Singapore Standard, 19 April 1958

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    21 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD Telephone *****—5 Coble TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1958. Vol. VIII. No. 290 15 ct* 14 Poges [FINAL EDITION]
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    Lock icon RUSSIA ACCUSES U.S.
    578 1 PEACE ENDANGERED BY H-BOMBER FLIGHTS' Soviet Govt Will Protest To United Nations Gromyko MOSCOW, April 18, (Reuter)— The Soviet Union today accused the United States of "endangering peace" by sending oirforce bombers armed with nuclear weapons in the direction of Soviet territory. Mr. Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet
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    Lock icon R.I. CALLS ON REBELS TO LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS
    357 1 Loyalists Launch Pincers Move JAKARTA, April 18 (UP) The Commander of the Indonesian invasion forces in West Sumatra today called on the rebels to surrender following the capture of Padang and what appeared to be a virtual collapse of revolutionary defences.
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    Lock icon HARI RAYA TOMORROW
    57 1 THE Keeper of the Rulers Seal, Inche Abdul Rabim officially announced last night that the New Moon was not sighted anywhere in the Federation of Malaya. He also said that a report had been received by him from the Chief Kathi, Singapore, to the same effect. Hari
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    Lock icon Man Picked Up At Sea Dies In Hospital
    66 1 Man Picked Up At Sea Dies In Hospital SINGAPORE Marine Police picked ur> an unidentified European man from the sea off Clifford Pier, last night about 8 o'clock. He was brought to the General Hospital where he died before admission. A nair of spectacles, a bunch of keys and $4.40
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    Lock icon Chinese To Protest R.I. Newspaper Ban
    175 1 JAKARTA, April 18 (UP) Chinese leaders here are expected to protest an Army order closing down Chinese vernacular newspapers, it was learned today. The Army decree forbade publication of newspapers and other periodicals using a non-Roman alphabet in what was described as a security
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    Lock icon $30 Mil. Loan To Extend Colony's Public Utilities
    367 1 $30 Mil. Loan To Extend Colony's Public Utilities SINGAPORE City Council yesterday decided to float a $30,000,000 loan to finance major extensions to existing sewerage, electricity and gas and water services. A few hours after the Council decided to raise the loan, applications for more than $2,000,000 worth of loan'
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    Lock icon FIRST PREMIER
    31 1 SIR Grantley Adams, of Barbados, Parliamentary leader of the (Socialist) Federal Labour Party, was yesterday elected first Prime Minister of the West Indies Federation, the Commonwealth's newest grouping. Reuter
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    Lock icon TOWNSEND
    23 1 GROUP Captain Peter Townsend was robbed of 400,000 francs (£320 sterling) two suitcases, cameras and riaDers in Paris yesterday, Police said. Reuter
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    Lock icon CYPRIOTS PROTEST
    56 1 PARENTS and relatives of political prisoners bring a giant candle into St. John's Church in Nicosia, Cyprus, where they prayed for 24 hours and fasted for the release of those detained and the return of 20 Greek Cypriots imprisoned in Britain. The incident took place during the island-wide
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    Lock icon GUY MOLLET MENTIONED AS GAILLARD'S SUCCESSOR
    163 1 GUY MOLLET MENTIONED AS GAILLARD'S SUCCESSOR PARIS, April 18 (UP) President Rene Coty today asked six of France's former premiers to suggest ways to end a three-day-old government crisis that still appeared impossible to solve. Suggestions Coty received from the former government chiefs, ranging from Joseph Laniel of the rightwing
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    Lock icon Sin Pao Man Released From Detention
    100 1 Sin Pao Man Released From Detention A FORMER journalist of the Sin Pao Press, Mr. Jek Yuen Thong, who was detained by the Singapore Government on Aug. 23 last Vear. under the Preservation of Public Security Ordinance, was released at 3 p.m. yesterday. He was the last of the persons,
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    Lock icon 'TALKS WERE TO CLEAR WAY FOR SUMMIT'
    294 1 MOSCOW, April 18 (Reuter) Mr. Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister, told a Press conference here today that his talks over the past 24 hours with envoys of Britain, France and the United States were designed to "eliminate obstacles in the way of calling
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    Lock icon ZERO HOUR FOR KIDNAP GANG
    246 1 SINGAPORE Police are preparing to crack down on a giant kidnapping ring which has been responsible for a number of abductions in both the Colony and the Federation during the past few years, The Standard was tolC yesterday. The existence of the ring, which was
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    Lock icon RUBBER FROM ALCOHOL
    68 2 PEKING. April 18 (AFP)— The first factory in China to utilise alcohol in making synthetic rubber is now under construction at Lanchow, it was officially announced here today. Gas from Lanchow Oil Refinery will be used to turn out alcohol for the plant. Plastics, oil resistant rubber
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    Lock icon NEW UNION TERMS TO COUNCIL
    320 2 Threatened Strike By 10,500 Looms Again THE Federation of City Council Labour Unions yesterday submitted new counter-proposals for retrenchment terms for 76 gas workers and warned a Singapore City Council negotiating team that they would have up to Tuesday to accept the terms. At a
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    Lock icon City Workers' Team To Meet Minister
    161 2 A NINE-MAN delegation from the Singapore City Council Services Union will meet the Minister for Local Government Lands and Housing, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Ilaji Jumat, this morning. The delegation will request the Minister to intervene in a dispute between the Union and the
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    Lock icon Anti-Pirate Protection
    71 2 MANILA. April 18 (Reuter) The Associated Steamship Lines (Manila's Chamber of Shipping) today asked the Philippines customs authorities to protect ships against "pirates" operating in Manila Bay. Mr. H. Bosch also secretarymanager, in a letter to the Customs Commissioner said the pirates were riding in small bancas (native
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    Lock icon MINISTERS DISCUSS NEW ROAD FOR FARMERS
    113 2 THE Minister for Communications and Works Mr. Francis Thomas (left in Standardpic), is seen discussing the new agricultural Bah Soon Par Road off Sembawang. Singapore, with the Minister for Local Government Lands and Housing, Inch e Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat. The three-mile road,
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    Lock icon Jaycee Chief To Call On Governor
    107 2 Jaycee Chief To Call On Governor THE President of the Junior Chamber International, Mr. Alberto Philippe of Mexico City, who will call on Singapore Jaycees on April 24 to confer on matters relating to the Junior Chamber movement. Mr. Philippe, an airline executive, was elected President of the Junior Chamber
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    Lock icon IQBAL DAY CELEBRATION
    47 2 THE Overseas Pakistan League in Singapore is sponsoring a public meeting to celebrate Iqbal Day on Monday at the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society at No 37. Lorong 12. Geylang. Major A. A. Khan, Trade Commissioner for Pakistan in Singapore, will preside at the meeting.
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    Lock icon SUMATRAN WAR COSTS R.I. $100 M. LOSS IN TRADE
    253 2 SUMATRAN WAR COSTS R.I. $100 M. LOSS IN TRADE INDONESIA has lost more than $1W,000.000 t n trade with Singapore since the outbreak of hostilities between the Central Sumatran Government and the Central! Indonesian Government This was disclosed by Colonel R.M.S. Pirngad e. Chairman of the Indonesian Ministry of Trade
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    Lock icon BOY'S BODY IN RIVER
    73 2 THE body of an eight-year-old boy, Soh Hee Chiang, wag found floating in the mouth of the Kuala Simpang river. Nee Soon, Singapore, yesterday. The boy was reported missing from home by his ftl Soh Kee Hup, on Thursc Yesterday at about 2.30 p the boy's
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    Lock icon FIRE DONATIONS
    41 2 ASSISTANT MINISTER, to the Singapore Chief SeMr. M.P.D. Nair. will donations from members of his constituency in Seletar, for the Lorong 3 fire victims at his office near Jalan Kayu Cinema Theatre tomorrow from 10 am. to 1 p.m.
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    7 3 EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD April 19, 1958.
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    Lock icon Apartheid Scourge
    897 3 THE Asian world has been overstuffed with the postwar dogma of "Molanism" that it has become somewhat inured to the prognostics of the disciples of apartheid (the separation of the white sheep from the black goats), who have carried on with the ugly scourge. Thus the news that
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    Lock icon INDONESIAN OPTIMISM
    931 3 INDONESIAN OPTIMISM Andretv Roth begins today the first of Ills series of articles about his recent on-the-spot survey of conditions In strife* stricken Indonesia, "QUT of the Sumatran trenches by Harl Raya!" is Jakarta's slogan these days. And the smiles which wreathe the faces of Jakarta officials indicate they feel
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      Lock icon Embarrassment Of Riches
      45 3 "f KNOW it's supposed to A be a lovely thing to have a man about the house, but you can have too much of a lovely thing." Virginia Graham speaking in the series "These English" in the BBC "London Calling Asia" programme.
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      Lock icon The Right Is Expected
      46 3 "TN history, as in daily life, right actions call for no special explanation; only the actions of criminals and lunatics are thought to need explanation." R.W-K. Hinton, Fellow of Pelerhouse, Cambridge speaking in the BBC Third Programme on philosophical interpretations of history.
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    Lock icon Firetraps In Villages
    439 3 "What, give it up like you? (cough, cough) Just when we're trying some tobacco that won't do any harm.. (cough, cough) -*^^BmBB^B HBo j^^B S^Bui—S^^H^BjMh^, Sir— As far back as September 5, 1956, I tabled a question in the Assembly asking the Minister for Local Government, Lands
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    307 3 the NEWS as it strike, me ajahahahjah ALF the worlds ills, If not all of them, springs from the utterances of men in too great a hurry to be talked about that they have no time to pause and weigh the effect of their words and the possible international reaction
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    Lock icon TUNKU MARIAM MAKES -UP HER MIND
    84 4 THE Prime Minister's daughter. Tunku Mariana, like all young ladies, is meticulous about choosing a dress to wear for a special occasion like the Hari Raya Puasa. Picture shows Tunku Mariam looking over the array of new dresses displayed at May and Company at
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    Lock icon Trade Unionists Fly To England
    213 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Three Malayan trade unionists are leaving Kuala Lumpur by air tomorrow for the United Kingdom, where they will attend a comprehensive 13 weeks course on labour administration and trade unionism. The course is organized by the Ministry of Labour and National Service
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    Lock icon Adenauer, Macmillan Hold Talks
    103 4 Adenauer, Macmillan Hold Talks LONDON. ADril 18 (Reuter) Dr. Konrad Adenauer, West German Chancellor, today began discussions on economic matters including Britain's free trade area plan with Mr. Harold Macmiilan, British Prime Minister. This mornings talks, the third and last of Dr. Adenauer's three-day official visit, began half an hour
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    Lock icon Murder Charge Is Withdrawn
    54 4 AN 11 -year-old boy accused of murder, was yesterday discharged by a Singapore court after the D.P.P. had instructed that the charge against him be withdrawn. Ang Chin Hung was alleged to have murdered Chia Tiong Chia. also aged 11. at Covent Street at about 5.40
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    Lock icon CANING ORDERED FOR ASSAULT
    330 4 Judge: Violence Should Be Repaid By Violence' MR. JUSTICE KNIGHT sentencing a robber to ten years' jail and ten strokes of the cane, yesterday, said: "I believe that violence should be repaid by violence." The judge had earlier been told that Chua Boon Teck 21, a
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE OUT TO CRUSH EXTORTION
    225 4 SINGAPORE OUT TO CRUSH EXTORTION PEOPLE in Singapore are determined to fight ihe extortion evil and wipe it out from their society with the assistance of the Police, said the Assistant Minister to the Chief Secretary, Mr. M.P.D. Nair, yesterday. Mr. Nair, one of the prime movers of the Governmentsponsored
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    Lock icon 'Missing' Detective Not Missing
    80 4 'Missing' Detective Not Missing SINGAPORE Police Detective Teo Seng Choong, who was reported missing by his wife yesterday, is now in the Federation investigating a case, Police spokesman, Mr. A. T. Rajah told The Standard yesterday. The detective's wife reported to the Police that Teo was missing from his home
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    59 4 Fellowships Announcement THE CHIEF JUSTICE of Singapore, Sir John Whyatt, will announce the award of two Queen's Fellowships at 10.30 a.m. today in his chambers in the Supreme Court Building. The announcement will be made in the presence of members of the Queen's Scholarships and Research Fellowships Selection Board. The
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    Lock icon ROBBED ON HER WAY TO PAWNSHOP
    129 4 ROBBED ON HER WAY TO PAWNSHOP A YOUNG woman badly in need of cash set out on a three-mile trip on her bicycle to pawn her jewellery in Nee Soon. Singapore, yesterday. On the way. six men held her up at dagger point and relieved her of her Jewellery. The
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    Lock icon $800 Fine For Wrong Declaration
    94 4 BUTTERWORTH, Fri. A textile clerk, N. S. Irulandy, 41, pleaded guilty before the Sessions Judge, Mr. Au Ah Wan. today, to a charge of signing a declaration with incorrect particulars on goods for export at the Customs warehouse on Feb. 11 Assistant Customs Officer, Mr.
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    Lock icon CALL TO BIG THREE TO END A-TESTS
    101 4 CALL TO BIG THREE TO END A-TESTS TOKYO, April 18 (Reuter) The Japanese Lower House of the Diet (Parliament) today unanimously approved a new resolution calling on the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union to negotiate an "immediate anconditlonal" agreement for the suspension of nuclear tests and weapons. The
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    Lock icon 2 Stole Sand From Estate
    104 4 WEE BEE LAM. 30, and Tan Bok Kwee, 31. were yesterday fined $250 each by the Singapore Eighth Magistrate. Mr. Tara Singh, for stealing sand from an estate in Pasir Ris on March 18 Wee and Tan were arrested after they were seen leaving the
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    Lock icon Soldiers On Robbery Charge
    73 4 Soldiers On Robbery Charge FOUR soldiers were yesterday remanded for one week by a Singapore Court after a charge of robbery and causing hurt was read out and explained to them. They were: Stewart Allen McLeod, Watson David Nelson, Pearson Daniel McLean, and K. McNulty. All of them were alleged
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    44 4 MR. Philip Hoalim, an honorary member of the Ceylon Sports Club, will give a talk on "Why men fail" at the Club's premises at 101, Balestier Road, on Monday at 6 p.m. The talk is open to members and their friends.
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    Lock icon COLONY WINS U.K. WELFARE TROPHY
    191 4 FOR the first time in the history of Singapore, the coveted Rettering Shield has been awarded to ttic Colony for the excellence of its maternity and child welfare services in rural areas, and its facilities for ante-natal and post-natal care. The award was made in
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    Lock icon 500-Year-Old Bones Found In Malacca
    211 4 500-Year-Old Bones Found In Malacca MALACCA, Fri. Bits and pieces of bones and pottery believed to be some 500 years old have been exhumed from several ancient graves in the oldest cemetery here the Bukit Leleh burial ground. During the past few days a group of labourers have exhumed 10
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    Lock icon CACE BIRD OFFICERS
    76 4 MR. J. P. ENGLISH has been re-elected president of the Singapore Cage Bird Society at its recent annual general meeting. Vice presidents are Mr A. Fraser-Brunner <re-eiected> -and Mr. C. B. See; honorary secretary. Mrs. Joyce Simon; and acting hon. secretary, Mrs. A. Fraser-Brunner. Mr. Lim Koon
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    Lock icon 'BIRDNIAN' NAIDU WANTS TO GIVE A CHARITY SHOW
    181 5 'BIRDNIAN' NAIDU WANTS TO GIVE A CHARITY SHOW PENANG, Fri. Singapore's famous "birdman," Mr. S.R.S. Naidu. is in Penang today, but nobody has contacted him to give a performance. "I am willing to give a performance for any charitable institution," he told The Standard. Mr. Naidu arrived here yes- terday,
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    Lock icon Certificates For New Citizens
    99 5 Certificates For New Citizens KUALA KUBU BHARU, Fri. A team of officials from Kuala Lumpur will visit several small towns and villages in this district next week to issue citizenship certificates to the applicants. More than 700 people apI for State Citizenship last The team will visit Ulu Bernam, Kalumpang.
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    Lock icon Sultan Opens New Cinema
    76 5 KOTA BHARU. Fri.— The Odeon the first new theatre to be built in this town for nearly 20 years was opened tonight by the Sultan of Kelantan. Sir Ibrahim Ibni Almarham. The theatre belongs to Dr. S. Arulampalam and is managed by Cathay Organization working in
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    Lock icon 'TEC FACES TRESPASS, RAPE CHARGES
    462 5 7 Was Dragged Through Graveyard Into A Hut' A DETECTIVE forced a woman into his car and drove her to a hut in Alexander Road, where he allegedly raped her, Magistrate Mr. R.8.1. Pates was told yesterday. Tentatively charged with raping the woman, Yong Soon
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    Lock icon Battle For Congress Leadership
    125 5 Battle For Congress Leadership KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— President of the Malayan Indian Congress Mr. V. T. Sambanthan, today expressed confidence that he would be re-elected to the leadership of the party. He claimed support from seventeen branches of the Congress throughout the Federation. Mr. Sambanthan, who is also the Minister
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    Lock icon The Mayor Urges Disciplinary Action
    220 5 The Mayor Urges Disciplinary Action MAYOR Ong Eng Guan has directed the City Council's Chief Administrative Officer to take disciplinary action against the Council's Chief Sewerage Engineer, Mr. G. M. Richards for making an "unauthorized" Press statement. The Mayor in a letter to the CAO, Mr. R. Middleton-Smith yesterday pointed
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    Lock icon From 9 To 12 Elected Councillors
    87 5 TAIPING, Fri.— The Taiping Town Council yesterday endorsed the recommendation of its Finance and General Purposes Committee to increase the elected membership from the present nine to 12. subject to the total membership of the Council remaining at 16. The State Council must approve
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    Lock icon Girl Fell Off Moving Car While Combing Hair
    185 5 AN 18- YEAR-OLD girl, Chan Wai Ying, fell off a moving car while combing her hair in the front seat, a Singapore Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Her father. Chan Woun Cheong, who was seated in the rear, said they were on
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    Lock icon TWO M.F.U. MEN OFF TO MANILA FILM FESTIVAL
    144 5 MR. OW KHENG LEW (left), head of the Malayan Film Unit in Kuala Lumpur, and Mr. Wong Khye Weng, a script editor, who left Singapore yesterday by V \A. for the Asian Film Festival in Manila next week. Mr. Ow said the
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    Lock icon No Overtime For F & N Men
    83 5 No Overtime For F N Men KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. One hundred and eighty-nine workers In the Kuala Lumpur branch of Fraser and Neave Co. Ltd. today refused to work overtime following the retrenchment of seven workers. The general scretary of the National Union of Factory and General Workers, Mr. V.
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    Lock icon Queen's Scholarship Is His 3rd Award
    149 5 Queen's Scholarship Is His 3rd Award PENANG-BORN Khoo Soo Hock, winner of two previous scholarships has now won the much-covet-ed Queen's Scholarship Award for 1957. Khoo, who is 23, is currently reading for the Master of Arts degree in the University of Malaya. Khoo received his early education at the
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    Lock icon Tattoo Man Is Acquitted
    103 5 NEO MOH THIAM. 25. who had numerous tattoo marks on his body, was yesterday acquitted by the Singapore Third District Court of a charge of being a member of secret society "969" of group "24." Detective Loh Chin Quay, who claimed to be a former member
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    24 5 THE CHINESE YMCA Folk Dance Club will hold a dance session at the "Y" Auditorium in Shenton Way at 7.30 p.m. today.
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    77 5 MUAR. Fri.— The President of the Sessions Court, Inche Pawan bin Ahmad today convicted Lee Hock Kong of Jalan Yahya on opium charges. Lee was charged for being in possession of 12 pills of opium and utensils for smoking prepared opium, on Feb. 16
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    33 5 HONGKONG. April 18. Special Standard Service Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were $16.10 to £1 Sterling $5,830 to US$l; $1,841 to Malayan $1; $0,101 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $254,125.
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    Lock icon AWARD TO THE MALAY REGIMENT
    60 5 THE NEGRI SEMBILAN Government presented a salver to the Fifth Battalion, the Royal Malay Regiment in Seremban, on Wednesday, in recognition of the battalion's services in operations against Communist terrorists in the state. Photo shows the Mentri Besar. Negri Sembilan, Inche Shamsudin bin Nain. making
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    Lock icon $3,000 HARI RAYA GIFT
    52 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Social Welfare Services Lotteries Beard has voted the Selangor branch of the AllMalaya Muslim Missionary Society a $3,000 Hari Raya "gift." The society's secretarygeneral, Inche Mohd. Ali Munawar, said the money would be used to provide Hari Raya gifts for poor and
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    22 6 THE Telecommunications Department installed 568 new telephone lines in the Federation against 576 new applications for telephone service last month.
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    302 6 DON'T MIX POLITICS RELIGION' Society Issues A Hari Raya Puasa Warning KUALA LUMPUR, Fri The All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society in a Hari Raya Puasa message today urged Muslims not to confuse religion with politics. Mixing religion with politics will only lead the nation to disaster, warns the message given by
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    45 6 photos. Shore Leave For Crew But... MR. MRS. Ong Sek Chuan who were married at the Ipoh Registry of Marriages, recently. The bride, the former Miss Yeoh Swee Chin and the bridegroom are teachers in the Methodist English School, Tanjon? Malim. Modern Studio
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    220 6 THE crew of the Danish freighter Bretagne, now being held in Tanjong Friok for allegedly aiding the Padang rebels, have been allowed freedom of movement, but the master Captain Vagn Egon Dyreborg, has not been granted the same facilities. A spokesman for the vessel's agents
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    Lock icon WIDOW DENIES SHE LANTED' EVIDENCE
    184 6 WIDOW DENIES SHE LANTED' EVIDENCE PENANG, Fri. A widow, Ooi Chu Koon, today told Sessions Judge, Mr- Au Ah Wah that a coffee-shop proprietor, Loh Kim Huat. asked her to make a flag of three yellow stars with a red background and warned her not to tell anybody about it
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    Lock icon Top Posts For Guild Rebels Predicted
    217 6 Top Posts For Guild Rebels Predicted KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.—Dr. Lim Chong Eu's attemot to give the Malayan Chinese Association a dynamic leadership may in effect put the leaders of the "rebel" Chinese Guilds group in party's top executive posr, informed quarters told The Standard today. The source predicted that the
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    80 6 IPOH, Fri.— The Perak Welfare Association will erect two new old folks homes at Jeram and Malim Nawar in Lower Perak. The homes will cost $15,000. Funds will be obtained from the Central Welfare Council. They will be built on state land and will be
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    36 6 A TOWN Council labourer of Kampong Bahru, V. Gopal 24, was fined $100 by Ipoh Magistrate Ibrahim bin Abdul Manan yesterday when he pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of an offensive weapon.
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    56 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Frl. The following won the annual Federation Armed Forces Koran Reading Competition Lance Corporal Abdul Rahman, Private Daud, Private Haris. Kasidah Lance Corporals Idris, Shafie and Adnan. Religious Lecture: Sergeant Suleiman. Craftsman Ibrahim and Colour Sergeant Mohd. Yassin Nadzir Ugama: Federation Armed Forces, Tuan Haji Ibrahim
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    61 6 KLANG, Fri. The Regent of Selangor, Raja Muda, will hold a party at the Istana Kota to welcome back his Sultan on April 22. This is the date on which the Sultan relinquishes his duties as Deputy Yang diPertuan Agong to the Paramount Ruler. The party
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    56 6 CHE WAN Samsiah binte Pawanteh, wife of the Minister of Agriculture, presents a first class diploma to Nik Abdul Halim bin Nik Yusoff of Kelantan. at the prize giving and graduation day ceremony at the College of Agriculture, Serdang, on Wednesday. Also in the picture is the
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    141 6 RUSH ON FOR STALLS AT NEW MARKET THE Singapore City Council has received more than 2,000 application from hawkers for the 175 stalls that will be available when the market at the old Kallang Airport is completed. A Council spokesman said last night that because of the large number of
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    40 6 Dr. Lim Chong Eu, reelected President of the MCA. together with new members of the Central Working Committee, will call on Tunku Abdul Rahman on Sunday, to pay their respect to him as leader of the Alliance.
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    371 7 Mine Owner On Murder Charge KAWANG, Fri. A man armed with a parang, attempting to kidnap a wealthy Ipoh tin-miner, was killed by his intended victim in the course of a struggle, a murder preliminary inquiry before Magistrate, Inchc Abdul Hamid bin Yunos was told here
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    160 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were:— Buyers Sellers Spot 79} 802 R.S.S. No. 1 (May) 78* 78* R.S.S. No. 1 (June) 77* 773 R.S.S. No. 2 733 74i R.S.S. No. 3 69| 70} Tone:— Steady. The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was
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    32 7 A TELEPHONE cable for the new automatic exchange in Butterworth has been laid between Penang and Butterworth. Today the remaining section of the cable was laid across the Prai River.
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    56 7 CHEAH SEE LOON, 22, of Ipoh, who leaves at the end of this month on a world hitch-hiking tour. Chc-h expects to be away from the country about 10 years. A former Yuk Choy school student, and a motor- cycle mechanic. Cheah intends to work his
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    72 7 IPOH, Fri. The Indian High Commissioner to Malaya, Mr. V. M. M Nair and his wife will be guests of honour at a dinner to be given by the Kinta Indian Association on Wednesday. Mr. Nair will be making his first official visit here next
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    186 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. —A pretty Japanese girl, complete with flowers and traditional kimono, has promised to be at the Tokyo airport next month to give Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and his retinue a "loving welcome" to Japan. The girl. Kieko Sekiguchi of 453 Nakacha
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    258 7 Map Shows Location Of Hidden Wealth KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. —A "treasure map" detailing a considerable amount of Malaya's hidden mineral wealth will be presented to the Minister for Natural Resources, Inchp Bahaman Samsuddin, by the Canadian High Commissioner, Mr. Arthur R. Menzies, on April 24. This will take place at
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    244 7 M. T. U. C TO HOLD WORKERS' SEMINAR PENANG. Fri. the Malayan Trade Union Council, Penang Division, is holding a week end seminar on April 26 and 27 at the Westlands School in conjunction with the Tiaining Division of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare. The Hon. Secretary of
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    95 9 LONDON, April 18 (Reuter) A new high speed test machine capable of testing tyres at speeds of up to 650 mph is being built by the Dunlop Company in Britain and will be ready later this year, Mr. G. E. Beharrell, Dunlop chairman,
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    77 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picuj yesterday were: copra April May UK Continent $31J buyers $32 sellers coconut oil in bulk $47 sellers; in drums $51 sellers. Muntok white pepper $135 sellers; Sarawak white $134 sellers; Special Sarawak black $75. Singapore Coconut Oil Millers Association closing
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    252 9 DEMAND for nearby No. 1 R.S.S. rubber continued throughout the week and the premium has varied from i cent to 1§ cents over May, according to the weekly market report of Holiday, Cutler, Bath Co. Ltd. Covering for late Aprl shipment to Odessa continues and
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    97 9 SINGAPORE rubber market closed steady yesterday although International first grade May shipment was unchanged at 78i cents per lb. The attention of the market has been focussed.cn April and May shipment with further forwards somewhat neglected. There has been fair interest in lower grade and good business was
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    121 9 VICKERS-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd. announces that Airwork, the British independent airline, has ordered two of the new Vickers Viscount 810 series turboprop airliners for delivery in the latter part of 1958. The total number of Viscounts sold is now 379. Airwork plans to use the new Viscounts on
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    56 9 DETROIT, April, 18. (AFP). Shutdowns of 24 automobiles plants and lay-offs of 64,000 workers were ordered by the three leading car manufacturers in the United States this week. Spokesman for the General Motors, Ford and Chrysler companies said yesterday the temporary shutdowns resulted from
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    186 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported the following business done: Alex. ords. $2.50; Fed. Disp. $2.22: F. N. ords. $2.67*. Gammon $2.33 to $2.32J, $2 32 overnight; Hammer $1.61 to $1.57i; H. Waugh $1.13 to $1.07; If. Breweries $3.70. $3.50 overnight; M. Colls. 79c; McAlister $133; M. Box $1.65; Robinson
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    69 9 WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuter) The World Bank yesterday announced approval of loans totalling $43,000,000 for port improvements at Calcutta and Madras, two of India's largest and most important port cities. The bank said that one loan of $29,000,000 was being made to the Commissioners for the
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    167 9 Spore Assured Of Aussie Wheat Supplies SINGAPORE will get her normal supplies of wheat and flour from Australia this year. This assurance has been given to the Singapore Government by the Australian Wheat Board and the Federal Council of the Flour Mill Owners of Australia through their representatives. They are
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    32 9 AUSTRALIA'S 1958 production of dried vine fruits (sultanas, currants, and raisins) is forecast at 95,000 short tons, about 8 per cent more than the 87,700-ton volume of the preceding year.
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    30 9 UNITED States cotton exports (all types) were 517,000 running bales in January 1958, compared with 609,000 running bales in December 1957, and 791,000 bales in January 1957.
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    134 9 OUTER ROADS Francoise. Sandviken. Felipes, Reginald Kerr, President Monroe, Batoela, Sangola, Capetan Antonis, Tai Seun Hong. Pohang, Stanvac Selo. Hokkai Maru, Tg. Pinang, Caltex 9. Sumpitan, Rajah Brooke. Lakota. Stanvac Ogan. Lipis, Hin Cheong, Ferndale, Kamiji Maru. Danakil. Douglas, Straat Torres. Helikon. Lapas. Karossa. Placius. Universal Trader.
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    228 9 A GENERAL decline in industrials which closed weak at the lower levels was reported in the Malayan share market yesterday. Tins were easier, while rubbers were irregular. The turnover was small. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Alex Bricks Ords.
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    293 9 US. TO MAINTAIN FAR EAST IMPORTS akgagjagja UNITED STATES is expected to maintain the high level of imports from Far East countries this year as in 1957, according to International trade experts of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Figures recently released by the Department's Bureau of Foreign Commerce show that
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    42 9 CHIEF of J. F. Martell, Cognac (France) Monsieur Michel Martell. will visit Singapore at the end of this month. He will be accompanied by his wife. They are scheduled to arrive in Singapore by Qantas plane on April 27.
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    187 9 Copra Exports Show Rise MALAYAN exports of copra in the first two months this year totalled 23.227 tons, a rise over the same period of last year (16,470 tons). Imports of copra in January and February at 34,833 tons, also showed a rise over the 22.759 tons shipped in during
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    40 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday: Selling. T.T. or OD. ready: French Francs *****; Italian Lire *****. Other exchange rates remain unaltered. Threat To Nation's Economy Looms -Union Warns
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    138 10 IPOH. Fri. Mr. A. F. Hunter, former Chief Education Officer, Perak, who retired in December last left for the United Kingdom today. Mr Hunter who served for over 25 years in the Malayan Education Service was a former Principal of the Anderson School, Ipoh. Ipoh will lose
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    50 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Two Indian labourers from the Sungei Besi tin mine were involved in a stabbing case last night. One was wounded on the face and was treated as an outpatient and the other who received multiple wounds on the back was admitted to hospital.
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    362 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The National Union of Mining Workers are appealing to state governments to give land to unemployed mining workers. The negotiating secretary of the NUMW, Mr. Yong Yueu Chin, told The Standard today that the union had consulted the Commissioner for Labour,
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    93 10 HE'S FIRST ISLAMIC LECTURER IPOH, Fri.— Inche Mohamed Sadhir bin Haji Mohamed Hashim, 30, has been appointed first lecturer in Islamic studies at the new $2,500,000 Malay secondary school in Tieer Lane. Inche Mohamed Sadhir, former acting secretarygeneral of the Pan-Malayan Islamic Party, underwent a special course of study at
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    65 10 First Plane For Malayan Air Force pic. THIS is the first aircraft of the Federation Air Force. It is a 16--seater twin-engined Pioneer which i s expected to be used as troop carrier. A special conversion kit ordered along with it makes it possible to fit it into a V.I.P.
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    126 10 IPOH, Fri. The local candidate for the presidentship of the Malayan Indian Congress, Mr. A.E. Mohamed Ismail, today declared he would dedicate himself "completely" to the service of the party if elected. In a nine-point manifesto issued to party members, he said there was great
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    57 10 PENANG, Fri.— Ferry launch passengers were astonished today when they saw what looked like an iceberg in the sea. It turned out to be a block of ice which came off a tricycle that had plunged into the sea after its wire brake snapped. The
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    29 10 A MALAY rubber tapper, while out hunting deer in the forest near Maran. Pahang, was shot at and died from his wounds in the Mentakab Hospital yesterday.
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    159 10 IPOH, Fri. Three youths were tentatively charged before Magistrate, Inche Ibrahim bin Abdul Manan today with the murder of an eight-year-old Pakistani schoolboy Mohamed Mustafa, son of a Police despatch rider, at the Sungei Pari bank 6n April 11. They are Lourdesamy, 23, Maniam,
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    90 10 PENANG, Fri. A labourer told the Magistrate's Court today that a 75-year-old hawker stabbed him with a knife because the latter nursed a grudge when he refused a loan two years ogo. The hawker, H. A. Hussain, was bound over in the sum of $200
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    65 10 IPOH, Fri.— Wong Keng Ban, 22, was charged before Magistrate Ibrahim bin Abdul Manan today with voluntarily causing hurt to a lorry attendant, Ng Ah Lim. by means of an axe at Laxamana Road here on the night of April 7. Represented bv Mr. V. Jeyaratnam,
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    225 10 IPOH, Fri. Following a three-day trial on a charge of the murder of a neighbour's wife, P. Appalasamy. 43, a rubber tapper, was today sentenced to seven years' jail on a lesser charge, by Mr. Justice D.B.W. Good in the Supreme Court. The Jury unanimously
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    95 10 Diplomat To Fly Back For Niece s Wedding KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— A fashionable Ceylonese wedding will take place on Wednesday when Mr. James J. Nallaiah marries Miss Phyllis Lorina Neelagandan of Batu Pahat at the Methodist Tamil Church here. The bride will be given away by her uncle, Mr. S.
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    107 10 400 Stop Work Over Dismissals KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— About 400 workers of the Wilkinson Process Rubber Co. Ltd. at Batu Caves stopped work today following the retrenchment of 20 workers. The general secretary of the National Union of Factory and General Workers, Mr. V. David, told The Standard today that
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    52 10 KLANG, Fri.— Malay workers of the port will hold a Hari Raya party at the Dewan Melayu on April 25 at 4 p.m. The Minister for Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak and Mr. M.C. ff Shephard (now Inche Mubin bin Abdullah) are expected to attend
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    94 10 TWO Indonesian fire unit officers from Jakarta are scheduled to arrive in Singapore on May 2 for six weeks' training at the Paya Lebar Airport, the Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas said yesterday. He said that this training had been arranged in the
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    70 10 PENANG, Fri.— Three youths were today jointly charged with committing murder causing the death of a blacksmith, Chew Ah Sai, at Hone Aun Hotel. Dato Kramat Road on April 17, in the Magistrates Court here today. The three men. Tan I Kheng, Lee Hai Kim,
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    151 10 Lets Help To End War -Mentri KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— In a Hari Raya message to the Malay troops stationed in the State, Inche Jamil Rais, Mentri Besar. Selangor. today expressed the hope that they would be able to celebrate the next Hari Raya with their families in peace and prosperity.
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    285 10 IPOH, Fri. The threatened 'lightning' strike by more than 1,000 employees of the Overseas Chinese Bank's branches in the Federation, scheduled for this month, was today called off following a reply from the management to an nlti. matum sent yesterday. Mr. C.H. Yin,
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    157 10 Extortion Bid Foiled: Police Hold Man IPOH, Fri. Police, who received a "tip-off" a few minutes before an alleged extortioner was scheduled to collect $300. arrested man today. The would-be victim wai sundry-shop proprietor, Mr. Foong Siew Hong of Jalan Pasir Puteh. Mr. Foong received an anonymous Dhone call last
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    147 10 Teenagers In Spending Spree With Stolen Cash BUTTERWORTH, Fri.— Two Ipoh teenagers, Wong Hing, 18, and Leong Yoon Leat, 16, had a good time in a hotel in Ipoh for one week with $580 stolen from a former Resettlement Officer, T.F.W. Faulkner, the Sessions Judge. Mr. Au Ah Wah, was
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    290 11  -  WINDSOR LAD By The Opposition Will Find Him Too Smart JX)OTLE, an improving five-year-old by Hyperbole, stands out as an extra good thing, and I am not looking beyond him for the winner in the 1J miles event (Race 5) for Class 3 stayers at
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    53 12 THE Malacca cricket team to meet the Kilat Club of Kuala Lumpur in a friendly cricket match at Malacca on tomorrow will be: J M. Hundley (Capt.), K. Sivasamboo, H. Singh. A. H. Carter, M. Nolan, H. Sequerah, J. Sequerah, M. Goad, D. Ross, N. Wood
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    232 12 SAFA Hope For A Big Surprise THE Singapore team to meet Hongkong in the Aw Hoe Cup today at Jalan Besar Stadium will probably be the same team to represent the Colony in the Third Asian Games at Tokyo. This statement was made
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    66 12 Hongkong] Lau Kin Chung Lo Pak Szeto Yiu Chan Fai Hung Ko Po Keung Kok Kam Hung Ho Ying Fun Ho Cheung Yau Moss (capt) Lau Chi Lam Mok Chun Wan I SINGAPORE^ Seet Yew Chang Aman Kastawi Matmoon Quah Kim Beng
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    630 12 By THE SPORTS EDITOR IT'S PLAIN enough. The record shows how much or how completely the Hongkong Football Association has dominated the Aw Hoe Cup inter-port soccer. Four wins to Hongkong, only one to Singapore, with one drawn in six annual
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    94 12 Penang G-men For Games In K. Lumpur KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A strong contingent of sportsmen from the Penang Secretariat and Junior Civil Services Association arrive in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow to play cricket hockey, badminton, tennis and table tennis during the week-end against the Federal Establishment Sports Club. The Penang visitors
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    280 12 HKFAs Problem. ...To Pick Best XI FRANK Chan Keong, team manager of the touring Hongkong XI, faces a major problem. His oroblem is not one of shortage of topflight players but one of selecting the best 11 for the Aw Hoe Cuptie against Singapore at Jalan Besar Stadium today. "All
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    132 12 PENANG. Fri.— The chairman of the Penang Festival Publicity Committee, Mr. N. PoyntzRoberts. said today that challenge cups won at the 1956 festival must be returned without delay to Mr. E. Chaplin. Chairman, Finance Committee, c/o Messrs. Guthrie and Co. Ltd., Penang The challenge
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    109 12 KUALA LUMPUR. FridayMalaya's team to play against Ceylon in the first round Eastern Zone tie of the Davis Cup tennis competition at the Selangor Club courts here on April 22. 23 and 24 will be selected from: Ong Chew Bee. Moses Tay. Khong -Kit Soon
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    73 12 SINGAPORE SOCCER: Aw Hoe Cup Interport: Singapore AFA vs. Hongkong FA at Jalan Besar stadium 5.15 p m CRICKET: SRC 2nd vs. YMCA at YMCA 2.15 pm. TENNIS: YMCA open tourney at Bras Basah Road. KUALA LUMPUR CRICKET— Malayan Cricket Association Championship Selangor vs. Kedah padang. HOCKEY— Malayan
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    599 13 rkAJVCLVG is a pastime that is enjoyed by young and old alike. Chanrji is particularly fortunate in having the services of two dancing teacher* who are icell qualified and who teach airmen and airwomen to dance. A class is also held for the children, who of course are
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    202 13 MAJOR Khalid bin Hashim, one of the senior Malayan Officers of the Federation Army, joined the Royal Malay Regiment as a recruit in 1936. Married with several children, Major Khalid's promotion to the rank to Lieut. Colonel has been approved by His Majesty the Yang di Pertuan Agong
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    624 13 Corporal Achieves 'Mission' ajajghgh WHEN Corporal J.I. Burke of the R.A.S.C. came to Singapore nearly three years ago, he had uppermost in mind a special mission to carry on his "musical evenings" and get the folks together on common "ground." His pet project materialised with the generous assistance of several
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    489 13 Space-crazy kids shock U.S. Army Slan Mays reports from New York agagajgajigj THE U.S. Army is today trying to take control of 3,000 space-crazy children they call them Rocket Kids whose backyard experiments are deadly dangerous. Already 347 accidents have been reported. Any day, it is feared, there will be
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      502 13 rpODAYS QUOTATION: HIM 1 "A fool may have his W*3 coat embroidered, but it will I always be a fool's coat." I Bivarol I^^^T^VS SATIRDAY FOR! B tMk M lI^I EVERYONE: Those who are I VZlkf^J tactful, careful will get a I H|^MKaA« great deal accomplished. Be I progressive and
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      Lock icon CHOLERA RAGES IN CALCUTTA, 124 DIE IN 24 HOURS
      128 14 CHOLERA RAGES IN CALCUTTA, 124 DIE IN 24 HOURS CALCUTTA, April 18 (UP) A raging cholera epidemic has claimed at least 124 lives in 24 hours and is still spreading, officials said yesterday. Fifty-four of the dead were reported from one hospital alone. Another 300 cases were reported yesterday as
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      78 14 PRETORIA, April 18. (Reuter). Mr. Johannes Strijdom, South African Prime Minister, said yesterday in his first statement on •the success of his National Party in the general elections that the party's colour policy would be resolutely pursued. It was the only way in which the White
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      141 14 British 'Skylark 9 Rocket Goes Up 90 Miles ADELAIDE, April 18 (Reuter) A British Skylark rocket reached a height of 90 miles after being fired last night at the Woomera rocket range, in Central Australia, it was announced today. Britain has fired several Skylarks at the range, but last night's
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      197 14 BRITISH AND FRENCH AMBASSADORS IN MOSCOW TALKS MOSCOW, April 18 (Reuter)— Sir Patrick Reilly, British Ambassador in Moscow, went to the Soviet Foreign Ministry today to discuss preparations for a Summit conference. He spent 45 minutes with Mr. Andrei Gromyko, the Foreign Minister, who was
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      382 14 LONDON, April 18 (Reuter) —The executors of the largest private landowner in Britain, the late Duke of Westminster, have just sent the Government a cheque for £4,500,000. This is only the first substantial instalment of the estate duties in connection with
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      101 14 WASHINGTON, April 18, (UP)— The White House today branded as "not true" a Russian charge that U.S. H-bomber flights are provocative and endanger world peace. The charge was made by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. In reply, White House press secretary James C.
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      19 14 JAPAN and the Soviet Union signed an agreement yesterday to promote tourism between the two countries. U.P.
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      37 14 SECRETARY of State "ohn Foster Dulles has assured African nations that the United States stands ready to support their efforts to achieve "a stable, prosperous community" under the terms of the United Nations Charter. UP.
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      32 14 SIR ARCHIBALD Douglas Cochrane. a former Governor of Burma and a First World War naval hero, died at his home at Gifford, Scotland, on Wednesday. He was aged 73. Reuter.
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      115 14 Zhukov Has Retired Disclosure MOSCOW. April 18. (UP).— Former Defence Minister. Marshal Georgi Zhukov. has retired and now has no military duties it was revealed today. A lecturer at the Polytechnical Museum in Moscow disclosed that Zhukov "'has retired and has no military duties any more." ZhuKov was ousted as
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      80 14 SYDNEY, April 18 (Reuter) —The Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies, today set in operation Australia's first nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights, 20 miles south of Sydney. The research establishment, which took more than three years to build, cost nearly i1A6,000,000, and the reactor Hifar— cost £A1,000,000. Before
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      36 14 THE SOUTH KOREAN government announced that South Korea is to choose a new "Labour Day," in preference to May 1. on the grounds that the traditional May Day become a "Communist-tinted" holiday. Reuter
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      34 14 KING MOHAMMED V of Morocco has set up a "purge committee" to deal with Moroccans who played a "decisive role" in sending him into exile in 1953 when he was Sultan.— Reuter
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      214 14 THIS dramatic on-the-spot picture tells what happened when a cow ran amok in a busy shopping centre recently. Women shoppers fled in terror. And five people were taken to hospital for treatment. One of them was s e v e n t y-two-year-old Mrs. Ethel Jones,
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      137 14 KATMANDU, April 18 (Reuter) The AngloNepalese agreement allowing Britain to maintain a Gurkha recruiting depot in Nepal has been renewed for a further 10 years, it was learned here yesterday. The agreement under which Britain has built a £1,000,000 depot
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      100 14 UN Wants Return Of Plane PANMUNJOM, April 18 (Reuter) The United Nations command today demanded the return of the Korean National Airlines plane which diverted into North Korea on March 16 The demand was made at a Military Armistice Commission secretariat meeting by the chief United Nations delegate. Colonel Frank
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      27 14 THE JAPANESE Foreign Ministry said yesterday Japan would repatriate 250 Koreans now detained in the Omura Camp, Kyushu, within the next four or five days.— Reuter
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      26 14 CALCUTIA. April 18 (Re uter).— A girl in Chandernagore, near Calcutta, committed suicide because prospective bridegrooms disapproved of her dark complexion
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      143 14 LONDON, April 18 (Reuter) Chances of a general London bus strike on May 5 Increased yesterday when Mr. Harold Watkinson. British Transport Minister, rejected bus leaders' protests over a proposed cut in bus services. The busmen who have announced a strike on May 5
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      30 14 BRITAIN puts the clocks forward an hour at one o'clock next Sunday morning when the country goes on to Summer time. Summer time ends on Oct. 5. Reuter
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      67 14 photo. MRS ARCNA Asaf Ali. a Bengali social worker, who is not attached to any political party, has been elected the first Mayor of the Delhi Corporation Mrs. Ali was for a long time Nehru's governing Congress Party worker, and later joined the Socialist Party; for
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      57 14 WARSAW. April 18 (Reuter) A Bulgarian whose parachute failed to open, in a practice jump was saved from certain death about 500 feet from the ground when another parachutist grabbed his parachute's strings as he plunged past, the Polish news agency PAP reported today from Sofia Both
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      48 14 LONDON, April 18 (Reuter).—The amalgamation of the Devonshire Regiment and the Dorset Regiment under Britain's new army streamlining plans will take place at Minden. West Germany, on May 17. the War Office announced today. The new regiment will be called "the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment."
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      201 14 India As Asia's Biggest Producer Of Fish NEW DELHI, April 18 ter) India has launche; a m b i tious 100.000.0U0-i (£7,500.000) scheme to de her fishing industry. The scheme em mechanisation of fishing i training of fishermen in d sea fishing, and development of inland fisheries. By the end
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      56 14 TOKYO, April 18 (Reuter) More than 30 Ryukyu island salvage workers were killed late yesterday when the sunken wartime ammunition vessel. Canada Victory suddenly exploded. No further details immediately available b^t officials said the death may be heavier. The workers werr parts of the sunken scrap
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      17 14 RADIOACTIVE rain hai been falling in Venice fo: past nine da vs. scientists yesterday. UP
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