Singapore Standard, 18 June 1958

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  • 21 1 Singapore Standard Telephone *****—5 Coble "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1958 Vol. VIM. No. 350 15 cts. 14 Pages [FINAL EDITION]
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  • 183 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. American Secretary of State, Mi. John Foster Dulles and the American Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Mr. C. Douglas Dillon, have assured Malaya that her appeal for financial assistance would receive careful consideration from the U.S. Government. Their assurances were conveyed to the
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  • 496 1 DRAMATIC FATE OF NAGY. PAL MALETER Hungarian Revolt Heroes Die After Husk-Hush Trial BUDAPEST, June 17, (UPl)— Former Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy, a liberal Communist who led the October 1956 revolt against the Soviet Union, has been executed for high treason, the Government announced here today. Executed with
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  • 177 1 INOCULATION AGAINST CHOLERA AT AIRPORT 50 Colony Airline Employees Get 'Jabs AS a preventive measure the Singapore Airport health authorities ordered all airline employees, bar and restaurant staff at the airport to be inoculated against cholera yesterday. The directive came In a circular from the Airport Manager, Mr. P. W.
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  • 94 1 Doctors Are Nuts Ike WASHINGTON. June 17 (Reuter) President Eisenhower said today his doctors wanted him to avoid the high altitude m Colorado because of his heart attack there m 1955. "but 1 think they're nuts." Talking: to a group of boy scouts from Colorado, who had called on him
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  • 121 1 TUNKU: ONE NIGHT STOP IN COLONY PRIME Minister of the Federation of Malaya, Tunku Abdul Rahman, is scheduled to arrive m Singapore by air tonight at 7.30 en route to Mecca the Publicity Officer of the Colony UMNO, Inche Shariff Darns, told The Standard yesterday. The Tunku is not taking
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  • 23 1 THE British cruiser Newcastle, commanded by Captain A.H.C. Gordon Lennox, arrived yesterday at Yokohama, near Tokyo, for a iour-day visit.- Reuter
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  • 220 1 SINGAPORE Police last Saturday and on Monday detained seven people m connection with the seizure of an illegal printing press and a large quantity of publications which had "no indication of the source." Among the people detained were a People's Action Party Branch official
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  • 53 1 Death Penalty Sought For 3 In Jakarta JAKARTA. June 17 (UPI)— An Indonesian military prosecutor today demanded the death sentence for three of the four principal defendants charged with attempting the hand-grenade assassination of President Sukarno last November. 30 Major Surjosediono asked the cotsrt to sentence the fourth defendant to
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  • 46 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Keeper of the Rulers' Seal officially announces that the new moon to determine the first Dzulhijjah has not been sighted anywhere m the Federation or Singapore. Hari Raya Haji therefore falls on Saturday, June 28.
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  • 31 1 BRITAIN has invited the Prime Ministers of Greece and Turkey to an emergency conference to head off the threat of war over Cyprus, Government sources said m London today.- UPI
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  • 31 1 Standardpic by GENERAL Sir Francis Festing, Commandcr-in-Chief of the Far East Land Forces lays the foundation stone of the Commonwealth's giant cantonment m Bukii Terendak. Malacca, yesterday Fah
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  • 170 1  -  ANDREW ROTH From LONDON, Tues. Despite yesterday's panic selling by speculators, there is not likely to be any change m the current 40 per cent restriction on tin export as a result of today's tin council meeting m Paris. Yesterday's speculative sellIng
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  • 105 1 LONDON. June 17 (Reuter) —More than 7,700 dockers about a quarter of London dockland's total strengthwere still on strike this morning despite the Government decision last night to investigate the nine-week-old dispute at Smithfield Meat Market, the cause of the dockers' stoppage. Four ships were undermanned
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  • 121 1 RIO DE JANEIRO, June 17 (UPI) A Brazilian airliner carrying 27 persons crashed into a tree near ihe Curitiba airport last night, killing 19 persons including a former vice-president of Brazil. Two other leading government officials also were listed among the dead Several of
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  • 301 1 LONDON, June 17, (Reuter) —A London doctor Is to leave his surgery and 5.000 working class patients on Thursday to fly to North Borneo to treat the Sultan of Brunei. The doctor said today he had -agreed to leave his patients only after repeated requests
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  • 56 2 SEAH Chee Yin. was yesterday remanded by a Singapore Court after a charge of armed robbery was read out and explained to him. He was alleged to have robbed Madam Lee Siew Gim of cash and jewellery worth $400 while armed with a revolver at Silat
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  • 188 2 I Cant Interfere At Deliberations, Says Minister SINGAPORE City Councillors should not induce m politics m Council proceedings, Inche Abdul Htm d bin Haji Jumat, Minister for Local Government, Lands and Housing:, said yesterday. Inche Jumat was speaking at a civics course to a group
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  • 469 2 COFFEE-STALL waitress met her death the third time she went out with the same man, it was stated at the continued hearing of a murder trial m the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. Appearing on a charge of murdering the waitress. Lijah binte Awang, 32.
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  • 312 2 IPOH, Tues. Suspected secret society "warfare," whicn had been quiet for the past two months, flared up again last night and this morning when two stabbing incidents occurred m the notorious "gangland" area of Menglembu and Falim suburbs of Ipoh resulting m the death
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  • 109 2 MR. A. J. Thomas, former head of the British Council m Singapore, yesterday waxed optimistic about the cultural and educational progress of the Colony. Mr. Thomas who left for Britain on the liner Stratheden told The Standard that Singapore could no longer be referred to as
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  • 186 2 MISS EVE DIXON, a secretary at the CommissionerGeneral s Office, yesterday left Singapore for Britain by Qantas-BOAC Super Constellation to finalise plans for her wedding. Miss Dixon, 2j, will marry Captain Peter Waring, an A.D.C. to the Governor of Singapore, Sir William Goode. Capt. Waring.
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  • 121 2 TWO P.C's BEATEN UP IN BAR TWO off-duty Constables were attacked with iron bars when they intervened m a fight m a bar at Lavender Street, Singapore, on Monday night. One constable was warded m the General Hospital with a fractured arm, the other who sustained head injuries received out-patient
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  • 132 2 A WOMAN with a big job^ that's Miss Lee Tyler, er uf Pacific Travel News and head of the Pacific Travel Association's publicity department. Miss Tyler arrived m Singapore last night on a round-the-Pacific trip with a r, book to write a serif articles for
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  • 183 2 SINGAPORE. under the title "The Crossroads City," is featured as a Pacific tourist attraction m the latest issue of the Pacific Area Travel Association monthly, "Pacific Travel News." The cover of the magazine also prints a photograph of the city's typical Lion Da/ice performed for visiting
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  • EDITORIAL • SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 511 3 THE vital role which the younger generation will be called upon to play m the future to ensure the stability of Singapore under its new constitution has once again been emphasized this time by the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, when he addressed the students of the
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    • 350 3 MALAYA'S defeat m the Thomas Cup competition has, with justification, become a subject of much heated discussion and criticism. The word "defeat" has come to be regarded as too mild a term. Sporting circles m the Colony, discontented and indignant over the showing of the Malayan team, have
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  • 2165 3 The BALANCE of TERROR MISSILE-AGE STRATEGY-(l) This is the first of two important articles by Alastair Buchan, The Observer Defence Correspondent, who served on the planning staff for the Allied invasion of Europe m 1944 and the winner of the Atlantic Community Award for the best articles by a British
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  • We, the PEOPLE
    • 140 3 Sir If the Government of Mr. Lim Yew Hock is m favour of ultimate merger with the Federation, I hope it wiil point out to the United States Government m the strongest terms that the $30 million for the development of Port Swettenham is an unnecessary expenditure m
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    • 177 3 Sir The last sentence of your editorial entitled "Foreign Capital" in The Standard of June 16 that "the economic predicament m which Ceylon is placed today is evidence of the failure of nationalization and the ill-effects it can have on industrial and commercial development" would give one the impression
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  • 435 3 the NEWS as it strikes me Fit a healthy sign that Singapore women have, at long last, awakened to the realities of life m the Colony and have decided it is time they faced up to their responsibilities which, as they now should know, are not solely confined to their
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  • 344 4 Do Thugs Prefer Whisky To Beer, Asks A Lawyer A COLONY lawyer yesterday raised three points on ITie effect of beer and stout as against whisky and brandy on secret society members, at the quarterly public meeting of the Singapore Board of Licensing Justices, held at
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  • 174 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Indonesian Ambassador to Malaya, Dr. Mohamad Radzif, flew to Jakarta on Sunday to inquire from his Government the reason for the delay m allowing seven Federation teachers to study the development of the Malay language m the Republic. The
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  • 262 4 No Decision Yet On Awards For Expats A SPECIAL meeting of the Singapore City Council Finance and General Purposes Committee met yesterday to consider a Malayanization scheme to be offered to expatriate officers. The committee was unable to take a decision on compensation to be given to officers under the
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  • 57 4 KUALA LIPIS, Tues. A shop-assistant, Loh Yip Hing, 51, of Jelai Street, here, was yesterday fined $250 or 10 weeks' jail for possession of a small tin of chandu dross and two opium smoking pipes, which were seized from his room during a police raid on
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  • 55 4 IPOH. Tues. A Colombo Plan scholar. Dr. Raymond Leong, son of an Ipoh tin miner, Mr. Leong Chan Seong, returned yesterday after spending six years m the Sydney University. Dr. Leong is on a week's holiday here with his family before taking up an appointment
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  • 144 4 MALACCA, Tues. Khadin bin Khamsah, 20. who has a series of convictions behind him was described by the President of the Sessions Court, Mr. K. Somasundram, as a "social menace and a disgrace to the State of Trengganu" from where he had come. Khadin had
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  • 55 4 MR. H. J. STACEY of the Traffic Department of the Singapore Harbour Board was given a rousing farewell by his fellow workers yesterday before he sailed for Britain after 13 years' service with the SHB. Above, President of the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association, Mr. M.
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  • 187 4 ONE of Britain's all-time greats of stage and screen, Margaret Rutherford, yesterday said she would appear "on stage" here if she was invited. The actress arrived m Singapore yesterday aboard the liner Stratheden en route to Britain, after a successful fight-month stage
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  • 70 4 MR. RAYMOND Greaves, representative of J.W. Walker and Sons, the well-known church organ-builders of London, will arrive m Singapore on Sunday to make a report on the organ at St. Andrew's Cathedral. During his ten -day stay m the Colony, he will also give advice
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  • 47 4 ABDUL Rahman bin Noordin, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of being a member of an unlawful assembly and causing hurt to Tan Kirn Sai In a shop at Joo Chiat Road on Sunday, was yesterday allowed ball by a Singapore Court pending trial.
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  • 147 4 SEVEN hundred officers and men of the First Battalion, the Sherwood Foresters will arrive m Singapore by sea tomorrow to help Malaya eliminate the Communist terrortst remnants m the jungles. The Foresters, under the command of Lt. Col. M. J. DA. Blackman, will be without their
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  • 324 4 THE Singapore City Council Labour In ions Federation yesterday asked the Council to re-open negotiations on its 22 demands. t In a letter to the Council's Chief Administrative Officer. Mr. R. Middleton-Smith. ttie Federation stated that it ws ready to resume negotiations
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  • 145 4 Learn To Smile, He Advises Shopmen MR. W. CARMODY, a leading Australian hotel owner, yesterday deplored the attitude of shopkeepers m Singapore towards tourists. Mr. Carmody, who left Singapore by Qantas-BOAC for Hongkong, and Japan, said he had found that shopkeepers m the Colony were indifferent to tourists. "They lack
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  • 148 4 Jailed For Shooting Woman MUAR, Tues A former special constable, who was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Hepworth m March for the alleged murder of a woman rubber tapper, was sentenced to two years by Mr. Justice Smith today on a lesser charge of c»u death by a negligent
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  • 142 5 WASHINGTON socialites whetted their appetites on Malayan and Middle Eastern food when they attended a benefit party early this month to raise funds for the International House planned by the Club International of Washington D.C. Malaya's culinary contribution came from Mrs. Ahmad Hashim. wife of the Second
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  • 235 5 THE Local Senior Officers* Association of the Singapore City Council yesterday urged immediate Malayanization of the post of City Analyst The Association, m a letter presented at the Council's Finance and General Purposes Committee, yesterday said that it was "greatly perturbed" over
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  • 198 5 DOPE CHARGE: TAILOR IS FINED $2,000 PENANG Tues. When Revenue Officers smelled opium irom a basket oi man. goes brougnt by a passenger irom the State of Madras. ri arrived from India, opened the basket and pounds of prepared opium inside. This was stated by Senior Revenue Officer. Mr. Kan
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  • 41 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A porter K. Supramaniarri, 37, fell from a height of 15 feet at the Railway Station here, while changing the signboard of the stationary mail train. He sprained his left ankle and right knee.
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  • 31 5 JOHN Hoelscher, was yesterday fined $15 by the Sin. gapore City Court after he pleaded guilty to falling to furnish his income tax returns for the year 1957.
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  • 39 5 ASSISTANT Controller of Customs, Mr. P. H. Durgess (left), is seen dancing the joget at the Selangor Services Customs Union's 12th Anniversary, celebrated at the UMNO Building on Sunday m Kuala Lumpur. Standard by Fah.
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  • 587 5 Allegation Of Councillors Drunken State MALACCA, Tues. A motor engineer, Tan Keng Leong, attached to Wearne Brothers, alleged m Court today that ne was shocked to find a Municipal Councillor, Mr. J. L. De Cruz, m a state of drunkenness 'nd passing uncomplimentary remarks when
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  • 92 5 PENANG, Tues. Six silver cups will be presented as prizes for the best-decorated business houses, m connection with the Penang Land and Water Festival. The judging will take place on June 20, and the presentation of prizes on June 22, chairman of the Decorations
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  • 106 5 Independence Day: Square Dance At Club AMERICAN Independence Day (July 4) will be celebrated at the Singapore American Club on the night of July 5 with a real old-fashioned Hoe-Down or Square Dance, starting at 10 o'clock. Members and their guests are asked to dress "to fit the occasion." which
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  • 53 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A schoolboy, Zainal Abidin bin Osman, 17, was stabbed on his right palm at Petaling Jaya yesterday. According to a Police report Zainal was attacked m a quarrel with some other youths at the children's play-ground m Jalan Othman. He was treated as an outpatient
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  • 212 5 MTUC To Discuss Detention Of David KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The central committee of the Malayan Trades Union Council will hold a special meeting on June 29 to discuss the detention of Mr. V. David. Kuaia Lumpur Municipal Councillor and general secretary of the National Union of Factory and General Workers,
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  • 84 5 PENANG, Tues. The Governor of Penang, Raja Sir Uda. chose the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis as the charitable organization to benefit from the $500 donation made by the management of the Cathay Cinema m the showing of "The Sad Sack" as a Malaya
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  • 240 5 THE Assistant Coroner, Inche Ahmed bin Hussein, yesterday returned an open verdict at the inquest on a 15-year-oid student, whose naked and nearly limbless body was found on a railway track, off Woodlands Road, Singapore, on the morning of April 27. The youth.
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  • 74 5 IPOH, Tues. A 28-year-old Special Constable of Bu*dt Merah New Village. Hassan bin Abdullah, was charged before Magistrate Tengku Ahmad Rithaudeen, today, with attempted murder of a colleague. Hassan was alleged to have fired a shot at Corporal. Daud bin Mat 30, at the main gate of
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  • 34 5 SEGAMAT, Tues.— A P.W.D. labourer, Jaffar bin Ahmad, died yesterday when he was struck by lightning. His son who was nearby, was also struck, but is recovering m the General Hospital.
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  • 67 5 IPOH, Tues. General Sir James Cassels, Director of Operations, Malaya, visited Tapah this morning and met members of the District War Executive Committee who weie presented to him by the District 'Officer. Batang Padang. Tuan Syed Zaharuddin The General was briefed on the latest situation m
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  • 87 5 IPOH, Tues. A local lawyer, Mr. Gregory Chan, son of the late Mr. K. C. Chan, the Ipoh lawyer, will marry a beauty culturist. Miss Margaret Llew, at the St. Michael's Church here on Saturday. Mr. Chan Jr. returned from England early last year after
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  • 453 6 Gen. Festing Lays Foundation Stone Of $62 Mil. Scheme BUKIT TERENDAK, (Malacca), Tues. The foundation stone of one of the biggest cantonments m this part of the world to house the Commonwealth's strategic reserve m the Far East was laid here today by the retiring Com
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  • 82 6 PERAK'S "Golden Voice" winners, all from the Ipoh Telephone Exchange, who will represent the State m the PanMalayan contest to be held m Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 1 and 2. The State top prize winner is 24 year old Miss Thesera de Rozario (centre), flanked by Miss
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  • 136 6 Sergeant Tells Of Incident In Hospital ALOR STAR, Tues.—Auxiliary Police Sergeant. Gurdial Singh, alleged today that a man bitten by a dog was refused treatment by the hospital assistant m charge of the casualty ward of the General Hospital here. He was speaking at the annual general meeting of the
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  • 61 6 PENANG, Tues— The international concert comedienne. Miss Anna Russell, will make her personal appearance at the St. Xavier's Institution Hall at 9 p.m. tomorrow. The programme will be selected from Miss Russell's repertoire. She writes, composes, arranges and performs her own material. Mr. Eugene Rankin will be
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  • 256 6 PENANG, Tues. An ex-Policeman, Leow Wan Hon, who Sessions Judge, Mr. Au Ah Wan, said, "seemed well acquainted with the ways of the Communists" was today sentenced to 15 months' jail on a charge of attempted extortion. Leow pleaded guilty to attempting to put a
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  • 363 6 PENANG, Tues. The Director of Marine, Federation of Malaya, Captain W. L. Morrison, told The Standard today that the Marine Department occupied a "Cinderella position" m the country he considered it a great pity that the value of the department had not been
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  • 291 6 Red Quits When Told Of Lover's Surrender IPOH, Tues— After hearing a "voice aircraft" message informing him of the surrender of his lover, Yau Fook, 22, bodyguard of the notorious State Committee member Cheong Man (killed on May 29 m the Kuala Kangsar area) surrendered to a rubber tapper m
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  • 79 6 PEXANG, Tues. New investigators m the survey of urban unemployment m George Town had to engage guides m certain areas when they found great difficulty m locating houses. This was disclosed by the State Commissioner for Labour, Mr. K. S. Naidu, today. The survey of urban
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  • 176 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Lee Seng, convicted fo r bicycle theft was on his way back to Pudu Prison from the Magistrate's Court when he escaped. The Selangor C.I.D. Chief, Mr. T. Hamilton, said today that Lee was escorted back to the prison by a
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  • 342 7 Police Evidence At Murder Trial IPOH, Tues. A dying man. who was rushed to the lpoh Hospital on Jan. 13 this year, named his assailant to a Police Sergeant, the Perak High Court was told today at the trial of a young Sikh on a charge
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  • 157 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) m Singapore yesterday were Buyers Sellers Spot 741 75 R.S.S. No. 1 74| 74s (August) 74 74} R.S.S. No. 2 721 72* R.S S. No. 3 631 65* Tone: Steady quiet. The price of tin m Singapore yesterday was $369 (unchanged)
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  • 44 7 CLAIMS made by Prince Louis von Hessen against the Belgian State and Belgian Airline have been dismissed by a Brussels court. He was seeking damages for the death of five members of his family m an air crash, 21 years ago. UPI
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  • 164 7 THE 400-strong Singapore Stanvac Employees' Union yesterday threatened to call a strike of its members to force the management to re-instate a colleague woo was dismissed m August 1956. The union's secretary, Mr. S. Murthy told The Standard yesterday that the management had been given
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  • 20 7 THE Federation of Malaya will become a full fledged member of the World Meteorological Organization as from today.
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  • 78 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Federal Legislative Council will be called upon at its meeting tomorrow to endorse a bill giving statutory authority to government to spend an additional $2,968,739 on the Public Services. The lion's share of $1,036.--500 will go to the Federation Army, while
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  • 43 7 DURING his State visit to X elan tan, the King planted a Pokok Batai (a shade tree with yellow flowers) at Medan Tuan Padang, Kota Bharu. Next to His Majesty is Dato Lela Jasa, President of the Town Council.
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  • 255 7 SINGAPORE Government will be urged to introduce legislation to regulate the service conditions of working journalists m the colony. A resolution to this effect tabled by the executive committee of the Singapore Union of Journalists will come up for discussion at the union's annual general
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  • 23 7 SAFE-CRACKERS dynamited a safe at an egg-packing plant but without cracking a single egg. Police told a London court yesterday.- UPI
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  • 191 7 FEAF Ends Ten Years' Campaign THE Far East Air Force yesterday described its one decade of operations against the Malayan Communist terrorists as "the longest campaign the world has known since Napoleon." The FEAF will be entering its 11th year of operations shortly, equipped with modern aircraft, the statement revealed.
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  • 35 7 SINGAPORE UMNO Councillor for Tanglin. Inche Mohamad Shariff bin Doliah yesterday asked his electorate to contact him at his new office, 85 Selegie Road (Tel. *****), for any assistance or advice they needed.
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  • 146 7 ASSEMBLYMAN Lee Choon Eng yesterday called upon the various kronchong and dramatic parties m Singapore to "unite under the banner" of the Straits Chinese British Association. These parties organised by the local-born or pranakans to revive the old kronchong and dramatic shows m aid of
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  • 138 9 Britain Plans Import Quotas BRITAIN'S Board of Trade has announced that it proposes to establish commercial quotas for imports of all fresh, dried and canned fruit from the dollar area. The actual level of dollar area fruit imports into the U.K. will remain the same at around U. 5.520,000,000 f.o.b.
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  • 97 9 US Economic Aid At $5,000 Mil. A UNITED NATIONS summary of foreign economic aid to newly-developing countries through both bilateral and multilateral channels shows the total of United States aid at about U555,000,000,000 a year. The U.S. total for the fiscal year 1956-57 includes governmental grants, loans and commodity supply
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  • 27 9 A PAKISTAN development corporation and a Kobe firm are jointly to put up a fertilizer factory at Fenchugunj m the northern area of East Pakistan.
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  • 212 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Prime Minister, TunKu Abdul Rahman, declared today that any move to introduce a proportional system of imports based on the communities Chinese, Malays and Indians will at once bring about a "Black Market" m the country. He was replying to the
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  • 33 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes m fts rates to merchants yesterday: Selling. T.T. or O.D. ready: French Francs *****; Belgian Francs 1613-1/4. Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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  • 60 9 Drop In May Imports TIN imports "into Malaya m May totalled 905 tons, against 1.143 tons m the previous month. Total imports m the first five months amounted to 5,076 tons, against 7,046 tons m the same period m 1957. Of the May imports, Thailand sent 809 tons (4,240 tons
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  • 205 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues— A call to nations represented at the International Labour Organization Con ference m session m Geneva to conclude fair commodity price stabilization agreements with Malaya, was mad yesterday by the Federation's ILO delegate to the talks Mr. K. V. Thaver. Mr. Thaver's
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  • 130 9 Industrials Are Quietly Steady INDUSTRIALS were quietly steady, tins weak while rubbers were featureless m the Malayan share market yesterday. A fair turnover was reported. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were:- INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Gammon 1.95 2.00 S Traders ($1) 1.30 133 MININGS Berjuntai 11/- 11/3 Idris
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  • 160 9 Business In Shares MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done yesterday Fed. Disp. $1; F. and N ords. $2.48; Gammon $1.97; Georgetown Disp. $1.71J: Hammer $1.56; M. Breweries debentures 85c. 80c odd lot; M. Cement $1.34£; M Box $1.70. $1.71; Robinson ords. $1.60; Steamship 71c; Straits Times $1.65; S. Traders
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  • 61 9 DRYNESS is threatening Canada's 1958 wheat crop, with early rains needed to avert extensive damage. Rain is urgently needed over wide areas of the Prairie Provinces to prevent erosion and to promote germination and growth of grain crops. Scanty rainfall and high winds have depleted surface soil
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  • 43 9 THE ARGENTINE National Meat Board has approved the export of about 18,000,000 pounds of cured or salted beef to the United States. Current high prices for manufacturing beef m the United States account for these unusually large shipments.
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  • 99 9 SINGAPORfc Chiueae Pn> duce Exchange noon closing price* ne» oicu 1 vesterrtsv were: copra June/ July U.K Continent $32* buyers $32j sellers coconut oil m bulk $48 sellers; m drums $51 1 sellers: Muntok white pepper $121 sellers; Sarawak white $120 sellers; Special Sarawak black $69. Singapore Copra
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  • 465 9 RUBBER EXPORTS TOP RECORD Finance And Commerce 5 -month Shipment Highest In 6 Years MALAYAN exports of rubber to all destinations m the first five months this year, totalling 440,696 long tons, were the highest ever, compared with the corresponding periods for the six yean since 1952. <Jun.uiative figures issued
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  • 62 9 MEXICO'S 1957-58 rice production was four per rent above that of the preceding year, despite drought m important rice areas. Outlook m 1958-59 is for an even larger area than last year with a new increase m production. The 1957-58 crop is now estimated at 245,000
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  • 102 9 COTTON exports from Brazil during August-March 1957-58 were 115.000 bales (500 pounds gro> This is a decline of 44 per cent from 206.000 bales exported during the same months m 1956-57. and 72 per cent below exports of 410.000 bales m August -March 1955--56. The decline
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  • 167 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Federation of Malaya's permissible export quota for the third quarter from July 1 to Sept. 30 this year under the International Tin Control Agreement is 186.000 piculs of tin concentrates. This was officially announced here today. The export quota
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  • 187 9 OITER ROADS London Maru Rotti. Tokoyo Maru, Panehan, Valles. B. Kumelniteky, Fernmoor, Eisho Maru. Ordia, Barumun. Lapaz. Nikolay Buroenke. Teiresias. Ringhorn, Gordian, Hoegn Cape, Bakongan. Prima Maersk. Troon Breeze. Straat Bali, Julia Lidis. Ste. Pendopo, M*usi. Banggaai, Clan Macbride. Theta Star, Batoela, Tosui Maru, Van Cloon. El
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  • 93 9 UNITED STATES Government has extended an invitation ta trade and business leaders m Malaya and Singapore to take part m the first California International Trade Fair and Industrial Exposition, to be held m Los Angeles from April 1 to 12 next year. Site of the Fair will
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    • 411 9 Regular Service SINGAPORE RANGOON/SINGAPORE UNION OF BURMA SHIPPINC BOARD M.S. "PYIDAWAYE" IN PORT SAILINC ON THE 20th |UNE 1958 Accept Cargoes b Passengers tor PENANG. MERGUI. MOULMEIN b RANGOON Please Contact International Shipping Agency. 87. Neil Road. Singapore 2 Tel. *****—***** PELN MINES 12 ROBINSON ROAD ***** (Freight— /Through Cargo
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  • 864 10 TT WAS decided m 1955 that the Settlement of Malacca offered the best location for the Commonwealth Brigade Group, the strategic reserve m the Far East theatre. The Brigade Group consists of British. Australian and New Zealand troops with a full quota of supporting administrative units and
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  • 18 10 Community Centre. Junior Ranks Club. The Church. Beach Club. Married Officers 1 Quarters
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  • 608 11 HE AH 'BOMBSHELL: WRONG TIME AND PLACE' Says SBA President 'Acknowledge The Better Team Won' THE President of the Singapore Badminton Association, Mr. Wee Kirn Wee, described the attack on Malaya's defeated Thomas Cup team by Mr. Heah Joo Seang, Badminton Association of Malaya president, as 'ill-timed.' "Mr. Heah may
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  • 115 11 WIMBLEDON, Surrey: Christine Truman, 17--year-old, 6-foot prodigy of British tennis, shakes hands with America's leading tennis girl Althea Gibson after she had sprung the season's surprise m aeating her 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, before a crowd of 5,000. Christine, playing her second-only game m a Wightman Cup series, came
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  • 137 11 FEAF Team For N. Borneo A Far East Air Force Cricket team will fly to North Borneo on Saturday to play a week-end match against a combined Jesselton and Sandukan team at Jesselton. RAF team will be captained by Flyiru Officer Reid, player, and g players who m this year's
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  • 151 11 The Tunku: Chief Of Asian Soccer KI'AL A LUMPUR. Tues. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman today received a letter of congratulations from the Vice-President of the Asian Football Confederation, Mr. J. M. Cleland, who informed him from Manila that he had been unanimously elected as President of the Confederation for
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  • 88 11 IPOH, Tues. Peraks top s are expected to compete c annual 65-Miles Road Race to be held from Ipoh to Lumut on Sunday, June 29. On the same day an e\ent schoolboy cyclists, from Bruas about 40 miles b e held. The main road race will start
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  • 28 11 HUME Sports Club will hold a dinner at the Singapore Hotel (Roof Garden) on Saturday at 8.00 p.m. to mark the sth anniversary of the club.
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  • 311 11 Amicables Are Unlucky Not To Beat Dockyard AMICABLE Athletic Association obtained their first point m the SAFA division 1 league when they held H.M. Dockyard to a 2-all drawn at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. I This was the third game for the Amicables. winners of the senior cup last year.
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  • SPORTS LETTER
    • 404 11 He Agrees: Immediate Inquiry Needed Sir, I fully agree with Ken Jalleh (S.S. 16th June) that there should be an immediate inquiry by the Badminton Association of Malaya as to why Malaya's top stars m this defence of the Thomas Cup were not as fit as they should be m
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  • 149 11 BANNED PLAYER GOES HOME LONDON, June 17 (Reuter) —Giuseppe Merlo. the Italian Lawn Tennis player, who heard yesterday that his country had banned him from playing m the Wimbledon championships next week will leave here for Italy by air this afternoon. Merlo, who was also ordered to withdraw from the
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  • 63 11 ALOR STAR. Tues.— Kedah's team against Perlis m HMS. Malaya Cup soccer competition to take place at Kangar on Friday will be selected from the following Shih Peng Cheong, Chean Soon Lay, Lambert, Ahm:ad Mansor. Noor Ahmad, Omar Zainuddin. Mustaffa Ahmad, Yahaya Ariffin, Aziz Sutan, Syed
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  • 145 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Kuala Lumour Police trounced Municipal Sports Club by 8-1 m a F.A.S. first Division Business Houses and Govern Departments League 1 Taylor Road I here today. Th< oal Sports Club have only themselves to blame lor this heavy defeat. They had an equal
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  • 120 11 PENANG TENNIS SURPRISE PENANG, Tues. Penang junior champion, Tan Song Kean, extended seeded Leong Siew Weng of Ipoh to three sets before he went down m the men's singles of the Penang Lawn Tennis Association championships played at the Penang Sports Club courts yesterday. Leong, after losing the first set
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  • 45 11 BUENOS AIRES, June 17. (Reuter) Angry football fans stoned the Argentine Football Association's headquarters here last night as a protest against the National teams 6-1 defeat by Czechoslovakia m the World Cup series m Sweden. Windows were shattered, but thert were no casualties.
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  • 37 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Kilat Club scored their biggest victory m the Selangor Football Association second division Business Houses League match when they trounced Singapore Cold Storage 17-3 on the Cheras road ground today..
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  • 77 11 SINGAPORE SOCCER: S.G.S.F.A. Senior K.O. Competition. P.W.D. vs MRNVR at Geylang: S.T.B. vs P. &T. "A" at J. Besar at 5.15 p.m.; Marines "A" vs T.T.S.H. "A" at J. Besar at f 6.25 p.m. Junior X.0.; Police "B" vs Customs at S.T.C.; Yeo Chu Kang vs Education at
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  • 205 11 LONDON, June 17 (Reuter) Australians Ashley Cooper «nd Mai Anderson have been seeded first and second for the men's singles m the Wimbledon championships which begin next Monday. In the women's singles, defending champion Althea Gibson, 30-year-old New York Negress, is number one
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  • 9 11 Robert and Cynthia Clotworthy.
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  • 162 11 Intensive Training For Services XI BEARING m mind their defeats earlier m the season, the Combined Services team have been carrying out an intensive programme of training under Coach Sgt. Dave Bagshaw at the Naval Base, prior to the first round of the Malaya Cup match against Selangor on Saturday
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  • 119 11 LONDON, June 17 (Reuter) Jim Laker, the Surrey and England spin bowler, is likely to miss the second cricket Test against New Zealand because of a chipped knuckle bone. Laker sustained the injury when batting for Surrey against Yorkshire yesterday. Another England player, Colin
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  • 49 11 ASCOT, June 17 (Reuter)— j Mr. M. Cowley's Sandiacre won the Ascot Stakes run i over two miles and a half. Mr. T. F. C. Frost's Seleucus was second with Mr. J. J. Astor's Garibaldi third. 19 i ran. Sandiacre won by one and a half lengths.
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  • 112 11 IPOH. Tues. This weekend's Malayan Cricket Association's league encounter between Perak and Pahang m Ipoh will be played on the Coronation Park ground instead of the padang. This change is necessary because the town padang is being used for the Perak sports meeting. Perak's acquisition, G. N.
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  • 332 11 US Olympian To Show S'pore How American OlymDic diving champion, Robert Lynn Clotworthy. flew into Singapore last night by a Japan Air Lines Pacific Courier, and was shocked to find a battery of Pi photographers waiting for him at the airport. "Gosh, what's all this. Am I facing a police
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  • 27 11 RAJAJI Sports Club Just managed to beat Kong Wah Sports Club by three goals to two m a friendly soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday.
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  • 261 12 PIRIE PLANS TO PULVERISE STAN ELDON ON SATURDAY LONDON, Tues. GORDON PIRIE plans to pulverise Britain's Stan Eldnn. fastest three miler this season, at the Southern three miles, Uxbridge, next Saturday, the day before the Empiie Games selectors meet. In view of Eldon's form, this means breaking the English three-mile
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  • 122 12 3rd TEST PROCEEDS STOLEN SYDNEY. June 17 (Reuter) More than £Al,ooo (.Malayan $6,500) m cash and CAIS6 worth of tickets for the England-Australia Third rugby league Test match m Sydney were stolen early today by cracksmen who broke into the North Sydney Leagues' Club and carried away the Club's safe.
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  • 242 12 MALACCA. Tues.— The Prison staff of the Henry Gurney School here swept the board m the annual Prisons Dept. Federation of Malaya sports held at Teluk Mas on Saturday. A close second were Taiping Prison while Kelantan took third place. C. Perera of th e Henry
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  • 43 12 SEGAMAT. Tues. 22nd Cheshire Regiment, who are favourites to win the Hakka Community Shield m the Segamat District Football League, scored a sparkling 5-fl win against a Segamat XI m the first Segamat District trial on the town ground on Sunday.
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  • 62 12 LOS ANGELES. June 17 (AFP» Al WeilU former manager of retired world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano, has announced to the California State Boxing Commission he is considering organizing a world heavyweight title fight between Floyd Patterson and Roy Harris m Los Angeles on August 4. He
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  • Article, Illustration
    93 12 Picture by Piclure by MEMBERS of the Skeat House, winners of the InterHouse Athletic Challenge Cup, are seen with trophies they won during the 12th Postwar Annual Athletic Sports of the Anglo-Chinese School. Klang on Saturday. Mas. Jaswant Singh, the house captain, is seen at centre (front row) and Mr.
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    34 12 Standardpic by S. KANNIASEELAN is seen here receiving the trophy for the hop, step and Jump from Miss. Ruby Manassee at the Malayan Railways annual sports held at the Brickfields ground on Saturday. Fah
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  • 388 12  - CAN ENGLAND BEAT RUSSIA THIS TIME? VERNON MORGAN By STOCKHOLM, June 17 (Reuter) Three British countries England, Wales and Northern Ireland face three from Eastern Europe tonight to decide who joins West Germany (the holders), France, Brazil, Yugoslavia, and Sweden m the last eight of the 1958 World Cup football
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  • 37 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Survey Sports Union held Railway- Recreation Club Brickfields, to a 2-2 draw m a FAS second division match m the Business Houses and Government Dept. League on the Brickfields ground here today.
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  • 132 12 LONDON. June 17. <UPI)— Ashley Cooper, the Australian favorite for the men s singles title at the Wimbledon championships, today withdrew from the men's singles m the London championships at the Queen's Club. Cooper, who holds the men's title. j« nursing a slightly torn right thigh muscle,
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  • 86 12 FOLLOWING were elected office-bearers of the Victor Badminton Party. President: Mr. Siow Watt Soon; Vice-President: Mr. Michael Lim; Hon. Secretary: Miss Lily Tan; Hon. Treasurer: Mr. A. H. Marzuki; Hon. Sports Captain Mr Ali bin Kasmani; Asst. Sports Captain: Mr. Chua Poh Khoon; Hon. Auditor: Miss Siow
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  • 93 12 ROEHAMPTON, Surrey June 17 (Reuter). Sheng Kang Wu and Sheng-Hua Chu. of Shanghai, who are honing to become the first Chinese to play m the Wimbledon lawn tennis championships, took a step towards qualifying heie yesterday. Both won their first round matches m the qualifying competition at
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  • 110 12 JAP HORSE IMPRESSES IN TRAINING HOLLYWOOD PARK. California June 17 (Reuter)— Hakuchi kara described here as the "Flame red invader from Japan M was impressed m training. One outing m which he covered the last eighth of a mile m 11.4 seconds, is commented upon by Braven Dyer a Los
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  • 78 12 THE following were elected to serve on the Muslim New Year Sports committee: Chairman Kemal Saddique; V/ Chairman Ahmad Hassan Saddique. Ahmad bin Husain. Hon. Asst. Secretary: Ahmad Khan Surattee: Hon Asst. Sec. Karimuddin bin Nairn Treasurer: T. A. Hamid. Haji A. Wanjor. Anwar Husain, Daud Tamri. S.
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  • 425 12 All Is Set For Ascot Lucky White Heather Is The Fancy ASCOT. Berkshire, June 17, (Reuter) Royal Ascot, one of the h points of Britain's social season as well as a great festival of thoroughbred racing, starts tomorrow. Everything is ready for one of the most splendid race meetings m
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  • 66 12 SEGAMAT, Tues. Twohundred and twenty competitors from nine teams havt entered for the Sega trict A. A. A. meet to be held on the town padang June IP and 20 at 3 p.m. The teams are P.W.D Polir« Circle, Segamat Chinese Recreation Club, 26th Gurkha Infantary Brigade.
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  • 76 12 THE following were elected to serve the Singapore 1 Tennis Association for 19' President— Mr. H. S. Chua, vice presidents Messrs Chan Kwok Ming, Ng Kuan M Loke Seek Cheong. Horace Wang; Hon Sec.— Mr. Choo Kwai Low, Hon Asst Sec. Mr Chow Kam Goon; Hon Treasurer—
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  • 31 12 SEGAMAT. Tues. Six teams Sungai Segarr.av Kampong Sermin. Kamporg Gemereh. Kampong Pogor Kampong Pekan Jabi an Jementah have entered the Kampong League for the Che' Ghani bin Rauf Trophy
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  • 603 13 ffgfg EDUCATIONAL television is showing every sign of becoming an integral part of the American school system. Recently it received three substantial boosts on its way to that position. In New York state, Governor Averell Harriman signed a bill appropriating US$6OO,--000 for daytime telecasts related to school curricula.
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  • 60 13 A SCENE from "April Shower" by the St. Hilda's School, winner of the Senior Drama performed recently at the Victoria Memorial Hall. The prod action was by Mrs. Connacher. A COURT scene from the play "The Sad Case of Cock Robin" enacted by the Raffles Girls' School, winner
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  • 189 13 ENTERTAINMENT Patty tunes the set to a programme of classical music. She explains to Jol that this programme features the best symphony orchestras m the US. The programme lasts 30 minutes and afterward some friends of Jim and Patty are coming over. Jol learns there are over
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    1055 13 By Our School Correspondents ABOUT a couple of years ago. Rev. Lester Phfan* ehuk. launched the idea of holding weekly meeting! m the form of Bible studies for several month! within the Presbyterian Boys' School. This idea fell on the ears of favour. able audience mainly senior pupils
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 211 14 LONDON, June 17 (Reuter) A rare action of slander between Freemasons ended today with judgment and costs awarded to the defendant. Mr. Louis Robinson. 55. a preceptor teacher of ritual —at a masonic lodge of instruction set up by Amicus Lodge and the Lodge
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    • 417 14 DE GAULLE "S A- ARMS PROPOSAL Premier 'Anxious' To Make France World's Fourth Nuclear Power PARIS, June 17 (UPI) Premier Charles de Gaulle will press an "offensive" to make France the world's fourth producer of atomic weapons, sources close to the Government said today. They said plans to expedite France's
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    • 302 14 New Red Move For Summit Confab? Russia's Recall Of Her Envoys MOSCOW, June 17 (Reuter) Russia's recall j of her ambassadors from Paris, Washington an d i London is interpreted here to mean that a major review of the prospects for a summit conference has been initiated m Moscow Since
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    • 74 14 SOUTHAMPTON, England. June 17, IUPI).— Ex-Queen Soraya of Iran locked herself into her State room on the liner Queen Elizabeth here ear'.y today under guard of a ship Policeman. She told newsmen who telephoned her cabin: "I am just an ordinary woman and do not want
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    • 88 14 ROME, June 17 (Reuter) An escaped murderer, Giovanni Sturno, ha s been recaptured after 14 years of freedom because a sharp-eyed Sicilian-born Policeman noticed that the name of a Sicilian village on his false identity card was spelled "Capezzi" instead of Capizzi. Sturno, sentenced to
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    • 132 14 Heat Wave Spreads To W. India NEW DELHI, June 17 (Reuter) Northern India's prolonged heatwave, m which well over 300 people have died, has spread westwards over Delhi and the Punjab. Four people died, including two out of 12 children admitted m hospital m Delhi yesterday, when the temperature reached
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    • 32 14 A learner-driver slammed his foot on the wrong pedal while trying to avoid a motorcyclist m Bristol. England. His car plunged into a river, killing him and a passenger. -U.P.I
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    • 269 14 Macmillan Submits A New Blueprint LONDON, June 17 (UPI) Prime Minister Harold Macmillan goes before Parliament today with a sevenyear plan designed to give limited self-rule to the strifetorn island of Cyprus, one of the few remaining outposts m Britain's dwindling overseas empire. The plan,
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    • 59 14 Photo. MILITARY Policemen and British troops are seen m action m the Turkish Quarter of Nicosia when further looting took place. Above, a Military Policeman leads out a bloodied civilian during the incident. A GreekCypriot was shot dead m the Turkish Quarter. The youth m the
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    • 179 14 ASIANS ASKED TO 'LOOK KINDLY ON AUSTRALIA' HONGKONG. June 17 (Reuter).—Sir Wilfred Kent Hughes, Chairman of the Australian Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, said here today that the destiny of the East would be Australia's destiny, and the history of the world m the next 100 years would be written m
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    • 178 14 BERLIN, June 17, (UPI) East Germany yesterday refused to release nine soldier hostages until the United States treated the Soviet zone's puppet regime as diplomatic equals. American officials cabled Washington they feared the eight officers and a sergeant captured on June 7 m a
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    • 52 14 TOKYO, June 17 (Reuter) —The Welfare Ministry today reported the year's first victim of Japanese encephalities (sleeping sickness). A five-year-old boy m the Kanagawa prefecture, adjacent prefecture of Tokyo, died yesterday of the disease. A spokesman said four other patients were now m hospitals m Tokyo and
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    • 192 14 LONDON, June 17 (Reuter> The number of suicides and attempted suicides among British youths aged 17 to 20 increased by 150 per cent Detween 1946 and 1956 according to a report published today by the Christian Economic and Social Research Foundation. "The increasing propensity for
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    • 169 14 NICOSIA MAYOR: THERE ARE DECENT BRITONS NICOSIA, June 17 (Reuter) Police stepped into the Ledra Palace Hotel here last night as Dr. Themistocies Dervis, Nicosia's Nationalist Mayor, was about to open a Press conference. A Police Superintendent toid the Mayor the conference could not take place as it constituted an
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    • 202 14 LONDON, June 17 (Reuter) The execution of Mr. Imre Nagy, former Hungarian Prime Minister, was seen by diplomatic observers here today as primarily warning to Yugoslavia but also showing to the world a return to Stalinist methods. As long as the Kremlin had hopes
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    • 75 14 THIS first photo of the U.S. Air Force SM-73 Goosr missile, has just been released by the U.S. Defence Department. The Goose, a ground -launched diversionary missile is making a launch shot at the missile test centre m Cape Canaveral. It can be launched ahead of
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    • 114 14 ALARM IN A-PLANT GOES OFF OAK RIDGE, Tennc June 17 (Reuter) An alarm sounded m a nuclear en' plant here yesterday and Atomic Energy Comm: ordered a few of the buii evacuated as a precautio measure, the AEC annou: A spokesman said tn< i a safety device, ind'u ■< there
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