Singapore Standard, 7 May 1958

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    Lock icon HK Doctor Radios For Jap Drug
    153 2 HONGKONG, May 6 (UP) A Hongkong doctor confirmed tonight he made an urgent appeal for Japanesemade Mytomyrin for a 40--year-old Chinese patient who is "now m very bad shape." Dr. Lincoln Luk said he appealed to "some of my friends m the medical business.
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    Lock icon SEAMEN UP IN ARMS
    316 2 They Want The Right To Vote At Next Polls EIGHT THOUSAND Colony seamen are agitating Cor the right to vote m the next Legislative Council elections. Despite continuous representation to tne uoiony Government, they have so far not been granted the privilege of casting their vote
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    Lock icon THE WIFE THOUGHT HE WAS DRUNK...
    306 2 THE WIFE THOUGHT HE WAS DRUNK... A SINGAPORE housewife returning home about midnight on March 20 after a visit to her sister-in-law, found her husband lying sprawled half-way up the staircase. Thinking he was drunk, she let him lie an<j went to bed. The next morning, she came down and
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    Lock icon PIN-TABLES: NEW LAW IS PASSED
    252 2 PIN -TABLE parlour operators will m future be subject to rigid control to ensure that they do not become public nuisances under a new law published m Singapore yesterday. The law— the Public Entertainment Ordinance, 1958 seeks to contdol and supervise places used for "public
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    Lock icon GLUBB JR. BECOMES A MUSLIM
    193 2 LONDON, May 6 (UP).— Godfrey Glubb, 18-year-old student, son of Lieut. General Sir John Glubb Paiha, the one-time Commander of the Jordan Arab Legion, said today he was becoming a Muslim "by conviction and not for love." The five-foot-seven-inch Glubb, m an exclusive interview—in Arabic—
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    Lock icon JAP WAR REPARATIONS
    55 2 TOKYO, May 6 (AFP).— A Japanese Foreign Office spokesman said today that talks between Japan and South Vietnam on war reparations had reached their final stage, but had not been concluded. The conclusion, be added, would have to wait for the formation of a new Japanese Government
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    Lock icon $8,098 FOR VICTIMS
    78 2 MEMBERS and sympathisers of the Singapore Workers' Party yesterday donated $8,098 to the Kampong Koo Chai Fire Relief Fund. The cheque for the money was handed over to chairman of the Fund. Mayor Ong Eng Guan (right) by Mr. Quek Sam Hock, chairman of the Workers' Party
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    Lock icon No Pay Cut For Those Teachers Now In Training
    218 2 SINGAPORE'S Education Minister, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, yesterday gave an assurance that student teachers still under training or who passed m January this year, would be taken on under the old pay scheme. Several teachers who passed their final year Normal
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    Lock icon WIRE FOR CHINA
    36 2 MR. JOHN VAUGHANMORGAN, Minister of State at the Board of Trade, said yesterday that since the beginning of this year, limited quantities of copper wire had been licensed for export to China. (Reuter)
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    Lock icon £43,000 Stolen In Daring UK Robbery
    158 2 £43,000 Stolen In Daring UK Robbery LONDON. May 6. (Reuter) An armed gang kidnapped a bullion van driver m London today, drove the van to bank headquarters and coolly collected £43.000 sterling. The daring robbery pieced together by detectives aftrr finding the van abandoned with two injured bank officials inside
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    Lock icon 'Woman Of On Dreams'
    61 2 NICE, May 6 (AFP)Fourth International of Bachelors and Son. to be held m Nice fn 2'i to May 26 it was m ed today. Several hundred an ed to attend. H the Congress will be the i tion of the "Woman of Dreams" and the Man".
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    Lock icon 'Houdini' Has Two Wives, Court Told
    179 2 ARIFFIN BIN ALI. who did a "Houdini" act when Police closed m on him, had a number of different addresses two wives and an identity card, the name on which nad been altered to "Sharif! bin Alias," it was disclosed m the Singapore Assize
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    Lock icon Soviet Stalling
    506 3 May 7. 1958 FOREIGN Ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations, meeting m Copenhagen, were warned at their opening session that unless agreement is reached with the Soviet Government for holding the already long-delayed "summit talks, the danger of a Third World War could become very real.
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    Lock icon Iron Curtain Tin
    346 3 TIN exports from Russia and Eastern Europe Into Western Europe are causing concern to the International Tin Council, according to reports from London. And there are fears, as there may well be that if they continue increasing at the present rate they will upset the balance of
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD PRESS
    54 3 MEAD OFFICE li Lim Teck Km\ Koao PO Bo> No )56d Cables UC£wNfcWS Tel ***** (5 lines) All departments KUALA LUMPUR: Chin* insurance Slag 174 Batu «a feieo^one B *?t™ IWN. 93 Cowan St let: 3829 PENANC 8 Le.th St r* »r^ 4055 MALACCA: 91-A Bukit
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    Lock icon AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS STUDY THE SUN
    212 3 AN instrument which may reveal new facts about the various layers of the sun's atmosphere will shortly be m operation at the Australian Government's solar physics laboratory m Sydney. It is a specially-constructed filter fitted to a telescope by means of which scientists will explore
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    Lock icon RUSSIA TODAY
    353 3  -  JOHN GUNTHER rytuyj LONDON [K. John Gunther is a most remarkable man. The idea of extending his celebrated "Inside" series to cover the Soviet Union would, one might suppose, have daunted even him. But not a bit of it. He went and he saw, he read and he
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    Lock icon THE THREAT TO ADEN
    739 3  -  Gordon Maclean I By ADEN 'THE Yemeni claim for control of most of the 112,000-square mile Aden Protectorate has long been simmering, but the acquisition of a powerful new ally m the shape of the United Arab Republic has changed the Yemen's steady sniping into an
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    Lock icon Just the kind of inside information
    749 3  - Just the kind of inside information Edward Crankshaw —says sphere of Mr. Gunther who knows only four words: "What and Who and Why and How So that m the end he has accumulated every fact, figure and opinion m the world. What 1 don't know, and what I cannot even
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    63 3 The U. S. earth satellite Explorer was launched into space at a distance of 219 miles from the earth, 76 miles farther than the Soviet Sputnik I and 89 miles farther than Sputnik 11. It reaches 1,587 miles from the earth at the farthest point on its
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    Lock icon the NEWS as it strikes me
    376 3  -  Gster Genasekera r TX)DAY the All -Party delegation to London meets for the last time to dot the Is and cross the T's m the draft Constitution which, when it is signed and sealed m London some time m the next three or four
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    Lock icon FIRMS $22,000 DUD CHEQUES
    152 4 Reward Offered For Recovery Of Goods Bought A FIRM m Singapore's Chinatown has swindled two firms of goods valued at $22,000 by issuing dud cheques. One of the firms which was swindled, a leading European concern received a cheque for $14,000 m payment for 14 tons
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    Lock icon Post-Graduate Council Rules Now Completed
    197 4 Post-Graduate Council Rules Now Completed RULES and regulations for the establishment of the proposed pan-Malayan Post-Graduate Educational Council which is expected to be the supreme Medical Council for South-east Asia, has been completed, The Standard was told yesterday. The Federation Government has agreed m principle to the setting-up of the
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    Lock icon SHOPMAN ROBBED
    35 4 THE proprietor of a provision shoo m Sembawang Road. Singapore, was robbed of more than $300 m cash and jewellery when two robbers entered the premises and held him up on Monday morning.
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    Lock icon 'Majula Singapura' Off To A Good Start
    305 4 'Majula Singapura' Off To A Good Start SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday, gave the plans for the "Majula Singapura" celebrations a flying start with a promise that Government would permit the sea front at the old Kallang Airport to be used for an International Exposition. Mr. Lim
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    Lock icon 'PAY UP OR SUFFER' WOMAN IS JAILED
    179 4 'PAY UP OR SUFFER' WOMAN IS JAILED HAJEM Bee binte Ibrahim, 35. was yesterday found guLty of attempted extortion by the Singapore Third District Court and sentenced to one year's jail. Hajeman threatened a coffee stall holder. N. Sadruddin. m Syed Alwi Road, on Feb. 1. 3. 5 m an
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    Lock icon Asked For Direction, Got Robbed
    168 4 Asked For Direction, Got Robbed A SOLDIER, who stopped to consult a youth regarding the location of his brother's house was pushed into a car park and robbed, a Singapore Court was told yesterday. C. J. Clyde, 15, attached to the Army Trade School, Nee Soon. Singapore, was on leave
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    Lock icon BANKRUPT FARMER HAS TAX LAPSE
    92 4 A SINGAPORE farmer. declared bankrupt for being unable to pay income tax m September, 1955, was yesterday fined $30 at the City Magistrate's Court when he pleaded guilty to a summons charge of failing to furnish his returns for 1957. The farmer, Ng Ngee Seng,
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    Lock icon 'RESERVED SEATS OUT OF QUESTION'
    271 4 CHIEF MINISTER, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday told 'he Singapore Indian Congress that the creation of reserved seats m the Assembly would "perpetuate com. munalism and such a move was out of the question." Mr. Lim was replying to a request by the S.I.C. last
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    Lock icon REVOLVER MISSING
    42 4 THE Secretary of the Singapore Royal Golf Cub, A. W. Smellie, has reported to the Police that his revolver has been missing from his home m Pierce Road since March 5. The revolver was kent m a dressing table drawer.
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    Lock icon SHE'S MISS ENGLAND
    30 4 BEAUTY QUEEN Wendy Peters— 3s-23-36 who was elected Miss England at the Cafe De Paris. last week. Wendy 22. is a model from West Byfleet.- photo. UP
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    Lock icon ROBBERS STAB COLONY STUDENT IN HOLD-UP
    143 4 A SINGAPORE student was stabbed m the stomach as he tried to get away from six masked robbers before they entered and ransacked his father's sundry goods shop m Mandai Road on Monday night. The student, Tan Cheng Huay, 20, spotted six masked men
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    Lock icon Mother Sees Thugs Stab Her Son
    119 4 Mother Sees Thugs Stab Her Son A gang of Secret Society thugs chased a labourer into his cubicxe and knifed him. despite his mother's pleas for mercy m Lavender Street, Singapore, last night. The thugs, about ten. had confronted the labourer. Sin Hong Chun, 20, about 50 yards from his
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    Lock icon CROCODILE IN A PLANE
    64 4 PARIS, May 6 (ReuteD The Crew of an Air-France plane spent 20 hectic minutes chasing an elusive babycrocodile today as it clambered over startled passengers. It had escaped from the suitcase m which its owner. Mr. J. Herman, had packed it for the flight from Lagos.
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    Lock icon Wine Makes World Trip
    92 4 DIJON, May 6 (AFP)-The French wine-tasting confraternity the Knights of Tastevin—will send 360 bottles of France's choicest wine on a round-the-world trip beginning on Saturday to prove that the wines retain all their qualities despite the climatic changes. The bottles containing 1955 vintage Nuits Saint-Georges, will
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    Lock icon LABOURER FALLS
    32 4 A LABOURER, Liew Ah Kow, 19, was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital after he had fallen off the third floor of a building site at ola Kallang airport yesterday.
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    Lock icon MINE FOUND
    31 4 THE Hongkong Government announced yesterday that a sea mine was found on the seashore at an outlying island about five mile west of Hongkong within British territorial waters. UP.
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    Lock icon Kerala Samajam To Shut Down Branches
    201 4 Kerala Samajam To Shut Down Branches THE 41-year-old Singapore Kerala Samajam, representing 14.000 Malayalees m the Colony, may close down all its branches shortly, The Standard was told yesterday. "This is very essential to save the parent-body from collapse." its president Mr. J. P. Gomez said. "Since the formation of
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    Lock icon NO FIRMS FOR BANGKOKASSOCIATION
    134 4 NO FIRMS FOR BANGKOKASSOCIATION THE Indian Motion Picture Distributors' Association of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya has stopped sending films to Bangkok as a protest against the recent increase m taxes imposed by the Thai Government. The Association has also made representations against the levy. The President of the
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    Lock icon BIRTHDAY GIRL SAROJINI
    45 4 MISS SAROJINI BAI. daughter of K. S. Kanoo a senior clerk m the office of Singapore lawyer Mr. L. Rayner, cuts a cake during a party which was held recently to celebrate her 19th birthday. With Sarojini is Kumari Dcvi, her cousin.
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    Lock icon EIGHT-YEAR-OLD CAR SMASH-MAN FACES 2 COUNTS
    452 4 ALMOST eight years after a car accident m which three policemen were killed, a man was yesterday charged on two counts m the Singapore Second District Court with causing their deaths. He was Lim Chuan Kee alias Liem Tjoan Kie, a 37--year-old Colony businessman.
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    Lock icon CHILDREN DIE OF POISONING
    51 4 NEW DELHI, May 6 —Fourteen children who discarded crumbs were an 65 persons who died frc meal served at a public j: ering m Kerala State on 30. it was disclosed today. Defence Minister t Krishna Menon informed parliament that monkeys crows also had died from
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    Lock icon 7 WAS DRIVEN HOME & ROBBED
    251 4 7 WAS DRIVEN HOME ROBBED E. C. E. EDLIN, assistant treasurer of the R.A.F. Officer's Club, Changi. told a Singapore preliminary inquiry yesterday how four men robbed and assaulted him on March 28. He was giving evidence against Ahmad bin Yahaya. 21, Nacknay bin Sawi, 20, and Zackaria bin Darus.
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    Lock icon MISSING GEMS IN BUSH
    415 5 Court Told Of A Hunt During Murder Probe NIBONG TEBAL, Tiies, The O.C.P.D. ASP J.C. Sabey, with a 22-year-old fisherman, Cassim bin Osman, went crawling on all fours into a mengkuang bush at Suneei Acheh m a search for jewellery during the course of a murder
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    Lock icon High Court Rejects Three Pleas Of Guilty
    316 5 High Court Rejects Three Pleas Of Guilty KV ALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Supreme Court here today refused to accept the plea of guilty by three men on charges of gang robbery because they said they did not intend to use force when they planned the caring before Mr. Justice Smith
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    Lock icon JUNGLE TOUR
    39 5 DIRECTOR of Emergency Operation Lt. General Sir James Cassels and Mr. F. A. Marrabie. Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police yesterday travelled along the Ulu Jill river m a special boat to Inspect jungle forts m North Pahang.
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    Lock icon HONOURED
    28 5 MRS. J. C. NEWTON who was awarded the Kedaii Meritorious Service decoration by the Sultan of Kedah on the occasion of his 66th birthday on Saturday. Standardpic.
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    Lock icon Queenstown Project Praised
    155 5 SINGAPORE'S Queenstown is an outstanding achievement among housing projects m Asia, the Director of Information Services- Mr. G. G. Thomson, told girls of the Tanjong Girls School yesterday. ''In spite of criticisms levelled against the Singapore Improvement Trust, Queenstown is the most colourful and imaginative m town
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    Lock icon Ipoh Flight For Pioneer
    77 5 IPOH, Tues.— The Malayan Royal Air Force "Lang Rajawali" (King Eagle), a twin Pioneer purchased by the Federation Government recently made its first landing at the airport here this morning. The aircraft carried some military and Police personnel and after a five hour stop, it flew
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    Lock icon Pneumonia Kills 13
    65 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Pneumonia killed 13 people during the week ended April 12, the Government announceed today. Forty two cases were reported m all. Perak had the highest rate of 12 cases and second m the list came Selangor with 11 cases. Figures of other diseases were;
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    Lock icon Malay Secondary Classes
    89 5 Malay Secondary Classes PENANG, Tues— Two Malay dary classes, une /f l 5 School and the im, with a to: w^ e st day ed vester £r™ of the second school term. Th ited by the Chief fleer. Penang. Mr today. He said ese two classes from Malay schools. Pitkeathlv
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    Lock icon Keep More Malays In Forces Call
    65 5 \NG, Tues. The t'MNO Youth Movement will hree resolutions at v rganlzation's Penang General Assembly on -iy. The assembly will be held a- the North Province Wel\O Headquarters. One resolution requests Government that the Malayan and Security Forces of 80 per cent The assembly
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    Lock icon Monastery (60 Yrs.) To Celebrate
    93 5 E Sians Lim (.Twin Monastery, off Kirn Road. Singapore, will rate its 60th anniversary days beginning May Representatives of leading .steries m Malaya will gather for the celebrations which will include the ordination of new monks. Members of the Singapore China Society will visit the
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    Lock icon His Two Cheques Bounced, Court Told
    201 5 PENANG, Tues. A sundry-goods shopkeeper signed* two cheques to settle an account, but the bank returned them with the words "account closed" the Sessions Court was told today. The shopkeeper. Ong Nan Heng, pleaded guilty to a charge of cheating Loo Lean Tool by
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    Lock icon Town's Water Supply Cut
    38 5 PENANG, Tues. Bukit Mertajam will have water supply between the hours of 5.30 a.m. to 7.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. tomorrow onwards. There will be no other supply duiing the day.
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    Lock icon FOREMAN FINED
    42 5 A P.W.D. workshop foreman, Mohamed Taib bin Haji Zainuddin, was fined $700 or four months' jail by Tuan Syed Hassan Aljaffri m the Alor Star Sessions Court yesterday on a charge of abetting the offence of theft of 12 girders.
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    Lock icon SIR GEOFROY ON TOUR
    72 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Sir Geofroy Tory, the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom m the Federation, is on a nine-day tour covering Pahang, Trengganu and Kelantan. He is accompanied by Lady Tory and Miss Winfield, and by Mr. P. Cradock, First Secretary. During the tour the
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    Lock icon VIETNAM TO JOIN BAZAAR
    79 5 VIETNAM is the 15th community m Singapore to set up a national stall for the Colony's 6th annual International Bazaar for the Blind- on May 10 at the Victoria Memorial Hall, its organizer, Mrs. W. W. Yung, told The Standard yesterday. The Consul for the Republic
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    Lock icon Gurney School For Youth
    75 5 PENANG, Tues.— Eighteen-year-old S. Arputhanathan, was sentenced to serve a term of three years m the Henry Gurney School, after he pleaded guilty m the Sessions Court today on a charge of housebreaking. Arputhanathan was alleged to have broken ODen a stall belonging to Lim Phak
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    Lock icon Man To Doctor: I Took 40 Aspirins
    136 5 Man To Doctor: I Took 40 Aspirins PENANG, Tues. A tuberculosis sufferer swallowed 40 aspirin tablets before he died, a Coroner's Court was told today. The Coroner, Inche Nik Hussein bin Nik Ali, was holding an Inquiry into the death of Kuan Lye Huat 24, on March 13. An Assistant
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    Lock icon HAPPINESS FOR TWO
    91 5 CUTTING the cake at their wedding reception, Marilyn and Don Duberall are a picture of happiness. Don, a Corporal at Headquarters, Australian Army Force, Singapore, met his wife when she began work as a typist m his office a few months ago. Marilyn is the only daughter
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    Lock icon SUBVERSIVE TACTICS: POLICE CAN HELP
    176 5 THE Singapore Police will assist political and trade union leaders to study the organization and methods employed by "subversive" elements to infiltrate their organizations, a Government spokesman told The Standard yesterday. "There is no reason why the Police will not aid organizations to rid themselves
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    Lock icon Reds Scattered By Thai Patrol
    57 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— A Thai Po.ice patrol exchanged fire with 15 armed and uniformed terrorists In the Kedah/Perlis/Thai border area on May 3. After an engagement lasting 40 minutes, the terrorists fled. Blood trails were found and followed until lost. The patrol recovered some ammunition
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    Lock icon STUDENTS BOYCOTT THE NEW CLASSES
    207 5 STUDENTS BOYCOTT THE NEW CLASSES KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. -Seventy-five Malay pupils refused to attend Malay secondary classes set up m the Federation yesterday, because they want to be allowed to continue their education through the medium of English. The head of the Malay Division of the Education Ministry declined today
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    Lock icon INDIAN HEMP WAS FOR TOOTHACHE
    128 5 INDIAN HEMP WAS FOR TOOTHACHE PENANG, Tues.— Sessions Judge, Mr. Au Ah Wah. told a bearded man today that being a son of a Mowlana, a title bestowed on a Muslim dignitary, he should be ashamed of himself lor smoking Indian hemp. Ibrahim Mowlana was fined $200, m default three
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    Lock icon BODY FRIGHTENED GIRL, COURT TOLD
    640 6 BODY FRIGHTENED GIRL, COURT TOLD She Found The Hanged Lawyer KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A 15-year-old girl was tapping rubber m the Bukit Jugra Estate off the 3£ milestone, Klang Road, when she suddenly saw a halfnaked European hanging by his shirt from a tree, Coroner lnche Abdul Hamid bin Haji
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    Lock icon Detective Acquitted Of Alleged Corruption
    198 6 Detective Acquitted Of Alleged Corruption KUANTAN, Tues.— A police officer who was said to have been prosecuted on a corruption charge following a petition against him by the local i of Second-hand Goods ast night acquitted and discharged by the Judge, Tuan Sheik Abdullah. Detective-Sergeant Lim Eng Teng was alleged
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    Lock icon LOTTERY DRAW
    22 6 THE fifty-fifth Social and Welfare Lottery will be drawn m Segamat Town Hall on Friday May 23, at 2.30 p.m.
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    Lock icon 2 Offers For Southern Malay Estate
    92 6 2 Offers For Southern Malay Estate LONDON, May 6 (AFP)— Two offer s have been received by the Malayan Para Rubber Company for the Southern Malay Estate but neither reached conclusion, it was disclosed here today. Members have been told that the prices under discussion would have provided a return
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    Lock icon Oppenheim Heads Visit To Nanyang
    113 6 Oppenheim Heads Visit To Nanyang PROFESSOR A. Oppenheim, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, will lead a delegation of 45 members of the Council and Senate of the University, including four external examiners, on a tour of the Nanyang University this morning. They hav e been invited to tour the
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    Lock icon Sports Club Thieves Gag Employee
    80 6 Sports Club Thieves Gag Employee The Singapore Tiger Sports Club Canteen m Cantonment Road was robbed of $700 m cash and cigarettes early yesterday morning. The robbers thought to be two m number entered the premises and gagged and bound the canteen assistant whom they found asleep. He was warned
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    Lock icon FIRST FLIGHT FROM EUROPE
    32 6 MR. P. O. EDEN (left), Vice-President of Scandinavian Airlines System, m the Federation International Airport on Monday, at the inaugural flight of SAS from Europe. Standardpic by Fah.
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    Lock icon S'pore TUC Picks Teh For Geneva
    122 6 S'pore TUC Picks Teh For Geneva THE Singapore Trades Union Congress yesterday selected Mr. Teh Choon Keat president of the City Council Services Union, as its delegate to the International Labour Organization Conference m Geneva next month. The conference will start on June 4 and is scheduled to end on
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    Lock icon 15-YEAR HIKE JUST A BUSMEN'S HOLIDAY
    252 6 15-YEAR HIKE JUST A BUSMEN'S HOLIDAY KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Two former busmen leave here tomorrow m an attempt to girdle the globe on foot. S. P. Sreenivasan, 29 and P. S. Keerthi Retna, 25, reckon it will take them 15 to 18 years to accomplish the feat. But this does
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    Lock icon $20,000 CHEATING CHARGE AGAINST TYPIST DISMISSED
    305 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Sessions Court President Inche Harun bin Haji Idris today acquitted a 30--year-old typist accused of cheating $20,000 from another woman. Chen Fook Lin attached to the Imperial Forces at Rasah Camp, Seremban, was accused of cheating Madam Lai See of $20,000,
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    42 6 THE Sultan of Kedah pinning the Kedah meritorious service decoration on Che Noorulkiah binti Haji Laidin for her voluntary work m the Women's Service League for many years, on the occasion of the Sultan's birthday last Saturday. Standardpic
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    41 6 HONGKONG. May 6.— Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: $1 1>. 1 0 t< £1 Sterling $5.8075 to US$l; 51. 841 to Malayan $1; SO 10 to one Indonesian Rupiah* Gold $252.75 to a tael.
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    148 6 Malayans Only For MIC Posts BANTING, Tues. The Kuaia Langat MIC has resolved that the offices of branch president, secretary and treasurer of the various MIC branches should be restricted to Federal citizens only. Mr. D. Jayaratnam, the reelected president, who will move this resolution at the MlC's annual session
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    83 6 TEMERLOH. Tues.— A technician, Manaf bin Azim Khan, 24, attached to the Survey Department here, died after being involved m an accident with a motor winch at the 4th milestone. Temerloh-Maran Road. Manaf was riding his motorcycle with a pillion rider. A. Ariayanayagam. 21. of
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    80 6 PENANG, Tues. Three Chinese youths, one of whom was armed with a knife, entered the house of Goh Khek Khean m Lorong Susu last night and took away a pair of binoculars, valued at $56, and an electric iron, worth $20. Goh was held at the
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    161 6 PENANG. Tues. The Governor of Penang. Raja Sir Uda, officially declared open Jalan Raja Uda. a two-mile road m Butterworth, the completion of which marks a further step towards the rapid development of the town. "I am very conscious of the honour done me
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    370 7 MAGISTRATE TO RULE ON INCOME TAX CASE PENANG, Tues. Magistrate Inche Nik Hussein bin Nik Ali today said he would require two days to consider whether apprentice jockey Chris Dragon, who appeared before him on a income tax summons charge, was an "infant" and therefore not
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    154 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) m Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot 711 72i R.S.S. No. 1 (May 712 72 R.S.S. No. 1 (June) 71* m R.S.S. No. 2 68} 69 R.S.S. No. 3 63 64 Tone: Easier. The price of tin m Singapore yesterday was
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    178 7 MUSLIM COLLEGE, NEEDS AID KLANG, Tues.— State Government and State Religious Departments are under the delusion that the Muslim College does not require their financial support because the Federation Government has undertaken all responsibility for it. This was stated by the outgoing Chairman of the College Council Dato Syed Ibrahim
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    67 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Two hundred and twenty happy University of Malaya students gathered at the Technical College Hall last night and bade "official" farewell to the University Division here. The University Students Union President, Mr. Gurnam Singh, said: "We have had more than our share of difficulties, but we
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    91 7 IPOH, Tues. An application against Dr. Lien Chuan Yew of the Majestic Clinic here, for maintenance of his wife and child, was struck off by Magistrate Inche Ibrahim bin Abdul Manan today. Mr. S. P. Seenivasagam, counsel for the doctor's wife, Woo Twin Wah,
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    498 7 EVERYWHERE HE WENT, THE DOG WAS SURE TO GO... HAS ANYBODY lost a ghost? A very friendly, immensely likeable ghost, wearing a dog collar which bears the tag: SCC 6869. Mr. N. Raman, a clerk of Radio Malaya, has been haunted by it ever since early yesterday morning. At 8
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    143 7 STUDENTS WELCOME TRANSFER much." He paid particular praise to women students "for putting up with inconveniences brought about by the hostel's lack of privacy." The students, he added, were grateful to Government for agreeing to the transfer of the second year students to Singapore. "It is m the interest cf
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    41 7 AN employee of a tin mine, Harbans Singh, was yesterday fined $50 by the Kuala Kubu Bahru Magistrate Chs Abdul Hamid bin Mohd. Yunus for the theft of a rubber tree on Kalumpang Estate on March 30.
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    46 7 MONTREAL, May 6 (Reuter) —The Federation of Malaya today became the 72nd Mem- ber State of the International Civil Aviation Organization, i Its membership became final 30 days after the Federation i had deposited an instrument of i adherence to ICAO's Convention.
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      280 7 a^^__mp^gß^fl judo practice 530 p.m. HbK !l#VJ^B*Tf *VM Geylang Straits Chinese MethodCi^|yßiMMW Ist Church- Gospel meeting In Malay at "Peace Cove". 393. Joo German Arts Council* Special Chiat Road 8 cm. exhibition of recent German paya Lehar Methodist Church: cranhie art at the Raffles Testimony meeting Speakergraphic art ax Rev
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      158 7 TODAY Singapore- 035 am Oft. 4in.) 2.07 p.m. (Bft.) Port Dickson: 8.53 am. (Bft. sin 9.20 p.m. (Bft. Tin.) Penang: 2.49 am. (7ft. 4in.) 2.51 p.m. (Bft. Sin.) TOMORROW Singapore: 1.16 a.m. (9ft.) 254 p.m. (7ft. sin.) Port Dickson: 9.28 a.m. (Bft. lin.) 9.59 p.m. (7ft. 9in.) Penang- 3.31 p.m.
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    130 9 EXHIBITS displayed by Britain m her two pavilions at the Brussels International Fair take the visitor back to the very birth of modern ■cience. Industry, government and social welfare. Her contributions to this Buclear age are as varied and timeless as the first atomic power station
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    81 9 RIDA To Run Class On Commerce LUMPUR. Tues. and Industrial Develority will soon tor Maenable them to tane ng London Chamif Commerce examination. RIDA officer, Inche cnad. toid The Standhe expects to get 30 •o make up a c to run. RIDA has engaged one teach- over the comme: he
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    33 9 THE Chilean Prune Producers Association, an organization annually marketing twothirds of the dried prune pack, estimates 1958 production at 5,700 tons, about 4 per cent more than for 1957.
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    Lock icon $2.4 M. Profit For Straits Trading
    233 9 THE Straits Trading Company Ltd., made a profit )f $2,423,296 for the year ended Dec. 31, 1957, after allowing for depreciation and making provisions for ncome tax, according to the report of the directors. Payment of interim dividends of 50 cents per $1 unit
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    106 9 On Oil Well KVCHING, Tues. High pressure gas found at some 6,000 feet under the Miri Recreation Club padang is now being tested to find out the extent of the reservoir. The gas was encountered when drilling Well 604, Miri Oilfields deepest well —eight years ago. Drilling was
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    111 9 ORDERS from Australia as well as the United States, Germany, Italy and Bermuda have stepped up production of a British speedboat capable of a speed of 33 m.p.h. The boat, named the Healey Sportsboat, has been developed by the former British racing driver, Donald Healey. m
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    65 9 SYDNEY, May 6, (Reuter)— The British engineering firm of Walmsley's (Bury) Ltd. is building a £A5,000,000 Kraft paper machine for Australia's largest paper company— Aus tralian Paper Manufacturers Ltd. A spokesman for A.P.M. announced the letting of the contract today, and other details of a multi-million
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    Lock icon Lower Exports Of Cotton Linters
    52 9 UNITED STATES exports of cotton linters, mostly chemical qualities, were 22,000 bales of 500 pounds gross (17,000 running bales) m January 1958. This was a decline of 29 per cent from exports of 31,--000 bales m December, and well below exports of 62,000 bales m
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    Lock icon Rubber Crops
    24 9 APRIL rubber crops announced are: Benta 68,500 lb.; Jeram Kuantan 60,000 lb.; Kundong 38,475 lb.: Mentakab 57,000 lb.; Sungei Bagan 141,500 lb.
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    20 9 U.S. IMPORTS of tung oil m 1957 at 14,585 tons were slightly smaller than m the previous year.
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    162 9 THE BRITISH aircraft industry sold more than £36,000,000 worth of goods abroad during the first quarter of this year, representing an annual rate 25 per cent higher than last year's record total of £116,000,000. The quarterly total was the second highest ever recorded, being
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    Lock icon B.I.'s New Commodore
    109 9 THE British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd., has appointed Captain Marcus Christopher Williams as Commodore of its fleet with effect from May 1 this year, it is announced by the firm's agents m Singapore, Islay Ksrr and Co., Ltd. Captain Williams, who has been m command of
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    178 9 SHIPS IN PORT OUTER ROADS Francoise, Sunnyville. Maiju, Pleasantville. Sty. Ogan. Lexa Maersk, Agios Vlassios.Tjiwangi. Felipes Gunn, Toreador, Wing On. Ocean Fortune, Douglas, Banggaai, Woodlock, Procyon, Gordian. Omonia, Taiseun Hong, Bencruachan. Steel Scientist, Yamahagi Maru. Statius Jansen, Inchkilda. Floretia, Yuen Seng, Houtman, Julia, Benveg. Susanne. Eumaeus. Sunda, Leipzig, Great Oaks,
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    95 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Pro duce Exchange noon closing prices per picu] yesterday were: copra April May UK Continent $31i buyers $32 sellers coconut oil m bulk $47$ sellers; m drums $50J sellers; Muntok white pepper $130 sellers; Sarawak white $129 sellers; Special Sarawak black $74. Singapore Coconut Oil Millers Association
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    Lock icon Off To Hongkong
    45 9 A SINGAPORE tailor, Mr. Foo Wah Hing, left the Colony this week by air for Hongkong:, where he will study the latest m tailoring. He will spend a week touring- tailoring firms m Hongkong and see some of the newest sewing machines.
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    112 9 JESSELTON, Tues.— Borneo Legislative Council has referred to Select Committee a bill providing for reduced companies' tax. The proposed legislation introduces a cut m the basic rate of companies tax from 40 per cent to 20 per cent, charging an additional 20 per cent only
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    Lock icon Shipments Of Tin Up
    50 9 MALAYAN tin exports m April totalled 3,875 tons, against 3,333 tons m the previous month, according to preliminary figures. However, the total for the first four months this year, at 18,809 tons, was lower than that for the same period last year, which was 24,933 tons.
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    Lock icon Automation In This British Industry
    143 9 THE production of one cast iron bath every working minute has become possible at a foundry m Bilston. Staffordshire. Here, scrap metal is turned into the finished product by the pressing of buttons. The main units m the factory are melting furnaces, a sand processing
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    Lock icon Japan's Advance In Photo Industry
    132 9 JAPAN'S photographic and optical industry is making rapid progress, Mr. Teh Bee Heng, Singapore sales manager of Tithes Dental Photo Supply Ltd., said yesterday. Mr. Teh has just returned to the Colony from a threeweek tour of Japan. He accompanied his brother, Mr. Teh Chiew
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    Lock icon More Exports Of HK Goods
    104 9 HONGKONG'S total exports of local manufactured goods m February this year were valued at HK5103.040.000. *<n increase of HK52,490.000, compared with those for the previous month. The February total represented 43.7 per cent of the colony's total exports for the month and exceeded by HK$
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    22 9 United Kingdom imports of unmanufactured tobacco from the United States rose from 160,300.000 pounds m 1956 to 168.300,000 m 1957.
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    Lock icon Industrials And Tins Are Steady
    121 9 Industrials And Tins Are Steady INDUSTRIALS and tins were steady, while rubbers were dull m the Malayan share market yesterday. Turnover was small. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were Buyers Sellers INDUSTRIALS B. B. Petrol 48/- 50/Fraser Neave Ords. 2.46 250 Gammon 199 2.03 xd Gammon (Rights)
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    212 9 Business In Shares MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done: Alex Bricks ords. $2.50; Fed. Disp. $2.15 cum all overnight: F. N ords $2.47 i to $2.50; Gammon $2.02 xr, &2 delayed; Hammer $1.50 overnight parcel, $i.SIJ to $1.54; Hong Kong Bank £43J; Hume prefs. 4/7-t overnight, ords. 4/7-i; Jackson
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      416 9 CHINA DISPUTE ON RUBBER QUALITY SINGAPORE Chinese Rubber traders ore to send a representative to mainland China to settle a dispute on the quality of Malayan rubber shipped to that country, Mr. Ng Quee Lam, vice-president of the Rubber Trade Association said yesterday. The rubber magnate disclosed that members of
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      72 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes m its rates to merchants yesterday: New York: Buying, T.T. 32-7/8, O.D. 33. 90 days airmail 33-1/8 credit bills, 33-3/16 trade bill?. Canada: buying T.T. 31-7 8. O.D. 32 90 days airmail 32-5/16 credit bills. 32-7/16 trade bills. Selling,
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      104 9 THE United States exhibit at the World Fair m Brussels demonstrates that the American economic system unquestionably benefits all people, says Dr. Gabriel Hague, President Eisenhower's economic adviser. "As one walks around the U.S. pavilion and views the exhibits, several things become clear," Dr. Hague said
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      Lock icon Off To U.S. On Political Tour
      296 10 i ALLIANCE State Executive and State Councillor 1 of renang, Inche Aziz Ibrahim, is leaving Singa- pore on May 17 by air for the United States via London. He has been awarded a Leader Grant 1 Scholarship for a political study tour of the
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      177 10 THE President of the Ecclesiastical Ministry, Thailand, Somdech Pra Wanarat. is seen (above) descending from a make -shift staircase at the Wat Buppharam. Penang. i last Saturday, after enshrining the Sacred Relic of Lord Buddha on the spire, to commem orate Vesak Day. Celebrating j Vesak Day
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    293 11 'Gamesmen Have Wrong Approach To The Sporf KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The English Football liation's professional coach, Ron Meades, here to b the Football Association of Malaya's Asian (..imesmen, today said that though the footballers are potentially good some better than the Indians they are
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    Lock icon Colony's Crest For Tokyo
    47 11 SINGAPORE'S contingent to the third Asian Games m Tokyo this month will wear the above crest, m colour, on their blue blazers. The twenty rings indicate the 20 countries taking part m the Games. The crest qjso appeared on dark red silk ties.
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    Lock icon LAST HOPE FOR HOCKEY GAMESMEN
    144 11 Jit Imm Silent On Another Trial WITH the Singapore Hockey Association still short of $15,000 the prospects of the team making the trip to Japan appear as slim as ever. Mr. C. C. Tan. the SingaOlympic and Sports Counresident. said that whethe 15-man team will
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    70 11 IPOH, Tues.— Sydney jockey Ray Georse, who has been Malaya lor the past Moths, was today marl:ss June Martin at St. John's Church, Ipoh. The bride, a former office r, also from Sydney arrived m the country only weeks ago. Canon carpenter officiated at the ceremony.
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    112 11 Non-playing captain of the Philippines Davis Cup test team Leonardo Gavia, and his Japanese '.erpart, Jiro Kuna--11 are presented with luets by tiro Japanese during the opening 'riony of the Philip--Japan Eastern zone s Cup semi-finals at Denen Colosseum m Tokyo on May 2. Philippines, the winners,
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    Lock icon Changi & BODCA Draw
    182 11 Changi BODCA Draw RAF Changi drew with BODCA 2-2 on the Changi padang yesterday m a friendly soccer match. BODCA took the initiative from the kick-off and after only eight minutes of play Stapenall, the centre forward intercepted a back pass from Formoy RAF outside left and walked the ball
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    65 11 IPOH, Tues. Penang will be the venue of the first quadrangular North Malaya Malays soccer competition between Perak. Kedah, Kelantan and Penang from May 9 to 11. Eighteen Perak players will travel to Penang. A 'gate* will be collected at the Games, and proceeds will be
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    191 11 Boxing Prizes Their Aim TOKYO. May 6 (UPh—A 10-member Burmese team for the Asian Games, first to arrive here expressed confidence that it would capture top prizes m the boxing events. The team was welcomed at the airport by Japanese Asian Olympic officials, including: Kinicti Asiano,
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    Lock icon Recs Fall To Airmen
    113 11 SINGAPORE Recreation Club suffered their first defeat when they went down to the Royal Air Force Tengah by two goals to nil m a SAFA Div. 2A league on the padang yesterday. The Airmen owe their surprise victory to goalkeeper Askew, who put up splendid performance
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    24 11 TANJONG Malim. Tues.— Methodist English School beat Trolak District Association B team 4-1 m the Stevenson Cup badminton match played here last night.
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    Lock icon Big Tennis Tourney At Changi
    316 11 Big Tennis Tourney At Changi LAWN tennis enthusiasts from RAF Units m Ceylon, Hongkong, Malaya and Singapore will be arriving by rail, road and air at RAF Changi to compete m the annual FEAF Championships which begin this Saturday. Only individual men's events will be played but competitors who are
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    41 11 MELBOURNE. May 6 (Reuter) Sam Loxton, Australian test player and captain of Victoria, today announced his retirement from first class cricket. Loxton, 37, is a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and wants to devote his time to politics.
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    97 11 CPL. Keymer RAOC was the only boxer to win his contest by a knockout m the preliminary rounds of the FARELF individual boxing championships held at the Gillman Gymnasium last night. Keymer knocked out Cpl. Chandler m the lightweight contest. Results were: Bantamweight: L/Cpl. Muthu (RE)
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    Lock icon Tokyo Venture 15... History Making But Not Medal Winning
    883 11 Tokyo Venture 15... History Making But Not Medal Winning KEN JALLEH, who will cover the third Asian Games hi Tokyo for The Standard, reviews Singapore and Federation prospects m the individual events m this first of three articles. Tomorrow, he reviews the Malayan chances m the team events. WITHIN the
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    Lock icon LTAM Chief Confident Of Green Light For Fed Tennis Aces. Too
    272 11 LTAM Chief Confident Of Green Light For Fed Tennis Aces. Too KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. That the Asian Games Federation wiH not raise any objection to tennis players taking part at the games m Tokyo this month is the confident opinion of tennis officials here. Mr. Leone Hoe Yen*. President of
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      189 11 SINGAPORE SOCCER: Caldbeck Cup FARELF Final: Ist Battalion Loyal Regiment (Malaya) vs Singapore Engineer Regiment (Singapore), Tanglin 5.15 p.m. FRIENDLY: TBA vs 221 BOR (Johore Bahru) at Farrer Park. PENANG SOCCER: Div. 2 League' Glugor Club vs. Ramblers "B" Dato Kramat "A" ground at 5.15 p.m. Darul Aishan Football Club
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      184 11 Dato Kramat "B" ground at 5.15 p.m. BADMINTON: Junior championships (finals) Han Chiang High School at 7 p.m. Malayan Championships (first examination round) Han Chiang High School at 6.30 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. KUALA LUMPUR SOCCER: FAS league: Div. I. Police Depot vs. RAF T.P.C.A. Div. 2. Sultan Suleiman vs.
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    295 12 Bolton Get Reception Of Stone. Boos Flour BOLTON, Lancashire, May 6 (Re uter) Bolton Wanderers winners of the 1958 Football Association Final were stoned with clogs (shoes with wood and iron heels) tomatoes, and bags of flour when they passed through Manchester on their way home last night They 1
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    87 12 LONDON. This was the line-up at Stamford Bridge, m the England World Cup XI versus England Under 23's XI. The World Cup team, left to right, (top pic- ture) Howe, West Bromwich Albion; right-back; Clayton, Blackburn Rovers right-half; Billy Wright, (Capt.) Wolverhampton Wanderers; centre-half; McDonald, goalie,
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    Lock icon New Zealanders Trounce Leicester By An Innings
    231 12 New Zealanders Trounce Leicester By An Innings LEICESTER, May 6 (Reuter) John Alabaster, the Jeg spinner who took 11 wickets for 80 runs m the match, helped the Xew Zealand cricket tourists gain the first victory today when they beat Leicester by an innings and 64 runs here. as the
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    Lock icon First Inns. Defeat For Surrey In Six Years
    143 12 First Inns. Defeat For Surrey In Six Years LONDON. May 6 (Reuter)— Surrey, countiy cricket champions for the past six ye?rs. suilered their first innings defeat since 1953 today when they, lost by an innings and three runs to the MCC at Lords. Needing 78 runs to avoid defeat when
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    98 12 LONDON. May 6, (AFP). The Welsh Football Federation yesterday completed its selection for the final round of the World Football Cup to be held m Sweden next month. It has %dded only one man to the seventeen players selected last week who will go to Sweden. He
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    Lock icon Army Versus Ceylon SC
    56 12 THE team to represent the Army (Singapore) against Ceylon Sports Club on Sunday at Nee Soon will be: Major Drew (Capt), Major Bennett. L:eut Berry. WO II Flood. Sgt Barrick. Sgt Norris. Sgn Pearce. Sgn Wilson. Spr Knowles. Pte Collins and Cfn Peacock Reserve: L/Cpl Briant.
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    112 12 The Pants This Boxer Forgot... LONDON, May 5 (Reuter)— When Anton Germani- from Rome, arrived at the ringside m the Royal Albert Hall here tonight to take part m a boxing bout, re removed his dressing gown to discover he had forgotten his pants. There was a great roar from
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    121 12 CHINESE Swimming Club e-bearers for the year 1953. elected at the annual general meeting held On May b were: President: Mr G. H. Kiat OBE (re-elected); Vice-Pre-sident: Mr. Son Ghee Soon (re-elected): Dr. N.F. Lai (reelected); Mr. Ng Eng Kiat (reelected). Hon. Auditor: Mr Xoo Chong Oum,
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    121 12 SYDNEY. May 6 (Reuter) —Blackpool's brilliant winger, Stanley Matthews, will play against Australia at the Sydney Sports ground on Satur day. Because of a toe injury, there was some doubt whether Matthews would be fit. But Matthews said today his toe had responded to treatment
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      528 12 Letter From Australia By Jack Talbot MELBOURNE (Victoria) Forty-year-old Ossie Pickworth, one of Australia's best-known and popular sportsmen, has retired from professional golf. He hopes to get a publican's licence and start a new career as a hotelkeeper early m May m the Melbourne suburb of
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      866 12  -  BRIAN CHAPMAN By Did You Have To Be So Mean About Sir Len? LONDON, May 6 For nearly twenty years the careers of two English batsmen, both all-time greats, ran their course together. They were Len Hut ton, the classic stylist, and Denis Compton, the
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      Lock icon Cricket's All-Rounder Dies At 69
      197 12 LONDON, May 6. (I F. R. Foster, one of the cricket all-rounders who played for England, ha* aged 69. Foster, whose career w: short by a road accic*. Ed first-class cricket c 1908 to 1914 time he took 721 wickets for a o over 20
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      31 12 BRITAIN'S Billy Knig Italy's Guercilena 6-1. and America S. V. hees beat Italy's Bor,< I 6-4. 6-4, 6-2 m the Brsl of the menRome Internationa', championships inTlonc day. ■AFP.
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      21 12 RANGERS scored a 2-1 away victory over F Thistle m a Scottish Div soccer match at Glasgow yesterday. Reuter
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      Lock icon DAVIS CUP: P.I. INSISTS ON JAPAN VENUE
      173 12 DAVIS CUP: P.I. INSISTS ON JAPAN VENUE MANILA, May 6 (Reuter)— The Philippines will insist on playing the tennis tie with Ceylon for the Eastern Zone Davis Cup finals m Japan, an official of the Philippines Amateur Athletic Federation said here today Dr. Regino Ylanan, the Federation secretary and treasurer
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      Lock icon Yanks Ban Those Shoes
      76 12 NEW YORK. May 6, (Reuter). The American Amateur Athletic Union today banned built-up jumping shoes m all competitions held under their auspices. Russia's Yuri Stepanov has bettered the previous world record with a jump of 7 feet 1 inch and other Soviet jumpers have improved on
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      33 12 MOSCOW, May 6 (Reuter) Two world records were broken by Soviet weight-lifters at a meeting at Alushta, m the Crimea, over the weekend, according to Tass, the official Soviet news agency.
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      23 12 RIK VAX LOOY of the Belgian national team yesterday scored his third successive stage win m the round Spain cycle race.— -Reuter.
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      74 12 LONDON, May 6 (Reuter). —Prices at last night's callover at the Victoria Club here on the Derby, to be run at Epsom on June 4, were: 10/1 Noelor, Miner's Lamp--10/8 Nagami; 100/7 Wallaby. 100/6 Alcide. Bald Eagle and Pantouflard. 2/1 Amerigo; 22/1, Love Boycherasco p.nd Paridel. 25/1 Locarno,
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      227 12 HOUSTON, Texas. 6. (AFP). Joe Brown was today chalked up as 2-1 favourite to retain his world lightweight boxing title against second world challenger Ralph Dupas at the Houston Coliseum tomorrow night. This will be the first time a world boxing title fight has been staged
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    683 13 DO-IT-YOURSELF Technique Opens New World Of Science THERE was a run on soda straws m tne Woodrow Wilson High School cafeteria here recently. But not because the students were extra thirsty. They had just learned how to make a set of sensitive enough to weigh the wing of a fly
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    35 13 17-year-old graduate from Delhi University wishes to correspond with Singapore men friends. He is interested m stamps collecting and coins. His address: S. K. Agarwala. I ST. Roop Nagar. Subzi Mandi. Delhi. India.
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    224 13 THE DIARY Radio Quiz J^ADIO Malaya is holding a weekly series of quiz competitions for Singapore Primary Schools. This programme goes on the air every Sunday evening at five o'clock. The first of the series was reccrded on Apiil 20. The competitors came from the City and McNair Divisions. Those
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    148 13 TIMES SQUARE.— Often called the entertainment centre of the world, Times Square is a polyglot of theatres, restaurants, hotels and stores. Massive electric signs keep it as bright as daylight on the darkest night. It is named after the newspaper, The New York Times, whose building is on
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    290 13 THE STARS AND YOU TODAY'S QUOTATION: A "O. it is excellent To have a giant's strength but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant." Shakespeare WEDNESDAY FOR EVERYONE: Daytime calls for tact, discretion m business and personal matters. dealings with higher-ups. Evening favours harmomsing differences, exchanging ideas, getting
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      214 14 Buf If Has Only 50-50 Chance WASHINGTON, May 6 (UP) The U.S. Defence Department's Space Agency Chief said today that the Pentagon has decided to go ahead with a "very urgent" I secret space project. Mr. Roy W. Johnson, head of the Advance Research Projects
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      105 14 PARTY HEAD SAYS: IKE WILL QUIT WASHINGTON. May 6 (IP) Democratic national chairman. Mr. Paul M. Butler predicted last night that President Eisenhower would resign alter the congressional elections this year to be succeeded by Vice-Presi-dent Richard Nixon. The Chief Executive has denied any such intentions barring a new incapacitating:
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      154 14 SYDNEY, May 6, (Reuter).— Police arrested 40 university students here today for trying to erect a roadblock m the heart of the city one of many pranks making this one of their most memorable commemoration weeks. Hundreds of other students booed and cat-called as a
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      232 14 Expected To Help Draw Up Proposals For Cyprus' Future NICOSIA, May 6 (Reuter) Sir Hugh Foot, Governor of Cyprus, left here by air today for London for talks on the island colony's future. The Governor's trip follows a new burst of terrorism 4 n which two
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      64 14 ARMOURED vehicles rumble through Moscow's Red Square participating: m the annual May Day parade. The military parade only lasted twenty minutes this year, and was followed by a mass civilian demonstration lasting four hours. Present to witness the parade was President Nasser of the United Arab
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      Lock icon CYPRIOTS DISPLAY THEIR WOUNDS
      211 14 NICOSIA, May 6 (Rev ter) Twenty-one Greek Cypriots last night showed a Press conference here injuries which they said they sustained m Famagusta the day before "when we were beaten up by troops." The conference had been called by the Cyprus Human Rights Committee. Mayor Andreas
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      35 14 ASUNCION, Paraguay, May 6 (Reuter)— The Paraguayan government has made a formal request to the American vice-president Mr. Richard Nixon, for a 17 million dollar loan from the American export- i mport bank.
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      208 14 T .ORI, Tokyo, May 6 (Reuter) Japanese Prime Minister, Mr. Nobusuke Kishi, said here today that unofficial Japanese organizations should do something abou: the implementation of fourth private trade agreement between Japan and Communist China. Mr. Kishi, who is now m his election campaign
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      144 14 President Calls For Session RANGOON, May 6 (Reuter>—The Burmese President U Win Maung. has called a special session of parliament lor June 5 to debate a noconfldence motion m the Prime Minister U Nu. The motion will be introduced by two deputy premiers U Kya Nyein and Ba Swe who
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      Lock icon Premier Is Branded A 'Traitor'
      118 14 Premier Is Branded A 'Traitor' CAIRO. May 6, (UP).— Cairo Radio yesterday called Iraq's new Parliament a "Council of Appointed Deputies" m its bitterest attack on the administration since the creation of the Bagdad Pact. Cairo Radio's commentary last night branded Premier Nouri El Said the "traitor Number One of
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      Lock icon Surgeon On Homicide Charge
      87 14 TRYING to shield his face with a handkerchief, Dr. Rodrigo Sarmiento (left) steps from a Police van as he arrives at Felony Court for a hearing m Brooklyn, N.Y. The 38-year-old Filipino surgeon was booked on a homicide charge m connection with the fatal stabbing of
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      247 14 NEW YORK, May 6 (Reuter> Pulitzer prizes were rday awarded to the Broadway Dlay "Look Homeward, Angel." to Samuel Barber for his American opera "Vanessa," and to the novel "Death In The Family." by the late James Asee. The New York Times won
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      76 14 He Boycotts Reception For Margaret BELIZE, British Honduras, May 6. (Reuter). Mr. George Price, leader of the majority Peoples United Party, last night boycotted a government reception here for Princess Margaret. Mr. Price, who was acquitted m court of a seditious utterances charge 11 days ago, said he had been
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        Lock icon Casey Says 'No'
        41 14 CANBERRA, May 6 (Reuter) Australia's External Affairs Minister. Mr. R. G. Casey, today rejected a request by the leader of the Federal Opposition, Dr. Herbert Evatt, for Australian intervention m an attempt to settle Malta's dispute with Britain.
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        31 14 CAPTANIA, Sicily, May 6 (Reuter) Mount Etna volcano erupted violently last night, spouting lava and flames m its North-eastern crater. The volcano has been erupting for three weeks.
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        31 14 TAIPEI. May 6, (Renter).— Chinese Communists fired ten shells at Kaoteng, an islet guarding the Nationalistdefended island group off the Northern Fukien coast last night, the Defence Ministry announced.
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        35 14 SYDNEY, May 6 (Reuter)— The P and O liner Strathaird arrived here today with more than 500 British migrants. It is the third P and O allmigrant ship to reach Sydney this year.
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        33 14 CANBERRA, May 6 (Reuter) Defence strategy m the Pacific was discussed at a meeting today between the United States Commander-in-Chief m the Pacific, General Isaac D. White, and Australian Service Ministers.
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        35 14 LONDON, May 6, (Reuter) The first group of United States Air Force Thor missile experts has arrived here to supervise the building of ballistic missile sites m East England, it was learned today.
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        32 14 HONGKONG, May 6, (Reuter). Premier Chou En-lai of China received m Pekin? today a North Peoples delegation headed by Miss Huh Ung Soo, Minister of Justice, according to Peking Radio.
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        68 14 TOKYO, May 6 (UP) The British Government has removed its danger restrictions m the huge area of the Pacific around its nuclear testing centre at Christmas Island, the Foreign Ministry announced today. The announced said the British Foreign Office on Monday informed the Japanese Government, through its embassy
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      177 14 WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 6 (Reuter) Dr. N.L, Palar. Indonesian ambassador to Canada, said yesterday chat the West is losing the battle for Afro-Asian nations "because of the national interests of three countries, France, Belgium and the Netherlands." He told a meeting of the
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      27 14 MONTREAL. May 6, (UP)--Police yesterday seized a suspect and recovered most of the $2,000,000 worth of securities stolen from a bank m Canada's biggest robbery.
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