The Straits Times, 29 May 1956

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    27 1 YE n/i c *b i> i, v fEHTiFit» Situ ir*~r'vrffiir~ 7~v. o» V The Straits Times tie** o**0 Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MAY, 29, 1956 15 CENTS
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    MARSHALL: I QUIT
    916 1 *Many want my head ...I honestly believe my actions were absolutely right' VKOADCAST TO WE PEOPLE 'It is a pledge I must keep' rpHK HIKF MINISTER, Mr. Marnigkt lounced in a broadto the people of L-aporc his decision to resign "for your nun long-tern welfare." made this
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    A NEW HOURS BEFORE THE DECISION
    28 1 A NE W HOURS BEFORE THE DECISION MB, MARSHALL waves tv reporters a few hours before he broadcast his derision to resign as Chief Minister. Straits Times picture
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    PAP VIEW...
    459 1 AND Singapore teams should have gone Ito London TOGETHER 'THE People's Action Party yesterday said that it x would have been far better if Singapore and the Federation merdeka missions had gone to London together to negotiate a Malayan constitution. The party's two delegates in the Singapore merdeka
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    $25,000 in the post
    55 1 $25,000 in the post CHEQUES have been sent to the win- ners of prizes in The Malayan Monthly's $25,000 Jackpot EE Puzzle Contest "V." There was no valid claim for re-scrutiny. EE Send in your entry early for MM jackpot Puzzle Contest 'W. Full details in MM for May on
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    Lock icon New H-blast?
    23 1 TOKYO Mon. Japan's Central Meteorological Observatory today claimed there was an "hydrogen bomb explosion in the Bikini Atoll area", today.- Reuter.
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    Lock icon A double win over Everest
    152 1 A double win over Everest SWISS CLIMB IT TWICE I/'ATMANDU. Mon. A Swiss mountaineering expedition has climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, twice, a Nepalese Government spokesman announced today. The mountaineers have also reached the top of Lhotse ;i neighbouring peak, the first men to
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    Lock icon Parole for 22
    20 1 TOKYO. Mon.— The Dutch Government today paroled 22 Japanese war criminals held in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison. U.P.
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    The mystery is solved: pianist
    179 1 The mystery is solved: pianist ISTDMIN "IITHAT is Istomin?" people have been asking in Singapore this week. Their puzzlement has been due to the sudden appearance, all over the city, of cryptic posters bearing nothing more iriformative than the bold letters: "ISTOMIN." Someone thought it was a new type of
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    Merdeka? PAP is scared of that, says Liberal-Socialist leader
    152 1 THE Liberal Socialist Party said last night that the People's Action Party was afraid of merdeka In a statement. the party's leader. Mr. Lim Choon Mong. said it was the attitude of the PAP that forced the Chief Minister. Mr. David
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    Lock icon STALIN INSULTED LENIN'S WIFE
    280 1 -More 'revelations' from the Khrushchev report I PARIS, Mon.— Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Communist Party secretary, said in his secret report to the party's congress in Moscow in February that Lenin and Stalin quarrelled because of Stalin's "coarseness" to Lenin's wife, the newspaper France-Soir said today.
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    FIVE MINUTES OF TERROR FOR $500
    285 1 FIVE MINUTES OF TERROR FOR $500 Towkay and family defy thugs TWO armed men brought terror to the occupants of an attap shophouse at the 10th mile, Changi Road, Singapore, for five minutes early yesterday. They tied up a worker, struck the towkay on the head with the butt of
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    Connie flies in on three engines
    79 1 Connie flies in on three engines THIRTY minutes after taking off from Jakarta yesterday afternoon an Australia-bound Qantas Constellation developed engine trouble and dashed 500 miles back to Singapore. The plane originally left the Colony at 8.30 a.m. Members of the crew told the Straits Times: "The plane was still
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    One killed, 13 hurt in road crash
    87 1 SEREMBAN, Mon. One soldier was killed and 13 others injured when a truck in which they were travelling ran off the road and crashed Into a ravine at the 14-mile-stone in Tampin-Rompin Road last night. The soldiers, who were from the 48th Field
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    Lock icon The map mix-up
    53 1 BANGKOK, Mon. The Ministry of the Interior today ordered the arrest of traders alleged to have sold cloth carrying a map showing part of Siam as Malayan territory. The Ministry said it believed the cloth might have been made in Japan and brought into Siam through the
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    Lock icon Pakistan judge for Commission
    37 1 KARACHI, Mon. Mr Justice Abdul Hamid. chief draftsman of Pakistan's constitution, has been named Pakistani representative on the Malayan Constitutional Commission. Justice Hamid is a judge of the West Pakistan High Court. Reuter.
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    IT'S THAT GIRL AGAIN
    45 1 HONG KONG. Mon Martine Carol thinks she could ease world tension by visiting Russia. "I'd just love an invi- tation from Bulganin or Khrushchev.' 1 she said. "I think I could do a lot for peace if I had the chance."
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    Keep off clerks tell Goode
    424 1 Keep off clerks tell Goode f EADERS of 3,000 Singapore Government clerks, now taking a strike ballot in support of pay claims, have asked the Government, if it is "trying to allienate members of our unions." They said this after th« Government circularised Ui men with its version of the
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    STOP PRESS
    36 1 DEAD MONFYLENPKR RIDIM.K SINGAPORE Police fn teiday found body uf moneylender Muttukarappan. missing since May 10. in 10ft. Irnii-li in field at < h:«nri Police believe In- was abducted and murdered. Man has been detained.
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    Lock icon SOLDIER DIES IN HILL AMBUSH
    94 2 SOLDIER DIES IN HILL AMBUSH NICOSIA. Mon.— One member of the security forces was killed and two were wounded in an ambush last night after the worst week of violence in Cyprus since terrorism began last April. The ambushed men were on patrol in hilly country five miles from Polls.
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    20 2 TOKYO, Mon.— The New Zealand frigate Kaniere arrived in Tokyo this morning on a nine-day informal visit. Reuter.
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    Rare catch
    24 2 BRUSSEXS, Mon.— Mr. Demuynek, a Belgian naturalist, has caught a completely white sparrow here. He said it was an extremely rare albino.
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    Lock icon FILLING THE BRA-BY HYPNOTISM
    81 2 FI LLING THE BRA-BY HYPNOTISM LONDON, Mon. A 30--year-old woman claimed today that nine weeks' treatment by a hypnotist had Increased her bust by one and a half inches. Miss Joan Fellows' bust was 33 > 2 in. when she began treatment in March. "At first I hardly noticed the
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    $1 mil. steel plant for S'pore
    256 2 OUR FIRST HEA VY INDUSTRY WILL BE BOON TO OUR No. 1 NEED— HOUSING jVTALAYA's first heavy industry steel rolling will start next month. Using scrap steel which Singapore and the Federation now export to Hong Kong and Japan at the rate of about
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    Lock icon Banda to invite Eden to Ceylon
    79 2 Banda to invite Eden to Ceylon COLOMBO, Mon. Sir AnAnthony Eden, the British Prime Minister, will be officially invited to visit Ceylon later this year, it was learned here today. A personal invitation to him would be extended by Mr. Solomon Bandaranaike. the Ceylonese Premier, at the Commonwealth Prime Minister's
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    Lock icon Cholera menace in Bengal
    42 2 CALCUTTA, Mon. Some 1.358 people have died from cholera in Calcutta and other parts of West Bengal since mid-January, health officials said here today. In addition, 5.918 other cases of cholera were notified in the same period.— Reuter
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    THE HUNTERS BECAME THE HUNTED
    75 2 THE HUNTERS BECAME THE HUNTED KUALA KUBU BAHRU. Mon. Five terrorists fired at a party of 23 hunters in the Sungei Gumut area 10 miles north east of here yesterday. Only 10 men In the party had shotguns. The rest we're beaters. The party was out looking for wild board
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    Lock icon Old black magic -by hep cat Alice
    176 2 SHE'S SALVATION TO 100,000 I^DOLA (N. Rhodesia), Mon. Two years ago a roly-poly African housewife started a new religious movement here. Today she has 100,000 fanatic followers. And she has done It Just by turning her back at open-air meetings and playing Jazz
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    Lock icon Celebration in Jakarta
    78 2 JAKARTA, Mon.— The city of Jakarta Is planning to hold a celebration on June 21, when it will be 429 years since a settlement was founded on the banks of the TJiliwang, a muddy river which is now a canal in the centre of the crowded business
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    Lock icon Trade pact
    20 2 TAIPEH, Mon. Nationalist China and Japan will sign here tomorrow a bilateral trade agreement for one year. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Korea peace talks move
    91 2 PEKING, Mon. The United Nations Allies' reply to Communist China's recent note proposing a peace conference on Korea is understood to have been delivered to the Foreign Ministry here today. The reply was sent through the office of the Charge d'Affaires of Britain, the only country
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    Lock icon Soekarno visit
    27 2 DETROIT, Mon. A tour of America's three major car factories was scheduled for President Soekarno today as part of his two-day visit to Michigan. U.P.
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    Lock icon ARMY BOYS TOLD: MAKE SURE YOU ARE SOBER
    66 2 ARMY BOYS TOLD: MAKE SURE YOU ARE SOBER VIENNA, Mon. Hundreds of youths to be called up for Austria's first postwar army went for their medical examinations today with instructions to present themselves "sober and well-washed." They were the first of 39,600 youths born In 1937 who will have "medicals"
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    Tokyo-Canberra trade talks
    47 2 SYDNEY. Mon. Trade negotiations between Australia and Japan are likely to begin shortly, Mr. John McEwen, the Trade Minister, announced today. He said that in exploratory talks over the past few months each government had informed the other of Its trade needs and difficulties.
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    Lock icon Moscow visit
    26 2 LONDON, Mon.— Britain's Air Minister, Mr. Nigel Birch. has accepted an invitation to attend a Soviet air show In Moscow on June 24.— AP.
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      Lock icon RECORD YEAR for MEAT EATERS
      49 2 ROME, Mon. —The world ate more meat last year than ever before, according to a survey by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation. The biggest increase was In beef, followed by pork, lamb and mutton. International trade In canned meat dropped slightly. Reuter.
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      26 2 LONDON: Maj. Oen. E.L.M. Burns, supervisor of the United Nations Palestine Truce Commission, left here by air for New York to report to the U.N. Secretary-General.—Reuter.
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      19 2 CASABLANCA: King Faisal of Iraq left for Paris in his personal plane after a three-day visit to Morocco. —A.P.
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      36 2 OSLO: Herr Heinrlch Von Brentano, the West German Foreign Minister, arrived here by air from Copenhagen on a two-day official visit to Norway, the first to be made by a German Cabinet Minister since the war.—Reuter.
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      32 2 LTDDA: An Egyptianchartered KLM plane detained in Israel since May 1 was released yesterday. It left Lydda airport for Cairo with its Dutch crew and an Egyptian Air Force photographer on board.—A.P.
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      17 2 CAIRO: The British ambassador. Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, conferred with the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Dr. Mahmoud Fawzy. —Reuter.
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      13 2 VIENNA: A group of Austrian Industrialists Is to visit Communist China In June.—A.P.
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      23 2 ATHENS: The Greek Foreign Minister, Mr. Spyros Theotolcls, submitted his resignation because of a dispute over his moderate approach to the Cyprus problem.—U.P.
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      Lock icon On honeymoon, he strikes it rich
      38 2 AGUA CALJENTE (California), Mon.— a mechanic on a honeymoon won U5512,724 on a US$2 bet on the races here yesterday. The mechanic, Warner G. Shelton, picked six winners In a row.— A.P.
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    Lock icon THE MAN WHO HAS TO BE ALONE FOR THE NEXT 15 YEARS
    113 2 ALI MACHIZI (above) is a man who will have no friends to speak to till 1971. For AH, found guilty by a Persian army 'court of spying for Russia, has been condemned to solitary confinement for 15 years.
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    'WORLD MERDEKA'—A HITCH
    142 2 Rubber price down, little cash to spare KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.The fall in the rubber price, which last month was responsible for a drop of more than $3,000,000 in Federal revenue, may cause Tengku Abdul Rahman to call off the proposed "freedom conference' of colonial territories. The Tengku
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    'PIRATE' FINED
    127 2 Fisherman tried a new line, I he lost his $1.50 catch EVDR trying to earn 51. 50 as a "pirate" taxi driver a "well-to-do" fisherman was fined $450 in the Singapore City Court yesterday. He was Lee Kang Sam. of Pasir Panjang. Me paid the fine. The magistrate.
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    KEEPING RURAL FOLK INFORMED
    142 2 KEEPING RURAL FOLK INFORMED interest to fi?< week stud;. r.jrVf Singapore. a,d f, Ramh. Superv! Broadcast are finding grammes La A important part i n rural population a latest developments Flying home The two officer! Ed to the c trolled Australia ing Commission visiting Sydnej Canberra and "the city of
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    Watch on the watchmen
    45 2 The 250 watchmen employed by the Singapore City Council will soon be put under watch themselves. The City Council suspects that m f sleep on duty. I To ensure that tl h future go on I i the council punch clocks.
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    THIS IS IT (contd)
    131 3 I The fireball mmmm m w r I spreads out after f I U.S. H-bomb explodesl THE FIREBALL of a detonated hydrogen bomb the first such nuclear device dropped from a United States aircraft photographed from a plane at 12,000 ft. after it was dropped on
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    Lock icon AMERICAN PASSPORT PROBE
    144 3 AMERICAN PASSPORT PROBE Paul Robe son to give evidence WASHINGTON, Mon. PALL ROBESON. the leftist :<> baritone, and Mr. Otto Nathan, executor of the estate of Dr. Albert Einstein, have been subpoenaed to appear before Mouse of RepresentaCommittee on UnAmerican Activities on day. fhe subpoenas were issued ■onnection with the
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    Lock icon RAILWAYMEN'S CONGRESS
    38 3 COPENHAGEN. Mon. The International European Railnioo will hold its annfress here between "»J 23 and June 5. Between 300 and 400 delegates from most of the European countries. including Britain, are expected to atI tend. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Casbah arsenal—guns and bombs galore
    242 3 Casbah arsenal guns and bombs galore 500 HELD AFTER DAY LONG SEARCH OF TUNNELS ALGIERS. Monday. pREXCH TROOPS raided the Casbah here yesterday and arrested more than 500 people. Vast stocks of arms and grenades were also seized. As night fell, French troops and police, their search over, moved out
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    Lock icon FOREST FIRES SWEEP THROUGH SEVEN RAINLESS COUNTIES
    112 3 FOREST FIRES SWEEP THROUGH SEVEN RAINLESS COUNTIES LONDON. Mon.— Hundreds i of firemen and Servicemen battled forest fires in eeven counties last night. High winds sweeping across wooded lands that have not had a rain for more than three weeks made it difficult to keep the fires in check. Thousands
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    Lock icon A PLEA FOR LONGER PARLIAMENT
    100 3 A PLEA FOR LONGER PARLIAMENT WELLINGTON. Mon— A plea for longer parliaments was made by .Mr. G. ii. Swan, president of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, in a si .ech at its annual meeting. Mr. Swan said that under the present system the first year after an election was spent
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    WE CAN MATCH REDS-LOEWEN
    134 3 SEATO bickering? It's not true MANILA, Monday. fENERAL Sir Charles Loew'en. C-in-C Far East j** Land Forces, said yesterday that British has sufficient troops in Malaya to meet any threat to South-East Asia. Gen. Loewen, who is also Britain's chief military adviser to SEATO. left yesterday
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    Lock icon Copter crew copped it
    91 3 Copter crew copped it I VERSAILLES. Mon. An angry gamekeeper riddled a French Air Force helicopter witn gunshot because its engine noise was stopping his 75 pheasants from laying eggs. Police said yesterday that the gamekeeper. Marcel Richard, ran out of his home and opened fire on the helicopter as
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    Lock icon Over to India
    31 3 NEW DELHI, Mon. India and France today signed a 1 treaty completing the transi fer to India of Pondicherry and other French settlements in the sub-continent. I Reuter.
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    LONDON STOCKS, RUBBER and TIN
    293 3 LONDON. Mon. Stock markets were mixed with operators proceeding cautiously following Friday's warning by Mr. Harold Macnilllan, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the economic situation. However, the undertone in the industrial section remained .satisfactory and there was a selective demand for certain of the
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    RUBBER
    25 3 LONDON, Mnv 28 Spot 23d. June 23'icJ.. July-Sept. 22'id., Ort.-Dec 22'i<i Jan -Mar. 22d June rif. 22'id.. July c.i 1 22 -d Tone: Quiet.
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    TIN
    22 3 ixj.nuon. May 28 casrt Buyers C741; Sellers £741' Fnrwnrd Buyers £740'.. Sellers £741: Settlement £742' Turnover: a.m. 85 ions p.m. 45.
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    Lock icon Why did Young resign?
    237 3 Real reason still secret padre T ONDON, Mon. Co- lonel A. E. Young. resigned his appointment as Police Commissioner in Kenya "be- j cause justice and the rule of law had ceased to exist for the Kikuyu people," the Rev. Michael Scott, director of the Africa
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    Lock icon Envoy's son hurt in car crash
    56 3 RIO DE JANEIRO, Mon. The 12-year-old son of the Japanese Embassy counsellor here, Mr. Akira Takahashi. was seriously injured in a motor crash yesterday. The boy, Makato. sustained a fractured skull when a car driven by his father crashed into a telegraph pol e
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    New Zealand's biggest city
    38 3 WELLINGTON. Mon.—According to the latest statistics. Christchurch la the largest city in New Zealand with a population of 145.000. Auckland takes second place with 137.900. The capital, Wellington, comes third with 128.600 people.— Reufr.
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    The painter
    24 3 CAPETOWN. Mon. For emptying a pot of paint over his former landlord. William Lewis was fined £10 in -the Magistrates Court here.
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    TOO MUCH, TOO LITTLE BY A VICAR
    210 4 Better homes should be 'target No. 2 for parties 9 No place like home but the 'best newly-weds I can get is a cubicle 9 JOO MUCH HAS been done to house the welloff in better homes and too little to raise minimum
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    TAXIMEN VS. THE CITY BOSSES
    262 4 TAXIMEN VS. THE CITY BOSSES Drivers fined on two counts nPWO city councillors x were complainants yesterday in separate cases against two Singapore taximen. In CASE NO. 1 Mr. Lee Choon Eng, charged Tham Peng Fook, 44, with driving negligently and behaving in a disorderly manner at Orchard Road on
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    Youth forum speakers
    63 4 Dr. F. Olin Stockwell, the Rev. James H H. Berckman and Mr. Peter S. T. Lim will be the main speakers at tomorrow's Singapore District Methodist Youth Fellowship forum on "For the facing of this hour." The forum, a Malayan M.Y.F. Week programme, will be held at
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    Bridge robbery: Man charged
    41 4 Tan Ah Hwa was charged in a Singapore court yesterday with robbing Ng Hul Hong of $3,100 and a pen worth $42 near the Kallang Bridge on the night of Feb. 19. He was remanded until Tuesday.
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    New inspector
    28 4 BATU GAJAH, Mon.— Inche Mohamed Nengah bin Haji Mohamed Noor has succeeded Mr. N. Joginder Singh, who has been transferred to Chemor, as health inspector here.
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    School show
    34 4 The Governor, Sir Robert. 'lark, and Lady Black will attend the ninth anniversary iisplay and exhibition of the Gimson School for Boys in Clementi Roact, Singapore, at 4.15 p.m. on June 23.
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    Police drive for recruits
    43 4 TAIPING. Mon. A ponce recruiting team will visit the Cantonese Association here at 9.30 a.m. on June 11 to enrol Chinese recruits aged between 18 and 25 years. Educational qualifications required are Chinese Lower Primary IV or English Std
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    Wedding at Batu Gajah
    44 4 BATU GAJAH. Mon.— Miss N. Kamalini. daughter of Mr. V. Nallasegaram. postmaster at Batu Gaiah. was married yesterday to Mr. T. S. Maniam of the Federation Police headquarters at Kuala Lumpur. A reception was held at the bride's residence later.
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    Welfare concert
    31 4 The Singapore Chinese Primary School Teachers' Association will stage a variety concert at Happy World Stadium from June 16 to 21 to raise $50,000 for their teachers' welfare fund
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    THE MAN WHO HAS A BIG PROBLEM
    58 4 THE MAN WHO HAS A BIG PROBLEM LORD REID, chairman of the commission to frame a new constitution for the Federation, arrived in Fenang on Sunday. Lord Reid, who is a member of the judicial body of the House of Lords, was accompanied by his wife. They are now on
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    Clerk cleared of theft
    60 4 KUALA KRAI, Mon.— A factory clerk was cleared of a charge of trying to steal 1.6001 b. of rubber by the Sessions Court here yesterday. T. N. K. Menon, 35, was accused of trying to steal rubber valued at $1,600 from the Sungei Bagan Estate at
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    New replanting officer
    41 4 TAIPING. Mon. Mr. Cheah Kwok Choy of the Agricultural Department 'Taiping. has left for Malacca where he will take over as i Assistant State Replanting i Officer. His wife, who is a teacher. I will join him later.
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    Fighting fund plan by STC men
    216 4 Fighting fund plan by STC men fTHE Singapore Traction A Company Employees' Union is now starting a special fighting fund in readiness for an emergency that may result from another dispute with the company. At its general council meeting yesterday, the union decided to ask the court of inquiry to
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    WRAF chief is coming here
    42 4 Group Officer M. H. Bari nett. Director-designate of the Women's Royal Air Force, will arrive in Singapore on June 6. She is on tour visiting W.R.A.F. units stationed in the Far East. Middle East. Malta and Germany.
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    Church bazaar
    35 4 The Bedok Methodist Church, Singapore, will hold a bazaar and fun fair in aid of its building fund from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday at the church ground in Jalan Greja.
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    $4 mil. hotel for S'pore
    167 4 THE LATEST IN LUXURY AND COMFORT A $4,000,000 hotel A one of the finest ever planned for Singapore will be built this year in Meyer Road, near Katong Park. The 10-storey hotel will have 105 bedrooms and double suites and will be fully air-conditioned. It
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    PEN-PALS AT FIRST-NOW THEY ARE SEEING WORLD BY MOTOR-CYCLE
    153 4 TWO YOUNG MEN, Joe from Switzerland and the other from Germany, recently became pen-pals. They wrote to each other, and said how much they would like to see the world and to meet people of different races in their own homes.
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    Deaf school hits at Government
    208 4 UNFAIR treatment by the Government was alleged by the Singapore Chinese School for the Deaf yesterday. Mr. Chuang Hui Tsuan. secretary of the management committee, claimed that the Government was discriminating against the school in favour of the Association for the Deaf and Dumb. Mr.
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    LIGHTS FOR KALLANG ROAD
    44 4 The unlit section of Mountbatten Road, near the former Singapore airport, will get street lights simultaneously with the opening of the new Kallang Road. The road was originally kept dark because street lamps might have confused pilots landing at Kallang.
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    The bells of forgiveness
    333 5 YQUNG STOWAWAY DODGED IMMIGRATION MEN, THEN HE HEARD... (i \\E HIMSELF UP, NOW POLICE SEEK HIS HISSING COMPANIONS p,)V WOLFF, 10, went to church in Singapore I* on Sunday morning, prayed for forgive- and the" save himself up to the Immigra- iM Department as a stowaway.
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    Phantom rider' strikes again
    64 5 Phantom rider' strikes again MALACCA, Mon. ml \< < > -phantom r a young .Malay who swoops down on dims on a bicycle h.iv struck again. hiMileirl. Imboh Kaur, 9. u.tlkinu at Bands about 11.10 a.m. uhpn ihe man swooped in her. dragged her hark lane and htd her Rold
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    Rents jump, farmers are angry
    71 5 Rents jump, farmers are angry T Singapore Farmers' itlon has protestCoUectoc of Rent ilnst the increase nt imposed on I arming families at Pastr. ary of the assoMr. Chan Chlaw -aid yesterday that lies had to pay than double the form--1 lie Government r the land, farmers i'asir were payto
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    We will aid Malays in business, says Tan
    116 5 MIXESE BANKS HAVE HIRED MANY j) i'ORE Chinese firms are willing to help Ma a in commerce and industry. Mr. Tan Sial president of the Chinese Chamber of Com "(1 yesterday. Wne«e banks have ''mploy a crriain of Malays, he pouit'i buslness-mind-s
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    VACATE PREMISES OR ELSE...
    77 5 rE Singapore City Council has decided that It will take legal action to evict any of its former officers who refuse to give up their quarters. A spokesman explained yesterday that the decision had been taken in order to regularise City Council procedure. A number of
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    Talks delayed
    18 5 Kon Talks be- p 'ai Wharf Worlc''•'l their employ- "■'•n's demands *a«e§, Axod for < fx-on postponed
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    Chinese girl becomes Hindu to wed Indian
    147 5 AIPOH. Mon. PRETTY Chinese girl embraced Hinduism for love of an Indian youth and went through the traditional Hindu marriage rites yesterday with him at his father's residence in Ipoh. The bride, who speaks fluent Tamil, was the former Miss Goh Kirn Foong,
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    Bandit supplier gets 3 years
    44 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Chellamuttu. a rubber tapper charged in the Johore Bahru Sessions Court with consorting with terrorists and possession of. foodstu'Ts intended for them, was coday jailed for throe years on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently.
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    Soprano flying for London recital
    36 5 Soprano flying for London recital HALINKA DE TARCZYNSKA (above). a wellknown Australian soprano, passed through Singapore yesterday on her way to London by air for a musical engagement. She was accompanied by her husband.—Straits Times picture.
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    RENTS TO GO UP IN PENANG
    66 5 RENTS TO GO UP IN PENANG PENANG. Mon.— Tenants In George Town will have to pay higher rents when the Rent Control Ordinance, 1956, comes into force soon. Ownri s of premises built befoie Jan. 31. 1948. have been notified by the Municipality of the revised annual values of their
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    New chieftain elected
    53 5 PENANG, Mon. Lt.-Col. T. H. Cross has been elected chieftain of the St. Andrew's Society here. Other officials are: vice-chieftain. Mr. W.A. H. Sim; hon. secretary, Mr. D. c Davidson: hon. treasurer, Mr. Richardson. Committee: Messrs. G. M. Davidson. A. W. Hutson, H. Fiddes, D. Cathels and
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    Patrol finds a bandit camp
    35 5 ALOR STAR. Mon A Malay Regiment patrol yesterday located a terrorist camp in the Terap area of South Kedah. The camp, about a week old, had accommodation for three people.
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    Promotion
    31 5 KUANTAN, Mon. Police Sergeant Goh Buck Hee, 24. has been promoted inspector. He joined the force in 1951 and has been with the C.I.D. here for the last four years.
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    Pilgrims dig to find the cash for Mecca trip
    140 5 MALAYS have been digging up buried savings to buy tickets for this year's pilgrimage to Mecca. The manager of the Jrddah Pilgrims' Ticket Office in Singapore. Mr. Hassan Mater, told the Straits Times yesterday: "The money comes to my office in
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    TIME ON DEATH RAILWAY
    181 5 —counts as service for them FORCED LABOUR on the Siam railways during the Japanese occupation is counted as part of a Singapore City Council employee's service, said the Council's Labour Personnel and Welfare Officer, Mr. D. B. Alcock, yesterday. He said that the council had in
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    GOVT. TO CLARIFY 'BABEL' PROBLEM
    175 5 GOVT. TO CLARIFY 'BABEL' PROBLEM A WHITE PAPER on the McNeice Report on Local Government, due to be tabled at the Legislative Assembly meeting on June 6, may clarify the multilingual question for local councils. The report favours the use of languages other than English in the proposed district councils.
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    Hacked to death
    49 5 ALOR STAR, Mon.— A Siamese pad! planter, Inln Endin, 21. was hacked to death at Sanglang, 20 miles north of Alor Star, last night. Villagers rushed out of their homes when they heard cries for help. They found Inln dying by the side of a canal.
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    $50,000 school expansion
    28 5 SITIAWAN. Mon. The St. Francis School here is to have a new $50,000 building in Lekir Road. The present wooden build--1 Ing is too small.
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    DEATHS
    55 6 20 Word* $10 (Minimum) MISS INDERANI. Aged Sixteen, beloved daughter of Mr. Perlaihamby, of Jasin Lalang Estate, Dun lop Malayan Estates, Jasin, passed away 24.5.56. CORNELIUS: Mrs. Agnes Fellettaa Cornelius. 85 years, on 28th May. 1956. Cortege leaves No. 5 Handy Road at 4.45 p.m. today for Cathedral of
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    41 6 20 Word* $10 (Minimum) MRS. FLORENCE MORRISON thanks most sincerely all Friends for the Beautiful Wreaths sent by them and for their Attendance at the Funeral of her Daughter, Miss Phyllis Eileen Morrison, 0.8. E., on Saturday. 26th May, 1956.
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    33 6 20 Word, $10 (Minimum) IN CHERISHED Memory of Arthur Fredericks, killed in the Gcmas Railway disaster. Not even the hand of time will blot out your memory Evelyn. Donald and Marion.
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    STRAITS TIMES Singapore, Tues. May 29, 1956. Mr Marshall's Promise
    706 6 STRAITS TIMES Singapore, Tues. May 29, 1956. Mr Marshall's Promise The lateness of the hour forbids full examination of the broadcast last night in which Singapore's Chief Minister reported on the failure of the London negotiations. But Mr. Marshall does not appear to have added materially to the information already
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    Rubber Stamp
    278 6 More than 16,000 schoolchildren, have applied to sit for the Federation's new Lower School Certificate examination. The joy with which the Government announced the figure suggests surprise at this response, yet a large entry was not really unexpected. Success in the examination will qualify a pupil for certain
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    Abolition Terms
    210 6 All members of the Overseas Civil Service are the responsibility of the Secretary for Colonies. If any of them are likely to suffer from Malayanisation, it is his duty to ensure that they are adequately compensated. But it is carrying responsibility too far to suggest that local officers,
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    Lock icon PEKING'S NEW BID To BE OVER THE OVERSEAS CHINESE.
    1026 6  -  CORLEY SMITH By The old policy of extorting money from the rich Chinese abroad and confiscation of remittances has now been discarded by Communist China. The emphasis now is on 'privileged' treatment tor Overseas Chinese particularly for their remittances. 'THE Government
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      Ten years is enough to reform Malay language
      755 6 I FEEL that the attack by "Oriental Studies" on the inefficiency of Malay as an official language of this country within ten years should not go unanswered. I concede to the fact that the Malay language is not extensively developed as far
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      Pussled by Mr. Leong
      89 6 Pussled by Mr. Leong \TEMBERS of the Mala•l" yan Chinese Association and the public are very puzzled at the action of Mr. Leong Yew Koh at the meeting of the MCA. last Sunday. After having himself voted against the creation of the office of Deputy President, he accepted nomination and
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      About roundabouts
      122 6 NO wonder the State of Trengganu is backward in everything from roads to housing. In the town of Kuala Trengganu we have two roundabouts which are not fit to be called roundabouts by the road-users. They are so small that buses take nearly half an hour to negotiate
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      109 6 and about drains WILL the Petaling jaya authority please note the following for necessary action: (1) The drains along Jalan Grating are never swept and cleaned by the sanitary workers. (2) Front drains are choked up with sand and falling earth, while the back drains are choked with rubbish which
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      53 6 1 REFER to Mr. Stanley Adams's letter headed "British View on Merdeka." I believe he has expressed the sentiments of a great many who bear no ill will towards Britain and who, in this transition period of Malaya's history, have its future welfare at heart. GOH
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    Brains and bravery on honour roll
    374 7 OSE SET DEATH TRAP FOR U REDS— ANOTHER SHOT TIGER IN THE MOUTH KLANG, Monday. 4 POLICE OFFICER who played a big part in planning and directing the operation irhidi resulted in the killing of 11 terrorists jnr ludintf State Committee Secretary Chan Lo
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    7 CAN NOW TEACH: CHEW
    52 7 SEVEN Singapore Chinese school teachers, who have bfrn refused registration, are to be allowed to continue teaching, pending their appeals to the Governor-in-Councll. This was decided yesterday by the Minister for Education. Mr. Chew Swee Kee. following an application by fDresentatives of five teachers' unions
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    Soon, a club for Asian seamen
    136 7 Soon, a club for Asian seamen THE Governor of Sit gapore. Sir Robert Bh\ck. laid the foundation stone ox the $1,500,000 Asian Seamen's Club in South Quay yesterday. He said he hoped that the club would give rest. comfort and recreation to Asian seamen for manj years to come. He
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    The best speakers
    64 7 Winners of last night's Singapore inter Methodist schools speech contest at Fairfield Girls' School, which marked the opening of the Malayan Methodist Youth Fellowship Week in the Colony, were: SENIOR SECTION: 1. Miss i Isobol Contento (Fairfield Girls) 2. Miss Baby Phylips (Paya Lebar M.G.S.): JUNIOR SECTION:
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    YON'S SARONG WONT SUFFICE FOR WINTER IN WIMBLEDON
    41 7 MAJOR HOLDER, a former British Army officer, puts a suitcase into the boot of his car as he and his bride. Che Mahayon, 21, prepare to set off for Kuantan.— Straits Times picture.
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    Woollen undies for the bride
    301 7 Woollen undies for the bride RUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Tv Major John Holder and his beautiful Malay bride today planned their Continental honeymoon and a shopping trip to Singapore for warm woollen undies. Major Holder, cousin of a wealthy English landowner and adopted son of a Pahang prince, and his wife
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    2nd anniversary
    21 7 The Merry Makers Social Party, Singapore, will hold its second anniversary dance at Raffles Hotel at 8.30 p.m. tomorrow.
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    Australia wants to see Asian talent, so Mr. Hunt starts hunt
    149 7 Australia wants to see Asian talent, so Mr. Hunt starts hunt MR. HUGH HUNT, a brother of Sir John Hunt, of Everest fame and an executive director of the Australian Elizabethan Trust Fund, is in Singapore for two days looking for Asian talent to perform before Australian audiences. Mr. Hunt,
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    YOUTH'S ROLE
    278 7 'Learn but don't try to set world right' i Minister advises T»HE Minister for Edux cation, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, yesterday handed a slap to the youth of Singapore. In his address openlne the Festival of Youth exhibition at the Victoria Memorial Hall, he said: "The accent this
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    'This true patriot'
    68 7 MR MARSHALL h»d a food word in his broadcast for only one delegate in the merdeka mission. He is Mr. Llm Cher Kenr of the Liberal-Socialist Party. And this is what Mr. Marshall said of him: "He displayed a deep and fenuine urge for the welfare of
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    Two bandits die – thanks to an ex-Red, a pilot and a picture
    113 7 Two bandits die thanks to an ex-Red, a pilot and a picture TEMERLOH, Mon.— Two terrorists killed yesterday by a patrol of the 6th Bn., Malay Regt. never had a chance to realise that three distinct tip-offs led security forces to their deep jungle cultivation plot. TTP-OFF NO. 1 came
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    STEPHENS SET UP HOUSE IN LONDON
    209 7 STEPHENS SET UP HOUSE IN LONDON That Klang family stays together— in three Slats From HALL ROMNEY LONDON, Monday MR. W.F.O. Stephens, 66, a retired Eurasian planter from Klang, Selangor, and 20 members of his family are today comfortably housed in three larg* "ats at Nottinghill Gate, within a stone's
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    'HEROES DAY' IN MALAYA IN JUNE
    103 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Malayan Ex-Security Forces Association will hold a "Heroes Day" every year in June in honour of their comrades killed in the Emergency. This was decided at the half-yearly delegates conference here today. It was also decided to ask the Federation
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    Tamils were his subject
    37 7 Professor A. S. Onana Sambandam of the University of Madras lectured on Tamils and their culture at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore, last night. The lecture was sponsored by the Tamils Representative Council.
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    Girl poisoned
    36 7 Leong Kwai Ho, 14. was found suffering from suspected caustic soda poisoning In her home in Tanjong Pagar Road, Singapore, yesterday. Leong, who works In a rubber factory, was admitted to the General Hospital.
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    THE LAST DAYS OF A POWER STATION
    153 7 THE LAST DAYS OF A POWER STATION OT. JAMES power station, which has supplied electricity to Singapore for nearly 25 years, is gradually being taken out of commission, and will probably be closed down by the end of the year. The power station, in the dock area, is now used
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    Accused of breaking into church
    94 7 Accused of breaking into church ANTHONY Loh Koy Mm j\ pleaded not guilty in a Singapore court yesterday to a charge of breaking into a church in Balestier Road on two occasions. He was alleged to have stolen table-fan on Jan. 25 and a microphone and another table-fan on Feb.
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    Master Plan inquiry
    47 7 The public inquiry into objections and representations on Singapore's Master Plan will begin at the Victoria Memorial Hall at 10 a.m. on June 11. A total of 292 objections to the Plan was received by March 31, the closing date for objections and submissions.
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      81 7 High tides TODAY: Singapore 12.40 ».m. (8 ft 7 las.) 2.11 pm. (7 ft 7 Ins.); Port Dlckson 8.53 a.m. (8 ft.) 9.17 p.m. (7 ft. 9 ins.); Penang 3.30 a.m. (6 ft. 2 Ins.) 2.50 pm (7 ft. 3 Ins.). TOMORROW: Singapore 1.28 a.m. (8 ft. 7 Ins.) 2
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    What A Life ! Children's party was strain for the grown-ups
    647 8  - What A Life Children's party was strain for the grown-ups Christine 7£ MONDAY fHING HO has Just begun the experiment of keeping chickens and she conies to me for advice. Although I have kept many chickens in my time, I have never had the slightest success as far as their
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      ALL NATIONS HER FRIENDS
      211 8 ytuihcii in ©ingapore can help to promote understanding between different countries by taking an interest in world affairs and the work of the United Nations Organisation. This is the view of Mrs. P. K. Hernon. social secretary of the United Nations Association, an organisation formed to
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      ORIENTAL CHARM
      239 8 1 Wardrobe tor an opera star Visit'ig Hong Kong oper:. star, Fong Wei Chin, thinks Singapore girls should "dress up" more for evening dates and take more care witn their grooming. Miss Fong, who has been singing in the opera for eight years and began training when she
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      237 8 Tfot a shadow. of a doubt **s^ -with fetex |f- Now comes packed J| Ik in pearl-grey boxes -ma ii^K 1 '3m KOTEX than all_ other j^it'.V^M ITTri T7" -\T the house of VIL/XVJL MICHELLE HOLLYWOOD'S STYLIST pr "SARINA" i^H who presents her »er»ion of thr (H^^J "AMI RICANO", a
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      225 8 Straits Times Crossword 8 ---1- 10 mmm m H n n in v mmm 20 !2I «2 §1 iT in 26 2i ACROSS 7. This type Is smaller than B "WVin none a u-hpn h* bOUTgeOiS (6). shi,u?<l e^JUs?" (Pop?) Te) 7^ n f a SP rtlnB lnteUectual mwemeut? (M)
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    STRAITS TIMES Special FEATURE Ibsen: The prophetic dramatist none heeded
    1358 9 STRAITS TIMES Special FEATURE Ibsen: The prophetic dramatist none heeded jf WRECK OF 1 STEAMER M LY-EE-MOONjp Satirised hypocrisy g of state and society 1 AMONG the great geniuses of the v orld Henrik Johan Ibsen who died in tiania, (we call it Oslo now), just fifty a#» this week
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      272 9 Jm\ JnW Baby: Rat n« rajah 3H JL jt^&m^m Kuala Kiibn Bahni Jot. Tyars g pO -rr«flsß WßJWfflfT::,. Meet Rat narajah, John and Shahimi. WW\ Don't they look like born leaders? AH ML these young stalwarts are Lactogen-fed and from the start there has never been any doubt as to
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      102 9 Mlex 3iorgan* 3M.MP. Bis tinting Tw^ T|aa£ OP "^HE \4l\C OATEP V TmL^r e* IM^J I l^Bl^ Divh Trncg Tape recording inPMHHKZ IrIN T SOU JUST DON'T f\OU'LL PARDON US IF WE 1 rNOTONLVAMI yMAL,GET BUT iTfe TRUE SIR. MRS. THIS KNOW MRS. VULCAN. 1 I SEARCH THE HOUSE-WE i
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    RUBBER, TIN DROP ON DECREASING WORLD CONSUMPTION
    313 10 RUBBER, TIN DROP ON DECREASING WORLD CONSUMPTION By Our Market Correspondent WITH American recession in motor vehicle production, the credit squeeze in Britain aimed at curtailing consumption and the economic difficulties in other countries, Malaya's pri mary products of rubber and tin are Ceding a chilly wind at the moment.
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    213 10 The Malayan Share Broker Association reported: "There m a small interest in both Industrials and tins with few price changes. Rubbers continued to be neglected." Singapore and Federation Brokers reported the following busin* done yesterday: —Fraser and .Seave ords $1.69 (odd lot): Metal Box $1.47>•_. (overnighti; Robinson Co.
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    137 10 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in Its rates to merchants yesterday: New York: buying airmail: T.T. 32" R O.D. 33. 90 d/st 33 3/16 credit bills, 33 4 trade bills. Canada: buying airmai: T.T. 32 9 16. O.D. 32 11/16. 90 d/st 33 credit
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    97 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra: quiet; June $29 1 4 buyers, $29 3 4 sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $44 sellers, drum $47 sellers. Pepper: quiet, with no business reported done. Muntok white $93, Sarawak $92 (both varieties down $1). special Sarawak
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    SHIPPING
    98 10 Ships lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Laos 1-2, Soudan 4-5, Inch jura C.P.. Ouverkerk 6-7, Orestes 8-9, Benmhor U, Benavon 13-14, Schwabenstein 15-16, Shinyu Main 18. Maetsuyrker 19-20, Pahepa N.Wall 2. Soon Bee N.Wall 4. Landak N.Wall 6. Renong N.Wall 8, Serdang N.Wall
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    RUBBER PRICES
    148 10 June first (trade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday, at 76: 's a lb. up l'- a "cents on Saturday's closing price. The closing tone was slightly easier after steady. Closing prices in cents per lb.. were: No. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.ob. buyers 77'j, sellers 78 (Nomi
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    77 10 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS MEI-BOfpvt. INVEST^-. x with tamed. E i eleven pr, Falls wer c ma ipread. steadier uncle 'nsr was llghl is. fid. an variation i, active Loans 3 teni Bank of Mount M? talII:: i Mount Morgan Peko Western Mining"" Ampol. ex jOU Searrh Aust. Conso! i, H A.
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    27 10 1 BOMBAY. Bt; I Government has licei I export India: 1 I green cotton cloth I i cuttings to all permi I non*. Reuter I
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      459 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPOINTMENT OF IRRIGATION INSPECTOR. Drainarr Irritation Department, Prrak APPLICATIONS are invited from Federal Citizens of the Malay race for the post of an Irrigation Inspector In the Drainage Irrigatio-. Department, Perak. 2. The Salary Scale under this ■cheme is as follows: Division 111. Probationer (3 years) $137.50 x
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      500 10 NOTICES P.W.D. NOTICE Headworks Road Gopeng will be closed to Vehicular Traffic from 6 p.m. on 30.5.1956 until 8 a.m on 30.6.1956 to allow the execution of repairs to Bridge No. 1/2. STATE ENGINEER, P.W.D.. PERAK. CENTRAL ELECTRICITY BOARD OF THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA Payments of Electricity Bills KoU Bharu
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      Federation rubber revenue falls away
      330 12 Federation rubber revenue falls away FEDERATION of Malaya revenue from rubber export duty is dropping steadily, as the result of the fall in the price of rubber, which is now at its lowest level since the latter part of 1954. Last year thanks to the rubber "boom," the price of
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      CHANRAI CHIEF TO TOUR EUROPE
      208 12 CHANRAI CHIEF TO TOUR EUROPE rpHE managing director of A J.T. Chanrai (Singapore) Ltd., men's wear specialists, will leave Singapore on Saturday for a sixmonth business tour of the continent and visit branch offices there. Mr. B.H. Melwanl, who is also chairman of the textile section of the Indian Chamber
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      Water softener in demand
      39 12 A water softener which fits directly on to the tap was shown at the 1956 British Industries Fair Building and Heating Section at Castle Bromwich, which ended recently. This softener, developed by a Birmingham firm.
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      Malaya to aid plant pest fight
      169 12 SCIENTISTS from Malaya and Japan are among 06 from 40 countries, who have already indicated their intention of being present at the Plant Protection Second International Conference to be held in Britain in June. At Fernhurst The experts will meet from June 19 to
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      Unique Dutch glass products now on Singapore market
      283 12 F EERDEM glassware, described as the only one of its kind in the world, and manufactured from crystalline properties by Holland's largest and oldest glass factory, N. V. Glasfabriek (Leerdem). has arrived in Singapore. The glassware, ranging from fruit-bowls to ash-trays in
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      I.C.I. HELPS FAR EAST INDUSTRY
      387 12 I.C .I. HELPS FAR EAST INDUSTRY T*HE annual report of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., shows that the company is taking an increasing share in the strengthening and developing of the industries of the Far East. In recording a record turnover of £4 Mi million by Imperial Chemical Industries (Malaya) Limited,
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      K.L.M. orders 12 new air liners as traffic grows
      230 12 X.L.M., has placed an order for 12 Lockheed Electra passenger airliners to cope with the anticipated growth of air traffic, the company's 36th annual report announces. The Electra is a four-eogined turbo-prop airliner suitable for medium stages. Its speed will be
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      National Cash Register men to train in Japan
      178 12 National Cash Register men to train in Jap an r'VO technicians employed by The National Cash Register Company Olalaya) Ltd., left last week for Tokyo for a six months course in adding and accounting machine maintenance. The technicians are Mr. Arthur Augustin of the Ipoh branch and Mr. Wee Ken*
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      NEW 9 lb. TYPEWRITER
      98 12 A Birmingham firm, Of- flee Equipment Distributors (BTL) Ltd., Birmingham Road, West Bromwich, Birmingham, England, which has sold more than a million portable typewriters throughout the world introduced its latest model at the British Industries Fair at Olympia. London which ended earlier this month. It is
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      294 12 WEGA RADIOS From 16 onginol indentors, the number of Radio Dmitn row h WEGA has risen to well over 70. All of them sell the fomom Bomb.' dry battery set. The secret of WEGA's unbelievable soles i, nc these dealers. It is the combination of: Beautiful opp M ronc& tte
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    Equestrian events are Britain's best
    728 13  -  VERNON MORGAN HOPES OF GOLD MEDALS SLIM By LONDON, Mon. DRITAix will send the v best team possible to the Olympic Games in Melbourne, but her hopes of winning Gold Medals are slim. The aim of the British Olympic Association is to send to Australia
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    Lock icon MOVE TO RESTRICT TELEVISED BOXING GETS NO SUPPORT
    294 13 LONDON. Monday. DRITAIN'S boxing chiefs were apprehensive about the future of the sport when they had their annual general meeting here during the week. "Television la a monster and it will kill boxing unless it is strictly controlled", declared promoter Jack Solomons.
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    Lock icon Tanerko beats Derby horses
    50 13 PARIS, Mon. Epsom Derby entrants, Astrologue and Verrieres, finished second and third In the 8,000,000 francs (£8.000) Prix Lupin over one mile and 2'i furlongs at Longchamp yesterday. Winner was M. Francois Dupre' Tanerko. who beat Mmc D Wlldens'.ein's Astrologu* by eight lengths. Six ran. Renter.
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    Lock icon RECORDS BY 2 RUSSIANS
    79 13 HONO KONG, Mon. Soviet welghtlifter Ravil Khabutdinov beat the world lightweight record for the two-handed press with a lift of 122.5 kilograms In Peking, yesterday. The official world record Is held by the Russian Fydor Nlkltln with 120.5 kilograms. Another world record was set when Yuri
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    Lock icon Big upset by Perry and Candy
    201 13 Big upset by Perry and Candy PARIS, Mon. T EW HOAD and Ashley Cooper, topseeded for the event, were unceremoniously bustled out of the men's doubles final on the last day of the French Lawn Tennis Championships by Don Candy, Australia, and i Bob Perry, United States, here yesterday. I
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    72 13 ADENAU, West Germany, Mon Britain's Stirling Moss roared home to victory past 70,000 spectators in his bright red works Maserati yesterday in the 1,000 kilometres race for sports car* on Germany's Holltop Nuerburgrlng. He was followed half a minute behind by the Argentine world champion. Juan
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    26 13 PARIS. Mon. Redan won the French National Football Cup final by beating Troyes 3-1 here yesterday. Sedan led 2-0 at half time.— Reuier.
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    Lock icon Hyperion to get a rare Turf honour
    248 13 NEWMARKET, Mon. XJYPEBION, Britain. ch»mx± pi on lire of winnjnj racch*r*M, retire, from the »tud next month to end a fantastic chapter in the history of the Enillsh Turf. Hyperion, now 26, will spend hit Uat d*ys brawling on the ■tod farsa here
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    777 14 SINGAPORE, SET 174 TO WIN IN 255 MINUTES, BAT WEAKLY VISITING XI OWE THEIR VICTORY 70 SIVAGNANAM By Our Cricket Reporter S' ELANGOR beat Singapore by 42 rims at the end of their three day cricket match on the S.C.C. padang yesterday, the game ending 35
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    220 14 SKUM.im Ist Inns 145 SINGAPORE Ist Inns 136 SELANGOR 2nd Inns Mil nn.iehry Ibw Perera 17 Rajalingam c Barron b Hanrahan 6 Murugesu I Sheppard b Hanrahan 1 M. Shepherdson c Bone b King 0 Dews c Hanrahan b Appuni 46 Kl.ls.Mil b Appuni 16 Sivagnanam c and b
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    SMC PLAN CIRCUIT RACE
    82 14 OINGAPORE Motor Club will hold a circuit race on a private road in Sembawang on Sunday. Aug. 5. The clubs president. Mr. Nell Moncreiff. disclosed this at a members' meeting last night. If the authorities approve of this meeting. It will be the first circuit race
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    SINGAPORE THROW VIETNAM OUT OF STRIDE-AND WIN 2-1
    1012 14 SINGAPORE THROW VIETNAM OUT OF STRIDE- AND WIN 2-1 SINGAPORE gleaned the only honours from Vietnam for Malaya when they won a fantastic match of speed and spendidly aggressive football by two goals to one at Jalan Besar stadium last night. A crowd of 6.028 saw Singapore press back Vietnam
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    Record entries for novices boxing
    297 14 \.f ORE than 100 competitors have entered for this year's Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's novices championships. to be held at the Great World on Friday and Saturday. Because of a record entry, the preliminaries will be held tomorrow at the Police Training School. Thomson Road,
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    Rosewall due in today
    108 14 THE Australian tennis players, Ken Rosewall and Mai Anderson, will arrive in Singapore by all from Australia at 3.30 p.m. today and are due to take part in exhibition matches on the S.C.C. courts at 5 p.m. The Singapore players taking part in this exhibition are
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    'MALAYANS SHOULD TRAIN FOR MORE STAMINA' HE SAYS
    204 14 'MALAYANS SHOULD TRAIN FOR MORE STAMINA' HE SAYS KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. AM ALAYAN soccer players should do more stamina training if they expect to play top class football, Mr. Nguyen Phouc Vong, president of the Football Association of Vietnam, said before he left Kuala Lumpur today f i Singapore. "Your
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    Lock icon French horses well backed
    59 14 LONDON. Mon— French challenger Lavandin. favourite at 5 to 1. was supported in some keen betting exchanges last night's callover on the Epsom Derby to be run on June 6. Induna. Roistar and Sacre Bleu were all backed. but the best business was about another French
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    Lock icon ARKINSTALL WINS
    34 14 DUISBURG. Germany, Mon.— Jack Arklnstall of Australia yesterday won the men's singles title of the international Dulsburg tennis tournament beating Hugh Stewart of the U.S. 6-2. 2-6. 6-3. In the finals.— U.P.
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    Lock icon Statham bowls Lanes to victory
    189 14 Statham bowls Lanes to victory LONDON. Mon. DRIAN Statham, who is almost certain to share the burden ,of England's Test attack against the Australians, took five Glamorgan wickets for 13 runs today to give Lancashire a resounding ten-wicket victory in two days at Old Trafford. Close of play scores: At
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    Mild upset on second day of SLTA tourney
    394 14 'TWERE wa>s a mild upset at the V.M.C.A. courts yesterday, a.the Singapore Lawn Tennis championships entered Its second day. This came in the junior singles tie between -Kwlk Sam Leong and Leong Wai Ming, both of whom had draw a bye in
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    S'PORE REME ARE THIRD TIME LUCKY
    195 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. ■p.EM.E., of Singapore, yesterday lv won the Royal Johore Challenge Cup for small-bore rifle shooting when they beat the holders, Johore Bahru /Rifle Association, by 19 points. Six other teams from the Federation and Singapore took part. In the previous two
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    HARVEY MAKES 225-HIS BEST
    97 14 HARVEY MAKES 225-HIS BEST 1 h he st inn, t I to help total to 41; conri rj Harvfv minutes and 33 I England v. cester In l! •core w a Africa al I years g After Hat ast six tell for 32 the Mid finished w The M.C< 38-run
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    134 14 Al STRM.IVSV-U |n n Rutherford l!>» fea Mackav <• Harrisn b Imk Harvey r Gravenej Brnaud b Ttta« I Surge t> Titmuv Miller b ritmu* Arrher c Simpson l.indwall h litmus j Johnson h Saiastarj Langley not nut Davidson absent hurt Extra Tnl.il Wickets fell ii I 381 Mf,
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    LEWIS GETS THE WINNING GOAL
    35 14 A goal by I Base R.EM E Peranakan l« 3B match a' G> I In oi he: j Emily and Bel Brinttr H j beat Serancoon M.T. 4-1 goon Road.
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