Singapore Standard, 20 May 1958

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  • 21 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Cable N TIGERNEWS- SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1958 f ol. VIII. No. 321. 15 cts. 12 Pages
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  • 470 1 IM READY TO HEAD GOVT. DE GAULLE 'National Crisis Should Be Solved Without Force PARIS, May 19 (UP)— General Charles De Gaulle declared today he is ready to head a French Government "if the people wish it." But he condemned the idea of a "solution by force."
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  • 229 1 DANGER OF HIGHER PAY STRIKES IN BRITAIN Fears Of A Meat Shortage Increased LONDON, May 19, (Reuter) Strikes and the danger of more strikes t or higher pay hung over Britain today. London entered its third week without buses while fears of a meat shortage increased with all meat markets
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  • 48 1 NEW DELHI, May 19 (UP) Premier Jawaharlal Nehru will leave for the Indo-Tibetan border town of Manuali tomorrow by plane to begin a 10-day vacation from otate affairs during which he will compile his correspondence with Mohandas Gandhi, George Bernard Shaw and international leaders.
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  • 59 1 MOSCOW EXPELS DIPLOMAT WASHINGTON. May 19 (Reuter) The United States announced today that the Soviet Union had expelled an American diplomat attached to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. The official is Mr. John A. Baker, a Second Secretary, who was declared persona non grata by the Soviet Union for having
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  • 167 1 BEIRUT, May 19,— The Lebanese Army was reported to be in control of the situation today at Tripoli after a seven-hour battle yesterday with rebel forces. > Lebanon's pro-Western government appeared today to have won a major victory after a 24-hour battle which took
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  • 62 1 BONDON, May 19 (Reuter) The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, said today that the diplomatic exchanges in Moscow in preparation for a Summit conference "have not begun unhopefully." "I think there is a real prospect of a businesslike exchange of views on the substance of the matters
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  • 29 1 THE INDONESIAN revolutionary government in a radio Menado broadcast monitored in Manila last night claimed rebel planes have "destroyed four enemy ships" in Amboina harbour. UP
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  • 75 1 NO DECISION TO EVACUATE BRITISH LONDON, May 19 (Reuter) No decision has been taken to evacuate British subjects from the Lebanon, a British Foreign Office spokesman told a questioner at his daily Press conference here today. He said there were believed to be more than 2,700 British citizens now in
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  • 78 1 Photo. GENERAL RAOUL Salan, French Commander-in-Chief in Algeria, salutes as he passes paratroopers at the Government Headquarters when he appeared to address a crowd of some 2.000. With him is General Jacques Massu (with beret). In bis speech, Salan told the crowd: ''By showing our determination
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  • 156 1 K.L MALAY SETTLEMENT THREE-FEET UNDER WATER KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Malay settlement in Kampong Bahru here was hit by floods again today. The water suddenly rose this afternoon after a heavy two-hour shower in the morning. Children in the area did not go to school today but went swimming in
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  • 62 1 JAKARTA, May 19 (UP) Read Admiral Subyakto, Indonesia's Navy Chief of Staff, said today that "foreign warships" are prowling Indonesian waters and "carrying out acts of intimidation." He said the nationality of the ships was undetermined Two weeks ago, Indonesian Army intelligence reports said that
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  • 33 1 A BROKER, S. S. Abdul Gharri, 67, was found dead in a house in Market Street, Singapore, last night. It is believed that Ghani died after he had slipped and fell.
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  • 44 1 NEW YORK. May 19 (UP) The American Broadcasting Company reported today that actor Ronald Colman died this morning in a hospital at Santa Barbara, California. The ABC Radio Network said death of the 67-year-old actor was attributed to a pulmonary condition.
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  • 38 1 LONDON, May 19 (Reuter) Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh with Princess Anne will be spending Whitsun at Sandringham. The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret will be at Birkhall near Balmoral, Scotland over Whitsun.
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  • 181 1 TORQUAY, England, May 19 (Reuter)— Former British pn-soners-of-war of the Japanese have protested against the British prize-winning film "Bridge on the River Kwai," it was disclosed today. The ex-prisoners, members of the National Federation of Far Eastern Prisoners of War Clubs and Associations, passed a
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  • 228 1  -  ANDREW ROTH By LONDON, Mon.— There is considerable evidence that a "deal" is in the process of being; worked out. Under this, the Singapore delegation's objection to including a ban on subversive delegates in the constitution will be accepted. However, the British will In.
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  • 959 1 THE SINGAPORE City Council, by an overwheming -najority, yesterday decided to re-organize the Registrar of Vehicles Department and engage as the next Registrar a "right man from outside" who will clean out graft and corruption from the department. The decision came after
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  • 614 2 ONG: MALAY ANIZE ROADS We Don't Want Them To Remind Us Of Colonial Rule' MAYOR Ong Eng Guan yesterday said the Singapore City Council would take steps to re-name all roads in the city "which reminds us of colonial rule' once the island's Merdeka was attained. The Mayor, speaking yesterday
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  • 374 2 Underdog Champions Ignored Dogs— Charge LABOUR Front Councillor G. B. Armstrong told the City Council meeting yesterday that the Staff Committee's recommendation not to allow the Senior Veterinary Officer to act as City Veterinary Surgeon was a case of discrimination and against the principles of Malayanization." Mr. Armstrong asked Council
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  • 215 2 THE Malayan Minister in Washington, Inche Ismail bin Mohd. Ali. waved a sil-very-brown overcoat to reporters at the Singapore Airport yesterday and said: "Isn't this nice? I bought it in a Washington departmental store before I left." But five minutes later, it was proved
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  • 106 2 COLONY GIRL'S SUCCESS MISS GERALDINE YUNG, 21 of Singapore, will receive her Associate in Arts degree at a graduation ceremony to be held at the Stephens College. in Columbia. Missouri, on May 27 when 600 students will be conferred with degrees. Miss Yung joined Stephens College, a junior college for
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  • 258 2 MAYOR Ong Eng Guan yesterday warned Councillors that it would be "very dangerous to make decisions <ra Council appointments on a communal basis. He said the idea of Indians fighting for Indians, Chinese fighting for Chinese and Malays fighting for Malays would be very dangerous.
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  • 86 2 IPOH. Mon. The Sultan I of Perak today met the fivemember delegation of the Perak UMNO to see him in connection with the pardon of Mariam binti Mat Aris. 31. a mother of five, who was sentenced to six months' jail for slashing a man to
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  • 599 2 Councillor Tells Mayor Don't Be Emotional WORKERS' PARTY City Councillor J.C. yesterday advised Mayor Ong En* Guan "not to he. come emotionally upset' 1 when replying to queues raised by City Councillors. This caution came after the Mayor h«d bit criticized another Workers' Parly Councillor O. easamy, for raising a
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  • 213 2 Mayor Ong Eng Guan was yesterday accused of "being a communalist" by a Liberal Socialist City Councillor for asking for the services of a Chinese educated clerk to handle vernacular correspondence passing through his i Secretariat. The accusation was levelled at him by Councillor
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  • 90 2 MALACCA. Mon. Pr. dent of the Indian Cha: of Commerce, here Mr. M. A. Abdul Jabbar. today ui local Indian banks to pli wider role in meeting legitimate needs of tradr industry and in finathe development plan. new Malaya. Speaking at a tea pi honour
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  • EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 479 3 THE Federation Premier, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Is no alarmist. Whenever he has had occasion in the past to refer to the threat which communism has posed in the country, he has done so courageously and in the full confidence that his government and its forces of law and
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    • 320 3 MAYOR Ong Eng Guan's irritation against onyrhing which, in his opinion, savours of "colonia! rule" has now taken a stab at Singapore's street names "in keeping with the spirit of nationalism and independence," he affirms. Declaring that "no self-respecting nation or people will allow its streets and
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    • 54 3 HEAO OFFICE: Li um leek Mm Koao i poie A PO 8o» No 1563 Caeles 11'iwNtWS" Tel ?548l (5 lines) All depanments <UAt* lUMFUR: Ci^na instance Hlur 174 Batu «d Teieo»xxi« 58.J66 IS_l"^- 93 Covvan St fe,: 829 8 L ,m St r 4055 v«ALACCA: 91-A
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  • 1207 3 'Experts predict although the AFPEL may hold its own in 1960, Burma must inevitably slither to the Left thereafter says Dennis Bloodworth RANGOON event which attracted little attention outside Burma, but which, may have international repercussions was the recent decision of U Nu, the Burmese Prime Minister,
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  • 73 3 No belief is more firmly fixed than that frogs, fish, snakes, turtles, angle-worms and other creatures are rained down upon the earth. Scientists say that, except for the sea life, the creatures were already on or in the ground and the rain stimulated them into activity, making
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  • 942 3 PRESER VA TION OF WORLD PEACE BRITAIN'S nuclear tests will continue "unless and until internati o n al agreements make them unnecessary", said the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, at the recent meeting of the Primrose League in London. "The Russians, having Just had some of the greatest tests in
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  • 79 3 "You really have attained fame in Britain when they start naming pubs after you the great Duke of Wellington holds the record with something like a thousand throughout the country." Sam Pollock speaking in "News from Home", a BBC programme for Canada. Oh! Oh! "Many centuries ago, when
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  • 68 3 case the meaning is obscure." Jan Na.sm.vth a deputy financial editor, speaking: in the BBC's General Overseas Service on the Bank rate Tyrant "The Englishman, battler for freedom that he is, cannot avoid being dominated by one or two inexorable forces, and one of them is
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  • 338 3 the NEWS as it strikes me r PHL preliminaries to the UMNO general assembly are now in full swing. Delegates' conferences are being held in all States and many important resolutions have been adopted for final action at next month's annual general delegate s' conference. Speaking to Perak delegates in
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  • 342 4 $3,000 Million Needed In Ten Years -Mr. Tan KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malaya needs $3,000,--000,000 capital investments in the next ten years/ if its population is to be assured of adequate employment, Mr. lan Siew Sin, Minister for Commerce and Industry, declared today. The ability to get
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  • 263 4 PERSONNEL relations in Australian Government administration has impressed two visiting officers of the Singapore Department of Customs and Excise. The officers are Mr. Trevor Hale and Mr. Ridzwan Dzaflr, who are undertaking a three months' course in customs administration In Australia under the Colombo
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  • 202 4 General Hospital Murder Inquest THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. Giam Chong Hin, yesterday recorded a verdict of murder against three unknown persons at the close of an inquiry into the death of Harry Heng Kok Peng, a laboratory assistant. Heng. 24. was fatally stabbed on the grounds of the Singapore General
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  • 65 4 DIES AFTER FALLING OFF MOTOR-CYCLE LIM LEONG WAH. 23. a shop assistant died in the General Hospital from injuries received after he fell off his motor-cycle at the 12 i miles Tampenis Road, last night. His machine caught fire when it skidded, but was put out by passers-by, before the
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  • 55 4 A HOUSEWIFE. Chan Seow Cheng. 31, was yesterday fined $1,000 which she pleaded guilty in the Singapore Ninth Magistrate's Court to abetting the publishing of chap-ji-ki results by having 126 slips, in New Bridge Road on May 17. Chan was further bound over for 12 months
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  • 34 4 APPLICATION forms for the "Miss Professional Model 1958" and "Mis s Amateur Model 1958" contests, organized by the Singapoe Business and Professional Women's Club, are now available at the Y.W.C.A.. Raffles Quay.
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  • 51 4 MR. ONG CHOON BEE, 37, a senior retail salesman of the Shell Company of Singapore, will attend a Retail Marketing course from May 27 to June 6 in Bombay. He will be the second Shellman from Singapore to attend such a course at the Burmah-Shell Training Centre
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  • 199 4 THE 8,000-ft. runaway at Paya Lebar Airport in Singapore will have to be extended by 200 feet for the first all-jet airliner expected in July next year. This is one of two major recommendations which had been made to the Department of Civil
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  • 45 4 ALOR STAR, Mon. The Police today took into custody a Malay youth, alleged to have been involved in assaulting a Malay girl on Friday. The girl told Police that she was waylaid by 14 "Teddy Boys". Nine vouths were arrested on Saturday.
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  • 85 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A contractor, Kua Ho Kwan. alleged he was robbed last night of $50 by two of his former workers. He was cycling home from town when he was confronted by the two men. he said. One of them who was armed with the
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  • 105 4 Shackleton Ends Era Of Sunderland A FOUR-ENGINED Shackleton a i r c r a f t (above) flew to the Royal Air Force airstrip in Changi, Singapore, yesterday, and ended the era of the Sunderland 'Grand Old Lady' of British aviation. Wing: Commander RAN. McCready (inset) Officer Commanding No. 205/209
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  • 173 4 THE MANAGERESS of a club in Geylan ff yesterday lold the Singapore Third District Court that nine men who came to the premises to extort money "looked so pile aod thin" that she (eared they would "eat" her up. The woman, Tan Siew Yoke,
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  • 106 4 THEFT AT SCOUT CAMP ALLEGED A SINGAPORE student Wong Kok Lye was charged in the Fifth Magistrate's Court yesterday with stealing two wrist watches from the Boy Scouts Camp at Tanah Merah between April 11 and 13. Seet Pee Ann. a scout from Raffles Institution told the Court he found
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  • 121 4 Malayan Envoy To Thailand KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Tuan Syed Sheh Shahabudin, a Kedah Civil Servant, 'has been appointed Malaya's Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Thailand. Tuan Syed Sheh. 48. holds three awards by the Kedah Ruler the Meritorious Service, Distinguished Service and Long Service stars. An old pupil of
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  • 37 4 HONGKONG, May 19 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: $16.09 to £1 Sterling $5.79 to USSSI: 51. 842 to Malayan $1; $0.0845 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $252,875 to a tael.
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  • 431 4 Court Rejects Application For A 'Special Jury' Shouts Heard A LABOURER from Christmas Island was charged with murder before a common jury in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday after the judge, Mr. Justice Chua. had rejected an application for a "special jury" to try the case. The Deputy Public Prosecutor,
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  • 51 4 PENANG, Mon. The Coroner, Inche Nik Hus^ain bin Nik All, today returned a verdict of suicide by hanging at the end of an Inquiry Into the deatr of an odd-job-labourer, Koay Kee Hock, 60, who was found hanging in an attap shed in Bakau Street on March
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  • 27 4 SINGAPORE High Court Judge. Mr. Justice Buttrosr, who went on long lea year will return to the I f on board the Victoria tomorrow
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  • 476 4 HOLLYWOOD'S famed producer-director. Mr. Otto Preminger, stepped into Singapore Airport last night, took one look at Pauline Szeto. airport information hostess and colony beauty, and said: "That's the girl I want for my new picture." And he thought he had found the leading lady
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  • 314 5 'I Was Tempted To Make Ends Meet For Family' A POLICE cashier yesterday told a Singapore Court that he committed criminal breach of trust because he was tempted and wanted very much to make end* meet for his family. Michael Chan Hin Kong, 38, with a wife
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  • 69 5 CMAiNG How Gee yesterday laimed trial in the Singapore finth Magistrate's Court to charge of causing hurt to :hoy Watt Yuen with a dager in Kreta Ayer Road on lay 17. Chang also pleaded not [uilty to an alternative harge of being in possession f a
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  • 150 5 A SINGAPORE Police Inspector, N. Isaac and detective Lee Kim Heng of the Orchard Road Police Station were acquitted yesterday by the Seventh Magistrate of a summons charge of voluntary causing hurt to a labourer, K. Ragavan. Ragavan told the court that on March 22 at
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  • 21 5 POLICE yesterday detained two soldiers of the Singapore Infantry Regiment after a r>ra\vl in Holland Road Village, on Sunday.
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  • 97 5 CRIME He Tried To Molest Her In A Taxi SINGAPORE POLICE yesterday detained a 20-year-old student after a 35-year-old woman claimed he had attempted to molest her in a taxi. The v as travelling towards Tanjong Pagar in a taxi when it picked up the student at Cross Street. e
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  • 67 5 \SH and jewellery worth some 52,000 were stolen from houses in Singapore on iy night. The occupants of a house in Kim Keat Road, had gone on an outing to Johore when forced open a door the aid of a crowbar and got away with cash
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  • 79 5 HOUSEWIFE. Lim Sai Lain. 29. was held up at dagger point by a man and robbed of $560. while she was on her way home in Kampone Silat. Singapore, on Sunday night. On the same night, a paint\'g Sai Meng. and his friend were stripped off
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  • 189 5 PENANG, Mon. The president of the PanMaliyan Islamic Association, Dr. Burhanuddin Alhelnr, said last night that the Malays should continue to struggle until the aim to make Malaya a united <ouairy with united people was achieved. He called upon the Malays to discard petty
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  • 76 5 Indonesian MP's Papers Seized AN INDONESIAN Member of Parliament. Mr. Ahmady. had his documents detained irrival in Singapore from irU on Sunday, the Indom Press Attache Rahman told The standard yesterday The documents were releasrfter the Indonesian Cone in Singapore had lodged f. Pretest against the detention. Ahmady, who was
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  • 97 5 CABLE TO LEE: WELL STRIKE THE Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association last night informed by cable its legal adviser, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, the proposed strike by its members. The association asked Mr. Lee, who is now in London taking part in the constitutional talks, to convey the association's decision
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  • 107 5 ENGINEER'S POST IS RE-DEFINED THE Singapore City Council yesterday decided to redesignate the post of Sanitary Engineer as Sanitary Superintendent in Class 111 of the Senior Officers' Salary scheme. Opposing the move to redesignate the post, Liberal Socialist Councillor, Mr. Lee Bah Chee, said there was no urgency to do
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  • 96 5 CHE ZAHARA FOR CONGRESS IN VIENNA CHE Zahara binte Noor Mohamed, President of the Malay Women's Welfare Association will leave Singapore on May 29 to attend the Fourth Congress of Mothers in Vienna to be held from June 1 to 5. Che Zahara, who will be accompanied by her Assistant
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  • 79 5 GAN Poh Sze and Lim Koon Chwee yesterday pleaded not guilty in the Singapore Ninth Magistrate's Court to causing hurt to Ang Bah Hua while being members of an unlawful assembly, on April 1, in Telok Mata Ikan. They claimed trial also to another charge of
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  • 56 5 A SINGAPORE ship chandler's canvasser, Alfred John. 30, wa s yesterday sentenced to three months' jail by a Singapore court for criminal breach of trust of $60 at Market Street on April 6. Mr. N.C. Goho. defence counsel, who had earlier unsuccessfully applied for a withdrawal of John's
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  • 44 5 A BUS driver. Tan Thiam Siew, was acquitted in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday of a charge of negligent driving and causing the death of an 80-year-old woman, Embah binte Ahwood at the Bth Mile, Bukit Timah Road, on Jan. 21.
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  • 198 5 3PEN verdict was yesterday returned by the Singapore Assistant Coroner Inche Ahmad bin Hussein, at the end of an inquest on private John Haycock of the Royal ers. South Buona Vista Road. HaycocX, a 20-year-old desrider. was on a motor along Yio Chu Kang
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  • 88 5 lia, was later told: "We're sorry. You were merely a victim of a surprise check we hold once in a while." Picture shows Mr. Wong, who refused to pose for a photograph, dashing into a car after what he described as an "embarrassing experience." AN Ipoh
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  • 194 5 THREE HUNDRED Singapore Police Inspectors last night appointed a committee to press for rtie abolition of new Police Ordinance now before the Legislative Assembly. j The new Bill which was tabled and read for the first time in the Assembly on April 22 will come
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  • 129 5 CHILDREN'S specialists from 14 South-east Asian count Malaya and Singapore meet next Monday in Singapore for the first world's regional pediatric conference. The Congress will be officially opened by the Minister for Health. Mr. J. M. Braga. in the absence of the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim
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  • 240 6 CREWS WANT 'DANGER MONEY' THE crew of the freighter Ikan Mas yesterday declined to sign on unless they were granted "danger allowance" for sailing to Indonesian ports. They claimed that another ship owned by the same company Guan Guan Shipping Company had been paid a 30 per cent "danger allowance."
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  • 369 6 MOVE TO BRIDGE THE WAGE GAP Mayor Hits Out At Gross Inequality Of Council Incomes ONE of the patent ills of Asian society under domination was the gross inequality of incomes, the Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guan told the Singapore City Council yesterday. Mr. Ong made this observation
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  • 274 6 REPRESENTATIVES of more than 180 trade unions, with a total membership of nearly 100,000 will meet on Thursday to plan concerted action against employers who "victimize" workers for union activities. 1 iU The meeting, is summoned by the Business Houses Employees' Union, which called for
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  • 165 6 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) in Singapore yesterday were- Buyers Sellers Spot 74 74| R.S.S. No. 1 (July) 728 725 R.S.S. No. 1 (July) 728 775 R.S.S. No. 2 70 70! R.S.S. No. 3 64 64J Tone:— Very quiet The price of tin in Singapore yesterday
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  • 68 6 A DETECTIVE, Tan Gek Wah, 35, yesterday pleaded not guilty to three counts of receiving bribes. The charges were that Tan on May 15 received $20 and two bottles of brandy from Goh Yik Wah and that he received $40 from another man, Tan Jwee Hong
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  • 278 6 DONATIONS TO SAT A's APPEAL THE following donations have been received in response to the Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association's Annual Appeal for 1958: A.L Abdeen Ltd.. $20. Babock Wilcox $50. Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd., $29. Mr. Chee Guan Chiang $500, Messrs Chung Chone $50, Dharmakh Sabha Sikh Temple $136, i.rew
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  • 66 6 Pboto. AMONG 200 Sydney University students awarded degrees at a colourful ceremony recently was Mr. Leong Suew Wing of 11 Lorong 30, Geylang, Singapore. He had a Bachelor of Economics degree conferred on him by the Chancellor of the University, Sir Charles Bicker-ton-Blackburn. He will return
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  • 94 6 Arrests Lead To Closure Of PAP Branch THE PEOPLE'S Action Party has closed its Paya Lebar branch as a result of the arrest of several of its executive members last year The Standard was told yesterday. Spokesman for the PAP Mr. Goh Chew Chua. said that in view of the
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  • 34 6 AT a meeting of the committee of the Penang and Province Wellesley branch of the Federation of Malaya Red Cross Society, Mrs. Ng Kam Leong was appointed branch director with immediate effect
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  • 43 7 Don ol i; s ucass m JOAN BRADSHAW (The Front) w "I had to do something quick." VIKKI DOUGGAN (The Back) Til never do it again.' }A NN E PA I G (The Sides) 'A girl's gotta do something.'
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  • 778 7 JJERE'S a report on three new girls with I* gimmick, or: "The Short Cut Front, Back and Sides." It covers, barely, three devastating (but slightly desperate) actresses, Joan Bradshaw, Vikki Douggan and Anne Paige. Between them, they have exposed every permissible inch of the female form—
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  • 361 7 JTVERY now and then, a new personality bursts upon the Hollywood horizon who appears to be marked for stardom from the outset. Such a personality is green-eyed, red haired Claire Kelly, who makes her movie debut opposite Dan Dailey in "Underwater Warrior." recently was inder long-term contract -3-M,
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  • 145 7 AN original W. C. Handy sung, composed 30-odd years ago, will be introduced to the general public in Paramount^ "St. Louis Blues," dramatization of Handy s life from childhood to his 40th year. The new song, now titled "Morning Star" is sung twice in the picture, first
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  • 190 7 For example, 'St. Louis Blues" is sung: four times as presented various by Cole, Eartha Kitt, Pearl Bailey and finally in symphony concert with Cole and Miss Kitt delivering the lyrics in solo and duet. Handy, composer of songs beyond number, had some
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 517 7 spODAY'S QIOTATION: "As turning the log* KS will make a dull fire burn. I so change of studies a dull I Riß^^^^^^^^S brain." H^^B m w Longfellow I m^^S^^l TUESDAY FOR EVERY- I E£^p| ONE: Exert thrift, care in I Ct7^^»^ matters involving finances I P^A P m wM I
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  • 298 9 Shell Earns Net Income Of $8 ½m A NET income of $8,500,000 was earned by Shell in perauons last year in the Malayan and Singapore a.eas. I This is stated in the 1957 report of The Shell Cornoperating in the two tories. the year's net income. 5 .000 were reinvested
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  • 91 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks issociation made the following hanges in its rates to merchants esterday: New York: buying, T.T. 32-7/8, )D. 33. 90 days airmal 33-1/8 redit bills. 33-3/16 trade bi'ls. Canada: buying T.T. 31-7/8. )D. 32. 90 days airmail 32-5/16 redit bills, 32-7/16 trade bills. Selling. T.T.
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  • 154 9 £18,457 Profit For Selayang TIN duty payable by the Selayang Tin Dredging Limited to the Malayan Government for the year ended Sept. 30, 1957, amounting to £15,580, was brought to the notice of shareholders by the chairman, Mr. Thomas James Bond, at the annual general meeting in London early this
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  • 82 9 alNiiAHuKfc Chinese hiu due* Exchange nocn closins prices Dei Dicul vesterda^ were: copra May/ June UK Continent $31i buyers $:<2 sellers eticonut oil in bulk $47J sellers; in drums $51 sellers: Muntok white Deooe» idlers; Sarawak while rs; Special Sarawak black Singapore Copra Association closing prices fair merchant"ixed <opra,
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  • 26 9 PHILIPPINE sugar production for the 1957-58 crop is expected to be 1,313,000 short tons, raw value, an increase of 170.000 tons over 1956-57 production.
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  • 300 9 STANDARD-VACUUM Oil Company in Malay* has successfully launched a 10-inch submarine pipelin< more than half a mile long, at its new terminal a Malacca Launching of this pipe- f line completes a major phase of the contraction j Stanvac's $750,000 ocean terminal at Malacca, Stanvac
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  • 165 9 OUTER ROADS Francois. Belgri. Kinko Maru, Tu^ela Mina, Corona. Falkeiistein, Hoi Houw. Yara Breeze, Statius Jensen, Hanyang. Shona. Musi. Helikoaj, Planet, Jakaruta Maru, Armonia. Dokka, Daviken. Tons. Soon. Hildegrad Dorenkamp. Showa Maru, Uriana. Indora. Angkinß. Felipes, Clan Macbride, Eastern Pearl. Julia, Kalabahi. BakonKan, Eumaeus. Beskidv Bako Fred.
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  • 23 9 THE first official estimate places India's 1958 wheat acreage at 29,576.000 acres compared with the corresponding 1957 estimate of 30,782,000 acres.
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  • 201 9 Business In Shares MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done Fraser and Neave ords $2.50 to $2.52i; Gammon $2.02, $2.0;i; Gammon Rights 45c overnight. 46c, 47c; Jackson $1.02J delayed; M Breweries 53. 50; M. Colls. 80c overnight; M. Box $l.t><J overnight, $1.66J; Robinson ords. $1 62* overnight; Sime Darby $1.50;
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  • 30 9 UNITED STATES wheat and flour exports during JulyMarch of 1957-58 are estimated at 286 million bushels, compared with 398 million busheis during the same period a year earlier.
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  • 102 9 All Sections Of Market Steady ALL sections of the Malayan share market were quietly steady yesterday. Turnover was smallPrice changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Federal Disp. 1.00 l.lOxall Gammon 2.00 2.04 M. Breweries 3.45 3. 55 Malayan Cement (50 cents paid) 0.77 0.82 Sime
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  • 161 9 THE latest discovery of a practical method for the electro-deposition of bright tin coatings instead of matte coatings' normally produced b y electro-deposition was featured on the stand of the Tin Research Institute at the Production Exhibition at Olympia, London. The process was demonstrated in
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  • 210 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Local rubber goods manufacturers must learn to help themselves instead of offering criticises through their association, Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, declared today. He was answering criticisms levelled at the government's Industrialization policy by the Malayan Rubber Goods
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  • 108 9 SINGAPORE rubber price gained i cent yesterday, when International first grade June shipment closed at 72J cents per Ib. Interest in most grades were only sporadic. Towards the close, rather more interest appeared, but was mainly in the nearby position. Blankets and remills have held at about
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  • 528 9 Finance And Commerce SINGAPORE'S industrial future is described by chairman of the Colony's Manufacturers' Association, Mr. David Lee, as "rather grim, in his report to be presented to the Association's annual general meeting later this month. Ivlr. Lee offers two views on the situation
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  • 58 9 $147.5 M. Drop In Trade KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Federation's trade, both imports and exports, during the flrst quarter of this >ear amounted to $9,000,800,000. a decline of 5147.50U.000 compared with the totaul in the corresponding period last year, statistics revealed today. Imports totalled $433.--100.000. exports $467, 700.000. March figures
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  • 36 9 AX intensive promotional project undertaken by the Japan Monopoly Corporation, the U.S. tobacco trade, and the Foreign Agricultural Service is believed to be responsible in large measure for steadily increasing use of U.S tobacco.
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  • 161 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Progress of the United Sua Betong rubber estates in Johore is stii! jeopardised by irksome restrictions and the occasional presence of some of the hard-core terrors lurking in the State, states the directors' report I ear. In Negri Sembilan and Selangor, where three-quar
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  • 103 9 THE Mentakab Rubber Company Limited made a profit of $183,767 for the year ended Jan. 31, 1958, against *151,721 in the previous vear. according to its annual report. This has been possible because, despite a lower rubber price, the crop realised for the year under review was
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  • 963 10 IT'S TIME THE BATSMEN GOT A CHANCE At The Wieket With NORMAN YARDLEY Bowlers Have Had 'It Too Long THE wickets England have produced during the past two seasons have not done their overseas reputation any good at all. The Australians still haven't forgiven them for that wicket at Old
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  • 227 10 Special Broadcasts On Asian Games ALL the radio and television networks are scheduled to be mobilized throughout Japan for the broadcast of various sport Ing events of the Third Asian Games to be held in Tokyo between May 24 and June 1. On-the-spot reports of the Games will be broadcast
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  • 111 10 NEW WORLD DECATHLON RECORD MOSCOW, May 19 (AFP)— A young Moscow student y Kuznetzov yesterday set ud 3 new world decathlon record with a total of 8.013 points, Tass News Agency reported. The former record was held by American R- Johnson with 7.985 points set up in 1955. In six
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  • 53 10 Photo. ROME: Brazilian tennis star Maria Esther Bueno is seen in action in the finals of the women's single s in the Rome international tennis tournament. The Brazilian bombshell won the crown, beating Australia's Lorraine Coghlan 3— 6—3, 6—3. World's top-seeded tennis players competed in the Rome
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  • 104 10 ENGLISH GOLFERS' SUCCESS BRAY, County Wicklow, Ireland, May 19 (Reuter) Two English golfers, Bernard Hunt and Frank Jowle. tied for first Dlace here yesterday in Europe's richest golf tournament, the new £5,000 competition sponsored by the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes. Hunt, a British Ryder Cup international and Jowle, each returned 277
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  • 22 10 SAO PAULO. May 19—Brazil beat Bulgaria by three goals to one in a soccer international here yesterday says Reuter.
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  • 139 10 India To Field One Team For All Matches TOKYO, May 19 (AFP)— India plans to field a single team for all its hockey matches in the Asian Games, coach Swami Jagan Nath said yesterday. India sent 17 hockey players and two officials here. Neth said. "There is no point in
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  • 47 10 BRUSSELS, May 19 (Reuter) Aria, a 25 to one outsider, won the Belgian Derby at Boitsfort near here yesterday. Chablis, a French horse, was second and Boreal was third. Nine ran. Chablis started at 14 to 1 and Boreal at 4 to 1.
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  • 25 10 PADUA. Italy. May 19 (AFP) The 'Fiamme Doro' team yesterday won the Italian rugby championship by beating Milan. 18 points to 8. here.
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  • 548 10 HONGKONG'S MONOPOLY BROKEN IN F.E.A.F. TENNIS THE FEAF Lawn Tennis Championships which were played at RAF Changi this weekend, saw the Singles Challenge trophy return to Singapore after being won for three successive years by Hone Kong players. Wing Commander Frith of RAF Changi beat the title holder, Flight Lieutenant
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  • 70 10 He Beats Them Out Of Sight YONKERS, New York, May 19 (Reuter) John Kelley, of Connecticut, set an American record in the amateur athletic marathon yesterday with a time of two hours 21 minutes and four-tenths of a second. This bettered his own record of 2:24:52.2. set in 1956. Alfred
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  • 67 10 Photo. KARACHI: Abdul Khaliq, a havildar (sergeant) in the Pakistan Army, breasts the tape in a 100-metre dash in preparation for the Asian Games. Khaliq rules a favourite in the 100 and 200 metres providing his knees are in good shape. Generally regarded as Asia's fastest human,
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  • 593 10  - Britain Tear Through On A Stormy Blast PETER WILSON By EASTBOIRXE, Mon. IN weather where the ideal partnership would have been Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary, Great Britain completed the rout of the Brazilian* in this second round Davis Cud tie. at Devonshire Part, here last Friday. Mike
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  • 137 10 MONACO. May 19 ter) Maurice Trintignant. of France, drove a i Cooper car to victory in the Monaco Grand Prix motor race here yesterday at a rrcord average speed of kilometres an hour (67 78 mph). It was the first time a Br> tish
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  • 26 10 PARIS. May 19 Y brought off the elusive of French League trophies when thev v by three goals to Cup final here yesterd*. Reuter
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  • 454 11  - TOP SPRINTERS SHOW THEIR PACES FOR WEDNESDAY WINDSOR LAD Bv Downing Street and Artina shaped like winners on the track at Bukit Timah yesterday when they easily breezed over half a mile in 50 sec, the last three furlongs in 37 2 5 sec. on a soft track. Across the
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  • 179 11 Hogg Gives RE ME A Winning Start SERVICES DISTRICT SOCCER 10 Base Workshops, REME, scored an easy 4-0 victoiy over Training Centre in the Singapore Base Distiict Div. 1 league soccer competition at Ayer Raja!* Road yesterday. Outstanding player was winger Hogg of 40 Base ps who scored the two
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  • 482 11 THE following; are the positions of the teams in the Singapore Base District soccer competition: LEAGUE DIVISION I (Open) P W L D F A Pts. Pay Office "A" 5 4 0 1 16 6 9 R Sigs -A" 5 4 1 0 16 11 8 RE.ME Trg
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  • 36 11 LONDON. May 19 (Reuter) —County Cricket scores today were: \t Manchester: H > G. \t it nan 1\ Goonesena (F. six 131. x lire l nwsterlekb D 160 e 160 W 36) 162 for B.
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  • 17 11 BRADFORD. Hull R ere on Sunday. <ington by 20 s to 3. says Reuter
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  • 75 11 Lam Madon Net Seven KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Federation Armoured Car Regiment registered an easy 7-0 victory over Army Ordnance Depot in their FAS Division three league match on the Sentul ground today. Ordnance depot were badly let down by their forwards while their halves seldom did anything rteht. Goalkeeper
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  • 67 11 CONTINGENT FROM FEDERATION THE THIRD and last batrh of Asian Games athletes from the Federation of Malaya left Kuala Lumpur for Tokyo by CPA p!ane yesterday. They consisted of baskctballers, tennis players, women runners and officials. The first two batches are already doing their training; in
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  • 223 11 Ceylon Manager Surprised At Soccer Report CAPTAIN Basil Henricus, manager of the touring Ceylon Football team, yesterday expressed surprise when tolci by Colony pressmen that an agency report had said his government was annoyed over the team's unscheduled visit to North Korea. "This is news to me and I am
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  • 41 11 SOCCER— SAFA League: Div. 2B: Blue Rovers S.C. vs Badan Kesenian, Geylany. 5.25 p.m.; SCC vs Gymkhana S.C, SCC, 5.15 p.m.. 2A: SRC vs Radln Mas, SRC. 5.15 p.m.; 2B: Police A vs SHB Police, Police Depot, 5.15 p.m.
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  • 36 11 pic by Fan) Miss Foong Yoke Lin (left) who met and defeated Miss Cora (right) 11 8; 5 11, 13/11 in the semi-final of the Municipal Sports Club 3rd annual badminton championships. Standard
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  • 363 11 M.C.C. IN SUDDEN COLLAPSE LONDON, May 19 (Reuter) The New Zealanders, who led by 26 runs on the first innings, had scored 198 for six wickets in their second innings by the close on the second day of their cricket match against the M.C.C. at Lord's here today. M.C.C. were
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  • 63 11 MRS. R. A. C. Cobley created a new course record at the Ladies Golf Union medal played on the Royal Singapore Golf Ciub yesterday. Mrs. Cobley's gross score of 76 earned her the record. She won the Silver Medal with a score of 76—9 67. The
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  • 49 11 TRAILING 2-0 at half time Singapore Telephone Board fought back in the second half to hold Postal and Telegraph 2-2 in a friendly soccer match on the Padang yesterday Mohamed Thahyer soored Postal's two goals while Tommy Misson and Daim scored for Telephone Board.
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  • 56 11 TRAGEDY took place in a soccer match on Sunday when 39-year-old Govindasamy Krishnasamy died a minute before the interval. The match was between Sivaji Sports Club and Railway Youngsters on the Railway ground. The late Mr. G. Krishnasamy. a shipping clerk suffered a heart attack. He
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  • 109 11 RIC Pair Win Open Title RESULTS of the Royal Island Club shield 'open' mixed-foursome competition are as follows:—. Winners Miss O. K. Barrett and G. H. Addison (RIO 74i; runners-up Mrs. G. Hodgkinson and W S. Watson (RIO nett 75. The prize for the best scratch score went to Mr.
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  • 41 11 ARMY 'star' Tony Hatch will not play for Singapore against the Ceylon Football team tomorrow at the Jalan Besar Stadium He is still nursing an injury he sustained while playing for Army against the Royal Air Force last week.
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  • 181 11 HOCKEY PITCH IS NOT STABLE' TOKYO, May 19, (Reuter)— lndia, Maloyc and Pakistan tonight delivered a protest to the Japanese Organising Committee of the Asian Games complaining that the main stadium hockey pitch was "completely unstable." Japan completed til e r main stadium this year. The
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  • 118 11 Colony's Success In FARELF Fencing HONGKONG. May 19 Reuter Army fencers from Singapore, represented by the Singapore Engineering Regiment won the FARELF inter-unit foil championship by scoring a total of twe.ve points at the European Y.M.C.A. here today. Second place was captured by a Malaya team which was represented by
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  • 108 11 LONDON. May 19 (Reuter) Peter May has accepted an invitation to captain England in the Test matches against New Zealand this season, it was announced from Lords. If he leads the side in all five Tests. May will equal the record for any captain. He
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  • 45 11 DUBLIN, May 19 (Reuter) British Olympic runner Gordon Pirie was injured last night when the car in which he was travelling from Dublin airport was involved in an accident. He had just arrived to take part in an athlctirs meeting beginning here today.
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  • 62 11 Postage Stamps To Commemorate Asian Games Picture FOUR special postage stamps will be on sale throughout Japan from May 24 to commemorate the third Asian Games here. The four commemorative stamps are: yen. depicting the new national stadium 10 yen. symbolizing the Asian Games Flame; 14 yen. depicting a runner
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  • 74 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon— A fine late rally helped Royal Pahang Polo Club to beat S por« ■A by five 3 goals to 2* in the final of the Malayan Polo Association competition on th« Selangor Turf Club course yesterday The Royal Pahang PC thus 1 won
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  • 294 12 LONDON, May 19 (Reuter).— The average hours worked by operatives in Hongkong spinning and weaving mills were severely criticised today by a British Labour Member of Parliament Mr. Ernest Thornton, who made his third post-war to the colony earlier year, made his
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  • 115 12 China Jails 3 Catholic Priests HONGKONG. May 19 (UP) Three Catholic priest s and a layman were sentenced to prison terms in Hankow because they refused to support the Peking-sponsored Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, it was learned yesterday. Reports reaching Hongkong Catholic circles over the weekend said Monsignor Odoricus Liu,
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  • 76 12 A woman raises her lorgnette to get a close-up of a lovely bride. And the bride, is Frances Sweeny. 20 year -old daughter of the Duchess of Argyll. Frances is escorted by her father, American financier Charles Sweeny, as she arrives at Caxlon Hall registry office,
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  • 395 12 Many Volunteer To Join Fight Against Jakarta THE Indonesian rebel plea for "Asian volunteers" has brought immediate response in many Asian capitals, according to United Press correspondent Arnold Dibble in Singapore. Newspapers in Singapore and in other Asian cities have received many calls from men who
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  • 161 12 NEW ARAB UNION'S CABINET SWORN IN BAGDAD. May 19 (Reuter) The first cabinet of the Arab Union of Jordan and Iraq was sworn in here today at a ceremony at the White House, Government guest residence and temporary headquarters of the Union. An Iraqi guard of honour saluted outside the
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  • 92 12 MOSCOW, May 19 (Reuter) The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda said today in a despatch from Jakarta that foreign countries, particularly the United States, were guilty of "open military intervention" in the Indonesian civil war. Pravda said that aircraft of American origin were attacking
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  • 51 12 KATMANDU.— The Nepalese Foreign Office announced yesterday that the first Indian expedition ever 4.0 climb Cho Oyu (26,867 feet) had planted the Indian and Nepalese flags on the mountain's summit last Thursday. The mountain, seventh highest in the world, has been scaled only once before by an Austrian team.
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  • 22 12 WASHINGTON. Americans for Democratic Action (ADA yesterday urged "immediate initiation of negotiations" looking toward the eventual U.S recognition of Communis China. UP
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  • 90 12 UtLV iL.tiL.tLY Crowds cheered the Mayor of Beverley. 37-year-old Councillor Harry Flynn. as he arrivec home last night after cycling 375 miles to London and back to win a television set for an old age pensioner. the resui of a net with a local dealer. TRIPOLI (Libya)— A Sovie Embassy
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  • 168 12 STRIKE FAILS TO GROUND AIR LINE MANILA. May (19 (Reuter) A three-day strike of employees of the Philippines Air Lines continued today with the Philippines Court of Industrial Relations attempting to negotiate a settlement be^ tween the employees union and the management. The strike which involves part of the airline's
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  • 63 12 LONDON. May 19 (Reuter) A BOAC Britannia, with 72 passengers from Chicago, made an emergency landing on the edge of the runway today at London Airport. Trucks had to tow her more than a mile to the passenger terminus. The Britannia had overflown Prestwick. Scotland, where she
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  • 20 12 ATTENTION THE Soviet film "The Flying Cranes" yesterday won the Grand Prize of tlie 11th Annual Cannes Film Festival. U.P.
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  • 152 12 MANILA, May 19, (UP)— South Vietnam Minister to Ihe Philippines Cao Tai Bao hinted yesterday that his Government would seek the help of the South-East Asia Treaty Organization in the event of an all-out attack on his country by the Communists from
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  • 22 12 THE Soviet film "When the Storks Pass" yesterday won the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival. Reuter
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  • 90 12 ROME, May 19 (Reuter).— Cardinal Samuel Stritch of Chicago, who had his right arm amputated three days after arriving here last month, had a stroke in hospital today. An official bulletin said the 70-year-old Cardinal was suffering from cerebro-vas-cular thrombosis (clotting of a blood vessel in
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  • 56 12 MIAMI, May 19 (UP) A Miami insurance man, who had been fishing only once before, may have caught a world record fish that will not be cited lpecause it was too big to weigh. Albert Gnat landed a giant swordfish after a two-and-a--half hour battle. It
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  • 140 12 MOSCOW. May 19 (UP)— Communist China is about to enter the space race with prospects for launching a satellite in the near future. Pravda reported yesterday. The Soviet Communist Party organ, in an editorial on the subject, quoted Kuo Mo Jo. president of
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  • 46 12 Pix. THE Shah of Iran, Mohamed Reza Shah Pahlevi. centre, reviews a Pakistani Guard of Honour shortly after the Ruler's arrival in Karachi on his way to Formosa. Japan and the United States. The Shah wears a blue Air Marshal's uniform. UP
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  • 122 12 Governor's Assassin Had Grudge BANGKOK. May 19 (UP) The shooting of the Governor of Songkhla province in Thailand last week was attributed today to personal revenge, according to early reports of the investigation. Governor Pard Nakapin, 54, was shot five times while working at his desk on May 16. The
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  • 241 12 TOKYO, May 19 (UP).— The Shah of Iran arrived in Tokyo today for a 12-day sports and state visit <if Japan and was greeted by Emperor Hirohito, who' u I gone to the airport only twice in recent years to meet state guests. i A
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  • 155 12 HONGKONG. Mai 19 ten The United Si cargo-pas^engcr liner P dent Hayes was today refloated from, a cora. the Paracel Islands by powerful tu| The tugs, including from Hongkong, i the liner in a s nd They had failed in the attempt yesterday. The liner
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