The Straits Times, 8 May 1957

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    20 15 avkraok kn^TM^wriTiKU sale t«rr F os m»,q*Eir, He***** The Straits Times. Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 195? 15 CENTS
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    FLU CLOSES SCHOOLS
    550 15 HALF-EMPTY CLASSROOMS AS 45,000 PUPILS FALL ILL 262,000 children freed of danger of taking disease home Dodge the crowds' advice f£ SINGAPORE Minister for Education, Mr. (how Swec Kee, yesterday ordered the lunre of the Colony's schools from today as a mintcr to the influenza epidemic thus
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    Lock icon Embassy sorry about Red flag incident
    92 15 Embassy sorry about Red flag incident JAKARTA, Tues. The U.S. Ambassador, Mr. John M. Allison, today apologised to the Indonesian Government after an American Embassy worker tore down a Communist flag placed along the street in honour of the visit of the Soviet President, Mr. Voroshilov. The United States Embassy
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    Quemoy shelled
    25 15 TAIPEH. Tues. Chinese batteries on nearby Tateng Island fired 38 shells into Na-tionalist-held Quemoy Island last night, the Nationalist Defence Ministry announced today.
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    Boy dies in well
    22 15 A five-year-old boy. Chew Hai Seng, was found drowned in a well in Tampines Road, Singapore, last nighty
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    ! PRINCE GIVES THE BALL ! | AN UNORTHODOX SWIPE I
    93 15 PRINCE GIVES THE BALL AN UNORTHODOX SWIPE Prince Charles' stance and scything actiop may be unorthodox, but he seems to have hit the ball successfully. He is pictured playing cricket with schoolmates on a field near his Knightsbridge. London, preparatory school. It was the first game of school cricket for
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    THAT CLAUSE: WHAT IT REALLY MEANS
    222 15 From HALL ROMNEY LONDON, Tuesday. THE Colonial Under Secretary, Mr. John Profumo, stated in the House of Commons today that the subversive activities clause in the proposed new constitution for Singapore would only affect people detained at the time of elections. Mr. Profumo was
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    China-bound man held
    46 15 A clerk wanted for questioning by the Federation police was detained in Singapore yesterday just before he was due to sail for China in the Tjlluwah. The man who comes from Kuala Lumpur, was accompanied by his wife, two sons and a daughter.
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    Lock icon Mac's visit
    24 15 BONN. Tues.— The British Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan. arrived at Wahn airport, near Bonn, today, for a three-day official visit.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon 50 years a P.C.
    36 15 LONDON, Tues. Sir Winston Churchill becomes tomorrow one of the few men to complete 5a years as a member of the Privy Council a body of personal advisers to the Sovereign Reuter.
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    7 HELPED BURY TREASURE IN MALAYA*
    255 15 'I HELPED BURY TREASURE IN MALAYA' TOKYO. Tues. A former Japanese army corporal today claimed he was the leader of a squad which had buried treasure collected by the former com-mander-in-chief of Japanese military forces In Malaya General Tomoyukl Yamashlta. yozaburo Yamada now owner of a restaurant in Kanazawa City.
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    HATHIFAHALL ALONE
    280 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The 53-year-old Sultan of Pahang left here by plane today for his royal istana in Pekan without his new wife, former joget girl Hathifah binte Abdul Rashid Alias. Hathifah is staying back with her grandfather, Inche Sayer Sultan flies off to Pekan and leaves his
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    Out of the red: $50m i found for the 5-year plan
    1125 15 Out of the red: $50m found for the 5-year plan KUALA LUWUR, Tuesday. THE Federation Government, which had expected a deficit of $90 million in 195(> now finds that it has a surplus of $50 million for that year. This news came today from the Minister of Finance, Col. H.
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    Appeal by Devan Nair dismissed by judges
    91 15 Appeal by Devan Nair dismissed by judges A TRIBUNAL of three Singapore Judges has dismissed an appeal by Middle Road trade unionist, Mr. Devan Nair, against his detention for suspected subversive activities. This means that Mr. Nair, like the PAP Assembylman for Bukit Tim ah. Mr. Lim Chin Siong, will
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    Lock icon Troops charge
    37 15 MONROVIA, Liberia, Tues. —Mr. Samuel Melton, Liberian Under-Secretary of the Interior, said today that Government troops had driven over 20,000 persons from the country's diamond fields, but some were hiding in nearby forest areas.— Reuter.
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    Soviet's first
    22 15 COLOMBO, Tues. Mr. Vladimir Yakovlev. Russia's first Ambassador to Ceylon, today presented his credentials to the GovernorGeneral, Sir Oliver Goonetilleke—Reuter.
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    Lock icon 'Spy' attache expelled
    63 15 LONDON, Tues. An attache at the Rumanian Legation here has been given a week to leave Britain because he has been trying to recruit spies in this country, the Foreign Office announced today. He is Mr. Eugen Perianu, who has been here since August 1951. He is
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    'Shun Lav mission'
    155 15 'Shun Lau mission' Icy reception in London From RONALD BAXTER T ONDON, Tues. Icy that is the atmosphere waiting for the Chinese guilds' delegagation which is due in London today to put before the Colonial Office demands on Malaya's constitution. The weather is cold. Even colder will be their reception,
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    STOP PRESS
    40 15 THREE INJURED IN ACCIDENT Three pedestrians were injurrr] early this morning in separate traffic accidents in Singapore. They were Cbua Tian Hrr. 29. Ng Tat Mon. 61, seriously injured, and Joseph Demir Neander, 25. treated as an outpatient.
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    $2,000 theft in hospital
    32 15 KLANG, Tues.— Police here are investigating the theft of more than $2,000 worth of jewellery from a woman. Che Reham binte Abdullah, 25. in the Klang Hospital yesterday.
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    British housewives elect the Chinese amah Queen of the Nannies
    722 16 British housewives elect the Chinese amah Queen of the Nannies SIZE GETS SIX MONTHS* EXPATRIATION LEAVE*" AND BOW CHILDREN CRY WHEN SHE GOBS LONDON, 'lues. VUHIiN a Chinese amah in England gets the expatriate's six months' leave to her home country with full pay, one beftins to wonder about the
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    REWARDS FOR TREASURE
    160 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Rewards of up to $1,000 for people who find antiquities or treasure trove are recommended by a select committee appointed to examine the Antiquities and Treasure Trove Bill. Its report tabled at the Legislative Council meeting today, urges the Federation Government to buy antiquities
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    HE FALLS 7 FLOORS TO DEATH
    68 16 A TAILOR dropped 100 ft. to his death in the airwell of the Asia Insurance Building, the tallest building in Singapore, yesterday. Jonab Oulam Hussaln, 33, was found dead on the roof of the ground floor kitchen at 8.15 a.m. It is believed he
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    Student nurses start classes
    33 16 Fifty girls and 12 men attended their first claw as student nurses in the training school at the Singapore General Hospital yesterday They were selected recently from 250 candidates
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    17 new police
    13 16 Seventeen newly-appointed constables were sworn in in Singapore yesterday. 1
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    HE WILL COMMAND MALAYAN NAVY
    66 16 HE WILL COMMAND MALAYAN NAVY LONDON, rues. Com. mander Edward I). Norman Royal Navy, will fly v Malaya on Friday to takt up an appointment as Cap. tain in Command <>i tbt Royal Malayan Navy. He will be on loan to tht Malayan Nav\ for tbrtt years. Commander Norman joined
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    Like mother, like son, Jackie gets a blood donor gold medal
    217 16 Like mother, like son, Jackie gets a blood donor gold medal EVERY time teenager Jackie Wheatley saw hi* mother go to the Singapore Bldod Transfusior Centre to make her regular donation he used to wonder what it was like to give away blood. So one day he asked her: "What
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    BRITISH TAX EXEMPTION
    58 16 KUALA LUMPUR, rues. Non-British employees of the international Tin Council are to be exempted from British income tax, according to a proposed amendment to the Internationa] Tin Agreemer. The Federal Council m asked today to reque.t fe British Government to ra- Ithe amendment on behalf i the
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      49 16 m I A m We have pleasure in announcing the appointment of: I 68 KUBU ROAD, MALACCA as a main Dealer for FORD Cars, Vans and Trucks for the territory of Malacca— including the Town Board areas of Muar, Tampin and Gemas. Ford Motor Company of Malaya Limited, Singapore.
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    COURT MAY ASK HESS TO TESTIFY
    139 17 where the seven prisoners were shot one by one. "It was not a very nice job," said Dietrich. "I left after three or four minutes bciore the executions were over." Dietrich's counsel, Dr Hans Seidl. who defended Rudolf Hess at the Nuremberg war crimes
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    HITLER WOULD HA YE RAD ME SHOT
    260 17 HITLER WOULD HA VE HAD ME SHOT S.S. general claim on *Night of Long Knives' bloodbath charge: prownshirt executions 'not a very nice job, purge court told MUNICH, Tuesday FORMER S.S. creneral Sepp Dietrich said in r rourt yesterday that Hitler would have had him >hot if he had refused
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    U.S. UNIT IN FORMOSA TO HAVE ATOMIC MISSILES
    91 17 Tues. The 1 States and NationaIna agreed today to aing in Formosa of 1 iree unit equipped missiles capable mk warheads. Qited States embasn ~a:d the missiles used only for the I of the island. nil will be equipped with Matador atomic
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    Lock icon Compare OUR colonialism with Red version, says Britain
    227 17 TONDON, Tues. Ai The Colonial Under Secretary, Mr. John Profumo, told the House of Commons today that British colonial policy was a key to whether the "uncommitted" parts of the world could be convinced that their future lay with the West and
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    Lock icon Tunnel plan gets a 'Suez' boost
    205 17 CANAL Co. TO TAKE BIG INTEREST LONDON, Tuesday. "THE old dream of a tunnei under the English x Channel linking Britain with France has come nearer reality with an official statement that the Suez Canal Company is to take a leading share in investigating
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    Lock icon Protest over
    33 17 PARIS, Tues. The 300 Chinese who yesterday occupied the Nationalist Chinese legation in Saigon as a protest against orders to take up Vietnamese nationality, left the Legation buildings last night. Reuter.
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    Lock icon 24 drowned
    21 17 TEHERAN, Tues. Twentyfour people were drowned yesterday when a boat capslsed in the Sefidroud river, in northern Persia.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon JAKARTA HEAT TOO MUCH for MARSHAL V
    240 17 He calls off tour of city lAKARTA, Tues. J President Voroshilov of Russia called off a tour of Jakarta with President Soekarno this afternoon because he was suffering from the heat. Indonesian Government circles said. Earlier a Government spokesman said President Voroshilov, who
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    Lock icon Protest fleet scuttled
    88 17 Protest fleet scuttled TOKYO. Tues The plan to send a "protest fleet" to Christmas Island waters was called off today and in its stead it was decided to dispatch "civilian envoys" to Britain, Russia and the United States. It was first planned to send a big fleet to protest at
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    Lock icon UNIVERSITY STUDENTS "CAPTURE' A CARRIER
    108 17 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS 'CAPTURE' A CARRIER SYDNEY, Tues. Ten Syd-^ ney University students in pirate garb "captured" the U.S. carrier Bennington in a dawn prank today that left American naval officers more embarrassed than amused. Armed with cardboard cutlasses and a "death-skull flag, the students rowed to the carrier's side, climbed
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    Lock icon Bessie wants a Mead from Russia
    66 17 LONDON, Tues. Mrs. Bessie Bnddoek, Labour M.P., last nifht criticised Russia for not setting a lead in the abolition of nuclear weapons. She said: "I agree with people who say it ought to be abolished. Bat I also say it would be helpful if
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    242 17 LONDON STOCKS LONDON. Tues. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not Including stamp duty were: LOANS Consols £52 7 4 H Funding 4% £90Ni W»r 3%% til 11/16 3/16 BANKS Mercantile (£5) £4 9/32 Eastern (£5) £6% H Chartered («1> 38/10 tt /3 Hongkong (>I3S) £95', INSURANCE Com. Un. Cuts.)
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    RUBBER
    28 17 LONDON. TUM.— Spot 26'< id.. June 26Hd., July-Sept. 26% d.. Oct.-Dec. 2«4d.. Jan-Mar. 26^»d.. April-June 2«d May cl.f. 26>id. June cl.f. 26V»d.. July cl.f. 26>*d Tone: Steady.
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    TIN
    26 17 LONDON. Tues. Cash buyers £765 Vt sellers £769' v Forward buyers £765 4. sellers £766 't, Settlement £768. Turnover a.m. 140 tons, p.m. 20 tons.
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    Lock icon VISITORS TO FAIR ASK FOR ASYLUM
    163 17 VISITORS TO FAIR ASK FOR ASYLUM OERLIN, Tues. More 13 than 100 Yugoslav visitors to the international industries fair at Hannover have announced their intention to seek political asylum in West Germany, the Federal Refugee Camp said today. A 29-year-old former Polish Army officer today jumped off a Polish barge
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    GOVT. OFFERS SAFEGUARDS TO ALL INVESTORS IN ITS INDUSTRIAL DRIVE
    417 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. fHE Federation Government today gave these assurances to foreign and local investors in an interim statement of policy on industrial development: FAIR COMPENSATION will be paid in the event of nationalisation of private enterprises; REMITTANCE of dividends
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    Policy for 'protection9 of market is outlined
    189 18 Policy for 'protection' of market is outlined tures, the Government says it accepts in principle that assistance by exemption or partial exemption from import duty on materials imported for manufacturing purposes, should be Riven. It will however have to be proved to the satisfaction of the Government that such protection
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    Mother dies as he leaves
    43 18 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Mr. E. Corbally, president of the Sessions Court here, who left today for Britain on retirement, received a cable yesterday announcing the death of his mother. Mr. N L. Cohen, from Muar succeeds Mr. Corbally.
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    Rubber post
    31 18 SUNGEI PATANI. Tues. Inche Sallm bin Mohamed Akib. of the Kedah Department of Agriculture has been appointed deputy chairman of the board of administrators of Government rubber replanting schemes.
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    Child roams estate after murder of mother
    176 18 AUOR STAR, Tues.— A two- year-old boy wandered round a rubber estate for at least 48 hours after his mother was stabbed to death and her body hidden In blukar. Tappers found the boy, hungry, his eyes red from weeping, on Heng Seng
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    I Mjaiiiyfliinil tttlt JSttJUMf
    252 18 Norsk look tax laws for Federation to the free of Colony KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. rnHE Federation Government plans to redraft the income tax laws to make them independent of action from Singapore. This is disclosed in a finance committee report placed before the Federal Legislative Council this morning. A special
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    TOP RED OUT
    175 18 Wounded by ambush party, held after escape dash into jungle IPOH, Tuesday. SECURITY forces scored their most important success of the emergency in the Ipoh area last night when they wounded and captured the number one terrorist on their wanted list Chin Voon, 35, a branch committee
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    Heiped lottery in CtD offlce-*charge
    60 18 Helped lottery in CID office-charge LIM HOCK GUAN yesterday pleaded not guilty In a Colony court to a charge of assisting in the management of a characters lottery. He was alleged to have committed the offence in the office of the CID in Robinson Road on April 22. The case
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    Scholarships
    21 18 The Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co., m Britain has offered two annual scholarships to engineering graduates from Singapore and the Federation.
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    Stone-broke Belgian bursts into tears
    203 18 Stone-broke Belgian bursts into tears ERNEST WOUTERS stone-broke BelK i a n globe-trottp'r burst into tear? Singapore yesterday when Immigration authorities would not let him out into the city Wouters. 26. arrived from j a pan in the British freighter, Golden Alpha, supernumerary member of the crew, after working his
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    Courtesy call
    34 18 Mr. V. M. M. Nair. the new Indian Commissioner in Malaya, will pay a courtesy call on Singapore's Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock. at the Assembly House at 11.30 a.m. today.
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      117 18 INFLUENZA HITS SINGAPORE Take emergency measures with Aspro. ASPRO STOPS Get Aspro now at the first sign of INFLUENZA influenza, take Aspro according to QUICKLY directions on packet. Aspro stops Do not afraid of ftviv Take 'ASPRO 1 tablets and influenza quickly. You can take Aspro > ou will fit
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      173 18 RADIO MALAYA REGIONAL SINGAPORE (•Programme, (has marked can (9hort 41m Medium war* be reeeWed by listener* 1b Ma- «7«m). Km) AM. 746 Time Signal And Opening Announcement; T.M (Short wave Mm. BMlaai wsw adorning Serenade; 7.30 New 47« m.. SMm.. SS6m and S7tm). A Date With Murtc; 800 p« .ii»
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    'Oxford man wooed a varsity girl, then pawned her ring9
    338 19 'Oxford man wooed a varsity girl, then pawned her ring' COURT TOLD OF TEN-DAY COURTSHIP THAT 1 ENDED WITH REPORT TO THE POLICE pTr^C^^\?tl ri y n e^X eherthree days ter A W-" iinivprVi i t S v tOP t her Bt L rtram Campos, 24, who said he was
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    Death driver claims trial
    58 19 Choy Fook Seng, a lorrydriver, pleaded not guilty 'n Singapore yesterday to charge of causing the death of a cyclist. Lim Swee Kirn. by driving his vehicle negll gently at Serangoon Road, near the Junction of Beatty Road, on March 15. Bail of $2,000 was allowed
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    New citizens
    25 19 SEREMBAN. Tues. About 25,500 people in the Seremban district became Federal citizens or state nationals up to the end of April this year.
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    Open verdict on jobless man
    60 19 An open verdict was re turned by Singapore second coroner. Mr. Giam Chong Hing, yesterday at the in quest on a former Harbour Board stevedore. Tan It Hock 56. who was found dead out side the Kampong Bahru flats on March 14. Tan, the police
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    CALL-UP MEN WILL FIGHT FUTURE RIOTS
    206 19 CALL-UP MEN WILL FIGHT FUTURE RIOTS SINGAPORE'S National Service men are to be included in the Government's latest plan under which part-time members of the three defence services may be called out to deal with riots and other civil disorders. A compensation scheme, in case of injuries during action and
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    Liz is happiest when she's on the move
    78 19 Liz is happiest when she's on the move As a schoolgirl. Miss Elisabeth Van Duyn, of Michigan, was never happy unless she was on the wove and seeing new places and people. So when she finished college, her parents told her: "You can choose any place in the world to
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    THE HIRED ACID THROWER JAILED
    248 19 THE HIRED ACID THROWER JAILED A MAN who hired himself out for $70 to throw acid at the proprietor of a fancy fish shop was jailed for six years in Singapore yesterday. Chua Lam Heng, 23, a rubber godown labourer, was found guilty of throwing sulphuric acid at Ow Kirn
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    Jaganathan to fight in by-election?
    169 19 T*HE president of the Singapore Trades Union Congress, Mr. S. Jaganathan, will contest the Cairnhill by-election if his organisation thinks it all right for unionists to enter the political arena as Independents. In addition Liberal-Socialist City Councillor, Mr. Son Ghee Soon, announced that he might
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    'EVES9 RAISE $5**955 FOR HALL
    65 19 'EVES' RAISE $51,955 FOR HALL A SUM of $51,955 has been collected by the "More About Eve" committee towards the building of a hall at the Singapore Youth Sports Centre. Of this amount $10,000 was given by Mrs. L. Pemberton who won the $100,000 Charm Contest. Hume Industries have offered
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    Off on leave
    29 19 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Mr. T. Horton, deputy Chief Police Officer. Johore. has left for Britain on leave. He has been succeeded by Mr. P. A. Ooulsbury.
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    AIR WORKERS GET BONUS —ON A •MYSTERY' BASIS
    115 19 AIR WORKERS GET BONUS —ON A 'MYSTERY' BASIS MORE than 600 local employees of Malayan Airways in Singapore, yesterday received an ex-gratia payment from the company as suggested by the Chief Minister. Mr Lim Yew Hock. The amount paid was cal- j culated on a factor which; members of the
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      294 19 POLICE BAND: Public concert.; FEDERATION OF BOYS' Esplanade Garden, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. CLUBS: Club leaders' training BAFFLES MUSEUM: Exhibition i course examinations paper on of photographs by Chua Soo-Bin, "Organisation Si Administration p. L. Chan Ho Tat-Seng, Lee- 5-30 p.m. to 730 pm- at headLlm. Peng-Seng Wu— Stamford
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    DEATHS
    70 20 to Word* ilu (minimum). Mr F A- DAWSON retired 8«--remban Senior Health-Inspector died on 55 57, aged 66. Left behind Ills wife, two daughters, six tons and 17 grandchildren. MF< LEE SIN CHO, aged 57, 1 sd .iway peacefully last night, leaving his beloved wife, five sons, two daughters
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    273 20 in Wort* H» (minimum). SALE TILL SATURDAY at Mulchands. All Cocktail and Evening Dresses at Half-Price. A MUST for musty odours— Air-wick— lt kills musty smells and keeps the home "country lresh". SPECIAL OFFER TODAY at Cold Storage. Orchard Road' Leg of Lamb and don't forget the Lambretta. VANITY
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    Wxt Straits 2Smrs Singapore, Wed. May 8, 1957. An Industrial Policy
    645 20 The Straits Times. Singapore, Wed. May 8, 1957. An Industrial Policy The Federation Government's statement on industrial policy does not accept all the recommendations of the Industrial Development Working Party, but it goes about as far as is safe or convenient. It provides all the reassurance for which the foreign
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    Called To Account
    455 20 Year after year the report of the Federation's Director of Audit draws attention to monstrous irregularities in the keeping of Federation Government accounts. Fraud and defalcation is ridiculously easy, and since the opportunities are there it is not surprising that there are those who take advantage of
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    "IS THERE A DOCTRINE IN THE NOOSE?*"
    15 20 "IS THERE A DOCTRINE IN THE HOUSE?" World Copyright by arrangement WtUi Ut£ MancJusie.i Guardian
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      EVILS OF FRAGMENTATION
      389 20 DURING the past few months there have been repeated warnings about the evils that will follow the fragmentation of rubber estates into small-hold-ings, but two major factors closely tied to our dollar reserve and the terrorist warfare appear to have been ignored. At a Juncture when there
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      10 per cent car tax
      67 20 /^OULD any of your readers please tell me the method v; used to calculate the 10 per cent tax on cars imported into Singapore? Is the amount on which the 10 per cent is based:— (a) Maker's cost price in U.K.? (b) Maker's list price
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      Hari Raya listening
      116 20 I w as one of the thousands who tuned in to the Malay Section of Radio Malaya on Hari Raya expecting a bumper listening treat but regret to say that the programme was very dull. At one stage the programme was interrupted by incessant Hari Raya greetings
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      When is City polling?
      69 20 11/HY argue over the date of the general election MM instead of the City and Island election in the Singapore Assembly? We are assured that the former will be held next year. But nobody knows when the latter will be held, next year. But nobody knows
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      A calamities tendency
      201 20 MAY 1 be permitted to express my views on the Intricacies of the fragmentation problem. The All-Malay .a Estates Staff Union has for several months been studying the situation with the result that the executive council has addressed a memorandum to the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association,
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      The Asian expats
      70 20 YOUR editorial on Asian expatriates in the Federation of Malaya was very good, but you have forgotten that in Singapore there are many Asian expatriates in the same category. Most of them are still on contracts and they do not know whether their posts are going to
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      Balance sheets
      33 20 I DO think company balance sheets should be reasonably informative. Som P Malayan companies are bad offenders In this respect. After all. the shareholders do still exist. JOHN McDOUGALL. Karnham, Surrey.
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      Traffic* police at work
      46 20 Traffic police at work nnHE other morning when driving into town via the Nicoli Highway, I was delighted to see that traffic cops wer c at last remonstrating and effectively dealing with that menace to Singapore motoring, the "middle of the road" driver. SC 3093 Singapore.
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      Moneylending rules
      41 20 IF OUR civic leaders are not competent to devise ways and means of plugging the loop-hole in existing moneylending ordinances sanity demands that the principles and practice of Federation moneylending ordinances be brought into use. K N. ACHARY. Singapore.
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      Limit the speed
      47 20 ACCIDENTS are occurring frequently in the Bedok I\ area where most motorists are speeding. It would be a good Idea if the speed limit notice were placed on the approach to the town coming up from the Upper East Coast Road. SAFETY FIRST. Singapore.
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      Minister's view
      47 20 HAVING seen the letter of 0.N.L., of Petaling (S.T. Apr. 30). feel that the president of M.I C. should give his full-hearted support to expelling such members. We hope to see Mr. Sambanthan's view in this matter in the Straits Times soon. P. GANDHI. Seremban.
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      Deliberately ran over dog
      251 20 rpHE driver of a car traJL veiling in front of me on the Bukit Tlmah Road at about 7.15 p.m. on April 3 ran over a dog in Bukit Panjang Village. He did this quite deliberately, making no effort whatsoever to avoid it or allow it
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    354 20 On the Margin PVERY now there com ment on thi, I feel that i am an authentif of the now Such a momeiv ing the afterno spent in Seremb;i Straits Tin neth Fernanda told me that i. been picked British bank to V. training college mi So, when this comes
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    Beware of merdeka pains
    173 21 Beware of merdeka pains I M R. SUHRAWARDY j vVARNS OOLONY: j THE Prime Minister of Takistan, Mr. H. S. Suhrawardy. yesterday varnrd Singapore to beware of the headin s" which will beset the island when it at- >( lf-government. v.ikind at a tea party t i his honour by
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    (Jems stolen
    18 21 Gems stolen Jewellery worth $1,773 was itnlen from a house in Lorong Tai Seng in Singapore early iy.
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    YOUTH TOLD: YOU | DESERVE |_DEATH
    96 21 YOUTH TOLD: YOU DESERVE DEATH BUTTERWORTH, Tues. The Province magistrate, Inche Hassan bin Hussein, today told a youth who exposed himself to a pretty girl and used filthy language in her presence: "If the law permitted, I would have you beheaded. And I would exhibit your head in the kampongs,
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    Tax move
    27 21 SEREMB-VN, Tues Mr. Robert Singam (Labour) will move at Thursday's town council meeting that revenue from entertainment tax should b e allocated to the council.
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    POLICE FOIL THUGS WHO ARE READY FOR WAR
    105 21 Ft* relay broke up ral strret corner r u'»uip.; in SinChinatown to prei opon battle bettwo secret societies control of money•rvnning gambling racI -om the 969 and 08 I clashed twice within an hour on Monday night, n Banda Street and later
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    'Merdeka won't affect the dollar'
    391 21 MINISTER OF FINANCE GIVES ASSURANCE AND ASKS MEMBERS TO QUASH RUMOURS thp m- K F£. LA LUMPUR, Tuesday." JHE Minister _of Finance, Col. H. S. Lee, raid in the Legislative Council today that the proclamation of independence would not affect Malaya's currency at all. k
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    Robbed a taxi driver charge
    43 21 Ang Kee Sin. 36, was tentatively charged in Singapore yesterday with robbing Sal Ah Chuan, a taxi driver. In Strathmore Avenue on Monday. He was also alleged to have assaulted the driver. Ang was remanded till May 11
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    $30 hold-up
    20 21 Four men carrying daggers robbed a fruit seller Koo Sn, 42, in Henderson Road, Singapore, of $30 yesterday.
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    INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC EMPTIES THE DESKS
    60 21 THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC resulted In unoccupied desks in every Singapore school yesterday as thousands of pupils became victims and stayed away from their classes. This Straits Times picture shows the classroom of Primary 4C with 16 out of its normal 39 students missing— in the
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    CONGRESS CALL TO TENGKU
    347 21 'Let us go to London, too' KUALA LUMPUR, Tues 'THE Rulers and the 1 Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, are to be asked to include two representatives from the Second Malay Congress in the delegation that will soon leave for London to iron out differences on
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    Father watches in vain for missing girl
    140 21 A SINGAPORE ice cream-seller Tan Chee Chlew, watched 650 passengers board the TJiluwah for China yesterday, but could not see his daughter. The girl. Mew Jhlng also known as Kp<* Ltn Mot). :i«e MEW CHIfiQ 14, has been missing from ncr mother's home
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    Ministry drops book plan
    91 21 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. T"HE MINISTRY for Education has temporarily dropped its three-year-old Idea of publishing a book on the country to be called "The Malaya Book." The finance committee reported to the Federal Council today that an ex-gratla payment of $1,380 had been paid to the
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    -NEW LAW IN JUNELABOUR MINISTER
    77 21 NEW LAW IN JUNE LABOUR MINISTER KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Employment Ordinance of 1955 will be implemented on June 1, the Minister for Labour. Mi. V T. Sambanthan. said at tbe Legislative Council today in reply to Mr. K.. V Tbaver (trade union). THE CHIEF MINISTER told Mr. Tbaver that
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    Morrando fined $250:'N0 valid case for mitigation'
    215 21 Morrando fined $250: 'No valid case for mitigation' ftADIO Malaya disc Jockey Kingsley Morrando was fined a total of $250, plus costs, in Singapore yesterday for not submitting in time his income tax returns for the years 1951 to 1955. The City Magistrate, Mr. Robert Chee, said he disagreed with
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    FRAUD CHANCES AND IRREGULARITIES IN OFFICIAL FUNDS
    985 22 FRAUD CHANCES AND IRREGULARITIES IN OFFICIAL FUNDS Auditor's report points out weaknesses, tells story of>.» KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A story of unauthorised expenditure, opportunities for fraud and irregularities in the management of departmental funds is told in the 1955 annualreport of the Director of Audit, Mr. H. M. Watson. The
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    Births rise — but midwives —worry about livelihood—
    171 22 Births rise but midwives worry about livelihood SINGAPORE'S birth--0 rate is rising daily, but the Colony's 400 private midwiyes are worried over their future. This is because more and more mothers even those who can afford to pay for confinements are going to the Government for free deliveries. And the
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    Probe on deck ticket 'black market9
    172 22 Probe on deck ticket 'black market' "REPORTS have been receiviV ed that deck tickets to Madras are being sold on the black market, Mr. V. Sugavaneswaran, a deck passenger welfare officer, of the Indian Government said in Singapore yesterday. Mr. Sugavaneswaran has come to investigate the complaints and report to
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      232 22 Straits Times Crossword ZKff^™ p-lllllj with violence (8). s^| pwm ssaafi »viwj iSßfik 3 Doctor swallows shaken dice. J I fwj ra 5. Reverse covering for rat (8» 2 I I 11 H.^He* one^dud becomes a hun--1 j t*' c ''^;^j| 13 I 14 I 15. Golfing with G can
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    Unrestrained violence' drove wife
    234 23 JUDGE: MPOSSWi.* pq,, n m roGJrraMl AQAm IPOH, Tuesday. .rtjS IOANGALBRAITH, attractive AustraI in housewife who fell for another man beher husband's "unrestrained violence," her petition for a judicial separation here judgment Mr. Justice Good dwelt on four Ie case: ■„,11 Mil K sufficient cruelol the
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    MALA VAN VARIETY TALENT THRILLS THOUSANDS
    24 23 MALA YAN VARIETY TALENT THRILLS THOUSANDS TWO GIRLS who enjoyed every minJte. Here they are laughing at Zainal Alam. SALOMA Radiated a magnetic personality.
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    'LETTERS COUCHED IN PASSIONATE! TERMS'
    248 23 'LETTERS COUCHED IN PASSIONATE TERMS' taken without her knowledge when he attempted a reconchliation. "were couched In passionate terms, 1 the judge said. It was on tnese two letters that Mr. Galbraith relied to support his allegation that Mrs. Galbralth sought the separation from him not because of ill-treatment but
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    Jailed for rape
    37 23 KOTA BHARU, Tues. A tapper. Idris bin Ahmad 26, of Taku Estate in Ulu Kelantan, wa s today sentenced to three years' jail and 12 strokes of the rotan for raping an eight-year-old girl.
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    Sent to jail
    25 23 IPOH. Tues. A police supervisee. K. Subramaniam. 22. was today sentenced to nine months' jail for failing to report to the police.
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    Chief Minister sits among his people as great merdeka show sets a new standard
    441 23 Chief Minister sits among his people as great merdeka show sets a new standard KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. thousand people who packed the Chinwoo x Auditorium last night had their eyes opened to the high quality of Malayan variety' show talent They said 'thank you." to the Federation Arts Council and
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    Sultan puts off birthday celebration
    58 23 Sultan puts off birthday celebration KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The BnK*n of Solsncor will celebrate his 59th birthday St hk seaside residence at Mortb on June 3 instead of May U He has expressed a personal wish for this postponement. It will probably be the flnt time In Morib's history that
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      120 23 /■W Morgan 31-D. Social appointment ■i_— ::> -^7 'well.'OU HAVE W 11l SE OVK 9HOK.TU* that will II V I VCWGHT IOV WPNT I s <- a sin-THirrv 1 Arree sevtx, tut* lock K all tti&nr/ j I team social CN6AM- 1f rr primps A Ol jTi MU rr K
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    EASIER TENDENCY IN ALL SECTIONS OF SHARE MARKET
    214 24 EASIER TENDENCY IN ALL SECTIONS OF SHARE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent THERE was an easier tendency in all sections of the Singapore Share Market yesterday against a background of quiet trading. However, there was some inclination for a firmer tone towards the close. Industrials revealed a steadier trend than
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    474 24 The Malayan Share Broken Association reported: 'Industrials and tins were irregular with rubbers tending to ease." fMnfspern and federation brokers reported the following business done yesterday:- Con. Tin Smelt ords 335. 6d.; Fed. Dispensary $2.04 (overnight); Fraser 6c Neave ords $2-40; Gammon $2 xd; Georgetown Disp. $2.30; Henry
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    SPORE SHIPPING
    95 24 S'PORE SHIPPING Ships lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Zaankerk 1/2. Bendeuch 4/5 Loksang 6A. Eastern Muse 6/7. TJlkampek 8/9 Cyclops 11, Astyanax 13/14, Sumatra 15/16. Serudom 18 (N), Tong Poh IS (S), Serampang N. Wall 6, Hong Tat N. Wall 8, Lariang N. Wall
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    PRODUCTION IN MARCH
    146 24 Production of rubber on estates during April has been announced as follows: Kuala Reman Rubber Estates Ltd. 127.000 lb., Bruseh Rubber Estates Ltd. 40,000, Alor Pongsu Amalgamated Estates Ltd. 84.319. Bedong (Malaya) Rubber Ltd- 48,843, Temerloh Rubber Estates Ltd. 38,000. Trong Rubber Estates Ltd. 24.000. The Renong
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    RUBBER PRICES
    149 24 Kay first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. eleaed in Singapore on Tuesday at 89 cents per lb. up one-eighth of a cent on Monday's close. The closing tone was steady. Closing prices in cents per lb. yesterday were: OFFICIAL: Int. 1 R-SS. Spot f.o.b. buyers 89, sellers 89 U:
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    74 24 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes In its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100):— Canada: buying airmail: T. T. 31 5/16. OD. 31 7/16, 90 d/st 31 3/4 credit bills, 31 13/16 trade On the free exchange market in Hong Kong yesterday, the
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    OFFICIAL PRICE;
    24 24 OFFICIAL PRICES SINGAPORE, M U RUBBER: 89 per lb. (up one-Hnh.L of a cent). TIN: $387 75 ppr, r picn| (down $1.25). COPRA: Lnquot.,l
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    97 24 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS MELBOIi TNVEBTMENTS on the Stock Exchange tod firm. Trading volume derate. Mining pn< i as selling presMinsol Zinc dropped 3s. moderately active Loan 3^% 1956-5!, Loans 3W% 1956-58 C9l Bank of N.S.W t Con. Zinc Mount Lyell 21 1 N. Broken Hill Hill 50 it Mount Morgan Peko
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    95 24 Singapore Chinese 1>i r change: noon prices per pli terday were: Copra: steady: May buyers, $26H sellers. m steady; bulk $41 sellers, dr $44V4 sellers- Pepper: about 10 to 15 tons of butt reported done on both vs Muntok white $105, Sarav. special Sarawak black $71 $1). Singapore
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      625 24 TENDERS P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS will be received by the State Engineer, Alor Star, from Contractors not below Clmi T up to 12.00 noon of the loth May 1957 for the Construction of one block of •am-deUched (two units) Class IX Quartan with ancillary services at Buklt All particulars are
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      TEDDY AND GOLLY VISIT "NURSERY RHYME" LAND
      1006 26 "LfOORAY hooray. It's a holiday today," sang Teddy, skipping out of bed with such a bump that hr> shook the nursery floor. Golly opened a sleepy eye and glared at the fat. little bear. "Stop making that awful noise so early in the
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      416 26 F[ERE can be few cases in history of a child becoming a genius overnight. But that is what happened to Thomas Chatterton, who was born at Bristol in 1752. four months after the death of his father, a poor schoolmaster. At the age of
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    WINNERS OF 'PROVERB' CONTEST TODAY
    417 26 Dear Boys and Girls. Here are the winners of the "proverb" contest. The proverb was. of course, "Look before you Leap." Eileen Long. 32-C, Meyer Road, Singapore. 15. |it Kaur. c/o Kishan Singh. 52. Station Road, Tapah. Khadijah. 49, |alan Sleiman, Batu Cajah. A Vasu
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    152 26 Q. Who is always making faces? A. A clock-maker. Q. Why is a match quick tempered? A. Because it flares up. Q. Why was Adam a good runner? A. Because he was first in the human race. Q. Why is it wrong to condemn a deaf
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      237 26 /"3 1 i pUe* fori i Shtrrp *^^>*^^- lord GUli rtnf *"^ga~fe 'jgLSw^ jkwMiw^Mk&i3MMBsi% HBg»-^^w^»«g^gst^'*lHlBP^" The glistening beauty of Waterford Glass is something that money alone cannot create. It needs the sensitive hand and critical eye of an artist to bring to light the beauty hidden in cold glass, |to
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    454 27  - New Scottish idea may revolutionise football (SCOTLAND, since the war, has faltered in her tradition of supplyIng football with great players but at least she is still bringing fresh ideas into the game. The latest one. now the subject of experiments by the not-very-fashtonable Second Division club, Greenock Morton, could
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    40 27 CYNTHIA IN ACTION AT UK TOURNEY Cynthia Truman has her face "framed" by the racket when this picture was taken daring her match against Julie Lintern at the British hard court tennis championships at Bournemouth, Hampshire, hut week. A.P. picture.
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    76 27 MELBOURNE. Tues. RECURRENCE Of a spinal injury may force 14-year old swimner Faith Leech of Australia, winner of two gold medals in the 1956 Olympics, to give Aip competitive swimming, her mother said today. Faith had had the spinal ailment since babyhood, and had regular treatment until
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    30 27 BELFAST, Tues. Results of Irish soccer matches played yesterday: Irish League City Cup: Ballymena 1 Ards 1 Irish Gold Cup (second round replay): Cliftonvllle 1 DistUlery 0. Renter.
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    25 27 GLASGOW. Tues. Rangers beat Queen's Park in the final of the Glasgow Charity Ptootball Cup competiton at Ibrox Park here last night. Reuter.
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    122 27 MOORE wants U.S. $100,000 for FIGHT FRANKFURT. Tues. ARCHIE MOORE demandUS$lOO,OOO to defend his light-heavyweight world title against Tony Anthony. The 40-year-old champion told a press conference here yesterday- "I've lost at least US$lOO,OOO in the almost five years I was kept waiting for a shot at the light-heavyweight title
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    GAMES OFF
    42 28 The influenza epidemic has i caused the postponment of six Business Houses league soccer matches scheduled for today. Mr. V. Grugay, hon. secretary of the 5.8.H.F.A., told the Straits Times that the other five games were expected to be played.
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    THREE TIES FOR EASTERN
    60 28 |>LANS havQ been finalised for the Eastern Football Team from Hong Kong to play three matches in Singapore. Eastern will open their tour with a floodlit match against S.C.F.A. on May 29. On June 1 they will meet Singapore Selection in another floodlit match and on
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    62 28 FINNEY 'Footballer of the Year' ENGLAND and Preston centre forward Tom Finney holds the statuette presented to him as the "Footballer of the Year" at the Football Writers Association dinner in London on May 2. Finney won the award in 1954 and he now becomes the first player to receive
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    Lock icon Chester Vase to King Babar
    53 28 CHESTER, Tues. Mr. F More OTerrall's King Babar won the Chester Vase run ove r one mile and live furlongs and 75 yards here todayHe beat Lord Rosebery.'s Donald by a short head, with Mr Arpad Plesch's Papayer four lengths fur. ther away third of
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    HE HAS A PLAN TO BUY HORSE OF THE CENTURY'
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    238 28 Dexter hits 100 n.o. for Cambridge LONDON, Tues. IJIDWARD JDEXTER. the forEi mer South and Negri Sembilan batsman, scored 100 not out for Cambridge University against Essex today. This was Dexter's second century in first-class cricket. He had scored 124 against Middlesex last year. Two other young players who showed
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    Tribe and Barrick score centuries
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    163 28 SCOREBOARD W. INDIES— Ist Inm ttS-7decl NORTHAMPTON Ist Inns 91. NORTHAMPTON 2nd Inns Brookes b Ramadhin 15 Reynolds b Worrell 2 Livingston Ibw Valentine 27 Barrick c Ooddard b Sobers 122 Tribe c Ooddard b Valentine 101 Broderick b Ramadhin 6 Fellows-Smith st Kanhai b Ramadhin 16 Tyson run out
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    Ceylon ship for cricket match
    26 28 Johore Ceylonese will play friendly cricket match against the Ceylon Navy ship, Vljaya. at the Ceylon Sports club ground on Friday.
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    Sports for Centres
    91 28 the finals of the first annual 1 Inter Community Centres sports will be held at 230 pm. on Saturday at tht Fraser and Neave ground. The Chief Minister, Mr. Urn Yew Hock, will take the salute at the march past of competitors before declaring the sports open.
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    HAI YUEN TAKES 1,500 m TITLE
    515 28 T EE HAI YUEN, of the Chinese High School. won the gruelling 1.500 metres event on the first day of the three-day Singapore Chinese schools athletic championships at Jalan Beoar stadium yesterday. This was one of the 15 finals decided in a programme of
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    83 28 DERBY 2ND JOCKEY SUSPENDED LOUISVILLE. Kentucky. Tues. JOCKEY Willie Shoemaker, «l narrowly beaten on Gallant Man in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, was today suspended by the Churchill Downs stewards "for gross carelessness in misjudging the point of finish." The suspension is for 15 days Shoemaker, whose mount was beaten
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    40 28 PARIS. Tues. MICHEL Haguenauer and Charles Douboullle won the men's doubles title In the French national table tennis championships m night when they bear G--rard Chergul and Stepba Caflero 17-21. 13-2 i 21-li 21-16 22-20.— Reuter
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