Singapore Standard, 5 March 1958

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  • 20 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Cable: TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1958 Vol. VIII. No. 245 15cts. 12 Pages [FINAL EDITION]
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  • 111 1 DAMASCUS. March 4 (Reuter) rhe Damascus newspaper El Hadara reported today that 26 civilians were killed and 50 wounded m what it described as "widespread riots" m Bagdad. El Hadara. m a report under a Bagdad dateline, said two Iraqi regiments and other units "mutinied"
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  • 53 1 NEW DELHI, Mar. 4 (AFP) —Indian President Dr. Rajendra Prasad will make an official visit to Singapore, Malaya. Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, North Vietnam. South Vietnam, authoritative sources said here today." These sources said Dr. Prasad would make the trip, which would last 20 days, around the
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  • 507 1 DUTCH SEIZED KPM SHIP. THEY CLAIM 'Return The Crew And Pay Us For Losses Demand JAKARTA, March 4, (UP)— The Indonesian Government today accused the Dutch Navy of an act of piracy and announced that it will lodge a protest with the Netherlands for the alleged seizure
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  • 244 1 TUNKU TO BRIEF THE RULERS ON BORDER PACT End Of Terror The Main Object KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman will brief the Malay Rulers and Governors on details of the "Joint Service Operation" pact between the Federation and the Thai Governments at the Conference of Rulers on
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  • 203 1 Summit Talks In June, Say Reds LONDON, March 4 (UP) Russia's new summit conference terms brought hurried consultations among Western leaders and an emergency session of the NATO Council today. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan met NATO secretary-general Paul Henri Spaak here as soon as
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  • 104 1 20 Killed, 150 Hurt In Karachi Riot KARACHI, Mar. 4 (Reuter). Twenty people were reported killed and about 150 injured m rioting between 2,000 Pathans and local residents m the Nazimbad area on the outskirts of Karachi today. One unconfirmed report said Police opened fire to disperse the crowd. It
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  • 25 1 PRINCE Rainier and Princess Grace are expecting the birth of their second baby next week, it was learned m Monte Carlo yesterday. AFP
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  • Article, Illustration
    25 1 Photo. THIS portrait of Pope Pius XII, taken a few days ago, is the official photograph for the Pontiff's 82nd birthday on March 2. U.P.
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  • 238 1 VATICAN CITY, March 4 (Reuter) Pope Pius XII has cancelled the official celebration of his 19th Coronation Anniversary on March 12 because a Bishop was found guilty by an Italian court of defamation. Meanwhile, Vatican experts on Church Law hinted at the possibility
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  • 137 1 TWENTY people were injured by the explosion of firecrackers m Singapore last night. One of them, Soh Ah Fooh. 34, was hurt m the eye. All were treated as out-patients at the hospital. Despite slight rain, the "bang bang" of fire-crackers went
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  • 35 1 A SINGAPORE Harbour Board mandore, Vithilingam, was stabbed m the neck early this morning while sleeping m a house m Anson Road. He was admitted to hospital m a serious condition.
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  • 29 1 JORDAN and the United States yesterday signed an agreement for the payment of $5,000,000 (about £1,480.000) to Jordan to cover a deficit m the budget. Reuter.
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  • 256 1 SEOUL, March 4 (UP) A frail. 35-year-old Malayan woman, deserted by her Korean husband and left alone to care for her four children, said she was "deeply touched" by the concern about her welfare shown by Malayans m her native city. But Madam
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  • 152 1 Colony Traders Get A Warning THE Indonesian Information Officer m Sin* gapore, lnche Abdul Rahman, yesterday warned Colony traders who sought to reap enormous profits from his country's political crisis not to indulge m "dangerous thinking His government. he said, hoped that "good sense" would prevail among the Singapore merchants.
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  • 85 1 12 SUSPECTS HELD IN POLICE RAID AMIDST the firing of crackers on Chap Goh Meh night, a Singapore Police party led by A.S.P. Mr. Tan Jee Bah, arrested 12 gangster suspects m a house off Club Street m Chinatown. Acting on information. Police raided the house and found dangerous weapons
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  • 124 1 Windsor Gives Up Two Army Titles LONDON, Mar. 4 (UP) The Duke of Windsor today gave up two honorary military titles m a move some sources believed might herald appointment of nine-year-old Prince Charles as Prince of Wales. The title Prince of Wales is traditionally Riven to the male heir
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  • 202 1 ALL unauthorised attap houses built within the City area will be demolished, a City Council spokesman told The Standard yesterday. He said there has been a great deal of "muddledthinking over this matter" with the result that unauthorised construction of attap dwellings broke out
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  • 30 2 K. V. MURUCASAM PILLAY. hospital a>. .^rce Harbour Board. 53 years, passed away peac- Ceneral H ;;apore. on 30 Breeze Read to h cemetery at 4.30 p.m. on 5-3-1958.
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  • 258 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. So important is this conference to the Soviet Union that they have not only one of the biggest delegations but also two top Russian journalists specially assigned to cover the deliberations of the commission. And just to make sure that both sides of the story
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  • 396 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The stage is set for the fornt^ opening of the 14th session of ECAFE the biggest to date and the first ever to be held m the Federal Capital tomorrow by Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. Ali day today ECAFE Secretariat
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  • 105 2 2 NATIONS WON'T BE THERE KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Two ECAFE countries the Philippines and Nepal will not be represented at the 14th session. ECAFE Executive Secretary. Mr. C.V. Narasimhan told a news conference today that both governments had cabled him expressing regret at not being able to send delegates. "This
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  • 127 2 Another Tribute To Malaya KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. ECAFE is the most vital part of the economic section of the United Nations, said Undersecretary of U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Mr. Philippe de Seynes here today Addressing a news conference, Mr. de Seynes said that as such he was
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    • 341 2 SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST TENDERS are invited for the erection and completion of 13 blocks of 2-storey terrace houses at St. Michael's Road— Contract VII. Tender form etc. may be obtained on payment of a deposit of $250/- which will be refunded if a bona fide tender is submitted. Sealed tenders
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  • EDITORIAL •SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 528 3 THE Singapore Government's plans to make this port one of the safest m the world are important and significant for two reasons. Firstly, the use of radar to aid navigation is essential to mariners m manoeuvring shipping past new danger points m the approaches to
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    • 281 3 THE American fear of communism devouring the whole of Asia has created a new brood of Oliver Twists among under-developed Asian countries. Impressive statistics have been produced to prove the value of this economic aid, but figures alone are no indication of the true feeling
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  • 56 3 HEAD OFFICE: 23. Lim Teck Kirn Road. Spore 2. PO Box No 1563 Cables: "TICERNEWS" Tel ***** (5 lines). All departments <Uala LUMPUR: China Insurance Bldg., 174 Batu Kd Telephone ***** '^OM 93. Cowan St Tel: m 3829 PtNANc. 8. Leitn St Tel: 4055 MALACCA: 91
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  • 848 3  -  PETER KUM By KUALA LUMPUR annual meeting of the Central Committee of the Malayan Chinese Association, which takes place m Kuala Lumpur on March 23, will see the biggest fight for control the party has ever known. This meeting may well see the* emergence of a new
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  • 175 3 Shorts From the Talks Let Them Live "J7ROM an evolutionary point of view I find it difficult to believe that a post-reproductive life m worn c n would ever have evolved if it were not for the fact, perhaps, that old women were wiser and more experienced and therefore rather
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • 50 3 Sir I like to draw your attention to the postal deliveries m Tiong Bahru. Some postmen do not deliver letters to the first or second floor. The letters have been left on the ground floor. I hope the General Post Office will look into this matter. RESIDENT Singapore
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    • 613 3 DFDFD Sir— The Singapore City Council policy m regard to attap houses is becoming more and more a farce. Since attap houses have been declared to be an essential element m the housing needs of the poorer section of the population, the principle has always
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    • 117 3 Sir A Legislative Assemblyman is a foundermember of a club situated m Mulberry Avenue, Sennett Estate. Members of the club often disturb the peace of the neighbours until the early hours of the morning. One night at 2 a.m. a resident of the Estate approached a member
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    • 72 3 Sir I am a surveyor with the City Sewerage Dept. (City Council) and am not the bill collector with the same name who was sentenced to three months' jail for criminal breach of trust as appeared m your Sunday Standard on March 2 Kindly publish and clarify this
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  • Article, Illustration
    9 3 "SHAME ON YOU, BILL, BREAKING UP ANOTHER POLITICAL MEETING!"
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  • 16 3 The Caspian Sea is not a sea. It is the world's largest lake.
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  • 430 3 the NEWS as it strikes me Q^C^^om^K 'TWO interesting situations 1 have developed m the City Council. These if carried through to their logical conclusions, may involve the Council m law suits likely to set back the grandiose schemes mapped out for the City by the Party m power. The
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  • 147 4 POSTERS will be used to encourage co-operation between the public and the Police, The Standard was told yesterday. Assistant Minister to the Chief Secretary, Mr. M P. D. Nair, said that Government Intends to launch a campaign askina Colony artists to submit posters depicting
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  • 102 4 Judge Gives Burglar A Break A YOUTH. Achim bin Abdul Rahman, who pleaded guilty to housebreaking and theft was yesterday given a chance to make good by a Singapore District Judge. But Achim was warned "not to fall into temptation again. The Judge, Mr. S. K. Lee, made this remark
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  • 68 4 FIVEHUNDRED AND TWENTYFIVE daily-rated employees of Fraser and Neave Limited m the Federation will receive wage increases ranging from eight to 48 cents a day. These increases were agreed on at a meeting m Singapore between the management of the firm and representatives of the
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  • 102 4 $300,000 WINDFALL FOR S'PORE TOURISTS arriving m Singapore by three liners during the next fortnight are expected to spend a total of $300,000. The 24,294-ton liner Statenden will arrive from Penang at noon today with 284 passengers Arrangements have been made for 200 of the passengers to go on a
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  • 149 4 Drop Prawn Farm Plan, Says UMNO THE Singapore UMNO south division wants the Government to drop its scheme to use areas m Ulu Pandan as prawn farms. At a recent meeting the division's executives committee passed a resolution "protesting most strongly against the Government's plans for prawn farming. The committee
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  • 318 4 Colony's Skyscrapers Are Blocking The Light On Fort Canning SHIPS coming into the port of Singapore will soon be guided by a new $78,000 lighthouse which is being erected on top of the Fullerton Building at Collver Quay The structure, when completed,
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  • 271 4 Our Politics Scare Off Investors, Says Lewis A LEADING Singapore businessman, Mr. Max Lewis, said yesterday that foreign industrialists would not invest m the Colony because of "frightening reports of the Colony's political situation." Mr. Lewis, General Manager and a Director of Fraser and Neave, Ltd., returned to the Colony
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  • 108 4 A SINGAPORE teacher and a City Council clerk have joined the Airport Information Bureau They are Miss Pauline Szeto (above) a part-time model, and Miss Theresa Lye, (below), formerly attached to the City Council Electrical Department. Miss Szeto, 24, and Miss Lye, 24, have replaced
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  • 253 4 JESSIE LOW, who petitioned for the dissolution of her marriage to a Singapore contractor, Loh Fook Kee. on grounds ol a d v It c r y by her husband with another woman, Denise McLaughlin, was granted a decree nisi to be made absolute m three
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  • 171 4 CORPORATION Certified Secretaries examination. List of successful candidates at December, 1957 exminations: SINGAPORE: Intermediate Examination: Miss Ng Chwee Lian, James Quah Ewe Chye. Intermediate Examination Section "A": Tommy Chew Kian Chong, Choo Kia Keng. David Fisher, *Gan Tiang Eng. Mathia George. *Lam Ah Kwong. Lee Kwong Lee,
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  • 143 4 A 'Cowboy' Gets Seven Years For Hold -up THE Singapore Assize Judge, Mr. Justice C. Knight, yesterday sentenced Mohamed bin Mokri alias Ahmad Cowboy to seven years' imprisonment for robbing and causing hurt to an ice-water seller, Sim Cheng Eng, at Jalan Eunos. The jury returned a unanimous verdict of
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  • 119 4 THERE were no cases of para-tjphoid and food poisoning traced to imported eggs from China, the City Health Officer, Dr. J. Cameron, said yesterday. A recent report from London attributed para-typhoid and food poisoning outbreaks m Britain to imported eggs from China, Dr. Cameron
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  • 71 4 SERGEANTS FOR U.K. TRAINING KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Two sergeants of the Federation Provost Company, stationed here will leave for Britain shortly for further military training. They are Sergeant Abdul Ghani bin Bulat and Sergeant Ariffin bin Omar. They will be away for about five months, during which they will attend
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  • 272 4 THE following: candidates were successful m the Cambridge Overseas Higher School Certificate Examination. 1957. I— SCIENCE STREAM BOYS Raffles Institution:- Chan Chew Koon Michael; Goh Chen Peng; Goh Tiak Theng: Heng Swee Choon; Kuldip Singh Wasan. Ng Thin Teng; Raiendra Prasad Sharma; Sim Wee Kiat: Gan
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  • 212 5 TAPPER WHO HURT TWO GETS 3 YEARS IPOH, Tues. A 32-year-old rubber-tapper, G. Munusamy was today sentenced hree years' imprisonment by Mr. Justice Syed Sheh Barakbah m the Supreme Court when he' pleaded guilty to causing grievous hurt to two fellow labourers. the outset of the case, isamj had claimed
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  • 77 5 Court To Record Evidence TEXANG, Tues.— The Court inquiry into the Eastern Company dispute will record evidence at 10 a.m. Tuesday m the Supreme Court c chairman is Mr. Justtee while other members are Mr. T. Rajendra and Mr. Theam Choo, both of Lumpur. dispute between the and the Eastern
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  • 61 5 IPOH. Tues. The Perak rnment Medical Staff n is opposed to any c by the Federal Coverall to introduce another nated category of male ers m the medical sernion held an extrageneral meeting during the week-end :ved to tell the Mm Health that such a was
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  • 162 5 Rid Your Bad Habits, Workers Are Warned PENANG, Tues. The chairman of the City Transport Department committee. Mr. Lim Kean Siew, today charged that some workers m the Department have got into 'bad habits." Mr. Lim warned that those concerned must make efforts to change these habits, or they would
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  • 97 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Radio Malaya will be broadcasting commentaries m all languages on the formal opening ceremony of the 14th session of ECAFE which opens m Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. The English service will be broadcasting direct from the conference hall from 9.45 a.m. onwards Listeners
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  • 43 5 THE Singapore Government Public Works Cooperative Thrift and Loan Society. Limited, has awarded six scholarships of $50 each to its members' children. They are: Sarifah binte Hussain V. R. Pereira. Majena binte Din. Pavathy. Nagapan, and Kamin bin M. Sheriff.
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  • 173 5 BLKIT MERTAJAM, Tues. State Councillor for VVellesley South, Tuan Haji Suleiman Palesi told The Standard to "wait and see" on his n he contemplated to take when he hears the UMNO Central Executive Committee, headed :nister Tunku Abdul Rahman. The Central Executive
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  • 56 5 Tues.— Mr. Teh father-in-law of Mr. Chve. of Singapore, his 80th birthday dence m York Road i there was a dinner at the Penang Cafe there was a large of friends and relaD the day, the I went to the Home For I m Batu Lanchang and presented
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  • 47 5 :t. Tues —After serving I ra of duty m Perak, Financial Officer. Mr. t. will leave for H leave on March ;ent. who arrived m 1953, nas also served Financial Officer, and was attached to i and Industry DeveAuthority before 'o Ipoh
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  • 37 5 HONGKONG. March 4, Special Standard Service Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were $15 96 to 1£ Sterling; $***** to US$l: $1,839 to Malayan $1: $0,101 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $255 to a taeL
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  • 84 5 PENANG, Tnes—Three-hundred-and-fifty tourists from the luxury liner Statendam were serenaded with Hawaiian music when 'their ship berthed alongside Swettenham Pier this morning. Five buses and forty cars took the tourists on excursion trips to Penang's Snake Temple, Ayer Itam Temple. Waterfall Gardens, and the North coast Mrs.
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  • 145 5 New Moon Will Usher In Fasting KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Religious Affairs Departments m the Federation have been asked to name a date during this month for the sighting of the new moon to commence the fasting season this year. The Keeper of the Rulers' Seal, Inche Abdul Rahim. today informed
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  • 55 5 TWO youth, Yaacob bin Ishak and Victor Fonseka, were each fined $200 and one day's jail for theft of a wristwatch, a gold ring and $45 cash, belonging to Nordin bin Zakaria at Han Chew Hotel, Beach Road, on March 2 In default, they were sentenced
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  • 250 5 A MALAYAN student of fine arts has written a book about classical Arabic script during his vacation m Sydney. The author is Suri bin Mohyani, (above), a 34-year-old schoolteacher, of 25 Figaro Street, Singapore. He ha s called the book "Belajar Jawi. It
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  • 278 5 Federal Capital Has Advantages Over Bangkok Delegates KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The main topic discussed by delegates and observers at the ECAFE runferencc held here is that the Federal capital had distinct advantages over Bangkok as an ideal permanent headquarters for ECAFE. Though no official
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  • 82 5 ALOR STAR, Tues.—Security forces yesterday launched an operation against a gang of 20 Communist terrorists believed to be hiding on Gunong Jerai m Central Kedah. A squadron of the R.A.F. regiment and home guard units are taking part. As soon as the operation commenced, mobine units of
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  • 45 5 X A I L A S A M GOVINDAN. 27, who after offering an old woman a lift m a car. robbed her of her gold necklace was yesterday sentenced to 18 months' jail by Mr. Justice Hill at the Alor Star Assizes.
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  • 179 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. In more respects than one, Malaya is "a symbol ot the things the United Nations stand for," Mr. Phillipe de Seynes, representative ot U.N.s secretary general at the ECAFE session here, said over Radio Malaya tonight. Mr. de Seynes
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  • 69 5 KUALA' LUMPUR. Tues.— The Commission of Inquiry set up by the Seri Paduka Baginda under the Wages Council's Ordinance will hear oral evidence, m camera, at Seremban and Malacca on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, the Commission will be at the N.S Passenger Transport Operators Association,
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  • 116 5 A Warning Shot Hit Him In The Leg ALOR STAR. Tues A Thai padi-planter. Adan Boon, who allegedly tried to force his way into Titi Aka New Village 15 miles from here, last night was shot by a special constable on sentry duty at the main gate *.dan Boon is
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  • 25 5 The Penang Red Cross Ball will be held at the Town Hall. Esplanade Road, on Saturday from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
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  • 176 5 PENANG, Tues. About 200 goldsmiths, some with families, who made an exodus to Province Wellesley to continue their business there as a "supply base for other towns m the Federation, are now undecided whether Lo return here. These goldsmiths make both gold and silver and
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  • 67 5 PENANG, Tues.— The Executive- Committee of the UMNO Division here will move a resolution calling upon the government to enact a legislation that those residing m the city for five years would be only eligible to vote m the City Council elections The resolution will be
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  • 28 5 Madam Foh Puan Chan, widow of the late Dato Panglima Kinta. Che Wan, died at her residence m Cockman Street, Ipoh, yesterday. She was aged 70.
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  • 250 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. There are too many sawmills m Perak. as a result of which competition is very keen and there are not enough logging areas for all, a government source said The Perak Timber Merchants* Association had submitted a statement, giving
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  • 62 5 BENTONG, Tues— The Bentons Town Council will conduct an inquiry into allegations of irregular and proper issue of market stall licences here. But licences will oe renewed while the investigation is going on. the Council has deeded after a heated debate. The allegations were made by two
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  • SPORTING WORLD
    • 150 6 KUALA LUMPUR, luesday— Scoring all their goals m the second half, the Municipality Sports Club beat Young Men's Christian Association 3-0 m their Selangor Hockey Association iunior knockout match on the Brickfields Road ground today. After the interval, the Municipality surprised their opponent's when they took the
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    • 47 6 TAIPING. i\ies Survey Sports Club scored a surprise victory m their league hockey fixture yesterday. toppling the formidable Taiping Colts 3 l. The Surveyors were superior m the first half and netted three goals through centre forward Rajf Azlo^ 2. and inside ieft Hashim.
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    • 88 6 The Trotters Are Coming Next Year THE world-famed fabulous Harlem Globetrotters will play a series of exhibition basketball games m Singapore next year. Mr. Gob Chye Hin, president of the Singapore Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation told The Standard last night. Arrangements for their tour will be finalized by Mr Goh
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    • 138 6 Forces MC Rally This Weekend KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday— Twenty-three entries have been received for the Forces Motoring Club's 350-mile rally which will be run here during the weekend. Starting point for this rally is at the Selangor Club and the first competitor will leave at 8 p.m. setting course for
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    • 108 6 WEARNE Bros beat REME Base 41 Civilians 4-3 m a friendly badminton match played at SVC Hall Beach Road. recently Results <Wearnes players mentioned first) were: Singles: R. Ismail beat Lam Weng Wah 15-12 15-3. Tay Kirn Hin lost to Ibrahim Fattah 3-15 7-15. Chan Meng
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    • 59 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Penang, Pahang and Selangor will meet m the Malayan hockey triangular meet at Seiemban on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to decide the Malayan title. Selangor are South zone. Penans north zone and Pahang eastern zone finalists. The draw resulted as follows. Friday. Pahang vs.
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    • 328 6  - Scrap Basketball Trials Move Is Right Decision BILL FUNK Says Lusons Learnt At Melbourne THE Singapore Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation's decision to scrap basketball trials to select Singapore's 14 cagers to the Asian Games at Tokyo m Miy is a very wise one indeed. By casting his vote, following heated
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    • 489 6 U.S. Or British. For Saturdays Fight ROW KIM LIN and Little Nene, managers, respectively, of this Saturday's main event boxers, Kiyoshi Miura of Japan and Ray Ming Chan of the Philippines, have already begun to fight over what rules their proteges should be engaged m
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    • 153 6 KUALA LUMPUR, rues. -Sin gapore Chinese Football Association will put up two proposals at the Malayan Chinese Fooibaii Association's annual general meeting here on March 16 SCFA is proposing that m view of the difficulty and financial embarrassment experienced by state associations, fixtures should
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  • 282 6 Federation Council For Schools Sport KUALA LUMPUK, Tues.— The Federation of Malaya Schools Sports Council which was formed yesterday will be responsible for the running of aU sporting activities m Federation schools This was decided at a meeting held at the Federal House, attended by delegates from Herak, Negri Sembilan.
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  • 426 6  - AMERICA 15 NO THREAT LEUNG HEW MENG By SAYS EDDY Strong Singles, Weak Doubles MALA V A need not be unduly alarmed over America s sweeping 9—o victory against Canada m the Thomas Cup competition. This is the opinion of Eddy Choong, the wor.: s top-:ankin£ badminton player who knows
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  • 79 6 Indo-Ceylonese Tennis Tourney In Easter KUALA LUMHUR. Mon.— The All Malayan Indo-Ceylonese tennis championships dunne the Easter holidays. April 5. 6 and 7. will be held under the patronage of the High Commissioner fo r India m Malaya Entries are invited for the men's open singles. oDen doubles, handicap doubles,
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  • 187 6 PhNANU. lues. Football Associatiun of Penang is desperately trying u> find a centre-halt betore the F.A.M. Cup competition start* on March 9 The Penang X.A tried i Chuah Poh Aun, Saw c Yean and Pang Siang Teik m this position, but round them unsuitable. Siang Teik
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  • 51 6 PENANG. Tues— The Foo Association of Penang is calling for entries for the Inter-Com-munity, first division and second division league competitions The Inter-Community league competition is for the Yean Hock Hoe Shield while the first division is for the Cracroft Shield. and the second division f<v Straits Echo
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  • 50 7 photo Referee Salvador Luna does a headstand as he watches Antonio Toledo (left) of the Rizal Amateur Wrestling Association trying to pin John Bermor of Baguio Tech m one of the bantamweight bouts of the National Wrestling Championships held at the Rizal Colliseum. Manila, last week. UP
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  • 351 7 MARINES DELIGHT FANS WITH AN IMPRESSIVE WIN TWO penalty goals helped defending champions, Marines Sports Club, m their impressive 3—l victory over Chinese Athletic m the SAFA Division I league match at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. a controlled the game longer period and deed a crowd of nearly i
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  • 214 7 VICTORIA School Old Boys ,n became the nni holders of the David Marshall i with a five-one victory ver Beatty Old Boys m the kpv match of the Inter-School Hoys soccer competition on the Raffles Institution ground torians completed the tourn\ with an untarnished -orians
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  • 114 7 \L.\ LUMPUR. Tues.— Boga V Troop won the a Police Reserve Unit country race held today on te Gardens Circuit. He the tape first m 27 of 50 competitors from •.s Riot Squad took > .--i all completed the One competitor lost his out
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  • 148 7 Singapore SOCCER— Div. 1. S.C.S. vs. Bukom at Farrer Park. Jacks vs. Mercantile Bank at Farrer Park. H.K. Bank vs. Ford, at F. and N. Breweries vs. Chartered Bank at Farrer Park. Div. 2. Wearnes vs. ST TR. at S.T.C. 1.C.1, vs. Metal Box at Farrer Park. Sime
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  • 221 7  - Only Two Against The Clock WINDSOR LAD By PENANG, Tues. Only two horses Winged Warrior and Assault were sent against the clock on the rockhard track this morning. Winged Warrior, with Ken Barratt astride, shaped like a winner when he skipped three furlongs to return the smart time of 37-2/5
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  • 112 7 NEW YORK. Mar. 4, (Reuter) Hogan "Kid" Bassey, Nigerian holder Of the world featherweight boxing title, said here today that he would like to fight m the Far East later this year. Bassey. who arrived here to prepare for his title defence m Los
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  • 78 7 TAIPING. Tues.— lnche Murad bin Ahmad, Commissioner of Prisons, was elected President of the Larut and Matang Amateur Athletic Association for the second year m succession at the association's general meeting recently. Other office-bearers are: Vice President— Mr. D. Nadarajah; Hon Secretary Mr. K. Ncvaretnam: Hon.
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  • 120 7 LONDON. Mar. 3 (Reuten At tonight's callover on ootball Association Cup, at the Victoria Club Bolton Wanderers were en to four favourites. Bolton. who knocked out 'avourites. Wolverhamp'.Vanderers. last Saturday Oj two goals to one. will now meet Blackburn Rovers, one of the two surviving second
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  • 472 7 JAPAN WANTS TO IMPRESS OLYMPIC COMMITTEE TOKYO, Mar. 4 (Reuter)— Thousands of Japanese labourers are working night and day building tracks and stadium for the third Asian Games, due to begin here on May 24. Twenty Asian territories will be taking part, and Japan hopes by her preparations to show
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  • 171 7 Services Go Down To AAA AMICABLE Athletic Association beat a Joint Services team by three goals to two m a friendly soccer match played under floodlight at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Services opened the score m the fifth minute when Hatch scored off a pass from Finch but two
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  • 31 7 PORT ELIZABETH, March 4 (Reuter) Australia beat South Africa by eight wickets m the final Test match here today, winning the series 3-0 with two matches drawn.
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  • 180 7 KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 3 (Reuter) Pakistan made 273 for five by the close of play on the fifth day of the third Test against West Indies here today. Reduced to nine fit players. Pakistan need 189 more runs tomorrow, the final day. to
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  • 224 7 PENANG, Tues.— Eddy Choong and David Choonc were among those who were awarded state blazers by the Penang Badminton Association last year. This was contained m the annual report of the PBA to be tabled at the 27th annual general meeting to be held
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  • 153 7 MUNICH, March 3 (Reuter) Fans at Old Trafford for the Manchester United versus West Bromwich Albion league match on Saturday will hear the voice of Matt Busby. Busby. Manchester United Manager, recovering from his aircraft injuries here will make a tape
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  • 148 7 LONDON. Mar. 4 (Reuter) Singapore finished third m the Duke of Gloucester's challenge cup for field shooting m the 1957 overseas rifle and revolver postal matches results of which were announced today. Their team, captained by J. W. Devonshire, scored 1090 points, compared with 1121 by
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  • 198 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— The restriction of tin overshadowed all other labour problems m the Federation m January, the monthly report of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare revealed. There has been a general slackening of business m most spheres on account of the
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  • 125 9 Rubber Gains ¼Ct. RUBBER gained one-quarter cent on the Singapore market yesterday international first grade for March was quoted at 76| cents per lb. (76j cents on Monday). The tone at the close was uncertain. The market opened lower on overseas advices and steadied during the morning on short covering.
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  • 87 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: copra March/ April UK /Continent $31 buyers $32 sellers; coconut oil m bulk $47 sellers^ m drums $51 sellers; Muntok white pepper $104 sellers; Sarawak white $103 sellers; Special Sarawak black $63. Singapore Coconut Oil Millers Association closing
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  • 47 9 SINGAPORE'S trade with Indonesia will be discussed at the monthly meeting of the Overseas Chinese Importers and Exporters Association tomorrow. The meeting will also refer to the detention of three Singapore ships at the Indonesian Customs checkpoint at Pulau Samboe since Feb. 17.
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  • 39 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes m its rates to merchants yesterday: Selling. T.T. or OD. ready: French Francs *****: Belgian Francs 1615 Danish Kr 2244: Rivals 176 J. Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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  • 571 9 COLONY VITAL MARKET FOR FAR EAST FDFDFD Says Visiting Industrialist A VISITING industrialist said yesterday Singapore will be an important market for the Far East m the future for producers all over the world. He is Mr. S. T. Weng. vice-president of Wah Chang Corporation of New York, manufacturers of
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  • 179 9 'Wake Up Call By Rubber Body Chief PENANG, Tues.—President of the Rubber Trade Association of Penang, Mr. Heah Joo Seang, today called on "responsible leaders" and the Government to wake up to the danger of the challenge to the rubber industry presented by synthetic. He said it was foolish for
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  • 310 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Malaya's only cement works operated by Malayan Cement Limited at Rawang last year made a net profit of $2,723,637. It now has plans to double current output of 108,400 tons to meet growing demand, said the Company's Chairman, Mr. J. Drysdale,
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  • 85 9 New P 0 Commodore Appointed CAPTAIN J.C.W Last has been appointed Commodore of the P O fleet on the retirement of Commodore C. E. Pollitt as from yesterday. He has the command of the 24,000 ton passenger liner Chusan. Capt. Last had his Deginings with the company as a cadet
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  • 107 9 OUTER ROADS Felipes, Tees Breeze. Ringhorn. Tong Poh, North Star, Everlife Talabot, Caltex Padang, Nanryw Maru. Trepeca. Tyndareus. San Roberto, Tong Soon, Staius Jansem, Gordian. Suzanne, Armonia Batavia, Anking. INNER ROADS Lampong. Giang Seng. Taype. Hua Li. Sg Bila. Banggai. Tai Tiong. Belgaga. Seramapang. Selangor, Yong Ann.
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  • 30 9 A NEW company for the manufacture of pulp and as an initial step, the manufacture of tissue paper from South Australian soft woods, has been registered m Adelaide
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  • 140 9 A BRITISH company of bicycle lighting equipment manufacturers increased its sales m the Malayan market last year despite strong competition from Japan. Mr. Maurice Miller, managing director of the company, H. Miller Co. Ltd.. Birmingham. England, told this to The Standard yesterday. He is m
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  • 101 9 INDUSTRIALS were slightly easier m the Malayan share market yesterday. Tins and rubbers were quietly steady. Price changes announced by the Malayan share market were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Fraser and Neave: Ga^on IS IS Jackson Co. 133 1 38 Sime Darby 163 1b» United Engineers: Ords (sl>
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  • 171 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers re ported the following business done: Fed. Disp. $2.15: F. N. ords $2 66 to $2.62 i; Gammon $2.28 $230- Hammer $2.33 overnight and yesterday; Jackson $1.48; M. Colls 80c. 82c; Robinson ords $126 Sime Darby $166 and $1.65 $168 immediate delivery: S. Times $1.65;
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  • 717 10 Demi Tasse icrites about should a student be allowed to •moke? Is there any law In the country which rives the teachers the right to confiscate packets of cigarettes found on the students? These questions come from a sixth form student of a leading school In Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 58 10 BALBIR Singh of 153 Adarsh Nagar, Jaipur, India, wishes to have stamp-collector pen pals m Malaya. He is 19 years old and his hobbies are stamps, coins, picture cards, exchanging magazines and photography. Malayan students with the same hobbies and of the same age should contact him, as
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  • 2 10 POETRY CORNER
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  • 93 10 By Toh Weng Cheong, Form V B. Methodist Boys' School K.L. [\ESTINY, Destiny, thou art VJ cruel, Thou has tnade me cry, Thou has made me die. Destiny, Destiny. Thou art cruel. My heart you broke. My soul you took. Destiny, Destiny, thou art cruel. Joy have 1 only
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  • 718 10 "^7E try to put Malaya on the map," said R. Chander of Kuantan m Pahang, as we discussed the activities of the Malayan students now m Northern Ireland. What 1 was trying to discover was what had put Northern Ireland on the map for Malayans. During the
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  • 90 10 They're putting Malaya on the map in Kampong Belfast, says Andrew Roth rPHE Editorial Board of The Michaelian Chronicle, a monthly paper of St. Michael's Institution (cir 2,000), Ipoh, at work m the P.S.C. Library. From left to right are Miss Choy Yoke Chun (Art Editor,) Anthony Augustin (Sports Editor,)
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 459 10 »TX)DAY'S QUOTATION: "This country will not be a really food place for any of us to live m if it is not a really food place for all of us to live m." Theodore Roosevelt. WEDNESDAY FOR EVERYONE: Clear away minor tasks, limit expenditures. Protect your interests m work, service,
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    • 129 10 By RITA DEL MAR handling; find reasonable seclusion and put into shape. SCORPIO— Oct. 23 to Nov. 21 Take preca concerning friend tarv measures. Sit tight issues are beclouded. SAGITTARIUS— \o to Dec. 21— Put obligation?, commercial duties fir your list. Explore ith for bolstering status opposition. CAPRICORN— Dec 22
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  • 102 11 MR LIM CHOON MONG. a member of the Singapore Legislative Assembly. was elected president of the Federation of Boys Clubs at its annual general meeting held recently. Other office-bearers elected were: vice-presidents: Mr. Harry L. Wee and Mr. Wong Hou Ren: hon. een. secretary: Mr.
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  • 51 11 SINGAPORE Coroner. Mr Giam Chong Hin. yesterday recorded a verdict of suicide at the end of an inquiry into the death of Ow Yock Choy, ageo 1 66. Ow died at the General Hospital on Jan. 29. where she was removed to. after having taken caustic
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  • 39 11 GENERAL, SIR FRANCIS FESTING, Commander m Chief Far East Land Forces and United Kingdom military adviser to SEATO leaves Singapore today for Manila to attend the eighth meeting of SEATO military advisers between March 6 and 8.
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  • 193 11 TWO PLEAD GUILTY TO ROBBERY Court Hears Of Thugs Threat To Kill Trio DFDFDFDSF ASP N. Nadarajah, prosecuting, claimed that Chooi and Wong were secret society gangsters but this was denied. The court was told that Lav, Lim and Tan were seated at the Esplanade on the night of Feb.
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  • 182 11 Probe On Wages Of Shop Workers PENANG. Tues. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong has set up a Commission of Inquiry under the Wages Council Ordinance to inquire into the working conditions and wages of shop assistants m the Federation. The Commissioner for Labour. North Malaya, Mr 1 R Price, told The
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  • 33 11 TWO youths. Abdul Rahman bin Hassan and Osman bin Manab. were sentenced to six months' jail each by a Singapore court for stealing a wallet belonging to Muthia on Feb. 15.
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  • 160 11 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) m Singa pore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot (nom.) 76? 765 RS.S. No. 1 765 77 April R.S.S. No. 1 765 77 R.S.S. No. 2 March 73 73? R.S.S No 3 March 69? 70i Tone: Uncertain. The price of tin m
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  • 181 11 Party Leaders Urge Action MALACCA, Tues.— Political leaders will ask Government to conduct a public inquiry in*o the causes of the strike m three bus companies here and to find ways and means to settle the dispute. This move follows the rejection by the
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  • 93 11 THE firing of crackers on Chap Goh Men last night m Singapore resulted m a ear being burnt m Bukit Pasoh Road. Nobody was m the car at that moment. According to onlookers, residents of the area had just started to fire crackers. Some of the
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  • 77 11 THIRTY PUPILS of St Margaret's School have asked Singapore Mayor, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, through their principal to be allowed to attend an ordinary meeting of the Council as part of their training m civics. The Mayor m his reply to the principal, stated that he
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  • 181 11 SECURITY OF MALAYA IS IMPORTANT TO AUSTRALIA KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Australia's Minister for External Affairs, Mr. R. G. Casey, today said that the security of the Federation was as important to Australia as it was to Malaya. On his arrival here from Singapore to attend the 14th session of the
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  • 86 11 BRUNEI. Mar. 4: Eleven students from the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin College here have been selected for entry to the Kota Bharu Training College. Kelantan. for three years' training on the Overseas Teachers Training Scholarship. They are: Abdul Razak Bongsu, Mahmud bin Hussain, Mohd. Yakub
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  • 59 11 ALL EFFORTS to refloat the Japanese freighter Yamamura Maru which ran aground off Pulau Bintang Kijang (m the Rhio Archipelago) have been unsuccessful. A representative of the owners of the rescue tug Golden Cape which is standing by the stricken vessel, said yesterday there might be
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  • 54 11 BURGLARS broke into a house m Low Ngan Pan Street, Singapore, on Sunday and made off with an estimated $4,837 loot. A housewife, Mah Mvi Ngoh, who left her house m the morning, returned at night to find the whole place ransacked. Stolen were $1,450 cash
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    • 117 11 Kouri): Billiards. bodybuilding, I'MIl I Mtl7l'l T rfß Weighthftine 2-10 Dm. BasketbalJ Rotary Club: (Cathay Hotel) Weekly luncheon meeting Guest speaker Miss Shakuntala Dcvi 1 p.m Peace Cove (393 .100 Cluut Road): Weekly gospel meeting 8 pm. VMCA (Orchard Road): Bodybuilding 4.30 p.m Judo practice Cness club and Malay conversational
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 112 12 LONDON, March 4 (Reuter) Four Conservaties rebelled against the government m the House of Commons last night, refusing to vote against a Labour opposition motion censuring the government's Rent Act under which several thousand tenants face eviction next October. The motion was defeated by 304
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    • 487 12 Outside Aid In Efforts To Infiltrate S-E Asian Governments WASHINGTON, March 4 (UP)— Secretary-General Pote Sarasin of the South-east Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) charged today that international Communism, operating behind a 'facade of responsibility" continues its efforts to infiltrate and subvert the governments of South-east
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    • 244 12 N. Koreans To Return Hijacked Airplane Passengers SEOUL. March 4 (Leuter) The North Korean Communists will return the passengers and crew, including two American pilots and two West German civilians, of a captured South Korean airliner on Thursday. March 6, the United Nations Command announced here today. The United Nations
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    • 22 12 THE French Independent Railway Locomotive Drivers Union yesterday announced a 24-hour strike starting at four o'clock on Friday morning. Reuter.
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    • 76 12 ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Lye Boon Leong arrives m Los Angeles from Singapore on a Pan-American Clipper and is greeted by Dr. Dewane Brueske who treated him for a heart condition while on the island of Penang. Lye is m Los Angeles for a possible heart operation and
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    • 75 12 LONDON. March 4 (Reuter) A Labour M.P., Mr. Stephen Davies. asked m The House of Commons last night whether the British government authorized the "recent shipment of armoured cars and anti-air-craft guns m a British vessel from Singapore to the antiIndonesjan government rebels m
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    • 17 12 THE FIRST SHIPMENT of Canadian wheat imported into Australia arrived m Sydney yesterday (Reuter).
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    • 305 12 WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuter) The White House announced last night that m the event of President Eisenhower being disabled VicePresident Richard Nixon would serve as acting president and exercise all the power and duties of the office. The joint statement by the
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    • 150 12 Protest Over Boy Crated In Coffin SEOUL, March 4 (UP)— The Republic of Korea Foreign Ministry sent a protest today to the American Embassy here m the case of a 14-year-old Korean youth who was mistreated and crated m a makeshift coffin by U.S. Army personnel last week. The Foreign
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    • 87 12 RED TROOPS LEAVE HUNGARY BUDAPEST, March 4 (Reuter) The majority of the 17,000 Soviet troops due to be withdrawn from Hungary have already left the country, the chief government spokesman, Mr. Laszlo Gyaros said here today. He told a Press conference that the withdrawal would be completed "m about three
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    • 60 12 TAIPEI, Mar. 4 (Reuter) Troops on Nationalist China's offshore island of Matsu have been alerted against a possible Chinese Communist attack, the semi-official military information service said here today. The Garrison Commander on Matsu told his officers yesterday that Communist forces m northern Fukien Province opposite
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    • 185 12 LONDON. March 4 (Reuter) University students who have a close relationship with the other sex do better at examinations, a survey suggests today The moral of the survey, tonducted by London's University College seems to be "he who dates gets degrees" The
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    • 360 12 BODGIES AND WIDGIES ON A PARADE OF VIOLENCE WELLINGTON, Marcli 4 (Reuter) Gangs of bodgies and uidges the new Zealand equivalent of Britain's tedd.v boys and girls have turned New Zealand's capital into a "little Chicago." m recent months. Bashings and robberies by these juvenile delinquents have become commonplace. The
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    • 70 12 LONDON, Mar. 4 (Reuter).— Queen Elizabeth at an investiture at Buckingham Palace, today presented awards and insignia to 185 men and women. They included officers and men of the British Army and the Royal Air Force, who were decorated for bravery m operations m Malaya. Today's
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    • 44 12 LONDON. Mar. 4 (AFP).— A mine shaft cage cable snapped today at Brighton, near Sheffield, injuring 47 miners. A spokesman for the British National Coal Board said that 24 miners suffered fractures, while the other 23 were only slightly hurt.
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