Singapore Standard, 24 May 1957

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    24 1 Singapore Standard £$%Z* ct J%, v^| rm^T n «NEIu 2 L4;r im Ml. V>. '-I SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1957 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon Queen At Royal Ballet
    50 1 COPENHAGEN, May 23, (AP) Britain's Queen Elizabeth 11, resplendent in satin and diamonds, joined Denmark's elite last night at a gala performance of the Royal Danish Ballet. The select audience cheered as the Queen entered with Prince Philip and Denmark's King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid.
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    Lock icon THE 'FLU BUG IS IDENTIFIED
    535 1 Mussie Expert 'Gets Down To The Root Of It AW b ELSE INHERE I 60 HAVE DIED IN P.I. toll in the influenza epidemic sweepm, n vesterflay ro>p to 60. But health ■a ported a decline in the number of cases The UUnbei had dropped
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    Lock icon Mac Plays Host To Tunku At Luncheon
    130 1 Mac Plays Host To Tunku At Luncheon LONDON. May 23 The British Prime Minister Mr. Harold Macmillan. was host today at a luncheon party for the Federation Chief Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, and members of the Merdeka delegation This was Mr. Macmil'lan's and the Tunku's first meeting since Mr. Macmillan
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    Lock icon TEACHERS FORCED TO SPY'
    49 1 m M 23 (AP)— f Lor i InB -to the nation's B ;re forcing :<t the Lord C: .a Labour P^er who was a wartime member of the Ministry of Home Security, asked for a nigh-level investigation into the methods used by the security men.
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    Lock icon ALL THESE PEOPLE MAKE PAGE ONE NEWS
    47 1 to SH GOVT. HIS DEED: QUIT WITH HIS GOVT. HIS HOST: PREMIER MACMILLAN HIS GUEST: THE CHIEF MINISTER HER DATE: A NIGHT AT THE BALLET y\K \l C. HWSEN im. X A FAGERHOLM THE TUNKU MR. H. MACMILLAK THE QUEEN
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    Lock icon SULTAN'S GUESTS TO LIVE IN BOAT HOUSES ON RIVER
    314 1  -  HARRY CHIA A Novel Way To Solve Problem: fßy IT UANTAN, Thurs. The lack of accommodation in the royal town of Fekan for the six hundred YIP guests of the Sultan of Pahang during his forth* coming Jubilee celebrations has been
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    Lock icon Premier Quits, Finland Faces Crisis
    94 1 Premier Quits, Finland Faces Crisis HELSINKI, May 23 (UP) Social Democratic Premier Karl-August Fagerholm presented his cabinet's resignation to President Urho Kekkonen today to plunge Finland into a government crisis just two weeks before a visit by Russia's leaders. A short, statement by the Stf.te Radio said only that the
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    Lock icon A-TESTS OFF FOR 8TH DAY
    51 1 ATOMIC TEST SITE. Nevada. May 23. (Reuter). High winds have caused the postpoDement for the eighth straight day of the opening shot in the summer-long atomic test series. The delay was announced after weather experts once again declined to takes chanc* on the turbulent upper
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    Lock icon Epidemic On The Decline
    79 1 THERE was a marked improvement in the 'iiu epidemic situation yesterday both in Singapore and the Federation. The Health Ministry in Singapore reported that out of a total of 1,670 patients attending the out-patients' department at General Hospital. on Wedne*day. 783 were diagnosed as suffering from
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    Lock icon REDS ATTACK MUAR PLANTER
    49 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. An assistant manager of Cralgielea Estate, in the Muar district of Johore. and his two Special Constable escort, were shot at by an unknown number of Communist terrorists yesterday. The assistant manager escaped, but- an Indian labourer was wounded in the arm.
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    Lock icon PREMIERS WANT H-TESTS BAN
    63 1 RANGOON. May 23. (Reuter)— The Japanese and Burmese prime ministers today signed a joint communique here calling for a ban on future nuclear tests. The communique was signed by U Nu and Mr. Kishi, one hour before the Japanese premier left for New Delhi. The two
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    Lock icon 32 DETAINED
    32 1 JAPANESE Police yesterday announced the arrest of 32 persons in Tokyo, including three American servicemen, on suspicion of stealing U.S. Army stores and disposing of them on the Japanese market.
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    Lock icon JETS FOR BOAC
    23 1 BRITISH Overseas Airways yesterday announced that it would order 35 "V.C. 10" turbojet airliners worth £68.000.000, from Armstrong Aircraft. U.P.
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    Lock icon FIRST CHINESE 'MADAME BUTTERFLY'
    49 1 FIRST CHINESE 'MADAME BUTTERFLY' Festival. LIU LI FEI. who will sin? "Madame Butterfly" at the Opera Comique in Paris next month, i s the first Chinese singer to interpret the role in the French capital. Liv Li Fei has just returned from a visit to the Cannes Film A.P.
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    Lock icon TRAIN MISHAP KILLS WOMAN
    66 1 A 57-YEAR-OLD woman was killed as a result of a train accident near Kampong Bahru, Singapore, yesterday. The driver of the train said that he saw a woman walking on the railway lines. He sounded his whistle, but the woman paid no heed. The injured woman
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    Lock icon Mao's Swim: A Current Attraction
    170 1 No Material For Olympics HONGKONG May 2.1 <AP) Welt Red Chinas boss. Mao Tse-tung is not the worlds fastest swimmer after all. The New China News Agency last Friday proudly announced that the chubby t>4-year-old Mao swam 20 kilometers (12} miles) across the Yangtze River
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    Lock icon NOT GUILTY OF SHOOTING PEEPING TOM
    115 1 NOT GUILTY OF SHOOTING PEEPING TOM TAIPEI, May 23 (Reuter)— Master Sergeant Robert G. Reynolds, 42, was today pronounced not guilty of voluntary manslaughter of a Chinese, Liv Chi Jan. whom he discovered peering Into his wife's bathroom late on the night of March 20. The verdict was pronounced by
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    Lock icon CHAPLIN'S SIXTH
    28 1 MONA O'NEILL CHAPLIN. 31, wife of veteran comedian Charlie Chaplin. 68, entered the Montchoisi Clinic In Switzerland yesterday for the birth of her sixth child U.P.
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    Lock icon PRIEST JAILED
    32 1 PAPACHERALAMBOS Kyriscou, 62-year-old priest was sentenced to three years in jail by Nicosia Special Court on Wednesday on charges of making his house available as a hideout for rebels. A.P.
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    Lock icon ALL FIVE DEAD
    27 1 A REPORT from the isolated mountain village of Cosala, Mexico, says a 14-year-old Mexican girl gave birth to quintuplets recentl babies are dead-— A.P.
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    Lock icon Merdeka: 'You Won't Get It Just Yet' Boyd Tells Nigerians
    215 1 LONDON, May 23 (AP) Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd warned today that Britain will not give automatic approval to Nigerian demands for immediate self-government and full statehood by 1959. He tcld a 43-member Nigerian delegation at the opening session of a
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    Lock icon Hansen Asked To Form New Danish Govt.
    126 1 Hansen Asked To Form New Danish Govt. COPENHAGEN. May 23 (Reuten King Frederik of Denmark yesterday asked Mr Hans Christian Hansen the Acting Prime Minister, to try to form a coalition government in an attempt to break the political deadlock following last week's general elections. The leaders of Denmark's six
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    Lock icon Big Hunt For Rebels Starts In West Java
    196 2 JAKARTA, May 23 (Reuter) The Army Chief of Staff, Major General Abdul Haris Nasution, and the Prime Minister, Dr. Djuanda Kartawidjaja, who is also acting Defence Minister, left today for a survey tour of military operations against rebels and other outlaws active
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    160 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING ni Dber price* (cents per Ib) In Sin*a pore ?esterd:iv were:— Bu?ers Seller* Spot S9l 89* lnt June RS S No 1 895 904 R.S.S. No 2 88* 89* R.S.S No 3 87 2 88i Tone: Barely steady. The price of tin oo the 'oral market vesierdaj
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    Lock icon DEATHS
    52 2 \ERIA Major William Athelitan .-i ed away peacefully after i ihort tDnesi a* the General Hosj: '3l on 23rH May. 19 5 Cortege »il] leave 18 Irra- I at 430 rm. Today 24\n Ma for burial set vice at Bidadar Cwnetery then Cremation it Japanese Cretnatoriuna at Yio Chu
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    Lock icon HEAVY RAINS CAUSE 26 DEATH
    307 2 6,000 Apply For H| Government Assistant HONGKONG, May 23 (UP)— The death toll in Honqk day long rainstorms rose from Wednesday's 11 to 26 todoy Fourteen of the dead were unearthed from a landsOne more body was recovered from a squatters' village the crown colony.
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    Lock icon Two Die In Row Over Homework
    117 2 NEW YORK. May 23, (AP) —A 14-year-old boy, enraged by an argument over his school homework, killed his mother and sister last night with a .22 calibre rifle, police said. The boy's father. Eugene Casey, -telephoned police headquarters and frantically pleaded "Send a policeman.
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    Lock icon Moscow-Peking Railway Link
    57 2 HONGKONG. May 23 fAP> —The train line linking Red China and the Soviet Union through Outer Mongolia was opened to passenger traffic yesterday when the first train left Moscow for Peking through Mongolia"* capital. Ulan Bator. Peking Radio reported today. It takes ten days to complete the
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    Lock icon Newsman Freed Of Murder Rap
    64 2 NICOSIA. May 23 (Reuter) NlcOS Sampson. 22- car-r' I Greek Cypri' 4 j .-nalist. was a luitU E charge of murdering British Poli c ear.: .Tohn Thorougho last Septeml r Judge Bernard Shaw bad ruled that an alleged c sion by Sampson wa si c
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    Lock icon MEETING OF KINGS
    34 2 photo. KING Saud of Saudi Arabia left and Kins: Feisal of Iraq, seen embracing at Baghdad airport as Kin? Sand takes leave of his host following a recent state visit. A.P.
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    Lock icon He Will Hang 18 Miles In Mid-Air
    140 2 ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico, May 23 (AP) Within the next 48 hours a young U.S. Air Force officer will hang suspended in a sealed capsule 18 miles above the carth higher than man has ever ascended before by balloon and remain at that altitude
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    Lock icon Two Girls Die In A 'Frig
    70 2 CAMPBELL, New York, May 23 (AP). The lifeless bodies of two young sister? were found yesterday in a closed refrigerator on a patio of their farm home Police said the little girls. aged six and four, apparently suffocated when the refrigerator door swung shut
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    Lock icon DIEM BACK
    20 2 VIETNAM President Ngo Dinh Diem returned home yesterday from his two-week official visit to the United States. U.P.
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    Lock icon Well Invest In The C'wealth' -Says Mac
    267 2  - Well Invest In The C'wealth' -Says Mac ANDREW ROTH From LONDON. Thurs— The Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, was expected to assure today the Federation ministers that Britain would continue to invest heavily in the Commonwealth despite his increasing interest in European trade. "The more we can earn by our
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    Lock icon Police Warn Ships Of Escapee
    122 2 Police Warn Ships Of Escapee LONDON. May 23 (Reuter) Police watched all ships leaving London for continental Europe today in case Bill "Foxy" Fowler, an escaped convict, tried to get abroad. They have been told that a man, believed to be Fowler, tried to book a passage to Rotterdam aboard
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    Lock icon 500 Women Want To Shave Their Heads
    134 2 SYDNEY, May 23 (AP)— More than 500 women jammed the telephone switchboard of a Sydney television station yesterday and today offering to undergo a Yul Brynner haircut. The women volunteered to have their heads shaved on the TV programme "It Pays to be
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    Lock icon PRISON SUICIDE
    41 2 OSCAR HUGO BURST. 47. slated to die in San Quer gas chamber today for shooting to death his write and stepson in 1954. committed suicide early yesterday by ashing his threat with a piece of a mirror, —A P.
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    Lock icon Convict Pulls A Fast One
    74 2 Convict Pulls A Fast One NV.OU j-, j f (>! f *arri. d^ t'on-widf sparrt I u>t a >ounelS X «alked mi Til da 5 early hi th< nanv i oU JJI niJmhrr hu^ Thr Wt-behlM Koichi Ohasl J him i, identities f *S COUlf] (USSIJS,. m(n( w J h.
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    Lock icon Nishi Talks With Nehru
    44 2 NE W DE L <Reuter!— JsMr. 1 minu: Indian Prime- MiSj Nehru. It i discu I the i to i j -'nor to Kishl to .3 from Mr Gandhi's Cremataw wl i wreat] v greeted Mr X arrived at the
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    Lock icon Death Answered The Classified
    124 2 WATERBURY. Connecticut. May 23 (AP) Handsome George J. Davies yesterday confessed his second sex slaying, police said. This was a victim he picked out of the classified ads of a newspaper* The 38-year-old paroled sex offender told' rx>lice he strangled and then thrust a screwdriver into
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      30 2 CARLSBERG BREWERIES HONOURED A report from Reuter states that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have just visited the Carlsberg Breweries m Copenhagen during their state visit to Denmark.
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    Lock icon SOLDIER CHARGED WITH RAPE, INDECENT ASSAULT
    370 3 SOLDIER CHARGED WITH RAPE, INDECENT ASSAULT Alleged Offences In Nee Soon Jungle' AN eight-year-old girl told a Singapore General Court Martial yesterday that she was walking with another girl in a "jungle" in Nee Soon, when she met a soldier with a missing tooth, who said: "Shall we do rude
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    Lock icon A ton of tea in a ditch
    64 3 A ton of tea in a ditch ,or 1 Iril-l! I, i rix' r I W* WWo 5t o5 UUBI P St s"^ WMlied lnt '> a monsoon ditch in Neil T h s VnH r In; L A^ ChB S u:ls to the General Hospital with serious i I
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    Lock icon Promoter Cheated 14 Out Of $4,255, Court Told
    228 3 Promoter Cheated 14 Out Of $4,255, Court Told Taxi-Dancer Testifies In Tontine' Case —A B I In Z today I a "tontine jppeared. ni veen to have bewould r a "tontine." r wffani?£ I a tine" < i nencing on '*l an s end on Api The j and bad
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    Lock icon 'Boy Drove Car while Under Ban
    45 3 'Boy Drove Car while Under Ban h ausTA" v k iil. oi Kainr ill mortded guilts Court k .-.an. chars bout a ..out a without con- le owner. n. he was dlsh ling a z officer. Chief Kirn S thai r i li B M
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    Lock icon Governor Heads Jap Mission
    25 3 Governor Heads Jap Mission )R hen led n trade v in a :othat the s en to get a ountar vl Bum „o Colom r
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    Lock icon Cut For Principals' Allowances
    46 3 Cut For Principals' Allowances t 'ES for principals illy-aided will be cv: v x| January. k- r Education, Mr. said that I tke this t that salaries p. oo is I n sch k>l Mr Chew Swee i. salailded Chin- n A be less ai now.
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    27 3 Three bin ran, 23. of S Sivaneo- New Awang, B ng, wore Magisfailing to Commi;- I ler- '^j p<Ji! poned tc
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    Lock icon HAUNTED BY GHOSTS,' SO HE SLASHED HIS THROAT
    180 3 TIIL WIFE of a man who was found slashed toM a Singapore Coroner yesterday tli.u hrr husband had complained of being "haunted bj ghosts.** Ml Gian Chong Hing. t!ie coroner, returm a .i verdict of suicide on a rubber tapper oTerseer, Peter
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    Lock icon Cleared Of Assault Charge
    57 3 BENTONG, Thurs Police Corporal Ahmad bin Idns. 34. i Police Station was today cleared of a charge f assaulting a rubber tapper by Magistrate Raja Azlan Shah. Lee Kail, the tapper, alleged that Ahmad slapped him in the fare. Corporal Ahmad i the charge and produced
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    Lock icon Detained For Attack On Girl
    31 3 BENTONG. Tburs. Police revealed this morning that an M-your- M schoolgirl was attacked y > man yesterday in \ang Village near here. A man has been detained.
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    Lock icon They Killed Top Red'
    67 3 MEMBERS of "A" Company, Sixth Malay Regiment, J led by Capt. Abdul Wahab (standing second from left) J which killed Ah Fatt, State Committee Secretary of the J Communist terrorist organization, the highest-ranking Communist terrorist in Selangor on Tuesday. The Director of Operations Lt. General Sir
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    Lock icon Sergeant At Arms Wanted
    61 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Federation Government is looking for a suitable person to be appointed Sergeant-At-Arms of the Federal Legislative Council to replace Lt.-Col Raja LoDt Nor Rashid bin Raja Abdul Rahim, who retn'ed this month. Raja Lope's retirement was due to his recent appointment as
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    Lock icon Chain Lands Ex-Constable In Jail
    138 3 BENTONG. Thurs. The bicycle chain has become a favourite assault weapon in the Bentong district, Raja Azlan Shah, the West Pahang Circuit Magistrate, was told today. This statement was made by Court Prosecutor, Inspector Chong Choo Chye. when he urged the Magistrate to pass a
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    Lock icon Lim's Figures Are Wrong, He Says
    183 3 Lim's Figures Are Wrong, He Says FIGURES of unemployed in Singapore given in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday by the Chief Minister Mr. Lim Yew Hock are misleading, Mr. G. Sundaraju, exchairman of the Singapore Unemployment Society told the Standard yesterday. "According to Mr. Lim Yew Hock, there are only
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    Lock icon Firemen Want Council To Include Occupation Period In Their Service
    177 3 FIRE brigade employees in Singapore want the City Council to include the Japanese occupation period in their services even though they had not reported for duty during that time, i The Fire Brigade Employees Union yesterday said that the Council's
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    Lock icon PETTING: IT'S NOT TRUE
    186 4 We're Not So Low —Students MALACCA, Thurs. Senior students of English schools here are indignant over allegations that "teenage lovers" are nightly committing indecent acts at the Coronation Park. One student. "Billy" Chew said the allegations by Settlement Councillor, Inche Hasnul bin Abdul Hadi. cast unfair
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    Lock icon HE CELEBRATES 19th BIRTHDAY
    39 4 Stanctaropic 1 by As his friends look on 19-year-old Chia Kear Cheong blows out the candles of his birthday cake at a party in his home in Jalan Kemuning. Kuala Lumpur last weekend. Yong Poh
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    Lock icon C'wealth Has Great, Healing Role To Play
    165 4 C 'wealth Has Great, Healing Role To Play LORD ELTON THE COMMONWEALTH has a great and healing role to play in order to save mankind from tensions and fears, Lord Elton, Vice-President of the Commonwealth Day Movement, stated in a message last night. Lord Eiton. who issued the message on
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    Lock icon Queen's Birthday
    85 4 TICKETS for seats at the Queen's Birthday Parade at the Padang on June 13 at 7.30 a.m.. will be allotted to the public according to priority of application. A.- the scats available are limited, no one applicant will be granted more than three tickets (one scat per ticket).
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    145 4 Air Link' Is SEATO's Next Exercise SEATO exercise "Air Link" Is expected to enhance the defensive military preparedness of SEATO nations against aggression, a Far East Air Force release said yesterday. Lieutenant General Surajit Charuseni. Vice-Chief ot Staff of the Royal Thai Army. will be Director of the exercise, which
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    23 4 THE Postmaster General, Malaya, announced yesterday that 'a new postal agency was opened at Pantai Rexnis in Perak on May 8.
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    Lock icon Colony Salesman Is Put On Probation
    151 4 A FORMER textile salesman of Getz Brothers, Lav Siew Tian?, 31, was told by Mr. Justice Whitton at the Singapore Assizes yesterday to "take advantage of the leniency shown" to him. Lav was put- on a year's probation. He pleaded guilty to using as
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    Lock icon Move To Have Annual Meet In Colony
    80 4 Move To Have Annual Meet In Colony THE next meeting of the Labour Front Central committee will consider a suggestion that the next year's conference of Labour and Socialists Parties of the British Commonwealth be held in Singapore. This year's conference opens in London on May 27. The conference aims
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    Lock icon Charged With Extortion
    45 4 VAN SONG KIN. 55. pleaded not guilty in a Singapore Court yesterday to a charge of extorting $4,300 from Woo Wing Huen at Mosque Street on March 9. Bail of $5,000 was allowed, and the case postponed to May 30 for mention.
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    Lock icon RAF Man Charged With Negligence
    118 4 RAF Man Charged With Negligence FT. LT. A E. D. Murray of the Royal Air Force. Changi, was charced in the First Traffic District Court yesterday with causing the death of a trishaw-rider by a negligent act, not amounting to culpable homicide. An eye-witness, Thomai Woo, told the Court that
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    Lock icon Motorist Pleads Guilty To Four Charges
    149 4 OUEK Tinff Khoo, a motorist of Arab Street, pleaded guilty to four traffic charges when he appeared before the Second Traffic Magistrate, Mr. K. C, Chan, Quek was charged with (1) carrying a pillion passenger while he was a holder of a provisional motor-cycle
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      457 4 Standard cJltmanac Information at a Glance lIMCAPORE TIME TIDE ilri Ji IMnJnriffl B T °t D Y 2 3 Si m ga ?68 e f t 6 25 am <6-1 General Overseas Service: fM^iS i!Hlr*H TOMORROW- S:ngapore 7.51 am. Everybodys^usinessT 5.10 From Q§mfmfti£^Be MWMk 2 8 m c Editorials; 515
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    Lock icon THE $2,000,000 FIRE RIDDLE
    422 5 CHEMISTS PROBE SMOULDER INC RUINS OF WEDNESDAY NIGHT'S BLAZE Mother and 4 children escaped from burning building with onlg three minutes to spare THE origin of the fire which gutted five two-storey buildings in Cecil Street on Wednesday night and caused damage to goods and property
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    Lock icon KOH PINS BLAME ON HOOLIGANS
    104 5 KOH PINS BLAME ON HOOLIGANS Iposfer foul play sting the Sj: Pagar by-elec-fll pendent m an orgaj ..ere jKji e'.ec|fl|x. .itv c e rX act i'r.Q J[ ght 1 b 1 1 M I H poster br H ill put qp 1 I m Mr H pie's I ty) Lib.-Soc.).
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    Lock icon NEW HEAD OF COLONY SGTA
    32 5 I Kheofl was the Singaers' Assoa r- ting bdkd Vice-Pr«-E w Jesudascw in Jook Clek; Ir TP. Naidu; Ahciul X na, C S. D Kb ng, M.A.
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    19 5 Case Against Employee Tan Bah B.h, an tru- i In I, and l.v I Tne •-c up for mention
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    18 5 I Service: of the I' $16 76 51 ***** Malaya $1; tan Rup--5 to a taei.
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    186 5 BRAGA ANSWERS HIS JAPAN VISIT CRITICS THE Japanese Government is keen to help Singapore in "'anything that we may require and which they <n supply," Mr. A. J. Braga, Minister for Health, told Standard yesterday. i He "I have heard iment from
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    34 5 A PUB I on on "The Pla v and Culture Development of a MalaN Uon M wi'i be held at the She I Theatrette, Coiiwv cj 're. at 7 Dwlll tomOR fW,
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    25 5 THE Sii t :>ore branch of Royal A Society w ill 11 fourth am meeting and dinner at the Airport Hotel on Thursday.
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    Lock icon LIM OFF TO GENEVA ON SATURDAY
    136 5 LIM OFF TO GENEVA ON SATURDAY SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. Una Vow Hock, will leave Singapore tomorrow for Geneva to attend the Internationa] Labour Organisati conference to I c held from June 5 to June 28. Two other Singapore delegates, Mr. L. C. Gob, Pert Secretary to the Ministry of
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    Lock icon Flu Puts Off Variety Show
    49 5 The International A!l-?tar Variety. "Kaberay." sponsored by the Katonft Labour Front In aid of the X-Ray Club anc; other charities, has been postponed from June l to July 7, owing to the prevailing Influenza epidemic. Tickets sold will be valid for the new date,
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    Lock icon Two More Days For Registration
    100 5 Two More Days For Registration ONLY REGISTERED children will be admitted into Primary One in Eng'ish schools next year, the Singapore Education Ministry stated yesterday. Parents nrc advised that there are only two more days, tomorrow, and June I—for1 for th c registration of children born in L 949 and
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    76 5 MR. Justice Knight in the Singapore High Court yesterday, dismissed a claim brought by Madam LJm Phiak Eng for damages against the Singapore Traction Company for the death of her 11-year-old son, Low Kirn Lee. The boy died as a result of BO -iiient at Kallang
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    177 5 An exponent of the art of voodoo ONE of America's most famous dancing stars will comp to Singapore next month, thus marking the fir.st of a future succession of talent and also a new Impresario who will bring famous entertainment names to the city. The
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    51 5 New Colony Hospital MINISTER for Health. Mr. A. J. Braga, will lay the foundation stone of Singapore's first Chronic Diseases Hospital at the sth milestone, Thomson Road, on June 3 at 5.15 p.m. The hospital is estimated to cost $4,650,000 and will have 240 beds, Mr. Braga told the Standard
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    252 5 MERCHANT LOST $10,000 -ALL HE HAD my cubicle collapse with a muffled roar.'' Madam Ang's husband is still at sea. Her children and herself have been found temporary shelter with friends Mr S. P. Samy, who lost $10,000 in the fire told the Standard: "I have been in business for
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    171 5 j 1 Other By-Election News THE Liberal Socialist candidate fighting the Tanjong Pagar by-election, Mr. Chong Wee Ling, will campaign for better employer-employee relationships in Singapore This is one of the main planks in Mr. Chong's manifesto- The others: 0 Industrial peace in the
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    20 5 THE Ben Line announced yesterday that they have received instructions to route the Benvorlich via the Suez Canal.
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    106 5 'I DID NOT MAKE THIS STATEMENT,' SAYS EX-CLERK WONG Wai Hong, a former clerk employed in the Singapore Police Force, has written to the Standard pointing out that he did not make the statement attributed to him in connection with a court case published in yesterday's issue of the Standard.
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      522 6 '"THE Singapore Government, as a result of a resolution passed by the Legislative Assembly, is to set up a committee to review the present Income Tax Ordinance. A bid to get an independent investigation of the whole incidence of income tax on the ground that there were
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      327 6 ]^[ALAYA"S Communist-inspired Chinese students should take careful note of what is happening in their homeland Radio Peking, in reporting on a youth congiess now in session in the Red China capital, reveals that students in Yunnan Province had gone on strike when they discovered that they
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    1084 6 Historian en route: VII Arnold Toynbee gives another "impression" of his visits to South j Asia in this new series VT^HAT a characteristic scene of modern life in this age of technology —the mouth of a gorge to be blocked with a dam. A diversionary tunnel has
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    865 6  - Atoms for Peace in hazard Patrick O' Donovan By WASHINGTON 'pHE International Ato--1 mic Energy Agency— which hides behind its ponderous Latinisms a potent source of hope for a better world has stumbled on the threshold of its career. At the last moment a powerful segment of Congress has found
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    101 6 r PfFO attractive series of stamps are to be issued next month by the Luxembourg Post Office. One honours Lord Badcn-Poicell and comprises two stamps bearing his portrait and the insignia of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements. The other series publicises the children's hospital which is
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    525 6  -  ASTER GUNASEKERA By rpRADE UNION leaders in the Federation have given an assurance that foreign capital in an independent Malaya would be given a fair deal free from Industrial unrest and unreasonable demands. The reason for this assurance is the conviction that "without capital
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      106 6 Gi ;>■ E really did r subscribe I !T! v (i NON Singar Sir— The proposed building of the hospital by the British European Association "for use by Europeans and others leading or accepting a Western way rf life" is a clear indication of the mentality of the
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    235 7 Warmonger' Cry parks West German Parliament Row Miv ?3, (Reuter)— A cry of "warmonger" t iMposition benches last night plunged the E LewCff House of Parliament into a tumult its md counter-shouts during a debate on r ii.i tes. r leger, for Dr Konrad Adenauer's Drmoc MM that the Social
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    164 7 Aly Rita: It's Better Late Than Never... I I GENEVA, May 23. (AP)— The Geneva cantonal tribunal granted actress Rita Hayworth a divorce from Aly Khan yesterday. Rita divorced Aly in Nevada and has .since married and divorced singer Dick Haymes, but the Nevada divorce from Aly has never been
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    87 7 WARSAW. May 23, (Reuter) —Poland's Ministry of Culture last nislu announced new contract conditions for State opera singers and ballet dancers which should lcavo them f-eer to take outside engagements and travel abroad. From July 1. the singers and dancers In Poland's five State opera houses
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    353 7 Did Eire's De Valera Back The Wrong Horse?' BELFAST, Northern Ireland, May n (Reuter)— The faited States n Irish Repufc terted yesterday thai was accumulatrv.de nee to support view thai Mr. Eamon De Valera believed Hitler would win the war. even before the fall o£ France in 1940. The American
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    34 7 FIRE which broke out in a plastic factory destroyed five factories and eicht houses in Tokyo ear'v yesterday morning. A fireman was seriously injured when gasoline cans exploced in the fire. Reuter.
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    231 7 NEW YORK. May 23, (AP) Eleanor Dulles, special State Department aide on German affairs, said last nicht Russia will never be able to seize Berlin either by frightening the Western •allies or by harassing the German population of the divided city. The Soviet Government's taiiure
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    67 7 PRETORIA. South Africa, May 23 (Reuter) The Transvaal Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church has decided to ban San: a Claus and all his trappings from future festivities of the church. These include lighted Christmas trees in church and the holding of "carols by
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    147 7 Press Conference Was A Hoax BOMBAY, India, May 23, (UP) Roberto Rossellini flew suddenly to New Delhi last night while newsmen waited for a Press conference at the hotel where he and Indian beauty Sonali Das Gupta were living. A woman identifying herself as Sonali
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    252 7 'We Are Out Of Step With The Rest Of The World* WASHINGTON, May 23, (UP)— A new Senate subcommittee will study the possibility of opening trade between the United States and Communist China, Senator Warren G. Magnuson announced today. Magnuson,
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    201 7 LONDON, May 23. (AP). The British cabinet last night was reported to have approved a compromise plan designed to break the deadlock between the U.S. and European countries Over expansion of nonstrategic trade with Red China. Informants refused to disclose details of the compromise. They
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    109 7 Another 4 Convicts Break Legs BUFORD, Georgia. May 23 (AP). A new outbreak of leg smashing in Georgia's Rock Quarry prison sent seven prisoners to a hospital yesterday. Only four of the seven ail Negroes succeeded in fracturing a leg by hitting it with a 20-pound sledgehammer. Six white prisoners
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    53 7 AMERICAN evangelist Billy Graham puts everything he's got into his serJ mon as he addresses a huge religious rally at Madison Square Garden, New J York, last week-end to launch a six-week crusade for a spiritual revolution 5 A near capacity crowd thronged the "Garden" for the
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    22 7 THE Eiffel Tower is one of the biggest money spinners in Paris. Last year's total earnings were 325.000,000 francs. Reuter.
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    241 7 ONLY MILITARY TARGETS MAY BE BOMBED LUCERNE, Switzerland, May 23, (AP)— Experts in Geneva have drawn up new international rules to limit effects of aerial warfare. Prof. Leopold Boissier, presi-j dent of the International Red Cross Committee, told World Rotarians yesterday.
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    25 7 SIR Anthony Eden will sail on May 2R for England in the liner ETsnress of Britain, a Canadian Government House spokesman announced.— Reuter.
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    142 7 Red China Is Mining Uranium PEKING, May 23 (Reuter)— Communist China's Academy of Sciences revealed today that uranium is being mined in the country. The report read during the opening meeting of an eightday conference of the Academy's departments. said: ''Research into extraction and analysis of uranium, thorium and other
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    32 7 U.S. Air Forre planes landed on a small drifting ice island near the North Pole on Wednesday and set up an observation post, it was announced in Washington yesterday. Reuter.
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    55 7 GENEVA, May 23. (AP). A Swiss Government broadcast advising households to sto^-k food "for emergencies" provoked a nationwide run on food stores yesterday and compelled the government a few hours later to request moderation. Fritz Hummler. director of Economic Defence, issued a radio announcement yesterday morning, recalling that the
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    51 7 of flour, sugar, nil and rice in of emergency, and advisins all households to keep an adequate stock. OtTirials said later Hummler had no reason to believt an emergency was imminent, but the appeal meanwhile appeared in many newspapers and queues began to form at food
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    284 9 More Research, Machines Can Aid Pine Trade THE Malayan pineapple industry's two necessary steps to enable her to successfully face world-wide competition are scientific research and greater use of semi-automatic and automatic machine?* that increase the output and the earnings of each worker, industry sources told the Standard yesterday. The
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    63 9 Rubber Exports to Brazil May Rise H rubber cxi are expecto increase in the next n nierchants I.ud yesterunen o| B Rrazint had indeed dorr.csl] with a wn £rrcnt°r rubber y fes, It wia r m M i to There nta that t period of I Eft hke I period
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    27 9 3 r tin con- mines of Buti worth d erie? I fro: P S nes for i i comp. UM Bams period
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    143 9 THE f .rst of an order 1 ,500 h.p. tiiese locomotives -icas tN ird a ship at B uf, Engfand. rrrr- >rst stage > tS 0111 ttl to M The locomotives arr a total cost of $12-3 4 r-bon. Tkc loco'rmtive teas built at the Preston
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    184 9 A HONGKONG paint manufacturer, who is now vLsitin? Malaya, is impressed by the tempo of building activity in the country. He b Mr. .Tark M. En*. m inaging proprietor of the Paint Co., cne of Hoi fa better known paint c >maan;es A Mid: "The rise
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    104 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices Der pirul yesterday were CoDra, May/June $25J buyers; $2tf| sellers; coconut oil in bu'k $41 sellers, in crums $45 sellers, Muntok white pepper $108 sellers, Sarawak white $107 sellers. Special Sarawak black $75. COPKA HOLIDAY, CUTLER, BATH CO., LTD MAY 11
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    166 9 Business In Shares MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done yesterday: Eastern United $.50 j: Fed. Disp. $2; F. N. ords $2.50; Gammons $2.02}; Hammers $2.14; H- Wnugh $1.59, $1.90; ML Cement $1.53; M. Colls. $1.01; McAlister $3.42, $345; M. Box $1.85; Robinson ords $1.85; Sime Darby $2.87£. 12.85; Cold
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    203 9 INDUSTRIALS were again firm with some slight gains on the Malayan share market yesterday Tins were barely steady with buyers at lower levels. Rubbers were featureless. Price changes announced by tho Malayan Sharebrokers 1 Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Buvcrs Sellers B B Fermi 68 70/- cd Fra<=er
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    35 9 A NEW type of three-ply for wall and ceiling linings. Kiinka board, is on the Australian market. Produced in sheets 6ft. Bin. by 3ft. the board is made of strips of overlapping plywood.
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    115 9 RUBBER DOWN c. RUBBER closed in Singapore yesterday at 895 cents per lb. for International first grade June shipment. cent below Wed-ssday. The market was easy in the morning on some liquidation which was well absorbed. It rallied slightly towards the close on trade buying. Sellers were reserved for remills.
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    59 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rate to merchants yesterday: New York: buying rates were: T.T. 323; O.D. 32J; 90 days airmail 33 Credit Bills; 33 1/16 Trade Bills. Selling rates T.T. or O.D. were: French Francs 11.412; Deutsche Marks 135«; Belgian Francs
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    102 9 MR. K. EVERALL, (seen here) head of the BOAC travel agency in London, is now in Singapore on a business visit. He last visited Singapore 17 years ago when he was flying as purser for the Imperial Airways' London-Singapore services. "I am very impressed
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    13 9 THE 1957 German Handicrafts Fair is now being held in Munich.
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      559 9 TENDER NOTICE CONSTRUCTION OF A 40 Ft. LAUNCH. RENDERS are invited for the A construction of 40 ft. Launch for the Director of Medical Services, Singapore Tenders should state cost of delivery Singapore Harbour and the time required to com- j plete the contract. Tenders are to be accompanied by
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      580 9 NOTICES TENDER NOTICE TPENDERS are Invited for A the supply of materials for Prison Industries etc. for the period 1.7.57 to 31.12.57 to the various prisons in the Federation. Samples of the articles required may be inspected at the office of the Superintendent of Industries, Central Training Prison, Taiping. Supplies
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      108 9 IN PORT OUTER ROADS Hoegh Silvermoon, Oak Hill, Josif Stalin. Cape St. Carlos. USSR Trawlers. LJsboa. Harpalion, Aaarsdyk. Eumaeus. Aramis, Batang Hari, Tai Poo INNER ROADS Petaling. Hin Ann. Hal Hul, Pailowa. 9g Pmang. Sri Trengannu. Segamat. Tong Hoa. Lejfundi, Kinianis, Resang, Juliana. Tong Scan*. Thanya Watana. Taype. Loh Sic
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    462 10 Happy Road to Paris and lrTi____ r i--l fciii^LiJ IgUIMNi M#MM "ROBERT Dwain Clark never thought he would be so lucky. An all-expenses-paid-trip to Europe, a leading role in a movie, and a chance to work with one of his idols, Gene Kelly. This was the stuff of which twelve-year-old
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    90 10 Oh, la-la\ eke tie PARIS naughty and delightful forms the background to this Sonofilm pro d v c tion starring Dany Robin, a sprightly young French starlet. OH, LA-LA CHERIE gives the Malayan audience a splendid eyeful of Paris and her Parisians and Parisiennes. Full of
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    395 10 3 VIOLENT PEOPLE /^HARLTON Heston was happy with the role of Colt Saunders in Paramount's "Three Violent People" because of its dramatic challenges. He had portrayed Westerners before— in "The Savage", "Pony Express," "Arrowhead" but never one with as many emotional facets as Colt. In preparing for his role, Heston
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    244 10 The Feminine Touch 1^ CTORM OVER ARABIA la a Nights' tale with swarthy Pedro Arrr 2 the hero in a series of adventures in th< ing lustfully against nomadic tribes. Beautiful Anna-Mam sandri <:■ as a Bedouin girl, and unlike her firs < BLACK TENT with Anthony Steele. shf I
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    259 11 Athletic Straggle Beetween Americans Russians May Kill Olympic Games r oBK v *> 23 XP) —Many of the smaller nations hf f«*ar the titanic athletic struggle between United States and Russia if not arrested may t m .i\,-\<. kill the Olympic (lames, the President of the it :aflti nil OUmpic
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    43 11 fo it goaUl in the first period and added four more in the second. F<sex scored their coal In the closing minutes list period Tottenham travels to Tor; QtO on Thursday and play their nexi xhlbition match there on 3
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    156 11 KEENAN RETAINS CROWN GLASGOW. May 22 (Reuten Peter Keenan. of Glasgow, ;onight retained his British and Empire bantamweight championship when the referee stopped the fight against John Smillie. another Scot, in the sixth of the scheduled 15 rounds. Keenan thus won his second Lonsdale belt outright. Six times between 1951
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    224 11 Smtland Shows West Germany How World Soccer Championship STUTTGART, May 22, (Reuter) Scotland were Rood value for their 3 goals to 1 win today against West Germany, holders of the world soccer championship having led by 2-0 at the interval. Scotland have already won their first two group games and
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    56 11 DEROIT, Michigan. May 23, (AP). Kenny Lane Wednesday night knocked out Henry (Toothpick) Brown in the sixth round of their scheduled 10--round lightweight bout. Lane, the number one contender, held the upper hand all the way and finished the job with a long right hand to Brown's jaw.
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    350 11 Its A Riot Of Run-Getting In County Cricket LONDON. May 22 (Reuter) Batsmen resumed the initiative in County cricket today following the series of remarkable bowling feats of recent days. Fine weather and fast pitches brought five individual centuries and four sides topped the 300 mark in a riot of
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    35 11 OSLO, May 22 (Reuter) Bulgaria beat Norway by two goals to one tonight in a European Zone group 3 match of the world football cup qualifying rounds. They led at half-time by I—o.
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    86 11 ACCRA. Ghana May 22. (Reutei). Stanley Matthews, England's 42-year-old outsideright, was installed as "Soccerhene" King of Soccer in a colourful ceremony here today. Wearing a native woven cloth and sandaLs, he was lifted on to a chief's throne, which was carved into the shape of an elephant from
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    235 11 Savitt Is U.S. Hope In Davis Cup-Budge RICHMOND, Virginia. May 23, (AP). Don Budge, one of America's all time tennis greats, said Wednesday the United States has "a better than 50-50" chance, of regaining the coveted Davis Cud if Dick Savitt and Budge Patty can be persuaded to represent this
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    362 11 Aussies Dominate French Tennis; Drobny Eliminated PARIS, May 23, (AP)— Australia dominated the French international tennis championships yesterday, as completely as it dominates the Davis Cup play, by advancing eight men into the round of 32 in the men's singles tournament. In addition, the Atissles are assured of one more
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    380 11 DETROIT, May 23 CAP)— The language of baseball isn"t always intelligible. Hero Id (Muddy) Ruel of the Detroit Tigers learned that Wednesday when two representatives of the Osaka Tigers in Japan dropped in at Briggs Stadium for a chat. Rucl. on leave as assistant to Tiger President Harvey Hansen.
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    111 12 LO^ ANGELES, May 23 (Reuter) _With Four under fourminute nailers competing, the world record may be broKen in the big mile rac e here tomorrow night. Two British Olympic runner? Derek Ibbotson and Briars Hewson. believe they are both capable of clocking three minutes 56 seconds—
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    118 12 TOKYO May 22, CAP)— lt'l J'oing to be a long hard summer or Communist athletes in Asia. North Koreas Pyongyang Radio today announced plans for an international relay race from Pyongyang through Red China and Mongolia to Moscow. That's 4.500 miles in a straight line through some
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    76 12 LONDON May 23. (Reuter> Probable runners and jockeys the Dei by Tnal Stakes, to be run over one and half miles at Lmgfield Park tomorrow at 1430 GMT are Colon Doutell e <W. H. Carr). Albergn tj Mercer). Alcastus (B. Swift. Palor tF. Durr>. Top Of
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    67 12 KUALA LUMPUR. 'Jhurs.— Selangor Lawn Tennis Association's hard court graded championships—have had very poor response from the women and boys. Twenty-seven entries have been received for the Men's singles and 1? pairs have entered for thp Men's doubles. The mixed doubles attracted 13 couples Owing to the
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    330 12 SHEFFIELD. May 23 (Reuter) After dismissing Yorkshire for 162 to gain a first innings lead of 28, the West Indies cricketers quickly consolidated their position by scoring 179 for three wickets in their second innings by the close of play on the
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    79 12 j LONDON. May 23. (Renter) Close of play in today's cricket matches were: At Oxford Middlesex 155 and 115 foi one Bick 50. Gale 56 not out. Oxford University 348. Hobbs 95. Eagar 73. At Cambridge Cambridge University 334 and 86 for one. McLachlan 62 not
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    73 12 PENANG Thurs.— Three more Penang FA league soccer ties have been postponed because of the unabated 'flu epidemic. Tomorrow's second division match between Sepoy Lines Recreation Club and Prisons Sports Club has also been postponed, while Saturday's first division tie between Baharol Alam Football Club and
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    138 12 RESULTS of the Bogey Competition of the Singapore Army Golfing Society held at the Royal Island Club "on May 22 1957 were: "A" Division. Winner: Maj. K. A. Walker d4> 1 up; Other Cards: Col- P. D. Miller (3) 1 down. Lt. Col. R.J. Tadman (lO>. 2
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    90 12 PLAYERS and c^:cial s o< the Indonesian Soccer team, Who arrived in Singapore yesterday in a Garuda Indonesian Airways Ccnvair Iron. Jakarta on their way to play a scries of games in Peking, China. The ca plain of the team, Matdwi Saelan (fourth from left, front row)
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    113 12 At th c 22nd Annual General Meeting oi tne Marigold Badminton Party held l-cenlly the following were elected Officebearers. Patron: Mr Ec On Kee. President: Lim Tin Soon (reelected'. Vice-Presidents: Mr. Ong Soo Bin (re-elected). Mr. Tan Chong Tee ire-elected), Mr. Ang Poh Hon.. Hon. Secretary: Mr. Charan
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    221 12 A FINE second half rally enabled I United to retrieve a point in I I SAFA match against the luckless E 1 Civilian Association at Jalan If RECA had n have been their first victory of the season They had a forta:
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