Indian Daily Mail, 7 April 1955

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  • 16 1 Indian Daily Mail OL. XI NO. 55 SINGAPORE. THURSDAY. APRIL 7, 1955 FOUR PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 405 1 Indian Appointed Assistant Minister Swearing In Ceremony Today Two Labour Fro nters Nominated His Excellency the Governor of Singapore yesterday appointed the Colony's first popular Ministry, composed of five Elected Members, one Nominated Member and three ex-officio Members. His Excellency also appointed the Leader of the majority
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  • 114 1 NEW YORK. Apr. G— Bu; rs m co American cities yesterday received boxes they were cautioned to open m closed rooms. The boxes each contained a single woman's gird' a carreer pigeon and an order bUank. The blans Is to be Ailed (Hit,
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  • 139 1 U. S. Not Worried About Afro -Asian Conference! N. Y. Magazine NEW YORK. Apr. 6: United States diplomats are "not as worried as they once were about the Afro-Asian conference at Bandurg this month," Newsweek Magazine commented m its current issue. "They (the diplomats think t pro.westero delegations from the
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  • 143 1 "U.S. WILL BE CAUSE OF CIVIL WAR IN VIETNAM" SAIGON, Apr. 6. Thc antigovernment iront of Nationalist lorce warned the United Slates yesterday that continued Amer can suppoit cf South v etnam Premier Ngo Dinh Diem "raises m the pcpu.ation tears of civil war." In a message to the US.
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  • 101 1 LONDON. Apr. 6.— Sir Winston Churchill, 80, is the third oldest Prime Minister m British History. The oldest, William Ewart Gladstone, resigned at 83. Viscount Palmerston died In office In 1865 at the age of 81. Gladstone was m his fourth premiersh'p m 1893 when he
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  • 50 1 MOSCOW, Apr. 6: Nikolai Ivatovlch Veretennikov, a cousin of Lenin, has died at the age of 85, the Soviet Press announced Tuesday. Veretennikov wrote a number of books about Lenin and gained a reputation as Lenin's historian and also established a number of Lenin museums. AP
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  • 209 1 Nu To Meet Chou Seek Ways Of Easing Formosa Crisis RANGOON, Apr. 6: U Nu, the Burmese Premier, said Tuesday he planned a private meeting with the Chinese Premier and Foreign Minister, Chou En-lai, to discuss ways of easing -'le "explosive" Formosan situation. U Nu left press conference Tuesday morning
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  • 78 1 FLORENCE. Apr. 6 The Florence civil court ordered ex-Kin^ Farouk of Egypt to pay up Tuesday for 1,740--pound ($4,872) worth of embroidered tableclothes. They were ordered for the royal table while Farouk was fcUU on Uic Throne. Faroujk fought payment on grounds the tableclothes vvore for
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  • 199 1 ONCE A SALESMAN DAVID SAUL MARSHALL C'hiei Minister and Minister of Commerce. Bern Singapore 1908, educated at the Catholic Convent. St. Joseph's Institution, St. Andrew's School and Raffles Institution. On leaving school Mr. Marshall worked as a talesman and later became Secretary m a
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  • 66 1 REPTILE SKIN EXPORTER INCHE ABDUL HAMID BIN HAJI JUMAT Minister for Communications and Works. Aged 39 he was born m Singapore and educated at Raffles Institution. He is chairman of the Singapore Branch of UMNO and a member of the Malay Welfare Council and the UMNO-MCA Alliance Council. Inche Abdul
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  • 67 1 CHEW SWEE KEE— Minister for Education. Born to poor parents m 1918 he attended Chinese and then English schools m Ipoh, Perak State He was employed prewar m the Chinese Secretariat and m the Singapore Pol.cc Court as Chiesc interpreter. New a businessman he is m private practice
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  • 115 1 GAME-HUNTER ARM AND JOSEPH BRAGA— Minister for Health. Born Singapore 1900 educated at the Christ an Brothers' School at Singapore and Hong Kong. Called to the Bar of the Middle Temple 1927. Was Senior Municipal Commissioner at the fall cf Singapore having served three successive terms. Served on several committees
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  • 31 1 No woman has been elected to the Singapore Legislative Assembly, no woman has been nominated even to the Assembly and so no woman m the Singapore Cabinet! Alas!
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  • 94 1 Mr. David Marshall, the Chief Minister paid a tribute to 'the friendly receptive and patient attitude of His Excellency the Governor, throughout his negotiations with him. Explaining the delay m the formation of the Government, Mr. Marshall said, it whs due to the desire of the
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  • 152 1 A $25 CLERK LIM YEW HOCK Minister iror Labour and Welfare. Born Singapore 1914 educated Raff.es Inst tution. married .vith 4 children. Started life m jun'cr clerk drawing $25/--j.m. Worked his way up commercial ladder to post of confidential stenographer. ln:erested himself n public af'air.s after Japanese war. Became lu.ltime
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  • 105 1 DEATH-RAILWAY LABOURER FRANCIS THOMAS— Minister for Local Government, Lands and Housing. Born 1912 son of a country Parson, M.A. Hons. Cantab. Joined tutorial staff of St Andrew's School, Singapore, 1934, Served m Bomb Disposal Squad of Civil Defence when Japanese invaded Malaya. Priscner-or-war, worked on notor.ous Siam Death Railway as
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  • 149 1 MR. J. M. JUMABHOY, As. sistant Minister of Commerce: Born m Bombay m the year 1918 and came to Singapore m 1928, He was educated m the Raffles Institute and V.M.C.A. School of Commerce. His father Mr. M. Jumabhoy was the Founder President of thc Irdian Chamber of
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  • 84 1 BONN, Germany, Ap* 6 Parliament ha* been asked to approve the ohl term "Wehrmacht'' as thc name for the future West German armed forces. The Bonn defence commission now calls the forces "Streitkraefte" because it was thought the forme** fWehrmachC lab** conjured up too many un
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  • 136 1 Eden Appointed Premier May Fix Election For Nay 26 LONDON, Apr. 6. Sir Anthony Eden's appcintmeftt as Prime Minister was officially announced at 1135 hours after his audience with the queen. The 57-year-old Foreign Sec. retary accepted Queen Elizebeth's invitation to head the Conservative Government m a 36-minute audience at
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  • 42 1 TAIPEH, Apr. 6— A <^hlnese Nationalist Navy patrol yesterday damaged sir armed motorlsed Communist Junks m a clash southwest of the Taishan Islands, about 63 miles northeast of the Mat3u grou&>, the Nationalist Defence Ministry announced last night.- Reuter
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  • 27 1 AFTER FIFTY YEARS OF SERVICE TO U.K. S'r w nstcn Churchill waves farewell to the nation as he retires from the Prime Ministership of the United Kingdom
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  • 293 1 (From Our Staff Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Wed: Mr. Tan Tuan Boon, leader Of the M.T.U.C., today advocated public ownership of the tin industry, especially the dredges, as a means of restoring economic power to the people cf Malaya and prevent the abuses of
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  • 609 2 Indian Daily Mail S'pore, Thurs. Apr. 7, 1965 MURASU'S ADVICE TO LABOUR FRONT JN these days when political charlatanism and hypocrisy are so common, it is not surprising that m Singapore too these evils should •have been m evidence. But the tragedy is that they have been noticed m quarters
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  • 358 2  -  NAFEN Worry Of Br. Manufacturers Severe Competition From H. K. Also! LONDON. The extent to which textile imports from India and other competing countries are worrying British manufacturers is set out m an article written for the London "Financial Times" by an East Lancashire mill
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  • 117 2  -  NAFEN NEW YORK. The New York State Assembly has passed a Bill forbidding comics which exploit sex, cruelty and crime to be so.d to anybody under 18 years of age. Those breaking the law can be lined $500 or undergo imprisonment for a year.
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  • 216 2  -  NAFEN NEW DELHI; A survey ot the undeveloped areas of Madras, Mysore and Ooorg to being conducted to investtgato the possibility of increasing the area under coffee cultivation. The Special Officer detailed for thc survo/ has alreaJy v.sited some important coffeegrowing are is m
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  • 112 2  -  NAFEN LONDON iFreddlc Jess, The Star" cartoonist. tiles to Bombay on Saturda- for a lightning tour of India a.s the guest of Air India international. It is thc second sketching tour of India undertaken by this well-known art-st who plana to be back m London
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  • 95 2  -  NAFEN NEW L\ELHI Nepal la working on new projects to util.se her surplus milk by processing It into differem products m the hope of new markets. Th© »P.A.O. is devising a project m co-operation witn U.N.I.C.E.F. to set Up a milK processing plant at Kathmandu,
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  • 12 2 Fleet Street Queues For Provincial Papers PHOTO. ■-■anus irn'iErEvr^vszL'r' a rf AP
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  • 321 2  - ARTIFICIAL RAIN-MAKING IN INDIA NAFEN NEW DELHI: Tnree scientists from India are proceeding to Austral a for training m artificial rain-making under the Colombo Plan at the laboratories of Dr. E. G. Bower One of the scientists w-H be Dr. Pre m Sarup of Allahabad University and another will be
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  • 80 2  -  NAFEN 2MJSW DlflUHi: The union Ministry of Education is working out a scheme for introducing Home Economics, including studies m Nutrition as a compulsory subjec: for girls at bhe secondary school stage. State Governments will soon be advised m this connection. Wherever oiecessary, a subsidy
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  • 336 2 MADRAS: The Madras City Improvement Trust has proposed to build 50 Nehru Design houses m a slum area near Basin Bridge, Madras, to house Harijan families. These Nehru Design houses so-called because they satisfy the minimum area specified by Prime Minister to house low income groups
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  • 90 2 Some 2,000 persons watch the Flag of Germany's revived lufthansa airline hoisted at Hamburg Airport on Mar. SI Just before the inaugural flight of the domestic service to Munich. Those on board the aircraft were mostly officials of the airline and the Bonn Government. Regular domestic
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  • 186 2  -  NAFEN NEW DELHI. A locust attack on India this year, as severe as that of last year, is feared tc be m the offing. This warning came from a senior officer of the Union Agriculture Ministry, who told NAFEN State Governments were
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  • 125 2  -  NAFKN MADRAS: India's north and south are constituting a problem for the rai.way administration also, it was revealeu here. The air-condition ed coaches introduced m the railways oi North India are almost booKed to their capacity, stated Mr. G. Par.de, Chairman ot the Rai.way Board.
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  • 159 2  - Banaras Scarves For U.S. Again NAFEN NEW DELHI: The U.S. Department of Commerce havi agreed to lift the ban on the import of Banaras silk scarve to the United States, if labora tory tests to be undertaken ii that country prove these dr not rightiy come under the category of
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  • 517 2 INDIAN COMMUNISTS Letter to the Editor Sir, For many years the whole of my time and energyhas been devoted to the study and combatting the acts of armed robbery, violer.ce, arson, murder and destruction committed by the Malayan communist Party m the name of "Liberation" and which are des. cribed
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  • 90 2  -  NAFEN MADRAS: At the invitation of the Union Government., Mr. David Desmond, an Engineering Industr alist Consuitanl of the United Kingdom, will tour {India for three months. Mr. Desmond will advice the Union Government undor the Colombo Plan Technical Co-operation scheme on the methods that should
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  • 1662 3 Significant Changes Effected By The Select Committee Guardianship Off Minors NEW DELHI. Government propose, after the enactment of the vanous parte of the Hindu Code BuTtol orini? or wanl a measure for oonsoi.daUng UiTparte into one This was announced by Mr H V Put^i,.. the Misery of
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  • 174 3  - Mother-Tongue Medium In Colleges MADRAS; The teach tng ot Humanities m leglonal languages ln colleges will hot lower the standard of English- -this la the view of Professor A. Muthiah, Head of the Department of Economics of the lilfc-year-old Pachaiyappa's College, himself the recipient of .Unji varsity award for a
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  • 77 3 MADRAS; With a view to collecting data on the condition of machinery and e<iu pment m cotton textile m lus and also to studying tneir financial position m order to assess their requirements for rehabilitation where necessary, the Union Commerce and llndustry Ministry will conduct a survey of
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  • 226 3  -  NAFEN LONDON. Mr. David Furman. 22.year.old British businessman, plans to set off next September on one of the world's most fantastic treasure hunts. With three companions he will hunt over a vast glacier tor a wrecked German plane which 17 years ago crashed into a crevasse
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  • 153 3  - Yugoslav Aid For Tool Factory In India NAFEN NEW DELHI The Yugosiav Government thas made an offer of help m setting up a plant for manufacturing machine tools m India. A Senior officer of the Yugoslav Embassy conferred recently with Commerce Ministry officials m this connection. The enly government sponsored
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    80 3 Clad m the scarlet, bine and white uniforms of Royal Ma* rines of the time of King George U (Circa 1760) boys of Che HMS St. Vincent Training Establishment march m close-ly-packed "dose order" daring the "beating the retreat" ceremony staged at RMS St. Vincent (a shore establishment), Gosport near
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  • 234 3  -  NAFEN BONN-. What are believed to be some of the moulds v*led by Pihidias greatest sculptor m ancdent Athens for making h*s mammoth statue of zeufa have been un-caithed by Orman archaeologists at Olympia, Qreece. The statue i s .Isted as one of the Seven Wounders of
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  • 119 3  -  NAFEN NEW YORK. More man 40 per cent or all families m the United States have an Income of more than $b,OOO a year, .say statisticians of tne Commerce Depart, ment. Only 45 per cent of families earn less than $4,000 a year. Last year the nations
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  • 155 3  -  NAFEN NEW DELHI. An announcement regarding th* formation of a Langu. age Commission as defined m Article 344 of the Constitution (a to be made m Parliament during the middle of April. The Commission was due to Oe set up early this year according to the Constitution.
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  • 108 3  -  NAFEN NEW DELHI: The Food and Agriculture Ministry' is working out the details of a scheme to send trade delegations abroad for securing new markets for India's agriculture produce. Soon after Mr. A. P. Jain, the iPood Minister, returns from Egypt he w»l have
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  • 98 3 NOO DINH DI&M, right. Pijlme Minister of south Vietnam, meets leaders of the three dissident reHgtoito-pcflltlcat sects at Saigon on Mar. 21, when he was given m, five-day ultimatum to change his Government. March 29, Ms palace was the target of mortar fire, But since then
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  • 365 3  - Queen Elizabeth House -New Centre For C'wealth Studies LONDON. Details of the charter granted by Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth Blouse, the new Oxford centre for Com. monwealth studies, have now been announced here. The charter defines the purpose of the foundation as being to facilitate studies m political,
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  • 125 3  -  NAFEN NEW DELHI: A comprehensive botanical survey of the country has been planned by the Government of India. Plants commonly ueed for medicinal purposes will be re-examined and fresh avenues explored for new plants for medicinal uses. It is also proposed to send out survey parties
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  • 580 4 Ceylon's Economic Development Crucial Years Ahead Warning Against Excessive 'Unproductive Expenditure' COLOMBO: The next few years were likely to be crucial ones m the history ot Ceylon's economic development, said Mr. John R. Murray, outgoing chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. In his presidential address at the annual general
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    84 4 This the silver high altar otohh and two silver candlesticks handed to Sir Shenton Thomas, former Governor of Singapore, and now living In Britain on March 22, 1955, by Inche Otman Commissioner low Malaya m London. They are a memorial to Admiral Sir Tom Phillips and the 164 officer* and
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  • 515 4 DJAKARTA, Apr. 6: Representatives of the 39 Asian and African countries to meet at Bandung on Apr. 18 will give high priority to discussions on colonialism and economic co operation. The main territories likely to come up for discussion under the heading
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  • 103 4 PAK TO JOIN TURKO-IRAQI DEFENCE PACT KARACHI, Apr. s.—Pakistan has decided to accept the invitation of Turkey ard Iraq to join thetr defence Alliance it was authoritatively learned here. Thc invitat on.s wer c tielivered last Friday to Mr. Mohammed A!i Pakistan Premier and Foreign Minister, and Paklstar's acceptance is
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  • 117 4 BOMBAY, Apr. 6: Rasnic; All Baig, former Indian Charge d' Affaires m Manila, asserted here yesterday that the Philip, pine's decision to atterd the Bandung conference manifest, ed her "growing realization she must identify herse'f with Asia ultimately.'^ Mr. Baig, who is preceeavn& to New Delhi as
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  • 94 4 A-Ban Impracticable Nehru NEW DELiHI, Apr. 6— Prime M-inilritor Nerru said Tuesday night he considered a total ban on the manufacture of atomic weapons n 0 longer "a ;racf. cal proposition^ •-Moral and. spiritual force" may be the way to -prevent the use of such weaponj rather than m ban
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  • 85 4 JAKARTA. Apr. 6: Indonesia has decided to give de facto recognition to all foJf States m Indochina, Foreign Minister Sunarjo said Tuesday. Evertual de jure recognition, he added, would depend on such developments as the outcome of general elections m Viet Nam next year. The
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  • 73 4 NASSAU, Bahamas, Apr. 6: A retired manufacturer who spends much of his time exploring the bottom of the sea Is looking for the remains of the Santa Maria, the flagship of the fleet m which Christopher Co'.umbus discovered America. Edwin A. Link, whose Company manufactured link
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  • 67 4 BANGKOK, Apr. 6: Burma has promised to pay compen. sation for property damage and the killing of two Thais and the wounding of five m an accidental bombing of a village m northern Thailand, Gen. Phao Sriyanond, chief of the Thai national police, anounced here. The
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  • 40 4 ROME, Apr. 6: Mohammed Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan, left Rome by plane last night for Karachi. He had arrived a few hours earlier from Ger.eva, where Pakistan diplomats from the MiddleEast held a meeting.- AP
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  • 111 4 TEHERAN, Iran, Apr. 6— Iranian premier Gen. Fazoilan Zafheol yesterday submitted his resignation to the Fhah, an authoritative Royal Court source said. Zahcdi, who became premier following) .the overthrow ot Mohammed Mossadeq m Aug. 1953. was ill throughout the winter, the source said. Zahedi's son, Ardesnir, said
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  • 26 4 NEW YORK, Av>r. 6 Chen Chi, a Chinese artist won th* watercolouv of the year" award and a USsl, oo u cash AP
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  • 25 4 ROME, Apr>. 6— A multimilllon dollar smuggUng ring whose opium and morphine wa s intended for U.S. adlict3 has heen smashed.- AP
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