The Straits Times, 17 April 1957

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    16 1 P Lg^QMEMME^TAFY J fit**** The Straits Times Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1957 15 CENTS
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    CHINESE TOLD: DECIDE
    765 1 A SIMPLE ISSTTE— 'AttF, YOU TO BECOME MALAYANS?' The answer cannot long be delayed, says MCA statement fARXING: WE SEED UNITY Guilds' London trip plan flayed DENANG, Tucs. The lime for decision has arrived for the Chinese in Malay a, thi Malayan Chinese Association declared in an
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    HOLIDAY TIME—MALAYAN MISSES ENJOY IT IN CANOE FOR TWO
    92 1 HOLIDAY TIME— MALAYAN MISSES ENJOY IT IN CANOE FOR TWO MAKING a splash at Lake Mymbyr. North Wales, are two girls from a party of 38 students E from the Malayan Tea- chers' Training College at Wolverhampton, who are E spending part of their E Easter vacation at nearEby Snowdonia
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    16 1 TAIPEH, Tues. —Ships off Formosa were warned today against a 90 m.p.h. typhoon. —Reuter.
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    75 made homeless in Singapore blaze
    190 1 UPSET STOVE DESTROYS 9 HUTS ABOUT 75 people were made homeless in Singapore yesterday evening when fire gutted nine attap houses in Lowland Road, off Upper Serangoon Road. Damage was estimated at 530.000. The cause of the fire is believed to have been an
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    35 1 LONDON, Tues. The Ford car "empire" at Dagenham, near London, faced a new shutdown threat today because the sacking of a shop steward has been upheld by a court of inquiry. Reuter
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    22 1 BERLIN. Tues. East Germany said today that military toys are necessary for the proper education of young Germans.— A.P.
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    Doctors get rise offer
    61 1 LONDON, Tues The Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, today tried to prevent a strike by National Health doctors and dentists by awarding them an interim five per cent general salary increase. About 30,000 doctors and dentists have threatened to walk out of the scheme starting in
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    Lock icon Strike ends
    33 1 NEW YORK, Tues. Rubber workers last night accepted and signed a new uniform two-year agreement with the B.F. Goodrich Co., ending a 15-day strike at nine plants in the nation.— UP.
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    Lock icon Bank chief freed, but his deputy is arrested
    100 1 Bank chief freed, but his deputy is arrested JAKARTA, Tues.— Mr. Edward Curry, manager of the Chartered Bank here, who was arrested on April 2 on a charge of having firearms on the bank premises, was released from prison today. But the police last night detained Mr William Watson, the
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    Lock icon SANDYS: 'ONLY H-BOMB CAN SA YE BRITAIN'
    624 1 SANDYS: 'ONLY H-BOMB CAN SA YE BRITAIN' LONDON, Tuesday. Vf R. DUNCAN SANDYS, the Minister of Defence, told the Commons today that the atomic rocket and the hyrogen bomb were so devastating and complete immunity against them so impossible that all Britain's defence efforts must centre on deterrents. "That is
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    Lock icon New offer to finance brain operations
    84 1 New offer to finance brain operations CANBERRA, Tues.— A business firm has joined with Sydney Rotarians to help finance operations of brain disease victims from Singapore and Malaya. The Australian Association of Ethical Pharmaceutical Manufacturers has offered through the Rotary Club of Sydney to pay the hospital costs of six
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    Lock icon Nehru to form new Govt.
    42 1 NEW DELHI, Tues. Mr. Nehru, the Prime Minister, submitted the resignation of his Cabinet to President RaJendra Prasad today following the completion of India's elections. He was asked by the President to form a new government. Reuter.
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    Infected port
    36 1 COLOMBO. Tues. Health officials today declared an area north of Colombo dangerously afflicted with smallpox. The area Includes the port of Colombo, an important stop on the rout* from Europe to the Far East
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    Lock icon JAKARTA NEWS AGENCY CLOSED
    130 1 JAKARTA NEWS AGENCY CLOSED JAKARTA, Tues. The Indonesian Army tonight closed the office of the independent news agency Pia, where most foreign correspondents have their offices. Army officers who sealed the office doors at 6 p.m. said foreign journalists would still be allowed to use the offices. No official reason
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    Lock icon China tirade—US agrees to ease up on the embargo lists
    190 1 China tirade US agrees to ease up on the embargo lists T ONDON, Tues. Lord JLj Gosford, the Foreign Under-Secretary said today that the United States had made some proposals for reviewing the China trade embargo lists. These are lists of goods of which the export to China was banned
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    PROBE ON DEATH OFICEBOX GIRL
    193 1 PROBE ON DEATH OFICEBOX GIRL Father: 'I suspected something terrible' 'THE Solicitor-General, 1 Mr. E. P. Shanks, yesterday ordered an inquiry into the death of a 17-year-old girl, whose body, preserved in a fishing boat's icechest, was brought back to Singapore on Monday Earlier the coroner, Mr. K. T. Alexander,
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    41 1 ATOM MINISTRY SEEKS £236 M. LONDON, Tues—Ministry of Supply, which provides armed forces with atomic equipment, today asked Parliament for '■■>'> million for work in year 1937-1958. This was increase of over KM million on financial year just ended. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Abdulgani is fined $1,350
    73 1 JAKARTA. Tue.s -Indone-j sla's former Foreign Minister. Mr Roeslan Abdulganl has been fined 5.000 rupiahs (about $1.35()i and court costs by the Supreme Court i for "unintentionally but Illegally carrying foreign ex- i change abroad." Mr ADdulgani was tounu guilty of violating Indonesian torelgn exchange regulations
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    Lock icon Dagger attempt on Dr. Zik
    197 1 Dagger attempt on Dr. Zik f AGO S Tues. Dr Azikiwe Prime Minister of Eastern Nigeria, escaped unharmed when a man armed with a dagger broke through a cordon outside Government House here today and attacked him. Dr. Azikiwe was arriving for talks with the premiers of the other two
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    A hat he bought in Singapore...
    269 2 ...HELPS TO SEND EX-MALAYAN POLICEMAN TO PRISON LONDON, Tuesday. A HAT with the name Robinson and Co., inside helped to convict a former Malayan police lieutenant, 29-year-old Peter William George Baxter. He was Jailed for 12 months at Berkshire Quarter Sessions for assault with
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    Lock icon MEASLES, FLU HIT HK
    55 2 HONG KONG Tues— A record outbreak or measies and influenza that has stricken thousands of men worn" n and chiWren is giving the colony's doctors one of the busiest spells they can remember. Chinese language newspapers here estimated tnai more than 200.000 people are presently suffering
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    Lock icon THE GARCIA WAY TO GOOD HEALTH
    94 2 THE GARCIA WAY TO GOOD HEALTH MANILA, Tues. The President of the Philippines, Mr. Carlos Gareia, completed his annual oneweek fasting period last Saturday. He took nothing but water during the period. He said this week he would take only orange Juice and milk and "get back to normal" in
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    Lock icon U.S. pledge made king act
    552 2 HUSSEIN WAS CONVINCED AID WOULD COME WHEN NEEDED JORDAN SHORT OF CASH SINCE BRITAIN ENDED £12 m. SUBSIDY: RUSSIAN WAR WARNING WASHINGTON, Tuesday. PROMISE of U.S. aid six weeks ago was the crucial factor that made King Hussein of Jordan sack his pro-Russian cabinet, diplomatic
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    Lock icon 'MAD MAJOR' 65-HE CELEBRATES IN THE AIR
    127 2 'MAD MAJOR' 65 -HE CELEBRATES IN THE AIR T ONDON, Tues. Major Christopher Draper celebrated his 65th birthday yesterday by piloting his 93-year-old aunt on a 210-mile plane ride. Draper was dubbed "The Mad Major" by British newspapers when he flew a light plane under 15 Thames bridges in 1953
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    35 2 TOKYO. Tues. General Keizo Hayashi. chairman of the Japan Joint Staff Council, will leave here on May 3 on a 17-day visit to Britain as guest of the British Ministry of Defence. A.P.
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    77 2 Churchill had own Egypt plan NEW YORK, article to T Saturday Evi says that Pr i hower rejected Sir Winston Churchill, then Prime M occupy Egypt In 1 The article said Churchill governm 1953 "expre.^cd con that it could n its prestige In th( East by forcible occupati of Egypt."
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    32 2 OSLO, Tues. Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the famed humanitarian, will warn the world on April 23 against the danger of radioactivity in a special broadcast over the Norwegian state radio.— AP.
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    U.S. SHOULD JOIN NEW PACT-CHOU
    208 2 TOKYO, Tues.— Chinese Prime Minister, Mr. Chou En-lai, was reported to have proposed a four-power Asian security system among the United States, Russia, China and Japan. The Asahi's Peking correspondent said Mr. Chou, at a meeting yesterday with a group of visiting Socialist Party Diet
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    Lock icon Russian film stars barred
    50 2 BONN, Tues. The West German Foreign Ministry has refused entry visas to three Soviet film stars invited to attend the first performance In West Germany of a Soviet fllra. a ministry spokesman said here today. No reason could De given for the refusal, he said. Reuter.
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    Lock icon OUT: RED RAPE OF HUNGARY
    252 2 Report ready on the revolt GENEVA, Tuesday. T*HE United Nations Special Committee on the pro- blem of Hungary will present "quite clear cut findings on the great majority of points" in its report concerning the revolt and Russian intervention. Disclosing this at a press conference
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    Secret H-blast is possible -Macmillan says it again
    416 3 0 REVEAL SECRET? f H\T WON'T BE IN oIH INTEREST, HE SAYS m ni- Or 5P ON Tuesday. T UX Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, 1 said today that if a deliberate attempt was a dc to set off a secret thermonuclear
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    Lock icon H-PROTEST MAN'S WIFE WILL STAY HOME
    187 3 H-PROTEST MAN'S WIFE WILL STAY HOME LONDON Tues. Mr. II mild Steele, 55, of ftnester, a retired poultry farmer, today «aid he has booked an i:r passage to Fiji as part i'l plan to sail into the Pacific Ocean (luuir (>i >p to protest gains! I'.ritain s hydrojfii h mil)
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    BRITAIN BACKS U.S. PLAN
    54 3 •ON, Tues. Britain yesterday enU.S. proposal to making of nuclear lor bombs and ipons next spring. Allan Noble. British delegate to the U.N. disarmament sub committee, told the 103 rd meeting that the American proposal was "realistic and a sound step" in reversing the trend towards
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    ZSA ZSA-'MY HAIR FELL OUr-SEEKS $120,000
    84 3 A CTRESS Zsa Zsa Gabor (above) yesterday sued a beauty salon for $120,000, charging it caused her hair to fall out. She alleged that "a negligent application of strong bleach" in January burned her scalp, overbleached her hair and caused it to become "lustreless,
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    Lock icon 'Live and let live' says Nikita
    352 3 'Live and let live' says Nikita HE BILLS AMD COOS TO 'MY LITTLE DOVES' MOSCOW, Tues. A iTI strangely restrained Mr. Nikita Khrushchev urged last night that East and West "live and let live in competitive coexistence." Speaking at a reception in honour of a visiting Albanian Communist delegation, he
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    Lock icon Cuba restores guarantees
    26 3 HAVANA, Tues. Constitutional guarantees, suspended for 90 days to help the Cuban Government combat terrorist activities, were re-established at midnight last night. Reuter.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    251 3 LONDON, Tues. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not Including stamp duty were: LOANS Consols £53 Funding 4% £88% —V» War 3Vi% £73 3/16 —3/16 BANKS Mercantile (£5) £4% Eastern (£5) £7 1/16 Charted (£1) 37/9 Hongkong ($125) £95^ INSURANCE Com. Un. (uts.) 83/3 —3/1 Vi Royal 85/I
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    RUBBER
    39 3 LONDON, Tues.— Spot 27' id., May 27'« d.. June 27'» d., JulySept. 27' id.. Oct.-Dec 26 7 »d.. Jan-Mar. 264 d., April c.l.f. 26' s d., May c.l.f. 26 7 id June c.l.f. 26T«d. Tone: Quiet but steady.
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    TIN
    23 3 LONDON. Tues— Cash buyers £776. sellers £778, Forward buyers £770 a. sellers £771. Settlement £775. Turnover a.m. 55 tons; p.m. 50 tons.
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      81 3 SUNSPOTS BLOT OUT RADIO SIGNALS f ONDON, Tues. A spectacular fadeout of radio signals between Europe and the rest of the world began today about 10 a.m. and lasted from a few minutes to several hours. All radio signals completely disappeared for a short period but those from Europe reappeared
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      21 3 ROME: The Egyptian Government has dropped its demand that Italian vessels using the Suez Canal pay toll fees in cash.— Reuter.
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      29 3 KARACHI: The Pakistan National Assembly passed by 44 votes to 23 a resolution approving the extension of the suspension of the constituiton in West Pakistan until Sept. 20.— Reuter.
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      19 3 PARIS: Two suburban Paris cafes frequented by North Africans were ma-chine-gunned and two men were killed and 12 injured.—A.P.
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      30 3 STOCKHOLM: Stockholm police said that Robert Folke Damatedt, held as a suspected spy for Russia, is a native of the United States. He was born in .Kearney, New Jersey. U.P
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      32 3 HONG KONG: Hong Kong police ar c investigating an alleged immigration racket which according to a New Zealand report, has admitted "hundreds" of Chinese into New Zealand illegally in recent years. U.P
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      23 3 PARIS: Mr. Guy Mollet, the French Prime Minister, said the length of military service in France would remain unchanged at 18 months. Reuter
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      17 3 LONDON: The House of Commons has approved Budget proposals for 1957--58 by 317 votes to 252 Reuter.
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      20 3 VIENNA: An agreement on the stationing of Soviet troops in Rumania has been signed between the Soviet and Rumanian Governments.—Reuter.
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      27 3 DAMASCUS: A permanent exhibition of postage stamps Issued by Governments of the Arab Postal Union is to be established at the headquarters of the Arab League. Reuter.
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      21 3 NEW YORK: India, Haiti and France today congratulated Britain on its administration of the trust territory of the British Cameroons.— Reuter.
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      250 3 EASIER SUNDAY DINNER We recommend NEW ZEALAND CANTERBURY DOWN LAMB Enjoy roast lamb for your Easter Day dinner served with mint sauce and fresh, quick-frozen BIRDS EYE GREEN PEAS SHOP ARRANGEMENTS GOOD FRIDAY Singapore We are closed all day and there will be deliveries of Hot Cross Buns and Standing
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    Planning starts now so that 260,000 aliens may get vote
    272 4 WITHIN 48 hours of the return of the all-party merd c k a mission the Singapore Government has begun mapping out an administrative blueprint for the registration of 260,000 aliens for citizenship. The Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, said
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    Filipino Easter dance
    52 4 A demonstration of the "Salakof— Filipino hat dance —will be given at the Easter Ball of the Filipino Association of Singapore to be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Sunday night. The ball is in aid of the crippled children of the Convent of the Holy
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    TAXI AND LORRY COLLIDE: TWO DIE
    81 4 TAXI AND LORRY COLLIDE: TWO DIE KULIM. Tues.— A taxi driver Kong Hone Guan, and a woman passenger, Letchimy, were killed last night when their car collided with a lorry on the Bukit Mertajam Kulhn Road near the Kedah border. Kong died on the spot. The woman died of her
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    LENIENCY IS ONLY FOR THE NOVICE
    67 4 LENIENCY IS ONLY FOR THE NOVICE A Singapore magistrate, Mr. O. Tara Singh, yesterday rebuked a thief who asked for a lenient sentence after admitting four previous convictions. "Leniency should be shown only to first offenders," he told Lim Low Tew, 41. Lim was jailed for 14 weeks for stealing
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    Dance president
    18 4 Mr. Chua Eng Cheong has been elected president of the Institute of Dance Teachers in Malaya.
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    But, although impressed by Singapore. she comes to the conclusion that there's no place like home!
    162 4 But, although impressed by Singapore. she comes to the conclusion that there's no place like home! OOGOR, an Indonesian town near Jakarta, is beautiful, but for a teenager it could also be a bit dull. That was how Miss Carmen Heyzer (above) a secretary of a Bogor firm, felt about
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    Fire walker collapses
    45 4 RAWANO, Tues. One of six devotees collapsed while walking across the 30 ft. wide stretch of burning charcoal at the Mahamariamman Temple on Sungei Choh estate, five miles from here yesterday. Other devotees carried him off. More than 900 Hindus were present.
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    Broke curfew
    38 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. lim Her Jin, Wong Chlm Tuck, Low Sim Kang and Yong Teck were each fined $100 ln the Johore Bahru magistrate's court today for being out of doors at Scudai during curfew hours.
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    COLONY ARTISTS DELIGHT SCHOOLS AUDIENCE
    85 4 Two of Singapore's talented artists Noreen Stokes, pianist, and Goh Soon Tioe, vioUnist, gave a delightful performance at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday evening. A light and short programme was played to a small but appreciative audience of school-children. It opened with Grieg's Sonata for
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    HUNT IS ON FOR 42 EXPATS
    196 4 HUNT IS ON FOR 42 EXPATS KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A search for 42 expatriate assistant engineers to serve in two Federation Government departments until there are enough qualified Malayans to take over is being made in Britain. The secretary of the Public Services Commission Mr. L.C. Carell. said today that
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    Holiday trip to Britain
    42 4 JOHORE BAHRU Tues. Inche M. Suffian, Legal Adviser, Johore, and Mrs. Suffian leave by plane on Sunday for a holiday in Britain. Mr. D. C. Jackson, who has just returned from leave, will take over from Inche Suffian.
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      78 4 RADIO MALAYA •Programmes thus marked can be received by listeners In Malacca Short wave 41m. Medium wave 476 m., 341 m.. 366 m. 279 m P.M. M.15 Wednesday Serenade; *1.30 News; "1.i5— 3.00 Everybody Sing; 6.00 Programme Summary; 6.02 Mail Bag; •6.58 Singapore Share Market Report; •7.00 News; '7 io
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      77 4 Regional SINGAPORE Short wave 41m. Medium wave 476 m. A.M. 7.15 Time Signal and Opening.. Announcement; 7.16 Morning Serenade; 7.80 News; 7.35 A Date with Music; 8.00 News Headlines; 8.02 8.30 A Date with Music; PM- 5.00 Way Down South; 5.15 Hawaiian Blossoms; 5.30 6.00 Tea Dance; 6.55 6.56 Regional
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    Judgment is reserved
    54 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Mr. Justice Smith today reserved judgment in a civil suit in which a tin miner, Woo Kwai. sued the firm of Lee and Wong of Mountbatten Road for $6,061. Woo alleged that the money was his share of a partnership business with the firm
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    Meat cleaver seaman terrorises a ship
    180 5 ROBBERY AT SEA: SAILOR CUTS LIFEBOATS ADRIFT AND ROWS INTO DARKNESS WITH $17,000 SEAMAN armed with two meat cleavers terrorised 11 other members of the crew of the coaster Hai Lie and escaped after taking $17,000 from the ship's safe. Singapore immigration authorities were
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    Jaycee talks
    25 5 Jaycee representatives from the Federation and Singapore are among the 200 delegates attending the 7th Jaycee regional conference which opened in Saigon yesterday.
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    CARRIER'S GANNETS TO 'ATTACK' RAF IN WAR GAMES
    186 5 CARRIER'S GANNETS TO 'ATTACK' RAF IN WAR GAMES pANNET fighters will take off from the aircraft carrier, H.M.A.S. Melbourne, now in the north Malacca Straits, at dawn today to stage a five-hour mock attack on the R.A.F. station at Butterworth. RAF. planes will go up to meet them and defend
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    A new pay demand by fishermen
    87 5 A FINAL settlement \n the strike by 140 Singapore fishermen was held up yesterday when th e strikers submitted a new demand that they be given two days' pay before resuming work. The Singapore Fish Merchants Employees' Union insisted on strike pay to the
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    'MIXED-UP KIDS' WARNED
    195 5  -  DAPHNE MORAN By Mothers take girls to a film lesson SEVERAL Singapore mothers yesterday forfeited early morning marketing to take their daughters to a lesson on teenage troubles. The classroom was the Capitol Theatre, where teenagers were taught to dress according to their age. and to choose
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    Hassan is off to realise his great ambition
    68 5 Hassan is off to realise his great ambition HASSAN BIN DIN. warrant officer in the Malay Regiment Band in Port Dickson, left Singapore yesterday by 8.0.A.C. for a three year bandmaster's course in Britain. He told reporters before boarding the plane that he had always wanted to be a bandmaster.
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    'CRACKER ASSAULT' CASE BOY FREED
    102 5 A YOUNG hawker was acquitted in a Singapore court yesterday of causing hurt to his neighbour, Sim Geok Ser, 72, by letting off fire crakers in Dunlop Street on Chap Goh Meh night. Kwang Kirn Teck was not i called upon for his defence. The
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    Milk offence
    39 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues K. Mani Pillay was fined $350 or five weeks' jail in the magistrate's court here today for selling fresh milk without a licence and adulterating it by the addition of 15 per cent water.
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    Royal return
    26 5 ALOR STAR. Tues. The Sultan of Kedah, who is recuperating in London after an abdominal operation, is expected to return to Malaya in July.
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    'BESTIAL' RAPIST GETS JAIL AND A FLOGGING
    129 5 'BESTIAL' RAPIST GETS JAIL AND A FLOGGING IPOH. Tues. A young father who criminally assaulted a 15-year-old girl was jailed for four years and ordered to receive 12 strokes of the rotan by Mr. Justice Sheppard here today The judge found Latif bin Khalil. 20, a tapper and father of
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    Shopman fined
    24 5 SEOAMAT. rues For not keeping proper record> of his sales Lam Ji 50 a shopkeeper on Oomali Estate, was fined $100 here.
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      162 5 PEACE COVE; Oospel meeting at 393 Joo Chi.it Road 8 p m. CHINESE V.M.C.A.: Bodybuilding, billiards, boxing 2 pjn., basket ball 730 pjn., commercial school 5-9 p.m. Y.W.C.A.: International Women's Club meets at 10 am., demonstration of Chinese painting by Madam Sun Yee, beauty culture class 5.15 pjn. V.M.C.A-: London
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      96 5 tn K courses at Queen Street Boys Hostel. JOO CHIAT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: Handicraft class 5.30 p.m.. adult education 7 p.m., art class 7 p.m. at community centre. SINGAPORE ART SOCIETY: Beginners' course at British Council gallery, Stamford Road, 6-8 pjn. EVANGELISTIC MEETING at Ufe Church. Prinsep Street 7.45 p.m POLICE
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    SECRET SOCIETY NOW ENLISTS SCHOOLBOYS
    373 6 Heads helping police in fight against infiltration IPOH, Tues.— A secret society has infiltrated into English and Chinese boys' schools in Ipoh and is recruiting members from them by means of threats and promises of protection. A two-pronged attack to stop the spread of the
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    'Repairs only' man fined
    51 6 Salim bin Abu Bakar, of Lorong Ungku Aman, who told a Colony magistrate that he was repairing a motorcycle while astride it in Keppel Road, was yesterday convicted of charges of riding without a licence and without third party insurance. He was fined a total of
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    Fined $300
    24 6 SEGAMAT. Tues. For taking 18 katis of !gnee out of a restricted area. T. VpngadaFalam, 24, of Malacca, was fired $300 here.
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    Koran holiday
    21 6 The Indonesian Consulate in Singapore will be closed on Thursday In commemoration of the "Revelation of the Holy Koran."
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    Flying club gets another plane
    32 6 IPOH, Tues. The Perak Flying Club has bought a three-seater Auster airplane from a retiring planter. The club already has three twoseater Tiger Moths and three gliders.
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    $lim. pathology institute
    42 6 A three-storey Institute of Pathology is being built in the grounds of Singapore's General Hospital at the cost of $14 million. A combined GovernmentUniversity of Malaya project. It is expected to be ready by the end of next year.
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    Acting post
    26 6 KUALA TRENGGANU. Tues. The state financial officer, Dato Andika Indera. is now acting as State Secretary for Dato Biji Sura, who is on leave.
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    CAR JUST MISSES A TRAFFIC COP
    51 6 ALOR STAR. Tues— A police constable fell Into a drain today when a car narrowly missed knocking him down while he was directing traffic at Pekan Melayu. The car went over the drain, and ended on the five footway. The driver, a Malay, was
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    Colony taximen urge: End this levy
    118 6 A THOUSAND taxi drivers in Singapore want the Government to exempt new taxis from the 10 per cent registration tax introduced last year. They say that taxis like buses should be exempted from the tax. The men, members of the Singapore Hock Poh Seng
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    PAP denies hand in Padang boos
    203 6 WE'LL INVESTIGATE, SAYS LEADER THE People's Action Party central executive com- mittee is to investigate allegations that party members were behind the demonstration by Chinese students at the Padang on Sunday. The party president, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, told the Straits Times yesterday: "The
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    MERDEKA BANQUET IN SAUDI ARABIA
    59 6 MERDEKA BANQUET IN SAUDI ARABIA PENANG. Tues. Malay students in Saudi Arabia will celebrate the independence of Malaya with a merdeka banquet to which 390 guests will be invited. The proclamation of independence will be read at a rally In Hijaz. The Malayan Federation of Malay Students will also stare
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    Mr. LIM SUGGESTS A GRANT FOR 600
    133 6 THE Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday met the management of Malayan Airways and suggested that the company make an exgratia payment to its 600 local workers. Mr. Urn would not disclose I the amount. "If I get this payment, the
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    Competitions for children
    40 6 PENANG. Tues. An essay and a poster competition for schoolchildren in Penang will be held on the theme "food and health." The contest will be in two classes one for primary and the other for secondary schoolchildren.
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    2 soldiers injured
    52 6 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Tues. T w o Australian soldiers were Injured last night when their motor-cycle crashed into a fallen tree six miles from their Butterworth camp. Private G. W. Allen and Private N Read, riding on the pillion, were taken to Buklt Mertajam Hospital with deep cuts
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    Removed fish
    35 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Henjt Kia Teck was fined $100 or one month's Jail in the magistrate's court here today for removing 10 katls of cooked fish from a restricted area without a permit
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    Income tax fine
    32 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Hiew Nai Tong was fined $300 in the magistrate's court here today for failing to submit his income tax returns for 1952 1953 1954 and 1956
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    ABSENT COUNCILLIOR LOES THAT S200
    140 6 SINGAPORE'S absent City Councillor, Mr. P. R. Williams, who la studying- law in Britain and haa been receiving his council allowance of $200 monthly, will no longer get It. He went on leave IS months ago in February last year. The council haa now decided
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    COMET IS STILL SO ELUSIVE
    104 6 The Arend-Roland comet, which is moving towards the earth, has still not been seen over Singapore. Prof. J.C. Cooke of the University of Malaya, who has been rising before sunrise for the past week to watch for the comet, said yesterday that clouds were obstructing
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    Record music
    23 6 The Singapore Recorded Music Society presents recorded works by Beethoven at the Oei Tiong Ham hall. St Joseph's Institution, tomorrow night.
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    PROFESSOR COOKE (EX-RUGBY STAR) IS LEAVING
    195 7 DROF. J. C. COOKE, 49, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Malaya and a keen member of the Royal Singapore Flying Club, will leave Singapore next month. He has resigned from the University to join the Ministry of Supply's Royal Aircraft Establishment
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    No registration card car, says colonel
    316 7 No registration card car, says colonel COMPANY BOSS ACCUSED OF CHEATING J^ COMPANY dealing in cars and acting as agent for a bank in hire-purchase business made a cash transaction with a purchaser without issuing him with the car's registration card, a Singapore district court was told yesterday. Ownership of
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    560-MILE SCOUT LEARNS A LESSON
    88 7 560-MILE SCOUT LEARNS A LESSON P. V. KAVINDRAN, 18, a Sungei Patani Scout, has cycled more than 560 miles from Kedah to Singapore with only $2 in his pocket. Kavindran cycled because "it gave me a chance to see many places that I would not see from a train or
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    Students arrive for look-around
    55 7 A group of students and seven teachers from the Chung Hwa High School, Kota Bahru, will arrive in I Singapore today on a five-day visit. The students will visit the various places of interest including the University of Malaya the Assembly House, the Van Kleef Aquarium
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    24 SILENT GURKHAS MADE THEIR FAREWELLS WITH MASSES OF FLOWERS
    166 7 24 SILENT GURKHAS MADE THEIR FAREWELLS WITH MASSES OF FLOWERS AN army truck drew up at Singapore Airport, yesterday and out jumped 24 men of the 1/7 Gurkha Rifles, stationed at Kluang. They carried no rifles or kukries. Instead each had a zarland or a bouquet of flowers in his
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    EXPULSION FOR TWO UMNO FOUNDERS
    122 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THE United Malays National Organisation last night expelled two founder members, one of them a branch chairman, for calling a Malay congress to consider the Reid Report in defiance of an UMNO order. They were Haji Yahaya bin Sheikh Ahmad, chairman of
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    Plea: I HAD to steal
    64 7 IPOH, Tues. An unemployed labourer, Yone Foh Yin, 22, told the magistrate's court here today that he had to steal to pay for the medical expenses of his wife who had recently had a child. Yong pleaded guilty to three charges of theft from private
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    School for aborigines
    53 7 IPOH. Tues. Biggest I community service project of the Ipoh Rotary Club for 1957 is the school for aborigines to be built at the Kinta waterworks intake.. near Tanjong Rambutan, about nine mile.s north-east of Ipoh. The Education Department has offered to provide a teacher if Rotarians
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    'ANOTHER WAY OF BUYING'
    109 7 'ANOTHER WAY OF BUYING' that the registration card would not be returned by the bank? Leong: No otherwise I wouldn't have sold the car to the colonel. He added that he was certain such transactions were honest and proper. There was another method of hire-purchase agreement which the company dealt
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    Forced to wrong side of road
    62 7 A taxi driver, Foh Chee Quee, of Changi, told a Singapore magistrate yesterday that he was forced to the wrong sid e of Guillemard Road by red lights showing the road was under repair. The magistrate, Mr. K. C. Chan, discharged Foh, who had
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    51 8 to Hunt, $10 (minimum). MR WONG WAI LAM and Family thank all their Friends and Relatives for their Attendance and Assistance at the Funeral on Sunday 14.4.57 of the late Madam: Lool Siew Keok (Mrs. Won- Wai Lam) as well as those who sent Wreaths etc. and Messages of
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    DEATH
    48 8 20 Word. $10 minimum). NT. KAHASU, agea 30, 0 f Civil Engineering Dept. 5.H.8., eldest son of late Mr. Nagallngam passed away peacefully at the General Hospital Singapore on 16.4.57 at 7 p.m. Cortege leaves 26 Bpottishwood Park Road at 5 p.m. to Hindu Cemetery Bldadarl today.
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    173 8 2« Words $11) (minimum). LAST DAY— No Petrol Bill* For A Year! S<v your MobUgas Service Station »or an Entry Form to-.- a 1.000 gallon prize. HOW DO YOU manage It? Manage what? To eliminate cookIne odours. Simple, my dear Watgon, use Air-wirk. Al r.R SIX GLAMOUR! I For
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    IN MEMORIAM
    28 8 IN EVER-LOVING MEMORY of our dearly beloved Shirley Chong Man Guan who went to be with the lord on 17-4-55. Inserted by her Parenti and Sisters.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed. Apr. 17, 1957. TheMCAAnd The Guilds
    624 8 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed. Apr. 17, 1957. TheMCAAnd The Guilds The Malayan Chinese Association has spoken to good purpose in attacking the proposal of a number of Chinese guilds and associations to seek British intervention in the making of the Federation's constitution. The intention to send a deputation of
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    New Breath
    370 8 Apparently the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce has preserved but adapted the old custom of inviting the Governor to its annual general meeting, and so it now has as its yearly guest the Prime Minister. Like the feathered official of colonial days, the Prime Minister listens but does not
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    After Hours
    162 8 The Seremban Town Council is to b e congratulated on accepting a proposal that monthly meetings should be held at 4.30 p.m. instead of in the mornings or early afternoon. In contrast there is the reaction of certain Malacca Municipal councillors to the same proposal. They contend that
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    NEW BRITISH BUDGET HOLDS PROMISE OF A MORE STABLE POUND
    1060 8  - NEW BRITISH BUDGET HOLDS PROMISE OF A MORE STABLE POUND PAUL BAREAU By The neu> tax conclusions arts intended to provide a neu> climate of opportunity and incentive. Xecertheiema Britain remains one of the most heavily taxed countries in the tforld. The man with an income of £iO,OOO a year
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      Engineer need not be a corporate member
      374 8 YOU state that "In engineering the graduate of even a British university cannot practise in Malaya until he becomes a member or associate of the British Institution of Civil Engineers or Mechanical Engineers." The true position is that the candidate for entry to
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      Houses built too slowly
      96 8 MAY I remind the councillors of Kampar that new houses are coming up more slowly than in many other towns of the same size. To hinder the progress of new nouses. Just because Kampar does not have sufficient water supply is the t*st way to kill
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      Children and road safety
      102 8 AFTER reading Mr.Leong Si-poh's letter (S.T. March 25) I feel it is unfair to the Singapore Education Authority. Officials in the Education Department realised the need for road safety measures for children a long time ago. Men like Mr. Balhatchet and Mr. De Costa got representatives
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      Unqualified teachers
      54 8 THERE are teachers tak- ing classes in schools without any Normal qualifications and with external degrees. It is time for the Ministry of Education to start a postNormal course for them so that these teachers will do justice to the boy s by teaching in the Malayan up-to-date
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      Acknowledge applications
      31 8 IT is a pity that almost all advertisers in the 'Situation Vacant' columns do not have the courtesy to acknowledge applications either through the press or individually. RASCHID. Singapore.
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      WHY CLOSE BLOOD BANK DURING LUNCH HOUR?
      162 8 WHY CLOSE BLOOD BANK DUR ING LUNCH HOUR? EVERY now and then we read In the newspapers about the poor response to the Singapore Blood Bank's appeals for donors. Can anyone blame the public for not coming forward when the Blood Transfusion Service observes shorter than office hours? The B.T.S.
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    On the Margine
    276 8 On the Margine ON a sum. turned <„ down a lan. conut pla: the fnrl i I I chanting vi.st and Penan other side. Actually v. way to a: colleague Thean Hon^ we should visit Tengk man's bousi Tawar. and journalist tr could not a more ence. The TrnL--two-storev when
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    A ROSTER PLAN FOR JOBLESS SEAMEN
    99 9 A ROSTER PLAN FOR JOBLESS SEAMEN PITB the protests the Singapore Employers' ion, a Singapore itive Assembly senittee has rei tided that a rosset up of seamen i mployment. tor system has the the Trades Union t Opposition memorandum on be,c Seamen's Council it .said: "The roster ire convinced, is
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    GANG ROBS TWO HOMES IN THREE HOURS
    140 9 three hours on r.day an armed gang ip two Singapore fami- o Paya Lcbar area j more than $500 in i llery. spokesman said le robberies wer c com- i by the same threeall armed with nd wearing masks.: hnique m each holdiciontical.
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    Wanted: Man of many virtues
    296 9 SPORE IS ASKING: WHO WILL BE HEAD OF STATE? SPECULATION is mounting: in Singapore as to who will be the first Yang diPertuan Negara after the new constitution giving the island internal self-government comes into effect. The Head of State, to be appointed by the
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    Licence for hotel to be studied
    92 9 Licence for hotel to be studied state Secretary of \i Inche Ism a» bin Mohatned Jamil, has asked for the licence of the Cameron Highlands Hotel to study it s conditions. It will be considered with a r *g?rt from the District Officer. Mr. G. Osborn. who last week investigated
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    School plan
    27 9 KUALA. LUMPUR. Tues.— The Razak education plan will be examined by the central executive committee of the Federation of Malay Teachers' Associations here on Sunday.
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    And go so it is left tO a man...
    183 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. I The Keeper of the Rulers' Seal, Tuan Haji Mustapha Albakri, has accepted the responsibility of refurnishing the palace of the Paramount Ruler in Taylor Road here. It was formerly the Istana of the Sultan of Selangor. Four
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    DON (HOPING TODON BAG A TIGER) SEEKS PARTNER
    197 9 DON (HOPING TODON BAG A TIGER) SEEKS PARTNER "U7HO wants to go big-game hunting?" asked an advertisement in yesterday's Straits Times— and after reading it half a dozen Singaporeans reached for their phones to make inquiries. liy rang up a Collyer bank and spoke to Don Ice, a 28-year old
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    A crate of gifts for 'furthest reader'
    106 9 A crate of gifts for 'furthest reader' DR. NANDO SAMPIETRA. editor of an Italian fashion magazine, Grazia, wanted to find out which of his readers lived furthest away. Through his magazine he asked subscribers to write to him and promised to present "the furthest reader" with an automatic sewing machine
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    $1,000 earrings pawned for $20
    51 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A 17-year-old youth who stole two fowls worth $9 and a pair of earrings worth $1,050 which he pawned for $20 from his foster parents was today sent to an approved school for four years. Abdul Rahman bin Dato Haji Yahya pleaded
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    PUASA WINDFALLS FOR 21,000
    156 9 Higher wages and back pay handout too KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. About 21,000 peons, postmen and religious teachers in the Federation are to receive a Hari Raya packet of $3 million in back pay. The Federal Establishment Officer, Mr. A. J. Gracie, said today that the money
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    Women's group will leave men alone
    159 9 mHE Professional Women's 1 Association of Singapore will not concern itself with any activities that involve men, the association's president. Mrs. Scow Peck Leng. said yesterday. Mrs. Scow, speaking at a luncheon, said that trade unions had fought for women with little result. "The
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    Gods spoke then nothing but trouble
    150 9 THE gods honoured A Nj? Moh, 66, by making him guardian of a Singapore temple. But he said yesterday it had brought him nothing but trouble. Ng. appearing in the City Court, pleaded guilty to two charges of illegally re-erectlng parts of the temple
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    GIFTS COME FOR GIRL IN HOSPITAL
    86 9 GIFTS COME FOR GIRL IN HOSPITAL IPOH, Tues. Two office workers and a teacher have sent money for the girl who lies in the hospital here "condemned to a living death." The girl is Lee Tak 19, who is paralysed from the waist down after being stabbed by her fiance.
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    Skirmish on border
    40 9 ALOR STAR, Tues.— A Joint Malayan-Siamese police unit fought a brief gun battle with five terrorists last Sunday. Kedah police, announcing this today, said the bandits withdrew after a five-minute engagement. There were no known I casualties.
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    Bandit held
    32 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A police patrol captured a terrorist on Sungei Rambai estate in the Kuala Belangor "rice bowl" area on Saturday. The news had been withheld for security reasons.
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    HUSBAND DOMICILED in CEYLON NODIVORCE
    113 9 HUSBAND DOMICILED in CEYLON NODIVORCE KUALA LUMPUR. Tues A petition for divorce by a 36-year-old Ceylonese woman was dismissed in the High Court her e today because her husband was not of Malayan domicile. Mrs. Kanamani Sundram Pillay, a Malayan Railway stenographer and a Federal citizen, had sued her husband.
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    Former council man returning
    57 9 LONDON. Tues. Mr. E. D. Shearn. a former Kuaia Lumpur lawyer and member of the Federal Council, Is leaving England at the end of this month for Malaya. He will represent the Rubber Growers' Association at the Rubber Study Group meeting at Jogjakarta in June and
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    17 MEN SEEK A DATE WITH LIM
    222 9 17 MEN SEEK A DATE WITH LIM 'THE four Services A unions and the NAAFI Union will send a 17-man delegation to see the Singapore Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, to discuss the future of civilian employees in the Services and the NAAFI. This was decided at a combined
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    DEATH
    36 9 MR. D. S. de jMELLO passed away peacefully at 8 p.m. 16.4.57 at 1128 Dorset Road, Singapore. Funeral service at Church of St. Joseph, Portuguese Mission, at 4.45 p.m. on 17.4.57 and thence at Bldadarl.
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    Mat tries another magic spell
    784 10 Mat tries another magic spell Mat tries to persuade Bakar Bear to put his head in the stocks while a knife drops. This is a conjuring trick in which Mat has fortunately refused to take part for the whole thing goes wrong and the mango which is substituted for Bakar's
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    PEASANT BOY WHO BECAME FAMOUS
    330 10 PEASANT BOY WHO BECAME FAMOUS f|NE of the most rev markable children of the 18th century was an Italian peasant boy, Antonio Canova. He lived in the village of Possagno. on the outskirts of Venice. On a lovely summer's day in 1768. when the other children were playing gaily in
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    PRIZES FOR NAMING THIS PROVERB
    385 10 Q EAR B0YS ond Girls > Here are the winners of the competition in which 1 you named all the articles I beginning with a B Pearley Viswonothan, No. > 33, Clerks Compound. I Lenggong. Upper Perak. t Julie Ng, 41, Haig Road, Singapore. 15.
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    QUIZ CORNER
    256 10 QUIZ CORNER IIOW good is your gen- eral knowledge? Here is a quiz for you. Answer the questions (no peeking at a dictionary), then add up your score. Ten correct answers is excellent. Over seven, very good, over four. fair, less than four poor. 1. Which of these two kings
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      Lock icon FOUR FORTUNES OF A FINANCIER
      1249 11 FOUR FORTUNES OF A FINANCIER \THED in his prariet, fur-trimmed hard, ice-cold, motional. Mr. Jus\\ory sat in his R h sreen-leather x ;i nd surveyed the (i Bailey Court over n he presided one Liary afternoon in 1930. :i the dock stood a w ell-jrroomed, ihy financier, who d pleaded
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      Amazing career of Clarence Hatry
      213 11 Hatry sold out a quick profit of £300.000 and had capital again for bigger things. He found one firm in England had a virtual monopoly in promoting and underwriting municipal loans. Hatry formed a new concern. Corporation and General Securities, and invaded the field with
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      579 12 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS NORTH BORNEO ELECTRICITY BOARD GENERAL MANAGER A General Manager Is required by the North Borneo Electricity Board either on a three-year contract renewable on mutual agreement, or pensionable terms may be offered in certain cases. Should have considerable experience in an executive capacity, be a Corporate Member of
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      340 12 NOTICES SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL i%% DEBENTURE STOCK 1953/63-73. SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL 5% DEBENTURE STOCK 1956/66/76. NOTICE is hereby given that the Transfer Books of the above Stocks wIU be closed from 18th April to Ist May 1957, both days Inclusive, for the preparation of Interest Warrants in respect of Interest
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      917 12 COMPANY MEETING LOMBARD BANKING LIMITED THE BANK'S FINANCIAL STRENGTH AND EXPANSION The Annual General Meeting of Lombard Banking was held at the Dorchester Hotel, London, on April 16th. In his Statement, the Chairman, Mr. E. G. Spater, F.C.1. 1., referred to the growing financial strength and expansion of the Bank
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      796 12 TENDERS CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE TENDERS Purchase of Scrap Copper and Brass at Kallang Road Gas Works. Tender deposit $200/-. Close 12 NOON 26/4/57. Forms from Gas Department Meter Reading Section, Mansoor Street, on production of City Treasurer'! Deposit Receipt which will be made in the name of the tenderer
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      908 12 INDUSTRIA MOVE UP FIRM BAC By Our Markei INDUSTRIALS accounl business on the Sing* terday against a general in all sections. Sterling rubbers and t with further improvemen irregular with a tendency Reports of agreement in the Goodrich dispute was a slight stimulant on the Singapore Rubber Market bringing a
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      736 12 Ju SHARES AGAINST IKGROUND t Correspondent ted for the majority of ipore Share Market yesbackground of firmness ins received some support ts but local rubbers were for profit-taking. RUBBER PRICES May first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at 92 s cents per lb down one quarter of
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      199 12 OFFICIAL Prices MS"*-* J*r lb. (down M er of a cent) lr TIN: $388 p r (rp $1). COPRA: i:i 1q t d AUSTRALIAN STOCKS MBLBOI Loans 3V4% 1956-59 f Loan 3*% 1956Bank of NSW Con. Zinc Mount Lyell N. Broken Hill Kin so Mount Morgan Peko Western Mining Ampol.
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    North v South schools soccer is on again
    311 14 YOUNGSTERS TO GET BIG CHANCE fTHE "CLASSIC" of 1 Malayan schools football, the North versus South match, is to be played after all. But it will be played at Jalan Besar stadium next Wednesday, not this weekend, as originally planned. On the
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    Record 82 for Malayan golf
    637 14 A RECORD entry of 82 has been received for this year's Malayan golf championships to be played at the Royal Singapore Golf Club this weekend. The qualifying round will be played on Saturday morning and afternoon. The first round will be decided on Sunday morning,
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    YONG KONG SPARKS FIRST AAA WIN
    160 14 A MICABLES A.A. yesterday gained their first full A points in S.A.F.A. League, first division by beating H.M. Dockyard 5-1 at Jalan Besar stadium The player who contributed most to Amicables win— the first in four outings was inside right Lee Yong Kong who
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    Mrs. Nicholl is champion
    58 14 Mrs. B. Nicholl beat Mrs. J. McMurrich by two and one in the final of the Royai Island Club's women's championship. Mrs. K. Robinson beat Miss Baer by two and one to win the Duffers Cup. The April L.G.U winner was Mrs. K. Robinson 63 (99-36)
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    Two Round 1 KOs in Armyboxing
    215 14 Two Round 1 KOs in Armyboxing npHERE was an exciting X finish to last night's semi-final bouts of the FARELF individual boxing championships at the Tanglin gynasium. The last two middleweight bouts lon the programme of 10 fights I ended in first round knockouts by I Pte. Shearsmith (X.0.5.8.) and
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    CEYLON'S ACES TAKEN TO 16 GAMES
    248 14 CEYLON'S ACES TAKEN TO 16 GAMES i^EYLON'S Davis Cup team and Singapore's top tennis players gave enthusiasts an entertaining exhibition on the Singapore Cricket Club courts yesterday. Rupert Ferdinands, Ceylon's No. 1, and Bernard Pinto drew two-set singles matches against Ong Chew Bee and A.G.B. PaWr, while bad light stopped
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    Lock icon ASTON LOSE AT BURNLEY
    81 14 LONDON. Tues.— Results of P.A. league soccer matches played yesterday were: DIV. 1: Burnley 2 Aston Villa 1; Wolves 5 West Brorawich 2. DIV. 2: Notts Forest 3 West Ham 0. DIV. 3 (S): Southend 3 Queens Park Rangers 0. DIV. 3 IN): Halifax 0 Gateshead
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    Recs trounce Dockyard
    32 14 Yesterday's Singapore soccer results: Div. 2B: S.R.C. 5 Dockyard "A" 1 (at Padang), S.C.C 2 RAF Seletar 1 (at Padang); Div. 3A: Haikowyu 5 T.B.A 0 (at Farrer Park).
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    TRAINING IS KEY TO RUGBY, says HEAD
    266 14 TRAINING IS KEY TO RUGBY, says HEAD By JOHN MARKS MALAYAN rugby players must train harder if they are to improve, says former Irish international forward and All-Malayan captain Geoff Head. This is the parting advice of F/Lt. Head, who returns to Britain on the troopship Oxfordshire tomorrow after three
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    £100,000 bid for Charles
    166 14 LONDON. Tues. T EEDS United soccer bosses said today they are ready to transfer John Charles "If a continental club came along with the right offer." Leeds chairman. Sam Bolton, commented on reports that Italian club Juventus was ready to pay Leeds £55.000 and an additional
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      38 14 CRICKET Services league: RNZAF v GHQ; Chanel "B" v S.E.R; Changi "A" v R.A.M.C.; Terror v R.A.A.F.; R.A.O.C. v SeleUr ••A"; seletar "B" v Nee Soon; Tenirah v REME. SOCCER SBHFA league: S.T.C. v Slme Darby, Serangoon Road.
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      364 14 25. Need cricket club peer have <+ T* J priority? (10). Straits Times Crossword 2V4r hlchltaUanspaybyrau 27. "As ever ln my great *s m eye 1 (Milton) (4-6). 2 3 4 5 c 1 DOWN Us HI 2 Linked nowadays with rock *SS SSS JS3 '^5! «S8 cake of A
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      547 15 FOR SALE 20 Word* U Mim.) Box iO et: «xt/«. HTSTBR TOWING WINCH model D7N. good condition. Apply James Milter Co. Ltd. Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh LARGE RADIOGRAM (Solid Teak Cabinet) Philips 3-speed Record Changer, Bush Radio. Condition Very Good. (400 o-n-o-Tel. *****. 1957 SWISS, German precision sewing machines, priced
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      407 15 MISCELLANEOUS UWmM*U (Mim.) -Box Met*, txtrm. TOD CAN I AmjKu to ooy o Obeap Rafrtteratorl Buy quant* boy Admiral 1 1 1957 models available from A. Clouet Co., (Mi Ltu.. Singapore. Phone *****— Kuala Lumpur Phone TSTI. Brenoo Ltd.. Penang, Webb fcnporte Kuching and Slbu TENDERS P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS
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    P & O Cup rivals clash again
    620 16  - P O Cup rivals clash again f EPSOM JEEP BY AMUSEMENT PARK HAS ADVANTAGE ON THE WEIGHTS A MUSEMENT PARK is out to enhance his reputation as the top sprinter in training when he takes on Aquarua again in the Class 1, Div. 1, 6f handicap (Race Seven) at Bukit
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    Race One
    53 16 Martin's ProA ducer and Brown Eyes are likely to dominate the apprentices' race. My pick is Producer. He is fairly useful in his class he has not been out of the first four in his four outings this season and the long Bukit Timah straight will suit his
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    1409 16 Race 1 2.10: Apprentices Race Class 4, Div. 3—6 Furs. 1 058 Kismet 4y Sanwoon 8.04 W.McKerron, E. Morris S. Javalcul Daniels 2 343 Producer 6y S. Khamis 8.02 Shaw Stable Martin 3 322 Brown Eyes 6y Dragon 8.02 K.K. Tan Martin 4 694 Sentimental 4> Johari 8.01 Dr. Chong
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    Miralda, with Bill Camer up, a good each-way wager in the 3.40 race
    1043 16 Miralda, with Bill Camer up, a good each-way wager in the 3.40 race Singora up the straight Race Two STRICTLY on form, Davenport looks a reasonable safe each-way bet. He won two of his last three starts over 6f at Penang and at Kuala Lumpur last month. But I think
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    I STRAITS TIMM SELECTIONS
    156 16 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER Race 1. 2.10. PRODUCER Brown Eyes Sentimental SENTIMENTAL Producer Fresh Mystery MEL. HOPE Producer Brown Eyes Race 2. 2.40. GREET Davenport Strong and Free LD. FREDRICK Pleasure Park Davenport LD. FREDRICK Strong and Free Davenport KHASIM Gala Premiere Knightsbridße Race 3.
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    BASKETBALL RESULTS
    78 16 OESULTS of the S.Y.S.C. basket- ball league matches played lastnight were: DIV. 2: Group 2: Yap Yee 61 Student Weekly 55; Hal Loke 64 Changl Bus 47. DIV. 3: Group l: Hoong Yien (Red) 58 Chwee Hw a 44: Slaw Li 59 Chuen Ylng 62: Group 2: Sin
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    PERFORMER WILL TAKE SOME BEATING
    188 16 PERFORMER WILL TAKE SOME BEATING BEST bet In today's card at Bukit Timah is Performer II in Class 4, Div. 2, over a mile (Race Nine) This Chanteur II gelding has come right and will take a lot of beating in his present company. He showed up for the first
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    GOING GOOD
    67 16 The going up to last evening was very good. TODAY'S BEST BET: Performer II (Race Nine). BEST LONGSHOT: Strong and Free (Race Two). The Double Tote events will be held on Race 1 2, 2 3, 4 5. 5 6, 7 8. 8 9. The Forecast Tote will
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    A SOCCEII 'MYSTERY IS SOLVED
    186 16  - A SOCCEII 'MYSTERY IS SOLVED 808 PIDGEOR I By gapore B Houses soccer cleared up. The new SB!! Fa dent, Mr. B. R A that the .start of t competitions has ed by two factor 1. Many of this flcials are nrw to 1 have needed t ropes. 2. It
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    GOLF WINNERS
    20 16 N. A. Harvey an I won the Royal Sin I Club's mixed four I competition on Sunday I
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