The Straits Times, 21 May 1949

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  • 19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 184S TWELVE PAGES. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MAT U. 1949. it PRICE TEN CENTS.
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  • 337 1 Bund 'Sealed 9 City In Confusion SHANGHAI, Friday. TWENTY-SIX fires burned tonight along the Whangpoo om the Pootung side of the river as a result of shelling and demolition. The blazes appeared to range from small villages on the horizon to industrial installations a few hundred
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    68 1 DFLAYED IN AUSTRALIA: Miss 00l Soh Im (left) and ,Miss Mi..- Chia. who bave just completed their training in Australian hospitals under the A.I.F. Malayan Nursing Scb'ilarshios, have been held up because of a fire in the nigineroom of the Kafiristan, by which they were to have left Tor Singapore.
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    33 1 GfcNfcKAL CLAY. U.S. Military Governs* in Germam leans over to sign the- new draft constitution for Western Germany. Waiting to sign (centre) Is General Srr Brian Robertson. British Military Governor. A. P. pteUre.
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  • 187 1 CANBERRA, Friday. *K Joseph Chifley, Australia's Prime Minister, culled Press representatives together today and told fii.-m there had been a misunderstanding of the tatemort he had made in the House of Representatives about diversion of shipping to take British wives. to Malaya. Mr. Chifley said Australia I
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  • 140 1 CONTACT WITH REDS DENIED LONDON. Fn. A FOREIGN Office spokes man last night categorically denied that Britain had established any official contact with Chinese Communists. He had been questioned about a report by Mr. Drew Pearson. U.S. newspaper columnist, who said that Britain had proposed to the Chinese Communists a
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  • 34 1 COLOMBO, Fri. -Brigadier the Earl of Caithness new chief of the Ceylon defence force and military adviser to the Ceylon Government, arrived In Colombo today to organise the new Ceylon army.— Reuter.
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  • 351 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMFUR, Friday. HEAVY casualties are believed to have been suffered by the bandit gang which ambushed a combined military and police party five miles from the Malayan Collieries at Batu Arang yesterday afternoon. The bandits killed a Britisr military
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  • 128 1 Lorries Roll Through To Berlin BERLIN. Fri. BERLIN-BOUND west German lorries rolled through the Soviet highway checkpoint at Helmstedt without ln"-rfpr:nc(» today Russian threats to re-im-p. s- thr "little blockade." voiced last night, failed to d<*V4lopi The Russians lifted their two-day ban on lorry traffic a! injj the 110-mlle four-lane
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  • 27 1 WELLINGTON, Fri. The New Zealand Federation of Labour today decided to withdraw from the Communistdominated World Federation of Trade Unions by 197 "ites to 61.— Reuter.
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  • 212 1 LONDON, Friday. \]K. A. J. Champion, Labour M.P., today defended the British Government's record on Malayan war losses in a letter to the Daily Telegraph. He was replying to a letter published in the same paper from Sir George Maxwell, former Chief Secretary, F.M.S Government.
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  • 69 1 BATAVIA, FrL— The Dutch Army next week will start c vacating about 40.000 Jogjakarta civilians who do not want to remain under Indonesian Republican rule. This will be the first step In the restoration of Jogjakarta, the Republican capital, agreed upon this month at conferences. The Sultan
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  • 104 1 RANGOON. Fn. THE British-owned Burmah Oil Company has paid more than 300,000 rupees as "royalty" to the White Band Peoples Volunteer Organisation, the rebels at oresent controlling the Central Burma oilfield areas. It was au*norl 'atlvely learn -d f oo»»A company ot*<"i<»' "win. has
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  • 119 1 'REPLY TO CALWELL' FAILS MANILA, Fri. rE Reciprocal Immigration BUI, directed gainst Mr. Calweh's "White Australia" policy, "died" in the Phtll; pine Con Kress today. Senate leaden said the bill "died" because the Senate amendment exempting aliens married to Filipinos was not agreed by the House before the Congressional esslon
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  • 66 1 LONDON, FrL— Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. is expected to begin talks on the Malayan situation with the Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. Creech Jones at the beginning of next week. Government sources said today. Since he arrived here on Wednesday Mr. Mac Donald has been fully
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  • 45 1 LONDON, FrL— The following tin Interims have been declared: Oopeng 5 p.c, Tekka Taiplng 5 p.c. Tekka li p.c, Rambutan 3} p.c. Ag a consequence tins attracted attention from local and eastern sources and were the outstanding section in base metals, market yesterday.
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  • 163 1 From Oar Own Correspondent LONDON, Friday. 'THE reported Dutch Cabinet approval of a proposal allowing Dutch exporters to retain ten per cent, of the r.S. dollars accruing from sales to the dollar area is regarded In London as a threat to the interests
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  • 90 1 LONDON. FrL A DIVERGENCE of view is developing between the British aa4 United States Gcvenunenis on the future policy foe Japan. •JAcial sewers said today. The British viewpoint is that H would be wrong to permit Japan to be treats as a sovereign power before signing a
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  • 276 1 We Had Traitors, Says haycock T»HE Progressive Party A had traitors in its camp, said Mr. John Laycock at the annual meeting of the Party yesterday, when amendments to the Party's rules were adopted, simplifying the procedure for expelling members guilty of misconduct. In the last Legislative Council and Municipal
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  • 283 2 LONDON, Friday. BRITAIN'S governing Labour Party yesterday banned all association with Communists. The rule applies to more than 5,000,000 members, as well as to party officials and Members of Parliament. It was published In the Executive Committee's annual report, Issued immediately after
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    29 2 CAROL MARSH, the film actress, wean a salt tt white worsted with a narrow strand stripe of black with Jet buttons and black velvet collar and caffs. Renter picture.
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  • 164 2 'NEPAL NOT FREE' —RUSSIA LAKE SUCCESS, Fri. RUSSIA yesterday opposed admission of the Kingdom of Nepal to the United Nations, when the Security Council's Membership Committee met to consider Nepal's application. The Soviet delegate said he was not "satisfied" that, on the information so far available, Nepal was a sovereign
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  • 180 2 LAKE. SUCCESS, Friday. INDIAN and Pakistan spokesmen yesterday 1 submitted their views to the U.N. Security Council o i whether the Council was competent to discuss the status of Hyderabad. The Council had invited the two representatives to take part in the proceedings. Sir B
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  • 65 2 SYDNEY, Fri.— Shortage of American dollars Is the primary cause of frequent delays and breakdowns In Qantas Kangaroo Constallation air service to Britain, writes the aviation correspondent of the Sydney Sunday Herald. The correspondent says Australian aviation r'rcles believe that the dollar shortage has hampered
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  • 120 2 LONDON, Frl. FE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevln. last night outlined an agreement between London and Cairo for a giant £11,500,000 dam and hydro-electric station to harness and control the waters of the Nile, life stream The huge project, sited near Jinja, Uganda, in the
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  • 162 2 LONDON. Frl ABOARD of Trade spokesman yesterday welcomed news from India that there were to be some relaxations of the Import restrictions imposed by India on May S. The relaxations, the spokesman said, would be of considerable help to British exporters. i In addition, it was
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    • 258 2 HYDERABAD, Friday. pIGHT prominent Communists of the Nalgonda district were sentenced to death yesterday by a special tribunal before which they had been on trial for a month. The condemned men. who will be the first Communists to suffer the extreme penalty In
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    • 712 2 NOTICES POLICE RATIONS Tenders will be received by the Colonial Secretary, Singapore, before IS noon. June 2nd. 1949, for the supply of uncooked rations for the Singapore Police Force for t months, commencing from Ist July, 1949. FuiU;cr details from Police H.Q.. Souti. Bridge Road. KELANTAN ADMINISTRATION ENACTMENT, 1930 Eatato
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    • 674 2 NOTICES C. P. TAYLOR LTD.. gives notice that as from Ist May, 1949, Mr. D. J. Hooper has been appointed Manager of the Company. Mr. C. P. Taylor has ceased to have any connection with the Company as Director or Manager. VACANCIES exist In the Department of Telecommunications, Federation of
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    • 643 2 NOTICES H.M. DOCKYARD, SINGAPORE ■ALB BY TENDER NO. US/4* Tendera will be received at the Office of the Superintending Naval Stare Officer, H.M. Dockyard. Singapore, up to noon on Tuesday list May, 1940, for the purchase of 68 lots of miscellaneous Items comprising Caterpillar Crane, Acetylene Generators, Mixed Ferrous and
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    • 373 2 on-.MM. id UAY! 8 Show*— 3. 6.15 A 9.15 p.m. United Artists' "ATLANTIS" atarring Maria Montei Jean Pierre Aumonl Te-nlte At Mld-nlte— Warner Bros' ADVENTURES OF DON JTJAN* —In Technicolor— To-moiTow at 11 a.m.— M-G-M's "GREEN DOLPHIN STREET** GREAT WORLD Otabe 2 30— 7 30 "G-MEN VS. BLACK-DRAGON" Whole Serial
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  • 113 3 V.C. Hero After Five Years LONDON, Frl. rr\HE London Oasette today X announced the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Lieutenant George Albert Cairns, of the Somerset Light Infantry, who tn March 1944 continued to lead an attack on a Japanese-held hilltop after his arm had been hacked off
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  • 29 3 PARIS. FrL rtve hundred persons broke up a Paris auction sale of larsnal Pe tain's personal belongl.igs when they shouted, "Vive Petain" and sanji the "Marselllalse".—AJ>.
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  • 34 3 TOKYO. Frl.— Angry Communist and DemocraticLiberal members of the Japanese Diet, scuffled, exchanged blows and rolled on the floor of the Lower House durlnß a 15-minate free-for-all over a Finance Ministry bill.— Reuter.
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  • 205 3 Wo Compromise With Reds WASHINGTON, Friday. QN the eve of his departure for the Big Four conference in Paris, the UJS. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, said last night that he would not "barter away" to Russia any successes already scored by
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    65 3 THE FIRST to ll v the Atlantic, Rear- Admiral A. C. Read, IS. Navy (retd.). used a Curtis* flying boat SO years ag*. He Is seen here (centre) after travelling as a passenger on a os-tamem entire flight made by Lockheed P2V Neptune bomber, Truculent Twtle." Chief Machinist Mate E.
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  • 315 3 MEETING COMMUNIST MENACE From Oar Own Correspondent LONDON, Friday. TtHE Times comments today on the statement by 1 the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson agreeing with Pandit Nehru that a Pacific Pact, as suggested by Australia's Prime Minister, Air. Chifley, as
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  • 318 3 (Continued from page 1) idea of encircling the remaining tJandlU. On* of the tUnss made conuct and shot two more nanditi. The survivorg ran to a nearby hill and in growing darbies escaped. Gurkhas found tlie three d«ad I bodies, three rliles and 120 rounds 1
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  • 115 3 TOKXO, Friday. piLIPINO-American Corporal I.orenio Gamboa said today that he was planning to go to New York to lay his case against the White Australia policy before Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and other delegates to the United Nations. Gamboa, who has been refused permission by
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  • 36 3 Hound -Up Of Chinese MANILA, Fit THh arrest of some I.tOO Chinese temporary visitors, whose official permission u» stay in the Philippines has already expired, has been ordered by the immigration authoiities of the Republic— Reuter.
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  • 63 4 HONG KONG, Pri.— Mr. Tan Kah Kee, the Singapore Chinese leader, urged his countrymen In Fuklen province, Southern China, to make peace immadlately with the advancing Communists. His "save Fuklen" message, Issued here, was followed by an appeal from Hong Kong's Fuklen Association to countrymen inside and
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  • 470 4 'LAW LAST USED IN 1883' SAYS COUNSEL IN BRIBE CASE THE law under which the charge against the two men accused in the $8,000 illegal gratification case was framed, was last used in 1883, said Mr. E. M. Tampoe-Philips at the close of the case in the Fourth District Court,
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  • 188 4 GAOL FOR POLICE 'RUFFIANS' From Our BUS Correspondent PEN ANO, FrL DESCRIBED by the Sessions Court President '"t. M. R. F. Rogers, as "cowardly ruffians," two constables and a corporal of the Traffic Branch were today sentenced to one month's imorlsonment each for causing hurt to a i Customs Revenue
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  • 475 4 LONDON, Friday. THE "danger of fanning up embers of enmity" 1 when considering the worst side of any national question was referred to by Mrs. B. H. Oon, Federal Legislative Councillor, when she addressed members of the China Society in London today. Mm. Oon said
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  • 76 4 Trouble Far From Over' LONDON, FrL THE British weekly review Spectator wrote today that the "rebellion" in Malaya was "very far from being- at an end." It suggested that the outcome now depended more on events outside the Peninsula than on the success of measures Inside Malaya. India's decision to
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  • 55 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. FrL— Mr. J. R. Spence, Senior Executive Engineer, Johore accompanied by Mrs. Spence has left for the U.K. on leave. Mr Spence has been succeeded by Mr. J. V. Murdock. Another P.W.D. official who has left for the U.K. is Mr. Peter
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  • 64 4 The Seafarers Administrative Board, at its sixth meeting at Raffles Institution yesterday, discussed a report by Its sub-committee on the working of the Seamen's Registration Bureau, and decided to send a delegation to the office of the Master Attendant. The question of malpractices was brought up, and the
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  • 83 4 Net proceeds of the charity film snow "An Ideal Husband" at the Pavilion Theatre In aid of the Hospital Week Fund on May 2 amounted to $0,088, an organiser of the function, Mrs. Frank Thompson, said yesterday. Donations from Mrs. F. Starr, Messrs. W. M. Piercey
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  • 65 4 An extra police constable formerly attached to the Johore Police, who extorted 40 cents from a coffee and cake hawker, left the First District Court yesterday to serve two; years' hard labour. He was 21-year-old All bin Mohamed, who pleaded guilty to two charges of
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  • 82 4 The University of K'^lay-i Endowment Fund now totals $24 962. Recent donation are: Soon Cheong Limited $3000; Dr. 8. Seevaretn^m 1000, T ngku Aniruin v Se langor $1000. Tengku Laxamana of Klang $500, Mr. JR. Vethavanam $500 Mr. R. I. P: Curtis $250, Mr Worj, Lar
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  • 123 4 r.NS are now being drafted to make provision for accommodation of 140 delegates and members of the staff of the Economic Commission for Asia and ih» Fa East when it meets iii the Victoria mortal H-V In October. Arrangements 'vitn re n to the equipment
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    • 193 4 HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK ¥OU SHOULD SEE THIS PICTURE. TODAY THREE SHOWS PJ^|!J|||| 2.30 (j.30 !U0 p.m. CONDITIONEIdIj^S Phone 6903 LATEST fAIME GAZcITE— End Of Berlin Blockade Special Morning Show Tomorrow 11 a.m. Robert Stack In MEN OF TEXAS ALUMINIUM PRIMER a and tf^ BRUSELLO UNDERCOATING Er^ SB v^
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  • 190 5 700 Recruits: Expansion To Cost $5,806,202 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE Federation Government will spend $5,806,202 this year on the expansion of the Malay Regiment A total of over 1 ,700 men will be recruited. To accommodate the new recruits, semi-per-manent barracks will
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  • 125 5 FLOODS ABATE M PERAK From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Frt THE floods along the Sun--1 gel Par! have abated and the people who had evacuated from the affected areas have returned to their hom*s. It was washing day far these people today. They cleaned their homes of the slime deposited
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  • 71 5 A consignment of 750 tons of Iraqi dates has arrived In Singapore. This Is a seasonal Import for sale to the Muslim community, who will be requiring them during their fast, beginning next month, to prepare fur the Han Raya Puaaa In July. Equal to only half
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  • 34 5 From Onr Own Correspond**! SEG AMAT, Fri. Without calling on the defence, the Segamat Magistrate discharged an Arab, Shiekb Abdul Hanild bin Sheikh AfTendl, produced before him aa a suspected 'orang Jahat'
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  • 55 5 From our Own C orrespandent BUTRRWOBTII, Friday IN the first ease of Its kind heard in Batterwortta, a 1 shop assistant, l.im Te ng Hean, was today fined 110 far spitting in pablic. The Cirmlt Magbtrat*. Mr. B. M. Smalhrood, In convicting Urn, emphasised the danger
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    26 5 OATO M AHMID BIN MAT, Mentri Besar *f Fxhjuif Inspects >■■!»— g Iwtaaa and >■■»— g guards at the P— g M«l«y hrh— l, lilt- Strait* Tfea picture.
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  • 307 5 f THE prices which the Federation Government pays 1 for rice and the prices at which it is being retailed have now been disclosed. The Federation get* rice from seven sources local producers, Australia, Brazil, Burma, Egypt, French IndoChina and Slam The e.l.f Singapore prices per
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  • 66 5 Front Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHBU. Frl. Rah.in bin Buang a driver appeared before the Police Court yesterday on two charges of stealing 1.000 gal lons of dlesel oil. On the fast charge he was fined $300 or two months' imprisonment, and one month's Imprisonment. On
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  • 187 5 TRADING In rubber this a week has again been small. In the absence of Interest from consuming centres, values have sagged slightly, aays Lewis and Peat's market report. Officially reported exports from Indonesia for the first quarter of 1949 are very low at 79,771 tons. As
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  • 291 5 -Advice P' Singapore la to develop along reasonable lines, private enterprise must look beyond the immediate sale of building plots and provide suitable road approaches, said Mr. G. E. Magcuy, Assistant Planning Offlcer of the Singapore Improvement Trust yesterday. There were many places in Singapore where It
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  • 146 5 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. > lIUNDREDfi of special eonH stables, hurriedly enrolled j In the first days of the emergency, had their status safeguarded by an amendment to the Emergency Regulations published here today. The amendment states that any members of the
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    • 141 5 1 fMN^HS*asa TODAY Singapore Chess Championship, eighth round. School Bo>? Chess Championahip, sixth round, V.MC.A, Orchard toad. 3 p.m. Y.W.C.A., rohmteeri meeting, 9, Raffles Quay, 4 p.m. Outram Churdt Youth Fellowship, social evenlai; to which other Youth Fellowships have been invited, 43, Oatram Road. 7.30 p.m. V M.C.A., Orchard Road.
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  • 39 6 MRS. NO TECK PAU, and family wish to thank the directors and staff of Messrs. Boustead Co., Ltd., for their benevolent contribution towards the f v n c r a i of the late Mr. Ng Teck Pau.
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    • 1061 6 While the "debt of honour" debate in the Federal Council on Thursday closed amiably enough, despite the storm which the Attorney-General provoked, there could be no mistaking the general feeling of the Council, at least of the Unofficial and non-European membership. Had Dato Onn bin Ja'afar pressed
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    • 56 6 THE British Minister to the Philippines, Mr. L. H. Foitlds, has arrived in Singapore from England on his waj back to Manila after six months' leave. He leaves by the Swedish ship Olaf Maersk on Monday. Mr. Foulds has been in the Par East since 1921, and British
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  • 15 6 Photograph by C. A. Oibson-auL OATHERPfO SEED-RICE FROM THE NURSERY FOR REPLANTING: MALACCA.
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  • 1718 6  -  TUAN DJEK By SUNDAY, May 15— Let us forget the weather for a while, and Instead talk of the coming fruit season, which promises to be a record one for this district. The trees are behaving very erratically as regards flowerIng leaf change. Some durians have flowered
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  • 375 6  - FLIGHT FROM REALITY Alton Blakeslee By EACH smoke, cocktail, or drink of coffee, tea or cocoa is a littl* "night from reality,'* says Norman Taylor in 4 new book by that name. Marihuana and opium are powerful, dangeroua wings for the same kind of flight from boredom. One odd thing
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    • 63 6 "Vision is life's r-rfj precious gift." Only those without vision mow to the attennost the truth of those words tor >nly when a thing '.r irremediably *one from as forever do realize the magnitude of oar loss So we shouldn't neglect the care of our ayes Periodical scientific eye-examlnatlon II
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  • 680 7 'Spore Nearing One-Community Outlook Tan QBSERVING that progress towards one communal outlook has reached an advanced stage in Singapore, Mr. C. C. Tan, who was reelected president of the Progressive Party at its annual general meeting yesterday, said it was the earnest hope of the
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  • 189 7 Mr. Tan Makes A Promise Playing Fields THE Progressive Party Intends to take up in the Singa p or c Legislative Council the question of the return to public use of the playing field in Raffles Reclamation now in the hands of the military "who are already encroaching more and
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  • 109 7 "F* ri>\< i Amber" which rituin'fl to th. Pavilion last night is a picture that one will ;ee time and again nda Darnell as Amb°r gives a p rfonnaoM which hao mad her > famous. Her.» Is a story of a little girl 10.-t on the
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    36 7 GOVERNOR GOES ON HOLIDAY: The Australian Commissioner for Malaya, Mr. Claude Massey, wishing the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Glmson. good-bye on the Dutch ship Maetsuycker, before his departure to Australia yesterday on a short holiday.
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  • 97 7 CJTARS from Radio Ma--0 laya's Talentlme programmes last night entertained members of the Singapore Cricket Club when a smoking concert was held In the S.C.C. lounge. Those who took part were Larry Fenton and his Tin I Can Toledoes, Oscar Valberg and Tan Eng Chla, solo singers,
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  • 282 7 Pwas announced at the annual general meeting of the Progressive Party yesterday that the Party was preparing a bill to introduce a compulsory prolideut fund scheme in the Colony. Mr. John Laycock, whose resolution calling for the introduction of such a fund for all clerical workers
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  • 189 7 MOTHER'S PLUNGE TO DEATH A CHINESE mother, Lee Chiew Wah (37 > fell to her death from the second storey room of ihe Southern Hotel, Singapore, yesterday morning, three-quarters of an hour after she had booked the room. Sne died immediately after the 40-foot fall, suffering terrible 'tead injuries. Police
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  • 50 7 For leaving their ..axis unattended 21 laxi-drhers wer. fined $15 ea^h by tne Vehicles Court Magfstiate Mr. B. C. J. Buckcndge yesterday. It was staled that nue ot the drrers could be .ouni near their taxis, wuen tw> inspectors searched or 'hem near the Happy World Caba-
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  • 23 7 Singapore Admiralty Local Staff Union will celebrate the official opening of their clubhouse at Farrer Park at 5 p.m. on Monday
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  • 234 7 TEACHERS FOR ARMY SCHOOLS FN teachers from the U.K. are due to arrive in Singapore shortly on three -year contracts to teach in local army schools, after which they may return to their former schools without loss of Increments or pension. An Army education spokesman said that the teachers were
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  • 192 7 VAN belonging to the Society for the Prevention oi Crueltj tc Animals will shortly go around to collect sick and stray animals found roaming lr the rural areas of Singapore. This will be part of a campaign undertaken by the S.P.C. A. t-. round-up strays outside
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  • 38 7 A Chinese, Scan Kong Teng, 32, described as a broker, was sentenced to 12 months rigorous imprisonment In th, First District Court yesterday on pleading guilty to charges of house-breaking and theft In South Canal Road.
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  • 142 7 rpHE Army Civil Service Union of Singapore is taking up with the authorities the question of maternity leave for women workers. The Union maintains that women should be given three months' leave during preg- nancy. The women members of the Army Civil Service Union met
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    52 7 lU-..V) OF A OROUP of American life insurance jompanies. Mr. G. D. Litchfleld (centre), arrived at Kal lane AJrport on Thursday, with the managing director of the American International Assurance Company, Mr. G. M. Hughes (left). Welcoming Mr. Hughes b Mr. Liau Eng Siong, the company'i agent in Singapore. Straits
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  • 36 7 The aonuil Wesak (risegiving to Sunday school children of the Singapore Buddhist Association vli 1 De hell at the association's remises In Outram Road tomorrow at noon. Mr. Ang Seng Hoe will distribute the rlzes.
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  • 18 7 The i-ext meedr* til th* Singapore Legislative Council will be heid on Tv- tdav june 21.
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  • 335 7 fHE General Hospital will refuse to admit an incurable tuberculosis case unless in a dying condition, said Dr. S. N. Kapur, attached to the hospital, at a Coroner's inquiry yesterday. As far as he knew, said Dr Kapur, there was no Institution in
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  • 155 7 7-YEAR SENTENCE QUASHED THE Singapore Full Court 1 of Criminal Appeal yesterday allowed the appeal of Mohamed All bin Rale one of the two men sentenced In the Medical College robbery case. The appeal of Hussaln bin All was dismissed. At the trial Hussaln was sentenced to eight years' rigorous
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  • 45 7 Two American consultant architect* for Standard Vacuum Oil Co., Mr. Frederick C. Cans and Mr. J. Walter Severlnghaus, arrived In Singapore yesterday from Palembang, on their way to New York, after working on the reconstruction and development of oil fields In Palembang. i
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  • 78 7 The Singapore Full Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday reserved Judgment In the appeal of two 8.0.R.'5, John Qulnn and Robert Rowland, who had been convicted of attempting *n commit robbery of cash from v taxi driver and causing hurt. Mr. S. H. D. Ellas, for the
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    • 79 7 I V SPARKLINC WINE I Bubbles like fc SHIPMENT JUST RECEIVED 4 $122 per case of 12 bottles \sy Obfainable af:- \r^\. Bun Bee Co 111 Beach Rd. B^_ Sang Bee 336 Orchard Rd. Chew Nam Seng, 257 Orchard Rd. Mf COMPANY MALAYA L. I rVU TED 188 fei MOT
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    • 54 7 HORNET 1. CUTS TOUGHEST Sv> \^Po\ TlAtfffß WITH BASE. 2. CAN BE ADJUSTED TO CUT 3. FUEL CONSUMPTION: t OAUON OF ]ml PETROL PER 2 HOURS. l£ SPARE PARTS READILY ("S/l AVAILABLE son distributors: %W SI ME, DARBY M FUNTER S. GRINBERG Diamonds and Jewellery TELEPHONE 7923 87, fflilFOM M.,
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  • 380 8 WHEN I first came to Singapore I had a yen to use the local transport services. With an abysmal ignorance of Malay, a far from working-know-ledge of the currency (which, at the time, seemed so many dirty pieces of coloured paper) and a highhearted
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  • 570 8 Susan Deacon, front London, tells rj .RAVELLING around London on buses, queueing, or In a restaurant, It Is surprising how few really welldressed women one sees (I do not mean expensively dressed). Many women are overdressed, but many are never noticed. The housewife and
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  • 546 8  -  Bee Wickerson By to start to the apprehensive driver. "I finally reached my destination whole and unharmed. Dismounting I found myself till clutching the three or four shreds that was all that was left of my bus ticket Homeward Bound Far worse than my outward bound venture was the
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    • 229 8 V* VISCOUNT NELSON <* I Crea/or of naval tradition 1 cv L I L' J SENIOR J L SERVICE fey-- MAOB IN INITAIN 3 fitlsneßi I p Some itudi ol Krirnenri Qualify rolled WwSiS I *fc lisVwTKe^a^SMfcSslsm. a^SM pioi« hove beenjtwn for-tii long W.ibWJf-WU^ H yeorj. ,V"^ f&- *"f*!Jp All
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    • 183 8 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD lt i^-". (9> CROSSWORD No. 138 L OlW^tlltJ tO ft pOrtMQ tllX SB- SCsUtVtj WWSs>4>*l W-TV tSSHaBB^^"TS^"X^ IB I I I«V I l# I l«^ea^ea^3 11* OoUi «free 4 am ea«B H Cray auocltie* PSl —^m 1^ BaSt ME— Hfl BB It. str*n«Ui of character MX O.
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  • Straits Times SATURDAY FORUM
    • 402 9 An Indian Tribute To UMNO And Dato Onn can be no better tribute to Dato Onn's statesmanship than the proposal which UMNO has under consideration for the admission of non-Malays to associate membership of that body. The gesture, coming from an organisation that has hitherto been looked upon in some
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    • 121 9 I MUST congratulate the members of the Malayan Armed Local Force Tribunal for their able recognition of 318 "marked men." To- lay human mentality has come to a pretty pass Loyal fools I was one who implicitly believed in iht British left their wives and children ehind
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    • 283 9 MAY I through the courtesy of your columns make an appeal to all those who may be interested in the formation of a sympnony orchestra? Another reader of yours, signing himself "Double Bass", raised a similar question a few days ago, inaccurately stating that all attempts
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    • 182 9 1 L\ Idler from Butterworth "QUAINT lJ> FEDERAL INITIALS" cheered me. This true account of how the Resident Councillors of Gunong Apa came to acquire the fancy plates they have for many years affected may amuse some of the folk In Malaya In the
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    • 196 9 Command Paper No. 197 "FRUSTRATION" OF LOCAL BORN r THE recent explosive 1 report of the Singapore Select Committee on the setting up of a Public Services Commission and Mr. Woodrow Wyatt'a article in the New Statesman and Nation are very timely indeed. "Frustration" is a mild word to describe
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    • 349 9 1 HAVE read Mr. S. T. 1 Adityan's reply to my challenge with amusement. I have no details of Dr. Qureshi' case, but from what I could gather at the time, Dr. Qureshi was one of several prisoners exchanged by the Indian Government for prisoners held
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    • 574 9 Singapore Ten Years After I am also not impressed by the massive double breasted white Jackets and crumpled shirts now worn supposedly for evening »*resj. The old stiff front and monkey Jacket looked better and 1 maintain was cooler. Topis And Trilbys In dropping the
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    • 99 9 IT is heartening to read 1 that the Colonial Secretary is paying particular attention to the working of the Registration Department. Surely it Is not desirable to drag a child to the police station and then to court to be tried and convicted. All pirents should stand
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 264 9 We invite your enquiries for BUILT motor boats v)\\ sailing yachts Va\ dinghies of all types JOHN 1. THORNYCROFT CO., LIMITED. OFFICE SHOWROOM SHIPYARD CLEMENCEAU AVENUE SINGAPORE TANJONG RHU "HONE 5001/2 PHONE ***** THIS TOOTHBRUSH HAS A NEW BEAUTY-SECRET FOR YOU I "T^ C OUVD white teeth arc the first
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    • 173 9 SAY Imedia TIE FAMOUS FRENCH HAIR BYE OVER. 100 MILLION BOTTLES SOLD EVERY YEAR OBTAINABLE AT LEADING DISPENSARIES Sole Agents: BEAUTY INDUSTRIES LTD., 117, Kllliney Road. Singapore. Sub- Agents: K. C. DAT CO., 31, Old Markrt Squarr. Kuala Lumpur. BEAUTY SUPPLY CO., 33, China Street Ghaut. Penang. W^uttM tP ik
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  • 308 10 LONDON, Frl. ALTHOUGH the latest Berlin event* produced some hesitancy in the London Stock Exchange yesterday the general undertone remained firm, says. Reuter'g financial correspondent. British Govemmerft securities remained quietly firm throughout the day. Closing middle price* of selected stocks, as supplied to the Straits Times by special
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  • 154 10 From A Market Carreayuoocot I STEADY demand far a number of Items Including gumbtn Jainln. patchouli oil and citronella oU developed la the Blnfipon produce market yesterday. Prices. hower«r, weakened bt> cauae of at temp «to aril. Pepper quotations coct'.nued to adranc* on local speculation. Yesterday's prices
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  • 788 10 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Friday. INTEREST was maintained in the Industrial 1 section of the Malayan share market today. Buying; inquiry was food. Tins, however, were still quiet. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Belter Atla* Ie« IS. BO 18.60 Alex
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  • 186 10 rE Singapore rubber market remained very q«let yesterday. In the absence of interest, prices sagged slightly Closing prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet spot loo* buyers 15 V* cents, sellers 35% cents; f.ob. (June) buyers 35 H cents, aellfrs sos cents per tk. The Singapore Chambai of Commerce
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  • 89 10 From Oar Owm OstrtMpajaisaS IX>NDON. Frt (rEKERALLY apeakl: g thera ha* .U been a recswton in tin da. maod for tyraa the world orer. 1 Manuf actnrers haye eonseqoentlj been going through a period at ■djusttec rabbet stoOs and Inventories on tae basis of current j requirements,
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  • 160 10 SHIPS In port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharws yesterday (godowm In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Frlesland (31-33), President Vsn Buren (33-34), Dr Lyies (36-37), Trewelland (38-39), Dondln Narasamo (40-41), BoL«revain (42-43). West Wharf: Marudu (3), BenaTon (4-5). Asphallon (6-7>, Talabot (8-9). Antenor (13-14), Oluf Maersk (15-18).
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 1257 10 MANSFIELD <fc CO., LTD. I incorporates ai Singapore) BLUB FUNNEL UNI STRAITS STaVAMMUaT CO.. Carriers a»W»a I* qi**i** via •tbet LTD. pom te lead aad drarbarg* carge W|Jl COASI malata SAILINCS MOM 111 t USJk Mantm for Muar May 21 a ua ,r— a*., is Mentefcae for Malacca M«y 21
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    • 318 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA CEYLON. INDIA, ECYPT AND MEDITERRANEAN PORTS. Spore P. Sham Penang Prn. Van Buren May 17/22 May 21/24 May 2S/21 Pret. letfersen May 28/ lane 1 htaa 2/8 laaa 4/< M.-r.nc Snapper lane 7/11 laaa 12/11 |*m 14/11 Prei. Pelk lane 22?27
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    • 290 10 EAST ASIATIC LUTE SAILING FROM SCANMNAVIA/U X./ SAILING* IO CONTINENT/ F CONTINENT BCANOINAVIA r i "Seraaipera" due abt May 22 Loading at Singapora. Port Swettenham I for Saigon Bangkok Penang j RM "Waakwaaai- abt |aa* mjt "Meserille" dw abt M., 22 tor Manila. H'lCons, Shanghsl. f,,, Ad en, Port Said.
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    • 969 10 MeALISTER <S* CO., LTD. |lnesf(«w«t(u In Smgapor*) ■M.BWMAII «Jk BUCKNALL fUVMIM LINE LOW BOW HAVKI MOTTIRDAM ¥•>- CANAOIAN PACIFIC PORTL "^^"a, "liilurt Aooepting csTgo to. f^t.al ft South c eiTT SRANCIIVIILI I4.it|.«* Illlln*. tl 22 ten* Ipor* P, Sham Penana Ul»i 10 May l.n. I .ni Calk) Cesaakaaen l.w I
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  • 857 11  -  EPSOM JEEP Sunny Valley To Repeat K.L. Win By OUNNT Valley, John Ham and Karman are three reasonably sound each-way wagers in a rather difficult card in Penang tomorrow, the first day of the Penang Turf Club Summer meeting. Sunny Valley, a five-year-old English
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  • 149 11 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY RACE 1 t.M GOLDEN GATE Wlrra Deeert Klnf BITTER SWEET Wlrra Golden Gate WIRRA D*Mft Kißf Golden Gate RACE 2 t.M DEVON Lena Dear Peter Con LENA DbAR Mmimitif Peter Con MOONSINSTAR Peter Con Devon ■ACE S ISO KARMAN Daaclnf Fury A7*d TB
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  • 274 11 AT the Inaugural meeting of the Singapore Badminton Hal) Committee held on Thursday at the Cathay Building v was decided that the fund for a badminton hall should tie puollcly launched on May 30. at the official reception to be given
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  • 48 11 HPHE sports secretary of the European Community Soccer XI, Mr. V. R. Burton, states that his protest over running the B. A. P. A. Community League and Senior League side oy side was his personal opinion, and not the views of any European committee or body.
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  • 40 11 Old Raffleslaru who are interested in taking oart In toe Old Boys Associations Cricket competition, are requested to send In their names to Mr. 1. B. Suratta c|o V.M.C.A. Orchard Road or telephone ***** at early as poeslble.
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  • 29 11 In a friendly footbail gime at Farrer Park yes-eiday ;ne Vampire XI beat the Cable and Wireless XI by one goal to nil Yee peck Soh scored.
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  • 262 11 Leong Hoe Yeng Wins Sel. Final From Ov Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMP OR. Frl. UETKRAM champion Leong Hoe I Yeng won the Selangor L*wn Tennis Championship singles title easily tola evening, beating a schoolboy opponent Yeow Meng Pal S— l. 2. In the women's doubles final, also played today, fortunes
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  • 916 11 Race 1—2.30: Class 4, Div. s—s} Furs. 003 Him Ellf-ry 000 Mrs. Yong A Madam Yeo Yong 000 Deoert Xin f McPherson 8.12 Mr. A. H. Whltaker Sullivan 400 Lysander Woods 8.10 "DDD Kongsi 1 Fox 330 Jaunty Turnes 8.10 Mr. W Stir.rm Sullivan 000 Winsome II
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    • 346 11 Bsk .jf*a?iKfJgi r^W^H sV n laßDKnll r 1 C^K sS L T^tV/ \JM DAILY 5 SHOWS BOOK SsKVV] fe f^tfl I PMONE EARLY VF 5159 11 a.m., 1.45. 4.00, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. t/;J/» UouH I Ml M Ik> w i nil All I/I 11. m&l FaMßWmk HELENA CARTER RICHARD
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    • 174 11 SID AND MAGGIE doubled up with laughter I IT'S SLAPSTICK with nobs on irresistible fun I SID M ft, MARGARET held rak lmiiioi) CARDBOOTCAVAUER wrftMaiyClare JenyDesmonde EdmundWillard Ib^Bj AlWoCmimM* mm Preceded by The First Musical Paint Box Cartoon "WALES'". NOW SHOWING 11 A.M., 1.45, 4.15, 6.45 9.30 P.M. I CATHAY
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 299 11 Today's Radio iiwriDADv I sary; 11.00 Rhythm on Records; SINGAPORE I IUO cloBe 10.00 News from Kuala Lumpur; B F E B S 10.05 (approx.) Cloee; 1.02 Dance Music; 1.80 News (also at 7 and Including BBC relays: 5.30 J. 30); 1.45 Weekly Singapore Goodbye to All This; 8.00 Light
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  • 212 12 INDIAN Association cricket teams Cor the weekend are: Against Raffles Institution on the R.I. ground at 2.15 p.m. today: S. M. Ally (capt). M>wa Sir gh Gill, M. U. PateL C. Popatlal, N. Narayanan, Mohamed Shan, S. Thangathural, Rudh Singh, Hatim Bhai. J. Rasiklol and J. Arvlnral.
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  • 987 12 COLONY SCRAPE THROUGH TO 2-0 CUP WIN Ait ken's Display One Bright Spot Of Dull Game Singapore 2 Johore IF Johore, on their form yesterday, are the poorest team in the Southern section of this year's Malaya Cup soccer competition, then Singapore, also on the form they showed yesterday, must
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  • 84 12 *THB following players have bean 1 setactad to upresem, tha United B P. of Poo. .vi Jl a friendly g\oe of badmlrxn against the Rengit B.P. three men's singles and three men's doubles tomorrow at the Rer.git's court at 7 p.m. sharp. Chiam Toon Sim ic.ipt). Sat tar
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  • 61 12 A ket iaam to play ladktn Aasactittnw lumorrow at 3 p.m. on the KhabM poud U St. Georges Road wUI be F. Van Royea (capt.); H. H. Samson; M. Oarasmm; T w. Brohacr: O. de BBva: J. K. Fanaadov C Fernando; J. Ctvalbo: Bgt Ma] WUekoon; T.
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  • 191 12 LONDON. Friday. •TODAY'S County cricket reaalta 1 ware: At Oxford. Lancashire beat Oxford Unir. by *""**f 10g runs. Lanc-v 370 for 7 dec! Oxford IK 147 (Roberts eight for 50). Ai DfarA. Bata> v Kent draw*. Essex 203 and 410 for five dccL (Vicar 13«. Pearce not
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  • 335 12 From Our Staff Correspondent SEKEMBAN, Friday. I TNLIKE in previous matches, the Negri Sembilan State selection committee last night selected 16 men to turn oat tomorrow for the Malaya Cup soccer tie against the R.A.F., Singapore, the final selection to be made just before
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  • 92 12 T&TC Score 7-2 Victory v. P. Bukom pLAYINO on a vat and sHppery A field, tha Training and Transit Centra overwhelmed a weak Pulau Bukorn defence to win by seven goals to two vi a Junior A. Group 1 match played at the Oeylang Stadium yesterday. Pulau Bukom began promisingly
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  • 80 12 Race Review, Selections— P 11 out At the case of the first half. Bukom were leading by 11. Five minutes after resumption, Allan scored for T. 4T.C. to level the score again. Within another frm minutes Masaey put ills side in the lead Following this. Musty scored two. goals hi
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  • 83 12 DUB to bad weather, toere was no play lr. the Singapore lawn tennis championships yesterday. The following ties win be played on Monday: Men> slnflea eaarter-naab): H K. Tail v I. A. Abagoff; I«w Kee Pow v O. T. HoUoway; M. 8. Wise v Ong Chew Dee. Men's
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  • 427 12 Tommy Lawton Lessons.,No 11 By TOMMY LAWTON T^EKPINO op practice at hitting a moving ban we now com* to snmrthrng rathar more dlflJcult. I refer to the first-time shot with the left foot ti£awtng a pass from the right and vice versa. How often
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  • 253 12 CAMBRIDGE Friday. T»HE New Zealanders beat Cambridge University by 1 an innings and 50 runs here today. Cambridge University were 294 all oat in their second innings. Cambridge who overnight were 78 for one, needed 256 v avoid an Innings defeat wben they resumed their
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  • 275 12 VyiTH their respective teams in good trim after a series of trials, the Eurasians and the Indians should provide food soccer when they meet in a S.A.F.A. Inter-community league match at Jalan Besar tomorrow. The Eurasians have a panel of 21 players from whom to choose.
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  • 78 12 LONDON. Fri. Barn.'s Park, who was third in the 2,000 Ouineas, was backed to win a fortune at last night's Virtona Club ciliover on the Epsom Derby. His price was slashed from 30-1 to 100-7 Quotations: 7-3 Royal Forest, 13-2 Nimbus, 10-1, Swallow Tail, 10P-7
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    • 822 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from page S) SITUATIONS WANTED EXPERIENCED European Sec./ Steno requires posit' ju in Singapore. Box No. A 6400, S.T. EUROPEAN FEMALE good appearance and personality desires part or full time position not demanding secretarial qualifications. Box No. A 6407, S.T. EUROPEAN unattached, expd. n timbering, track laying,
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    • 128 12 TODAT SOCCER: Malaya Cup-Ut. Negri SeaabOaa v. B *f Beremban. LEAGDB stOCCKR: (Coirmunltvl Earopea'M v. Orlonrse J. Besar; Jar. B. Gcm^ 1. Paya Leaar Bas Co. v. S'caea A»n Gcylang. CRICKET: IV v. B.L— B.L; BX.C. "A" S.R.C. "A"— B.C.C.; 8.C. 8.C. v. R.E ME. Baas Wsaiaa 1.C.1.C.; St. Andrew's
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