Singapore Standard, 16 June 1958

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  • 22 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Coble "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1958 Vol. VIII. No. 348 15 cts. 12 Pages jhgf [FINAL EDITION]
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  • 249 1 LABOUR FRONT Councillor Mr. Ho Kok Hoe, w ll today call on the Singapore City Council to instruct its nominee on the Board of Trustees of the Singapore Improvement Trust to request the Trust to engage immediately attendants to operate lifts in SIT flats.
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  • 476 1  -  KEN JALLEH INDONESIA BATTLES TO A 6-3 VICTORY First Defeat For Worlds Leading Badminton Power By MALAYA'S reign as the world's number one badminton power ended last night when Indonesia won the Thomas Cup —golden symbol of that power —in the challenge round of the competition
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  • 361 1 Fell Overboard From Steamer From ANDREW ROTH LONDON, Sun. Aisha binte Abdullah, a language student from Kelantan is the heroine of Malayans in London this week-end for having saved from drowning, on Saturday, the four-year-old grandson of Dato Nik Kamil. The incident occurred
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  • 151 1 US Seventh Fleet Can Do Any Job YOKOSUKA, Japan, June 15 (UPI) Vice-Admiral Wallace M. Beakley declared on Saturday that the U.S. 7th Fleet is capable of carrying out any task it may be called upon to do in the Far East. Admiral Beakley made the statement on completion of
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  • 493 1 'New Constitution Will Lead S'pore To Independence .SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, on his return to the Colony from London constitutional talks yesterday said that the new constitution would lead Singapore to her ultimate destiny of independence. Looking travel-weary and showing signs of his recent indisposition which had
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  • 43 1 THE Governor of Singapore, Sir William Goode, presents the Thomas Cup to the Indonesian non-playing captain, Ramli Ariffin. after Indonesia's 6 3 victory over Malaya in the challenge round of the competition at the Singapore Badminton Stadium last night.
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  • 173 1 JAPAN LIKES FEDERATION'S TERMS FOR INVESTMENT TOKYO, June 15 (UPI) The Federation of Malaya has offered Japanese financiers and industrialists attractive terms to invest in that country, the Japanese Foreign Office said on Saturday. Malayan Minister of Commerce and Industry Tan Siew Sin told Japanese officials his country would welcome
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  • 45 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A patrol of the First Battalion, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, shot dead one of two terrorists they contacted in the Pontian district of Johore this morning. The other terrorist, a woman, escaped. A rifle and ammunition were recovered.
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  • 30 1 A DRIVER, Koh Ah Hock. 54, of Somapah Road, off Changi Road, Singapore, was found hanging from a swing post in a school near his house, yesterday morning.
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  • 157 1 A CAR carrying a bride of a few hours skidded and plunged into a monsoon drain at Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, yesterday. Still dressed in her wedding gown, Gan Phong, 21, together with her companions. Miss Gan Ah Lek. 31. and Miss Gan
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  • 168 1 BEIRIT, Lebanon, June 15 (UPl)— Rebel forces looted anJ burned the three-storey mansion of Prime Minister Sami Es-Solh today and turned withering sniper fire on President Camille Chamoun's residence as "showdown" fighting continued unabated across the Lebanese capital. r~ The Prime Minister and his
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  • 66 1 SEA SNAKE BITE KILLS SCHOOLBOY PENANG, Sun— An 11-year-old boy, Sultan Hamid. of Kampong Java Lama died here yesterday morning after being bitten by a sea snake. The boy was wading in th« sea off Gurney Drive on Friday afternoon when he wa« bitten. A teacher from his school rushed
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  • 60 1 TANJONG MALIM. Sun. A forty-year-old cripple, N. Govindasamy, was killed when he was in an accident with a train about two-and-a-ha f miles north of here, yesterday He was walking along th« railway track when th« tragedy took place Govindasamy became a cripple thre« years ago
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  • 353 2 A HERO'S WELCOME FOR CHIEF MINISTER A jubiliant crowd of more than 2,000 Labour Front supporters, and trade unionists gave a hero's welcome to Singapore s Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, at the Paya Lebar Airport yesterday. They shouted "Merdeka." fired crackers, sang songs and organized a lion dance
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  • 122 2 A FIVE-MAN delegation from the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association yesterday presented a petition to the Colony's Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, on his arrival from Karachi at the Paya Lebar Airport. The petition requested the Chief Minister's immediate intervention in asking the Harbour Board to
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  • 112 2 (ABOVE) "Merdeka" shouts Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock (centre) on his return from London yesterday. Flanking him on the tarmac are *he Health Mini Mr. A.J. Braga (left) and Education Nisid Mr. Chew Swee Kee. In the rear are Minister for Communications and Works,
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  • 86 2 BIG TEAM FOR NEXT W.A.Y. MEETING KUALA LUMPUR. SunMalaya will send a strong delegation to the forthcoming conference of the World Assembly of Youth in New Delhi. This was decided at a committee meeting today of the Malayan Youth Council the chairman. Inche Sardor Jubir told The Standard. Inche Sardon
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 969 2 KJDH FOR SALE THREE portable ships' cabins suitable for six persons. Apply telephone ***** HOUSES LAND FOR SALE NORMA TERRACE. Opera Estate off Road, new 3 bedrooms terrace •mouses, large fitting, dming rooms Dorcn. kitchen, bathroom modern vamtaf on, fencing, etc Completion it, September. Low assessment Price $'5,400/.- Down payment
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    • 513 2 Government of the Colony of Singapore 3% 1946 Rehabilitation Loan (1962-70) NOTICE is hereby given that the transfer register of the above Loan will be closed from the 30th June 1958 to 14th July 1958 both days Inclusive, for the preparation of Interest Warrants. BY ORDER The Hongkong: and Shanghai
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    • 596 2 NOTICES The Bankruptcy Ordinance (CHAPTER 11) In The High Court Of The Colony Of Singapore Island Of Singapore IN BANKRUPTCY No. 362 of 1956. Re: LOW KIM TENG of 622. Bedok Road. Singapore. Shipping Clerk, Herring Co. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a First Final dividend is intended to be
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    • 414 2 In the Supreme Court of the Federation of Malaya In the High Court at Ipoh. IN BANKRUPTCY. No. 27 of 1957 Re: P. R. RAMAKRISHNAN. 41 mile Klang Rd. K.L. Notices of Receiving Order Etc. In Summary Case. Receiving and Adjudication Orders made 26th May, 1958. Date and Place of
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  • EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 490 3 POLITICAL feather-heads and certain local investors, who have been toying with the idea of calling for the nationalization of Singapore's commerce and industry after internal self-rule comes into being, have had their answer. In an exclusive interview with the Standard's London correspondent, the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew
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    • 349 3 WEDNESDAY'S meeting of the Federal Legislative Council will have special interest for Singapore. There are at least two matters on which the Government will be queried and which can have an important bearing on the future relations between the territories. One question by the Malayan Trade
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  • 1609 3 PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED JHE publishers are thick on the political horizon. There's Harold Macmillan, M.P., who survived Suez and then out of the wreckage of that escapade became Prime Minister of Great Britain, and so far has lived happily ever after. Mr. Macmillan presides In spirit, if not in
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • 489 3 Sir It is most encouraging to note that the local borns in Singapore are reviving the old kronchong and dramatical shows in order to do charitable work for those in need, but it is regrettable that there is very little unity and cooperation amongst the variious
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  • 433 3 A TOST people most of the A time rack their brains in an effort to understand what passes in the minds of politicians, especially those into whose hands they have placed the government by voting them into power. The only reward they get for
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 293 4 4-POINT PLAN FOR THE JOBLESS Start Industries Without Delay, Govt. Is Urged A SINGAPORE Opposition Assemblyman, Mr. Lim Choon Mong, yesterday called on Government to implement without delay a four-point industrialisation programire to provide employment for the jobless of the Colony. Mr. Lim. who recently returned from the London Constitutional
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  • 228 4 Stormy Council Session Expected SINGAPORE City Coun. cil's bi-monthly meeting on Wednesday is expected to be a very stormy one. At this session, the opposition members plan to challenge a majority of the decisions taken by the Council's various committees. They are als? expected to ask the Council not to
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  • 181 4 NEW I-CARD SERVICE FOR RESIDENTS RESID&iNTS ot Singapore's Queenstown and Kednill Divisions can now app.y ior new identity cards or cnange detaced cards at the Queenstown Community Association's premises at Princess Flats. Announcing this yesterday. Independent Assemblyman for yueenst'Own, Mr. Lee Choon Lng, said ihat the Commissioner of the Peoples
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  • 44 4 THE special 12 cents and 30 cents postage stamps issued on March 5 to commemorate the \nnual Conference of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East will be withdrawn from sale after June 30, the Postmaster-General, Malaya, announced yesterday.
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  • 113 4 MR. Amarendra Roy, a clerk attached to the Port Commission in Calcutta, h&s arrived in Singapore on his bicycle after cycling through Burma, Thailand and Malaya. Mr. Roy who is on a tour of South-east Asia.n countries on his Raleigh bicycle told The Standard he
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  • 63 4 THE Singapore St. John Ambulance Association is starting a first aid course commencing June 29 at 4 p.m. at the Pay a Lebar Methodist Girls' SchoolThe course is free and is open to everyone over 15 years of age. Those wishing to join the course are
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  • 108 4 I P OH. Sun.— Mr. Michael Maxwell of Kuala Lumpur had a lucky escape when the car he was driving crashed into a rubber Jree at the sixth miie Ipoh Chemor Road iast afternoon. It is understood that Mr. Maxwell, who is due to appear for
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  • 170 4 Meet Held Up By Poor Attendance A HANDFUL of members attended the inaugural meeting of the Singapore Indian Cultural Council held at the Netaji Hindi High School in Race Course Lane yesterday. The meeting, which was scheduled for 4 p.m., was delayed for an hour because of i r ne
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  • 259 4 MORE than 500 workers in the Singapore Glass Manufacturers Company who had been on strike tor tne i»ast week, yesterday submitted a new set of claims to tnc employers. i The claims range from a general wage increase to better medical facilities. The demands
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  • 148 4 SINGAPORE'S Acting Chief Minister. Mr. A. J. Braga, yesterday told The Standard that provisions for voting by proxy at general elections did not exist in any Commonwealth country with the exception of Britain. And e,ven in Britain, that privilege was limited to na- tional
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  • 77 4 pic. MR. Lum Ah Tim and Miss Elizabeth M. Lee who wen married at the Sacred Heart Church in Singapore on Saturday. The groom is the only son of Madam Lee Kuai Fong Standarpic MR. TAN CHEONG HEONG and Miss Koh Soh Wart who were married a.t the
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  • 348 4 FOUR unions, representing 40,000 local employers in the three Armed Sen ices in Singapore, yesterday warned that they would call their members out on strike if negotiations this montti on severance pay and gratuities should prove unfavourable to the worker*. The unions— the Army
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  • 84 4 IPOH, Sun. A Police supervisee, Kassim bin Batiyo, 25, who had 13 previous convictions and was described as "incorrigible" was yesterday sentenced by the President of the Sessions Court. Mr. J. R. Whimster, to six months' imprisonment and a fine of $50, in default a further
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • 298 5 Team Will Probe Into Grouses Over Malayan Rubber KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Federation Rubber Traders Association is to send a ten -man delegation to Peking to investigate Red China's complaints that Malayan rubber, particularly that shipped from Singapme is not of the best quality. The decision
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  • 238 5 Call For Workers' Better Treatment MALACCA, Sun. Malaya could look forward to an era of greater industrial peace and prosperity if all employers would consider workers as "human beings," chairman of the Malacca Branch of the All-Malayan Estate Staff Union, Mr. S.V. Raman, said yesterday. Too often workers, who have
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  • 313 5 THE SINGAPORE Government is giving the Malays ail they have asked for in education, the Assistant Minister for Education, Inche Mohamed Sidik bin Abdul Humid told The Standard yesterday. He was commenting on the at rally by the Malay Education Council which prod
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  • 338 5 KOTA BHARU, Sun. The King and the Raja Permaisuri Agong visited the Arts and Craft centre at Koti Bharu, the prison camp and the Teachers' Training College at Pengkalan Chepa this morning, the third day of their state visit to Kelantan. They were
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  • 58 5 MF N. KRISHNASAMY, Asian Secretary of the World Assembly of Youth now on a tour of the Federation, speaks at a reception in his honour in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. Next to him is Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir, the Malayan Youth Council President and Works,
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  • 32 5 THE Raja Permaisuri Agong (third from right) being greeted by wives of members of the Kuala Brang Town Board during the State visit to Ulu Trengganu, last week.
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  • 196 5 Shortage Of Staff Still A Bugbear PENANG. Sun.— A resolution to request the Minister for Health, M. V.T. Sambanthan, to give the same consideration and sympathy to hospital assistants as that given to other workers in the Medical Department. was passed at the annual delegates conference of the Penang Medical
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  • 48 5 THE Graduates Christian Fellowship will discuss "Whether Christian Unity is Practicable" at the Young Men's Christian Association in Orchard Road at 8.15 p.m. today. The speakers will be Rev. S. Holth. Dr. Chia Boon Leong. Rev. Choo Hock Hin and Rev. Timothy Tow. All are welcome.
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  • 250 5 UMNO-MICFEUD COULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED... KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Selangor MIC Executive Committee headed by Party President, Mr. V. Manickavasagam today accused Alliance leaders of deliberately delaying steps to settle the quarrel between the State and the Selangor UMNO. The Selang-or UMNO severed relations with the MIC since December last,
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  • 100 5 KUALA LUMPUR. SunPneumonia caused ten deaths in the Federation during the. week ending May 24. the Federation Health Intelligence reported today. In all. there were 49 cases of Pneumonia. Other diseases which caused deaths were Dysentery (35 cases and 3 deaths). Diphtheria (33 cases
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  • 52 5 PENANG. Sun.— The Mayor, Mr. D. S Ramanathan and City Councillors here were the hosts at a civic reception held at the town hall last night in connection with the Penang land and water festival. The guests Included the Governor of Penang. Raja Sir Uda and
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  • 179 6 War Ten Years Old: Toll 9,033 Killed KUALA LUMPUR. Sun —The Emergency war will be exactly ten years old tomorrow and the terrorist casualties up to the end of May were 6,565 killed, 2,7i*6 wounded, 2,112 surrendered and 1.266 captured. Civilians, bearing the brunt of the merciless war. suffered casualties
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  • 361 6 Future Is Bleak, Says Union Boss FENANG, Sun. Hospital assistants, who have served thi*. country ever since the inception of the medical services, are now facing a bleak future. This warning was sounded by the president of the Penang Medical Staff Union, Mr. Kantar Singh, when
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  • 72 6 A FASHION show of batik dresses in eastern and western styles will be a highlight of a variety concert to be presented by the Kumpulan Peranakan Singapura at the Singapore Badminton Hall on June 21. The concert Peranakan Highlights— will be in aid of the
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  • 656 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun The fol'owing students have passed the first and second year examinations at the Technical College here. FIRST YEAR Wong Yoon Min. Tan Chin Aik. Dominic Soosuy, Yoon Yuen Wah. Lim Khuoi K'lye. Leong Wei Kok. Hon^ Tat Tee. Wong Chee Seng, Osman b.
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  • 64 6 -Standard p?c by TWO Federation Army officers who were recently commissioned as 2nd Lieutenants at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurt arr.ved in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. They are 2nd Lt. Mohd. Zulkifli bin Mohd. Kush&ri (right) and 2nd Lt. Muhamed bin Yusof who left for the United
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  • 68 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The 300 busmen of 'he General Transport Company here have not vet made a firm decision regarding the serving of a two-week strike notice on their employers. A recent emergency meeting of the Selango: Transport Workers Union, which represents the busmen, had decided to serve
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  • 68 6 WOMEN LEFT WITH NOTHING TO WEAR BUTTERWORTH. Sun. Thieves stole every stitch of clothing at a building site in Bagan A jam yesterday. Women workers, who were sleeping in one wing of the shed, found themselves without clothes to wear on waking up. they only had their loose pajamas on.
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  • 100 6 No Decision Yet On Strike Note has been negotiating with the management for a 60-cent rise in wases of daily-rated employees and reinstatement of a dismissed worker. The union is a'.so seeking a seven-hour working day for daily-paid men. This works out to 14 bus trips. The busmen claim that
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  • 29 6 THE Ministei for Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy, will give a talk on economics and politics at the Nanyang University on Thursday, at 10.30 a.m.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 560 6 I I MALAYA DEFENDS THOMAS CUP I J EXCLUSIVE NEWSREEL nrwsreel showing all the four matches of Saturday* yL <^C Thomas Cup Challenre Round Tie between MALA A yL and INDONESIA will he shown e\fi^i\rly at the jj follow iruf Cathay Orjanisation Theatres from to6a> —ODEON (North Brldce Road). CATHAV.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • 866 7  -  Neil Hunter By STANDARD Staff Writer for a happier family life, so say the married ones in Japan JAPANESE women are not taking their postwar emancipation as enthusiastically as was expected. The importance of higher education and qualifications for the professions and for political leadership has
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  • 410 7 \V HAT helps you slim? What makes a tasty substitute for salt? What improves the flavour of meat, soups, vegetables, even eggs? What cuts out unpleasant cooking smells? The answer's a lemon. Perhaps you've often appreciated the lemon in the form of lemon
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  • 415 7 MONDAY's Tete.a.Tete INFORMATION COUNTER: I MRS. S. A. J. wants to know "how to make nettle beer the way they do in Yorkshire." Here is one recipe. J Whether or not it is the one Yorkshire women use, I cannot say. But I am sure someone will very quickly write
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 649 7 rpODAY'S QUOTATION: MM WM HHH A -What is life's heaviest I burden?' asked a youth of a I sad and lonely old man. I To have nothing to carry.' I^^H W he answered." B^^^^^E^^i^^^H^fl E. Scott O'Connor I Vtm^H MONDAY FOR EVERY- I ||HM GR ONE: This is a fairly
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 546 9 Fair Activity In Industrials By A Market Correspondent ALTHOUGH the share market was open for only 4£'days during the period under review, the volume of business written more than equalled the previous week's turnover. Movements in the Industrial section were small, but there was fair activity
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    • 289 9 COMPANY REPORTS Ampat Tin Dredging Ltd.: i For the year ended 31/12/57, a profit of 32.4 per cent was earned after deducting U.K. Profits Tax. A final dividend of 8.4d. per share has been recommended making a total of 27i per cent, for the year. Net liquid assets at balancing
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    • 226 9 BUSINESS done in shares 'rom June 7 to 13: Industrials: Fraser Neave Ords. $2.47 to $2.48 to $2.45 to 52.47J, Gammons $1.96 and 51. 97, Georgetown Dispensary $1.71 and $1.71J. Hammer Co. $1.56. Hume Industries (F.E.) Ords. A4/7J and A4/6. Wm. Jacks $1.52i, Jackson Co. $1.05.
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    • 319 9 ARRIVALS of copra were this week slightly better, estimated between 1,000 and 1,500 tons, says Lewis and Feat (Singapore) Ltd.'s report. This comparatively modest quantity has made our market appreciably easier, and it is apparent that the volume of demand at recent high levels
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    • 38 9 YUGOSLAVIA has exported 200.000 tons of corn this season, compared with 2,000 tons a year ago. A record of 5,600.000 tons corn crop was harvested last year. Total exports are expected to reach 250.000 tons.
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    • 174 9 Flight Test For BOAC's Comet 4 A "pencil test" in flignt, was carried out in a Comet 4 during a recent test flight of the aircraft from the de Havilland aerodrome at Haffield, Hertfordshire. Managing director of BOAC Mr. Basil Smallpiece. who was on board, made the test by standing
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    • 35 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following ehange s in its rates to merchants on Saturday: Selling. T.T or OD ready: French Francs *****: Italian Lire *****. Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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    • 28 9 INDIA'S 1957-58 rice crop is officially estimated at 24.821,000 long tons of milled rice (83.473.000.000 pounds rough), 12 per cent below output In the preceding year.
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    • 57 9 A SHELL Petroleum Company industrial relations officer. Mr. L. G. Lunn. (above) who passed through Singapore last Friday by air on his way to Indonesia on transfer. Mr. Lunn. from South America, will be stationed in Jakarta for two years. He will be in charge of
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    • 50 9 Company dividends announced during last week included the following: Tanjong Tin Dredging Ltd: A final dividend of 1/- per share for the last financial year, payable July 31. The Kinta Tin Mines Ltd.: A final dividend of 1/- per share lor the last financial year, payable July 31.
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    • 28 9 INDIA'S 1958 wheat harvest, recently completed, is tentatively placed at 325.000.--000 bushels. This is slightly below the record 1957 crop but Is above average.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • 447 10 U.S. Stranglehold On Wightman Cup Broken LONDON, June 15, BRITAIN yesterday regained the Wightman tennis cup for the first time cince 1930 by beating the United States by four victories to three. Britain's win put an end to the American post war domination in
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  • 82 10 TOKYO, June 15 (Reuter) Japanese film producers today completed editing a 90-minute film of the recent third Asian Games and copies will be ready to be sent overseas early next month. A spokesman for the producers said the film, produced in technicolour, showed the highlights
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  • 99 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A total of six records were smashed in the annual AllMalayan Railway Athletic meet on the Brickfields Road ground. Three of the records broken were in the women's event and all these three were shattered by Miss Ruby Manasse. She broke the 100.
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  • 65 10 BRISBANE CUP ON TODAY BRISBANE, June 15 (Reuter). Eleven horses aie due to start in the £8,000 sterling Brisbane Cup to be run over two miles at Eagle Farm course here tomorrow. They are. with weights: Caranna 9.00, Sombrero 9 ;)0. Baron Boissier 8.12, Book Link 8.12. Timor 8.6, Macdougla
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  • 42 10 CHANGI Garrison beat Singapore Harbour Board Police in a cricket match played at Changi yesterday Garrison 151 for seven declared. Jeffery 50. Drury 41. Akehurst 32 Suett seven for nine. Malayan three for 18. SHB 28 runs. 1
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  • 108 10 KUALA LUMPUR SOCCER: Div. 1 UMNO vs. RAF TPCA Div. 2 TPCA vs. Police Depot Padang; Div. 3. SCRC vs. Ramnad District SCRC ground. PENANG SOCCER:— -Div. 2: Glugor Club vs. D.A.F.C. DatoKramat "A" Marine vs. B.A.F.C. "C"—P.S.C. ground. TENNIS: Open championships Penang Sports Club courts 5 p.m.
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  • 33 10 BRISTOL, England. June 15 (UPD— British Davis Cupper Mike Davies won the men's singles title, beating Ramanathan Krishnan of India. 6-1, 6-4. 7-6, 6-4. in the West of England tennis tournament.
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  • 413 10  - Doc Rodgers Fails To Break The Perak Derby Jinx WINDSOR LAD By SHAW STABLE gained their first Derby success since its inception at Ipoh on Saturday when On Stage (late Zabnglione), a seven-year-old by Nicolaus, was awarded the race following the disqualification of White Heather who finished first in a
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  • 270 10 Game Marred By Rain In a game marred by rain, Singapore managed to collert six points in their drawn two-day inter-state cricket encounter against Negri Sembilan on rhe Singapore Recreation Club padang yesterday. After dismissing Negri Sembilan for 174 runs in the first innings, Singapore carried
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  • 162 10 NEGRI SEMRILAN— Ist I nn 174 runs. Singapore Ist. Inns. 179 f or nine declared. K Pearce b Clarke A. Barnck lbw Swindley R Da Silva c Parw Yfwanarajah 2 C Thuraisingam lbw Yawanaraiah A E. Delilkan c Clarke b Sen A Razak c P. G. de S b
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  • 112 10 Surprise Defeat Of Rowing Champions HENLEY ON THAMES. England. June 15. (Reuten Chris Davidge and David Leadley. British holders ol the European and Henley pairs rowing titles, were surprisingly beaten in trials here yesterday to select England's crews for next month's Empire Games in Wales. Davidge and Leadley lost by
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  • 95 10 Channel Swim: Seow San Wins PENANG, Sun.— A total of 324 swimmers plunged off the Esplanade today for the Penang Festival cross channel swim. Only 231 completed the swim from Penang to Butter worth. Winners was Penang Swimming Club's Fong Seow San who swam the channel in 48 minutes 23
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  • 83 10 Australia Edge The Maoris 15-14 BRISBANE, June 15 (Reuter) Australia beat the touring New Zealand Maoris by 15 points to 14 in the tours's first Rugby Union 'Test' here yesterday. The Maoris, captained by the 'All Blacks' centre, Pat Walsh, led 8-6 at halftime. Australia's win— their first in six
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  • 54 10 BLACKPOOL, Lancashire June 15 (Reuter).— Robert Christophere, of France, set a European record for the men's 100 metres backstroke during the swimming intei national here yesterday between Britain and France. He clocked 62.9 seconds. Christophere was swimming in the 110 yards event (100.--584 metres. His time automatically
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  • 120 10 FATHUL SNATCH VICTORY A GOAL a minute from by Sahar Hussein. J- Karibs centre-forward, en. his team to score a narrow victory over Roya! Air Fore* Changi, in the SAFA Dn One League match at the Jalan Besar Stadium yestero. Fathul Karib. Asian Games players in side, gave a very
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  • 70 10 DESPITE an unbeaten 111 runs by the former Cambridge blue, Major Cyril Elgood, GHQ FARELF drew with Royal Army Ordnance Corps in an inter-corps cricket match at Tanghn yesterday. Elgood's century included 17 fours and thn Scores: GHQ FARELF 180 for six declared <Elgood 111 no.
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  • 50 10 POLICE Rural West beat Bukit Panjang Rangers B' 3-1 in a Bukit Panjang District league soccer match on the Bukit Panjang English School ground yesterday. Police who led 2-0 at half time scored through Nelson 2 and Nordin. while the Rangers' only goal came from Nabi,
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  • 50 10 BERKELEY. Califr June 15. <AFP> Amer runner Glenn Davis yeday set a new world rr for the 440-yards flai wh< ran the distance in 45 7 during the U.S. Univc: championships here. Davi s had been co-holder along with Jim Lea of the former record of 45.8.
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  • 44 10 JOHANNESBURG. June 15, (Reuten Hugh Tayfleld. one of South Africa's greatest spin bowlers, last night announced his retirement from first ciasa cricket. Tayfield. who is 30 years old. said: "I will play in league cricket but I want a long rest."
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  • 112 10 Chinese Recs Win By 10 Wickets SINGAPORE Chinese Recreation Club beat their Seiangor counterparts by ten wickets in their two-day annual cricket match on the Hong Lim Green yesterday. Continuing their overnight score the Singapore Chinese totalled 206 in the first innings and later dismissed Selangor Chinese for 96 run
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  • 62 10 BECKENHAM. Kent, June 15 (Reuter) Neale Fraser, of Australia, won the men's singles title in the Kent lawn tennis championships here yesterday. He defeated Kurt Neilsen. of Denmark, 6-4. 6-4, in a 43 minutes' display of powerful and controlled tennis in the final. In the all-South
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  • 416 10 LONDON, June 15 (Reuter) —The Yorkshire attack recalled past glories at Sheffield yesterday when in 100 minutes at the end of the day they captured seven Surrey wickets for oniy 53 runs. Yorkshire batted dourly on a soft pitch and had made 138 when they
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  • 1229 11  -  LEONG HEW MENG MALAYA FALL TO INDON 'HEROES' Kew Sans Great Bid To Stop Sonneville Fails By AT EXACTLY 10 p.m. In the Singapore Badminton Stadium last night, Malaya surrendered unconditionally the Thomas Cup, symbol of world badminton supremacy, to Indonesia. Tt was the saddest moment in
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 209 12 LONDON, June 15 (Reuter) A legless woman, accused of enticing away another woman's husband, was alleged in the London High Court on Friday to have exerted a sinister influence "like black magic" over him. The allegation was made by one-armed Mrs. Elizabeth Welton,
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    • 267 12 Send Us Forces To Protect Lives And Property Mayors NICOSIA, June 15 (Reuter)— The Greek-Cypriot mayors ot the main towns in Cyprus decided at a meeting here last night to send an urgent appeal to the United Nations asking for U.N. forces to come to
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    • 236 12 Yugoslavs Are Tools Of US -Red China TOKYO, June 15, (UPI) Communist China today stepped up the Red Bloc's attack aganst Yugoslavia with a new blast and ged the Yugoslavs with being tools of the United es. The new outburst against Marshal Titos ruling circle in Belgrade came in a
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    • 59 12 ATHENS, June 15, (Reuter) Some 800 students clashed with Police here last night when they attempted to hold a mass rally, in defiance of a Police ban. The students shouted "Long live EOKA. Death to Turks. Give us arms." (EOKA is the terrorist movement in Cyprus).
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    • 146 12 Insurgents Cut The Throats Of Four Women ALGIERS, June 15. (Reuter).—Four women were killed by insurgents in a village near Palestro, about 60 miles southeast of here, a military spokesman said last night. The women had their throats cut by insurgents who entered their homes. The population of the village
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    • 66 12 VIENNA, June 15^, (UPI).— The wife of a leading Roumanian Communist purged last year was fired from her Party post today, Bucharest Radio said. She was identified as Ljuba Chisinevski, deputy chairman of w the Roumania Communist Party Control Commission. She is the wife of losif
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    • 135 12 JAKARTA, June, 15 (UPD— President Soekarno, in a speech yesterday to 10,000 people at Surabaya in [East Java, denied that his cabinet would be dissolved or reshulfled. There had been reports in Jakarta that there would be a cabinet shake-up. President Soekarno, in Surabaya for a
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    • 119 12 MANILA, June 15 (UPI) Philippine ambassador to Indonesia, Jose Fuentebella will return shortly to his post in rta and then resign "after a month's stay." it was reported today. The Manila Chronicle, quoting well-placed Congressional sources said House of Representatives leaders have agreed on
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    • 28 12 A SHORT, sharp series of pre-dawn thunderbolts yesterday killed a farmer and set fire to a number of farm houses in Saitama prefecture, near Tokyo. Reuter
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    • 60 12 Photo. GENERAL. Sir Francis Festing, retiring C-in-C of Far East Land Forces, pays a farewell visit to Indonesian Army Chief of Staff Major General Abdul Haris Nasution, at the latter's office in Jakarta. General Festing i s due to leave for London soon to take up his
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    • 113 12 War Hero Beat Wife To Death SYDNEY, June 15. (Reuter). —A German migrant who beat his unfaithful wife to death with a heavy spanner was sentenced in the Central Criminal Court yesterday to 4J years jail. Helmut Gumbrecht, 33; of Villawood. pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his 23--year-old wife,
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    • 200 12 DERBY, England June 15, (Reuter) Mr. Tom Driberg chairman of the Labour Party's National Executive, said h<*re yesterday it might be an idea, 'as soon as old wounds have healed and bitterness gone/' to invite President Nasser of Egypt to Britain. Mr. Driberg told
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    • 68 12 ROME, June 15 (Reuter)— An Italian, Alberto Trevision, has challenged the right of Spain's Salvador Dali to call himself "the world's grea'.est surrealist painter" and formally challenged Dali to a "painting duel." He suggested that each should paint two picturesone "mystical" the other "demoniacal." A panel of
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    • 20 12 MR. Nikolai Fedorenko hat been appointed Soviet ambassador to Japan, the Soviet News Agency Tass said yesterday.- Reuter
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    • 82 12 Scenes In Film Described As 'Poisonous' SAIGON. June 15, (UPI) The Committee for Film Censorship was reported considering banning the film "Bonjour Tristesse" from theatres here. The ban wa s proposed after a representative of the Association for the Protection of Moral Welfare termed several sequences in the film "poisonous"
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    • 24 12 A YUGOSLAV pilot was granted political asylum after landing his plane in Hungary on Wednesday, the New China News Agency reported yesterday.
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    • 193 12 Ex-Convict Tells Of Bid To Kidnap Singer's Wife LOS ANGELES, June 15, (Reuter) Wilburn Davison, an ex-convict arrested here last month on a robbery charge, told Police and reporters yesterday that he had planned to kidnap singer Bin? Crosby's actress wife, Kathryn Grant, and hold her for $100,000 ransom. He
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    • 167 12 WEDNESBURY. England. June 15, (Reuter)— Teenagers are being recruited as Special Constables in this town and nearby Darlaston to help in the fight against gangs of their own ageA These two midland towns are accepting boys and girls as "Specials" at the age
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    • 172 12 WASHINGTON, June 15 (IPI)— F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover yesterday warned that the Communist threat in America i "as great a menace not more so— than it ever has been." At the sa:i > :oover placed the principc. on parents for the juvenile delinquency rate.
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    • 68 12 MANILA, June 15 (UPI) President Carlos P. Gr left for the United Slate day, hoping that the US give '"sympathy" to sion in Washington I deeper the roots of Phi American friendship" and establish a '"firmer toundai of his country's e Mr. Garcia said he
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