Singapore Standard, 4 June 1958

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    21 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Coble "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1958 Vol. VIII. No. 336 15 cts. 14 Pages [FINAL EDITION]
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    Lock icon 1,000 PUPILS STRIKE
    625 1 TROUBLE FLARES UP AGAIN IN PENANG Teachers, Principal Taken By Surprise At The Han Chiang PENANG, Tues.— Student trouble flared up at the Han Chiang High School today when about 1,000 students, mostly from the Junior Middle Third, staged a sit-down demonstration in the school hall for
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    Lock icon UK STRIKERS INTENSIFY BOYCOTT OF FOOD SHIPS
    323 1 UK STRIKERS INTENSIFY BOYCOTT OF FOOD SHIPS Fruit 4nc/ VegefaWe Wor/cers Join In LONDON, June 3 (Reuter) London dock strikers intensified the impact of their boycott of food ships today by blacklisting incoming freighters diverted to other ports. Threats to Britain's food supplies grew as the three weeks' London dispute
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    Lock icon 327 LOVE LETTERS TO MARGARET
    89 1 327 LOVE LETTERS TO MARGARET LAHORE, Pakistan, June 3 (UPI) Schoolmaster Bashire Ahmed waited impatiently in the Lahore Telegraph Office today for his telephone call to be put through to Princess Margaret in London. He wanted to ask for her hand in marriage. Ahmed, 47 years' old and the father
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    Lock icon CHOLERA RISES
    26 1 PUBLIC health officials reported yesterday that cholera cases since May 23 have exceeded 800 in Thailand while the death toll mounted to 144. Reuter
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    Lock icon THIRD BATTLE OF RAMADA BEGINS
    149 1 TUNIS, June 3 (Reuter) French and Tunisian troops fought through the night in the Tunisian southern desert, near Ramada, in what was described by Tunisians as one of the fiercest outbreaks so far of the present violence. The "third battle of Ramada" broke out yesterday
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    Lock icon Soviet Can Reach Mars By Rocket
    109 1 Soviet Can Reach Mars By Rocket VIENNA, June 3 (Reuter) The Soviet Union can already send unmanned rockets to Mars, the President Space Travel, Mr. Sedov. announced in an interview with the Hungarian periodical Magyar Ifusag. Mr. Sedov declared that in the near future the Soviet satellites would be equipped
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    Lock icon PIA BAN LIFTED
    24 1 THE ban on the Indonesian news agency P.I.A. will be lifted today, it was officially announced in Jakarta on Tuesday.- AFP
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    Lock icon De Gaulle Now Gets All The Powers He Wants
    438 1 De Gaulle Now Gets All The Powers He Wants PARIS, June 3 (UPI) Gen. Charles de Gaulle today won final approval of all the sweeping powers he demanded for the next six months to put a crisis-racked France back on her feet, unhampered by parliamentary inteiferenee. He won his victory
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    Lock icon PROTEST IN CLASSROOM
    38 1 STUDENTS of the Han Chiang High School in Green Lane, Penang, who staged a mass demonstration in the school hall yesterday, in protest against the promotion exam and the dismissal of two students. Standard pic
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    Lock icon BIG SWITCH OF 6,500 REFUGEES IN CEYLON
    206 1 BIG SWITCH OF 6,500 REFUGEES IN CEYLON COLOMBO, June 3 (Reuter) Six ships carrying 4,500 Tamil refugees to their homeland in northern Jaffna peninsula left here at dawn today in one of the biggest operations involving the movement of population ever undertaken by the Ceylon Government. The convoy will skirt
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    Lock icon REBEL TOWN IS CAPTURED
    37 1 JAKARTA. June 3 (Reuter) Jakarta Radio said today Jailolo, a rebel stronghold in the north of Halmahera Island, had fallen at dawn tc government forces. There were no government casualties, the Radio said.
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    Lock icon Sultan Arrives In London
    52 1 LONDON, June 3 (Reuter) The ailing Sultan of Johore, 84, arrived here by boat from Singapore yesterday to consult a specialist. Sir Ibrahim, who has been in poor health for two months, said he would go on to Switzerland for treatment and stay in Europe for
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    Lock icon EARL ATTLEE
    21 1 EARL Attlee, former British Labour Prime Minister, who underwent a hernia operation last month, left a London hospital yesterday.
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    Lock icon Nehru's Party Lose A Seat
    72 1 NEW DELHI. June 3 (UPI) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Congress party lost a by-election today for a parliamentary seat formerly held by Nehru's chief aide, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, who died recently. Independent Shastri, supported by the orthodox Jansang won by 30,000 votes over the
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    Lock icon BOER VETERAN
    36 1 MR. Johan Philip Launspach, a member of the Boer Force which captured Sir Winston Churchill in the South African War of 1900-01. has died in Springs, South Africa, at the age of 87. Reuter
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    Lock icon PAY-OFF FOR H.K. DOCKYARD MEN
    129 1 HONGKONG, June 3, (Reuter). The Commodore Superintendent of the Naval Dockyard today announced bigger long service benefits for the staff who will lose their jobs under the rundown scheme. The Commodore said that the Admiralty which decided to close the dockyard by the end of
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    Lock icon 5,000 Refugees In Communist China
    119 1 HONGKONG, June 3 (Reuter) More than 5.004 European refugees who are still in Communist China awaiting resettlement abroad are having a "very difficult time." A special representative of the United Nations Refugees Office Mr. K.H. Summers said today they would not be given Hongkong transit
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    Lock icon 19 DIE IN LAGOON
    38 1 NINETEEN people drowned in Lagos lagoon, Nigeria, on Monday night when a passen-ger-carrying motor cano« collided with an anchored lightship and capsized. There were seven survivors, and seven more persons are still missing. <— AFP
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    Lock icon SEAMEN'S CLAIM REJECTED
    313 2 SEAMEN 'S CLAIM REJECTED Employers Say 'No' To 'Danger Money' Demand THE Singapore Maritime Employers Federation, yesterday turned down a claim f r danger zone allowance from seamen working on ships plying between the Colony and Indonesia. Che Federation, however, agreed to increase the insurance cover rates laid down by
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    Lock icon 'BUSMAN'S' HOLIDAY FOR HER
    92 2 AN Australian Kindergarten teacher, Miss Janet Ferguson, is flying round the world on a vacation, as well as to give her father a helping hand in his business. Miss Ferguson and her father. Mr. G. A. Ferguson, arrived in Singapore yesterday by QantasBOAC from Sydney for
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    Lock icon 'A Tiger On The Loose' -Councillor
    130 2 ALOR STAR, Tues. A nominated member of the Perlis State Council. Mr. Gurcharn Singh, in his adjournment speech, today accused the government of "letting loose the tiger in the town to devour the tenants." because he said, these tenants have been left at the
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    Lock icon PARTY FOR LONDON VISITOR
    144 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— More than 70 people, including the Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, and members of the Diplomatic Corps attended a reception last night at the Lake Club here to honour of Mr. A. D. Bonham Carter, a member of the Board of Directors of
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    Lock icon Date Fixed For Murder Inquiry
    166 2 Date Fixed For Murder Inquiry KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— A packed court house today saw the eleven youths tentatively charged with the murder of the young Kuala Lumpur teacher, Stephen Fonseka, when they were produced before Magistrate Inche Abdul Rani who fixed the preliminary inquiry for June 26. The youths were:
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    Lock icon NO MAHJONG FOR MALAYS
    99 2 ALOR STAR, Tues.— Perlis State Councillors, who met today to discuss a motion to ban Mahjong in the State, as un?ed by the Alliance Councillor, Inche Mahayuddin bin Dato Habib, unanimously agreed that only Malays should be barred from participating in the game. The State Secretary,
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    Lock icon Student Sent For Month's Observation
    131 2 PENANG, Tues. Magistrate Inche Nik Hussain bin Nik Ali, today ordered a Singapore student, Lim 800 Keat. to be kept under observation for a month. Lim was alleged to have attempted to extort $30 from Teow Lee Seng, by putting him in fear of injury
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    Lock icon HK EXCHANGE
    37 2 HONGKONG. June 3. Soecial Standard Service: Closing r>rices of the Hongkong Exchange were: 51 6.06 to £1 Sterling $5.***** to US$l; $1,845 to Malayan $1; $0,087 to one Indonesian Ruoiah; Gold $252,125 to a tael.
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    Lock icon GUARD AGAINST CHOLERA WARNING
    90 2 SINGAPORE'S Acting City Health Officer, Dr J. Cameron yesterday urged the public to take precautions against cholera in the Colony. Dr. Cameron said although there was little danger of rholera in Singapore it would be always worth while to take simple precautions. He said the epidemic
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    Lock icon THEY MARRIED IN MADRAS
    86 2 MR. AND MRS. G. RAMACHANDRAN, who were married in Madras recently, held a reception at the Sea View Hotel, Singapore, on Monday night for a host of relatives and friends. Mr. Ramachandran is a son of Singapore merchant, philanthropist and community leader Mr. P. Govindasamy Filial
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    Lock icon POLICE CLERK IS FINED $250 FOR RASH DRIVING
    312 2 POLICE CLERK IS FINED $250 FOR RASH DRIVING A POLICE clerk, Jaffar bin Aziz, was yesterday fined $250 when he was found guilty by the Singapore Sixth Magistrate, Mr. M. Coomaraswamy, for driving, rasniy in a manner likely to cause hurt to Reverend A. C. Davidson. Rev. Davidson told the
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    Lock icon Penghulus Want Govt. Quarters
    103 2 IPOH, Tues. Perak penghulus are to ask Government to provide quarters for them, especially those stationed in the rural areas. This decision was taken at their conference in Ipoh last Sunday. Of the 163 penghulus throughout the State, only those living in and around the towns
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    Lock icon LEE LIKES DISPUTED CLAUSE – UMNO
    260 2 LEE LIKES DISPUTED CLAUSE UMNO THE secretary-genr > the Peoples' Action P.Mr. Lee Kuan Yew to be in a dilemma subversive clause, ing to the Inform* Officer of the Malays National Orga: tion, Inche Darius Shanff. Inche Shariff ing on Mr. Lee during an interv. Paya Lebar airoor turn from
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    Lock icon 6 Months For Fisting PC
    66 2 TELOK ANSON, Tues. P. Munusamy, 18. an odd-job labourer who punched a policeman in the left eg* was yesterday sentenced t< months' jail by MagisTu an Syed Othman bin A.. It was alleged thai constable on duty saw Munusamy standing near the fence and challenging
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    Lock icon TEACHER'S WEDDING
    36 2 MR. LIM HARK YEE. a teacher attached to Chong Hwa High School. Kluang. and his bride the former Miss Yeo Lee Choon of Batu Pahat. pictured after their wedding on Sunday at Batu Pahat.
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    Lock icon Kampar Fun Fair Nets $6,000
    55 2 KAMPAR, Tues. About $6,000 was raised from the proceeds of a fun fair held last Saturday in aid of the Kampar Women's Institute, the Boys Scouts' Association, and the Old Pudils of the AngloChinese School here. The fair was opened by Mr. R. L. L.
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    Lock icon LIB-SOC BRANCH
    26 2 THE Bukit Batok D of the Liberal Socialist will hold an extraor general meeting today at 8 p «< at No. 1, Elizabeth Drive, Singapore
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  • EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
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      Lock icon 'If, and When' Pledge
      456 3 THE PAP delegate to the constitutional talks in Britain, Assemblyman Lee Kuan Yew, was the only one of the four members of the All-Party Mission who returned to Singapore on Monday to elaborate on what he said in London. Pressed to clarify his views on the
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      Lock icon Child Welfare in Asia
      384 3 HISTORY was mode in Singapore lost week when the first ever Asian Regional Paedriaric Conference was held here. In simple language, the term "paedriatics" means the study of child welfare from infancy to pre-school age. The problems that are studied are those relating to nutrition and
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    Lock icon The Fear In France
    1115 3  -  NORA BELOFF "The call for General de Gaulle today is the wail of frightened children seeking a nanny's hand in the dark" says PARIS *yHE Fourth Republic is being devoured by a Fran- kenstein monster of its own creation: the swollen and adulated Army, led by
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    Lock icon Laotian Lesson For Asia
    1021 3  -  DENNIS BLOODWORTH By yHE Western bloc has suffered a severe set back in Laos, where die neo Lao Haksat proCommunist Pat r i otic Party of Prince Souphannouvong and its allies has won 13 out of 21 seats in nation-wide supplementary elections. The sweeping victory of
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    Lock icon the NEWS as it Strikes me
    497 3 the NEWS as it Strikes me INDEPENDENT Malaya, to- day. observes a new holiday the official birthday of His Majesty the Yang diPertuan Agong. It is to be observed with a military parade, in keeping with the tradition set by Britain. For the first time the spectators will see the
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    Lock icon Give Me Your Full Support – Mayor
    206 4 Give Me Your Full Support Mayor MAYOR of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, yesterday called on a meeting of City Council supervisors, chief clerks, secretaries *nd idvisers to extend to dim their full co-operation in implementing the new policy of the Council. Heads of Departments and senior officers who turned
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    Lock icon OPEN VERDICT
    42 4 THE Assistant Coroner. Inche Ahmad Hussein, yesterday returned an open verdict after the inquest on a Singapore clerk, Chang Chong Kim. 31, who was killed when he was knocked down by a car in Upper Serangoon Road on April 6.
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    Lock icon NEW WAR AGAINST T.B. IN COLONY
    318 4 NEW WAR AGAINST T.B. IN COLONY Braga Launches Campaign To End The Scourge SINGAPORE'S Health Minister, Mr. A. J. Braga last night announced the launching of a new campaign to detect and eradicate the scourge of tuberculosis in the Color y. Speakmg over Radio Malaya, Mr. Braga told 4 .he
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    Lock icon CHRONIC CASES WILL BE BARRED
    68 4 CHRONIC CASES WILL BE BARRED THE Kwong Wai Siu Free Hospital will not admit incurable and chronic cases, such as paralysis advanced and inoperable cancer, and other diseases, with effect from June 1, because of shortage of accommodation. The admission of other cases will be entirely the discretion of the
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    Lock icon A REMINDER FOR COLONY CALL-UP MEN
    174 4 SINGAPORE National Servicemen, who have received medical notices, were yesterday reminded to appear at the General Hospital Out-patients department or at the Tan Took Seng Hospital Rotary Clinic on Monday and Tuesday between 5 .and 7 p.m. for medical examination. Those who have received
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    Lock icon AVIATION KNOW-HOW
    33 4 IN MELBOURNE, Mr. R. D. Phillips, Assistant Director-General (Administration) of the Australian Department of Civil Aviation (left) outlines to Mr. Cheong the network of 104.000 miles of air routes in Australia.
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    Lock icon Honour For Teachers Painting
    102 4 THE painting of a Singapore art teacher is one of the works of art in the "Holiday" International Art exhibition which is now on tour in the United States. The painting, "Water Fountain in Singapore," done in oils, is by Mr. Chang Wee Kao. an art
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    Lock icon BAIL GRANTED
    41 4 TAN Tong Seng, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to extort from Liew Man Guan by putting him in fear of injury at Jalan Senyum on May 25, was yesterday allowed bail by a Singapde Court.
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    Lock icon LABOURER JAILED FOR ROBBERY
    204 4 LABOURER JAILED FOR ROBBERY AN 18-year-old labourer, Teo Cheng Chua, was yesterday found guilty In the Singapore Assize Court of two charges of gang robbery. Mr. Justice Buttrose deferred sentence till June 20. pending reports from the Commissioner of Prisons and from a probation officer. The court was told that
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    Lock icon Colony Man Studies Aussie Air Control
    236 4 AN OFFICIAL of Singapore's Department of Civil Aviation, Mr. Cheong Pak Chow, is now In Australia attending a course on aviation control. Mr. Cheong, who left the Colony for Australia in January this year, is undergoing a six-month observation course under the auspices of
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    Lock icon K.L. MANAGER WEDS
    54 4 MR. Chan Kok Swee, manager of Oversea Traders' Ltd.. Kuala Lumpur, helps his bride, the former Miss Tan May Ying, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tan Yew Lai of Kuala Lumpur, to cut their wedding cake. The reception was held at the Chinwu Auditorium on Sunday. Standardpic
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    Lock icon MOTHER OF THREE TO FACE A MURDER CHARGE
    293 4 MOTHER OF THREE TO FACE A MURDER CHARGE MOTHER of three, Sal yesterday committed by Si B. 1. Pates to stand tria charge of murder. Salha was accused at a preliminary inquiry of the murder of her sister-in-law. Nia binte YusofT, 23, at her Perak Road home on the morning
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    Lock icon TIP-OFF WAS IGNORED – PROBE STARTS
    131 4 TIP-OFF WAS IGNORED PROBE STARTS SINGAPORE Police conduct an •inquiry" to find out why Joo Chiat Police d:d not take preventive act alter being warned of an impending gang clash in Sims Avenue Community Centre on May 18. In the clash, a ticket seller was knifed to death and another
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    Lock icon Golden Voice' Of Kedah
    51 4 Golden Voice' Of Kedah ALOR STAR, Tues. A Penang girl, Che Siti Nor Shariff, was last night de ed "Miss Golden Voice Kedah" in a contest held The winner for past two years. Miss Made Dason, was runner-up, the niece of Tunku A Rahman Putra, Tunku ABinti Tunku Mohd. Jewa
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    Lock icon PLAN TO LIGHT UP KAMPONGS
    156 4 THE Singapore City Coun- cil is considering a new scheme to provide all kampongs on the island with electricity. The scheme, now being discussed by various com-, mittees. will be implemented in four stages over five years. Council officials estimate that when the scheme is
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    Lock icon MALACCA POLICE SHAKE-UP
    227 5 Move To Tighten Co-Ordination In Anti-Crime Fight MALACCA, Tues. The Police Force here is being thoroughly re-organized to establish closer co-ordina-tion between various Police departments and officers in its tight against the increasing theft, robbery and secret society aciivities, acting Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department, Inspector
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    Lock icon NO SPECIAL HONOURS FOR KING'S BIRTHDAY
    148 5 NO SPECIAL HONOURS FOR KING'S BIRTHDAY KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong celebrates his birthtomorrow but there be no special Birthday Honours for his subjects. It will be recalled that durhe Merdeka celebrations. is announced that honwould only be awarded ng the annual celebrais of Malaya's Indepen- e. Although
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    Lock icon PENGHULUS TO ACT AS MEDIATORS
    172 5 IPOH. Tues.— The Malay education crisis between the Education Ministry and the Federation of Malaya Malay Teachers Association will be discussed at a special meeting of the Penghulus Association to be held in Kuala Lumpur on June 8. Tuan Haji Abdul Hamid Fadil of Johore,
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    Lock icon SPECIAL JURY TO BE CALLED ON MERITS OF A CASE
    273 5 SPECIAL JURY TO BE CALLED ON MERITS OF A CASE oii^vj^x^rvi^ nigu vuun juu^c, aix. justice duitrose, yesterday said that every application for a special jury to be empanelled would be considered on its merits and in the light of facts and circumstances surrounding the particular r* Mr. Justice Buttrose
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    Lock icon 'Be Nice To Her,' Judge Tells Man
    99 5 IPOH. Tues. A woman, Meenachi Animal, told Magistrate Ibrahim bin Abaul Manan today that her 25--year-old son, who had just been released from prison, assaulted her when she refused to give him money. P. Subramaniam was summoned by his mother, Meenachi. for allegedly
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    Lock icon SKELETON FOUND
    32 5 A PARTY of road repairers working on a site opposite the Central Police Station in Carnavon Street, Penang. yesterday, found a human skeleton and reported the matter to the Police.
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    Lock icon SIX REDS GIVE UP
    79 5 SIX terrorists from the Papan-Lahat Armed Work Force surrendered to the Parit Police, 21 miles from Ipoh, last Tuesday. They were led by their leader. Hoi Wan. In the front row are: Cheong Ah Leong, and women terrorists, Chong Thim Coy and Liew Ah Lin. In
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    Lock icon Gen. Cassels Is Briefed On Operations
    125 5 PENANG, Tues. The Director of Emergency Operations, Lieut-General Sir James Cassels, met members of the Operations sub-committee of the State War Executive Committee at Police Headquarters here today and was briefed on the Emergency Operations in Penang. Sir James and party were met on
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    Lock icon Surrender' Your Money Call For A Good Cause
    194 5 Surrender' Your Money Call For A Good Cause IPOH, Tues. Hundreds of leaflets calling for the "surrender" of money for a good cause, rather than the more usual aim of "surrender of personnel from a lost cause," are to be air-dropped over Ipoh and its environs on Friday and Saturday.
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    Lock icon BAN ON FRUIT
    33 5 THE Federation Government has decided in view of the recent outbreak of cholera in Thailand and Cambodia to prohibit all entry of fresh fruits, fluids and foodstuffs from these countries.
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    Lock icon Woman Gets Back Her Fowls
    156 5 IPOH, Tues. Magistrate Ibrahim bin Abdul Manan today granted the request of a woman, Teoh Chooi Pheow who said she needed the nine fowls concerned in a case, for a "feast." Teoh was the owner of the fowls in a case in which a taxi
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    Lock icon 'Chambers Should Watch World Events'
    302 5 'Chambers Should Watch World Events' BATU PAHAT, Tues. Although the primary responsibility of a chamber of commerce was to look after the immediate interests of its members, it should also cast its attention to happenings in the outside world, said the Controller of Trade Division, Malaya, Raja Mohar bin Raja
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    Lock icon City Council To Re-Issue Final Notices
    103 5 City Council To Re-Issue Final Notices PENANG, Tues.— The City Council has decided to reissue final notices for all bills issued after May 31. Consumers will however, not get the notice if their bills have been settled by the due date shown. The Council warns that bills must be paid
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    Lock icon $40,000 SCIENCE CENTRE
    70 5 MRS. CELESTE AMSTUTZ, wife of Bishop Hobart B. Amstutz, Methodist Bishop for South-East Asia, cuts a ribbon before declaring open the new $40,000 Domestic Science Centre of the Anglo-Chinese Girls* School, Ipoh, last Friday. Looking on are the Principal, Miss D. N. Moreira (with bouquet) and a
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    Lock icon MR. HILL LEAVING COLONY FOR GOOD
    251 6 MR. HILL LEAVING COLONY FOR GOOD THE Singapore City Treasurer, Mr. J. R. Hill, will leave the Colony on Saturday with his wife and son for good. Mr. Hill, who retires after 23 years ot service to the Colony, first joined the then Municipality as an Assistant Treasurer in May
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    Lock icon JUNE 14 SACK FOR 200 ARMY MEN
    361 6 JUNE 14 SACK FOR 200 ARMY MEN It's The Final Extension, Says Command Chief THE Army authorities in Singapore yesterday extended dismissal notices served on 200 civilian employees of the British Army in the Federation until June 14. They were scheduled to terminate their services on Juntj 1. The decision
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    Lock icon BLIND TRIAD MAN JAILED
    129 6 BLIND TRIAD MAN JAILED A 53 YEAR-OLD blind man. Tan Hong Piew. described as the com-mander-in-chief of the notorious Ang Bin Huay triad society, was yesterday sentenced to six months' jail by the Singapore Third District Court for being a member of a society which was not registered in accordance
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    Lock icon Rubber Packers End Strike
    66 6 MORE than 140 rubber packers employed by Messrs. Kian Hin Company. Singapore, who staged a "wildcat" strike on Monday returned to work yesterday. They were warned by the firm on Monday that if they failed to return to work within 48 hours their services would be
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    199 6 'NO SEAT FOR M.I.C IS BAD TASTE' PENANG, Tues. The vice president of tc e Penang Hill branch of Ihe Malayan Indian Congress, Mr. D. Santhana Dass, in a statement today declared that although the Alliance victory at the Malacca elections was a happy event, it was still 'bad taste"
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    310 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Estate labourers are now getting nearly seven times the wage rates they were paii before the war, clerks, conductors and dressers are getting about four times their prewar salaries, and the managing staff are getting twice what they received in 1939.
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    198 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A special competition for local vegetables at this year's Malayan Agri Horticultural Association exhibition is expected to prove highly popular with Malay, Chinese and Indian gardeners, it was announced today. The M.A.H.A. said the entrants will be able to compete with other
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    128 6 THE Singapore City Council received more than 1,000 applications when it recently advertised ten posts of Assistant Markets and Hawkers Inspectors. A Council spokesman last night said that in the selection of candidates, the officials would have to follow a procedure which was
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    129 6 PEOPLES Action Party Assemblyman for Tanjong Pagar Mr. Lee Kuan Yew will move a motion for debate at the next session of the Singapore Legislative Assembly on June 12, calling the Government to take steps to compel the Harbour Board to comply with the recommendations of a
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    38 6 ABOUT $6,000 was raised from the proceeds of a fun fair which was held last Saturday in aid of the Kampar Women's Institute, the Boy Scouts Association, and the Old Pupils of the AngloChinese School. Kampar.
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    302 6 An American family and the wife of a Caltex supervisor, who were on board the Pan American air. liner which skidded at Manila airport, killing a passenger on Monday, arrived in Singapore yesterday. Mrs. Eleanor Spear and her sons, Lonnie Jnr., Gary and Stephen, -and
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    73 6 The Singapore City Council in a statement yesterday said that several people had been swindled by crooks who offered to help expedite the payment of their bills at Council counters The statement said that while people stood in the queue to pay their bills, crooks claiming
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    125 6 Bid To Stop The Sack Fails AN attempt by the Singapore Air Ministry Local Staff Union to use the good offices of the Commander-in-Chief, Far East Air Forces, the Earl of Bandon, to stop the dismissal of 175 redundant civilian employees with the R.A.F. yesterday failed. A nine-man delegation of
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    233 6 Man Is Ordered To Pay Arrears A WASHERMAN, Kok Ah Say was yesterday ordered by the Singapore Sixth Magistrate, Mr. M. Coomaraswamy, to pay the three months' arrears of maintenance which he owed his wife, or go to jail for three months. He was given a week to pay the
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    64 6 MORE than 3.000 Catholics from all over Selangor on Saturday gathered at the St. John's Cathedral in Kuala Lumpur to mark the climax of the Miracle of Lourdes Centenary. Here is a front view of a long candle-light procession, which marched to the Convent and back after viewing
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    388 7 Urge By Young People To Get Higher Posts MORE and more Singapore candidates are taking the external academic, semi-professional and professional examinations set by overseas examination bodies. And this year, the Ministry of Education expects that cbout 30,000 to 35,000 candidates will sit for various external
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    156 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were: Bayers Sellers Spot 74i 74} R.S.S. No. 1 73i 73i R.S.S No. 1 (July) 731 738 R.S.S. No. 2 Ilk 71| R.S.S. No. 3 64} 65 Tone: Quietly steady. The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was
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    121 7 SHIP DELAYED BY CREW'S PAY DEMAND THE KPM vessel Lawu which was to have sailed for Timor Deli last Friday is still in Singapore because the crew will not sail unless they receive 50 per cent of their wages as danger allowance. It was learned that the crew had made
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    115 7 CLERK ATTACKED IN SHOP A CLERK, Neo Geok Kee, 22, was attacked by a man wielding a parang in a "funland" shop in Serangoon Road, opposite the Rumah Miskin Police Station, Singapore, last night. Neo, attached to a bicycle firm in Victoria Street, was having a game of miniature football
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    402 7 THE Tengku Mahkota, the Regent of Johore, yesterday complimented the Johore State Home Guard members on their high standard of skill and courage. The Regent was addressing about 250 home guards from all over the State who participated in the annual Weapon Training competition held at
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    30 7 A SINGAPORE taxi driver Said bin Aman, was held up by two passengers and robbed of $15 and a watch worth $40 in Sennett Estate on Monday night.
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    150 9 Shipping Line Starts A New Service THE Nippon Yusen Kaisha Shipping line is to inaugurate a new service from Japanese ports to Black Sea ports, commencing from the end of this month. A spokesman of the NYK Line, in Singapore, told The Standard that the ports of call after Japan
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    38 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday. Selling. T.T. or O.D. ready were: Swiss Francs 141-7/8; French Francs *****; Belgian Francs 1613-J 2. Other exchange ratei remain unaltered
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    198 9 ABOUT one-tenth of European-owned rubber in Malaya has passed Into Asian ownership in the last four years or 10. This estimate is given by Sir Eric Macfadyen, chairman of Rubber Plantation Investment Trust Ltd., in his address circulated with the company's annual report and
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      130 9 OFFICE equipment exports from Britain during the first four months of this year attained a record of over £9,000.000 (1957: £8,900,000). the Office Appliance and Business Equipment Trades Association announced in London recently. A notable feature of machinery exports was an increase in shipments of
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      231 9 WORLD BANK LOANS TO ASIA TOP NEW HIGH WORLD Bank loons fro Asia are topping a new high with more than US$lOO,OOO,OOO ahead of any previous financial year. A United Press report from New York quoting '.he Journal o( Commerce, says with six weeks remaining in the current fiscal year.
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    148 9 RUBBER exporters in several parts of Indonesia now under central Government control can now fulfil their export contracts on permit previously issued by "rebei" authorities, a market source said yesterday The source said this has caused Singapore dealers to expect increased supplies of rubber from
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    126 9 Price Gains 3/8 Cent A RISE of 1 cent was recorded in the Singapore rubber market yesterday when International first grade June shipment closed at 73| cents per lb. The market opened slightly higher and ruled auiet with minor fluctuations and operators awaiting a more definite trend. Lower grade interest
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    89 9 Returns To Take Up Colony Post FORMER station manager of KLM at the old Kallang Airport. Mr. J. Stevens, is back in Singapore after being away from the Colony for 21 years. He is to relieve Mr. W.F. Boddeus, KLM Station Manager at the new International Airport at Paya Lebar.
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    107 9 INDUSTRIALS and tins weie slightly easier in the Malayan share market yesterday. Rubbers were featureless. A small turnover was reported. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Con Tin Smelt: Ords. 25/- 26/Gammon 1.93 1.97 xr Singapore Traction: Ords 25/- 26/Straits Steamship
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    161 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done yesterday Federal Disp. 99c overnight; Fraser and Neave ords $2.47J, $2.47; Gammon $1.96. $1.95; Gammon Rights 47c; Hume prefs A4/9; M Cement $1.30 odd lot. $1.33; M. Colls. 77c: M. Box $1.66 delayed. $1.60 odd lot. $1.65: Sim e Darby
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    38 9 MOSCOW, June 3 (Reuter). Russia is to supply Hungary with goods ranging from iron ore to petrol and cotton under a trade agreement announced here yesterday. In return, Hungary will send machines, ships, fabrics and footwear.
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    30 9 PHILIPPINE exports of copra and coconut oil in the first four months of 1958 totalled 176.922 long tons, oil basis, a decline of one-fifth from January-April 1957 shipments.
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    139 9 Firm Fetes Technical Director MALAYAN Breweries Ltd., and their managing agents, Fraser and Neave Ltd., entertained the technical director of Heinerkens (Holland), Mr. J. E. de Rijke to dinner at Raffle s Hotel on Monday during his visit to Singapore on his way back to Holland from New Zealand and
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    44 9 MR. K.D. Golding. chairman of the Anglo-French Trading Company and director of Anglo-French Bendixsens Limited, left Singapore this week for Britain on retirement. Mr. Golding. has been In the Colony for 11 years, and is retiring on health reasons. MR. GOLDING
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    71 9 MALAYAN production of tin -in concentrates last month totalled 3,658 tons against 3,649 tons in the pre vious month, according to statistics. Output in the first four months this year was 15.41? tons, compared with 19.64' tons in the same period o 1957. Stocks of tin and
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    90 9 SINGAPORE Chinese fro duce Exchange noon closing prices oer piru' vesterrta* were: copra June/July U.K. Continent $31 i buyers $32 sellers coconut oil in bulk $48 sellers; in drums $51 sellers; Muntok white Depoer $119 sellers; Sarawak white $118 sellers; Special Sarawak black $68. H.C.B Ltd: Bombay copra May,
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    43 9 NEW ZEALAND meat ex>orts during 1957 dropped 12 >er cent from 1956 on a productveight basis. The largest volume decrease vas in lamb and mutton exerts, which were 96.837.000 x>unds, or 16 per cent below he previous year.
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    203 9 WHAT is claimed will be the first airport in the world to combine air, main line rail and road transport facilities in one unit so that passengers can travel directly to and from the airport by road or rail goes into operation shortly at
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    133 9 A new toy, a model aeroplane, has just found its way to a Singapore department store. The toy. a Schuco model made by Schreyer and Co. of Nurnberg, Germany, is an al-most-to-scale Vickers Viscount in 8.0.A.C. livery. It has an electric motor energised by two
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    215 9 OUTEB ROADS Inchearn. Clan Macbnde, London Maru. Benarty, Culida, Barito. Azuma Mura. fheta Star, Agios Vlassios. Amelia. DanakiL Gordian. Batoela. Norse Lady, Steel Admiral. Benveg, verett, Fernside, Fly;ng Enterprise. Limburg. Bak Benalbansch, Kasimbar. Belinda. Troon Breeze. Dromus, Baurmun, Awata Maru. Valery Chikalov, Stv. Selo. Sunay. Hai Sanana, Anna
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    641 10 r PYVO solemn young men J stood back to back ready to fight a duel in the Dew soon after dawn broke over Oxford. Then each marched five paces, turned and fired champagne corks! Pop! went the cork. Then pop! pop! pop! until the duellists had struggled to
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    253 11 Americans Thais Name Teams J^llEi?l»fmfi DATEi 5th J»ne,l958] 1EAM& America V. ThaMawd AMIRtCA 1 THAILAND" REFEREE: Mr. D. L Bloomer (Scotland). JOE ALSTON (Captain) 5UNTHORN SUBABANDHU (Captain) RON PALMER TANOO KAJADBHAI JIM POOLE PINIT PATTABONGSE MANUEL ARMENDARIZ KAMOL SAJAWANIT WYNN ROGERS CHAROEN WATANASIN MIKE HARTGROVE PRIDA WONG AKRAGUL First Night
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    249 11  - Draw Favours Alston Co. Leong Hew Meng COMMENT... By_ THE Americans have every reason to be satisfied with the draw. In an encounter where both sides are ignorant of each other's strength, it seems to me an obvious advantage for a team to have its best player matched against the
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    47 11 GUILLEMARD ROAD, Singapore, will be closed to through traffic after 6 p.m.. during the Thomas Cup badminton matches at the Badminton Hall. All loiongs between Geylang Road and Guillemard Road will also be blocked. Parking will be allowed on both sides of Guillemard Road
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    199 11 Sir George Sends His Regards A MIRACLE of good organisation that was the tribute paid to the Thomas Cup Management Committee by the representative of the International Badminton Federation, Mr. D. L. Bloomer, at a buffet luncheon held at the Ocean Park hote] yesterday. The luncheon was given by Mr.
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    128 11 THE following team has been selected to represent R.AO.C. against R.E.M.E. a* cricket at Ayer Rajah Road Ground today: Hancock, Bruhl, Mockford Goodwin, Towers, Simmons, Bucket, Curry, Henry, Sulley, and Collins. Reserves: Corringham, Keymer, Gibbs. Umpire:— Boucher. Scorer: Rogers. (TOP PICTURE): 49 members of the Police
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    34 11 A PICTURE on the Asian Games appeared on Tuesday's issue of the Standard with a caption which said that the participant was from Red China. It should have read Nationalist China.
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    221 11 THIS year's Ladies Golf championships, starting on Sunday, is expected to be the keenest for many years, Many prominent women golfers have entered for the championships. Mrs. Cobley, the Island Club champion, has entered. A pretty miss by the name of Trant, who is
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    214 11 Haig Boys' School Athletics MOHAMAD Zain and Michael Teo tied for the Individual championships title at the annual athletic meet of Haig Boys' School I and 11, at their school ground yesterday. Raffles House carried the house championships trophy with a total of 83 points. Haig House was second with
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    40 11 C. THURAISINGAM, skipper of the victorious Civilian team has been selected to captain the Colony team again. Singapore plays her first match in the Malayan Cricket championships on the SRC padang on June 14th and 15th.
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      250 11 University Teams Off To H.K. On Sunday UNIVERSITY of Malaya Athletic Union's biggest sports contingent for Hongkong for the InterVarsity games this year will leave Singapore by the Tjiluwah on Sunday. The 73-strong contingent is made up of six teams, 17 supporters and two officials. The teams are Hockey (14),
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      69 11 THE first batch of 50 Colony Gamesmen and officials, led by the president of the Singapore Olympic Sports Council Mr. C. C. Tan, will return from Tokyo by Cathay Pacific Airways at 10 tonight. Swimming, water polo, athletic and weight lifting teams are among those returning in this
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      98 11 Sir I am not happy with the decision handed in my bout against Sonny Chia of Singapore last Saturday night. As far as I know and what many people commented after the fight. I won by at least five rounds. Sonny Chia only won the ninth
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    609 12  -  WINDSOR LAD She Is Shaping Up For Her Maiden Win By IPOH, Tues.— Newcomer ANNA KUMARA, a handsome looking grey by Maharaj Kumar from Annie's Best (by Mieuxce), revealed striking form when she easily reeled off three furlongs in 38 1/5 sec. on the training track
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    176 12 Kiwis Hampshire Draw In Match SOUTHAMPTON, June 3 (Reuver) The match between New Zealand and Hampshire ended in a draw here today. NEW ZEAL ANDERS— Ist. Inns. 249 for 7 declaredHAMPSHIRE i Overnight! 15 for one) Playle b Reid 33 Y. C. MacGibbon b Blair 10 P. J. Samsbury b
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    42 12 WITH 174J points to their credit. Anglo-Chinese School won the inter-school triangular athletic championship held on the St. Josephs Institution ground yesterday. Scoring 115J points St. Joseph's Institution took secplace, while Beatty Secondary School finished third with 84 pc
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    35 12 HELSINKI. June 3. (Reuter). Hungary, who are in ihe World Cup finals in Sweden this month beat Finland 5-1 in an international soccer match here last night. They led 1-0 at half-time.
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    43 12 Sweet Edelweiss PRETTY Edelweiss van Rooyen, captain of the Lee (Violet) House receiving the Inter-House championship challenge trophy from Mrs. Syed Hashim, wife of the District Officer, at the annual sports of the Methodist Girls' School, Klang on Saturday, Standard by pic Ch'ng.
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    144 12 QUICK POLICE WORK SAVES THE DAY LONDON, June 3. (Reuter> —While Freddie Trueman the England Test match cricketer played for Yorkshire against Middlesex county here yesterday, two men were jailed for a month for stealing cricket gear "badly needed for hi? profession." The two men, Miguel Mendison, 21. and Phillip
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    77 12 Hongkong Not Sending Team To Cardiff HONGKONG. Jun e 3 (Reuter) Hongkong's Amateur Athletic Association decided yesterday not to send a track and field team to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff next month. It was reported from Hongkong last month that four athletes on leave in the
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    105 12 A Famous Jockey Is Remembered EPSOM, Surrey, June 3 (Reuter) Steve Donoghue, one of the "immortals of British Racing" was remembered today at Epsom, the scene of his greatest triumphs, whe n the Steve Donoghue Memorial Gates at the entrance to the grand stand were officially opened by Sir Gordon
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    84 12 LONDON, June 3 (Reuter) —Mr. Jack Olding, racehorse owner and tractor magnate, died in hospital here yesterday aged 67. He collapsed at a race meeting last week. Mr. Olding, head of one of Britain's biggest firms dealing in tractors and bulldozers, bought the
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    250 12 LONDON, June 3, (Reuter) Seven weeks to go, and the British Empire and Commonwealth Games will be on at Cardiff. And at regular intervals from now on. sightseers at London Airport will be watching teams of husky athletes passing through the customs channels,
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    54 12 AN International badminton tournament on the Thomas Cji lines between the national teams of India and Denmark will be held in Bombay in the last week of June. The tournament is being sponsored by the Bombay State Badminton Association and the winning team will be awarded a
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    180 12 F.& N. Give Breweries Trouncing In Lewis Cup FRASER and Neave became the first winners of the Lewis Cup in soccer when they beat Malayan Breweries by four goals to nil at River Valley Road yesterday. A feature of the match was a fine hat-trick by F. N.'s inside-right Samad
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    195 12 COLONY DID NOT COMPLAIN TOKYO, June 3 (Reuter)— Replying to certain complaints Dr. Kinchi Asano. Sports Director for the Third Asian Games said tonight there had never been any official complaints about the umpiring of any events. They had used the jury stystem especially to avoid that sort of trouble
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    28 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Public Works Department Sports Club beat Municipality Sports Club 9-1 in a FAS Senior Division league match played at Cheras Road here today.
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    25 12 TELOK ANSON. Tues.—Sungei Bernam Estate outplayed Drainage and Irrigation De partment Sports Club 3-0 in a division I soccer league tie here yesterday.
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    27 12 KUALA KANGSAR, Tues. The Kuala Kangsar Chiang Wah beat Suara Muda 2-1 in their senior division District League Soccer tie on the padang yesterday.
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    101 12 Chinese Set Asian Records HONGKONG, June I, (Reuter). Chinese ath,e:r, vet new Asian marks during national championships at Shanghai yesterday, i to the New China Agency. Li Meng-Lln threw the discus 49.08 metres to bea 1 previous record of 48.4 metres by Haider Khan of Pak and Tien Chao-Chung cleared
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    96 12 South African Upsets In Golf Tourney ST. ANDREWS. Scotland. June 3 (UPD— Bob Verwey, a 17-year-old South African, scored a resounding up*et in the first round of the British amateur golf championship yesterday with a 4 and 3 victory over A;r Force master sergeant Harold RidKley ot the U.S.. a
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    177 12 BOBBY Neill. the brilliant twenty four year old Edinburgh featherweight whose career, it was feared, was finished when he had a serious accident, made a sensational comeback last week. Fighting for the first time in eight months, Neill K.O'd. Arthur Devlin (Mill wall) in the first round
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    498 12 EPSOM, Surrey, June 3 (Reuter) Britain's greatest turf classic, the Epsom Derby, will be contested by about 20 three-year-olds battling for first prize of £20 070 sterling here tomorrow. The eleventh-hour withdrawal of the one-time favourite, Sir Humphrey De Trafford's Alcide, seems to give
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    210 12 NEW YORK, June 3, (UPI)— i Vince Martinez, at the peak of training, promised yesterday to be a "tearing tiger" on the night of June 6 and knock out Virgil Akins for the vacant world welterweight crown. "Akins called me a scary cat in
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    381 13  - Gambling in School DEMI TASSE -H RE headmasters justified in dismissing pupils caught gambling In school? Since gambling seems to be the craie these days, what ran be done to stop teenagers in indulging in It? This question comes surprising not from a secondary school but from a primary school
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    57 13 M srfcN&fc mounts for these children as they listen to the tale of "Curious George," read to them by a staff member of the Chevy Chase Branch of the District of Columbia Public Library. Librarians plan special youth programmes, during National Library Week to encourage Americans to make better use
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    199 13 1 SERVICE STATION— JoI and his friend turn into one of the service stations along the turnpipe for fuel. Jol is impressed as the attendants clean the windshield, check the tyres, water, oil and battery, and seem genuinely eager to please. "Service in a free and competitive
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    1170 13 kjugxcygui By Our School Correspondents JTOR the past few months, a group of civic-minded boys has been engaged in humanitarian acts within the Siglap Secondary School. This group, which consists of fifteen pupils of the Upper Forms has one thing in common they are all prefects.
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      552 13 'TODAYS QUOTATION: MMi "I never knew any man I in my life, who could not bear another's misfortune I perfectly like a Chris F*^ aw^wl tian." —Pope I WEDNESDAY FOR I EVERYONE: This da- Ufrlvill quite stimulatinc and those I m^M^m 1 who are progressive and I B^^l pi forward-looking
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    225 14 CLEETHORPES, June 3, (Reuter). The Queen has told Councillor Mr. Frank Broddie of Cleethorpes that she does not want him to buy a new suit for her visit to the English East Coast holiday centre on June 28. it
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    335 14 Djuanda Warns Of Crisis Unless R.I. Rebellion Is Crushed TOKYO, June 3 (UPI) Indonesian Premier Djuanda disclosed that unless the rebellion was crushed in a short time, Indonesian finance and economy would be placed in a difficult position, Antara News Agency said yesterday. Mr. Djuanda made
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    295 14 SEOUL, Jane 3 (UPI) North Korean Communists have changed their espionage tactics against South Korea from the so-called 'gentleman spy' method to more subversive activities, according t o National Police authorities. This switch in Communist va s brought to light Communist espionage agent stabbed
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    54 14 \PLES. June 3, (Reuter).— Italian Ponce here today weie trying to trace several boys wno piayed football with a human skull in a city square The boys had disappeared When Police, informed by a passerby, reached the square and took the skull to the institute of
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    209 14 GUN USED IN MID-AIR FLIGHT TO FREEDOM VIENNA, Austria, June 3 (UPI) Three antiCommunist Czechs, including a woman, escaped from their homeland yesterday by pulling a gun on the pilot of a chartered plane a^d forcing him to fly them over the border. After the twin-engined aircraft landed at Aspern
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    103 14 BLASTING OFF WITHOUT A RUNWAY BLASTING away from a mobile launcher at Edwards Air Force Base, California. a combatloaded North American F-100D Super Sabre becomes the first supersonic jet to rocket straight into the air without a runway for take-off. In the ZEL (zero length take-off) test, the fighter was
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    149 14 'Macmillan Govt. Is Victim Of Its Own Courage' BONN, June 3 (Reuter)— Fritz von Globig, London correspondent of the independent Die Welt, said today Mr. Harold Macmillan's Government had become the victim of its own courage. "The deflationary policy of Chancellor of the Exchequer of Peter Thorneycroft, which his successor
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    129 14 Policeman Is Awarded BEM For Bravery SYDNEY, June 3, (Reuter).— The hero of a gun battle with a crazed man in Syaney last year, was today awarded the British Empire Medai at a Government House investiture He is Detective Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Gilmour, who was shot in the arm during
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    89 14 NEW YORK, June 3, (UPI). —Sir Raphael Cilento said yesterday that the condition of his actress daughter Diane Cilento, 24. was "very satisfactory," but expressed doubt5 that she would be able to leave Medical Arts Hospital "within a week" as reported. Sir Raphael, a physician himself and
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    33 14 HAMILTON Walker, a haulage contractor, in Sheffield, England, won a decree nisi in a divorce court here yesterday after citing his twin brother Fraser as co-respondent. The case was undefended. Reuter.
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    39 14 NORTH Vietnam authorities have cut off the diplomatic radios of the British Consulate General and the French Mission in Hanoi, diplomatic sources in Saigon said today. They said no reason had been given for the order. Reuter.
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    166 14 WASHINGTON, June 3, (Reuter). Soviet Ambassador Mr. Mikhail Menshikov, said yesterday that a visit by Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Prime Minister, to the United States "would certainly serve a good purpose." The ambassador said in a rfcdio interview that it was
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    266 14 Decision On Okinawa Land Policy Expected WASHINGTON, June 3. (Reuter).— The United States is expected to announce soon whether it will accept local inhabitants' demands for changes in its controversial land policy on Okinawa, Japan's prewar island possession and now a key American defence base in the Far East. A
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    59 14 MOSCOW, June 3, (Reuter). The British ambassador. Sir Patrick Reilly. today protested to the Soviet Foreign Office over the detention last Saturday of Mr. Alan R. Stevens, Assistant Air Attache at the British Embassy here. Sir Patrick made the protest to Mr. F. F. Molochkov, head
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    186 14 SAIGON. June 3 (Reuter)— One of the biggest newspapers here has reported the existence in the jungles of Cambodia of an Abominable Snowman (without snow). The French-language Journal de L'Extreme Orient printed a letter from one of its readers a wild game hunter who said while
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    453 14 THE MASS KILLER ...And The Seven Who Died By His Hand PETER MANUEL, 32. was last week found prfMj of murdering seven people and was sentenced to be hanged on June 19. He was found not guilty on the judge's direction— of the eighth murder of which he was accused.
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