The Straits Times, 30 April 1960

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    13 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845. SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1960 15 CENTS Nat*"* 1
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    Only 92 to go to reach that 100,000
    217 1 THE STRAITS TIMES is now selling 100,000 copies most days of the week. Today, being Saturday, it will sell well over 100.000 copies. It is the first daily newspaper in I lie history of Malayan journalism to touch daily sixi'igure sale. Never
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    TENGKU IS FIRM
    790 1 P.M. OFF TO FATEFUL CONFERENCE 'Nothing will stop me raising S. Africa' Mac calls him for a private parley KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. T HE PRIME MINISTER, Tengku Abdul Rahman, made it clear today that nothing would prevent him i bringing up the South African question at the
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    RADIO MALAYA HEAD TO LEAVE IN JULY
    148 1 RADIO MALAYA HEAD TO LEAVE IN JULY KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Director of Broadcasting, Mr. A. T. Read, will leave Malaya in July. The Assistant Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Syed Ja'afar Albar, said today Mr. Read had submitted his resignation about three months ago. His present contract expires In
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    Lock icon Rebel pilot Pope to die
    437 1 HIS AIR MISSIONS OVER INDONESIA ENDANGERED WHOLE COUNTRY, SAYS JUDGE JAKARTA, Friday. ERIC AN freelance flier Allan Lawrence Pope, was today sentenced to death by an Indonesian Air Force tribunal for taking part in air raids for the Indonesian rebels in 1958. Pope, aged 30
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    Towkay missing —car is found abandoned
    270 1 Towkay missing car is found abandoned SINGAPORE, Friday. THE mysterious disappearance of the millionaire chairman of the Green Bus Company, Mr. Ong Cheng Siang, after a dinner at the Great World on Wednesday nijrht has led to speculation that he may have been kidnapped. A cousin, Mr. Ong Cheng Say,
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    Friendship treaty
    35 1 JAKARTA. Fri. Instruments for the ratification of the Indonesia-Malaya friendship treaty will be exchanged In a ceremony here tomorrow. The Malayan delegation is headed by Inche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, the Malayan Ambassador.
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    Half and half
    29 1 MANILA. FrL— A cat gave birth to a kitten which was half-dog and half-cat in Cebu City. Central Philippines, recently, the Philippine news service reported today.
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    Border talks a success
    49 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— "Full agreement" was reached on all po.nts discussed at the joint talks between Malayan and Siamese security officials on the border anti-terrorist campaign. It was announced here today. The two-day discussions ended in Bangkok today. The Malayan delegation Is due back tomorrow.
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    Renewed student riots in Turkey
    37 1 k W A^ B P L Fr1 A bl ©«ly battle broke out between police and enraged students In Ankara today as antiOoverrunent rioting erupt d in Turkey for the second day.
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    Bomb sends plane down: 10 killed
    69 1 Bomb sends plane down: 10 killed p YK AS, Fri. A Russia* who suddenly went berserk yesterday exploded a hand-grenade aboard a VeneiHelan Airlines DC-3, sending the plane plummeting to earth near Calabozio, 100 miles south- east of here. Ten persons were killed. Three survived the explosion and crash. The
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    STOP PRESS
    35 1 FAkABU In 1 Minister AUi ActWfc I dull LudwU'Ma. l>r I 1 d* today Mini n. civil md n. Mteiali to tau> o/!k •.■'k -n UuU.b rtm! wtMt in lndont-jA-i 11 '.run fc'
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    Lock icon Troubled times for the police and army
    150 2 KOREA: A group of near-crazed students in Seoul defy martial law, gas-masked soldiers and bared bayonets in an overnight demonstration against President Syngman Rhee and his Government. President Rhee later "bowed to the wishes of the people" and resigned. Order has since been
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    Lock icon BEVERLY'S MOTHER FOR TRIAL ON FIVE CHARGES
    171 2 BEVERLY'S MOTHER FOR TRIAL ON FIVE CHARGES MRS. Florence Adland, mother of the late actor Errol Flynn's 17-year-old girl friend, was ordered today to stand trial for contributing to her daughter's delinquency by allowing her, among other things, to have sexual intercourse. Superior court Judge Allen Miller set May 12
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    Lock icon Non-citizens barred at Chessman execution
    65 2 Non-citizens barred at Chessman execution SAN QUENTIN. Fri. San Quentln prison officials have barred foreign newspapermen from witnessing the scheduled execution of Caryl Chessman here on Monday. Warden Fred Dickson said the ban was invoked under a ruling by the California Attorney-General's office that non-citizens could not witness executions. It
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    Lock icon Emperor Hirohito is 59
    53 2 TOKYO. Fri— Emperor Hirohito today celebrated his 59th birthday. Thousands of well-wishers crossed the double bridge of the Imperial Palace, usually closed to the public, to say "banzai" to the Emperor who appeared seven times today at a special dais set up at the Plaza Inside
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    Lock icon Secret visit to Abbey by Margaret, Tony
    167 2 PRINCESS Margaret and her fiance. Mr. Antony ArmstrongJones, spent three hours at Westminster Abbey yesterday ROinß p LONDON. Friday through details of their wedding with the Dean. Dr. E. S. Abbott. The visit was a secret even to the workmen busy putting up
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    Lock icon CORRUPTION IS RAMPANT IN HONG KONG, M.P. CHARGES
    623 3 CHARGES of bribery and corruption in the colony of Hong Kong were made in the House of Commons last night by Mr. Ernest Thornton, a Labour member. But his demand for an Independent inquiry was turned down by the Colonial Secretary. Mr.
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    Lock icon Reds capture 3 fishing boats
    37 3 TOKYO, Fri— The Maritime Safety Board said today three Japanese fishing boats with a total crew of 21 were captured last night by Soviet patrol boats about 15 miles from Hokkaido.— Reuter.
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    Triple addition
    19 3 LOS ANGELES. Thurs. >- •Triplets were born today to Mrs. Michael J. Costello. already the mother of twins.—
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    Lock icon A SURPRISE WITNESS IN CANCER SUIT
    155 3 A SURPRISE WITNESS IN CANCER SUIT PITTSBURO. Fri. The defence in a U551,250,000 cancer suit against Ligget and Myers Tobacco Co. yesterday produced a surprise witness who testified that In the seven years he lived near the plaintiff in the action he never saw him smoke a cigarette. The witness.
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    Lock icon France accused
    27 3 TUNIS, Fri.— The Tunisian Government said last night that French military aircraft had, violated Tunisian airspace and bombed and strafed the Ouled Boulaaba region. Reuter
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    Lock icon NOW SYRIANS TO PICKET CANADIAN SHIPS
    124 3 DAMASCUS. Fri. Syrian dockers will picket Canadian ships "forthwith" in retaliation for the action of Montreal dockers against the United Arab Republic ship Star of Assuan, the chairman of the Syrian region Trade Union Federation, Mr. Khaleb Hakim, announced yesterday. (Picket lines were placed
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    Lock icon Town Hall burnt as Catholics riot
    209 3 Town Hall burnt as Catholics riot WARSAW, Fri. At least 15 police and an unknown number of demonstrators were Injured and the town hall set on fire in a pitched battle in the Polish steel town of Npwa Huta yesterday. The riot was started by women Catholics when a group
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    Lock icon Yards boys on strike
    43 3 LONDON. Fri. Striking Scottish shipyard and engineering apprentices claimed last night that the stoppage had spread to England, involving a total of 33.500 boys. The strike was In support of a "substantial" Increase In apprentices' rates of pay. Reuter.
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    Lock icon The dangers of urging 'sack South Africa'
    172 3 LONDON. Fri. The Burvey of Commonwealth and Colonial Affairs, a monthly publication issued by the Conservative Party's research department, yesterday warned of the dangers that could result from any demand for the expulsion of South Africa from the Commonwealth. It said, in an
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    Lock icon FORMER HONG KONG LAWYER ACCUSED OF SWINDLING GOVT.
    176 3 FORMER HONG KONG LAWYER ACCUSED OF SWINDLING GOVT. LONDON, Friday. A 31-YEAR-OLD former Hong Kong solicitor was A arrested yesterday on a provisional warrant accusing him of fraudulent conversion in the Jurisdiction of the Hong Kong Government. The man, Robert Ell Low. of no fixed address appeared at Bow Street
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    Lock icon Give Okinawa back, they say
    38 3 Give Okinawa back, they say TOKYO. Fri.— A group of Oklnawans headed a parade through Tokyo today appealIng for the Immediate return of Okinawa to Japan. The Island, lying south of Japan. Is under United States administration.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Car park open
    28 3 TOKYO. Fri. Japans largest parking building— three storeys above and three below the ground— was opened here today. It will hold 317 cars.— Reuter. 100%
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    First to be imported: More being ordered
    213 4 A PIPER Tri-Pacer Caribbean (above), said to be America's cheapest and most popular "family plane," gave a demonstration flight at the airport here yesterday evening. The four-seater, single-en-gined monoplane, was imported from the United States by a locally-regis-tered aviation firm, the An rite
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    Seven 'pioneer' industries
    285 4 GOH PLANS TO OFFER TAX EXEMPTION TO THE MANUFACTURERS OF 17 PRODUCTS SINGAPORE, Friday. f HE Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, today announced in the Government Gazette that he was considering- the grant of pioneer industry utatus to seven industries for the manufacture of 17 products.
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    '7 years for armed robbery not excessive'
    150 4 '7 years for armed robbery not excessive' SINGAPORE. Fri. The Chief Justice. Sir Alan Rose, today tola a lorry attendant. Lam Tol Mln, 24, who appealed against a sentence of seven years for armed robbery: "Armed robbery must be suppressed In the interests of society." Stating that Lam had been
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    No mails on Monday
    80 4 BINOAPORE, rri— Monday (May 2 Labour Day in substitution for Sunday) will be a public holiday and there will be no delivery of mails The General Post Office and the Forces post office will be open from 9 a.m. to noon. Other post offices and agencies
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    SATA ELECTS COUNCIL MEMBERS
    218 4 SATA ELECTS COUNCIL MEMBERS SINGAPORE. Fri. Mr. Wee Kirn Wee has been reelected chairman of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association Council for the year 1960-61. The following members o( Council have been elected to serve on the Executive Committee tor 1960-61.: Mr. L. C. BaUev. Mr. C. Y. Koli. Mr. Q.
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    More food gifts soon
    76 4 SINGAPORE, Fri. The Rev. H. Halnes of the Wesleyan Mission has promised the Rotary Club of Singapore West further gifts of food from the United States for It to distribute among charitable organisations here. Rev. Haines made this pledge at the Club's luncheon yesterday. Recently, the
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    Radio talk
    27 4 SINGAPORE. Prl. Mr. O. Kandasamy, secretary-general of the Trade Union Congress and Deputy Speaker, will broadcast a talk on Labour Day at 9.15 p.m. tomorrow.
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    'Dress ship' call
    28 4 SINGAPORE, rri. The Master Attendant. Mr. J.A.L. Pavltt has requested all vessels in port to "dress ship" on the occasion of Labour Day on Sunday.
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    Rally told: Police are your friends
    323 4 P<)l R Assemblymen r told a large gathering of Bukit Panjang residents at the first police-people's rally tonight: "The Police are your friends." The four are: Mr. Lee Khoon Choy Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Culture and Member for Buklt Panjang, Inche Yaarob
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    AIR ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
    303 4 rpHE following Is today's 1 schedule of civil aircraft movements at Paya Lebar Airport. Singapore: ARRIVALS BO AC: Prom London, Zurich, Bombay, Colombo (BA 788) 4.55 a.m from London. Zurich, Beirut. Bahrein, Delhi. Rangoon, Kuala Lumpur (BA 792) 8.36 a.m.. from London. Zurich, Calcutta (BA 704)
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      187 4 KATONG BOYS' CLUB: Bud- Dept. open from 2 p.m.: Malay mlnton 3 p.m.: boxing. Indoor examination preparation a pin.: games, sepak raga. body-building Singapore Chew Club 1 pjn. Jucio 5 p.m.; movie circle show 7 p.m 5 p.m.; St. John Ambulance BL'KIT TIMAH YOUTH CLIB: ctii rw£n*V' YMTA- /Smtth ball
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    THA T $110 MILLION: HOUSE ACCEPTS STATEMENT, REJECTS S.F. MOVE
    1963 5 THA T $110 MILLION: HOUSE ACCEPTS STATEMENT, REJECTS S.F. MOVE THE House of Representatives today accepted the Government's statement about the 1958 accounts for the Federation. This decision followed a row in the House over expenditure of SI 10 million by the Education Ministry in that year. The Deputy Prime
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    Report on medical faculty plan sent to Govt.
    268 6 AUSTRALIAN EXPERT BACK FOR FURTHER TALKS PENANG, Friday. rFHE Australian Government has submitted a report to the Federation Government on the proposed establishment of a medical faculty in the Kuala Lumpur division of the University of Malaya. The report was written by
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    Sacked busman: Mayor Ooi defends his action
    159 6 PENANG, Friday. ■E Mayor, Mr. Ooi Thlam Slew, said today he had not acted arbitrarily in dismissing a bus conconductor. "He was given a chance to defend himself," he said in a Press statement. Denying an allegation by Inche Tajuddin bin Che Teh.
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    New officer
    16 6 ALOR STAR. Fri— Inche Sa'ad bin Din has been appointed State Information Officer. Kedah.
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    Perlis meeting
    22 6 KANGAR. Fri— A meeting of the Perils State Assembly will be held at Kangar on May 28 at 10 a.m.
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    GOVT. REJECTS POLITICAL ASYLUM PLEA BY 15 REFUGEES
    217 6 GOVT. REJECTS POLITICAL ASYLUM PLEA BY 15 REFUGEES PENANG, Friday. TVHE Federation Government has refused to grant political asylum to 15 refugees who landed in Malaya after escaping in a junk from Communist-ruled Hainan Island. I The refugees have beeo told to choose one of two courses: OTo sail away
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    Teacher is jailed for cheating
    68 6 PENANG, Fri. A religious teacher from Perils was jailed today for 18 months for cheating a job-seeker of $6.50 last October. Yusof bin Rldzan pleaded guilty. The court was told that he got the money from Hashlm bin Mohamed under the pretext of getting him
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    MAN OF 75 BLAMED FOR FIGHT DEATH
    83 6 BIKIT MERTAJAM. FrL— The coroner's court here today held that a 75-year-old inmate of St. Anne's Home for the aged. Heng Ah Kuan, was to be blamed for the death of another inmate. Chan Fong Chee, 83. Chan, the coroner found, died from
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    Wesak Day gifts for the poor
    52 6 PENANG, Fri. Penang Buddhists will distribute red packets to the poor on Wesak Day. May 10. They will also liberate captive birds and animals. Highlight of the celebrations will be a big procession starting from the Kong Hock Si Temple in Perak Road, at
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    Three priests in
    25 6 SUNGEI PATANI, Fit— Three Redemptorist priesta from Australia have arrived In Mtdaya to join the new Redemptorist Monastery In Tambun Road. Ipoh.
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    ASIA'S NEED: A LONG PERIOD OF PEACE
    127 6 ASIA'S NEED: A LONG PERIOD OF PEACE MALACCA. Fri. Singapore lawyer. Mr. David Marshall, said in a speech here that the peoples of Asia needed a long period of constructive peace to ri build their shattered culture and economy. He was speaking on "Asia Today" at the Malacca Indian Association
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    USIS book gift
    24 6 PENANG. Fri— The USIS in Penang has presented the City Council with 13 volumes on architecture, produce design and plant engineering.
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    Three big gifts to youth clubs
    128 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Three organisations gave substantial grants to the Malayan Association of Youth Clubs and helped it through a difficult year They were the Department of Social Welfare ($101,093), Asia Foundation ($36,619) and the Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board ($26,435 > The
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    MERIT AWARDS FOR 35 STUDENTS
    148 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Thirty-five of 80 youths who attended the 52nd course at the Outward Bound School al Lumut, received merit awards at a graduation ceremony this week. The presentation was made by the High Commissioner for Australia. Mr. T. K. Critchley. at Teluk Muroh.
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    Civics course
    39 6 KUANTAN. Fri. The- Assistant Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Tuan Syed Ja'afar Albar will declare open a civics coursa for vlllaee heads and local councillors in Kuantan district at the State Assembly chamber here on May 5
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    388 7 len socks, and a light pair of English walking boots, cannot be improved upon as a travelling costume." His sleeping arrangements were designed for warmth too. "A couple of pairs of flannel pyjamas may be taken for sleeping in. For bedding, take a waterproof sheet, a drab
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    Botanist in search of rare plant
    252 7 I The thrills and horrors of cross-country hiking 100 years a&0 A LTHLNTIC anil uncontrovertible evidence exists to prove that, at precisely 10 a.m. on August, 12, 1877, a small but extremely pretty fern was growing on a rock jutting out over the falls
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    Left complete guide to tropical travel
    406 7 this way. And this particular hthophyte slipped sideway£ away from the pressure of Mr. Burbidfce's loot. And Mr. Burbidge fell inio the waterfall. Even this unfortunate event would hardly have justified literary disinterment in the year 1960, but for one further interesting fact. Mr.
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    The Straits Times Saturday. April 30, 1960. That Second Wife
    682 8 The Straits Times Saturday. April 30, 1960. That Second Wife Changes in the Muslim marriage law proposed by the bill which the Singapore legislature discussed in January have emerged from the Select Committee proceedings very little altered. The main purpose of the bill is to increase the powers of the
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    297 8 Although to the unprejudiced outsider the programme of the administration in West New Guinea points to ultimate Dutch withdrawal, Indonesians still genuinely fear that this western half of the world's second biggest island is being prepared as a bridge for the reinvasion of Indonesia. This, if nothing else,
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    Tom Dooley
    234 8 Malaya need scarcely think twice about Dr. Tom Dooley's offer of village medical units. Even if our existing health services are better than those which most of our neighbours enjoy, they are still totally inadequate and any addition is welcome. Dato Ong Yoke Lin, the Minister of Health,
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    FIFTY YEARS —AGO
    116 8 FIFTY YEARS AGO- From the Straits Time* of April 27. 1910 IN the Legislative Cuuncil yesterday the Kwong; Wai Shiu Free Hospital BUI came up for first reading. The society has %o tit raised $133,000 for building a free hospital and Government assistance is also promised. Thr BilJ outlined the
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    A NATION GOES ON TRIAL IN LONDON
    919 8  - A NATION GOES ON TRIAL IN LONDON VERNON BARTLETT THE ISSUES THAT FACE THE NINE COMMONWEALTH PREMIERS (THE GRAVEST IS SOUTH AFRICA) AT THEIR CONFERENCE ARE you, by now, thoroughly confused as to whether or no the Commonwealth Prime Ministers will discuss apartheid and all that? Yes, so am I.
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    PLAN TO IMPROVE MALAYA'S HEALTH
    257 9 PLAN TO IMPROVE MALAYA'S HEALTH KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Federation! Government will make the best use of World! Health Organisation as- 1 sistance to wipe out. diseases such as yaws, malnutrition, malaria, flliarisis and tuberculosis where possible. Thib wa& stated by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare. Dato Ong
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    Four Indian unionists arrive
    110 9 Four Indian unionists arrive SINGAPORE. Fri.— F our unionists from the Indian National Trade Union Congress today talked with Singapore trade union leaders and visited the Ministry of Labour and Law In Havelock Road. The visitors who arrived here from the Philippines last night are on a study tour of
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    'Unionists victimised' claim
    385 9 ADMINISTRATION IS ACCUSED AT INQUIRY OF INTIMIDATION AND SPYING' AGAINST ACTIVE UNION MEN KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. A LLEGATIONS that the Railway Adminisr (ration intimidated and spied on workers who took part in union activities were made before a commission of inquiry here today. The charges were made
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    COUPLE SEEN NEAR WHERE BODY FOUND
    206 9 SINGAPORE. Friday. OOLICE, probing the body-in -the jungle riddle, to- day interviewed several bus conductors who spok* of the movements of a man and his girl friend near where the bocy was found. out. up uu lit" KJiugni, wic police had not been able
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    BANK OF CHINA WINS PETITION
    91 9 BANK OF CHINA WINS PETITION SINGAPORE. Frt.— A receiving order was made against Wah Cheong Hong, a firm In Hongkong Street, by Mr. Justice Ambrose In the High Court here today. The petitioning creditor is the Bank of China, to whom Wah Cheong Hong is owing a sum of $48,921.34
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    We lead US in blind training, she says
    156 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. An American school teacher, Dr. Isabelle Grant, thinks that Malaya's training for the blind is in some respects better than that in the United States. Dr. Grant spent the la** three days visiting training centres for the blind in
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    Largest exercise
    34 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. More than 60 naval ships arrived at Manila and Bangkok yesterday to participate, in Sea to's largest exercise, Seallon, according to a Press statement by H.M.B. Belfast In Singapore today.
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    Monkey gives family sauce on floor) md a big leadache
    367 9 Monkey gives family sauce on floor) md a big leadache ONE LITTLE STRAY HAS ALL THE ESTATE IN A STATE SINGAPORE, Fri. A little stray monkey is causing havoc In Sembawang Estate. It Invades houses, scratches the furniture, and terrifies children. The monkey, a "resident" of the estate for almost
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    CHAMBER TO ASK GOVT: CHANGE THIS TAX LAW
    229 9 CHAMBER TO ASK GOVT: CHANGE THIS TAX LA W SINGAPORE, Friday. T*HE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Com- merce is to ask the Government to modify the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, to provide allowances for parents dependent on a taxpayer. Moving this at the monthly meeting today, the chamber vice-president. Mr.
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    Board member
    33 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri— Th. Minister of Finance has appointed Raja Rastam Shahrome bin Raja Said Tauphy to the Federal PWD tenders board In place of the late Mr. 81ew Khal Wye
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    BOY VISITOR ROBS SHOP IN STORE
    69 9 BOY VISITOR ROBS SHOP IN STORE BINGAPORE. Fri. A Selangor boy visiting Singapore broke into a Raffles Place shop at 3 a.m. on Monday and stole a typewriter, the Juvenile Court was told today. The property was kept In his friend's house when police recovered it two d,ays later, It
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    500 want to fight for Algeria
    64 9 500 want to fight for Algeria KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Algerian independence aid committee here is receiving an average of 4* letters a day from Malays who want to fight the French. Since April 19 the committee has registered more than 500 names. The committee's secretary, Inche Wahab Majid, said
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    Hatta on way to America
    33 9 BINOAPORE. Fri— Former Vice-President of Indonesia, Dr. Mohammed Hatta, flew into Singapore today from Jakarta on his way to America at the Invitation of the US. Btate Department.
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    TIGHTEN UP MUSLIM MARRIAGE LAW, SELECT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS
    499 9 A SELECT committee of the Singapore Legislative Assembly has recommended that it should be made an offence for any person, in breach of the Muslim Marriages Ordinance, to solemnise a marriage between Muslims, or register a marriage, divorce or revocation or divorce
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    Questions on water from Johore
    115 9 Questions on water from Johore CINGAPORH. Fri. Th« Prime Minister Mr. LeeKuan Yew. will be asked at the Legislative Assembly meeting on May 11 whether (agreement has been reached with the Johore Government In connection with water supplied to Singapore. A question on this has been tabled by Dato Abdul
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    Toll of the horror railway... 100 lives for every mile...
    560 10  - Toll of the horror railway... 100 lives for every mile... /|\VjVjjj^£j^i;.; by FOR every mile of the wartime Death Railway" which Japan's slave labour built across the steaming plain and jungled border hills .of Siam a lundred lives were lost. The prisoners died n thousands. How many Malayans lie in
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    BAMBOO DOCTOR]
    343 10  - BAMBOO DOCTOR m Stanley Pavillard (Macmillan 18s.) tJM construction of the track was not easy. but within limits it was passible. And because the planning had been a trifie crude, the gradients not always prorxfrly related 10 the weight of the traffic »nd the power of the locomotives, the heavier
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    251 10 by ROLAND HA1.1.0 COLLECTED POEMS OF SIR JOHN SQUIRE With a Preface by John Betjeman Macmillan, 255. i. Betjeman describes this book as "in the nature of an autobiography, for it displays the things Jack Squire held dear his friends, his children, his native Devon, his dogs and
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      195 10 Straits Times Crossword ACBOSft i A commotion of "toTlaat" 1 P#rth fort* moat chicflv In 'J dl»r(p«lr ,3344 Mountain ucent to a phllo9in a way. the 'worker feu «n p r immediate reauk •7 7 Right to prorwd round an 10 Tru.ty Han. cut 'In ptecs.: SffM"^.*!* U Poaaiblv the
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    EXPERT EVIDENCE RULING STARTS COURT CLASH
    415 11 EXPERT EVIDENCE RULING STARTS COURT CLASH fTOE DISCRETION of the State Advocate General in certifying that expert evidence on a bookmaking case should be recorded in camera was challenged in the sixth magistrate's court today. A parked court heard Mr. T. T. Rajah object to an application by the DP.P.,
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    Mrs. Chan, 81, enjoyed her 10-day trek
    186 11 SINGAPORE, Fri— She >3 Is 81, but Mrs. Chan Kok Leong thought nothing of joining an all-woman expedition which has returned to Singapore after completing a 10-day journey to the east coast of Malaya. The five women, in a me-dium-sized car, shocked their
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    Lib Socs: Absorb all harbour workers into one union
    587 11 'BLATANT EXPLOITATION' BY CONTRACTORS rjTHE LIBERAL Social- Ist Party, commenting today on the Gamba report on contractor labour, proposed that all waterfront and port workers unions should be absorbed into a single Singapore Port Workers Union pending implementation of the report.
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    The 'free education' levy: Where is it?
    171 12 AT the openii.g o! the conference ol the World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession the Prime Minister said that "If the people oi Malaya arc willing to pay for it we can have tree education." The Prime MiniMer does net seem
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    What sort of car costs $34,000?
    92 12 What sort of car costs $34,000? M\ I sort of car is Malaya's Ambassador to Indonesia going to get for $34,000? Surely this is a grossly excessive price, unless the car is gold plated? .Most of the large American limousines cost half the figure mentioned—with the 10 per nni duty
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    $2 RIDE
    57 12 DECENTLY an elderly n American couple paid $2 for a taxi from the Harbour Board to the Cathay Hotel I was standing nearby and the couple approached mi' to aak-if $2 was a reasonable fare. I said yes if it was in Malayan dollars, but they said they
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    Harmful effect of a promotion system
    374 12 IT'S THE REASON FOR THE BIG CAMBRIDGE FLOP T AGREE with Dr. Toh Chin Chye that the previous policy of automatic promotion has been responsible tor the poor results in the recent Cambridge examination. I have been teaching in a mission school and In
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    IMPLICATIONS OF SPORE'S NEW CITIZEN PROPOSALS
    284 12 IMPLICATIONS OF SPORE'S NEW CITIZEN PROPOSALS 'I"HE Straits Times carried a report last Wednesday on the new citizenship proposals of the Singapore Government. Reading it one gets the impression that zero-hour has r.ow arrived for the British Dasst>ort here. One has now to choose between being a Singapore citizen with
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    JASMINE-SCENTED STRANGER IN THE BACK SEAT...
    181 12 JASMINE-SCENTED STRANGER IN THE BACK SEAT... 'p»IF recent case of the "hantu langsiak" seen by a business man of Sungri Patani reminds me of a similar case which occurred to a friend of mine last year on the Pontian Kecbil road. He was driving back to Joi.orr Bahru in the
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    IS THIS NEW STADIUM REALLY NECESSARY?
    184 12 'PHE proposed indoor sports stadium Is going to cost the Federation another few million dollars, even though there are already good facilities for •ports. The Merdeka Stadium, may not have a roof, nor fanciful gadgets like a vanishing stage and air-condi-tioned dressing-rooms. Yet it
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    CONTROL GAMBLING? THIS BILL MAY RESULT IN THE REVERSE
    188 12 CONTROL GAMBLING? THIS BILL MAY RESULT IN THE REVERSE "THE aim or motive of the Bill amending gambling legislation In Singapore is to control gambling. This Implies that with public support, gambling Itself would be on the decrease. However, the reverse may be the case. In the first place, in
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    RUBBER GOES TO BEST LEVEL FOR FIVE MONTHS
    528 14 RUBBER GOES TO BEST LEVEL FOR FIVE MONTHS By Our Market Correspondent pUBBER went to the highest levels since November in Singapore yesterday on a somewhat puzzling market which was difficult to assess. May first grade was taken up to 124 cents and developed a premium of two cents over
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    754 14 ON the Malayan Stock Exchange yesterday, industrials were selectively better, tins were irregular while rubbers were firm. The turnover was fair. Members of the Exchange reported the following business at the afternoon call: Industrials: 8.8. Petrol 495. 6d Praser and Neave ords (3.13; Gammon $2.51 (D). $2.51% and
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    STOCK INDICES
    21 14 Malayan Stork Exekana*: Apr. Apr. 58 Industrials: 140.75 140.2* Tins: 171.11 171.85 I Rubbcn: 277.3S 272.83 Jan. 1 195S=1M.
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    137 14 MELBOURNE, Prl I TNVESTMENT siiares cloned t!ie 1 week on a firm tone tan I today. Drug Houses gained 9d. There we.c no large moves toaay ou an active market. Base metals held a firm tone. with ML Isa gaining is. 3d to I Ms. 9d. i The
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    CLOSING PRICES
    38 14 SINGAPORE, April 29. RUBBER: $1,231 per lb. (up 1J cento). 5 p.m. close: $1.23 J (slightly easier alter steady). TIN: $386.75 per picul (down 50 cento). Estimated unofficial offering 250 tons (up 30 tons). I I
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    Rubber premium increase
    395 14 Rubber premium increase "THE feature of this week's trading has 1 been the increase in* premium which has been paid for May 1 R.S.S. report H.C.B. Co. Ltd. in their current rubber market survey. They add this no'v stands at two cents and has contributed to the general steadiness In
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    RUBBER PRICES
    222 14 MAY first ira4e rubber buyers IT f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at 123 cents per lb.. up one and seven-eighths of a cent on Thursday's close. The closing tone wa& quiet after 'tea* jr. S.C.C.R.A. dosing prices in cents per lb., yesterday were: Ini. 1 R.S.S. Spot fob.
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    96 14 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes In Its rates to merchants yesterday (all rate* to $100): Canada: Buying airmail T.T 11 13/16. O.D. 31 15/16. 90 d/st 32 3/8 credit bills. 32 7/16 trade bills Selling T.T. or O.D. ready: Canada 31 1/2; Swiss Fraaes
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    SINGAPORE PRODUCE PRICES
    113 14 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra: quiet; UK /Continent April/May shipments $36'^ buyers, »37>i sellers. Coconut oil: quter; bulk 155 4 tellers, drum S3B'. sellers. Pepper: quiet: no business was reported done. Muntok white $300. Sarawak $295. special Sarawak black $205, garbled
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      701 15 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS Applications are Invited from Federal Citizens for appointment as Antl-Malartal Inspectors with the Malaria Eradication Pilot Project. Applicants must have passed Form in In an English School or the Lower Certifies te of Education. These posts are temporary and In Division 111. The salary scale Is $100x7.50-115/ 137.50
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    241 16 FMSSC's athletics plan By VIC NAYAGAM Kuala Lumpur, Friday THE Federation of Malaya Schools Sports Council has invited Thailand Schools to take part in a triangular Athletics tournament against teams from Singapore and the Federation at the Merdeka Stadium on Aug. 16. If Thailand
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    149 16  - Summer Kiss shows off her speed EPSOM JEEP By .pENANG. Frl.— Fresh from her double at Kuala Lumpur, Summer Kiss galloped smartly on the training track here this morning. The speedy mare ran 3f In 42-4 5, with plenty In hand. There was little fast wont on a yielding track
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    87 16 ELLIOTT MAY RUN THE MARATHON AT ROME GAMES From JACK FINGLETON CANBERRA. Fri. World champion miler Herb Elliott says he will give thought to running in the marathon at the Rome Olympic Games in August. Elliott's programme in the Olympics so far is the 800 and the 1.500 metres. There
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    50 16 LONDON. Fri —Eleven final acceptors, with weights, for the Chester Vase, to be run over li miles and 53 yards at Chester on Tuesday are: Proud Chieftain. Morengo (8.0): Arton. Sea Wolf, Claimant, Jetstream and Mr. Higgins. (8.10). Pinerolo. Dancer's Hill, Imbu and Off Key (B.6).— Reuter.
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    24 16 TOKYO. Fri. Vladimir Slnlyavskli. the Russian world lightweight wrestling champion, was last night beaten by an unknown Japanese wrestler. Kazuo Abe. Reuter.
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    107 16 Nashatar Victor best 1 *POH, Frt. Nashatar and A. Victor of the Combined Clubs were the best performers In the first-ever athletics league which began here today. Six teams— A.C.S., Anderson, Tuanku Abdul Rahman School. S.M.I. Combined Club A and Combined Club B 1 —are taking part in the league
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    88 16 l/UALA LUMPUR, Frl. American tennis coach Larry Hall today held a coaching session at Klang, 22 miles from here. Hall will be back In Kuala Lumpur for further "clinics" for schoolboys and schoolgirls at the Selangor Chinese R. C. tomorrow (4.30 p.m. 1 and Sunday (8.30
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    71 16 ITUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Th« Japanese Olympic hockey team will not be playing in Malaya on their way to the Olympic Games at Rome In Aueu.st this year. Mr. Muneyoshi Ueda, International affairs officer of the Japan Hockey Association, In a letter to the Malayan Hockey Federation,
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    32 16 TELUK ANSON. Frl— The cross-country race sponsored by the Lower Perak District Amateur Athletic Association, scheduled to be held on Sunday, has been postponed to the last quarter of the year.
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    TENGKU PLAYS ANOTHER ACE
    319 16  -  NORMAN SIEBEL I rpENGKU Abdul Rahman's football pools plan opens up broad I new vistas for Malayan sport. The Football Association of Malaya, of which the Tengku is presi- i I dent, will run the pools with assistance from an expert from Uttlewoods, j I the
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    NSFA must make the next move
    495 16 T*HE first really signi--1 flcant blow against communalism in Malayan sport has been struck, to its lasting credit, by the Football Association of Penang. At an extraordinary general meeting on Wednesday night, the F.A.P. voted by ten to eight In favour of a proposal
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    FMAAU ON THE WRONG TRACK
    427 16 Ti/| R. LEW KIM, the secretary of the Federation of Malaya Amateur Athletic Union, was badly misinformed when he told members attending a half-yearly meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday that the S.E.A.P. Games, held for the first time at Bangkok last December, were originally
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    RSGC Spring meeting: Draw and starting times
    582 16 OINGAPORE, Friday The draw and starting times for the various events cf the Open Spring Meeting of the Royal Singapore Golf Club at Slme Road on Saturday, Sunday and Monday are: Saturday: "A" medal First nine (morning) 8.30 Joyce, L. Jenkins; 8.36 Smellie,
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    Heavy schedule for Campbell
    229 17 Heavy schedule for Campbell SINGAPORE. Fri The Singapore Amateur Swimming Association and the Singapore Ministry of Education have drawn up plans to take full advantage of the services of American swimming coach William Campbell during his visit to Singapore. Although the school holidays are on. the ministry has contacted all
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    Danes stronger than ever
    234 17 THEY WILL PROVIDE BIGGEST THREAT TO INDONESIA IN THE THOMAS CUP-TEH By OH KEE TIANG Penang, Friday THE Danes are again expected to put up the strongest challenge in the Thomas Cup, Teh Kew San, the Malayan badminton ace, said on his return here today. "They
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    Brilliant but unpredictable Kobbero
    181 17 Brilliant but unpredictable Kobbero players should provide a great reservoir of talent for the Danish Badminton AsMociatlon." Commenting on their defeats by Finn Kobbeio and Poul Nielsen In the Swedish, Danish, Glasgow and All-Euglund tournaments, Kew San said Kobbero was "brilliant throughout. "But in the singles he Is still at
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    MEI LING WILL SWIM AGAINST 100 BOYS
    45 17 MEI LING WILL SWIM AGAINST 100 BOYS Yeong Mci Ling, 18, a Form Six student of the Anglo-Chinese School, Ipoh, who will be the only girl competing with 100 boys at the school's annual swimming meet at Kinta Swimming Club on Monday. Straits Times picture.
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    Sattar is out, they decide
    202 17 Singapore, Friday. SINGAPORE Amateur Football Association's Schools and Youth Sub-committee tonight decided not to have anything to do with S.A.F.A. coach Rahim Sattar in the coaching of future Singapore youth teams, i Instead the committee deelded to entrust the task of coaching to two officials
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    SASA may invite foreign teams
    58 17 SINGAPORE. Fri. Th# Singapore Amateur Swimming Association will discuss the possibility of Inviting foreign teams to Singapore at their committee meeting on Tuesday. If the committee approves. the Australian, New Zealand, Indonesian and Philippines Olympic teams will be Invited to stop over In Singapore on
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    Sahar gets a hattrick
    74 17 SINGAPORE. Fri.— Arter D#- in* down 1-0 at halftime, Pathul Karib staged a storming rally to beat Maxwell 7-2 In a Singapore Amateur F.A. league Div. l match at Jalan Besar stadium today. Singapore's centre-forward Sahar Hussein got a hattrick. Maxwell took the lead off a
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    STEEPLECHASE
    106 17 will be introduced in Spore if Farrer Park track is suitable SINGAPORE, Fri. Singapore A.A.A. will Introduce the steeplechase event In their annual championships this year if the Farrer Park track is suitable for holding the race. British North Borneo has accepted an Invitation to participate In the championships.
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    Linda Chen finds a champion
    347 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. MP ASKS: WHY BAR FORMER DETAINEE FROM MALAY STUDIES AT UNIVERSITY? HPHE case of Linda Chen, an ex-detainee in Singapore, who has been refused permission to study Malay in the University of Malaya here was referred to in the House of Representatives
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    331 blood donations
    52 18 SINGAPORE. Fri.— ln response to the appeal for blood donors, 331 donations of blood were made during the week, says the Ministry of Health. However more blood is needed. The Blood Transfusion Centre at General Hospital will be open on Sunday but will close on Monday, a
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    Labour Day
    34 18 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Shipping and Port Clearance Office and the Imports and Exports Office will be open for one hour from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Monday May 2— Labour Day.
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    2 PREMIERS IN A HANDCLASP
    30 18 THE FEDERATION Primp Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, being greeted. by Singapore's Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew at the Airport yesterday evening. Straits Times picture.
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    Lock icon Chou 'upset' over Nehru statement
    298 18 THE Chinese Prime 1 Minister, Mr. Chou En- Lai, yesterday complained that 'he was "very upset" by the "not very friendly statements" by the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, in Parliament last Tuesday. Arriving at the airport here from Katmandu on his way home after
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    269 18 LONDON. Prl.—London «tock markets had their besl day since the Budget. Credit restrictions proposals proved less severe than generally anticipated and although there was some hesitancy in the first hour of business, when prices were Inclined to move erratically, buying developed laier Closing middle prices of selected stocks
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    27 18 LONDON. m— Spot 35 7 id., June 35-ScL. July-Sept. 34% d.. Oct/Dec. 354 d.. Janyil&rch 32Hd.. April/June 33d., May c.t.f. 36HdT. June c.LI. 35Vsd., Tone: Quiet.
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    TIN
    21 18 LONDON. Fri.— Buyers 17»9, sellers £791, Forward buyers £783, sellers £783',. Settlement £791. Turnover a.m. 85 tons, o m nil.
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    Lock icon Rhee tends lilacs as start is made on changing the set-up
    390 18 Rhee tends lilacs as start is made on changing the set-up FORMER President Syngman Rhee spent his first day as a plain citizen tending lilacs at his private home on the outskirts of Seoul today, while National Assemblymen tried to restore political stability to their riot-torn country. A special committee
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    BOXING: GOOD SHOW BY GOPALAN
    175 18 SINGAPORE, Fri. Krishnan Gopalan i featherweight) and V. Kesavan (bantamweight) were the most impressive boxers in the first night of the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's National championship at the National Recreational Centre tonight. The semi-finals and the finals will be decided at the Singapore Badminton
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    1,000 guineas
    34 18 LONDON. Fri. Never Late (8/11) won the \.m Guineas run over the Rowli Mile at Newmarket today. 1 Lady In Trouble (25/1) wa second and Running Blu (100 7» third. Fourteen ran.
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