Singapore Standard, 3 May 1958

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  • 23 1 ft an SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Cable "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1958 Vol. VIII. No. 304 15 cts. 14 Pages (FINAL EDITION]
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  • 421 1 PILGRIM SHIP ATTACKED NEAR MAKASSAR Unidentified. Plane Strafes Ternate Sultans Palace LONDON, May 2 (UP)— An unidentified plane killed five persons and seriously wounded 23 when it bombed a merchant ship in the Indonesian port of Kendari, the Indonesian News Agency Antara said in a
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  • 619 1 A ROUSING WELCOME FOR MAYOR OF PENANG We Should Meet Every Year —Ong MAYOR D.S. Ramanathan and three Councillors of the City of George Town were yesterday given a rousing civic welcome by their counterparts in Singapore. The ceremony was held on the gaily beflagged City Hall steps and witnessed
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  • 85 1 LONDON, May 2 (Reuter) Mr. lain MacLeod. Labour Minister, today rejected lastminute Labour Opposition appeals in Parliament that he should personally act to avert the London bus strike by 50,000 men timed for midnight on Sunday. Mr. MacLeod was accused In the House of
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  • 187 1 LONDON, May 2 (Reuter) Five Royal Air Force jet aircraft four Canberra bombers and a Comet transport streaked across the Atlantic today to escort Princess Margaret's plane to British Honduras amid continuing speculation about possible "sabre rattling" hv nrifrhhourins Guatemala. lan Minister in London. Another
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  • 172 1 KARACHI, May 2, (UP).— Demonstrators armed with clubs and carrying black flags of mourning roamed the streets of Karachi today and closed most business houses in protest against the arrest of Sheikh Abdullah, former Premier of Kashmir. The street mobs were growing in volume constantly.
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  • 188 1 JAKARTA, May 2 (AFP) Indonesian Foreign Minister Dr. Subandrio said today that he was prepared to give the United States Ambassador confidential Information on the reported participation of U.S. nationals in the Indonesian rebellion. 1 Commenting on Secretary of State Mr. John Foster Dulles'
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  • 47 1 SINGAPORE Police yesterday released 74-year-old Chinese Chamber of Commerce accountant, Chan Chek Ee, who was arrested on a banishment warrant on April 10. Meanwhile Police detained another man under a banishment warrant The number of persons arrested under these warrants now remains at 12.
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  • 333 1 THE first All-Party meeting on the draft of the new Constitution for Singapore yesterday agreed that no amendment should be made to the draft constitution to provide for minority representations. The meeting, held at the office of the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock,
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  • 80 1 (ABOVE) Penangs Mayor, Mr. D. S. Ramanathan. on his first official visit to Singapore, was welcomed by the Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, on his arrival at Paya Lebar International Airport, yesterday afternoon. (Below) Later, Mr. Ramanathan and fellow Councillors visited the City Ha.ll
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  • 90 1 Attempted Coup In Colombia Fails BOGOTA, Colombia, Mav 2, (AFP). —An attempted coup d'etat to oust Colombia's Government junta failed today. The coup was led by Colombia's Military Police An official announcement said that one battalion of Military Police was concerned in the coup and that the remainder of the
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  • 40 1 THREE pickets marched yesterday in front of New York headquarters of the Atomic Energy Commission to protest the seizure of the crew of the "Golden Rule" and the thwarting of its voyage to the Eniwetok nuclear testing grounds.—UP. UP
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  • 27 1 A 12-YEAR-OLD Singapore student, Hang Chee Kwang, was fatally injured when he was involved in an accident with a motor-car at Thomson Road last, night.
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    • 563 3 ANXIETY over Ceylon's economic future is being increasingly expressed by that unhappy island's political, industrial and commercial leaders who pass through Singapore either on business or pleasure. From the time that the People's United Front won their election bid and put Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike into
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    • 272 3 WHEN the idea of a cultural centre for Singapore was mooted five years ago we hailed it as "not only the stimulus for cultural activities but also the show window for Singapore's culture.' How fitting these words now turn out to be. The 5350.000 centre that now stands
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  • 981 3  - What does Russia really want out of Summit Conference Robert Stephens By LONDON JJAS her whole campaign for a summit meeting been simply part of a huge propaganda drive? Or does she really want negotiations which may produce some serious even if limited result? Western leaders have been asking themselves
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  • 45 3 Porpoises, though air-breathing mammals, out-swim most fish. They can remain under water no longer than three minutes, and usually surface for breath every 30 to 45 seconds. Porpoises sometimes kill sharks by butting the foe's tender gill slits with their tough snouts.
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  • 448 3 the NEWS as it strikes me PROM time to time this 1 column has had good grounds to criticise the trade union movement in Malaya for its actions and the tendency of some of its leaders surreptitiously to introduce into it customs and habits allied with communism of the order
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  • 1243 3 WESAK MESSAGE TO ALL BUDDHISTS THIS is the Wesak Message which Mr. Tan Keng Lock, President of the Buddhist Union of Singapore, will deliver over Radio Malaya today to commemorate the *****t. anniversary of the birth of Lord Buddha. r TODAY marks the an- niversary, the Thrice Blessed Day the
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  • 399 4 New Plan Gives Bank Employees Bigger Benefits MORfc THAN 1,200 employees of eiglit banks In Singapore have a new gratuity scheme with effect from this month. An agreement between the managements of these banks and the Bank Employees' Union was signed on Thursday providing the workers
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  • 371 4 ONE minute of silence to "commemorate the rapid ly approaching death of Colonialism" will follow the opening on May 10 of the Youth Section of the Singapore Labour Front, at its headquarters in Prince Street, it was announced yesterday. Immediately after the silence. there
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  • 123 4 TWENTY-TWO-YEAR OLD Chin Lin Tong was yesterday tentatively charged with the murder of Yong Chet Chong at Shaik Madersah Lane in April last year before the Singapore Ninth Magistrate Mr. R.8.1. Pates.. Chin was also charged with the attempted murder of Lie Yeaun Seng by
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  • 31 4 AN UNIDENTIFIED man aged about 45. was found unconscious on the steps leading to the Capitol Theatre, Singapore, yesterday. The man died on admission to the General Hospital.
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  • 63 4 REGISTRATION of children for admission to Government Mai ay Schools in 1959 begins at the school offices on May 6. Children born in 1950 must register between May 6 and May 31 and those born in 1951 between June 1 to June 30. From July
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  • 113 4 THREE youths were yesterday committed to stand trial at the next Assizes by the Singapore Ninth Magistrate Mr. R.8.1. Pates, at the end of a preliminary inquiry into the murder of a 17-year-old student, Nathaniel Teo. They were Fadul Rahman alias Man Garrick, Ong
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  • 35 4 HONGKONG. May 2.—Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were $16.10 to £1 Sterling $5.80 to USSI; $1,841 to 'Malayan SI; $0.90 to one Indonesian Rupiah Gold $252.--875 to a tael.
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  • 135 4 PILGRIMS to Mecca from the Federation. Sarawak. Bri- tish North Borneo, Brunei and Singapore, to whom pilgrim J lasses have already been ssued for the third sailing of the Anshun leaving Singapore on May 16, are reminded that their passes must be forward- ed to
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  • 80 4 VESAK DAY GIFT BY BUDDHISTS A VESAK DAY gift in the form of a cheque for $500, was presented yesterday to Dr. G. H. Garlick, Director, Royal Singapore Chest Clinic, by Rev. Sek Kong Hiap, of the Leong San Buddhist Temple, Race Course Road. The cheque represents part of the
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  • 61 4 TWO partner^ of a firm in Coleman Street. S. Syed Ahmad and M. Mohamed Ismail, were made bankrupts in the Singapore High Court yesterday A third partner, M. Abdul Wahab, had already been made a bankrupt. Liabilities of the firm, S. Syed Ahmad and Companywere $183,645.
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  • 222 4 CHAIRMAN of the Singapore Workers' Party, Mr, David Marshall, yesterday attacked the recent governmen I announcement that it would not hold genera] elections until it was sure subversives would not come into power. Mr. Marshall returned from Kashmir last week. "Can the
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  • 151 4 REVEAL THE NAMES OF 'SUSPECTED' REDS, DEMAND SINGAPORE'S Commissioner of Police should reveal ihe names of "suspected" 1 Communists or Jers to leaders of poln. ties and unions on a confidential basis, chairman of e Workers Party, Mr. David shall, said yesterday. The Commissioner of F should also make a\h
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  • 218 4 Make Public That Draff Constitution He Calls CHAIRMAN of the Workers' Party, Mr. David Marshall, yesterday called on the Singapore Government to make public the draft constitution for the new self-governing Colony. Pointing out that the report of the Constitutional Conference in London last year was made public, Mr. Marshall
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  • 48 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Mr. N. H. Nilsson of the two-man International Labour Organiza-tion-sponsored Productivity Demonstrating Mission flew in here today for a three-month tour of the Federation. Mr. Nilsson. a Swede, will be joined shortly by Mr. A. Young of the United Kingdom."
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  • 59 4 A SINGAPORE merchant, Chwee Ah Siang, 57. and his family were held up at daggerpoint and robbed of cash and jewellery worth $285 in an attap hut off Kallang Road, at dawn yesterday. The thugs tied up the family and, after locking them up in a cubicle, ransacked
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  • 72 4 THE Singapore Government Information Office yesterdav began distribution of 2 copies of District Co electoral maps in the four main languages to im tions in the three rural districts of Katong, Serangoon and Jurong Bukit Panjang where elections will be held in July. The maps, stuck
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  • 28 4 THE Bengali Association of "Singapore will celebrate the birthday of Poet Rabindranath Tagore with the Rabindra Jayanti on May 11. at the Kamala Club, Moulmein Road
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  • 74 4 SINGAPORE Police want to contact a syce, Abdul bin Hassan who witnessed a traffic accident eight years ago in Kallang Road The accident cost three Policemen their lives. Hassan was at that time employed by C. Towner lived at 16, Orange Grove Road. Later he moved to
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  • 402 5 I EXPECTED TO WED HIM -GIRL MARRIAGE PACT SIGNED, HIGH COURT TOLD IPOH, Fit A pretty teen -aged girl, Miss Rajesw ary was joint plaintiff with her father in the High Co'Jit today when they sued a Health Inspector from Kiwi and his parents for breach of a marriage contract
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  • 173 5 THE GEMS WERE MY WIFE'S, FISHERMAN NIBONG TEBAL, Fn.— A 31-year-old fisherman, Khor Ah Guan told Magis-*-ate Tuan Syed Hussein Jamalulil today at the reption of a preliminary inquiry that certain pieces Id jewellery recovered the Police belonged to wife, Tan Chye Hoey, ho was found batxered ?ath in a
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  • 126 5 Governor s Call: Serve Villagers \LACCA. Fri The -nor of Malacca. Mr. I* Yew Koh. today apd to members of tne Welfare Committee to Ate their services in oongs and villages whose inhabitants were inarticulate and were unable to express their needs and requirements. Speaking at the annual meeting of
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  • 68 5 IPOH, Fri. An unemployed labourer. Toh Kow (43) was sentenced by Magistrate Tengku Ahmad Rithaudeen today to three months' imprisonment for possession of house-break-ing implements without lawful excuse. Toh who had four previous convictions, was arrested by a police constable on beat duty at about
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  • 49 5 DARSHAN SINGH, 40, and Rood Singh, 40 were allowed 51,000 bail each until May 19 by Klang Magistrate. Inche Harun bin Haji Idris, when they claimed trial yesterday to a charge of robbing Gurbak Singh of $15 and his turban on Feb. 12 at Miru Road.
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  • 81 5 PENANG, Fri.— The drivers* section of the Butterworth UMNO has rejected a motion by a member who called upon government to appoint a Legislative Councillor to represent the drivers in the country The motion was introduced by the section's assistant secretary, Inche Yahaya bin Haji Taib,
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  • 68 5 TOP: Mayor of George Town, Penang, Mr. D. S. Ramanathan (left), is seen with the Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guari, at the Paya Lebar International Airport, on the former's arrival in the Colony on an official visit yesterday. BOTTOM: George Town Mayor, Mr. D. S.
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  • 77 5 BUTTERWORTH, Fri—Preventive officers of the Excise Department here raided an attap house in Kampong Sempah and found an illicit distillery, Magistrate Tuan Syed Hussain Jamalulil was told today. The occupant of the house, Cheah Weng Seng, 60. who pleaded guilty to two charges of being
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  • 225 5 MALACCA, Fri. The Federation Curator of Museums, Mr. B.A.V. Peacock, said today that the antiques recovered in the ancient graves at Bukit Leleh were one of the most important archaeological finds in Malacca. Mr. Feacook, who came from Kuala Lumpur this morning, examined the Chinese
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  • 262 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Alliance Councillor Raja Mohamed bin Raja Allang suggested at last nigiit's meeting of the Municipal Council that the Council could help solve the "alarming" increase in unemployment by permitting hawking in streets where traffic was «ot heavy. i He suggested
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  • 176 5 Drove Off Employer's Car Without Telling Him JERANTUT, Fri. A lorry attendant, M. Krishnan, 23. of Jerantut yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of the theft of a motorcar and was fined $150 or three months' imprisonment by the West Pahang Circuit Magistrate, Inche Hamzah bin Dato Abu Samah. The
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  • 346 6 French Company Will Be Asked To Ship Timber KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Malayan timber industrialists will combine with other Malayan exporters to break the monopoly of the Far Eastern Shipping Conference Line. As a first step towards this, timber traders and sawn.i lie's will invite a French
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  • 364 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri The National Union of Factory and General Workers was a genuine and democratic trade union which had in mind only the legitimate rignts of Malayan workers and never at any time resorted to violence or to overthrow the Government through unconstitutional
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  • 109 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. "Encounter Magazine" in association with International P.E.N. (Playwright. Essayists, and Novelists) has offered £300 for the best English translation of short stories originally written in one of the Asian, Arabic or African languages. There is no limitation as to the subject,
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  • 89 6 JERANTUT, Fri. A rubber tapper Abdul Rahman bin Ali, 20. of Kampong Paya Teh here, was yesterday acquitted and discharged by the West Pahang Circuit Magistrate, Inche Hamzah bin Dato Abu Samah. on a charge of kidnapping, when the Prosecuting Officer. Inspector Loh Tham Thau, withdrew
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  • 133 6 3 YEARS' JAIL FOR KEEPING A PURSE A FITTER was yesterday sentenced to three years' Jail by the Singapore Second District Court, for dishonestly retaining a stolen purse containing $8. The fitter, Yee Cheong, who had six previous convictions, was also ordered to undergo two years' Police supervision. Yee was
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  • 128 6 IPOH, Fri. A lorry driver. Woong Soo Nam. 26. who was arrested following a reported gang clash, was fined $100 by Magistrate Ibrahim bin Abdul Manan. today for possession of an offensive weapon. Prosecuting Officer, Inspector S. Sarain Singh, told the Magistrate that a
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  • 152 6 PENANG, Fri.— The Coror.er. Tuan Syed Agil Barakbah. today returned a verdict of misadventure at the end of an inquiry into the death of Private Robert Nelson of the Ist Loyal Regiment, Ipoh, who was struck by lightning on a diving board off Tanjong
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  • 22 6 JEWELLERY, worth more than S3OO. and a wrist watch were stolen from a house in Jalan Pa' Abu, Butterworth yesterday
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  • 64 6 PENANG, Fri. The new Director of the U.S. Information Service in Penang. Mr. Robert D. Kennedy, arrived here from Kuala LumDur today. He has come from Washington, where he served for the past 18 months in the U.S. Information Agency. Previously he had served in U.S.I.S. offices
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  • 188 6 IPOH, Fri.— Magistrate Tengku Ahmad Rithaudeeu today sentenced two youths— Yap Soon Lin, 22, and Foons Soo Wah, 20— to 12 months' imprisonment plus four strokes of the rotan each for attempted extor tion. I Yap and Foong were found guilty on 'a charge
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  • 59 6 DUNGUN. Fri.— The Sullan of Trengganu yesterday opened the Arts and Craft Exhibition at the Bukit Besi Mines. He congratulated the workers and officials of the mines and was pleased to see the cooperation among the various races working together. The Tunku Ampuan, his Consort, will
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  • 84 6 "GOLLY, it's cold down home in the winter said Mrs. Shirley Burton, wife of Corporal Gerry Burton of No. 1 Squadron, R.A.A.F-, which leaves Singapore for Australia in July after eight years' service in the Malayan Emergency. Mrs. Burton surprised her Singapore neighbours by busily knitting
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  • 178 6 fEN minutes after a housewife, Marie Manby, 34, was issued with a new identity card, she returned to the Registration Office for another, a Singapore Court was told yesterday. Manby's explanation to the registration clerk was: "I have destroyed the one issued to
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  • 148 6 PENANG, Fri. A youth. Ahmad bin Awang was sentenced to six months' iail by Magistrate Inche Nik Hussein bin Nik All today, on a charge of theft of 47 "oconuts belonging to Hussain bin Man. at Brown estate. Sungei Ara oh March VI He had
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  • 76 6 STANDARDPIC taken at the first meeting of the All-Party Delegation to study the draft constitution for the new Singapore at the office of the Chief Minister yesterday. From left: Inche Ahmad bin Jabri, Mr. R. C. H. Lim, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, Mr. Lim Yew Hock,
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  • 109 6 Press Story Starts An Inquiry KOTA BAHRU, Fri. The Kelantan Government views with grave concern an article headed "Shocking Ignorance on the East Coast" which appeared in an English daily (not The Standard) on Apri! 29 from Ipoh, it was officially announced here todav. The official announcement said that an
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  • 246 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Pan Malayan Islamic Moral Defence Organization in its report on vice in the Federation partly blames the inertia and the lark of initiative of the state religious departments in failing to give proper character training to the kampong $irli who
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  • 223 6 She's The First Lady Lawyer In Perak IPOH, Fri.— Peraks nrst Woman lawyer, Miss Chan Loo Thye, 26. was today admitted to the Bar of J-% Federation of Malaya. The application was made before Mr. Justice D. B Good in the Perak 1 Court this morning. Mr. A. S. Yeo
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  • 160 6 Looked For Job, Found Trouble PENANG, Fri. A Singapore shop-assistant, Lee Lai Hong was sentenced to six months' jail in the Magistrate's Court here, for rioting and causing hurt to a fish-seiler, Chua Keok Leng. at the Ayer Itam Market on March 27. Two others, Chua Ah Meng, and Mah
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  • 103 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri Councillor Cheah Theam Swee charged at last night's meeting of the Municipal Council that the lavatories at the newly-opened Tunku Abdul Rahman Park were not properly maintained. For one thing, he said, the lavatories were kept locked The signs indicating the sexes were
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  • 272 7 S.I.T. CORRUPT? NO, SAYS MINISTER Charges Described As 'Unjustified And Unfounded' SINGAPORE'S Assistant Minister for Local Government, Lands and Housing, Mr. Tan Theng Chiang, yesterday refuted charges by MCA backbencher, Mr. Won? Foo Nam that the Singapore Improvement Trust was "obstructive and corrupt," and said they were based on inaccurate
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  • 156 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot 731 731 R.S.S. No. 1 (May) 731 73* R.S.S. No. 1 (June) 72 J 723 R.S.S. No. 2 69* 693 R.S.S. No. 3 632 641 Tone:— Erratic. The price of tin .in Singapore yesterday
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  • 191 7 POLICE POSTS FOR HOUSING ESTATES SINGAPORE Police will re-organize all rural divisions and Police posts will be set up near or within a housing estate, says the "Rural News," a Government monthly publication. The article "Police Plan Reorganization of Rural Divisions," by Police Secretary, Mr. Eu Cheow Eang said: "There
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  • 22 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Yang-di-Pertuan Agong and the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, have sent birthday greetings to King Feisal 11.
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  • 246 7 i\ stMUK customs Uthcer toid a Singapore court yesterday how he found a parcel containing $10,900 Federation Social Welfare Lottery tickets on April 2. Mr Chua Choo Lim was testifying at the trial of a clerk, Chan Sum Choon. 38, of Ipoh Chan had
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  • 166 7 JOSEPH David, formerly a member of a secret societyGang "329" had his period of preventive detention, imposed by the Lower Courts, increased from five to seven years by Mr. Justice Chua in the High Court yesterday. In increasing the period by two years. Mr. Justice Chua
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  • 98 7 News 'Leak' Gives Him A Headache KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Leakage to the Press of news contained in "confidential files" is giving the Municipal Council a "headache." The matter was raised Councillor Tuan Haji Yahya bin Sheikh Ahmad at last night's meeting of the Council. Tuan Yahya pointed out in an
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  • 39 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Miss Sylvia Taye, secretary in a commercial firm here was at work yesterday afternoon when a burglar broke into her Imbi Road flat and got off with $3,000 worth of jewellery, Police said today.
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  • 206 7 AN Oriental Day next Saturday asd an "Asian Week" from June 16 to 21, are planned in conjunction with a £A250.000 appeal to help build a new International House in Brisbane, Australia, for Far East students attending the University of Queensland. This follows a
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  • 62 7 TIME TIDE TODAY: Singapore 1045 a.m. (Bft 9m) 10.39 pm. (9ft. 3in.) Port Dickson 6.11 a.m. (Bft 7in.) 6.37 p.m (10ft lin Penang 0.03 a.m. (7ft Bin.) 12 25 p.m (Bft. 9in.) TOMORROW: Singapore 1135 a.m. (Bft 9:n i 11.16 p.m Oft sin > Port Dickson 656 a.m (Bft 9in
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  • 67 7 Radio Malaya General Service--9.00 a.m. Open the national service to include Penang and 9.30 In a Holiday Mood 1000 Vesak Day Feature 10 30 Peter Yorke and his Concert Orchestra 11 00 Latin Favourites 11 15 Mr Brent and Miss O'Day 11 30 For Dancers only 12 00
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  • 182 7 R.S.P.C.A.: Flag Day. \e*ak Day Bank and Public y.MCA a> Orchard Road): Cricket vs. Command Pay Office (Home Ground I 2.15 p.m. Senior Cambridge Malay Class ißeginnersli 2.30 pm. Singapore Chess <-luD 3pm Senior Cambridge Malay Class (advanced) 345 p.m. Body building weight li«ing 430 p.m. Judo practice
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  • 194 7 A VISITING American research scientist in Singapore, yesterday deprecated the unnecessary administration of antibiotics, such as penicillin, to patients. Dr. W. P. Boger. Medical Consultant in Research and Medicine to the Commissioner of Mental Health in Pennsylvania, told The Standard. "Such administration causes
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  • 69 7 A SINGAPORE housewife, Yeo Geok Choon, was treated at the General Hospital last night for stab wounds she received when she was attacked by her 17-year-old neighbour at Outram Road. Yeo sustained injuries on her back and arm and was treated as an out-patient. Abdul Rahim
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  • 163 9 Period Of Tin Export Control Is Extended May 2 (UP). International Tin announced yester~ad decided to exe control of exports a third period July 1 to Sept. a total permissible amount from the participating produc--ountries of 23,000 long M decision wa s reached .ree-day meeting mdon, which concluded •?ht. the
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  • 42 9 t 5 Australian Bureau of ral Resources expects some years will elapse re Australian aluminium comDete on world markets. It states that the capital Der ton of plant capafor a large-scale alnium reduction Is far t'er than any other intry.
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  • 33 9 MALAYAN share and produce markets are dosed today for Wesak Day holiday. The rubber market is closed for its usual Saturday holiday. However, the tin market will remain open.
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  • 218 9 kuala lum^uk, *Yi. The Malayan Manufacturers Association declared today that it would expres? a vote of "no-confidence" in the Federation Government if it persisted in its "unilateral attitude"' of admitting foreign capital without prior consultation with local manufacturers. I 1 up British or American tyre
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  • 199 9 OUTER ROADS Pleasantville. Glenroy, Agios Vlassios. Kalianget, Dougla, Atsuta Maru, Sanana. Toreador, Rebeverett. Ulysses. Batoebahra, Sibenik. Straat Bali, Kaloekoe, Le Nfaire. Francoise, Kaigata Maru, Tong Peng, Maiju, Shunfat. Gordian, South Birch, Siberoet, Fred. Clover. Borneo, Mineshima. Yuan Seng, Baud, Taurus. Floreta, Radja, Romanija, Warszawa, Glory. Woodlock. Reyniersz,
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  • 63 9 THE Singapore branch of The Ceylon Insurance Co. Ltd., held a buffet party on Thursday in honour of a visiting director of the com' pany, Dr. G. Wignaraja, at the home of Mr. P. VVettasinha. manager of the Colony branch, in Newton Road. Standardpic taken at the party
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  • 68 9 BERLIN, May 2, (AFP). The Cunard Steam Ship Company has, owing to a fall in profits, postponed the building of a new passenger liner for the North Atlantic trade, it is reported from London. It is estimated that this vessel would have cost £800,000 sterling. The liner
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    136 9 NARANG, the Dyak beauty queen and star of "Virgin of Borneo," wa s fitted with her first pair of shoes, at Bata's shoe store in North Bridge Road, Singapore, this week. She walked into the store with bare feet and later, Dyak 'Queen Visits Store when she left, was a
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  • 97 9 A REVOLUTIONARY method of giving a rubber lining to flax canvas hose for fire-fight-ing has been installed at an Aberdeen (Scotland) factory. In a little more than a day, 6,000 feet of hose can be treated. Rubber latex from Malaya is pumped direct from tanks
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  • 24 9 THE output of the French coal mines in March this year was 5.460.000 tons, according to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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  • 245 9 THE first "push button" tug on merchant shipping work in Britain has just come into service on the Clyde, Scotland. She is the 275-ton Flying Dipper, which is "driven" by the captain almost like a gearless car. There is no telegraph on the bridge
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  • 403 9 U.S. RELEASE OF STOCKPILE REPORTED A NEW YORK firm's report, quoted by Holiday, Cutler, Both Co., Ltd., Singapore, in their weekly market report, reveals that considerable quantities of rubber have been made available out of the U.S. stockpile for rotation. Offerings in the stockpile include large amounts
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  • 130 9 Traders Complain Of Dearer Flour PENANG, Fri.-T h e president of the Penang Flour Traders' Association, Mr. Cheang Jin Kee, today complained to the Australian trade mission that the flour imported from Australia was dearer than those imported from France. He said as a result of the difference in price,
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  • 64 9 Rubber Up 1 7/8 cts. RUBBER iumped 15 cents in the Singapore market yesterday when International first grade May shiDment closed at 73i cents per lb. May first grade has received the most attention and trie turnover has been moderate Premiums ud to 7/8 cent over June were oaid yesterday.
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  • 46 9 SINGAPORE Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association noon prices in cents per lb yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot fob. 72* 72| International May No. 1 RSS f.o.b. 72* 72* June 71| 711 May No. 2 68J 69 Nay No. 3 63* 63 j Tone Steady.
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  • 118 9 Industrials And Tins Are Steadier INDUSTRIALS and tins were steadier in the Malayan share market yesterday. Rubbers were dull and featureless despite improvement In the commodity price. The turnover was small. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were: INDUSTRIALS Bayers Sellers Fraser Neave Ords. 2 40 2.45 Gammon
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  • 170 9 MALAYAN sharebroker s reported the following, business done: Alex. Bricks ords. $2.50: F. N ords. $2.40; Gammon $2.10 to $2.20 to $2.15. $2.02$ to $2 for x Rights; Gammon Rights 60c; H. Waugh $1.15: Hume prefs. 4/7s. ords. 4'7J; Malayan Cement $1.3». $1,321: McAlister 51. 21; M.
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  • 118 9 Mission To Study Market A SEVEN-MAN Japa mission trading in auto r is now in Singapore, in the course of a South-east Asia tour to investigate the markets in the region. The head of the mission, Mr. N. Imai, is president of the Japanese Machinery Exporters' Association. Mr. Imai told
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    • 350 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon doting prices Der Dicul yesterday were: copra April May UK Continent $31J buyers $32 sellers coconut oil in bulk S47J sellers; in drums $50J sellers; Muntok white pepper $126 sellers; Sarawak white $125 sellers; Special Sarawak black $73. Singapore Coconut Oil Millers Association closing Drices
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    • 94 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday; Selling, T.T. or O.D. ready: Belgian Francs 1614: Reyals 170 Other exchange rates remain unaltered. Orders For Ships Worth £900 Mil. BRITISH shipbuilders have on their books orders worth more than £900.000,000. The orders are
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    • 74 9 fl LOMBARD BANKING take pleasure in announcing I the establishment of II a subsidiary company m SINGAPORE 1 [LOMBARD BANKING (far east) LTD. (incorporated in Singapore) UNION BUILDING COLLYER QUAY SINGAPORE. I P.O. Box 2884 II Managing Director: Henry Alan Waugh If LOMBARD BANKING Iff LIMITED If BANKERS Group assets
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  • 593 10 ALFRED D'ALMEIDA winning rock *n' roll at the Town Hall rcand his partner, Miss number at the Penang cent'y. Mr. Almeida and Alice Ooi are seen dur- Referees' Association's Miss Ooi outro. rked ing their silver-medal first anniversary dance four other contestants. In Solemn Prayer MEMBERS
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  • 2118 11  -  WINDSOR LAD Opposition Will Probably Come From. Sweet Dream II By RILEX a four-year-old by the staying Royal Tara, can be followed with confidn ence in the Summer Cup (Race 6) run over 8* furlongs at Penang this afternoon, concluding day of the Penang Turf
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    • 716 11 RACE 1: 2.15 p.m.- Horses Class 4, Div. 2-8V 2 furs. i! Sa^fjls: isa& was™ S:ra~~ MIIS* MARVEL OF 8 .06 DRAGON Pll Stable Hi;|l S^ "El i ?°HOS°C URI GftVW SCflirCff/NGS-- *****0 THE BEAST.E 5y 608 E. VAN BMCELE* JO. CUow-y; SCRATCH/NCxi. 76Q970 MATR|X 6y 707 RODCERS, Singapore l|l
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  • 274 12 Pre-Asian Games Test Of Strength For The Footballers By OUR SOCCER REPORTER THIS weekend's soccer clashes between Singapore and Federation football teams at Jalan Besar stadium will be especially interesting because it is a test of strength between the teams about to be engaged in rhe i °K < ?f^p
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  • 105 12 A RECORD entry of 153 has been received by the Singafor the Gap nb next Sunday at V a.m. A highlight of the climb be the 'duel* between Dr. F.C.B. Marshall and F.H.G. Wagner, who ran to a very finish at the Lim Chu
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  • 66 12 SYDNEY, May 2 (AFP) Australian tennis star, Mai Anderson today withdrew from the Australian tennis team to tour overseas this year. Anderson, regarded as the world's second best player said he was staying in Australia because the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia would not allow him
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  • 433 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Federation of Malaya Olympic Council met for 3i hours at the Merdeka Stadium today and decided to send a 94-strong contingent to particpate in the Asian Games in Tokyo this month. The Council agreed to have all the fourteen athletes
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  • 35 12 TOKYO. May 2 (Reuter).— The Philippines today took a 2 o lead in the Davis Cup eastern zone semi-finals when Japan's two leading players were defeated in straight sets in the opening singles.
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  • 17 12 BARCELONA overwhelmed London 6-0 to win the InterCities Fairs Soccer Cup at Barcelona yesterday. Reuter
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  • 26 12 FORMER crack quartermiler. Cletus Gomez, will wed, Miss Connie Louis at the St. Patrick's Church. Kuala Kangsar, Perak. at 7.30 a.m. on May 10.
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  • 285 12 Watch Diet And That Waistline, Says Squad Doctor THREE members of the Malayan Thomas Cup squad for the final training in Singapore were warned to 'watch their diet' by the squad's medical adviser, Dr. G.K. Lim when they reported to him for a check up yesterday.
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  • 66 12 MEMBERS of the Thomas Cup training squad gathering in Singapore yesterday went to Dr. G. K. him, their medical adviser, for a check up. Even coach Wong Peng Soon and manager Michael Lim went through the doctor's hands. The picture shows: Dr. Lim giving Ong
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  • 246 12 1,000 Guineas FRANCE TAKES IT AGAIN By VERNON MORGAN NEWMARKET, May 2 (Reuter) The French filly*Belia Paola. starting 8/11 favourite, won the 1,000 Guineas over the Rowley mile here this afternoon for Monsieur Francois Dupre. Bella Paola, a fine big German bred filly, ridden by French champion jockey Serge Boullenger
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    67 12 KESAVAN Soon of Singapore (right): and Ratiim Ahmad of Penang, discusses track workouts with American Coach, Thomas Rosandich, at the City Stadium on Tuesday, April 30. The "get Together" of Kesavan and Rahim is an example thai Singapore and Federation athletes can mix freely with each other without there being
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  • 96 12 LONDON, April 2 (Reuter) Results in today's cricket matches were: At Lords, MCC beat Yorkshire by five wickets Yorkshire 122 and 215, MCC 123 and 217 for five. R B. M. Sietman 107. AT CAMBRIDGE. Sussex beat Cambridge University by eight wickets. Cambridge 275 for 9
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  • 255 12 WORCESTER, May 2 (Reuter) The New Zealand cricket tourists drew their match with Worcestershire, which ended here today. Final scores Worcestershire 345 for seven declared and 202 for four declared. New Zealand 283 and 202 for eight. Kenyon hit 17 fours in his century. His
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  • 75 12 KINGSTON. Jamaica, May 2 (Reuter) Denis Atkinson, former West Indies cricket captain, said yesterday that the West Indies side to tour Iniia and Pakistan next winter was "a good one and should do very well." Atkinson, who has arrived in Kingston on a business
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  • 279 12 Starter Missing Jit Imm Gets Burned Up I'M DISGUSTED, NO MORE TRIAL FOR ME/ HE SAYS THE most frustrated athlete in Singapore today must be sprinter Lira Jit Imm, who is almost certain to miss that trip to Tokyo this month. Jit Imm, who could have touched the qualifying time
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  • 85 12 NEWMARKET, May 2 (Reuter) There are 13 probables for tomorrow's Tote Investors Handicap to be run over one mile here at 1400 GMT (Local time 9 p.m.). They are, with jockeys No Complaint, W. Sanith Amber Glass, J. G. M. Lindley; Monsieur Roc, A Breasley; Sunstart,
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  • 35 12 PARIS. May 2 < Reuter) Budge Patty (U.S.A.) a/id Jaroslav Drobny (Egypt), both former Wimbledon champions, reached the men's singles semi- finals of the Paris international lawn tennis championships at Royland Garros stadium yesterday.
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  • 576 12 WITH each side even with ten matches won and ten drawn, the 21st Europeans versus the Rest Colony test' for the Clarke Cup on the padang today and tomorrow should be the most important of the series. But if it is
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  • 43 12 THE BBC. broadcast on the F.A. Cup Final can be heard over Radio Malaya at 10.30 p.m. tonight. Listeners should tune in to Singapore medium wave 478 metres or the national short wave service on the 41 metr« band.
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  • 42 12 LONDON, May 2 (Reuter)— Results in yesterday's ioot v matches were League Tvco: Fulham 3 Rotherham United 1; League Three (Southern' Colchester United 4 Southampton 2. League Three (Northern Scunthorpe 3 Carlisle 1. York City 3 Darlington 0.
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  • 17 12 GLENAVON beat Baiiymena 2-1 in an Irish league soccer match p!ayed at Belfast yesterday. Reuter
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  • 23 12 SULTAN Suleiman Cub beat Police Depot 2-1 in a FAS division two soccer maur at Kampong Bharu ground Kuala Lumpur, yesterday.
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    • 64 12 S O C C E R—FriendlySingapore vs. Federation, Jalan Besar Stadium, 5.15 p.m. S.A.F.A. League Div. 2B Gymkhana S.C. vs. Blue Rovers Jalan Besar Stadium. 3.45 p.m. Div. 3B Darul Afiah "A"~ vs. Arsenal S.C. Geylang 5.15 p.m. Div. 3B Telok Kurau Utd. vs. Junior A.A. S.T.C.. 5.15 p.m. CRICKET
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  • 693 13 gdfgdfg QNE of the coolest places in Singapore during this sweltering weather is the Van Kleef Aquarium in Clemenceau Avenue, a bequest to the City of Singapore by a former resident, Mr. K.W.B. Van Kleef, which cost $470,000 to build. s modern,
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  • 234 13 BRITISH TV and stage stars are now in Singapore entertaining the Forces. Among them is beautiful Brenda Haydn, once understudy to Joy Nichols on a tour of "Follow The Girls" variety show. Brenda started as a dancer in "Hi-De-Hi" and understudied in "The Love Racket," and
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  • 455 13 Test of Skill for Army Drivers A NEW type of competi- tion has been introduced by the Army in Singapore to raise the standard of driving. The competition, which is hoped to be an annual affair, was tried out by 3 8.0.D. at Alexandra Barracks last Thursday. The skill and
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  • 122 14 WORLD NEWS FOUR STAGE A WALKOUT ON PRINCESS GEORGETOWN, British Guiana, May 2 (Reuter) Four top officials, including two British Guiana ministers walked out of a hall just before Princess Margaret presented the Queen's Colour to the Colony's volunteer regiment here last night. The four, protesting at what they described
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  • 279 14 BRITAIN 'S 2,500-MILE H-ROCKET IT CAN HIT SOVIET TARGETS WITH EXTREME ACCURACY' LONDON, May 2 (UP) Experts said today they are working on plans for a 70-ton H-bomb rocket capable of being launched from Britain at targets in Russia, Communist Europe or the perenially-troubled Middle East. A statement issued by
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  • 252 14 RUMPUS IN THE COMMONS -MAC SHOUTED DOWN Row Follows Question On H-Tests LONDON, May 2 (UP).— Labourite Opposition backbenchers shouted down Prime Minister Harold Macmillan yesterday in an angry House of Commons rumpus over H-bomb tests. The row exploded when Macmillan told Labourite disarmament expert Philip Noel Baker "I think
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  • 160 14 A Deadly Bomber For US Air Force WASHINGTON, May 2 (UP) The Air Force will begin to receive delivery this year of a deadly new bomber missile combination described officially as "our answer to^ the defences around Moscow," it was disclosed today. The bomber is a long-range version of the
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  • 137 14 TERRORISTS IN ASSAM'S COUNTRY SIDE SHILLONG, India. May (Reuter) Armed gangs of Naga tribesmen are causing terror, damage and disorder as they rove the ASsam districts of United Mikir, Cachar and Sibsagar, the Assam State Government has announced. The Government has declared the whole of the first district and parts
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  • 82 14 ABOVE: Princess Margaret's hats often make headline news. Here's one headliner worn by her during her West Indies tour. It is a white organdie hat, by Simone Mirman, shaped like a milkmaid's bonnet and decorated with outside hat-pins. BELOW is another headliner a wide brimmed
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  • 156 14 Rebels In Aden Are Armed By Yemen LONDON, May 2 (UP) The British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd said yesterday that "a large number" of rebels in Aden were "instigated, bribed and armed by Yemeni authorities." He was answering a question in the House of Commons concerning the recent trouble on
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  • 100 14 DAGGERMEN OF S'PORE UNDERWORLD MONTREAL. May 2 (Reuter) Dagger- wielding narcotics smugglers are the least of a policeman's worries in the Orient, contrary to the beliefs of filmgoers, the Singapore chief of police said today. The chief. Mr. A.E.G. Blades, who arrived in Montreal on holiday, told reporters, "in spite
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  • 90 14 LONDON. May 2 (UP) The British Government said yesterday it is doing everything in it s power to prevent damage to Hongkong's economy as a result of closinß of the naval dockyard there. The Earl of Perth, Minister of State for the Colonies, told the House of
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  • 38 14 MAJOR NARENDRA Dar Jayal. until recently principal of India's Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, has been killed In an accident while climbing 26.750 Foo Cho Oyu, near Everest, according to a message received In New Delhi yesterday. Reuter
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  • 32 14 THE COUNCIL OF Europe's Consultative Assembly yesterday called for a conference of African and European states on an equal footing to implement proposals for European economic aid to Africa. Reuter
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  • 29 14 FRENCH TROOPS have killed 286 insurgents and taken 10 prisoners in a battle near Souk Ahras. in Eastern Algeria, it was announced in Algeria yesterday. Reuter
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  • 25 14 MOUNT ETNA in Sicily i forth new torrents of a and smoke yesterday in the lith day of a new eruption.— U.P.
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  • 17 14 DR. AH SOHEILY. Persian Ambassador to Britain, died at his London home on Thursday. Reuter
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  • 99 14 GEORGETOWN. British Guiana, May 2 (Reuter) Colourfully dressed labour and youth group members marched and shuffled to the resonant rhythm of steel bands here yesterday as British Guiana's main May Day parade honoured its royal visitor, Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth. Britain's
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  • 66 14 OTTAWA, May 2 (Reuter) —A flight to the moon could happen "at any time." a Canadian Research Board scientist has said here. Mr. Gordon Wallace, the Board's Director of Weapons Research, told a meeting last night that both the United States and Russia "have
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  • 27 14 FORTY-NINE people were killed and 19 are missing in recent floods in Badakhshan Province, Northeastern Afghanistan, the Afghan embassy in New Delhi announced yes-terday.-M Reuter
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  • 195 14 NEW DELHI. May 2. (UP). Pr Jawaharlal explained yesterday he o resign so that he can devote his time to ironing out Congress Party problems. a told a party leadership meeting to discuss the resignation offer he made on Tuesday: "I want freedom irom
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  • 85 14 CAI*ANNA, Southern Italy, May 2 (UP) Eight persons including seven members of one family, were buried alive and in their sleep early yesterday when a massive landslide crushed down three houses. One person was injured. Some 400 cubic yards of rock and earth
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  • 92 14 AUSSIE DOCK TROUBLE IS NOW OVER MELBOURNE, May 2 (Reuter) Conditions on the Australian waterfront returned to normal today, following three days of work stoppages in the ports of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Waterside Workers' Federation branches in the three ports have given assurances that dockers will work under new
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  • 87 14 WASHINGTON, May 2 (UP) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, at his news conference yesterday, said the United States hopes to have normal and friendly relations with the United Arab Republic He said this hope was based on the assumption that the government of President Gamel Abdul Nasser
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  • 47 14 BUENOS AIRES, May 2 (Reuter).— Police used tear gas to disperse crowds of pro-P e r o n demonstrators here last night and made more than 100 arrests. The demonstrations followed the inauguration as Argentine President yesterday of Dr. Arturo Frondizl.
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  • 50 14 LONDON, May 2 (Reuter). —Mrs. Edith Daisy Chubb, 46-year-old mother of five children, was found not guilty at the Old Bailey, Central Criminal Court, today of murdering her sister-in-law, Miss Lillian Chubb She was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to four year* 1 imprisonment.
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  • 61 14 NICE, Ma v 2. (Reuter).— Sir Bernard and Lady Docker today appealed for a special hearing on an order that expelled them from the Riviera last week. The Dockers were expelled under a 1956 "good neighbours" treaty with Monaco which had earlier banished them after Lady
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  • 54 14 LUTON, England, May 2 (Reuter) Only three British newspapers— The Times. The Financial Times and The Manchester Guardianare suitable for the public library here, the local corporation have decided. So from Monday week only these papers and the local paper will fill the flies instead
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  • 21 14 BILBAO, (Spain) Police announced yesterday the arrest of 19 underground agents who were charged with distributing Communist propaganda. U.P.
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  • 308 14 WASHINGTON. May; 2. (UP)— Manned space ships and rockets to Mars figure plans of the administration's proposed new civilian Space Affency, the House Space Committee disclosed today. The budget bureau lenta tively estimated the programme vvould cost about $100,000,000 the first
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  • 107 14 TAIPEI, May 2 (UP) The United States todav test-fired a Matador guided missile for the first time I in the Far East. The weapon is capable of carrying an atomic wan deep into Communist Chi: a across the 100-mile i Formosa Strait. The
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  • 104 14 CAIRO, May 2 (Reuter).— President Nasser and Mr. Nikita Khrushchev were reported here today to have reached "full agreement" in their Moscow talks. The correspondent of the newspaper Al Ahram, who is accompanying President Nasser, said the first meeting with the Soviet Prime Minister on
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  • 79 14 NICOSIA, Cyprus. May 2 (UP) Polykarpos Georgidades, a leading figure in the EOKA Greek-Cypriot underground, escaped yesterday from Nicosia prison where he was serving a life term. It was the third escape for Georgidades, understood to be one of EOKA leader George Grivas' top lieutenants. It was
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  • 99 14 Calcutta Gets Cholera Warning CALCUTTA, May 2 O —The people of Calcutta been warned that within next few weeks there mis another fiareup of the cholert epidemic from which more than 1,000 people have died I i; broke out early last m< Dr. Amiya Bose. chairm., the Corporation's St:.Health Committee,
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