakri, Industrial n Federa- fsday. ma in Harl Raya
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    No postman's knock for Reds after today
    210 9 He wanted to surrender on bis own Urns New law will stop strategic goods slipping through Iron Curtain in parcels T Ji n 1 a P° re Government has plugged a loophole A in the law which has allowed strategic materials to be
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    TERENCE, 10, BORN SOLDIER
    254 9 5 generations of his family were there ARMY IS ALL RIGHT FOR ME, IT'S SWELL WHEN 10-year-old Terence John Riley, whose father is stationed in Malaya, joined the Duke of York's Royal Military School, Dover, he became the fif:h generation of his family to serve in
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    Come rain do come—and quell a fire
    130 9 Come rain do come and quell a fire KLANG, Thurs. A FIRE has been smouldering for two days four feet below the earth in the Telok Forest Reserve near here. Th only thing that can put in out quickly Is rain and plenty of it. N The soil contains a
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    Bishop touring South Perak
    55 9 IPOH. Thurs.— The Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. W. H. Baines, has arrived in Ipoh for a 12-day tour of the South Perak parish. He will visit Cameron Highlands. Slim River, Teluk Anson and Sungel Siput and also the new villages where the Anglican Mission
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    Trespass charge
    30 9 Choc Choon Yue was charged in Singapore yesterday with trespassing into R. J. Sage's house in Meyer Road, on July 21 The case was postponed to July 28.
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    A 'NOVEL STRUGGLE9 BY 200 TAPPERS
    138 9 A 'NOVEL STRUGGLE 9 BY 200 TAPPERS Refused to collect pay won higher wages KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. TWO HUNDRED tappers on a Selangor rubber estate have won more pay by refusing to collect their wages. When they went to collect their June pay packets, the tappers found their wages had
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    Murder case is put off
    88 9 RAUB, Thurs. The trial of Wong Peng, 42, on two charges of murder and attempted murder was postponed by Mr, Justice Buhagiar at Raub Assizes today because Wong is under observation at Tanjong Rambutan Mental Hospital. Wong is alleged to have murdered a four-year-old boy,
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    Death for the wayward bandit
    302 9 Death for the wayward bandit RAUB, Thurs. A FORMER state committee member of the Malayan Communist Party, Pahang, who claimed he had wanted to surrender secretly, was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Buhagir here today. Yap Ling, 31, was found guilty of being in unlawful possession- of a revolver
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    Four Reds out of the fight
    50 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The deaths of four lerrorists in the Bentong-Manchis area of south Pahang have been confirmed. Chan Sun and Phang Meng. were killed by security forces in 1953. The ctners. Loo Fai and Yong Fatt. died of starvation and sickness in 1951.
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    Council meeting
    30 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A special meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council will be- held on Saturday at 10 a.m. to pass the new sewerage and drainage by-laws.
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    Scout troop investiture
    35 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The investiture of the Scout troop of the Pure Life Society English School, Petaling, will be held tomorrow at 5.30 p.m. The Kuala Lumpur Rotary Club donated the uniforms.
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    TAILOR, TURNED ROBBER, GOES TO JAIL
    245 9 Armed youth burst into hotel guest's room at night TEE FUAT YEE, 20, a tailor, who held up a man at the noint of a revolver in a Middle Road hotel one night in June last year and got $400, was at Singapore Assizes
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    Election broadcast
    56 9 In the Straits Times of July 16. the name of the Labour Party spokesman in Radio Malaya's election forum was given as Mr. D.S. Ramachandran. of Penang. The Labour Party spokesman was Mr. D. S. Ramanathan. chairman of tne Labour Party of Malaya. We regret the error and
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    163 9 MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: (7.30 P.m. on July 20 to 7.30 a.m. on July 21): Singapore 77 degrees. Penang 75, Kota Bahru 76. Kuala Lumpur 73. Ipoh 75, Kuantan 73. MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE: (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on July 21): Singapore 87 degrees Penang 88. Kota Bahru 88. Kuala Lumpur
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    Art exhibition
    22 9 BATU ANAM. Thurs.— Indian schools in north Johore will hold an art and crafts exhibition on Sept. 9 and 10.
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    THE 'STAR' OF A RIOT MOB
    376 9 In a crowd of 7,000 he stood out now he is jailed A MAN, who stoned the police at Alexandra Circus during the May 12 riots, was Jailed for 17 months to be followed by a year's police supervision yesterday. .Mr. R. W. Waters,
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    NOBODY AT GROUSE SESSION
    74 9 The first "meet the people" conference of the assistant Minister for Commerce and Industry. Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy. held yesterday, was a flop. Mr. Jumabhoy had alloted 10.30 a.m. to 1230 p.m. for people to see him at his office in Fullerton Building. But none came.
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      SPECIAL ROLE OF THE AMATEUR IN THE A TRICALS
      851 10 WHILE sympathising and agreeing with many points which "T.C." makes in his letter on attendance at local amateur productions it seems to me that he is far too sweeping in many of his statements. Apparently he classifies himself as a serious
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      We are ungrateful
      75 10 THERE seems to be much ado about nothing, when the Asians, now clamouring for quick Malav-inisation. cet so uncontrolled and fanatic, that I. an Asian, think it most unfair to treat expatriates so harshly. It only shows how low and ungrateful we can be. If we don't
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      The law in Change Alley
      228 10 The law in Change Alley IT IS time the police made a real ofTort to clear Chance Alley of the large number of unlicensed hawk< rs which infest it. Abortive and sporadic raids are useless. They only brins public derision on the police. The sight of a policeman at the
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      Wages and prices
      126 10 Wages and prices rrHE intelligence of 1 Trade Union officials in Singapore is glaringly deficient and our local government lacks industrial experience. The sole purpose of all the strikes inflicted upon us is Increased wages. But with increased wages must go increased production, otherwise increased wages results in increased -elling
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      EXTREMISTS
      82 10 rpHERE are extremists in 1 the Singapore Assembly who egg on the extremists in the unions to make extortionate demands, with the result that the stability that prevailed under the muchdecried colonialism seems likely to be superseded by sterility and stagnation, unless the rank and file of the unions
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      Shows too late
      237 10 A lot has been written about Enez Quitzow's article on the lack of interest in the live theatre but no one has mentioned one important reason. The live drama does not appeal to everybody but quite a number of people, like myself, to whom it does appeal,
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      Banting still has no light
      354 10 Banting still has no light rnHE 8,000 people of 1 Banting and surroundings who have been waiting for electricity for the last three years are terribly disappointed. The electric fever got into the people in January, when the Town Board resolved to demand electricity. Later it decided to give out
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      CHANGED VIEWS
      52 10 I WAS a very strong Chinese supporter of the Alliance but my views changed when I heard the UMNO men speaking at Kampong Pasir on July 11. The speaker talked much on religion but did not tell us what he wanted to do for us. TONG KANG CHINA.
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      1620 11 Girl from slums wooed royalty and ruled over £ay Paris ONE evening in 1789 the painted cupids, nymphs and goddesses gazed down from the gorgeous ceiling of the Royal Theatre in Versailles on the ragged standard-bearers of the revolution. The benches, where bewigged gallants of the French court had lolled
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    AMERICAN DEMAND PUSHES RUBBER PRICE UP TO $1.3-4
    791 13 AMERICAN DEMAND PUSHES RUBBER PRICE UP TO $1.3-4 t*i n RF 2 y U^, Market c °™*Pondent RUiBER was done up to $1.34 for August first prade in Singapore yesterday on a market which had a very heavy turnover The close was steady at $1.32g per pound, 6i cents above
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    32 13 -RNE. Thurs. M live in prices were f.xchange mer nnd sections ive and II buyer 16 72 6 i buyer 28 3 27 9 53/14 41 4' 4 35 11
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    RUBBER PRICES
    144 13 August first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed In Singapore yesterday at $1.32 5/8 per lb.. 6> t cents above Wednesday's closing price. The closing tone was steady after firm Closing prices in cents per lb No 1 H S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 132 sellers 133',; No. 1 R.S.S.
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    170 13 Singapore Chinese Produce Ex- < hange: noon prices Per picul yesterday were: Copra: quiet; July $27 4 buyers. $28 V* sellers; August $28 buyers. $28^ sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $41% sellers, drum $44 < 2 sellers Pepper: quiet with no business reported: Muntok white $174, Sarawak $173,
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    32 13 On the free exchange market in Hong Kong yesterday, the U.S. dollar was quoted at 5.83 (lush and Sterling was quoted at 15.59 and one tael of gold at 253.
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      557 13 TENDERS MALM»N RAILWAY 1. Tenders are Invited for the purchase of Brass Swarf, Brass Borings mixed with other metals,! Battery plates and other nonferrous metals lying at Central Stores, Sentul. 2. For 'ender form. Inspection or any further particulars, apply to the Stores Superintendent, Malayan Railway. Sentul during nomal workIng
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      693 13 NOTICES THE EASTERN BANK LIMITED, Medeiros Balldlnf, IS, Cecil Street, Singapore. take pleasure in announcing the re-opening of their Savings Deposit Department on Ist August, 1955. interest at 2tt% per annum. CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE Section 103 of the Municipal Ordinance (Chapter 133) MAKING Ur AND DRAINING OF (A) LORONG
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      615 13 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPOINTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEER Civil Engineer required by the PENANG HARBOUR BOARD for one 3-year contract in the first Instance, with prospects ot permanent engagement under the Board's Pension scheme. Candidates, preferably under 35 years of Age. should have passed, or gained recognised exemption from. Sections A and
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      120 13 NOTICES EUROPEAN EXECUTIVE REQUIRED BY ESTABLISHED EUROPEAN COMPANY Sales knowledge of Singapore and Malayan markets and some administrative experience essential. All replies to include age and experience will be treated with strictest confidence. Apply Box A 4946 S.T. ■WI77TJII TOMORROW jl students: IuIKQTLUfIILSI DAILY FOLK SHOWS Isl T ALL SOCCER
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      Malayan businesses seek more statistics
      812 14 jy|ORE and more Malayan businessmen are becoming statistics-minded nowadays judging by the steadily increasing number of inquiries for officially-compiled trade figures and requests for trade bulletins and publications, the Registrar of Malayan Statistics in Singapore, Mr. E. J. Phillips, said yesterday. He said the work
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      MALAYAN WASH DAY CHANGE
      387 14 Big rush for washing powders EVER BROS. (Malaya) Ltd. will probably soon install in their Kuala Lumpur factory special plant for the manufacturing of a new synthetic wasning product. The managing director of Lever Bros. (Malaya) Ltd., Mr. N. F. Nicholson, said while on a visit
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      50 YEARS
      98 14 After nearly fifty years service with the Borneo Co., Ltd., Mr. D. T. Lewis has resigned from the board of directors in London, in order to take life more easily at his Kentish home at Farnborough Park. Mr. Lewis, who is 70, Joined the firm in August 1906
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      K.L. private enterprise
      120 14 PRAISE for the part private enterprise is playing In the development of Kuala Lumpur, the Federal capital, was paid by the Deputy Municipal President, Mr. T. Earnes Hughes on Wednesday night when he opened the $250,000 new building in Ampang Road of China Engineers Ltd. The showroom
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      TIMBERS GUARDED AGAINST TERMITES
      378 14 ANEW kind of wood preservative is now being marketed in Malaya by a British company engaged in the manufacture of a wide range of chemicals for the protection of people, livestock, crops, timber, buildings and factories against destructive insects and fungus pests. The preservative known as
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      241 14 Jome~Dlsk Plowing, Harrows FOR MAXIMUM SERVICE komk HI.SK PLOWIMO HARROWS are available sea to wit tractors from 10 to 155 her be towrd behind a tractor. Of <>p<r it' rj by the Hydraulic Power Lift of certain maK ton, Komr Harrows widely and successfully used by Malaya for the control
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      411 14 When you think of it, you have everything to gain from buying your Blue Gillette Blades in a quick-feed Dispenser. After all, you pay only for the blades -the Dispenser is free. (■^^■Sj I Here are the advantages: the Bluj m^flpif} GUlette Blades sharpest in the SjM^^ I world are
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    An 'unknown' wins in record time
    181 15 An 'unknown' wins in record time ROYAL Navy, the underdogs, handed out a surprise at H.IVLS. Terror on Wednesday by winning the first event of this year's Singapore interServices athletic championships. After months at sea in a destroyer LM(E) Meadowcraft ran the legs off the Colony's best threemilers to win
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    Crack Army team out for new laurels in Services meet
    839 15 MORE SINGAPORE RECORDS COULD FALL TOMORROW WITH four Singapore A.A.A. champions in their team, the Army start favourites for the annual Inter Services athletic meet tomorrow at H.M.S. Terror. Royal Air Force will be their chief rivals, despite Navy's upset
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    WEIGHTS FOR 14 PENANG RACES
    670 15 WEIGHTS for all seven races on the first day of the Penan* Gold Cap and Anmst Bank Holiday Meeting on July SO I are: BANK HOLIDAY CUP Cl. 1, Dlv. 1-IM. South Padfe 9.03 Barfleur 9.02 Shangrila B.U Three Bias* 8.10 Barakat 8.07 Bennies 8.05
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    EDDIE ADVISES: GO AND PLAY OUTSIDE YOUR HOME TOWN
    347 15 PENANG, Thurs. ONDON law student Eddie Choong, who returned to Malaya to help defend the Thomas Cup, left Penang today with this parting advice to Malayan players "Don't stay at home all the time or you'll cramp your style.' "I find
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    103 16 SOITH AFRICA IST INNINGS Y>-C,lew c Mclntyre b I/oader 23 (ioddard b Loader 9 Krith r Mclntyre b Loader 0 Mansrll b Bailey 0 Mi I 1 hi c May b Loader 41 Wait.- run out 2 Winslow b Statham 8 Kndean b Statham 42 Tayfirld not out 24
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    Lock icon R.N. routed by Jenkins
    154 16 LONDON, Thurs. 'THE tea .scores in the county cricket matches today are: At Lord's. Middlesex 190 and 123 for 3 (Robertson 77 1. Northamptonshire 155 (Titmus 5 for 66 At Maidstone, Kent 204 for 8 dec!. iPettiford not out 73). Lancashire 132 for three (Washbrook not
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    ALEXANDRA WIN DIV. 3B TITLE
    36 16 Alexandra Football Club made sure of the S.A.F.A. Div. 3B championship when they defeated Springdale 1-0 through a penalty taken by Osman in a key match played at C.V.M.A. ground yesterday.
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    46 16 PRAGUE, Thurs. Ladislav Foucek of Czechoslovakia today set a world record of 11.8 seconds for the 200 metres cycling sprint from a flying start. The previous figure of 11.9 seconds set by the Russian cyclist, Khmel, are awaiting ratification by the Inter-national Federation. Renter.
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    Sunday's ties for SBA's Junior singles event
    310 16 SUNDAY S ties in the Men'i Singles event of the Singapore Badminton Association's junior championship.;, to be held at the Badminton Stadium from 6.45 p.m., are: Court No. 2: Willie Tay (Merrytime) v Wilfred Tan (Diehard); Lim Peng Hooi Merrytime v Tham Yew
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    South Africa 171 and England 25-2
    546 16 WICKETS TUMBLE ON EASY WICKET AND PERFECT DAY AT HEAD ING LEX Loader had three for 11 in Springboks 9 lunch score of 37 for four LEEDS, Thursday. Q\ a perfect batting wicket and on a gloriously warm day, twelve wickets fell for 196
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    FIJIAN ATHLETES BEST I IN WORLD POSTAL MEET
    742 16 I Swifts are fourth among 12 teams I By JOHN MARKS I»HE Ist. Fiji Infantry 1 Regiment, famous throughout the Far East for their rugger prowess, have now added a major international athletic honour to their long array of sporting achievements. The
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    Rain mars Selangor vs H.K. match
    185 16 Rain mars Selangor vs H.K. match KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. IJEAVY RAIN which fell n throughout the game marred the soccer match between the Hong Kong tourists and a Selangor Invitation team at Princes Road today. Hong Kong won 2-1 after leading 1-0 at the interval. The game was played on
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    SOUTH PACIFIC IS TOPWEIGHT
    160 16 PENANG, Thurs. SOUTH PACIFIC has been made topweight at 9.0 in a field of 15 Class 1, Div. 1 stayers for the Penang Gold Cup race to be run over 114 miles on the last day, Aug. 6, of the Penang Turf Club August Bank Holiday
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    Airmen beat Army 5-1
    138 16 pOYAL Air Force beat Army 5-1 11 yesterday at Seletar in the Singapore inter-Services soccer tournament. The airmen were faster and more thrust ful Nash gave them a fifth minute lead, which centre-forward Slade improved upon in the 13th minute. Following a brilliant move, RAF ere
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    FLOWER BEAT MAYBUD B.P.
    99 16 Flower B.P. beat Maybud B.P. by 5-2 in a return game of badminton. Results (Flower players mentioned first Singles: Quek Koon Chye lost to Willie Lee 13-18, 15-12, 12-15; Idros beat Joseph Goh 13-15, 16-8, 15-7; Lee Hlan Chua beat Bernard Lim 15-12, 8-15, 15-9; Bobby
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    CORINTHIANS 'A' AND RAJAJI WIN
    56 16 Corolnthians A' and T.M.0.8.A. drew 1-1 In the B.A.F.A. DIV. 3A league at Clerical Union ground yesterday Hamid scored for Corinthians and Poh Khiam equalised. In the Dlv. 3B game at Geylang Ra.iaii S.C. beat Katong B.C. 5-1. Doraippan (2), Nadarajah, Marlcuthu and Maniam scored
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    FINISHING ORDER OF MALAYA'S ENTRIES
    450 16 THHIS Is how the Fijian and Swift x competitors finished in the final I piaclngs: 1M yards: Ist. Pte J. Levula' 9.Bsec; 2nd. Tan Eng Yoon and Lt E.D. Levula 10.0; sth. Lim Jit Imm 10.2; 9th. P. LUllngton 10.4; 11th Pte S. Komaisavai 10.5.
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    SHELL v TENGAH TOMORROW
    53 16 Shell Sports Club cricket team against the Royal Air Force, Tengan at Paya Lebar tomorrow at 2.15 p.m. is: C. D. Harr's. L. E. Fencott, M. Hull. J. Stokes, I. Goonasegaram. A. C. Stockbridge, P. W. Cottrell J. Copland. R. Plowrlght. E. Kruse* man. J. O.
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    Ninety minutes of World Cup soccer
    183 16 P^ NINETY-MINUTE Mm on the 1954 World Cup soccer championship held in Switzerland last year opens for a four-day season at the Majestic Theatre tomorrow. The film, entitled "World Cup Soccer", is excellently photographed and brings many absorbing sequences of more than 12 matches
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    Mac Donald gets four in SCC 5-0 win
    154 16 pENTRE-FORWARD Mac Don. aid was in top form for Singapore Cricket Club yesterday, scoring four goals including a "hat-trick", in his sides's 5-0 victory over St. John's in their SAFA Div. 2A match on the padang. S.C.C.'s first goal came in the
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    CYCLE RACE OFF
    26 16 Owing to insufficient entries, the 250-mile Phillips Classic cycle meet from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur (July 30 to Aug. 1 has been cancelled.
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    Chinese lucky to beat Eurasians
    292 16 Chinese lucky to beat Eurasians gINGAPOPF unbeaten S.A.F.A. c. League when gated Eurasi, Jalan Besar stadW terday. This was Chii success In a but their vj was far from i n they have to to be of an the defend.,, present has;., All th< i came in th« 'he game.
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    S.I.T. beat Robinson
    26 16 Singapore ImprorentaiMl beat Robinson S.( friendly at Farrer P V. J. Dass and S. H. S !fc scored for 8.1. T. ai Robinson
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    Today's Sports Diary
    96 16 SOCCER COMMUNITY LEAGUE: Indonesians v Royal Air Force, Jalan Bmr. LEAGUE, DIV. 2 A: Tampeni* Rover, v S.R.C S.C.C. padang; DIV. SB: S.H.B. Police v Balestier United, M.F.A. ground; YMSA v S.H.B. Recs., Farrer Park. SBHFA LEAGUE AND CUP: "A": S.T.C. v r. N.. S.T.C. ground; "D"
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