The Straits Times, 31 May 1952

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYAN NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED LS4S TWELVE PAGES. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 300 1 Russians take over houses for troops BERLIN, Friday. ,tf ORE RUSSIAN TROOPS have been moved into the Berlin area and have taken part in big manoeuvres close to the West Berlin boundary, Allied army sources said today. Germans living on tl^e border said that Hw
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  • 186 1 Senanayake claims clear majority COLOMBO. Krl. PREMIER Dudley Senanayake's United National Party claimed a clear majority in Ceylon's new Parliament last night, on the basis of returns Irom 68 of the 95 electoral districts. Riding the crest of a vie- I tory wave, which destroyed I Communist hopes of a
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  • 37 1 ANCONA, Italy. Fri. Food mid water were sent down today to 160 miners staging a sit-down strike in the sulphur mine pits of Cabernardl in protest against the firms of 860 co-workers. A.P.
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  • 20 1 TAIPEI, Fri.— A National-] Ist firing -equad today cxc- j cuted two Chinese Commun- isi spies. U.P.
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  • 55 1 PARIS. Fri.— Gen. Elsenhower today said that he would become a civilian on Tuesday, but still would refuse to campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination. He handed over his post as Supreme Commander of Allied Powers In Europe today to Gen. Ridgway. Gen. Eisenhower returns to
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  • 48 1 NEW YORK, Fri. TWENTY FIVE Cornell University students who seized a university radio station on Wednesday and broadcast fake war bulletins have been suspended for a year. The fake broadcasts said European cities had been bombed and an air armada was approaching North America. A.P.
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  • 35 1 JAKARTA. Fri— The Indonesian Association of Stock Traders announced today that the Jakarta Stock Exchange would be officially opened at 11 a.m. on Tuesday in the premises of the Java Bank In Jakarta—Reuter.
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  • 26 1 RANGOON. Fri.— Dr. Mohammed Natsir. former Indonesian Prime Minister, arrived here today by air after a month's tour of India and Pakistan. Reuter.
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  • 21 1 PARIS. Fri. Thirty-one foreigners arrested in the Communist demonstrations on Wednesday night will be expelled from France.—Reute?.
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  • 192 1 KUALA LIMIM K. Friday. PLEA »f guilty by Dimitri Peter Bourlin. a Russian, to a charge of having been in possession of deleterious drugs was rejected by the Koala Lumpur Sessions judge, Mr. A- P. Jack, today. He ordered that the case
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  • 459 1 By a Special Correspondent MALAYA begins her defence of the Thomas Cup, the badminton trophy of the world, against the Americans tonight. More than 8,000 people will be at the Happ> World stadium tonight. And they'll be there early to
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  • 62 1 VIENNA. Fri. ANNA Pauker, friend of Stalin and possjbly the most powerful woman in the Communist world, was reported here today to have been purged from her position as Rumania's Foreign Minister. Mme. Pauker was reported also to nave been relieved of her positions as Deputy
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  • 36 1 Home Guards in the Mentakab area of Pahang killed one terrorist. seriously wounded another and captured their gun and ammunition last night. Security forces captured a bandit during an engagement yesterday.
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  • 113 1 Letters will tell them to surrender ALOR STAR. Fri. rENTY THOUSAND letters written by a surrendered bandit calling on his comrades of the 4th Independent Platoon of the Malayan Communist Party to leave the jungles "for freedom and happiness' will be I air-dropped in the Kedah jungle in the next
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  • 96 1 Four more follow the Big Quit IPOH, Fri. tVjUR more bandits have given themselves up in the Sitiawan area since the viee -commander 11th Independent Platoon of the Fifth Regiment M.R.L.A.. Ching Kuen, led the mass surrender of 13 earlier tnLs month. The latest surrender was at noon today at
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  • 17 1 Near Ipoh, on Wednesday night terrorists set fire to an engine shed and robbed labourers.
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  • 32 1 Bandits held up a bus near Sungei Siput, In Perak. on Thursday robbed the passengers and then set the vehicle on fire. Police put out the flames.
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  • 29 1 MACKINAC ISLAND, Michigan, Fri. A large Japanese delegation is expected to arrive this weekend for the world assembly for moral rearmament, which opened here last night. Reuter.
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  • 47 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. rpHE Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Balnes, was interrupted by a snake while preaching a sermon In Kuan tan Methodist Girls' School this week. It was killed by a member of the congregation during the next hymn.
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  • 125 1 TOKYO, Friday. -'THREE thousand Communist-led demonstrators stoned Japanese police who tried to stop them meeting in the Shinkuku suburb of the city. First reports showed that two rioters were killed and several Injured. The rioters threw "Molotov cocktails" and wielded and brandished bamboo spears and
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  • 51 1 PLOT TO KILL LEADERS PUSAN. Fri. ELEVEN persons have been i arrested on charges of conspiring to assassinate President Syngman Rhee and other South Korean leaders, the Home Ministry announc- j ed today. The Ministry said the 111 also plotted to form a new government connected with Communist North Korea.
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  • 30 1 NEW DELHI. Fri.— A party of Indian mountaineers will make an attempt later this year to con'juer Punchchull. a Himalayan range of five peaks ranging from 23.000 to
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  • 27 1 In the Muar area of Johore. a patrol of 2/10 Gurkha Rifles fired at long; range on three terrorists and claim that they wounded om
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  • 98 1 Gurkhas kill 3 more of thegang KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. MEN of the 1/10 Gur khas, who killed Manap Jepun last Sunday, reported today from their base deep in the Pahang Jungles that they had killed another three of the gang. This brings their total of kills during six days of
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  • 23 1 NEW DELHI, Fri America will supply India with three special aircraft and 75 ground vehicles to fight locusts
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  • 23 1 TOKYO, Fri. ColoneU (ex Brigadier Generals) Charles F. CoLson and Francis Dodd were transferred from Korea to Tokyo today— A.P.
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  • 71 1 THE STRAITS TIMES will publish early next week a 24 -page tabloid sire PICTORIAL on the 1952 Thomas Cup matches in Malaya. Staff photographers have done a full coverage of scenes at the big international matches with the world's leading players in action. Every Malayan badminton
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  • 234 2 COMMUNISTS HAVE ARMY OF 1 mil. IN KOREA TOKYO, Friday. SENIOR United Nations officers said yesterday a Communist force of just under 1,000,000 men is capable of mounting a sprint offensive in Korea without warning. This is nearly 250,000 greater than the estimate of Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway on Apr.
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  • 30 2 .8 A I OO N, Frl. French Union forces In a surprise attack against several hundred Vietmmh killed 250 and captured 80 yesterday south of Hanoi.— Reuter.
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  • 100 2 'Ashamed to be in govt.' resigns PUSAN, Fri. VICE-PRESIDENT of the Republic of Korea, Mr. Kirn Sung Soo, resigned today because "I am ashamed to see my name in the list of Dr. Svngman Rhee's bureaucratic, dictatorial and corrupt regime." •In a statement, he said that the President. Dr. Rhee,
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  • 41 2 ROME, Fri.- Italian centre parties received 50 per cent of the votes for provincial councils. Communists and their allies received 33 5 per cent of the votes and the Neo-Fascists and Monarchists 9 9 per cent. —Reuter.
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  • 98 2 CAPETOWN, Prt. MINISTER of Justice, Mr. Charles Swart, has refused to lift the ban under the Suppression of Communism Act on the general secretary of the Garment "Workers' Union, Mr. Solly Sachs, the union said last night. Earlier this week, a depu- tation
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 467 2 TENDER NOTICE TENDERS will be received at 8 Phillips Street, Singapore, up to 4 D.m. on 10th June, 1952 lor the erection of a Church building for the Mar Thoma Syrian Church, at Reserve Road ofT St. Michael's Road Plans and specifications are Obtainable from the Architect. Mr. A. C.
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    • 400 2 NOTICES CENTRAL ELECTRICITY BOARD FEDERATION OF MALAY A It is hereby notified that unless claims thereto are established within three months of the du^e of this notice. It Is proposed to transfer to revenue, deposits made by consumers who ceased to take a supply of electricity prior to Ist May.
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    • 563 2 NOTICES I REMOVAL NOTICE Botly Co., Stock and Share Brokers have removed to No. 62, Bel Held Street, Ipoh. Telephone No 600. ~PERAK TURF CLUB JUNE MEETING 1952 SATURDAY. 218T JUNE, 1952 WEDNESDAY. 25TH JUNE. 1952 SATURDAY. 28TH JUNE. 1952 12 CASH SWEEPS THERE WII_ BE NO MORE THROUGH" BOOKINGS
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  • 308 3 PRISONERS ATTACK GUARDS ON KOJE 8 more Reds killed, 17 hurt in new incidents in U.N. camps KOJK ISLAND, Friday. irHJHT Communist prisoners were killed and 17 wounded in incidents in United Nations prisoner of war camps on Koje Island and on the Korean mainland yesterday and today. I The
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    36 3 A rorwOT "of "*hV famous "Vi.i. TD Midgets leave Cowley, Oxford, for Bristol for shipment to the United States. These cars earn about $250 000 gold a week to help close the dollar gap. Reuter photo.
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  • 120 3 EQUITY TELLS BBC— NO TELEVISION LONDON, Fri. BRITISH Actors Equity > told the BBC this week to keep television <-ameras i out of theatres when a paying audience is present, j as actors cannot play simultaneously "to the bloke in the gallery *nd the man before tho screen." n tarrying
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  • 41 3 THE HAGUE. Fri. A sand-table conference here n the future status of the ferh-rlands Antilles. In the test Indies, and Surinam Duiv'h Guiana) is to be ?mporarily suspended. A small committee will conInue consultation during the djournment. Reuter
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  • 144 3 PARIS, Monday. FRENCH Communist leader, Jacques Duclos, was formally charted last night with plotting against lh« internal security of France. -i He w*s arrested on Wednesday night at the height of the Communist-led antlRidgway rioting. After being 'charged, Duclos was taken to Fresnes Police todmy raided
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    61 3 ARRIVING in Rome by train from Florence on a private visit is Margherita, daughter of the Duchess of Aosta (formerly Princess Anne of France) and the late Duke of D'Aosla. Her father, as Viceroy of Ethiopia, died during the war while a prisoner of the British. At one time it
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  • 115 3 RED CHINA IN ARMS CUT PLAN NEW YORK. Fri. rpHE French delegate to the A Disarmament Commission, M Jules Moch, made it clear yesterday that the new Western plan for troop restrictions includes Communist Chin?. among the big five powers. rather than Nationalist China. He told a news conference, however,
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  • 93 3 TUCsays:no arms cuts LONDON. Fri. Britain's 1 top trade union leaders last night warned that this was the wrong time to cut rearmament. A statement from the I Trades Union Congress Gene- ral Council said: "Our firm conviction remains that the greatest possible measures of rearmament must be carried out
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  • 57 3 NEW DELHI Fri— Eighi members of Parliament walked out of the House today when the Railway Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri insisted on speaking in Hindi instead of English. AH were South Indians. Two were Communists. It was the first time any mlnis- ter has made
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  • 34 3 TOKYO Fri— Japan today notified the former Russian delegate to the now defunct Allied council for Japan that his office "ceased to exist" when the occupation ended on April 28.— Reuter.
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  • 58 3 CAPETOWN, Fri. SOUTH Africa's white supremacy Court Bill is ex- 1 pected to become law by 1 Tuesday. The Senate approved it last r ht. The House had previr »ly approved it. Now it neeas only formal ratifl- cation. The Bill sets up a Parliamentary court as
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  • 101 3 LONDON, Friday. Bristol Aircraft Company said today it Is making the -world's most economical jet aircraft rngine. i The engine. Proteus 111 will power the Bristol Britannia four-engined airliner, of which the British Overseas Airway.s Corporation has ordered 25. It Is not a
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  • 117 3 BOMBAY. Friday. 4 RRESTS, strikes and civil disobedience continued IX in many parts of India yesterday in protest against the Government's withdrawal of food subsidies. In Nasik. Bombay state, 80 Socialists were arrested for attempting to seize a Government food store. Socialist leaders have
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  • 27 3 WASHINGTON. Fri.—President Truman will speak at New London, Connecticut, on June 14 at the keel-laying ceremonies for the United States first atomic powered submarine. A.P.
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  • 25 3 LONDON Fri. Nearly 100 Labour Members of Parliament have signed a resolution demanding talks with Russia on a possible unification of Germany.— Reuter.
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  • 41 3 NEW DELHI Fri. The Government of India has advised all states to abolish sugar rationing immediately. Sugar production is being increased by 12 per cent this year over last year to an estimated 1.450.000 tons.— Reuter.
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  • 37 3 TOKYO Fri. The Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Katsuo Okazaki told the Upper. House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday that he considerer Jajan no longer at war with Russia but in a state or armistice.— Reuter.
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  • 17 3 BANGKOK Fri. Slam is to establish diplomatic relations with the West German Republic immediately. —Reuter.
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  • 45 3 LONDON. Fri.— Queen EH- zabeth disclosed yesterday she p'loted a Comet jet airliner at more than 500 miles an hour over Western Europr last week. She said this in a telegram to an auxiliary squadron or the Roya! Air Force.— A.P.
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  • 21 3 WASHINGTON. Fri— The 51 -member countries of the International Monetary Fund have invited West Germany and Japan to join.
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  • 109 3 LONDON, Fri. QUEEN Elizabeth's decision fixing her coronation for June 2 next year will be formally proclaimed to the citizens of London at traditional ceremonies next month. At the ceremonies on June f. heraldic official* the King.s-at-Arms, Heralds and Pursuivants accompanied by state trumpeters and an
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  • 319 3 Pre-holiday quiet LONDON, Pri. \fOST sections or the Stock 11 Market showed signs of slow deterioration in quiet pre-holiday dealings. ThU trend wh particularly noticeable in Industrials, where figures showing Britain's rayon output in April as 44 per cent below March added to the already nervous feeling with
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  • 29 3 LONDON. May 3».— Tash Buyers £973; Sellers «574 Forward Buyers C 96 5: Sellers £»66; Settlement £974; up £2). j Turnover: am. 35 tons: pm. nil.
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  • 37 3 LONDON. May 30.— Spot 23% d., July 24d.. Aug. 23 \d.. Sept 234 d.. < July-Sept 23 d.. Oct.-Dec. 22>±d., Jan-Mar. 22v.d., June c.l.f. 23\d.. July c.l I. 23>,d Aug. c.l.f. 23' id Market: Quietly steady.
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    • 118 3 Hard Times For Mice With the cheese ration at home down to one ounce a week, you can guess how much a tin of smooth KRAFT CHEESE will be appreciated. Why not include one in your next gift parcel? Singapore COLD STORAGE Company Limited. and drink... COURVOISIER IB THE BRANDY
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    44 4 CAMERAMEN from th.American Soundmailer Film Company "shoot" pedestrians crossing in front of the Singapore General Post Office. The film will be used for a series of "Safety First" shorts which will soon be seen on Malayan film screens. Straits T imw picture
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  • 408 4 FIVE FOUGHT 50 FOR 2 HOURS-AND THE 50 FLED Two stories of heroism against the Reds KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. 'ALLANTKY during a battle lasting almost two J hours against terrorists who outnumbered them 10 to one has won a Distinguished Conduct Medal for Cpl. Pahalsing Thapa and Military Medals for
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  • 155 4 400 attended YWCA night schools SINGAPORE Young Women's Christian Association organised two night schools last year in Mandarin and English for nearly 400 underprivileged Chinese girls and women jn Chinatown. This was shown by the I association's 195N52 report, tabled at yesterday's annual general meeting. The schools were held at
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  • 24 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— The Selangor Government today asked shops, firms and houses to fly flags on the Queen's birthday next Thursday
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  • 129 4 AM ORE than $65,000 is still needed by the Singapore ifl branch of the British Red Cross Society to build a home for crippled children, said Mr. W. G Collings, the branch hon. treasurer, yesterday. "The response to our appeals for funds has
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  • 116 4 A TENANT who signed a consent document agreeing to pay an increased rent, told the Singapore Rent Conciliation Board yesterday: "I have no power to resist this application." The tenant, Chuan Joon Nong, who is the occupant of J4. Purvis Street, was replying to
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  • 120 4 IF the authorities agree, the Singapore Motor Club Intends to run a special motor race meeting on July 6. The proceeds will be paid into a j benefit fund for the dependants of the three special constables killed in the last Motor Club meeting at the
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  • 41 4 Mr. C. L. Sehelkte, officer on probation under Part I of the Statistics Service, wiU act as Assistant Registrar of Malayan Statistics in place of Mr L. A. Joseph. He will also be Assistant Registrar of Imports and Exports, Singapore.
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  • 36 4 The laying of the foundation of St. Thomas Chapel, of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church in Malaya, in Labis new Tillage, fronting the Segamat-Cha'ah road, was conducved by Rev. T. N. Koßhy, for MaUya.
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  • 159 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. MR. T. F. KEARET, plant er, has been awarded the Colonial Police Medal for gallantry by the Queen for the part he played in saving a police party from annihilation in Kedab on Oct. 22, last year. A police radio van.
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  • 168 4 HOSPITAL FLAG DAY APPEAL "REMEMBER the little children, who suffer In poverty and distress through no fault of their own. and Zive generously during this •loming Hospital Week". Dr. C. H. Withers-Payne, vicepresident of the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital of Singapore, a*id in a broadcast appeal yesterday. "We have, during
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 285 4 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News; 10.05 Housewlve«' Choice: 11-11.30 New Records; 1 p.m. Harry Hackmeyer. Piano; 1.30-1.50 News: 2 Album of Harmony: 2.30 Rhythm Corner; 245 London studio Melodies; 3.15 Pun with Music; 3.30 Tea Dance: 4.15 Southern Serenade: 6 17-6 50 Children; 7 Newt; 7.15 Listeners' Choice: 7.50
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  • 246 5 Bill to set up a Federation Regt. is published KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE BILL to provide legislation for the setting up of the Federation Regiment the i first step towards a Malayan national army was gazetted today. It will be considered at the next meeting
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  • 155 5 S'pore show on 'voting' system MR. TAN CHIN TUAN, De- puty President of the j Singapore Legislative Coun- cil. will open at 4,30 p.m. on Wednesday the "Parliament and People's Vote" exhibl- j bition in Singapore, organised by the Public Relations Office, as part of the publicity campaign to get
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  • 19 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri Llew Kee. a woman, was fined $5 for moving cooked rice without a permit.
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  • 27 5 Fines totalling $405 were imposed on 27 persons in the Singapore First Police Court yesterday when they were charged with playing "pa:kow" for money.
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  • 366 5 rK a year, Mr. Lam Kee Yin, managing director of a textile business, has done his work daily on the top floor of tfis shop at -Circular Road, Singapore, without any interruption. But within one hoar yesterday afternoon, he
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  • 181 5 A HEAVY tractor started felling trees, on the site of the Colony's new multi-million dollar international airport at Paya Lebar. Singapore, yester- day. Within a month, many more units of specialised equipment, including bulldozers graders and a huge 50--ton rubber tyred roller will be on the
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  • 106 5 'THE following attained the minimum standard required to qualify for interview by the Public Services Commission, Singapore, for entry into the higher service*. Part I:— Bostan bin Haji Mohamed Kurshi, H. D'Rozario, C. S. Nair, B. M. Barker, Annamalay Nadesan, Wong Kah Yeow, Lee Beng Ouan, A.
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  • 61 5 SINGAPORE Municipal councillors yesterday deferred a proposed amendment to the Hackney Carriage by-laws which would prevent the hiring of taxis by the seat. They also referred back to committee a decision disapproving a proposal to erect a block of four-storied service flats for the University of
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  • 20 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Frl.The Trengganu Council of state will meet on July 12 at the Istana Maziah. Kuala TrenjjKanu
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  • 38 5 MUAR. Frl.-Ton bin Moriamed Jim claimed trial when charged at Muar with causing hurt to a compatriot with a penknife at Belemang Estate. Sagll Ball of $190 was a'lowed and the case postponed to Tuesday.
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  • 18 5 PENANO Frl. Twentyone cases of Diphtheria with two deaths were reported in George Town last week.
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  • 44 5 Yogi Sri Shuddhananda Baharatiar, the South Indian spiritual leader and philosopher, will give- a public lecture on "Buddha's Heart" at the Maha Bodhi School in Lorong 34. Geylang, Singapore, tomorrow at 8 p.m. under the sponsorship of the Singapore Buddhist Federation.
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  • 128 5 rPHE Singapore City Council .will become food 1 tasters in the interest of the public, the City President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice. told councillor yesterday. He was explaining the job ot the Esplanade Hawkers üb-committee which will allocate stalls en the Espla- ade.
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  • 144 5 Remissions for 'good' prisoners RULES governing remission of prison sentences to encourage good conduct and industry among prisoners in Singapore gaols were published in last night's Government Gazette. The remission will also help reformative treatment. It is stated. Those serving sentences of more than a month but not exceeding a
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  • 56 5 AFTER taking advice, Mrs. Julia Wilson, of Duchess Roaa Singapore, has withdrawn her offer of $5,000 reward made yesterday for information leading to the recovery of more than $10,000 worth of Jewellery lost two weeks ago when burglars broke into her house. The original reward of $2,000
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  • 145 5 HIS DEBTS TOTALLED $344,366 LEE CHO HENG. a partner in Chop Ngoh Hock, produce merchants. Beach Road, whose total liabilities amounted to $344,366, told the Singapore High Court yesterday, in bankruptcy proceedings, that he took no active part in the business of the firm and, therefore, knew nothing about Its
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  • 53 5 Mr. Robert Winthrop, son of the famous British comedian Bud Flanagan, arrived by Qantas-BOAC yesterday, hoping to Rive a few shows in Singapore. But he had to change his mind later. A cable from London last night asked him to return as soon ad possible for
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 225 5 Singapore week-end diary TODAY Children's Club outing at Katoiig giving service at 4 pin with the Last day of court mourning (or Park 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Rev. Joe B. Kennedy as guestthr Ute Hint; George VI Chrbt Church. Dorset Rd. preacher. Spore District M.Y.F.: Cabinet Memorial service for
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  • 17 6 R. A. ALFRED Buklt Zahrah School Johore Bahru. Passed jxwcefu'.'y away on 28.5.52 A?" 50 yo:irs.
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  • 36 6 IN memory of William Francis Fitzcatrick ;*nd Robert Morris. Murphy, killed in an air crash Bear Ifalacoa on 31st May. 1951. From tlie Directors and Staff of Fit7p:i' rick's Food Supplies (Far Ea.sn Ltd
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  • 94 6 AN NO IN CEMENTS FUNERAL Notice: The funeral Cf the l:ite Towkay Yeap Chor Ec will p'.if-e on Sunday. Ist Jm.e. 1952. at 10 a.m. from' "HMNttaaa"*. Penang, for inter- 1 ment at his own estate in Green 1 are ißukit Gambler). YOU can banish wash-day wor- ries by buying
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  • The Straits Times
    • 603 6 The Opium Evil Three items on a news page I —$70,000 worth of opium seized in a tongkang; 121 b. of opium hidden in a motorcar; an opium addict attempts suicide for lack of the drug. 1 The pattern has changed very little over the post-war years. Scores of people
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    • 366 6 Lord Mancroft has not been i I intimidated out of speaking his mind by his recent expe- rience in having to apologise to the House of Commons for a jocular reference to honourable members larking around with buxom Bessie Braddock and the rest cf th" girls."
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    • 177 6 From the Straits Time* of May 25 to June Ist 1902. THE Municipal Engineer pro- 1 poses, to raise the present Cav^nagh Bridge and to build a new one in addition. In a I mtnuU on the matter, the Engineer said that an alter- native scheme might
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  • 1203 6  -  Cynicus by l AMONG the many pos- sibilities of surprise in the Thomas Cup, the intervention of J. Edgar Hoover and the F. 8.1 probably could have been reckoned the least likely Yet it has happened. Gman Joe Alston has been re- 1 called, and the
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  • 814 6 A MALAYSIAN NOTEBOOK j jy[ ALA A has plenty of oM cannon, some of their worshipped, some guarding tombstones, some on little hite carriages outside iubs, some just lying about The floating cannon ol Butterworth is set in concrete in a hut near MKchel Pier. It is the length of
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    • 711 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. < i.wuhrd Farm In r«»r t NADARAJAH: On May 27th. 1952. at Penang, to Thalyal, wife of Nadarajah. Klang, a sister for Bunny. HENRY— To Mahes. wife of Mr. J S. Henry, a son at XX. Hospit on 29 May at 9 p.m. Moth r" anr* baby doing
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    • 36 6 GERMAN PEN New Pision Filling System and Transparent Large Quantity Ink Holding Reservoir prices: si; .in :.'.o EVERBRIGHT OPTICAL CO., 19 Chuln St.. Singapore- 1. Penang Distributors.: ENC SENC MEDICAL CO. 8 Art Quee St.. Penang.
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    • 83 6 CHAMELtON \VNi«|jrtf^? r White in the early NNw n if^^lSfe. morning. H«e Chj- t^^S^^V mclcon Orchid of Mexico changei to crimson at about CAT 6 m f+>e noon it orange _^mm »nd at sunset blue. remaining so til| morning ▼tcii Known miournoui ~~~~~~jft r—^_^^ "TOeM, th« popularity JUST UNPACKED FOR
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  • 306 7 McNeice promises inquiry into Geylang park petition AN inquiry will be conducted soon into a 'legations that a forged petition was sent to the City Council about the conversion of the trade fair at Changi Road, Geylang, into an amusement park, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice,
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  • 346 7 RUBBER PRICE DROP NOT DEPRESSION' THE Singapore Economic Information Bulletin, organ of the Economic Affairs Secretariat, yesterday said the recent price fall in rubber does not "give any sound support for anticipation of an overnight change from prosperity to depression". The paper adds; "Nor can the recent violent drop in
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  • 22 7 MUAR, Fri.— Found behaving in a disorderly manner on the public road, Ong Bock Sing was cautioned and discharged at Muar.
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  • 79 7 SINGAPORE City Councillors went into secret ses- j sion yesterday to consider a j recommendation by three committees that the contractors for the new electricity power station at Pasir Panjang should work on a cost basis from Thursday. Mr. S. S. Manyam dnde-i
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  • 47 7 Mr. S S Manyam (Indep North) successfully sought reference back of a committee de- cision that dally rated employees. reporting late for duty in the mornings, be given work only after the normal morning breaks of rest and be paid half the daily wage rates
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  • 34 7 Councillors rejected a committee recommendation to spend $9,000 fir installing two roof lights in the Water Department, two in the; Sewerage Department and one in the Architect and Building Surve- i yer's Department
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  • 22 7 Council approved revised rules governing the grant of gratuities to employees who are not entitled to join the provident fund scheme.
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  • 331 7 K1W1.. 1 Ll MPIK, Friday. r |"Hi: USUALLY dull and prosaic Government 1 Gazette today burst into technicolour for the first time, to reproduce the Federation coat of arms in six colours. The illustration was part of an Extraordinary Gazette in which the High Commissioner,
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  • 73 7 \IK Soh Ghee Soon (Pro-gressive-West) urged at the Singapore City Council yesterday that bars be placed in the windows of Improvement Trust properties at Havelock Road. He said that there had been 1* thefts in these flats during the past two months. The President, Mr.
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  • 145 7 rAFFIC arrangements for the Queen's birthday parade next Thursday were gazetted in Singapore last night. From 6 15 a.m. on June 5. until the departure from the City HaD steps of the Governor, no vehicle except those displaying an official label will be able to enter the
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  • 58 7 Mr Colin Clark. a n Australian economic consultant passed through Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday on his way to Kaiachl. Mr. Clark, a former Under Secretary for Labour and Industry in Queenjland. is to study methods of Implementing the Colombo Plan recommendations on technical assistance at Karachi
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  • 33 7 New commissioned Inspector in the active unit of the Singapore Special Constabulary are: Inche Othman Abdullah. Messrs. Eric Scully. George de Crua and Francis D. A. Edemv <.1 I. I I
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  • 54 7 THE GOVERNOR of Si n e a )><"•.•. .Mr. John Fearm NicoN coming out of the Public Relations Office, during his tour of the Government Secretariat, Empress Place, yesterday. With him are the Colonial Secretary. Mr. W. L. Blythe (right), and the Under Secretary, Mr. R.
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  • 127 7 NICOLL AT EMPRESS PLACE /GOVERNOR of Singapore, VJ Mr. John Fearns Nicoll. visited the Oovernment Secretariat. Empress Place, yesterday afternoon and talkM briefly with heads of departments. He was conducted on his 45-minute tour by the Colonial Secretary Mr W L Blythe. and the Under-Secre-tary, Mr. R. W. Jakeman. Mr.
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  • 84 7 YOUTH has the same res■l ponslbllity for being a good citizen as any member of the older generation said Mr. A. M. Cherian, vice-pre-sident of the Singapore Youth Council, In a broadcast last night. Urging young men and women to come forward to place their names on
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  • 45 7 Yogi Suddhananda Bharati will give a talk on "Tamil Education" at the Umar Pulavar Tamil School in Maxwell Road, Singapore, tomorrow a.t 3 p.m. Students of the school will give a display of kolattam and kummi in his honour.
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  • 56 7 Three schools have been struck off the Register of Schools, Singapore. They had ceased to exist. The schools are: Thlruvallauver Tamil School at the Royal Naval Armament Depot. Naval Base: Chinese' National Language School Commercial Class, of Kampong Kapor Road: and the James School of
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  • 27 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri.— Ibrahim bin Salleh was charged in the police court with dishonestly retaining two packets of stolen cigarettes. He was allowed $200 bail.
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  • 74 7 A 45- YEAR-OLD labourer. Singaram Vellam. was gaoled recently for being drunk and incapable Yesterday, he was sent to prison for a fortnight for a similar offence. When the Singapore First Police Magistrate. Mr R. C S. Bell, asked whether he had seen Singaram Vellam bofore. Inspector
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  • 52 7 Old Bcouts of the 32nd Singapore Troop (Raffles Instl- tution t still interested In the 1 movement are asked to con- tact Mr. Mahlnder Singh Randhava, who is comnlliriß 1 a register of all old Scouts I His address is 4SO-A; Tlonß I Bahru Road; or
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  • 59 7 11ONAVENTURE Monteiro, •D a 20-year-old Eurasian, was tentatively charged before the Singapore SecondPolice Magistrate. Mr R. B. I. Pates yesterday, with housebreaking. Inspector T. S. Zain said that Monteiro broke into an apartment in the Capitol flats early yesterday morning with intent to commit an offence.
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  • 169 7 SINGAPORE postmen yesterday started to clear up the backlog of mall and parcels which had accumulated during the recent postal strike This followed a decision by the union's strike committee which met on Thursday evening. The strike was officially over on Wednesday evening* Yesterday
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  • 65 7 A MAN, a pig and four chickens were struck dead by lightning on the afternoon of Mar. 23 as they sheltered hi a poultry house during a thunderstorm, It was stated In the Singapore Corner's Court yesterday. The man was Ong Bin, 29, who worked as
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  • 128 7 Now they CAN parade— 'with bayonets fixed' iIM.U'OKK City Council O yesterday granted Permission for the three armed Services and the Colony's police to parade through the City "with colours flying and bayonets fixed" on the Queen's birthday Permission was sought by the chairman of the Services sub-committee planning the
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  • 41 7 A Police Court orderly, Dagang bin Osman, was injured in his right arm when a pillar in the Singapore First Police Court fell on him yesterday afternoon. The accident occurred when the Court was not in session.
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  • 196 7 Girl got $3 then leaped to death DEFORE Lim Pye Choo, imaged 20, leaped to death from the seventh floor of the new SIT. flats in Pickering Street, Singapore, she went into a shop to borrow $3 and a pair of slippers, the Singapore Coroner, Mr. Choor Singh, was told
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  • 66 7 More than 60 youths from i Singapore and Johore Bahru ar e meeting in the Chinese Presbyterian Church at •Johore Bahru today for the fifth annual Whitsun conference of the Singapore Presbyterian Youth Fellowship. The programme includes a series of three lectures by the Rev. George
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  • 19 7 Mr. G. P. Darke has been appointed Registrar of Singapore's schools under the Registration of Schools Ordinance.
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    • 126 7 'Sj&T' SL ANDREWS MISSION fA HOSPITAL WEEK CINEMA SHOW PAVILION THEATRE 930 p.m. Film Premiere: MAURICE CHEVALIER in "LE ROI" Maurice at his musical best light and lilting. (Sub-titles in English) TICKETS $10. $5. and $2. Obtainable from Datin Paglar ***** Miss Clippingdalc 5131 Pleasant surprises attached to your programme?!
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    • 59 7 Of always make it a point to tall on us first, You will always find the Range here most appealing B. P. de SUVA LTD. (Incorporated in Ceylon) Singapore Penang. M. FLINTER S. GRINBERG Diamonds and Telephone 7923 67, STAMFORD RD., (Eu Court Bldg.) S pore, 6 "TELEFUC" A BUSH
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  • 211 8 WEEK OF ACTIVE TRADING RUBBER MARKET rIS week has been one of active trading on all rubber markets, the turnover In Singapore being particularly heavy, says Lewis and Peats weekly report. The downward trend continued until the middle of the week when It was halted by an apparent change of
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  • 176 8 FRIEND DRO WNED IN HAUNTED CREEK, THE I CORONER TOLD Man vanished while swimming to family THE SPOT in Sungei Senoko creek where a 25-year-old swimmer, Mohamed Jadi bin Abdullah, was drowned was believed by people of a nearby kampong to be haunted, the Singapore Coroner, Mr. Choor Singh, was
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  • 59 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Frl.— Govindasamy. an estate labourer, was acquitted In the Sessions Court on a charge of causing hurt with a knife to I a fellow labourer. Hp pleaded that when he 1 was attacked by a crowd of in his room In the labourers' lines,
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  • 137 8 rE University of Malaya Endowment Fund now stands at $4,817,205. Donations of $1,35* were received in the week ending May 24. NEGRI SEMBILAN: SS Malay vernacular teachers. Rembau. $130 84. PERAK: Malay teachers: Parlt. $55 16. Kota Lama Kanan. $53 55; Kuala Kangsar. North. $66 01:
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  • 53 8 HASHIM BIN ALI was yesterday committed by the Singapore Relief Police magistrate, Mr. J. B. JayaI retnam, for trial at the next Assizes on a charge of murder. Harhim was alleged to have 1 killed A. Manickam. a City Council labourer, with a stick lat Havelock Road
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  • 101 8 riE SINGAPORE Government will soon release the remaining four of seven men detained under the Emergency Regulations on St. John's Island after the Maria Hertogh riots in December 1950. a spokesman said yef rday The four are Mo .mcd Tahu bin Kalu, Dr.
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  • 10 8 T.B. claimed 21 deaths in Singapore last week.
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  • 43 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Frl.Tenders for Federation Trea sury bills to the value >>' 55.000.000 have been accepted by the Acountant-Qenerai. Tenders at tbe rate of 3/4 per cent per year have been allotted in full. The bills will be Issuer" on Monday
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  • 38 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Frl.— A patrol of the 1/2 Gurkhas k'fled a bandit In the Kota Tinggi district yesterday afternoon. They recovered his weapons and ammunition, rice. clothIng and five packs. The other bandits fled.
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  • 12 8 There were 606 births In Singapore taut week. Deaths: 171.
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  • 258 8 $200 FINE 'INADEQUATE 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. IMPOSITION of a prison sentence on Wong kit Kirn, the driver of the car which knocked down and killed Mr. Derek Green, assistant director of the Malayan Film Unit, on Nov. 14 last year, was today urged
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    43 8 MISS OLIVE Nr.O. secretary 10 Dr. G. G. Inocent. medical officer in charge of the Singapore Youngberg Hospital, hands him patients' record, as he begins his round on his last day of dnty, before be returns to the United States. Straits Times picture.
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  • 56 8 RAF. Brigand light bombers and Vampire jets, and RAAF. Lincoln medium bom- bers. hit bandit targets In Johore and on the Negri Sembilan Pahang border in yesterday's air operations against the terrorists. A helicopter flew to Kelanton to airlift a sick European < police officer
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  • 147 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. FEDERATION'S Chinese policemen will have a special uniform of their own. Revraling this at a farewell dinner given by the Malayan Chinese Association to 77 Chinese police recruits in Seremban test night. Col. A. E. Young, Commissioner of Police, said
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  • 45 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Frl Chua Teck Hee. of Batu Pahat, was allowed ball In $500 pending trial on a charge of failing to furnish the Customs with a proper account of four cases of mirrors, valued at $388 on which the duty was $58.
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    • 168 8 CHARITY IN AID OF < HANOI PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND RAISING SHOW \dvrnturri of Don J«an~ (Tech.) 3Nt May and lit iane 1952. at 8 a.m. (50 cent* downstairs) If* NOW ROCKING £1 THE WHOLE CITY! 11.1.45.4.6.30.9 30 JrT) Tlie HOOCHY-KOOCHY jft/' DANCE as performed |S^ by RHONDA FLEMING *©|r LITTLE
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    • 193 8 Showing Simultaneously Today at the CATHAY CAPITOL REX NEW ALKAMBRA PAVILION DENMARK vs INDIA THOMAS CUP INTER -ZONE SEMI-FINAL Filmed at Kuala Lumpur by the Malayan Film Unit TiIOW^NSAIJE^ "FILMALAYA" =^°lM JTIY t\ I hi TODAY ,40%*, v AiiD LAUGH TREAT T/llk^mJtm for the week end! 808 HOPE *^<fc&^y IHEDY
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    • 261 8 The Straits Times Crossword 24 ta vocal 25. Position four lines above irssn-; b&^a 3 t^jHa RSM k^ F^ uimw "BtUI i§ l^tlj x^ %i tHH Moorllin<l companion* of \<S §§S sSs^ tSS There's a Swiss village— §|^f I I §V iiil nothln elae matte* 10 HP Hi I Where
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    • 232 9 YOU have given a fair ah in Singapore. I under had the audacity to mak* nount of publicity to Mr. Helliwells Chinese banquet •stand he visited your city for a few days and yet he c foolish comments. Quite rightly, the Chinese community took
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    • 207 9 IN returning to work the Singapore postmen have di-plr.yed a sense of responsibility and civic consciousness which the public must not overlook The most as'onishlng point in 'his strike has been the way in which the Government was galvanised into activity. When one considers that the
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    • 101 9 rpilE latest Haxworth reform, "No bus stops along the sea front," may relieve traffic congestion but it causes contidcrabk hardship and Inconvenience to the public travelling in the No. 1 bus. T.iose who work in Fuller* on Building, Hongkong Bank Building and around have
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    • 107 9 THE Straits Times reports that mission school teachers are threatening to resign by the hundred because of "pie-crust" promises nade by Government. This is a timely report. Mission teachers have long been dissatisfied, more so because they have not yet been Riven their housing allowances as now
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    • 49 9 COMPETITION (advised by I v some correspondents) j should not be encouraged In public transport, as it leads to danger to human lives. The Chinese bus companies in Tiong Bahru area before the amalgamation were a good example. They tried to outrun each other. BUS USER. Singapore.
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    • 220 9 I SUPPORT all your correspondent "Claimant" writes in his leLer "News of War Damage." Having seen a number of awards, for the explanation of which the claimant has had to pay a fee of $5. I can say that there is absolutely no consistency
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    • 113 9 rw\RE public in Singapore havt suffered a long time froir biack-outs and the position teems to have be- I come worse of late. Would it I not be possible to seek a solution from a new angle? To wit. could the clocks be put back one hour to permit
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    • 291 9 Forward sales and the estate Worker's wages fN the course of your interesting leading article *on the wages and profits the rubber industry > made in 1950, you say, inter alia: "in which yeai 1 the price averaged 2s. 9\d. and profits were corres- pondingly high". This, in my opinion.
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    • 315 9 Points at issue Kh, i.Kll.N(i lo trie J "Merdeka-God save the Queen" discussion, may I suggest in all friendliness that it would increase one's respect for Dato Onn. either as a State Minister or as the leader of a political party, if be would make up his mind to declare
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    • 104 9 WHEN notified of the change of ownership of my newly bought motor cycle, the office of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles wanted the cycle to be presented for Inspection before registration was effected in my name. As I had to have a driving licence to get it
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    • 134 9 AS a member of the Arab community and one who frequently passes through Serangoon Road, I am sorry to see the Arab Union of Singapore, located in that area, always closed and to all appearances untenanted. I understand the Union Is the only Arab association which
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    • 177 9 THE AIRPORT 'SHACK' AT K. L. IT may or may not be generally known that all airj port buildings i.i the FederaI tlon are in the hands of the .Department of Civil Aviation, I Kuala Lumpur (Malayan Air,ways merely rentt these buildings). While some of these buidjings are in fair
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    • 130 9 pOMPLAINTS very often vy arise from people queueing at the counters of the City Council Treasurer's Department. As I am a former officer in this Department. I am giving a first- hand account of the matter Payment made from behind the counters by members of the staff irritates
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    • 328 9 The I.M.P., the M.C.A. and Dr. Lee AS a member of the M.C.A. in Penang, I am certainly shocked at the action of the Member for Health in the Federation, Dr. Lee Tiang Keng. in accepting the leadership of the Independence of Malaya Party in Penang after having resigned from
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    • 179 9 Dutiful ladies of Johore REGARDING your second editorial of May 28, the ladies of Johore have shown a very much greater appreciation of their duty than the women of some other towns merely because their menfolk knew how to go about the voluntary business of registering their names for the
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    • 98 9 I r r/HE majority of Indian I shop-owners, of whom j many belong to South India, i extract nearly 12 hours of I work every day from their shop assistants without any remuneration for the overwork. Though well aware of the recent introduction of the
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  • 162 10 Australian Stock Exchange From Ovr Own Correspondent I MELBOURNE. Fri. i CHARE prices fell considerably Dii the Melbourne' Stock Exchange today. Lack of buying interest was the cause of many «of the declines, rather than selling pressure, which was negligible. Rises were outnumbered by falls by more than four to
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  • 31 10 NEW YORK. Frl. I WALL STREET closed Irregular yesterday. Some late preholiday covering tilted the price balance mildly higher and all averages closed with minor gains.
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  • 36 10 HONO KONO. Frl. p"REE market currency exchange of Hong Kong dollars was quoted at the dose todjiy as follows: U9Bl HK|B M\ (cash); HK$6 57> 4 (T.T.): HK115.95 One tael of gold 8303 V
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  • 160 10 CHIPS aiongsidt tlw Singapore Harbour Board godowns or exprctrd therr HI n today, are: 1/2 Oranjr: 4 S Rajula: Coal Plant: Baron Cawdor: 7 Axrldvk: 8/9 Hawaii Bear: II Brnvorlu-h. 13 14 Benwyrls; 15/14 Glenorchv: IS Tawall: K/M Tankhtvrn III: NW 5 Sumpiian. NW. 7: Mr-rlimau. NW 6 8
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  • 423 10 r^JIN-shares wire firm in the 1 Malayan Share Market yesterday and a few gains I were recorded. Buyers at the close were still unsatisfied.! Industrials were quiet and Rubbers neglected. Yesterday's price changes by the Malayan Share Brokers' Association were: Burrr. Mfn Alei Brlcka. P'«' .0 J 2»
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  • 478 10 TIN: $483 A PICUL SINGAPORE, Fri. May 30— *483»4 a picul (up ma;ing 9 ou Puket S/Pungah 18/Ruhman Hva 130 Himniiian M Rinuu 4.19 Raub Gold 3.30 Rawang Tin 10/9 Rawmi Con* 44 0 Rrtiong 9/3 Renong Con 30/3 Sflayang 10/3 8u»"f 10/Slone 3/3 Southern Kint» 13/--s MtUytn 33/6 8
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  • 181 10 RUBBER DOWN 1 3/4 CTS. By Oar Market Cerrespendent RUBBER lost 1% cents on the Singapore rubber market yesterday, June first grade closing at 80% cents a Ib. The Improvement In the New York market was not maintained yesterday. The price opened dls- appointingly at around two cent., below Thursday's
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  • 34 10 •MO. 1 B.S.S. Sevt. itSt A VS. ee»la>:— Wadneaasiy's Tharaaay's elaalaf ciaatag S7JM »nd IS .7* trade. 27.1* tn*4>* Tone Easy. The New York Rubber Market was closed yes'erday (Memorial Day>_
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  • 80 10 A SLIGHTLY steadier tendency prevailed In the Singapore Produce Market yMtarday. Mun- tok pepper In looae par re Li unountlng to three tons, changed hands at tSSO a ptcwl Sarawak and Lamponc (black) remained unchanged at SMS and 5445. respectively Copra tv quoted higher, with sellers at
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    • 1286 10 T ,V MANSFIELD CO., LTD. St Sji rZm llncorpr-olerl m S^gopo,.. Allothe. O.pt. BLUB FUNNEL LIMB H r-lilli optM>n to proceed via ataar parts fa lood ond ditcha.*. ""4' SAILINGS I. UVERPOOI GLASGOW LONDON ft CONTINENTAL PORTS Ou. Sa.b P Sham Pano-»g Ag"sen o 'o> Liverpool ft May 2S/11 M
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    • 457 10 BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. Far U K /CONTINENT Spore S'hom Penong Sencleach tor Avonmourh. L'pool Glosgow, Antwerp am In Pert Benledi for Liverpool, Dublin la pert ttßenarty tor Avonmouth, L'pool, Glasgow Hamburg InPert 10/12 Jtme 11/14 Jaae t'Benmacdhul for Hovr. London Antwerp 1/8 J.n. 9/10 Jaaa 11/11 Jaae t*Beneoren for
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    • 462 10 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINGS FROM SCANDINAVIA/UK /CONTINENT Sport P S'hom Penong "Korea" to. Bongkok, Saigon Hongkong la Part ea "Kina" for Bongkok. Saigon. H'kona Kobe 1 Vokonomo 20/22 Jan. IS/19 Jsme 14/17 Jaaa "Kambedte" for Bangkok, Saigon H'kong Kobe Yokohama IS/14 Jaty 11/14 July 11/12 Jaly -SeUndla" for Bangkok 21/21
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    • 1163 10 McALISTER <Sc CO., LTD. BLLBRMAN BUCKNALL UAVIMUt LONDON. HAVRE, ROTTERDAM V.Oi AHCELES. SAN ftANCISCO, HAMBURG PORTLAND. SEATTLE VANCOUVIt one) tor U.S.A.. North Atlontic Vortt AJbreatina cargo for C.nt.oi i. Vna> ai*d Conodio via Colombo American Pvrtt CITY OF OTTAWA- MANCIfVILLI Spore P Shorn Penong »«*MCISVILLI la Part 11 May 11
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  • 580 11 SH AKY ROVERS JUST MADE IT Misson s goals beat Casuals Rovers 2; Casuals 1. ROVERS, of whom so much was expected, failed to live up to their reputation when they edged lowly Casuals two-one in their SAFA Division One league game played at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Their form
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  • 163 11 4 star men drop out of MCFA team I ]Yf ALAYAN Chinese will be below J 1T full strength for today's match against the Aryan Gymkhana tourists at Jalan Besar Stadium. Singapore. Four or the Sing:i'x>re pl&jrrs > In the team announced »n Thurs- i day will not be available
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  • 228 11 TUNTON Fri. THE match between In<Ma and x Somerset was drawn here i today. India, who were left to make I 281 in 170 minutes, scored 118 for I for 8 when rain stopped play. SOMERSET— IST. INNS.: 33* INDIANS— I>T. INSS.: tSS SOMERSET— 2ND. i.NNS
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  • 111 11 LONDON, Fri. OESULTS ot County cricket matches were: Gloncester v Sussex match drawn Bristol i. Sussex 208 and 242 dor 9 Gloucester 447 for 7 dccl. Oxford I'Blverslty v Worcestershire match drawn (Oxford). Worcestershire 272 and 277 for dccl. Oxford 412 for 8 dccl. and 135
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  • 24 11 BATQ PAHAT. Fn. More than 2.000 basketball tans saw the Resonnance Cagers from Manila trounce Chinese Recreation Club 72-48 here last week.
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  • 198 11 rpwo Singapore records are likely to be bettered at today's triangular athletic meet between the Swifts Athletes Association. Johore AA A and the Royal Air Force (Combined), at the Woodbrldge Hospital. They are In the discus and the women's long Jump events. Tan Eng
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    67 11 sUME M.OOO people watched England fight a 1-1 draw against the Italian soccer team in the May 18 match at Florence. The tie Is the third of the six matches so far played between the two countries. England \eeps her unbeaten record against Italy. Photo shows Italian goalkeeper Giuseppe Moro
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  • 72 11 PRESTWICK 'ScoUa.nd>. Fri.— Harvte Ward (USA) continuing his spectacular bid for the British amateur golf championships, held a two- hole lead over the vet|-an Joe Carr of Ireland today after nti; hde* In their semi-final match. j Frank Stranahan (USA) seeking to become the first
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  • 259 11 By a special correspondent. rpHE first events of the Singa- pore rowing season take place when the Royal Singapore Yacht Club hold their Spring Regatta. Races will be held on Selat Sengkls foi Junior Fours and Junior Scullers over a \-milr> course, starting at 3 30
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  • 238 11 EPSOM DOWNS, (Surrey), Friday. THE English-trained filly Frieze, starting at 100-7, 1 scored a comfortable win in the Oaks, the "Fillies Derby", run over a mile and a half here today. This daughter of Phideas, ridden by Australian jockey Edgar Britt. woo by three lengths
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  • 212 11 PARIS, Fri. ]tfIBS Dori s Hart, Wimbledon 1 triple champion, reached the final of the omen's singles in. the French lawn tetuiis championships today at the Stade Roland Oarros. She defeated her compatriot Miss Dorothy Head, seventh ranked American player 6-2. 8-6 in the *eou-flnal. Miss
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  • 131 11 TOKYO Fri. OIRONOSHIN Puruhashl of Japan and Hawaiian, Neael Ford Konno of the United States, will stage one of the greatest Olympic swimming duels when they clash at HeUinskl in July, according to Japanese swimming experts. Tetsiio Hamuro, the swimming reporter of the Malnichl Newspapers and the
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    • 591 11 me FINEST CAR POI 'tSH wave eveit usEQ! BBM^'H/ BBBBBB^^ X Hr before have you beta J <^Mjk/^Msg/ |Hf ■to obtain a car polish I p iwtww Wfff I B-ining Sdicones the A// 1/I^7" i»»»J»i"^ I ■tifcc derivative of glass kI^ML//A/C DDftPCtl I Mi now makes child s play ■^^WTC
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    • 147 11 |.CA AA. *-T *-l *-l jI aaaaaam^iA^r^ii^^ Tf\l\*\J s l IWS 1 tSm, „—4 TODAY brKt r J BADMINTON Slßcapwe Bwimmln. Clnk THOMAS CUP FINAL: Malaya rhampionahi«. 1 mm T America, ll.pp, WarM. S p m \pTVT' I soccn TAIIOOPAW FRIENDLY: MaUyan Chlnrae I WWll/HltA/FT v Aryan Ormkhana at J.
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  • 900 12 It will be tough for the five Americans BUT THEY LIKE A FIGHT MALAYA DEFEND THOMAS CUP TODAY By Our Badminton Reporter piVE AMERICANS will take on the combined might of Malayan badminton in the final stage of the 1952 Thomas Cup competition at the Happy World Stadium, Singapore, tonight
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  • 438 12 T»HE two Malayan umpires who officiated at the A Inter-zone Final between India and America on Tuesday and Wednesday Messrs. Ho Choy Kian and Leow Kirn Fatt have been appointed umpires for the challenge round tonight and tomorrow night between Malaya, the holders, and America.
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  • 157 12 MALAYA EXPECTED TO BEAT U.S. BY 7 GAMES TO 2 KUALA I.IHPIR. Fri. DOTTING here among followen of badminton b not on whether Malaya will best the t'nltetf States In the Thoma* (up challenge round bat on what the margin will h«The most popular estimate Is that Malaya will win
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  • 49 12 Old boys if Victoria School are retnlnded that the c/l boys 4 x 110 relay will be run on Sports Day, June 30 at 5 p.m. at Victoria School ground. Those wishing to compete should hand In their names to the School sports secretary.
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  • 29 12 LONDON. Fri.— H. Elllotf and H O. Baldwin have been appointed umpires for the first cricket Test between England and India beginning at Leeds next Thursday Reuter.
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  • 114 12 DLAYINO a better game in the second half. Bata Sports Club held Malayan Airways S.C. to a one-all draw in a Singapore B.H.P A. Div. 3 game at Parrer Bark yesterday. Dominating play In the first half. Hon Yam scored for Airways who led 1-0 at
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  • 39 12 9ERKMBAN. Fri Negri Sembilan XI against Selangor at cricket here on June 1 and S: Hardy (cast.). Fowler. Devindran Ratnayake. Vanniaislrmam. Dloiiysiiu. Carter. Ounendran. Lingam, Mjiot Cokabau. Petero Kubu Twelfth man. Boon Oon Lor
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  • 233 12 \rw%ONIGHTS crowd at Happy 1 World Stadium will see a "turn" that made Ken Davidson. Yorkshireman coach and manager to the American Thomas Cup team, a famous name in British music hall entertainment in the thirties. Ken will take the court be--1 tween
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  • 179 12 VIISS AMY CHOONG returned to Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday after flying 8.000 miles from Britain to witch the Thomas Cup challenge round match between Malaya and the United States at Singapore's Happy World Stsdium this weekend At the airport yesterday she said: "I took the
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  • 222 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. AN annual tennis "Test" between North and South is to be introduced this year by the LTAM. The fixture will be held on the Lake Club courts, Kuala Lumpur, from June 21 to June 24. The match will comprise
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  • 190 12 Malaya v Rest should be a great draw Sports Letter WOULD it be possible to arrange an international match along Thomas Cup tournament line* between the same Malayan Thomas Cup players i should they emerge champions) and a combined team of the top notchers of •America. Denmark and India, two
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  • 310 12 England pick best post-war XI v India LONDON. Fri. gNOLANDS cricket team to meet India in the first Test beginning at Leeds next Thursday ls: L. Hut ton (Yorkshire, captain), R. T. Simpson (Nottinghamshire), P. B. H. May (Cambridge Univ. and Surrey i, D. C. S. Cotnpton 'Middlesex). A. V.
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  • 52 12 LONDON. Fri Britain's tennn t-.ua to play Ilalv In the third rourd of the Davis Cup tournament 'Europeaa zone I from June 13 to IS will be tho same as that which eliminated Yugoslavia. A. J iTonyi Mottram. Geoff Palah. and 17-jrear-old Roger Becker
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  • 20 12 Mr. J. Laycork and Dr. C. J. Paglar have consented to become the patrons of the Onan Rangers.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 873 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from Page 6) Claaslfled Form In Page t SITUATIONS WANTED OOOD rook boy available from 4t»i June. Employers leaving Colony. Tel. ***** ACCOMMODATION VACANT TO LET: -Holiday seaside house by the day. Apply 96. St. JYanrls Road. ACCOMMODATION vacant double or single room with board at "New
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    • 434 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. VEHICLFS FOR SALE TRIUMPH new m cycles latest models available. Terms arrangeab!r. Uni-Service. 157. Clemencrau Aye. 7497. 1 FIAT 1400 black, excellent condition, new tyres, regularly serviced. European owner buying bigger car. Phone ***** Office or ***** MORRIS Minor Tourer purchased late Sept 1951. Owner driven, excellent condition,
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    • 139 12 MORE SPORT !N PAGE ELEVEN .H H H H B H H B V fl H H H fl H H fl H H fl FOR DEPENDABLE TIME J Obtainable from all watch dealers Sw» j I THOMAS CUP NEWS I The best players in rhe world demand the best
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 41 12 PROGRAMME TODAY Wortg t. Mendez. Ooi v. Mitchell. Chan Piruz r. Rogers Williams. Onrfc Marjan w. Mitchell Sc I.oveday. TOMORROW Wong v. Mitchell. Ooi T. Mendez. Ong v. Williams. Chan ft Piruz t. Mitchell Lovedav. Ong 4c Marjan v. Rogers Williams.
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    • 27 12 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: High 0243 1 7.8 > and 1527 (7ft.); Low 0928 (2.1) and 2136 (4.7). TOMORROW: 034t (7.3) and 1718 (7.1); 1018 <3.«) and 2249 (4.5).
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