Singapore Standard, 5 March 1959

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    17 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1959. Vol. IX No. 245. 15 ets. 14 Pages. (FINAL EDITION)
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    1036 1 WITHDRAW MOTION? TUN LIM SAYS 'NO' it-ant the public to know the truth" Commission of Inquiry is to be set up THE Singopore Legislative Assembly yesterday unanimously decided to set up a Commission of Inquiry to investigate and report on the facts regarding an account of about
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    Lock icon Assembly flays Malayanization scheme benefits to local officers
    560 1 Assembly flays Malayanization scheme benefits to local officers No need for members of Civil Services to get panicky THE Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday passed a motion deploring the payment of Malayanization compensation terms to any Malayan officer who had been given and had accepted promotion on account of Malayanization. After
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    20 1 NO Emergency casualties or incidents mtmrt reported in Malaya yesterday, stated the Federation Government in a press release.
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    Lock icon Tunku calls for a 'getting to know you' mission plan
    424 1 Tunku calls for a 'getting to know you' mission plan ISLAMIC CENTRES TO FOSTER HARMONY PONTIAN, Wed. Federation's Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, todav called for the establishment of Muslim missionary centres all over Malaya to convey the State religion to non-Malays. Addressing the entire populace of Pontian Kechil, he
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    Lock icon Parents sob over parcel of ashes
    394 1 Parents sob over parcel of ashes PENANG, Wed. Mr. and Mrs. Lai Chee, the parents of 12-year-old blue baby, Lai Boon Leong, were overcome by emotion and sobbed openly when they received the ashes of their son in their home in Amoy Lane this morning. On a heart-breaking mission to
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    Lock icon A woman foils a gang of 4 abductors
    266 1 A woman foils a gang of 4 abductors KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A four-man gang, who abducted a young rubber smallholder at the point of a dummy pistol for a ran.som of several thousand dollars was foiled by an ingenious trap laid by his 40-year-old sis-ter-in-law. The abduction took place in
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    Lock icon SPA CALLS FOR UNITY
    170 1 THE Singapore People's Alliance yesterday called on all democratic forces to join in a united effort to fight the People's Action Party in the forthcoming Legislative Assembly elections. In a clarion call to "democratic forces," the SPA said that recent developments had shown how subversive and
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    Lock icon MR. THOMAS JOINS THE OPPOSITION -SPEAKER STEPS IN
    223 1 MR. THOMAS JOINS THE OPPOSITION -SPEAKER STEPS IN TOWARDS the close of yesterday's Legislative Assembly debate, when the PAP member for Tanjong Pagar, Mr. Lee Kuan lew. was making startling allegations against Mr. (hew Swee Kee. the former Minister for Communications and Works. Mr. Francis Thomas. crossed over from the
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    Lock icon Officer, wife and daughters shot dead in hotel
    176 1 IPOH, Wed Poller Lieutenant C. W. Tate, 35, his attractive 31 -year-old wife, and their two daughters, aged throe and three months, were found dead with gunshot wounds in their room at Station Hotel here about seven o'clock tonight. Mr. Tata was
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    Lock icon S'PORE PLANE CRASH-LANDS
    37 1 BANGKOK. March 4 (Reuter) A British Canberra |a% bomber today made a suer ful crash landing on crowded Bangkok airfield. The aircraft from the Sin-gapore-based 49 Squadron was taking part In a SEATO exercise.
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    Lock icon POLLING DAY A HOLIDAY
    191 2 THE Singapore Legislative Assembly Elections Amendment Bill was passed in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. It provides for a holiday or. polling day and enforces compulsory voting. Minister R I raving to M 't was there the other inquiry to te truth be ,V n to kno
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  • EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
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      Lock icon A Probe Into Probity
      336 3 MALAYANS have been accustomed to shocks and surprises but nothing containing the impact in the .innouncement that the Minister for Education, Mi. Chew Swee Kee, had resigned from the Covernment and the Assembly on the eve of an important debate affecting his integrity and that 0
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      Lock icon The Only Answer...
      428 3 THE renewed pledges made at the MCA anniversary celebrations in Kuala Lumpur to keep the Federations Tripartite (UMNO-MCA-MIC) Alliance inviolate and united, to ensure that the democratic government of the country shall prevail, are also reflected in what Singapore's Liberal Socialist Party has set out to achieve
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    1012 3  - Red Tape Hinders Arab Unity H.A.R. PHILBY i by BEIRUT J/OLLOWING a slight drop in the political temperature, Arab Governments are now turning their attention to problems of economic cooperation. The issues involved bear not only on the economic development of the States concerned, but also on all Arab aspirations
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    912 3  - Cambodia— China 's New Shopwindow JOHN STERLING by Saigon. VEXT to a building site in the town of Phnom Penh, where bricklayers work unhurriedly on Cambodia's "Monument of Independence," is a walled enclosure. Inside it Communist China is displaying the latest products of her industry and ingenuity. The yellow-walled exhibition
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    Lock icon THE VOICE OF MALAYA
    332 3  -  BOUQUET FOR POLICE Sir I was fortunate enough to be in Singapore during the visit of Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh. I would like to pay a sincere tribute to the conduct and efficiency of the Singapore Police, to all its officers and men. and
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    Lock icon Return Of Kovacs?
    530 3  -  Lajos Lederer by Belgrade, (]HANGES in the character of the Hungarian Government and leadership are being forecast in reports from Budapest following the statement of policy made by Bela Kovacs, the peasant leader and former secretary-general of the Hungarian Smallholders' Party. The statement, published in Magyar Nemzet,
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    399 3 /ts/fc > 4tftoi^ tMe' gTARTING with the re election of the Mayor of Singapore, the cards ha\e been heavily stacked against the Opposition with either all or some of the Independent Councillors faithfully \oting uith the* PAP. in all matters The SPA and the Leberal Socialists are well
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    Lock icon TUN LIM, ON VERGE OF TEARS, HITS AT PAP's 'BETRAYAL'
    429 4 TUN LIM, ON VERGE OF TEARS, HITS AT PAP's 'BETRAYAL' His 'saddest day'— as he defends Chew SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Tun Lim Yew Hock, yesterday accused the Peoples Action Party of having betrayed fhe former Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, after the latter had resigned on Tuesday. Tun
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    Lock icon Lang wait far father who utoutdn't pay
    127 4 It wa s a long wait for eight young children and their aunt Mad?.m Tan Kim Seng, patiently looking on outside a Singapore Court yesterday while the father was Inside answering a summons to show cause why he should not be jailed The
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    Lock icon Penang Govt. has in mind a museum —Dato Wong
    188 4 Penang Govt. has in mind a museum —Dato Wong PENANG, Wed. Considerable thought has been eiven to the establishment of a museum here, said the Chief Minister, Dato Wong Pow Nee, at the State Council Meiting today. He was replying to the member for the South Coast. Inche S. M
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    Lock icon Mother of 10 had opium in a book
    108 4 POLICE four.,] two little tins of prepared opium hidden in a secret compartment cut out in a text b^ok, when they raided a house in Duxton Road on Feb. 2. The book was seized by the police from Lim Swee Poo a
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    Lock icon Intrigues have been going On..'
    322 4 I very heavy heart. The time i has come when the eyes of the people have to be opened to tne Intrigues that have been going on in Singapore for a long, long time." He said he would want the public to judge for themselves
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    Lock icon PRIMARY I ADMISSIONS
    120 4 SINGAPORE'S Director of Education, Mr. Lee Siow Mong. announced yesterday that children born in 1950, 1051 and 1 r>s2, who are seeking admission to Primary I in Government English Primary Schools in 1959 have to apply for admission by the latest tomorrow. Applications after this date will
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    Lock icon THERE'S MUCH TO LEARN FROM MALAYA ON WELFARE WORK -FILIPINO VISITOR
    181 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Countries in South-east Asia region can learn a great deal from Malaya in the field of social welfare. Mr R. Severino. leader of the team of Filippino social workers told The Standard on arrival here by
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    36 4 HONGKONG. March 4 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were. $15.93 to £1 Sterling $5.75 to US$l; $1.85 to Malayan $1; $0.05 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $252.62 to a tael.
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    Lock icon STUDENT AID
    17 4 THE Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday voted $20,000 for financial assistantance for local students studying overseas.
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    Lock icon YANKEE BOYS ASSAULT SHOPOWNER
    109 4 PENA.XG, Wed. The proprirtor of a shoes shop in Queen Street. Leong Chow Sum. was assaulted this evening by a group of youngsters wearing Yankee pants. It appeared that ten Yankee boys gathered at a coffeeshop next to Leong's while two of them went up to
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    Lock icon FILM UNIT CHIEF GETS A MEDAL
    76 4 THE Yang di Pertuan Agonr presented honour, .fl awards to 45 persons at an Investiture at thr faj Negara. Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. These awards were included in the Kerier.ti Honours List announced al the end of August Lim on the occasion of the flrst
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    Lock icon Muslim religious school is first of its kind
    190 4 IPOH, Wed. The State Secretary, r Muda Abdullah Noordin, today laid the 1 stone for the Federation's flrst Muslim Religious School in Tiger Lane, ariioining to ?h<> million "Sekolah Tuankti Abdul Rahman j The school, to o -fl bOStelt, tea nttl auar'rvl
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    68 4 AN tlSCtli -il r»\ pr<t*»'fl the H M Naval B fl Ra.amani. 32. fl Hnr $200 bv Sine;-; fl trate Mr. Robert ft* using crimir. Nfl Base police eor<- f VktOTi in hi«- fl ha was quite drunk rp f fl in question. Fe u
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    Lock icon Bank denies money is sent to PAP
    137 4 Bank denies money is sent to PAP THE head m\> of the Bank of China in Singapore yesterday declare^ that "at no time Whatsoever has the Peoples Action Party or any other political oartv received any moneys through the Bank of China in Singapore from thc Government of China or
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    Lock icon Assembly deplores the propaganda tactics of PAP at fire disaster
    702 4 THE Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday unanimously passed a motion by a Liberal Socialist Assemblyman, Mr. William Tan, expressing its sympathy with the victims of the Kampong Tiong Bahru fire and deploring the electlonering propaganda at the scene and in the
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    Lock icon NO MERGER EVER IF PAP SETS INTO POWER
    387 5 Colony doomed as a stagnant island Liberal Socialists f; the Peoples' Action Party wins the coming Sinpro general elections, the Federation "will not touch rapore with a barge-pole, and economically the !n\ will become a stagnant island." says the "Torch,'' ial organ
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    79 5 MR. STEPHEN CATTO. a direetor of the Mercantile Bank Limited and of the General Electric Company in Britain, arrived in Singapore yesterday from Australia on the last leg of a world tour. The son of Lord Catto of Cairncatto. he has visited America. Australia and
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    127 5 »NANu, Wed. The 1 i loan by the il of $70,000 from Development tt accordance with ie the GovernIt in the pronlities and iai the rural in the State. j bv the Mr. J. Hamer. moved a loan for the tending water South-east of the State over a period
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    Lock icon 4 thugs rob couple of $110
    44 5 I FOOK SENG. 25, friend were strollSingapore Polymds on Tuesday suddenly four men on them. lgs held the r point while pod the girl of t<"h and a gold chain MlO. lining the couple an alarm, the men
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    55 5 I-^pore .\rts Society •tnth exhibition oca] artists, at the norial Hall, during t week of April. ibition will be de- hes and paintworks of sculpture ing. An entrance dollar will be I for cverv work subr selection. 9 pore Cultural Advisory W as offered a gold
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    Lock icon ARYA SAMAJ PRESIDENT
    45 5 Mr. Durga Dass Sachdev has been elected President of the Singapore Arya Samaj. Other office bearers are: vice-President. Dr. S. N. Kapoor, secretary Mr. Tripathi Sahityalankar, treasurer. Mr. Ramsunder Rao. assistant secretary Mr. Trilok Na'h Pawa and Librarian Mr. Mr. Jadis'o Sharma.
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    Lock icon Higher water rates: SHB protests
    178 5 Higher water rates: SHB protests THE Singapore Harbour Board has protested to the Governor-in-Council against the City Council's decision to increase the cost of water supplied to ships, The Standard understands. The Council recently decided to raise the rate of water supplied to ships in port from $2.75 to $3.75
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    Lock icon WATER CUT IN KLUANG
    53 5 JOHORE BHARU. Wed. The water-supply in Kluang has been restricted as from today until further notice. This is due to the very little rain fall in the catchment area. Water supply will be available only between the hours of 5.30 to 11.30 a.m. and 4.30 to
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    Lock icon U.K. RUBBER EXPERT DUE
    59 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Dr. G. F. Bloomfield, a senior officer of the British Rubber Producers Research Association, London, has been seconded to the Rubber Research Institute here for two months. H e will work with the R.R.I. Chemical Division on plans for the development of an
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    Lock icon YOUTH (IN SEARCH OF BROTHER) IS BEATEN UP
    81 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A Singapore youth who claimed he had come here in search of his step-brother is now in hospital, after being set upon by a gang of thugs at Loke Yew Road last night On making inquiries, he was directed
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    Lock icon We will play the game — Lee assures civil servants
    868 5 We will play the game Lee assures civil servants Secretary of State informed THE Peoples' Action Party whip in the Singapore Legislative Assembly, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, yesterday assured the civil service that under the new constitution their basic salaries were guaranteed and when his party came into power "we
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    Lock icon CAR STOLEN
    29 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A car, worth 53, 000, was stolen from a parking lot here last night. The owner was at a cinema show. Police are investigating.
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    Lock icon Nanyang University Bill passed: Clause for Students' Union
    260 5 Nanyang University Bill passed: Clause for Students' Union istant Minister on, Inche MohaSidik bin Haji Abdul, the Legislative As►terday that the University Bill H by the legal sof the University adcifdthat theGovernr '^n fit to handle Iter because the °P for higher edu- n Chinese was of concern. I ■HbSSS
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    Lock icon RETIRING THAI ENVOY SEES A 'GREAT FUTURE' FOR MALAYA
    134 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Malaya should consider herself very fortunate to have as the first Yang di-Per-tuan Agong. Tuanku Abdul Rahman, who is a great symbol of unity inspiring confidence and racial harmony, the retiring Thai Ambassador, Nai Sunthorn Hongladaron, said in
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    Lock icon Board may grant aid to Indian labourers
    198 5 Board may grant aid to Indian labourers KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. —I The recently-created South Indian Labour Fund Board announced today that it was now in a position to render assistance for certain specific purposes. The new Board took over the asses-s of the Indian Immigration Fund, amounting to about $7,000,000
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    Lock icon APPOINT EXPERT IN UK TO ATTRACT CAPITAL
    240 5 MTUC backs rubber tycoons idea KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Malayan Trade Union Congress has given support to the appointment in London of an economic expert for creating goodwill and confidence to stimulate? the inflow of foreign capital into Malaya. i The original suggestion
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    Lock icon Five to go through accounts
    124 5 Five to go through accounts PENANG, Wed. Three elected and two nominated members of the State Council will form the Public Accounts Committee to examine the annual audited accounts of the State. The Committee ls made up of Mr. Wong Loh Hun. chairman (Tanjong East), Mr. Wee Tiong Ghee (Butterworth),
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    15 5 THE Lee Foundation. Singapore, has donated $1,000 to the Mahaduddin School Building Fund.
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    Lock icon PANTIES FIND LED TO MURDER DISCOVERY
    696 6 PANTIES FIND LED TO MURDER DISCOVERY Officer tells court of 2 bodies in a pond Girl had multiple scratches RAUB. Wed. A torn blouse, a pair of panties and a brassiere were recovered from a fishpond at the 53rd Milestone Bentong Raub Road on the morning of Nov. 7 last
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    Lock icon VISITING GOVERNOR AT LUNCH
    43 6 SIR Anthony Abel, the Governor of Sarawak, flanked by Mrs. Christina Loke the president of the Chinese Ladies' Association and Mr. Ee Soon Howe, president of the Rotary Club, is seen addressing members of the two organisations yesterday. Standardpic
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    Lock icon Abel : Sarawak relies a lot on S'pore
    268 6 Abel Sarawak relies a lot on S'pore THE security of Sarawak depends on her friendly and understanding neighbours, said the Governor of Sarawak. Sir Anthony Abel, speaking at the joint j meeting of the Chinese j Ladies' Association and the Singapore Rotary Club, held at Cathay Restaurant yes- j terday.
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    Lock icon COUNCIL SAYS THANK YOU
    63 6 PENANG. Wed.— The Speaker of the State Council, Inche Mohamed Noor bin Hamzah. expressed appreciation and sincere thanks to the British Council at the meeting today for the gift of a set of reference books for the State Council Library. Inche Mohamed Noor said he hoped
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    Lock icon NO APPROVAL FOR COUNCIL BORROWINGS -WATSON
    120 6 PENANG. Wed. The George Town City Council has borrowed money without official sanction. says the Auditor-General. Mr. H. M. Watson. This was stated in the report of the AuditorGeneral on the accounts of the City Council for 1957, tabled at a State Council meeting
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    Lock icon Riddle of the missing 730 homes
    158 6 IPOH Wed. The State Alliance committee is "much concerned" over the mass omission of names on electoral rolls, especially in the Kuala Kangsar district, and a directive will be issued to all the district committees to report on the progress made by the checking
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    Lock icon NEW $35,000 BRIDGE FOR SUNGEI ARA
    60 6 PENANG, Wed. A new $35,000 concrete bridge, spanning the Sungei Ara, ten miles from George Town, now under construction, will take normal transport load. The State Engineer, Mr. J. W. Pim. told The Standard the usual load would be eizht tons for any single
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    140 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Federation of British Industries ls offering scholarships to qualified engineers from Malaya for practical training in industrial and engineering projects in Britain. Applicants must be Federal citizens, under 35 years of aRe, and hold a degree or a diploma in engineering
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    Lock icon LIONS CLUB CHIEF TO PAY VISIT
    90 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Mr. Dudley L. Simms, president of Lions Club International, will attend the second luncheon meeting of the newly formed Lions' Club on March 17 in Kuala Lumpur. Mr. J. H. Mehta, president of the Singapore Lions Club, announcing this at the
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    31 6 MISS Mabel Mitchell, has resumed duties as the Headmistress of the Methodist Girls* School, Raub. after her return from America. She went on long leave in October. 1957.
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    30 6 MR Chiang Woh. a metal work teacher attached to the Sulaiman School in Bentong, has been transferred to the Clifford School. Kuala Lipis, to start a metal workshop there.
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    Lock icon S'pore men ge top jobs in the Police
    347 6 S'pore men ge top jobs in the Police A TOP-LEVEL reshuffle of officers in the pore Police Force, including the Special Bi made recently, Thc Standard was reliahh nf yesterday. In the new postings, two local oflfa ri no. very responsible posts. They are Mr. John Le Cain and Mr.
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    86 6 TEACHER ACCUSED OF BIGAMY PENANG. Wed— Yong Ping King. 25, pleaded not g when he was produced in the Sessions Court yesterday on a charge of bigamy. Yong was alleged to have a wife. Sui Lan Chan, living in Penang on Jan. 5, 1956, and on .that dav married Tay
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    Lock icon KING AWARDS 45 PEOPLE
    73 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The Yang Di-Pertuan Agong this morning present. honours and awards to 45 people at an investiture held at Istana Negara These awards were included in the Federation's first honour list announced at the end of August last year, on the occasion of the
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    Lock icon FATAL ROAD ACCIDENT
    54 6 A PEDESTRAIN Ta v Tuan Hian, 60. died in the Singapore General Hospital last night after being knoekod down by a van at Lorong 12. Geylang. earlier in the day. Eye witnesses to the accident are asked to get in touch with Insp. G. KrLshnan of Traffic
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    Lock icon ROW OVER DEBT LED TO AXE ATTACK
    200 6 ROW OVER DEBT LED TO AXE ATTACK IPOH. Wr fisherman. Kn fnep.d with an latter provoke tinua! pavment sentenced I by Mr Just High Court to Khonj J charge I .1 not amountir- I causing the Nam with I Island on Aig j tordiiif Public Pr< dul Kadlr b. n
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    69 6 SINGAPORE r I Savings p, I increased bv over 4 I the last five yea- I the totol n to 189,61 >. the General of i yestcrd The I int standing I of depoaitora I 147,000 it addtd that a ttu ''1 to-day t ran sect i< i I
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    Lock icon BABY FOUND IN RIVER
    47 6 SINGAPORE P' looking for thv male infant who<-p composed bodv W the Singapore R I 2* Po liam Cheng, said found in the r Clarke Str. Anyone \yho bl is roq ie ted to tor Robert I i Division -telcpho-. -ension 24fi I
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    18 6 THE 1 Poata and Tele In<he Sardon bin I officially open tl phone Exchange Bharu, K».
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    Lock icon Join the scouts: Wong tells youths
    236 6 Join the scouts Wong tells youths PENANG, Wed. It is the duty of parents and teachers to encourage youths to join the scouting movement and other youth clubs so as to divert their energy to proper and purposeful channels. This was stated by the Chief Minister, Dato Wong Pow Nee.
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    623 7 'Tec tells of attack by madman Inquest into death of Woodbridge escapee DETECTIVE Corporal Tay Soon Whatt of the Paya Lebar Police Station told a Singapore Coroner yesterday why he shot dead an escapee from Woodbridge Hospital in a village off the 7 J mile Yio
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    26 7 LIM Sim Jee. 36. died yesterday from injuries following a motor accident on Ipoh Road on Tuesday. He died the same night in hospital
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    266 7 TAIPING, Wed. A motion to introduce multi lingualism in the Taiping Town Council was decisively defeated by 10 votes to two at the Council's monthly meeting yesterday. Moving a resolution that the '"spoken language" during Council proceedings may be in any language English. Malay or
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    20 7 OFFICE hours in the Penang Citv Council during Bulan Puasa (March-April) will be 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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    150 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) In Singapore yesterday were:— Buyers Sellers Spot 87i 87| R.S.S. No. 1 March 87i 873 R.S.S No. 1 April 88| 88J R.S.S. No. 2 861 87* R.S.S. No. 3 86* 86* Tone: Quiet. The tin price in Singapore was $402f per
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    124 7 STOCKPILE: TRADERS TO SEE MINISTER A DELEGATION, led by the president of the Singapore General Rice Importers Association, Mr. Teo Hang Sam. will meet the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. If. jumabhoy. soon to arrive at a compromise with Government over the eight-year-old stockpile rice dispute. Mr. Teo
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    256 7 TANJONG MALIM, Wed A meeting of delegates of the Batang Padang UMNO held at Sungkai, South Perak, broke up in disorder when the chairman of the meeting threatened to stage a walk-out. Delegates from every village and town in the Batang Padang aistrict
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    126 7 COUNCIL TO TAKE OVER BEDOK WELLS THE Singapore City Council will take over the Bedok Valley Water Scheme from the Government and operate lt as a part of City Water Department. The scheme, consisting 10 boring wells and a connecting carthdam across the valley off Changi Road, was first mooted
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    288 7 3 brothers claim trial to murder charge ALOR STAR, Wed. Mohamed Akhir bin Taib, 36, who helped to carry the body of Ismail bin Taib to a river bank, where it was dumped, told Mr. Justice Hill at the Assizes here today of threats to him and his fam 11
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    70 9 MANAGING director of .Ml VavassetU &Co Ltd I nndnn Mr r r u d i {Unted a Cotv Rift set to Mis, Patricia Chaff Sg^^thK^gg^ rr hP presentation took place a t the Cotv cosmetics stall of J H Va^aSeur (M,^ Itd *ai a.ents for Coty)
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    195 9 Scope For Increased Use Of S.P. Rubber II A LUMPUR, Wed. Tb.p Rubber Research te of Malaya reports at world consumption of ipenor Processing (S?) hb^r has now climbed tol 2,000 tons a year, I does not believe j "this figure approaches the potential requirement." The Institute made this observation
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    73 9 Price Up 7 8 Cent ISHOR "he Sinr market yester- I in the local price i t. to BTJ rents per '.oral first r Ipment. K• >v< rseas markets viri I, prices local- a shade higher. fc March shipI I differentials I good interest in j^L .the market was m
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    43 9 (3APORE Chamber of Rubber Association in cents per ib., were Buyers Sellers f 1 BTi 87i b f tiona] Mar. RSS. 87i 87? ft No. 1 883 88 i • 2 86* 87 M No. 3 86 86£ Quiet after steady.
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    202 9 Industrial, Tin Shares Are Easier INDUSTRIALS and Tins were inclined to ease on the Malayan share market yesterday, while Rubbers were firm. Turnover was small. Price changes announced bv the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were Con. Tm Smelt Ores 30 31'Fitzpa. ricks n9i 0 97 Ords. 1.50 1.53 Malayan Cement 1
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    323 9 MALAYAN sharebrokers reported th e following business done yesterday: CTS. ords. 30-44: F N 2P& JftS? Wil; Gammon $1.70 $1704; W. Hammer $1.53 51.54. Hume ords. A5/1J; M Cement $1.65. $1,644; M Colls. 61c; McAlister $1.13,' $112 Robinson ords. $1.25. $120 odd lot; Sim e Darby Holdings 3/-;
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    187 9 Malayan! rade KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. —The Federation's trade during the first nine months of last year amounted to $2,606,817,849, according to statistics. Imports amounted to $1.--234.729.352. while exports totalled $1,372,088,497. Trade for the third quarter totalled $860,391,061 $393.--299.531 from imports and $467,091,530 from exports. Rubber,
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    42 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants vesterdav: String. TT. 'o r O.D readv were: Belgian Francs 1632 3 4; Deutsche Marks 136 7 8; Italian Lire *****. Other exchange? rate* remain unaltered.
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    99 9 THE Douglas DC-8 purejet airliner has been test flown at a speed of 1002 kilometres (623 miles) an hour. The DC-8 reached that speed and an altitude of 12.600 metres (42,000 feet) using the JT3 engines that will power the shorter range domestic version of the
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    124 9 TAIPEI. March 4, (UPI) The Cabinet yesterday recommended sweeping changes in Nationalist China's foreign investment regulations in a major bid to attract more foreign capital. The Cabinet submitted to Parliament two amendment bills designed to make invest- ment opportunities n Formosa more attractive to foreign capitalists.
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    43 9 THAILAND'S rice crop of 1958-59 is expected to be about 7,300,000 metric tons of rough rice (16 billion pounds). This is about a normal outturn, and is up sharply from the 1957-58 level of 5,724,000 tons (12.6 billion pounds).
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    205 9 TWELVE ounces of a liquid which is claimed to be the world's most powerful antituberculosis drugs was recently sent from Britain to the Dutch Government Nutrition Research Centre at Utrecht. Known as "unsaponifiable material," it has been isolated from about 50 lb. of cod
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      301 9 START CENTRE TO STEP UP PLANT OUTPUT: ILO KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Federation Government* has been urged to tet up a productivity centre which will help increase output, The Standard learnt. Recently, two productivity engineers from ILO (International Labour Organization) visited the Federation and conducted an on-the-spot study on factory
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      355 9 THE New Zealand Government is considering sending a trade survey mission to Singapore and Malaya, later this year, Mr. M. J. Moriarty, assistant secretary (overseas trade) of the Department of Industries and Commerce, Wellington said in Singapore yesterday. Mr. Moriarty, who arrived in
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      67 9 HIGHER offerings in the Singapore tin market and a reserve of buyers yesterdav resulted in the local metal prire falling $1| to $402$ per picul Yesterday, a total of 115 tons were offered, against 110 tons on the previous day. After reaching a three-vear peak of $408j
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      102 9 SINGAPORE Ch.r.eie Pro-d'-c#- Exchange noon c)o c iPe p r ices Der cicul vesterday were* Copra Dec-Jan. $42| buyers; $43$ sellers; coconut oil in bulk $63* sellers in drum* SH- sellers; Muntok white pepper $160 sellers; Sarawak while $150 sellers; special Sarawak hlack $84. Singapore Copra Association closing prices
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      91 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Though timber production as a whole is being maintained In the Federation, certain States have experienced a recession. This is stated by the deputy chief conservator of forests. Mr. A.J. Fyie. in the latest issue of the "Forester." Graded exports have increased over
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      90 9 LONDON. March 4 (Reuter) Paragon Holdings Ltd a company in liquidation, was granted injunctions in the High Court here today restraining Bank of America Nominees Ltd Westover Nominees Ltd and the National Rank Citv Office Nominees Ltd from dealing in sterling ordinary stock of the Kuala Muda Kuhher
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      81 9 BANGKOK, Mar. 4 (Reuter) The Thai Director-General for Mines, Mr. Vicha Setthabut, said today the United States had agreed to accept 2,250 long tons of Thai tin in exchange for American tobacco. Mr. Vicha told reporters that the International Tin Council had agreed to let the
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      970 10 WILLIAM SHEPHERD MORRISON, a 65--year-old white-haired Scot, is the loneliest man in the House of Commons. He can never set foot in the smoking room. He can never have tea on the terrace. If he wishes to chat with fellow members he must invite them to dine
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      392 10 MENDERES IS NOW A MAN ALONE I'RACEDY and a miracle have brought Adnan Menderes, Turkey's dapper and volatile little Prime Minister, to what is probably a fateful crossroads in his life. The tragedy was the crash Ave miles from Gatwick Airport of the Turkish airliner bringing him and his picked
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      629 10 Max proves he has arrived RINGER comedian Max Bygraves has a current joke: "I've arrived, and to prove it, I'm here. Now Bygraves has shown that he certainly has arrived. An American film company have signed him for a £300.000 film comedy with music his first venture into international filming.
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    233 11 ■TNCO-OPERATIVE? Then why did Mr. Heah Joo Seang, president of the minton Association of Malaya, praise me 'sky high' for the v>rk I did during Thomas fup game," Mr. Leow Kim Fatt, Honorary Secretary of the Singapore minton Association, said yesterday. Mr. Leow was replying to
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    1163 11 'SKY HIGH' PRAISE FOR LEOW'S CUP WORK Illj mf AS Mr. Heah Joo Seang hag made scathing attacks personally against me without justification. I have no alternative but to answer him point by point. What I have written here concerns his charges against me personally. The allegations against the Singapore
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    111 11 SCC ARE IN THE FINAL A GOAL two minutes from full time enabled the Singapore Cricket Club to enter th e fin?J of the Singapore Hockey Association senior knockout competition yesterday in their match against Royal Air Force Changi. If their display yesterday is any pointer :o their form then
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    407 11 Business Houses Soccer NEWLY promoted National Carbon, who created upsefl last week in the first division of the Singar Business Houses F.A. league by defeating holders, nckons: Bank, kept up their winning form with a b t<>ry over Chartered Bank at Farrer Park yes- I
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    53 11 IPOH. Wed. Sturrock Club qualified to meet Kinta Indians in the final of the senior division hockey knockout competition by beating Indian RC by s—l in a replay on the Upper padang today. Jaggn Singh 2. Mahmud 2 and Sittampalan scored for Sturrock while Augustine got the only
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    22 11 SINGAPORE Combined Schools neat Singapore Recreation Club "B" 1-0 in the S.H.A. junior knockout quar-ter-final round on the padang vesterday.
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    622 11 M 'TAL of 120 neutral will participate in Malayan Mobilgas Run over the Easier 0 28 nnd 29. thc s of the 745-mile-long notorins competition yesterday. the 60 competing rirry two observers e that normal drivare used, the ode is obeyed and lions are followed.
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    166 11 LOS ANGELES. March 4 (UPI) Jimmy Carter. 35, former world lightweight boxing champion, was struck by a hit-run driver late last night and seriously injured, police reported. Carter. who held the title three times and lost it for the final time to Wallace (Bud) Smith on June
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    58 11 Naval Base Secondary School were held to a one-all draw in an inter-schoois soccer match against the Pasir Panjang Secondary School at Naval Base yesterday. Cheng Lye scored for the Naval Base lads while Moorthi scored for the Pasir Panjang. In the second team ma;ch played
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    47 11 CUSTOMS Sports Club beat Prisons by four goals to nil in a SGSFA Div. 2A league match on the Prisons ground yesterday. In another match 'in Div." 2B Post ann Telegraph beat Teachers Training College by flvs goa's to two at Serangoon Road.
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    301 11 KUALA Ll MPIR. Wed. The second annual Federation and Singapore tennis 'classic' which replaced the former North and South series will be played on the Selangor Club Courts here on March 7, and 8. There will be eleven matches— three singles and four doubles
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    126 11 IPOH. Wed.— For the sixth time since the inception of the competition in 1953, Perak will figure in the final of the "Chua Choon Leong" cup tennis competition when they meet Singapore, the holders, on the Selangor Club Courts this Friday. Though chances of
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    22 11 KUANTAN. Wed.— Pahang and Kelantan will meet In the East Zone hockey final at the Sultan Mohamad Stadium on Saturday.
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    511 11 Conqueror Ot Ferry Stands Before Joe Hock Kew San Seeded In All England Singles Draw LONDON. March 4 (Reuter) Indonesia's Thomas Cup stars, Tan Joe Hock and Ferry Sonneville, have been given top seeding in the men's singles of the AllEngland badminton championships to be held at Wembiey from March
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    124 11 SUB. LT Austin Dunsford of the Royal Navy, will meet JT. Freeden, RAF. i n the light -welterweight division »n the semi-finals of the Joint Service boxing championships at the Royal Malayan Navy Gymnasium, Woodlands tonight. Dunsford was the Colony's featherweight representative at the Asian Games in
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    30 11 RAUB, Wed.— The Pahang Cricket Association will hold its annua! general meeting at the Raub Government Cfuo on Sunday. Office bearers for the eurrent year will be elected.
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    63 11 KUANTAN. Wr 1 The Kelantan Combined Schools will meet the Pahang Combined Schools in the East Zone soccer final for the Tunku Abdul Rahman Cud to be played here on Saturday. Kelantan beat Trengganu by eight goals lo nil last week and are confident that they
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    42 11 IPOH. Wed Four goals and hattrlck by centre forward Bharkawl enabled Ipoh Malays to beat 13/18 Hussars by 4 3 in a division 1 soc-er match on the Ipoh padang today. Murray 2. and .Tones scored for the soldiers.
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    140 12 The third annual InterEstate Sports between Bukit Cloh, Bahru Selangor, Rosevale, Teluk Piah, and Pilmoor Estates, teas held at the Bukit Cloh Estate Padang, Jeram, last Saturday (Feb. 28) for the Clyne Challenge Cup. Commander E. J. C. Edwards, the Director of th e
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    208 12 LONDON, March 4 (Reuter) Two second-half goals by Irish international winger Peter MeParland gave Aston Villa a 2 o victory over Burnley in their sixth round English F.A. Cup replay at Burnley last night. Aston Villa, cup winners In 1957, will next meet the favourites.
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    857 12  -  C. D. CURRAN bu London sports commentator, who for more than 30 years has specialised in football, boxing, athletics and the turf. LONDON, Wed. Sports commitments this year for representatives from Britain will take them to many different countries. ln March there will be
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    44 12 SEOUL Mai R Athletic AseeclatisaTS selected 18 hieh J* soccer p g j r r partirlpatr m th* J Asian Junior N( Karnes to be held n K lumpur. Malax, 1, April 18 The players he .Kcompanirrl h\ tr* offlci.K
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    153 12 Fare Time Wins By 4 Lengths Cheltenham. Louchestershire, Mar. 4 (Reuter).— Mr. G. Judd's six year old Fare Time, ridden by Fred Winter won the Champion Hurdle, Britain's top hurdle race, here yesterday. Fare Time, who started at 13 to 2. finished strongly to hold off the challenge of the
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    70 12 JOHANNESBURG. Mar 4 (Reuter).— Stan Matthews,' the 44-year old England right winger, has iccepted an invitation to be player coach to th e Rangers* Soccer Club here during the close English season, the Club Committee announced last night. Rangers plan to play Matthews in League game at
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    31 12 MELBOURNE. March 4 (Reuter)— English horse, Meadow Mist, one of Australia's most successful sires died today. He was owned by Victoria Racing Club chairman. Sir Chester Manifold.
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    58 12 PI RTH U Mar. 4 Ing the Shefl J" J and an innings 7 a and of ti §ecx H thai Jack Rutherfcr wot tern erri save thr mac nng on 31 ly < P. inf. iptain, oe 'aking *rrl tern A tra inf Score- \>w S
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    195 12 S'gor Squad For South. Zone Quad. KUALA LUMPUR, Wed Selangor's State hockey, selectors last night picked 18 players for the Malayan Hockey SSSEKS Sou thern Zone M.iT P nsh) P s to b held at Malacca on March 6. 7. and 8. Other States taking part m the tournament are
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    281 12 NZ Selectors Surprise With 'No Change' Team CHRISTCHLRCH, March 4 (Reuter) Th* Zealand selectors sprang a surprise todav whm i announced no changes in the player* from whom Zealand's team for the second test match England starting in Auckland on March It wnulc chosen. i Many local enthusiasts anticipated that
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    110 12 Youth. Cub Basketballs THE el «l g d ita fl;. Annual Ojen R, Cup con fc»« pore Vou'h M been extendi n Bjfl today. J£, There will be -f. 1 J in the Men's Reel d:v Tiie die 2 Mt lion has beer-, sc I -Bfl Centre at 7 Baeeh
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    41 12 KUALA LUMP I} 2 Entr Wn\l for the K ai > n nis tourna take place No March inclusive tn All those H part should sei to the Hon < Tennis Tournan ei r tee. P.O. Box K -han March 16.
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    44 12 IPOH. U, Estate of Kid..)i. the.- Ma G 1 Inter-esi PllmoOf Fst.Tr I the semi-Anal f on the Chines* A i ground on Friday The cup was years ago by the 1 Commissioner of V IJ tion. Sir Donald MaculßH
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      990 13 Job-Hunters From India from Our Correspondent NCE the recent arrival in Madras of a char:ip or two from jaya with mostly ?d Indian labourers 0 desired to return to hr country in the of their life ire has been some unlourable comment, ly in the lower 1 the Press, on
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      1018 13 Vacuum In State Dept. American Scene Patrick O'Donovan WASHINGTON, 'THE question of a successor to Mr. Dulles is still being carefully avoided. Two Democrat Senators who suggested that America urgently needed an effective Secretary of State at a time when Berlin, disarmament, changing relations with Fgypt and the whole concept
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      745 13  - New Hope For Partially Blind JACK HOLMES LEWIS by- gOME people who lose the sight of an eye are able to accept this blow philosophically and not let it spoil their enjoyment of life. To others the loss of vision In one eye is such a grievous handicap that they
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    96 14 photo. STEN BERGMAN, the well-known Swedish explorer who is a national figure especially popular for his skill as a raconteur of hi s adventures, holds up what was a human thieh bone (left) which has been fashioned into a gruesome but effective knife. On the right i
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    219 14 23 Africans killed BLANTYRE, Nyasaland, March 4 (UPI) A duskto dawn curfew enforced by troops and riot police imposed calm on the two chief trouble spots in this British protectorate where 23 Africans were killed and dozens injured in riots. The curfew was in force from
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    79 14 JAKARTA. March 4 (Reuter)— A cat in Kedamin Hulu, West Borneo, has used up two of its nine lives by rising from thp grave. The female cat owned by a villager called Abdurrachman. died at one p.m. and was buried the same afternoon. Next day
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    62 14 VALLETTA, March 4 (Re iter). The Malta General Workers Union, biggest in Malta, today gave notice of strike action against the Royal Air Force, but did not fix a date. The strike is over the dismissal of two civilian employees because they absented themselves from work
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    396 14 Boyd reveals Nyasaland massacre plot LONDON. March 4 (Reuter) Britain's Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, told Parliament last night he had secret information that African leaders in Nyasaland had planned a massacre of Europeans. As.ans and moderate Africans. He wa.s speaking on the bloody clashes »n Nyasaland. a British protectorate
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    628 14 British Premier playing role of mediator War over Berlin can only be averted if both sides make concessions LONDON, March 4 (Reuter)— Mr. Harold Macmillan, Britain's Prime Minister, told the House of Commons today, in a statement on his recent Moscow visit, that he felt his
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    347 14 IKE NOTES LESSENING OF SOVIET RIGIDITY WASHINGTON. Mar. 4, (Reuter) President Eisenhower said today that the new Soviet note on Germany indicated that there was some lessening of the previous rigidity of Soviet positions. The President told his press conference that this was the more hopeful and positive side of
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    45 14 LONDON, March 4 (Reuter). Sir Winston and Lady Churchill arrived at London airport last night after their North African holiday. Looking tanned and fit, Sir Winston walked unaided down the steps from the aircraft clutching a copy of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels".
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    124 14 LEIPZIG. Mar. 4 (Reuter) Mr. Nikita Khrushchev said in a speech here today that the Soviet Union would sign a peace treaty with East Germany if West Germany refused to a sign a German peace treaty. He delivered a new sharp warning to ine West not to
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    46 14 TWENTY-SEVEN persons were killed and seven others were injured seriously yesterday when a passenger bus crashed into a stalled truck on the pan-American highway in Cortazar. Mexico. The bus burst into flames and most of the dead were burned beyond recognition. UPI.
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    84 14 PROPOSED VISITS ESSENTIAL prepared to assume the role of East-West mediator to convince the Paris. Washington and Bonn government* that the world was heading toward a real crisis if both sides failed to make concessions soon. They said Mr. Macmillan was ready to tell the West that the Soviet Premier
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    127 14 Costello dies in hospital LOU COSTELLO of the Abbott and Costello comedy team, died from a heart attack in hospital in Beverly Hill, California, yesterday. He was 52. Costello, the little fat man with a high pitched voice, veteran of a long series of film comedies, suffered a heart attack
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    99 14 Spore Indonesia ties improving —Consul JAKARTA. March 4 (UPI) Indonesia's Consul General in Singapore Mr. Gusti Jatikusumo said today Singapore's very existence depended on close relations with her neighbours particularly Indonesia, and expressed the hope for better relations. Before leaving for Singaoore Mr. Jatikusumo said Singapore should actively participate in
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    47 14 photo. PRIME Minister Jawaharlal Nehru inspects "Ashvini." the first glider designed and constructed in India at a display held in New Delhi last week. The Ashvini has a good all-round performance suitable for being used for soaring flights, and competition flying. UPI
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    121 14 PRISONER ESCAPES IN WAITING CAR LONDON, Mar. 4 Reuter) Wil.iam Poole, remanded in custody here yesterday on a charge of trying to help prisoners escape from Wandsworth Jail, London, escaped himself as he was being led from the court. Poole pushed his escort on one side, ran into the highstreet,
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    209 14 WASHINGTON. March 4 (IIM)- ommuniM could disrupt the economies of South-east K. exporters if it unloaded large quantities ot its ciop on the world market. Assistant Scrret.m merce Mr. Henry Kearns said yestercln Burma and Thailand are very concerned about this pos- sibility. he said. Mr. Kearns. international trade
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    22 14 ALL members of the Sudan Supreme Council have resign- ed. President Ibrahim Abboud announced in Khartoum last j night. Reuter.
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    133 14 LONDON, Mu,(Reuter) member told the H' of Commons last nut a British soldier v plaint Ihu he hai wash undies helongir. an officer's u.fr Mr. C.J. Simmons referring in a drh.i:the Army estimate* complaints by sold that thev had to ri. mestic chores. He
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