Singapore Standard, 10 April 1958

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  • 23 1 Singapore STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Coble: "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1958. Vol. VI 1 1: No. 281 15 cts. 14 Poges (FINAL EDITION)
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  • 351 1  -  ANDREW ROTH By 'AN ORIENTAL VERSION OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS' Visitor's Views On Assembly Meet THE ceremonial opening cf Singapore's Legislative Assembly struck this visiting fireman as if it were an Ealing studio production of an Oriental House of Lords. Singapore's Legislative Assembly more resembles Britain's
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  • 223 1 CANBERRA, April 9 (Reuter) Mr. Richard Casey, Australian External Affairs Minister, said today the 16-power note delivered today m Peking was aimed at securing a clarification of China's policy for the reunification of Korea. r~ He said the note, sent jointly by Australia and
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  • 49 1 photo. (Story m Page 14). A TEARFUL-LOOKING film actress Lana Turner is escorted from the police station m Hollywood by a detective after her daughter, Cheryl, 14, had been held on suspicion of murdering her mother's friend, the former associate of underworld gangsters. Johnny Stompanato UP
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  • 314 1 'Plot To Create New Islamic Bloc In S-E Asia' JAKARTA, April 9 (Renter) President Soekarno said last night m Semarang, Central Java, that he had been warned of an attempt to create a new Islamic bloc m South-east Asia, PIA news agency reported. PIA quoted the President as saying he
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  • 108 1 Dismissal For R.I. Navy Chief THE Indonesian Government has been requested to dismiss Commodore T. Martadinata. Chief of the Naval Mission now m Italy, because of his prorebel government feelings. The Standard was told yesterday. This was revealed by a Jakarta official who is on his way to Europe. The
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  • 77 1 VALETTA, Malta, ADril 9 (Reuter) For the second night m succession supporters of Mr. Dom Mintoff's "integration or independence" policy for Malta paraded through the main thoroughfare of Valletta last night, carrying placards and shouting slogans. Some 300 members of the Maltese Labour Party took part
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  • 104 1 THE HAGUE, April 9 (Reuter) The Netherlands Government has made $10,000 available to the Government of Singapore for aid to its population following the large fire which destroyed part of the Colony on April 5 it was officially announced here today. The aid should also
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  • 183 1 LUTON. England. April 9 (Reuter) Walter Edward Nunn. 25. was jailed for six months here for making 35 improper telephone calls m connection with Police investigations into the murder of 17-year-old Ann Noblett last December The girl was missing a month from her home at
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  • 1616 1 WELFARE OF PEOPLE WILL BE SAFEGUARDED THE Singapore Labour Front-UMNO-MCA Coalition Government, m the third and last phase of its life under the Rendel Constitution, yesterday pledged itself anew to safeguard the welfare of the people and to raise their level of
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  • 124 1 MELBOURNE, April 9 (Reuter) Work m all ports m Australia came to a standstill for several hours today. while dockers held stop-work protest meetings. The stoppage affected 27.000 wharf men. It threw idle total of 83 ships, many overseas vessels. In four main Eastern ports
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  • 86 1 BUKITTINGGI, Sumatra, April 9 (UP) The Indonesian rebel government today hunted a teen-age student believed to have thrown a hand grenade into revolutionary headquarters on Monday night. Defence Minister Burhanuddin Harahap, who narrowly escaped injury, said rebel police believed the student acted out of revenge for
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  • 186 1 HAVANA, April 9 (UP) Widespread shooting broke out m downtown Havana today and a bomb blast opposite the Prime Minister's office knocked out all electric power. It appeared rebel leader Fidel Castro's long-heralded all-out offensive against the government of President Fulgencio Batista was underway.
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  • 51 1 TOKYO. ADril 9 (Reuter) A mutilated Japanese girl who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and went to Mount Sinai Hospital m New York m 1955 to recover from her injuries died m her birthplace today. Doctors attending Miss Hirata today said she died from "radioactive
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  • 18 1 THREE bombs exploded In electric power transformers near the government controlled Cyprus Broadcasting Station early yesterday.
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  • 24 1 QUADRUPLETS were born on Tuesday to a 19-year-old housewife In San Francisco, but one of the infants died shortly after delivery. UP
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  • 310 2 Assembly Opening Snub To Press POLICE maintained a tight security screen round Assembly House yesterday when the Governor of Singapore, Sir William Goode, arrived to declare open the third session of the Colony's legislature. Long before the Assembly was scheduled to open 10 a.m. squads of traffic and other policemen
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  • 91 2 $10,000 BY 'SMALL MAN'S BANK' MR. LEE CHEE SHAN, Managing Director of Chung Khiaw Bank, Ltd. (The Small Man's Bank), present a cheque for $10,000 to Mr. Ko Teck Kin, President of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, for the relief fund of Kampong Koo Chai fire victims. Cash was distributed
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  • 61 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Federation Court of Appeal today confirmed the death sentence on the "mousedeer man" Yap Keow Sin who was convicted m February m the High Court for illegal possession of a Browning pistol and 35 rounds of ammunition. Yap walked into a Police
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  • 156 2 21 Vote C I aimers Cant Be Traced Registry TWENTY-ONE people who have claimed that they are entitled to vote m the coming Singapore District Councils elections, cannot be traced. The Standard was told yesterday. Registered notices sent them by the Elections Registry m the Statistics Department, asking them to
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  • 128 2 3,000 More Fans For The Public THE Singapore City Council will soon purchase 3.000 ceiling fans at an estimated cost of $270,000 for hiring out to the public. According to a committee paper considered by the Council's Public Utilities Committee yesterday, there i s still a large public demand for
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  • 121 2 'Withdraw And Well Talk' Says Railway KUALA LUMPUR, Wed The Railway Administration will reopen discussions with the Locomotive Enginemen's Union (1957) provided it withdraws its decision to 'work to rule," general manager Mr. C. G. Harrison, told The Standard today For the past 17 days, the 191 members of the
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  • 77 2 HONGKONG, Apr. 9 (AFP> A doctor from Singapore was married here yesterday. He i s Dr. Frederick Y. K. Ong. a medical officer at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, Singapore, and the son of Mr. and Mrs Ong Soon Ann of Singapore. Dr. Ong married Miss Betty Hei,
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  • 460 2 THEY'RE AT SEA ON TRIP TO LONDON released on April 12 "Her Majesty's Gov( had indicated at thi (Marshall) Conferenc< willingness, subject t guards m resoect international to delegate respon. trade and commo: tions to the Government o! Singapore... "We agreed V: Constitution shou'd I that the Singapore G ment
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  • 118 2 3 Claim Trial To Tentative Murder Charge MUAR, Wed. Th< appearance of a scrap from his home on March 1" had a sequel m the trate's Court yesterday three rubber tappers were tentatively charged with tie der of Lim Ah Chw( scrap dealer, of Kampor.g Padang La !ang m Jorak.
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  • EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 437 3 THE call made by the Governor of Singapore, Sir William Goode, at yesterday's opening of the second session of the Legislative Assembly, *o the citizens of the Colony to choose a stable government, which will govern them democratically and responsibly, was made at a critical time m
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    • 385 3 JUVENILE criminality is increasing. Despite greater watchfulness by the police m Singapore and the Federation, these youthful gangsters are continuing their nefarious activities to the horror of peaceful citizens. The report that a gang of more than ten of these young criminals, who have been significantly dubbed 'Yankee
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    • 55 3 HfcAC OFFICE U Lim l«ck Kirn Roao. Vpor« PO 8o» No 1563 Cables lICEHNEWS* Tel ***** (5 lines) All departments *UAl* lUMPUR Ch.na insoianct Bkm 174 Batu «fl Teleiyxxi* 8836t 93 Cowan St Tel: 38W PIN ANO 8 Le th St Tel: 4055 MALACCA 9J.A Buk.t
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  • 761 3 ROBERT DUFFY REPORTS FROM OTTAWA Prime Minister John Diefenbaker promises the new Canadian Parliament will be called into session as soon as possible and the first problem before it will be UNEMPLOYMENT 'J'HE new Canadian Parliament with its overwhelming Conservative majority will be called into session as
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  • 595 3  -  TEL AVIV. THE Syria Israel dispute continues to rumble m the background despite the respite gained by the United Nations truce supervisory team. Forefront m Israeli minds is whether the recent border gun duels herald a renewal of the continuous trouble of past years or
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  • 953 3  - Preview of Nasser's visit to Moscow H. A. R. Philby From m Beirut PRESIDENT Nasser's forthcoming visit to Moscow presages further Russian moves to strengthen their influence m the Middle East from which the West can derive little but cold comfort. There will certainly be differences to discuss. Trade relations
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  • 32 3 Shorts from the Talks Don't Disturb 4gr rHE record for continuous sleep m dormice is six months and twenty-three days." L. Harrison Matthews talking about "Hibernation" m the BBC programme "The Naturalist."
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  • 389 3 the NEWS as it strikes me rPHERE were a few interest- ing points made on Tuesday nieht at the University of Malaya Law Society forum on compulsory voting Labour Fronter, Gerald de Cruz. who spoke m favour, said among other things, that freedom today meant responsibility m politics and compulsory
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  • 227 4 We'll Wait For Result Of Talks, Says Federation MORE THAN 10,500 daily-rated City employees yesterday postponed their threatened strike pending the results of their negotiations with the Council. ihe City Council Labour Unions Federation representing thfse men took this decision after a six-hour meeting
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  • 251 4 I Saw The Attack, Witness Tells Court KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Two carpenters, Chang Lien Yew, 23, and Soon Say Kow, 24, faced trial m the High Court here today for the murder of a fellow worker, Chong Yit Leong on Nov. 18 last year. Testifying before Mr. Justice Smith. the
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  • 34 4 KLANG. Wed.— The inhabitants of Tanjong Karang and Serbak Beraam will peiition the Sultan of Selangor to retain the services of their District Religious Adviser and Collector of Zakat and Fitrah.
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  • 52 4 MR. AND MRS. Lim Tian Swee after their wedding at the bridegroom's home m Serangon Garden Estate, Singapore, on Tuesday. Mr. Lim is an employee of Cable and Wireless Ltd., and Mrs. Lim is the former Miss Siow Siew Choo. daughter of Madam Tan Kirn Kee of
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  • 197 4 Woman He Hired Was His WifeCourt Told A COOK told the Singapore High Court yesterday that he hired a woman to look after him while he was recovering from an accident —but the woman was really his wife, the court discovered. The cook, Wee Chow Jow, was claiming damages against
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  • 168 4 THE former Chinese Communist freighter, Hai Hsuan, will go to sea again after a lapse of eight years, when she sails for European ports from Singapore at the end of this month. She will sail under .he new name of Julia and under a
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  • 109 4 IPOH, Wed.— A witness at last August's Tanjong Rambutan Central Mental Hospital Inquiry had his appeal against conviction and sentence dismissed today by the Perak Appeal Court. He was 28-year-old Kurup Krishnan. a hospital assistant who was convicted m the lpoh Sessions Court m December last
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  • 268 4 Lib-Soc To Table Motion ALL staff of the Singapore City Council, inclusive of the Chief Administrative Officer, should only take orders from and be responsible for their actions to the Council m its "collective capacity" and not to the Mayor or any other Councillor
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  • 32 4 THE following have been elected office-bearers of the Singapore Chess Club for 1958: President: Professor A. Oppenheim. vice-president: Mr. Lim Hee Seng, hon. secretary and treasurer: Mr. Gwee Kirn Chee.
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  • 59 4 PENANG, Wed.—Eighteen-year-old Yeap Yin Kong, was today sentenced to three years m the Henry Gurney School for committing robbery. Twenty-one-year-old Kuan Mooi, alias Kuan Chong, who was jointly charged with Yeap of robbing a student, Khoo Soo Peng, of $3 cash and a watch at Waterfall
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  • 71 4 A BENEFIT programme m aid of the Geylans fire victims is being organised by the Kumpolan Peranakan Singapura. which will be called "Peranakan Highlights." The performance, which will take place some time m early May. will be produced by Mr. Ong Guan Bork and
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  • 158 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The schools have been and must continue to be society's great instrument for training youths how to become good citizen, Inche Ya'acob bin Latiff, Director of the Federation's Information Services told pupils of his alma mater this evening. Speaking as president
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  • 42 4 Standardpic by MR. J. S. ELLIS, accompanied by his wife, arrived ?t the Kuala Lumpur airport on Tuesday to take over a* the Director of Information Services of the United Kingdom High Commissioner's office m the Federa tion. Fah.
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  • 178 4 There Was Graft At Polls Commission THE Singapore By-election Corruption Inquiry Commission has reported to the Government that there were incidents of corruption and malpractices at i<^t year's Cairnhill and Tanjong Pagar by-elections, The Standard learned yesterday. The commission has recommended that comp~ voting be introduced as of the measures
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  • 122 5 Victim Of Graveyard Murder Identified DETECTIVE of the HomiSquad, Singapore, last t established the identity the middle-aged woman, was found battered to m an old graveyard off :ation Avenue on Mone withheld her identi--owever. To reveal her tity at this stage would per investigations. a c spokesman told The Hard
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  • 249 5 PRISON FOR SELLER OF SECRET SOCIETY 'NEW YEAR CARDS' A LABOURER, Lim Hock Hin, 24, was sentenced !n a Singapore District Court yesterday to six months' jail for assisting m the management of an unlawful society, the "969" society of Group 24. Detective Tan Cheng Huat told the court that
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  • 107 5 Informer To Die For Killing KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Federation Court of Appeal today confirmed the n sentence passed on 21 -year-old police informer Gui Soo Bark by the Selangor High Court. Gui had shot 19-year-old Kee Hing at the North mock Estate. Klang, on Aug. 6 last. He had used
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  • 55 5 A SINGAPORE motorist. Gob. Keng Huat. 33, was pulled out of the wreckage of his car after it had collided with another car and overturned at the junction of Arthur Road and Mountbatten Road, last night. The occupants of the other car escaped injury. Goh
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  • 28 5 A CYCLIST, Soon Wee Jeow, was killed after a collision with a van at the juncttion of Dunearn Road and Bukit Timah Road. Singapore, last night.
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  • 43 5 i CHEONG Beng Say. managing partner of a Singapoie photographic studio, was fined $250 m a Singapore Court yesterday for failing to pay Provident Fund contributions. Cheong. who pleaded guilty, was ordered to pay all arrears of contributions.
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  • 115 5 AIR DASH WINS HIM A BRIDE AFTER dashing off to Bangkok to spend his Easter with an American schoolteacher he met two years ago m Beirut, an airline executive decided to marry her instead. Mr. AH Agar, District Manager of Air India International m Jakarta, and his wife, Juanita, flew
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  • 291 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Minister for Education, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari disclosed today he had been seriously thinking of the idea of having one set of uniforms for boys m all secondary schools and another set for the girls, as opposed to the present practice of
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  • 102 5 MUAR, Wed.— World Health Day was celebrated here during the weekend with a Health Queen contest. Che Kepol binti Omar was elected the Health Queen by the judges. This was followed by a rally on the Muar Club Padang at which talks on "Ten years of
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  • 126 5 EDINBURGH Zoo is to have a Malayan section, and the man who is bringing it arrived at Liverpool m the liner Ben Cleuch yesterday with 22 crates of animals. He lg Mr. Ronald Fraser who. for 13 years, hoped to start such a section
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  • 450 5 YOUTHS QUESTIONED ABOUT SLASHINGS IN IPOH GANG FIGHTS IPOH, Wed. Police last night carried out a number of raids and detained 17 suspected juvenile secret society gangsters for interrogation m connection with three incidents of gang-fights m this town on Monday night. Three victims were
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  • 202 5 'Colony Is In Great Need Of Leadership' SINGAPORE at the "crossroads of her history today" stood m great need of constructive leadership, said the Principal of the Anglo-Chinese School, Mr. Thio Chan Bee yesterday. Mr. Thio was addressing Colony Rotarians at their weekly luncheon m the Cathay Hotel. He said
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  • 89 5 $20 Million Weapons In Armoury KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Police armoury is responsible for the care and maintenance of 200,--000 weapons worth at least $20,000,000, declared Mr. R. H. Hazell, Police Armaments Officer, m the latest issue of the Police Magazine. Mr. Hazell said to improve membership m the fight
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  • 108 5 Singapore Know-how For Borneo THE Singapore City Council will train a number of supervisors from Borneo m water treatment processes The Council's Public Utilities Committee, which considered a request made by the Public Works Department, Jesselton, to train its supervisors, has given its approval, for this training. The Committee was
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  • 36 5 A CHINESE woman, Chay Ah Hwa, reported that cash and jewellery, amounting to $400 which she had placed m a basket, were snatched from her as she was walking along Kuantan Road, Penang, yesterday.
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  • 38 5 THE Kedah Casket, which was discovered by Mr. H. A. Lamb and members of the University of Malaya Historical Society m their recent archaeological expedition is now on display at the National Museum m Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 490 5 AFTER being told by the Mayor. Mr. Ong Eng Guan, that their quarters were a shambles, some 400 of the 650 fire victims living m the Geylang English School immediately set down to the task of cleaning up with brooms
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  • 187 6 They Want A Hand In Tourist Promotion KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Leading shipping, airline and travel agencies have approached the Federation Government to get representation m the proposed Tourist Promotion Board, The Standard was told. Government sources said the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, which is m charge of the contemplated
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  • 76 6 Rains Bring Relief To Farmers BUKIT MERTAJAM. Wed. —Residents here were relieved as heavy rain fell m the early hours of this morning. Farmers m the district had suffered considerable losses when their crops withered during the recent drought. Most of their wells here were dry Today's heavy rains flooded
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  • 49 6 AS from April 14 the Penang City Council Green Lane bus route will be extended from its present terminus at Batu I anchang Road to the -junction of Yeap Chor Ec Road, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 am. 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. daily.
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  • 466 6 Smelters Works Manager Says He Lost Temper PENANG, Wed. The works manager of the Eastern Smelting Company, Mr. N.W. Griffin, today admitted m a court of inquiry into the company's trade dispute, that he threw a one-cent coin under a table where there were strikers,
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  • 57 6 Standardpic by SENIOR anti-Malarial Inspector, Mr. H. Kraal, points to a specimen of mosquito larvae enclosed m a bell-jar to a group of amused schoolgirls during the World Health Day tenth anniversary at the British Council Hall m KuaJa Lumpur, where the WHO exhibition is being
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  • 105 6 Court Throws Out Appeal Against Death KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Federation Court of Appeal today dismissed the appeal of Murok bin Norkik against conviction and sentence of death for murder. Murok had been convicted by Mr. Justice Hepworth m the Muar High Court for the murder of Mohamed Yassin. Mr.
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  • 43 6 F. N. SACK 4 MESSRS FRASER and Neave Limited. Klang. have discharged four workers on grounds of redundancy The management however, has agreed to meet the National Union of Factory and General Workers on Tuesday to discuss the situation, a union spokesman said
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  • 18 6 TOTAL rubber exports to all countries from Singapore and Malaya last month, amounted to 89,644 tons
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  • 212 6 PENANG, Wed. A mechanic left Ipoh to visit friends m Fenang but he did not arrive here. His bodj was lound m the sea and towed to Kedah Pier Coroner's Court was told today. The Coroner, Tuan Syed Agil bin Syed Hassan Barakbah, was holding an
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  • 35 6 IPOH. Wed a 50-year-old man. Alang Mat Sa ad bin Kulop was killed m a shooting incident which occurred at KamDon* Trosofc m Sungei Siput North yesterday Police believed the shooting was accidental.
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  • 334 6 Fight Communism In The School Rooms, Says Johari KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Malayan seh ,«1 children should be taught subjects like political theory to develop a positive and informed anti-Commum titude, Minister for Education, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, said today. i "Sooner or later, we have got to consider seriously the
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  • 252 6 HE SENT LIVE BULLET IN BID TO EXTORT IPOH, Wed. A 17--year-old youth, who was said to have threatened a Kampar tobacco factory proprietress with a handgrenade if she did not pay him $5,000 was today sentenced by the Sessions Court here to be remanded m the Henry Gurney Approved
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  • 158 6 PENANG, Wed. A woman, Charu Bala Dcvi, told the Mayor, Mr. D. S. Ramanathan. at his "meet-tne-people" session this afternoon that she f erred court prosecution or any other punishment rather than dispose of her cows to be butchered. She was appealing Mayor
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  • 155 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The committee appointed to assess the standards of foreign universities m order that the Federation Government could recognise their degrees is stumped. After a number of meetings, it could not decide on the worth of the academic standards of certain universities, and as
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  • 286 7 SHOTGUN TAPPER WINS REPRIEVE APPEAL COURT SETS ASIDE SENTENCE, ORDERS RE-TRIAL KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Federation Court of Appeal today quashed the conviction and set aside the death sentence on a rubber tapper, Abu bin Hussin of Kampong Sengkang, Muar. Abu was ordered to be re-tried. The t.apper m his
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  • 446 7 DEATH OF WOMAN IN BLACK INQUIRY POLICE Insoector M. Nadarajah of the Homicide Section, told a Singapore preliminary inquiry yesterday of his discovery of the body of a woman lying near a river on Feb. 15. Inspector Nadarajah was giving evidence against Sadiron bin Haji Abdullah, a driver, who was
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  • 94 7 Spore Man Is Best All Round Cadet KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The RAF announced today that Sulaiman bin Eujak, 24, of Singapore, has passed out from the RAF College with the Philip Sasoon Memorial Prize for the best "all round cadet." The British Air Ministry prize for highest marks m general
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  • 162 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber price* (cents per Ib.) m Singapore yesterday wereBeyers Seller* Spot 77} 773 RS.S. No. 1 77} 77| May R.S.S. No. 1 763 763 R.S.S. No. 2 April 72i 73 R.S.S. No. 3 69} 69* Tone:- Quietly steady. The orlte ot tin is Singapore vesterda* was
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  • 38 7 HONGKONG, April 9 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: $16.07 to £1 Sterling, $5.***** to US$l; 51. 840 to MaHyan $1: $0,105 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $253 375 to a tael.
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  • 194 7 SINGAPORE'S Assistant Coroner, Inche Ahmad Hus-ein, yesterday ordered the immediate arrest of a Singapore Harbour Board Folice Constable Abdul WaV.b bin Maulud, alleged to have caused the death of i pedestrian by a "negligent act" The Assistant Coroner issued the arrest warrant at the close
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  • 175 7 THE Singapore City Council is urgently looking for an engineer to fill the Dost of Assistant Maintenance Engineer (Electrical) m place of Mr. D. Jones who resigned from the service while on leave last year. Since Mr. Jones' resignation, the post has remained vacant and
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  • 46 7 HO HAK HENG. 24. the proprietor of a coffee shop at Kampong Tiong Bahru, Singapore, was assaulted by two gangsters after he had refused to pay $10.80 as protection money on Tuesday night. The gangsters are believed to be members of Gang 108.
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  • 113 7 MRS. F. Leon-Sob, City Councillor for Mountbatten, last night made two appeals to cinemagoers at the Roxy Theatre, Singapore, for donations to a Fire Prevention Fund. The Councillor explained to the audience that m the ward were three kampongs which were exposed to fire threat.
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  • 222 7 King To Broadcast Hari Raya Message KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The King will make a nation-wide address over Radio Malaya on Hari Raya Bay to commemorate the first Merdeka Hari Raya. His Majesty's address will be on the air 40 minutes after the relay of Hari Raya prayer and sermon at
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  • 135 7 FOUR BURGLARIES IN COLONY FOUR cases of housebreaking were reported to the Singapore Police on Tuesday. Eighteen manholes valued at $1,300 were found missing from a store at the Ideal Homes. Jurong Road. The door of the store had been forced open. An Airline official found his office m Ocean
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  • 59 7 SINGAPORE'S Hindu community will celebrate the Hindu New Year on April 14, with a public meeting followed by music and dances at Broadway Hall, m the New World. Celebrations will start at 6 p.m. and Mr. N. Mohan, the Secretary of the Singapore Hindu Sabai.
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    • 452 7 I att hospitals. 6 p.m. Hello ehlldL^B ■11 Li I I 111 mI I Bil If 111 ,1 lit ■*fMMH|M|MHB| ren. 6.30 Radio dance club. 653 Iv Ilk Iw m 1k v w 1■ 1 I f I k f V^l mJ i^lV^^KkAf I^'\ w'^B Regional announcements. 10 pm Music
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    • 1147 8 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 lines) llncorporateo >n Singapore) (12 lines) Sh D p p r THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL. CLASCOW. LONDON CONTINENTAL PORTS Carriers option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo (Via Sues with liberty to proceed via
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  • 97 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon dosing prices per picuj yesterday were: copra April May UK Continent $30i buyers $314 sellers; coconut oil m bulk $46$ sellers; m drums $49 sellers: Muntok white pepper $129 sellers; Sarawak white $128 sellers; Special Sarawak black $72. H.C.B. Ltd. closing prices: copra, fair
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  • 362 9 NEW YORK, April 9 (Reuler) The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Robert Anderson, said yesterday the United States should avoid hasty action m seeking to counter the economic recession by tax changes. Speaking at a savings bond campaign luncheon, he said that m a
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  • 199 9 OUTER ROADS Ophir. Bakongan, Les Glieres, De Eerens. Kaigata Maru, Anshun, Agios Vlassios. Recorder. Felipes, Arkeldijk, Tug 124. Lipis. Karaton, Calt. Adelaide, Tokyo Maru, Van Neck, Sty. Selo, Pleasantville, Kain Aun, Bagan. Hong Kong. Kaimana. Tosui Maru, Everlife. Tjiwangi. Mantu, Van Riebeeck, Japara. San Eduardo. North Star.
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  • 32 9 MARCH rubber output announced are: Amalgamated Malay 68,500 Ib Borelli 79.500 lb.; Connemara 52,600 lb. New Serendah 58,000 lb.; Bassett 30,000 lb.; Kuala Sidim 85.066 lb.; Bukit Kepong 21,600 lb.
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  • 220 9 SUBMARINE PIPE-LINE FOR $1½ m. OIL TERMINAL Finance And Commerce A MODERN feature m storage is to be introduced by the Standard Vacuum Oil Company m its $1,500,000 terminal project m Tanjong Kling, 71 miles from Malacca town. A submarine pipe-line, built m the sea away from the shore, wili
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  • 124 9 Rubber Rises Cent MAIN INTEREST In the Singapore rubber market yesterday was again centred on April R.S.S. 1. Price marked up cent 77i cents Der lb. against previous close of 76J cents. The tone at yesterday's close was quietly steady. The market opened slightly higher and ruled quiet around previous
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  • 29 9 Stanvac's Jesselton Installation STA N V A C'S recently completed terminal at Jesselton, North Borneo. Its two bulk storage tanks have a total storage capacity of one million gallons.
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  • 110 9 DLU Benut Consolidated Rubber Co. Ltd's working profit for the year ended Dec. 31. 1957, after crediting refunds of replanting cess amounted to $67,002. To this must be added investment income, provision for income tax no longer required and the balance brought forward from last year,
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  • 64 9 RANGOON, Apr. 9 (AFP)— A Burmese trade mission led by Home Minister. Thakin Tha Khin. will leave for India m the third week of April to study possibilities of introducing the "clearing account system" into Indian-Burmese trade. The system would not cover the importation of
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  • 23 9 THE United Arab Republic and Russia has signed a $10,000,000 trade agreement for the exchange of Russian wheat for Egyptian cotton.
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  • 31 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes m its rates to merchants yesterday: Selling. T.T. or O.D. ready: *****; Italian Lire *****. Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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  • 39 9 WEST Australian Petroleum Pty. Ltd., has spent £12.915.000 on oil search operations m Western Australia to date. The sum includes £3.960.000 for stores and equipment bought In Australia, and £5,600,000 m dollar payments to overseas contractors.
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  • 33 9 MARCH outputs from estates and mines m the Guthrie Group announced are: rubber ©,296,400 lb.; tea (black) 172,--000 lb.; palm oil 1.944 tons; palm kernels 574 tons; tin ore 1,173 piculs
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  • 130 9 HERCULES trade throughout the world remains good, said Mr. P.M. Geary, overseas representative of The Hercules Cycle Motor Co. Ltd., Birmingham, England, m Singapore, yesterday. Mr. Geary is m the Colony on a business tour. He said imports of bicycles into Malaya have declined,
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  • 54 9 At the forty-second Swiss Industries Fair at Basle from Saturday to April 22, the Swiss machine-tool and toolmaking industries will offer, 100,000 sq.ft. of floor space, so far biggest show of their products. The exhibition programme includes, with few exceptions, every machine and tool produced
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  • 206 9 OVER 50,000 sq. ft. of ceiling lighting system is being installed m a number of pavilions and stands at the Brussels Exhibition. The contracts awarded to a British firm, totalling about £35,000, include one for the largest luminous ceiling m Europe, 25,000 sq. ft m the
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  • 54 9 LARGE consignments of machinery for what will be the most modern flour mill of its type m the world are now leaving British ports for Manila. The contract for the mill the first to be erected m the Philippines— was placed with Thomas Robinson and Son
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  • 57 9 SWISS airline. Swissair, his appointed Mr. Max A. Landolt (above) as its manager for Singapore, the Federation of Malaya and Indonesia. Mr. Landolt joined Swissair over two years ago. He will operate from the offices of Swissair's general agent for Singapore and the Federation of Malaya The Malay
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  • 142 9 Rubbers And Tins Steady INDUSTRIALS were irregular, while tins and rubbers were steady m the Maiayan share market yesterday. The turnover was small. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were INDUSTRIALS Buyers Seller! Gammon 2.37 2.42 Henry Waugh 144 148 M. Breweries 3.47 3.52 xd M. Cement 1.28
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  • 210 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done: Fed. Di«p. $2.29$ delayed: F N. ords. $2.66. $2.65; Gammon $2.35 to $2.40; G'town Disp. $1.90. H. Waugh $1.50 to $1.46: M. Cement $1.30. to $1.34; M. Colls. 80c: M. Box 51.65; Robinson ords. $1.69: Sime Darby $1.58, $1.60: Cold
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  • 21 9 THE fifth well drilled at Afam. near Port Harcourt, Southern Nigeria. has encountered oil, Shell Oil Company revealed.
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  • 78 9 AN ARTIST'S impression of how the new P O passenger liner will look when she is completed m 1960. This £15 million ship of 45,000 gross ton the biggest to be built since the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary will be called Canberra. The liner
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  • STANDARD PICTURE ROUND-UP
    • 83 10 TEN-YEAR-OLD Jenny Lim presents Mrs. T. Kelly with a bouquet of flowers at the annual dinner of the Mercantile Bank Sports Club at the Loke Yuen Restaurant m Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Members from Singapore and Selangor attended the dinner and earlier took part m
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    • 45 10 Captain of the Spore Mercantile Bank Sports Club Eddie Teng receives the soccer trophy from Mrs. Kelly. Earlier the Colony soccer team beat Kuala Lumpur by ten goals to two m a thrilling game at the postal ground. Fah. Standardpics
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      86 10 Buddhist priest, Rev. Seng Chin, 67, (above) seated fourth fron left, head of the Temple of tie Eastern Lotus (Toong Leai Slew Cheok) at Jalan Abdul Jalil, Greentown, Ipoh, who, on Sunday entered into a three-year "Silent" retreat. Priests from all over the Federation took part m
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    • 79 10 THOUSANDS of Chinese women m Penang prayed for prosperity and good luck to the 4< Sea God" near the "Tua Peh Kong" Temple m Tanjong Tokon? on Easter Monday. On the right a group of Cantonese women, offer Drayers with joss-stirks and joss papers They believe
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    • 86 10 'GOALIE' MARRIES Mr. and Mrs. Ng Chee Wai leave the Perak Turf Club Hall after their wedding reception m Ipoh last Sunday. Mr. Ng. a goalkeeper for the Perak Chinese Recreation Club's hockey eleven, is the elder son of Mr. Ng Chong Fatt, general manager of Messrs. Shaw Bros. Ltd.,
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    • 38 10 Standardpit Ly WINNERS m the Instrumentalists Section were Harmonica player Chan Choc Fatt (17) who was first, and pianist Winnie Thye (18), who was run-ner-up. The Talentime contest attracted 135 entries from schools m Ipoh. Lee
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      95 10 Standa-rdpic by THREE charming vocalists who took top prizes from 42 finalists. In the centre is 16* year-old Koi Keng Lv of the Ipoh Convent who won the first prize m the girls" realists section with 17-year-old runner-up Cheah Lean Aing (on her left) and Connie Tsen. who came third.
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    • 228 10 WOMEN are generally reluctant to reveal their ages and the girls who took part m the first talentime contest for schoolchildren at St. Michael's Institution Hall m Ipoh last Sunday, proved no exception.. The compere, Mr. Felix Puerto of Radio Malaya.
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    • 263 10 The world famous family of TIGER medicinal products CHEE THONE SAN Provides Instantaneous relief for Toothache, Earache, Stomachache, Muscle Pain, Indigestion, Backache, Colds, Sore Throat, etc. ENG AUN TONG THE TIGER MEDICAL HALL PHONE 3fi9<);} I SCHOOL HOLIDAYS 11a.m. MATINEES 1 9B S CHILDREN; 50 Cts. TO ALL SEATS P^
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  • 232 11 Cheng Wah And Loyals Share A Dozen Goals IPOH, Wed. Trailing 5-1 for the better part of the game, Cheng Wan rallied strongly to hold the Ist Battalion, Loyals Regiment to a 6-6 draw m this first division football match on the Ipoh padang. The Loyals played intellig;ccer m spite
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  • 119 11 Shell Hit 10 Past S. Trading TWO teams received walk overs when their opponents failed to turn up for their SinHouses Footon's league matyesterday. I the first division Jacks failed to the Breweries, while the the second divivhere Metal Box failed to a team againsl Singapore n Company. In a
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  • 91 11 THE following were elected ears officials of the SingaBilliard Association at the annual general meeting!, held at Lore Recreation Club \:esday: President: Mr. Soh Ghee Soon: Vice- Presidents: Mr. Wong Kok Leong and Mr. Lee Wing Kee: Hon. Secretary: Mr. Chong Kow M.8.E.: Hon. Assist SecreA. Hamkl bin
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  • 78 11 IPOH. Wed. Ten Govlent and aided secondary a Ipoh are to stage a variety concert over days next month to iaise for the state's contribu- *> the Asian and Empire es Fund. I concert, which will be held on May 20. 21. 23, and 24 St
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  • 53 11 McMullan 's Big Moment THIS YEAR'S Malayan golf, champion, David McMullan receives his trophies from f Mrs. Ross, wife of the president of the Malayan Golf Association after the championship held at the Selangor Golf Club on Monday night. McMullan of Singapore beat J. W. R. Muraille four and three
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  • 1024 11  - ALAN A'DALE IS SPENCER'S MOST PROMISING STAYER WINDSOR LAD On Newcomers... By KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Spencer stable will introduce a promising stayer m Alan A'Dale at the Selangor Turf Club's April meeting starting Saturday. This four-year-old by Tudor Minstrel out of Mystification (Burmeux> raced m the colours of Lord
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  • 43 11 THOMAS CUP TICKETS THE Badminton Association of Malaya states that applications for Thomas Cup Tickets from the Federation must be submitted through the respective State Badminton Associations. The closing date is April 25, and intending applicants are advised to apply for tickets immediately.
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  • 154 11 Simpang Pulai Speed Hill Climb IPOH, Wed. Perak Motor Club will be holding its Simpang Pulai speed hill climb on Sunday, May 11. The competition is a "closed" invitation hill climb open to members of invited clubs and sporting motor clubs m the Federation and Singapore. Twelve everts will be
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  • 267 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Among horses now spelling at Cameron Highlands Veterinary Sanatorium is newcomer Holiday Time from Rinus Van Breukelen's stable. A three-year-old bay colt by r£ .Lavandou out of Cedilla JF 3 iS T" 3l Holiday Time raced m the colours of Sir
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  • 543 11 Insufficent Funds Force Cut From 104 To 92 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Federation of Malaya Olympic Council, at its 3| hours meeting at the Merdcka Stadium here tonight, decided to cut down the contingent to the Third Asian Games at Tokyo from 104 members to 92.
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  • 248 11 KISHAN DIAL ACS CLASH AGAIN TODAY KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Soccer fans are looking forward to seeing another grand slam m the inter-school football final replay for the Khir Johari Cup between Kishan Dial School, Knala Lumpur, and Anglo-Chinese School, Klang, at the Merdeka Stadium here tomorrow. The last time these
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  • 275 11 KUALA J.UMPUR, Wed.— After Holding: Selangor Chinese Recreation Club to a goalless first half, Selangor Eurasian Association cracked up, and were beaten 6-0 m a Football Association of Selangor senior division soccer match at the Princes Road stadium here today. Chinese attacked from the
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  • 248 11 FIVE visiting soccer teams will Play m Singapore this month and next. Fixtures for the Hongkong Football Association are April 19. 20, and 23; against the Federation of Malaya on May 3 and 4; against Burma on May 10 and 11; against
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  • 318 11 Azlan Heads AAU's Smith In 100 Yards KUALA LUMPUR, Wed Raja Azlan, Federation sprinter for the Asian Games, created a surprise when he beat the American Athletic Union sprinter Billy Smith m the 100 yards m the exhibition athletics meet under floodlights at the Merdeka Stadium tonight. Billy Smith, good
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  • 55 11 EUROPEANS will meet Indians m their annual soccer match for the Hindu New Year Cup at the S.C.C. padar.fi today. The match is part of the Hindu New Year celebrations which falls on Monday. The trophy and prizes will be distrbuted at Broadway Hall. New World
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  • 371 12 Two-goal Slam Is Led By Vie Groves Northampton Town 4, Bournemouth 0. League Three (Northern) Bradford City 1, Hull City 0. Halifax Town 4, Mansfield Town 0. Irish League Ards 3, Linfield 0. Cliftonville 4. Coleraine 4. Glentoran 3, Bangor 0. Portadown 1, Ballymena 2. Distillery
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  • 107 12 LONDON. April 9, (Reuter). Mrs. Sheena Gibson, daughter of Matt Busby, the Manchester United manager, who is still undergoing treatment m Munich's Rechts Der Isar Hospital, arrived m London by air last night after spending nine weeks with her father. She said at London airport
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  • 69 12 LONDON, April 9 (Reuter) Results of English Rugby League matches played yesterday were Bradford Northern 31, Batley 22; Bramley 17, Hull Kingston Rovers 0; Dewsbury 6, Rochdale Hornets 16; Doncaster 10, Wakefield Trinity 40; Featherstone Rovers 8, Halifax 25; Huddersfield 5, Keighley 19. Rugby Union results: Exeter
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  • Article, Illustration
    53 12 Standardpic by LIM HENG CHEK who fractured an elbow m a motor accident three months ago, became the second Federation swimmer to qualify for the Asian Games team. He clocked 1 mm. 11.7 sec. for the tOO metres backstroke at the swimming carnival at Kuala Lumpur Chinwoo pool during the
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  • 1102 12  -  PETER UEBERSAX Progress In Sport Slows Down By Editor's Note: When Soviet athletes invaded international sports some eight years ago, it seemed to be only a question of time for them to gain world supremacy. They won title after title until about 1955 when the first
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  • 98 12 Olympic Star In Running Brawl JERSEY CITY. New Jersey, April 9 (UP) Andy Stanfield, former Olympic track star, was arrested for streetfighting Tuesday after a running brawl with a tenant he claimed owed him back rent. The 30-year-old 1952 Olympic 200-metre champion, who owns a building m Jersey City, was
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  • 141 12 RAF Changi and GHQ drew m a cricket match played at Changi yesterday. Scores were GHQ 107, Changi 108 for five. Main GHQ scorers were Sharpe 27 and Bucket 13. Saun- der s took four for 25 and Whiting* three for 17. Changis top scorer? were
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  • 58 12 BOAT RACE CLASSIC Photo. LONDON: Followed by a flotilla of little boats, the Cambridge and the Oxford University boat crews, with Cambridge m the lead come up to shoot Hammersmith Bridge during the University's boat race from Putney to Mortlake on the River Thames on April 5 m heavy rain.
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  • 204 12 LONDON, April 9 (UP) The International Amateur Athletic Federation last night threatened to set up a rival Olympics if the International Olympic Committee does not cut it m for a share m the proceeds of the traditional world Games. World headquarters of lAAF which
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  • 122 12 Ken Jones, Wales' Rugby Hero, Retires NEWPORT, Wales, April 9 (Reuter) Ken Jones, until this season the holder of the record number of Rugby international caps, yesterday announced his retirement. Jones who played his la?t game for Newport against the Barbarians yesterday, m ped forty-four times by He also holds
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  • 81 12 PENANG. Wed The Penang Chinese Football Association named 16 players for their encounter Perak Chinese m the MCFA Cup competition at Ipoh on Sunday, Apr. 13. The players are: Toh Boon Teng. Tan Kheng Ban. Koay Ban Chuan. Chan Chin Yin. Chong Ying Weng. Lim Cheng
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  • 77 12 SAN FRANCISCO, April 8 (UP) Eddie Machen arc Zora Folley. who are rat< c one-two among the nation i heavyweight challengers, square off tonight m a 12--round bout at the Cow Palace which may or may not lead to a title shot world champion Floyd Patterson.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 116 12 SINGAPORE SOCCER: Annual matchIndians vs Europeans for Hindu New Year Cup on the padang 5.15 p.m. SWIMMING: SASA Asian Games trials at Chinese Swimming Club 5.30 p.m. PENANG SOCCER: Prime Minister's Cup: Penang and Province Wellesley Combined vs. Kedah and Perlis Combined schools Victoria Green at 5.15 p.m. IPOH SOCCER:—
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  • 679 13 Conflict in North Vietnam SPOTLIGHT ON THE FAR EAST SAIGON I HI conflict between intel- lectuais and the Lao Dong (••Worker's Party") which n >rth Vietnam has uhed a highly interesting Is m China, the Lao Dong insists that the intel;uals must submit without question. This they refuse to do.
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  • 330 13 RANGOON THE Constit?. i of Burma gives co-operatives an important part m the eco' of the country and emphasis has been given, on the distribution side, to the development of a strong consumer movement. Important measures m recent years have included the preparation of a five-year co-operative
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  • 1544 13 End of Gay Life of the old Nabobs Standard Newsletters By Our Own Correspondent NEW DELHI f JHE gay and leisurely life of the old Nabobs is now but a rapidlyfading memory with us, though it is often recreated for us by clever ad artists who show the fat Nabob
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    • 446 13 rpODATS QUOTATION: HfIPHfIIMBW 1 "Half-knowledge it I worse than ignorance." I Marauley I f P X^^B THI'BSDAI iO X I K^^^2^M^^S#fl EVERYONE: Nfake this I V^^^fl a routine day. take care of IB^^Kfl^^L^^H I necessities, exert care, tact Bfl^^TZ^n m dealings with others, as to I i\T/Al what you write
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 570 14 COUNCIL DEFENDS BEHAVIOUR OF BRITISH PRESS LONDON, April 9, (Reuter) Reports issued last night by the Press Council largely rejected charges against British newspapers of intrusion into personal grief. Ihe incidents involved the behaviour of Pressmen following the Munich air crash m February and after the Essex murder of a
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    • 51 14 KATHMANDU. April 9 Reuter) King Mahendra and Queen Rijya Ranta Laskhmi Dcvi, of Nepal, have accepted an invitation from President Voroshilov to visit the Soviet Union, it was announced here. It is understood the visit is likely to coincide with this year's October Day celebrations m
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  • 346 14 Marchers Receive Warm, Cold Welcomes LONDON, April 9, (Reuter) Representatives of the people who made a four-day 50-mile Easter march protesting against nuclear weapons yesterday received a warm welcome from the Soviet Embassy but alleged a cool reception at 10, Downing Street and the United States Embassy. They went to
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  • 392 14 Will Take Time To Answer The Soviet Offer LONDON, April 9, (UP)— Britain "fully approves" President Eisenhower's renewed appeal to the Soviet s to halt production of nuclear weapons, authoritative British sources said yesterday. But the British Government will "take about answering Soviet Premier Nikita Khr
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  • 437 14 World Reads Lana Turners Letters To Her Lover HOLLYWOOD, April 9, Lana Turner and her 14-year-old daughter, Cheryl, are both expected to give evidence at the inquest on Friday on Johnny Stompanato, the 42-year-old minor gangster whom Cheryl is said to have stabbed to death. The inquest, one week after
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  • 295 14 SOCIALIST GARDEN PIG SNOUTS TATABANYA, Hungary. April 9, (IP) Soviet Premier, Nik it a Khrushchev, yesterday ac« cused Western journalists of lying when they reported he said the Soviet In inn would not send aid tn Hungary m the event of another uprising. Speaking m the sor: dium of this
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  • 100 14 NEW YORK. April 9, (Reuter) Singer Judy Garland paid her back taxes and the State of New York returned about $30,000 worth of jewellery and costumes she had posted m lieu of bond. Her lawyer handed over a cheque for $8,673 owed to the State
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  • 113 14 SANTA MONICA, California, April 9, (Reuter) Esther Williams, 34-year-old Hollywood actress and swimming star, was granted an interlocutory divorce decree here against her husband. Ben Gage, 42, a former radio announcer. Miss Williams, who was given custody of their three children Benjamin (8), Kimball (7) and
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  • 118 14 BUDAPEST, April 9 (Reuter) The Hungarian National Women's Council has urged the Minister of Health to make medicals before marriage compulsory for both men and women, reports the Hungarian News Service quoted by Reuter. Dr. Borbata Rona, a member of the council, said "The
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  • 27 14 NEW DELHI, April 8 (Reuter) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has accepted the Chinese Government's invitation to visit Tibet, it was stated m the parliament.
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  • 89 14 MELBOURNE. April 9 (Reuter). Twenty -five boys at a Melbourne suburban secondary school were sent home and told to change their highly-coloured socks. A member of the school staff said that bright footwear had become the fashion among some of the boys. In- stead of their
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  • 196 14 U.N. POLICE FORCE FOR SURVIVAL NEW YORK, April 9. (Reuter). Dr. Saravapalli Radhakrishnan, the Indian vice-Presi-dent, yesterday urged the creation of a United Nations police force m a disarmed world "for the sake of the survival of the human race." He also urged the United States "to lead the suffering
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  • 51 14 OSLO, April 9. (Reuter). About 30 Princesses from abroad have chosen to spend their skiing holiday m Norway this year. The Princesses, mainly from Siam and Malaya, aged 16-20 are all attending schools m England, and will be travelling m a party to the skiing resort of
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