Singapore Standard, 23 April 1958

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  • 19 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Coble TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY. APRIL 23, 1958. Vol. VIII. No. 294 15 ctv 14 Pages
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  • 193 1 JAKARTA, April 22 (UP) Central Government troops, driving north from the Padang beachhead, captured Lubukalang, 15 miles from the rebel capital of Bukit Tinggi, Army spokesman Lt.-Col. Rudy Pirngadie announced today. He said Army Chief of Staff. Maj.-Gen. Abdul Hans Nasution would promulgate orders
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  • 50 1 NEW DELHI, April 22 (UP) —Vice-Admiral R. D. Katari became the first Indian Chief of the Navy today when he took over from the last British Chief. Vice-Admiral Sir Stephen Carlil. Carlil was appointed an honorary Vice-Admiral m the Indian Navy m recognition of his services.
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  • 1109 1 'SWIFT AND SUDDEN RETRIBUTION' THREAT Civil Service Must Obey The Party In Power-- PAP Claim SINGAPORE City Council expatriate officers and Civil Servants who opposed the Peoples Action Party were yesterday warned to expect "swift and sudden retribution" when that Party came into power. The warning
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  • 289 1 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN K.L. TO BE RECALLED They Can Study Arts In Colony SECOND-year Arts students of the University of Malaya now m Kuala Lumpur are to be recalled to Singapore to continue their studies, it was decided by the University Council, last night. The Council's decision was m line
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  • 22 1 PRINCESS Margaret yesterday opened the first Parliament of the new West Indies Federation linking the tenisland Colonies of the Caribbean.- Reuter
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  • 53 1 photo. THE GIGANTIC base of the new television tower m Tokyo soars into the sky as construction work progresses. The huge tower which is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year will be the third highest structure m the world surpassing the Eiffel Tower
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  • 230 1 Britain Rushes Troops To Aden: Worships Alert LONDON, April 22 (UP) Britain rushed more troops into Aden today to try to head off an AdenYemen border war that could lead to new conflict between Britain and Soviet-backed Egypt British concern over the Yemen's recurrent feud with the British colony and
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  • 29 1 MALAYA and Ceylon have one game each m the Davis Cup Eastern zone tie which began m Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. Full report and photos m page 11.
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  • 50 1 SAIGON, April 22 (UP).— Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio said today Indonesia is shopping for arms m Communist countries because it was not allowed to buy arms from the U.S. or Western nations. He made the remark m an exclusive recorded interview with Radio Vietnam released today.
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  • 72 1 LONDON, April 22, (UP) Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said today that U.S. and British planes do not carry nuclear bombloads when patrolling over Britain. He told the House of Commons "Neither the U.S. Air force nor Royal Air Force bombers based m this country have carried
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  • 122 1 Next British A-Test Soon, Says Mac LONDON, April 22 (UP)— Britain will carry cut her next nuclear test explosion "m the near future." Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced today. Mr. Macmillan told the House of Commons it "would not be m the public interest" to give further details, but he
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  • 88 1 PEOPLE'S Action Party leader, Mr. Lee Kuan Tew, m a slashing: attack on the English Press m the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday, said: "Praise from them means destruction." Criticizing the attitude of the English newspapers against the PAP, Mr. Lee called on members of
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  • 60 1 MONACO EXPELS LADY DOCKER MONACO, April 22. (Reuter)—The government of Monaco today ordered the expulsion of Lady Docker, accused of making insulting remarks about the Principality. Lady Docker admitted tearing up a paper flag. She said she was "furious" because her 19-year-old son. Lance, had not been invited to attend
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  • 180 1 NEW YORK, April 22 (UP) —Princess Soraya, who lost her queenshiD because she had no children after seven years of marriage, said on her arrival here today that "I know that all the women of America will sympathize with the depths of my feelings." Looking
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  • 223 1 EXPATRIATE officers m the Singapore City Council at a special meeting last night discussed a move to resign en bloc trom the Council m protest against the Mayor's new Malayanization proposals. Action was. however deferred until the Councillors have discussed the scheme, when the Mayor
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  • 363 2 ...Say Political Party Leaders SINGAPORE political party leaders yesterday said they had no objections to having their speeches recorded during political rallies. But there was objection to Police doing this "too conspicuously." On Monday, the acting secretary-general of the WorKers' Party, Mr. V. R.
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  • 97 2 THE ADMIRAL WHO GOES TO SEA BY AIR REAR ADMIRAL G. S. Patrick, former Director of the Atomic Division m the Chief of Naval Operations Office m Washington, who arrived m Singapore yesterday by air Admiral Patrick is here to head the American Seventh Fleet Cruiser Division m the Pacific
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  • 218 2 Govt. To Decide On Indian Degrees SINGAPORE Government will decide within the next six months whether or not to recognize Indian university degrees An assurance to this effect has been given by the Education Minister. Mr. Chew Swee Kee to the Indian High Commissioner m Malaya and Singapore Mr. V.
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  • 31 2 MR. MAURICE ANG PECK HWEE. who owns the Singapore Open Air Cinema m Somapah Road will donate the entire proceeds of tonight's show to the Geylang fire victims fund.
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  • 32 2 A labourer. P. Govindarajoo. was acquitted m the Singapore First District Court, on a charge of causing grievous hurt to his neighbour S. Krishnasamy, at Nelson Road on Jan 22.
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  • 62 2 TAN SIONG HUAT yesterday pleaded not guilty m a Singapore Court to a tentative charge of abduction Tan. with four others was alleged to have abducted Fuo Yuen Chew, a merchant, by causing him to be secretly snd wrongly confined m Upper Serangoon Road on
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  • 36 2 HONGKONG April 22 Special Standard ServiceClosing trices of the Hongkong Exchange were $16 07 to £1 Sterling $5.***** to US$l; $1,840 to Malayan $1; $0,980 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Goid $252.75 to a tael.
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  • 103 2 IBANS and Kyans are the two Dyak tribes both starred and featured m the Keris film, "The Virgin of Borneo," produced m Eastman Color by Mr. Ho Ah Loke and directed by Mr. L. Krishnan Yesterday six of them, three men and three women, including the
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  • 273 2 "The first was hesitant and shifty, the second was glib and voluble," he added. Sir John continued: "No reliance can. m my opinion, be placed upon their evidence and insofar as the plaintiffs depend upon it m order to establish negligence on the part of
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  • 146 2 Cheap SIT Flats For Fire Victims ABOUT 2,000 victims of the Kampong Koo Chai fire will soon be housed m Singapore Improvement Trust low cost flats at Kallang, acting Director of Social Welfare. Mr. Woon Wah Siong. told The Standard yesterday. Mr. Woon said that the talks between him and
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  • 85 2 THE ARCHBISHOP of Singapore. Mgr Olcomendy. will bless the foundation stone of the Church of St. Francis Xavier at Chartwell Drive, Serangoon Garden Estate on Saturday at 5.30 p.m. To be built at a rost of $225,000, the church i s expected to be completed
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  • 662 3 April 23, 1958 PEOPLES Action Party leader, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, m the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday, departed from the bounds of a prepared "press hand-out" speech to indulge m some of the quaint verbiage that is becoming the hallmark of PAP spokesmen these days. Mr. Lee, went
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  • 373 3 Grave Risk I^AILURE lo reach agree--1 ment on this matter at the present conference would, m the opinion of delegates, be of the utmost gravity, since it would lead to unilateral and arbitrary action by individual countries, and to virtual chaos m maritime life and practice all over the world.
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  • 1968 3 This is the second attempt to evolve a comprehensive international pact on questions concerning the Lutf of the sea, Failure to reach agreement...would lead to virtual chaos m maritime life and practice all over the world. says G. H. GERARD reporting from Geneva 'pHE diplomatic battle
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  • 203 3 'J'HE fact remains, nevertheless, that these proposals reflect the wishes of the large group of non-mari-time "new" nations, determined to secure priority rights over a fairly wide belt of water adjoining their coasts. In fact, a proposal submitted by Colombia goes even further than that, since it would
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  • 75 3 'THE 12-mile limit proposed by the Soviet Union as a maximum, he said, would soon be regarded as a minimum. Moreover, he added, it would mean that ships and aircraft could no longer pass from one point to another without crossing the territorial seas of other countries, particularly
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  • 402 3 the NEWS as it strikes me VC HbKEVER they may be, m the Jews vfl feel a proud people today, and with justification. Celebrations begin m Israel to mark the tenth anniversary of the Promised Land. It has not been an easy decade for the two million people striving with
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  • 1136 4 NEW ERA FOR COLONY IS ON THE WAY SINGAPORE would soon be entering a new era m its political evolution and the new constitution which would come into operation with the general elections was a challenge to the people of the Colony to uphold the democratic form of Government, said
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  • 368 4 DIFFICULTIES arising from shipping arrangements have prevented the Singapore Government from banishing persons against whom banishment orders have been made, said the Chief Secretary, Mr. E. B. David, yesterday. Mr. David, who was replying to questions tabled by Independent Assemblyman Seah Peng Chuan (Kampong Kapor)
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  • 264 4 Telephone: Govt. Can't Interfere THE Singapore Telephone Board was a statutory body with full responsibility to fix its charges and the Government could not interfere on this issue of increased telephone rates, the Minister for Communication and Works. Mr. Francis Thomas, said yesterday. Mr. Thomas, who was ieplying to a
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  • 243 4 STRIP artistes from Hongkong had never entered Singapore m the specific category of strip specialists but as entertainers or as members of dancing troupes, said the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock yesterday. Mr. Lim was replying to questions raised by Independent Assemblyman Lee
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  • 638 4 DRAFT CHARTER FOR SELF-GOVT. EXPECTED BY END OF MONTH IN THE SINGAPORE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday told the Le^iv lative Assembly that though the constitutional instruments for the self governing Singapore were still being drafted m the Colonial Office m London, the completed draft
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  • 250 4 8,292 PEOPLE ARE JOBLESS THERE were 8.292 persons unemployed m Singapore at the end of January this year, the Legislative Assembly was told yesterday. The Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, disclosing this added that of this total, 39."* persons where either sick or disabled. He told the House that
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  • 444 4 Cry Of Shame' From PAP Man THERE was a cry of "shame" from the Peoples' Action Party Opposition leader Mr. Lee Kuan Yew when he was told that the Singapore Government was not taking any action against the Personnel and Welfare Manager of the Singapore Harbour Board against whom the
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  • 126 4 NO BAN ON FIRECRACKERS, UNLESS... THE Singapore Government would not ban the importation of all fire crackers into the Colony, unless it considered that such a measure would manifestly serve the interests of the island's public, said the Chief Secretary, Mr. E, B. David, yesterday. Mr. David, replying to questions
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  • 214 4 No Action Which May Be Misconstrued David THE Singapore Government would abstain from taking any action, which a friendly foreign nation might construe as "interference m their internal affairs," said the Chief Secretary, Mr. E. B. David, yesterday. He was replying to a gues- 1 tion raised by Independent Assemblyman
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  • 426 5 To Decide Entry Into Public Service— Mr. Chew however, a visiting research professor conducting a course of training m methods of educational testing and it might be possible to have his assistance m the task of compiling comparison data at some later date. Answering a
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  • 281 5 THE Tanglin Vlu Pandan branch of the Labour Front has asked Singapore's Chief Minister, Mr. Llm Yew Hock, for immediate action to prepare the state anthem, flag and seal. In a memorandum to the Chief Minister, the branch said that it wants a
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  • 232 5 NEGOTIATIONS between the Singapore City aril's all-party team the Council's Labour ris Federation, resulted m the settlement of one 24 demands of the ::on yesterday. 1 demand was for a betrance pay scheme for edundant gas workers. The terms of settlement: 1. The Council
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  • 127 5 THE establishment of secondary industries would never take the place of entrepot trade so far a s Singapore was concerned, Mr. G.A.P. Sutherland (Nominated) said m the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday. He said, however, he was optimistic about Singapore's future. The coffers of the land
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  • 32 5 CITY COUNCIL workers digging near Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday discovered some bones believed to be that of a child. Police were notified and the bones removed for examination
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  • 187 5 Penang To Have Big Wesak Day Procession PENANG, Tues. A lower and flag jn of Buddhist dewith the image of I Buddha carried m an ted car, will be one highlights during ear's Wesak Day orations, which will be from May 2 to May 4. procession will be held :ng
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  • 54 5 TWO youths sustained minor injuries when the van m which they were travelling, was involved m a collision with a car at the 7th Mile, Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore yesterday The two. Peck Kirn Chye, 22, and Teo Peak Chong. 13, were treated as out-patients
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  • 291 5 English Must Stay Leaders during the days of colonialism, it should be even more useful m the days when we manage our own affairs." Said Mr. K. L. Devaser, Nominated Alliance Federal Councillor. "English Is the welding force of the Commonwealth and the democratic world. In fact it is the
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  • 57 5 THE Minister for Local Government, Housing and Land, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, left last night for London to attend the seventh Parliamentary course conducted by ihe Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Inche Jumat is one of the 20 persons attending the course which started en Monday.
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  • 33 5 A YOUTH. Koh Tek Tan, was acquitted m the Singapore Second District Court, on a charge of robbing a seaman of articles worth $127, at Kampong Tiong Bahru, on March 4.
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  • 66 5 ENJOYING THE ROCK GARDEN THE Federation's Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, with Mr. G. Walker, President of the Kuala Lumpur Municipality, Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir, Minister of Works, and the Mentri Besar of Selangor. Inche Abdul Jamil bin Rais, enjoys the view of the rock' garden m Tunku Abdul
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  • 113 5 A HOUSEWIFE, Loh Kuan Tee, was yesterday acquitted by the Singapore Third District Court, on a charge of causing the death of a two-year-old boy, by negligently leaving a tin of caustic soda solution, m an unlocked cupboard. The Judge, Mr. S. K. Lee, m acquitting Loh, said
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  • 30 5 THE inaugural meeting of the Nanyang University Students Union will be held today at 4.30 p.m. m the Arts Faculty Hall. The Union was recently exempted from registration.
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  • 31 5 A SIXTEEN-Y E A R-OLD Singapore student. Sin Kin Gun, was waylaid by three men while walking along Lorong 8, Geylang, and robbed of three oens worth $50 yesterday
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  • 33 5 HOWE WOOT CHUA charged yesterday with attempting to extort from Yong Hong Nong by putting him m fear of injury at Geylang on April 19 was allowed bail till May 6.
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  • 219 5 ASSEMBLYMAN for Changi, Lim Cher Kheng. called I ipore Legislative Asr.en yesterday to face realities and recogiangers to the Colony. oakino on the Chief s motion to thank the for his speech on pening of the Assembly \pril 9, Mr. Lim said the ;ers were three:
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  • 101 6 PENANG, Tues.— Available water supply from the hill streams here has decreased very considerably due to the long dry spell. The City Council, however, today requested consumers not to be alarmed. They were told not to nil cans, tanks and baths as this would
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  • 228 6 Police Praise For Civic Sense Shown By Public BUTTERWORTH, Tuesday— An assortment of weapons, commonly used m gang fights, was seized by the Buttei worth Police m a raid on an attap house m Kampong Musang, off Chain Ferry Road, during the week-end Disclosing this
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  • 111 6 FOUR NEW Family Planning Association clinics have been opened m Singapore and St. John's Island, The Standard learned yesterday. Two operate weekly m Prinsep Street and m the new Institute of Health. A third is open m the Harbour Board area every fortnight and a fourth
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  • 128 6 Community Centre's New Officials NEW officials of the Balestier Community Centre elected at its sixth annual general meeting held recently m Singapore are: President, Mr. Chan Chow Wah, vicepresident, Mr. Lim Chong Hock, hon. general secretary. Mr. Chong Pid Chong, asst. Hon. general secretary, Mr. Lim Chin Jit, hon. treasurer,
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  • 42 6 PORT SWETTENHAM, Tues —The Boarding Officer of the Marine Department here, Inche Abdul Sharian bin Mansoor, will be transferred to Malacca at the end of the month. The newly-appointed Boarding Officer, Mr M. Anandarajah, will succeed Inche Sharian
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  • 34 6 TWO youths, armed with daggers, on Monday entered the home of a contractor, Lee Ah Chuan. at Hugh Low Street, Ipoh. and escaped with cash and jewellery to the value of $610.
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  • 61 6 A RUBBER contractor, Choo Ngo Hock, was yesterday fined S4OO or two months' jail by the Singapore Sixth Magistrate's Court for assaulting detective Lim Meng Seng. Choo was said to have punched the detective at the junction of Bugis Street and Hylam Street, on
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  • 45 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Inspectors of schools m the Federation will hold their first seminar here from April 28 to May 2. Apart from study groups and discussions, the inspectors will hear lectures by local experts on matters of education and culture.
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  • 86 6 THE Federation's Minister for Health, Mr. V. T. Sambanthan. on Saturday inspected Malaya's first floating dental clinic at Teluk Anson dockyard. The boat, which is nearing completion, costs about $70,000. It is expected to be launched by the Sultan of Perak next month. Photo shows Mr.
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  • 89 6 BLACKSMITH'S MURDER: TWO MORE CHARGED PENANG, Tues.— Two more youths were produced today m the Magistrate's Court here and tentatively charged with the murder of a blacksmith, Chew Ah Sai, m the compound of a hotel m Dato Kramat Road on April 17. Khoo Khek Che&ng and Tan Beow Boon
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  • 121 6 Board Will Advise On Lands IPOH, Tues. A body, mainly to advise the State on the implementation of land development projects, was formed here recently. Called the State Natural Resources Board, it is headed by the Mentri Besar of Perak. Inche Mohamed Ghazali biD Haji JawL The Board will prepare
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  • 41 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Selangor Indian Association will hold its annual general meeting at the association premises on May 4. A resolution to form a youth section for the "promotion of sporting, educational and cuitural activities" will be introduced.
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  • 40 6 OFFICER m Charge of Klang District, Mr. P. R Perm, will retire at the end of the month under the Malayanization scheme. He will be succeeded by Mr. P. Alagendra, at present Officer-in-Charge of Kuala Lumpur "A" Division.
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  • 209 6 PENANG, Tues. A maidservant. Tan Ah Leng, told the Magistrate's Court here today that on hearing a commotion m front of her employer's home, she rushed out and saw her employer, Goh Hock Jin, on the ground with a man on top of him She
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  • 27 6 THE 62nd annual meeting, of the Chr tion Club. Penang. v at the club's prem: toria Green at 8 p.m. on Wed nesday, April 30.
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  • 170 6 MOVE TO CHECK 'TEDDY BOYS' KUALA LUMPUR, T The problem of "Ti Boys" will be one of top priority matters to tackled by the new of management of the X pong Bharu Settler. here. The Standard derstands. The Board, to he next Tuesday, will stu problem thorough wa\'s and means
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  • 82 6 Shoplifter Allowed $300 Ball PENANG. Tues. While a salesman was busy atte: to customers m his shoD. a youth slipped out with a box containing six shirts. The salesman, however, noticed this. He gave cr and arrested the youth, Inspector Kong Fook Yew the Magistrate's Court I The youth, Abu
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  • 194 6 f 4^ U^^ A LU R Tues Th Selangor Division of the Malayan Indian Congress will not give any assurance of good behaviour" to the Selangor UMNO an taUv SP kCsman of the Division told The Standard Referring to the reported demand by the Selangor
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  • 298 7 Stabbed By Two Men, Court Told A BRIDE of seven months, who rushed home from her mother's house after receiving a message from a boy, found her husband dying m a pool of blood, a Singapore Assize Court was told yesterday. Accused of the murder
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  • 85 7 Catholic Bodies Plan May Day Celebration THREE Singapore Catholic organizations will jointly celebrate May Day at the CYMA premises m Waterloo Street on May 1 at 5.30 p.m. They are: The Catholic Social GuLd, the Young Christian Workers and the Catholic Young Men's Association. The celebration will commence with Mass
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  • 138 7 'APPLE, PEAR BODY CAUSING HARDSHIP' THE existence of the Apple and Pear Importers Committee set up m Singapore by Australia was not only causing hardship to Colony dealers not on the Committee, but was also not "m the best interests of Colony consumers," said the Minister for Commerce and Industry,
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  • 63 7 FOUR youths, Tan Sang Kung, Choo Chov Chew. Ho Chin Peng and Ho Fook Sim pleaded not guilty m a Singapore Court yesterday to a charge of attempting to extort from Pheng Fui Seng by putting him In fear of injury at Geylang about 8.30
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  • 37 7 A PARTLY decomposed body of a man of about 24 years of age was yesterday found floating m Sungei Mansilling. Singapore. The body was that of a Chinese but has not been identified.
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  • 45 7 FOR the convenience of the public, the Singapore Rural Board will ODen a district collection centre on April 29 at No. 44, Tanjong Kling, where all rates and dues payable to the Board may be paid between 9 a.m. and 1.30 p.m.
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  • 300 7 as a matter of policy," Dr. Lsmail .said. "Malaya appreciates this," Dr. Ismail said. "For it wants its own citizens trained and absorbed into the management of foreign industrial ventures." Dr Ismail said Malaya, with a rapidly expanding population, cou.d easily provide workers
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  • 92 7 THE Chinese V.M.C.A. has elected Dr Chen Su Lan as president of its Board of Directors for 1958. Other members of the Board are: Vice-presidents: Messrs I. C. Lam and Thio Chan Bee, English recording secretary: Mr. Peter T. S. Lim, Chinese recording secretary: Rev.
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  • 156 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) m Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot 791 801 R.S.S. No. 1 (May 771 77! R.S.S. No. 1 (June) 765 771 R.S.S No 2 73} 731 R.S.S. No. 3 69} 69| Tone: Quiet. The price of tin m Singapore yesterday was
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  • 322 7 Planted' Red Flag In Shop, $1,000 Fine PENANG, Tues. A widow accused of planting a Malayan Communist Party flag inside a coffeeshop was fined $1,000 today and was told by the Sessions Judge, Mr. Au Ah Wah, "What you have done is an extremely dirty piece of work." Ooi Chu
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  • 70 7 Pleads Not Guilty To Intimidation LIM Chin Quee, yesterday pleaded not guilty m a Singapore Court to a charge of criminal intimidation. He wa s alleged to have threatened Wong Kay Kuan with death by telling him to perjure m a case of attempted extortion at Campbell Lane about 10.30
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  • 83 9 A NOVELTY item recently introduced into the Singapore radio business is a Germantype, wireless-cum-painting. For the price of one, the buyer gets a German painting on canvas, as well as a built-in radio. All controls are hidden, but are easily handled, it is claimed. The radio's
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  • 119 9 THERE is no danger at present of a shortage of rice m Singapore, the Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J.M. Jumabhoy, said m the Legislative Assembly yesterday. Mr. Jumabhoy said merchants were now holding large stocks In the godowns. a considerable quantity of, which
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  • 93 9 British Coal Works May Face Loss LONDON, April 22, (Reuter) —The National Coal Board— which controls Britain's nationalised coal industry will show a deficit of about £5,000,--000 sterling on 1957 working, it is learned here. A spokesman said the account had not yet been completed, but would be ready for
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  • 243 9 KUCHING, Tues. The entry of a bank into Sarawak was a sign of confidence m the expansion of trade and commerce m the country, said the Governor, Sir Anthony Abell, yesterday. The Governor was speaking at a reception marking the opening of a branch of
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  • 90 9 Colony Rule On Import Of Eggs EVERY egg imported into Singapore m future must bear a stamp showing the country of its origin. This was stated by the Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy. m the Legislative Assembly yesterday. The Minister said there had been unfair dumping
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  • 115 9 SINGAPORE Trade Advisory Council has advised the Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, that it is neither necessary nor advantageous at present to establish a trade mission m China. Mr. Jumabhoy revealed this m the Legislative Assembly yesterday. Mr. Jumabhoy said it
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  • 111 9 OUTER ROADS Francoise. Kaigata Maru, San Carlos, Kaloekoe, Sumatra, Ferndale, Pnesident Traf t, Douglas, Ocean Fortune, Maxwell Brander, Sambas. Ryvarden, Benlomond, Polyphemeus, Great Oaks, flancius. Reyniersz, Ozarda, Banggai. INNER ROADS Gold Dragon. Eastern Fortune, Aik Leong, Hong Ming. Tong Goan, Indari. Resang, Lam Ann, Sedili, Larantuka. Hibiscus,
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  • 25 9 MARCH rubber crops announced are: Ayer Panas 79--000 lb.; Glenealy 66.000 lb.; Kluang 53.000 lb.; Pajam 116,--000 lb.; Ulu Benut Consolidated 24,000 lb.
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  • 77 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Pro duce Exchange noon dosing prices per picu] yesterday were: copra April May UK Continent $31$ buyers $32 sellers coconut oil m bulk $47i sellers; m drums $50 fellers: Muntok while ueppei $134 sellers; Sarawak white $133 sellers; Special Sarawak black $74. Singapore Coconut Oil Millers Association
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  • 126 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes m its rates to merchants yesterday: LONDON: selling, T.T. or O.D 2/3-7/8; buying, airmail, |.T. 2/4. O.D. 2/4-1/16. 30 d/st 2/4-7/32. 4.V d/st 2/4-9/32. 60 d/st 2,4--11/32, 90 d/st 2/4-15/32, 120 d/st 2/4-5/8, 180 d/st 2/4-29/32 New York: buying,
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  • 45 9 SINGAPORE Chamber ol Commerce Rubber Association noon prices m cents per lb yesterday were: Buyers Seller* Spot f.o.b. 79} 80J International May No. 1 R£S f.o.b. 77? 78 June 77i 77| May No. 2 73J 74 May No. 3 69| 70 Tone Quiet.
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  • 30 9 AN industrial estate is to be established m Delhi for the development of sports goods industry m the Union territory. It will cost about nine lakns of rupees.
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  • 104 9 Industrials Are Steadier INDUSTRIALS were steadier while tins and rubbers were quiet m the Malayan share market yesterday. Turnover was small. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Fraser and Neave: Ords 2.60 265 xd Gammon 2.34 2.38 W. Hammer 1.55 160 Henry Waugh 1.13
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  • 175 9 Business ln Shares MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done: Fraser and Neave ords. $2,674: Gammon $2.36 overnight; Hammer $1,571 to $1.59, $1.60 (overnight); H. Waugh $1.15; Jackson $1.27 i Malayan Cement $132; M Colls 79c; McAlister $1.30: Robinson ord P $1.61, $162 overnight; Sime Darby $1.54: Traction odds 24/4J;
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  • 81 9 SARAWAK Oilfields Limited has changed its name to Sarawak Shell Oilfields Limited. The change was decided upon by special resolution passed at the annual general meeting of the Company, held at Lutong. Sarawak, recently. The inclusion of "Shell" m the name of the company
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  • 161 9 BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation engineers have Invented a new recording apparatus called "Vera", which stores television pictures and sound on magnetic tape. Vera-vision. electronic recording apparatus— took engineers of the BBC Research Department two years to design and build and replaces the old system of programme reproduction
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  • 31 9 JAPAN Air Lines will mark the official opening of its Singapore office m the American International Building m Robinson Road with a cocktail party m the premises, on Saturday.
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  • 686 9 OPTIMISM IN FUTURE NATURAL RUBBER J JJWMM I ','PJ I >'<' LMING I OPTIMISM m the future of natural rubber is expressed by prei of the Natural Rubber Bureau m Washington, Mr. H. C. Bugbee, y± summing up of the world natural rubber position. im y± He estimates the world
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  • 39 9 PAPER production m the Netherlands last year amounted to 519.400 tons, according to statistics furnished by the Netherlands Government. Production m the preceding year was 466.300 tons, an increase last year of 11.4 per cent.
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  • 382 9 WASHINGTON, April 22 (UP)— American experts are sharply divided on what remedies to use to stem and ultimately reverse the economic recession. The government is appealing to the consumer to "buy" his way out of the recession, back into prosperity. President Eisenhower has urged the
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  • 22 9 TWO extensions to factories belonging to the Philips concern m Holland were opened last month, says the Netherlands Economic Bulletin.
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  • 94 10 GUESTS and hosts at the recent social dance organised by the 1 125 Marine Craft unit of the R.A.F., Glugor, Penang, to celebrate the winning of the Marine Craft Efficiency Trophy by the unit for two consecutive years. MR. R. STITT, Manager of the Sungei Nyok Dockyards
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  • 153 10 500 Years Ago rpHIS gruesome looking hole contained an ancient coffin which had been exhumed by Mr. Tan Eng Chye recently. The only remains recovered were bits of pelvis bones of an unidentified resident of 500 years ago, said Mr. Tan. There were also several Chinese tea pots still intact
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  • 56 10 AT a recent meeting at the Kheh Association, Burmah Road, Penang, the Supervisor of Chinese Schools, Penang and Province Wellesley, Mr. Chan Yik King (back facing camera) tells headmasters of the Chinese schools how to fill up the estimate forms for next year. Most of the Chinese
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  • 97 10 STAFF members of the Kempas Devon Estate at Merlimau, Malacca, gave a farewell party to Mr. W. Murray and Mrs. Murray (seated fifth and seventh) who left SAq\qccq for a well-earned holiday m England. Mr. Murray has been m Malaya as a planter for 33 years,
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  • 14 11 The Davis Cup Scoreboard: Ceylon 1 Malaya 1
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  • 802 11 He Beats Pinto After Hee Chin Drops The Opener try's hopes rested on him winning here. He did not disappoint, but how he had to labour for his victory. Although Chew Bee was clearly the superior player, he was helped to a very great extent by the indifferent form shown
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  • 133 11 S'gor Boys For Schools Carnival KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The following have been selected to represent the Selangor Combined Schools team for the soccer carnival to be held m Singapore from April 24 to 30. Tai Wai Men* (KLMBS), Ngiau Ah Chooi (KLMAS). Nithianathan (Com.), Ramachandran (KDS> Mustakim (MGHS), Roslan bin"
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  • 37 11 PENANG. Tues. In preparation for the start of the first division league. Chinese Wanderers "A" beat Muslim Recreation Club by seven clear goals m a friendly soccer match at the City Stadium last evening.
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  • 111 11 Eastern Zone Semi-Finals TOKYO, April 21 {ReuteD The Japan Lawn Tennis Association tonight announced the Japanese and Philippine teams will compete m the Eastern zone Davis Cup semi-finals m Tokyo from May 2 to May 4. The Japanese team led by Mr. Jlro Kumamanu is exactly the same as the
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    60 11 MALAYA'S Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, meets Ceylon's players before the opening of the first Davis Cup match m this country at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. And on right, he is introduced to Malaya's own team before the match got underway at the Selangor padang. Malaya is meeting Ceylon m an
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  • 378 11 Trio From Bagby Stable Impress For Penang Races By WINDSOR LAD FENANG, Tues. Three of Fenang Trainer Wally Bagby's candidates for the two-day Penang Turf Club's Summer meeting showed up to advantage on the track this morning. They were High Hopes (Dragon), Timberlane and Meteorite 11. Working on the outside
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  • 349 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. For the fourth year m succession. North Malayan Sikhs beat South Malayan Sikhs 3-1 m their annual Pan-Malayan Sikhs hockey classic for the Sumatra Cup on the HeadQuarters Federation Army ground here today. North, possessing a cleverer of forwards, led by
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  • 336 11 Hockey Team May Miss Tokyo Trip Must Raise $15,000 Or They're Out, Warns Soh THE Colony's hockey team will not be sent to Tokyo for the Asian Games if the Singapore Hockey Association is unable to raise its quota of $15,000 for its 16-men team and two officials. This warning
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  • 114 11 Govt. Won't Build THAT Stadium THE SINGAPORE Government will not reestablish the Sports Stadium Board, the Chief Secretary, Mr. E. B. David, told the Legislative Assembly yesterday. Replying to a query tabled by Liberal Socialist Assemblyman Son Ghee Soon (Cairnhill), the Chief Secretary added that it was neither the intention
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  • 209 11 SINGAPORE Recreation Club registered their fourth successive victory when they edged Balestier United by three goals to two m the S.A.F.A. Division 2A league match played on the SRC padang yesterday. Recs, trailing 2-1 at the interval, recovered m the second half to maintain their
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  • 142 11 Games Flame For Tokyo MANILA, April 22 (Reuter). Two Japanese Air Force planes carrying the Asian Games flame left here today for Japan. The flame m a specially constructed safety lamp came from a torch which was lit this morning at Rizal Memorial Coliseum here. The flame will burn at
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  • 57 11 THE Hongkong Football Association, holders of the Aw Hoe Cup competition, will play d return match with Singapore at Jalan Besar Stadium today at 5.30 p-m. They are due to leave foi Hongkong at midnight. There will be no changes m the* Singapore team which met
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  • 208 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Ron Meades the English professional coach arrives m Kuala Lumpur on April 25. This was disclosed today by Mr. Kwok Ah Keng, Secretary of the Football Association of Malaya. Mr. Kwok said that Ron Meades is coming here at
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  • 17 12 BELFAST, April 21 (Reuter) —Glentoran beat Portadown 2-1 tonight m an Irish league soccei matchj
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  • 467 12 3,000 Soccer Fans In Hostile Mood LONDON, April 21, (Reuter) Police were called to protect the referee after promotion candidates Plymouth Aigyle had been beaten at home m tonight's English football league programme. Plymouth, leaders of the third division south, went down 2-3 to Southend
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  • 148 12 Turpin Stops Wright LEICESTER, April 21. (Reuter).—Randolph Turpin, British light-heavyweight champion, beat Eddie Wright, of London, m the seventh round of their ten-round contest at the Granby Halls here tonight. The referee stopped the fight after Wright had been down for counts of five, three and nine m the seventh
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  • 570 12  -  JOHN DAVIS By LONDON, April 21 (Reuter) A warning note which should shake England out of its cricket complacency was sounded when the New Zealand team arrived here this week m search of their first Test win over England. The New Zealanders had already
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  • 62 12 TOKYO, April 21 (Reuter). Hitoshi Misako, seventh ranking flyweight boxer m world ratings tonight announced his retirement from the ring He was once listed second m world flyweight ratings. The young 24-year-old boxer gave no reason for his retirement. He first became prominent when he beat Tanny Campo
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  • 605 12  -  CLAUDE RICHARDSON By LONDON, April 21, (Reuter) A star player of 17 or over m British professional football will be able to earn as much as the average doctor m general practice if a new pay deal' is approved by the football
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  • 254 12 Two tough-looking Thai boxers make their debut at the Happy World stadium on Saturday night. They are Sarica Yontrakit, Thailand's featherweight champion and fourth ranking Oriental featherweight contender, and Darachai Samanchai, 10th ranking flyweight m Bangkok's 112-pound diadem. Sarica fights Ray Ming Chan m the
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  • 233 12 Miler In Favour Of Cash Prizes STOCKHOLM, Swedrrv April 21 ((IT).— <jundar Hacg£, Sweden's once great miler ot the early forties, has come out m favour of paying runners cash priies "m direct proportion to their clocking." Haegg, who held the v> record of 4:01.4 when he disqualified m 1945
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  • 43 12 LONDON. April 21. (Reuter> Results m tonight's rugby uraon and league matches were: UNION: Camborne 3 Cross Key* 5 Coventry 8 Northampton ruth 21 Bridgwater and Alt Tauton 6 Bath 3 LEAGUE: Huddersfield 16 Barrow 23 Workington Town 32 Swinton 2
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  • 172 12 MELBOURNE, April 21, (Reuter). Ashley Cooper, 21-year-old Davis Cup player from Melbourne, was ranked number one today m the 1958 national rankings list issued by the Australian Lawn Tennis Association For the first time m five years the list did not contain the names of
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    • 33 12 SINGAPORE SOCCER Singapore vs. Hongkong at Jalan Besar Stadium, 5.30 p.m. KUALA LUMPUR DAVIS CUP Malaya vs. Ceylon. SOCCER F.A.S. Div. 1 R.A.F. vs. T.P.C.A. Princes Road Div. 2—S.I.A. vs. S.C.A.A. Taylor Road.
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  • 587 13 Demi Tasse writes on the HV do teachers confiscate the comics their pupils read m the classrooms? This question sent m by students of a Selangor school is not a new one but it crops up ever so often that 1 think it worth the while to
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  • 87 13 RICARDO SENNA, a thirteen year old boy from Macao, likes to correspond with pen pals m country. His hobbies are stamp collecting, \ming, radio listening. and friendly correspondence. Address: No. 14 Rua Nova do Comercio, Macao, South China. A seventeen year o T d Eurasian airl irom St.
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  • 288 13 A Singapore student has carved out two careers for himself since he arrived m Melbourne more than three years ago. Yap Teck Chye. of 22 Ripley Crescent. Singapore, came to Australia to learn to be an architect and he is now m his final year at the
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  • 116 13 Study Tours During Holidays APRIL holidays won't x^ be dull for many boys and girls from the various schools m Singapore, because the Rotary Club here has organised a series of excursions The programme rovers visits to Radio Malaya, the Harbour Board. Ford Motors Company and others that will have
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  • 47 13 PRESIDENT of the Gan Eng Seng Old Stu dents Association, Dr. Kiang Ai Kirn of the University of Malaya, invites all old boys to join the Association. There will be a Dinner Dance on May 15 Membership subscription is $3 per annum.
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  • 92 13 cratic. friendly and helpful people. Yap lives m a flat with his two cousins. Yap Chai and Yap Choon Lim. both students of civil engineering at the Swinburn Technical College They do their own cooking, mostly of Chinese food. After. he graduates next
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    • 336 13 THE DIARY THE Science and Mathe- students) can attend these tong Girls' School, will ■I Srit-^l Qnoiohr nf special Practical Classes. be pleased. to learn matical Society of T^ c classes begin at me that Mr Yeo Kok Keong Raffles Institution is and ends at twelve o'clock will today start
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    • 137 14 POLICE BATTLE 'MANIAC -THREE KILLED DANA POINT. California, April 22 (Reuter) Three people were killed m a gunbattle here when police went to investigate reports that a maniac was m charge of an old bus converted into mobile living quarters. Police said a woman telephoned after the battered bus stopped
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    • 275 14 BRITAIN'S REPLY TO SOVIET SUMMIT NOTE OF APRIL 4 LONDON. April 22, (Reuter)— Mr. Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister, has called on the Soviet Union to join the West m technical talks on a disarmament control system. He was replying m a letter handed
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    • 237 14 Hongkong West's Listening Post Into Red China NEW YORK, April 22. (Reuter) Sir Alexander Grantham, the retiring Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hongkong last night described the British colony as 'the Berlin of the East the best listening post the West has into Communist China and a fine example of the
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    • 126 14 Bidault Hopes To Be The 27th Premier PARIS, April 22. (UP)-— Georges Bidault expects to be ready by Thursday to ask the National Assembly to confirm him as France's 27th postwar premier, it was reported today Political observers gave Bidault little chance of victory. His firm "save Algeria" policy is
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    • 30 14 THE United States has ordered the expulsion of a Czech diplomat from Washington, following Czechosloa's exDulsion of a United re s diplomat m Prague last week. Reuter
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    • 202 14 Washington Questions Russian Intentions WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuter) The State Department spokesman yesterday questioned the Soviet Government's intentions regarding a Summit conference. The spokesman, Mr. Lincoln White, said that the Soviet refusal to conier' jointly with the three Western ambassadors m Moscow m Summit preparatory talks, together with its charges
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    • 23 14 THE Japanese Government yesterday decided at a cabinet meeting that the House of Representatives would be dissolved on April 25.- Reuter
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    • 29 14 MISS MARGERY FRY authority on penal reform noted author, and a former governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation, died m London on Monday. She was 83.- Reuter
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    • 23 14 A 2.658-year-old tomb has been discovered by Egyptian archaeologists m the Ein Shams area, on the northeastern outskirts of Cairo. Reuter
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    • 25 14 THE BOARD of the Sydney University Union has banned criticism of the Royal Family at the weekly meeting of the union's members.- Reuter
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    • 23 14 MR DOM MINTOFF. Prime Minister of Malta, and his cabinet have resigned, opening the way for an imminent general election.- Reuter
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    • 24 14 FIFTY countries will be represented at the fourth international congress of biochemistry to be held m Vienna from Sept. 1 to 6. Reuter
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    • 192 14 Nuclear Fallout Over U.S. Increases NEW YORK, April 22, (UP) There has been a detectable increase m radioactivity m the United States as the result of fallout from the Nevada nuclear weapons tests, but the Atomic Energy Commission believes it involves a risk to health and heredity so slight as
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    • 54 14 TORONTO, April 22 (UP)— The Canadian Red Cross Is flying a shipment of vaccine to help fight a smallpox epidemic m East Pakistan which is reported to have killed 15,000 persons and affected almost a million more. National headquarters announced that the shipment, consisting of 23,050
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    • 57 14 CALCUTTA. April 22 (Reuter) Polire used tear gas and baton-charged about 3,000 rioting unemployed youths m Calcutta today and arrested about 90 The youths who had gathered outside the fire brigade headquarters m the hope of being given jobs as firemen attacked the brigade headquarters smashing
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    • 36 14 THE horses are about to pass by, prior to last week's events m the Badminton Horse Trials, and Queen Elizabeth stoops to pick up one of the Queen Mother's dachshunds. U.P.
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    • 86 14 £11,000 Gold Missing From Plane PARIS, April 22 (Reuter) A case containing 55 pounds of gold worth £11,000 has disappeared from a French airliner between Karachi and Saigon, airport sources said. It was part of a consignment from Johannesburg to a bank m Hongkong. This is the second reported disappearance
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    • 31 14 THE 34,183-ton British luxury liner Caronia with a millionaire cargo of 433 passengers aboard has entered the United States naval drydock at Yokosuka. near Tokyo for repairs. Reuter
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    • 103 14 CHICAGO. April 22. (UP). The paintings of Sir Winston Churchill drew a flat rejection yesterday from Chicago's Art Institute, which was asked to exhibit 35 works by Britain's wartime Prime Minister The Institute's director. Daniel Catton Rich, and 23 trustees turned thumbs down on
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    • 21 14 ANTARA newsagency m Jakarta yesterday reported more than half a million persons were threatened with famine m Central Java.
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    • 155 14 LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 22. (Reuter)—Fortyeight people were killed when a United Airlines DC-7 airliner and a jet fighter-bomber collided m the air near here yesterday. The airliner carried 41 passengers and a crew of five. The jet fighter— an FIOOF Super Sabre fighter-bomber
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    • 69 14 GARDENER WILLS £1,000 TO EMPLOYER MERIONETH Wales. April 22 (Reuter).— Jonathan Pearce BC-year-old gardener left a legacy of almost £1,000 to his employer Joan Viscountess Chetwynd m his will published here yesterday. He tended the gardens on her estate here for 36 years. Lady Chetwynd. 59. former wife of the
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    • 81 14 UNITED NATIONS April 22 (UP).— Russia last night unexpectedly withdrew its demand for Security Council condemnation of alert missions by United States hydrogen bombers. The U.S. hailed the action as "a complete defeat" for the Soviet Union. The flights will continue as defence against surprise
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    • 279 14 Ike's Plan Is Too Militaristic -He Says WASHINGTON. April 22 (UP) Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Services Committee said today the U.S. military setup is basically "sound" but "some changes" are needed m the Pentagon. He made the statement m launching public hearings on President Eisenhower's sweeping military
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    • 36 14 THREE OFFICIALS of the Sadlers Wells Opera who resigned last February because of a proposed merger with the Carl Rosa Opera have withdrawn their resignations and agreed to continue m their posts.- Reuter
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    • 150 14 LJUBLJANA, Yugoslavia, April 22, (Reuter)— President Tito today condemned the "shortsightedness and tactlessness of certain comrades m Eastern Europe who tried to draw Yugoslavia into the Soviet bloc. "It Is difficult for us to understand such shortsightedness and tactlessness towards our country," the Yugoslav
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    • 59 14 WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuter) Mr. Harold Macmillan and President Eisenhower will confer at the White House on world problems on June 9 and 10. the White House announced yesterday. The White House was giving details of Mr. Macmiilan's planned visit to the United States,
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    • 29 14 DEMANDS for pay increases totalling £200.000.000 a year for 3.000.000 British engineering and shipyard workers are to be considered by trade union leaders next week.- Reuter
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    • 31 14 THE KEEL of the N S. Savannah, the United States' first commercial nuclearpowered vessel will be laid <n May Z2, U.S. Maritime Day. it was announced m Washington. Reuter
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