The Straits Times, 15 September 1953

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  • 13 1 The Straits Times flew**** Established 1845. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1953. 15 CENTS
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  • 193 1 MCA, hit by lottery ban, may raise fees IPOH, Mon. 'THE Malayan Chinese Association, socking new ways of raising money now tliat its lotteries have been banned, is discussing higher subscription rates. Whrn the association was formed five years ago the rates were fixed at $20 for life membership and
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  • 50 1 LONDON. Mon. General Sir Brian Robertson, chief British negotiator in the AngloEgyptian talks. flie s back to j Cairo this week. He has been briefed by Sir Winston Churchill to pave the wav for an agrepment on British withdrawal from the Suez Canal zone base.— Reuter.
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  • 263 1 Ex-bandit kills Perak terror 'THE Terror of South Perak is dead. Yons Hoi. bandit gang leader who boasted he had personally murdered 100 people, was killed by his own section leader in the Chenderiang mountain range. The section leader surrendered at Kampar police station with Yong Hoi'.s personal belon^incs. Then
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  • 44 1 LONDON, Mon. Mr. J. P. L. Thomas. First Lord of the Admiralty, has told a Labour M.P. that urgent consideration is being given to the question of cranting licences to enable British shipyards to build merchant ships for Russia. Rrutrr. i
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  • 334 1 Indonesia 's foreign importers get reprieve From a Special Correspondent JAKARTA, Monday. THE Indonesian Ministry of Economic Affairs has scrapped its plan to eliminate foreign importers in the Republic from certain important markets. Lack of capital and experience among "national importers" who had received all the allocations
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  • 53 1 TUNIS. Mon Jodi Chaker. a member of the political bureau of the Neo Destour i Nationalist i Party, was assassinated near Naoeul on the Tunisian east roast last night. A note threatening to murrirr Tunisian nationalist leaders in reprisal for acts of tpirorism was found pinned to
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  • 56 1 FARNBOROUGH. England, Mon.— Mr. H. Burroughes. President of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, said the society's show here this year had been "a good bread and butter one' 1 for Britain's aircraft industry The volume of serious business inquiries was better than in an
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  • 53 1 PARIS. Mon. The French Expeditionary Force in IndoChina began its autumn offensive today with an attarlc on Vietminh rebels in the Chochai area, about 25 miles south of Hanoi. The aim of the operation, which la on a large scale, is to destroy Vietminh bases and
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  • 29 1 SEOUL. Mon— South Koreas highest military court announced today that three senior army officers were being tried on charges of plotting to overthrow the government A.P.
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  • 25 1 vif.NNA. Mon. More than half a million p*"oplf. Including bußinpssmpn from 50 countries, i visltfd thf Vienna Intimation- 1 al Autumn Trade Fair,
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  • 163 1 QUAKES ROCK SUVA— 2 DIE SUVA. Fiji, Mon. T»WO earthquakes rock- ed Suva, capital of the Fiji Islands today, killing two people. The first earthquake followed by a tidal wave which swept through the harbour. While trlghtened people were still pouring out into the streets the tidal wave poised momentarily
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  • 35 1 RANGOON< Mon.-^ix villages about 12 miles from Rangoon were captured by Communist forces and recapture 1 by pro-government "pvur Guerillas" aft<r Mvr hour* fierce fighting on Saturday, it was learned here today. Reuter.
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  • 33 1 VIENNA. Mon.— Radio Bucharest reported yesterday that agreement has been reached between Rumania and Yugoslavia to resolve incidents that have been raging along the border for the past five years -U.P.
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  • 23 1 CANBERRA. Mon. The Australian Government will laun c h a A 50.000.000 i M 5320.000.000 p loan on September 23— Reuter.
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  • 134 1 MANILA, Monday. T^HE Commissioner-General for South-east Asia. Mr 1 Malcolm Mac Donald, said tonight that the tense situation in South-East Asia caused by Communism is easing. Mr Mac Donald arrived from Hong Kone by air for a stopover en route to Singapore.
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  • 109 1 THK MOTHER of the bridegroom and seven of his uintv in Chinese wedding ceremonial dresses at St. Mary's Church, Kuala I.urnpur. They are, from left to right, Mrs. Yee Cbiew Tung. Mrs. Yuen Sze Kin, Mrs. Angeline Ho, Mrs. Yuen C. Shun, (mother) Mrs. Tan Kiam
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  • 261 1 Christopher flies to Malaya r< OLDEN-HAIRED Christopher Bishorek, an 18- month-old baby, arrived in Singapore by air yesterday to join his parents after spending several months in a British children's home, and a day last week in an earthquake. The child was put in a home
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  • 39 1 Captain Lengton Lockton of the Army Educational Corps was cashiered and sentenced to six months imprisonment by a General Court Martial in Singapore yesterday after being found guilty of desertion. The sentence is subject to confirmation.
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  • 53 1 BANGKOK. Mon. The Siamese government today announced long awaited sweeping tax reforms. Two Royal decrees imposed a complete ban on the imports of some commodities and increased the import duties on oth? rs. Th>- Minister of Finance said the measure* were necessary to reduce national spending
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  • 54 1 MARSEILLES. Mon—Stateless Michael Patrick O'Brien. 58. who for ten months has sailed between Hong Kong and Macao, arrived here today In the French liner Bretagne. The Bretagne will take him to Genoa tonight. If the Italian authorities refuse htm permission to land at Genoa, he will
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  • 28 1 BOMBAY. Mon. The AllIndia Manufacturers' Organisation announced yesterday it *ill send an industrial delegation to Japan. Burma. Slam. Hong Kong, the Philippines. Singapore, Indonesia and Ceylon.—A.P
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  • 17 1 LONDON. Mon. Sir Winston Churchill has called a Cabinet meeting In London on Wednesday.— Reuter.
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  • 100 1 MR. C R. DABARATHA RAJ. the Labour Party membe.- in the Singapore Legislative Council, yesterday posted what he termed 1 the fateful" letter to the Governor, Sir John Nicoll. about the composition of the Rendel Commission to review the Colony constitution. Mr. Raj was asked by
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  • 71 1 Sir John Nicoll is ill THE Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll. was admitted to the General Hospital yesterday with a high temperature which developed on Sunday A Government spokesman said that Sir John will be under observation for two or three days. His condition is not >.erious. At today's
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  • 123 1  - Mother of shot son writes FORGIVE YOU HALL ROMNEY From LONDON, Mon. GREY-HAIRED Mrs. Sim. of Hamilton, Scotland, has forgiven the soldier who has pleaded guilty to causing the death of her son in a "Russian roul- ette" incident in Singapore. The soldier Pte. Frederick Porter Her dead son was
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  • 40 1 RECIFE. Rio De Janeiro. Mon. A Comet jet airlin-T, pioneering a new high speed London -South America service, landed here 20 hours 4B minutes after leaving London. The scheduled time by plstonengined plane is about 29 hours. Reuter.
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  • 135 3 Britain pays more fOl A -tests CANBERRA. Mon. BRITAIN has agreed to pay for industrial work done by private firms in Australia for tests of Bri-tish-guided weapons, it was announced today. The Australian Government has agreed to take over a greater financial responsibility for certain equipment ordered by Australia for
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  • 69 3 HONG KONG Mnn Lo Shut Chung. 32. a coolie, was charged in thp Hone Kins Central Court, together v.ith othrrs not in custody, with tbr murder on September 7 of Chinese Catholic priests Peter Ngai and John Baptist Chrne. •The battered bodies of ihr •rlests werr found
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  • 28 3 BERLIN. Mnn. Twenty Russian soldiers were killed and more than 100 injured by an explosion in a Russian amjnunition dump at Wucnsdorf Lear Berlin.— U.P.
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  • 122 3 LONDON. Mon. MONSIGNOR Czeslaw Kaczmerek, Bishop of Kielce In Central Poland, Is to stand trial for "espionage, anti-state propaganda and diversionary activity." Warsaw radio reported today. Three other priests, Fathrrs Jan Danilewicz, Jozep Domborowski and Wladyslaw Dzedlak, and a nun. Sister Woltrrio Niklewska. will be tried
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    43 3 ROXFRS and their sons get together. In a London gymnasium. Tommy McGovern (left) holds his son Paul while Joe Lucy introduces his son Joe to a punch ball. McGovern and Lucy fight next Tuesday for the vacant lightweight championship of Britain.— Reuter picture.
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  • 218 3 Three parties pledge 'war 9 against Zahedi TEHERAN, Monday. FORMER Premier Dr. Mossadeq, kept a prisoner by the Shah's forces, has pleaded for his life to be spared. He is to face a court martial on capita charges. A government spokesman said- today tha Mossadeq had admitted
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  • 99 3 The Pope: Way to progress VATICAN CITY, Mon. NO true progress or civilisation Is possible where religion Is banned or the church muzzled, the Pope said today. In a radio address closing the Italian Nattonal Eucharistic Congress, the Pope said war, social injustice and oppression would disappear If all men
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  • 179 3 They follow Red China's lead TOKYO, Monday. I^ORTH KOREA has rejected the I'nited Nations A^ proposals for next months political conference which is to plan the peace. Pyongyang radio announced tonight. The rejection, only 24 hours before the opening of the U.N. General Assembly
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  • 54 3 WENDOVER (Uta) Mon A Brittsh Austin-Healey 100" sports car yesterday shattered every record for stock cars, regardless of engine size, for flying and standing starts over distances of up to 10 miles. Donald Healey. designer and driver of the car, made the runs on the Bonneville
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  • 133 3 Navy takes tents to victims PAPHOS. Cyprus. Mon. rE Daring. Britain's super destroyer, is due in Paphos today with a cargo of tents for the 30.000 Cypriots who lost their homes in last week's earthquake. The Daring <s bringing shelter for about 14.000 victims. Tents for another 8,000 are being
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  • 23 3 LONDON. Mon.— The Duke of Abercorn. Governor of Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1945. died yesterday He was 83— A.P.
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  • 18 3 HAMBURG, Mon.- Dense foe last night paralysed shipping in the German Bight and Elbe River.— Reuter.
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  • 118 3 Says Lord Ismay LONDON, Mon. LORD ISMAY, SecretaryGeneral of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, said in a broadcast to Europe last night that in spite of the signs Russia had shown of wishing to ease the tension between East and West "the menace remains undiminished
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  • 60 3 VIENNA, Mon. Budapest Radio today announced that Hungarian farmers must no longer give up land to the state. Hungarian observers here said thus was one of a long series of decrees by the Government designed to increase the food supplies and prevent flight from the land
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  • 57 3 NEWCASTLE. Mon. The Pakistan High Cnmrri&sioner in London. Mr. Mirza Abdol Hassan Ispahan!, said last night that his country would not change her resolve that the people of Kashmir should be allowed by plebiscite, to see if they would Join India or Pakistan. If the Kashmir problem
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  • 43 3 DUBLIN. Mon.- Mr. R. E. Neighbour, a jeweller, put his case containing £13.000 worth of jewellery into the luggage hold of a double-decker bus on Saturday night. Mr Neighbour went upstairs. When he came down the case was gone. -Reuter
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  • 175 3 NEW DELHI, Mon. MR. Nehru -jored one run not out on the second day of the Inter-Parliament-ary cricket match here, which ended In a draw. Later he caught out the Deputy Education Minister. Krishnan Dcv Malavlta. Mr. Nehru In his tram's second Innings hattrri
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  • 287 3 LONDON. Mon. pAR EASTERN Issues wrre again r quiet on the London Stock Exchange today except, for Japanese bonds for which there was renewed demand. Chinese bonds were easier. Among commodity-backed shares tea plantations were less active than of late but gains of a few pence were recorded
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  • 26 3 LONDON Sept. 14.— Cash Buyers £608; Sellers €609; Forward Buyers C 601; Sellers €602; Settlement C6OB (up Turnover a.m. 65 tons; p.m. 65 tons.
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  • 286 4 Discourteous lawyer apologises to court MR. N. A. Mallal, a Singapore lawyer, had been mast discourteous' 1 to the court and his conduct would be recorded, thp Singapore City Police Magistrate, Mr. J. M. Devereux Colebourn, said yesterday. He said this at noon when neither Mr. Mallal nor a representative
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  • 181 4 Remarkable progress at waterworks rpHE Singapore City Council's A waterworks extensions at Tebrau, Johore, which will Increase the water supply by 50 million gallons a day. are making remarkable progress, Mr. Chan Kum Chee, vicechairman of the public utiliI ties committee, told the Straits I Times yesterday. Mr. Chan, who
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  • 112 4 A CONJURING art. a comic 1 sketch and soncs and dances representative of the races in Singapom will be included in the variety show to celebrate City Day anniversary next Tuesday. Th" programme will br com- pleted today by the City Day celebrations committee. With
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  • 359 4 Baby deaths at new low rpilE infant mortality rate in Singapore last year dropped below the 70 per 1,000 mark for the first time in the history of the Colony and the general death rate to 11.20, another record, says the 1952 I report of the
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  • 43 4 A GUIDE MEETS COMMISSIONER MR. G. E. C. WISDOM, Resident Commissioner for Malacca, meets a girl guide, 'Che Azizah blnte Asiz, during Saturday's Youth Week rally at the Reclamation Ground, Malacca. Mr. Ong Sek Pek, chairman of the Settlement Youth Council, looks on.
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  • 176 4 AMAHS FOUND IT EASY TO GET WORK —NO RUSH FOR CLERKS MORE labourers were working in March and September last year than in the corresponding months of the previous year, says Mr. G. W. Davis, Singapore Commissioner for Labour, in his annual report, published yesterday. "It is clear that there
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  • 55 4 BOY OF TWO DROWNS IN BUCKET KUANTAN, Mon. A TWO YEAR OLD Chinese boy has been drowned in a bucket of water while playing in his home at Aver Puteh. a mile from Kuantan. His mother found the body on returning from work. Artificial respiration was tried at the hospital
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  • 31 4 Thrrr Indians will be charged in Singapore to-day with the murder of another Indian. M. Ramasamy, who wns clubbed and knifed to death in Cuff Road on Sunday night.
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  • 128 4 lOHORE BAHRU. Mon. AT THE second day of thp trial in the Supreme Court of M Sinnethamby. technical assistant, PWD. Johore Bahru, on a charge of corruptly accepting $200 from Ten Leong Huat. a contractor. Inche Sufflan. prosecuting applied to amend the charge by deleting the word
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  • 123 4 City infant expert must have diploma THE Singapore City Council's health committee Iv.s agreed that the Benlor Assistant Health Officer (maternity and infant welfare > should have a diploma in child hygiene. Dr. Mary Tan, who recently held the post, is on leave before retirement. The committee proposes to call
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  • 132 4 rE Singapore Malay Union will not contest the December City Council elections, nor will it Join the UMNOMCA alliance. A 10-man select committee appointed by the union a fortnight ago to inquire into these questions has said that the union should not take part in the
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  • 61 4 Mr. P. C. Nathan, a Singapore lawyer, died yesterday in the General Hospital after a long illness. Aged 67. he had practised in Kenya before coming to Singapore in 1936. The cremation <akes place tonight at the old Japanese cemetery. Yio Chu Kang Road The cortege leaves
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  • 26 4 Cash and jewellery worth $971 were stolen from the 'home of two Chinese girls in Yio Chu Kang Road, SingaI pore, at the week-end
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  • 206 4 Gambling at mah- jong, horses, made him bankrupt CHEONO Tuck Kee, a partner and manager of Soon Weng and Co., whose liabilities totalled $33,730, told Mr. Justice Buttrose in the Singapore High Court yesterday that his Insolvency was due to gambKng. Cheong was being examined about his financial affairs. The
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    • 145 4 Singapore Diary Singapore Arts Theatre: Matinee for school children— "The Yellow Jacket" by George C. Hazelton and Ben Rlmo at Mallalg. Commissioner Oeneral's residence, 5.30 p.m. Polire Band: Public performance at King George V Park 5 30 to 6.30 p.m. Legislative Council: Monthly meeting at Victoria Memorial Hall 10 a.m.
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    • 166 4 terhnlrolour i— In air-conditioned Theatrette. 26 Raffles Place. 1 p m Shell Theatrette: Free Aim show Wlnjo To Alaska (colour)— at Collyvr Quay. 1 15 pm.; film show for Haffles litsiltutlon studenu o p.m. Singapore Art Society: Exhibition of Eastern and Western muMml instrument* at British Council Hall. Stamford Road,
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  • 181 5 3 ENEMIES OF SOCIETY SENT TO PRISON SENTENCING three men to imprisonment foe armed gang robbery, Mr Justice Whitton told them at the Singapore Assize Court yesterday- "You have taken up careers of being enemies to society and I see no reason for leniency." Two of them, Ng Gong Tee
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  • 88 5 A Singapore police ptrt.yesterday ambushed and arrested two masked men. Tru-y had knives with them. Acting on information, the police party, led by Inspector .John Lawrence, of Tanjong Pagar police station lay in wait 200 yards from an atiap hut occupied by a 17-year-old Hokkien
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  • 36 5 Rldine Mr. and Mrs Yeo Hock Sengs "Colonel Whatnot. 1 Jack Tait won the Jockeyr Derby in the Malayan i Jockeys Association^ Sixth annual charity riancr at j Raffles Hotel. Singapore last I msht.
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  • 31 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— Lim Tiang Cheng, a lorry driver, who was charged at the General Hospital on Saturday with attempting to commit, Riiieid^ by drinking caustk- soda, died yesterday.
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  • 199 5 3,000 watch as the 'magic number' tree is blown up TELUK ANSON, Monday. MORE THAN 3.000 people watched as the 300-year-old binjai tree at Teluk Anson. said to predict winning members in the "1,000 characters" lottery, was blown up. The Government had ordered the owner, Inche Siti All bin Jahidon.
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  • 72 5 DATO MOVES TO TOP JOB IN KELANTAN IPOH. Mon. The Dato Laksamana. Hajl Mohammed Razali. former deputy to the Mentri Besar. Perak, leaves by plane tomorrow for Kelantan to become Adviser on Lands and Mines. Kelantan. and State Financial Officer, Kelantan. The Dato has been on long leave. He accompanied
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  • 189 5 WORKERS HAVE TROUBLE LEAVING INDIA Authorities not satisfied with re-entry permits X I M LUMPUR, Monday. SEVERAL shop assistants who went home to India on leave found that a re-entry permit alone was not enough to get them back to Malaya. "They had trouble with the new Federation Immigration Order"
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  • 88 5 MR. L. A. Woodford, one of Singapore's most experienced scouters. takes up his appointment as Deputy Chief Scout Commissioner for Singapore today. Known popularly by his scout name. "Black Bear. Mr. Woodford was formerly District Commissioner. South Western District. He was awarded the Scout
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    25 5 LI FAT. HKDLKY LIKER. of the Royal Signals, and Miss Joan Lougheed, who were married at St. George's Church, Tanglin. Singapore, yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 33 5 The Mar Thoma Syrian Church Bishop of South India. Rt. Rtv. Dr. Mathews Mar Athanasius yesterday addressed the Malayan Christian Council in the War Memorial Hall of St. Andrews Cathedral, Singapore.
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  • 42 5 Thj Matron-in-Chief of Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service. Air Commandant R. M. Whyte. and the Principal Matron Overseas. Group Officer A. F. Achesor. will arrive at Changi today to visit Far East Air Force Medical units in Singapore.
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  • 29 5 The cent«nary of the birthday of Sir P. Arunachalam, .scholar and patriot of Ceylon, was celebrated at the Ceylon Tamil Association Hall in Handy Road. Singapore.
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  • 27 5 IPOH. Mon. Rehearsals begin on Friday at th e Wesley Church for the Ipoh Choral Society's Presentation of Gaul's oratorio the "Holy City" at Easter.
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  • 121 5 KOTA BAHRU. Mon— Three boy.s from the Tsmail English School took the first three places in Kelantan's first oral.irv contest at the Zulnub School here yesterday. First was Wan Mohamed bin Yuaoff, .second Leni Khoo, and third Abdul Ra/:ik Nearly 500 people, including the British Adviser, Mr.
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  • 152 5 ALOR STAR, Mon. rpENGKU Abdul Rahman was X unaniomusly re-elected president of the United Malays National Organisation at the general assembly which concluded here yesterday evening. His deputy is Dato Abdul I Razak bin Hussein. Dr. Ismail j bin Abdul Rahman was elected vice-president.
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  • 124 5 Sgt. posed as drug buyer, say police OOSING AS A BUYER. DeI tective-Sergeant D. Nair of the C.I.D. Narcotics branch, seized $5,000 worth of Indian hemp, it was said in the Singapore Second Criminal District Court yesterday The detective was told by an informer that there were 200 katis of
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  • 73 5 PENANG Mon. Lee Soon Chye. aged 18. was sentenced to two months' gaol today for stealing a $13 fountain pen from Leon* Chor Pong at i bus stop on Weld Quay on Sept. 6. Sein Leng 19. who received the pen was also sentenced
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  • 159 5 POLICEMAN TOOK $12, IS GAOLED 3 MONTHS CONVICTING L'Cpl. Ahmad bin Omar of the Marine Police, Pulau Übin station, for taking $12 Mr. J. M. JeyaretJnam, Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate, said he did not j believe that the Chinese there were prejudiced against Omar. Omar was charged with extorting $12
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  • 48 5 Singapore Arts Theatre yesterday gave a matinee of Its new production "The Yellow Jacket to students at Mallaig. residence of the Commissioner Oeneral, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. There will be matinees for students today and tomorrow. Public performances will be on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
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  • 22 5 SEREMBAN. Mon The Road Safety Association will meet in the King George V School here on Thursday at 630 p.m.
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  • 41 6 NATHAN— The death occurred lit the General Hospital. Singapore, \es'erdav of Mr. P. C. Nathan. Barrlster-nt-Law. The cremation will take pi ice at the Japanese Cemetery this eveninc. the cortege leav'.ne his residence, 321. East Coast Road, at 5 p.m.
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  • 91 6 MR. AND MRS. TAN BOON ENO I thank all relatives and friends for their kind wishes and valuable prejfiits rc-cived on the occasion of their marriage on 10th Sept 1953. MESSRS S S. VET.U. S. M. Vrlu. 8. P. Velu fsonsK K. G. S. Pivan (son in-law) and their
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  • 68 6 THE NEW LIST of Huntlev Palmers Gift Parcels of delicious. export -quality Biscuits and Cakes for delivery In U.K. and Continent rx F:ctorv Is at you/ frivourlte retail slop. See It today! KINDERGARTEN at T!ie Straits Chinese Methodist Church. Kam pone Kapor. (between Cuff Road i and Veeraaamy Roadv
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  • Singapore, Tues., Sept. 15, 1953.
    • 637 6 The Cry For Elections The Federal Elections Committee, which has yet to hold its first meeting, will find when it docs assemble that its examination of the desirability of Federal elections has been hopelessly compromised by the ckmand for elections in 1954. Almost every recognised major political organisation, outside the
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    • 374 6 A positive barrage of questions on the progress of Singapore's education plan are on today's order paper, so many in fact that the Colony's Legislative Council ought to set aside an hour or two at its next meetI ing for a debate on education. It need not be
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    • 247 6 Those dreadful Fascist hyenas the Americans are at it auain. Be thanks to the vigilance of the newspaper Lovict Sport the dire plot is exposed. America wants to remove football from the Olympic programme. It is outrageous, and the vile reason is plain. The Americans cannot play
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  • 1937 6  - Malaya, too, had her own 'Battle of Britain' ALLINGTON KENNARD By HEROES FLEW IN RELICS SIXTY-FIVE aircraft, Including Meteor and Vampire Jet fighters, Lincolns of the R.A.A.F. and Malayan Auxiliary Air Force aircraft will take part in the fly-pasts over Singapore and Malaya today, the 13th anniversary of the Battle
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    • 240 6 TN the Straits Times of September 11, Mr. Alwin Karl, representative of the German Federation of Trade Unions, was quoted as having made a remark, in the course of an interview with the press at Kuala Lumpur, on economic conditions in Malaya in connection with
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    • 73 6 IN Negrl Sembllan I often heard Chinese calling nonChinese "devila" and "pigs and "swine", such as In the expressions "angmaw kwee," "keling kwee" and "malai kwee": Will the MCA. leaders kindly let me know whether such words are considered respectable or not? The mere word "Chink" In the
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  • 288 6 ARE MALAYANS TOO SENSITIVE? ASIAN sensitiveness Is be- coming a bit too much. Somr time ago there was a scream for the re-prlntlng of j an English encyclopaedia be- cause Its description of thej Malays was not entirely praise- worthy. Now. the M.C.A. want "Jungle Green" banned because of derogatory
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  • 487 6 Period piece THE Victoria Hall In Singapore Is not an historic monument, even for a city with only 130 years of history. But it is a period piece that one would be .sorry to lose. Hero is" the very essence o! the Edwardian age. It goe s
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    • 762 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. TO ANG CHIN CHOO. wife Of Oon Khor Hong, a daughter. Oon Slew Gek. on 11.9.53. at Seremban. HENNETT: On 14th September, at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, to Rosamond, wife of Dr. V. Bennett. Muar. Johore. a son. F. M DINGEMANS and C. J. J M Visxer. Enschede-Nctherlands, 11th
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    • 37 6 CIRMAN PEN (Improved L.imy-Artui) Greatest ink filllnt capacity. Transparent barrel. Moat durable Iridlum tipped 14K gold nib. Postage 50 rents extra. EVERBRIGHT OPTICAL CO., 19, Thalia St.. S'p«re-1 ENG SENG MEDICAL CO., 8. Ah Quee St., Prnanf.
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    • 77 6 Vie STREAMUNEP \|W |§|iii ft 4-va\e, 5-wa\,cbHnd b^ndbpread portable for operation from either AC. Mains or batteries Telescopic rod aerial ensures belt possible reception on Medium -Short and Shortwave hands Factory Representative*: SINCAPORE KUALA LUMFUk PENANC Distributors: ANN PENC TRADERS LTD. 59-61, STAMFORD ROAD. SINCAPORE 6. TILEPHONE 7631 4600 MOTION
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  • 108 7 KI'ALA LUMPI.'R, Mon. THE MALAYAN YOUTH COI'NCIL will launch a country-wide "Friends of Youth" scheme this year to encourage boys mil RirLs to join the Council. An appeal for support is being made to adults. Youth services in Malaya inn o t be developed without the
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  • Article, Illustration
    42 7 Mi HON Ki:i: (left) and ('hung .Moon Voon smile for the cameraman. They had just presented a bouquet to Lady Templer when she arrived at the Kuala Lumpur Kuen Chenc Girls' School to opm the 45th anniversary exhibition. Yong; Pens Seong picture.
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  • 305 7 3,000 gallons missing when audit men visited PWD STORES WORTH $25,259 WERE LOST DURING RIOTS A SHORTAGE of 3,000 f allons of petrol was discovered when an audit inspection was made at the Public Works Department stores, says the Colony's Director of Audit in his 1951 report, published yesterday. Police
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  • 214 7 COUNCIL TO DEBATE SCHOOLS, TAX BILLS THE SINGAPORE Legislative Council today will debate Mr John Laycock's motion for' Increasing the education programme next year, and Mr. c. R. Dasaratha Raj's resolution for a review of personal income tax allowances The Income Tax (Amendment! Bill, if it passes the second reading,
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  • 75 7 Three Singapore housewives. Mar;am Mohammed. Lim Ah Thio and Song Ah Hoi— and a man. Lim Ah Tee. yesterday pleaded guilty in the Singapore Eighth Police Court, to gambling in a house in the Singapore Harbour Board on Sept. 12. They were fined $15 each Lim
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  • 26 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The new village of Kamponq; Konßsi rear Mersing on becoming a Local Council area. has changed its name to Kampons; Hubong.
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    28 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Wong Wai Chak, a Singapore merchant, was fined $500 in the Police Court today for making a false statement in a statutory declaration.
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  • 104 7 PENANG, Monday. 4 MIDDLE-AGED Chinese woman was said to have died in Penang because she incurred the displeasure of a spirit to whom she had prayed for a winning number in the '100 characters' lottery. The 'voman went with a lrlenri last week
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  • 62 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon The Sultan of Kelantan will attend the Johore Sultan's birthday Levee and Investiture at the Lstana Besar, Johore Bahru, on Thursday. The Malay community will present special demonstrations of Malay traditional music at 2 p.m. on the Supreme Court padang This will be
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  • 187 7 OEFLYINU to criticism in yesterday s Straits Times by a letter writer who signed himself Std. VIII, a Singapore police spokesman yesterday said that a School Certificate is essential for direct entry into the police force as a cadet inspector. The writer, who suggested that the
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  • 46 7 Han Chin Chin, a Chinese film star, will arrive in Singapore tomorrow from Hong Kong by Canadian Pacitic Airways. km.- will make personal appearance at the Capitol theatre during the screening of the Mandarin film. "Great Lover," In which she stars
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  • 75 7 A Government shoe-rontrac- tor, Liow Yong Fong, way charged in a Singapore court 'yfsterday with offering a bribe 01 $50 to Mary Margaret i Fleury, an Assistant Matron at the General Hospital, Singapore, on Sept. 11. It was alleged that the money was given in order
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  • 25 7 L. A. Ripoll, of Amber Mansions. Penang Road, was yes- terday fined $25 in the Singapore First Traffic Court, for I negligent driving.
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  • 139 7 ARSON is suspected to be the cause of the blaze which destroyed the $250,000 Diamond Theatre, in North Bridge Road, Singapore, last Friday. Singapore's fire chief. Mr. A. Platt. told the Straits Times that following investigations by his department, the case had been placed in the
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  • 237 7 GURKHAS MARK VICTORY EIGHT hundred Gurkhas of the First and Second Battalions of the Gurkha Rifles, King Edward's Own paraded at Slim Barracks, Singapore, yesterday to celebrate the »6th anniversary of the Battle of Delhi. They paraded before MajGen. L. E. C. M. Perowne, of the Brigade of Gurkhas, seen
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  • 162 7 ALOR STAR, Monday. A DRIVER, in whose lorry $70,000 worth of opium was found, was fined $2,500, or a year's gaol, today for importing 177 katis of opium into Malaya on May 15. The Alor Star Sessions Court president, Tuan Syed Sheh Barakbah, told
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  • 375 7 Don't talk outside, witnesses warned AFTER two Federation constables and a Singapore soldier had testified yesterday, the Singapore City Police Magistrate, Mr. J. M. DevereuxColebourn, said that there was as yet no case for Chew Heng Cheng to answer. Chew was charged with using a private car for hire. But
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  • 95 7 The Arabs are now his worry MR Claude Anderson, the stockman who supervised the sheep airlift from Australia through Singapore to Israel last month, said yesterday that his £10.000 flock had reached its destination safely. He passed through the Colony by Qantas-BOAC yesterday on Ms way back to Australia. 'Air
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  • 15 7 The Singapore Brewery Workers' Union is to amalgamate with the Singapore Workers' Union.
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  • 32 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The monthly meeting of the Johore Bahru Town Council was postponed to next week as several members have notified the President they couM not attend today.
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  • 141 7 CRIME FIGURES DOWN BY 363 I)URING thr first eight. *J months of this year crime in Singapore dropped by 363 rases compared with the same period in 1952. The overall figure of serious crimes has decreased" a police spokesman said yesterday. By the end of August last year. 4,473 serious
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  • 68 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. During its tour of Johore the Federation Police Band played at the head of a procession through the streets of Kota Tingjri on Saturday. Later the band played before a larpy crowd on the floodlit padi.riß. On Sunday the band played at Plentor.g
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  • 49 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— For carrying a passenger for hire in a car which was not licenced as a taxi. Ibrahim bin Tulip. wa s fined $100 here today The car, it was stated, belonged to an official of the Religious Affairs Department here.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 105 7 Fflth er^ourfo m ilyciepen^| U Your health and strength mean a j^bjk^q lot t" your family. Se e that your /^-CffrA diet is right and good. Take Cod S^^|P^ Liver Oil daily. SevenSeaS A p>\ J Pure Cod Liver Oil is Narure'< finest food. JK^^* Jt is of particular value
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    • 19 7 We can supply seat cushions in foam rubber to suit your present furniture Prices on application Robinsons Wurniiurv ih>/tt.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 113 7 rHE WEATHER Minimum temperature '730 p.m. on Sept. 13 to 7.30 am. on Sept. 14): Singapore 76 drsrers, Penang 73. Kota Bahru 75, Kuala Lumpur 73, Ipoh 72. Kuantan 71. Maximum temperature '7.30 a.m. to 730 p.m on Sept. 14': Singapore 87. Penang 82. Kota Bahru 88, Kuala Lumpur 91,
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  • 146 8 TRAFFIC TIDY-UP Main office cleared rE Singapore Traffic Police have re-organised their office In Maxwell Road and now only people on official business are allowed In. This follows criticism by a j Singapore magistrate of the "shocking state of affairs" In the traffic branch. "Touts and middlemen" were given freedom
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  • 27 8 Sir Han Hoe Lim will Inspect officer cadets from Singapore schools, who have completed a course, tomorrow at Singapore Volunteer Constabulary headquarters In Beach Road
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    24 8 MR. no TAIW HIAT and Miss Toh Been Giek were married in Singapore yesterday. The ceremony took place in (.on lane Straits Times picture.
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  • 64 8 Professor Edmund Charles Blunden, English poet and author, arrives in Singapore today on the Carthage. He is on his way to Hong Kong where he has been appointed Professor of English at Hong Kong University. Professor Blunden, a Hawthornden prize winner, will give a talk
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  • 60 8 Ritson pay decisions SOME decisions reached by the Singapore Government on counter Ritson salary proposals submitted by its employees unions will be put before the next meeting, probably this week, of Government and staff representatives. The Government-spon-sored salary scheme, based on the Ritson recommendations, was rejected by the staff side.
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  • 123 8 TTOREE Singapore women and the captain of a ship x will hold an exhibition of their paintings at John Littles from September 22 to October 3. They are Miss Dorothea Lamb. Mrs. Barbara Sconce, Mrs. D. T. Bordass and Captain P Kosters. of
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  • 64 8 INDIA is issuing a special set of stamps next month to commemorate the success of the British Mount Everest expedition. They will be first issued on October 2, the birthday of M.ih.iim.i Gandhi. The designs on the stamps, which will be in sepia and violet,
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  • 30 8 The French troopship Eridan arrived in Singapore yesterday from Saigon with more than 300 French troops returning to Marseilles. The ship left after taking on bunkers and provisions
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  • 187 8 SINGAPORE IS GROWINGMORE OF ITS OWN VEGETABLES INVERT attempt was made last year to increase local of vegetables, says Mr. J. W. Ewart, acting agricultural officer for Singapore, in his annual report, published yesterday. "These measures have met with success." he says. "Large tracts of land at Lim Chu Kang,
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  • 256 8 Scout rescues boy from flooded stream, then walks away PARIT BITNTAR. Monday. 4 LETTER to the Straits Times from a gratefu father has revealed a courageous rescue by Jamilkhir bin Hashim, aged 15, a pupil at the Anglo Chinese School and a member .of the Ist Krian Boy Scout troop.
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  • 74 8 NEGRI GIVES $7 MO TO MUSLIM FUND The Negri Sembilan Government is to give $7,000 to the Muslim College Fund, which reached ?94,190 at the end of last month. Singapore tops the list of donations with $40,599.22. Johore is second with $26,054 and Selangor third with $9,557.70. Other donations are
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  • 152 8 Council to hold more meetings THE Stand-ins Orders U the Johore State Council are to be revised to provide for more meetings the State Secretary. Dato Mohamed Seth bin Mohd. Sa'aid, told the Straits Times yesterday. Dato Seth was commenting on a suggestion made at the last Council meeting by
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  • 42 8 The band of the RAF. Maintenance Base. Seletar. conducted by Wrlrant Officer P Kelly will broadcast a 25--minute concert on Radio Malaya at 630 tonight. The concert is to mark the '3th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
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  • 356 8 THE STRIKE THREAT by about 800 men in the City Council Electricity Depart ment was yesterday described by the Deputy City President. Mr. J. T. Rea, as "most unnecessary." The Electrical Workers' Union yesterday told the City Council that it would go ahead with Its strike plans
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    • 232 8 SIMUL TANEOUSLY AT BOTH THEATRES FttO.fi TODA 17 IMm.mi- 6nil3 IF YOU KNEW j'J WHAT HE M M knew /,|f Jam would mwv |tt; #||P —SSHpP^F The New (bl^B^^^ Warner Bros. ■P* L-^l aVk n q ori Montgomery Cuft Anne Baxter N.R. This film will !■<• shown for 2 days
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    • 258 8 jfcL CATHAY ORGANISATION 1^ ATTRACTIONS S SHOWS \i\4 if 11anM 45 ANOTHER WINNER i!f /^"V^ i AA a Me ynrSSb r ;)A Simmons Granger DKBORAH CHARI.K* f\ KERRLAUGHTON;J[ TECHNJCOLOR J^DtMf JERRY s MARTHMEWS VERY 3t.m.m«»»«.' IsooN 1 A PBrsmount P.ctur* SXT^CTiHJfVYT VT \r\ TODAY DAILY MILIM I'llfM I ls 3
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 294 8 CIIirADADV Children's Corner; 6.45 Piano Play&*n%MAar\M*kK' j time; 7 New?; 715 Radio Doctor; 715 Morning Star: 730 News; I"' 30 Happy Returns. 830 Happy go 7 is— B 10 Mnsir 810 Housewives I^cky: 9 Jazz Parade; 930 News; Corner 85--9«ndinO-Tj 945 Collnril Re P° rl 10 Mansfield •SCSI: 1 Radio'
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  • 1023 9  -  PHYLLIS I DIGBY MORTON When a man's hair vanishes ■By ii/HY do men ro bald? One of the great .mysteries of humanity, the answer to this ageold problem, is still missing, the antidote still to be found. Neglect, ill-health, lndulge n c i c s
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  • 639 9 ROOKIES wife, who kn o w s everything about our pets, says that o lr dead-and-gone pets visited her from heaven the other night and demanded dinner. 1 dorvt wonder the poor woman has dogs on her mind: we have three of our own and for
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  • 346 9 For confinement lIOW should you pre- pare for a confinement at home? Everything depends on the requirements of the midwife and she will naturally advise you. But it does help to know what she is likely to need. You will need extra linen. Keep two clean sheets (clean,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 193 9 I** |pMAICA. V////////7/ WHOLESALE RETAIL PRICES ON APPLICATION Sole Agents \f<il<:y,i. I Sparkling etttnesitnce makes Alka I I **lt7fr phtMM tawing hflp\ irv I I powerful painrelie\er «ork fait I I Grr (imrtetied AJfca-Mmt tod»> I I and krrp ii handy tltrwft! I f lACTO G E ft "the obvious
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    • 20 9 Bargain of Week Last Thursday's "Bargain of the Week a Horrockes model priced at $59.50, is obtainable at WHITEAWAYS. Singapore.
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    • 190 9 Johnson's Bcby Powder the perfect finish to baby's bath. Soothing, cooling, comforting, s j/c and pure and 3 more(UA\nnn\i specials for Baby JOHNSON S BAST CM*M JOHNSON'S BAST LOTION JOHNSON'S BAST SOAP a itntl*. anuttpve crtom for a (wlnj (#ron for nappy a 'ut»r-f~ ltd toap pun, tkm bltmnhtl. roth
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 379 9 25. One of Farnol'R gentry (7). Si rails Times Crossword S sX"gg IT SL m. guise ineffectual (15j. DOWN i i i i i i > 1. Honest footballer! (15). 7 3 4 5 6 1 2. A mere conjunction apart (7). 3. Rye dlsea.se (S> fe^^s^ fe^ I^«s 4.
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  • 132 10 Q\E thousand tons of Malayan rubber will be supplied to Israel's two tyre factories during ii);>:{-;>4. The rubber will be imported into Israel on the German Reparations Account. The shipments will be among substantial quantities of Sterling Area raw materials v/hich will
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  • 124 10 IN LONDON, Sir Eric Macfadyen, chairman of Straits Plantations Ltd., announced the company had received £83.975 war damage compensation but taxation authorities may take a large share. He told shareholders that It wa.s thought prudent, pending classification of the position. 10 count upon
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  • 225 10 British rpzistrr^d Malayan nihhrr and tin mmpanirs will bp reprrsontrd at this month's International Labour Organisation's Asian ReEional Conference in Tokio. Thf rrtmpanios. as members o{ thr Colonial Err.ployrrs Federation and rmployors of labour in Malaya, will be represented by thr Federat ion's secretary.
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  • 158 10 Australian rubber outlook: THE Australian rubber Industry expects salrs to show an increase this year following recent monthly improvement in new motor car registrations. Crude rubber used in the I Australian industry is imported from Malaya and Indonesia with some from New Guinea. One of
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  • 88 10 INDONESIAN FISHERMEN STUDY IN U.S. piVE fishery technicians from Jakarta have started a years training with the Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior. They will study under cran's awarded oy the United States Foreicn Operations Administration and are the first of 11 Indonesians who
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  • 121 10 World output of rubber up in July rE International Rubber Study Group estimates that world rubber production in July was 152.500 long tons 17.500 tons more than June output. Consumption was estimated at 117.500 long tons compared with 125.000 in the previous month. Consumption figures included 1.000 tons of imports
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  • 59 10 One of the managing directors of the three operating companies of the Royal Dutch —Shell Group. Mr. F A C Guepin. and Mrs Guepln are expected in Singapore today on a three-day visit to the Colony. Mr. Guepin will leave on Friday for Medan and will
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  • 187 10 /COMPLETION of contracts with Indonesia and the vy Belgian Congo in the "near future" are expected to reach the United States goal for stock-piled tin according to an American tin expert. He is Mr. C. A. Ilgen fritz vice-president of the National
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  • 278 10 T^HE course of events in Indonesia vitally affects the A whole of South -East Asia and has an influence even outside this area, says Mr. A. L. Mathewson, chairman of Allied Sumatra Plantations Ltd. In his report to the recent annual meeting in London.
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  • 187 10 New loading method for bulk latex rHDR the first time in the history of the Malayan rubber industry latex in bulk has been pumped into an ocean-going freighter as she lay at anchor in 1 Penang harbour. This development In faster and cheaper loading of buik cargo took place aboard
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  • 45 10 Penang's tin and rubber exports in August worth $30,243,826 were the '.owest monthly exports for the yrar and more than $9 million below July's figures. Penang exportod 12.316 tons of rubber worth $17,640,269 and 2.4R4 tons of tin valued at $12,603,557 during August
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  • 107 10 AN Australian interior designer. Miss P Rushbrooke. who ha< arrived in Singapore says more colour in the Colony's offices and shops would boost staff efficiency Miss Rushbrooke WM a co] our consultant in Melbourne for one of the leading paint manufacturers in Australia. She has done
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  • 48 10 The new offices of the German Consulate in Singapore are an advertisement for German furniture manufacturers. The offices. in Marden House, 146 Robinson Road, have modern, tubular steel furniture ordered by the Consul-General. Dr H. U. Granow. before he left to take up his Singapore appointment.
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  • 150 10 COME European business men in Tokyo predict that the Chinese Communists may eventually try to by-pass Hong Kong and deal direct with producing areas— if the list of restri cted goods to Red China is reduced. But many foreign and Japanese businessmen believe
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 294 10 W B SAFE AS j HOUSES j If these desirable rc^cicnccs were mmle of plasi, you could see how W much they owe to clcciiic cables. Bcnc.ith floors, behind wallv above ceiling* run these invisible scr\.mtv ili<r*'^inj: liphi and comfort, bringing power to the housewife's elbow. Vcar after year they
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    • 792 10 jy right LAST LONGER i 4 CHINA SIAM LINE BRUUSGAARD KIOSTERUD CO, DRAMMEN, NORWAY For Hongkong, Kob., Osaka, Hagoyo A Vekohomo Prnaor, p S'hom S'sor« HAI MING 21/24 Sept 25/27 Sept. JH/29 S.pt Fot P«ronq, Rangoon Spore P S'hom Penang MELIOS IS/16 Sept 17 Sept. 11/1* S«pt. TAN 6UAN LEE
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  • 479 11 TINS EASE, INDUSTRIALS STEADY, RUBBERS DULL TIN FALLS, RUBBER RISES THE Singapore share market had a quiet opening yesterday and, became even quieter in the afternoon after the tin price was announced at $308.62} a picul, one dollar below Saturday's price. Little interest was displayed in any section; tin shares
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  • 184 11 MELBOURNE, Mon. rpHE firming trend of share price* 1 was fully maintained on the Stock Exchange today. Buyers were keen and offend higher prices for many industrial Issues. Stimulating influences were the budget concessions and the action of the Arbitration Court in abolishing the quarterly cost of living
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  • 75 11 Singapore Chinese Prodlirr K\change: Noon prices per plcul yeif Copra: steady; September $35 buyers, JS.S I^ sellers; October $35\ buyers. $36 sellers. Coconut oil: unchanged $55'sellers. Pepper: all varieties up $5 on Friday's prices: market steady, no business reported: Muntok whi'e $360 Sarawak $355, Lnmpong black $315. I.ewit
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  • 50 11 Imports of tin-ore Into M.tlava In AneiiM were 664 toiu. romparrd with 775 tons in July. The metal content of August imports was 484 tons Of the Auiiiist imports of ore. 534 tor>s came from Slam. 124 tons from Burma and six ton* from other our.; He*
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  • 156 11 Singapore rubber market opened the week quietly but steadier yesterday September first krade closed at 64 5/8 cents a pound, onequarter cent above Saturday's close. Seller.s were reserved and there wa s little trade inquiry. The closing tone was steady quiet. CloNliii; prices vts'erday in cent* p»r pound
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  • 17 11 The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was declared at 83M.Br} a picul. down St.
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  • 154 11 IyIDK uliuiKsuie the Singapore Harbour B. aiu wharves or expected today arc: Carthage 1,2, Beelong 3. Rtsalder 4 S, Loksang C.P.. Oregon Mall 6 7, Ceylon «tf Aguki Muru 11, Ascanius 13 14, Olenearu It 16. Sumatra 18. Ganges Maru 1* 20. Landak N. Wall 2. Tung Song
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  • 147 11 'I'HE Malayan Exchange Banks Asmk Lit lons rates to .rerrbu'.v yesterday were: NEW YORK: bwvlne T.T. 12 11 16. air mill O D 32 13 16. M dnvs 32 15 16 credit bills. 33 trade bills: selling. T.T. or O.D. 12 >4. ready. CANADA: buvins. TT. 32 5H6.
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  • 47 11 The following cropo of rubber were hurvented by the respective rompanle* in Außtwt: TV Brunei Unl'ed 3n.000 Ch»n«kat •tTdanr. 24 900 Cherm!»ne Development 127.000 Indraiflrl Rubber RO 970 I nnn« Rubber Estates 4H.WH) Nv»la.» Rubber Rt*t*« 47 .000 T«pnh Rubber Elates 54.827 Rlvervlew 15«.13«
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    • 1636 11 MANSFIELD tfc CO., LTD. -j PesMae (Incorporated in Singapore) All ether BLUE FUNNEL LINE Cerriers' optien to proceed vie ether ports to lood end discharge cergo SAILINGS to LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW. LONDON A CONTINENTAL PORTS Due Sails P. Sham Penong "rr^*""'* UV#f DOOI Seat. IS/14 Saat. 17/18 A Txz:z"r r l
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  • 691 12  -  SENTINEL By Pretty football but not a goal gOI'TH CHINA, playing the first game of their tour, against Singapore Chinese at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday, were a very disappointinj team. Often they played attractive and assurec football, hut they hardly ever looked like scoring and it
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  • 198 12 TOKYO. Mon. I ill individual events in the second Asian Table Tennis i hampinnship* were ronrlud-d today and. surprisingly, no Japanese managed to win in eilher Ihe men's or women's singles. OR.MOSAS (hen Pan Tor (ion llie women's singles title by beating Japan's Kiiko
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  • 221 12 TAIPING. Mon. 'TWO Peni.ntt plsyer.v Cheah WVt I Hun and Tan Cheng Tee. cn;eren the fina 1 of the men's sincle.s nt the Chinese Recreation Club open :?nni- championships here Wai Hur be.n Ram.i Rao 7-5 6-1 snd Cheng Tee eliminated G. L CaIMM 6-0. 6-3
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  • 110 12 Krom Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Mon. Ex-Malayan rubber planter Colin Millfr won the Challenpe Cup. a handsome silver bowl presented by Mr. Dudley Parsons, when the home branch of the Senior Golfers Societv of Malaya held their ;mmi.il meeting at Cooden Beach. BuMK. Playinir
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  • 131 12 SOUTH CHINA goalkeeper Pau King Yin Rets to the ball first as < h-irii,- Chan and Jimmy Tan close in during yesterday's match at Jalan Besar stadium in which Singapore Chinese held South China to a 0-0 draw. Straits Times picture. PENANG. Mon. TWO records, including
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  • 59 12 Singapore Harbour Board r.c. a ere awarded a walkover by le>iee G. Muthusiimy when BO DC A Mllefl 10 turn up for their SAFA [lh 1! came at Oevlanc on Sunriav Immlcratlnn S.C. failed to Him in for their SAFA Div. 3B came it Oejrtang yesterday
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  • 26 12 frrangoon MY. be«t Post Rn^ lelecraph SC. 2— i ,n a SAFA 9* 3r came at Clerical Union rround ymtmdmy. Ahmad Mnnood cferced
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  • 35 12 '«)n\Y: Hlch (i?3l hrs <T HI and ■I" <BS.; i^, w 0757 (4.11 and .'o«<s I? 4 i •♦•morrow Hleh 0320 hrs "71 i and 1 44.-, <».■,,; jow tmn J4.71 and 2M4 (2.1).
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  • 29 12 VENICE. Mon. Jaroslav Drobnjf won the men's ringlet title in the international tenni.s tourniiinent here yesterday beating VladLslav Skonecki 8-6, 3-6, 2-6 6 4 6-2 -UP
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  • 93 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. RECENT arrivals from India gave a fine display in the SelaiiKor hockey Association's Mcond hockey trial on the pariang on Saturday. Two of them, M.uimohan Siivh centre-forward :md Ajit Singh ln>ide-left :in likely to solve Sehinvor'.s problem ol replacing tvo inMde forwards.
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  • 220 12 LONDON. Mon. A NEW rubber flooring which, It Is hoped, will prevent serious injury to a borer who strikes the bark of his head on the floor, li.i.foeen .siiccf^sfully nit-d 0111 by Uie London Amateur BoxiuK As.voti.il ion. A ptuirl ol 18 lAMidnn menu
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  • 241 12 ASKS SKMIfsEL 'PHK Singapore Amateur Football Association selcc- tors seem to be over-tired by the long season which is now nearing its end. Last night they named a Singapore "A" team to play South China today at Jalan Besar stadium, and it is an
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  • 255 12 JMONZA Mon. LAN iManuel Fangio, the Argentine ace. after a terrific struggle with the world champion, Alberto Ascari of Italy, won the Italian Grand I P:ix motor race here today. F.innio mid pushed his Haiian Muermtl csi .him ttomi of Ascarl'.i Ferr.in on
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  • 61 12 NEW YORK. Mon. Joe Louis, former world champion, today tipped Roland La Starza to win the world heavyweight i championship from Rocky 1 Marciano. the holder, In their outdoor bout here on Sept. 24. Louis added that he did not think La Starza could win
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  • 307 12 MOVE TO INVITE CEYLON ATHLETES TO MALAYA A SUGGESTION will be i made to the Amateur Athletic Association of Malaya to invite athletes from Ceylon to the next Malayan championships. Mr. N. M. Vasagam, manager I of the Federation of Malaya Athletic Union's team at the recent championships in I
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  • 149 12 Abdul Mawi leaves today for Melbourne JEEP'S JOTTINGS JOCKEY Abdul Mawi leave •'today with h"is wife by air for Melbourne to ride in tho Invitation Stakos at Caulfield on Sept. 25. and witr. him go the best wishv.s of all Malayan racegoe- i Goo i luck, Mawi. IB Saturday's Gold
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  • 55 12 PARIS. Mon. Buissnn DOr ridden by Fred Palme;-, won the £4.000 French St. Lcgrr (Prix Royal Oakt over one mile seven turtam at Longchamp.s ves'erday Buisson DOr won by a length from Baron de Rohschild's Cnqurlln with the Aga Khans Shikampur twn and a
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  • 445 12  -  BIDDY TREVOR \\s WITH two wins over visiting sides to their crrdit already, the Singapore Cricket Club appear to have the makings of a strong rugby side this year and tomorrows trial game on the Padang— the annual Newcomers v The Rest game— will present an
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  • 401 12  - Can Forest Beau beat weight and tradition? EPSOM JEEP By pOLD CUP week at Bukit Timah. The premier "classic" is only four days ahead but until the weights for the big race are published on Thursday morning, it is difficult to form any clear opinion about big race prospects. But
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  • 31 12 IPOH. Mon. Btwrack ChW hecame this \ears Bvander Shield rrtrlcet champions when thrv received a x ,-lkover from Railway tm ttflt* Kam'iels Club. Tanionc Rambi;tii.i are the mrners-tip.
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  • 28 12 Rtjaji S.C. and Klnta Ramers drew l— i in a «o"cer friendly plnved at Farrer Park on Su-dav Nagallngnm ißaJgjt) and Majld were the scorers.
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  • 43 12 The YMCA hockey team to meet Dutch Club at Fairer Park today In a friendly game will be Francis I.cc: Yoearajah. Aut«r Singh: Rajendra. Surralla. Rlunn Chan Onn I enp. O S. Rlrhardr Nanle Yap. M. Mom, Tan Soo Hian.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 63 12 SOI Til CHINA v Singapore \V, l.i l.i n Brxar. SAK\ DIV. KOIX'A v R<x-kli(ex al HOIK A; I»IV. Ml Indian R.S. v Mulay S.C. M <-e>lan(. IKHKtV I SIIA UtAGUK, Div. I: I.i mi H>iidmrs v S.C.C, s< C padanc: S.R.t. v T.T.C.. SRC padang. KRIKNDI.V: S.C.K.C. v Cable
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