The Straits Times, 12 August 1952

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAY AS NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    POLICE FLYING TO SARAWAK
    463 1 Malaya sending help in the new Emergency jyjALAYAN police officers will fly to Sarawak soon to help the local authorities in the j rUnergency declared at the weekend following two incidents involving armed Chinese Communists. Mr. J. Hugh Ellis, acting Chief Secretary :>f Sarawak, arrived in
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    SOLDIERS COME BY AIR
    84 1 Ttab iirst flight of the giant airlift of British Servicemen between Southampton and Singapore reached Changi last night. Forty-five soldiers, in civilian clothes, stepped from a chartered Eagle Aviation Company York aircraft after a four-day journey. They were taken to Nee Soon transit camp. The York
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    Battle that only Asians can win
    336 1 TEMPLER TELLS HOW TAIPING, Monday. rpHE battle for the hearts and minds of the people 1 in the new villages lies In Asian hands, Sir Gerald Templer said today when he visited the new village of Pokoh Assam, near Taiping. "This village is a
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    SAFE FOR THE REDS ACROSS THE BORDER
    475 1 SAFE FOR THE REDS ACROSS THE BORDER From MANNING BLACKWOOD Straits Times Special Correspondent KUCHING, Monday SARAWAK, long regarded on e of the last strong- holds of peace in South-East Asia, today faces— with only 1,000 police and no troops what a Government spokesman described as "an open and militant
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    U.S. show of force upsets a Red plan
    94 1 HONG KONG. Mon. THE Chinese language journal Observatory claimed yesterday %hat recent United States naval and air force displays hi the Straits of Formosa upset Communist preparations for the invasion of Formosa scheduled for September It said United States jets flew to
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    Comet leaves for Ceylon
    68 1 LONDON. Mon. A British Comet Jet airliner left London today on a first commercial flight to PaKistan, India and Ceylon. The Comet took off frcm London airpor: at 9 30 a.m. GMT and is due to land *;t Colombo at 1.35 p.m. i local time) tomorrow.
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    Dr. M. wins
    23 1 TEHERAN, Mon. The Persian Senate today approved Premier Mossadeq's request for full powers already voted him toy the LowerHouse.— Reuter
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    TALAL IS DEPOSED: SON KING
    87 1 BEIRUT, Mon. rE Parliament of Jordan, after a secret session today, announced the ousting of King Talal from the throne and proclaimed 17-year-old Houssein II the new king. A Regency Council was established to help the new ruler, dispatches from Amman disclosed. The Council will
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    Rubber for China
    59 1 COLOMBO. Mon.— The Po- llsh freighter. Hugo Kolla- taj. was today loading 2.400 i tons of rubber here for deli1 very to China. This Is CeyIon's eighth shipment of rubber to China. Two other ships, the Orneo and the Raepart. are now on their way to Rotterdam
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    FIRE PUT OUT BY ITSELF
    51 1 SUNDERLAND Mon. A fire here tonight put Itself out. First there was a short circuit, which set flre to gas in a gaspipe. which shot out a flame to a nearby water pipe, which melted the pipe which spouted water which put out the fire.—
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    Paper fined
    37 1 BLOEMFONTEIN, Mon. The Nationalist dally Die i Volksblad. which published a j criticism of a court ruling In Prime Minister Daniel Malan's coloured vote bill was today fined £300 for contempt of j court. Reuter.
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    Ship in distress
    32 1 HONG KONG, Mon. The Hai Lung, a small Chinese coastal freighter en route from Indo-China ports to Bangkok, reported herself in distress with a disabled rudder early today.— A.P.
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    Reds burn bus
    22 1 Ten armed and uniformed bandits stopped and burned a bus In the Alor Gajah district of Malacca on Sunday.
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    DAVE SANDS DIES IN ROAD CRASH
    83 1 DAVE SANDS DIES IN ROAD CRASH SYDNEY, Mon. EMPIRE middleweight boxing champion, Dave Sands, died today after injuries sustained in a lorry accident near Newcastle. New Sooth Wales. Sands won the Empire middleweight championships in London in 1949 with a first-round knockout over Dick Turpin. Sands, one of five boxing
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    Saucer in Japan
    32 1 TOKYO, Mon.— A dentist in Beppu, Kyushu, reported last night he saw two bright circular objects sail through the sky from northeast to southwest and from east to west.
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    The NATO army nearing target
    45 1 WASHINGTON, Mon.— Gen. Omar Bradley, Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, last night said that the NATO powers would not reach their goal of 50 divisions by the end of this year but would approach it.— Reuter.
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    He's up—after 72 days in a coffin
    115 1 He's up— after 72 days in a coffin PALERMO, Sicily, Mon. "gLRMAH the Fakir" was taken from a glass conn in a tavern here last night after taking the world fasting record to 72 days three hours three minutes. Forty-five Moroccan asps and a python which were keeping him company
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    Canal closed
    25 1 BERLIN, Mon.— West Berlin today closed to East German barges the Teltow Canal in reprisal for Communist restrictions on West Berlin shipping.— U.p
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    Bao Dai at Nice
    13 1 NICE, Mon.— Emperor Bao Dai arrived here today Reuter.
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    150 PLANES IN NEW RAIDS ON KOREA
    99 1 A FLEET of 150 United Nations planes roared over North Korea today and struck a Communist chemical plant and troop concentrations north of Namsok. Fighter- bombers from five wings and two groups of marine planes took part In the strike at noon. At
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    Jungle trek to plane wreck
    46 1 MANILA, Mon. The U.S. Navy Base at Sangley Point reported today it had no contact yet with the search party proceeding through Huk-Ln-fested Jungles to the wreck of a Navy plane. The fate of 13 persons aboard was still unknown A.P.
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    4 more killed and 1 gives up
    155 1 4 more killed and 1 gives up KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. COUR MORE terrorists 1 were shot dead in the Federation yesterday. Another surrendered. Two were killed by a patrol of 'A' Company, 4th Malay Regiment, in. the Mentalcab district of Pahang. A rifle and ammunition were recovered. The third kill
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    Tenth Mrs. Manville
    47 1 NEW YORK, Mon.— Asbestos heir Tommy Manville said yesterday that he had picked Corrine Daly, 24, to be his tenth wife. He and the Brooklyn blonde met last Tuesday. Ma*HHe, 58, was divorced by his ninth wife Frances Roddy-Eden, in Mexico on Saturday.— AJ.
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    U.S.-Jap air pact
    16 1 TOKYO. Mon.— Japan and the United States signed a civil air transport agreement.—AP.
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    Driver killed
    20 1 Armed ftrrorists stopped an estate lorry taking labourers to work in the Tapah area ana murdered the driver.
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    GAOLED SAILORS TO APPEAL
    144 3 British envoy snubs Jap Govt. TOKYO CABINET CHIEFS CLASH TOKYO, Monday. J^YODO news agency says the Japanese lawyers, who defended the two British sailors gaoled for robbery will tomorrow lodge an appeal. The report said the lawyers had decided to appeal after getting the agreement of
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    MEETING IN U.S.
    91 3 lM>i/i S traditional gesture of salutation is exchanged at San Francisco airport as four farm finance experts arrive to attend the international conference on agricultral and co-operative credit at the University of California. Here A. A. L. Kapur (left), first assistant to the Indian Consul-General at San
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    Jap girls will strip in H.K.
    98 3 Jap girls will strip in H.K. TOKYO, Mon. JAPANESE strip-tease girls are so good that they are going overseas. Their first stop is Hong Kong. The, girls will leave Tokyo HiUi 22 other entertainers about the end of September. The girls became famous in Tokyo when their manager derided to
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    TV for Manila
    25 3 MANILA Mon.—Establishment of the first television station in Manila is at present under consideration. The project will cost approximately $3,500 000— Reuter
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    Aly to see Rita
    40 3 NEW YORK, Mon. Prince Aly Khan said today he will leave "within a few days" for California to see Rita Hayworth, but refused to say whether he would seek reconciliation or discuss a divorce settlement.— U.P.
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    AIR MAIL ROCKETS ON TEST
    92 3 AIR MAIL ROCKETS ON TEST BREMEN, Mon. FVE trial rockets, intended to be the forerunners of the world's first mail delivery rocket, were fired off here today. They shot into the air leaving huge trails of fire and smoke. Some turned turtle, others hurtled/ to the ground after a brief
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    CRUSHED BY A JUNK
    49 3 HONG KONG, Mon. A Chinese labourer was crushed to death yesterday when h e jumped off the waterfront to catch a large fish which escaped from the net of a fishing junk. The fishing junk hit his head and crushed him against a wall. Reuter.
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    Jap visitors to Australia
    42 3 TOKYO, Mon. Two representatives of the Yawata Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company flew to Australia today. They will stay in Australia some weeks to promote sales of Japanese steel products and to inspect the Australian steel industry.— Reuter.
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    14 'resistance' arrests
    35 3 CAPETOWN. Mon—Fourteen African passive resisters. including four women were arrested at Capetown' railway station tonight when they entered a European waiting room as part of the defiance campaign against "unjust racial laws."—Reuter
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    Armour moves in streets all day
    122 3 CAIRO, Monday. pGYPTIAN army units will carry out manoeuvres in the Cairo area every day this week. Mechanised forces have been moving through the streets of Cairo since dawn. Hundreds of Egyptian students meeting at Holiopolis near Cairo today demanded the expulsion of Fuad
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    ALPINIST KILLED IN 600ft. FALL
    84 3 TURIN Italy. Mon. AN ENGLISH Alpinist crashed 600 ft. to his death from the south wall of Mont Blanc yesterday. Roy Bumstead. of London, was returning from the peak I of Mont Blanc when the rope which tied him to his part- ner, N L.
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    Sweden is to wait
    88 3 STOCKHOLM, Mon rpHB SWEDISH PREMIER Mr. Tage Erlander, yesterday hinted that Sweden would not appeal to the United Nations in her dispute with Soviet Russia over the Baltic in June. Mr. Erlander added: "Sweden should try to avoid assenting to a legal dispute being turned into
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    TO TALK OIL
    21 3 TEHERAN Mon Hussain Makki. chief oil lieutenant of Premier Mossadeq. left here yesterday for the United States.— Reuter.
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    MAROONED
    15 3 BELFAST Mon.— Two hundred families marooned by floods were evacuated in Belfast today.— U.P.
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    FARNOL DEAD
    12 3 EASTBOURNE, Mon.—Jeffrey Farnol, novelist, died last night aged 74.— A.P
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    Stromboli erupts
    14 3 NAPLES, Mon. Stromboli has been erupting for the last 24 hours.— U.P
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    Macao junk attacked
    68 3 HONG KONG, Mon. A CHINESE junk was attacked by an unidentified armed junk on Saturday morning between Macao and Hong Kong. A Macao report says the junk left Macao with general cargo. An unidentified Junk approached it and opened fire, ordering It to stop, but the junk
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    Earl Alexander robbed
    26 3 LONDON Mon. Thieves broke into the London home of the Defence Minister Earl Alexander, during the weekend and escaped with some medals.— A.P
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    NATO armies may get A-weapons
    139 3 PARIS, Monday. PEN. Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Com- mander in Europe, said today that the Western powers are considering arming their forces with atomic and new "super weapons". I Gen. Ridgway said that at first Press conference taking over command Gen. Dwight Eisenr last May.
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    BABY KILLED ON 'TOY' RAILWAY
    53 3 LONDON, Mon. A YEAR-OLD baby girl was killed and six children and seven adults seriously injured today when a miniature train crashed in a north London park. Three of the train's open wooden cars jumped the track going round a bend, sideswiped a tree and
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    LONDON STOCKS
    327 3 LONDON, Mon. A TINGE of dullness which crept into today's stock market could be attributed almost wholly to lack of business. Absence of any weekend news of direct interest to the markets curbed trading enthusiasm while the fact that August is normally the peak holiday month undoubtedly was
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    LONDON TIN PRICE
    27 3 LONDON. Aug. 11.— Cash Buyers £932; Sellers £933; Forward Buyers £932; Sellers £932 i; Settlement £9325 (up £10). Turnover: a.m. 75 tons; p.m 40.
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    U.K. RUBBER
    28 3 LONDON. Aug. 11.— Spot 26 >4d Sept. 26Hd.. Oct.-Dec. 26d.. Jan.Mar. 25' id.. April-June 24>4d.. Aug. c.i.f. 25"id., Bept. c.l.f. 25»;d. Oct. c.Lf. 25»4d. Market: Steady.
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    ALL-OUT WAR ON BANDIT CHIEF
    95 3 MANILA, Mon. rE National Defence Secretary, Sen. Ramen Magsaysay, has ordered troops, tanks and planes to go after ttte bandit leader Hadji Kamlon in Jolo, southern Philippines. This unexpected action was taken, following refusal of Kamlon earlier to meet the defence chief with a view
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    DIRECTOR ORDERED: STOP THESE PANIC SALES
    465 4 Ex-manager faces breach charge PENANG, Monday. MR. W. A. Van Der Molen, general manager of the Penane branch of Shriro (ChinM Ltd., told the Sessions Court today that his head office sent him to Penang last May after anonymous letters had said "spectacular sales"
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    LESSON TIME FOR THE VILLAGERS
    35 4 MR H C. M. HORSLEY. Secretary for Chines* Affairs, Johore. speaking to some of the 29 villagers who were taking an educational course at Johore Bahru yesterday Straits Times picture.
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    Back in Colony
    24 4 Dr. C. F. Hickley, Fisheries Adviser to the Colonial Office, I returned to Singapore yesterday after a toui of the Federation.
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    Varsity fund donations
    80 4 Donations received by the University of Malaya Endowment Fund during the week ending Aug. 2 were PERAK: Teoh Yee Poh, Teluk Anson. $13.00; Yeop Hassan and i others, Teluk Anson. $60.00; Che Osman and others. Teluk Anson. $60.00; NEGRI SEMBILAN: Malay Vernacular Teachers, Sri Menanti, $240.60; Jelebu
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    To lecture on Chinese culture
    60 4 Mr. Lee Slow Mong, president of the China Society of will begin his lee- ture v on "Chinese Culture" j this evening at the British Council Hall. The will be ten lectures covering Chinese religion, music and drama. The fee is $2 per person and
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    Absent: $10
    21 4 SEGAMAT, Mon-.— For falling to attend court to answer a charge against him. Tse Chlan, 59, was fined $10.
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    S'PORE DIARY
    113 4 Rotary Club: Board of Directors meeting at Capitol Blue Room. 5.15 p.m. Chinese V.M.C.A. Basketball and Badminton, 5.30 p.m.: Table Tennis 7.30 p.m.; Free English classes 7-9 p.m. YJH.C.A. 9"pore Amateur Swimming Association meeting 5.15 pm.; Malay classes 5.30 p.m.; Commercial classes 5.30 p.m.; Art Club life-class 6
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    One-way streets for Tiong Bahru
    138 4 One-way streets for Tiong Bahru 'TTiE Singapore City Counj cil's Vehicles and Traffic Committee, at their meeting j tomorrow will be asked tc i consider a one-way street I proposal along Outram Road, I Tiong Bahru Road and Seng 1 1 Poh Road. Another proposal which the committee will •consider
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    Found—a pen
    36 4 Found a pen The Singapore C.1.D., want the owner of a fountain pen, with the name Tan Yoke Tong inscribed on it, to contact the ofißcer-in-charge of the Hokkien sub-branch at the C.ID. headquarters, Robinson Road.
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    Firm replies to Mr. P. Williams
    394 4 POWER STATION DISPUTE MR. PETER WILLIAMS, president of the Singapore General Labour Union, had expressed the view that membership of the union must be a secret, say Messrs. Barbcock and Wilcox Ltd. in statement on the dispute at the Pasir Panjang I power station
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    50,000 L drivers to be tested
    83 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. FROM next month, 50,900 ex-holders of provisional driving licences in the Federation will be tested, the Commissioner for Road Transport, Mr. A. A. Forward, told the Straits Times today. Twenty driving examiners are being trained for the job at the Selanger
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    Two accused of slaying
    61 4 TWO former Naval B3se la'wurers. Bl Ra'havan, 36, and P. Bhanu, 2«, were yesterc i commuted by Mr. E. Jfc fywetto, for trial f^P^^'M SH ampere Assizes on a t^targfe of "murder. ir i 9fj Th^y-'i-fere alleged to fcavft raui dqred < (ft. <fleeeniTasan.^'laboHter/ bj/ Stabbing
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    T.U.C. TO PICK THREE MORE FOR COURSE
    82 4 THE governing council of Singapore Trade Union Congress will meet today to select three trade unionists for a three-month course at the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions' Isge in Calcutta. M. A. Mai Id. president c Indo-Malay-Pakistani en's Union, has already chosen,
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    Magistrate for Britain
    62 4 IPOH, Mon. Inche Arshad bin Ismail, the Ipoh Magistrate, will be leaving for Britain early next month on a three -year judicial scholarship. Inche Arshad took over duties from Inche Bahauddin bin Yacob, who Is at present in Britain also on a judicial scholarship. Inche Arshad was
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    Boil on lip led to poisoning
    227 4 Boil on lip led to poisoning NG SWEE HUAT, an 18- year-old cook-hand employed at the RAF. Mess, Changi, Singapore, died in the General Hospital four days after a boil on his lip had been broken, it was stated at an mquest yesterday. Dr. E. B. Laßrooy, Government Pathologist, told
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    FOR ASSIZE TRIAL
    72 4 IPOH, duo. Captured in a police ambush at Lahat, five miles from Ipoh, on July 16, Wong See Way, alias Lan See Hoy, was today committed to stand trial at the Assizes on two capital charges under the Emergency Regulations. Wong was charged with being in possession
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    Foresters on 3-week course
    46 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Twenty Pahang forest guards and foresters are undergoing a three-week preliminary course at Kuala LipLs for entry into the Kepong Forest Research Institute. near Kuala Lumpur. The course at the Institute will qualify them for promotions In the service.
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    TRAFFIC AIDS
    31 4 KUANTAN, Mon.— Barrels to control tragic have been erected at the junction oX: Teiok, Sesih, Road, Mai» Street, ahd.'^cst House RoadV the busiest junction to town, ,'U, 31 y
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    BEWARE OF THIS EVIL-TEMPLER
    319 5 Hatred and jealousy 9 are symptoms, I 300 Scouts told KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. QEN. Sir Gerald Templer, High Commissioner and Chief Scout of the Federation, today warned 300 Scouts attending the South-East Asia patrol camp in Kuala Lumpur against an evil that was abroad. If afflicted
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    C.G. praises clean-up in Vietnam
    166 5 C.G. praises clean-up in Vietnam rFHE "methodical and tho- rough way" the army and government in Vietnam were cleaning-up villages liberatsd from the control of the Vietminh forces was praised by the Commissioner General, Mr. MacDonald, at a Press conference yesterday. "The civilian authorities with their special units, each consisting
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    Mr. W. E. Kirkham
    20 5 TAIPING, Mon.— Mr. William E. Kirkham, Principal Officer, Taiping Prison Is going to Penang on transfer
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    BlacKout schedule
    233 5 Sanitation, uu,t M i»ad .bedding DAY Hume Pipe, lUirrai. Ford ten Scat Wire Mesh, fil.u Qaarry .Nan jam Mii Hukii Panjan«, .national Carbon, J-nnc»s» fc.ixabeih iMu Dairy Farm, lia randan. Jarong 1 i and 3 BukJI llmah Vi,lage lulled Chinese Hub ber Work*. Lam soon Cannery, Lam Cnoou
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    Special rail concessions for the blind
    92 5 Special rail concessions for the blind KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. VARIOUS CONCESSIONS to blind people were announced today by the Malayan Association for the Blind in its first bulletin. Blind persons can travel by train at half rates. If a blind person has an escort, both will travel for the price
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    RIDA'S PROMISE TO MALAY YOUTH
    79 5 rpHE RURAL and Industrial Development Authority today announced an ambitious plan to train Malay youth in commerce and industry. Dato Zainul Abdidin, Deputy Chairman of RIDA, told the Straits Times that discussions are going on with European firms to place Malay youths under their care
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    C.I.D. find stolen bicycles
    94 5 C.I.D. find stolen bicycles rfHE Singapore C.I.D. have ■I- recovered a number of bicycles and spare parts. A C.I.D. spokesman, who would not say yesterday whether the police have smashed a gang of bicycle thieves in the Colony, asked owners of the following bicycles to contact Detective Inspector Yeow Koon
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    Five broke food laws
    68 5 IPOH, Mon.— Five squatters, three of them women, of Chemor, who were arrested on July 24, for moving food from Chemor town, a restricted area, into the Changkat Klnding New Village, were today fined a total of $225 when they pleaded guilty In the Magistrate's Court.
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    Williams Labour ticket challenged
    146 5 T»HE president of the Singapore Labour Party Mr, Lim Yew Hock, yesterday backed the demand for an emergency general meeting of the party because of dissatisfaction over the nomination of Mr. Peter Williams to contest the South Ward at the December City Council elections The demand
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    5 BROKE BAN
    32 5 PORT DICKSON, Mon.— Ng Kian, Gan Teng Beng, P. Rajamanikam, Krishnan and Ponnusamy were each fined $50 or one week's imprisonment for breaking the curfew at Bute Estate, Salak.
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    GAOL FOR PARANG ATTACK
    124 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. SIDOROJO bin Resham. rubber tapper, P a 1 o h Estate, was sentenced by Mr Justice Buhagiar, at the Criminal Assizes, to five years' gaol for voluntarily causing grievous hurt to a fellow labourer with a parang. The court was told that Sidorojo
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    Bandits first—then Blighty
    62 5 Bandits first— then Blighty RAINCOAT over arm, a you ng soldier fresh out from Britain strides briskly across the runway at Changi airfield, Singapore. Let's get this bandit business over and then back to Blighty, he thinks. He was one of 45 British soldiers who flew into Singapore last night
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    JOBS FOUND FOI 10 BLIND BOYS
    109 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. P EXPERIMENT to employ blind workers in sheltered workshops is being made in Negri Sembilan. Ten blind boys have fulltime Jobs, turning out baskets and chicks and doing cane and bertam splitting at the State welfare home in Seremban. Seven are
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    WIDOW, 25, ALLEGES ROBBERY
    138 5 A WIDOW alleged in a Singapore court yesterday that, in a dark and deserted part of Rangoon Road, at 1 a.m., she was lifted from a trisha by a Sikh who had got out of a van. She shouted for help. So did the trisha rider.
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    Wins claim on appeal
    97 5 PENANO, Mon.— An Indian firm's appeal against a Judgment dismissing its claim against a shipping contractor for $2,850 damages in respect of 90 bags of oetel nuts was allowed by the Federation Court of Appeal today. Two judges, Mr. Justice Alathew, the Federation s Chief Justice,
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    Had no money in bank, he issued four cheques
    100 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. STANLEY IRWIN, 32 was sentenced today to four montns' imprisonment on four counts of cheating by Mr. B V. Rhodes, president of the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court Irwin pleaded guilty to all the charges. He had Issued four
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    'GUILTY BUT INSANE' OF FIVE YEAR OLD MURDER
    178 5 FIVE-YEAR-OLD murder case, in which Toh Ah Kirn alias Goh Kirn Jer was alleged to have fatally attacked Woo Ah Cheong with a Japanese sword, was heard by Mr. Justice Brown hi the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. The jury returned a verdict
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Aug. 12, 1952. Commission On Traffic
    756 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Aug. 12, 1952. Commission On Traffic It is time a really serious effort was made to get order out of the chaos of Singapore's streets. We need a commission of inquiry leading to a co-ordination of authority. Today there are all kinds of organisations and
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    The Masters In Egypt
    346 6 The Masters In Egypt "The people are the masters of Egypt" says Premier Aly Maher: but it is clear that the real masters for the present are Alv Maher himself and General Neguib, the Com-mander-in-Chief of the Army. Determined to remain masters, too. in spite of the powerful Wafd party.
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    DEATHS
    73 6 PHILLIP: In London Hospital tfter operation on Bth August, 1952. David Phillip, partner In Ronnie Lowick Co. Cremation, Golders Green, August 13th. Deeply regretted. MADAM 001 KHYE CHONG <nre Gan Keat Neo) beloved mother of Khye Thuan and V UmL Cortege leaves the homo Rt 5, Bangkok Lane, Penang.
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    33 6 MR. KOH JOO PUAN thank. a'l relatives and friends who sent wreaths, scrolls paid night visits, rrndered assistance and attended the funeral of his father, the late Mr. Koh I <ang How.
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    IN MEMORIAM
    29 6 ALPHONSO: In loving memory of our darling son Mickey (5) who died on 12.8.51. The Lord In His Infinite mercy and wisdom H.tth given and hath taken.
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      Fairyland future of television
      731 6 jtfR. BOON'S column in your Sunday contemporary, on the prospects for a television service in Singapore, is interesting as an exercise in hopeful imagining, but, alas, factually inaccurate Someone, I suspect, has been pulling his leg He says that the cost of i I station would
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    From the city of Light
    165 6 From the city of Light AN ACCOUNTANT friend of mine has suggested a solution to the shortage of electric current in Singapore: 1. Take July 1952 as a basis of consumption. 2. Let anyone using less current than the "basic" in any succeeding month be given a rebate off his
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    POWER OF THE RADIO
    193 6 U7HAT did Mr. McNeice exTT pect from his broadcasts on Thursday and Friday evenings, when he asked radio listeners to switch off unwanted lights and appliances? The number of listeners to that particular broadcast must have been only a small proportion of the total consumers, and
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    A WARRANT CASE
    131 6 IHAVE the honour to invite your attention to an omission in your report of the case R. v. A.V.M. Mohamed Ibranim printed in page 9 of the August 1 issue of your paper. I held that the proceedings were null and void because a summons had been
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    K.L. SHORT AND PENANG MEDIUM
    53 6 NOW that nearly all radio stations under construction since last yea r have been completed, will Radio Malaya make an early announcement on when the K.L. shortwave and Penang mediumwave stations will be brought into service, giving their strength and coverage as well? RADIO MINDED
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    THE DETAINEE'S 'CASE'
    862 6 THE DETAINEE'S 'CASE' rpHE letter which ap1 peared in your edition of August 6, from the present chairman of the Detainees Advisory Committee, on the subject of the functions of that committee, calls for further comment. The chairman rightly points out, as I also endeavoured to do in my former
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    Building control relaxation
    126 6 TWF Sirgapore Government A has made a wise decision in relaxing its control of building, raftrtctinjr the control to only theatres, cinemas, rtance halls, amusement narfcs, swimftijtt* do<11<?, rlflvilions vr rub fiouros Mr.Coltman, at a meetlni! of the Federation of Maliygtl Society of Architects, recently put up
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    On the Margin
    443 6 isieepy hollow IF we were mathematically minded we should still feel appalled If a correspondent asked us offhandedly to explain the differential calculus. The reaction is something similar to a question from Mr. D. Retnasamy of Singapore, "How." he asks, "did the British get Malacca?' The temp-
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    McNEICE WANTS PROOF ABOUT A 'BAN'
    251 7 Power rationing would be unfair to careful people HT iK President of the Singapore City Council, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, wants the Radio Scientist to give him proof that the City Council has refused firms and householders permission to install their own generators.
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    Mac Donald is televised
    23 7 MR. MACDONALD (above) faces the T V camera. RIGHT: As he appears on the television screen. Straits Times pictures.
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    29 new villagers learn democracy
    234 7 ONE-WEEK COURSE IN JOHORE CM)K the first time in Johore, 29 Chinese from 15 new villages are learning how to run a democratic government in their own villages In Jonore Bahru yesterday, they began a one-weeK course sponsored by the State Government They will learn
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    Cured, then he had relapse and posed as an ASP
    373 7 SACK MADE OFFICER 'MENTAL' KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. A FORMER Singapore detective who was com- mended for his services during the riots today pleaded guilty before Mr. B. V. Rhodes in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court to a charge of impersonating
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    Doctors told: Join now
    77 7 PENANG, Mon. rpHE Colonial Office Medical -I- Officers' Conference in London discussed the difficulty of attracting Malayan medical graduates into Government service. Dr. H. M O. Lester, the Federation's Director of Medical Services, said this on his return to Penan* after attending the conference. Dr. Lester
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    Fire made clerk hot and bothered
    158 7 Fire made clerk hot and bothered LEAPING flames from a pressure lamp to the Singapore Sauce Association's office in Robinson Road last night made two fire engines go to the premises. When firemen and police rushed Into the office on the first floor— they saw an ex:ited clerk, a flickering
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    Guilty, two admit
    55 7 Tien All Bee, 20,. pleaded guilty in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to stealing a bicycle at Palembang Road on Aug 9. Another man. Tan Kwan Soo, pleaded guilty to retaining the stolen bicycle at Java Road on the same day. Both men were remanded until
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    Malay official gets US award
    58 7 Inche Mustapha Albakri, Keeper of the Rulers' Seal in th e Federation, has been awarded a leader-specialist prant for visiting the United states this year as a guest of the Government. During his stay in the U.S., lie will i meet American officials, visit Government
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    TV can be menace, says Mac Donald
    137 7 TV can be menace, says Mac Donald rE Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. last night said that no community wishing to remain up-to-date could afford to be without television. Speaking to more than 1,000 people over TV, Mr. MacDonald said: "In many ways and on many topics, television will have
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    Lieutenant on assault charge
    90 7 Lieutenant on assault charge TIHOMAS JAMES DEVALLY, A 27-year-old police lieutenant of the Second Federal Jungle Company, was charged i n Singapore yesterday wi:h criminally assaulting a woman It waV alleged that Devally criminally assaulted Lim Poh Cheng in an hotel with intent to outrage her modesty. Devally was also
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    Veg men say: No racket here
    164 7 rrHERE is no middleman racket in the vegetable 1 trade in Singapore, said local vegetable importers yesterday. They were commenting on a statement by Mr. R. A Pereira, first director of the Hong Kong marketing scheme, that vegetable prices were "absurdly high" in Singapore
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    Charity show
    34 7 The Uraar Pukiver Tamil. School, Singapore, will screen the Tamil film "Life' at Royal Theatre on Aug. 24 at 10 a.m. The proceeds of the show will go to the school fund.
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    Cruel to ducks: fined $10
    42 7 Lim Joo Leng, a fowl seller, was yesterday fined $10 by the Singapore Magistrate. Mr. E. H. D'Netto, for causing unnecessary suffering to 15 clucks. Lim carried the ducks, wtth their legs tied, in a small basket.
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    2 houses gutted in Batu Kurau
    50 7 TAIPING. Mon.— A bakery and dhoby shop were gutted during a fire at the 14th mifiestone. Batu Kurau yesterday. The Talplng Fire Brigade, under Inche Abdul Ram, kept the fire from spreading. Home Guards and the ka-.npong people also helped to fight the fire.
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    Name plates for Kuantan streets
    34 7 KUANTAN, Mon.— Kuantan street name plates will be in Jawi and English. The plates are being made in Kuala Upis. At the moment, there are no street name plates.
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    This man sat alone for exam
    148 7 A CHINESE inmate of Trafalgar Home Singapore's institution for lepers sat for the teachers' normal examinations which began yesterday. Although separated from his other colleagues two months ago, this student told the Education authorities he wanted to sit for the examination and arrangement* were
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    No crash in mock war
    58 7 None of the planes which took part in the mock war exercises by combined Singapore volunteer forces on Sunday "crashed." For the purposes of the exercise, a Redland plane was assumed to have been "shot down" and the pilot and gunner "rescued" from the sea.
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    New barrister
    65 7 Mr. S. K. Reddi, barrlster-at-law, now attached to the firm of Braga and'de Souza, was admitted to the Singapore Bar by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in the High Court yesterday. Mr. J. K. Gale moved Mr. Reddi's application for admiss.'on AIR VICE-MARSHAL F. R. W. SCHERGER,
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    10-CENT TICKET FRAUD GETS HIM SIX MONTHS
    142 7 OY NENG, aged 28, Singapore Traction Company conductor, was sent to prison, for six mpnths in Singapore yesterday for taking 10 cents as fare from a passenger and giv:ng him a used 20 cent ticket. The Second District Judge, Mr. H. B. Livingstone,,
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    Power station gets its steel
    194 7 Power station gets its steel 1MR. C. C. PAYNE, SiniT1 gapore's City Electrical Engineer, was yesterday told that Britain had made an immediate allocation of 1.000 tons of steel for the third quarter of this year for the Pasir Panjang power station. "The 1 000 tons have already been alloted
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    Kuantan will soon be brighter
    55 7 KU1NTAN, Mon.— Kuantan town will soon be better lit at night. Work is to start soon to change the present filament lamps along four roads leading to town to mercury vapour lamps. Tanjong Api and Ayer Puteh will have new lamps, and the dark School
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    Woman accused
    28 7 SEGAMAT, Mon.— Fatimnh biute Samadi, 22, was charged in the Segamat court with cohabiting with a nonMuslim rubber planter. The case was postponed to Aug. 18.
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    'MORALE IMPROVES' IN PERAK
    264 8 Good run of police luck, says Templer TAIPING, Monday. THKKK had been a distinct improvement in the morale of the people of Perak, the High Commissioner, Gen. Sir Gerald Templer, said at tlie end of a three day, 600-mile tour of the State. "So it should,"
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    36 8 THE BRITISH holida> makers' worry about the weather is shared by the Good Quads, who are prepared for rain or sunshine. Left to right, Jennifer. Frances, Bridget and Elizabeth pose under gaily coloured brollies. Renter picture.
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    Ceylonese toM of new citizen law
    140 8 JtkOtU. BAHRU Mon. MR If. SARAVANAMUTTU Ceylon Commissioner in Malaya, explained to the Central Council of Ceylonese Associations In Johore at Johore Bahru the recent amendments to the Ceylon Citizenship Act. He sal<j that It was now possible for a person eligible for Ceylonese
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    Did not report
    30 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Abdullah bin Agil, a Police supervisee, was sentenced in the Police court to one' month's gaol for failing to I report to the police.
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    Anonymous gift
    25 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon An anonymous donor has presented the General Hospital, Johore Bahru, with a refrigerator for us e by a blood bank.
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    Transferred on promotion
    47 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— Inche Taib Andak, President, Sessions Court, Johore South, will be leaving for Pahang on transfer on Aug. 16. Inche Taib, who was recently promoted from the Johore Civil Service to the Malayan Civil Service, has been appointed District Offlrer. Kuala Lipis.
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    NOT GUILTY VERDICT FOR SECOND TIME
    131 8 But he will be tried again SEREMBAN, Monday. 4 SECOND retrial was ordered by Mr. Justice Mathew, the Federation Chief Justice, in Seremban High Court today, in a retrial case in which Hai Mun was charged under Emergency Regulations with receiving five rounds of
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    THE O'LEARY KILLER WILL HANG
    92 8 THE O'LEARY KILLER WILL HANG KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. SENTENCE of death on Tanah bin Langa, the Sakai who killed Trooper James O'Leary in the jungles of South Pahanjr last year, was confirmed in Kuala Lumpur today by the Federation Court ol Appeal. Trooper O'Leary, of the Malayan Scouts Special Air
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    He'wounded feelings'
    49 8 He 'wounded feelings' Court charge SEGAMAT, Mon. CHIK bin Abdul Ganl, 43, claimed trial in the Segamat Court yesterday to charges of having threatened an official of the Johore Religious Department and uttering words "to wound the religious feelings of the official." The case was postponed w Aug. 18.
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    Lunch time raids
    38 8 rE Singapore police anti- narcotics branch raided two <nium dens in Pickering and China Streets during luno** time yesterday. T*-rpA men were arrested in the Pickering Siren ien and one in the China Street den.
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    INDIA IS ASKED TO TRACE Mr. MENON
    124 8 INDIA IS ASKED TO TRACE Mr. MENON THE Indian Foreign Ministry has been asked by the Indian Government Representative in Singapore to trace Mr. C. G. Menon, a former Colony lawyer, who is wanted by the police on a charge of criminal breach of trust of $4,000. Mr. Menon is
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    For Privy Council
    70 8 Guan Seng Kee Limited, whose appeal to recover possession of 7, Read Street, from Buan Lee Seng Limited, was dismissed by the Singapore Court of Appeal, are to take their case before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley. yesterday approved
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    KILLED BOAR
    20 8 SEGAMAT, Mon.—Mohamed Nor bin Pa jar, 44, was fined $5 for killing a wild boar without a licence.
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    The 30-1 lottery is thriving again
    122 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. "rpZE FAH," a form ol gambling openly allowed during the Japanese occupation, is again thriving in Kuala Lumpur and Klang. The police are investigating reports regarding activities of syndicates and have made several arrests. "Tze Fan' is a form of lottery
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    Fed. will lose its contractors, says architect
    164 8 Fed. will lose its contractors, says architect KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. MR. V. S. VAN LANGENBERG, secretary of the ITX Malayan Society of Architects, today warned that "migration" of building contractors and artisans to Singapore was inevitable He said that this was bpund to happen because of the Singapore Governments decision
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      192 8 crurADADr 1030 News 10.45-11 Time to S'pore; 6 Children; 6.15 News; ainuAfOHIi Dance. 6.45 Barrel House; 7 Melody Time; 10 a.m. News; 10.05 Tunes from KUALA LUMPUR ty p o jj. 8 30 we Beg' to DififT^ 9 the Shows; 10.45 Rendezvous with i 0 a jn.-3.20 p.m., 6.15-6.45 A»
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    Clothes for new baby
    522 9  -  NURSE BRIDGET MOTHERCRAVT IN MALAYA By rpHIS week's article is in answer to a request for guidance in preparing a layette for the new baby. Baby- needs few clothes in Malaya where the temperature changes but little throughout the year and where he should spend most
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    34 9 Designed for Coroiiat-on year is' this three-quarter length jacket with the new bat-wing collar and sophisticated tapered sleeves. The jacket, by Astraka, is one of the Coronation range of Regal Ermaleen models for 1953.
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    Is it 'just you? THEN STICK TO IT...
    602 9 Is it 'just you? THEN STICK TO IT... Says CONSTANCE FOLEY lIAVE you ever heard a hat or a hairstyle described as "Just you"? Then congratulate yourself. You have already found your type. Now don't misunderstand j me. When I say "type," I'm I not suggesting that you adopt a
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    28 9 Cheer j'ul chevalier Yap Kit Siong, aged 4 months, son of Mrs. H. F. Jackson, of 403 New Bridge Road, Singapore, wins this week's "Bonniest &aby" prize oftsr
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    A look at spiders
    479 9 FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW SPIDERS are creatures I have never taken to. Yet they ar e rather wonderful, and I have come to the conclusion that the best way to get over such aversions is to study the creature in question. After a bit you get
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    C. C. C.
    14 9 Collect six of these coupons to join the Children's Corner Club.
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      274 9 The Straits Times Crossword y y iMrki ehs" "I IIIIH"I I II II 1 I :J jl Jflili 21 22 HI *23~ 24 25 26 I 27 |s| 28 IT ~f|~ n^ in mi 33 ||34 ACROSS C.ittr.nt.y in 26 (S, 3. 8). 1. I. !oi.o\v s her in flr.it
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    Oil milling industry has problems 2 MARKETS LOST
    357 10 Oil milling industry has problems 2 MARKETS LOST By Our Market Correspondent ALTERNATIVE foreign markets are now a problem for Singapore's coconut oil milling industry which recently lost the Burmese market to Ceylon and has been hit by the decision of the Indian Government not to allow further imports of
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    LEADERS OF BUSINESS IN MALAYA (5)
    107 10 MR. O. T. Assomull. who has been for the past two years Chairman of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, was born in India at Hyd-Sind, Punjab. He came to Malaya at the age of 18 to Join the firm of Wassiamull Assomull, and Company,
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    RUBBER YIELD IS 465 lb. PER ACRE
    154 10 RUBBER YIELD IS 465 lb. PER ACRE A BOUT 1.6 million acres out of 2 million under estate rubber in Malaya are currently being tapped, states the Financial Times. There is a considerable var- iation in the yield between those estates planted witn what is called ordinary grade rubber and
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    No taxes on essentials
    69 10 India has passed a law which declares under the constitution certain goods to be essential to the life of the community. Under the law. food (wheat, rice, sugar etc.), fuel (kerosene oil. charcoal t, clothing, building materials (cement, bricks, tiles etc> are declared essential and no
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    INDIA'S RICE
    32 10 India will import 65.000 tons of Burmese rice on Government account and 50.000 on private account during the remaining five months of this year states a message from New Delhi
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    Korean war hit pencil-makers
    68 10 Wnen supplies of the finest grapnite in North Korea for making lead pencils were cut off from British manufacturers, one British firm withdrew its product from the market and for two years concentrated on research, for a new refining process. It has been successful and nas
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    JAPAN SEEKING MORE RICE
    197 10 YEWS that the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation is to call a conference in Rome on the serious threat to South East Asia's food supply from the Japanese entry into the rice buying market is of special importance to Malaya as a rice deficit country.
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    NOISY BELL EARNS $ $
    88 10 NOISY BELL EARNS 'pHE enterprise of a Birmingham firm in producing; louder bicycle bells to suit the American market is earning dollars for Britain. U.S. cyclists favour a more strident note than that given by the average bell in use in Britain and elsewhere, and, by recognising this fact, the
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    GUIDE TO CONTROLS
    48 10 A new guide to provide an easy means of reference to ah existing Import and Export control regulations is to be printed for sale at $2 a copy. It will shortly be available at the Imports and Exports ControC Department, 3rd floor. Fulls-ton Building. Singaporp
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    French saris
    38 10 Aa interesting smaller trade be .wet n Malaya and France Is the importation of expensive saris. These are made to order in Prance on instructions from Indian merchants and are experter? ri! r ect to Mahya.
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    H.K. fishermen own their boats
    77 10 The Secretary of State for the CoConies, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, said In the House of Commons that between 95 and 98 per cent of all fishing vessels based on Hong Kong were owner operated. During the past six years only two owners are known to
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    FRENCH CARS
    13 10 Fifteen cars were Imported direct into Malaya from France last year.
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    MALAYA CAN BUY MORE IN FRANCE
    236 10 PANCE, which last year had an unfavourable I trade balance with Malaya of j $247,000,000, would like the gap to be bridged by imports into Malaya of French indus- trial products. Last year French sent to Malaya 450,000 gallons of cognac brandy, or four-fifths
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    Production in India is higher
    118 10 Production in India is higher PRODUCTION trends in major industries in India continued to be satisfactory during May. Production of jute goods during the month was 82.300 tons against 80,700 tons for the corresponding month of last year. In the first five months the output amounted to 422,000 torus against
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    Sindhi Merchants Association
    77 10 The Sindhi Merchants Association in Singapore haw elected the following office bearers for next year: Chairman, Mr. K. Ramchandanl (Messrs. G. Ramchand); vicechairman, Mr. Hassaram (Messrs. W. Hassaram) hon. secretary, Mr. B. H. Melwanl (Messrs. J. T. Chanrai (Singapore Limited) secretary, Mr. Mangharam (Messrs. Jhamatmall Gurbamall and
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    US talks on Celyon trade
    89 10 COLOMBO, Mon. The Far East American Council of Commerce and Industry, meeting in New York from Oct. 22. will discuss dollar Investments in Ceylon and the expansion of trade between Ceylon and the United States. The meeting will be held in, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel
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    Cloth exports
    41 10 The Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced yesterday that the Indian Government had decided that exports of all varieties of cloth will be licensed freely to all areas valid for shipment until the end of December this year.
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    U.S. TALKS ABOUT CUTTING TARIFFS
    225 10 rE U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Mr. Willard L. Thorp, at a conference on American foreign policy said that the U.S. Government was In favour nf further tariff reductions, j Declaring the f"<-ronuc independence of ih i-ee countries must be the v.oal
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    Tin market optimistic
    137 11 The tin section of the Singapore Share Market was more optimistic yesterday with sellers holding off. Industrials were quiet with rubbers still neglected. Price changes announced by the Malayan Share Brokers Association were: frame Bro* !K 2 10 kimm; i«P»t 7/- 7/1 LUsUal. Amal. 1»/1 U/t Law
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    TIN: $470,3/8 PICUL
    14 11 TIN: $470,3 /8 P ICUL SINGAPORE, M on. 547«* s a pieul (op flH>.
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    109 11 Business was done in copra wiUi tellers at per picul fjo.b. In Singapore yesterday. Buyers were $23<4. Coconut oil was quiet with no particular demand. Buyers were quoted at $37* per picul f.o.b and seOers On the Singapore Produce Exchange no business was reposed in White Muntok
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    AUSTRALIAN BONDS WERE IN DEMAND
    172 11 MELBOURNE, Monday INVESTMENTS had an irregular market on the Stock Exchange today, few sales exceeded 500 shares and most price moves? were of less than 6d. a share. Falls slightly outnumbered rises. Bonds were in belter demand •nd of seven price changes, si were rises.
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    JAP GOODS FOR CHINA
    44 11 WASHINGTON, Men. The United Stales has agreed that Japan should export dyestuffs, textiles and some other nons'rategic materials to China, a State Department spokesman said. Export of these Items was banned under the occupation regime which ended last April.— Reuter.
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    RUBBER GAINS ANOTHER 3/8 OF A CENT
    179 11 RUBBER GAINS ANOTHER 3/8 OF A CENT Turnover moderate AN a featureless market, rubber gained another v of a cent yesterday, with August first grade closing at 87 cents a lb. There was a small carry over of orders from New York for lower grade, from Saturday. The market fluctuated
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    MALAYAN RATES OF EXCHANGE
    72 11 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association announced agreel rates of exchange to merchants yesterday as foUows: BUYING Air Mail T.T. CD. 90dst. Credit Bills New York 32 13 16 32 1516 33 116 Trade Bills 33 18 Canada 31 12 31 5,8 31 7 S SELLING T.T.
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    CALL TO REVOKE G. A. T. T.
    147 11 rE Commonwealth should no longer adhere to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in its present form, says the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the'British Empire. Member Associations of Chambers of Commerce in the Commonwealth have been urged to stress to
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    33 11 HONG KONG, Mon. Free market currency exchange of Hong Kong dollars was quoted at the close today as follows: US$l XX*6.36” (cash); HKst> 39 (T.T.): HKV15.85. One tael of god HK5299%.
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    SHIPS ALONGSIDE THE GODOWNS
    206 11 CHIPS alongside toe Singapore Har- 1 bour Board Kodown* or expected I there at 1 am. today art: Godovn 1/1 Sejithla; 4/5. Meiyu alaru; Coai Plant Subador; 8/9 Steel Kin*.; 11 Kennerleya: 13/14. RadaorKhire; 15/16. PatrocUu: 18. Burma: 19/ JO. Wosans: 21/ M. Preder:rk Glo»er: North
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    FANNY FALLS AND IT'S FAREWELL
    199 12 AMSTERDAM, Men. pANNTf blankert Koen the fastest woman in the world before her disastrous performance at the Olympic Game*, brought her sports career to a dramatic close here yesterday by falling In the 80-metres hardies and abandoning (he race. A capacity crowd of 60.M0 watching
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    FURUHASHI LOSES IN PARIS GALA
    166 12 PARIS, Monday. FRANCE beat Japan by 41 points to 29 in a twoday international swimming gala this week-end in Paris. Young French Olympic champion Jean Boiteux had no difficulty in repeating his victory over Hironoshin Furuhashi, winning the 400 m. freestyle by a margin of
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    U. K. Cricket close of play
    107 12 LONDON, Mon. fLOSE of play scores in the county cricket matches today Surrey t. Middlesex (Oval). Middlesex 77; Surrey 93 for 6. Nottinghamshire v. Worcestershire (Notts.). Worcs 266 for 4 (Kenyon 171). Somerset v. Glamorgan (Weston-Super-Mare). Glam. 229; Somerset 101 for 4. Northamptonshire v.
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    Bowlers' day at Cheltenham
    72 12 LONDON. Mod —A drying wicket caused 18 wicketa to tall (or only 213 runs Id the match between Glourrstfr*hire and the Indian tourtati at Ctie.trnham today. The county. M for none on Saturday, were all out (or IBS (Emmett S3 Young 48. T. Qravenev n.o. 54;
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    Today's soccer
    60 12 The team to represent Singapore Indians against Eurasians in today's Community league soccer match at Jalan Besar will be chosen from the following: Narayanan. Muthiah, G. Supplah, M. Velu, M. Ghanl. P. Suppiah, Rashid, Muniandy. Bala. Logonathan, Salahudin, V. Roberts. Paul Davis, S. Chandra. Aviar Singh, N. Nadarajan.
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    Move for Malaya Cup final in Singapore
    261 12 Move for Malaya Cup final in Singapore HO HO CUP GAME NEXT MONTH By SENTINEL fHE Malaya Cup final will be played at Jalan Besar stadium this year if the Football Association of Malaya and the northern section finalists Penang or Perak agree to a proposal which the Singapore Amateur
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    39 12 An anxious moment in front of Indonesians' goal showing goalkeeper Hori (hand upraised) and Sha'aban, Indonesian left fallback, clearing a tricky situation in yesterday's SAFA Community league game between RAF and Indonesians, which RAF won five-nil. Straits Times picture.
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    R.E. (STORE) WIN CRICKET
    84 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. OOYAL Engineers (Singapore) beat Royal Engineers (Federation) in a cricket match on the H.Q. Malaya ground during the weekend by four wickets. There was a thrilling fini h. the Colony R.E. snatching victory Just in time. Rain curtailed play on Saturday, stumps being
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    Drobny loses to Sturgess
    163 12 HAMBURG, Mon. TRIC Sturgess (South Afri- ca) upset the favoured Jaroslav Drobny (Egypt) here yesterday to win Germany's international mens singles tennis championship. He beat Drobny 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 in the final round. Miss Dorothy Head, United States, won the women's singles title. In the final
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    Police hit 4 in second half
    202 12 pOLICE S.C. thrashed a deplet- ed Tamil Brotherhood Assn. team by 5-1 at Geylang yesterday in a SAFA Div. 2 game. Tamils started with only nin» players Later one more turned up bu% this made very little difference to the run of play. Police
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    Five tie for Aug. Medal
    147 12 rpHE R.SG.C.'s August Medal x (Stroke) Competition, play pi on Saturday, resulted in a tie between R. Craik (75—4=71), J. C. Hutcheson (77 —6 71). J. H. Anderson (77 6=71), J. Y. Ferguson (78 7=71) and J. W. Brand (81—10=71) in "A' 1 Division. Other
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    TEAM FAILS TO TURN UP
    40 12 As R.N. Kranji failed to turn up. referee Lian sin awarded a walk-over to Medical Workers Union in tfie SAPA Div. 2B league soccer matin which was to have been played on CYMA ground yesterday.
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    LCI. BEATEN 2-0
    29 12 In a Singapore Business House* league soccer match played at Farrer Park yesterday, Rotterdam Trading Co. beat Imperial Chemical Industries by 2.0. Blankenaar scoring both goals.
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    Sports Diary
    37 12 SOCCER COMMUNITY LEAGUE: Eurasians v Indians at Jalan Besar. BUSINESS HOUSES: Chartered Bank v Stan vac. Padanr: Cold Storage "A" v H.K. Bank "A". R. Valley Road; Mercantile Bank v Oversea Chinese Bank, Farrer Park.
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    Another Cup race turned into 'sprint'
    291 12 LONDON, Mon. TN the lull in British racing after Goodwood, followers of the sport have had plenty of time to express their opinions on the debacle of the Goodwood Cup. The Cup, run over 2m. sf. and one of the rich long-distance events In
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    HAIKOWYU 6-0
    32 12 In a SAFA Division 3B league soccer match played on the BODCA ground yesterday, Haikowyu Sports Club trounced BODCA by 6-0. The scorers were: Salim (3), Xri'-hnasamy (2) and Yusof.
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    WOMEN'S GOLF: ISLAND RESULTS
    43 12 The Island Club (Ladles Section L.G.U.) August competition. played on Sunday, resulted: "A" Div.: Winner— Mrs. McMullan (84 11) 73; Runner-up Mrs. Morrison (90— 15) =75. "B" Div.: Winner Dr. Tapper (94—22) =72; Runner-up Mrs. Strickland (97— 21) =76.
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    Cricket win for Chartered Bank
    259 12 rpHE annual cricket match between the Chartered Bank and the Hongkong Bank was played at Shell S.C. ground on Sunday and ended In a win for Chartered Bank by 64 runs. A. D. G. Harrison and A. A. Norrle played the principal parts in Chartered
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    IPOH READY FOR 'LITTLE OLYMPIC
    200 12 IPOH, Monday. TPOH is fast assuming an "Olympic" atmosphere *as preparations are speeded up for Malaya's major sports event of the year— the 31st annual athletic championships, to be held on Friday and Saturday on the Ipoh padang. Last minute entries from Pahang and Negri
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    Remigino beats Bailey again
    288 12 AMSTERDAM, Monday. Olympic champions confirmed their superiority at an International athletics meeting at the Olympic stadium here yesterday, which marked the 40th anniversary of the Dutch Olvmnic Committee. On a rain-soaked track Horace Ashenfelter (United States) bettered by nearly four seconds his winning Olympic 3,000 metres
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    Airmen hit five past Indonesians
    381 12 Royal Air Force T 5; Indonesians 0. COMBINING effectively, Royal Air Force gained an impressive victory over lagging Indonesians in this SAFA Community League game at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Never at any phase of the game did Hoyal Air Force lose command of the
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    Three titles to Penang
    128 12 TAIPING. Mon. VINE weather yesterday enx abled the Chinese Recreation Club's open tennis championships to be brought to a. successful completion before a large crowd. In the open singles. Robert Chia (Penang) beat Chin Kee Onn (Ipoh) in straight sets 6-3, 6-2. Chia was mere aggressive
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    TABLE TENNIS RESULTS
    77 12 The Singapore Junior inter-club table tennis tournament entered Into the third night's play at the SB A. hall last night. Results: Milky Way Musical Pty. bt Chinese Sports Assn. 5-2; Singapore Admiralty L.S.TJ. bt Young Companions A.A. 5-4; Kok Mm (Yellow) bt Bell O'Morn 5-1 Chung Wah
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    26 12 TOPAY: High 0301 (».I (t) and 1504 3.9); Low 0856 (3.5) and 2128 TOMORROW: (HOl (8.2) and 15« (8.71; 0933 (4.5) and 2231 (2.7).
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