The Straits Times, 22 August 1952

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    20 1 2,2 AUGttg The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS SIXTEEN PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1952
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    79 SILENT PEOPLE GET 4 DAYS TO NAME THE KILLER GANG
    92 1 Detention camp after Monday if they still don't talk THE HIGH COMMISSIONER, General Sir Gerald Templer, speaks to the people of Permatang Tinggi, where a Chinese assistant resettlement officer was murdered. Twelve people saw the murder but not one
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    BLOOD OF INNOCENT MEN ON YOUR HANDS9 SIR GERALD TELLS THEM
    1204 1 BLOOD OF INNOCENT MEN ON YOUR HANDS 9 SIR GERALD TELLS THEM From LESLIE HOFFMAN PERMATANG TINGGI, THURSDAY. THE 79 SILENT VILLAGERS OF PERMATANG TINGGI, itf A PROVINCE WELLESLEY, WHERE LAST FRIDAY A CHINESE ASSISTANT RESETTLEMENT OFFICER WAS SHOT DEAD, WERE TODAY GIVEN FOUR DAYS IN WHICH TO SPEAK —OR
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    HALF A MILE AWAY THERE WERE SMILES
    251 1 A I TER the sullenness and silence or tne people of the old village of Permatang Tinggi, General Sir Cierald Templer was greetrd with smiles and affection when he visited the new village of the same name half a mile away. Ninety families
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    Watch kept on 'Jap bachelors'
    71 1 CANBERRA. Thurs.— AusI tralia has sent telegrams to Paris and Tokyo for iniormation about a report that France had invited Japan to j send 2,000 young bachelors as immigrants to the South Pacific island of New Caledonia. Mr. Richard Casey, Exter- nal Affairs Minister, told
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    8 ILL AFTER BREAKFAST
    31 1 t .Singapore family of eight WM aunt to hospital withj I poiscnlng after taking I I _at cooked in well I contaminated with ant.->nalaria! oil. discharged later
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    S'pore gives £1,000 to flood fund
    73 1 S'pore gives £1,000 to flood fund r THE Singapore Government is giving £1,000 to the Lynmouth Flood Fund far the relief of those made homeless earlier this week. The Governor, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, today sent a telegram to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Lyttelton, telling the
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    Hong Kong aid
    29 1 HONG KONG, Thurs.— The South China Morning Post today opened a fund for Devon's flood vic'ims with con- tr'butior-s already received of almost HK$l,OOO (£62 10*.).'
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    Two Gurkhas killed in gallant charge
    77 1 Two Gurkhas killed in gallant charge KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A PATROL of 12 men of the 1/2 Gurkhas, though outnumbered by 39 well-arm-ed terrorists who were in prepare^ ambush positions, charged into the enemy in the face of heavy fire in the Kota Tlngg! area of Johore yesterday. In the
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    Mac Donald sees Soekarno
    19 1 JAKARTA, Thurs.—President Soekarno vssterday received In audience the Com-missioner-General for Southeast Asia, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald.
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    Rubber men fly back
    53 1 The three Malayan delegates to the working committee meeting of the Rubber Study Group in London returned to Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday. They were Mr. O. A. Spencer, Member for Economic Affairs, Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, Member for Hom e Affairs and Mr. Khoo Teik Ec,
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    Girl, 21, smoked opium
    37 1 A 21- YEAR-OLD girl, Chong Poh Kwai, was one of 30 people who pleaded guilty in the' Singapore police court yesterday to a charge of opium-smoking. She was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment.
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    Kashmir trip
    29 1 NEW DELHI, Thurs.— The Prime Minister Mr. Nehru, left New Delhi today for an eight-day visit to Kashmir. It was described officially as a "holiday trip."— AJ».
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    THREE RED BOSSES KILLED IN A DAY
    111 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. SECURITY Forces yesterday killed three Com- munist bosses. They eliminated two other terrorists, wounded three and captured one. NO. 1 RED BOSS killed was Choy Yen. alias Choy Yuen, branch committee member in the Kuala Pilah. Negri Sembilan. area and
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    The evil record of the people of silent village
    218 1 The evil record of the people of silent village PERMATANG TINGCI, Thursday. T<HE High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald r Templer, accused the people in Permatang Tinggi of six crimes of silence when he spoke to them today. "Let me tell you of your evil record," he said. "On FEB. 2,
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    14 drowned at Canton
    35 1 HONG KONG, Thurs.— A report from Canton said a fully loaded river steamer, carryins about. 100 passengers, capsized today. Fourteen passengers were drowned and the others were rescued by sampans.— U.P.
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    RICE IS GOING UP TO 37 CENTS
    125 1 RICE IS GOING UP TO 37 CENTS rfSRE price of rationed rice in Singapore will be up by five cents a kati as from Sept. 1. The new price will be 37 cents. A Government statement last night said that the present price of 32 cents had been maintained because
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    Ship breaks in half
    44 1 DOVER. Thurs. The American ship Western Farmer broke in two and sank in the Channel last night after a collision with a Norwegian tanker, but all her crew were rescued. The Norwegian tanker, the Bjorgholm, was not badly damaged .—Reuter
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    SUPPORT FOR JAPS DENIED
    57 1 HONG KONG, Thurs. Mr. Aw Boon Haw today denied reports that he had offered support and aid to 100 Japanese businessmen to assist and promote economic relations with South-East Asia. He also described as completely untrue another report that he had offered to invest, through a
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    MISS TRUMAN IN FINLAND
    214 2 Wo extra guards HELSINKI, Thursday. pOUCE said last night that no extra security measures will be taken when Miss Margaret Truman arrives today for a two-day visit apart from the usual precautions. An American Legation spokesman said the police have agreed to provide a detective to
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    QUIET DAY FOR A CHANGED PRINCESS
    120 2 QUIET DAY FOR A CHANGED PRINCESS LONDON, Thurs. pRINCESS MARGARET celebrates her 22iid birthday today at Balmoral Castle. For once, there is no Mayfair gossip about an impending engagement. Cue by one. the leading suitors for her hand have dropped off and Margaret herself is no longer seen In th
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    THE KING WAS TOO TIRED
    44 2 CHICAGO, Thurs. King Feisal of Iraq, 17-year-old former Harrow schoolboy spent yesterday in his hotel room "too tired" for a busy schedule of sightseeing and meetings. The programme arranged by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations was cancelled.— A.P.
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    Officer had code books
    80 2 NEW TORE, Thurs. SECRET code books and aerodrome maps are reported to have been seized in the home of a former Cbinese Nationalist general accused of defrauding the Nationalists millions of dollars. The General, Pan; Tsu Mow, former chief of a Chinese air force purchasing commission
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    'Saucers' over Formosa
    32 2 TAIPEH, Thurs. Two flying saucers" were reported seen yesterday over Keelung. Formosa's northern port. They disappeared at a high speed towards the southeast, after having made a circle.— Reuter-AAP.
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    Airport arrest
    35 2 BAGHDAD, Thurs.— Capt. Sharef ELdin Ahmed, of the Turkish Army, was arrested by customs poflice with 10,000 in gold, jewellery and foreign currencies as he was leaving Baghdad airport Dy plane yesterday.— A.P.
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    Africans against merger
    97 2 LUSAKA, N. Rhodesia, Thurs. r THE PEOPLES of Northern Rhodesia would rather die than join the planned Central African Federation, Chief Mwata Kasemebe of Llunda, told Mr. Attlee, British Labour Party leader, yesterday. He said that all African people of Northern Rhodesia were opposed to federation. If
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    Stalin may give up key post to take up role of adviser
    290 3 REORGANISATION, OF CO]fi}fl]NlST PARTY LONDON, Thursday. UNDER THE REORGANISATION of the Russian Communist Party announced in Moscow yesterday* Premier Josef»Stalin may give up the key post of secretary-general of the. party, which he has held since 1924, and
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    Atom test within a fortnight
    105 3 MELBOURNE, Thurs. rpHF atomic weapons test "n Australia may take place v thin the next fortnight, newspaper reports said today. The tests are to be held on the Monte Bello islands, off thr Australian west coast. Sir John Cockcroft, Director of Atomic Energy Research at
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    POLIO IN EUROPE
    44 3 DUESSELDORF, Thurs. Infantile paralysis has killed 140 people and affected 2,300 more in North Westphalia since January, health officials said here. Reports from Copenhagen *aia 20 new cases of infantile paralysis were being taken to I il there every day Reufr.
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    Storms sweep north Italy
    48 3 ROME. Thurs. Violent storms swept the northern half of Jtaly last night causing landslides and widespread local floods but a hot southern wind held the rest of the country in a heatwave. At Bolzano, a cloudburst brought two houses crashing to the ground. Reuter.
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    Talks on Manus bases plan
    48 3 CANBERRA, Thurs.—American use of air and naval bases on Manus island in the Pacific is to be discussed soon by military representatives of the three-power Pacific Pact (ANZUS). the External Affairs Minister Mr. C. Casey, tof.d the House of Representatives t .1 Routpr
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    Malan law stops drink to Chinese
    96 3 JOHANNESBURG, T... THE Chinese Consul-Gener- al, Mr. Ting Shao-ting, has protested to the South African Premier, Dr. Malan, on the discrimination against local Chinese under the South African liquor laws. A Government notice has withdrawn the privilege th? Chinese have enjoyed for nine years
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    Macao blockaded as talks drag on
    114 3 PORTUGUESE authorities h^SSTSi^ demand that Macao accept responsibility for £?nS° S mm rtar and machi «egun border cILhS before China reopens the frontier, reliable sources said today. Mtcao's mediators crossed into China for the ninth nme yesterday to try to end China's virtual economic
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    FAROUK PAYS AN INSTALMENT
    54 3 E CAPRI, Sun. X-KIXG Farouk of Egypt today paid about half of his two-week overdue bill for his 30-room suite in the Paradise Hotel here. The manager said he had been forced to cut his rates for Farouk in order to get payment, because tradesmen were
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    Air budget up
    18 3 PARIS. Thurs.— The cabinet decided yesterday to raise another U5548,500,000 for France's Air Force budget
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    Germans lose a leader
    32 3 BONN, Thurs— Dr. Kurt Schumacher, aged 57, West German Socialist leader, died last night. Dr. Schumacher had a severe stroke last Christmas and never recovered from it —Reuter.
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    Forced savins
    50 3 HONG KONG Thurs.-The newspaper Sing Tao Jih Pao said today that new Chinese regulations governing remittances from oversea Chinese were compelling the recipients to convert their money to peoples currency bank notes, and to deposit all remittances in the nearest branch of the Peoples Bank of China. Reuter
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    U.S. casualties
    19 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. U.S. battle casualties in Korea are 115,373, which is 688 more than last week— AP.
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    22 U.K. flood bodies found
    58 3 22 U.K. flood bodies found FLOHDON, Aug. 21. Lynmouth, the wrecked seaside resort and centre of the Devon and Somerset flood area, 22 bodies of resident and holiday-makers killed by last week-end s ragIng floods have now been recovered. All but three have been identified. The official list of the
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    MORE TURKS
    27 3 PUSAN, Thurs. Pretty girls with flowers, two brass bands and South Korean Government officials turned out to welcome a contingent of Turkish soldiers today.— Reuter.
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    PARTY LEVY
    36 3 LONDON, Thurs.— Members of the Soviet Communist Party will in future have to pay between 1% per cent to 3 per cent of their wages as a membership fee under revised party rules.— Reuter.
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    Lost in caves
    34 3 MUOTATHAL (Switzerland) Thurs.— Rescue workers penetrated nearly a mile under the Alps yesterday through a maze of damp tunnels known as "Hell's Hole" without finding four missing Swiss underground explorers.— A.P.
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    Kremlin talks
    18 3 MOSCOW, Thurs.— The Chinese Premier, Mr. Chou En-lal. visited Stalin In the Kremlin last night.— A.P.
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    73 3 WATCHING an isolated intestinal segment being measured for anti-spasmodic activity of a test drug are (from left) Dr. Mohamed Abdel Salam El Ayadi biochemist; Dr. Zakaria Massoud Bey, chest swgeon; Dr. Mohamed Bey Gaafar and Dr. Hassan Bey Abou El Seoud, internal specialists; and Dr. Amin Tarkhan Bey, histologist. The
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    CABINET MEETS ON OIL CRISIS
    139 3 LONDON, Thursday. AT an emergency meeting of the Cabinet yester- day, the second called during the Parliamentary summer recess, the British reply to Persia's recent offer to negotiate on compensation for the Anglo-Iranian OH Company was discussed. Britain may accept the offer of negotiations, provided
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    MONKS SET UP A BEAUTY PARLOUR
    52 3 OSAKA, Thurs. TIHE monks at Tennoji temple have set op a beauty parlour at half price— -and now plan a hotel and restaurant. The black robed monks have turned traders to pay for upkeep of the temple. There has been a postwar drop in
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    'SILLY TO BE SCARED' SAYS EISENHOWER
    138 3 NEY YORK Thurs. ipENERAL Elsenhower, Re\X pulican presidential candidate, asked tonight for the devotion of United States energies to peace "and not to the sterile, negative, stupid business of war." He said the government In power "Implies the philosophy of the l€tt." Oen. Eisenhower
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    LONDON STOCKS
    252 3 LONDON. Than. OuafNBSS on the London Stock Kxchang* lmprored considerably today. Major interest was centred on domestic issues, with trading In gtttedged stocks broadening considerably. Trading In Industrials expanded and textile, tobacco and stor* snares appreciated generally. Closing prices ol selected stocks were: CodsoU M) +1 BANKS Chartered
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    LONOONTIN PRICE
    27 3 LONDON, kwg. 21.— Cash Bayers £9C2; SeHers £963; Forward Bayers £941; Sellers £942; Settlement; 1 962 (up £8). Turnover. a.m. 5C tons; p.m 45 tons.
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    U.K. RUBBER
    29 3 LONDON, Aug 21.— -Spot J6d.. j Sept.2s%d., Oct.-Dec. 25 Wd., Jan.- Mar. 25d.. April-June Ji'/id., Aug. cSJ. 25%d^ Sept. cJLt. 25d M Oct. cJJ. Js^d. Market: Dull.
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    THEY KEEP THE TRAINS MOVING
    497 4  -  WRIGHT By ALL the races- of Malaya are represented in the 2,304 workers in the Railway Workshops at Sentul a few miles from the centre of Kuala Lumpur. They are Indians (50 per cent.) Chinese (22 percent.), Malays (20 per cent.), Eurasians and others (6
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      84 4 AIL THE RACES OF MALAYA... Laxman Singh (right) and v<**^\ Inche Mohammed, a Mus- C--: lim Bengali, work together V A on a frame for a tender JSTREMCTH Jfe&Jz I J <M y/ if m Malaya>s Strength depen<fs 'V i wd upon Maia y a jmporting F, <^ed at home.
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    SHE EMBRACED ME AND CAR CRASHED, SAYS DRIVER
    433 5 SHE EMBRACED ME AND CAR CRASHED, SAYS DRIVER Inquest told of birthday night drinks pOLICE Inspector R. A. Lawrence told the Singapore Coroner yesterday that when he was driving his fiancee, Miss Annie Chia, home after celebrating his 31st birthday, she suddenly embraced him in his car in Crawford Street.
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    Dr. Purceil visits S'pore squatters
    130 5 Dr. Purceil visits S'pore squatters £)R. VICTOR PURCELL, British expert on Chines' affairs, who arrived in Singapore on Wednesday on a fact-finding mission for the Malayan Chinese Association, had a busy day yesterday visiting squatter areas in the Colony. He was accompanied by his adviser, Mr. Francis Carnell, and M.C.A.
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    He tried to bribe P.C.
    80 5 When Govinder Singh a 37-yehr-oid labourer, was found with two tin* of stolen paint, he offered $3.50 to a policeman, the Singapore Third District Court was told yesterday. He was fined $500 for bribing a policeman and $30 for having two tins of stolen paint.
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    Did not report
    27 5 MUAR, Thurs.— For not reporting the birth of his child to the Registrar of Births and Deaths, Abdul HamkJ was Hned $10 at Muar
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    S'PORE DAIRY
    158 5 a-rotu. »o:.j«i cum an <i V. M.C.A Vocat.onaj guidance com- career talk on "Nursing" u< Miss E a Btatou: at YMCA rc 1 ard I Ro d 8 Bm Chairman: Dr L M. Ram WE«sLET M.Y.F.:— Community aeryice meeting at etiuren halj. Fort Canning Road 7.45 am. Speaker:
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    THREE MEN IN A VAN ROBBED OF $6,000
    95 5 THREE men told Singapore police yesterday that two Chinese with guns robbed them of $6,000 in a van and escaped in a car The men— a driver otll collector and shop assistant -said the cat blocked a path the van was going
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    More Govt. quarters
    49 5 BATU PAHAT, Thurs.— More Government quarter* are to be built In Batu Pahat. There will be two Class Seven quarters each at Jalan Kluang and Gunong Soga, and two Class Nine quarters at Pasir.Tinggi. Two blocks of barracks will be added to the present police barracks.
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    Charged with suicide bid
    47 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Tay Yeow Cho, a 17-year-old girl, was admitted to the General Hospital suffering from the effects of drinking washing soda A charge of attempting to commit suicide has been framed against her rind was mentioned in the police court today.
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    36 5 ME. KENNETH KAI-YIN CHAN, eldest son of Dr S. N. Chan, Hong Kong Legislative Councillor, and his bride, Amerioan-born Miss Mary Martha Sau-yin Lo. after their wedding at St. Georges Church, Hanover Square. London. A.P. picture.
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    First radio show in Fed.
    61 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Kuala Lumpur amateur radio enthusiasts will see the latest transmitters when the first fadio communication exhibition to be held in the FedeI ration opens at the Chinese Assembly Hall qn Aug 30. for two days. The organisers the Selangor Amateur Radio Society,
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    Fish industry needs revising
    182 5 POOR MARKETING SYSTEM SINGAPORE'S fish distribution system is 25 years oat of date, said Dr. R. A. Hickling, Fisheries Adviser to the Colonial Office, before returning; to Britain yesterday after a month's tour of Malaya. "The biggest problem facing the flsh industry is the poor marketing
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    Denmark to invade Asian cloth market
    127 5 T)£NMARK is to make a big drive in South-East Asia to create a market for her textiles. The Danish textile industry Is expanding and is producing socks, shirts and singlets. The drive win Degln In S ngapore at the end of this month with
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    Girl dies of caustic soda
    54 5 IPOH, Thurs. Chow Kwei Fun, a 19-year-old girl, who was admitted to the Ipoh Hospital yesterday morning, died last night of suspected caustic soda poisoning. The girl was found unconscious outside the kitchen of her home In Market Lane by her parents early yesterday morning
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    Anniversary
    24 5 BATU PAHAT, Thurs. The Chinese Recreation Club. Hatu Paha 1 will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a *en party and dance on Mon-
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    Menon photos for India
    57 5 DHOTOGRAPHS ot Mm. Vilasini Menon, Singapore Le- Kisl-itive Councillor, and htr lawyer-husband, Mr C G. M°non, »r« to b e BMit to the Indian police. Both arc wanted by the Singapore police Mr Mcnon on a charge of criminal breach of tract of 54,000 and Mrs.
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    ASSAULT ON 'BUS': ARREST
    96 5 ASSAULT ON 'BUS': ARREST A SINGAPORE enlisted soldier has been arrested in connection with an assault last Saturday on the employees of a private bus company running between Park Road and Alexandra Road. The manager of the company, Mr. Kwek Seng Inn, said yesterday: "Military police came to our office
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    Exhibition of calligraphy
    49 5 IPOH, Thurs— A 114-year-old calligraphic, Mr. Yong Chao Hsien, will demonstrate his artistic writing of Chinese characters in aid of local charities. This morning, Mr. Yong met officials of the Perak Chinese Chamber of Commerce to plan the exhibition. He arrived in Malaya four years ago.
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    SOLD $3,000 GOODS FOR $10
    664 6 Ex-manager telh court: I was told to sell at lowest price PENANG, Thursday. MAKING his defence today, R. A. CoulsonGilmcr, former Penang manager of Shriroj (China) Ltd., told the Sessions Court that on one (H-casion he offered a dealer $3,000 worth of a cerlain product*
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    Boy pulled off trick on dry-cleaner
    81 6 RAM DAS, 20, who cheated a dry-cleaner out of a pair of sharkskin trousers worth $30, pawned them later for $2. a Singapore magistrate j vf&s told yesterday. Ram Das. was d: scribed by the prosecutor. Inspector A. D. Jacobs, lus "the s~n of
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    Cambodia Scouts sing at campfire
    43 6 PENANG Thurs. Boy Bcouts from Cambodia were loud'.y cheered last night when they render^ the French s-n?. Alouette. at an internat'f 1 carr.pflre held at R >fk -i. Taijons Bungah. programme was reCorrii'd by Radio Ma r aya
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    Recruiting in Ipoh today
    30 6 IPOH. Tluirs. Recruiting team for the Federation RegUneni will be in Ipoh tomorrow and Saturday. Intending applicants should themselves at Arcadia. Volunteer Headquarters In Tambun Road.
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    Aug. 31 is Hari Raya
    70 6 KUALA LUMPUR Thursday. MUSLIMS throughout the Federation looked in vain for the new moon last night. Today «he Keeper of the Rulers' Seal Inche Mustapha Albakri. announced that in accordance with the decision of Ihe Conference of Rulers. Hari Raya Haji wnu'd fall on Sunday
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    HAD RED PAPER, GAOLED
    99 6 HAD RED PAPER, GAOLED LAY SIN, a 25-year-old shopkeeper, will spend the next 1% years of his life in gaol for having a Communist document. This penalty was imposed on him by Mr. Tan Ah Tah the Singapore First District Judge, who convicted Neo of a charge under the Emergency
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    Winston, 7, plays his solo
    67 6 SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Winston Hollowar giving a solo at a violin recital presented by pupils of Mr. Dirk Kalf at the Singapore Victoria Memorial Hall last night in aid of the Good Shepherd Nuns Girls' Home Building Fund. In the background are soloists (from left) Leßoy Peterson,
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    LANCERS REMEMBER BATTLE OF MOY
    153 6 Famous Western Front victory IPOH, Thursday. THE Anniversary of the Battle of Moy, one of I■* the most brilliant mounted actions on the Western Front in the first World War, in which the 12th Royal Lancers played the leading rolewill be celebrated by the Regiment
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    HEAD OF IPOH INNER WHEEL
    77 6 IPOH, Thurs. The new president of the Inner Wheel of the Rotary Club of Ipoh, Mrs. Sarmukh Singh, was installed yesterday evening at her home. Raja Arif Shah bin Rpja Harun, president of Ipoh Rotary, conducted the ceremony, which was followed by a cocktail party.
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    HE PEDALS A TRISHA TO AID MURDERED MAN'S FAMILY
    172 6 HE PEDALS A TRISHA TO AID MURDERED MAN'S FAMILY PENANG. Thurs. r VO raise funds for the family of his murdered headmaster, Mr. David Chen, a grateful ex-pupil, Mr. Tan Choo Pang, now principal of a Chinese school in Pro--vince Wellesley, is pedalring a trisha in the streets of Penang
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    58 registered for the army
    59 6 TAIPING, Thurs. During the two-day recruiting campaign for the Federation Regiment which ended here today, 289 applicants were interviewed—26s Malays, 21 Indians and three Chinese. One hundred and ninetytwo were rejected without a test and 39 failed the medical and educational tests. Of the 58
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    Hooded men take $5,000
    63 6 SEREMBAN, Thurs.— Three black-hooded men held up a I 50-year-oJd Sikh at Rahang Kechil, near Seremban, early this morning and escaped with $5,000. The men, who wore green i shirts, held Saudagar Singh, a Government pensioner and former warder of Seremban i Gaol, at pistol-point while
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    MG A lottery: Bigger and more prizes planned
    90 6 IPC-H. Thurs. MEMBERS of the Executive; Sweep Committee of thej Malayan Chinese Association t will discuss on Sunday, at! Kuala Lumpur, whether theyi should increase the total j value of the next lottery, s">ieriuled to be drawn on Oct 5. The present
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    FARMERS SIGN UP FOR GOVT. FOOD SCHEME
    200 6 SINGAPORE Land OfTice has begun 'unoHivial registration" of farmers for the 2,566-acrcs estate at Sungei Bedok, which the Government proposes to open up, for 'food production. But, farming lots may not be allotted until a land survey, to determine how much of this
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    1,000 acres ready for colonists
    123 6 1,000 acres ready for colonists IPOH. Thurs. A TOTAL of 1.000 acr ttie 4.5D0 aci .pr slng the Ciiangpt Jong irrig >.- tiaa sOiieme are imnicdia'. y avaUbs for co'.onte'it n purposes and cultivat.on )f pad:. Tills was rev.aled today by tn3 Perak branch of t ie Ma'.ayan Chinese Associatii.-n
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    20 WANT TO PLAY OBOE
    66 6 About 20 candidates h%/e applied for v the two scholar- ships offered by the Siugaj pore Music Society to learn to play the oboe and the bassoon. They will be intcrj viewed shortly. The scholarship covers tuition fees fcr four years. Candidates are between the
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    Tax prices
    48 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The following va'.ues have been fixed fcr assessing Customs duties for the period from today to Aug. 7. Rubber 87 cents per Ib. copra $388 per ton, coccnut oil 5632 per ton, palm oil I $977.50 per ton. palm kernels P374 per ton.
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    'Incredible progress' of trade unions is praised
    257 7 INSPIRATION TO OTHER ASIAN COUNTRIES KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT in Malaya has made "incredible progress" in the past year, Mr. D. Mungat, secretary of the Asian Regional Headquarters of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, told Pressmen in Kuala
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    WAITING TIME SAME FOR ALL
    201 7 And charge not true suptervisor MR. G C. C. BLAKSTAD, the Federation supervisor of export duties in Singapore, yesterday denied that it took four hours to clear tax-payers at his office. He said it took under two hours. Mr. Blakstad was referring to a complaint
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    Each looks after its own
    77 7 SEREMBAN, Thurs.— Both the Education and Public Works Departments are responsible for the maintenance of buildings built by their respective departments, Government stated at yesterday's meeting of the Negri Sembilan Council of State in reply to by a Malay Unofficial, Inche Baba bin Ludek. Inche
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    Blackout schedule
    253 7 Cl 851.4ri0.N3 UaMc lo load >tird<Jlni today:— OAT i v *orlh Ku.. feiree Kd.. Som-nii-rviiir ul., L*edoa Kd., Victoria r« Nauiui Mill, Hi. moral Kd.. MM! Kd.. Fslerwa Kd.. vA VVorid. no Hong Oil Mute. Aim. locmermtor. uvrxKi Kd., Matejran *Dd .\.ii.l. ureweriM, O.ctkvtai Co lanclin Kd i
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    ALLOWED BAIL
    29 7 MUAR, Thurs. Charged|at Muar with causing hurt to Tan Pin Suan at Parit Pechah, Othman bin Sarkam was allowed $200 ball and case postponed to Aug. 26.
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    SEVEN IN A CAR IN SINGAPORE
    286 7 D *P. P. withdraws case A KUALA LUMPI'R lawyer, Mr. Tan Teow Bok, was acquitted and discharged in a "test case" brought by the Singapore Police in the City Police Court yesterday. I The charg? against Mr. Tan— carrying three persons in the front
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    ROTARY TALK
    29 7 IPOH. Thurs.— The former District Governor of Rotary International. Tuan Hajl Mohamed Eusof bin Mohammed Yusouf, today told Ipoh Rotarians what their duties, responsibilities and functions were.
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    Short of target
    26 7 KLANG, Tnors.— Only 13 youths have volunteered to loin the Federation police 37 short of the requirf* number from Klang and Port Swettenham.
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    Beat-blackout group has not yet met
    134 7 rpHE special committee -I- charged with finding a way to prevent electricity blackouts has not yet met. Mr. F. J. Nicoll, th e Governor of Singapore, appointed the committee 21 days ago. Its chan man, Mr. E. M. F. Fergusson. who represents the Singapore
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    Off to study N.Z.farming
    100 7 Off to study N.Z.farming JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Mr. Foo Khee Lim, of the Agricultual Depa^Lment, Johore, recently awarded a UNESCO Fellowship for a study course tour in New Zealand, left yesterday to begin his course at the Massey and Lincoln Colleges, New Zealand. Mr. Foo, who was educated at the
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    41 7 IT TOOK EIGHTEEN MINUTES, but the white cane was recognised at last. Mr. Reuben Jacob (right) and Mr. Loh Kwong Tip (centre), two blind men, smile as they are led across the street by Mr. Pang Kwong Liam. Straits Times picture.
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    HOW FISH GOT INTO THE MILK
    141 7 HOW a small fish from unclean water once found itself in a bottle of "fresh" milk was told by Singapore's Chief Health Officer, Dr. M. Doraisingham, at the Rural Board meeting yesterday. The doctor said this was proof of the kind of water milkmen
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    Transferred to headquarters
    40 7 .KOTA BAHRU, Thurs.— Inche Ishahak Abdul Hamid, State Information Officer, Kelantan, has been transferred to the headquarters of the department at Kuala Lumpur. He Will leave Kota Bahru next week. Inche Zulkifle. of Ipoh, will succeed him.
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    Speech training
    45 7 MUAR, Thurs. Twentyeight speech training instructors from all over the Federation will attend a course at the Victoria Institution, 'Kuala Lumpur, conducted by Mrs. C. E. Milne, the speech training specialist, who is the headmistress of th e Government English Preparatory Sohool, Muar.
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    Bentong Labour Office changes
    77 7 BENTONO, Thurs. The Labour Office, Bentong, which controls the four .large districts of West Pahang, now has two labour officers, an Indian (Mr. S. R. Manoharan) and a Chinese (Mr. Joseph Wong Chin Wee). Mr. O. N. Nair, the original officer, is now acting Assistant Commissioner
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    NOW THE SERVANTS ASK ALL THE QUESTIONS
    122 7 IJNEMPLOYED domestic servants in Singapore are so particular about their terms dt service that they are now interview ns p'tiployfers instead of belne; interviewed, t Reason: They know they can get a job any time they like. And evfc^yday, scores of amahs, cooks
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    'BAD AREA' PEOPLE MAY PAY FOR EXTRA POLICE
    96 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. TF a "bad area" needs more police protection the area's people can be compelled to pay for the extra force, says an amendment to the Emergency Regulations, gazetted today. This new provision js additional to any punishments that might
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    Blind men face rush traffic to defend principle
    302 7 TWO blind men braved Singapore's rush-hour traffic for 45 minutes yesterday in defence of a principle. Mr Reuben Jacob, blind Braille instructor at the Nantina Home, and Mr. Lok Kwong Yip, a near-sightless pupil, were confident that the public were beginning to
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    Air-cooled cars will be popular
    139 7 Air-cooled cars will be popular T EADING car distributors 1^ in the Colony said yesterday that they" expected aircondltlcned cars to be very popular in Singapore— but they could not say when the first models would arrive. Chrysler and General Motors were working on airconditioned cars, but only General Motors
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  • Obituary
    DEATH
    17 8 NEWS has been r.'celv<>d tf the audden end untimely death in Australia of Mr K.M. Encelmann
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    FUNRAL
    38 8 THE FUNERAL OP MRS CHEONO CHIN NAM who passer! away peacefully on 17.8 1952 will take place On Monday 25.8.195? The cortege will leave 24 Upper Crosg Street for the Peck Shan Teng Cenvtery at 9.00 a.m.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    24 8 THE FAMILY of the late Mr. Wor.g Peng Kin thank friends and relatives who sent wreaths and lent cars during their recent bereavement
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    IN MEMORIAM
    37 8 KONSTANTIN MICHAEL ENGELMANN: Immediate Past President of The Rotary Club of Singapore who pass?d away in Eydney. N.S.W. on Wednsd^v 20th August 1952 at the age of 3 after a life of service above If.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Aug. 22, 1952. Opium Policy Needed
    725 8 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Aug. 22, 1952. Opium Policy Needed A useful purpose has been served by discussing in "this column at the end of May the gravity of the opium evil in the Colony. It has led to a thorough ventilation of the subject, including seme authoritative and
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    The Sarawak Puzzle
    395 8 The moie one reflects upon recent events in Sarawak the more difficult it is to form an opinion as to what is the real state of affairs. A government does not declare a state of emergency in part of its territory unless there is grave danger of
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      'THE POLITICAL CHILDREN ARE ENVIOUS'
      1163 8 'THE POLITICAL CHILDREN ARE ENVIOUS' The Alnrvfchty Dollar and Communalism in Malayan politics? A Malayan Chinese II Association spokesman ripostes "No real and serious politics exist in this country Professed fear of the M.C.A. and its lottery is a bogey" And IN a letter published in your editorial page on
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    Behind the lull in the U.S. presidential campaign
    997 8  -  FRANK OLIVER By NEW YORK pULL-SCALE electioneering doesn't begin in America till earl\ next month August Is being used by presidential candidates on both sides to heal (or at least bridge) partj splits, and to turn enmities into friendships. Both Democrats and
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    On the Margin
    439 8 ri£ in a poke HAVING these last few days blown half the head off an elephant and netted a bag of bats we might well finish off by trapping a Jap in place of a wild pig. The story comes from a Marginal pillar of long standing,
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    MOVE TO EXPEL 2,000 LABOUR REBELS
    193 9 Council say: They have proved their disloyalty to the Party 9 A MOVE to expel the 2,000 "rebel" members of the Singapore Labour Party will be made «t the party general council meeting tomorrow. The movers of the resolution, who are active members of
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    A 'TOOTH' FOR THE GOVERNOR
    39 9 MR. J. F. NICOLL, the Governor of Singapore, receives a tambua (sperm whale tooth) from Mrs. William Debo on the lawn of Government House, yesterday. On the left is Mr. Debo. Straits Times picture.
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    Tentative pact on rubber pay
    227 9 A TENTATIVE agreement on a partial consolida- tion of cost of living and basic wages for field workers and of cost of living bonus and basic wages for tappers was reached at the resumed rubber wage talks between the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association and
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    Call for Asians in new villages
    151 9 MORE Asian workers, particularly Chinese, are iTI needed by the churches in Malaya to answer the challenge of Christian service in the new villages in the Federation, said the Rev. John R. Fleming, general secretary of the Malayan Christian Council, yesterday "Our efforts to
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    45 9 TWENTY SIX YEAR old M.-.s Y. llirose. the first Jam nose girl from Kobe to be awarded a scholarship to Britain, passed through Singapore yesterday. She is on her way to Birmingham where she will spend two years specialising in child education. Straits Times picture.
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    Wanted: Ideas for survival
    46 9 The committee of management of the Singapore Co-operative Society will meet on Monday to frame proposals to enable the stores to run for another year. These proposals will be submitted to the Commis- sioner of Co-operation. Mr.T. I F. Carey, for approval.
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    Police want to see him
    53 9 Singapore police want to contact the man who rang up the Radio Police on Aug. 17 at 3.10 p.m. from telephone ***** about a fight at Chulia Street. The man gave his name as Tan Jeng. The person concerned should contact Inspector Cecil Chang of
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    Tours workshops
    24 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Mr. D. C. MacGillivray, the Deputy High Commissioner, today visited the telecommunications workshops at Brickfields Road, Kuala Lumi pur.
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    GOVERNOR'S GIFT MEANS 'ETERNAL FRIENDSHIP'
    218 9 GOVERNOR'S GIFT MEANS 'ETERNAL FRIENDSHIP' IN a shady spot on the lawn at Government House yesterday, visiting Fijlans, Mr. and Mrs. William Debo, squatted at the feet of the Singapore Governor, Mr. J. F. Nicoil, and chanted wishes for eternal friendship, before handing to him the tooth of a sperm
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    Here to cover Malayan war
    56 9 D,r Hroid Nobl* 5 former i F.iv. Secretary of the American Embassy at Seoul, arrived in Singapore yesterday as Far East correspondent of the 3afurd:y Evev.ins: Post. He j .vil! be here for two years. Dr Noble has just written i bo>-'k on the first
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    Driver fined
    29 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— charged with inconsiderate •rivinf;, Jaflfar bin Zainal. or Rf>tu Pnhnt. was fined $15 in police Court today. The r.s in bis car not injured.
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    House check on dogs
    73 9 IPOH, Thurs. A house-to-house check in Ipoh, Kampar, Taiping and Teluk Anson areas is to be made from Oct. 10 and dogs without vaccination tags will be shot. During the past week, since the start of compulsory vaccination of dogs in these four centres in Perak,
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    Given London radio honour
    28 9 Mr. M. M. Freeland, of tl?e Department o£ Broadcasting, Singapore, has been elected an associate member of the British Institution of Radio Engineers, London.
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    Back in Colony
    26 9 Air Marshal A. C. Sanderson, C.-in-C. Far East Air Force, returned to Singapore yesterday by air from Hong Kong after a two-day visit.
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    ROTARIAN DIES
    88 9 Mr. K. M. Engelmann, immediate past president of thr Singapore Rotary Club, ana managin2 director of the Malayan Wire Mesh and Fencing Company, died ot heart failure in Sydney on Wednesday. Known as "Tinker" to Rotarians all over Malaya, he left the Colony on July 11 with Mrs.
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    New bus route
    34 9 The Singapore Rural Board yesterday gave permission to the Green Bus Co. to run a service from Queen Street to the Princess Elizabeth Estate at the ninth milestone, Bukit Tmnah Road.
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    Malacca goes on air map
    93 9 MALAYAN Airways announced that their Dakota services will be extended to Malacca from Sept. 1. Eight flights will pass through Malacca a week in the mcrninrs afternoons' on Morc'~> 'Vcdneid»y», I Thursdays an 3 S-Uu .clays, i The first Dakota to touch I down on
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    34 9 MISS BERYL WRIGHT, the first Australian to come to Malaya as an expert under the Colombo Plan, who will lecture in the University of Malaya's first social studies course starting soon. Straits Times picture.
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    Katong Hindu festival
    57 9 Hindu officials of the Singapore City Council will conduct the Avani Sathurthi festival at the Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple, in Ceylon Road, Katong, on Aug. 24, from 5 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. The programme for the *ay includes a special abin ceremony, musical inment by Pandit M.
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    Disposed of body charge
    43 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.- Chong Kiew, aged 61, was charged in the Police "Court today with having on Swee Lan Estate, Senai, secretly disposed of the dead body of a child. She claimed trial and was allowed bail in $300.
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    Island that's not in the book
    148 9 Island that's not in the book rERE is an island oft Singapore called Pulau Semakau and 350 people live on it. But officially it isn't there. For Pulau Semakau, off ihe south-west coast of Singapore, is controlled neither by the City Council nor the Rural Board. At the Rural Board
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    Campaign is speeding up
    75 9 rE second day of Singapore's mass anti-smail-pox campaign saw 3,540 people vaccinated yesteday in the city area— an increase of 1,301 over *h» first day's figures. A total of 6,603 peop'. vaccinated on Wednesday from the city ana rural areas. Several factories have asked for vaccination
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    Nine days to apply
    35 9 Applications for 1952 Queen's scholarships and fellowships must be submitted to the Director of Education, Singapore, before Aug. 31. Forms can be had from tho Department of Educa'ion in Fullerton Building.
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    The floods came to Lynmouth
    81 10 WRECKED CARS flop wear ly after being bat^red by the freak floods which swept across Lynmoi.tn. picturesque seaside resort on the north coast of Devon England, killing at least 19 people, with an unknown number missing. The floods were caused by a sudden downpour which
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    SYD BARNES: MCC DICTATED HIS OMISSION'
    360 10 gYD BARNES was omitted from the Australian Test team against the West Indies last season because of M.CC. dictation to the Australian Board of Cricket Control. This startling allegation was made here today by Mr. Jack Shand, one of Sydney's leading lawyers who opened
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    She crawled on her hands into the dock
    148 10 TIHE Singapore City Police Magistrate, Mr. K. J. L. Jamieson. yesterday called for an ambulance when an elderly woman hawker crawled on her hands into the dock and pleaded guilty to causing an obstruction on the road. The hawker, N e Gwee
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    Woman, 88, took caustic soda
    66 10 Lim Kin, a 88-year-old woman, took her own life in her house in Craig Road on July 29 because she had been ill for about a year, the Singapore Coroner* Court was told yesterday. After telling her daughter-in-law. Koh Goh Kia, that she had swallowed
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    SCOUT VISIT
    23 10 BATU, GAJAH, Thurs -A party of Hong Kong Bcouts from the S.E.-Asia Patrol Camp were entertained recently by Batu Gajah Scouts
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    WANDERER JACK IS HEADING FOR HOME
    103 10 as^aser!"** or ss* Tomorrow he leaves for Britain and the home to which he wouid have long ago returned— lf he hac' possessed the fare. After three weeks in Singapore home for penniless people, a passage has been arranged for him la the Bine
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    Had no price tags
    20 10 PARIT BUNTAR, Thurs f° r not displaying price lists in their shops, three shopSXiTSLff* flned $150
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    TRUST CHARGE
    35 10 KUANTAN; Thars. -Tan Se e Klat. 34, was charged in Kuantjm with criminal breach of trust of $182 be\™P n fr .tp. Vow Kirn aai at Valfenfia Estate. He was allowed $200 bail.
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      88 10 SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR Juke Box nuitur: 7.15 3m M 10 a.m. News; 10.05 Matinee- 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 6.15-6 30 Aa SiR s '< 7 30 H °ok Line- and sinker 11 Braas Bands: 1 p.m. Radio C^onlr^Cof'nJT*^^ 730 8 S>POre: 815 BaUad Orch.; 1.30 News; 1.45-2 Dick K^ I 'btoS
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      BRIAN CROZIER talking about...D ENG U E
      477 11 WO films, this week— —at least only one, and that was before it happened. I just had lime to see "The Atomic City" (and I'm glad I did) before I retired to my bed. and waged a struggle to the death with dengue.
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      It's super-colossal
      562 11  -  MANNING By BLACKWOOD fiM^iij £>. l»c xviiile was never a man to do things by nalves in ail his 39 years as a film producer, and in "The Greatest Show On Earth" a dazzling saga of the circus he nearly overwhelms the mind and eye with a welter
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      Atomic rescue
      34 11 T'ze tirUttng climax to "The A^ormc City." Eight-year-o.'.-j LEE AAKER, trying to escape from his kidnappers, falls through a hole in the cliff face ana hangs on till his rescuer reaches him.
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      Call of the ice
      303 11 Call of the ice Fthe days he pursued I without successfully overtaking a film career in Britain, Stewart Granger brought I to his roles the strained expression of a legal witness tormented by an overbearing lawyer. After going to Hollywood, Granger appar- ently decided to be relaxed. Now the only
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    London Log Why the Commonwealth works
    590 12 London Log Why the Commonwealth works LONDON. IT is safe to say that 1 Mr. Bernard Braine. M.P., secretary of the Conservative Imperial Affairs Committee in the House of Commons, has given 4,000 young Christian Democrats from all over Europe something to think about this week. Mr. Braine. who attended
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      77 12 rIE mobile dispensary attached to the Grik T>"spltal Is now visiting th^ ew 1 VUlaites on the Intan Koad I and Titi Oantong once a week pach The Hospital Assistant in Charge, Grik. who is accom- Danying the dispensary, attends to patients and treats them
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      NOMINATED BY THE LABOUR PARTY
      436 12 MANY letters have been appearing in he Press regarding the nominaticn of various Labour candidates for the forthcoming cUy Council elections. Letters have come from the supporters of both Leftists and Rightists. Bit as a neutral Labourite may i be permitted t o express my
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      The power to stifle just inauirv
      250 12 The power to stifle just inauirv 'THIS letter is written, as are many you receive during a blackout. It is written, as are most you receive, by a member of the public whose only method effectively to express his discontent is through the Press. It appears from statements of well
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      46 12 (Address to the Radio Scientist) Ethereal Boffin, stay your bark. And leave McNeice. 1 In his own set. To lurk in peace Your words may cause a spark, But as the tinder's wet You'll still be in the dark COUSIN JACK. Ipoh.
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      Detainees and justice
      172 12 rE chairman of the Advisory Committee on detainees, in his letter, has tried to explain and defend the purpose of such a body. "A Lawyer's" letter in reply to Mr. Justice Brown's letter has clearly proved that the Advisory Committee serves no useful purpose to the detainee
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      ENGINEER WANTED
      178 12 VLTTx.i nlare-jce to i~a re- ported shortage of engireers for the Pasir Panjang !:ower station, and the difficulty in getting the right men (a statement often made by the Singapore City Council), perhaps it would interest your readers to know of what would appear to be a very
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      178 12 The Straits* Times Crossword "H -p~"| p~]~ "1 ttt rr~] tt] I r I zizi""szizi""i~"i~j i l2 !ISZ! I5 Z Zp_>ili__i Bjll_llj __SBBZB~~B 18 1""iiii II 2 'J I 1 J -B_b_bilb_b I i 24 J 1 2S |*l jZj B_ lLl_|l l2Lll__li 1 piZlZlZl^2ZlZlp i. Be m» "sn** 4.
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    Activity in tins and industrials
    106 13 Activity in tins and industrials TINS and Industrials on the Singapore Share Market were firm and steady, brok- ers reporting reasonable acti- I vity. Rubbers were untouched. Pric changes announced by the Malayan Share Brokirs' Association yesterday wcre:INDI'STKIALS V. Hammer atoec 2 27 tobinson Co. Ords. S.57 Ungnpore Traction Ords
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    SHIPPING
    130 13 CHIPS, a.ongstde the Singapore Harbour Board nodowns. or expected tlierc at 7 a.m. today are: 1/2. Sionu; 4, a. Carpentaria: Coal Plant: NortsJernan: 6/7. Limburg; 8/9. Cltv of Birkenhead; 11 SteeJ Designer; 13/14 Sl-.il.oni: 15/18. Benattow: 18. Tarn: .S/20. Merkur. North Wall 3/4 Anubv; tt/M Hat Hins. ii. Bagan:
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    Bank dividend
    32 13 The Mercantile Bank Ltd.. Singapore, has received cabled advice from its London office that an Interim dividend of per cent. has been declared, less tax, payable on Sept. 23. 1962.
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    TIN: $475f A PICUL
    14 13 SINGAPORE, Thurs., Aug. 21— 5475.37y2 a picnl (up 50 cents).
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    Pepper $600 a picul
    106 13 ■pVm the first time since early m this year, Muntok (white) pepper, with continued overseas demand, reached $600 a picul sellers on the Singapore Produce Exchange yesterday. The price has risen by $25 a picul since the end of last week, and yesterday's increase was $10.
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    Australia's biggest trade deficit
    118 13 CANBERRA, Thurs. AUSTRALIA had a deficit of £(A) 576,000,000 biggest In her history— ln her balance of payments during 1951-52. This was disclosed in the latest figures released ty the Acting Commonwealth Statistician. Mr S. R. Carver. Figures published earlier has shown a record deficit of
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    RUBBER DROPS $ CENT ON QUIET MARKET
    226 13 RUBBER DROPS CENT ON QUIET MARKET Buyers cautious: small turnover By Our Market Correspondent |>ÜBBER lost i a cent on the Singapore market yesterday, September first grade closing at 86 i cents a lb. The local market did not follow the better London trend. With buyers cautious and a little
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    CLARIFY TRADE POSITION WITH JAPS, UK TOLD
    133 13 LONDON, Than. rpHE Financial Tillies today 1 urKfd Bri'ain to clarify her attitude to Japan's position as tar mm the general agreement on tariffs and trade was concerned. "Is the (British) Government really prepared to Incur the odium thai would be likely to
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    32 13 HONG KONG, Thurs. Free market currency exchange of Honp, Kong dollars was quoted at the close today ns follows: US$l HK56.38% (cash); HK»6.4l'i (T.T.); HK515.90. One tael ol gold HK$29B.62Vi.
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    New York price
    23 13 T^O. 1 R.S.B. September («n Xll VS. cents): Tuesday's Wednesday's dosing closing 30.15 traded. 30.00 bid 30.20 asked. Tone: Quiet.
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCK MARKET IRREGULAR
    123 13 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Thurs. T"HE Stock Exchange market was irregular today, with prices moving erratically and narrowly. CloslnK middle prices of selected stocks. A3 In Australian currency. Included: Loan 3i% 1856-58 £94 5/16 Australasian Paptr 2.1/8 Aujt. Amal Tin 19/6 Aust Conaol. Ind 40/t
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    The Straits Plantations
    35 13 The Straits Plantations Ltd. report the following outputs for the first quarter of the company's financial year <AP™June) Copra 1.738 tons (1,816): Palm Oil 216 tons (287); Palm Kernels 24 tons (46).
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    59 14 TWO .SiXANGOR girls wlu did very well at the Malayan A.A.A. meet. Annie Clwoaf (rithi, Ne. 135) won the Best Performance Award with a record-breaking lmg jump; Fay Siebel (left) won both sprints and was third in tiie high jump. Both were members of Seiangor's team that wan the womens'
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    8 MEN'S RECORDS: ONLY ONE BY MALAYAN
    932 14 8 MEN'S RECORDS: ONLY ONE BY MALAYAN New de^l needed in Malayan athletic By the Sports Editor fWELVE records were broken at the Malayan Amateur Athletic Association's championships held at Ipoh on Friday and Saturday to make it almost "a record-breaking meeting: for breaking records"— as the Commis-sioner-General, Mr. Malcolm
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    Malayan records up-to-date
    227 14 C current list of Malayan UOctie retards is: MEN yds: 10 sec Pob Kirn (1931), L. D. E. CnOen Kee Yonf Chim (1937), ie Merieui (1951). 220 yds: 21.8 ses L. D E. CmUta (1931). 440 yds: 50 sec. —L. D. E. Cullea (1931). y*«: 1 rate.
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    BEST PERFORMER
    38 14 "RTSI liKWar a iwart hijtan who competed icr Negrl Sembilian, won the Best Performance award at the Ipoh Games for a trfpfe rfctory in the 100 yards, 220 yards and and high jump. Straits Times picture.
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    'NO JUMP'
    66 14 TAX rsc, TOON' (Singapore) is here jMaaping over 41ft. in the hop, sfep and Jump event at the Msdeyu AAA awci at IpoJi bat weekend. However, this tgott was "no j-M»- fey the Eng Yoon went on to take second fto<* wHh 45«. Ilia. wbi«h was Bin. better
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    Three attempts three records
    256 14 Three attempts three records QNN Leng's aehtetemeuU this year have h*m confined chiefly to the Singapore and Malayan meet* And what a brilliant record he has achieved. In his first public appearance over the 440 hurdles at the Singapore meet last month, Onn Leng beat the Malayan record-holder Nk UmdK
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    SIR GERALD GIVES ANNIE A 1953 'MUST
    418 14  - SIR GERALD GIVES ANNIE A 1953 'MUST Ng Yook Yoon By THE FEDERATION'S x athletic "find" of the season fe 16 -year -old Annie Choong, who, comFh l/^* flrst time j the M.A.A.A. champion- walked awsy with the best performance award. mJhfl'S Weck i P revlou<; ly she had achieved
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    Fay, Onn Leng are rising stars
    398 14 Fay, Onn Leng are rising stars rro of the best performances afc the Malayan A.A.A. championships last weekend came from a schoolgirl and a schoolboy, 16-year-old Fay Slebel of Selangor and Chan Onn Leng, of Singapore. At Kuala Lumpur last June I saw Fay win the 100 yards In 12.2aec
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    Time for a MALAYAN tourney
    845 15 COLONY SHOWS WAY THE success of the Singapore Cricket Assocration's senior tournament, run on county cricket championship lines this year, deserves to be known wider afield in M llaya. In the light of the past year's events th* decision to break with tne three-year-old system,
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    HOW THEY FINISHED
    91 15 HPHIS is how the senior tournament teams finished In their sectional champ!oaship3 In 1952: LAP. 8 3 4 1 72 tiinese 8 2 1 3 2 56 iR.C. 8 3 2 1 2 52 ndians 8 2 4 1 1 36 favy 8 3 1 4 24
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    REYNOLDS MOST PROLIFIC SCORER
    538 15 WHILE the past season his not p.ovided Sinea I pore with evidence of Bf»»r '^-"'s" cricketers j the success of several sta warts has been gratifying in a year in which we have probably seen the best j cricket in post-war years. Not all the younger
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    Colony bowling was best feature
    529 15 HPHE best feature of the past season's cricket in A Singapore has been the bowling. There has been greater variety and strength and bowlers have generally, I think, employed every technique of this department. We have not had a right hand spin bowler of Raiji's
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    SENIOR COLONY CHAMPIONS
    60 15 K.A.F. SINGAPORE, 1952 CHAMPIONS: Seated left to right: Cpl. Midgley (Changi), Cpl. Heeremans (Seietar), SAC Cheesman (Teneah), Fl. Lt. H. Wood, captain (T), Fl. Lt. Barton (C), Fl. Lt. James LAC Isherwood. Standing: Cpl. Rush (Umpire, C), Cpl. Murphy (T.), Sgt. Day (S.), Sgt. Davenport (C), AC
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    H.K. invite Aussies
    28 15 HONG KONG, Thurs. 'THE Hongkong Cricket Club has x invited an Australian XI to visit the Colony for four inofficial "test" matches beginning next October.
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    RAF WERE A FIGHTER ELEVEN
    285 15 RAF WERE A FIGHTER ELEVEN IN nine matches in this year's senior tournament (including the Final) Royal Air Force Singapore lost only one, and that on first innings only when they played Chinese without thre* key men. That is the record of the rha:npions, a side with an outstanding attack
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    SUNDRAM SET A RECORD
    72 15 T*HE Singapore and South x captain, S. K. Sundram. hit the brightest century in the tournament this year. With S. Vellupillai. he put on 201 runs for *>>• fourth wicket for Police against Army at Nee Soon, setting a record for any wicket in the tournament.
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    AVERAGES FOR SENIOR TOURNEY
    320 15 I*HE S.C.A. senior tournament 1 averages (including th« Final) are: BATTING (Qh»l 6 inns., aye. 20) Inn. n.o. h.s. agg aye Wood, H.W. 11 2 95 369 41.00 Reynolds 7 1 73 236 39 33 ThuralSingham 7 104 259 37.00 Bennett 8 1 *70 185 37
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    Malayan sets lift record
    55 16 MELBOURXF, Thurs. A MALAYAN University student last night broke the 2a-jear-«id Victorian bantamweight right hand snatch weight-lifting record by one Ib. after only two years training. He is T. X Lai S3. present Victorian junior bantamweight champion. Lai snatched 103-1 4 lbs to break Tom Britain's
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    Lock takes six for 16
    127 16 LONDON. Thurs guRREY made sure of a valuable foiir-poinU today, dismissing Derby for 107 in the county cricket chairpfonshj? at the OvaL Lock took sis wickets for 18. Lancashire won their match aifurxst Worcester m two days. Surrey v Derby at Oval: Surrey 158 and
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    420 16 HANDICAPS f o r «*««rr©w, last *JJ ScUnfar T«rf tlubi Aiucusi Mcetln t CL. 3—154 MILE i t}uiok«3yer 9 »3 R<4 W«tf im British Film 8.12 '6 MM gjn Payeur s 07 inter Scene 8 06 Evergreen ft 01 Teinujin 8.03 Mis'y Line 8.03 Cavalier j!01
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    SHAWS' HORSES SHOW UP WELL
    309 16 Tulloh may ride more winners By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Than. TWO of Shaw Stables' horses galloped attractively x on the training track here this morning. British Film (Padek) and 16 MM (Tulloh) reeled off three in 38 on the outside fence with nothing between
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    TAMILS AND C.A. IN DRAWN GAME
    53 16 i JF**** 1 B A and Chinese A?h- j £'ie "A" drew 3-3 in a S4PA Div. 2 match at Geylang stadium I }c 'erday. i S. Chandra. Govlndasamy and ;P£Ul Davg rcored for Tamils: i Hean Soo. Ah Seng and Govindasamy (own goal)
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    The Trotters arrive
    235 16 T^HE Harlem Globetrotters and x the New York Celtics, two American professional basketball teams, flew in from Bangkok yesterday evening Dave Zinkoff acting manager of the contingent in the absence of Abe Saperstein. said: "We're tired. But fte are happy to be here." Two Globetrotters. Marques Haynes
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    BUSINESS HSE. TABLE TENNIS
    106 16 The IK>2 ST.T.A-S BusfaMßS Houses League CfaampJonshjm began last night with four ties at the 8.8.A. Hall. Results: Ford S.C. bt Lee Onn Goldsmiths 5-S; Ban Hoe Seng Serrtee Stn bt S.T.C. Sports Club 5-1; Mansfield S.C. bt Breweries 5-1; Fraser Neave S.C. bt id. Recreation
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    Singapore win Empire shoots
    43 16 Two Singapore teams won Empire rifle and revolver shoot championships held recently. An S.R.A. team won the Empire Day Challenge Shield (rifles) and the Lord Wakefleld siver medai.. Another team, comprising fouairmen, won the Lyncli-Staunton Challenge cup for revolvers.
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    28 16 SOCCEB BISIMSS BOrSES:— Slate DarhT OTEC. at W N; T. Bakom v. Chartered Baa*, at TMC.t; UandrUbunk r HtukMi tuk 'B at I Farrer Park. CRICKET
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    HAZARE 52
    30 16 LONDON, Thurs.— Close of p&y ■yores at Hove today in the match between Sussex and India: India 136 and 191 Tor 8 (Hazare 52); Sussex 220 (Ramchand 6/C7).
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    DRAW FOR MALAYAN LTA MEET
    898 16 PENANQ, Thurs. £)EPENDING champion, K. H. Ip of Hongkong, la seeded No 1 to the Men's Singles of this year's Malayan lawn tennis championships at Penang from Aug. 28 to Sept. 1. Singapore's Ong Chew Bee is seeded i ,i n the me section at
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    Non-benders 'festival'
    217 16 I J^ONT-BENDERS from a'l parts of Malaya will meet in rxuxla Lumpur this weekend for their sixth post-war annupl cricket match and re-unk>3 dinner. Two changes have been made in this year's programme. For the first time since the rs- unions began in 1932 the cricket match will
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    Royal Navy bore a charmed life
    322 16 n.vyni ixavy I; S.C.C 0 A SOLITARY opportunist goal, scored in the 25th minute of play by the somewhat lucky Royal Navy, sent Singapore Cricket Club out of the ss e A^S^^ trie greater portion of the game but Royal Navy, last year's winners,
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    A poor relation worth supporting
    226 16  -  SENTINEL By TWE Singapore Business Houses FA. is often regarded as a poor relation of the Singapore Amateur Football Association, with mixed justice. For it Is certainly poor in finance, though rich In spirit and enterprise. The Business Houses FA provides all-the-season soccer for 33
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    F & N, JACKS WIN SOCCER
    98 16 F N, JACKS WIN SOCCER Praser St Neave scored a convincing 4-Q Tlctory otct Malaya Publishing House in their SBIIFA League and Cup game played at F&N'a ground yesterday. Praser Noave took a 2-0 lead through goals scored by Yassln and after resumption went on to score a further two
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    MALAY TEAMV JOH. CHINESE
    67 16 The team to represent Singapore Malays against Johore Chinese in a friendly soccer match to be played at the Jalan Besar Stadium at 5.15 p.m. tomorrow will be chosen from the following: Osman Angullia, Arshad Jaffar Johan, Hassan, Ali Samijan. Rahman (Jr.). Rashid Giman Aman. Knamis
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    31 Battalion champs
    204 16 AT the annual swimming champienships of the R.A.O.C. at Gilman pool on Wednesday, 31 Bn. (Keat Hong) won the interteam championship with 51 pom's. Second and third were 221 Vehicle Battalion and 30 Bn. respectively. Honours in the individual events were shared by L/Cpl. Wright. Lt. Weldreck
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      28 16 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAT:— Ht«n 1217 hxs. (8.9 ft). Low 0ii8 do) and 1754 i3.3i. TOMORROW:— Hijh midnight (9 S) and 2339 191); Low 0811 C.7| and 18M 12.9)
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