Singapore Standard, 29 May 1957

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    29 1 Singapore Standard STANDARD POLICE ***** (5 tineiT 2400 #6 vH 1. FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 28U 2414 ■pPui- No. 32'> SINGAPORE, WEDNESft&Y, MAY 29, 1957 11 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon ABORIGINE WRESTLED A TIGER; ALL SMILES AFTER MAULING ENCOUNTER
    295 1 Kill Or Be Killed m I MPIR. Tues. r hmuine. Basoh Anak I uho on Saturday i tu<r armed only I p trans a m spear I Tua is recovering .usuries received in I kill nr be killed strugX a '.<>-yrar-old
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    Lock icon British Red Cross May Pull Out After Merdeka
    163 1 tl Red Cross Society's branches in the d rod Singapore are expected to cease their ?n full independence is attained. Outlining the Society's future plans, its Singapore Director Mr. A. E. It Geddes i v- m rday that at the 04 British
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    Lock icon FIVE DEAD IN RAFT
    43 1 [May 23 (Renter) panese coastguard it on a routine patrol irajima Island, south o today found a ship's it containing the bodies ir men. and <>ne woman. tguard said all the were weiring life jacnd vv- re Ued together
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    35 1 state Department spokes->-iid in Washington that the Inited v >v.^ "actively <.oni reduction in the r.'-.fi.i of American civilian mht.irv personnel and if pendents .stationed in aa, after the recent \merieaa rioting. Reuter
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    Lock icon HOOLIGANS AT WORK—Police View
    429 1 HOOLIGANS AT WORK— Police View More Stones Are Thrown At Buses As SMke Enters Second Day THREE buses two belonging to the Toy Koh Vat Co. and the other from the Hock Lee Co. were stoned last night as the strike involving 350 workers of both companies entered its second
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    Lock icon S'pore Man Is No. 2 In Council
    139 1 S'pore Man Is No. 2 In Council JAKARTA, May 28 (UP) The Chief ol the Fisheries Office. Singapore. Tham Ah Kow. was elected vice-chair-man of the Indo-Paciflc Fisheries Council. The Council studied the dangers ol contaminating the oceans by atomic radiation and waste at its closing ses- n in Bandung
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    Lock icon PRINCESS ILL
    15 1 princess Margaret was announced yesterday to be Mifferins from a feverish chill Reuter
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    Lock icon 10,000 Naval Base Men On Day's Protest Strike
    77 1 THE 10.000 strong Singapore Naval Base Labour I'nion will stage a day's protest strike today against the decision of the Admiralty in serving redundancy notices to 41") members of the Union. A spokesman for the Union told the Standard late last night
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    Lock icon Corrupt Practices Commission Formed
    227 1 Justice Chua Heads New 3 -Man Body A THREE-MAN commission. headed by Mr. Justice F. A. Chua. has been appointed by the Singapore Government to probe into allegations of corruption against members of the Legislative Assembly and other civil ser\ant.s. The two other members of the
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    Lock icon NUCLEAR POWER OUR GREATEST PROTECTION —Mac
    192 1 NUCLEAR POWER OUR GREATEST PROTECTION Mac LONDON. May 23 (Reuter) Britain's Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, sa.d today that the nuclear power of the free world "should not be abandoned without a corresponding reduction in conventional armaments." He told questioners in the House of Commons that he welcomed any initiative
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    Lock icon Cloud Coils And Boils Info Sky Of Unearthly' Light
    348 1 9 U.S. A-Tests Begin: ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nevada, May 28 (Keuter) The United States exploded a brilliant atomic device into the desert darkness today, opening its summer series of tests in Nevada. i The ten kiloton device flared an unearthly light
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    Lock icon JUST LIKE ANY OTHER TRIP
    52 1 BRISTOL, England. May 28 (Reuter) First north-bound British ship to pass through the reopened Suez Canal, the 9,952-ton merchantman Egidia docked here today from Bombay, after "a completely uneventful" trip. Her master. Captain William Mac Vicar. said it was "just like any other trip up
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    Lock icon BOY KILLED
    28 1 LIM SWEE HOO. one-year-old son of a farmer, was yesterday crushed to death when a rubber tree fell on him In Lim Chu Kang Road Singapore.
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    Lock icon WAR OF THE CHURCHES
    403 1 WAR OF THE CHURCHES CATHOLICS UNDER FIRE WOLVERHAMPTON, England. May 2X— (UP) The Church of England's senior prelate charged yesterday that the Catholic C hurch in Britain was waging an "open war" against the Church of England. Arch.bi.shop of Canterbury Dr. Geoffrey Fisher told a conference of churchmen here he
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    64 1 WIESBADEN. West Germany, May 23 (Reutet) Brigadier-General Beniam:n O. Day: Jr.. 44 first Nepro Kchera] in the United States Air Force has been appolnted chiel ol stall to the United Slates A.r Forces Twelfth Air Force at Ramstein near here, it was announced today. General Davis' father
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    Lock icon 7 FALL TO THEIR DEATH
    48 1 JOHANNESBURG. May 2 8 <UP> Seym mine workers plunged to their death down a gold mine shait yr.--terday. A company spokesman at the Western Be^fs said the seven men were working on a platform when it tipped over, spilling them into the mine.
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    Lock icon Sailors Ordered To Return To Ships By 10 p.m.
    165 2 Sailors Ordered To Return To Ships By 10 p.m. HONGKONG, May 28 (AP).— American naval per sonnel here have been ordered to return to their ships by 10 pjn. nightly as a precautionary measure against anti-American incidents, a Navy spokesman said today. The early recall— the usual limit is midnight
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    146 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb) in Singapore yesterday were:— Buyers Sellers Spot 89} 90 Int. June R.S.S No 1 90 901 R.SS No 2 89* 90i R.S.S. No. 3 88i 882 Tone: Steady. The price of tin on the local market yesterday was 5385 per picul (Down
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    Lock icon EDENS LEAVE FOR HOME
    68 2 OTTAWA, May 28 (AP) Sir Anthony Eden and Lady Eden left here on Monday for Montreal en route to Britain. The former British Prime Minister had a short talk with Prime Minister Louis St Laurent before his departure. The 57-year-old statesman's departure by car brought to
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    24 2 THE evacuation cf Vietnamborn Chinese who want to move to Formosa will start on July 1. the South Vietnam Government said yesterday. U.P.
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    Lock icon KISHI IN COLOMBO
    20 2 THE Japanese Prime Minister. Mr. Nobusuke Kishi. arrived in Colombo yesterday on a four-day official visit. Reuter
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    Lock icon Monroe May Star In A German Film
    110 2 BERLIX. May 28. (Baiter) M.ss Mari.y:-. Monroe rr.ay p'.ay the leading m] e in a Berlin remake ci "The Blue Ar.ge whicfa bro ight Marlene Dietrich to tame in the *****, Herr Kur: U'.ncn, producer t~> the Bero'.ina FUffl Company, tod reporters today.
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    Lock icon WAR ON CONCUBINES TO BE DECLARED
    285 2 WAR ON CONCUBINES TO BE DECLARED HONGKONG, May 28, (Reuter). Woman's orgas nizations here announced J today that they intend to open a campaign next week for the abolition of polygamy 2 among Chinese. S At present Chinese in this British Colony can legally J maintain as many concnbines 2
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    355 2 ADENAUER SUGGESTS BIG-FOUR MEETING WASHINGTON. May 28--President Eisenhower and Dr. Konrad Adenauer, the West German Chancellor, said in a joint communique today that a solution of the problem of German reunification must come before a comprehensive disarmament agreement with the Soviet Union. The communique also said that
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    Lock icon DJUANDA BACKS SOEKARN
    290 2 'President Did Not Outside Of Constitute JAKARTA, May 28, (AP)— President Soekarno's octi On a state of war and siege in Indonesia was upheld today by Pr/ C[:; Diuanda in an attack on opposition parties for rh c First f month-old life of the Cabinet. The Prime
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    Lock icon Five-Nation UN Talks Adjourned
    168 2 Five-Nation UN Talks Adjourned LONDON. May 28 (Reuter) The five-nation United Nations disarmament subcommittee meeting here today adjourned business until Thursday afternoon to permit the French and United States delegates. M. Jules Moch and Mr. Harold Stassen. to attend a meeting in Paris tomorrow of the NATO permanent council. A
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    Lock icon U.S., U.K. Swap Information
    45 2 LONDON. May 28 (Reuter) United States and British expert? started talks here yesterday on nuclear-powerej submarines. The meeting i? the result of an agreement between the two countries to exchange information on the neveiopment and use of reactors for underwater propulsion.
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    24 2 THE Government of Ghana ha- locepted an invitation to send a Parliamentary delegation to Russia, it was announced in Accra yesterday A.P.
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    55 2 WASHINGTON. May 28. (Router) The New York Times reported today that the forthcoming Defence Department booklet warned that, with the development of the hydrogen bomb, radioactive contamination had become a new offensive weapon. shin:' -v.. los i tamir tms-if bernm* an automat* ff tensmr, of ihp nfTfnsT 1
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    Lock icon Japan Shows Regret
    37 2 Japan Shows Regret WfV4/MS TOKYO, Mav 91 Jap ed in Y Th P^e^s r< vey< "th, Jap,: t nun a sj F< the day."' U.S. ha The sion the ann of the nese hoi be e rec
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    Lock icon THOUSANDS AT PEKAN JUBILEE FETE
    598 3 Sultan Creates 27 New JP's And Gives 26 Awards g W'TAN. Tues.— ft- of visitors I very corner of ire converging X tittte township of >■ 30 miles away n venue of the jubilee celebraof thi Pahang m Sir Abu Bakar. V I rented from
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    Lock icon India Considers Stopping Ships From Singapore
    209 3 ALL BECAUSE OF THE FLU ILDRAS, May 28 (Reuter).— The Indian Government lumfclfiljag whether to ask for the suspension i towf services between Madras, Singapore and M > a measure against the spread of influenza to 1 nrdins: to authoritative sources here. e already
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    Lock icon Tattoo Mark Gets Him 5 Mths. Jail
    54 3 Tattoo Mark Gets Him 5 Mths. Jail L B e hawker. Ho j c terday T S S 2 I tad Bo ti Road in Aui I nad tattoo n j uni r, B Si ng, l tiger, left Soci ;o i A i Fok, 1 the tattoo mark on
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    Lock icon Claims Trial To Trust Charge
    36 3 Sooi Tan Soo Aik. d S g ipore Couri to ci h of I $7.83 1 nging 1 between January and r oi 1955. of $2.0n0 rwed t will DC I
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    Lock icon GIRL FOUND HANGING
    17 3 D S ire i Fayalatchnu and hai of the Ger.!. j tei ecovcred r.^'c
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    Lock icon BOUND OVER FOR THEFT
    80 3 MAGISTRATE, Air. S. K. Leo, yesterday advised parent? o: three Singapore youths i I to allow their children to 'Tun The boy?. Tng H^e S^on, 13. C^h Har Chee, 12. and Tbng Cho.-> F mg, L 6, plea led guilty to theft of scrap-iron worth Dging
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    Lock icon A Double Send-Off
    248 3 A Double Send -Off PLANE DELAYED, SO BAND PLAYED TWICE A SINGAPORE youth leader, Mr. Foo Kia Pang, who was leaving for Britain for specialized training, was yesterday given a noisy send-off TWICE. One hundred boys from a Social Welfare orphanage turned up at the airport, struck up their own
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    58 3 PENANG, Tues.— A strike fund was started by striking employees of the Straits Stevedoring and Shipping Company today at the lighter wharf in Weld Quay here The strike was called yesterday by members of the Penang and Province Wellesley General Workers' Union In protest against the
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    46 3 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Tues.— A rubber tapper, Lim Guan Seng, was detained by thp Police today after a charge of criminal intimidation had been withdrawn against him in the Sessions Court yesterday. He is being detained at the Penanjr Prisons under the Restricted Residence Ordinance.
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    Lock icon TIN MINER FACES CHEATING CHARGE
    383 3 IPOH, lues. A tin-miner, Yeong Ling Seong, 46, claimed trial in the Sessions Court today to a charge of using a forged document with intent to cheat Low Alee Loong, a businessman. The offence was alleged to have been committed on Sept. 21. 1955. Uo
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    Lock icon Exhibit Of Hobbies— What, No Politics ?
    272 3 Exhibit Of Hobbies— What, No Politics SINGAPORE'S Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, yesterday spoke of the "hobby of politics/ when he declared open the Rotary Club Hobbies Exhibition at the Victoria Memorial Hall. He said his pleasure in performing the opening ceremony was tinged with slight
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    Lock icon Lotteries Board Gives $185,320
    90 3 Lotteries Board Gives $185,320 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Social and Welfare Lottery Service Board today approved grants totalling $185, 320 to eight projects in the Federation. They are: Purchase of a tractor for the Young Farmers' Club at Aycr Tawar ($3,685). playing field in Kelanian ($13,400). books for Batu Pahat
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    37 3 MR. and Mrs. Urn Guan Leong after their marriage at the Wesley Church, Klang, last Saturday. The bride is the former Miss Wong Beng Neo, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wong Hiong Lye.
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    Lock icon Enrolment Datelsne
    60 4 SINGAPORE'S Education Ministry Is giving a last chance to parents to register their children born in 1949 and 1950 for admission to primary schools next year. The last day for such registration is Saturday. Failure to do so will render children of these age categories ineligible for admission.
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    Lock icon Policeman Is Charged With Stealing 24 Bottles Of Brandy
    178 4 Policeman Is Charged With Stealing 24 Bottles Of Brandy A POLICE constable, Ong Thiam Beng, was yesterday charged in a Singapore court with stealing 24 bottles of brandy worth $384 belonging to Yeo Yon? Hoon on Jan. 14. The offence was alleged to have been committed fa Changi Road. Yeo
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    Lock icon Sentenced To Death, He's Freed By Appeal Court
    340 4 JUDGE ERRED, SAYS THE CHIEF JUSTICE KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. —The Federation Appeal Court today freed Yacob bin Yusoff, a 23-year-old fisherman who had been convicted by the Kelantan High Court on a charge of murdering his former wife. Mr. Justice Thompson, the
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    Lock icon FAREWELL TO FIVE OLD HANDS AT PRINTING
    166 4 VALEDICTORY letters were yesterday presented to five retired employers of the Singapore Government, who had put in a total of 147 years of service in the Printing Department. The letters were presented by Mr A G Banfuld, Government Printer, at the Government Printing
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    Lock icon WASHERWOMAN TELLS COURT OF KNIFE ATTACK ON SISTER
    238 4 WASHERWOMAN TELLS COURT OF KNIFE ATTACK ON SISTER A WASHERWOMAN. Tan Siew Eng told the Singapore Assizes yesterday that a man who was waiting for his clothes, suddenly turned upon her sister and stabbed her with a knife She then struggled with him to wrench the weapon from his hand.
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    93 4 PROFESSOR C. J. Eliezer, Dean of the Science Faculty, University of Ceylon, who is on a brief visit to Singapore on his way back from Japan, delivered a talk on "Atoms in War and Peace" at the University of Malaya yesterday. Prof. Eliezer who arrived in Singapore
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    Lock icon S'pore MIC Elects Officers
    95 4 S'pore MIC Elects Officers MR. A. Letchmar.asamy was elected chairman of the Malayan Indian Congress, Singapore, at a meeting held recently. Other officials elected were: Vice-Chairman Mr. Ram Kawal Rai, secretary Mr. P. Varathara.ialu, treasurer Mr. R. Xhevar. auditor Mr V. Yeiayutham. CommitteeMessrs. E. S. Sebastian, V.S.M. Samy. Kundaniai. G.
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      110 4 TODAY'S STANDARD ALMANAC Spore Diary Ji^^Bf^L^ Wife.%S?*2: Kotary Club: Weekly luncheon contest at straits Chinese Metho- part 2 (XL); 356 5 p.m men s meeting talk on "The Expand- d st U Cl .fl all< Kam P° n B Ka- English Schools Broadcasts (S): W3W?W\WWW7^Wt\ %7 ing Commonwealth by Mr
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    Lock icon Eanker Yap Warns: Singapore Must Not Rest On Its Oars...
    297 5 E anker Yap Warns: Singapore Must Not Rest On Its Oars... IS THERE A RECESSION ROUND THE CORNER? SINGAPORE can continue to take a leading part in trade with South-east 3 n countries if she played her role correctly, Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, a pron ,-ent businessman and former City
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    Lock icon RULING ON SACK ORDER
    38 5 SAFOHI City Council >te employee ni »sed shoul en lays, ii t t the "sack order.* 1 ire h >s been i s [by the Estat ttee I > the C micil en Fi i-
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    Lock icon Flu: Mass inoculation out says health chief
    180 5 SS inoculation of Singapore s population against c k of 'flu is not practicable, Dr. M. Dorai•incnt Secretary to the Ministry ot told the Standard yesterday. -j Contrary to prevailing opin- Dr Doraisinghain held the view that the same kind oi •flu might
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    Lock icon Unlicensed Bikes: Big Round-up
    81 5 Unlicensed Bikes: Big Round-up I CA, Tur,.- More High School students tnded ud by traffic rday for riding UTd was told tint move by branch to curb i in the he [children were when traffic guarded both alter school Hundreds oi them compound re checked. the offenders told w >uld
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    40 5 A SYMPHONY CONCERT-AND IT IS FREE I -.pore Recorded Will present a DCert of recorded c Oei Tiong Ham >h s Institution, Basa'r. Koa tomorrow, programme includes S 5 Sums, Brucks <y and Bruch. i i are invited. is free
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    Lock icon Fishing ban in Straits of Johore relaxed
    211 5 COVT. TO ISSUE PASSES LICENSED fishermen living in the villages of Stulang Laut, Karnpong Java and Kampong Sembang on. the Johore coast may now apply for curfew passes I r Dight fishing in the Straits 01 Johore, a Singapore Government statement said yesterday.
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    47 5 TAIPING Turs. The following are officials of the Taiping Chapter of the Methodist Youth Fellowship: President: Mercy Kingham vice-president: Ling Sieng Btog, secretary: D Sarojini. Measurer: Esther Rasanayagam, librarian: Ooi Suat Khcng. counsellors: Hong Eu Jeong, Rosalie Fritz and Rev Wong Hoon I lee.
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    Lock icon MERCHANT FINED
    35 5 A MERCHANT, Teo Swee Ban, was yesterday fined a total of $100 by the Singapore City Magistrate, when he pleaded guilty to falling to submit his income tax returns for 1955 and 1956.
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    Lock icon Man Gets Off With A Warning
    100 5 Man Gets Off With A Warning SEREMBAN. Tues. Ahmad bin Karani. a lorry Cleaner, was today cautioned and discharged by Magistrate Raja Sulong for being in a controlled area. The Court was told Ahmad, a new resident of Ulu Mantin, went to an area where two units of Gurkhas were
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    Lock icon CATTLE-OWNER GETS 3 YEARS
    55 5 IPOH. TUCS, A 22-year-old cattle owner, Telok Singh, who pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder of a 28-year-old labourer. Tepal Singh, in a toddy shop in Kampar on Nov. 18 last year. was today sentenced to three 1 years'
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    Lock icon HE SUGGESTS FIREMEN SHOULD BE SEARCHED
    125 5 both before and after a fire INDEPENDENT Singapore City Councillor, Mr. Lee Choon Eng, has suggested in a letter to the Council that firemen should be searched both before they go out on duty and after they return Reason: Such procedure will eliminate any
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    Lock icon THE GIRL WHO COULDN'T BEAR BEING SCOLDED
    142 5 THE GIRL WHO COULDN'T BEAR BEING SCOLDED A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl. Tan Lee Eng, killed herself by drinking caustic soda because she could not bear her mother scolding her, a Singapore Coroner was told yesterday. Ng Nya Cher, a subtenant of the house in On an Road where Tan lived, told
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    Lock icon Knocked By A Reversing Car
    102 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Coroner Inche Ibrahim bin Salleh held an inquest today into the death of Peh Sey Han. 4, who was knocked down by a car at Jalan Abdul Samad on Feb. 1. The child, it was stated, was playing on the grass verse
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    Lock icon Malacca singers for 'Portuguese Night'
    130 5 THIRTY Portuguese men and women dancers and singers from Malacca are being invited for the Portuguese Night Gala Ball in aid of the St. Francis Institution Building and Orphanage Fund at the Sea View hotel on Saturday, June 1, from 9 p.m to 2 a.m
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    Lock icon THE DANCING DARVAS'S
    211 5 Are Coming To Singapore— And They Are Multi- Millionaires THE Cathay Organisation announced today that it had engaged two world-ranking dancers for a short season at a Colony nightclub. They are Julia and Nicholas Darvas, who have acquired fame and a fortune for themselves along the gilded
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    Lock icon OLD APPLE TREE' IS BARRED TO MAJID
    272 5 Stick to Calrnhill, he's told THE Independent candidate contesting the byelection at Cairnhill, Mr. M. A. Majid, was yesterday barred by Singapore Police from making an election address under the "old apple tree" at Empress Place. Policemen dispersed the crowd waiting to hear
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    Lock icon POLICE PROBE KIDNAP AND RAPE REPORT
    88 5 SINGAPORE Police are investigating a report made by an 18-year-o!d amah on Monday that she was abducted from Serangoon Garden Estate in a car and later raped. The woman, Heng Lee How. told the police that while going to work on Saturday morning, a
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      536 6 rpHE irritation which Singapore's teachers feel over the rumours that have gained ground that the Government is considering slashing their salaries to help reduce its expenditure will be readily understood. Coming at a time when the members of this professions have been calling for a better appreciation
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      330 6 'THE Federation's medical scientists who warn that mental depression can result from an attack of the present influenza that is sweeping the east and that this can even lead to those so affected committing suicide must, of course, know what they are talking about. They have isolated and
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    Lock icon Nora Setoff reports from Paris on the French pension system and says France is... a country with the most aged
    434 6 Nora Setoff reports from Paris on the French pension system and says France is... a country with the most aged working people of France stagger under the load of having to provide not only for themselves and their children, but also for the highest proportion of every old people of
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    Lock icon The Price of H-Tests
    837 6  -  John Davy Science Notebook by LONDON. A BIOLOGIST at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. E. B. Lewis, is reported to have proved that the incidence of leukaemia is directly proportional to the amount of radiation to which people are exposed. If this is true Dr.
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    549 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME ASTER GUNASEKERA »py \T THE annual general meeting of the Kuala Lumpur and Ulu Selangor District Estates Staff Union on Sunday last, the chairman, R.C. Lopez, protested against rubber companies ignoring promotion claims of their senior men and recruiting schoolboys for training as the
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    935 6  -  K.T.Joseph A Glimpse of Malaya —land of floods By_ rresweni, Rotc n/ Club* BATU Pahat (literally Chiselled stone) is one of the most well-developed and important districts in Johore and covers an area of about 1,000 square miles. It is about 100 miles from Singapore and is on
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    145 7 LOND' 28 (RevD IB J Times re today that had decided to ::»'COM,' the tb-committee v co-or trade China. paper I ita Pans i v weuthat the leg ite laid gue (repre- c NA I v countries P- a w
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    87 7 Photo TIIK locomotive and coaches <>f passenger train lie brl.iw railway embankment after the train had derailed, ripping the track from the sleepers near Sendai in Fukushim;i, Japan, on May 17. liodie.s lie scattered on the embankment slopes. Three persons were crushed to death in the tangle
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    436 7 Ex-Ministers Son Goes Free In Rome Scandal Case M.iv 28 (Reuter) T Venice tribunal :r. son of a former of the man•.or n-'-year-old ca: daughter wh i I fen to Italy's postwar scan.LV. J I— M judges other [go Mon--about-to •c dealr- S R iom*i fmm ;ef, not being ac
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    153 7 MADRID. May 28 (AP) Spanish police arrested 26 Liberals and monarchists yesterday on charges of holding clandestine meetings and more arrests are imminent, reliable informants said last night. Among those reported held fur questioning by a special exiyninmg magistrate were Ticrno Gal van.
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    84 7 JERUSALEM, May 28, (Router) Two new immigrant women from the Lachish area in Southern Israel were released on bail here by a Magistrate's Court after they had been arrested on suspicion oi having written a threatening letter. The women, one aged 19 and the other 40, wrote
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    164 7 HONGKONG, May 28, (Reuter) Britain is now winning the battle of the banks in Hongkong. It started in 1935 when the locally-owned Hongkong ana Shanghai Bank erected a magnificent building just over 200 feet high in the city centre and facing the water-front.
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    141 7 CONFIDENTIAL LOS ANGELES, May 28 (AP) Tips on 90 per cent of the stories about movie folk appearing in •'Confidential" magazine cam* from a pretty Lebaneseborn actress, Francesca D© Scaffa, according to testimony released yesterday. A transcript of the County grand jury's investigation into so-called
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    224 7 SECURITY IN ASIA INDISPENSABLE TO WORLD PEACE Japan's Kishi Pakistan's Suhrawardy Agree KARACHI, May 28 (Reuter)— Peace and security in Asia is indispensable to world peace, said Prime Ministers, H. S. Suhrawardy of Pakistan and Nobusuke Kishi of Japan, in a joint communique here today. Mr. Kishi has just concluded
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    77 7 Cupid Favours Housemaids MUNICH. May 28. (Reuter) Housemaids have the best prospects of getting married, according to a statistic survey based on 26.000 marriage certificates at Munich registration offices. About 12 p<?r cent of the women married gave their occupation as housemaid. They were followel by tailoresses with 10.5 per
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    43 7 MUSHROOMS ALCOHOL WELLINGTON. New Zealand, May 28. (Reuter)— A man who appeared in the Putaruru Court charged with being disorderly was stated to have been subsisting on a diet of mushrooms and methylated spirits. He w r as sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment.
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    153 7 Americans Born In The P.I. Are Aliens 1 WASHINGTON, May 28 S (UP) The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 today C that U.S. nationals born in the Philippines Islands became aliens on July 4. 5 1946, when the Philip- pines received its' inde- pendence. even though 2 they may
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    141 7 NATO Bases Are Useless Zhukov LONDON. May 28 (AP)— Soviet Defence Kufin ster Georgi Zhukov declared last night that Western i tary bases ringing the Communist wo: Id "have lost their meaning with the appearance of guided missiles and other rockets of great destructivi wer, and accuracy.'' j Moscow Radio
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    70 7 LINA, Peru, May 28 (AP) All that Victor Takimoto need to do now that he's legally dead is prove that he's legally alive. That's what the court ruled yesterday in studying the case of the Peruvian Nisei whose funeral was held on Friday but who
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    112 7 Krupps Will Go The Way Of Others LONDON. May 23 (UP)— zn Secretary Belwyn Lloyd told the Comou n day there Is no question of exempting the Kruppc family combine from di i art< In West Germany. Lloyd im asked 1 c< v* the government n to request from the
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    185 8 He Had M.C.P. Documents IPOH. Tues.— A woodcutter. Shoo Kew, 28, who pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing subversive documents at Jetter Estate, Batu Gajah, was today sentenced to three years' jail. The President of the Sessions Court, before passing sentence, told Shoo
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    129 8 M-Calypso Gets Disc Firm Offer KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Malaya's Merdeka Calypso, yet to be heard in public, has already attracted the attention of the world's leading record manufacturers. The 13-stanza song intended to be a surprise welcome gesture to Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman on his return from London, may
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    66 8 SOUTHAMPTON, England. May 28 (Rruter)— Seven rare fallow deer from the Duke of Bedford's estate at Woburn, Bedfordshire left here yesterday in the 9.235-ton British freighter Sundra for delivery in Malaya to the Sultan of Johore. The Sultan, who has his own private zoo. will let
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    76 8 KLANG, Tues. Police last night detained a driving instructor in connection with Saturday's attempted robbery at Cub Road in which a woman fought od three armed men. This is the third arrest in the case. A Poiire spokesman told the Standard that the first man detained on
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    248 8 $12 Mil. Expansion Scheme For Malayan Telecoms System To Mcc Demands For Next 15 Years KUALA LUMPUR, Tues-Mnla to lay a 512,000,000 micro-wave m! Lumpur and Singapore shortly to telephone conversations simultane* i it will also enable the Federa; Singapore on television. I; in trunk telephone
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    92 8 photo. FOUR comely lasses from the four corners of the world give a preview of some of the dresses which will be worn at the "Carnival of National Dresses" show at the Mansion House in Dublin, next week. They are, from left to right. Marie Hinnan
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    321 8 No Wonder, She's Been Riding In The Rain IPOH Tues.— A pretty 19-year-old Danish girl exclaimed, "Ooh. it's cold in this town;' when she arrived here from Penang last night in the course of a round-the-world tour pillion-riding on an autocycle
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    123 8 PENANG, Tues. A Police supervisee. Poh Tong Yeong, 32. who admitted seven previous convictions, was sen- tenced to eight months' jail on being convicted of robbing a baby-sitter. Lim Guat Tee. 29. of her gold ring valued at $38. The Sessions Judge. Mr. David
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    48 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The prison population in the Federation at the end of the first-quarter of this year was 2,554. the Ministry of Home Affairs reported today. The number of detainees was 261 as compared with 308 at the end of last year.
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    160 8 TWO roommates for ten yean had an ftt <i r day. The following was hit on the head with an xe while be as a revealed at a prelimij, qi;;ry in Singapore yi stei In the dock was Ong 1 h Bee. who was tentatively
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    67 8 MALAYAN and South-c Asian histories will form the subjects for "further education" which the Singapore Council of Adult Education intends to impart. A course in S >ry will commence on Friday, and in Malayan history on Saturday a 1 the Council I in pfmfng Ri-c. Earh
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    256 9 A Triumphant Mr. Hodge Crows Film Chief Back With 2 Golden Harvest' Awards KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Where documentary films are concerned, the Malayan Film Unit stands heads and shoulders above its Asian neighbours, said Mr. Tom Hodge, head of the MFU on his triumphal return
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    56 9 IWRENCSJ MAII, 24, of BA. Ceylon Road. Kuala Lumpur, is the first only trainilmoner In an Australian hospital, and the first Malayan to graduate in this spwinliied field which provides aid for the sick, needy and aged. Australian Informaiu photo shows Man chatting with a patient of
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    186 9 Witnesses Absent, So Case Is Postponed f Tues.-Sess. Anth n I I i prosecution on for postponeB case as throe blesses were I said the adttt would be the irking that the i esses C 0.... have been absent because of the 'flu epidemic. In court was Haji Mohai bin
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    126 9 v ;tar Twenty- nese r a Koraii, wer- 1 r Cll mit Matnche Abdul Hamld ir yesterday for r. itwere alleged inters of in mt which ;r --a was alleged to have been committed at Cherry e Estate on the light of December 2
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    62 9 Strip Show Gets The Green Light 1 Chairman i Council, h ffl «ra two women* and were yesterday I a new strip bcre. performance, the ted a licence hat: th their backa nee may pese In the nude. 1 facing the andlcert&in parts c vereci (dthez Mrar m s. do
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    168 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The $500,000 GeologicahSurvey Headquarters at Scrivenor Road, Ipoh, will be officially opened by the High Commissioner on Thursday. F<-r over 50 years the Geological Survey Department has its Federal Headquarters in Batu Gajah but it has long since outgrown the accommodation
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    129 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. People who wonder how aborigines live can see this for themselves if they visit an exhibition which opens at the Maxwell Road School tomorrow. The exhibition will depict, with the help of models, aborigines culture and their way of life. It is
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    1332 9 THK following Honours and Awards have been approved by the Queen for Operational Services in Malaya and Singapore during the period July 1, 1956 to Dec. SI 195 C GJU (Military Division) R' triier r> Townsend. DS.O OJJ E HQ 99 Gurkha Bd I onel
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    200 10 Chief Of 'Overseas' Life Dept. THE Overseas Assurance Corporation Ltd., Singapore, has appointed Mr. Oh Kwee Look as divisional manager of its Life Department. Mr. Oh has over 10 years' experience in the life assurance business. He has big visions and big plans for ihe future success of "Overseas" Life
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    244 10 A CEREMONY held in the Guild Hall demonstrates the confidence felt in the City of London as to the future of natural rubber. The occasion was the signing of an agreement through which production of natural rubber will be introduced to Western Nigeria a country which
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    89 10 A PAINTING plant a quarter of a mile long and capable of finishing 52 cars an hour in any combination of 26 colours is under construction at the Morris Motors iaclory at Coiclcu, near Oxford, England. Believed to be one of the most modern in
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    112 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picui yesterday were Copra, May /June $25* »uyers; $26| sellers; coconut in bulk $41 sellers, in drums $431 seller?, Muntok white pepper $105 sellers. Sarawak white $104 sellers, special Sarawak black $71. COPRA HOLIDAY, CUTLER, BATH CO. LID MAY 11 a.m
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    54 10 RECEIPT of an order for a complete television station for Thailand is announced by Pye It is stated that this will be sited at Bangkok, where a service has been operated by the Government for the past three years, and the new station will he completed by the
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    36 10 TIN ore. outputs of the following companies for the quarter January to March this year were: Kent (F.M.S.) 947 picuis; Pengkalen 2,030 picuis; Gopeng Consolidated 3.680 picuis; Tekka 716 picuis; Rambutan 750 picuis.
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    230 10 JAGUAR Cars have announced two new sports car models in the XX series. They are the XKISO Drophead Coupe and the XKISO Fixed Head Coupe, both cars being fitted with Dunlop disc brakes on all four wheels as standard equipment. When, in 1953, Jaguar achieved the second
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    173 10 THE firm trend in tins continued yesterday, according to the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association. Industrials were again irregular. Dollar rubbers were quiet, while selective buying was reported for sterling rubbers Price changes announced by the Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers 88. Petrol 64/- 66/- cd Fraser
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    244 10 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done: Fed. Disp. $2; F. N. ords. $2 48; Gammons $2.05 to $2 10Hammers $2.12 overnight and yesterday; H. Waugh $1,821 to $1.85; Hume ords. A5/7i; Cements $1.57, $1.57 i; M. Colls $1; Metal Box $1,874 to $1,884* Sime Darby $2.90
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    480 10 MORE NEW RUBBED USAGE BY 1960 IS FORECAST IN what he described o s o Co forecast an official of a leading a^ rubber company told o business m Cleveland, Ohio, the consumption of in the United States will exceed long tons a year by 1960. ''"N This compares with
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    131 10 Hongkong Ships For Malaya HONGKONG'S export of vessels to many neighbouring and distant countries has grown into an important and developing industry, says the latest report from the acting Director of Marine in that Colony. Vessels ordered for commercial and pleasure uses overseas in the past three months includes cargo
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    55 10 A NEW deep skirt engine and three-speed synchromesh gearbox, both basically the same as those in the new Vauxhall Victor car. are being installed in all Bedford 10-12 hundredweight vans now being built, Vauxhall Motors announce. Only detailed changes have been made in units
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    125 10 Emphasis On Asian Production MR. HENRY A. ARNOLD, seen here, was this week named president of the new international organization established by the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation for the production and distribution in key Asian areas of basic products, ranging from essential medicines to construction materials and including fertilizers, insecticides,
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    190 10 A NEW aircraft propeller brake weighing only 24 oz. is being exhibited by one of Britain's leading rubbei* manufacturers at the 22nd Salon International de I'Aeronautique in Paris. The brake has been designed to stop propellers rotating as soon as possible after landing. The manufacturers'
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    24 10 THE Compagnie Francalse dcs Petroles' Algerian subsidiary has struck oil again eight kilometres north of its first productive well at HassiMessaoud.
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    27 10 THE New So ith Wa i stitute of Tecfan logy report? that the inclusion of fly-ash from power stations in cement ires considerably strengthen? concrete.
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    26 10 SINf ccn 1 and out rep son. shipment /or I NOON FRM 1 I meree Rubber -*m yesterday were: Inter 1 JurTor
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    43 10 NEW YORK. May 27 (UP) Dow-Jones closing averages: STOCKS: 30 Industrials 499.21 20 Rails 145.04 15 Utilities 74 20 65 Stocks 174.37 BONDS: 40 Bonds 89 13 The Dow- Jones Commodity futures index (1924-26 average equals 100) closed at 157.53.
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    28 10 $1.9 Mil. Rubber For Poland rr.wv, Tbn U!k v '-n ou! f 7'J Ha S '■'fled t tBßs 2 Saul II 1 t .1 inns riihber for Oc^
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      71 10 NOTICE RENDERS are invited from approved contractors for the construction of a 6 storeyed office building at Penang Road, Penang, for the Malaya Borneo Building Society. Particulars of tenders can be obtained from the architect's offices at Penang or Ipoh any working day. Tenders shall be submitted to the architect's
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      134 10 VGSHSFH OUTER ROADS Marilen, Choy Sang. Ulianovsk. Taipooan, Idomeneus. Great Oaks. Eatoela. Hoi Wong, Anshun, Starry Bolshevik, Prosper, Anking, Tjibantiet. INNER ROADS Tone Hock, Hua Li Ton 2 Goan. Kian Guan Senai. Mansei Mam. Chiat Soon. Sri Trengganu. Sadao, Sirusa, M. Barhu. Ann, Sg Deli, Giang Seng, Matahari, Ton? Hong
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      269 12 ISLAND IN THE SUN FIELIGIITED with the pro- gress of his first British picture, ISLAND IN THE SUN, Darryl F. Zanuck is now engaged at Elstree Studios on editing the million-pound production. The film unit returned to London recently for interior scenes after extensive location work on the West Indian
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    117 13 The West Indian tourists ghotoed tiic i/Hiiy to bri<j)\'cn up cricket when they defeated E i at lltnrd recently after QWtn a hard struggle. tOUfiiti M'cre led on the first un'ivijs fought back truly to defeat Essex by four 'rickets. In thil picturi L. Sen-ill the
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    291 13 British Amateur Golf Produces No Major Upsets FORMBY, Lancashire, May 27 (Reuter). Nearly > <»f non-stop £olf on the Fonnby links here nil. did not produce any major upsets as the British mitnir Golf Championship for 1957 began. p,;f there were two near ?*>e t arr, Ireland** < ip plavcr,
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    86 13 TFIE tram to rrprespnt the Rn-,al Army Orrinnnrr Corps vrrsus X E.M.E. a Joint Service Cricket League match today at Friendly Htn 3 bod will be ielected from; Cap;. Bruhl »3BOn». Maj Lorenzen ','ißoni. Capt Porter •poo>. Capt. Webb <443BAD>. U Howell 13 BOl>>, Lt. Alway (3 BOIJ'.
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    237 13 By graves Keeps Title In Poor Fight 1 CARDIFF, May 28 (Rev- ter Joe Bygraves of Ja- 1 maica, kept his British Kmpire heavyweight title 1 last night when he boxed a draw with Dick Richardson. I the 22 year-old Welsh hope. I It w;is a poor championI ship fight
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    1027 13  - ENGLAND WILL NEED WARDLE BRUCE DOOLAND Close Should Bat No. 5 To Hit Out By LONDON, May 28 1 warn the England Selectors who get down to the task of picking the England team that they will make a big mistake if they go into the first Test at Edgbaston
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    98 13 TODAY'S SPORT SOCCER SBHFA LEAGUE: Div. 1 Sime Darby vs Singapore Cold Storage at Farrer Park; Shell Sports Club rs Breiceries at Farrer Park. Singapore Traction Company vs Chartered Bank at STC. Div. 2: Fraser Neave V 9 Pulau Bukom at F. N.. Jacks Sports Club rs Guthne at SCC:
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    103 13 PARIS May 28 (UP)— Today's results in the French international tennis championships at Roland Garros stadium. Men's singles: (quarter-finals:) Mervyn Rojc, Australia, defeated Robert Haillet, France, by default. Women's doubles: (second round one-eighth finals): Miss Shirley Bloomer, Britain, and Misa Darlene Hard, USA. beat Mrs. Heather Brewer, Bermuda,
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    69 13 TURIN, May 28, (Renter). Enrique Sivori, 22-year-old Argentinian soccer player, has been signed by Juventus (Italy) for a world record fee of M 100,000. Signor Remo Giordanelti, a director of Juventus, said today. Sivori, plays at insideright with the River Plate Cbib of Buenos Aires, Juventus
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    62 13 RADIN Mas beat Singapore Cricket Club 4-1 in a SAFA Div. 2B league fixture played on the SCC padang yesterday. Scorers for Raf>in Mas were. Sani (2). Choon Hock and Kantian, while Fleming netted SCCs only goal In another Div. 2B match played on the SRC padang yesterday.
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    510 14  -  Winder Lad With a handy 7.7 he may prove too smart I &v I \VTTH Amusement Park, Stage Show 11 and Amusement 11 engaged, the powerful Shaw Stable appears to have the answer to the main 6-furlong sprint (Race Five) for crack sprinters at
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    541 14 Mirandola has been galloping extra well on the track RACE ONE On his second to Starala. I anticipate Beechnut to improve and annex the openIn? race of the afternoon. He was putting ill best work In the final bit to finish
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    1102 14 RACE 1: 2.^0 p.m.— Horses Class 2, Div. 4—6 Furs. 1. 535 Sun Gleam 4y 9.00 Mr. T.V. Mitchell Hobbs Franklin 2. 499 Full House 4y 8.10 Shaw Stable Spencer Posner 3. 208 Toly's Delight 7y 8.09 Tai Sam Yuen Stable Yon* Of or 4. 472
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    26 14 Match Postponed THF Sinn-Mala>s v< Kaslern V.A. soccer match uhicfa mis scheduled lor pla> toda\ been postponed duo t<» non-arrival ol the visiting team from Hongkong.
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