The Straits Times, 23 June 1956

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    THE LOVEBIRD MURDER
    336 1 Woman battered to death outside home -the only witness a bird in a cage A button is police clue to killer •MAN cake-seller. Kohan binte Haji AbI Manan. 18, was battered to death yestermorning at her home in Kampon? Bahru Road. Singapore. Police who visited the murder
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    THE SLAIN WOMAN
    7 1 ...the surprised the intruders
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    THE HUSBAND
    7 1 'IP Ml out trapping birds.
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    Quake toll
    18 1 KEW DELHI, Fri. The •arthquake in Afghanistan <■ 10 killed nearly 300 T I and injured 200.
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    26 STRIKERS HELD AFTER CLASH
    217 1 26 STRIKERS HELD AFTER CLASH Stones thrown at factory van gINGAPORE police last night arrested 26 strikers 22 women and four men outside! a factory in Paya Lebar Road after a one-hour clash with constables froih Joo Chiat station. Several constables were injured during the clash, which held up traffic
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    Lock icon MARILYN: I'LL BE A GOOD WIFE
    88 1 MARILYN: I'LL BE A GOOD WIFE NEW YORK, Fri.— Marilyn Monroe and Playright Arthur Miller want a simple wedding, followed by a honeymoon in England, the blonde film star announced last night. She said she did not Know when the wedding would take place. She leaves for Britain on July
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    Lock icon Rebels join the Army
    37 1 JAKARTA, Fri. A group of former rebels "vere sworn in as members of the Indonesian Army today. They were members of the "People's Security Army which has been active in the Celebes. Reuter.
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    THE SILENT WITNESS OF A BRUTAL SLAYING
    17 1 FROM its cage this lovebird saw the murderer or murderers
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    'BODY IN WELL' MYSTERY DEEPENS
    150 1 'BODY IN WELL' MYSTERY DEEPENS I/AJANG, Fri. The ""body -in- the well" mystery deepened today as police found themselves with two identical sets of possible clues. Acting on a tip that a missing 26-year-old Indian tailor was murdered in the town two years ago the police on Wednesday dug up
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    Lock icon Burglar was too curious
    39 1 WASHINGTON, Fri. George Morisette, 42, was arrested when he returned to a grocery store he robbed last month and bought a package of coughdrops. He wondered if the owner would recognise him. He did. A.P.
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    Lock icon HK bridge plan
    34 1 HONG KONG. Fri— A British firm today submitted l^lans to the government to bund a £9,500,000 two-decked toll bridge from Hong Kong to Kowioon to solve a major traffic problem— Reuter.
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    THE MURDER SCENE
    17 1 THE SCENE of the slaying showing where the body of the woman was found.
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    TENGKU GOES ON A MERCY MISSION
    129 1 TIHE Federation Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rah- man. arrived in Singapore last night to ask the Governor. Sir Robert Black, to consider releasing six Malays now serving life sentences for participating in the Maria Hertogh riots in 1950. "I think they have been _J
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    Death to son threat
    61 1 after robbery After a $410 robbery at 6.10 a.m. yesterday, three masked men with gun.s and daggers took a picture of a Singapore farmer's 17-year-old son and threatened to return and kill the boy if the father reported to the police. The farmer, Koh Seh Lang,
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    Lock icon Algeria protest —four hurt
    39 1 Algeria protest four hurt ROUEN. Fri— Four people were hurt when demonstrators walked into a leftwing meeting here last night and threw tear gas bombs in the audience. The meeting was to protest against Government policy in Algeria— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Poet's death
    31 1 LONDON. Fri. Mr. Walter De La Mare, the aoet. died at his home ?X Twickenham en the London outskirts today after only one day's illness. He was 83— Peuter.
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    Lock icon Moscow visit
    28 1 CAIRO. Fri- Mr. Shepilov, the Soviet Foreign Minister said before leaving for Damascus today that Col. Nasser, the Egyptian Premier, will visit Moscow in August. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Judge let off—by thief
    65 1 Judge let off by thief RIO DE JANEIRO, Fri. A thief who stole a car on I Tuesday night was horrifl- ed to react in a newspaper that it was owned by a Federal Court judge. He te.ophoned the judge, apologised and promised to return it— "at night, when the
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    Four bandits give up in a day
    172 1 rpEMERLOH, Frl. Four X terrorists surrendered today o nthe Maran road the most popular road out of the jungle in the Temcrloh area. A police spokesman said: •About 18 terrorists have surrendered in the Temerloh area this year— most of them on this
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    Heddle pays tax debt
    42 1 A bankruptcy petition filed against Major A. M. Hedcle, a racehorse trainer, by tr.e Income Tax Department, was withdrawn in the Singapore High Court yesterday. The court was told that HeciHe had paid the $3,334 debt in full
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    Lock icon The H.C. won't return
    51 1 THE HAGUE, Fri— The Dutch High Commissioner in Jakarta, who was recalled by his government for discussions last March will not return to Indonesia, it was officially announced today. The High Commissioner, Mr. Willem F. L. Van Bulandt, 60, arrived in The Hague on March 16.—
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    Lock icon Disarm talks
    35 1 LONDON. Fri— The Minister of State at the Foreign Office. Mr. Anthony Nutting, left here by air today for Paris for talks with the French Government on the problem of world disarmament. Reuter.
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    Lock icon July 4 pact
    26 1 MANILA, Fri. Indonesia and the Philippines will sign an immigration agreement in Jakarta on July 4. a Philippine Foreign Office spokesman said. A.P.
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    Lock icon Eden for Paris
    23 1 PARIS, Fri. The Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, and Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, Foreign Secretary, will visit Paris this month.— Reuter.
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    21 1 WASHINGTON. Fri. President Eisenhower today designated Vice President Nixon to represent him at Independence Day ceremonies in Manila. Ruter.
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    Lock icon Bomb attack
    18 1 NICOSIA, Fri.— Two policemen were injured, one seriously, in a bomb attack here last night.— U.P.
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    Lock icon THE CHATTER BOX ROBOT
    66 1 PARIS. Fri. An electronic I "chatter box 1 being built here will translate speech into print, according 'to Mr. Louis Challier. a French engineer. He told the first lnterna- tional automation congress yesterday that the machine would be able to take down speech from a radio
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    England lose quick wickets
    132 1 England lose quick wickets I ONDON, Fri. Australia were in a strong position at thr end of the second day's play in the second Test match at Lords today. After being dismissed for 285 just before tea. they struck back at England when Miller took the wickets of Richardson and
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    STOP PRESS
    35 1 A I STRALIX TO BUT r.s. itoanloi WASHINGTON. Fri. Thr Iniltd States and Australia today signed a nuclear power agreement that will permit Australia to buy up to :.0H kilocrams of uranium. r.p.
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    THEY WANT to COME BACK
    297 2 In five months, 2,125 people ask for permits to return to Malaya from Red China 4 BACK-TO-MALAYA movement is gaining* strength among the Chinese who have gone to Communist China. In the first five months of this year, 2125 people asked to be allowed to
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    Lock icon Council attacks tea-shop vice
    47 2 TOKYO. Fri. Tokyo's Juvenile problem council today aske-1 police to crack down on the city's 98 allnight tea shops, calling them •hotbeds of juvenile vice." It proposed a code of standards that would prohibit use ef curtains, private rooms and night accommodation. AP
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    Freight `war' ends
    126 2 SHIPPING COMPANIES AGREE ON STANDARD RATES FOR MALAYAN RUBBER CARGOES T*HE 10 month old freight "war" between companies shipping rubber from Malayan ports to Japan ended yesterday. The 28 members of the Malaya. China and Japan Shipping Conference, who have been competing against each other, agreed upon
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    TOO MANY SPARKS IN 'SPITFIRE,' SAY THE POLICE
    139 2 TOO MANY SPARKS IN 'SPITFIRE,' SAY THE POLICE Big Chan Hoong pleads against ban IPOH, Friday. pOLICE last night banned the "Spitfire" revue, which has been drawing packed houses since it opened at the Jubilee amusement park here on May 1 0 Tlie stars of the show are the stnp-teasers
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    Lock icon Soekarno's message
    84 2 HAMBURG, Fri. President Soekarno of Indonesia last night called on the West to show understanding for the rise of nationalism in Asian and African countries which he said was "more important than the atom bomb." "We want only equality," Mr. Soekarno declared in an address before 300 political
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    stone must pay. . .
    79 2 stone must pay. KUALA LUMPUR, Fri A pretty maid-servant told a court here today that ah* would never go back to her husband because he was a ''rolling stone." Liow Kirn Lian, 24, suing her tailor-husband, Tan Yen Tong for maintenance said: "He does not care for me and he
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    LOADED DICE MAN FREED
    44 2 MONTE CARLO. Fri. Prince Rainier yesterday freed the American diceplayer Jason Lee, who was convicted of slipping loaded dice into the Monte Carlo casino game last February. The Prince granted clemency after appeals by Lee's son. He left Monaco Immediately^
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    Lock icon Wife No. 5 went to 9's wedding
    53 2 LOS ANGELES, Fri.— The ninth wife of Charlie Barnet, 42, an orchestra leader, obtained an annulment yesterday. Linda Joyce Johnson, 23, said she and Barnet accompanied by Barnet's fifth wife, actress Rita Merritt— went to Tijuana, Mexico, on April 25 to arrange a
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    UNION FOR THAT MERGER
    65 2 UNION FOR THAT MERGER KUALA LUMPUR. FrL— The 20,000-strong National Union of Factory and General Workers today supported the proposal for a merger between the Federation and Singapore. It said in its annual report: "It is ridiculous that in a small territory Singapore should be Isolated for British colonial preference."
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    Lock icon Chinese to go
    33 2 MANILA, Fri. The Commissioner of Immigration, Mr. Emllle Galang, today ordered an inquiry to prepare deportation proceedings against 200 Chinese who entered the Philippines on temporary visas to study. UP.
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    Work holds up Diana's trip to Colony
    73 2 Work holds up Diana's trip to Colony DIANA DORS will not visit Singapore for at least several months. Instead she is going to Hollywood, where she is to film "I Married a Woman." She will be in Hollywood for three months. While Diana is filming, her husband, Dennis Hamilton, will
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    Lock icon Paris welcome for Ivan
    52 2 PARIS. Fri.— The first Russian tourists to visit France since 1914 received a rousing welcome when they arrived in Paris last night for a twoday stay. Nearly 1.000 people welcomed the party of 439 when they arrived from Le Havre where the Soviet liner Podeba is
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    RAIN-AND POTATO PRICES GO UP, UP, UP
    158 2 RAIN-AND POTATO PRICES GO UP, UP, UP Heavy rains in Japan have pushed up the price of potatoes exported to Malaya. Because of the price Increase traders in the Colony and across the Causewaj have reduced Import* to a minimum. For the past few daya, some towns in the Federation
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    Lock icon 'Golden Arrow'
    37 2 LOS ANGELES, Fri. The newest American entry in the race for the Jet age commercial market is the Golden Arrow, a 609-m.p.h. airliner that will be gold in colour instead of the conventional silver.— AP.
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    Lock icon Peaceful atoms
    27 2 WASHINGTON. Fri. Representatives of 12 nations met here today to complete plans for an 87-nation conference on the organisation of an international atoms-for-peace agency.— AP.
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    Lock icon Planes collide
    25 2 SEATTLE, Prl— Two light planes circling to land collided 1,000 feet over a thick-ly-populated residential district here yesterday. Three people were killed.— UP.
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      Lock icon VOTE NASSER: THERE IS NOBODY ELSE
      211 2 CAIRO, Pri. Egypt Is preparing to go to the polls for the first time In six yaars to elect a president and ratify the new constitution. The election is supposed to usher in a new era of constitutional life after four years of a
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      Silvana sticks to jewels
      51 2 ROME, Fri.— Film star Silvana Pampaninl started a court fight with a Greek producer today over MJISO.OOO.OOO worth of Jewels. Film producer Morris Elgas claimed he bought the Jewels for Silvana on her instructions but she claimed that he gave them to her during a romance.
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    Tin of sardines sends family of 6 to hospital
    130 2 Tin of sardines sends family of 6 to hospital A TIN of sardines has sent a Singapore- f I six into the general hospital. am They had the sardines for I dinner and the next day they were all suffering from stomach pains, vomiting and fever. They are: Soh Soo
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    Lock icon A COMEDY OF ERRORS
    52 2 A COMEDY OF ERRORS V^NNA, Fri.- Scene yj terdai'S atomic en at the m JJ power conference hen BRITAIN'S delegate- garish RUSSIA'S delate- V second anniversary i! world's first profile* mic power station h 3 taken place. AMERICA'S deleeate- world's first economic 2 mic power station completed in Idaho J
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    Lock icon Hail hurts 75
    28 2 TOKYO, Fri. A 15-min-ute hailstorm with hailstones as big as a fist fell in Oifu Prefecture, southern Japan, today. About 75 people were injured.— Reuter
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    EAST GERMANY FREES 19,000
    259 3 A new looh tn iwlbM velopllMt the toon Curtain 'Red Hilde' is accused of illegal acts and unjustified arrests T HE COMMUNIST ment announced yesterday that 19,064 prifO ners most of them held for political crimes have been freed The woman who put man^of the prisoners
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    Lock icon THEY WILL SEE SECRET' AIRCRAFT FACTORIES
    115 3 THEY WILL SEE SECRET' AIRCRAFT FACTORIES MOSCOW, Fri. Britain's Secretary of State for Air, .Mr. Nigel Birch, .md Royal Air Force chiefs visiting Moscow for Sunday's Soviet air Wiow will be shown two aircraft factories on the ■Mitt list, which have never been shown to Western visitors before, it was
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    16 3 PARIS, Frl. The French Parliament yesterday adopted a proposal to make atomic bombs. Reuter.
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    Not even in Who's Who
    95 3 Margaret's latest LONDON, Fri. A handHome commoner, who is not even in Who's Who was Identified yesterday as Princess Margaret's three time escort at Ascot races. lie is Christopher Loyd, a j3-ytar-old t^all, dark and handsome hero of World War 11. Loyd, the wealthy squire
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    Lock icon Husband ordered wife to play strip poker
    118 3 LOS ANGELES. Fri. A blonde cocktail waitress, told a judge yesterday that a refusal to play strip poker almost cost her her life. Mrs. Juanita Bradley, seeking a divorce from her husband John, said the 29-year-old shioyard worker insisted on playing strip poker
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    Lock icon Unrest in the Argentine
    54 3 BUENOS AIRES. Fri. Armed men yesterday fired on the home of Capt. Mario Robbio. Chief of the Navy General Staff. Nobody was wounded. A Government spokesman accused followers of the ousted President Peron for the attack. Ke said they wanted to create a climate of tension
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    THEY'RE ALL KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER
    61 3 THE PRIME MINISTER, Sir Anthony Eden, the former Prime Minister, Earl Attlee, and the Earl of Iveagh, were installed as Knights Companions of the Order of the Garter in a ceremony at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Picture shows Lord Iveagh and Earl Attlee (foreground)
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    SOLDIER SHOT DEAD BY TERRORISTS
    125 3 Daylight ambush by Cypriot gunmen NICOSIA, Friday. pYPRIOT terrorists shot and killed a British police officer, William Tipple, yesterday while he was shopping for a gift for this young daughter. The soldier had just come out of a Greek shop when hidden gunmen shot him
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    China jails 17 Japs
    54 3 TOKiO, Fri. Communist China today sentenced 17 Japanese war criminals to terms of eight to 20 years Jail for crimes ranging from espionage to practice bayonetting with live Chinese prisoners. The convicted men included three former lieutenant generals in the Imperial Japanese Army and two ma-
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    Lock icon Ceylon to become a republic
    161 3 Ceylon to become a republic ONDON, Fri. Ceylon's new Prime Minister, Mr. Solomon Bandaranaike, will tell the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference here next week that his country intends to become a republic. He will ask that Ceylon be given the option of remaining in tele Commonwealth If her people desire.
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    Ike stretches his legs
    53 3 WASHINGTON, Frl. President Eisenhower left his hospital room yesterday for the first time since his operation on June 9. He walked without support about 40 feet from his hospital bed into a corridor, where he sat in a chair for a while before walking back to
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    Rebels jailed
    34 3 BERNE. Fri. The Swiss Federal Court has sentenced four young Rumanian antiCommunist exiles to prison terms ranging from 16 months to four years for seizing the Rumanian Legation last year.— A. P.
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    260 3 ONDON, Fri. Police yesterday arrested Jack "Spot" Comer, self-styled "exking of the underworld," on a razor wounding charge as Parliament anxiously discussed flaring gang warfare in London's West End. Comer himself the recent victim of a vicious razor attack by thugs was charged with slashing Thomas
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    Lord Reid and Co. will visit Johore first
    160 4 Lord Reid and Co. will visit Johore first KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Federation's Constitutional Commission is to make a special visit to Johore early next month before it begins a country-wide tour to hear the people's views. Announcing this at a conference here today, the chairman of the Commission. Lord
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    EXPATS—WE NEED THEM, HE SAYS
    73 4 EXPATS— WE NEED THEM, HE SAYS ALOR STAR, Fri.— The Kedah UMNO President, Tengku Kassim, brother of the Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, said today Malaya would be compelled to retain expatriate officers when the country achieved merdeka. "We lack experienced officers like technicians, engineers, doctors and lawyers." he told
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    Malaya should be republic
    353 4 LABOUR PARTY WANTS FEDERATION TO HAVE PRESIDENT DRAFT SAYS: MERGE WITH SINGAPORE, KEEP IT FREE PORT f HE Labour Party of Malaya wants a president for the Federation as in Indonesia chosen by a joint electoral college, of the federal and state legislatures. This recommendation is
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    'Hot' chickens, man fined
    48 4 TEMERLOH. Fri. Mohai mcd Zain bin Osman. 29, rubber tapper, yesterday 'pleaded guilty to assisting in I the disposal of four fowls I worth $14. believed to be stolen property. He was fined $200, or three i months' jail. Zain had two previous convictions.
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    GUEST KIDNAPPED GIRL—CHARGE
    156 4 GUEST KIDNAPPED GIRL— CHARGE But her evidence was *doubtfuV BUTTERWORTH, Friday. AFTER other visitors had gone home, a man broke into a house and carried off the girl whose engagement party he had earlier attended, the Butterworth Sessions Court was told today. "I was sleeping when I felt I myself
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    4 fined for wire theft
    84 4 TEMERLOH, Fri. Four padl planters who stole the barbed wire perimeter fence of a Malay regrouped area at Kampong Buntut Pulau were each fined $150 or two months' jail yesterday. Yusoh bin Haji Jaafar, 48, Idris bin Awang Hussin, 54, Abdul Aziz bin Mat, 36,
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    Colonel's wife killed—$1,000 fine
    237 4 Colonel's wife killed— $1,000 fine KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A lorry driver, Choo Kirn Soong, 33, of Salak South, was fined $1,000 In the Sessions Court here today for causing the death of Mrs. Phyllis Hogge. the wife of an army officer, by a negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide.
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    THE TENGKU'S LAST SITTING-ONLY THE FINISHING TOUCHES ARE NEEDED
    36 4 THE FEDERATION'S Chit! Minister, Tenuku Ahdul Rahman, had the final ift. ting for his portrait at his new home, the former Re sidency, in Koala Lumpur yesterday.
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    13 HELPFUL DOCTORS
    161 4 They answer Govt. SOS IPOH, Friday. f\F about 50 doctors in private practice in Perak, v 13 have responded to the Government's call to do part time work in hospitals. I Seven have been posted to three hospitals three in Ipoh and two each at Taiplng and
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    Police hunt for missing youngster
    59 4 Police hunt for missing youngster KELANTAN POLICE ARE searching for a 13-year-old schoolboy. Mat Mahmood, (below) who has been missing sir-e January He left his home at Buklt Sawa. Ulu Sawa. on Jan. 4 to go shopping in Machang and has not been seen since. The boy was wearing a
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    Possession of opium denied
    27 4 TELUK ANSON, Fri. Lee Seng Hock, 25, denied having 4 lb of raw opium in Dew ROfci. Bail was granted until July 20.
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    THE ARTIST
    38 4 The painting is the work of Paris-born. Madame U Yen Chen, above. An old friend of thi Tengku. Madame then h the widow of Mr. Ku;rm Chen. China's Ferelffl Mi': ister in i;>26. Straits Times picture.
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    New officer
    33 4 KUALA TRENGGANU. Fr: —Mr. C. J. A. H. Smcdlcy hai arrived here to take over the post of Special Branch 00--cer from Mr. K. G. Loo-f. who is going on leave.
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    New talks on wage claims
    48 4 IPOH, Fri. The Perak River Hydro Employees Union will negotiate with its employers next Wednesday for a new salary scheme. Union officials met the management today when it was decided 1 that both parties should submit their new schemes at the next meeting.
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    Home Guard chief moves
    36 4 SSGAMAT, Fri.— Lt.-Col. A. R. Cook, deputy State Home Guard Officer, North Johore. is leaving on transfer next week for Johore Bahru. He will be attached to the state Home Guard headquarters.
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    Appointment
    24 4 MUAR, Fri. Mr. G. M. Sampson Is Senior Executive Engineer. P.W.D., Muar, in place of Mr. W Bakar who has gone .on leave.
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    Body in river
    19 4 MUAR. Fri.— Police here recovered the body oi Tan Wee Lee, 64, from the river yesterday.
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    More went out than came in
    54 4 IPOH. Fri.— The Ipoh and Menglembu Town Council overspent its revenue for May the nrbt time this year. The total expenditure -•iiiiiiiimiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii amounted to $214,394 wh;.e the revenue collected wa.- only $171,623. 1 The council will hold I next monthly meeting on I June
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    MURDER?-`MY BOY WOULD NOT KILL A CHICKEN'
    321 5 MURDER?-`MY BOY WOULD NOT KILL A CHICKEN' PENANG, Friday. KONG SEN, foster father of a 19-year-old church bell-ringer, Loh Ah Bah, charged Bi( h murdering his girl friend, Lean Kee [Syonjf, today described the accused as "a good j n 'd dhedient boy, not given to violence." was even afraid
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    Fascinating show of paintings
    104 5 Fascinating show of paintings A fascinating exhibition of paintings by Madam Fan Tchun Pi, who spent years studying art in Prance, was opened at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Singapore yesterday. Simple and vital, her landscapes, using Chinese brushwork with European materials, have the spirituality of Chinese, the solidity
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    Bandits flee from patrol
    49 5 RENGAM. Fri. An area security unit patrol fired at three terrorists contacted ne-r here last night. The bandits fled. Another patrol yesterday exchanged shots with four terrorists on Kulai Estate apparently wounding one of them. All the Reds escaped. A quantity of foodstuffs was recovered.
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    Library opened
    14 5 The Malayan Library Association recently opened a branch in Serdang, south Kedah.
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    4 WIVES AND A FORTUNE
    256 5 but her 'rich father* was really a labourer KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Ong Kwee Lian, 18, told a probation officer here that her father was a rich Singapore towkay who ran a sundry shop and had four wives. A probation report from Singapore, however, show- ed
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    Vehicle was a 'menace' court
    278 5 STEERING OUT OF ORDER: 7 HURT A SINGAPORE traffic Magistrate, Mr. J. B. Jeyaretnam, yesterday described a Hock Lee Amalgamated Bus Co., servicing vehicle or "mobile workshop" as "a perfect menace on the road." He convicted the driver, Ong Moon Chit, of driving the vehicle
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    Promoted
    28 5 Dato A. M. Alsagoff, Assistant Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in Singapore, has been promoted Deputy Commissioner, according to an announcement by the London headquarters.
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    DOCTOR DEARTH
    126 5 But more university graduates are joining the Government rpHE great majority of new- ly-qualified medical graduates of the University of Malaya are entering Government service, the deputy secretary to the Singapore Health Ministry, Dr. M. Doraislngham, said yesterday. "It is very exceptional these days for any of them
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    Govt. land for City Council
    84 5 rpHE Singapore Government JL is to lease part of the foreshore and sea-bed At Labrador. Paslr Panjang. to the City Council for building a pier and Jetty in connection with the Council's new power station there. Conditions of the lease, gazetted last night, provide for
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    Free show for 1,000
    42 5 KUALA KANGSAR, Fri. More than 1,000 students of the Tsung Wan Chinese School here were given free cinema shows yesterday on "Children's Day." The school was closed for the day. There was also an open air acrobatic show.
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    Jaycees meet in Seremban
    43 5 SEREMBAN, Fri.— A chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce is to be formed here. The inaugural meeting will be held at the Century Hotel on June 28. Membership is open to young men aged between 22 and 40.
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    Finger-painting demonstration
    39 5 PENANG, Fri.— Mr. Chen Wen-Hsi will give a demonstration of finger-painting at the Penang Rubber Trade Association on Sunday. Mr. Chen, who is on a short visit to Penang, is holding a one-man exhibition until June 25.
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    RASC 'week'
    19 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Royal Army Service Corps (Central Malaya) will hold their "Corps Week" from tomorrow.
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    MINISTER: THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST SLUMS
    261 5 MINISTER: THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST SLUMS THE Singapore Minister s A for Local Government, Lands and Housing, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, yesterday described Covent Garden, off Kirn Sens Road, as "one of the worst slum areas in the s city E Inche Jumat spent halfsi an-hour
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    New centre will teach self-defence to youths
    217 5 New centre will teach self-defence to youths WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES IS PLANNED BESIDES sports and gymnastics, judo, boxing, and the Chinese and Malay arts of self-defence will be taught when the Singapore Youth Sports Centre gets into full swing in October. Tenders for the conversion of an old store
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    SKIPPER OF NEW LUXURY LINER
    59 5 SKIPPER OF NEW LUXURY LINER COMMODORE HOBART J. EHMAN, skipper of the President Coolidje, the new luxury freighter-passenger ship of the American President Lines, which arrived on her maiden voyage in Singapore yesterday. The new freighter has special features for handling cargoes including the latest liquid pumping equipment for fast
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    NOW DYAK TRACKERS 'SPECIALS'
    103 5 NOW DYAK TRACKERS 'SPECIALS' SCORES of tough and tattooed Dyaks who served as jungle trackers in Malaya and who have since been returned to their farms in Sarawak have volunteers for the newlyformed Sarawak Auxiliary Police. They are now doing a threeweeks refresher course at the Bukit Siol jungle training
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    Jitterbugs
    27 5 Ten leading Malayan dancers will take part in a Jitterbug contest at the Great World park tonight. Mr. Ashley Cooper, of Shaw Brothers, is the organiser.
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      75 5 TODAY CHINESE LADIES ASSOCIATION: "Midsummer Night" ball in aid of Slglap Olrls' Club, Victoria Memorial Hall 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. TELOK AVER METHODIST CHURCH: Women's Society of Christian Service food fair, church hall, 235. Telok Ayer Street, 2 p.m. to 8 pjn. SINGAPORE COUNCIL FOR ADULT EDUCATION: Weekend fomm
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      76 5 ell art gallery. Stamford Road. 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Some for tomorrow, closing 3 pjn. GEYLANG STRAITS CHINESE m.y.f.: Campflre, church ground, Aljunled Road, 7 pjn. PAYA LEBAB M.Y.F.: Birthday social, MYF Room. Pay a Lebar Methodist Church, Boundary Road, 7.30 pjn. INDEPENDENT MISSIONARY SOCIETY: Free film shows at
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      78 5 Chess Club 3 p.m.; Movie Circle show "LIU" S p.m. TOMORROW PUBLIC CONCEBT by Band of Ist Bn. the King's Own Dragoon Guards, Botanic Gardens, 5 pjn. to 6.15 p.m. POLICE BAND: Public concert. Esplanade Gardens, 6 p.m. to 7 pjn. TELOK AYEB M.V.F.: Talk on "Books as aids to
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    DEATH
    34 6 :o Words $10 (minimum). BLIGH: Mona Gertrude beloved wife of Mr. V. A. Bligh (Vernon) Residence 56A Mergui Road on 22-6-56. Funeral Service at 4.30 p.m. Cathedral Good Shepherd, 23-6-56. Thence to Bidadarl.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    114 6 A C KNO WLEDGMENTS .a H id* $10 (minimum). MR. A MRS. R. K. G. MARTIN would Use to thank their Relatives and Friends for attending their wedding and for the valuable j>re•cnts received. MR. AND MRS. OH CHIN 6lt*W and Mr. and Mrs. Oh Chin Klan and Family thank
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    IN MEMORIAM
    32 6 20 Wordt $111 (minimum). IN LOVING MEMORY Of my f! r .ir wife. Martha Eliza Hicks New ton, who passed away on June 23, 1952. Inserted by Liscombe F. Newton.
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    276 6 Jo Words $10 (Minimum) FOLLOW PEDANT Every Day In the 'Malay Mail" if you warn to win that '$5,000 word puzzle. ITS BETTER to be s.'fe than itorry, that's why wise housewives keep Air-wick in the home to kill •11 unplf.vant odours. MATERNITY WEAR. New Selections of skirts, smocks,
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    RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT
    33 6 M Words t2.SO (minimum). CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, Singapore, 8 Orange Grove I?oad. Singapore-10 (off Orchard Road) Sunday Services and Sunday School 10.30 a.m. Testimony Meetings Ist and 3rd Wednesdays 1 p.m.
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    Singapore, Sat. June 23, 1956. The Bornean Scene
    667 6 Singapore, Sat. June 23, 1956. The Bornean Scene Good prices for primary products, at least until rubber's current decline, have been the basis of moderate prosperity for North Borneo and Sarawak. In their annual reports, just published, both Governments recount very satisfactory progress in the economic and social fields, and
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    The 18th Hurdle
    247 6 In the Federal Legislative Council Mr. Tan Siew Sin listed seventeen "hurdles" which a resident of Penang or Malacca must clear before he can hope to get his British naturalisation and Federal citizenship papers. His application passes through a chain of local officials, then goes to London,
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    Chinese Peasant
    247 6 Admissions of widespread discontent among the "cooperated" Chinese peasants are to be found in Ministerial speeches at the Nation*! Congress in Peking which remove some of the gloss from the picture of successful agricultural revolution. The pressing task, said VicePremier Teng Tsu-hui, is to solve the relationship between
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    As I was saying..,
    952 6  - As I was saying CYNICUS pLOGGING has been 1 abolished in the Federation, but not whipping. The rotan, a savage Instrument in the hands of anyone who knows how to wield it, can still be ordered for a variety of offences, apparently including simple theft. This is quite monstrous. I
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    Lock icon SATURDAY STUDY
    9 6 YOUNG ABORIGINE Photo by Vim Yaw Chong
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    A chance to look around
    1032 6  -  VERNON BARTLETT ji». OAPPY is the country 11 that has ho news. I cannot remember whether somebody said that or whether I invented it, but in either case it seems to me to be true. Singapore has provided an unhealthy number of headlines in the
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    FIFTY YEARS AGO
    122 6 (From the Strait* Times of June 21, 1906). A RUBBER expert (who shall be nameless) has expressed (his views on the prospects of rubber generally, and the capabilities of Johore in particular. "There can be In the case of rubber no such thing as over-production. I am
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    MINERS DEMAND HIGHER WAGES
    125 7 MINERS DEMAND HIGHER WAGES LUMPUR, Fri. National Workers' Union lava today put claims demandter conditions of and wages for orkers in two mines near here. are the Hong ngei Besii Limited rei Bcsl Mines which employ 600 r> respectively. t acceptable secretary of Mr. Tan Tuan the managements recent agreement
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    Strike at George Leo's is over
    43 7 120 fitters, me..nd apprentices of c Motors, who went last week over a revsue, will return today. .-even-day old strike ed off last night ttlement was reachren the management Singapore Motor n Employees" Union. I the workers.
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    Car on fire
    12 7 parked in Gemmlll i.zapore, caught flre 4 a.m. yesterday.
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    Rubber war -peace pact today
    90 7 Rubber war -peace pact today IT UAL A LUMPUR, Fri Malaya's rubber wage "war" will be officially ended at 11 a.m. tomorrow when the draft agreement for revised waje rates is signed by the Malayan Planting Industries Employers Association and the National Union of Plantation Workers. The signatories will be
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    US Consul off
    30 7 The American Consul-Gen-eral, Mr. Elbridge Durbrouw, left Singapore by PAA yesterday for a week In Saigon to sit on an examining board for American Foreign Service candidates.
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    $500 fine
    29 7 Lee Chwee Soo, 43. 'was fled $500 or four months' laii in Singapore yesterday for unlawful possession of 4,740 dutiable cigarettes at Kallang Road on Thursday morning.
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    Remanded
    33 7 Tan Tong Seng. 25. was remanded until June 29 in Singapore yesterday for allegedly causing the death of Chia Ah Yin at the Trafalgar Home, Yio Chu Kan& Road, on May 9.
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    TRADE TEAM FOR CHINA
    235 7 A TRADE mission of 20 ii Singapore businessmen will visit n and China next onth if the Government gives permission. i:r Yap Phen* Oeck, :rman of the Trade isory Council, who v,n asked to organmission yesterday asked the Chief MinisMr. Lim Yew Hock, the Government's told
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    Police ban PAP protest meetings
    233 7 THOSE INDOOR DEMONSTRATIONS *TO EXPOSE BRITAIirS IMPERIALIST ATTITUDE* ARE OFF AND PARTY BOSS SAYS: WE WON'T SUBMIT TO THIS COLONIAL DICTATORSHIP TH fLS ng T r D Po lice laf ni ht meet?™ P Action P rtsr P rotest rM,,,^V eeks a pollce had sal
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    Ushers' meeting
    21 7 The Singapore Court Ushers' Union will hold a general meeting at 35-A, Upper Pickering Street at 1.30 p.m. today.
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    GIRL TOOK POISON AFTER SLAPPING
    160 7 THE day after her mother had beaten her, Ng Sou Ying, 14, committed suicide by swallowing caustic soda, a Singapore inquest was told yesterday. Lum Kwai Hoi. motherof eight, described Ng, her eldest daughter as a "very quick-tempered and saucy girl." Ng, who worked in
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    Top jobs in Railway
    76 7 Five men named The Colonial Office has announced five new appointments In the administrative staff of the Malayan Railway. Mr. P.B. Brokenshire becomes principal administrative officer; Mr. R.O.J. Coppage, chief accountant; Mr. M.G. Foley, assistant traffic manager; Mr. j.e.a. Foreman, traffic manager; and Mr. R.W.H. Seymour,
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    New exchange
    25 7 SEGAMAT. Fri.— The Minister for Works, Posts and Telecommunications, Inc h c Sardon bin Jublr, will open the telephone exchange here next Friday.
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    Monkey theft
    22 7 PENANO, Fri.— Two monkeys were stolen from Mr. K Wallen's house in Cantonment Road, here yesterday. They were worth $50.
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    Bride says: I was forced to wed at 13 SHE THREATENS TO KILL HERSELF
    243 7 Bride says: I was forced to wed at 13 SHE THREATENS TO KILL HERSELF ITVALA LUMPUR, Fri. —A 19-year-old girl, who said she was forced into a marriage when she was 13, told a magistrate today she did not wish to live any longer with her husband. When the magistrate,
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    Varsity men off to Indonesia
    43 7 Two members of the University of Malaya staff, Ungku Aziz, economics lecturer, and Inohe Zalnal Abidln bin Ahmad, head of the Department of Mala Studies,, left Singapore by air yesterday to attend a UNESCO-sponsored conference studying Indonesian problems.
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    Rice stockpile
    29 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— The Federation Government today announced the purchase of 10,000 tons of Burmese rice for its stockpile delivery to be made In July and September.
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    WANTED: 8 MORE 'GOLDWYN GIRLS'
    68 7 WANTED: 8 MORE 'GOLDWYN GIRLS' WANTED: Eight more Singapore "Goldwyn Girls" to be hostesses at the "Guys and Dolls Dance" to be held at Raffles Hotel on June 29. At the dance, organised by th« X-ray Club, the nine hostesses are expected to wear swimming costumes, according to the organiser,
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    A tribute to Singapore jurors
    190 7 %MR. JUSTICE TAYLOR yesterday praised the work of Singapore Jurors. He was speaking at the Assize Court at which he was sitting for the last time before going on retirement. "I have found the jurors, during the many years that I have taken part in
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    Soak-the-rich plan to be considered by union
    225 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Tbe Federation Govs erament may be asked to 3 abolish all "indirect" Ux--3 es. Customs duties and s other levies on essential s commodities and Instead introduce progressive in- come and property taxes to raise revenue, s This proposal is
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    'I WANT THE LAND FOR THE WRETCHED'
    267 7 'I WANT THE LAND FOR THE WRETCHED r[E story of a woman's dedication to Singapore's most underprivileged and wretched citizens was told at the Master Plan inquiry yesterday. The land on which the "good Samaritan," Mrs. Ena o. Teh, wants to establish a rehabilitation centre has been included in one
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    That jewel hold-up
    87 7 —Man accused of cheating bid A MAN was charged in a Singapore court yesterday with attempting to cheat a towkay who was the victim of a recent $220,000 dlamonu robbery. Yeong Chee Kal was accused of making false representations to Mr. Tan Poh Chor In a house
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    Protection for padi farmers
    50 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A padl marketing board will be set up in the Federation next month, a spokesman of the Ministry of commerce and Industry said here today. The board will ensure that local pad! planters get a fair price for their padi sold to millers.
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    Denies gaming charge
    35 7 TELUK ANSON, Fri. Lee Kong Choon, 31, pleaded not guilty here to permitting his premises on Canal Road to be used as a common gaming house. Bail was allowed until July 16.
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    MAN DENIES $100 THEFT CHARGE
    65 7 MAN DENIES $100 THEFT CHARGE H. C. Marsh, a civilian employee at the REME Base Workshop, was charged in Singapore yesterday with taking part in a robbery. Marsh, who pleaded not guilty, was alleged to have been concerned with four others at Farrer Park on June 8 in robbing Mazenah
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    THE BANNED STUDENTS HOLD TALKS
    97 7 THE BANNED STUDENTS HOLD TALKS The students of four Singapore Chinese schools which have been banned from sending groups of more than five pupils on tour In the Federation, held a hush hush meeting yesterday no reporters or cameramen. The schools are Chung Cheng High School. Chinese High School, Chung
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    High tides
    63 7 TODAY: Singapore 11.46 am (Bft. 31n.) 10.48 p.m. Oil. 41n.i. Port Dlckaon 6.38 a.m. (7(t. ?ln.) 7 p.m. (Bft. 4ln.i; Penang 12 53 a.m. (6ft. 31n.) 12.48 p.m. (7ft. 71n.). TOMORROW: Singapore 12 18 a.m. (Bft. 3tn.) 11.35 p.m. (9ft. Sin.); Port Erlc-we 7.04 a.m. (7ft. 91n.) 7.33
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    BID BY LIM TO AVERT STRIKE
    211 7 BID BY LIM TO AVERT STRIKE THE Chief Minister of x Singapore, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, will meet representatives of the City Council Electrical Workers' Union today to try to avert a 24-hour "sit down hunger strike" by its 2,500 members on Monday. The workers -are asking for a new
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    The STRAITS TIMES Saturday forum
    28 8 HOME QUIET HOME NEWS ITEM: Licensed food and coffee stalls are entitled under the Singapore City Council by-laws to trade until 2 a.m.
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    PETALING JAYA IS NOT A GLORIFIED NEW VILLAGE
    841 8 PET A LING JAY A IS NOT A GLORIFIED NEW VILLAGE POM time to time, statements continue to be made that Petaling Jaya had been planned as something of a large New Village, but when the housing problems became apparent it was turned into a new town." The facts are
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    BANISH THESE THUGS
    255 8 TN view of the increased 1 activities of gangsters and secret societies, I wonder how far the Governments of the Federation and .Singapore have succeeded in eliminating this great menace. Why should not there be stricter laws for banishing these merciless thugs after capture? Why should not
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    One pipe for 120 houses
    485 8 "IT is distressing for the X residents of P.R. Estate and the adjoining Malay Farm .comprising approximately 120 houses to be without pipe water supply for two and a half years. Although we have been promised this by the City Council nothing has been done
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      145 8 YOU SEEK THEM HERE YOU SEEK THEM THERE SMEDLEYS PORKERS ARE EVERYWHERE! ISMEDLEtff T IRISH PORKY SAUSAGES are here again Wholesale Enquiries to: JA^^v^Vb^vAVA^^^v^J^^s^rVrt^vy^v^vyw^^r^vv^ I MAN'S BEST WEAR You get more comfort A longer Wear in COSMO SHIRTS White U.S.A. Sanforized Poplin Ail Sizes at $6.50 each I s S
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      224 8 GL^^BFJINisH costs less in the long run The true cost of a paint should be judged by the time it lasts. 'Dulux,' /S^^^S properly used, means cash in the bank for every year of its long life. because it goes further Because of its easy now,' Dulux' more yards per
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    Warrior sultan was disliked by subjects
    1616 9 Warrior sultan was disliked by subjects f^^SSXL quence left In Perak. As Raja Muda he was made Regent in the Sultan's absence. The British were not very confident about bringing forward Raja Yusuf in this way. But, says an official report, "it was necessary to have some head and to
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      210 9 Rex 3iargan 9 MM. Feeling better ■^M— aMSßSF^^^^ I no, it isnT neil^u.*/ 1 gosh-^ r»vcu-MWN6 iady J v-Ves, sir /'I J im-im mugw better, BUT NEIL'S FATHER *MO THATS I --WOWABE \OU "S BUT I PONT J WUN& LAPV VCS, I'tt J Mlss BMIKEB/MR. \\S\ letHEße, stSTER ARC H6BE
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    MALAYAN MINERS STILL KEEP UP A RECORD OUTPUT
    605 10 MALAYAN MINERS STILL KEEP UP A RECORD OUTPUT By Our Market Correspondent MALAYAN tin miners continued to maintain their post-war record in the first five months of this year by producing 26,085 tons of tin-in-concentrates. This was 3.8 per cent more than in the corresponding period last year and the
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    Rubber continues uncertain
    425 10 Rubber continues uncertain IX>R yet another week the ■T rubber market has seesawed sharply through a large range of prices with very little definite trend report Holiday, Cutler, Bath ft Co. Ltd. The rumours of last week have become the hackneyed saws of this and no new startling features worthy
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    Guthrie results
    56 10 Output* from the varleas i estate* and mines In the Guthrie I Group for the month of May and for 1956 todate are as fotlowt:— Robber 6.169.000 lb, (33.509.--000 lb): tea (black) 183.000 lb, (922.000 lb): palm oil 1.105 tons. (5,334 tons); palm kernels 325 tons. (1.563 tons);
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    179 10 Ships lying alongside th» Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today ire; President Coolldge 12, Taronga 4 5 Ozarda C.P., Benalder 6.7, President Madison 89, Olenartney 11 Singapore 13 14, Lycaon 15 16', Slamat 18, Mortain 19 20, Danau N. Wall 2, Hong Tat N. Wall 4, Olang
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    RURDER PRICES
    140 10 July first grade rubber bayers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at 86 cents per lb., up 1% cents on Thursday's closing price. The eloflinr, tone was erratic. Closing prices in cents per lb. yesterday were: No. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 86%, sellers 87%; No. 1 R.S.S. July
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    148 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange; noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra: quiet; July $27 H buyers, $27% sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $41 sellers, $43% sellers. Pepper: steady; no business reported done; Muntok white $96. Sarawak $95, soeclal Sarawak black $74 (all up $1). Singapore Copra Association 4
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      752 10 NOTICES JACKSON ft COMPANY SHERIFF'S SALE LIMITED IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE COLONY OF SINGAPORE (Incorporated in Singapore) ISLAND OF SINGAPORE NOTICE OF MEETING Jn i^e Cause Of NOnCE IS HEREBY GIVEN Salt No. 426 of 1956 that the eighteenth Ordinary Execution No. 133/56 General Meeting of the Company
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      531 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are invited from Federal Citlsens for the post of Assistant Instructor (Woodwork) Government Technl-Faetory in the Federal Education Department, Kuala Lumpur. Applicants age 20-30, should have completed a 3 year full time course in Woodwork and have had a minimum of 2 years practical experience hi their
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      351 10 TENDERS P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE Tenders will be received by the State Engineer, P.WJ). Selangor up to 3.00 p.m. on 2nd July, 1956 for the supply of various sizes of Asbestos Cement Pipes and Specials for the period 4.7.56 to 31.10.56. Full particulars are obtainable from the Office of Sr. Executive
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    471 12 SPORTSFRONT 'They play too little and train too little j— SENG QUEE A PART from Singa- pore's best 20 footballers, the remaining 900 odd playing in the various S.A.F.A. competitions don't get enough football. THIS WAS THE OPINION EXPRESSED IN SPORTSFRONT ON WEDNESDAY. Now comes support for this view from
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    ENGLAND 74 FOR 3 AFTER AUSSIES ARE OUT FOR 285
    1072 12 From JACK FINGLETON LORD'S Fri. WHEN Australia lost their last seven wickets for 105 runs to be ail out for 285 in their first innings today, second day of the second Test here, it looked as If they had lost
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    156 12 LONDON. Fri.: Middlesex and Warwickshire won their countycricket championship matches today. Results were: At Nottingham. Middlesex beat Nottingham by seven wickets. Nottingham 125 and 211. Middlesex 275 and 65 for three. At Horsham, Warwickshire beat Sussex by four wickets. Sussex 201 and 81 (Bannister four for 23).
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    Team-mates to clash in final
    89 12 LONDON. Prt. DRITISH Wightman Cup players Pat Ward and Angela Buxton will meet ln the women'; sinples final of the London lawn tennis championships, at the Queen's Club here tomorrow. Pat Ward beat the Australian Daphne Scene* 9-7, 4-6. 6-1 and Angela Buxton beat Darlene
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    Athletic beat Alexandra
    53 12 Chinese Athletic "A" beat Alexandra P.T. 3-0 ln a S.AJ.A. I Div. 2A match at Jalan Besax i yesterday. Police "A" beat Oymkhana 7-1 I ln a Div. 2B game at St George's Road. In another Div. 2B game played at the M.F.A. ground. Aston AC. beat
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      143 12 Sports diary SOCCER: Malaya Cop-tie Combined Services v Johore, Jalan Beaar. 5.15 p.m.; S.A.F.A. Leacue. Dlv. 2A— KoU Raja v Daral Aflah. Geylanf; Div. 2B Farrer Juniors v 8.0.D.C.A.. Jalan Beaar. 4 p.m. Div. 3A Arsenal v Bouna Vista, Farrer Park. CRICKET: Representative matches— S.C.A. XI v Combined Services. Setetar;
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    'Two major threats to amateur sports' -SAYS ROGER BANNISTER
    328 13 'Two major threats to amateur sports' -SAYS ROGER BANNISTER PROFESSIONALISM AND NATIONALISM MONTREAL, Fri. DOGER BANNISTER, of Britain, the world's first under four-minute miler, said here last night that "professionalism and nationalism pose the two major threats to amateur sports." "There's nothing wrong with professionalism in itself but It's different
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    Perlis hold Kedah with a late goal
    292 13 KANGAR. Friday. A GOAL scored four minutes from the end enabled Perils to force Kedah to a 3-3 draw in their Malaya Cup soccer match played before a record crowd of 2,000, which included the Raja of Perils and Raja Perempuan, here today.
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    385 13 R LARTON. who won the 220 o yards, 440 yards, 880 yards, long Jump and also helped Balmoral House to win the 4xllo yards senior relay for boy*, was the Individual champion at the R.A.P. Selelar Secondary School athletic championships on Thursday. In the senior
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    SIX WINS FOR PHILIP KONG
    58 13 Philip Kong won six events to become A division champion at the Pearl Bank Schools I and II athletic championships yesterday. Philip won 100 yards 220 yards, 80 metres hurdles, long Jump, high Jump and shot putt. Wong Kwok Wye waa nmaer-op. He took thai
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    30 13 RAF. Seletar beat BrA.F. Buirf terworth 3-1 In a Irlendly soccer match at SeJetvyesterday. Troeter, Candlln *aa MoDn— fa dfcnrtii for Seletar^aad T. Manser j for Butterpdrth.
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    176 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Ftl. IN preparation for their match against Singapore Combined School* on July 28. the Federation Combined Schools wIU meet Selaogor Chinese Recreation Club at the T.P.C.A. Stadium tomorrow. Tomorrow's Combined Schools team will have representatives from Perak, Selaofor, Johore and Negri.
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    133 13 DUBLIN, Prl. MY BABU, 11 -year-old stallion who won the 1948 New Market 2,000 Oulnaaa in the colours of the Maharajah of Baroda. has been sold to go to the United States for a price said to be over XJB $600,000. Mr Prank Mora OFarrell, chairman
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    1056 14 JEEP'S EACH-WAY DOUBLE FOR THE SOFT GOING TODAY FORGET ME NOT IF IT'S A LONGSHOT YOU'RE AFTER TAWAKAL (Race 1 Four) and Sea Belle (Race Seven) should make a sound eachway double at Kuala Lumpur today, first day of the Selangor Turf Club June Meetine.
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    364 14 DRILLIANT SCHO- LAR created a favourable impression in his first race in Malaya, at Bukit Timah last month, when he defeated a Div. 3 field over 6f. with 8.11 in 1 mm. 13 3 5. Up against better opposition in his next
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    87 14 OWE GOING at Kuala Lumpur up to last evening was still on the soft side. It will be yielding at best today. The following have been scratched from all engagements: Ten Dollars, Purple and White, Magic Eye, Pontican. Special Charm, Victoire, Roughnut and Gelfang Star. Rediffusion
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    251 14 WINTERDRINA won easily TT over the Kuala Lumpur 7f. with 8.10 In Dlv. 3in April. Taking the lead from the jumpoff, he had too much pace for his opposition and romped home a four-length winner. He has only to reproduce that running to
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    152 14 KOWLOON BUS XI START WITH 3-1 WIN I^OWLOON Motor Bus, 1V Sports Club, third in the Hong Kong F. A. League this year, opened their Singapore tour with a very workmanlike victory over Singapore Chinese at Jalan Besar stadium last night. Only in tne first half did Singapore encourage hopes
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    343 14 3-1 In the 55th minute and coasted on to a comfortable win. Singapore Chinese were all speed and bounce from the start and in three minutes Kowloon's goal had been raided twice. But Mun Pook was just off target with a low shot and Kirn Beng.
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    75 14 LONDON, Fri. rNY LOCK, England's twelfth man In the Second Test against Australia, has appendicitis. A specialist will decide today whether an operation is necessary. Lock was omitted from England's team when the I choice wa.s made from I nominated thirl day. Douglas In.solr. thi tain, has
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