Singapore Standard, 25 April 1957

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    17 1 Singapore Standard it m i. a^Tll. N»». 293 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1957 It PAGES l.i CENTS
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    Lock icon We Don't Want A 'Dictator Of Education'
    285 1 We Don't Want A 'Dictator Of Education' Government Told SINGAPORE Government was yesterday L,., TMne: to make the Director of Education a Education. d :,:r David Marshall I debate on the ColonvVnev :n :h» Legislative Assembly yesterday. i Mr Marshall also claimed cl Government nic Biil ild make the Mm;-
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    Lock icon Death For Entering A White Man's Home
    157 1 Death For Entering A White Man 's Home STRMINGHAM. A. ib.irr.a (AT A lsVy< ir- i tm yesterday aras cony. *t- bur-lary it clrciiit court jury c penalty at death al feiectrlc cha.r r*aries Clarence Hamill n evicted of enter a, [a v imily In f eariy mornlnf hour Lis.
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    Lock icon THE ENTERPRISE
    35 1 P.ETIRED Fleet Admiral i F. (Bull) Halsey allpaced yesterday that the Nary Departm* r tn asase to his personal plea, la postponed: fcr six month P* to scrap the aircraft fmtn Enterprise. UP
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    Lock icon Load Was Too Much For Ferry
    97 1 BESUT. Wed. A lorry loaded with timber was driven onto the Jerteh lorry this, morning, but before the driver could bacK ou: again the ferry sank under the weight of the lead. The lofffj and the timber aank into the river together with the
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    Lock icon NO M-DAY FOR THEM
    94 1 IPOH. Wed The Parit branch of Party Ra'ayat has decided not to participate m any Merdeka celebrations. The branch was invited by the local council m Parit to nominate a member to sit on the celebrations committee, but it rejected the invitation. Meanwhile the Parit local
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    Lock icon FREIGHTER ON FIRE
    69 1 PENANG. April 24 <AP) The British freighter GienorChy was undergoing repairs here today as a result of the second ship fire m South-east Asia waters m a week. The O.nno-ton Glenorchy. en route from Singapore to Britain was damaged when her engin° room caught fire off Port
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    Lock icon Army Units Alerted
    48 1 RIO DE JANEIRO. April 04 ,^p»_ The Brazilian Army yesterdaj ordered units m the nations capital to be "m a state of alert." The move apparently followed a debate m the Chamber ol Deputies on whether opposition leader Carlos Lacerda's Congressional immunity >hould be revoked.
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    Lock icon BACK FROM TOUR
    27 1 PRESIDENT Soekarno ol Indonesia yesterday returned from a tour of Central Java and a three-day holiday m the world-famous tourist resort of Bali. Reuter
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    Lock icon DEFICIT RISING
    29 1 CHINA'S advene balance ol trade with Ceylon over the rubber-rice agreement transactions for 1956. which stood at R5.80.000.000 has now reached the peak ngure 01 R5.100,000.000. UP
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    Lock icon Rioters Battle Police In City Streets
    313 1 Rioters Battle Police In City Streets Violence Erupts In Jordan COMMUNIST BID TO OUST GOVT. AMMAN, APRIL 24 (AP)— STONE THROWING RIOTERS SWARMED THROUGH AMMAN STREETS TODAY DEMANDING THE JORDAN GOVERNMENTS RESIGNATION. Security police armed with shields made oi thick straw and clubs trapped large groups of the demonstra- tors
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    Lock icon ...AND NOW FOR HER DELAYED HONEYMOON
    126 1 A PRETTY one-month old Australian bride. Miss v Fay Roscfield, stepped off a KLM Super Constellation from Bangkok yesterday and sighed: "It's all over now." Miss Rosefield. a pianist with the Algeranoff Ballet Troupe, was married m Indonesia last month after a whirlwind romance.
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    Lock icon Jordan Army Closes Border With Syria
    178 1 TEL AVIV, Israel, April 24 (IT) Damascus Radio said today the Jordan Army has closed the Syrian-Jordanian border to traffic m either direction. At the same time unconfirmed reports reaching here said Iraqi forcr were approaching the Syrian-Jordanian border intending to take over-all <
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    Lock icon Claim By Perak Entrant Is Rejected
    243 1 Mobil gas Economy Run CHAIRMAN of the 1957 Mobilgas Economy Run organ .zing committee, Mr. J. N. K. Moncrieff, issued a statement yesterday over a "protest" lodged by the second prize winner, Mr. Fred John of Perak, for an alleged breach of etiquette m
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    Lock icon Death Bomb 'Mystery' Is Solved
    130 1 ARMY Ordnance experts have established that Tuesday's explosion at N any ang Girls High School, which killed a mason, was caused by a fuse from a shell, and not a handgrenade. This was revealed yestertaday by Singapore's Police Secretary. Mr. Peter Claque. Mr. Claque also
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    Lock icon MAN KILLED IN RIVAL GANG CLASH
    97 1 A 21 -YEAR-OLD labourer. Chua Cheng Nee. was kiiled and another Chinese seriously injured when rival gangs clashed at Jalan Kavu off Yio Chu Rang Road. Singapore early yesterday In another outbreak of fighting between the same gangs yesterday evening, a woman and a
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    Lock icon AVOID GRAHAM, CATHOLICS TOLD
    60 1 CATHOLICS m New York have been told to stay away from the forthcoming Billy Graham crusade In this metropolis The Rev. John E Kelly, director of the National Catholic Welfare, said m a magazine for Catholic priests that Graham is actually an ordained Bapti.st minister and
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    Lock icon NO JOY RIDES AFTER OFFICE
    51 1 JAKARTA. April 24 (API A powerful youth group has begun taking action m Celebes against government officials who use government cars after office hours. The group. called the "Youth Corps for the Reconstruction of East Indonesia' hold up such cars and confine them m special
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    Lock icon First US Ship Enters Canal
    52 1 SUEZ. April 24 (AP;.— The President Jackson. first American ship to enter the Suez Canal since it was blocked last tall, started through the waterway today from the southern end. The 9.277-ton American President Line reseel Ll en route from Karachi with cargo and 12
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    Lock icon 15 Nabbed In New Purge
    39 1 VIENNA. April 24 <AP) Radio Budape.-t reported today that Hungarian Communist Police smashed a ••counter-revolutionary" organization m the north-west Hungarian town of Komarr m A total ot 15 arrests were made the radio said.
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    Lock icon GOVT. IGNORED
    23 1 BTRIKE6 continued to plague Argentina on Tuesday as labour leaders disregarded forenunent urgings that workers ret back on their jobs— A.P.
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    Lock icon NEHRU'S TRIP
    26 1 THE Indian Prime Minister. Mr. Nehru Is to visit Helsinki between June 18 and 20 during his visit to Scandinavia, it was announced yesterday.
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    Lock icon Pilot Thought Fatal Hit Was Tyre Burst
    147 1 THE PILOT of a jet plane taKing off from Teneah airfield hit two men m a jeep and he didn't know about it until he landed later. j This was revealed at the court of inquiry held by the Royal Air Force yesterday.
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    Lock icon HARI RAY A PUASA
    31 1 HARI PAYA PUASA will be observed m Penang m Tuesday. April 30. and Wednesday. May 1. instead of Wednesday. May 1 and Th _r rias May 2.
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    Lock icon YOUR AUTOGRAPH, PLEASE!
    47 2 KEEPING her mind on her work albeit her airborne appearance, screen star Jayne Mansfield signs autographs for fans m the back rows at the premiere of "The Spirit of St. Louis" m Hollywood recently. Man supplying the up-and at-'em impetus is Mickey Hargitay U.P.
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    Lock icon SUMAC SMACKS IT OUT
    286 2 SUMAC SMACKS IT OUT SINGER IN A Mm FREE-FOR-ALL T OS AN IKI.ES. Apr;! 24 AP) A ;r.z. r. iir-p j] ing. sanhtlmg and slapping freef r- < r>la c ve=terd »v the embar c i family of :> iger Ym Sumac Ira is ca-.e on the -< if co-rip'sir/
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    Lock icon H.K. EXCHANGE
    37 2 ll AT.K^NT, r. 24. S~- S\ar. -ara >-:r ire Oosaaa; prices of the H -akong Exchange were >16 52 CI Bier 2212 i $1,840 It afrtaja N r .a Indonesian Rap- :~1 m a tael.
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    Lock icon 'WAR' HAS ALREADY STARTED: STATESMAN
    153 2 MADRAS. April 24 (Reuter). —Indian elder statesman Mr. C R rag valachari i-aid here last night that "war" between the West and Soviet Russia tlr-ariv begun as far as therm nuclear tests are concerned." This "war" was achieving the ultimate In destruction by n t
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    Lock icon POET KILLED IN MISHAP
    60 2 LISBON. April 24 (Reuter) South African poet Roy I Campbell was killed when a i car driven by his wife crashed into a tree near Setuhal. Southcm Portugal, last night as they werr returning from a holiday m Spain. 19s wife. Mary Margaret, who Ii a
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    Lock icon Expedition Returns
    59 2 TOKYO. April 24 (AP) Japan's Antarctic expedition returned home to an uproarious welcome today. Several thousand persons shouted and cheered as the 2,497-ton icebreaker Sowa and its supply ship. Umitaka Maru, pulled up to the pier. Dr. Takashi Nagata. expedition ieader. who had flown home from Capetown, welcomed
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    Lock icon BRITAIN HAS BEEN ON THE SIDE OF ANGELS
    283 2 Sir Pierson Expresses Confidence In Future NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuter)— Sir Pierson Dixon, British Ambassador ro the United Nations said here tonight that Britain was always "actuated by some deep sense of the justice of things even if the motives were
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    Lock icon Scheme To Stabilise Marriages
    118 2 Scheme To Stabilise Marriages COLOMBO. April 24 (UP) The feasibility d setting up reconciiia ion board.- and marriage guidance councils throughout Ceylon to marriage was discussed length by the Marriage and Divorce Commission which is now sitting m Ceylon. The Commissioners also discussed the point whether couples seeking divorce should
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    59 2 i.omhiv (reniv p port- v. y ai t Spot a lnt M Hsv N I <m .J Vbsji feto a, Jo market was tt* CLOSING 3.? .Inn. v 'Ptfmb. r ;n«arjr/lUr(h Toaer-Qju^ B| LONDON TIN t ,aV:.a. Tllrf ssaatss ri buviv T"i„ v,, CLOSING ::T:,;„a Lhr»r v ra:
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    Lock icon Li Li Has Dropped Yen For Brynner
    104 2 HONGKC (UP) star Li Li-Hwi was ported today to hare ca> celled her engagement* actor-director Yen Tarn I Miss Li. who returned ft* d nC sss* Wl,fim |_ms r._ r< p< S'-'. en r the Holljacoi i V Brynner -sttxof m She denied
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    Lock icon 'Use Atom In The Service Of Man'
    185 2 Papal Plea To The World VATICAN CITY, April 24 (Reuter) Pope Pius XII has urged that the leaders of all nations and faiths should master and use nuclear energy m the service of man instead of wasting their efforts m a "terrifying and
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    Lock icon He Can't Explain That Flight Into China
    159 2 He Can't Explain That Flight Into China TOKYO. April 24 (Reuter) Mr. Henry Bush, an American pilot who flew into the heart of Communist China m dayligha to re.-cue a 12-year-old Chinese boy from the Communists, said here tonight his mission was just one of many such secret flights into
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    Lock icon Minorities Get No Vote Here
    141 2 Minorities Get No Vote Here KARACHI. April 24. (Reuter).—The Pakistan National Assembly today passed a controversial bill depriving the minorities of West Pakistan province of their separate voting and a representational rights. During debate on the bill two days ago. more than 1.000 demonstrators shouted beside the House m protest
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    Lock icon 23,000 FEET UPWARDS
    69 2 AKITA Japan. April 24 <AP) Japan's first two-stage supersonic rocket was successfully fired yesterday and zoomed to an altitude of about 23,--000 feet. The rocket, 15 feet long and weighing 300 pounds, rose at a 65 degree angle to a height of 13,000 feet before its booster
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    Lock icon U.N. PATROL FIRED ON
    79 2 UNITED NATIONS. April 24 (UP)— Major General E. L. M Burns. Commander of the Unitec Nations Emcreon<~y Force, confirmed to United Nation? headquarters today that a Swedish patrol of UNEF has been Brad upon from the Israeli side of the Gaza border on April 18. Gen.
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    Lock icon THIRD JAKARTA PAPER CLOSED
    149 2 JAKARTA, April 24 (AP) Military police last night ordered "Indonesia Raya." the nations most popular newspaper, to close, bringing to three the number of dailies shut within a few days. Newspapers closed < arher were "Pedoman' and "Bintang Timur." Military police s< 1 ?h< doors of
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    Lock icon Hongkong Prepares
    65 2 HONGKONG, April 2 4 (UP) Apparently aiming st preventing Last October 10's bloody riots the Hongkong police force has decided to conduct a large-scale anti-riots exercise coming May DayAccording to police sources between midnight April M Bad midnight May 1 all police leave will be cancelled Meanwhile, labour
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    Lock icon Smallpox Scare On Royal Plane
    74 2 LONDON. April 24 (UP) The Duchess of Kent and her son Prince Michael flew home from Athens last night m an airliner carrying a smallpox scare Names and addresses of passengers of the Viscount airliner, which began its journey at Istanbul, \ver e taken on
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    Lock icon A ROUSING WELCOME
    53 2 TOKYO. Apr- 24 (R< r Pakistan Prime Mimstei H. S. Suhravvardv wa rousing welcome here today when he drove to the centuriesold Imperial Pa ac t .-'-i the distinguished visitors book. Mr. Suhrawr.r iv rived her* last night or. a seven-day to Japan at the invitation ol
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    Lock icon Queen's State Visit To US Called Off?
    123 2 SUSPICION EXPRESSED LONDON. April 24 (AP) A columnist for the London Daily Express voiced suspicion today that President Eisenhower has had second thoughts about inviting the Queen to visit Washington. "If she does not go to the United States this autumn." wrote William
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    Lock icon University Costs $6.8 Mil. To Run
    344 3 While Students Paid Only $742,037 In 1955/56... BUT ENOUGH FUNDS LEFT TO COVER $23 M. EXPANSION PLAN THE University of Mai ya cost 5fc,873,350 to maintain during the 1955-56 period, the annual report of the Vice-Chancellor, Sir Sydney Came, reveals. Tuition and other fees
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    Lock icon One Dies In Big Gang Clash
    140 3 -YEAR-OLD hawkleft to die < d Ihsj after he had be n -luring a serious i :cn secret socie.p. Jal^a. H ijj Singapore, soon 2ht yesterday. heng was found a pool of blood by patrol the arrival of re three deep stab a his
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    Lock icon That Comet IS Visible
    33 3 That Comet IS Visible nd Comet c brighteshere Comet appt "g of the cenearl^ seen by last night m CenI West Scotland and m early visible along the Port Glas- c, at t.
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    Lock icon COLONY SPREADS WAR ON DIPHTHERIA
    75 3 IE City Health Department m Singapore hai I ed people against the "danger type" of I ia germs now prevalent m the Colony. I Rtough there is no cause I ons at I 1 of one moi I ht Increase I aign against spread «c
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    Lock icon Axe Attack Allegation
    81 3 LEONG CHEE 45-jear-old v. .1 •< rday com- itt< d to stand trial at the n xt Singapore A>sizes <,n a X attempted murd< r i a co-t( nant, Tans Kion. 50 Tang told Magistrate. Mr RBI Pat< i1 J 2 he a ked Le< ng for
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    Lock icon Trade Union Movement Is Praised
    42 3 SSELS. Apr. 14 Rev- H Mil-organJaa-i thelnte: r Cn- rade r .hi that mtn th. tn vrrtnnt •r. .ncrru.-ins mmin ru democratic Indus t:..i--1 ;,.m.- -month ;r Mr risltect m the Mala--1 viand Bur- m and Cey-
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    Lock icon 1st Blind Person To Work Full – Time For Govt.
    431 3 1st Blind Person To Work Full Time For Govt. HIS LIFE BEGINS ANEW UrF! bogaji anew >esterday for :>.*)-year-oltl Lee Siew Luan, .father of six children, when he became the lirst handicapped person to start a full-time job with the Singapore Government. Mr Lee has hern completely blind for almost
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    Lock icon Admiral For Naval Exercise
    132 3 Admiral For Naval Exercise VICE ADMIRAL Sir Roy Dow ling, (left) Chief of the Australian Naval Staff, arrived m Singapore yesterday by BOAC Britannia on his way to London to attend a naval exercise of the latest fighting ships and weapons. The exercise. nicknamed "Fairlead." will be attended by heads
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    Lock icon DOUBLE CRASH
    36 3 A U.S. Air Force C-tll Hying hox-'ar cargo plana crashed m Southern Japan yesterday with tour men aboard and one or two helicopters thai went to investigate also era.-h- -cd, an Air announced. U.P.
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    Lock icon FIRST VACATION IN 52 YEARS
    118 3 FATHER BECHERAS OFF TO VISIT HIS RELATIVES REV FATHER E Beche ras (right) of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul m (Meen Street, is TS mats old and ha< been m Malaya Vcsterdav. Rev. Father Becheras. founder of the Chinese Catholic High School m
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    Lock icon SIT Men Ask For Industrial Court
    139 3 LOCAL officers of the Singapore Improvement Trust want the Labour Ministry to set up an industrial court to investigate and settle their outstanding claims with the Trust. The claims are for a newsalary scale for confidential stenographers, promotion within the time scale, exemption from
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    Lock icon Painter's Body Found In The Sea
    89 3 the body of On Chin Hang, 2.1, eras picked up trcfn tne sea oil Sembawang, Singapore, ve.-terdav by the Marine Police. Oh. a painter employed at the Naval Base, srent sarimming with three friend., on Tuesday morning An hour liter ins brienda had left
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    Lock icon Only One Turned Up To Sign Bond
    140 3 Only One Turned Up To Sign Bond PENANG. Wed. Only one parent snsweiec the call of the }{;.n Chiana U':2h School authorities to peasant himself today to sign a bond, guaranteeing the future good behaviour Ol his son m school. He came from Parit Buntar. He hurried to Penang on
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    Lock icon TEA PARTY FOR TROUPE
    63 3 SINGAPORE City Councillor Mr. X- It Gai Mohamed, yesterday gave s tea party lo Messrs, T. K. S. Brothers, wellknown South Indian artistes, at the Sky Palace Restaurant Tee visiting troupe, which r. dsts of 50 singer- snd dancari seven giiii snd M men— wH] v>e
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    Lock icon ROCKET PLANE
    37 3 THE US Air Force announced yesterday that construction is underway on its X-15 rocket airplane, a research cralt that is expected to tly 4.000 miles an hour at altitudes of more than 33 miles.— UP.
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    Lock icon SEQUEL TO CAFE BRAWL
    176 3 SEQUEL TO CAFE BRAWL A FIGHT started m a cafe when a sailor told a soldier he did not like the look on his face, a Singapore court martial was told yesterday. Private William Patrick O'Connor said this when charged with wounding a sailor at a rafe m Sembawa.ag Road
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    Lock icon New Job For Gen. Gruenther
    40 3 WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuter)— General Alfred Gruenther, former commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization torces. has been appointed to the State Department's Advisory Committee tor the Foreign Service Institute, the State Department announced yesterday.
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    Lock icon We Were Chopped Until We Fell Senseless — Wife
    906 4 We Were Chopped Until We Fell Senseless Wife NEWLYWEDS TELL OF ATTACK IN THEIR OWN HOME KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. B —A bride of a few months today related from her sick j bed m the General Hospit.j al here an attack on her and her husband at their home m
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    Lock icon EXPECTANT BANDIT MOTHER GETS A 'MERCY' GIVE-UP OFFER
    255 4 IPOH. Wed.— The Federation Government, urging the depleted Chea Loy terrorist force tn the Bttm River area Id i ;:t- aider. i> offering maternity tn atment to ong ca the gang— pregnant branch committee member. Cheah Kam L:n. Cheah was the wife
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    Lock icon Civics Course
    51 4 SIXTY-SEVEN students from the Chung Wah High School. Kota Bharu. who are on an educational tour of Malaya, attended a oneday Civics Course m Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. Picture shows the Assistant .Minister for Education. Mr. Too .Toon Hing. addressing the students m the Maxwell School Hall. Kuala
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    Lock icon He Cut Over White Lines
    77 4 VEO BOCK HWEE, a mechanic of Cavenaffa Koad, Singapore, was lined $70 when he pleaded guilty to three offences, m a Singapore Traffic Court yesterday Yco. on motor-cycle, cut across double white-line, tailed to stop when ordered by a Police Oiliccr, and did not conform
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    Lock icon Pipe-Water For Rural Dwellers
    102 4 Pipe-Water For Rural Dwellers SINGAPORE City Council is now considering a pilot 'scheme to give individual water supply to attap houses m rural areas. A committee of the Council has recommended introducing water supply to houses m Aver Gemuroh. as an experiment. It also suggested that m working out a
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    Lock icon Saw Wife Kissing Man At Cabaret
    468 5 'SHE WAS_LOYAL AND DECENT UNTIL WE MET HOGG' It Made Me Very Angry' Mine Engineer Tells Judge IPOH, Wed. Lewis Samuel Galbraith, 27, mining engineer, alleged m the High Court here today that his wife misbehaved herself with another man while dancing m a
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    Lock icon TEACHING BRIDES
    66 5 I ii hers went to IBe attar tn take their vows during faster week <>n>- «»f them B saw Mrs. SK sin.; ham iwra aasjp with her B.itu Pah.it tn attached i'»nh departaft* te v her was *>. M Aane Come/. il Mr Michael Draais at Bl Xnthnnv's
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    Lock icon Youth Is Getting Much Too Western Says, Bench
    121 5 Youth Is Getting Much Too Western Says, Bench ■rsrr mertajam. Wed. A Penan? Magistrate, I I Hussain, stated I wths of today for "followI fcf western customs a their I res to enjoy them--4 r rar rides."* t a ca.=e where he fined Tan r thr s traffic ghaees. Inche
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    Lock icon Radio Started Kampong Fire
    26 5 Radio Started Kampong Fire VDIO. which cat. hree cubic! 1 1 and I people homeless m 16. Singapore, yesterfrom nearby a' .c fire and pre- t
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    Lock icon FREED BY COURT, HE SURRENDERS TO POLICE
    256 5 Case Of A Terrorist Found In A Bus KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. kwo terrorists captured m January m a v 1 moving m 0 Kuala Lun pir was 1 day I ;.v the X ..1 Court of a capital cl aurge I po s
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    Lock icon Hair Pull Cost Two Women: $4
    73 5 Hair Pull Cost Two Women: $4 PENA N G, Wed.— Two women were arrested by a Police Corporal. when they started punching and pulling each others hair, the Magistrate's Court eras told today. M. Poongayanan and N. Sampurnam admitted behaving m a disorderly manner by lighting m public at the
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    Lock icon Last Minute Backing Saves Malay Congress
    210 5 ORGANIZERS PLAN TO SEAT 1,000 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The organizing committee of the second Malay Congress declared today it will go ahead with the rally to crystallize Malay opinion on the Federation's new constitution because of overwhelming last-minute support from the community. The organizers
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    240 7 HEW YORK, April M, (Renter)— An American rientist today failed to get i court hearing ol i •images sue against the Gofvcnunenf bacaoM it would awe meant disclosing details of a secret device he invented. I Dr. Otto Halpern. an int. r Utionally known
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    227 7 LONDON. April 24 (Reuter' British official quarter 5 today described the recent United States proposals. on relaxation of controls on trade with Communist China as "a step m the right direction But the sources emphasised that these propo: als
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    206 7 -but it cost $20,000 to bring them back THESE are some of the girls who were among a party of 20 variety artistes stranded m Accra, capital of the new dominion of Ghana. They went to Accra six weeks ago to take part m the dominion's independence celebrations. And
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    71 7 NEW YORK. April 24 (AP) —The three-year cafe society feud between party-sivcr Elsa Maxwell and the Duchess of Windsor haa been ended by a mid-ocean hand shake, the New York Journal-American said today. Satiety columnist Cholly Knickerbocker reported that Miss Maxwell told him by telephone: "The
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    30 7 The organising committal of tne Canne:, Film Festival announced today that Communist China had withdrawn from the Festival, to be held from May 2 to 17. Reuter
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    210 7 LONDON. April 24 J \\v. Macuire was waiting In a queue for the last bus home when his pretty wife, J _n. turned to him and said "The baby's coming And the baby came -THERE AND THEN. John, 111. nid "i v. as
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    93 7 JEALOUS WIFE ATTACKS HER HUSBAND TOKYO \pril 2\ <Kputer> Metropolitan police j reported her today the former wife of a 32-year- old taxi driver laid m wait for her fermer husband. STABBFI) him m the head I and body uith three pairs of scissors bound together, and then SPRINKLED sulphuric
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    56 8 EIGHT -.ovornment bills were yesteiSay presented to the Assembly. They will come up again for a second reading on May 22. They Include amendments to the Ordinances governing divorce, the central provident fund, road traffic- the Malayan R >yal Naval Volunteer Re- rye. the Singapore Military Forces
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    99 8 PEN AX 0, Wed. Haja My am. a IT-yca-- Id schoolboy was. yesterday In I 19 by the Second Magistrate, Mr E A Long, for abusing and assaulting a w- nan, Halima Bee, of Cbulia Stree I < n April 8. In addition, Haja
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    45 8 GENERAL S.r Fran F< ttag, Commander-in-Chief, t i East Land Foro returned to Singapore by air terdaj from Japan, iftar completion cf a four-week Ua.r < ta.c l\.i East The Gcacr.,' vi. a F Penh, Saigon. lk.. r a.ong. Korea and Japan.
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    355 8 v The new Education 8i11 A HITLER-LIKE regimentation of thought would be the ultimate result m Singapore schools if absolute discretionary powers were placed m the hands of the Director of Education, claimed Mr. Lim Choon Mong, (Lib. Socs.-Serangoon) m the debate
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    45 8 PENANG, Wed.— Mr. J Miller, Chief Sanitary Inspector, pressed for a deterrent sentence on milk vendor, Vallamalai, who admitted adulterating fresh milk with water. "This Is a very mean form of cheating,'' Mr. Miller told the Court. Vallamalai was fined $100
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    349 8 CHEW'S ASSURANCE THE new Education Bill was non-communal and did not discriminate against anybody, the Minister for Education. Mr. Chew Swee Kce. said yesterday, when presentins: the Bill for its second reading. He said that the new Bill was the natural consequence of
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    31 8 TWO films for Singapore life-guards will be screened at the YMCA Hall, at 8 p.m. tomorrow. These are Holgcr Nielson's Artificial Respiration and a feature on Australian life-guards.
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    385 8 THE Acting Chief Secretary, Mr. S. T. Stewart, yesterday drew the attention of the member for Cairnhill (Mr David Marshal!) to the fact that there were TWO Christmas islands and the one m which the British nuclear tests are to
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    81 8 SINGAPORE G vernment is conteajll minq the law reUtu to private employniem aJP o prevent abuses m the Colo:. The announcesießt made yesterday had »Sa eaua** Be recslled **<£ recently ft art**** fW JS been eoovicted fowj report by four joa a_aa» he
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    76 8 THE Minister for Commerce and Industry. "Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy. ycaterda} told the Singapore Legislative Assembly that he was not aware of any pressure from private firms against Government's acceptance oi .i milk plant ofTer by Australia under the Colombo Plan Mr. Jumabhoy said
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    139 9 CHECK TRAPS ALLEGED ROBBERS %lK i \V, \N. Wed. A d -block set up it Labu Koad morning trapped i armed robbers. I trying daggers I nti red the I an estate mandore. I i Pillay. on the samelast night and robbed Er of sso. Ssa a 1 -he robr'.hav's
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    56 9 VFOU Wmjaf Br. _:d 0 i thr B Br. g !e mm April 27 to May part of their driv i fci'TOO to promote "obedh c, pßtnre and self-respect" >.: a :c Thiam Swee, SecreBrigade, ye-'erd.-.y to the public lor ou.d be ttsstd to the treasurer
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    85 9 ra.nv 8.0.A.C. stewardess Miss Margaret Sheffield who represented Britain m the "Miss Spirit of St l.ouis, held m New York on Tuesday to find the worlds ideal air-line stewardess. Miss Sheffield, who has he**n serving with the Constellation Heet linking Singapore and Australia, wore
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    119 9 HIT-AND-RUN driver, John Bennett Hall, an engineer from the Singaour Board, was fined a total of $100 on four charges m the First Wmmt Cenrt yesterday. leaded guilty to neglipß driving, failing for m > 2 t c ince to tour pi md fai
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    106 9 w. ear-old labour.:. P ran. was today acouitdischarged by Lumpur Sessions Judge arge as his ah- a ■ould not identify him a the ailant. >reec fa f SUbbing A. Kara ;tside a coffccshop m ■Mat Pasar on March 20. i that it nm Sreedharatf who 1
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    56 9 Arjuarl.-ts I new President Mr will Rive a -Fashes Vjuarium" at KM I mmtmm m I J- r.t annual neetina I the I following were Oflke-b^arers Mr A -Pre,id»-nts-,.V h E Co **> W>d Dr Chee S -retary Mr »J*^ht; TTaasur. r Mr V pm r
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    45 9 MR. Ghanshim Nandwanl and Miss Pari Ramchandani, pictured at their wedding reception at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Singapore, yesterday. The groom is the son of Mr anel Mrs. P H Nandwani and the bride is the daughter of Mr. M. Ramchandani Standard pic
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    150 9 SINGAPORE Social Welfare Department has created a new post for an after-care woman officer to look after the girls discharged from "approved homes." TbS After-care work is no.v haini dons by lbs Ls Iy littpeo- a' Girl i Homes, In addition lo hi
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    60 9 A SINGAPORE La. .r 0:V: employee. Scah Yeak > z -...-as -barged yesterdaj r! nir.al breach of trust cf .-3y Scan plea ica not guilty 'lhe n: >c a.a a leged Seah com- itti I the often c between prober ast an I April Hs was sl<
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    173 9 Radio Orchestra To Play For Merdeka Day Funds KUAI A LOMPOB. WmX r: Ma iya*s orchestra v.... fi m Sii gap< re to Kuala I on May 6 to hl 'P ri on. v f r the co intry s Merdeka Ci rations. The 2. -pic -c l and, under
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    213 9 LAWYER AND SERVANT 'FLEECED' OF $7,423 TWO men were yesterday sentenced m the Singapore Assize Court to eight years' imprisonment each for thei. part m a "pre-conceived and well-organized" armed robbery on Feb. 7. j They were Wahab bin Mohamed. 30,
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    90 9 PENANG. Wed. Arsonists are said to have set a contractor's store m Udini Road, on fire early yesterday morning, causing damage estimated at $16 000 A watchman. Badharurihenn, was m his hut when suddenly he saw the store, which was nearby, striata, The building contained
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    73 9 Too Slow Too Fast TWO drivers one drove slowly and the other fast were each fined $15 m the Singapore Traffic Court yesterday. The "slow driver" was a housewife, Eden binte Said, of Geylang Road, who drove BlOOg Geylang Road on Aug. 26 and obstructed other vehicles* The "fast driver"
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    124 9 Left 4 Mths. After The Wedding A SINGAPORE wife told the Divorce Court yestcidav that four months after tier marriage and 13 days after she gave birth to a child, her husband left her. Mrs. Anita Wyrcwcden was Hling her husband. M. J. Wyrcwcden, for divorce on the grounds of
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    85 9 $25 Every Month For Child a sing \porf. Magistrate, Mr T. S Sinnathuray, yesterday ordered Mm bin Awang, I fitter attached to the RAF. Seletar. to pay $25 monthly maintenance towards the upkeep of his one-year-old child whom he had neglected to maintain since September last year. The order is
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    55 9 RAHMAT bin MOHAMMED 23. pleaded guilty m a Singapore court yesterday to a charge of stealing a motorcar worth $2,500 The car belonged to A Bamad bin Muhammad and the court was told that Rah mat stole it on Tuesday. Sentence was postponed till Saturday and
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    64 9 ASIANS could learn something irom the European Economic Union now being set up. Dr. Hare Ulrich Grancw, the German Consul General m Singapore, told Colony Rotanans yesterday. It is European experiment, which if successful, would provide a lesson to countries m thii corner of the world he said
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    107 9 2 Jailed For $538 Gem Crab TWO Indonesian? were each sentenced to three months' jail m a Singapore court; yesterday, when they pleaded guilty to stealing $533 worth ot jewellery from a goldsmith's shop on April 11. •They were Mohamed bin Bausin. 25 and Salleh bin Ahmad. 30. Prosecuting Officer,
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    177 9 A "PATHE" newsreel of the signing of the Merdeka agreement m London this month, was screened at a special showing for the Singapore press by Shaw Brothers yesterday morning. The newsreel gave excerpts from the speeches of Mr. Alan LennoxBoyd,
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    330 9 Lino Man Murdered By Rioting Thugs PENANG, Wed.— A linooperator of the Straits Echo Press Limited left his house to go to work during the Penang riots m January. He failed to return home and two days iater, his body was found lying on the muddy banks ef the Sungei
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    74 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Government employees In Selangor saved more mon< y last year, states the annual report of the Selangor Government Servants' Thrift and Loan Socie y. Each of the 3.523 members saved an average ol $10.72 monthly as compared to $9.97 for 1955. However, the
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    39 9 THE Goh Loo Club of Singapore will celebrate Its Gold* n Anniversary with a dinner and dance on Sunday May 5 from 8 p m. at its premises m Club Street. More than 500 guests have been invited.
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    43 9 SINGAPORE Police yester- :■<..; a<■ s.x youths -'a''; 'oeath'of TTt-Jaar-old schools* Edwin Chan m Eair^r r_.ik. en Moncay. One wa< a 14-ycar-r hoy Chan was hit n t.-.e head with a stick af'cr an argument over k.;c, a.v_ d.ed hospi-
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    284 10 PROSPECTS OF SCRIP ISSUE THE improved political climate following the successful London constitutional talks and the expected announcement of bonus issue by a number of industrial companies contributed to the firmness m the Malayan industrial shares market. A number of price appreciations was reported for industrial
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    187 10 Business In Shares MALAYAN sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: F. N. ords $2 44. S2 42j. Gammons $2 15. $3.10; Hammers $2.07. $2(>9: H. Waugh %l 85, McAlister $3.25; Metal Box I7|; Robinson ords $1.70. $1,714- Sime Darby $2.65; Cold Storage $1.78; Straits Traders $31J5xall; Wearne Bros $3.10.
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    119 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul on Wednesday were Copra, Apr. '.May $254 buyers, $26| sellers; coconut oil m bulk $40£ seller?, m drums $44] sellers, afuntok white pepper $106 Bellers, Sarawak white $105 sellers, special Sarawak black $72 COPKA HOLIDAY. CUTLER BATH CO lID
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    70 10 AN AUSTRALIAN company, m South Melbourne, Victoria, has secured a contract valued about AC 115.000 for a pineapple canning plant which is to be built on the east coast of Formosa. Tenders called lor a minimum speed of processing pineapples at the rate of 60 a minute.
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    116 10 Rubber Rises Cent THE Singapore rubber market closed I cent abme Tuesday's level, interna tional first grade May shipment being quoted at 92 < cents per lb. Better overseas orders cantnbuted to the steadiness m the market at the ope:.- g business was reported around 931 cents al At noon
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    70 10 BRITAIN produced a rec t weekly average < f 277 2 i tons of pig iron m March This was nearly 10.000 tons higher than the previous r< cord, established only the previous m< nth. ano r. -< than 15.000 tons higher m the weekly average
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    29 10 EXPERTS of British motorcycles to dollar are,- earne I record total of £2.988 i year. More than £2 million worth of the sales were m th< U.S.
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    196 10 Aust. Motor Industry Expands AUTOMOBILE mpanies who have establish. i a r local companies or icpresentatives m Australia are concentrating an aftillawiiiMi as a locale for new manufacturiiif plants, to make either wholly Australian vehicles, or to increase the 1" al content of well-known makes. Recently a large number of
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      127 10 More Commercial] News m Page 13 UNION OF BURMA SHIPPING BOARD s.s. "PYIDAWAYE'^ ARRIVING SINGAPORE 28th SAILING FOR RANGOON k Passengers b Cargoes occepted t:r Penang, Mcrgui, Mculmcn v Please Contatt: INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING AfflW Agents for: UNION OF BURMA SM.*« 87, Neil Rood. Sinqopori 2 BABBEa-FERN-VILLE LINES For Boston New
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    560 12 Anne Pickard Vice- President, University of London Studen ts' Union; Chairman of the Welfare Committee, and organiser of the |j First International |i Festival. PAKISTAN STANE In cliari>e is Rnfique Gaya from Karachi. who is studying civil engineering. CTUDENTS of London University recently, took part m an International
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    258 12 Where the Cow is Holy ...BUT NEW DELHI IX India, where tlie cow> is Holy, she fares tlie worst of cnyicliere m the world. Dull of eye t planned by sores, bony cattle wander m thc city streets m search of a mouthful of garbage. Water buffalo, another saember of
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    324 12 AID FOR MOTHERS BABIES years ago the annual toll of prewnbJ disease among children was incalculabli attacks against malaria, tuberculosis a were certainly the first p 0 f the dn United Nations Children's Fund (UNIC the World Health O. m fa m t.ac ha:. Neither agency, however, couldS that hi
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    327 12 Sex School Warns Indians Against White Women INDIANS living m Wolverhampton. Staffs, have been warned of the dangers of falling into the clutches of bad white women. At the town's first meeting of the Indian Workers' Association the large gathering of Indians was told: "Go home to India and bring
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    121 13 China To Flood Marts With Cheap Fish ta sA s making a e f C rrrined effort to .':cd Malayan marjj g t S with a wide f c f V of fish at lower »n o n prevail ing l p jrposo among :r.- >c and f r- r
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    42 13 THE Natural Rubber Development Board assisted m the fashion show of ladies' rainwear presented by the Rubber Proof ers' Association at Park Lane House, London. In adGlamour In Rubber dition to modern rainwear, the display also showed rubber-proofed garments through the ages.
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    272 13 BRITISH-MADE cine and optical equipment, exported to more than 100 countries, much of it to Singapore and Malaya, has an important place m the C 3.000.000 Photo Fair being held m London. vear'^ exports rearhed a record figure well over an i of
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    192 13 EQUIPMENT totalling £55.000 has been ordered recently by the U.K. Government to assist training projects m Pakistan and Ceylon under the Colombo Plan Technical Co-operation Scheme. Pakistan Government's telecommunications services have received considerable assistance from the U. K. during the Dast few years by the provision
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    46 13 THE U.S. Congress has approved a resolution permitting goods imported for exhibition at the forthcoming sixth international trade fair at Seattle, Washington, to be admitted without payment of tariff duties. The fair will be held m Seattle from May 17 to 26 inclusive.
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    167 13 m a A DIVIDEND of s^. loss income tax at 30' r. tor thc year ended Dec. 31. 1956. will be proposed at the annual general meeting of the Buloh Rubber Estates Ltd. m Ipoh on April 29. Accounts show that profr for the year wa>
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    78 13 A BRITISH-MADE motor coach has left London on the j first leg of a pioneer 10,000- j mile tour through 15 countries from London to Calcutta. This trjp will be the forerunner of a regular two-way service. The route includes Paris. Lyons, Turin. Milan. Venice. Belgrade. Sofia.
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    34 13 THE State of Western A"straiia is builc.ing one of the world's biggest pre-stresscd concrete bridge-, to span the Swan River at Perth, the State capita!, lt will cost A C 1.500,-000..500,--000.
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    45 13 NEW YORK. April 2J-Dow-Jone s j clo.-ing averages: STOCKS: ?,o Industrials 491 M 2') Rails MftJl 15 Utilities ">i 65 Stock, 172.»J»J BONDS: 40 Bond< 90 40 Thp I)ow-Jonrs commodity futures Index 1 1 924*26 average equal- 100) closed at 159.33.— Lap.
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    216 13 VITAL PHASE IN REPLANT SCHEME THE replanting programme of the estates m Malaya of Labu Cheviot Rubber Ltd., has reached a significant stage, Sir John Hay. the chairman, told shareholders m his annual statement The last of thc seedling rubber on older properties, Labu and Cheviot, was DOW m the
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    130 13 TRADE BALANCE WITH U.K. STILL NOT FAVOURABLE MALAYA'S balance of trade with the United Kingdom, which was slightly unfavourable m January, deteriorated further m the following month. This largely resulted :'i >m lower Malayan exports of rubber, vegetable oils and spices to Britain, detailed statistics just issued reveal. In February.
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    737 14 HONOURS EVEN IN SCHOOLBOY SOCCER CLASSIC Goalkeepers Take The Li mci i ght By KEN TOFT NORTH Malayan Schools Combined and their Southern counterparts drew one-all m their annual soccer match played at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Ihg gMM provided a fair quota of thrills but generally it fell below
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    54 14 Mun Fook: D. Nonis, Rim C hoon. J. Harvey, Kirn Swee, V Krishnan. Reserves: Robin Chan, Wing Kee. Seevaratnam. Paul Shim, Palaniappan. SEEN here are the North (right) and South schooinoy teams wno met m ineir annual soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. The game ended
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    327 14 SEREMBAN, Wed.— The Negri league soccer season was ushered m last evening under conditions which did not reflect a happy augury for the present season. The opening match between last year's champions, Negri Sembilan Indian Association and Seremban Rang#rs almost ended m a fiasco, l
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    175 14 LONDON. April 23 (Reuter) Prom and re'.c;a: n problems m the second division of the English fool > :T-;e were p .rt: Iv -i t- i.y n N tts C inty oca: B \<r .m R. ver.- 2-0 m NotTr.e win -e.mt that Nofs Owaatj had
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    71 14 RAJAJI Sport? Club will meet Indian Brotherhood Association m the S A FA. Division 3A league soccer match at Gevlanc Stadium today. The team will ho selected from: G. Mucunth an. P. a llajid P Thangavalu. P. S. Maniam. M Sintha. F. Manappan, T Nadarajah. V Ramanathan. X
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    266 14 COLONEL W. Trevor Jones yesterday as the jjuest of Mr. Nishimura, 7th Dan from the Kodokan, Tokyo, paid a visit to the Singapore Judo Club. Speaking as an old Judoka. Colonel Trevor Jones it was a great honour to be asked to come along
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    125 14 SINGAPORE Traction Cornoar. y annexed full points at the expense of Hongkong Bank m a SBIIFA Div 1 league match played at River Valley Road yesterday. The score was 2-1. However, it was the Bankers who scored first to lead 1-4 at half time through Vivian
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    35 14 BREWERIES Sports Clut> beat Sime Darby by three goals to nil m the Division One Business Houses soccer league fixture played at the S C.C. padang Scorers were: Ali Ahamad (2) and Isnin
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    141 14 POPE TO RACE IN MACAO GRAND PRIX FREDDIE POPE, one of the Colony's leading racing personalities, will compete m the Fourth Macao Grand Prix to be held on November 16 and 17. Pope, who was a participant m last year's Macao Grand Prix, expressed confidence he would do well this
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    616 14 It's time to pick Colony's best cagers On eve of his departure, Sam Fox says... WITH Singapore's biggest basketball tournament successfully concluded last night, now is the time for the Singapore Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation to pick between 25 and !>."> boys to represent Singapore m the next Asian Games.
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    142 14 Youth Centre Basketball The Singapore Youth Sports Centre basketball tournament which began two months ago came to a successful conclusion last night at the Happy World Stadium. Following are the final placings: MEN Div. 1: 1 Thong Kens. 2 Lam Hin Lee. 3 Chin Woo. 4 Jm Hoc. Div. II:
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    102 14 THE following are the Semi-Final matches for the M.C.F.A. Cup to be played on April 28. Northern section: Selangor vs Penang at Kuala Lumpur. Referee: Mr. Lee Pak Tong. Southern section: Singapore vs. Negri Sembilan at Singapore. Referee: Mr. Chong Lian Sin. The dates for the Cup
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    89 14 GLASGOW, April 23 (Reuter) Wiilie Woodburn, the former Glasgow Rangers and Scotland centre-half who was suspended indefinitely by the Scottish Football Association referees committee m September, 1954, is free to play football again. Today the committee considered Woodburn's fourth appeal and announced they had lifted the
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    150 14 A Test For West Indies' Newcomers LONDON, April. 21 (APl— The West Indies cricket selectors decided today to give the team's newcomers a chance to show their form m the first match of the tour a two-day friendly match at Eastbourne starting tomorrow. Wesley Hall, 19-year-old fast bowler and aggressive
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    206 14 SARCELLE'S FIRST DEFEAT LOXDOX. Apr. 23. (Reuter). Mr. Keith Mason's filly Sarcelle, who has been a strong ante-post favourite for The Newmarket 1.000 Guineas and Epsom Oaks, was beaten out a pjace on her season's debut at Kcmpton Park here today Running m the 1.000 Guineas Trial Stakes over seven
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    61 14 NEW YORK, April 23 (Reuter) Hamilton Richardson and Herb Flam would be the United States' official representatives at Wimbledon this year, the American Lawn Tennis Association announced today Althea Gibson and Louise Brough would be the official American players m the women's events. Shirley Fry, who
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    59 14 ROYAL Air Force Seletar Polytechnics beat General Headquarters by 77 runs at Seletar yesterday. RAF Seletar 127 for seven declared. (Fiern 48 n.o. Darnell 18 and Baker 15). GHQ 50. (Fiern three for 3 and Culkin three for 9). In another match played at Tengah, Nee Soon Garrison
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    72 14 SYDNEY (Xcv o nth Wales): Ann! 24. -I-.. fg£ announced that the a Racing Club, the Sydney 1 Cub and the Brisban. 1 Club will work t< -ether Stage a scries of international stake races to be run m Me bourne en Deocmbt r 7 Sydney Cn
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    134 14 Diamond Jubilee Promoted DIAMOND Jubilee who scored a hands' m< t l T< length win i ret seven lurlongs on the last day i Singapore rac< r- sent up to Class Thr Class Four, according I the latest Straits Racing Association ami ndm< nt i:st. Following i.s the complete list
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    34 14 Governor's Cup For Next S'pore Race Meet TUB "*»l '■'•■v: Stakes and a^>W f n c H h Class Orar S^saJ 77 6 furlongs or at^si nm m *3 Class Two: ut rg. 2
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