The Straits Times, 5 August 1952

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 SIXTEEN PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1952 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    NIGHT MAILS TO RUN AGAIN
    141 1 Emergency 'ban 9 off soon after 20 months KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THE night mail train service between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, cancelled in January last year after frequent terrorist attacks on the trains, is to be resumed on Sept. 1, the Malayan Railway announced today.
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    So Rover can't be sick now
    38 1 •IT WON'T HL'BT," says Mr A Mahendra. Veterinary Assistant (extreme right), as he inoculates one of the doffs against rabies at the inoculation centre at the Selangor Tart Club. Straits Times picture.
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    Senate gives the first 'go' to Dr. M
    265 1 SHAH SEISDS FAMILY AWAY TEHERAN, Monday. THE Persian Senate tod^r s ive initial approval to a bill making the Premier, Dr. Mossadeq, dictator of this near-bankrupt country for six months. But the Upper House offered unexpected opposition to a government bill ordering
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    CAR LICENCE RACKET IS 'WIDESPREAD'
    152 1 CAR LICENCE RACKET IS 'WIDESPREAD' THE FORGED driving licence racket in Singapore which is being investigated by the Colony police is believed to be much more widespread than was thought at first. "We do not know yet how big the racket is, but we shall know more in a few
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    COL. WHATNOT WINS THE GOLD CUP RACE
    96 1 COL. WHATNOT WINS THE GOLD CUP RACE COLONEL WHATNOT, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Teo Hock Seng, of Singapore, won the Gold Cap at the Penan* August Bank Holiday meeting over one mile and three furlongs yesterday. Raj Mahal was second and Curlew third. The Bank Holiday Cup sprint race
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    GURKHAS KILL 4 MORE BANDITS
    162 1 and police shoot a fifth KUALA LUMPUR, Monday, GURKHA units killed four terrorists yesterday, and a police jungle squad claimed a fifth. In the Kota Tinggi area of Johore, a patrol of 1 2 Gurkhas shot dead two terrorists and captured their pistols and hand-grenades,
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    38 KILLED IN BUS SMASH-UP
    111 1 38 KILLED IN BUS SMASH-UP WACO. Texas. Mon. TWO GREYHOUND buses, one loaded to capacity, collided head-on and caught fire near the top of a hlllcrest south of Waco early yesterday. At least 38 persons wer e killed and 16 Injured. A police spokesman said 38 bodies, many of them
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    Tin for free export
    76 1 JAKARTA, Mon the United States decision to decontrol tin imports gives American consummers the opportunity to buy tin In Indonesia at world market prices. Dr. Darmawan Mangunkusumo, of the Economic Ministry, said her e today. Under an agreement with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of March last,
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    Gromyko to meet Eden
    31 1 LONDON, Mon.— The new-ly-appointed Soviet ambassador, Mr. Andrei Gromyko. will meet the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, on Wednesday for a first review of East-West relations. U.P.
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    Earl dies
    14 1 LONDON, Mon.— The 12th Earl of Chesterfield has died aged 63.— A.P.
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    14 drowned when boat capsized
    45 1 BENARES, Mon.— Fourteen persona. Including eight women, were feared drowned In the flooded Ganges today when a boat ferrying thktn across overturned. Of 20 people aboard, six, including a 10-year-old girl, were rescued. The body of a woman was recovered.—Reuter.
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    Promoted
    29 1 TOKYO, Mon— The United Nations Command today announced the promot'on to Major-General of Brig-Gen. Haydon "Bull" Boatner, the officer who quelled the Koje island orison camp riots.— Reuter.
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    Two rescued from 'croc' river
    74 1 Two rescued from 'croc' river JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. A SPECIAL constable, Mon bin Hassan, yesterday rescued a Chinese farmer and his mother from a crocodileinfested river near the resett loment village at Gelang Patah. The farmer. Lee Ah Beng. 26, fell into the river. His cries brought his mother to
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    Silence for Eva
    24 1 BUENOS AIRES, Mon.— Argentine police today received orders to observe a one-minute silence every evening in memory of Eva Peron. Reuter.
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    Strike threat at new power plant site
    62 1 Strike threat at new power plant site rpHE Singapore General Labour Union may call a strike of its members working at the Pasir Panjang Power Station if a wage demand is not settled soon. The union members are daily rated labourers employed by Babcock and Wilcox Ltd. who have asked
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    Suicide over defeat at the Games
    82 1 Suicide over defeat at the Games TOKYO, Mon. MRS. HATSUNE KAMIOKA, aged 21, wife of a doctor in Northern Honshu hanged herself yesterday. She left a note, saying: "I lost hope 'or living since Shlro Hashizume was defeated in the Olympics swimming.' Sadao Nakamura, aged 16. of Ataml, about 70
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    Ship grounded
    37 1 KARLSKRONA, (Sweden), Mon.— The semi-official Swedish News Agency reported today that two Polish fishermen overpowered the captain of a Polish trawler, grounded the vessel near here yesterday and gave themselves up as political refugees.— AP.
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    Britain gives pledge to India
    144 1 LONDON Mon. BRITAIN has given India an assurance that troops flying to Singapore in chartered aircraft, which refuel at Indian airfields, will not be used In Korea, according to a report In today's Dally Herald "The Indian Government, which wants to assist in end- ing
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    Quiet Royal birthday
    47 1 WINDSOR, Mon. Que,en Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, today celebrated her 52nd birthday with a private luncheon party at the Royal Lodge here. She spent th e day quietly with the Queen, Princess Margaret and the Queen's children the Duke of Cornwall and Princess Anne.
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    RUSSIANS TRY TO RUN BRITON DOWN
    97 1 BERLIN, Monday. rpHE BRITISH Commandant in Berlin, MaJ.-Gen. C. F. Coleman, yesterday accused the Russians of deliberately trying to run down a British military policeman with a Soviet army lorry. In a letter to the representative of the Soviet High lilssion In Berlin, Mr.
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    U.S. inquiry on insanity law
    45 1 ALBANY, Mon. The Governor, Mr. Thomas E. Dewey, today ordered an Investigation to determine whether the state could prevent the release from mental hospitals of such dangerous patients as Bayard Peakes. who killed a young girl recently for publicity.— UJ».
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    Ford funds for refugees
    53 1 GENEVA, Mon.— The American Ford Foundation has made a $2,900*00 grant to Europe's 11,000,000 or 12.*****0 refugees, it was announced today. The aim of the grant is "to help to repair the intellectual and moral damage that has been Inflicted on so many millions of freedom
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    114 holiday accidents
    55 1 Singapore Traffic Police spent a busy August Bank holiday, attending to a total j of 114 accidents in the 72- hour period beginning Satur- i day morning. There were 43 accidents I yesterday— the last day of the holidays. Two were fatal. There were 43 accidents on
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    Reds terrorise Indian state
    33 1 NEW DELHI, M»n.— lndia Government announced today it has received reports that Communists are terrorising villages in the north-west state of Patiala and "life and property is unsafe."— AP.
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    1,745 are told: Be on the alert
    129 1 1,745 are told: Be on the alert rpHE 1,745 senior offlceis in Singapore Government service have been told to keep their eyes and ears open for evidence of a threat to internal security. The order has been given by the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe. The officers— 540 in
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    600 discuss an Utopia
    90 1 RANGOON, Mon. More than 600 official and nonofflcial delegates met In a special conference today to formulate short and long- term plans aimed at making Burma a welfare state for ts 18,000,000 people. It was called by the Premier, U Nu. He told a mass rally
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    Mountbatten in Damascus
    23 1 DAMASCUS, Mon. Admiral Earl Mountbatten, Commander-in-chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet, arrived here today for a brief official visit.— Reuter.
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    UNIONISTS TO MOURN LONGER FOR EVA PERON
    181 2 BUENOS AIRES, Monday. gUENOS AIRES movie and theatre workers' unions yesterday decided to extend their period of mourning for Eva Peron until Aug. 11. Movie houses, theatres, music halls and other places of entertainment shut down when President Juan Peron's 33-year-old wife died
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    POLICE HOLD 14 REDS
    34 2 MANILA, Mon. Fourteen Huks, Including two women, were caught on Saturday south of Manila. It was one of the best captures in weeks in the drive to clean up Luzon.—A.P.
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    Buying British
    17 2 NEW YORK, Mon.—Americans bought 6,000 British cars during the first four months oi this year.—A.P.
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    U.S.-Spain bases lalks more active
    96 2 U.S. -Spain bases lalks more active MADRID. Mon. AMERICAN sources said yesterday that United States negotiations for defence bases in Spain reached "a more active phase" last week. As bargaining over American aid in exchange for Spanish bases increased after weeks of stalling, other soumes said the Spaniards wanted more
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    HAAKON IS 80
    13 2 OSLO, Mon.— King Haakon celebrated his 80th birthday today. Reuter.
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    Labour fete in Liege
    94 2 LIEQE, Mon. SOCIALIST leaders from almost a score of nations led a procession of more than 100,000 which tramped through this Belgian industrial city yesterday In a fourhour labour festival march. The mass "Socialist march" was to celebrate the threeday international labour festival opened in Saturday
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    OFFICERS RECALLED TO SUEZ
    302 3 Special R.A.F. plane flies back senior men from camp CAIRO, Monday. CEVERAL senior British Army and Royal Aii Force officers, on holiday at the services leave camp atTroodos, Cyprus, were urgently recalled to the Suez Canal Zone yesterday. They flew out in a special RAF plane.
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    37 3 Wiu&A y ci tiered o.i tniiguc duty to peel a few hundred onions your nose and eyes suffer. But troops at Camp B*hinson, Arkansas, have solved the problem. They are equipped with gas-masks when on onion fatigue.
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    'Homeland day'
    35 3 FRANKFURT. Mon.—More than 8,000,000 East German refugees now living in Germany today celebrated the "day of homeland," appealing to the world to help them and to recognise their claim to their former homelands.—Reuter.
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    Italy's losses
    10 3 ROME. Mon.—ltaly lost 288,274 men in World Warn.
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    48 3 THv-I'MNHS of cheering Finns lined the streets of Helsinki to give a tumultuous welcome to the Duke of Edinburgh. A three-year-old boy, dressed as an Indian, rushed up to the car and give him a bunch of flowers. He is seen here waving pood-bye to the royal ear.
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    State of war to fight smuggling
    105 3 State of war to fight smuggling JAKARTA, Mon. INDONESIA has abolished the state of war and siege which has existed throughout the territory since 1941, but has imposed a new state of war in her territorial waters to help fight smugglers ai: 1 illegal travellers. c the new territorial measure,
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    Nepal rising prevented
    25 3 CALCUTTA. Mon. Fourteen Communist leaders havp been arrested in northwest Nepal. Police seized, plans for an armed rising throughout thr country. A.P.
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    Lorry disaster
    24 3 MADRID, Men. Three I were killed and 31 I Injured when an army lorry skidded after hitting a rock nea; Madrid. Reuter.
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    NUDIST BEAUTY QUEEN
    68 3 NUDIST BEAUTY QUEEN ST. ALBANS, If on. A 21-year-old girl, standing naked in the sunshine, was today crowned "Nude Venus of Britain" before more than 1,000 British nudists gathered at a camp near here. The girl, whose name was not disclosed, was chosen from nine other competitors. Sh e was
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    DOCTORS WINNING POLIO BATTLE
    57 3 NEW YORK, Mob. MR. Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, said yesterday -that "sew test tmbe victories" aucfat lead to direct and specific attack on Mr. O'Connor said the first mass injection of the new scnuB w&s bksoc lois* Htamn. Similar tests
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    'Make oil report public,' he says
    170 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. SENATOR JOHN SPARKMAN, Democrat nominee for vice-president in the November elections, has ajked President Truman to make public a secret controversial report on international oil cartels. The report, made more than a year ago by the Federal Trade Commission, was a centre
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    Missed runway
    25 3 SAIGON, Mon. Foui frerch soldiers were killed when a Dakota transport undershot a runway near Hanoi a delayed army communique announced today. Reuter,
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    PACIFIC NATIONS TALK DEFENCE
    161 3 HONOLULU, Monday. POREIGN Ministers of the "Pacific Three"— the 1 United States, Australia and New Zealand meet here today to lay down joint defence plans in the first session of the Pacific Pact Council. me council, racinc counterpart of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, has been
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    NON-RED OATH 'USELESS'
    40 3 WASHINGTON, Mon.—Elimination of the oon -Communist oath now required for American labour unions was recommended here today in a report to Senate's Labour Managemept subcommittee. The report said the oath, was "serving no prartica l purpose".— Reuter
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    FORD TO LEAD CRUSADE
    44 3 NEW YORK, Mon— Mr. Henry Ford II was named today to succeed General Lucius D. Clay as National Chairman of the Crusade for Freedom, a private organisation which established Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia to combat Communism —Reuter.
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    The Red soldier
    38 3 WASHINGTON. Mon.— The Ar.erican State Department has published an intelligence report on a Soviet refugee's experiences and said It proved that an average soldier in the BnCTian army lived a life of •futility and drudgery.-
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    REDS LIKE IT
    30 3 LONDON, lion.— The i Indian film 'Sab la" won one of the "struggle' for social progress" prizes at the Czech International Festival which hast jost ended— Renter.
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    War criminals to be freed
    41 3 TOKYO, Mon. Former Lieut. Gen. Ronsuke Isogai, one-time Governor General of Hong Kong, and 90 other Japanese serving sentences for war crimes in China during the war will be released from Tokyo's Sugama prison tomorrow. Reuter.
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    Race laws broken in Capetown
    79 3 CAPETOWN, Mon. pAPETOWN'S first incident in the current campaign "against the race segregation laws occurred today, when 10 Africans were arrested for entering and refusing to leave a waiting room reserved for Europeans on Capetown railway station. The men were detained for the night and
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    Guides confer
    18 3 PARIS, Mon. An international conference of more than 1.100 girl guide leaders opened here today. Reuter.
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    YOUTH FRONT 'MARCH ON GIBRALTAR'
    112 3 MADRID, lion. HUNDREDS of Youth Front members staging a "march of Gibraltar" were arriving in the ancient town of San Soqne near Gibraltar tonight, anniversary of the capture of Gibraltar by the British in 1704. They came from Malaga, Granada, Sefflle, Cordoba, Cadiz and man?
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    Korea fears election raids
    169 3 Korea fears election raids PDSAN, Mon. 5JOUTH Korea's police I force was alerted today ifor possible guerilla uprisings tomorrow, when citizens go to the polls for the nation's first popular presidential election. The Interior Minister. Kim Tai Sun, alerted all South Korean police *or possible raids on rural polling places.
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    180 go back to Canton
    25 3 HONG KONG. Mon.— More than 180 Chinese arrived here yesterday from Singapore. They were sent to Canton by train. Renter.
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    Somalis attack police
    50 3 MOGADISHU, Mon.— Two Italian policemen and a Somali non-commissioned officer were killed on Thursday when Somali demonstrators attacked the police with knives and stones, reports reaching here said. The demonstrators were attending a meeting organised by the Somali Tooth League to jMt)iest against some local grievances. Renter.
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    S'pore's Women in White
    388 4  -  OSCAR FERNANDEZ By A TRIM middle-aged woman, in a spotless white nurse's uniform walked briskly along a busy Singapore road, with a small black bag* in one hand and a notebook in the other. She moved fast and a confidence that showed she knew her way.
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    16 MORE 'SUPERB' MEN WANTED
    264 5 Board may meet this month to pick new officers KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. QIXTEEN more outstanding young men may be chosen this month to be cadet officers in the Federation Regiment. Twelve cadets have been picked already. Tentative arrangements have been made for the selection board
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    Last-minute check-up
    50 5 tt.nt.H BROWN of the B. A.F. Seletar Aero-Modellers' Ciub makes a last-minute check-up of his diesel powered Delta. Wing: model at the fourth All-Malayan AeroModellers' meet in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Brown's aircraft was one of the many self -designed models entered in the competition. Straits Times picture.
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    Govt. move 'disturbs' teachers
    132 5 MEMBERS of the Singapon Teachers' Training Asso ciation, after a meeting yes terday protesting against ai Education Department dcci sion granting third year nor- mal certificates to 21 teach ers who failed, appointed i five-man committee to investigate the matter. The following resolution was passed: "We
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    Wedding in Seremban
    74 5 SEREMBAN. Mon MR. NG KEAM NYEN. son of Mr. and Mrs Ng Foong Yin and Miss Wong Sou Kuan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wong Wong Chee. were married at Seremban Wesley Church yesterday. Members of the American Consulate at Kuala Lumpur and U. 5.1.5., as well
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    50-foot fall to death
    76 5 BUTTERWORTH. Mon. The Butterworth Coroner's Court was told today how a 50-year-old padi planter, AhI mad bin Haji Yusoff fell 50 I feet to his death when a dry I coconut palm, to which he i was clinging, suddenly gave I way j Ahmad climbed the
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    S'PORE DIARY
    92 5 S pore Trade and British Kaaio Exhibitions at Happy World from 6 p.m. to midnight. Bethesda Church: Evangelistic meeting at Chinese Gospel Hall Yio Chu Rang Road, 7.30 p.m' Speaker: Mr. G. D James Chinese V.M.C.A.: Staff meeting 930 a.m.; board executive meetina 5 30 p.m.; basketball and
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    'Try again' call
    123 5 IPOH, Mon.- The Perak State Council, at its meeting on Wednesday, is to vote on a motion expressing grave concern over the closing of the Customs station in Ipoh and the decision of the Federal Government not to ire-ope n rt. Mr. W. G. Scott, chairman of
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    MRS. LIM DIES
    32 5 MALACCA, Mon.— Mrs. Lim Keng Leong, wife of Rev. Lim Keng Leong, Superintendent, Methcdist Church, Southern Malaya Chinese district, died last night. The funeral will take place toi morrow.
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    A big week for the Scouts
    237 5 VISITORS FROM 7 ASIAN COUNTRIES KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. DOT SCOUTS from more than seven countries in Asia will arrive in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday Co take part in the South-East Asia patrol camp at Castle Camp. Federation Scouts, who will be their hosts, have
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    Fanner stabbed
    21 5 KUANTAN, Mon.— Oh Ah Ho, a poultry farmer, was stabbed to death at Penor, about 25 miles from Kuantan.
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    Penang seamen form union
    54 5 PENANG. Mon.— Two hundred seamen meeting at the Boston Cafe last night decided to form a trade union The union will be open to I seamen of all races. A protem committee was elected with gunner Zakaria bin Ishahak as president and Inche Amir bin Abdul
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    Blackout schedule
    263 5 'THE following areas will be liable to blackout today: DAY Mackenzie Rd.. Bukit Timah Pump. Balestier Rd., Jalan Ampas, B.M.B.C, MoRitchie, Braddel Rise Alsatoff Estate. Island GoU Club Windsor Park, Seletar Pump, Nee Soon, SeleUr Wireless. United Rubber Plantation. Mental Hospital. Trafalgar Estate, New World. Perak Rd., Jutland
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    Kelantan visit
    32 5 KOTA BAHRU. Mon.— The Representative for M-laya, Mr. Oooala Menon "'U visit Ke'-ntr n on Wei"psday. T e will b° entertained to dinner by the Indian community the same evening.
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    Templer dines with Volunteer officers
    209 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. WHEN the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, sat for dinner with officers of the Federation of Malaya Volunteer Force in Kuala Lumpur last night, he created Volunteer historyhe was the first High Commissioner ever to have dined officially with Volunteer officers
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    THEY SAY 'NO' TO NEW PAY
    105 5 THEY SAY 'NO' TO NEW PAY IPOH, Mon. ij^IFTY-TWO principals of Chinese schools in Perak decided yesterday that the Government's proposed salary scale for Chinese school teachers was not acceptable In Its present form. Describing it as being generally the same as their present scheme, the meeting objected to certain
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    Wo holiday in Penang
    74 5 PENANG, Mon. FOR the first time since the war, the first Monday in August was not observed as a public or bank holiday in Penang today. While the staff of commercial firms were able to watch the Gold Cup Race at Batu G;.ntong, Government and bank
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    Their aim: To get rid of that tid'apaspirit
    218 5 Their aim: To get rid of that tid'apaspirit KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. THE Rural and Industrial A Development Authority wanted to get rid of the spirit or tid'apa", the secretary to RIDA. Mr. D. C. Horton. said in Kuala Lumpur today. "If this country is to go ahead and be a
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    Youth fined $100 for $2 theft
    52 5 IPOH, Mon.— Convicted on a charge of stealing a spanner worth $2 from a motor car in Hume Street 01 july 27, Woo Yoon Kong, 19, was fined $100 in the magistrate's court today. Woo pleaded guilty to stealing the spanner belonging to Chew
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    Co-op houses
    22 5 IPOH, Mon.— The Sultan of Perak will open the Ipoh Co-operative Housing Society's first settlement in Kampar Road on Saturday.
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    PENANG MUNICIPALITY MAY START NEW HOMES PLAN
    345 6 Green Lane colony a big success PENANG, Monday. pENANG'S first Municipal housing scheme in Green Lane has proved so successful, that on completion of the full quota of 200 houses, a second "colony" may be started in the rural area. Negotiations have begun
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    MCA gift can help Govt. house plan
    151 6 rE GIFT of $500,000 by the Malayan Chinese Associa- tion could be used to Implement the Singapore Government's policy of offering Crown land for the rehousing Of evicted squatters, a- Government spokesman told the Straits Times last night. He added that when the
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    20 teachers graduate
    67 6 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Mon. -Twenty teachers, includ- i ing six women received cer- tificates at a graduation ceremony held at the Sungei Ra-rbai Malay School. Bukit l Mertaiam. yesterday evening. The graduates had completed a five days' course in the Laubach Method of teaching Malay The certificates were
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    BOYS SAVE 12 BUILDINGS
    42 6 TELUK ANSON, Mon. Prompt action by pupils of the Anglo-Chinese School Teluk Anson. saved a row of 12 attap shophouses from destruction by fire at noon today. The fire began in the kitchen of one of the shophouses^
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    Suspected bandit supplier held
    34 6 JOUCRE BAHRU, Mon A Chinese attendant at the Kota Tinggi District Hospital, suspected of being a s'iDpiier of food and medicine to bandits, has been detained under the fcmergtnrj Rogula'ions.
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    69 6 (AIM I MAil WENG CHEONG of No. 1 Squadron (Selangor) Federation of Malaya Air Training Corps got special praise from R.A.F. Station Commander, Wing Commander M. Wasse, when he was presented with his Proficiency Star as an Air Cadet Ist Class at a squadron parade in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
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    On robbery charge
    106 6 IPOH. Mon.— Four Malay youths, two of them from the Malay Regiment, were j today produced in the Ma- j gistrate's Court on two ten- i tative charges of having committed armed robbery on July 19. They were Mohd. bin Haji j Yusoff (24). Ismail bin Harun
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    2 Canadians find our roads best
    99 6 MALACCA, Monday. TWO young Canadians, Warren and Douglas Wilkins, who are travelling round the world in a Land Rover arrived in Malacca over the weekend, j Warrpn tnln the Straits Times: "I found Malaya's roads the best since oui journey out East." They spent
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    Girl missing
    32 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. An 11 -year-old Chinese girl was reported missing from her house at Kampong Dollah in the Pudu area of Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Police cr e investigating.
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    Supervision lifted, but he's gaoled
    57 6 Supervision lifted, but he's gaoled PENANG, Mon. MR. JUSTICE Whitton today set aside a 12 months' police supervision order and instead sentenced Hassan bin Altop, who had five previous convictions, to three months' gaol. Under the section under which Hassan had been convicted the magistrate could not Impose police ■apervision,
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    37 6 MX P. C. RAINE, Assistant 'Superintendent of Police, Labis, Johore, helps his bride, Miss M. Ward, of H.Q., Malaya, Kuala Lnmpur, to cut the cake at the reception after their wedding in Kuala Lumpur. Eastern Photographers picture.
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    Holiday crime was all petty
    236 6 300 CROWD EMERGENCY COURT A BOUT 300 people packed the Emergency Court, A which sat for four hours, In the Singapore Third Police Courtroom yesterday. Before the court sat. ushers. Interpreters, and prosecuting officer worked feverishly entering up fresh arrests into the charge books Piles
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    Selangor wins 'model' contest
    258 6 Selangor wins 'model' contest KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. ritHE Selangor Model AeroX nautics Club scored 63 points to win the two-day all-Malayan aeronautics coini petition which ended today. R.A.F. Selelar was second with 23 points and Perak Aeromodellers third with 17 points. Th e best Individual Competitor Cup was won by
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    U.S. VISITOR
    20 6 Mr. Justice William O. Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court arrive* in Singapore early this morning from Manila.
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    Stole nipah
    39 6 TELUK ANSON, Mon.— Mat bin Ism and Hassan bin Chik were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment in Teluk Anson lor theft of 256 nipah shoots from Ong Tong Kin at Sungal Rubana on May 22. r
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    Daughter of doctor marries
    100 6 LONDON Mon. MALAYA'S first diplomat* In Froebel training in Roehampton, Miss Barbara Balhetchet, was married in London on Saturday to Mr. Maurice Baker, former president of the Malayan Stu- dents' Society In London. She was given away by her father. Dr W. A Balhetchet, Chief Medical
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    DRIVE TO EDUCATE RURAL MALAY WOMEN STARTS
    282 7 First step of move in Penang KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. JHE ADULT EDUCATION Association of Malaya has started the second phase of its work an all-out campaign to reach Majay womenfolk in the kampongs. The first step in this move is. being taken In
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    INCHE HASHIM IS OFF TO THE RESCUE
    131 7 INCHE HASHIM IS OFF TO THE RESCUE °KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. INCHE HASHIM GHANI, former president of the Peninsular Malays Union, said today that be would return to the "tottering" union to save it from collapse. In his first public statement since his dramatic walk-out from a PMU executive committee six
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    You could be whipped, man told
    107 7 You could be whipped, man told SEREMBAN, Mon. LEE Kuan Long, a 48-year-old coffee-stall proprietor, was fined $300, in default two months' imprisonment, at Seremban for using criminal force on 11-year-old Song Kim Moi with intent to outrage her modesty. The magistrate, Inche Abu Johan, told him that he could
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    Recruiting in Malacca
    63 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.--Thursday and Friday, Major A. S. Watt wtai be in Malacca to interview Straits-born Chinese. Eurasians and South Indians for the British Army. The recruiting office will be ■at the Malacca Labour Office. There are vacancies In British Army units for tradesi men as well
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    Stole tarpaulin from lorry
    54 7 IPOH, Mon.— For stealing a tarpaulin from a Corry parked in Kenton Street on the night of July 7, Krishnan, 21. who had 11 previous convictions, was sentenced to ten months' imprisonment in Ipoh today. Krishnan was arrested by a Punjabi watchman as he was walking
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    Fined for escape
    43 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. S. Krishnan, who attempted to escape from two Special Constables who had arrested him for being out of doors at Kota Tinggi during curfew hours, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment by the Kota Tinggi Police Court.
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    On leave
    46 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Mr. G. Scurr. manager, kota Tinggi Estate, has gone on leave. Mr. D. Y. Perkins from Port Dlckson, who was formerly In charge of the estate, Is looking after It pending the return from leave of Mr. W. Bailey from Britain.
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    Accused of cheating
    74 7 Jergen Jensen, 29, claimed trial in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to cheating Mr. George Tobitt of $150 at a house in Lavender Street on July 10. He was alleged to have made Tobitt believe he had a bank account, and was exi pecting money from
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    Finalists in dance contest at Penang
    286 7 THIRD, SO DANCER PROTESTS PENANG, Mon. MR. T. K. Choo, Selangor Junior waltz champion, land Mrs. Michael Tan, 1947 Selangor champion, won the 1952 Malayan amateur ballroom championship at the E and O Hotel last night. When the names of the winning couple were
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    UMNO MEETS ON AUG. 8
    32 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The Singapore division of UMNO will hold its annual meeting on *ug. 8. The meeting will be held at the All-Muslims Missionary Society's premises.
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    2 film spools found at fair
    56 7 Two spools of 35mm cinematograph film were found at the Happy World Trade Fair on Saturday. The organisers are keeping them In the Information Office until they are claimed. One of the spools is enclosed. The other Is not. Anyone who has lost them
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    KOTA BAHRU WEDDING
    31 7 KOTA BAHRU. Mon.— Sheikh Nordin, attached to Police Headquarters, Kota Bahru.wlll be married to Che Wa n Kalthom binte Che Sulaiman, of Kampong Tingkat, Kota Bahru, on Friday.
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    Labourer accused of killing friend
    139 7 w AO t>a*™ KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. APPAVOO, an Indian labourer today appeared before Mr. Justice Wilson, in the Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court, charged with murdering his room-mate. I The alleged murder took Place at .the P.WD. labourers' lines at 8ungel Jerok, KaJang, Selangor, on the
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    Flags up in Singapore
    64 7 All ships in Singapore harbour were dressed yesterday for the Queen Mother's birthday, and flags were flown on all public buildings. There was one exception to the ships the Red China freighter Hal Hsuan. Only two flags fluttered from the silent ship: the Red Ensign from
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    They don't want 'L' tests here
    57 7 MR. LEE CHOON ENG, Singapore City Councillor for West Ward, will ask the City Council to confine testtaff of cars to certain roa ds only. Residents of Improvement Trust flats in the Serangoon Road/Boon Keng Road/Bendemeer Road area have complained to him of the
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    NEGRI TO HAVE MORE LIKE IT
    152 7 MALAY SCHOOL COST $140,000 SEREMBAN, Monday. rpHE Central Malay School at Charmer Road, Seremban, a large modern building, which cost $140,000, was opened yesterday by Dato Klana Petra Undang of Sungei Ujong. The school will admit 400 and will serve the Seremban district. It
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    Negri Ruler at Scout 'Gang Show'
    119 7 Negri Ruler at Scout 'Gang Show' SEREMBAN, Mon. THE Yang di-Pertuan Besar and his consort, tha Tungku Ampuan, were among a large gathering; at a Gang Show on the Seremban Station padang last night. Among the items was a Bali -Bali song in Chinese by the 12th group of the
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    CEYLONESE TOLD: YOU CAN GO HOME ANY TIME
    124 7 IPOH, Mon. pEYLONESE can go back to V CejrJon at apy time, Said the Compilssloner for .Ceylon In Malaga, KJr. M. &aravanamuttu, .at c meeting of .Fejrak, Cey}qrj#;e in Ipoh yesterday evening. Mr. Saravanamuttu said this when dealing with the problems of
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    DEATH
    76 8 MADAM THERESA LIM CHOO NEO. aged 60. beloved wife of Ee Seng Watt passed away peacefully at her residence No. 4, Lorong 13. Gcylang. on Monday 4th August leaving behind Vier beloved husband. 3 sons. Ee Peng Liang and Ee Peng Kee. one daughter-in-law 4 daughters. 4 sons-in-law. »nd
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Aug. 5, 1952. A Year Of Progress
    1116 8 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Aug. 5, 1952. A Year Of Progress It is a measure of the failure j of the Communist terrorists in j Malaya that it is possible to describe the Federation report for 1951 as a record of a year of progress. Progress, not only in
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    WANTED MEN IN HIDING
    47 8 ATHENS, Mon. Nicholas Zachariades, secretary-gene-ral of the Greek Communist Party, and 46 prominent members of the party have been ordered by a Greek court to stand trial on charges of treason and armed rebellion. They are all hiding in Iron Curtain countries.— AP.
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    THE THREAT OF RUSSIAN AIR POWER
    833 8  - THE THREAT OF RUSSIAN AIR POWER SEAGHAN HAYNES By WASHINGTON. r[E growth of Soviet air power, which now outmatches nume-* ricallv the combined air strength of the United States and its European allies, is causing grave concern among the military leaders in Washington. Congressional committees investigating the air power situation
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    Britain's steel plans mean more imports
    608 8  -  BARRY MORTIMER By LONDON. BRITAIN will have to rely increasingly on iron ore imported from Sweden and other sources under the steel industry's second fiveyear expansion plan. British pig iron production is to be raised to 15,000,000 %ons a year from the present 10,500.000
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    Australian battle of hours reopens
    585 8  - Australian battle of hours reopens GRAEME BROOKS By MELBOURNE. A USTRALIAN employers J\ have loosed another broadside in the battle against production costs and inflationary pressure on industry. The latest shots flred take the form of applications to the Arbitration Court for a £A2.6s. cut in the average £A10. 13s.
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    On the Margin
    463 8 Way of living DO you feel you must hav« salt more than once a year to remain healthy? Would a staple diet of wild hitl sago, with meat perhaps once <i month, pali on you? Are you opposed to divorce by mutual consent? Do you like to
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    UMNO NOT SHOW-OFF OPERA, SAYS LEADER
    410 9 'Some members shout for freedom, but won't pay subscriptions 9 PENANG. Monday. fENGKU ABDUL RAHMAN, president of I MM), speaking at the annual meeting of Province Wellesley UMNO Youth League, yesterday said that very few Malays had shown an interest in the affairs of
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    —AND YOUTHS ARE TOLD: DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME
    155 9 —AND YOUTHS ARE TOLD: DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME BI'TTKRWORKTH, Mon. INSTEAD of wasting their time in coffee shops, Malay youths should work harder and help to hasten the end of the Emergency, Incbe Sardon bin Haji Zunir. Federation and Singapore UMNO youth leader, said in Butterworth yesterday. Addressing the Province
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    Six cases for Assizes
    67 9 The Singapore Assizes for August open at the High Court this morning before Mr. Justice Brown and a jury. The Assize list contains six cases one of murder, on* attempted murder, one rob- i bery. one of using as genuine forged or counterfeit curren- I cy
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    WORKERS DEMAND HOUSES
    96 9 WORKERS DEMAND HOUSES SINGAPORE Harbour Board Staff Association, representing about 900 whitei collar workers. Is collecting facts for a new housing scheme. The scheme will be submitted- to the board for immediate implementation, an official of the association, told the Straits Times yesterday. Only 20 pe r cent of the
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    Brigade saves attap house
    40 9 The prompt arrival of the Singapore Fire Brigade saved an attap house from being totally destroyed by fire in Kampong Chantek. off Dunearn Road, last night. Part of the roof was damaged. There were no casualties.
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    ANNIVERSARY
    10 9 The first world war began 38 years ago yesterday.
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    CLERK IS GAOLED FOR FRAUD
    92 9 CLERK IS GAOLED FOR FRAUD SEREMBAN, Mon. ABDUL RAUF bin MAHMOOD, untU recently a financial clerk attached to the District Office Rembau, with 15 years' service in the Government as a temporary clerk, was today sentenced in the Session.; Court to 12 months' imprisonment and fined $300 on three charges
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    PLANTER SAYS: 'I HAD BLACKOUT'
    375 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Monday. A NDREW DICKSON, former manager of Sungei Siput. Langpat and Mawai group of estates, faced trial today in the Sessions Court, Kota Tin,ggi, on a charge of criminal breach of trust of $3,930.50, belonging to the Custodian of Enemy Estates. Dickson pleaded
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    ANCIENT DANCE IN SHOW
    50 9 MR. OSMAN GUMANTI (le ft) and Mr. K. P. Bhaskar p erforni an ancient Kathakali dance, "Kailasodharana m," which will be an item i n the Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society variety concertr t at the Victoria Memorial H all, on Aug. 17. Straits Times picture.
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    TUC may ask Govt for donation
    186 9 WELFARE CENTRE PLAN qtHE ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the Singapore Trade Union Congress in September will discuss whether the Colony Government should be asked to donate towards a proposed $100,000 welfare centre for workers. A resolution to this effect will be tabled at the conference
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    A white line holds up the traffic
    63 9 A white line holds up the traffic A GANG of City Council labourers painting a white line on Kallang Road besides the Gas Works yesterday morning, caused a serious traffic bottleneck on this busy Singapore highway. A long line of vehicles stretching as far back as Kallang airport and the
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    250 DOGS GET IMMUNITY
    121 9 250 DOGS GET IMMUNITY KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. SELANOOR veterinary officers today vaccinated more than 250 dogs in Kuala Lumpur against rabies in the first day of the new campaign to rid the Federation of the disease. Two persons helping to handle the animals were bitten by two protesting dogs. They
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    40 sacked in Naval Base
    76 9 Although 40 daily-rated workmen employed at Singapore Naval Base have been given notices to quit, a Base spokesman said yesterday that this did not mean a large-scale reduction in staff. "The number of workmen we employ depends upon day-to-day requirements. The fact that some workmen
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    Woman knocked down by bus
    44 9 A woman, Ng Ah Luang, aged 27, was seriously injured when she was knocked down by a bus on Sunday night at the junction of Henderson Road and Tiong Bahru Road. Singapore. She was admitted to the General Hospital.
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    Two bandits killed
    37 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.--Two bandits were killed by security forces in the jungle off the 47 mile Johore BahruMersing road yesterday. Two revolvers were found The jyevlous day a bus was burned in the area.
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    Two plead for SHB labourers
    52 9 Singapore City Councillors Mr. M. P. D. Nair and Mr. V. K. Nair ,have asked the SinI gapore Harbour Board authorities to look into the "insanitary and unhygienic" condition of- the S.H.B. labour lines. The Councillors visited the South Ward yesterday. They said they noted
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    50 allowed to return
    77 9 Out of 332 applications for re-entry visas into Singapore from Clnna during the last four months, only 50 were approved. In March, of the 198 who applied, 161 were refused. The Immigration authorities also refused 57 applications in April and another 27 in May but approved
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    Building plan delay
    52 9 Plans for the million-dollar premises of Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce have been temporarily held up by the poor response to appeals for donations. Apart from $200,000 promised by the Hokkien group of chamber members, no other donations had been received, said Dr. S. Y. Want?, chamber
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    Weekend theft
    25 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Police are Investigating the theft of $90 during the weekend from a staff house at the Kuala Lumpur police depot.
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    The doctor got a shock
    144 9 MOST surprised man in Singapore laat week was a doctor, who received a letter from the Electricity Department, asking why he was not using his rjuota of electricity. The doctor replied it was probab'y due to the fact that, during his evening clinics, four times
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    3-YEAR WAIT FOR COLONY
    180 9 3-YEAR WAIT FOR COLONY SINGAPORE will have to wait another three years before there is any major improvement in its public passenger transport services, Progressive City Councillor Mr. D. Robertson (South Ward), said yesterday. Mr. Robertson, who is chairman of the Council's Public Passenger Transport Committee, set up more than
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    $5,000 trust charge
    57 9 Ong Tee Soon, chief clerk of th e Tan j ong Pagar police station, was charged in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday with crimina' breach of trust of $5,000 between April and July this i year. Bail of $5,000 in two sureties was allowed. The case
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    2 KILLED IN ACCIDENTS
    18 9 Two Chinese, a cyclist and a trlsha-rider. were killed in road accidents in Singapore
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    Swimming Club opens its doors to Asians
    170 9 rpo NIGHT, the Singapore A Swimming Club' will be opened to Asian guests for the first time. The club has hitherto been exclusively for Europeans, although the question of a guest night, to which Asians might be invited, has been debated before several
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    Traders back protest
    84 9 The Singapore Chinese i Chamber of Commerce is I backing the protest of the 1 Colony's Chinese schools against, textbooks being printed by one firm. The protest fotlowed a recent decision made by Dato E. E. C. Thuraisingham. Member for Eflucation, Federation of Malaya. Dato Thuraisingham agreed
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    9 10 Pho tograph by Birte Steincke RAMBUTANS FOR THE CHILDREN
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      COMMITTEE OF SHINING LIGHTS
      238 10 JN reference to your leading article of Aug. 2, the appointment of the new committee to consider how Singapore's present electricity supply can be improved is not welcomed by any member of the public known to me. t Th e Singapore Association recommended that a committee
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      INVESTMENT IN CATTLE
      144 10 BETTER facilities for cattle are urgently required by part-time farmers who labour on estates and have invested in a small herd of cattle as a means of acquiring a supply of milk for their children, ghee for the homestead and dung for the cultivation of greens. Their
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      Kowloon's double deckers
      344 10 Kowloon's double deckers IUITH reference to your recent report headed "S.T.C. Chief Opposes Two Decks" may I, as one who has travelled hundreds of times in the double-deckers of Kowloon, be permitted to express my humble views? Despite their almost double carrying capacity compared with ordinary buses, very little time
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      The clutter of bicycles
      145 10 PERMIT me to draw responsible authority's attention to what b fast becoming a. public nuisance and a potential danger to pedestrian safety. I refer to the clutter of bicycles parked on pavements. In certain busy parts of the city pedestrians can no longer use the pavement
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      Telephone company explains its higher charges
      610 10 Telephone company explains its higher charges I ENCLOSE extracts from a statement made by the chairman of the Oriental Telephone Electric Company, Mr. E. J. Bunbury, giving the reasons why this company is reverting in most cases to the charges allowed by the licence granted by Government to the company
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      'Before we go bust'
      172 10 'Before we go bust' I AFTER reading your leader of July 31, giving a summarised view of the parlous state of Federal finances, turning to your page eight— "Malaya Seeks 1 Eight Top Rubber Experts'' (who will cost about $192,000 annually) makes very sad reading. Presumably someone -has some hazy
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      The horses also rah
      211 10 the Eastern Huns came I had three racehorses which were shipped to Japan because I would not enter them in a Taiping meeting organised by the same Huns. These horses (one of them a Gold Cup prospect) were j included in the War Damage claim in
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      'LONG DISTANCE' CALLERS AND THE RENT THEY PAY
      77 10 'LONG DISTANCE CALLERS AND THE RENT THEY PAY |N return for the proposed additional rental. does the telephone subscriber living at a greater distance from the O.T.E.C. telephone txj change get any better service than those living nearer? Surely, if the economics of the telephone company require more revenue, why
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    'Keep an eye on the arch'
    557 11 MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA NURSE BRIDGET MOTHERS of young children often worry because they Imagine that their child is flat footed, but if you watcn a young child learning to walk you will notice that his foot has not yet developed an arch and that
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    23 11 -"Who said 'Carrots'?" It must have been Keeper G. Robinson at the London Zoo, for here are four necks craning for tasty morsels.
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    Out goes the strapless evening gown...
    431 11 LUCIENNB REPORTS ON FASHION O N D O N couture houses have begun their autumn collection showings, and it was John Cavanagh, youngest and most recent addition to the exclusive Incorporated Fashion Designers, who set the most individual lines. Elegance is his theme and
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    Boy with a system
    317 11 Boy with a system FROM AN ESTATF BUNGALOW IN crossing the Muar ferry recently I asked myself the question that so many others are ask ing, and that is why some other arrangement can't be made. For it is quite true that the only people .who seem to benefit by
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    27 11 J-iby Mi-i one-year-oia dUUO -r of Ho Wei Teh and Lee Gek Neo, of 553 Jalan Mustaplia, Johore Bahru, wins this week's "Bonniest Baby" prize of $5.
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      391 11 25. It's like a racoon in ft cocoaThe Straits Times Crossword 26 eat-an d fin^ 27. Vessel used by chemists (6). m mm m m^^_ m^^^ m 28 What could be danker? (6). t DOWN I I* 3 *J 5 2. Moth a girl used In math* Hil H H
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    Cocoa experiment result in 18 months
    221 12 SMALLHOLDERS MAY GET NEW CASH CROP By Our Market Correspondent LMGHTEEN months more must elapse before it will be known whether cocoa seedlings can be supplied on a commercial basis by the Malayan Cocoa Company to smallholders and estates in Malaya. Mr. A. R.
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    MALAYAN RUBBER FOR JAPS
    291 12 MALAYAN RUBBER FOR JAPS ..but Japan may cut production of textiles JMPORTS of crude rubber, -I amounting to US$10,808,000 from Malaya and Indonesia, have been approved by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry, under the automatic approval system with the January-March foreign exchange budget. The total to be
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    Higher cable rates likely
    142 12 CABLE and Wireless Limited, Britain's nationalised Communications undertaking, in its annual report, says that, allowing for all practical economies. the directors believe that the Company will not be left with any earned surplus after taxation in 1952 1953 and subsequently, unless charges are raised. The directors
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    LEADERS OF BUSINESS IN MALAYA: (4)
    125 12 rgWIS YEAR S President X of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, with its 1,750 members, is Mr. Tan SUkS'sw. Mr. Tan, who was born in China and came to Singapore as a youngster, was VicePresident of the Chamber last year. He is Governing Director
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    Coronation year effort by British textiles
    138 12 Coronation year effort by British textiles PVERY section of the British textiles industry is being urged to make a major effort for the Coronation year British Industries Fair to be held in London and Birmingham from April 27 to May 8, 1953. The Board of Trade's textile working committee on
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    U.K. leads in ship building
    68 12 The British shipbuilding industry, at the end of June, held record orders for 7,000,000 gross tons of shipping, worth £670,000,000. With 343 ships of 2,076,241 tons under construction, Britain easily maintains her leading position in shipbuilding. Current building represents 37 per cent, of world tonnage
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    All night work in canning factories
    170 12 PEAK PERIOD FOR PINEAPPLES ]Vf ALAYA'S pineapple canning factories are now at iTI their peak period, in many cases working throughout the night to deal with the big season crop which has now been harvested. The busy period for factor ies in Singapore, Johore
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    U.E. machinery for India
    68 12 The first machinery for treating rubber to be sent from Singapore to India is now being got ready for shipment by United Engineers. Limited. The machinery, which consists of six U.E.L. creping batteries, and laminating and sole crepe cutting machinery (from the Ipoh branch) Is going
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    Gum industry earns US dollars
    354 12 ONE of Singapore's lesserknown entrepot trades Is that of gum damar and gum copal, which are imported into the Colony from Sarawak, Borneo and Indonesia and. after grading, re-exportea to the United States, Britain, India and Japan for use in the manufacture of paints, lacquers
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    NZ TO REDUCE ALLOCATIONS OF EXCHANGE
    126 13 WELLINGTON. Mon MEW ZEALAND ,1$ to icduc allocations of oversea* c* change for 1953 to 40 per cent of the 1950 total, th; Ntw Ze Iland Reserve bank s.ad heie today. The exch nge will tii uiloc^tea in full to traders 10 pay for
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    SUGAR CROP
    54 13 rpHE statistical committee of th< International Sugar Counci has estimated the free marke' sugar available for the crop yeaending August 31 at 6.5C7.00 metric tons, raw value. Estimated requirements an 5,250,000 metric tons so th I stocks should be increased b 1,257,000 metric tons. The supph figure includes
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    Sungei Krian
    54 13 Sungei' Krian Rubber Estate'; profit for 1951, after charging taxation. £61.445 (£37.971) United Kingdom and Malayar taxation charged £85,000 (£49,500). Transfer to replanting reserve £26.000 (£20.000), genera reserve £18.676 (Nil), Final dividend 7Mt per cent (IS per cent*, less income tax. Tota dividend for year 15 per cent
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    Whiteaways did record business last year
    333 13 Whiteaways did record business last year TDECORD business in the Pederation of Malaya last year was reported by Mr. S. H. Gillet t, chairman .of Whiteawa'y, Laidluw and Co.. Ltd.. at the annual meeting In London. Profit on trading for he >eir ended February 1952 amounted to £398.456 or £85,253
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    MALAYA'S EXPORTS DOWN BY $1,457-MILLION
    226 13 Jan-June economic review VfALAYA'S exports declined by $1,457,000,000 in fl the first half of this year compared with the Irst six months of 1951. This figure, however, is slightly above the exports for the first six months of 1950. I Exports for January to June
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    37 INQUIRIES FOR PRODUCTS FROM MALAYA
    100 13 37 INQUIRIES FOR PRODUCTS FROM MALAYA 'pHE report on the Malayan section of the British Industries Fair reveals that trade inquiries were received from 37 different countries regarding Malayan products. The Singapo r Economic Information Bulletin says 'hat th« total n-mber of genu trade inquiries numbered 224 and, of these
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    Increase in interest revenue
    103 13 Increase in interest revenue T»HE interest revenue ot trn' Guardian Assurance Co., Ltd., before deducting income tux. increased by £41,183 to £379 401 for the year ending Dec. 31, 1951. A sum of £222.000 has been transferred to investment reserve and £13.394 to- general reserve. During th» year the company
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    15 p.c. dividend
    32 13 THE Board of Lambak Rubber Ltd. has recommended a (final) dividend for the last financial year of 15 per cent, less tax at standard rates payable on Sept. 5.
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    Investment prices ease on Australian Exchange
    175 13 From our own correspondent MELBOURNE, Mon. INVESTMENT prices were easier on the Stock Exchange today on light volume trading. Investors showed little inclination to buy prior to the release of the Federal Government's bud- get on Wednesday. Moves were mostly of a few pence
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    JAP-THAI TRADE
    28 13 TOKYO Mm—Ttv Japanese Foreign Office announce that it has agreed with Thall-md on an interim trade and financial measure pending negotiation of a new trade aeree.tient.
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    INCREASED POLICE FORCE EFFICIENCY BRINGS HARMONY IN THAILAND
    808 14 From A. V. Sanderson in Bangkok fRIME has shown a marked decline in this country since the present military regime, headed by Field-Mar-shal Phibun Songgram, came to power as the result of a bloodless coup d'etat on November 29. The improvement is
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    TOPSY-TURVY WORLD IS QUEER AT FIRST
    668 14  -  A LTON L. BLAKESLEE By Who tells you what it is like to see everything wrong way up as a scientist did for nearly a month. TF your world turns topsy-turvy, in time It begins to look natural. Thirty days of wearing glasses that
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      80 14 FURTHER STOCKS DUE SHORTLY LANCHESTER "Leda" m Here is a magnificent new British car a roomy five seater, beautifully styled, with a new 60 8.H.P7 2-litre engine and many unusual features, including fluid transmission and pre-selector-gear change. Built by the same people who manufacture famous hand-made limousines, including th,ose for
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      230 14 Smoke one... smoke two... and you're wedded for life Sobranie has always been a name to conjure with in the smoking world. It's latest achievement owes much to an age old tradition and yet it is very much in line with the vogue of today. It is a Virginia —itis
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      283 14 Today's Radio SINGAPORE PENANG 10 am. News: 10.05 Tunes from M the Shows: 10.45 Rendezvous 10 a.m. News; lfrO5 Malay; 1 -1 with 'he Stars; 11.30 M3lay; pm. As S'pore; 6 Melody Time; w 1^ adi >rC^ 13( L Ne T r h 630 Children; 6.45 Barrel House; 1.4a Milton
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    COL. WHATNOT WINS CUP BY 3 LENGTHS
    2159 15 COL. WHATNOT WINS CUP BY 3 LENGTHS Texas $192 in the 2.45 By EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Monday. \|R. and Mrs. Yeo Hock Seng's COL. ITi WHATNOT, a five-year-old Fairfax gelding, won the Penang Gold Cup, over 1 mile and 3 furlongs, today, the last day of the Penang Turf Club
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    Britain's 1st gold in last event
    175 15 HKLSINKI. Mon. GREAT BRITAIN won her I only (iold Mrda 1 of the I9S2 Olympics in the last event yesterdiy. Britain wan placed first in the (.rand Prix Des Nations, the equestrian, team event. Britain's winning combination was: Colonel Harry Llewellyn on Foxhunter, Colonel
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    END OF THE 1952 GAMES
    685 15 'Great is triumph, greater far is noble combat' HELSINKI, Monday. tiiHE RECORD-BREAKING 15th Olympiad ended last night. The closing ceremony in the Olympic stadium, where several amazing performances had been accomplished in the last two weeks, began j only three minutes late in spite of
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    176 records smashed
    90 15 HELSINKI, Moo. rE 15th Olympiad came to an official close yesterday with the United States winning the unofficial team championship from Russia. It was one of the greatest Olympic Games~ In history, with the United States exceeding its performance i n the 1948 Games in London. To
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    McIntosh wins air race
    67 15 BRIGHTON, Sussex, Mon. Wing Commander R. Mclntcnh, In a British Perclval Proctor, won a 183-mlle international air race here yesterday. O. A. Ferrari of Italy. In an Ambrosini. was second nnd V. Rosapina (Italy) in an Ambro-sinl-Rondone. fhird. The winner will receive £1,000 prize money, the
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    Davis Cup win for Canada
    81 15 MONTREAL, 'Mon.— Canada won the final two singles matches against Mexico in the second round of the. Davis Cup (North American zone) tennis tournament to win 5-0 here yesterday. Lome Main defeated Maria Llamas 6-4. 3-6. 6-8. 6-4. 6-1, and Brendan Smacken defeated Manuel Galeana
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    75 MEDALS FOR THE U.S.
    223 15 HELSINKI, Mon. fHE UNITED STATES, with 40 x Gold Medals, had 18 more victories than any other nation In the 15th Olympiad which clcsod today. Next best was the Soviet Union with 22 Gold Medals and Hungary with 16. Tnble of medals: Unfed States Ru.sMa
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    Big Sweep
    41 15 TOTAL POOL: $374,600. 1st: No. *****6 $89.'jO4 2nd: No. *****5 $44,952 3rd: No. *****3 $22,476 STARTERS ($7,492 each): Nos. *****2; *****5; *****2; *****9; *****7; *****7. CONSOLATION ($2,247 each): Nos *****6; *****9; *****8; *****4; *****5; *****3; *****2; *****6; *****4; *****3.
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    Sam Snead beats rain and jinx
    118 15 CHICAGO Mon. CAM SNEAD overcame a torrential downpour and his Tam O'Shanter Jinx yesterday for a smashing seven under par 65 and. a winning 271 total for the 72 holes In the Ail-American professional golf tournament. 8nead's closing 32-33 on the drenched course won
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    NORTH WIN CRICKET 'TEST' BY 8 RUNS
    1019 16 NORTH WIN CRICKET 'TEST' BY 8 RUNS Sundram's great effort wasted By Our Cricket Reporter rrilE SOUTH cricket side in a match-winning ninth -wicket stand between skipper Sundram and little Hezer Perera gave a big holiday crowd a grand thrill on the Singapore padang yesterday, but a foolish attempt at
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    217 16 MIKI'H— till INNS.: 275 sOLl'H— IsX IMN*.: tit NOBTH— MUD. I.VNS. A. K. Junri k Slrpt. It li 0. BcnacU k Slept* 1 t. 6. Walker ran t» k I WaUoa Ibw Kaiji lu (kig» Taik c and k slrplo U X. >h«pbrrd*on k Kaljl M Ihrik Hob Eya
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    33 teams for Singapore hockey lge.
    155 16 'THIRTY-THREE teams have entered for the Singapore Hockey Association's league tournamen's to be held this year. It has been decided to split the teams into four sections. This years league tournaments will be competed for shields presented by Prof. A.A. Sandosham and Mr. G.
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    Salas to defend title v. Carter
    55 16 NEW YORK, Mon.--Lauro Balas of Mexico, the world lightweight champion, will defend his title against Jimmy Carter of New York in Madison Square Oarden on Aug. 27, it was anncunced today. Salas won the title from Carter on a split points decision in Los
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    Stirling Colony golf champion
    394 16  -  PUTTER By C. STIRLING (Island) became the Singapore golf champion yesterday, when he beat B. L. Moore (Island) one-up in the flnal over 18 holes at the Royal Singapore Golf Club. It was a keen and interesting match, but generally the golf was perhaps a little
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    New world times set at White City
    409 16 New world times set at White City LONDON, Mon. failed to gain ad- mission to the White City Stadium here today for the international athletics meeting between the British Empire and the United States in which many Olympic Gold Medal winners were to compete. A crowd of 50.000 crammed the
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    NEPAL CUP TIE
    33 16 KUALA KANGSAR. Mon. The 1!6 Gurkha Rifles SID m#et the Gurkha Engineering Training College in a second round tie of the Nepal Cup soccer comoetltion on the Malay College 'omorrow.
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    HONG KONG v SAFA TODAY
    101 16 The visiting South China (Hong Kong) footballers will play the i third and last game of their Singapore tour today against Singapore Amateur Football Association XI at Jalan Besar Stadium. They go back to Hong Kong tomorrow. In their first game they lost to Singapore
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    Selangor wrest Cup from holders
    326 16 fHE Selangor Polo Club wrested the Selangor Cup from the holders, the Singapore Polo Club, whom the; beat by 4 goals to 1% in the final of the Malayan Polo Association tournament at Thomson Road, Singapore, yesterday. The visitors displayed better team work and, despite
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    H.K. visitors feted
    21 16 The South China footballers of Hong Kong were entertained to dinner by the Amicable Athletic Association last night.
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    Borneo sending 5 to M.A.A.A.
    103 16 JESSELTON JNorth Bcrneo), Mon.— Five North Borneo athletes will be competing In this year's Malayan A.A.A. meet to be held at Ipoh on Aug. 15 and 16. Slbldol, the Borneo sbot putt champion, U confident of breakIng the Malayan record of 41ft. 31n. Sibidol has
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    Half-point margin gives Ho cup
    402 16 CCORING a total of 387 points Ho Boon Guan became the holder of the Ho Hong Challenge Cup (Open Championship 1952) at the August Bank Holiday Shoot of the Singapore Gun dub at Buklt Timah range, yesterday. G. Perry (386%) won the Ho Hock Ann
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    PIRUZ RETIRES WITH INJURY IN TWO FINALS
    460 16 PIRUZ RETIRES WITH INJURY IN TWO FINALS ITfORLD No. 1 badminton player Wong Peng Soon retained his Malayan title for a third year when the Selangor champion, Abdullah Piruz, had to retire with an injured arm after losing the first set 15 8 in the Singapore Badminton hall last nigljt.
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    Scratch team give Indians a shock
    269 16 Scratch team give Indians a shock OINGAPOBE Europeans a scratch team of four regulars and seven spectators looked an odd lot as they trooped on to the field at 5.60 pjn. at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday for their SAFA Community League game against Singapore Indians. But 30 minutes later, this
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    SAMUELS WIN 4 TITLES AT BAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
    407 16 'THE well-known Selangor badminton couple, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Samuel, between them won four titles in the Malayan badminton championships which coneluded at the Singapore badminton hall last ni K ht. Cecilia Samuel showed great I courage and determination in defence of
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    42 16 SOCCEK SINGAPORE AFA v South Chins at JiUn Bcsar. DIV. 2: Marine Dept. v E.N. Kranji at Geylanf. DIV. 3A: Baleslter'Comm. Centra v Town Rangers at CYMA. BOXING ST. ANDREWS School finals at School hall. TENNIS SINGAPORE championship*. YMCA courts.
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    MISS PATTERSON BEATS MRS. CHUA
    596 16 ONG CHEW BEE, the favourite, overcame a determined challenge by the holder, Lim Hee Chin, to win the Singapore tennis title yesterday, but top-seeded Mrs. Gladys Loke Chua of Selangor was beaten in the women's final by Miss S. JVI. Patterson, a newcomer to Colony
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