Singapore Standard, 26 May 1958

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  • 21 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Cable "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1958 Vol. VIII. No. 327. 15 cts. 12 Pages [FINAL EDITION]
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  • FRENCH CRISIS WORSENS
    • 245 1 All Communications With Paris Cat Off PARIS, May 25 (Reuter) The Algerian take-over movement spread last nignt to the French "bandit isle" of Corsica, with demonstrators invading administrative buildings m Ajaccio, the main town. The Information Ministry announced here that a Public
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    • 557 1 Urgent Appeal For Calm Made To Marseilles People NATION WARNED OF CIVIL WAR THREAT PARIS, May 25 Premier Pierre Pflimlin hurriedly conferred with his Foreign and Defence Ministers early today while the revolt that started two weeks ago m Algeria crept toward France itself. Pflimlin saw Foreign Minister Rene Pleven
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    • 114 1 MORE than 100 women, some of them octogenarians, and about 20 men, from Singapore and the Federation were ordained and branded on their shaven heads, as nuns and monks, at Singapore's largest Buddhist Temple, the Siong Lim Si, at Kirn Keat Road, yesterday. It
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  • 121 1 A TIP-OFF from a member of the public of an expected gang clash m Geylang Serai led to the discovery of an automatic pistol with 12 rounds of ammunition by Singapore Police yesterday. Acting Superintendent of Police A. Gopalan of the Secret Societies
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  • 296 1 Lebanon Forces All-Out Bid To Crush Insurgents BEIRUT, May 25 (UPI) The Lebanese Government today launched what appeared to be an all-out offensive to breach the resistance of opposition insurgents who have paralyzed this tiny nation for 17 days with a general strike and sporadic fighting. The Lebanese Army troops,
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  • 146 1 LONDON, May 25 (UPI) Five hundred angry British housewives today planned a boycott of New Zealand butter to protest the British Government's anti-dumping measures announced last week. The British Government an- 1 nounced last week they had decided to ask Finland, Sweden and Ireland to restrict
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  • 30 1 A WOMAN m Middletown, New York, was killed instantly when a hunter shot her m mistake for a woodchuck as she popped her head over a ridge.- Reuter
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  • 201 1 MIAMI, Florida, May 25 (UPI). A" distraught husband complained to police today that his pretty 30--year-old wife had been hypnotized and led away by a Faith Healer m the belief she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary. Carmen Nappo, a Miami composer,
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  • 54 1 NEW DELHI, May 25 (Reuter)—A British freighter aircraft on a charter flight from London to Singapore crashed about 40-miles West of New Delhi today and first reports said four of its five crew were killed. The plane was en route from Karachi to Singapore when it
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  • 175 1 GOVERNOR of Singapore. Sir William Goode returned to the Colony last night after having attended the AngloSingapore constitutional taiks m London. Sir William told reporters at the airport: "We did the job we set out to do. It was hard
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  • 40 1 A HOSPITAL nurse was chosen Miss Korea 1959 yesterday to take part* in the Miss Universe contest at Long Beach. She is Miss Oh Kuen Soon of Taegu. her statistics are sft. 4in. 119 pounds, 36-24-36.- AFP
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  • 235 1 I'ENANG, Sun. World badminton champion, Erland Kops of Denmark, arrived m Malaya by the liner Roma this morning:. He was here for a few hours as a 'special' guest of the Danish Vice-Consul Mr. P. C. Lind. Later he left for Singapore by^ air. Kops
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  • 116 2 Party's Lone Stand In Polls Fight KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The central executive committee of the Pan-Malayan Islamic Party headed by the Party's president. Dr. Burhanuddin Alhami, decided today to contest "single-handed" the coming elections. The committee felt that It was against its constitution to merge with any party to contest
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  • 462 2 Biggest Mass Ordination In Colony Temple FOR the second time yesterday, m more than half-a-century. there occurred m Singapore the mass ordination of monks, nuns and believers, at the Colony's largest Buddhist Temple, Siong Lim Si, (Twin Grove Temple) on the occasion of its sixtieth anniversary.
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  • 97 2 HK Delegate To Colony Health Meet THE first Asian Regional Pediatric Contress will be opened by the acting Chief Minister and Minister for Health. Mr. A. J. Braga, at the University of Malaya today. The Congress will be attended by 163 delegates from South-east Asian countries. Malaya will be represented
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  • 30 2 TWO graveyards, with more than 100 graves dating back to about 3.000 years before Christ, have been discovered by a Dutch scientific expedition near Abu-Roash m Egypt. Reuter
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  • 169 2 MOVE TO COMBAT OFFICER SHORTAGE KUALA LUMPUR. 6 The Federation Gover will be asked to make gatory for Government larship-holders to minimum of ten year Government as a p step to combat the d of officers m the cour A resoiUtion to this will be moved for ac by the
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  • 40 2 TI4E Japanese S Court, ending <■ dragged on for mx Saturday sentenced Japanese Army NCO S shi Ikeda to three prisonment for toi killing fellow prisoners m a POW camp m Outer Mongolia, 12 years ago. UP I
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    • 559 2 The Bankruptcy Ordinance (CHAPTER 11) In the High Court of the Colony of Singapore Island of Singapore IN BANKRUPTCY. No. 112 of 1958. Re: CHOP CHOON SAY (sued as a firm) of No. 82, Kirn Yam Road. Singapore. 9. Receiving Order made 21st March, 1958. Date of Order for Summary
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    • 183 2 NOTICES The Bankruptcy Ordinance (CHAPTER 11) In The High Court Of The Colony Of Singapore Is'and Of Singapore IN BANKRUPTCY No. 439 of 1957. Re: IBRAHIM bin HITAM of No. 49-A, Jalan Sempadan, Singapore, 15. Receiving Order made 30th August, 1957. Date of Adjudication 30th August, 1957. Dati and place
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  • SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 819 3 WHENEVER national elections are conducted on a foreign policy platform m these times of political stress, the responsibility which is placed on voting citizens is a challenge to their integrity and honesty. On their vote and how they vote will be the determining factor for the conduct
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    • 38 3 iIAC OMICI n Lirr lack Mw Ko«a PO Bo> No )56« CjW«: -IIC£hNEWS T«l ***** (5 tme«) All d*e»»trmnt» *UAL* iumfu* Oin* Irwutanc* 8lc«. 174 *•*>** Telethon* 36 MALACCA 91A Bolttt Oi»» Ttl -.-j 47<
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  • 1526 3 LONDOISr CORNER I DE GAULLE has spoken. The trumpet has sounded and it sounds cracked. He has thrown himself m front of the French nation, saying: "Stop me and buy one." Almost every phrase at his Press conference was a respectful approach to himself and was larded
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  • 168 3 Shorts from the Talks Aims For Education Today "Looking ahead at the changes which science is already making m our world, I think our education ought to ensure three things: first, more scientists and technologists, second, less narrowly specialised scientists and technologists, and. third, an educated population who all undsrstand
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  • 339 3 'pHE selection of the 1 American naval base of Chaguaramus, Trinidad, as the capital site for the new British West Indies Federation is ruled out m the report of the Chaguaramus Joint Commission published recently. "There is no significant portion of usable area within the
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  • 420 3 the NEWS as it strikes me r PHt constitutional talks m London, expected to conclude tomorrow, have been conducted m a spirit of give and take, a change from what has gone before. The Colonial Office gave m on th»- very delicate and tense question of including the subversive clause
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  • 623 4 MCA 'OLD GUARD' STAGE COMEBACK They Form New Ipoh Sub-Branch Of Association IPOH, Sun.— The local "old guard" of the Malayan Chinese Association took the first step m a return to power when they formed an area sub-branch of the Association here today. Committee members of the new Ipoh Area
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  • 364 4 Rebuke For Teacher As Father Is Fined $150 JERANTUT, Sun. Penghulu Hashim bin Teh, 36, was today fined $150, :n default two months' imprisonment by Magistrate Hamzah bin Dato Abu Samah for voluntarily causing hurt to a Pulau Tawar Malay school headmaster, Umar bin Mat Salleh, 43, with a walking
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  • 105 4 MISS Christine Wong Manjaji that's her name m full. Miss Manjaji, a SinoDusun, flew into Singapore yesterday on her way home after studying m Auckland. She is the first Colombo Plan student from Jesselton to return after spending two and half years at the
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  • 67 4 IPOH Sun. Shaw Brothers' organization m Perak has decided to utilize the newly renovated Grand Theatre adjoining the Jubilee Park here for screening of Indian films. The switch-over to Tamil films will take place on June 1. with the screening of the Tamil-dialogue film "Bommal Kalynam."
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  • 87 4 'SHADOWS' JUDGED TOP BAND "THE SHADOWS"— one of seven Singapore bands which appeared on the Capitol Theatre stage on Saturday night to contest the "Battle of the Bands" carried away the first prize of $200. The "battle" was organized by Shaw Brothers m conjunction with the midnight premiere of the
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  • 256 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— A new Bill may soon be introduced, which will eliminate differences between Fedcratioi, and Singapore architects over the question of professional fees, the outgoing president of rhe Federation of Malaya Society of Architects, Mr. E. G. Gardner, said yesterday. Speaking at the Society's
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  • 77 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The winner of the Bronze Medal for the best designed building erected m the Federation during the past three years will be announced soon, outgoing president of the Federation of Malaya So"iety of Architects, Mr. E. G. Gardner, said last night. "Nominations have
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  • 401 4 GUILD MEN WALK OUT OF CITIZEN DRIVE MEETING KUALA LLMPLR, Sun.— The "Citizenship Drive" meeting of the Selangor Chinese Guilds and Associations ended dramatically today when its sponsor, Mr. Douglas K.K. Lee, son of the Finance Minister, am supporters marched out en bloc following a heated debate. From the start,
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  • 207 4 PC Arrests Thug Who Robbed Him IPOH. Sun. A young police constable last night arrested one of three, dagger-carrying thugs who had robbed him and his girl friend of $7 and a gold ring at the Coronation Park two months ago. The constable, 22-year-old Lim Swee Ling, arrested ihe man
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  • 138 4 THE Minister for Health Mr. A. J. Braga. will open the first Asian Regional Pediatric Congress today at the Allen Lecture Hall, at Faculty of Medicine of the University of Malaya. The Congress which will last five days will be attended by pediatricians from India, Australasia,
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  • 214 5 Graduates First Move To Promote Cultural Pursuits THE Singapore Graduate Teachers' Association will form a Federation of all teachers' organizations m the Colony. A resolution to this effect was adopted by the Associauon at its seventh annual general meeting held at caity Secondary School yesterday. The
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  • 184 5 Nair's Call Raises A Storm Of Protest GAPORE youth leaders p in arms against the call Assistant Minister to "hief Secretary. Mr. M.P D. for a national youth :zation m Singapore. The call was made by Mr. week m his reply to a question from a member of Chinese YMCA
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  • 43 5 THE inaugural meeting of the proposed 'Singapore Indian Cultural Council" was yesterday postponed to June 15. The meeting, held at No. 6, Race Course Lane at 10 a.m. yesterday had to be cancelled for want of quorum.
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  • 48 5 Standardpic shows members of the Perak House Boys Brigade presenting their Colours to Rev. Nga inside the Fairfield Church m Neil Road before commencement of the Commonwealth Sunday Service yesterday. The Girls Light Brigade of the Fairfield Girls School also participated m the ceremony.
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  • 80 5 ABDUL AZIZ ENDS TOUR OF KELANTAN KOTA BHARU. Sun.— The Minister for Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak. completed his three-day official tour of remote kampongs m Kelantan yesterday. He. went by rail from Krai to Dabong and from there to Kuala Balah and Jerimbong where he spoke to the
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  • 233 5 Mother, New-Born Child Spared Sea Trip PORT SWETTENHAM SUN. A quick-thinking island midwife, Che Norlin, of Pulau Ketam, yesterday saved a mother and her new-born child from having to make a 14-mile sampan trip here. The Selangor Mentri Besar, Inche Abdul Jamil bin Rais, and
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  • 290 5 C.P.I.B. MEN WORRIED OVER THE FUTURE CIVILIAN investigators of the Singapore Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau are worried about their future. A spokesman for the investigators told The Standard that one of the major causes of their anxiety was that they were engaged on a temporary basis. The spokesman said: "The
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  • 305 5 A NINE-MAN delegation from the Singapore Air Ministry Local Staff Union will shortly meet the Com-mantfer-in-Chief, Far East Air Force, the Earl of Bandon, to "apprise him of the present industrial crisis" m the Royal Air Force. This was decided at the Union's delegates
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  • 76 5 Driver Is Victim Of Acid Attack A SINGAPORE syce, Tan Lian Huat, had acid thrown at him by a cyclist as he was walking along River Valley Road soon after midnight yesterday. Tan was admitted to the General Hospital with facial injuries. He had just driven his employer home when
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  • 48 5 THE MANAGER of the New Hillside Inn m Singapore was assaulted by two thieves he chased after they had broken into his store m Whitley Road, early yesterday morning. He received slight injuries on the head. A dozen bottles of beer were .'ater found missing.
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  • 45 5 TWO men, Osman bin Mat Zin, 28 and Latiff bin Mustaffa 26, were struck by lightning during the thunderstorm at noon m Woodlands area, Singapore, yesterday. Both men who sustained slight burns were treated at the General Hospital as outpatients.
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  • 115 5 15 Selected For Final Interview FIFTEEN pretty girls have been selected to date from more than 55 who aDplied to act the part of the Chinese heroine m the new film "The Other Side of the Coin." Publicity Chief of Cathay Organisation, Mr. Oswald Henry told The Standard yesterday that
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  • 211 6 THE Straits Steamship Company's "mercy ship" Darvel has safely cleared Tarakan m East Borneo after picking up Shell Company employees' families. The vessel is expected to call at Balik Papan to pick up another batch of evacuees there. A spokesman for the Straits Steamship Company
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  • 201 6 Society Is Against Present System Of Rejecting Permits THE Society of Malayan Architects has submitted a memorandum to the Minister for Local Government, Lands and Housing asking for an amendment of the Singapore Improvement Trust Ordinance. A spokesman for the Society told The Standard yesteiday
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  • 47 6 S' PORE SINDHI MERCHANTS THE following were elected office-bearers of the Singapore Sindhi Merchants Association: Messrs: K. R. Assomull, chairman; B. H. Melwani Vice-Chairman; K. Kishinchand, hon. secretary; L. Parmanand, joint secretary, K.A.J. Chotirmall, Treasurer; Committee: Messrs: G Assanmall, K.K. Harjani, W Hassaram and Khemchand and Sons.
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  • 88 6 MR. AND MRS MARTIN LOUIS PETER, after their marriage at the Church of Our Lady of Lourcles. m Singapore, recently. Mr. Peter is an employee of the City Council Water Department and second son of Mr. and Mrs. F.J. Peter of Singapore. The bride is the daughter
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  • 37 6 MR. K. ATCHU MENON. second son of State Councillor, Dr. N. K. Menon. arrived m Penang yesterday by the Corfu after having been called to the bar m London. He studied law at Lincoln's Inn.
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  • 128 6 NEED FOR SCIENCE TEACHERS THERE is an urgent need m Singapore secondary schools for more science teachers, says a leading article m the first issue of the St. Joseph's Institution "Science and Mathematics Society" magazine, published yesterday. "We need teachers who are trained m the basic sciences to guide and
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 983 6 Vi l\ JnTTTWf PORT SWETTENHAM I re\: Yam Yong Piew 2.30. 7 and LIBERAL SOCIALIST PARTY: 9p m Opening of Tanah Merah Branch, no CIAD Somapah Road 3 pm. HIUI* 3lnn KATONG CLUB (of YWCA): RFX Bomhpr R= 2 12 nn ?in ft ?n Crafts at 29. Amber Road 4.30
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  • 457 7 Beauty With 2 Degrees J Jinny meets a 4CCEPT your husband H he is and do not tr\ to change him. This b the advice given by Mrs. Maureen Liew, who is happily married to a Singapore Police Inspector. "Do not expect too much of your husband, accept his shortcomings.
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  • 1063 7  - Beauty drilling is killing! Marjorie Proops Aom JT was like a terrible nightmare one of those cold-sweat nightmares when you're being chased but your feet are held down with lead weights and you can't get away. "Stop, stop," I yelled m my nightmare, hoping I would wake up and find
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  • 463 7  -  Gloria Gordon advises £l love her because she's such a happy person' YOU'd hardly expect A the "World's Great Lover" to be an expert on marriage. But Italian heart-throb Rossano Brazzi, current holder of that title, has been happily married to the same woman for
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • 206 9 Fall In Britain's Overseas Trade BRITAIN'S overseas trade dropped slightly last month, according to latest figures issued by the Board ol Trade m London. Imports fell b y over £10,000,000 to £310.600,000 and exports by £12,500,000 to £265,500.000. Re-exports were of the value of $11,800,000. Sources of imports m last
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  • 96 9 A NOTED British scientist, Dr. Edward Allibone, is due m Singapore on Wednesday for a day's stopover m the Colony before going on to Australia. Dr. Allibone is Director of Associated Electrical Industries Research laboratory. and Director of Research for Siemens Edison Swan Ltd. He is
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  • 214 9 KLM profit last year was lower than previous year, according to the airline company's annual report for 1957 just released. Although profit last year was lower, total revenue was higher than m the previous year. The report showed profit for 1957 at 22.800,000 fls.
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  • 70 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Federal Customs and Excise Department collected revenue totalling $34,256,650 last month. Import duty amounted to $23,270,643 and duty on export $10,328,925. Excise duties totalled $570.--738. miscellaneous duties $86,343. Major revenue from import duty were petrol ($5,293,031), tobacco, cigars and cigarettes ($8,785,410), textiles ($1,396--345),
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  • 49 9 THE appointment of Mr. J. W. Dick as Singapore representative of Marconi International Marine Communication Co.. Ltd. has been announced m London. Mr. Dick will shortly take over from Mr. J. I. Morse, who is now on leave m the U.K. following an extensive foreign tour.
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  • 60 9 HARD COKE from brown coal, a product that is eminently suited for smelting of high grade steel, will be produced m Victoria, Australia, shortly from a plant of the State Government's Gas and Fuel Corporation. It is expected that production will lead to new industries
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  • 60 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes m its rates to merchants on Saturday: Canada: buying. T.T. 31-7/8. O.D. 32, 90 days airmail 32-5/16 credit bills. 32-7/8 trade bills. Selling rates. T.T. or O.D. ready were: Swiss Francs 141--7/8: French Francs *****: Belgian Francs 1613-1/2: Deutsche
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  • 28 9 THE UNION of South Africa has set the minimum average reserve price for wool at 40 cents per pound for the remainder of the 1957-1958 season.
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  • 237 9 BUSINESS done m share from Ma y 17 to 23: Industrials: Federal Dispensary $103. Fraser and Neave Ords. $2.50 and $2.51. Gammon (M) Limited $2.02 and $2.05. Gammon Rights 45 cents to 48 cents, Hongkong Bank (H.K.) S4I2J, Hume Industries 5 c f Prefs. A.4/9. Jackson and Co.
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  • 311 9 COMPANY REPORTS British Borneo Petroleum Syndicate Ltd. For the year ended March 31 1958, a profit of 92.9% was earned and a dividend of l/7d. per stock unit, free of tax. has been recommended. Net liquid assets at balancing date were equal to 15/ld. per 6/-d. unit. Estate Trust Agencies
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  • 237 9 A BRITISH firm with a long experience of making plants to preserve timber from the ravages of insects have ieceived an order from the utilisation branch of the Forestry Department m Takoradi. Ghana The plant will be built and exported later this year, and will
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  • 553 9 TURNOVER IN SHARES IMPROVES No Definite Trend In Industrials By A Market Correspondent TURNOVER on the local share market was slightly higher than m the preceding week, but with a distinct tailing off towards the close. No definite trend developed m the Industrial section, where rises and
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  • 99 9 AN adverse balance of $67,600,000 was recorded for Malaya's foreign trade m April, with imports at 5370.2 million and exports at $302.6 million, according to preliminary figures. The position m the first four months of this year, also showed an unfavourable balance, with
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  • 185 9 Copra Price High In Colony COPRA arrivals during the week total only 800 tons, and local values have m consequence iemained steady at the exceptionally high levels which have prevailed heie since the Indonesian rebellion started, says Lewis Peat (Singapore) Ltds weekly produce report. There was fair buying inte- i
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  • 81 9 Samples of the finest products from 60 countries era being packed for .shipment to their respective homes as exhibitors at the second worid trade fair held m New York prepare to leave the Coliseum. Mr. Charles Snitow, president of the fair, said the 11--day exposition, which
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  • 133 9 K.L. Stop For This Air Route QANTAS/BOAC plane*, the "Kangaroo Route" between Australia and the United Kingdom will m future call at Kuala Lumpur. The service will be inaugurated on June 7, when a Qantas Super-Constellation will land at Kuala Lumpur at 8.45 a.m. and depart one hour later for
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  • 21 9 TOTAL cargo handled by vessels at Singapore "roads" and wharves totalled 4.683.080 tons for first quarter of this year.
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  • 35 10 THE Singapore Asian Games Contingent is seen m this United Press picture parading past the Emperor's stand at the opening ceremony of the Third Asian Games m Tokyo on Saturday.
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  • 424 10  -  KEN JALLEH By Football, Hockey Teams Lose In Opening Fixtures Malaya 1 Nationalist China 2 TOKYO, Sun. Don't think of this socre Malaya down 2—l against Nationalist China but think of the manner the Malayans held the Chinese who are freely tipped m this city to retain
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  • 1199 10 Men's S Track 400 METRES HURDLES A. Ist. Heat: 1. Tsai Cheng Fu, (China), 53.0, 2. Hirokazu Yasuda (Japan), 3. Jagdev Singh. (India), (all qualify). B. Ist. Heat: Mohammad Yaqub. (Pakistan*. 52.9 sec, 2. Keiji Ogushi, (Japan), 3. Yang Chuan Kuang (China), (.all qualify). 100
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  • 177 10 YESTERDAY was a Black Sunday for Malayan athletes competing m the Third Asian Games. They lost the opening matches m practically all the major events soccer, hockey, weightlifting and athlet They started the day with a shocking and humiliating defeat at hockey where the unheard of South
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  • 83 10 OON CHONG TEIK. who recently returned from England to try and gain a place m Malaya's Thomas Cup badminton team, was ordered by the medical adviser, Dr. G. K. Lim. to take a week's rest. He pulled an abdominal muscle during a practice
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  • 177 10 A. DEWS SKITTLES PERAK A DEVASTATING spell by Arthur Dews who took len wickets for 49 run* gave Selangor an overwhelming innings victory over Perak m the inter-state cricket league match here toda\ Selangor earned ten points from this match after failing to get the bonus points which us awarded
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  • 263 10 TOKYO. May 25 (AFP> At the end of the first day of the 3rd Asian Games, Japan had bagged a total of nine medals and was far ahead of the runner up. Nationalist Chin* which had four medals Japan's Osamu Inoue his own Asia Games recothe
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 57 10 DIARY FOR 2nd DAY TOKYO. May 25. AFP >— Programme for tomorrow, Monday, May 26 Events: (Malayan Time) Athletics 3 15 p.m. Football 4.00 p m. 6.00 p.m. Cycling 2.00 p.m. Hockey 12.30 p.m. Weightlifting 11.00 a.m. Wrestling 12.00 roon Basketball 12.40 p.m. Volleyball 1230 p.m. Shooting: Rifle Clay 11.00
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  • 796 11  -  KEN JALLEH By We Were Robbed Hockey Officials TOKYO, Sun. The word is SHOCKING! It is a word wnich applies to the Federation of Malaya hockey team's performance against debut-makers Korea m the opening match of the Third Asian Games which started ofi today. Malaya lost
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  • 100 11 Chew Bee Keeps Our Flag Flying ONG CHEW BEE kept Singapore's flag flying to ealn the third round of i-ian Games tennis tournament when he beat Kil In Hyung of South 6-4. 7-5. Chew Bee ousted ForKao Teng Ro 8-6. 7-5 m the first round of UK tournament. Two other
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  • 109 11 BRILLIANT 106 not out Fong Weng gave Garden Sports Club etory over Young -ociation m a >r tournament match on Garden yesterday. Gardeners declared at •He and then bundled c opposition for a paltry ingi. RAF Changi B 3AF Seletar "A drew. Changi 121 »Saunders 56.
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  • 195 11 Lone Survivor A Miss EXCEPT for Kedah's Miss Tan Fong Tin, Malayan runners were wipp.d out m the heats for four events at today's athletic meeting m the main stadium. Fong Tin, third m the 200 metres women's heats, returned 27.4 sees, finishing three yards behind secondplaced Regelia Ferrer of
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  • Article, Illustration
    67 11 RESULTS of the Bogey competition played m the Royal Island Club yesterday are as follows:Winner M A" Div. Mrs A Murchison. runner-up Mrs. E McMullan. Winner "B" Div. Mrs. Brom ley-Davenport, runnerlup Mrs E. Sryer. N. X. Leceister 3-down won the replay of the men's medal "C" Div.
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  • 116 11 Fook Seng Sets Lift Record SINGAPORE'S Ow Fook Seng missed the medal he had so confidently expected to win when he finished fifth m the flyweight division of the Asian Games weightlifting championships yesterday. He, however, had the consolation of creating a new Asian press record of 187.40 lbs. Ow's
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  • 139 11 JOHN KIRKHAM of the S.C.C. slaughtered the Police batsmen with a spell of eight wickets for two runs m yesterday's senior tournament match at Thomson Road. His analysis was 10.4 9 —2 —8. Singapore Cricket Club, the present leaders, won by eight wickets. Heavy rain m
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  • 20 11 RAJ AJI Sports Club trounced Perhimponan Stia 7-0. m the SAFA Div. 3A league match at Geylang yesterday.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 277 12 AHMEDABAD, India, May 25, (Reuter) Indian customs men are using frogmen to beat smugglers m a treasure hunt m the Arabian Sea, off the 200- mile coast of Saurashtra. The search follows the detention of two Arab dhows which were found to
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    • 91 12 Moon Trip Forecast For 1963 WASHINGTON. May 25 (Reuter)— A United States "man m the moon by 1963" was forecast by an official of the Atlas Missile Company m San Diego. California. It would need "less than a thousand million dollars lor the development and construction of the rockets and
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    • 68 12 A DEMONSTRATION of Moslem women outside the Government Building m Algiers was personally attended by General Massu (left) and M. Soustelle. The women gathered outside the building; to demonstrate their loyalty to the military junta. In a traditional gesture they dropped their tails as a sign of
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    • 33 12 SACK DRESSES should be banned m banks because "'a half day's deposits could be carried off m one of those maternity bags," a business consultant told New Jersey bankers. Reuter.
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    • 326 12 General Call-Up Demanded As Cabinet Meets TUNIS, Tunisia, May 25, (UPl)— Violent fighting broke out yesterday between Tunisian soldiers And French troops stationed at Remada m Southern Tunisia, Government sources said last night. President Habib Bourguiba immediately called an urgent cabinet meeting at Dar-el-Bey palace. The political
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    • 181 12 MANILA, May 25, (AFP)— The United States Government has virtually agreed to grant the Philippines a long term loan of about U*****,000,000 for the general development of this country, informed quarters asserted today. The announcement will be made simultaneously m Washington and Manila m the middle
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    • 171 12 Two Days To Fight Giant Oil Fire LONG BEACH. California, May 25, (LTPI). The multimillion dollar Hancock Oil Co. refinery fire on Signal Hill was officially controlled yesterday, two full days after it erupted with a series of explosions. Frank Sandeman, Long Beach Fire Department chiel, said a large crew
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    • 94 12 BASINGSTOKE, England. May 25 (Reuter)— Mrs. Irne Carpenter, 34 y e a r old mother of three children, has been told that she will have four more m September. Mrs. Carpenter said she learned she would have quads after being X-rayed. "I certainly was
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    • 81 12 PARIS, May 25 (UPI) A young Belgian, Ivan Schaaf, was sentenced to five years m prison yesterday for slaying the Japanese pen-pal who refused to marry him. Schaaf was convicted of the murder of Setsuko Terramoto daughter of an Air Force general who came here
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    • 133 12 ROME, May 25 (UP) Samuel Cardinal Stritch "does not have much time," his doctors said today after the Cardinal received Communion after a night during which he hovered between life and death. The 70-year-old Chicago prelate was given Communion by Father Antino Boerio. "He held
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    • 56 12 WASHINGTON, May 25 (AFP)— The American Government has chosen three professors to represent the United States at the technical talks with the Soviet Union which President Eisenhower yesterday proposed should be held soon m Geneva, the State Department announced. They are Professors James Brown Fisk,
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    • 204 12 UNITY IN KOREA AND VIETNAM URGED WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuter) Senator Mike Mansfield, one of the leading Foreign Affairs spokesman of the Democratic Party, called today for a gradual breakdown of the rigid social, economic and political separations m Korea and Vietnam. In a speech prepared for delivery m the
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    • 64 12 NEW YORK, May 25 (AFP) Former President Harry Truman said on Saturday: "Sometimes I think France is about to fall to pieces." Truman and his wife had bought tickets for a cruise through the Mediterranean. Truman said: "I hope the disastrous situation m France does not
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    • 119 12 NEW DELHI, May 25 (Reuters—Mrs. Virginia Teneyck Momand. an American tourist here, has bought a 35-year-old female elephant as a pet to take home to Williamsville. Vermont. "I just love elephants," she said when a huntsman from Muzaffarnagar. north of Delhi, turned up at her luxury hotel
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    • 74 12 MERRIER MARRIAGES BY ORDER MOSCOW May 2.» (UPI) Russian depart ment stores cot order* yesterday to make >' weddings merry. Minister of Trarir Dmitry Pavilo\ ore.the department open special "wco departments" for sale of Knuns, r wedding cakes and all the other trimmings. He also issued instriu tions to marriage
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    • 155 12 WASHINGTON. May 25 (Reuter) State Dc; ment officials said yestc: that more than a million sons have disappeared m Soviet Union m the pa> or 15 years. The officials had been uked to dabc: made by an Assi.-tam S« tary of State, Mr. An<Berding. He had
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    • 182 12 BUENOS AIRES. May 25 (Reuter)— The identity of a submarine attacked by the Argentine Navy off the Argentine coast remained a mystery today, but there was speculation as to whether it might be one powered by atomic energy. President Arturo Frondizi told a Press conference
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