The Straits Times, 21 September 1953

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  • 14 1 The Straits Times fie***** Established 1845. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1953. if 15 CENTS
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  • 149 1 PICK THE BRIDES FOR And win $5,000 •I The seventh of this fas- j finatine $3,000 contest j I series begins in today's I I Straits Times You will have to imagine i 1 that you are a casting 1 director in a film com- i f pan> Your task:
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  • 25 1 j LISBON, Sun. President i Lope s of Portugal today opened thp third congress of the Inter--1 national Union of Architects.— !l AP
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  • 184 1 'Beria free,' say reports in U.S. WASHINGTON. Sun. LAVRENTI BERIA. former Russian secret police chief, has escaped to a "neutral country" and| is seeking asylum in the United States, it was reported today. Brr;a and three other leading Russians who escaped with him are anxious to turn over top Soviet
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  • 51 1 LONDON. Sun. Squadron LMder Neville Duke, Britain's fast flier, yesterday claimed r hr wi I's speed record for a 101-kil 'r. >ter «68.7 mile> clos- rd cir. by flashing around th« cour> U 709.2 miles an i nour. subject to conflrma' acceptance by int^rr it <* thorities.—
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  • 37 1 TOK\ B ..—Two South Korean i >.iels, who went ovrr to tt Communists with I thoir men. have been promot- j ed Major-Generals as a re- 1 ward, the North Korean radio I announced— U.P.
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  • 773 1 Reds lose 15 men and 25 camps KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. ELEVEN terrorists have been killed and four have surrendered in the Security Forces' most successful operation ever launched in Kedah. The operation is still continuing in the Bongsu forest reserve area of south Kedah. During the operation
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  • 86 1 FLORENCE SMASHES RECORD TARIFA. Sun. FLORENCE CHADWICK became the "iron woman of 1 1 Gibraltar" today, smashing the record for the swim across the I j Straits of Gibraltar from Europe to Africa, i Her unofficial time was five i hours six minutes, beating i i Argentine Jorge Sugden's re-
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  • 16 1 TORONTO. Sun. A stuntI ins jet plane crashed yesterj day, killing its pilot.— Reuter.
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  • 163 1 'Re-open debate 9 call NEW YORK, Sunday. RUSSIA proposed yesterday that the United Nations re-open the debate on the composition of the Korean peace conrerence. Mr. Andrei Vyshinsky, the Soviet delegate, proposed a new item for the agenda of the present session of the Gereral
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  • 145 1 Floods on Red border HONG KONG. Sun. rE CHINA-HONG KONG border was flooded today by typhoon rains which sent the Shun Chun River out of Its banks. Police kept in touch wit.n isolated villagers along th* i frontier by rowboats. Both sides apparently had their hancLs full assisting those marooned.
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  • 129 1 GENEVA, Sun. SWISS police are trying to find out who organised the departure of Mrs Marlean, the wife of the missing British diplomat, and her children from Switzerland, Assistant Chief of Geneva Police, M. Henri Jaqueneud. said today. "We are certain she left
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  • 19 1 COLOMBO, Sun— The Ceylon Government is to relntroduce legislation to prevent illicit Immigration from India —Reuter
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  • 99 1 U. S. Spanish defence pact is agreed on MADRID, Sun I DEFENCE and aid agreements between Spain and the United States are now believed leady for signing -after two years of study and 17 j months of negotiation If there is a third world war, America wants to base her
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  • 136 1 MALENKOV SAYS U.S. STALLING ON TALKS MOSCOW, sun. VL'HILE the world waits for Russia's reply to Mr Dulles' plea tor Soviet help in easing international ten- sion. Premier Georgi Malenkov today accused the United States of failing to move towards a final peace settlement in Korea. Malenkov condemned American opposition
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  • 6 1 Hero of the Imjin in Singapore
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  • 157 1 BACK FROM WAR —AND INTO A BATTLE AGAIN PERTH. Scotland, Sunday. PRIVATE RODERICK Mufiro, 27-year-old soldier, who returned home on Thursday after two years in a Korean prisoner of war camp was yesterday back in prison again for fighting. He and three other men were gaoled for 60 days for
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  • 45 1 CAIRO. Sun. The trial begin.l here tomorrow of "traitors" whom Guidance Minister Major Salah Salem accused of plotting to overthrow the Republic and restore ex-King Farouk. Salem said a foreign Power— reported to be Russia- was involved in the plot— A.P.
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  • 95 1 3 LOST ON WAY TO KOREA HONG KONG, Sun. npHREE members of the X Indian custodian forces on way to Korea were lost overboard from the Jalagopal near Hainan Island, it was disclosed here today. Tnc snip arrived here yesterday with 1.200 officers and mm bound for Korea. Reports said
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  • 80 1 LONDON. Sun. Mr. Harold Wilson, former Labour President of the Board of Trade, said at Fleetwood. Lanes, today that although it was now nearly two months sine* the Korean armistice the British Government appeared to have done nothing about the restrictions paralysing East-West rade.
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  • 32 1 LONDON. Sun. Hllalre Belloc. 82-year-old author and poet, who died last July after stumbling Into his flre at his home, left £7.451, (M562.000i it was announced in London yesterday. Reuter
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  • 21 1 ATHENS. Sun. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, arrived here from Belgrade today for talks with Greece's military leaders— A.P.
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  • 417 1 t^LEVEN BRITISH soldiers, former Korean prisoners of war who succumbed to Communist "brainwashing" while in captivity, were taken off the trooper Empire Orwell under armed escort to their own protection in Singapore yesterday. Among them were members of the "Glorious Gloucesters."
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  • 147 1 Persian riots against Zahedi TEHERAN, Sun. ANTI-ZAHEDI demontrations have flared in Teheran under cover of Moharam, Persia's most solemn religious holiday. In Jame Mosque in the centre of the capital, worshippers beat up Nazer Zadeh Kcrrrani. clerk in parliament. f«>r shouting "Long Live Mossadeq The eijht men with him were
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  • 45 1 MA IHAYAKI tO ki.sh COLOMBO, Sun.-C.yloti Premier S: n.uiay..kc will quit ofii.t in mat ft", lays bi-i.iu i f .'A licahb, political Cirda said today. Tippt d mr Premiership are Sir John Kotila.v.li, Transport MmisU-r, a<id Financr Minisi.T J. K. Jayawartit iic. A.P.
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  • 27 1 NAPLES. Sun.— Land, sea and air forces of five NATO nations will test their defences in southern Europe and th> Mediterranean on September 29 A.P.
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  • 42 1 The Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, was discharged from the General Hospital yesterday. He is now con- valescinc at Government House. Sir John was admitted to the hospital last Monday. He was sufterinc from inflammation of the kidney
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  • 41 2 BANGKOK. Sun. An Increase In Industrial output in Asia particularly in Communist China and an Improvement in the Asian balance of trade were reported today by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the Far East. Reuter.
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  • 41 2 I KHATMANDU, Sun— King Tribhuvana of Nepal leaves Calcutta tomorrow for medical treatment in Switzerland for a throat condition. He will sail! from Bombay on Oct. 10 and j llf expected to be away for three months— A.P.
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  • 35 2 NEW DELHI. Sun— Official sources said today India ha.accepted an offer by the United Nations Command to airlift 600 more Indian troops to Korea to reinforce prisoner guards in the neutral zone.— A.P.
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  • 209 2 He tells West: Beware of Red cruisers HALIFAX, (Nova Scotia), Sunday. DEAR- ADMIRAL Roger Bidwell, chief of the Can.. 1V dian Navy's Atlantic Command, yesterday warned the Allied nations about the menace of Soviet cruisers. At a joint Press conference with Admiral Lynde McCormick. Supreme Allied Commander in the Atlantic,
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  • 116 2 ROME, Sun.— World Health Organisation (WHO) experts yesterday said that .efforts to control infantile paralysis < poliomyelitis i had so far failed. It warned that unless effective control measures were I found, the disease would become increasingly serious They said the pattern of thr
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  • 47 2 MONTREAL, Sun. The Legal Committee of the International Civil Aviation Organisation at its ninth session at Rio de Janeiro thi* veek recommended a 60 per cent increase in the financial liability of air carriers to passengers killed or injured in accidents.— Reuter.
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  • 33 2 LONDON, Sun— A Comet II air liner arrived here today having created a new civil air record by flying the 814 miles from Madrid in one hour 55 minutes— Reuter.
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  • 24 2 ROME Sun.-- A 36-hour strike of printers yesterday closed down all Italian newspapers and the Italian national news agency. "Ansa".— Reuter.
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  • 111 2 MOROCCO. Sun. SULTAN Mohammed the Sixth, of Morocco, yesterday signed a dahir (decree) approving French proposals I for municipal reforms. Approved three days ago by the Council of Viziers and i Directors General, to which the Sultan recently delegated his legislative powers, the
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    • 422 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS art Invited for the appointment of four Temporary Technical Assistants for work or the Temerloh-.Maran Road. App!'cant.s must have attended the Technical College and ha"c passed the 2nd Technical Examination or hold equivalent qualification Silnry will be in accordance with experience and qualifications In the smle 336
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    • 651 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS LIBRARY CLERKS (two) In Raffles Library. Salary scale (Malej: $78 6A 114 B 132 6A 166 B 168 12A 264 |B 276 12A 336 p.m. i (Female): $78 8A 114 B 132 6A 156 B 168 12A 264 <p.m. plus C.O.L. and Singapore allowances. Total emoluments at i
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    • 916 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS COLONY OF NORTH BORNEO APPLICATIONS are Invited from British subjects for post of Laboiatory Technician. Qualification*: At least seven years experience in all branches of clinical pathological work including preparation of media and laboratory reagents. Salary Malayan $294x18-420 p.m. plus cost of living allowance and house allowance in
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    • 550 2 NOTICES NATURALISATION NOTICE is hereby given that Abdullah bin Sallm bin Mohamed bin Talib of 31 Nasslm Road. Singapore In applying to the Oovernor lor naturalisation, and that any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be granted should send a written signed statement of the facts to
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    • 139 2 TENDERS P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS <Hp be received Jram Contractors Mot Below Class "C" by the State Engineer, Ked«h Perils, up to 4.00 p.m. of the 36th day of September. 1953. for the Con structlon of a Malay School and a Toilet Block with ancillary Services at Sungel Korok Bahru.
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  • 272 3 Changes show up weaknesses in t ßed leadership HONG KONG, Sunday. pKKING radio yesterday announced that Communist China has removed Finance Minister I'o I and the Secretary General of the Central People's Government Administrative Council, Li Wei Han, in a big; reshuffle involving; 15 ministerial and other
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  • 100 3 NICE. France. Sun. £IR WINSTON CHURCHILL O dined last night on partridge and fillet of sole in a fashionable hotel in Monte Carlo. The Prime Minister arrived on the French Riviera on Thursday. He has been holidaying in the villa of Lord Beaverbrook in the
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  • 59 3 MILDENHALL, (Suffolk). Sun. A radio-controlled American plane used for anti-air-craft target practice crashed into a house in the village of Stiffkey. Norfolk, today, United States Air Force Headquarters said here today. No one was injured. The plane, controlled from the pround, crashed through the upstairs wall
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  • 31 3 Focus on picture neckline PICTIRE NECKLINE for autumn fashion. The |Mirhael Sherard bill gown worn by Myrtle Crawford in London is in Royai purple velvet and has crinoline skirt. Reuter picture.
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  • 73 3 SAVANNAH, Georgia. Sun. A weather reconnaisance plane with 16 men aboard crashed in the Atlantic on a flight to Bermuda last night and at least five or six survivors were sighted on rafts by coast guard search planes today. The fifth coast guard district headquarters at
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  • 31 3 LONDON. Sun General Sir Brian Robertson. British nrEOtiatnr in the AnKo-Egyp-t.an dispute on the Suez base, left London by air yesterday for Cairo to resume talks: Reutrr.
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  • 36 3 NEW ORLEANS. Sun.— The Mouton twins were "doing fine" yesterday after a dra- j I matic operation, the first time i Siamese twins have been sueI cessfully separated at the 1 lower spine. UP.
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  • 166 3 'A-bombs on shelf next time' -Navy man QUANTICO, Virginia, Sun. ANY BIG WAR of the future may be decided by conventional rather than atomic or hydrogen weapons, Navy Secretary Robert B. Anderson said today. Fear of "total mutual destruction" might cause the so-called "supper weapons" to be put on the
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  • 17 3 DENVER, Sun. President Eisenhower ended his six-week Colorado holiday yesterday and flew to Washington. U.P.
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    25 3 FIORELLA NKGRO, 15-year-old Italian ie«-skatin* champion, puts in some practice at Streatham ice rink, London, for the European and World championships next year. A.P. picture.
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  • 194 3 BERLIN, Sunday. "ATOMIC WEAPONS" may be used in the British A directed north Atlantic Treaty exercise "Grand I Repulse" which began in north Germany yesterday. Explaining how this would be done. General Sir Richard Gale, commander of the North Atlantic Treaty forces' Nor- them Army
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  • 263 3 LONDON, Sunday. MR. CLEMENT ATTLEE, former Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party, said yesterday he feared an opportunity for making progress towards peace and reduction of armaments may have been lost in the four months since Sir Winston Churchill suggested a
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  • 250 3 PARIS, Sun. HUNDREDS of Roman Catholic pilgrims and curious tourists swarmed yesterday to a narrow grotto near the north France village of Heydrequent where last night a youth told a praying crowd he saw the apparition of the Holy Virgin who "promised- to produce a miracle
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  • 167 3 LINZ, Austria, Sun. AUSTRIAN AUTHORITIES! here said today that 39-year-oid man had been formally allowed to register a* a female. The '"man" whose name was withheld, had been brought up by his parents as a boy, with the name of Franz. But from early years he showed
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  • 217 3 Labour row nears climax LONDON, Sun. CQUABBLES in the Bri--0 tish Labour movement may reach a climax tomorrow when the Party opens its annual conference at Margate. The main task of tne leaders, headed by Mr. Clement Attlee, Is to put over the excutlves "ten-year plan" with which It hopes
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  • 39 3 WILMINGTON. North Carolina Sun.— Autnorities here said today they have uncovered a gambling conspiracy involving almost $2,000,000 worth of Irish sweepstakes tickets. Sheriff Marvin Register said two men and a woman are being held
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  • 40 3 PARIS. Sun— R. P. Vaux, director of the French Archaeological School in Jerusalem, in a report issued today described important ruins uncovered by Khibert Qubran near grottos where famous Hebrew manuscripts were found a few years ago.— U.P
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  • 33 3 ROM?;. Sun— Five Italian workers were crushed to death when a wall of rock gave way In a quarry at Aprilia. 25 miles south of here last night.— j Reuter.
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  • 14 3 BONN, Sun— West Germany plans to build 500.000 houses in 1954.— Reuter.
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  • 18 3 HONG KONG, Sun— The U S aircraft carrier Kearsarge is here on a week's visit. UP.
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    • 116 3 TAJMAHAL STORE SENSATIONAL SALE OFFERS BARGAINS AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES U.P. S.P. Everglaxe Cotton dressmaterials $2.50 1.75 American Printed Crepe 3.50 1.80 English Haircord 2.25 1.10 English Printed Crepe 3.50 1.90 English Plain Linen 2.75 1.90 French Duko Printed Georgette 4.50 2.75 Checked Tafetta English 4.50 3.00 French Pure Silk
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  • 144 4 UNITE IN LOYALTY TO MALA YA, HE URGES PENANG, Sunday. JHE PENANG Resident Commissioner, Mr. R. P. Bingham, urged the peoples of Malaya to unite, not in political thinking but in territorial loyalty, at last night's anniversary dinner of the Malayan Indian Association. "In Malaya, a large part of the
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  • 66 4 Mr. A. M. Abu Baker, of Salamat Stablrs is all smiles as he receives the Singapore Gold Cup. a replica of the historic Warwick Vane. fr«m Mrs. M. F. Cutler, wife of Mr. Culter. chairman of the Singapore Turf Club committee Salamat Stable's Mubarak won the Bukit
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  • 81 4 MALACCA. Sun.— lvy Chi. I 19. who has Just been awarded I teaching bursary to the University of Malaya. was chosen as "Youth Week Princess" at a dance organised by the Malacca Youth Council last night. Fauntleroy Tan, 18, was selected as the "Youth Wee* Prince." Thirty
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  • 136 4 Indian congress starts welfare service PENANG, Sun. THE PENANG branch of the Malayan Indian Congress is starting a welfare service for its members. The service is to be run in six sections Youth. Employment Exchange. Information and Publicity. Library. Recreation and Music and Travel Service. The youth section will be
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  • 197 4 AUDITORS COMPLAIN TO MCA A LETTER from the Malayan Chinese Associations auditors in Kuala Lumpur, complaining of an inaccuracy and omissions ln their report as attached to the balance sheet of the annual report tabled at a meeting of the Singapore branch of the M.C.A. ln July, was released to
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  • 129 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. NEARLY 400 Malayan volunteer soldiprs are on their way home after their first post-war camp at Port Dickson. They are men of the Federation of Malaya Volunteer Military Police from Kuala Lumpur and of the F.M.V Reconnaissance Corps. The volunteer military police were
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  • 66 4 UMNO stays away JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.— All political organisations, with the exception of the United Malays National Organisation attended a meeting yesterday at Bukit Zahiah School Johoro Bahru, convrned to interest people in the State elections next year. Inche Samsu. the District Officer, presided. Dato Seth. the State Secretary, appealed
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  • 28 4 The Sineaporr Fine Arts Society is stacinc Lawrencp Binyon'.s Enclish version of Sakuntala. Indian poet Kaliria.sa'.s classical drama, at the Victoria Theatre on Friday and Saturday.
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  • 64 4 ALOR STAR. Sun. One Boon Lim was sentenced to six months gaol without option here today for running a "1,000 characters" lottery. When police raided his house at Kimbong Kapal on Septem- ber 19 they found 22 lottery ticket* and counterfoils. Lee Thean Choo was fined
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  • 51 4 A funeral service was held at Bidadari Chapel yesterday for Mr. Dennis Cuttlford, who died on Saturday night after falling from the Cathay flats. Several Singapore City Council officials attended the service. Mr. Cuttiford had worked In the Crty Engineer's Department. The body was
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  • 35 4 KLANG. Sun.— Mr. Lee Eng Teh, president of the Klang branch of the Malayan Chinese Association and unofficial member of the Klang Town Board, and his wife will celebrate their ■silver wedding" on Saturday.
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  • 255 4 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Sun. A TECHNICAL party has gone to the Dent Peninsula, on the east coast of North Borneo, to make a gravity survey in an attempt to discover more data on the oil potentialities of the area. The
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  • 111 4 Labour men plan talks on self-rule rE Singapore Labour Party plans to convene a ;onfrrencc of political parties ln the Colony to discuss the independence of Malaya and the unification of Singapore and the Federation. Each party will be asked to send up to five delegates to the talks, the
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  • 48 4 A Chinese, pushing a bicycle without a light along Bukit Timah Road. Singapore, at 11 p.m on Saturday, left his bicycle and ran when two constables approached him. Five fowls were found in a bundle tied to the bicycle. A man later detained.
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  • 227 5 IMP council will be asked to expel other party members KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. A PROPOSAL to expel from the Independence of Malaya Party members who have "other party loyalties" is expected to be made at the party's national council meeting in October. The proposal is to be made by a
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  • 131 5 MALAYS LEAD OFF THE BIG FESTIVAL SINGAPORE City Day anniversary celebrations open at 8.30 o'clock tonight with an all-Malay programme on an open-air stage at City Hall steps. The show will be a Malay bangsawan (concert). The Police Band will play for an hour before the .show. The band will
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  • 95 5 IPOH. Sun. PERAK Labour Party is to ask the Perak State Government when local elections will be held in the State. At a two-hour meeting today State Councillors. T nche Mohammed Shamsudciin bin Haji Hamzah and Mr. John Emmanuel were named to I contact the
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  • 90 5 JNewmoveon muzzling councillors i SINGAPORE City Council is O to seek the views of the Gove m o r-in-Council on amending the Municipal Ordinance to bind Councillors trom divulging confidential matters to the public. The Council wants the change because a member recently made a statement on a confidential matter
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  • 58 5 s KLANG, Sun.— Local youth leaders will be given special training on September 26 and j27 at the Klang Boys' Club. Batu Tiga Road. Among the instructor! will be Mr. A. Rawclifle, Headmasters of the Klang High School, Mr. A. R. Allen. Youth Services Adviser and Mr.
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  • 53 5 I Chinese lanterns on the third floor of a house in s Te'.ok Ayej Street caught > fire last night. Two nre y engines rushed there but the the fire was out before they arrived. 1A small lallang fire in Kins Albert Park was also extinguished before
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  • 25 5 I JOHORE BAHRU. Sun— Tan Kok Wah and Wong Chens who were found fighting in the street yesterday were eacli fined $5 today.
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    42 5 JOAN 111 I (right) and Jennifer Ward lead in Starlight. Hudson up, after it had won the Pony Derby at the Singapore Polo Club gymkhana at the polo ground in Thomson Road yesterday. Joan is the owner of Starlight. Straits Times picture.
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  • 73 5 rpHE Public Officers Guarantee Fund, started by the Singapore Government in 1920 as an insurance against misappropriation of public funds by its officers, is to be wound up. The reason is that the annual cost of running it is more than the contributions. The
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  • 54 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— Mrs. J K. Creer, wife of the i acting British Adviser. Johore. will be in charge of the State of Poppy Day organisation. There will be an organiser I for each district. Helping Mrs Creer in Johore Bahru will be Lady Angela Horsley and
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  • 31 5 Two punters had their pockets picked at the Singapore Turf Club on Saturday. The first victim, a salesman, lost $185. The other, a clerk, i lost $60.
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  • 106 5 $55,000 HOSTEL OPENED KUALA LUMPUR, Sun tfOUR pioneer members ol ■T the YWCA yesterday joined in the celebrations marking the opening of a hostel in Davidson Road. They were Mrs. L. Doughty, Mrs. A. Eklund, Mrs. N V. Kandiah and Mrs. H. M. Soo— each planted a commemorative tree. Reasonable
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  • 170 5 Piano music with a difference A DISAPPOINTINGLY small audience at the Victoria Memorial Hall last night heard Peter Burges, the visiting Royal Schools of Music examiner, in a programme of piano music refreshingly dillerent from any we have had in the past year. Mr. Burge.s's playing of Mozart's Sonata in
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  • 24 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. i For making a false report to the Police at Masai on Feb. 25, Retnasamy was fined $150 today.
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  • 104 5 Till 2nd Battalion of the 2nd King Edward's Own Goorkhas, who have been in Malaya since 1948 and have accounted for 147 terrorists i killed, embarked for Hong Kong yesterday on board the Slrdnana at Singapore. The battalion, which was caplured in
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  • 167 5 IPOH, Sunday. THE 1/6 Gurkha Rifles, who have replaced the 2/2 Gurkhas in the Ipoh area are equally famous as jungle fighters and have already eliminated more than 130 terrorists. They came to Maiay;i U 1948 and have served in various
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  • 118 5 Villagers arrive for course JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. TWENTY-NINE representatives from Chinese villages in the Penggerang peninsula arrived in Johore Bahru today to begin a fiveday civics course. They were welcomed by the acting British Adviser, Mr J. K. Creer. He told them he hoped that at the end of thr
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  • 111 5 Group 'B blood is still short q^HERE IS still a shortage of X Group B blood in Singapore.- Blood Bank. Last week. 114 people gave' hlood. Among them were -ix men from the General Survey Section. R.E.. Tyersall j Camp, eight from the Police j Training School and six from
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  • 36 5 The Sultan of Kelantan and his w ife. Che Wan Zainab. j left Singapore for their islana in Kota Bahru by air yesterday, taking their newly-adopt- ed Chinese child, Leong Thiam Chu.
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  • 68 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. The Federation Government I may build quarters for dortors serving their compulsory one-year housemanship in I the General Hospital, Johore I Bahru. Housemen are required to be in residence at the hospital as they may be called out any time. The Federal Legislative i
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    • 272 5 TIRM7/7 ...THE UNIVERSAL ISA TOOL FOR LIFTING^ *S AND PULLING OPERATION Whether you want a winch or a tackle TIRFOR n Hie one you need. Do e to light weight, *r\. in»tantaneout working and flexibility, it it Hie id«al "(n\ worksite hoiit. 1 1 aad 3 tons capaMODEL 'SUPER' I
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    • 62 5 E7/5 3 For a fresh brilliance to your timber, parquet, lino, rubber or tiled floors, you must have an Electrolux Floor Polisher. The unique Electrolux triple brush movement— two rotating clockwise and one anticlockwise gives effortless fingertip control. Supplied with two sets of brushes for waxing and polishing and a
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    • 185 5 SINGAPORE DIARY Singapore Malay I'nlon: City Day Road, and Pulau Merlimau. 7 p.m weight-lifting 5.30 p.m.: billiards i anniversary celebrations Varie'v usl S Free film show— Behind < our m n for Ta V "T" 3 S1 n entertainment ol Malay Ban«.sawan pfom M wh.tr In The Fence Cup 6prn
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  • 25 6 IN ever lovlnß memory of the late Madame Leong W«h Lan most devoted wife and beloved mother who passed away on 21.9 1952.
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  • 113 6 LOOK CAPTIVATTNQ in one of Tommy Thomson's latest Sheath Fvenlne Gowns. Just arrived. G.H Bid.. Spore 7FISR -PENTEKAREM" Binorular It x 50 Central Focu.sinc Mainifvlnp II times. Obtainable from F. J. Isaacs. Optician. 10. The Arcade. Singapore. 1. JOAN TOOKE'S SECRETARIAL Acency. John Little's Bulldlne. offers prompt and efficient
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  • The Straits Times
    • 645 6 Wailing On America With a persistency worthy of the Rood cause, the President of the British Board of Trade has warned the eighth conferrnce of members of the Genei:il Agreement on Tariffs and Tiade that any attempt to cure ti,« chronic unbalance of trade < listing today is doomed unless
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    • 357 6 The Siamese Government, which is not in an obviously better position to make a ges- ture than Malaya is, has cut the tin export duty by fifty per cent. Miners in the Federation who have pressed for relict ever since income tax was imposed, would be wise not
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    • 255 6 A petition for clemency for the twenty dulang washers of Ipoh is now in the hands of the State Secretary of the Pcrak Government. It will receive from His Highness the Sultan nnd his Executive Council we feel sure, the sympathetic consideration necessary in 'he interests of justice.
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  • 954 6  -  HARRY MILLER Says THE Malayan Tin Bureau opened in Washington on March 1, 1952, so it is of rather recent origin. At that time, as far as the average American was concerned, tin was used in the containers of "canned goods." The achievements
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  • 198 6 THAT: One pound of tin will make i 450 No. 2 cans; two pounds of solder; 20 pounds of type metal: 2.000 teaspoons, ele- I veil pounds of bronze and 'iti i inches of piping. 9 Tin is used in 36 items of U.S.
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    • 141 6 AS Mr. C. R. Dasaratha Raj has stated his case for increasing the personal allowances which are deductible fmm assessable incomes, may an ordinary worker put the case for decreasing such allowances? It is generally apreed that income tax is thr most equitable form of taxation in
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    • 271 6 yHERE have been re- peated references to the abandonment of the Bedok food production scheme as a result of "landlords demanding much more than their property was worth." j This statement is closely associated with the proposal to freeze land values in Singapore and it
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    • 157 6 LEST a report appearing in the Straits Times of an interview given by me a* President of the Chinese V.M.C.A. should be misunderstood I I should like to make the following explanation: (1) The Chinese V.M.C.A. is not opposed to the cinema as such, but many young
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    • 98 6 I SUPPORT "Std. VIII" who has the same ambition as myself to take a police career. I have all the necessary qualifications but no School Certificate. Why cannot the Singapore Police give a chance to the really interested boys who are looking forward to a police career? I
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    • 373 6 IN VIEW of the opinions expressed in the Straits Times leader of September 14 on the discharge of Special Constables, I should be grateful if you would allow me space in your columns to put right some apparent misapprehensions. Although it Is true that the
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  • 516 6 Off th« road WHAT, I wonder, constitutes the peculiar charm of Taiplng. It Is after all not unlike othrr towns in MaUya. The houses painted white am, .sky blue, rather box-like. the wide central street, th>v others branching from it, al.f* rather rectangular with no mark »f
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 808 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. THE enitaccment is announced between Mr. Quek Linn H( c Allen i iinri Miss Chew Soon Neo (Jenny) oi .Singapore on 21.9.53. CHEE YEW CHEW, c dest son of Dr. Chee Set Chew and late Madam Lim Mlew Kinp ->f Singapore, and Miss Tan G lek Nco. youngest
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    • 8 6 1* Jsr J-^^m-■T/ I It COLLYIK QUAf jS
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  • 47 7 Fast is ended" SINGAPOHEB Jewtak community observed Yom Kippur the day of atonement on Saturday. Services were held in the .Maghain Aboth and Chased-Kl synagogues. The 'J.Vhour fast w;is tnl. At p.m. with the blowing of the Shofar (ram's horn) by Rabhi Shahaho (above). Straits Times picture.
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  • 179 7 A THANKSGIVING service was held at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, yesterday to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. The service was taken by the Archdeacon of Sinpapore, the Rt. Rev. Robin Woods, and the lessons were read by the C.-in-C. FEAF. Air
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  • 54 7 PENANG, Sun.— Hundreds of friends and relative.- yr>terday welcomed back the third batch of Malayan pilgrims from Mecca who arrived in the Anking. Seven pilgrims six men and a woman died durinß the voyage. Out of 999 who returned. 808 disembarked at Swettenham Pier. The others sailed
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  • 80 7 Two lost as boats capsize PENANG. Sun. A FISHERMAN is dead and a second Is feared drawned after two Malay fishing boats capsized during a heavy gale yestTday. The first boat caps. zed ort Kuala Muda. Province Wellesley. The five men aboard swam two miles to the shore. All the
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  • 49 7 Three vehicles collided in Kallang Road, Singapore, lav night Twn cars and a lorry were travelling towards town when Lttv accident occurred. One of r jhe can in trying to avoid the collision ran into a traffic island The lorry, immediately behind, crashed into it
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  • 34 7 MODENA. Itii'.y. Sun. Juan Manuel Panglo. oj thp Argen'Uv won the grand prize of Modena 230-kilnmetre car ra W :th a hard-earned 3n-v<-conrl lead over his countryman and pupil, Onofrio Marimon. A.P
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  • 259 7 Workers complain of midnight calls gINGAPORE City Council labourers are protesting against midnight police checks on their homes. At a meeting of 300 Council workers yesterday, Mr. K. Krishnan, an executive of the City Council Labour Unions' Federation, said: "We are not allowed to sleep peacefully. Night
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  • 54 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun Shawalludin. a Trade Union Officer, who was fined $100 by the Sessions Court, on a charge of accepting $30 without consideration from Raja Abubakar. had his appeal allowed by the High Court. Inche Sufflan. the DPP. said he did not support the conviction. Mr. Justice
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  • 33 7 More than 1.000 people attended the 16th anniversary dinner of the Eng Chuan Kong Son Clan Society in Singapore last night. Among the guests was Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan.
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  • 43 7 They all enjoyed the joke LADY TEMPLER. extreme left, enjoy* a joke with Kirkny students who recently visited King's House. The students, from Malacca and Necri Sembilan. made the visit as part of a civics course they are attending. Drpt. of Information picture.
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  • 140 7 ANOTHER THREE IN A DAY KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. rpHREE more terrorists have L been killed in the Federation. Two of them were killed this morning in the Segamat District of Johore by a patrol of the 3rd platoon of the Ist Fijians. A rifle. Browning pistol, ammunition and a grenade
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  • 114 7 WITHIN HALF an hour after arriving in Singapore from Kelantan on Saturday night, Syed Abdul Hamid, 23 was robbed of his baggage and $508 cash by four men. Syed Hamia who trades In ornaments told the Police he took a trishaw from the
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  • 103 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. DATO SIR ONN BIN JAAFAR. National Chairman of tAe Independence of Malaya Party, will give a talk to members at the party's headquarters here tomorrow on the M^ntris Besar-sponsored National Conference's working committee report on constitutional proposals. There had been considerable distortion of
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  • 66 7 Hnng Fok Sau. 21. a nshnrman from Hong Kong employed by the Southsea Fisheries Co.. Singapore, was drowned in Telok Ayer basin yesterday. He was boarding a .L-hing boat, the Wah Ann. when he tell into the water. The captain of the boat. Tan Seng Chuan. and an
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  • 27 7 PARIS. Sun. Former Premier Antoine Pinay leaves here by air tomorrow for a study and lecture tour of Canada and the United States— A.P.
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  • 68 7 MR. J. G, ADAMS, President of the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court, and Miss Cherry Atkinson after their wedding at St. John's Church, Kuala Lumpur. Group Captain Mackenzie of Advanced Air Headquarters was best man. Many Kuala Lumpur lawyers were among the 120 guests at the reception held
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  • 42 7 An eight-year-old boy. Wee Ah Choy. of East Coast Road was admitted to Singapore General Hospital last night with leg injuries He was knocked down by a car in front of a hotel in East Coast Road.
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  • 150 7 CINGAPORE City Counci agreed to a $1,000,000 s officers to buy their own h I's Finance Committee has scheme to help local senior ouses. The .scheme, if confirmed by the Council, would be similar to that under which Government servants get a Government
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  • 57 7 LONDON. Sun. Czechoslovak fashion K adei.s do not bi-lieve In satisfying "Indivi-diKilL-t fancies" they cater lor "large-scale production for tlir working masses." Alois Malok. Minister of Light Industry, said according to Prague Radio. "The capitalist fashions arr eccentric, flashy and alien to our taste." he told
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  • 148 7 May be clue to missing schoolboy MICHAEL Tan Kok Wah, eight-year-old pupil of St. Andrew's School, Singapore, who has been missing since Friday afternoon, may have been attracted away by someone with a collection of fancy fish, his mother, Mid. mi Lee Chwee Lian, told
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  • 104 7 400 houses for the small man SOCIETY PLAN KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. T*HE Kuala Lumpur Furlong Co-operative Housing Society which pledges •'one house for every small man" Is to renew its bid for at least 400 lots of lanJ at the n w -at llite town of Pctaling Jaya, The Society
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  • 136 7 Drivers will see how it's done I KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. THE Federation Road Transport Department is going to show learner drivers how to pass their tests at their first attempt. An official of the department posing as an "L" driver, will undergo a mock driving test making deliberate mistake*, while
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  • 25 7 CAIRO. Sun. Lieut. -Gen Sir Brian Robertson will to morrow renew informal contacts with the Egyptian sld' in the Suez dispute.— A.P.
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  • 35 7 GALISTAN Oswala Ernest passpri away peacefully at the General Hospital on 20.9.53. Cortege leav>>= his residenre at 900 a m. today for C.i 'bed; a. of the Good Shephern and thence to Bldadari Cenieterv
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 142 7 """I Sid relies \fe&\ RUDGE did Patterson wins the rf) WORLD'S PROFESSIONAL PURSUIT CHAMPIONSHIP AT ZURICH, AUGUST 1953 Riding a RUDGE BRITAIN'S BEST BICYCLE famous for over 80 years. RUDGE is available tor Cash and tor Instalment*. I Sole Axi'nt<: KEE HUAT RADIO CO.. LTD. [J 122-124. ORCHARD ROAD. S
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    • 147 7 Nature Provides the weather nnd also lenther NO«'H**IPTO* IMCONO (XHURCHSN y famous Snylish J ARE MADE FROM FINEST ENGLISH Tan Willow Calf Black Box Calf '^V Brown Suede y^ v White Buckskin White Buckskin And Im Black Patent Dress fe^^ Sixc» 5 To 1 1 /A Fitting (D or E)
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 108 7 THE WEATHER Minimum temperature 7.30 p.m. on Sept 19 to 7.30 a.m. on Gept 20): Singapore 75 decrees. Penang 73. Kota Bahru 74, Kuala Lumpur not recorded, Ipoh 72 Kuantan 71 Maximum temperature <7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Sept. 20 >: Singapore 86, Penang 80. Kota Bahru 83. Kuala
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  • Share market review
    • 374 8 More buying interest in industrial shares B\i Our Financial Correspondent THE Singapore share market went through a much quieter period last week and the total turnover was the smallest for some time. Tin 1 share prices fluctuated more or less in line with changes
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    • 47 8 Industrials very steady LOCAL industrials continued very steady throuchout j the week with rather more buying interest in the popular i counters. Features In this section wrre the demand for United En- gineer ords. and Gammons. The first ww occasioned by i the approval piven by the
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    • 121 8 Mr P. J. D Regester of Drew' and Napier solicitors. Kuala Lumpur, and Mr W T. Dunne of Valentine and Dunne, i mining engineers. Kuala Lumpur, have been appointed ad- 1 ditional members of Raub Australian Gold Mining Com- nany's Board of Advice in Malaya. Mr. A. G. Glmister.
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    • 134 8 Tin shares more narrowly nrtiN shares fluctuated with -I the movement in the metal price and on balance prices snow little change on the week Rantau has displaced Petaling as the popular counter and a fair turnover occurred in this issue. Klanc River met good buyine inquiry on rumours of
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    • 196 8 rE following dividends were announced last week by companies operating in Malaya: MALAYAN BREWERIES: final six cents and bonus six cents, making 30 cents for year ended June, payahl* October 17. books close October 12. BORELLI RUBBERfirst interim 5 per cent for year ending December, payable September 28,
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    • 105 8 Selective buying of rubbers IN the rubber share section there was some .selective buying on a small scale. The Inquiry covered Batu Ljntang. Sungei Bagan, Teluk Anson. Ayer Panas and Olenealy, all of which had small exchanges i around quotations. New Scudai issued its report showing a sharp decline in
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    • 53 8 Shipments of prepared latex from Malaya in August were 6,034 dry tons, of which 2.162 tens went to the United States 1,570 tons to the United Kingdom, 609 tons to Germany, 419 tons to France. 307 tons to the Netherlands. 206 tons to Italy and smaller quantities
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    • 124 8 TH E Malayan Exchange B.i iiks Association made the following alterations In Hs rates to merchants on Saturday LONDON selling, T.T. or 0.D., 2s. 3 29 32d: buying. T.T. 2s. 4 1 32 d., OC. 2s. 4 1 lGd.. 30 days 2 S 4 5 32d 60 days
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    • Tin and rubber market
      • 355 8 DAILY fluctuations in the tin price last week were small and in the rubber market they were almost negligible. Tin shows a net loss of $3.37.1 a picul and rubber was practically unchanged. On Monday the tin price was $308.62 j. falling to $306 on Tuesday
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      • 193 8 Rubber prices are steady THE feature In the rubber j market last week, say Lewis and Peat in their weekly report, was a moderate on take of higher grades by the I United States. This in itself I was insufficient to raise prices but it prevented liquidation of stocks at
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      • 278 8 THE annual report of London Tin Corporation says that i another dredge in Malaya was rehabilitated during the year 1 and brought into production bringing the total since the war to 38 Six Qiedges closed down during the year having worked out their ore reserves. Three of
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      • 113 8 1 \EW SCUDAI LTD. which owns a 2,161-ncre rubber e*tat« In Johore. earned a net profit lor the year ended March of t97.256, com- pared with $345 980 in the preceding year. A dividend of 5 per cent, less tax. jis proposed, requiring $28,007 net, compared with
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      • 65 8 The directors of Kamuninc i Perak) Rubber and Tin C« Ltd. have declared an interim I dividend of 15 per cent. )es» i tax on account of the la.«t nnI ancial year, payable on October 14. No further dividend for the year will be recommended The net profit,
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      • 88 8 When questioned atthean--1 nual meeting of Puket Tin Dredging in London on September 11. about a working loss of nearly £12.000 in th* first seven months of the current year. Mr. G. R. Mitchison chairman, said that the loss was not cont.nuing. He said he could say no
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      • 40 8 rE directors of Beaufort Borneo Rubber Co. Ltd. recommend a dividend of 7J per cent, less tax, for last financial year, payable October 21. The profit, after taxation, was £5.669. The amount to be carried forward is £17.641.
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      • 45 8 The directors of Karmen Rubber Ltd. recommend a dividend of 7 per cent, less tax i for last financial year, payable on November 7. The net profit for the year, after taxation, was £4.221 and the amount to be carried forward is 16.549
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      • 499 8 AUSTRALIA HAS 'STIMULUS' BUDGET rTJHE main features of the X Australian Budget, introduced into the House of Reoresentative.s by Sir Arthur Fadden. Treasurer, on September 9. are* income tax on Individuals will be reduced on the average by 12J per cent., in addition to a number of other concessions. The
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 260 8 (rompton LAMPS and you're on to a good thing UNITED ENGINEERS LIMITED Singapore •id tkroafhout tbe Federation TAYLOR STAINLESS METALS LTD. BUCKINGHAM AVENUE: SLOUGH. BUCKS. ENGLAND. STAINLESS AND ALLOY STEEL STOCKHOLDERS Bulk deliveries ex stocK Your enquiries welcome Cables Telegrams; "TAYSTEEL, Slough" Rheumatism Vanishes Like Magic By dimolvine; and removing:
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    • 890 8 ,_S W A highly autrWv* anal tatty M E.l«nc* 61 PredlgeKtd' Chiekaai V foWf&if' <*C m meat protein. ensura* r«p.H Cj^T# Prt-«JW6WT«V J mf.jje« new «tr«n|th tm4 vigour into thr worn-out t/uaa*. -~~~SJ£^^ Ljf BENGAL IMMUNITY V CO, LTD. CALCUTTA.! J Blitrlh.iart: MAKHAHLALL CO.. LT». 20. MALACCA STftl f T
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  • 856 9 •pHE following quotations were those of the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association, Singapore, at the close of business on Friday: IMM«IKI\I.i Burrrs Metiers Alci Brick* Pref* 310 >M Ord.i 3.86 396 AUa* Ic. 13.3 b 1326 88. Pttrol 34/1 35/8 BM. Truatce* 6 60 ISO Con Tin Smelt. Prtf
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  • 275 9 TTOC following list of business in the Singapore share A market Is reported by one firm of sharebrokers for the period September 12 to September 18 inclu- sive: INDUSTRIALS: Alexandra Brick Ords. $3.85. Praser it Neave Ords $2.10 to $2 15 cd Federal
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  • 255 9 rTtHE Bank of England an--1 nounced on Thursday September 17, a reduction of the Bank rate from four per cent to three and a half per cent. The rate was fixed at four per cent on March 11. 1952 rising from two and a half per cent
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  • 50 9 In August tin producers In the Federation sent 4.679 tow of tin-in-con:entratps to smelters in Penang and Singapore, compared with 4.815 toru In July. Total movements for th* eight months of this year 37.314 tens, compared with 38.651 tons in the corresponding period of last year
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 1551 9 SJg MANSFIELD CO., LTD. gg > Possege llncorpnroted m Singapore) AM ether BLUE FUNNEL LINE 0 Centers' option to proceed via other parts to load end discherga cargo SAILINGS to LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW, LONDON ft CONTININTAL PORTS Due Sails P. Sham Penong A hl A l v > onmn,"h Vr UV
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    • 598 9 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINGS FROM SvANDINAVIAM/U.K./CONTIMENI S'oore P. S'hom •'enong "India" IfJ Bongkok. Saigon Hong Kong, Manila. Kobe Yokohomo 1/ 4 Oct 2/ 1 Oct. 10 Sept/ 1 Oct. "Selendle" fw Bangkok 10/11 Oct. f Oct. 11 Oct. "Keree" tor Djokorto Bongkok. Soioon, Hongkong, Monilo. Kobe. Vekohomo 11/11 Oct. 20/20
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    • 635 9 BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD SAILING! to U.K. and CONTININTAL PORTS C/nere P S>orv enooc D««i<iwen Mi Genoo Ltveroooi Rotterdom Hor-*ura I" "crt 24/24 Sept. Benmecdhhui for H O vre London, Retterdom. Antwerp Gdn. 4/5 24/2 B Sept. 29 Sept/ lOi t. BenvorNcfc. tor Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin. Homburg In Pert 27/2S
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    • 1208 9 MoALISTER &c CO., LTD. TIL: No. 5904 CLUHMAN aY BUCKNALL KLAVENESS LINE LONDON, HAVRE, ROTTERDAM, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, HAMBURG PORTLAND, SEATTLE i VANCOUVER ond tor USA., North Atlantic Ports Accepting cargo for Central A South and Canada via Colombo Amerlcon Ports CITY Of BIRMINOHAM m.s. FRANCISVILLE Spore P. S'hom
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  • 835 10  -  ROBERT BLAKE By SPEECHES, by Adlai E. Stevenson (Andre Deursch, 12s. 6d.) HOW surprising is the discrepancy between the written and spoken word. Burkes speeches read magnificently even today, but in his own time he was regarded as a crashing bore, and was nicknamed
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  • 443 10 Supersonic SOUND BARRIER. By Neville Duke and Edward Lanchbery. (Ciftell. 8». 6d.i E. COLSTON SHEPHERD ANY expectations raised by the conjunction of this book's title with the name of a well-known test pilot as one of its authors are qwckly punctured by its utter impersonality and objectiv
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  • 692 10  - A PHOENIX CAME TO SANTA FE CYRIL CONNOLLY By lOURNEY WITH CENIUS. By Witter Bynner. (Peter Nevijl. 1 8s. I T*HE impact of genius on A talent is frequently intolerable, like boiling water in a valuable teapot. Once or twice the precious object survives, then with a sharp explosion, usually
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 194 10 i LAST liTTnTffllJ^ 11 11' 1 45 4 JOHN PAYNE DONNA REED in jJpjf^P^^^^pifilm7TMu|\ UNITED ARTISTS Plus! JENKINS NOVELTY REVUE OX STAGE! AFTER 4 P.M AT 6.30 0.30 P.M. SHARP TOMORROW <c WED. ONLY i »i nsn\ i r iiri m M of Miss Han Chin Chin AT ALL I
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    • 299 10 J[^ CATHAY ORGANISATION ,O ATTRACTIONS "TJgjr 1 $2 SEATS NOW BOOKABLE IN ALL THREE THEATRES •^odbon ,™f fj^i »HQW»U»CI Of TMt ISLAND PHONE FOR BOOKINGS 6.45 930 P.M. pr ENTERTAINED IN I<l I fflP^ THE REAL WORD OF B jr^3-DIMENSIONS MERfJf) TECHNICOLOR C^»r« NB Thl P (>l>lr "'d Spectacles ■HHMpHßl^^^^^^
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 294 10 DKlULib mmmrjum player who does not had a strong two-suited hand possess the faculty of nd t ne onlv chance of demaking life easy for a bating the contract lay in lpsspr nartnpr taking a club and two htarts f«fo» h h 15; t,i i quickly, but presuming that I
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  • 711 11 LAWTON SHINES BUT ARSENAL ONLY DRAW West Bromwich lose at home LONDON, Sunday. THOUGH former England centre forward Tommy Lawton helped his new club, Arsenal, to 2 2 draw at Highbury yesterday against Manchester City before the day's biggest crowd, the honours of the day fell on London's least fashionable
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  • 395 11 Hall in great i form for Richmond RUGBY UNION REVIEW LONDON, Sunday. "^IM HALL. England's rugby captain last season, was in sparkling form for his club. Richmond, against Northampton yesterday, though he was on the losing side. U.K. soccer topics Alter pointless first half. Northampton scored two tries. one of
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  • 479 11 LIVERPOOL ARE AFTER DICKSON By A Special Correspondent. LONDON, Sun. VI/ORRIED Liverpool, with two centre halves on their books- both capped for England are .seeking a third international pivot The man K incy are Interested in is Bill Dick-son, Chelsea's rugged Irishman who wont re-.siun for the London club, where
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  • 129 11 O ANTON (Yorks), Sun. IN a ferine struggle which went to the lust hole, Max Faulkner, 37-year-old former British open champion, beat Dai Rees by one hole yesterday |in the 36 holes final of the match play golf championship. For Faulkner, who stated that he "hated match
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  • 41 11 BUDAPEST. Sun.— The Soviet women's 800 metres relay team yesterday broke their own World record of six minutes 35.6 seconds with a new mark of 6min. 33.25ec in an international athletic meet in vhich Hungary competed with Russia. U.P.
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  • 97 11 YOSHIO SHIRAI BEATEN BY AN UNKNOWN' OSAKA, Sun. LEO ESPINOSA, an "unknown" flyweight from the Philippines. defeated world champion Yoshio Shirai by a technical knockout in the seventh round of a non- title bout here last night. Shirai's defeat may force him to postpone his title bout with Terry Allen,
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  • 195 11 NEW YORK. Sunday. Till, reigning champion, Rocky Marciano, and x challenger Roland La Staraa— both sons of Italian immigrants will fight for the world heavyweight title here next Thursday in the first "all white" battle for the crown for eighteen years. In this .scheduled 15-round
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  • 135 11 LONDON. Sun. tfOUTH AFRICA beat Engiand by four goals to nil an amateur international football match at Selhurst Park yesterday thus avenging their defeat here 29 years ago. The South Africans were two j-oals up at the interval, though England had must of the phiy up
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  • 24 11 DORTMUND, Sun. Heinz Neuhaus, European heavyweight boxing champion, was injured when his car skidded and crashed into a tree here yesterday.- Reuter.
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  • 304 11 FIRST DIVISION Ar*r>nal 2 Manchester C. 2 Blackpool Wolvm Cardiff i BoUon 1 Chelsea 1 Aston ilia 2 Liverpool 4 IVrnlrv f Mam hot rr D 1 Prmlon t Middlmbroufh 4 Sheffield W. 1 1 Tottenham 3 Portsmouth 4 Sunderland 1 Mir n, c. 3 Huddrrthfld W.
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  • 759 11 P W D I, P APU West Bwirh 10 7 2 128 11 16 HiuiOrrMieltl 10 6 2 2 22 12 M Wolves 10 6 2 2 23 16 M Burnley 10 6 0 4 22 21 12 ■.mill! City 10 4 4 2 11 10
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 349 11 Always say DULUX to your painter FOR MAXIMUM DURABILITY UNDER TROPICAL CONDITIONS wonderful qualities over and over >V again for those who are JV^^U proud of their homes (both interior and exterior decoration particularly shutters or railings or for an 1^ -Jj|j J .-np» inviting front door' .in offices JP^Vl|^»!
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  • 750 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By MAY BE SENT TO RACE IN INDIA pOREST BEAU, second in the Singapore Turf Club's Gold Cup race on Saturday, may soon race in India. That is the plan owner Mr. K. Y. Lim and trainer Keith Daniels were
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  • 213 12 T^HE suggestion by Malayan race- horse trainers for a closed season lasting six weeks or two months next year has not been accepted Next year's racing dates were drawn up at a meeting of the Straits Racing Association yesterday. The 1954 programme follows
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  • 64 12 I Ham, McCloud. who rode Mubarak to victory In the Singapore I Gold Cup race at Bukit Tlmah on Saturday, and George Woods had their riding licences renewed by the I Straits Racing Association at a meeting held yesterday. M< Clcud and Woods were .jr-tn'M
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  • 15 12 Jockeys Frank Flannery and Jack Jones left Singapore for Australia by air yesterday.
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  • 194 12 THERE were surprise results in both the semi-finals of the Singapore Badminton Associations Junior men's singles last nieht. I r Omar bin Ibrahim < Shell beat the favourite, Oh Chiap Choon (Marigoldi. by 18-14 I 15-9; and Lim Wei Lon i Green-
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  • 214 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun V MUNIANDY. storkllv-bullt. 19- i year-old student, running for the first time In a disance rare. created a blc surprise by «inmnq the Federations first ever marathon today. Kis time of 3 hrs 25'j mln. for I the 24 miles from Kuala Lumpur to
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  • 232 12 Police spoil RAFChangi's good record RAF Changi lost their unbeaten record in their fourth SHA senior league outing when they went down 2-1 to a much improved Polic team at Changi yesterday. Only Singapore Recreation Club. Ceylon Sports Club and Police are yet to be beaten in the league. They
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  • 375 12 EUROPEANS BEAT THE FA VOURITES Community League upset YTET another upset in the SAFA Community League 1 the fourth at Jalan Besar stadium in the competition so far was seen yesterday when Europeans beat the well-fancied Chinese by 2 l before a Sunday crowd of over 2,000 spectators. Chinese opened
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  • 233 12  -  EPSOM JEEP R< By EPSOM JEEP pi DING in great form, Harry 11 McCloud won five races. Including the Singapore Gold Cup on Mubarak, to top the Jockeys' lls f at the Singapore Turf Club September (Gold Cupi Meeting. Arthur Ward signalled his departure to Australia
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  • 98 12 Tennis shock— l LOS ANGELES. Sun. 'THERE were two big surprises ye.i- terday in the Pacific Southwest tennis tournament. In the women's semi-finals Maurren Connolly, the Wimbledon and I'nlted States singles champion. was beaten by Shirley Fry 6-5. 7-5. Miss Fry played a consistently sharp game, but
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  • 69 12 Tennis shock— 2 IN the other upset in the Pacific tournament yesterday, Ken Rowewall of Australia beat Ton? Trahert 1-6, 7-5. 6-1, 6-2. Earlier this month Trabert had beaten Vie Seixas. the Wimbledon champion, by straight sets In thr final of the I.S. national championships. Rosewall
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  • 56 12 Indian Brotherhood So< rentes drew 1-1 with Yc.uns Men's Sikh Association in a friendly socrer match at Farrer Park yesterday Slvadas ,=rnred for Indians and Mohinder Singh for Sikhs. In another game. Aston A C. al.Mi pl.ivert a 1-1 draw, against KinM Rangers. Chwee Bens netted for
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  • 283 12 'THE Singapore junior cricket pennant went to Ceylon Sports Club II who beat 8.0.D.C.A. by 38 runs in the final on the V.M.C.A. ground, Balestier Road, yesterday. The match was another triumph for vrteran T. E. K Relnam whose slow spinners had the BODCA batsmen In
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  • 32 12 Sivaii beat. Kampons Bahru I Rovers 2-1 in a friendly socrer match on the Railway Institute ground yesterday. Govinda and Rahman scored for Slvaji and Ah Gh*e for Rogers.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 68 12 SOCCER SAFA DIV. 1: Marine Dept. v Star Sorceritt*. J. Be«ar stadium DIV. 3B: Immigration S.C. v Traction, (irvlang. DIV. 3C: Naval C-ln-C Staff v Cosmos, BODCA ground. SBHFA KO. RKPIAV: FAN OTEC at F*N. HOCKEY DIV. 2: Khalu v REME at Khalsa. DIV. 3: CaMoms y Harbour Board. SHB
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    • 29 12 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: High 0f 59 hrs. (Bft •nd 2124 (9.2); Low 0526 (19) and 1530 C4J). TOMORROW: Hlßh 1027 (8.5> land 2214 (99>: Low 0409 il Si and
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