Singapore Standard, 25 June 1958

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1 4 Singapore Standard
  • 23 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD m 9fl Telephone *****—5 Cable "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, |UNE 25. 1958 Vol. VIII. No. 357 15 cts. 14 Pages [FINAL EDITION]
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  • 400 1 ALL NIGHT ORDEAL AFTER SHIPWRECK Crewmen Watch Comrades Drown One At A Time MALACCA, Tues. Five out of eight members of the crew of on Indonesian boat were drowned after a 12-hour ordeal m the choppy Straits of Malacca, when their ship was wrecked on hitting o
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  • 366 1 A-PLANT FOR MALAYA: AID PLEDGE BY U.K. AND U.S. Ever Receptive To Requests— Envoys KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The United States and Britain will be prepared to consider assisting Malaya m the development of nuclear energy for peaceful uses, should Malaya seek such aid. their envoys here told The Standard today.
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  • 232 1 Lebanon Rebels Set Off Bomb Outside U.N. HQ. BEIRUT, June 24 (UPI) Rebels set off a bomb outside United Nations observer headquarters today just as Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjoeld was returning from Cairo. The apparent show of rebel disregard for UN. mediation coincided with a warning the Government expects a new
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  • 117 1 SINGAPORE THANKS AUSTRALIA CANBERRA, June 24 (Reuter) The Singapore Government had sent a message of thanks to Australia for giving lasting benefits to the country's medical services, the Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Richard Casey, said today. Under the Colombo Plan, two teams of lecturers and examiners went to Singapore
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  • 32 1 THE body of an unidentified, 45-year-old woman was found floating m a river off Pulau Minyak, Singapore, last night. The discovery was made by a sampan man, Tan Wee Ngee.
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  • 87 1 RUSSIA ACCUSES UK. U.S. LONDON, June 24 (Reuter) Russia today accused Britain and the United States of planning military intervention m the Lebanon on the pretext that the United Arab Republic was interfering m the affairs of that country. Moscow radio broadcast the charge as a statement issued by the
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  • 47 1 pic. THE only survivors of a shipwreck m the Straits of Malacca, brought ashore to Malacca yesterday after their all-night ordeal m the sea. Kassim Geena, Jaffar Tu.iane and Dang Talib (left to right) saw their five companions die, one by one.— Standard
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  • 229 1 RIO DE JANEIRO, June 24 (UPD Fireworks collet ted for a religious holiday exploded with a blinding Hash m ttie market place of Santo Amaro m northeastern Brazil yesterday, killing at least 83 persons and injuring 400. Twenty of the injured received agonizing burns and
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  • 214 1 VATICAN CITY, June 24— (UPI) Pope Pius has warned businessmen against indulging m objectionable morals on the theory that "business is business". That, the Pontiff said, was a "Principle which no Christian conscience can accept" if it was carried to the point of ignoring morality.
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  • 159 1 R.I. TROOPS MAKE NEW LANDING IN N. CELEBES JAKARTA, June 24 (Reuter) Government shock troops today made a fifth landing on the coast of the rebel North Celebes, army headquarters announced here The Commandoes stormed ashore at Wori, a town 30 kilometres north of Menado. The troops will support the
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  • 50 1 MR. G. A. P. Sutherland has resigned his seat as a Nominated Member of the Singapore Legislative Assembly With effect from June 13, it was officially announced yesterday. Mr. Sutherland, retiring Manager of the Chartered Bank, will bo- leaving for England at the end of this month.
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  • 48 1 A SINGAPORE teacher, Lim Boon Chung. 24. was fatally injured when his motor-cycle skidded m Selegie Road, last night. He died on the way to hospital. Eyewitnesses to the accident are asked to contact Inspector T. S. Zain of the Sepoy Lines Traffic Police.
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  • 26 1 A SPECIAL supplement will be issued free with today's issue m conjunction with the premiere screening tonight of Cecil De Mille's TEN COMMANDMENTS
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  • 175 1 COLOMBO, June 24 (Reuter) Sir Oliver Goonetilleke, the Governor-General m his speech from the throne to a joint session of Parliament here, promised today that his Government would ensure "reasonable use" of the Tamil language to end communal disturbances m the island. i For a
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  • 96 1 NICOSIA, June 24 (Reuter) —Sir Hugh Foot, Governor of Cyprus, has sent a letter to Col. George Grlvas. terrorist chief, appealing to him to stop sabotage by EOKA, it was officially stated today. The letter was sent last April 12. In his letter Sir
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  • 56 1 PARIS, June 24. (AFP). France will soon explode it* first atomic bomb,' probably m October, well-informed observers said today. White no precise official confirmation was forthcoming, it was understood from a series of confirmed and apparently concordant indications m reliable -circles that the bomb would be an
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  • 16 2 TO MR. MRS. M. Thiruchittam.v« born a daughter at 5 35 an }3rd June, 1958
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  • 679 2 I Used Truncheon On 3 Men' MALACCA, Tues. Inspector Hazara Singh, Chief Investigation Officer testified m court today that he used his truncheon to beat a man unconscious m order to disperse a crowd of 50 peoples who were overturning a bus. He was giving evidence
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  • 138 2 THE Singapore Criminal Court of Appeal yesterday quashed the death sentence against a labourer, Ng Thien Chwee. Ng was discharged. He was found guilty m the April Assizes of the murder of a War Department labourer. Tan Tong Hoi alias Tan Kang Lai, m a house m
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  • 234 2 IPOH, Tues. The Ipoh Malays Housing Society, the (inly one of its kind m the State, will shortly launch the first phase of a project to build 250 houses. The society which has acquired 105 acres behind the Gunong Rapat New Village intends to
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  • 102 2 THE Chinese V.M.C.A. will hold their erand annual concert on Saturday at 8.30 p.m. at the 'V' Auditorium, off Prince Edward Road. Among the artistes performing m the concert will be Koh Geok Khens (Soprano), Eileen Smith (Contralto), Tan Peng Tuan (Tenor), Geoffrey Abisheganaden (Baritone), Hwang Jo
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  • 52 2 THE Singapore Y.W.C.A. will hold a food and fun fair at No. 5 Raffles Quay on July 5 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The fair, which is being held m aid of the association's building fund, will be opened by wife of the Governor,
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  • 90 2 THE governing director of an Australian training institution yesterday arrived m Singapore by Qantas-BOAC to study the Colony's education system. Mr. William Power, governing director of the Power Coaching College m Melbourne, (above) will be here for several weeks. He hopes to visit a few leading schools
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  • 119 2 Three On Kidnapping Charge THREE men were yesterday brought before a Singapore Magistrate's Court m connection with the abduction of Ng Hee Whatt, a scrap iron dealer, m April last year. They were Lee Kirn Poh, 30, Oh Hock Hin. 32, and Tay Ching Kirn, 35. The three, who were
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  • 126 2 IPOH, Tues. National language classes organized by the Perak Adult Education Association last year have nearly doubled those of t^ie previous year when only 11 classes were registered. The annual report of the association, to be tabled at the annual general meeting on July 5 m the
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  • 59 2 IPOH, Tues.— The Minister for Works, Posts and Telecommunications, Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir will visit Ipoh next Monday to declare open the new East Post Office m Brewster Road. The new post office is located m the Public Works Department building and replaces the former premises
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  • 126 2 A MISADVENTURE verdict was recorded by the Singapore Assistant Coroner, Inche Hussien bin Ahmed, at the end of the inquest into the death of a labourer, Velu Verasamy, 40, whose body was found lying m a private road at Kampong Teban on April 4. S. Kurrupiah, a
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    • 430 2 NOTICES THE AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE MEMBERS are hereby reminded that the A.A.S. Radio Road Service will CLOSE DOWN from 1100 p.m. on Friday, June 27th. until 7.00 a.m. on Sunday, June 29th, for Hari Raya Haji By Order of the Committee NATURALISATION NOTICE is hereby given that KAI-LOO HUANG
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    • 53 2 NOTICE POLICE TENDER NOTICE TENDERS which will close at 12 noon on Tuesday Bth July 1958 are invited by the Commissioner of Police. Federation of Malaya for the purchase of serviceable and unserviceable stores. Full particulars may be obtained at the office of the Officer Commanding, Police Federal Stores, Gurney
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  • EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 514 3 THE distinction which Singapore has earned of being the first country m the Far East to organize a mass campaign against the spread of tuberculosis will be of little worth unless the full co-operation of its citizens is assured. Whether the Government can rely on this support
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    • 367 3 Wages Indebtedness IT is a pity that the call for the introduction of weekly or half-monthly wages systems m Singapore and the Federation should have been so hastily accepted by the All-Malayan Co-operat.ve Conference held last Monday. Chairman of the Malayan Co-operative Wholesale Society, Mr. K. Ayadurai, who sponsored the
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  • 1666 3  -  ANDREW FANG By fODAY, the ashes of Dr. G. H. Garlick humanitarian, physician and relentless fighter against the white scourge, tuberculosis is laid to rest. The simple ceremony at Singapore's Bidadari Cemetery, preceded earlier by a Memorial Service at St. Andrew's Cathedral,, marks
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  • 1009 3  - THE FA TE OF AN INDUSTRY Robert Duffy OTTAWA. 'FHE future of a whole industry m Canada hangs m the balance. It is the wool cloth industry and its plight illustrates an old contradiction of Canadian commercial policy. The clothmakers say. imports are driving them to bankruptcy. In a long^awjtfted
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  • Article, Illustration
    406 3 kez rVERY time the Russian! blab, blab about their hearts breaking because the world is drifting towards war and suggest ways and mean s of ensuring the Peace they sanctimoniously profess to love, their minds apparently work at top gear thinking out plans to embroil the world at
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  • 65 4 SEVEN Singapore fashion houses will take part m the "Bridge of the Year" contest at the Canine Welfare Association's annual dance to be held at Rattles Hotel ballroom tomorrow from 8 p m. to 1 am. A large Silver Trophy Cup will be offered the winnei
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  • 297 4 WAR AGAINST SOCIETY MEMBERS Public Responds To The Call For Information MORE members of the public are coming forward to report cases of secret society extortion to the Police, the Assistant Minister to the Chief Secretary, Mr. M. P. O. Nair, told The Standard, yesterday. This was due to the
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  • 310 4 A COLONY lawyer, Mr. Leslie Rayner, yesterday spent nearly three hours cross-examining the principal prosecution witness, Kiu Kok Yong, m an effort to discredit his testimony against his client, Detective Tan Siew Koon. Tan faced a charge of attempting to extort from second-hand car dealer,
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  • 73 4 CALL FOR 'B' BLOOD DONORS THE Singapore Blood Transfusion Service yesterday issued an urgent appeal for at least 50 donors m the "B" Group. A spokesman of the Service said that stocks of Group "B" blood at the Centre were "extremely low." Many operation cases had to be postponed because
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  • 187 4 I'M HAPPY TO BE BACK, SAYS SHIRLEY ONE of the happiest passengers to arrive on the Carthage from Britain yesterday, was 18-year-old Singapore model Shirley Ann Jones, who told The Standard "You don't know how glad I am to be back." Asked why she was so happy to return to
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  • 177 4 THREE separate functions marked the opening of the new, ultra-modern Thai Consulate General m Orchard Road, Singapore yesterday Thai National Day. The first began at 10.30 a.m. with the religious ceremony of blessing the new building, which was filled with baskets of flowers from
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  • 89 4 STUDY GRANT APPLICATIONS INVITED THE University of Malaya yesterday invited applications for the Shell Research Fellowship from candidates who have been accepted for study leading to a degree m the Faculty of Science, Department of Engineering or Faculty of Arts. The Fellowship, founded by the Shell Company of Singapore Limited,
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  • 24 4 THE Singapore Government Executive Officers Association will hold its second annual general meeting today at 5 p.m. at the Empress Place Canteen.
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  • 51 4 JOHN Phoon was yesterday charged m a Singapore Court with dishonestly using as genuine a cheque for $2,000 belonging to the Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation Limited on Jan. 30. He pleaded not guilty and was granted bail until July 8 when the case will be mentioned
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    24 4 THE Thai Vice-Pre-mier. Nai Sukick Nimmanheminda. lights the candles at yesterday's "blessing" rites at the new Thai Consulate General m Orchard Road.
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  • 166 4 Malayan TB Report For Experts KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Federation tuberculosis specialist. Dr. J. S. Sodhy, who will leave for London on Thursday to attend the Commonwealth Chest Conference, will submit a report of the tuberculosis survey m Malaya to the conference. The ambulatory treatment of tuberculosis, methods of control, vaccination,
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  • 74 4 MR. Ang Chin Siong, without thought of his own safety jumped into the sea from the Singapore Harbour Board to save a drowning boy m October last year. On July 12, Mr. Ang will have his act of heroism publicly recognized by the Police. He will
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  • 243 4 Parties Can't Help Us— Jobless MORE than 20,000 unemployed persons m Singapore are convinced that no political party, either m power or out, has a constructive solution to the social and economic evil of unemployment, a spokesman for the 'ad hoc' Committee of the Singapore Unemployed Union told The Standard
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  • 169 4 HE WANTS A PLEDGE ON RURAL POLLS INDEPENDENT Assen man, Mr Lee Choon Eng. when the Singapore Legislative Assembly next sits, ask the Chief Minister for an assurance that the District Council i tions will not be postponed. Mr. Lee. explaining why h« had tabled the question, said he was
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  • 46 4 LEE KIM YONG and Ow Yong Yew Chon*. who pleaded not guilty to a charge of being members of an unlawful assembly and causing hurt to Lew Yeng Hup at Tiong Bahru Road on June 23, were yesterday allowed bail by a Singapore Court
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  • 120 4 A LEADING Indonesian trade unionist arrived m Singapore yesterday by Garuda Indonesian Airways to study the trade union movement m the Colony. He is Mr. Lauw Beng secretary of the AlMnesian Trade Union Congress m Jakarta, and also executive vice-president of the Indonesian Airline Workers'
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  • 202 4 PUBLIC HOLIDAY PAY REFUSED 16 GO ON STRIKE SIXTEEN workers of Sock Seng, motor repair shop m Cavanagh Road, Singapore, went on strike yesterday, because they claimed the "management refused to pay them wages for a public holiday." The men, who are members of the Motor Workshop ployees' Union, alleged
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  • 405 5 H KONG DOCTORS FOR S'PORE Council's Move To Meet Acute Shortage THE Singapore City Council is to look to Hongkong and India tor doctors to fill the shortage m the Council services. This decision was taken by the Council's Health Committee yesterday. Eight doctors would be re- quired to staff
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  • 365 5 APPEAL TO GOVT. FOR BUS SERVICE TWO thousand residents .j m the Opera Estate have appealed to the Singapore Government to introduce a bus service m the estate. In a letter to the Minister for Communications and <s. Mr. Francis Thomas. ■rday with a copy to the >r, Mr. Ong
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  • 114 5 PENANG TO HAVE P.M.I.A. BRANCH PENANG, Tues. Plans are afoot for the formation of a George Town branch of the Pan-Malayan Islamic Association. Inche Aziz Hamidy, who recently resigned from Party Ra-ayat, told The Standard today that he would join the P.M.I. A. soon and would get enough members to
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  • 216 5 TELOK ANSON. Tues. The Federation's first marine dental clinic was "launched" by the Raja Muda of Perak Raja Idris Iskandar Shah, this morning at a simple ceremony at the Marine Dockyard here. The ehnie. costing $70,000, is equipped with all modern facilities for dental
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  • 33 5 IPOH, Tues. Muslims living m the Operation "Ginger" area of Central Perak will get their normal rice ration for this week to enable them to celebrate Hari Raya Haji, on Saturday.
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  • 81 5 MR. GEORGE L. P. Weaver (left), United States Workers' Adviser consults Mr. K. V. Thaver (centre). General Secretary of the Malayan Trade Union Council, and Mr. M N. Sarmah of India, Member of the Executive Board of the Plantations Workers' International Federation as the three await a
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  • 142 5 IPOH, Tues.— A private of the 3 Coy. RASC. B. Mitchell was fined a total of $90 and disqualified from driving for one year when he appeared before Magistrate Tengku Ahmad Rithaudeen today. Mitchell pleaded guilty to three charges of driving a car without
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  • 389 5 WHIN the trooper Dilwara sailed from Singapore for Britain yesterday, it had two personalities aboard who have reached the peak of their varied careers the hard way. One was General Sir Francis Festing, Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff-desig-nate, who has got to
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  • 182 5 70 Years Not A Day Too Long THE Chief Justice, Sir John Whyatt. m the Singapore Criminal Court of Appeal yesterday told a seaman that his jail term of 10 years was "not a day too long." The seaman. Chua Boon Teck, 21, was appealing against conviction on a charge
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  • 101 5 MR. C. KARTHIGESU was re-elected president of the Singapore Medical Services Union at its 11th annual general meeting on June 21. Vice-presidents are Messrs. Chong Kow Thye and Mr. Wong Yin Fon. Other officials are: General secretary, Mr. T. Krishnar; asst. secretary, Mr. Low Koh Eng; treasurer,
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  • 136 5 PENANG. Tues.— The City Council has been concerned for some time to provide adequate playground facilities for the children of George Town. This was stated by the 'Mayor, Mr. D. S. Ramanathan, when he declared open the new children's playground m Weld Quay today. Mr. Ramanatiian
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  • 40 5 ALL bicycle owners m Segamat have been warned to have their bicycles licensed before the ena of this month, after which date any bicycle found without a licence, will be seized by the Police or Town Council officers.
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  • 37 5 Photo. GENERAL Sir Francis Festing inspects a Guard of Honour mounted by the First Battalion, the King's Own Scottish Borderers at the Singapore Harbour Board yesterday prior to his sailing on the Dilwara. Army
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  • 116 6 Two YIPs Arrive In The Capital KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Two YIPs arrived here today by Malayan Airways and Malayan Railways respectively. One of them was Princess Kalayanl Vadhana of Thailand, here to witness the Selangor International Gold Cup Badminton championship which will begin on June 26. Princess Kalayani will be
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  • 93 6 MECHANIC ON CAUSING DEATH COUNT PENANG, Tues.— As a sequel to 4he findings of a Coroner's inquiry, a 29-year-old pin-table mechanic. Bernard Carrier, was produced m the Sessions Court today and charged with causing the death of On* Ah Seong m a motor collision at the junction of Kelawei Road
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  • 73 6 PROFESSOR E. S. Monteiro, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine m the University of Malaya, yesterday announced that the Douglas Miller Medal will be presented to the best candidate m the primary examination for the Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons at the Allen
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  • 119 6 Fined For Doing Hair On Sunday IPOH, Tues. The proprietresses of two adjoining permanent waving salons who had "set" the hair of their cousin on a Sunday were fined $50 each by Magistrate Ibrahim bin Abdul Manan today for offences under the Weekly Holidays Ordinance. They were Kwong Oi Wah
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  • 461 6 Stop That Facial Expression/ Says Bench MR. JUSTICE BUTTROSE m the Singapore Assize Court yesterday objected to the "facial expression" of Dr. F. C. B. Marshall while a Police Inspector was giving evidence at the re-trial of Lee Ah Cheong attas Ah Lek on a
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  • 72 6 ONG Kian Seng yesterday pleaded not guilty m a Singapore Court to a charge of stealing a $450 wristwatch from Mrs. Boris Holland m River Valley Road on June 23. He also pleaded not guilty to an alternative charge of dishonestly disposing of the stolen watch
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  • 36 6 HONGKONG, Jun e 24 Special Standard Service Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: $1609 to £1 Sterling, $5.78 to US$l--$1,851 to Malayan $1; $0,087 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $251,875 to a taei.
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  • 227 6 M.C.A. TO THRASH OUT ALLIANCE DECISION KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. UMNO's decision to ie. duce the representation of the Malayan Chinese Association m the Alliance Central Executive Committee will be the main item on the agenda at the i.-oming meeting of the MCA Central Executive Committee here on July 6. The
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  • 188 6 PENANG, Tues.* The Naval Adviser of the Federation Government, Commander J. Burfield. who is going on leave at the end of this month flew here from Kuala Lumpur today f -o make presentations of Long Service and Good Conduct Medals to 12 ratings of the
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  • 629 6 MINISTER LEADS FIRST PHASE OF ANTI-TB 'WAR' THE first phase of Singapore's forthcoming big battle against tuberculosis went off yesterday morning without a hitch at the X-Ray Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital Heading the nearly 100 volunteers m yesterday's "dry run" for the mass campaign to start on July 1.
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  • 90 6 THE Singapore Naval Base Industrial Staff Trade Union elected Mr. Wong Wai Hem as its president for the new year at its second annual general meeting held at the H.M. Naval Base recently. Other officials elected were: vice-presidents Mr Yip Hup and Mr. V. Sebastian, hon. secretary
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  • 273 7 Union Will Serve Two-week Notice On Firm Today THE Singapore Stanvac Employees' Union last night decided to call its 400 members on strike on July 9. The decision was taken at an extraordinary general meeting of the union held at the Arab Union Hall m
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  • 152 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING robber prices (cents per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot 753 76 R.S.S. No. 1 75| 755 (August) 751 751 R.S.S. No. 2 731 74 R.S.S. No.. 3 67 671 Tone: Steady quiet. The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was $3703 (up $1).
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  • 76 7 ALOR STAR. Tues.— The 30-year-old son of the Mentri Besar of Kedah, Tunsu Yahaya, pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal breach of trust of a bicycle, before Tengku Zainol Abidin m the Magistrate's Court today. Sentence was postponed till July 7 and bail of
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  • 188 7 SINGAPORE Government yesterday promised Malay residents m the West Coast area of the island that a new Malay school would 'shortly' be constructed there for their children. Assistant Minister for Education, Inche Mohamed Sldik bin Abdul Hamid, told The Standard that plans
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  • 30 7 SINGAPORE Customs seized 750 pounds of cigarettes on which $6,450 duty had not been paid near the beach off Changi, at dawn yesterday. A man was later detained.
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  • 335 7 'Police Week 9 In Singapore THE Singapore Police Force, as a climax to its campaign to win the public's confidence, will throw open the doors of its ten headquarters stations and the Polire Training School from July 5 to 11 "Police Week." The Week
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  • 63 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Pneumonia was again the biggest killer m the Federation for the week ending May 31. claiming 18 victims. There were 49 cases. Perak and Selangor topped the list with five deaths m each place. Three people died of enteric fever. Two were from
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  • 177 7 CON-MAN STRIKES AGAIN IN HOSPITAL A man who had been preying on patients m the Singapore General Hospital, struck again yesterday 48 hours after a Police warning to the public not to hand over cash or jewellery to a confidence trickster operating m the hospital The trickster was dubbed the
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    • 640 8 EAST ASIATIC LINES HOMEWARDS Soilings »o* Aden Port Said Genoa. Antwerp. Rotterdam. Hamburg. Bremen. Copenhagen Gothenburg Oslo. Spore P.S'hom Penong "BOGOTA" ln Port 26 June 27/27Juna 28 29Jur»e Calling Beyrouth <arlthamn Gdynie "MANCHURIA" «'BJuly 9/10 July l!/12Ju!y "MEONIA" 23/24 July 25/26 Ju.y "BOM A" 28/30 July 31/1 Aug OUTWARD Sailings
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  • 105 9 Malaya Buying More HK Rattan MALAYA bought HK $2,900,000 worth of rattan canes core and peel from Hongkong last year, the highest annual offtake m the past five years, according to that Colony's Trade Bulletin. Her purchase of rattan from Hongkong m 1953 was worth $1,999,000, 1954 ($1,461,000) 1955 ($1,301,000)
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  • 125 9 Rubber Gains C. TRADE buying was a feature m the Singapore rubber market which closed yesterday, at 75-5/8 cents per lb. for International first grade July shipment, up cent. The market opened higher on improved overseas advices and ruled quietly steady on some trade buying. In the afternoon the steady
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  • 39 9 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes m itc rates to merchants yesterday: Selling. T.T. or O.D. ready: French Francs *****: Belgian Francs 1612-1/2: Deutsche Marks 135-3/8; Italian Lire *****. Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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  • 200 9 BUSINESS DONE MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done yesterday: Fed. Disp. $1; F. N. ords. <2 44 to $2.46; Hammer $1-58 (overnight); H. Waugh $1.30; Hume prefs. A4/10: M. Breweries $3.05 to $3; M. Breweries debenture 80c M. Cement $1.33, $1,314. $1.30 odd parcel; Robinson ords. $1.61 and (overnight);
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  • 112 9 Selective Support For Industrials SELECTIVE support for industrials and tins was reported m the Malayan share market yesterday. Rubbers were quiet. The turnover was small. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association: Buyers Sellers Fed. Dispensary 100 105 Gammon 2-05 2.10 W. Hammer 1-55 1.60 Hume Industries Pref. A4/9
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  • 165 9 U.K. Record In Exports By Air MORE British goods are being exported by air latest Board of Trade figures show that the total of British roods exported by air last year was a record. They were valued at £108.900.000, an increase of 17 per cent on 1956. Silver, platinum and
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  • 439 9 MANCHESTER June 24 (Reuter)— The Manchester Guardian said today that the Malayan Government's suggestion of an International Charter designed to attract and protect private foreign capital m Asia "is surely deserving of full British support." The Liberal newspaper said m a leading article that this
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  • 133 9 OUTER ROADS Helikon, Oulida, San Carlos, Japan, Van Cloon, San Eduardo, Daigai Maru. Oceanic Reliance, Batavia, Ruas, Gordian. Padjonge. Everglory. President Pierce, Sambas Kaioekoe. Theta Star. Hermelin, Stanvac Ogan, Waibalong, Veronia, Leverkusen, Wonosobo. President Jackson. Wonosari, Reyniersz, El Branon, Breconshire. Sandyiken, Troon Breeze, Siberoet, Lidia. Banggai. INNER
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  • 43 9 THE value of Netherlands printing Industry exports last year was f 90.600,000. compared with f 75,600,000 m 1955 and f 82.100,000 m 1956. The increase over 1956 was 10.5 per cent m value and 10.9 per cent m weight.
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  • 223 9 A NEW automatic electrical fire alarm system which will give early warning of fire danger both m the premises m which it is installed and m the local ftre station to which it is linked has been developed by a U.K. firm of manufacturing electrical engineers.
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 416 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tucs.— Plans to bolster Malayan trade overseas, were touched on by the permanent representative to the United Nations, Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, at a luncheon held m New York at the weekend. Dr. Ismail said measures would be introduced cy
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  • 137 9 A DIESEL electric locomotive ordered by the Malayan Railways was discharged at Singapore wharves earlier this month from the Ben Line vessel. Benvorlich, by means of the ship's own cargo gear. This delivery completed the first 512.75Q.MQ order for 20 locomotives placed by Malayan Railways with
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  • 95 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: copra June/July UK Continent $31 buyers $31J sellers coconut oil m bulk $47i sellers; m drums $51 sellers; Muntok white tapper $127 sellers; Sarawak whit* $126 sellers; Special Sarawak black $70. Singapore Copra Association closing prices fair
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  • 22 9 PAKISTAN and Portugal have signed an air agreement m Karachi providing for reciprocal air transport facilities to both the signatories.
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  • 414 10 KUALA LUMPUR. One of the fast-rising popular forms of entertainment to be found m the Federation is the "joget modem" a revival of the traditional Malay dance m an almost unrecognizable form with a strong flavour of western influence. The joget and the "mak inang" are steadily
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  • 39 10 FIFTEEN PRETTY GIRLS (Picture by (BELOW) Fifteen prett? girls of the Convent School, Klang are seen here after receiving a cup from the Catholic Social Guild for having the most entries m the badge design competition- Ch'nt Seng Poh
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  • 64 10 Photo. SEOUL: Helped by President Syngman Rhee and adopted son, Mrs. Rhee cuts a birthday cake on her 58th birthday while Speaker of the House of Representatives and Mrs. Lee Xi Poon look on. The First Lady of the Republic of Korea also received birthday greetings from
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    • 285 11 In Middle Of Chaos, Something Noteworthy —The loss Of the Thomas Cup. it appears, has assumed roportion s of a "national rophe." l defeat or "disastrous 1 has created a vacuum which repercussions have I incessantly. It started he pitiful tottering of Eddy I m the last stages of as
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    • 166 11 A lot had been said •bout our failure to retain the Thomas Cup. Various reasons have been given and all sorts of charges hurled against the ho have been entrusted I :he task of defending the for a further term. ese players had and i brought
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  • 117 11 Gonzales Assured Of Ist. Pnze NEW YORK, June 24, (Reuter).— Pancho Gonzales world professional tennis champion, is assured of the 3,000-dollar aOBO sterling) first prize m the Round Robin tournament which ends at Fcfrest Hills here tonight. Gonzales undefeated m his five matches meets Lew Hoad (Australia) m the final
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  • 88 11 THE Yang di-Pertuan Agong pose for a photo aboard the Royal Barge, "Tallang" after presenting the open challenge cup for the dragon boat race to Mr. Chew Boon Pit, a representative of the Chew Clan which won the race held at Gurney Drive m
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  • 130 11 Round Robin Championship To Gonzales FOREST HILLS. New York, June 24, (UPI). Defending champion Pancho Gonzales of Los Angeles won Jack Kramer's $15,000 Round Robin pro tennis championship last night when he whipped Fred Sedgman of Australia and sat m the gallery while Australia's Ken Rosewall upended rookie pro Lew
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  • 132 11 Ibbotson Out Of The Mile LONDON, June 24, (AFP) ►-Britain's crack miler Derek Ibbotson has not been chosen for the one mile event at next month's Empire Games at Cardiff it was learnt yesterday. He has, however, been selected for the three-mile event. This decision which will rock the British
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  • 298 11 BRENTFORD. England. > ues. The race of two comments assured this week when iis of the Milan AutomoClub released names of top peaa drivers and cars now ed m the Monza 500 Miles to b e held on June 29th m Monza. Italy. Stirling Moss has been
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  • 977 11 DEFENDING champion, Ong Chew Bee, has entered for all three major events m the Singapore Lawn Ten pis Association championships which begin at the YMCA and Tanglin Courts today. He has been topseeded m all these events. The following
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  • 73 11 Photo by THESE four boys got a lot to smile at. They belong to the 'crack' G.E.S. quartette who smashed the Segamat District 4 x 110 yds. record m the Segamat District A A.A. Meet, by clocking 47.4 sees. The same team did 46 9 sees, m
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  • 631 11  -  WINDSOR LAD Newcomer Centaur Also Impresses By KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Three of Milton Sullivan s Candida tes for the forthcoming Selangor Turf Cluos June-July meet shaped like winners when sent against the clock on a soft track this morning. They were Gunong Rapat, Cruizeiro and
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  • 410 11 Yusoff Scores A Hat-trick For Marines A splendid hat-trick by inside-left Ismail Yusoff helped Marine Sports Club to maintain their unbeaten record when they beat H.M. Dockyard by six goals to three m a SAFA Div 1 league match at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Yusoff scored his hat-trick m the
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  • 75 11 HONGKONG, June 24 (UPI) —The only Chinese player m the Wimbledon championships was a former newspaper delivery boy to a former Shanghai British-owned newspaper. Mci Fu Chi, who on Monday defeated Austrian Franz Hainka 6-2. 6-2, 6-1 was last year's all (Communist) China champion tennis
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  • 185 11 THE final positions o* the clubs in the Colony Business Houses F.A. League and Cup competition for 1958 are: DIVISION 'A* P W D L F A P Hongkong Bank 4 3 1 0 10 1 7 Mercantile Bank 4 2 1 1 6 2 S
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  • 458 11  - Mr. Leow's Blast Sounds Like Trumpet Blowing LEONG HEW MENG Says THE Thomas Cup is gone and the mourners are now crying out for blood. The latest outburst from ex-coach Leow Kirn Fatt is symptomatic of the hysteria that nas gripped some of the disgruntled officials of the Thomas Cup
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    • 37 11 MALAYAN AIRWAYS ANNOUNCE THE INTRODUCTION OF AN ADDITIONAL SERVICE BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND KUCHING ON SATURDAYS WITH EFFECT FROM JULY sth FOR FULL PARTICULARS AND RESERVATIONS APPLY TO YOUR USUAL TRAVEL AGENT OR ANY OFFICE OF MALAYAN AIRWAYS
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    • 37 11 SOCCER: S.G.S.F.A. Knockout competition' semijinal Police "A" vs PWD at Jalan Besar 5.15 p.m. quarter-jinal STB vs P T "A" (replay) S B H.F.A. League Cup semifinal S.T.C. vs F N at BODCA. ATHLETICS: Charlton Schools Sports.
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  • 72 12 BRISBANE, June 24, (Reuter)—English Test hooker Tommy Harris has been discharged from hospital m Brisbane. He was treated for an infected eye-lid. The English team to play Wide Bay at Bundaberg 218 miles from Brisbane tomorrow is. Fullback G. Moses, Threequarters W. Wookey. A. Davies, E. Ashton,
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    46 12 Photo. ASCOT, Berks,—Romping home the winner m the Royal Hunt Cup m the second day's racing at Royal Ascot is "Amos" ridden by P. Boothman. Second is "Empire Way" ridden by E. Mercer, and third is "Falls of Shin" ridden by D. Smith. United Press International
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  • 20 12 THERE will be a net practice for Singapore's state cricketers at the S.K.C. ground at 5.00 p.m. today.
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  • 679 12 ALTHEA AND CHRISTINE MAKE SHORT WORK OF OPPONENTS LONDON, June 24 (Reuter) Althea Gibson, 30--year-old New York Negress, wore her crown majestically today when beginning the defence of her coveted singles title m the Wimbledon lawn tennis championships here. She crushed her young Australian opponent, Margaret Hellyer, 6-0, 6-2 m
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  • 655 12 FRANCE HAS BECOME A POWER AGAIN Is There A De Gaulle In This Soccer Team? STOCKHOLM, June 24 (UPl)— France has become a major world power again m soccer, at least. The French team, the laughing stock of the soccer world after a long series of defeats, internal squabbles and
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  • 231 12 EXPERIENCE triumphed over youth m the annual soccer match between the old boys of Victoria School and the present boys for the Ong Eng Lian Cup, which the former won by five goals to three on the School ground yesterday. The old boys played
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  • 65 12 LONDON. June 24. (ReuterV *—Jack Kramer, the American professional lawn tennis promoter, said on his arrival here yesterday that he was hoping to oDen negotiations for the staging of a professional tournament at Wimbledon. He said he would be interested m making an offer to the winner
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    66 12 Bark from Sweden, where he has been captaining England m the World Cup. came footballer Billy Wright And there to meet him at London Airport were the three singing Beverley Sisters especially Joy who greeted Billy with a kiss. Here, smiling happily, the couple are seen together
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  • 185 12 ROW OVER CHRISTINE TRUMAN LONDON, June 24 (Reuter)— A row over a series of newspaper articles yesterday made Christine Truman. British tennis star, the least anonymous person ever to wear the pseudonym of "Miss X." The London evening newspaper the Star had planned to run a series of interviews with
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  • 35 12 ROME, June 24. (ReuteD The Italian Lawn Tennis Federation yesterday announced that its council had confirmed the banning of Giuseppe Merlo. one Italy's top players, from appearing m the Wimbledon championships.
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  • 44 12 ROME, June 24 (Reuter).— The European Zone final of the Davis Cup lawn tennis competition will take place m Milan during the first three days of August if Italy beat Poland m the semifinals, the Italian Lawn Tennis Federation announce^ here today.
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  • 858 13 [PAGE FOR SCHOOLS They form body to educate youths on effects on drugs »THE people of Singapore are anxiously looking forward to the day when they will receive the long-expected independence. There are, ver. some far sighted and conscientious citizens who are wondering about the future
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  • 1006 13 By Our School Correspondents IT looks as if this month could be rightly called the festive month of drama. Drama fans had been entertained by the "Drama Scrapbook" staged by the Singapore Young People's Association at their three-day performances at the Cultural Centre and the "Youth Festival" sponsored
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  • 224 13 WASHINGTON.— JoI has seen pictures of the U. S. capital, but he is still impressed with the actual city. He knows it was named for George Washington, American revolutionary leader and first U. S. president. It was designed m 1790 by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a Frenchman w^ho
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    • 503 13 •TODAY'S QUOTATION: ffKK/Kft////j/KMW9 "Reckless automobile I driving arouses the suspi- I cion that much of the hoi%e I MMlT^^^^M^ sense of the rood old days B^^li g^"J was possessed by the horse." j 2^K[X^BVfl Anonymous I WEDNESDAY rOB Kl P9 EVERYONE: Morning j wLTm M vides the most beneficial I
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 165 14 BOMBAY, June 24, (Reuter). Indian dpckworkers yesterday decided to continue the eight-day-old nationwide dockstrike m spite of a cable appeal from Mr. Nehru, the Prime Minister. The decision involving 100,000 men, was taken at a four-hour meeting of the allIndia Port and Dock Workers'
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    • 322 14 Nkrumah Pledges To Remain In The Commonwealth CAIRO, June 24, (Reuter)— Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Prime Minister of Ghana, said here yesterday: "I want to declare Ghana a Republic, and this will be done m not more than two years." Dr. Nkrumah, who is on
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    • 161 14 WASHINGTON, June 24, (Reuter)— The Senate yesterday approved a bill permitting President Eisenhower to exchange more atomic weapons information with U.S. allies but inserted two new restrictions on the President's authority. The chief amendment to the Bill would limit to Britain the
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    • 116 14 GENERAL'S SON ON 41 CHARGES NEW YORK, June 24 (Reuter>— A Chinese engineers son of an unidentified Chinese Communist general has been sent to jail for 205 days and fined $6,500 (Malayan) for 41 traffic offences. The Magistrate said he would suspend the jail term If the man. Mr. Shims
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    • 59 14 Presidents Ike Garcia PRESIDENT CARLOS P. Garcia of the Philippines holds the pen used by President Eisenhower to sign two Bills relating to the Republic of the Philippines and affecting its war veterans and war orphans. Pictured here are (from left) rri-iiueni Eisenhower, Secretary of Mate John Foster Dulles, Philippine
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    • 66 14 LEUNEBURG, West Germany, June 24 (Rsuter). A Court here yesterday forbade a 70-year-old woman to ride her bicycle because she was "a menace to traffic." When she broke out m tears, saying she needed her bicycle to go collecting mushrooms and berries to eke out
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    • 40 14 MELBOURNE, June 24 (Reuter). Australian motorists will save about £A4 million a year from the reduction m the price of petrol which operated today. Petrol m both standard and super grades was one penny cheaper today.
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    • 72 14 BRUSSELS, 24 (AFP). Expert child psychologists and educators yesterday attended the opening of the first International Toy Congress where the industrial, commercial as well as therapeutic aspects of toys will be studied. The delegates representing 11 European countries will also examine the possibility of creating an
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    • 30 14 A CHINESE Nationalist naval patrol sank one Chinese Communist gunbat and "severely" damaged four armed junks off the China mainland coast yesterday, the Nationalist Defence Ministry said.— UPI
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    • 144 14 GENEVA, June 24 (Reuter) The 79-nation conference of the International Labour Organisation yesterday adopted a convention and a recommendation calling on all member-states to eliminate discrimination m the employment of workers. The convention was voted by 145 to 22 with five abstentions and the recommendation
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    • 30 14 THE Foreign Office m Manila announced on Monday the appointment of Narciso G. Reyes. Information Officer of the South-east Asia Treaty Organization as Philippines Minister to Burma.- UPI
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    • 157 14 You Must Attract UK Migrants Slim DARWIN, June 24 (Reuter). Australia would have to use special publicity methods to attract British migrants to her tropical areas, the Gover-nor-General, Sir William Slim said yesterday. Sir William, who is touring the northern territory and the Kimberley Ranges of North Western Australia, said
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    • 82 14 GLASGOW, June 24 (Renter).— Mr. John Mcgovern, fiery Labour Member of Parliament who led Glasgow hunger marchers m the 1930's and was once carried out of the House o) Commons by eight attendants, is to retire, it was announced yesterday. Mr. Mcgovern, now 71, started life
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    • 79 14 ADELAIDE, June 24 (Reuter). Thousands of people today flocked to Adelaide's Asian festival. The festival, arranged by the Australian Asian Association, features Asian dancing, costuming:, culture and food. Photographs and maps form a feature of the exhibition and many students m costume tell visitors about Asian
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    • 143 14 Spy Fuchs Spirit Is Not Broken LONDON, June 24 (Reuter).—The Daily Mail reported today that Professor Emil Fuchs, 84-year-old theologian father of British atom spy Klaus Fuchs had visited his son m jail here after a trip from Leipzip. East Germany, where he lives. Klaus Fuchs is serving the last
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    • 175 14 TOKYO, June 24 (UPl)— One of Asia's most prominent motion picture producers predicts that Hongkong may soon replace Japan as the site for film shooting by foreign companies, I The theatrical executive Mr. Run Run Shaw said that by mid-1959 his Hongkong studios, currently under
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    • 88 1 IN THEME* IN SCOPE IN SPECTACLE IN UNPARALLELED ENTERTAINMENT! Producer-Director Cecil B. DeMille re-creates the dramatic, moving story of Moses m the crowning achievement of his long, brilliant career with his production of After 74 years and 70 pictures, Cecil B. DeMille, the
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    • 398 1 A camp was established as if by magic m the Egyptian desert, to house the picked Hollywood crew and stars who accompanied DeMille m order to shoot scenes for the film upon the very same desert wastes trod by Moses and the Children of Israel during the
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    • 188 2 To DeMille, the new "The Ten Commandments" is not a motion picture m the accepted sense at all, but a work aoart, akin to his earlier "The Ten Commandments" and King of Kings," representing a spiritual form of living literature. "I feel there has never been
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    • 693 2 rpHE TEN COMMANDMENTS reaches one of Its highest dramatic peaks m the Exodus of the Children of Israel, a cene tense with suspense, wild with excitement as the freed slaves pour out of the Gates of Rameses, the biggest set ever constructed for motion pictures, and a
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    • 1133 3 W'TTHOUT doubt, the costuming for Cecil B. DeMille's production of "The Ten Commandments" is the most enormous single dressmaking operation of record. Three top ranking film designers, six-time Academy Award-winner Head, Ralph Jester, and Dorothy Jeakins; and two of todays flushed artists. John Jensen and Arnold Fnberg, with
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    • 1536 3 Brightest New Male Star Yul Brynner yOUNG Jody Harper, a freckle-faced, redhaired boy student at Black Foxe Military Academy, is m the vast cast of Hollywood's "biggest ever" production of "The Ten Commandments"—but his appearance wasn't entirely unexpected Young Master Harper happens to know the producer director., of Paramount's Technicolour
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    • 6 4 A PROFILE STUDY
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    • 277 4 Exodus of the Children of Israel through the years from ministers, priests, rabbis, laymen religious leaders, civic dignitaries. international statesmen and people of all denominations commenting upon the inspiration drawn from DeMille's earlier works based on religious subjects. And before making the new ''The Ten Commandments," DeMille had already been
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      • 232 4 We salute this tremendous reproduction of the greatest event m man's history CheCen, Q>fnmandmens The management and staff wish every success to Cecil B. DeMille's production of The Ten Commandments." OPTICIANS "He Ilk Jim (/<w«tA. i< I FEATURES MODEL IB iWIH made m .ermany ■^MK^3* 1. Quick Key film transport,
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