The Straits Times, 24 April 1957

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  • 13 1 -JgjQMEUMEMXAm.Y The Straits Times Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1957 15 CENTS
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  • 465 1 EXPLOSION m STORE-ROOM KILLS ONE MAN AND INJURES ANOTHER Foal play ruled out^-but many questions remain to be answered How did it get there? r'ROBE by SCIENTIST, ARMY EXPERTS did a live hand grenade come to be in Nanyanjt Girig' School, Singapore, yesmorning? ras Ihe problem
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  • 91 1 400 NAVY WORKERS TO BE SACKED 17<OUR hundred employees V in the Admiralty in Singapore are to bt retrenched as a result of Britain's defence cuts. The authorities have informed the 10.000-strong Naval Base Labour Union of this decision. And the union is calling a protest meeting for Friday. The
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  • 96 1 Dear Mac... from Bulganin LONDON, Tues. The Soviet prime Minister, Marshal Nikolai Bulganin. sent during Easter a private letter on Anglo-Soviet relations to Mr. Harold Macmillan, the British Prime Minister, usually reliable sources said here today. They added that the letter was couched "in very friendly terms." It was believed
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  • 40 1 SCENE OF THE FATAL BLAST OLD DESKS BODY FOUND HERE AN ARMY explosives expert inspects the tragic scene. Note the desks and chairs piled high. The grenade is believed to have been in one of the deks. Straits Times nirture
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  • 144 1 PERAK electrical engineer, Fred Johns, who drove his Jaguar 2.4 to second place in the Mobilgas Economy Run at the weekend, yesterday lodged a protest with the Singapore Motor Club, who organised the event. He told the Straits Times last night: "I used only 12.02
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  • 76 1 LONDON. Tues.— The British Foreign Secretary. Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, today sued his young wife for divorce on charges of adultery. Mr. Lloyd's lawyers announced that Mrs. Lloyd who is 30. was not contesting the suit. The Foreign Secretary cited as co-respondent a man named Martin Lubbock.
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  • 103 1 TALKS WITH CHIANG— Chou says it again TOKYO. Tues— The Chinese Premier, Mr. Chou Enlal. was quoted here today as saying that negotiations to effect co-operation between the Nationalist and Communist Chinese are already under way. Japanese correspondents covering a Japan Socialist Party visit to Peking reported that the Socialist
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  • 26 1 LONDON, Tues. The Queen last night made Lord ?sma? 69. retiring SecretaryGeneral of NATO, a Knight the Garter Brita n's highest accolade for chivalry.
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  • 160 1 JUNGLE REDS GET STUDENT RECRUITS TOHORE BAHRI Tues. A number of senior J pupils from Singapore Chinese schools have quit their studies and crossed the Causeway to join the terrorist ranks in Johore, a police spokesman told the Straits Times here today. "We have definite evidence about this and we
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  • 231 1 FUSILIERS WAITED FOR 12 HOURS IPOH, ruesday 4 PATROL from the Ist Bn.. the Royal Scots A Fusiliers, that had been in ambush for 12 hours at the edge of the Fook Hing tin mine in the Chemor area, 13 miles north of
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  • 61 1 Jordan Govt. quits, says Cairo Radio CAIRO. Tues— Cairo Radio announced today that the Jordan cabinet of Dr. Hussein Khalidi had resigned after 10 days in office in the face of opposition from leftist elements. The radio quoted the Middle East News Agency as saying that Mr. Khalidi quit after
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  • 71 1 DEATH FALL FROM CATHAY BUILDING rE body of a man was found last night in an airwell of the Cathay Building. Singapore. It is believed that he fell 150 feet to his death from the 9th storey shortly after 7 p.m.. when restaurant workers heard a loud thud Police recovered
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  • 44 1 LONDON. Tues. The Arend-Roland Comet said to be the brightest visible in the northern hemisphere since Halley's Comet appeared at the beginning of the century was clearly seen by several people last night in central and west Scotland and in Yorkshire. Reuter.
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  • 37 1 CAIRO, Tues. Barrett McGurn, correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune left for Rome early today after Informing the United States embassy that he had been ordered to leave by the Egyptian Government— U. P.
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  • 33 1 BAGDAD. Tues. Iraqi police today found the battered body of Jack Rodney Nash. 32. of Memphis. Tennesse, who was sucked out of an Air France plane at 18.000 feet on Sunday.
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  • 25 1 NICOSIA. Tues. A 12--year-old Greek Cypriot, Costas Meidais. was jailed here today for three years for hiding ammunition and arms in Kyrenia. U.P.
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  • 228 1 SULTAN ANGERED BY ALL THE HONEYMOON DETAILS From BILL GOODWIN HONG KONG, Tues.— The Sultan of Pahang today angrily ordered a curtain of silence to be drawn on his secret romance and marriage to a young Malay dancing girl. Yesterday the Sultan stayed In tils regal honeymoon suite at the
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  • 215 1 Few sour notes expected ONE or two Independents are expected to provide* the only hostile notes when the Singapore Legislative Assembly debates the recent constitutional talks in London. Th c resolution to be moved by the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, has already been agreed on
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  • 44 1 TRAGEDY AT TENCAH Royal Air Force jet aircraft coming in to land at Tengah airfield last night sliced off heads of two airmen waiting in Land Rover near runway Tragedy occurred shortly before 9 p.m. Police have impounded plane Pilot in hospital.
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  • 305 2 DRAMA AT DAWN 1 U.S. pilot tells of secret landing in China i to rescue boy hostage TOKYO, Tuesday. J^S American pilot told today how he and another American flew into Red China this month and rescued a wealthy Chinese businessman's son who had been held by the Communists for
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  • 275 2 "A beautiful Chinese girl joined us there and unfolded a story which. If it had not been for her obvious sincerity, would have evoked a laugh from us," said Bush. "She said that six years ago a wealthy Chinese was forced to leave China. Preparations
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  • 62 2 Nasser calls meeting on Jordan CAIRO. Toes.—President Nasser today called an extraordinary cabinet session for tomorrow night to consider the explosive situation in Jordan and the Suez Canal problem. The power straggle in Jordan between King Hussein and his political opponents has faced Egypt and the neutral Arab bloc with
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  • 22 2 OTTAWA, Tues. Canada favours the move to ease allied restrictions on trade with China, federal trade authorities said today.— Reuter.
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  • 17 2 SYDNEY, Tues. Thirtyseven people died in Australian road accidents during the Easter holiday. A. P.
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  • 641 2 MAC PUBLISHES SECRET EXCHANGE OF NOTES BETWEEN MOSCOW, LONDON SETTING oat on a belated honeymoon last week: Private Bob Mac Donald, REME, from Inverness, Scotland, and his Hong Kong wife. An Po Han, 21. They were hurriedly married In Hong Kong on Dee. 6. The
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  • 210 2 Djuanda flies to Sumatra JAKARTA, Tuesday. TiHE new Premier, Mr. Djuanda, today began his campaign to regain the support of rebellious outlying provinces by flying to Padang, Central Sumatra, where the provincial revolt began last December. He Is expected to begin talks later today with
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  • 39 2 TAIPEH, Tues— Lieut. Oen. Chang Duk Chang, chief of staff of South Korea's air force, said here yesterday that North Korea now possessed 800 modern warplanes. including jet bombers capable of delivering atom bombs. Reuter.
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  • 55 2 ROME, Tues A 32--year-old widow netted 132,068,216 lire ($630,000) today by being the only one to forecast tbe results of yesterday's IS matches in the Italian football pool weekly contest. Mrs. Marietta Oheza, living with her widowed mother and her eight-year-old daughter, hit the Jack-pot with
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  • 29 2 LONDON, Tues. Talks on defence and economic matters ended here yesterday between Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Central African Federation, and Colonial Office officials. AP.
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  • 31 2 SAIGON, Tues. South Vletnan. plans to send a delegation headed by a cabinet minister to the independence ceremonies in Kuala Lumpur in August, a government source said^— U.P.
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  • 34 2 KEYWEST (Florida), Tues. —A 13-foot shark attacked a youth in the surf yesterday mangling the boy's left ankle. Michael Carpenter, 17, is in fair condition at a hospital. —A. P.
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  • 100 2 NEW YORK. Tues.—Thirtyfive stewardesses from the world's major airlines compete tonight for the title of Miss Spirit of St. Louis, to be awarded in connection with the Warner Brothers film about the life of Charles Lindbergh. The 35 finalists, many from overseas, were chosen from more
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  • 92 2 shortage makes Lady Eden quit hotel suite BOSTON, Tues Eden-rtaying aTih 1 Ritz Carlt«n Hotel Z* ton, while her husb£ is in hospital-,,';:";* to move out ol her g^J into a single room h cause of dollar ioort« She had been n U5527 (S81) a day'f a sitting-room, bedroom and
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  • 316 3 NASSER AWD OPEN UP WITH STORIES OP AM ANGLO-AMERICAN PLOT Red leaflets seized as Hussein prepares for showdown battle EirvPTTAM o LON DON, Tuesday. and Soviet propaganda openly in«H« #2-^ m the ordan criBis toda y on 3 0 7 !}J n X Hussein's opponents
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    • 167 3 Admit Red China to U.N.Attlee yFW YORK, Tues.— A Earl Attlee, former tish Prime Minister hero yesterday Red China, should be admitted to the Nations. may like Rod but .she must be A as a country," •1 Attlee MHL "You may i neighbour, but cognise him." called the United tttitude
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  • 45 3 NEW YORK, Tues.— Two men were trapped by fire in an anthracite coal mine 1,500 feet below the surface today. The two men were working at the bottom of the vein when fire broke out. Four miners working higher escaped.—UP.
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  • 77 3 NEW YORK. Tues— A 'in Kolls-Royce "Silver ihiKt" won a "beauty ontest" held here yesterlav among 20 vintage cars rom Britain and the -nited States. The owner is Mr. S. J. "kinner. of Basingstoke, lampshire. England. The cars were gathered here for tomorrow's start of the second
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  • 93 3 forces would "unanimously" refuse to quell a popular uprising. There were reports of antiWestern demonstrations yesterday in Nablus and other cities where pro-Egyptian and leftist sentiment runs most strongly. U.S. in war? In SAN FRANCISCO Senator William Pulbright said today that the United States
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  • 47 3 NEW YORK, Tues. The 46,005-ton World Beauty, described as the largest tanker ever built in the western hemisphere, has sailed for Venezuela to load her first cargo. The vessel is t 0 carry Venezuelan crude oil to Britain on its first trip. Reuter.
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  • 120 3 TWO CEYLON BASES STAY OPEN TO BRITAIN /COLOMBO, Tues. Ceylon \J has agreed to let Bri tain use the naval base at Trincomalee and the air base at Katunayake for a period ranging from three to five years. Official sources said the agreement covered use of the bases by the
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  • 40 3 TOUGH, these Israeli Army girls. This platoon was photographed in Jerusalem last week after a gruelling. 35-mile route march from Tel Aviv. And they still have enere» to sing. A.P. picture.
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  • 20 3 TOKYO, Tues.— Direct telephone service between Moscow and Tokyo opened today for the first time in history.
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  • 146 3 LONDON, Tuesday. rnHE only woman in the Supreme Soviet, Ekaterina Furtseva, chairman of the Moscow Party, said yesterday that the "slightest easing in the dictatorship of the proletariat" could be followed by antiCommunist revolutions. I Her speech in Moscow to a "festive meeting" marking the 87th
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  • 31 3 KABUL. Tues. Pan-Ame-rican World Airways became a major shareholder of Afghanistan's Aryan a airlines by purchasing 49 per cent of the company's stock, it was announced today.— U. P.
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  • 299 3 RUBBER LONDON, Wed. Spot 27«4d., May 27*, d.. June 27\d., JulySept. 27 \d.. Oct.-Dec. 27 "«d.. Jan. -Mar. 26?« d., April-June c.l.f. 265 d., May c.l.f. 27d.. June c.i.f. 27d., July 27d. Tone: Very quiet. TIN LONDON, Tues.— Cash buyers £774 a, sellers £775. Forward buyers £770 sellers
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  • 132 4 PENANG, Tues.— The Federation Government has cancelled its annual grant to the Federation Adult Education Association. Disclosing this today, the chairman of the Penang branch. Mr. Khoo Choo Poon. said the Government had told the association's headquarters that no grant would be given
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  • 156 4 (l #Aif TO BE ALONE, SAYs\ V MAM WITH TWO WIVE* PENANG, Tues.— A medicine dealer said In court today that his wife slashed him with a knife because he refused to take her to a prayer service with his other wife. "I wanted her
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  • 234 4 IGNORANCE, bad A housing, semi-star-vation and chronic poverty are still the stumbling blocks to progress towards better health, states the annual report of the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital. It cites the case of a sixmonth old baby girl who was treated at the outpatient department
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  • 248 4 'Reconsider this clerks' Bill: It is designed to suit the bosses' UNION WIRES ASSEMBLYMEN T»HE 4,000-strong Singapore Business Hous< s F L ployees' Union yesterday sent telegrams to Assemblymen urging them to reconsider the t P I Employment Bill. The Select Committee's n-nnri the BUI is to be tabled at
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  • 75 4 DARK GLASSES AND FASHION MR. W. VV. BIJUKKV RIDGE, a South African business executive nho passed through Singapore by PAA .vestrrd.i>. said that dark classes wrrr nut only meant to protm eyes from the sun. "Sun classes have rntrrrd the fashion world. Prnplr wear them for style." hf added. Mr.
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  • 40 4 Two Anzac Day memorial services will be held at the Cenotaphs in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur at dawn tomorrow. The anniversary Is In memory of Australians and New Zealanders who lost their lives at Galhpoli. in 1915.
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  • 47 4 A Singapore housewife was slashed in the head after a quarrel with her husband in Havelock Road last night. She was admitted to the General Hospital in a serious condition. Police have seized a parang from the house. A man has been detained.
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  • 34 4 K U A L A TRENGGANU rues. A nine-year-old schoolgirl. Lee Ouan Hing. was killed instantly yesterday when she was knocked down by a car at the 16th mile Kuala Brang Road
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  • 70 4 Hundreds of Indians attended a meeting in the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday to welcome the South Indian screen and stage actors Mr. T. K. Bhagwathl and Mr. T. K. Shanmugam. The public reception to the actor brothers and their dramatic troupe of 41 was arranged by the
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  • 117 4 rrHE Singapore Military Forces headquarters has received 98 applications from young men wanting to be officers in the Colony's first regular infantry battalion. They were in response to an advertisement early this month inviting candidates for two officer cadetships In Australia. Lt. Col R. W. Stephenson.
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  • 24 4 Mr. E. Cressington, the first Radio Malaya engineer to retire under the Malayanisatlon scheme, left Singapor*in the Tjiwangi yesterday for Hong Kong
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  • 62 4 rE Singapore Military Forces' drive to get 240 volunteers has met with a very good response. When applications closed late last evening, there was a total of 622 potential recruits. The 240 new wenUls replace tho se joined the Singapor,- fin Infantry Battalion those who
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  • 91 4 THE Income Tax Dipa ment has pathy for people who V Jobs in small concerns through investment in tl business. Mr. J. E. Jeans, department's prosecutor, a Colony court yesterday. "We don't like to b| on such people, knowing that is the only way In
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  • 37 4 The Pakistan Prim. I tor Mr. Hussein I Suhrawardy. will c<>m< I Singapore on May 6 I I thrce-dav visit on thf I fation of the Chief Mini I I Mr. Lim Yew Hock I
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  • 15 4 JOHORE BAHRU. 1 Johore Customs will April 30 and May 1 Raya Puasa.
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  • 182 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Compensation for the families of radio technicians of the Federation Telecommunications Department who are killed during unscheduled flights while on duty Is covered by provisions in the pensions regulations. The establishment officer. Mr. A. J. Oracle, said this today in commenting on
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  • 143 5 Cupid scored goal now hockey stars will wed KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Tw 0 hockey stars who met at a sport carnical and fell in love will be married on Saturday at the Church of the Visitation. Seremban. They are Mr. Mike Shepherdson, 26 the Federation Olympic hockey centre half, and
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  • 58 5 The officials of the Young Liberal-Socialist Group in Singapore are: Secretary Mr. Choo Peng Yong: committee Messrs C. B. Chua. Albert Tan, Ng Kek Teng. H. B. Tan. Richard Woon. Stanley Lim. T. Lim. Eric Tan. G. Chua. Y. P. Lim, C. H. Chua. K. C. Lim.
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  • 25 5 Another SEATO exercise, code named "Astra." begins today when 19 ships from four nations sail from Sin gapore for the Gulf of Siam
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  • 233 5 The men cook balance sheets dislike Christ THE most unpopular figure in the business world is Christ, warned Mr. Ec Soon Howe, at the Southern Malaya Methodist Youth Fellowship Institute rally last night. Mr. Ee. the Far Eastern manager of A. Wander, who spoke to future businessmen at the AngloChinese
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  • 208 5 Red tactics, says mission leader PENANG, Tuesday. T ABOUR leaders and trade unionists today criticlsed the Government's veto on the proposed visit to China by a 10-man Malayan Trade Union Council The leader of the proposed delegation, Mr. Tan Chong Bee, president of the MTUC,
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  • 93 5 Colony man will lead WHO team to Karachi OR. I WILLIAM |R OE, youngest son of Mrs. Henrietta Roe and the late Mr. R. E. Roe of Meyer Road, Katong, Singapore, who has been appointed leader of an international pediatric team of the World Health Organisation which will go to
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  • 156 5 THE Singapore Government intends spending $30,000 on buying 21 new pianos for the Colony— 2o of them for schools now being built. In December the new Steinway concert grand piano —accounting for $18,000 of the total— will arrive for the new Victoria
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  • 148 5 Don't be footed, the heat is normal /\fflcially there is no v heatwave in Singapore, says Mr. J. R. Scott, assistant director of the Singapore Meteorological Department. The temperatures reached in April. May and June are normally the highest during the year, he said. This was due to a lower
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  • 95 5 TWO COLONY GUIDES WILL SEE QUEEN Two Singapore Girl Guides will se c the Queen when they camp in Windsor Great Park early in August. They are Miss Eileen Fam and Miss Anne Yong, who will be among the 4,000 Girl Guides attending one of the four world camps held
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  • 45 5 M. Abdullah. 31, and M Bhaskaran. 21, were charged in Singapore yesterday with causing hurt to Tan Peng Heng at the Naval Dockyard on April 18. Both pleaded not guilty. The case was adjourned to ADril 30. Bail was allowed.
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  • 39 5 Two women were treated for serious slash wounds at the Singapore General Hospital yesterday evening. Ng Chow King. 29, and Lim Buck Noi, 49. were attacked with a chopper after a quarrel in Boon Heng Road.
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  • 66 6 2n Word, $10 (minimum). MRS. CHIA HOOD SENG (Madam Yeo Inn Neo) passed away peacefully on 23rd April at 142, Lorong V Telok Kurau at the age of 86 years, leaving behind 2 sons Chia Kirn Yam and Chla Kirn Slong, 2 daughters-in-law, many grand children and great grand
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  • 82 6 20 Word, $l» (minimum). MR. MRS. PHILIP LIM thank their relatives and friends for their kind wishes and gifts on the occasion of their marriage on 22.4.57. MR. AND MRS. HUEN YEONO KONG thank their Relatives and Friends for their Kind Wishes, Gifts and Assistance on the occasion of
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  • 769 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed. Apr. 24, 1957. The Merdeka Debate That the Singapore Assembly will approve the London agreement need hardly be doubted. But tomorrow's debate is likely to follow a curious course. All the parties will attack the British condition which forbids any person judged to have engaged
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  • 206 6 There is room for argument whether the Federation Government was wise to forbid the proposed visit to China by ten representatives of the Malayan Trade Union Congress. But it is absurd for critics of the Government to contend that the ban was imposed for fear of
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  • 164 6 Was the Singapore Government consulted by the British Government with reference to its Intention to carry out nuclear tests based on Christmas Island? Mr. Marshall la the questioner, bemused perhaps by the wrong Christmas Island. The Indonesian Government some two months ago made representations in London against the
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  • 1721 6  -  E.W. TITTERTON BOMB TESTS (FIRST ARTICLE GLOBAL PROBLEMS ARISING FROM NUCLEAR By Prof. Professor of Nuclear Physics at the Australian National University, Canberra. Prof. Titterton was a member of the British Atomic Bomb Mission at Los Alamos in 1 943-47, and has since worked at Harwell and on
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  • 77 6 rpHE Malayan Railway JL authorities are to be commended for the shelter which they have had erected for the convenience of railway travellers at their Petaling Jaya halt. It is regrettable, therefore, to observe the shelter has for some time past been stripped piecemeal and systematically of
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  • 131 6 will the appropriate auTf thoritles in Kuantan note that ever alnce Main Btreet was promulgated a one-way-street, traffic has been flowing In both directions along the street without hindrance from anybody. It appears that the capl- tal of Pahang has Its own Interpretation of the term
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  • 381 6 the main road, or mS stopping over fo r night, as I did on m" way back from pi? ang, might never knoT that he was j, boom town of th. eration. In the centre of ipnh n 6 see s "o spectar.i growth as In Kuala
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  • 185 7 SENTENCE ON DISC JOCKEY DELAYED p A pio MALAYA disc key Kingsley .do pleaded cuilty Singapore City yesterday to five j-gea of not submithla income tax re--5 for the years 1951 i 55. Hgi?tratP. Mr. R. B. told Mr. Geoffrey naden, defending: rry that I can- with the case for
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  • 18 7 I. LUMPUR. Tues. were 241 registered th a total member- «94 in the Federa- month. I
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  • 48 7 She's going to Britain to study for the Bar MISS CHEAH GIM SIEW who left Singapore for Britain by BOAC yesterday to study law. An old girl of the St. George's Girls School, Penang. she is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Cheah Cheng Poh— Straits Times picture.
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  • 50 7 IPOH, Tues. Father S. Arulsami. principal of the Loyola College. Madras, will give a talk on "Modern trends in Indian education" at the Perak library on Saturday at 6.30 p.m. His visit to Ipoh has been arranged by the literary section of the Kinta Indian Association.
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  • 82 7 '■•-m Page One ar.d have attend- < many private lunand dinner parC -:ond they visit- I Lai Chi Kok amuse- park, similar to Sin- I caporp s "worlds," where d their luck at the stalls. Today the Sultan and Hathiiah lunched at the Malayan Association.
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  • 692 7 'WHEN BID YOUR FONDNESS FOR THIS WOMAN CRYSTAUSEV: ANSWER... WITNESS AGREES HE IS INTERESTED IN THE RESULT OF GOLBRAITH SEPARATION PETITION IPOH, Tuesday. A MINING engineer, Mr. Walter (Wally) Hogg, 28, of Batu Gajah, told the Ipoh High Court today of his
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  • 128 7 'Thanks for your evidence,' court tells witnesses JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Mr. N. L. Cohen, president of the Tangkak Session s Court, thanked four Malays for testifying against men of their own race. "Had it not been for your evidence an innocent man might have gone to jail," he said. Four
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  • 29 7  -  Mr. A.W. Ohows, acting Official Assignee, was admitted to the Singapore Bar by Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah in the High Court yesterday. By NELSON RUTHERFURD
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  • 409 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. —Looking suitably repentant in a silk flowered sarong and kebaya that revealed her curves but not an inch of bare flesh, Malaya's strip-tease queen Rose Chan swayed into the District Office here at 10 a.m. today. She left half-an-hour later
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  • 40 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tuea. Wong Ah Sang. 19. was fined $10 in the Second Magistrates' Court here today for behaving in a disorderly manner by climbing over a booking office gate of the Majestic Theatre in Pudu last night.
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  • 208 7 M-DAY FILM TREAT FOR 1,000,000 CHILDREN The terrible towhays qf Singapore <by a nightclub singer SINGAPORE towkays don't appreciate music, they are boisterous. .inconsiderate. .they think they can do anythlnx, after booUnc a table In a nightclub. So said Teresita de Alba, a Spanish singer, before boarding a plane for
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  • 76 7 A motorist was killed and his passenger Injured yesterday when a car travelling from Singapore towards Johore along Buklt Timah Road jumped the 12-ft wide divider at the 9| mile and crashed head on into an on- coinins bus. Chan Kum Yeng. 21. a seaman, who
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  • 182 7 FINAL TALKS ON COST OF PHONE COMPANY WALKS have begun in Singapore on the final price A the Government should pay the Oriental Telephone and Electric Co., for the purchase of the telephone undertaking. The conference is being presided over by the Direc-tor-General of the Telecommunications Department, Malaya, Mr. E.
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  • 77 7 Kite death: Police detain six youths SINGAPORE police have 1cO tamed six youths in connection with the death of a 17-year-old student, Edwin Chan, at Farrer Park on Monday evening. Chan died in hospital two hours after he had been struck with a pole when he tried to make peace
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  • 44 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. A. P. Shiran, of Kulai Young Estate, today was fined a total of $200 for driving negligently and colliding with a car. driving without a licence and for not having an "L' sign on hu car.
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  • 26 7 A 31-year-old soldier, Llm Soo Kit. pleaded guilty in Singapore yesterday to publicly exhibiting obscene photograhs to another sold ler. He was fined $50.
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  • 17 7 The Singapore Court Ushers' Union has asked the Government for a new salary scheme.
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  • 216 8 (COMPANY assistant Thomas Fraser Vallance bought a sports car as an engagement present for his fiancee just before she was due to arrive from Britain. He took it for a test. In doing so. a court was told yesterday, he overtook a car driven
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  • 27 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Lee Chin Kirn, of Singapore, was charged here today 'lth assisting in carrying on a 10.000 characters lottery. *»c was allowed bail.
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  • 250 8 A MOTHER'S last desperate attempt to stop her runaway son from leaving for China in the Tjiwangi yesterday earned her only a string of curses. Chang Teck Sing, 15, hitched a lift on a banana lorry from Seremban to Singapore when he left
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  • 230 8 Employers say: We can't meet men who plan stoppage rpHE Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, was yester--1 day faced with a new problem when he tried to solve the dispute between the managements of Hock Lee and Tay Koh Vat bus companies
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  • 78 8 Gifts still arrive for 'living death' girl IPOH, Tues.— Gifts for Lee Tak, the 19-year-old Ipoh Kirl "condemned to a living death," are still arriving from Straits Times readers. Donations received j jsterday and today were: Wee Keng Woon, Singapore Associated Traders. $200: a "Mother of Five." Serangoon Garden Estate,
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  • 102 8 More beds in Colony hospital T*HE number of beds in the Singapore General Hospital has increased by a third during the last two years. The growth of the hospital from a 4.600-bed to a 6,110--bed institution was revealed by Mr. A. J. Braga, the Minister for Health, when he opened
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    38 8 In Singapore yesterday Lee Keng, 42, and Nr Hiap Leonß. 24, were remanded in custody till April, 25 on a charge of murdering B. K. Bhaskaran Kuruppu at the Naval Base on April 17 TECK SINQ
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  • 74 8 Mr. K. C. Eu, eldest son of the late Mr. Eu Tong Sen, one of the richest Chinese in Hong Kong and Singapore, was buried at the Chinese cemetery at Thompson Road, Singapore, yesterday evening. He died early this month while on holiday in
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  • 173 8 Wo sacking before agreement* T«HE Chief Minister, 1 Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday told representatives of civilian workers in the armed services in Singapore that until there was an agreement on redundancy he would insist that no worker should be dismissed. He agreed to
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    • 319 8 f» m 26. An eager desire to be in harStraits Times Crossword ".ss^g^ M' M* M 3 ii 4 M» M» M 7 HM I"^ v 6 > a ri^ ne for exam H M li§_JilS 1^ l^p 2 NB. at large, untaxed (4-4). 8 9 3 Defeated by six
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  • 1098 9 Shark rescue set young swimmer on road to million "er:d s auhTw?is u tr der and Bhockin ly injured *>* "2s In mindful of danger two members of North Bondi Surf Club, •Mralia dived l in and brought the victim to shore before he was ther mauled. The rescuers' courage
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    • 106 9 Be.x Morgan MM. Being sensible K^*" ■".JlPUlt^j/ -jqqx ft KOM MV I TM6M NOW.' JI V TMIN&, FATHER.' I sTtt3««-»OK FOK.VOU! SENStBLH, MARTHA //*j Dick Tracy Disguise ■^■jgmmH r moldy. musty. potted* HT K^HALF HOUR LATER Ace O'Uara Message ends H[Tj~S«PJP^^PJPW r "o MACA TO &UCPACE OXW.' T Pl-ANS FOR
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  • 788 10 SHARE MART OPENS FIRMLY FOLLOWING EASTER HOLIDAYS •By Our Market Correspondent A FTER a phase of cautiousness at the opening of tiie Singapore Share Market yesterday following the Easter holiday break, afternoon trading brought a resumption of support at pre-hoUd&y levels. The Industrial section received most interest with a number
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  • 141 10 May first grade rubber buyers l-o.b- closed in Singapore on Tuesday at 92% cents per lb. unchanged on Thursday's closeThe closing tone was dullClosing prices in cents per lb. yesterday were: OFFICIAL: Int. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 91%, sellers 92 Int. 1 R.S.S. May buyers 92*2. sellers
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  • 23 10 The Czech newspaper, Lldova Demokracie, claims that Indonesia has ordered a complete tyre-mak-ing factory from Czechoslovakia. to be completed next September
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  • 19 10 The offer of 3s- 6d. per 2s. share of Kula-Nal Kelantan Rubber Company has now been withdrawn-
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  • 113 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per plcul yesterday were: Copra: quiet; April/May $25V A buyers, $26% sellers. Ceeeoat eil: quietly steady; bulk $40 sellers. drum |«4tt sellers. Pepper: white variety steady, and black quiet: no business reported done; Muntok white $106. Sarawak $104 (both up $1), special
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  • 19 10 SINGAPOKr n RUBBER- V. Dr P«r Ib^ (unchanW^ Thursday) TIN: 5388.5Q (down 75 cents) DICg COPRA: fnqu,,,,.,,
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  • 80 10 changes In U yesterday (an rate, New Jfork: buyir 32%, O.D. 32 bills, 33 1/16 trade b Canada: buyW 315/16, O.D 317 "V. credit bills, Ilia Selling T.T. or <,„ New York 32. Swiss Franc, Francs ***** BeUta. ***** i: Holland Cafe Deutsche Marks Kronor 168>i; 225%; Norwr
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  • 131 10 Ship* lyinf alonsside lhf f spore Harbour Board expected today are- I Santhla 4/5 Lars Surat 6/7, Rodsley 8 a Hi 11, Diomed U/H Banka 18. Sed;li N N. Wall 9, Kirn State of Madras Auby 26, Glan K Bee Silverspray 29 30. An.j.,.' Benvenue 33 34. loomed
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    • 417 10 NOTICES AUSTRALIAN COMMISSION The Office of the Australian Commission (Including the Trade Commissioner's Office) will be closed on ANZAC DAY Thursday, 25th April. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Private Road off St. Patrick's Road, Singapore leading to house No. 36 St. Patrick's Road will be closed to the
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    • 269 10 NOTICES CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to Section 103 of the Municipal Ordinance that the plans. specifications, estimates and apportionments of expenses of the works of making up:1. Cranborne Road from Goodman Road to Sungei Oeylang. 2. Swanage Road from Tanjong Katong Road to Crescent Road.
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    • 740 10 PUBUC APPOINTMENTS AppointmenU ef Assistant Inspector (Man) and La4jr Supervisor ef Government Rellgiew Sebeess, Dupailiint ef Rettgleas Affairs, Perak. Applications are mvlted for the above-mentioned posts, which are non-pensionable. Salary scales (or the appointments are:— Assistant Inspector (Men) 1180/310-Al4-464/484-Al9-838. Lady Supervisor: $145/277-Al2-421/437-Al3-528. 3. Candidates for the posts must: (a) have
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    • 709 10 TENDER TENDER TENDERS which win olom at 12 noon on 30th April INT are invited from Contractors with experience In Canteen catering for the Kulal Police Club. Fun particulars may be obtained by writing to toe President Preference will be given to application* from Johore State. HASHIM BIN BTJLAIMAM Hon.
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  • 898 12 UNCLE OLLIE TAKES OVER AND SOLVES A MYSTERY HELP," cried poor Mat gazing down at himself in horror. "I've gone red and green." "Serve you jolly well right," yelled Bakar. "You've said the wrong spell, you ninny." The ghostly voice began again. This time it chuckled hoarsely, turning
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  • 316 12 Dear Boys and Girls. Here are the winners of the "joke" contest, Mokhtee bin Ahmad, No. RD. 6/7. Petaling Jaya. Kuala Lumpur. Mohsin bin Mohamed, 110. Lorong Engku Aman Singapore 14 C. Nirmalathevy. 3IC. Kuala Kangsar Rrf.. Ipoh June Bracken., 49, Shelford Road. Singapore. 11 T.
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  • 429 12 |N the 16th and 17th centuries, many attempts were made by European nations to colonize Canada. But the settlers had to face so many hardships that they either died or were forced to return to their homelands. Among those early settlers were the French, whose most
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  • 95 12 CAN YOU ANSWER RIDDLES? Q. What has a mouth but never eats? A. A river. Q. Why is a pencil like a riddle? A. Because it is not good without a point. Q. There were three girls under an umbrella. Why didn't they get wet? A. Because it wasn't raining.
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    • 206 12 Crisp, golden pastry pastry that melts at a bite that's the result when you use Stork Marj Stork makes cakes and sponges too, into s. extra-special. Give yourself a treat next bakin: use Stork Margarine. I If you want to receive copies of Stork cookery leaflets I I and booklets
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    • 339 13 MMODATION VACANT uf S (Mln.)— Box StcU. oxtrm. \BI-E Immediately for :.ewly built House three .ttached Baths. Moder- Enquiries Box A 2334 S.T. FLORAVILLE", 130 Hoad. Spacious Double/ Accommodation. All Moconvenlences. Full/Part Dally/monthly rates. '"FURNISHED 8 BedFndf?.. Cooker, C/Fan, r.-hly $300, at 9th Mile, .man. Contact Kartar 19-S Bukit Timah
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    • 151 13 Ttong Ham Park, Holland Road Mo^rental $475. Apply^g; C .OT O^™>NWANTED Br B a» ho^ 3 Bl durtng Offlc n wfl l^ S J! ACE WANTED wl^liL < Min >-*°* to cU. txtro. WANTED IMMEDIATELY Office liSSr^S"^ 1 T«l«Phone «ttw small Room or Table Space. R«Ply Post Box Number 1816,
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    • 803 13 TUITION Wore* $3 (Mlm.)— Box It ctt. oxtrm. TUITION GIVEN In Studio at today's popular dances- Telephone ***** and ask for Mr. Victor Yeo. WEAK IN MATHS and Science? pen Rln K ***** between 4 and 8 Evenings or apply Box A 2346 B.T. Credit assured. V.M.C.A. COMMERCIAL CLASSES New
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    • 856 13 HOUSES ft LAND FOR SALE tt Words tl (Mlm.)— Box It cts. sxtrm. FOR SALE:— Building site* for light industries, acre or more, 2nd mile Chemor Road, Ipoh. Apply to BOX A 2102. S.T. A HANDSOME HOME built on a high elevation at 6V. milestone Paskr Panjang Road. This prewar
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    • 477 13 FOR SALE M Words U (Mlm.)— Box It cts. oxtrm. BARGAINS: 1957 Swiss, German, precision" Sewing Machine*; about $100 Cheaper! Example: Small Electric Portable $280! Instalments. 6 Foch Road, *****. "OARRARD" CERAMIC PICKUPS are now available to all "Garrard" owners to fit all their old models of 3-Speed Record Changers
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    • 418 13 TENDERS ROYAL An FORCE AND ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AI» FORCE CARGO HANDLING CONTRACT. TENDERS are shortly to be Invited for a one year contract commencing Ist June, 1957, for the handling and clearance of Air Force cargo through the port* of Penang and Pral and delivery to and collection from R-A-F-Station,
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    • 120 13 AT THE NEUCHATEL STATE OBSERVATORY ZENITH HOLDS THE PRECISION RECORD FOR WRIST AND POCKET WATCHES BSST P^BBBT V- S^ Perfection exists ZENITH Proves it by making The Beit and Mojt Accurate Watchat FAVRE-LEUBA 'WATCH CO., LTD. 18-F. Battery Road Singapore Sold by all leading watch dealers •> •> sj> FAVRE-LEUBA
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  • 117 14 HONG KONG, Tues. XJONG KONG today won the Parelf (British Far East Land Forces) basketball championship cup by defeating the Federation of Malaya and Singapore in the round robin final series. Brigadier J. G. C. Waldron, commander of 48 Infantry Brigade, presented the cup.
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  • 40 14 The Singapore Amateur Athletic Association will hold their annual cross country race over a five-mile course at Mcßitchie Reservoir on Saturday. Entries, with a fee of $1, should be sent to V.B. Perreau, Shell House, by this evening.
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  • 280 14  - Final decision to be made in August JOHN MARKS TWO STATES BACK CRICKET TOURNEY PLAK lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIfIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII By 'pHE Malayan Cricket Association hopes to inaugurate its inter-state competition next season. The M.C.A. council, when discussing the scheme at a meeting at Kuala Lumpur over the weekend, was told that two states
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  • 165 14 NORTH Combined Schools are hopeful of repeating last year's victory over South Combined Schools when they meet at Jalan Besar today, kick-off 5.30 p.m. And their prospects are made brighter because South have left out two forwards who made the greatest Impression at the
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  • 105 14 Singapore champion Omar Ibrahim revealed bis true form when the Malayan Thomas Cup trainees wound up their ten-day training course under coach Wong Peng Soon at the Singapore Youth Sports Centre last night. Playing brilliantly, Omar scored a convincing victory over Foo Van* Khean (Perak) 15-11. 15-3-Other
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  • 83 14 PARIS, Mon.— A French tote dividend record representing odds of 162.298 to one was paid yesterday for the forecast on the Prix de la Republlque at Auteull. The return was 32.459.800 francs ($280,000> for a 200-franc ($1.60) stake forecasting the correct order of the first
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  • 258 14 rpiGERS, last year's S.A.F.A. league first division A champions, slipped back into their early-season gloom when they were held to a 1-1 draw by Chinese Athletic at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Tigers had lost their first three matches, then won their next two fixtures
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  • 34 14 SYDNEY, Tues.— Test cricketer lan Craig left by air today to continue his business career In England. He is taking up an appointment with a chain of chemist shops.
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  • 118 14 TiHE Italian Professional ■L Racing Federation and Torino's Municipality have sent a 433-yard sketch plan of a cycling track to the Singapore Cycle Racing Association. The plan is needed by the Singapore Youth Sports Centre to erect adjustable wooden bankings at either end of the
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  • 51 14 Chinese Athletic "A" beat Dockyard "A" 3-0 in a S AJFVA Dlv. 2B league match at Oeylang Stadium yesterday- Hee Wah scored all three goals. Arsenal s.C. received a walkover when Junior A.A failed to turn up for the Div. 3A match at Farrer
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  • 218 14 G.O.M. of racing retires to England KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. MALAYA'S Grand Old Man of horse racing, Mr. T. H. Menzles, is shortly leaving for England on retirement. Mr. Menzies, who will be 72 on June 6, has been a horse owner for 48 years and for a number of years
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  • 112 14 SPENCER AND POSNER TOP THE LIST STATISTICS of winning t3 trainers and Jockeys at the Singapore Turf Club's Easter meeting were: TRAINERS Ist 2nd 3rd Stakes Spencer 6 9 3 $20,680 Hobbs 5 6 2 20,290 Rodgers 5 15 14,610 R. Breukelen 3 5 5 12,230 Sullivan 3 3 5
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  • 301 14 PEN ANG RACE WEIGHTS WEIGHTS for all seven races on the first day of the Summer Meeting at Penang on May 1 are: a- 2. Div. 1 or. Marigold 944 Crown Link 8.13 Star Sapphire 849 Bridge Law II 847 Banker Boy 806 Holiday Flight 845 Premier 8.08 tiay Hunter
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  • 327 14 LONDON, Tues— Results of English and Irish football matches played today were: DIVISION ONE Birmingham 2 W. Bromwich 0 Wolves 3 Aston 0 DIVISION TWO Huddersfield 0 Mid'brough I Notts Co. 2 Blackburn 0 DIV. THREE (South) Coventry 4 Bournemouth 2 Northampton 2 Swlndon 0 DIV THREE
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  • 76 14 EPSOM, Tues.— Mr. J L C. Pearce's Gay Ballad won the Great Metropolitan Handicap run today over two miles and two furlongs. He beat Mr F J. Honours Curry by five lengths while Mr. Robin MacAlplnc's Clear Night was third 20 lengths further away after
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  • 171 14 NEW YORK, Tue». nPULYAR, one of the greatest x racehorses of all time wlnnei of the Derby and St. Leger— is seriously iU at a stud In Kentucky. And his American owners have not ruled out that homesickness may have made Tulyar ill. He
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  • 249 14 PETER HARRIS GOALS KEEP PORTSMOUTH IN DIVISION ONE LONDON, Tuesri TWO GOALS by winger Peter Harris gave Portsmouth >> 1 over Cardiff City yesterday which made it virtually certain will stay in the first division next season and sealed Cardiff's fate* I Portsmouth who gained full points from their three
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  • 226 14 PROMOTION RELEGATION ...NOW THEY STAND positions afto r Jolchester 44 rorquay Southampton 43 *****ngham 44 Sxeter Jwindon v Norwich 44 7 DIVISION II,,;, I' M |> >rby Co. 4; Vccrington 43 25 8 ij iartlepoois 44 24 n Vorklngton 44 33 Id Chester 44 9 3outhport 43 9 rranmerc 48
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  • 122 14 1,000 Guineas favourite beaten in trial LONDON. Tues. rpHE filly Sarcelle. which 1 has been a strong antepost favourite for the 1.000 Guineas and Oaks, was beaten out of a place on her season's debut at Kempton Park yesterday. Running in the 1.000 Guineas Trial Stakes over seven furlongs, she
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  • 168 14 T*HE EUngapon Yooq Sports Centre's moth basketball in which 136 more than 1.20H took part, will ci Happy World stadium night. The last three n the league will tonight to deridr I pionship in the thr< sions. In the Qrsi powerful combinati' Chin and Nan I
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  • 64 14 CAPETOWN, Tues Oert Potgleter. 19-year-old South African who broke the world 440 yards hurdles record here on Saturday, clocked one tenth of a second faster than was at first announced, it was officially decided yesterday Potgleter's time was given as 50.8 sec. on Saturday half a second better
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  • 24 14 LONDON. Tues.— Col. C. F. Halse's Persian Flag won the Queen's Prize run over two miles at Kempton Park yesterday. Reuter:
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 76 14 1 SOCCER ANNUAL MATCH: South Schools v North Schools. Jalan Besar, 5.30 pjn. S.BH.F.A. league, DW. 1: Slme Darby v Breweries, padang; S.T.C. v Hongkong Bank, River Valley Road; Borneo Company v National Carbon, Farrer Park. CRICKET Services league: R.A.F. SeleUr v O H.Q., SeleUr H.M.S. Terror v RAJ 1
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