The Straits Times, 7 May 1956

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    25 1 WEn ACE lA| VY CIBTTFIEI SU'VK B'X'C EB S J™-\ t The Straits Times. flea*** Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MAT 7, 1»56. jf IS CENTS
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    THE NEW SCHOOL PLAN
    498 1 Education expert* say: 'English and Malay should be compulsory subjects Razak: 'We have kept word 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. I FIfTEEN-MAN government committee has rcrommended a 10-year plan to re-organise k Federation's educational system. aim is to give all schools a common syllaI- table and so
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    Teachers get a briefing
    150 1 Teachers get a briefing Xl AI.A I I.MPUR. Sun. I MESENTATtTH of five I orcaimalions met the Muu-tir tttt Education, UUn Abdul K.izak bin Hus*in. at Federal House to- dv for a briefing on the nf 'w education report. Jhf orsan nations were the Federation uf .Malay Ikttaen' Associations, the
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    Lock icon Talk in Paris
    26 1 PARIS. Sun. -Mr. Selwyn toyd. British Foreign Secretiry. and Mr. Spiros Theotofc> the Grrok Foreign Minister discussed the Cyprus problem here today.— Reuter.
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    Britain given master switch
    614 1 Britain given master switch CONSTITUTION: OFF OR ON AT WILL? From HARRY MILLER LONDON, Sun. SINGAPORE has con--0 ceded to the British Government the right to suspend the constitution in an emergency but I believe Britain is now asking for the right to suspend the constitution in part when internal
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    Marshall twists ankle at Cup Final
    85 1 Marshall twists ankle at Cup Final LONDON, Sun. Mr. Marshall twisted bis ankle at Wembley Stadium after seeing the Cup Final yesterday. He had a complimentary ticket. He was in the crash of IM.MO leaving the stadium and stumbled down a few steps. When he returned to his hotel and
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    Lock icon Back at HQ
    25 1 NEW YORK, Sun. Mr. m Hammarskjoeld, secre-wy-general of the United moot, flew oack here tooay from his Middle East Peace mission. Reuter.
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    Lock icon 1,000 m.p.h. test
    39 1 LONDON. Sun.— The most up-to-date aviation research wind tunnel in the world, which can simulate speeds oi nearly 1,000 miles an hour has been opened at Bedford by the Duke of Edinburgh. II cost £1,500,000— Reuter.
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    Lock icon THEY DON'T WANT WINSTON
    44 1 BONN, Sun. Slogans Churchill not want's here" ap;>eared on walls J Aachen. West Germany, c the night. Workmen this morning were busy painting out the word "not". Sir Winston is due on an official visit to Aachen on Wednesday Reuter.
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    MEDALS RETURNED: 'NOW I'M HAPPY' Sultan's honours worthless— Ungku
    225 1 MEDALS RETURNED: 'NOW I'M HAPPY' Sultan's honours worthless— Ungku UNGKU Abdullah bin Omar, a former state councillor, yesterday returned his two royal decorations to the Sultan of Johore. He said he considered they "have lost their virtues and are worthless." He placed the decorations on a silver salver and personally
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    42 1 LONDON. Sun. About 70 psycho-analysts have come to London from Europe and America for centenary celebrations connected with the birth of Sigmund Freud, the Austrian scientist, who fled from the Nazis in 1938 and died in London In 1939. Reuter.
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    End colonialism, says Gaitskell
    200 1 'BOLD U.N. AID SCHEME NEEDED' PLYMOUTH, Sunday. MR. HUGH GATTSKELL, leader of the British Labour Party, said tonight that "a bold, imaginative plan of aid through the United Nations" was needed to help under-developed countries. In a speech at the Guildhall here he said tnls would
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    Lock icon Big blast protest
    63 1 m TOKYO. Sun.— The Hiroshima council for the banning of atom and hydrogen bombs said it had today sent a cable to President Eisenhower protesting against yesterday's nuclear bomb test on the Eniwetok atoll and pleading for "absolute suspension" of further H-bomb tests. The appeal was made
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    Lock icon H-test put off
    26 1 ENIWETOK. Sun. The United States H-bomb airdrop test, scheduled for Tuesday, was postponed today because of bad weather conditions. Reuter. (See page S)
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    The shadow behind PAP— by Wyatt
    161 1 LONDON. Sun. Mr i Woodrow Wyatt, Labour M.P. and former parliamentary Under-Secretary of Btate and Financial Secretary at the War Office, today warned that there was a danger of Singapore coming under communist influence if the present London talks on the Colony's future fall.
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    CHINATOWN: A GIANT DEATH TRAP
    354 1 CHINATOWN: A GIANT DEATH TRAP Fire chief warns of blaze threat 0 EVERY BUILDING in Singapore's Chinatown poses a deadly fire risk, the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, Mr. J. Angus, said yesterday. In a blunt warning he said many buildings were potential "death" houses, like the one in Sago
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    Lock icon Ship strafed on China coast
    44 1 HONG KONG. Sun. Chinese Nationalist Jets bombed and machine-gunned the British freighter Nigelock on Friday. Pelting Radio said today. The ship was stranded near the mouth of the Mm River near Foochow, when attacked. No casualties were reported. A.P.
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    Lock icon It's a record (1)
    34 1 MONTREAL. Sun Mr. C.H.R. Kagannaar, from Holland, set a new world record by keeping a pipe alight for 124 minutes 47 seconds at an international pipe smoking contest here. Reuter.
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    Lock icon It's a record (2)
    33 1 STOCKHOLM, Sun. Allan Sundberg broke his own world record here today by balancing on a tight rope for 33 hours, 44 minutes. More than 30.000 people watched him. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Chew-chew baby
    26 1 CATANIA, (Sicily). Sun. i" A baby boy, Carmelino Buct chert, weighing 12 lbs and with three fully grown teeth > has been born here.— Reuter.
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    Speedy aid for the homeless
    83 1 PRTY FOUR people made homeless by Thursday's fire in Sago Lane, Singapore, in which six died, are being helped to set up homes again. Assistance so far: Payment of $30 a person from the Singapore Joint Relief Organisation. Blankets, cooking utensils and food from the
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    Student stabbed by thugs
    39 1 Cheng Seng Hal. 17, a student was stabbed in the arm and back last night by a gang of thugs in Kirn Chuan Road, Singapore. He was admitted to hospital. His condition is not serious.
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    Oil men demand more money
    152 1 Oil men demand more money nPHE employees oX three big oil companies in Singapore are demanding higher wages and better conditions of service. The companies Involved Shell, Standard vacuum, and Caltex. The employees are members of the Federation of Singa- por e Petroleum Employees' Union. The union Is to forward
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    STOP PRESS
    23 1 FLOREFEE. Belgium, Sun. British racing motor cyclist Fergus Anderson. 47, died in hospital today after crash at international meeting bere. Beater.
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    Lock icon SHE'LL WED FOR 18th TIME
    79 1 NEW YORK. Sun. Mrs. i Juanita Deere, Red Indian woman who hit headlines in 1934 when she became a mother at the age of 11. has announced that she plans to marry for the 18th time. I A marriage licence was issued yesterday to her
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    Lock icon Automation: A spectre haunting Britain
    343 2 Automation: A spectre haunting Britain 'It's here to stay and must be harnessed for good./ LONDON, Sunday. AUTOMATION has become a major topic of controversy and comment in Britain following the strike of 11,000 workers at the Standard Motor Car Works in Coventry. Strike leaders have said that automation is
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    German Minister
    34 2 DR. HEINKICH tod BRENTANO, West German Foreign Minister, outside 1», Dawning Street, after his recent talks with Sir Anthony Eden. He visited Britain for three days as an official cnest— A* picture.
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    Lock icon MOTS THE WRONG DIET FOR FAST RECORDS
    135 2 MOTS THE WRONG DIET FOR FAST RECORDS LILLE, Sun.— Tvon Yva, a 25-year-old French fakir, hag claimed a world record after being burled alive for 287 and a half hours. When, clad only in a white turban and a loincloth, he was lifted from his temporary gray« he was breathing
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    Lock icon FISH WITH ARMS: IT'S STILL A RIDDLE
    96 2 It has the scientists baffled TANANARIVE, Madagascar, Sun.— One of the mysteries of the coelacanth— Otm fish with arms— to still unsolved. Scientists yesterday examined the latest specimen of this rare fish and could not decide whether it gives birth to its young
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    TERROR IN ZOO TWO KILLED BY LIONS
    138 2 TERROR IN ZOO TWO KILLED BY LIONS BOMBAY, Sun. A LION and lioness and their four cubs rushed from their cage through a* crowded too yesterday, mauling to death two men as horrified spectators scrambled to safety. One of their victims was a man who had opened the cage door.
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    Lock icon Church favours birth control
    45 2 MINNEAPOLIS, Sun. The United States Methodist Church, holding its annual delegates' conference here, yesterday issued a ."family life" statement in which it formally approved birth conThe conference lashed out at the liquor trade and called for a return to prohibition. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Uncle Sam supplies the feathers
    100 2 Uncle Sam supplies the feathers Katmandu, Sun.—Coronation gifts from many nations to King Mahendra, newly crowned monarch of Nepal, have been placed on show here. Among them is a silver rose bowl from Queen Elisabeth. The United States gave the king 97 birds of paradise. Their beautiful plumes are used
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    Diplomatic ties
    18 2 ATHENS, Bun. Greece has decided to establish legations In Syria and India, officials announced today.— AJ».
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    Beauty queen follows Prince
    168 2 MOTHER PITS FOOT 10W1 LONDON, Sun. THE mother of a Brix tlsh beauty queen said in Baintree, England, her daughter had told her she wanted to marry the Maharajah of Mymensingh. "Our daughter Janet Is 19." said Mrs. J.A. Hicks. "She flew to Calcutta two weeks
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    Mass grave unearthed
    52 2 SAIGON, Sat. South Vietnamese troops have discovered a fllled-in crater full of human bones which may prove to be the mass grave of hundreds of civilians shot by the Communists. Premier Diem said last night. They were m "immense galleries," he said. Arms and ammunition were also
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    Lock icon Body goes home
    28 2 JAKARTA, Ban. The body of Leon Jungschlaeger. who died here during his trial on a subversion charge, left by air today for the Netherlands. Reuter.
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    Lock icon PRINCESS MARGARET INSPECTS THE YOUNG SAILORS
    46 2 PRINCESS MABGARET attended an anniversary meetta* of the British Sailors' Society, at Mansion Hs— Leaden. Che picture shows the Princess inspecting the ruard of honour mounted by the Prince of Wales Sea Training School pupils on her arrival. A.P. picture.
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    Lock icon BASES IN CEYLON 'MUST STAY'
    150 2 BASES IN CEYLON 'MUST STAY' flaw yurk, s iy The New T Times said today ail would be econom eand strategical soun d for BritL* withdraw from/ bases on Ceylon "It is earmtlv to'h»v that the CommnL ho > Prime Ministers, forthcoming meeting J?* all reasonable pressiir? their colleague from
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    21 2 ROME. Sun. Newspa-.-B printers went on strike 1 I for more pay and there no newspapers in italv'l Reuter.
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      CATS AND DOGS IN SENATE
      158 2 HONOLULU, Sun. 'THE President of the x Territorial Senate sees a big similarity between the Japanese Diet and the Hawaii legislature— "they both fight like cats and dogs." Just back from a 30--day visit to Japan where he watched the Diet in action, veteran Democratic
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      Lock icon SADLER'S BIRTHDAY BALLET
      71 2 LONDON, SUN. Ballet fans queued for hours just I stand at last night's 25th anniversary performance of II Sadler's Wells Ballet at the Royal Opera House. Covent Git den. All the seats were booked six weeks ago. To honour the Ballet's founder. Dame Ninette deUB lois, choreographer
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    Lock icon MAO IGNORES SOVIET LEAD
    250 3 Dulles says Far East is worried over Red Chinas growing army U.S. will not drop ban on Red trade i)\IUS. Sun Mr. John I Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of gtate, told yesterdays NATO council meeting hA communist China gmf continuing its militar> build-up. There was
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    20 3 MONTREAL, Sun. Canada k* sent two paintings of the Netherlands for exhibitions commemorating the birth of Rembrandt.— A.P.
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    81 3 SEOUL. Sun.—The South Korean Government today charged that opposition antiGovernment party elements had instigated yesterday's rebellion in which four people were killed, three policemen severely injured and 10 civilians badly hurt. The riot outside President Syngman Rhee's mansion occurred when the body of Democratic Party presidential candidate,
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    Lock icon FIRST CANTER ON ZAMAN
    44 3 WINDSOR, Sun. Prince Cnarles went out for his first canter yesterday on his {olden-maned Russian pony taman. The pony was presented to him by the Russian leaders, Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khrushchev, when they were hi Britain last month. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Horror-as matador! facss death
    55 3 Horror- as matador! facss death PRINCE RAINIER and Princess Grace are shown open-mouthed with honor at the goring of a matador as they view the bullfight held in their honour at Palma In the Balearic Islands. These islands are off the Spanish coast. The Prince and his Princess are spending
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    Lock icon Missing frogman: New slant on link with B & K
    257 3 Missing frogman: New slant on link with B K LONDON. Ban. rpU Dally Sketch said yes- terday that tfc* missing frogman here. Lionel (Barter) Crabb, might have been en underwater patrol to make sore Russian refugees were not trying to blow np the cruiser Ordshonikidie which brought Marshal Bulganin and
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    Lock icon Chinese bomb Tibet rebels
    44 3 KATMANDU. Sun. Chinese Communist forces have bombed and sent punitive missions against rebels who massacred a Chinese garrison of 850 men in North-east Tibet. People In Golok. a former semi-independent state, attacked the Chinese Rarrlson about ten weeks aeo Reuter
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    28 3 HONG KONG. Sun.— Chinese Communist agents in Hong Kong are inviting Hong Kong businessmen to visit Canton, 90 miles from here, for an industrial exhibition. UP.
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    Lock icon Factory blast kills five
    51 3 LISBON, Sun. An explosion ripped through a military powder factory yesterday at Corroios, 10 miles from Lisbon. Five bodies were recovered from the wreckage. Fifteen were Injured. Searchers continued to sift through the debris for possible additional victims. The cause of the blast was not determined.—
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    Lock icon Disarm talks
    35 3 LONDON, Sun.— Mr. Andrei Gromyko, the chief Soviet delegate at the disarmament talks which ended in failure here yesterday said Russia "would continue to work for a solution to the disarmament problems."— Reuter.
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    64 3 RANGOON, Sua.— Communists this weekend attacked three small towns near Rangoon, to "punish" people who voted for the ruling l^: Fascist People s Freedom League in the recent elections. They killed two people, burned down granaries and dynamited bridges. ÜBa Swe. the De'«"* Minister, said L
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    Lock icon Automation
    26 3 NEW YORK, Sun.—Automation now permits nearly 1000 000 Americans to make longdistance telephone caUs —from coast to coast—merely by dialling the numbers they desire.— A.P.
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    Lock icon THE BIG BANG WILL COME WITH THE SUN
    221 3 THE BIG BANG WILL COME WITH THE SUN ENIWETOK, Sun. SEVEN airmen aboard a huge B-52 jet bomber will make the first U.S. hydrogen-bomb drop next week with split-second timing to escape the fury of the blast Officials of the task force for the test series disclosed that the bomb
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    12 soldiers slain in ambush
    101 3 12 soldiers slain in ambush ten kidnapped ALGERIA, Sun. NATIONALIST rebels killed 12 soldiers, wounded 10 and kidnapped 10 when they ambushed a French army unit in the Tiemcen Mountains, it was announced yesterday. The clash was brief but murderous. About 50 insurgents hidden in the ragged terrain opened up
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    140 3 AIR POWER, AMERICA, IKE AND Mr. STEVENSON /CALIFORNIA. Sun Mr. VtAdlal Stevenson, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, ■aid here yesterday there had been many false reassurances about American air power In the past three years. Mr. Stevenson was commenting on President Elsenhower's statement that America has "plenty of air
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    Lock icon Anns rationing
    30 3 PARIS. Bun. The foreign ministers of Britain. France and the United States decided today to revive the "rationing" of arms shipments to Israel and the Arab states. Reuter.
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    181 3 Georgi: Has he been sacked? MOSCOW, Sun.—The aoTiet Press yesterday named Mr. Oeargi Malenkov without mentioning his usual title of Deputy Prime Minister. The omission was noted In a report issued by Tass, the soviet News Agency, of Saturday's press conference with the British power delegation led by Lord Citrine.
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    76 3 BONN, Sun.— British service families were besieged in their homes over the weekend by Germans demanding the return of their property, requisitioned under a law which expired yesterday. Allied officials reported about 10 attempts at "token re-occupation." One man made a lone attempt to reoccupy an RJLF.
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    65 3 DENVER, Colorado, sun. John Gilbert Graham, convicted of killing his mother by putting a time bomb in her luggage aboard an airliner, today asked a court to forego any review of his death sentence and execute him with "all convenient speed." His mother. Mrs. Daisy King,
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    OUT FOR THE SCHOOLS —A NEW BLUEPRINT
    891 4 OUT FOR THE SCHOOLS —A NEW BLUEPRINT Chang— aye n— dad and mot be 4 boldly made" KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— A ten-year plan to reorganise the Federation's education system and give all schools a Malayan outlook with a common syllabus and time-table has been recommended by the 15-man committee appointed
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    English and Malay -and here is the reason why
    141 4 English and Malay -and here is the reason why ffflHE Education Committee has recommended that 1 Malay sad English be eommUsory subjects In all primary and secondary schools. Bat Instruction In other languages la to be given in primary schools whoa needed. "The reason for the study of Malay is
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    $25 m. a year for new buildings, night class boost
    835 4 Grants-in-aid will be given at uniform rates to all national-type secondary schools. Under the new policy education costs will total $886,266,000 in the first five years rising from $160,709,--000 this year, $182,428,000 In 1957, $176,695,000 in 1958, $193,221,000 in 1959
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    Housebreaking, theft charge
    44 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Sa'ad bin Hussaln, of Selerang Barracks, Changi, was today handed over to police for trial in Singapore, after a charge of housebreaklng and theft of $900 and clothing was explained to him In the Magistrate's Court I here.
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    Malay congress will discuss plan
    121 4 KUALA LUMPUR, SunSeventy Malay educational, literary and cultural organisations will hold a two-day congT""^ here on Tuesday to discuss the new education reDOlt. A delegation met the Minister for Education. Dato Ab- dul Razak bin Hussein, today, i The leader of the delega- tlon, Inche
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    NEW TAX FAVOURS PIRATE L' SCHOOLS
    127 5 {Instructors protesting to Government ,m -vI'ORE driving school proprietors are r protesting against the city council's decif 1 charge them double licence fees. instoad of $72 a year for small cars they are be- 1 pra sked'topaysl44. :ion vr otps to the OoyernMr. R.
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    Nominated to City Council
    79 5 The Singapore City Council will have a new member soon Mr. Chin Chye Fong, (above) who served on the body in 1947 when it was a Municipal Commission. Mr. Chin takes the place of Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, a nominated member who recenty resigned Mr. Chin
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    EDUCATIONAL MEDIA: ANY QUESTIONS?
    83 5 EDUCATIONAL MEDIA: ANY QUESTIONS? imSTIONa on bilingual ..ulti-lingual educaSingapore will be (..xr.ri at a forum being i on May 15 at St. wph's Institution Hall. T hp Minister for Education, w s^ pp Kee, will head rum. Be wil] bf assisted by Sir t Came, Mr. Thio Chan I Mr.
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    Moved food
    25 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Govinda Nalr was fined $60 today for moving out of a restricted area biscuits, sugar and potatoes, without a permit.
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    Civics course
    23 5 JOh )RE BAHRU, Sun. A State level civics course for Chinese estate workers will begin in Johore Bahru on May 21.
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    Pad opium: Jailed, fined
    66 5 IK'JALA LIPIS, Sun, There is far too much opium taScking between KelanUr. and Pahang, Inspector Hemam Singh said here yes- ::.i:. bin Yusof, a 42- -year-old pad! planter from Kota Bharu had been convicted for having two and a half katis of prepared opium worth more
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    Can't find snowman so now— dragons
    232 5 Can't find snowman so now— dragons THETRE IST ft MYTH: JUST, JUT JUOMIMILY EUSNE fOR six months two 1 BBC television men have been hunting for an "abominable snowman" in the Himalayas. Now they have given up and are flying to the desolate Indonesian Aru Islands to film Komodo dragons
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    Newsmen plan new union
    68 5 PENANO, Sun. Journalists at a meeting today decided to form a Journalists' union of North Malaya. The meeting attended by representatives from all the English and vernacular newspapers appointed a sevenman interim committee to draft rules. They are Messrs. Lam Kooi Khoon. Khor Cheang Kee, Han
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    Bigger trains for Hari Raya
    57 5 The Malayan Railway will provide extra train accommodation during the Hari Raya Puasa holidays. Additional seats and berths will be available on the services between Kuala Lumpur and Penang, and Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, and on the local trains between Ipoh and Gemas and Gemas
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    Govt. men fear for status
    174 5 UNION URGES ACTION IPOH, Sunday. TECHNICIANS in Government service in Perak A expressed fear today that many of them would be degraded to Junior status this year. The annual meeting of the perak branch of the Malayan Technical Services Union was told there was widespread
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    Monkey business at Airport cargo office
    83 5 Monkey business at Airport cargo office There was "monkey business" yesterday in the Qantas cargo office staff at Singapore Airport. A five-year-old orang utan. Yetti, broke open her cage and escaped. Yetti, travelling by freighter from Jakarta, to Tier Park, Hellabrun*. Munich, was eventually found perched on a high shelf
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    62 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Within seven weeks of opening, the Kuala Lumpur YMCA's Boys' Club has had such a good response that the association has appealed for more helpers to run It The club started with seven boys but now has more than 80 members. The
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    Sambanthan on education
    50 5 IPOH. Sun. The Federation's Minister for LabourMr V. T. Sambanthan. told a gathering of more than 100 people today that education is the cornerstone of y urged Indians to preserve their culture and education when he W* SS foundation stone of a $10,000 Tamil School in Menglembu.
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    Strike at the Happy World?
    38 5 About 50 employees at the Happy World amusement park, Singapore, will take a strike ballot today. They submitted 13 claims for rises and improved working conditions through the Singapore Workers' Union last week.
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    New leaders of Sindhi traders
    45 5 Members of the managing committee of the Sindhl Merchants Association, Singapore are: Chairman Mr. Hassaram F. Belani: vlce- chairman, Mr. P. I* Wadhwanl; secretary Mr. L. R. Melwani; jolnt-seoretary Mr. Arjan H. Vaswanl; treasurers Messrs. Dalamal and Sons (M) Ltd.
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    256 5 F-I-R-E: SAFETY METHODS PLANNED KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. —A fire outbreak in Kuala Lumpur's biggest squatter settlement in Pudu would be four times worse than the Oombak Lane disaster. About 100 representatives of the settlement's 6.000 people were told this by the chairman of their liaison committee, Mr. Lul Chun Bow,
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    The Straits Times. Singapore, Mon. May 7, 1956. Clearing The Land
    546 6 The Straits Times. Singapore, Mon. May 7, 1956. Clearing The Land Six people died in the Sago Lane fire. Tills single fact sets it apart from the fires of Kampong Bugis and Geylang Serai which, although they swept a far larger area and were much more destructive to property, did
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    The Shameless
    289 6 Trade There has been "heated debate" in the United Nations Commission on narcotic drugs. Aa far as Malaya is concerned, the more heated these debates are, the better. They may lead in the end to more effective international action against the drug smugglers. Allegations that Communist China is
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    342 6 A reader from Klang has drawn attention to a matter which might well attract the attention of local fashion writers. He complains that pyjamas provided for patients at .hospitals are not merely inelegant but deliberately designed to make the patient more hideous than he really is. The unfortunate
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    1249 6  - Arabs are unfriendly to the friend of the Arabs HUGH TREVOR-RopeJ By rpHE political situation x in Spain is precarious, with General Franco's regime finding difficulties even among its boasted supporters. It is therefore particularly unfortunate for the Caudillo that precisely at this moment an entirely separate crisis should have
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      852 6 The doctor shortage: An excuse for other shortcomings rvuifi recent leading aru--1 cles In the Straits 'iimes have quite rigntly pointed out tne congestion in Government hospital clinics. However, congestion and shortage of doctors are not synonymous and hence it would be. Important to realise that a mere Increase In
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      THE BURMESE ELECTIONS
      93 6 rfWE suggestion that the JL result of the Burmese elections was a victory for neutralism and that the main election Issue was sales of rice to the Communist bloc is misleading:. In fact, the only major opposition to the X.F.P.F J*. came from the National United Front
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    80 7 THE FUNERAL of Mr. Lav Ek *U1 take place on May 8. T-f irese wffl leave his residence fc Jalan Tokong, Ipoh, at 3 pan. tor a short service at the Wesley Church, and then to the Connolly %:*c cemetery. OGILVIE isobel Mary (Cteste). fart; beloved wife of Clifford
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    256 7 OOVBBllittifT ASKKD TO BK-OFPI TALK! Oil MTOMK« WACE CLAIM! THE NEGOTIATING TEAM IS EMPOWERED TO TAKE STRIKE BALLOT rpHK Singapore Union of Postal and Telecom--1 munications Workers yesterday decided to me the Government 14 days to re-open negotiation* on higher wage claims. Thr decision was taken
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    Delegates meet for annual talks
    58 7 Unless trade unions are well organised and strengthened, they cannot exert Influence on political parties for the workers Interests, the president of the Army Civil Service Union, Mr. S. T. V. Llngam, said in Singapore yesterday. Mr. Llngam was addressing 200 union delegates at Its
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    He helped put fizz in pop industry
    236 7 F ft N MANAGER RETIRES THE man who helped put the nzz in the soft drinks Industry In Singapore, Mr. H. L. Vincent, manager of the Singapore branch of Praser and Neave, left Singapore yesterday by Qantas Constellation on retirement. He was bound
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    UNESCO expert flies in
    53 7 Professor J. D. N. Versluys, acting director of the Calcutta UNESCO research centre on the Social Implications of Industrialisation of Southern Asia, flew into Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday for talks with the Singapore and Federation Governments. Dr. Versluys said his centre dealt with the lives and
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    Blind school needs money
    67 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Lady MacGUUvray, wife of the Federation High Commissioner, broadcast a personal appeal tonight for funds for the St. Nicholas Home and School for Blind Children. Lady MacCHUlvray said that the work being done for these children "cannot be allowed to fall because of
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    McNEICE REPORT 'MUST WAIT'
    162 7 McNEICE REPORT 'MUST WAIT' THE Singapore Liberal x Socialist Party feels It will be "most untimely" to Implement the McNeice report on local government until more Important constitutional changes take place. A party spokesman said a committee, meeting to discuss the report, recorded this opinion. The report recommends the decentralisation
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    Did you see these two accidents?
    119 7 The traffic police yesterday made an urgent appeal for eye-witnesses of two fatal accidents in Singapore last week. The first occurred at the junction of River Valley, Delta, and Jervpis Roads at about midnight on May 2. A motor cycle and a van collided.
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    More Shell fuel is consumed
    165 7 More Shell fuel is consumed TKf total consumption of p< trnlrum fuels in the Federation, Singapore »nd Borneo increased by 1027 pi r nt last year and now approximately three ,s high as the 1938 consumption. A report of the Shell company i activities last year, ls>u>ri yesterday, says that
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    THE PRIZE WAS A HUG AND CHAMPAGNE
    59 7 A 810 HUG from Singapore millionaire Mr. Ban Ron Shaw and a bottle of ehaawegne was the prise received by Mies {■lie Tan, who was elected "Princess Meatte Carle" at the first anniversary sapper of the Dale Carnegie Clab. Singapore, dmrlag the weekend.
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    Wages talks—a decision today
    230 7 Wages talks a decision today ESTATE MEN DECIDE ON STRATEGY KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. FkEMAND for a minimum wage for field workers will be the main Issue when representatives cf the National Union of Plantation Workers and the Malayan Planting Industries Employers Association meet tomorrow to solve their wage dispute. Chances
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    Wages talks
    32 7 Talks between the Ford Motor Company of Malaya and the Ford Company Salaried Btaff Union on a nine-point demand submitted by the union begin today at the Singapore Labour Ministry.
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    THEY MARRIED AT ST. HILDA'S
    38 7 Mr. Ala* Sharp- and Miss Caroline Tatsal** after their wcMtat; at St. Hilda's Chsreh, Singapore mm Salsiiiaj. A wice»W— was held at the home of the bride's paraats hi Woo Man Chew Boad.
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    Padi scheme lass—$lm.
    82 7 Padi scheme lass $lm. KUCHINO. Sun. rpHE Governmen' of SaraM. wak lost nearly $1 million last year after guaranteeing the price of locally grown rice and is preparing for losses exceeding $300,000 OH the 1956/57 harvest. Tills was stated here yes- terday at a meeting of the Council Nejcri by
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    Singapore wins top photo awards
    208 7 SINGAPORE photographers won all the prises when prints submitted for the Fourth Pan-Malayan Photographic Exhibition were judged yesterday. The Judges. Dr. C. A. Gibson Hill. Mr. C. A. Redpath and Mr. Peng Seng Wu. awarded the fold medal to Mr. Chua Soon Bin for his
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    BOYD IS TOUGH BUT ABLE, SAYS LEE
    263 7 From HARRY MILLER LONDON, Bun. THE People's Action 1 Party leader, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, told me that the Colonial Secretary, Mr. A. Lennox Boyd, Is "one of the few Tories who is not a fool" "Mr. Boyd ia a toughspealdnc but competent
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    1075 8  -  ALLINGTON KENNARD By ELEGANT FLOWER. By Murray 18s.) VANISHED CHINA. By W. H. Evant TattiAM. (Hotwassi 15t.) IVHETHBR The Be- gant flower, ever bloomed Is of small tonportance. But I aftodfl like to think that it od, and that ltttemi rGlOssWsVDawa ft CBvawsßsswHaw compound
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    IRAQ: A NATION IN CHANGE
    413 8  -  WALTER WARWICK •y NEW BABYLON, by Mm Haytocfc. (CoHins 165.) TT IS easy to forget 1 that Iraq, one of the world's oldest civilisations, is also one of the world's youngest nations, absorbed in change. Baghdad has grown hi a decade into something like a
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      109 8 Straits Times Crossword I r^^^ g^^Ln ncSSI •a^K T7l^^^^i«^l^^^Bll^TßaWßa^" l ™Mßm»l^^™ HatfnS> I I I I H iw^S I 1 I 1 I Bbsbbs!^^ ill 111 asm 111 I f Hs^nS 11 I I I I I I I' I Acmoas 1 Maw* reminiscent of CametoO (B. 1). S win
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    1695 9 The man who first put 'life' into taxidermy 1 I SIGMUNDM V FREUD^ey Dmviaed nm*t> to stuff 5.....1 I 1 Chase to die among 1 Congo gorittas 1 •■•■■■< jmriUmj* IN THE heart of New York, on terrain that actually came from deepest Africa, stands I a herd of elephants.
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    MALAYAN SNARE LIST
    41 10 rE following fall revised share list was issued by the Malayan Share Brokers' Association at their last meeting on Friday:— JMBVSTBIAU Bijmi ••Hits r er i i i I ttecr 1.35 «I M I* 1.5* I.M inn I
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    58 10 On the free exchange market in Heag K— g yesterday, the U.S. iseW was quoted at SM% for cash and SJM6 for T.T. Milling was qooted at 15 .83 and wetMlrf gsM at MIX RUBBER CROPS The following rubber craps are announced:-- Kesspas: March, 305,200 lb; April 390,400
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    BUSINESS DONE
    301 10 rpHE foUewinc eojatßea* 4ano X In th* ftlagapQM Shan Market last mk waariifwV odl by one Irai of MwJßetn for the period April 2S to Hay INDUSTRIALS: Consolidated Tin Smelters Ord. 28/6 and 30/-. Frsser Neave Onto. $1.67% to $1.68% to $1.66 to $1.67%, Federal Dispensary f 1.95,.
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    Market unaffected bY London Merdeka talks
    449 10 MALAYAN SHAME MARKET HI \n By Our Market Correspondent THE Singapore Share Market last week was on the whole quietly steady, but presented something of a drab picture with the volume of business written reduced in comparison with the previous week. The Singapore Merdeka
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCER
    118 10 nterim dividend less 30' income,'' year ending sent. 30, 1956, mVktU 15. 1956. t« men C,*' the register. n Books will br ttali RUBBER CO.. iTh l dividend of 15 share and bonus icents per share j! less 30' r income t ax 7 year ended Derembe, 1955,
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    WAGE TALKS CAST A SHADOW
    537 10 premium during the week. COMMODITY REVIEW IitAIN local factor afA** fecting the Singapore Rubber Market last week was the uncertainty of the outcome of the talks to be held today in Kuala Lumpur, between the National Union of Plantation Workers, who had requested them, and
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    124 12 A 30-year-old former Nazi paratrooper was telpeduv to the Royal Box at Wembley Stadium toreeetoe a small gold medal from the Queen the^ first Football Association Cup winners medal ever presented to Q Oe His Ul Mtne: BERT TRAVTMANN, goalkeeper of Man*~rZf*m earlier,
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    185 12 Kentucky Derby to Needles LOUISVILLE, Kentucky. Sun. NEEDLES, the favourite, yesterday won the Kentucky Derby. America's richest race, over IK miles here. Fabius was second and Come On Red third. Seventeen ran. Needles, a son of the 1949 winner of the race. Ponder ,and owned by the D and H
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    51 12 j NEW YORK, Sun.— Nashua, four-year-old son of the Irish-bred I stallion, Nasrullah. won the $50,000 Grey Lag Handicap at the Jamaica Track here yesterday to take his earnings to within 58.146 of the all-time record held by Citation. Nashua has now won $1,077,615 In 34 races—
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    758 12 100,000 SEE THE CITY TRIUMPH Df FINAL The 'Revie Plan 9 caused havoc to Birmingham WEMBLEY STADIUM, Midlesex, Sun. MANCHESTER City won the Football Association Cup Final; by beating Birmingham City 3-1 here yesterday, after the teams had been level 1-1 at half-time. The Queen and the
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    314 12 LOS ANGELES, Son. TIM BAILEY, an Australian J student In the University of Oregon, scored a sensational upset victory over fellow Australian -and world champion m i 1 e r, John Landy, here yesterday to crack the four-minute mile for the first time in
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    151 12 SAIGON, Sun.— The All Malaya soccer teem today won a friendly match against a selected Vietnam "B" side by two goals to one here. Vietnam settled down quickly and scored after five minutes. It was not until 23 minutes after half-time that Malaya drew level when
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    305 12 LONDON, Sun. SURREY, the English county champions for the past four seasons, staged an impressive recovery against Derbyshire at the Oval here yesterday when they began their 1956 county championship campaign. Derbyshire's 1c g theory specialists. Leslie Jackson (four for 72)
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    92 12 MELBOURNE, Sun. A giant replica of the Olympic torch, "floating." above Melbourne's busiest Intersection, will be the city's outstanding decoration for the Olympic Games here in November. The Torch, designed by Melbourne architect Peter Mclntyre, 38. will be suspended 30 feet above street level by
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    179 12 BELFAST, Sun. rriHELMA Hopkins, British 1 Empire, and European high Jump champion, beat the women's world high Jump record here yesterday by clearing sft. SVfcln. The 30-year-old dentistry student at Queens University, Belfast, beat the previous record set by the Russian. Alexandra
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    497 13 The overlapping problem is getting serious SOCCER VERSUS CRICKET LONDON, Sun. /CRICKET for another season Is Into its stride which should mean that football has finished but the overlap of the seasons, which has caused comment fa In the past, continues. True, the League soccer programme has mushed but there
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    Senior scores
    763 14 IA v Police I DOLICE Sports Association I r and Indian Association tied at Balestier Road. INDIAN ASSOCIATION Rajendra c Stevens b S'sham 0 H. Shah c S'sham b Sundram 44 Harcharan c Stevens b S'sham 0 Angullia c Sundram b V'pillai 5 Lall Singh b Perera 15
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    SLATTERY HEADS EU CUP GOLF QUALIFIERS
    102 14 XT. SLATTERY led a field of 84 in the qualifying round of the Royal Island Club's Eu Tong Sen Cup open golf competition yesterday. The other seven qualifiers were: Sgt Spencer (71). N. Tindall (71), E. S. M. Khatena (72). D. Clendon (72) K.
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    Police and Indian Assn tie
    905 14 THRILLING FINISH Of SC A SENIOR TOURNAMENT KEY MATCH PLOWRIGHT (102) AND HOBBS IN RECORD PARTNERSHIP A TIE, another cen- tury innings and a record partnership were the outstanding features in another eventful day's cricket in the Singapore Cricket Association's senior tournament matches played yesterday.
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    PRESS TO PROTEST
    79 14 PENANG, San. JOURNALISTS representing all English and vernacular newspapers throughout the Federation today decided to send a joint memorandum to the organising committee of the Malayan Amateur Athletic Association championships asking for full press facilities to cover this year's meet in Penang in August. At a meeting
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    No decision after 4-hour CSC meeting
    187 14 AFTER a heated, four-hour debate, no agreement was reached on the proposal to amend certain rules of the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club at the annual general meeting held yesterday. Another meeting will be held to discuss the revision of the rules. The president Mr.
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    Aussies are pleased
    143 14 LEICESTER, Sun. The Australian cricket captain, lan Johnson, and the team manager, Mr. Dowling, expressed appreciation today of the consideration given by the M.C.C. to the question of 'drag' in their statement on the no-ball rule yesterday. Johnson and Dowling issued the following statement: "The Australian captain
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    Leicester batsmen tame the Aussies
    220 14 LEICESTER, Sun. L LEICESTERSHIRE kept the Australian touring side in the field all day here yesterday while scoring 275 runs for the loss of seven wickets. Tliis despite the fact that they were without one of their leading batsmen, Maurice Tompkin, who was suffering from
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    SCOREBOARD
    100 14 LEICESTERSHIRE Ist inns. G. Lester b Archer SS M. Hallam c Barge b Archer 14 J. Van Getovea c Rutherford b Wilson 4* C. H. Palmer b Archer 54 V. Jackson lbw Archer 55 G. SmiUuon c Barge b Wilson «0 V Mnnden c Miller b Wilson 55 B.
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    SON'S PRANK DID NOT DETER DAD
    140 14 TEMERLOH, Sun. nnwo- year-old Peter Campbell x caused an exciting diversion In a cricket friendly played on the padang her* today when he steered -fils father's red MO sports car down a slope and onto the padang. Players chased after the car while others
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    PERAK COLLAPSE FOR 88 WHEN SET TO MAKE 236
    437 14 IPOH, Sun. CARELESS batting by Perak batsmen in their second innings enabled Selangor to score a 147-run victory in the inter-state cricket match played here over the weekend. Set to make 236 runs for victory in exactly three hours, Perak were
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    SCOREBOARD
    166 14 Selangw—lst. laaa: 181 reran Ist. Inas: 84 Sdaacer Sad. Ism. BaJaßagan lbw Letchasaanaa 1 Maragesa b MiMiatr SS ChdUah c Hedgkteseß Mahinder SS M. Shepberdwm not »ut 44 Dews c Meet* b teteh— M C. Shepherds**) ran Ht IS L. glaum aM nI S Extras t Total (for ft
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    90 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— The South tennis team against North for the Ouilemard and McCabe Reay Cups to be played in Kuala Lumpur next weekend are: Guilemard c»p: singles: Ong Chew Bee, Lim Hee Chin. A. O. B. Pafcir. D«Mes: Ong Chew Bee and Lim Hee Chin H. Khamis
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    SUM'S 4 GOALS FLATTENED THE INDIANS
    186 14 SUM'S 4 GOALS FLATTENED THE INDIANS ARMY'S dashing centre-forward Balbahud scored four goats including a hat ■t'ri.T >ut Army beat Indians 6-2 in a S.A.F.A < k wh < League match at Jalan Besar Stadium yestJS 11 Besides Suba, Annybn s passes for two ooa^ scored one. The Indians had
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    Bagby tops the list of trainers
    144 14 Bagby tops the list of trainers By EPSOM JEEP WALLY BAGBY had another good meeting on "home ground." saddling six winners to top the trainers' list at the Penang Turf Club Summer Meeting. His stable won $15,750 in advertised stakes. John Hudson was top Jockey at the meeting with four
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    DOUBLE VICTORY
    26 14 Tiger Swimming Club beat Royal Air Force Singapore 5-4 in a friendly water polo game at Seletar yesterday. Tigers "A" beat R.A.F "A 3-2.
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    INDIANS SCORE 7-4 VICTORY
    54 14 Indian Brotherhood SocctitM beat S.H.B. Police "A" 7-4 uifl S.A.F.A. Div 3B league maich fl Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. 1 1 Sankaran (3). M M D. K. Samy. Ramaiuttian uH P. K. Pandian .scored for the Itfl dians while Ismail Yime ilfl Keong and Sunkmin replied
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    JOHNSON HITS 63 OFF BRADDELL
    37 14 R.A.F. Seletar drew thtir ly cricket match against Brae™ C.C at Seletar yesterday Seletar 127-6 ded. < Jr.hnsor. W Darnell ?7. W. Shepherd VM Nelson 2-8) Braddell 108-9 >Hi4B ley 30. KilllcK 27 >.
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