The Straits Times, 9 December 1950

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, i?sj}, Jf PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    U.N. BID TO ESCAPE RED TRAPS
    401 1 Lull On New Eighth Army Defence Line TOKYO, Friday. THOUSANDS of American and Allied troops battled desperately to break through Communist Chinese traps today in efforts to reach the Korean east coast for probable mass removal by sea. Chinese forces were reported close behind
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    59 1 AT 1 IE BRISBANE TEST the second ball that England's last iKitsman. Wright, received lodged itself in his pads and as both he and the Australian wicketkeeper. Don T.illon seek possession with a touch of horse play, the whole field joined in the laughter. From left: Loxton. Hultoti. the umpire.
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    UK-US DISAGREE ON ASIA POLICY
    201 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. PRESIDENT TKI MAN and Mr. Attlee are expected to end their talks today with a wide agreemeni on European defence measures, but less success in v -Id iiur a common front on Far Eastern policy. 1 1 v reliable sources I 'hat the
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    FOR PAKISTAN
    29 1 LONDON Fri.— Mr. Arthur Bo'tomley. British Secretary for Overseas Trade, left for London by air toda\ for Pakistan to discuss revisions of thr present trade agreement. Renter
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    SPECIAL 8-PAGE AIR SUPPLEMENT
    73 1 TODAY'S Singapore tree Press contains a special eight-page supplement on Air Day. In it are details of what to look for at Kalian? and many specially written articles on subjects varying from a vmple explanation of how an airplane flies to accounts of the work of
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    Lava Engulfs Village
    55 1 MILO. t Sicily), Fri— House after house was obliterated today as five tentacles of fiery lava from Mount Etna's exploding craters slowly encircled Furnazzo village. There was no hope that the lava's march at a speed of 30 feet an hour, would halt before the whole of
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    NATIONAL ARMY FOR VIETNAM
    159 1 NATIONAL ARMY FOR VIETNAM SAIGON. Fri THE French and representatives of Vietnam signed an agreement, today which created a Vietnamese national army— on paper United States Minister. Mr Donald Heath, attended the ceremony at which Bao Dai I signed for his government I and the French Commissioner. M. Leon Plsnon.
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    LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
    40 1 MIAMI. (Florida i, Fri.— Dr. Harold C. Wrey, leading American atom scientist, told science students at the University of Miami last nisht that his studies left "little doubt that life has occurred on other planets." Reuter.
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    MAN HELD
    19 1 A man was detained last night by a police constable after a hold-up attempt in Fullerton Road.
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    I.L.O. Warning On Asian Workers
    141 1 JAKARTA, Friday. A BELGIAN delegate, M. Nathalis De Bock, warned the International Labour Organisation, plantation committee conference at Bandoeng, West Java, today that Asian and African plantation workers were in danger of falling into the "grip of international Communism". This would happen, he said. unless
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    DEMAND
    23 1 THE HAGUE. Frl.-Indo-nesia asked the Netherlands :rctay tn trr>ns'«r sovereignty over Dutch New Guinea to the Indonesian v Republic next May. A.P.
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    DEATH FOR BOMB
    55 1 A BILL imposing the death sentence or penal servitude for life for the use of any arms, bomb or hand grenade is to be introduced in the next meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council. It revises the 1947 Arms Offences Ordinance and brings the Singapore law into
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    BE TOUGH, SAYS EISENHOWER
    78 1 VIRGINIA, 111. Fri. pENERAL Eisenhower told VJ troops here today: "Your training must be as tough as you can make it." All young men might be called back into uniform because aggressor nations had decided free men were their enemies. He added: "You have the right
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    Six Hit By Bamboos In Lorry
    102 1 "DAMBOO poles loaded in a lorry hit six R.A.F. workers travelling in a military lorry at 11 mile Changi Road, Singapore, yesterday evening. The workers, Heng Joo Keng (18), Basirman bin Piluny (27), Suppiah (50t, Khalid bin Wok (28). Panh Ah Nor (19) and
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    DULLES FOR TOKYO
    58 1 WASHINGTON. Fri.— John Foster Dulles, State Department adviser, may be sent to Tokyo soon to hasten United States efforts for a Japanese peace treaty. The State Department refused to confirm or deny the report. Informed sources said, however, that tentative plans call for Mr. Dulles or some
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    NEW DUTY
    45 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, FriV An export duty of 10 per cent ad valorem has been fixed by the Federation Government on all horns (except rhinoceros and saladang), skins (except crocodile and snake), raw or dressed hides and bones and tallow.
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    $275,000 For Korea
    16 1 WASHINGTON, Frl. The Economic Co-operation Administration has alloted Korea funds totalling U*****,000.— A.P.
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    GURNEY LEAVES U.K. TODAY
    126 1 LONDON, Fri. CIR Henry Gurney, British High Commissioner in Malaya, is to leave here early tomorrow by air for Singapore. Sir Henry Gumey, who arrived here on leave on Sept. 5, extended hLs stay in London to take part in t*lta between Sir Harold Briggs, Director
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    BRIGGS AT No. 10
    36 1 LIEUT-CTN. Sir Harold Briggs, D rector of Operations in Malaya, leaving 10 Downing St last weekend. He conferred with the Prime Minister the day before Mr. Attlee left for Washington. A.P. picture.
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    PENANG GUNMEN WOUND BROKER
    236 1 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. PENANG gunmen last night shot tneir fourth victim this week, seriously wounding a 40-year-old broker, Khoo Eng Chuan, while lie was in a bathroom in his .house in East Jelutong. Khoo's brother-in-law. Cheah Phee Aun. living next door, had a
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    To See City Housing
    73 1 MR. •E. J. Howensteine, of the Economic Division of 1.L.0., Geneva, arrived in Singapore last night by Cathay Pacific Airways for talks with the Colony's labour and housing officials. He intends to visit workers' housing projects in Singapore before flying to Bandoeng to attend the meeting
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    30 FEET FALL
    33 1 A European child, 3-year-old Tony Crltchard, fell 30 feet from the top floor of the Atomic Boarding House In Lloyd Road, Singapore, yesterday afternoon. He was sent to hospital unconscious.
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    Woman Red Hanged
    64 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. WONG AH MOOI. a 24-year-old woman bandit in whose room ammunition, detonator fuses and gunpowder were found, was hanged today in Penang Prison. She was the first woman bandit to be hanged. Lim Cheat Seng, aged 20, was hanged with
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    Rush to beat new duty deadline
    500 1 Rush to beat new duty deadline From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A RUSH to get rubber to Port Swettenham by road in time for shipment before the end of the year has begun in Kuala Lumpur The announcement by the Malayan Railway Administration yesterday that rubber was among
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    Churchill Complains Of 'A Filthy Charge'
    380 2 Churchill Complains Of 'A Filthy Charge TOTALLY > LACKING IN HUMANLY' LONDON, Fri. A STATEMENT by Mr. Churchill that the release of sterling balances to India, Pakistan and Ceylon was by "no means agreed between the different parties" led to a fierce clash with Mr. Hugh Gaitskill, Chancellor of the
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      Jealous Blonde Dies In Love Test
      173 2 A BLONDE Chicago saleswoman was found dead in the apartment of the Danish Vice-Consul, where she apparently gambled with death to test his love. She was a 27-year-old estranged wife. Police believe she took an overdose of sleeping tablets and lay on the couch
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    BOOK OF MONTH
    35 2 TOR'S O, Fri The following notice was posted today on the sulletin board of the Tokyo Correspondents' Club: "Now available in the club's library, 'How To Protect Yoursel] Against Atomic At-tack.'"--A. P.
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    REDS'VIOLATE RIGHTS'
    99 2 REDS 'VIOLATE RIGHTS' LAKE SUCCESS. Fri.—Britain accused the Soviet Union in the United Nations yesterday of violating human rights on a "colossal scale" by refusing to repatriate thousands of German and Japanese prisoners of war. The British delegate. Lord MacDona!d. joined the US and Australian delegations In the Social and
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    SECOND APPEAL
    23 2 NEW DELHI. Fri.— Tibet has sent a second appeal to the United Nations asking for help against the Chinese Communists.— A.P.
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    TEENAGERS MAY BE FREED
    98 2 MANILA, Friday. City official indicated th a charges against five teenaiers ani a young moth er in the murder and rebellion trial of alleged Filipino Communists may be dropped "because of their apparent innocence." Tie six include an 11-ye*r-old girl, a 14-year-old girl, 5 and 16-year-old
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    INDIES MINISTER IN U.K.
    25 2 INDIES MINISTER IN U.K. J)R. MOHAMMAD Rl'M. Indonesian Foreign Minister, arrival in London, with Madame Subandrio, wife of tne Indonesian Ambassador to Britain.— A.P. picture.
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    SINGER KNIFED: ACTRESS HELD
    147 2 nwt HOLLYWOOD, Friday JJILL Daniels, $5,000-a-week Negro night club ni-r?*"?*';^ slas i hed "rtth a butcher's knife last night in th c apartment of a red-haired Hollywood Ronnie Guillan, 29-year-old white actress, has been gaoled on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. A doctor said
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    U.S. BILL MAKES ASIAN CITIZENS
    52 2 WASHINGTON. Fri. The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation making 88,000 Asians now living in the United States eligible for citizenship. The Bill applies to about 85.000 Japanese. 3.000 Koreans and 145 Polynesians who have become permanent U.S. residents. It now goes to the
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    MORE SKY ICE
    38 2 LONDON, Fri.— A hlock of ice about nine inches square —the ninth to drop from the skies in five weeks— fell at the feet of a school boy on the main London-Oxford Road yesterday.— Reuter.
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    WHO HEAD IGNORANT OF RICE KILLER
    235 2 WHO HEAD IGNORANT OF RICE KILLER GENEVA Fri. F)R. Brock Chisholm, u Director-General of the World Health Organisation, yesterday denied a statement attributed to him by Lord Boyd Orr, British food expert, that President Truman co n I d have ordered the destruction of the entire Japanese rice crops in
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    R.A.F. Saves 23 From Sea
    80 2 HONG KONG, Friday. J^N R.A.F. Sunderland flying boat yesterday rescued 23 Chinese seamen jrom the lifeboat of the stricken Philippines freighte t Joseph S. The 627-ton wooden vessel was reported early yesterday out of danger, but HM.S. Charity, frigate, is ttanding by her anchored in
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    U.N. PRIORITY FOR DEBATE ON KOREA
    392 3 U.N. PRIORITY FOR DEBATE ON KOREA Charges Against U.S. 'Moonshine 9 LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. T»HE United Nations General Assembly's Political Committee rejected Soviet objections and decided by 42 to five with fcur abstentions to give priority to a debate on Chinese Communist intervention in Korea. The Soviet Union and its
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    ATTLEE LEAVES
    23 3 MK. CLEMENT ATTI.EK its farewelled by the British Foreign Secretary. .Mr. f rnrst Bevin, as he left tor Wellington this wei*k.
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    WEST AGREES TO ARM GERMANY
    127 3 LONDON, Friday. DKPI TIES of the North Atlantic Pact Organisation agreed yesterday on a draft plan to bring lHit.ooo Germans into the Atlantic army. But the Major obstacle— getting the Germans to agree to hflp defend Western Europe— remains to be overcome. At present the
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    TOWN SAVED
    33 3 MANILA, Fri.— ln 3 battle With 60 Communist Hukbalai Florida Blanca, seat o: a Philippine air force base In P.impanga Province, Government forces saved the t :.)m looting and burnin R
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    HOW TO STOP SMOKING
    48 3 LONDON Fri.-Advice to nicotine slaves, given In the British Medical Journal, on how to stop smoking: "Carry a packet of cigarettes in your pocket and finger them from time to time." The treatment is supposed to have a quietening effect on the nerves.— Reuter.
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    'FREE EGYPT -OR QUIT'
    72 3 KARACHI. Fri.-A Member of Parliament wants Pakistan to withdraw from the Commonwealth on the issue of the Egyptian demand for withdrawal of British troops from the Nile Valley. Main Iftikhar-Uddin. member of the opposition, said the British attitude in Egypt was "unjust and Intransigent. "We want
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    LUXURY HOSPITAL
    26 3 ST. ALBANS. Fri.—Britain's first skvscraper hospital, being planned In St. A!ban"s will have eight storeys 300 beds, a swimmin-! pool and a gymnasium. Reuter.
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    JUST ONE BIG RACKET
    70 3 COBAIT. Ontario, Fri.— Police waited for someone to complain about someone else passing counterfeit 10dollar notes because: 1. The fake money apparently o iginated with racketeers t ley would like to meet. 2. The racketeers were buying silver illegally from smuggler 3. They were payin? off
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    NEPALESE ENVOYS GIVE UP TALKS
    46 3 NEW I ELHI. Fri.— The Nepalese relegation to India said todsy it was abandoning itspreseit discussions with Mr. Nehi u because of his refusal to recognise the boy King Gy inendra. They expect to retun. to Khatmandu tomorrow )r Sunday.— A.P.
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    THIS WAS A TOWN
    32 3 WRECKAGE of the North Korean town of Hung Nam where United Nations bomkers dropped 382 tons of bombs. It was the centre of the chemical industry.— A.P. picture.
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    French Rout Reds At 7 Pagodas
    197 3 SAIGON, Friday. FRENCH forces leaped to the offensive throughout Indo-China today after weeks of serious military reversals by Communist-led Vietminh rebels. They killed or captured more than 1,000 rebels during the past 24 hours and set up 42 new French posts in the swampy
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    BRLTISH SHIP SHELLED
    91 3 SAN FRANCISCO. Fri. i Globe Wireless reported yes- terday that the British freighter Wing Sang had radioed that she was shelled and taken into custody by a Chinese Nationalist gunboat off i South China. The 3.560-ton Wing Sang is owned by the Indochina j Steam Navigation Company
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    THEY WANT ACHESON FIRED
    42 3 WASHINGTON. Fri. MR. Robert Taft, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said yesterday that the party would discuss next week a party demand that Mr. Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State, should be dismissed from office. U.P.
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    Red China WantsTrade With ILK.
    88 3 LONDON, Fri. ILfR. John Keswick, leading British businessman in the Far East, said in London yesterday that the spirit shown towards Britain in China when he left It last month was one of "veiled friendliness." This was f specially so when it came to trad»,
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    CHARGE AND COUNTER-CHARGE IN UNITED NATIONS
    51 3 "PKK(.\v. aciegaie. Mr Wu Tsiu-ihuan (left) and Mr. Warren Austin, the U.S. delegate as they speak In the Security Council. The United States accused China of "open and notoi ious aggression" in Korea, and Peking: accused the U.S. of aggression in Formosa A.P. Radio
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    No Metals For U.K. Civilians
    107 3 LONDON, Fri. DRITiLIN will cut back her civilian production of metals during 1951 to protect her rearmament programm* from a threatened world shortaf :e. Britcna, still queuing for heavy consumer goods like c\use of the 1939-1945 war. got this grim news yesterday j from Mr.
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    Britain Clears Docks— Urgency
    279 3 Britain Clears Docks Urgency LONDON, Fri. BRITAIN'S stocks of strategic raw materials were being dispersed from dock areas, the President of the Board of Trade, Mr Harold Wilson, told the Commons yesterday. He added that the matter was being treated as one of urgency. Speaking In the same debate the
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    INDIA WILL FIGHT AGGRESSION—NEHRU
    310 3 INDIA WILL FIGHT AGGRESSION— NEHRU NEW DELHI, Friday. MR. Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister, said yesterday that India would continue to work for world peace but would resist aggression from any quarter. Mr Nehru told critics of the United States that it was wrong to dismiss American policy as dollar
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    CARS PILE UP IN U.S.
    95 3 DETROIT, Fri.— Stocks of new cars in the United States are the largest for more than a year. The trade newspaper. Automotive News, said its monthly survey showed that on Nov. 1 new car stocks numbered 508,071. Of this total. 349,571 were in the hands
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    'Do Not Sacrifice' Quality For Quantity,' Warns Expert
    425 4 'Do Not Sacrifice Quality For Quantity,' Warns Expert MALAYA'S EDUCATION EXPANSION From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. Christopher Cox, adviser on Education to tie Secretary of State for the Colonies, said at a Press conference today that the most striking impression of his "memorable, absorbin? ind heartening visit" was
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    FORMER O.C.P.D. CHARGED
    114 4 FORMER O.C.P.D. CHARGED Froii Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A FORMER police officer, V. T. H. Tipton, was in the Kuala Lumpur Second Magistrate's Court today charged wlt«i abetment of theft. Tip on, formerly O.C.P.D. Camp bell Road, Kuala Lum- pur. ivas alleged to have j abetted an Englishman,
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    Girilty Plea Rejected
    158 4 Girilty Plea Rejected Fro n Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. AN order was made by Inche 'aib bin Andak, acting I President of the Sessions j Court, Johore Bahru. transferri ig the case in which M. Vim; laraja. assistant stationl mas' er, Kulai. was charged i with criminal breach
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    'Insolent To Constable
    93 4 AN 5 Poh Tian. a factory employee, was stated in the Singapore First District Cou: t yesterday to be "very inso ent" to a special volunteer constable on sentry duty at the factory on the night of Dec. 3. Wien the constable asked for lis factory pass,
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    IDENTITY CARD OFFENCE: GAOL
    34 4 Fcr failing to produce his identity card at Middle Road, Singapore. Wee Lock Sai, agec 37, was sentenced in the Singapore First District Cou t yesterday to three months' imprisonment.
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    Shooting Contest
    19 4 Units from Regular Forces will :ompete in the Singapore Voluiteer Corps Rifle Meeting at Nee Soon tomorrow.
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    DRIVER FINED
    26 4 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. Fri— Two Indians and a Chinese were fined $10 each at Segamat today for failing to observe traffic signs.
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    MARRIED AT KUALA LUMPUR
    24 4 MR- ROBERT WALKER and his bride, Miss Barbara Prout, after their wedding a t Kuala Lumpur recently. Eastern Studio picture.
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    ASSAULTED MAN, WOMAN FINED
    176 4 Frtca Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Pri. '^IfYTHING you won't do, ie won't do either," Inche Anu ir, the Kuala Lumpur Seccnd Magistrate, told a Chir ese woman, Lim Seak, alia: Soo Gah, today when he f ned her $5 or one week's simple imprisonment. Li
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    LOAD ON LORRY SLIPS
    30 4 THE CREW of a lorry look at their cargo which slipped while the vehicle was rounding: a corner in Keppel Road. Singapore, yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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    STUDENTS''NO'TO CUBICLES FOR 2
    214 4 STUDENTS' 'NO' TO CUBICLES FOR 2 /TBICLES are not meant for two, ariordin* to some undergraduates in the University of Malaya. That is why they have rejected an offer to return to the cubicles in the hostels which they were told to quit earlier this year. Each cubicle in the
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    REMANDED IN CUSTODY
    57 4 When the Singapore First District Judge. Mr. H. E. Kingdon, postponed sentence yesterday after Tam Cheng Yeow had pleaded guilty to failing to notify his change of address, he ordered Tam to be remanded in custody until Dec. 14. Tarn's application for ball was opposed by the
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    They Will Fish With Nylon
    75 4 NYLON fishing nets hare arrived in Singapore for the Fisheries Department, who will test them to find out if thev are more durable than nets made of cotton, ramie and hemp. If the tests prove that they are, the department will encourage their use in
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    HAPPY LANDING
    51 4 A Malayan Airways Dakota which left Kallang Airport yesterday morning for Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh. Taiping and Penang. returned to Singapore on cne engine after a quarter of an hour. li, made a safe landing. Engineers repaired the faulty engine and the aircraft took off again soon after 3
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    STUDENT CLEARED ON THEFT CHARGE
    257 4 STUDENT CLEARED ON THEFT CHARGE AN 18-year-old Sikh, Solakan Singh, a student of the Victoria Afternoon School, was acquitted yesterday by Mr. Tan Ah Tah, in the Singapore Second District Court, on an amended charge of theft of 125 rupees from his form master, Gurnam Singh, on Sept. 2. SuiaiCiM:
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    Granted Decree Nisi
    131 4 ]yjARJORIE Agnes Bartels was granted a decree nisi against her husband Gordon Llewellyn Bartels on the grounds of desertion, by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in the Singapore High Court yesterday. The petitioner, who was represented by Mr. K. C. Lim, said that she had been
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    'Settle Squatters Quicker' Appeal
    147 4 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR. Friday. /GOVERNMENT was prepared to release squatter detainees if they could find approved places to live, Mr. H. M. Horsley, Assistant Commissioner for Chinese Labour, told a meeting of the Kedah and Perlis branch of the Malayan Chinese Association l'OcfopH
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    FINED $1,530
    35 4 Two Revenue Officers who raided a house in Syed Aiwl Road found 99-lb. of dutiable Siamese tobacco. In the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday a Tamil, P. Vellasamy, aged 28, was fined $1.530.
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    Beggar Detained
    34 4 For begging in Raffles Place, Law Yew Kian, aged 59, was" ordered, in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday, to be sent to the House of Detention and be given medical treatment.
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    INDIAN SISTERS STUDY TEXTILES
    29 4 MISS BAGAVANTI and Miss Draupathy, daughters of Mr. F. Krishna of Kuala Lumpur, who are leaving for Bombay shortly to study the manufacture of textiles.
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    'PLEAD GUILTY BUT I AM IGNORANT
    43 4 "I will plead guilty but I am ignorant," said a woman. Sean Pee. in Singapore yesterday when bound over In $50 to be of good behaviour for six months for stealing three pieces of rubber tree branches.
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    Rent Control To Stay In 1951
    52 4 Rent Control To Stay In 195 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KVALA LUMPUR, Fri. CONTROL of house rtnts win continue in 1951, the Gov- ernvient Gazette annou need today The Control of Rent Ordinance 1948 is continued following a resolution passe d at the recent meeting ef the Federal Legislative
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    IMPORTS PROfIIMTiON ORDER IS RULED ILLEGAL
    1013 5 A MOTION submitted by counsel for his client A in a case at the November Assizes that the Prohibition of Imports Order of 1948 "was illegal, being ultra vires the pow?rs of the authority purporting to make it," was allowed by Mr. Justice Evans
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    STOLE GOLD CHAIN
    48 5 From Our Own Correspondent KLUANG, Fri.— An Indian, Marimuthu, son of Rengasamy. of Havelock Road, Sin- gapore was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for stealing a gold chain, valued at $150 at C.E.P.L. Estate, Layang Lavarig. Imprisonment will be followed by 15 months' police supervision.
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    WOMAN FACES BRIBE CHARGE
    46 5 BENTONG. Fri.— Chan Yow, a 26-year-old woman, is alleged to have offered a $25 bribe to Khaw Kim Beng, a Civil Liaison Officer at Mengkuang. to induce him not to arrest her for aiding bandits. The case was postponed for a week.
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    PRIZE-GIVING
    22 5 PENANG, Fri.— The Hu Yew Seah Girl's School, one of Penang's biggest Chinese girls schools, holds Its annual prize-giving on Tuesday.
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    Helicopters Saved 5 Jungle Fighters
    226 5 NOVEMBER air operations included the evacuation of five wounded members of the Security Forces from the jungle by helicopter, the dropping of over 200,000 leaflets, and the provision by Brigands of air cover for school children returning from the Cameron Highlands, states a F.E.A.F. repuru.
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    Citizens To Raise Money For School
    105 5 F ojn Our SUB Correspondent SEREMBAN, Fri. IT JALA PILAH townspeople met yesterday and pledged themselves to raise $10 000 to provide two new cla isrooms for 80 pupils at Tue nku Muhaarimed School. The school, which has 1,0(0 pupils and Is overcrowded, will
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    MENZIES VISIT
    47 5 The Australian Prime Minist r, Mr. R. G. Menzies may be a Christmas eve guest at Bu cit Serene, the residence of the Commissioner General, Mr Malcolm MacDonald. Mr. Menzies is expected in Sir gapore on his way to the Prime Ministers Conference in London.
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    Teachers On The Estates
    57 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. SEVERAL teachers, members of the Malayan Indian Congress, are to spend part of their Christmas holidays with labourers on the rubber estates. They will explain federal citizenship and help them to apply for it. other officials of the Congress
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    TELLING THE PEOPLE
    50 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Government is to step up the Federation's emergency publicity campaign and is to buy 30 public address vans to keep rural people in touch with affairs. Each van will have film projectors. The Malayan film unit Is also being expanded.
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    LAND CLEARANCE ORDER IN FED
    148 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. rABr A8 a further measure in fighting banditry, the Mentrl Besar of a State and the Resident Commissioner of a Settlement may now or<W the clearance of undergrowth on land* abutting on. m lying within, a ilis'.ance of
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    S-E ASIA TALKS
    74 5 THREE GOVERNORS are taking: part in the conference at Bukit Serene. Seen on the second day yesterday, frcm left, are: the Governor of Sarawak, Mr. Anthony Abrll; the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson: th< Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald; th Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station, Admiral Sir Patrick
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    'Boys'Club Week' From Monday
    184 5 NE Singapore Boys' Clubs, with a membership 11 of 2,000, will hold a "Boys' Club Week" in Singajwre from Monday. The object of the Week is to stimulate public Interest In Boys' Clubs and give the boys themselves an opportunity to show the public what they
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    Rotary Aids N.S. Schools
    132 5 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Fri. THE Seremban Rotary Club 1 has decided to give $260 annually to needy pupils of 12 English schools, including three private schools, in the State. The money will be used either to buy text books or to pay scliool fees
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    STICK ASSAULT
    31 5 SEOA M A T, Fri. Low Kwang Lip, 60, clog maker, was bound over at Segamat in $150 for eight months for assaulting a man with a kanda stick.
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    Singapore Diary
    146 5 BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S CLUB, luncheon meeting, Y.W.C A Raffles Quay, 1.15 p.m. Mrs. W. C. Relnoehl will speak on "A Christmas Story." CHINESE YM C A Selegit Road, music class. 2.30 p.m. body building, 4 p.m., basketball, 5 p.m. film show, 7.30 p.m. Y.M.C.A., Orchard Road, chess
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    B.C.G. FOR CHILDREN SOON
    166 5 B.C.G. FOR CHILDREN SOON Fro/n Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Fri. pLANS for the B. C. G. campaign in Malaya are now almost complete. A start w.-ll soon be made to give anti-TB. vaccination to babies and children. This was stated today by Dr. L. O. Roberts, TB. Adviser to the
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    OVERLOAD: $25
    18 5 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Fri.— For overloading his lorry, Ong Chok Peng was fined $25.
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    Wants Action On 1-Way Plan
    231 5 Wants Action On 1- Way Plan I^HE Singapore Traffic Advisory Committee considers that it would be impossible to make regulations governing the restricted use of certain roads and parking places and other matters until the Government decides on the one-wav traffic plan recommended by the committee. The committee has therefore
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    A WELCOME
    39 5 The Dutch destroyer Banckert arrives in Singapore from Indonesia on Monday for a three weeks stay during which rudder repairs will be made. The Dutch community are planning to entertain Commander van der Ploeg, and the crew.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Sat, Dec. 9, 1950. The Wash Water
    574 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat, Dec. 9, 1950. The Wash Water 1 The only hawkers in the Singapore Municipality who i will be licensed from the beginning of next year are those selling icecream and milk products, cut fruit and iced drinks, if the recommendations of the j Health Committee
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    Industrial Klang
    489 6 It is not often that a school magazine goes outside the f bounds of its own little world, and some editorial comments in the 1950 number of the Klang High School magazine on employment prospects for youth in that district are worthy of attention in a wider sphere.
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    Fifty Years Ago.
    111 6 FOR THE POLICE WHITE GLOVES (From the Straits Times of Dec. 8, 1900.) 'TODAY, the Police Inspectors from the various Divisions were presented with a pair of white gloves each by the Chief Poliee Officer, as there was not a single report of crime during the last
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    8 6 PAPAYA PATTERN Photograph by F. G. H. Allen
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    AS I was Saying
    1372 6  -  Cynicus —by- A IR DAY offers the reminder chat it is 31 years, almost *o the day, since the first aircraft to fly from Europe to Aus- tralia touched down in Singapore. 1 At the old race course thousands waited for hours to greet Captain Ross
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    Singaporeana
    856 6 POME time ago I asked why > Lavendei Street was Riven i Its most inappropriate name. I have since l?arnt from Buckley's Anecdotal History that this street was named as far back as 1858. Minutes of a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners in that year contained the following: the
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    EX-GOVT OFFICERS' PENSIONS INCREASED
    388 7 Back-Da ted From October, 1948 pKNSIONS to retired Government officers, based on unrevised salaries, are to be inrreused by amounts varying from 40 per cent at the lowest level to about 5 per cent, at the upper limit, the Singapore and Federation (Governments announced yesterday. The
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    COLONY AIR DAY TODAY
    123 7 COLONY AIR DAY TOD A Y JILAVY A-A guns were sited r around the taxi track at K-iliung airport. Singapore. yesterday afternoon. They will form part, of the static j display arranged for today's I Air Day Other last minute touches c<vii oloted yesterday included thi flving in to Kallang
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    BILL TO PAY S'PORE M.Cs
    43 7 A Bill to amend the Munieipal Ordinance, which will i be introduced at the next meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council. was jMibli.shed in yesterday's Government Gazette. The Bill empowers the Govrrnor to sanction payI to Municipal* Commis-jior-vs
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    $5,000 BAIL
    52 7 100 Chin Poon. a«ed 28, p "1 Ong Pai. ai»ed 53. rlnimcd trial in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday tn a charge of possession of 10 gallons of dutiable brandy. The ra.se was postponed until Jan. 8 for hearing. Bail Ol $5,000 in two sr.re'ies each v
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    HOLD-UP IN PORTS BLAMED
    242 7 HOLD-UP IN PORTS BLAMED rE very slow turn-around of ships ln Australian ports was blamed by shipping circles in Singapore yesterday for the 10 per cent. Increase In freight rates for ships plying between Australia and the Far East. Ships are held up ior periods varying from 10 days to
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    Fines To Be Raised
    94 7 HPO prevent overcrowding in buses, Singapore Municipal Commissioners are to recommend to Government that maximum fines for off- ences of this nature should be Increased from $10 to $50. The proposed Increase will bring the maximum fine Into line with that prescribed under the Municipal ordinance
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    DETAINED
    34 7 A young Teochew was deI tained yesterday afternoon I when 70 police officers and I men screened the occupants of 12 houses in the Boon Tat Street— Telok Ayer Street area of Singapore.
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    RED VICTIMS Will GET PENSIONS
    63 7 PENSIONS, gratuities or allowances are to be paid in respect of persons injured or killed in circumstances attributable to the emergency in Singapore. Under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance the Governor has no power to make regulations for this purpose. A Bill will be introduced at
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    Shell-loaded Truck Falls On Railway
    93 7 AN Army truck carrying five 251b. live shells overturned and fell on to the railway track 19ft. below the road at Woodlands, Singapore, yesterday morning. Private Kassim bin Baba. RASC, aged 20, was admitted to hospital with head and body injuries. The driver, Bakar bin
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    Two Drivers Fined
    152 7 From Our Own Correspondent I JOHORE BAHRU, Fti. rE Boon Kian. and Low Peh Hong, lorry drivers, of Senggerang. were each fined $20 for breach of the conditions of their haulage permits. Mr. J. Cameron, of the Road Transport Department, said that on Sept. 11 the lorries
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    Riderless Motor-cycle Went 100 ft., Says P.C.
    181 7 A MOTOR-CYCLE ran riderless for more than 100 ft. after an accident, it was stated at a Singapore inquest yesterday on Chua Jock Wee, aged 38, carpenter, who was knocked down ln Serangoon Road. A policeman. Mohamed Noor bin AH. said that while
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    150 POLICE IN MARCH
    44 7 ONE HUNDRED and fifty Chinese, Malay and Gurkha police constables, led hy Ins pector Cheng Yue Kong marched through the streets of the n^h-eastern sector of Singapore before a presentation J^f™ 0"*0 p £^re. Road Police Station yesterday. Stra.ts Tiines_piciare.
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    BANDIT SHOT IN RAWANG
    271 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Friday. ONE bandit has been killed and a number of suspects, including two wounded, have been arrested in the past 24 hours. The bandit killed was shot by security forces in the Rawang area of SELANGOR. One of the gang
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    Maria Case Appeal
    99 7 WEARING of the appeal against Mr. Justice Brown's refusal to grant a stay of his order returning Maria Hertogh to the custody of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.P. Hertogh, will come up before the full Court of Appeal on Monday. The arguments will be heard by
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    GIRL DISAPPEARS
    53 7 PENANQ, Fri. Penang police are investigating the reported abduction last night of and Indian girl described as "of marriageable age." The report was made by the girl's mother who said an Indian called at her house in Jelutong Road at about 7 p.m. and "took away" her daugtter
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    CO-OP TO PROBE 'RACKET'
    138 7 CO-OP TO PROBE 'RACKET' rpHE Singapore Government 1 Officers' Co-operative Housing Society is investigating two cases where houses, built by the Society for its members, are alleged to have been let out for rent to outsiders and tea-money charged. Mr. Loke Weng Chee. the Society's acting chairman, told the Straits
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    ShawAndFry Together
    298 7 WITHOUT the clash that might have been expected of the roustabout's cymbals, something by way of a theatrical event started in the Victoria Theatre last night, jwhen John Fortws-Sempill T»esen- ted two plays— Shaw's "The Man of Destiny" and Christopher Fry's •'A Phoenix Too Frequent." For a night
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    PUBLIC ASSISTANCE RATES TO GO UP
    102 7 THE BINGAPORE Social Welfare Department hopes to put its public assistance scheme on a permanent basis by 1952 The D~r>rtment'B report for Nov ib j r states that among tbe many Interesting features ol tne scheme will be enhance! rates of allowances for people
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    MANSOR'S HEROISM TOLD TO 1,500
    199 7 MANSOR'S HEROISM TOLD TO 1,500 THE heroisn: of Mansor bin Mohamed Tahir was yesierday told to 1,500 peop.e outside Beach Road police station by the jcting Commissioner of Police. Mr. R C B. Wiltshire before he presented the young playing field groundsman with a f^rtiflcate of commendation. Speaking In Malay.
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    Pinned By Bags Of The Sugar
    42 7 Four Chinese labourers were Injured by falling sacks of sugar while working in a store ln Mohamed Sultan Road. Singapore, yesterday afternoon. Three of them were pinned under the sacks. They were all taken to hospital.
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    SENT TO PRISON
    32 7 Quek Tian Soo, aged 18, yesterday. In the Singapore Fourth Police Court, was sentenced to 14 days' lmpiisenment for stealing; four j 'call bearings belonging to an R.EM.E. workshop.
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    RECRUITING TRIP
    25 7 The Chief Army Recruiting j Officer, Major J. Frost, R.A., will visit Pontian Kechil. South-West Johore, next week to see potential recruits. I
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    SHOT, DIED 2 YEARS LATER
    88 7 SHOT, DIED 2 YEARS LATER A CHINESE youth, acci- dentally shot and wounded by a detective chasing an armed Chinese, died hi m the wounds two years later, the Singapore Coroner wai told yesterday. The youth. Lim Teek Kim 19 was wounded in May 1948, and died on Nov 30
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    MANDI SAFAK BOAT RAl'fc
    61 7 In celebration of Mandl Safar". the Changi branch i f the Singapore Malay Union will hold a koleh race at Changi Point on Sunday, starting from 10 a.m. About 36 boats, manned by Malay fishermen from the neighbouring islands of Pulau Tekong and Pulau Brani and
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    S.R.B. MEETING
    18 7 The Otagapore Rural Board will meet at 10 a.m. on Dec. 21 in the Land Office.
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    DECENT WAGE-OR TEACHERS FACE 'UNTOLD SUFFERING'
    215 8 DECENT WAGE -OR TEACHERS FACE 'UNTOLD SUFFERING' Union President Says Claims *Not Revolutionary'— jyjß. P. V. Sarma, president of Singapore Teachers' Union, warned that unless teachers get a decent living wage there will be "untold suffering for them". Mr. Sarma writes in the Malayan Educator"The Singapore Teachers' Union's recommendation of
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    U.S. POLICY MAY'PEG' RUBBER
    187 8 U.S. POLICY MAY 'PEG' RUBBER rpHE rubber market has been subject to wide fluctuations during the past week, ■>ays lewis Pens weekly report issued yesterday. Reports that the American O >vernment might Uice over the buying of natural lubber caused prices to drop to the lowest level for some time.
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    SIX POLIO CASES IN A WEEK
    51 8 Six cases of polio .were reported in Singapore in the, n£ e en .5 ing Dec 2 against nine in the previous week It 1 caused one death in both Total number of deaths in the week ending Dec. 2 was 162, against 729
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    $28,500,000 Services
    24 8 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Fri. Johore will spend $28,598,841 on State services next year. The biggest item is $5,486,832 for education.
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    S'pore Police Radio 'First Class'
    151 8 T»HE Inspector-General of the Ceylon Police 81r Richard Aluvihare, who visited Singapore Police Radio Headquarters at Pearls Hill yesterday described its organisation as "first class" Sir Richard who is spending three days in the Colony, attended the Commonwealth Police conference in Sydney last month "I
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    MORE ELECTED
    59 8 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. Captain Hussein bin Onn, at the next meeting of Johore State Council, will move the adoption of the Select Committee's report on election o* members of the State Coun-' cil Johore division of UMNO recently discussed the Select Committee's report and
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    Gaoled For Club Blow
    92 8 riOUND guilty of causing voluntary hurt to Abubakar bin Baba with a club. N. Suppiah was sentenced by Mr. Justice Brown yesterday in the Singapore High Court to 12 months' imprisonment. Mr. A. V. Winslow, D.P.P., said Suppiah had been one of a f?roup of men
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    FITTER KILLED
    34 8 I A Chinese fitter died in Singapore General Hospital yesterday from injuries received when a bale of rubber i fell on him in the hold of the Isthmian Line ship. Steel Navigator.
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    MAN CLEARED
    35 8 from Our Own Correspondent lOHORE BAHRU. Fri. Lirn Joo Han. of Kulai Estate, was at Johore Bahru cleared of a charge of being in dishonest possession of two pikuls of 1 scrap rubber.
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    Evacuated Pupils Can't Find Schools
    132 8 MOST of the 600 pupils of the Royal English School, Stamford Road, who were asked to leave as the Government was requisitioning their building for the National Registration Centre, are not able to gain admission Into any other school. Parents and pupils have been to
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    45 8 iViK. CHAN Chong tjuee and his bride, Miss Chia Meng Wee, who were married at Kuala Lumpur recently. LOWER: Mr. and Mrs. Hui Guan Lian wbo were married at the Loke^Fuen Restaurant at Kuala Lumpur. The bride was Miss Toh Kim Hoay. Eastern Photographers picture.
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    'U.K. Agreement Encourages Us'
    316 8 rPHE new Burnham Agreement between teachers x and the Government in England "has encouraged the Malayan teachers in the struggle for the realisation of their legitimate aspirations", said a statement issued yesterday by the President of the Malayan Teachers' Union, Mr. P. V. Sarma. "The salient
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    THE NEEDS OF LEADERSHIP
    81 8 From Our Staff Correxpondent TAIPINO, Fri.-Mr. K C Yeoh said at the United Nations rally and exhibition in Taiping: "We are sponsoring this rally In the hope that the young people will participate more actively in youth movements and increase their Interest in the work of
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    $300 BAIL
    43 8 From Oar SUB Correspondent IPOH, Frl.— A 4fl-year-old woman hawker Sin Taj claimed trial to a char%e of offering a bribe of $10 to a Town Board inspector. The case was postponfert to «h". 3 and she wa« allowed $300 ball.
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      240 8 SINGAPORE D1#WI1B 10.15 "Record Round-up"; 10.45 10 a.m. News. Emergency News Dance Music; 11.30 Close, from KL.; 10.10 Close; 12 Malay; 10 a.m.— 7.15 p.m. As S*pore- BFEBS Wertk Stare" wtrSt- 1 so S' 7 15 Interlude "0 "The Libra- 4.46 p.m. ■•From the London we^Kiy snare Market, 1.50 Musi-
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      S3OO-A-MONTH DEMOCRACY IN SINGAPORE
      290 9 S3OO-A-MONTH DEMOCRACY IN SINGAPORE THE suggestion that the Municipal Commissioners in Singapore should be paid, and at the enormous rate of $300 per month, is preposterous How Singapore wastes its money does not Interest me. but if the system is started there it will spread throughout the country. As a
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      TO DR. SHEILD FROM BOGOR
      101 9 IT is really good to read the '.tnita Lines .it E4OV IK r< porting the Federation T.B. specialist and Thoracic Surh > r A L Shell's excellent •••••rt at the Ma'-"-a TH H«wn ra! Malayans take off your hats t, v Sheitd. and Kt-ep rum
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      Thanks From Tampoi
      57 9 (\ti behall ot the r.B. pat ents in the Tampoi Sanatorium, we should like to exprex* our thanks to the Voluntary Social Worker, Mrs Emmett. for her courtesy and Kindness during her service at the Tampoi Sanatorium We wish her "bon voyage" on her forthcoming leave in
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      DO WE RESIST THEM OR BASH THEM?
      261 9 DO WE RESIST THEM OR BASH THEM? •VIGILANTES' letter of Thursday headed "The C.G.'s Reply," was timely. I confess I ex-4 perienced a nasty, sinking feeling when I reard the sentence, and wondered why we spend so much money and time on resistance. How much better, 1 thought, if. instead
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      "THE ROCHORE WARD"
      113 9 VENC. writing under the n( ,o n r ne Rochorc W?rd" on Wednesday alleged that a Rochnre Waro candidate failed in the Municipal election because a subordinate officer was unable exercise reasonable discretion To substantiate nis state ment. he out forth examples 'of errors which he feels
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      Reaction To Aggression
      123 9 rrHUS we have had four aggressions in the course of five years. We see how aggression, when it meets with no check, passes from one continent to another, assuming larger and larger dimensions every time. •Yet I am firmly convinced that a resolute policy pursued by the
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      LIVING ON GRASS AND HERBS?
      123 9 WE have heard much of the Benham Report and proposed increments in High Cost of Living Allowances in Government Departments and the Municipality, but we don't understand why the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association has made no effort at all to put forward the staffs
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      4 9 COMMONSENSE IN THE COMMONWEALTH
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      "What we need is a Malayan Army"
      168 9 CAN anyone say confidence that Malaya would be secure, from another debacle were I World War 111 to come? Study of the map will I show the "hot spots" already in existence in the i East I What we need Is a Malayan
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      BAD BOYS AND GOOD BOYS
      110 9 j i SINGAPORE parent has offered to a school a i prize for good conduct— that it. for causing the teachers the minimum of trouble. It would be interesting if, at the same time as they selected these worthy children, they noted also the worst
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      THUMB PRINTS ON RATION CARDS
      97 9 ()N the last day of the month ration card holders in Kelantan have to affix their thumb prints to return forms provided by retailers. It is said that this is done In accordance with new instructions issued by the Supplies Department. Has this* procedure been
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      FOR ASSAM RELIEF
      47 9 T»HE concert held at the Victoria Memorial Hall for the Assam Relief Fund on Dec 2 and 3, was excellent. May I suggest, for future such concerts, that the organisers arrange for the Singapore Indian Music Partv to give Instrumental music? MUSIC LOVER. Singapore.
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      $1.50 A Haircut In Rawang
      77 9 I SHOULD very much like to see or hemr any comments on the different prices charged in hairdressint saloons in different parts of the Federation. For instance: Hawing K.L. Haircut (I.M M Child $100 80 Shave Is there no control on these prices? For the
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      A DYAK ON A BROOKE
      296 9 JP.", writing on Dec. 6 under the heading "Brooke Is Still A Potent Name," says there is nothing surprising in the measures taken by the authorities against Mr. Anthony Brooke Does he, then, condone the banning of Mr. Brooke by the Governments of three British
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      Road Sense And Speed Merchants
      456 9 I HAVE nevei met a supporter of the 30 m.p.h. speed limit who could defend His convictions in a logical, sensible way. His reasoning usually seems to take him as far as realising that a fast-moving car is more difficult to control than a slow-moving
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      Visiting Bugis St reet By Night
      111 9 MUCH has recently been written in your columns about cruelty to animals. But how many, I wonder, hare really given a thought to the cruelty meted out to human beings? If any-one were to visit Bugis Street In the night, I am sure he
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      THE PARENTS POINT OF VIEW
      395 9 THE PARENTS POINT OF VIEW Expatriates In The Classroom RECENTLY the Teachers' Union made representations to the Government to stop recruitment of expatriate officers so that locally recruited teachers could be given promotion. While this recommendation maj suit the Teachers' Union, whose members are mainly nongraduates, surely it is the
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      SEEING THE MANAGER
      225 9 J^AY 1 be Informed whether an office clerk i« authorised to ask for our identity cards before we can have an interview with the manager of a firm? As far ai 1 know, only policemen are the proper persons authorised to check our identity cards Evil plain-clothes
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      LORONGS 4, 6, 7, 8, ETCETERA
      85 9 rE public is well aware, with appreciation, that the Municipal authorities are very active in the Incessant task of carrying out road construction and repair and bituminous surfacing work in Singapore It is anxiously felt that the prompt attention of the Municipality should be
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    London Stocks
    289 10 LONDON, Fri. I^HE London Stock Exchange today experienced quietest conditions for many months in the past. Business in all sections was light and the few price movements recorded were insufficient to create a definite trend. Operators appeared to be content to remain inactive ahead of the weekend in
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    29 10 HOf. fiOHa, Fn pREE market currency exchange for Honjr Kong dollars «M quoted today as follows: OSSI HKS6.3O (cash), HKS6 32 (T)HKs3l1 -U°i». One t3el f BOl<i
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    Canadian Dollars
    34 10 'pHE Malayan Exchange Banks Association announced yester- i day that control direct rates for Canadian dollars were: Buying, TT. 34- Airmnil (O D» l 34-V oo daysi 35; Selling T.T.O.D. ready) 34',.
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    MALAYAN SHARES
    499 10 T*HE Malayan share market was very quiet yesterx day. It was sttli dominated by the political situation. With the tone cautious and hesitant, there was only a small turn-over. Prices were inclined to be I easier. Quotations announced by the Malayan SRarebrokers' Association yesterday were: I.NDI'S 1 KI
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    TIN: $521 A PICUL
    488 10 SINGAPORE. Fri.. Dec. 8 —$521 (up $10.75). £1,125 a ton in London LONDON. Fri. Dec. B.— Spot £1,120— £1.130; Forward £1,020— £1,025; a.m. settlement £1,140 (up £50) Turn-overs: a.m. 70, p.m. 30 tons. Southern Kinta 10/S Malayan 24/6 8 Tronoh 20/6 Sungei Best ISA Sungei Bidor
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    Rubber At $1.71
    235 10 r£HE Singapore rubber market was easier yesterday, with some business done, for trade purposes. First-grade for December shipment closed at $1.71 a lb., l»/ 2 cents below Thursday's close. The market opened at arouna Thursday's closing price, and there was some selling. In the afternoon the price
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    MALAYAN TIN SHIPMENTS
    84 10 OTRAITS Traders announce the following November tin shipments, in tons: Prom Singapore to U 8 A 1.655. Continent 1,394, Canada five, Pacific 11 4, Africa one, Australasia 94, Afloat to Continent five. South America 200. Prom Penang to— U.K. 1,715, U.S.A. 970, Continent 1,438, Canada 85, Pacific
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    55 10 fr ruiu Market Correspoodenl QN the strength or overseas inquiries yesterday, 425 piculs of Lampong black pepper changed hands at $535 per picul, loose, in the Singapore produce market. The copra section was easier yesterday. No business was done. Sellers opened at $47, coming down later to $46
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    TODAY DECIDES RUGBY FINALISTS
    437 11 Penang Perak In Vital Game By OUR RUGBY REPORTER WITH EACH State team having two more matches to play to complete the H.M.S. Maiaya Rugby competition, today's series are likely to see the position in the Northern Section resolved between Penang and Perak. In the Southern
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    59 11 R. A. S C. bantamweight champion Sri. Yap Ah Tek (RASC School) being handed the winner's trophy by Maj.-Gen. J. H. N. Poett. D.5.0.. Chief of Staff GHQ FARELF. Ah Tek scored a first round knock-out over Cpl. John Fone (37 Coy RASC) in the RASC and ACC individual championpionships
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    Wins After Walk-Out
    139 11 SYDNEY, Fri. j AMERICAN national tennis champion Art Larsen walked off the court at Kooyong Melbourne, after being foot-faulted in the first set against Ken McCre- j He returned two minutes later j after a talk with his team-mate, C Savin and overwhelmed McGreaor 2-6, 7-5. 6-2,
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    WINS UK SKATING
    37 11 LONDON. Fri— Sixteen-year-old Michael Carrington of London won the British men's amateur skating championship last night for the second year running here. He easily beat hi s only challenger, lan Small oJ Scotland. Reuter.
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    37 11 TODAY: 9.50 a.m. (9.5) and 11.26 p.m. (9ft.); 4.01 a m. (4 6) and 4.40 p m (0 5). TOMORROW: 10 30 a. m (9.8) 4.45 a m (48) and 5.26 p m (0 1).
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    16 11 Collect ten of these coupons to become a member of the Children's Corner Club.
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    Women's Cycling
    45 11 The Singapore Women s Open One Mile cycle race to have been held today has been postponed to Saturday, Dec. 16. The organisers. Cosmopolitan Cycling Club, stale that they have received the record number of 16 entries for this event, championships yesterday.— AP.
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    Adventure of Aukiah & Ali-26
    4 11 Adventure of Aukiah Ali-26
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    43 11 SAM Loxton, who took four catches at silly mid-on in England's second innings. Jnst fails to get to one from Bailey. Australian freak bowler Iverson jumps in suspense—an incident in the Test match at Brisbane which Australia won by 70 runs Courier-Mail picture.
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    Charles May Be Busier Than Louis
    355 11  -  JACK HAND, Bv A.P. Sports Writer NEW YORK, Friday. BUSY is the word for Ezzard Charles who has just completed his fifth defence of his world heavyweight boxing championship. At the rate he'« going Charles will better Joe Louis's mark of 25 defences. Already
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    Menglengchor Piciure For MCC Gallery
    155 11 Menglengchor Piciure For MCC Gallery From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Fri. V\:HEN the Australian cricket team skipped by Charles Gordon Macartney, popularly known as "Governor-Generai," Tinted Malaya in 1927 they were Uken by the late Sultan Iskandar Shah on elephants to Mtnglenchor (sliding rock), famoms for Its bathing picnics before
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    JOHORE XV v. SERVICES
    65 11 T^HE Johore XV to meet x Combined Services in the H.M.S. Malaya Rugger Competition fixture «t Johore Bahru today will be as follows: Bel ton (S. Johore); Worthington-WHmer (Muar), McLeod (Kluang), Potts (Segamat), Saunderson (Kluang); Harvey (Kluang), Edlngton (S. Johore); Crawshaw (S. Johore), Burnett (S. Johore),
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    Sports Diary
    47 11 TODAY RUGBY: H.M.S. Malaya Rugger CompeUUon— Siacapare Civilian* v Nezri -Malacca. Padanc; Combined Service* v Johore, Johore Bahru; FrJendlies— Police S.A. v Chasers, Thomson Road; R.A.F. Tengah SCC Padanf HOCKEY: S.B.C. v B.A.F. Changi, Vhu*i. TOMORROW SOCCER: Friendly Kampont Bahru S.C. f Tew Raafer*. Y.M.C.A.
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      230 11 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD MM 81. Alternatively. I «rink troa CROSSWORD No. 239 1. Showy performance, but to* Murce 16) i i a remarkable oo« (11. 4). Ejen^nuj (gret n t ctAi I J a 1 I4I 4 I I6I 6 I* I 9. nJw tld for. -girl a^7^n"tno^b'i*.m %P^ PI
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    RIGOLETTO SHOULD RUN OFF WITH MILE RACE
    488 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By Sharpened By Last Week 's Brilliant 7-f. Victory IPOH, Friday. RIGOLETTO, a brilliant winner over 7f last Saturday and generally considered one of the brightest hopes for next season's i "classic" races, laoks set for a comfortable win in the
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    TODAY'S GOING
    21 12 IPO1I Fri. fHE weather hccc has continued to be »ine and the going tomorrow should again be very fast.
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    Trigger For Main Sprint
    1118 12 npANTALUS oi Trigger? They are certainly a formidable pair and it is not x easy to separate them in the Class 2, Div. 1 5J furlong straight sprint. Tantalus is in great form and is a proved straight-course horse but Trigger put up such a brilliant
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    Malaya-Wide Hockey For Discussion
    155 12 Malaya-Wide Hockey For Discussion From Our Safl Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A PROPOSAL to form an InterState hockey competition along the lines of the HMS Malaya Rugby series has been viewed with mixed feelings here and hockey en- thusias's in Malaya will look forward with interest to the outcome of
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    In Final After Grand Rally
    108 12 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Fri. After losing the first set at 6—l6 1 and down 4—o4 0 in the second. Ong Ee Kong and San Kok Keong recovered well to beat Ng Chin Hong and Yap Sin Siew to enter the final of
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    Selangor Women Not For Ipoh Meet
    64 12 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Frl.— The Selangor women hockey team will not make the trip to Ipoh for the triangular meet this weekend. Perak will therefore field two teams against Penang women. On Saturday, Perak will meet Penang on the Padang at 5
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    JAZZ PRINCESS DESTROYED
    48 12 JAZZ PRINCESS, an Americanbred four-year-old mare by Princequilo (sire of Prince Simon) has been destroyed. The Princess showed promise of developing into a first rate stayer earlier in the season when she won twice over a mile and a furlong at Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur.
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    TRANSFERS
    37 12 T»HE following horses have been transferred from Class 2 to ?lass 3:— April Showers, John flam, Carnivorous. El-Alamein. lniependence, Soltara. Bow Legs, figh Descent, Fair Flower, Ballynun 11, Victory March, Broadway 3111. Jaffa and Lord Frederick.
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    Straits Times Selections
    133 12 ACE 1 2.15 AGOKO Three Kingdoms Constellation CONSTELLATIO? Martini Three Kingdoms 3 KINGDOMS Agoko Boleh .ladi ACE 2 5.45 ALPHONSUS Midnight Fippindeal PIPPINDEAL Alphonsns LJnkshir ALPHONSUS Instfc-aUon Madasart RACE S J.15 LADIES FLAME Jo-Jo Master Brace HEIDELBERG Sweet Ma Isle: I. adies Flam* MASTER BRUCE Ladles Flame
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    Today's Race Card
    1225 12 Th« Double Totes will be on 'Races 3 and 4, and 6 and 7, Big Sweep on Race '8. Race 1—2.15: Class 4, Div. 3—6 Furs. 1 000 Athlete Harper 900 'Kongsi Internationale" Rodgers 2 200 Boleh Jadl E. Donnelly 8.12 "Miss Alice" Breukelen 3 034 Agoko
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    Hurricane Hitting By MCC Batsmen
    358 12 TOOWOOMBA, Queensland. Friday. T'HE M.C.C., sent in to bat in their two-day match x against Queensland Country XI, were in fine batting form and declared at 428 for six after which they took three Country wickets for 88 at close of play. Simpson and Sheppard's
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    SCORELESS DRAW
    34 12 Prom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Royal Army Ordnance Corps played well to hold a strong Police Depot team to a scoreless draw at hockey on the Rifle Range ground yesterday.
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    FOONG SEONG CUP Penang Out For The Hat-Trick
    177 12 FOONG SEONG CUP Penang Out For The Hat-Trick From Our Staff Correspondent PENANO, Fri. Thrice winners of the Cup, Pena-.ii? will take the court favourites to retain the Foong Soon.; Badminton trophy at homj this weekend. Penang won the Cup in 1937. 1041 and 1947 and as no matches wer^
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    'DOG' LOSE 3-0
    56 12 From Our Staff <oi respondent KUALA LUMPUR, Pri. T\I3PLAYING better stlckwork. Selangor Eurasian Assn. boat Selangor Club 3-0 at hockey played on the Club padang, this evening. Eurasians had better of the exchanges throughout. Les.slar scored first, followed by another by Armstrong. On the resumption R I.i
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