Singapore Standard, 21 May 1958

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  • 19 1 Singapore STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Coble "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY. MAY 21, 1958 \/o\. VIII. No. 322. 15 cts. 14 Pages
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  • 341 1 WE'LL STICK TO THE END LEBANESE REBELS VOW Compromise Bid Ends In Failure BEIRUT, May 20 (UP) A compromise attempt by middle-of-the- road politicians to solve Lebanon's government crisis failed today and opposition leaders vowed to fight proWestern President Camille Chamoun's government "to the end." Opposition
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  • 101 1 Diplomat Searched, R.I. Protests TOKYO, May 20 (UP) Indonesia has protested to Singapore for violating the diplomatic immunity of a high-ranking official of the Jakarta Government, it was reported today. Antara News Agency reported from Jakarta the protest was lodged because Councillor Achmadi had been searched by Singapore authorities as
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  • 15 1 GREAT BRITAIN yesterday officially recognised the Arab Federation of Jordon and Iraq. (AFP)
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  • 299 1 PARIS, May 20, (UP)— Premier Pierre Pflimlin proclaimed today his government "will fight all extremists" left or right. The Premier went before the National Assembly shortly after 9.30 p.m. (Malaya) to demand the renewal of emergency powers to fight the Muslim rebellion in
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  • 46 1 WASHINGTON, May 20 (UP) President Eisenhower today signed* into law a $576 million pay raise for the armed forces. Every serviceman and officer who ha s served more than two years would get a pay boost of at least 6 per(jeni.
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  • 28 1 THE Queen has been awarded the Albert Medal for her personal services to arts, manufactures and commerce at home and abroad, it was announced yesterday. Reuter
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  • 68 1 GLASGOW, Scotland, May 20 (Reuter) More than eighty people were injured when two trains collided head-on today during the morning rush hour to Glasgow. About sixty received shock and minor injuries but 23 were detained in hospital, some of them seriously injured. A passenger train
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  • 138 1 LONDON, May 20 (Reuter) —The Military Cross was awarded today to Major Richard James of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers who "virtually cleared" the Tangkak and Mount Oohir areas of Malaya of Communist terrorists, the London Gazette announced. Major James, seconded to the Malaya Federation
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  • 6 1 TUNKU LEAVES FOR TALKS IN TOKYO
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  • 165 1 HONGKONG, May 20 (Reuter) Two British Army officers who today died of injuries they received in a car crash in Kowloon late last night were ion a visit from Singapore They were travelling in a private car which smashed into a high concrete
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  • 78 1 JAMSHEDPUR, Northeast India, May 20 (Reuter) Police made two tear gas charges today to disperse crowds of stone-throwing strikers at the Tata Iron and Steel Works here. India's biggest steel plant. Troops were standing by in case the civilian authorities needed their help. Ten thousand workers
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  • 82 1 StandardpLc by MEMBERS of the foreign diplomatic corps bid farewell to Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport yesterday before leaving for Tokyo. Shaking hands with the Tunku i s Mr. VMM. Nair. India's High Commissioner. In white and bowing to Puan Sharifah
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  • 67 1 12 KILLED IN MID-AIR DISASTER BRUNSWICK, Maryland, May 20 (UP).— A Capital Airlines Viscount en route from Chicago to Baltimore and a military jet collided in the air today. The Capital plane carried seven passengers and a crew of four. The jet was manned by its pilot and a crew
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  • 105 1 R.I. TROOPS RECAPTURE AIRPORT JAKARTA, May 20 (Reuter) The Indonesian Army Information Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Rudy Pirngadie, said today a Central Government amphibious force had retaken the airport on Morotai Island, in the Northern Moluccas, Jakarta Radio reported Morotai, a major Allied base in the closing stages of the Second
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  • 50 1 AN ANGRY MOB of about 20 men attacked a taxi driver with crowbars and iron pipes in Mill Lane off Kallang Road, Singapore, last night, following a collision between two cars. The taxi driver, Lai Ying, 52, was removed to the General Hospital in a serious condition.
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  • 30 1 SIR Hugh Foot, Governor of Cyprus, left London yesterday by air for Cyprus after two weeks of high level talks on the future of the Mediterranean island. Reuter
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  • 813 1 Plans To Step- Up Tin Iron Exports Will Be Discussed KUALA LUMPUR, Tues— Asian nations should open their markets to Japanese manufactured goods otherwise they would be inviting trouble, Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman declared this morning before leaving for Tokyo. Japan he reasoned, is a highly industrialized country and
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  • 348 1  -  From ANDREW ROTH LONDON, Tues.— The Singapore constitutional talks will not be over until after Whitsun. In order to complete the task of running through the final draft of the constitution, the confere^ on both sides would hav^To put in a heavy day
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  • 1233 2 News Bureau Is Now Under The CAO's Control The Singapore City Council, by a majority, yesterday derided to place the Information Bureau under the direct control of the Chief Administrative Of ficer. This decision removed control of the Bureau from the Mayor. Mr. Ong Eng Guan. The
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  • Article, Illustration
    97 2 MICHAEL CHONG KHIM FON, of Brunei who is doing a course in electrical engineering under the Colombo Plan at a technical college in Melbourne, wants to continue his studies at the university next year. He has shown a keen interest in the installations of the State Electricity Commission
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  • 60 2 SINGAPORE Traffic Police last night appealed for eyewitnesses to a motor accident in New Bridge Road in which Peck Ah Mui, 60. of Jurong Road, was involved in a collision with a taxi. Peck died in the General Hospital. Eye-witnesses are asked to contact Inspector Lee Chee
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  • 233 2 THE SINGAPORE First District Court Judge, Mr. D. C. D'Cotta yesterday adjourned the hearing of a theft case when he found the main prosecution witness was too young to give evidence. The witness, Goh Eng Siew, 7, was to testify against a hawker, Seet
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  • 180 2 IHE Singapore City Council yesterday called on I its various staff associations and unions to Rive their I views on whether the newly registered City Council I Technical Officers' I'nion should be recognized. The Chief Administrative Officer, Mr. R. MiddletonSmith, on the direction of the
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  • 107 2 A RAG-AND-BONE man and his friend were held-up by five thugs and robbed of $730 in broad daylight yesterday in the Tiong Bahru area, Singapore. The man Chan Ho Wan, 74. and his friend were taking a short cut through the railway lines from
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  • 284 2 THE Singapore City C orday appointed special committee to the possibilities < i more car parks. I 1 bus shelters and bus sto; the city area. Members of the Con are: Messrs. Tang Penc Ong Say Yeo, Bahar Mohamed ArifT. L w Por Mohammad Sheriff bin D
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    • 102 2 NOTH.KS ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD ms. "SLAMAT" arrived 20/5 58. CONSIGNEES are hereby notified that the general survey of damaged packages ex the above vessel will be held on 30/5 at godowns 6/7 as from 8.30 a.m. No further survey will be held. ROTTERDAM TRADING CO. (M) LTD., Shipping Department. Tel.
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  • EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 475 3 THE longer France continues to be split politically on the Algerian issue, the more the influence of the Western democratic nations in the Arab states will be weakened. Extremist Arab agents in the pay of the Kremlin have been waiting for just the turn that events
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    • 384 3 AT Monday's meeting of the Singapore City Council, in the course of a debate on the decision of the Finance and General Purposes Committee to rent by public tender four senior officers 1 Council quarters which are vacant, Workers Party representative, Mr. 0. S. Rengasamy, asked whether
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    • 55 3 HfAO OFFICf- Lim leek *>m xoao s poie a PO 8o» No 156d Catles ir.EwN.WS' lei ***** (5 lines) All departments KUALA LUMPUR: Cn,n« insurance *ldR 174 Batu HO Teieonone ***** '^ilrnc 9i C^* n St f 829 8 L tn St rrt «°55 MALACCA: 91.
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  • 1903 3 FIRST ARTICLE BY WILLIAM CLARK WHO WRITES ON THE AGE OF ASIAN REVOLUTION LONDON "[HERE is far too much talk about this being the Space Age. It is more likely to be known to historians as the Age of the Asian Revolution. For it is there, and
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  • 760 3 ODDLY ENOUGH PAUL JENNINGS TTOW very odd it must A1 feel to be a peer. Most people are concerned only with being people, but a peer must surely also feel that he is a water-shed, a contradiction, a meeting of real and unreal. The most obvious contradiction is.
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  • 40 3 VET professions of neutra- lism, or non-alignment, constitute, in fact, a very sensible, hard-headed policy for a State in India's stage of development. It is the policy of creating a cocoon within which undisturbed India can carry out the
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  • 152 3 f)NE out of every 15 inhabitants of France may be Y accurately addressed as "Monsieur l e President for about three million Frenchmen are or have been president of something some time in their live*. And the title sticks long after the end of one's term of
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  • 355 3 the NEWS as it strikes me ABOUT three decades ago. a giant of Fleet Street, who toured the world, made the observation that Asians, given the same opportunities as Westerners, were their equals. He urged the Dutch colonial government to learn a lesson from what had happened in India and
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  • 448 4 Eight Point Plan For A Really Unified' Spore SINGAPORE'S Assistant Minister to the Chief Secretary, Mr. M. P. D. Nair, yesterday issued a "Charter c,i Citizenship" for the people of Singapore. Speaking to members of the Chinese YMCA at a civiC3 course, Mr. Nair outlined the eight-point
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  • 301 4 Vehicles Job: City Officers Protest LOCAL senior officers of the Singapore City Council yesterday protested against the Council decision to engage only a man with a university degree or professional qualification for the post of Registrar of Vehicles. The Local Senior Officers' Association, representing these officers, has lodged the prothe
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  • 77 4 THE popular Indian dancers, Mr. K. P. Bhaskar and Mrs. Santha Bhaskar, who, with their pupils, gave a dance recital at the Victoria Memorial Hall last night in aid of the Kampong Koo Chai fire victims. The recital^ have been specially arranged by the Singapore Tamils Representative
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  • 162 4 Hawkers Acquitted Of Setting Up Stalls FORTYEIGHT hawkers who claimed trial to charges of letting up stalls at Kampong 3ilat were acquitted by the Singapore City Magistrate yesterday. A Hawker Inspector. Ho \h Hong, to.d the court that le went to Kampong Silat m April 11 and found a jroup
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  • 29 4 THE Chinese Friendly Association will celebrate Its J4th anniversary at the Club ciouse, Albert Street, Singapore on May 31. Modern Chinese music will be played luring the dinner.
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  • 174 4 THE murder trial of a Christma s Island labourer in the Singapore Assize Court enters its third day today. The labourer, Lim Hun Sim. alias Ah Lau, was alleged to have hacked a mandore. Teo Kee Huat. alias Ah Pang, with an axe
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  • 116 4 PRIVATE boxes are now available at Alexandra, Bukit Timah and Changi Post Offices, the Director of Posts, Singapore, announced yesterday The rental for a private box is $15 a year or $7.50 for half year. A key deposit of $5 is payable by every holder.
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  • 84 4 MR. AND MRS. David Niven will not be coming to Singapore for the present, the Shaw Organization announced yesterday. A Shaw organization announcement yesterday said: "Mr. Run Run Shaw has this morning received a cable from Mr. David Niven in Hongkong to say
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  • 27 4 DR. JOSEPH Needham, will lecture on "Science and Mathematics in China and the West" tomorrow at the College of Arts, Nanyang University, at 10.30 a.m.
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  • 40 4 KARPAL Singh and Pritam Singh, were yesterday remanded by a Singapore Court after they pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to rob Santokh Singh while armed with a chopper at Shrewberry Road on Monday.
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  • 82 4 DEATH THREAT LETTERS FOR UNION CHIEF THE president of the Singapore Malay National Seamen's Union. Mr. M.A. Majid, yesterday said he had received two threatening letters through the post. The letters, which were unsigned, will be handed over to the Police today. Mr. Majid told The Standard. The letters asked
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  • 84 4 ALL SET FOR DANCING COMPETITION THE Inter-State Amateur Ballroom Dance Contest, between Singapore and Selangor will start at the Great World Cabaret, Singapore, on May 30. The waltz and slow foxtrot will open the competition on Friday, May 30, from 9.30 to midnight. The tango and quickstep contest will be
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  • 39 4 POLICE raided a hut in a kampong off Lavender Street, Singapore, on Tuesday night and recovered four daggers, a penknife, two iron rods, a bunch of keys and a car jack. No arrest was made.
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  • Article, Illustration
    14 4 MR. MIDDELBURG says goodbye to the Acting Chief Minister, Mr. A. J. Braga.
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  • 245 4 A ROW of ten shophouses, in Joo Chiat, Singapore which are about 50 years old will soon be demolished to give way to a modern six-storey building. A High Court judgment delivered yesterday gave the landlord. Chen Chi Kan. the right of possession of the row
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  • 315 4 'LAW AND ORDER IS THE KEY TO FUTURE WEALTH' THE future prosperity of Singapore will depend greatly on the maintenance of law and order throughout the island, Mr. D. G. E. Middelburg. ConsulGeneral for the Netherlands in the Colonv. told The Standard yesterday. Mr. Middelburg. who has been in the
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  • 55 4 SINGAPORE millionaire and film magnate. Mr. Loke Wan Tho, left early yesterday by air for London on a business trip. Mr. Loke, who will be Joined by his wife in India, will later attend the International Ornithological Congress in Helsinki. He will be away for
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  • 56 4 CHOW Siew Ke e of Road was fined $25 in the City Court yesterday whc: pleaded guilty to charges of failing to submit her incom* tax returns for 1956 and 1957. Pleading for ler.n said she was away in I for two years and or.
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  • 328 5 Racing Reports Can Be Used In Evidence- Ruling PENANG, Tues. When a Police expert on the illegal character lottery, Inspector Kong Fook Yew, produced two copies of newspapers with handicaps and race results to prove that races were held at Perak on March 15 defence counsel Mr. G. H. Goh
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  • 158 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Alliance Whip in the Selangor State Council. Raja Mohamad bin Raja Allang. today called on Government to transfer Pudu Jail from the heart of the Federal Capital. Speaking at the adjournment, the Councillor contended that the jail was an
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  • 115 5 U.S. ENVOY TO SEE PERAK SULTAN PENANG, Tues. The rican ambassador. Mr. M. Byington. Jr.. will ce his first official visit to Perak during the last week of May. He will be accompanied by Byington. the American sul for North Malaya. Mr. Ranard and Mrs. Ranard, and Director of U.5.1.5.,
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  • 50 5 .UMPUR. Tues. charged were today disistrate. Inche because of insuf- ce. )in. 35, and Yap Che :e discharged, not amounting to an acquittal. They were alleged to have robbed Yip Ying Lin, wife of ,">vernment clerk at her ne in Jalan Mentri. Kam- Pandan on Feb. 5.
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  • 97 5 MALAYAN Colombo Plan scholar, Chung Swee Lin, from the Batu Gajah General Hospital, in Perak, is completing a two-year course in radiography at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, in Victoria, Australia. It was intended that Mr. Chung's training should be spread over several hospitals but so competent did he
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  • 134 5 Help End Emergency, Wong Calls PENANG, Tues. The hope that the Home Guards would help Government to end the Emergency as soon as possible was expressed by Chief Minister Wong Pow Nee, when he addressed 100 Home Guards from Province Wellesley at Telok Bahang today. These Home Guards are now
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  • 234 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Selangor Council of State today paid a warm tribute to five retiring members of the Council, including its Legal Adviser, Mr. Philip G. Clough, who leaves under the Malayanization plan. Mr. Clough will proceed next month to England where he will
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  • 131 5 STUDENTS from Malaya. Borneo, Ceylon, Fiji, and Pakistan now in Queensland in Australia. cently combined t o stage an "Indian Evening" he first of it s kind to be held in Brisbane. The tudents. all of Indian origin, invited about 200 guests o the party to introduce
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  • 505 5 Money Secured Driving Licences, Court Is Told IPOH Tues. Prosecution witnesses alleged in the Sessions Court today that two employees of the Road Transport Department here accepted bribes in connection with the issue of driving licences without the applicants having to undergo driving tests. It
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  • 316 5 Double The EPF Payments Nair A SUGGESTION that the Singapore City Council should increase its Employees Provident Fund contributions from five per cent to ten per cent of the employees' wages, was made by Mr. N. S. N Nair, adviser to the Council's Labour Unions Federation. Mr. Nair said the
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  • 49 5 THE following were returned unopposed in the 4th annual Beserah Council elections in Kuantan. Ward A: Inche Jusoh bin Hail Abu Bakar and Inche Veram bin Haji Bakar. Ward B: Incne Abass bin Haji Ibrahim and Inche Hassan bin Abdullah Ward C: Inche Bidin bin Haji Hassan.
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  • 34 5 THE Postmaster General, Malaya, has announced that a new postal agency was opened at Balakong in Selangor on May 1 and that another postal agency at Selat Pagar in Perak on Monday.
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  • 229 5 LETTER 'E' ON LICENCE COST HIM $150 FINE PENANG, Tues. A lorrydriver added the letter "E" on his driving licence so that he could drive heavy lorries without passing a test, the Magistrate's Court was told today. The driver, Lim Kah Seng, was fined $150 when he pleaded guilty to
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  • 86 5 JENNY IS NOW GROUND HOSTESS FROM a classroom to the vast terminal building of Singapore Airport that in short is the career story of Miss Jenny Tan, 19. Miss Tan, a former Raffles Girls' School student, was an ex-teacher in a Colony Chinese School. Today she is a PanAmerican Airways
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  • 111 5 TANJONG MALIM. Tues. Indians should shun communalism and think of themselves only as Malayans, said Mr. K.R. Ramalingam, general secretary of Perak MIC. today at the annual general meeting of the local MIC branch. Mr. Ramalingam charged that certain "power-crazy people" have crept into
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  • 176 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Some Muslim converts do still profess their original religions but the Selangor Religious Affairs Department does not think it should go to the extent of making an investigation into the matter. This was stated in the State Council meeting here today in
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  • 493 6 Council Decides Not To Collect 12 Per Cent Tax PENANG, Tues.— With the Opposition Alliance Councillors absent, the Labour-dominated City Council at a special meeting last night decided in favour of a resolution moved by Mr. Tan Phock Kin, not to collect the 12 pe~ cent
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  • 233 6 High Court Orders Company' s Winding Up LONDON, May 20 (Reuter).—A British High Court Judge yesterday ordered the compulsory winding up of a London Company with shares in three subsidiary rubber firms two of them Malayan and one Ceylonese. The order was made on the petition of one of the
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  • 158 6 R.I. Navy Ship To Visit Port Swettenham PORT SWETTENHAM, Tues. The "Dewa Rutji," a training ship of the Indonesian Navy, is due to call here on Thursday while on a training cruise round South-east Asian ports. She is expected to remain in port for five days. The ship's Commander, Captain
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  • 68 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues The Selangor State Government today announced that only 21 Communist terrorists are known to be still at large. This figure was given to Councillor Tuan Haji Mustapha bin Abdul Jabar, in a written reply during the meeting of the Council-of-State today. The
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  • 57 6 KLANG. Tues.— The Kiang and Coast branch of the Malayan Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis today announced the receipt n' $2,380 as donations for the first four months of this year. The Cargo Handling Corpo ration Ltd., gave $1,200, Batr Shoe Co., Ltd., gave
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  • 289 6 IPOH, Tues. When a young man was offered bail on an attempted murder charge, his 47-year-old mother told Mr. Justice Syed Sheh BarakbalT in the Perak High Court today. "I would prefer him to be kept in custody pending his trial The woman,
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  • 73 6 INCHE CHE MAT BIN HAJI IBRAHIM, a member of the Staff of the Rubber Industry Re Planting Board, Malacca, and his bride, Che' Maimun binti Mohammad Yasin. who were married at the bride s home at Durian Daun Road. Malacca, recently The bride is the only daughter of
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  • 204 6 2 RED SUSPECTS DETAINED IN HOUSE SEARCHES KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Security Forces comprising Kuala Kubu Bahru Police, No. 3 Police Field Forre. 7th Royal Malay Regiment and local Special Branch cordoned off and entered Kerling Town and new village in Ulu Selangor district at 3 a.m. today. Mobile units of
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  • 59 6 IPOH. Tues.— Mrs. Celeste B. Amstutz. wife of Bishop Amstutz of the Methodist Mlssion. will officially open the $40,000 Domestic Science Centre of the Anglo-Chinese Girls' School on May 30. Bishop Amstutz will perform the dedication ceremony of the building. The Centre, which adjoins the school,
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  • 150 6 2 Fishermen From R.I. Island Held By Police KLAXG, Tues. Two n Ang Chui Cheng. 31. and Chong Guan, 33, i from the Indonesian Bagan Api Api, were yesterday following a Pi operation on an i*. Lima, off Port Swe; These men an c are believed to 1■• the Indonesian
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  • 76 6 IPOH. Tues. Thr councillors and men New Village committec Cameron Highlands are« eluding three women, attend a three-da y course in the B Chinese School, Came: lands. The course includes jby heads of Government I partments on Ae i Sanitation and Health and on I
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  • 67 6 KUALA LUMPUR, T A godown labourer. See Haw, 38, fell 20 feel stack of rice bags at the way Godown here today injured his right eye. The godown ted r?v Messrs. Heap Chong and pany who are S< A spokesman told The Standard that Se
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  • 214 6 PENANG, Tues. A watchman was punched in the eyes and face while he was carrying up a child who had been l hrown on the road by his stacker, the Magistrate's ?ourt was told today. "I still feel pain on my face .nd I
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  • 241 7 THE following Singapore roads will be closed to traffic on June 8 for Queen's birthday parade rehearsal, and on June 12, parade and Government House garden party. June 8, from 7.15 a.m. until the end of th e rehearsal:- St. Andrew's Road, Stamford Road
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  • 48 7 KUM Cheng Chuan, pleaded not guilty in a Singapore Court yesterday to a charge of being a member of an unlawful society, group "24" in Nelson Road on May 19. •He was released on bail till May 27 when the case will be mentioned.
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  • 32 7 HONORARY Secretary of the All Malaya Muslim Missionary Society, Mr. Haji A. Wanjor, will speak on Bahaism at the Society's headquarters in Lorong 12. Singapore on Saturday at 5 p.m.
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  • 250 7 We'// Do It Mayor Is Partial' PENANG, Tues.— Alliance Councillors will not hesilate to walk-out again if the Mayor continues to be partial and pay no need to protests at City Council meetings. This was stated by Alliance City Councillor, Mr. Yeon Oon Chuan, who staged
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  • 155 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were Buyers Sellers Spot 731 741 R.S.S. No. 1 (July) 721 72 R.S.S No. 1 fc (July) 723 728 ITS.S. No. 2 701 70* R.S.S. No. 3 64 64} Tone: Barely steady. The price of tin in Singapore
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  • 168 7 SINGAPORE'S Assistant Minister to the Chief Secretary, Mr. M. P. D. Nair, said yesterday that the City Council should think in terms of the interest and welfare of the people of Singapore" should it decide to change the street names in the Colony. Mr.
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  • 88 7 SINGAPORE youth organizations attached to Perak House will hold a Commonwealth Sunday Parade on May 25, and attend Commonwealth Sunday Service at Fairfield Methodist Church, Nei' Road. The organized route march, which will be called oil in rass of rain, will be tro:n Pearl's Hill Police
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  • 64 7 NEW officials -of the Harper Gilfillan Branch of the Singapore Business Houses Employees' Union elected recently are: President Mr. See Chan Choo; Secretary Mr. Lim Lean Tatt Treasurer Mr. Ho Sam Kiat; Auditor Mr. Seah Cheng Mok, Asst. Auditor Mr. Lawrence Ong Chan Bee; Committee Miss
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  • 65 7 THE 'Money for Music' campaign organized by Rediffusion, Singapore, in aid of the Kampong Koo Chai fire victims netted almost $8,000, it was announced yesterday. This amount will be matched dollar for dollar by Government. The campaign started six weeks' ago two days after the fire.
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  • 49 7 THE Police Clerical Branch of the Singapore Government Administrative and Clerical Services Union, yesterday ree'.ected Mr. Teng Ah Kye, as chairman at the annual general meeting held in the C.I.D. building. Mr. Heng Hock Wah was elected secretary and Mr. Phoon Yin Khan the treasurer.
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  • 37 7 HONGKONG, May 20 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were $1608 to £1 Sterling $5 ***** to US$l: $1,842 to Malayan $1; $0.0845 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $252.75 to a tael
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  • 164 7 COUNCIL CALLS FOR A MERGER SECRETARY general of the Tamils Representative Council, Mr. M.M. Maalai, yesterday called on the Singapore Indian Congress and the Malayan Indian Congress to join the T.R.C. as affiliate members to further consolidate the Indian community in the Colony. Mr. Maalai, giving his personal views, said
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  • 166 7 A CUSTOMS officer told the Singapore Second District Court yesterday how he found 550 pounds of dutiable cigarettes in a speedboat. The officer. Inche Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman, was testifying at the trial of Yeo Tian Chong, 42, charged with being in possession
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  • 52 7 CHUA Buck Khoon, 31, yesterday claimed trial in a Singapore court to a charge of being a member of an unlawful society, secret society group "24," on May 19, in Robinson Road, Singapore. He was allowed bail of $1,000 until June 3, when the case will
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  • 106 9 Off For Fisheries Talks DR. Tham Ah Kow. Chief eries Officer, Singapore, left yesterday by Pan Amen Airways to attend the executive committee conference of the Indo-Paciflc teries Council in Saigon, which opens today. Dr Tham. is a vice-chair* man of the IPFC— a subsidiary body of the Food and
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  • 59 9 A 10-MAN delegation from the International Business nines World Trade Corporation in Australia passed through Singapore by Air India recently, on its way to Hongkong to attend the Corporation's Asia-Pacific araa sales conference. The delegation was led by Mr. G. E. Bennett, general manager of 1.8.M. Pty.
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  • 58 9 MALAYAN tin imports, mostly from Thailand in April, totalled 1.143 tons, against 872 tons in March. Total imports in the first four months this year amounted to 4,171 tons, compared with 5,423 tons in last year's same period. Of the April imports, Thailand sent 1.011 tons
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  • 38 9 A TINPLATE container factory is to be built in Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, by The Metal Box Company of Rhodesia. Limited. Tinplate containers are at present imported by that country from the U.S. and South Africa.
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  • 185 9 \VORLD output of tin-in-concentrates during January tliis year totalled 12,700 tons, compared with the monthly average of 15,600 tons in the last quarter of 1957. i This is revealed in f he International Tin Council's statistical bulletin for April. During February, production fell considerably in
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  • 224 9 Marconi To Put Up Radio Station MARC O N TS WIRELESS Telegraph Company Ltd. have received an order from Jordan for a high-power transmitter for a new radio station to be built in Amman. It is planned to bring this station on the air early next year. Marconi's are to
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  • 181 9 New Man-Made Rubber Produced COLOGNE, Germany, May 20. (UP)— A new man-made rubber, more "rubbery" than the natural product, has been produced to help scientists find out the natural properties of rubber. The new material, known as "Deuterlo Rubber," was announced here recently by Dr. Waldo L. Semon, director of
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  • 71 9 SINGAPORE rubber market closed on a barely steady tone yesterday, with International first grade June shipment at 72-7/8 cents per lb., unchanged on the previous day. A feature of the market has been the continued interest in nearby shipment. One and-a--half cent premium passed during the morning
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  • 43 9 SINGAPORE Chamber ot Commerce Rubber Association noon prices in cents vet lb yesterday were: Buyer* Sellen Spot f.o.b. 74* 74* International June No. 1 RSS f.o.b. 721 72J July 72* 72* June 2 70* 70} June 3 64 64* Tone Easier.
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  • 55 9 SHIPMENTS of latex from Malaya to the United States in April this year totalled 2,609 tons, according to latest statistics. United Kingdom took 1,759 tons, Japan 706 tons and Australia 687 tons. Exports of latex for the first quarter this year totalled 38,687 tons, against 33.224 tons in
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  • 162 9 OUTER ROADS Francoise, Mina, Celtes. Bengkalis, Stv. Ogan. Bakongan. Eumacus, Hildegrad Doremkamp. Pres. Mckinley, Hanyang, Jean Jaures, Great Oaks, Barumun, Kelikon, Yoke Maru. Jakaruta Maru, Armonnia, Wains?apoe. Falkenstein, Yarra Breeze, Statius Jensen, Indora, Shona, Nease Mariner, Kyowa Maru. Clan Macbride. Eastern Pearl, Julia .Kalabahi, Corona, Oceanic Reliance,
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  • 66 9 PUBLISHING Director of the Australian publishing firm of Angus Robertson, Mr. G.A. Ferguson is due in Singapore on June 3 on a business visit. He will spend a few days in the Colony surveying the book trade with a view to expanding business. Mr. Ferguson will
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  • 109 9 SOAP production in Singapore for the nrst quarter this year totalled 77,773 cwt. compared with 65,591 cwt. in the Federation of Malaya, according to statistics. Singapore stocks at the end of the quarter were also nigher, being 17.937 cwt.. against the Federation figure of 4,578 cwt.
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  • 236 9 CORPORATE BODY TO RUN SATELLITE TOWNSHIP Finance And Commerce KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— A statutory corporate body is to run Petaling Jayo, Malaya's firsf satellite town near Kuala Lumpur. A bill passed in the Selangor State Council today names the "Petaling Jaya Development Corporation as the town's new administrative body under
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  • 325 9 WASHINGTON, May 20, One of the evidences of economic health in the United States is the emphasis being placed on long-term expansion in the midst of the current business adjustment. The stress on continued growth reflects not merely the hope nor even the confidence,
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  • 48 9 costs more than $300,000, Manager of the branch is Mr. Thurstan F. Weaving. Photo shows the company's new Kuch i n g Branch. BORNEO MOTORS Ltd. opened its new Kuching Branch early this month. The modern building, on a site of nearly two acres,
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  • 244 9 RIDA Course On Forestry Equipment IPOH, Tues. The Rural and Industrial Development Authority in Perak ha s instituted a special course in the use and maintenance of heavy tractors for a selected number of Malay trainees. The course is aimed at giving these trainees a working knowledge of the mechanical
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  • 40 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday: New York- buying, T.T. 32--15/16. OD. 33-1/16. 90 days airmail 33-3/16 credit bills, 33--1/4 trade bills. Swedish Kroner: selling. T.T. O.D. 167-3/4 ready.
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  • 44 9 CEYLON'S exports of copra and coconut oil in 1957 totalled 75,976 long tons, oil basis. This was a decrease of nearly 40 per cent from the quantity shipped in 1956 and slightly more than half the record high of 1955.
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  • 226 9 BRITAIN scored a "major triumph- of science and engineering with its new radiotelescope at the Jodrell Bank Experimental Station of Manchester University. It was the most successful instrument in the world for locating satellites and rockets by radar, according to a report published in London.
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  • 74 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Pro duce Exchange noon closing price* Dei pira] vesterda? were: copra May/ June UK Continent $314 buyers $48 sellers; in drums $51 $32 sellers ctjconut oil in bulk sellers; Muntok white pepper $127 sellers; Sarawak white $126 sellers; Special Sarawak black $73. Singapore Copra Association closing
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  • 78 9 Share Market Dull And Featureless ALL sections of the Malayan share market were dull and featureless. Turnover was small. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were: Cng INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers 8.8 Petrol 46/6 48/6cd Fed. Dispensary 100 1.05 xall Jackson Co. 1.05 1.10 cd MININGS Austral Amal 10/10
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  • 152 9 MALAYAN sharebrokf ported the following business done: Fed. Disp. $1.03. $1.01; F. N. ords. $2.51, $2,524 overnight; Gammon $2.04: Gammon Rights 46c. to 49c; Hume pref.-.. A4/9, 4/7J; M. Brewer M. Cement $I.S3J; M Cements (50 cents paidi 80c: V $1.32 immediate; M. Box $1674; s Robinson ords.
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  • 172 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A team of Japanese rice experts consisting of the Director of the Research Institute in Tokyo. Dr. Shiraishi, and two others, accompanied by a Senior Agricultural Officer, Inche Mohamed bin Jamil, has spent three days in Kelantan on a fact finding visit.
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  • 59 9 port Commission. A Dfltic diesel electric to seen hauling an express train on the London-Liver-pool line A FLEET of powerful diesel electric locomotives will shortly go into service with British Railways on the London to Edinburgh passenger service. The locomotives are the English Deities 22
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    • 278 9 The SHAW Organisation regret that due to the hospitalization of Mrs. NIVEN in Hongkong, their Cocktail Party at the Capitol Orchid Room for this evening has been cancelled PELNI-LINES 12 ROBINSON ROAD T#l: ***** < Fr i hr /Through Cargo Dept.) Ttl: ***** (Manager). "DIANA" for Tandjong Priok May 22
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  • 472 10 STANDARD PICTURE ROUNO-UP A LIFE-SIZED mural painting adorns the Ipoh St. Michael's Institution's "Marian h r r V lch wa s converted from two spacious classrooms and air-conditioned Entitled 'Magnificat, this painting attempts to portray Christ at the head of a long line of great philosophers representing the noblest advances
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  • 407 11  -  Windsor Lad By He Is Back To Top Form After Spell AMUSEMENT PARK, who has freshened up considerably after a spell at Cameron Highlands, is my choice in the main six furlongs sprint (Race 6) for topnotch sprinters at Bukit Timah this afternoon, second
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  • 537 11 On his second to Rio I am giving Staff Officer a great chance to go one better in the opening race of the day— the six furlongs for Class Three, Division Three horses. Staff Officer wa s putting in best work at the end of
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  • 803 11 Kanchil Has A Bright Chance I am looking to Kanchll to win the main mile race for Class Three milers. He was not disgraced when second to Rina over the seven in January. Kanchil made no show in his li miles effort at Ipoh in March (race won by Showman),
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  • 229 11 The Choice Here Is Expensive Hobby RIO Rio found his form when winning over the six in Division Five on the first day. Though promoted three divisions Rio could again finish close. He carries the same weight as when he last won. WELSH KING Welsh King won cleverly over the
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    • 68 11 TODAY'S GOING THE TRACK for this afternoon's races at Bukit Timah will probably be yielding at best. BIG SWEEP UNLIMITED SWEEP will be drawn on Race 8. Cash Sweep will be held only on Races 4, 5, 6 and 7, while there will be the usual Forecast on every race.
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  • 285 12 FLAG IS RAISED AND.... BUT SOON BEE SOUNDS A WARNING TOKYO, May 20, (UP)— The flag of the Colony of Singapore was raised today at the main hostel of the Asian Games athletes outside the Dai Ichi Hotel along with flags of Ceylon, the Federation of Malaya
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  • 180 12 Games Flame In Tokyo TOKYO, May 20 (Reuter) The Asian Games sacred flame today approached the outskirts of Tokyo, one month after it was kindled by the sun's rays at the Rizal Stadium in Manila and sent on its way to the Japanese capital on April Later today the flame
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  • 48 12 BINGAPORE Cricket Club beat Gymkhana Sports Club 7—2 in a SAFA Div. 2B league match on the Padans yesterday. In another SAFA Div. 2A league on the SRC padang, Singapore Recreation Club were held to a 2 2 draw by Radln Mas Sports Club.
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  • 25 12 SINGAPORE SOCCER: SAFA League Div. 3A Bintang Bulan SC. vs Railway S.C.. Jalan Besar, 6.45 p.m. Singapore vs Ceylon, Jalan Besar, 8 p.m.
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  • Article, Illustration
    81 12 THE chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Indonesia, Prince Pakue Alam, arrived in Singapore yesterday from Jakarta on his way to attend the Asian Games. Prince Alam told reporters at the airport that he hopes to return to the Colony to meet local sports leaders. "We can strengthen
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    83 12 THE Indonesian soccer team to the Asian Games in Tokyo would have to fight very hard to beat Formosa and Korea for top honours. This was stated by the vicepresident of the Indonesian Football Federation, Mr. R. Kosasih, when he arrived in Singapore yestrday from Jakarta. Mr. Kosasih,
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  • 190 12 COLONY WILL MAKE NO CHANGE IN SOCCER TEAM TOKYO, May 20, (AFP)— Singapore will field the same team that held Pakistan to a 4-4 draw at Jalaa Besar Stadium last week in all her engagements at the Avian Games. Team manager John Then said today, "We will need changes only
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  • 140 12 HE'LL NOW FIGHT FOR 'COLOURED' FOOTBALLERS LONDON, May 20 (Reuter) The Honourable Ivor Montague of Watford, I^ondon, will switch next month from fighting the colour bar in international table tennis for many years, to a similar mission on behalf of coloured footballers in South Africa. Mr. Montague, President of the
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  • 125 12 Kesavan Azlan In Same Heat TOKYO, May 20, (AFP) Singapore's Kesavan Soon and Malaya's Raja Azlan are in the same heat of the 100 metres drawn against Pakistan's defending Asian champion Abdul Khaliq and Taiwan's Chu Ku. Malaya's Andrew Lazaroo has the only strong opponent in the third heat in
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  • 83 12 DUBLIN, May 20 (Reuter)— Brian Hewson, of Britain, put up the fastest time for the 880 yards in Europe this season when he won in one minute 49.7 seconds yesterday. He beat Ron Delany, Irish winner of the Olympic 1,500 metres, by two yards. Derek Ibbotson,
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  • 72 12 HONGKONG. May 20 (Reuter) Capt. H. W. N. Grace of the Royal Engineers of Hongkong won the FARELF Individual championship with seven victories here today Staff Sgt. L. Hunt of the RAOC, Singapore, was a close second with six victories and C.S.M.I. G. Norman. APTC
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  • 38 12 THE Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guan. will hold an official luncheon in honour of Malaya's Thomas Cup representatives on Saturday. The lunch will be held in the Committee Room at City Hall.
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  • 329 12 LOADER TAKES 9 FOR 17 COUNTY CRICKET LONDON, Ma/ 20 (Reuter) Peter Loader, the Surrey and England pace bowler was in devastating form in taking nine wickets for 17 runs today the best performance of his career and helping Surrey to crush Warwickshire by an innings and 80 runs. Making
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  • 57 12 LONDON, May 20 (Reuter)—Bert Sutcliffe, the New Zealand opening batsman fractured his right wrist during today's cricket match here against M.C.C. at Lords and will miss the first two Tests against England. Sutcliffe fell heavily while fielding and was taken to hospital. He will be out
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  • 23 12 THE annual Singapore Infantry Regimental inter-company sports will b e neld at GHQ Tanglin Soorts field on May 27 and 28.
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  • 122 12 Colony Bout For Thai Boxer DARCY Carr, currently ranked fourth in the leatherweight class in Australia, will not fight Ray Ming Chan at the Happy World Stadium on May 31. Carr suffered a big cut over the left eye during hLs last fight in Bangkok. Little Nene, the promoter, told
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  • 34 12 LONDON. May 20, (Reuter) Cambridge University have withdrawn the nomination of their victorious boat race crew for the Empire Game s trials to be beld at Henley from June 11 to 14.
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  • 145 12 PENANG Tues. The Chinese Recreation Club narrowly beat the Penang Sports Club 3-2 in the final of the annual Inter-Team Tennis competition for the Heah Swee Lee Challenge Cup yesterday. With this victory, the Chinese have annexed this challenge cup for the tenth
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  • 253 12 Wrestler With A Difference A WRESTLER with a difference! Yes. that's Tape Rye Jensen. 28. of Copenhagen. Why? Ls it because he has won 14 bouts and lost only five in the two years he took to the sport? NO! For Tage's been blind
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  • 437 12 LONDON, May 20 (Reuter)— The New Zeafend tourist beat the M.C.C. by 13 runs in the three -day cricket iratch which ended here today. Final scores were: New Zealand 190 and 266 for eigh* declared. M.C.C. 164 and 219. After batting defensively for
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  • 88 12 RESULTS of the Singapore Rifle Association .303 Spoon Shoot held last Sunday are: SR (a) Gunscore. Sgt. S C. Hall 91. Handicap. SAC Lynskey 86 < 101.35). SR<b) Gunscore. R. H. Whitley 10U. Handicap. C. Y. Chen 92 (102.40). A "possible" was made at 300 yards by
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  • 65 12 RESULTS of the Interschool table tennis competition held at the Singapore Youth Centre yesterday were:Holy Innocents Eng. School bt. St. Andrew's 5-3; Outram School bt. Dunman Govt. Chinese M.S. 5-0: Chinese H.S. bt. Alexandra Grammar School 5-0; Tanjong Katong Technical School bt. St. Patrick's School 5-0; Serangoon
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  • 53 12 BELGIUM. May 20. (Re British racing driver A Scott -Brown died in ho^ here tonight of injuries rec f when his car crashed in flames during a Grand Prix race terday. Bachelor Scott-Brown. 31. o-e of Britain's brilliant drivers, had been in a grave eond severe burns
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  • 40 12 TOKYO, May 20. (UP>— Ra^ washed out todav opening of the Eastern Zo Davi s Cup finals between Philippines and Ceylon The first two singles played at noon on We at the Denen Coliseum court*.
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  • 919 13 Raising Funds For New House 'THE £A250,000 appeal to establish a new International House in Brisbane, Queensland, has gone into full swing. More fund-raising drives are planned, to supplement those already held and many Brisbane organizations are fully supporting the cause. The first activity this year was an "Oriental Week"
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    908 13 rE annual presentation of the Prize Giving Day of the Tanjong Katong Girls' School will fall on Friday. May 23. in the school hall. At the moment the school is bustling with activity as the Principal. Mrs. Scott, her staff and pupils are all giving a hand preparing
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  • 266 13 W/HY continue to send young Malayans to Kirkby and Wolverhampton to be trained as Malayan teachers when the Government has several training colleges in the Federation? This is by no means a new question for it has been raised almost every year since Dato E. E. C. Thuraisingham
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 123 14 MARIA TOFFOLOM. photographed with her mother aboard the ship that will take her to Italy, died twice and was twice resurrected. The seven-year-old girl experienced her "deaths" when undergoing surgical operations in Australia. The daughter of an Italian settler, she suffered severe burns. Plastic surgery had,
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    • 198 14 WASHINGTON, May 20,(UP) informed sources report five ships have been deployed at the U.S. proving grounds in the Central Pacific to be used as "guinea pigs for an underwater nuclear detonation testing an anti-submarine device. These sources said yesterday the test is imminent. Th«
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    • 111 14 CANBERRA. May 20 (Reuter) Air mail delivered in Australia by rocket instead of aeroplane was a possibility in the "not too distant future," the retiring Director of Posts and Telegraphs. Sir Giles Chippindall said today. Sir Giles Chippindall made the forecast in a report
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    • 362 14 All Reports On Algeria Ordered To Be Screened FARIS, May 20 (UP).— Government slammed down a censorship on the Algerian insurrection today and ordered censors into the offices of all major worldwide news agencies. It was a move unprecedented since the end of World War 11.
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    • 146 14 JAPANESE HONOUR EX-ENEMY DEAD TOKYO, May 20 (Reuter). A monument to 48.148 foreign soldiers who died fighting on Japanese territory during World War Two will be unveiled at the Ryozen Kannon Temple in Kyoto on June 8. The Ryozen Kannon Association said today it would invite representatives of all diplomatic
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    • 134 14 Jap Trade Pact With Formosa TAIPEH, May 20 (Reuter) Nationalist China and Japan will sign an agreement here tomorrow calling for a total amount of trade in 1938 of U*****,000,000 both ways. The Foreign Minister. Dr. George Yeh, and the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Kensuke Horinouchi, will sign the pact in
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    • 105 14 Dogs Find Mines In Battle Area GAZA, Egypt, May 20 (Reuter) Four Swedish dogs specially trained for detecting mines have arrived to help Swedish soldiers of the United Nations Emergency Force prevent mine accidents in the Gaza Strip, where scattered unexploded mines still remain. The Alastian-type dogs have come from
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    • 51 14 PORTSMOUTH, May 20 (Reuter) A new Royal Navy destroyer squadron was formed at Portsmouth today for service in the Mediterranean. It sails early next week for Malta. The squadron, to be known as the Seventh Destroyer Squadron, consists of the three Battle class destroyers, Trafalgar, Dunkirk and
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    • 61 14 TOKYO, May 20 (Reuter)— Emperor Hirohito of Japan today presented the Grand Cordon and Collar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum to the visiting Shah of Iran. The Shah arrived here yesterday on a 12-day state visit to Japan. This morning he visited Emperor Hirohito and
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    • NEWSBRIEFS
      • 49 14 BOMBAY A mass rally of port and dock workers here last night endorsed their union's decision to launch a strike in all major Indian ports on June 16. The strike was called by the All-India Port and Dock Workers' Federation to back demands for improved pay and conditions. Reuter
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      • 22 14 NEW DELHI— A five-man Soviet delegation arrived here yesterday to negotiate an agreement with India for a direct Delhi-Moscow air service. Reuter
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      • 32 14 SANTIAGO The Chilean Foreign Ministry said today that the law of the sea conference in Geneva showed that the traditional principle of a three-mile limit to territorial waters does not exist. Reuter
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      • 36 14 HIROSHIMA The 13th victim this year of what doctors described as due to "atomic disease" died on Monday. Akio Satatani, 28, died at the atomic bomb casualty hospital from the after effects of atomic radiation. UP
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      • 39 14 RAWALPINDI. The joint British-Pakistani forces expedition to 25,550-foot Mount Rakaposhi in the Himalayas has established its base camp, according to a radio message received yesterday. The team, six British and three Pakistanis, is headed by Captain Michael Banks. Reuter
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      • 35 14 SEOUL The South Korean Foreign Ministry said today. President Syngman Rhee had approved immediate start of negotiations to exchange diplomatic envoys on a ministerial level with Switzerland, Denmark, Iraq, Mexico, Pakistan, Thailand and Ethiopia. Reuter
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      • 40 14 MONTGOMERY (Alabama) Two people were killed and two seriously injured when a car travelling at 90 m.p.h. crashed head-on into a heavy lorry here, hurtled through the air, spun completely round and stopped 20 yards back down the road. Reuter
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    • 116 14 OKINAWA, May 20, (Reuter)— The United States authorities in Okinawa said today they had granted temporary asylum to two stateless Polish seamen from the British freighter Ever Glory. They were identified as Boris Chouljenko and Pieleck Kasimierz. The authorities said the two crew members
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    • 100 14 HUNT FOR ATOM PLANT INTRUDER ALDERRIASTON, England, May 20 (Reuter)— Police lay in wait last night for a man who made two weekend attempts to break into the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment here. On Saturday night, he was seen crouching near the seven feet high wire fence ringing the establishment.
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    • 43 14 THE Publicity Association of Hermanus, Cape Province, South Africa, has decided to send a cable to Sir Bernard and Lady Docker, recently banned from the French Riviera, inviting them to spend a holiday in Hermanus "the Riviera of South Africa." Reuter
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    • 97 14 NEW DELHI. May 20 (Reuter) Mr. Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, left here ny air today for a five-week Himalayan holiday to rid himself of what he ha^ described as a feeling of "tiredness and staleness." Mr. Nehr"u, who recently changed his mind about retiring, will return
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    • 165 14 BURY, Lancashire, May 20 (Reuter) Huckleberry, the nautical pigeon, is back in his loft here today after a 60.000-mile world tour that lasted 19 months. He left home in September. 1956. at the tender age of 16 weeks, for his first big race. His owner, Harry
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    • 72 14 pix. Wearing native dress, members of a White Russian religious sect, called the Old Believers," arrive at Los Angeles airport. Refugees from Manchuria, where they emigrated after fleeing Russia 25 years ago, the group is the vanguard of approximately 1,000 of the sect planning to settle in Brazil.
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