Singapore Standard, 20 May 1955

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    14 1 Singapore Standard It i*\ [v. ><»• SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1955 14 PAGES ir> CENTS
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    Lock icon WINDSOR TO SUCCEED MALCOLM MacDONALD
    237 1 WINDSOR TO SUCCEED MALCOLM MacDONALD LONDON RUMOUR 'Step Towards A Colonial Post' Pc( i lON is rife m ion I)uke t of r u l| mi« reed Mr. i .ild as Brit--1 n r General \sia. mass 1 1 rirror r e ;..r*' I.i s t ,vi i move may
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    Lock icon WILL HE BE THE NEXT C.G.?
    9 1 WILL HE BE THE NEXT C.G.? DUKE OF WINDSOR
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    Lock icon A NEW STRIKE IS BREWING
    356 1 PROTEST OVER SACKINGS 10,000 City Council Workers Send Letter To Marshall w^£T HER str ke »s looming m Singapore. This time it is the 10,000 daily-rated employees of the City Council. Yesterday they threatened to call a general strike, if the Council failed to scrap
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    Lock icon Red China Has Eyes On Spore
    121 1 Red China Has Eyes On Spore LONDON, May 19: (UP) Asian observers here were convinced yesterday that Red China is now concentrating on Singapore m its plans to commumze South-east Asia. All reports from Singapore have told the same story thai Mao Tsc-tungs experts am at work through undercover agencies
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    27 1 n the tor the een north and ith m Soviet :d^d 01.o 1 i I tO B I j a agr pc 1 j 00 day*
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    14 1 119 <Rev- >.. at the land p ng IT pit all Col n first
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    Lock icon Sex Slayer Sent To Mental Home
    72 1 Sex Slayer Sent To Mental Home NEW YORK. May 19 -Reu-::■:■■—-William Patrick Farell. :harg< d Vttta the sex slaying runry i I Ann Yarrow. 23-year-old British university student, was committed to an Insane asylum today. Ida Yarrow was strangled. d and tabbed repeatedIj In a Dal OO the fringe of
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    Lock icon Varsity Warns: Strike Or Abet—Out You Co
    825 1 Varsity Warns: Strike Or Abet— Out You Co DISCIPLINE BEING TIGHTENED ANY undergraduate of the University of Malaya who instigates, organizes or abets a strike will be dismissed instantly. This decision reached by the highest University authorities has been conveyed tc the I.UOO students. i The Standard reliably learnt yestcrdav.
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    Lock icon Pay Trouble At N.A.T.O.
    56 1 MOENCHEN CLADBACH. Germany. May 19 (AP) Fifteen thousand German employees of NATO's Northern Headquarters here threatened on Wednesday to strike to enforce demands for higher wages. Speakers at a rally threatened to call for a strike while protesting against "arbitrary and false interpretation" of a new
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    Lock icon 9 Missing In Ship Collision
    43 1 MANILA. May 19 (AP> Nine persons are missing m shark-infested waters between Luzon and Mindoro Islands Two are dead and four injured out of 22 aboard a sailing boat rammed and sunk last night by an interisland steamer.
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    Lock icon Red Camp Had Radio Aerial
    105 1 IPOH. Thurs. Security forces, following up the killing of a Chinese terrorist by a party of armed civilian aborigines at Bukit Kledang Saiong on Sunday, located a large camp about 50 yards from the scene of the action. The camp had a radio aerial and
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    Lock icon Crash Report Ready In June
    59 1 BOMBAY. May 19. (Reuter) The report of the Indonesian Investigation Commission on the crash of the Air India Constellation. Kashmir Princess, last month with Chinese Communist officials on board is likely to be ready by the end of this month or early June. Air India's
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    Lock icon Invitation To Britain
    60 1 LOtVDOX. May 19 (Reuter > Britain has received an iivitation from the South Vietiam Prime Minister, Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem, to attend a fourpower conference m Saign to discuss questions concrning his country. A 3ritish Foreign Office spoksman said Mr. Diem had suggested that the conferece should
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    Lock icon S. KOREAN RAID HALTED
    31 1 -DKYO. May 19 (AP) No.h Korea claimed its coital guns repulsed "some 20( armed South Korean boss disguised as fishing cr:t" off its coast on May 7.
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    Lock icon 30 CHINESE EXECUTED
    29 1 lONG KONG. May 19: Thirty Chinese have b;n executed for opposing Onmunist control of agrictural production m central Hangtung province, accordij to reports from the mainlid.
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    Lock icon LAST CHANCE FOR MAU MAD GANGS
    151 1 NAIROBI, May 19 (Reer) Troops, police and Kikuyu guards were massintoday on the fringe of the forest area at the eastern e<e of the Aberdares ready to launch an all-out attaclon Mau Mau terrorists if they fail to respond to thKenya Government's surrender offer.
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    Lock icon DRIVE AGAINST DRINK GOES ON
    42 1 PARIS, May 19: (UP) Premier Edgar Faure's Cabinet today approved decrees aimed at reducing France's consumption of hard liquor. Among the new decrees was one that would establish provincial clinics to test drunken drivers and aid alcoholics.
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    Lock icon GOLD COAST RIOT SCARE
    48 1 ACCRA, Gold Coast, May 19: (Reuter) Reinforcements and a company of troops have been rushed to Kumasi, capital of Ashanti province, following riots there over the week-end. Yesterday was the first time m four days that police have not reported clashes or other incidents.
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    Lock icon Lady Eden — Cut Out hr The Job
    146 1 Lady Eden Cut Out hr The Job NEW YORK. May 19 (AP) Good Housekeeping magazine said yesterday that Lady Clarissa Eden is youne woman naturally tut out for the job" of being the wife of the Prime Minister of Britain and "hostess to the world." In a story by Charlott
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    Lock icon MALAYAN GRANTED DIVORCE
    96 1 LONDON. May 19 (Rcutcn Mr. Robert Dermot Cuddy, an officer m the Colonial Service m Malaya was granted a decree nisi m the divorce court here yesterday on grounds of adultery of Mrs. Nancy Flora Cuddy wi'.h Brigadier Joseph Patrick O'Brien Twohig cited a s co-respon-dent m
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    30 1 MR. JAWAHARLAL Nehru the Indian Prime Minister' will pay an official six-day visit to Yugoslavia at the end 01 June, it was announced m Belgrade on Thursday Peuter
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    Lock icon DERRICK KILLS SHIPS OFFICER
    159 1 HIT TWICE IN FREAK ACCIDENT PENANG, Thurs.-The Chief Electrician of the motor vessel Clytoneus, Stewart Wilson, 30 was killed this morning after he was hit by a derrick while working 30 feet up on a Sampson Post on the port side of the vessel. i Wilson,
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    Lock icon MAY 22: D-DAY FOR MOCK AIR ATTACKS
    191 1 MAY 22: D-DAY FOR MOCK AIR ATTACKS ROYAL Air Force Canberra bombers and four* engined Lincoln bombers of the Royal Australian Air Force will join United Slates B-29 bombers m mock attacks on Singapore and Malaya on Sunday, May 22. The exercise, which wjjj be under the genera) direction of
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    Lock icon REDS SHELL QUEMOY ISLE
    69 1 TAIPEI. May 19 Chinese Communist guns shelled the Nationalist -held Little Quemoy Island today lor the second time In twelve hours following a visit to the Quemoy area by Mr. David Yu Ta Wei, Chinese Nationalist Defence Minister, a Nationalist communique said. Chinese Nationalist planes yesterday
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    Lock icon FLOWERS FOR MISS KELLER
    39 1 HONGKONG. May 19 iAP) Sixty blind and dumb Chinese children presented flowers and gifts at Hongkong on Thursday to Miss Helen Keller, the blind and dumb American woman who Is making her sixth and last
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    Lock icon SCHOOLS REFUSE TO REGIST
    469 2 Stormy Debate Follows Decision Of Committee SEREMBAN, Thurs. Management Committees of Chinese schools m Ncgri Sembilan refused to register* non-grant-in-aid schools at a stormy meeting held at the Malayan Chinese Association Hall, here today. The Superintendent. Chinese School, Federation, Mr. P. Egerton, told the meeting that
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    161 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber priies (cents per Ib) m Singapore yesterdaj were Buyers Sellers No 1 K.S.S. Spot Loose JU; 024 No 1 R.S.S fob. June Ml 9U No. 2 8!>1 891 No 3 «8 88i Tone. Quiet. TIN PRICK The price ot tin yesterday (per pii'ul) was 5357 i.
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    Lock icon Bad Cable Causes Break In Broadcast
    118 2 Bad Cable Causes Break In Broadcast A LEAKAGE m tnc underground cable of Radio Malaya yesterday caused a breakdown m" the radio transmission yesterday morning. Soon after the fault was detected, workmen from the Telecommunications Department began a systematic check along the 10-mile stretch ot road under which the cables
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    Lock icon HK EXCHANSE
    40 2 HONGKONG, May II 'Special Standard Sendee: I Closing prices of the Hon&ong Exchange today were: 5L5.70 to £1 sterling; $5,832; to US$l; $1,832 to Malayan 'Sl: 150,130I $0,130 to one Indonesian Ru- piah; Gold 5252.75 to a tad.
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    Lock icon Be Tolerant, MacG. Tells Students
    134 2 Be Tolerant, MacG. Tells Students KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Federation High Commissioner. Sir Donald MacGillivray. told students today "m our present troubled times, the best contribution we m Malaya can make to the cause of international harmony is an example of friendly tolerance and unfailing good humour m our dealings
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    Lock icon US Varsity Honours Priscilla
    100 2 MISS Priscilla Kao, daughter of M; Kao Ling Pai. former Chinese Consul General in Singapore. has been named to the Dean's List for three sueeessive years since 1954 for high scholastic attainment. Miss Kao joined the University of Pennsylvania in J952. on an Institute of International
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    Lock icon He Will Be Sober For 3 Weeks
    80 2 TEMERLOH. Thurs Radoli. 45. a P.W.D. labourer at Mentakab was today sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment when he pieaaed guilty to two charges of being drunk and disorderly m town on April 21 and 23. Inspector E. J Magnet, prosecuting, told the court
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    Lock icon Sea Cadets' Social, Dance
    49 2 THE East D;strict of the Singapore Sea Cadet Corps will hold a social and dance at the Junior Technics] School, Ba'estier Rosri. tomorrow Tickets will be available s1 the gate or from Sub/Lt. Beng Boon Liat. c/O Sar.; 4 ary Engineering Departs cm, City Council
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    35 2 THE I judgment in 19 $531 and c I fl h. a mor. Dahari bin I The P .aara Binf m and Interest oc asmfl I lent Dahari on 1 on a prom. I
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    12 2 A GIF. m been re: her home ii fl a.m. ye
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    Lock icon HID BEHIND BED TO TRAP 3 MEN
    278 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. How a Police Inspector hid behind the bed and covered three men while they tried to pose as Special Branch men and attempted to extort money from an aged squatter, the High Court was told today. Two of their accomplices
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    Lock icon Lottery Draw
    24 2 THE draw of the Malacca Welfare Lottery will take place st the Coronation Park Bandstand on Saturday. May 21, at 6 p.m.
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    Lock icon Motor-Cycli Tried To Bei Lights & Di
    185 2 Motor-Cycli Tried To Bei Lights Di THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. k i yesterday returned a verdict of misadv inquest into the death of Gerald Jonkers banking: concern, who died on Mar 25 Jr 1 a traffic accident. 1 s a Jonkers. newly arrived from Holland, had a provisional driving licence
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    129 3 M I S 8 Margaret Mi La r en and Mr. John Semi' s s, children of Seventh Day Adventist missionaries m Singapore, graduated from the Far Eastern Academy School at a ceremony held m the assembly room of the Far Eastern Division of Seventh Day Adventists m
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    Lock icon 35,000 Youths To Hold 4 Rallies
    174 3 farades Planned For Sunday I.h rallies will highlight Empire Youth v i nets in Singapore on .May 22 when more ,000 jrootka from organizations affiliated to the si nil] participate. cenUter the i odral c: Betor hbishop of Singap Mgr. i 0 I] parade
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    37 3 P asses For Pilgrims :rom the FedB ngaport ied tor the t the An S;: on t not that their the An.-;.ng's -y. p ms emb. :or the first ng ould the Federa- r tai re, not
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    72 3 SEYEX terrifc ries will he represented en the air toni a: :30 when Radio Malaya guts on ac unrehearsed "Fi m Forum* 1 featuring delegates to the South-east Asian Fi'm festival. Taking part [n this open ■na discussion oi Asi m fl ma and their
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    Lock icon COPTER MAKES UNIQUE NIGHT LANDING
    315 3 COPTER MAKES UNIQUE NIGHT LANDING Naval Pilot Rescues RAF YIP In Difficult Operation A Sembawang-based Naval helicopter made a night landing m a clearing surrounded by primary jungle m Fort Iskandar mi n the Federa tion on Wednesday to rescue Air Vice-Marshal Edwards-Jones, whose Royal Air Force 'copter had met
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    Lock icon Search For Common East-West Accord
    186 3 Search For Common East -West Accord A MORAL Rearmament mission consisting of statesmen from Europe. Africa and the Middle East will visit thp leaders of Asia n< i xt month to find a common platform for the East and the West. Mr. Thio Chan Bee. Principal of the Anglo-Chinese School,
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    Lock icon INSPECTOR GETS $4,500 DAMAGES
    160 3 THE Singapore Court of Civil Appeal yesterday increased the damages awarded by Mr Justice Tavlor to John Joffre Bheem. an inspector of posts injured m m accident, from 52.500 to $4,500 J xhe Court also awarded Bheem the costs of the trial and appeal. Mr. Denis
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    Lock icon OBJECTS TO MAGISTRATE HEARING CASE
    117 3 OBJECTS TO MAGISTRATE HEARING CASE A SINGAPORE lawyer, Mr. F. B. Oehlers, who appeared m the Fourth Police Court yesterday on a summons charge of voluntarily causing hurt to a woman, Mrs. C. Robbins, wants another magistrate to hear the case. He alleged that the Magistrate. Mr. J. M. DevereuxColebourn
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    Lock icon Chairs For Coronation Park Users
    127 3 Chairs For Coronation Park Users MALACCA. Thurs.— The amenities of Coronation Park. a popular recreation area near the sea front, are being further embellished by the Municipal Council. Lights will soon be up around the bandstand and the Municipal Engineer has been told to consider providing chairs. Including deck chairs,
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    31 3 TANJONG MALIM, Thurs. The iifth annual general meeting of the Batang Padang Estates' Staff Union will be held at Trolak. South Perak, on Sunday. May 22. at 2.30 p.m.
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    Lock icon Co-Operation' Cot Him 18 Months
    189 3 IPOH, Thurs A 30-year-old Kampong Simee villager, Law Har, who was described by the Ipoh District Crimes Officer as very 'co-operative" with the police, was today sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment by the President of the Sessions Court, Che Mahmud Hashim, for voluntarily disposing of
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    71 3 A WOMAN. Ellen Douglas Tann. was fined SlO m the Singapore City Police Court yesterday when she pleaded guilty to a charge of erecting a flower shed inside a Braddell Road house compound on Dec. 22, last year, without the permission of the City Council. She
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    39 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— Tan Choo Kirn, of Singapore, who was found moving a quantity of cloth at Tanjong Surat. without a permit, was fined $400 by Mr. N. L. Cohen m the Sessions Court. Pengerang. today.
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    56 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— Chua Nia Chong was fined $40 m the Magistrate's Court today, for using criminal forre on Police Constable Harun bin.Sabah. at Senai on Dec. 26. Harun had arrested a Chinese boy for throwing stones at a cinema and was taking him to the Police Station when
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    Lock icon Constable, Fined $40
    36 3 u^ Oi esting me boy. cnua f v.y c would be better to kll] nim He then caught hold of Harun by the shirt and tried to punch him. Chua denied the allegation.
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    611 4 POLICE USED MINIMUM FORCE ONLY Vicious Attack Untrue -C.P.O. KAMPAR, Thurs.— Perok's Deputy Chief Police Officer, Mr. Arthur Stacey Barham, today said that the Assistant District Officer, Kampar, Che Shamsuddin, who had earlier ordered him to disperse a crowd outside Tronoh Mines Village on April 16, later told him to
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    Lock icon 70,000th 'Jump' Award Goes To SAS Trooper
    216 4 70,000th Jump' Award Goes To SAS Trooper AT first light yesterday a young: trooper of the Special Air Services Regiment leapt 800 feet from a Valetta aircraft of the Royal Air Force Station, Seletar, and became the 10,000 th British serviceman to make a parachute descent m the Far East.
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    Lock icon Thomas Cup Traffic Control
    135 4 SINGAPORE'S GuiQemard Road will be turned Into a oneway street from the junction of Mountbatten Road to the mction of Lorong 40 during the Thomas Cup badminton matches m the Singapore Badminton Association Hal!. These arrangements come into effect from 6. M0 p.m. on each night
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    Lock icon Advised To Control His Temper
    95 4 Advised To Control His Temper THE Singapore Second Criminal District Cotirf Judge, Mr. J. W. D. Ambrose, yesterday advised a hawker. Poon Kong Tee. to "keep your temper under control." He said this before ordering Poon to be bound over to keep the peace for one year. Poon was charged
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    Lock icon Full House Entranced By Madame Butterfly
    304 4 Full House Entranced By Madame Butterfly DESPITE the hour (11 a.m.) the Italian-Japa-nese film adaptation of Puccinfs "Madame Butterflv M played to a full i house at Its only performance m Singapore yesterday. It was Dior? than evident from the entranced audience that this was an outstanding event m the
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    Lock icon Concert At The Hall
    57 4 THE 94-voice Rediffusion choral society will give a twohour concert with the Cordeiro Orchestra at. the Victoria Memorial Hah at 8.30 p.m. on May 21. 22 and 24 Yun Chun Yee. the young planJ.st who was a hit at the recent "shirt-sleeve" concert, will t* gurst
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    Lock icon RAF Cadetship For MAAF Man
    57 4 INCHE Suleiman bin Sujak, 21-year-old Singapore Malay, who got his Malayan Auxiliary Air Force "wings" last year has now won a Royal Air Force Cadetship He is at present training m England. The cadet was formerly an apprentice surveyor with the Singapore Improvement Trust. He
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    Lock icon 6 RAF Personnel Awarded By Queen
    176 5 n X Slater, \;r Stall I [uarters, 1953. C mmander Order r mpire. f 16 R a A r the Queen M :i during nded Nov- are: d Plyc. a b Squadron RAF: Capt. D. H. G. Wilson NO, 6d6 Squadron. RAF. Distinguished Flying
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    Lock icon Charged With Robbery
    12 5 Charged With Robbery I'HOO Court X ampoi I *n i baj ol
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    Lock icon Sir John Replies
    64 5 THE Singapore St. John Council last niuht save a farewell dinner to the Governor, Sir John Nicoll at the \delphi Hotel Coral Koom. Sir John was the patron of St. John Ambulance Brigade In picture Sir John Is replying: to Mr. Justice Knisht. From left are Mrs.
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    Lock icon Drawing Class For Beginners
    63 5 THE Singapore Art Society will be sponsoring a class m drawing for beginners m addition to the present classes on oil-painting. The class will bo conducted by Roy Slade. A.T.U.. and will be held once a week m the British Council Hall on Friday evenings from
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    Lock icon THUG'S REMARK MADE IT SERIOUS
    213 5 WANG Tay alias Pay Ec Siang was yesterday sentenced to one year's imprisonment by the Singapore Second Criminal District Court Judge, Mr. J. W. D. Ambrose, on a charge of criminal intimidation. Before sentencing him. the Judge said: "11 is a wicked thing to put
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    Lock icon Acting Governor
    45 5 THE acting Governor, North Borneo. Mr B. J. U lirien, flew into Singapore yesterday on a routine visit. Mr O'Brien said that he will call on the Commissioner General. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. He will also < all on the Governor, Sir John Nicoll.
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    Lock icon Marshall's Message To Police
    182 5 Marshall's Message To Police THE Chef Minister. Mr. David M a messo&e t*t appn ttioa to the P< i c Co: n i for "the magnifies w ork don I Ibi an- of the Singapore F* ri iring the peocnl i lot I bis absent** t 1 b 4 Andrew
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    1004 6 Singapore Standard Public Opinion MEMBERS Ol the new GOTemment are nettled by p] ol the way they dealt with recent Ugl] events Th< Chiel Minister. In particular, is feeling 2 I those newspapers which did not pull the! W Mle he is equally cut up with certain i I supporting
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      Lock icon WHICH DOES HE PREFER TANKS or WATER?
      218 6 Sir;— A recently elected politician declared his preference for Communism, rather than Colonialism. As this is still a free country he is entitled to select his "ism." As he is also closely connected with the dispute around Alexandra Road, I would like to
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      197 6 Weak- Kneed Policy Sir;— l wish to lake of! my hat to you Eor y v c. irageOUS editorials oa ie Strike Crisis m the past few weeks. To the average man m the street the policy oi the present Government is a very weak-kneed one. Instead Ol being firm.
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      Lock icon ROAD TAXES
      339 6 Sir: —It is my sincere belief that many car owners both m Singapore and m the Federation are aware of the different rates of road taxes for motor vehicles <Jf the same cubic capacity and horsepower. To Illustrate my point, let us take for example two light ears,
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      127 6 Sir;—I am not much good at shadow boxing nor am I going 10 spend all my time as spokes- man of the Progressive Party m answering "ghost" letters or letters from persons who only dare attack others be- hind the shield of a J nom-de-plume. My Party always welcomes
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      339 6 Sir; Last week's appalling events have at least clarified the political situation m Singapore and indicated to responsible people the line they must take. From now on our foremost activity must be the struggle against Communism. "Give me se.f-government and then see
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      565 6 Root Causes Of S.H.B. Strikers Discontent Sir:— lt seems that your correspondent "Observer" does not face facts squarely. We would request him to wrestle with the root causes of our discontent. The Chairman of the Singapore Harbour Board has, not treated the Union on a proper basis and has been
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      299 6 Sir, In your frontpage report of the debate on the riots, those Who engineered them are referred to m one place as 'PAP together with their Communist supporters and backseat drivers** and m the adjoining column as •'PAP with their Communist supporters and taxi-drivers" As a
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    392 7 ,bour's H-Bomb 3 licy is Right' n Lancashire, May 19. (Keuter). ider, Mr. Clement Attiee, last night w >ton Churchill for making a "silly labours polity over the hydrogen ■id, had thought it an idea" t al Lai ui should suggest speriments with the hydro- B
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    64 7 m q cam- public opiH asting I t Con- n nt) Pi a ra who theiz vote. I H o ns< i Ol such 17 per .f-rnment l cent for B r p ted m the rvati /,rity of 105 I I ared with 19 Uzens one of the
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    78 7 ('.RACE KELLY, seen above with the French actor, Jean Pierre Aumont. her constant companion at the Cannes Film Festival neither confirmed nor denied to A. P. a romantic Interest m him, when she arrived m New York yesterday. Asked directly if she was Koine to marry him, Grace replied:
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    227 7 MOSCOW, May 19 (Reuter).— Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Communist leader, said yesterday: "The fundamental principle of Soviet external policy is the acceptance of the possibility and necessity for the peaceful co-existence of various social systems," the Soviet News Agency, Tass, reported today. Speaking at
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    17 7 Security Drive In Algeria xiay 4 peace ned c ter- .1- Is, how- the ful Moroc- ihot!
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    92 7 »MBAY, May 19 (Rei I it] Poi tug c today rired B group I ,rahis I F tho cross- Ed into Goa. wounding four of r ling to a me bei oi the group quoted v ghi hrust of India. T :rteen
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    156 7 M l«i (AP)— Communist leaders fear that d revolt— similar to the June 17, 1953 Hare m restless East Germany, West J^jatelligeiice authorities said today. The Ea^t German Communist regime has just ordered strict new security measures m an effort to keep public discontent under
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    28 7 Disappearing Act Was Very Profitable M 19: I rr.a. have name '"The was tn ennneell appearing disappeared (24.000 d mer- cate the eai ure rcerer,** July, was lay.
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    9 7 tn governIt would Buddhist ""mples by -AP
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    189 7 RIVERHEAD, Nev York, M 19, i ap-- a New Jersey I a claim yesterday for ara she was the r wli n the late William k tnderbllt, sportsman, and I-■ iat lU< d to a U*****. 000.000 lira D ra Blowers, of Livingston, filed the
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    76 7 LA JOLLA, California. May 19 >.\Pi- A night school tea r .shot and killed his estranged wile, critically wounded another woman and then killed nimsell yesterday. police said. Dead were Richard Vance Mackay. 45. and bis Wife. Jane, 29. Critically wounded was Miss Marguerite M. Wood.
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    44 7 STAFFORD. England, May 19 (Renter)— Mr. Ken Richard- candidate. had Oi six people at his meeting m a village near here last eight -and they were all Conservative So ho had a drink m the local pub .'»t their expense.
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    64 7 BERLIN. May 19: (UP) Communist border guards fired seven shots at a West Berlin taxi today and tightened Berlin's baby blockade. Communist police fired the seven shots at the West Berlin taxi driving along a border road on the boundary of the British sector of
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    34 7 SWARMS of locusts arc ravaging the western part of China's North-western Province of Sinkiang. the New China Commu n is t News Agency reported from the provincial capital of Tihwa yesterday. Reuter,
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    75 7 He Will Be Counsellor To MacD LONDON. May 19. fßeuter) —The British Foreign Office new s department will shortly be losing another top man. Mr. John Robb. who has been deputy head for some three years, will this Summer be going to New Delhi to be- come counsellor m the
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    216 7 Money Made Baer Cruel Arrogant, Says Wife HOLLYWOOD May 19 (UP).— Buddy Bacr. 39, former boxer turned actor, was described as "lazy and ungrateful" yesterday by his estranged wife. May Mann. 37, Movie Fan magazine writer and Miss Utah of 1938. Miss Mann, in an answer to Baer's cross complaint
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    115 7 SEPARATION PREFERRED TO ANNULMENT NEW YORK. May 19 (AP) Sandri Rambeau Hearst, 46. blonde former actress, sought yesterday to upset a 1951 Mexican annulment of her marriage to George R. Hearst and, instead, win a legal separation. In Supreme Court here, she testified that Hearst who since has married actress
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    113 7 Bombers Search For Airliner NAIROBI, May 19 <UP) An armada of jet and bomber planes today criss-crossed steaming jungles and lakes south of here wncre an East African airliner went down with six women and 14 men aboard. The plane, a twin-engine DC-3. was believed to have crashed yesterday m
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    236 7 Leo Jupiter Take Over From Cupid NEW DELHI. May 19 (UP) The Hindu wedding boom unprecedented m recent history ended last week with a quarter of a million couples united m wedlock. Hindu priests declared the coming months "inauspicious" for weddings. The priests have, however, announced a few more •auspicious
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    217 7 U.S. SENDS RICE SELLING MISSION TO S-E.A. WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuier). The United States has sent a four-man group of specialists to Burma and Thailand to discuss South-East Asia's "very serious" rice marketing problem, the State Department announced yesterday. The group, led by Mr. Charles Baldwin, Deputy Assitant Secretary of
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    125 7 LONDON. May 19, (AP)— Lady Frances Lloyd George, widow of the former Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader, said yesterday she will vote Conservative m the May 26 British general election. She lias the sccoJid survivor of Earl Lloyd George to desert the withered Liberal Party
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    166 7 Intelligence Officer DETROIT, May 19 (AP)— A high-ranking l\S air force intelligence officer says the Russians have fighters and bombers equal in performance to the best planes the United States now has and the Russians have more of these planes. r Brigadier General Woodbury M. Burgess,
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    112 7 A Kiss For Every Letter Box LONG BEACH. California. May <APi The 4(ith birthday party that the women on postman Joseph Pugliese's route held for him was the best! Pugliese kissed eVrry one of them and there are 528 women on the route. The women lured Puglirse into the Domirnguez
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    30 7 photo. AMERICAN star of "Carmen Jones," beautiful Dorothy Dandridge smiles and waves to admirers as she arrives in Cannes to present the film, that made her famous overnight.- UP
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    32 7 WELLINGTON, May Iff (Reutcr) S:r Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Evsresi urill Lecture British Commonwealth troops m Japan and Korea m August, it wrai ftnnounced here ton ght.
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    1081 8  -  DAVID ROADS William 4 Daily Life Of An American Detainee Hongkong y[ARYKNOLL Bishop. James Edward Walsh of Cumberland, Maryland, now detained m Shanghai by the Communists, has been resharpening five old razor blades on the in-, side of a water glass daily
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    397 9 World-Wide German Research On Deepsea Fishing EARLY this spring, at Bremerhaveu, a new ship named "A nton Dohrn" was put into operation for research on deep-sea fishing. President Heuss was present at the initiation eeremonie.,, since he is the author of a bock on Anton Dohrn, who founded the world-famous
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      467 9  -  -R. 8.0. Bill Good Reading STRANGERS IN THE SUN by Noel Barber, Geoffrey Bits, London, 16 A JOURNALIST m a hurry. I with an eye for colour and sensation, never can write a satisfactory travel book doing credit to the places he has visited. All his
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      1322 9 EDWARD CRANK SHAW, Britain's Soviet i, Affairs specialist, reviews the first English j 1 1 translation of Sukhanov's personal record of i I the Russian Revolution! <! 'TVIKOLAI SUKHANOV was I"" 1 a revolutionary intel- lectual who may best be I described as an
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      612 9  -  Ernest S. Pisko By The Young Hitler I l\nen\ by Aogltsl Kubizek. Introduction by 11. R. Trevor-Roper. Illustrated. (Boston: Houirliton Mifliin Comptty« 298 pp. PL) by a friend PONTRARY to a widelyheld belief, Hitler never was a paper hanger. Nor was he ever a house
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    316 10 Copra Market Uncertain On R.I. Reports Finanev And Caitmmree Standard Market Reporter NEWS that some 70,000 tons of copra worth about CO million are piling up m East Indonesia has caused some uncertainty and nervousness m the Singapore copra market. The feeling among local copra traders was that this copra
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    124 10 THE Singapore Open General Licence will he extended from today, the Controller of Imports and Exports. Mr. \V H. Walker announced yesterday. 11 is extended so a? to perI without specific licence the import of cameras and radio gramophone? if origi- iting m and ci n igned
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    41 10 MALAYA'S foreign trade continues to show improvements, exports exceeding imports by S:;.').!> million. according to preliminary st.iti.stii> The overall value of the trade m March amounted to $698.1 million, with imports at $332.4 million and exports $366.3 million.
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    42 10 HONGKONG'S external trade during April readied HK5497,500,000, HK$36 million higher than the total for the corresponding period last year. This was 6.1 per cent lower than the preceding month, according to the Department oi Commerce and Industry.
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    257 10 BRITISH banking Is revealed to be playing a major part m the expansion of the economy of underdeveloped areas m the Far East, including Malaya. The increase m the number of branches and the wider areas being covered by these banks
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    164 10 Stockpile Of Columbite Ends In '56 IPOH, Thurs.— United States stockpile of colwnbite/tantaiite concentrate, at the present rate of buying, wi I be completed m mid-1956, well ahead of the original target dale of Dec. 31, 1956. According to the latest issue of the Metal Bulletin, the <:•■ >kpi c
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    219 10 PRODUCE A DULL MART AFTER much trading activity on Wednesday, dull conditions again prevailed at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange. No business was reported m pepper which closed at the following prices (per picul) Muntok white $177 Sarawak $176 (bo t h unhanged), Special Sarawak s $137 (down $1), Copra
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    146 10 OITKR RCADS Lapaz. China Mail, Grootkerk. Caltex B?ngkalis. Maung Bama. LeOville, Antilochus, Eidanger, Heinh Hover, Slanvac Palembang. Caltcx Delhi. Sandviken. Soudan. Limbur?. Chong Hsing, Choysang, Shillong, Taksane. Taiabut, Sirdhana, Bustler. INMR ROADS Cornfish, Scuggarang. Senai, Ilua L". Ton e Scan«. Hai vScng Hin, Buloh. Sumj>itan Tony Sing.
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    350 10  - INDIA TO BUY MORE MALAYS RUBBER T. J. CHIA Latex Demand May Increase By INDIA'S rubber requirements hove outstripped her production and she is looking to Malaya solely for her immediate and future supplies to make up for the shortage, Mr. K.M. Philip, a visiting member of the management committee
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    100 10 THE challenge of tlxe atomic age. has produced this special typewriter which is used at Hancell Britain's atomic energy research centre. It is a machine with tiro keyboards, giving a rangg of 180 characters, and is for the typing of mathematical tormulae. Similar machine? made by
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    146 10 R.I. Selling Hits The S'pore Mart Standard Market Reporter INDONESIAN selling <m the New York market was largely responsible for the drop in the rubber prices in the Singapore market yesterday which dosed at !'l cents per lb. for first grade June shipment, a drop ot s ceat on Wednesday.
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    19 10 MALAYA I 2. coconuts worth $300 and ported 857.000 coconut- v >'.7U 072 m March this ye;
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    126 10 OX the Malayan share market yesterday, industrials were quietly steady with narrow fluctuations. Tin shares continued irregular. while rubber shares were almost inoperable despite selective interest. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIAL? Buveis Sellers 8.8. Petrol 30 31 xd Gair.ir.o-.
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    111 10 SINGAPORE sharebrokers re. ported the following business done yesterday: Fed Dis. Orris. 1.75 Gammon 2 65 overnight 2 62J, 2.65 today W. Hammer 2.65 Malayan Cement 1 4Ti 1.48 Met a! Box 1.40" Robinson Orris. 2 00 Spore Cold Storage 1 75 Straits Traders 23.00 ready 23.10
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    32 10 MOVEMENTS of tin-in-con-cent rates from the mainland of the Federation of Malaya to Singapore and Pcnans during April amounted to 5.078 tons (5.216 tons m March), according to official statistics.
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    152 10 MALAYA-AU ST. TRADE MAY SOON INCREASE THE volume of trade between Malaya and Australia is expected to increase. The Australian Trade Commissioner for Malaya, Mr. H. M. Lc Marchand. disclosed at a Press conference yesterday, m Penang that Australia last year bought $6 million worth of timber from Malaya. Timber
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    272 10 THE Prime Minister of Ceylon, Sir John Kotelawala. announced m Colombo yesterday that a scheme for an export subsidy to prevent tea prices falling below one rupee fifty cents (about two shillings and three pence) per pound would come into operation from the next Colombo tea
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    260 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Selangor's four women's doubles pairs to take part m the Malayan badminton championships were decided when elimination rounds were played off m the Selangor Badminton Association Hall last night. Misses Sally Tan and Leong May Pheng beat Mary Yap and Wang
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    115 13 MARSHALL CLAYTON, a welterweight who wants to be a preacher, last night flew into Singapore. Accompanied by his manager. Bob Marshall, Clayton told pressmen that he will fight in Singapore if he could make a deal with Singapore promoter, Little Nene. who met them at the airport. If a deal
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    43 13 LONDON, May 19, (Reuter)— The South Africans tailed to press home their excellent start against Cambridge yesterday. The middie batting collapsed against the varied Cambridge attack. The tourists were all out m the last over of the day for 2GB.
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    61 13 THE Burmese Badminton team who will be competing m the coming Malayan badminton championship arrived m Penang by air from Rangoon today (Wednesday. Miiy 18). Left to right: Mr. Khin Maung Aye (singles champion), Maung Myint Tun (doubles champion), U Yu Saing (President of the Burmese Badminton), U Kyaw Sheins:
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    55 13 THE following will represent the McNair Cricket Club against the Raffles Institution m a friendly cricket match tomorrow at 2 p.m. Patrick Param: Th jma? Oral. R. Pcreira: H. Pereira: T. Chenu. B. Gan; Simon Nathan. George C. Maniam. Benny Batu. Martm Quck; Jimmy Quek. Reserves: M. Quck.
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    53 13 SINGAPORE Improvement Trust Sports Club beat Overseas Assurance Sports Club by ten goals to two m a friendly soccer game played at Farrer Par* yesterday. Scorer's for SITSC were S R.C. Naidu (4). V.J. Dass C<'. Bala <2» and Victor Famy while Ah Chye <2> replied for Overseas
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    532 13 Royal Singapore Golf Club will meet the Army m a Golf match this week-end at 2.15 p.m. Player^ and starting times for the foursomes on Saturday are: FIRST NINE 2.15 D.I. Stirk (2) and J.A. Gibson (10) vs. Gardner (3) Thompson OOi. 2.20 R. Craik (3) J.
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    300 13 HIT 347 RUNS BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 19, (Reuler). —A world record seventh wicket stand was established here today by Denis Atkinson captaining: West Indies m the absence of Jeff Stollmeyer and Claremont Depiez, the West Indies wicket-keeper. They took the West Indies score to 494
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    119 13 1 1 EIKE. May It (Reuter) Australian jockey Rae Johnston won his 27th I European classic when J riding Lady Ursula j Vernon's colt Hugh Lupus i to a four lengths victory i i m the Irish 2.000 guineas j i run over one mile here
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    385 13 Referee Prevents An Ugly Situation TWO COLONY footballers were ordered by referee F. J. Grosse to leave the field for fighting during a SAFA Div 3B league soccer match between Town Rangers and Young Companion Athletic Association yesterday. The match, played m the Clerical Union
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      642 13 CLASSIFIED ADS ANNOUNCEMENT THOMAS CUP MATCHES v DINNER Seats for the above functions are very much m demand those already invited who have not replisd by the first P° ?<i on Saturday 21st (for the M*atehes> or Saturday 4th June (for the dinner) will regretfully be assumed to be nonattenders.
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      82 13 SOCCER:— Div. 2B: S.C.C. vs. R.A.F. Seletar at S.C.C. Div. 3B: Springdale Sports Club vs. Rajaji Sports Club at Geylang: Social A. P. vs. Netaji M.S.C. at Farrer Park. ARMY SOCCER:— Div. 310 A B.T.S.M.B.T.C. vs. Command Pay Office: 221 IV h. Bn. R.A.O.C. vs. 3 Army Dog Guard Unit;
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    363 14 BAM Sends An SOS' By LEONG HEW MENG FIRST it was the heat, then the lights, and now it is the shuttlecock. Yes, the Americans want it slow, and like all good hosts, the Badminton Association of Malaya have dispatched an S.O.S. by way
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    121 14 AMERICA'S JOE Alston and Dick Mitchell had a practice session by themscives yesterday afternoon. Both were bothered by the breeze, but otherwise, were impressive. They arc definitely much improved players. The Danes took over the show from the Malayans, and Finn Kobbero immediately attracted the attention of the
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    58 14 MUNICH, May 19 (Reuter)— Italy completed a s—o victory 'over Germany when their 'second round European zone [Davis Cup lawn tennis tie ended here yesterday. In the concluding singles ,Fausto Gardini beat Rupert ,Hobr 6—o, 6—3, 6—3 and ,Giuseppe Merlo defeated ,Christoph Biederlack 6—l, ,B—6. 6—l. i
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    88 14 J A SPECIAL team of bad- minton reporters and well 2 known writers have been assigned to bring you the latest on the Thomas Cup teams and the matches to be played. x Leong Hew Meng of Ipoh covered the previous Thomas Cup matches m x London
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    501 14 EVERY sportsman m Ifal&y* whether he is a badminton player or not, is wondering which country from among America. India. Denmark and Australia, will emerge as the ultimate challenger to Malaya for possession of thc Thomas Cup— symbol of world badminton supremacy, writes Leong Hew Meng.
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    110 14 IPOH, Thurs.— Two trophy races are included m the programme for the Perak Turf Club race meeting here on June 25. 29 and July 2. The trophy races are for clcss two division one horses over 5k furlongs straight, carrying stakes of $7,500. and class five division
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    238 14 By WINDSOR LAD PENANG, Thurs.— Only a few horses worked out at Batu Gantong this morning. Spencers pair. Park II and Film Fan II were given two rounds. They ran the half mile m 55 sec and the three m 40-4/5 sec. Film Fan II (Jones)
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    288 14 PENANG. Thurs. Race weights for the final day, Saturday, of the Penang meeting are: Horses Class 4. Div I—l Mile Firebird 9.00 3 Dimension 8.13 Linkshir 11 8.12 Siapa Tahu 8.11 I row Hill 8.09 De-Win 8.06 What Happened 8.04 Fairy Gift 8.04 Tia Juana 8.03 Forget -Me-Not
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    188 14 Eddie Hoo Chye Ordered To 'Rest' TWO players were absent in the Malayan squad w h i c h turned up for training at the stadium last night They were Eddie Choong and Lee Hoo Chye, both nursing injuries which may keep them out of practices until next week. Eddie,
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