Singapore Standard, 11 June 1958

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  • 22 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone ***** 5 Cable "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1958 Vol. VIII. No. 343 15 cts. 14 Pages [FINAL EDITION]
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  • 461 1 JULY 1 IN GENEVA*— KHRUSHCHEV TOLD Experts To Study Ways Of Halting All Nuclear Tests WASHINGTON, June 10, (Reuter)—President Eisenhower proposed m a letter delivered to Mr. Nikita Khrushchev today that technical studies on ways of policing a possible nuclear test suspension should begin m Geneva
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  • 297 1 300 BUSMEN THREATEN STRIKE OVER DEMANDS 100,000 Workers May Be Affected KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. About 100,000 office and other workers m the capital will be affected if the threatened strike by more than 300 busmen of t&e General Transport Company materializes. The Selangor Transport Workers' Union, which represents the busmen,
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  • 53 1 COLOMBO, June 10 (UPI) The Ceylonese Government announced yesterday that six more Tamil Federal Party members have been placed under house detention, making a total of 58 Tamils detained. The action followed the recent outbreak of violence m a dispute over official use of the Tamil
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  • 129 1 ACTRESS ESCAPES JAIL TERM ROME, June 10 (Reuter)— Elsa Martinelli. the ItaLan film actress, has been saved from having to serve a term m jail by a Rome tribunal. The tribunal yesterday cut six months off a sentence of 18 months' imprisonment for Insulting three traffic policemen m July 1956.
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  • 178 1 LONDON, June 10 (Reuter) Mr. Duncan Sandys, British Defence Minister, said here today he was examining the idea of achieving comprehensive disarmament for the world m a single step, starting with a general agreement for the prevention of war. Speaking m a House of Commons
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  • 344 1 THE Singapore City Council yesterday rejected a demand that Mayor Ong Eng Guan should publicly apologise for reprimanding the former City Engineer, Mr. B. E. Thompson who had asked "impertinent questions" at a committee meeting. The demand was made by the Senior Officers
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  • 44 1 photo. ROW upon row of ships lie idle m the Victoria and Albert and the King George V docks m London. They have been paralyzed by the dock strike with more than 19.000 men idle and 118 ships unmanned. U.P.I.
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  • 162 1 DEALERS USE PLANES TO BEAT THE MEAT STRIKE LONDON, June 10 (Reuter) London meat dealers have begun operating an overnight airlift between Rotterdam and Southend airports to beat a big meat strike now paralysing the London Docks, it was announced today. About 100 tons of meat are being flown into
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  • 52 1 GHQ FAR EAST Land Forces m a statement last night said that the Army authorities m Singapore have received an assurance from the War Office m London that a decision on the union's claims for improved gratuities will be forthcoming not later than the end of
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  • 34 1 SECRETARY OF STATE John Foster Dulles at his news conference yesterday, raised the Dossibility that Red China may eventually have to be brought Into any agreement to suspend nuclear testing- UPI
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  • 125 1 JAKARTA, June 10 (Reuter) General Sir Franc is Festing, who arrives here tomorrow, is expected to discuss an Indonesian request to buy British warships, informed sources said today. General Festing on a threeday visit will be received with military honours and will have talks with
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  • 260 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and his wife, Puan Sharifah Rodziah. will leave Kuala Lumpur on June 18 for their pilgrimage to Mecca. The Tunku will be travelling as an ordinary pilgrim m fulfilment of a vow he made that
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  • 121 1 America To 'Shoot For The Moon' MILWAUKE, Wisconsin. June 10 (Reuter) The United States Air Force will "shoot for the moon" In August, Lieutenant-General S. E. Anderson, Director of Air Research and Development, said m an interview today. General Anderson said there will be three "lunar probes" this year, the
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  • 448 2 Student Found Guilty Of Boy's Murder In Shop A FORMER Form VI English School student, Tan lv Tat alias Neville alias Gustan, 18, was yesterday found guilty m the Singapore Assize Court of the murder of a schoolboy, Nathaniel Teo, m East Coast Road m November
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  • 110 2 COLONY TOWKAY STABBED JEALOUSY over a woman resulted m a Singapore businessman being stabbed m Paya Lebar Road on Monday night, a Police spokesman said yesterday. A passer-by told Police that the businessman's car as it was entering Lorong Ong Lai was stopped by a man who had thrown something
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  • 100 2 THEY SCARE OFF ARMED THUGS FARMERS m Day Road, Jurong, Singapore. banded together to scare off two armed and masked thugs who were robbing a colleague m his home on Monday night. A farmer who earlier saw a car and its passengers behaving suspiciously outside the house, raised an alarm.
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  • 88 2 A COFFEESHOP assistant, Leong See Meng, 22, was yesterday jailed for six months by a Singapore District Judge, Mr. S. K. Lee for stealing coins totalling $5.90 from a telephone booth. Leong, who pleaded guilty, committed the offence m the lobby of the Capitol
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  • 142 2 A Course In Fisheries For Teacher KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Mr. John Luke Carvaiho of the Federation's Department of Fisheries, left for Canada on a Colombo Plan travel fellowship today for training to be the Principal of a Marine Fisheries School m the Federation. Mr. Carvaiho will be m Canada for
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  • 170 2 LEE: LET'S START AN ANTI-VICE CAMPAIGN PROSTITUTION b< Malaya and Singapore never be wined out Government and th. co-operated m ed women who have gone and ottering tru way of life, said Assemblyman lor Mr. Lee Choon Ens. m to the Secretary of Urn Malayan Moral Deter. ganization. Inche Ibrahim,
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  • 61 2 THE annual fea-t of St. Anthony will be celebrated at St, Anthony's Chapel m Mandai, Singapore, on Sunday. A Low Mass will oe saH ;-t 8.30 a.m. which will be ed by the traditional distribution of St. Anthony's Brea^.. A procession with the Sta';;e of St.
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  • 165 2 U.M.N.O. Branch Expels 2 Officials THE Geylang Serai branch of the Singapore UMNO has expelled two members of its executive committee for carrying propaganda materials of other political parties, the information officer of the UMNO told The Standard yesterday. The two member? are Inche Jaffar Uda, secretary, and Inche Mohamed
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  • 39 2 SINGAPORE is among the 15 South-east Asian countries now participating m the twoweek regional conference at Baguio on public administration sponsored by the Institute of Public Administration of the University of the Philippines which opened on .Tune 7.
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    • 499 2 TENDER NOTICES CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE TENDER ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENT: Exhibit of Advertisements on Passenger Bus Shelters for 1958. Tender deposit $100/-. Close 2.15 p.m on 23-6-58. Tender documents are available from the City Engineer's Department, on production of the City Treasurer's Deposit Receipt, which will be made m the name
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    • 550 2 P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE. NEW BENTONG WATER SUPPLY. TENDERS from Class *D' and above registered Contractors will be received by the State Engineer, Pahang, Kuantan up to 12.00 noon on 14th July, 1958 for the Construction m Reinforced Concrete of Two New 100,000 Gallon Subsidiary Reservoirs at Perting and Tras Road.
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    • 254 2 NOTICES R.A.0.8. (GLE) ALL MEMBERS of the Order are cordially invited to the ceremonial opening of the Perak Lodge No. 9022 R.A.0.8., at the Park Hotel. Jalan Bendahara, Ipoh, on Thursday 12th June 1958, at 7.15 p.m. THE MALAYAN EXCHANGE BANKS ASSOCIATION ALL members of the above Association m the
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  • 824 3 EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD June 11, 1958. Jobs Crisis: Depression Fears THE Singapore Government's decision to order drastic cuts m spending on its building and construction programmes is presumably based on warnings from Colony merchants of an impending trade depression. The decision can hardly be challenged m view of statistics
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  • 1022 3  -  ROBERT STEPHENS —STILL A RIDDLE By LONDON QENERAL de Gaulle's first speeches m his triumphal visit to Algeria left the riddle of his policy for Algeria stiU unsolved. But they have made it possible to hazard a better-informed forecast of its general outline. At first sight
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  • 738 3  - Ceylon Calms Down Francis Ashborn COLOMBO By "[JNDER a dawn-to-dusk curfew imposed by the Governor-General's state of emergency the warm and rainy island of Ceylon seems at last to be calming down after its latest bout of communal violence. "A madness came over the country," said the Minister of Labour
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  • 44 3 Lt. Col. Frank K. Everest, Jr., of the U.S. Air Force gained the distinction of being the fastest man alive when he recently flew a roc-ket-powered a i r plane, the Bell X-2. at a speed of 1,900 miles ver hour.
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  • 276 3 Y^ESPITE the well-paid efforts of the consultant psychiatrists and the motivation researchers, advertising remains an inexact science. Americans are still shocked into spending by horrific accounts of what goes on m an untended stomach, by threats of social failure unless they go out properly anointed; they
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  • 430 3 the NEWS as it strikes me DECENTLY I had occasion to criticize Singapore women for lagging behind their Federation sisters m the matter of social reform. Apparently, my observations seem to have goaded them into action rather than the words I expected. The Singapore Council of Women are convening a
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous

  • 360 4 Report Reveals Overcrowding At Woodbridge THERE has been a steady increase m the number of mental cases m Singapore over the last five years, says the 1956 Medical report issued yesterday. Although the Woodbridge Hospital is supposed to hay.i accommodation for only 1,800 in-patients, 'he
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  • 217 4 Council To Issue Writ Against Former Assessor THE Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Singapore City Council yesterday agreed to issue a writ against its former assistant assessor. Mr. C. H. Williams, for "breach of contract." The Committee also decided to return a cheque for $963.43 which Mr. Williams
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  • 100 4 THE Singapore City Council has elected an organization committee to make preparations for the opening of the new Victoria Theatre on Sept. 6. The Council's Finance and General Purposes Committee yesterday decided to cancel all programmes earlier ar- ranged by the sub-committee I of the
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  • 111 4 EX-MALAYAN civil servant Brian Pratt 27, who sailed single-handed from the Singapore Yacht Club on Monday m an attempt to reach Vancouver m his 27 foot Corsaire Chempaka. The trip, will take him to Borneo, Hongkong, Formosa and South Japan before he makes the big
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  • 160 4 THEY WANT MALAYAN AS HEALTH OFFICER THE Singapore City Council will recommend that the Public Services Commission should appoint the Acting Deputy City Health Officer, Dr. Ng See Yiok. to the post of City Health Officer with a view to Malayanizing the City Health Department immediately. The Council's staff and
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  • 49 4 AN contractor, Ngo Ah San. 36, was yesterday fined $5,000 or 12 months' jail, by a Singapore Court when he was found guilty of assisting m a public lottery— chap-ji-kee. on March 20, about 7.30 p.m. at the junction of Irwel! Bank Road and Raver Valley Road.
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  • 68 4 KUALA TRENGGANU, Tues —The King and the Raja Permaisuri Agong called on the Sultan of Trengganu and the Tengku Ampuan Besar at Istana Badariah. Kuala Trengganu. this afternoon, the second day of their official visit to Trengganu. The State banquet at the Istana Maziah tonight was
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  • 162 4 MR. LEE CHEE SHAN. Managing Director of the Chung Khiaw Bank Ltd., was elected President of the Council of the Singapore Boy Scouts Association for 1958/59 at its annual general meeting held recer. Other officials elected were: vice-president Inche AbHamid bin Haji Jumat Mr.
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  • 178 4 THE Estates and Buildings Committee of the Singapore City Council has decided to seek the sanction of the Governor-in- Council to end the lease of 131 acres of land granted to the Royal Island Club, The Standard" j was told yesterday. It
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  • 246 4 THE Gas Department of the Singapore City Council was $1,000,000 m the red at the end of last year despite having sold a greater volume of gas than m 1956, stated the City Treasurer, Mr. J. R. Hill m his annual report
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  • 146 4 $60,000 FOR MAYOR'S HEALTH PLAN THE Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Singapore City Council yesterday approved the expenditure of $60,000 on the threephase mass health movement proposed by the Mayor, Mr Ong Eng Guan. The Committee also agreed to empower the Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, Mr P.C. Marcus,
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  • 96 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues ?^t lon f, _9 ourt P-esid'ent Inche M. M. Hashim today acquitted a 48-year-old woman typist accused of cheating a man of $1,300 allegedly given to her to obtain an entry permit from the Immigration Department to allow his son to return from China.
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  • 130 4 IPOH, Tues. The Malay Teachers Association of Perak has withdrawn a scholarship awarded by their Association to a student now m Britain pn a four-year arts course. The reason for the withdrawal, an Association official said today is because the student, Mohamed Khair bin Mohamed Said, had done
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  • 173 4 Tjiwangi To Make First Trip Back To Jakarta I THE Royal Inter-Ocean Ship Tjiwangl. is due m Singapore on June 14 en route to Jakarta from Hongkong. This sailing will mark the resumption of R.I.L. sailing to Indonesia from Hongkong via Singapore which was temporarily halted following bombing attacks on
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  • 275 4 Gang Robbery: Man For Trial At Assizes TAN KIM NAM. 27, was committed to stand trial en a charge of gang robbsry at the next Assizes, at this* conclusion of a preliminary inquiry held by the Colony's Ninth Magistrate, Mr. R. B. I. Pates, yesterday. Kirn Nam was alleged to
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  • 31 4 POLICE m Oden_e. Denmark, are on the loi any possible new m the neighbourhood. 1 the v figured, that who recently stc ble snails could pos with his loot.- UPI
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  • 30 4 POLICE m New Jersey found two tavern bur, asleep m a parked car apparently after they had sampled too much of their 100t 26 bottles of liquor.- UPI
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  • 73 4 PETER SEOW "strangles" Rachael Abdullah m a scene from the Singapore Young People Association's production "Drama Scrapbook." The play which opens tonight at the Cultural Centre will be repeated tomorrow and Friday night "Drama Scrapbook" will include excerpts from Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde. Mabel Constanduros, Hans Christian Anderson
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  • 568 5 K.L. Magistrate Returns An Open Verdict KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The inquest on John Williamson, 27-year-old lawyer whose half-naked body wis found hanging m a rubber estate at 3_ Miles Klang Road ended today with an open verdict returned by Magistrate Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Yunus. The
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  • 178 5 $900,000 Received For Fight Against TB KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Malayan Association for Prevention of Tubersis received more than 000 last year from the il Welfare Services Lot's Board of the Federa- V aya for its fight tuberculosis. This was stated m the annual report of the Board released today. The
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  • 32 5 HONGKONG, June 10 Standard Service: prices of the Hongl Exchange were: $16.06 to £1 Sterling 55.7775 to $1,846 to Malayan $1; _5 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $251,625 to a
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  • 56 5 photo. THE King and the Raja Permaisuri Agong, being received by the Sultan of Pahang and the Tengku Ampuan (left) at the Pekan Ferry on their arrival at Pekan, on Saturday. The King was on a tour of the East Coast States of Pahang. Kelantan and
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  • 196 5 Only 339 Will Sit For Exam KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Only a little over one-fifth of Selangor Chinese schoolchildren qualified to take the Junior Middle School promotion examination for secondary school education have applied to sit for it. The Selangor Chief Education Officer, Mr. T. K. Taylor, told The Standard that
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  • 441 5 PENANG, Tues. A man, who used the name of Malayan Communist terrorists m a bid to extort $14,000 from a building contractor, was arrested by Police m a coffee-shop m Penang Road yesterday, the Sessions Court was told today. Twenty-three-year-old Leow Wah
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  • 21 5 THE Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Singapore Branch, will hold a flag day on Saturday.
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  • 161 5 PENANG, Tues. The Coroner, Inche Nik Hussain bin Nik Ali, today returned a verdict of death by 'natural causes at the end of inquiry into the death of a 60-year-old driver, Othman bin Man, at Burmah Road on April 5. The Coroner said that
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  • 47 5 A TEAM from the Far East Air Force Parachute School based at R.A.F. Changi is paying a liaison visit to the Royal Australian Air Force Parachute School based at Williamtown, Australia. The team will travel by R.A.F. Hastings aircraft leaving R.A.F. Changi today.
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  • 188 5 50 Aborigines Will Show Their Paces At Festival PENANG, Tues. An aboriginal long-house is being built by a team of ten Orang Laut on the St. Xavier's recreation ground m connection with the Penang Festival. A dancing party of 50 Sernai Senoi will perform on a specially-built stage on June
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  • 140 5 "BUKIT MERTAJAM. Tues. Police here today obtained their first conviction m the Character Lottery racket. A coffee-shopkeeper, Ong Chooi Liang, 57, was convicted on a summons charge of assisting m the management of the 100, 1.000 and 10.000 Character Lottery at Kampong Gharu on April 12.
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  • 185 5 A HOUSE CURFEW FOR 1,000 VILLAGERS ALOR STAR, Tues. A house curfew from early dawn for the duration of the food denial operation was imposed on the i 1,000 residents of P a d a n g Lembu new village, six miles from Gurun today. The Central War Executive Committee.
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  • 112 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The War Department Civil Staff Association will take a strike ballot tomorrow on the War Department's decision to retrench 200 workers by June 14. The WDCSA has been negotiating for severance pay for retrenched workers since last year. It received an
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  • 414 6 10-YEAR DRIVING BAN ON TOWKAY He'll Also Serve Jail Term For Deaths Of 3 PCs A COLONY businessman, Lim Chuan Kee, alias Liem Tjoan Kie, 37, was yesterday jailed 12 months by a Singapore Court on three charges of causing the deaths of three Policemen by a negligent act, not
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  • 56 6 by Fah. MR. MRS. Aloysius R. Pereira cutting their wedding cake at the reception m the Indian Association hall after their marriage at the St. Anthony's Church m Kuala Lumpur recently Mr. Pereira is attached to the Castlefield Estate. Puchong, and the bride is the former Miss
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  • 119 6 Sunderlands Farewell Appearance In Parade Fly-Past SUNDERLAND flying boats, making their last public appearance, will lead the main Royal Air Force formation m the Queen's Bithday Parade fly-past over the Padang. Singapore, on Thursday. The Sunderlands will be re--j by Shackleton land planes. Behind them will be eight j transport
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  • 86 6 THE Master Attendant, Singapore, Capt. R. L. Rickard. yesterday announced the procedure for the jettisoning of bombs by aircraft on the Singapore (China Sea) South Range at night. en any aircraft finds the necessity to jettison its bombs at night, it will fly over the range
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  • 60 6 ANTHONY Pillai, 30, was found with a wound m the chest m Fort Canning, Singapore, yesterday. He was admitted to the General Hospital. Police do not suspect any foul play. The wound was made with a pen knife. Pillai has been unemployed and homeless since he
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  • 195 6 ROBBERY SEQUEL: POLICE HOLD 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. While scared residents of the new Shaw Road residential area are keeping their doors secured, Police have picked up six youths m connection with the armed robbery yesterday of a frail, 51-year-old widow. The frantic bolting of doors followed the noon-day robbery
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  • 41 6 A VERDICT of suicide was returned by the Singapore Assistant Coroner, Inche Ahmad Hussein yesterday after the inquest on Low Koon Teik, 60, who died after leaping from the second floor of his New Market Road home on April 18.
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  • 77 6 SINGAPORE will be the subject of a special issue of the "Pacific Travel News" the official monthly publication of the Pacific Area Travel Association. The editor of the magazine. Miss Lee Tyler, will be m the Colony and the Federation from June 17 for five days
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  • 186 6 Regiment Officer Returns With Bride KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Among the eight Federation Army officers who returned from Britain last week after receiving their commissions from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, was 2nd Lieut. Gregory Lopez of the Ist Battalion, the Federation Regiment. He was accompanied by his French wife, whom
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  • 51 6 GENERAL Sir Francis W. Festing, Commander m Chief FARELF. paid a farewell visit to British and Commonwealth troops stationed m Ipoh on Monday. Picture shows his arrival at the Headquarters of the Ist. Loyal Regiment, where he* was greeted by the Commanding Officer, Lt. Col. CL.
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  • 104 6 There's Danger In Beauty Aid MALACCA, Tues. The public is warned by the Municipal Health Department not to buy locally made "chelak mata" (powder for darkening the eyelashes) because they are found to contain lead. A report received from the Director of Medical Services said that this powder sold m
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  • 208 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Persons who had previously been "called-up" for national service are liable to register again if they are still within the 17 to 28 age group, the Registration Department explained today Although persons within the age group are allowed to go to Singapore without
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  • 166 6 MCA Plan To Assist The Govt. KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Malayan Chinese Association has sent out directives to all its district branches and sub-branches instructing them to assist Government m the nation-wide registration for national service. General Secretary of the MCA, Mr. Too Joon Hing, told The Standard today that
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  • 58 6 KOH Kin Soon, 27. and Chern Thian Huat. 29, were yesterday charged m the Singapore Ninth Magistrate's Court with possessing 119 pounds of dutiable tobacco m a taxi at Changi Road on Monday night. They pleaded not guilty and were each allowed $7,000 bail until June
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  • 116 6 PENANG, Tues.— The Hu Yew Seah m Madras Lane with 937 women members, claims to have the largest woman membership roll for any social club In the count~y. The annual reoort. which will be tabled at the 40th ordinary general meeting of the Seah on Sunday, June
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  • 508 6 ENGINEER TELLS COURT OF LEAKING TANKS FEN ANG, Tues. The City Water Engineer, C A Collins, told Mr. Justice Hill m the Supreme Court today that a test carried out on tanks of a filtration plant m Ayer Itam which were supposed to be watertight, showed that water was leaking
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  • 68 6 OF THE $2,000,000 st by the Singapore City Cc for the purpose of issuing housing loans to its of. there was still a balance of 5648.929, states the annua! report of the City Treasurer issued yesterday. To date, the report stated, 104 loans have been granted
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  • 459 7 GAP BETWEEN SCHOOLS NARROWED Technical Education Still A Big Problem Retiring Director THE vast gap that once existed between the English and the Chinese school systems m Singapore is gradually beinj: narrowed and bridged by the Ministry of Education (h rough its policy of uniform education. Mr. D. McLellan, the
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  • 97 7 COMPANY SHUTS ITS FURNACE THE Singapore Glass Manufacturers Company yesterday shut down its furnace, while its 500 industrial employees continued their strike peacefully. An official of the Company told The Standard that the firm had to turn off its furnace so as not to incur unnecessary expenses while the strike
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  • 72 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The UMNO general secretary. Inche Ismail Yusoff. wants a full report from the Batu Gajah UMNO branch on its resolution to ask the Perak Government to remove the Kinta District Officer. Mr. A. A. Huckle, from his post at its meeting on
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  • 47 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Malayan Planting Industries Employers Association today continued negotiations with the National Union of Plantation Workers on the new wage structure. The secretary of the MPIEA. Mr. J. A. T. Perera, said dates for further talks had not been fixed.
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  • 134 7 Nanyang Must Guard Standards NANYANG authorities should "guard the standards" of the young university the retiring Director of Education, Mr. D. McLellan said yesterday. "It is most essential that Nanyang's standards of admission and of graduation should be high," he said. "They would serve the needs of Singapore better if
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  • 162 7 ANY subordinate officer or Inspector of the Singapore Police Force will be given a 30-day period to lodge an appeal to the Commissioner or the Governor against any disciplinary action taken against him. An amendment to this effect will be moved by the Chief
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  • 75 7 BUTTERWORTH. Tues. Thieves broke into Messrs. S. Mohamed Bathusha and Co., news agents at Mitchell Pier, early today. Entry into the store was gained through a window at the sea end of the premises. The thieves removed all the available cash and a large quantity of goods,
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  • 61 7 A HAPPY picture of a very disappointed man His name: Haji Pacasum Abdul Rahman, a Muslim religious leader from Manila. He is disappointed because he had flown to Singapore to be told that his trip to Mecca is off. Pacasum now has to wait till
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  • 162 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber pri.es (cents per lb.) m Singapore yesterday were Buyers Sellers Spot (nom.) 74i 75 R.S.S. No. 1 74_ 745 (July) 73 J 74* R.S.S. No. 2 72* 72* R.S.S. No. 3 65J 65| Tone: Quiet steady. The price of tin m Singapore yesterday was $3692
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  • 125 7 Mail Times For Queen's Birthday m THERE wUI be no delivery of letters or parcels tomorrow Queen's birthday. Tne G.F.U.. huwever. will be open from 9 a.m. to 12 noon but no money order, postal order, radio licences and savings bank facilities will be available. AU other post offices and
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  • 227 7 Survey Of Children Is First Step KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Kampong Bahru Board of Management, a body with the status of a local council lookiiig after the civic welfare of the Malay settlement m Kuala Lumpur, has undertaken the survey of children of school-age who are not schooling, as a
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  • 48 7 THE La Salle School Klang, Building Fund lottery draw on Sunday resulted as follows: 15t— *****. 2nd— *****. 3rd— *****. 4th— *****, 5th— *****, 6th— *****. 7th ***** and 8th— *****. Consolation Prizes *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****.
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    • 368 7 Ma^^^ M I national Women's Club— Talk by m^*Tm^7T~MT7S v m iir_l Mrs. M. F. Henton on Flower |^^4__4___3 I_A_al-__L_-I Arrangement 10.30 am. Beauty maa^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^awassmsm Culture Class 5.15 p.m. Singapore Legislative Assembly: G(^,! an| S,ra ts Chinese Methodist Meeting at Assembly House. urc «>: Gospel Meeting In Empress Place 10
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    • 220 7 lish Schools Broadcasts: 645 Lights on for the evening programme summary a tune or two before the News: 654 Spore share Market report and National announcements: 7 p.m. Time Signal and News; 7.10 News Talk: 7.15 Sports Reel; 7 30 Wednesday Concert: 8.15 Thomas Cup Tournament; 9 pm. Hear Them
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    • 873 8 ANGLO-FRENCH TRADING CO., LTD. Tel: ***** 6. *****/4 "2/6 Robinson Road THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE NORTH AMERICAN SERVICE Te Halrtai, Montreal, Boston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia *> Cult Ports. Spore P. Sham Penang TEUCER *"t 10 Aug 151 6 Aug Carriers option f procood via other ports to load and
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    • 1201 8 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 lines) (Incorporated m Singapore) (12 lines) "ST THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL, CLASCOW, LONDON CONTINENTAL PORTS Carriers option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo (Via Suez with liberty to proceed via Panama or Cape ot Cood
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    • 971 8 MITSUI LINE FOR JAPAN Spore P.S'ham Penang Nasusan Maru for Kobe G. 44 Azumosan Maru from India 18 June 16 June 15 June Akibasan Maru from Europe 21 Jure Amagisan Maru from India 25 June 22 June FOR U.S.A. vio SUEZ For New York Philadelphia, Baltimore vio Bombay. Akagisan Maru
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    • 813 8 EAST ASIATIC LINES HOMEWARDS Sailings tot Aden. Port Soid. Genoa. Antwerp, Rotterdam. Hamburg, Bremen. Copenhagen. Gothenburg. Oslo. Spore P.S'ham Penong "BOGOTA" 23 25 June 26 26 June 27 28Jun« Culling Beyrouth, Kaiishamn, Gdynia. "MANCHURIA" 5/7 ju, y 8/9 m mi** OUTWARD Sailings tor Bangkok and tor FAR EAST. Penang P.
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 284 9 JAPANS DRIVE TO BOOST EXPORTS More Cycle Tyres, Tubes For S-EA JAPAN expects to increase her exports of bicycle tyres and tubes to Malaya and other South-east Asian markets m an effort to boost the nations export trade m this commodity, says an AFP report (From Tokyo. Currently shipments to
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    • 295 9 A DIRECTOR of Unilever Limited and Unilever N. V Mr A. D. Bonham-Carter yesterday welcomed the Federation Government's offer of a "tax holiday" to pioneer industries. Mr. Bonham-Carter, who has just spent a week touring Unilever interests m the Federation, said at a press conference
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    • 69 9 MR. CATHER LOUTHEN, technical director of Godfrey L. Cabot Incorporation m Akron, Ohio, who left Singapore yesterday after a brief business stopover m the Colony. Mr. Louthen is on a round-the-world tour visiting rubber manufacturing companies and purchasing agents of carbon black for producing rubber goods. He toured
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      2 9 MR. LOUTHEN
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    • 177 9 OUTER ROADS Calt. Stockholm, London Maru. Cain Macbride, Lulu, Oulida, Barito. Azuma Maru, Tneta Star. Benalder, Ellen Maersk, Gordian. Batoela, Eleanor, Maetsuycker, Shoyo Maru, Sea Bird. Dredger. Bakongan. Slamat, Satuma Maru. Troon Breeze, Aeneas, Soenja, Prosper, Shun Shing, City of Bedford. Pres. Jackson. Nicherei Maru, Cambodge, Hoegh
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    • 120 9 SINGAPORE rubber price rose 1 cent to close at 74. cents per lb. for International June shipment yesterday. Opening slightly higher, the market ruled quiet with narrow fluctuations. There was fair interest m lower grades but sellers were still rather reserved. Remilled grade s were quiet In
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    • 85 9 TONGKAH, Harbour Tin Dredging Co.. Ltd., will not declare any interim dividend for the current financial year, shareholders were told yesterday. In a notice to shareholders, Anglo-Oriental (M) Ltd., secretaries of the company, explained that this was due to the severe cut back m tin production arising
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    • 45 9 THE Netherlands' gross imports of unmanufactured tobacco (direct imports plus withdrawals from bond) rose from 71.100,000 pounds m 1956 to 72,200,000 m 1957. Imports from the United States, however, showed a small decline from 25.800,000 pounds m 1956 to 25,000,000 m 1957.
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    • 95 9 SINGAPORE Unities* fu* duce Exchange noon closing price* ocr pleui yesterday were: copra June/July U.K. Continent $32 buyers $32} sellers coconut oil m bulk $48 sellers; m drums $52 sellers; Muntok white pepper $122 sellers; Sarawak white $121 sellers; Special Sarawak black $70. Singapore Copra Association closing prices fair
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    • 31 9 ARGENTINE grain exports during the first nine months (July-March) of the current fiscal year amounted to 3,193.--000 metric tons, compared with 3,662.000 during the same period a year earlier.
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    • 103 9 To Open Two-Way Trade AN Australian businessman. Mr. G.B. Courtney, of Melbourne, is expected m Singapore on Saturday to open two-way trade between Australia and pan-Malaya. Mr. Courtney's firm m Melbourne has wide connections throughout Australia. His main business lines are wheat, flour, general foodstuffs, lard, table tail, plastic table-ware,
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    • 74 9 ROLLS-ROYCE increased research and development expenditure by 43 per cent. from £3,000,000 to £4,300,000 last year. This amount is m addition to payments made to the Government for the commercial use of designs developed at Government expense. Group sales of this company, which accounted for more than
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    • 17 9 JAPAN'S Imports of raw wool last year were 275,000.--000 pounds, comparec 282.000.000 pounds In 1956.
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    • 78 9 EUROPE'S first terminal for the 100,000-ton super tankers which are now being built for international oil companies will be at Pinnart, on the eastern shore of Loch Long, near Glasgow. The new terminal an extension of the existing Pinnart installations will be opened at the
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    • 84 9 Tin Shares Are Barely Steady BETTER Inquiry for industrials within quotations, was reported m the Malayan share market yesterday. Tins were barely steady while rubbers were dull. The turnover was fair. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Union Insur. (New) 38.50 3950 MININGS Aokam
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    • 205 9 AUSTRALIAN rice production for the current 1957-58 season is expected to be well above that of the previous crop, say s a recent report. The current crop is forecast at 190.000,000, ib. rough rice, compared with 178.900.000 lb. m the previous year. The expected
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    • 36 9 THE Malayan Exchange Bank s Association made the following changes m its rates to merchants yesterday: Selling, T.T. or OD. ready: New York 32-11 '16; French Francs *****; Holland Gldrs. 123-3/4; Italian Lire *****.
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    • 25 9 ABOUT 240 Australian orchid growers have formed a co-operative to supply orchids to export markets and to popularize them on the Australian market.
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    • 212 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business aone yesterday: F. 4 N. ords. $2.45 odd lot; G'town DLsd $1.70; Gammon $1.95, $196 (overnight); Hammer $1.56, $1.57: Hume ords. A4/7J, 4/6; M. Colls. 78c: McAlister 51.22 J. $1.23; Robinson ords. SI 61; Sime Darby $1.50; Cold Storage 85c, 84Jc (overnight);
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    • 299 9 PELNI. LINES 12 ROBINSON ROAD ***** r?r *»9ht /Through Cargo Dept.) Tal: ***** (Manager). "PADJONGE" for Pontianak j mn9 16 "PANEHAN" for Djambi j uilt 17 "LARAT" tor Tambalan Pontianak j unt 20 HUA SIANG STEAMSHIP COMPANY WEEKLY CARGO SERVICES TO KUCHING. SARIKEI, BINATANG b SIBU. MV "HUA Ll" Saih
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  • 333 10 ANY story of Baba-Perana- Kan Shows to be complete must begin with the story of Mr. Ong Guan Bork, founder, "prima donna" and stage director oi the Oleh Oleh Party of Singapore. Mr. Ong Guan Bork was a star pupil of Mr. Vyner Gomez of the
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  • 561 10 popular Malay songs were sung, the group decided to form themselves into a party to encourage and cultivate the art of music and drama, and the famous Malay Ballad— OLEH OLEH BANDOENG gave birth to the Party's name. Together with his friends Mr. Ong
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  • 103 10 KINMEN ISLANDS: Chinese oversea students from Formosa are greeted by Nationalist Chinese troops on their arrival here for an inspection trip of the islands. Some 80 girls and boys graduated from Taiwan University made a tour to the front line m the islands before leaving Formosa
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    53 10 OUTDOOR rehearsaJs are a feature of the National Music Camps at Bonegilla, Victoria. The annual camps are conducted by the Victorian School Music Association and the National Fitness Council, both of which are leading youth organizations. Young folk between the ages of 14 and 21 take part
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  • 13 11 AMUSEMENT PARK ST. VITUS CHARGE SHEET THE BRAVE ONE
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  • 1520 11 His Brilliant Pace Is An Asset In The b x k\. Straight By WINDSOR LAD QT. VITUS is my choice m the main five-and-a-half furlongs sprint (Race 4) up the straight course at Ipoh this afternoon, second day of the Perak Turf Club's Derby Meeting.
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  • 164 11 Windsor Lad Scrutineer Goodwood Franri. DISTRIBUTOR U DISTRIBUTOR II MOVIE HOUSE II DISTRIBUTOR II t Movie House 11 Gold Coin Courtier courtier Never Regret courtier LUUe Psalter Colour film THE BEAUTY TIIK BEAUTY COLZA THE BEAUTY Evelyn Evelyn Evelyn Colza Colza Punter* Delight n Flaxley Green Flaxley Green
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  • 1043 11 RACE 1, 2.30 p.m.— Horses Class 4, Div. 5—6 Furs. 1. ****** LITTLE PSALTER 5y 900 CHONC R. VAN B'KELEN Seng Stable 2. *****5 NEVER RECRET 4y 8.11 SHAARI R VAN BKELEN Mr. ana Mn P F Thong 3. "0*548 COLDEN CUS
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  • 199 11 MY Peter, Quiny, Overspin and The Swagie should battle it out m Race 7. the six furlongs sprint for Class Four, Division Two. My choice is OVERSPIN. This six-year-old by Newtown Wonder came from last to finish a strong second to My Peter over the six
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  • 2142 12  -  LEONG HEW MENG One More Win They'll Take On Malaya By RUN OF PLAY STANDARD SPECIAL SCORECARD (Tonight June 11 at 8 p.m. S.B.A. Hall) SINGLES 1. Sonneville Vs. Charoen ('•>•') 2. Tan Joe Hock Vs. Tanoo 3. Eddy Yusof Vs. Pinit DOUBLES Ngoo Kirn
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  • 65 12 THE following have been selected to represent, the PanMa'.ayan hockey team (Singapore and Federation of Malaya combined) against Pakistan at Jalan Besar stadium at 5.15 p.m. today. P. Van Huisen (N.S.); R. Mosbergen (Spore). M. Shanmugathan (Selangor); P. Shankey, Captain (Perak), M. Shepherdson (Selangor), Harbhajan Singh (Spore);
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  • 273 12 AFTER holding the Asian Games Gold Medallists, Pakistan, one-nil at half-time, Singapore cracked up to lose by five goals to nil m the international hockey match at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. It was a match which seldom rose to great heights. Singapore attacked
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  • 29 12 HOCKEY INTERNATIONAL. Pan Malaya vs Pakistan at Jalan Besar Stadium —5.15. ATHLETICS. Police Training School sports at Thomson Road. CRICKET: Pasir Panjang School vs. Gan Eng Seng.
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  • 26 12 SEGAMAT, Tues.— SingaDore's Siglap Boys' Club basketball team beat Segamat Chinese Recreation Club 74-42 m a basketball match at the Coronation Park yesterday.
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  • 32 12 SYDNEY June 10. (Reuter) Australia's hard tackling Brian Clay today withdrew from the Rugby league team to play England m the first Test hereon Saturday because of an injured knee.
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  • 97 12 Sir, With reference to a report which appeared m your newspaper dated 29-5-58, I wish to point out that at no time did I make any complaint to the Chef de Mission of the Singapore contingent at Tokyo about the behaviour of my two athletes, Kesavan Soon and
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  • 218 12 U.K. Close Of Play Scores LONDON, June 10, (Reuter)— Results m today's cricket matches were At Manchester, match abandoned, due to rain. Middlesex 183 and 41 for two. Lancashire 96. (Middlesex two points) At Buxton, match abandoned, wicket saturated. Derbyshire 64 for six. vs Essex. At Bradford, match abandoned, due
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    • 36 12 FEELING WEAK? TIRED? In the home and at work life seems very depressing when you feel weak and tired. Take Sanatogen which helps to give good appetite, sound sleep and ENERGY Sanatogen TONIC Corrects diet deficiencies'
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  • 1132 13 They learn to add with the abacus uihui pOR centuries children m many parts of the world have known the cbacus and have learned arithmetic with the beads strung on wires m a wooden frame. It is only m very recent years that children m America have come to know
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  • 710 13 By Our School Correspondents V.M.C.A. Pang Cheng Lian was the runner-up m the junior section. The best speaker on that night was Wee Al Choo of the Paya Lebar M.G.S., winner of the junior section. A friendly debate between Forms 2 and 3 of the Literary Society of
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  • 100 13 A JEET Singh of CTo Pannivee Sugar Mills, Bulandshahr, U.P., India, wishes to correspond with Malayan boys and girls around 16 years who are interested m stamp collecting, films and music. Low Han Leong of 100 Cheras Road, Kuala Lumpur, informs that his friend, Thomas Sim, 16, of
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  • 205 13 Visit to America AMERICAN HOME.— The Barker home is a popular "Cape God" type. Jol is most impressed with the many labour-saving devices, particularly m the kitchen. In addition to landscaping their home, the Barkers tend a garden plot where they raise some of their own vegetables. Mr. Barker, like
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    • 539 13 T QUOTATION: ■■HH________________N_"There nothing more _^_r^_^_l _L^_i frightful than an active Ml Ignorance." Goethe I WEDNESDAY FOR _T^4i fc_Fll l H^B EVERYONE: Moderation is I H^_| Wam __!v^_fl called Be guarded I Bta H|^^fl ■Pfl agaist a terdency to extra- I _^^^^^_fl Those who are IV^^^Lfl^^^^^^l Ingenious and capable can
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 66 14 CALCUTTA, June 10 (UPI) —The death toll m Behar Province's two-week-long heat wave reached 200 today, with the 26,500.000 residents of the area facing a water shortage. Jungle animals were driven toward the towns by thirst. and at one place three monkeys jumped into a
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    • 174 14 ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida. June 10. (UPI) Pierre De Sale, French-born freelance writer, denied last night that he is married to motion picture actress Suzy Parker, confined to hospital here after an accident. "I deny it," De Sale said. "I'm not married, I've
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    • 255 14 'Great Quantities Crossing Sahara For The Rebels' WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuter) —M. Ahmed Mestiri. Tunisia's Minister of Justice, has said Algerian insurgents are receiving great quantities of arms from Tunisia, Spain, Morocco, from across the Sahara and from other sources, according to the transcipt of a
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    • 100 14 BUDAPEST. June 10 (UPI) The Communist Hungarian Government has started a purge of all "parasites,*' including profiteers, shirkers, prostitutes and tramps, the newspaper Hetfoe Hirek said yesterday. It reported police had been ordered to take into "protective custody all parasites of the Hungarian economy." Speculators,
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    • 121 14 8 Buried In Building Explosion TORONTO, June 10 (Reuter) A violent explosion last night wrecked a four-storey block of apartments m the northern part of Toronto. Eight and possibly nine people are missing. Two women and a man were treated m hosrpital for shock, cuts and bruises and were released.
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    • 73 14 UNITED NATIONS, June 10 (U.P.1.).— Algerian nationalists will create a provisional government and boycott any French-called elections m the wartorn North African state, a Rebel spokesman said today. Mohamed Yazid. United Nations representative for the Algerian Front of National Liberation (F.L.N.) which runs the war
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    • 79 14 H.K. Exports To America Increase HONGKONG, June 10, (AFP)— The spectacular rise m the export of cotton garments from Hongkong to the United States is noted by an official of the economic section of the American Con-sulate-Genenal here. Vice-Consul Martin Hickman said statistics showed that HK$4.5 million worth of cotton
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    • 70 14 QUEZON CITY, Philippines. June 10, (UPl).— Police officer? have been ordered to solve a two-year-old murder case by interrogating the ghost of the victim. Mayor Narberto Amoranto instructed the police to keep vigil m the area where the ghost of the murder victim ieportedly appears at
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    • 34 14 FIVE box-office girls m a cinema known as "The Sputnik" m Monki, a village m Poland, have given up their jobs one after another. Village youths had nicknamed them all "Laika." Reuter
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    • 78 14 FORMER nun Alba Cuidotti poses with her husband. Rinaldo Mattesini. m a village near Arezzo, Italy. She left the convent where she was a nun to marry the man of her heart, whom she had believed killed m World War Two. They had been separated nearly
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    • 260 14 NICOSIA, June 10 (Reuter) Noisy scenes broke out m Nicosia's Turkish quarter when the curfew was lifted for the shopping hour today. The cause of the trouble was food. The Turks said hundreds of shoppers who went to the temporary market found the
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    • 165 14 OVERSEAS CHINESE BANK FOR FORMOSA TAIPEI, June 10 (AFP) The Government here has approved plans to establish an Overseas Chinese Bank, it was officially disclosed today. The bank will be financed by Overseas Chinese leading businessmen and bankers who originally planned to form a trust company but later decided that
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    • 98 14 SYDNEY, June 10 (Reuter) A girl is about to enter a school where she can swear if she wants to, smoke if she feels like it. and abuse her teachers at the ripe old age of 3. She is Jessica Winterberg. first pupil enrolled m
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    • 217 14 HALT U.S. H-TESTS, RUSSIA ASKS U.N. UNITED NATIONS, June 10 (UPI) Russia asked the United Nations Trusteeship Council yesterday to halt or suspend the current series of nuclear tests being conducted by the United States m the Pacific The test area is m the Pacific Trust Territory, which comes under
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    • 72 14 RANGOON, June 10, (Reuter) The Burmese Prime Minister, U. Nu, yesterday defeated by a margin of eight votes a censure motion tabled against his newly-formed Government by the former Deputy Prime Minister, U. Ba Swe. Voting was 127 for U. Nu and 119 against. Throughout a
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