Singapore Standard, 25 July 1957

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  • 15 1 Singapore Standard 01. VIII. No. 23 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, Jut.Y 25, 1957 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 280 1 There Is No Campaign Of Degradation Or Mud-Slinging European Civil Servants Make Pledge To Tunku KUALA LUMPUR, WED.— THE EUROPEAN CIVIL SERVANTS ASSOCIATION OF MALAYA ASSURED CHIEF MINISTER TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN TODAY THAT HE NEED NOT FEAR A SUDDEN EXODUS OF EXPATRIATE OFFICERS AFTER MERDEKA.
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  • 117 1 R.I. Rebels Ultimatum To Govt. 'We'll Revolt...' JAKARTA. July 24 «AP> Central Sumatra rebel leaders this aiternoon gave the .r.dones.an Government one nth in which to grant m autonomy within the republic or face a possible rating revolt. The rebel statement was s-:n: to Jakarta alons with denial that they
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  • 4 1 DRESS FOR MALAY MINISTERS
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  • 50 1 AN 11 -YEAR-OLD schoolboy. Tuns Kee Hock, was stabbed in the shoulder in Soooner Road. Singapore, yesterday. A group of seven boys had gone fishing in the area. Later. Tung and another boy got Into an argument in which a penknife was used. Police later detained a boy.
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  • 30 1 MORE than 10.000 "rebels and Communist agents" surrendered to South Vietnam Security and Military Units between May 1956 and June, the Vietnam Press News Agency said.- UP
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  • 43 1 Rebel forces of the Imam Ghaleb of Oman hare captured a number of British troops and gained control of several regions which had been occupied by British Forces in the embattled Sultanate of Oman. The rebels also cavtured three British army vehicles.
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  • 53 1 "KEPLER.'' the 9th nuclear devise fired by the Atomic Energy Commission in its summer series, was triggered atop its 500-foot steel tower at 4.50 a.m. (1150 GMT) yesterday at the Atomic test site, Nevada, and the earth was shaken from a yield estimated at more than 10,000 tons
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    385 1 -and KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Imperial Sword will disappear from Malayan Civil Service uniforms after Merdeka Day. Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman told the Standard tonight. The Tunku said the MCS uniform will, however, continue to be used by officers of the independent Federation but with a form of headgear
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  • 365 1 Rocket- Firing RAF Jets Open Up On Rebels Shooting War Starts In Muscat BAHRAIN, July 24 Royal Air Force planes flew 12 sorties against a mudbrick fort at Izki, about 50 miles south of Nizwa today, causing severe damage, an official spokesman announced here. i More sorties are planned for
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  • 244 1 6 (3 Men 3 Women) Killed In 5 Road Accidents A Record For 24 Hours The dead are: MEN Ng Pak, 44, Tan Kim Chin, 22, and a 8.0.R. Sgt. James Hunt; WOMEN. Wong Show Ling. 55. Ling Ah Noo. 44. and Leng Ah Hun, 44. The injured are two
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  • 99 1 Tunis: Bey To Lose His Throne TUNIS, July 24 (Reuter)— The Tunisian Government today reinforced the guard on the Bey of Tunis' palace at Carthage, ringing it with police who barred all access. They also cordoned off villas occupied by the family and associates of the monarch, who is expected
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  • 29 1 THE FRENCH Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs M. Maurice Faure will represent France at the Malaya independence celebrations it was announced in Paris yester- day. Reuter
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  • 206 1 LONDON, July 24 (Reuter) Britain Is to pay capital sums to officers and men compulsorily retired before their time from the armed forces because of her new streamlined defence programme, the Government announced today. Colonels or brigadiers will get a lump sum of up to £6,000
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  • 59 1 SINGAPORE Customs Officers seized about 575 lbs. of opium valued at 51 60.000 bieeest seizure in two years-alon? Pasir Panjanj? beach early this mormng. A party of officers who had waited in ambush positions surprised three men who had landed from a speedboat. The men flpd.
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  • 173 1 RICE GOES UP 4 CENTS Mr. J. Warns 0/ Curbs As... THE price of rice in Singapore yesterday jumped by four cents to 4U cents a kati follc v Government's decision earlier in the week to ban rice exports from tr.e Colony. This crew a warring fiteenng in the r.ce
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  • 215 2 Appeal Judges Halve Damages KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Federation Court of Appeal today halved the $23,200 damages the Malacca High Court awarded last December to Seremban school teacher, Iris Choo, and Police Inspector Low Kim Kee for injuries sustained in a car crash. The award was made by Mr. Justice
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  • 175 2 Bus Owners Call For Army Aid LONDON, July 24 (Renter) Private bus operators in Britain railed for greater protection by Police or troops today following Increasing clashes with pickets in a strike by 100,000 transport workers. Ugly incidents occurred in some par.s of the country yesterday when the strikers tried
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  • 53 2 LONDON, July 24, (Reutcr) Decrees nisi for divorce granted in Britain in 1956 totalled 25,991, according to a white paper published there today. Of these, 11.615 decree? were granted on husbands' petitions and 14.376 on wives' petitions. Matrimonial petitions filed during 1956 totalled 28,640, an
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  • 114 2 Another Customs Strike? FOUR HUNDRED Singapore customs revenue Oooen who earlier this inonth staged in eight-day lightning strike an". subsequently returned to work, yesterday threatened to go on strike once again. Representatives of the Sfaigapnre Government Workers' Union, representing the customs men. met officials of the Government Establishment Bnuvh to
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  • 328 2 FAMOUS U.K. REGIMENTS AMALGAMATED STRENGTH CUT FROM 370,000 TO 170,000 LONDON, July 24 (Reuter) Britain's crack guard regiments are to be trimmed under the Government's plan to halve the army's strength by the end of 1962, it was announced today. A government report ?aid the cuts would bring down the
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  • 161 2 IPOH, Wed. In a message to the people of Perak through the Singapore Standard today, the Mentri Besar designate of Perak, Inche Mohamed Ghazali bin Jawi, 33, pledged his loyalty and service to the State. "I am most grateful", he said, "to His
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  • 144 2 Another Meeting Ends In Deadlock NEGOTIATIONS between representatives of the Singapore Bus Workers Union and the management of the Tay Koh Yat Bus Company, to end the eight-week-old strike, ended in deadlock yesterday. After the meeting. Assistant Labour Commissioner. Mr. Goh Koh Pui. who medi-,
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  • 154 2 CLOSING rutber prices (cents per lb) in Singapore yesterday were:— Tone: Quiet after slightly steadier. The price ot tin in Singapore yesterday was 5373J per picul (Up 12i cts.). LONDON RUBBER No. 1 R.5.5. Settlement House Terms. Wednesday's opening first session were: Buvprs Sfllers Auff. 274 275 Sept.
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  • 128 2 Beresford To Leave The Army? LONDON". July 24 (Ecu! -Lord Patrick ißeresford.: year-old recent escort Pr.nc< Margaret is eon to resign from the Brit' Army, the Dai.y Mail repo. today. Th now^Dsnrr s riis* 1 •end to' resign bci ire the < thi fi ar. "So it is nonsense t-
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  • 20 2 THE AUSTRIAN agency AP A r ->ort«d J»terday serious fl :n many part? c I w« tria Renter
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  • 400 2 LIM TEO SENG, 32, superintendent of the Bukit Brown cemetery, was yesterday fined $1,000 by the Singapore Fourth Magistrate, Mr. Chcor Singh, for causing the death of a nine-year-old boy, Suker bin "Hassan, by driving a car in a negligent manner along Bukit Timah
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  • 20 2 MARJORIE (Buddy) P'.c mg r.ee Soars pa.^fd w peacefully Wednesday r Funeral at Cheras Road l tery Thursday 4pm
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  • 255 3 DELAYED DELEGATES CAUSE TRADE SHOW TO BE POSTPONED THE proposed HK53,000,000 Hongkong Products exhibition, which was tentatively scheduled to open at the Happy World, Singapore, on Aug. 1, has been postponed. D:< >sinz this to the StandH«rd, the w rkinj secretary o: fV. ngk ng Chinese Manu- f turers Union,
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  • 10 3 Miss Flor Oriente and her guitar.
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  • 169 3 EXPERT TACKLES $2.5 M. SCHEME Cheaper Gas INSTALLATION work on the first phase of a $2,500,--000 ga^s plant at the Kallang gas works began yesterday under the personal super \ision of a British gas expert, Mr. A. Turner, who arrived last Friday. The scheme aims at providing Singapore with more
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  • 73 3 A GUNMAN and his three accomplices held up a Singapore jeweller and his family and robbed them of cash and jewellery worth $6,500 in Jalan Pisang at dawn yesterday. After breaking into the jeweller. Tan Chu Seng's home and tying up the family, the
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  • 259 3 iVEWLY arrived in SingaL^ pore is a beautiful Filipino singer guitarist, after a successful tour of Australia. Hongkong and Bangkok. She is a famous night club entertainer from Manila. Miss Hor Oriente (Flower of the Orient), hailed as the most versatile singing
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  • 69 3 A DETECTIVE, Chia Keng Cheong, claimed trial In the Singapore Fifth Magistrate's court yesterday to a charge ol accepting a $50 bribe from Una Ah Eng at a coffee-shop. In Balestier Road on July -•'■>• Chia 1 Claimed trial to accepting $10 from Lim on
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  • 263 3 THE BEST WAY TO DEAL WITH THE REDS IS IN THE OPEN' A RESOLUTION to legalize the Malayan Communist Party as a means to end the Emergency will be moved at the seventh annual meeting of the Peninsula Malays Union in Singapore next
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  • 166 3 PENANG. Wed. An education committee, comprising people familiar with the education problems of the Settlement, will soon be formed to work with the Settlement Education Board, the Standard learnt today. The Board is the first local education authority to be formed in Malaya. It will adm.nister
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  • 40 3 Singapore police stopped a car and detained three men in Scrangoon Garden Way at dawn yesterday. In the boot of the car were found a dagger and a secret society weapon a bearing scraper
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  • 32 3 THE T.K.S. Brothers, wellknown film and stage stars from India, were entertained to a tea-party at the Peking Hotel, Penang recently by the youth section of the Malayan Indian Congress.
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  • 170 3 THE joint sub-committee of the Federation of Boys' Cubs and Federation of Girls' Clubs plans to start next month new training courses for potential instructor! in cooking, sewing, dressmaking, mach-ine-embroidery, and fencing. These trainees, to be called Activity Instructors, after training, will be
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  • 266 3 She Loved Married Man, Says Mother Of Suicide Girl A 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL, Jayalachumi Pakrisamy, who was alleged to have had a "love affair" with a married man, was found hanging in a lavatory after being given a "pep" talk by her mother. Jayalachumi's mother, Amaravathi Mutucumaru. a hospital attendant, said
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  • 91 3 MALACCA, Wed. Magistrate Ramanatha Iyer today returned a verdict of misadventure on a hawker, Lim Hoe Heng, 53, whose body was found floating in tne .Malacca River on June 16. Lim Tiow Ming, the hawker's son, said that his father had been pent on an errand
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    • 85 3 MAISY CHUA. 20. is a typist with the Building Society 1 of Malaya. When not occupied at the typewriter, Daisy goes to the movies. She also likes to travel and takes ii keen interest in modelling- Some day. she hopes to be a professional model. -MIDNITE SAT. I rx~ ri
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    • 355 3 29th Anniversary SALE Now on until the 17th August —Special Offer ~t Child's Cotton T Shirts j Size 2-12 $1.00 per piece I 2 pcs for 51.50 Size 14-18 $1.30 per piece 2 pcs for 52.00 j 10% Discount on our wide range of children's apparel and Ladies casual wear
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  • 112 4 Cowherd Is Jailed For Murder Bid A COWHERD, A. Thangave'.oo, was yesverday sentenced to seven "years' jail Dy Mr. Justice Chua at the Singapore A -iy/.c^. Thangaveloo was convicted of a charge 0l attempted murdSf of 14-year-old Sundari. at her Jalao Pasak home, of! Kampong llelayu, on April 2!). Sundari'a
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  • 227 4 'Refrain From Undesirable Activities' Stage Plays Discredit The Police SINGAPORE Governmerit yesterday warned trade unions against indulging in "undesirable tactics." The warning followed attempts by certain unions to stage plays discrediting the Police and propagating songs of Russian origin. Registrar ot Trade Unions. Mr. Sng Choon Yee. yesterday said that
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  • 123 4 TWO-and-a-half-year old Pinky was literally "A Little Girl Lost" in Singapore yesterday morning, when she confronted her mother after a twoyear absence. For almost three hours. Pinky waited at the wharf with her father, Mr. Lim Ileng Chye, a Malayan Airways engineer, for her
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  • 161 4 But Delay Is Unlikely A HEATED debate is expected on the Local Government Bill when the Singapore Legislative Assembly meets this morning. The Liberal Socialists will demand a re-domarcation of the electoral boundaries for the forthcoming City Council elections. But Ihfl Labour Front
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  • 50 4 MR Shinichi Shibusawar, Japan's Ambassador to Thailand, (above) arrived in Singapore yesterday by P.A.A. on his first visit in 30 years. Mr. Shibusawar. 67, was last in the Colony in 1927 as Foreign Office attache. He will study the changes and development of the city.
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  • 38 4 A M>IIAM trade mission to Formosa from Singapore and the Federation of Malaya yesterday loft the Colony in a special chartered plane for TaiDel The mission will be away for two weeks.
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  • 218 4 SINGAPORE Kathil were yesterday told by the Muslim Advisory Board's Committee on Marriage and Divorce not to violate Islam tenets by performing irregular marriages anu' divorces A meet ing of Kathis* called by the Committee at the premises of the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society,
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  • 104 4 THE biggest Royal Army Service Corps parade in Singapore will ho held on Sunday, at 10.30 a.m., at the old Kailang airport. The parade will comprise 400 vehicles and between 800 and 850 officers, non-commissioned officers and men. The march past will take about an hour,
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  • 119 4 AN employee of the Middleton Hospital, Singapore told the Sixth Magistrate yesterday that he was assaulted by two colleagues for ringing the bell five minutes earlier. He alleged that a week later, he was threatened with death, if he reported the matter to the police. In
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  • 152 4 2,000 MINERS ON STRIKE KUANTAN, Wed— Two I thousand workers of the Sungei Lcmbing Mine downed tools today following a breakdown of wage negotiations with their employers, the Pahang Consolidated Company. Inche Anwar, president of the Sungei Lembing branch of the Malayan Mining Employees (Jnfon, said that the company had
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  • 193 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. High Commissioner. Sir Donald MacGillivray, today appealed to co-operators for help to project the loyalty of the people "beyond the cooperative society to the whole nation, in order to provide a real binding force for its progress." Sir Donald said: "Loyalty is
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  • 63 4 MRS. Gladys C. Montgomery, an American teacher, who arrived in Singapore yesterday by PAA on her way to Borneo to teach under a United States International exchange programme. Mrs. Montgomery has won an award to teach in a foreign country for a year. She will
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  • 105 4 REDIFFUSION (Sil\«*r Network): 6.57 am RedifYusion March; 7 a in. Time Signal. Opening Announcement; 7.01 Sunrise Serenade; 7.30 News; 7.35 Musical Clock news, music and f.me checks for the day; 8 am. Dan Dare; 8.15 The Musical Clock Ticks On; 8.30 Morning Med!ev; 1 n m. Strictly Instrumental; 130
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 231 4 Singapore Legislative Assembly: Special Meeting at lu a.m. at Assembly House. Singapore Lodge Theosophical Society ((airnhill Road): Talk on "Judaism" by Mr. F. Baliha fi 30 p.m Singapore Recorded Music Society: Symphony concert of recoicied music at the Oei Tions Ham Hall, St Joseph's Init.tji.jn 7 30 n.m. Inter-Religious Oreani«ation:
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  • 90 5 POLICE HUNT FOR TIGERS KOALA KAMGSAS, Wei— Die o the severe dn ughi which ri< hit this district, tigers, especially in the Kota Larr.a Kanan area, have been s^en making towards the Perak River. Last weex, t > hi ge tigers Wn seen by rubber tappers ~.r. i r~ in
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  • 480 5 Mental Hospital Probe Assistants Tell Inquiry Of Poor Food Conditions IPOH. Wed. Assistants of the Central Mental Hospital in Tanjong Rambutan told the Commission Ol Inquiry today of the ooor conditions in the Hospital. The inquiry was bitting for
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  • 85 5 SEREMBAN, Wed. The Xegri Sembilan branch of the Labour Party of Malaya today warned that the sudden increase in the plica of foodstuffs in the country may result in further demands ior increased wages. In a statement, the branch urged the Ministry for Commerce and Industry
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  • 729 5 He Kicked Me In The Stomach Wife Tells Court A SINGAPORE Police detective, described as 'an exceptionally bad husband"' by his wife's counsel, was yesterday ordered by the Sixth Court Magistrate, Mr. Robert Chee, to pay $65 monthly towards the maintenance of his wife and two children, effective from Au£.
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  • 125 5 Save A Little Monthly For Rainy Day THE PRACTICE of thrift. rather than the taking of loans, should be the underlying principle of ail members of any thrift and loan co-operative societies, said L:eut. Col. R. B. S. Eraut. of the Royal Signal Regiment. in his address at the annual
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  • 57 5 .TOHORE BAHRU. Wed: Winners in the qualifying round in the Golden Y< kc Contest among .1 iiore Bahru te'ephone operators were chosen last in'sht. They were Miss Xoni Mohammad. Ungku Rsriiah Anmad and Che Siti Hav.a RashidL The Johore fina 1 will be held at the
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  • 32 5 RAILWAY engine driver. Devarajoo. 39. was taken to the Kua'.a Lumpur General Hospital late on Tuesday with knife wounds. He alleged that a man had attacked him. Police are investigating.
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  • 207 5 'Marriage Has Not Been Proved' BUTTERWORTH, Wed. An 18-year-old weeder of Bertam Estate, K. Maheswari, who is expecting a child, alleged that a tapper on the same estate, K. N. Dnvarajoo, was responsible for her condition in a maintenance case heard before Inche Hassan bin
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  • 54 5 IPOH. Wed. Ten out of 11 hostile aborigines have surrendered after a recent skirmish with a fcatrol of Aborigine Home Guards. The incident took place four miles north-west of Tanjong Rambutan. The hostile group were led by two terrorists who fled after a brief exchange of fire
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    • 471 6 Unrest Crime T4OW much longer are the threats to the orderly progress of Singapore and the security of its citizens to be allowed to continue? What action is the Government going to take to end this increasing defiance of its authority and laws 0 These are questions which the public
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    • 385 6 'THE advent of Merdeka brings in its train new official fashions, with which official dress designers are now preoccupied. Civil service officers will continue to wear the old MCS uniforms but with a new type cf headgear. The cock-hat or pith helmet will be discarded. The old MCS
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  • 100 6 Sir I wish to correct any wrong impression which r.iay have been created in the minds of the public on reading the editorial in the lateli ISSUa Of the MAHA Magazine, which you kindly reproduced m your paper a few dayi ago This editorial was written pn
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  • 157 6 Sir I fully agree with Mr. Tan Kia Watt regarding the non-provision of Malay language teachers in mo.->t ci the English Primary Schools, where pupils are eagt.r to learn it. My daughters, like most of their colleagues, have been waiting for the past six months to learn Malay
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  • 169 6 FARM SHOW being the main activity of the Association, it is intended to continue to hold this event annually and the present Convnittee is fully capable of doinz jo The Association's finances are in a sound shape and I consider that the Editor of the Magazine has taken a very
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  • 155 6 from Rubber Sir It is accepted by all that Government is cbllgated to give the rubber industry protection, yet. because of fear of bandit Indoctrination and likely sunport being given to bandHa by tappers a number ol" iubbcr estates in Johore, amounting to several thou .-and acres, have been prevented
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  • 708 6 Africa •Middle East Pakistan India A new kind of invasion threatens them, this year LONDON 'JHE worst plague of locusts since the terrible invasion of 1929, which destroyed crops worth millions of pounds from the Atlantic coast of Africa to India and south of the Caspian to Equatorial
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  • 642 6  - THE NEWS IT AS IT STRIKE ME ASTER GUNASEKERA By A VOICE in the wilder- ness" aptly describes the appeal made by the Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department. Singapore. Sardar Singh, for pub'ic co-operation to cru-h the growing secret society menace in the Colony. Policemen know best that the
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  • 648 6  -  P. E. Burhe too often heard, and too many arrests STOCKHOLM A marked increase in the consumption of spirits, together with the mounting number of arrests for drunkenness over the last two years, has 'ed Sweden to take social and administrative steps to curb this social menace. Sweden's unique
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  • 52 7 photo. THE five mest beautiful women in the world, picked by the judges at the Miss Universe contest are seen above. Left to right: Maria Rosa Gamio (Cuba). Sonia Hamilton (Britain), Gladys Zender (Peru), winner of the title, Terezinha Goncalves Morango (Brazil) and Gerti UP
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  • 307 7 American Student Tells Of 'Mystery' Arrest By Indonesians KARACHI. July 24 (AP)— Lucian Zamorsky, a young American scholar who was detained in an Indonesian prison for two months, said his arrest was a plot hatched against him by "a Red Chinese agent and some pro-Communist officials in Indonesia." i b
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  • 61 7 LIVINGSTONE. Northern Rhodesia, July 24. <AP>— Central African ornithologists n^Dort the vanitv of na:.ve women in givine them trouble. The ornithologists use rings to mark migrant birds. But each year, they say. hundreds or the rings disappear. Valuable information on migrant birds la lost, they claim,
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  • 97 7 NSW YORK. J.;. v 24, (Route:^ Cap: Alan Villien who saiied the Mayflower II across the Atlantic, last night decided not to go ar.v further in the 5-r quiz programme and witbdrc the >16,000 he had won in three wt e.< y :,prearances. 'Japt V: e
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  • 146 7 LONDON, July 24 (UP) A gang of robbers stealthily crept up on the store they were planning to rob. One slipped into the shadows as a watchman to make sure the policeman did not surprise them. A second sneaked up to the door, and
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  • 136 7 HONOLULU, July 24 (AP)— A radio plea for blocd plasma for a woman near death on remote Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific has been picked up by a Hawaiian amateur radio operator He set the wheels In motion for a mercy mission.
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  • 53 7 NEW DELHI. June 24, (Reuter) Mass anti-cholera inoculations are being carried out in the city of Patna to combat an epidemic here. Fourteen people have died since the outbreak last week and 30 fresh cases have been reported in the last two days bringing the total of cases to
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  • 69 7 DC7KBAJT, J-.\ N, '.4PiMaureen Morton, IS. sctir\g a cure for hiccoughs, I h k a for the in rsi yesterday after seeing c "spiritual healer." Now she > "i 1,440 times en hour. Maureen has bee?j h-c--coughing <r.* six months Last night a':cr ?rr ng Albert
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  • 123 7 FILM star Marie (The Body) MacDonald flew into London wearing a giant ring on her engagement finger. She went straight to th P Globe Theatre to see Michael Wilding: in his new play "Nude with Violin." "Does it mean you are engaged?
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  • 392 7 LONDON, July 24. An Army captain expected his wife to obey his orders, just as they were obeyed by soldiers, said a judge. But she was not submissive i and the captain decided to dominate her bv lorce. Mr. Commissioner Blanco White added in
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  • 209 7 LONDON, July 24 (UP) Radio Moscow warned Russian listeners yesterday that the United States was increasing its subversive and espionage activities in the Soviet Union but that the attempts "are meeting with defeat." "The United States subversive activities have been raised to the level of a state policy."' commentator Alexander
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    55 7 photo SWEDISH acirrsv lig.r Stevens 22. Bins Crosb\ s new leading lad>. listens in court as she is granted a divorce from hrr agent husband. Anthon> Soglio. on grounds of mental cruelty Under the terms of property settlement. Inger will give Soplio five per cent <i her earnings for
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  • 79 7 CONVICTS SABOTAGING HIS CARS INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana. July 24 (AP) Shei fl Robert A. O'Ncr, vesterriay arrused revenge-minde- ers of sabotaging his patrol can "I'm fed up." the Sher:' T iri a- he -ited instances v r-e radiators filled l with gaso.ire. collapsed pa< tank v brakes,
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    • 1316 8 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 line*) (Incorpcrateo in Singapore) M2 line*) shipping THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE T 0 e a p el SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL. CLASCCW. LONDON b CONTINENTAL PORTS Carrier* option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargc (Via Suex with liberty
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    • 880 8 MITSUI |JJ LINE S'pjrc P. S'hom Penong FOR JAPAN Nachisan Mew for Moil 6 Aug Meiko Maru for Yokohcma, Moji Kobe Osaka vio Hongkong 2 Stpr 31 Aug Awobasan Motu for Yokohama Na&oya, Kobe 26 Aug mm FOR U.SA. For New York, Philadelphia. Boltimore vio Bombay Hodakason Maru via Bombay
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  • 183 9 Ceylon Rubber: China May Deal Direct With Private Traders CHINA has indicated to the Ceylon Government it the prefers to deal _\y with private traders :n the purchase of rubber under an agreement with Ceylon, informed sources said in Colombo. Tradir is now done through government "rub- commissioners." m fe
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  • 45 9 A PROPOSAL bv the Broker. H..1 Ptv. Co. Ltd.. and Arr.pol Petroleum Ltd. to build tank-- a' Whyalla. South Australia, ha? been submitted to Ihe Australian Government. F ii ;re a rtivity is likely to be contingent ur> n a subsidiary. U.
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  • 63 9 Glass Fibre Boat At Exhibition Ca^rd the "Ccri'iucst" it is 13 ft. 4 iv.s. long, has a beir'i of .5 ft, end is ]><)-.■ red a petrol engine lohich gives the craft a speed hi excess of 40 in.p.h. T'v h«ll Of the craH is c f rcs 'i-bcr.ded reinforced
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  • 428 9 WASHINGTON, July 24 If the predictions by foreign trade experts hold true, a number of countries this year will again add to their gold and dollar holdings as a result of their transactions with the United States. The addition may not be large, but it
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  • 119 9 Souvenirs From HK For M-Day HONGKONG is supplying the Federation of Malaya with thousands of porcelain dioiits bear.ng the colour photos of the Federation's Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and various Malayan Sultans. According to a prominent Hongkong industrialist, the dishes with the portraits are to be used as souvenirs
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  • 116 9 SINGAPORE rubber prices yesterday closed quiet after slightly steadier at 93i cents per Ib. for International first grade August shipment, unchanged from Tuesday. Prices opened slightly lower on disappointing overseas advices. At noon the market was very quiet at 93i cents. Minor fluctuations were reported during the afternoon.
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  • 54 9 PRODUCTION of tin-in-roncentrates in June in Malaya totalled 4.962 tons, against 4.H47 ton? in May. The total in the first half this year amounted to 29.452 ton?, against 31,373 tons in the same period of 1956. Stocks of tin metal and tin-bft-concentratai at the end of
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  • 148 9 SHIPS INI PORT OUTER ROADS Osambaur. Great Oaks. Hamburg, Joshua Tree, Nagasaki Maru, Pres. Madison. Gen. Panpilov, Rajuia, Greenhill, Hannover, Douglas. Caltex Saigon. Stv. Selo, Batavia, Rotherstein. Silver Daugon. Sabang, Atjeh. Annenker, Dolius. Hoi Wong. Kaio Maru. Dinar. 1 Brantas. Song Be Sambus. Salsette. Marika, Mavelstein. Aeneas, Hai Lee. Malay
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  • 42 9 AT Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, passengers of all nationalities travelling on intercontinental routes leaving Amsterdam will now be able to purchase duty-free tobacco and spirits. Until recently these articles were only obtainable duty-free for passengers bound for New York.
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  • 220 9 THAI Airways joined the ranks of major air carriers when the Thai Cabinet Ministor officially accepted the first Of three Super-G Constellations, recently. Lt.-Gen. Ban vat Devahastin of Bangkok. Thailand's Minister of Communications and Board Chairman of the Government Airways System, said the Super-G'l wfl]
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  • 38 9 NEARLY 150 leading British fashion, menswear and textile boUMS will be taking part soon in a British textile show abroad that the promoters say looks like being the biggest of its kind ever held outside Britain.
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  • 298 9 Greater Economic Unity May Be Possible In S-E Asia ECONOMIC unity among Benelux countries has benefited the region as a whole, says Mr. Evert Bos, the newly arrived Vice-Consul in charge of trade at the Netherlands Consulate General in Singapore. Mr. Bos was formerly attached to the Ministry of Foreign
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  • 130 9 FOUR American bankers representing banks with assets totalling more than US$l7 billion will be among the more than 100 American businessmen who have thus far accepted invitations to attend the first. International Industrial Development Conference scheduled for October 14-18 in San Francisco, California. They
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  • 54 9 THE total external trade of Malaya during June showed an adverse balance of $10.7 million, according to preliminary official statistics. Imports during June amounted to $336.5 million and exDorts $325.8 million. In the first six months of this year Malaya imports amounted to $2,229 million with
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  • 45 9 AN incividual exoort order for 135 electric railway locomotives worth more than £7.600.000 has been won by a leading British electrical equipment manufacturing company. It is the largest single order for electric locomotives ever placed by the South African Railways administration.
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  • 122 9 SINGAPORE Chinese produce Exchange nocn closing prices per oioul vesterrtav were: copra, July /August S2SJ buyers. $26 J sellers; coconut oil in bulk $41 sellers, in drums $45 i seiiers, iViuntoK white pepper $109 sellers; Sarawak white $108 sellers. special Sarawak black $73. COPRA HOLIDAY CUTLER BATH CO
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  • 127 9 Aust. Rice Growing Project Expands AUSTRALIA'S rice-growing project at Humpty Doo, in the Northern Territory, 40 miles south-east of Darwin, shows indications of expansion. The project is run by Territory Rice Pty. Ltd.. for the Chase Syndicate, of the United States, and the company is now completing harvests from 600
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  • 210 9 MALAYAN Sharebrokerr Association yesterday reported a general easing in industrial shares which closed weak at the lower levels. Tins and rubers were irregular. Price changes announced by the Association yesterday were Ampat 10/6 10/9 Austral Amal 16/- 16/6 Consol Tin 2/4 2,6 Johan 2.05 2.10 K.
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  • 313 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers yesterday reported the iol'.o-x.r.g business done: Fed. Disp. fUtu F. X. ord, $2-92i to $2 95; Gammons $2 t to $2.60; Georgetown Disp. $2.8" odd lot: H- \Vai:gh $2 over:-, i $1.98 yesterday; Hammers $2375. $2,424 overnight; Hume prefs A22/4J. arrivals, ords MlO overnight, A6/9,
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  • 182 9 THE Swiss watch industry reported in Zurich a 10.4 per cent increase in the value of exports for the first half of 1957, with sales to Singapore and Hongkong accounting for most of the increase. Total exports for the first six months of 1957. the
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    • 230 9 BARBER- FERN-VILLE LINES Fo> Boston New York. Philadelphia. Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans. Houstcr (via Suez) S'pore P- Sham Penang New Yott f-ANC!SVILLE 26/28 |ulv 30 Aut BELLEVILLE 30 |uly 8 Au* 9Aur 13 14Aus 16Sept From New York. Los Angeles, San Francisco, (via Hongkong) N.York L. Ales S. F sco
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    • 300 9 NOTICES NEDERLAND LINE ROYAL DUTCH MAIL m.v. •ORANJE" Berthed: 23.7.57 SHB Godown: 33 34 CONSIGNEES are advised that only part of the cargo of the abovementioned vessel could be discharged a: Godown 33 34 and that th< balance was discharged into lighters at the roads. The cargo discharged into lighters
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    • 403 9 NOTICES THE TOWN BOARDS ENACTMENT CPJI S CAP. 137) IPOH TOWN COI'XCIL NOTICE. VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN' j tnat it is pn dos< d m Section 144 c! the Town B. i Enactment to amend the Ipoh i Approved To\ (G N No 2841 v I the zoning cf pan
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  • 284 10 Letters FROM INDIA CONSIDERABLE unrest is spreading all over the country at the rapid increase in cost of living. The mass of the people still lies practically inarticulate while certain classes of Government servants, notably the lower cadre of the Posts and Telegraphs Department, are now preparing for a showdown.
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  • 924 10 kjdfoigjjo Monsoon. They are practically dumb, unable to trumpet about their difficulties. The country does believe that we are building up gigantic industries in order to provide a better table for these inarticulate millions but many are asking how we can tide over the present.
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  • 136 10 THE CRUX of India's pro--1 blem appears to be not so much lack of food as lack of discipline. It had been badly worn, attenuated into a thin veneer. Whether dock workers, schoolboys or telegraphists, we often swerve from the path and indulge in all sorts of
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  • 185 10 TWO out of every hundred in India are now working in industrial plants while nearly fifty are still tillers of the soil. These two unlike their brethren in the fields are vocal or even disturbingly clamant. They know industrialisation upon which India pins every hope
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  • 282 10 THERE are no communal predilections in the Indian Navy, or for that matter in the entire Services to which recruitment takes place on a strictly non-communal basis. The recruiting officers look for brains as well as brawn and wherever they find them the men are taken
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  • 76 10 OUR north-eastern State of Assam is one of the least developed in India. In recent years its attention has been concentrated upou suppression of \'aga hostile.s who play hide-and-seek with the Police in the vast forest belt that separates Assam from Burma so much so that
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  • 724 10 Laying the foundations of Malaya's economic future -By A Special Correspondent QUIET, painstaking' work by Malaya's Geological Survey 5 Department influences near. j ly all fields of development in this rapidly progressing counj try. and contributes substan--2 tially to the soundness of its j economic advance. Yet most of the
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    • 188 10 The world famous family of TIC EH medicinal products 3fi§s> i 'l CHEE THONE SAN Provides Instantaneous relief for Toothache, Earache Stomachache, Muscle Pain, Indigestion, Backache, Colds, Sore Throat, etc. ENG AUN TONG THE TIGER MEDICAL HALL Extra Extra! Something new and good PEKING DISHES' Come to the CAPITAL RESTAURANT
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    • 134 10 isj SiaTj TODAYS QUOTATION "Th« wei < turn oi th« Lor.gft TIH RSDAY FOR F\FR\ ONE: This da Even. ing get a r r>€ co- i friendl VOr R lilRTIII) \TK AND BIKTHM(,\ arii t M mm a co to May y d J.es. W< I— J t 21 to
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  • 521 11  -  Jack Peart By BUSBY WANTS MORE FOREIGN STARS, A WINTER BREAK LONDON. Wed. On the eve of a new foot- season. I address a few nt remarks to the Lea- <: > legislators, who are rkins feverishly to com- te their 'new charter" I hope these legislators
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  • 177 11 BRISBANE J\:> 24 (Reuter> Tp.e Hop., c Fa-rern soccer toam bf t 5-3 a' !.ne pane Cricket ground today 1 1 :r.e flrsi a cfc f the Australian sec-, n ol leir overseas tour. A' V:- rro ~c -to t.is level St I I Ce:vr^->. I'd
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  • 53 11 CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, July 24. (AP) Two French junior tennis stars were eliminated in the third round of the western junior tennis championships on Tuesday. Jacques Renevnnd, Frnro lost to Rudy Hernando. Modesto, California. 6 4, 6 4; Michael Vaubnm, France, lost to Jim ShatTcr. St. Petersburg. Florida,
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    106 11 > FACES primed from the j rare, Stirling Moss (rijrht) and team-mate Tony Itrooks j hold the cup after Moss had C won t lie European Grand Pri\ at Aintriv witli an 2 average speed or 86 8 m.j) h. Brooks gave his Vanwall 2 car up to
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  • 103 11 IT'S BETTER LATE THAM NEVER LONDON, July M (AP) The International Amateur Ath'etic Pederation save a British \vom;j.n a world h Rh jump record Tuesday— 18 years after the jump after finding that the former record holder was a man. Mrs. Dorothy Tyler, 37-year-old Lcncion mother and housewife, leapt 5
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  • 102 11 FLAME FOR ASIA'S LITTLE OLYMPICS' TOKYO, July M, (UP) A ncred Bamt for A::.". "Little Oljnapl wf.i he brought from M;.nila in r to bo lit on a pe'!e.-ta! ti the Mciji Athletic Stadium WbCB the third Asian Qnaft upen here on Alay L'4. ]'J??,. The CYren". n:c> Committee of
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  • 128 11 at Dm A' nual General Meeting of the Serangoon Garden Sports CluD held at 'ho Club house recently vr following were elected office-beareri: President: Mr. Cnua T.a:. Tcck; Vice Presidents: —Mr. Lye MSn Sen, Ifr Tan Koh Hong, Mr. C. B. Webb, Ifr. C Ro/ario. Hon. Secretary:
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  • 168 11 Eleven Nations To Fight It Out SEATTLE. July 24 «'\r» Boxers from 11 nations on three continents have entered (he international amateur bo\injl tournament here Aug. 1-3 —first worldwide boxing project since the Olympic Games. The tponaorina; Seati c and Tacoma Athletic Commissions said the entry list art I Bat
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  • 196 11 NEW YORK. July 24. .\D Righthander Bob Buhl blanked I-0 Milwauki vu ry that 1 the Brsvei a gam in the National Laagin r .r o: Tm night. S« coi d pi ice Bi defeat) I St Louii 1-0 on 1 1 1 Iter bv southpaw Jo the 1
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  • 79 11 Three Olavis Beat WorldRecord THREE Finnish runners tracked the 1,500 metres world record in an international track meet at Turku, Western Finland. Olavi Salsola and Olavi Hallßfll o{ Finland were clocked in 3:10.2 minutes i:: a photo-finish. SaN-il.i irighti was named winner alter the judges studied the photo lor several
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    • 394 11 HIRE PIiRCHASE SOI >N TECK FINANCE COM PANV u :r> fir.ar.ct Hirt-PurehtM oo mou: anfi secondhand (1952 .Model upwards o:.ly): terw e Api V. South Bridce Road Tel 29:>82 VIHtCLES K)R SME 1951 '■>■ P nt:ac. c 1956 Va ix C ■•.a. 1956 SUU- 10, All can an d in
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    • 335 11 CLASSIFIED ADS ANNOUIMCEMENI T^HE supervi i Me& Phoon I r BJ N ->e: EBS mi !o: :!.i h Tei am< i K.^r.ls tendc t c r m at j ier the I ds j RelJ eanoi SITUATIONS VACANT A. invited i Resuli the i mi tions unit of th< M
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    • 148 11 Lil Abner By A/ Capp K I thaasaS gAsp»-th'«//vda /^r^a <>1 /> WC£-S-OO«w; V^^Z^L > OOU. I DREAMED S&X VV\ i ft£SP£CTA£l£ VOOHG I >V I >- 7^ ABOUT THOSE LO^G MAH-/A/AA//CE- < \JTs^\ M UDNELV NIGHTS AT J Alley Oop By If. T. Hamlin The Heart Of Juliet Jones
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  • 381 12 Fourth Test At Headingley Although Opening Pair Is Still A Tricky Problem LEEDS, July 24 (Reuter) England one up with t'vo Tests to play could clinch the series against West Indies in the fourth Test which opens at Headingley h^re tomorrow. On form they ought to win, for
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  • 210 12 Cold Storage Are Champs SINGAPORE C v Stortge were crowne new < narr.pior.s in the Singapore -■;< FootDall Assfviatior. division one league yesterday. They be.ame fha-.p;on> a> a result the M whipping the ?r.^k Bank handed ler*ar.t;!e Bank in a key i :at \n a' River Vailev Roa 1. T>
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  • 66 12 TODAY'S SPORT L In The Colony A SOCCER RAF vs Indians, Community at Jalan Besar 5.15; Seletar FC vs Western SC Div. 2B at Geylan a 5.15; TMOBA vs Minto CU Div. 3B at F. Park. ATHLETICS Whitlev Road Schools I II annual sports: Way South Schools I; Siglap Primary
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  • 57 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Batu Pahat has been chosen as the venue this year of the Telecoms Johore Regional athletic championship meeting. It will be hold at the Batu Pahat stadium on Aug. 3 at 2 p.m. The Johore State Amateur Athletic championship meeting will be held at the
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  • 36 12 PHILADF.LPHIA. Ju!v 24. <AP> Japanese chamnion Kcad Kamo entered the third round of the 58th annual Pennsylvania Ir.vn tennis championships on Tuesday with a 6-3. 1-6. tf-3 victory over John Cranston, of Pasadena.
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  • 215 12 Ceylon To Play Extra Game IPOH, Wed. The ten fixtures which the touring Ceylon Cricket team will fulfil., in their month's visit to Malaya, which starts on August 15, were finalised in Ipoh today. Mr. M. Saravanamuthu, Minister plenipotentiary of Ceylon. Indonesia and Malaya and High Commissioner lor Ceylon in
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  • 150 12 LONT>ON. July 24. ißeuter) Twenty-three t i"-d final acc *ptors .'h weights tor I>e C >odu iod S' to be run over t\o nallea Coodw lon We i "e.«d iy Jub 1 Dour:- Ri i I 5 four imor.d Sin per and I r c Teacher 812 Sa;
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  • 26 12 DURBAN. July 24. (Rcuter^ Britain beat France by 32 point] fa 13 after leading 15-9 at halftime in their rugby leagjas ma'.ch tier? today.
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  • 72 12 LONDON Ju'.v 24, ißeuter) c n i today's \t Bournemouth: r irr.j -.ire U York- \t 1 ords: x "7 for c X R bert> 201 not c.• ex lo for twa At tlastinc»: Sussex 181 Park? Glamorgan for on i \t Birmineham: Warwickshire '37 p L\j r
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  • 614 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. South China, Hongkong triple champions, edged Malayan Malays 3 2 in a soccer match on the Princes Road ground here today. A crowd of 2,5^0 saw Malays shock the South China by holding them to 1-1 draw at halftime and
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  • 185 12 Only Few Out For Slow Work From WINDSOR LAD PENANG. Wed. Slow work was the order of the day at the Batu Gantong training track this morning. Most of Keith Daniels' and Yong Thau Yin's horses were out at useful pace work, while several of Rinus van Breukelen's candidates were
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  • 36 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Sclangor Chinese Recreation Club 'B' entered the next round of the FAS junior knockout competition when they easily beat Public Works Dept. Sports Club 6-0 on the Pudu Road ground today.
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  • 25 12 THE Community Centre of Knmpnr^ Silat Estate is holding its Fifth Annual General Meeting at the Clubhouse at 10 00 am. on Sunday.
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  • 103 12 Kailas To Lead The South MALAYA'S foremost all round cricketer M. C. Kailasapathy has been named to lead South against North in their annual cricket match on Aug. 3, 4, and 5 on the Singapore Cricket Club padang. The team which was selected last night included nine Singapore players one
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  • 506 12  -  PKTKR KIM Bv KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Burma has offered to send two of its most beautiful girls to compete for the title of Miss Merdeka but the Ma]\\.\n Amateur Weightlifting Federation has been forced to say: "Please keep them at home." It .5 not that
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  • 385 12  - KOWLOON' S 5-2 OPENER AL JOHNSON By Busmen Delight With A Grand Floodlit Display KOWLOON Motor Bus opened their three-game series in the Colony with a bang a 5—2 victory over Sino-Malays at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. The busmen came near to emulating the feat of South China who
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  • 113 12 SINCE the arrival of the 14th Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force to Singapore in April 19.">4. it was th« first time that a team ha,s been fielded from the squadron in the 1957 Colony softball league. The 14th Squadron has victories over champion Pandas.
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  • 272 12 FOLLOWING ar o the draw and .starting times for the Colony Golf Championships on Saturday at the Royal Singapore Golf Club and on Sunday at the Royal Island Club respectivcly:Saturday 2 p.m. at RSGC: K. C McXair vs S R. Martyn (Sun. 9 'am. at RIC>; 2
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  • 70 12 THE following team has been selected to represent the Royal Air Force < Singapore), versus Army at Xee Soon on Sunday. S.A.C. Haines (R.A.F. Changi), S.A.C. Wallace (RAF. Tengah). S.A.C. Darley < R.A.F. Seietar). L.A.C. Alty (R.A.F. Changi). Sgt Sandhurst (R.A.F. Changi), Cpl. Middleweek (R.A.F. Changi), Fit.
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  • 319 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed The eight teams entered for the Merdeka football to be played at the Merdeka Stadium here during the Independence Celebrations in September will have to play in a classification tournament on the knockout basis before they are placed into groups. This
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