Singapore Standard, 14 April 1958

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  • 19 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Cable TIGERNEWS" SINCAPORE MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1958. Vol. VIII. No. 285 15 cts. 12 Pages
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  • 357 1 BODY FOUND IN BUSH BESIDE A RIVER $2,000 Reward For The Worst' Crime Since End Of War IPOH, Sun: An eight-year-old Pakistani schoolboy, Mohamed Mustapha, only son of a police despatch rider, was brutally murdered and his body thrown into a bush by the bank of the
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  • 495 1 R.I. REBELS' ARMS -DROP PLANES USE SINGAPORE ...Say Jakarta Intelligence Men From Andrew Roth JAKARTA, April 13 At least eight unidentified planes have used Singapore as a springboard for dropping arms to Sumatran rebels, according to Jakarta military intelligence authorities who have reported at cabinet level here. Jakarta military intelligence
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  • 136 1 'Rebellion Will Soon Be Crushed' BANGKOK, April 13 (AFP) Indonesian Foreign Minister Doctor Subandrio declared in Bangkok today that the Sumatran rebellion will be "crushed within a week." Subandrio. who arrived this afternoon for a one-day stop-over on his way to Tokyo, said that the end of the rebellion would
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  • 83 1 LONDON, April 13 (Reuter) A London store is selling fried ants, roasted caterpillars and grilled grasshoppers, all canned in Japan. Sales of these foods, and others like fried baby bumble bees, have astonished the store manager. A housewife in Kensington, where the foods are sold,
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  • 71 1 A CAR belonging to a Singapore detective was stolen from the Great World car park on Saturday night. Choy Fook Yee. a detec-tive-sergeant attached to the Central Police Station, said he locked up his car after he had parked it in the car park at about 11
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  • 52 1 CALCUTTA, April 13, (UP). .—Police today raided the office of the Socialist morning newspaper Lokasevak, the first Police search of any Nationalist newspaper at Calcutta since Indian independence. At the same time. Police raided the offices of the Socialist Party and arrested several party leaders "for
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  • 60 1 NAIROBI, April 13 (Reuter) The Kenya Government announced today tha£ 153 Kikuyu tribesmen suspected of being leaders and organizers of the Kiama Kia Muingi. proscribed secret society, have been taken into custody. The arrests were announced after two days of widespread sweeps in the colony by
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  • 52 1 RANGOON, April 13, (Reuter) For the second time this year, rebels dynamited Rangoon's main water pipeline causing: an acute water shortage today 'the first day of the Burmese four-day New Year festival when everybody in the city douses everyone else with gallons of water as part of
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  • 48 1 STANDARDPIC above shows six parangs recovered by Police in a hut in Lavender Street yesterday. Three men found in the hut were detained. On the right is a pair of trousers in which the longbladed weapons were found concealed.
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  • 275 1 SUSPECTED gangsters found in premises where offensive weapons were seized by Police could not be prosecuted, the chief of the Criminal Investigations Department, Mr. Brian Goodrich, told The Standard yesterday. He explained that there was no provision in the penai laws of the
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  • 58 1 GEORGETOWN, Delaware April 13 (UP) A C-133 cargo carrier, one of the newest and biggest air force transport planes, crashed and burst into flames today near here The huge craft was believed to have been carrying a crew of five, but this could not be confirmed immediately.
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  • 280 1 FOR the first time in the history of the Singapore City Council all its employees except the local senior officers have joined hands in their fight against the Council. i Due to this, the Council is now faced with a serious labour crisis. Unless
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  • 195 1 BRISBANE, April 13 (Reuter)—A modern "Tarzan" came to light in jungle country 1,100 miles north of Brisbane this week. Bearded and sun-bronzed, he stepped on to the beach from jungle undergrowth and lifted a crashed Auster plane (1600 lbs.) without help. He lives in a
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  • 273 1 PRESIDENT Soekarno of Indonesia has dismissed two top-ranking Military Officers from his Army, a senior Military officer from Jakarta said in Singapore yesterday. They are Colonels Alex Kawilarang, Military Attache in Washington and J Waraou, Military Attache iii Peking. They have now joined the Central
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  • 251 2 A CALL to close down the Singapore City Council's Information Bureau was made by Liberal-So-cialist Councillor S. M. Vasagar, yesterday. He told The Standard that he would table a motion to this effect at the next meeting of the Council. "I am convinced
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  • 341 2 Last-Minute Appeal To The EmployersAccede To Our Demands IPOH, Sun. More than 1,000 employees of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation in the Federation have decided to go on strike following the breakdown of wage negotiations with the management. But last minute efforts are being made
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  • 63 2 MUSLIM employees of rhe Singapore City Council wil! receive their wages for April within a few days to enable them to celebrate Hari Raya Puasa which falls probaoly on Saturday. They will also be given time off to attend prayers in mosques. The Council has also
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  • 70 2 SINGAPORE Buddhists yes terday observed the "Songgram Water Festival" which symbolizes the washing away of the sins of the world. At the Silat Road Buddhisl Temple, hundreds of devotee? gathered to recite the 'mantras' at the prayers led by the monks After that there was the ceremony
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  • 67 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— The General Officer Commanding. 17 Gurkha Division, Overseas Commonwealth Land Forces, Major General R. N. Anderson is handing over his command at the beginning of May to Major-General R. A. R. Robertson. General Robertson is expected to arrive at Penang on board the
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  • 40 2 THE Mentri Besar, Selangor, (left) admonishes eight people from Klang. who had been helping Communist terrorists. He told them that Government would not detain them any longer and asked them to co-operate with Government in future.
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  • 147 2 KL Bishop Officiates At Ceremony KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. In a simple ceremony today, the Bishop ot Kuala Lumpur, Bishop D. Venaargon laid the foundation stone of the Catholic High School at Petaling Jaya. The building will be ready by the end ot June, when 300 pupils who are at present
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  • 168 2 FOUR soldiers on Saturday night robbed a taxi driver of $22.50 at the seventh mile. Changi Road The taxi driver. Tan Guan Tin, 23 reported to the *>olice that four soldiers boarded his taxi outside the Happy World at midnight and asked to
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  • 146 2 AID FOR SPASTIC CHILDREN THE recently formed E tic Children's Association Singapore will assi.--children in general and Jop and maintain welfare educational services for tl its vice-chairman Dr. C. I Field told The Standard yesterday. Recently, Miss M. D. ridge, physiotherapist New Zealand, visited S pore under the auspi Colombo
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  • 52 2 THE following were elected officials of the Whampoa branch of the Singapore Labour Front at its third annual general meeting held yesterday. President: Mr. Chew Swee Kee. vice-president: Mr. Lam Hock Chye secret; Mr. Sarmukh Singh. secretary: Mr. P J Pereira, treasurer: Mr. Henry Leong, and 10
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  • 183 2 THE five-year rural deve-| lopment scheme referred to by me Singapore Governor. Sir William Goode. in his policy speech to the Legislative Assembly last Wednesday will cost the Colony government an estimated $10,--000.000 The Standard learned yesterday that the Ministry of Commerce and Industry was
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  • 128 2 MORE than 500 pilgrims from Singapore left yesterday aboard the pilgrim ship "Anshun" on their way to Mecca to observe tUe 'haj.' The "Anshun" is expected to pick up another 500 pilgrims *rom Federation ports. I From the early hours of the morning
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    • 660 2 SJAHDARDs> SITUATIONS VACANT SINCAPORE CITY COUNCIL 'H DEPARTVENT Required Central Medical >cale $670*A30--cv Bar/ I. CIO x ce at on ence. Appointment on a 3-vear I Must be Registered Pharmacist with 3 years' •xoerience atter reg svat.on. Particulars and application torms abe FREE CF CHARGE from the th Department Completed
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    • 545 2 TUITION Y.W.CA. Malay Beginners Course new session commencing April 15th Tuesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m. for ladies and gentlemen. Fee $20 tor 10 lessons. Enrol now *****. Y.W.CA. Ballroom Dancing new session commencing 15th April. Beginners spm Intermediate and advanced 6 pm $10 tor 5 lessons Tel. *****. MIRE
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    • 598 2 TENDER TETALING JAYA AUTHORITY TENDERS will be received at the office of the Administrator. Petaling Jaya up to 3.00 p.m. of 25th April. 1958 for the construction of roadside block drains in Section 11. Petaling Jaya. Specifications and form of tender may be obtained from the Town Engineer. Petaling Jaya.
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    • 566 2 NOTICES SALE OF "WAR AFRIDI" TENDERS are invited for the purchase of the vessel "WAR AFRIDI" an oil tanker of some 5600 gross tonnage lying at Hong Kong. The ship is not seaworthy and is to be sold "As she lies", complete with machinery, no guarantee being given or implied
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  • EDITORIAL • SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 794 3 THE great fire of Kampong Koo Chai in Singapore eight days ago has touched so many hearts in the Colony and the Federation of Malaya that the unfortunate victims, now temporarily housed in the Geylang English School, are completely swamped with gifts of clothing and food. Money that
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    • 47 3 k *t OMici n LOT) 1,51, K lrr Roaa. Vpore PO Bo* No 1563 C*bto M IICE»NtWS* t# iumpub Ch.n« ln»iranc« 8»c«.. 174 Ban. Rd. it. OH Tel«*«r>« v* ***** fiNANc 93 Co«Mn St. rd: w 3829 Malacca 8 Leitb St T 4055
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  • 91 3 "VJE/ E are all of us involved in the making of our surroundings and much of the work is done without special training or preparation or forethought. Every time we drop a cigarette packet on the pavement, when we put gnomes in our garden, paint
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  • 765 3 care of John Foster Dulles and our own priceless Selwyn Lloyd. •The Greatest March ,4r THIS," cried Mr. Michael Foot into the microphones at Trafalgar Square, 'can be the greatest march in English history He was at the start-line of the fifty-mile walk from London to the Atomic
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  • 1347 3 Bulgy the Banker J MUST say I am delighted that Marshal Bulganin has become a banker. He was of course never a real soldier or a real Marshal, but a political commissar who threatened the fighting troops from the rear. Bulgy has returned to the same job that he had
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  • 44 3 Experts say Hawaii's Mount Waialeale is probably the world's rainiest spot. Waialeale's annual rainfall average 489 inches. In a recent year, 624 inches poured down. Strangely, only 20 inches a year fall on Waimea, a coastal town just 15 miles away.
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  • 415 3 the NEWS as it strikes me QN THURSDAY last. President Eisenhower, speaking at Washington to a group of foreign visitors, said that governments were more stupid than those they served. This may not be a compliment to him and his administration but it is the truth. We, in Malaya, have
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  • 235 4 COMPLAINT ON ARREARS OF HOSPITAL PAY RIAL A LUMPUR. Sun. Temporary hospital assistants here allege that the government is partial in Its distribution of benefits to hospital assistants. They have complained to the Ministry of Health about not being paid salary arrears as recommended by the National Whitley Council. They
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  • 175 4 A MOVE to scrap the public address system outside the Singapore City Council Chambers will be made by opposition members of the Council at its next session on April 30. Liberal Socialist Councillor, Mr. S. M. Vasagar, will lead the move. He
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  • 36 4 TWELVE BRITISH Members of Parliament, six Conservative and six Labour, are to spend three days in Luxembourg this week as the guests of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community. Reuter
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  • 148 4 THE New Zealand Commissioner for South-East Asia, Mr. Foss Shanahan. has been appointed Assistant High Commissioner for New Zealand in Ottawa, Canada. A spokesman for the Commissioner's Office in Singapore told The Standard yesterday that the new appointment of Mr. Shanahan was announced by N.Z. Premier
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  • 134 4 Ten Cases Of Suspected Cheating TEN cases of peoDie suspected to have obtained cash and other relief under false pretences that they were fire victims have been discovered, Mr. K. H. Tan. assistant director (oubiic assistance). Social Welfare, told The Standard last night. Mr. Tan said these people had already
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  • 352 4 Promotion Exam For Chinese Middle Schools Is A 'Concession' KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Ministry of Education yesterday issued a statement in order to clear "certain misunderstandings" on the issue of secondary school promotion examination for Chinese Middle Schools. The examination which must be taken by pupils at
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  • 141 4 MORE than 400 members of the 75-year-old Singapore Boys' Brigade made a imart turn-out yesterday at a ceremonial parade on the Padang for the presentation of the Queen's Badge to 14 of their colleagues by the Governor, Sir William Goode. Sir William in a brief address congratulated
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  • 124 4 Police Hunt Hit-And-Run Motorist SINGAPORE Police are looking for a hit-and-run motorist who knocked down a 21-year-old employee of the Middleton Hospital in the early hours of yesterday morning. A Police spokesman told The Standard that the victim of the accident Poh Cheng Neo was knocked down in Rangoon Road
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  • 61 4 MR. WU YONG. an Evangelist preacher from Taiwan, will give a series of Gospel talks at the Zion Bible-Presby-terian Church in Tavistock Avenue commencing 7.45 tonight. The talks, which will be delivered in Mandarin, will be translated into English by Rev. Timothy Tow of the Life
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  • 258 4 THE time has come for the Singapore government to considei seriously the scrapping of the present School Certificate Examination and replace it with a General Certificate in Education, said the President of the Certificated Teachers' Association, Mr. Yin Ee Kheng, at the Reunion Dinner
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  • 26 4 AN international oil consortium spokesman in Iran announced yesterday that a vast fire burning at the Abadan Refinery had been brought under control. UP
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  • 287 5 ARCHITECTS Only Yourselves To Blame— They Are Told i"WO Singapore Government spokesmen on Saturday told local architects that they had only themselves to blamj for the fact that expatriate officers had to be recruited into the Public Works Department on contract terms. The spokesmen stressed that
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  • 175 5 Tell Why Building Plans Are Rejected' SPOKESMAN for the Singapore Asian architects, who nave broken away from the Institute of Architects of Malaya, Mr. Kee Yeap, charged yesterday that Asian members han cause to believe that they had been discriminated against when they submitted plans to the SIT for approval.
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  • 218 5 TWO people who had a narrow escape from death last Tuesday night, when their car and a taxi crashed headlong into each other, were married at the Connell House Chapel, Singapore, on Saturday. Mr. Peter B. Emery, the Qantas Sales Officer, and his bride-to-be, Miss Margaret A. Williams
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  • 170 5 TODAY is New Year's Day for more than 300,000 followers of the Hindu faith in Singapore and the Federation. The birth of the New Year marks the beginning of 5030th year of the "Kaliuga Era." It is also New Year for those
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  • 43 5 THE new officials of the Singapore Chapter of the Toastmasters Club are: President. Mr. Nick Ng; vicepresident (educational) Mr. George Teo; vice-president (administrative). Mr. Ling Lee Hua; Secretary, Mr Ferry Lim; Treasurer Mr. Lin Wo-ling Sergeant-at-arms, Mr. C. Y. Siow.
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  • 27 5 DONATIONS and Flag Day Collections for the Lady Tempter Tuberculosis Hospital Fund totalled $1,679 for March, according to a Federation Press statement issued yesterday.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 252 6 JAPS WELCOME TO AID INDUSTRIES GOVT. TO GIVE MORE HELP TO THE MINOR INDUSTRIALIST KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Japanese advisers may help in establishing cottage industries in the Federation. The Standard learned today. Ministry of Commerce sources said government was seriously considering providing assistance on a national sole for cottage industries
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  • 251 6 'Citizenship Is Not MCA's Political Object' PENANG. Sun.— The President of the Malayan Chinese Association. Dr. Lim Chong Eu, said today that the citizenship drive by various M.C.A. branches and sub-oranches throughout the Federation was "not our political object." "It is our national effort to have more Federal citizens among
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  • 66 6 PEGGY CHEAH of the Malayan School of Ballet will take part in a variety concert sponsored by the Bharath Fine Arts Society at the Town Hall in Kuala Lumpur on tbe night of April 19. The show, in aid of the Ceylon and Indonesian flood relief
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  • 56 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— A number ot leading Indian Federal citizens here are planning to create a rival body should the Malayan Indian Congress fail in their attempt to limit party membership to Federal citizens only. However, the move will not be made until after
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  • 153 6 PENANG, Sun.— The City Council yesterday, unanimously approved an amended motion by Mr. Tan Phock Kin (Labour), that the Council seek the necessary powers to raise its own loans with a view to go ahead with its scheme of improving the town and extending housing
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  • 37 6 MRS. SHIRIN Fozdar of Singapore who recently returned from the Afro-Asian women's conference at Colombo will be the speaker at a public lecture at the Perak Library, Ipoh. on Friday. April 18 at 8 p.m.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • 568 7 Mfifffli mmwffi^r^m AMONG famous couples, it's become the fashion to declare as soon a s you leave the church that you re much too busy" to have a honeymoon. When Angry-Young-Playwright John Osborne wed British film star Mary Ure, the happy couple put several tnousand miles between
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  • 379 7 JJOW many women in this part of the world fly? Not many I suppose. Mrs. Virginia Schuster, chairman of the American Women's Auxiliary, is one of the few. Schuster, wife of the acting managing director of Goodyear Orient Sales Co.. is a qualified nurse
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  • 103 7 CUISINE CORNER: who has translated a French recipe for your experiment this week. "Omelette soufflee** recommended for six persons require these necessary in- gredients: 5 eggs, oz. margarine, 5 ozs. Castor sugar, an orange or lemon peel, and 1 tablespoon of rum. METHOD TV TIX the yorks, sugar,
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  • 485 9 By A Market Correspondent AU sections of the Malayan share market got off to a slow start after Easter, but the volume of business written improved sharply over the four days' trading covered by this review. Industrials eased slightly at the beginning of the
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  • 220 9 Business Done In Week BUSINESS done from April 8 to 11 Industrials: Fraser and Neave ords $2.65 to $2.67£ cd. Gammons $2.35 to $2.40. Georgetown Disp. $190. Hammer and Co. $1.74 to $1.71J, Hongkong Bank (Col) $420. Hongkong Bank (Lon) £42J, Hume Industries prefs. A2l/-. Wm. Jacks $1.75, Malayan Breweries
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  • 24 9 SPAIN and West Germany have signed two agreements settling disposition of German assets in Spain seized after the Second World War. Reuter
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  • 149 9 Copra For Penang Oil Millers COPRA arrivals in Singapore from Indonesia last week were estimated at cnly 600 tons, but a shipload of 2,500/3,000 tons earmarked for oil milling use, arrived in Penang, according to Lewis Peat (S'pore) Ltd.'s produce report. However there is no indication as yet of resumed
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  • 30 9 OUTPUT of rubber for February and March as announced by the following companies were: Kempas, February 326.--550 lbs. and March 328.700 lbs.. Radella 17,700 lbs. and 17.300 lbs.
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  • 77 9 EARLY in May 8.0.A.C. Britannias passing through Singapore will call at Melbourne on their way to Sydney. This will not only be the first time on which Britannias have called at Melbourne but will also be the first time this port has been included as
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  • 382 9 New Cargo Liner Due In Malaya On Her Maiden Vovaae A NEW cargo liner, the 8,500-ton Menestheus has been placed on the Blue Funnel Line's Far East service. It will arrive in Penang tomorrow, in Port Swettenham on April 17 and in Singapore on April 20, in the course of
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  • 179 9 A NEW British invention brings promise of a great increase in the rate of production in woollen spinning. This is revealed in the annual report of the Wool Textile Research Council, which administers a levy on the industry for research work. Among the various
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  • 89 9 MALAYAN imports of rubber in the first quarter of this year totalled 97,372 tons, against 82,029 tons in the same quarter last year. Of the March imports, 46,--175 tons came from Sumatra, 25,753 tons were from Indonesian Borneo and 9,851 tons were from Thailand. Other supplies included
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  • 304 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Rural and Industrial Development Authority has invested some $1,300,--000 in the exclusively Malay-owned North-Eastern Transport Service since taking over the company in 1956 and it is expected to start making profit from next year, Inche Ahmad bin Perang, chairman of the
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  • Financ And Commerce
    • 451 9 $376.9 Mil. Shipped Last Year cles on folding movements and extinct volcanoes which were read at the Ninth Pacific Science Congress, Bangkok, in November 1957, and an account of the salt springs in the Kelabit Highlands. The use of air photographs is described. This is a
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    • 181 9 U.S. Car Industry Under Fire NEW YORK. April 13 (Reuter) The New York Post said President Eisenhower has criticised the American car industry for not turning out a small car similar to the British Morris Minor or the German Volkswagen. In a dispatch from Washington, the newsDaoer said the President
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    • 376 9 COMPANY REPORTS Straits Steamship Company, Limited: For the vear ended 31/12 57. a profit of lt-9% was earned after allowing lor Singapore income tax, or at least 28.4% before tax. A dividend of $1.25 and a bonus of 75 cts per .-hare have been recommended. This compares with a total
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    • 56 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the foliochanges in its rates to merchants on Saturday Canada: buying. TT. 32. O.D. 32*. 90 davs airmail 32 7/16 credit bills. 32 9/16 trade bills. Selling: TT. or O.D. ready: Canada 31 11/16: Belgian Francs 1617; Deutsche Marks 136; Italian Lire
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  • 167 10 LONDON, April 13 (Reuter). '—Woking won the English Amateur Football Association cup yesterday when tney oeai Illord 3-0 in the final at Wembly. Woking led 1-0 at halftime. A crowd of over 70,000 saw Woking, the favourites from Surrey, win the coveted amateur trophy
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  • 104 10 IPOH, Sunday It was a bowlers' day on the padang when the Ceylon Association beat the King's Dragoon Guards by 10 run s in the opening tie of the Brander Shield cricket league today. Batting fist, the Association collected 74 runs, the main contributors being
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  • 55 10 pic by Fah.) ROSLAN, Captain of the Kishan Dial School seen holding the Khir Johari Cup beina chaired by his happy teammates at the conclusion of the secondary school football final at the Merdeka Stadium on Thursday. Kishan Dial beat ACS, Klang 3-2. In the first
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  • 329 10 Mahadevan Is Top Scorer In Stonor Shield Ties KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Selangor Club, holders Tamilian Physical Culture Association, Kilat Club and the Public Works Dept. Sports Club each gained six points for first innings leads in their opening matches in the Stonor Shield cricket league competition which started here today.
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  • 338 10 HEARTS TAKE SCOTTISH LEAGUE Wolves Position Is Strengfhened LONDON, April 13 (Reuter)— HEARTS won the Scottish league championship yesterday for the first time in 61 years to decide tiie first major honour of the British league football season which has three weeks to run. While Hearts were beating St. Mirren
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  • 117 10 Malayan Badminton Cships In Penang PENANG. Sun.— Entries for the 1958 Malayan interna:, badminton champior. should be sent to the secretary of the Penang I minton Association, Ishak Noor. 199 Dato Kramat Road, Penang. and sh reach him not later than May 15. The championships w played at the Han
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  • 224 10 Selangor Hockey Champions KUALA LUMPUR. Sun Selangor beat Negri Sembilan 3-2 to emerge champions in the Malayan Hockey Federation carnival on the Headquarters Federatioi Armed Forces ground today. Negri who were champions in group 'B' gave a hard fight and were only beaten in the lasi ten minutes of play
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  • 25 10 THE HAGUE, April 13 (Reuter)—Belgium beat Holland by 4-3 in a B international football match here vesterday The Belgians led 3-1 at halftime.
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  • 20 10 QUEENSTOWN Community Centre and Upper Serangoon Community Centre drew twoall in a friendly football match at Queenstown, yesterday.
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  • 81 10 HURST PARK. Surrey, April 13. (Reuter). Lady Davison's Red Letter won the Victoria Cup run over seven furlongs here yesterday. Mr. E. Pacitto's Alf's Caprice was second with Mr. J. S. Gerber's Nicholas Nickleby third. Seventeen ran. Red Letter won by threequarter of a length
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  • 282 10 IPOH. Sun. After a goalless first half, Perak Chinese hit in five goals to trounce Penang Chinese s—l to enter the north zone final of the MCFA Cup soccer competition on the Chinese Assembly Hall ground today. Perak will meet defending champions. Selangor, to
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  • 166 10 LONDON. April 13 (Reuter)— Rugby League results yesterday follow: Blackpool Borough 37. Castleford 3, Bradford Northern 21, Huddersfield 24; Dewsbury 5. Wakefield Trinity 40, Halifax 22. Batley 7; Oldham 38. Hunslet 13; Rochdale Hornets 19 Leeds 14. Swinton 18, Keighley 9: Warrington 39. Whitehaven 10: Widne* 31.
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  • 899 11 FOLLOWING are weights and probable starters for all the eight races at Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday iecoud day of the Selangor Turf Club's April Meeting: Horses Class 5, Div. 1 Abt. 7 Furs. RELIABLE 4y9 OCSLEICH SF Stable PERFORMER II 6y 813 DONNELLY Shaw Stable SCHOLARSHIP
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  • 182 11 NEWPORT SLAM PLYMOUTH LONDON, April 13 (Reuter) Newport highlighted yesterday's rugby union programme with an overwhelming 39-0 win over Plymouth in the first game of their three-match tour of Devon. The west countrymen were completely outplayed by Newport's brilliant handling, and the Welshmen stormed to victory by six goals and
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  • 834 11 Police Vs IA Police beat Indian Association bv two wickets at Balestier Road. INDIANS e upillai b 35 c Stevens b De Witt 5 1 lbw. Cooke 0 in Shah c Sandosham b De W 9 De Witt 0 m b Cooke 1 b Cooke 0 Tnamby
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  • 61 11 DESPITE a good knock of 54 runs by former Oxford B.ue and Colony player, Captain Hughes Webb, Nee Soon Garrison drew with GHQ FARELF in an inter-unit cricket match at Nee Soon yesterday. Nee Soon Garrison 150 for eight dec (Capt Webb 54, Hydan 38).
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  • 34 11 THE following are the results of the Singapore Island Golf Club ladies competition for the L.G.U. Cup. "A" Division: 'Mrs G Hodgkinson 84-18=66. "B" Division: Mrs. Lee Swee Cheng 109-46=73. I
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  • 214 11 JUNIOR CRICKET RESULTS THE following are the results ot the SCA junior matches played yesterday. Prisons Sports Club beat Fraser Neave by six wickets at Changi F N 96 (Chan 27) Prisons 97 for four (H. Pereira 30 n.o. Driebery 35 no.) YMCA beat VMBA by four wicket s on
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  • 510 11 EDDY: OON A 'MUST' IN CUP TEAM Danes Are Determined To Win PENANG, Sun.—Denmark's Thomas Cup team this year is stronger than the team they sent here in 1955 while the present Malayan team is weaker than the one the country had three years ago when they defended the cup.
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  • 428 11 Barrick Hits 106 To Lead Day Of High Scoring ALAN BARRICK of the Army won himself the distinction of being the first to score a century in this season's Singapore Cricket Association tournament. Barrick was unbeaten with 106 runs against the Chinese, his score being largely instrumental for Army's 174
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  • 371 11 SINGAPORE Chinese became champions in the .voiitii zone of the Malayan Chinese Football Association Cup competition when they scored a convincing victory over Malacca Chinese before a crowd of 1,400 at Jalan Bes*/ stadium yesterday. The Singapore Chinese did not get into top gear until
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  • 50 11 TWO wrestlers will represent the Federation of Malaya in the third Asian Games at Tokyo. lhey are middleweight Chan Kum Seng and welterweight Yip Kim Pak. ihe wrestlers were selected in Kuala Lumpur »»st night by the Federation of .Malav a Wrestling Association.
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  • 79 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The following will represent Selangor in tneir first match tn the newly inaugurated Malayan Cricket Association championship against Kedah to be played on the Kuala Lumpur padang on Saturday April 19 and Sunday April 20. T. Sivagnanam w.ll captain the team. The rest of
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    • 46 11 PENANG SOCCER (Friendly) Penang Sports Club vs. Royal Air Force Signals Western Road at 5.30 p m. KUALA LUMPUR SOCCER F.A.S. Dwision 2. T.P.C.A. vs. S.C.A.A. Princes Road. IPOH SOCCER Div. 2— KIA. 'B' vs. Tamilians Town padang. TAIPING SOCCER Div. Medicals vs. Town Council Esplanade.
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  • 218 12 BANGKOK, April 13 (UP)— A recent shakeup of top government officials in Communist China's southern province of Yunnan reflects a wave of unrest that has driven hundreds of refugees into neighbouring Laos. A steady stream of weary, disillusioned people have been
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  • 78 12 NICOSIA, ADril 13 (Reuter) Cynriot taxpayers will bear the cost of 50 bomb incidents on the island smce March 7 amounting to £30.000, a government house statement broadcast over Cyprus radio said last night. "In every way it is the people who suffer, and will go
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  • 34 12 LEXINGTON, Kentucky, April 13 (Reuter) —The pastor of a Baptist church here has put up a notice outside his church which reads: "Thou shalt not park." He says it works wonders.
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  • 111 12 Assembly Recalled To Face Crisis PARIS. April 13 (Reuter)— The French Government, threatened by a crisis over Tunisia, decided last night to recall Parliament from its Easter recess. The cabinet, after a stormy marathon meeting lasting nearly 11 hours, decided unanimously to accept the findings of the Anglo-American good offices
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  • 32 12 A GIANT United States airforce KC-135 stratotanker took off from Yokota airbase, near Tokyo in an attempt to break the world's distance record between Tokyo and Madrid, Reuter said yesterday.
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  • 64 12 TOKYO. April 13 (Reuter) Japanese fire brigades taking part in a national "fire prevention week" were today too late to put out a fire which destroyed nine houses ln Samukawae, Northern Japan. But the firemen were able to salvage one of their badly charred "fire prevention"
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  • 425 12 N.A.T.O. ADMIRAL SAYS RUSSIA IS SPYING ON AMERICAN COAST NORFOLK, Virginia, April 13 (LP)— Terse reports of unidentified submarines prowling the Atlantic coast have appeared with increasing frequency in recent months and the widespread assumption has been that the Russians are plying waters dangerously close l, American
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  • 236 12 He Has The Right To Take Over R.I. Funds GENEVA, April IS (UP) Dr. Sutan Muhamad Rasjid, newly appointed-ambassador-at-large for the Indonesian rebel government, displayed a fistful of red-sealed documents here last night to prove that he had a legal right to take over the funds which his old boss
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  • 123 12 HAVANA. Cuba, April 13 (Reuter) A Cuban Government communique said last night that two rebels had been killed in a clash with Government troops in the Santiago de Cuba area. In the same area rebels who earlier blew up a powder magazine and damaged the
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  • 196 12 Lana, Too Happy To Cry, Visits Cheryl After Jury's Verdict HOLLYWOOD, April 13 (UP) Beautiful Lana Turner "too happy to cry" visited her teenage daughter Cheryl yesterday 24 hours after a coroner's jury ruled the killing of her mother's gangland lover was "justifiable homicide." The blonde film star's staggering appearance
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  • 132 12 P.I. Assesses Situation In Indonesia MANILA. ADril 13 (UP) President Carlos P. Garcia yesterday conferred with his council composed of ranking congressional members to assess the Indonesian situation. Congressional leaders earlier were reported ready to ask Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio that the Jakarta Government stop "unfriendly acts and accusations" against
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  • 70 12 MOSCOW. April 13 (Reuter) Mr. Nikita Khrushchev called yesterday for smaller housing units and the construction of satellite towns in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Prime Minister told a conference of Soviet builders here that the housing problem could be solved much sooner if they
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  • 46 12 LONDON, April 13 (Reuter) Moscow radio said last night that Sputnik II would enter the earth's atmosphere and disintegrate "within the next day or two." The radio added that Sputnik II today took 23 seconds less than yesterday to circle the earth.
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  • 17 12 SPANISH police have arrested 33 people for their part in recent strikes in Barcelona. Reuter
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  • 122 12 LONDON. April 13 (Reuter) Tranquilisers are being used effectively in the treatment of stuttering, according to the i British Medical Journal. The journal describes the treatment of 18 patients at an infirmary at Glasgow, Scotland, with meprobamate— an American tranquiliser. All stuttered severely
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  • 64 12 RABAT. April 13 (Reuter)— Two Spanish warships were reported guarding the post of Tarfaya, chief town in the Spanish protectorate of Southern Morocco, today as a motorised Moroccan battalion wps on its way. Spanish troop reinforcements are also reported to have arrived in the town, scene of
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  • 71 12 PUSAN. South Korea, April 13 (Reuter) South Korean and United States naval and air sea rescue units today began searching the Korean Straits and the Sea Of Japan for a missing American transport vessel with a crew of five soldiers aboard. An official spokesman
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  • 48 12 PARIS. April 13 (Router).— Defence Ministers of the *snation Atlantic Pact meet here next week for three days of secret talks on ways of strengthening the NATO 'Shield' Forces by great integration and the progressive introduction of new weapons, said a Reuter's report from Paris yesterday.
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  • 47 12 TOKYO, April 13 (Reuter)— Prince and Princess Taka. matsu accompanied by a suite cf 31 Japanese government officials and other guests today left here aboard an Air France Super Constellation starliner for Paris via the North Pole. The new service was Inaugurated yesterday.
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  • 50 12 SHOCKED into unconsciousness, lineman WILLIAM WEHNER hangs by his safety belt from the top of a telephone pole in Brewer, Mo., after he was electrocuted while repairing tornado-damaged lines. Wehner was lowered from the pole and rushed to hospital, but he died three hours later. UP
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  • 149 12 Liberals Spurn Tory Alliance LONDON, April 13 (Reuter). The Liberal Party, which recently won a Parliamentary seat from another party for the first time in 29 years, yesterday decided it would not join the Conservative Party in an anti-Socialist alliance. The minority Liberal Party, with six seats in Parliament, has
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  • 162 12 Big Three Prepare Reply To Summit Note WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuter) Consulta aimed at drawing up a Western reply to the la Soviet note on the prep tory work for a Summ.t conference were reported to be already under way. Mr. John Foster Dul.. Secretary of State, lieved to be
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  • 71 12 NASSAU Bahamas. AprU 13 (Reuter)— The British Colonial Secretary. Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, had a gash in his forehead stitched by a doctor after slipping In t bathtub on Friday night. Mr. Lennox-Boyd suffered a two-inch gash in the forehead and bruises to both arms. After
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