The Straits Times, 23 August 1951

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  • 19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 SIXTEEN PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1951. •j^ PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS,
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  • 360 1 STOKES IS GOING HOME Ultimatum to Persia fails MOSSADEQ WONT HA YE BRITISH OIL CHIEF TEHERAN, Wednesday. DERSIA today failed to accept the British ultimatum in the crucial oil talks. The British mission chief, Mr. Richard Stokes, said he had arranged to leave Teheran tomorrow morning. British sources said that
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  • 71 1 JEE TEH-H1NG, chair- man of Kwanytunc Machine Workers' Union under the Chiang Kaishek government, being denounced by a Communist at a public "trial" before being shot by a purge squad at Canton. Hq was charged with "victimising workers." The Communist prosecutor accuses
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  • 131 1 This is a threat -Egypt LONDON. Wed. THE Egyptian Embassy in London today reiterated Cairo views that the door to Anglo-Egyptian treaty negoliitions had been closed by British Foreign Secretary Mr. Herbert Morrisons statement to Parliament oh July 30. The Embassy in a statement said no one could fail to
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  • 73 1 LONDON, Wed. J^ red-haired truck driver in Korea who has been carried on the British Army rolls as "Private Cecil O'Bryen Fitzmaurice" is "Private Lord Orkney" today. The 31-year-old solder succeeded to the title of the Einhth Earl of Orkney when the Seventh Earl, aged
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  • 24 1 LONDON. Wed. China claimed last night that uranium output was being stepped up in the central southern part of the country.— Reuter.
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  • 29 1 MANILA, Wed. Communist Huks stepped up activity on Luzon Island in the past two days, raiding towns, kidnapping and murdering civilians and attacking Philippines Army units. A.P.
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  • 98 1 JAPAN TO SEND 61 ENVOYS TOKYO, Wed. JAPAN will establish diplomatic missions in 61 cities when conclusion of the peace treaty brings her full sovereignty, the Kyodo news agency said today. The agency quoted the Japanese Foreign Office as saying it would have 15 embassies, 16 legations and 30 consulates.
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  • 42 1 BANGKOK, Wed. Siam Rained a favourable balance in foreign trad* of 483,628,336 bant in tht first five months of 1951. Customs flgurw showed that exports through Bangkok and provincial port* totalled 1,978.820,548 bant, while imports aggf«ffat6d 1,496,^2,212 baj>t.— AT.
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  • 223 1 INDIES TO KEEP OFF BLOGS JAKARTA, Wednesday. PRESIDENT Soekarno for the first time lashed at 1 Communism during; public speeches in Sumatra in the recent tour. "Indonesia does not want a dictatorship of the proletariat." the President said repeatedly in speeches on a fortnight's trip
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  • 55 1 HONG KONG, Wed. An appeal court hert reserved judgment today in an action by Civil Air Transport Incorporated, an American company, to regain possession of 44 aircraft now grounded at Hong Kong. The Chief Justice. Sir Gerard Howe, ruled last June that the planes belonged
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  • 123 1 BANGKOK, Wed. 'J'HE rubber agreement signed by the Siamese and United States Governments in Bangkok did not mean any change in rubber trade between the two countries, ati American Embassy official said today. "The United States has been baying from Siam more rubber than
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  • 78 1 HONOLULU. Wed. rE heaviest earthquake ever recorded on the volcano island of Hawaii cost the Kona coast district most of its treasured water stores with two months of normal drought ahead. Property damage was estimated officially at between U*****,000 and US$l,OOO,OOO but the water loss was the
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  • 45 1 TAIPEH. Wed.— Ten thousand firemen, police and civilians yesterday fought a big forest fire behind the waterfront of Keelung, Formosa's northern part. The fire was first discovered latt yesterday morning. It was finally brought under control late in the night.— Reuter-AAP.
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  • 27 1 JAKARTA. Wed— The Com-missioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, who Is on an unofficial visit to Indonesia, was received by President Soekarno today.— U.P
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  • 32 1 RANGOON. Wed. The Burmest Government has banned all crosswofd competitions as illegal—punishable under the gambling act and penal code. A (Jojfiynnunt communique gave newspapers 13 days to stop them. Reuter.
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  • 122 1 TAMPICO, Mexico, Wed. 'piE 135 m.p.h.-hurricane "Charlie" was heading last night for this rich oil port where giant tides, and torrential rains, moving ahead of the storm, forced thousands from their homes. United. States weather fore- hit Tampico, 250 miles south of the Texas border,
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  • 86 1 CIR Franklin Gimson, the Governor, sent a letter of appreciation yesterday to men who helped fight the oil tanker fire at Pulau Bukom. He wrote to Mr. D. H. Palmer, Shell Company manager "I would like to take this opportunity to ask you to convey to
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  • 78 1 TAIPEH, Wed,. THE Central Daily News, 1 mouthpiece of the Kuomintang, said the Chinese Communist* executed six Nationalist generals at Nanning in Kwang»i Province on Aug. 2. They were Chang Kang, who commanded the Nationalist 3rd Army Corps; Ma Cheng-hsung, who was his deputy commander; LI Pengyl
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  • 48 1 CHICAGO. Wed.— The Chicago Herald-American said yesterday that a Chicago woman Is about to make medical history by giving birth to five or six babies. The newspaper said doctors who examined the woman detected at least five heart-beats; som» of them detected six.
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  • 240 1 TOKYO, Wednesday. rnHE Korean truce talks faced a new crisis todaj x when the Communists said that an Allied plane machine-gunned and destroyed a jeep on a ceasefire mission north of Kaesong. A United Nations statement said that the Communists w«r« trying "to send
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  • 174 1 TOKYO, Wed. j^JAJOR new battles appeared to be developing along the eastern front in Korea today as the Communists rushed heavy reinforcements against the South Korean offensivs. Counter-attacking for possession of important hill crests, the Communists, in regimental strength, succeeded in forcing some Allied withdrawal from
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  • 34 1 WASHINGTON, Wed Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida has sent his thanks to the American people for the spirit and terms of the Japanese peace treaty soon to be signed at San Francisco.— AP.
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  • 167 2 CHIANG SACKS NO. 2 OF HIS AIR FORCE U.S. $27,000,000 missing TAIPKH, Wednesday. PRESIDENT Chiang Kai-shek yesterday suspended Lieutenant General Mao Pang-chu tram his posts as Nationalist delegate on the United Nations Military Staff Committee and deputy Coauaander of the Nationalist Air Force pending an investigation of charges of disobeying
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  • WORLD NEWS IN BRIEFS..
    • 98 2 U.S. orders atomic submarine THE U.S. Nayy has placed aa order for the first atomle-pmrered submarine. BURMESE troops kUled 34 Communists and captured 12 in a battle at Kanywa. near Meiktila. Sydney sports stores are selling portable scales for fishermen. Trade name of the scales is "The De Liar." THE
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    • 95 2 .DOCUMENTS and k**ks dating tack U the ninth century on Korea s 4 M« years of ehrifisation were burnt by Communist troops to tux* themselves warm dvrinjr their occupation of tfctf natiosuU library at Seo«l. A PASSENGER train from Belgrade jumped its tracks yesterday, killing 10 arid injuring
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  • 57 2 BRISBANE, Wed—Queensland's ftrat public service first typist, Mrs Mic*. Julius has died here, aged 104 She became a typist when, widowed with six young children, she imported a typewriter and sought work at the State government" offices. She played bowls until she was 92, and worked in
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  • 42 2 TOKYO, Wed. Japan's laports durln* the first sta months of this year totalled $970,900,000 or more than the total import value registered for the whole year tn 19M, according to the International Trade and Industry Ministry.— UP.
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    • 277 2 TENDERS are called for the purchase o.' one steel bodied Chevrolet Station Wagon (Arm;Type). The vehicle can be Inspected In Singapore by arrangement with the Department of Broadcasting, 'Phone ***** (Administrative Officer), from whom forms of tender can be obtained. MODERN SANITATION IN UNSEWERED =sSh iii "I fef A utfitsrMMKn
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    • 803 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS VACANCIES EXIST FOR STUDENT NURSES. The next couue in the Training School at the General hospital. Singapore, commences on 10th September, 1951. Cat ldates must be of a good education (Senior Cambridge preferred) and at least 171 years of age: an educational standard test will be repaired for
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    • 357 2 NOTICE This Is to Inform th* Public that Chia Peck Neo Isft my house without my consent and on her own accord on the sth May, 1981. Take notice that she has ceased to be my wife since that date and I shall not be responsible for any debts or
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 280 2 Today's Radio SINCATORE 10-10.10 ajn. N«wi from K.L.; 1 p.m. Light Music; 1.30 Ifews; 1.45 Dane* Music; 8.15 "Calling All Hospitals"; 7 News: 7.13 Radio Scientist; 7 JO Interlude; 7.30 Augmented Hadlo Orcn.; t "Guess What"; 8.30 "Hit Paradr"; 9 "The Master of BtHamtrae"; 9.39 News; 9.45 "Guest Artist": It
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  • 310 3 One was head of intelligence in Malaya TOKYO, Wednesday. CH)UR Japanese generals are said by well-informed 1 quarters today to have been consulted by "competent authorities" on the problem of re-arming Japan. They may form the high staff of the future Japanese army. Trie leading personality
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  • 210 3 CHIANG'S MEN 'ON BURMA BORDER' RANGOON, W«d. i^HINESE Nationalist troops are stated by a diplomatic source here to have established themselves in a buffer zone in some south west areas of the Chinese province of Yunnan and along Burma's north east frontier. Reports received here earlier this month said that
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  • 76 3 Nehru asked 'move troops' DAMASCUS. Wed. TWENTY-FOUR Syrian de1 puties have cabled Mr. Nehru. Indian Prime Minister, asking for the withdrawal of Indian forces from Kashmir "to conserve world peace and co-operation between the two great Asian countries". They also cabled the Pakistan Premier. Liaquat Ali Khan. backing Pakistan's cause.
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  • 30 3 NEW YORK, Wed —Mr Everett Phillips, 72-year-old Professor Emeritus of Apiculture at Cornell University died yesterday. He was a former director of Rotary International— U.P.
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  • 56 3 WASHINGTON, Wed— Rei preseritatlve Walter Judd, I Republican, Minnesota, api pealed to the Czechoslovak people yesterday to put pressure on their Government to frae American newspaperman Mr. William N. Oatis. Mr. Oatis, Prague correspondent of the Associated Press, was sentenced to 10 years by the
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  • 39 3 MANILA, Wed— Presitlent Quirino will present President Truman with a large Sulu pearl when they meet at the White House on Aug. 30 to .sign the Mutual Defence Pact between the Philippines and the U.S.— A.P.
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  • 252 3 Glubb Pasha gives evidence AMMAN, JORDAN, Wed. rE British Commander of Jordan's Arab Legion gave evidence for the prosecution yesterday at the resumed trial of ten men for the assassination of King Abdullah. Glubb Pasha— Major-Gen John Bagot Glubb gave the history of Col. Abdullah Tell, one of the principal
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  • 68 3 KHARTOUM. Wed. There is something new under the sun and in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, it is the shadow of a bridge. Cultivators on an island under the White Nile Bridge at Omdurman are claiming compensation for loss of crops caused by the bridge's shadow.
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  • 24 3 PARIS, Wed.— M. Raoul Dautry, Administrator of the French Atomic Energy Commission and former Minister of Armaments, died yesterday at Lourmarin.— Reuter.
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  • 142 3 Ice-breakers U. S. lent stuck— in ice WASHINGTON, Wednesday. DUSSIA has again refused* to return 670 small naval vessels sent her during the war under lease-lend, the State Department said today. She says America agreed to sell them to her But at a meeting here yesterday, Russian negotiators agreed to
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  • 57 3 KHARTOUM. Wed— Seven people were killed when Upper Nile police attempted to arrest Arab giraffe hunters on charges of poaching. The hunters, who had no rifles, charged the police on horseback with their long hunting spears and killed three. The police. without horses, opened fire, killing
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  • 28 3 A NEW PICTURE OF P"!NCESS MARGARET, who celebrated her 21st birtbday at Balmoral Castle. Scotland, on Tuesday with the Royal family. Reuter photo.
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  • 247 3 HONG KONG, Wednesday. JJONG KONG is to introduce compulsory defence training for all male citizens of Britain and British colonies in Hong Kong: between the ages oriB and 60. The Legislative Council today passed the first reading of a bill to enable the Government
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  • 134 3 Ten more coal trains held up BERLIN. Wed. CAST German authorities E have refused ten coal trains carrying Ruhr coal from West Germany to pass through the Soviet* zone to Berlin, West Berlin city officials announced yesterday. The trains are blocked at Helmstedt on the British-So-viet zone border. East German
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  • 64 3 JAKARTA. Wed A SPOKESMAN of the At-torney-General today said that the head of the Industrial limitation department of the Economic Affairs Ministry, Dr. Sibarani. had been arrested for infringement of regulations. Found on Sibarani were 262,000 rupiahs. The spokesman said that investigations in other cases of corruption
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  • 36 3 WASHINGTON, Wed—Rejecting a plea by President Truman for nearly twice as much, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted by 14 to nine yesterday to give the "Voice of America" $63,000,000 to operate this year. Reuter.
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  • 44 3 LONDON. Wed. MR. Alari Maclean, brother of the missing diplomat Donald Maclean, has resigned from the Foreign Service. He feels that while his brother's mysterious disappearance Is unsolved his presence in the service would be an embarrassment to the Foreign
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  • 98 3 JAKARTA, Wed. NUMEROUS attacks by army bands are still being reported from West Java, with an average of three victims a day. A passenger train was attacked yesterday in the Tjiomas station, 60 kilometers south of Jakarta. The station master was snot dowjj by
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  • 166 3 33 say 'yes' to treaty talks WASHINQTON, Wed. rpHE State Department announced yesterday that 33 nations had agreed definitely and 10 others tentatively to attend the signing of the Japanese peace treaty in San Francisco next month. Only eight nations have still not acted on the invitation. India will attend
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  • 70 3 MELBOURNE, Wed. IRMY "ducks" and flat bot- tomed boats were pressed into service yesterday to rescue many families who had taken to their rooftops to escape floodwaters of the Western district 'rivers near Melbourne. Hundreds of others fled from their homes as the Barwon River, in the
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  • 35 3 SAIGON, Wed.— The United States Embassy today gent an official invitation to the three associated States of Indo-China Vietnam. Laos and Cambodia to attend the Japanese peace treaty conference In San Francisco. U.P.
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  • 174 4 Youth decision moral safety measure, he says ]£ISHOP Raymond L. Archer said yesterday that the Methodist Church dees not prohibit its members from dancing but recommends they should not participate in amusements which would not contribute to the strengthening of their Christian life. He congratulated the
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  • 114 4 UNIONS PLAN RALLY ON CITY DAY THE Singapore Federation of Municipal Labour Unions will celebrate Sept. 22. the day Singapore becomes a City, by holding a mass meet at Farrer Park. Its executive council decided yesterday. Other items for the day will be decided later by a celebration committee appointed
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  • 168 4 Blackout areas Sub-stations in SinK»p«re Itabl* to load sbeidine today: DAY .Via Rubber Loienr 3. Sim* At. Saw Mill. Shell Co.. Ler Rabfce? Works. Ml. Batten Network, Cathay. M« Donald Haws*. Armenian St D.C.. Tap Chyo Pfcce/Tor« Canning, Sach SU/Waterlow St. St. Andrews /Hi h St. Saamterw Yd Albert Street.
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  • 58 4 JOHORE BAHRD Tuea. Miss X M Ibbotson. Chief Woman Assistant. Social Wetfare Department. Federation recently visited the orphanages In Johore Bahru ot>e at the State Welfare Home and the St Joseph's orphanage run b\ the Catholic Mission She also saw the weaving school at Kulai Another visitor
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  • 36 4 PENANG.. Wed.— The District Ofßcer, BaJik Pulau. Mr. M.B.R. Bulloch, will present national service badges to 72 Home Guards at a parade at the Bank Pulau Recreation Club tomorrow st 3 p m.
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  • 49 4 PENANG. Wert HitVenerable Seng Chin, a Buddh'^t wreacher from Ipoh. will give daily sermons from Friday at the Brow Hlang Lim Temple In Penan* Hill Railway Road. Els lectures wllr start at 3 p.m The present series of sermon* at the temple wil end to-morrow
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  • 22 4 KUANTAN, Wed.— For using a wounded bullock to pull a cart, Weer Singh was find $10 in the Kaantan court.
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  • 206 4 KUALA LCTfPFB, Wednesday. A BOUT SI O,OOO worth of property went up in flames in the Koala Lumpur Lucky War Id amusement nark today when a bhxrk of 2t stalk was destroyed Three fixe engines, two civil and one army, put out the
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  • 61 4 A (nines* boy watted up and down Singapore's bnsy Hiffti Street, yestenfay afternoon, crying for his mother. A business-man took him by the hand and made a shop-to-sho hunt Eevntualiy h«s mother was located in a Jeweller's shop at the center. Mattel admiring gold ban
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  • 104 4 I A TOTAL of 4.356.919 tons of general cargo, coal and oil, has been loaded and discharged in Singapore harbour from the beginning of the year up to the end of July. General cargo of 180,602 tons, 2,177 toes of coal and 9.293 tons of oil
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  • 36 4 THE BEER WAS SAVED VICTIMS of the lire at the Lucky World amusement park n Eaab Lmniw, check the beer, soft drinks sardines, salt ftsfc and other goods which they managed to salvage. Straits Times picture.
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  • 132 4 A SUGGESTION that service cards should be issued to all uailv-raied employees of the Singapore Government and Mnnrcina! Commission Is to be made to the Government by the Government and Municipal Labour Union. The secretary ot the union Mr. R K. Palaiyan. said yes- terday
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  • 429 4 ACT ONLY ON EVIDENCE, COUNCIL TOLD T<HE suggestion that proper and fair consideration could not be given to the Riot Commission's Report in its section which reflects adversely on the conduct of two police officers without reference to the evidence, was made at the Singapore Legislative Council meeting on Tuesday
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  • 177 4 l|O Sen Seng, who had been sentenced in tht Criminar District Court to three years' gaol for possessing 385J tahils of opium, was freed on appeal in Singapore High Court yesterday Ho wa? arrested while carrying a basket In which a parcel of raw
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  • 225 5 NOTES OH ESTATES A WEEK AFTER PRINTING j^ A.F. aircraft were used to rush currency notes from London to Malaya last year, it is revealed today. And civil aircraft were chartered to carry millions of dollars into the country.
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  • 150 5 PENANG. Wed. MR. H. G. Shah, former president of the Penang branch of the Malayan Indian Congress, said today: "It 1$ unfair for Singapore leaders to raise a howl over the influx of Federation youths into the Colony." He was commenting on statements by certain Singapore
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  • 101 5 tiOH Beng Keng, chief I tenant of a house in Clyde Terrace, won his appeal against a police court fine of $250 for permitting his premises to be used 1 for storing timber without a licence in Singapore High Court yesterday. Ordering the fine to
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  • 78 5 A total of 1,470 pounds of opium was found in 37 gunny sacks -when a police party in mufti raided a .t^re at the back of a bungalow in Ipoh Lane, Singapore, it was stated in the Fifth District Court yesterday. Kee Choon Sun, 25,
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  • 202 5 Saved two: 'It was nothing <> TWENTI-M\K-vear-ol'l John Bvrc^ss, a Sin- gapere clerk who saved X I two mn yesterday from* I 1 gas fames in the bold of X a toagkang at Tanjmie* 0 Rh«, ceniM oitry say: "Oh, f it's nothing at all.. ,jnst J! a small matter,
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  • 67 5 gIXTEEN YEAR OLD housewife, Kanaiah Sarasvathi, was stabbed to death in her room in the Singapore Harbour Board labour linos at Tanjong Pagar. Mrs. Sarasvathi was with her two younger brothers in the room when she was stabbed with a pen-knife in the neck and
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  • 133 5 DROWNED WHEN SQUALL SANKBOAT SINGAPORE Coroner, Mr. Choor Singh, ye«terday returned a findIng of death by misad-» venture at the inquest on Leo Ewart Burden, an airman of R.A.F. Changi, who was drowned on July 18. Miss Pamela Bolt, a clerk, said that she was sailing in a yacht with
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  • 44 5 JOHORE, BAHRU, Wed. Senior inspector Mohamed Shah, of Kulai. will be transferred to Johore Bahru at the end of this month as Senior Court Inspector to replace Inspector Tahir who will be posted to Kota Tinggi as officer in charge of crimes.
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  • 76 5 A BLIND man, Scow Soon Kow, aged 40, who was led into the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday by his wife, was charged with causing hurt to Koh Ah Pang with a pair of scissors at Serangoon Road on Tuesday. "I am blind. It is impossible for
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  • 44 5 More than $10,000 has been spent by Singapore Puhlic Works Department in repairing walls of Singapore River. The work, confined mainly to the stretch near Anderson Bridge and Clemenceau Avenue, has now been completed, a P.W.D official said yesterday
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  • 116 5 MALACCA, Wednesday. TIJAH binte Baba demonstrated at Jasin Magistrate's Court yesterday how Keith Charles Thompson, a police lieutenant, embraced her .and attempted to kiss her, as she had alleged. Thompson was facing a charge of using criminal force on Tijah to outrage
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  • 29 5 MALACCA, Wed.— A meeting of all Hindus in Malacca will be held at the Capitol Dance Hall on Friday at 5 p.m. to form a Hindu association.
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  • 209 5 New bid to get rural savings A CONCENTRATED Post Office Savings campaign in Singapore rural areas, where the response to the mobile savings bank has not been up to expectations, is being planned by the postal authorities with the Public Relations Office. Mr. W. A. Cooper, Director of Posts, yesterday
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  • 24 5 The Army Civil Service Union will hold a dinner on its fifth anniversary on Sept. 8, at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore.
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  • 140 5 MSPONSE to the Radio Malaya advertisement or kX the post of music assistant in Radio Malaya has been good, the Straits Times was told last night Up till yesterday evening, there had been eight applications from men and women In Singapore and the Federation.
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  • 265 5 THE Governor of Singapore, 1 Sir Frankiin Gim* m, was present as C;nef Scouc of the Colony a: 3ov Scout Headquarters on Tuesday to approve th* election of a Counch a:^ Executive Committee unde h? Association's new constitution. Sir franklin said he welcomed this development, with
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  • 34 5 carpenter, Lee Sum Nam, aged 39, tfas electrocuted at the Singapore shipyard of United Engineers, Tanjong Rhu, yesterday. Lee came into contact with electrical lines supplying power to a welding machine.
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  • 28 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— N« Moi, a woman tapper, was sentenced to one year's Imprisonment for unlawful possession of four pounds of rubber belonging- to Senai Estate.
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  • 49 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed The Johore Bahru District Welfare Association's annual drive for funds will begtn on Sunday with a carnival and end on Sept. 2. Besides the carnival, donations will be collected from cinema shows and various sporting contests specially arranged for the occasion.
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  • 255 5 DEDUCED mtes for second class xv air mail from Malaya 'to Britain. Australia. New 7«al»nri and India, and a new extension of services to 24 countries will com* Into effect from Sept. 1. Rates per half ounce for Great Britain and Northern Ireland will be
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  • 357 6 GIRL, 21, TO HANG: COURT CRY FOR MERCY Mother kneels and! bangs her head KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. OCREAMING "tolong, tolong", (mercy, mercy) an elderly Chinese woman flung herself down in Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court today when her 21 -year-old daughter was sentenced to death for consorting with bandits. She knelt
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  • 62 6 Mr Chew Ton Chee and Mr Tan Thian Sang, who together have completed more than 40 years' service in L. E Te's an.) Co.'s TrsflU*B Soc'ety. Singapore, w'll t3 r:uos.s of honour at a din .v p^.rty to be givor. by the firm on Saturday Mr
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  • 36 6 PENANG. Wed Dr G V Allen, Vics-Chancellor of the University if Malaya, will speak to the Penang discussion grouo at the rubber tradassociation at 8.30 p.m on Friday on "The Univers'ty of Malaya.''
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  • 273 6 HUSBAND TELLS OF A— T IM Seng Chuan, a busi Singapore Second Polic Pates, that when he visit Street on Chinese New Ye a "strange man" in a bed mess man, yesterday told »3 Magistrate. Mr. R. B. I. ted his family in Prinsep ;ar
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  • 182 6 POLONY trade unions will have a central bureau to look after their 'interests, if a suggestioia by the unions is approved by the delegateconference of Singapore Trade Union Congress next month The bureau will help trade unions to settle wp.ge disoutes and other matter* which
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  • 121 6 'TRAFFIC arrangements to relieve congestion at the A!r Display on Sept. 1 at Kallang airport were announced by the Police last nieht. The only approach to the air--ort wl'l be along Kallang Ro: a. Vehicles from the eastern part of the island will approach the
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  • 130 6 IPOH, Wed. A 2S-YEAR-OLt> fisherman, Ong Ah Hup, sentenced today to fouf years' imprisonment and ten strokes of the rotan for robbing a middleaged woman, Chew Ah Peck, of cash p.nd jewellery worth $1,612, asked Mr 1 Justice Wylie to increase his prison term
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  • 62 6 CRASH AT A CORNER h)i it PEOPLE escaped injury when a car and a laundry delivery van crashed at the corner of Mountbatten Road and Haig Road, Singapore yesterday. The car was going down Mountbatten Road towaeds the city, while the van was going from Haig Road into Amber Road.
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  • 194 6 Chinese to take part in City festival SINGAPORE Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday agreed to join in the celebration of C^ty Day on Sept. 22. But the Chamber did not decide the form of celebration the Chinese community would contribute. This was decided after Mr. Yap Pheng Geek had spoken
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  • 66 6 A. J. Mallender was fined $10 in the Singapore Third District Court for disorderly behaviour at the Orchard Road police station at 1.40 a.m. on Aug. 21. Mall&nder pleaded not guilty to cheating Charles Dias of drinks, worth $14.40, at the Carlton Club on Aug. 20 and
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  • 133 6 A SINGAPORE woman instructors who have branch of the AutomobiU ro on a small panel of c tors which the branch is among several driving applied to the Singapore Association of Malaya uo xnpetent driving Instrucis forming to help their members, Declining to
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  • 68 6 Defied orders, murdered IPOH. Wed. CIX months ago, in the jungles of S (iawan, the bandits trieVl a oomrade. 40-year-old Soo Chon;. for disobedience of Malayan Communist Party regulations and sentenced him to death. He was stabbed to death and buried in a shallow grave. Security forces, acting on Information
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  • 79 6 Leong Ah Seng, 17, was sentenced to three months' Imprisonment in the Singapore Second Police Court for stealing a handbag belonging to Lucy Ong on Monday. Inspector Michael Chong, prosecuting, told the Court that Lucy Ong was walking in a back-lane off Geylang Road when
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  • 177 7 D ACHING MAKERS APPEAL Ban would cut our business by half, they say IMOKE than 100 makers of dachings are to appeal to Singapore Municipal Commissioners to withdraw the order banning dat-hings in private and Municipal markets which comes into force on January 1. Mr. Seng Poh Ngee, spokesman qf
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  • 172 7 Stall men warned be on spot SINGAPORE Health Committee is to warn licensf's of market stalls that their licences will be withdrawn it they do not take personal charge of the stalls. The committee decided this following a complaint to the Committee by Mr S. A Mohamed All (Progressive -Rochore
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  • 64 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.Yee Yew Woon, a travelling shipping agent of Kuala Lumpur, was fined $200, in default two months' imprisonment, for attempting to smuggle a wrist watch into the Federation from Singapore. Yee told Customs" officials that he bought the watch in Kuala Lumpur but a
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  • 33 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— A meeting of all graduates of Indian universities will be held at the Selangor Indian Association on Sunday at 10.30 a.m. All graduates are Invited to attend
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  • 25 7 KUANTAN, Wed.— Two women, Goh Ah Tah and Poh Ah Lan, were fined $3 each for fighting in the Sunprel Lembing market.
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  • 133 7 3 MORE OF GANG KILLED KUALA IUMPUR, Wed pOLICE today struck at the murder gang responsible for killing bearded jungle hero Mr. E. S. Rainford, O.CP.D. of Rawang, on Monday. After following the bandits in the jungles around Rawang, 17 miles from Kuala Lumpur, the police shot and killed three
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  • 19 7 KUANTAN, Wed— Quek Leh Tee, 53, who stored blasting powder without a licence, was fined $20.
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  • 61 7 MR. R.M. HkNKY, Manager of the Sineapoie branch of the National City Bank of New York, received a presentation at the American Club, Singapore, on Tuesday night prior to his return to Use United States. Left to right: Mr. P.D. Harrison, who made the presentation on behalf
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  • 112 7 dispensaries of the Singapore 1 Government Health Department treated 9,500 new cases during the first seven months of the year. In addition to this, the latest report of the department states that over 10.000 "re-visits" were made by the dispensaries. During this period the HeaJth Department
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  • 45 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.Oardenlng Is the latest hobby which the children of the school for the blind in Johore Bahru have taken up. The pupils hare been divided into three houses and each house will cultivate a flower and a vegetable garden.
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  • 81 7 Draw for MCA sweep in Colony IPOH, Wed. THE draw of the MCA's fourth million dollar sweep will be held at the Happy World stadium in Singapore on Sunday, Sept. 23. With exactly a month more to the draw, 996,000 tickets have been sold, with Singapore heading the list with
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  • 224 7 S'PORE TO SEE SHOW PRINCESS SAW AEROBATICS by a twin- Jet Meteor, identical with a show staged for Princes Elizabeth when she visited RAJ 1 Fighter Command headquarters in Britain last year, will be a feature of Singapore's fourth Air Day at Kallang on Sept. 1. The same Pilot Fit.
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  • 72 7 Chen Chee Shin, of the Sam Tat Leather Bags Company, was fined a total of $2,000 in the Singapore First District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to three summons charges of preparing false invoices with intent to defraud the Federation Government. Chfen had understated the value of
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  • 40 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— Son Choon a woman, who was found with a tin of chandu when travelling by train from Singapore, was sentenced to four days' simple imprisonment and fined $250 In default a further two months' Imprisonment.
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  • 149 7 Government's acceptance of the offer o of South Winds Hotel as a tuberculosis sanatorium is tied up with an offer of nursing help by the Franciscan Sisters of the Divine Motherhood in the Colony. I Dr. W. J. Vickers, Director of Medical Services, said
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  • 77 7 For trying to export 5.44 tahlls of gold out of Malaya, Ng Chin Yong was fined $200 by the Singapore Third District Judge, Mr. 8. K. Teh, Ng was a passenger on a ship bound for Sumatra, on Aug. 21. Questioned by a Customs officer, Ng
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  • 134 7 Twenty-one peOple will sit on Sunday for an on-the spot essay competition at the Sri Narayana Mission, 13% mile. Seletar, Singapore. Sponsored by the Mission the competition is in connection with the birthday anniversary of Sri Narayana, a mystic, who organised the oppressed classes
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  • 38 7 Appeal of Lim Eng Pah, 21, a clerk in the Immigration Office, a#aliut sentence of six months' imprisonment for corruptly giving Ong Ken* Chong, Inspector of Immigration, $40. was dismissed In the Singapore High Court yesterday.
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  • 72 7 MR. Yong Mun Sen, wellknown Penang artist, will exhibit more than 100 of his water-colours at Robinson and Co., Singapore, from Monday next to Sept 1. Mr. Yong exhibited at the the Singapore Anti-Tubercu-loeis Association. He U a self-taught painter and has worked at
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  • 596 8 The Straits Times Singapore, Thur. Aug. 23, 1951 The Lighter Harbour Government takes care of its own! The chilly response to the suggestion made in the Singapore Legislative Council on Tuesday that the Fisheries Department and the R.N.V.R. might be shifted from the Telok Ayer lighter harbour, for the sake
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  • 501 8 In the Persian oil negotiations hope has swung at the end of a pendulum. Today the talks at Teheran aeem a fiasco, and the Persian offer to negotiate no more than a cynical jest. It is possible, since it is apparent that Britain will stand firm,
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  • 989 8  -  WARREN WHITE Trading up the Commimht China Coast By TAIPEH: JHE grey, choppy waterways of the China Coast, for hundreds of years the unpoliced domain of pirates, opium smugglers and honest traders, are today the arena for international hide-and-seek which any moment could spotlight Anglo-Ame-rican
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    • 280 8 T*HE Member for Economic Affairs, Mr. O. A. Spencer, has stressed the need for replanting, and most producers of rubber estates of 100 acres or over, including a number of Asian owners, agree with him ana are, and have been, doing this over the last few years.
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    • 83 8 MR. Justice Rogers should make o visit of inspection to the places provided in the Singapore Courts for accommodation of witnesses, and then perhaps he will guess one reason why the man-in-the-street is not anxious to figure as a witness. The witness rooms in the Supreme Court
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    • 271 8 THIS a.m. (Tuesday) J.&J. quotes anti-clerical Jaures, French pnllosopher about Catholic dogma, and then adds, "Need one say more?" To which the answer Is yes. Once a sailor, after a stormy Saturday night, insisted on mounting the pulpit during the Sunday service and explaining his
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    • 183 8 rnHAT Family Planning X Clinics may not be in such popular demand, in ratio to the population ot the Colony, ag they should be is an Indication not of public opinion but of public ignorance. A little persoal neighbourhood Inquiry among servants. Re bun s
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    • 127 8 A FTER strong representations from the Singapore Municipal Services Union to the Municipal Commissioners, the examination bar at $00 has been abolished. But the witty Commissioners have quickly introduced another "stagnation" no better than the former. The Commissioners have recommended an efficiency bar of which typewriting
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  • 427 8 Intcrniueiit Memories DARDON me if I write about myself today. As you will see. I have an impersonal reason for doing so. Twice during the Internment I was very ill, once with dysentery and the second time with scrub typhus. Bach time when I fell ill I was sleeping
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    • 791 8 I CLASSinfcn ADS. ONO: On W«h August, at talent Clinic Dlnnie (nee loiell*K wife of Robert Ong. a laughter, Debrn Anne aoknowleim; ment THE SINGAPORE BRANCH of he Nortfi Brltlah Mercantile insurance 00.. Ltd.. wishes to hank all friends for their kind .xpreMiona of sympathy In the ecent death of
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    • 227 8 Merc ur y Mercury, also known by its old English name quicksilver, is the only pure metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures. One of the heaviest of the elements, it is obtained from cinnabar, a compound of mercury and sulphur, which is mined in Italy, Spain and the Americas.
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  • 251 9 Many help to smash local Reds-S 'pore leader VALUE OF WORK APPRECIATED THOUSANDS of Chinese in Singapore and the Federation would volunteer for service with the Chinese Nationalist Government if local authorities gave permission for a recruiting campaign, said Mr. Tan Kok Chor,
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  • 50 9 MRS. LOKE WAN THO. at home yesterday to several friends, including; Mrs. Malcolm Mac Donald, wife of the Commissioner General, seen with some of the beautifully embroidered scrolls, jackets and table linen brought back from Kashmir. Her husband was content with photographs, chiefly scenery. Straits Times picture
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  • 195 9 Lokes back from Kashmir By A Woman Correspondent AMONG the many friends who yesterday called on Mrs. Loke Wan Tho to admire souvenirs brought back from her Kashmir trip was Mrs. Malcolm Mac Donald, wife pf the Commissio lerGeneral. 1 Gasps of admiration echoed through an
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  • 285 9 $4,000 POLICE THREAT ALLEGED THREE men conspired to put a sundry-shop businessman, Pang Siow Hai, in fear of assault and detention under the Emergency Regulations in order to extort $4,000, it was said in Singapore Third District Court yestirday. Charged were Tham Koon Poh, a former police inspector and Pang
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  • 85 9 ARRESTED in open Court Xl for spitting through the window. Chan Tai Chua, 60, was yesterday fined $10, or two days' gaol, by the Singapore Third Magistrate, Mr. H B Livingstone. Later in the morning. Chan claimed trial on charges of possession of six tahils of
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  • 27 9 The Apostolic Pentecostal Church wUi hold a new c Ivention at E-2 Raymon Avenue, Balestler Road, Singapore from tomorrow. Three services will be held daily.
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  • 174 9 NOT BEST BARGAIN FOR THEM (By a Woman Correspondent) ASSISTANTS at a Singapore High Street shop are looking peevish and exhausted as a result of measuring off cloth (at 60 cents a yard!) as hard as they could po all day for the cast 10 days. The shop Is having
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  • 80 9 TW O Singaporeans are among the colonial delegates now attending a conference on Colonial adult education at Sydney Sussex College. Cambridge. Malaya is being represented by Mr. L. C. Goh. representing the People's Education Association, Singapore, and Mr. Lim Tay Boh. Lecturer in Economics, University
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  • 230 9 THE idea behind the scheme for assistant nurses in Singapore hospitals was to make nursing a profession accessible to a large group of girls, the deputy Director of Medical Services, Dr. J. Coutts-Milne, said yesterday. The educational minimum for assistant nurses is Standard
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  • 86 9 CIR Franklin Gimson, the Governor, said fie was nervous of shaking hands with lepers even though he wore gloves, while Canon R. K. S. Adams shook hands with them fearlessly with his naked hands. Sir Franklin, who is the colony's chief scout was speaking at a
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  • 165 9 She wanted to bargain with the magistrate KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. bargaining is allowed in a court of law. Lim Fong, a Chinese woman, was told this by the Kuala Lumpur Second Magistrate, Inche Harun, today. Charged this morning on three counts of causing obstruction, Lim Fong pleaded guilty to the
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  • 44 9 Vow Kok Kee. aged 40, claimed trial in Singapore on a charge of causing hurt to Poh Long with a piece of pipe at a house in Havelock Road. The case was postponed to Sept. 4. Vow was allowed bail of $250.
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  • 145 9 Lecturer without a degree A MAN Vila cicjes not possess any university degree has been given a lecturing job in the University of Malaya. He is Ungku Abdul Aziz, of Johore, who has been appointed lecturer in economics. He is holder of a Raffles College diploma in arts, and was
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  • 68 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Ong Kah Hoe, representing the United Millers Co. of Batu Pahat, was fined ;40 for allowing the company's lorry to carry an overweight of 8 cwt. He told the Court that the driver gave a lift to two constables who each brought
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  • 115 9 Brick men to get more pay 'THE 14-day-old wage dispute between the manageA ment of Tang San Brickworks and workers was settled yesterday. The management agreed employers which ended toc?eis VV e ce f a or 20 dd P ailv Ce raEed a work' c Singapore Labour Deers eaS and
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  • 131 9 ANE hundred and twenty Chinese paintings done the classical style by four of the best known present-day Chinese artists will be exhibited in the British Council Centre, Stamford Road, Singapore, tomorrow. The exhibition, sponsored by Singapore Art Society, will be opened by Mr. Liv Kang,
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  • 57 9 A MEMBER of the Singapore International Fortnightly Club, Mrs. M. Jumabhoy, is arranging an Indian Fashion Show, for next Monday. It will be held in the Y.W.C.A. headquarters, Raffles Quay, at 10.30 a.m. At least 1^ types of national costumes will be shown. The
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  • 17 9 The Dilawara and the Empire Trooper will arrive in Singapore today with 1,500 troops.
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  • 47 9 Thirty-three Chinese w»re yesterday fined $10 each In the Singapore First Police Court for gambling in a house in Upper Serangoon Road on Tuesday night. An informer, whose name was not disclosed, was awarded $100 by the Magistrate, Mr. R. C. S. BeM.
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  • 39 9 FOUGHT— FINED Mahaman Jill Maron, 27-year-old African seaman, and Lim Kirn Swee, 18-year-old trishaman, were fined $10 and $5 respectively in Singapore yesterday for fighting in public. Maron did not pay the fine and was gaoled for two days.
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  • 99 9 rpHE recruitment of a X part-time Assistant Health Officer on an Inclusive salary of $750 a month in addition to a transport allowance, it being considered by Singapore Municipal Commissioners. caused by the absence on one year's study leave in Britain of Dr. V. M. S.
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  • 125 9 Govt. deny a rumour gINGAPORE Government last night denied an allegation said to have been made by certain members of the -public that three Malay women detained in the Salvation Army House in Singapore were being "forced against their will to join in prayer in chapel." The Government statement added:
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  • 436 9 Oil fire victims: most not known AFTER three days ofl careful checking because of difficulty mi identifying the bodies, the Shell Company irt Singapore yesterday Issued an official casualty! list of the dead, wounded and missing in the fire that gutted the oil tanker Dromus. Identification has been almost impossible.
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  • 189 10 A typical scene in the lounge of the Union Jack Club in Singapore. TelegrSprufb Pdmear, WiftWrifift, 165M»n and Jackson, all frift the ftoyal Navy's is6lafsd wireless staTTon in Kranji, Singapore, relax and read the magazines in corr.fort These sofdiers, sailors and airmen, from all over Singapore and the
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  • 477 10 r3E Union Jack Club in Singapore hu been deacribed aj one of the best Service cluba In the world, giving the best of service. That oainion has romp fr^m men high and low In rank who have been In many other clubs
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  • 25 11 humea "Sweet Surrender" thi* Kfi'e rayon taffeta ball gown was designed by Helena Geffers for her autumn collection. Fashion fad: the armlet sleeves.
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  • 433 11  - But Nobody Jumped Up On A Chair NADEANE WALKER By I ADIES in the audience cried "eek" but nobody jumped on a chair when a lifesized and very realistic white mouse made its debut at a Paris fashion show, adorning a blue satin cocktail hat. 1 i.iouse was only one
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  • 1196 11  -  NONI WRIGHT By f AST year 100 girls two Singapore Social Welfare Homes— Pasir Panjanp and York Hill Homecraft Centre —were placed in Jobs, mostly in domestic service. A few others were married. Of these, two thirds hay» settled down happily in their new lives, can be
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  • 184 11 B ceAUSE we long suffering women have spent the last two years trying to slim ourselves i iiito the fashionable pencil skirts, because we I have :ut off our treasured locks to spite our i faces, t!~e fashion fiends in Paris have decided I to R.v>
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    • 350 11 The attic m "-^SEttA^k seemed alive rr Jj«» with people... yfj^ (iK^ TT is funny how the past and the c*e- Vj |Jt *^H senc c^n^hdc together in the shadows C fad %i M i tV^tVC Ttut rusty pair of ice ik;'--t thc> take me back to the wonderful winters
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    • 219 11 I'm y^^^u all fop JJ Eno's fSm UL n. It's good for V the lw eY l A glass of sparkling ENO'S first thing in the morning is good for the liver. It clears the head in no time. The wonderful effervescence is cleansing and refreshing to a stale nasty
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    • 248 11 s* Ml Found ln Tyron* (4). Straits Times Crossword iw^STJ SL M l^n 11 2 I 3 i^H 4 If* 1' M. Oert's lug (inn.) <«). P 8 Hi 9 1 A nlob ln **>* mmm (6) L— «m-—cm SS3 .i— tt— t^t >• This It neat (an*f (10). HI
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  • 452 12  -  I.C. Janardanan •~_.m* tjy ONE of the stateliest of the Jungle trees in Perak la that known as toalang or Sialang (the tree of swarming bees). This lofty tree, known by botanists as Koompassia Excelsa, is known to reach a height of 265
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  • 123 12 rX first book on Malayan wild flowers to still growing. This week the Malayan Nature Society .Issued Part 111 of "Malayan Wild Flowers," by Mr. M. R. Henderson, Director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens. There are several parts yet to come before this authoritative
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  • 769 12  - ORPHAN BOYS LEARN TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES KENNAWAY > By gVERY time I passed tb£ Serendah Boyg' Home, 22 miles north ol Kuala Lumpur, I was more and more attracted by the appearance of its cultivated gardens and neat buildings In the background. I therefore decided to pass It no
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  • CHILDREN'S CORNER
    • 1140 13 But Water Came Out Of The Telephone EXPECT you know 1 that in every household there te a Band of Fairies all working to make the house run smoothly. Unfortunately there is also a Brigade of Imps who try their best to undo all their good work. The imps are
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    26 13 "UT HAT'S that? You want a drmkt Hew unfortunate. I'm sitting on the mug. Get off? Certoial* not, I'm f«r ««o comfortable, so ho&oo to you."
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  • 425 13 4 Dear Boys and Girls, "i The picture puzzle which <■ we held the week before last was a great success and I my desk has been piled high every morning with hun- dfdds of entries. Here are I six winning names picked trom
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  • 13 13 c. c.c. Collect six of these coupon* to join the Children's Corner Ctub.
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  • 194 13 BEFORE continuing our talk on Sports stamp* 1 would first < likt to answer a question from Ong Jit Hoe on the question of first day covers." These stamps ant more valuable to collectors because they mark *ha Way on which the^ stamp_ was tirst put on
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  • 329 14 LONDON. Wed. mENSION m Persia lntroX duced a strong noto of caution into the London Stock Exchange today The start of the new account found traders reluctant to extend commitments while awaiting news m th P ol] dispute and the Persian reply to Britain's ultimatum In quiet trading
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  • 220 14 RUBBER MARKET Kaesong news was a steadying influence From A Market Correspondent ♦THE Singapore rubber market opened more or less unchanged yesterday, with prices fluctuating very narrowly around Tuesday's closing levels. Later, however, the tone steadied on news of a further hitch in the Kaesong talks. Apart from some interest
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  • 32 14 pKRAK River. Valley Kubber Company's secretaries report receipt of the full purchase price of the estate. An extraordinary meeting will be called at an early date V) consider liquidation
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  • 41 14 SINGAPORE, Wed., Aug. 22— 1423.87 Vt (up $0.62»/ 4 London: £885 a ton LONDON. Wed. Cash Buyers £885 Sellers £895: Forward Buyers £8521 Sellers £855; Settlement £882 i (down £21) Turn, over: a.m. 65, p.m. 35 tons.
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  • 150 14 nrtHE copra section of the Singapore produce market yesterday was again quiet with opening prices slightly wider, buyers bidding $39% a picul and sellers quoting $41 Vs. Later the margin narrowed to $40 and $40% respectively, but no business resulted. Pepper was also quiet. With fresh stocks
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  • 155 14 SHIPS m the Singapore Roada and alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns at 4 p.m. yesterday were: Outer Roads: Hai Hsuan, Inchmull. Rebeveret, Llanwern, Watn*apore. Gambhlra, Bagan. BenvorKch, Obra, Chip Lam. M.gallan, Hoe«h Silverbeam, WlUem Ruys, North Star. Poelce Laut, Kina, Crolx. Inner Roada:
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  • 165 14 Industrials shine m firm market THERE was a nrmer tendency m all sections of the Malayan share market yesterday, with the strongest buying interest centred m Industrials Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Alex. Bricks. Pref 1» Ords 240 B.B. Petrol 45'Fraser Sc Neave
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  • 95 14 CUNGEI KInU Tin Dredtin made a profit in 1950 of £48,257 (24.1 per cent) alter profit* tax. A final dividend of 3per stock unit made a total of 20 per cent for the year. Net liquid assets in balance sheet amount to £125.340 (12s. 6d. per
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  • 35 14 HONG KONG, Wed. t>REE mariet currency exchange (or Hong Koiig iotlars was quoted at the close today a* fol lows: US$l HK56.54 (cash); HKJ6.57 (T); £1 HK515.60; one tahll of gold HKS32I— U.P.
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  • 32 14 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association announced yesterday that control direct rates for Canadian dollars were: Buying T.T 34%. Airmail (O.D 35, (90 days) 35' i: Selling T.T./O.D. ready S4 9/16.
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  • 653 15 SBA Juniors down to last eight KEEN CONTESTS EXPECTED Bj Our Badminton Correspondent f\NLT eight competitors* are still running for in the Singapore Badminton Association's men's junior singles championship alter a 11-week battle at the Clerical Fnfen Ball. One hundred and eighteen have been eliminated. The eight survivors are: George
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  • 40 15 LONDON, Wed:— United States beat Britain by six bouts to four in an international amateur hoxmg match at Wembley last night, It was Britain's first defeat in a home international amateur boxing event since before the war.
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    31 15 DL'ntEX Nourse, Oie South Afiicad sitipijer, turns a ball ta l£g in the fifth and final Test against England at the Oval last Thursday, Naurse mvuie only Hour in the first
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  • 67 15 BFOIi. Wad.— '.3 a "diess reLhearaai" for the Aloiaja Cup. Anal next week it Perak efcveir wiL be opposed to a Taipin; military side on tae Ipnh Padanc on Aug. 23. Perok Pbetbß'l' Association secretary. Mr. V. TT. Duray. wh« will .-!ccampany the teanr will
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  • 42 15 LONDOW, W,d. Yeat3foaj> s TcgUmUl League cesuU* are-: Div. V. Burniey 0, Liverpool 0 Div. 3 iNordiei-ni- OtUhain Athletic X Gftteshead 0: Div. 3 (Sowtliern): Stmt&amt UUF. 8. Ptert Vale t'. Giaf^ow CUp (first round) Clrii:- 2. Ranrers I. Reuter
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  • 123 15 LONDON. Wed.— John Ikin, the Engiaact and Lancashire crtcieef«r. has notified the- M.C.C. that on medical advice he has '\*^'frfl not to talt« part In the Indian tour this winter. Ikin Is suffering from a severely "trained bask and has been ordered to take complete rest
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  • 30 15 CAMPO RETAINS P.I. TITLE MAKE.A, W«d Philippine flyweight champion: Tanny Campo sucuea^UUy *Hliiiilml hi» title by whfppiag Willie Brown la a t*n roand Avht at. the Bizal Stadium X"st night.
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  • 287 15 MariM Dept. 11; Xetaji M.F.C.. 0. METfIJT Memorial P.C., wooden spoonists of Division 3A with only three points to their credit (one wm, one draw), were at Geylang yesterday beaten. II goals to nil by Marine Dept. F.C., the leaders in the division who have
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    43 15 JLZSNSM r*SHEB of Gnnub; wmc» happily after been mm? the firsf woman home in the Daily Ksif Channel swimmiog race at Dover East Tftj§**lay. T»«nty-thrce-y*%r-o.'d Bcenda, wfco was c«nn»tfn^ for the firs* time, set up a wotnrn's record of I'hr. 4T?min. A.P. »i*tnr!».
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  • 534 15 |>AREs>¥ an hour after be had romped home an "easy winner in the record-equalling time of 86 stimmda in the 50- metres fre«-s»yle event, 20-yeir-old LAC Ted Lloyd of 390 MX. Base Seletar dipped 1.1 see. off his own record time ta win
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  • 64 15 Th» following taterlm committee 'vm elected at a meeting held at he Singapore Recreation Club an Tuesday Cor the formation of the Singapore Billiard* Association: Messrs. Son Ghee Soon. Anciano, Chop Kwal Low, Tan Boon Pt>h. J P. Than* and Professor Montetro. Professor Monteiro, J. P.
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  • 24 15 The match between V.S.C. Combined soccer 'A' adti P.T.S. at Police ground on Aug.. 22 has been postponed to Saturday, Aug. 25.
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  • 19 15 Members of Mayflower B.P. are reminded tljat the final closing dat* of tntrie* {or the Parly's Open
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  • 521 16 TO SPECIALISE IN 2 EVENTS By EDIN PETERS SINGAPORE'S top athlete, lanky Lloyd Valberg, has k made a decision: he will in future concentrate on only two events, the hop, step and jump and the 120 yards hurdles. t "I am not getting any younger,"
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  • 54 16 SOCCER: Business Hsr. Lgt.: I.C.I, t Chartered Bank at Farrer Park; 1)1 V. 2: Fathul Karib v RAF Tengah at Jalan Beaar; DIV. 3A: RNAS Srmbawan; v Town Ranfer* S.C. at CYMA; DIV. 3B: UN. Kep. Barracks v Cosmos at Gpylanf. BADMINTON: Foonjf Seonn Cup tie: Jehore v
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  • 105 16 The R A.F. Cup Competition held at Island Club over the weekend over 36 holes resulted in a win for M. C. Mania with a score of 75 U points. Runner-up was V. E. Dawson with 71 Vi points. The following were some of the best cards
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  • 326 16 S'pore Army trounced 5-1 in K.L. SELANGOR WIN A SCRAPPY GAME KUALA, LUMPUR, Wednesday o ELAN G OR beat ths Singapore Army XI by five goals to one in one of the most dismally disappointing top class matches in Kuala Lumpur this season. For the greater part of the game
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    52 16 MAREEH Hassan Hamad, Egyptian Tictor of the international Channel swimming race for the Daily Mail's £1,000 prize, struggles ashore at Shakespeare Cliff last Thursday. Later at a banquet the manager of the Egyptian swimmers refused to accept the prises as, he alleged, the Daily Mail had been slandering King Farouk.
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  • 94 16 Hart Fry complete fine treble CHESTNUT Hills, mass, Wed. WIMBLEDON, and Frencn champions Miss Doris Hart and Miss Shirley Fry completed a fine treble when they won the United States doubles championship here yesterday. In an all American final they easily beat Mrs. Pat Todd and Miss Nancy ChafTe? 6-4
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  • 91 16 IPOH, Wed. MR. CHAN Lai Hong, president of Perak Chinese Football Federation, is arranging for the South China soccer tourists to play a game in Ipoh. If the tourists agree Perak Amateur Foo ball Association will be asked to field a team. If the P.A.F.A.
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  • 61 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Arrangements are being made for the South China team to play two matches In Kuala Lumpur next month. The F.A.B. has tentatively fixed Sept. 3 as the date for a match against Selangor State, and Sept. 5 for another game against the Services.
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  • 43 16 IPOH, Tues. Kinta Europeans held the much-fancied Cheng Wah to a 2-2 draw In a 2nd Round tie in the R.D.Y. Cup competition on the Ipoh padang today. Guan Wah scored twice for Cheng Wah, Anderson twice for Europeans.
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  • 342 16 iIUALA LUMPUR. Wed. "VI Y ten best horses to follow at the Selangor Turf Club's Aug. -Sept meeting which starts on Saturday are: Hifh Descent: Scored cleverly over Bukit Timah 6(. with 8.13 in July and followed up with a splendid third to Corazon (6f.)> making her
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  • 179 16 NEW YORK, Wed.. JOEY Maxim will defend his wcrld light-heavyweight title at Madison Square Garden tonight (Malayan time approx. 10 a.m. on Thursday) for the first time since he won it from Freddie Mills of Britain. In London, 19 months ago. His opponent
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  • 29 16 The first committee meeting of the Singapore Hockey Association for the year 1951/1952 will be held on Friday, August 31, at the S.R.C. Pavilion at 5.15 p.m.
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  • 310 16 WELL-KNOWN sports patron Mr. P. O. M. O. Mahindasa, President of the Malacca A.A.A., is organising a triangular athletic meet between the Mercury Athletic Club of Kuala Lumpur, the Malacca A.A.A., and Singapore Swifts AX. at the Malacca Stadium on Sunday. Mr. Ooh Tek
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  • 58 16 YORK, Wed.— Mr. John Hetherton's Bob won the Ebor Handicap run over a mile and three quarters here this afternoon. The Judge, after consulting the photo, placed Forget second and HeliophUa third. Bob won at 8-1. He finished 114 lengths in front of Forget with a head separating
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  • 218 16  -  EPSOM JEEP By KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. SYSTEM-BACKERS who select a special stable to follow at a meeting invariably find themselves in the red. But two stables— Jack Spencer's and W. Lewis's shelter such bright prospects at the forthcoming Kuala Lumpur races that I feel safe in predicting
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  • 1088 16 WHAT should we call the Singapore Badminton Hall— if and when it is built? I suggest THE HALL OF DREAMS. Because by next May I when the Thomas Cup final is due to be playec I here, it will either be a tale of dreams realise*
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