The Straits Times, 24 October 1955

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    13 1 The Straits Times Matvr* Estd. 181., SINCIAPORE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1955 15 CENTS
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    LET JOHORE SECEDE' wanted
    297 1 LET JOHORE SECEDE' wanted 80 Malays form party to gain independence; Their slogan— MEN TO JOIN U.N. OHORE BAHRU, Sunday. today launched in Johore political party pledged to work t .lohore from the Federation rrt to its old status as an independent state. f [he principal figures behind the ssion
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    The spirit of children
    252 1 Fire wiped out their homes but they still laugh and play FIRES, floods or any other calamity cannot dampen the spirit children. This Straits Times picture of .some of the children uho were victims of thr Kampong Silat fire, taken at thr former K.ill.uic airport in
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    Lock icon Townsend drives in at the back door
    550 1 Townsend drives in at the back door TOGETHER AGAIN- IN DESERTED HOUSE LONDON, Sun. PRINCESS MARGARET and Group Captain Peter Townsend spent two hours together last night at Clarence House— their ninth meeting in ten days. Townsend motored to thp Princess's home a few minutes after »he arrived back from
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    A FEAST OF FACT AND FICTION IN WEST MM
    13 1 A FEAST OF FACT AND FICTION IN WEST MM I < I 3 MUST
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    SNAP!
    6 1 30 a I :ids right
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    Defence pact
    8 1 n —Greece a of talks rs.
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    Lock icon THE CRISIS BORDER
    111 1 Report for U.X. on Israeli raid JERUSALEM Sun. THE United Nation* Palestine Truce Chief. Maj.-Ot n. ra: E. L. M. Burns, today flew to New York in n spotsM 10 a summons fr<-m the UN. secretary lentral. Mr. D.iJ. BJunmankJoeUL to report on the Israeli-Arab border situation.
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    Curfew again after blast
    44 1 NICOSIA. Sun The town of Limnssoln. South Cyprus. wmi placed under dusk-to-dawn curfew again tonight. A curlew was imposed last night following a bomb Explosion in a British-owned bar in which a British soldier and a Cy print were injured.
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    Lock icon Anne at Hodiak funeral
    40 1 CALIFORNIA. Sun.—Hundred? of mourners, including former wife Anne Baxter, i yesterday paid final respects to actor John Hodiak. The 41-year-old actor, his I coffin banked in hundreds of floral pieces, was buried with [Catholic rites— A.P.
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    U.S. aid cut
    26 1 WASHINGTON. Sun. U 8 foreign aid for the year ending last Jun<- was i U5576C.000.000 less than In i the previous fiscal year.
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    Boom days for Mr. & Mrs. Singapore
    119 1 Boom days for Mr. Mrs. Singapore —THANKS TO PRICE OF RUBBER THE continuing high price of rubber over the past year has increased the purchasing power of the public in Singapore. This »a.s MM of the reasons Kiven by Mr J. H. Johnston. Assistant Comptroller of Customs, for the $2.000()00
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    Lock icon Fashionable escape
    65 1 PARIS. Bun. Bales of expensive dress material were rolled Into emergency ropes to enable girls working for a la.sh.'on house to escape from v burning building In the fashionable Rue de l:i Patx here. The girls climbed from the windows of their third floor workrooms as flames and
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    Making fun of it is 'healthy'
    98 1 Making fun of it is 'healthy JOHANNESBURG. Sun BRITISH Journalist. Malcolm MuRK«ridgr. who last week deKnocd the Princess Marga.« t Townsend romance us "a royal soap opera." thinks It healthy to make fun of the Royal Family. Mr. MuK»ertdne. who Is editor of Punch, said here yesterday: "I am a
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    Lock icon Ike 'refreshed'
    22 1 DENVER. Sun. President Eisenhower's doctors reported him "refreshed and in a good mood" today after fight 1 hours' sleep— Reuter
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    BOSOM SECRET DEFLATED
    43 1 r many. i.im- nark '51.070> ruled that his advrtisemen' inn for sale "the secret of all American film star.-" promised more than he deliver d What he delivered was a balloon-like gadget to be mmm rted in brassii i I
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    GIRL RED GIVES UP: SHE'S No. 4 IN JOHORE
    159 1 Parents and police go into jungle for wounded Ah Moi JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. A 19-YEAR -OLD girl terrorist lift herself up today near Salenn new village, 12 miles north of here. She Is the fourth bandit to MTrender in Johore since
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    'BANROSE CHAN': UMNO TO GOVT.
    452 1 'BANROSE CHAN': UMNO TO GOVT. PENANG. Sun. AFTER heated debate lasting till late last nißht. the Penann UMNO General Assembly adopted a resolution moved by I woman delegate callinu on the Settlement Government to ban a strip teaser. Rose Chan, from performing in Penang. "If the Government annot do ils
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    The long arm...
    30 1 CHATHAM. (Ontario. Sun. -Clifford French began serving 39 weeks and three d.tvs In Jail today after he .was convicted of driving without a licence ever since IOT7
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    Port backs $30 mil. plan
    169 1 Port backs $30 mil. plan KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. q^HE Port Swettenham Hoard has recommended thai the Federation Government should go ahead with the 530.000.000 North Klang Straits development project, proposed by the Federal Ports Committee In 1952. A less castly scheme, sue«ested by the International Mission, has been rejected by
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    Lock icon STOP PRESS
    30 1 PLR CENT AGAINST in. DAI Sun— Ninety livr per cent of votes in south Vietnam referendum were against Bao Dai., official!, here said t<>nigh6. Reuter. (See Pace 3)
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    Lock icon BIBLE OF THE FUTURE
    63 1 BRISTOL, Sun— An Anclican bishop suggested J day that the Bible be rewritten in space fiction style to Interest children. Dr. P. A. Cockin told a Sunday school teachers' conference that n "are no longer in- in old thim the Bible. "If we were to rewrite
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    Lock icon Israeli Premier flies to warn West
    300 2 DANGER OF WAR LOOMS OVER THE MIDDLE EAST FIRST CZECH ARMS REACH EGYPT JERUSALEM, Sunday. THE Israeli Premier and Foreign Minister, Mr. Moshe Sharett, left by air today for Geneva to warn the Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference of the "danger which looms over
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    Lock icon Madam Butterfly look
    36 2 THIS luxurious lounging suit with the Madam Butterfly look is by Rahvis It is in green and black brocade and helps Madame keep that well-dressed feeling while she relaxes m comfort Reuter picture
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    Lock icon U.S. atomic offer accepted
    116 2 U.S. atomic offer accepted CALCUTTA, Sun. THE Colombo Plan consultative committee has agreed "in principle" to accept a United States offer i to set up an atomic research centre for the plan's 16 beneficiary nations In south and South-East Asia. Lord Reading, leader of the British delepation to the committee,
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    Lock icon 11 die in raid for arms
    48 2 RANGOON. Sun. Rebels dynamited and attacked an armoured train 90 miles i north of Rangoon yesterday killing 11 people. A 300-strong rebel force believed to be Communists, overwhelmed police aboard the train and seized arms. They then withdrew into the Jungle. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Peking welcome
    20 2 TOKYO Sun. Thr French parliamentary delegation visiting Communi-t China was entertained by civic leaders in Peking yesterday.— U.P.
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    Lock icon Ike may fly to his farm
    231 2 THREE MORE WATCHFUL MONTHS DENVER. Sunday. f\R PAUL DUDLEY WHITE, noted heart specialist. said after an examination of President Eisenhower today that physicians would have to wait •another two or three months' before they could tell whether the Presidents" recovery would be complete. H>
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    Lock icon The H-bacheiors meet match
    53 2 TOKYO Sun Two H-bomb-dusted Japanese fisherman once resigned to a life of bachelorhood were married yesterday One of them married the nurse he met after their tuna boat, the "Fortunate Dragon." was showered with hydrogen bomb ashes off Bikini in March. 1954 The other married his
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    Lock icon Talent quest
    40 2 BERKELEY. California. Sun. An institute to dls- cover and encourage the work of people of great scientific talent and promise will be set up at the University of California, the Chancellor. Mr. Clark K rr announced here Reuter.
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    Lock icon Flood deaths
    21 2 NEW DELHI Sun Officials today confirmed 663 deaths in the floods, which swept North Indi* earlier this month. -A.P.
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    Lock icon 'STUDY ASIA' GROUP FORMED IN U.S.
    147 2 NEW YORK. Sunday. ANEW organisation, the National Council on Asian Affairs, has been formed to Rive the people of the United States a better understanding of Asia. Dr. Norman D. Palmer, i professor of political science at the University or Pennsylvania, has been chosen
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    Lock icon The jump to reality
    107 2 KANSAS CITY. Sun. Bill Murray, a former U.B. Army paratrooper, was dreaming of hl« wa* experiences on Friday night and he's displaying a scar to prove It. Murray said he was dreaming of being In a plane ready to Jump. The warning Ught was on and
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    Lock icon MOB CLASH IN ARGENTINE
    37 2 BUENOB AIRES. Sun. Prompt police action broke up a shooting skirmish last night when antl-Peronl&ta mobs attempted to enter the textile workers union headquarters h< r« No casualties were re- 1 ported— Reuter
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    Lock icon 'I KNEW BURGESS WAS A RED'
    194 2 I KNEW BURGESS WAS A RED' BBC sacked him: Ex-Minku LOND) A FORMER cabinet minister allmissing diplomat Guy Burgi the British Broadcasting Corporation I Ist activities before Joining the ForeiE Mr Maurice Webb, Food Minister in the Labour Government from 1950 to 1951, Mild in an article in the Sunday
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    Lock icon Cabinet maker
    30 2 RABAT. Sun. Fathml B<-n SUmane. former Pasha of Fez. has accepted the task of trying to form Morocco's tlrst representative government. it was announced here last night.— Reuter.
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    Britain is losing art treasures
    28 2 WORLD ing too ernmen* ported Thry an i tain's art commit' works di The the 12 t: 196 ma. total val Britain H-
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    To kindness —$87,000
    30 2 To kindness —$87,000 LONDON, wife. v. through plague In Kara 16 years sidue ot his man > will. She Wrench, wid Guy Wr n Thorn i estate In Ens £31.218. P
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    Smugglers jailed
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    Lock icon DIEM WINS—DESPITE SNEERS and SHELLS
    227 3 DIEM WINS— DESPITE SNEERS and SHELLS Hoa Hao rebels open fii>c n polling gtationi Bao Dai: It's all a fake— l even know the result' SAIGON, Sunday. Til VIETNAM \oters today swept in* the Mr. Sgo Dinh Diem, and rejected 3 Bm Dai in a referendum which n despite inetri
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    Lock icon Click! A smile is frozen
    56 3 Princess and the Press camera-eye view A BATTfcRY of Press cameras is focussed on Princess .Margaret as sbr |r_vr» Uridge s Hotel. London, af trr tt< ndin K a <<>« kt.nl party km mi by the Ko> al Air Force Cinema Corporation. This was her
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    CUFF STAIRS CRASH: AMERICANS AID SEARCH
    58 3 CUFF STAIRS CRASH: AMERICANS AID SEARCH HAMSGATE, Sun. lirrnifn an cl rmrn tniled ,dus h.-rr .i husre tbia K<nt hours after the ttroßf t-lifT thousands of 1""^ <>f i! ir.n r.i -nicht uere B«aj rub:ront. ice said .id lu-rn report Bui tbty could not he rre no until a hiy
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    Mammoth mail
    22 3 LONDON. Sun British punters mailed 864 million 0 football pools firms in the last financial year, the Po6t Office rejx
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    Lock icon BULGANIN TO IKE: BETTER? 'All Moscow hopes you will soon be9
    232 3 BULGANIN TO IKE: BETTER? 'All Moscow hopes you will soon be 9 MOSCOW. Sun AfARSHAL Huk.uim tbe Soviet Prime Minister, has written to President Eisenhower to inquire after his health and to wish him a speedy recovery His letter which was sent «»n Thursday from his holiday resident at s.nhi
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    3,000 died in Red camp —all for the sake of Eve
    110 3 BONN, Sun A RETURNED German prisoner said Russian guards shot down 3.000 prisoners in a series of protest and sex riots in Soviet labour camps Andreas Bilinsky. 39. a Ukrainian-born German, said rioting broke out in 1953. The sex
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    Lock icon 2,000 ON SHAVE PARADE— THEIR KING IS BACK
    127 3 ENTEBBE i Uganda i. Bun Two thousand bearded tribesmen who had vowed never to shave until the Kabaka of Buganda returned from exile formally shed their beards yesterday in the presence of the returned ruler First they were photographed with the smiling
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    Lock icon Twins for the honeymooners
    47 3 LONDON. Sun. Honeymoon couples arriving at their hotel often find twe single tx-d.s separated by a sitting room. a French hotelier said here yesterday Mr M H Tschann. of Nice, urged travel agents to specify twin or double beds when booking rooms. Reuter.
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    Lock icon This Russia—as seen by Jack Tar
    171 3 This Russia— as seen by Jack Tar ITS A DIM LIFE FOR IVAN SHEERNESS. England. Sunday. A BRITISH sailor back with the naval squadron which recently paid a goodwill visit to Russia ?ave this sketch yesterday of middle-class life in that country. Leading Signalman Harry Woolley or Liverpool said: i
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    Lock icon First Mrs. Soekarno meets No. 3
    86 3 First Mrs. Soekarno meets No. 3 JAKARTA. Sun. A NEWSPAPER said yesterday that President Soekarno Is taking hi* third wife to Bandoeng to meet his first wife who also happens to be foster-mother of his second wife. Wife No. 1 Is Ib u Inggit Karnasih. who married Soekarno In the
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    Next stop: Home
    23 3 VANCOUVER. Sun The Princess Royal left Montreal today on her way back to England after a tuur of Canada.—A P
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    234 3 U Nu looks at his Red shopping list MOSCOW. Sun. The Burmese Prime Minister, Mr. U Nu. announced that Burma was planning a programme of industrialisation involving purchase of equipment from the Soviet Union and the use of Soviet engineers On the basis of a contemplated trade agreement, he said.
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    Viennese waltz to hail freedom
    199 3 Viennese waltz to hail freedom VIENNA. Sun. I T»HE bißßest crowds j R seen here since the end of the war sang and danced in the streets last nißht to celebrate the end of 17 years of occupation by foreign troops. Nine bands gave open air concerts at main tntersec-
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    Lock icon Death scare in hills
    55 3 DURBAN. Sun. Police are combing thousand hills" near for 140 Ib. of arsenicenough to kill *****0 people which disappeared from a cattle-dipping centre. Police believe Africans j may have stolen it. The dipping centre is only a 1 few miles below the Urr.Dam. main source ot
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    Lock icon In grandfather's footsteps
    52 3 CALIFORNIA. Sun— Prince Albert of Belgium retraced the trail of h:» urandlather yesterday whin h< b.^an a visit to Yo*emlte National Park. He is here on a tour which will cover the uirn route a> that travelled br the late King Alb- rt 35 tan ago this
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    Gleneagles Hotel
    101 4 It has been pointed out that the headline "Hotel loses suit to hay, strike tent removed to roadside" in a case i reported in Saturday's Straits Times conveys wrong im- i presston of the case. Mr. Justice Whitton. to whom Gleneagles Hotel Ltd. applied for an interlocutory order
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    'Colombo Plan Express' sets record
    153 4 'Colombo Plan Express' sets record ltf ALA V A N Railways established a postwar record yesterday when it took about 100 Colombo Plan delegates from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur in eight hours and 23 minutes. The normal time is 40 1 minutes longer. The train which was specially air conditioned,
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    The bell tolled but not for them
    98 4 The bell tolled but not for them KLANG. Sun. A police squad rushed to the post office here last night after an alarm bell had rung in the police station. Police vehicles screeched to a stop on the road outside the p> st office. Policemen surrounded the office and a
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    Prophet's Day
    35 4 MALACCA. Sun— The Settlement Government announced today that the Birthday of the Prophet win be celebrated on Oct 28 In Malacca and not Oct. 27 as gazetted In the list of public holidays.
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    MARSHALL TO SEE NEHRU
    44 4 Singapore's Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshal. said yesterday he would call on the Indian Prime Minister, 1 Mr. Nehru, on his way back from Britain early in December. Mr. Marshall now expects to leave for Britain In three weeks' time
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    CHAMBERS FORM A CLOSE HARMONY TRIO
    223 4 European, Chinese and Indian merchants to work as a team Marshall hails traders 9 patriotic decision gINGAPORE'S three chambers of commerce have decided to work in closer co-operation with one another on all major trade matters "for the good of the Colony." Yesterday, the
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    Rotary talk
    36 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun Mr V. O. Donough Johore State Fire Officer, will give a talk to members of the Johore Bahru Rotary Club on Tuesday at 515 p.m. at the Jrhore Civil Service Club.
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    Johore dance
    27 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. The Johore Bahru Municipal Services Association will bold a dance at the Bukit Zarah School on Nov. 4 at 9 p m.
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    FIREBUGS AGAIN
    139 4 Attempts made to burn 2 cars after lapse of two months LMREBUGS. who have been lyinj? low for more than 1 two months, yesterday tried unsuccessfully to burn two cars, one of which was Inside a garage In Bukit Chermin. Police last night oflrred a reward of $2,000
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    Union meeting
    25 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. The next executive committee meeting of the Johore State Oovernment Workers' Union win be held at Mersin? on Nov. 4.
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    73 FIJIANS SING 'ISA LEI' AS THEY LEAVE MALAYA...
    43 4 WAITING to board their pi.im- at Singapore Airport. 73 fighting Fijian* toftljrfting "l»* LH"— thrir Mint of farrwrll h«--Inrr leaving Singapore at the md of a two-year sprll of Jungle warfare. Straits r.mi pictare.
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    Old trees mark anniversary
    51 4 Old trees mark anniversary JOHORE BAHRU. Sun— Old Frees in Johore Bahru held a reunion dinner on Friday the 139 th anniversary of the founding of the Penang Free School. Mr. Noel Rees, a former tea' her of the school, and Mr. FT. Laidlaw, State Education Officer, were the principal
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    Labour to hold conference
    31 4 The Singapore Labour Front will hold a two-day conference at Robinson's Cafe on Saturday. Oct 29. at 2.30 pm and on Sunday. Oct. 30 at 10 am.
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    Council angry at 'bad9 hotels
    238 4 Council angry at 'bad 9 hotels 'WE SHOUT BUT NOTHING IS DOS? OUNDREDS of small hotels which carry 11 "doubtful business" have cropped pore's residential areas and the City Co y angry. They cold the Straits Times yesterday that they had done "a lot of shouting' against these hotels but
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    Young bride's death not murder
    110 4 Young bride's death not murder Kl ",\L.\ LCMPI R T-HE polw, her,-.Mw\^ 1 out the p.— tv Rajamani Amrrul year-old bride a months, was murder* IW body was lounri m-ar railway track at v, ■■■■?Lc three mil,s fro^^ Lumpur, at dawn l a t M On Rajamanj wa s urn
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    UMNO calls conference
    52 4 The eommltb gapore division ol ferterday and support of the rec ed Public Securr also deck! an immediate <'< all political parti' Colony to discuss the quest n» of immediate ment. The Minister for Local Gi vernment Lands and Housr: Inche Abdul Han Jumat. was elect* of
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    MINISTER PLAYS FAIRY GODFATHER
    140 4 and life begins for a little waif IPOH. Sun TQiE Federations Minister for Health and Social Welfare. Mr. Leong Yew Koh. made friends yesterday with a homeless "Ja*a kreta" boy and promU«l i him a home and schooling Mr Leonp told the Straits Times he met
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    REDS CAME FOR FOOD, RAN INTO TROUBLE
    68 5 IPOH. Sun. COMBINED police A Regiment rised seven utslde the ire at Tro- 1 s south of bad come to ,thes Plac- he perimeter the Reds em tosur- noted the :ire. Officer wounded four terrorists Malay ReMajor O.J. also woundecorered a rifle. .:r.munition.
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    DEATH
    12 5 HBOK NEO. 92. I r.ce 136 KIM at 11 .:rson Road
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    Cathedral's harvest
    39 5 BALKS «>i rubber, tin iiuou. ntr and iiiim-j food were prominently displayed in St. Andrew's Cathedral when it held its annual harvest festival yesterday Picture show* the Archdeacon. Yen. Robin Woods with the gifts.— Straits Times picture.
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    Col. Lee stays in the Cabinet
    192 5 TENGKU. HE'S TOO VALUABLE A MAM TO LOSE 'DEFEAT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday T H f f defeat of Col. H. S. Lee in' yesterday's Malayan Chinese Association district elections in Kuala Lumpur will not affect his Ministerial post in the
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    THE DHOBY AND THE OFFICERS' BRANDY
    70 5 K.-U'B, Sun. AN officer of the 15 19 Royal HusM walked into the mess kitchen one morning and found the mess washerman help ing himself to a bottle of brandy, '.he West Pahang magistrate was told yesterday. T. Kamalmgam. the w ash«-rman. pleaded euilty
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    Air Officer returns to Malaya
    87 5 Air Officer returns to Malaya AIR VICE-MARSHAL Eric Bates, former Director of Intelligence in the Air Ministry, arrived in Singapore yesterday in the Chusan to take up the appointment of Air Officer. Administration. Far East. He will replace Air ViceMarshal W.J M. Akerman. whose Far East tour ends In J
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    Scotsman chief
    27 5 Mr. Roy II Thomson. chairman of The Scotsman, irr.ved in Singapore by BOAC yesterday on his way to the Commonwealth Press Union conference in Australia
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    Case closed
    38 5 Inspectir G. H. Palmer, of ranjong Pagar Police Station. Singapore, said last night that the case of Zlta Francis. 19-year-old dance hostess *ho was found on Friday i:ttr being missing for a week, had been closed.
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    CHEAP MILK
    233 5 'Wonderful news! Now we can have more of it' \f R. and Mrs. Singapore yesterday Joined the Chief IT Minister, Mr. David Marshall, in thanking the Australian Government for the milk reconstitution plant to be installed in the Colony. They art' already making plans to have more milk
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    Rescue bid man goes home
    53 5 Major R. B. Rushall. who tried to save Lt.-Col. J D Crulckshank from drowning in the sea off West Coast Road on Saturday, was discharged from the General Hospital yesterday. MaJ. Rushall was admitted to the hospital on the day of the tragedy suffering from
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    Strike fund now
    24 5 The Singapore Stanvac Employees' Union decided yesterday to start a strike fund pending the settlement of its dispute with the management.
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    Retirement
    24 5 RAUB. Sun— Mr. N. K. Deey. head overseer In the P.W.D. here, has retired after 33 years' service with the department in Pahang.
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    UNITED NATIONS SHOW AT BRITISH COUNCIL HALL
    89 5 Celebrations to mark United Nations Day begin in Singapore today. This evening there will be an exhibition at the British Council Hall at which the Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall, will speak. At 8 p.m. the Singapore and Jonore Bahru Rotary Clubs will
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    VILLAGES DEFY BAN ON BULL FIGHTS
    184 5 VILLAGES DEFY BAN ON BULL FIGHTS KOTA BHARU. Sun. IT AM PONG dwellers 1Y near here are defying the law which prohibits bull flghtin* for bets and amusement. In spite of the recent success of police raids on bull fighting at Tumpat, the fights are spreading to other areas I
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    Thief jailed for three months
    50 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun Chua Tan Bee. a pickpocket, was sentenced in the Magistrate's Court here today to three months' Jail, to be followed by 12 months' police supervision, for the theft of four fountain pens on Sept I* He had four previous convictions for theft
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    Tamil club celebrates
    35 5 The Tamilian Association. Singapore, held its fifth annual celebration at the association s premises at 82. Rangoon Road yesterday. The programme included classical Indian dances, music and lectures by prominent local Tamils
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    43 6 M Hnrrfs fill (minimum). MR. A: MRS. E. L. SPYKERV (I his Brothers thank all di for Expres•ion.s of S.inpathy on the Matt) ot thrir M the* Pauline, for the, V. (i::'s loan of Cars and A i ance at her Funeral.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Mon. Oct. 24, 1955. Statelet Johore
    429 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon. Oct. 24, 1955. Statelet Johore Resentment rather than the stirrings of a Johore nationalism probably is the impulse behind the movement I to bring about the secession of Johore from the Federa- tion. launched in Johore j Bahru yesterday at a meeting attended by about
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    The Signs Of Confusion
    486 6 The keepers of the conscience of one Singapore political party have issued decree on the doctrinal validity of using the clencher fist as a salutation and de- I monstration of faith. The use of this form of greeting by a Young Progressive has led the party
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    Preventing Blindness
    276 6 Preventing Blindness More is being d<me today for the blind in Malaya than ever before. There are wider opportunities for i-'liu-atimi and training in employment. A blind man can get a grant of up to $500 and a loan of up to $5,000 to help increase his earning power. While
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    Parasitic economy is an unreal basis for prosperity of Singapore
    1594 6 Parasitic economy is an unreal basis for prosperity of Singapore A survey of the Singapore wage structure by S. RAJA RATNAM. who p says all attempts to increase standards jjE of living will be defeated so long as the p I labour of four people is required to BE sustain
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      Two ways to attract overseas capital
      477 6 rE report of the International Bank for Reconstruction Mission only repeats what has been said many times before. It appears to have offered no hope of a loan, presumably because the security for capital in Malaya ls not sound. With the trimmings removed, the
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      CITY'S TAWDRY GEWGAWS'
      250 6 rE Colombo Plan conference that was held in Singapore will have consequences of the highest Importance to the millions of South East Asia. Western states are arranging to assist the "have-nots" with generous gifts of supplies and services. It ls strange that these countries should be the
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    Give us the big jobs, make it quick
    285 7 .nnjrr BOTHER ABOUT QUALIFICATION— IT IS ONT.Y A BOGEY' %00 0 SAY IT WITH ONE VOICE KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. ETARY of the staff side of the I Whitley Council of the Federation, luke Sanjj, said here today: "Indepen- H ;i sham if
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    Meet Mr. Lim, crooner
    93 7 SINGAPORE* MIMs I Mt for I ihmir and Wrll.it. .Mr. l.im Yrw 1 1 k rrooni "Daky. Daisy" at thr banquet given by thr three chamber* of commerce for Colombo Plan delegate* on Saturday night. Doing a littli- conducting on his right i\ Mr Yap Phrng
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    Police pull down 'Peace' posters
    85 7 Police pull down 'Peace' posters w| \l II MPI K. Sun SJfiAL BRANCH of- jrestrrda) ore ..n team «»f P*£w ni>ted tri s l!id ST Will hi umpur arcing ind I ,-ri,T.llll»ll ZtmmtnU to urupi ilks with JheßtoIhf pesters, written i" Chinese, wett the work of the T.itnotic TMMft Ob(
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    Schoolboy dies on road
    25 7 schoolboy. 1 in a fn D| of new village PiTl Road Ing the ting from a DC from llrectloi and hit
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    Public aids food ban
    63 7 KAJANO. Sun. Members of the public here are Joining in a bis operation which Is aimed at stopping food reaching terrorists In the district, j Food check point* have] been set up on roads leading out of the town and in dls- tricts nearby They are
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    WORKERS MEET IN SECRET
    140 7 Banks given 'another chance 9 4 BOUT 600 Singapore bank employees, who held a closed meeting at the Badminton Hall yesterday, decided to pive their employers "another chance" and did not take a strike ballot. The workers are members of the Singapore Bank Employees' Union, which
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    Dual jobs are out
    128 7 UMNO RULE FOR COUNCILLORS KUALA LUMPUR Sun THE Selangor UMNO liaison committee has decided that In future it will enforce strictly a rule that no Federal Legislative Councillor should stand as a candidate in State. Municipal or Town Council elect:ons This decision was taken ISM rught
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    Poppy Day plans get under way
    109 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun FPPY Day appeal week this year Is expected to get a record response in many parts of the Federation. In Ulu Selangor, committees have been formed for north and south. A dance to raise funds will be held at the Belfleld
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    Mining unions to merge
    48 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Malayan Mining Employees Union and the National Mining Workers Union today agreed In principle to Join a single organisation representing mining workers in Malaya. A Joint working committee Is to be formed shortly to work out details of the amalgamation.
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    P.A.P. SUPPORTS TALKS WITH CHIN PENG
    88 7 The Buklt Panjanu branch of the People's Action Par- I ty at a meeting yesterday came out in support of the coming talks between CMn Peng and the Chit i Ministers of Singapore and the Federation. Two other resolutions passed at the meeting n
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    TWO CHRISTENED
    40 7 THKKK-MONTH-OLO .Myra Elizabeth and her three-and-a-half-year-old sl*ter Shirley Julie, daughters of Mr and Mrs. W H. M Thomas, were christened by the Rev. Stuart McGer, Singapore's Port Chaplain, at thr Anglican Chapel. Connell House, yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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    'BRIGHTER' MUSIC PLAN FOR RADIO
    292 7 'BRIGHTER' MUSIC PLAN FOR RADIO Will it work? Two experts disagree A CROSS section of Singapore radio listeners yesterday welcomed the announcement that the R«tdio Malaya orchestra Is to be reorganised with locally recruited men to provide music for allclassics, dance music and popular Chinese and Malay tunes. But two
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    Talks on wage rises for 6,000
    148 7 rpHE consultative committee of the War Department in Singapore will meet on Thursday to discuss the wage claims of its 6,000 daily-rated workeri. The workers, who are members of the Army Civil Service Union, sent In their claims through the union oni Oct. 8.
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    Let's train now, say radio men
    248 7 THEY WANT TO PREPARE FOR THE BIG CHANGE-OVER XI ALA LI\IPI'R, Sunday. 'THE Federation Broadcasting Staff Inion today said that local officers should fill senior posts which fall vacant when expatriate officers go on leave or are away for any other reason. "This, the
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    Terrorists fire on army camp
    89 7 Terrorists fire on army camp KUALA LUMPUR. Sun EIGHT terrorists opened fire on the ba.se camp of the 2nd Bn. Royal Welch Fusiliers, in thf Tampin district of Negri Sembllan on Friday night. The troops returned the tire, but there were no known casualties. Shots were also fired at a
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    A dominion? not Malaya says Negara
    102 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. REPRESENTATIVES of 15 Party Ntu.tra branches in the Kuala Lumpur division .said today that Malaya shcild not be a dominion. A .^pokesman of the party toid the Straits Times: "We do not want this country to attain dominion status as understood
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    Pahang schools art show
    44 7 KUANTAN. Bun The third annual East Pahang Chinese schools art and handicrafts exhibition was opened last night by Mr Huang Wung Ming. Inspector of Chinese Schools, at the Chung Hwa School here. The exhibition will be open for three days
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    Parish meeting
    39 7 The Straits Chinese Methodist Church. Ttong Baiiru, will hold a parish meeting in the home of Mr. Kee Yew Chye. 88. Moh Ouan Terrace at 8 p.m on Wednesday The speake. will be Mr Chan Wah Teck
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    Seamen to meet
    27 7 The Indo Malay Pakista n Seamen's Union will hold general meeting on Wednesday to consider strike action of non-recognition or the union by employers
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      82 7 High tides TODAY: Singapore 4 IB a.m. (6 ft 9 Ira. i 328 p.m. (7 ft. 8 Ins.); Port Dlckaon 11.08 a.m. (8 ft. 1 in > 11 36 pjn. (8 ft. 5 Ira); Penan* 4.07 a.m. (6 ft. i 5.24 p.m iS ft. 2 Ira). TOMORROW: Singapore 8.39 am
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      272 8 /CERTAIN Britlalh officers vy should be permitted to enter the services under the Malayanlsatlon scheme and to compete on equal grounds with Asians. First is the officer, whether recruited in the U.K. or locally, who in the course of the years he has spent in this country
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      Service families and the high cost of housing
      325 8 Service families and the high cost of housing kr Sir... TO THE EDITOR, Dear Sir.*..}' 1 E Ttf R. J. B. Williamson's let- ter gives food for thought, both to the civils ian as well as tine authori- ties, who are aiming to bring down the cost of E living
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      PROVIDENT FUND GENEROSITY
      561 8 THE following may help "Antiretro" to n the merits of the Employees Provident fund. When a contributor leaves Malaya before he has attained age 55. and if he has made less than 60 monthly contributions, he only receives back his own contributions, plus Interest at not less
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      'Unjust' charges
      173 8 fFHt Taiping Town Counm. cil are to charge maintenance fees for all private purification plants within the town council area. Thk> imposition is unjust, considering that occupiers ol Government. &cmiGovernment and military hou>e* are exempted. Government servants and the public living in houses without modern sanitation pay the
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        Plea to the Tengku be uary.
        67 8 Plea to the Tengku be uary. 11/HILE the parley beVI tween the Chief Ministers and Chin Peng, hangs fire it is difficult to speculate the outcome. However, we can be sure that the Communists will make insatiable demands I hope our Ministers will not concede too easily Otherwise, the seven
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        Jehu carries a C.C. plate
        50 8 SEVERAL times during the past month I have been Inconvenienced by the inconsiderate driving of the owner of a left-hand drive car carrying a C.C. plate. Does the driver Imagine that the plate al* lows him to drive in such a disgraceful manner? MOTORIST. Singapore.
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        Variable prires at the market
        33 8 WHY are price cards not displayed on fruit and vegetable stalls In the Orchard Road market? It would appear that the prices vary according to race. FRIITLESS. Singapore.
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        Marine parade eyelists
        39 8 Marine parade eyelists I SEE that cyclists have repeatedly Ignored "Cycling Is Prohibited" signs posted at various points along Marine Parade. This is outrageous. It is time that the City Council did .something to stop this. ARTHI'R CHEW Singapore.
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      INGREDIENTS OF A GOOD CITIZEN
      123 8 ELLEN WALDOC*. cf Kuala Lumpur, has indeed set a good example to the public in sympathy towards animals. I take off my hat to her. The people of Malaya have a lot to learn before they get Independence. If they can be kind towards •11
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      Malacca padi plan critics say, 'We weren 't sulking'
      376 8 Malacca padi plan critics say, 'We weren 't sulking' WHILE you were quite right In saying that Indhe Mohamed bin Haji Abdul Rahman and I objected strongly to the disparaging, impatient and uncalled for remarks levelled at us by the Resident Commissioner of Malacca for objecting to the procedure of
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      244 8 Have you seen the new TOOTAL fabrics? 0, Here's round-the-clock fashion planned tor more colour and variety, Up- SSI i r*4A Mm- L less care and trouble. It's all in TOOTAL fabrics, lovely to look at, T^ V 1 t\ famous l«»r wash and \M\ir. tli<- longest-lasting beaut) von ran
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      Lock icon Murder and famine ran riot When inflation hit Germany
      1308 9 f THE GOLDEN OF TURF tiiipvd stvvvp Altai tnadmen ta patvor I F)usand gaunt men and women, maddened by md despair, stormed through the grim Berlin i district of Moabit in October 1923. The •hoed to the crash of breaking glass
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      349 9 HHinCJIIMIUIIIIICIIIIIIUnMICJMMIIIMIJIIIMMIIIIICIIIIIIIIIIIIICJIMIIIMIIIICJIIIIIIIIIIIItJIiIIIIIMIIICIMIIMIIIIIICIIMIIIIIIIIICJIIIII'J Apart from saving 20 to 30 w at our "MID-ANNIVERSARY SALE' j You get the latest variety which 10 shops put together dare not offer you! LOOK-SEE AND COMPARE! Caberdecn 58 $2-50 per ye. I Georgette Printed /Oetignt $1-30 upward Cberdecn Inglish $2-00 Dy.* Line b Printed $0-60 per
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      171 9 #tV\ Xtorgan. !#.#>. Donna makes a rait A-J'ACE^ v. "-E C-.£»" I .S «> P.B^TA^V LOsafiß. T-3£4TS VIT i TOO LATE. ■£Jt^ '%lS Dick Travy Fioating camera mmmmWKmWMM^ Kouojead's moved lp in -mc^] r but ip he^ 7 tA ™s*£™£ s Ktic^ter oj^ent is just TT^^Tr rtxjC acW^ CULVERT AND
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    Steady prices a feature INDUSTRIALS ACTIVE
    503 10 Steady prices a feature INDUSTRIALS ACTIVE MALAYAN SHAKE IUABKKT «M/fsll Ry Our Market Correspondent INTEREST In the SlngaA pore Share Market last week was concentrated mainly in the in-i dustrial section of the i listed securities and it t was there that the bulk of business was again written. On
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    81 10 The Malayan Exchange Bank* \vMNUlion made the following changes in 1U rates to merchants on Saturday (all quotations to $100.:--(anaa-a: TT. 32\, OD 33. 90 days 33> 4 cred.i bills. 33 6/18 trade bills Srllin t T.T or OD ready: (anada 32 9 16 On the free exrhanse
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    BORNEO DIVIDEND
    45 10 The Borneo Company Ltd have recommended payment of an Ordinary Dividend of W%, Ism income Ut. in respect of trie year i.ided 31st March. 1955. The dividend »U1 be payable on the December 2 to ?riare holders on the register on November 4.
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    BUSINESS DONE
    361 10 rpiiE following business done 1 In the Singapore Share Market last week mas reporti ed by one firm of brokers for the period October 15 to October 21: l\m STRIALS: Con*olldated Tin Smelters Ords. 2»s od. Fraser A I Neave Ordu $1.78 cd. Gam mom I $2 60
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    381 10 /COMPANIES operating in Malaya announced the following dividends last week: PIKET TIN DREDGING LTD.: An interim dividend <>f ">d per share less income tax at Bs. fid. in the V for year ending December 31. payable in London on November !> to all shareholders o n register October
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    Futures market difficult
    472 10 4OMMOUITY 111.111.Yk SHGrtT-COVERING activ the SinKapore Rubbe there was continued demi The reduced duty brought > out more offerings alter Thursday, but the portion of the futures markets was still difficult due to reluctance to rradr. There m a Rain of 1 cents on the week between
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      864 10 COMPANY MEETINGS THE KAMUNING (PERAK) RUBBER &TINCOMPANY, LTD. iurty-si.xtli Annual (iencral Meeting, to be held on 16th November. IfSS SIR JOHN HAY'S STATEMENT The lnirf |SB In our profit \x due r 'i> the rise in the price of Oihi-r items of Income i i rMHlurs show little change use
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      998 10 I gr.-ultude for their courageous nnd f steadfast behaviour, and also to our Planting, Advisers who visit and Inspect the Estate, and to our I Agents in Milaya from whom the r exetclse of tact and administrative skill of a high order has been called. I The Company's success in
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      951 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are Invited from Federal Citizens or those eligible for Peder.U Citizenship for appointment m Slenograpne »t the Settlement Secretariat Malacca. Salary Scale $253 x M 3SI/Bfl. Bar/3«0 x 14 422 Salary will be determined accordin- to qualifications and experience. Age 20 to 28. Qualification* School Cert i
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      604 10 i TENDERS TENDER NOTICE 1 TENDERS from Contractors of Class B and above will be received at the Offke of the Chief Architect. Public Works Dept filngspore, up to noon of the 4th November 1956. for the Preparatory Work and Internal Demolition to Ward E at Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital,
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      513 10 KNUTSEN LINE Fast and Regular Service HOM CANADA US PACIFIC PORTS 3j DATS Sailing Arriving San f.s.Kr«o S.ncapor. K Swet ElrtabeHt Bakk* 5 Oct 3 Nov 7 No* I No. Ciertrud B.ikke 5 No* S Dec 7 Dec Ann, B*kkt 10 Dec 9 lan II |an 12 |m Oceka Bakk?
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      1023 11 "MANSFIELD A CO., LTD, t«i« »4i» „1 I*OS r»»" „^o r porat«d in Singoport) (12 Him) i TH E BLUE FUNNEL LINE »,#> |Q ofh r port, To )oad ond diKhoro* roroo ,v,RFOOL GLASGOW, LONDON 4 CONTINENTAL PORTS „iwGS fol S'ngopor. lllN Dv« Sol» P. S *om Ptoong f^rt O«t_
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      1118 11 EAST ASIATIC LINE Far Ad M p.. £^"2* T0 C O H TINENT/SCANO)»NAVIA 'ar Aden. Part Sold, Ganaa, Antwara, Retterdam. Hamkar*. Cooeftkoga*) Gofh.nbu., 4 Oilo •_i "tfiiur.,.. p Shorn Panong "MORH?A» **»t: 25/24 27/27 Oct 20/29 Oct "FALSTRIA" J* /1T H#V U/1 M#v If/tt N «I c!t l *"j*" if"—
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      994 11 .SKcThe ben line steamers LTD.^wr SINGAPORE (Ineonjiiroid Ik tka United KMgdtm) I LINIS SAILINGS TO U.K. AND CONTINITAt PORTS Spore Shorn Penang 'rTt'teroo'lT- fO Oct/ 1 Nay Direct arrive! Lanoan IS Nay 6 ol IVW Mo* B/10 May IS/19 Mo* Otnntirt for Avonmouth, London, Newcottle 11/10 No* "f£tteroom' Homburg 14/17
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      1260 11 McALISTER «Sc CO.. LTD. TEL K-. 2SJ4I BLLERM/.M tk BOCKMAIX KLAVBMBBB UM LONDON, HAVRE, ROTTERDAM, LOS ANGELES, SAN »«ANCI«:a HAMBURG PORTLAND, SEATTLE 4 VANCOUVER ond for USA. North Atlantic Port* Acceotin* ceroo for Central 4 SautS ond Conodo ond via Colombo America CITY OF KARACHI CASTLEVILLE i fx»re P S
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    Record of four stupendous years in the East
    1277 12  -  ALLINGTON KENNARD By THE FAR EAST 1942-1946. By F. C. Jones. Hugh Borron and B. R Pearn. f Royal institute of International Affairs, Oxford University Press. 605.). THE four years of Far Eastern war, and Its immediate aftermath, which are the subject
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      399 12 JFor \tl riff biisftl off a sou ml tratlitinn of i*ubliv Svrricv in trll vlass€'s of Insurant?** ask thy man front th** p ii m i:> t i a l Is/, hint, too, how you can still slit i if in this if fur's REVERSIONARY BONUS DECLARATION nit: PI II
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      222 12 BShhß^ V ■fa~Jß^(kw BjßjßSji ProttfCW yo'jr Now- scientific mouth protection! Scientifically curved tun »r«yj». Dr. Wt-st's Mine ■> Tuft brush reaches where ordinarj' brushr-s can't. It fives you whole mouth protection cleans and polishes te^th, massages gums without irritation. rmt\ Now! G*-t Dr. Wests own 6,-ntiM'a formula paste: Miracle Tooth
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      442 12 Sollano and hU RafTle<« Hofel OrRADIO MALAYA l'fr«|rtßiM thtu mariird raa I gnrT7rTr^ he rrrritrd by lUtrncri tn M«u. n 811 "I L'J I I I I Short «s«« l» and Km M^ium hgkgg^^dhgAgjAga^a »i»» t:«m.. JU.. Zitm and ?»:m. Bl^Bl^Bl^Bi^Bll^Bj^g^Bl^Bl AM. and 11 OS Cngltsii SINGAPORE achooU BroadrasU; PM.
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      213 13 .^itct.rxtrm. DH in Mrs. >i write Hoii.se :n town. Tel. uOOMS for .liotnpson Bowc $150 l\irnlshcd. Kefriv-erator. I Moderate. \TION at ;ry room BacheA venue □ALOW To Parbury i Raid Coast ,A1 OW «lth lllng fan. Apply 265 Terrace AvailPlease apply itei Hou.«e. rurnlshed. Tiong Box ip Fiirbathroom. ow r.
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      505 13 ACCOMMODATION WANTED 20 Word, ti Mint— Box it rts. txtrm. PERFECT TENANTS with High Standards require Bungalow or Flat. Districts 9. 10 or 11. Ring 2408. Ext. 36 during office hours. BRITISH COMPANY requires Fully Furnished Hou«e for senior member of staff from January 1956, In postal districts 9 10
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