Singapore Standard, 21 May 1957

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    33 1 Singapore Standard STANDARD P 0 L I C I ***** (5 lin-i. 2400 Jt v i. FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 2811 2414 rTTTv mi SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1957 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon NO REFLECTION ON THE PINE INDUSTRY BOSSES
    160 1 |_jv vi Kf Mandard has twin? letter f M- Pheng (.eck. Malayan .IZlu Beard: out that the i gave to the Pnc .pple Knhcld on instant vi/ i i> toi c;ti > MX YP" is mis- i,| nuld give a relation to what
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    Lock icon S'PORE 'FLU ON WAY OUT
    337 1 ...But Fed. To Top 100,000 Mark Today 90 PER CENT ATTENDANCE IN ALL COLONY SCHOOLS THE FLU EPIDEMIC IN SINGAPORE IS ABATING, THE SINGAPORE MINISTRY OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY. The Ministiy expressed confidence that the fever, which had affected thousands of people, would end rapidly.
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    Lock icon Last Round Of M-Talks, MacGillivray Leaves For K.L.
    358 1 Last Round Of M -Talks, MacGillivray Leaves For K.L. LONDON May 20 (Reuter) Sir Donald MacB i Hi?h Commissioner to the Malayan here today by air for Kuaia Lumpur, t c spokesman said. had been attending the t in constitution!] conference, .v completed its mam work and is b i
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    Lock icon INSURANCE AGAINST BITES
    48 1 SYDNEY. May 20 (Reuter) A LAIO.OOO third-party iranee Doiicv has been taken out by the wife of a Sydney judse for her Dachshund dog. Strauss Sh »uld Strauss bite anyone, the policy indemnifies Mrs. George Amsberg against any Im for damages up to E MO.OOC
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    30 1 THE Japanese State Miniswlthout portfolio. Mr. Mltsujiro Ishii, was yesterday appointed acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Qg Prime Minister Mr. like Kishii's visit to South-east Asia. Reuter
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    Lock icon WHO'S THE WINNER? DIAL 'X' & FIND OUT
    175 1 WHO'S THE WINNER? DIAL 'X' FIND OUT XI ALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malayans may soon be able to dial "X" on their phones and listen to race results, football scores, market quotations or even rock 'n roll music. This "please yourselves" service is now being planned by the Telecommunications Department which,
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    Lock icon FOUL PLAY FOR THE EARLY BIRD
    226 1 KOH'S ELECTION POSTERS MUTILATED PLECTION posters put up by supporters of Mr. CH. Koh (Independent) in the Tanjong Pagar by-elec-tion were mutilated or pulled down altogether yesterday. Mr. Koh was the first among the candidates standing for election to start his campaign for the
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    33 1 ACTRESS Tallulah Bankhead left New York by plane on Sunday for London to begin an engagement at the Cafe de Paris. She said she would spend six weeks in London. A.P.
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    Lock icon Nurse Evarett Recovers
    67 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Nurse Margaret, Evarett, 26, of the Lady Templer Hospital, who was rushed to the General Hospital in an unconscious state yesterday afternoon, has recovered consciousness although still in a "critical condition." Miss Evarett. who was found sprawled in her Cheras Road hostel room by
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    Lock icon Gold Seized In Hongkong
    42 1 HONGKONG, May 20 (UP) Government revenue inspector_ on Saturday night seized 800 taels of gold aboard the steamer San Carlos in the harbour here The gold, which is reported to have been illegally imported, was valued at HK$2OO,OOO.
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    Lock icon UNDESIRABLE
    35 1 HAITI'S ruling council on Sunday ordered the immediate exoulsion of Bernard Diederich, publisher of the English language weekly, Haiti Sun. A council decree termed him "undesirable" but assigned no sDecific cause for expulsion. A.P.
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    Lock icon What They Saw Shocked Them
    166 1 Young Lovers In The Park THREE Malacca Municipal Councillors on Sunday paid a visit to Coronation Park and what they saw left them SHOCKED. Councillor Inche Hansul bin Abdul Il.uli said: "Scattered on the playing fields in front of the Esplanade were teenagers in most
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    Lock icon Two Men Seek A Shangri-La
    107 1 Two Men Seek A Shangri-La JOHANNESBURG, May 20 (Reuter)— Two Johannesburg men. "sick and tired" of civilization, are looking for 10 suitable South African families to help them build a communal Shan-gri-la in the remote Northern Transvaal Bush. If they find their Shangri-la they will turn it into South Africa's
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    62 1 NOW TO GET WELL AGAIN "TUBE GIRL" Govindammah photographed at London Airport after her arrival on May 16. She is to have an operation at St. Thomas's Hospital. London. to correct her throat condition caused by swallowing caustic soda. Govindammah is now taking nourishment through a tube in her stomach.
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    Lock icon A Decision Soon On Queen's Visit
    94 1 A Decision Soon On Queen's Visit WASHINGTON, May 20. (UP) American officials said today that a decision will be announced soon on whether Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will visit the United States this year or next. They said the chances are the Queen and her husband. Prince Philip,
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    17 1 PROFESSOR Gilbert Murray, the distinguished Greek scholar, died at his home at Oxford yesterday. Reuter
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    Lock icon Premiers Anxious Over H-Blasts
    126 1 Premiers Anxious Over H-Blasts COLOMBO, May 20 (AP) Indian Premier Nehru and Ceylonese Premier Bandaranaike today issued a joint statement expressing anxiety of the consequences of harmful and unpredictable effects of nuclear weapons for test purposes by Russia, the United States and Britain. The premiers also expressed relief on the
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    Lock icon Two More Memos For Mr. Lennox-Boyd
    564 1 The Unofficial Delegations LONDON. May 20 (Reuter) A memorandum from the Straits-Chinese British Associations of Penang and Malacca has been submitted by Mr. He ah Joo Scan 2 to Mr. Alan Lennox -Boyd, the British Colonial Secretary, it was disclosed here today. Another joint
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    Lock icon 56 Mil. Would Die In H-Attack
    279 2 56 Mil. Would Die In H -Attack NEW YORK, May 20 (AP) What would happen if the United States wrere subjected to a major .ydrogen bomb attack? The Saturday Evening Post yesterday gave government estimates that 56,000,000 people might be killed' or wounded and 69 of the largest cities "would
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    36 2 NEW YORK. May 20 (Reuter) Mr. Christian Pineau. the French Foreign Minister, flew here today to Present France's case on Suez at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council later today.
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    Lock icon 6,000 SHOPS CLOSE DOWN
    269 2 200,000 Lo S( Jobs In Big Saigon To/ce-Ov, SAIGON, May 20 (UP, -Six ft Chinese shops have been closed by S nam's nationalization of certom t° Ut Saigon newspaper Dan Nguyen^ Aspiration) said. The shops shut down in the Saigon politan area under a Vietnam decree'
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    Lock icon IT ISN'T TRUE
    30 2 PARIS. May 20 ■AP Actress Ingrid Bergman said today "there Is no truth ftl all" to rumours that her husband, director Rot* Rosseiim, is planning a divorce.
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    Lock icon 'STOP THE TEST' CRY
    44 2 photo. JAPANESE demonstrators carrying banners inscribed "stop the test demonstrate outside the British Embassy in Tokyo, following the detonation of a nuclear weapon at Christmas Island in the Pacific. Police (left) guard the embassy. There were no violent incidents. AP
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    Lock icon Bulganin Calls For Mutual Trust
    195 2 IN A MESSAGE TO MOLLET LONDON, May 20 (Reuter) Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet Prime Minister, has sent a special message to M. Guy Mollet, French Premier, declaring France and Russia are the most interested of all continental countries in the maintenance of European security, Moscow
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    Lock icon Asia Film Festival Opens
    77 2 TOKYO. May 20 (AP)— The "Fourth Film Festival in Asia" opened tonight with a dazzling Darade of actresses and actors before 300 guests in evening clothes. Nearly 100 stars, producers, directors and motion picture equipment men from nine countries are participating in the festival which ends
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    Lock icon The Comet's New Version
    77 2 LONDON, May 20, (Reuter) De Havillands, British manufacturers, announced that they are to produce a new shortrange Comet pure jet airliner fully competitive with turbopropeller planes and up to I.^o miles an hour faster The new version of the Comet the Comet 4-B will be able
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    Lock icon THE ONLY ONE
    31 2 BISHOP Frederick Buckley Newell told the closing session Of the Newark Methodist conference on Sunday that "Korea has become the only truly Protestant nation in the world." A.P.
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    Lock icon US. Aid To Combat Communism
    76 2 US. Aid To Combat Communism KARACHI. May 20 (UP) Representatives of the United States and four Moslem countries in the Baghdad Pact will sign a U5512,500,000 agreement tomorrow spelling out plans for an American economic aid programme to fight Communism, it was announced today. The money will be used to
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    Lock icon Too Much Publicity, Says Defence Lawyer
    203 2 Britons On Spy Trial CAIRO. May 20 (Reuter) An Egyptian defence lawyer in the Cairo spy trial of eight Britons. 11 Egyptians and one Yugoslav told the court today that the Press had given too much importance to the case and incensed public feeling.
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    Lock icon Kishi Off On Tour
    42 2 TOKYO, May 20 (AP) Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi flew to South-east Asia tonight to explore "ways and means to attain mutual prosperity." He will visit Burma. Pakistan, Ceylon, Thailand and Nationalist China, returning to Tokyo on June 4.
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    Lock icon Society Doctor Back In Court Again
    107 2 EASTBOURNE, England. May 20 (AP)— The prosecution charged today that Dr. John Bodkins Adams received £2.--500 in the wills of three patients but failed to mention the inheritance when he asked for cremation permission. Prosecutor Malcolm Morris told a magistrate's court that after the
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    85 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING m7l (cent, v W~ vesterdaj tot June R.S RS v N R 1 1' ,0 «Jl market m-' W:l -M. p.. (Dowi No ]K^ Stij* House 1 ns were:Sepl Oct b 7 "fie: Quiet I LOSING I Jul\ September Oct, H> Janoan M April .b IUM Tup.
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    245 2 U.S. VETERAN 7MDI FOR FATAL SHOOIM TAIPEI, May 20 (UP) A veteran U.S. Army master-sergeant pleaded not guilty today to a charge of voluntary manslaughter of a Chinese citizen, as his trial opened here in a small military chapel turned into a courtroom. Master-Sergeant Robert G. Reynolds,
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    16 2 tf: An I uncovered near the j I The mines w< J
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    8 2 [TEI Ji te fro? SI Bidadarj ccn^ery.
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    Lock icon Campaign Against Typhoid
    57 3 Campaign Against Typhoid I precautions j n Pahang vVI vN. Mon.— The Services I .in extento moI children and the public tv ph I during the ,r jubilee mmencing M.i and If. ,i. 51 n lar he rder lo ring the Qufbrcak Fear ,-c is •..use a a !S inocu
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    33 3 I I attend a is featu t mcl_idin__ mission E S I i and n -ion is b_ i isers, S and S fa ia- have and ng to Loi
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    27 3 Ipoh's New Menace Tt are ere have been ol Rirls and g molested in Urn h o die mc :I r 3 3 ni' Street. il before
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    29 3 ta oi let roduction ol I of woven t the F< m Agriition com- Ito rj in po; I A h.a. Exbe offered C p rafts-
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    14 3 Battered Youth Dies In Hospital ng S th night, died ll yeSf are investigat-
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    21 3 >N'G. M,v 20 I Serv .cc I the Hongsl6.7*l ***** to jra Si. one In lonesian 3 a tacl.
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    11 3 I .amation ony to Supreme on Aug. ..red a
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    16 3 nto the new c in I ir, about Federa :.:.g the P tagc stamps.
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    Lock icon SUICIDE VERDICT
    40 3 PENANG, Mon. A suicide verdict was recorded by the Coroner, Mr. Au Ah Wah. at the conclusion of an inquest into the death of Tan Ewe Teng. 60. who was found hanging to a pipeline on Oct. 8.
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    Lock icon K.L. WEDDING
    46 3 Manaarc-pie by SGT CHRISTOPHER PEARS E of 7. F.0.D.. R.A.O.C, Kuala Lumpur, and his bride the former Miss Dianne I ins*rish. a Nursing Sister at the British Military Hospital, Kinrara. after their marriage al St. Mary's Church. Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday. Yong Poh Seong
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    205 3 Perak UMNO Decision IPOH, Mon.— Perak UMNO last night passed a resolution agreeing to the stationing of foreign troops in Malaya after Merdeka and until such time as the country is able to raise a sufficient force of its own. By troops, the UMNO
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    92 3 TANG CHEE YUEN*, a youth Service Officer attach- B ..il Welfare Detment was charged in the First Traffic Court with four traffic offences. He was alleged to have driven a car in a dangerous manner failing to stop after an accident failing to render assistance to
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    Lock icon Red Star Emblem Removed
    292 3 Hush-hush Ceremony At Woman Bandit's Grave Kampong Obeys Govt. But Wants Word Princess' To Remain TEMERLOH, Mon. The Pahang Government today ordered the removal of a five-pointed Communist star emblem from the tombstone which village people near here erected recently over the grave of a woman
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    Lock icon JAIL, FINE FOR SOLDIER WHO CHEATED
    78 3 A SOLDIER. .Tasman bin Ahmad. 32, who obtained, without authority, 69 gallons of petrol from the War Deportment, was yesterday sentenced to one week's jail and fired $350 or in default eight weeks' imprisonment, in a Singapore Court. Jasman pleaded guilty to seven charges
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    Lock icon SIT Men Robbed By Trickster
    74 3 SIT Men Robbed By Trickster SINGAPORE Police are looking for a man who stole several pens and watches belonging to Improvement Trust Officials in Upper Pickering Street, on Friday. The man, a confidence trickster, had entered the S.I.T. office on the pretence that he was a building contractor sent to
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    51 3 TWO youths, Abdul Hamid bin Sadek and Ismail bin Osman, were charged in a Singapore Court yesterday with criminal breach of trust ot five cartons of milk valued at $112, on May 18 Both were allowed $250 bail each and the case is for mention on
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    33 3 A WOMAN. Heng Leong Wan. 57, was found dead on the five-fOOt-way in Mosque Street early yesterday. She is believed *o have fallen from the second floor of the customs quarters.
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    Lock icon ABORIGINE BRIDE HAS CENSUS MEN BLUSHING
    232 3 ABORIGINE BRIDE HAS CENSUS MEN BLUSHING KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Census officials, asking a young aborigine woman today for the number of her children, blushed when she smilingly replied: "bharu khawin lah" (only just married). The team, watched by five visiting officials from Indonesia, quickly skipped Question No. 10 on the
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    Lock icon Slept While On Look-out Duty
    101 3 A YOUNG seaman, Edward Binnington, was found asleep when he should have been on look-out duty, a Singapore Court was told. Binnington pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of continued neglect of duty between March 10 and May 16 and was sentenced to two weeks'
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    Lock icon CLUB HOUSE FOR OLD BOYS
    53 3 KLANG. Mon. President of the High School O.d Boys Association, Mr. Sioh Goh 800, said today that plans were afoot to build a club house here for the Alumni. Mr. Stab laid in appeal fbf funds would be made soon to o:d boys and members
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    Lock icon 'Flu Check On India-Bound Passengers
    261 4 'Flu Check On India-Bound Passengers EIGHT HAVE THE BUG AND CANNOT SAIL THE Eastern Shipping Corporation, agents for the State of Madras, in co-operation with the Singapore Harbour Board Police, threw a stringent anti-flu screen over the vessel before she sailed for India yesterday. All 417 passengers were medically checked
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    74 4 TWO men. Ho Mcc Fui and Diong Leng Chong, were yesterday sentenced in a Singapore Courl to three months' jail each OB a charge of attei ipting to break into a shop. Two detectives said that on Jan. 25 while on their rounds they saw Ho
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    Lock icon Debts Caused His Death
    46 4 A BARBER'S son told a Singapore coroner's court yestercay that his father Ting Tiew Hin, was worried over debts amounting to S3-. 000. Ting was found drowned in Rochore Canal on Aoril 14. Coroner, Mr. Giam Chong Hing returned a suicide verdict.
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    155 4 'End Rice Stockpile,' Traders Say SIXGAPORE rice traders have again appealed to Government to abolish the rice stockpile system which, they allege, is hampering trade and hitting importers badly. The Singapore General Rice Importers Association in a letter to the Minister for Commerce and Industry, said that had it not
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    Lock icon 4 Jailed For $3,650 Robbery At Temple
    127 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The president of the Sessions Court, Mr. X. L. Cohen, today sentenced four men to various terms of imprisonment, when they were found guilty of robbing the wife of a temple caretaker of 52.000 cash and jewellery worth $1,560 on
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    Lock icon Aussie Labour Leaders In S'pore
    197 4 DR. H. V. EVATT (third from left). Opposition Leader in the Australian Parliament, arrived in Singapore yesterday by Qantas-BOAC on his way to Britain. Dr. Evatt was accompanied by (from left) Mrs Evatt. Mr. F. E. Chamberlain, president of the Labour Party in Australia, and
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    30 4 MR. D. L BREXT. OCPD. Bat Pahat, ijas been transferred to Johore Bahru Police Headquarters. ASP Mansor b. Mohamed Xoor from Johore Bahru has taken over Mr. Brent's duties.
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    32 4 THE T.K.S. Brothers Dramatic Troupe last night received a souvenir from the China Society and were entertained to a vegetable buffet at Mr. Lee Siow Mong's Ascot Rise residence. Singapore.
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    Lock icon DAGGER CHARGE
    46 4 LEE YEE YOOX. 25, was charged in a Singapore Court yesterday with possession of a dagger at the Tiong Seng Bar m Syed Alwi Road, on May 18. Bail of $2,000 was allowed, and the case will be up for mention on May 25.
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    Lock icon BEDROOM STABBING INCIDENT
    152 4 A MAN stabbed his Malacca mistress five times when she rejected his advances, the Singapore Assize Court was told yesterday. The man. William Ardrady. a driver, claimed trial to a charge of attempting to murder his mistress. Tay Vat Neo in a house in Paya Lebar Road
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    52 4 THE following are the winning numbers of the Fun Fair Lucky Draw he'd at the Community Centre. Kampong s. at Estate, Singapore, last weekend. No. 0235 (first prize), No. 0854 (second prize). Xo. 3191 (third prize). Other prizes: Xo? 5114. 4596, 0567, 0996, 4712, 2851, 0997, 1354. 1812,
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    126 5 BOBBY AND RUBY TO GO HIGH HAT IN SINGAPORE RAY K id d well known Broadway musical star iq at the Adelphi Hotel, is organising a w3 Night for Singapore, which will feature .< Johnson, American dancer who arrived in V )n« yesterday afternoon. a Miss Johnson will be Bobby
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    Lock icon CENSUS MEN SPREAD OUT TO START PHASE TWO
    67 5 CENSUS MEN SPREAD OUT TO START PHASE TWO I ad b f.. I, praised m the census fl c for 1 Mr three Cays. During this period the census will c g In on bousers to bring us to date the q eing gather- a en dries will he made
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    103 5 Ii pore Police the Colony B end of the per Inter, .ier.t will o shortly, ire Senior Assistanl r, Mr. J. W. Chil- is atta rhed to the Division, Assistant ComDer, Mr. C. J. A Haines. 1 Training an I Cow. nissioner
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    89 5 MALAYA'S FIRST DIPLOMATS v Malayans will complete a training course in Australia m foreign service national relations. The course has been provided by the A"*™ 1" Bt h,. Colombo Plan to assist the Government of Malaya to h t« r'niid I ive will return to Malaya on May 21. prior
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    Lock icon SALESMAN WONG IS CLEARED OF FRAUD
    352 5 SALESMAN WONG IS CLEARED OF FRAUD WONG Peng Hong, a sales representative, of an oil company, was yesterday acquitted in a Singapore District Court of two charges of cheating, and a third of using a forged document. Hi] counsel' Mr. Denis Murphy, submitted that Wong had been "taken for a
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    211 5 sdjklkfhgj AND SPURN COMPANY'S SACK PAY' TWO hundred retrenched rubber packers of the Dunlop Rubber Packing Company in Singapore the majority of them women yesterday staged a "sit down" strike in front of the company's godown in Keppel Road. Grouped together on the road from
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    185 5 DISMISSAL ROW No. 2 THE Inter-Services and NAAFI Unions Action Committee, yesterday urged the Admiralty in Singapore to re-open negotiations with the Naval Base Labour Union over dismissal notices served on 415 dockyard employees. The Committee, consisting of representatives cf Services Unions
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    76 5 GIRL WITH $3 MILLION TO SPEND FLIES IN A 25 YEAR-OLD girl with 53,000.000 to spend flew into Singapore yesterday by Qantas-BOAC airliner. SHE IS Valeric Olive Browne of Sydney, Austra- lia. HER JOB: Watch-buyer for a leading: Australian firm. Hopping: round the world by air each year, she buys
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    Lock icon Customs Man Stabbed In House Raid
    91 5 A SINGAPORE Customs officer was knifed during a raid on a smuggler's den in Jalan Besar. at dawn yesterday. The officer. Low Lian Tee. one of a party of ten officers who raided the house was attacked by about 20 men armed with parangs,
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    133 5 ENCOURAGE CIVIC PRIDE, SAYS M.B. JOHORE BAHRU. Mon Volunteer information officers in Johore were today exhorted by the Deputy Mentri Besar, Inche Abdul Rahman Din Musa, to aim at self-reliance and encourage civic consciousness among their people in kampongs. The Deputy Mentri Besar was speaking at a civic course attended
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    Lock icon Three Thugs Rob Couple
    51 5 A COURTING couple was held up and robbed of cash and jewellery by three thugs, one of whom was armed with a dagger in College Road, Singapore, on Sunday night. The thugs after taking $15 from the man, Chong Kee Yin. took his companion's watch and
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    35 5 THE 34th (Perak House) Sea Scout Group will hold a variety concert on Saturday at 8.30 p.m. at the Singapore Badminton Hall under the patronage of the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock.
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    85 5 TWO ofT*ccrs of the Australian Soeietv of Accountants the President, Mr. O. H. Paton. and the General Registrar. Mr. C- W. Andersen are scheduled to arrive m Singapore by air on Thursday on a week's visit. Their visit is being sponsored by the Australian government under
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    63 5 THE Singapore Art Society will present its first exhibition of pictoriai photography b y its members at the British Counci 1 Hall on Friday at 5.30 p.m. The exhibition will be opened b.y the Director of Information Services, Mr. G. G. Thomson, and will contain prints which have
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    52 5 A FIREWOOD dealer. Lav Lai Choo. 60. was yesterday fined $500, in default one month's jail, by a Singapore Court on a charge of stealing firewood worth $100 belonging to Tay Low Hong. The offence was alleged to have been committed on several occasions at Aljuneid' Estate.
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    44 5 SOHAN SINGH, 39, was tentatively charged in a Singapore Court with the murder of Adnan bin Hadari at the 4J. Mile, Bukit Timah Road, on May 17. He was ordered remanded in the Criminal Investigation Department lock-up until May 27.
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    190 5 ALL Singapore music lovers who are free o/i Thursday, May 23 can take advantage of a special musical programme which is being put on at the Oei Tiong Ham Hall, St. Joseph's Institution The programme is beinrj arranged by the Singapore Recorded Music
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    807 6 Should S'pore merge with the Federation? TN the days when Singapore was a British colony and Malaya a British Protectorate, the two territories were regarded as one and the question of a merger did not arise. But with the approach of Independence and the establishment of separate governments, the two
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      559 6 MANY eulogies have been paid to Federal Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman but none so succinct and true as the one appearing in the last issue of the London Sunday Times describing him 4 "a simple, friendly man who unburdens his soul to anyone of any status
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      376 6 ]N recent weeks Alliance Ministers, in enthusiastically painting a glorious picture of Malaya after merdeka. underlined the importance of encouraging foreign investments in this country. So long as the Alliance Government is in power we have no doubt it will do all it can to create the right
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    990 6 Barefoot up the holy mountains HISTORIAN EN ROWTTV. VWWAWW vv-vwwvv I Another article in this new series by Arnold j <:Toynbee, the greatest living historian, who J writes on his recent visit to South Asia, by especial arrangement J I with the OBSERVER. WWW, rt\u\\J lAS our wheels sw T
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    597 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME ASTER GUNASEKERA By "THIS column has had the privilege of reading the memorandum the Income Tax Payers' Association has forwarded to Government drawing attention to anomalies in the Ordinance and suggesting amendments. It is a very illuminating document which shows that the sole purpose
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      172 6 Sir—I was much amused to read a news item that "Years don't count for S.I.T. houses." So that explains, it would seem, why very young secondary and tertiary wives of towkays get S.I.T. flats while people like me wait for so many years that we don't care any
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      202 6 Sir I must commend you for your editorial on hawkers but I must add that coffee shops are as filthy as some of the drains fronting them. My complaint is against the coffee shops in the Katong area. The floors are as black as coal, and I
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      193 6 Sir —In your Kaaue of May 9, certain statements about the future of the Colonial Development Corporation were incorrectly attributed to me. You will, I am sure, wish to know that the position is, briefly, as follows. At the end of November, 1956, CDC was told by the
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    241 7 THE Duke of Edinburgh stepped out a flame-and-cream glider after an eight-minute flight yesterday and said: "Exhilarating! It was terrific! Turning to Peter Collier, 31. the instructor who flew with him over m Gloucestershire, the™ Duke added: "What a grand feeling gliding gives
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    264 7 'They Hope Broken Their Word Too Many Times 9 Radford Discounts Soviet Plans For Disarmament WASHINGTON, May 20, (AP)— Admiral Arthur W. Radford, the administration's senior military adviser, yesterday voiced blunt distrust of Russian disarmament proposals advanced at London. '■We cannot trust the Russians on
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    52 7 ST LOUIS, Missouri, May 20 (AP)!— The body of a dead identified as CharLes A 24, Chicago was found yesterday In a dil h on the out kirts of st Lo The body had three bullet holes. Police said they suspect A<lams was killed by a
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    253 7 T.V. Bloomer Delights Yorkshire Audience LONDON, May 20, (Reuter) Commercial television executives today are to investigate a "technical hitch" which led to British viewers being advised to clean their teeth with a sausage. One mil. ion viewers in the County of Yorkshire on Saturday night
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    165 7 KARLSRUHE, Germany, May 2ft (AP).— French and Germans joined in a pledge for Lasting friendship betw< their war-torn countries when a Frcr, h-Gcrman blood donor exchange programme went underway hero yesterday between the cities of Nr-r.\ Karlsruhe "Donate blood bul go not shed it-" wai
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    61 7 MANILA. May 20. (AP)— A chief teller for a Manila bank went berserk in suburban Quezon City las: night, killing his .six children and critically wounding his wife before he committed suicide. Police identified the man as Vicente Angeles, 31. chief teller of the Commercial Bank
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    186 7 MELBOURNE, May 20, (Reuter)— Some Australians in Antarctica had to be spoken to fairly roughly before they would eat seals, penguins and other birds. A hint had to be dropped, in fac.. that they were "a bit sissy." With this went another hint that such
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    178 7 BRISTOL. Rhode Island, May 20 (AP). Another attempt to find a North-West passage through -.he Arctic to link the Pacific and AtlanticOceans started here yesterday. The iao-foot coast guard cutter Spar, cheered on by 1,500 well- wishers, cast off lines on the first
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    89 7 L V X E N S, Pennsylvania. May 20 (UP)— A 21-year-old mother dropped her two-year-old son to his death in a 70--foot well last Saturday because her children "irritated" her. police said. The body of the child. Michael Schmink. was found in 10 feet
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    38 7 CHINA now has a network of 1,400 meteorological stations, stretching from Tibet to Mongolia and Northern Manchuria. Peking Radio reported. This is nearly 21 times as many as when the Communists took control in 1949. Reuter
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    126 7 Dog Saves Stranded, Sick Man BAILEY, Colorado, May 20 (UP). A 75-year-old man who suffered a stroke in his isolated mountain cabin was recovering today after his shaggy black-and-white dog trotted four miles with a note on his collar appealing for help. The dog trotted into this mountain community yesterday
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    172 7 BERLIN. May 20 (UP). East German Communists today told restive students they will be punished if they ignore a ban on travel to the West. The Communist Party newspaper News Deutschland said "every student who falls into the trap (of Western trips) despite
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    21 7 REDS fired thirty shells at Quemov on Sunday but caused no damage or casualties, the Defence Ministry reported. A.P.
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    107 7 OREVILLE, California, May 20. (AP) A woman who had been trapped with her husband's corpse in a wrecked automobile nearly 40 hours was rescued yesterday. Mrs. Alice Deamicis. 36, was semi-conscious, and able to answer questions only by writing. Her husband, Thomas Deamicis. 53,
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      190 9 N m company of concrete manufacturers supply engineers plan to expand their activities in Malaya. Mr. X.B.C. Milburn. managln| director of Concrete Industries (Australia) Ltd. and subsidiary companies operatine all over Australia, is conducting a survey o£ .ness potential in Malaya. Ceylon, the Philippines and
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      78 9 K Firms' Interest In Our Products r r S of j in the Unit I I D the the ttw ot E ir, now new -erred n g ol n a.- 1 8 of 111 J. si r v. IQ is c al to answer and I I tremendou k
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      24 9 I of intent tnd d R o 3:azil, say- Itf n in Bra U is :onsi lered nportanl i
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      14 9 SHIP ORDER OR U.K. YARD I" v have or I from S n Rich
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      16 9 LM t. ika PinI j Malb., Ayer M Hill San i 39 554 lb.
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    231 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported l^ p f' .lowing business jrestei lay: CIS 4 arrival; Fed odd lot F N ords (2 40 $2 42): tiammoi ll.fi kM and tod iv; Ham- fll UK Bai k $900; Hume >day; R "ins m ords $1 80 I < tod Sime
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    82 9 SHORT covering for China orders for July shipment was reported in the Singapore rubber market yesterday. Rubber closed' at 91 J cents per IK for International first grade June shipment in Singapore yesteruay, cent below Friday, The market was quiet for most of the
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    49 9 INDUSTRIALS were steady U) firm on the Malayan share market yesterday There were fractional gains on an improved turnover. There was a wide turnover in tin 3 but prices were irregular. Rubbers were dull. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were. sdlkgjlkjdf
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    85 9 BRITAIN produced a weekly average ol 277,400 tons of pig iro n in April a new record output 200 tons a week higher than the previous highest cutput, which was established the previous month. It represented an annual output rate of 14,--425.000 tons. Steel ingot
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    230 9 U.S. PLANT PRODUCES ONE-MILLIONTH TON SYNTHETIC ONE oi the world's largest synthetic rubber plants produced its onemillionth ton yesterday, according to an AP cabled leport from New York. The Firestone Tire Rubber Company said today its plant, located at Lake Charles Louisiana, is now capable' of producing 190.000 tons of
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    172 9 'Impose Export Tax On P.I. Abaca For S'pore' A Philippine commercial attache said in Manila "the Philippine Government should impose export duties on abaca sent to Singapore and Hongkong in reprisal for restrictions on the entry of Manila hemp into Singapore." Mr. Amilhamja Tahil, Commercial Attache of the Philippine Consulate
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    34 9 THIS xvas the scene at London Airport recently when eighty American tourists took delivery of jorty British Triumph TR3 twoscatcr sports cars. The tourists had tloxcn irom New York in a specially chartered aircraft.
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    61 9 The Americans who paid US$l2O,OOO {or the cars before leaving New York are all members of the U.S. branch of the Triumph Sports Owners' Association. Alter taking delivery of their cars the Americayis set off on a rally of Europe. When the tour is over the
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    54 9 OCEAN shipments of rubber including latex, concentrated latex and revertex from Maia.va during April amounted to 75.940 tons against 81,387 tons in the previous month. This brings the total in the first four months of this year to 310.977 tons compared with 316.294 tons in the
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    104 9 A CONTRACT for the export of a further 700 tons tinplatc to Egypt has been concluded by the Yawata Iron and Steel Company, Japan, according to the magazine Tin This is the third contract entered into between the two countries since last December, provides for the export of
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    26 9 THE U.S Department of Agriculture has temporarily suspended its barter programme for the exchange of surplus farm products for strategic materials from other countries.
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    38 9 THERE has been a spectacular growth in the export of cocoa and coffee from Papua, New Guinea, in the past eight years. Cocoa and coffee growing was established in the territory as a reconstruction
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    131 9 "THE Story of Natural Rubber" an eight-page booklet just published by the Natural H or Development Board provides for introduction to the young of one of the world's most important raw materials. It was prepared with the co-operation of the National Committee for Visual Aids in
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    62 9 At the annual general meeting of the Indian Chamber of Commerce. Singapore, recently, Mr. D. T. Assomull, was re-elected chairman. Also elected to the management committee are: V.M.S. Abdul Razak Co.; X.D Vaswani Co.; J.T. Chanrai (Spore) Ltd.; Nomanbhoy Sons.; Panachand Co.; R. Jumabhoy Sons, Ltd.: Ranchordas Purshotam
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    27 9 BRITAIN'S Cable and Wireless company have opened a radio-telephone service between Ascension Island, in mid-South Atlantic, and its nearest neighbour, St. Helena, 800 miles away.
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    116 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday: New York: buying. T.T. 32 9/16. O.I). 32 11 '16, 90 days airmail 32 15/16 credit bills. 33 trade bills. Canada: buying. T.T. 31 3/16 Ol). 31 5/16. 90 days airmail 31 5/8
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    133 9 project after the Second World War. and the products of both ventures have now reached world quality. Big British and Australian chocolate firms are now establishing their own cocoa plantations in the area to make themselves independent of imports from other countries. Exports of cofTee from
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    116 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices Der pind vesterdnv were Coora, May/June $2511 buyers; $26£ sellers; coconut oil in bulk $41 sellers, in drums $45J sellers. Muntok white pepper $108 sellers, Sarawak white $107 .r r _s, Special Sarawak black $75. COFKA HOLIDAY CUTLER BATH CO.. LTD
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    45 9 A MECHANICAL bellows pump that will handle a wide range of highly corrosive fluids has been developed by a British firm. All parts of the pump coming into contact with the fluid are of the comparatively new plastic Fluon (Polytetrafluorethylene PTFE for short).
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    180 9 Paper On Bids For Estates An article in the London Financial Times has drawn attention to frequent bids for rubber plantations at the present time and said that Eastern buyers were ready to buy these estates and to pay high prices for them, according to a Reuter cable. "Malayan buyers
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    2066 10 At the turn of the century, Buckingham Palace was the centre of national unrest political crises, strikes and world depression. CHAPTER VI HISTORY without tears that's just what Elizabeth Morton, author of the ROYAL TOUR OF THE COMMONWEALTH, writes in her series on the great
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    92 10 ONLY 19 and beautiful Lillian Juhl-Madsen will M hi reprr mark at the Miss Europe contest at Baden-Eec Lillian was crowned Miss Denmark after the rerprf fl) •v.v^eiii election Hotel Marienlyst, Elsinore, Denmark, and here sk__ receiving the sash from British television star, Sabrinc to Copenhegen for
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    292 11 ENGLAND IN WORLD CUP FINALS j j >uitzerland, X -Scotland M («alf- r,. vpsterday 1 v ir chances; r the final World F00t- he held In Deaten Scot- -.Iv team j. record iry group -n. S'.vit- zerland held Spain to a diaw in their first meeting. The three teams play
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    219 11 alkjg;ls LONDON, May 20.— Dirk Tiger, who was the Nigerian in the woodpile as far as Terry Downes was concerned at Shoreditch, will be on the Harringay June 4 bill against an opponent to be named in the next few days. Downes's appearance at Harringay depends
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    162 11 Strict Medical Test For 'Test' Men MELBOURNE, May 19 (AP) Members of the Australian cricket side to tour South Africa will have to undergo stif* medical tests, the Australian Board of Control ruled today. All players will be examined by two doctors appointed by the board in the State in
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    96 11 Australian Tennis Rankings MELBOURNE, May 19 (Reuter) Lew Hoad, the Wimbledon champion, topped the rankings for 1957 announced today by the Australian Lawn Tennis Association. Omitted from the list was Mcrvyn Rose, a former Australian champion, who. the selectors said, could not be ranked because of insufficient play in Australia.
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    35 11 MADRID. May 20 (Reuter) Real Madrid, European Cup finalists, were eliminated from the Spanish soccer cup tournament yesterday by Barcelona, who beat them 6-1 in the second leg of a quarter-final match.
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    25 11 WARSAW, May 20 (Reuter) —Turkey beat Poland 1-0 yesterday in an International Football match here after leading by the same margin at halftime.
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    60 11 Canadian Wins Swim Marathon GUAYMAS. Mexico, May 20 (AP)— Tom Parks of Canada on Sunday won the 28-mile international swimming marathon with a time of 11 hours, 15 minutes, winning first prize of $2,400 (US). Greta Anderson of Denmark, 100-metre Olympic champion, who once swam 25 miles in 10 hours,
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    85 11 STOCKHOLM, May 19, (Reuter)— Ingemar Johansson of Sweden retained his European heavyweight boxing title by knocking out Challenger Henry Cooper (Britain) after two mins 47 sees of the fifth round here today. A vicious right to the chin sent Cooper crashing to the boards. He hardly stirred
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    66 11 SYDNEY, May. 20, (Reuter) George Barnes, Australia's British Empire Welterweight boxing champion, was outpointed here tonight by Clive Stewart, a promising Middleweight from Brisbane. Stewart held the advantage in weight, reach and age over Barnes, who was continually booed by the crowd for his lethargic display. Barnes is
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    197 11 Hoad In Great Form VIENNA, May 20 (APIAustralia's tennis ace Lewis Hoad 0 n Sunday won the Austrian international tennis championship by beating Jaroslav Drobnv of Egypt fi-3, 6-3, 6 3. in the men's singles. Hoad's wife Jennifer lost lo Vera Puzejova of Czechoslovakia 6-4. 6-1 in the women's final.
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    43 11 MOSCOW, May 19 (Rtuter.— Nina Otkalenko, Russian holder of the women's world 80U metres record, was beaten over the distance in Leningrad today. She was second to Eli>-av«»1« Yermolayeva who clocked 2 mins. 8.6 Bees. 3.6 sees, outsidp Otkalenko's world record.
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    213 11 Ampon Colleagues To Tour Australia MANILA, May 19. (UP)— The Philippines Davis Cup team will go to Australia late in November or early December to gain experience on grass tennis courts, it disclosed today. Members of the team are Raymundo Deyro, Felicisimo Ampon. Mike Dungo and Juan Maria JoseDr. Alfredo
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    75 11 WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, West Virginia, May 20, (AP)— E.J. (Dutch) Harrison, 48. finished with a SJ. strokes on Sunday eight under par to win the Sam Snead golf festival. The finish, one stroke over the old white cour-e competitive record, gave Harrison a total of 266, 14
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    22 12 Th:s is how they finished at Kuda Lumpur last Saturday, concluding day of the Selangor Turf Club's May Meet.
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    1416 12 Weights Probable Fields For Saturday FOLLOWTING are weights and probable starters for all eight races on Saturday (May 25). opening day of the Singapore Turf Club May/June meeting. Horses Class 1, Div. I— l Mile 210 Little Pappa 6y 9.02 United Stable R van B'kelen 897 Jolly Sailor 6y 8.12
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    113 12 LONDON, May 20 (Reuter) Close of play Cricket scores in today's matches were: At the Oval: Surrey won by eight wickets. Worcestershire 108 and 90. Lnek six for 21, Surrey 109 and 90 for two. May 51 v.ot out. At Coventry: Lancashire won by an innings
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    126 12 THE Mbscow Boxing Association has issued an invitation to the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association for a team of local boxers to participate in a series of exhibition bouts ther c _omo t:me in June this year. This was disclosed at the Annual Council Meeting of the Association
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    91 12 MOUNT Emily trounced Jollilsds 7-0 in a SAFA Div :<A league soccer match played at Geylang Stodiu m yesterday. Scorers for the winners were: Nasir bin Samsam (4), Mansor bin Alias, Salleh bin Ali and a 'gift' goal. Tha match was marred by rough play
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    250 12 Teenager To Restore British Golf Prestige LONDON May 20 (AP>— A calm, casuall.v-earbed 19-year-old boy i.« due to restore c prestige of British golf by nmg the amateur championship for the second straight year. When John Beharrell won the championship at Troon last year. he stirred memories of the young
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    110 12 IPOH. Mon Chamberlain tennis party beat Perak Chinese Recreation Club by four games to nil in a first rounc' tie of the Sultan's Cup tennis competition played on the P.C.R.C. courts yesterday. Results (Chamberlain players mentioned first): Foo Yoon Kai and Leong Siew Wens bt Lim Eng Keat
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    406 12 LONDON, May 20 (Reuter) Centuries by Clyde Walcott, who took his Saturday score of 72 not out to 117, and Garfield Sobers (101 not out) enabled the West Indies to declare their first innings closed at 337 for six on the second day
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    479 12  - Malaya's Triumph A Boost For Cricket ALEX SOARS By CALL it Graham Turner's luck which gave All Malaya the victory over Hongkong in Jhe cricket Test which ended in Kuala Lumpur on Suaday. But don't grudge your credit to the young Malayan skipper for a job well done. With time
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    85 12 THE touring Hongkonc cricket team will pla\ their last match in the country against the Singa pore Combined Services at Tanglin today. The match is a one day affair and play will commence at 11.00 a.m. Following are the two teams: HONGKONG F. Findlay lata P v
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      52 12 SOCCER S.A.F.A. League: Div. 1. Police S.A. vs. H.M. Dockyard at Jaian Besar Stadium at 5.15 p.m.: Div. 38. Bedok S.C. vs. Haikowyu S.C. at Farrer Park at 5.15 p.m.; Friendly soccer: Arsenal S.C. vs. 200 Provost Coy at Farrer Park. CRICKET Hongkong vs. Singapore Combined Services at Tanglin at
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