Singapore Standard, 27 March 1958

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  • 21 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Coble: "TIGERNEWS" SINCAPORE, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1958. Vol. VIII. No. 267. 15 cts. 12 Pages (FINAL EDITION)
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  • 511 1 Rl NAVY WARNS FOREIGN SHIPPING Move To Strengthen Economic Blockade Against Rebels JAKARTA, Mar. 26 (UP)— The Indonesian Navy announced today it* had mined the waters off the Western Sumatran rebel capital of Padang. The Navy announcement said mines had been laid along a 6U-mile stretch between
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  • 338 1 Resolution Passed By State Council JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. The State Council today passed a resolution prohibiting the use of alcoholic drinks at all State official functions and entertainments. Inche Suleiman Nainam Shah, who moved the resolution, at today's meeting, spoke at length on the
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  • 54 1 LONDON, March 26 (Reuter) Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld, United Nations secretarygeneral, said todav at a Press conference in Moscow that his talks with Soviet leaders have been ''fruitful and beneficial," Moscow Radio reported. The U.N. official, who leaves Moscow on Friday after a four-day visit, talked earlier today
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  • 51 1 WAGE-RAISE demanding Japanese labour unionists rush into a police cordon in front of the Tokyo Central Post Office during a "Spring labour offensive" led by the General Council of Japanese Trade Unions. Postal workers, coal miners and railway unionists staged strikes throughout the nation last week.- UP
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  • 198 1 INDONESIANS TAKE DANISH MERCY SHIP INTO CUSTODY THE Danish mercy ship Bretagne, shelled off Padang while taking a cargo of medic a 1 supplies to the Director of the International Red Cross in Padanß. has been taken into custody by the Indonesian Navy. News was received In Singapore yesterday from
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  • 26 1 EIGHT naval ratings were in detention and 34 under open arrest in Plymouth. England, last night following incidents aboard the 2.650-ton minelayer Apollo. Reuter.
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  • 133 1 CAIRO. March 26 (Reuter) Egyptian Press reports said today that Crown Prince Faisal had assumed 'complete control" of Saudi Arabia's armed forces. The reports, quoting Mecca (Saudi Arabia) radio, said this was in addition to the full powers granted last week to Faisal over
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  • 34 1 A SACRED white elephant has been born in Upper Burma, it was learned in Rangoon yesterday. This is believed to be the first white elephant babe to be born in captivity.- AFP
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  • 46 1 WASHINGTON, March 26 (UP) President Eisenhower announced today- that foreigners, probably including Russians, will be invited to witness a U.S. nuclear test "in which radioactive fallout wil} be drastically reduced." The President said the tests would be conducted in the Pacific this summer.
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  • 154 1 CAPE CANAVERAL, March 26 (Reuter) The second Jupiter-C rocket, carrying an Explorer earffi satellite, was launched here today. White frost covered the icy surface of its liquid oxygen tanks as the 70-foot rocket blasted oft. The missile rose straight and climbed swiftly. It was visible
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  • 360 1 Cloak-&-Dagger Exit By Wife Of Revolutionist THE wife of the Sumatran Revolutionary Government's Press Chief, Mrs. J. Alwi, yesterday made a cloak-and-dagger exit out of Singapore. Mrs. Alwi arrived at the airport in a taxi with her husband and two children, but when she spotted reporters, she broke away. While
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  • 148 1 TOKYO, March 26 (UP) The 36 ships of tiie Dutch KPM Navigation Company, released by the Indonesian Government after being held almost three months, will begin leaving Indonesian waters on Friday, Antara News Agency reported from Jakarta today. The Indonesian News Agency said Shiping Ministry official
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  • 69 1 CANBERRA, March 26, (Reuter).— Australia will move 800 men and 32 aircraft to Malaya within next year, Mr. Frederick Osbo r n e, Australian Air Minister, said today. An advance party of the Royal Australian Air Force would eo to Butterworth in May when a new
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  • 119 1 LONDON, March 26 (Reuter)—The Queen has sanctioned the promotion of Sir William Goode, Governor of Singapore, to knighthood of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, it was announced yesterday. His wife, Lady Goode, has been admitted to the grade of
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  • 23 1 THE first Ceylonese Minister to Thailand W. D. Gunaratna, presented his credentials to the King of Thailand, yesterday in Bangkok. AFP
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  • 225 2 'Schoolboys Beat Me Senseless' KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— A railway worker told the Supreme Court here today that he was beaten unconscious by a gang of schoolboys when he tried to help a friend. Wong Swee Chong. 20, was testifying at the trial of Yap Yip Keong, 18, and Chan Kee
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  • 250 2 State Council Told Of Inefficiencies Of Medical Staff JO HO RE BAHRI Wed. The lack of medical iacilitie.s and poor attention in certain areas of Johore was the subject of strong criticism in the State Council today. Inche Suleiman Nainam Shah said that people in Muar
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  • 147 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Meetings of the State Council will in future begin with a prayer in Malay. A motion making prayer the first business of the Council in place of the customary confirmation of the minutes of past meetings was passed at today's meeting.
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  • 80 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The two London scholarships offered to Malayans by the International Tin Research Institute five months ago have not been taken up. These scholarships are for six months study at the Institute in London. Bolivia was the first country to be offered scholarships
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  • 48 2 BAGAN DATOH, Wed. A Singapore syndicate, on the hunt for Japanese treasure in pagan Datoh, Lower Perak, has shifted its area of operation. Labourers are now digging some distance away from the original spot Two previous attempts had proved to be costly failures
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  • 43 2 THIRTEEN out of 15 Brunei students studying at the Aljunied Arabic School, Singapore, on Brunei Government scholarships, returned home last week to spend the Bulan Puasa vacation The other two students are expected to return by the end of this month.
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  • 57 2 POLICE yesterday alerted shops in the Colony to look out for a well-dressed yourg Chinese who was trying to pass dud cheques. The Standard was told that a number of firms had been duped by this confidence trickster of several thousand dollars. The cheques belong
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  • 109 2 THE SMILING couple is Mr. Lim Kim Lin and his bride, the former Miss Yeoh Lee Chian. from two well-known families of Banting. Mr. Lim. a businessman, is the son of Mr. Lim Yew Say. a rubber merchant and Mrs. Lim. The
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  • 147 2 WHIP 10 YRS. JAIL FOR KIDNAPPERS KIDNAPPERS may be whipped and sent to ten years in jail under an amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code now being considered by the Singapore Government, The Standard learned yesterday. A White Paper on kidnapping and gangsterism is now under preparation to be in
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  • 76 2 THE Chief Minister. Mr Uffl Yew Hock yesterday flayed Colony businessmen who dealt in foreign arms. Commenting on a reoort that brokers were offering for sale landing craft and helicopters Mr. Lim said: "I will net tolerate any weapons of war being sold in Singaoore. Su?h
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  • 236 2 National Language For State Business JOHOKi; BAHIU Wed The Johore State Cou: today resolved that Government Itepartm would use the natu language, as far as Poss in all official business. This matter occupied n of the Council's time speaker after speaker rotsupport the motion. Tuan Haji Taha bin I Zakaria
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  • 501 3 EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD March 27. 1958 THERE is a character in one of Shakespeare's plays called Caliban, who learned to speak a language so that he could use it for cursing. When Britons in Singapore hear insults hurled at them, they should thank the Labour Government
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  • 375 3 EVEN while two royal personages, the Queens of England and the Netherlands, were making a urgent plea for a new spirit to banish world fears and tensions, dark clouds gathered on the horizon of the proposed summit meeting. Understanding, harmony and unison, for which Queen Juliana
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  • 31 3 Reports from behind the Iron Curtain reveal that the Communists in Budapest have organized a "social watch s ervice" to observe and report to officials "irregularities" of citizens.
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  • 1223 3 SHADOW SUBSTANCE RUSSIA TODAY: AS SEEN BY EDWARD CRANKSHAW LAST week PRAVDA had eight pages instead of the usual six. Nearly seven of these pages were filled with long lists of names. The names of newly-elected deputies to the Supreme Soviet of the Union and the Supreme Soviet of Nationalities.
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  • 756 3 they have a role in modern science LONDON PROFESSIONALS often look upon the amateur in their subject with a certain amount of impatience, but in astronomy oldest of all the sciences the amateur is warmiy welcomed. Patrick Moore, who is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and
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  • 91 3 Shorts from the Talks To Live Is To SI rive "Each new level of content that we achieve reveals another that is still beyond us; one suffering is only pushed into the background to reveal another in the centre of the stage. To live, in fact, is to strive to
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  • 398 3 the NEWS as it strikes me /^NCE some one described Singapore as a "cultural desert" and he provoked an influentiaJ section of the community to take up arms against this observation. Newspapers were inundated with letters attempting to j>rove the opposite. Like all controversies the insult was soon forgotten There
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  • 294 4 Ultimatum To Council THIRTEEN trade unions representing 10,500 dailyrated employees of the Singapore City Council will today serve 14-day strike notices on the Council. The notices, scheduled to be served on the Council yesterday, were delayed because of "certain legal im--1 plications M The
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  • 172 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The president of the Locomotive Enginemen's Union (1957). Mr. Donald U'Ren today declared that the Railway Administration was being "dictatorial" in not recognizing the union until the union could prove it represented at least 40 per cent of the footplate staff. Since
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  • 121 4 PENANG. Wed. Several opium smoking utensils and prepared opium were found in a Customs party raid on a house in Cross Street, here, the Sessions Court was told today. Soon Thean Seng and his wife. Khor Kooi Tin. claimed trial to charges of possessing prepared
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  • 78 4 KLANG. Wed. Twentytwo stallholders here were today given final eviction notices as the land they occupied was required for the $10,000,000 Klang Double Decker Bridge. The protesting stallholders told The Standard that they did not know their land had been taken over by the State Government.
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  • 285 4 Padang Bombing: Dutch Tell Of Safety Dash TWENTY Dutch workers of a cement factory in Padang. flew into Singapore last night from Medan and described their 100-mile dash to Prapat when Padang was bombed and strafed last month by the Indonesian Air Force. The Dutch workers, who arrived in the
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  • 413 4 'K wai' Premiere To Aid Leper Fund FOR the first time, one of the worthiest charities in Singapore, the Leprosy Relief Association, will benefit by a gala motion picture premiere, its president, Mr. Ee Peng Liang, said yesterday. The premiere under the patronage of the Governor, Sir William Goode. will
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  • 33 4 TONY ESTRADA, popular Filipino singer, and M Nancy Teo who were married in Singapore on Tu«* day. Mrs. Estrada is the daughter of Mrs. Teo Kim Heng of Singapore. Standardpic.
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  • 192 4 SINGAPORE Assize Judge, Mr. Justice Knight, yesterday sentenced a labourer, Raman Nadaraj, to ten years' jail for causing the death of a watchman, Damod* haram, at Mandai Road, on Deepavali Day, last year. The jury acquitted v on the charge of murder h he
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  • 42 4 AS from April 1, unregistered "printed papers" which cannot be delivered will be destroyed unless they contain anything of value or bear on the outside a note asking for their return to sender, the Postmaster General announced in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
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  • 30 4 SINGAPORE'S 12-year-old musical "wonder". Tony Costello was signed on for the Carroll Wallace Follies, which began a seven days' run at the Cathay Theatre, Kuaia Lumpur, last night.
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  • 98 4 Meet People Forum At Jelutong PENANG. Wed. The Mafe" Chinese Associa Je.utong area sub-branch its committee meeting night, decided to hole meet-the-people" forum at S ?Fln e in Bagan Sprai at 10.30 a.m. o n Sunday rr. ing. All MCA. State and C councillors, together with Al hance State councillor
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  • 59 4 TWENTY thugs ov< ed a Singapore wa; P. Apavoo, who was guar cables at a work Thomson Road, Singa; on Wednesday, and 375 yards of cable v. $1,200. The same day, a driver, Lee Chew Hock robbed of cash and a v worth $43 by two
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  • 163 4 OXFORD and Cambridge University graduates in Singapore will celebrate "Boat Race Night" at a dinner at the Ocean Park Hotel on April 5. The "Night," previously an annual affair with the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Singapore, was last year cancelled due to lack of
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  • 297 5 COUNCIL'S CONDUCT IS UNDER SCRUTINY GOVT. CRACKDOWN WILL COME WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT 7?- Government is kee P in 8 a close watch on the conduct of affairs m the Clt y Council, and will crack down "when the time is right," The Standard reliably understands. A source close
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  • 51 5 MISS Lee Lye, the famous Hongkong singwill entertain patrons a bail to aid the j lon Flood Relief Fund at Raffles Hotel, -:apore, tonight. Lee Lye, who is known as the "Atomic sinsjer." has previously sun? over Radio Malaya. She is married to a Colony
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  • 115 5 Students Need Pay No Extra Fees LUMPUR, Wed. -,-or State Education and the Kuala Lumpur Education Board tot levy any additional n students in primary s this year. The Standas told. Municipal Council has nt funds to run its 86 prischools and the State Board will not have o maintain
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  • 73 5 A HOUSEWIFE alleged in a E re court yesterday man. armed with a ribbed her of a $30 .itch. Goh Lee Kuat, :;ng at a prelimiry in which Madaimaniam, a labourciLsed of robbing the watch at Holland [arch 5. also accused of Goh's neighbour,
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  • 27 5 EXG Seow Kheng. 59. who ed guilty jn a Singapore to a charge of posst of intoxicating r at Bendemeer Road on was yesterday fined
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  • 146 5 London Firm May Decide KL Rates KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council is considering a proposal to enlist the services of a London firm of specialists to revalue properties in the Municipal area. Mr. A.D. York, President of the Municipal Council, who is on home leave, has recommended
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  • 49 5 OFFICE-bearers of the newly formed Kampong Kapor branch of the Workers Party elected recently are: Chairman Mr. Chia Ban Wei: hon. secretary Mr Fadzlon Siradj; assistant secretary Mr. Elias bin Haji Sirat; and treasurer Mr. V. K. A. Krishnan. A committee of 11 members was also elected. I
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  • 214 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Intermittent flooding at Section Four of Petaling Jaya, Malaya's newest town, has caused residents to suffer from corza, influenza and symptoms of rheumatic pains, claims the town branch of the Labour Party of Malaya. Mr. T. K. Tan, secretary of the
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  • 52 5 KUCHING, March 26.— The Sibu Urban District Council has decided to urge the Board of Censors to ban striptease shows Mr. Tieu Sung Seng, who introduced the motion, said he considered such shows particularly harmful to the morals of youngsters between the ages of 18
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  • 141 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. The Johore State Council today passed supplementary budget providing for an additional $538,269 for State expenses this year. The supplementary sum is appropriated as follows: Ruler and Chiefs $12,667; Mentri Besar and State Secretariat $1,200; District and Land Offices $14,195; Miscellaneous Services $20,840; Public
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  • 142 5 Appeal For Maintenance Cut Fails PENANG, Wed. Sessions Judge, Mr. B. J. Jennings, today dismissed with costs, the application by Lim Seng Khim for a variation of a maintenance order of $170 a month made against him by Magistrate, Mr. Au Ah Wah, in August last year. Dismissing the application,
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  • 261 5 ALOR STAR, Wed. A pretty 17-year-old woman, Aminah binti Yusoff, told Magistrate Tunku Yaacob today that a married man to whom she gave shelter, made a number of overtures during his stay in the house and tried to persuade her to desert her
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  • 94 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— and Sungei Chua New VilThe Department ot Labour iage to reside near the reported today that em- estate. ployees ot a large Selangor The offer was turned down estate had turned down an with the result that the emoffer of $1,000 per family ployer
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  • 76 5 GOVERNMENT TO SELECT SCHOOL HEADS SINGAPORE Government will shortly call for applications from "suitable candidates" to fill vacant posts as headmasters in schools with two sessions a day. The Ministry of Education ha s decided to discontinue the practice of appointing one headmaster for a school with double sessions. An
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  • 36 5 HONGKONG, March 26 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were $16.08 to £1 Sterling $5.81 to US$l: $1848 to Malayan $1- $0,114 to one Indonesian Rupiah. Gold $254.25 to a tael.
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  • 197 5 SVVAMI Kirupananda Warriar, a leading Hindu preacher and philosopher from South India, yesterday laid the foundation stone of a $20,000. prayer hall at the Sri Krishna Temple in Waterloo Street. Singapore. The ceremony, which was witnessed bv a large number of devotees, was
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  • 392 5 Inquiry Told Of New Year's Day Tragedy THREE days after his discharge from a mental hospital, Ho Wing, 48, attacked two detectives with a vegetable chopper in Beach Road on Chine Yerr's Day, a Singapore coroner's inquiry into Mi death was told vesterdav
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  • 172 5 PEN AN G. Wed. The youth section oi the Malayan Chine.^e Association can p. ay a very important oart by making younger Ma.ayan Chinese more political.y conscious and enabling them to engage in healthy political activities. This was stated by the new president o:
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  • 36 5 THE Kuala Lumpur ""ire Brigade will shortly acquire two modern fire engines at a cost of $116,000 The engines are considered essential in view of the increasing number of high buildings in the capital
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  • 130 6  -  Windsor Lad Trackwork by PENANG trainer Waily Bagby's candidates Shangrila (Dragon) and Oleander II showed up to advantage at Bukit Tim ah yesterday when they easily skipped three furlongs in 37 4/5 sec with very little between them at the post. Both are
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  • 1163 6 16 Will Make Debut At Bukit Timah Sixteen newcomers participating in a barrier trial held by SRA Official Starter Mr. N. MacLachlan yesterday. They were Ardross, Yes Dear (Franklin). Dividend iPosner), Collusion (Bougoure), Irish Wit (Leong), B i n t a n g Timor. Jacmac (Cracknell), Bestcrete (Jones), Forest Beau
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  • 325 6 sdfjsl;fjslfjsldkf IPOH, Wed. The Perak Turf Club are exploring ways and means of making totalisator betting on and off the course available to the general public, and not exclusively for members only as at present. This was revealed by the chairman of the club.
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  • 98 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Lawn Tennis Association of Malaya have named the folio wins to represent Malaya against Ceylon in the Davis Cup Tie to be played at Kuala Lumpur from April 23 to 25. Ong Chew Bee (Singapore), Lim Hcc Chin (S'pore), Moses Tay (Federation). Kbong
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  • 70 6 DESPITE a splendid unbeaten 50 runs by Cpl. Davis. GHQ FARELF lost to Command Pay Office by three wickets in an Army inter unit cricket match at Tanglin yesterday. GHQ FARELF: 155 for four declared. Major Jourdan 44. Cpl. Davis 50 no. and S Sgt. Nichols 41). C.P.O.
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  • 30 6 WORCESTER, England, Mar. 26 (Reuter) James Tiernan. 26-year-old Dublin jockey, died last night in hospital here from injuries received in a fall on Monday on the Worcester track
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  • 236 6 THE Kings Own Scottisn Borderers beat RAF Changi in a soccer match played at the Changi padang yesterday by three goals to one Changi are keeping in trim with a series of friendly matches to replace the postponed games in the SAFA league. In the opening
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  • 225 6 THE sixty-year-old friendly cricket match between Singapore and Selangor may not be played this year owing to a disagreement in the date. Selangor has proposed the Easter vacation for this match but Singapore prefers the game to be played late in the season. At the
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  • 236 6 THOMAS ROSANDICH, American track and field coach told The Standard yesterday that he thought only two Colony athletes could at present qualify for the Asian Games in Tokyo this May. He gave this as his considered opinion after observing the various athletes in action
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  • 98 6 LINCOLN, England. March 26 (UP)— Top-weighted Babur, carrying 126 pounds, won the Lincolnshire Handicap here today to break a 51-year-old record. Babur, owned by Captain S. Riley Lord, with Australian jockey Ed Britt in the saddle, beat John Mclean's Who You. ridden by C. Holman,
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  • 105 7 Thailand's 4-0 Lead In T-Cup Match BANGKOK, Mar. 26. (Reuter> hailand virtually clinched ■y in the Asian final of '.as Cup badminton inflicted crushing ,ns number players tonight. opening game between jles playCharoen Watnasin of T izir Rajput of Pa--15-11. 15-5. ii champion Tanoo Khajae then beat the Pakistan pion
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  • 34 7 LONDON. Mar. 26 'Reuter) United beat Ful-S-3 in the Football Asson Cup semi-final replay at Uuhhury today to reach nniil for the second year >>ion. They led 3-2 at halftitne.
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  • 112 7 GEORGETOWN. British Guiana. Mar. 25 tßeuter) ie Walcott. the West Inn. today announretirement from Test <et. He said his reason for rei recurrent back :ry "only players one hundred per cent fit should be chosen for tests." he added Walcott said he would be prepared
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  • 81 7 '.'G. Wed.— All school up to the age of 14 admitted free of to the Cits Stadium final Asian Games n Saturday. "?nang State Appeal ee cf the Federation Olympic Council to donate $200. in admittance charge for school children. 4 committee made this gesture
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  • 181 7 34 For The Grand National LONDON, March 26, (Reuten Thirty -five probable runners and jockeys for the Grand National steep. echase. to be run over four miles and 856 yards, at Liverpool on Saturday, March 29. They are: E. S. B. (D. V. Dick) Goosander (T. .Molony). Wise Child iS.
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  • 106 7 S'pore Chinese For MCFA Cuptie SINGAPORE Chinese wili meet Negri Sembilan Chinese in the south zone match of the Malayan hinese Football Association Cup competition at Seremban on Sunday. Singapore Chinese team, selected yesterday, will be: Yew Chang. Fook Teng. Kok Seng (Captain), Cheng Kok, Uah Chin, Yong Kong, Hee
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  • 43 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The Kelantan Chinese have given cup holders. Selangor Chinese a walkover in their first round tie of the Malayan Chinese Football Association cup competition which was scheduled to be played at Kuala Lumpur on March 30.
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  • 41 7 LONDON, March 26. (UP) British Empire lightweight champion Willie Toweel of South Africa beat Fernand Nollet of France on points in a ten rounds bout at Empress Hall here last night. Toweei weighed 136 pounds and Nollet scaled 134i.
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  • 610 7  - ROBINSON WINS ON A SPLIT DECISION RONALD BATCHELOR By CHICAGO STADIUM, Chicago, March 26 (Reuter) Sugar Ray Robinson regained the world middleweight boxing title here last night, beating holder Carmen Basilio on a split points decision after a gruelling contest. Once more 37-year-old Robinson, seven years older than Basilio confounded
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  • 69 7 TOO SOON TO DECIDE ON RETIRING CHICAGO, Mar. 26 (Reuter) Sugar Ray Robinson, middleweight champion of the world for the fifth time at 37 after beating Carmen Basilio here last night has no plans yet for retiring He said today: "It's too soon to decide. I haven't made up my
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  • 77 7 EUROPEAN CUP SOCCER MILAN, 26 (AFP) The Italian football team "A.C. Milan" will meet the "Borussia" club of Dortmund In a floodlit return match at the San Siro Stadium, here, tonight, in a game counting for the quarter-final of the European championship cup In the away match at Dortmund, the
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  • 400 7 R.A.F. Kuala Lumpur won the Far East Air Force Cross Country Championships at R.A.F. Station Seletar this afternoon by taking first, second and fourth places. The Kuala Lumpur team havf been in training together foi some months and did well in the Kluang
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  • 125 7 OPEN TABLE TENNIS TOURNEY LONDON. Mar 26 (Reuter). Zarko Dolinar (Yugoslavia), playing with the sponge bat with which he won the men's title in 1955, was beaten in the first round of the English open table tenni* championships here last night. He went down to Bobby Raybould. 22-year-old English player,
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  • 117 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.Several youngsters and a few newcomers will take part in a cricket trial on the Pantai ground this week-end. Among the newcomers is Sathisivam former Ceylon test player, who recently hit up a century at Kuantari. Another is Raynor. a RAF player who is
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    • 37 7 SINGAPORE SOCCER: SAFA League. 3A: Jollilads vs. RailRC. at Geylanq 5.15 p. in ATHLETIC COACHIXG by U.S. Track and Fie.'d Coach Thomas Rosandich at Farrer Park. IPOH SOCCER:— Div. I—K.I.A. vs. Loyal Regiment Chinese Assembly Hall ground.
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    • 10 7 TAIPING SOCCER: Div. 2 Kamunting vs. Town Council Jalan Padang.
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  • 59 9 BANGKOK. March 26 (Reuter). Negotiations between the Thai Economic Affairs Ministry and the Japanese Embassy for 45,000 tons of Thai rice are now in their final stage, according to Japanese sources. The sources said they expected the agreement to be signed early next week. They
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  • 209 9 NEW YORK, March 26 (Reuter) Fortune Magazine has reported that leading U.S. executives are reacting to the current business recession with composure. "Never before in the face of a sharp economic downtrend has U.S. business shown itself to be so composed, so sure
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  • 77 9 PRESSING a button in the control room at a Yorkshire aircraft company's factory. Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten on Monday started ud a £200,000 supersonic wind tunnel for testing aircraft and missile models. The tunnel, designed and built over the last 18 months by scientists
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  • 29 9 ANNUAL SALE OPENS THE first day of Robinson's annual sale in Singapore yesterday drew big crowds Standardpic taken during the lunch hour rush shows shoppers in the ladies' department.
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  • 115 9 SARAWAK'S external trade last year totalled $962,960,000. a rise of 1.2 per cent, compared to the previous years total, according to trade statistics for that year. Aggregate value of external trade in 1956 was $950,890,000. Sarawak had a favourable trade balance for 1957 of $36,100,000
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  • 129 9 Cargo Ship Sailings To Increase NEW YORK, March 26 (UP) The United States Lines have announced revision of its cargo ship schedules to increase its annual sailings to the Far East to a maximum of 36. The previous maximum was 24. Mr. Donald Wierda, general freight traffic manager. said nine
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  • 79 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: copra March/April UK/Continent $31i buyers $32J sellers; coconut oil in bulk $47 sellers; in drums $32 sellers; Muntok white peppei $150 sellers; Sarawak white $149 sellers; Special Sarawak black $84. H.C.B. Ltd. closing prices, copra, fair merchantable mixed
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  • 28 9 LAST year K.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlines) carried 91.--000 passengers between North America and Europe across the Northern part of the Atlantic, compared to 70.000 in 1956.
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  • 21 9 WEST GERMAN industrial production index rose two points to 221 last month— five points above the February level (1956-100).
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  • 94 9 MANY of the new radio components which will be exhibited at the Radio and Electronic Component Show at Grosvenor House and Park Lane House. London, from April 14 to 17, will be smaller, more robust and able to withstand higher temperatures than ever before. The trend to
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  • 17 9 THE fourth international sugar exhibition will be held in Amsterdam, from April 20 to 30.
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  • 60 9 SINGAPORE pepper prices, which have recorded a rising trend since last week, rose again yesterday. White pepper rose $3 to $15(1 per picul while black pepper increased $2 to $84 per picul. Buying interest on a steady market caused the prices to rise. However, no business was
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  • 90 9 ALL sections of the Malayan share market were dull and slightly easier yesterday. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were: Buvers Sellers BB Petrol 37/- 39/Hume Industries: Pref A2O/9 21/3 Ords A5/- 5 3 M. Cement 1.32 1.37 M. Cement. INDUSTRIALS (50 cents paid)
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  • 34 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday. Selling, T.T. or O.D. ready: French Francs *****; Belgian Francs 1618: Deutsche Marks 136; Italian Lire *****.
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  • 126 9 SINGAPORE oil millers will meet today to discuss whether it is profitably feasible to import copra into the Colony from the Philippines. Recently, Colony brokers revealed that landed cost of copra from the Philippines was too high and unprofitatle for millers. I Both Federation
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  • 160 9 SHIPS IN PORT OI'TER ROADS Chun An, Garoet, 7 USSR. Trawlers. Glory. Sig 1 i. Yamamura Maru, Calt. Manila, Cal. Bombay. Maxwell Brander, Capt. Bu'.onis. Tyndareus. Calt. Rupat, Tong Peng. Bargozin, Calt. Stockholm. Sumbawa, Eurythan. Zuiderkrius, Troon Breeze. Anking. Valles, Eastern Princess. Benvrackie, Timor.Woodlock, Negostar, Sabang. Japara. Santa Dolores, Neocardia
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  • 43 9 BRIGHTER colours are coming for children's wear. The British Colour Council has announced its range of children's wear colours for 1958 59, including six in wool and six in knitwear, and these follow the gay trend in women's fashions.
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  • 161 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done: Fed. Disp $2.32. $2.32£ overnight and yesterday, $2.30: F. and N. ords $2.70, 52.71 overnight- H. Waugh $1.55; Hume prefs' A2l/-; M. Cement $1.36, $1.35 ready and delayed, $1.34. M. Cement (50 cents paid* 83c: M Colls 80c. McAlister $1424: M.
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  • 279 9 CANADIAN CAPITAL AID CAN BE EXPANDED' KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Capital assistance to Malaya from Canada could be expanded provided the right projects are found in which his country could co-operate, Canada's High Commissioner designate to the Federation, Mr. Arthur R. Menzies, said on his arrival here today.
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  • 72 9 ON a market which closed quiet, rubber slipped threeeights of a cent in Singapore yesterday international first grade for April was quoted at 77-3 8 cents per lb. (Tuesday 77? cen: With overseas advices disappointing, the market opened quiet at T>\ cents and held at that
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  • 115 9 SIR William Wallace, chairman of the Edinburgh engineering firm of Bro^vn Brothers and Co. Ltd.. which fitted stabilizers to the Queen Mary, plans as a prelude to a world tour to gain first-hand information as to how efficiently these will steady this great liner. Befn:
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  • 21 9 THE Texas Railroad Commission has set crude oil production for April at 120.203 barrels a day lower than March.
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  • 43 9 SINGAPORE Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association noon prices in cents per lb. vesterdav were: Buyers Sellers Spot f.o.b. 77 774 International April No. 1 RSS f.o.b. 77i 77| May 78 April No. 2 744 April No. 3 70 704 Tone: Quiet.
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  • 1401 10 HFO THE average man here A the U.S. attitude to India has been somewhat inscrutable so far. It cheers us somewhat, therefore, to notice certain unmistakabie changes in that policy. Though numerically India is the world's largest democracy, she is nevertheless one of the poorest countries in
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  • 249 10 LONDON SCENE: 'T'HE Urban Council of Sedg- ley in Staffordshire has agreed to the opening of cinemas on Sunday- but only provided that a clergyman preaches a sermon during the programme. As the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN so aptly put it: "a clergyman who found himself sandwiched between something
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  • 1061 10 Patrick O'Donovan writes on the American Scene 'Call me Mike' OUTER SPACE CHART: This sketch depicts the meaning of the coming flight of the X-15. a pioneer United States space craft designed to carry a human pilot The tnultirocket research craft, now nearing completion, is designed to go
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    • 617 10 TODAYS QUOTATION: ■■■■■■B^ X "No man is reallv W^m depraved who can spend Bfl Hal half an hour bv himself on I the floor plavine with his I B^^w^^^^^^^^^^^B little boy's rleotrio train." K^M 9 J^^B Simeon Strunskv B^a)I Vml THURSDAY FOR BliK EVERYONE: Complete I ahk^ rather than start
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  • 328 11 Commission Throws Out Appointment Of New Electrical Engineer THE Singapore City Council has lost its first battle with the Public Services Commission and the Minister for Local Government, Lands and Housing, over who has the right to appoint heads of departments in the Council. The
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  • 164 11 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSINti rubber prices (cents per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot 77 77i R.S.S. No 1 77g 77; May R.S.S No. 1 77| 775 R S.S No. 2 April 73J 741 R.S.S No 3 April 70 705 Tone: Quiet. Ihr orlce <»t tin in Singapore
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  • 109 11 JUDGE TURNS DOWN POLICE APPLICATION A SINGAPORE Criminal District Judge. Mr. Dennis DCotta, yesterday refused a Police application to impose a period of Police supervision on a clerk who had been convicted of misappropriating goods worth $3,400. Turning down the application. Mr. D'Cotta said: "Credit must be given to him
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  • 129 11 'Ships Are Colony's Life Blood' SHIPS made Singapore what i^ is today and they will remain the island's life blood, said the Governor of Sil pore. Sir William Goode. yesterday. Opening the new $P»n,OOfl headquarters of the Sin^ap r ire Sea Cadet Corps at the Old Kallang Airport. Sir William
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  • 64 11 TIXRI Mukminih binte Tunku Mohamed Jewa. State Organizer of Women Institutes. Malaya, and niece of the Federation Prime Minister, will be proceeding to the Channel Islands for six months' training on W.I. work. She will leave Kuala Lumpur by 8.0.A.C. on March 29. While in
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  • 117 11 Waiters Suit Is Dismissed MR. JUSTICE Chua yesterday dismissed an action in the Singapore High Court brought by a waiter of the Gleneagles Hotel Ltd.. Lai Chee Chien, against the Singapore Telephone Board. for injuries which he received when ne was knocked down by a motor cycle ridden by an
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  • 123 11 SINGAPORE Police are offering $500 for inlormation leading to the arrest ot thieves responsible for a series of burglaries in the Colony The reward is in respect of I each arrest made. Police are taking this step in a bid to smash the mount- ing
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  • 148 11 THE Workers Party will hold a public protest meeting against the postponement of the general elections at the Victoria Memorial Hall tomorrow at 5.15 p.m. A statement issued by the party headquarters yesterday said the general elections had already been delayed. "The government
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  • 80 11 THE Mayor, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, yesterday promised residents of the Alsagoff Estate in the Malay Farm that the Council "will do everything possible" to provide them with electricity. Mr Ong. accompanied by the Superintendent, (Distribution) Electricity Department, Mr Goh Kwane Hun?, yesterday visited the area
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  • 150 11 THE Singapore City Council Labour Unions Federation and the Councils Services Union are calling emergency meetings of their members to discuss the Council's recent offer of increases in vari'ible allowances. The Council on Tuesday decided to raise the variable allowances of daily-rated workers by
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  • 72 11 Association Is Short Of Personnel THE Supervisory and Management Training Association Of Singapore is facing "acute shortage of competent personnel to be trained in managerial capacities." This was staled in the annual report of the Association, published yesterday The report stressed the importance of such training as a medium to
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  • 78 11 THE Kim Keat Avenue Community Centre. Singapore, at its third annual general meeting held last weekend elected the following officebearers: President Mr. C. N. Gomes: vice-president Mr Lee Kim San; hon. genera! secretary Mr. Charlie Teo Kwang Whee; assistant hon general secretary Mr Peter Lee: hon.
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  • 2 12 WORLD NEWS
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  • 311 12 BRITAIN EAGER TO MEET RUSSIANS -MACMILLAN LONDON, Mar. 26, (UP) Britain feels preliminary talks are essential to ensure that any future summit ccnference is "a good conference at which some agreement can be reached." Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said yesterday. Answering questions in the House of Commons Mr. Macmillan said
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  • 17 12 PRESIDENT Eisenhower has sent good wishes to Greece on the anniversary of firppt Tnrippendence.- UP
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  • 167 12 Missing Red Envoy In Bangkok? PNOMPENH, Cambodia, Mar. 26 (Reuter). Vladmimir ishevitz, a Russian diplomat here who has disappeared on his way back to Moscow, has flown to Bangkok, usually reliable sources said here. Although his name did not appear on any passenger list, he flew by Thai Airways on
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  • 97 12 $668 MIL. PAY HIKE FOR THE ARMED FORCES WASHINGTON. Mar. 26 (UP) The House today overwhelmingly approved a bill to grant a $668,379,000 pay hike to most members of the armed forces. The measure, aimed at helping the military branches retain skilled personnel who are failing to re-enlist, now goes
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  • 92 12 DEATH OF CAT WHO OWNED A HOUSE OMAHA, Nebraska, Mar. 2fi (AFP)— Midgie. the cat who owned a house, died today. IT. Midgie inherited the house of its owner. Under the terms of its master's will, the house now goes to Midgie's housekeeper, Mrs. Harolj Weidman. whose task was to
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  • 50 12 LONDON. Mar. 26 (AFP) House of Comst night passed in idins a bill providing ie reform of the House of Lor ler terms of the bill, nonhereditary Peers, both male would be created. The bill will become law when it is promulgated by the Queen.
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  • 196 12 MALTA WARNS BRITAIN TO FOOT THE BILL VALETTA, Malta, March 26 (Reuter) Mr. Dom Mintoff, Malta's Prime Minister, warned Britain last night that the Maltese Parliament will be dissolv-, ed and general elections held if Malta runs short of money during the coming financial year and Britain fails to foot
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  • 67 12 AMMAN. Jordan, March 26, (UP)— Jordanian Foreign Minister Samir Rifai said yesterday that there was "no possibility" that King Saud of Saudi Arabia will abdicate. He told the United Press that the shift in Saudi Arabia was "a step in the right direction." Faisal's willingness
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  • 18 12 THE Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra will leave for Japan on April 7, the Soviet news agency, Tass, reported.
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  • 81 12 Reds Trying To Force A Break-US WASHINGTON. Mar. 26, (Reuter). United States Government officials said today they were convinced that Communist China was striving to force a complete diplomatic break between Japan and Nationalist China. The U.S. Embassies in Tokyo and Taipei had been instructed to explain this assessment to
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  • 47 12 PAKISTANI Hindu refugees are arrested by Indian Police as they start a mass civil disobedience movement to secure a speedy and satisfactory re-settle-ment in India at Dalhousie Square in Calcutta. More than 5.000 "Satyagrahis", peaceful non-violent law-resis-ters, were arrested in their three-day agitation.- UP Photo.
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  • 111 12 Dancer Chooses Freedom' LONDON, March 26, (AFP) Rumanian dancer Doina Trandabur has asked the British Home Office for permission to reside in England. a Government spokesman said last night. Her request is being studied, he said. Her visa has not yet expired. The dancer, left the Rumanian dancing troupe, with
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  • 73 12 SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Reuter). President Syngman Rhee of South Korea today celebrated his 83rd birthday. The Government has proclaimed the day a national holiday Dr. Rhee, who was elected president for the third time two years ago, has been the Chief Executive of the Republic
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  • 260 12 PARIS, Mar 26 ißeuter) Serge Lafar, 52-year-old master at the Paris Opera House, yesterday told listeners to French commercial radio station Europe No. 1: "I'm going to make the Marquis ae Cuevas dance a minuet on the point of my sword." In a nearby soundnroof
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  • 266 12 Syria Accuses Israel Of Two Border Attacks DAMASCUS, Syria, March 26 (AFP) Syria >es terday lodged an urgent complaint with the United Nations Mixed Armistice Commission in the wake ol two Israeli attacks on the Syria border. A Syrian military spokesman announced that ar Israe patrol
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  • 148 12 GENEVA. Mar. 26. (Reuter). Mr. Max Petitpierre, chief of the Swiss Political Department (Foreign Minister), told the Inter-Parlia-mentary Union meeting here yesterday that Switzerland considered herself "a part of Western Europe." Up to the end of World War Two. he said. Swiss neutrality was
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  • 54 12 BRUSSELS. Mar. 26, (UP).— Peter Townsend, one-time suitor of Princess Margaret of England and former British Air Attache, flies to London today as plain Mr. Townsend in the tourist class compartment of a Belgian airliner. In England, Townsend v» r ill visit his mother and his
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  • 217 12 Russia Is Asking Too Much -Dulles WASHINGTON 26 (Reuter) —Mi Foster Dulles, the S of State, declarec day that the Sovic: was trying to exa< ribly high "politico as a condition for a I conference. He toid a prc^> he believed that price too high. Mr. Dulles said tl latest
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  • 24 12 THE Japanese A wintering team made, what it clairr I world's first official re; I that Cranium ore wrin the Antarctic— R'
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  • 361 12 CHICAGO, March 26 (Reuter) Showman Mike Todrt was buried here yesterday amid the screams of his near-hysterical widow British actress Elizabeth Taylor. i Miss Taylor had thrown herself onto Todd's coffin Just before the burial. Then family friends supported her as she stumbled to
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  • 93 12 DAMASCUS. Mar. 26. (AFP). A spokesman for the Imam of Oman said yesterday that seven British warships, escorted by several destroyers, landed 7,000 soldiers, 60 tanks 90 jeeps, and 150 heavy guns at Sabeh El Mas. an important port on the Arabian Peninsula.
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