The Straits Times, 1 March 1953

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  • 20 1 .-1 MAR 195S THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT IN MALAYA No. 916 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1953. PRICE FIFTEEN CENT!;
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  • 577 1 I Hungarian Government offers human barter to save girl terrorist's life Sanders is 'offered in exchange LONDON, Saturday. |N a sensational move to save the Malayan girl Communist, Lee Meng from the gallows, the Hungarian Government today offered in exchange for her. a British businessman, Edgar Sanders,
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  • 22 1 Sanders in 1950 Edgar Sanders hears sentence o4 1 3 years' imprisonment This picture was taken in Budapest on Feb. 21, 7950
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  • 245 1 TOLD or the Lee Meng sensation m Singapore last night, the Chairman of the Malayan Chinese Association, S r Cheng- :ock Tan. said: "This is a startling revelation. Nobody in Malaya knew Lee Meng was of such importance to the Communists." Sir Cheng-lock said that it
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  • 40 1 About 500 people attended Chinese Chap-Goh-Meh Ball in aid of S.ATA at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore, last night. The Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll. was there. Proceeds of the dance went to the S.A.T.A. funds.
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  • 25 1 More than 100 Welsh people 'cymrui and 50 friends, celebrated the Eve of St. David, at the Adelphi Hotel Roof Garden last right.
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  • 39 1 BMRS. RUTH KHAMA, Eng- ifl lish wife of Seretse c Khama. exiled chief-elect of I the Bamangwato tribe of i Bechuanaland, gave birth to jI a son yesterday at their I Chipstead, Surrey, home.
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  • 43 1 More than 300 people attendj ed last night's annual re-union i dinner and dance of the Chli nese Association, Singapore, in Serangoon Road. There were floor shows. Prizes were given winners of the associations 1952 billiards I tournaments.
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  • 31 1 ANKARA. Sa:.—The For- eign Ministers of Yugoslavia. Greece and Turkey today sign- ed a defence pact pledging I j "defence of free<!dm and secu,,i I rity" and Increased trade.
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  • 241 1 She wins $5,000 And says 'it pays to love cats' AX/ELL, it certainly pays to love cats!" said the winner of the Straits Times cat contest when told that her entry had brought her the $5,000 prize. Sh e is Miss P. Beatty, a clerical officer in the Com-missioner-General's Office,
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  • 43 1 SEOUL, Sat— American B-29s blasted three large Communist supply areas near Pyongyang in a moonlight raid last night. United States Sabrejets ended one of their most successful weeks In which 13 Communist MIO-15s were damaged without a single Allied loss.
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  • 48 1 HONG KONG, Sat. Local vernacular press reports (nonCommunist) today said Yeh Chien Ylng, acting Commander of the Fourth Field Army in South China, has ordered all leave for naval, land and air units in the coastal areas Of Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces to be cancelled.
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  • 198 1 RAUB, Sat. SIX home guards are being held on tentative murder charges following a finding in the Raub Sessions Court today that they were criminally concerned in causing the deaths of four civilians. The President of the Raub Sessions Court, Mr E. M Smallwood,
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  • 153 1 TTWO Chinese gunmen held up a car at the Bth mile Jurong Road last night and robbed two Chinese brothers of $4,000. The brothers were going home with the money, collected for pork they had sold to retailers during the Chinese New Year season, when they
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  • 64 1  - DEATH OF MOHD. PADEK One rare before his accident at Bukit Timali ■yesterday. .Vohd. Padek on the favourite Cinecolor (o; the rails) fought a keen due! with Billy Bagby on Dande Bay half a furlong fro/n home. Cinecolor was going like a winner unti' Fairy Tale and then Sever A
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  • 314 1  -  EPSOM JEEP By |^|OHD. Padek, an 18 year-old apprentice jockey attached to the Spencer stable, died at 9.35 last night after a serious race accident at Bukit Timah yesterday. He fell f'om Short Hai-s, a heavily-backed horse in the bg race
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  • 95 1 Their first lesson a pep talk ONE hundred of the 5«0 s m:: ipi in- People's Education Association students, who had been ordered out of lt;iffli-s Institution hv th» principal on Jan. 26. were >>:ir< again in the school last nlghi And their first lesson was a pep talk on
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  • 30 1 VATICAN CITY, Sat.— Pope Pius, completely recovered from an attack of influenza, will observe his 77th birthday on Monday with only minor changes in his daily routine.
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  • 70 1 BANGKOK, Sat— The Siamese Prime Minister, Marshal Phibul Songgram, yesterday denounced the establishment of a Siamese People's Regime in Red China's Yunan province as a new offensive in the Communist drive against Siam. "Peking unquestionably Is trying to repeat the Communist story in Europe where two
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  • 49 1 WASHINGTON, Sat. The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, said yesterday that he had agreed with the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, that they would not seek to reach any economic or financial agreements during Mr. Eden's visit to Washington next week. Reuter
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  • 320 1 The Shah tells crowds: 'I'LL stay' TEHERAN, Sat. DERSIA'S 33-year-old Shah told h.s people today he had decided to leave his country "for health reasons." Then, as cheering crowds milled outside his palace, he changed his mind and said he would not go after all. Ht> told the crowds: 'Now
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  • 55 1 JAKARTA. Sat.- Mysterious subterranean rumblings have been heard during the last few days in various parts of East Java, including Surabaya city, city. The Governor of East Java has requested the volcanologiral exprrts to determine the cause of the rumblings. Four volcanoes have been active in this
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  • 23 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— All was quiet en the bandit front today. Neither the bandits nor the security forces had any casualties.
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  • 2085 2 By ex-chief Superintendent FRED CHERRILL of SCOTLAND YARD |N fhe pitch-like darkness of the blackout which enveloped London in February. 1 942. t^-ror stalked through the blitxshattered streets of the city. It vas not just the terror that rained from the sky as Hitler's Luftwaffe flew
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  • 328 2 QUEEN'S CUP VANISHED A FTER visiting Hood relief centra in Britain. Hie Queen Mother tet down a hiH-drimfc cup of t«a. A man instantly icixsd it, swallowed the dregs and pocketed the cup though it wasn't his. This was jutf another instance of the astonishing impulses
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    86 3 The «U Chinese style Mandarin drcii wift) huh colUr. knotted cord in place ot burtons and loose fitting tioaifi. is seen increasingly ar p«Wk dinners in Singapore. Ordinarfty political rivals. Cirv Councillor Son Cnee Soon Progressive I. left, and City GouncrMor Lee Choon Eng Labour are at
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  • 73 3 A MAN who slid down a pillar of a house in Prtain Road, Singapore, and was raueht by passers-by, was sentenced in the First Criminal District Court yesterday to 10 months' imprisonment. He was Sa,«t bin Said, who pleaded guilty to housebrrakine in the early hours of
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  • 43 3 KUALA LUMPUR. SatMembers Of the Malayan S:kh Union w;H give a tea party at the Roof Garden Hotel. Matomorrow at 5 p.m. in honour of the three Sikh cadet officers of the Federation Regiment who are leaving for Sandhurst soon.
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  • 130 3 Two months for stealing watch A YOUTH, Peer Mohamed. was yesterday sent to gaol for two months by the Singapore Fifth Police Magstrate. Mr. D. H. Chapman, for stealing a wristwatch wc r tf- $42 belonging to Mohamed Zakana at a house in Ja
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  • 39 3 For assisting in the dishonest disposal of a stolen wrist watch with a gold chain, Masod bin Hanafi was sentenced by the Singapore First Criminal District Judge, Mr. H-A. Forrer, yesterday to 10 months' rigorous imprisonment.
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  • 62 3 JURY FINDS US. PLAYBOY GUILTY NEW YORK. Sat.— A jury: yesterday lound Minot (Mickey) Jelke guilty on two, counts of compulsory prostitution. The flashy youne piayboy. heir to OCeo Margarine millions, faces a maximum sentence Of up to 40 years In prison. He was acquitted on one count of an
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  • 255 3 HAS NOT SEEN WIFE FOR 42 YEARS KUANTAN, Wednesday. A 60-YEAR-OLD labourer named Tothan, who has not seen his wife and children for 42 years, fold Mr. Justice A. W. Bellamy in the Kuantan Assizes that he was
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  • 48 3 Took clothes, cash, I-card KUANTAN, Sat— K. Subramaniam, 24, was convicted in the Kuantan Assizes by Mr. Justice Bellamy on two charges of robbing K. Kandasamy of $16, clothes and an identity card. He was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently.
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  • 30 3 KOTA TINGGI, Sat.— Foo Hee Tong was charged before the Circuit Magistrate for dealing in price control articles without a licence. He was convicted and fined $100.
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  • 116 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. THE Methodist Old Boys' Association, Kuala Lumpur, will launch a drive for funds this year to build a club house on the school grounds. Its former premises in Foch Avenue were vacated last year owing to increasing liabilities. The following were elected office
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  • 29 3 BERLIN, Sat.— Over 38.000 East Germans have sought asylum in West Berlin this month— l3,ooo more than last month which held the record so far.— Reuter.
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  • 24 3 SYDNEY, Sat— Two children were burned to death yesterday when a fire raged through a house where three families lived— Reuter
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  • 202 3 THE SINGAPORE Young Women's Christian Association headquarters was transformed into the interior of an old home in China on Friday, when Chinese members and their friends enjoyed New Year festivities. Following dinner served outside in bright moonlightomen of good fortune according to
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  • 24 3 KOTA TINGGI, Sat. Lai Sang wa.s fined $15 for failing to stop his vehicle when challenged by an uniformed police officer
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  • 19 3 KOTA TINGGI, Sat.— Mr. N. S. Plunkett, resettlement sup- I ervisor in Masai, has been transferred to Petigerang.
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  • 180 3 Rubber at 77 1/8 cents Rubber lost 7 8 of a cent on the Singapore market yesterday March first grade closing at 77 5 R cents a lb. The market opened steady around Friday's close of 78 Vi cents but eased with upcountry selling and Tack of buying interest There
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  • 10 3 Singapore Sat. Feb. 28: $472.50 (down 25 cents).
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  • 61 3 BANTING, Sat. pV)UR Malay Home Guards ■T —Surip, Md. Yusof, Zaidon, and Warisan— were charged before the Magistrate for stealing seventeen sacks of copra at Sijar.kang. The copra, valued at $600. belonged to an estate owner, Mr. Lim Lok. The first two accused were convicted and
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  • 55 3 GALGARY, Sat— Dr. James G. Endicott. leader of the left-wing Canadian Peace Congress, said yesterday that Dr. Bruno Pontecorvo, the atomic scientist who disappeared from Britain in 1951, might since have acted as an adviser to the Chinese Communist government on atomic research. He did not
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  • 83 3 LONDON, Sat. Viscount Astor, member of a wellknown British newspaper family, was granted a decree nisi yesterday because of Lady Astor's adultery with Mr. Thomas Baring. Lord and Lady Astor were married in June 1945. They have one son. Adultery was alleged to have taken place
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  • 90 3 JESSSLTON, Sat. QUESTIONS about the delay in settling the Indian immigration question were asked in the Legislative Council here by Mr. Philip Lee. In reply, the Government said that the whole question had recently been discussed in the Executive Council. The Government has been asking public
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  • 38 3 KOTA BAHRU, Sat rE Sultan of Kelantan today opened a new $200,000 tuberculosis ward for men at Kota Bahru. It is the first of its kind on the east coast, and will accommodate 50 patients.
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  • 180 3 rpHE first UNESCO Workers' A Fellowship to be awarded to a trade unionist in British non-self-governing territories has been won by 32-year-old G Kandasamy. a clerk at the General Post Office in Singapore. Mr. Kandasamy, who flies to London on March 25 for a
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    17 3 Blonde Ann,. Francis finds a "prop" ship a relaxing place on the 20th Century lot in Hollywood.
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  • 295 3  -  NAN HALL By BYRON Cuttler, Parisianborn negro dancer who made his Singapore debut at Raffles Hotel last night. is the most intellectual nightclub artist who has ever performed in Singapore. Twenty-nine-year-old Byron Is a university graduate, speaks six languages and reads Cicero and
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  • 616 4 540 miles from Penang the skull ceremonies \IOST people know less about the lonely, palm-studded tropical Nicobar Islands, 540 miles west of Penang. than about much more re mote islands in the South Seas. This is because some of the latter have come in for more than their fair share
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  • 1096 4 A SON IS BORN TO YAKUB AT last we are begin- ning to hope that the weather has definitely changed for the better. Two rainbows have been seen; a sight we have not witnessed for years. Next day there was a full-dress display of Pigeon orchids. As a rule no
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  • 280 4 HAVE you ever seen a green on c dollar Malayan note? A Singapore man owns one. "This note was given to me as a souvenir by a soldier during the early days of the liberation in 1945" he said. So far no offer has
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  • 188 4 IF anybody In Singapore or the Federation would like to help a famous novelist to write a book about tht history of a shipping line that has been in the East for 100 years, they now have a chance. Mr. George Blake, who
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  • 349 5 A lert family sealed 'blanket' gang's fate PUBLIC support and information played an important part in the Singapore police success against the Chinese New Year crime wave. A polce spokesman told the Sunday Times yesterday that rrxxp .rfo^nat on had
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  • 424 5 FAME, lor tun, and i starring rolr opposite dn gory Peck await any Rirl in Malaya who measures up likt- M Beautilul, with Burmese or Mongolian features, not too tall, between 19 and 25 years of a«e. with at tin; experience and good
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  • 48 5 Lam Swee Cheow. a motorist who exceeded the sperd limit and also drove his car in an inconsiderate manner at Bulcit Timah Road, on Dec. 28 wa* fined $50 on each charge by Mr R. c. Hoffman in the Sin'rapore First Traffic Police Court yesterday
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    24 5 Right Lieutenant P. McEHigot. RAF, and hit bride, after their wedding yesterday at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore. The bride was formerly Miss Beryl Porter.
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  • 124 5 A CHARGE of armed robbery in two houses In Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, was explained in the Singapore Sixth Police Court yeaterday to Ng Chwee Bok, Yeon Lam Hong and Khoo Kee Oiap. It was alleged that the three men carrying a knife and
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  • 133 5 Unionist leader course PENANO, Sat. rOIVE members a chance to take part In the trade union movement, the Penang Municipal Services' Union will soon start a one-year leadership training course based on American methods. The course will be under the supervision of the general secretary, Mr. Yeon Cheang Seng, who
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  • 337 5 The Malay Regiment is 20 today TODAY is the 20th anniversary of the raisins of tna Malay Regiment. In a message to all ranks to be read today at ceremonial parades and sent to patrols operating in the jungle the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, says: "I hope that
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  • 119 5 Play to aid flood rE Stage Club, Singapore, is to help the British Flood Relief Fund. Its new production, "Trespass" at the Victoria Memorial Theatre this week is to run a day longer and all proceeds from the extra performance will go- to the fund. "Trespass" opens on Thursday. It
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  • 229 5 QR. CLARENCE GAMBLE, an American birth control expert, praised the Singapore Family Planning Ascociation yesterday for the good work it has done during the four years of its existence. A few year s ago everybody talked about family planning but nobody did anything about it," he
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  • Article, Illustration
    106 5 SO. VOIRE NOT seem* things. This car REALLY has two steering wheels. It is an Austin "Seven," fitted with two of everything, right down to the horn buttons, for driving tuition, imported by Mr. R. L. Lambert, of Seiegie Road, Singapore. If you'd like one yourself, so that the wif
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  • 157 5 S' pore-born Arab is made K.B.E. SYED ABUBAKAR bin Shaikh Alkaff, an Arab who was born in Singapore in 1890. has been awarded the K U.K. The award was made in the Hadramaut, Arabia. Sir Abubakar is one of the sons of Syed Shaikh Alkaff. founder of Alkaff and Co.,
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  • 98 5 FIRST TALK TO NEW AIR SOCIETY AIR MARSHAL R. O. Jones, is to give the first lecture to the newly formed Singapore Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society at Shell House. Collyer Quay, at 6 pjn. tomorrow. Air Marshal Jones, who is the R.A.F.'s senior technical officer, will talk on
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    • 89 5 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 7.15 «.a. Murning Star; "Jo Pew*; 7J5 Bnght r tact with Thorne; BJo B3C Vartaty Orch lo First Rehearsal 10 Jo Musical*-: li Appointment wtth Mu*c iijo eavteeTipi Gerry Soliano: ijo News 145 2 Walu Time: 2Jo Ren OHvaoc with the- Stars: 3 ConcoHour; 4 Listeners' Cbofc*
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    • 89 5 The weather Minimum temperature 1 7.30 p.m. on Feb. 27 to 7.30 a.m. on Feb. 28): Singapore c 75 degrees), P^nang (74 Kota Bahru 1 72 1. Kuala Lumpur (74 1, Ipoh < 73*. Kuantan (70). Maximum temperature ■7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Feb. 28 >: Singapore (80), Penang
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  • 590 6 MALAYANS LOVE TO HEAR THEM MAKE MUSIC Tlte three young men from Malacca VTHEN the "Moon Above Malaya" craze hit Malayans, there was a refreshing change in the usual radio request menu. The words were sung by Malayans, ani the music played by Malayans. Three young men in Malacca had
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  • 172 6 THE QUEEN MUST BE CAREFUL. rf!HE smugglers who tried recently to use she yacht of the Commander-ln-Chlef of the Far Eastern Fleet were certainly aiming high, but others have had more exalted ideas and have failed just as surely. Even the British royal yacht Is not immune from the prying
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    24 6 This week's Miss Malaya is jenny On* of Singapore. I Send your entries to: Miss Malaya, Sunday Times. Cecil Street, Singapore 1.
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  • 443 6 Design for a cold tiffin PAPAYA COCKTAIL CUT the flesh of a good ripe papaya into tiny cubes or balls and mix with an equal quantity of frozen raspberries. Place in individual glasses and squeeze a few drops of fresh lime juice over each. Cover with pineapple juice and top
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  • 924 6  -  BILLY BUDD By EDMUND BURKE once said: "Freedom and not servitude Is the cure of anarchy; as religion and not atheism is the cure for superstition." Growing dissatisfaction with the maintenance of all the Emergency Regulations especially In Singapore is based on this philosophy. But Burke
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  • 165 7 OH, HOW THE FASHIONS... DACK in the good not- 8 so-old days, when you I could park your car and walk a few. yards to the racecourse, the women of Singapore wore hats to the races. Rather strange they seem today, it's true, but the spirit was more willing in
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  • 13 7 lhe hats and hem lines have changed quite a bit today.
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  • 517 7 THE GIRL WHO IGNORED HER MOTHER Jane Lee's 'human <«is«'l*«>ok* IHAVE been in love with a boy for two years. My mother objected to our love but we ignored her and met whenever we could. Thrn I had to leave home for further studies and we corresponded regularly. One day
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  • 78 7 TV/E role that every young actress in Hollywood has been aiming for, the feminine lead opposite Marlon Brando in The Kramer Company's The Cyclists' Raid," went to Mary Murphy recently ichen arrangements were concluded with Puramcunt to borrow her for the Columbia release. Mary, who will
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  • 514 7 Bing Crosby is on his way out AJTARJjSESJiIS GREATEST INCENTIVE I BELIEVE that Bing Crosby will soon retire trom the screen. I give him two more pictures—one for friendship's sake and one for old time's sake— and then finish. Already h e has retired from "White Christmas." He say»: "I'm.
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  • 10 8 1&&> RETURNS with a ROME ROUND-UP FASHION INTERNATIONAL NEWS REPORT
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  • 323 8 T*HE sun was blazing in Rome when I left; gardeners were busy; outdoor cafe chairs were being painted. And inside the fashiqn houses they wore showing all that's new for the summer holidays ahead. Last year's black-and-white has given way
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    11 8 Most unusual British hat design for fhe Spring— catted The Pillbox.
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  • 186 8 Pet wants to become plumper SO SHIS Oil TO A HEALTH IK* THE LONDON. DETULA CLARK. 20- year-oi'. and star of TV. radio, musichall, and films, is poing Into a health centre to "> put on weight. Petuev*at. home at East Molespy. Sur- somr v tof*r^ 1 1 1 la
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  • 190 8 f^OES your child's speaking J voice sometimes appal you? Get him ior herj to say: Hr f»" a groan and thrn a moan, Bec»«»* hr bunprd his funny bane «i!h the mou'h matins a perfect circle on each ••<>" sound. And if "h" is
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  • 637 8  - 'Royal Heritage'-film all must see DOROTHY THATCHER »y LONDON: T hope that every child in Malaya will have the opportunity of seeing the newly released Wessex film "Royaj Heritage". This is a truly magnificent picture illustrating vividly the vital meaning of the oldest State ceremonial in the world, the British
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  • 302 8 ALL his life Brian Osborne will be able to say that he died in the operating theatre of Bristol Royal Infirmary in August 1952. For 22 minutes his heart stopped beating. He was dead. But life returned to five-vear-old Brian after surgeon Eric Nanson
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  • 42 9 Singapore youngsters yesterday enjoyed a film show and juggling act a.t the St. Andrews Cathedral Memorial Hall, when the Singapore Family Planning Association held a chiidrens party. The show was such a success i that more are planned soon I
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  • 423 9 Stupid to run, he admits AN Army captam hired a trisha to go home one night in Singapore. That was an offence which led to three more. Yesterday at GHQ. Tangar. Army court martial tried Captain J. K. Tarling of '.he Royal
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  • 177 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A NEW national style is being born in Malaya out of the fusion of traditional skills, background and influences of other countries with local environment, the Deputy High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray said today. He was addressing a gathering of art admirers
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    72 9 This was Friday nights scene inside an old home in China at the Singapore Y.W.C.A. headquarters when Chinese members and their guests enjoyed New Year festivities. The woman of the household, with very advanced ideas, was pleading with her husband to cut off hia pigtail. Their argument was inte/upted by
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  • 46 9 The Governor of Singapore. Sir John Nicoll. will open the International Bazaar in aid of the Singapore Association for the Blind funds at the Victoria Memorial Hall at 10.30 a.m. on March 7 The bazaar will be opened until 7 p.m.
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  • 66 9 PENANG, Sat. Chinese Chamber of Commerce will decide next week whether or not it should stage a one-day hartal in protest against the Registration and Licensing of Businesses Ordinance. A special general meeting has been called for Thursday at 5 p.m. The hartal was proposed at
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  • 188 9 DV a majority of 220 points 986 to 766 six judges agreed yesterday with the Penang Convent's debating team that chivalry was now dead. Boys fiom St. Xavier's lost the argument, although they had an unexpected champion in Miss L. Kathisa.su (a cousin of
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  • 91 9 SINGAPORE'S Customs officers found a large still for making liquor, hidden among the lallang outside a house on the 9th mile, Yeo Chu Kanp Road last week, the Third Police Court was told yesterday. They aLso raided the house which was occupied by a wnnian. Teh
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  • 81 9 KOH Thitn Lye was yesterday tentatively charged in the Singapore Third Police Court with breaking into a European's house on Friday night and stealing two bottles of whisky, two tins of cigarettes, a pencil and $8. The house was that of Mr. W.A.C. Jack, in Goodwood
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  • 183 9 ALOR STAR, Sat. A LOR STAR Hospital nurses need not now return to their hostel by 10.15 every night. They can now come back at 10 30 p.m. This has been announced by the matron, Mrs. D. MacDonald, but the other new restrictions en the
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  • 61 9 Two men were alleged to have used pistols to rob Chua Keen and Tan Lav Sen? of Ulu Pandan. Sincaporp of $1,932 on the night of Jan 20. Yesterday in the Third Police Court. Ng Gong Tee and Quah Siew Siong were tentatively charged with
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  • 48 9 The body of a 10-day-old Chinese boy was found by a policeman in mud in the Singapore River near Boat Quay j on Jan. 24. the Coroner, Mr Giam Chong Hing, was told yesterday at the inquest Verdict: Found dead, cause unknown
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  • 55 9 Pleading guilty in the Sinpapore Second Police Court to iisorderly behavour under the influence of alcohol in ranjonc Paear Road on Friday aftprnoon. Bhag Singh told the Magistrate. Mr. J. F. Me William: "I really appreciate the police arresting me oectuse I was in a bad
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  • 40 9 For permitting her premises in Queen Street, Singapore. to be used as a brothel on Friday night, a woman named Lum Chan, was fined $500. in default six weeks' rigorous imDnsonment. in the Fourth Police Court yesterday.
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  • 33 9 KOTA TINGGI. Sat— Wong Pang, manager of the Luknt Estate, was charged before the circuit magistrate for failing to keep a register of the labourers in his estate. He claimed trial.
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  • 68 9 r'O men were alleged to have tried to extort money from a shop-keeper. Tan Eng Goh. with the threat "if you don't, people will come to your snop to start trouble." The men. Llm Hood Soo and Lee Soon Huat, were yesterday tentatively charged in the j Singapore
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  • 119 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. ROTARY can play a vital part Jn helping to cement the Malayan nation of the future. Mr. D. C. Watherston. Federation Chief Secretary told Rotarians in Kuala Lumpur today. Mr. Watherston, himself a Rotarian. was speaking at th*» 18th
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  • 91 9 CINQAPORE police are investigatlng the reported misappropriation of a trade union's funds. Someone has Tun away with $3,233 from the Singapore Malay Marine Officers" Union, according to the union president, Inche Mohamed Said. Inche Mohamed told the Sunday Times yesterday that the shortage was
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  • 606 10 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE. MAR. 1, 1953. Keeping the peace rf was on July 22. 1948. that the Governor in Council declared that a state of emergency existed in Singapore Since then, there havp been eighteen proclamations, each prolonging the period by a further three months. Legislative Council approval of
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  • 766 10 British Reds— crisis that may be fatal TROUBLE ABOUT MEMBERS. ABOUT JEWS CRISIS is threatening the Communist Party of Great Britain. Following news of spreading anti-Jewish purges in Hungary, British Jewish members have been warned to avoid Zionist activity. Some of them fear a purge on Iron Curtain lines The
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  • 92 10 riWESE are the anti-Jewish J- purges that are now having their repercussions in Britain: MOSCOW: Nine doctors, six of them Jews, are accused of conspiring to poison Soviet leaders. BUDAPEST: Justice Minister Gyula Deesi sacked; under police scrutiny are Premier Rakosi and three Jewish Ministers. WARSAW:
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    119 10 I READ with interest th* article en ih* subject of a $10 bit) with errors in it* numbering, date and signature of Mr. Weisbcrg. which appeared in rtie Sunday Times last week. I remember a similar article in your paper some rime hack, en the subject of
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  • 828 10 IN Kuala Lumpur today is a one-man court of film justice who seeks »o show the world the truth, the whole truth and nothing: but the truth through movies. His name is John Alderson. For 24 years he has been s documentary film producer who
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  • 244 11 COMMISSIONER TOLD MOHAMMED SHARIFF bin Chedin, secretary of the Malay Seamen's Union of Singapore, wrote a 14-page letter to the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nigel Morris, saying that he had lost $3,180 of the union's money by gambling it
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  • 63 11 A YOUTH. Koh Thian Lye ■jed from police cusI -tcrday morning uith a pair of handcuffs on one wrist id been detained by the c re j*>Uce ir. connection with housebreaking. Koh escaped while he was v iken to the Criminal I Office in the CID last
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  • 65 11 Two men were tentatively f harped in a Singapore court ay with possessing a meter Browning auto- .12 rounds of :r.n;ur.ition at a house In I na or. Feb. 26. The men— Lim Ah Yew and Ch;a Ah Kow were ordered to br rrmandrc by
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  • 38 11 KUANTAN. Sat. Cheong V.r.c of Gambang, was fir.cd $15 for possessing tin thorn a permit. She told the magistrate she wanted the ore to fill the Joss stick burner in her house.
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  • 45 11 rvtoee, All bin Jaffar. was yesterday sento two weeks' simple ::;en; by the Singapore F:fth Police Magistrate. J^! D H Chapman. H° had failed to report to tnal Records Office. C.1.D.. between Jan. 17—19 lag released to look Irr somewhere to live.
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  • 45 11 A lecture in Malay on "The return or Christ, trie solution to the problems of the world." will be given by Pastor R. A. Pohan in the Balestier Road Seventh Day Adventist Church today at 4 p.m. Baptism of converts will follow.
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  • 78 11 THE JUDGES in last week's Straits Times $5,000 cat contest are from left: Mr. L. Rayner, president of the Singapore Animal Lovers' League, Mr. Ang Chwee Chai president of the Singapore Camera Club and Mrs. Jean Kinloch-Smith, well- known artist. They are shown making their choice
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  • 200 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. COR the first time in the history of trade unionism in this country, a planter yesterday joined with a trade union and a Covernment department to help create intelligent leadership among estate workers. The occasion was a leadership training course for
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  • 85 11 LONDON. Sat. VLTARRING MEN and women! students at Reading University have settled their differences and chose 25-year-old Mini Gerard, a blonde French dancer in a London theatre Folies Bergeres Revue, to lead their carnival parade in Reading today. The compromise was reach- i ed after seven
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  • 134 11 ITNDER the proposed new U Immigration Ordinance shortly to be introduced in Singapore to control the movement of aliens into the country, a considerable number cf bont-nde inhabitants of Malaya will require re-entry permits when they travel abroad. To make things easier for travellers,
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  • 316 11 SHE LIED TO THE POLICE CONVICTING a 21-year-old mother. Koh Ah Lee, on a charge of giving the police false information likely to annoy or injure her mother-in-law, the Singapore Second Police Magistrate, Mr. j. F. McWiliiam, yesterday told Koh: "If it were not for your child, I would have
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  • 92 11 SEREMBAN, Sat. MORE than 800 cub packs on estates and new villages and from ihe outlying districts of Negri Sembilan attended todays rally of cubs, the first ever held, in the Federation. Cubbing, the youngest branch of the Scout movement, was the first step towards building
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  • 145 12 LJAVE you entered for the Sunday Times 'Camera Contest" yet? 4 prise of $15 is being offered for the best picture of the week, with $5 For runners-up. w This week's first prize goes to F. H. C. Wagner, c/o General Electric Co.. Ltd., Ipoh. for his
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  • 888 12  -  Raymond Thomas PHOTOGRAPHY FROM SCRATCH— SI By TF the linage which falls on the film at the back of the camera Is not sharp then the resulting negative and finished print will likewise be unsharp. Furthermore*, any subsequent enlargements will become progressively less sharp the larger you
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    • 790 13 II a famous .irior who must for obvious reasons be anonymous JX fairness to those of us whose shadows occasionally flicker across your cinema screens, I suggest that even' theatre showing a British film should be compelled to display a notice in the lobby stating: "DOXT
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    • 671 13 Magnificent €§ancing by the Champions John Behague reviews a new miisi< a I W^TuV 1 l i large^! ld Gower Champion have had to put off their intende- visit to Malaya. Their latest picture "Everything I have Is Yours" reveal them as a very talented dance team indeed, and to
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      87 13 JJF.RE'S another Him star "In reverse". Can yon name him? Prizes of $25. $15, $10 and $5 will be awarded to the first four correct entries opened on Thursday mornin*:. The answer to last week's competition was Jan Sterling. The winners were: $25, Miss Eileen Tan, 708-C
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    • 281 13 Aor a wi>ril is SPOkEX Today 11 a.m. "STAGE TO TUCSON" Tech. ■K2 FROM TUESDAY I BA> The most baffling BpT mystery drama for years HERBERT Wilcox presents •A "TRENT'S JWLAST CASE l) y K a tentley BP^lJi Orson Margtiret Michael WELLES •LOCKWOOD WILDING fJ^^^B^*^ Preceded by: Sprnal Featurett* "TRAVEL
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  • 808 14  - THE A USTRALIANS THE SWIMMER MASSEY STANLEY BJ SYDNEY showed more tolerance than Melbourne in its reception of the Japanese swimming champion, Hironoshi Furuhashi. Swimming officials, indeed, made preparations for the exhibition swim which suggested they were ashamed of the action of the Victorian Amateur Swimming Association in banning Furuhashi
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  • 625 14 By THE STROLLER THIS week sees the production of one of tfit most ambitious ventures on the Singapore stage for years the six-scene Emiyn Willia.-ns occult thriiler, "Trespass". There are special effects galore. It promises to be an exciting evening. The proceeds of the
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  • 389 14 'The well-being of mankind... "To promote the well-being of mankind throughout the w0r1d..." This simplified expression of the multiple purposes served by a great private U.S. fortune is dramatically interpreted in "The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation." The book, by Raymond B. Fosdick, the Institution's president from 1936 to 1948,
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  • 147 14 Mr. Donald Davies, co-founder of the Island Players, writes to the Sunday Times: I should like to appeal to the public to support my next production, "Traveller's Joy," on March 12, 13 and 14. Not only because it is a cay comedy which is certain to give
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  • 217 14 r'ENTIETH-CENTURY response to elghteenth-cen-tnry inspiration has just given the New York opera season its most important premiere, the lone-awaited opening of "The Rake's Progress," by Igor Stravinsky. The new work drew an audience which packed the Metropolitan Opera House and rewarded the production with 17 curtain tails.
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    • 537 14 Ml J^^Ry M till KEY I|||P BRANDY H& A ST/MUUT/MG DR/NKOFQUAUTY The lazy "^ffi^ dog I^"§g& to keeping a dog than you might think. Well, what am Ito do tboul him? I didn't realise there wm anything wrong with the poor oU chap." "Oh, you can soon get him right
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  • 1479 15  -  ROBERT McNEILL One of the greatest mysteries of all time By A DIARY written in 1883 by Daniel Douglas Home, the famous medium, wil! help to settle a heated controversy which has been raging for over a hundred years. The diary was disccw/ered
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  • 1271 15  - BLACK DRAGON GETS A BAD BEATING BENG SWEE 'King of thy Siraits'-Instaiment 21 «y j^^s^ss^s^ajjZ^Jl^^^X UROM the leader of the r police flotilla, a star shell soared into the night sky. As the powerful magnesium flare lit the water John King gave a shout of excitement. "There they are! Four
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    • 1672 16 well throw that cocktail party i^ ÜBSKta 1 I aslrertv^he'way^.eTonJy ■_Z__________________~~ZsB_^___3 I 0 'M 'A 'Wtl£- A drinks RHEINGOLD beer so uATee, «Aev oAep SAT uP. SC-SAMinS, AS Ce_ei_'_ r c TO u E anc> maybp >_— l^/^—bO I^^ '\sks J^\irTaV» jr/W/fc&S. v i»_ better get a fresh supply. C.ammv
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  • 1083 17 IN the heartless world lof today nobody will give old people any peace. In Britain, tireless propaganda makes them work whrn they ought to be dozing in front of the fire. In Oslo. Norway, they are Riving them physical Jerks in a gymnasium "to activate them and save
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    54 17 There are as many ways of climbing Hie ladder to success as Hier* art of scrambling up this beach contraption. Ann* Bancroft, vivacious actress now under contract to 20rh Century-Fox, became an overnight sensation in New York television and was brought to Hollywood to fill top roles
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  • 443 17 The great saucer hoaxer Lit WAS a hoax. Bui If the world was deceived, and only a woman's laugh exposed the hoax. Here, for the first time, is the full story of the flying saucer which landed in the Bernina Pass in the Italian Alps and disgorged a sinister figure
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  • 533 17 WHATEVER the back room boys and statisticians of the Meteorological Office may say the average Briton cannot be persuaded that the weather is not deteriorating in quality. When one looks at the sequence of events over even the past 12 months this is not surprising.
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    • 141 17 ACROSS DOWN 1. Clma. (4), 5. PUeed (8), 11. (9)> s LeMe (4) t Three Sets aside (9). 12. Gainsay (4), 13. points (S), 5. Nurse. (7), Loafrrrr, B)> i, 4 r? 5 /,sv E DXau Checks (5), 1«. Prophet* (5), 17. <<)( i percolates (5), 16. P»ee« Wander (4),
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  • 593 18  - F. A.S. prospects are not bright CRUSADER Highlights of Sport By pOR the first time in many years, T.P.C.A. and Selangor Chinese R.C. will not have things to themselves in the First Division of the F.A.S. League this season. They will receive keen competition from the new teams taking part
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  • 788 18  -  MANNING BLACKWOOD By What to do if you see a crash eomina THE Americans have gone further than I was aware into the question of the "safety car" I was talking about last week. The Cornell University team, has decided that it is not only the
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  • 417 18 THE CORNELL INVESTIGATION AN Indiana businessman was driving his three children and the family maid through a n intersection at 20 miles an hour when nls car was hit by another at a right angle. It wasn't a bad crash: the businessman's car was damaged only
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  • 414 18 A column for English sports fans LONDON. EVERY soccer referee who goes to a trainees' class run by referees' societies is buoyed up with ambition by being told that there's a Wembley whistle in his kit-bag. Some of them never get beyond the parks
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    • 5 18 SVUKTIWG SAM By Keg. Woott*H
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  • 226 19 MALAYAN DAVIS CUP TENNIS IS TO BEGIN MALAYA'S first properly constituted inter-State tennis competition will be inaugurated this year. The tournament, based on Davis Cup lines, will be competed for a cup presented by Mr. Chua ('boon Lcong of Singapore, the vice-president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Malaya. Perak
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  • 32 19 RAY READER, riding his last race before going back to the T.K.. hrinjrs in AX Till SIAN in Rac« 8 at Bukit Tlmah yesterday.— Sunday Ti mes picture.
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  • 208 19 Thy biff liivk-irff today Cingapore Amateur Football Association's 1953 season J starts today with four league games. The big match of the dayi —on the newly turfed and I- leveMed pitch at Jalan Besar —brings together the champions, Rovers SC, and the strengthened Fathul Karib
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  • 113 19 S'pore badly needs stadium says Pallett I,"< >K a city of its size, Slneapore is badly in nred of an George Pallett, English AW senior honorary coach, to his pupils at Victoria School yesterday. A stadium with the right facilities will help Singapore athletes in their efforts to reach international
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  • 415 19  -  GEORGE WHITING By LONDON, Sat. THERE are sad hearts, sour looks and seething remarks today among certain rank-and-flle of the Middlesex County Cricket Club. For, save by queueing, they and their friends are going to be shut out of the second Test match
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  • 97 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. SELANGOR Lawn Tennis Association's open graded hard .■nun championships for this Mf will be held at the S.C.R.C. BnM March 7 to March 15. The events are: Men's singles and doubles, women's singles and doubles, mixed doubles, boys singles and doubles,
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  • 36 19 The Singapore Hockey Association's senior knockout tournament, final, between Ceylon Sports Club and University of Malaya, will tm played on the Singapore Cricket Club padang today. Bully-off will be at 5 p.m
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  • 30 19 KLUANG, Sa:, The Singapore Nee Soon Garrison today beat Kluane Garrison by one goal to nil at hockey here. The goal vru scored by Set. Tetan.
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  • 24 19 IPOH, Sat.— The league soccer season here starts on Monday with a match between last years champions. Cheng Wah and Tamiltans.
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  • 27 19 SEGAMAT, Sat. Ramlee of Pay* Lang Estate beat Chik Aodullha 12-18. 15-2, 15-12 In the final of the open singles badminton championships here last night.
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  • 233 19 I As Indicated by the abrupt end ■to three out of a programme of I ten this Includes four special i bouts Singapore Amateur Boxing Associations 1953 Civilian NSftCM Boxlik Championship Finals, held |at the police Training School Oymnaslum last night, wa* anj other action
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  • 46 19 A soccer star's wife writes this human story fHE Dooloys happy in their garden last summer. "In the critical days last week they fixed me up a bed near Derek in hospital," sa's Mrs. Dooley. -but I got It into my head that I mustn't sleep.
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  • 961 19  -  Mrs. Dooley by ]VIY Derek may have i A finished his career as a centre-forward but that's not the last the public will hear of him, because he'll make good at anything else he tackles. Somehow he's just made that way. In all the worry I've had in
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  • 285 19 Arsenal lose U.K. SOCCER IV COT OCARTFR. FINALS Arsenal 1 Blackpool 1 Aston Villa 0 Evrrton 1 I.ii min.h.im 1 Tollrnham 1 (..ilrshrad <> Rnllon Han. 1 II U.I I DIVISION I Cardiff 11 t harlton 1 W.iin li.sii r C". PorUmouth 1 Nowastle 1 Wnlvrs 1 I'rrilmi Z hrl<ra
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  • 74 19 RESULTS of friendly soccer matches playpd al Farrer Park yesterday were: Chinese Athletic beat RASC 4-3; scorers for Chinese were Wee Foe <2i. Ah Seng and Quintas Chan. Rennic (2) and Kent scored for RASC. Town Rangers beat Y.S.C. Institution 4-1; Boon Cheow, Murray. Lee Sok Hin and
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  • 44 19 Tlic lecture by Mr. A. Powell, of tba USIS. on "Athletics in America". bat been postponed from Feb. 2i to Mar. 4. All interested are invited to the Sliell House theatrette at 5.15 p.m. The talk is sponsored by the Achilles Club.
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  • 34 19 BRUNEI. Sat. The North Borneo Amateur AthleUr Assoriatton will hol-.i thdr championship meet at Jesselton on July 10 and 11. Among the donors of challenge tluu Y.n, the Slncapore racehcrse tninrr.
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