The Straits Times, 16 May 1960

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  • 24 1 AVERAGE DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS 80,000 fie***** The Straits Times Estd. 1845. MONDAY, MAY 16, 1960 15 CENTS President pledges to meet Nik lialf-way
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  • 1092 1 Too much at stake for profitless bickering, he says PRESIDENT EISENHOWER flew in here today for the Summit conference and pledged that the West would make an "honest effort" to meet Mr. Khrushchev half-way to solve the issues that divide the free world from the Soviet bloc.
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  • 409 1 Red space ship with dummy 'man' in orbit 200 miles up [JI'SSIA today put into orbit a satellite space ship, weighing more than four tons and carrying a dummy "space MOSCOW, Sunday. man" In a pressurised cabin. The launching appeared to be timed for its propaganda value on the eve
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  • 220 1 p TESTS from all over Pahang yesterday attended Kuantan's wedding of the year between Mr. Lim Chin See, an architect and son of a millionaire businessman, to Miss Barba ra Winifred Ford, of Manchester. The civil wedding was held at the Cathay Cinema and
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  • 108 1 PRETORIA. Sunday. TME South African Prime Minister, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, has left hospital here where he has been since he was shot twice in the head. Dr. Verwoerd went to his official Pretoria residence, 'Libertas", where he will continue his recuperation from injuries received when an
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  • 56 1 BANGKOK, Sun. About 600 Karen rebels crossed the border Into Thailand and razed several offices, including a police station in the Maesod border town on western Thailand, it was reliably reported this afternoon. The report said the episode occurred on Saturday night and at least three
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  • 164 1 IPOH, Sun. A selaldang 'wild ox) ran amok at Lawan Kuda new village, about 15 miles from here, early today and gored two people, one of them seriously. A police party under Inspector Khatab Tahir rushed to the village and killed the rampaging animal with
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  • 808 1 SINGAPORE, Sunday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, said today that it was from the ranks of the new work brigade. that it was hoped to recruit the "best ground workers" in Government and semi-Government organisations. Once the value of
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  • 53 1 SINGAPORE. Sun. Barbara Teo, eight, of Sir.it Road, was drowned today while picnicking with members of her family at Ponggol beach here. Her body was found floating about 50 yards off-shore shortly after she was missed from a group of children playing near the water's edge.
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  • 36 1 RACING STA* KILLED ■m X>uth BelpoiE v ac Britbb molrr i>cL'n r :Ur D*-<eCtufhru.fc killed *b"> be :4irfdcd off' UAik tl aittxn*tiouj nioior c.'cW rate here, l-j--;pccUU.-r;. On', zpu.Wu.teliM&d dead *ni nxo\hf ui^urcd Renter
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  • 366 2 'DEA TH RAIL WA Y SUR VIVORS WANT NEW COMPENSATION Letter to Tengku urges review of peace treaty KOTA BHARU, Sunday IIHE FEDERATION Government was today urged to review the Japanese peace treaty and request compensation for the Malayan survivors of the Siam "death railway". In a letter to the
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  • 20 2 SEGAMAT. Sun. Tn« monthly meeting of the Segamat Town Council was held today in the Diamond Jubilee Hall
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  • 250 2 American degrees: 'List is too short' ifUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Government's action in recognising degrees of selected American universities was criticised today. The president of the American Universities Club here. Mr. Michael Lee. said: BOME universities oJ academic standing in the subjects considered had been given no recognition. and SOME
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  • 62 2 NURSES AT SPECIAL SERVICE PENANG. Sun. Nurses here today re-dedicated themselves to their profession at a special service In the Burmah Road Hall in commemoration of the bJrthday of Florence Nightingale. With lighted candles in their hands, they repeated the Nightingale Pledge to practise their profession faithfully. The Rev. Lester
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  • 48 2 BUTTERWORTH. Sun. Inche Abdul Kadir bin Tamby Kechll. a Malayan scouter who held the post of field commissioner. Far East Scout International Bureau In Manila, has returned to Malaya after attending the Indonesian scout conference in Jakarta. Sixteen scouting associations attended the three-day conference.
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  • 19 2 BEG \MAT, Bun. The Begamat Secondary School will hold its annual exhibition, prize-giving and concert on Wednesday.
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  • 60 2 MR. LIEW KAI CIIOON. sen of the late multi-mil-lionaire. Mr Liew K won it Hon. with his bride. Miss Julian Tan. after their wedding in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Both are quailfled accountants and retmrned from Australia recently. .Mist Tan is the daughter of Mr. Tan
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  • 199 2 Will leave Butterworth today PENANG, Sunday. 'PHE departure for Britain of the first batch of 109 officers and men from the Brigade of Gurkhas in the Far East has been delayed for 24 hours. The soldiers will now leave Butterworth tomorrow In an R.A.F. Britannia for
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  • 22 2 SEOAMAT. Sun— The Social Welfare Services Lotteries Board has donated 98,000 towards the construction of a children's playground at Bekok.
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  • 109 2 TWO UNION MEN TO STUDY IN MANILA KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Two Malayan trade unionists have been awarded scholarship* on labour education at the Philippines University in Manila. They are Mr. AW King president of the National Union of Railwaymen. and Inche Mohamrd Noor bin Mohammed, an official of the Telecoms
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    • 88 2 Thieves raid hotel, take $650 in cash, smokes IPOH. Sun.— Cigarettes and found the front door cash amounting to more J^ .^Jl^j. than $650 were reported Inside he found cupboards •tolen from the Cathay broken open and drawers Hotel brre early this ransacked. The haul: morning. 5350 and $3io worth
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  • 1496 3 GERMAN RAIDER CAUSED HAVOC ON SEVEN SEAS ONE day in May, 1940. the lookout on the British freighter Scientist reported :i strange mast on the South Atlantic horizon. The vessel's captain showed concern as he reached for his binoculars, but he calmed when the stranger drew close enough lo be
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    • 236 3 Buys Bunny By Batph Beitndahi J 3U6S.il J fTOO BAP OL 1 [lT'« LUCKY I'M ON M I JBM^ /NOW LET S SEE HOvA CANT JUTTESBAU.7 MY WAY TO HAVE A y MSTjrA/ V ME LOOKS IN THAT J pr~ a-. PECIPE WHICH HIMSELF I NEW FRAME PUT < WMr
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  • 184 4 THINKERS PUT OUT PLAN TO EASE TENSIONS pHICAGO, Sun.— Leading Western intellectuals today sent to President Eisenhower their recommendations for easing tensions and strife in a Jittery world. The leaders sharply criticised the flight of America's U-2 Jet spy plane over Russia and urged that the United States change its
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  • 137 4 US TESTS NEW NO-PILOT SPYPLANE vrEW YORK, Sun.— The Army yesterday successfully tested a high speed unmanned jet plane capable of espionage work without the risk of a pilot falling into enemy hands The plane is known as the AN-USD-5 or SD-5. It went through a series of tests over
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  • 35 4 JAKARTA, sun.— One hundred and fifty armed uniformed men ambushed a tea-estate truck in the Boreang district of the Bandoeng regency of west Java yesterday, killing six passengers and wounding eight. Reuter.
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  • 28 4 EDINBURGH. Sun.— Marie Ashton, Manchester bom pianist, tonight established a new world non-stop piano playing record 132 hours beating by two hours the previous record.— Reuter.
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  • 26 4 PRETORIA. Sun. South Africa is studying the possibility of developing an arms Industry, Mr. J. P. de Villiers. Defence Department Secretary, stated here yesterday.
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  • 269 4 South Africa needs new government, claims newspaper FATE DEPENDS ON WHETHER ALTERNATIVE TO THE NATIONALISTS CAN GET INTO POWER LONDON, Sunday. THE Observer newspaper, commenting on the recently-concluded Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference and the question of South Africa's racial segregation policy, today claimed that South Africa's fate now depended on
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  • 165 4 PARIS, Sunday. DRINCE Aly Khan's family made plans this week- end to bury him "in the Middle East" while his constant companion Bettina Grazianl tried to face life without him. His attorneys announced that the body of the debonair Prince, who was killed on Thursday night
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  • 160 4 JAKARTA TO PEKING: YOUR CONSUL WAS RUDE lAKARTA. Sun. The In- doneslan Foreign Ministry today charged Communist China with spreading anti-Indonesian propaganda and said Peking's public protestations over treatment accorded to a Chinese consul In east Borneo were "a very serious matter." The Chinese protests were against the forcible house
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  • 105 4 5,000 CHEER QUEEN MOTHER BULAWAYO (Bouth Rhodesia). Sun. A crowd of 5.000 cheered the Queen Mother when she arrived to open the Royal Show and Central African Trade Fair here today. The Queen Mother recalled that the fair was not far from the site of the centenary exhibition which she
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  • 146 4 CENTAURS LIVE ON OTHER PLANETS? WASHINGTON. Sun. prominent anthropologist said today that men on other planets may look "like the mythical centaur, half-man, half-horse with six limbs, four to stand on and two to use." Dr William Howells. Prolessor ol Anthropology at Harvard University, said centaur shaped man would be
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  • 15 4 DAMASCUS, Sun. Security authorities today arrested two Turkish Infiltrators In north Syria.— Reuter.
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  • 108 4 10,000 RIOT IN NEW DEMAND FOR FREE POLLS A NKARA, Sun. -AntiGovernment demonstrations broke out here yesterday and troops had to use tear gas to disperse 10.--000 students demanding lee elections. Police and troops dispersed the crowd in 45 minutes. Many demonstrators were Injured by tear gas. But there were
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  • 45 4 CHICAGO, Sun. Russian scientists have devised an electronic sleep-producing machine, a neuropsychlatrLst. said today. Dr. Melvln Blaurock said the machine puts an individual into a deep sleep In five to 10 minutes and keeps him asleep for any desired amount of time. U.P.I.
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    • 340 4 Your radio today RADIO SINGAPORE RADIO MALAYA Medium Wave 476 metres NATIONAL SHORTWAVE Shortwave: 62 metres ■a-Bvir-ir n t from 9.00— 10.M p.m. SERVICE 41.7 metrr* A.M. 6.30 Good Morning; 6.33 MEDIUM WAVE SERVICES Morning Prelude: 7.00 The News; Kuala LumDur 341 metre* 7.05 A Date With Music; 800 Prnmn
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  • 578 5 Communities can be one nation Toh fHE Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, tonight stressed that a 1 1 communities should avoid using "forms of expression" which could only divert feelings towards foreign lands and not towards Singapore. Dr. Toh was speaking on nationbuilding at a variety cultural show
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  • 241 5 SINGAPORE, Sunday. TiEN Thai aviation officials flew Into Singapore today from Bangkok to learn from the Department of Civil Aviation here. They are Messrs. Baupoj Senavat, leader of the party, Samnao Bhantomas, Soophoru Rounganun. Vlchal Chuenchom, Klat Intratipaya, Yudua Yiutdilok. Chalard Singlatata, Suvldh Thomgaram,
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  • 193 5 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Rural and Urban Services Advisory Council has announced a scheme to help owners and occupiers of temporary houses and huts to get electricity and water supplies. The houses and huts must have been allotted official house numbers, and must be In
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  • 134 5 PLEA FOR ACTION TO AID FARMERS ■7-UALA LUMPUR. Sun. An Indonesian university professor. Dr. Sudarsono Hadlstutro. said today all graduates in South East Asia should be enlisted in a national agricultural service to study the basic problems of farmers. Dr. Sudarsono left here today after attending the conference on teaching
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  • 99 5 SUDDEN DEATH OF S'PORE JOURNALIST SINGAPORE. Sun. Mr. Malcolm Modeler, of the Strait* Times editorial staff, who collapsed and died at bis home in River Valley Road here tonight. He was 49. Mr. Modder Joined the Malaya Tribune 13 years ago and later worked for ihe Singapore Standard, where he
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  • 51 5 SINGAPORE. Sun—Worldfamous American pianist Julius Katchen will give a recital at the Victoria Theatre at 8.45 p.m. on May 22. Bookings are at Robinson's. On May 2J. Mr. Katchen will Judge the finals of the Singapore Music Society's piano and singing contest at the Anglo Chinese
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  • 122 5 TWO SUNDAY WEDDINGS IN SINGAPORE POLICE INSPECTOR AD FOOK KEE and his bride. Miss Betty Tan Kai Koon, after their wedding in Singapore yesterday. The groom is a son of Madam Leon* Slew Hen?, and the bride the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tan Keng Seng. A dinner was
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  • 128 5 More for the Theatre Fund SINGAPORE, Sun. Eighteen more donations totalling $3,332.30 have helped to bring the National Theatre Fund up to $453,688.94. The Nanyang Theatre Company gave $1,006. being proceeds from a recent film show. The Singapore Regional Centre of the World Fellowship of Buddhists donated $300 and the
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  • 47 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A three-day photographic exhibition called "Around the World in 60 Prints" will open at the British Council Hall here on June 2. The pictures were taken by Mr. Don Nlbbellnk. who made a 73-day world tour of 15 countries.
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    • 310 5 QMOmmW KAMALA CLl'B: Bwrtn« clv* pjn.; Matey be»lnnet» ctew 6.30 10 am to 12 pjn.; 1 pjn. to 3 p.m.; Soeneshlftari: "Ruddlgore" p.m., 3 pjn. to 6 pjn.; embroi- Prinrlpals r«heaTMl t pm dery' cU«* 11 *Jn. to 1 pjn.; 2 y.wXJ.A.: Btfilih convenaUonpjn. to 4 pm. tnunnedlmte 9.15 »Jn.
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    • 116 5 Cathay Pmrifle: To Bangkok. Hong Konff iCX 734) 2.30 p.m. Thai iBtarnMtefuU: To Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok (TO 402) 10.45 ""Air India: To Jakarta, Darwin. Sydney (AI 403) 9.10 p.m. ffr-t... to Kuala Lumpur. Colombo. London (KM 545/028) 12 Malayan Airway*: To Kuala Lumpur Penang, Medan i ML 122) 4 26
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  • 1496 6 GERMAN RAIDER CAUSED HAVOC ON SEVEN SEAS ONE day in May, 1940, the lookout on the British freighter Scientist reported a strange mast on the South Atlantic horizon. The vessel's captain showed concern as he reached for his binoculars, but he calmed when the stranger drew close enough to be
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    • 261 6 Bugs Bunny By Batph Beintdaht J RJ6S.I L fTOO iAP OL 1 IT LUCKY I'M ON M I jßMfl^ /NOW LET S c l£ hOv\ f CANT JUTTEeSAU- J NN WAY TO HAVE A] XMTfM VHE LOOKS IM THAT J CSTrr-sa PCC'PC WHICH HIMSELF S NEW FRAME PUT < fß^M^
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  • 116 7 U W,r4t Sit (Minimum, MR. A MRS. INORAN R. NATKAN alnccrrly thank all relatives and friends tor atuodanc*. aasiataao* aad valuable gifts on the occasion of then- marriage on 11.8.60 at Begamat. MR TAN HOCK HIN and family ,'iv.k, friends, and staffs of Singapore Harbour Board who helped in
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  • 7 7 Monday. May 16, 1960.
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  • 775 7 The first task ot the summit conference in Paris, as the ordinary man sees it, is to get back to earth. It is not going to be easy. The «py-plane has shot to pieces almost every calculation, it seems to have destroyed every prepared approach to a
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  • 463 7 Before trying to assess the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' achievement on the South African question it is necessary to ask how much it was reasonable to expect. The main thing, of which the United Nations has been consistently incapable, was to get a discussion going with South Africa
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    894 7  -  FQ U R frightened people are meeting in Hans. They are frightened although perhaps because they are the four most powerful men in the world today. And who would not be, with such a burden of responsibility as theirs to carry? For unless they can persuade themselves and
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    • 158 7 •TENGKU ABDUL RAH- MAN has shown In unmistakable terms the Asian feeling over racial discrimination. Mr. Nehru once said that the inactivity of the Commonwealth conference had its weakness and its virtue. It was this inactivity, he pointed out. that
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    • 136 7 "JURIS" of Kuala Lumpur Is quite certain that a case like Chessman's could not happen in Britain or any part of the Commonwealth. Who can be certain of anything when It is reported (Dally Mirror, March 14) that In Britain more than 10.000 children are beaten, kicked, punched and
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    • 93 7 I NOTE that a good number of shade trees along Oopeng and Kampar Roads, Ipoh, have barbed wire partially burled in or eaten into the lower portion of the trunk. Apparently the wire was put In when the plants were young to prevent cattle damaging them But these
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  • 224 8 2 'MUSTS' TO NET BIGGER CATCHES SINGAPORE, Sun. The Minister for Labour and Law, Mr K. M. Byrne, has listed these "musts" if the State's fishing Industry Is to be expanded: MODERN, well-equip-ped boats. ADEQUATE training of local fishermen to handle these craft. In a foreword to a Government Instructional
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    47 8 RAUB. Sun.— Officials of the Kampong Gall Youth Club In Raub district are: President. Inche Thani bin Abu: vice-president. Inche Ahad bin Allu; secretary, Inche Mohamed AH bin Omar; assistant secretary, Inche Othman bin Ludin; treasurer, Inche Abdul Karlm bin Ralbl; and five committee members.
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  • 50 8 SINGAPORE. Sun.— A Singapore firm, John Thornycroft, is building a motor iaunch for the Baptist Missionary Society Hospital at Chandraghona in Pakistan. It Is being paid for by Life Boys of the Baptist churches who. during their Christmas aopeal last year, collected £3,600 for the purpose.
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  • 27 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Regent of Selangor will be formally Installed at a ceremony to be held at the Istana Kota Klang tomorrow at 10 a.m.
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  • 263 8 PUBLICITY CAMPAIGNS TO DO THIS 'OR DIE 9 HAVE PAID OFF VERY WELL, EXPLAINS AN OFFICIAL KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. A/l ALAYAN rubber smallholders have begun lf A the biggest ever rush to replant their land. Their applications for replanting grants this year have involved a
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  • 465 8 PMIP TO TENGKU: WE PLAN TO WIN ELECTION IPOH, Sun. A member of Parliament and deputy President of the Pan-Malayan Islamic Party. Inche Zulkifli bin Mohamed. today denied that his party had entered a candidate in the Kampar parliamentary byelection to split theMalay vote. In a signed statement, Inche Zulktfi
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  • 103 8 Sir Ivor on new exams mission KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Sir Ivor Jennings, who was here four years ago to help draft the Federation Constitution, returned to Kuala Lumpur today on another mission. He is here to preside over two meetings with Malayan education authorities in connection with the Cambridge School
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  • 28 8 BATU GAJAH, Bun.— Police found the body of a rubber tapper. Ho Kal. 57. hanging from a tree In a mango.steen plantation near here last night
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  • 83 8 CONCERT TO AID UNIVERSITY IPOH. Bun. An Indian classical music concert in aid of the Department of Indian Studies of the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, will be held at the St. John's HalL Ipoh, on May 18. The star of the show will be Srimathl M L. Vasantha Kumarl.
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  • 60 8 KUALA TRENGGANU. Sun. The Commissioner of Lands and Mines, Trengganu, Inche Mohamed Anuar bin Lope Abdul Shukor, this morning opened a new market at Glugor Kedal. in the Tengah Local Council area, seven miles from here. He urged the people to pay their dues to the
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  • 59 8 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association has received $14,692 from business houses In response to the chairman's appeal for financial support to continue SATA's work this year. These are latest donations: Buddhist Union $100: MlstrJ Singapore Trust $5,000; Oeylang Methodist Girls' School 138; senior officers of Singapore
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  • 232 8 YOUNG COUPLE ROBBED OF THEIR SAVINGS.. .NOW A HAPPY ENDING A YOUNG photographer and his pretty assistant, who were robbed of their $1,129 savings almost on the eve of their wedding last week, were married in Koala Lumpur yesterday. Tap Wai Hong, 25, who owns a small photo shop in
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  • 194 8 PAK KASUR FORMS AN ORCHESTRA SINGAPORE, Sunday. A TOTAL of 441 freshmen at the University of A Malaya here will be initiated into the "mysteries" of university life at the Oei Tiong Ham Hall tomorrow. The newcomers will be welcomed by the Vice-Chan-cellor. Professor A. Oppenhelm, and senior members of
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  • 25 8 IPOH, Sun.— The northern branch of the Malayan Medical Association will hold a convention here on Saturday. About 70 delegates are expected to attend.
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  • 395 8 cheary, manager of the Industrial Promotions Board, has warned that the prospects of feeding a growing Singapore population are "bleak" unless there Is major economic development. He took the opposite view In a recent Radio Singapore discussion to Dr. Tham Ah Kow. Director of Primary Production.
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  • 165 8 51 0,000 for Corporal with right answers SINGAPORE, Sun. Corporal Shaari bin Mohamed Danl, of the Federation Police Force, has won the first prize of $10,000 in a contest held by the Brylcreem Manufacturers, Beecham (Malaya) Ltd. Cpl. Shaarl was the most successful entrant In guessing the ages of "six
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  • 551 9 TOURISM and the colour film offer the picture postcard a new lease of life, with "X"' still marking the spot. But the gorgeous era of the postcard has vanished forever, and dear me. oh. what we missed Collecting of one kind or another was a
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  • 282 9 BITTERNESS OVER WAR IN BURST OF POETRY COLLECTED POEMS OF SIR JOHN SQUIRE with a preface by John Betjeman (Macmillan, 255.) By Roland Challis BETJEMAN describes this book as "in the nature of an autobiography, for it displays the things Jack Squire held dear his frienos, ms children, lius nauve
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  • 176 9 A RACE OF GREEN GINGER. By Averil MackenzieGrieve (Putnam. 21s. SOUTHERN China in 1924 was an unruly land for a young Englishwoman and her husband to arrive in. The Chinese demands for tariff autonomy and the abolition of extra-territo-nality were placing foreigners in an invidious
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  • 338 12  -  TEOH ENG TATT Services' accent is on teamwork AT first sight It looks as If Singapore Joint Services officials will have no problem fielding a powerful team In this year's Malaya Cup and F.A.M. Cud competitions. They nave several outstanding players who have had experience of
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  • 529 12 Til IE PERAK Amateur Football Association -L has introduced intensive training schemes at two centres, Ipoh and Taiping, for the 25 players in preparation for the Malaya Cup competition this season. The States first Cup match will be against Perlis at Ipoh
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  • 223 12 By CHAN BENG SOON PERLIS Malaya's northernmost and smallest state. Is expected to make several changes in the Malaya Cup team this year. Twenty-three players, ten of whom have played for the stats in past years, have been selected for training. There are: Osman Hassan.
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  • 11 12 Newcomers to watch this season MINC KEWC WAH LIANG FOOK CHUAN
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  • 369 12 ITALIAN-BRED IMC IS REGISTERED IN CLASS 2 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Arst Italianbred racehorse to be Imported into Malaya has been registered with the Straits Racing Association. He is a four-year-old gelding named I.M.C. (late Maturru) by the Irish sire Big Oame out of Just Win. I.M.C. Is registered In Class
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  • 476 12 lirfclOHTS for all Ja-Ngan-L* I Black Gold 8.07 IT races at Buklt Say Die S.lO l Paths of Timah on Wednes- Grey Court 8.09 Wisdom 8.85 j. v Telew 8.08 GalUat Scholar 8.04 fi a. n. v 9_*tF nower Q"** 11 "riluant
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  • 87 12 BALTIMORE. Sun. Ballyache, three-year-old colt who finished second recently In the Kentucky Derby, was sold for M 84 .500.000 yesterday. Mr. Leonard Fruchtman. steel executive of Toledo (Ohio), sold the son of Ballydam-Celestial Blue to a syndicate headed by Mr Joseph L Arnold, of Leylngton.
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  • 417 12 SYDNEY, Sun. Weekend Australian soccer results: NSW Fed. IMt. 1 Auburn 3 Sydney Aust. 3 Blaiikstone 6 Manly 1, Budapest 5 Oranvllle 1, Canterbury 0 Apia 3, Corrlmal U. 3 Balgownle 3. Northside 3 Hakoah 1. Prague 2 Olades VlUe 2. NSW Fed. DW. Z Corinthians
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  • 186 12 Tulloh sets 3 miles record TONDON. Sun. 4 sparkling three miles for Cambridge by Britain's bare-footed runner Bruce Tulloh was the feature of the annual athletics meeting between Oxford and Cambridge Universities at the White City Stadium here yesterday. Tulloh won the event In 13min. 32.65ec. easily a record. But
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  • 50 12 NEW YORK. Sun. Beverly Baker Fleltz yesterday announced her withdrawal from the American Wightman Cup lawn tennis team to meet Britln at Wimbledon on June 10-11. She will be replaced by 18-year-old Karen Hantze, the nn'ional girls' champion and ranked No. 8 among the women players. Reuter.
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  • 34 12 3INOAPORE. Sun. R. A. Flanagan and Mrs. K. A. Seth won the 18 holes stroke (flag) conrpetltlon at the Royal Singapore Oolf Club today. Runners-up were* TbL and Mrs. A. C. Cox.
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  • 270 13 SA pace bowlers dismiss Essex for 98 TLFORD, Sun. Six--1 teen wickets fell for only 277 runs here yesterday in the match between the South African touring team and Essex. Having shot out the county side for 98, the tourists lost half their wickets in reaching that total, but went
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  • 379 13 COUNTY CRICKET Saturday's close: At Cambridge: 1 Hant? 449-5 (R Marshall 143. M. 1 Horton 98. D. Baldry 89. T. Ingle-by-MarKeruie 46 n.o); Cambridge 30-0. At Lords: Middlesex 180: Glamorgan 69-8 fJ. Evans 40 no.). At I Herd: Essex 98 (H. Tay field 8-43 >; South Africans
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  • 602 13 BRAVO! THIS MATCH HAS EVERYTHING 22 'heroes'— but Robert Choc and Cheng Lee deserve special credit By NORMAN SIEBEL Kuala Lumpur, Sunday WHEN the country's best Malay and Chinese footballers meet, the result should be a very good match, and this was exactly the spectacle Malayan Chinese and Malayan Malays
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  • 88 13 M-SOCCER: ALL EIGHT COUNTRIES SAY YES RL'ALA I.IMPIR Sun— AU eight countries invited for the Merdeka soccer tournament here in August have accepted. The eight rouatriet are: Japan, Korea, Vietnam. Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand. The Koreans who were doubt lul earlier whether they could make the trip,
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  • 76 13 PENANO. Sun. Pang Slang Telk will captain Penang against Kedah in their Malaya Cup soccer match at Alor Btar on Friday. The team will be selected from: Pang Slang Telk (capt.>, O. Vasu. M. Kuppan. Ariff Arlffln, Yusoff Kasslm. Aziz Ahmad. Omar Itam, Manaf Mydln. Ishak
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  • 306 13 MALAYAN cyclists can now look forward to brighter proa* pects and cycling officials can stop moaning about the "cludertlla" itatua of their aport. With membership of the International Cycling Union the world body Malayan cycling has achieved lour delayed prettlge and opened the route to
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  • 199 13 GAN TURNS ATTACKER TO SNATCH VICTORY SINGAPORE. Sun— Tan Eng Liang, the Chinese Swimming Club and Singapore waterpolo goalkeeper, will always hay« a healthy respect for Oan En* Trek. For defender Oan today turned attacker and beat Eng Liang three times with brilliant solo dashes to help Police snatch a
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    • 1158 13 SPORTS SUMMARY BADMINTON IB* 2 'Narayanan. Lofonathan) Spore open champlonshlpk: Ye- PondoK Peranalcan 1 tJnfTari. teraas' sinfles (Ist id) Ong Pen-inj Dlv. 1: Muslim R.C. 'A' Poh Llm bt B.C Mah 15-4. 15-1: 3 Awang a, Mohamed Anls) Hodrl b Habi bt Ibrahim b. Shaflee Ramblers A a (O. Rozells.
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    • 48 13 SOCCTK Upon Dhr. 1: Daml Allah Maxwell (Jn Be«ar, S.1S): Dlv. 3C: SHB Police v Serangoon MY. I iFarrar Park); Dlv. 3D: Arsenal v Binung Bulan iFunr Park), RTC v TTC (O«ylangi J. Bhan Dlr. 2: Police v Starlight 'A': 231 BVD iMORJ T Kllat Club (JC8C grt).
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  • 770 14  - COOKE SPINS POLICE TO A 17-RUN WIN SKIPPER Reggie da Silva, with a brilliant 85 which included 12 fours, and off-spinner Cecil Cooke, with figures of six for 45, helped Police to regain leadership of the Singapore Cricket Association's Senior tournament and hand Royal Air Force their first defeat of
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  • 137 14 SINGAPORE. Sun.— Dr. Ooh Keng Swee. Minister of Finance, beat Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin. Minuter of Education, in straight sets of 24-22. 21-10 In an exhibition table tennis match at the Happy World stadium. In the P.A.P. inter-branch competition Tanjong Pagar beat Rociiore 4-2 to
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  • 186 14 rpHE Singapore Teachers' green light to the forr all registered teachers in crisis SINGAPORE. Sunday. Union today gave the lation of a giant union of the State. At an extraordinary meeting, the union passed a revised constitution which will enable it to admit
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  • 16 14 MODDER: Suddenly, at 429 A. River Valley Road, last night. Malcolm Modder. aged 40. Funeral today.
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  • 28 14 EDINBURGH. Scotland, Sun. Marie Ashton. Man-chester-born pianist, tonight established a new world nonstop piano playing record 132 hours beating by two hours the previous record.— Reuter.
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  • 24 14 DERBY. Central England, Sun. Two workmen were buried alive beneath an avalanche of dry cement at a Derbyshire cement works today. Reuter.
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  • 152 14 ONDON. Suu. The Li British trade union movement is facing the worst financial crisis in its history, according to facts disclosed by a Trade Union Congress survey published today. The survey reveals that 75 unions spent more than they received from their members'
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  • 224 14 Smallpox epidemic in Borneo JAKARTA. Sun.— There is a smallpox epidemic in Tarakan. North -East Borneo, according to Antara news agency. The agency said it understood from reliable sources that the disease had been bought by ships from the Celebes and Timor. NEW YORK: A doctor told a medical society
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  • 296 14 CINGAPORE.. Sun. Favourite Tay Choon Huat scored another comfortable win in the Singapore Badminton Associations Junior Singles champlunslup tonight wnen lie beat Kasmaui Omar 15-3, 15-5 in a second round match. Results: Men's sinrlea 2nd round: Llew Chee Lam ot
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