Singapore Standard, 20 April 1957

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    27 1 Signpore Standard -^IGEIi. STANDARD ***** (S lin«) POLICE 2400 FIRE BRIGADE 2811 GENERAL HOSPITAL 2414 s* No. m SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1957 It- PAGES 13 CENTS
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    Lock icon 'Guided Govt. For R.I. Vital'
    155 1 I t April I p> Presiderv b I Wedne I ncsia C n IgM guided democra v I be on a v unI not a reg I said the SoTiet I aied "X ri principles nan:.: m a contn... d k Ritcrat ed. howe the
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    36 1 *rvative Peer sugge a* a way to help popuBritish Colonial ■cfaange Us name. ■by said that In mou- of the term coloi the government might t changing the name to oi Overseas
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    Lock icon GUIDED MISSILE
    33 1 A ."."..'IDED :r.issile unit to be formed and based on Sy :-.cy for air defence will be incorr- r.rci m :e X yal Australian .\:r F^r.e. Air ?.Tir.: I Re uter
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    Lock icon ANOTHER RED A-BLAST
    344 1 The Fifth In This Month's Series One Of The Biggest Tests Yet— Says AEC WASHINGTON, April 19— The Atomic Energy Commission announced today that the Russians on Tuesday set off "one of the largest" nuclear explosions m their current test series. It was the fifth Soviet atomic
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    Lock icon NATO COUGH DROPS
    57 1 Reuter photo. field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Britain, standing on loft, offers cough drops to permament representatives of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council at Camp Voloceau, Rocquencourt, nvar SHAPE m France during an important study of military problems of the Allied command m Europe. There was
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    Lock icon Union Jack Flies Over Suez Again
    191 1 British Ship Enters Canal CAIRO. April 19 (t P) The Inion Jack fluttered m the Suez Canal today for the first time since Egypt's invasion when the British ship West Breeze entered the waterway at Suez. The UOO-ion freighter urriTi d at Buei yesterday.
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    Lock icon Speaker's Father Dies
    106 1 Speaker's Father Dies MR. GEORGE RAE OEHLERS. 77, a well-known Colony contractor and father of Singapore's flint Speaker of the Legislative Assembly died yesterday at his residence alter a long illness. Funeral services will be held at St. Paul's Church. Upper BerangOOn Road, at 5 p.m the MUM church he
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    Lock icon Royal Flight On The 'Giant'
    62 1 LONDON. April 19 (AP) The Queen Mother ii expected to travel m Britain's new "Whispering Giant* 1 Britannia airliner when iha visits Rhode ia ar.d Nyasaland m July. Bm Will be tiie Brst member of the Royal Family to fly m a Britannia, the lint
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    Lock icon PREMIERS TO DISCUSS S.E. ASIA
    139 1 PREMIERS TO DISCUSS S.E. ASIA LONDON, April 19 (Reuten The Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference beginning here on June 26 will discuss the situation m the Far East and the latest developments m South-east Asia among other .subjects. well-lniormed sources said today. The United Kingdom delegation is expected to tell the
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    Lock icon GIRL MISSING FROM HOME
    103 1 A CLERK m RAF. Sc'.ctar. Mr. Tay En^ Kiat ha.- been Combing the city UItHHTf llfullj fur the Iml two Hay? for hji missing adopted daughter. l "I fear the girl might have been tempted out of the house."' ne said yesterday. He said his daughter,
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    Lock icon ETNA ERUPTS
    22 1 MT. ETNA continued to erupt yesterday, spilling a stream of lava down a IUU of the 10,758-foot mountain. A P
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    Lock icon A Quiet Day For Queen
    83 1 WINDSOR. April 19 (Re:tcr> The Queen who w. be ji yean old on Batter S m lay, ■a i spen I Ihe day quid v v. ith bJer family at Windsor Castle. It hai h* 1 ictne Ihe custom n r the Royal family to
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    Lock icon CHIEF KILLED
    37 1 JOSE le Le< p, ranke I No, 3 :r. Ihe Communist-dire* ted Huk hierarchy, was lulled with two I bia bj lei last Tuea lay, the Phi ippine Poli c Constabulary ann anccd. A. P.
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    Lock icon GETTING BETTER
    18 1 FKANCOISE Sagan has continued her "steady improvement" from an automobile accident, a medical bulletin said.— AP.
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    Lock icon BISHOP'S EASTER MESSAGE
    141 1 BISHOP'S EASTER MESSAGE THE Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. W. H. Baines, yesterday criticised the habit of celebrating Easter forgetting the significance of Good Friday. In a talk over Radio Malaya on the meaninz and message of Good Friday and Easter, the Bishop said both are indissolubly linked together
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    26 1 AX advance party of two Russians arrived m Colombo yesterday to set up their embassy m Ceylon the first for a Communist country. AP
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    Lock icon Duke, Duchess For Europe
    53 1 NEW YORK, April 19. (AP). Tne Duke and Duehe.-s of Windsor sailed for Europe on Thursday aboard the liner United States. With then 1 were a staff of four aides, a new automobile, B 3 pieces of Luggage including 31 trunks, and three dogs Davey Crickett,
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    Lock icon Tourist Causes A Palace Crisis
    183 1 PEKAN, Fri. A touiM yesterday caused a minor "palace crisis" here by walking into the Royal hou>e-buat m HM| of cheap accommodation. The t.t!! (.'w lOOl) Umrist Edmund Spencer, was finally per.-uaded to leave the hou^e-boat by a member of the Royal Household and asked
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    18 1 SOVIET President Klementi Voroshilov slipped Quietly out of Peking yesterday for a tenday tour of China Reuter
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    Lock icon 9 MIL. AUSSIES
    19 1 AUSTRALIA'S population at the end of 1956 was 9,533.334 according to a Government estimate yesterday.- Reuter
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    Lock icon PILOTS TOLD: 'GO BACK TO WORK'
    116 1 MELBOURNE, April 19 (Reuter) A "go back lo work" order was issued by an industrial court here yesterday to Qantas pilots whose strike for increased pay has grounded most of the airline's overseas services. Mr. Justice Piper ordered the Australian Air Pilots Association to
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    Lock icon BATTLES ON ISRAEL BORDER
    166 1 BATTLES ON ISRAEL BORDER TEL AVIV. Apr.. 19 <AP> Gun battl< d« n Thursday on i bord< rs v;h Syr. a ana J rdan I.rar. m;.;:ar:, .tdquarters reported a tw< -hour. 40-minuie gunfight or: we en I ra< Us and Syrian* n< rth of the S<a of Gahi< and a
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    21 1 BANGKOK i p aid yesterday they would not grant 15 Thai t: imoiv ists V -,-nmunist China. Reuter
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    Lock icon Reds May Launch A New Peace Offensive
    232 2 LONDON. April 19 (Renter) Latest event? m Moscow and Peking indicate that the leaders ol the Communist world may have decided on a new "peace"' offensive. diplomatic observers here said. Marsh*] Nikolai Bulganin, S let Prime Mini tor, publicly c 'Vt earlier thii
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    Lock icon Trail Of Damaged Boats & Dinghies
    85 2 Trail Of Damaged Boats Dinghies A TRAIL of damaged boats and sunken and swamped dinghies is left behind as a waterspout (b a c kgronnd) moves off into the distance and oat to sea after lashing the docks and shoreline and ripping along the waterfront at Nassau, Bahamas, on April
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    Lock icon FOREIGN TROOPS SURROUND JORDAN
    309 2 FOREIGN TROOPS SURROUND JORDAN Armies Of 4 Nations Are Ready To Strike Counfry Visibly Weakening D q ;l BEIRUT, Lebanon, April > AP fc of four countries occupy or surr Oun 7S Jordan. They ore reody to pounce "v Jordan appears too puny t c nuf resistance. X pu v
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    Lock icon Red Guns Open Up Again
    18 2 TAIPI C teries opened up m ti hours of yesterday morainf more thar
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    Lock icon U.S. ACCEPTS RED DISARMAMENT PLAN
    176 2 With 2 Conditions Attached! LONDON. A;.::l .:T'» Tnc yesterday accepted Russia's offer for a pa: Skies'" disarmament plan m Burope oacoi W Russians agree to \vid< n :e area und( I After first rcic !in^ President Ei^cnh w< r's ful "< >ncn Skies' p an
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    28 2 THE British Air M.n^trv announred thai L'J tjce: were alx>ard a Roy,-.: Air Valetta Transport crashed on Wedne.^:..v takeoff ai the Aaaba airfield m Jordan.— AP.
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    Lock icon King Is Grateful To The Nation For Its Support
    151 2 AMMAN, Jordan, April 19 (UP) Kin^ Hussein yesterday thanked the nation and the array for their "support and understanding" m the recent political crisis and denounced the "real enemies" who derive their principles from outside the country. "I swear I will
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    Lock icon Suez Won't Be Placed Before U.N.
    99 2 Suez Won't Be Placed Before U.N. WASHINGTON, April 19 (UP) The United States has decided suddenly against placing the Suez Canal problem before the United Nations Security Council at this time. The Press has been informed that the decision against seeking Security Council action now was made yesterday morning. Informants
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    61 2 OTTAWA. April 19. (Reuter). Mr. Lester Pearson Canadian External AfTairs Minister, has demanded proof of renewed allegations againtt the late Mr. Herbert Norman. Canadian diplomat or an apology if the proof was not forthcoming He made the demand m a telegram to the editor of the
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    Lock icon LESS RUBBER FOR KOREA
    68 2 SEOUL, April 19 (UP) South Korean businessmen predicted yesterday that the Republic of Korea will import less raw rubber from Malaya this year than last. They said rubber processing plants m Korea have an adequate stock of crude rubber because last year's imports were more than
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    21 2 COMMODITY PRICES fli r rubber P i r l r i! Int Mo c low t! SSfiMS day wm «f* J=
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    119 2 UNITED NATIONS, April 19 (UP) A 25-year-old Budapest-born man attempted to cut down the Hungarian flag flying m Iront of United Nations' headquarters on Wednesday but was seized by security guards before the flag touched the ground. Gioegy Loewy, who de*- cribcd himself
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    Lock icon Look-out For New Moon On April 29
    292 3 Look-out For New Moon On April 29 MUSLIM authorities in 1 Singapore will look out f«»r the new moon, which will indicate the end of the fasting month and herald the Hari Raya I'uasa, on April 29. The cUflf K,vhi. Tuaa Haji Mohamma I Said Sa.leh. laid ye r .ay
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    94 3 KUAIfTAN, Fri.— Hundreds of Malaya '■"•■•;ri>\s went East this v.ook-erri. canting all ;:n--m it tented Easter boom tram Kota R.'. r vi t<> Kuantan. H' i led I v the Director of Operate It. (Jen. Sir RoSjßf B v. or, th.cv ranged from Army top
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    53 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri— A total of $83,219 was paid by the Frderation authorities for information leading to the capture and killing of Communist terrorists during March, it was disclosed today. Of this amount, Pahang tnpprd the list, reeeivin? $29,979. Seiansor informants received $13,060. about $200 morr than
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    36 3 UNGKU Abdul A/i 7, LtChirer m E onbmica m the University of Malaya and Director of the Malay Language Institute, has submitted his resignation from the latter pott, Urn Standard learnt m Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
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    238 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. tf< mben ol the worting mmmittee the Ala ay an Chinese A. iatiOfl Sclar.^or branch today demanded the cxpu'..=i o n of party members who through pub expression! or "<lan--sero;:s a tivities* 1 werp loyal to Ihi Formosa Kuomintani Govanmaot,
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    Lock icon PLEA TO RULERS FOR BAN ON STRIP SHOWS
    168 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri— The Malayan Workers Welfare Society today appealed to the Malay Rulers to ban strip-iea.-e shows m their respective St< tes. In a letter to the Rulers, it iai that ihi morals; m Ihii country was deteriorating bec»ai se of
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    Lock icon DEMAND CAME WITH A BULLET
    435 3 CONTRACTOR TELLS COURT OF EXTORTION SITIAWAN, Fri. A Bindings rubber tapping contractor, Low Guan Seng, yesterday testified m the Sessions Court that he received a live .38 bullet with a note demanding S7OO on Dec. 9 last year. Low was giving evidence at the trial
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    30 3 A CORPORAL of the special constabulary m Triang. Mohamed bin Abdullah succumbed to internal injuries sustained on Thursday after he was crushed, between a truck and a tree
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    Lock icon MASKED MEN ATTACK SHOPKEEPER'S WIFE
    143 3 TELOK 'ANSON, Fri.— A shopkeeper watched, helpless, as two masked men molested his wife m turn and took $500 worth of goods on Tuesday night. The two men, with four others, broke into the shop of Wong Ah Heng at the Ist Mile Sungei Nibong
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    Lock icon Safeguard Our Culture— Tunku
    215 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Malaya's plural society must safeguard its rich cultural heritage for the new nation to tap, Federation Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, said today. The Chief Minister Mid this when he declared open the first-ever Pan-Malayan Ce.vlonese Games and Cultural Festival, sponsored by the
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    Lock icon City Needs $20M. More
    46 3 SINGAPORE City Council will need another $20,000,000 for this year to meet additional commitments m expenditure. The expenditure for this year is now further revised to be $135.7 million of which nearly $71 million will be for water, ga.s and electricity departments.
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    52 3 OEHLERS GEORGE RAE <G.R I 77 on Good Friday. April 19. at his residence, Oehler*i Lodge, peacefully, after a long illness bravely home. Funeral service at St. Paul's Church. Upper Serangronn Road at 5 p.m. on Saturday April 20. then to Bidariari Cemetery. "Gone from us but never to
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    Lock icon RAGGING CONTROLLED
    58 4 RAGGING hftfl been controlled m the University of Malaya, the Vice-Chancellor's report fi r the year 1055-56 Just Issued, says. II acid.-: "No disciplinary problems have emerged and the efforts of the Students Council to control 'ragging' were to all appearances highiv successful; at any rate no complaints,
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    Lock icon Bank Wins $35,000 Award
    216 4 Company Sued On Overdraft Claim THE Singapore High Court Thursday awarded $35,000 to the Ban Hin Lee Bank Limited, m a suit for recovery of money lent to the International Printing Company. The Bank originally sued the printers for $51,835.78 on a claim on an overdraft
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    58 4 A GROUP of Burma residents of Singapore were guests recently of the Burmese Consul, U Kyaw, and Mrs. Kyaw, at a Burmese New Year's Eve Party, at the premises of the Consulate of the Union of Burma, m St. Martin's Drive. Above, some of the 50
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    Lock icon Security Forces Kill Two Reds ...AND ONE GIVES UP
    213 4 Security Forces Kill Two Reds ...AND ONE GIVES UP SEGAMAT, Fri. A company of the First Battalion, the South Wales Borderers, m Segamat district was m the process of siting an ambush position on a rubber smallholding: bordering a swamp, when a male and a female communist terrorists approached them.
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    Lock icon Fishing Crews Call Off Strike
    101 4 THE 8-day-Old strike by 1411 Singapore lishing boat crews was, called off on Thursday after i series of neg< tiations at the Labour Ministry. The workers demand* d wage increases and Improved working conditions. The Strike was called by the Singapore Fish Merchants Empli yees
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    95 4 University Degree Recognized THE University of Malr.ya is the first university outside Great Britain to receive recognition of its Botany and Zoology Degrees by the Institute of Biology. The University's Gazette issued yesterday says the Institute of Biology "has announced that an honours degree m Botany or Biology m the
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    47 4 AIR. L. P. Goontiileke. Colombo Plan Information Unit's assistant information offictr, left Singapore yesterc:\y m a KLM Constellation for Bangkok. Mr. Goontiileke will return to Singapore on April 28 after a thort visit to the Federation before going on to Jesselton and Kuching,
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    Lock icon DRIVER JAILED FOR STONING PASSING CAR
    127 4 A MALAYAN Airways driver. Low A! Sang. 48. was sentenced to three months' jail m the Singapore Third District Court on Wednesday for attacking a passing motor car with stones and bottles during the October riots of last year. Inspector Lim Cheng Pah told
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    62 4 KUALA SELAXGOR. Fri.— The Minister for Agriculture, Incht? Abdul Aziz bin Ishak, today told members of the local council that he m much concerned over the standard of living of the kampong people. Inche Aziz urged the padi planters to form co-operative societies. By selling to the co-operative
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    330 5 Marshall Decides NOT To Resign Seat In Legislative Assembly After 3-Hour Consultation... THE member for Cairnhill, Mr. David Marshall, has decided to keep his seat m the Legislative Assembly as an independent member following his resignation from the Labour Front. Mr. Marshall made this decision on Thursday night after a
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    120 5 Woman PC's Give Way To Marriage MARRIAGE and domestic reasons have caused two members of the Women's Police Force to resign, said the officer-mr charge, Inspector Mary Quintal, yesterday. However, ght Bd :cl. 1 [ghl other young women have been m: c ted lot a new women*i squa i and
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    Lock icon The dangers of indiscriminate Malayanization
    222 5 The dangers of indiscriminate Malayanization MALAYANIZATION, if applied indiscriminately to the l/niversity of Malaya, will hinder training of local students. I This warning was givrn by Sir Sydney Came. former Vice-Chancellor ol the university Ol Malaya. l ii his last annual report as Vice-Chancellor, written Just prior to his relinquishment
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    120 5 ROMANCE and a University decree came all at the same time to Mr. (hoe Fook Cheornr, youngest son of Mrs. Cheong Ah Yin, of Tions Poh Road, Singapore, w lio has just graduated BJ architecture at the University of Melbourne. Mr. Cheong had no sooner received
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    86 5 3 Charged With Murder three fitters employed at the Singapore Naval Base were produced yesterday befo-e the Fifth Magistrate, Mr D G D'Cotta. OH a tentative charge ol murder. Thej are Yee Bheuk Poi. 20 Chee Srnz Knng. 20, and Yee Kok Yuen. 22. They are alleged to have caused
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    29 5 THE BODY of Pengiran Muda Kahar bin Haji Mohamed Yasin, who died m the Singapore General Hospital on Tuesday, was flown to Brunei on Thursday mornins.
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    Lock icon Son Threatened Father By Post, Court Told
    139 5 SHELL Company prnsioner Cheang Eni: Cheong, told a Singapore Court yesterday that he was shocked to lind an anonymous threatening letter pushed under his door one morning m January. Cheang said he later received a posted letter addressed to him at Guillemard Road.
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    243 5 SINGAPORE -SLEEPING GIANT OF TOURISM SINGAPORE was des cribed yesterday by a visiting official of PanAmerican World Airways as "the sleeping giant of tourism m the Pacificsoon to be awakened by the jet air age.'' He ll Mr. Herbert F Mi cy. Division Traffic and Sa i Manager of PJUL
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    120 5 S'pore May Be Venue For Big Conference SINGAPORE will probably bo the VCnuc Of the next Asian Regions] Conference Of the Internal lonal Confederation of Free Trade Unions next year. This was difdoeed yesterdaj by |fr. N. S. N. Nair. ore Ldeni of the Army Civil SenriOl Union, who returned
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    Lock icon STABBINGS IN SINGAPORE
    74 5 TWO labourers irerc seriously tabbed m separate incidoits m Singapore yesterday mornmg. Varimnutliu. ?>O, a CU* Council labourer, teas attacked Em the chest at Henderson Romd. He was about to board a bus, when a man wpproached and plunged a kmje m mm. A man has been
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      455 6 7N THE course of a five week tour of Asia, Nationalist Chinese editor of the Taipei China N-.-5. Mr Stanway Cheng found that resurgent r.ationa.i.sm m South-east Asian countries has b: with it a dire threat to the trade and corr.rr. rrial interests which overseas Chinese have rl^n:in;;*-^
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      426 6 r Hr China Press of Kuala Lumpur has commented on ,i s ibvet that 13 causing great misgivings m t~- hearts of non Malays who subscribe to a variety of faiths. It refers to the ponOric Implications if I irr. if made the state religion. This is
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    620 6  - Those 4 Dangerous Islands HONGKONG. PRESIDENT Eisci/nower denies that he ever aft i private guarantee to c,cneralissimo Chianf Kni-shck That the Quemoy Islands WOIIU bo defended by the United States against the Chinese Communists. But Urn biographer of the Prelident'l Secretary of State, Mr. Dulles, tayi that the guarantee was
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    1493 6  - MODERN PILGRIM FATHERS Michael Davie UONDON LETTER by Ilc>-Mfiscovcrinfj Antorieu It is rumoured that after having withdrawn their anti-American-motion the 100 Tory MPs will set out on a pilgrimage to the United States m the MAYFLOWER II later this month. The MAYFLOWER was originally scheduled to set sail on April
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    45 6 Shorts from the Talks That Mountain Vaster SCOTCH iMtf nd found «J men flattetfcttffl ;mnp «i it on eaMBf there forr J.rr.rr.'. v thing thtt pot ■f»JS dttch put yo« Jl r* fine motor CKr Noil in^ m *> 7in« I'"- 1 v; r Bi« r.e«rtl
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    564 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME Aster Gunasekera By JF MY little birds who have still to let me down have been able correctly to piece together the bits of news and rumours they heard yesterday, Singapore is m for an exciting and hectic time. From their chatter it would
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    126 7 Moscow's Latest Warning MOSCOW, April 19 (AP) Young Commuuists were told today American jazz is all light when performed by artists like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong but Rock n' Roll "should be avoided like the plague." Rock 'n' 801 l represents nothing but discordant "sounds of the atomic ige,"
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    208 7 American Women Aren't So Weil Dressed, She Says CHICAGO, April 19 (UP) American women may think their fashions lead the world, but to a trim young newspaper publisher from Hongkong, women m this country appear to wear "just anything." "Actually, their drcssd look all right," mused the Managing Director of
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    77 7 TALLAHASSEE, Florida. April 19 (Router)— Florida's "quickie" divorce laws are to be challenged again m the State's legislature. State Senator Douglas Btenstonn la to spon.sor legislation to require a year's residence before filing for divorce m Florida and a 10--day period before a divorce becomes final.
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    49 7 LONDON, April If) (Rcuter) The big^est-cvcr Easter Holiday air and rail rush to Paris and the continent be^an yesterday dc?pit e the French transport strike. More than IM planes, full to rapacity, took oil for Paris every ten minutes, some planes making several trips.
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    68 7 SUKCMA dancer lies m the lap of a companion as he finishes his snake dance with several snakes twined around his body. The Sukuma. a million-strong Bantu-speaking race of Tanganyika,, have numerous secret societies, including the Snake Society \vho.«e members perform these snake dances partly to show off
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    117 7 He Sold Charms For Protection Against H-Bombs And A-Bombs VIENNA, April 19 (Reuter)— An artist of Schwechat near Vienna has been arrested for selling to superstitious people a "charm against the atom bomb." He had printed some thousands of leaflets containing a prayer for protection against hydrogen bombs, uranium bacterial
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    122 7 SANTA MONICA, California, April 19 (AP) Edward G. Robinson Jr., 24 year-old son of the actor, was convicted on Thursday on a misdemeanor charge of drunk driving Robinson had been charged with felony drunk driving but the judge advised the jury it could decide
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    153 7 Beauty From Bandit Chief's Harem Surrenders To Police TEHERAN, Iran, April 19 (AP)— Pakistan border police said yesterday they have captured one of the leading beauties m the harem of Dadshah, Iranian bandit leader whose gang recently ambushed and killed three Americans and two Iranians. Police said the girl, named
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    328 7 Rome's Church Bells Fall Silent For Start Of Holy Week ROME, April 19 (Reuter) The bells of Rome's 300 churches fell silent last night as tens of thousands of Easter pilgrims flocked! to ceremonies commemorating the passion of Christ before his death on the cross on Calvary. Under a new
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    241 7 KAMPALA, Uganda, April 19 (Reuter) How the warder on night duty at local county jail took four of his prisoners with him to help him commit a robbery, afterwards returning them to their cells, was told m the magistrate's court at Mubende, Uganda, when
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    76 7 NEW YORK, April 11) (AP) A shapely young woman, her face battered beyond recognition, died yesterday, two hours after police found her lying m a lover's lane m a quiet, residential section of Brooklyn. Police Ndd she had apparently been thrown out of a
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      74 7 FISHING with a float and a worm at Lake Mcliwaine. near Salisbury. RhndeM.j. an angler caught a fne-foot crocodile. He saw the crocodile near his line and decided to reel m But whrn he did so the rrocndilr made a di\e for the line and the hook
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      44 7 A BERLIN poodle clnh held a fancy dress ball for its members and their dop.. While humans danced, dozen* of does sat it out m costumes representing waiters or sailors. The most original poodle came with nothing at all as a dog;. Reutrr
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      78 7 DANC'I R wlio calls hi:isrlf "The Hot ossark' »s suinjr the it of V\* York for lS>r>.iO(m danr.ins he fell on a cit\ i^e rink m Ffl)ruir\ .<nrl r.in no Inng'-r d<» hi^ satire ;ind d.itci-r rianrt rt.utinr. Dmitry Mat\ienko tnr rink w.i*- (ninrn«nin and the ire was
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    198 8 PIANO VIOLIN RECITAL AT V.M.H. GOH SOON TIOE and Xorccn Stokes gave a violin ana piano recital In the Victoria Memorial Hall last Thursday. Beethoven*! I lad sonata. Op 12. was disappointing In tti dullness I genera] Inertia, having little variety of tone or rhythmi i buoyancy. Grieg, In hi
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    70 8 Disputing Meet Lim On Tuesday SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister. Mr. Urn Yew Mock, has called a joint meeting of representatives of Ta v Koh Yai and Hock Lee Bus Companies and the Bus Workers Union on T,;c~day to sock a solution to settle their dispute. The dispute centres around the Unions
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    295 8 PROTESTS OVER HOLIDAY PORT CLOSURE 'Customs Action High-handed MALACCA, Fri. Most < <f J indignant over what they dcscril>e 2 attitude" taken by the Custom.' instructing them to stop all shin 1 I, during the Hari Raya Puasa h<h The circular, signed i OfTiccr, Malacca, is.-uc-d to all agents, states
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    115 8  -  MACDONALD CALCUTTA. Apr:! 19 rßeuter)— Mr Malcolm MacDonald. British High Cmmissioner m New I> lhi, said here yesterday "that the p< ople of Sinca:)i n w< n pleased with the outci :r. of the recent Londi n c nferencc with regard to the future government of
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    30 8 BOY s- outs fn and other torriv rics :v. will be ran ng tk i meet the Queen, it I nual parade of Queen's Scout-. Apr:; 28.
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    196 8 Inaugural S 'pore-Colombo Flight AN AIR CEYLON Constellation carrying several government and civil dignitaries arrived m Singapore late Thursday night inaugurating: the Colombo—Singapore Sapphire Service. Led by Ceylon's Minister of Transport. Mr. M. Senanayake. the team of Ceylonese were met on arrival by representatives of the Ceylon Commissioner's Office m
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    223 8 Chief Minister On Tour Is T01d... THE SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRISTS NINE-STOREY FI \TS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT ALBERT STREET ARE NOT FIT FOR HUMAN HABITATION, THE CHIEF MINISTER MR. LIM YEW HOCK WAS TOI n WHEN HE VISITED THE SITE ON THURSDAY.
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    70 8 The Union last week threatened to call strike of 400 workers employed m these two companies, to press its claim. But the strike was later deferred on the advice of the Chief Minister from London. On Thursday a 14-man joint delegation from the Trades Union Congress, the Workers
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    96 8 Census Jobs OF the 1.300 applicants interviewed since April 12 for the temporary posts of census enumerators. 390 or 30 per cent have been found unsuitable. Announcing this on Thursday, the Commissioner for Labour said he has called for further applications from residents m Singapore and Johore
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    117 8 Dumb Boy Is Made Happy KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A Rediffuston set was presented by the Welfare Department to a dumb boy "to make him happy." This was disclosed by the Chairman of the Kuala Lumpur district welfare committee. Mrs. R. A. Cessford, at the annual general meeting today, at which
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    65 8 NEW YORK. April 19 (AP) Richard Tucker, a leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, will tour the Far East under the auspices of the U.S. State Department, it was announced today. The first concert will be May 9 m Bangkok, with other appearances m Saigon, Singapore,
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    23 8 ENROLMENT of students to the newly-opened course of Indian Studies m the University of Malaya will begin m September this year.
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    116 8 Clearance Lag Upsets Minister KUALA LUMPUR. Fri The 193 ex-Special Constables rehabilitated if Kampong Jaya Stia, known formerly aKampong Trail, have managed to clear only 4<Hi of the 960 acres allotted them m the four year.- of their stay Inche Abdu] 'Aziz I.hnk. Minister for Agriculture said he was to
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    50 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri Funds ma v be remitted to Malayan students m Egypt through the State Settlemeni Treasuries, the Government announced today. The Treasuries will make the necessary arrangements for these remittances to he sent to the Swiss legation m Cairo for payment to individual students.
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    187 8 Shortage Of Teachers SINGAPORE Government will consider any scheme of the University of Malaya to produce more graduates not only by part-time courses, but even by ottering external depress. The Permanent Secretary to the Mini-try of Education, Mr. Lee Siew Mong yesterday
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    41 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri Of the 272 bicycles stolen during the last six month? only 23 have been recovered. a police spokesman told the Standard yesterday. The bicycle thefts average two a day m Kuala Lumpur, he added.
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    64 8 '!±!l^jiii of secret sociefrl frOm TWfliHti^i other bodies Bi3 m the bud by h^U recently. m *l had succeeded to on rackets, th«» nnS nave been Krious. inducted mm J '1 operations aStfl thu^ One Jailc id. •We are now m a positj to announce that tht
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    51 8 Till "I"' of Hi.- M „1 u-.k. Hill teAJ 1 Com; Buildi.i: < hull.- Mj ill m from .1 look 1 its bMiw* ere Be »M 235» uoul.l ran i B 5;;, i, 1 1* i m.«« B a ""Id that I* Mr 111 s|
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    92 8 LONDON, April 19 (Reuter) —There are 237 students from Malaya and 119 from Singapore studying or engaged m research at universities or university colleges of the United Kingdom for the current academic year according to the 1957 Commonwealth Universities Yearbook. These figures do not include
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    332 9  -  Roger Yue DFGHFD for Bathing Beauty Esther m that UNGUARDED MOMENT By STANDARD FILM CRITICS UNIVERSAL International's THE UNGUARDED MOMENT (coming to Capitol) is the second Hollywood film m two months that gives us an unpleasant insight into the extreme crankiness of certain
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    158 9 A. J. Cronin's Spanish Gardener rrai gPiUfISB OAR- D£NCR, j Ottl -:o;-cl |m on i illn imam author, A. J. (>o-:.??, is R in j c s i a t t h 1 drama 0//erii g to Sn;(;':;'orr. Brsos, r'; P'chtrc f! r<n rr n rcrr f -ret -r .>-
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    131 9 '•"DLT can't iing!" protested the pianist as the half-tipsy customer m the little restaurant egged him on to give a number. "Well, try anyway 9 said the manager. ik That guy is otic of our regulars. He spends up to $3 a night here." From that
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    257 9 Antics of a 17-year-old Daughter §INCE the time of Cain and Abel, the older generation of every aue has got itself into a swivci over ihc younger element (what are they coming to?) and that is exactly what the film MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER, is all about. Presented v-rry respectably, with
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    217 9 F)ID you know that Rock Hudson can I sins'.' Rock was quite surprised himself. But if you watch for a scene m "Pylon," his new U-I film, you'll see him m standing at a bar m New Orleans lustily m- toning "Roses of PiC- ardy' to an
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    412 9 Excitement in the Fog I^HE British screen has at last succeeded m persuading us that there is nothing more sinister than to be caught m the swirling mists of fogenshrouded London. J. Arthur Rank's TIGER IX THE SMOKE, (coming to Cathay) adapted dram Mapgery A] i*i exciting novel, toils HI
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      114 10 SINGAPORE rubber prire? H T-. mday ro? e i cent to -*~J ents per Ib. for first grade IXT. R.S.S F. 0.8. May shipment on a quiet market Prices opened at around 922 rents on a -toady market on better overseas overnight pri es. The market was
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      34 10 INCREASED profits and tumo'. i n reported by Glaxo La rat ties m the ris mopthi ende Dei 31, 1956 compared with the corresponding period of 1955, nttnf to The Fin- Times.
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    177 10 Rubber Co. Foresees Records THE United StstM Bobbat ir.y \vi 1 >et new records m 1931 I r b< "h sa.es and irnings, Mr. U.K. Humphreys Jr.. chairman, predicted on T ;e> iay at the annual stockboldan nacctii In New York. He made tha Optimistic anrv.:a: despite lower q Mrtai
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    98 10 THE British aircraft industry can be nominated as "the industry most likely to succeed m 1957" says the Christian Science Monitor m a review of British aero exports. "It is growing all the time. And the rigni are that the rail of growth will
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    145 10 New Record Rice Output In Malay Is Forecast SELF -SUFFICIENCY IN TEN YEAK iVUALA U.MPUR. Fri p_,. I submitted by State and Sc V- -J indicate that the yield of I 485.000 tons, tr.e 'isrgett cm ifcT 11 11" 1 *tt I Inche Abdul Aziz 3£ I arBcJU toot. W
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    156 10 G.E. LIFE'S BUSINESS AT HIGHEST THE expansion of The Great Eastern Life Assurance Co., Ltd., has continued during the past year with increasing momentum, the chairman, Mr. S.Q. Wong says m his statement to be presented at the annual Mr Wong says that new business at $26,241,240 substantially surpassed the
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    105 10 $59,351 Profit For Radella RADELLA Rubber Estate Ltd.'s accounts for the year ended Dec. SI, 1956, showed that profit for year (including interest on investments of $2,336 and other interest of $1,688) was $59,351. To this is added to the balance brought forward of $18.!i8L\ making a total of $78,:^:;3.
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    15 10 IDRI9 Ilyc'.raulic's output for the quarter to March 31 was 136 1/2 ton?.
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    93 10 GIFT FOR RETIRING JACK'S CHIEF Picture shows the presentation to Mr. Clements on behalf of the staff by Mr. Chan Kin Choon, manager of the Rubber Department. Mr. Chan, who has been with the Company for 36 years, was granted the power of attorney on the same occasion. St&ndardpic. WILLIAM
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    297 10 PROGRESS OF MAN-MADE FIBRES SEEN BRITAIN'S textile industry showed how it is meeting demands from throughout the field of industry for textiles m both man-made and natural fibres with a second annual National Industrial Textile Trade Fair m London recently. Exhibits ranged from cotton surgical dressings and woollen suits for
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    44 10 THE president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Mr. M.J. Rathbone, saic m New York recently that he expected work to start on the new pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Turkish coast by the end of this year.
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    92 10 A PLANTER'S wife Mrs E- Rpgmato of Snngci Patam Malaya, has been awarded the pant prize m an international competition for housework and sewing sponsored by Vie Italian women's magazine, Grazia. Tlie manager of the magazine, Mr. Nando Sampietra has come from Italy to present Mrs. Reginato
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    95 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closint prices per picul on Thursday were Copra, April $25' buyers, |M| KOtn; coconut oi! m bulk |40| tellers, m drumi •>44 sellers. Muntok white pepner $1(H sellers, Sarawak wnitc $103 sellers, special Sarawak black $71. COPKA HOLIDAY CUTLLK BATH CO LIB APRIL
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    124 10 THE working profit of Teluk Anson Rubber Estate Ltd., after crediting refunds of replanting cess amounted to $111,152 which with the balance brought forward brings th e total available to $221,<i87. From this sum is deducted $10,000 proposed directors fees and $39,473 income tax, leaving a
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    29 10 A RECORD 12-month rxnort total of £2,000,0n0 m fashioned outerwear ha? been announced by the 30 members firms of the Mansfield an< Nottingham Hosiery M^r.ula turers' Association.
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    309 10 WITH no new outside factors to affect the rr.arkr pre-holiday lethargy has set m this week. The ov< rseas markets have fluctuated very narrowly and as a result Singapore has seen very quiet conditions accc: Jing to Messrs Holiday, Cutler, Bath Co., Ltd. The demand for
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    119 10 Exports Of R.S.S. Lower MALAYANS export? f ribbed smokrd sheet rubb< r r the fir>t three month year amounted to 142,913 1 n compared with 154,195 I ns for the same period of 1956. according to official stat; During March Malayan exports amounted to 45 038 tons compared with 50.108
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    90 10 THE director? rf Mrilnrr Rubber Plantation? Ltd havr docidnd to recommend a fir I and final dividend of 20 per cent less tax on the preference and ordinary stocks '.n respect of the year rnded Dec. 31, 1956. The net profit before Income and prnf;« tax amounts
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    162 10 MALAYAN industrial shares were a firm and active market on Thursday but trading was very thin m tins and rubbers. Tins continued to ease and rubbers were irregular. The Malayan Sharebrokers' Association will be closed until Tuesday for the Easter. Price changes announced by the Association on
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    117 10 THE Financial Times reported that Europe's oil needs are being met without dependence on the Suez Canal. It reviewed the brightening situation. The fortCtft by the petroleum industry emerges v group of the O.E E.c.s oil committee sair; the normal or near-normal supplies would flow m
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    27 10 THE British Transport Commission has placed with four companies contracts worth 1:6 million for 60 complete mainline electric locomotives and 4o electric equipments. DFGH
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    138 13 T IDLAXD. Michi-in. Apr. 10 (UP)— Pancho Goiuales turned v a straight set victory < d fue^day over rhalleiiger Ken Rosewail of Australia, 7-3. 0-7. The win exten-ded Go:, /.ales mastery over hij opponei t, 36 niatches to 14 But the extended duel wi-s costly to Ihe
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    202 13 Only One Knockout In FARELF Boxing ONLY one bout failed to so the lull distnnre m the nine action-packed ights ?een m the Far X,'K i > t Land Forces annual individual boxing championship finals held at the Tanflin Gymnasium on Thursday ni^nt. This was m the Jightweijznt contest who'n
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    1602 14 RACE i: Z.I 5 p.m.-Horses Class 3, Div. 4-6 Furs. 9 f h p i r n o f ce rb 6v 9.»0 Mr MB Brash Sullivan Okek 2. R» Fire Po«er 4v tU M^J .JA M^huyV Martin Posner TeckChye Daniels uejer 4. 090 Four Charmers
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    179 14 RACE EIGHT Dancing Watrr r finish sixth m We.- K. z on t.c openii <■■ m giving: iHff chance to redeem hcr>c: and i-lam her opposition. So led her rivals right to the ft! fu:;( be: ■<■ she weakened, ti::.- j ixth m
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