Singapore Standard, 24 April 1957

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  • 26 1 Singapore Standard TIGER STANDARD POLICE 2 5481 (5 lines) 2400 FIRE BRIGADE 2811 GENFRAL HOSPITAL 2414 wi> SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1957 14 PACES 15 CENTS
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  • 77 1 Earl Attlee (right) predicts the end of the Soviet Union. "Have patience." he says. Kina Hussein of Jordan (right) is not m full control of his country, say reports from Israel. Explosion m school hills workman. ..page 1 Britain y s trade with Peking
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  • 31 1 A 12-YEAR-OLD Greek Cvpriot, Costas Mci lais, was jailed m Nicosia yesterday tor three years tor hiding ammunition and arms m Kyrenia for tei roi ism p irposcs. U.P.
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  • 18 1 ABOUT 1,000 young Turks demonstrated m Nicosia yesterday against the release of Archbishop Makarios. A .P.
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  • 282 1 All Set For Self-Rule Debate ASSEMBLY WILL BE ASKED TO ADOPT 2-PART RESOLUTION THE CHIEF MINISTER, MR. LIM YEW HOCK, HAS SUBMITTED A TWO-PART RESOLUTION ON THE LONDON CONSTITUTIONAL REPORT FOR ADOPTION BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. The Chief Minister's motion, which is down for debate today,
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  • 42 1 1 l»l'l( shows the i. of Chin ■C Gm*m. m.i^n, beef the toilet toe he bla-ted to a<fc yesterday. < hu a was toyed with he found. r i ph of hua aa tofore h,. death.
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  • 110 1 Marathon Fire Our At Last -After 30 Yrs. coal burns England Apr;! 23 (AP) Fire which broke out m a coal mine here :n 1926 finally went out yesterday aft* r burning continuously [or more than 30 years. Firemen had Long ago given up hope of extinguishing the blaze and
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  • 236 1 Mason Killed, Assistant Injured In Blast A SINGAPORE mason, Chua Cheng Guan, 18, was blasted to death when he toyed with what is believed to be a hand grenade found m the toilet of the Nanyang Girl's High School, Bukit Timah, yesterday. His a»istant Ton Kirn Chcong. 19. sustained serious
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  • 21 1 ANASTAS Mikoyan. the Soviet first deputy prime minister, arrived m Vienna yesterday, for a four-day visit to Austria. Reuter
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  • 20 1 DR. S. RADHAKRISHNAN. the philosopher and author, was yesterday elected vicepresident of India for a second five-year term. Reuter
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  • 56 1 MOSCOW. April 23. <AP).— Komsomol Pravda suggested yesterday Communists should live a gayer life— laugh and take their sweethearts for strolls m the park. The young Communist League newspaper attacked sreybeards who complain the younger generation is too frivolous and said it is possible to
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  • 45 1 LONDON. April 23 (Reuter) Britain's Foreign So retary, Mi Selwyn LJoyd, has Bled petition for divorce, it was lis losed here tonight. The petition bag been set down m the list <i undefended cases for hearing during the Easter law sittings.
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  • 20 1 THE INDEPENDENT Indonesian news agency, Pia. closed seven days ago on army orders reopened again last night. Reuter
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  • 170 1 U.N. TO DISCUSS SUEZ PROBLEM NEW YORK. April 23 (Reuter) The United States will call for a Security Council meeting on the Suez Canal issue within the next 24 hours, authoritative sources said today. They said they expected the 11-nation Council to convene on Thursday or Friday. It was understood
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  • 201 1 COLOMBO, April 23 (AP) Ceylon has agreed to allow Britain the use of the naval base at Trincomalee and the air base at Katunayake for a period ranging from three to five years. The agreement was reached between a Ceylon delec.it ion led by Gunsseni de
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  • 130 1 Singer And The 'Rude' Towkays SPANISH TV., stage and radio singing star. Teresita de Alba (right) yesterday described Singapore's towkays as •'wolves m sheep's clothing." Miss de Alba, who had just completed a season m a Colony nightclub, said she would rather sing and entertain the not-so-rich than the wealthy
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  • 202 1 JORDAN CABINET RESIGNS -RADIO CAIRO. April 23 Cairo Radio announced today that the Jordan cabinet had resigned. The radio quoted the Middle East News Agency as saying Premier Hussein Khalidi resigned at 4 p.m. local time after meeting with all political par:y leaders. The government of Dr. Hussein Khalidi was
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  • 45 1 US SECRETARY of State John Foster Dulles aid ye terday the UJS government I willing to low a "pott* 1 < I American newsmen To it Reri China provided M ian maintain existing ban on travel by other Americans to the Chinese mainland. AP
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  • 23 1 A SUBWAY construction site m downtown Tokyo caved m on Monday, killing one labourer injuring another and burying three trucks AP
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  • 145 1 R.I. ARMY CALLS TOP LEVEL MEETING J JAKARTA April 23 (IP) i The Arm> announced today that a top level conference of military commanders and provincial governors throughout Indonesia would he held m Jakarta starting Friday. Army ChJaf of Stall Iggj Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution was scheduled to preside at
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  • 116 1 A FRIEND CANNOT TRY ANOTHER -Says Magistrate A SINGAPORE magistrate yesterday refused to hear a case because the accused was his friend. A Radio Malaya disc jockey. Kingsley Morrando, waj to appear before the aring City Magistrate, Mr RBI. Pates, on five charges of. failing to submit income tax rr
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  • 53 1 MANILA. April 23 (UP).— The Ho, P o< Rf» pr < sentatlves last night unanimously approved a bill outlawing the Communist Part" and s.mllar subversive a>sociations m the country. The so-called Anti-Sub-version Bill is aimed to safeguard civil liberties and bolster the Government's campaign against the grou.ng
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  • 49 1 WASHINGTON. April 23. <AP»— The US Army today announced a new commander for the 6th Army at San Francisco— Lt. Gen Lemuel Mathew^on. He v..;; -'irreed Lt Gen. Rr.b-rt N Young, who will retire on Sept. 30 after more than 35 years of service.
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  • 60 1 STANLEY Ontario. Canada, Apr 23. (AP For nearly a a rig La r; retriever has kept a constant vifil on t.ne h nk rj the Ka nquia andcr M Phec \e.*r- master. be.ie\cc to have I eeri di n< A !err jnto r I
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  • 15 1 EMPEROR Hir hito yesterday visited the Yasukunl Shrine m Tokyo and offered Reuter
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  • 234 2 LONDON TALKS ON DRAFT CONSTITUTION 3 Ministers To Aid Tunku LONDON, April 23 (Reuter) Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaya's Chief Minister, will be assisted by three of the Federation Government's ministers at the talks he will have here with British! Government next month on outstanding points m Malaya's new draft con-!
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  • 68 2 AIRPLANE AND HELICOPTER COMBINED VERTOI. Aircraft Corporation. Morton, Pennsylvania, USA., has just released this two-picture combination of what it termed the first tilt-wing model combination airplane helicopter. When the wing and rotor-propellors are tilted vertically (top) the plane takes off and la.ids like a helicopter. Horizontally tilted, it flies like
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  • 86 2 NEW YORK. April 23 (AP) A surgeon performed a delicate major aTodominal operation yesterday aboard a pitching US. Coast Guard cutter In the North Atlantic 1 1 wvc Urn Ufa ot the first mati of a British vessel. The mate, Walter L. Hall. 55. was transferred
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  • 95 2 COMMUNIST LEAFLETS SEIZED AMMAN Aoril (LT Jordan police today confiscated batches of Communi leaflets exhorting the nati to •'star Anglo-American ••conspiracy** Ir~ 'rarer.t.y were of Soviet origin. Trey -ar^ei '•A-.-: Arr.eri^an :rr erialists ere r .ie the pa'.a-e J- a ---.r.r^ v against the They r a ci the peop'.e
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  • 331 2 Khalidi Government Launches Propaganda Offensive Premier Rejects Charges Of Western Influence AMMAN, April 23 (AP) Premier Hussein Khalidi's government has taken the propaganda offensive against its enemies m Egypt and Syria. A government spokesman charged Monday that some neighbouring Arab countries and foreign countries paid "lots
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  • 155 2 SANTIAGO, Chile, April 23 (UP) The Chilean Cabinet handed m its mass resignation to President Carlos Ibanez today m a dispute arising out of the April 2 riots m which 22 persons were killed. Up to a late hour. Ibanez had not decided whether to accept the
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  • 80 2 COMPEXHAGEX. April 23 (Renter) A 30-year-o'.ri loeiafl ■aaaaaai last night adwd the Danish police for political asylum after jumpaaj 08 I Soviet trawler m the leresun 1 channel between Sweden and Denmark. police her c reported today. The Soviet seaman, whose name the Danish police would not
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  • 74 2 GARY, Indiana. April 23 (AP) Baffled health experts have tried to identify a mysterious illness that brought sudden death to two children m one family and sent five others to hospitals. Physicians said an autopsy failed to show what caused to Anne Smith, 3, to die m
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  • 110 2 SCHNECTADY, New York. April 23 (AP)— Earl Clement Attlee. former British prime minister, urges a "bit of patience" and predicted that Russia ultimately will disintegrate. Addressing a freedom forum meeting here last night, Mr. Attlev called the recent Hungarian revolt and reports of
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  • 69 2 COMMODITY PRICES n f.r "V.'^; t M Bj .1;. Jul v,., 'I "li. o, < U)M\< p s \„> l.c M, 8I 1 RSs KS< V, Teaerlm 11 -f ,r 'I n, 3 v v> i] taWSV' H «n,.l '■IrSepleafer 3 (bt I- fiaeary/ltadi Ma? ion- o, i: Three MWfc
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  • 102 2 POLICE SEEK A MURDERER BIRMINGHAM, April 23 (Reuter) Police hunted a murderer today along the route being taken by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on a tour oi While crowd- <:.■ rr< d V. Royal proccs.-ion flag-decked \....i m ana of a shopkeeper
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  • 70 2 HAMBURG. April 23 ißeuter> The Independent West German newspaper Die Welt said today that a former colleague of the aircraft designer W. Mossersehmitt. named Boclkow. had been developing remote controlled rocket weapons near Stuttgart for some time. Although the work mainly involved aircraft, interceptor rockets, earth
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  • 17 2 RUSSIAN President Klimcr.t VorosbilOV anrl his party arrived m a rain-drenched Shanghai on Monday. UP.
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  • 52 2 ALGIERS, April 1 (UP) Nationalist robe attacks on individual thro o-.. out the country < ver the weeken it was reportc 1 today. Twenty individual attacks, seme made with bombs, were launched by rebel < mmai m -cany parts of < accounting for 10 dead, including
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  • 254 3 Health Minister Revimmt Medical Facilities Work To Begin This Year Near Old Airport CONSTRUCTION of the Colony's first multistoreyed district hospital will begin this year, Singapore's Minister for Health, Mr. A. J. Braga said yesterday. Mr. Braga made this statement when he opened the new Out-patient
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  • 98 3 S'pore Native Flowers Limited ItHERS are only two **r. r.v- I B ink a spokesman of told the Miard yesterday. r.i to the i*^ apodal by the Malayan cultural Association ■aa national as we know.** the two to the Colony Singapore rhod and the 'tembusu.' r.r n a mall n
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  • 185 3 AFRICAN sailor m a stolen taxi led the two detectives on a merry chase m Sin<;aS aster Sunday. r. J. Si.'.- Id "ir traffic n a] ar( d In n Traffic Cuurt fin-' d a total of made to c 0 eOflfrnsation
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  • 142 3 5 INDIAN CULTURE TROUPE HERE India's T X S. ttaaatir troupe is m Ma s,uth Indian culpeople o: CBuatry through the mcd. stage. Mr l Sh hapun. .pnkesman of the 51- .aid lope to be the cultural tsadors of our county. The troupe hew pr a three- month tour of
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  • 150 3 PENANG. Tu< A landed pr pri< tor, Lee Boon Kow, wa told by Mas is rate Mr. a a Ah Wah, In a court hire l i.e. thai U be did not pay ii a ■ax 1 t maint< nance for hi children by May 7.
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  • 57 3 ATHENS. April 23 (Reuter) Archbish< p Makarios, the or* k-Cypriot leader, m a mt addressed las: night to "CypriOta and other Or- eks" of Egypt, said "the -pint of freedom and peace has finally prevailed In Egypt." "We wish to believe the -ame -pint will prevail
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  • 69 3 The Sultan Can't Be Contacted April 23 (UP) Sultan of Pao is m Hongkong on honeymoon, apparently is c ing himself ■the Crown Colony. m and his 20-year-r.d e registered at Honeluxurious Renins a aa*L p »ecupy a suite faci Bg aamoro barb n their arrival on Friday i have
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  • 58 3 Poh Kum FJ* 25. fell to ith lr« m fventh floor of the C; th iv night »r day s a*o, he was t ti Ov.cn Police wen c was admitted to the »ai Hospital He was disr bod T was found m the f
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  • 19 3 ■ffEEN Elizabc ll r< t;nng NATO, a Mi.s! Noble Of the (1 r.oi-Bntain's accalacc tur chivalry. A.P.
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  • 171 3 i WO bm n arerc killed, and two others injured m a motor accident involving a C >'■' and a bus at the 9J-m:le Bukit Tfmah Road, Singapore. ye- lead ay. The were Chan X Y( 21, i teaman, POO Dig Sv.i
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  • 29 3 FIELD Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Deputy Simrcme Commander of Allied Forces In Europe on Monday entered King Edward VII Hospital for routine medical checkup. He 69. AP
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  • 41 3 INDIA will begin shipping c i' to the United States next W^ i.iv m repayment of loan of ...vct for coinage received duiini World War 11. A eri m I nhassy spokesman said v< stei lay. A P
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  • 31 3 MR. AND MRS. Newlyn De Rozario after their marriaee at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Singapore, on taster ."Monday. The bride is the former Miss Mabel Yam
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  • 260 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Toes 1 T: 1 Air Pespat h Badge re- 1 tly appi .I i by Queen j Elizabeth Will be presented to M IB 1 n an i men of the H Company, Royal Army Service C rps, here on Thursday,
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  • 58 3 TOKYO. April 23 (Reuter) The Japanese Government today officially appointed Mr. Koichiro Asakai as the Japanese Ambassador to the United States, m succession *o Mr. Masayuki Tani, who returned here on April 18. Mr. Aaakai, 41. was Japan's first post-war Ambassador to the Philippines and
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  • 194 3 T.W.I. SCHEME AT NAVAL BASE IS HELD UP THF language problem has held up the TWI (Training Within Industry) scheme for supervisors at the Naval Base. Mr D 1 flood win. bingapore's Commissioner for Labour said yesterday that until the Labour .Department's Chinese speaking official returned from Britain, the m
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  • 132 3 IPOH, Tues. A mining engineer told the High Court here today, that he became fond of a married woman but his fondness did not crystallize until after she had left her husband. Mr. Walter Hogg was giving evidence at the hearing of a petition
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  • 135 3 JOY RIDE ENDS IN DEATH AN after-the-dance joy ride m Singapore m the early hours of Oct. 21 last year ended m tragedy when a car crashed into a house m Bedok, killing one and injuring three. In a Colony, traffic court yesterday, the driver, Chong S/.c Tan, 21, was
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  • 88 3 Students Told: OBEY RULES, REGULATIONS KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Assistant Education Minister. Mr. Too Joon Hing. today told 67 students from Ko'.a Bahru's Chung Wan High School that they had an important role to play m moulding the country's future. He said the students should study hard, obey the rules and
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  • 180 3 Protest Meet May Be A Flop KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The second Malay Congress on which the UMNO yesterday ordered a boycott, may not come off at all, the Standard learnt today. Key sponsor of the congress, expelled UMNO "rebel* 1 Tuan Ha.ji Yahaya bin Sheikh Ahmad, said he would drop
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  • 37 3 HONGKONG. April IJ Special Standard Scrvho: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: 116.50 to £1 Sterling; $6.2025 to US. 11; $1,840 to Malayan $1; $0,160 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $270.75 to a tael.
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  • 170 4 MAN SUED BY WIFE TOLD: THINK IT OVER IPOH, Tues. A permanent staff instructor of the Kinta Valley Home Guard. Suit Wah Vow. Cf>, was today given time to ["think over satisfactory I solution to his dispute arith hit wife. 8 an*aa hi atttrhtd feo Plat -on 7 of the
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  • 28 4 F:\FK cinema antertainraant foe about a million under" privileged children will be given by the Shan Organization at afl their up-country theatres on Merdcka Day. Aug.
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  • 314 4 Wife Who Wins 'Battle 0 f Sexes' is Bound Over Husband Slashed On Knee With Knife PENANG. Tues.— A dealer m Chinese medicine. Yons Chuan Tec, 54. told the Magistrate*! Court today that after his wife had threatened to kill him. .-he slashed his knee with a vegetable knife. jumped
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  • 147 4 Legal Suit Over Cattle KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Livestock dealer V Ei'.ayathambl and milk ver.dor S Na leson Bgured In i legal battle over rattle before Mr. Justice Smith In the High Court here today DlayathambJ tued Nadeaon for $6,890, representing arrears of 'Tenta'." on lti head ot cattle, compensation for
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  • 95 4 WHEN Miss Cheah Gim Siew. 17, left school m December last, she faced a problem of choosing a career. ♦What shall I be? M she often asked herself and her parents m Penang. "A doctor? Oh no. I'm afraid of dissecting frogs and
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  • 121 4 Need For More Houses I KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Municipal Council is to approach the Sta.e government for more land on which to build low cost housing for the public The Council Is to survey the town for likely sites and recommend them to the town planning committee for development.
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  • 194 4 SAIGON. April 23 (UP) South Vietnam plans to send a delegation headed by a cabinet minister to Malaya*! independence ceremonies m Kuala Lumpur In August, a government source said And this former French colony is expected to extend immediate diplomatic recognition to the new State when it
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  • 88 4 MALACCA, TWas, ate X. II Ghou.-e was elected President of the Muslim i.c-asae. .Malacca, at its annual general meeting held recently. Other officials are: Vice-pre-sidents Messrs. K. P. DawcK-d Sultan, and M. Mohamed Ibrahim; Secretary Mr at A. M. Maideen; Committee: M. A. Abdul Jabber. X. K.
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  • 54 4 IPOH. Turs. The Slim River District War Executive Committee has decided to allow Muslims to convey Hari Raya cakes m "Operation Parchment" area during the Hari Raya Puasa festival. They can carry cakes, not exceeding onp tiffin carrier, between 8 am. and 6 p.m. on May
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  • 139 4 Information Men On Long Trips IPOH. Tues. Two senior information officials, Mr. Chin Kee Onn. State Information Officer, and Mr. Yong Kol Look, Area Information Officer, South Perak, are to visit Britain and the United States respectively. Mr. Chi:., author of twa books on Malaya tinder the Japanese occupation "Malaya
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  • 359 5 $2 50,0000 Merdeka Park For Kedah ALSO A $10,000 BOATHOUSE TO ENCOURAGE WATER SPORT WE ARE PROUD OF OUR OWN TUNKU-MENTRI ALOR STAR, Tues. Kedah plans to build a 5250,000 stadium and park this year, as a permanent Merdeka Memorial for the home state of Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman.
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  • 115 5 Ixrp branch Ra'ayat yesi *(1 Governi leading the contradicting f the par/. Mr. :han I I ttfl aring •■< Ipcra:;on** m Septen i baf of persons detained by the present gga&i tor subversive a c Government has -rro \vi»n ..»;i Government over er .vc
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  • 31 5 I RESIDENT of the GeorgeI I declare open the I fcad by the Semangat I I i Melavu. Pulau Pinang. Ithe Road ground I v.i P. .a a.
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  • 100 5 Tale Of Bribery In Court KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The v.ate Oi a banisheo said m the Sessions Court today thai Ng Poh Choong. a friend ol her husband, obtained $200 from her "to buy liquor and turkeys for an official who could release him from prison." Yap Len said Kg
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  • 57 5  -  Ch'ng Seng Poh by MR. G. W SOMKRVILLE, the Federation's Commissioner of Civil Defence, is seen making a farewell speech and thanking members of the Uaaf Civil Defence at its annual dinner and dance party at the Evergreen Cafe. Mr. Somerville will soon
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  • 221 5 Legal Aid Plea Was Too Late KUALA LIMPI R, Tues.— A defendant m an assault case today demanded, after the full prosecution had been heard, that he should be given the opportunity to engage a lawyer. I ill reniesi was not gr.v.ted M igistrate
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  • 69 5 PENA N G. Tues.— The Pi n ung Government Comtnittee for Commerce and industry, today visited the palm Ll bulking Installation nt r rd Road, and were told the average exp< rt < i oil was beta n li.ooo to 12.000 tons annually The committee, headed by
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  • 214 5 'Tell Us Earlier..! PENANG, Tues.—President of the Malayan Trade I nion Council, Mr. Tan Chong Bee, said here today he was "amazed" that the Federation Government had decided at this late hour to forbid the M.T.L.C. to send a ten-man delegation to China, after the
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  • 34 5 MALACCA, Tues Dato Sir Cbensj-lock Tan will open the MCA Malacca town subbranch next Sunday at Tranqucrah. The sub-branch has 5.000 members and is the largest m the settlement
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  • 148 5 Magistrate Tells Of A Car Crash T. F. vallan'CE, assistant m the Eastern Agencies Limited, was testing a car which he intended to buy as a present for his fiancee when it crashed into a lamp post, a Singapore court wa* told yesterday. His fiancee. Vallance said m his defence,
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  • 94 5 Vicious Attack On Couple KLANG. Tues.— A couple on whom acid was thrown outside a Kuala Lumpur cinema last month, were early today viciously knifed by an unidentified man as they strolled hand m hand out of a coflee shop here. Mr. Ec Kcng Khean, 35. manager of a local
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  • 43 5 A SOLDIER was caught red-handed by a detective while showing some obscene photographs to a friend, a Singapore court was told yesterday. The soldier. Lim Soo Kit. 31. was fined $50 for publicly exhibiting the photos at Nee Soon.
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  • 28 5 THE aananpeta Recorded Music Society will present a symphony concert of recorded music m the Oei Tionr^ Ham Hall. St. Joseph's Institution, Bras Basah Road, tomorrow.
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  • 206 5 ROSE CHAN IN HOT WATER AGAIN FORFEITS $300 JOHORE BAIIRU. Tues. Rose Chan. Malaya's No. 1 stripper, dressed m a tightfltting. gay sarong kebaya. today sat opposite Johore Bahru's District Officer, Inche Taib bin Andak, In his office. She was appearing m an inquiry before the District Officer to determine
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  • 157 5 Selt-Help Plan To Tackle Robbers ALOR STAR, Tues.— Corps of "vigilantes" are being formed m all the 42 mukins of the Kota Star district to combat local thugs, cattle thieves, rob- Jjers and other criminals. This follows advice given to penghulus recently by the Police Chief of the District. DSP
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  • 64 5 TAIPIXG, Tues. A six-day course m physical education for normal class student teachers of North Perak started here yesterday. Forty teachers arc attending the course conducted by Mr. Santokh Singh agisted by Mr. Qua Chiew Kooi Mr. Teoh Teik Lee. Asst. Superintendent of Physical Education, was
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    • 515 6 CINGAPORES Legislative Assembly meets, tosjayw a what E generally regarded as its rr.s: momrr.t m m ii >n. After the usual pre- rninarj km i has been concluded, lhe As> 5 mblym< n and the pub ie m the gallery will latnx Chiel Mm ter Lim Yew Hock
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    • 394 6 [BRITAIN'S 27,000-member Communist Party must have been shocked into shame by the p\--..\ 'Os mad: i its annual congress by Profess Hvman Levy on what he discovered m the irse of a rtnight's visit to Russia. While admitting that Russian communism had undoubted.y achieved some economic progress, Professor
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    • 782 6 Sir All thinking people Will greatly deplore the Indiscipline ol Chinese students m Chinese schools and the great scandal they have created throughout the length and breadth of Malaya. Compared to the students m English schools, the conduct of the Chinese school students is barbaric m the
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    • 107 6 Shorts from the Talks 'Y^F all his contemDaniel Defoe seems to be the one whom it would be least difficult to imagine walking the streets of London today, doing a public relations job, running a business at the same time, turning out popular documentary adventure-books, ghosting biographies, giving a talk
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  • 1091 6  - Ancient AND modern Africans CYRIL DUNN By Salisbury (S. Rhodesia) YT'iiEN the Kariba hydroelectric power dam across the Zambesi River floods some 2.000 square miles of Central Africa, the geography of the region will, of course, be changed remarkably. But it now seems that drastic changes will also have to
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    111 6  -  C. W. HILL T 1 E Portuguese a colonies are popular Z among philatelists for I their brightly-coloured J stamps issued m series J of c ncy clo paedic Z length J In recent years Mo* sambique has produc* ed sets of twenty* four and twenty stamps showing,
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  • 622 6 Revolution in Sea Transport is on the way John Davy, Observer's Scientific Correspondent re i^Portj. LONDON MR. THORNEYCROFT'S increased investment allowance for shipowners is a handsome windfall. But before the industry goes whooping off to order a flotilla of new liners it will have to sit down and think out
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    • 59 6 We otter you tor the HARI RAYA SEASON Wide range of Furnishing and Lace Curtaining Materials of Latest Designs and colours. Beautiful Plain and Printed Farida Crepe. French Metal Brocade (New Designs). Plain. Printed. Painted &,Tricot Nylons. Exclusive New Designs of Bombay Sandals (Just Arrived) at fo&eaniainMEi&at.&ce, mmat a\ mi
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    • 54 6 MALAYAN Mill! DOOR TO DOC* INCLUSIVE RATESThe Ma lay on Rail" 8 Administration operates R°° Motor Collection and Delivery services at most stations on !■<- system, and will be plcoscd collect traffic from vcu' prcn"*e convey it by rail and del-vcr the consignees' premises sto Masters at any station will
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  • 75 7 ...And All's Well For 'Sweet Flower' Again IN) MAN ("Sweet Hover"), '.'I (left) and her craftsman Robert Mac Donald, from Imcrtland, ,«re shown as they were reunited at pton England, lust week. M, rt Mower" and (raftsman Mac Donald, of uere married m llon-kong on Dec 6. 1956. -al for
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  • 279 7 Returning Holiday Makers Create Giant Traffic Jams RT, G rmanv, April Wtl U Europe was one qierantic traffic-jarr la night weary hoi id inched back to the dtj after the Bl r wcv.taai nd French o *he>r r c I"- 1 hoi; :,v wea. :mtated
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  • NEWSBRIEFS
    • 31 7 PARIS. One-', gfe Alexen Ire E nile, 55, a knocked I n in i killed by e car neai Lisieux, Normandy, yesterday, UWfl i DQ over by tWQ more raw-none Reuter
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    • 30 7 LACOMBE. Alberta— Mrs. Hedvig Woodstorm, who emigrated to the United States from Norway in 18(>8, died in this Central Alberta town last Thursday, three months before her 101st birthday A.P.
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    • 38 7 AUCKLAND. Anglican Minister s. A. Morton was forced burial eenrli c on Norfolk bland fat ins own wife yesterday because the Qanttl airline strike made it impossible for i relief clergyman to be flown in from Australia. U.P.
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    • 29 7 MOSCOW. Russia has developed an improved version of its swept "Win? TIAI01 jet airliner which is capable of carrying 70 passengers, the Army paper "Red Star" said yesterday. U.P.
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    • 34 7 AUGUSTA.— Presi lenl Eisenhower will take part in training exec i lea si oar d the new 60 000-ton aircraft carrier SarBl ga off the east coa5t of Florida on June 6-7. A. P.
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    • 27 7 HONGKONG: Some 10.000 workers have beyun construction on a huge hvdro-electrie power grid along the Sininj; River near Red China's cast coast, Peking Radio said yesterday. A.P.
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  • 1070 7 DOWNING STREET RELEASES THE BULGANIN-EDEN NOTES AND REVEALS THE,... We Give You A Friendly Warning' LONDON, April 23, (Reuter) The British Government last night issued the text of correspondence between Sir Anthony Eden, then Prime Minister, and Marshal Bulganin, Soviet Prime Minister, at the time of
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  • 260 7 MOSCOW, April 23, (IT)— Ekaterina Furfseva, the most powerful woman m the Soviet Inion, today warned the West it would be crushed and become an "atomic battlefield" m any aggression against the Soviet Union. The attractive blonde Soviet leader, the
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  • 74 7 ST PETERSBURG, Florin. Apr. 23, (AP). John C. Nee. 87, a well-known major league baseball scoui for mvtc than ao years, was fatally inirnt yesterday when he apparently fell asleep m bad with lighted cigarette m his hand. Nee died m a hospital 12 hours after
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  • 117 7 MELBOURNE, April 23. (Reuter) A motorist who Stopped at 8 creek la till his r liator sap the gleam of |i i r m the water arid, several minutes and several handful-; later, he had CAB 2. The coins, mainly m halfcrown-, were dated from
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  • 87 7 MELBOURNE. April 23 (Reuter) In Melbourne today Is a Tasmanian visitor who bought six bottles of Scotch which he does not propose to open. They will be added to his collection of 92 bottles of Scotch, all carrying a diflerena brand. The visitor is Ray Tatlow, former licensee
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  • 226 7 47 -Year-Old Rolls Is The 'Beauty Queen NEW YORK, April 23, (AP) British and American owners of vintage automobiles put their "pride of my heart" cars on display here today preparatory to the start of a week-long competition over hill and dale m
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  • 120 7 DESPITE the powerful jets of water from firehoses that the Paris Police brought to bear on them, striking transport workers (top right) still came on. They drove a trucklnad of debris (lower right) to a convenient "first line position and then hurled the contents at the Police.
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    • 244 7 ||f SILVER H POLISHING? I NOT FOR ME /4>^ I Tarnprufe is the Miracle Material thot PREVENTS tarnish. «r~ VII This amazing cloth draws the tarnishing elements from the %<?" qfl oir to itself, oway from the Silverware it protects. W_r >. J You will save hours of tedious cleaning
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  • 92 8 PEXAXG. Tues.— Described by the Second Magistrate, Mr. E. A. Long, as thoroughly spoilt, a 17-yeai-o.d scnoo'.ooy. Quah Chow Aik, was today bound over :n the sum of $500 on a charge of theft, Qlllh. keen to join the army, was apprehended .after a chase m
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  • 64 8 J THE ENTIRE staff of the Malayan Railways Port 2 Office at Port Swettenham are pictured above I with the Port Manager, Mr. R. E. Dennings I (eleventh from left) who goes on leave to England Z shortly prior to retirement. Mr. Dennings was also entertained to
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  • 155 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Trade Union membership m the Federation dropped by 2,089 during the first quarter of this year when there were 241 unions with a total membership of 233,694 on the register, the Standard learnt today. The following unions were registered during the
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  • 129 8 Outward Bound School At Lumut KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A new warden Tor the Federation's Outward Bound School at Lumut has just arrived from England to relieve Mr. G. \V. Fuller, who is going on leave. He is Mr. J. W. Tucker, a mountaineer, who has been
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  • 89 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Co-operative thrift and loan societies are beginning to use their surplus funds to assist other co-operative enterprises. The result is a sharp lowering of interest on loans, states the annual report of the Kuala Lumpur Co-operative Housing Society. The Railway Co-operative Society, Socfln
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  • 64 8 If. BH ASK ARAN, 21. and M. Abdurabbu. 11, were charged m a Singapore Court yesterday with voluntarily causing hurt to Tan Peng Hcng with a knife and iron bar at H. M. Dockyard on April 18 this year. They pleaded not guilty. The case
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  • 105 8 EASTER BRAWL SEREMBAN. Tues. The victim of an Easter Sunday brawl outside the Metropole Theatre, Lim Soon Teck, died last night m hospital. Today an 1-8-year-old hawker. TeOh Eng Thai, appeared before Magistrate. Inche Abdul Wahab bin Maasul on a charge of causing grievous hurt with
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  • 75 8 SEOVV HOON HIN, 16. a first class scout and patrol leader of the 4th Malacca Group, Fort District, will be flying to England as Malacca's sole representative at the Scouts Jubilee Jamboree next month. Scow, a High School student was one of 25 applicants for the trip which
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  • 142 8 Anzac Day Memorial Service At Dawn KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. An Anzac Day Memorial Service will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Cenotaph on Thursday morning at 6 a.m. Anzac Day is observed by Australians and New Zealanders throughout the world as a day of remembrance for compatriots who had fought
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  • 69 8 BENTONG. Tues. The first pair of twins for Bentoi.g this year came on Easter Monday, when a lorry driver's wife gave birth to two boys m the District Hospital hereLee Ah Bee. 27. the mother, has two other sons and a daughter, the eldest aged 6
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  • 38 8 PENANG, Tues. Of 66 Chinese youths interviewed m Butterworth yesterday, only 15 were selected by the Police recruiting team. In two days m Province Wellesiey, the recruiting team interviewed 235 candidates and selected 92.
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  • 132 8 No Passport, Fisherman Fined $50 MALACCA, Tues. Mohamed Hassan Abdul Rahman, a fisherman, who crossed the Straits of Malacca to visit his sick brother at Pulau Roepat. Sumatra, on March 29. was today convicted m the Sessions Court for re-entering Malacca without a passport on April 6. He was fined
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  • 26 8 FIFTY-TWO Chinese school students the majority of whom came from the Federation were among those who left by the Tjiwangi yesterday for China ports.
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  • 135 8 PENANG, Tues. Members of the Penang Adult Education Association were told by their chairman, Mr. Khoo Choo Poon. at the annual general meeting tonight that the infant they cared for so much "is to be smothered out of breath." Mr. Khoo was referring to the
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  • 341 8 Expelled Students Tell MCA Probe Team PENANG, Tues. The 68 "rebel" students, who were expelled from the Chung Ling High School, reiterated their stand before the five-man team appointed by the Central Working Committee of the Malayan Chinese Association Headquarters here today, that it
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  • 45 8 CHINESE associations and I lilds m N'cgn Semi ilai yesterday donated money t< Bnan s the London trip of Ha to ir-man delegation tm-ir P.,--Malayan Council c tad r°cently to press for jus soli and equal rights to all Malayans after Merdeka
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  • 188 8 Royal Scots Kill Two Bandits On Tin Mine IPOII 7 the Itl BattaJio^i Royal Scots FusilieriJ^ today killed two of tka they tacted near t ChZ mine m the aS Area, twelve nufaS here. 30 jsjm. morning, the aaassift saw two terrorists saaar ih Z lint TmK situated about 2
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  • 253 8 They fail to turn up to sign bonds for 12 PENANG, Tues.—Parents, of twelve students, who were "blacklisted,"' defied a directive of the Han Chiang High School Authorities, who requested them to turn up at the school this morning to sign a bond Hi guarantee that their
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  • 97 8 PENANG, Tues— A 17-year-old school girl complained to the Magistrate here today that a middle-aged man went to her house on April 9 and used abusive language. She alleged the abuse was used m reference to her father, said to be Manager of the Overseas Bank, who
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  • 42 8 MALACCA, Tues. About 25 delegates from the Federation and Malacca are attending a three-day Red Cross leadership course at the High School starting from tomorrow. The Resident Commissioner. Mr. H. G. Hammett. will open the course on Thursday
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  • 176 8 IPOH. Tues. Land hungry tobacco cultivators m Lena gong Area < f Upper Perak arc to be given land In forest reservei In thai area for cultivate n Alliance State Councillor Mr Yap Yin Fah told the Standard today that these cultivators would be
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    • 181 8 .^Bafl MBlrw stana ggV M *"S m W m jflLaci k A mm k JIH st 4$ sk »a\ E^3s§l^'/ g^ BB •*> MW How can you do your figure and your budget a favor at the same time? One look at the new Cymbal and you'll know. Here's a
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  • 126 9 Clerks' Bill a grave injustice says union I^~ ang Sin- Busines Houses Joyces Union has again,: I a nt Bill :ented todgfj :n isla" Ass em.on claims that Hal .ng clerks Into fcories. has done a istka to the A^scrr.Ztn not to approve the t did not provide gigrt protection
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  • 127 9 Learn to fly in R.I. says Mr. M. MALAYANS can he trained as pilots and technicians at the Indonesian Aviation Academy m Jakarta, said Mr. M. A. Maskuri, director of the Academy, m Singapore yesterday. But Mr. Maskuri pointed out however, that the Academy could not accept any Malayans at
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  • 145 9 BORNEO TO EXPAND ANTI-TB FIGHT JESSELTON Mon.-T r "tinst tuberculosis co.- ng ti-.e N rth B» rut i Govenunent ,tely $LOOO a day, is to be accelerated and Lpanded soon, gfing the Colony Mc m the campaign c. v.. Smt mm* m North oca is the North Borneo is Association.
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  • 62 9 'SPARKS' FINED $75 ON TAX CHARGES W. FIXERTY-T IVANS, I i operator attache*'. its Steamship Com--5*."?. wa« yesterday fine by the a istrate, Mr. I I he pleaded guilty to sub income ears 1^53 E. Jeans, prosecut a as Finert was an operator on ■°»ni a steamer, he was v
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  • 47 9 KITE ROW DEATH: 6 QUESTIONED MuKi Police yes•Hajr detuned m.\ youths i.onmg m connecthe death of a .1 schoolboy. Ed- n Mnndav. a.> hit on the sink alter an rr the living I m o two croups tn I arrer Park. He oim-Mon to the Hospit ll
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  • 46 9 Tues. I Ir S of the ■ege. Madra wh Bl ...na Malaya, fve a ta. i n "M dern m Ind; m lucat.- n 1 on Sat--27 at 6.30 pm he v... entertained Ip h Alumni niv« rsitles m the s Institution Hall.
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  • 82 9 PEN\NG. Tues.— No less than 21 case., ol theft were reported to the police m Penang and Province Wellesley during the Easter holidays. Arrests were made m [our cases which occurred on the mainland. Two cases Of cloth, valued $1,737. were stolen from a Brm
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  • 330 9 400 MEN TO BE RETRENCHED IN THE NAVAL BASE SOON W.D. MEN WANT NO MORE DISMISSALS UNTIL TRIPARTITE BODY IS SET UP told 3^ GA 4 f ORE 'S Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday lhm\ 2. i? 0n rc P rcsen *'"9 civilian employees of
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  • 250 9 EVIDENCE AT COURT MARTIAL TWO regular soldiers claimed trial at a Singapore General Court Martial yesterday to charges of jointly assaulting two naval ratings, menacing members of the Military Police with broken glasses and damaging public property at two cafes m Sembawang
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  • 94 9 MRS. KOEK FOR FILM FESTIVAL A SECOND TIME mrs. Cynthia Kuok, chairman of the Bo.irci of Film PensffTSi who has been appointed judge for the fourth Southowt Asian Film Festival bs Tokyo 0:1 May 20. mmammmmmamammmamwta, Mr. Ran Run Shaw who will represent Sha.v Brothers at the Festival. One film.
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  • 66 9 Choo Peng Yong was re-e rv c rctar >' ca Li era. S i— G ;0 at ii i ami aenexai UlUllillf la Sura lay. c mcml ers are t C Bak. Albert rt Kck Ten; ran Hong Bunt 'Richard Woon. Stanley Lim. Er. ran. :.gc Chua.
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  • 79 9 Jobless man drank soda and died ALTER b^ing ill and unemployed for many years, a 42-year-old Chinese drug shop assistant, Lea Kow Chong, drank caustic soda m a bathroom at Oeylang Road. on March 2. this year. Singapore Coroner's Court was told yesterday. The Coroner was holding an inquest on
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  • 39 9 A SOLDIER. Dm bin Awang of 61 Coy RASC waas fined $30 m the Singapore traffic court yesterday lor driving a car at about 50 miles an hour along Bukit Timah Road on Nov. 15 last year.
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  • 265 9 Standard Shipping Reporter •■MI \N shipping line: ;t U taken th- lead m iwting t r v< els through Suez t y :u Europe and vice vir.i S a ag< n< ies m Smgapo<t Urc.eiiting '.'yd -Nai les Line and u< ya
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  • 108 9 Bus dispute: The deadlock continues THE dtooti hetween the Singapore Bus Workers Union nnri msdousgeraesits of the Tay Koh Vat anrl Bock Lee Bus Companies over the dismissal of 8- busmen remained unsolved. Testerday, the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, had two asperate meetings with Union Officials and the
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  • 83 9 'Sanctuary' to get home of its own soon PLANS are under way to house the Universal Feacx? Sanctuary, Singapore Branch. m a buUding ol Its own m the near future, the Yiro-pre.-ident. Mr. V. R- Balakrishna, said yesterday. The I'niversal Peace Sanctuary b sfotid-wids CMrganJration which teaches "practical yoga" to
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  • 44 9 NEO BOON KWEE. 24. of Hoot Kiam Road was fined $50 m a Singapore traffic court yesterday. Neo pleaded guilty to a charge of negligent driving which resulted m a collision with another car at Nicoll Highway. He pleaded guilty. Highway.
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  • 33 9 A FIRE which broke out at dawn yesterday partially destroyed an attap house m Jalan Alsagoff. Singapore Neighbours put the fire before the arrival of the City Fire Brigade.
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  • 281 9 [WARNING TO ARSONISTS RESIDENTS of the Serangoon area of Singapore have started a "whisper" campaign to scare away arsonists and other mischief makers.' Word is being passed around to the effect that anyone caught m any mischief attempt will be severely dealt with. The residents
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  • 161 9 A MOTHER of three children refused to return to her husband because her father-in-law used to scold her, a Singapore court was told yesterday. This was alleged by a woman labourer m the Singapore Harbour Board, Soh Lan, when she claimed maintenance
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  • 304 9 MORE than 5.000 officers and men will begin another of SEATO's regularly scheduled training exercises when VJ ships of four nations ss I from Singapore tomorrow morning. They wiU be joined at sea by ships of the Thai Navy and New Zealand
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  • 87 9 A SINGAPORE labourer ran amok yesterday and .'.-'.cl hi- wife and another won. an with a chopper m a cubicle m Bcng Voon Street. Police later recovered a bloodstained (hopper from under n t a ble The twr women. Lim B k Mnl. 49, ana Ng
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  • 136 9 Pakistan Premier here on May 6 THE Prim* Mir ter of Pakistan. Mi H S g ihrawardy. will arrive :r Singapore on May 6 :r m Bangkok at the invitat; I he Thief Minister. Mr Lim Y< I! ck During t* -day ?ay m the Colony. Mr Suhrawardy arran a
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    • 88 9 i::^z;~ «h_i .< -< ___iirzra""" i -"rrr-J '|j §|j Wi*'.- _,_aak J _-b-b_b_bv HP R" m o*l hi I£3 _aa_a_a_a_Ba_ 53 l MI M* Uu-mW SI WI k fIIV _B-B_B_-_--S-Ba_B_B__ m\\ -^^mmmWma^^Mm Wii< $&>£' _B_B_B_r _B_B_B_B_BT _B_B__ B_B^^ m a\*W jMUU MM MMM MK__: T_B Jb__ -^SM-M-k-h-b 4 gf POPULAR
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  • 237 10 Lam Soon Adds Sew 1 1 Machines To Mills i LAM Soon Cannery J) Ltd., Singapore, is conI stantly adding new units I of machinery to its two 1 1 inzlls to maintain e//i- ciency m production, a 1 1 spokesman o/ the firm i told the Standard. i 1
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  • 400 10 Imports Top £2.8 Million I OFFICIAL statistics revealed m London yesterda I trade with mainland China for the first two months of tw* Er J double that of the corresponding period last year yec I The increase was due mainly to increased Bri-i tish imports
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  • 269 10 MALAYA'S textile imports from Japan this year are likely to remain at about the same level as m 1956 and 1955, if the present rate of imports 21.8 million sq. yards and 18 million sq. yards of rayon and synthetic fibre textiles m the
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  • 71 10 Rubber Closes Dull SINGAPORE rubber prices yesterday closed null at 92\ cent per Lb, for first grade May shipment, unchanged from Thursday. The market was quiet thro;mhout the day with little inclination to trade. At noon the market was inactive at a_ti cents with little trading interest. There were no
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  • 36 10 Buyer Sellers. Spot f.o.h. 911 H| International May No 1 R.S.S. f.o.b. 92* 932 Int. R.S.S No. 1 June 92V 93 May No. 2 9u 91 Ma y No. 3 89£ 90 Tone: Inactive.
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  • 28 10 DIVIDENDS announced yesterday: Hongkong Tin, final dividend of lu r r Killinghall Tin; a dividend of 5 r t; both payable m England on May 27.
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  • 93 10 I OUTER ROADS Teucer. Beduin. Deerens. Weltervreden. Krashogosk, Daviken. Soudan, Akmolinsk. Lisbos. INNER ROADS Caltex. Emph. Yong Ann. Playaran. Serdang. Hock Ho. Auby, Kinabalu. Tong Hock. Belaga, Hanthale. Buloh. Sedili. Scudai. Inchislav Tong Leong. Petaling. Soon Bee. Pasarang, Giang Bee. Pacific. Tai Tiong. Inchwells. Tong Thav. Larata. Champadah
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  • 41 10 NEW YORK. April 22 (UP) Dow Jones closing averages: STOCKS: 30 Industrials 488.79 20 Rails 144.97 15 Utilities 7240 65 Stocks 171.50 BONDS: 40 Bonds 90.60 The Dw-Jones commodity future^ index (1924-26 average equals 100). closed at 156.08.
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  • 123 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul on Thursday were Copra, Apr. /Mav 251 buyers. $264 sellers; coconut oil m bulk $40 sellers, m drums $44 J sellers. Muntok white pepper $105 sellers. Sarawak white $104 sellers, special Sarawak black $71. COPRA HOLIDAY CUTLER BATH CM)
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  • 175 10 Industrials Are A Firm Market With a few exceptions. Malayan industrials were a firm market with moderate trading yesterday. Tins and rubbers, however, were quiet and irregular. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Buvcrs Sellen F. N. Ords. 2.40 2 45 Gammon 2.12 2.17 cd
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  • 135 10 Business In Shares MALAYAN sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: F N ords $2 42- Gammons $210. $2.15: H.K. Bank $895: Cements $1.59. Robinson ords $1.70; Sime Darby $2.62. $2.62.; Cold Storage $180: S.T.C orri--23 3; Straits Steamships $15.80; S. Traders $31.75 cum all- Jacks $3.20 cci. Aokam $1.41.;
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  • 73 10 $82.2 M. Adverse Balance MALAYA'S external trade m the first quarter of this year showed a balance of 582.2 million m the red. according to preliminary statistics issued yesterday. Imports during the period totalled 51.158.3 million, and exports 51. 076.1 million. March imports totalled 378.3 million and exports 535.V8 million.
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  • 80 10 New Bow With Sun Glasses sales represent? ri -I said m Riw TjisliiT mmm Mmm sal tfents, %m n e»^.P ore wasas spsji qJ Taaals»eaaaia_s. fc 1 v have the best taste a n-f lasses, too, Tsa for their dreiteV Mr. Brackenbridfe said a_al ling new colours for sm fiaaaes,
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  • 63 10 T IE Malayan t_flds_-felnli changes m Us rates to msmm yesterday: buyin*.' 4; ft) dip m 33 credit bills, 33 1 M aaa h C O.D 4 credit bills, X 91* taai bills. Sellinf rate?. T.T. \tmmtW were: c sr.»- y j v If- Ml 1A n SbiWfiCS
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    • 1226 10 NOTICES COLOMBO PLAN SINGAPORE SCHOLARSHIPS CITY COUNCIL »yHE Australian government WATER DEPARTMENT cour*. SI to SlX the S B U d A NOTICE TO CONSUMERS. degree, under the Colombo m m m Plan. ATAJOR operations will 2. Applications are urgently dowS^Mhe water main KtSSnWhtt n ng Th o o^so°n Read
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    • 379 10 NOTICES P.W.D TENDER NOTICE RENDERS will be received at the office of the State Engineer. P.W.D.. Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, up to 3.00 p.m. of the 20th May, 1057 from Class A, B, C and D Contractors for the CONSTRUCTION IN REINFORCED CONCRETE OF A ROAD CULVERT AT 38th MILE. ROUTE
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    • 190 10 LOURPES PILGRIMAGE 195J Minimum 90 days LEAVING "Willem Ruys" middle April. 15SS S.ngepc" One month's stoy Continent/U X.. v.s.t.ng »d <g ><>« All inclusive conducted tour ocr day $35 th.rd class class. Quotations based prevailing stcamsh.p teres, pension accommodation, transfers, sightseeing ENQUIRIES TO AMERICAN LLOYD AGENCY, U 64. Robinson Road,
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    • 847 11 MITSUI |jj LINE res japam Hmm Nesuson Mori for Moii Kobe, Yr_*cohorr< Mo y 5 Moy Aiemosee Mora for Mo;i Kobe, Yokohomo via Hong Kcng 1 1 May Bansei Mara fcr Mo,<, Kobe, Osaka. Yokohoma 19 Moy 16 Moy Hakonesan Mora for Yokonama, Ncgo/a, Koce va Man a end Pu'.on
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    • 667 11 EAST ASIATIC LINES OUTWARDS Soilings tor Bongkok ond oi Fo« lost Penong P -S'hom Spore "LALANDIA- Gdns 1/2 BANGKOK ONLY "SIMBA" 30 Apr/2 Moy "BOGOTA" 17/18 Moy "SELANDIA" 16/17M«ry 18/19Moy 20 22 Moy Bangkok Only HOMEWARDS Soilings tor Genoo. Antwerp Rotterdom. Homourg. Copenhagen. Gothenburg Otic Spore P^ hem Pe«MMsej "PRETORIA"
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  • NEW FILMS STARS PARADE
    • 546 12 LONG JOHN GUARDS AVA IN The Little Hut j;ljf;ljse TTIS name, until recently, was Long John, lie is lean and trim with the muscles of a finely trained athlete. Hi s green eyes are piercing, his long ears so sensitive he can detect the rustle of a leaf fifty yards
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    • 213 12 rMVE a woman a house she< J can redecorate and she is< likely lo he a contented i woman. By that Standard* Klizaheth Taylor should be< bubbling over with content- 1 ment. I In her stellar portrayal of Les-! lie Benedict m "Giant,"
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    • 272 12 Frontier Town rebuilt for realism CONSTRUCTION of ajaith- ful replica of frontier Casper, Wyo., of the early 1870s, was accomplished at a total cost of $152,000 at a secluded Topanga Canyon setting 25 miles from Hollywood. The town plays its counterpart original m "Top Gun," Sterling Haydcn starrer. The United
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    • 136 12 CONSIDERABLE consternation was registered at U-I when a 14-year-old actor walked through a doorway m one scene, appeared on the other side one-half inch taller and eight pounds heavier! There was a simple explanation, however. Brandon De Wilde, working m "Night Passage." on location m Colorado, played
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    • 87 12 Oscar Star Returns As An a stasia BEAUTIFUL limr i d Bergman who won an OSCAR by her masterly interpretation m ANASTASIA will be seen again m the same film at Kind's Theatre. Tiong Hahru, this week. With her of course is 1956 Best Actor Yul Brynner. who won the
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    • 91 12 QUIZ CORNER GLAMOUR and laughs galore will be the highlights of M.G.M's new comedy/ starring one of Hollywood's most handsome "hemen" who, as you can see here, is flanked by filmdom's< most beautiful girls,! glittering in jewels and charm, which, made him comment not long ago: "I'm jittery with so
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  • 649 13 CAN HOAD BRIDGE THAT GAP? Back Injury Is The Snag ri-TFR WILSON L ,)M)()N, April 22 t c Donald Budge's is m 1937-38 has 1., singles at Wim♦en won twice r l by one man. m^at c- h c odds that -i. Australia* t-o 'l o. on.de q v o:f
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  • 75 13 LONDON, Ai I 23, (Reuter) of v« a r.-'s rugby league matches were Ba' Dew-! 1" BrndNorthern JL Hull Kra IR. Bramlrv .an 'i -n 12: Hinder fielH 21 C•' Hull PI! ilifax 12. Hunslel 12 Keighlev 14 Leigh 2\ Warr ngton 10, SI Helena 4R Blackpool
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  • 304 13 NEW YORK. April 23 CAP) Milwaukee'! front-running Brave ran their winnii z streak to five in a row on Mondiy te join the Id Chicago WbitS BOS Bf IhS major leagues' only unbeaten teams. in roin-splsttered 2 J hour itreefc to live in a row on Mond :v to
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  • 31 13 LONDON. Apr. 22. (Router). Falkirk r.p.ri Kilmarnock will replay \hc Scottish Football Association Cup final at HampHen Park. Glasgow, on Wednesday April 24. Tiie teams drew 1-1 last Saturday.
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  • 55 13  -  Jasbir Singh BILL WYLLIE (right), iter of V is year? Mo' f;':.Economy Run. is r < en congratulited by F. A Johns, who was cd r d n the Run, gg the Ocean Perfc Hotel on Moud'rj y' The innncr'.s fro;,', ps r. -c <->i p' d
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  • 727 13 Cardiff to accompany Charlton into 2nd Division U.K. Soccer Roundup LONDON, April 22, (Reuter).— Two goals by winger Peter Harris gave Portsmouth a 2-0 victory over Cardiff City today which made it virtually certain that they will stay m the English league first division next season. Portsmouth's away victory over
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  • 703 13 THE Singa; re Rith A c >- lion Eai lei C. c:ad< d yestei daj 1 nil i are as to lo Ist Ma^ro: !00\: C X S P (a J iV. nncr i Co li V. dell i 33»; (2 Li< it field (31); CI r
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  • 128 13 Li Fen Cagers Win LI FEN Basketballeri won the Division "C" championship of the Singapore Youth Sporti Centre Basketball tournamenl when ihey beat Hoong Vie:, by 59-54 al Use Happy World Stadium last night Trie tournament which had been conducted over the < I two months will conclude ,f) night
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    • 277 13 Li 1 flbner By M C app f^^^^ m^^^ mm m^ mmm^ m m mmmmmmm m m^ mmm mmmm mm^ m^ mm m, m m mmm m f— *—^»*i i H.Ocu Sad.c H.3u_k ns AH DECLARES THIS wT.-mt ZS^'ZZZZZ "KETCH A CRITfC £/7"//T_}f *-—> k\v-'- V tv^_C*j dxzs4nCro"t.»vrd "SADIE HAWKINS
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    • 405 13 2 Hi l> A V QUOTATION: Z L '•The imM diflleult rha- 2 rarter in comedy is that of the fool, ami lie must be no t simpleton that plays that 2 part." CERVANTES. S WEDNESDAY KOK EVERY- j ONE: Get under way early 1 this BMNrniag. lie ingenious, c
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  • 741 14  - Distine looks set for rich sprint prizes WINDSOR LAD By KI'AL A LUMPUR, Tues. DISTINE, one of last season's top money spinners, winner of four races including the Summer Cup mustered one of the best sprinting performances witnessed at Bukit Timah for some time when he made light the punishing
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  • 289 14 IT t —E: 5 'o b: r- -kcr .rr. here to play a series of games ta~iiecti©n with the Merr,. v.-rrv;- «y e t ,:Icd the Standard learnt here to- rr tnrr is isnirlii bare on A x Cambridge, hut all rounder mni Goot-seena the
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  • 23 14 STANDARDPICS show how they finished at Bukit Timah on Easter Monday concluding day of the Singapore Turf Club April Meeting.
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  • 926 14 PENANG RACE WEIGHTS I I FOLLOWING are weights and probable starters for all seven races for Wednesday (May 1), first day of the Penang Turf Club's Summer Meeting:— Horses Class 2, Div. 1-6 Furs. 232 Marigold 4v 9.04 Pil Stable Ba?by 132 Crown Link If 8.13 Capt. H. F. Bloxham.
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  • 31 14 c■ tJ __-!?-j half to beat D**-lsrJ m a soccer match iSajaa f m w -orts^Club naa> ed a walkover /"".JJE their match at Farrer Psit ja*» day.
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  • 109 14 BADMINTON TRAINING ENDS THE ten-day badminton training given by the Badminton Association of Malaya at lhe Singapore Youth Sports Cenlre for 12 selected players ended yesterday. The trainees agreed that the physical exercises did them a lot of good but were of the opinion tnat the whole training scheme was
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  • 44 14 THE following have been selected to represent Scletar Young Indians against H.M.S. Cossack m a friendly soccer match to be played at H.M.S. Terror No. 2 ground today: Sankara, Nadaraj, Bergesa. Nfaniam KR. Gopal. C. Palanisamy. Verrippan Chandrasegara. Narayan. G. Nayaran Sreebharan
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  • 38 14 Yew Chiang (foreground) skilfully gathers up the ball durin" attacks m yesterday's first division match at .lalan Besar Th, all draw. In the background are: Lee Wan Chin (C\; Karim if V Wong (CA).
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  • 366 14  -  KEN TOFT Champion Tigers Hold H„ u Says BRILLIANT goalkeeping by Yew Chiang and an unusual helped Chinese Athletic to hold the champion Tiger Sportinc .Vm k Sf tie m the SAFA Division one league match at Jalan Besar Stadium > Once again it was
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  • 39 14 Malayan Cagers Beaten •:TCGKOXG. Apr.Ha_s> !i v a F Forces) basketball esss* pion... > lava round B gsdier J. C. WalAm commander of 4* Inftntry ls> gade. ssaaaated the cud a at Hongkong team represented by a Hongkong Chinese Traast
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  • 264 14  -  JASBIR SINGH Annual Soccer Classic By THROUGH the efforts of Joe David, of Singapore. Ng Ah Fook of Perak and Toh Boon Huah of Selangor. the North versus South combined schools classic will be played at Jalan Besar Stadium today. It migh: be pointed
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  • 84 14 Hickey Is Malayan Chess Champion J. C. HICKEY of Singapore won the "Tiger Balm" trophy for the 1957 Mala- yan Chess Championship which concluded yesterday at the Medical Centre. College Road. The chess competition was held during the Easter holidays. Following are the complete results:Malayan Champion: J. C. Hickey (Spore);
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