The Straits Times, 22 May 1953

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  • 14 1 The Straits Times fat** 1 Established 1845. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1953. 15 CENTS
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  • 390 1 Next step man be peace talks with Malenkov WASHINGTON, Thursday. A MEETING between Sir Winston Churchill, President Eisenhower and M. Rene Mayer, the French Prime Minister, will take place shortly after June 15, probably in Bermuda. Diplomatic sources said that this may lead to
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  • 269 1 SIAMESE CAN'T STOP ARMS TO REBELS LONDON. Thurs. Despite the easing of tension following the Vietminh withdrawal from its positions in Laos, the situation along Siam's north-east frontier is .still most serious and potentially highly dangerous, according to Denis Warner, Daily Telegraph correspondent, reporting from Nongkhai on the SiamLaos border.
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  • 124 1 fl \S1IIN(;TON, Thurs.— Russia has about 1,000 bombing planes capable of reaching virtually any large industrial city in the I niteil States with atomic bombs, according to a new estimate of Soviet war potential published here. The bombers were described as Tl-4
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  • 351 1 $5,000 reward in 'got at' horse case #'V#ft# pla ij. says raving ntvnvr QNE of Malaya's biggest racehorse owners, Mr. Yeap Hock Hoe of Penang, yesterday offered a reward of $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for "interference" to his horse
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  • 365 1 40-TOWN ROYAL FLY-PAST The R.A.F. show on the big day formations of Vampire, Homeis. Lincoln/?. Spitfires and Harvards of the 1 Royal Air Force and the Ma- layan Auxiliary Air Force will i fly pa.st in salute over 40 towns In the Federation, and over Singapore, on Coronation Day. Three
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  • 25 1 PARIS. Thurs— The French (inrernmrnt of Rene Mayer uas unseated tonight whrn the National Assembly was refused a vote of confidence. —A.P.
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  • 51 1 HONG KONG. Thurs.— Police sub-inspector Torance Frank Elliot, from Bromley. Kent, 21--year-old ex-R.A.F. man, wa.s jailed for three months here today for taking a bribe. The judge said he had taketi into consideration his youth and the fact that he was married, and his previous good
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  • 43 1 I LONDON. Thurs— A Comet jet airliner flew from Entebe to Britain 4,265 miles today in 11 hours 13 minutes, including a one-hour 12-minute stop at Cairo, the De Havilland Company announced. The average speed was 425 miles an hour
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  • 21 1 TEL AVIV. Thurs. Two Arab Infiltrators were killed during an exchange of fire with an Israeli patrol yesterday.—Reuter.
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  • 114 1 LONDON. Thurs. The Queen's car wa.s brought to a standstill by cheering crowds who broke through a police cordon in LOMDB's We.st End la.st night. The driver blew his horn incessantly and mounted police Intervened. Alter a few moments, the car, was able to go
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  • 55 1 DUSSKLDORF. Thurs. Dr. Meyer Cords, <x member of 'he German Society tor Space Research, told a congress of rocntlsti here that no .serious technical problems remained to be .solved before erewlCM rockttl could be .sent to the moon. It is merely a question
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  • 150 1 LAST NIGHT'S picture of Mr. John Eber and his wife SINGAPORE LAWYER, Mr. John Eber, who was released from detention two months ago, said yesterday: "Don't think lam going away forever. I am a Malayan. "I shall return whether there is an Emergency or
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  • 155 1 LONDON, Thurs— The Queen's Champion, Captain John Dymoke, announced his engagement yesterday, but his fiancee has not been invited to see him carry the Union Jack in ih, Queen's Coronation procession in Westminster Abbey. She is 20-year-old Miss Susan Fall. tall. slim, dark-haired daughter
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  • 187 1 ABOUT ANOTHER HORSE This rumour is disloyal, says paper LONDON, Thurs.— The hottest racing tip in Britain -that the Queen will be "allowed to win this years Epsom Derby finally broke into print today. The Daily Sketch brought the rumour into the open with a cry of "fantastic" and the
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  • 38 1 MOSCOW, Thurs— The Australian Roman Catholic priest Father Crosbie. who has been interned In North Korea since the war began, is to be turned over to the Soviets for repatria- i lion next Tuesday —A.P.
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  • 28 1 BONN. Thurs. Mr Humphrey Trevelyan. 47-year-old i economic adviser to the Bri- tish High Commissioner in Germany, has been appointed British charge d'affaires in Peking -Reuter.
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  • 27 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs On Narborough Estate in the Tapah area of Perak a polir jungle squad in ambush po~itlons fired on a terrorist whu fled.
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  • 76 1 SOUVENIR of the Coronation FURTHER supplies of the Strait* Turn's publication commemorating the Coronation are now in the hands of newsagents throughout the Federation and Singapore. If you have not vet been able to act yo\r copy you thonld piac\> an order Kith your neusiUient at once. This fine 132-paae
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  • 159 1 Police seize forged dollars SINGAPORE'S police i fraud squad seized $5,500 in forged Malayan i $10 notes yesterday afternoon. Tvu Nora nlan teamen were itakin to tlu commercial crime brai c!i of tie Criminal Intel- ligei.ee Department, while in- Quiries were made into what was stated to be the biggest
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  • 40 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs. Senator Joseph McCarthy ye.stc relay entered the US. naval huspii.il at Bethesda, Maryland, [or rest and physical checkup Members of his staff .said the .senator hail not been feelinr veil for .several days.— A.P.
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  • 17 1 TOKYO. Thurs.- The new Cabinet of Mr. Yoshida took i its oath ot otliee today.
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    • 32 1 IT. ANDREWS MISSION HOSPITAt The only frw V^^ M Hospilolfor^i Singapore's y A^ Children >f|^. HOsTlTATWfifk MAY 25tn TO MAY JOih GIVE ALL YOU CAM Ik \^BH HsslsS^BSV fl jT ORAMTCRUSH Jt
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    • 311 2 Today: 5.15-8.30-9.15 p.m. M A II II I II A I A (in Hindustani) with l»rv An.ui|) Madhuhala Tomorrow: "Kapitan BAGWIS" (hrand new ropy) Philippines Most Thrilling Sei-Sag;:i! (Now in Malay dialogue) last 1 Shown: 3. 6.15 ft 9.15 p.m. Columbia Picture A Hurricane of thrill* on the Florida Frontier
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    • 618 2 NOTICES I THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR EOARD TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT Holidays Coronation Day, Tuesday, 2nd June. 1953. The Queen's Birthday, Saturday. 6th June, 1953. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday. 2nd June, 1953 1 and Saturday, 6th June. 1953, nt vessels will be worked at th« Board's wharves. j Orders for
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    • 490 2 TENDERS CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE TENDERS ENGINEERS DEPARTMENT: I Completion and Maintenance ot Ganges Avenue Extension (from 'Existing 48" H.P. Nile Road to Havelock Road Labourers' Lines). I Details from Engineer's Department (Room 218). Close N00N— 1.6.53. \I t j POLICE TENDER NOTICE I TENDERS which will close at 12
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    • 383 2 TENDERS i GOVERNMENT TENDER NOTIFICATION TENDERS will be rrcMved «t the Office of the Senior Executive engineer Rural. P.W.D., Singapore, up to noon of the sth June. 1953, for the purchase of approximately 2.000 empty drums lying jat the Rural Depot, 0\ m.s.. Buklt Timah Road, Singapore. Forms of tender
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    • 77 2 GEO. BASSETT CO., LTD. Manufacturing Confectioners HAVE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING THAT THEIR WORLD FAMOUS LIQUORICE ALLSORTS MIXED FRUIT PASTILLES SUGARED ALMONDS ETC. ARE NOW AVAILABLE SINGAPORE DISTRIBUTOR II A K II I A T CO. 60. ROCHORE ROAD <muu> DIESEL DRIVEN GENERATORS (3 500 K-V.A.) 3, 7 36 K. V
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  • 56 3 No jazz for Tito TITO, himself an accomplished pianist, has advised Yugoslav musicians to soft pedal jazz and compose instead "optimistic" tunes reflecting the country's development. "Jazz music does not comply with our character and our reality,"' Tito told musicians. "Even countries which are at the highest level of civilisation
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  • 368 3 McCarthy switches ATTACK Facts answer charges an China trade Britain the target now From PAUL SCOTT RANKINE WASHINGTON, Thursday. gENATOR Joseph McCarthy, who has been mainly concerned with the investigation and denunciation of "Communists in the American (Jovernment" appears to have found a new target Britain. The Senate investigations sub-committee,
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  • 98 3 NAIROBI. Thursday. TIfAU MAU terrorists ambushed and killed a European sergeant of the Kenya Regiment, four Masai trackers and two women near Ruathia. a Kikuyu homeguard post in the Fort Hall reserve today. A Government communique said that Sergeant David Arthur White, 20.
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  • 237 3 Commons appeal on A-bomb GRAVE QUESTION, SAYS WINSTON LONDON. Thurs. CI& Winston Churchill today side-stepped La-| bour demands that the Government tell the United States it is opposed to use of th e atomic bomb in Korea. Mr. Arthur Henderson (Labjcun asked the Prime Minister iin the House of Commons
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  • 34 3 CAIRO. Thurs. The British Ambassador here. Sir Ralph Stevenson, has told the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Dr. Mahmoud Fawzy, that the British Government has granted him sick leave from June I.— Reuter.
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  • 136 3 LONDON, Thurs. THE Commonwealth Prime Ministers will face seven major political, economic and defence problems at their weeks conference beginning here on June 3. The conference will open with a discussion on recent development.' in Soviet policy. This will be followed by an examination
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  • 183 3 End of deadlock forecast TOKYO. Thursday. DIPLOMATS and Allied officers today said that the United Nations may again ask the Communists to accept India's plan for solving the Korean truce talks deadlock over the exchange of prisoners. This view emerged in a day
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  • 77 3 WHERE to park the children while she is shopping is no problem for Mrs. D. Trahair. who lives in a cottage on lonely moorland at Yelverton, near Plymouth, Devon. She just pops them into baskets on her pony, Pixie. And here the Tra hairs stop for
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  • 223 3 POLICE ROUND UP 200 AS DULLES PLANE ARRIVES HBW DELHI, Thurs. T<HE I.S. S crrtary of State. Mr. Dulles, spent a "very good" half hour today with Mr. Xehru. The m.-« tin-, their first, was described a.s preliminiry to more srrious talks later. Thr U.S. Mutual Security Administrator, Mr. Stassen,
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  • 26 3 DACCA. East Pakistan. Thurs— At least 35 people were i feared drowned after a pas- senger motor launch capsized yesterday in the River Ganges.
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  • 253 3 COPENHAGEN. Thurs.— Danish air experts flew today to BornhoCm Island l n the Baltic to examine a model of th«> latest type Soviet MIG-15 jet fighter landed by a Polish Air Force pL'ot. The airman. 22 years old suddenly dived out of a training formation
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  • 304 3 LONDON, Thurs. i T»HE overnight firmness of Wull x Street resulted ln a brighter tendency on the London Stock Exchange today, though the market lemained quiet and dealings were *t a leisurely pace. Very little occurred ln Par Eastern issues, both the bond and commodity markets being virtually
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  • 24 3 LONDON. May 21 —Cash Buyers C 747« 2 Sellers C 750; Forward Buyers C 740; Sellers C742'... Turnover a.m. 100; p.m. 15.
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  • 33 3 LONDON. May 21— Spot 21<i.. June 21d.. July-Sept. 21 .d.. Oct.D«c 20". d. Jan-Mar. 2(1 .d. Miy c.i.f. 20 yd.. June c If. 20 \d. July c.t.l. 20 ,d. Tone: Dull.
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    317 4 news in brief. A PARTY cheongsam is what Ah Mci of the Salvation Army Home, Singapore, has always wanted angle length with a high stiff collar. She wiil wear one to the children's Coronation party at Government House on May 30. Ah Mci will «n her dress as a
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  • 86 4 THE Immigration Department's first ship-to-short radio telephone was fitted to the launch Elizabeth yesterday. i It links her with the Immigration Depot at East Wharf, Singapore Three other launches belonging to the department are also beinß fitted with telephones. An Immigration Department spokesman
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  • 69 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Over 100 square miles ot north-east Ketentan have been placed under a 7 p.m. to 6.30 a.m. curfew by the Pasir Puteh police. The curfew includes the main Pa;>ir Puteh-Kota Bahni Road, from its junction with < Machang Road to Kampong Jebok. It
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  • 18 4 SEREMBAN. Thurs. A Malayan youth .seminar will be held soon by the Negri Sembilan Youth Council.
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  • 270 4 Surrendered Red tells his old boss: II You lied to us BROADCASTS TO THE JUNGLES BEGIN KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. A SURRENDERED Communist terrorist, speaking over Radio Malaya last night, warned his former boss still in the jungle: 'Think things over very carefully, Musa Ahmed think things over very carefully indeed."
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  • 120 4 LIM Toh Nee, a city council analyst, had neglected to maintain his 15-year-old daughter. Mary Lim Guek Beng, since March, a Singapore court was told yesterday. Lim appeared in the Sixth Police Court, a maintenance charge having been made against him by his wife.
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  • 48 4 Tan Ah Kher, 72. who appealed aga.nst a sentence of six weeks' gael Tor possession of opium and smoking utensils. had his sentence set aside in the Singapore High Court. He was. Instead, bound over for one year on a bond of $50.
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  • 67 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.—Corporal punishment in girls schools in Johore is prohibited by law. Mr. F. T. Laidlaw, Superintendent of Education, Johore, stated today. He said that no parents had complained that their daughters had been caned or beaten by teachers In girls' schools. lie
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  • 114 4 AFTER 30 YEARS, EVICTION 20 families with nowhere to go DROPERTY owners yes r terday told 20 Chinese I Catholic families, who j settled 30 years ago at the 6 i -mile Upper Seran(?oon Road. Singapore, to leave the land before the end of next month. I They have no
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  • 133 4 SIX SINGAPORE houses in Cashin Street, demolished some time ago. are brine rebuilt on stilts 20 feet above the mound. Underneath the new houses is a covered-in car park for the new Odeon Cinema, soon to be opened in North Bridge Road. "The tenants were qutte
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  • 38 4 Atan bin Awang pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Police Court to stealing a bunch of keys and a fountain pen fiom Mary Tan of Bukit Panjang village, on Tuesday night. Sentence was post- poned
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  • 151 4 COLONY 'NEEDS GOVT. AID' FOR NEW TRADES Hong Kong, wherp iabour costs wre tow. Mr. Tan emphasised that secondary industries were vital to S'ngapore's development and the colony should not rely on primary industries such as rubber and t n. The colony should h^ve other industries to fall back on
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  • 27 4 A collection of Chinese books, mostly translations ol famous novels, has been add ed to the United States Inlormation Service library at Raffle-, Place, Singapore.
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  • 120 4 TH E Singapore Teachers I Union Committee will on Monday discuss how it can help Mr. C. Devan Nair, the released detainee, who has been refused reinstatement as a teacher at his former school. The union will discuss giving Mr. Nair financial aid or
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    • 291 4 Don t Miss fhe NEW NO W ON DISPLAY £V A "^H^^^^jl "^BK" "Y^" Come and see fur yourx'lf m m M the firsi of th.- >■<-» 1953 fl fl I I m B I Wolseleys at our Orchard Road showrooms. lln r< a V V V W I I
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    • 177 4 «MC«| M.*.t.: Annu»i oratorical contest in cnurch hall. For t C«nn;n» Road T. 41 p Ri. ri BLK R.IHIONs OmCtl Mo-' b;'.c F:.m Un.t's free .-ho» s a I 578 Up-] per S»ransoon Road Tiong Bahru Community Centre and Kwang Hua i School It milestone Jurons. Road p.m I >.1.5.
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  • 247 5 EX-PARTY BOSS GETS FREEDOM AND A JOB KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. TNCHE Ishak bin Haji Mohamed, former president of the Malay Nationalist Party, was unconditionally released yesterday after nearly five years in detention camps. He will be attached temporarily to the Malayan Film Unit in Kuala Lumpur as assistant research officer.
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  • 78 5 Mr. White his arrows WHEN MR K. E. WHITE (above) stepped off the ■plane at Kai'an n airport i yesterday with a war bow and a bunch of barbed arrows in his fist. Singapore Customs officials were concerned. They made Mm promise that the weapons were meant only for the
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  • 55 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Ceylonese community of Johore Bahru will give refreshments to the inmates of the Princess Elizabeth School for the Blind, the Social Welfare Home, the Tuberculosis sanatorium, at Tamol, and the T.B. patients in the third class ward of the General Hospital
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  • 111 5 THE SINGAPORE Harbour Board deep sea tug Griper has left Singapore in answer to a radio appeal for help from the 10,703-ton tanker Stanvar Sydney. The Stanvac Sydney was on her war to Australia with a cargo of oil, which she took on
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  • 32 5 I A Chinese couple walking along St. George's Road. Singapore, on Wednesday night, were held up by four men The robbers stole cash and jewellery worth $230.
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  • 27 5 Singapore entertainers will next Wednesday night present •Variety Funfare," a revue, for the officers and men oi the aircraft carrier Unicorn.
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  • 84 5 Alice rehearsal LEWIS CARROLL'S "Alice in Wonderland" characters have come to life in Singapore. In the picture below, the March Hare (Enid Riches) and the Duchess (Virginia Johnson) help the Fish Footman (Habibah binte Mohamed Salleh, aged eight) adjust her costume The Three of Hearts (10-year-old Quek Guek Cheng) looks
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  • 215 5 EVIDENCE that Inspector Abu Bakar bin Ismail, oi the Singapore Traffic Police Headquarters, could authorise the granting of Colony driving licences to applicants holding similar Federation licences, was given in the First Traffic District Court yesterday. Mr. W. T. Rodrigues, ASP., offlcer-ln-charge of the
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  • 452 5 Sergeant hit me on the nose says Inspector IPOH, Thurs. A POLICE inspector toA day alleged in the Magistrate's Court that he was attacked and beaten up by a police sergeant and six special constables who resented his arrest of some gamblers at the Simee new village on March 9.
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  • 85 6 HEADS of fashion will be enruptured by the lovely range of fashionable head wear Just unpacked at Madeline's. GRAND ANNOUNCEMENT I Just arrived the crome of Merclas roller t lon of Ball Gowns specially M-lected from the recent London show. Also Susan Small silk Aft. j frocks cool suitable
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  • 25 6 MR. AND MRS. CHOW PAX LUM wish to thank their many relatives and Mends for the present* on the occasion of their recent mnrriage.
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    • 803 6 Despite the suggestion that the Asian-African group in the United Nations may reauest the summoning of an immediate session of the General Assembly to review the Korean armistice talks, it is plain that either j armistice agreement will be j reached at Panmuniom or there will not
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    • 425 6 When Senator McCarthy is abound, indignation is not far behind. This time th* Senator is leading a bitter attack on British trade with Communist China, being alarmed— no he says— by the increase in com- parison with the figures for the corresponding period •of last year, and
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  • 352 6 LOCAL OR ALIEN? IT appears that Mr. Litn Wee Plan i S.T, May 19 1 has divided the people of Singapore and Malaya into two categorics local men and aliens. May I know who these local men and these aliens are? To which group does Mr. Lim belong? By aliens
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  • 168 6 WITH reference to the editorial in the Straits Times on Saturday, may I point out that the statement "A proposal by a broadcasting official that a snooper's box be provided by the Department of Broadcasting for letters informing against the owners of unlicensed radio sets Is
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    • 154 6 not. likely to cool the hot feelings cf dissatisfaction created at that time. Personally, I think that separation really was a "wicked" and cruel one. PAX BRITANNICA. Singapore. DEFERRING to the Joint committee set up to make recommendations for the unification of Singapore and he Federation.
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    • 130 6 IN your issue of April 27 It was reported that "the Sarawak Government has decided to build a lodge for Its High Commissioner at Muarah. This is incorrect. The lodge Is being built by the Government of Brunei, for H.E. the High Commissioner of Brunei, Sir Anthony Abell,
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    • 85 6 IN the past few years H.H. the Sultan of Pahang has made many visits to Kuala Llpls, but he has never, to my knowledge, met the general public at a party open to all. Perhaps the Mentri Besar has Invited only local business leaders and other
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  • 274 6 NO PLACE FOR STUDENTS WHO PASSED SOME t.-ie ago, the Education Department, in an advertisement in the Malayan Press, invited applications from suitably qualified persons for the posts of probationer teachers in the Normal Training Scheme. It Is the Department's policy to accept for training students, with Senior Cambridge qualifications,
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  • 199 6 'Facts not weighed I TIONO BAHRU resident has made an unfair attack against the Chinese bus company serving the Tlong Bahru route. He did not weigh the facts. He alleged that the buses do not stop at the request stops when there are more than four persons waiting. I am
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  • 861 6  - Suez vital to Britain's safety— 'act now' plea SCRUTATOR By lIOW goes the prospect 11 of an adjustment with Egypt? Was Britain right in conceding what she did upon the Sudan side of the controversy? And on what terms did she expect to settle the Suez side? These are questions
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  • 519 6 Mad dogs AT the first threat of rabies Singapore is able to launch a large-scale campaign for the j mass inoculation of dogs, but I in the eighties of the last century whrti docs roamed through the unlit garbage strewn streets in howling packs it was a
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    • 857 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. HOLLAND DOWN. The engagement U announced between Kenneth, eldest son of Mr. and Mr». J R. Holland of Bandbach, Cheshire, and Lorna. only daughter of Mr. and Mm. P. C. De G. Down of Coronation EMate. Kluang. Johore. SITUATIONS VACANT ADVERTISER A 7596. of sth May wishes to
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    • 70 6 CONVICTS LOVED HER As warden's wife, she brought up her little girls in Sing Sing; her servants were convicts (even murderers). With trust and kindness. Kathryn Lawes reformed criminals by winning their hearts —helped change the whole spirit of this notorious prison. Inspiring story of an unforgettable character. Read it
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  • 467 7 MCA is warned: Hands off trade unions 'CAPITALIST INTERFERENCE NOT WANTED' KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. 'pIK Malayan Chinese Association was told today to keep its hands off the Malayan trade union movement. "We reject Communist infiltration and we also reject capitalist and other outside interference," said Mi. Ooi Thiam Slew, secretary
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  • 138 7 'Tree' movedit was a 35-ft. snake KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. TWO Malay boys cutting rattan near Kuala Pilah stood on what they thought was an old tree. When the "tree" moved, they took a closer look. And this, according to a Malay newspaper, is what they saw: A snake 35 feet
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  • 87 7 Comet has to cut its flight A RECORD-BREAKING Royal Canadian Air Force Comet which was to have called at Singapore on a trainng flight will not now come. It developed a fuel tank leak at Beirut a week ago, and by the time spare parts arrived from Britain the plane
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  • 45 7 A Singapore branch of the British Institute of Chartered Secretaries was formed at a meeting yesterday. Mr. S. V. Andrews, was rlectrd secretary with Mr. T M. Stevens. Mr. D. H. Tudor and Mr. M N. Menon as committee members.
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  • 59 7 WHILE drawing a bucket of water from a we.l Tav Ah Moi. 12. cut her riaht wrist. It did not respond to treatment. This wa s told to the Slnga- pore Assistant Coroner Mr. Giam Chorm Hing. at the inquest o n Tay. who died
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  • 199 7 $14,840 for services welfare fund i tUJRTHER gifts totalling $14,--j 840 have been received by the Armed Services Welfare Association. The donors are: Singapore Turf Club $5,000: Hong Kodk and Shangnai Banking Cor- poration $1,500: Chartered Bank o< India Lid $1,500; Mansfield 6c Co 'Ltd. $1,000: McAlister it Co. Ltd.
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  • 57 7 Service personnel in Malaya will again be able to send cheap rate expeditionary forces cable messages to Britain as from next Monday. Cable and Wireless Ltd., announced last night that they were re -introducing such; rabies, in which a choice of three standard phrases from a printed
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  • 123 7 They will soon be Bachelors Two STUDENTS from Singapore. Miss Bernice Low (below), daughter of Mrs. Low Yec Thin, and Miss Lee Geok Chee (above), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ko'ie Chian. will receive their Bachelor of Arts degrees at Smith College, in America, on June 8. Miss Low
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  • 271 7 Examiner is charged KUALA LUMPUR. Thursday. A DENTIST was charged in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today with receiving money from candidates about to undergo a dental examination in which he was one of the examiners. The dentist, Kong Yin Hon. 'vas appoin'ed by the
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  • 64 7 You will not get your mail on Whit Monday May 3P but the General Post Office in Singapore will be open from 8 30 a.m. to 1 p.m Postal agencies in the Colony will transact business from 9 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. Money order and savings
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  • 23 7 The next session of the Singapore Assizes will be held in the High Court at 10.3 C a.m. on June 1.
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  • 196 7 ENTRY LAW NO IRON CURTAIN' -HAXWORTH THE new Immigration Ordinance would not mean that an "iron curtain" would be drawn round Singapore and the Federation, Mr. J. L. J. Haxworth, Controller of Immigration, said in Singapore yesterday. c aeniect that the ordinance, on Aug. 1, was designed against or in
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  • 69 7 When he was found with 21b. of opium tied round his v.aist at Pulau Bukom gate, a ■eaman dashed back to his ,hip. the Singapore Fourth Police Court was told yesterday. He was later arrested in the hip. Pleading guilty to possess:ng opium on
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  • 37 7 The president of the Singa;ore Chinese Chamber of Comnerce. Mr. Tan Siak Khew. vill broadcast over the Blue letwork of Radio Malaya at (.45 tonight on "The work of 'he Coronation, illuminations, oageant and processions subcommittee."
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  • 116 7 A scream, a bleeding hand, then death WHEN a mother heard her three-year-old son scream she rushed into the house to find his right hand bleeding and swollen. Next day he died. The boy. Tan Ah Kiat. died In hospital on Mar. 7. The mother, See Han j Chlow told
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  • 130 7 Professor's appeal for society rpHE growth of a common A historical background, shared and valued by all, is a most Important factor In the building of a nation, said Prof. C. N. Parkinson, Professor of History in the University of Malaya, last night. H e was appealing fo- support to
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  • 239 7 'Catch-the-brush' test for driver: It's silly, admits doctor A GOVERNMENT doctor agreed with the defence in the Singapore Second Traffic Police Court yesterday that a medical test given motorists suspected of being under the influence of drink was "silly and childish." Dr. Gan Kok Liang, of the General Hospital, said
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  • 424 7 THE QUEUE at the Veterinary office yesterday. TUX SINGAPORE Government last night introduced stringent regulations in a move to prevent the spread of rabies on the island. From today, no dog will be allowed out of doors unless it is on a lead or is
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  • 62 7 WANTED: Office and a home for Dr. Granow THE Colony's first German Consul General since the war. Dr. Hans I'lrich Granow, is looking for an office for his staff of 10 and a homr for his Dutch wife, who v ill arrive in September with three of their four children.
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  • 49 7 Hui Ah Hung, a special grade postman at the General Post Office, had a charge of stealing seven letters and two booklets on Wednesday explained to him in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday. Mr. D.H. Chapman, the magistrate, remanded Hui until May 28.
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  • 98 7 KI'ALA I.r.MPI'R, Thurs. i there were no serious con-Thirty-seven "night mare" sequences, he said. "These houses are in such a <raft smK the runway position that the roofs of Mr. J.D.VV. Geare. AsxiMant two were actually touched District Officer, Kuala Lumby wheels of
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  • 183 7 Johore is taking no chances JOHORE BAHKU. Thurs. T*HE Johore Veterinary Department is taking no chances with rabies. Johore ha? not had a case in 40 years. TMUM of veterinary officers •ill tour every new village, :ampong and estate in the lohor.' Bahru, Kota Tingpi nd Pontian districts on a
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  • 235 8 3 REFUSED TO STAND UP IN COURT T<HREE men charged with having Commu-j nist documents defied court procedure yesterday when they appeared before the Singapore Second Police Magistrate. Mr. E. H. D'Netto. Theirs was the first case of the day. When the court usher called Pang Siew Keng, Wong See
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  • 71 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Uniformed terrorists armed with rifles yesterday entered Kampong Pengkalan berabagan in Trengganu and took two gantangs of rice and a kati of sugar from villagers. The terrorists scattered Com- munist pamphlets about the Kampong, then returned to the jungle. Two platoons
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  • 243 8 A boss says: Labour being pampered IPOH, Thurs. Sharp criticism of the Federation Government's labour legislation wax voiced in Ipoh today by Mr. \V. G. Scott, general manager of Perak Hydro-Electric Power company. If this legislation were maintained, it would cause the trade unions
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  • 486 8 THI Xl is no doubt whatever that many hundreds of tenants are being grossly overcharged for furnished rooms and it is not always the landlords who are reaping the illegal profits," Mrs. Shirin Fozdar. secretary of the Singapore Council of Women,
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  • 139 8 New Changi beach to have everything but a hotel I I THE FIRST stage of developing 20 acres of Singapore's Changi beach into a $1 mil- lion seaside resort will start in a few months. Revised plans are now being drawn by the Public Works Department. When fully developed, the!
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  • 52 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— Wong Wee Sim. a cook employed at Mlajedee Barracks, was today sentenced to one day's gaoj and fined $100. or aaiother four weeks' gaoj by Inche Ali Hassan, President, Sessions Court. Johore Bahru. for stealing butter margarine and bacon, valued at $13.90, from
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  • 37 8 One hundred and sixty-four students in the University of Malaya will sit their final year examinations this year. The Faculty of Medicine has 81 and the Faculty of Arts and Science 83.
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  • 39 8 JOHORE BAHRU Thurs.— G. H. Ward and J. H. Lea. tw 0 former police lieutenants, appeared in the Sessions Court today when the prosecution withdrew a charge of housebreaking and theft. The court acquitted and discharged them.
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  • 147 8 It is pflanned that the waif will be used In some section.* as an additional support tor one basement floor. Mr. Hollls-Bee said the sep wall was probabCy buUx abou* 1870. The area was reclaimer 1 in 1926. They've stood the test of
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  • 26 8 TELUK ANSON. Thurs.— The Teluk Anson district branch of the British Red Cross Society recently collected $1,076 from the sale of flags and donations.
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    • 272 8 SINGAPORE PC 8 Ponce Band: 830 Wesi- minster Abbey; 9 Time for Music 7.15 ajn. Morning Star; 7.30 9.30 News; 9.45 Waring PennsylvaNews; 7.35 Melachrlo Orch.; 8 Hill- nians 10 Musn of the U.S.; 10.30Bllly Half Hour; 8.30 Malay House- n str *n»swives; 9 Music While You PFNAMr Work; 9.40
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  • 622 9 FROM all the Colonies come reports of gifts, dls- plays and ceremonies for Coronation. Here are some of the plans now being made. BRITISH HONDURAS is BOing to provide playing fields cr parks throughout the Colony In Belize, a nycle track is being laid down
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  • 841 9 Asian visitors will thr one London From Our London Office AS this Coronation city gradually assumes its gay dress of bunting flags and flowers in readiness for the great occasion less than H days away, it become.* increasingly apparent that among th e millions of people who will throng its
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    • 199 9 Strong as a Buffalo Only THB best materials are usc'i in making B.S.A. Bicycles. Each part is made by highly skilled craftsmen, and carefully tested before being assembled into a Bicycle that is as strong as a buffalo. A B.S.A. Bicycle is also extremely smooth-running and comfortable to ride, and
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    • 298 9 Strait* Time* Crossword ~~\7 j il j p 1"5 j ~7 ~iT~ 14 111 15 >6 ACKOSS 7. Lower (5. 4). 1. The third coondant (7). 8 Tf do ell K« bark to the 5. Pretty arrh, this (T). n«* < 7 >- He keeps one In f»t (5). Oarb
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  • 600 10 But fair inquiry for goods at exhibition and this presumably Includes those who are to be attractfd from outside, are awaiting the physical manifestations of this declared policy. The policy laid down by Colony industrialists for increasing local industrialisation is: 1. Capital for Industry
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  • 81 10 THERE is a possibility of the re-opening of the iron-ore mines in Johore this year for the first time since the War. Eighteen applications to prospect for iron-ore were received by the Mines Department, Johore, last year. Out of these applications only one prospecting permit for
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  • 318 10 US IMPORTS MORE TIN RUBBER UNITED STATES imports of rubber, tin, and other commodities from the East increased during the last three months of 1952, the U.S. Department j of Commerce reported this week. Rubber shipments from Malaya, which had fallen off in the preceding two quarters, were on the
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  • 132 10 IN the first three months of this year Singapore received 38,162 tons of rubber from Indonesia, made up "of 3.976 tons of estate rubber and 34.186 tons of smallholders' rubber. Singapore's imports of Indonesian rubber were second to those of the U.S. which took 70.762 tons of
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  • COMMERCIAL NEWS & VIEWS
    • 81 10 A COLONIAL Office statement says that of the £140 million available under the Colonial Development and Welfare Acts £136,314.632 has been committed for expenditure, of which £70,804,840 has been spent. Herr Richard Bertram managing director of Norddeutscher Lloyd (left) and Herr Werner Traber, managing director of the
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    • 282 10 4 PROCESS for the refining of cooking oil. which will reduce its cost and at the same time increase its purity, is ro be introduced to Malaya by Mr. Lim Scow Peng of Singapore. Mr. Lim. who for seventeen years has been connected with the
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    • 167 10 IT Is stated in London that Japan may import tin-ore instead of "tin meial in a move to reduce and stabilise the price of tin for the needs of her heavy industry. Mitsubishi Metal Mining, the only tin refining concern in Japan, hopes that such a
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    • 186 10 MR. J. K. Gwinnell M.C., E.D. chairman and managing director of C. and E. Morton (Malaya) Ltd. first came to Malaya in 1920. Born in London in 1894. he first joined C. and E. Morton there in 1911. In the 1914-1918 war he was a
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    • 207 10 '^fcxH^ JKf TOKYO O Bbfll, -3^72/3 RANGOON rXVpNOMp^H SINGAPO9|\) *£JF Afntt: Singjpo,, nd Ptnang High quality Bit VILE SIM HI- PARTSfor prompt delivery. Advantageous Terms; Amiltihh IOASTEK HUBS Pedal* Chain Wheels and Cranks, c Front Hubs, Chains £x 1/Bxll4 tor prompt delivery, lirncket axle, rims, bells screws handlebars, spokes with
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    • 887 10 KB I Special Coronation Sale I (20th MAY to 20th JUNE) g We have pleasure m announcing special a reduced prices for all PATHESCOPE 9.5 mm movie cameras and film projectors. Make use of this opportunity to film tht coronation procession by using Black and White |P or Colour films
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  • 354 11 SHARE TRANSACTIONS LOWEST FOR MANY MONTHS RUBBER AND TIN FALL THE Singapore share market yesterday was even less active than on the previous day and the amount of business written was the smallest for many months. Tin fell $2.50 a picul to $380.25 but the share market has ceased to
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  • 174 11 MELBOURNE, Thurs. I ENERAL investments had another firm market on the Stock Exchange today. Rises and (alia were almost ln balance at the close of trading. Mining scrip continued to attract keen speculative Interest. Hill 50. the new glamour gold stock Jumped 3s. to 555. at the afternoon
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  • 139 11 NEW YORK Thurs. VyALL Street cloned firm yesterday with the main body at the day's best level?. Gains of up to two points were recorded with some specialities showing broader advances. The volume Improved but the market was slow to get under way. In early dealings there was
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  • 18 11 The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was declared at $380.25 a picul. down S2 50.
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  • 166 11 The Singapore rubber market was dull yesterday and the price of June first grade lost one-eighth of a cent, closing at 71 y 4 cents a pound. The fluctuation was between 71>/ 4 cents and 71 3 4 cents. The close was dull and slightly easier. Closing prices
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  • 71 11 Singapore Thine** Produce Ci chance: Noon prices per picul were: Copra: steady- buyers $39 fob. sellers $404. Coconut oil: steady: sellers $62. Pepper: stead y quiet, both varieties down $5; Muntok white $570; Sarawak $565. Lamport black $495 Lewi» and Pe«t: Clewing prices were: Copra: quiet: May $39
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  • 132 11 CHIPS lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Abbekerk 1-2, Mataram 4-5, Lampong C.P., Benavon 6-7, Benalbanach 8-9, Orestes 11. Barbara I.yke.s 18 Nordsjernan 19-29. SI: lisa N. WaU 4 Mallm N. Wail 5. Melampus 24. Mull 25, Sedlll 27-28. Shunko Maru 29-30, Slrdahana
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  • 91 11 rpHE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following alterations in its rates to merchants yesterday: CANADA: buying, T.T. 32 1116, O.D. 32 13 16. airmail 90 days. 33 116 credit bills, 33 18 trade bills: selling T.T. or. OD. 32 3 8. The selling rate for Holland guilders.
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  • 69 11 IN March this year ten factories in the Federation produced 530.000 pairs of canvas shoes with rubber soles. 89.000 pairs of shoes made mainly from rubber and 118.000 pairs of shoes made wholly from rubber. Other factories produced 104,994 pounds of rubber flooring and matting. 7.058 feet of
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  • 51 11 MELBOURNE. Thurs Wool price became Irregular at Adelaide sales this afternoon. The demand w.ls still .-olid but Central European .buyers were not bidding at best as they have been in recent sales. United Kingdom and Australian mills took up the bidding as some of the spectacular bidders fell
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  • 689 12  - This week, the note is Datriotism BRIAN CROZIER B? A HIGH and patriotic note, as one might expect as j the Coronation approaches, is struck in this week's new films. The patriotism in each case is strictly British, though one of the films is from Hollywood. The offerings are: "Rogue's
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  • 323 12 DREAMBOAT Clifton Webb skit on television. SON OF PALEFACE: Bob Hope bubbling over with gags and cracks. LIU: Simple but enchanting story of a waif, with puppets and dream*. ***THE SOUND BARRIER Clear high tension account of first British Hights-faster than sound. ♦♦♦THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: Brilliant
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  • 28 12 jins.ioorc Musical Society: I concert rcnc»irjcl%i» Today: Full Choir (War Memo- •W Hall; Tuctday May 26: Full Choir and Orchestra: Thursday May 28: Full Orchci- j t'«.
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  • 353 13 MANILAS.A.B.A .'S TARGET By RALPH MODDER THE Singapore Amateur Boxing Ass ociation. encouraged by the good support at the recent Singapore versus West Australia tournament, is making a bid for another international contest this time against a team from Siam. Bertie Dunsford, secretary of the SABA, has been in tourh
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  • 623 13 Splendid cricket for a memoria match IyHEN the Conrad Clarke Challenge Cup annual cricket competition between Europeans and The Rest was begun in 1924 Singapore set an example that has since been followed in every Malayan state ;IIU sr< tlcment where cricket Is organised. Conrad Clarke was a leader of
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  • 364 13 FIGHT FOR CHAMPIONSHIP STILL IN DOUBT By HENRY PAIL 1/INTA Europeans, 1V defending champions in the Brander Shield cricket league, are out of the running; for honours this season. Instead the unbeaten Sturrock Club, strong favourites for the championship, will fight out tne issue with the V.M.C.A. and Samuels Cluo
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  • 534 13 By SENTINEL A COMPLETE, uncondtA tional pardon for the "Pemuda Pirates" the Singapore soccer team that made an unauthorised tour to Kota Bahru last month now seems certain. General opinion among S.A.F.A. councillors who meet next Thursday to discuss the Pemuda players' appeal for
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  • 414 13 ARCHERY HAS GROWN UP IN K.L. pVERY weekend, on a ■I-* 1 stretch of grass near the entrance to Kuala Lumpur's Lake Gardens, a group of green-clad men and women can be seen practising the ancient sport of archery. They are members of the Central Malayan Archery Club— a club
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  • 481 14 NORTHERN CIRCUIT HAS REACHED PEAK FORM It will be champions on parade at Bukit Timah tomorrow. Some light will be shed on chances in\ the Coronation Cup and Governor's Cup by the* appearance of leading classic hopes in the valuable Summer Cup over six furlongs and the Class 1A Division
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  • 141 14 PROBABLE Starters and Jockeys for the two big races at Bukit Timah tomorrow the Summer Cup over 6f. and the Class 1. Division 1 mile handicap, are: summer err Cl. 1. Div. I—61 6 Furs. Parmiter Russell 9.00 Elturius Jones 8.11 Mystic Melody Tulloh 8.09 Northern Circuit
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  • 236 14 \VOODCOTE Inn uhl not run In the mile handicap lor Class 1. Div. 1 horses tomorrow. He has ixen carefully prepaied lor the Corcration Cup. Ridden by Jackie Tal Woodcote Inn ran three Krlongs lri 37 4 5 seconds yesterday morning. The Spencer stable is
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  • 193 14 Tamils just made it with late header T"AMIL Brotherhood Association edged Haikowvu SC. in their SAFA Div. 2 encounter at Geylang yesterday with an only goal, scored in the last minute. T.B. A. are now a point behind YMMA. the league leaders, with 11 points from eight games, and have
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  • 39 14 Result* of the United Services league matches played yesterday were DIVISION 1 RASC 4. Flying Boat wing 1 RAF Seletar A 4. REME 2 Royal Enaineers 1. Rcval Signals 1 DIVISION 2 RAF Changi 8. G.H.Q. 3
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  • 59 14 IPOH. Thurs— Lope Abdul Aziz. 1941 and 1947 Perak singles champion, entered the semi-final of the Ipoh V M.C A. tennis championships when he defeated Le-ng Siew Wen« in straight sets yesterday. Lope won 6-2. 6-3 and qualified to meet hard-hitting Lim Eng Keat in the
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  • 222 14 ABBOTS Haven ridden by Colin Tulloh galloped like a winner yesterday morning when he whipped Supremacy (Donnelly) In a three furlongs trial in 38 1 5. Abbot's Haven looks an extra good thing in the Class 2, Div. 2 6f. sprint tomorrow. Pick of Class
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  • 88 14 j SYDNEY. Thurs— Chief orcaruser I for the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1958. Arthur W. Coles, resigned i last night as chairman of the Ofjm- pic Games Control i Working i Committee. Mr Coles said he felt tne decision of the Vie torian government not to
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  • 81 14 Thirteen cups have been donated by loral well-wishers for. the forthcoming Singapore Table Tennis Association's Coronation tournament which will be held at the Singapore I Badminton stadium on June 6. Entries close en May 30. There j j are four events men's Junior and senior
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  • 223 14 TWO "gift goals." one in each half. 1 added to give RN Kranji a 4-0 1 victory over Tiong Bahru Rangers in their Div. 2 match at BODCA ground yesterday. There was a fine display by the losers' lull-backs Fook Sing and Fook Kee. After
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  • 191 14 OXFORD. Thursday. THE Australians beat another first class side ?n two days when they dismissed Oxford University for 174 runs in their second innings today to win the match by an innings and 86 runs. The tourists, who were 295 1 for eight at
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  • 169 14 Oxford University Ist innings— 7* Al STRALIANS Ist Inns. Morris r Jowett b Fasken 15 McDonald b Arenhold Miller b Allen 19 Hole c Jowett b Fasken 47 CraiK it. Walshe b Allen 0 De Courcy b Arenhold II- Renaud st. Walshe b Fasten Archer b Fasken 45 D.
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  • 177 14 LONDON, Thurs. rVDLLOWING on his 178 I- against Somerset at Leeds earlier in the week, Len Hutton, England's probable captain for the Tests against Australia, hit 100 yesterday for Yorkshire in their match auainst Worcestershire at Huddersfield. This is Hutton's 116 th century in first class
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  • 96 14 IPOH, Thurs.— Following are the result^ of yesterday's play In the Perak Chinese Recreation Club's open tennis championships: Men's tingles: Alladad Khan bt D. J. Ling 6-0, 6-3- Soo Choon Tan bt M E Morelra 6-0. 6-4. Men's doubles: Foo Yoon Knl and Foo
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  • 302 14 Rovers move to second place BUT THEIR AIM WAS BAD ROVERS Sports Club moved into second place in the SAFA First Division league with a 3—o win over Singapore Cricket Club at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. It was an easy victory for Rovers' faster and younger side. Their goal was
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  • 86 14 GLASGOW, Thurs. <ELTIC beat Hibernian two-nil 1 after Iradlnr one -nil at half time In the final of the < oronatlon Cup football tournament at Hampden Park, yesterday. Critic were thrilling winners and after a Rreat came were rheered loudly by 107.00(1 spectators. Celtic 1 energy,
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  • 153 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. RAIN made the going a bit heavy I during todays FAREI-F golf champicnshlps at the Selangor j Golf Club but nothwlthstandlna this several players put up spark- j line performances. Notable among these were Capt Benson and Maj Hill (no handicap), who won their
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  • 55 14 The team to represent Singapore Business Houses Football A»■OCOBttOn against Army at .him ■OMf stadium on May 30. ulh be .rlecieri from: Ens Hot. Arsh.id. Johan. Bonlf.ire Hassan. Vass. Hoon Leong, Yassln. Hail Garh;in. Bns 1 Ro/ario. Kok Pecw. T Mlssnn. Va-i der Meij, Marshall,
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    • 951 14 CI-ASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from Page 8) ACCOMMODATION VACANT SINGLE rooms to let nt Princes Flit. Please Telephone 8 r >362. TO LET furnished terrare house I at inA. Flower Road Three rooms, i Immediate occupation. Please apply Mr. Chen. 45. Winchester i House. NEWLY erected furnished bungalow. 3 bedrooms, sitting
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    • 860 14 HOUSES LAND FOR SALE HAVE YOU CHILDREN? Build your home near schools. Excellent building lot at Dunearn Road. 4 miles from the G.PO. Near main road. Easy transportation. All modern conveniences available Area about 9835 sq. feet. Freehold j Vneant. no squatters. Selling Prlre $1.50 per sq. foot. Singapore House.
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 55 14 SAFA Div. 1: Ti(ter S.V v SRC. Jalan Braar. Div. 2: Rwklitr* v Cheerful liiJs, CIMI ground. Div. 3\: S( S KM, OeyBJIH. Iliv. .tC: Aston A.C. v Cosmos S.C., MFA (round. FRIENDLY: M«-r -ntilr Rank f Chartered Bank. Karrer Park; Brr- weries' ('leriral Staffs v Kuropean SUfT. Breweries crnund.
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