The Straits Times, 14 August 1952

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1952 if PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    S'PORE SENDS RADIOS AND MR. SMITH
    115 1 MR. E. V. SMITH, Superintendent of Police and Commandant of the Police Training School, Singapore, has had 27 years' service with the Singapore Police Force, of which 12 were with the school. Mr. Smith first came to Singapore in 1923 with the Royal Sussex
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    SARAWAK CALLS FOR EXPERTS
    351 1 Police fly in this week and jungle is ally, says Ellis jyjR. J. Hugh Ellis, acting Chief Secretary of Sarawak, told Pressmen yesterday: "In Sarawak the jungle is definitely NOT neutral." Most of the country was controlled by Sea Dyaks or Ibans, and they were undoubtedly
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    BLANK DAY
    13 1 No casualties were reported on either side— security forces or terrorists—yesterday.
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    DA. RASIF SAYS 'NO' TO JAKARTA
    95 1 DA. RASIF SAYS 'NO' TO JAKARTA T)HE Indonesian ConsulaU in Singapore is not sending 1 representative to Sara wak to investigate reportec terror raids by gangs call' ing themselves the "Sara wak-Indonesian People': Liberation Army." Or. Mohamed Rasif, the In donesian Consul-Genera in Singapore, said yester day that he had
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    Egypt seeks compromise
    48 1 CAIRO, Wed. The Al; Maher Government Is trylni to work out a compromise which will overcome the ob jections of Britain and othei countries to recognising bab: Kind Ahmed Fuad as Klni of the_Sudan as well as Egypt a Foreign Ministry source said today.— Reuter.
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    NEWS ABOUT REDS COMING IN ALREADY
    297 1 Cable from Kuching From MANNING BLACKWOOD KUCHING, Wednesday. A GOVERNMENT spokesman today sad that the Sarawak situation was "under control.'' Police sweeps are continuing and Kuching's P.O. Box 5,000 has produced "a number of letters containing useful information which will bt acted upon." Envoy
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    MacD's visit to Jakarta
    60 1 JAKARTA, Wed. The forthcoming visit of Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald to Indonesia is regarded by the newspaper Abadi editorially today j as another effort to persuade Indonesia to join the Western democracies in the fight against Communism. The paper predicts that Mr. Mac Donald will discuss
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    Crackers kill 6
    28 1 ROME, Wed.— A large store of firecrackers which had been manufactured illegally exploded near Forsinone, killing six people and wrecking a two-storey building.— A JP.
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    HELP FOR SARAWAK IS READY
    153 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. mHE SARAWAK GOVERNX MENT has not yet asked the Federation Government for help in Its present emergency, the Secretary for Defence Mr. E. B. Davla, told the Straits Times today. "If any request Is made, we shall do our best to meet
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    NEW CLUE TO LURS KILLER
    61 1 PEYRUIS. Wed. Detectives sped away from hero early today in a powerful car on a new trail after the killer of Sir Jack Drummond. his wife and daughter, near Luis. M. George Harzig, chief of the Marseilles Criminal Investigation Department, described the trail as being
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    MR. N's NUDES...
    108 1 'They're the better kind 9 TOKYO, Wednesday. A STRIP-SHOW promoter who planned to send six beautiful strip-teasers to Hong Kong next month today was surprised at reports that the Hong Kong police might ban the performance Sadao Nagata, president of the Nagata Entertainment Company, said of his
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    TYPIST BECAME A SOCIALITE...
    76 1 LONDON, Wed. £4-a-week office girl x\ was accused in court today of stealing £1,706 from her firm and using it to enter London's high society. Miss Jill Hasten, aged 18, becam« a socialite for 16 months, it war alleged. She rode horseOkck with the nobility in
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    Mayors meet
    23 1 AMSTERDAM, Wed. Hlkoichi Haru, acting Mayor of Greater Tokyo, now visiting Holland, was yesterday received by the Mayor of Amsterdam Reuter.
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    £30mil.hope
    38 1 MELBOURNE Wed.— The West Australian State Government hopes that talks just concluded in London will result in the early construction of a £30,000,000 oil refinery at Kwinana, West Australia's Works Minister, Mr. David Brand, said today Reuter.
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    'Disciples' on way home
    43 1 Sixteen American officers of the Disciples of Christ, a religious organisation, passed through Singapore yesterday on a round the world tour. They have just attended a conference in Australia and are on their way back to the United States.
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    Mine sighted in English Channel
    44 1 PLYMOUTH, Wed. The Dutch motor vessel Capo, 494 tons, today sighted a mine floating in the English Channel in the area normally used by South Devon fishermen. A destroyer and a minesweeper left Plymouth to search for It.— Reuter.
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    Sudan talks put off
    53 1 KHARTOUM, Wed. The Egyptian Prime Minister, Aly Maher, has agreed to a postponement of the visit to Cairo of Sayed Sir Abdel Rahrribn El Mahdi Pasha, powerful Sudan religious leader and patron of the pro -independence Umma Party, to discuss the Sudanese problem, an official Sudanese
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    Kobe's Mayor offers aid
    35 1 TOKYO, Wed.— The Mayor of Kobe has offered to stand bail for the two British sailors in gaol in his city on robbery convictions, pending the result of their appeal. Reuter.
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    Girl's fall
    31 1 A 15-year-old girl, R. Rajamma, was admitted into the General Hospital late last night after she had fallen from the second storey of her house at Cross Street. Singapore.
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    PALACE RENT
    25 1 LONDON, Wed.— The Duke p! Marl" of ouefa today paid ♦he Oi.r ii his annual rent for Blenheim Palace a silk flag.— A.P.
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    FIRST RABIES DEATH
    40 1 A CHINESE has died from hydrophobia in Kuala Lumpur -six vws'ks after he was bitten by a rabiesInfected dog This was, tbe first raises death in Selangor since the epidemic began in the State. (See Pace Fonr).
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    Welfare state in Malaya
    257 1 LABOUR PARTY. AIM KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. DLANS to turn Malaya into a fully self-governing Socialist welfare state, working in partnership with Britain, will be discussed at an executive committee meeting of the Pan-Malayan Labour Party in Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 14. But the immediate task of
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    JAPS TO PROTEST ONRUBBER
    122 1 JAPS TO PROTEST ONRUBBER TOKYO, Wed. rE JAPAN Rubber Importers' Association and the Japan Rubber Manufacturers' Association plan to protest to the Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association about the inferior quality of raw rubber imports from Malaya. Spokesmen of these two associations said they had been asked by local
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    Job hunters
    21 1 AUCKLAND, Wed. Over 100 Australian unemployed arrived at Auckland in the liner Wanganella today to look for Jobs.— AP.
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    Rice for Ceylon
    18 1 COLOMBO, Wed.— America is to send 10.000 tons of rice to Ceylon In Octotjer.— Reuter
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    U.S. to order Jap warships
    24 1 HIROSHIMA, Wed.— The U.S. Navy is expected to order small warships and torpedoes from Japan Mitsubihi Shipbuilding Company. AP.
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    Soak the rich
    20 1 CAIRO. Wed. Th e new Egyptian Government today announced a moderate "soak the rich" taxation policy Reuter
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    2 reach freedom from Red gaol
    216 1 2 reach freedom from Red gaol HONG KONG. Wed. rpHREE Australians— *Ro s s Bohm of Queensland, Difck Richmond of New South Wales and William Michael James of South Austra lia staggered across the border, late yesterday, after spending 20 months in gaol in China. They were the crew of
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    Russian Romeo
    31 1 LONDON, Wed. Romeo and Jul.'et has been translated into Kabardin, a Soviet Caucasian language and pepformed at Nalchik, capital of the Kabardin autonomous Soviet Republic, Moscow radio reports. Reuter.
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    Biggest dollar
    24 1 NEW YORK, Wed. The Canadian dollar climbed to a new 18-year high today, trading at U551.0425 in foreign exchange dealings here. A.P.
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    JAP TREASURES LOOTED, 'SAYS DIET INQUIRY
    123 2 TOKYO, Wednesday. A SPECIAL COMMITTEE of the Diet (Parliament), investigating the disappearance of millions of dollars of jewels, gold and platinum in national treasures, stated yesterday that the loss had been cob firmed. Most of the treasure was bought by Government for wartime use
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    DUKE SHOOTS FIRST GROUSE
    46 2 BALLATER. Wed. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh yesterday led British socialites and wealthy visitors from abroad in the traditional "glorious 12th of August" onslaught on Scotland's grouse. The Duke of Edinburgh bagged 10 brace The Queen did, not shoot.— Jteuter.'
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    Bergman film for Britain
    31 2 LONDON, Wed.— Roberto Rossellini, husband of Ingrid Bergman, arrived today for talks about releasing his latest film "Europe 51" in Britain. Ingrid has a leading role. Renter.
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    2-YEAR SERVICE PLAN LOST
    109 2 2-YEAR SERVICE PLAN LOST PARIS, Wed. I^RANCE, Holland, Luxem- bourg and Italy yesterday refused to consider a Belgian demand to increase their military service to two years —the period in force in Belgium at present. The Belgians were disappointed. They had hoped that the principle of raising the period of
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    Gunmen escape
    32 2 SAN FRANCISCO, Wed.— Two military prisoners who shot their way to freedom with sub-machineguns from the navy's Treasure Island, off San Francisco, were captured after sereral hour* of freedom. Reuter.
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    Left turn sank a ship
    82 2 WASHINGTON, Wed. A VS. NAVAL COURT of Inquiry said yesterday that the "sole cause" of the disastrous mid-Atlantic collision between the U.S. carrier Waap and the deatroyermir.sweeper Hobson on Apr. 26 was an "unexplained left turn" of the smaller vessel. A total of 176 crew
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    BOY KING'S PLAN FOR JORDAN
    366 3 Wants to reform whole system and lower barriers LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Wednesday. JJl SSEIN I OF JORDAN, the world's newest king, said yesterday he wants to help "reform the whole system in Jordan" and I lower the barriers between the king and the people. The 17-year-old
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    62 3 M. GUSTAV DOMINICI. wearing singlet and soft hat and smoking a cigarette, talks with reporters near the spot where Sir Jack Drummond, his wife and their 11-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were murdered. M. Dominici, whose farm is a few hundreds yards from the spot near Lurs, discovered the bodies of the
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    Angry Danes boo Germans
    157 3 Angry Danes boo Germans COPENHAGEN, Wed. DAM S yesterday angrilj p. mested against some ol the German crew of American minesweepers, parading through the town ol t rrderikshavn, Jutland, to a cemetery, and placing a his wreath for "fallen com rides." Thr Germans staged the march Monday night, placing the
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    CIGARETTES OF PEACE
    47 3 MELBOURNE, Wed— Cigarettes branded "Peace" and bearing a representation of a dove with an olive branch were handed to reporters when they boarded the Japanese freighter Osaka Maru. She was the first regular Japanese service trader to come to Australia since the war Reuter-AAP.
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    GUIDED JET
    30 3 SYDNEY, Wed. Australia's lirst locally-designed ami built guided missile a piiclless jet-powered target aircraft, will go on its first fltgkl trials at Woomera rock ze this month.— A.P.
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    EGYPT SPEEDS UP PURGES
    67 3 EGYPT SPEEDS UP PURGES CAIRO, Wed. T/HE government last night formed seven new purge committees with power to bring accused persons to trial without consulting the public prosecutor. The committees, will have I judicial powers to search, arrest and indict. One will deal with cttton futures and the stock exchange,
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    Thunderbolt
    26 3 SYDNEY. Wed.— A thunderbolt wrecked four brick kilns and gales tor e the roofs off 12 houses, collapsing one, In a storm early today.— Reuter
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    Illicit diamonds
    24 3 JOHANNESBURG, Wed. Three Johannesburg diamond merchants W2re fined a total of £10,000 yesterday lor illegally exporting to America diamonds VQrtb J790.000.— A.P.
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    America plans a new A-factory
    99 3 nAamnuxun, Wednesday. PHE Atomic Energy Commission announced today 1• it will build a giant new atomic factory in outhern Ohio to accelerate America's supply of strategic U-235. The factory, which will cost $1,200,000,000 wM be situated in the Ohio River valley, about 20 miles north
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    Cut up body 'as I would a rabbit'
    130 3 Cut up body 'as I would a rabbit' KINGSTON, Wed. A 23-year-old rabbit breeder told police that after killing a neighbour he cut up th e body— "exactly the way I would cut open a rabbit"— i and burned it in his gardpn sned, it was stated in court here
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    Locusts in Philippines
    47 3 MANILA, Wed. Locusts attacked the main rice granary of the Philippines today, posing a serious threat to the country's food resources. The locusts first appeared in eastern Bulacan province on the Philippines main island. They are attacking rice, corn, coconut and sugar crops.— A.P.
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    27 NEW BILLS IN 3 MONTHS
    61 3 NEW DELHI, Wed. The House of the People last night ended its first session, lasting three months, during which it passed the annual budget and 27 official bills. The most controversial measure on the heavy agenda was Hom e Minister Kailashnath Katju's bill extending
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    24 dead in Dak crash
    54 3 RIO DE JANEIRO, Wed.— All 20 passengers and four crew of a Douglas Dakota airliner died when it crashed yesterday on a flight from Rio Verde to Goianian, capital of the Brazilian state of Goiaz. First reports indicate that the aircraft caught flre in the
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    Opium seized
    19 3 RANGOON, Wed.— Burmese officers seized 12>/2 pounds of opium aboard a Singaporebound vessel, the Chip Lam. A.P.
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    BUT JAMES WAS NOT SUITED...
    102 3 BRENTFORD, England Wed. A BURGLAR who was caught with his pants down and tried to use a skirt was gaoled for three months today. James O'Neill, aged 38. had finished looting a house and decided to change into a new suit. He took off his
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    Strikers riot in Alexandria
    42 3 ALEXANDRIA, Wed. Troops were rushed today to Kafr El Dawar where rioting textile strikers were reported to have burned a factory. Reports reaching here said several of the strikers had been killed in a clash with police. Reuter.
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    Mr. Anthony Eden marries today
    98 3 LONDON, Wednesday. rpHE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, and Miss Clarissa Spencer-Churchill marry tomorrow at Caxton Hall Register Office. After the ceremony, they will attend a reception with 20 guests at 10, Downing Street, where Miss SpencerChurchill ha been staying. Mr. Churchill, the Prime Minister,
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    BLAZING SHIP REACHES PORT
    59 3 KARACHI, Wed. A CARGO boat with 2,500 bales of blazing cotton aboard made a 250-mile journey through the Arabian Sea and reached Karachi, where firefighters extinguished the blaze after two hours. The ship, Laagkerk, left Karachi on Saturday to take the cotton to Europe. The captain
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    Soviet frees Briton
    48 3 MOSCOW, Wed.— The British Embassy says a British seaman, Stanley Brenen, of Southport, who has served a six months' sentence in a Soviet gaol on charges of hooliganism, will be released today. Brenen worked in a Finnish steamer. He was arrested ashore, accused of rowdyism.—U.P.
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    Dollar, gold price soar
    34 3 PARIS, Wed.— Reports that the International Monetary I'und might increase the official price of gold and advocate free convertibility of currencies sent gold and dollar prices soaring here today. Reuter.
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    CAUGHT TWICE AT SAME SPOT
    121 3 ABERDEEN, Wed. JOHN RAMENSKY the cracksman who is so good at blowing open safes that the British Government hired him to do jusi that— was recaptured late last night afte c breaking out ot Peterhead near Aberdeen on Monday. Ramensky— who also is an expert
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    LONDON STOCKS
    329 3 LONDON. Wed. YESTERDAY'S firmness was ■I rather more pronounced today. The glltedged aud foreign bond sections were the main centres of Interest. This was reflected in relative quietness in most other sections. Institutions re-entered the giltedged market and there was also sizeable public demand. This resulted in gains!
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    LONDON TIN PRICE
    28 3 LONDON, Aug. 13.—Cash Buyers £935; Sellers £936; Forward Buyers £932«/ 2; Sellers £933.; I Settlement £934 (up,£2i.>). I Turnover: a.m 109 tons; I p.m. 175.
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    U.K. RUBBER
    29 3 LONDON. Aug. 13.—Spot 26' id Sept. 26V«d., Oct.-Dec. 25}4d., Jan-Mar. 25Vtd., April-June 24'/id.. Aug. c.i.f. 25^d.. Sept. c.i.f. 255: d.. Oct. cJ.f. 25% d. Market: Steady undertone
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    THE FIRST RABIES DEATH
    320 4 and health chief says: I Take THAT s a warning KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. nR. W. PULESTON JONES, the Municipal Health Officer, today issued what he described as the strongest warning against rabies. A person infected with the disease would live without knowing it for six weeks
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    47 4 Mil. .'4. tL SAPI'OttLDOJO, of Indonesia, *nd his Balinese bride, Miss Kartika Affandi, drink toasts during their wedding ceremony at the Indonesian Embassy in London. They met five years ago in Malaya but the bride's father decided that Kartika. a\ 14, was too young to marry.— AP.
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    Driver fined
    20 4 PARIT BUNTAR. Wed. I Yerukkiah. a driver, was fins: ned $50 at Baean Serai for I ne<*iieent driving.
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    $83,000 GIFT FROM U.S. TO S'PORE COLLEGE
    101 4 THE Trinity College at Mount Sophia, Singapore. Is to get a grant of $83,000 lrum the American Board of Founders of the Nankine gical Seminary Th P principal of the College Rev. Theodore Runyan. tolci the Straits Times yesterday that $75^)00 from this
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    MISS DING IS OFF TO KIRKBY
    65 4 Ml»8 I>!NG PEEK HOON of the Sultan Yussuf School, Batu Gajah. who will fly to Kirkby College for a teachers' training course, at the end of this month. She is one of three selected from Batu Gajah. The others. Miss Sofia binte Mat Yit
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    Inspector was one of 8 killed
    262 4 Inspector was one of 8 killed SEREMBAN. Wed. rpWENTY-SIX YEAR OLD 1 probationary Inspector Arthur Abishegan was among the party of eight policemen killed m an ambush at South Mantin, Negri Sembaan, yesterday. Arthur Abishegan, who joined the police force in August 1950, is the younger brother of well-known Negri
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    Teacher feted
    38 4 KLUANG, Wed.—The acting pr.ncipai and staff of the Anglo-Chinese School, Klang, gave a tea party to honour Mr. Tan Teck Jin, a fellow teacher who has been selecti, cd for the Kirkby teachers' 1 training course.
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    3 months for STC bus conductor
    100 4 3 months for STC bus conductor GOH SOON THYE. a Singapore Traction Companj bus conductor, was yesterdaj sentenced by Mr. Tan Ah Tan the Singapore First Dtstric! Judge, to three months' imprisonment for crimina breach of trust of fares ir March and April. Goh was found guilty of thre< charges
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    Man accused of MPAJA murder
    580 4 COURT TOLD OF RED TERROR JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday. A N alleged murder, committed by partisans of the Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army during the transition period between the surrender of the Japanese and the establishment of British authority in Johore, is the subject of a case
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    WORKER'S LAW TO APPLY TO SERVICES MEN
    113 4 JM)R THE FIRST TIMS, I1I 1 locally engaged civilian workers of th* three Services in Singapore will be covered by the new Colony Government's Workmen's Compensation Ordinance, which will soon replace the present law. The Singapore Labour Commissioner. Mr. G. W. Davis, yesterday
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    $500 for fund
    38 4 KLUANG, Wed.—At a teaparty arranged by the Women's Service League at the International Club, Mrs. Morrison presented a $500 cheque to Yang Mulia Ungku Hassan bin Omar, president of Kluang branch of the AntiTB. Fund.
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    21 4 MISS YAP LAY WAH and Mr. Teo Kane Lens, who were married at Upper Chinchew Street, Singapore, yesterday. —Straits Times picture.
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    'Firm would not back' pledge'
    218 4 'Firm would not back' pledge' RADIO SCIENTIST'S allegation that an offer of generating equipment was refused by the Singapore City Council was yesterday described as "deliberately misleading'' by Mr Duncan Robertson, City Councillor for South Ward and a member of the Special Electricity Committee. In his letter to the Straits
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    Picnic was not to woo back rebels
    115 4 PENANG Wed. qnHE President of the Penang X branch of the United Malays National Organisation. Tuan S. M. Zainul Abidin, denied today that his branch had organised a reunion picnic last Sunday to win back members who had been expelled for joining the
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    Judge on way to Geneva
    58 4 Mr. Justice G. M. Tyndall, Chief Judge of the New Zealand Arbitration Court, and Mrs. Tyndall, passed through Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday on their way to Geneva. Mr. Justice Tyndall is going to visit the International Labour Organisation headquarters and is then going to advise
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    Transferred
    21 4 MERSING, Wed. Inche Mohamed Hashim bin Puteh, Asst: Rationing Officer, Kuala Lipis, has taken over duties as Rationing Officer Mersing.
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    No connection, says society
    84 4 T«HE Singapore Children's Society writes to say that there is no official connection wbatsopvpr between the HandicanDed Children's Committee and the society. The training of volunteer Investigators of the society Is under the direction of a training sub-committee consistIng of representatives of the Social Welfare Deparment,
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    The Singapore of 1972—if Master Plan goes through
    344 5 The Singapore of 1972— if Master Plan goes through PEPLER *S MAN TELLS ROTARIANS ALL ABOUT IT ]y|K. Dennis Komlosy, chief planning officer ii Sir George Pepler's survey team for th< New Singapore, yesterday told Rotarians wha the island may look like in 1972. If Sir George's Master Plan is
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    57 5 MR. E. STRICKLAND, manager of the Singapore Olympic team, returned from Helsinki yesterday and received a pleasant surprise at the airport. For among the large crowd to meet him was his eight-year-old daughter Patricia, whom he had not seen for a year. Patricia returned to Singapore for her holidays while
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    HE DEALT IN FORGED CURRENCY
    255 5 riOUND guilty, by a unani- mous verdict of the Jury, of trafficking in forged Indo- nesian currency notes, a 60-year-old broker, Ng Yee Leong, was sent to gaol for three years by Mr. Justice Brown in the Singapore As- sizes yesterday. i Another man. Koh
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    Railway takings are up
    79 5 .11 LUMPUR, Wed. MALAYAN Railway revenue for the first six months of this year showed an increase of $3,100,000 over the same period of last year, according to figures re. eased today. The revenue for the first half year was $26,600,000, against $23,500,000 for same period
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    Bail opposed
    24 5 KUANTAN, Wed. Chan Hock Heng, 31, was charged In Kuantan with attempted extortion of $200 from Chan Hock Yeow. Police opposed bail.
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    S'PORE DIARY
    173 5 St. John Ambulance Assn.: Home Nur. ing lecture at headquarters Stamford Road, 5.30 p.m. Spore Trade British Radio Exhibition: tonight at Happy World from 6 p.m East West Society: Discussion on Film Censorship at 8.30 pm British Council Hall, Stamford Rd. Chinese V.M.C.A.: Basketball 6.30 p.m.; Table Tennis
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    $350 fine for his bribe
    41 5 SEGAMAT, Wed.— Phang Sec Lee, 40, of Bukit Siput new village, was yesterday fined $350. or two months' gaol, in th e Segamat Court for corruptly giving $60 to a Malay corporal of the Special Constabulary.
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    Had no licence
    23 5 SEGAMAT, Wed.— For sellj ing vegetables without a licence, Yap Hin, 49, was today fined.SlO by the Segamat 1 Magistrate.
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    Rembau branch of assn. formed
    52 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Rembau branch of the Negrl Sembilan Adult Education Association was formed yesterday at a meeting at the Rembau English School. The meeting was sponsored I by the Rembau Youth. Organisation Inch c Osman bin Ali was elected president and Mr V 3.
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    'I WANT TO KNOW MY ACCUSERS' -WOMAN
    144 5 IPOH, Wed. "npHE charges are un- founded and I want to know the names of the persons who accuse me of these crimes," said pretty Lee Tan Tai, alias Lee Meng, 24, in the magistrate's court today when she was committed to stand
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    Acquitted
    47 5 SEREMBAN, Wed.— The President of the Sessions Court Mr. W. B. Sutherland, today acquitted and discharged M. Arumugam on a charge of criminal breach of trust in respect of four tyres valued at $344 while employed as assistant storekeeper in the Seremban branch of Wearne Brothers.
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    Railway fares
    30 5 Special rail concessions for the blind who travel on Malayan railways came into operation in November 1950 and were not made recently, the Straits Times has been informed.
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    'GOOD MORALE VALUE TO VILLAGERS Put dead bandits on show, Govt told
    305 5 'GOOD MORALE VALUE TO VILLAGERS Put dead bandits on show, Govt told KUALA rpHE Incorporated Soci representations to the that the bodies of terror: Kuala Lumpur, should b< where they previously o] LUMPUR, Wednesday, ety of Planters has made Federation Government ists hanged at Pudu Gaol, p taken round the
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    More names, please, for the Book
    132 5 VHE memorial wing of St. Andrew's Cathedral Singapore, which is being specially built U house the Book of Remembrance of people killed ir rIS O^ durin g the last war is nearly finished. But the list of names to be recorded in the Book
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    Jumped bail, warrant out
    53 5 Jumped bail, warrant out KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Kuaia Lumpur First Magistrate today issued a warrant of arrest for Wcng Pan, who jumped bail and failed to attend court to answer a theft charge. Wong is alleged to have stolen 120 katis of scrap iron from Petaling Tin Ltd., Petaling
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    150 peasants are smart soldiers now
    75 5 150 peasants are smart soldiers now KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. ONI hundred and fifty MaIjys v.-'io, six months ago, were fishermen, padi planters, rubber tappers and trishamen in Kelantan and Trengganu, have become smart and efficient soldiers. They have completed comprehensive training as recruits of the Malay Regiment and will show
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    Young Malayans meeting
    49 5 The Young Malayans Club of Singapore, which was inaugurated last month, will hold its second general meetIng at the Victoria School Hall next Wednesday. The object of the club is to help youths to employ their leisure hours profitably, and to help students during their holidays.
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    He joins M.C.A. cabinet
    44 5 SEREMBAN, Wed.— Mr. B. H. Tan. general secretary of Malayan Chinese Association, Negri Sembilan branch, and an Unofficial State Councillor has been appointed one of the cabinet members of the M.C.A. headquarters at Kuala Lumpur, by Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan.
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    $200 bail
    22 5 SEGAMAT, Wed.— Charged with negligent driving; 27-year-old Peng Kuan Lit was allowed bail of $200 by the 1 Segamat Magistrate.
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    BLACKOUT SCHEDULE
    234 5 Substations Uakle to load .brddinr today are: DAT NaiiNon Rd Lam Soon OK Mills. Guan Hin. I.E. Network I.E. Factory. River Valley Rd. Killlnry Bd.. Orchard Rd.. NAAH Armenian St. Static. A.lrlphl. Capita. Newton 1 and 1. Chanrery Lane. Wayang Sata. Chartered Bank. China Bank Asia Kuildinr. (.rorre
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    The Straits Stars Singapore, Thur. Aug. 14, 1952 Lotteries & Elections
    853 6 The Straits Stars Singapore, Thur. Aug. 14, 1952 Lotteries Elections Officials of the Malayan Chinese Association are discovering that there are embarrassments in the running of lotteries. There is little doubt that the popular appeal of the association's lotteries has been even greater, despite competition from the Federation's Social and
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    62 6 TUB FAMILY of the late Mr. A E Delilkan. thank ail friends and relatives who wot wreaths, letters of condolence, paid visits an- 1 attended funeral. MRS K. ARULAMPALAM and Mank nil friends and relatives who sent me^satfrs of conf'o'rncp, wreaths and attended the funeral of the late Mr.
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    82 6 AN ATOMIC "explosion" in the j Dress Trade Tommy ThomWJ'a tr'amorous gowns. Do call and Insnect O.H. Bldg Battery Rd. Singapore. OR AND Charity Film Premiere •The Greatest Show On Earth". In aid of St. Andrew's War Memorial Hall Fund, on Sept. ,4th at 9.15 p.m. at tho Cataav
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    American Interest In S.E. Asia
    248 6 An excellent opportunity for making the problems of Malaya and other South-east Asian countries better known in influential American circles is provided by a conference now being held in Washington. It is an international conference which has brought together 150 delegates, including many representatives of
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    THE THREAT TO SARAWAK
    523 6  -  W. M. Blackwood JJ NtARtY t we«k .Her Hi. —outbreak of armed terrornm of rJ»# rype that ha* become alraott a part of Maiaya't ever Hay life, rfcc fuM implicatiom of the riireat have not bee. realised 'm Kuching, Sarawak'i capital. Oyrward.y. Kucliing it the tame
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    First five years of Pakistan
    1017 6 By M. H. A. BAIG, Trade Commissioner for Pakistan in xalaya /\N August 14. 1947. v Pakistan joined the comity of nations as a sovereign State and assuired both the privilege rd the responsibilities that accompany such a position. Tnus, on the north-west of the
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    On the Margin
    417 6 Koguc ELEPHANT-HUNTING has never particularly appealed to us as a pastime, let alone a way of living, but we can see the point of it after reading a most graphic article on rogue elephants, by "Pelandok." In the July issue of the Malayan Forester. "Pelandok" describes in
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      243 6 5 the wide powers given he police by the Emergency tegulations and "Anxious" Aug. 8) is dismayed and hocked to learn from him hat many persons are deained without trial. It is assumed that both corespondents hold either those esponsible for imposing the Imergency
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    'REMEDY PAST MISDEEDS' CALL i
    376 7 Colony Labour chiefs told to have change of heart HONEST HEAR Singapore Labour members, followed by ed at remedying our p; yesterday by Mr. C. R. (Labour) Legislative the president of the pai In his letter, Mr. Re Legislative Councillor, to an extraordinary geners scheduled
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    Frozen meat: Muslims to decide soon
    134 7 A DECISION on whether Muslims in Malaya will be permitted to eat frozen meat from Australia will be made by the All-Malayan Muslim Missionary Society very soon. The society's vice-president, Haji Mohamed Khan, returned to Singapore by QantasBOAC from Sydney yesterday after a month's
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    Dato is out
    31 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Dato Sycd Abdul Kadir. Mcitri Besar, Johore. who' was injured in a car accident, last week and admitted to hospital for treatment, was discarged yesterday
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    Raft artist going to sea again...
    192 7 OIXTY-YEAR old British 'I*-* artist lan ("Jack") Fairweather, who drifted- from Darwin to Timor on a raft I in 20 days and came to Sin- gapore by ship last week, will soon leave for England. The Singapore Controller of Immigration, Mr. J. L. J.
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    Seven bandit camps found
    66 7 Security forces on Monday j located seven bandit camps in various parts of the Federation. One camp was fcursd by ai patrol of the 3rd King's African Rifles in the Mentakab- district of Pahang. A 20-foot-long hut and five others were being built, while a well
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    Two policemen lose appeal
    81 7 A police corporal, Kassim i bin Mustafa, and a police constable, Atan bin Abu, who appealed against a district court conviction and sentence of 15 months' imprisonment on a charge of taking a bribe of two dollars from a Chinese hawker, had their conviction and sen-
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    Avenge my death, said my cousin
    308 7 WITNESS TELLS COURT: A TKISHA RIDER who was stabbed in a Singapore x hotel, asked his cousin, before he died, to avenge his death, it was stated in a preliminary inquiry before the Fourth Magistrate, Mr. E. E. D'Netto, vesterdav. I In the dock,
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    Anti-graft unit at work
    45 7 Key-officers of the Singapore Government's special anti-corruption unit have started work on plans and proposals on the build-up and work of the unit. The officers were also working on the expansion of the unit and on the picked personnel for it.
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    Bandit raid on lorry foiled
    47 7 A group of Special Constables foiled an attempt by armed terrorists to ambush a latex lorry on an estate near Labis, in Johore. The Specials, who were in in armoured car behind the lorry, returned the bandit fire md drove them away.
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    The Crescent will fly today
    43 7 The Pakistan flag will be lown in Singapore today, 'aklstan National Day. Pakistanis will gather at he house of the Trade Comnissioner for Pakistan, in Coronation Road West, at 10 i^teck this morning to sele- •rate the day.
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    Dead man in cell was opium banishee
    91 7 Dead man in cell was opium banishee THE Singapore Colonial > Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blytbe, said yesterday that Mr. Choo Joo Kirn, a businessman, who was found hanged in a cell at Central Police .Station, was arrested on a warrant under the Banishment Ordinance as a result of investigations
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    Mr.D.Phillip cremated
    107 7 From Ov Own Carreapandent LONDON, Wed.— Mr. David Phillip, a partner of Rennie I Lowick, Singapore, who died in the Royal Northern Hos- pital in Lone an last week,'' was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium this afternoon. < Mr. Phillip, who was 67,:! had been ill for some
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    Nepti, the cub, flies today
    104 7 V" E P T I, eight month old 11 tiger cub and net of the 17th Gurkha Rifles, leaves Malaya today in a QantasBOAC freighter for London Zoo. Nepti, captured by men of the 4th Platoon in the Bahau area, has been presented to the
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    'S'pore fighting T.B. correctly'
    118 7 SINGAPORE is tackling its s tuberculosis problem on n the right lines, said Dr. G. H. b Garlick. Director of SATA. on his return by Qantas-BOAC c yesterday from London. a Dr. Garlick, accompanied h by his wife, has been away for c ix weeks attending
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    150 youths at Bible talks
    73 7 PORT DICKSON, Wed. Youths from Singapore. Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, fj^i-em-ban Klang and Kuala K&ngsar, numbering. 150, are now attending the second annual Holiday Bible School at the Government English School, Port Dickson. They will listen daily to lectures on the Bible and devotional addresses by
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    Guards beat off Reds
    44 7 HOME Guards on Monday drove off 15 terrorists who attacked the Malay kampong at Batu Tiga, in the Tapah area of Perak A police jungle squad put a bandit gang to flight in the Sungei Siput North district of Perak.
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    Aug. 15 rally to be a joint one
    42 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Indian organisations in Selangor will jointly celebrate Indian independence day for the first time this year. They will hold a rally at the Selangor Indian Association at 6.45 p.m. on Friday
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    ECAFE report
    38 7 Dr. .C. A. Gibson-Hill, Curator of Raffles Museum, who represented the Colony at the recent ECAFE conference of the working party on cottage industries, will shortly submit a report of his observations to the Singapore Government.
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    No lights: $55
    37 7 KUANTAN, Wed. Five persons, including a bus is company manager and a technical assistant of the <> P.WJ), were fined a total of >> $55 for not having lights on their parked cars in Wall >> Street. >>
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    Workers urged to build own homes
    99 7 A CALL to Singapore workers to build their own IX houses instead of depending on free quarters provided by employers was made by Mr. Fritz Gmur, secretary of the Post, Telegraph, Telephone I 'national yesterday, doing this workers could )re independent. h a housing
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    Annual meeting
    32 7 The annual general meeting of the Shuddha Samajam (Pure Life Society) of Kuala Lumpur will take place on Sunday at 10 ajn. at the «Jctety's premises to Puchon* Road, Petaling.
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    ACQUITTED OF ROBBERY
    43 7 Piarah Singh was yesterday acquitted in the Singapore Third District Court by Mr. J. B. Jeyaretnam on a charge of robbery. He was alleged to have robbed Chua Nia Chee, a woman, of $30 on Apr. 16 at Rangoon Road.
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    NEW VILLAGE COMPLAINS TO LADYTEMPLER
    256 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. 4 CROWD of Malay women of Kampong Pasir A Puteh, a Malay new village in North Selangor, greeted Lady Templer with complaints when she visited them today. The kampong was one of three new villages which Lady Templer visited today in the
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    50 7 MiSS RHONA ONNiKV. former Radio Malaya programme assistant, who returned to Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday to make recordings for rubber publicity work m tne United States. Miss Connery will spend six months m Malaya collecting material for radio and television programmes for the British Rubber Development Board. Straits Times picture.
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    A beam killed child in cubicle
    317 7 A beam killed child in cubicle A TWO-Y E A R-OLD A child, Tay Choou Hup, was fatally injured > when a roof beam fell into a cubicle in Fraser Street, it was stated at a I Singapore inquest yesterday. Loo Cheng Koon, the chief tenant of the house, told
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    3 lorries burnt
    16 7 Terrorists burned three lorries en an estate in the Johore Bahru area yesterday.
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    EMPTY CABINS IN THE 'HOUSE FULL' SHIP
    282 8 Raise deposits, say planters KUALA LUM SUGGESTION that should be started foi that deposits for sea pas from 25 to 50 per cent, i the journal of the In Planters. It states that owing t getting passages, some passages for their employs times
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    Govt. unions seek family allowance
    131 8 Govt. unions seek family allowance "piGHTEEN Singapore Gov- eminent employees' trade unions, will petition the Co- j lony Government for a family I allowance and a consolidated salary scheme for locally recruited officers. The council of action, comprising representatives of all these unions, will meet today to finalise the drafting
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    SIR S. CAINE
    48 8 Sir Sydney Caine, new ViceChancellor of the University of Malaya, is expected to [arrive in Singapore by air ,'on Sept. 4, Mr. W. D. Craig, the Registrar said yesterday. Th e University is now advertising several posts in three departments in the Faculty of Medicine.
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    Took bicycle
    32 8 TELUK ANSON, Wed.— 1 Sabran bin Ibut, 17, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, to be followed by three months' police supervision for criminal breach of trust of a bicytf.e.
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    Claims trial
    32 8 KUANTAN, Wed. Rashid bin Saru, a police driver, claimed trial to a charge of inconsiderate driving and colliding with another car on Besearch Road. Hearing was postponed to Aug. 25.
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    GOVERNOR TO VISIT CENTRE
    78 8 The Governor of Singapore, Mr. J. F. Nicoll has been invited to inspect the Tiong Bahru Community Centre, Mr. D. Robertson, patron of the centre said yesterday. At a recent general meeting, the centre appointed a fact finding committee of seven ordinary members to find out
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    100 per cent passes
    61 8 PENANG. Wed.— On e hundred per cent passes were recorded by 19 candidates who sat for a home nursing examination held yesterday at the Regional Nurses' Training School, General Hospital. Ten of the candidates were Red Cross members, eight others were attached to the St. John
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    TWO MORE FOR KIRKBY
    54 8 MISS JEAJ» SMYTHEKl. il), above, Youth Section Secretary of the North Perak Eurasian Association, who has been selected y>r Kirkby She is a student teacher at the Taipin* Convent. BELOW: Miss Lee Kirn Yuen, another girl selected for Kirkby, Is a student teacher of the Lady
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    Planters praise Templer drive
    253 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. rpHE INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF PLANTERS ■L praise the manner in which Gen. Sir Gerald Templer is conducting the campaign against Communist terrorism since his appointment as High Commissioner. In a recent cable to the Prime Minister, Mr Churchill, the I.S.P. said: "The I.S.P.
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    UMNO divided on prayer
    84 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. A PROPOSAL, to be brought up at the UMNO general assembly next month, that i Doa, (blessing) be composed i'or recitation before the opening of any UMNO meeting, has not met with the support of the Johore Bahru, Singapore. Kota Tinggi, Mersing division
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    Parcel post rates revised
    49 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The new rate of postage for a parcel weighing 22 lb. for the United States is $12 from Sept. 1. The scale of rates for parcels to Britain Is: 21b. $2; 31b $2.30; 71b. $4; 121 b. $6.40: and 221 b. $12.
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    Mao to be told: Stop cruelty
    189 8 Mao to be told: Stop cruelty IPOH. Wed. rpHIRTY-FOUR delegates, J. representing the Federated Teochew Associations of Malaya, will consider 13 resolutions at their 14th annual meeting to be held In Ipoh on Sunday. The Singapore branch will move two resolutions concerning the families of overseas Chinese living hi China.
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    Study course in London
    51 8 A Singapore student is one of th e 23 overseas students attending the summer vacation course In English organised by the Department of Extra-Mural Studies of London University at King's Colleee. London. The course is designed to give students a deeper insight into language and contemporary
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    Had toddy: $20
    37 8 TELUK ANSON, Wed. Kalimuthu. a toddy tapper, was fined $20/-, or one week's imprisonment, for having about six pints of toddy, when he left the tapping area at Perak River Estate. Bagan Datoh Road.
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    Driver fined
    31 8 MUAR, Wed.— Sokkan Rakkam was fined a total of $55 at Muar for negligent driv* ing and for driving without a licence. He knocked down a pedestrian at Pagoh
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    Fund men meet
    33 8 KLANG, Wed.— The committee of the Sir Henry Gurney Memorial Library fund will meet on Friday at the District Office, Klang, at 4.30 p.m. to ascertain progress made so far.
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    STALLS NEARLY READY
    77 8 SOME of the horse-shoe shaped hawkers' shelters on the Esplanade where Singaporeans will be able to eat and relax in the evenings. There are 21 stalls now nearing completion. They will provide Indian, Chinese, European and Malay food. Each of the self-contained stalls will be shared by
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    VIRGINIA INTRODUCES— 'Elizabethan' dresses...
    260 9 VIRGINIA INTRODUCES— 'Elizabethan' dresses... HERE is Just a hint of what many British designers will be Including ln the:r Autumn shows a modernised version of "Elizabethiana" in honour of the new Queen. LEFT: An "Elizabethan' dinner gown of black faille, with a long pointed waist and a full skirt boned
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    14 9 Collec six of these coupons to in the Children's Corner Club.
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    Whistle or shelter
    94 9 'THESE Parisians... the things they think up! This time it's a combination alarm, assault and battery instrument, and shel- < ter from inclement skies. The creator was Maggy. Rouff. The creation Ls an umbrella with a whistle concealed In its handle. Perhaps Paris IS. after all, a
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    378 9 w FOR months now 1 have been wondering whether mothers shoulc leave horne a questior prompted no doubt b\ receiving so many tet ters from young folfe who seem to be goinj cycling through France or making a trip tr Australia, or sailin away on a return
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    312 9  -  F. W. ARMSTRONG A MAN'S ARTICLE FOR WOMEN By OALD-HEADED hus"■bands —and of course bachelors throughout the wortd have "been filled Wxth new hope following a recent report that an American scientist had isolated a hormone which has the property of hair-grow-m SAccording to the discoverer,
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    D. SANDS EARNED A£35,000
    181 10 —But little is left It nm JACK FINGLETON CANBERRA, Wed. ALTHOUGH Dave Sands, triple Australian boxing eh mpion who was killed in a road accident on Monday, earned about (A) £35,000 from his many Australian and o\( raeM bouts, it is expected he had no more
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    MORE EXPERIENCE OUR CHIEF NEED
    309 10 [nd "professional coaching too, ays Strickland SINGAPORE must take part in more international competitions if we are to do better in the next Olympic Games, said Mr. E. Strick- land, Singapore's Olympic team manager, on his return from Helsinki yesterday. This was the most important
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    37 10 TIiNG PEI WAH, Singapore's first woman competitor to go to the Olympic Games, returned yesterday from Helsinki with her arms full of souvenirs which she shows to schoolmates who met her at the airport, —Straits Times picture.
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    New players for Sel. Club
    112 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. CELANOOR CLUB will have the services of a dozen newcomers when the rugby season opens in a fortnight's time. This was stated at the annual general meeting of the Club's' rugby football section yesterday. Response from members willing to play rugby for
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    Scratch XI wins
    22 10 TAIPINO. Wed A 'Scratch XI .kippered by U. Muruge^u beat Taipinq Malay* 3 -2 Rt hOCkey here v rv
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    More tracks for UK urges Burghley
    165 10 More tracks for UK urges Burghley LONDON. Wed. T ORD Burghley, chairman of the British Olympic Association, gald In London lasi night that Finland's organisation of the 1952 games was "first-class" and the event was "a great success." He said: "We can say confidently that they have made a noteable
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    Mulley in great form
    94 10 TtfALAYA'S 1951 champion Jockey. Athol Mulley, had a very successful day at Ros-hill. Sydney, on Saturday when he rode three winners and two seconds in seven races. Forest Land (3-1), Aristocrat (13-2) and Prince Dakhil (3-1) were Mulley's winning mounts. He rode two seconds, Braes'.and (10-1
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    29 10 TODAY: High OS2O hri .7.4 ft) and 1537 iB.4i: Law 1015 (541 and 2358 '2.81 TOMORROW: Hl* Qr.b 17 fti and •.746 (8.21; Low 1120 16 II
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    Gold Cup dinner in Singapore
    65 10 The Racehorse Owners Association of Malaya will hold a dinner rind dance at Raffles Hotel on Sept. 11 to celebrate the Singapore Gold Cup race. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald has been Invited to attend. Owners wishing to take guests hould make application for tickets to Messrs.
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    Perky Count and Ropewalk in form
    427 10 From EPSOM JEEP ANLY A FEW horses were sent out against the "stopwatch on the training track at Kuala Lumpur this morning and easily the best workout was that of Perky Count (Jones) and Ropewalk (Smith), who galloped attractively over 3f. in 38. Perky
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    INDIAN XI FOR GANDHI CUP
    72 10 The following will represent Singapore Indians In the Qandni Memorial Festival Cricket Match against Singapore Cricket Club on the Padang this weekend, starting 2 p.m. on Saturday: M. N. Ralji (captain), Ourdlal Singh, Yusof Madarl, Y. M Angulia, Dr M. Abraham Z. E. Bhatri, V.
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    15 10 LINZ (Austria). Wed. The Llnr soccer club yesterday beat India's Olympic soccer team 4-2. AJ".
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    TABLE TENNIS Chung Hwa unbeaten
    240 10 TABLE TENNIS Chung Hwa unbeaten pHUNQ Hwa Service Association continued their winning sequence when th«- Singapore Table Tennis Association's junior Interclub championships were continued at the S.B.A. hall last night. Chung Hwa have now won all their four fixtures (Group C>. Last night's results: Shing Wah (Yellow) bt Chinese Printing
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    NICKELSON 4 FOR 390 M.U.
    66 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A PINE opportunist perform- ance by centre forward Nlckelson enabled 390 Maintenance Unit (B'pore) to beat R.A.F. (Kuala Lumpur) by four goals to toll In their R.AJP. Intcr-Unlt Cup replay on the V.M.C.A. ground today. Niclcelson, scored all four goals for Maintenance
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    850,000 PEOPLE SAW THE GAMES
    74 10 850,000 PEOPLE SAW THE GA MES HELSINKI, Wed. —An average of more than 53,000 people were in the Olympic Stadium here every day of the 16-day Games, It is officially announced. Total attendance figure was 850,380. Highest figure for any single day was 70,050 on the opening day. Reuter. PENANG.
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    BUSINESS HOUSES: HOW THEY STAND
    255 10 'THE poslti(HU In the Singapore Business Houses FJi. competiUon up to Tuesday's matches are: P W D L P A pts Chartered Bk. 6 4 1 1 14 4 9 HJC. Bank A 3 2 0 1 17 6 4 S.C.S. A 5 2 0
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    Miscellaneous market quiet: Prices down
    153 11 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Wednesday. rpHE miscellaneous investment market was very quiet today. Prices drifted to lower levels on light volume trading. There were few highlights. Several inactive preference Issues slipped back. Oil shares were' busier. Bonds were fairly busy but prices were irregular.
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    RUBBER DROPS 1/8 OF A CENT ON QUIET MARKET
    175 11 RUBBER DROPS 1/8 OF A CENT ON QUIET MARKET RUBBER lost J of a cent on the Singapore rubber A% market yesterday and August first grade closed at 86 7/8 cents a lb. on a featureless market. There were small acceptances from overseas ior lower grades. The price of forward
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    Pepper up $15 a picul
    90 11 Business was done in copra i in Singapore yesterday at $23% per picul f.o.b. with further buyers. Coconut oil was reported j at $37% with further buyer*. On the Singapore produce exchange, small transactions took place in all varieties of peoner on an f.o.b. basis.
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    Timber firm may issue new shares
    150 11 Timber firm may issue new shares AT an extraordinary general meeting of the British Borneo Timber Co. Ltd., to be held In Londor on Sept. 12, resolutions wil be proposed to capitalist £120,000, now part of the general reserve, by the issue to stockholders o 1,200,000 shares of 2s. each
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    Sulphur for India
    51 11 India has been allocated 30,000 tons of sulphur for the second half of the current year by the International Materials Conference in Washington.- India will also be able to import 2,000 tons, since she did not use up all her allocation for the first part of the
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    New York price
    21 11 NO. I K.S.S. September (in All U.S. cento): Monday's Tuesdays closing closing MAS traded J0.65 bid Tone:— Dull.
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    JULY RUBBER HARVEST
    74 11 Harrisons and Crosfleld (Malaya) Ltd., report that rubbei harvested last month was m follows: Allenby Rubber Co., Ltd. 30.00 C lb.: Benta Rubber Estate* Ltd 66,000 Ib.; Jeram Kuantan Rubber Estate Ltd. 65,000 lb.; Kundong Rubber Estate Ltd. 36,000; Mentakab Rubber Co., L*. 68,000 lb.; Sungel Bagan
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    SWISS FAIR
    30 11 Twenty-flve Singapore businessmen have made inquiries at the Swiss Consulate In Singapore about the National Fair at Lausanne, Switzerland, to b e held from SM)t. 13 to 28.
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    Industrials neglected
    165 11 TINS were slightly easier and dull on the Singapore share market yesterday. Industrials were neglected and rubbers Ignored. Price changes announced yesterday by the Malayan Share Brokers' Association were:- i B»yert Srllm Fed. Dispensary 1.65 1.75 Fraser Neave Ords 3 75 3.85 H kong Sliai Bank (H-kong reg.)
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    SUNGEIBIDOR
    14 11 Sungei Bidor Tin Dredging Ltd 1 mined 675 piculs of tin last month'
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    SHIPS ALONGSIDE THE GODOWNS
    152 11 gHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board Rodowns or expected there at 7 a.m. today are:— Gexlown 1/2. Cameronla; 4/J. Or.ana: Coal Plant. Subador; 67. Denbighshire; 8/» Steel Kins: lj. Kenner>ra: 13/14. RadDCTßhire: 15/18. Patroclus: 18 Ceylon: 19/30. Wosang; North Wall SedlU; J3/M. Benvenue. #.|>. launder: 37/2fc
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    Rovers succeed in Div. 1 title quest
    376 12 MISSON AND AVTAR SPARK 7-2 VICTORY Rovers 7; Kota Raja 2. ROVERS SPORTS CLUB'S sometimes perilous quest of the Singapore Amateur F.A. I irst Division championships came to a climax on a triumphant note yesterday. With a fighting display, cosmopolitan Rovers overcame their
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    UK Cricket: close of play
    142 12 LONDON. W«d. T»HE county cricket close of plsy scores today are: Derbyshire f Glamorgan at Derby. Derbyshire 182; Glamorgan 27 for three. Gloucestershire v Leicestershire at Cheltenham. Gloucester 274 (Crapp 110); Leicestershire 30 for none. Kent t Middlesex at Dover. Middlesex 100; Kent 163 for
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    INDIA FIELD SAME TEAM
    77 12 LONDON. Wed. India's team to meet England in the fourth and final Test match which begins at the Oval tomorrow will be unchanged from that which lost the third Test at Manchester last month. The side is: V. S. Hazare. (captain), H. K. ArthiKari, V. Mankad,
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    26 FOR EBOR HANDICAP
    109 12 LONDON. Wed Twenty-six first and final acceptors for the Ebor Handicap, to be run over a mile and three <aarters at York on Wednesday, Aug. 20. were published today. They are. with weights: Philantrope 9.2; Star Spangled Banner 9; Holmbush 8.13; Tufthunter 8.12; Le Tellier and
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    GOVERNMENT AIDS S.A.A.A.
    77 12 rpHE Colony Government 1 heads the list of donations which has enabled the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association to send a contingent to Malayan championships at Ipoh this weekend. Singapore are the defending champions. Following is the list of donations: Government 5M S.O.S.C. members 365 S.O.S.C. 259 S.C.AJI.F.
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    Malays to play Chinese
    61 12 The team to represent Malays in their Community League game against Chinese at Jalan Besar stadium on Sunday will be selected from the following: O. Angullia. Arsnad Jaflar, Johan, Hassan, A. Samijan, Abdul Rahman Jr., Yassln, Aman, Rashld Glman. Ismail Bujang, Khamis Bedol, Harlth, Omar Awang,
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    Malayan A.A.A. draw for heats
    736 12 IPOH, Wednesday. rnHE DRAW for the heats of the Malayan A.A.A. 1 championships here on Friday and Saturday was made today and resulted as follows: 440 yds. hurdles —Heat 1: Chan Onn Leng (Spore) Sim Ah Keat (Pk.) Maj Collins (Sel.), J. Howard (N S.).
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    PWD, SCRC DRAW IN KEY MATCH
    182 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. WITH P.W.D. Sports Club and TT Selangor Chinese R.C. drawing 1-1 today In the key match of the FAS Div 2 (South), three teams have to play off for the championship. They are these two sides and Selangor Club. All three
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    TODAY'S SOCCER
    33 12 COOMMUNITY LEAGUE: Europeans v Indonesians at Jalaa Besar. DIV. 34: Immigration Dept. v Wonderladx at CYMA. BUSINESS HOUSES: I.CX v Breweries, Clerical Union; Malayan Airways v East Asiatic at Farrer Park.
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    PADDER TENNIS
    42 12 PO'JT DICKSON, Wed— Padder Tennis has been Introduced in the curriculum of the Government English School, Port Dickson. This game is played on the same lines as lawn tennis but wooden bats are used Instead of of the usual rackets.
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    PEI WAH HAVES FOR IPOH TODAY
    115 12 TKNf, Pel Wah, Singapore's champion woman sprinter and hardier who returned to the Colony from the Olympic Games yesterday, leaves for' Ipoh today with part of the Singapore contingent 'to take part in the Malayan AAA championships. Two of the Colony's star athletes sprinter
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    OLYMPIC GEAR FOR M.A.A.A.
    64 12 IPOH, Wed. rvLYMPIC sports gear, specially v Imported from England, costing about $4,000, will be used for the first time in the Malayan athletic championships to be held in Ipoh on Friday and Saturday. Crates are now being opened up by officials of the meet, assisted
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    Taiping Dist. H.A. officials
    56 12 TAIPING, Wed.— Taiping Dtatrlct Hockey Association officials for 1952: President, Mr. A. Duralratnam; vice-presidents, Maj. Down and Mr. O. L. Carson; hon. sec. and treasurer; Mr. J. Francis; committee will comprise of a representative from each affiliate. Clubs Intending to compete In this year's league tournament
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    F.A.S. REDUCES SUSPENSION
    76 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed— The F.A.S. Appeal Board has quashed the suspension Imposed on Port Swettenham Indian Sports Club, who were barred from playing in FAS competitions for the rest of the season. The club was instead given a severe warning for fielding a player who had been
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    IDHA appoints secretary
    39 12 IPOH. Wed.— The Ipoh and District Hockey Association Committee yesterday appointed Mr. Joglnder Singh hon sec. for this season. Entries for tht League, open to teams In the Ipoh area, will close on Sunday, August 31.
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    M.B.S. win again
    42 12 The Kuala Lumpur Methodist Boys School kept their unbeaten record In badminton yesterday when they beat St. Joseph's Institution by six games to nil. In their two previous games In Singapore they had beaten Raffles Institution and Anglo-Chinese School.
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    Trials for Rugby tour begin
    334 12 By SECOND ROW rE FIRST of the trials prior to selecting the team to travel to Ceylon for the All-India Rugby tournament was held on the Singapore Cricket Club padang yesterday. It was pleasing to see so many had seemed to have taken advantage of
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    KL boys held to a draw
    197 12 A GREAT 40 yards run for a goal In the last minute of play by Granville Grosse enabled St. Joseph's Institution to hold the Kuala Lumpur Methodist Boys School to a 2-2 draw in a soccer match on the 9.J.1. ground yesterday. This was
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    42 12 MEMBERS of Singapore's Olympic contingent who returned from Helsinki by Qantas-BOAC yesterday. From left are Ten; Pel Wan, Chay Weng Tew, E. Strickland, Neo Chwee Kok and Lon bin Mohamed Noor. Kee Soon Bee came last behind the group. Straits Times picture.
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    Chay Weng Yew impressed the Russians
    192 12 Chay Weng Yew impressed the Russians QINGAPORE'S best performer at the Olympic Games, Chay Weng Yew, said on his return yesterday that he had not been able* to reach peak form at Helsinki Weng Yew, who finished sixth In the featherweight class In the welghtlifting competition and won Singapore's only
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    DIVISION 2 SOCCER
    64 12 Yesterdays SAFA Div. 2 soccee matches resulted: Woodbridge Hosp. R.C.«6, Tiong Bahru Rangers 1. (Scorers: Ismail 2 Osman, Mat Noor, and Kirn San: Pee Ann for Rangers). Match played at CYMA. Marine Dept. S.C. 7, Singapore Medical Workers Union 1. (Scorers: All Sagor 2, Omar Awang 2,
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    WOODBRIDGE HOSP. SPORTS
    54 12 Woodbridge Hospital Recreation Club will hold their annual athletic sports on Sunday Aug. 24. There will be a One Mile Invitation race, open to members of any club affiliated to the Singapore A.A.A.* Entries for this event should. be sent to Mr. J. Murray, hoo. secretary, Woodbridge
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    S.J.I. CRICKET
    55 12 St. Joseph's Institution cricket team to meet English and Australian boys on holiday in Malaya at the S.J.I. ground tomorrow at 1 p.m. Is: A. Delilkan, E. Montelro, P. Martens, E. Wijesinghe. C. Fernan. do, Jameg Quek, G. Pillar, X, Tessensohn. E. Wicks, S. Wickj, Low Kee Seng,
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