The Straits Times, 11 May 1953

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  • 13 1 The Straits Times lie***** Established 1845 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1953. 15 CENTS
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  • 217 1 By LACHIE MACDONALI) HONG KONG, Sun. IT is believed in Hong Kong, where a United States listening post chocks information seeping across the Chinese border, thac the Chinese would like to drop the heavy liability of fighting in Korea. According to the
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  • 171 1 PLEDGE TO MALA YA BY UMNO PENANG. Sun. THE president of the UMNO Tungku Abdul Rahman. ■aid here today ijiat he had received a "declaration" from thr Malayan Chinese Association that It owed undivided loyalty to this country. By this assurance the MCA has endeared itself to us," be told
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  • 39 1 BANGKOK. Sun. The Siamese Premier. Phibun Songgram. with staff officers and government officials visited the town of Nongai on Mekong, on the Indo-Chinese border today. He was to tour other border areas this week.— U.P.
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  • 407 1 Rebels leave garrison to control I 'Red Laos' I HANOI, Sunday. pRENCH Command sources believe that the Communist invasion of Laos definitely is over until October at least, as first monsoon rains today turned mountain valleys into qi'-'smires. lint the sources said that while strong elements
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  • 156 1 But not when plane No. 2 crashed as well NEW DELHI Sun. A GIRL who died in I plane smash today had dodged death a week ago when she cancelled her passage on a Comet jet which crashed with the loss of al! 43 aboard. She
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  • 105 1 says Gen. Nam 11 PANMUNJOM. Sun. THE Communist truce negotiators today insisted that all 48.500 Communist prison- ers held by the Allies v. tbe willing to return to then homelands after explanatior.were made to them by thaiown people following "a Korean armistice. The Allies said
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  • 176 1 Smoking in buses to be banned by city council gMOKING on buses is to be banned by the Singapore vphirioe U n c K> Nair chairman of th* veiut-ies anq mamc committee, told the Straits Times yesterday. Buses, he said, would soon display "no smoking" signs. The fight against smoking
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  • 161 1 MAU RAZE CAMP, KILL FIVE NAIROBI, Sun. 11 1 AU MAU terrorists pounced on an encampment set ud by Kikuyu chief Eliud last night, killing five and wounding three, and burning everything in sight. Chief Eliud and five African police managed to crawl out of the ring of burning huts
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  • 374 1 But he may watch on TV LONDON. Sunday. THE heir to the British throne, four-year-old Prince 1 Charles, will spend Coronation day in his nursery in a virtually empty Buckingham Palace. The Queen has decided that Goth the prince and his sister. Princess Anne, nearly
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  • 23 1 THE MCA. sweep results drawn in Kuala Lumpur yesterday are in pajje seven. First prize of $400,000 went to Negri Sembilan.
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  • 35 1 BRUSSELS. Sun. T Belgian Air Force meteor jets crashed in the air over Chieuies yesterday The three D-ots were killed. Debris from one plan? set a cafe on ttre. -Reuter.
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  • 35 1 SAIGON, Sun. Nineteen people were killed and 15 injured when a Fr^ich Union train blew up yesterday on mine.s laid by Communist Vietminh forces 25 miles northwest of Hue, capital of Annam.
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  • 96 1 IT WAS all according to orders. Troops at Woolwich Barracks, London, wer c told to shout and wave flags and behave like a crowd really going wild with excitegient. Helping them to create the racket were their wives md children. AND WHY? So that 16
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  • 107 1 GANG MEN BEAT UP 3 WORKERS 11HREE Chinese workmen were beaten up .with beer bottles p. id sticks by a gang of 10 Mini society men at Tiong Bahru last night. The injured men told the police they were attacked because they refused to pay protection money. One said: "We
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  • 35 1 LONDON. Sun. Tile Minister of Supply. Mr. Duncan Sandys, said today that production of steel plate had rlien to nearly 47.000 tons a week, compared with 40,000 tons a year ago. A. P.
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  • 29 1 Kuala Lumpur, Sun. The Regent of Selangor today visited the Malay Rehabilitation centre at Morlb. He was received by a guard of honour drawn from Malay subwarders.
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  • 118 1 So ttri'tiir of a yrvut <>i <>u1 THE Straits Times Publication com memorating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II will be on sale throughout Malaya this week. With a full-colour cover, a superb fullcolour inset of the Queen and 152-pages of fully illustrated articles, it is a fine
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  • 135 1 Labour's net gain rises to 487 LONDON, Sun. SOCIALISTS claimed today that they have dealt a 'navy blow to the morale of Sir Winston Churchill's Conservatives by a series of victories in local elections throughout Britain. The spectacular success U not as big as in last year's lection*, when the
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  • 121 1 SUNDERLAND. Sun. THE danger of war has receded," Sir Winston Churchill .s.ud In a mes to Mr. P. Williams. Conservative candidate in next Wednesday's by-election here. He denounced "six years of Socialist misrule" and praised ♦he "firm and consistent policy"' of the Conservative Government which he
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  • 72 1 A Malayan Airways engineer. Mr. Gordun Mackie. of ■i\ Tanglin Hill. Singapore was killed early yesterday whrn his car struck a tree at ihe junction of Mouimrin Road and Balestier Road. It is believed death was instantaneous There were no passengers in the
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    • 2149 2 NOTICE Rubber Grower's Association Gratifying Membership) Effect of American Rubber Policy Penal Taxation Burden SIR SYDNEY PALMER'S REVIEW THE Ordinary General Meeting of The Rubber Growers' Association (Incorporated) was held on Friday, Ist May, 1953. Sir Sydney Palmer, C.8.E., the chairman, who presided, in the course of his speech said:
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    • 1007 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS A TEMPORARY Clerk of Works Is required for the Besut Irrigation Scheme, in north Trengganu. Only I applicants with extensive experience in the setting out and supervision of construction of civil engineerIng works, and supervision and operation of heavy earth, moving equipment need apply. 2. The basic salary
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    • 915 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA SINGAPORE Applications are Invited for appointment to a Tutorship in the Department of Social Medicine and Public Health. Candidates should have had considerable teaching ex- i perlcnce, preferably In a teaching I hospital, and must hold the Cert 1I flcate of the Institute of Almoners
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    • 523 2 NOTICES KUALA LUMPUR MUNICIPALITY Municipal Elections Revision of Electoral 801 l Registers will be open up to and including 31st May. 1953. at the following centres between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. V.M.C.A. Brickfields Road Information Centre. Batu Road Railway Institute. Sentul Malay Boys' School, Kampong Bahru Malay Girls' School,
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    • 357 2 NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given thot the Power of Attorney dated the j 27th day of May, 19.i2. made by ANDRIES GERARDUS PANGEMANAN In favour of JOHAN HERMAN CONSTANT de GROOT has this day been revoked. Dated this sth day of May. 1953. BRAOA St DE SOUZA. 18J, Battery
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    • 320 2 TENDER NOTICE GOVERNMENT TENDER Tender for Supply of Ire.si ration* St Cooking. Tenders nre Invltod for ".r Mipply of fresh rations and too Kins. for 6 months from 'he 1M H n Of July. 19.53 to the j Ist aij of December. ISS3 Sealed tenders, marked m UM outside "Tender
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  • 242 3 U.S. would support Siam protest to the U.N. WASHINGTON, Sunday. J'HK United States Secretary of State, Mr. Dulles, said today that the United States Government had told the Siamese Government that the United States would look with sympathy on action by Siam to briny the Communist invasion of Laos before
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  • 89 3 OTTAWA. Sun The First (nmtnonwralth. Division in Korea will fin- red. white and blue smoke shrlls in special Coronation rHrhrations on June 2. the army said yesterday. Tln-rr will also hi- a parade, nival salutes and fireworks display. The ;iriiiy said that if operational circumstances
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  • 34 3 C AIR O. Sun.— The Arab League political committee der;cicd last night to support Egypt in her demand for the I'prondltioi.al evacuation of British troops from the Suez Canel zone.— Reuter.
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  • 183 3 The Mayfair girl marries a Corsica fisherman LONDON. Sunday. JANE Stewart Liberty, former Mayfair socialite, has married a "lively, fullblooded. Corsican a simple fisherman whom I love madly." sh e told a newspaper reporter yesterday in Calvi. Corsica. In March. 34-year-old Jane, sister of the chairman of Liberty's famous Regent
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    27 3 JEAN ROWLAND (left) and Saudra Tanner. both of South Woodford, London, found a new friend in this Bosnian's Potto which has arrived at London Zoo from Nigeria.
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  • 55 3 MELBOURNE. Sun. Mr. Menzies' Government was leading today in the counting of the crucial Queensland vote* cast in yesterday's Senate election. The Prime Minister told supporters last night: "I think we've won." But after hearing of the progress of the overnight .count, he would not commit
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  • 71 3 BATTLE CREEK. Michigan, Sun. A wounded Korean veteran has been sentenced to a year's hard labour and dishonourable discharge for promoting himself from private to sergeant first class. Army officials at Fort Custer ."aid today that Jesse Bowen. 26. boarded a ship in Korea last June as a
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  • 42 3 AMMAN. Sun— King Hussein, with the Crown Princ? of Saudi-Arabia and his brothers, Princes Sultan and Talal, attended an Arab Legion cavalry parade yesterday near Amman. The princes are visiting the country to congratulate King Hussein on his accession.— A.P.
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  • 39 3 HONG KONG. Sun. The Chinese Communist newspaper Ta Kung Pao reported yesterday in a dispatch from Canton that 2.000 Chinese recently returned from Malaya are working on the Hint* Koong collective farm on Hainan Island— A.P.
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  • 20 3 LONDON, Sun— The entire Colombian Cabinet has resigned, according to Press reports from Bogota reaching here today. Reuter.
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  • 30 3 MEXICO CITY, Sun.— A mysterious air express parcel exploded in an airline baggage room at Mazatlan airport last night, killing three people and wounding three others— A P.
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  • 44 3 THEY COULD be jumping for joy but they are performing a Maori war danc c led by Stoker Archie Keeta who wields spear. They arrived at Portsmouth in the New Zealand cruiser Black Prince to take part in the Coronation celebrations.
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  • 84 3 AUCKLAND, Sun. A fireman who started fires and then Pit them out almost before thp warning siren stopped ">vas fined £50 here yesterday on three charges of arson and placed on probation. H e was freed on condition he had nothing more to do with fire
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  • 42 3 BEIRUT. Lebanon. Sun. A Royal Canadian Air Force Comet flew non-stop yesterday from London to Beirut in five hours. lS "minutes— an unofficial re© rd lor the 2.300-mlle flight It b on a training flight to Si wapore.— Reuter
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  • 40 3 AKRON. Ohio. Sun— The skeleton of o mastodon, a orehistoric elephant-like animal, has been found near Mogadore. east ci here "in an exo.uisite state of preservation,' said Mr. Wuiiam Scheele. director of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History—Reuter.
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  • 41 3 200 ill at banquet ANNISTON. Alabama Sun.-i Two hundred boys and girts 6'came violenf.y ill after attending a banquet here last night. Some collapsed at a dance I following the annual school dinner. Doctors said it was apparently food poisoning.— RevF
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  • 157 3 NEW YORK. Sunday. AN American rubber executive said today the United States should begin now to create a reserve stockpile of at least 200,000 tons of synthetic rubber to protect its interests. Mr. P. W. LUchfleld, chairman of the board of the Goodyear Tyres
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  • 63 3 49 people hurt HEBRON, Nebraska, Sun— A i Tornado smashed through Hebron last night while shoppers were still on the street. At least 49 persons were taken to hospital. Gas mains burst, electric power failed and the local telephone service was 85 per cent disrupted. Officials
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  • 108 3 LONDON. Sun. OKI TAIN has shown by her desire for a settlement of outstanding issues in Korea and elsewhere that she stands open minded and ready to carry to a successful conclusion any genuine initiative for peace, Mr. R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said in
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  • 22 3 LONDON. Sun-Mr. L/ttelton, the Colonial Semtary, will leave London by air on Wednesday on a visit to Kenya.—Reuter.
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  • 285 3 U.S. will cut aid to Europe WASHINGTON, Sun. MR. Harold Stassen, director of the United States Mutual Security Administration, said to- day that America planned to end economic aid to Europe within two years, but military aid would go on "as long as there is a grave threat from tho
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  • 68 3 Let's face it Ridgway PARIS, Sun. General Mathew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, today called for "a realistic recognition of the magnitude and character of the threat we face. "The security of the Western nations depends on the unyielding collective determination to continue without relaxing thei- efforts to build
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  • 93 3 ACCRA. Gold Coast. Sunday. AT least 13 people were killed yesterday when A Africans enraged by a local tax increase clashed with police at Elminar. A European police officer, Major Edgar Brookes. 35. a constable and 11 rioters were killed in the shooting
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  • 42 3 BERLIN, Sun.— A Moscow music magazine Teports that three original manuscripts and one letter written by Ludwig van Beethoven have turned up in the Soviet Union, according to a the Soviet Control Com- mission newspaper in Germany. Reuter.
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  • 30 3 TOKYO. Sun The Japan Midget Car Industry Association has asked the government to prohibit the import of foreign motor-cycles, including scooters, to protect Japanese small car manufacturers.
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  • 26 3 LONDON, Sun. The new Russian Ambassador to Britain. Mr. Jacob Malik, will arrive here tomorrow morning by the night ferry from Paris. Reuter.
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  • 374 4 He just talked and talked HITLERS TABU -TALK. WcdrnftM and N, cotton, 30. i QN and on and on, hour after hour, night after night, through the French campaign the Russian summer, the Russian winter, the monologue went on, while the generals, admirals and gauleiters their eye-? glazed with fatigue
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  • 847 4 INUK. By Roger P. BiaSard. (Mac •"ailiß and CV, 21t.) by Walter Warwick THE Eskimo wears the x stamp of the hard country which is his homeland. The Barren Land and the frozen Arctic Sea are the most unattractive and least rewarding part of the
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  • 277 4 EXPLORATION FAWCITT. By Cofen«t P. H. Fawcctt. (Hutchinioh. 15*.) THE objective was "Z. the mysterious Brazilian city inhabited, so it was said, by clothed natives of European appearance. In 1925 Colo nel Ftiwcett and two companions went to look for it. The expedition was
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    • 247 4 Straits Times Crossword To" I _I_l3i_!j^iii_-il---1 II- v _a_ 55" Ii so I »H n fti"! Pi n tt ACROSS No chanse (of course 1 Merit yet produce* ra*hne«s fl c^p^ston a bout to de«po <•>• honesty (7). 5. At mil time* <«>. 15 Medicine t* the key-not* (b 10.
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  • 198 5 Fireworks enough to wreck a house FIVE thousand pounds of fireworks for the Coronation enough to blow* up a house will be brought into Singapore from Japan today by the ship Radnoshire. A Japanese technician, Mr. Akita Isamu, will follow latei in the month to see that they ar c
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  • 29 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun— Mr G. R. Purdy, Administrative Officer, (Emergency i. Pontian, will be the guest speaker at the Johore Bahru Rotary Club's tea meeting on Tuesday.
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  • 130 5 rpWENTY-SIX '"saboteurs" who tried to sneak into the Singapore Harbour Board area in rubber dinghies early yesterday morning were ail rounded up by SHB police launches before they could reach the docks. The "saboteurs were men of the Royal Malayan Naval Volunteer Reserve taking ta
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  • 109 5 Taxi-men ask council: Please hurry rPHE SINGAPORE Taxi A Transport Association's 300 taxi-owning members want the Singapore City Council to drop its insistence on the London-type taxicab soon. The council's vehicles and traffic committee has unanimously recommended that 106 taxi licences which were withdrawn because of age, be re-issued for
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  • 72 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Two more terrorists were killed yesterday by security forces In the Federation. One walked Into an ambush by No. 15 Federal Jungle Company In the Kulim district of Kedah. He has been ldentined as Le? Thet alias Boon Ming, a young Hakka
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  • 46 5 The Singapore Camera Club will hold Its first Pan-Mala-yan Photographic Exhibition at the British Council Hail from June 26 to July 5. All entries should be sent to Mr. Wong Kwal Cheon* of W. North Bridge Road before the dloslnt date. May 26.
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  • 85 5 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 7.15 am. Morning Star; 7.30 News; 7.3S Mantorixil Orrh 8 Rhythm; 830 Malay Housewives; 857 School*: 11 Music; 11.08 School*; 1 p.m. Matinee; 1.30 News; 1.45 Ballad Time; 2 School*; 5.02 Chlldreil; 530 Te* Dance; 6 Perry Cotno Sings; 6.15 U.N. Album: 6.30 Music and the Dance
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  • 50 5 DORIS (Xl IX. IN TON with the two Alice in Wonderland characters. Tweedledum and Tweedledee. SJ» P was one of the behind-the-scenes workers busily making lastminute curtain preparations for the show which opens in aid of the Colony's blind in a fortnight. Straits Times picture.
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  • 157 5 Alice's Wonderland is being brought to life BEHIND closed doors in Singapore's Victoria Memorial Hall, a wonderland of make-believe is slowly coming to life Dream clouds float about the air at the touch of an electric button, lilywhite flamingoes made from pillow cases nestle in a wooden basket and mock
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  • 214 5 SHE POURED BOILING WATER ON HER CHILD Charge against gardener's wife says: JOHORE BAHRU. Sunday. A GIRL whose mother is accused of pouring boiling water over her became so frightened by the procedure in the Police Court here today that the magistrate, Syed Othman, adjourned the hearing twice. The girl
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  • 44 5 An apt background for .Malayan Klin beauty Siput Sarawak is this .coronation emblem She was snapped at a fashion parade, organised by the Malay Community Coronation Celebration Committee, at the Singapore Badminton Hall on Saturday night.— Straits Times picture
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  • 203 5 WHILE lining up for tickets for the 9.15 p.m. show at a city cinema, a married woman and her daughter broke into the queue and stood in front of another woman. A quarrel followed in which .'he woman was hurt. On Saturday, Munah binte
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  • 82 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun T«HE Secretary of the Johore Bahru Social Welfare Committee, Mr. C. C. Watts, has completed a survey of the towns young people to find what they do with their s^are time. Mr. Watts Is urging his department to set up a boys
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  • 24 5 PENANG. Sun. Security rorces have wounded and captured a band* helper :n an operation on Penang Island. Two other suspects were detained.
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    • 116 5 SI.NGAPOBfc YOI'TH COUNCIL: Committee meeting at YMCA. Orchard Road, 5.30 p.m. PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE: Mobile Film Dnlfa Iree shows at 16 Kempu Road. Pel Teck Public School. 11 milestone Jurong Road and 115. Buffalo Road 7 p.m. PAYA LEBAR METHODIST GIRLS' SCHOOL: Opening and dedication of new building 9am POLICE
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  • 61 6 MACKIE Sunday morning as a result of- a motor accident. Oorcion Qrataaa beloved inly son of Helen Jenkins. WOON HONG HENG at Kuaia Lumpur 2 a.m. 10 May. 1953. age 80 survived by a wife, 8 sons. 3 daughters and 26 grandchildren. Funeral leaving 11 Doralsamy Street, K.L., on
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  • 38 6 ELEGANT, enchanting and look your best- in a Madeline gown. COLONY of Singapore Flags. B're (> ft. x 3 ft. for $21 each, from Robinsons, who have a large collection of flags and bunting. Special prices for clubs.
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    • 661 6 The Mystery Of Laos French military sources in Hanoi assert that the Communist invasion of Laos "definitely is over" at least until October. As this is the first firm expression of opinion from Hanoi since the invasion began presumably it is not offered without mature deliberation. But it would seem
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    • 617 6 One of the smaller mysteries of the decline in the price of rubber and tin is the maintenance of employment and wage levels in Singapore. The sharp decline particularly in the price of rubber was expected to have a severe impact on employment and wages generally.
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  • 1517 6 Boys get their second chance •NEW DEAL 9 IS THE PRISONS -3 In the last of three articles on prison reforms in Malaya, a Staff Correspondent in Kuala Lumpur deals with the "Borstal" system. BORSTAL -boys at Telok Mas in Malacca are trained for a new We on the sit
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  • 441 6 London Log WHY should a British sold- ier in Germany receive a 41b. airmail parcel it a cost to his relatives oi 6s. (id. whereas it costs eight or nine times as much to send a similar parcel to a .soldier in Malaya The question was asked in Parliament when
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    • 463 6 pathy for the man of large family who runs into debt as a result of his many responsibilities. But the man who accumulates debts from a variety of sources for v his own plea-sure-seeking included, the Serment but also a bad security risk. J Retrenchment should
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    • 59 6 rjiHE SIT. has not so far produced concrete reasons for the 15 per cent rent Increase for SIT. flat* Is the S.I.T. running at a loss? If it Is could it oroduce its financial position If Its financial position is sound, would it not be wise for the
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    • 107 6 MR. C. H. Koh. a life member of the M.C.A. has found it necessary to bring into the open the shortcomings of the Singapore Branch, evidently much to tha Committee's chagrin Now that the Inquiry Committee has pinned the blame on the Committee, why has not
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  • 103 7 32,000 seeHK trade show ABOUT 32,000 people have visited the Hong Kong trade exhibition at the Happy World, Singapore, since M opening on Saturday. Mr. Van Man Leung, director of publicity, told the Straits Times yesterday: "Thi> is a record. We have had about 16,000 people visiting us each night."
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  • 107 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. On Jan. 28, last year, Tay Poh LJan's name was taken by the traffic police for driving a car without renewing his Road Tax Licence. Two days later, before his case could by heard, police said he was again found driving the
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  • 40 7 Singapore police on Saturday detained a man in the Alexandra Road area in connection with an armed hold-up at the NAAFI store, Tanglin Road, on Friday night, where the manager was robbed of $988 by a masked gunman.
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  • 62 7 LIM MOOI TOON, aged 70. father of asters Urn p o h Lan and Llm Poh Chan of General Hospital pawed away peacefully at the General "•JfP I*1 »n 'he 10th May. leaving behind his widow, four sons, and five other daughters and also four srnnd children to mourn
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  • 112 7 Yf ORE people will have to appear before the colony's iTI Public Services Commission if they want senior i Government Jobs. The commission will "take over" appointments to the following eight more Government departments: Broadcasting, civil aviation, estate duty, gardens, lands, postal, prisons
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  • 109 7 THIS is what Singapore locks like to workers on top of the new Bank of China skyscraper in Battery Road, now fast nearing completion. Straits Times cameraman Norman Cotterell climbed to the top of the 1 50-foot scaffolding to take this "new look" picture of
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  • 161 7 Chance to catch more fish lures Chinese but not Malays pHINESE fishermen in Singapore have been quick 1 to make use of the Government's $400,000 fund to aid them in catching more fish, but few Malays have {asked for help. Malay business men yesterday blamed their community leaders for "not
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  • 72 7 WILD BOAR KNOCKED HIM DOWN TAP AH. Perak, Sun.— The most surprised grass-cutter in Malaya is in hospital here, recovering from cashes in his hands and thighs made by a wild boar which suddenly charged from the blukar and knocked him down. He is Krishnan, who was cutting grass at
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  • 66 7 KOTA BAHRU. Sun.— Bakan bin Dollah. of the Biaritz Amusment Park, Kota Bharu, c was acquitted and discharged g by Inche Mahmood Hashim in 1 1 the Sessions Court for alleg- I f cd breach of trust of a lottery t ticket given to him by Has-, ,san. a
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  • 91 7 More than 300 members of the 2nd Singapore District Corps Chinese of the St. John Ambulance Brigade yesterday saw their chiefs receive their badges of appointment from Dr. G. Haridas. Brigade Commissioner. The presentation was made in the grounds of the Sepoy Lints Malay School. The
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  • 47 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun— A schoolboy, Engku Mansur bin Salim. was charged in the Police Court on Saturday with committing house trespass by entering the house of Alma Mac Penny. Mansur said he went there to deliver a message. He was allowed $100 bail.
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  • 168 7 FILMS Colony gets the best SINGAPORE film tans, it is claimed, have the best, latest and most varied film fare in the world. Films from the United States, Britain, France, Italy and Egypt, as well as Mandarin, Cantonese, Tamil, Hindi and Indonesia n- Malay and locally-»produced Malay iilm- are shown
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  • 57 7 Everyone in Malaya seenv to have a bicycle already, two Japanese manufacturers complained in Singapore yesterday. They were Mr. Hiroyosrr Hata, director of the Nichilei Fuji Bicycle Company, and Mr. R. Satake, manager of the Satake iron Works. They leave today for Japan. "We'll come
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  • 161 7 TiHE great "Appassionata" x was the piece de resistance in Louis Kentner's third recital of Beethoven's Sonatas at St Andrew's War Memorial Hali last night. Kentner played it with enorimous power perhaps the most stirring performance he has given us so far, though it was not
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  • 184 7 MR. P. F. Howitt, Principal of Raffles Institution Singapore, was "fully justified" in ordering all the adult pupils of the Peoples' Education Association out of his school on the night of Jan. 26 for writing obscene words on the blackboards, scattering Red literature about
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  • 106 7 The boycott won't stop inquiry SIR EDWARD Rltson will open h^s inquiry into Government allowances as planned on Wednesday, despite a boycott by three indus- I trial unions representing 2.000 workers. He said yesterday: "I shall be sorry if these unions stay away, but I'll still carry on. "We shall
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  • 30 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun Salim bin Sunad. a lorry driver, was fined $200 in tH> Police Court, Johore Bahru. today for carrying an excess load of 2 tons 7cwt.
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  • 70 7 The Singapore Chamber Ensemble will contribute to the City's celebrations a festival of British music. The festival will be held in assocatlon with the British Council at the Council's hall Stamford Road, at on May 31. The programme, under the patronage of the Governor, Sir
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  • 35 7 The Singapore Assistant Coroner. Mr. Oiam Chdhg Hing, on Saturday recorded a verdict of death by misadventure at the inquest on Abdul Majid, of Mergui Road, who cut his foot and caught tetanus.
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  • 223 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. ANEORI SEMBILAN ticketholder won the First Prize of $400,000 In the Malayan Chinese Association tottery drawn here today. The number was *****74. The second prize today went to a Kedah buyer while the three third-prizes were won by Selangor, Negrl
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  • 155 7 Spore lights 'under control' FOR HUNDREDS of City Council workmen, the week-ends between now and the Coronation will mean hard work putting up the City's decorations. With only 17 days left before the City's illuminations are due fcr a full-scale try-out, the |l Public Works
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  • 185 7 SINGAPORE HAS $2V2-MILLION SEWERAGE PLAN A $2 1 -MILLION sewerage scheme will be carried out this year by the Singapore City Council. The City Engineer has been, authorised to form a special sewer survey team. The Deputy City Engineer, Mr B. E. Thompson, told the Straits Times yesterday that the
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  • 26 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The I Imperial Service medal has been awarded to Mr. Tan Sens Ann, who was formerly a Land Bailiff in Malacca.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 72 7 The Weather Minimum temperature: 7.30 p.m. on May 9 to 7.30 a.m. on May 10) 'Singapore (78 degrees t, Penang (75), Kota Bahru (76i, Kuala Lumpur (76), Ipoh (75), Kuantan (75). Maximum temperature: (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m on May 10 1 Singapore i9l), Penang (90). Kota Bahru <90). Kuala
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  • 1774 8 SHARE COMMODITY PRICES EASIER Small turnover: few price changes By Our Financial Correspondent THE Singapore share and commodity markets experienced an interesting: period last week. Both tin and rubber advanced early in the week to fall away toward the week-end. Shares were quieter than usual but daily price changes in
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  • 77 8 THE followinic dividends were announced by. Malayan companies during last week:BRITISH BORNEO PETROLEUM: Is. 2d free of tax RAFFLES HOTEL: First interim 10 per cent, for year ending August, payable May 23, books close Ma y 18. SIINGEI BAGAN RUBBER: First interim per rent, for year ending June,
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  • 463 8 T*HE following share deals in Singapore were' reported by one firm of sharebrokers for the period May 2 to May 8. inclusive. Industrials. Consolidated Tin Rmelter Ords. 21/6 d. Fraser wan 8 Tln 10/ to 10 s u n Neave $2.17 Vi to $2.24.
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  • 808 8 THE' long-term future of I natural rubber in the American m>rket will be determined primarily by its availability and price. This already is true to a great extent. It should become more apparent once the Government removes itself from the synthetic rubber business
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  • 248 9 No cause for concern But tin output will decline IN spite of the fall in the tin price Malayan proj ducers using modern equipment and operating ground above marginal i values should have, from I the long-term point of view, no cause for grave concern, said Mr. D. T. Waring,
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  • 641 9 riE following quotations were those of the Malayan Shareholders Association, Slnfapore, at the close of business on Friday: i Lower ■'•rak IJ/3 I3'l Liikiil 115 la M* «ran Tin I]'- 14 \i.u\.,i«« i/. i/» Mural 145 I 55 Paluni IS/« 14/Pjtuni l/j i/» Pet»?>nt .l!!!'.',V.Vf« 4.10 Pumali
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  • 220 9 rpHE following were exchange rates to merchants determined by the Malayan Exchange Banks Assocta lon on Saturday: LONDON: .selling f.T. or 0.D.. 2s. 3 7 vd.: buying. T.T. 2s 4d air mall 0.D.. 2s. 4 1 32 d.. 30 days. 2s. 4 5 32d.. 60 days 2s. 4',d..
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  • 176 9 Thp following crops of rubber were harvest e-i t n April I.b. Kempas 334. 5C0 Radclla Rubber 15 700 Aver Molr-k Rubber 26«R0 Alor Ponasu 82,106 Bedona 1 Malay;) 1 Rubber 49 324 Temerloh Rubb»r 39 ao O Tronu Rubber E*tnfe« 23.800 Kuala Remnn Rubber 143 600
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  • 916 10  - Already I've learned a new lesson DENIS COMPTON —says I most benefit and so-called friendly matches the batsman is fciven an easy ball to break his duck. I fully expected this would come to me when I went out to bat at recently in the benefit match for SYDNEY BARNES.
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    5 10 KOSEWALL HOAD Rosi-;
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  • 631 10  - HOPMAN SAYS: 'I HAVE WORLD BEATERS' Jack Talbot by J CONFIDENCE is the keynote of the young Australian tennis team now in Europe. The non-playing captain of the touring; team Harry Hopman is eulogistic about the prospects of the six players in his charge and says the team "can beat
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  • 138 10 —the Patsy Hendren way... T OOK AT Mm HANDS. Could you ratrh a cricket ball this my it it im fast to you in thr slips? Thr hands brlong to TATSY HI MIRI.V that rrrat England and Middlr- < ri( krlrr. They wrrr photographed to illn-tratr
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  • 725 10 Asks TONY MOTTRAM IT is always an absorbing topic to compare modern lawn tennis champions with those of the past Quite often we hear the opinion of some of the "old brigade" in tennis circles that the old champions would have proved
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  • 536 11 PETER MAY A 'DUCK' LONDON, Sunday. J* HE Australian speed attack, though without Keith Miller, gave a remarkable demonstration of its strength yesterday when Surrey, the oiint> champions, were bundled out for 58 runs in 100 minutes on a near-perfect wicket at the Oval. Ron Archer,
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  • 94 11 LONDON, Sun. T INDSAY HASSETT, the Australian captain, who has been troubled with inflamed tendons of Ihe light forearm, i« likely to miss only one more match before playing again. Hassett, with Bill Johnston and Colin McDonald, visited a London specialist yesterday. McDonald, who has a
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  • 45 11 ROME. Sun. I£EN ROSEWALL, 18-year-*V old Australian tennis star, will meet Jaroslav Drobny in the flnal of an international tournament here. Yesterday Rosewall beat Budge Patty (U.S.) 8-6. 6-3. 6-2 and Drobny beat Bernard Bartten (U.S.) 6-2, 4-6, 6-1, 6-I— A.P.
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  • 159 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. VON bin Mian of Batu Pahat. scored his 16th victory in the Johore State tennis singles championship yesterday when h# beat his doubles partner, Daud bin MoAd A-min, 6-2. 6-4. Together with Daud he won the doubles championship after a hard
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  • 122 11 LONDON. Sun. §T. HELENS beat Halifar In the Rugby League championship flnal played at Maine Road Manchester, yesterday by 24 points I three goals, six trlesi to 14 points <fcur goals, two tries >. St. Helens, who led 13-7 at half time, were clearly a
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  • 418 11 I 'TWERE will be only six races at Penanr on Wednesday. Second Day of the Penanr Turf Club meeting. Weights for all six races are riven below. CL. 3. DIV. 2— Furs. 35 MM rnn Culros* 8.13 Jackpot II g.12 i Straight On 8.09 Ryegrasc.
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  • 367 11 LONDON, Sunday. II 'II I Surrey wickets were tumbling at the Oval. England fast bowler Fred Trueman was showing encouraging form in his first match of the season for the R.A.F. in a friendly match against Northamp I ton shire. He finished the day
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  • 205 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. OINGAPORE MALAYS beat Penang Malays 4-1 at the Selangor Badminton Hall here last night to i win the Dunlop Cup presented for the All-Malayan Inter-state Malays badminton competition Inaugurated this year. Singapore Malays were without < Thomas Cup player Imtu.l bin Marjan but
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  • 64 11 LONDON. Bun— Bobby Dawson Negro middleweight, now living in Paris, gets a crack at Britain s Wally Beckett in a ten-rounder at the Empress Hall on Monday. May 18. It Is a supporting bout on promoter Fretiale Mills' bill which stars Ught-heavyweight Alex Buxton against
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  • 168 11 LONDON, Sun. i MIKE HAWTHORNE, 23-year- j old Ent;li.>-hman won the > Daily Exprr-ts International motor race yesterday In a Ferrari at Silverstone track to become Europe's youngest and ■Ml promising racing* driver, j Second In the race—?, laps over a total of 104 miles on
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    • 337 11 tik a niOQMO (says Prof earr) You cannot get a powdered milk with (^SB^j^,^a richer fuller f|p^- creamier content. ffw)fc?/p> Jlii You cannot get a 111 Ijl powdered milk with til t l& M* such a unique fresh- til milk flavour and of course its 1 ns rilm THE ALL-PURPOSE
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  • 209 12 From EPSOM JEEP PENANG. Sun. 1 \f EDITATION*. a useful flve-year-I iM old by Magir Red out of Minion, collapsed after his race In the Butterworth Stakes over seven furlongs here yesterday and had to be destroyed. I A winner at Bukit Timah last month. Meditation started third
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  • 54 12 FRESNO iCallfornlaf. Sun. Parry O'Brien, of the University of Southern California. 1 ast night bettered the world 16-pound shot--1 put record with a heave of 59 feet 0-3/4 inch in the West Coast relay games. The official world record is 58 feet 10 inches, set in 1950 by
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  • 30 12 The Singapore Swimming Club "A beat the Chinese Swimming Club "A by seven goals to four in a water-polo match played at 'he Singapore Swimming Club yesteri day.
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  • 35 12 TODAY: High 0927 hrs (8 3« and 2131 r 8 2 1 Low 0310 (1.9) and 1537 <25> TOMORROW: High 1023 <8 6> and 2207 <8 6>; Low 0358 (lft.) and 1619 <2.8t.
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  • 554 12 OUTRIGHT 221 runs in 120 mm at Nee Soon By Our Cricket Reporter pOLICE scored a great victory at Nee Soon yesterday in their senior cricket tournament match against the Army. Set to score 215 runs in the two hours after tea, they scored the winning run
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  • 272 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. A BRILLIANT centuiy by Mike Shepherdson helped Malayan Railway Institute to qualify for the semi-final of the Stonor Shield cricket competition when they beat Selangor Indian Association by 79 runs at Brickfields today. Coming in when his team K)st five wickets
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  • 125 12 JSLAND Club's Eu Tong Sen Cup j competition, open to all mem- bers oi clubs affiliated to the Malayan Golf Association, had an entry of 90 this year. Among the qualifiers over 18 holes yesterday was Jock Stirling, the reignine Colony champion and a flnallst in
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  • 55 12 Shell Sports Club beat Blakang Matl In the last over the day in their cricket match played at my.i Lebar on Saturday. Scores: Biakane Matl 100 for 8 dccl. iCapt Boniface 56 no.. Maj Singleton 14: Maugham 3-29. Powles 2-11 1. i Shell 106 for
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  • 931 12 SCC v. IA TNDIAN Association beat S.C.C. by 10 wickets on the padang. INDIAN \-tfx iiiin- i»l UN'NS. V MMan b Aniitington 8 V (MM b Sheppard 67 Hussein Shah b McMuUan 1 V AnguClia ht wkt b Gou'.d 20 M Ra:j: c Armstrong b Heard 111 H
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  • 354 12 IJ M TAYLOR bettered th« Sln- gapore record by throwing the Javelin 181 feet 2 Inches. beatIng the existing record of 167 feet 1% Inches (which he set in 1952) at the Police's 25th annual athletic sports held at the Depot od Saturday. Two other
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  • 219 12 PENANG, Sunday. pENANG ran out 3-1 winners against a gallant Pahang team in their Malaya Cup tie on the Victoria Green today. There was no. question as to who was the superior .side. Penang had all the answers to every Pahang move and had
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  • 282 12 ROVERS SporU Club scored a 3 l victory over Indian i Recreation Club in the SAFA Div. 1 game at Jr.lan Besar stadium yesterday. They started promisingly and made rings round the Indians' defence and goalkeeper Narayanan was severely tested many limes. In this
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  • 83 12 Kota Raja A" drew 3-3 with I Police SA in a SAFA Div 2 match at Police Depot ground yesterday Arslvid. Ismail and Jamil Giman scored for Kota Raja and Haron. Kirn Seng and Kwan Leone for j i Police. Adnan Isa referred Kebenaran Club rfefeated Seletar 1
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  • 40 12 BOSTON, Sun.— Joe Rindone 1 1 161 'j lb i of Boston, scored an upset victory over French middleweight Pierre Langlois < 160 lbt. with a split verdict in their tfn-round fisrht at Boston Garden last night. A. P.
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  • 63 12 Rovers "A M-orod ihelr fifth consecutni' win whrn they trounced Bintang Bulan S.C. 5-0 in SAFA Div. 3B match at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Rovers "A" thus kept up a 100 per cent record Tr>«>y havp .scored 22 goals in five outings wi'h none, against
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  • 93 12 The Sinßapore Chinese learn to meet the Malays at Jalan Besar stadium tomorrow will be chosen from: Chee Seng. Yew Chang. Chong Kum. Teow Keng. Kok Chenu. Kirn Beng. Hee Jong. Hoon Leone. Hin Went?. John Hon. Chong Mun. Boon Seoni?. Boon Khim. Kok Peow. Boon UMMC,
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    • 937 12 TUITION V.M.C.A. Comrrerclal classes new evening session commencing Frda^ 15th May. Shorthand— Banners and speed. Bookkeeping, AccountIng. English Si Typewriting, Beginners Shorthand Rapid Course In the morning. Apply V.M.C.A. "A" Orchard Road. Tel. 7107. HOUSES LAND FOR SALE BUILDING Lots, each 6,500 sq.ft. Freehold. Light, water, bus connection. Market 5
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    • 388 12 j CLASSIFIED ADS. FOR SALE PURE Bred Hens, three houses also netting wire, also Blue Plat 1952. mileage 8.500. Perfect condition with snakeskin seats. Box No. A 7688. S.T. PRIZE winning ChlcU Leghorn*. Rhode Island Red*. Australorps. day old. $18 doc. Balanced Chick food. 50 cenU per lb. 115. Croat!
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    • 37 12 MGCB SUA DIV. I: Ai.-irable A.A. T I .ulu i Karib at Jalan Resar. DIV. 11l I ninnc nil ion S.C. V (.ovt. Printing Office al deviant. DIV. SC: Star Soccerltr* "A" T Customs at MFA ground.
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