The Straits Times, 9 January 1958

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  • 649 1 MANAGER LOSES $27,000 PAYROLL IN AMBUSH AT SEA Armed gang of five escape in sampan with three outboard motors Police suspect inside' tip-off LAND-SEA hunt is on for five pirates who robbed a Johore estate manager of a $27,0X6 payroll in I daylight hold-up at sea,
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  • 112 1 RICHEST AND SHYEST BACHELOR DIES AT 52 NAIROBI. Wed— Dr. John T. Williamson. Canadian multi-millionaire "diamond king", died last night at his mine at .Mwadui, Tanganyika, aged 52 Dr. Williamson, reputed to be the world's richest and shyest bachelor last November presented Princes* Margaret with a 1 15,000 ($128,000) diamond
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  • 19 1 THE CROSS shows where the robbers intercepted the manager's boat. Straits Times map
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  • 288 1 ONG BLASTS ENGLISH PRESS ♦THE Mayor of Singapore, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, spoke in Mandarin before making his policy speech in English at the new fully elected City Council's first business meeting yesterday He attacked the Englishlanguage Press and colonialism. His Mandarin speech was translated
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  • 214 1 GARLANDS for MAC AS HE LANDS IN DELHI CEW DELHI, Wed.— 11 The British Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmilian, was warmly greeted by Prime Minister Nehru on his arrival in Delhi today for a four-day visit. About 2.000 people. Including schoolchildren with garlands of marigolds and several hundred British residents
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  • 580 1 GOVT. HAS PLAN FOR TIN POOLS KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Federation Government is to start tin quota sales pools on Feb. 15, it was stated here today. There will be two pools during March and April, the first two months of the next tin control period. One will be for
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  • 47 1 LONDON, Wed— An 80--year-old retired school headmaster married an 84-year-old retired schoolmistress at Barnet yesterday. It was the first wedding for both Mr. Hubert Thornton and Miss Amy Stephens They first met as students in London and have known each other 65 years.— Reuter
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  • 160 1 ALOR STAR. Wed— Malaya and Slam may hold fresh talks on Joint border operations against Communist terrorists. Tengku Abdul Rahman said here today on his return from a fortnight's holiday on Pulau Langkawi. "Such meetings would not only help to tighten up ope- J
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  • 380 1 BOMB ROCKS JAKARTA: 14 HURT A link with assassination bid? JAKARTA, Wednesday. A BOMB explosion ripped through a street crowd in a Jakarta suburb last night. Fourteen people were injured. Police clamped an armed security ring around the blast scene and raided the nearby area, arresting 10 people, and seizing
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  • 102 1 Russian space object found im.kvo. Wed.- A Soviet I radiosonde believed to be from a Russian rockei or Sputnik fell on a farm near Asahikawa City. Northeo Japan, early toda> the Defence Ministry announced A radiosonde I* used to transmit data about atomospherlc condition* from high altltodes A Ministry spokesman
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  • 24 1 VIENNA, Wed. Austria's Chancellor. Herr Julius Raab will visit Moscow in the spring, according to the Vienna newspaper. Never Kurler— Reuter.
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  • 266 1 2 a.m. news roundup MAC AND NEHRU HOLD INFORMAL TALKS NEW DELHI, Wed— Mr. Nehru, India's prime minister, and Mr Harold Macmilian, Britain's prime minister, tonight began talks on international problems. It is understood that two main topics dominated the talks. They were the question of disarmament, and the possibiHty
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  • 44 1 BANGKOK, Wed.— Cardl nal Spellman, Archbishop ol New York, arrived here today from Singapore for a two day visit. The Archbishop was greeted at the airport by a number of American soldiers and their families. He leaves tomorrow for Colombo.— Reuter.
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  • 244 2 GERMANY HELPED TO PAY FOR RED REVOLT NEW YORK, Wed. Documents captured at the end of the war .show that Germany actively supported the Russian Bolsheviks for several years before the Russian revolution in 1917. Life magazine disclosed here yesterday. They also said Germany financed Lenin and his followers to
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  • 42 2 LONDON. Wed. Mr. Sclwyn Lloyd, British Foreign Secretary, was yesterday entertained by the Soviet Ambassador. Mr Jakob Malik, to a two-hour informal lunch at which ba.sic issues between east and west were believed to have been discussed- Reuter.
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  • 209 2 MOSCOW, Wednesday. A SOVIET scientist said yesterday it was now technically possible to send a rocket to the moon but that rockets intfnded to return to earth must refuel from a Sputnik. Mr. N Varvarov, chairman of the Space Travel Department of the Soviet
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  • 51 2 Drunks to pay more Station shock WARSAW, Wed. Drunks picked up by police in the Polish capital and carted off to the city's sobering-up station are in for a shock. Their night's "treatment" will cost them more. The city has raised the tariff to make th c station financially independent.
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  • 62 2 CHINA has produced It* first civil aeroplane the "An-2." With slight modifications it can be used for spraying fertiliser and insecticides, sowing, forestry work, and aerial surveys and photography. It can take off or land on an average sized farm field. Here the state commission makes
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  • 476 2 'IT'S OUR JOB TO SEE THEY CROSS ANTARCTIC QUICKLY AND SAFELY' BRITONS DRIVE AHEAD AND NEW ZEALAND EXPLORER DECIDES TO STAY AND HELP THEM WELLINGTON, Wednesday. gIR EDMUND HILLARY said at Scott Hasc today if Dr. Vivian Fuchs wished to continue his journey right
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  • 309 2 f ONDON, Wed. Bri- tains august Brigade of Guards put its tongue in its cheek yesterday and frowned on men "dying without prior consent of their superior officer." "This practice will cease immediately. it declared in the current issue of the Household Brigade magazine.
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    • 227 2 MOSCOW, Wednesday. AN official of the Soviet Academy of Sciences claimed today that a number of British Islands in the Antarctic were discovered by Russian explorers, the Soviet news agency Tass reported Dmitri Shcherbakov, chairman of the Academy's council of Antarctic researches, was commenting
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    • 78 2 LONDON. Wrd.— A SVyoar-oM Irishman. Jailed in Bnrv St Edmunds. Suffolk. yrst<-rday for brisking into a luwndry, lamented to IHc >vi' ■>■ "'it he had lrt down "the eovernor of Maiilst-re V the he<-t in the world." William Omrn. of C I ruy. who did
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  • 70 2 LONDON. Wed— The Ro yal Family returned to their country home at Sandringhani, Norfolk, yesterday after an overnight visit to London for Princrss Alexandra's .'lst birth. l.i\ party. The Queen, the i|' m Mother. Prince Charles and Princess Anne and I'nm. Michael of Kent MM
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  • 101 2 Police call off their week-old 'strike' SL O, Wed. The week-old Oslo police "strike" was called off last nteht after fourday talks with the employers the government. About 850 members of the Oslo (Uty force resigned at midnight on New Year's Eve to press their claim for higher pay which,
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  • 44 2 MELBOURNE. Wed-Sou-thern Victoria today declared war on an army of catirj pillars moving across a 200--mile belt north of Melbourne. Twenty light aircraft, armed with poisonous sprays, flew non-stop sorties from dawn today against the thickest concentrations menacing; farmlands- Reuter.
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  • 71 2 MELBOURNE. Wed. It was offensive behaviour to go .swimming in public in your underwear, a magistrate ruled iat Williamstown Court today. He fined three bricklayers £2 each for swimming in i Jockey briefs on Williamstown Beach on a hot day after work. N< doubt some bathing costumes
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  • 628 3 The Thorneycroft drama the inside story by Butler MINISTERS SPEAK— AND THEY ATTACK EX-CHANCELLOR LONDON, Wednesday. CEVEEAL British Cabinet Ministers spoke in different parts of the country about the resignation of Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and three of the top aides in the treasury and all of
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  • 150 3 'HONOURS -INEXPENSIVE FORM OF CARROT' I ONDON, U'ed.— Writer M;«lcolm Muggeridge, declared on television last night that the New Year honours list ought to be abolished. It was a "foolish survival which encouraged snob-bt-ry. Mr. Mu^geridge said on a programme tailed "Youth Wants To Know." Mr. Muggeridge. television celebrity and
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  • 363 3 Sweden almost went to war against Nazis STOCKHOLM. Wednesday. SWEDEN was prepared to modify her traditional neutrality and intervene militarily in occupied Norway at the end of April. 1945, according to a White Book published by the Swedish Foreign Mm istry here today. On April 30, 1945. the Swedish Government
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  • 143 3 LONDON. Wednesday. LEADERS of the 8,000,000-strong Trades Union Congress yesterday demanded an international job guarantee in the proposed European free trade urea. They made the demand at meeting with the Paymastrr General, Mr. Reginald !.'.;uidlino, who is in charge of begotlattona for the free
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  • 164 3 LONDON, Wed. A 27- j year-old Englishman left i New MUden. Surrey yester- I day 0B tlic first stage of a lone expedition across the I Himalayas armed with a cine-camera, a rifle and nun. duds of wiring needles. He is Anthony Burdett. a botanist.
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  • 54 3 ITALIAN FILM ACTRESS Gina Lolliibrigida appears in all her splendour as she arrives at her box in Rome's opera house to attend the opening performance of Bellini's Norma. Dressed in a beautiful eveninic gown, she was accompanied by her husband. Dr. Milko Skoflc
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  • 139 3 CRGENT REQUEST TO CO\GRESS WASHINGTON, Wednesday. PRESIDENT Eisenhower yesterday made an 1 emergency request to Congress for $3,780 million (U. 5.51,260 million) in new funds to speed the development of missiles and expand air defences. The President's request, which went to the Capitol within an
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  • 103 3 PAR!*,, Wed.— Foreign Ministers of the six "little European nations named I uxembourg and Brussels to- c*ay as the temporary headquarters of the European Common Market, atomic pool and coal-steel pool. Italian Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella, who presided over the two-day meeting, announced yhen It
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  • 38 3 TAIPEH. Wed. Mr. William Teeling. a British Conservative M.P. said ln interviews here today that mutual trade would be the best way to re-establish relations and friendships between the people of Britain and Nationalist China.— Reuter.
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  • 46 3 NOW— JOHNNY MAY HEAR NEW YORK, Wed. Singer Johnny Ray, deaf since childhood, today underwent a major ear operation that may restore his hearing. A spokesman at the Mount Sinai Hospital here said that hearing was restored in about 80 per cent of such cases— Reuter.
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  • 380 3 LONDON, Tues— lt was a day of unsettledness on London stock markets, following the surprise resignation of the Chancellor of 'he Exchequer. The downward trend of sterling helped to dictate movements. With world currencies moving against London during the I morning losses were fairly widespread. However, selling was
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  • 301 3 Now Reds capture American jet aircraft OONN, Wed— An Ameu rican T-33 Jet plane has been forced down and detained by the Albanian Air Force, the Tirana Albanian Radio announced today. The broadcast said the plane had been forced down in the area of Berat, about 30 miles from the
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  • 200 4 PENANG, Wednesday. VIORE than 300 overaged pupils have so far applied to join the evening; classes to be set up by the Penang Education Department. The number of classes will depend on the number of applications, and we are still accepting applications." the Chief
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  • 124 4 PENANG, Wed— The Penang Malayan Indian Congress has asked the Province Wellesley South Allianc? council for a report on their recent investigations leading to the suspension of the MIC branch in Bukit Mi rtajam. A spokesman of the Penang MIC told the Straits
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  • 248 4 KHALA LIMPIR, Wed.— A leading trader today attacked the H (for hushhush) mania which, he says, envelops nearly all Government correspondence these days. He said: "This confidential business is going too far so far that it would be finny if it
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  • 54 4 JESSELTOX. Wed. Mr. T. W. Ling. Senior R. >ad* Engineer of the Public Works Department has lelt by air to attend a conference on low-cost roads being conducted at New Delhi by the Economic Commission for Asia ana the Far Ea^t Mr. Leng is expected
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  • 171 4 20 EXPATS HAVE GONE UNDER M-SCHEME OENA N O Wed. Twenty expatriate officers serving with the Penang State Government had retired under the Malayanisation scheme, the Chief Minister, Mr. Wong Pow Nee. disclosed today. "But no more are expected to retire before the end of this month." he said. Govt.
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  • 152 4 DENANG. Wed. An 11-, I man committee has to em Ml up in Penang to advi>e on the preservation of '"areas of natural beauty" in the island. The Chief Iflniati r, Mr Wong Pow Nee. is chairman of the committee, and other members
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  • 413 4  -  GILBERT WOODEN By JELEBU SUCCESS WILL WEAKEN OTHER BANDITS IN STATE SEREMBAN, Wednesday. OPERATIONS have begun in the Jelebu district of Negri Sembilan to flush out the last 11 terrorists still left in the district. Details are being kept a close
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  • 59 4 TAIPING. Wed. Kau Po Thtmg, 26. was sentenced to three months' jail and S3 000 fine for possession of raw opium at Simpan<? main road on Nov. 14 last. Liew Eng Hock, 37. and Lim Ah Lian, 33, were acquitted and discharged. Kau could not pay the
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  • 200 4 YOUTH CLEARED OF BOBBERY i MALACCA, Wednesday, president of the Malacca Sessions Court, Mr. Somasundram, today acquitted Chew Peng 24, of robbery. Police, he said, had Charged the wrong man. Chew was accused of robbing Thomas, a rubber tapper, of a fountain pen and
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  • 90 4 Lost van is found in 15 mins CUNGEI PATANI. Wed. Police yesterday found a van within 15 minutes of a report that it had been stolen. The vehicle, the property of Tan Liat Seng Tea Co. of Penang and containing $3,900 worth of tea. had been parked the previous night
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  • 35 4 KUALA LLMPUR. Wed. A seven-man delegation of the United Planting Association of Malaya today met the Minister for Defence. Dato Abdul Razak bin Hussein, on his Invitation to discuss security problems on estates
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  • 22 4 A two-day agricultural show at Yio Chu Kang, Singapore, last month attracted about 13,000 people, the show organisers estimate;!.
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    • 147 4 RADIO MALAYA aSSK JEST* lS t£S \llo\\l SHORT On] y- 20 Close Down: 500 WA\E SFR\HE Callln? All Hospitals; 600 Hello 41 mrtri-V Children: 6.30 Radio Dance Club; 7'uo kf 645 Lights On 653 Regional An»in< \pni;l ncunrements: 654 Sineapnre Mrdium MM 476 metres 252 M l rket RepOrt 1?"^
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  • 357 5 COURT EMPHASISES POINT THAT'S, 'PERHAPS, SOMETIMES LOST SIGHT OF' SO SMELTING STRIKERS MUST QUIT HOMES GIVEN THEM BY THE FIRM PENANG, Wednesday. Penang High Court today held that employers of labour had certain rights in the same way as their employees. Said Mr. Justice Rigby:
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  • 36 5 Mr. John F. Wilson, director of the Commonwealth Society for the Blind, will arrive in Singapore on Jan. 30 lor a five-day visit. He will be accompanied by his wife
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  • 145 5 Ceylon Flood Relief Committee hopes to raise this sum for victims ITUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The newly-formed central committee of the Ceylon Flood Relief Fund here tonight decided to send at least $200,000 to tho flood victims. The secretary of the committee, Mr K. Paramalingam. told the Straits Times:
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  • 54 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The 16 members of the Egyptian trade delegation to Malaya today visited a rubber factory, a tin mine and 1 palm oil factory in Selansor. The party, led by Mr Mostafa Khalifa, was conducted on the tour by an official of thp Ministry
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  • 64 5 MOKK than l(«»0 people thronged Kuala Lumpur airport on Tuesday morning to see 52 young women leave by B O.A.C. for a two years' training Mune at the Brinsford I odgr Teachers' Training College in England. ■fere a group of the girls are shown
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  • 118 5 Penang plans big spores festival to draw tourists PENANG, Wed. Penanf will stage a one-montti festival of water and land sports this year as part of it* drive to boost tourism in the state. This was decided at a meeting last night of repre--1 sentatives of 10, ai trade and
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  • 28 5 TAIPINO. Wed— Lieut. Col. Chang Ah Kee, commanding the Federation Volunteers Forces, has been elected chairman of the Taiping branch of the Ex-Services Association of Malaya.
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  • 219 5 Giwernment men urged: Write in KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. •THE Federation Public Services Commission has 1 started a preliminary probe into a ministerial complaint about "back-door" methods of recruitment in the Government service. Preliminary because before the investigation can develope into a major inquiry, tlie commission wants
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  • 41 5 BUTTERWORTH. Wed. A watchman. Rahman Din bin Kadir Saad. 36. died while on duty at the Butterworth branch of the Bank of China yesterday evening. Rahmat Din collapsed as he was about to say his fvening prayers.
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  • 58 5 I TELUK ANSON, Wed. Area inspector of the Teiuk Anson police headquarters. Inspector Hamzah bin Moha mcd has left here on transfer to Kampar as assistant OCP.D. He represented the district at hockey and the Perak Malays at cricket in the Rulers' Shield competition He i
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  • 187 5 Another murder in Selangor KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Selangor police have three murders on their hand* all committed during the past tew days i The third was discovered i yesterday evening. The police 1 found the badly battered body of a 49-year-old farmer. Loo Hoi. floating in a fish pond
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  • 37 5 SITIAWAN. Wed. The Deputy Assistant District Officer, Dlndlngs. Inche Abdullah Aziz bin Mat Som will Up transferred to Parit next week. He will be succeeded by Tuan Hajl Osmaa bin Hajl Baki from Kuala Kangsar.
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  • 83 6 I« UW. ll* i Minimum). MADAM CHIA KIM HONG mite of the late Mr- Ong Hoon Beug i passed away peacefully at the age of 70 at 7.20 p.m on 6 1 SI. Deeply mourned by her K'ii. Sunny Ong. daughter, Ong Nya Nya. son-in-law Yeo Chuan Hock, daughier-in-lan
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  • 54 6 to Hur4i I/O Minimum) MR A- MRS. TAN BOON PKENG thtnfe „ll Friends and Relptlxes for their Valuable Gifts Hid Attendance at their Wedding. MR SEAH ECK JLM and Umily thank relative* and friends for their as.sit>tance. visits, wrraths. messages of condolence and attending the funeral of the late
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  • 157 6 v w,r4» tit rMMaaai SAUCY REDHEAD likes her Fmiil-c Red-hot Tabaxco .made fiom Chilli) U her Mealtime Pa.sr.lon TUNBRJDOE wSLLS WATER Biscuits, delightful with Cheese, by Roman s Maker of Biscuits for the Connoisseur Sole Agents.— Robinson "sTODAY LARRY ADLER —5 30 lit, Special Concert for School*. TVke's at.
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    • 634 6 The Singapore Government seems to have taken an odd step in appointing t> committee of officials tc correlate the recommendations of the Minimum Standard of Livelihood Committee and I the Brocklehurst report on social security measures. Th.? committee is to consider th<I "organisational and financial implications"
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    • 267 6 When over-age students in the Federation were toid that they would have to leave school Government was warned of the possible social and political dangers that could follow. It then came forward with a plan for evening classes, and it also relented to the extent of staggering the
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    • 232 6 A magi>trat« ioiulm.iing s preliminary inquiry into any offence with a view to commital may. on special grounds of public policy oi expediency, in his discretion exclude the public at any stage of the inquiry. In Kuala Lumpur yesterday a magistrate cleared the court of the public and
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  • 1022 6 RESOLUTIONS AT CAIRO CONFERENCE CAIRO is no longer decorated with streamers inscribed "Welcome Men Of Peace." Mr. Devaser, and a whole lot of like minded delegates, have gone back to their respective countries filled with the strange conviction that the Afro Asian conference was
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    • 322 6 LET'S BE MORE REALISTIC ABOUT SELF-GOVERNMENT rpHE questionnaire by the X International journalists answered by our Chief Minister Mr Lim Yew Hock, revealed the trend of thought oy the Western world on the PAP's unjustified political outburst of anti-colonialism. It was diplomatic on the part of our Chief Minister to
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    • 130 6 rE Straits Times reports (Jan. 6) that 36 international journalists fired questions at Mr. Lim Yew Hock, some of which he described as "embarrassing." The report does not say whether any one of them asked him to explain what Mr. Lee Kuan Yew meant when he said in the Assembly
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    • 45 6 CHINESE New Year will be here very socn ar.d I hope all mems and titans will allow their Chinese servants to take the holiday all together and at the same time. CHAN YOKE WAN Kuala Kangsar i fine ii I on i|iii I in Malaga
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    • 130 6 IN your report of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry's announcement that from Jan 6 specific licences would be necessary for the import of Chinese cement iS.T. Jan. 6>. you referred to Federation annual cement consumption as 300.000 tons and added that the Feder- ation 'produces only 100.000 tons." While
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    • 47 6 QUEENS DOWN is fast growing up. An additional bus-stop should be stationed near the Alexandra Police Station. This would save not less than 500 people each day from walking two bus stops away in order to get a No. 4 bus. JIMMY LIM Singapore nii-M'N and r*rli%ts
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    • 118 6 "CWERYWHEFE I notice that whenever there are police posts guarded by special constables or policemen, cyclists have got to get down and walk. Recently I came across a police post guarded by SC." and not seeing any stop ■«ign I cycled straight* ahead without stopping. A SC stopped me and
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    • 48 6 I AM rather sorry for the young man who was fined after being reported by a neighbour for shooting a stray dog. He should of course have kicked or beaten it to death, in which case the Incident would have passed unnoticed. C J PARR Singapore Mayoral robe
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    • 66 6 A SINGAPORE CITIZEN" says that since Mr. Ong Eng Guan refuses to wear a mayor's robe he should not take the mayoral allowance. Is a man paid for the clothes be wear* or for the worn ne does? Do clothes make the man? I am not a coukay but if
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    • 52 6 DURING a recent vi-it to Johore Bahru. received several complaint* from licensed "notorworlcshop owners that there are too many unlicensed workshop.-, in existence. These uniicenesd shops work in small extensions to their homes and. besides evading a roundl fee and obstructing the business of the authorised, they create public nuisance.
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    • 199 6 NOW that we have an ac-countant-Mayor, maybe he would like to sweep away the following trait* of bureaucracy still to be found in the City Treasury 1. Why should citizens who are due to be paid money by the City Council be •ummoned to
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  • 224 7 Police deny my rights lawyer IPOH, Wed.— A lawyer,, Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam. accused the police in the Ipoh Magistrates Court today of negligence and depriving the defence of its "fundamental rights." He was representing 10 people, including seven girl.s. who were charged in oonnec tion with the student unrest
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  • 132 7 1 Poll Wed. A s .l.lii r 1 and a terrorist were wounded in it 10-minute engagement at the edge of the jungle in the Sungei Siput area yeMrrd.-.y morning. A four-man patrol from tbe 3rd Bn. the Royal Australian Regiment contacted a gang
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  • 445 7 MAGISTRATE; IN PUBLIC INTKREST-I AM SURE OTHER STATES WILL FOLLOW SUIT DEFENCE PROTEST: WHY FIGHT SHY OF LETTING PEOPLE KNOW JUSTICE IS BEING DONE? KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A MAGISTRATE today cleared a court of the public and the Press "in the interests of justice" before
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  • 42 7 JESSELTON, Wed. Only one school tn North Borneo entered candidates for the Colony's first Senior School Certificate examination held last month. The Holy Trinity School. Tawau. sent in 24 candidates. 17 of whom passed, lour with credits.
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  • 32 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Malay Language and Literary Agency is arranging a National Language Week in the Federation. Literary competitions and debates will be held during the week.
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  • 41 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. The West Transport Co.. Batu Pahat. and Aw Chin Tee, one of their lorry drivers, were fined *120 and £60 respectively in the magistrate's court here today for carrying too much load in a lorry.
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  • 38 7 Mr. Sterling J. Cottrell. De puty Principal Officer of the United States Consulate General in Singapore, will leave shortly to take up a new post as Deputy Chief of Mission In the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta
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  • 397 7 Sweeping Alliance win in Parit council elections IPOH, Wednesday 'THE Alliance swept the polls in the Parit locaJ 1 council elections yesterday when their three candidates beat off a two-pronged challenge from the National Association of Perak representative and an Independent. The Alliance success was virtually sealed three days ago
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  • 49 7 TELUK ANSON. Wed While sliding down a drainpipe to recover a .steel bar at the Chinese Club here last night. Ooi Cheong Hee. 25. feel 12 feet. Ooi. the clubs office-boy, was injured in the head and admitted to hospital. His condition Ls improving.
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  • 109 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Director of Trade Treaties in the Australian Department of Trade and Commerce, Mr. L. Corkery, «U1 head a three-member Australia'! delegation comirr: to Mama to negotiate a trade pact. The delegation will arrive on Jan. IS and will stay three
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  • 11 7 MR YAP and Miss Ong arrive in Singapore
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  • 372 7 What a day! Anxiety, excitement —and then joy for two 3TUDY this picture carefully. They are businessman. Mr. Yap Siow Hai, 33, and pretty Miss Ong Vat Tai, 24, arriving in Singapore yesterday from Kuala Lumpur all dressed up for their wedding, which was not to take place until some
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  • 129 7 ALLIANCE GETS BIGGER VOICE IN KELANTAN COUNCIL ITOTA BHARU, W«'d.— Alliance contro.' of the Kelantan State Council has been consolidated with the appointment of three Alliance members as nominated unofflcials. They replace official members, whose number has been reduced from five to two. The Alliance strength in the 28-member council
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  • 61 7 The Clerk of the Singapore Legislative Assembly. Mr Loke Weng Chee. has been sent to Britain for four months' training on parliamentary procedure. He will be attached to the House of Commons. The Assistant Clerk Mr A. Lopez, will act for Mr Loke until his return.
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  • 29 7 JESSELTON. Wed The Australian destroyer Tobruk. on an operational visit to North Borneo. Is expected to leave Labuan for Singapore tomorrow after a stay of 48 hours
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  • 212 7 It wasn't parang, it was razor 'Tattoo' boy fined $300 OEN AND. Wed— A 1 Chinese youth told a magistrate's court hera today that he had not used a parang in a city fight-but a razor. He was Tan Ah Leng who was charged with causing hurt to a motor
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  • 54 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. News has been received here of the death at Colombo on Sundavof Mr. S.P.S. Rajasooria 80. a retired engineer of the Public Works Department In Ceylon He leaves ten children, three of whom are In Malaya. Among them Is Mr. R.PS Rajasoorta.
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  • 96 7 KUALA LUMPUR Wed. More than 320.000 es tate workers in the federa tion who are members of th* National Union of Plantation Workers want higher wage. from April this year. Their union will ask thr Malayan Planting am In dustrlal Employers' Assocla tion to
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    • 84 7 t y QUALITY KITTLES 3 PINTS OF WATER BOILED IN 5 MINUTES Pricet S port Pcnjng Federation Polithcd I ***** M 3 Pints $27 $30 Aluminium D 51 75 M 5 Pints $30 $33 Chromium j O 5353 3 Pints $45 $49.50 Plated D 5235 5 Pints $56 $61 A*,.,i..
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  • 109 8 BIG GOVT. GRANT FOR ADULT EDUCATION TPOH, Wed.— The Fed■l eration Adult Education Association is to receive a grant of $234.--260 from the Government for 1958. The grant is to meet ex penditure in running the first! three standards of the association's classes. At a recent meeting In Kuala Lumpur,
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  • 135 8 TELUK ANSON. Wed. ASP F. G. Sager Is now District Special Branch officer attached to Teluk Anson police headquarters In place of ASP. Inche Mahmood bin Yunos who has left for a course at Ryton-on-Duns-mnre. In Britain. WHEN TO FLY FEDERATION FLAGOFFICIAL IPOH, Wed.— The Federation Government
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  • 24 8 JESSELTON. Wed— Fifty one Influenza case s were recorded by the North Borneo health office during thweek ending Dec. 21.
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  • 357 8 A former Queen's Fellowship man Is named as new head of department Selangor specialist to draw up plan of campaign to combat disease in Malaya KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE Federation Government has taken a new and important step in its fight against tuberculosis,
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  • 51 8 MR. MARIA JOSEPH, a member *f the staff «f the Teachers' Training College, and his bride after their wfdding at the Church of Oar La4y of l.ourdrs Singapore The bridr formerly Mis* Theresa Davis. Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.
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  • 204 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE executive committee of the policy-making Alliance National Council has appointed a six man committee to inquire into the defeat of the Alliance candidate in the Ipoh— Menglembu Federal by-election last November. The Minister of Transport. Inche Abdul Rahman bin Talib. will
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  • 76 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed— A Telecommunications Department engineer. Mr. K. Shanim.. was not invited by the Sessions Court here to try to break open a telephone coin box with a screwdriver as stated in a report published In the Straits Times today. Mr. Shunmusam tried to
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  • 107 8 THE laws of Singapore were changed yesterday m that appointments to certain statutory »«ards may be made jointly by the Gevernor and the Van* di-Pertuaat Ageaj; of the Federation. The Joint appointments hare hitherto been made by the Gorerner and the Hick Commissioner. km ■■ill— r
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  • 298 8 MENTRVS CALL TO VILLAGERS BATU GAJAH, Wednesday. rpHE Mentri Besar of Perak, Inche Mohamed Ghazali bin Haji Jawi, appealed yesterday to a group of new villagers from the Batu Gajah area to induce their relatives, who are operating in the Jungles as terrorists, to surrender.
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  • 24 8 i JOHORE BAHRU. Wed (The body of an unidentified man with his throat cut was found yesterday in Jalan Larkin near Tampoi
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  • 128 8 ABOUT 160 daily-rated em ployees in the Sir.gapor City Council's gas department are to become redun dant this month. It is understood that they will be offered lobs in other departments. But the 400-strong Ga.« Dp partment Workers' Unlot, said yesterday that unless
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  • 401 8 THE PAP MASTER PLAN FOR SINGAPORE ■jlf From Page One there was no proper water supply. The City Architect's Department would prepare standard plans for sale to at- tap hut dwellers "so that they do not have to Incur architect's fees for their slm pie structures." Five welfare clinics would
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  • 1213 9 QUEEN OF BROADWAY AN ash blonde wearing a quarter of a million dollars worth of diamonds, pearls and emeralds staggered into a New York hospital in October, 1929, fought for breath, collapsed and died. Within minutes she had been recognised as Jeanne Eagels, star of Broadway
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    • 261 9 No Other j KETCHUP Tastes Like jHEINIj Afode. bW^BB* HCCOrvifXJ fO nUHEa^Mf I /Uos+lfolueJl^jJ fa}*. 38i^ bs Flaw Simply I Con* Be Copied. I I SufhrYourstlfl Coming to I Britain! /ttfTeiTiUtf Ov.r 100 n.w drive y.urself cart available, tatecial winter rates from < I* tor 4 week I. Write now
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    • 233 9 i «rmt>n A 0 By l###s VSt VI GOT KItANTZ AND MIS Wif E W THE lIT AIiANS u£ SPIIUD ~^Z1~"~ "1 Mr*' jS.-v-'NjX /^TUtY DCTfT KNJW HIM BY v cm ca» *irr unntf B£anS about a If T^ YVf SiGhT SO IU taks i*S PiACI */^a^. KNOVVb ABOUT BO
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  • 582 10 MALAYAN TIN SALES TO U.K. IN 1957 UP 43 PER CENT By Our Market Correspondent jMI K bullish effect that buffer stock buying had on the exports of tin from Malaya to Britain at the end of last > ear- was revealed in statistics issued by the Malayan Governments yesterday.
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  • 692 10 THE following list of revised quotation-, was issued by the Malayan Share Brokers' Association after its meeting yesterday. lMlKtilALi Bu.er. Sell.rt Alsi Brleta Prat i.ea 1 so Ords no IN *tl». lea list) sal iburttsi B. B. Petrol 40 4J B. M. Trusttss tie »M Coo Tin
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  • 161 10 MELBOURNE. Wed. INVESTMENTS maintained a steady tone with few market variations on the Stock Exchange here today. Herald reacted to close down sixpence at 265. B H.P. rights continue to rise. Trading was more active and covered a wider range. Minings were generally steady. Oils were weaker. Loans
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  • 543 10 January first grade robber buyers f.o.b closed in Singapore I yesterday at 79 7 cents per It), i down 1 7 cents on Tuesday's closing price. The closing tone was barely steady. Closing prices In cents per lb. yesterday were: OFFICIAL: Int 1 RSS fob. buyers 79%. sellers
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  • 330 10 Th« Malayan Share Brokers' Association reported: "All sections on the local share market were quietly steady. The turnover was small. Singapore and Federation brokers reported (he followinf business done yesterday: Praser Neave ords (2 65 Gammon 12.30. W Hammer $2 12 to $2 10 Jackson Co. $1.40. Malayan
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  • 77 10 The Malayan Exchange Bank*' Association made the following changes In Its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100): Selling T.T. or O.D. ready: Canada 32%; French Francs *****; Belgian Francs 1617 H; Holland Guilders 122',; Italian Lire *****. On the frrr exchange market In Hon< Kong yesterday,
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  • 107 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per plcul yesterday were: Copra: quiet: UK Continent January February $29 buyers. $30 sellers Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $46 sellers. drum $50 sellers. Pepper: quiet: no business reported done Muntok white $97. Sarawak $96, special Sarawak black $62 (all down $1 <
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  • 76 10 Ship* lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Chusan 12 Saldja 4/5. Benvannoch <!A Palstrla 6 '7. Benvenue 8/9. Straat Banka 10/11. Slamat 13/14. Poelau Laut 15 16. Surga Maru 18. Hellkon 19/20. Serampang N Wall 2. Scudai N. Wall 3 Tnng rhay 21
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  • 66 10 The following December rubber crops are announced: MaUka Plnda 123.900 lb Lulled Malacca 133,873 lb Ayer Motes: 32.130 lb.: Leong Hin San. Ltd. 51.400 lb. and Nyalas 42.049 lb Allenby 37.000 lb; Bent* 64.000 lb.- Jeram KuanUn 26 000 lb Kundong 52.000 lb MrnUkab 56.000 lb. and Sungei
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    • 357 10 PU: WANTED Clerk-cum-Librarlan (preferably Indian girl) for Singapore Office of Information Service of India. Good knowledge of Tamil and English and ability to translate from one to the other essential. Experience in typing desirable. Monthly salary 8235 X 15 325/340 X 15 460 30' variable allowance. A|.|>ly to Press Attache,
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    • 250 10 NOTICES NOTICE Federation of Malaya SGO.OOO.UOS 4»,rr Kcfislercd Stack IBC4/T4. NOTICE Is hereby given that the Register of the above-men-tioned Stock wIU be closed from 18th to 3 1st January. 1958 both days Inclusive for preparation of Interest Warrants. C. E. OASCOIONE. Registrar, Public Debt Office. Federation of Malaya SHERIFF'S
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    • 872 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS VACANCIES Hi SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT SERVICE I. AUDIT DEPARTMENT: AUDITOR Salary Scale: «680x35A 1030/1100x40A— 1420 pm. Age: Under 30 years on 1 1 .58. Age, experience and qualifications will determine the point ot entry on the scale. Qualifications: Applicants must hold a University Honours Degree or an Accounting qualification
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    • 19 10 OFFICIAL PRICES SINGAPORE. JAN. 8. RUBBER: 79{ cents per Ib. (down li cents) TIN: $361.75 per plcul (up $1.75).
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  • 1573 12  -  WATER BALLET ILTATER BALLET, one of the loveliest outdoor events from the spectators' point of view, Is a rare treat in Malaya, so it is good news that lovely model and former swimming champion Alex Eady will stage one at the Chinese Swimming Club on March
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    • 384 12 +m «:mWn'rfli Mi ?M»ldT T^l fiTS OPENS TODAY' ■■m'tfiffiTOM A M l 1V 6 9 3U I> >1 "fc g\M I *> CAQV GRANT 4^ I Jy^^% I J* YNE MANSFIELP-SUZY PARKER FB r LW—^ 1 f^\ 1 409 TODAY 6.45 A 9.50 PM. J MifffflMrJEAN SIMMONS- JOAN PONTAINE BiTO;
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    • 103 12 Straits Times Crossword ii TF" j 16 liliiiZi i bti a p a~i~ 27 I 1| 28 ACROSS 16 Gold ln Xanadu catcnlng tn< 9 Invadrr ga\e the sign Co. eye (5). 10 Entitled to obstruct changes 18 Bar M.P. elected Irregular!* at Eton (7). (8). 11 Confection in window
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  • 48 13 IPOH. Wed A goal in the first half by Choong Kone enabled Sturrock Club to beat Methodist Afternoon School 1-0 in a Div. 1 hockey match here yesterday. First Battalion. Loyal Regiment, pave a walkover to Indian Recreation Club in a Div 2 match.
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  • 179 13 It won't be team of bushy-haired players! SUVA, (Fiji Islands), v Wed. The Fiji Cricket Association Board of Control, meeting here, welcomed a proposal that they should send a team to England next year. But they showed little enthusiasm for the popular idea of
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  • 88 13 Though he is European champion Charles Humez ol France could not match Bimbo E the king size cowboy star Eo/ German circus actvcilly performing in Paris Velo- drome D'Hiier. It is good fun though E and beticeen tico sessions =o/ shadow boxing Charles zHumez comes
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  • 95 13 TOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Johore A.siaus Ru^by Union has named 17 plajvrs to travel to Kuala Lumnui for its last All Blues Cup rugger match against Selangor Asians on Saturday. In two previous matches. Johore beat Negri All Blues and lost to Singapore
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  • 47 13 TAIPING. Wed— Kilat Indians drew 1-1 with Kamtinting Indians in a knockout soccer match here yesterday for the Dr. Arasarednam Cup. Sikhs lose KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Selangor Chines* Recreation Club B beat the Sikhs Union "B" 5-1 in a Div. 2 hockey match here yesterday.
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  • 210 13 PAKISTAN'S OPENER HANIF JOINS CROMPTON LONDON, Wed. Hanil Mohammad. Pakistan's stolid opening Test bat. will be playing for Crompton in the Central Lancashire Cricket League next season in place of Y. B. Palwankar The announcement means tl.at the friendly Indo-Pakis-tan rivalry which dominated the Lancashire League last season, and will
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  • 276 13 LONDON, wed— When the Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan remarked In a speech that British workers never had It so Rood," he could have used the word footballers Instead of workers. The English professional footballer today Is paid $145 (£l7) a week during
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  • 42 13 AIIU.AIIU NYd lew ll.nrt. twfca Wimlilidon champion, took a 3-'^ lead over world pr<^f cssiimn l li.iinpion, Pancho (i(,ii/ah -s. in their IUO-ni.itih profession i| tennis MflM when be won 6-3. 1-6. 6-2. 5-7, 6-3. here yesterday. Keute*.
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  • 449 13 British sport winning the 'cold war' BID TO BANISH ICE AND FROST f ONDON, Wed.— British sport's battle against ice and frost— the twin evils which can bring chaos to the country's sport during winter may soon be over. Ice-bound pitches which year after year cause cancellations and injuries throughout
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  • 45 13 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Scuth Johore R F. C.'s team to meet BMBg District on Saturday in their Rußby match at Kluang will b; Watson, FtiT.uson, Roberts, Ccusens, Scott-MofT itt, Kelly, Edington, Christie, Mar.-hall, Harris. Brooks, Ooodsir, AcUun on. Gill UM W'lson.
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    • 662 13 Check Betore Posting Replies to Box Numbers Utmost car c should be taken i I whin replying to boi number i I tit. to use th* CORRECT 1 NUMBER and Address to the j I Straits Times. Cecil Street. Cjsti rausr be sent by re*ii- f tered post: Postal Orders
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    • 877 13 ACCOMMODATION VACANI Word* U Mim.) Box St tit. txlrm SHOP HOUSE at 1 RambuUin Road. Big Room Furnished with Electric Fan, Cookw, Si RefrlKtraior. Reasonable Rent. Applj Mr. Lee. 123 Queen Street Tel *****. NEW FLORAVHXE" 130 I Grange Road. Spacious single/ double accommodation. All I modern conveniences. Full/parl I
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    • 837 13 EDUCATION it Wordt IS (Mim.) Box St tit. mxlrm. CHINESE YMCA COMMER- CIAL School's January (Morning/ Evening) Beginners Book-keeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, English. Maths, Latin. Shorthand speeds 50 woids onwards. Book-keeping/ Accounting revision with Test papers. Our 1957 LCC Exam results: Book keeping Accounting i passes 99 (distinctions 19). Short- ha:;d
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    • 909 13 VEHICLES WANTED it w.rdi tS (Mim.) Box St rtt. txtrm. WANTED a second hand unarmoured Land Rover In first class condition, bodywork, engine etc. In reply please state year, licence and registration particulars and price required. Box A 6325 S.T. WANTED to Purchase Good Used Cars Austin, Morris, Ford, Hillman.
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  • 230 14  - Referees' course: Uniformity in Asia is the aim KEN FERNANDEZ RfUALA LUMPUR, Wed. F.1.F.A.. the international controlling body for soccer, will hold a referees course at Tokyo this year. THE AIM: to implement uniform interpretation of the law of the game in Asian countries. The course will begin a few
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  • 33 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Coalfield Estate. Kepong. will meet Selangor River Estate. Kual£ Selangor. in the Selangor state final of the Malayan Estates football competition at the Princes Road stadium on Saturday.
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  • 31 14 IPOH. Wed —A hattrick by the Chan Quan Chung gave thy Perak Chinese Recreation club a 3-1 victory over the Police in a Div 1 league hocky match here today.
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  • 144 14 Selangor Hockey Association to launch training scheme soon J^UALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Physical fitness will be the keynote of the training scheme which the Selanpor Hockey Association hopes to put into operation shortly in preparation for the Asian Games at Tokyo this year. Meanwhile the S.H.A. will hold a
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  • 154 14 THE AUSSIES DISMISS COUNTRY XI FOR 163, THEN HIT 22 PRETORIA, Wed. Australia's touring cricketers dismissed a Country XI foi 163 here today and then scored 22 without loss before the close of the first ol two days play. The last six wickets of the home side fell for only
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  • 28 14 LONDON. Wed Brian London, the British heavyweight, has been matched with Willie Pastrano of the United states for a bout here on Feb. 25.— Reuter.
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  • 95 14 KIAla LLMPI'R. Wed Arthur Dews. better known on the cricket field, will play for Selangor against Johore in the II M s Malaya Cup rugger final on Jan. 18. Dews, who has been in Selangor for two years, played his first same last month after
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  • 402 14  -  JOHN MARKS Mackay, Green and Holmberg plan tour of Asia and Europe By 'Play here' request by Spore LTA THE three young United States tennis stars Barry Mackay, Mike Green and Ron Holm berg may play exhibition matches in Singapore next month. The three Americans
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  • 31 14 BRISTOL. Wed Bristol City beat Accrlngton Stanley 3-1 in their Third Round English FA. Cup replay here yesterday. In the fourth round Bristol City are away to Notts County.—Reuter.
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  • 25 14 LONDON. Wed— A Moscow Radio broadcast in English today confirmed that Russian lawn tennis players will appear at the Wimbledon championships this year— Reuter.
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  • 93 14 WONG BEATS KEDAH CHAMP IN EXHIBITION MATCH ALOR STAR, Wed. Former world badminton champion and now the B.A.M.'s official coach, Wong Peng Soon, played two exhibition matches and won both at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College Assembly Hall here last nigtit. In the first game, he beat the Kedah champion,
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  • 35 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The rugger match between the Selangor Club Invitation fifteen and R.A.S.C. Malaya was abandoned after 25 minutes because of rain. The club XV were leading 3-0. Galbraith scored an unconverted try.
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  • 217 14 T»HE Singapore Hockey Association's Senior 1 knockout competition began yesterday with Khalsa, the Div. 2 runners-up scoring a 4-1 win over the Div. 1 side, Singapore Harbour Board Police, at Bukit Chermin. S.H.B Police, unable to field their full side were out classed, and only
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  • 59 14 LEICESTER City's goalkeeper "Big Dave' McLaren, former Penang's Malaya Cup hero and Malayan Combined Services star, takes the ball calmly, although harried b> Tottenham's centre forward Smith (left) and inside left Stokes in the F.A. Cup tie at White Hart Lane. London on January
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  • 310 14  -  LEE FOO SAM By IPOH, Wednesday. T<HE 1958 tennis season will begin earlier than 1 usual in view of the Davis Cup match between Malaya and Ceylon in April and the tennis championships at the Asian Games at Tokyo in May.
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  • 52 14 IPOH HOCKEY: DW. t: Fourth ll it Ulion. Malay Rrgimeiit. v II Q No. t F. 18., Tpper padanf; Klnc's Dragoon (iuards v Kllat Club, Lower padang. KUALA I I Mil K It I (.HI R.A.B-C. (Singapore) v R.A.F., Batu Cantonment. BADMINTON: Singapore Youth Sports Centre v Selangor Junlnrv
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  • 152 14 JEEP'S 10-TO-FOLLOW Cruzeiro heads the list My Ten-to-Follow at the Perak TuTf Club January meeting are: CRUZEIRO: Consistent over middle distances last season. Second last time out to Tufton at Bukit Timah over 1\ m SUNNY LAD: A promising sprinter beaten by a heavy track when third to Top Secret
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  • 23 14 TAIPING. Wed. Holders Indian Association beat Town Council Indians 3-0 in a soccer match for the Dr. Arasarednam Cup here yesterday.
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  • 27 14 SEREMBAN, WeJ. Singapore Youth Sport* Centre >a '.nlnton team will meet :he Seremban Cameron Badminton Party here on Saturday. S.Y.S.C. will also play In Malacca.
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  • 19 14 IPOH. Wed— ln a Div. 2 hockey match here today Indian Recreation Club beat the YMCA 10-0.
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  • 27 14 RAF. Changi beat Singapore Recreation Club 2-1 In a friendly hockey match on the padang yesterday. Sandhurst (2) scored for Chang: and Coutts for S.R.C
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  • 102 14 ST. LUCIA. (Windward Islands), Wed.— Test opening batsman Hanif Mohammad scored 100 not out for Pakistan In their drawn game with Windward Islands here yesterday. It tfas the first match of their West Indies tour. With his brother. Wazlr, Hanif put on 104 in an
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  • 150 14 Kam Pak to lead Perak All Blues IPOH. Wed.— Lool Kam Pak will captain Perak Asians against Penang In the deciding northern zone match in the All Blues Rugby Cup here on Saturday. Kam Pak. whose usual position is stand off. will play at fullback, replacing Lee Kooi Meng who
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  • 98 14 SEREMBAN. Wed Negri All-Blues team to meet Singapore All Blues here on Saturday In the deciding south zone All Blues Cup match will Include five new caps" They are Lee Yoon Sun. Lee sing Slong Stanley Rajaretnam. Yong Ket Chonu and Wong Yap Nam The team: Yusof.
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  • 37 14 TAIPING. Wed. Survey Sports Club beat Taiping Indians 3-2 in a league hockey match yesterday. Scorers were Hashim Ghows, Kamaruddln and Mas Akbar for the Surveys while Sundaresen and Jagdev Singh scored for the Indians.
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