Indian Daily Mail, 29 December 1956

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  • 16 1 Indian Daily Mail VOL. XII No. 315 SINGAPORE, SATUKDaY, DECEMBER 29, 1956 FOUR PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 768 1 Looking Forward To Full-Scale Confab In March LONDON, Dec. 28. Mr. Lim Yew Hock Sinaaoor.'* Chief Ml him told reporter, before he left by 'air fT^J yesterday that he, was returning to Singapore to report toTis Labour Front Party and the Assembly on
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  • 63 1 CAIRO, Dec. 28. —V. K. Krishna Menon, India's roving diplomat, arrived here by plaue yesterday from London tor a meeting later Thursday with President Nasser. He declined to tell newsmen what he planned to say to the Egyptian President. But an Indian Embassy attache said Menon probably
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  • 70 1 WASHINGTON. Dec. 28.— Ambassador G. L. Mehta of India took a 25-minute flight in an army helicopter yesterday over the Washington area. The Indian Government is interested in the use of helicopters for locust control. Mehta was accompanied by Brg. P. C. Gupta, Indian military and
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  • 44 1 COLOMBO, Dec. 28.—Ceylon has set up a radio telephone link with Russia through Britain, Mr. H. E. Peries, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Posts and Broadcasting, said yesterday. This is Ceylon's first such link with any Communist country.- Reuter AP
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  • 294 1 TAMIL BILL PASSED 13 MADRAS From Our Own Correspondent. MADRAS, Dec. 28. —T h e Madras State Legislative Assembly passed the Bill making Tamil was official language ot Madras without a single dissident vote on Thursday and then adjourned sine die. There was such a great enthusiasm for the Bill
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  • 188 1 NEHRU ADENAUER TALKS World Problems Reviewed In Private Conference DUESSELDORF, Germany, Dec. 28— Indian Pr*m,.n Jawaharla. Nehru and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer r£vTe3 world problems during an 85-minute private conference Hart The Indian leader stopped off here on his flying trip home from visits to the United States, Canada and Britain
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  • 114 1 NO NEHRUNASSER MEETING LONDON. Dec. 28.— Prime Minister Nehru of India flew to Dusseldorf Thursday en rout© home after talks with President Eisenhower in Washing to, Canadian government officials in Ottawa and British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden in London. He will confer with West German federal chancellor Konrad Adenauer
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  • 132 1 NEW YORK, Dec. 28.— U.S. Rubber Co. announced yesterday it has begun delivery of the first Mir springs to be used on an American automobile. The ear is Cadillac's 1957 Eldorado Brougham. The air spring is a rubber cylinder in which air is used to cushion
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  • 130 1 New "Pentomic" Units For U. S. Army? WASHINGTON, Dec. 2H.The U.S. Army proposed yesterday to reduce the manpower of its divisions and reorganise them for atomic warfare. It asked the White House and Defence Department to approve the creation of new "pentomic" units made up of five combat groups instead
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  • 35 1 ROME. Dec. 28. Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce yesterday ended her duties as U.S. envoy to Italy and took a plane for New York. She will be replaced by James Zellerbach, San Francisco business man.- A.P.
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  • 696 1 London Talks With Lee Delegation LONDON, Dec. 28. Anglo-Malayan negotiations on finance and economic questions concerning the Federation of Malaya which will become an independent Commonwealth nation in August next opened here yesterday with a two-hour private meeting. Colonel H. S. Lee, who is leading
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  • 347 1 Gen. Wheeler's Statement CAIRO, Dec. 28.— U.S. Lieutenant General Raymond A. Wheeler announced Thursday that the Egyptian Government has agreed that a United Nations salvage fleet can start immediately clearing the southern end of the Suez Canal. Wheeler, who is directing the clearance project for
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  • 183 1 Boyd LONDON, Dec. 28.— Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd. Britain's Colonial Secretary, said here yesterday that Britain could not possibly have stood by and "let free passage through the Suez Canal be dependent on the whim of a dictator." Mr. Lennox-Boyd was referring to the Anglo-French action in
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  • 90 1 MOSCOW, Dec. 28. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, said Egyptian president Nasser held a news conference yesterday for nine RussiaD correspondents. The story was given prominence by Tass, which carried 3,000 words on the two-hour interview. Tass said Nasser recounted a history of Egypt's relation^
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  • 118 1 Commission On AndhraMadras Border (From Our Own Correspondent) MADRAS, Dec. 28. Lading Tamilians from Chittoor District in Andhra State forcibly put forward their demand for inclusion of Tamil border areas in Madras when they met the Union Law Minister Mr. Pataskar at Rajbhavan yesterday. The Minister who has been appointed
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  • 120 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.— Four men who are symbols of America's free enterprise system left yesterday on a round-the-world flight to check 18 countries on how U.S. foreign aid funds are being spent. The first stop is Madrid, Spain. "We are going out to observe at
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  • 84 1 ABU SUWEIR, Egypt, Dec. 28. Two aides to U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold arrive^ in Egypt Thursday for consultations regarding Suez Canal clearance problems. Alfred G. Katzin, deputy Under Secretary General, and Andrew Cordler, Hammarsk jold's executive assistant, flew to Abu suweir airfield near the Suez
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  • 273 1 Details Reported Settled LONDON, Dec. 28.— Tunoku Abdul Rahman, Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya, said yesterday that details of a mutual defence treaty between Britain and Malaya have been settled. The treaty will become effective when the Federation attains independence on Aug. 31. "The
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  • 475 2 Indian Daily Mail NOTES AND COMMENTS S'pore, Sat, Dec 29, 1956 (ON THE TAMILS FESTIVAL) REMARKABLE PROGRESS WHAT are the criteria of progress? In the case of a festival they are its popularity, the people's enthusiasm, the extent of the celebration and the number of items that constitute it. An
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  • 1015 2 POWER TO MAKE LAWS DELEGATION TO PRESIDENT NEW DELHI: The power of the Kerala State Legislature to make iaws was delegated to the President b y the Lok Sabha. measure conferring such powers was adopted by the House after a two -hour debate, during which a demand was
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  • 149 2 HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dec. 27.— The U.S. Army in Europe said Wednesday in a year-end review that "man for man" it possesses "more killing power than any other army in the world." The atomic-powered force, a quarter million men strong forms the bulwark of Western defence along the
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  • 129 2 MOSCOW, Dec. 27. Russia has fired its top economic planner and set up a new commission headed by M G Pervukhin to overhaul the nation's industrial ann agricul- tural planning. (Yugoslav Communists said last September that Pervukhin belonged to a faction opposed to tne policy of
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  • 336 2 NEW DELHI; Speaking during the debate on the Railway Supplementary demands in the Lok Sabha last week, Mr. H. V. Kamath saW he had received a "pathetic letter" from Mr. R. Govindan, a member cf the Tiruchi District Beard. about the Ariyalur train disaster. He
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  • 774 2 Advisory Body Suggested NEW DELHI: The Community Projects Administration have to so plan, direct and co-ordinate the community development programme throng-bout the country that the directive principles of State poHcy enshrined in the constitution are made a reality in rural area* within a limited period of time, said
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  • 161 2 JAP VARSITY STUDENTS ON HUNGER STRIKE TOKYO, Dec. 27.— A n-o of Japanese university student's are staging a Lve-day hxxnell strike near the Soviet embalm *it e A° P rotest against Russia's bloody suppression of freedom in Hungary." Eighteen students handed a resolution to a Soviet EmbaUv official before the
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  • 117 2 JAP EMPEROR'S NO-DIVINITY RESCRIPT TOKYO Dec. 27.-Em P eror Hirohito himself helped draft the Imperial rescript which 10 years ago renounced his "divinity," a Japanese weekly maeazlne reported yesterday. This hitherto unknown story was told by one of Japan's outstanding educators, 72-year-old Tamon Maeda, in Shukan Tokyo, a weekly published
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  • 3084 3 Heated Exchanges With Rajaratne on 'Bases' COLOMBO: There was a heated exchange of words between the Prime Minister and the MP for Welimada Mr. K. M. P. Rajaratne, in the House of Representatives. »Borukan*ya!" exclaimed Mr. Bandaranaike in ~»»i v certain a!le«»to«s bv Mr. Bmt^t^S^U^JS^Ji
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  • 226 3 COLOMBO: "Mr. Philip Gunawardena, the Minister of Food and Agriculture is like the legendary dragon which breathes the fire of destruction. Despite his learned treatises and theoretical ramblings not one extra grain of rice has been produced in the country since his appointment. Ironically enough from the
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  • 266 3 COLOMBO: The port of Colombo has in recent years become an international centre for smuggling of gold and dope now Interpol suspects that it is the transhipment centre for the illicit distribution of diamonds. In recent months, a very large quantity of rough diamonds are said to
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  • 100 3 TURIN. ITAL.Y, Dec. 27.— Walter Bonatti. o ne of the Italian expedition which climbed the 28,250-foot K-2 peak in the Himalayas in 1954, was missing yesterday in an attempt to scale Mt. Blanc. With the 24-year-old Himalayan climber was Lt. Silvano Cheser o f the Aosta mountain
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  • 96 4 PRAVDA'S ASSURANCE TO JAPAN MOSCOW, Dec. 28.— The Communist Party newspaper Pravda Thursday suggested that the new Japanese government should have no fears of surviving as long as it follows the policy of maintaining good relations with the Soviet Union and Communist China. "Any Japanese government which gives consideration to
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  • 133 4 FATE OF KIDNAPPED BR. OFFICER LONDON, Dec. 28. The Foreign Office said Thursday TJ.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold has agreed to investigate the fate of a young British army officer who was kidnapped in Port Said by Egyptians on Dec. 11 and later reported slain by his captors. The announcement
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  • 105 4 NEW YORK. Dec. 28.- Four Japanese industry leaders said yesterday silk fabric exports to the U.S. are increasing eteadily and next year should total around U5515,000,000, or 26,000,000 square yards. They said this compares with about U558,500,000 worth in ll»55 and an estimated US$l3,--000,000 this year.
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  • 229 4 New Minister's Statement TOKYO, Dec. 28. Foreign Minister Nobusuke Kishi pledged again Thurs. that Japan would not recognise the Peking regime because it is not a United Nations member. In an interview with the Kyodo New Service, Kishi said he will give top priority
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  • 164 4 CHOU ON EAST PAK TOUR DACCA, East Pakistan, Dec. 28. Huge crowds are expected to welcome the Chinese Prime Minister Mr. Chou En-lai when he arrives here today on the closing stage of his ten-day tour of Pakistan. Dacca, Capital of East Pakistan, is the headquarters of the Awami League
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  • 92 4 j PORT SAID, Dec. 28.— Swedish and Egyptian vessels will start operations this morn. Ing to clear the southern mouth of the Suez Canal, U.N. and Egyptian sources confirmed yesterday. American Lit. -Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler, canaj clearance official for U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjofd told a
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  • 52 4 A BANK 'S VICE PRESIDENTS NEW YORK, Dec. 28. The First National City Bank, America's third largest bank, Thursday appointed Vice Presidents No. 113. 114, 116 and 116. The vice presidents preside over First National City's worldwide organization, including 70 branches overseas, and ltd affiliate, the City Bank Farmers Trust
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  • 50 4 LONDON, Dec. 28.— A Foreign Office spokesman declined to comment on the statement that the Duke of Edinburgh "is trying to legalise a plunder" by visiting the Falkland Islands. "The islands are a British crown colony and the Duke's visit changes nothing/' the spokesman said.— A.P.
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  • 119 4 GENEVA. Dec. 28— A delegate of the International Red Cross Committee, who spent Christmas i n the monastery of St. Catherine, in a part of the Sinai Peninsula still under Israeli control, reported yesterday the monks were safe and being supplied with food by the Israeli
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  • 197 4 JAKARTA, Dec. 28.—The Indonesian province of Southern Sumatra has taken over control of its own purse strings. Government sources reported Thursday. They said the provincial administration has decided to put into immediate effect a law of financial relations between the province and the central government
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  • 151 4 SUMATRA: ARMY TAKES OVER FROM REBELS DJAKARTA, Dec. 28.—Indonesia's Information Minister, Mr. Sudibjo, told reporters last night that Lieut. Col. Djamin Ginting who was ordered by the Cabinet on Saturday to take over from the rebellious Commander in Central and Northern Sumatra Colonel Simbolon had "taken steps leading towards normal
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  • 61 4 BAGHDAD, Dec. 28.— Iraq has invited military delegations from 13 Arab-Islamic countries to attend a four-hour military parade at Rashid military camp on Jan. 6, anniversary of the founding of the Iraq army. A Defence Ministry spokesman said air force jet planes will take part in the
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  • 59 4 60,000 TON TANKERS NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, Dec. 28.— The Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company announced yesterday signing of contracts with the National Transport Corporation, and the National Carriers Corporation for two 60,000-ton tankers. Both vessels will be 810 feet long with a beam of 104 feet and are
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  • 129 4 PARIS. Dec. 28. The French Overseas Minister reported yesterday a "comfortable" majority of moderates was assured of election in last Sunday's voting in the Cameroons. Gaston Deffere said that although returns in the local elections for the 70-seat constitutional assembly were not yet complete, the vote turnout was
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  • 78 4 VATICAN CITY, Dec. 28.— A triumphant reception is being prepared here for Poland's Roman Catholic primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who is expected to visit the Vatican early in the new year. A highlight of the reception very likely will be the presentation of his cardinal's
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  • 37 4 NEw DELHI: The Minister for Revenue and civil Expenditure, Mr. Manila! C. Shah, told the Lok Sabha that compensation for the life insurance companies taken over by the Government would be paid in cash.
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  • 276 4 v KONG) Dec 28 The recent un «st in the North Vietnam Empire of Ho Chi Minh appears to have been more widespread then was reported ore viously. F The unrest was fomented by students as well as dissatisfied peasants. Hanoi newspapers reaching Hong Kong
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  • 227 4 SAVED FROM CERTAIN DEATH NEW YORK, Dec. 28.— Seventeen days ago, Mrs. Marlon Ingalls* heart stopped beating momentarily and she was three minutes away from almost certain death. Now she was home, apparently in good health. The drama for Mrs. Ingalls, wife of a banker, began the morning of Dec.
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  • 224 4 TEL AVIV. Israel, Dec. 28.— Israel yesterday offered a n unconditional exchange of all prisoners on both SIQGS. Israel officially claims to hold 5,580 prisoners, which she says she is willing to trade fo r o nl v four Israelis, known to be held by
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  • 151 4 12,000— TON METEOR WASHINGTON. Dec. 28.— Smithsonian Institution scientists have concluded that a giant shooting star which dug a famous Arizona meteoritic crater weighed at least 12,000 tons. The ithsonian, in a report yesterd said the scientists also fc id evidence that the great f» igment which flew in from
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  • 79 4 NEW YORK, Dec. 28.— Development of a new "Dynel" acrylic fibre for rugs and carpets was announced yesterday by Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation. The wool-like fibre is said to possess high resilience, twist retention, soil and crush resistance, and a capacity for lone wear. nJ? 1 car
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  • 238 4 SEQUEL TO EASING OF WORLD SITUATION BELGRADE, Dec. 28.— Yugoslavia's Defence Mini*. General Ivan Goenjak, presented Parliament last niahV U*****,000,000 defence budget for 1957. u He said it was the first time in recent years the def« n budget figured out to less than 10% of
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  • 97 4 ENTRY OF PAKISTANI MUSLIMS GAUHATI: The Gauhati branch cf the Bharatiya Jana Sangh has charged the Government of Assam of "showing indifference" to the entry of Pakistani Muslims into Assam without passport and visa. In its main resolution, the general meeting of the Sangh here last week said that the
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  • 119 4 MOSCOW, Dec. 28 Tho newspaper Soviet Fleet ThurV day called French foreign v gionnaires who fought i£ Poll Said, Egypt, -the scu m of human society, political adventurers and criminals" The foreign legion i s an im. plement of the predatory wart of French Imperialists "So!
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  • 166 4 LONDON: India has been drawing on her sterling balances here at the rate o f about £3 million a week, according to a spokesman of the High Commission for India in London. But he stressed that there was no cause for alarm at the rate of withdrawals.
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  • 111 4 m«n HIN T Nl Dec A state Department spokesman said yesterday he knows -absolutely nothing to conSin r T/ ts l at H;5- omcials a ain are thinking a££t helping Egypt to build the Aswan Dam. The comment was made by Department
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