Singapore Standard, 2 July 1957

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    32 1 Singapore Standard JZfTT^ P0L,CE ?R IrL VFl BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL ***** (5 linesj 2400 r *W I JC. 2gn 24U 6L VII. j50.363 SLNGAPORE, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1957 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon She Wants To Stop And See Singapore Chinatown
    125 1 She Wants To Stop And See Singapore Chinatown ENGLAND'S first "Cotton Queen," lovely Angela Smith. 19. will model nine dresses and at the same time demonstrate and talk on the merits of cotton material at 9.30 a.m. today at Robinson's. In a strapless afternoon/ cocktail dress of cotton, she m
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    Lock icon Girard To Wed On Friday
    79 1 CAM? WHITTINGTON, Jaran. July 1 iAP> U.S. Army r-. -.i..-: William G::ard and Japanese f-.aricve will I f tarried on Friday, Girard Ud day Final Army approval for the ;i was granted by 1.-t ivalry Division Headquarters t >day. Girard planned to marry Haru i
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    27 1 \rSTRALIA provided three \s\ mi :n the Wim- t. n"s Angles Semiire Australia's Lew load. Ashlev Cooper, Neale md Sweden's Sven -cc page 12 for full
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    Lock icon AIRCRAFT, SHIPS LEAVE SINGAPORE UNCHECKED
    323 1 Customs Men Are Out On Strike, 50... PASSENGERS JUST PASS BARRIERS TO THEIR PLANE SEVERAL AIRCRAFT AND SHIPS LEFT SINGAPORE YESTERDAY WITHOUT THE CUSTOMARY CUSTOMS EXAMINATION BECAUSE OF THE STRIKE BY 400 REVENUE OFFICERS. Senior departmental officers, however, took over the important points such as
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    Lock icon SEATO CHIEF
    21 1 SEATO Council representatives yesterday approved the appointment of Mr. Pote Sarasin, Thai Ambassador to Washington. a> Secretary General. Reuter
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    Lock icon Magnetic Storms Hit Earth: Alerts Out
    136 1 Magnetic Storms Hit Earth: Alerts Out WASHINGTON, July 1 (AP) A great explosion on the sun struck the earth yesterday with vast magnetic hurricanes and electric storms. An alert was quickly flashed to IU.OOO scientists around the world to make special studies of everything that happens and what it means.
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    Lock icon Nurses' Calls Will Be Tapped
    120 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Telephone Operators m the General Hospital here have been requested by the authorities to eavesdrop on conversations between nurses and their boy-friends. This order follows complaints from a section of the nur>ing staff, who said that some of the girls have been
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    Lock icon NIGERIAN ENVOY IS ACQUITTED
    65 1 LONDON, July 1 (AP) Theophilus Owalabi Shobowale Benson, 37-year-old Chief Government Whip m the Nigerian Parliamen: and an envoy to the Nigerian constitutional conference here, was cleared today on a charge of robbing a Nigerian woman to whom he had been betrothed. Benson was alleged to
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    Lock icon HOW I CHASED GUNMEN
    550 1 —By Housewife Who Was Robbed T>URSUED by an enraged A housewife, two gunmen ran smack into the arms of a group of policemen guarding the residence of the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, m Sims Avenue, yesterday. The policemen nabbed one gunman and recovered a
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    Lock icon The Toll Is Not Worth It
    64 1 PEKAN, Mon. The ferry service between Pekan and Peramu is now free to the public between 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.. beginning from today. This was announced by the Pekan District Officer. Mr. J.E. Day, today when he stared that the ferry had been
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    Lock icon Now Busmen Decide On A Hunger Strike
    200 1 THREE hundred and fifty striking busmen will go on a hunger strike from 3 p.m. today. This latest move m the bus dispute was taken last night by the Singapore Bus Workers' Union— to which all the strikers belong at two separate meetings
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    Lock icon S.I.T. MEN PREPARE FOR STRIKE-IN CASE
    122 1 THE 350-strong Singapore Improvement Trust Local Officers Association yesterday unanimously decided to setr up a strike committee m case the Association's negotiations over their future with the Trust should fail. The Government announced recently that Trust officers would not be Malayanized. and that they
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    Lock icon BRITANNIA OFF
    35 1 THE British Overseas Airways Corporation Bristol Britannia left Hongkong last night for Singapore after a one-day delay "because of a small fault which occurred to the undercarriage system." the Corporation's SDokesman announced. Reuter
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    Lock icon LABOUR DEFEAT: POST-MORTEM BY LIM
    238 1  -  S. VENKAT By 7/ Has Taught All Socialists A Lesson THE defeat of Labour Front candidate, Mr. Kensr Ban Ec, m the Cairnhill by-election last Saturday was a lesson to all socialists m Singapore, said the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday. "It has
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    Lock icon Red China Protests To Britain
    112 1 Red China Protests To Britain PEKING. July 1 (ReutersCommunist China today lodged a "serious protest" with Britain for sending to Formosa a number of Chinese who took over a junk on June 12 aftpr killing one of the crew and sailed it to Hongkong waters. In a note she demanded
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    Lock icon $1,000 REWARD FOR MISSING AIRMAN
    301 1 $1,000 REWARD FOR MISSING AIRMAN HIS BROTHER OFFICERS START FUND MEMBERS of the Royal Air Force Officers' Mess m Selctar. Singapore, held a special meeting >e*4erday morning under the chairmanship of (iroup Captain 1)1). 'topers (the man who commanded the Queens Birthday Paiade recently) and afterward* set up a fund
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    Lock icon CHEW GIVES PLEDGE
    172 2 CHEW GIVES PLEDGE Schools Will Carry On SINGAPORE'S Educa- 1 tion Ministry yesterday assured the public that it would keep all schools go- i ing m the event of a strike by normal trained teachers. Normal trained teachers. members of the Singapore Teachers Union, had decided to en on strike
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    Lock icon 60 Protest At U.S. Embassy
    56 2 TOKYO. July 1 (Reuters More than 60 South Korean university students living m Japan tcdav demonstrated outside the United States Embassy m Tokyo m protest against the introduction of nuclear weapons into South Bent A Police sDokesman said extra Police guards were posted outs.de the
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    Lock icon UK Probes Atom Secrets Leaks
    56 2 LONDON. July 1 (AP) Intelligence experts were reported today to be investigating a suspected" leakage of Britain'? naval atomic secrets to a foreign spy. The News Chronicle said the probe centred on Bath. West. England resort, where Admiralty technical experts w-rl< with secret designs for
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    Lock icon Talking Shop Over A Bottle Of Pop
    84 2 THEY have just finished their dancing numbers. Now, these two young competitors m The All-England Sunshine Dancing competition organized by the Royal National Institute for the Blind, discuss points over a bottle of pop. Jennifer Morgan (left) from Sussex, and Royston Evans of
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    Lock icon 8,000 MILES PER HOUR
    62 2 WASHINGTON. July 1 (AP» Rccket-powered airliners wili operate more than fM miles above the earth within 30 or 40 jreaft and will rarry passengers a\ speed? ttl T.OfVi or B,nnn -:.c> at. hour, an aircraft expert said today. Dr. Louis N. Ridcnour, of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.,
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    Lock icon 8 Union Chiefs Nabbed In Sumatra
    161 2 Rulers Crack Down On Reds JAKARTA. July 1 (UP) The anti-Communist military rulers of S^'.ith Sumatra have arrested eight leaders of the Red-dominated Perbv.n Oil Workers Union. Indonesian press reports said today. The report? failed to state; why the arrests were made, i but
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    Lock icon Colony Phone Workers Stand Firm On Strike Notice
    191 2 Board Told: Meet Claims By Saturday Or Walk-out Is On THE Singapore Telephone Board Employees Union last night declared that it would not deviate from its earlier stand to call a strike of its 1,000 members on Saturday if the union's claims
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    Lock icon Probe On The Rich
    69 2 JAKARTA, July 1 (Reuter) The City Command Press Officer announced today that a "list" was practically completed of persons whose private wealth would be investigated m a general drive of the country against corruption. He said only the naming of members of a special committee to
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    151 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (rents per Ib) m Singapore yesterday were: Buyer* Sellers Spot 91 1 921 Int July R.S.S. No. 1 92 921 R.S.S. No. 2 9H 92 R.S.S. No. 3 91 91* Tone: Idle. The price of tin In Singapore yesterday was $380 per picul (Up 121
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    Lock icon Premiers Discuss 'Package' Proposals
    171 2 Premiers Discuss 'Package' Proposals LONDON, July 1 (Reuter) The Commonwealth Prime Ministers m conference here today discussed the "package" proposals on nuclear aspects of partial disarmament which Mr. Harold Stassen will put before the United Nations Disarmament Sub-committee here this week. Commonwealth sources said Mr. Stassen. United States representative on
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    Lock icon US Pipelines Spared
    110 2 BAGDAD. July 1. (neuter). The Iraqi newspaper A'Shaab today published the alleged text nf a speech by President Nfttttr of Egypt m whirh he said he promised a special American envny not to blow up American oil pipelines during the Anglo-French actiop m Egypt last November, President
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    Lock icon 'A New Day Dawns For Korea'
    126 2 'A New Day Dawns For Korea' SEOUL. July 1 (UP) President Syngman Rhee said today the transfer of the United Nations Command to Seoul, together with the U.N. decision to arm its forces here with modern weapons, mean "a new day Is dawning for Korea and free nations." The 82-year-old
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    Lock icon UN Flag Down For Last Time
    37 2 TOKYO. July 1 (Reuter) The blue and white United Nations flag was lowered for the last time at Pershing Heights headquarters today m a formal ceremony transferring the command to Korea.
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    Lock icon Bar Pays Tribute To Mr. Justice Buhagiar
    150 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Members of the Malayan legal fraternity yesterday paid tribute U) Mr. Justice Buhagiar, who left here toda-' under the Malayanlzation scheme. m his farewell tribute, the Actihg Chief Justice oi Malaya. Mr. Justice Hill, said: "I have always regarded him
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    Lock icon EDITORS TAKE A TOUR
    53 2 pic. TWO visiting journalists, Mr. Kasturi Srinivasan (left) and Mr. C. R. Srinivasan. editors of two of the leading newspapers m Madras, "The Hindu and "Swadesam. tran." are m Singapore on a three-day tour. They rill leave today for Jakarta on their way back to India
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    Lock icon Have Overtime Again, Unions Tell S.H.B.
    146 2 Workers To Review 'Co-Slow' FOUR unions, claiming to represent 4.000 wa fr> side workers m the Singapore Harbour Board, will h id a meeting tonight to review the "go-slow" called by the Staff Association and to review the Board's decision \j cancel all overtime
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    Lock icon Immigration Official Goes Today
    59 2 Immigration Official Goes Today SINGAPORE'S Senior As sistant Controller of Immigration, Mr. T. MackiP. leaves Singapore today undrr Malayanization. Mr. Markie is jroing by air on a visit to Hongkon*. Japan and the I'ni'ed States before proceeding to Britain. He joined the Iminijrrati.m Department m 194 ft md m ir
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    Lock icon Cameron Town Is Declared 'Uninhabitable'
    208 2 Cameron Town Is Declared 'Uninhabitable' CAMERON, Louisiana. July 1 (Rcuter) The town of Cameron, 90 per cent destroyed by hurricane Audrey last week, was today declared "uninhabitable" by Dr G. Vasquez. Public Health Officer for the area. There is no fresh water supply, no sewerage working, and water moccasins and
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    Lock icon Broadcasters Meet In Tokyo
    32 2 The first A-;ar. Broaa a trrs 1 Confercnci oDenrc hen i day with 30 rrpre.^f r.:at:\fs °Th' participatini nation! included Nationa.i.vt China. md Turkey. Vietnam, Oylon. India. Afghanistan
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    Lock icon MISSING PLANE
    19 2 a PAKISTAN airliner with 20 passengers on fc" arc -■> >n i iTii? (m fl flichT frcm Reiter
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    26 2 THE Japanese Ministry Ol International Trade and Industry announced yesterday that, effective immediately, export! tc Indonesia will oe lestrittca to cash payment* only. A.P.
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    82 2 ATHENS. July 1 'KfutA Greece will receive rr.v loan basis, from tht l'r:'*-< States this year and m early 1958 t* ibmarines. twe destroyers and several smaller naval craft. Admiral Ar>igh A. Burke. Chief of United States Naval Op< rations, announced here today He was leaving
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    Lock icon Treasure Found In Old Light Fixture
    131 2 BERKELEY, Califo nia, July 1. (UP) Mrs. Ernest G'-ay told today how she dusted m oh light fixture and almost like Aladdin and nis lamp turned up a treasure The hoard consisted of U5544,000 m cash and about US$5,OOO m diamonds. The money and
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    Lock icon PRETTY GIRLS In Singapore Offices
    57 3 PRETTY GIRLS In Singapore Offices CUGENE MARY YOXG. 20. is an advertising: assistant with Lye Company, who. though born and educated hi Kuala Lumpur, h.ul from n.n early age decided to work m Singapore. Like most office sirls. she is fond of movies, dancing and swimming. She plays badminton and
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    Lock icon Limited Franchise: SATA Members Vote Tomorrow
    251 3 A PROPOSAL to limit voting: rights to 250 members nude by the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association's Council, will tomorrow be put to the vote at an extraordinary general meeting to be held at the asso&i ciation's premises. v 7 r: -v :v.'"-n is expected see
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    Lock icon Jitted Man's Suicide Bid
    78 3 MALACCA, Mon. Joseph Ross of the Federation Army, was to lay bound over m the sum of $100 for six months by Magistrate, Mr. Ramanatha Iyer for attempted suicide. The HMfi WM trid that Boti k an OTWdOM of rtttptnf tab'.ets last week when hi? girl
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    Lock icon DRIVER IN COURT ON ROBBERY CHARGE
    202 3 A CONTRACTOR, Shaikh Meera bin Sh il allege I m a Singapore High C >urt Jtaterdaj th it he w is robbed at knife >oinl I a it driver at I q Bra Well Road d m nifhi I March 4. CM \v,k being
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    Lock icon 60 Teachers To Visit Taiwan
    55 3 IPOII. Men. A sroup of 60 teachers from Perak will flslt Taiwan In August The teacher? exnect to spend about a fortnight tour;ns the island. The trip la being: financed by the Taiwan Government which will provide two spec.nl plane- to fly the teachers from
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    18 3 A DONATION of $2on.nnn v rr.a 'he Im- Ma the Truse Re: en Meyer Trust Fund.
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    72 3 KATHERINE Dunham and six members of her son? and dance troupe delighted patients of the orthopaedw ward of the British Military Hospital yesterday with an impromptu se»ion of nesro spirituals. Miss Dunham's party was on a goodwill visit to the bospit.U The famous dancer was delighted by inmates
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    Lock icon Watchman To Stand Trial For Murder At Assizes
    307 3 SAW HIM HIT MAN WITH WOODEN BAR: ALLEGES CONSTABLE A PETROL kiosk watchman, Sohan Singh, 39, was yesterday committed to stand trial at the next Assizes for the murder of Adnan Hadari at the end of a preliminary inquiry m a Singapore
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    Lock icon No Food Stalls Please, Say Householders
    99 3 RESIDENTS of Buffalo Road, Singapore, yesterday protested to the City Council against a proposal to erect food stalls alone; the road. The petition carried the 51 signatures. There are 58 occupied houses m Buffalo Road. In their petition, residents claimed that foodstalls will attract
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    103 3 $20,000 WANTED MALACCA. Mon. Efforts are being made \n raise $20,000 to extend the famous Banda Hilil kampong chapel to twice its present size by Portuguese Catholics at Ujong Pasir and Banda Hilir. The chapel, close to the sea shore, is famous for its very old statue
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    Lock icon Tanker Arrives Under Tow
    68 3 THE stricken Shell tanker, Xaticina, whose chief officer feU lick at sea and had to be rushed to Singapore by the Australian destroyer, Tobnik, arrived m the Colony on Sunday after a 480-mile tow. The Naticina was on her wnv to Sinsanore from Miri when her
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    Lock icon Film Man For Premiere
    94 3 TOKYO has been chosen as the venue for the Southeast Asian premiere of Jules Verne's "Around the World m 80 Days." This was revealed by Mr. Samuel Jones, home office representative of United Artists Corporation, producers of the film, m Singapore yesterday. Mr. Jones, who was
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    Lock icon First To Kill 200 Bandits
    132 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The 2nd Battalion of the Malay Regiment has won the honour of being the first battalion m the Federation Army to score a double-century m terrorist hunting. Up to the end of last month the battalion eliminated 204 Communist terrorists. Of this
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    Lock icon BOATMAN FINED $200 FOR THEFT
    57 3 KLANG, Mon. A motor boat driver, Mat Dom bin Rahmat. 41, was today fined $200 or two months' lail by Magistrate Captain Mohamed Salleh bin Sulaiman, for theft of a bicycle from Wharf Road m Port Swettenham on May 10. The bicycle, worth $40 belonged
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    Lock icon Pharmacy Assn. Officials
    41 3 MR. HOOI Cheng Loon has been elected chairman of the Malayan Pharmaceutical Association. Other officials are. Hon. secretary: Mr. Chiang Shen San (re-elected), hon. treasure.Mr. Anthony Lim Tuan Heng; committee members: Messrs F Sanders and L. C Ayres
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    Lock icon Reform Centre Only For 16-21's
    262 3 Reform Centre Only For 16-21's RE ORIENTATION of young criminals will be the main task of the Reformative Training Centre m Outram Road, Singapore said the Commissioner of Prisons, Major L.P. Sochon, yesterday. lie said it was intended to take m about 100 prisoners between the ages 04 16 and
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    27 3 ixchf. Talib bin Abu, of BahaT Pahai baa been appointed OAcer-in-charge of the In> ementation of the Felstcari Scheme lor Land Office Administration m Johore.
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    51 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Traffic Police today announced that during the MAHA Exhibition at Cbenv.u Stadium from Friday a one-way traffic system will operate in Davidson Road. They advised motorists to approach Chenwu from Sultan Street. Parking facilities will be provided at the Merdeka Stadium car
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    Lock icon U.M.N.O. Pesta For Penang
    67 3 PENANG, Mon. Eighteen boria troupes and eight kronchong parties will take part m the Penang UMNO division's Hari Raya Haji Pesta which opens at the Lorong Kulit reclamation ground from July 8. In addition to a variety of sideshows including fancy dress and singing contests, there
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    Lock icon NEW A.C.S. HEAD
    28 3 MR. D. R. DANIEL has assumed duties as principal of the Anglo-Chinese School m Klartf. He was former'v a senior teacher of the Ipoh A.C.S.
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    Lock icon M.I.C. BRANCH TO BE REORGANIZED
    52 3 SEREMBAN. Mon. The Malayan Indian Congress branch here will be reorganized soon after the annual meeting on July 14, a spokesman said today. He also said that Mr. V. T. Sambanthan, the Labour Minister and MIC President, will be among the parly's leaders present at
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    Lock icon LIB-SOCS PREPARE FOR CITY POLLS
    90 3 THE Central Council of the Liberal Socialist Party will :r.cet on Thursday to formulate plans for the City Council elections m December. General Secretary Mr. E.K. Tan told the Standard yester- day that Thursday's meeting will also select candidates for the various wards. "It is
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    Lock icon Youth Dies After Row Over A Stray Kite
    175 3 AN ARGUMENT over a stray kite resulted m the death of a school-boy, a Singapore Coroner's Court was told yesterday. r Coroner Air. K. T. Alexander, was holding an inquest into the death of school-boy Edwin Chan Cnin Y^ow, 17, described as
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    Lock icon $400 Bail In Trespass Case
    50 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Soh Lip Meng and Low Khong Choo were charged m the magistrate's court today with committing house trespass with intent to use criminal force on Soo Sim. They were each allowed bail of S4OO pending hearing of the case on Aug. 10.
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    Lock icon Judge Rejects Amok Plea
    289 4 Butcher Jailed Three Years For Knifing Salesman IPOH, Mon.— The plea of a defence counsel, Mr. H.T. Ong, that his client had ran "amok" and stabbed a salesman was rejected by the President of the Sessions Court, Mr. J.R. Whimster, today when he sentenced a butcher
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    Lock icon A HAPPY TIME FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
    141 4 CRIPPLED children of the Orthopaedic Hospital m Tanah Merah Besar were on Sunday taken on a two-hour "sea cruise of happiness" by the wife of the Superintendent of the Opium Treatment Centre m St. John's Island, Mrs. K. Heal. Mrs. Heal, more affectionately known
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    Lock icon Retrial For Ship's Chief Engineer
    83 4 LEO All Wee. chief engineer of the ship Hua Lee, was retrie' i m a Singapore Court yesterday on a charge of causing grievous hurt to Chan Kirn Van, a marine superintendent, on May It; last yea*. The retrial followed sucoassful appeal by the Cm.-.
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    81 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malaya's first High Commissioner m Australia Datu Nik Kami! bin Haji Mahmood, returned here by air today. Tiie Dato is back for a short holiday before taking up his new job as Ma'aya's High Commissioner m London. He arill Brat report to
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    38 4 DR. J. R. NAUDI. of Kuala Pilah, who recently returned from leave, has been posted to the Ba.u Ga.iah Hospital, taking the place of Dr. J. S. Chesshire, who has gone on transfer to Kuala Trengganu.
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    Lock icon MANSION TO BE PRESERVED
    65 4 IPOH, Mon The palatial mansion of the late Mr Eu Tong Sen, m Gopeng Road he y e. will not be converted into a hotel. The Tcvn Council planning committee has rejected an application lor such a conversion. The new owners of the property said that,
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    Lock icon Year's Jail For Would-be Thief
    51 4 A TAILOR, Cheon? Sow Koon, was yesterday sentenced iri a Singapore Court to three months' jail to be followed by i'j months' police supervision ;>ltcr lie was found KUflty of attempting to steal a fountain pen from a carpenter, Ye Eluat beong admitted two previous
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    Lock icon POLICE HOLD 2 IN BACK LANE MURDER
    59 4 POLICE HOLD 2 IN BACK LANE MURDER SINGAPORE Police yestcrr!av detained two persons m connection with the murder of a man m a back lane oil Hindoo Ron i on Sunday. The victim has now beet-. identified as Ng Miang Teak of Engg r Street. It is believed thai the
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    Lock icon Strike Is Put Off
    62 4 SINGAPORE Insuranet Companies Employees Union jesterday leferred a strike scheduled to start loday at the United India Fire and General Insurance Company. This decision followi the intervention ol the Labour Ministry, which arranged a joint meeting of representatives ol the Company and the L'n on to
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    Lock icon MINISTER'S VISIT
    34 4 FEDERATION'S Minister tor Labour nnd M.I.C. President Mr. V. T. Sambanlhan will visit the Ulu Tcmiang viilage m Seremban On July 14 to investigate complaints from residents about the water supply there.
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    91 4 BENTONG. Mon. Pahanff Circuit Magistrate Ra.ia Azlan Shah told a rubber tapper. A. Katnam. said that a man who could not face the consequence of his actions was a coward. Ratnam had earlier told the court he took caustic soda to end his life be- cause
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    165 4 ROCKEFELLER OFFERS MORE STUDY GRANTS TO S.-E. ASIA THE Rockefeller Foundation m New York is offering a "substantial increase m scholarships to South-east Asian countries this year. This was disclosed m Singapore yesterday by Mr. John D. Rockefeller, the third trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Mr. Rockefeller, who is
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    Lock icon Action Near To Looting
    55 4 KLANG, Mon. Soon Peck. a 42-year-old labourer, was today fined $300 <>r three months' jail m the Magistrate's Court here lor theft of scrap iron wort]} $105, belonging to the Malayan Railway. The Magistrate, Captain Mohamcd Salleh. warned Soon Peck that his action amounted to looting,
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    Lock icon BICYCLE THIEVES WORRY POLICE
    232 4 More Machines Stolen Daily KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Federation Police today admitted they were unable to stop bicycle thieves or recover more stolen machines m the wave of thefts now sweeping the country. A police spokesman said today that they were aware of agent! of bicycle thieves,
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    130 5 Lighthouse Keepers Petition For Leave MALACCA, Mon.— Four F (deration lighthouse kee•rs. one of whom claims have had no leave for years, yesterday petitionel the Director of Marines, I'enang, for their overdue mnuai leave. The mm .ar: .vas told that \.e?e -en ham :<- -i their loa-.o c: -shorta-e f
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    75 5 Results Of Bahau Council Polls KUAL LUMPUR. Mon. T c r. ---nve Candida testei 11 m the four \>. ards the Bahau Council ele-t.- Tre <;:rz were electe i JRL Gurney Ward Tr.-.; Win V'Ta-.Le K:;an Her.3 and Vi >■ Bakir Batu Ward C C■ Pcr.z Kuan an i C
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    69 5 F-NAN M M v > r---- v^ :oon", R« '.1 iv that >■:. was staging hat before le ng 1 r Paris 1 par: I ten it i m tease competition next nn Hat Z to- g'r.'., ha? le I m inditions laid d wn
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    71 5 rHE Health and Sanitary Inspectors I nion of the 1 of Malaya held their annual general meetin? m Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. More than fifty representatives from all parts of the Federation att r.ded the meeting. Standardpic shows members at the meeting posing for a group photograph
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    74 5 Bandit Claims Trial Court Hears How. The president of the deorse Town City Council, Mr. G. 11. (ion, sivinjj an address at a tea-party yi\en by the Penan k Municipal Services Union m honour of its president Inche Mohd Yusoff bin Mohd. N oor and its general
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    272 5 IPOII, Mon.— A section leader of the Kinta Valley Home Guards today told Mr. Justice Sutherland m the High Court how a night ambush had led to the capture of a young terrorist who had a grenide strapped to his waist. I:-. BM
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    75 5 IPOII. Mini. Cyclists m Perak can now carry an umbrella while ridins. In an amendment of the Vehicles enactment, a rule banning this has been deleted. Another amendment allows the carrying of one child under VI years on a bicycle, provided there is a
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    314 5 LEGAL POSER OVER PICKETS FACES MINE WORKERS KUANTAN, Mon. A legal p r now faces the Efangei Lembing branch of the Malayan Mining Employees' Union as v consequence of the strike now threatening the world's biggest lode mine at Bongei Lnnbint?. The mmt 1 proper and work- r QUartl ra
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    40 5 THE fonn< r A dstani State Seen Uu j% Negi i Sembilan, [nctae Zainal bin Endot re- 11 oed to Kuala Lumpur by BOAC from London yesterday alter year's training m governnM ai administration m Elng and.
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    417 5 m a patrol van (old the OOUTI that when he tried to take the baby from Nevin, the Sergeant said that the bOUM and baby belonged to him. "lie warned me against using any force," Nor tohi .Mr. Byrne "He told me to out
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    52 5 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Mnn.— The celebration of the Feast of St. Anne will bo held m the Church of St. Anne here on Aug. 3 and 4. The Bi.-hop of Penang. Mgr. Francis Chan, will offic.ate at the consecration of the new St. Anne's town church on
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    133 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Tha Bri to! "Britannia" may he wMapwtafl fianl to Bri-ti-h ;iv: i'i'i:i but to tlie sly Ruatianti ana looks i "Jeap on the iround md a doud m the I l:y". This was the opinion expressed by a Russian diplomat at
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    491 6 'pHE Singapore Teachers' Union has decided to ca'.l en its members to strike. The decision is expected to involve over 2,000 teachers m more than 141 schools and will affect approximately 100 )00 pupils. It was taken to the accompaniment c: a threa: couched m the following terms:
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      183 6 CIVIL SERVICE SCALES Sir Could any of your reaiers enlighten me as to BOW the followine salary leaki m the Civil Service we t% W 3 rkcri out a) University Graduates joining the Administrative Service start at $34n basic and are Div. II M Mental Hospital X;ir?es af*er 3 years'
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    570 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME ASTER GUNASEKERA fdgdfgd dfg TOMORROW'S annual K eneral meeting of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association promises to be the most heated since the birth of SATA. Cause: A motion by the Council -to restrict membership to 250 select individuals select m the sense that only
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    868 6 fgdfgd g What price the Un -American Activities Cawntnittee notv? —asks Edtvard Cranhshatv m JLondon i gCARCELY had Mr. i Arthur Miller, the distinguished playwright, 1 been convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to inform on friends and acquaintances who attended Commu- nist meetings
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    147 7 He 'Examined' Air Hostesses And Finds Himself In Court NEW YORK, July 1 (AP)— A graduate student was h?ld m $5,000 bail yesterday on charges that he induced aspiring airline hostesss to take physical examinations m midtown hotels and then raped them. Police said Vicent J. McNamara, 25. posed as
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    142 7 DOCTORS POCKETS GLOWED Fined For Theft london Jr.-.- i Dadot r maid s•: )in n. 34, was fined with C 25 costs, with the alternative i I threi myrrhs' 'ail r sealing thr £1 n tes. He plead -?d not juUty. at Brighton Quarter Sessions. s.ta*in2 in*? morif y i
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    90 7 EASTBOURNE. Sussex. JIII7 1 1 Renter 1 Dr. John Bodkin Ad:\;n-. B local family d «tor acquitted m April on a charge oil murdering one of his elderly women patients, hru-; withdrawn from the .National Health Service, it was turned here yesterday. This does not
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    58 7 photo. leading French sere-n actress Martine Carol, escorted by her husband, film producer Christian Jacque. leaves the Hue de la haise Clinic. Paris, after spending 22 days there. Martine. who is now fully-recovered. Jarred her 'pine during the .shooting of her film "Nathalie Her time m the
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    75 7 Blonde, Blue-eyed Corine— A Happy Miss Europe 1958 HAPPY "Miss Europe" of 19,")8. 19-year-old Corine Kottschaefer (second from left), is embraced by last year's winner, Margot Neunkc of Germany (second from right) after she had won the title. On the right is 18-year-old Miss Finland. Martia Lindhal, who was placed
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    162 7 The 'Good Christian' Stole And Left A 'Thank You' Note PIRAEUS. Greece July 1 (Renter)— A hungry burglar broke into a port tavern here one quiet night, ate a square meal, left a "thank you"' note and slipped out again without picking up anything D.assimos Kyoraio.s, the tavern owner, who
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    133 7 JAKARTA, July I (UP) A Dutch "ghost" this weeken i forced police to release •">" terrified Indonesian prostitutes, it was reported today. .Jakarta police said thai during the weekend the street wa ken were being bald In i large cell ai police headquarters
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    83 7 PONTRESINA, Switzerland. July 1 Renter > an Italian climber has survived "by a miracle" a 2.000-foot fall which k.lled his nine companions here yesterday. r lhe party oi 10 plunged over a ravine m an avalanche on the 12.500-foot Piz Palue peak. All were presumed
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    123 7 LONDON. July 1 (UP) A showgirl who poses m the nude was unveilod yesterday as a stand-in for Princess MavgavtC m a new Royal portrait. Famous Italian artist Piotro Annisoni explained that the fulsome model. lf)-year-old Georitaui Moore, got the job Mount like all nudes on the
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    84 7 NEWCASTLE ON TYNE, July 1 (Renter) Twelve-3'ear-o!r| Derek Temple who exchanged a sackful of old mini's ■&<] a Chinese sword for five R unan coins, heard yesterday that the coins may be worth £3.000 sterling. He took two to the curator of the city's art
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    123 7 JOHANNESBURG. July 1 CReotet) Seventy years ago. Sarah Sherman and her mother were driven from Russia during :hc Jewish purse. They tied to England arriving with nothing except the clothes they wore. About ten years later Sarah j Sherman, then married to
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    480 7 World War Could Have Started In Hungary Bagdad Pact A Mistake No Solution To Middle East Mao Has Calmed Fears, Says Tito And Adds NEW YORK, July 1 (Reuter)— Marshal Tito, President of Yugoslavia said m a television interview yesterday, that during the Hungarian uprising of last Autumn, Yugoslavia's attitude
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    228 7 as new. Of course, they developed as specific features of a country like China which has on the one hand 600.000.00U1 inhabitants and on the o.her hand is still under-developed. l and I'm pleased to be able to j say that our views do
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    374 7 SECRET Ju-Ju FEAR Of Benedict Obibine He Goes To Jail For 14 Years FLASHBACK TO THE NOTTING HILL SIEGE LONDON, July 1 The Nigerian who went berserk, and held police at bay for six hours m the Siege of Notting Hill on March 13 was possessed by a SECRET FEAR.
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    133 7 GIRARD CASE WASHINGTON, July 1, (UP) Japanese ambassador Toichiro Asakiira says nis country would be "most embarrassed" if the U.S. Supreme Court rules thai the American soldier William S. Girard must be tun cd over to a U.S. court for trial The ambassador
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    63 7 MOSCOW. July 1 (AP) The weahermen wore a red face m Moscow yesterday. The Soviet Air Force announced nine days ago on his advice that its annual air show was being cancelled because the weather would be bad. It has rained everyday since, until yesterday .scheduled
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    42 7 the death v uuMNineed m London yesterday at the age <>f ">1 of Mrs. Beatrice Eden, the Brst of former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden. In 1930 her husband obtained a divorce against her on the grounds of desertion.
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    135 9 SCOTS BEEF FOR S'PORE gdf dfg dfg PEOPLE will soon be again eating prime Scottish beef m the Far East. A ton and a half of choice cuts of prime Scottish meat packed and conditioned m Aberdeen have been sent m refrigerated containers to Singapore by the Fatstock Marketing Corporation.
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    341 9 PENANG, Mon— Total trade of Penang for the first quarter this year, amounting: to 5361 million, was lower by Sl2 million than the same period last year. Th.s wil disclosed by Penang's Economic Officer, Inche Raja Mohar, today. The decline was entirely due to
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    172 9 $687,817 Working Profit TAIPIX3 C n> ia'ed Ltd reported a \vork:r.^ profit of .7 after pi vi iing r depreciation and depletion and •har* of profits due t i Kunr.i T:n Dre ;:nj Ltd. last Ma v:-. ir.rorr.e 'ax too.< 5. < r rovi>iL-n :.r riire tOft* addition .i re
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    41 9 PREDICTIONS that. A;;--tralia's wool clip w »uid reach six million bales within tkrt n n ver optimis- -:.icnr ol the Na- :nc.l of Wool Se:- Mr. JS. Gale, Melbourne. -n which closed tet iree.-c produced 4.370.000 record.
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    42 9 the Indian Government has reviewed the export policy fcr Pashmina wool and have riecided' that its export for the July-Dec< ober 1957 period will be allowed through established exporters who exported Pashmina wool during three finandal years ciiding March 31.
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    440 9 SHARES HESITANT ON LABOUR UNREST REPORTS REPORTS of labour unrest caused a slight hesitancy on the local share market yesterday, according to the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association. With a few exceptions, industrials were steady but irregular over narrow fluctuations. Tins were firm and rubbers quiet. Price changes announced by the Association
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    46 9 Pho:o of members and guests shows (from left): Messrs. S :y n See Kicang, K.T.C. Torenvlien, Teo Siah Kee, S m Yeow Kia, Chan Kirn Choy (guild president), W§ Tevg Kiat. E. Gerber, J.M. Bos, Tan Hun. Bak. XV. Stones and Tan Hock Slang.
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    95 9 OFFICIALS of the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange for the year 1957 1958 are Chairman: Mr Tan Si?k Kow (Buan Leo Song Ltd.); Vice-Chairman: Air. Tan Tiovr Phuang (Chop Chiang HongV. Tren-urcr: Air. Benf Saik Geok (Harrison Crosfieid); Auditor: Mr. Tco Soon Kiat (Hock Gim Guan); Secretary: Mr. T
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    489 9 WORLD overall effect of the Suez crisis was "much less serious than was originally feared," and economy on the whole continued to move forward last year though all countries were concerned with rising prices, the United Nations said. In its annual appraisal of
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    131 9 Rubber Up Cent SINGAPORE rubber pri es yesterday closer! at :»2 cents per ib. for International first grade July shipment, a rise cf i cent on Friday. During tho day there vvas little Inclination to do business. Overseas orders were MEligible and m the ab-enoe'of any indications net mu^h business
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    35 9 DUTCH foreign trade continues to show an unfavourable trend. In the first five months this year the import surplus was Pis. 1.925 m.. against Fls. I.HOm. m the same per.od last year.
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    99 9 GRANTS of nearly £26,000,000 for development projects m overseas territories were approved by the United Kingdom Government m the last financial year. Roads, education, farm and veterinary schemes, water supplies, sanitation and physical planning were aided. The £2.200,000 devoted to research was spent
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    196 9 MALAYA'S trade with South Vietnam may receive a fresh boost as new development projects m that country get underway. The National Investment Fund of the Republic of Vietnam has allotted funds for the development of the rope making and coconut processing co-operatives m the central
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    118 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per oicul yesterday were copra. July /August $24] buyers: S2s| sellers: coconut oil m hulk $40 J sellers, m drums $44 sellers. Mur.tok white pepper 3112 sellers, Sarawak white Sill se'lers, special Sarawak black $75. COPRA HOLIDAY, CUTLFR. BATH CO LTD.
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    69 9 A THAMES Transporter .Mk VII, whid) may be generally described as an improved design and civil descendant of the wartime tank landing craft, has completed speed and manoeuvrability trials on the Thames at London before bein2 despatched to the Tonga Islands m the Pacific. Named the
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      120 9 NOTICES ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD mv. "WILLEM RUYS" Will arrive from Europe on Tuesday 2nd instant and berth alongside godown No 11 at 8 a.m. (Gate No. 4) to disembark passengers and to discharge general cargo. The ship will be sailing for Djakarta from the berth at 5 p.m. sharp For
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    229 11 EUGENE, Oregon. July 1 Captain Yasin Raja coach of the Pakistani Army team, is currently studying methods of training athletes as an assistant to Coach Bill Bowerman of the I'niversity of Oregon track team. Bowerman. who toured Pakistan last year, lecturing and demonstrating techniques of
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    146 11 Pratt Is Decathlon Champion K:V~>3t*RV. Carolina. July R? ;-.er« Charles Pratt Urn US Army, won the American Athletic Union Wav^r.a. deca-.i! >n chan Saturday with a I >tal of Dand Edstrom. of th« Ur ver-t.-v at Qragn iis mc I v.th n r md Bob Lawion. Uni' of Southern California,
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    150 11 RIW YORK July 1. (AP) Tile N'cw York Yankees jumped into a full-came lead over Chicago m the American Leasue race. defeating Kansas City tw.ee 2-1 and 5-1 \vhil P Wa.-h-IngtM was holding the White Sox even m their twin bill. Four-bagger of th e season cd the Boston
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    125 11 Sponge Ban Hits Players LONDON, Jub t (Reuter) The English Table Tennis Association, who have banned sponge bats for a year, decided at their twoday national executive committee meeting which ended yesterday, that their b:m must go right down to ord'nary club level. "This means that it is no use
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    79 11 MAMAROXECK, New York. July 1. (Router) Mrs. Jacqueline PUB& of Hawaii, 'won' the United States women's open golf championship ke:v lianlij IIWH was disqualified on the grounds that her score was incorrect. Mrs, Pung was credited with a last round of 72 for a 72 holes aggregate of
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    136 11 Piggott Gets His Fourth Classic HAMBURG, West Germany, July 1 (Reuter) Lester Piggott, 21-year-old British jockey, won his fourth classic race this year when he rode Orsini to victory m the West German Derby here yesterday. Piggott's jockeyship triumphed In I tight finish. A furlong out m the mile and
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    73 11 RACE DRAMA NEWCASTLE. England, July 1. (AP)— Seven horses fell and threw their jockeys at the tirsi turn of the Nn-thumoer-land plate race on Saturday turning the track into a tangled mass of struggling animals. Heavy rains drenched the track a few minutes before the tunning of the important twoHlile
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    248 11 OUTSTAYED 12 RIVALS IN GREAT FINISH PARIS, July 1 (Reutcr) AHipan, owned by French textile magnate M. Gerard Delloye. outstayed twelve rivals io win the £20,000 Grand Prix de Paris, Europe's richest race for three-year-olds, at Longchamp today. Ridden by Roger Poincelet, he finished
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    73 11 VICTOR TAN, 16-year-old secondary school student m Piedmont, California, is the U.S. Junior Bowling Congress singles champion. Young; Tan is one of the 20.000.000 bowling enthusiasts m the United States. Bowling, introduced to the United States by Dutch settlers about 300 years ago, rivals Rolf
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    235 11 BASILO PICKED TO BEAT ROBINSON NEW YORK July 1, (UP) Odds-man Eddie Borden yesterday tabbed Carmen Basilio the 13—10 favourite to beat Sugar Ray Robinson m September. But Robinson said. "I never pay any attention to the odds. I'm the middleweight champion, and I believe I can boat any man
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    368 11 Financial Loss To W. Indians The Fans LONDON, July 1 (Reuter) The speedy termination of the second Test match between England and the West Indies at Lord's while eminently satisfactory from a sporting point of view was a considerable financial setback to many. It cost the West Indies money, for
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    757 12 Cooper vs Fraser; Hoad vs Davidson LONDON, July 1 (Reuter) Australia, the world's leading tennis nation, are closing m again on the men's singles titles at Wimbledon. They provided three of the last four who emerged from the opening day of Wimbledon's second week. They are assured
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    191 12 Dunlop Sport Festival t:r > a"d Vilacca Dur.lop Sp old a series irtir* c^mpe*.:':o during fr.? Hari R 13 1 :Li.. lidavs m S ipoi c. Trie compel ns are badmi:-.-ton, consisting oi three Nir.^les ar.ci t and table tennis, four singles and T-ir-'C doubles Themes mes played a: tre
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    19 12 POLICE -A" beat Gymkhana Sports dub 4-fi m a SAFA Wv. 2A >;:■;? ?oocer r-.r-n olayed ucv.an; yesterday.
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    77 12 OLYMPIC Hurdle star Milt Campbell (right) clears the seond hurdle m the 50-yard high hurdle event at the Milwaukee Journal Relays held m Milwaukee. Wisconsin. Campbell, who tied the world record of 6 1 seconds m a trial heat won this event with a
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    92 12 RECETVING instruction on the correct starting position is li-year-old Christine Bailey Who hat been chosen to compete mi n th c London County Council Schools Championships <ir Hurlingham later this month. Her -coach is her father, McDonald Bailey a former British Sprint nampion. McDonald Bailey of Trinidad, is
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    271 12 Foster Dolgleish Shine For Headquarters REGIMENTAL Pay Office, favourites to win the Singapore Base District Div. 1 league championship, this year, were surprisingly held to a one-all draw by Headquarters Singapore Ba.se District at Fort Canning yesterday. Headquarters who won their last match against Army Depot Police were not at
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    22 12 RA.JAJI Snorts Club beat Railway Customs by seven goals to three m a friendly soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday.
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    144 12 European Rest Teams SINGAPORE Cricket Club skipper, J.P.C. Woodhouse and S. Velupillai, captain of the Police Sports Association, have been selected to lead '.he Europeans and the Rest teams respectively m their annual cricket match for the Conrad Clarke cup to be played on ihe Singapore Recreation Club padang. This
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    169 12  - Bagby's Horses Dominate Gallops At Bukit Timah WINDSOR LAD By FOUR of the Bagby's candidates— BUDGEKlGAß, LYCOS, INDIAN HEATHER II and BEECHNUT— were stylish workers on the second track at Bukit Timah yesterday. Budgerigar (Baxter) and Lycos worked wide out to easily dispose of three furlongs m 42 1/2 sec.
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    287 12 IT was Lazim Adam's day at Jalan Besar Stadium. This Fathul Karib Club's inside right slammed m five goals to lead his team to a 5-3 victory over Chinese Athletic m a SAFA division one soccer match yester- 1 day. The Fathuls dominated play
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    125 12 Smith's Fine Century CHESTERFIELD, July 1, (Rfuter) Close of play score m the match here between Derbyshire and The West Indies were: West Indies 115 and 315, Derbyshire 140 and 26 for three. A fine century by Collie Smith enabled the West Indies to lead Derbyshire by 215 runs, with
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    256 12  -  PETER WONG By ANY doubts regarding the use of the cinders at Farrrr Park for training before the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association championships were quickly dispelled yesterday. Mr. M. E. Crocker, the City Architect, told me m an interview that the Colony's athletes would be
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    112 12 N. Zealand Davis Cuppers To Play Here THE Singapore Lawn Tennis Association revealed at its meeting last night that they had recehed an offer from the New Zealand Davis Cup Team to play here. The New Zealand Team consisting: of three men and one woman -vill play against local players
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    46 12 THE "Foul Shooting* basketball competition organized by the Singapore Youth v is Centre will commence today at I p.m. at Urn Centre. All competitors are asked to report a1 the Centre before the scheduled time. There will be no entrance ices and r.o rcc;stration.
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    535 12 COLONY TENNIS ENTRIES A TOTAL of 100 entm has been received for the Singapore Lawn Tennis O; 3 Championships to tx hi ;<j v July 5, G, 7 and 8. Men singles: Ong C ca Bee Ko CI Mon« X M. Bam, T. H. Quek. Lem Khen L..-. Kwik Sam
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