The Straits Times, 2 July 1957

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    19 1 The Straits Times AVKRACE IIAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS 80,000 fie***** Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1957 15 CENTS
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    PEONS, EUROPEANS, MINISTERS, MAN-IN-THE-STREET MAKE FIRST RUMI EDITION OF STRAITS TIMES A BEST SELLER
    45 1 PEONS, EUROPEANS, MINISTERS, MAN -IN -THE -STREET MAKE FIRST RUMI EDITION OF STRAITS TIMES A BEST SELLER MALAY Mm relax on Finlayson Green, Singapore, yesterday -n I cnioy the first issue of the new rumi edition of the Straits Times. Berita Harian. Straits Times picture.
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    KUOMINTANG MCA PLOT
    381 1 'DIEHARDS' AIM TO TOPPLE ONG YOKE LIN IN SELANGOR Officials tell of 300 applicants whose aim was to overthrow leadership Attempt likely branch election V IALA Ll'MPl'R, L Mon.— Top Malaiii Chinese Association officials here today spoke of a "big plot" by Kuomintang party diehards and their
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    BABY IN DRAMA AT HOME OF MINISTER
    119 1 BABY IN DRAMA AT HOME OF MINISTER KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. An Australian N.C.O. broke into the house of the Minister for Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak, picked up the Minister's 20-month-old daughter and threatened to throw her to the ground if a policeman who had been summoned did not
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    China wants to trade—envoy
    32 1 China wants to trade envoy HONG KONG. Mon. Mr. Con O'Neill, for two years British charge d'affaires in Peking, said here today that China was anxious to increase her trade with Britain.
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    Mr. LIM GETS SET TO SETTLE STRIKES
    164 1 Chief Minister hopes to solve them all THE Singapore Chief Minister and Minister for Labour, Mr. Lint Yew Hock, is studying detailed reports on the Colony's industrial dis"When I have studied then: I will call meetings of the parties con- cerned with a
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    Friends offer a reward of $1,000 in the hunt for missing RAF officer
    148 1 Friends offer a reward of $1,000 in the hunt for missing RAF officer FKi'NDS of the missing R.A.F. officer. Kit -It. Horace William Crocker. 45, are offering $1,000 reward for information on his whereabouts. About 200 friends met at the officers' mess at R.A.F. Seletar, Singapore, yesterday, and decided to
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    Prison officers
    129 1 The Singapore Government Workers' Union, which yesterday called a strike of 400 customs revenue officers, has served the Government with a strike notice on behalf of 1.000 marine and prison officers. The Singapore Insurance Companies' Employees' Union is threatening a strike of its members employed at the United
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    'GHOST' FEAR FREES 50 VICE GIRLS
    127 1 JAKARTA, Monday. DOLICE here yesterday released 50 terrified pro--1 stitutes— because of a "ghost." The women were rounded up on Saturday night and were being held In a big ceil at police headquarters. Yesterday two fainted When they revived they identified themselves as th"double
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    Lock icon Eden's first wife dies
    56 1 LONDON, Mon.— Mrs. Beatrice Eden, former wife of Sir Anthony Eden, died in hospital yesterday after a long illness. She was 51. She and Sir Anthony had two sons, one of whom was killed flying with the R.A.F. in World War 11. Sir Anthony divorced her
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    Lock icon K visit back
    17 1 PRAGUE. Mon— A visit by Mr. Nikita Ihrushchev haboon postponed for a week. —Router.
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    They all say: Well done, and welcome to Berita Harian
    651 1 They all say: Well done, and welcome to Berita Harian t y|ALAYS in Malaya from Mm inters down lo clerks and syces Rave a glad welcome lo 'Berita Marian," the rumi edition i»f the Straits Times, when it was published yesterday Acclaimed as "a first class national Malay newspaper filling
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    Lock icon Whip acquitted
    34 1 LONDON. Mon. Theophilus Owalabi Shobowale Benson, 37, chief Government Whip of the Nigerian Parliament, was acquitted today of a charge of robbing a Nigerian woman to whom he had been engaged. U.P.
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    Customs strike 'bid to embarrass Government9
    266 1 Customs strike 'bid to embarrass Government' THE Singapore Government Workers' Union was last High accused of trying to embarrass the Government by calling 400 Customs officers out on strike. The union called the strike shortly after midnight yesterday The strikers are picketing the head office in Maxwell Fcoad, Singapore Airport
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    DOCTORS FAVOUR DON'T SMOKE CAMPAIGN IN MALAYA
    194 1 DOCTORS FAVOUR DON'T SMOKE CAMPAIGN IN MALAYA ♦"THE Alumni Associa- tion of Malaya in general is in favour of a propaganda campaign informing the public of the dangers of smoking. The president. Dr. Tay Teck Eng, told the Straits Times yesterday: "Should the Governments here embark on any campaign of
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    Robbers flee as police arrive
    108 1 I^OUR men armed with knives forced their way into a house in Hais Road, Singapore, at 3.30 p m. yesterday and took $1,200 in cash and jewellery. Alert neighbours, who saw the men ransacking the house and realised that something was amiss, dialled 999. A
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    Lock icon STOP PRESS
    33 1 AIRPORT VISIT LONDON. Mon.— Primr < h.ii and Prteces Anne writ- taken MKXpr< (cclly to l ondnii Airport tonight to wad li their Krandinother. tinIJiircn Mother, leave for Salisbury. Southern Whod<*Ma. Reuter.
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    Lock icon China protest
    39 1 PEKING. Mon.— China today protested to Britain for sending to Formosa a number of Chinese who took over a junk on June 12 after killing one of the crew and mailed it to Hong Kong waters. Reuter
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    Lock icon 18 men rescued
    26 1 TOKYO. Mn. Rescue worker^ today pulled 18 labourers out of a tunnel in which a cave-in had entombed them for 107 hours.— U.P
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    SUNSPOT CUTS RADIO LINK
    57 1 Radio communications between Singapore and the rest of the world were interrupted yesterday by an explosion on the sun two days earlier As a result, sun particles and radiation are creating magnetic storms high in the earth's atmosphere. News agencies in Singapore were affected. Cable and
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    THAT BIG DIG WAS A HUNT FOR TREASURE — official
    173 2 THAT BIG DIG WAS A HUNT FOR TREASURE official IPOH. Mon.— A Perak Government spokesman confirmed today that the mystery excavations in the Bagan Datoh area. 28 miles from Teluk Anson. wore for buried treasure. This is the first official confirmation of the treasure hunt since the excavations were called
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    Asian students9 tribute to late president
    113 2 Asian students' tribute to late president MELBOURNE, Mon. About 100 Asians and Australians met here to pay a final tribute to the late Mr. Fong Tiew Chin, a past president of the Malayan Students' Association of Victoria. Mr. Fong, who died In Penang on June 20, graduated in 1955 from
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    M-festival for Malays only
    42 2 BUTTERWORTH. Mon. The Bagan Dalam UMNO branch executive committee will meet on Friday to dincus s plans for merdeka celebrations. The secretary. Inche Majid bin Hussein, said today the branch wanted to have separate celebrations for J Malays.
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    'Muslim food only' request for Merdeka functions
    109 2 'Muslim food only' request for Merdeka functions KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Food or drink prohibited by Muslims should not be served to Muslim guests at functions during the Merdeka celebrations. All servers should be men. This decision was made at a meeting of the Kuala Lumpur district committee of the Selangor
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    Two big bars to Paramount Ruler
    233 2 CONSORT MUST BE MALAY —BUT SHE MUST NOT BE A COMMONER KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. J^HE biggest bar to a Ruler becoming Paramount Ruler of Malaya will be a consort who is a commoner, the Straits Times was told today. The bar will be an
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    Swearing-in: 'An oath before God'
    106 2 Swearing-in: 'An oath before God' KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Paramount Kuler will read an oath from a scroll when he is sworn in on merdeka day. "God will be watching i him," said the Keeper of the Rulers' Seal, Tuan Mustapha Albakri. He will be swearing before God" A Koran
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    DANCERS VISIT HOSPITAL TO CHEER PATIENTS
    45 2 MEMBERS of the Katherine Dunham dance troupe entertaining men at the surgical ward of the British Military Hospital Singapore, yesterday. With Miss Dunham, they visited the hospital to "cheer the men up," as the well-known American dancer told reporters.
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    QUEEN'S PILOT BRINGS IN THE BRITANNIA
    179 2 QUEEN'S PILOT BRINGS IN THE BRITANNIA KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. 4 BOAC Bristol Britannia airliner arrived here A today on its way back to Britain after a Far East proving flight. Its pilot, Captain F. Taylor, a World War II bomber pilot, flew the Queen on her Commonwealth tour in 1955.
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    25 patrols for jubilee
    47 2 Twenty-five patrols of scouts will attend the jamboree on Aug. 16 to commemorate the golden Jubliee of scouting at JurongPark Camp in Boon Lay Road, Singapore Many other scout groups wanted to take part but, Jurong Park can accommodate 1 only 25 patrols.
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    LEADER SEES TODDLERS
    26 2 THE PARTY also visited the children's ward and hen Miss Dunham chats as best she can with four young toddlers. Straits Times pictures.
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    CROC SHOT IN SEA AT PENANG
    142 2 Bathers scramble from water at resort pFNANG. Mon. Bathers near the Penanr Chinese Swimming Club at Tanjong Bungah scrambled to the beach when they saw a crocodile in the sea yesterday afternoon. It was the first time in many years that a crocodile had
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    Family row referred to temples
    86 2 BUTTERWORTH, Mon. The province magistrate. Inche Hassan bin Hussein, today advised a Sikh watchman, his wife and father-in-law to patch up their differences. Telok Singh was suing his father-in-law, Tara Singh for the return of a loan of $500 and his wife. Perkershah Kaur. for
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    Penang trade down $12 m.
    42 2 PENANG. Mon. Penang's total trade in the first quarter of this year was $361 million— sl2 million less than in the same period last year The settlement's share of the total Federation trade was 56.1 per cent.
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    THEIR PICNIC OUTING LET IN BURGLARS
    47 2 THEIR PICNIC OUTING LET IN BURGLARS PENANO. Mon. Burglars entered a Pulau Tikus house yo.sterday while the occupants were on a picnic. Ooi Tat Pow reported to the police that he found his home ransacked when be returned last night. Jewellery and money totalling $1,280 were missing.
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    Rape charge
    29 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Loew Lim Klan, 21. was offered $500 bail in the magistrate's court here today after being charged with committing rape at Bam Foo village.
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    New chairman
    24 2 The southern division of the Malayan Pharmaceutical i Association elected Mr. Hooi i Cheng Loon chairman at its annual meeting in Singapore
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    Scouts' leader
    17 2 Mr Lee Chee Shan has been elected the president of the Singapore Boy Scouts' Association.
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    No fence-sitters here
    78 2 MALACCA. Mon. Mr. S. V. Raman, who was re-elect-ed chairman of the Malacca branch of the All-Mala-yan Estate Staff Union at the annual meeting yesterday, said that the trade union movement had no place for fence-sittera. They might be allowed at a soccer match, but not in
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    Suicide bid
    36 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. V Manlam, who attempted to commit suicide by drinking insecticide was bound over in the magistrate's court here to be or good behaviour for six months In the sum of $100.
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    HOTELS TOO, JOIN ANTI-TB PLAN
    100 2 4 FEW leading hotels have joined the Singapore r Anti-Tuberrulosis Association insurance scheme, which was started to help to combat the Colony's i No. 1 killer. A spokesman for the association said yesterday that all food handlers at thesp hotels would be examined every mx
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    Student aid body
    50 2 MELBOURNE, Mon.—Students from Borneo, Brunei and Sarawak studying in the State of Victoria, Australia, recently formed an association of their own. Called the Borneo Students' Association of Victoria, it will look after the welfare of those from the three territories and promote better relations with Australian students.
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    GUILDS MAN: WE GOT A PLEDGE in LONDON
    223 2 GUILDS MAN: WE GOT A PLEDGE in LONDON \IALACCA, Mon.— Tht proposals of the three-man Chinese guilds and associations 1 delegation to London will, if possible, be incorporated in the con stitution of independent I Malaya. I The claim that the Colo- nial Secretary, Mr. Alan Len- nox Boyd. had
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    School principal retires
    33 2 TAIPING. Mon. Mr Bromley, principal ol Kins Edward VII s hit at tn. weekend for Britain on retirement ftfi years' service in the country Mr Yeoh Teng Khoo acting principal.
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    Recruit drive
    34 2 BUTTERWORTH. Mon. Potential recruits for RAF i Malaya i will be Intel I *t the M.A.A.F hoadnv i Avenue, Penang be- tween 9 am. and 2 p.m. on July 9 and 10.
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    Lock icon HURRICANE—AND NOW COME LOOTERS
    344 3 HURRICANE— AND NOW COME LOOTERS Disease fear spreads in 'battlefield' of ravaged Louisiana NEW YORK, Monday. the known death roll in last week's hurricane was still rising state officials moved to stamp out a wave of looting which has hit the storm ravaged centre of Louisiana. Unofficial estimates of the
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      Lock icon Election gives Lebanon pro-Western government
      180 3 1JEIRUT. Mon.—Pro- Western candidates won 53 seats in the &6member Lebanese Chamber of Deputies in the just-concluded ral Election. Continued Lebanes P support of the Eisenhower doctrine seems assured but many pro-Western members oppose the present Government's domestic policies. Among the Deputies reelected was the
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      Demolition job for the atom bomb
      34 3 WASHINGTON, Mem Workmen spent 12 hours and 200 sticks of dynamite yesterday but failed to demolish an eight-storey concrete building here. They will try again today. A. P.
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      Lock icon Nehru-Mac talks
      21 3 LONDON. Mon. The Ind.;in Prime Minister. Mr. Nehru, called on Mr. Harold Macmlllan. the British Prime Minister, today.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon HEIRESS DEAD: FATHER HELD
    135 3 HEIRESS DEAD: FATHER HELD SAN FRANCISCO, Mon. An unemployed man, quoted by a policeman as saying "there goes a million bucks'' when his 12-year-old heiress daughter was carried dead from their home was held today in a manslaughter investigation. Officers said Robert O. Blakely. 40, told them he gave his
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    Lock icon Japan: No credit for Indonesia
    53 3 TOKYO, Mon. The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry announced today that, effee tive immediately, export.* to Indonesia will be -Co'uieted to cash payments. The measure was taken to halt further accumulation of Indonesian debts to Japan. Indonesia now owes Japan $510 million for
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    184 3 EGYPT WOULD GET HALF REVENUE CAIRO, Monday. "PHE Egyptian Government today disclosed details A of the $110 million oil pipeline that Greek millionaire shipowner Aristotle Onassis is to build along the Suez Canal. The Egyptian conditions: The company would hold a 12-year concession on th:pipeline
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    Lock icon Navy denies leakage of secrets
    123 3 Navy denies leakage of secrets LONDON. Mon. The Admiralty denied today a newspaper report that there had been a leakage of highly-secret information about nuclearpowered naval craft at Admiralty headquarters in Bath, Western England. A national newspaper on its front page today had as. serted that the British Secret Service
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    Lock icon IT'S AN OLD JAPANESE CUSTOM
    39 3 HARD work pushing a heavy shrine out to sea and then back to shore, but these 30 young Japanese seem to enjoy it. The occasion the annual shrine festival in Tokyo Bay. A.P. picture
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    Lock icon Food poisoning hits village
    38 3 VENICE, Mon. One hundred and thirty people almost half the population of the village of Losson near here have been taken to hospital with suspected food poisoning. Bread baked locally is being examined. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Dance visit
    26 3 TOKYO. Mon.— The Shochiku music and dance group will leave for Manila on Dec. 20 then continue to Hong Kong. Bangkok and Singapore.— A.P.
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    Lock icon Crane kills 5
    31 3 TOKYO. Mon.— Five workers were killed and 11 seriously injured when a 180-foot crane they were working on collapsed at the Kawasaki steel plant in Chiba today. A.P.
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    Lock icon THE MARCH OF SCIENCE, BY THE TV PRINCE
    272 3 Huge world-wide research project gets under way T OXDON, Mon.— Prince lj Philip took millions of British television viewers to the frontiers of the unknown last night in a programme to mark the International ueophysical Year. Durin- the 7f, -minute BBC Bhow
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    Lock icon Big future for U.S. women
    51 3 WASHINGTON, Sun.— The United States Government has acknowledged that women's bosoms are biggt-r than had been supposed. The average U.S. woman was from one to three inches bigger in the bosom than standard dress patterns, according to the home economics section of the Agriculture Department.
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    Lock icon Kishi returns
    45 3 TOKYO, Mon. The Prime Minister, Mr. Nobusuke Kishi, returned to Japan from the U.S. today confident he had accomplished a great deal in his talks with President Eisenhower and received a tremendous welcome from 10,000 countrymen at th' j Tokyo International airport. U.P.
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    Lock icon Church as club
    32 3 NEW YORK. Mon.— Evangelist Billy Graham said last night that while 100.000.000 Americans were identified with religion, "they go lo church as they would to a social club."— U.P.
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    318 3 LONDON STOCKS, RUBBER and TIN LONDON. Mon. Closing middle prices of selected storks not including; stamp duty were: LOANS Consols 50U Funding 4'; £87 7^16 War 3-,. 68s —1/16 BANKS Merc. (£s— 2'v pu> £5 7 16 1/16 Baa Urn <£5> £8'» Chartered <£ 1 37/1 '-j Hongkong (s'.2s> 94
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    Lock icon Saud's promise
    40 3 DAMASCUS. Sun— Syria's Charge d'Affaires in Saudi Arabia, Mowaffak Allaf, said today that King Saud had told him that he would not accept President Eisenhower's Middle East doctrine and would not join any other foreign military pact— A.P.
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    Lock icon Bonn approves
    26 3 DORTMUND. Mon.- Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer yes terday announced West Ger many's approval for American disarmament proposal.. Including "open skies" inspection over Germany. —UP
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    Lock icon The odd box
    42 3 CAPETOWN. Mon. A 78 year old worn a n. driven from Russia in 1887. and who arrived in ScMJth Africa penniless, signed her will with a cross because she could neither read nor write. She left C 43.342 Reuter.
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    Lock icon Girard: Japs will not waive rights
    306 3 Girard: Japs will not waive rights WASHINGTON, Mon.— Mr. K. Asakai, Japan's Ambassador here, declared last night that his government would be "extremely embarrassed" if the United States Supreme Court decided that Army Specialist William Girard could not be tried by a Japanese court. Girard faces manslaughter charges after the
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    Lessons may be cut but ALL schools will stay open
    295 4 Lessons may be cut but ALL schools will stay open I MINISTER HAS SECRET PLAN FOR USE 1 IF TEACHERS DO GO ON STRIKE CCHOOL lesson periods would probably be shortened in the event of a strike by the Singapore Teachers' Union. But, said the Minister for Education, Mr. Chew
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    A PARTY FIGHT, SO THE GIANT STILL LIVES
    147 4 MR. C. H. KOH, the would-be "giant killer" who was defeated in the Tanjong Pagar by-election yesterday, blamed the Liberal Socialist Party's interference for his failure to make good his boast. He said: "During my campaign, the Liberal Socialists introduced a party
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    Pen thief jailed
    63 4 An unemployed youth ries cribed as a "professional picttpockef was sentenced v three months' imprisonment to be followed by two years' police suDervision .n Singapore yesterday. Cheong Sow Koon, 22. wa.-. I convicted or a charge of attempted iheft by picking a fountain pen from the pocket
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    IN—MISTER TROUBLE SHOOTER'
    108 4 IN— MISTER TROUBLE SHOOTER' MR SAMUEL JONES, an American film executive, who flew into Singapore from Jakarta by KLM yesterday, is a "trouble shooter." Whenever L'nited ArtLsts Corporation has trouble in any country, be is sent there to smooth things out. 'But this time things are different. I left New
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    Hospital to hold own M-party
    49 4 Hospital to hold own M-party JOHORE BAHRTJ. Mon. Asssistants at Tampol mental hospital are to hold their own meideka celebrations. They will be planned by live subcommittees. Each assistant will give $30. The tentative programme includes sports, a tea party, a baby show, joget and a free cinema show.
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    BORSTAL NOW FOR STRAYING YOUTH
    138 4 BORSTAL NOW FOR STRAYING YOUTH A BORSTAL institution for reforming young offenders between the ages of 16 and 21 started functioning in Singapore yesterday. Courts at the same time were given power to sentence young offenders to "reformative training." The Institution, to be run on lines similar to those of
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    School opening
    35 4 The Singapore Education Minister. Mr. Chew Swee Kee, will open the new primary school of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus at 9>/ 2 miles. Bukit Timah Road, today at 4.30 p.m.
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    'HAMMER ASSAULT RETRIAL OPENS
    268 4 'HAMMER ASSAULT' RETRIAL OPENS THE retrial of Leo Ah Wee, a ship's chief engine driver, on a charge of causing grievous hurt with a hammer to Chan Kirn Van. a marine superintendent, opened before the Singapore Fourth Criminal District Court yesterday. The Crown had successfully i appealed against the acquittal
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    Music concert
    36 4 The Musica Viva players of the Singapore Musical Society will be presenting a concert of music by Mozart. Beethoven and Mendelssohn at the Cultural Centre, Can ning Rise, on July 14 at 8.45 p.m
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    The editors Srinivasan visit Colony
    180 4 FIVE Indian journalists on their way home after a visit to Hong Kong w<|e expected to arrive in Singapore yesterday, but only two of them turned up. The other three flew direct to India by another route. The two who dropped in arc Mr. C.
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    A surplus of amahs at lower wages
    209 4 POST-MERDEKA OUTLOOK IPOH, Monday. A SURPLUS of amahs is expected to be available in the period after merdeka— and at lower wages This Is because of the growing exodus of European families from here. both army and civilian f It will result in
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    POLICE IDENTIFY GANG WAR VICTIM
    88 4 POLICE IDENTIFY GANG WAR VICTIM SINGAPORE police have established the identit> of a man slain in secret society gang clash in lin doo Road on Sunday He was Ne Mianc Tiak »l Enggor Street No further details were available Meanwhile, a second irresi was annouiK'fd vesterda> in connection with 'hi
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    Girl accused of necklace fraud
    47 4 Sophia binte Thahir pleaded not guilty In Singapore yesterday to criminal breach of trust of a gold necklace valued at $70 at Middle Road on June 14. She was allowed $500 bail and the case was postponed for hearing on Sept. 6.
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    Hari Raya Haji prayers
    37 4 Hari Raya Haji prayers PENANG. Mon.— Hari Raya Haji prayers will be said on Dato Kiamat Padang next Monday at 7.30 a.m. This has been decided by the Panitia Sembhayang Id (committee for Hari Raya Hajl prayers)
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    WIFE in TRISHA CHASES THUGS
    369 5 Gunman (six bullets in revolver) caught near Chief Minister's home Fake census workers rob woman of $1,100 A MAN armed with a rvvol v c r was auuht iear the home Singapore's Chief Mini>t<r, Mr. Lim Viw I'ock, yesterday. Police said he was one of
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    Former state footballer jailel after killing
    140 5 AI.OK STAB, >tN. A rnier Kedah tale footballer, s. chliah, was harfei in thessize court cr e today wit murdering I brother in law. S. Krishnan The charge i?ater amend--1 i<> rulprle homicide imounti; to murder. belllata p&ded guilty :i 'ul was jled for
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    Customs strike: Revenue officers picketing in Colon
    79 5 REVENUE OFFICERS of the Singapore Customs Department picketing outside Clifford Pier yesterday. The Singapore Government Workers' Union called out 400 revenue officers in a lightning strike from early yesterday over the Gov- ernment's delay in reopenine wage talks with the union. The Comptroller
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    COLONY QUEUES IN CHAOS
    257 5 Rush for letters and licences yHERE was chaos and frayed tempers in front of A the counters at two official departments yesterday—the Vehicles Office in Middle Road and the General Post Office in Collyer Quay. CHAOS NO. 1 was caused i by hundreds of form-waving car
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    They all left it to the last minute
    170 5 They all left it to the last minute box numbers when asked to do so by the addressees. Result: Mobs of office boys and clerks jamming the counter waiting for registered packets. Said an apologetic postal official: "The flrst day didn't go as smoothly as we had hoped, but there
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    MODELLING IS NOT ALL GLAMOUR
    265 5 „.but it has given 'Queen 9 Angela a chance in films Mc.iDKpNG is not all iur, says Cotton .icla Smith, 19, 1 into Singapore lon on Sunday. ♦ulerful to be on I tour," she said, iriow that for a fir I shall not I iunt
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    FOOD STALLS? 'KEEP THEM AWAY, WE DON'T WANT GANGS HERE'
    147 5 FOOD STALLS? 'KEEP THEM AWAY, WE DON'T WANT GANGS HERE' RESIDENTS of Buffalo Road. Singapore, fear an invasion of gangsters in their 'peaceful road" If food-stalls are allowed to I be set up there. :To prevent this, they sent a petition to the City Council yesterday protesting "most vehemently" against
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    Big UMNO post for Jumat
    43 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haj' Jumat. Singapore Minister for Local Government. Lands and Housing, was yesterday elected one of the three vicepresidents at the UMNO general assmbly here. He ;s president of Singapore UMNO. I
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    Dato Nik here
    36 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Malayan Commissioner in Australia and High Commissioner designate to London. Dato Nik Ahmed Kamil. arrived here this morning from Australia. He is here for discussions about his new post.
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    Katchen coming
    26 5 The world famous pianist, Mr. Julius Katchen, will be returning to Singapore to give a concert with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra on July 18.
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    Two injured in road smash
    56 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A motor cyclist and his pillion rider were critically in jured when they were involved in a head-on collision with a PWD lorry in Birch Road here last night. The right legs of both men. Ohong Kai. 32. and Foil Sang. 21.
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    STATE CRICKETER IS GRANTED DECREE
    128 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. IN the High Court today Mr. Justice Smith granted a decree nisi to L. P. S Rajasooria, a former Johore state "cricketer, who had sued his wit?, Queenie Lucia Keil, for divorce on the ground of 1 desertion. Rajasooria, a police clerk
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    2 charged with trespass
    34 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— Soh Lip Meng and Low Khong Choo were charged In the magistrate's court here today with house trespass with intent to use criminal force on Soo Sin.
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    'Must ban alien union leaders'
    179 5 'ITS VERY IMPORTANT, says TENGKU KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THE Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, will soon begin talks with government officials about banning non-Federal citizens from holding office in trade unions. The Tengku is expected to consult officials of the Labour Department and the Trade
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    Malay Bn. first Federation unit to bag 200 terrorists
    102 5 Malay Bn. first Federation unit to bag 200 terrorists KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The 2nd. Bn., Malay Regt., is the first Federation Army Unit to pass the double century in terrorist eliminations. Its score is 204 145 killed and 59 captured. The 145 th kill was made last week when a
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    New school for Malays
    37 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon A new Malay school was opened at Gelang Patah yesterday by Inche Ibrahim bin Abdul Majid. District Officer, Johore Bahru. Johore Government contributed $6,000 towards the cost of the building.
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    Volunteers meet
    23 5 The Voluntary Workers' Association, Singapore, will hold a meeting of its general committee at 52 Kampong Java Road at 7 p.m.
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    New mosque
    27 5 KUALA LUMPUR .Mon. The Federation Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, will lay the foundation stone of a $200,000 mosque at Kampong Bahru, on July 12.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    45 6 »ord. SIO (minimum, THE FAMILY of the late Mr Wit Khenn Watt thank Friends and Relatives for their Assistance Wieatfas, Scrolls, Night Visits. Loan ot Cars, Telegrams. Attendance a: the Funeral aud Donations to SATA, Singapore Association lot the Blind and Singapore Btiuc.id.st Assn.
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    Disunited Front
    314 6 Four Federation political parties the Labour Party of Malaya, the People's Progressive Party, Party Ra'ayat and the Socialist Youth League of Malaya are to form a united socialist front in opposition to the Alliance. The lack of an opposition can only lead to flabbiness and complacency in Government,
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    No Realism
    163 6 Delegates at the annual conference of the Malayan Trade Union Congress who urged a realistic and commonsense approach to the Communist problem showed no sign of either in their speeches. There was talk of "monstrous loss of revenue" involved in fighting the Communists, of the Emergency as a
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    Sfa Straits Simrs Singapore, Tues. July 2, 1957. The Itch To Strike
    667 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. July 2, 1957. The Itch To Strike Four hundred revenue officers in the Customs sers i vice in Singapore have struck, two and a half i thousand school teachers have decided to strike. Harbour Board labour is working at half pace, Telephone Board workers are
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    20 million birds waitingtojeed Singapore
    1041 6 20 million birds waiting to feed Singapore Droduce 400 million eggs a year. In terms of tonnage and value. these amount to 30.000 tons or about $127 million a year. The reason for this astonishing development is three-fold: 1) the necessity of obtaining employment: 2) the high quality of the
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    WAY OF ALL FLESH
    46 6  -  Anthony Oei by UNTIL QUITE RECENTLY THE BULK OF MEAT EATEN IN SINGAPORE WAS IMPORTED TODAY HOWEVER SINGAPORE IS SELF-SUFFICIENT AS REGARDS PORK AND POULTRY. LAST YEAR THE COLONY CONSUMED 539. 000 LOCAL PIGS. 15 MILLION LOCAL POULTRY AND 400 MILLION EGGS.
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      173 6 Efficiency and economy are wanting in the adult education section SINGAPORE'S Education Minister talks about economy when commenting on the Normal Trained Teachers' claim for emplacement in the Unified Education Service Scheme, but does he sincerely believe that his Ministry is implementing the education programme in the most economical manner?
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      Ships delayed, so relief urged
      43 6 SHIPPING schedules to South Indian ports and vice versa are cancelled for two months because of influenza. This will harass those people whose visas expire durlnpr this period. Will Immigration Authorities provide any relief? N. JAFFAR ALAUDEEN. Singapore.
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      \o regard for the public
      39 6 No regard for the public IHAVE been distressed at the manner in which the conductors and drivers of public transport vehicles carry out their duty. They have not the slightest regard tor the public they serve A. A. Singapore
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      I'oliry problem or lest rase?
      110 6 Policy problem or lest rase? MY HUSBAND is a junior technician in the P.W.D. and passed his first departmental technicians' exam, in 1955. It is the practice in other technical services to promote such successful candidates automatically, into the technicians" scheme. In my husband's case, it is different. He has
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      Itoad sign is not visible
      37 6 MOST people do not know where Bukit Purmei Road is. I think the sign board should be placed at the entrance to this road rather than inside. CHARLIE TAN GEH POH. Singapore.
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      UNRELATED HA 11 N AXD CITY COUNCIL DELAYS
      364 6 UNRELATED RATES AND CITY COUNCIL DELAYS I AM a sub-tenant in a house where the chief tenant charges for water rates quite unrelated to the bills for consumption of water. Recently, although the water money was collected, the City Council bill was not paid with th P result that the
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    1 a.m. DRAMA IN MINISTER'S HOME
    764 7 'Soldier threatened to dash 20-month baby to ground' AUSTRALIAN N.C.O. PLEADS NOT GUILTY KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. AN Australian N.C.O. broke into the house of the Minister Agriculture. Inche Abdul A/i/. bin Ishak, picked up the Minister's 20-month-old baby ncl threatened to throw her thr
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    HELLO-GIRL, 22. SINGS 'DON'T, DON'T TO WIN CONTEST FINALS
    131 7 HELLO-GIRL, 22. SINGS 'DON'T, DON'T TO WIN CONTEST FINALS PENANG, Mon.— A Butter worth telephone operator. 22-year-old Che Ramnah Dali (above), won the finals of the North Ma laya Malay singing contest in the New World Park last night. She sang "Jangan-lah. jangan". ("Don't, don't"). Runners-np were Che Zaharah Ibrahim,
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    Servant says he was punched when he tried to stop Nevin
    426 7 Servant says he was punched when he tried to stop Nevin Dr. Cocheme asked the court president. Mr. G. C. Byrnes, if he might speak. He was allowed to do so. Dr. Cocheme said he had given evidence in six murder trials in Malaya at which he was allowed to
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    60 seek to join the Singapore Regiment
    75 7 DECRLITING for the Ist IV Bn. Singapore Infantry Regiment, re-opened yesterday at the Malayan Recruiting Centre Waterloo Street. There were about 60 applicants. Of these eight Chinese and three Malays Passed the Initial intelligence test. Recruiting will go on till August next year,
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    White paper approved
    35 7 KUALA LUMPUR Mon The working committee of the Malayan Indian Congress met for two hours last ni^ht and approved the Federation Government's white paper on th» new constitution for an Independent Malaya
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    Returns after Oxford course
    33 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Inche Zainal Abidin bin Endot, the former State Election Officer Negri Sembilan, arrived In Kuala Lumpur today after completing a course on overseas services at Oxford.
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    COD parcel ban
    34 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Postmaster General Malaya, Mr. E.E. cassell announced tonight that the acceptance of cash-on-deli-very parcels addressed to India had been temporarily suspended from today. No reason was given.
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    OFF THE FENCE, SAYS PAPER
    184 7 Mend your ways* warns MCA KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. pENCE-SITTERS and "those whose intentions are r questionable" will have to mend their ways before merdeka, says the Malayan Mirror. Thr Mirror is the official r publication of the Malayan Chinese Association "No loyal Malayan will brook
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    Radio merdeka call urged
    46 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The UMNO general assembly, whtcfa ended last night, approved a resolution urging the Government to allow the merdeka slogan to be used at the opening and closing of Radio Malaya transmissions. The resolution was moved by the Kelantan division.
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    Go-slow harbour men are put in 'cold storage'
    202 7 Go-slow harbour men are put in 'cold storage' J'HK Singapore Harbour Board put 12 members of the Harbour Board Staff Association in "cold storage" yesterday in ils second move to break the go-slow called by I lie association last 1 Wednesday. The board has also suspended 72 fork-lift truck drivers
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    On world tour
    38 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Mr. Pj.ul Anspach. secretary of the foreign missions of the Lutheran Church, arrived here today from Singapore in thp course of a world tour He will stay two weeks in the Federation.
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    Midnight rally
    28 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Alliance's midnight rally at the Selangor Club padans to usher in merdeka will be attended by 600 Malay, Chinese and Indian youths.
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    YOUNG LAWYER SERVES STATE
    1124 8 Feminine Forum YOUNG LAWYER SERVES STATE MALAYAN CAREER GIRL THE old theory that beauty and brains are unlikely to go together Is surely due to be exploded, and one reason I think so is that I have Just met Miss Gunn Chit Wha, young Kuala Lumpur lawyer, and daughter of
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      316 8 Straits Times Crossword 1 2 i I 5 6 T~ J 8 llr lliiiliililll"! i ill llj IH_ I_j rs b tip i__i ii-i ill i i '8 I|| 20 2' 2-2 |H 25 24 25 26 ~W 28 v m* sssi fc^ ACROSS 10 Italian comedy at Its lowest?
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    53,000 died when Hitler launched V-Weapons
    1426 9 STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE 53,000 died when Hitler launched V-Weapons The buzz bomb and the rocket warfare with seriously delaying the programme, though they could not stop it completely. V l\s which did get into the air took a very heavy toll of life and property in Southern England. British
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      7 9 By arrangement with the Sydney Daily Mirror.
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      145 9 Miox Morgan 3M.D. As she sees fit ]MWW^|FB»M ■yewv X I fv, ■■l, i c-" r "rn"T^PJ?^B| t P' ll r cau. my daughter anp V Ptf Asr, mr.i ock— I™.- Sfcu^j- ufea^lSEE 115 WMSRE I CAME IN T.'-V'T^.^- TELL HER TO KICK THAT 1 VU. CALL YOUR V V^ir
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    SHARE MARKET IS QUIET BUT VALUES REMAIN STEADY
    780 10 SHARE MARKET IS QUIET BUT VALUES REMAIN STEADY By Our Market Correspondent QUIET conditions prevailed on the Singapore Share and Rubber Markets yesterday with no leads from overseas markets, banks shut for the Bank Holiday and labour unrest affecting interest in Singapore. Fluctuations on the share market were minor with
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    Capital invested overseas
    237 10 Capital invested overseas BRITAIN, the United States and West Germany all stepped up their overseas capital Investment last year, when the world outflow "attained the highest level of the post-war period," according to a United Nations report published in New York. The document, to be considered by the Economic and
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    RUBBER PRICES
    148 10 July first (rade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore on Monday at 92 cents per Ib. up oneeighth of a cent on Friday's close The closing tone was idle. Closing prices in cents per lb. yesterday were:OFFICIAL: Int. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers Ul sellers 92<i; Int. 1
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    OTEC TALKS
    88 10 j Oriental Telephone and Electric I Company announces that since the adjourned meeting of May 23 talks have been proceeding with Henry Ansbacher and Co Revised proposals submitted by Ansbacher are under examination, but the Board considers It will be necessary to mo\e a further adjournment. Proposals from
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    112 10 I Singapore Chinesr Produce Ezi change: noon prices per picul yesterday were:Copra: quiet; July August $24 buyers. $25* t sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $40 sellers, drum $44 i sellers. Pepper: quiet; no business reported done Muntok white $112 Sarawak $111. special j Sarawak black $75 tall unchanged)
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    STORE SHIPPING
    98 10 Ships lying alongside tin- SinraI pore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Asia 12. Calchas 4 5. Mandama 6A, Sunda 6 7, Benreoch 8 9, State of TravancoreCochin 11. Wlllem Ruys 13 14, Stentor 15 16, Japara 18, ScramDang n. Wall 8. Frederick Clover 21 22, Kajang
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    OIL MILL IS PRODUCING
    69 10 The Morib oil mill, towards the cost of which Golden Hope Rubber Estate Ltd. contributed £150.000 and New Crocodile River (Selangor) Rubber Co. £50,000. has gone Into production. Sir Eric Macfadyen chairman of New Crocodile says reports on th e mill are wholly satisfactory and as
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    110 10 MELBOL I; INVESTMENTS were 1 although mow narrow on the Exchange today. M were a rise of Is. 3d a fall of Is fid bacco. Trading rol ter. In minings Uttli displayed in a market. The main I rise of 4s. in No: 1 Loans held steady. Loans
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    OFFICIAL PRICE;
    24 10 OFFICIAL PRICES SINGAPORE. j| n RUBBER: 92 CentVj, lb. (up ont-eiuhth M a cent). TIN: $380 p^r pi (up 12i cents) v COPRA: Unquoted.
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      860 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS VACANCIES IN VARIOUS GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, SINGAPORE. (1) AsitaUnt Inspector Of Dangerous Materials. Department of Chemistry, Singapore. SaliUT scale: $360 20A «00/445 20A 525 25A 600/625 25A 800 p.m. with total emoluments for Single officer $488 pm. with annual increments to $950 pm^ Married officer $468 p.m. with annual
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      594 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are Invited for the appointment of Architects In the Public Works Department. Appointments will be on probation in the first Instance with prospects of emplacement on the pensionable establishment after three years service- The salary will be within the scale $592; $628x34-934/982x34-$1,254. In addition a variable cost
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      436 10 NOTICES WILLIAM JACKS COMPANY (MALAYA), LIMITED (Incorporated In Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY QIVKN that an Interim Dividend of 6%% (leas 30% Income Tax> has been declared in respect of the Financial Year ending 30th September 1957. payable on the 22nd July 1957, to stockholders on the R«rl*NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN
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      301 10 SHIPPING NOTICES LLOYD TRIESTINO M.V. "ASIA" This vessel will sail for Europe Irom S H.B. Godowns Nos: 1 2| Gate No. 8 at 11 am. today, i Tuesday. Passengers should embarlc between 9 am. and io a.m. HARPER, GUI II LAN ft CO. LTD. Aa Agent* ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD ■.v.
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    JAP LINE LINKS MALAYA, AFRICA
    146 12 Commercial News and Views Complied rpHE re-routing of a Japanese shipping line service from Japan to West Africa via Hong Kong and Singapore will give Malayan importers and exporters a new service to African countries. The Japanese hipping line, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. of Kobe,
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    Tin Research Council is 25 years old
    109 12 Tin Research Council is 25 years old THE International Tin Re- search Council, which is jointly financed by tin pro- 1 ducers in Malaya and five other countries, will celebrate j its 25th anniversary on July 10. The council '.<= headquarters and laboratories in Greenford. near London, will be opened
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    Tin prospecting
    36 12 The Maranboy Tinflelds of Australia, about 40 miles from Katherine in the Northern Territory, are to be prospected by three big Australian mining companies, United Uranium. Loloma Gold Mines and King Island Sche--1 elite.
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    Extra trips for Oranje
    104 12 The N.V. Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland (S.M.N.) main liner service from Europe to Malaya, Singapore and Indonesia was continued at unchanged frequency in 1956, even after the blocking of the Suez Canal, the management reveals in its annual report. The company stated that because of satisfactory offers
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    Korean shoes for Singapore
    72 12 The South Korean MlnisIstry of Commerce and Industry has announced It has approved an application for export to Singapore ol 30.000 pairs of Korean-made rubber shoes. A Ministry source said an application was filed by th<* Tangshln Rubber Company which was negotiating -ith a Singapore Importer
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    j Produce officials
    73 12 Produce officials The Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange has elected the following officials for the ensuing year: Mr. Tan Siak Kew, chairman; Mr. Tan Tiow Phuang. vice-chairman Mr. Beng Saik Geok, treasurer; Mr. Teo Soon Kiat, auditor; and Mr. T. K. Teng, secretary. Conrriittee members are: Messrs. Lee Chin Tian, Tan
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    245 12 Need for more industrial peace in Malaya Mutual trust, respect and understanding SINGAPORE and the Federation should take a leaf out of West Germany's book on peace in industry, according :o a Singapore businessman who recently spent a number of weeks investigating conditions in Europe. Kinessman, Mr. E. K. Soon,
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    High-yield estates for Dunlop
    172 12 High-yield estates for Dunlop LORD Balllieu, chairman of the Dunlop Rubber Co., has told shareholders in London that by 1962, the whole of the company's planted area in Malaya will consist of high yielding rubber from selected clones. Speaking at the company's annual meeting, Lord Baillieu said at the end
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    Medical supplies were a gift
    61 12 An English firm— May and Baker of Dagenham, Essexaccording to an announcement by the Indonesian Embassy in London, has donated through its branch office at Singapore medical supplies for the relief of Indonesia's victims of the recent influenza epidemic. Medical supplies worth I about $3,500
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    Shell puts back $B'/2in. into Malaya
    166 12 rPHE Shell Company of A Singapore Ltd. reports a net income in 1956 of $10,000,000. Of this amount, $8,500,000 was re-invested in capital expenditure. This is revealed by Mr. F. T. Haddock, the company's general manager, in a forward to the report on activities
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    New synthetic plant in US
    77 12 One of the United States' largest centres for synthetic rubber and rubber chemicals development has been coi.-.-pleted at the Avon Lake Ohio experimental station of BP. Goodrich Chemical Company, according to the President. Mr. John R. Hoover. The new $4,500,000 development centre will be used
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    TECHNIQUE OF ESTATE TAKE-OVER REVEALED
    278 12 F[E basic explanation for the spate of takeover bids from the East for British-owned rubber plantation companies lies in the contrast between the points of view prevalent in London and in the East, according to Sir Eric MacFadyen, chairman of the Rubber Plant a ti
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    Search starts for oil under South China Sea
    296 12 MODERN DRILLERS LIVE IN AIR-CONDITIONED COMFORT J HE first attempt t 0 find oil beneath the South China Sea off the coast of Sarawak has begun with Sarawak Oilfields Ltd., operating a $2,000,000 marine drilling platform at Siwa, eight miles off the
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    Chinese send money to Hong Kong
    166 12 Chinese send money to Hong Kong 'THE influx of capital from Chinese residents in the Philippines and South East Asian countries in the first five months of 1957 reached $450,000,000 according to a Chinese source in Hong Kong. The flight of capital from the Philippines during the period totalled $150,000,000
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    Help Borneo timber trade plea made
    137 12 Help Borneo timber trade plea made T*HE future for large-scale timber producers in North Borneo may become precarious, unless the government recognises that substantial relief must be given to them, says Mr. H. W. Homer, chairman of the British Borneo Timber Co., Ltd. Mr. Homer, says the Government of North
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    New director for estate
    78 12 A resolution will be moved at the annual meeting of Sungei Batu (Malaya) Rubber Estates Ltd., in London next week (July 10) that Mr D. N. Morphew be elected a director in place of Mr A. W. Wallich, or other of the directors retiring by rotation.
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    Aircraft sales
    40 12 Britain sold more than £10.330,000— worth of aircraft, aero-engines and accessories overseas In May. The best customers were Sweden. nearly £4,000 000 worth of aircraft and partsthe United States £3.600--000; India. £2.200,000; Canada. £1,700,000; France iISoSS. and AUstraUa
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    New Italian liner
    59 12 The keel of Italy's newest Trans-Atlantic 1i n c the 32.000-ton Leonardo Da Vinci, has been laid at a certmony in the Ansaldo shipyards in Genoa. The new vessel— which will take two years to build— will replace the 30.000 ton Andrea Doria, which sank after a
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    |$1.6 m RESERVED FOR DREDGE REMOVAL
    150 12 81.6 m RESERVED FOR DREDGE REMOVAL TttIPING Consolidated Ltd. has set aside a further 5200.000 out of the profits to meet the cost of the removal of the dredge from the Kundang property to Taiping. This is revealed by the chairman, Mr. D. I. Bosanquet, in his statement to be
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    Judo expert died after squabble over kite
    567 13 HE WENT WITH FRIENDS TO RETRIEVE SLIPPERS BOY WITNESS OBVIOUSLY TELLINGJJES —CORONER EDWIN CHAN CHIN YEOW, a 17-year-old judo expert, was battered to death while helping a friend retrieve a pair of slippers lost during a squabble over a stray kite at Farrer
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    General sees jungle fighters in action I .
    123 13 General sees jungle fighters in action THE Commander-in-Chief j of Far East Land Forces. Gen. Sir Francis Festing, watched as the Sarawak Constabulary's crack field force fought five battles with bandits. The "battles" were pat on at Bukit Sio:, Kuching. by men of the Kuching Fiold Force Platoon, some of
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    AMERICAN PHILANTHROPIST FLIES IN FOR A CLOSE LOOK AT ASIA
    125 13 AMERICAN PHILANTHROPIST FLIES IN FOR A CLOSE LOOK AT ASIA MR. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER 111. chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation, flew into Singapore by PAA yesterday from the United States. This Straits Times picture shows him with his wife and daughter Hope. If), with whom he is on his way
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    SIT MEN TO FORM STRIKE BODY
    173 13 'Two years of Govt. indecision/ leader AT its meeting yesterday to consider the recent Government statement on Malayanisation and the future of the Singapore Inr jvement Trust, the S.I.T. Local Officers' Association decided to form a strike sub-committee. Hi June 21, a Government ?ment
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    Fun of fair
    27 13 The Y.W.C.A. will hold a fun fair at their Raffles Quay club premises, Singapore, on Saturday. The fair will be opened by Lady Black.
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    POLICEMAN: €I_SAW THE MURDER BLOW
    227 13 POLICEMAN: 'I SAW THE MURDER BLOW A LABOURER. Adnan bin Hadari. broke off his flght with a petrol kiosk watchman when a police patrol came up. But while he was walking away. the watchman Knocked him unconscious with a heavy piec c of wood, it was alleged in a Singapore
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    CHEW BEE, PAKIR SEEDED TO MEET IN FINAL
    692 13 (~kNG CHEW BEE, the defending champion. and'A. G B. Pakir. a sc-mi-ftnalfct jast year, have been seeded to meet in the men's singles final of the Singapore L.T.A. championships this year Mrs. Oladys Loke Chua and Mrs S.M. Bradley are the top
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      149 13 niniA uil ivi .Anniversary; 6.55 Regional AnnAJIIU J*I4ULAX A nouncements: 6.56 Singapore Share Market Report: 7.00 News: 7.10 SINGAPORE 476 metres and News Talk; 7 15 Sports Reel: 730 41 metres The Malayanaires; 8.00 Brand KIM. A 1.1 MPI K 341 metres. I New! Made For You!; 8.30 Life PENANG
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    Frog 111 was a mile winner at Newmarket
    342 14 Frog ΙΙΙ was a mile winner at Newmarket JOTTINGS by EPSOM JEEP FROG 111 (late Top r Security), one of the new horses entered for the July Meeting at Bukit Timah, won over a mile as a two-year-old and ran at Royal Ascot and Goodwood as a three-year-old. By the
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    N.Z. tennis offer
    125 14 NEW Z<.alunu s Davis Cup playera may play in Singapore on their way home after the Wimuledon championships. At last night's meeting of the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association Mr. G.T. Holloway, vicepresident, said that the New Zealand Commissioner in Singapore had approached him to arrange a I
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    ANOTHER FORMER MALAYA CPP STALWART JOWS THE FOOTBALL REFORM FORUM
    171 14 ANOTHER FORMER MALAYA CUP STALWART JOINS THE FOOTBALL REFORM FORUM TODAY George Valberg, a Singapore Malaya Cup footballer in the hey-day of Malayan football before the war, joins the forum on football reform and gives his views on how football in Singapore could be improved. This is the third article
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    Harness schoolboy talent early
    865 14  -  GEORGE VALBERG I NORMAN SIEBEL By EDUCATION AUTHORITIES MUST LET THE BOYS PLAY FOR CLUBS T OOK around Singapore footu ball today and count the number of schoolboys making their mark in the top grade. You run out of names before you even start. You think
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    Woodho to lead European team
    153 14 Woodho to lead European team THE S.C.C. Bfc WoodhouM' strong Euro; their annual cricket mate:. Rest on the E dang on Sat and Monday The European 1 last night, i players who out for Sin^'a) son Woodh Grindrod, Al: Bon e and K Sheppard and were regulars Of the Rest
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    Australians and Swede in Wimbledon semi-finals
    293 14 Australians and Swede in Wimbledon semi-finals LONDON. Monday. AUSTRALIA, the world's leading tennis nation, are A closing in again on the men's singles titles at Wimbledon. They provided three of the last four who emerged from the opening day of Wimbledon's second week. They are assured of at least one
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    Lock icon IT'S NEWS to us, SAY HOAD'S I PARENTS
    133 14 IT'S NEWS to us, SAY HOAD'S PARENTS MELBOURNE. Mon Va,iill,K Australian lawn tT tennis writers are predicting that Lew Hoad will turn professional aftn Wimbledon "win or lose' his parents, his employer* and Jack Kramer's repre sentative in Sydney all said today "it's news 10 us." Sportswriters have said Hoad
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    Changi golf
    26 14 R.A.F. Changi Golf Club's annual championship semifinals results: P. Wood beat S. Martyn on the 19th; T. N. O'Carroll beat TAB. Berblock one up.
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    Lock icon Yesterday's results
    192 14 MKVS SINGLES Quarter-finals: Ashley Cooper lAusti beat H. Flam (U.S.) 6 3. 7 5, 6 l Nei.le Fraser 1 Austi beat U Schmidt (Sweden) I—6, 6—4, 6—B. 6—4. 6 4; Lew Hoad Aust 1 bt Mervyr. Rose (Aust) 6—4. 4—6, 10—8. 6—3; S. Davidson (Sweden) beat V. Selxas
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    Lock icon County cricket scores
    116 14 LONDON, Mon. Tea scores in todays cricket matches were: At The Oval: Surrey 365- Yorkshire 159-8 (WaUon 53). At Leicester: Somerset 150 and 95 (Savage 6-28 > Leicester 143. At Lord's: Lancashire 264 Middlesex 208 (Edrich 69). At Westcllff: Oxlord University 170 and 182 (Bowman 75) Essex
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    Piggott again
    30 14 HAMBURG, Mon. Lester Piggott. 21 -year-old British jockey won Irish fourth classic race this year when he rode Orsint to victory in the West German Derby here yesterday.
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    CENTURY BY SMITH PUTS W.I. IN GOOD POSITION
    134 14 CENTURY BY SMITH PUTS W.I. IN GOOD POSITION CHESTERFIELD, Mon. A FINE innings of 133 by Collie Smith enabled the West Indies to score 315 in their second innings and lead Derbyshire by 290 runs on the second day of their match here. At close of play Derby had lost
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    Scoreboard
    120 14 W. INDIES IST INNS: 115 DERBYSHIRE— IST. INNS. (Saturday 131 tor 8) Kelly b Gilchrist 23 Gladwin not out Jacksou b Oilchrist 0 Extras 7 Total 140 Bowling: Gilchrist 15.5-1-41-5; Worrell 7-3-12-0; Dewdney 14-0--41-2; Atkinson 18-5-30-22' Ramadhin 17-12-9-1. W. INDIES— 2ND INNS. Kanhai b Jackson 24 Ganteaume b J.ukson
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    Five-goal Lazim cracks Athletic
    130 14 FATHUL Karib's mercurial sharpshooter, Lazim Adam, turned in a fivegoal performance at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Although Lazim's first goal after nine minutes gave his club an early lead over Chinese Athletic in this first division match, Fathul were in an unhappy state by the interval.
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      32 14 SOCCER: SA.K.A. Div. I, R.E.M.E. v Dockyard at Jalan Besar (5.15), Div. 28. Customs v s.l I 11 Police at Geylamc; Div. 3 A. Arsenal v Parhitan F. T. at Farrer Park.
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