The Straits Times, 19 May 1950

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWKI Vfc PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MAX 19, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    'BRITAIN DRAGGING FEET IN ASIA'
    338 1 C'wealth Aid Plan Is Race Against Time LONDON, Thursday. ALTHOUGH the Australian delegate to the Commonwealth talks at Sydney said today that the conference had attained its objects, the British press almost unanimously condemns the Government's failure to realise "that the saving of South-East Asia
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    29 1 SCENE from yesterday's presentation of Twelfth Night by members of the Victoria School Dramatic Society held in the open at Alkaff Gardens. Straits Times picture. Story in P. 8.
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    CHINESE BOY, 10, LEFT TO DROWN
    182 1 Mother's Plea Ignored AIKOVYD of about one hundred people stood by yesterday and watched a ten-year-old Chinese !><»% drowning in Rochore Canal in Singapore, paying no heed to pleas from the boy's mother for someone to rescue him. Only when the frantic mother offered
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    THE WINDSOR MEMOIRS
    136 1 THIS week The Sunday Times begins publication of the Duke of Windsor's memoirs, one of the most gripping stories rvtr to br published. The series will be profusely illustrated with photographs from the Duke's private collection. The memoirs tell ot the gay carefree days after the First
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    BANGKOK HOTEL
    33 1 BANGKOK, Thurs.- -Construction of a hotel costing U551,200,000 has been authorized by the Siamese Cabinet It will be built on Gov-ernment-owned land and will take about four years to construct.— A.P.
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    SELLING UP
    14 1 HOLLYWOOD, Thurs.— Rita Hayworth is selling her Hollywood home and furniture.— A.P.
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    Services Unions Plan Big Protest
    167 1 ■pEPRESENTATIVES ot the IV Singapore Admiralty Local S'aff Union, the Army Civil Service Union and the Air Ministry Local Staff Union, at a meeting last night, appointed a committee of joint action to arrange a mass proteat meeting of members to be held at the
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    TREATY URGED
    35 1 LONDON. Thurs. Sir Robert Craigie, Britain's last Ambassador to Japan, said in a letter to the Times today that Japan should make a separate peace treaty with the United States and Britain.— U.P.
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    Court Will Decide Bertha's Future
    149 1 "THIS morning 13-year-old 4Jertha de Hartogh, a 1 fair haired butch girl who can. speak only Malay after living eight years in a kampong with her ayah, will appear in chambers before the Singapore Chief Justice. Daughter of a Dutch sergeant. Bertha was placed In
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    MINISTER SHOULD BE THERE'
    91 1 LONDON, Thurs. THE Daily Express yesterday attacked the Commonwealth Secretary, Mr. Patrick Gordon-Walker, for not attending the Commonwealth Conference In Sydney, whose first task, the newspaper said, was to bring: peace to Malaya. "Commonwealth Secretaries take their task altogether too lightly," the paper said. 'Mr. GordonWalker's
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    Next Session In London
    108 1 SYDNEY. Thurs. THE next seven-nation Commonwealth conference to work out an aid programme for South and South-East Asia will be held In London, it was learned today. No date has yet been set. It was reported that Colombo, Ceylon, would be announced as the headquarters for
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    BANK OPENS
    18 1 TOKYO, Thurs.— The Tokyo branch of the Bank of India was opened for business yesterday.— Reuter.
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    PRESS SHOULD BE FREE....
    88 1 LONDON, Than. DR. Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury, championed the principles of a free Press at a dinner of the Newspaper Press Fund yesterday. "I believe profoundly in the freedom of the Press and its freedom to use and misuse that freedom, and relatively speaking
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    .... Even In An Emergency
    89 1 Even In An Emergency MONTEVIDEO, Thurs. rE United Nations subCommision on the Freedom of Information and the Press yesterday approved a motion asking the General Assembly to recommend members that 'when- they are compelled to declare a state of emergency measures to limit the freedom of information and of the
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    U.S. Point Four Director Named
    45 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs rE State Department has announced the temporary appointment of Mr. Capus Waynick as director of President Truman's 'Point Four" programme. He will direct the staf] planning, technical assistance and economic development. He is ambassador to Nicaragua.— V. P.
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    BOARD UPHOLDS SEX FILM BAN IN COLONY
    122 1 THE film appeal board has upheld the decision of the Film Censor to han "The Secrets of Life," from public exhibition In Malaya. A statement yesterday by the Chairman of the Board, Mr. E. C. S. Adklns, said the Board's decision was unanimous
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    CASH FOR ARMY
    33 1 MANILA, Thurs.— The Philippines Senate today passed a bill appropriating an additional US$lO,OOO,OOO to the armed forces "for the campaign for maintenance of peace and order" in the country.— A.P.
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    SCHOLARSHIP
    35 1 DAVIS. California, Thurs.— Jtfarian Yeh, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. George Yeh, the Chinese Nationalist Government Foreign Minister, received word yesterday that she has been awarded a US$99O scholarship at the University of Chicago.— A.P.
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    Brunei Sultan's Adviser Passes Through S'pore
    175 1 WHEN the Sultan of Brunei, Sir Ahmad Tajudin, TT arrives in Britain next month for a four months' visit, Mr. Gerard Macßryan, former political adviser to the Rajah uf Sarawak, will act as his personal adviser. Mr. MacBryan, who arrived in Singapore from Kuching
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    46 1 ANXIOUS to get out of China, 735 evacuees travelled by train from Shanghai to Tientsin and then by lighter to Taku Bar to board the evacuation ship General Gordon. Some of the evacuees are shown here on lighters waiting to board the General Gordon. A.P. picture.
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    Indonesia Visit Was "Inspiring"
    132 1 MANILA. Thursday. THE Philippine Foreign Secretary, Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, arrived back in Manila late this afternoon, following a triumphal four-day official goodwill tour of Indonesia and other countries. He said his visit to Indone- sla had been "an Inspiring and sobering experience. Indone- sia will
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    OLD GRANARY FOUND
    54 1 KARACHI, Thurs.— A granary, which is believed to have played the role of a state bank, has been unearthed by the Archaeological Department in the ancient city of Mohenjodaro. The granary, built around 2,300 B.C., is the best preserved of known buildings of the Indus Valley civilisation,
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    10-Year Medical Scheme Delayed
    164 1 THE acting Colonial Secretary, Singapore, Mr. J. D. M. Smith, toW the Straits Times yesterday that the 10-year $33,000,000 Medical Plan was held up due to "difficulties over architects." Mr. K. K. Sedgfleld. representative of .in Australian firm of architects, was In Singapore early last year
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    H.K. RAISES RESTRICTIONS
    92 1 HONG KONG, Thurs. -The Hong Kong Government announced today that restrictions on the purchase of goods from Japan through a Hong Kong open account will b^ relaxed greatly on May 22 The exchange for such purchases "will be granted freely to all approved traders, the allocation system
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    FLOODS THREATEN THREE CITIES
    294 2 FLOODS THREATEN THREE CITIES of people 1 in three cities in three different countries Winnipeg in Canada Baghdad in Iraq, and Recife in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco were yesterday struggling to save their lives and their belongings among rising flood waters. No. I—Winnipeg1 Winnipeg pLOOD fighters trying to save
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    ATOM PLANS IN
    59 2 STOLEN CAR NEW YORK, Thurs.—A Government car containing ten blueprints of a new atomic energy pile was tolen in Brooklyn yesterday and found abandoned later with the contents intact- near Coney Island, Brooklyn's seaside playground. An Atomic Energy Commission spokesman said the plans would not be particularly
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    Germans To Decide Ownership Of Ruhr
    188 2 BONN, Thursday. rpHE Allied High Commission yesterday announced x over French objections that the ownership of the vast Ruhr coal, iron and steel industries will be determined eventually by the Germans themselves. The decision was part of a new an ti -monopoly law. The
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    28 2 SCHIAPARELLI, the Parts fashion designer modelled this noTH "catcher's mask" h*t. It is nude of black horsehair and has a diamond necklace draped around tbe -crown. AJ. picture.
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    POLICE UPSTAIRS, THIEF DOWN
    58 2 LONDON, Thursday. WHILE police on the fourth floor of SelfridffM stow in TT Oxford Street were showing how to foil burglars at a Scotland Yard exhibit on, a young man on the second floor reached otct the rlass partition of a cashier's dcnk, crabbed a handful
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    BACK FROM MALTA
    42 2 BACK FROM MALTA KARL AND COUNTESS Meuntbatten photographed on arrival at London Airport from Malta. Earl Mountbai In ha« been appointed Fourth Se* Lord. ha* for %.:<* pact lSmonths been in Ma ta m Commander ef the First Cruiser Squadron.— Re ter picture.
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      Robbed, Blackmailed Says Tallulah
      237 2 expens She alleged that the employee threatened to publicise the "most outrageous and ridiculous stories" about Miss Bankhead's private life if she dared take the case to the police. The actress said that the "hypocrisy of it all Is even worse than the thievery." THE l
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    RUBBER MAN DIES
    31 2 MOUNT KISCO, New York rhurs. Mr. David Marvin jtoodrich, 73, honorary chairnan of the Board of B. F. aoodrich Co., died at his lome here early yesterday. Eteuter.
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    U.S. ASKED TO CUT GOVT. STAFF
    58 2 BUCHAREST, Than. RUMANIA yesterday demanded that the United States reduce the staff of its Bucharest Legation to ten, and announced that it would reduce its own Washington staff to the same number. IP. The axe falls PRAGUE, Thurs. ABOUT 50 Americans in Government service
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    INDIA & FRANCE
    29 2 INDIA FRANCE CALCUTTA, Thurs India has set up a mixed commission to work out a financial settlement with France arising out of the transfer of Chandranagore to India. Reuter.
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    Johnson, Bradley To Discuss Jap Peace Pact With Mac Arthur
    212 2 Johnson, Bradley To Discuss Jap Peace Pact With Mac Arthur U,S. CHIEFS ON FAR EAST TOUR WASHI? lIJGHLY placed source 13-day visit of the Louis Johnson, to Toky cuss with- General Dougl policy about a peace tr< Mr. Johnson will be a< Bradley, chairman of the State Department and son
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    W. GERMAN REDS TO COVER UP
    134 2 truAiiJBrUfZl; Tnurs. UIOH Allied source said yesterday .hat Russia had ordered the West German Communists to prr re to go underground. Moscow was said tc navi» ordered trusted Red leaders to link up with extreme Ha- tionalists and neo-Nazis ond foment disorder to discredit
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    SHIP ABLAZE
    53 2 TOKYO, Thurs.— Ti.c Norwegian freighter, TaUsmcn, is ablaze and half submer l on the bottom of the shall Shimizu harbour. Japan day after an explosion F i were raging through v r holds last night. No metiio r of the 6,700 ton vessel's crew was known to be
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    WORK ON RADIO CITY SOON
    79 2 LONDON, Thurs. Work begins shortly on Britain's Radio City, which, it is claimed, will be the world's most ambitious and up-to-date building. The Radio City, first instalment of which will cost between £4,000,000 and £5,000,- 000, will be built on a 13-acre site at the
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    NEW BULWARK AGAINST RED MOVES Pact Nations' 'Action Group'
    225 3 NEW BULWARK AGAINST RED MOVES Pact Nations' 'Action Group LONDON, Thursday. T'HE North Atlantic Pact nations set up a new executive defence organisation last night and instructed it to weld the armies and economies of the Western world into i bulwark against ommunist aggression. General Dwight I). Eisenhower and Mr^
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    EXPELLED BRITON
    26 3 i MR. CHARLES Lamerton, 62 year-old British business man. who was expelled from Hungary recently ai'.r bein< held captive for 25 days. Reuter picture.
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    QUEEN TOLD TO RETURN
    167 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Thurs. QUEEN Nazli blamed an Egyptian palace intrigue i lor King Farouk's de- 1 mand that Princess Fathia break with her commoner husband and return immediately to Egypt. She asserted that Farouks cousin, Prince Mohamned Ali.l was behind the J-^-*e that stripped the 19-year-old
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    LESS WOOL
    29 3 WASHINGTON Thurs. The Agriculture Department 1> orerlicted that United B'fttei wool production will lit a new low this year and will require greater imports 'oolement domestic supU.P.
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    BUSINESSMEN MISSING
    87 3 BASLE, Switzerland, Thurs. —A private single-engined four-seater Percival Proctor plane carrying three businessmen one British,- one American and one Swiss which left Basle yesterday morning for Milan is reported missing over the Central Swiss Alps. The businessmen were listed by airport authorities as Sir Rolf Malcolm of London,
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    BIG DEMAND FOR FLIERS' STORY
    55 3 PEARL HARBOUR. Thurs. I —Two United States Navy fliers. William Smith and Eimer Bender, have received offers totalling possibly US$100,000 for their story ef 18 months as captives of the Communists in North China. A Navy spokesman said the offers came from magazines. I feature
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    Jew Fighters Force Down British Plane
    139 3 ISRAELI fighter planes yes Force Sunderland flyi I«r»p]i a Governihen PEL AVIV, Thursday, sterdav forced a Royal Air ng boat to land off the t spokesman announced. It was Hying Irom Bahrein, >n the Persian Gulf, to Egypt in-i. according to the spokesman, declined
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    $ BALANCE IMPROVES
    73 3 BALANCE IMPROVES CANBERRA. Thurs. The Commonwealth statistician, Dr. Roland Wilson, said yesterday that Australia's dollar balance with North America has improved over the first nine months of the financial year. This was due mainly to heavy exports to the United States— chiefly wool Dr. Wilson said. Dr. Wilson said that
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    LONDON TALKS
    51 3 MR. DEAN ACHESON, the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Ernest Beyin, the British Foreign Minister, and M. Robert Sohuman, the French Foreign Minister, photographed at the opening of the three-power conference at Lancaster Horns c, London, on May 11. The conference will discuss the international situation. A.P.
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    Lie To Meet Big 3 Leaders Again
    160 3 pHE United Nations Secrc Lie, yesterday announce tiis "cold war" peace talks igain with American, Fren jtary-General, Mr. Trygve ed that he will follow up with Stalin by conferring ich and British leaders. He told a Press conference that he will leave Moscow
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    "Missing Witness" To Return
    151 3 PARIS Thurs. "pHE "missing witness" in the "Affair of the Generals," Roger Peyre. has agreed to return to France from Brazil, according to a letter from the French Consul-Gent ral in Rio De Janeiro, read before the French Parliamentary Comn'ii>&ion of Inquiry last night. The Commission
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    JAPS TO ATTEND UNESCO MEETING
    50 3 TOKYO. Thurs. rnree Japanese and two officials of Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters will attend the fifth session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation General Conference at Florence; next week. This will be the first UNESCO general conference to be attended by Japanese.— Reuter.
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    PRESS TO DO OWN POLICING
    122 3 PARIS, Thurs rpHE French Oovernment 1 yesterday established legal machinery to let the Press do its own professional policing The Cabinet adopted a proposal setting 'up two "supreme councils," one for newspaper publishers or directors, and the other for working newspapermen. They are to drait
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    RED ARMY STAYS
    47 3 VIENNA. Thurs. Russia has refused to red ice- the strength of her occupation army in Austria or to relinquish controls on Austrian affairs. There ar? an estimated 44,000 Red Army troops in Austria, compi^d with Britain's 8.500. p'r^rf's 6 500 and .America's 10,000— A.P.
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    TURKEY TOUGH
    36 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs- a Expressing more man "passing interest" in Turkish elections, the Washington Pest said yesterday in editorial that "the fighting heart of Turkey is without a superior among the nations in Russia's path."—AJ».
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    NEW GOVERNOR
    49 3 MR. K. VV BLACKBURNE, Director of Information i Services at the Colonial i I Office and formerly Admi- 1 nistrativc Secretary to the Comptroller for Develop- f n-ient and Welfare in the > West Indies, who has been > appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands. Reuter 1 picture.
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    3 INDONESIANS FOR ARBITRATION COURT
    177 3 THE HAGUE. Thurs. rnHE Dutch Indonesian Union 1 Court of Arbitration, the judicial organ of the Netherlands Indonesian Union, will 1 be installed hers in the Peace D alace next Friday after- noon. At the ceremony, speeches 1 will be made by tb,? Dutch Minuter
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    Planes Attack Reds On Chusan
    225 3 Planes Attack Reds On Chusan TAIPEH, Thurs. HHLNESE Communist troops swarming over ;he abandoned National,st blockade base of Shusan Island were attacked yesterday by war- v jlanes from Taiwan. Air force headquarters said ;wo airfields on the Island JOO miles north of Taipe»i were rendered useless. Headquarters also claimed that
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    Czech's Plea Sets Poser
    72 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. American officials conferred today on the unprecedented problem set oy Mi Vlaai^iL- 1 Houdek, %ho appealed to Pre- sk'ent Trun-.an for asylum after resigning as Czechoslovakia's chief VT.il ten Nation 1 delegate. Df spite his enunciation ol tioviet interfer?nce with iis country, "his standing
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    RED CENTRE IN RANGOON HOUSE
    121 3 KAMiOON, Thursday. A SECRET Communist centre in the heart of n Rangoon was discovered during a police raid on a house here. Documents- signed hv the secretary, Underground Communists H^douarters. told of a Dommunist organisation wti »s«* existence hitherto was unsuspected Police said the documents
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    POLICE KILL DESPERADOES
    53 3 HYDERABAD. Thurs. Hyderabad police headquarters said yesterday that six Communist-led bands of "desperadoes," operating in forests, were killed by the police this month In the southeast border district of Nalgonda. Official estimates say the "desperadoes" number 1,000 and claimed that about 50 had been shot dead during
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    MAIL TRAIN STOPS ON SABOTAGED RAIL SECTION
    302 4 MAIL TRAIN STOPS ON SABOTAGED RAIL SECTION From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. A BID to sabotage the night mail train from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore failed last night when the driver halted the engine halfway over a break in the line caused by an explosive charge. The damage
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    'REP' MANAGER
    30 4 MiSS K.VKUAKA KM.'X MAECBE, acting; manager of the Singapore Repertory Company, photographed m Penang where her company Mill stage Lonsdale's "On Approval" this week-end. SI raits Times picture.
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    DEARER RICE DENIAL
    104 4 DEARER RICE DENIAL Irom Our SUIT «v ir>|>«>uciriit KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. FEDERATION rice authorities today denied a repon in a Singapore Chinese newspaper that an upward revision In the price of rationed rice was being considered by the Government. The Government spokesman stated: "There is no. known basis for this
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    Five Bandit Helpers Arrested
    127 4 Five Bandit Helpers Arrested From Our Own Correspondent BUKIT MERTAJAM, Thurs. /OPERATING with the aid ol the Kcdah police, Province Wellesley security forces picked up five bandit "symI pathisers" during a five-hour screening of Bukit Mertajam yesterday. The operation was the biggest carried out so far in the district. Tnree
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    CARRIED GOODS IN CAR: $25
    50 4 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Lim Hin Teck. who carried sundry goods in his car without a haul-Age permit, was roJay fined $25. He said the goods were his own On another charge of having no read tax licence, Lim was fined $15
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    ACQUITTED
    37 4 From Our Start (.'orrojinndrnt JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Abdul Aziz, a Javanece cakeseiler, was acquitted in the police court here today on a charge of theft of timber from Ayer Moieh Estate, the property of the Sultan.
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    Cruiser Due From F.I.C.
    101 4 tTTOE 9,000-ton French crui1 ser Dugay-Trouin, with Rtar Admiral F. 1 Jourdain aboard^ is expected in Singapore at 9 o'clock this morning from Indo-China. Admiral Jourdain is Commander of the French Naval Division in the Far East. The Dugay-Trouin will dock at the Naval Base and
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    Woman Described As 'Cave Girl'
    141 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thursday. A YOUNG woman, Lee Ah Boey, was described as £X "a cave girl" today by Mr C. P. Chew, defence counsel for an oil mill worker. Pan? Ah Ewe, who was charged with living on her immoral earnings. Referring
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    Barrels May Not Be Legal
    100 4 From Our Stan* Correspondent PENANG, Tfiurs. fTHE Settlement .Traffic Advisory Committee is to find out u> father traffic drums can be legally put up in public streets This question arose at a recent meeting of the committee after Penang's traffic chief, Mr. R. H. Yorke
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    NO LICENCE
    19 4 MUAR, Thurs.—A Javanese. Santani bin Rono, was ftned $5 at Muar for selling satay without a licence
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    PRECAUTIONS TAKEN AT COURT HEARING
    83 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANO, Thurs. SPECIAL security precautions were taken in the Bukit Mertajam Court today when three Chinese were charged under the Emergency Regulations. Chok Chin Pin pleaded I guilty to having posted up do- cuments containing an "incitement to violence" on Aptll
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    FIRST IN THE FEDERATION....
    43 4 JOHORE'S T.B. SANATORI UM. the first in the Federation. At the extreme right is the hospital attendant's quarters. Straits Times picture. THE CLUB ROOM in the new sanatorium. A good supply of reading matter is provided. Straits Times picture.
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    New 'Home' For T.B. Patients
    275 4 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thursday. THE first T.B. sanatorium in the Federation was opened at Tampoi today when 40 convalescent patients from the General Hospital, Johore Bahru, were admitted for the final stages of treatment before being given their discharge. The buildings, which
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    NEW REGISTRARS
    54 4 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA KANGSAR, Thurs. Mr. R. L. Inder of Dovenby Estate, Sungei Siput, has succeeded Mr. E. St. Clan Morford as a Registrar of Hindu Marriages for the district of Kuala Kangsar, Perak. Mr. C. R. Little, of Chanfikat Salak Estate, Salak North, has replaced
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    $320,000 GIFT TO PEASANTS
    101 4 A $320,000 gift by the Selangor Government to Malay peasants in Tanjong Karaite is being considered, the L'tusan Melayu reports. No decision has as yet been reached but the matter has been agreed to in principle by the Government, an official told Utusan, Melayu. The gift
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    JOHORE FAIR
    38 4 Froif Onr Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— The St. Josepn's Boys School Building Fund Appeal Committee will hold a Fun Fair on the Padcng Behind the Catholic Church at Jala:: Jeidja on June 1 and 2.
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    King's Message To Be Read In Churches
    120 4 A MESSAGE from the King will be read to Singa- pore youth of all races at eight places of worship on Sunday Empire Youth Sunday. It is the practice in the British Commonwealth to observe a Sunday in the year as Empire Youth
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    MORE SCRUB TYPHUS
    76 4 KUALA LUMPUP, Thurs. There was an increase in the number of scrub typhus cases reported in the Federation during the week ended May 6. There were 15 cases with no deaths, compared with nine cases the previous week. During the same week. 36 cases of dysentry, with
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    £1,400 A YEAR PENSION FOR MR. MacBRYAN
    311 4 jyjR. Gerard MacBryan, former political advisci to the Rajah of Sarawak, will get a £1,100 a year pension from the Sarawak Government He told the Straits Times -on his arrival m Singapore from Kuching yesterday afternoon that the matter had been settled during
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    TRISHAMAN FINED
    34 4 From Our, Own Correspondent MUAR, Thurs. A trisha rider, Mazlan oin Ramad, who caused obsiru-j*ijn by patterns! his vehicle on the footpath at Jalan Sisi. was fined S3 by Ibe Muar Magistrate
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    'REMOVE MISTRUST IN COLONY'
    309 5 Singapore Association's Call To Britain Need For Policy Statement A CLEAR and definite statement on the intentions of the British towards Singapore is needed to restore confidence, says Dr. C. H. Withers-Payne, president of the Singapore Association, in his annual report. "When the threat of Communism
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    56 5 THE ROYAL NAVY'S Director of Dockyards, Vice-Admi-ral Sir Claud Barry (left) pictured at Kalians; airport, Singapore, after his arrival by BOAC-QANTAS from Britain, with the Flag Officer. Malayan Area, Rear Admiral Faulkner. Admiral Barry is here on an inspection visit with Mr. C. H Leddra, a member of the Institute
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    Question On Income Tax Exemptions
    171 5 WHETHER or not Government has given consideration to the hardship caused individuals on first joining a p.ovident 'and. through disallowance of provident fund contributions in the year in which they are incurred under the Income Tax Ordinaace, is a question to be aske 1 by
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    P.R. Officer For Municipality?
    177 5 THE Singapore Municipality may have a Public x Relations Officer, if a suggestion now before the special Municipal Committee on Procedure is approved by the Commissioners. The move is to appoint a senior member of the Municipal Secretariat to the post. The object of the appointment
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    Opium Car Not Seized
    87 5 SEGAMAT, Thurs. Called upon to show why her car which was used for smuggling opium should not be seized, a woman. Teo Koh See of Singapore, appeared In the Segamat Sessions Court. Wnen the car was stopped at Batu Anam during AntiBandit Month, 14 slabs of
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    PAHANG ADVISER
    63 5 From Our Own Correspondent EAUB, Thurs. Pahang's new British Adviser, Mr. A. Hyde, paid his first official visit to Raub on Monday and inspected Government offices and schools accompanied by the District Officer, Mr Tj. Love. Mr. Hyde, who is replacing Mr. C. S. W. Corry now on
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    Federation Chinese PCs In Training
    163 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. yHE 50 Chinese recently recruited into the Federx ation police force are now undergoing training at the Police Depot. They are showing great keenness in their work and good progress is being made. Recruitment of Chinese into the
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    MORE JOIN FED. TRADE UNIONS
    75 5 From Our SUB Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. HPRADE union membership X in the Federation increased last month by 514, bringing the total to 46,888 unionists at the end. of the month. There were 21 unions awaiting registration. Of these, 13 had their draft rules approved
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    S'PORE GOES TO PENANG FOR RECRUITS
    165 5 From Oar SUB Correspondent PENANG, Thurs. A SINGAPORE Asian police officer Is at present In ■Benang to recruit Chinese constables for tlie Colony's police force. The f etrurting officer, Mr. Eu Cheow Eang. A.S.P.. said the response from Penang Chinese youths had been very
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    SULTAN'S SON AT GILWELL
    70 5 IPOH Thurs.— A son of the Sultan of Kedah, Tungku Abdul Malik ibnl Sultan Badlishah, was one of three Malayan Scouters to attend the Wood Badge course at Gilwell Park, England, in April. Inche Hamdan bin Sheik Tahir of Clifford School, Kuala Kangsar, who is on
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    ASIAN PARENTS FLOCK TO CLINIC
    59 5 From Our Own Correspondent GEMAS, Thurs. Asian parents at Gemas are no longer shy of Western medicine and there is a large attendance each week at the infant welfare clinic. Advice on feeding and prenatal aid is given by Miss Lim Soon Teck. Health Sister
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    Card In 4 Pieces
    24 5 SEREMBAN, Thurs. For having an identity card which had been torn In four pieces, Krishnasamy was fined $1 at Seremban
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    Miners Warned: 'Seek Advice On War Claims'
    269 5 Miners Warned: 'Seek Advice On War Claims' From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, TKursday. jy|INERS in the Federation today were warned to consult their legal advisers in connection with claims for war damage compensation before deciding whether to make their claims under the Emergency or Defence Regulations, instead of under
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    BMA Chiefs Arrive In Colony
    179 5 BMA Chiefs Arrive In Colony FIVE senior members of the British Medical Association from Britain, Canada and India arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon by QANTAS Constellation. During 'their two-day stay here they will visit hospitals in Singapore and will be entertained by members of the B MA. (Malayan branch). The
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    Found With Coin Mould
    177 5 From Oar Own Correspondent MUAR, Thurs. CONVICTED on a charge of counterfeiting current Malayan ten cent and twenty cent coins. Tan Chee Seng was sentenced by Mr. Justice Paul Storr to three years' hard labour at the Muar Assizes. Tan was arrested on December 19 last
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    PERAK APPEALS
    58 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA KANGSAR, Tucs. Tie following members of the Perak State Executive Council have been appointed to constitute the Kathis Appeal Committee: Raja Haji Kamaralzaman lbni Raja Mansur. chairman; Inche Megat Vunus bin Megat Hajl Mohamed Is*, vicechairman; and Inche Naspruddin bin Abdul Raia and
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    Singapore Diary
    72 5 Y.W.C.A^ 5, Raffles Quay, Malay beginners class, 9.15 a.m. and 3.15 p.m., Malay advanced class, 10.30 a.m. TWELFTH NIGHT, presented by the Victoria School, AlkaS Gardens, 4.30 p.m. CHINESE Y..H.C A., chess club, 5 p.m., welghtllfting, 5.30 p.m., badminton, 5.30 p.m., mouthorgan class. 7 p.m. WESLEY M.Y.F., District
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    22 6 MRS. S. A. MILLER A family thank all friends for their attendance, wreaths and message* of condolence on their recent bereavement.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., May 19, 1950. The Cost Of Radio
    673 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., May 19, 1950. The Cost Of Radio The Department of Broadcasting is not so unused to criticism that it will feel surprise at findi-ig the Cathay Building in the gunsights of the economy minded Singapore Association. Broadcasting is always a popular target when prudence comes
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    A Short Cut To Officialdom
    372 6 A Short Cut To Officialdom The proprietor of an eatingshop incidentally, an odd but common term in our Singapore vocabulary has written to the Straits Times to protest against the scurvy treatment which he has received from the 'Municipality. When he received his statement of account last month he was
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    UNIVERSITY MALAYS
    1261 6 A manifesto for UMNO from the \yk the undersigned Malay undergraduates of the University of Malaya, after deliberate discussion and minute perusal of the new proposals for Federal Citizenship agreed upon by the Communities Liaison Committee, hare arrived at the following conclusions; That the proposals of the Communities
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      Hong Kong is not so squeamish
      347 6 OHEN I was in Hong Kong last year I saw the picture "Birth of a Baby" lt was shown toge- i ther with "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" The sex picture was taken us a matter of fact There was no Press opposition to
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      DATOON NAND HIS CRITICS
      272 6 DATOON NAND HIS CRITICS wrn w I T ls obvious that heated discussion is going on in Malay circles, particularly UMNO concerning cc ™itles Li f lson Committee proposals on Federal Citizenship. Dato O™ 1- hi* son Captain Hussein and those close to them are eoine all out to ShTenc/
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      SPECIALS BUT NOT PLANTERS
      229 6 WE refer to the letter written by "A Soldier" published by you on May 10 under the heading "A Soldier's Opinion." Let us not suggest wnat the Government should do with Its medals, bat we should like to point out to "A Soldier" that: The General
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      A WASH-UP FOR TAXIS
      93 6 ANYONE going about the urban areas of Singapore cannot fail to have noticed the alarming and wanton wastage, of water that takes place at the public standpipes. You will see dally, from dawn to dusk, lorries being washed, women washing clothes, men, women and children bathing
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    On The Margin
    391 6 On The Margin Children's Art UNIQUE opportunity to compare children's art In Beet and West Is presented to the people of Singapore Ivy the ninth Inter-School Art Exhibition, now open in the British Council hall m Stamford Road. Side by side with the work of many Singapore schools may be
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    "ABANDON ANTI-CHINESE ATTITUDE"
    818 7 "ABANDON ANTI- CHINESE ATTITUDE" M.C.A. Urges New Policy ASSERTING that the Chinese in Malaya have shown their loyalty time and again, Mr. Tan Siew Sin, chairman of the Publicity Sub-Com-mittee of the Malayan Chinese Association, called, in a Press statement yesterday, for an "antiChinese policy in vogue since the*thirties of
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    Ten Tons Of Elephants For France
    122 7 Ten Tons Of Elephants For France SIX Siamese elephants, weighing 10 tons and valued at $200,000. passed through Singapore yesterday to join a French circus. Six more will follow to complete the order The animals are all females, the youngest 16 and the oldest 25 years old. The heaviest w
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    STOLE 39 EGGS
    44 7 tug Kin Song, a 20-year-rld cook in ti;c Airmens' Mess. RAF. Seletar. pleaded guilty to theft of stolen 39 eggs worth $12 from the Mess, and was sentenced to 14 days rinorous imprisonment in the Singapore Fourth Police Court Vesterdu' 7
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    HAWKER INQUIRY
    23 7 Singapore Hawkers Inquiry Commission will sit at 2.15 p.m. on Monday in the meeting room of the Chinese Secretariat, Havelock Road.
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    STORES AND CPL. VANISHED
    243 7 —Court Told •TTOREE truck-loads of Army X stores and a corporal "disappeared" en route to a depot, it was stated in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday, when Manuel Peter Miranda, a Sinhalese, was charged with dishonestly retaining stolen property. Capt. K. Hassan, of the Royal
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    T.B. IN APRIL
    27 7 Forty -two cases of tuberculosis were reported from the rural areas of Singapore during the month of April. There were 74 cases in March.
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    Birthday Parade: Seats For Public
    124 7 Birthday Parade: Seats For Public THE man-in-the-street will be given a chance to see this year's King's Birthday Parade (June 8) on the Padang without having to stand on his toes for the best part of the ceremony. An official statement last night said that 1,200 seats are available to
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    24 7 SUSAN LESLIE with her parents, Mr. A. H. Gridley, Assistant Comptroller of Customs, Johore and Mrs. Gridley, after her christening yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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    RATION CARDS
    28 7 From Monday, all deletions in respect of European Diet Ration Cards will be dealt with at 145, Orchard Road, instead of the sth Floor, Fullerton Building.
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    APPOINTMENTS
    32 7 Mr. I. R. M. Willis is to act as Assistant Secretary, Singapore Secretariat, and Mr. H. E. Noble as Assistant Con ti oiler of Immigration in place of Mr. G.D.A. Fox.
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    TOBACCO IN BOAT: $5,000 FINE
    121 7 NG San Sock, a 46-year-old koleh owner, was fined $5 000 in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday after pleading guilty to a charge of importing dutiable tobacco Nn'i 23-year-old accompllcp. Tang Tak Meng who claimed trial, was found guilty and bound over for three
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    FOR THE BIG TOP
    40 7 MR. ALFRED R. GREEN, managing director of the Boon Vanit Co. Bangkok, stands beside one of the six adult elephants which passed through Singapore yesterday on their way to a circus in France.— Straits Times picture.
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    Samson, 15, Wins Court's Praise
    285 7 BID TO SAVE DROWNING FRIEND SAMSON de Silva, a young schoolboy who tried to save a 15-year-old Sinhalese youth from drowning, was commended by the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday. I The Coroner was inquiring into the death of H. G. Piyasena who
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    "Cinderella Test" Finds Guilty Man
    170 7 ACINDERELLA-like scene in which a lost slipper was found to fit Yeo Ah Wah, helped to convict him in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday on a charge of possessing nine lbs of dutiable tobacco. He was fined $200. A Customs officer told the court
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    Halls For 2 Villages
    117 7 THE rural districts of Bukit Panjang md Pasir Panjang will soon have their own community halls, lor which the Singapore Rural Board, at its meeting yesterday, voted $60,000. Connected buildings for these halls will be provided by Ihe Social Welfare Department. The Chairman of the Rural
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    ILLEGAL SOCIETY ALLEGED
    47 7 Lee Ah Ching, alias Lee Chin Hee, alias Lee Chin Chai was charged in the Singapore First District Court yesterday with assisting in the management of an unlawful society—the "Malayan National Liberation Army." Lee claimed trial and the case was adjourned until May 26.
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    FATAL FALL
    30 7 Leong Kum, a 47-year-old woman worker, fell from the first floor of a building at Clemenceau Avenue, Singapore, yesterday morning. She died in hospital a few horn* later.
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    Public Services Chairman Says: No Bars To Local Men
    275 7 Public Services Chairman Says: No Bars To Local Men THE Chairman-designate of the Public Services Commission of Singapore. Mr. Justice Gordon Smith, last night expressed hope that the Public Services Commission Ordinance would be brought into force on Jan. 1 next year. He was speaking at the 21st annual reunion
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    Hurt Finger, Lost Job
    77 7 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. LIM Vat Seng, a lorry driver, who was dismissed by his employer after he injured a finger while driving, was today awarded $140 compensation by the Deputy Commissioner of Labour. In awarding him $50 in lieu of notice and
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    REP' EXCERPTS TO BE BROADCAST
    51 7 From Oar Staff Correspondent PENANQ, Thurs.— Extracts from their past successes and from the play "On Approval" which the Singanore Repertory Company will present at the Chinese Town I.ail this week end will be broadcast by the Penang station of Radio Malaya to-morrow at 7.15
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    200 ASKED: DONATE $100 EACH
    134 7 200 ASKED: DONATE $100 EACH AN appeal for donations to build a $150,000 school to commemorate the centenary of St. Joseph's Institution in 1952 was made yesterday at the 21st annual reunion dinner of the Old Boys of the Christian Brothers' Schools In Singapore. The chairman of the evening, Mr.
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    On A Buying Mission
    86 7 A FORMER Malayan. Mr. Alan MacQuarric, passid through Singapore yesterday by air on a business trip to Britain. Mr. MacQuarrie, who is a director of a Melbourne company, hopes to purchase machinery to start the manufacture of vu.-uum flasks :n Australia. He is a son of
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    EUROPEAN DID NOT GET CARD
    65 7 A thirty-six year ole European, John Powell Vaughan, pleaded guiiLy to a charge of not possessing an identiiy card in the Singapore Fir.it District Court yesterday, and was fined $20. It was found that VAUghan had arrived in Singapore on Feb. 3 and had failed
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    DEATH
    49 7 ALEC H. C. (Andrew Heni? ChOO Leek), aged 60. of Borneo Motors Ltd., Singapore passed aw.iv peacefully at his residence. 249 Ponggol Road, yesterday at 4 :jO p.m. Funeral tomorrow, jjortrgo leaving residence for Church of the Nativity, Upper Serangoon, at 4.30 p.m. thence to Bi'l lOtirJ Cemetery.
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    FILM SOCIETY FACES CRISIS
    218 8 FILM SOCIETY FACES CRISIS rTHE Singapore Film Society, which has a membership of over 100 Aim enthusiasts, is facing a crisis. It may have to close. This was stated by Mr. Tan Thoon Lip, the society's president. He said that the high hiring-cost of films, entertainment tax and the lack
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    Punjabi Exams in Malaya
    68 8 Th.? University of Punjab h.i^, now approved of the Sikh E .ucation Board of Malaya holding three honours standard examinations in Punjabi. The three standards allowr are Budhimani, Widhwani and Gyani Candidates intending to take the examinations should send entrance feei dl $30 for Budhimani: $35
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    THREATENED TO BURN HOUSE
    75 8 Frnni Our Staff Corrrspourtent KUALA LTTMPUR, Thurs. A 21-year-okl Chinese. Ng X ion Seng o>aded {juuty in tiie Kuala Lumpur First Magistrate's Co irt today to 'i charge of attempting to extort $500 fioni Fong Seng alias Fong Theen by threatening to burn down his nouse
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    RUBBER ROAD EXPERT
    51 8 RUBBER ROAD EXPERT DR. VAN HO t~ WEN INGE, Director of Publicity of the Dutch Rubber Institute, who visited Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, examines a stretch of rubber road laid near the railway station. The Kuala Lumpur Municipal Engineer, Mr. E. W. Houston, accompanied him on his inspection. Straits Times
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    Secret Societies Boss Pickpockets
    172 8 pOUK Chinese secret societies control Singapore's 1 pickpocket gangs, whose members are estimated to number about 80, including women and girls. The societies are the Hokklen 303 society, and the Cantonese Kwan Kei. Taj Chap Wui and I^o Kwan societies. I This was stated by a
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    CHOPPER CHARGE
    34 8 From Oar Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Tan Li an Tee, a young woman, was charged at Johore Bahru with injuring' Slew Yew Hiong with a chopper. Bail of $100 Was allowed.
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    Homes For Lower Paid On Estate
    136 8 WORKMEN in the lower income groups employed by the three Services and the Government will be eligible for accommodation when the Princess Elizabeth's Housing Estate at the tth mile Butut Timah Road, Singapore is completed. Announcing this at yesterday 1 meeting of the Singapore
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    Colony Police Not Worried By Leaflets On Benham Report
    308 8 Colony Police Not Worried By Leaflets On Benham Report GOVT. WORKERS GET A RED LETTER the Special Branch, nor the Singapore C.I.D. intend paying very much attention to some new Communist leaflets being sent through the post to the private' homes jof Singapore Government employees. The leaflets, which bear the
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    Negligent Driver
    35 8 MUAR, Thurs.—For negligent driving, Subramaniam was fined $20 or 10 days' hard I labour at Muar. His car col- j lided with another car at the junction of Jalan Majidi and Jalan Mohammadiah.
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    SQUATTERS NEED NOT ALL GO
    342 8 /"INLY, the minimum number of squatters will be v moved from the 325 acres of land at Yio Chu Vnn »^««i »i.i u*u liai Br Koad wl lch the Army is purchasing to build a wireless station, said an Army spokesman yesterda day. He stressed
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    MOVE TO CONTROL HIRING OF BOATS
    79 8 rpO ensure the safety of -L holiday makers, the Singapore Rural Board will ask the police if legislation I can be introduced to regn- late and control the hire of rowing boats to the public. At the Board's meeting yesterday, Mr. H. J. C.
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    CASE WITHDRAWN
    39 8 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Thurs.—The prosecution withdrew its case against Rasip bin Haji Ellas who was charged at Muar •with armed robbery. It was alleged that Rasip, with a gun, robbed Toh Hup at Parit Borham.
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    School's 'Twelfth Night' Twins Were Real
    235 8 School's 'Twelfth Night Twins Were Real A VERY creditable performance of Twelfth Night was given by the Victoria School Dramatic Society in the open air at Alkaff Gardens yesterday evening. The play, the last part of the Singapore Education Week programme, will be repeated this evening and on Saturday A
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    HAWKER PUNCHED PUBLIC SERVANT
    61 8 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Thurs. J^AST week Goh Chin Lee, a hawker, was fined $40 for erecting a street stall without a licence. Yesterday Goh pleaded guilty to having later punched the Town Board overseer who instituted the previous charge against him. Sentence was deferred
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    Ready For Nehru Visit
    86 8 A CROWDED programme awaits the Prime Minister of India, Pandit Nehru, during his One-day stay In Singapore, towards the end of next month. He will be on his way back to India from Indonesia. The Indian Government Representative in Singapore, Mr. J. A. Thlvy, Is completing
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    CUT HAND COSTS HIM $10 FINE From Our Staff Correspondent
    54 8 CUT HAND COSTS HIM $10 FINE From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Thurs. Foo Kit Ling was fined $10 at Seremban, for breaking the curfew at 7.20 p.m. on May 15 at the 8| Mile SerembanMantln Road. Foo said that ,Ms wife had cut her hand and he had gone to
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    432 Apply For 53 Jobs
    83 8 JJECAUSE most of the 432 applicants for the 53 Singapore Social Welfare Department jobs have applied for more than one job, it will be another month before the Department can draw up Its list of successful candidates. The positions' were advertised three months ago and
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    TO STUDY IN AUSTRALIA
    28 8 FRANCIS TAT, of the Holy Innocents English School, Singapore, who left recently for Australia where he will study economics at the University of Perth.
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    COMMISSIONERS TO SELL STEEL
    142 8 RATHER than carry on with further instalments of the Junior staff building programme at Monk's Hill, Singapore Municipal Commissioners have decided to pay nearly $5,000 for one month's storage of the steel arriving for this work, and meanwhile look for possible buyers of the steel. The
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    "NOT TIME TO ALTER LAW ON CITIZENSHIP"
    213 8 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Thursday. a four-hour meeting of the Perak UMNO at Ipoh yesterday afternoon, with liu-he C. M. Yusuf, the president, in the chair, it was decided that "this is not the time to consider any alteration to the Federal
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    N.S. Welfare Week Plans
    133 8 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Thurs. AN. all-community singing competition and fashion parade will be one of the attractions during Welfare Week in Seremban, which will be held from July 28 to Aug. Mr. B. H. Tan has been appointed chairman of the Week, with Messrs.
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    Singapore School Art For N.S.W.
    176 8 rr^Jit: Singapore Art Society has been invited to send a selection of school art to New South Walts for exhibition in August this year. Pictures will be chosen Irom the current exhibition at the British Council Hall. Principals will be asked If they are willing
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    LEARNER FINED
    24 8 SEGAMAT, Thurs. A learner-driver, 23-year-old Maniam was fined $10 at Segamat for driving a car without a competent driver by his side.
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    WAIT FOR ESCORT
    34 8 SEGAMAT. Thurs.—Alleged to have committed criminal breach of trust of a bicycle at Kuala Lumpur. 21-year-o!d Yap Ta>; Song was remanded at Segamat pending arrival «f a police escort from Selangor.
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      111 8 LOUIS LEVY, famed B. B. C. conductor one of the greatest experts on music, describe* The GLASS MOUNTAIN Score as the finest he has ever heard! Among the Musical Gems heard are: "SONG OF THE MOUNTAINS" ("La Montanara") "TAKE THE SUN" and "WAYFARER RACE NIGHT SPECIAL DINNER-DANCE EXTENSION TO 1
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      A Mountain Legend
      584 9  -  •F/LM REVIEWS by VICTOR STAINES QXLY one film was previewed in Singapore this week —"The Glass Mountain". r t this immediately conjures up for you, as it did for me, synthetic mountains glistening in phony snow crystals, you will be as wrong as I was. The photography
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      She married her ideal
      178 9 SIPUT SARAWAK, wno is Mrs. Roomai Noor in private life, met and fell in love with her husband when they were both makin/ the Malay film "Chlnta" They were married shortly after the film was produced. Siput came originally from Sarawak when she was 12 years
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      Lone Censor Of Malaya
      588 9 piLM fans in Singapore, hut especially in the Federation, have learnt recently why their screen fare 1k) S fallen off. fhis matter of. censorship is tricky enough at the best of times, but during these days it must be even trickier. In this case! why does
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      219 9 Correct Solution of PMOUE >^[|\\)r 515 9 lobby from TARZAN DEFIES DEATH TO RESCUE CAPTIVE BEAUTIES! ■bm I^^mi^v- 145 jY I JO 4.00 {.•"^^tjr w JkL *^ji(ffl .^i^B^^ f /jhc*LEX BARKER VANESSA BROWN DENISE PARCEL ROBERT ALDA Refeawed by RKO Radio Picture PRECEDED BY MALAYAN FILM UNIT'S "MALAYAN GAZETTE NO.
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      188 9 aNf .CAirj!L!lHil/A¥"™ MILSS ABOVIg BaNYTHIN« ELSE TODAY! 11a.m., 1.45, 4.15, 6.45 <>.3O Earned STEWART as The Lanky Griming guy who got another chance shine ALLYSON at the girl who came just up to Monty Stratton t Heart IN THE TRUE LOVE-STORY You will Take to Your Heart mm +j*m FRANK
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      318 9 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD MM 16. Late romp (inif) (8). CROSSWORD NO. 59 1. Cry with paper tail (6). 18. Painltr who begin* to i i i I I I 1^ I I I I I I' I 4. Man leads off Rom»n derm* hfl Occupation <6>. I IS Ht companies
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    The upsets in Pakistan
    1818 10 The upsets in Pakistan Andrew Roth, a well-known American journalist who has been touring Pakistan, sends this account of life in the new Dominion KARACHI. WH were riding throng h the rutg c (1 tribal belt of Pakistan's Frontier province on the back of ;i small truck when the voting
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    Tito has his own Cominform
    523 10  - Tito has his own Cominform B, JAMES WAKEFIELD BURKE BERLIN: T*HB Titoist "Cominx form" is making real progress against Moscow, it is now far more than a spontaneous movement. Its active headquarters is located in Belgrade, with 16 countries organised; and a total of 1,000,000,000 dinars per month is now
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      133 10 How I got rid of cough He got relief immediately 9 1 teat terribly tuornta a little while back, johtime had v realty dreadful cold and th* cough kept htm awak* the tahole of one wghi. Them J bought tome Zubes Cough Mixture and after a fern dotes Joknm**» cough
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      81 10 10 a.m. Newt from K.L., lo.ua I Close: 12 Malay; 1 p.m. Jay Wilbur Strings; 1 JO News; 1.46 Dance Music; 2 Close; 8 Light Music: 6.40 Fred Waring <b His 1 Pennsylvanians; 7 News, Share Market, Interlude; 7.30 AlphabeticaUy Yours; 8 Talk; 8.30 Friday Prom: 9.90 News; 9 45
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      89 10 6 "At Your Service;" 7 News, Share Market 7.11 LouU Vom Orch; 7.30 Jaas and 3* ing, 8 Talk; 8.10 Radio rtanch; 8.30 Audrey Thompson and Dodo Mailinger; 9 Much Binding In the Marsh; 9.90 News; 9.46 Music through the Ages; 10 15 Dane* Music; 19.30 Count of Mcnte Cristo:"
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      84 10 Half-Hour; "Plata Enguan"; 8. IS Thai; 8 45 Dutch; 0 Kuoyu; 9.30 Burmese; t.45 Interlude: 10. Radio News Reel; 10.16 Whose Body?"; 10.46 "Chapter and Verge" (Tennyson); 11. Dance Music; 11.15 World Affairs; 11.30 News and News Analysis: 11.45 Evening Serenade; 12. Close. PEN AMI 1 2 p.m. As S'pore;
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      London Stocks
      294 11 LONDON. Thuri. DUBBERS were again dull on scattered sales In the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Price movements as a whole were small and mixed throughout the Exchange. Closing middle prices oi selected stocks aa supplied to the Straits Times o; special arrangement wttb The Financial limes, follow. Unless
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      GOOD DAY IN THE SHARE MARKET
      186 11 From Our Market Correspondent T*HE Malayan share market yesterday continued 1 quietly steady for certain selective issues in the Tin section. Rubber shares also showed small improvements, while Industrials again advanced slightly. Price changes announced 'by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Bayer
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      U. S. RUBBER EXPORTS
      97 11 WASHINGTON, Riim. TTNITED States exports of rubber, allied gums and manufactures In March were valued at (US) $7,276,021, according to the Department of Commerce. This was a decline of 35 2 percent from the $11,234,188 registered in March last year, out was better than the $6,231,433
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      Rubber At 81⅜ Cts.
      201 11 IN SYMPATHY with the rise In prices hi London and New York, the Singapore rubber market opened firm yesterday. After a certain amount of profit-taking sellers became reserved, with buyers unsatisfied. The market closed firm. i Closing prices yesterday were, per lb: No. l R.S S.
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      PRODUCE MARKET
      86 11 From A Market Correspondent CLOVES in the Singapore produce market were steady yesterday, opening at *102 -with business done at $103 and $104 Zanzibar. There ware furthf ers but sellers held off for 1106. Copra was slightly steadier, buyers quoting $38'- and sellers $38 7s7 s Coconut oil
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      TIN PRICES
      28 11 SINGAPORE, Thnrs., May 18— $298.25 (down $0.50.) LONDON, Thnrs.. May 18. —Spot: £594}— £595; Forward. £596— £596i; Settlement, £595. Turnover: morning, 35 tons; afternoon, 60 tons.
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      The Dunlop Profits
      204 11 THE 12-per-cent. drop 111 the group operating profit In 1949 of the Dunlop Rubber Company comes as no surprise, says 'Lex" in Th'Financial Times. The end of the previous year had seen the beginning of the change from sellers' to buyers' markets, as the profits of other
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      P. & O. STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
      174 11 P. O. STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY T). O. Steam Navigation omjpany accounts for the year w> last Sept. 30 show sperattng profits and gross investment income totallln? 11U.445.418. This compares with an estimate of £13,045,295 for 1947-48. As already known, the payment for 1948-49. on the £4,592,513 Deferred capital totals 12
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    Hudson Held A Record v. West Indies
    257 12 Un A BRIGHT August morning in 1933, two young lieutenants walked out to the crease at Aldershot to open Army's Innings against the third touring West Indian side in England What they did that day, Saturday. August 26, was to De history in
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    KOTA RAJA MEET ROVERS SUNDAY
    115 12 riOR their stiffest Senior F League test of the season to date. Kota Raja, undefeated leaders with 16 points from eight games, will be without their centreforward Awang Bakar when they meet Rovers Sports Club at Jalan Besar on Sunday. Awang Bakar. who injured the
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    Signals Beat Old Boys
    73 12 rfiHE SINGAPORE A.F.A. X Junior A-2 league tie between Tuan Mong 0.8.A. and Signals Regiment (Singapore Dist.) resulted ln a three-one win for Signals on the C.YM.A. ground yesterday. Signals got their first goal ln the 13th minute through Snath. Ten minutes later Brakenberry scored the
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    TIONG BAHRU RANGERS WIN
    35 12 In a friendly match on the S.R.C. padang yesterday, Tiong Bahru Rangers beat the S.R.C. by four goals to nil. The scorers were .Plang Se (2), Lim Swang and Fook Loy.
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    FREE PRESS RACE SUPPLEMENT
    53 12 r DAY'S Singapore Free Press will contain a special four-page racing supplement. Features include a full form guide for the Singapore Turf Club Summer (Gold Cup) meeting opening tomorrow; articles by Allan Lewis, a review of prospects for the Derby, and an article on Flying Arrow
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    INDIAN HEATHER TO MISS CUP TRIAL
    665 12 INDIAN HEATHER TO MISS CUP TRIAL Flying A rrowA nd Nessus Work Best By EPSOM JEEP INDIAN HEATHER, rated by the Straits Racing 1 Association official handicapper as the best stayer in training o n the Malayan Turf at the moment after his runaway win in the Perak Derby last
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    Army-RN v Johore In Cup Today
    374 12 ARMY -NAVY and Johore, only teams in the southern section of the Malaya Cup soccer competition without a point against their names, meet at Jalan Besar Stadium today in a game which will probably decide the wooden-spoonlsts of the south this season. I Army-Navy,
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    TOP CL. 3 SPRINT A NEAT PROBLEM
    874 12 CLONAGH and Best Wishes, two of the Spencer stable's most promising three-year-olds, have both made marked progress since their maiden victories at Kuala Lumpur last month. i i i I i I j They sprinted smartly up the straight yesterday morning at Bukit
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    Battleship Promoted To Class I
    338 12 BATTLESHIP a winner over D f p»nanp .in( j fl eoa<i f l mV n f n f 0 a, g °°T second to Movie in the Kedan Cup, has been promoted to the top class according to the latest classification of v...., hv 4h
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    TED HARPER OUT OF HOSPITAL
    76 12 r!KEY Ted Harper, who was wounded by bandit bullets in a road attack on Sunday, has been discharged from the General Hospital, Singapore. His injuries are not serious and doctors have managed to save his badly shot up thumb. Ted intends returning to Australia with
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    KAM POH TO LEAD PENANG
    114 12 PENANO, Thurs.— ln of Yeang Kah Chong, who was recently suspended, Wang Kam Poh will captain Penang against Selangor in Saturday's key match ln the northern section of the Malaya Cup soccer competition. The Settlement has made one major change from the side which recently
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    TENGAH WIN BY A PENALTY
    87 12 Playing fast, delightful soccer, Royal Air Force Tengah beat Indonesians "A" by a solitary goal —a penalty— in a S.AJ.A. Junior A2 league soccer match played at Oeylang stadium yesterday. Doyer. Tengah centre-hait played an outstanding game and converted the penalty with a fuublooded drive
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    U. K. CRICKET
    28 12 OWING to bad reception, yesterday's scores in the West Indies v Cambridge University cricket fixture and in the county championships were not received yesterday night.
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    CRICKET TEAMS FOR WEEKEND
    302 12 PLLOWING are cricket teams for the weekend's matches ln Singapore: SINGAPORE CHINESE R.C. Sunday v Indian Assn. In the senior tourney at Balestler Road: Wee Chong Jin (capt.), Khoo Ong Lee, Cheong Thiam Slew, Cheah Kirn Siew, Ong Swee Law, Ang Earn Hock, Chua Kee Meng,
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    Dunsford Quits
    140 12 gRIC DUNSFORD, well-known Singapore boxing referee has announced his Intention to quit his Job. "I'm through," the former light and welterweight champion of Singapore told a Straits limes reporter. What decided Mr. Dunsford on taking the decision to stop refereeing was the "filth and cbscenity" of certain sections
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    C.A. Defeat TBA: Still In 2nd Place
    372 12 ...C.A 1.8.A. PLAYINO confidently but hardly competently. Chinese Athletes Just managed to scrape home yesterday in their S.A.F.A. Senior League match against the Tamil Brotherhood Association by two goals to one to cling precariously to second place m the league table.. While this
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    Sports Diary
    31 12 SOCCER: Malaya *••>: Army-Navy v. Johore at li'^n Besar; Jnr. Bl: Fathnl K ri!. T. Cheerful Lads at Grvlan<r; Jnr. Bl: Ist Spore Rerl. I?.V t. Social A.P. at BODCA
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