Singapore Standard, 26 June 1958

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  • 21 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Ccble "TIGERNEWS' SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1958 Vol. VIII. No. 358 15 cts. 14 Pages [FINAL EDITION]
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  • 390 1  -  MOSCOW YOUTHS REPRISAL DEMONSTRATION BY Placard-Carrying Mob Yell Insults In English, Russian MOSCOW, June 25, (UPI)— A swelling crowd of Russians, shouting insults and carrying placards, demonstrated m front of the American Embassy here today m obvious reprisal against recent demonstrations against the U. N, Headquarters building
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  • 356 1 SOEKARNO RESHUFFLES CABINET: 4 NEW MEN Communist Party Again Kept Out JAKARTA, June 25 (Reuter) President Soekarno today appointed four new ministers m a reshuffle of his "guided democracy" cabinet. Three of the appointments are to new ministries. The new appointees are Dr. Rachmat Muljomisen, who replaces Dr. Sunardjo at
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  • 112 1 TOKYO, June 25 (AFP) Six hundred strike breakers today smashed a university student mass met ting m Tokyo by "playing rough." As the striking students gathered, demanding operation of the dining room by the student body. 600 husky members of the university's athletic club occupied
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  • 101 1 Japan Will Be Asked To Join Tin Pact LONDON, June 25 (AFP)— Mr George Peter, president of the International Tin Council, today disclosed that the United States and Japan would shortly be invited to join the International Tin Agreement. Peter who was speaking at a Press conference said that the
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  • 20 1 AN Indian Airlines Corporation freighter aircraft crashed today near Dibrugarh, northeast Assam, and its crew are feared killed.
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  • 427 1 NEW YORK, June 25 (UPI) A freighter and a gasoline tanker collided m the East River early today setting off a fiery explosion that engulfed the two ships and set the Manhattan Bridge afire. A brilliant flash of igniting gasoline
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  • 75 1 CATANIA, Sicily, June 25, (Reuter) A woman admitted m the Appeals Court here that she put a poisonous zinc compound m her husband's soup. "But I did not know it wa s poisonous," she said, "I thought it was an erotic stimulant." The court found
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  • 50 1 THE Singapore Special Branch yesterday released a Chinese High School student. Tan Kian Lip, who was detained under the Preservation of Public Security Ordinance on June 9. this year. The Police Secretary. Mr. Eu Cheow Eang, said that the student immediately on release was put under house curfew.
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  • 40 1 LIEUT. GENERAL SIR RICHARD HULL, new Commander-in-Chief Far East Land Forces is seen inspecting a guard of honour provided by the Second Battalion King Edward VII' S Own Goorkhas (The Sirmoor Rifles) at GHQ yesterday morning.
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  • 185 1 LEBANON WILL ASK U.N. FOR MILITARY AID IF NEEDED BEIRUT, June 25 (UPI) President Camille 'Chamoun said today he will call for military aid under the United Nations Charter if his pro-Western Government "needs help" to cope with the rebel forces. The President said that Lebanon would not ask for
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  • 98 1 BEIRUT, June 25 (Reuter)— Armoured cars fired cannon shots over the heads of passersby m central Beirut today m a sniping battle with insurgents. Rebel forces barricaded m the Moslem quarters of the capital comprising one third of the city were believed to have started the battle
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  • 158 1 PNOM PENH, Cambodia, June 25 (LTI) American-trained South Vietnamese troops have invaded" Cambodia's north-eastern province of StungTreng, outgoing Premier Sim Van charged today. In a nationwide broadcast, the Prime Minister urged his 4,500.000 compatriots "to realiize the grave danger threatening the country," and rally behind
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  • 43 1 LONDON, June 25 (Reuter) The Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth, was m a car collision outside Buckingham Palace today. He was unhurt. The Duke's car was m collision with a taxi. Both vehicles were only slightly damaged.
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  • 25 1 JACK WEBB, actor and producer, was married In Van Nuys. California, on Tuesday night to actress Jackie Loughery. a former Miss United States.
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  • 308 1 SEOUL, June 25 (UPI)— A frail Malayan woman, who has not seen her native land m more than a dozen years, tearfully expressed her "heartfelt" thanks to her Malayan friends who have not forgotten her m time of need. Mrs. Tan Chew Eng, who
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  • 40 1 SPECIAL: MEN IN THE NEWS BEGINNING today, and every Thursday, The STANDARD wiU publish a special MEN IN THE NEWS series, which relate those intimate "behind the scene" episodes m the lives of world famous personalities written by Richard Berry.
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  • 36 1 BURMESE Premier TT Nu yesterday promised Burmese Communist insurgents an amnesty for past offences and legislation of the Communist Party if they would Kive up arms and work m accordance with the Constitution.— Reuter
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 227 2 Gang Chief Gets Seven Years For Extort Bid THE head of a Singapore secret society gang was yesterday sentenced by the Second District Court to seven years' corrective training after he was found guilty of attempted extortion. He was Woon Ah Lek, 25, who had a string of previous convictions,
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  • 97 2 PLANS are well under way for Jehovah's Witnesses m Singapore to attend the international convention m New York City this Summer. Mr. Chua Kirn Kwee, presiding minister of the local group, said the convention could well be the largest m the history of Jehovah's Witnesses, which opens
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  • 402 2 Court Told Of Doctors' Vain Bid To Save Life THE combined efforts of two doctors failed to save the life of a carpenter who was shot by a Police Inspector near Government House's gate, Clemenceau Avenue, Singapore, on May Day. I his was said at an inquiry
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  • 63 2 THE Singapore City Council yesterday resumed negotiations with its 10,000-strong Labour Unions Federation on the latter's 22-point demand. Both parties discussed the claims and decided to postpone further talks to Friday. Negotiations between the Council and the Federation broke off last month following the Council's refusal
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  • 164 2 SINGAPORE Police Secretary. Mr. Eu Cheow Eang, yesterday stressed that the woman found dead m a creek off Bendemeer Road, on Tuesday night, was "definitely not murdered." "We suspect no foul play. The woman is believed to have been drowned," he added Mr.
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  • 220 2 THE Singapore City Council is to overhaul its accounting system completely on the recommendations of an Australian accounting expert, who arrived m the Colony yesterday. The expert. Mr. Garret Ernest Fitzgerald, who is here at the Invitation ot the City Council, was a lecturer at
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  • 373 2 THE Singapore Government yesterday agreed to the immediate implementation of religious teachings m all Malay schools. In addition, Malay children attending English schools m Singapore would also receive religious teachings immediately. This was decided yesterday, after an hour-and-a-half conference at the Ministry of Education attended
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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    • 440 2 TENDER NOTICES 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.
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    • 109 2 REDUCTIONS Up to 50/0 All merchandise on open display No+ all sizes m every style! COME EARLY FOR BEST SELECTION! fUUa J 5 -THEATRE GALA PREMIERE TOMORROW!: at REX QUEENS REX CAPITOL REX SINCiAPORE SINGAPORE J BAHRU KUALA LI'MPUR IPOH \ll a.m. 1.45 -4 11 a.m. 1.45 -4 145 -4
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 52 2 MISCELLANEOUS MIRROR OF THE FATE. Do no* miss the Golden opportunity of paving a visit to the World Renownec Spiritual Palmist and Astrologer Prof M S Sadar. Guan Guan Hotel. Room No 4. 75 lalan Besar. 8 to 12 noon 2 to 6 pm Phone No *****. Singapore iNo recognised
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  • EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 500 3 The People The Police THE Singapore Government has every reason to be well satisfied with the increasing public co-operation m the maintenance of lav and order and m the fight against crime. It has taken a long time to build up this confidence and to eliminate from the minds of
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    • 304 3 THE City Council's attempts to recruit local doctors to meet the acute shortage of medical officers m its Health Department have failed. The Council's Health Committee has now decided to extend its quest to Hongkong and India. The lack of response is certainly not surprising. If the Singapore
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  • 2096 3 The Leban ese Cris is. comp lex pa item m history of civil commotion, says H.A.R. PHILBY BEIRUT 'pHE name Lebanon usually stands for the Westernised society of Beirut, for the summer resorts perched on the surrounding hills, for the ski lifts at "The Cedars", and perhaps for
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  • 358 3 Indian Arms Scandal THE repeated efforts of the Indian General Staff to impose peace on the rebellious Naga tribes m the frontier hills of Assam have hardly been helped by the latest arms scandal. An investigation ha s now been opened at the principal Indian military camp m the Naga
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  • Article, Illustration
    344 3 dfkltjrht r FHE people of Singapore la particular and Malaya m general will have an opportunity to judge the sincerity of the Labour Front next week when nomination papers are filed for the City Council Kalian? by-election. The Front has been warned off the polls by the Peoples*
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous

  • 179 4 Employee Beaten Up, Alleges Glass Firm THE Singapore Glass Manufacturers Company last night alleged that one of Its senior employees had been assaulted by six men believed to be former employees of the firm early yesterday. Acting general manager of the company, Mr. B. Clarke, told The Standard that the
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  • 36 4 HONGKONG, June 25. Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: $16.08 to £1 Sterling, $5.79 to US$l; $1,852 to Malayan $1, $0.08 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $252 to a tael.
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  • 54 4 SYED Salleh bin Syed Abdullah and Rais bin Hussain were yesterday charged m a Singapore Court with assaulting Ng Ah Tee when trying to extort $4 from him at Geylang Serai on Tuesday. They pleaded not guilty and were remanded until July 2 when their, case
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  • 86 4 MR. JUSTICE Tan Ah Tah, m the Singapore High Court yesterday granted Chong Chin Nam (Property) Limited possession of a piece of land on which the Beauty World Park at the 7th mile Bukit Timah Road, is situated. Chong Chin Nam (Property) Limited had claimed possession
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  • 274 4 $1 36 M. For 1956 Was Biggest In Its History THE Singapore City Council spent about $136,000,000 m 1956 the largest expenditure m the history of the Council, says the 1956 report issued yesterday. This was an increase of about $12,000,000 over 1955. A new $30,000,000 loan
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  • 113 4 THE Royal Air Force Drum and Pipe Band will leave the Singapore Naval Base tomorrow for the Philippines on the HMAS destroyer "Warramunga" to play m Manila on July 4, Philippines National Day. The Band will stay m the Philippines for three days. This is
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  • 92 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Among participants m the MAHA Exhibition at the Chinwoo grounds, here, from June 27 to 30 will be the Federation Army. Units taking part will be the 6th Battalion, the Royal Malay Regiment, Ist Battalion, the Federation Regiment, Ist Battalion Federation Field
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  • 76 4 MALACCA, Wed. A riot case, m which four employees of the Malacca Omnibus Service were charged with being members of an unlawful assembly on April 3, has been postponed to June 30. The case which was partly heard yesterday, had to be postponed today because the defence
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  • 106 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Air Commodore N. C- Hyde, who succeeds Air Commodore A.V.R. Johnstone as Commander of the Royal Malayan Air Force and Deputy Chief of Air Staff at the Armed Forces Division of the Ministry of Defence, Rifle Range Road, arrived here yesterday. He flew
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  • 78 4 Recognition Sought For University's Law Degree PROFESSOR L. A. Sheridan, Professor of Law at the University of Malaya, yesterday left Singapore by QantasBOAC to seek British Government recognition for the University of Malaya's law degree. He said he would discuss recognition of the Malayan degree with the British Council of
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  • 197 4 Sackings- Lim's Pledge To Air Ministry Union SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, yesterday promised the Air Ministry Local Staff Union that he would try to persuade the Air Ministry to stop further retrenchment of civilian employees. Mr. Lim made the pledge to a nine-man delegation of the Union
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  • 101 4 LUXURY CRUISE MAN OFF MR. LAN H. Mac Lean, a representative of the North America, Orient and Pacific Lines, left Singapore yesterday after studying the Colony's tourist trade. Mr. Mac Lean spent a week m the Colony paving the way for a "multi-million dollar holiday cruise" to Malaya. He told
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  • 168 4 Malacca Tragedy Body Is Recovered MALACCA, Wed. The body of one of the five Indonesian seamen who were drowned off Pulau Besar yesterday, was recovered by a Customs patrol launch this morning. i He was identified as Hashim bin Abdul Rahman. The body was recovered off Pulau Burong, about half
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  • 361 4 High Court Dismisses Crown's Appeal MR. JUSTICE CHUA m the Singapore High Cojui yesterday dismissed appeal by the Crown against the decision of a Magistrate m a traffic The magistrate had quitted Tang Hong Heng on a charge of using a m cycle along Kepp< whilst not covered by third
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  • 26 4 THE Rotary Club of Bahru will hold an Insta! Dinner and Dance at the 1 Johore International Saturday, (June 28) beg. at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 105 4 CONTRIBUTORS to Singapore Central Prov Fund as at end of last rr totalled 272,000. the Board yesterday announced This number exclude^ pensionable employees of Government and persons similarly employed by H.M. Goment Departments, the Board said. It also excludes persons exempted under certain visions of
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  • 213 4 THE United Malays National Organization has made no ailiance with any political party m Singapore other than the Malayan Chinese Association, the President of Singapore UMNO. Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat told The Standard yesterday. He said that, as his party was
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • 45 5 Photo. LIEUTENANT Colonel K. P. Molyneux-Carter, Commanding Officer. Second Battalion, the Royal Malay Regiment, received the award of OBE from the Queen recently for distinguished service during the Emergency m Malaya. Lt. Col. Molyneux-Carter is pictured with his wife. Federation Army
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  • 281 5 Let Students Indulge In Politics- Professor KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Political factors governing a country are bound to influence university students, and it is inevitable that they should be invol'.ed ii> politics. Professor F. Mason, head of tne University of Malaya division here, said today. Speaking to Rotarians, ProMason said it
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  • 673 5 SOLDIER NOT GUILTY OF RAPE Court Told Of Visit To Girl's Home After Party PENANG, Wed. Private K. Molloy, of the Army Catering Corps of the 16th Commonwealth Field Ambulance, was found not guilty bj a general court mar tial m Minden Barracks here today on a charge ••aping a
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  • 192 5 PENANG, Wed. A housewife, Beh Teng Kirn, and a 15-year-old girl, Yeoh Pak Khoon, were carrying on the illegal character lottery m a bathroom, t; c Magistrate's Court was told today. Beh. Yeoh and another housewife. Tan 800 Cheng, pleaded guilty to a summons
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  • 75 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The first mobile post office on the East Coast and the fourth m the Federation will soon be m operation Manned by a postal clerk and a postman-cum-driver. this mobile post office will serve residents m the Kota Bharu district of Kelantan. Built
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  • 121 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed A miniature zoo. containing a baby elephant, crocodiles, pythons, leopards, an orang utan, gibbons, a mongoose, several species of deer, birds and scores of other wild animals will be one of the attractions at the 23rd Malayan Agrihorticultural Association Exhibition opening
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  • 105 5 STANVAC MEN ISSUE A STRIKE NOTE THE 400-strong Singapore Stanvac Employees' Union yesterday served a 14-ddv strike notice on the Standard Vacuum Oil Company. The threatened strike is m protest against the company's refusal to re-instate a worker who was dismissed m 1956. If the worker is not re-in-stated by
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  • 103 5 WONG TO OPEN UNION MEETING PENANG Wed. Chief Minister Mr. Wong Pow Netwill declare open the annual general meeting of the Penang and Province Wellesley Malay Students' Union, to be held at the Khek Association m Burmah Road on Sunday The Union has invited local community and civic leaders to
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  • 69 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Minister for Agriculture Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak. continuing his tour of Negri Sembilan. today visited Port Dickson district. The Minister called at the community centre at Kampong Chuah where he met and spoke to several smallholders. He later made brief visits to
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  • 235 5 Standard Music Critic GASPAR CASSADO. the celebrated Spanish cellist, gave a recital m the Victoria Memorial Hall last night under the auspices of Mr. Goh Soon Tioe. The principal Work was Grieg's A minor sonata, and this was given with style, unswerving precision and an
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  • 138 5 SEVEN GIRLS IN HAIR-BUN CONTEST KAJANG, Wed. Selangor UMNO Headquarters will send an "independent body" to judge the hair-bun (Sanggol) competition at a fun fair here organized by the Ulu Langat division of UMNO on Saturday The two-day fun fair is m aid of the UMNO building fund and at
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 374 6 SINGAPORE'S multi-million-dollar new terminal airport building at Paya Lebar will be built at ah tor the Jet Age to keep the Colony on the air map. This wa s stated by Mr Francis Thomas, the Minister for Communications and Works, yesterday. Mr. Thomas told The
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  • 56 6 A 70-YEAR-OLD Indian woman. Ponnamah, who was knocked down by a car at Bukit Panjang Village yesterday morning died at the Genera! Hospital later m the day The car was proceeding towards the City. Eye-witnesses of the accident are requested to contact Inspector A. G
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  • 109 6 Proceeds Oi Premiere To Red Cross SHAW BROTHERS and Warner Brothers will donate the entire proceeds of the gala premiere of "Marjorie Morningstar" at the Sky Theatre a; 9.30 p.m. on July 9 to tin Singapore Red Cross Guests of honour at tht premiere will be the pat rons. Governor
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  • 112 6 No Postal Delivery On Saturday THERE will be no of letters or parcels on Sr day Hari Raya Haji a pub.ic holiday. The post offices at Joo Chiat, Kandang Kerbau, Orchard Road < Arcade), Tiong Bahru and Towner Road be closed. The G.P.O. will be open from 9 a.m. to
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  • 66 6 'Positive Steps To Be Taken At Meeting THE 7.000-strong Singapore Harbour Board Staff tion will, at an r general meeting "positive steps" i strike decision arrived at recently. The meeting will be held at the Association's premises m Cantonment Road at 5.15 General secretary of Association told The Standard tl
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  • 275 6 WOMEN HEAR TALK ON SECRET SOCIETIES ABOUT 50 members of the Singapore Women's International Club heard one of their most colourful weekly talks yesterday when Mr. Koh Lian \V«h. \cting Deputy Superintendent of Police, C.1.D., told them of the machinations of Chinese secret societies from 18th century beginnings to the
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  • 186 6 SINGAPORE'S Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, told The Standard he would see representatives from the Opera Estate regarding their demand for a bus service. The residents had written to the Minister and to the Mayor appealing to bus com panics to
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • 239 7 Memorial Service At Bidadari PEOPLE from all walks of life doctors, nurses, government officials down to the humblest labourer yesterday paid their last respects to the late Dr. George Herbert Garlick, 72, former Director of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association. Before the Funeral Service at Bidadari
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  • 157 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers. Sellers Spot 76J 77i R.S.S. No. 1 761 77 (August) 76* 762 R.S.S. No. 2 74i 74| R.S.S. No. 3 68 68* Tone: Uncertain after firm. The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was $370? (unchanged).
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  • 40 7 LEONG Kwong Seng who pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to extort from Lee Kah Meng by putting him m fear of injury at Middle Road on June 22, was yesterday remanded by a Singapore Court.
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  • 33 7 YAP AH PONG was yesterday remanded by a Singapore Court after he claimed trial to a charge of being a member of an unlawful society at Cheong Hong Lin Street on Tuesday.
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  • 135 7 THE real essence of citizenship is united loyalty to one's State and united effort to make that State peaceful, happy and prosperous, Singapore's Governor Sir William Goode said yesterday. Sir William, who was speaking at the Rotary Installation dinner last night, referred to the new Singapore
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  • 23 7 THE Literary and Dramatic Club. Singapore, will hold a "Social Night" at the Upper Serangoon Community Centre tomorrow at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 326 7 SERGEANT Ng Hong Hai of Police Radio Division, m the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, gave a shot-by-sl ot account of a gun duel m Lorong Melayu, following the kidnapping of Colony millionaire banker, Mr. Ng Sen Choy, on Aug. 29, last year.
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  • 157 7 Jumat: Malays' Rights Will Be Safeguarded THE Minister for Local Government. Lands and Housing, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, yesterday gave an assurance that Malays m Singapore would have their special rights safeguarded by the laws of the land. Inche Jumat said this m reply to a question from
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • 337 9 ONE of the most up-to-date paint service laboraes m the world has just D opened near London. It will provide the Paints Division of 1.C.1, with faciliior giving comprehensive nical service to its home and overseas customers, including advice on painting specifications and techniques of
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  • 65 9 R.I. Bank To Open Office In London JAKARTA. June 25 (Reuter). Antara news agency said yesterday the Bank of Indonesia would open an office m London on July 1. The Governor of the bank, Mr. Lukman Hakim, would attend the opening. Antara said. The opening of the London c would
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  • 25 9 ADVERSE weather, limited ng. and livestock uring sharply reduced ntina's 1957-58 harvests of wheat and other cereals. except corn, below those of ?ar.
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  • 91 9 TOTAL ships cargo handled m Singapore "roads" and wharves m April this year amounted to 1.251,290 tons, against 1.562.820 tons m the previous month. In the first four months this year, 5.834,370 tons cargo were handled, compared with 5.874.800 tons m the same period of 1957. In
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  • 72 9 SHOWN here is the centre section of the largest electronic digital computor yet made m Western Europe for doing routine office work. For more than two years British designers and engineers have been working on this "brain." at their laboratories m the New Town of Bracknell. m
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  • 103 9 Company To Celebrate Anniversary A BRITISH company, General Accident Fire Life Assurance Corporation Ltd, will celebrate its 50th anniversary m the Far East, with a dinner at the Cathay Restaurant, Singapore, on July 10. It will be attended by the staff and principal agents of the company throughout Malaya and
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  • 38 9 THE world's textile industry used an estimated 2,885,000. 000 pounds of raw wool last year. Although thi s was less than one per cent above 1956. it marked the third successive year of increase.
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  • 209 9 MALAYAN sharebrukers reported the following business done yesterday: Fed. Disp $1.03. $1.05: F N ords. $2.50. $2.52* immediate: Gammon $2.10 to $2.06" H Waugh $1.30. $1.32J -.mmediate; M Breweries $3.02; M. Breweries debentures 83c; McAlister 51.24. $1.25: M. Box $1.62 i xd $1.50 odd lot; Robinson ords
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  • 96 9 Cautious Interest In Industrials INDUSTRIALS and tins were cautiously steady in the Malayan share market yesterday. Rubbers were inclined to ease despite the firmness in the commodity price. The turnover was small. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were:— INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Fed. Dispensary 1.02 1.07 Fraser Neave
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  • 152 9 OUTER ROADS Tong Soon, Ringhorn, Bogota, Japan. Van Cloon. Sanana, Fukuiki Mara, Troon Breeze. Musi, Lidia, Felipes. Cedar Theta Star, Batoela. Padjonge, Everglory, Waibalong, Livenza, Statius Jensen, Batavia, Perini. Pondokrator, Sydney, El Brneon, Armonia. Tyne Breeze, Karsik. Hulda Maersk Ban Ho Hin, Kaloekoe, Roebiah, Reyniersz. Banggaai Oulida,
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  • 65 9 THE first pile for the new petroleum* refinery of Esso Nederland N.V., a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. U.S.A.. has been driven at the third Petroleum Harbour near Rotterdam. The refinery, which is expected to come on stream m the first half
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  • 205 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. —The National Import and Export Corporation of Peking recently complained to Mr. John Hall, representative of a PanMalayan rubber export firm, that rubber shipped to China from Singapore was not of the best quality. This was disclosed to The Standard by
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  • 172 9 Price Up On Active Trading AFTER three weeks of quiet trading, Singapore rubber market experienced one of its most active days yesterday. International first grade July shipment jumped 1-1/8 cents to close at 76-3/4 cents per lb. Short covering was the main feature of yesterday's trading. Opening at around previous
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  • 71 9 A SWISSAIR DC-7C aircraft recently covered the 3.980 miles non-stop flight between Geneva and New York m the record time of 12 hours 55 minutes, the airline announced m Singapore yesterday. It was the first time a flight from Geneva to New York had taken less than
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  • 181 9 FURTHER preparations are being made m Britain to provide dock facilities for handling oil tankers up to 120.000 deadweight tons. Close on the heels of an announcement by the Esso Petroleum Company that they are to build a new refinery near Milford Haven with a
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 489 9 FIRM PLANS NEW CAN FACTORY IN MALAYA THE METAL BOX Company of Malaya, Ltd., which already has a factory m Singapore, is to build another m the Federation, according to the chairman's annual statement to shareholders, to be presented at the annual general meeting on July 17. The chairman, Mr.
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  • 125 9 MALAYAN banks will cut their minimum interest rates on overdrafts by half per cent as from July 2. It will be the second cut m the rates since June 16, when the rates were cut by i per cent. Chairman of the
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  • 61 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the Following changes m its rates to merchants yesterday: Canada! buying, T.T. 31-9/16. O.D. 31-11/16, 90 days airmail 32 credit bills, 32-1/8 trade bills. Selling rates. T.T. or O.D. ready were: New York 32-9/16: Canada 31-1/4; Swisi Francs 141-3/4; French Franc? *****;
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  • 232 9 KUCHING, Wed. Sarawak exports of rubber last month were a rise over the previous month. Exports last month totalled 3,084 tons, against 2.765 tons m the previous month. But the first five months exports this year have been "disappointingly low," compared with exports m previous
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  • 106 9 SARAWAK Government Is offering SlO debentures with a guaranteed minimum interest rate of 4 per cent per annum to the general public. The debentures are not subject to stamp duty or income tax and they can be bought at any Government Treasury or any bank
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  • 245 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Federation Government is conscious of the importance of locating some factories m the rural areas to provide employment for the local population, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, said today, when he opened the extension of the
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  • 96 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: copra June/ July U.K Continent $31 buyers $31$ sellers coconut oil m bulk $47$ sellers; m drums $51 sellers; Muntok white pepper $126 sellers; Sarawak white $125 sellers; Special Sarawak black $70. Singapore Copra Association closing prices
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  • 28 9 THE 1958 Indian cashew crop, including production from Portuguese Goa. is forecast at 77,000 short tons, or about 6,000 tons more than the harvest m 1957
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  • 58 10 Men and Words "I'VE come to escape the crisis calm. It's almost unbearable Paris is so quiet." American actor EDDIE CONSTANTINE. m "YES, sir. We had a very good reception m England" American rock 'n' roll singer JERRY LEE LEWIS, m New York after all but two of his 26
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  • 1828 10  -  Richard Berry i Beginning this week, The STANDARD commences a new series on famous world* personalities m this special column, which gives a profile study of the MEN IN THE NEWS and the "behind the scene" episodes m their career, written 2 by *Rene_Coty The statesman
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  • 747 11 Fourteen New Records Set At Borneo Games SANDAKAN, North Borneo, Wed. Fourteen records were broken, and three others equalled, during the two- day athletic meeting of the fourth British Borneo inter-territorial championships held at Brunei on r naa\ ana saiuraay. North Borneo won the MacDonald Cup. the Sultan Cup and
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  • 165 11 Big Crowd See Cuppers In Action IPOH. Wed.-An unexpected capacity crowd witnessed the exhibition games staged by Thai, American and Ma an Thomas Cuppers m the Perak Turf Club last night. AH the games were keenly contested but the visiting cuppers were more conspicuous lor their physical fitness, and y
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  • Article, Illustration
    40 11 LAI Kan Heng, of the Kuen Cheng Girls High School, pictured m action when she broke the discus record at the Selangor Amateur Athletic Association's 19th annual meet held at the Kuala Lumpur's Merdeka Stadium last Saturday.
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  • 823 11  - More Newcomers At K.L. Half Sister To Maha Ranee Has Good Reputation WINDSOR LAD From KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. More newcomers are making their debuts at the Selangor Turf Club's JuneJuly meeting. Among them is Sri Medan (late Oola Shore) a half sister to Maha Ranee, a recent winner at Ipoh
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  • 69 11 LONDON. Jun e 25. (ReutersEight probable runners with jockey s for the Newbury Summer Cup to be run at Newbury tomorrow over one mile and a half at 1400 GMT are The Rabbi unjockey: Rose Argent, J. Purtell. Alcimedes. unjockey, Rhythmic Light. A. Breasley, Aorangi, D. Keith.
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  • 646 11 THE BRITISHERS ARE OUT KrishnanAdvances LONDON, June 25 (Reuter) A chilling, blustery wind and light showers made playing conditions unpleasant and difficult on the third day of the Wimbledon lawn tennis championships here today. By the end of the day, the men's and women's singles were to be reduced to
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  • 25 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Dynamos beat Selangor Chinese Athletic Association 3-2 m the FAS division 2 league match on the Taylor Road ground today.
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  • 78 11 YIO CHU KANG School will hold its 4th annual sports on Friday, July 4 at 3.15 p.m. on its school ground. Old pupils m invited to take part m the 880 yards for men and 100 yards for women. Intending competitors are requested to report
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  • 71 11 THE annual athletic meet of Raffles Institution will be held on Saturday on their school field, with the first event starting at 2.30 p.m. These will be Physical drill by the Boys of Form II and 111, and a Gymnastic show by the Raffles Institution Gymnastic Club, during
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  • 322 11 SYDNEY. Wednesday— The Australian Soccer Association hopes next year to stage a replay of the 1959 English Football Association Cup final m either Sydney or Melbourne. A crowd of 100.000 people saw Bolton Wanderers beat Manchester United 2-0 m this year's Cup final
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  • 41 11 A 73 year old woman golfer won the mixed foursome competition at Keppel Golf Club. She is Mrs. Hipcham. who partnered A. Moody, to win the Keppel Bogey m the competition played during the weekend.
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  • 100 11 Raja Muda To Open PAAA Meet IPOH. Wed: The Raja Muda of Perak will declare open the 1958 Perak Amateur Athletic championships which will start on the Ipoh Padang this Friday at 2 p.m. The meet has drawn a record entry of 177 from all over Perak. Members of the
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  • 258 11 Busmen Trounce F N For League And Cup Final SINGAPORE Traction Company Sports Club entered the final of the S.B.H.F.A. League and Cup competition hy trouncing Fraser and Neave Sports Club by four goals to nil on the Malay Football Association ground yesterday. The Busmen, who had not been doing
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  • 242 11 Kramer's 'Circus' For Russia WIMBLEDON. June 25. (IPI) Jack Kramer announced today that he had all but completed negotiations to take his professional tennis circus" to Russia m late August and early September for a tour which thr Soviets hope will arouse nationwide interest m the game. "I cant see
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  • 54 11 GOTHENBURG. June 24 (Reuter). A desperate Lapp who longed to watch the Swedish-West G< World Cup football today, telephoned the ticket office here from Pajala, North of the Arctic Circle, and offered a reindeer for even a standing place. It is not known whether the ticket
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  • 31 11 SYDNEY. June 25 (Reuter* —The touring New Zealand Maoris Rugby Union team were beaten 18-15 today at Orange, 200 miles west of here. The Maoris led 12-9 at halftime.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 136 11 JBTIIAADARV Selangor Medicals vs. Audit aiNfeAr ukl Dept sc Imbi Road SOCCER: SAFA League BADMINTON: S.B.A Gold Div. 1: Police S.A. vs IRC. Cup International 2 p.m. Jalan Besar Div. 3A: Cus- to 7.30 p.m. Toms S.C. vs Seletar F.C., f POM Geylang. UTVH TENNIS: Lawn Tennis At- n SOCCER:
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  • 446 12  - Sweden Surprise The Hot Favourites In World Cup VERXON MORGAN And Now They'll Meet The Brazilians In Final By STOCKHOLM, June 25, (Reuter)— Brazil, dazzling artists of ball control, ™d Sweden, a team of neat, precise movements, last night qualified for the final of tftc World Soccer Cup. The Brazilians,
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  • 267 12 Referee Saves Touan From The Kid' LONDON. June 25 (Reuter) Hogan "Kid" Bas- ,erian holder of the world featherweight title, stopped Jules Touan. champion of French West Africa, m seven rounds at the Empress Hall here last ghr. Touan had taken five counts, four of five and the other of
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  • 94 12 TOKYO, June 25. (Reuter) The Asian Games Federanote of protest to Formosa asking that aiwan basketball team apologize for refusing to attend eremony of honouring the winner of the basketball at the 3rd Asian Games held here on Jam The Formosan team, according to the Federation,
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  • 57 12 Phone-Men Whip P T SINGAPORE Telephone Board trounced Post and Telegraph by six goals to nil m the quarter-final of the SGSFA soccer compettition at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Telephone Board will now meet Tan Tock Seng Hospital m the semi-final. The winners of this match will meet the winners
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  • 165 12 PARIS, June 25 (Reuter) The 45th Tour De France, the world's most gruelling road cycle race, begins tomorrow m Belgium. Brussels being the starting point for this 24-day event. The 120 competitors will toil 4,311 kilometres (about 2,679 miles), without a
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  • 142 12 None Works Better Than B. Perindu KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A number of horses from the Bagby Stable were sent against the clock on the track this morning, and none worked better than Buloh Perindu, who with Tom Mortimer astride, easily skipped three furlongs m 37 4/5 sec. the fastest time
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  • 31 12 SEGAMAT, Wed Kampong Sungei Segamat beat Kampong Sermin 4-3 m the opening game of the Kampong Football League for the Che' Ghani bin Rauf Trophy. Halftime score was 2-2.
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  • Article, Illustration
    40 12 —Picture by SERGEANT Major Hamid of the Klang Police received the District Championship Challenge Cup from Mrs. T. K. Belton, after their victory at the Klang Circle Police Sports held at the High School Padang last Wednesday. Ch'ng Seng Poh
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  • 90 12 TAXJOXG MALIM, Wed. Tanjong Malim Recreation Club won the 1958 Stevenson Cup Badminton Tournament which concluded here last night. Runner-up was Lima Bias Estate, and Methodist English School took third place. Mr. I. T. Stevenson. Manager of Sungei Chinoh Estate, Trolak, presented his Challenge
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  • 106 12  -  Konrads By BRISBANE, June 25 (Reuter) John Konrads, Australia's 16-year-old swimming champion, may on June 27 become the first man m the world to hold every world record between 200 metres and one mile. Konrads, swimming at the North Queensland town of Townsville will then make an
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  • 113 12 All May Be Invited For 1962 Games TAIPEH, June 25 (Reuter) —A high official of the Nationalist Olympic Committee said today it would be unlikely that Indonesia would bar South Korea, Nationalist China and Israel from the 1962 Asian Games. He is Dr. L. K. Kiang, Sec-retary-General of the committee
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  • 68 12 Police PWD Draw POLICE Sports Association and Public Works DeDartment failed to reach a decision when they played to a one-all draw m the semi-final of the SGSFA competition atJalan Besar stadium yesterday. Police were leading 1-0 m the first half through Lee Kok Seng. Then Omar Rahmat scored a
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  • 90 12 SYDNEY, June 25 (Reuter) World sprint record holder Marlene Mathews has been banned from competing m a novel race at a Gymkhana at Sydney's Harold Park trotting track next Sunday. Marlene was to have competed against pacer Determined Boy over 100 yards. The Secretary of
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  • 407 12 Poor Refereeing Results In Incidents W. GERMANY VS. SWEDEN AT GOTHENBURG WEST GERMANY THE holders of the Jules Rimet Cup, were knocked out of the world tournament by Sweden m the semi-final here by three goals to me after the teams had been level 1-1 at the interval. It was
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  • 477 12  -  JIM PLATT Brazil Vs France At Stockholm By BRAZIL, playing the sort of football which made them favourites for the World Cup, beat France 5-2, m their semi -final match here today. The French, who trailed 1-2 at the interval, had played well
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  • 65 12 HOUSTON*. Tex. (Reuter) Floyd F. world heavyweight b< champion, will def< title against Texas scl master Roy Harris m Angeles on August 18. P. son's manager. Mr. Cus Damato, said last night. It will be Pattersor title defence since when he knocked ouOlympic champion Pete Rademacher. Harris
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  • 57 12 STOCKHOLM, June 24 (Reuter)— A total c spectators have watched the :natches plaj'ed so far m the 1958 World Soccer cup competition m Sweden. The semifinals tonight were watched by 76.571 spectators 49.471 at Gothenburg and 27,100 at Stockho French inside right Fontaine is still leading the goal
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    2161 13 drihthyy 8.8.C. Brains Trust rl, sincerely to be regretted that the country is riven by wave after wave o f strikes affecting practically every aspect of our national economy at a moment when, as everybody kn ows, we have to work right round the clock to complete the
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  • 420 13 FROM WASHINGTON PATRICK O DONOVAN Supreme Court of the United States is $uperbly isolated from the scurry and ambitions of ordinary politics. In theory, it is bound by nothing except conscience and the law. It has again handed down a decision that will please the liberals, satisfy those
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 518 13 TODAY'S QUOTATION: MBHMBHH HHB| 1 "Why ran we rrmrmb* r VM the tiniest detail of what mm tl^^3 has happened to as. and not I remember how many times I we have told it to the same I Y^^tf WAV |¥%l person?" H^fe^l La Rochefoucauld I THIRSDAY FOR! [All EVERYONE:
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  • WORLD
    • 131 14 EDINBURGH, Scotland. June 25, (Reutv). The appeal of Peter Manuel, 32, sentenced to die for seven murders, was rejected here today. Lord Clyde rejected each of the six grounds of appeal, which were put forward by his counsel m the Scottish Crimi- nal Appeal Court. Lord
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    • 197 14 India Russia Move Resolutions In U.N. Council UNITED NATIONS, New York, June 25 (Reuter)— The Soviet Union and India yesterday introduced separate resolutions m the United Nations Trusteesnip Council calling for an end to nuclear tests m Trust territories. The Soviet resolution specifically called for an end
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    • 306 14 JULY Ist TALKS MOSCOW, June 25, (Reuter)— The Soviet News Agency Tass announced early today that Russia had replied to the American memorandum of June 20 dealing with the forthcoming meeting m Geneva between East- West disarmament experts. The Soviet Foreign Minister. Mr. Andrei Gromyko.
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    • Article, Illustration
      73 14 Pix. WORKMEN aboard the S.S. "Pacific Unity" measure a 100-ft long totem pole, a gift from the people of British Columbia to the Queen before unloading it. The people of British Columbia have sent the pole weighing between 12 and 13 tons to mark the centenary of the province. The
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    • 47 14 UNITED NATIONS, New York. June 25, (Reuter)— The United Nations has a new set of initials— UNOGlL. Documents published yesterday about the observer teams In Lebanon used the Initials officially for the first time here. UNOGIL stands for U.N. Observation Group m Lebanon.
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    • 222 14 WASHINGTON, June 25, (UPl).— .The United States and its 15 fighting allies m the Korean War agretd yesterday to tell Communist China that ihe United Nations must be the supreme authority m the unification of Korea, diplomatic sources reported. Representatives of these governments
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    • 26 14 SENATOR Pierre Commin, Deputy Secretary General of the French Socialist Party, died m Paris last night after a heart attack. He was 51. Reuter
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    • Briefs
      • 29 14 SIR JULIAN HUXLEY. British writer and biologist, said yesterday that the large mural painted by Picasso for the new Paris Headquarters of UNESCO appeared to him "irrelevant" and "frivolous."
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      • 56 14 DR. CHEDDI JAGAN. British Guiana Minister of Trade and Industry and leader of the extreme left-wing Peoples Progressive Party, said m London yesterday that his party favoured union with the West Indian Federation under certain conditions. THE IMPERIAL War Graves Commission announced m Ottawa that it will build a Commonwealth
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      • 26 14 THE Irish Government has agreed to a United Nations request to make available five officers for service with the U.N. Observation Group m the Lebanon. Reuter
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      • 37 14 V THE first Western mountaineering expedition to go to the Caucasus Range m Russia for 20 years will leave London tomorrow evening under the leadership of Sir John Hunt, head of the successful 1953 Everest party. Reuter
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      • 17 14 THE Indonesian Navy training ship, R.I. Dewarutji. arrived m Manila yesterday for a five-day goodwill visit Reuter
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      • 26 14 ALL nine offices of one of the biggest bookmakers m Belfast, North Ireland, closed yesterday when 65 clerks went on strike for union recogni- tion.- Reuter
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      • 27 14 THE U.S. Army said yesterday that Explorer 111 probably will burn up on Friday, leaving the satellite circuit to Explorer I. Vanguard I, and Sputnik lII.— UPI
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    • 106 14 Acute Man Shortage In Germany SYDNEY. June 25 (Reuter) Even beautiful girls find it hard to get married m Germany, according to a striking red-haired model who arrived here yesterday. There was an acute man shortage, she added. The model, tall, elegant Sigrid Mehlig, i s "captain" of the team
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    • 67 14 WASHINGTON, June 25, (Reuter) The Congressional Atomic Energy Committee yesterday voted nearly twice as much money for nuclear construction projects a s had been recommended by the Eisenhower Administration. The additional authorisation included 145 million dollars for a second plutonium production plant and other extra funds for
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    • 174 14 Queens No. 1 Milliner Gives Up Business LONDON. June 25. (Reuter) —Miss Kate Day, Queen Elizabeth's number one milliner, is giving up her business m Mayfair m the heart of London's fashionable West End. Faced with an expiring lease and a huge rent increase if she renews it, together with
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      54 14 IN the presidential palace m Beirut, Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Dag Hammarskjold is greeted by President of the Lebanon, Camille Chamoun shortly after his arrival there. It is reported that shooting: occurred m many parts of the capital, about half a mile from Hammarskjold's Headquarters at the
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    • 87 14 VOLCANO ERUPTION KILLS 12 TOKYO, June 25, (Reuter) —Police said today that 12 persons were killed, 28 injured and one missing after Mount Asao, one of Japan's active volcanoes m Southern Japan, erupted late last night. A rest house and an office on the mountain were destroyed and a weather
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    • 220 14 ACCRA, Ghana, June 25 (Reuter)— Uproar broke out ta tt*t National Assembly here yesterday when an Opposition member, Mr. M. K. Apaloo, asked why a man, called Yaw Manu, sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment for murder, had been released by the prison authorities. Mr. Apaloo
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    • 236 14 LONDON, June 25 (Reuter).— The Commonwealth Press Union today sent a strongly worded cable io Premier S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike of Ceylon prote^ against the news censorship imposed by his governThe following statement by the Commonwealth Press Union, which represents all Commonwealth newspapers,
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    • 174 14 Girard To Tell All In His Book OTTAWA, Illinois. Jur (UPI) William Girarc of work and soon to be a father, said yesterday he j writing a book about periences m Japan and admitted it might make him look bad. "It's an hi ry and I will tell everything, no
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