Singapore Standard, 13 May 1957

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  • 31 1 Singapore Standard __^B 41LGER STANDARD ***** (5 lines) POLICE 2400 it iH 1 FIRE BRIGADE 2811 GENERAL HOSPITAL 2414 I Ml. >»• 313 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1957 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 198 1 Mummy please come home A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy, Teng Chong Sing, -f/rdav appealed to his mother "wherever you are IS AUK. Chong Sing's mother, Chong Thye, left her house m Lorong 27, Geylang, Singapore eight days ago Also gone with his mother arc two
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  • 77 1 ;bbed Singapore of r.rv In :he HK-Singapore mat<;h rer the vsvk-end at l" padang. Stumps were lirn at 6.20 p.m. with Si:i)ore needing oniy fear is to win with three wics m hand. ICORES: Hongkong 129 and Singapore 151 and 72 for t JaJan Besar
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  • 22 1 May 12 (Reut?r) Party tocay ■Hd a net gain of 111 6 r m local elections week m E:ig- iles.
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  • 66 1 WASHINGTON. May 12 (Reuter) The United States Atomic Energy Commission announced yesterday that it was sending five technical experts to Japan, Formosa and the Philippines. The scientists would be experts "m various aspects of the peaceful applications of atomic energy," the Commission said. The special
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  • 20 1 MANY cattle have been killed In Elsztyn. Northeast Poland by myriads of flies of microscopic size. Reuter
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  • 502 1 Second Victim Reported 'Flu Epidemic Enters 2nd Week ANOTHER child is believed to have died of 'flu m Singapore as the epidemic enters its second week. His death was reported on Thursday after he was suffering from hUh fever that night. The child is Wong Toon Neg. 9. of Monk's
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  • 39 1 MR. ROGER CHORLEY. son of Lord Chorley, and a member of a five-man British climbing expedition m the Himalayas, has been struck down with paralysis, according to a letter received m Katmandu from the expedition. Reuter.
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  • 330 1 U.S. CONSULTS HER ALLIES Test Zones Are Proposed WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuter) The United States is seeking to persuade Russia to accept arms reduction and inspection m a test area somewhere m central and Eastern Europe, officials here said yesterday. They said the
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  • 55 1 NEW DELHI, May 12 (Reuter) Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, will visit Cairo on June 15 for talks with President Nasser, an Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman said here today. The day before Mr. Nehru will stop over m Damascus where he will meet President
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  • 37 1 A MILAN court has ruled that a husband Is not guilty of abandoning his wife if he builds a wall through the middle of his home and lives on the other side of it. Reuter
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  • 25 1 THE official North Vietnamese newsDaper Nhamdan said on Sunday that Soviet President Klementi Voroshilov will "shortly" visit North Vietnam. Peking Radio reported.- AP
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  • 120 1 TUC Won't Contest By-election THE SINGAPORE Trade Union Congress will not contest the by-election at Cairnhill. This was unanimously agreed upon at last night's special meeting of the representatives' council of the TUC which met behind closed doors for five hours at their premises at Towner Road. Earlier Mr. S.
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  • 27 1 AN official source said m Cairo yesterday that unofficial Anglo-Egyptian talks were under way for a resumption of commercial relations between the two countries. Reuter.
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  • 23 1 ADA MAIERO. 19. a wine merchant's assistant, overbalanced and fell into a vat of red wine and was drowned. Reuter.
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  • 200 1 'SAVE OUR JOBS' PLEA TO TUNKU AND BOYD KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A telegram was sent tonight by the Federation War Department Civil Staff Association to the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, and the Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, m London to include m their constitutional talks, plans for the future
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  • 113 1 JAMESTOWN, Virginia. May 12 (AP) British ambassador Sir Harold Caccia today warned a U.S. audience: "Do not miscalculate, as others have done, and count without the British/ The British, he said. have a "determination never to admit defeat, either m war or m peace. Never. Never.
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  • 131 1 Bandits Shoot Planter In Kulai Ambush PRESENCE of mind saved the European Assistant manager of the Kulai Oil Palm Estate, Mr. G. S. Walker from being shot dead by two communist terrorists m Kulai, Johore, on Friday morning. Mr. Walker was on an inspection tour of the estate when two
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  • 258 1 Formosan Base Makes Reds See Red 'U.S. ACTION IS PROVOCATION' PEKING, May 12, ißeuter)— The Communist Chinese Government said yesterday the stationing of guided missiles on Taiwan was "another serious provocative action of the United States Government m persistently pursuing its policy of carrying out aggression against China and aggravating
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  • 140 1 Lack Of Rubber Threatens Factories RIO DE JANEIRO, May 12 (AP) One major tyre factory is shutting down and others are threatened with closing because of the lack of rubber m this one-time rubber capital of the world. The Firestone plant has already closed. Others, including Italian-owned Pirelli are reaching
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  • 64 1 TUNIS, May 12 (Reuter)— A bull ran amok m the streets of Tunis yesterday trampling a baby to death and goring about ten people. The animal escaped from the Tunis slaughterhouse and rushed through the streets of the European section. It also wrecked several shops
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  • 96 1 New Law On R.I. Reserves JAKARTA, May 12 (Reuter). The Government will ask parliament this week to temporarily exempt the Bank of Indonesia of its obligation under law to hold 2. fixed percentage of gold and foreign exchange against money m circulation. Finance Ministry sources said today. A bill will
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  • 59 1 'RECOGNISE RED CHINA' EVATT MELBOURNE. May 12 (Reuter) Doctor Herbert Evatt, Leader of the Australian opposition, told a Labour Party rally here today that Australia should recognise China. He said this should be done "not because we- aeree with China's internal methods of government but- because we cannot exclude a
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  • 58 2 SUDBURY, Ontario. May 12 (AP) School inspector Bernhard Hoy has become the father of twins for the fourth time. "There's nothing so good as a baby m the house,'' he said after the latest arrivals two boys were born to Mrs. Hoy. They have 11
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  • 103 2 Court Told Of Secret Reports SPY TRIAL CAIRO, May 12 iMm Allegations that secret ports were prepare abfl Egyptian army p. factories, navy m M and plans for blc r I Suez Canal were madetsfl at' tho trial of 20 wcpW including eight Briton charges of spying. Four of the
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  • 37 2 AMSTERDAM. 3W (Rcuter) About 200^ paper and news ag I torial chiefs and f I dents irom many o. world's lr :riin? < .-tnBJ here on Tuesday fO M^ day study of editor- blems. -^B
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  • 303 2 The Ra'ayat Have A Plac e In Free Malaya Like The Indians, They Can Be Progressive, Dynamic KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Malayan ra'ayat can be a progressive, productive and dynamic force m the new independent Malaya, said Minister for Agriculture, Inche Abdul Axis bin Ishak, m a broad- cast over
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  • 59 2 X"rBr Ml*.,**| married mi n I yesterday. 1 I ./he bride, the f, J Miss Salami Hajj &J1 is a staff nurse of G~i ral Hospital. Sin«JJ| while the croom tarhed to the editor! i department of fta i Melayu. Mnr( > than 300 &M attended a
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  • 139 2 Malaya Is Not For The Malays Alone, He Says PENANG. Sun. The Minister for Local Government, Housing and Town Planning. Inche Suleiman bin Dato Abdul Ranman, today flayed the Malay Congress for endeavouring to make independent Malaya a country solely for the Malays. "The various races living m this country,
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  • 59 2 NEW YORK, May 12, (AP) The world's first nuclearpowered merchant ship is expected to enter service early m 1960 Construction gets underway early next year m a U.S. shipyard. The ship, costing US$4O million, will differ little from vessels now m service. The nost obvious change
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  • 198 2 BANGKOK, May 12, (Reuter)— Two thousand five hundred Thai monks lit joss sticks and candles before the golden image of the standing Buddha and said prayers at the opening today of a week-long celebration of the 25th centenary o the Buddhist era. Prince Dhani Niwat
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  • 86 2 Labour Unrest JOHORE BHARU, Sun. The Commission of Inquiry into labour unrest at the Pineapples Canning Industry will meet next at 9.30 a.m. on Friday at the Johore State Council Chamber m the Secretariat Building. The hearing will continue through May 17, 18, 19 and l! 0.
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  • 171 2 A Mammoth Procession On Tuesday THE Singapore Regional Centre of the World Fellowship of Buddhists will organize a grand procession to wend its way through main streets of the Colony, on Tuesday night, to celebrate the 2.500 th Birthday pf Lord Buddha Sakya Muni. The procession will start from Empress
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  • 71 2 STOCKHOLM, May 12 (AP) British press reports of a romance between 20-year-old Princess Birgitta of "Sweden and' a Swedish ice hockey star evoked a flood of denials here today Birgitta is the pretty younger sister of Princess Mar- Raretta, whose reported J imcc with the British J|
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  • 26 2 TAIPEI. May 12 (AP)— Chinese Reds fired 42 shells at Quemoy today but caused no damage or casualties, the Defence Ministry reported.
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  • 76 2 THE Singapore Indian Fine ur l Societ > r Proposes to esA a^ r> an Academ y of Indian Arts Dance and Music, its President, Mr. C R Dasaratha Raj. said yesterday. Mr Raj was speaking at a big tea party given by the Society at th
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  • 118 2 Delay Worries Normal Trained Teachers THE DELAY m the inclusion of Normal Trained teachers into the Singapore Education Service SalaryScale, is annoying Colony teachers. Secretary of the Singapore Teacher's Union. Mr X S Williams told the Standard yesterday, that the Minister for Education had recognized and agreed to allow Normal
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  • 216 3 FEDERATION POLICE PROBE... h ou 3 U AL UM UR Sun Singopore has become the "clearing here toda' Federation, police authorities said li^hoH^/f ati n F°i lice source told the Standard that it had been firmly established that a powerful ring of "fence-men" had been set
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  • 224 3  -  JUDGE FINE INADEQUATE, SAYS ALOR STAR. Sun. Mr. Justice Hill yesterday set aside a $600 fine imposed by Alor Star magistrate on Anffin bin Ibrahim, a retired Police Constable and substituted six months' imprisonment without option of a fine. The judge
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  • 125 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Mr. Leong Yew Koh, visited Kluang yesterday. Addressing teachers and students ol Chong Wan High School, Mr. Leong explained the, meaning ot independence. He urged tnem to encourage their elders to become Federal ciiizens to earn the
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  • 123 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. More than 4,000 people representing all different racial groups today staged an anti-Communist rally m Bidor, Perak, and swore they would always oppose Communism. The Mentri Besar, Perak. urged them to be united m their determination to fight the Communist terrorists until
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  • 72 3 KUALA KaNGSAR, Sun. Sultan Sir Yusuf Jzzuddin Shah and the Raja Perempuan. the Raja Muda and Consort, were among the guests at last night's charity dance held m the Idris Club. The amount realised from the sales of tickets has not yet been known, but auction
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  • 53 3 PENANG, Sun. The Penang branch of the National Union of Teachers at its annual general meeting yesterday picked five delegates to attend the annual N.U.T. conference to be held here m August. They are: Messrs. D.S. Ramanathan, Yeoh Seng Hong, Ng Kam Chong, N. Patkunam and
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  • 78 3  -  Mayor says PENAXG. Sun. The mayor of George Town, Mr. G.H. Goh said last night that the American Universities Club of Malaya could be of assistance m helping Malayans to overcome any difficulty m their march towards independence. Proposing the toast to the club at its
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  • 29 3 CALGARY, a three-year-old lion, shipped to the London Zoo as a gift from the Zoo m Calgary, Alberta, was found dead m his cage yesterday. Reuter.
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  • 62 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Che Rafaeh binte Bachok. wife of the District Officer Kluang. today presented certificates and prizes to the successful competitors m the recent World Health Week competition. The following are the prize winners: Poster competition Lee Siew Kok (Government English School). Wong Kuan Chin
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  • 49 3 P. SAMUEL, a lorry driver, Choo Moo, a lorry attendant and Hang Swee Fang, a welder, all employees of the Singapore City Council were acquitted m the Johore Bahru Sessions Court yesterday on a charge of attempting to steal 12 unserviceable batteries, the property of the Council.
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  • 146 3 PENANG, Sun.— Dr. N. K. Menon. Chairman of the Settlement Committee for Education, Health and Social Welfare, said yesterday it was stupid and foolish to say that Government intended to destroy Chinese culture and education. Dr. Menon, who was speaking to members of
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  • 113 3 THE Christian Brothers' Old Boys' Association (Singapore) held a dinner to celebrate its 28th Founder's Day on Saturday night at St. Joseph's Institution. The function had been specially arranged to do honour <o St John Baptist De La Salle and the Christian Brothers of the Order. More
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  • 211 3 MacPherson Road 'ghost' still a big draw THE make-b cli c v c shrine set up a month Hgo on the five-foot way of a dilapidated shophouse at MacPherson Road is still drawing hundreds of gamblers despite its demolition by the police last week. When a Standard reporter visited the
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  • 90 3 Islamic Association KUALA KANGSAR. Sun. A branch of the Pan-Malayan Islamic Association was formed here yesterday m the Sa'adatul Islam Club More than 200 members were present at the meeting which was presided by Dr. Burhanuddin Alhemy, the president. Election of office-bearers of this branch, the 20th, m Perak, resulted
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  • 33 3 TEE KOW, a Home Guard since 1954. was yesterday sentenced to six months' jail m the Johore Bahru Sessions Court for being m unlawful possession of five rounds of shotgun ammunition.
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    • 436 3 FASCINATING! Donald's verdict on the Far East I 4^ **ia --w > <■■ l> DONALD JAMES, 26-year-old Canadian journalist L his illhti let on Sydney. Australia, where a girl he Lt three jresra a&<> is waiting for him. Donald, who has been hitch-hiking from Winnipeg Lnada since December 83 last
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    • 279 3 Influenza j A Timely Word to Everyone NOW that influenza i 3 so prevalent, prompt steps should be taken to minimise the risk of infection. M Remember that there is no better V, protection than Nature's own powers of resistance. To maintain that resistance at th.9 highest level, important essentials
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  • 172 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Another Malay Sunday Market was opened this morning by District Officer, Mr. G. R. A. Turnbull, at Gombak Malay Settlement five miles from here. The Sunday Market, like a village weekly fair, is the result of co-operative effort among the people m
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  • 85 4 300 Came, but only 57 were taken PENANG. Sun.— Fifty seven were selected from out of 300 candidates who turned up at the Kheh Association m Burmah Road during the weekend for interview by the Federation Army Recruiting Team. Recruiting Officer, Major H. Brummell, said the response m Penang had
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  • 65 4 GERARDINE'S BIRTHDAY CAKE CAME ALL THE WAY FROM AUSTRALIA LITTLE Gerardine Linda Lim daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Lim Guan Seng, recently celebrated her first birthday with a tea party for her little friends at her home m Lorong Raja Muda, Klang. Her birthday cake shaped into a "Basket
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  • 117 4 PENANG. Sun— The 110--ton m.v. Penangr, built at Singapore for the Penang Port Commission as the first end-to-end loading: ferry, will make her maiden run between Penang and Butterworth on June 1. This was revealed today by the Chairman of the Penans: Port Commission.
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  • 347 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. President of the Federation of Malaya Society of Architects. Mr. E. G. Gardner, last night called for the formation of a Faculty of Architecture at the University of Malaya. Speaking at the society's annual dinner here. Mr Gardner said the
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  • 90 4 BATU PAHAT, fa Leong Yew Koh tion Minister V Social 'are pointed out tha*' education policy safeguard Chini and culture m th. not destroy He was speak than 300 Chinese ers from all ov. at the Chen^ Sic here. He said Malaya is cratic
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  • 228 4 Malaya Will Not h You Down, Says Sard KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Malaya will not let down architects who, despite Malayanization, care to stay anc j country during its first years of Merdeka. This assurance was given last night by the Works Minister, Inche Sardon bin Haji Zubir, whose portfolio
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  • 14 4 THE Geoi School will by the Re=: Penang, Mr. R. P Thursday.
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    • 1096 4 Standard cttlmcut&c Information at a Glance •AiiAAs\ASia RI'BY: Apartment for Women ROYAL: Shrimati 420 (Hindustani) 3|l ij^pilfWMl 11 p Pe m ra M3£araSi CEkW: M«ny Havers to Cross B6&WM i ym GRWI): Theodora Empress 3. 7 i 3° and 9 30 P m gggf mm m. f lWiFm\ mmm nd
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  • 408 5 Ktyles Co-eds Talking Fashion with LANE LuJfSXOCKDIOr a I o b\iouJ=ly coined so me embittered male— coniurrd up pictures Liny, but so dowdy. L n unmrn. who were U too intent on learnto bother with such Line frivolities as Ls or hair-dos. Possitho<; ullrue "bloods" thP nineties had a case,
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  • 8 5 Just nice for a candid shot. of Lola
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  • 249 5  -  TERRY PILLAY m aH Woman world BY \\o hi? events rormng up jliis month promise to fe not only a lot of fun t ■,i goodlj amount oi lirs and cents to fill the winL monej bags of I heritable organizaI- m Singapore. I "ARTISTS I Ball
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  • 652 5 For the dainty-footed JX THF cool interior of Maganlal Nagindas c o m Arab Street, with its huge rolls of gleaming velvets suspended from the ceiling like so many overgrown multi-coloured lanterns, I inspected a range of newly-arrived Indian slippers and shoes with jewel-like colours that will
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  • 594 5  - Meeting the People PAT RODDY with Laura designs and holds fashion shows Qingapore is a small but quite an active social hub full of personalities, whom you may have seen often but cannot place who they are. Many are passing through Singapore and you may have met them m the
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    • 645 6 'THERE are points m the address given by the President of Vietnam, Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem, to the National Press Club at Washington that apply to this country as well. He said the communists had taken advantage of a situation which found some Asians willing to accept totalitarian
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    • 254 6 Superintendent of Census of the Federation disclosed that during the last ten years there was a considerable flow of people from the mainland Into Singapore. This drift south was due to the Emergency and economic reasons. The Emergency and the resettlement scheme uprooted many people who either drifted
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  • 811 6  - Season for Union Talks Kenneth Harris **y •^vvww\v\\\vvv\xwvi\v\vwvv'* LONDON one might call the British "conference season" opened at Easter, and from now on until early October, every \veekend will see a number of trades union conferences. Each union will work its way through its own agenda of reports and resolutions,
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  • 642 6  -  Aster Gunasekera pONFERENCES dealing with rubber and tin are at all times of vital importance to this country. The one to be held m London shortly is of more than ordinary interest to the rubber trade m general and to Singapore packers m particular
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  • 601 6 Future of the Colinjß LONDON EXPERTS m Whitehall are studying two major issues affecting the relationship between Britain, the colonies and the Commonwealth. The first deals with the future of the Colonial Office. The second deals with the financing of the newly independent Commonwealth countries. As the process
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    • 337 6 Sir —Re the controversy over the Malayanisation of the Singapore Harbour Pilots Association, does the Minis ter of Transport think that shipping companies are going to be overjoyed at the idea of a man with a Local Master's Certificate, (whose qualification only allows him to take a glorified
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    • 185 6 Sir It is surprising to say the least that the Trade Union Congress may be nominating their President Mr. S. Jaganathan to contest the by-election In Cairnnill. If memory is correct Mr. Jaganathan's resignation from the Labour Front was to quote his exact words as published. Be like
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  • 471 6 NICOSIA 'PHE island of Cyprus seems 1 still to be heaving a huge sigh of relief. As one walks through the crowded streets, busy again as they were before the two-year nightmare began, as one sees throngs of soldiers unarmed and m civilian clothes with cameras over their shoulders
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  • 243 7 'Martian' Was A Farmer's Wife AMIENS, Northern France, May 12 (Reuter) Excited villagers near here who reported a flying saucer hovering over their village last night were told today that what they saw was a farmer's wife walking over a hill carrying a lantern. The Police Chief of Albert a
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  • 86 7 LONDON, May 12 (Reuter) Lord Chorley British Labour Peer, said last night that he did not think it very realistic to expect the British Government to give up the hydrogen bomb tests at Christmas Island this summer. Opening a discussion at the ninth general conference of
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  • 36 7 THE Japanese Police said m Tokyo yesterday eleven passencers. including six primary school students, were injured when a passenger bus crashed into a rice field m Akita Prefecture m northern Japan. Reuter
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  • 246 7 'Tension Can Be Eased Through Normal Channels WASHINGTON, May 12, (UP) —U. S. officials today were cool toward the new effort by Russian Communist Party boss Nikita S. Khruschev for a Big Four summit meeting. They also shied away from his suggestion that the Soviet
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  • 75 7 SPARTANBURG, South Carolina, May 12 (AP) A 27--year-old woman who reportedly swallowed everything but the medicine cabinet appeared m good condition yesterday, police said. Officers said Mary Hefner, taken to the hospital on Friday night, claimed she had swallowed at home 60 or 70 pills, a bottle
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  • 59 7 photo. ONCE known actress Liliane Harvey seems very happy to show this box full of lively snails to Franco-American Eddie Constantino, which will make m a few hours a most delicious dish, for those naturally who appreciate these eatable molluso. They are both assisting »t th«»
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  • 178 7 AMMAN, May 12 (Reuter) The Jordanian newspaper Al Urdon yesterday claimed there had been an international plot to overthrow the Kings of Jordan, Saudi Arabia. Iraq and Libya and to establish Communist regimes m their place. It accused the Soviet Union, Egypt, Syria and
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  • 72 7 PHILADELPHIA, Msy 12 (AP) Three young children were suffocated m their blazing hom e yesterday and police accused a 17-year-old uncle of setting the fire m anger because he couldn't find a pair of trousers. Police said the uncle, David Thomas, set the fire m
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  • 65 7 TOKYO, May 12 (UP)— Communist China's Defence Minister Marshal Peng Tehhuai said yesterday Chinese and Indonesian armies are "close comrades m arms m their struggle to defend their national independence." The veteran commander of the Chinese forces m the Korean war made the statement at a banquet
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  • 90 7 133 Hours Non-Stop At The Piano CREWE, England. May 12 (Reuter) Sandy Strickland, 40-year-old Bolton engineer, last night broke the non-stop piano playing record of Frenchman Robert Sergil, by playing continuously without sleep for 133 ours at a theatre here. "Syncopating Sandy," father of two children, sat down at the
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  • 34 7 RICHARD Noel Shelley. 36, of Rio Dell, California, who has predicted "the untimate catastrophe will occur m 1957.' was killed on Saturday when a weakened brH 0^ miiancoH under his truck. A.P.
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  • 28 7 RAINFALL, heavier and sooner than expected, put a virtual halt yesterday to forest fires that have seared the north-eastern United for the past week. Reuter
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  • 153 7 LONDON, May 12 (AP) Two British Sunday newspapers reported a blossoming romance between Sweden's 20-year-old Princess Birgitta and Swedish ice hockey star Sven Johansson. The Sunday dispatch Stockholm correspondent said, "an engagement has been rumoured." But he added that any romance between the beautiful
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  • 183 7 CAIRO, May 12 (UP)— An Egyptian witness m the re-opened espionage trial of four Britons and 12 others said yesterday that the alleged leader of the "spy ring" James Swinburn, had asked for information on Soviet supplies m Egypt and Egyptian missions to Russia. The trial
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  • 160 7 'PROTEST' SHIP TO SAIL TOKYO. May 12. (UP) A "protest ship" of the Kochi Prefectural Chapter of the Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs will sail for the Christmas Island waters from Uraga port here on May 20, it was announced today. The Kochi Chapter disagreed with the decision
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  • 154 7 OSNABRUECK, Germany, May 12 (AP) A West German doctor claimed last night he has been instrumental m treating 200 Soviet citizens who allegedly were made ill by the after-efTects of Russian A-bomb tests. Dr. Sigmune Schmidt, a 43--year-old doctor m the village of Vorden,
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  • 37 7 MUSIC lovers and stars of the music and theatrical professions, attended a funeral service on Saturday for Ezio Pinza. former opera star, m the Protestant Cathedral of St. John the Divine m New York. A.P.
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  • 135 7 'Woman Of Our Dreams' Contest SICE, May 12 (Reuter) Nice's third Bachelors Congress here next month will end with a cala at which spinsters and bachelors elect the "woman of our dreams" But to qualify for the prize of a trip to Corsica, the "woman of our dreams" will have
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  • 66 7 BOGOTA, Columbia. May 12 (AP) Colombia rapidly shifted into normal yesterday as deposed President Gustavo Rojas Pinille flew into exile and a new government set about to correct his mistakes. An official communique said Gen. Rojas departed on Friday night for Spain. However, he was reported
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  • 23 7 OUTSTANDING success m producing a dozen types of paper, including newsprint, from bamboo was reported m Savannah. Georgia, on Saturday. A.P.
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    • 776 8 ANGLO-FRENCH TRADING CO., LTD. Tel. *****/6. *****/4 132/6 Robinson Road THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE NORTH AMERICAN SERVICI Te Halifax, Montreal, Boston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia Cult Port! Spore P.S'ham Penang ULYSSES w.^mcrrtfre •-r*.-.-. 7/15 lune 16 lune 17/18 |wne AENEAS 19/24 |uly 25 luly 26/27 |uly Carrier* option to proceed
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    • 1146 8 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD «c CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (Incorporated m Singapore) (12 lines) "SJ" THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAILINCS fro LIVERPOOL. CLASCOW LONOON CONTINENTAL PORTS Carriers option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo (with liberty to proceed via Sucx or Panama or Cape ot Cood Hope)
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    • 846 8 MITSUI IJ} LINE S'porv Pi'hom Penonp FOR JAPAN Aiumason Maru for Moil, Kobe, Yokohomo vio Hong Kong ...In Port Nosuson Man tor Moji. Kobe. Yokohomo 19 Moy Bonsei Maru for Moji, Kobe, Osaka, Yokohama 31 May 28 May Hokoneton Moru for Yokohama. Nogoya. Kobe via Manilo and Puson 20 May
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    • 533 8 EAST ASIATIC jjjj OUTWARDS Soiling* tot Bangkok and/ o f O Penong PS'h On "BOGOTA" "SELANDIA- 16/17 May 18/19 M BANGKOK ONLY HOMEWARDS Soilings for Genoa. Antwerp RoHf Hamburg, Copenhagen. Gothenburg, (hi* S'pow p^- how *"JAVA" ""mo, J "SARGODHA J "LALANDIA" u/um,,^ NOT LOADING SINGAPORE. SPACE AVAILABLE SINCAPORE KUALA LUMPUR
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  • 361 9 L order to overcome 1 ,f the complaints J? arfdencles m the ,ni7ition of trade S^roofhout Malaya, Malayan Advertisers LeiiUM recently arZa a meeting with JVinrlpal promoters of g fl B R Ratcliffe, Sidrnt of the Associa- said I considerable a«urr ot PWJJI to- m
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  • 300 9 THE market for copra for shipment to India reted comparatively idle during the week and, due ack of shipping instructions, some May shipment sold back to packers at $26jj per picul with small business (also for May) around this level. 4 he weekly f
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  • 30 9 i p.nd svb- complete m a with notepad is bein^ produced ish company. The •■.ted by insertis into small ho>s nd moving them up an add up to
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  • 15 9 MILLION ORDER )N dollar order for has heen placed ernment of Vc ieB i ironworks.
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  • 471 9 Federation Aware Of Looking Overseas For Capital By A Market Correspondent THE Federation Government has shown that it is fully alive to the fact that as local capital is inadequate for its industrial needs, Malaya must look overseas for capital, creating and maintaining conditions to attract investors, according to share
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  • 187 9 PENANG, Sun.— Mr. P. N. Ritchie, retiring director of Islay, Kerr and Co., Ltd., agents for the P. and O. and British India Steam Navigation Co., leaves Penang by the Chusan on May 18 for Britain after nine and a half years m Penang. Liked by all
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    64 9 MR. J. L. FAGAN leaves Singapore soon to take up his appointment of manager of the Orient Insurance Company of North America. He was formerly the service office manager gapore, on Friday. Standardpic shows (from left) Miss D. Tan, manager's secretary; Mr. C. Y. Chow, chief clerk of the Automobile
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  • 84 9 EXPECTED TODAY M Airways MLI2I 0955 KL/MAL M. Airways MLIOI 1245 PG/KL M. Airways ML4OI 151f KUCH M. Airways MLIO2 1920 PG/MAL M. Airways MLIO7 1835 XL M. Airways KLB2B 0850 JAK Garuda 0A372 1140 JAK M. Airways ML.I.M 2040 PG M Airways MLIO9 2020 XL Caltex PS
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  • 623 9 Company Reports Issued BUSINESS reported done m shares from May 4 to 10: INDUSTRIALS: Consolidated Tin Smelters Ords. 33/6 to 34/3, Federal Dispensary $2.04, Eastern United Assurance $30.25, Fraser Neave Ords. $2.38 to $2.40 to $2.37*. Gammons $2.00 to $1.96, Hammer Co. $2.15 to $2.14, Hongkong
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  • 51 9 of the company's branch m Singapore before this promotion. The company save a farewell dinner to Mr. and Mrs. Fagan at the Cathay Restaurant, Sin- Singapore service office, Mrs. Fagan. Mr. Fagan, Mr. J T. Lieu, manager for the Hongkong service office, and Mr. S. S. Phoon, Chinese
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  • 264 9 DRY cargo tramp ship rates are now at the lowest level m about 18 months, the U.S. Journal of Commerce repm-ted. The business newspaper said an abundance of available tonnage and the decreased requirements of bulk cargo shippers have forced charter prices down
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  • 45 9 A NEW shipbuilding company is beine formed m South Australia to build tugs and other small ships. It will be known as the Adelaide Ship Construction Company Pty. Ltd. It will use most economical overseas methods of small ship construction, at Port Adelaide-
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 195 9 piToF BURMA SHIPPING BOARD s. "PYIDAWAYE" ARRIVING SINGAPORE 20fh MAY, 1957. SAILING FOR RANGOON 23rd MAY, 1957. cn 9"s Corgoes accepted for Pt. Swettenhom, Penang, Mergui, Moulmein Rangoon Please Contact: ■NJERNATIONAL SHIPPING AGENCY 9<"t, tor UNION OF BURMA SHIPPING BOARD -J 1 N eil Rood. Sinoopore 2. Tel. *****. B
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    • 366 9 NOTICES The Bankruptcy Ordinance (CHAPTER 11) In the High Court of the Colony of Singapore Island of Singapore TN BANKRUPTCY No. 583 of L 1956. Re: MUTHAYAH ARUMUGAM of No. 315-J. Potong Pasir, Singapore, 12. Receiving Order made 14th I December. 1956. Date of Adjudication 14th December. 1956. Date and
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    • 549 9 NOTICES Bankruptcy Ordinance (CHAPTER 11) he High Court of the olony of Singapore sland of Singapore \NKRUPTCY No. 472 J. WOODFORD of No. Kampong Java Road, apore, 9. 'iving Order made 14th Lber. 1956. i of Order of Summary ilstratlon 18th February. of Adjudication 14th tber. 1956. and place of
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    • 625 9 NATURALISATION TVOTICE is hereby given that the following persons whose names and addresses are given below are applying to the Governor for naturalisation and that any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the farts to the Chief
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  • 657 10 Sino-Malays Hold Federation Selection SINGAPORE'S Sino-Malays did extremely well to hold a Federation Selection three-all m yesterday's soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium. In fact, with a little luck and accuracy, they would have won for they had by far the easier chances. A
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  • 79 10 TIME robbed Serangoon Sports Club of victory against Singapore Cricket Club m a friendly match played on the Serangoon ground yesterdaySerangoon. batting first, were out for 183 runs (T. Rajendram 46, Hadley 44 and Kong Weng 38>. Cricket Club were soon m trouble against the deadly bowling of
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  • 382 10 ILFORD, May 12 (Reuter)— Denis Atkinson, West Indies vice-captain and medium pace bowler, took eight wickets for 58 runs to help his side dismiss Essex for 197 on the opening day of their three-day match here. The tourists had replied with 44
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  • 149 10 Essex Ist Inns G. Barker c Walrott b Atkinson 34 L. Savill c As^arali b Worrell 0 B. Taylor c Asgarali b Atkinson 58 D. Insolp c Alexander b Gilohrist 14 T. Bailey o Smith b Atkinson 21 M. Bear st Alexander b Atkinson 17 G. Smith c Asgarali
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  • 632 10 Fred Eu's Pandas Halt Braves' Winning Streak WHAT began as a promising: start when they scored four runs m the initial inning concluded on a bleak and galling note for the champion Consulate Braves as Fred Eu's Pandas stopped them 8-5 m a league softt&ll tilt yesterday. The ball game
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  • 34 10 LONDON. May 12 (Reuter) English League footballers are almost certain to get higher wages and more bonus and talent money next season under a new charter proposed by the League Management Committee.
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  • 34 10 HURON, South Dakota, May 12 (UP)— Ken Rosewall beat K. Pancho Gonzales m a professional tennis match last night, 6-3 and 6-4. narrowing Gonzales edge m the current nationwide tour to 45-24.
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  • 33 10 JAKARTA, May 12 (Reuter) An Indonesian national team beat a visiting Chinese national team here by two goals to zero m a fast soccer match before a capacity crowd of 80,000.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 521 10 S |i^* 3{ d* q Shaw thaw d ttfit (BtM »haw ATTRACTIONS iASr4SHOWS/ &^rpm6n*;| t'lftl HITCHCOCK'S "The Wrong Man" (vb> Vr^H Premiere Jz^^^^Bf _i |V y^ .^^^fl^^^^^^. ~^^H~^^. *^H^^^ '^H^ |h^^^m 1 eiizabeth^tayl6rißO*ck"huoson james oeanw! TJ UJ Season From Tomorrow > S S SHOWS DAILY: 1— 5 and 845 p.m.
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    • 317 10 l PHONE 21 »nfj SoTpEONi OPENS today! 21 ,1 a.m. 1.45. 1 15 M< and) J r "^j^^BHj ESCBPV'PfJ Starring Ilnch Mnrlowc •Collopn nt i~ ~2IMD BIG MIDNIGHT lONicffT JOAN OF ARC" (M < S w Tomorrow 9 a.m. "AT WAR WITH 7nT~Tir^> I J MARIA MENADO ti Q fl
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 322 10 TODAY'S QUOTATION: "Earth changes, but thy «oul and God stand sure." ROItKKT BKONMMi. MONDAY FOR bNLRYONE: This is a fa:rly good day for regular routine or relaxation, pleasure, contacts with loved ones, trips and visits. Be diplomatic with elders and with regard to parental interests VOl'R HIKTIIDATE AND BIRTHSIGN ARIKS—
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  • 90 11 VIENNA, May 11, (Router) eden K ain Pd a winning .J-0 lead over Austria m their second round European Zone Davis Cun tie when they won the doubles match here today. Sven Davidson and Ulf Schmidt, who won their singles yesterday to R ive Sweden a 2-0
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  • 885 11 England s Soccer Rules Are 'Behind Time' VERNON MORGAN probes into the "substitutes" question LONDON, May 11 (Reuter)— Britain, the founders of Association Football (Soccer) the most International sport of them all, are m danger of being called ''antiquated" and "behind the times" m their attitude towards substitutes. F r
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  • 472 11 Trueman Takes 6 for 46 L p P N 2? N ay U (Router) Freddie Trueman. Yorkshire and England fast bowler wrecked Warwickshire's™ ings today, taking six wickets i°s. 4( run s in a total of 142. •mis brought his total for the ?n a «i° n *V 3 at
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  • 134 11 BERLIN. May 11. (Reuter).— The British team m the Prague-Berlin-Warsaw" road cycling race did some light training today while rides of many other Nations took full advantage of the "Rest day' m Goerlitz, East Germany, and took things ea^y. Stan Bri't.-iin. leader of the fix-man British team,
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 50 11 [m the lead AGAIN! Aurocrctes B. Low premiums not restricted to '"one rider* 9 20^c Claim Discount available to all! *VAN MOTOR fir GENERAL UNDERWRITERS LTD 10 B'dg. 79 Anson Rd. Singapore 2. Applications from Accredited Dealers invited. j^v I M>OANS l| LUNG TONIC rSOLD BY >\LL DISPENSARIES briOtVGl STORES
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    • 1529 11 CLASSIFIED ADS DEATH MR. LIM CHEW MOH r away on 12th May 1957 4.00 a.m. leaving his wife 6 sons and 2 daughters. 3 daugh in-law. a son-in-law, and 8 grandchildren. The funeral leaves from 26 Highland Rind to Bidadqri at 5.00 p.m 13th May 1157. SITUATIONS VACANT CINGAPORE CITY
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    • 201 11 '1 fl bncr By Al Capp o/f Acr'f fttt^\r !S N -V^ /C "**tcv a, ca/t/c ~^x tdpuav/ Mucwva hollers, 7 wtt> U *CRitiC J»^l7> please.t ah wont.t ,—^\^T^ ro RA^ERBE. < l\g^gj£ M HOl.i-M.XS, 3^*^v A BEFORE irs N— -prn ''Q^tffJA ¥*V OOP By VT. Hamfjn /^~^o nr AJ_l_
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  • 946 12 FOLLOWING are weights and probable starters for all seven races for Wednesday (May 15), second day of the Selangor Turf Club May meeting. Horses Class 5, Div. l Abt. 7 Furs. 021 Siam Rice 7y 9.00 Mrs. O. M. Noordin Noordin 225 Marciano 5y
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  • 75 12 Horses Class 4, Div. I—91 9 Furs. Buitenzorg 9.00 Mont Blot II 8.13 Clever Bug 8.11 Tufton 8.10 Windsor II 8.08 French's Forest 8.07 San Fernando 8.06 Reasonable 8.04 Three Dimension 8.03 Nab II 8.02 Horses Class 4, Div. 2 9 Furs. Bright Sun 9.00 Maha Ranee
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  • 1023 12 Thrilling Finish to lnter*Port Cricket Colony Four Runs Short Of Victory IN an exciting finish to the inter-port cricket match between Singapore and Hongkong at the padang yesterday, Singapore were deprived of victory, time intervening when they were only four runs short of the target. After dismissing
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  • 291 12 Hongkong Ist Inns. 129 Singapore Ist Inns. Rose b Greenhalgh Mallett c Welch b Carnell 13 Grindrod b Birley I). Alty c Souza b Carnell 9. L. King c Welch b Carnell 10 Drlilkan st Welsh b Dhabher 14 Turner b Dhabher 9 Goodwin b Carnell 8 Kirkham c
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  • 27 12 Racing Standard Photo- Form Pictures by THIS is how they finished at Kuala Lumpur last Saturday, first Ha v «f c«i gor Turf Club May meeting. Scoops
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  • 124 12 ROME. May 11 (Router). Lew Hond. Australian holder of the Wimbledon lawn tennis title. was defeated 1 by his compatriot Mervyn Rose m a hard-fought Quarterfinal m the Italian Championships here today. Rose, playing a sparkling net game, won 7-5. 2-6, 8-1, 8-10. 6-3. I load finished his
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  • 150 12 BAM Says No" To Red China KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Badminton Association of Malaya has declined an invitation from Fed China for a series of friendly matches behind the "Bamboo Curtain" m June. Mr. Chcah Mah Sun, Secretary of the BAM said that the reason for this decision was because
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  • 125 12 Report On Thomas Cup Training KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. —Of the first batch of 12 Thomas Cup trainees, about 'our or five are likely to be dropped for the second phase of training scheduled to be held m Penang soon. This was indicated by Mr. Wee Kirn Wee. Chairman of the
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  • 82 12 SEREMRv Cup t gm wher North, b-. day. On? Chew B* Chin S e early Your.. Mustaffa In Soy lead eamo.s ai North r matches. Pu matcn r, Mm form, out < powerful him able The North made ud fo r mn 2 the McC an easy margin* ce^
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  • 60 12 SETH IS INVITED KUALA I India Seth is the I included m the iiJi badmintoto participate m ju Merdeka Ba^ships to be h< to Sept. at part ot the F endence cclebratMßi^ Other are Eddy bero. Tan Jn 0 Hock tekar and the hdoaa tie '"Querns" Yang fl and Oei
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    • 70 12 -Jjk* re S A FAST-PACED BATTLING LOVE AFFAIR BETWEEN ADE LUXE DOLL ka r AND A TWO-FISTED NEWSPAPER MAN WHOSE FORMER SWEETHEART A M G M ■S9WHI 4( dEfl It M^m\ SHAPELY SHOWGIRL, DOESN'T GIVE UP EASILY. A WONDERFUL ENTFR ■N| F^S '^^^^ki^ TAINMENT SPARKLING WITH LAUGHTER. WOxNDtK*LL ENTER- CDVCCiDY
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    • 114 12 NOMAD the bed from the country of mi v*/ \/L n'.' u i NOMAD milk powd 10 times better ■^W (ree cowl fg> 1. NUTRITIOUS N0 WWAn5 n "^Tf natural proteins, minera/s Aipw' -.>:! and vitamins In scientifically i^f a balanced proportions |^J J^JJ^Un HEALTH i /•iiadaNTß M.^W maximum healtb-gtVlng
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 43 12 Today's Sport SOCCER: Community League RAF vs Malays, Jalan Besar; SAFA Div. 2B: St. John S.C. rs Seletar F.C., Geylang; Div. 3A: Pachitan F.T. v s Setia Jeya, Farrer Park. ATHLETICS: Schools Triangular Meet; R.I. vs G.E.S.S. vs Beatty SS. at Raffles Institution.
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