Singapore Standard, 12 May 1958

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  • 22 1 SINGAPORE STAN DARD Telephone *****—5 Coble "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, MONDAY. MAY 12. 1958 Vol. VIII. No. 313 15 cts. 12 Pages [FINAL EDITION]
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  • 246 1 MALAYA-THAI OFFENSIVE AGAINST 600 COMMUNISTS Pact To Be Signed Next Month KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Emergency Operations Council headed by Defence Minister Dato Abdul Razak plans to launch the "biggest offensive" against the 600 remaining Communists in North Malaya under the '•Joint Operation Service Pact" between the
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  • 67 1 'THAILAND CAN DEFEND HERSELF' TAIPEI, May 11. (AFP). General "Tiger" Wang Shunning, the Nationalist Chinese Chief-of-General-Staff, told a Press conference here today that he believed Thailand was able to defend herself against Communist aggression. Speaking on his recent official visit to Bangkok, the General said: "My trip was made wholly
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  • 44 1 ESCANABA, Michigan, May 11 (Reuter)— Three teenagers who broke into a high school here, stole $71 and spent the money seeing the film "The Ten Commandments," were so impressed by it that they broke into the school again to return $65, police reported.
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  • 159 1 TOKYO, May 11 (UP) Communist China has recalled two trade delegations now in Japan in protest against the "hostile actions" of the Japanese Government headed by Conservative Prime Minister Nobusuki Kishi. Radio Peking, in a broadcast monitored in Tokyo, said the China National Metals
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  • 488 1 Malaya To Call Up Youfhs For National Service BUTTERWORTH, Sun. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Dato Abdul Razak bin Hussain, said today that the Federation Government would soon mobilize Malayan youths for National Service in Malaya. Dato Abdul Razak, as UMNO Malaya Deputy President, was addressing the
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  • 127 1 Mac Moved By Peoples' Friendship EDINBURGH. May 11 (Reuter).—The Prime Minister. Mr. Harold Macmillan, said herg. last night that the sensgTif partnership and friendshio in "the new Commonwealth countries'" of India, Pakistan. Ceylon and Singapore had "astonished" him on his Commonwealth tour. They were people, he said, absolutely different from
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  • 50 1 SINGAPORE Police yesterday combed the island for a prisoner who escaped from Outram Jail. The man, Tong Wah See, 29, escaped while he and a group of other prisoners were doing "fatigue duty" outside the prison. Up to last night, there was no trace of Tong.
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  • 28 1 PRESIDENT Klimenti Voroshilov of Russia has postponed his 10-day state visit to Yugoslavia due to have started yesterday, it was officially reported in Belgrade. (Reuter)
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  • 71 1 LIM SEAN TONG (above), a competitor in the Singapore Gap Hill Climb, yesterday somersaulted twice and had a miraculous escape when he skidded after taking a sharp hair-pin bend at high speed on his motor cycle Karel Rykr, international rider from Czechoslovakia, on his j£.\va
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  • 187 1 NEWSPAPERS DUB PANSY AS 'FLOWER OF THE EAST' LONDON, May 11 (Reuter) British Sunday newspapers today printed page one pictures of 18-year-old Pansy, daughter of Singapore's Chief Minister Mr. Lim Yew Hock. The pictures were taken outside Buckingham Palace, here. Pansy went walking yesterday in Eastern dress. The mass-circulation News
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  • 64 1 LAHORE, Pakistan, May 11 (UP) Atta Mohammed, charged with Friday's assassination of Dr. Khan Sahib, was arraigned before a Magistrate yesterday and remanded in jail for 10 days. Meanwhile. party chief Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, of the former militant organization Khakhasar, was arrested on charges of harbouring
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  • 51 1 CAIRO, May 11 (UP) The United Arab Republic yesterday proclaimed full support for the Indonesian Central Government against "foreign interference." A UAR spokesman said: "The UAR proclaims its full support for the Indonesian Government in its struggle to maintain its independence and safeguard it against foreign
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  • 128 1 LONDON. Mgy 11 (Reuter) —The death rate in the Soviet Union is the world's lowest, the Annual Conference of the Socialist Medical Association was told here today. Dr. D. Stark Murray. Asso- ciation President, said last year's Soviet statistics showed a death rate of only
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  • 368 1 Desperate Bid To Rescue Men From Flooded Section TWELVE TRAPPED IN UNDERGROUND SHAFT RAUB, Sun. Twelve men are trapped in a flooded section of a mine here today the first major mine disaster in the Federation since Merdeka. The twelve two Europeans, four Malays and six Chinese have been trapped
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  • 160 1 ABOUT 50 syces, cooks, amahs and other domestic servants employed by expatriate officers of the Singapore City Council will make joint representation to the Mayor, Ong Eng Guan, to help them to find work when their employers leave the Colony on Malayanization They will
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  • 112 1 MANILA, May 11 (Reuter) —The Rebel Indonesian Radio at Menado claimed today that insurgent aircraft had attacked a Government Airbase at AmahaL on the 'sland of Ceram. in east Indonesia. The Radio said two Government P-51 fighters had been damaged in the attack. It
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  • 37 1 TOKYO, May 11 (TJP)._A jolting earthquake shook Tokyo this morning, waking people from their Sunday morning slumber. The quake, which was of short duration, caused houses to rock and window panes to rattle.
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  • 37 1 LUCIEN LELONG. founder of one of France's leading fashion and perfume houses, and the man who launched Pierre Balmain and the lat* Christian Dior, died in Parig last night at the age of 68.— AFP.
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    • 503 2 TENDER NOTICE TENDERS, which will close at 9 a.m. on the 31st May. 1958, are required for the Daily Supply of Fresh Rations to approximately 15 Aborigines in the Kuala Lipis area of Pahang. Full details may be obtained on application, in writing, to the Adviser on Aborigines, Young Road,
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    • 451 2 TENDER NOTICES TENDER NOTICE. TENDERS, which will close at 9 a.m. on the 31st May, 1958. are required for Daily Supply of Fresh Rations to approximately 150 Aborigines in the vicinity of Kuala Lumpur. Full details may be obtained on application, in writing, to the Adviser on Aborigines, Young Road.
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  • 1559 3 THE failure of the talks to end the strike by rubber plantation workers in the Federation will be viewed with growing anxiety. The setback which this paralysis of the industry will have on the economy of the country can no longer be ignored and dealers in this
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  • 669 3  -  William Fitter -By SYDNEY JS it a sin to gamble? Does the purchase of a lottery ticket offend Christian teaching as laid down in the Bible? These are questions which have been exercising the minds of Sydney's cleric s and more thoughtful citizens though not the masses.
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  • 326 3 VT/iTH the world's attention focussed on the West Indies and on Princess Margaret's tour, a question was asked in the House of Commons in London recently as to when the new Federation would be given full self-government. Mr. Hector Hughes M.P. asked the Secretary
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  • 638 3 Cult Of The FLYING MERINGUE CASSANDRA says: I "The weather came up over the I front (there was no I windscreen) like I the green and 1 white stuff that J trawlers ship off J Iceland.*' Africa there is a tremendous gorge nearly I,oooft. deep that runs right through the
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  • 43 3 A loud shout or a clap of thunder may he sufficient to upset the delicate balance in tchich millions of tons of snow are held on a mountain. Swiss guides often forbid climbers to utter a word near danger spots.
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  • 431 3 the NEWS as it strikes, me Yf'ITH a seriousness that must please Tunku Abdul Rahman and his Cabinet, the light of reason has penetrated the valley of darkness where a section of Malays have been groping for the wisdom they required to solve the problem of secondary Malay schools which
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  • 245 4 Govt. Considers Amendment To T.U. Ordinance SINGAPORE Government is considering important amendments to its Trade Union Ordinance which will give it tighter control over unions. In many aspects, the amended Ordinance is expected to be in line with the Labour Legislation in the Federation. i The
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  • 282 4 No Mention Of Nanyang Varsity In 1956 Report THE presence of the Nanyang University as an educational institution in Singapore was totally ignored bv the Singapore Annual Report for 1956. Although the chapter on Education In the Report covered 21 pages, there was no mention of Nanyang. Except for this
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  • Article, Illustration
    27 4 THE senate Internal Security Subcommittee said yesterday in Washington its findings show that Mexico has been used as "a centre for Soviet espionage rendezvous." UP.
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  • 30 4 THREE thousand Canadian railwaymen went on strike yesterday after the failure of a last minute attempt by Mr. John Diefenbaker. ;he Prnvs Minister, to prevent the walk out.
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  • 51 4 THE Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, paid his first official visit to Malacca last Friday and addressed two public rallies at Klebang Besar and Bukit Rambai Village. The Tunku (left) is seen acknowledging the cheers of the large crowd that turned out to greet him at Klebang
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  • 225 4 ALL QUIET ON THE LABOUR FRONT THERE was comparatively little labour unrest in Singapore in 1956 although Communists used the "Middle Road" group of unions for political activities, according to Singapore Annual Report for 1956. There were 29 strikes that year as compared to 275 in 1955, with a loss
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  • 70 4 The British Ambassador to Cambodia, Mr. H. N. Brain, Mrs. Brain and their son, Quentin, arrived in Singapore by air on Saturday from Saigon on their way back to England. They will be guests of the Commissioner -General for South east Asia, Sir Robert Scott, during their
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  • 64 4 SEATO's two- week Naval training exercises, Oceanlink will end tomorrow. Today, the Task Forces will be engaged on anti-sub-marine warfare and conduct another opposed replenishment exercise, refuelling and taking on stores while under "attack" by submarines. Today, the pace of the training has been slowed
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  • 95 4 Work Together For Malaya, Says Tunku MALACCA, Sun —The Prime Minister of the Federation, Tunku Abdul Rahman, today made further appeals to a large gathering of people *t Jasin and Alor Gajah. to woik harmoniously with all races to build a new Malaya. The Tunku returned to Malacca early this
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  • 102 4 UP, UP GOES THE COLONY BIRTH RATE SINGAPORE'S population is growing rapidly and has perhaps one of the highest rates of nautral increase in the world, the 1956 annual report pointed out yesterday. Births exceeded deaths by 50,382. Natural increase in Singapore's population in 1956 was 39.93 per 1,000, the
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  • 261 4 GOVERNMENT'S firm action in irresting Com munist inspired leaders and agitators who were attempting to create a United Front as a step towards the eventual creation of a Communist Government in Singapore led to the October riots, according to the Singapore Annual Report of
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  • 556 5 YOUR CHOICE -SACK OR SIN Dismissal Move Angers Married Women Teachers PENANG, Sun. The president of the National Union of teachers, Mr. Tan Chong Bee, told a protest meeting of married women teachers yesterday that Government apparently saw fit that women who got into Government service must not fall in
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  • 199 5 Prizes Will Be Offered For Best Attap Roofs LUMPUR. Sun.— y forms will go out this to all states in the tl :on of Malaya for a competition which will highlight of this year's an Agri-Horticultural show at the woo Grounds. Kuala it, in June. will be an attaD ng
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  • 83 5 IPOH. Sun.— The Hawaiian Rythmaires. one of the most sought-after dance bands in north Malaya, formed by eurs from all walks of was disbanded after their farewell performance at the St. John's Hall in ad of the Perak fund on Saturday D^QllTi The band boasted a collection
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  • 70 5 THE Singapore Indian Conyesterday sent a cable to the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Lennox-Boyd expressing tisfaction over its deI for reserved seats in -embly for minority communities. The cable read: "This Conis of the strong opinion nving to being a party to ispute, the so-called alldelegation
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  • 110 5 They Want A Socialist Malaya KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The local branch of the MIC wants the Federation of Malaya to be turned into a socialist state. The branch today passed a resolution asking the Alliance national council to formulate a programme and policy based on the principles of socialism in
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  • 203 5 DREDS of fans who the Singapore Badn Hall on Saturday night for the finals of the Radio Malaya 1958 series of Talentine contest saw 24--year-old Ted Lloyd of the romp home with the first prize. Lloyd playing the harmonica won the coveted trophy which
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  • Article, Illustration
    28 5 A BABY SHOW opened to en between the ages of three months and two years e held at the KenyonRea Methodist Girls' School, Penang. on Saturday.
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  • 202 5 A CROWD of more than 20,000 people joined the Royal Malayan Navy in celebrating its 10th Anniversary in Woodlands yesterday. It was a field day for one and all, and it turned out to be a truly national festival. The day's programme which
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  • 137 5 First Flight Singaporeans In Japan TOKYO. May 11 (UP)— Despite strong headwinds, 47 invited guests of Japan Airline's inaugural flight arrived here today only 60 minutes behind schedule. Among them were Singapore's Minister of Commerce and Industry J. M. Jumabhoy, who travelled in his capacity as President of the Pacific
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  • 99 5 PENANG, Sun.— The president of the Ceylon Association. Penang and Province Wellesiey. Mr. S. Elagupulay. called upon his community to get together more often and strengthen the Association, when he addressed the annual general meeting yesterday. He also said that the sporting activities of the Association
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  • 81 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Five executive members of the Scandinavian Airlines System arrived here today on a 24--hour visit. The members, led by Mr T.B Hutson, the SAS sales manager in London, will meet local businessmen and officials. They will leave tomorrow by the Polar route via
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  • 179 5 Globetrotter Gets Sore Feet After 18 Miles TANJONG MALIM, Sun. The two hikers who left Kuala Lumpur on Thursday to walk around the world arrived in Tanjong Malim yesterday. They are Mr. P. H. K. Rathna. 25. and Mr. S.P. Sreenivasan, 29, former employees of the General Transport Company, Kuala
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  • 74 6 HOMAGE TO OUR LADY OF LOURDES MALACCA, Sun. More than 16,000 children and peoples of all races and creeds thronged the Banda Hilir Padang this evening to pay respects to the Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes. The statue was brought here from Muar by car for the centenary celebrations
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  • 431 6 M.C.A. CHIEF Chinese Urged To Register For The Vote KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. New president of the Malayan Chinese Association, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, today urged all eligible Chinese to become Federal citizens and to register themselves as voters. Dr. Lim was addressing a meeting of all Chinese
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  • 86 6 KUALA TRENGGANU, Sun. The Deputy Mentri Besar, Trengganu, Inche Ibrahim Fikn, today visited Kampong Bukit Tumboh to meet the 300 padi planters who had requested permission to build a rice mill in the area. The Mentri Besar told the planters that Government would only permit
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  • 75 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Indonesian SecretaryGeneral of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Suwito Kusumowidagdt, stopped here for a brief meeting with Indonesian ambassador, Dr. Mohamed Radzif. Mr Suwito arrived here by SAS from Rome after his one month visit to the embassies in Western
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  • 42 6 BUTTERWORTH. Sun— The proprietor of the Ferry Service Canteen at the Mitchell Pier Mr. Chow Kia Thuan told The Standard that thieves broke into his canteen on Saturday night and helped themselves to beer, cakes biscuits and cigarettes.
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  • 92 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Germany's Commercial Attache to the Federation, Dr. Harold Vocke who arrived here recently told The Standard that there were great trade possibilities between Germany and the Federation. Dr. Vocke said that Germany was watching with interest the developments made by the Federation after
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  • 113 6 THE retiring New Zealand Commissioner in Singapore, Mr. Foss Shanahan, left the Colony yesterday by PAA to pay farewell visits to Bangkok and Vietnam. Mr. Shanahan, who is shortly leaving for Canada to take up his new appointment as High Commissioner, will also attend a meeting of
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  • 74 6 THE Singapore Airport fire brigade was last evening alerted when a Cathay Pacific Airways Skymaster reached Paya Lebar with engine trouble. Four fire engines and an ambulance stood by at one end of the runway and taxiing strip as the plane from Tokyo, Hongkong
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  • 252 6 'WE MUST PUT LAND TO THE BEST USE' LAND is at such a premium in Singapore that it must be used to best advantage, said Dr. Robert Ho of the University of Malaya over Radio Malaya last night. Speaking on the Land Use Survey now being conducted by the University,
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  • 37 6 EXTERNAL Examiner in Mathematics at the University of Malaya and a leading scientist. Professor C. A. Coulson spoke at the morning services yesterday at Wesley Church and at the evening service at St. Andrew's Cathedral.
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  • 49 6 pic. PRIME Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman receives a roasted chicken from the organizer of the "Hari Kaum Ibu," first of its kind to be held by UMNO. The "Hari Kaum Ibu" was organized by the Kuala Lumpur branch of the women's section of UMNO. standardpic
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    • 438 6 shell Theatrelfe (Collyer Ouay): MALACCA Free film show "The Wildcat' KKX Saddle Tne Wind 12 30 3 1 lo om 6.30 and 9.15 p.m Liberal Socialist Party: Marine Pa LIDO: Hantu Jerangkong (Malay) rade Division fifth committee 12.30 3. 7 and 9.15 pm. meeting at 335. East Coast Road SUN:
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    • 252 6 PORT SWETTENHAM REX: Koon Kook Lan (Hokkien) 2.30. 7 and 9 p.m. TAIPING LIDO: Pride And Passion 12 45. 3.15 630 and 9 15 pm. REX:Huet Cheen Seah Mor (Mandarin) 3, 6.45 and 9.15 p.m Foh Chong (Mandarin) plus SUN: Mo Sun Meng (Mandarin) 2.30 6.45 and 915 pm. MAJESTIC:
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    • 263 6 ROYAL; Ek Jhalak (Hindustani) 3.30. 630 and 9. 30 p.m. RADIO MALAYA (General Service; 8.57 a.m. to 9.45 a.m. English Schools Broadcasts 1 15 Stress on Strings 130 Time Signal and NEWS 1.45 to 2.00 Stress on Strings 3.57 to 4.00 English Schools Broadcasts 6.45 Lights on for the evening
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  • 451 7 Why starve yourself at lunchtime? do you usually have for lunch? If you're a working girl you may have a sandwich (if you're saving) or a salad (if you're slimming) or a three-course meal in the staff canteen. But if you're a housewife ten-to-one you don't have lunch at all.
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  • 487 7 |jy T ALA YAN women are catching up with the 1 trend in fashions, says Mrs. Vilai Pachimsawat, wife of the Thai Trade 1 Commissioner who has lived here for six years. 'Charming Mrs. Pachimsawat should know, for she entertains a great deal as the wife
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    • 702 7 HPODAY'S QUOTATION: WAM M MM A "I will study and get %—W ready, and the opportunity I Abraham Lincoln BV^mTV W^L jM mJ^^l MONDAY FOR EVERY- IB^HMHC ONE: The underlying pat- 1 tern favours friendships.^B9 ■tV9s^^^ml contacts, co-operative en- I km I HMI deavours. Be to the! views and suggestions
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  • 190 9 WASHINGTON, May 11. —AMERICAN businessmen are planning to spend an estimated $32,--100,000.000 on new plant and equipment this year, Some experts tend to see in this expenditure, large as it is, only further confirmation of a recessionary trend, since it represents a 13 per cent
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  • 138 9 More UK Goods Go By Air U.K. exports by air last year were 17 per cent higher than in the previous year. The comparative figures given in the Board of Trade Journal are £108,900.000 as against £92,700.000 in 1956. Imports by air totalled £87.000.000, an increase of nearly one-third on
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  • 56 9 TOKYO, May 11 (AFP) A two percent decrease in quantity took place in Japan's export of Iron and Steel last year, the Iron and Steel Federation announced last week. On the other hand, there was an increase of three ner cent in the value of the
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  • 34 9 OUTPUTS from estates and mines in the Guthrie Group announced for April are: rubber 5,810.400 lb.; tea (black) 170.500 lb.; Palm oil 1.800 tons; palm kernels 505 tons; tin ore 1.255 piculs.
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  • 35 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to Saturday: Selling T.T. or O-D. ready: French Francs *****; Belgian Francs 1613-1/2; Italian Lire *****. Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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  • 54 9 PRODUCTION of the U.S. Army's Corporal guided missile is pictured at The Firestone Tire Rubber Company's missile plant in Los Angeles, California. The Corporal is the first fully operational guided ballistic missile to be placed in the hands of U.S. troops overseas. It is capable of
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  • 84 9 Built by the Dragon firm, of Fontaine, near Grenoble, France, this huge stone crusher, claimed to be one of the biggest in the world, is shown at work in a coal mine at Merleback, Lorraine, France. It weighs 250 tons and will take anything that
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  • 316 9 A 2,000-TON shipload of East Indonesian copra passed through Singapore last week on its way to Penang, where it was bought up for oil milling use, says Lewis Peat (S'pore) Ltd. produce report. Some $32 per picul was persisted throughout the week paid by Penang
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  • 200 9 A NEW civil air navigation system that operates as a selfcontained unit entirely independent of ground stations was recently demonstrated in London to air line officials, senior service officers and the Press. The Viking aircraft which travelled on a triangular course over Southern England has just
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  • 232 9 BUSINESS done as from Mav 3rd to 9th: Industrials: Federal Dispensary $2.16$ cum all. Fraser and Neave Ordinary $2.47$ to $2.50. Gammons (Malaya) Limited $2.00 ex rights. Gammons Rights 47$ cents. Hammer Co. $1.52$ to $1.54, Hume Industries Ordinary A. 4/7i Hume Industries Preference 5% Cum. Part.
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  • 57 9 THE U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announced recently that domestic producers cf uranium ores and concentrates may now make private sales to domestic and foreign buyers for peaceful uses of atomic energy. Special nuclear materials, for instance plutonium, however, remain on a government-to-government basis and cannot be
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  • 57 9 THERE was an increase of 15 per cent in the number of overseas visitors to Britain during March, compared with figures for the same month of last year. A total of 64,700 visitors arrived as against 56.400 in March 1957. More than half of the visitors, excluding
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  • 528 9 asdfasdfasd THE Malayan share market saw a sharp spurt of activity in the tin counters towards the close of the week last Friday, due to the steadily rising metal price, writes 'a market correspondent, in his weekly share review. Throughout this period, tin shares
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  • 346 9 COMPANY REPORTS THE BASSETT RUBBER CO. LTD ended 31 Dec 1957. a 21. 9*5- was earned and a d end of 25 r c has been recommended Net liquid assets at balancing date were equal to 29 9 cnt s per share. All in cost of production was 55.7 cen'.s
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  • 38 9 TOKYO, May 11 (AFP) Japan produced 963,000 television sets last year, the electronics machinery industries association announced Valued at US?9n.000.000. the output represents an increase of some 312.272 sets, of 80 per cent, over 1956.
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  • 36 9 YET another market which Australia has successfully entered is that of the production of spaghetti. One company is currently producing more than 70 tons of Italian style spaghetti, vermicelli and macaroni, ravioli per week.
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  • 33 9 Rubber output for April announced are: Amalgamated Malay 63.200 lb.: Boreill 70.000 lb.: Connemara 600 lb.; New Serendah 51,000 lb: Bassett 27,500 lb.; Kuala Sidim 84.483 lb.; Bukit Kepong 21,400 lb.
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  • 717 10  - TOKYO GAMES A STERN CHALLENGE TO ASIANS LESLIE NAKASHIMA By Can They Improve. On Their Olympic Form? TOKYO, May 11 (UP)— The Third Asian Games scheduled in Tokyo, May 24 to June 1, will be a stern challenge to the cream of athletes from 20 competing countries in track and
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  • 185 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Selangor Combined Schools won the Rahman Cup when they handed Perak Combined Schools a 6-1 defeat in the final of the inter-state schoolboys football championships played under floodlights here today. Perak who shaped like Cup winners in the semi-final yesterday when
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  • 25 10 BARCELONA. May 11 (Reuter) Britain retained the team title In the European Judo championships here last night, beating Holland twoone in the final.
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  • 128 10 Barbarians Held By South Africans JOHANNESBURG, May 11 (Reuter) The Barbarians Rugby Union team, comprising players from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, drew 17-17 here yesterday when they met Transvaal in the first game of the fivematch tour of south Africa. The powerful South African province led 8-0 after 15
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  • 150 10 A Bowling Feat By KhoonLeong PENANG, Sun. Playing his first game this season, Koay Khoon Leong, a former State player, captured seven wickets £or five runs and greatly helped the Chinese Recreation Club to score a ten wickets' victory over the Royal Australian Air Force in a cricket match played
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  • 150 10 MADRID, May 1 (Reuter) Ferenc Puskas, 31--year-old self-exiled Hungarian soccer star, has joined Real Madrid, the Spanish champions and European Cup finalists for a retaining fee believed to be one million pesetas (about £9,000 sterling) plus a monthly salary. Puskas, former army
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  • 84 10 LONDON: Professor Georg Maurer, 49 (left) shows the insignia of an honorary C.B.E. (Commander of the British Empire), presented him by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on May 5, to his wife and German Ambassador Herr Hans Von Herwarth. The Professor is head of the Munich
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  • 249 10 WEMBLEY STADIUM, London, May 11 (Reuter) Lancashire club Wigan won the Rugby League Cup final here yesterday, beating Workington Town, from Cumberland, by 13 points (three tries and two goals) to n:ne points (one try and three goals). It was Wigan's fifth victory at
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  • 72 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. K. Krishnan of Selangor won the All-Malayan Tamil crosscountry race held at the Lake Gardens circuit today. He returned the time of 27 minutes 35 seconds to set a new record. The race was over five miles. A total of 28 competitors took part
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  • 284 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Selangor beat Perak by eleven games to seven in their friendly inter-state tennis match which ended at the Golf Club Courts today Men's Singles: Moses Tay beat S. A. Adzman 7-5. 6-1: Yahaya Mustapha lost to Lee King Fur. 4-6. 6-4. 5-7; Leong Siew
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  • 60 10 Photo AUSTRALIAN horsemen are already in training for the 1960 Olympic Games. Last month 16 riders took part in a three-day endurance trial in Sydney. The trial included dressage tests, a 15-mile road, track and cross -countr? event and a jumping contest. Here is trial winner, W.
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  • 348 10 ILFORD, Essex, May 11 (Reuter) A determined innings of 62 by Laurie Miller, the opening lefthander, saved the New Zealand cricketers from complete rout when they were dismissed for 140 before tea by Essex on the first day here. Put into bat on
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  • 193 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Selangor Police 'B' regi>an easy eight wickets vi over Belfield Sports Club 1 Kuala Kubu Bharu in S.C. A. knockout compe' for the Navaratnam Shield on the Depot ground today Police owed their victory to Ronald Louis. He shat: five Belfield
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  • 73 10 KUALA LUMPUR c Peter and Lee Choo M< meet in the Selangor B ton Association Novices v final. Men's singles semi-finals:- J.S Peter beat Khoo Ghee Mir. g 15-6 6-15. 15-13: Lee Choo Me: beat Fam Sin Quant 15-13. Doubles: Lee Yam Kong and Koh Swee Chun beat
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  • 43 10 LONDON, May 11 (Al London and Paris univ< shared the victors tain their annual athletic n here yesterday. The London Uni men's team won by 90 poir. s to 78 and the Paris women team won by 56 points to 47.
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  • 792 11 IT WAS NO CLASH! By Our Cricket Reporters THE clash of the padang clubs! That's what the h ia turned out in full force to see but they went home pointed. The SCA tie between the Singapore ket Club and the SRC ended with the Recs
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  • 130 11 SINGAPORE'S Asian Games water-polo squad showed good form for their Tokyo mission when they beat the Rest 13-2 at the SCC pool yesterday. Goal scorers for the Asian Games team were Eric Yeo 4, Tan Eng Bock 4, Berry Mitchell 2, Gan Eng Guan, Gan Eng
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    60 11 MT. EMILY Sports Club beat Rajaji Sperts Club by three goals to two in a SAFA Div. 3 A match played at Geylang yesterday. 808 KINLOCH skipper of the Federation Combined Services football team which won the FAM Cup. is seen here being chaired by his teammates.
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  • 263 11 In Perak, It Was A Drab Affair IPOH, Sun. Two minor crashes occurred at today's Perak Motor Club Simpang Pulai half-mile standing-start hill climb, which otherwise proved to be a drab affair This was because of the poor public address system. The large Sunday crowd did not know what was
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  • 98 11 Pakistan Soccer XI Flies In EIGHTEEN Pakistan Asian Games soccerites arrived in the Colony yesterday for a series of matches in the Colony and the Federation. Mr. Sherif Khan, the manager of the team,, and the 20 members of the team will leave for Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday morning to
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  • 358 11 A SELECTED SAFA team edged RAF Singapore 3—2 at RAF Tengah yesterday. The RAF battled bravely but in the latter period of the second half SAFA's fitness and teamwork began to take its toll. SAFA won the toss and from the kick-off they pressed
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  • 690 11  -  PETER WONG By FTD Awards To Lim And Guan Bee THOUSANDS of motoring enthusiasts in the Colony sweated under a sweltering sun to watch the Hill Climb at the Gap yesterday. But whatever discomforts they might have had to bear up with, they were fully compensated
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  • 231 11 ROYAL Air Force Changi *B" kept their unbeaten record in the SCA junior tournament when they beat Prisons Sports Club by 55 runs at Changi yesterday. Sandhurst hit 78 runs for Changi in 64 minutes. It consisted of eight sixes and five fours. RAF
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  • 39 11 RAF Seletar beat Arsenal Sports Club by three goals to one in a friendly soccer match played at Farrer Park yesterday. Batkins (2) and Wolfe scored for the Airmen while Arsenal's only goal came from Pakiri.
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  • 40 11 GROUP Captain and Mrs. A. G. Douglas won the 18--hole Mixed Foursome Stableford competition at the Royal Singapore Golf Club yesterday with a score of 42$ points. Runners-up were J. W. Brand and Mrs. Poutsma. 38 15/16 points.
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    36 11 •HOT ROD' Lim Peng Han did it again! Dubbed as "Master of the Gap" he won the F.T.D. award for cars and is seen negotiating a corner at yesterday s Gan Hil< Climb.
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  • 154 12 BAN ON ANXIOUS MUMS AND HIDDENWASPIES' LONDON, May 11 (Reuter) —Anxious mothers and hidden girdles will be banned next Friday when organizers of the Miss England contest make their third attempt in two weeks to find a national beauty queen. The first Miss England, 16-year-old June Cooper, was underage.
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  • 274 12 15Die,125 Hurt In Two- Day Violence TRIPOLI, Lebanon, May 11 (UP)— Lebanese tanks and armed troops last night cornered the die-hard remnants of a rioting mob in the old section of this port city after the crowd burned the U.S Information Service building and destroyed its
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  • 215 12 Dulles Runs Into New Protests From Allies WASHINGTON, May 11 (UP) Secretary of State Mr. John Foster Dulles, has run into new protests from NATO allies against separate negotiations with Russia on banning nuclear weapons tests, informed sources said today. These sources disclosed that the opposition was expressed to Mr.
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  • 59 12 PARIS. May 11, (UP). Rightwing extremists, chanting 'Resign, resign" and "Algeria is French," booed President Rene Coty during today's Joan Df Arc memorial ceremonies, then traded blows with riot Police and left wingers. Several people suffered cuts and bruises in the brief but violent scuffles. Police
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  • 25 12 PRESIDENT Eisenhower yesterday sent his "heartiest congratulations and good wishes" to King Sisavang Vong of Laos on the occasion of Constitution Day. (Reuter.)
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  • 22 12 UNIDENTIFIED gunmen shot dead a Cypriot Greek auxiliary policeman, Panayiotis Ouraniou, 40, at Styllos Village, East Cycrus, on Saturday night.
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  • 115 12 US Plans A 3,000 m.p.h. Jet Bomber WASHINGTON, May 11 Reuter).— The U.S. Air Force s reported planning a bomber apable of flying 3,000 miles in hour at altitudes of 100.--•00 feet. Data Magazine, an aviation ►üblication. said the ramjet •omber would succeed the forth American 870 chemi-ally-fuelled bomber designed
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  • 27 12 BRITAIN'S Conservative overnment began confidenial top level Cyprus talks esterday in an anxious effort d avert a new explosion in the mbattled Mediterranean isand colony.
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  • 53 12 TUNIS, May 11 (Reuter) The neo-Destour Party newspaper, Action, today quoted the Alegerian insurgent leadership as saying that it would reply "blow for blow" to French executions of insurgents. Action said it had asked "Algerian leaders" for comment on their execution, announced yesterday, of
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  • 52 12 Photo. PRINCESS Margaret holds a model ship, made from shells, which was presented to her by Sister Superior Mary Bernard, during the Princess's visit to St. Catherine's Convent in Belize, British Honduras. Some of the nuns of the convent gather round as the Princess walks with
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  • 145 12 MOSCOW, May 11 (Reuter) Izvestia, the Soviet government newspaper, said today that there was "irrefutable proof that "American neo-colonists inspired and organized the present uprising in Indonesia." "The Indonesian rebels are being directly aided by countries belonging to the aggressive SEATO grouping." the newspaper declared,
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  • 151 12 A-TESTS: 100,000 WILL PERISH -PROFESSOR LONDON, May 11 (Reuter) Professor CF. Powell, a Nobel Prize winner for physics and leader of the British delegation to the world conference on radio-activity held in Canada last month, today claimed that one trend of scientific opinion made it clear that nuciear test explosions
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  • 78 12 Fire Threat To Mexican Embassy PORT Au PRINCE, Haiti, May 11,— (UP) Mexican ambassador Cesar Garizurieta said yesterday, that unidentified telephone callers have threatened to burn the Mexican Embassy where opposition Haitian leader, Louis Dejole, is in refuge. Garizurieta said a "War of nerves" began two nights ago when the
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  • 112 12 REDS ACCUSE KISHI OF 'SABOTAGE' HONGKONG, May 11 (Reuter)—The Communist Chinese vice-Premier and Foreign Minister, Chen Yi, yesterday attacked the Japanese government of Mr. Nobusuki Kishi for "sabotaging" the fourth Sino-Japanese Trade Agreement in order to "curry favour with the United States and the Chiang Kai Shek clique," according to
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  • 197 12 SKELTON'S SON, 10, DIES OF LEUKEMIA HOLLYWOOD, May 11. (Reuter) Richard Skelton, son of comedian Red Skelton. died of leukemia last night ten days before his tenth birthday. The comedian and his wife Georgia, were at his bedside in the University of California's Los Angeles Medical Centre. Skeltoii, knowing that
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  • 124 12 The Kremlin Will Become A Museum MOSCOW, May 11 (Reuter). The Kremlin will be turned into a museum and the "green area" surrounding it extended to 370 acres under 20-year reconstruction plans for Moscow's city centre outlined by the Soviet news agency Tass last night. One of the plans provide
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