Singapore Standard, 18 May 1957

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    14 1 Singapore Standard m j^Tno, sia SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1957 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon Crowds Swarm Embassy
    83 1 Crowds Swarm Embassy Protest Brifis h HBlast V \l than 10.000 CJT s hou-.KU Japan.tudents de--1 i g ainst British tr ~t> today placed :nba»v in To- i \irtual state to v- rdon thin a Iced front before .< by the i p ice -Mrs r \.ins the emL Instruc-
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    Lock icon Quarantine For Gorgon
    30 1 :r <Reuter> I Gorgon will rantine when Jerby, northdian port, toSingapore with nfluenza among 1 rew. f.rst known te cases of Influenza to ilia from Sin:r.e epidemic
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    Lock icon NEW IRAN PARTY
    19 1 I party was ■fcdin Iran en Thursday. C uij to ap•emler Moham- was over- —A. P.
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    Lock icon U.K. Plans Big Oil Port
    54 1 LONDON. May 17 (UP)"— Britain was planning a big new tanker port today following ;he decision by major international oil companies to bypass the Suez Canal with a new Mid-East pipeline. Bills to authorise three large private'.y financed projects at Milfcrd Haven on the Welsh
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    Lock icon DETERMINED
    35 1 MR. Harold Steele. 63--year-old British pacifist, yeserday said in Hongkong that he still planned to die alone in the Christmas Island area even though Britain had already carried out her first test there. Reuter.
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    Lock icon They Boxed And Nearly Killed Each Other: Duke Tells Of Battle Royal
    187 1 They Boxed And Nearly Killed Each Other: Duke Tells Of Battle Royal Battling Anne CORSHAM, Wiltshire, May 17 (Reuter)— Prince Charles has found another sparring partner for his boxing lessons in Buckingham Palace Princess Anne. Their father, Prince Philip, disclosed this yesterday when he visited the "Royal Arthur." the Royal
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    Lock icon RESCUERS REWARDED
    55 1 HONGKONG, May 17 (Reuter) The Royal Air Force today presented Captain Lo Ho. Chinese fishing junk skipper, and his crew with a sack of rice and a red envelope containing $1,000, and £62£ sterling for rescuing two British pilots from the sea off Hongkong on April 25. Red
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    Lock icon ALL SET FOR US. A-TEST
    82 1 ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nevada. May 17 (Reuter)— Prospects looked much better today for getting the atomic test, blast oil tomorrow morning after two 24-hoiya postponements. The Nevada Test Organization (N.T.0.) said its calculations indicated that wind currents would change enough to make it safe to
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    Lock icon FEWER RISKS
    34 1 THE Institute of London Underwriters announced an additional reduction on Thursday in the surcharge on war. strike, riot and civil commotion shipping risks on cargoes passing through the Suez Canal. A. P.
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    Lock icon ARMY BOSS QUITS
    23 1 GENERAL Arturo Ossorio has resigned from his post of Army Minister, the Presidential Press Office announced in Buenos Aires. Reuter
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    Lock icon CANAL USERS INCREASE
    53 1 PORT SAID. May 17 (Reuter > The Egyptian Canal Authority's daily convoys through the canal will be increased from two to three trom next Saturday because of the British decision to use the canal. The Egyptian Authority announced yesterday two convoys will sail daily from Port Said
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    Lock icon Grain Rushed To E. Pakistan
    37 1 KARACHI, May 16, (Reuter) The Pakistani Government is rushing thousands of tons of grain to 45 million people in the Eastern Province threatened by a food crisis, a Government announcement said tonight.
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    Lock icon UN TO MEET
    32 1 THE United Nations Security Council will meet on Monday at 8 D.m. it was officially announced in New York, to dispuss Suez. The meeting was requested by France.' Reuter
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    Lock icon PAPER PREDICTS BIGGER BRITISH H-BOMBS
    237 1 PAPER PREDICTS BIGGER BRITISH H-BOMBS LONDON. May 17 (Reuter) British newspapers today predicted that Britain would now explode bigger and more powerful H-bombs in the Pacific. Under a oanner headline across the Daily Mail front page "Bigger H-Bangs To Come" the newspaper's air and science reDorters said Britain's first H-bomb
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    Lock icon BEST FILM AWARD
    32 1 THE Cannes International Film Festival jury yesterday awarded the Golden Palm Leaf for the best full-length feature film to the American production "Friendly Persuasion" directed by William Wyler. Reuter
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    Lock icon Test Ship? Egypt Says 'No'
    108 1 Test Ship? Egypt Says 'No' CAIRO. May 17 (UP). Egypt served notice today she will continue to bar Israeli ships from the Suez Canal on the basis of ''Egypt's indisputable right to self-defence." The declaration came from Egyptian Director-General of Information, Abdul Kater Hattcm. commenting on reported Israeli plans to
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    Lock icon FREAK THUNDER STORM HITS K.L.
    50 1 A FREAK half-hour thunder storm swept through central and north-west pans of Kuala Lumpur yesterday afternoon and caused among other damages a brief power failure. Glass windows were shattered and Venetian blinds were ripped off from high buildings in busy Batu Road and nearby areas.
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    Lock icon 'Tube Girl' In Hospital
    233 1 Comfortably Settled Down From ANDREW ROTH LONDON, May 17: Malaya's "Tube Girl" was resting very comfortably at St. Thomas's Hospital this morning. She was still sleeping at 10 a.m. No decision has been reached about her treatment since she only had a brief examination by a
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    Lock icon Merdeka Talks – All Clear In London
    214 1 Merdeka Talks All Clear In London pNDON. May 17 (Renter) Mftlayan and British delegates today cleared away 1 remaining obstacles to iJthe South-east Asian tin "rubber producing Fedion independence within Commonwealth next Au- usually well-informed ;es said. th sides reached agrae- in principle after a of talks on unresolved B
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    Lock icon LATE SHOCK BY LIB-SOCS
    389 1  -  KEN JALLEH S. VENKAT SPLIT IN ALL-PARTY UNITY? By and No Pact To Keep Out Of Elections' TOP Liberal Socialist Assemblymen cracked the All-Party Unity Front last night by strongly denying 4 any pact or agreement made not to contest the coming by-elections." In a statement
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    Lock icon SIM DECIDES TO CONTEST CAIRNHILL
    264 1 SINGAPORE City Councillor Sim Beng Sen will contest the Cairnhill by-election whether he gets his Labour Party ticket or not. Mr. Sim's decision to contest the seat left vacant by the ex-Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall came alter several hours of coaxing by diehard Cairnhill
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    Lock icon Diet Victory Before S-E Asian Tour
    130 2 Diet Victory Before S-E Asian Tour TOKYO. May IT (UP) The three- month -old Klshi Government flrmiy established its prestige today as it defeated a Socialist no-con-fldence motion three days before Premier Nobusuke Kishi's departure for a twoweek tour of six South-east Asian nations. The vote In the House of
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    Lock icon THREE-DAY VISIT
    14 2 INDIAN Premier Nehru arrived ta Colombo yesterday on a three-day visit. Renter
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    Lock icon 'Guided Democracy Is Not Binding'
    169 2 JAKARTA. May 17 (UP)— Prime Minister Djuanda said today in his first policy address before parliament that the machinery set up by President Soekarno for his "guided democracy" was not- binding on the rest of the government. Djuanda said any advice given to the government
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    Lock icon NARROW ESCAPE FOR PREMIER
    49 2 CAMP BORDEN. Ontario. May 17 (Reuter) Mr. Louis St. Laurent. Canadian Prime Minister, narrowly escaped Injury yesterday when his car was involved in a collision and slid into a six-foot ditch. The 75-year-old Liberal leader was on an election campaign trip 50 miles from here.
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    Lock icon A Red Varsity For Overseas Students
    153 2 A Red Varsity For Overseas Students TOKYO, May 17, (UP) Communist China will establish a university for overseas Chinese in South China's leading city of Canton. Radio Peking reported today. It said the idea for such a university was first suggested by leaders of Chinese communities abroad. It gained wide,
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    Lock icon H-BOMB BLAST IS REALISTIC PEACE APPROACH
    793 2 H-BOMB BLAST IS REALISTIC PEACE APPROACH U.S. Papers Support Britain BRITAIN'S H-Bomb explosion in the Pacific was the main topic yesterday in editorials of the world's leading newspapers. The following is a summary of comments as reported by Reuter:THE NEW IORK TIMES described the British H-Bomb test in the Pacific,
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    Lock icon THEY SAW & HEARD NOTHING
    169 2 THEY SAW HEARD NOTHING FANNING ISLAND, Central Pacific, May 17 (delayed in transmission) (Reuter) The people of this Island saw. heard and felt absolutely nothing of Britain's nuclear device test on Christmas Island, only 150 miles away, on Wednesday. Air and sea temperatures remained normal. Fanning Island area only 12
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    34 2 THE Australian Prime Minister. Mr. Robert Menzies, will travel bv sea to the Commonwealth Prime Ministers" Conference in London next month on doctor's advice. It was announced in Canberra yesterday. Reuter
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    Lock icon Arms Cut: Chances Are Better
    113 2 Arms Cut: Chances Are Better NEW YORK, May 17. (Reuter) Mr. Harold Stassen, President Eisenhower's special disarmament representative, said today that the big powers were closer to an agreement "on a first step arms cut than at Easter time." Mr. Stassen returned by plane from London whpre he served as
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    Lock icon Get Ready For Next Blast
    79 2 ADELAIDE, May 17 (Reuter). More than 1,000 men at Maralinga atomic testing grounds in the South Australian desert are preparing for the next series of British atomic tests to be held there later this year, the science writer of the Adelaide Advertiser said today. Men
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    20 2 BELGIUM'S Paul-Henri Spaak was formally installed yesterday as the new Sec-retary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. U.P.
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    130 2 (cenu per i" b **4 Dore vesterda* L*+l Spot B Int. Junr I R.S.S. No 1 mi R.S.S No 2 ail R.S.S. No. 3 The prtre ol ti* local market 1> was $384 J^} (Down by V T H LONDON HI RR No 1 RSfc sSi Boas* Term.
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    Lock icon French Socialists Warn Against New 'Munich'
    233 2 PARIS, May 17, (Renter)— The French Socialist Party today issued "&soM warning to world democratic opinion" against a new "Munich" over Suet A statement published in the party newspaper Le Populaire and signed by the acting Secretary-General, M. Pierre Commin, referred to "the situation
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    Lock icon VISIT TO U.S.
    35 2 DR Konrad Wp>t Germar Ch9 will havr nr.r Preside nt Ei two meetings v, Foster Dulles, S? re 1 j State, during hi :r.^« c-fflcial visit in W: rtartinp on May 2T-?.ea»
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    34 2 HANOCH Nl of Elath I i in New York by V*l Thur-G.-.- 1 th i^ Egypt or Sauri. fere v./' Isra« passage tl Jgh trie u«r| Aqaba there J« •n(\v war." A.P.
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    Lock icon BRITON FREED
    25 2 COMMUNIST China has released a British subject held for more than six years in mainland prisons, the British-owned China Mall reported yesterday. U.P.
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    Lock icon It's Beer By The Barrels
    65 2 WELLINGTON, May 17 (Renter) New Zealand beer drinkers are amongst the world's thirstiest, according to recent statistics. Beer consumption per head has leapt 100 per cent over the last 20 years Estimated consumption per head now stands at 22 gallons per year jour gallons more
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    Lock icon FULL AGREEMENT ON ALL POINTS RAISED
    125 2 IRAQI-SAUDI ARABIAN I AIJ&- BAGDAD May 17 (Re ter) The Iraqi-Saudi Arabian summit talks on Arab affairs ended today with full agreement on all points raised, authoritative quarters said. King Saud, of Saudi Arabia, and General Nuri Al Said. Iraqi Prime Minister, and their
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      386 2 NOTICE TENDER NOTICE HTENDERS are invited for cleaning, polishing and where necessary repairing wooden floors at No. 2 Pierce Drive. Siniapore. Tenders should reach Second Secretary. Indian Commission. 31. Grange Road. Singapore by 4 p.m.. 24th May. 1957. i Give Your Memory a Holiday J^W with the Omega Seamaster Calendar
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    Lock icon You Are A Liar, Says Magistrate
    172 3 SINGAPORE Traffic Court Magistrate Mr. K.C. Chan yesterday reprimanded a motorist for telling lies in Court and fined him S5O, in default five days' jail. The motorist Janganthar Singh Of Marsilin.g Road. was found guilty of inconsiderate driving. Idria bin Yunos, a Police Constable,
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    Lock icon Famous Brain Surgeon Here
    196 3 SINGAPORE could well set up a neuro-surgery centre for South-East Asian countries, said an eminent Australian neuro surgeon yesterday. Mr. Douglas Miller, head of the department of neuro-:surgery and Dean of the Clinical School of St. Vincent's Hospital. Sydney, arrived in Singapore by BOAC Britannia. Ho
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    Lock icon 'Colony women should fly'
    47 3 MR H. N. BOUVARD, chief engineer and sales manager of the Hindustan Aircraft Factory in India left Singapore yesterday after training two Royal Singapore Flying Cluh member* in maintenance work on tb~ HT-2. The HT-2. a gift from tie Indian Government, is now
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    76 3 A HUNGARIAN woman, who left her country during the Nazi regime, yesterday flew into Singapore for her first visit. Pretty Miss Cecilia Karikas arrived in the Colony as a flight hostess of a chartered Connell Air Lines Skymaster, flying Hungarian refugees to Australia. Miss Karikas, 23.
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    Lock icon Unrest Started When New Men Came In
    753 3 Unrest Started When New Men Came In INQUIRY INTO PINEAPPLE WORKERS ROW UNREST developed among pineapple industry workers in Johore because they feared the employment of 26 "fresh hands" at one factory was aimed at breaking- them. This was told to the Commission of Inquiry which resumed its sitting in
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    Lock icon Britain's H-Bomb Test Was Most Necessary, He Says
    262 3 Britain's H-Bomb Test Was Most Necessary, He Says Airport Arrival VICE-ADMIRAL Sir Roy Dowling, Chief of the Australian Naval Staff, said in Singapore yesterday that British Commonwealth countries have now "seen way ahead for ten years" in military defences against any attack. This, he added, was the result of a
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    Lock icon Home After Ceylon Course
    77 3 CHE NYUM ALI, a senior nurse attached to the General Hospital in Mentakab, Pahang-, who had completed a one-year post-graduate train- \ng course in Ceylon under the Colombo Plan, left Singapore yesterday for home by Malayan Airways. She returned from Cevlon by Air Ceylon on Thursday
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    Lock icon Tribunal To Hear Dispute
    64 4 THE Singapore Civil Service Arbitration Tribunal, appointed to hear the dispute between government and 200 midwives, will hold its first sitting on June 3. The midwives are claiming equal pay and status as government nurses Chairman of the tribunal is Mr. K. T. Ooi. He will
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    Lock icon POISONING CASE
    26 4 A 20-YEAR-OLD woman, Ong Ah Suan, who lives in Brick Works Estate, Singapore, was admitted to hospital suffering from caustic soda poisoning last night.
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    Lock icon FIVE SERVED 147 YEARS
    69 4 FIVE Singapore Government Printing Office employees who have served 147 years between them will receive valedictory letters at a ceremony at the office on May 28. The fivp men who are due to retire soon are Enche Haji Manjor bin Abubakar, chief clerk, Mr. M. I.
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    Lock icon He Posed As Police Officer
    149 4 He Posed As Police Officer P. MUNIAPPAN. who posed as a Police officer when he saw a student pick un a handbag on the beach at Changi. landed in a Singapore Court yesterday. Muniappan was charged with impersonating a Police officer by demanding the student. Koh Kong Quee's identitv earn.
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    Lock icon Colony Schools Will Re-open On Monday
    277 4 SCHOOLS in Singapore which have been closed since the outbreak of the Tiu epidemic, will re-open on Monday, the Education Minister, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, announced yesterday. Nanyang University which closed last Wednesday, will also re-open on Monday. Meanwhile, the epidemic in Singapore appears
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    Lock icon Three Win Queen's Scholarships
    121 4 THREE Post School Certificate students in Singapore have been awarded Queen's Scholarships for 1957. They are Teh Ee Kheng, Yap Chocn Teck and Lim Pin. Teh. 19, educated at the Victoria School, will go to Cambridge University to take the Law Tripos and the degree of
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    61 4 Mr. and Mrs. Goh Swee Aik after their wedding at the Church of The Visitation, Seremban recently. The bridegroom, who is attached to the Malayan Tobacco Company Ltd.. is the eldest son of Mr. and Mjs. Goh Fook Sens of Malacca while the bride, formerly Miss Teresa Si, is the
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    Lock icon MILLIONAIRE HOTELIER DIES AT 57
    93 4 MILLIONAIRE HOTELIER DIES AT 57 A SINGAPORE millionaire hotelier. Mr. Wong Eng Sien. 57, died in the General Hospital, on Thursday, after a short illness Mr. Wong was the proprietor of the Singapore Hotel, and was also the owner of several pawnshops in the Colony and Federation He also owned
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    Lock icon Bus Unions' New Move
    108 4 REPRESENTATIVES of the Singapore Bus Workers Union and the Transport Employees Union yesterday decided to ask the managements of two Chinese bus companies to reengage the 82 dismissed busmen. This decision was taken at a joint meeting of the two unions at the Labour Ministry. The
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    200 4 As An Appreciation To Mr. F. C. Sands KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A boy scout from Nottingham, England, will be invited to tour Malaya for a month as a mark of appreciation to a former Malayan Scout Commissioner, Mr. F. C. Sands, who came from
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    Lock icon 'ENGLISH MUST BE RETAINED IN COURT'
    305 4 'ENGLISH MUST BE RETAINED IN COURT' PENANG, Fri. The administrative law in this country has always proceeded along British lines and it must be conducted in English so far as the principles of law are concerned. This was stated by Dato Sir Roland Braddell, doyen of the Malayan Bar, today
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    Lock icon MISADVENTURE
    41 4 A SINGAPORE coroner, Mr. Giam Chong Hing, yesterday returned a verdict of misadventure on Ng Chin Wan, a labourer, who was killed by a falling oil drum while working on board the s.s. Siaoe at Pulau Bukom on Feb. 14.
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      482 4 cMlmanac Information at a Glance lfti#AftA»* ?f CI tal b^, Richard Tucker at Sport (S/KL); 245 Edmundo Ros Wavelength Changes. 745 Cricket. SINGAPORE Mill Victoria Memorial Hall 9 p.m. and His Rumba Band (KLj; 3 8 p.m Interlude. 805 ScotllS- *Z 1 W I H Independent .Missionary Movement: p.m. At
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    Lock icon COLONY'S FLU CLINIC HAS BUSY FIRST DAY
    225 5 COLONY'S FLU CLINIC HAS BUSY FIRST DAY THE first free clinic for 'flu patients organized by government doctors got off to a good start at the Pearl's Hill Youth Club last night. More than one hundred patients were treated by the doctors on duty. The patients were mostly children, but
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    Lock icon Lack Of Political Unity On Policy To Blame—LOWDEN
    310 5 Lack Of Political Unity On Policy To Blame—LOWDEN Morale Of Expats In City Council Is Dwindling Fast— THERE is a lowering of efficiency among expatriate officers employed by the Singapore City Council because ot the Council's lack of policy on Malayanization. This was stated yesterday by the Secretary of the
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    Lock icon Tucker Has Voice With A Heart
    170 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— The voice of Richard Tucker, leading tenor of the Metropolitan ODera. New York, can be simply described, as a voice that has a heart. Mr. Tucker's rendition of the famous Arias from "Don G i o v an n i." "I/Ellsir
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    Lock icon ROTTEN EGG STARTED A BRAWL
    128 5 BCTTERWORTH. Fri. When a customer protested on the use of a rotten egg in his "Koay Teow" (fried noodles), he was set upon by the hawker's two uncles, the Sessions Court was told today. As a result of the fracas, the customer, Lim Boh Yearn,
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    Lock icon CALL FOR UNITY AMONG CHINESE RUBBER DEALERS
    172 5 A CALL for unity among Chinese rubber dealers to protect their own interests, was made by the Vire-Prcsi-deni of the Singapore Rubber Packers' Association, Mr. Ng Quee Lam, at the Association's annual dinner last night. Mr, Ng, is one of five representatives of
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    Lock icon English—It's Good To Keep 1t...
    97 5 English—It's Good To Keep 1t... KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Independent Malaya would do well to retain English in the official and educational fields 'as even India had found it advantageous to adopt "trilingualism." declared two vereran Indian journalists visiting Kuala Lumpur today. Messrs. Durga Das and A. K. Gupta, joint editors
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    Lock icon Colony Firm Wins Appeal
    230 5 PENANG, Fri. The appeal of the Cathay Finance Company Ltd., Singapore, from a decision of the Penang Municipal Councillors who rejected the company's objection to an amendment of the assessment list increasing the annual value of land owned by the company, was allowed by Mr. Justice
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    Lock icon Teacher's Funeral
    51 5 EDUCATION Ministry officials, principals and teachers of various Colony schools were among a large number of people present at the funeral of Miss Francis Marion Myers at Bidadari cemetery yesterday Miss Myers was found dead In a gas-filled kitchen on Thursday. She was a teacher in Raffles Girls'
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      476 6 (^HIEF Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman is expected, shortly after his return from the London merdeka talks, to announce the formal creation of the Federation's own air force the nucleus of which is the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force. Since the formation of the M.A.A.F. adventurous and ambili
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      435 6 T HE publication of the Report of the Reid Constitutional Commission has added much confusion to this country because sectional interests have taken it as the signal to rush into the arena to Bgfci f their selfish aims. Cne section of Malays has accused the UMNO
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    957 6 ...will be discussed in 8 hours today NUCLEAR TESTS MIDDLE EAST m FATE OF 900 MO INDIANS f By A Special I Correspondent^ s\\\V\\\\\\\\\\\\\\V\\\\\\V\\W\\\\w COLOMBO |_)URING eight hours of train travel over hot and dusty north central Ceylon today Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru and Ceylonese Premier S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike are expected
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      318 6 Sir —The Federation of Malaya and Singapore have never been short of slogan manufacturer! and I have no doubt that as the coming by-elections for the two Legislative Assembly seats. Tanjong Paqar and Cafenhill divisions, draw nearer and nearer, the streets in Singapore will, a? usual.be littered with
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      199 6 Sir— Recently I read in your newspaper that some people were discussing the hawkers' problem. Whenever there is an epidemic of typhoid or an v other disease caused by filth and flies, people usually put all the blame on the hawkers and ask the authorities to put a
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      80 6 Sir I refer to the report on Page 5 of your issue of May 11 under the caption "MCA. Man Freed of Trust Charge" in which it was stated that the accused Lim Fee Seong was Secretary of the Kuala Lumpur Branch of the Malayan Chinese Association. I
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    533 6  -  ASTER GUNASEKERA By to some 50 foreign correspondents in Singapore on Thursday. Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock said "Let us get on with the job and let facts speak. We are happy to be judged by facts." Most political leaders are scared of facts
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    814 6 Land on Great Forts Historian en route, YT/HILE India's rivers and temples are still vita! today, her forts are obsolete. In the bombing-age, an eyrie is a less eligible defensive position than a rabbit hole. So the study of forts can be left out of the curriculum of a presentday
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    383 7 Suez Tories Survive Censure Move We Have Made Ho Concessions To Egypt, Says Mac LONDON, May 17 (AP) Britain's Conservative Government survived a Socialist onslaught on its Suez policies last night and won a comfortable vote of confidence from the House of Commons. A Labour Party motion censuring the Government
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    275 7 Maximum Security For Queen's State Visit COPENHAGEN, May 17 (UP) The most" extensive security measures ever seen here in time of peace will be in force for Queen Elizabeth's State Visit next May 21 to 23, Danish police told the United Press today. Some 1.200 constab'es two every s:x yards
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    156 7 BANGKOK, May 17 (AP) A 27-year-oid Thai raftsman has confessed to shooting at a U.S. Naval Attache's launch carrying American publisher Gardner Cowles here last Friday night, police said today. the raftsman, Nai Pcrd Mahawat. said he was angered because the wash from speedboats broke
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    45 7 HOLLYWOOD. May 17 (AP) Actress Ann Blyth disclosed today that sh c and her husband Dr. James McNulty, expect their third child about the rirst of next year. The McNuity's two other children are Timmie, 3, and Maureen, 18 months.
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    129 7 HONGKONG, May 17 (AP) Peking Radio said today that Communist artillery fire Irom the China mainland saved a British freighter from Nationalist guns on Tuesday. The freighter, which was not named, was entering the Communist part of Amoy when Nationalist guns on nearby Little
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    242 7 UK- US Deadlock Over China Trade WASHINGTON, May 17, (AP)— Britain and the United States are reported deadlocked over the problem of easing Western trade controls on strategic shipments to Red China. Britain is understood to be insisting the American Government agree to ease present restrictions on commerce to the
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    343 7 LONDON, May 17 (AP) -Russia last night announced a massive military and economic aid programme to build up the Republic of Mongolia which sprawls as a buffer territory along the northern frontiers of Red China. A statement issued by the official Soviet News Agency
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    55 7 VIENNA. May 17 (UP)— A month-long trial against Hungarian "counter-revolu-tionaries" ended with 14 death sentences in the Hungarian capital yesterday. Budapest. Radio said. The "counter-revolution-aries'' had been accused of having murdered seven AVO secret policemen in the north Hungarian industrial centre, Miskolc, during the uprising
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    40 7 THE worst May blizzard in seven years whipped across the Rockv' Mountains in Colorado and Wyoming yesterday, dumping up to two feet of snow on passes, slowing traffic in cities and sending rivers out of their banks. A.P.
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    50 7 Photo. FIELD-MARSHAL Viscount Montgomery, Deputy NATO Commander, peers down the barrel of a Civil War 12-pounder cannon on Culps Hill, as he and President Eisenhower tour ths famed battleground in Pennsylvania. Viscount Montgomery was the week-end guest of the Chief Executive at his Gettysburg Farm- U.P.
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    216 7 TOKYO. May 17 (AP) Japanese Prime Minister N'obusuke Kishi told Parliament yesterday he will fly to India and South-east Asia next week to launch "positive Asian diplomacy" and to America next month to "talk over frankly" a readjustment of relations. In a major policy
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    70 7 RANGOON. May 17 (AP) As the Burmese national anthem was played in a Rangoon movie theatre last night a spotlight swept the audience. Police arrested 46 patron? who did not stand for the anthem. If found guilty of disrespect to the flag, shown on
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    21 7 RED CHINA'S chair-ran Mm Tse-tcrg yesterday ippointed Cher. 2 Tttn-ming as Chinese Ambassador to Ceylon, Peking Rariio said- A.P
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    291 8 EDE WILL QUERY LIM MR. JOHN EDE, Liber-al-Socialist member Dor Tangldn, will ask the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, at the Legislative Assembly meeting next Wednesday if he would make a statement on the results of the recent conference of Ministers of Singapore and the Federation. Mr. Ede will
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    65 8 AN 18- YEAR-OLD girl, Goh Hua Kim, claimed trial in a Singapore Court yesterday to a charge cf stealing two dresses, a coat, and one pair of shoes, worth $68. belonging to Mrs. E. D. Cruse, at Burnfoot Terrace. She was alternatively charged with retaining
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    28 8 THE Rt. Rev. S. Kulendran, Bishop in Jaffna, of the South Indian United Church, will preach at the St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, at 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.
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    115 8 THE Singapore Improvement Trust Labour Union yesterday asked the Trust to formulate a clear policy on the allocation of quarters to its members. Secretary of the Union, Mr. V. Muthu, told the Standard yesterday that although the Trust had earlier promised to allot 250
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    98 8 Compositions of Bach and Handel will be on the programme of the Singapore Chamber Music Ensemble's concert on June 9. at the new Cultural Centre, at Canning Rise. The main work will be Handel's "Solomon," with full choir and orchestra, which is to be offered for the
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    47 8 A HOUSEWIFE, Sakuntala Devi Guruswami. was granted a divorce by Mr. Justice Knight in the Singapore High Court, yesterday on the grounds of her husband"s adultery. The husband. S. R. S. Naidu a clerk, was in court although he did not contest the suit.
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    91 8 A SINGAPORE taxi driver, Mohamed Noor bin Mustafah, was held up at dagger point by his passenger on Thursday night and relieved of $16 and a pen in Geylang Road, according to a report made by the taxi-driver to the Police. An argument over the playing of
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    86 8 THE finals of the 1957 Novices' Dance Championships for the Rose Dance Trophy, organized and held at the Happv Cabaret, Singapore, on Thursday night, resulted as follows: The winning pair: Mr. John Seow and Miss Lucy Lim, runners-up: Mr. Seah Ker.i; Ann ar.d Mrs. Arline Lim. and
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    34 8 The visiting South Indian drama troupe. T.K.S. Brother?, will hold a dance and music performance, under the auspices of Singapore Ceylon Tamils Association, at the Bcatty Secondary School tomorrow at 6.30 p.m.
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    236 8 Four Local Youths Co On Training Cruise A SCHEME to give local youths training in modern deep-sea fishing got underway yesterday when a group of four lads from the fishing communities sailed out to sea in a Japanese fishing-vessel belonging to a Singapore firm. Capt. Mohamad Said
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    100 8 APPLICATIONS are invited from Malay students of either sex for a scholarship providing free tuition and board at Dr Alagappa Chettiar's College at Karaikudi, South India The applications are to be forwarded to Mr. K Ramanathan, No. 67, Ampang Road, Kuala Lumpur, to reach him
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    200 8 BEER can now be sold in the University of Malaya Union house canteen after 4.30 p.m. This decision was taken at a recent meeting of the Students Council when the Canteen Sub-committee's report was discussed. Eight voted for the sale of beer after 4.30 p.m., while
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    309 8 Colony Population Top 1.5 Mil. Mark UP 59 PER CEM IN LAST 10 YEA* SINGAPORE'S population has hit th* mark. Chief Statistician Mr. E I pu l yesterday. rhilli P According to preliminary estinul the census, the population of the island ha, nearly 59 per cent during the last ten
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    51 8 Mr. Fralian Wee Choo Heng and Miss Irene Yeo Chwee Neo after their engagement in Singapore last week-end. Mr Wee is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wee Kim Hean while his fiancee is the youngest daughter of Mr. Yeo Phee Jin and the late Madame Wee Yong
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    26 8 JOHORE E A patrol of the Rifles k: Rangarr. yesterday. They have been ideah Huk, a tee Membei terrorist Chan Kiu. A rifle ammunition were
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    100 8 Hmeniti Export Trade Dyina KUALA Crippling led with i 5, is killing* J young and growing ore export trad n an of one of iimenite export con! in the Federation^ Standard today. Australia, which bm begun its business ear undercut Malay; in^ and freight expo! negligible compared! in Malaya, the
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      2854 9 First World War created a new type of entertainment in the palace Happenings in the royal home before and after the DAY King George declared war on the German Kaiser, as told by Elizabeth Morton, author of "The Royal Tour of the Commonwealth," in her series today on the great
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      351 9 "Leave it there, Charlie you need all the help you can get!" IX) DAY'S QUOTATION: 22— Complete thing*; attend It the present criticises PRbW to morc > purchases, home, the past. there is not La: tt^BzS^KS^L^Kl^MU office, ba.se of others tionn. much hope for the future." SCORPIO Oct 23 to
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    136 10 Promoted To Bank Officer THE San Francisco, California bead office of Bank of America announces the appointment of Mr. Teo Poh Kong as an officer of the Bank Mr. Teo assumed his official duties as a ProAssistant Cashier on May 1. This appointment reiterates the policy of the Bank to
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    54 10 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to mere h i d l s yesterd a y Selling rai a T.T. 'or O.D. ready were: Swiss Francs 142: French Francs *****; Belgian Francs 1H27 3 4; Holland G:drs. 123i; Swedish Kr. IB7i Other
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    312 10 MORE TIN MAY BE USEDREVIEW TRENDS indicate that there will be an increase in total world consumption of about 8,000 tons of tin. This prediction is carried in the tin market review for May by A. Strauss and Co., Ltd. "Recently." it states, "an improvement has shown it(?lf more particularly
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    431 10 "MALAYA is indeed an important market for Philips' products and the two main lines of the Philips organization, electronic equipment in general and lighting, have a great future here, according to Mr. A. Dikkers, the new managing director of Philips Electrical Co. of Malava Ltd.
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    167 10 A NEW method of lighting which can use entire walls or ceilings as a light source has been announced in Little Rock. Arkansas. Mr. F. M. Sloan, vice-president of Westinghouse Inc., described the development, "electroluminescence" as the major light source of the future. He said the
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    89 10 MR. K. M. Nanjappa, Secretary and -Treasurer of the State Bank of India in Madras, icas entertained to a buffet by Mr. KM. Abdul Razak, proprietor of V.M.S. Abdul Razak Co., at the Royal Island Club, Singapore, on Wednesday. Mr. Nanjappa is on his way home after
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    374 10 PROSPECTS OF MORE TRADE WITH N.Z. TRADE with Malaya and New Zealand is expected to grow rapidly, the New Zealand Trade Commissioner in Singapore, Mr. R. G. Hampton, told the Standard yesterday. Mr. Hampton added that three ships arrived in Singapore last month in the direct service from New Zealand,
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    126 10 PROFIT of Aver Panas Ltd. for the year ending Jan. 31, after providing for taxation and for directors' fees which are subject to the approval of the general meeting amounted to $202,930. To which must be added: dividends and interest; provision no longer required and the
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    122 10 $14 M. MALAYAN RUBBER FOR RUSSIA Chartered Boat Expected Tomom A LIBERIAN ship, the Art Q Malayan ports to load 7,500 ton's''* worth over $14 million at current J for Odessa. m^ l i The ship is under char' or to the p ment. i 1!!3 The rubber was sold
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    97 10 Price Up On China Buying BUYING for mainland China accounts in the Singapore kets yesterday put up the price slightly. International first grade June shipment closed at 91$ centl per lb., I cent above Th irs The market opened firm at 93 and later rose to as high as 92
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    78 10 AT the annual general meeting of the Singapore Association of The Chartered Institute of Secretaries the following were elected office-bearer- lor the year. Chairman: Mr. H. A Batten: vi e-chairman Mr San Kwok Thye. committee- Messrs S. V. Andrew?. Tan Chiap Howe, E. Pereira md G. S Oakley:
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    110 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were Copra. May/June $25£ buyers; $26J sellers; coconut oil in bulk S4O sellers, in drums $441 sellers, Muntok white pepper $108 sellers, Sarawak white $107 sellers, Special Sarawak black $74. I'OPKA HOLIDAY. CUTLER BATH CO LTD MAY H ani
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    366 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Federal Govern ment will stick to the quota system governing rice imports until someone can come along with something better, the Minister for Commerce and Industry Dr Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, declared this evening Dr. Ismr.il was commenting
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    369 10 Little Interest From Main Markets The week has not been an easy one, in fact it has been extremely difficult as buyers have refused to follow any advance, and sellers have disappeared whenever a decline looked like setting in, according to the report of Holiday, Cutler, Bath Co. Ltd. The
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      57 10 CT.S ord I 35 3, 35/-. I <2 4:. ord? Robins K Times $.145: U] $9.85; Wearce S3 1 $3.30. delayec Malay 12/6 K K 45/6 8/9: C 2 $2.0( arr:yan 12 AllenbPsna? S $1.70. Spore 4T 1939 3 Gadong 'K. P 4/9: 2/13 B 5/- and Radin
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    647 12 Seven Wickets Tumble For 4S Runs, Then.. tt Rain Curtails Play KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.-— A valuable eighth wicket partnership between Alex Delilkan and Graham Turner which realised 70 runs helped All-Malaya to reach the fairly respectable score of 127 runs for eight wickets on
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    40 12 All-Mali v, A. K Jdn< E. RoSg b Gn M. McCaw A. Dewi A. Grind Khoo Bii >■ M K Dl A. F G. Tiir i J K Totsl for P s \x Bow ii Pettit H-2-2R-1--24-3: G Taylor 3-0-6-0
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    241 12 CAMBRIDGE, May 17. (Keuter)— The cricket match between Cambridge University and West Indies ended in a draw today. A third wicket stand of 80 by David Green and Gamini Goonesena helped Cambrioqe University score 209 runs for five wickets by tea today. After
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    136 12 SINGAPORE Amateur Swimming Association decided at a meeting today not to accept,- a request from the Hungarian water-polo team. Szolnok. to play in the Colony some time this year. The reason tor this refusal is lack of finance. The Committee, however, agreed to invite Indonesian and
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    87 12 MANILA. Ma v 17 (Reuter). The Philippines today led Japan by one match to nil in the Davis Cup Eastern zone finals tie here. Felicisimo Ampon defeated Atsushi Miyagi 3-6. 6-4, 6-1, 6-4 in the first singles match. But the second match between Raymundo Deyro and
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    52 12 YOUNG Men's Sikh Association, created the biggest upset in the SAFA Div 2A league when they defeated Darul Afiah, hitherto unbeaten. 3-1 in their encounter at Farrer Park yesterday. Darul Afiah took an early lead through R. Saini, but the Sikhs went ahead through Pah, Alan Chong and.
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    76 12 BOURNEMOUTH May 17. (AP)— Britain won botfi singles matches 0:1 Thursday and took a 2-0 lead over New Zea land in the European Zone seround match ol the Davis Cup lawn tennis competition. Bobby Wilson defeated Blew Gerrard c-2 11 -9. c-2 and Michael Davies
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    147 12 Army Were Just Too Good SINGAPORE Chinese J hard t; rday's i gue soccer match Be^ar Btad trounced 5-1. Koh-Hat nation put the fence all at sea. Arthur K Ca gave the Army goal when -heel p. to send tli ng side of t. The held out v,r.:. tninui latch
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    26 12 STANDARDPIC tiwws Prince Edward Boy's Club with the Rayiter C Pasir Panjang Boy's Club by jour goals to one in yesterday's I'l' Cup padang.
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    158 12 Prince Edward Boys Win Rayner Cup PRINCE Edward Boy's Club four-time holders of the Rayner Cud retained the trophy when they beat Pasir Panjang Boy's Club by lour goals to one in the finals of the Inter-Boy's Club Football Tournament played on the S.R.C. padang yesterday. Pasir Panjang took the
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      96 12 SOCCER S.A.F.A. League: Div. 2A. Blue Rovers vs Gymkhana S.C. Geylang at 5.15 p.m. Div. 2 A. Police "A" vs Springdale S.C. Police Depot., 5.15 p.m. Div. 2A. Badan Kesenian vs Sukaramai S.C. 'Farrer Park at 5.15 p.m. Friendly: Rajaji S.C. vs Perhimponan Stia Farrer Park. CRICKET Friendly: Non~ Binders
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    94 13 !\"ew take on e 4 p.m. f1 1 i a mo eel the a in no ertain manner. A victory I for the I4tk in the return tiit wnl pnr; upally depend on pitcher Bt Consulate Braves, winners of 4ho first round, should have le difficulty in beating
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    94 13 J Mi kdle- en for riea n ord. equalling 81 of yesterday. His aggregate of 134 ha? been Um greatest scoring achievement of his life. De-pite Low's skilful p'ay, many experts left the scene feeling that the heavy shadow of Bobby Locke, of South Africa, had already
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    391 13 Details Of Soccer's Most Hush-hush Scheme The Plan Is All Worked Out -vtexonson y M.t\ 17- floodlight is imminent. next few rii news can j ri brand {petition: THE ;'|l ISLES [I C P. worked --hush da of igoe, B^ard < in eleven clubs from England and
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    95 13 NEW YORK, May 17 (AP). The New York Yacht Club today accepted a challenge from the Royal Yacht Squadron of England to race oft Newport, Long Island, in September, 1958. Commodore J. Burr Bartram SBsd a syndicate would be formed to build a 12-metre yacht at a cost
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    56 13 photo). Shapely American screen actress Marilyn Monroe kicks off at the start of a football match (soccer) between Israeli and United States all-star sides at the salute to Israel festival at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, New York, May 12. At left is Jacob Hod, captain of the Israeli
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    402 13 LONDON, May 17 (Reuter) Doug Insole and Trevor Bailey, Test cricketers and probables for the first Test against the West Indies at Birmingham from May 30, both scored centuries for Essex against Glamorgan yesterday. With Gordon Barker, who fell only two short of a hundred, Insole
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    158 13 WIESBADEN, Germany. May 17 (AP) htvan Szirkorszki, a young Hun^erian who fled during the revolt last year and now lives in Germany scored a ma.ior upset when he defeated Australia's Don Candy 6-4. 2-6, 6-2 in a third round match. Australia's Don Candy eliminated Yugoslav champion Ivko
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    120 13 Russia's Challenge For Cup NEW YORK, May 17, (Reuter)— The Soviet Union would definitely start to challenge for the Davis Cup within the next few years, according to Mr. Eric Leijonhuud, President of the Swedish Lawn Tennis Association. He said: "If the Russians concentrate on tennis as they have on
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    60 13 LONDON May 16 (Reuter) Fifteen final acceptors for the Oaks Trial Stakes for three-year-old fillies, to be run over one mile and four furlongs at Lingfleld Park on Saturday May 25 are: Almeria. Tarbert Bay. High Ceiling, Nagaika Pilgrim's Cloak, fcridnight Press. Crotchet, Alor Star. Sarcelle, Misbehave, Lobelia,
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    297 13 NEW YORK, May 17 (AP)— Cincinnati gained undisputed possession of first place in the National League on Thursday night defeating the New York Giants 3-2 in 10 innings while Pittsburgh was beating Milwaukee 2-1. The defeat dropped the Braves a full game behind the Redlegs. There wag no change
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    15 13 LONDON. May 16 (ReutersFootball Result Irish league City Cup: Distillery 1 Linfield 1.
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    342 14 Tk'ti £*art 9wf"ifeaf-ct4 ttltH #6 He jfrW taAt Says WINDSOR LAD TUFTON comes in for his stamina test, and though promoted a division with seven pounds extra since his four-length win over the seven on the opening day, he looks like completing his double
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    1024 14 RACE 1: 2.30 p.m.—* Horses Class 5, Div. I—9 Furs. 1. 571 Saladdin 4y 9.05 Mrs BE Chew Martin Boii£our€ 2. 411 Maya Tahu 7y 8.10 Mr. Low Hee Pheng Tjo a Khamis 3. 20, Marciano 5y 8.08 Mr. Mrs. Choo Kok Leong and Mrs. Loke Yew Tio
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    696 14 Pepper Dealer may once again prove too hot RACE ONE Pepper Dealer put up such a stylish display when scoring over the seven that I anticipate him to again deliver the goods in the opening race of the afternoon. The Royal Tara four-year-old is a game battier. He led his
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    173 14 Southern Cross has won over this trip RACE TWO On his close-up third to Pepper Dealer I go plumb for Southern Cross in the nine j furlongs race for Class Five. Division Three for apprentice riders. Southern Cross was running on stoutly at the finish and will be better sui:ed
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    189 14 Performer II Hard To Beat Over 9f. race six Performer 11, who finished full of running when third to Tufton over the seven on the first day, should take a lot of beating in the nine furlongs race for Class Four Division Two horses. Although he is up 12 pounds
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    226 14 BOLD DRAGOON SHOULD MAKE THIS HIS 3rd OFF THE REEL start winners will probably him nnf f tor n finish of Race 7 over six fur i<> "U^ v^vtri me bix in last year, he led practicai v all the way to beat a Divisi< n Two field on a
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