Singapore Standard, 30 July 1959

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  • 25 1 fe lit 3H 4 SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD Telephone ***** —5 Cable "TICERNEWS" SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1959 Vot. X No. 28 #15 ct,. 12 Poges
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  • 623 1 MONEYLENDERS TO FEEL AXE S^pore fmwi. to introduce »wr I«tr #o smiiuh big mehet Cuts in rates of interest— plus lots of strings THE SINGAPORE Government will impose tighter controls on moneylenders and cut down their rate of interest from 48 per cent per annum to 18 per cent on
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  • 234 1 Those trips to America: A warning from Byrne SINGAPORE'S Minister for Labour and Law, Mr. K. M. Byrne, yesterday told The United States ConsulGeneral in the State, Mr Avery F. Paterson, that future invitations to visit America should be extended only to the true representatives of the people. In a
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  • 88 1 Gold bars found on cruiser COLOMBO, Wed. (Renter) The British cruiser Ceylon sailed from here yesterday and 40 bars of contraband gold remained stowed in the captain's cabin, while legal authorities are trying to decide who is entitled to it. The gold was discovered in the steward's cabin on board
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  • 552 1 Union supports Rajendra: A letter to Premier THE Singapore Government's ignoring of trade union principles has given rise to fears that union movement rights enjoyed during the colonial regime are being lost. Premier Mr. Lee Kuan Yew was told yesterday in a letter from the City Council Electrical Workers Union.
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  • 84 1 SINGAPORE POLICE were last night looking for a woman whom they believe could help them solve a fire in a laundry shop in Wallich Street. An employee raised the alarm when he scented kerosene at about 9 p.m. last night. His call for help
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  • 34 1 THE cost of National Health Services In England and Wales was £626.000,000 sterling in the financial year, which ended on March 31, 1958, it was officially announced in London, yesterday, m Reuter
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  • 131 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The PMIP candidate for Klang, fnche Ibrahim bin Haji Nordin, who has been reported missing for the past eight days, has not been traced yet. Police are still looking for him, Tht Standard wag told today. Inche Ibrahim, who
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  • 183 1 THE ASIAN BEAUTY WHO BECAME MISS UNIVERSE CNUBS FILM OFFERS HOLLYWOOD. Wed. (Reuter) Akiko Kojima, the 22-year-old Tokyo fashion model who was named "Mitt Universe" last Friday night said today: "I am not interested in acting. I plan to return as soon as I can to Japan, spend two months
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  • 422 1 Mystery gunboat fires on launch in Malayan waters KUALA LUMPttR, Wed. Malayan territorial waters were violated yesterday when a foreign gunboat chased and fired on a 14-ton launch, forcing it to run aground off Pulau Lumut, Port Swettenham. The eight-man crew of the launch, to evade capture, Jumped into the
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  • 137 1 Floating bodies case ends SYDNEY. Australia. Wed. (UPI). The case of two dead Chinese, whose bodies were found floating in Sydney harbour several weeks ago, came to an anti-climatic end today with the acquittal of the man who Police charged was the "brains" behind a huge lmmigration racket. A city
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  • 461 2 Minister announces requisition of its premises in a month SINGAPORE Government last night withdrew its support to the Youth Council and announced the requisition of its premises at 145 Orchard Rood within one month. The Government also decided to stop the $15,000 grant to
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  • 129 2 LEADERSHIP COURSE FOR YOUTHS THE Singapore Youth Council yesterday announced its plan to implement the Youth Leadership Training Course in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil. The training course is open to all people in Singapore. It will.be conducted in three parts and each part will take about three months. Lecturers
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  • 74 2 HONGKONG actress. Miss Wah Lai Lo Ying. will show her collection of Chinese paintings to the publi( at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce beginning tomorrow to Aug. 3. Miss Lo, who is now in Singapore on a short viiit. told repnrir*t^^^l of hrr exhibit
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  • 267 2 Emergency duty caused his wife to desert him A FORMER British Army officer. Joha 15 Wilson, 35, now a factory superintendent trod the Singapore Glass Factory, yesterday saidiafe Court that his emergency duties in the hM 1952 was partly the cause of his wife desrtri Mr. Wilson said this when
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  • 88 2 RADIO TAL ON CHINA BY US. PR DR. ITANLR Sil the Assr tati Vttm South-c i Washingv>n Inne^l give a ta.k a^out iai Ch.na over tne biz gramme of Rari;o &P tomorrow Dr. Spocto: will da commune> as the Oa them and a* kMM them and he wiD trw of
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  • 32 2 A trisha-r .<- fej Siong. was yestllljl discharge not arrc^y acquittal by tin Sixth Magistral*! 0 trespassing into longing to a wort- > Mul, with intei her mode^Ty it Or* on June 8
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    • 555 2 1 NOTICES THE MALAYAN EXCHANG BANKS ASSOCIATION ALL members of the abov Association in the State c Singapore will be closed fo business on Monday, 3r« August 1959, being the Firs Monday In August. s.s "TOMORI" Arrived: 30-7-59 CONSIGNEES are hereb notified that the genera survey of damaged package ex
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  • EDITORIAL • SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 483 3 THE charges made by a PMIP spokesman, in political broadcast over Radio Moloyo on Tuesday ght, that British imperialism has used subtle ethods to weaken the Malays and exercise inrect rule over the Federation are completely ununded and far removed from giving the people the State a true
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    • 363 3 THE plans which Radio Malaya it quickly png into effect, since the Pan-Malayan basis on kich it operated with Singapore for 12 years was hulled on January 4 this year, are expected to ke it a completely independent and efficiently ministered unit by the end of this
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  • 675 3  - Nixon— The 'Front Runner' HARRY W. FRANTZ by WASHINGTON. J^VENTS in Moscow are widely evaluated among political experts as likely to improve Vice-President Richard Nixon's prospects of receiving the Republican Party Presidential nomination in 1960. But Mr. Nixon's polemics with Premier Khrushchev also intensifies speculation concerning Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller
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  • 2067 3  -  J. Halera Ferguson CUBA Aim bbb NEMGHBOURS~~I cZcZcZczc*v A Latin-American Correspondent who bos just returned to London from a visit to the Caribbean countries. LONDON. THROUGHOUT the S p a n i s h-speaking countries of the Caribbean, Fidel Castro, the thirty two year old leader of
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    • 73 3 Sir— ln view of what has been published recently In the Press regarding disturbances in Iraq, this Consulate received a cable from the Government of the Republic of Iraq saying that everything is normal now and the Government sent a Commission of Inquiry so that aggressors and persons
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  • 457 3 the NEWS as at strikes me £T NO time in u s fourteen y r*™ independence nas the Government of India faced an explosive situation m it does today in Kerala where tension appears to be mounting every hour of the day. Compared to what hat been taking place in
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  • 289 4 5,000 VOLUNTEER FOR SUNDAY WORK Task is to make a public park FIVE THOUSAND volunteer workers, comprising monthly and doily-rored staff members of the Ministry of National Development and the City Council and members of the PAP will work on Sunday to convert Old Kallang Airport into a public park
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  • 163 4 Adopt PAP move on hawkers: Councillor ALOR STAR, Wed Town Councillor, Tutn Shaik Osman Ibrahim at the Town Council meet, lag today said that the Police had been arresting "poor hawkers who must stop at certain places to sell their goods." Tuan Shaik Osman added that it would be appreciated
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  • 104 4 Called PC bloody fool' fined $40 AN Inspector of police, told the Singapore 81xth Magistrate. Mr. Philip Lau. yesterday that a policeman was called a "bloody fool" when he tried to arrest a man for a traffic offence. Insp. Teoh Beng San prosecuting, said that Pang Bocn Huat, 23. abused
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  • 750 4 WAS TOLD IT WAS A COMMUNIST EMBLEM" EDUCATION CHIEFS EVIDENCE IN COURT PENANG, Wed. The former Acting Chief Education officer, Penang, Mr. J. M. B. Hughes, said in a Court here today two Police officers drew his attention to the dove
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  • 163 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Chairman of the Cargo Handling Corporation at Port Swettenham. Mr. E. Jefferies who is also the Chief Port Manager, said today, that should there bv a strike by 1,600 —members of the Harbour Trade Union, both the business and reputation of
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  • 206 4 TUNKU VISITS ACID VICTIMS I'm Sorry For You— Ho Said TANJONG MALIM, Wed. The two acid attack victims members of the MCA Youth Organisation who are in the hospital here from severe burns on the face, were yesterday visited by the former Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, who is also
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  • 61 4 PENANG, Wed.— About 200 senior pupils of »he Penang Convent Ustened to a talk on the Constitution of the Federation of Malaya by the State Information officer, Mr. Ng Boon Khai, this morning The talk was illustrated with t'.co charts, one showing the set ud of
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  • 441 4 Red action Tibet: Penang lawyer for probe feam PENAXG. Wed. The president of mittee of Penan*, Mr. On* Huck Lim, ha* k ed by the International Commission of j,, 'K the Inquiry Committee on Tibet." The ro study the commission's report whlrh Mat U a prima facie case that the
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  • 269 4 Army officer may be new RI Consul in S'pore r.rHZf Cti s, ln Indonesia n Consul-General, Majortor ?S.r? UBtl Jatikusumo left Singapore yesterday 1., ifv V ta amld a report that a senior Ar ™y officer WM llk «ly to succeed him in Singapore. Maj. Gen. Djatikusumo. who I left
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  • 105 4 VISITING Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Force* of Vietnam. Lt General Le Van Ty and a croup of Vietnamese Army officers. were yesterday fi h wll I—? 6 -»f£»ents by the General Officer Commanding Sing a- pore Base District, MajorGeneral C.L. Richardson.
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  • 52 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Minister for Natural Resources. Inche Bahaman bin Samsuddin, declared that the Tin Control (Buffer Stock) Regulation!, 1956. 20th contribution period shall be from Aug. 1 to Aug. 31, 1959. and that the rate of contribution shall r>e $27 a picul (unchanged from the 19th
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  • 269 4 BARFOA WILL TO SIX JAP TORPEDO SATURDAY SALVACit rr.en, on the Japanese u No. 30 which ru during the last i Singapore are t^ z fingers crossed j Royal Na\ I nounced that itibJ fence vessel, the 3 will attempt to J torpedoes in thtirjj the ammunitior 3 ground to
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  • 173 5 A secret plan for 'Vengeance' on PMIP supporters? NONSENSE! GOVERNMENT REFUTES THE REPORT KUALA LUMPUR, W.d.— Th. Prim. Minister', D.ctrtKi.nt t-k. „h.«d r.p.,1 .ho. ho. o,o«n -TSSSrtStJ The report, carried in a Singapore vernacular newspaper, alleged that the Alliance Cabinet had decided to reduce th e allocation of Federal funds
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  • 125 5 H Editor-in-Chief of Surabaya English newsier, Indonesian Daily rs, Mr. Sie Pek Ho, said Singapore yesterday that ie greater part of the nesc wanted to leave lesia because of the ;ons imposed on by the government." le, who was on a
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  • 152 5 Police round up 4 thugs at dawn THE Singapore Police following up the shooting of two men in the Balestier Road-Ah Hood Road area on Tuesday night, rounded up four gangsters at dawn yesterday. The injured youths, Koh Hock Kee 18, and Kang Eng Cheok, 17. hit in the chest
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  • 330 5 Family planning Jets full backing From Government THE Singapore Government will soon set up a education committee to draw up plans for a health campaign and advice on family planning. was announced by the ister for Health, Inche Anton Ibrahim, in a talk Radio Singapore, last Ahmad said that his
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  • 100 5 UNDERSEA PIPELINE VORKPUT OFF laying of the pipeline tne sea from Singapore Brani and Blakan scheduled to begin yesN I u Was Postponed to h <^ause of unforeseen 2»«»'id. Army J. «M the British Army p rr -.v start the work on I uncle* the direction of .^•^'s Chief Engineer,
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  • 47 5 AYMENTS TO URAL BOARD •Ta^ TR A CT collection will «dSS2 °L Aug 4a t the i vmSi tor at Ama lia Be. Lim Chu Kang i^RuVa^R du S s Payable ItnJiSK B rd on houI >**"* estates 1 th K Centre 41 iy am. and 1.30 p.nx
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  • 204 5 It's home before Xmas for 700 'Diggers' THE Australian Minister for the Army, Mr. J. O. Cramer, in a statement released in Singapore yesterday, said that special efforts were being made to get 700 Australian troops and 250 families in Malaya home before Christmas. The troops going home are the
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  • 95 5 ORDER FOR BUS DRIVER'S ARREST A 48-YEAR-OLD mother of eight was hit by a bus and killed on the spot while on her way home from the Changi market, a Singapore Coroner's Court was told yesterday. At the close of the inquest on Chua Ah Lian, the Coroner. Inche Ahmad
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  • 188 5 THE Postmaster-General of Malaya yesterday appealed to dog owners in Singapore to instal letter-boxes with iocks at the entrances of their compounds. In a statement he explained that by this co-operation postmen would not run the risk of being attacked by dogs while
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  • 75 5 The smal man with the Dow-tie is two vears old now Picture by THE little man all dressed up with bow-tie and long pants —is Tunku Mohamed Fawy. The occasion was his second birthday party. He is the son of Tunku Pengaran of Selangor and a grand nephew of the
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  • 744 5 Aid for 90.000 people given by Welfare Dept. MORE THAN 22,500 households, or about 90,000 persons, in Singapore received public assistance from the Department of Social Welfare every month, Rotarians were told at their weekly luncheon meeting yesterday by the Department Director, Mr. Woon Wan Siang. This added up for
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  • 397 5 Flea for release of 5 Muslims THE Singapore UMNO yesterday charged the People's Action Party Government with "political interference" of the official functions of the Yang di-Pertuan Negara as the Head of the State. The charge was made following a letter the UMNO received
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  • 40 5 MR. P. SUBRAMANIAM and hit bride, the former Miss Rajaletchmi, who were married at the Veeramma Kaliamman Temple in Serangoon Road, Singapore, according to Hindu rites, and later at the Refistrv of Marriages, Singapore, last week. Standardpic
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  • 310 6 AFTER a lapse of almost 10 years, the Cathay Organization again signed up yesterday with Walt Disney Productions to show the next eight new Disney films, it was announced at a Press conference by Cathay cinema magnate, Mr. Loke Wan Tho.
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  • 145 6 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib) In Singapore jester day were: Buyers Seller* Spot 102} 1021 R.S.S. No. 1 August 102} 1021 R.S.S. No. 1 Sept. 1011 102 Aug No. 2 102 102i Aug. No. 3 10H 102 Tone: Quiel after irregular. Tin price in Singapore was
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  • 156 6 INCHE A RAHIM ISHAK. political secretary to the Ministry of Culture, yesterday said that he was not inciting undergraduates of the University of Malaya here to protest when he spoke to them on Tuesday night. He was then commenting on the controversy over the threat
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  • 57 6 DENIES UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY HO YEE TECK. 20, was charged in a Singapore Magistrate's Court yesterday with being a member of an unlawful assembly and causing hurt to a Police party while armed with parangs and iron rods. The alleged offence took place in Balestier Road on Tuesday night. He pleaded
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  • 137 6 MORE WRITERS NEEDED BY MALAY COUNCIL THE Singapore Malay Education Council at a meeting to be held tonight will discuss among other things, the problem of th e shortage of Malay books. President of th« Council, Inche Haron bin Mohamed Amin, told The Standard •we have many Malay writers and
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  • 249 6 'NEW LOOK' UNIFORMS FO POLICEMEN Songkoks and shoes may replace berets and heavy boots ALL mato matas will soon have new look uniforms in keeping with the new status of Singapore. The Government, it is understood, is now looking over various "models" in the change of uniform suggested by the
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  • Article, Illustration
    43 6 Anna the <or at the fin the S 0«por( Football A Sea I'-,., The pub. c t-nns can he J Mr S^ed 2U71 S3 vrr c The ron♦ p and ihotr $evtj in r f S R S V- 2hi Road, 5 \c
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  • 138 6 WIFE LEFT 10 YRS. AFTER MARRIAGE LEOW Kim Siang, a clerk in the Health Ministry, whose wife left him 10 years after their marriage "because she was a heavy gambler and he could not provide her with extra money." was yesterday granted a decree nisi to be made absolute in
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  • 75 6 A TERRORIST GIVES UP TO CIVILIAN KUALA LUMPUR, Wed A Communist terrorist. Lee Woon. surrendered to a civilian in the Raub district of Pahan* on July 20. A carbine and ammunition were recovered. New s of his surrender was withheld for security reasons. In the Mentakab district of Panang on
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  • 28 6 THE Bedok Methodist Church will hold a sale and fun fair on Aug. 3at the church grounds at Jalan Greja Singapore from 1 to 6 p.m.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • 1416 7 B^^L^^^B Wb whistles for me, only nasty looks, but... WAS WILMNS. a pub>f licity executive; GILl\\S MILLS, a newshen sr SAMUEL MACKINGSKV. thats me in dis|Uise, boarded the ItaU»D liner Roma last Mk Joan went tO meet a friend. Gillian jen
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  • 352 7 Select Company In A Library School X° fe e a student taking the 1959 professional course in librarianship at the New Zealand Library School, Wellington, is to belong to a most select company, for the school accepted a maximum of only 25 students for this years course. Among them are
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 243 7 y^ *--> Psj r\ By RITA DEI MAR npODAFS QUOTATION: The greatest truths ihp simplest." EW.RYONE: Much can be •ccompliihed if one rei in control of situaYou will not lack for your problem will be J Tiake practical use them Avoid hazards. •verexertion YOUR BIRTHDATE AND BIRTHSIGN ARIF.S March 21
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  • 64 9 |E ho.ul of the foreign in of the Federal Minisi Commerce and Indusn Rhodesia. Mr. R. W. left Singapore yester|o rontinue his Far East in J tkarta. \)rl\ ha> so far visited l Hongkong. Thailand the Federation. i< expected to visit (alia and then fly to
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  • 33 9 M.ni?ter for Trarie. Mr. r announced recently Cey on hart purchased t r>n,non tons of Ausfl^ur. Ifhl Ceylon's total JKs of flour from Aus- c year to 100,000
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  • 31 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks' Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday: Selling (ready> TT./O.D. Belgian Francs 1631-3/4, Italian Lire *****. Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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  • 75 9 NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuter). —The U.S. Steel Corporation the world'i largest steel company earned more in the first six months of 1959 than any steel company h&s ever earned before in a six-month period. The Corporation, which, like all other major American steel manufacturers, has now
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  • 173 9 Industrials Steadier On Share Mart INDUSTRIALS and Tins were steadier on the Malayan share market yesterday. Rubbers, were firm, but quieter at close. Turnover was fair. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers 88. Petrol 48/- 50/Fraser and Neave O^s 1.32 136 Common (1959) 179
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  • 359 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following businesi done yesterday: Fraser and Neav e ords $1.30 odd lot; Gammon $1.78 and overnight $1.80. $1.77 odd lot. H. Waugh $1.14 and ov; Hume KIR* A V 8 M Cement $1.56. •IJ7; M. Colls. $100 $1.01; McAhster $1.14. Metal' Box $1.69 Robinson
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  • 92 9 SINGAPORE Chinest Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were Copra July August $35 buyers. $36 sellers, coconut oil in bulk $56$ sellers in drums $58 sellers; Muntok white pepper $137 sellers Sarawak white $136 sellers, special Sarawak black $82. Singapore Copra Association closing prices fair merchantable
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  • 120 9 '-.KONG. Wed. (UPI; D. Ciague. chairman of rgkong General Cham- Commerce, who reTP'urnei from Syrine}'. could corner l\f\% for goods adreaiy In Australia by cheaper or betClag ic this was ecause Australia's ig were such that coun•vhirh supplies >e purchated. was optimistic that more Australian tourists
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  • 258 9 A new rnov© to bring automation within the reach of smaller manufacturers is announced by a British firm of electric motor manufacturers. They have begun production of an automatic oil-burner control, the first it is stated, of a new range of electronic control instruments
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  • 70 9 $41m Surplus In N.Z. Deals WELLINGTON. Wed (Reuter) New Zealand's overseas exchange transactions for the year ended June 30 showed a surplus of £41,000,000 sterling, the Reserve Bank announced. The surplus included £21.800,000 sterling of net official overseas borrowing. It compared with a deficit of £59,700,000 sterling for the previous
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  • 337 9 KUCHING, Wed. Sarawak's external trade for May of $78 million fell by $3.04 million, compared with the previous month's total but was $5.51 million higher than the total of $72.49 million for the corresponding month of last year The value of imports, which amounted
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  • 154 9 'Chinese Favour Extension' Tin Control IPOH. Wed— President of the All-Malaya Chinese Mining Association. Mr. Chong Khoon Li n today hinted that Chinese miners would favour the extension of the International Tin Agreement after 1960. Speaking at the annual general meeting of the association here, Mr. Chone stressed that in
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  • 82 9 JAKARTA. Wed (UPI).— The Central Java Kapok Institute *aid Kapok exports are running well ahead of the 19.58 figure*. The Institute said Kapok exports from the Central Java area for 1958 totalled about 1.405 tons. But during the first six months of this year the
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 337 9 S'PORE COFFEE TRADE ON DECLINE —Brazil In Market With Large Stocks SINGAPORE'S re-export trade in coffee hot fallen since Braiil came into the export market with a vigorous sales policy, Mr. G.G. Rickwood, managing director of Rickwood Co. Ltd. said yesterday. THE firm has been a leading trader in coffee
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  • 66 9 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reuter) An Indonesian trade mission has concluded a successful six-week tour of Europe. Antara news agency reported today. Antara said the leader of the mission, Colonel Suparto, had told its Hamburg correspondent that a 400-million rupiah market had been secured. Among the Indonesian firms
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  • 274 9 RUSSIA will need for herself all the tin she can produce and more, says Tin News, official organ of the Malayan Tin Bureau, quoting reliable tin sources. This will seem increasingly evident if the Soviet Union's ambitious targets in the latest seven-year plan are to
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  • 32 9 High quality water-proof canvas for various met and In different colours are now made in India. Photo showt tome tamplet of India-nade waterproof canvas available for export.
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  • 168 9 Rubber Tops&1.02 On Active Trading RUBBER made further gain in Singapore yesterday, a J- cent rise took first grade August at the close to $1.02i per lb., the highest in two months. On an active market, heavy profit-taking set in during the afternoon. The report by a Singapore firm of
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    • 151 9 Ships In Port OUTER ROADS Chibanga. Bougainville. Katong. Van Lin Schoten. Xarifa. Francoise. Mascot, W.G. Walkley. Tideo, Sognefjell. Kian Aun. Honesta. Idomeneua. Selat Siberut. Libertad 1. Benvrackie, Nales; Lexa Maersk. Kasimbar. Sunda. Hedera. Toggeveen. Statius Jensen. Reynolds, Steel Chemist. Barumah. Avala. INNER ROADS Beetong, Soon Lee. Soon Bee. Hai Hong.
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  • 456 10 Aussies Remain Unbeaten KUALA UMPOft, Wed. Emu Club from New South Wales snatched an exciting 130 runs win against Selangor in their two-day cricket match which ended on the Padang here today. Final scores were: Emu Clnb 149 and 225 for six wickets declared.
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  • 222 10 EMU CLUB Ist Innincs 149 runs. EMU CLUB 2im Innings G. Birt c G. Walker b C. Shepherdson 25 J. Hayward lbw C. Shepherdson P. Davidson b C. Shepherdson 3 R. Scott b Lakhbir Singh 52 J. Henderson b Gurucharan Singh 43 N. Holstein not out 74 W. Bucknell
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  • 890 10  - Learn? Not This Time Mr. S. SfBW JALLEH We don't go for this Indonesian 'soft tak' any more •sirs "WE'VE COME, not to win your titles, but to learn from your players said Mr. Soedirman, president of the Persatuan Bulutangkis Seruruh Indonesia, the controlling: body for badminton in that country,
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  • 76 10 The Partner Eddy Plans To Take EDDY CHOONG is killing two birds with one stone he's here to play badminton and shop for his new home as well. Eddy revealed that he's headed for a lifetime 'doubles' with pretty Maggie The an. The date? September 10. Between practices, Eddy goes
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  • 81 10 Primary Schools B'ton Finals KUALA LUMPUR, Wed— The finals of the Primary Schools Badminton Tournament, organized by the Municipal Education Department, will be played at the Selangor Badminton Hall here on Friday from 1 p.m. The finalists St. Johns Primary School and Chong Hwn Boys School, and the Che Mun
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  • 328 10 INDONESIA'S non-play-ing captain, Mr. D. R. Rikin, kept poor Mr. Leow Kim Fatt, the Singapore Badminton Association's organising secretary for the Malayan tourney, in a daze yesterday with several request's for amendments to the singles and doubles tournament, writes NORM BOUDEWYN. Mr. D.
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  • 210 10 The Big Two of August holidays sport THE FANS WILL GET THEIR FILL THE programme is full for sport this August holdays, with the Malayan badminton and tennis championships the main attractions. The badminton tournament at the Singapore Stadium is about the best ever with the leading players of the
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  • 138 10 n SCHOOLS; athletics champions. Anglo-Chinese School took another title when they won the Inter-Schools cricket knockout competition by beating the Alexandra Grammar School by 24 runs at Pasir Panjang yesterday. The cricket competition was the first organised b v the Singapore Combined School! Sports Council Anglo-Chinese
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  • 254 10 PENANG, Wed. The Football Association of Penang is anxious to get "sacked" soccer star, outside -left Woo Ah Wah, to play in their key Malaya cup-tie against Perak on Saturday. A FAP official today got in touch with the Chairman of the Disciplinary Board. Football
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  • 625 10  -  LEONG HEW MENG By JENNIS is not a flourishing fame j n j. never was and probably never will be Un j IV| younger generation of sportsmen dtvfion M I liking for it as they do th* oth,r sport. It therefore makes one
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  • 49 10 THE Anglo-Chinese School, will hold its Annual Swimming Carnival on Friday Aug. 7 at the Chinese Swimming Club, commencing at 2.30 p.m. There will be two events for Old Boys 100 metres Free Btyle and 200 metres Free Style Relay. Entries will be accepted at the pool.
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  • 264 10 Malayans Much To Learn-Tan ADMIT! IM, ha dard of Malaya, .^H era was low rnn, w J fc from the ne, rh^ B > tries Mr. Tan C E J president of :he a -J A Association of Maiai, that the Malayan, ft" J to learn Writing m the programme
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  • 121 10 ONLY one <>u*ngn: didj wa.s reached .n tfei FH Clicket f estiva, yewrtu > This was between H kong and HQ FEAF til ended in a fouMMM for the Tormrr at C^u* HQ FEAF battir.l 1 scored 110 runs ard put up the nere^arj r for
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  • 50 10 Rangers Whip Recs KUALA LUHYtA 3 Selangor Ranger? wh 1 Selangor Chinese Club 5-1 in Businesj league soccer division l u played on the TPCA inhere today. At half-time. th« led 1-0. fflf 1 The goal srorer* Rangers were 7*^ f Gabrielle (2) and GIJ^ Chinese replied throufH v Hin
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    • 46 10 SINGAPORE ATHLETICS: Balestier Trade School Sports at 230 p.m. KUALA LUMPUR SOCCER Govt. Depts. and B.H. League Div 2 Kilat Club vs. Selangor Teachers— B' fields Rly. IPOH TENNIS Malayan open championship Town Council Courts-^9 a.m. and 3 p.m. TAIPING SOCCER Toion Council vt. Teruna—Jalan Padang.
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  • 336 11  -  SCRUTINEER 'Outsiders' Fight The Finish In Opening Race By 1 FOGHORN, with Chadwick astride, created a sention in an all-outsiders finish in the opening event er H furlongs at Penang yesterday. He paid $220 ■—^^at^mmmmm^mmim and $37. Forging ahead at the hometurn. Foghorn ran on
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  • 46 11 TOTAL POOL $150,600 ■I Prize: *****2 $40,180 !nd Prize: 2886"n $16,072 rd Prize *****0 8,036 tirtrrs ($2,678 each): »5, *****9, *****2. *****8. 183, *****8. onsolation (SI. OOO each): 724. *****8, *****1. *****4, OSI. *****, *****5, *****1. k73. *****7. TREBLE TOTE: 0 winning combinations at
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  • 138 11 Eabuh Jumps 23 ft 4½ in. it Jesselton LTO.V Wed— Ono Malai p<v>rd was shattered and Hhet equalled at the Borneo i he'd in Kuching last and Saturday. M bin Joeing established tew rroord in th<» long .mmp t leap of 2.lft. 4*ins. while Lim cleared 4ft. lOin. the Malayan
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  • 134 11 Carbon Teams To Play For SBH Title NATIONAL Carbon "A" ened the final of the SBHFA cue and cup competition h a four-nil victory over A] Box Sports Club in If semi-final encounter at an Besar stadium Tester's- National Carbon "A" 1 mpet the National Carbon reached the final t
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  • Article, Illustration
    99 11 THE following will represent Ceylon Sports Club in their annual cricket match against T.P.C.A. on Aug. 1 and 2 at Kuala Lumpur: S. K. Sundram. S. Kulasingam. S. Soocelaraj, T. Rajendram. E. Wicks, V. Navaratnam. D. Retnam, Joe X Carvalhto, T. S. Maniam, De Silva and N.
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  • 158 11 Key Cuptie For Perak Penang IPOH, Wed. Perak play Penar.g in the vital Malaya Cup soccer tie this Saturday. The winners will meet Kelantan. the East Zone finalists, on the Home and Away basis for the right to enter the final. The first match against Kelantan will be at Kota
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  • 79 11 THE Johore Badminton Association will hold their Annual Junior and Schoolboy Championships at Johore Bahru from Thursday. Aug 20. The events will be the men's singles and doubles, women's singles and doubles and the schoolboys' singles and doubles. The entrance fee is $3.00 per person for juniors and
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  • 1917 11 Eddie's Stable's Trainer: E. B'kelen. 21- 24 No. 11 FOGHORN 7.12 i2> Chadwick.. 1 26- 18 No. 7 PILOT ITAM 8.04 (5> Mamat 2 45-45 No. 5 BONANZA 8.07 (9> Donnelly 3 44- 45 No. 4 Game One 8.08 (8) Johnson 4 462-164 No.
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  • 203 11 Record Score By Touring Lions In New Zealand BLENHEIM, New Zealand, Wed. (Reuter) The British Isles Rugby Union team set up a record for a touring side in New Zealand when they beat a Combined XV by 64 points to live here today. Another record was broken by 30-year-old Welsh
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    52 11 Standardpic oy 1 1 THE Raja Permaisuri Agong presents the cup t to woman Inspector PT.Ng, winner of the 100 yards in the athletic I anvnal meet of the Fedei ration Royal Police held I 1 at the Police Depot I, Ground Gurney Road, 1 1 Knala Lumpur on Satur!i
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  • 41 11 WITH a score of 87 points St. Andrew's School won a triangular athletic meet against Serangoon English School and Montfort Secondary School on the SEB ground yesterday. Serangoon were second with 79 points, and Montfort third with 64.
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  • 186 11 TOKYO, Wed., (Reuter) The Japanese Rugby Union raid yesterday a 26-member Combined Oxford-Cambridge rugby team would meet Japanese teams for the first time in eight games to be held during the period September 10 to October 4. The team to be led by
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  • 284 11 Royal Army Pay Corps won (he Singapore Base District Parker Cup soccer competition for the first time when they beat Singapore Guard Regiment by three goals to one at Tanglln yesterday. It wao a match keenly contested by two well balanced sides. It w<as only
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  • 95 11 Withdraw' Threat By Angry Cuba MONTREAL, Wed. (Reuter) Cuba today threatened to withdraw from their match with Australia in the American Zone final of the Davis Cup in a row over players' expenses. The tie is due to start on Friday. A withdrawal would automatically put Australia into the inter-zone
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 203 12 *A drastic change for the morse 9 Both sides reject latest plans for a Berlin truce GENEVA, Wed. (UPI) Both East and West today rejected their rival plans for a Berlin truce. The double rejection appeared to doom the Geneva talks to failure. The West, in turning
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    • 538 12 Govt defeats labour bid to censure its African policy LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) The government last night defeated a Labour attempt to censure its policy in the British Central African Protectorate of Nyasaland by 317 votes to 254 a Government majority of 63 There were two votes The first was that
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    • 51 12 Akiho and the other finalists Picture). JAPANESE beauty, Akiko Ko.jima. nominated Miss Universe, 1959 is seen flanked by other finalists after the crowning in Long Beach, California. From left: Miss Brazil. Vera Riberiro. Miss United States. Terry Muntingdon. Miss Universe. Miss Norway, Jorunn Kristiansen, and Miss England. Pamela Anne Searle-
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    • 125 12 BOAC sacks 22 for LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Twemty-two members of British Overseas Airways staff, mainly stewards. have been dismissed because of alleged smuggling activities between Hongkong and Calcutta, a spokesman for the Corporation said here today. He told reporters: "Following joint investigations by the Indian authorities and BOAC security
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    • 45 12 M ACM ILL AN FOR JAPAN TOKYO. Wed <UPI) —British Prime Minister Harold Macmlllan will visit Japan late this year or early next year, according to official sources. The vfcsit is to reciprocate Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi 's visit to London earlier this month.
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    • 150 12 Nasser says it again CAIRO, Wed. (Reuter) President Nasser yesterday made his second violent attack against Israel in 48 hours, declaring:: "We are all awaiting the decisive battle to get rid of Israel and the crime of its creation." He told cheering peasants
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    • 64 12 WHY I QUIT UNIVERSE BEAUTY SHOW COPENHAGEN, Wed (UPI) <4 I didn't like to parade in front of all those people in a bathing suit so I quit the Miss Universe pageant," Miss Philippines, 19-year-old Cristina Matias saic early this morning when she arrived from Rome. Miss Matias. accompanied by
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    • 178 12 Post office to have automation i^unwiLn, wea. tKeuter) The Post Office is soon to begin an experiment here in postal automation using code numbers to help postmen assort and deliver letters. The system will be the first of its kind in the wdrld. Mr. Ernest Marples, the Post-Master General told
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    • 238 12 Hillary out to find Abominable Snowman NEW YORK. Wed (Reuter). Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand bee-keeper who became the first man to stand on the top of Mount Everest, has one remaining ambition (irimths Pugh, th e British phvIt is to find the Abominable s i o iogist on
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    • 80 12 First Nepal woman senator MRS. KAMAL RAN A 30. the first and only woman Senator of Nepal, was elected deputy chairman of the 36-mrmbrr Senate. A BarhHor of Art holder from Katamandu nighl rnllrcv Mrs Rana was the leader of a three-woman Nepalese delegation to the Soviet Tnion and East
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    • 132 12 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter).— British research workers in the Gambia have isolated the virus causing Trachoma, thus opening up prospects of 'rapid advance.*" in the study of this eye disease. This is announced in the annual report of the Medica. Researrh Council, issued here yesterday. Trachoma, the
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    • 190 12 CUARD BAR THE PRESS uth Fe stiv VIENNA. *>„ J r A thick cordon «3 today barred p re s I pondents from grounds of the e2 sponsored World J Festival despite uJ last nißht that 2 would have free 2 "Permission has b*. orawn," an oflir entrance told the*
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    • 38 12 NICOSIA. W'f. fci Nine British par^r-pal •eriously i- Army lorry ravine in the Lefki M We«t Cypr a> yiMi Army spoke 4 First rcp^r^ two offircr* ?^r] M the Second B chute Brigade msidtftN
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    • 28 12 THE INDONESIAN I Censorship O~~"«^B banned r n« Bin T *j^M the Sixth Happ:-« J Maria U.fsh S*~'« M man of th# «*Bff> >*esterday- Reuter
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