Singapore Standard, 28 May 1957

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    30 1 Singapore Standard STANDARD POLICE ***** (5 fines! 2400 #6 It iH J. FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 2811 2414 Ml. No. .!28 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1957 12 PAGES 13 CENTS
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    Lock icon RIOTS: CHIANG SENDS_ REGRETS TO EISENHOWER
    194 1 r\in i >ia\ zt President Chiang Kai-shek has profound regrets" to President Eisenhower iy's anti-American riots in Taipei, the official n l News Agency announced today. love to restore shaken relations with the N itionalist authorities have arrested 70 ,pec:e<: of being ringleaders in
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    Lock icon Free Zone' on Germany Is Up To Russians
    116 1 gfhfngfjn ad AdeS .ft Union G< wermnent (0 COD" i deraili I mic X the Ru to "i eunificaX :v ib freeB ro< m Itten m qu I |in effect m. the fxploE mi in reuniSoTlet m i Cancel- 1 baa E
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    Lock icon The Queen Returns
    40 1 EU> >N, S Reuter).— S< I B Fleet c over yacht Britai 1 la as Firth t' •abeth am: Bl Britanni t two day lips of the Home here ■n is cine to in ion itfa to
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    Lock icon The Tunku On His Way Home
    90 1 The Tunku On His Way Home LONDON, May 27 (Reuter) Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malayan Federation Chief Minister, left here by air today for Kuala Lumpur. He is travelling by way of Madrid. Rome and Singapore d is due in Kuala Lumpur June 3. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, Chief of the
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    Lock icon ALL CENSORED
    30 1 STORIES about the anti&merlcan riots on Formosa censored out of all Sam >n*a Chinese-language papers yesterday. The empty spaces were filled with photographs on other subjects. A .P.
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    Lock icon COLO HIJACKED
    31 1 CHINESE pirates hijacked one and a half million dollars worth ol gold being smuggled from Macao to Hongkong two weeks ago. banking sources in Hongkong report- Ed yesterday.- U.P.
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    19 1 SHAGEN, May 21 A new Danish Kenuneni was formed .tit. end in 2: a 12--d political crisis.
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    Lock icon Police Stand By As Bus Workers Go On Strike
    618 1  -  E. M. RASHEED Uneasy Calm Reigns Over Depot Areas TENTS AND BANNERS UP By AN UNEASY quiet reigned in several parts of Singapore City when at 5 p.m. yesterday as 350 workers of the Hock Lee and Tay Koh Vat bus
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    Lock icon R.I. Reshuffles Army Command
    199 1 JAKARTA, May 27, (Rcuter) The Army announced today that the leader of the military regime of East Indonesia, Lt.-Col. Ventje Sumual had been transferred from his post as military commander of the 1 territory. The announcement was made by the army's spokesman. Lt. Col. Rudy Pirngadi
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    Lock icon Breaks Leg In Fall From Horse
    69 1 Breaks Leg In Fall From Horse MRS. J. A. Chippindale, wife ol well-known Singapore horse owner. suffered a broken leg when she fell from a horse at the Singapore Polo Club, yesterday. She was admitted to the General Hospital. Mr. Chippindair said that his wife was exercising the horse on
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    Lock icon 'FORGOTTEN' 700,000
    60 1 GENEVA. May 27 fßeutor) An international conference on refugees was told here today that 700.000 Chinese refugees in Hongkong were "practically a forgotten people" who lacked food, accommodation and work. "It Is no exaggeration to state that their needs are without parallel on earth." Mr. Oland Tsang. of
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    Lock icon Deputy Premier Lands For A Change, Shave, Breakfast And...
    298 1 A PLANE WAITS 30 MINUTES FOR HIM By CHAN SWAN BEE AUSTRALIA'S deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Harold E. Holt, took his breakfast, had a shave and change in Singapore yesterday morning and held up a plane for 30 minutes. Mr. Holt,
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    Lock icon 'Flu Could Drive People To Suicide'
    189 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Mental depression resulting from an attack of influenza can drive people to suicide, medical scientists here warned today. The scientists, who had isolated and analysed the virus causing the fever, learned that its victims were not immune to it if infected
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    Lock icon Embargo Must Go, Says U.K.
    58 1 PARIS. May 27 (UP)—Brittain demanded today that the Western allies immediately abolish the special embargo which keeps Red China from receiving Western goods allowed Russia. Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd made this known in London while experts of 15 Western nations held a lastditch meeting here
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    32 1 SOVIET Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Defence Minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov arrived by air in Budapest yesterday to sign an agreement about the stationing of Russian troops in Hungary. Reuter
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    Lock icon HK Floods: 1,500 Flee To Safety
    97 1 HK Floods: 1,500 Flee To Safety HONGKONG, May 27 (Reuten Fifteen hundred Chinese in the Colony's new territories were today evacuated from three villages completely cut oil by floods, th,e Government announced. More heavy rains over the vi:-end. and again today, have greatly aggravated trie .distress caused by last week's
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    Lock icon Cut Ties With Reds, He Says
    53 1 SOUTH BEND, Indiana, May 27 (Reuter) Lt.-Gen. Albert Wedemcyer (retired) called for the United States to break oil diplomatic relations with Russia and its satellites, in a nation-wide radio speech last night. Gen. Wedemeyer was Commander of the U.S. Forces in China during the
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    Lock icon All Roads Lead To Pekan
    403 2 ROYAL TOWN IS READY FOR JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS MacG And 3 Rulers Make Formal Entry Today PEKAN, Mon.— High Commissionsr Sir Donald MacGillirray and the Rulers of Kelantan, Trengganu and Perlis will make a ceremonial entry into this royal town tomorrow to attend the Silver Jubilee
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    Lock icon The Newest Air Hostess
    93 2 TWENTY FIVE YEAR- 5 OLD Miss Amy Lim, of I McNaii Road, Singapore. 2 Jis Malayan Airways' J newest air hostess. Miss Lim, who worked in a beauty parlour form- 1> erly, will make her first flight with Miss Rose- 5 mary Tay, chief air host-
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    Lock icon Welfare Assn. Gets Assurance
    126 2 SINGAPORE'S Social Welfare Department will do all it can to prevent 15 women and nine children of the Malay Women's Welfare Association home in Desker Road from being "thrown on the streets" when they are evicted from the Association's premises. Mr T P. Cromwell. Director of
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    Lock icon Big White Ball Of Fire
    266 2 Big White Ball Of Fire THE X'MAS ISLE H-EXPLOSION LONDON. May 27 (AP) The iirst British hydrogen bomb, exploded on May 15 at Christmas Island, was described by an eye-witness as a "big white ball of lire in ;he sky." The description and a photograph of the bombs mushroom cloud
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    Lock icon Punch Cost Him $75
    69 2 A SYCE. Zainal bin Zainum. was fined $75 In a Singapore Court yesterday, for punching a lorry driver in the face. The lorry driver, Ng Tong. said he collided with a cyclist in Odin Square, off fiong Bahru Road, on Jan. 20. Ng added an an?ry
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    Lock icon K.L WEDDING
    60 2 MR. AND MRS. M KANNAPIRAM after their wedding at Sentul, Kuala Lumpur, recently. The bridegroom, attached to the Telecommunications Department. Selangor, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Mylvaganam. The bride, the former Miss T. Thangamani, is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Thamotharanpillai. The bride is
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    Lock icon Eviction: Union's Warning
    115 2 Eviction Union's Warning THE Singapore Naval Base Labour Union yesterday warned that It will take "strong action" if the Naval Base management makes any move to evict by force the dismissed workers from their quarters. The Representative Council of the Union at a meeting yesterday unanimously recorded its "vehement protest"
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    Lock icon FIRE PROBE STILL ON
    89 2 SINGAPORE Fire Brigade authorities have not been able to establish the cause of the fire which gutted a building in Cecil Street last week, causing damage estimated at $2,000,000. Superintendent of the Singapore Fire Services. Mr. J. Angus, told the Standard yesterday that nothing definite had
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    75 2 NEW YORK. May 27 (Reuter> Pert Au Prince, the capital of Haiti. Is still "tense, with roving mobs holding up automobiles and threatening what little law and order had been restored after yesterday's rioting." the New York Times reported today. Earlier reports said a revolt had
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    Lock icon FREEDOM FLIGHT
    32 2 TWO young Polish flyers last night asked Austria for political asylum after a dramatic escape to freedom through Communist antiaircraft fire in a two-seater plane, Austrian officials said yesterday.- U.P.
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    Lock icon ATOMIC CONFAB?
    32 2 MR. LEWIS L. Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, has suggested to President Eisenhower a world conference to help mankind cope with problems "created by its own genius."— Reuter
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    Lock icon JUDGES NAMED
    41 2 THE Maebashi District Court yesterday named three judges for the trial of U.S. Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard. indicted by the court on manslaughter charges in the firing range killing of a Japanese woman last January. U.P.
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    Lock icon EARTHQUAKE: 52 DEAD
    66 2 ISTANBUL. May 27, (AP).— Rescue workers counted 52 dead today in Turkey's Boiu Province, where a shattering earthquake struck on Sunday morning. While press estimates ranged as high as 70 dead and hundreds injured, the only official count came from the provincial security office, where officials said
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    Lock icon ELECTION CLASH
    27 2 NINTEEN people were hospitalized in Beirut on Sunday in the first major preelection clash between followers of opposing candidate? for the coming Labanest? 'arliament. A.P.
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    Lock icon QUEMOY SHELLED
    27 2 CHINESE Reds fired 243 shells at Qurmoy yesterd in the heaviest bombardment of the Nationalist offshore island since May 10. Nationalist Defence Ministry reported. A.P.
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    Lock icon A CALL FOR MORE FUNDS
    77 2 IMMEDIATE finai .stance to victims of disasters from the Singapore Welfare Donati n Chesi wQ& DXA be possil c unless j 1 is n enished, the Director of Social Welfare, Mr T. P. Cromwell, said terdayHe said the UflM W help and money are mosi
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    Lock icon Soldier's 10,000-Mile Dash Home
    128 2 A BRITISH soldier is rushing home to be with his mother in Brighton following his father's death last Monday. Private Michael J. Swallow of the Royal Sussex Regiment in Korea, arrived in Singapore yesterday in a BOAC Argonaut from Hongkong. Due to be domobbed in September.
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    47 2 Photo. OLOI RFI L costumes from .tl! < -nafcW Nigerian Constitutional Conference nch ope* M caster House. London, recently probabls tt» D cular politic al eatherinp ever wwvetted ther<\ Thesil fashions are just two from th- raditional is^B won by the Nigerian d< l( gates.- AP
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    Lock icon U.S. ALL SET FOR SERIOUS TALKS
    129 2 Partial Arms Cut Pod LONDON, May 27. (Rpulc— M Harold SM the United States ietegate, toda toM Nations Disarmament Sul) 1 ««J returned from Wa>liinut«n nreparcd negotiations for a partial ifffCiacat He did no! today table the Dew ftrst-fitace disarmament plan, reported to have
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    43 2 COMMODITY PRICES 1 rubbet jj| pore yoterriay wfrr-J Buyer? SdJ fej Juno M I i.o > I N I ftUKJ ettlf^i Bouse ft*"* Mm, Buyers 5f Tone: fe* i CLOSING O« I J I April June I I bu: I r 1 b km*
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    Lock icon FARMERS STILL HELPING BANDITS -BINGHAM
    253 3 FARMERS STILL HELPING BANDITS -BINGHAM 40 Terrorists Are Getting News Of Police Movements Troops Track Reds In 'Operation Ivory PENANG, Mon. Farmers in the Sungei Rusa and Sungei Pinang Hills are co-operating with Communist terrorists and are supplying them with food, money and valuable information about Police movements. This was
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    Lock icon Police Nab 2nd Robbery Suspect
    132 3 Police Nab 2nd Robbery Suspect 1 M r. -The local today arrested a End suspect m connccSaturday's atKpted robbery on a Club Ed' home, in which an moth, mcd ted sir.- ..led, r wielding I r :n Federal I iart< ra were totraced tn •tures o: cr 1 1 descriptions
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    76 3 New Building For Indian Chamber kfPUB. Mod, he S -jor Indi o C c 11 a X i I year Mr N.v be Star. r, at its re- i the constn: tr-.:ee-to-four-stor-Z on a lot owned by r in Batu Road. Tiembers present ofl r- iai ami n an in!
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    Lock icon Stevedoring Workers On Strike
    47 3 Bplojfi 5t i 51 og and Company this the issue of a star! i rtaii -ers are member? of od Pr< Genera <ers' They consist of lig. r j oreI a, Mr. i >.■: :gotiations for I Of v; t jrmeni i r for
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    55 3 Chief Fo- Mr P H OT'ynn I there W9M I I• lorps* 1 ent Police Voin c, -A hen ho spoke appealing for to the 4 R.ne>: ha been I work for the years There were v M in the he v r V R. Headquarters, n•<
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    22 3 r 1 Shungloo, Deputy External Ser All India Radio, is to arrive in the ?xt T tesday for a
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    76 3 V LUMPUR, MOO.— Pi oj the Municipal rejected a fi Dost in the Lake The committee was followins I dtrisfcJß of the Council whirrs said that no further h dicing should be permitted in the Lake Gardens Reserve. It also felt that a
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    Lock icon Freak Banana Tree Scares Welfare Monte Inmates
    167 3 Freak Banana Tree Scares Welfare Monte Inmates Xl ALA LUMPUR, Mon— Inmates of the Indian wel- fare home in Ciirular Road believe a freak banana tree growing in its compound will brinjr them bad luck. Hence, they want the tree removed "the sooner the better" according to one superstitious inmate.
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    Lock icon Red Terror Chief Killed By His Own Comrades
    261 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Communist State Committee member Fun Meng, once in charge of terrorist ranks in the Kota Tinggi area, has been executed by his own comrades recently, the Johore Government announced today. Fen Meng fell to a "strangling squad of disced
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    Lock icon First Malay For The Job
    108 3 CHE Hanafiah bin Hussain, who will shortly take up the appointment of in accountant in the Federal Department of (.<> operati\e Development in Kuala I.umpur. is the first Malay to qualify as an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Britain Che Hanafiah.
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    Lock icon SJAB TO BE REPRESENTED
    70 3 IPOH. Mon. The Perak St. John Ambulance Brigade la to send a tq lad oi ~:x members to reproi ni the branch b1 the Mcrdeka celebration! bo Kuala pur. The Brigade la iin 16 officers to the third Federal Officers conference to be held there 093
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    Lock icon Two Back From Army Training
    49 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mob. Two Federation Army officers returned from England by BOAC today after six months' extensive training. They were Lieutenant Mohamad Hashim, Military Cross holder and Lieutenant Osm in Both attenced the 1 1 !ld Intelligence Officers' Course at Maresfield Camp in Sussex
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    Lock icon Man Freed By Court
    63 3 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Monn Guan Seng, 23. walked out of the Sessions Court here man after ai- Ing threatened a tan 'Ait'i death at Machang Bui ween January ani February thii year The prosecution had withdrawn a charge of criminal Intimidation against Lim when his case came
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    Lock icon $5,000 BAIL IN ROBBERY CASE
    60 3 TWO youths. Kong Sow Poh and Sin Tuen Plat, were charged in a Singapore court yesterday with armed robbery. The prosecution alleged that they robbed Ng Mun Wah of his cash and jewellery at Braddell Road, on May 3. They were allowed ball or $5,000
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    Lock icon A BIG EFFORT TO HELP THE BLIND
    369 3 THE British community in Singapore this year will have a series of stalls at the International Bazaar tor the Blind, on June 8 at Victoria Memorial Hall, extending the length of the upstairs corridor, facing the Cricket Club. And from the collection of
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    Lock icon $1 Bribe Led To $100 Fine
    72 3 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Mon Nineteen- year-old Yeap Sinn Seong trie.l to "buy" his brother':; release for carrying him or. a bicycle at Danby Street here, from a Police Constable who had stoppec" them. This was told Sessions Judge, Mr. David Anthony, today when Yeao pleaded
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    Lock icon Kidnapping — Man Charged
    128 3 Kidnapping Man Charged KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Chua Hang Chuan, 23. was today produced before Sessions Court President Inche M. M. Hashim and charged with kidnapping a nine-year-old girl from Singapore He was alleged to have abducted Ho Poh Hin from her mother, Madam Chan Ah Leang of Pulau Bukom, an
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    Lock icon Homage To Sultan
    98 3 KLAXG. Mon.— Two members of the Selangor Royal Family, Tengku Haji Aziz Shah and Tengku KhaMd Shah have been picked to pay homage to the Sultan of Selangor during his birthday celebrations on June 3. At the annual meeting of the Selangor Royal Family Association here yesterday.
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    Lock icon HOTEL RAID: CLERK FINED
    58 3 A HOTEL clerk. Chow Teng Long was yesterday fined $103 by a Singapore Court for failing to register particular of lodgers. Inspector Mohamed Shah, attached to the Anti-Vice branch, told the court that on Feb. 20, he raided the Nan Tow Hotel at East Coast Road
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    Lock icon RUBBER BUYING AGENCY FOR CHINA?
    213 4 RUBBER BUYING AGENCY FOR CHINA? We Will Consider Move Minister KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— -The Federation Government will give every consideration should Communist China desire to open a rubber buying agency in Malaya after Merdeka, Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, the Minister for Commerce and Industry, told the Standard today.
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    46 4 SC.T A K ARIM. of the RASC. Nee Soon, son of Mr. O.sman X a d c r Sultan, and Miss Katij.ih, youngest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs. O. Snaik Mohamed. who were married at 10 Jalan Taste, Singapore last week.
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    87 4 MISS Leelavathy Rajaratnam leaves for Australia today to join her brother Dr. Sundarason Rajaratnam attached to the Royal Alfred Hospital. Melbourne, and her sister Miss Pakiavathy Rajaratnam cf the C ge of Pharmacy also at Me bourne. Leelavatby was a post-school certificate student at Bartley Secondary
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    Lock icon Varsity Staff Union Officers
    70 4 THE following were elected office-bearers for 1957 at the annual general meeting of the University of Malaya's Non-Academic Staff Union held on May 25. President: Mr. Swee#Lim Swang (re-elected). VicePresident; Andrew Cheng, Secretary; Wilfred Yeo, Assistant Secretary: S. Mosbergen. Treasurer: Kow Sim Boon. Assistant Treasurer: V.
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    Lock icon New Amenity In Hospital
    45 4 KLUANG, Mon. The District Officer. Inche Zainal bin Mohamed. yesterday declared open a Red Cross "hut" in the compound cf the local hospital. He later presented certificates to members of the Red Cross Junior League who passed a recent proficiency examination.
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    Lock icon $25,000 SWINDLE ALLEGED: SCRAP DEALER'S EVIDENCE
    215 4 BISTOH SIAHAAN and Ow Cheng Chian, were charged in a Singapore court yesterday, with cheating a second-hand scrap dealer. Lim Hoe Siang, of $25,000 between May and June last year. They pleaded not guilty. At their first meeting. Lim said, Siahaan and Ow told
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    Lock icon 21 Claim Trial To Kidnapping
    40 4 TWENTY-ONE persons were charged in a Singapore Court yesterday with the abduction of S. Lechumanan on May 25. All claimed trial. Bail was allowed till June 3 when the case will come up for mention.
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    33 4 THE President of UMNO. Malacca Branch. Federal Councillor Inche Abdul Ghafar bin Baba. left Malacca yesterday for the United Kingdom on a month's leadership course provided by the Colonial Development Office
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    Lock icon UMNO Against H-Bomb Base In Malaya
    179 4 MALACCA, Mon. The United Malays National Organization, Malacca branch, today expressed disapproval of any intention by foreign powers to use Malaya as a bas c for nuclear bombs. At its annual general meeting, the president, Inche Ghafa bin Baba, said the Malacca branch supported
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    Lock icon He Robbed Two Taximen, Court Told
    95 4 He Robbed Two Taximen, Court Told AN unemployed man, Lee Tian Yew, 30. was yesterday committed to stand trial at the next Singapore Assizes, for allegedly robbing two taxi drivers. Taxi-driver, Dara S;r.gh. alleged in a preliminary inquiry yesterday that Lee. with three others, boarded his taxi on March 10,
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    Lock icon Those Pay Cut Rumours: Spore Teachers Hit Out
    317 4 Those Pay Cut Rumours: Spore Teachers Hit Out Several teachers spoke out against reported attempts in certain quarters to slash the salary scale of teachers as a means of reducing government expenditure. They told the Standard that those who talked glibly of a rcduct.on in emolumentpaid to the members of
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    180 4 'A BUSH FIRE WILL BURN AT FEET OF GOVT.' THE 2,500-strong Singapore Teachers Union yesterday warned government that "a bush fire will burn at its feet with fury and intensity if their claims are not met. In an "emergency release" to its members, the Union said it would deliberate on
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    370 5 MR. JUSTICE HEPWORTH IS TOLD IN DIVORCE COURT A80UT. miISBAND BEAT HER UP, tjIII.ASHED CHILDREN AND mwEATENED TO KILL HER MALACCA, Mon. A young attractive ■pfher of two children today told Mr. Justice Kpworfh in the Divorce Court that her husband I BEAT her up THRASHED her
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    Lock icon UNIVERSITY PHYSICIAN QUITTING
    91 5 UNIVERSITY PHYSICIAN QUITTING DR. H. B. M. MURPHY. Students' Physician at the University I Malaya, Is leaving Singapore fox good at tiie end i I month. Pr. Murphy, who has been inlsing a Student Health Lee Lit the University Since 1952, told the Standard y he was returning rica to
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    Lock icon STOLE FROM EMPLOYER
    58 5 sING a R A m Karapathy led R :..ty in a Singapore Couri i '-ay to theft ol two mah worth $60 from r, Mr. R. A. White, f ol the Cable Wireless C The >:Ter:ce was alleged to a committed in v- Parrer Park i 20
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    Lock icon ITS HOLLYWOOD or BUST
    134 5 for this quinfet of kufies IT'S "Hollywood or Bust" for those Singapore lovelies as they take the road in style In a new Austin Metropolitan to publicise the Paramount picture. "Hollywood or Bust," starring Dean Martin and Jt'rry Lewis to be shown soon at the Odeon
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    Lock icon SUICIDE VERDICT
    34 5 A SINGAPORE Corner. Mr. Giam Chong Ring, recoi iiet ol s ticide at the In- on a r-old houseA. An,!:v;:. P.. whose body was found banging at ang Road on March 21.
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    Lock icon WELFARE MAN CLAIMS TRIAL
    23 5 I A SOCI t Youth f Ofl v'hee i rged before the f r with traflk P ;>tponed to
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    184 5 PENANG, Mon. A pretty hair-dresser, Wong Ah Looi, told the First Magistrate's Court today that she went to Klian Intan without Police permission because she wanted to see her grandmother who was in a critical condition. "I got excited when my father in Kian
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    120 5 CO-OPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT PRINCETON, New Jersey. May 21 (AP) Educational Testing Service announced today it will establish a co-opera-tive project in educational research with the University of Malaya in Singapore. The University of Malaya, the Ministry ol Education in Singapore and ETS will conduct the project under a grant from
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    40 5 Dr. (Mrs) Lalitha Sambandam was <>n Sunday elected chairman of the new Katqng branch of the Malayan Indian Congress. Other officials elected were: Mr. Syed Ahubakar, vicechairman; Mr- P. Somasundaram. Hon. secretary; Mr. J. J. Abrams, treasurer.
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    180 5 MEMBERSHIP ALMOST 6,000 PENANG. Mon. The Resident Commissioner, Penang, Mr. R. P. Bingham, revealed today that considerable action was being taken against secret society leaders for banishment, if possible, or restricted residence. He said that there were 25 secret societies in Penang and Province
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    62 5 THE Minister fnr Religion In Indonesia, Kiatai Haji Mohamed Elyis, who arrived in Singapore yesterday by KLM on his way to attend a religious conference in the Sulu Islands in the Philippines. The Minister told reporters at the airport that the education of Muslims in SouthEastern
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    60 5 FOUR seamen. Edward Barrett, John Ryan, Hawke David Joseph and James Boker, claimed trial in Singapore Court yesterday to a charge of assaulting Yusofl bin Subor, a Police constable at a local cinema on Sunday. They were alleged to have kicked and punched Yusoff. Bail of
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    73 5 ALOR STAR. Mon.— A Special Branch policeman, Wong Yew Ting, was today fined $200 or three months' jail by Magistrate Inche Hamzah bin Dato Abu Samah for a traffic offence He was also disqualified from driving for three months. The court was told that, on Apr.
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    234 5 A SINGAPORE youth leader, Mr. Foo Kia Pang, leaves the Colony today for Britain on a six-month course in probation work. Mr. Foo. Superintendent of Perak House, a welfare institution for orphans and destitute youths in Pasir Panjang, will be attached to British approved schools for
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    92 5 SECRET society thugs beat up four men in two attacks in Singapore on Sunday night. A 51-year-old man, Lee Khoon Eng, was attacked by eight thu^s while in a coffee shop in Potong Pasir. He was admitted to the General Hospital. Bottles, stones, stickg
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    209 5 Koh throws challenge to his two rivals THE Independent candidate contesting Tanjong Pagar in the coming byelection, Mr. C. H. Koh, yesterday challenged his two rivals, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew (Peoples Action Party), and Mr. Chong Wee Ling (Liberal Socialists) to a public debate on the problems facing Singapore. "This
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    139 5 UK Goodwill Tour For 4 Malayans FOUR Malayans, two each from Singapore and the Federation, will leave for Britain tomorrow, on a goodwill trip sponsored by the Colonial Office Representing Singapore are Mr. V. K. Nair. City Councillor, and Che Ahmad bin Haji Dhaffir, Rural Board Councillor and Secretary of
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    87 5 MUAR, Mon. High Commissioner Sir Donald MacGillivray today met Malay heroes of the Johore coast who captured seven Communist terrorist suspects in a bold action last October. Sir Donald met them during his visit to Kampong Melayu Raya, whose residents had been rewarded by Government for
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    71 5 BUTTERWORTH, Mon. Four men Lav Seng Kee, Yuan Chin Kee. Lee Kan and Yew Wei Seng were fined a total of $150 in the Magistrate's Court here today, under the Weekly Holidays Ordinance. Lav and Yuan, proprietors of barber shops, were fined $50 each on two
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    36 5 HONGKONG. May 27. Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: $16.78 to £1 Sterling; $6.***** to U.S.$l; $1838 to Malaya $1; $0,130 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $276.75 to a tael.
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      534 6 'THE assurance given by the Chairman of the A Selangor Division of the Malayan Trade Union Council. Lum Kin Tuck, that -the MTUC has no Communists in its ranks" will be welcomed by the Government and industrial interests throughout Malaya. But this assurance is hardly ground
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      346 6 r J>IE attention drawn by the Chairman of the Liberal-Socialist Party. Mr C. C. Tan. to the threat of "hooliganism" m the coming elections is pertinent. It would have been more effective if the speaker had suggested some plan through which action can be taken to prevent a
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    1036 6 Test case for all mankind |HB^PlBHl^|HHk^^^Hß^HH^^P^^|R^Hßfl^|^BS9B^Hii^B Bsk Arnold Toynbce concludes this new series on his impressions of South Asia FOR an historian who is travelling round the world via South America and Southern Asia, India is the most important and interesting country on his route. She is important, to begin
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    564 6  -  Patrick O'Donovan Americans Wedded to Self-help \Y 7 HE.V an American reaches the age of 65. he J is certain of a pension. It copies front the State, but m a very American manner. He irill. of course, have contributed towards it during his iporfcmg U/e. It trill
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    301 6 PARIS, VT'ITHIN the past month the news which has really startled indeed unnerved—people in Paris, is no:, as you might expect, a new political crisis, a new Dior Line, or a provocative new school of painting, but a new vaccine. For the first time a
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    408 6  - The NEWS as it strikes me! ASTER GUNASEKERA By gPEAKING to some 400 Liberal Socialists gathered for their first annual conference of delegates, the chairman of the Party, Mr. C. C. Tan, warned the people of Singapore "against the gradual assumption of despotic and dictatorial powers by an elected government."
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      261 6 Building By-law of S'pore Sir II rrt spOl 111 Francis Graham, in his article "M 1 ;^?.nderwhicfa appeared on 22. has prompted rrc I write on the b.. .:r^ laws of the colony The writer's father expenen ulties when his appiication lor a tompo rarv permit in rasp house In
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    88 7 ITHF par* thrown for them on thr set of "Paris the Boulogne studios seems to co on th< \«»unij screen couple, British Anthony Swedish beauty Anita Ekberjj, gl?.s"s Dpagne in hand, listen with American star i Hw r (left) to the enchanting music of vioi.tnus 1 crnandel
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    143 7 X Roman CathoI >f Melbourne. Federal I Parliament for L i tries at I .*re I tarving." X on p t f a., parties L n a very r i > rv wen seckii i .'5 on a I made I Federal
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    46 7 Big Police Hunt For Fire Bug f! r P f r tgan an inten i i maniac h occurI crn Japan i j -in said all if in I t a buildt others were comIf ed and I ers •.ere no casualties. I Bremen sur T
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    135 7 'Britain Has A Clean Bomb' TOKYO, May 27 (Reuter) Japanese scientists who have been measuring radioactivity over Japan since the British bomb test at Chri>tmas I>!and are preparing to concede .hat Britain has perfected a nuclear weapon that creates a minimum of fallout. Met- at the 13 special recording stations
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    150 7 Arrives TOKYO. May 27 (Reuter) A small package, destined tt> help change the face of Japan, arrived here tolay b% air from the United States. TIM package contained the first supply of uranium fuel for the generation of nuiir.tr energy in Japan. Also aboard the
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    258 7 LAST MOSLEM FRIEND OF THE FRENCH' SHOT PARIS, May 27 (Keu!—M. Chekkal, former Deputy Speaker of the Algerian Assembly died alter being shot by a man with a crowd oi soccer fans leaving the Colombo Stadium here iay after a cup final match,
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    66 7 PARIS. May 21 (Reuter) A United States Air Force B-47 Stratojet yesterday won the annual General ElectricTrophy race over a triangular course from here with Rome and Madrid as turning points. It flew the course in four hours 12 minutes 7 seconds. Another B-47 was second,
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    82 7 France's Guy Mollet Resigns COMING out of the Elysee Palace, Paris, after handing to President Coty his resignation and that of the Cabinet, French Premier Guy Mollet is surrounded by anxious newsmen, radio and TV reporters. President Coty did not accept the resignation as the National As?embly vote was short
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    249 7 TOKYO, May 27 (Renter). A recent government decision to enforce the use of the metric system in Japan has met with the enthusiastic approval of the average housewife. In addition to keeping a sharp lookout for bargains, she has to be capable of calculating
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    94 7 PHILADELPHIA, May 27, (AP) Milton Fleishman. 27. had a $2,000 hunch and it paid ofT. He bet his wife would have twins. Last January. Fleishman and his wife, Dolores, realised they were due for an addition to the family, at that time made up of three-year-old
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    140 7 LONDON. May 27 (Reuter) Prime Charles, who has been staying at Holkh.im Hall, Norfolk, with the Earl and Countess of Leicester while his parents fu\e been in Denmark, is still not "100 per cent fit" after his tonsils operation just over m fort-
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    165 7 'It Can Happen Again' WASHINGTON, May 27. (Renter) Two United States Democratic Congressional leaders yesterday described the riots against the U.S. Embassy in Formosa as symptoms of anti-American feeling which could break out in many other parts of the world. They suggested the "difficult" situation would be helped by added
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    33 7 MRS. Anna Pankratova. 60, Soviet historian who directed the "rewriting* 1 of Stalinist history books, has died after a long and serious illness, the Soviet Mews Agency Tass re- ported. Reuter.
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    294 7 TAIPEI RIOTS RIDER: SHOULD US. TROOPS PULL OUT? 'Frustration May Be At Root Of Outburst' LONDON, May 27 (Reuter) The Manchester Guardian said today the recent Taipei riots faced America with the discomforting question of whether it was worth staying in Formosa in the face of unpopularity or abandoning the
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    95 7 Youth Held In Sex Murder Case HACKENSACK. New Jersey. May 27, (AP)— An 18-year-old church youth leader was arrested yesterday and charged with murder in the rapestrangling of Ruth Starr Zeitler, a pretty classmate. Authorities said Ronald Marrone had dictated a statement which was termed a confession to the slaying
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    26 7 SIR Michael Bruce. 63. newspaper columnist and the 11th baronet of Stenhouse, died on Sunday in a Vancouver hospital from a heart ailment. AP.
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    239 7 LONDON. May 27 (UP)— Britain's controversial move in cutting the strength of its armed forces has left about £150,000,000 worth of surplus ships, trucks and weapons waiting to go on the block The surplus war material ranges from four battleships scheduled for scrapping
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    252 7 Acid Attack— Thrower Was The Victim: Police LONDON, Mon.— A threeday hunt for an acidthrower ended dramatically yesterday. Police decided that the "victim," Mr. George Poore, 41. cf Colehill, near W.mborne. Dorset. BURNED HIS OWN FACE with sulphuric acid. Mr. Poore was taken from his thatched cottage to the plastics
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    46 7 A HUMAN ekull found at Tzeyang in 1951 has now been judged by expert? to the earliest form of modern man 'homo sapien?) ever found in China, more primitive than the Cro-Magnon man of Europe, a Chinese anthropologist Dr. Woo Ju-Kang innounced yesterday.— Reu'cr.
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    239 7 This Is How It All Began... TAIPEI, May 27 (AP) The U.S. Embassy might not have been sackw ed last Friday if Mrs. Liv Tze-Jan. the widow of alleged window-peeper shot b> Master Sgt. Robert Reynolds on March 20 had been in a less obstinate frame of mind. The Embassy
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    79 7 SANTIAGO. Chile. May 27 (Reu'en The bamboo raft Tahiti Nui, which took six find a half months to drift I'om Polynesia, sank under tow about 260 miles titan hpr destination Juan Fernandez Island, today. All five men aboard and about half their equipment were taken
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    212 9 I .-S 'PORE TWO-WAY PACT URGED 'Trade Position Can Improve A Bl LATERAL trade agreement between the Philippines and Singapore was advocated by Mr. Amilhamja M. Tahil, commercial attache to the Philippine Consulate in Singapore in his economic report to the Department of Commerce and Industry. The commercial attache is
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    132 9 'PEOPLE FRIENDLIER TO JAPAN' I Of Close Business Ties NESE V:ce-Con-S. Kobayashi, who n leave Singapore W. >rtly, says people were beI .-..-..cr towards hie to 11m reall- close ec< r. mic X baja X 1 to sell her r iw US and imI tured goods la with the f
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    39 9 BRITISH firms received orders for oil equipment and materials to the value of 1 36.049.000 during the first three months of this year, according to figures published by the Council of British Manufacturers of Petroleum Equipment.
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    123 9 THE SingaD- re Rubber market closed idle yesterday with International first grade Jme shipment cios.ng at 891 cents per lb.. a drop cf 1 4 cent on Friday. The market was quiet throughout the day. Prices opened lower on New York advices. At noon the market
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    157 9 HEAVY arrivals of sugar in the past week have brought down local prices to well below those in world markets, according to a spokesman of the Singapore Sugar Traders' Association yesterday. The spokesman estimated the total quantity unloaded at Malayan ports in the past
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    134 9 UK Vehicles For Malayan Railways MA lay ax Railways have I ed a further order for eleven Scnnrr.e'.i scarab mechanical horse units and twenty-nine automatic-coup-ling semi-trailers for use at the Increasingly busy ports oi Penang and "Port Swettenham. Orders now in hand for the nrays at Scammel] Lorries Limited Will
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    77 9 JOHAN Tin Dredging Ltd. reported a profit of $47,600 Of which two interim ends of five and ten per cent, amounting to $14,280 have been paid. A final dividend of five per cent, absorbing $4*760 have been recommended. leaving $34.1 3f) to be carried forward. The BCCOUntfl
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    269 9 THE b U I Of Ma'~k:< Pip, ta R sr Estates Ltd. reports thai It has acquired c 2,834-1/2 acres of State at Gelang Patah. South Johore, on behalf of the panyThe area CQOSistfl Of a tingle and compact block of land and blukar of which
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    112 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were Copra, May/June $25* buyers; $26£ sellers; coconut oil in bulk $41 sellers, in drums $45£ sellers, Muntok white pepper $105 sellers. Sarawak white $104 sellers, special Sarawak black $71. COPKA HOLIDAY, CUTLER, BATH Co i/ll> MAY 11 a.m
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    70 9 Doreen Had Enough Of Music MISS DOREEN Bligh, 25, a Singapore girl, has had enough of music. She used to work in a music shop. From now, Miss Bligh will have to get used to the noise of roaring planes and trucks. Miss Bligh has joined the travel department of
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    88 9 Oil Palms To Increase Capital The directors of Oil Palms of Malaya. Ltd.. propose to increase the authorized capital from £750.000 to £1.000,000. The accounts show profit of the year ended Oct. 31. 1956 at £89.422 from which a dividend of 17A r 'o less tax absorbing £75,469 will be
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    416 9 MALAYAN tin shares showed an improvement in turnover on the local share market yesterday and with a lew exceptions price chances were to slightly higher levels. Industrial shares were Irregular with more sellers in evidence- at the higher levels. Rubber shares were dull. Price changes announced
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      38 9 NOTICE McALISTER COMPANY, LIMITED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 6th to 12th June, 1957 inclusive. By Order of the Board G. F. MOULTON Secretary. Singapore, 27th May, 1957.
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      501 9 SZE HAI TONG BANKING AND INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED IS HEREBY GIVEN 1 that the Forty-Third Annual General Meeting ot the Shareholders of the above Company will be held at Sze Hai Tong Bank Building. No 57 Chulia Street. Singapore on Wednesday the 29th May. 1957 at 2.30 p.m. NOTICE IS
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      1109 9 NOTICES m.v. "Oranje" is expected to arrive from Europe on the 23th May 1957 and will berth alongside Godowns 15/16, Gate No: 4 of the Singapore Harbour Board, between the hours of 8 and 9 a.m. Passengers for Tg Priok are requested to embark between 4 and 5 D.m. The
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      54 9 BHTRHSFH OUTER ROADS Inverbaric, Anshun. Davila, Da!«-rtsu Maru, Burnside. Makedonija, Ulrinou.sk, Prosper, Glengnry. Kota Gede. Ivan BabasJinki. Tamori, Mvi Hock. P;itoc!a. Belaga. Batavia, Great Oaks. INNKR ROADS Tens Hock, Cait Bintang, Lipis, Kian Gua, TWk Siong, Sri Trencanu. Yong Ann, Kinablau, Soon Bee. M Bahru, Landak. Gang Seng, Sumpit?n, Sg.
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      68 9 Rimau. Rokan, Benveg. Hua Li, Petaling. Sg. Panai. Stia, Tong Hong. Lam Ann, Sadao. Rajah Brooke. Serudom, Siantan, Erg Siong, Lant, Ikan Mas, Southern Trader, Lurky Trader Heather. WHARVES Nieuw Holland 1, Templar 5. Ceylon 7. Pros. Markinley 8. Leverkuisen 13, Empire Fowey 15, Harry Culbreath 18, Charon 23, Tjipanas
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    2025 10 Elizabeth Morton continues her series on the great events in Buckingham Palace during a century of royal residence and today recalls the MOST critical period of the Royal Family when King Edward VIII gave up his crown to marry a commoner... ...national crisis
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    172 11 Cooper Takes Over Hole Of Favourite IS, May 27 (ReuteD Ashley Cooper, Austrarhan.[>ion. who took over the role of men's singles i the French lawn tennis championships when is toppled last week, reached the last eight ma i nart mean per- 6-2 a' i \a C ;r> team. red former
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    42 11 VIENNA M:i; 27 (Reuter> The a istrian Football Atwseia- t:on itas banned nil Austrian SOCCi < id players from ola] t Hunj rei* 1 II was announced I Ol the ban would be I '1 most severely. a spokesman the association
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    106 11 a fi 2-1 ced c leccmd •.r,e Cclti in a> si ed h i r broal at too <rc<>:i. ilf, Glasfl -.v don.i sited the play and might have rol ed I ff r aCOre bwi ior some i] ed it saves by Hap^ni goalie J
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    182 11 Crepello Even Money Favourite LONDON', M iv 27 Reuter)— A Ipudin^ London bookmaker has CUi the prre of Dcrbv favourite Crepelio from six U four to evens because of the bronkriown of the second favourite, Mourne In Franca yesterday. Mourne. second favourite for the Kpso.n Derby bmke down at Longch
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    774 11 SPANIARDS AVENGE SOCCER DEFEAT World Cup Preliminary Tie MADRID, May 2K, (Reuter) SPAIN, attacking for most of the match, defeated Scotland by four goals to one here today in their second leg world soccer cup preliminary tie. The Spaniards scored two goals in each half to make amends for their
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    247 11 U.S. IN DAVIS CUP FINAL North American Zone CARACAS, Venezuela, May 27 (AP)— The U. S. completed a 4 1 victory over Venezuela Sunday in the North American Zone Davis Cup semi-final when veteran Vie Seixas and Bernard (Tut) Bartzen won the final two singles matches. Seixas captured the key
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    389 11 NEW YORK. May 27 (AP>— The lowly Chicago Cubs rose up and knocked Milwaukee into third place in the National League on Sunday by beating the Braves twice while the New York Yankees barely escaped within an even break against the weak Washington Senators. Billy Pierce helped the Chicago
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    185 11 Britons not used to crowds MODESTO. California, May 26 (AP) Britain's two great r.crs Brian Hewson and Derek [bbotson, won their Calif relay races on Saturday and both said they scored their victories under the same unusual circumstances, Hewson beat out Olympic runner Arnie Sowell of Pittsburgh and 12 others
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    469 12  - HIGH SOCKS SHOWS CLEAN HEELS TO MIRANDOLA WINDSOR LAD By HIGH SOCKS (Mitchell), a striking three-year-old, showed a pair of clean heels to stablemate MIRANDOLA (Ransome) in a three-furlong tryout at Bukit Timah yesterday, clocking 36 4 5 sec. in effortless style. Breaking from the half mile post, the pair
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    358 12 A Long Lay-off Didn't Affect The Soccerites TAXING the field after a two months' lay-off. Star Soc- j centes. without star?. Van and Corthine, were still too good for Chinese Athletics, whom they beat 4-n at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, I.iros Albar, Soccentes goalkeeper, was in ten form, whi'.e centre-forward,
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    44 12 The King Of Soccer STANLEY Matthews, world rever e<| outside r*9*ir for Blackpool, England, is crow tied 'King of Soccer' at ft cerpmony m Accra, Ghana, West Africa, offer hit arrivol in Ghana for a tour of exhibition matcties. Associated Press photo from London,
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    295 12  -  Ken Toft SAFAs Poor Match Making uru i Disappointed The Fans Says TODAY'S big question among Colony soccer fans who feel they have wasted good money for poor football at Jalan Besar Stadium Ls: What was Singapore Amateur Football Association trying to prove by the slaughter of the
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    127 12 THE victorious X.0.5.8. football team, winners of the FARELF Inter-Unit Caldbeck Cup, arrived from Hongkong yesterday. In the final, they defeated the 24 Field Engineer Regiment by two goals to nothing. Back Row. left to right: Cpl \X. Smith. Pte. R MoNab, L Cpl. W.
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    201 12 LEE TO FIGHT ORIENT CONTENDER FIGHTING LEE, the colourful Chinese boxer who counter-punched his way to a popular 10-round decision over the rugged Australian Tony Assan early this month. Will be seen in action again. His opponent this time will be the No. i contender lor the lightweight championship of
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    109 12 PARIS May 27. (Rcuicr^— i Roberi Haillc: one of the two French top tennis players, was today ordered by French Davis Cud officials to withdraw from the quarter-finals of the men's singles in the French International Lawn Tennis Champion- ships. ElaiUet was ordered to scratch because
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    64 12 TODAY'S SPORT SOCCER SA.FJL. League: Div. 1. FatfctU Karib Club vs P r S.A.. Jalan Bc> r Stadium at 5.15 p.m. Div. 28. Singapore Cricket Chib DJ Radin Mas. SCC. Div. 28. Singapore Rccrcnt on Club VS A\- rcrtdra Football 7SRC. Div. 3A- Singapore Telephone Board Sports Club Vi A
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    44 12 RAJAJI Sports Club beat Setia Java by three goals to two in a SAFA Div. 3A soccer match played at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers for Rajaji were: Osman <2» and Ramiah (1). while Madon and Kadir scored for Setia Jaya
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    47 12 PACHITAN FT beat Jollilads AU by 3 goals to one in b SAFA I'lv ;;a soccer matcl i I red at Farrcr Park yo-c- y Scorers for the winners werr Samat (1), Pon <1> and Aziz (IK while the losers only goal came through Knnmah.
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    263 12 NOTTINGHAM May 27, (Reuter) Nottingham shire had scored 312 for six wickets in reply to the West Indies first innings total of 489 for three declared at the close of the second day's play here Set the huge task of challenging the West
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    134 12 LONDON, May 27. 'ReutersClose of play in todays cricket maichcs were: At Oxford Oxford University 252 and 33 for no wicket Warwickshire 271 for four declared. Gardner lid. Smith 72. At Cambridge. Kent 309 and 16 lor no wicket. Cambridge University 260 for six declared. Smith 51. Pieris
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    70 12 Sir Beins a regular football fan I do not think it worth to pay 52.00 admission to witness a disgusting soccer camp. su< h as th? one sided match between Singapore and the Selansor Rangers, on Sunday Why can't S.A.F.A. sponsor something worthwhile. I would suggest
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    61 12 Ceylon's Davis Cup Stars For Malaya CEYLON'S Davis Cuppen Ruperi Ferdinands, Bernard I Pinto and Rajah Praesody tar's Ma- layan tennis championships at Kua!a Lumpur in August, •ed Press correspondent in Colombo cabled yesterday that the young tennis stars, who recently played in Japan, is being sent to Ma- 1
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    65 12 SI.NO-M'alays who will meet Hongkong's X,. Lern AA tomorrow at Jalan Besar stadium r«e selected from the fol- 1 IOWII f < hineae: Sect > i Chang. Lee 1 Kok Seng. Quah Kirn Br g Hee Jong. Ho Hin Weng X Cheng Arthur K< 9 -Qu sw«
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