Singapore Standard, 11 March 1958

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  • 23 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Jfc 3H Telephone *****—5 Coble: "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE. TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1958. Vol. VIII. No. 251. 15 cts. 16 Pages [FINAL EDITION]
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  • 503 1 EVACUEES ARRIVE IN SINGAPORE 0/7 Output Shut Down: 13 Tankers Expected Today Standard Staff Reporter THE first batch of US evacuees from strifetorn Sumatra arrived in Singapore yesterday by the Caltex Maiden a tanker belonging to the Caltex Oil Company. This follows an order from the
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  • 154 1 CAMBRIDGE RESULTS: MORE THAN 6,000 PASS Colony Sets An All-Time Mark A RECORD number, estimated at more than 6,000, of the Singapore and Federation candidates who sat for the Cambridge School Certificate Examination last year have passed. Singapore, obtaining more than 2,800 passes, set an alltime record for herself, increasing
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  • 120 1 Among the major girls' schools in Singapore, Raffles Girls' School. Tanjong Katong Girls' School and the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus fared best. R.G.S. had 76 Dasses out of 81 candidates (93.9 per cent): Tanjong Katong Girls' School presented 157 and 125 were successful (80 per cent),!
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  • 217 1 Lib-Socs Will Not Fight Labour Front THE Liberal-Socialist Party will not fight the Labour Front m the forthcoming District Council elections m Singapore. Mr. E. K. Tan. the Party's Secretary General told The Standard yesterday that it was the policy of his party not to fight "democratic forces." "Our policy
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  • 118 1 LONDON, March 10 (Reuter) Five British aircraft carriers, five cruisers and four destroyers, all in the reserve fleet, are to be disDosed of as surplus to naval reouirements, the Daily Telegraph reports today The correspondent lists the five carriers as the Ocean (13,190 tons), Theseus
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  • 25 1 THE Duke of Edinburgh who is on a visit to West Germany arrived at Fassberg yesterday piloting a four-engined aircraf t. Reuter.
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  • 40 1 NINE PEOPLE, including three children, were injured m this accident between two cars at Thomson Road, Singapore yesterday. Eyewitnesses said one of the cars skidded thrice before colliding with the other vehicle. Story m page 4.
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  • 90 1 I WON'T RESIGN, HE SAYS COLOMBO, Mar. 10 (Reuter) Mr. Philip Gunewardene, Ceylon's Minister for Food and Agriculture, said at the week-end, he would not heed demands for his resignation made by some Cabinet Ministers. "It will be they who will have to get out soon," he told a public
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  • 168 1 JAKARTA, March 10 (UP) President Soekarno today told the new United States Ambassador to Indonesia, Howard P. Jones, he was confident Mr. Jones would find ample opportunity to increase understanding between Indonesia and the U.S. Soekarno received Jones at Merdeka Palace, where the envoy presented his
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  • 49 1 LONDON, March 10 (Reuter) Heavy overnight snowfalls blocked some main roads in north-east England early today, and roads were icy covered and dangerous to traffic in many parts of Britain. In south-west England, main roads were six inches deep in snow after heavy overnight falls.
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  • 48 1 A 43- YEAR-OLD jaga of the War Department. Y. S. Alagiri was last night killed in a motor accident in Holland Road, Singapore. Alagiri was knocked down by a hit-and-run vehicle and died on the way to hospital. Police are appealing for eyewitnesses.
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  • 53 1 MONACO, March 10 (UP) —The Palace announced today that Princess Grace is expecting her second child between March 12 and March 15 Doctors had earlier believed the baby was due to arrive anytime from today on. But they said today it may come even later
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  • 62 1 HILVERSUM. Holland, March 10 (Reuter). Radio Hilversum today broadcast a report from Singapore that Indon c s i an Government forces had landed near Bengkalis, on the east coast of Central Sumatra, and that righting was going on with rebel forces According to the broadcast, a further
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  • 33 1 AN oil painting of President Eisenhower, hanging m the exclusive Houston Club m Texas, was found slashed yesterday. A note pinned to the frame said: "We don't like Ike m Texas."
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  • 72 1 MELBOURNE, March 10, Bodgies Australia's teddy boys and their widgie girl friends wrecked the inside of a picture theatre m a Melbourne suburb during the screening of a midnight horror film last night. They smashed 40 glass panels m the front doors of the theatre, ripped 130
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  • 229 1 CANNES, France, March 10 (UP;.— They are tearing the hotel down around Rohn Crawford, but the 75-year-old sheep-rancher from Australia has barred himself in his room and refused to budge. He emerges only at night from the Grand Hotel, leaving a huge watchdog to guard
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  • 212 1 THE TIME HAS COME -HUSSEIN PADANG, Sumatra March 10 (UP)— The Central Sumatran Military Commander Colonel Ahmad Hussein on Saturday told his troops "the time has come for us to fight for our ideals." In a message to central Sumatrans, he said. Premier Djuanda has failed in a peaceful solution
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  • 57 1 HONGKONG, March 10, (AFP).— Asian "flu" Is sweeping the South China city of Canton, according to a report reaching here from the China mainland. The report said that many cases of illness had been reported in various government organizations, factories and schools and the general
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  • 55 1 LONDON. March 10 (Reuter) Mr. David Ormsby-Gore, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, said today Britain did not restrict the use of military equipment she supplied to NATO, SEATO and Baghdad Pact countries. He was answering a question in the House of Commons about the supply
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  • 25 1 LIEUT. Comdr. Albert Klingler, U.S.N. ret.. 78. a veteran of three wars died in New York on Fridav after a long Illness.- UP
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  • 113 1 Colony Long Term Air Base LONDON, March 10 (Reuter) —Mr. George Ward. Secretary for Air, said today that Singapore would be the long term base of the R.AJ. In the Far East. It was "ideally situated as a tactical centre for our forces," he told the House of Commons In
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  • 271 2 No Convictions, Though They Broke Tour Ban KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Sixty-five students, including ten girls, from 12 English and Chinese schools m Kuala Lumpur and Kajang were today admonished and discharged by Sessions Court President, Itfche M. M. Hashim, for breaking the ban on unauthorize
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  • 151 2 Appeal Against Death Dismissed KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Federation Court of Appeal today dismissed an appeal against the sentence of Abdul Gaffoor who submitted reasons for "grave and sudden provocation." Abdul GafftKJr was sentenced to death for stabbing to death R. Nambiar on July 19 at Batu Tiga, Klang His
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  • 83 2 $846,000 Sarawak Radio Plan KUCHING, Mon Radio Sarawak will next month provide a new service of increased broadcasting hours and improved reception conditions The new service, which will be inaugurated by the Governor, Sir Anthony Abell, costs $846,000, of which over $327,000 was a grant from the British Government There
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  • 88 2 SUNGEI BAKAP, Mon.— A youth, has been arrested by the Nibong Tebal Police on Saturday night in connection with the death of a 26-year-old woman. Tan Chye Hoey. Tan was found battered to death in a padi field near a Malay school in Sungei Star, Nibong
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  • 138 2 Colony Needs Skilled Technicians SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, said last night that the Colony cannot divorce the need for industrial and vocational training in its desire for industrial development. Mr. Lim was speaking at the second annual dinner of the Supervisory of Management Training Association last night.
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  • 95 2 BIKIT MERTAJAM. Mon. Raw opium and a small quantity of morphine were seized by the Preventive Branch after a raid m a house m Simpang Ampat here on February 8. As a sequel to the raid, Tan Hee Thui. 49. was today charged before
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  • 87 2 IPOH, Moil A worried father has asked the Police to trace his runaway 14-year-oid daughter, Chan Swee Chun, alias Chan Choy Shun, who is believed to have left for Penang. Chan Kah Loke, a vegetable gardener, told the Police that his daughter ha.i been working as
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  • 50 2 KUALA KANGSAR. Mon.— Mr Walter Muttiah. a Government pensioner here has been appointed a nominated Member of the Kuala Kangsar Town Council for the year. Mr. Muttiah who has served the State Government for 38 years, retired last year as Secretary and Assessment Officer of the Council.
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  • 272 2 Don't Be Complacent, He Says SUNGEI PATANI, Mon. The Mentri Besar of Kedah, Tengku Ismail bin Tengku Yahaya, today warned Councillors and Government officials of Central Ked?h agahtst Communist propaganda and subversion and asked them not to be complacent although terrorist activities were at present
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  • 62 2 THE Singapore Council for Adult Education will begin a course today on the History of South and East Asia (Higher School Certificate Level) at the Guillemard Malay Boys' School at 7.15 p.m. A similar course will be held every Wednesday at the Tanjong Katong Girls' School. The
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  • 113 2 CLUB TO BE ASKED: ADMIT PUBLIC THE Singapor, Council's Estate an ings Committee ladecided to ask thi Island Club to open ground to the public < Saturdays and Sundays. The Club is situs Council land The committee also d cided to sell plans pie who wish to pi. and corrugated
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  • 135 2 PENANG. Mon.— A I rider, Lee Chin Khoor who was today senteno a years Jail for theft, told by Sessions Judge Au Ah Wah. "From record, you are a nab thief. I think the ch been due to your mother Lee pleaded guilt; charge of
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  • 71 2 Dynamite tn Boat: Man Jailed A FISHERMAN. Ong Lim. was yesterday $250 and sentenced to one day's jail, by the Singa; Third District Court. v> he pleaded guilty to importing eight tins of powdered dynamite without a licence. Ong was arrested in hti fishing vessel off Clifford Pier on the
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  • 195 2 MR. Lim Cher Keng. Independent, Changi, will table a motion calling for compulsory voting to be introduced in Singapore, at the next Legislative Assembly meeting. Mr. Lim at a Chinese Chamber of Commerce meetIng early this year, spoke strongly in favour of compulsory voting.
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  • 53 2 A DOCUMENTARY film on the recent Far East tour r f famous American c< Marian Anderson whic r been dedicated to the d of Asia was screened United States Informat: vice Library. Singapore day. The hour-long pi showed all the highlight! rher tour through SirMalaya, Manila. Rangoon.
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  • 131 2 PENANG. Mon.— Police investigating an accident in whirh a car turned turtle discovered that the driver had nc driving licence or third party insurance coverage. Inspector Syed Jalaludin Prosecuting said in the Magistrate's Court today The driver, Corporal C. W. Elswood, of the R.A.F Butterworth, pleaded
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  • EDITORIAL • SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 444 3 THERE seems to be a change of heart and ideas among some Singapore politicians. A few days ago the City Mayor stated m a press release that he was not anti-white but was only against colonialism. After British and Commonwealth high officials had called
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    • 390 3 A LONDON Sunday newspaper suggested that a federation of Malaya, Sumatra and North Borneo would be an extension of the Commonwealth idea and that it would benefit these territories. Coming at this inopportune time, it is liable to give the Central Government at Jakarta a
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    • 50 3 "IAD OfFlCf- ii, Llm Tack Kim Koad. .^P?'* /b PO 8o« No 1563 Cables: 'TIGEKNEWS Tel: ***** <5 lines). All departments <UAU» LUMPUR: China Inmjranc. BW(|. 174. B*tu W Teleohon. .r. -r- 8 -snanc. 8 L«.th St Tat: v» *O55 MALACCA: 9J-A. Sukit China. Tal: M7<
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  • 869 3  - Sputniks Blamed For Floods E.G. WEBBER By WELLINGTON, ]^EW ZEALAND, which should be enjoying its best summer months, is now m the process of drying itself out after a series of devastating floods m both islands. The total damage cannot even roughly be estimated until the swollen rivers subside, but
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • 222 3 Schemes For Clerical Services Sir The clerical service of the Federation of Malaya has about 31 schemes which are a constant source of confusion, jealousy and bickering among the clerical services. The layman can never understand why government has divided the clerical service into 31 schemes. These clerks m the
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    • 182 3 Sir—Everyone has his ideas as to how the number of road accidents cculd be reduced. For obvious reasons good driving on the Part of the Police would help. In fact, I consider Police vehicles should be driven impeccably. This is. however, frequently not the case and
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    • 283 3 Sir In the "Singapore Tiger Standard" of March 6, 1958, Mr. IDLTM implies that inadequate steps were taken by the Citizenship Registry to ensure that the addresses of applicants as staled m the application forms were m fact the correct addresses. In paragraph 6 on page 8 of
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    • 399 3 ALL letters must bear the signatures and addresses of the senders. -Ed. Sir— The well-publicised expressions of concern over "juvenile delinquency" are gradually influencing people to the belief that juveniles are naturally delinquent. It is surely about time that some interest and faith was directed towards "Juvenile DECENCY"
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    • 152 3 Sir My colleagues and I. through the medium of your popular paper, wish to convey to City Councillor Tuan Syed Ali Redza, Mr. Wong Foo Nam and 'Che Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat our sincere expression of gratitude for the help, m kind and money, given to
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    • 93 3 Sir— According to the demands ot the W.D.C.S.A. sliding scale method, understanding employees junior m service do not favour a strike and many will not strike. Figures prove so, taking two employees m comparison. Say Mr. A puts m 10 years' service and is
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    • Shorts from the Talks
      • 64 3 Birds-Eye "VA/HEN a fowl breathes it fills its bones as well as its lungs with air. Its eyes are divided from each other and so give two separate fields of vision, and on top of that, each eye has a third eyelid and this works sideways instead of
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      • 53 3 ■A* MOST every Job re- quires training of some kind and yet two people about to embark upon the most important job m life —making a happy marriage —are not expected to need any training" Peter Rayner talking about the work of the Marriage Guidance Council m
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  • 20 3 Forty degrees belovc zero is the only point at which the centigrade and Fahrenheit thermometers coincide exactly.
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  • 438 3 the NEWS as it strikes me SEEING, it is said, is believing. Yesterday morning this column cou'd not believe what it saw m The Standard. It wondered if it was an optical illusion. It wiped the lenses of its spectacles, rubbed its eyes and read again. Lo and Behold! for
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  • 451 4 Resolution On New Trade Talks Will Be Put To Vote Today KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Led by the United States of America and Great Britain, several ECAFE countries today opposed the resolution that ECAFE should sponsor intra-regional trade promotion talks with a view to expanding trade between
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  • 367 4 APPEAL AGAINST DEATH ALLOWED Court Praises Appellants' Counsel THE PRESIDENT of the Court of Criminal Appeal, Sir John Whyatt, yesterday complimented counsel for the appellants m a murder case Mr. David Marshall, through whose 'industry and research the court was referred to authorities and dicta of learned judges" relevant to
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  • 144 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Tanjong Karang Co-operative Milling Societies have been given the monopoly to buy the padi crop m Selangor's "rice bowl" for resale to private millers m Kuala Lumpur and elsewhere. Government announced this evening that the government rice mill at
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  • 128 4 SINGAPORE City Council's Estates and Buildings Committee will soon order an investigation into the delay m the reconstruction of the Victoria Theatre. It will also take "all possible" steps to complete the work on the theatre before the end of this year.
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  • 76 4 Fire Guts House, 5 Escape PENANG, Mon. An attap house occupied by a Chinese family of five off Perak Road was completely razed by fire this afternoon. The fire brigade prevented the blaze from spreading to surrounding houses. The victims, salesman Lee Chong Cheng, his wife, two children and his
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  • 25 4 THE Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual general meeting at the chamber's premises, Penang Street, at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday.
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  • 168 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The wife of Selangor's top Communist terrorist surrendered to a civilian on Feb. 28, it was announced here today. She is Lam Koon Vow. wife of Malayan Communist Party state secretary Hoong Poh. She stopped a Chinese businessman driving
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  • 80 4 Couple In Car Robbed IPOH, Mon. A dentist of Kampong Simee New Village, Mr. Ng Chin Kwee and his girl friend were robbed of $228 m cash and jewellery m Kidd Road last night. Mr. Ng told Police that he was talking to his friend m a car which was
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  • 64 4 BUTTERWORTH, Mon. A 20-year-old girl. Lok Yoon Thow, of Ipoh, fell overboard the ferry "Tenggiri," m mid-channel here this afternoon. When she fell off the vessel, an alarm was raised by the other passengers. A motor boat, which was cruising near the Tenggiri. picked up the
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  • 58 4 TWO SERGEANTS of the Federation Provost Company, stationed m Kuala Lumpur, will leave for Britain for further military training. They are Sergeant Abdul Gani bin Bulat (right) and Sergeant Ariffin bin Omar, who are expected to leave by air from Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. They
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  • 180 4 Job For Dato Onn? Rubbish, Says Tunku KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman this evening denied that any offer of a United Nations post was ever made to Da to Sir Onn bin Ja'afar to "buy him over to the Alliance camp." "I would deny categorically that any
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  • 229 4 2 CARS COLLIDE, 9 HURT NINE PEOPLE, including three children, were injured following a collision between two cars m Thomson Road, Singapore yesterday. The injured were two boys, Tan Ah Hai, 14. Tan Liang Peng, 13; a girl, Yeo Boon Kian, 9; two men. Yeo Ah Huat, 42, Tan Chin
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  • 41 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Indian Minister for Industries, Mr. Manubhai Shah, left Kuala Lumpur yesterday on his way back to New Delhi Mr. Shah was the leader of the Indian delegation to the ECAFE conference held here.
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  • 150 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The first mayor of the City of Ruala Lumpur will be the senior most Alliance member of the present Municipal Council. The Standard learned today that Councillor Abdullah Yassin is likely to become the first mayor as he is the
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  • 176 4 'FREIGHT WARS' ARE HARMFUL TO SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Singapore's Deputy Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry Mr. O.H.R. Beadles, today deplored the "freight wars"' between certain shipping companies which were causing difficulties m transportation. Addressing the 14th session of ECAFE here, Mr. Beadles said that the cost
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  • 216 4 Postal Tuition Course On Islam KUALA 'LUMPUR, Mon. The Education Ministry will shortly introduce correspondence courses m Muslim religion m order to increase its popularity. The course, the first of its kind m the Far East, will cater for people m rural areas and help Muslim students who are preparing
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  • 54 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— About 50 Malay photographers became members of the first Malay Photography Club formed last night. The object of the club will he to encourage more Malay boys and girls to take up photography as a hobby. The meeting also decided to hold an
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  • 79 4 She Must Repay To The Last PENANG, Mon. A 39--year-old woman. Ong Ati Ngoh. was told by Mr. Justice Rigby m the Supreme Court here today that "those who got themselves into financial difficulties had an obligation to fulfil by paying up their debts." Mr. Justice Rigby dismissed an application
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  • 82 4 IPOH, Mon. The formation of a Malayan Medical Association to cater for all medical graduates was discussed by the Council of the Alumni Association University of Malaya (Medical Faculty) and the King Edward VII School of Medicine at a conference held here yesterday. The conference was
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  • 314 5 HARRY HEXG KOK PENG, 24, laboratory assistant, who died m a vain bid to prevent three thugs from robbing a girl friend at the Singapore General Hospital grounds last Saturday night, was yesterday given a final farewell. More than 200 of his colleagues, nurses
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  • 70 5 Student Dept. Needs New Chief THE new Malayan High nissioner m London, TunYa'acob ibni Sultan Hamid ti, said m Singapore yesiv that he would look into ent of a chief for Students Departmer.* ton if it was within his jurisdiction. present Inche Wan Baharuddin is the acting chief of the
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  • 25 5 HUNDREDS of Sydney ea were flooded yesterday rain during the last two days. Some suburbs -ded 10 lnehp<: m the t3 hours.- Reuter
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  • 48 5 THE coffin of General Hospital laboratory assistant Harry Heng Kok Peng was borne by his colleagues for three miles from the hospital mortuary to the railway station yesterday. The coffin is seen being carried out of the mortuary's chapel after a short service.- Standardpic
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  • 49 5 THE Rock "n' Roll and Cha-Cha-Cha dance championshiDS of Singapore 1958, sponsored by the Great World Cabaret will be held on Saturday and Sunday. The winners will meet the official champions of Selangor. also at the Great World Cabaret, on April 4 and 5.
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  • 249 5 A PRODUCTIVITY mission of three international experts will arrive m Singapore m the near future to survey the industrial potentialities of the island. Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Welfare, Mr. L C. Goh, told The Standard yesterday that the mission, seconded by
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  • 97 5 MR. LIM Koon Teck (Lib.Soc. Paya Lebar) will ask the Singapore Chief Secretary Mr. E. B. David at the Legislative Assembly meeting m April whether interviews between members of the Singapore Bar and persons detained under the Public Security Ordinance at the C.I.D. have been treated
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  • 257 5 MALAYAN authoress Han Suyin has sold her latest book to Paramount Studios, Hollywood for a very high figure, The Standard learned yesterday. The book is "The Mountain Is Young," which is Miss Han's first complete fiction. It is a love story set m
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  • 325 5 NEW COLONY LAW TO BEAT CAUSTIC SODA SUICIDES Sales Only On Permits THE Singapore Government has introduced a new law which may completely end the use of caustic soda for suicide. Under the new legislation, which took effect from the beginning of this month, only persons holding permits issued by
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  • 161 5 Help Free Freighter, Govt. Told THE STRAITS Steamship Company, owners of the freighter Scudai now being detained by the Indonesians at Pulau Samboe, have appealed to the Singapore Government to expedite its release. The Standard was told yesterday that '"everything is m the hands of the Singapore Government now." The
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  • 166 5 THE Singapore United Seamen's Union will- ask the Government and the Maritime Employers Federation to recognize the union as the only official body representing local seamen The Union's secretary, Inche Karim Dzafir, said yesterday that the Union's first executive council meeting on
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  • 71 5 THE Indonesian Government hopes to open two new libraries one each m Singapore and the Federation to strengthen cultural relations between Malaya and Indonesia, Mr. Suska, Head of the Directorate of Information and Culture m the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told The Standard yesterday Mr. Suska
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  • 53 5 A YOUTH, Heng Mong Kai, was yesterday acquitted by the Singapore Second District Court, of a charge of housebreaking and stealing provisions worth more than $639. Heng was alleged to have broken into the shop of Chen Por Huang, at Rochore Road, on the night of July
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  • 161 5 BABY'S DEATH: OPEN VERDICT AN open verdict was returned yesterday by the Singapore Assistant Coroner, Inche Ahmad Hussein, on the death of a 27-day-old baby boy m Pulau Bukom on Jan. 23. The inquest was ordered after the island's doctor had refused to sign the death certificate. Inspector J. Yusof.
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  • 136 5 Campaign On Road Safety JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. A "Road Safety Week" exhibition aimed at making the public more "traffic conscious" will be declared open by the Tunku Mahkota at the audience hall of the Government Offices building here on Thursday at 5 p.m. The exhibition will be open to the
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  • 37 5 CLASSES for recruits m life saving will be held by the Singapore Life Guards Corps at the Farrer Park Swimming Pool on Wednesday at 5 p.m. They are free and are open to the public.
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  • 146 5 AN unemployed youth. Mat Jai bin Yusof, yesterday thanked the Singapore First District Court Judge for acquitting him of a charge of house-trespass. Mat was alleged to have trespassed into the house of businessman Liew Yin Toon at Jalan Eunos. on Jan. 23. Mat was
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  • 24 5 21 -DAY FLIGHT MRS. ROSE Minnie, QantasBOAC's Public Relations Officer, returned to Singapore yesterday after a flying trip round the world m 21 days.
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  • SPORTING WORLD
    • 306 6 SAFA Council Meeting: NO DECISION YET ON TRIP TO TOKYO THE Singapore Amateur Football Association i s as yet undecided on whether or not to participate m the coming Asian Games m Tokyo. The decision will only be known on March 27 when the Association holds a "special" council meeting
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    • 154 6 Wanderers Win Junior Title A SECOND half goal by former Colony player Mohamed Nor enabled Latiff Wanderers to become the Singapore Hockey Association junior knockout champions when they beat Royal Air Force Tengah by two goals to one on the padang yesterday Latiff Wanderers took the lead m the tenth
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    • 128 6 YOUNG Men's Sikh Association were held to a twoall draw by Katong Sports Club m the S.A.F.A. Div 2A league match at the Geylang Stadium yesterday. Sikhs were first to score through Charlie Tan but five minutes later Katong equalised through Salleh. Katong
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    • 83 6 IPOH Mon.— fctiss Khong Saw Gaik has been newly elected captain of the women's golf section of the Perak Turf Club Sports Club which will hold their annual women's competition for the 'Dane Cup this month Medal winners for January and February were Mrs. K. Bottoms and
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    • 321 6 SINGAPORE'S monopoly m the Chua Choon Leong Cup tennis competition is unlikely to be broken by Perak when the two meet m the challenge round at the Federal Capital on Friday March 14. Singapore will chalk up their sixth consecutive victory and
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    • 359 6 ONE more Singapore lifter will attempt to qualify for that trip to Tokyo. He is Teo Tong Ann. a middleweight, who did not participate m last Saturday's trial because of an injured thumb. Mr. Chua Tian Teck, President of the Singapore Amateur Weightlifting Association, told
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  • 820 7 FOLLOWING are weights and probable starters for a ll nine races on Saturday, first day of the Perak Turf Club's March Meeting: Horses Class 3, Div. I— 3V4 Furs. Str. lIM 900 iPENCER I Caun R B Lutter •■"3 IRA 8.11 R.VAN B'KELEN Mesdames |anet Cilfillan
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  • 268 7 NEW YORK, Mar. 10 (UP)— Two impressive winBins: streaks will be on the line when heavyweight ndeis Eddie Machen and Zora Folley fight at San Fnuu bco March 17. Machen is unbeaten m all 24 of his professional starts, Folley has won 17 m a
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  • 75 7 SINGAPORE SOCCER: S.A.F.A. League —Div. 1: Marines Dept. vs. Police S.A. at Jalan Besnr 5.15 p.m. Div. 3A: Bintang Bulan S.C. vs. Royal Navy at Geylang 5.15 p.m. Youth soccer competition. IPOH SOCCER: Div. 2 Ipoh Police vs. Loyal's "B" Coronation around. Ramblers "A" vs. 2 Police Field
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  • 296 7 BUDAPEST, March 9 (Reuter)— EVA KOCZIAN, 21 year old Hungarian star, won the women's singles, defeating top seeded Ann Haydon. of England, 21-15 14-21 24-22 17-21 21-16 m the final. Miss Koczian, seeded number three, thus avenged her defeat by the English girl
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  • 548 7 French Hand Wallabies A Thrashing PARIS, March 10 (AFP) With the greater part of its team coining from the miracle city of Lourdes, France gave Australia one of its biggest thrashings m an international rugby XV match, before 15,000 spectators at the Colombes stadium here yesterday. This was the Wallabies
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  • 92 7 Russian Tennis 'Hope' Last MOSCOW, March 10, (Reuter) Robert Haillet. the French international. beat Jackie Brichant. of Belgium, 6 2. 7 5. 2 6, 6 2 m the men's singles final of the Moscow international covered court lawn tennis championships at the Dynamo stadium last night. In the women's singles
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  • 893 7  -  STAN TOMLIN N. Borneo To Send Team For First Time By a former Empire Games champion who is now editor of "Modern Athletics," London. LONDON, Mon. One of the most interesting features ol the forthcoming British Empire and Commonwealth Games, m Wales m 1958, is
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  • 270 7 CANADIANS ARE WORLD CHAMPIONS Beat Russians In. Last 4 Minutes OSLO, March 10 (AFP) Canada won the world ice-hockey title by defeating the Soviet Union here last night 4/2 m the last match of the championships. The Canadian team "the Whitby Dunlops" won all theix world championships matches. Period scores
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  • 147 7 Australian Cup To Dream Son MELBOURNE. March 10, (Reuter) Australian Cup of £A4.000 and £AlOO trophy, two miles, one furlong and a half, run at Flemington race course today. Dream Son (Propontis-Dream Girl). 7.5, A. Yeomans. 1. Andonni 8.2 W. Williamson 2. Humber Hawk 7.10, J. Thompson 3. 16 started.
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  • 64 7 ADELAIDE, March 10. (Reuter) Brilliant Victorian allrounder Betty Wilson scored a record of 127 m the women's cricket test against England at Adelaide oval today. The previous highest test score was by English batswoman Molly Hide who made 124 not out against Australia m Sydney m 1949. Australia's
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  • 267 9 'Minimum Wage Standard May Be A Boomerang' TO set up a minimum wage standard for workers m the country would be dangerous and might even act as a boomerang. This was stated yesterday by the chairman of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, Mr. F.L. Lane. He was commenting on the
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  • 147 9 HONGKONG March 10: (AFP)— Malaya and Indonesia are two main customers buying Hongkong products, according to a survey for the years 1953 to 1957, published here. The survey contained m the latest issue of Hongkong's "Trade Bulletin", points out that over the period 1953-1957 Malaya and
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  • 27 9 FEBRUARY rubber crops announced are: Malaka Pinda 86,825 lb.; United Malacca 101,948 lb.; Ayer Molek 29,170 lb.; Leong Hin San 31,500 lb.; Nyalas 37,--549 lb.
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  • 391 9 Tropical Institute Tackles World Research HIGHLY specialised research work for countries all over the world is being carried out m the modern laboratories of the Tropical Products Institute recently m London. The institute is an expanding version of the Colonial Products Laboratory and has taken its new name m anticipation
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  • 98 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes m its rates to merchants yesterday. New York: buying T.T. 32-7/8. O.D. 33. 90 days airmail 33-3./1G credit bills, 33-3/16 trade bills. Canada: buying. T.T. 32-1/4. O.D 32-3/8, 90 days airmail 32--11/16 credit bills, 32-13/16 trade bills. Selling. T.T.
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  • 137 9 RUBBER gained half a cent on the Singapore market yesterday international first grade for March was quoted at 77i cents per lb. (last Friday 76$ cents): The tone at the close was dull. The market opened higher on deterioration of the situation m Indonesia over the
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  • Article, Illustration
    30 9 WILLIAM Jacks Co. (M) Ltd. held a demonstration of the 'Firefly" landrover, a lightweight fire engine at their Bckit Timah premises recently. Photo shows Jacks staff trying out the engine.
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  • 105 9 OUTER ROADS Felines. Hoegh Silvermoon, Ryvraden. Ivan Stepanaov, Gordian Yamamura Maru. Loksa, Caltex Padang, Srtergust, Langsa. Braeside, Great Oaks, Blissful, Berbere. Tyndareus, Anshun. INNER ROADS Salong, Tong Goan. Debora, Dukat, Lasem, Barito, Hero, Tong Thay, Tong Seang, Giang Seng, Bentong, San Ricardo, Lam Ann. Playaran. Paloma, Tong
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  • 289 9 New Method Of Tinning Discovered POSSIBILITIES of mechanizing the process of hot-tinning and a new method of tinning cast iron were outlined to French metallurgists and chemical engineers at a recent tin conference held m Paris. The conference, organized by the Centre d' Information, was principally devoted to practical techniques
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  • 99 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: copra March/ April UK/Continent $31£ buyers $32i sellers; coconut oil m bulk $47i sellers, m drums $51i sellers; Muntok white pepper $105 sellers; Sarawak white $104 sellers; Special Sarawak black $63. H.C.B. Ltd. closing prices: copra, fair
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  • 28 9 TWO important new Industries about to set up m Queensland are the manufacture of antibiotic products and the assembly of a new German designed motor car.
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  • 107 9 A MIDGET fire engine the "Firefly" landrover, was recently tested at a demonstration given by the local agents, William Jacks at their premises m Bukit Timah, Singapore. It was one of two fire engines the company is delivering to Borneo. A spokesman of the company
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 261 9 MISSION DUE TO SELL PLASTICS IN MALAYA A FOUR-MAN trade delegation sponsored by the Plastics Export Promotion Council, Bombay, is due m Penang from Bangkok on March 20 on a fortnight's visit to Malaya. The mission which will visit the country m the course of a South-east Asian tour, will
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    • 61 9 £1.5 M. Contract For U.K. Firm A BRITISH firm has received a contract worth £1,500,000 to build a power system for an expanding oilfield m South Iran. Metropolitan— Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., announced m London that they had been awarded the contract covering the construction and equipping of the Gach
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    • 188 9 Stress On Sarawak Agriculture KUCHING, Mon. The Deputy Agricultural Adviser to the Colonial Office, Mr. G. M. Roddan, told a Kuching press conference that m the absence of large mineral resources, Sarawak must primarily depend on agricultural production. He said m this connection he regarded the establishment of a soils
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  • 197 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done Alex Bricks pref s $1 55: Fed. Disp. $2.17 i; F. N". ords $2.675. $2.66; Gammon $2 34 delayed overnight, $2.37J delayed, $2.35. Hume ords A5/5. 5/3J; Jackson $1.34- M. Cement $1.40: Raffles Hotel 52.62; Robinson ords 51. 76 overnight
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  • 31 9 ITALY is to get a loan of U5575,000,000 from the World Bank, with the participation of more than 20 financial institutions m Germany, Canada and the U.S.
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  • 27 9 A FIVE-MEMBER Japanese trade delegation headed by Kenchi Octabe of the Trade Ministry, has arrived m Taipei to negotiate a trade naet with Formosa.— AFP
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  • 143 9 ALL sections of the Malayan share market were steady yesterday. A small turnover was reported. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were: Buyers Seller* 8.8. Petrol W- a Gammon 2 35 2.40 Hume Industries: Ords Jackson and Co. 1.32 1.36 M. Breweries 3 52 3.57 IVf.
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  • 80 9 BRITISH firms received orders for oil equipment and materials (exclusive of tankers) valued at £134 million and £50,000 last year. Announcing these figures, the Council of British Manufacturers of Petroleum Equipment say the total is the second highest ever recorded. The annual value of orders did
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  • 25 9 £s Mil. Company AN AMERICAN mining company with plans to exploit bauxite deposits m Australia, has registered m Melbourne with an authorised capital of £5.000,000.
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  • HIGHLIGHTS
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      923 10 of Tommy Steele says yaadbye to him. ...after a year's hiding and lying and the stolen kisses that were the penalty of being a teenage idol's steady sweetheart INSIDE STORY BY JACK BENTLEY T OVELY Annette Donati gave Tommy Steele a secret kiss recently. It was a kiss
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    • 418 10 Rank's top star, Anne Heywood tells Donald Zee T AST week, at a film pre- J miere m London, actress Anne Heywood, 24, a greeneyed beauty who portrays (she says) "down-to-earth sex," was presented to the Duke of Edinburgh. Now there is more to this
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    • 164 10 V?LAME haired Jean Z Carson, who became Z one of America's TV 2 favourites, is to star with j j* James Robertson Justice Z hi the Rank Organization j /Hrn o/ Sir Compfon Mac- S fcenzte'i ROCKETS 2 GALORE. 5 0 Work starts m April. j The film
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    • 619 10 TODAY'S QUOTATION: HHMfe J "It shows a weak mi: d k9 not to bear prosperity is I l«W well as adversity with moderation." Cicero. L^^^V^^^^^S TUESDAY FOR EVERY F^l W^J ONE: Those who exert care I B!k and tact and those who are I making contacts, decisions I fIMBHiJ m
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  • 579 11 lower Prices Also A Threat To Living Standards KUALA LUMPUR, Mon The Minister of Finance, Col. Sir Henry Hau-shik Lee, today expressed concern over the widening gap between imports and exports m the ECAFE region. The diminishing price trend, if not halted soon,, would mean
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  • 164 11 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib m Sinea Dore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot (nora.) 77} 77* R.S.S. No 1 77J 771 April R.S.S No. 1 77* 771 X S.S No. 2 March 734 74 R.S.S No 3 March 692 71* Tone: Dull. The orice of tin
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  • 35 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Raja Ampuan Muda of Selangor officially opened the $131,000 maternity welfare centre at Kamoong Bharu here today This is tne fifth such centre m the Federal Capital.
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  • 50 11 by THE YANG DI-PER-TUAN Agong and Permaisuri Agong, the Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman and delegates to the ECAFE conference now in session in Kuala Lumpur were among the several thousand people, who attended the Historical Pageant at the Merdeka Stadium on Saturday night. Standardpic Fah
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  • 103 11 PENANG. Mon. A man who bought a cinema-ticket In the "blackmarket" was charged under the Entertainments Duty Ordinance. In the Magistrate's Court today. This was the first case of its kind M. M. Sherif, who pleaded guilty to buying the ticket from S Vaslamuthu,
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  • 76 11 THE SINGAPORE Chinese Chamber of Commerce's election comrrittee yesterday decided to ignore a plea by 16 members for a fresh election of the executive committee. The members were calling for a fresh poll as they alleged that the last election was irregular The election committee called
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  • 63 11 PENANG. Mon. Federal Councillor, Inche Hashim bin Awang, today urged kampong people to encourage their children to go for higher studies as Malayans would be replacing all Expatriate officers m due course. Inche Hashim was opening a five-day civics course for 30 kampong people from various
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  • 67 11 KULAI. Mon. Inche Abdul Rahman bin Abbas was yesterday elected assistant Penghulu for muklm Sedenak m the Kulal sub-district of Johore Bahru. The only other candidate, m the polls. Inche Mahamad Amin bin Tahir. secured only 47 votes. About half of some 1,000 eligible voters casted votes. Inche
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  • 194 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Federation Court of Appeal was told today that a statement from a condemned murderer was extracted by the Police by torture. However, the Court dismissed the appeal of N. Kuppusamy, convicted of he murder of a teenage Chinese girl m
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  • 116 11 Malacca MCA Wants Dato Tan MALACCA. Mon. The Malacca branch committee of the Malayan Chinese Association has endorsed the proposal to re-elect Dato Cheng-lock Tan as president of the MCA for another two terms They expressed the opinion yesterday that m view of the Dato's experience and political maturity, he
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  • 59 11 TAIPING. Mon. Perak's Mentri Besar. Inche Mohammed Ghazali bin Jawi, ha? refuted an allegation that the State Government had done nothing for mosques Speaking to pupils of Arabic schools during his tour of Larut and Matang. Inche Mohammed said that the Perak government had sanctioned $120,000
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    • 547 11 pj y^ IkIJ m I k 1 r^B fa 1 ill f ■V^l REDIFH SION (Silver Network): nfl| IB^B 7am Opening Announcement. 7.01 Sunrise Serenade. 7 30 News. Bl^K^T»yf F, ll ftT.T^K fM^.^g/W y.liV» J 7.35 Musical Clock. 8.30 Morn:ng |^^^^Jl^^^^^^a^^^^^^^^^^^^^|E^J^^^^^^^^^^^H Medley, lpm Strictly Instrumental 130 News 145 Frank M
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 216 12 Summit Talks Could Fail, Warns Nixon LONDON, Mar. 10 (UP) U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon warned a British television audience yesterday that a summit meeting could end m failure. 'History shows that the road to war is paved with conferences that have failed," he told British television interviewer Robin
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    • 118 12 Queen Mother On Way Home After Delay PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, Mar. 10 ißeuter) Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, leaves here by air today on her way home to London after a 48-hour delay caused by engine trouble m her Super Constellation airliner. She will not now stop at jbi on
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    • 104 12 Secret Pact Proposed Report PARIS. Mar. 10 (Reuter)— The Right-wing newspaper Aurore reported today that Mr. John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State, had suggested a Mediterranean military alliance m a secret message to Mr. Selwyn Lloyd. British Foreign Secretary, at the end of last month. The newspaper's diplomatic commentator
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    • 20 12 STORMY seas have delayed the expedition ship Endeavour, bringing Dr. Vivian Fuchs' Antarctic party to New Zealand.- Reuter
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    • 410 12 A-ARMS FOR UNITED NATIONS Stassen Calls For Permanent Police Force WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuter)— Mr. Harold Stasscn, former disamament adviser to President Eisenhower, proposed last night that the United Nations form a permanent police force armed with small atomic 1 weapons. Mr. Stassen, m a speech prepared for delivery to
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    • 69 12 TOKYO. Mar. 10 (Reuter)The Japanese Foreign Office denied a headlined press report m a Tokyo paper today that Japan was seeking 90 million yen (90,000 sterling) from the United States and 50 million yen (50,000 sterling) from Britain as compensation for Japan's losses due to nuclear
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    • 31 12 COMMUNIST CHINA announced yesterday that the first group of Chinese '"volunteer" forces to be withdrawn from North Korea has begun transfer of defence positions to the North Korean Army.- UP
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    • 22 12 INDIAN Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has accepted Rumanian Premier Chivu Stoica's invitation to visit Rumania, it was announced yesterday.- UP
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    • 148 12 HOLLYWOOD, March 10, (Reuter)— Producer Mike Todd, who is planning to film Cervantes classic "Don Quixote," has returned here from a trip to Madrid determined not to shoot the picture m Spain. He said the reason was that he could not make
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    • 63 12 A GENERAL view of the American Navy's third and most modern nuclear-powered submarine, the "Skate", seen m Portland harbour, Dorset. It had just made an entirely submerged trip under the Atlantic, m what is believed to be the fastest America-Europe crossing made by a sub. It
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    • 67 12 PRINCESS MARGARET handles a guitar, which was made and shown to her by a 14-year-old l?.d named Ronald, during the Princess's visit to Dr. Barnardo's Home at High Broom, Crowborough, in Sussex. The 48 children at the Home live in a family environment and are encouraged in
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    • 58 12 HONGKONG. Mar. 10 (Reuter) The Chinese Communist Government yesterday demanded that the United States '-stop intervention" m South Vietnam. It did so m a statement, issued by the New China News Agency, supporting last week's proposal by North Vietnam for an early meeting between North
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    • 194 12 'King Feisal Financed Plot Against Nasser CAIRO, March 10 (UP)— A Royalist conspiracy trial witness testified yesterday that Iraqi King Feisal helped to finance an alleged plot to overthrow the Nasser regime. Businessman Farid Sherif Alexandria, who helped Egyptian intelligence uncover the alleged conspiracy, told the Supreme Military Court that
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    • 251 12 LONDON, March 10: (UP) Some 200 Members of Parliament from both parties yesterday prepared for another assault on Britain's strict Sunday blue laws. If they succeed, Britons will be able legally on Sundays to buy ice-cream, take a boat out on a lake,
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    • 74 12 TOKYO, Mar. 10 (Reuter) —The United States Navy announced today that its fleet tug USS Lipan had taken m tow the Liberian registered, U S.-owned freighter, S. S. Andros Fairplay, which ran out of fuel last Friday m rough seas east of Japan. The
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    • 23 12 KING PAUL and Queen Frederica of Greece have accepted invitations to pay state visits to the Lebanon. Ethiopia and Switzerland. Reuter
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    • 169 12 TEHERAN, Mar. 10, (UP). Only an eleventh-hour change of mind by the Shah' of Iran will prevent dissolution of his seven-year, childless marriage to beautiful Queen Soraya. informed court circles said here Their prediction came as the Queen's uncle. Senator Amir Jang Assad Bakhtiari. flew
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    • 255 12 3 Asian Members To Ask SEATO For Economic Aid MANILA, March 10 (Reuter) The three Asian members of the South-East Asia Treaty Organization are expected to make appeals for economic aid when the SEATO Council of Ministers meets here tomorrow. Leaders of the Philippines, Thai and Pakistan delegations have said
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    • 66 12 Margaretha Postpones Engagement STOCKHOLM, Mar. 10 (UP) Princess Margaretha and her British suitor Robin Douglas-Home decided yesterday to postpone their engagement indefinitely. In a brief communique. Master of the King's Household Erik Wetter announced that Douglas-Home will go back to England tomorrow but "intends to return to Stockholm m the
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    • 202 12 'CHURCH WILL NOT ABANDON ITS LAWS' VATICAN CITY, I 10 (UP) Pope Pius XII, still gravely pre-oc by the Italian court conviction of a Roman C Bishop, for defamaiic j 30,000 cheering pi] yesterday that the C never will abandon if damental principles. The 82-year-old I told a tumultuous ma
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  • CAMBRIDGE EXAM RESULTS
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    • 9532 1 THE SINGAPORE EducaMinistry yesterday released the full list of passes for the 1957 Cambridge School Certificate Examination which are published below The number after the name indicates the grade the candidate secured. Those candidates who were •iincessful m gaining the Federation of Malaya Certificate of Education
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    • 119 1 THE FOLLOWING is the full list of Singapore candidates who were successful m the Federation of Malaya Certificate of Education Examination 1957:RAFFLES INSTITUTION: Abdul Aziz bin Akbar Khan, Abdul Ghani bin Suratman, Ahmad Thani bin Ahmad, Ansari bin Shaik Madar, Athsani bin Ahmad Kami. Haron bin Abdul Rahman.
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      • 136 1 vk >**^r^*?i^ j^a^SfF^S^^' JJ^lJ^ DAT Remember when those unsure shoes took that first bold step? And the shy, proud smile that flashed for your approval? Amid the tumbling flood of memories emerges the promise you made to ycftirself— your helping hand would never be hesitant. Tomorrow's graduation marks another giant
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    • 12426 3 THE following are the results of Federation candidates received by The standard up to press-time morning:LSelangor Boys VICTORIA INSTITUTION KUALA LUMPUR Abdul Aziz bin Hussln 3, •ziz bin Md. Yusof 3 \bdul Hamid bin Md 3 (C), Abdul Malek bin Manap 3 (C). Abdul -an bin
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