The Singapore Free Press, 27 April 1960

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  • 12 1 The SINGSPORE Free Press No. *****. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1960. 15 CENTS.
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  • 7 1 Welensky: No apartheid talk at conference of
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  • 215 1 Tan Kali Kee 'is respected by all 1 SEX, THE TEENAGER AND GUILTY GROWN-UPS Wife after wife 1 ONDON, Wed. A doctor told the Royal Society of Health Congress at Torquay on Monday that adults were to blame for the rise m teenage promiscuity In
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  • 152 1  - $600,000 SPENT ON PUBLIC PARK IN PEKING: HE WISHES TO BE BURIED THERE CHAN SWAN BEE By SINGAPORE. Wed. \|R. TAN RAH KEE, the former Singapore multi-millionaire, has built a $600,000 public park m Peking m which he wishes to be buried alter his death. A Singapore resident. Dr. Mah
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  • 12 1 TOKYO. Wed. Lmj the tb Mini Sabry. the Ord the
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  • 221 1 Doctor visited the Fukien communes Dr. Mah continued: "Mr. Tan has great love for the common people." u l don't think he is bothered at all by any precise definition of ideological lines Dr. Man described as ••utter nonsense" reports that Mr. Tan was being persecuted by the
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  • 135 1 Monty names Khrushchev as politician No 1 in the world ANTARIO. Wed. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery said here that Nikita Khrushchev "could twist most of the West's politicians around his little finger.*' Lord Montgomery, who talked recently with the Soviet leader, was addressmembers of the United Services Institute at the
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  • 26 1 WARSAW. Wed.— A Japanese diplomat. Hishashi Dosho, was declared persona non grata by the Polish Foreign Ministry yesterday for allegedly buying state secrets.— Reuter
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  • 21 1 MANILA. Wed. The weather bureau reported Typhoon I Karen was weakening rapidly. about 110 miles north-west of the Philippines.
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  • 129 1 BROKE— AND ALL BECAUSE OF GREEDY MICE Chew, chew, chew CANTERBURY, Wed. Mice which chewed their way through a second-hand clothing store and a lending library were blamed for the appearance of a grey-haired woman m bankruptcy court here yesterday. Mrs. Dorothy Best, who was stated to owe her creditors
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  • 35 1 LONDON, Wed. An innocent act by a woman juror who visited a prison was reported to. have brought the Pen Club murder trial to a dramatic halt vesterdayat the old Bailey. Reuter
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  • 21 1 MANILA. Wed. A Japanese television team i 3 to film a programme on Philippine life and custom.
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  • 22 1 BANGKOK. Wed. The American Machine and Foun- dry Company plans to set j up a machine-making factory m Thailand.
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  • 157 1 DEATH OF A KING WHO LOST HIS THRONE WHEN HE TRIED TO TAKE WOMEN OUT OF PURDAH ZURICH Wed.— Ex-King Amamullah of i Afghanistan, who has died m a Zurich I •linic lost his throne m 1929 mainly be- i ShP tried to abolish purdah and m- S3-C? European circs.
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  • 129 1 Mr. Chou Mr. Koirala hold talks in the high Himalayas I£ATMANDU, Wed. Mr. Chou En-Lai, Prime Minister of Communist China, arrived here from New Delhi for a three -day state visit and talks with MrB. P. Koirala, Prime Minister of this Himalayan kingdom. Mr. Chou will di.-cuss border problems with
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  • 67 1 LONDON, Wed.— Lady Bridget Parsons. Y2, st«p-aunt of Antony Armstrong-Jones, pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge of driving while under the influence of drink. She has been taken into custody by a policrman who said he found her leaning against the door of h«*r
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  • 10 1 DOWN AN STOC NCt HOLDi *OTS E a
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  • 77 1 2 YOUTHS HURT AS RIVAL GANGS CLASH CINGAPORE. vYio youths. Lim Kum H and Lim Chew Hwa. were injured when rival clashed early this mor: Rocnore Road. Six cars parked near the junction of Rocnore I; and Queen Street had their windows and windsmashed up. Broken bo; were found strewn
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  • 24 1 WASHINGTON. Wed —The United States plans to 1 iLs first rocket on the mo*m with TV camera* recording the landing
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  • 17 1 WASHINGTON. Wed. The Air For air guided missile with a nuclear v 1 1
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  • 21 1 First Malayan Fund manai today buying $1 27 and selling $1 34 Second Malayan Fund managers' price selling $1.04.
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    • 68 1 P^ ta. ARTS I* AND V .^MTPn CRAFTS "J X TANG LTD. >* ?D ROAD. SPORE 9 34C25 Tired, no Energy? Ps you are not getting JLTI-VITAMINS all the important itial to mainperfect health. Each contai: more l n 11.l 1 times your mini- daily requirement! "■.tu"' ll Ik K.
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    • 154 1 iHp_i THE JOY OF MUSIC! How many times, young ond old, have regretted the fact of not being able to ploy a musical instrument on which to play a favourite melody or, perhops, Here is an instrument "-"fsautu. g& Organ. It has 5 rows tf ewn~_ m f m" f
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  • 131 2 Fears of credit squeeze still persist— evidence of cheap buying in unsettled conditions LONDON. Wed. ITNSETTLED con. tions persisted m London .stock jterday, of a Howe af* opening of buying became evident and a number of mdv were able to n I Ford Motors we if active market and showed
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  • 98 2 Very steady at the close—list of fractional advances \E\V YORK, Wed. A> Wall Street closed very steady yesterday with a fair majority of mostly fractional vancesAlthough pressure tended to dimmish m the morning, the market continued a lower trend. However, the decline was slight. By midday 'he list
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  • 138 2 I U.S. Steel profits up m Ist quarter \F\V YORK: United States Steel Corporation, the country's largest .^tee! producer, reported •hat products and services sold In the of i960 rose from $1,077.--588.292 a ye.ir earlier, producing > oi $1.97 per share against $1.86. of 1999 were only 44 cents
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  • 56 2 New British ore firm is formed LONDON: A new {.on. h Oie Investment Corpo:.ition Limited, aith a share capital of tM>?42 million hat been formed by nine of the principal British .steel making companies using imported ore and by Br:--steel Corporation Limited. an Investment -holding company associated with the
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  • 170 2 SHIPS IN PORT CjHIFS lying alongside the >in- gaporr Harbour Board wharves or expected this morning ar*: Carthage 1/2, Beavanoch 4/5. Walkare 6A. Peter Maersk 6/7, Ceylon 8/9. Atami Maru 10/11, Elisabeth Bakke 13/14, Coromanciel 15/16. Kouang Si 18, Sinabanc 19. Scudai N. Wall 3. Bruas Kimanis 23. Tjitarum Aval*
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  • 76 2 HONG KONG, Tuesday I I Closing prices here today were: i|i! Previous Today H. <V S Banking Corporation $1,270 $1,275 _$1,275 &$1.280 I sales .sales < Union Ins. y Canton $96.00 $97.00 I sates sellers wheeteck Marden 7.35 7.35 <fes 7.40 7.40 V sales .sellers H Ron*
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  • 331 2 NOTE: All prices below are middle prices. U.K. Closing Prices LONDON. April M. Prcviou> Today RUBBER No. 1 RSS c.i.f. European ports May 35 SS 16 June 34: RUBBER No. 1 RSS Spot 34. RUBBER No. 1 RSS Settlement House Terms June 9 3*t July
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  • 101 2 Queries were made to the Continent for Malayan No. 1 RSS LONDON: After the closing out of the May settlement house position a little interest was shown on ordinary terms but otherwise the session was quiet. Inquiries were circulated for Malayan No. 1 RSS to the Continent but traders
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  • 186 2 Cable and Wireless: Is. 1 d. per unit LONDON: Cable and Wireless (holdings; declared a first quarterly dividend of ls. l^d. per unit (the aa me payable on June 15. Ihe new ordinary share?? issued on March 5 do not rank lor this dividend. Pahang Consolidated: 3 per cent
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  • 261 2 Continued profit-taking starts the prices sliding PAGE TWO GIVES YOU THE DETAILS OF THE UPS AND DOWNS OF YOUR INVESTMENTS SINGAPORE, Wednesday. pROFIT-TAKING continued on the Malayan Stock Exchange m the industrial section y esterday and nine counters eased still further. Biggest drops occurred m Wearnes and the Singapore Cold
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  • 62 2 NOTE: All prices below are middle prices. KEY TO MARRING:, I cci cub capital mac > (All eiciul<n_ everytry "I •idling fliviieal I cli cue mis usii T ier sr eacludiig capital retort r ecr cua capital ntvri I ci ss cia a viieu
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  • 130 3 A SINGAPORE STDDENT IN AUSTRALIA STUDIES SO MUCH BETTER! IF THERE IS CLASSICAL MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND j COLOMBO plan student. Tay Chong Sim. who is m the final year of his engineering course at Queensland University, studies best when there is classical music
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  • 319 3 SINGAPORE, Wednesday. pHE Ministry of Education here has laid down the duties and responsibilities of 50(1 principals ot all double-session schools. ll also announced that as from May every principal of ;i double-session school would nave
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  • 25 3 Embassy job for a former guerilla fighter 3 Prawl- on his .ington 's air ird the Sor- 4 ton jet the I -ODe and a
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  • 10 3 Ran a lottery: Fined $1 00 I t I I
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  • 96 3 TELEPHONE CABLE SHORTAGE IS NOW OVERCOME KUALA LUMPUR Wf Shortage of underground cables was the main leason why people had tc tor telephones m their homes and offices m certain parts of Kuala Lumthe Director-General o_ Telecommunications. Mr J. H. WagstaiT. said yesterBut now the Telecommuions Department had the necessary
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  • 41 3 KAMPAR. Wed. Three candidates, including a former political detainee, have filed nomination papers to contest tne nations first Parliamentary by-election m this constituency. Tney are. Incne Ustaz Abdul W T ahab, Chan Yoon Onn and Mr. Liew Wny Hone.
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  • 46 3 SPORTS CLUB TO STAGE A CONCERT IN AID OF THE THEATRE FUND 2ERANGOON GAR- DENS. Wed.— The Serangoon Gardens Sports Club will stage a variety concert m June m aid of the National Theatre Fund. The concert will include Malay. Chinese. Indian, and English dances and
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  • 55 3 The secretary of the sports club, Mr. T. A. Mugan. told the Free Press that one objective of the concert was to instill a Malayan consciousness m its members. He said: "This variety concert will see the many races m this estate, working together m harmony for the
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  • 41 3 MALACCA. Wed. 300 student teachers m the Malay Women's Teachers Training College here, started a "remain m the dormitory" campaign as a protest against the delay by the authorities, to remove the College principal. Miss P. M. Clements.
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  • 42 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Federation's Minister for Commerce and Industry. Inche Monamed Khir Johail. said m the Parliament yesterday, that talks betv. Singapore and tne Federation Governments to establisn a common market for the two territories will be held soon.
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  • 17 3 MRS WARD SELLS THE FIRST CAR DUSTER TO MR. DANTE CHIAVERIO.
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  • 90 3 SINUAPOHI.. Wednesday. THE Cheshire Homes. Singapore, is m "urgent need" of volunteers lo help m its annual Feather Day on May 7 Murphy, a joint I the Free Press I that many I more The committee I far help I ago.™ Home chro- 1 nically
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  • 76 3 GAN ENG SENG OLD BOYS PICK OFFICIALS SINGAPORE, Wed.— Mr. Tan Wee Kian has been elected president of the Gan Eng Seng School Old Students' Association. Other officios: Mr. A. G. Meyer and Mr. Khor Teik Hean (vice-presidents); Mr. Tai Chan See (secretary): Mr. Tan Mong Pak (assistant secretary): and
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  • 29 3 MALACCA Wed. Singapore's former Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, will ipeak on "Asia today" at the Malacca Indian Association m Banda Hilir Road at 7.15 today.
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  • 20 3 KAJANG. Wed.— An anonymous resident of Sungei Chua has given $360 for the poor of his district.
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  • 20 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Malayan Artists' Exhibition at the British Council Hall has been extended to May 25.
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  • 34 3 SEREMBAN. Wed. Some 60 striking employees oi the Seremban Estate here, attacked 90 new workers travelling m three lorries to their workspot. The attackers fled when the police arrived at the scene.
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  • 41 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Chief Medical Officer M tne University oi Mah Singapore Division. Dr. Z. N". Kadri. said here that the high rate of failures m the University had been mainly due to "emotional instability"' of students.
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  • 24 3 KOTA BAHRU, Wed.— For the first time m many years, villagers m the KelantanTrengganu border reported seeing some bandits m the area.
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  • 37 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Tlie Federation Government has started recruiting assistant nurses for mental hospitals m the country at a salary scale of $104/112/137.50 bar $7.50— 5220, plus cost of living allowance at the current rates.
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  • 11 3 NO LAND SO DAIRY FARM PLAN IS HELD UP X' Gazet:
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 63 3 ;o Neva (Tj»y Ik ngs of the world; v m. 7.30 Paul Temple and tne Comad ■c (repeal of last Sunday's least); 8.00 Wednesday conThe ne 9.10 NcwsUdk; 9.15 Sinsapore .id i.it«rxmt people and evei. Singapore, piesented Palmei: 9.30 Make 9.45 Spon> Rfel, Murrando wings you od highlights fiom the
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  • 242 4 FOUR STUDENTS WILL SOON MARCH IN THE STEPS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT FOR A FILM OF ROUTE HE TOOK TO INDIA LONDON. Wednesday pOUR students three from the London School of Economics set out with a camera, tape recorder and notebooks early m July on a 12,000-mile expedition to trace
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  • 361 4 Dulles' disciple Dillon waits in the wings for that call to p ower WASHINGTON, Wednesday. WHO WILL run the State Department if Nixon wins the Presidential election? Douglas Dillon, at present U.S. UnderSecretary of State, widely tipped last year to take over from John Foster Dulles and bitterly disappointed when
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  • 53 4 AMONG STALACTITES AND STALAGMITES. A 1960 CAVEMAN TAKES A BRIDE photo A FORTY relatives and friends ca;l)Telia' grotto m a cavern on Mount 1 ano. Italy, on Monday for the wedding ground of pot-holer Boris Franc f s< h Ossini. A young priest. Don Bertotto. remony among the stalactites and
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  • 26 4 HONG KONG, Wed.—Communist China's first selfservice post office, with slot machines selling stamps, newspapers, envelopes and post cards, has been opened m Shanghai.— Reuter.
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  • 19 4 LAOS, Wed. Conservative Pro-Western candidates have won 28 of the 29 National Assembly seats decided so far.
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  • 82 4 TRANSFUSION KIT WILL FOLLOW DE GAULLE ON HIS TOUR WASHINGTON. Wed.— A French Army doctor with a blood transfusion kit will stay close to General de Gaulle throughout his tour of United States. The general is fit enough for a man who will be 70 this year. There is no
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  • 126 4 The day all teachers resigned because a boy was spanked VALDOSTA (Georgia), Wednesday. THE entire teaching staff of the rlahira High School has resigned and parents are driving m a motorcade carrying slogans to persuade them to go back, because a I 14-year-old boy a spank- I dodging class. I
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  • 61 4 BONN, Wed.— Eight British wartime officers, who were held m the grim Spangenberg Castle prison camp during World War Two, have accepted an invitation to return this August for a reunion. The reunion, which is being organised by the Hesse League of Returned Prisoners of War,
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  • 20 4 TOKYO, Wed. Police here reported five people were missing when a ferry boat, from Akabira Town, Hokkaido, overturned.
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  • 37 4 TOKYO, Wed. Score* of deer gamboling through the wooden parklands at Todaji Temple m Western Japan m response to the sound of a horn yesterday delighted the King and Queen of Nepal.
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  • 14 4 KARACHI. Wed. Yugoslavia and Pakistan signed an agreement to promote scientific-technical cooperation.
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  • 168 4 LONDON, Wed. Newly arrived South African cricketer Syd OXinn went straight from practice at Lord's to an angry kerbside scene with his father-in-law. The ex-Charlton footballer and Kent cricketer was given special permission by team manager Dudley Nourse to go and see his estranged
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  • 28 4 WOMEN MOB ELVIS FOR A KISS hea th railn Pr ki a t ■ii mar thl v Ei-. He k mak fir TRAM I his a cm. one-wa}
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  • 264 5 NURSE TELLS COURT OF HER ENCOUNTER WITH HUSBANDS BREAKFAST COMPANION WHEN SHE SERVED HER PETITION i SINGAPORE, Wednesday. LOH SIEW YEN, a nurse, was granted a decree nisi by Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah m I the High Court here dissohing her marriage jto
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  • 13 5 Malayalee association opens its doors to others I I I I Mandate r
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  • 59 5 SULTAN ARRIVES WITH A RETINUE FOR HOLIDAY AND SHOPPING TRIP E NO APORE. Wed The Sultan of BruOmar Ali Saiiddin, and a retinue People, are now pore on a nd shopping those who acI him were r hah, his daugh: ana iff, a mand retaker \DC p < Sira Muda
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  • 22 5 JOHOI ru. Wed incil driver fined Sl5O m Court here 1 )r driving under of liquor. He disqualified from
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  • 47 5 A METHODIST PASTOR TAKES SINGAPORE TEACHER AS BRIDE This lovely bride is Miss Rosie Yeo, a teacher m a Oovernment English School. She was married to Mr. Alfred Yeo Chee Hen?, supply pastor of the English service at the Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church. Singapore. on Saturday.
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  • 143 5 MOTHER GOES TO COURT TO HELP SON CONVICTED OF BEING FOUND IN OPIUM SMOKING DEN s .PORE. Wed. I on a stool which she had brought into the room behind the b le. an aged ted her son, convicted of d m a room used for smoking 'o whal tion
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  • 110 5 WIREMAN'S 12 ft. FALL FROM A ROOF MISADVENTURE SINGAPORE. Wed. The Coroner. Mr. N.A. D*Rozario. recorded a verdict of misadventure at the inquest on a 29-year-old wireman. Woon Hak Liang. Woon died following a fall from a 12-foot roof m Potong Pasir. on the evening of March 1. Death was
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  • 51 5 SINGAPORE. vVed Eight people were fined $15 each ior ignoring traffic signal^ halt signs, no entry signs and traffic .ignt signals. They were M. A. Y. Yasamy. Yen Seng Than. Ng Cheng Chwec, Le Tong Keng. Lim Chiang. Ong Kan Pee. Joong Weng and Lim Soo
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 276 5 RIP KIRBY by John Prentice 6c Fred Dickenson PP VC_. V 3HT NOK.6EK.se. AMP IP I THEN IP MAVE PAIP FOR) <^___5 HAVE KILLED AIMEPATTHE HAPN'TBEEM WEW PROPELLERS /TP^\ SC\'=C^Z MTH PROPELLERS"/ THERE-AMI? -IT'LL TAKE PAYS TO S~^\ 5! ANPSMASHEP/THEVPCAU6HT REPLACE THEM-- S 2.) J, J *l^^^^^^ E\\ T^^ g>Qg
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  • OPINION
    • 184 6 Of dogs and men— and a menace TVDGS have always featured In human pathos. but this week comes a dos story from Singapore's Serangoon Garden Estate that shows a teethy side to it. "Dog bites man is a common enough story, but when the 50 stray dogs of the estate
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    • 100 6 T ONDON psychologists say women see m tie-giving the symbol of love. "In lingering menfolk's ties, women are m fact finding a substitute act of caressing." If tie-giving is a declaration of the universal thing, love, then it is the monopoly of European women, since the
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    • 14 6 0 Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it. FRENCH PROVERB.
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  • 826 6 Name- tossing in the world of business t PEOPLE IN THE NEWS. ..AN EXPORT MARKET EXPERT TOPS LIST WHAT'S m a name? You'll learn plenty if you try selling: a car called Floride French for Florida— to those guys, lets say, m Texas. 0 When the largesl French cur manufacturers,
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  • 14 6 Mr. R.M.A. Jackson, Mrs. Lesueur. Mr. Vignal and Mrs. LeGrand.
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  • 369 6 The Book of the Week T<HIS latest book from the prolific Henry Cecil concerns a High Court judge, Mr. Justice 'Carstairs, and one William Burford, charged with safebreaking and stealing £80,000. Burford's defence is a classic alibi he was nowhere near the
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  • 355 6 IJENRY Cecil has written AM. some immensely readable books about lawyers, notably "Brothers m Law" and the sequel to that "Friends at Court." A contemporary, also bent on entertainment, has earned a reputation as one of the funniest writers about doctors. Who is this
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 79 6 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin PATEK PHILIPPE ls the only watch manufacturer whose entire collection of men's watches jarries, engraved on every movement, the official stamp 3f the State of Geneva, the authentic guarantee of :enturies-old GENEVA QUALITY. H. SENA, LTD. HIGH CLASS JEWELLERS Singopore Penang. 1 1 1 1 1 •1 1 •I■
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    • 12 6 ALIBI FOR A JI'DGE by i Henry Cecil (Michael Joseph, 13s. 6d.).
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  • 51 7  -  R.G. PILLAI I SINGAPORE, Wednesday f n WANT GOVERNMENT R£ VISE METHODS ALLOCATING STALLS THE SCHOOLS I raders and hawkers m Govschools want a revision iting tuckshops and stalk Hawkers 1 Union has been sentations on their behalf I <' m I I I I
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  • 68 7 NURSING SISTER IS CLEARED OF NEGLIGENT SINGAPORE. Wed.— A nursing sister of the Kantii Maternity Hos.ima Vergese. was negligent driving by th Second Traffic Mr. T. Ariarajah. tot called to make her defence. The court was told that nurse had been allegedly m while driving out he hospital and colliding
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  • 146 7 MR. TAY RETURNS AFTER 3 MONTHS' ENGINE COURSE IN GERMAN FACTORY IPOH, Wed. Mr. Tay Ah Chuan, 34, an engineering assistant with the Borneo Co., Ltd., has just returned from a three months specialist training course m Diesel engines at the works of X 1 o c k n c
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  • 9 7 59 HADDON CUP GOES TO ST. TRICK'S CORPS I
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  • 91 7 A R GE GATHERING OF SINGAPORE DIGNITARIES AND NEWSMEN A T FUNERAL OF JOURNALIST II j in the nort I l Thorn ji> Poh, leaver behind a wife and four Chi He e nrst joined the paper in 1937 and waf later transfered to Penan* In 1950 where he was
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  • 338 7 Certificate exam: Private candidates are told to register SINGAPORE, Wednesday. THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION has called on private candidates to register for the Cambridge School Certificate and Higher Schooi Certificate examinations this year. All candidates for the examinations, which will be held between Nov. 16 and Dec. 2, should call
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  • 84 7 HER DOLLAR FOR THE R.A.F. BENEVOLENT FUND MAY WIN HER A TRIUMPH HERALD lUOI7SAND6 of RAF. men and women and locally -mploveil civilians working for the R.A.F. will have a chance to win a Triumph Herald car for SI Jhe committee hopes to sell I.VOOO tickets m aid of the
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  • 68 7 SINGAPORE, Wed. The following officials were electled to the committee of the Malayan Advertisers AssociaI tion at the annual general j meeting yesterday Mr. B. R. RatclifTe (president) Mr. Ec Soon Howe < vice-president) and Messrs. D. C. Bindon, T. A J. Froger. J. W. Hooton.
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  • 25 7 SINGAPORE, Wed.— Mona Fong will be guest artist m the weekly programme •Make Mine Music" over Radio Singapore at 9.30 p.m. today.
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  • 20 7 SINGAPORE, Wed.—Members of the YWCA International Women's Club are to visit the Thye Hong Biscuit Factory today.
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  • 92 7 The Maoris are coming to town and they'll dance for the Theatre Fund YES, IT'S a Maori dance, and the Maoris are coming to town. Now serving with the security forces m Taiping, a group of them will be m Singapore to do their "action songs" as the New Zealand
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  • 88 7 THE WALK FEVER IN SARAWAK: 400 IN ONE RACE KUCHING, Wed. The "walk fever." which was touched off by the Big Walk organised by the Free Press, has caught on m Sarawak. More than 400 competitors took part m the Big Walk over the weekend. It was organised by the
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  • 18 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Sun Chiun School Old Pupils Association will hold a variety concert tomorrow.
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  • 202 7 More 'good neighbour' Aussies to visit us I^ATONG, Wed.—Aus- tralians aFe keen to make friends with thfir neighbours the people of South-East Asia, including Singapore and Malaya. Mr Keith Terry, a tr agent and a former Australian magistrate and councillor, said this i Singapore He is here to make arrangements
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  • 38 7 SINGAPORE. Wed The Minister for Education, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin. will address the first preliminary meeting of the newly set up 11 -man Adult Education Board at the Cultural Centre, Canning Rise, at 5 p.m. today.
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    • 248 7 DIARY OF TODAY'S I EVENTS TOC H (Scotia Road): Recorded music recital. ROTARY CLUB: Weekly luncheon meeting m the Cathay Hotel at 1 p.m. Quest speakerMajor P. L. James, Commissioner of Prisons. YMCA (Orchard Road): Junior dep: open from 2 p.m.; body- building and weight-lifting 4 p.m.: i judo practice
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  • 49 8 Children on holiday bring'boom' to hawkers ITATONO. Wed Food vendors arc now doing a brisk business at Amber Road near the Chinese Swimming Club since the school holidays started rrov rffee shi nea r At cofl( O Drive for funds KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Rec: *d a drm 21. <_
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  • 138 8 S.APORL. Wed Into conn s h i p m c plastic sheet leum with adhe>ive -which the import- .'.l save housewives' energy, and ensure that the kitch* clean and dry. Manufactured designs and rainbow colours, and called "Con-Tact It aims to save the housewile bbing
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  • 257 8 NOW THEY ABANDON THEIR CARS TO THEIR WIVES: A SOLUTION TO CUT DOWN ON EXPENDITURE AT HOME SINGAPORE, Wednesday. HUNDREDS of teachers m Singapore have now taken to riding scooters to and from schools daily. The switch to the "more manoeuvrable" vehicle is apparent m
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    32 8 Inrhe Abdul Maiid bin M. Yusoft. ?7. was married to Che Hajrah Abdullah. 10. Pit ture shows the bersandms ceremony which was held at the bride's house m Carpmael Road.
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  • 123 8 TWO CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF STEALING PACKAGE OF 1,000 PILLS SINGAPORE, Wed. A watchman while on rounds on board the President Buchanan, a freighter anchored at the Western Anchorage, caught two men m the act of stealing a package containing 1,000 pills,, a magistrate's court was told. Tng Sen?
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  • 50 8 BUKIT TIMAH. Wed. A long awaited full-size billiards table will arrive at the Union H<use. Universi'Malaya, to replace the present half-size table. b< the academic year begins. A union spokesman said students would have to pay to play on the new tabie 'which cost $3,150.
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  • 18 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Pan -Ma la van Pensioners Association Ls to meet here tomorrow.
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  • 11 8 LOOKING LO\ Veronica Veo. sin agency.
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  • 20 8 TANJON luxur d Ti vered and it an hour bel "traffic" P- I
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  • 202 8 BORN today the stars have given you considerable talent, but it Is up to you to make the best possible use of it at all times. You have high ambitions, but are not the type to force yourself j ahead of others. You men are direct, rather
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    • 275 8 Free Press Crosswoij %cro» ii I ihi ____________B^ IH___ 1. Sightless trio tbfti were or- IC I J 111 p p» 'P^^___r« 4. Tne ha* vest In tne Wj io hftnd 4 j|| __MmW\Jm\ 7. Haimonious union of sounn* "t— -kßr of different pitch 9 9. Siring up acco.autg II
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  • 151 9 ACCRA, Wed. The Ghana Times dug into the dictionary yesterday to justify applying the term "Messiah" to Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, and said that the Roman Catholic church has no monopoly on the expression. It attacked the church as
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  • 98 9 Rupert and the truant— 33 When Podgy has got over his astonishment «t seeing the doll moving he listens while it explains why it played truant. "And the wonderful part is this," adds Rupert. You wanted to buy this doll for Rosalie, and here's the label that Santa Claus put
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  • 359 9  - When the old 'crash box' can be better than today's gear box C.F. POPE car clingh by pOR many years, gear boxes were constructed so that a driver had to be quite skilled before he could make a gear change without much noise. In fact, drivers made so many horrifying
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  • 218 9 WITH 18 MPH ELECTRIC MOTORS AND A 1,100 LB. CAPACITY, IT IS SAFE FROM SATELLITES NEW YORK, Wednesday. under-water "taxi" has been invented by a Detroit University student, the son of a U.S. army engineer, who believes that military bases of the future will be built
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  • 97 9 HOLLYWOOD STARS ARE VOTING DEMOCRAT NEW YORK, Wed. The bet is that your favourite Hollywood mm star will vote Democratic m the presidental election. Listen to fellows like Tony Curtis, Marlon Brando, and Gene Kelly and they're liable to be discussing not their next movie project but Senator Jack Kennedy's
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  • 43 9 WASHINGTON. Wed. An i American space scientist has "repaired" Pioneer V, the [United States artificial i planetoid, at a distance of 1 5.500.000 miles out In space, j according to the National I Aeronautics and Space Adj ministration.
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  • 22 9 OSLO. Wed. Norwegian newspapers praised the work of Dr. Toyhiko Kagawa. Japanese Evangelist and author, who died last week.
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  • 48 9 This is what is happening inside one of the workrooms of Norman H-rtaell's We* End showroom, where the last touches are being busily put to Princes! Margaret's trousseau for her marriage on May 6.
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  • 61 9 RAINBOW SALT -THAT'S THE LATEST THING FOR THE TABLE NEW YORK, Wed.—Tinted table-salt will be the new thing to astonish your guests. Pink, green, coral and yellow salt will pour from separate spouts In a saltshaker due on the market soon. The advantage claimed for tinted salt Is that people
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  • 15 9 TOKYO. Wed— Twelve Soviet wrestlers arrived here for a wrestling tour.— Reuter.
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  • 157 9 Townsend has NOT been invited to royal wedding LONDON, Wednesday. n ROUP CAPTAIN Peter Townsend, who was here with his wife Marie Luce, has not l>een invited to Princess Margaret's wedding on I May 6. When reporters visited him, Townsend was rather ambiguous m his replies. "No comment That is
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  • 26 9 BRUSSELS, Wed. Sixty armed Baluba tribesmen, some of them with parts of human bodies and ears, have been I arrested m the Belgian Congo.
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  • 66 9 ROYAL GOODWILL FOR SOUTH AFRICAN TEAM LONDON. Wed. Queen Elizabeth. Prince Philip and Mr. Harold Macmillan. the Prime Minister, have sent messages of goodwill to the South African cricket team on their arrival here for their English tour. Mr. Jackie McGlew, the [South African captain, said 1 he had also
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  • 42 9 AMMAN. Wed. —The Jordan Antiquities Department has granted a permit for a Canadian- American team to resume its search on the bottom of the Dead Sea for the "lost cities of sin" Sodom and Gomorrah.
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  • 17 11 UILD YOURSELF RIPPLING MU SCL ES IN 12 WEEKS AN D IT COSTS NOTHING I I 1
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  • 36 11 nners •-M\ll. B\ THI TWO BISHOPS bout by conKir.g to one ire-, with ranger King I] oih B .10 It ne. Diagram 1 cutting off escape. Diagram Z Blacks King m check.
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  • 292 11 Equipment you will need TK) build up your body j quickly, weights are j essential. Most youth clubs and sports clubs m Singapore have a set of barbells. If you want to be "ex- elusive and buy your own it is more expensive. In the Free Press body building course
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  • 82 11 SINGAPORE. Wed. Stephen's Badminton party officials for 1960 are: Patrons:- Measrs. Koh Chong Yeo Ming Kok and Ang Peck Wee; President: Mr. Scow Lim Soon; vice-presi-dent Mr Yeo Kiam Soon. The honorary officials are.— Secretary: Mr. Joseph Lee: Treasurer: Mr. Stephen Yew: I auditor: Mr.
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  • 334 11  - The football rule book needs a spring-clean: Out-dated regulations spoil the game JOHN CAMKIN dy LONDON. Wednesday. gOLCLR S rules sadly need a spring-clean. oome are obsolete,. old-fashioned and a drag on a game which strives to maintain itselLa? a m ajor entertainment. m. a ,r c the case ot
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    178 11 Amarjeet led the way to victory FARRER PARK. Wed. Amarjeet Singh. 19. cen- j tre forward of Katong Sports i I Club, helped m a 7-4 rout of Singapore Glass on Monday. IHe scored three times Glass opened scoring through winger Ashley, but i Amarjeet equalised. Again he
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  • 26 11 MEXICO CITY. Wed.World bantamweight champion Jose Becerra Is en route to Tokyo for a May 20 title defence against Japanese Kenji Yonekura. U.P.I.
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  • 30 11 NOTTINGHAM. Wed. South African Mike Holt and Johnny Halafihi of Tonga drew over 15 rounds for the I vacant British Empire light- I heavyweight title.— Reuter. i
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  • 201 11  - Lian Anns Bishop did the trick Lim Kok Ann By Singapore, Wed USING a battering bishop, Tan Lian Ann yesterday subdued Roy Tan and forged ahead m the schoolboys' championships held at the Raffles Institution. In this clash, Roy Tan adopted the Dutch defence when challenging Tan Lian Ann's lead.
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  • 20 11 HOUSTON. Wed. Barry I Mackay beat Neal Fraser 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 to win the River Oaks tennis tournament.
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    102 11  -  P. C. Sorcar H— MAGIC FOR YOU By ]^OBODY will believe you. if you say that you can make a piece of steel float m a cupful of water. But you can really show it. Take one safety razor blade and with the prongs of a fork slowly
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  • 120 11 Singapore clubs rush for the services of American swim coach SINGAPORE. \\>d. Singapore Amateur Swimming Association will take full advantage of the services of W. R. Campbell, a pro--less i onal swimming coach from America. This was declared by Mr. Micky Bain, president ot the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association. Campbell,
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  • 184 12  -  ALLAN LEWIS B, WILF BERG WINS IN IRELAND WILFRED BERG rock- the winner of the Irish Lincolnshire, Farrney l <>\ This boi ourth race, out of or. s in his short ecr at the C Berg is ockey to
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  • 64 12 INDIANS WILL INVITE STARS FROM THE FED SSGAPOR] Football A inwhen they on 3. They are: Gabriel. Govindarajoo and Ghi lr. K. Joseph Pillai. former SIFA Amaotball A Sir India will be a strong addition to the Federation players the team will include local Malay and Chinese players. Among them.
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  • 466 12  - Made to look like a bunch of novices... RAF hand former champs a thrashing CHUA BAN HOCK By Jalan Besar, Wednesday RAF 6; Malays 1. AIALAYS, last year's SAFA Premier League champions, were made to look like novices when they were trounced by the R.A.F. yesterday. The airmen finished runners-up
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  • 46 12 HUNSTANTON, Wed. Defending champion Guy Wolstenholme lo.st two and one to Alan Southam of Bedfordshire m the second round ot the English Amateur golf championship. Douglas Miller, aged IG, beat Frank Pennink, twice winner of the title, by seven five.___j Reuter
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  • 37 12 LONDON. Wed. British Football matches: League Two: Swansea Town 6 Bristol City I. League Three: Grimsby Town 3 Southampton 2. League Fou»*: Watford 2 Rochdale 1. Friendly. Motherwell fl Flamingo (Brazil) 2.1 Reuter
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  • 271 12  - MANAGER IS GOING TO FIND OUT THE REASON WHEN IN K.L. V. MARKAR By Paya Lebar, Wednesday INDIA will ask why they have not been invited to the Merdeka Football Competition. Mr. Dutta Ray, vice president ol All India Football Federation, said last nighl m Singapore: "I shall ask when
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  • 80 12 Herb Elliott will run in the States MELBOURNE. Wed.— World mile champion Herb Elliott will compete at three athletic meetings m California m May and June. They are: Los Angeles. May 20. Modesto. May 28, and Compton. June 3. Elliott had also hoped to run m Europe before the Olympic
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  • 35 12 HOUSTON. Wed. Roy Harris went down four times m the first round before the referee stopped his bout against No. 2 heavyweight Sonny Liston. He has been beaten only oncebefore_^^by Floyd PattersonH Reuter
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    158 12  -  M. Harrison-Gray by Dealer: South Game all THIS deal featured a typical part score muddle. East-West had 60 towards the rubber game, and j South opened One Club. J West and East then bid like this: Two Hearts Three Hearts: Four ClubsFour Hearts; Four Spades Five hearts. Queen
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  • 243 12 Tan Lian Ann well ahead in chees meet SINGAPORE. Wed. Tan Lian Ann was well ahead of his opponents at the end of the sixth round of the Singapore schoolboys' chess championships now b» held at the Raffles Institution here. He has the maximum of six points from six games.
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  • 24 12 LONDON, Wed. Sixteen of the 30 Soviet swimmers to meet Britain at Blackpool on April 30 arrived atl_ndon airport yesterday.H Reuter
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