The Straits Times, 23 April 1949

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times TWELVE PAGES MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, APRIL 2S, 1049. PRICE TEN CEN
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  • 424 1 Public Helps To Smash Killer Gangs From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. MALAYAN bandits have now lost the overall initiative and are slowly but surely being forced to dance to the tune called by the Security Forces, said the Federation Deputy Commissioner of Police,
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  • 163 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KrALA LUMPUR, Friday. WOMEN are being used by the bandits in roles ranging from messengers and cooks to frontline troops, declared the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. H. B. Shaw, at a press conference here today. Only two days ago. he ;a'.d. i
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  • 148 1 Calwell 'Has Broken Our Hearts' SYDNEY. Fri 4 USTRALIAS Immigration i\ Minister, Mr. Arthur Calwell lias refused an enTy l to the Filipino wife of an Australian. Mr. Garble Elms, -now living in Manila. Mr Elms, writing to Ms mother in Melbourne, said he felt he was threatened wr.h expulsion
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  • 45 1 rE FREE PRESS begins publication today of a special story translated into strip cartoon form, about a new adventure of "The Saint." world-famous creation of Leslie Chartcrls, ex-Malayan novelist now living in the United States. The Saint strips will appear dally.
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  • 41 1 NEW DELHI, Fri. India will not enter any long-term rice agreement with producing countries, according to Mr. Jairamdas Doulatram. Food Minister. Agreements have beer, reached with Australia, Canada and the United States lor the purchase of wheat.— Reuler.
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    37 1 FIELD MARSHAL EARL WAVELL and his son, discount Keren walking t« the ftrst green at fatten and ions tournament at Brookwood, Surrey. Karl WaY*H ha* on ly one eye and his son only one hand.— A.F. picture.
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  • 272 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. A U.S. delegate said yesterday that Russian ambitions to gain a Mediterranean foothold in North Africa were to blame for big power disagreement over Italy's former colonies. The statement was mad? in the United Nations Assembly's political committee by American delegate Mr. John
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  • 29 1 Stop Press Li Returns To Nanking NANKING, Frl. PRESIDENT LI Taiing-Jen returned to Nanking this evening from Hangchow. where he had flown for a talk with Chiang Kai-shek. U.P.
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  • 73 1 NEW YORK. Fri. rE American Federation of Labour has intensified its war on Communisiu by deciding to open offices iii Tokyo and Bombiy within the next ten days, when two of its veteran international experts will leave for the Orient. Mr. Matthew Woll. VitePresident of the A.F.L.,
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  • 54 1 The French ship. Boulogne-sur-Mer. carrying about 560 legionnaires bound for IndoChlna. put in at Singapore lat* yesterday to land a sick legionnaire who was admitted to the British military hoipital The patient. Sanchez Antonio, was stated to be comfortable and under medical treatment. The Boulogne-sur-Mer continued
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  • 149 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. ALTHOUGH the Govern- ment had negotiated for the surrender of 87 guerillas of the Overseas Chinese Anti-Japanese Army the time had not yet come when similar terms could be offered to the Communist bandits, stated the Chief Secre- tary,
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  • 143 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. YEW regulations controlling the movement of rubber by night in the Federation are to be introduced soon. Announcing this today, the Chief Secretary, Sir Alec Ncwboult, said that the step was aimed at stopping one prcf source
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  • 35 1 LONDON. Frl.— Mr. Theodore Ralph Hutton of Twickenham and Pennard, South Wales and for more than 20 year s in the PWD in the Malay States has died. He wu interned during the war.
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  • 454 1 NANKING Friday. SOUTH Yangtse valley points, cities and towns fell in rapid succession today before a mounting Communist onslaught. So weak was Government opposition that wholesale desertions to the Communists were feared. Foreign military observers safd a general troop withdrawal may have been ordered.
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  • 236 1 'BOTHS IDES FIRED ON WARSHIPS' SHANGHAI, Friday. /CHINESE Government troops, as well a s Communists, fired on th e British warships London and Black Swan after their bid to rescue the battered Amethyst in the Yangtse River, a high British official source said today. The total of dead from th
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  • 126 1 Was Trip Wise, Asks Press LONDON. Frl. BOTH the liberal Manchester Guardian and ilia imperialist Daly Express ta-j day wanted more information on why it was decided to send the sloop Amethyst up the Yangtse. as it was known a battle was imminent Press comment Included The Manchester Guardian. asked
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    • 145 2 Are ifcu aware? 1. That TIGER BEER is brewed in Singapore in a modern and most up to date Brewery. 2. That beer is best when fresh. Only locally brewed beer can reach you within a few days of bottling. 3. That only the choicest Malt, Hops and Yeast are
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    • 871 2 NOTICES SURVEY DEPARTMENT Applications are Invited from those eligible for Federal Citizenship for appointment as Apprentices In the Surrey Department. Candidates must be between the ages of 16 and 31 and must have passed School Certificate Orade I or Orade II with credits In English and In Mathematics. Preference Is
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  • 306 3 'BIG EIGHT' TALKS ON INDIA OPEN Nehru Lays Plan Before Attlee LONDON, Friday. 'J'HE Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth today begin their vital discussions on India's future co-operation with their countries in the Cabinet room of No. 10 Downing Street. Pandit Nehru yesterday outlined to Mr. Attlee his ideas on
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    47 3 INDIAN GENERAL IN SWITZERLAND: MaJ.-Gen. Kalwant Singh, Chief of the General Staff of the Indian Army, who is at present m Switzerland to Inspect the management of the Swiss Army, is greeted by Federal Councillor Dr. K. Kobelt, Chief of the Swiss federal Military Department. A.P. picture.
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  • 209 3 HPHE Indonesia Office at Singapore has heard a broadcast from Dr. A. K. Gani, Republic Military Governor of South Sumatra, which said that Dutch occupation forces launched a large-scale operation towards Nuara Aman, assumed by the Dutch to be the headquarters of the Republican Emergency
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  • 68 3 STOCKHOLM Fri. The American Negro singer, Paul Robeson, had a bad reception from a concert audience when he tried to end his performance by singing the Russian song 'Song of the Fatherland." The audience whistled and stamped on the floor forms of disapproval rarely heard in Sweden.
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  • 97 3 LONDON. Fri.- A former Britsh Ambassador to France. Sir DufT Cooper, today appealed to the West to end its "rude" policy towards Spain and "bring her back into the community of nations." Writing in the Daily Mail, Sir Duff Cooper accused the West of pursuing a
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  • 76 3 From Our Stall Correspondent PENANG. Fri. r would not be too late to send a Royal commission to Malaya, urged the Federal Executive and Legislative Councillor, Dr. Lee Tiang Keng. today commenting on Professor T. H. Silcock's suggest ion in London. A Royal commission would help
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  • 32 3 SANTIAGO, Fri.—A second earthquake, described as of "great violence' shook Angol, In South Central Chile, yesterday, where 41 people were officially reported to have been killed in Tuesday night's quake.—A.P.
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    • 241 3 NEW DELHI, Fri. rpHE Government of India is planning to establish a multi-purpose laboratory and a scientists' colony on a Himalayan mountain ton. The laboratory, which would be located at 16,000 feet, would be rim by a number of scientists, living in a colony to
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  • 172 3 MANCHESTER. Fri. A 40- YEAR-OLD Pole, who gave his name as Marlon Kaczmarzk. was charged in a Magistrate's Court here' yesterday with spying against I Britain for an unnamed for- i elgn power He was detained in custody for a hearing on Monday. The
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    40 3 BODO FRIES, a 39-year-old German ship's steward who was recently sentenced to death for the murder of two boys aged 9 and 12. He cut the second boy's body to pieces with a »eukniff and ate his liver.— A.P. picture.
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  • 132 3 LONDON, Fri. TWO leading British newspapers today emphasised the importance of the Dominion Ministers" conference in finding a compromise by which India could remain in the Commonwealth as a republic. The Conservative Yorkshire Post said: "The tide of a ruthless Communism is creeping south towards
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  • 59 3 KARACHI. Fri.— Plans for turning Chittagong into one of the greatest ports in the East and for developing the Chittagong Valley on the lines of America's Tennessee Vajley Authority have been approved by the Pakistan Government. A combine of two British and one Swedish engineers, known
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  • 49 3 MANILA. Fri.~ The Radio Corporation of America todav intercepted a distress call from Singapore Radio, saying that the Tungman, sailing from Wenchow to Foochow, had hit a rock during fog and was In a "very dangerous" situation. The message said: W» want to save the passengers." U.P.
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  • 260 4 MEMBERS of the Upper Serangoon Rural District Committee were reminded on Thursday by the Secretary of the Rural Board that they were not allowed to dictate administrative details to the Board. The function of the district committees, he told them, was strictly
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  • 72 4 MANY Raffles College students were wrong in their estimates last year. They failed to figure out the advice of their teachers NOT to read mathematics and. according to the acting Professor of Mathematics in 1948, Mr. J. C. Cook, in the annual report for the College, caused considerable
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  • 118 4 THE Singapore Government Gazette has been published in the Chinese language for the first time. The first two issues, dated April 10 and 18, have been translated by Dr. Foo Wen Kai, private secretary to Mr. Yong Yit Lin, president of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of
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  • 51 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The 60th bandit to be hanged under the Emergency Regulations for the unlawful possession of arms and or ammunition was executed this morning at Taiping. He was Liow Man Chee arrested during screening operations in Tronoh in possession of a hand
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  • 222 4 By Our Woman Correspondent ON a mission of "Happiness and Beauty" for today's woman, Mr. Robert Lodge, general manager of Innoxa's million-dollar beauty laboratories in London, has arrived in Singapore, after having travelled almost 30,000 miles. In an Interview, he told me: "There isn't
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  • 103 4 I' i oiii Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.—Appointments under the Federal citizenship regulations were gazetted today. It will enable registration to begin immediately in any part of the country. The Deputy Registrars will be the State Secretaries in all states except Kelantan, Malacca and Penang, and
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  • 75 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.—Regulations under the trade union enactment were gazetted today detailing the procedure for appeals to the chief secretary by unions which have either been refused reg.&tration by the Registrar or have had their certificates cancelled or withdrawn. Appeals will have to
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  • 9 4 The Singapore Assize* will open on Monday.
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  • 214 4 Malay Regt. Expansion Foreseen From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. FURTHER expansion of the Malay Regiment up to two brigades will have to be considered in the light of the funds available in 1950 and* in later years, said the Chief Secretary, Sir Alec Newboult, at a news conference
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  • 41 4 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Thurs. Alleged to have stabbed a fellow worker with a pair of scissors. Chong Than Onn 19, of Chan Wing Estate, Jagoh village, was produced In the Segamat Court and allowed ball In $250.
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  • 204 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. READING members of the Malayan Chinese Association keep in touch with chief police officers and assist, by contact and advice, in dealing with squatter areas regarded by the police to be in danger of falling
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  • 306 5 Municipal Committees THE introduction into Municipal committees of co-opt-ed members with the power to vote would inevitably lead to a division of responsibility, and was therefor* to b« deplored, said th« Leader of the Progressive Party In the Municipal Commission, Mr. A. P. Rajah, in an interview
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  • 149 5 IX)LLOWING the holdays j the week has been a short one and the market quiet and featureless, says Lewis and Peat's weekly rubber report. Ther ;i ha§ been a moderate demand for lower grades but in spite of this prices have tended to sag. On April
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  • 52 5 St. Hildas Church will piesent an Easter musical programme today at 6 p.m. in the Graham White Hall. 42 Ceylon Road. Katong. The programme includes selections from well-known composers with a grand opening of "And As Moses," and "God So Loved the World" from Stainer's Crucifixion. Admission
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  • 145 5 A DRIVER of a two-ton crane lorry, Matthew John, was sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment and was disqualified from driving for three years by the Third District Court Judge yesterday. The accused, who was convicted on a charge of causing the death of
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  • 127 5 TODAY Outrun Cnurch Youth Fellowship. English folk dancing, 43, Outram Road, 7.30 p.m. Overseas League (Far East Branch i, buffet supper and dance. Sea View Hotel, 8 p.m. V.M.C.A., Orchard Road. Singapore Chess Club, S p.m., movie circle show "Yolanda and the Thief," 8 p. rr. The Paya
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  • 21 5 IPOH, Frl.— Dr. O. V. Allen, vice-chancellor of the University of Malaya, is expected here on April 30.
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  • 95 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Frl. PUR bandits were killed in Johore In the past three weeks, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. H. B. Shaw, said today when reviewing anti-bandit operations. I He $aid that the past three weeks had been very quiet throughout Johore. Companies of the Ourkha
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    60 5 THE CHRISTENING of Christopher John Given-Wilson, second son of Mr. and Mrs. P.F. Given-Wilson took place at the Roman Catholic Garrjson Church, Tanglin yesterday, the Rev. E. V. Stevens officiating. Mr. and Mrs. GivenWilson's elder son, Patrick, is also in the group. The baby wore a christening robe which was
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  • 868 5 IJENRY Laird O'Brien, former chief engineer of the motor vessel Coorabie, obtained judgment in th« Singapore High Court yesterday, for the full amount of $9,211, plus an additional $3,200, of his claim against the owners of the vessel, Messrs. E. R. Anthonisz, Ltd., and Mr. E.
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  • 56 5 The following donations were recently received by the Singagapore Antl-Tuberculosls Association United Aid to Children Fund, $2,000; Malayan Kennel Association, $4,669.95: Mr. Loke Wan Tho, $1,000; Mr. Ong Ser Hal, $50; Anonymous $50; Mr. Lee Wan Coo $5; Mr. Lum 800 Chlng $2; Mr. P. A.
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  • 25 6 MR. A MRB. M. COOMARArWAMY. thank all the relatives and friends who sent valuable presents and congratulatory mes■ages on the occasion of their marriage.
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  • 646 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat,Apr. 23 1949 RELUCTANT DRAGON After thirteen weeks of truce, broken only by fighting, China's civil war has recovered its old momentum. Some day we may read the history of three strange months; it is sufficient now to know that the truce has failed and the
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  • 493 6 It is generally agreed by those who have suffered the experience that nothing in the late and unlamented war was more unsettling and humiliating than becoming a target for the guns of one's own side. It is an experience which need never be repeated, unfortunately not because
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  • 12 6 Federation Studies 30 Photograph by C. A. Gibson-Hill. THE LARUT HILLS, PEKAK.
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  • 1755 6  -  TUAN DJEK By OUNDAY, April 17.— As the drought is a thing of the past and we are having normal weather, there is no need to talk about it. We hope, however, that our attaps wif. soon arrive so that all buildings may have new roofs. Our
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  • 329 6 Decay Of A Pacific Outpost AUSTRALIA rules New Guinea today from paper "humpies" with a handful of "ill-equipp-ed, half-trained civil servants," says Australian Journalist Osmar White, of the Melbourne Herald. "Only six years ago ihJs torrid straggly little town was the focus of world attention the Pacific's Tobruk. Australians saw
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  • 525 7 BUSINESSMEN WANT "FREE "-RICE Four Chinese Chambers Say: "End Controls" From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. piVE of eight Chinese Chambers of Commerce attending Sunday's Malayan Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce conference in Kuala Lumpur have tabled resolutions criticising Malaya's adherence to the present system of the International Emergency
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  • 150 7 B-29 BOMB FOUND NEAR K.L. RAIL YARD From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. ivrORK in the railway running yards near Kuala Lumpur station was stopped today while an Army bomb disposal squad investigated an unexploded 500 lb. bomb which labourers unearthed yesterday. Believed to have been dropped b> an
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  • 82 7 TWENTY five year old George Co:ileth Smith, a Eurasian, pleaded guilty in the Third Police Court yesterday to three charges of theft. Smith was alleged to have stolen on two occasions a total of 40 books valued at $75, belonging to Mr. Tong C*hin Seng, from
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    50 7 MR. A. D. STUTCHBtKV. ihe Federation of Malaya Representative in Singapore, who will shortly leave for England on a six months' holiday. Mrs. Stutchbury will be sailing with him by the Meonia which is scheduled to leave on May 1. Mr. Stutchbury was formerly Registrar of Imports and Exports, Singapore.
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  • 100 7 Crematorium DESCRIBED as high priest of Seong Llm SI Temple, Kira Keat Road. Seong Hwee pleaded guilty yesterday in the Singapore Sixth Police Court to having operated a crematorium in the temple without being Lcensed. Mr. S. V. Hogan of the Municipal Health Department,
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  • 139 7 BANDITS COUNTING BULLETS From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. THE trend of incidents would indicate that the bandits are not so anxious to waste ammunition now as in previous months, declared the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. H. B. Shaw, at a press conference today. Mr. Shaw went on
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  • 63 7 The G,648-ton Norwegian ship, Ferndale, which was completed In Italy four months ago, arrived in Singapore yesterday on her maiden voyage round the world. The Ferndale, a cargopassenger vessel, was built in Genoa. She can carry a cargo of 10.000 tons. Her skipper, Captain H. Kornelulssen has
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  • 81 7 The executive secretary of the Eastern Asia Christian Conference under the auspices of the International Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches Dr. S. C. Leung, will arrive by air in Singapore tomorrow. The conference at Bangkok in December will be attended by delegates from Malaya. China,
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  • 190 7 IKENE YAP, 39, who pleaded guilty to having thrown an acid solution on a woman teacher's fac c at a Singapore school, wa s bound over for six months' yesterday. The Singapore Third Po:ice Magistrate. Mr. R. J. C. Walt told Yap that
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  • 72 7 ATRISHA-rider who was involved in an accident with a police jeep was found to be without an identity card. After spending five days in hospital, the man, Teo Sua Seng, was produced In court yesterday and charged with having failed to take out an identity card
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  • 98 7 THE Rev. W. B. Eales and Mrs. Eales appeared In tne First District Court yesterday for having failed to take out identity cards. Both pleaded guilty. Mr. Eales wa s flne d $60, and his wife $30. It was stated that they applied for their cards
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  • 63 7 Anzac Day, April 25, will be observed by Australians and New Zealanders in Singapore on Monday. The traditional dawn service of remembrance will be held at the Cenotaph at 8 a.m. The service will Include the laying of wreaths. In the evening, the Australia and New Zealand
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  • 44 7 Lover s of good music are invited to a gramophone recital which takes place tomorrow night at 7 o'clock at Raffles Institution. The "programme will feature Viennese music ano 1. one of a series of six recitals being given fortnightly In Singapore
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  • 40 7 Mr. Ram Faroop Rampeth, of the R.A.F. Maintenance Base, Seletar, who was awarded the British Empire Medal in the New Year Honours this year, died in India on April 5. He leaves a wife and a daughter.
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  • 147 7 FEE need for rounding up becoming semi-wild, and stray animals in the count- some more than semi-savage, ry districts was emphasised j said Mr. Hawkins, by the outgoing chairman of Reviewing the activities of the Society for Prevention of the Society Mr. Hawkins said Cruelty to
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    26 7 MR. AND MRS. L C. GORDON, leaving the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, after their wedding yesterday The groom U with Sime Darby and Co.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 435 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. IN an ambush near the Kuala Pilah road, five miles from Seremban last night police killed a wellknown bandit, Wong Kiew. He was one of the gang which abducted a Chinese photographer and the son of a Malay
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  • 329 7 Did Not Receive Full Payment Says Chellappah $243,178 Claim Against Railways From Oui Staff Correspondent KUALA LIMPUK, Friday. A FORMER laboui- contractor, Mr. A Chellappah, who is suing the Malayan Railway Administration for $243 178, testified in the Supreme Court here today that, for 13 months, he paid the wages
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  • 161 7 FACTORY'S PLAN FOR MILLERS THE JOO Song Rubber Fac- tory, Bukit Timah Road, which this week temporarily suspended production "due to shortage of raw material," has proposed to put its hitherto daily-paid 150 millers on a wage contract system. The secretary of the newlyformed Singapore Union of Rubber Workers (Mr.
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  • 29 7 Dr. S. C. Alagappan, Indian Consul-General In Indonesia, and Mr. K. N. Kaul, Deputy Secretary of the Indian Finance Ministry ar- rived in Singapore yesterday by air.
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    • 49 7 EVERITE ASBESTOS-CEMENT 1-3 BORE j^SQ 3y API-" nil- \l*t'D *Lj^^^^H^» •**^S LOU'F.R IQ^fSw^lMlGfrtiflL. v t> l' j^T^^^^iß RU& INSTALLED JH BY ANY A Bn PRESSURE PIPES W $OLE "STRBUTORS SIME, DARBY ivt i M FLINTER S. GRINBERG Diamonds and Jewellery TELEPHONE 7923 67, STAMFORD RO., Eu Court Bldg: SPORE
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  • 465 8  -  DANIEL DE LUCE By kRE career girl s a Britisli, American or Russian invention? Neutral Sweden says neither The independent mng woman in business and professional life is an old story in (Stockholm They do not dig with a pick and shovel, as their sisters in
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  • 59 8 MRS. Marjorle Ainger takes pride in the fact that she is a career woman. Today she Is the Supervisor of the Mechanised Section of the Department of Statistics, but she still remembers how she started as a raw schoolgirl In one of the numerous departments of
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  • 319 8 VTOW there's a square skirt. Hattie Carnegie doesn't figure It will actually replace the oldfashioned cylindrical model, but there it is. right in her spring made-to-order collection, square as the cowbell she named it for. The skirt, part of a gray
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  • 585 8  - Mathematics With A Machine By TESSIE CORNELIUS IF Mrs. Marjorie Ainger had been told as a school-girl that she would one day become the Supervisor of the Mechanised Section of the Department of Statistics, Singapore, where one of her tasks is balancing and compiling complicated trade figures, she would have
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  • Article, Illustration
    37 8 "SUMMERUNE" is the name given to this olTshoulder style with a fringed fichu worn by dim actress Margaret Loekwood. The dress offers some attractive ideas for Singapore women who want to keep cool in the hot weather.
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  • 169 8 QUEEN Mary is a very constant visitor to the theatre nowadays, but. all her life she has been Interested In the world of the theatre. A recent incident charmingly Illustrates this. When Queen Mary was Princess May of Tcck she often met Mary Moore the famous actress
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  • 158 8 FROM A MARKET NOTEBOOK Large Shipment Of Australian Sheep THE most noticeable feature in the Singapore markets was the presence of Australian mutton after a lapse of more than 10 days. About 1,700 head of Australian sheep arrived in Singapore last week. This shipment lessened the demand for local goats'
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 113 8 THE STORY BEHIND |L THE STOP-ME-AND-BUY-ONE BOYS -^JM W Strict laboratory control ensures that S M Jb Jsz Jm the standard of Magnolia Ices is consis- B|jiiL#<lsWjl Hf H Ms? 1 tently maintained. Regular medical JptSSnX^ X M examination of staff results in the well- ML consumers confidence in the
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    • 186 8 You can make your engine do this too Castrol makes your car engine SELF- CLEANING. Carbon and sludge wl.ich collect in the engine cause loss of power, waste of petrol and costly wear of vital paits. So in Castrol a new additive (a metal salt of a tertiary alkyl substituted
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  • Straits Times SATURDAY FORUM
    • 389 9 For whom was the M.I C. speaking? THE EASTER RESOLUTION THE Malayan Indian Congress and Mr. Tan Cheng Lock are to be congratulated on their recent entry into the realms of positive politics. This is a significant change from their negative attitude of more than a year ago when the
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    • 149 9 5> 'pHt; deportation of the 50-year-old Siamese nurse SS i( 1 from Australia after 21 years' residence* there tt brings the question of retaliatory action once again >> to the fore There are many more Australians earning a living in SS si un than there are
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    • 159 9 THE Singapore Turf Club is now following the Penang and Ipoh lead and providing for consolation prizes in their Unlimited Sweeps. Selangor hasn't done so yet. but it is time they did The new Singapore allotment is: 45 per cent (first prize), 22»/ 2 per cent, (second).
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    • 202 9 AN March 15, at a meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council, Mr. C. C. Tan asked two questions: 1. What are the opening dates in each year for the enrolment of school children in Government Schools? 2. Why has there been no announcement of such dates in
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    • 154 9 Admission To A Girls' School I READ with surprise, I* in your issue of April j 14, that registration for admission to Raffles j Girls' School, morning and aftsrnoon classes, for 1950 has already closed. In the interests of the public in general and of parents In particular, this highly
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    • 163 9 EASTER AT CAMERON HIGHLANDS nfE have just returned! after two weeks holidays at Cameron Highlands. The same old spot, lovely sunny days and freezingly cold nights, mornings on the golf course and everything as delightful :.s; ever except for the lack of holiday-makers. We were surprised to hear that people
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    • 298 9 THE Singapore Traffic Police, the Traffic Committee and the Singapore Municipality should be proud of Market Street. This glorious bottleneck is filled with a conglomeration of vehicles which would make the grade in any museum of ancient and modern transport. T-model Fords which have outlived
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    • 76 9 I BUTTERWORTH magis- j trate has fined a trishaw rider $5 for "loitering for hire" at Mitchell Pier. The Singapore Police could reap a rich harvest if they kept some men on duty at Clifford Pier whenever an American, French or British warship is in port. It
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    • 249 9 HOUSES IN THE SLUMS IN an article headed "EATING-SHOP PLAN TO BE OPPOSED," the Straits Times states that certain Singapore Commissioners intend to oppose a committee decision to license the first floor of a house in Bencoolen Street as an eat-ing-house. Excellent! It is high time a little consideration was
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 141 9 jBbM Air^v^.ia^-^L^ IS ißirT fit* %SIL TO GET WATER Shell hibocanu play thcu pin in many important capo- 41 7 foot suspension bridge Many thousands of ton of eenng pcoteta The Cburdull Witef Scheme in South mil and rock were excavated and an army of lonia and Atnca a one
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    • 36 9 1 1 HALL'S HUtemper WITH PETRIFYING LIQUID AND |P "D" PRIMER at L j: j 1 1 1 *UlHflrs YOURS- i C GENERRLLV?" JJjJ a LONDON ALE SOLE AGENTS.- fI£N|EJ. TASTE HUXLEY BOOTY LIP, KUALA LUMPUR
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 628 9 The declarer In today's deal was easy for North to respond, but a tempted to "save time" and concede response based on a four-card himself down a trick, the contract suit to a queen-ten, with only looked so hopeless, but on second three tens on the side Is too thought
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  • 797 10 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Friday. r}EALINGS in th e Malayan share market were again on a very small scale today. With little encouragement from overseas the market was very dull. i Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buy«r Setter Atlas Ic« IS.
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  • 382 10 LONDON, PH. SHARES of Imperial Chemical Industries, Britain 1 largest Industrial :> ncern, -ose frcm 48-1 to 40-9 ou the London Stock Exchange >es f e<i4y. Th« reason was net sterling ind total dividend maintained at 10 oer rent. Other Industrial leaders also showed nrmnvu and bright con*
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  • 148 10 From A Market (orrenpondent ACTIVITY In Singapore produce markets yesterday was again restricted, and business written very small In««he sago ser'ior, transactions were done at reduced prices. There was no other change and the markets were generally uninteresting. Yesterday's prices were Rice: No 1. $39; 2, $37;
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  • 208 10 r£ Singapore rubber market was very quist throughout y sterday with prices at much the same levels as Thursday's. Closing pr'res yesterday were: No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers 35% cents, 3ellers 35% cents; spot loose buyers 35% cents, sellers 35% cents per lb. The Singapore Chamber ol Commerce
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  • 100 10 SHIPS in port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns In brackeu) were Sheer*: Empire Hamhle Main Wharf: N. Holland (4243) Angby (40-41) President G. ant (38-39> Lawak (36-37) Ball (3132 >. Empire Dock: Tairea (17-1%) Pentakota (19-20) Trevinoe (2324) Noreverett (25-26; Dimitry Donasky (27-28). Weet
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  • 167 10 NEW YORK. Fri. UNION Pacific suffered a setback during an afternoon of feeble rallying attempts. This share was off more than two points to 79 1 8th and near the 1949 low In an otherwise mostly fractionally lower rail set-ion. While March net income improved over 1948, Union
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 1252 10 MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. •eateag m >in(apcre) bLUI FUNNEL STRAITS STEAMSHIP CO.. Carrier s opti.n to proceed via other I LTO ports to load and discharge cargo S.ILINCS FROM OK USA Vml# .M. M A T Apr. 28 Agapenor t.om UK_Co.,t. Apr. 25 Mt Bt k b tor Malacca Apr.
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    • 292 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA CIYLON. INDIA ECVPT AND MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Spore P Sham Penang Pre» Buchanan A pr. 23/24 Apr. 2S/26 Pro Harding Apr 29/ Ma» 2 May 3/4 May 5/7 I'" ifM May 11/11 May 16/17 May 18/21 Prei lefferson May 21/ 28 May
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    • 322 10 EAST ASIATIC LINE j SAILINGS TO CONTINENT/ SAILINGS FROM SCANDINAVIA UK SCANDINAVIA CONTINENT Load'ng at Singapore Port Swettenham mi "Korea due abt. May IS enang tor Bangkok Manila. HKong. m.s 'Mancnuna lue abt Apr 21 Shanghai Kobe Yoko- For Colombo. Aden Port Said, ham* I?) Cenoa Marseilles. Algiers, Antwerp. Rotterdam,
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    • 910 10 McALISTEH CO.. LTD. (Incoipotetoi m >mg4oo>e> SIABaMA* auCftttAU. UVMMI UMI LONDON HAVRI ROTTERDAM 0> fr CANADIAN PACIFIC PO«TS b HAMBURG Accepting cargo for Central South Cm OF POONA American Ports Spore P Sham Penang SUNNY VILLf Due 29 Apr 5 May 6 May Vpoie Sham Panana Sails 4 May 5
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  • 847 11 Governor's Cup Stakes Raised By EPSOM JEEP APPROXIMATELY $250,000 in advertised stakes and added money will be shared between 40 races in five days at the forthcoming Singapore Turf Club Summer (Governor's Cup) Meeting at Bukit Timan. Advertised stakes will amount to $85,600
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  • 347 11 S.R.C. weekend teams are: Today: v. Hongkong Shanghai Bank on the Padang at 2 p.m.: A. O. Armstrong (capt.), B. BoKaars, O. Bogaars, T. Leijsslus. J. de Silva, D. Miller, W. Haseldlne, O. Rozario, a. Thomasc. D. Rabot and G. Woodford. Tomorrow: v. Shell Sports Club on
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  • 247 11 Tiger S.C 3 Tamil s 1 ONE of the poorest Senior League games so far was seen at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday when Tigers and Tamil Brotherhood took the field. Tigers won three-one to register their first victory in four games. Tamils were far below the
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  • 425 11 Venue Of 1956 Games Known Tomorrow By A Special Correspondent MELBOURNE, Prl. SPORT conscious Australians this Easter have taken more than the usual Interest in events of an athletic nature, because this month will decide the fate of Melbourne's big bid for thP 1956 Olympics. The International Olympic Committee, meeting
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  • 97 11 pLEVER positional play by a v/ fast forward Une carried T. Mong 0.8.A. to an easy four-two victory over the Social Athletic Party in a Junior "B" Group I, league soccer fixture at Geylang Stadium yesterday. Even distribution by the 0.8.A. defence gave the forwards
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 345 11 LAST 5 SHOWS TODAY! II A.M.. 1.45. 4.00. 6.30 AND 9.30 P.M. IT WILL GIVE YOUR HEART A NEW LEASE ON LIFE! Plus! MARCH OF TIME: AMERICAS NEW AIR POWER" phohe Sr^Jj] |5T 5159 OPENS TOMORROW! "Some women can't stand cats JM I fr^. SJ fr By j^&^fl BBu^Bßß^^'-^^^^B^ B^#
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    • 189 11 YOUR SATURDAY "MOVIE" COLUMBIA'S ON TREASON'S TRAIL LOUIS UAYWARD— DENNIS O'KEEFE FIVE SHOWS at 11 A.M., 1.45, 4.00, 6.30 AND 9.30 P.M TONIGHT AT M NITE! HILARIOUS IF YOU WANNA RECIPE K)K STAY MARRIED HAPPINESS! and HAPPY YOU GOTTA B&F H TAKE IT V "LYING LM DOWN"! A W^^% WL.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 261 11 SINGAPORE Soccer from the Malaya District Reel; 10.15 Light Music; 10.30 Ground; 6.15 Dance Music; 6.30 The Man from Hatton Garden1.00 Programme Summary; Children's Programme; 7.00 News. 10.45 'Rhythm on Records' from 1.02 Dance Music; 1.30 News Share Market Report etc.; 7.20 Radio Malaya; 11.30 News; 11.45 (also at 7
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  • 947 12 FOUR MALAYA CUP MATCHES TODAY Champions Will Play At Muar rpHIS year's Malaya Cup competition gets under way in earnest today with four games at Singapore and Muar in the South, and at Kuala Lumpur and Kuala Lipis in the Northern section. These four games are particularly interesting, as both
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  • 384 12 Cup Teams Singapore v. R.A.F. SINGAPORE: To be selected from the followini Arshad. Abdul Rahman. Harith, Haji Garhan, Sharlff Madon, SaUeh iKota Raja); Chin Lye, Tee Slang, Hoi Mem, Kng Slant (C.A.); Ramlan, Chye Her. O. Angullla I B O.D. i Ab Yik. Chee Seng (Casuals) LeetnbrogKen. Morton, Khamld, Vijiaretnam,
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  • 53 12 St. Patrick's School XI to playsoccer against Changi Prison at Changi this evening at 5. 18 p.m. will be as follows: Conrad Perei- j ra: Paul Wee Louis Andradc: Low Teng Hai. Ronnie Westerhout. Adrian da Sllva; Eng Stong. Michael Wee. Augustine Tan, Lee Kiat Jian. Leonard Grass
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  • 24 12 rE Singapore Cricket Club and the Tlong Bahru Rangers drew two-all In a friendly game of soccer playtd on the padang veeterdav.
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  • 228 12 Fro m Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHKI. Friday. 'TIIK Johore Bahru District Amateur Athletic Association hav c completed arrangements for the training season to start in May when the training centre at the Bukit Zahrah School ground will be opened to all athletes in Johore
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  • Article, Illustration
    50 12 M. C. KAILASAPATHY leads out the Raffles College cricket team in their match against the Medicals which started at Bukit Tiinah yesterday. Raffles' players wore black arm-bands as a mark of respect to the late Professor W. E. Dyer, former Principal, who died la Australia this week. Straits Times picture.
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  • 227 12 95,000 Will See Amateur Cup Final LONDON. Fli. A CROWD believed to be a world record for amateur football will watch the Football Association Amateur Cup final between Bromley and Romford at the famous Wembley stadium tomorrow. With due respect to Bromley and Romford. It is a^pity that the first
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  • Article, Illustration
    27 12 P. VANNIASINGHAM (left) and B. K. Sen go out to opeu the Medical College innings against Raffles yesterday. Sen was out first ball. Stra Us Times picture.
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  • LETTER TO SPORTS EDITOR
    • 125 12 I WRITE this letter a s a student of a Singapore English School who has witnessed almost all interschool matches this season. It was indeed heartbreaking to see the Singapore Combined Schools XI being trounced by the Johor© Schools Combined XI The team that played on
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  • 89 12 Racing, Other Sport P. 11 was that the boys did not know oach other* styles of play. This was because not one friendly practice match was played, except for the trial which lasted for one hour. Team work Is v«ry essential in any soccer team. The Singapore School Combined XI
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  • 54 12 THE Island Club's Eu Tong Sen Golf Cup qualifying round will be played at the Island Club on Saturday and Sunday. May 14 and 15. This is an open invitation competition and names of intending competitors should be sent In to the secretaries. Messrs. Renni
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  • 32 12 INSPECTOR Low Hong He* scored a hat-trick in the Junior league soccer match played at the Police Training School yesterday between Police and Naval Stores. The Police won three-one.
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  • 29 12 TWE Macao table-tennis team, now on a visit to Singapore, defeated the Chin Woo Club by five games to nil at the Great. World last night.
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  • 116 12 TODAY SOCCER: Malaya Cup: Singapore T. R.A.F. J. Besar sladlum, CRICKET: S.R.C v Hone Kon* S'hai Bank— S.R.C; C.S.C. 2nd v. S.C.R.C.— Honf Mm Green; S.C.C. v Kranji WT— S.C.; Raffles lint, v. I.A R.I.; St. Andrew's School v. Borneo Co.— Woodsvllle; R.A.F. Seietar r. P.W.D.— Seletar; Police
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  • 285 12 SCC Bowling May Beat Ceylonese AFTER a break last week owing to the State cricket match, the next batch of games In th* Singapore Cricket Association's tournament will be nlayed tomorrow when the S.C.C. meet the Oeylon 8.C.: th# S.R.C. meet Johore, the Indians play the Colonials and Changi Airmen
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  • 24 12 IN a friendly gam« of soccer played at Farrer Park yesterday, the Owen Youngsters beat the Hotspurs by six goals to two.
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  • 23 12 LONDON, Fli. BARROW8 ARROW beat Liverpool Stanley by It points to ail Jn a Uugby League fl ture yesterday R*«t*T.
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  • 345 12 LEAGUE LIES BETWEEN THREE TEAMS IMIK fight for honours in the S.A.F.A. Senior League 1 a one-round competition this season has narrowed down, and the issue now lies between the Chinese Athletes, Rovers and R.A.F. (Seletar). With the loss of only one point from six game*. Athletes appear to be
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  • 141 12 SCHUBERT ROUTS MEDICALS MAINLY as a result of, some fine bowling by C. Schubert, who took Mven wickets for 11 runs, Rallies College dismissed Medical College for 30 runs, In Mi* last of the series of the annual Inter-college crlcketf matches for the Allen Cip, which began at Bukit Tin
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 473 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from page 8t HITION ROSIK DRESS MAKER, from 51. it April. 1949. at No. 1. Emerald Hill Road. Singapore. KOI v\l > ONF NEW BAI.DOR" Ame-rican-made AC-230 volts Port- j able PhM Battery Charger. Cm view at 134 Selegle Road. EKCO RADIO and separate Oarrard pick-up »75.
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    • 158 12 "I like you to hold me close I like it very much!* 9 THB TEAM THAT OENERATES STEAM! in M.G.M.'t TRIUMPHANT co-Marrim ANNE BAXTER JOHN HODIAK Now Showing 11 a.m.; 1.45 p.m.; 4.19; 6.4A and 9.30 p.m. Phone 3400 78 F. For Comfort! STEWART IDWKI u v GRANGER FEUILLERi NEXT
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