The Straits Times, 3 November 1953

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    14 1 The Straits Times He**** Established 1845. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1953. if 15 CENTS
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    $145 MIL. VARSITY PLAN
    321 1 Malaya to have biggest seat of learning in SE Asia IT is estimated that the new University of Malaya buildings in Johore Bahru will cost $145 million and take 15 years to complete, the ViceI Chancellor, Sir Sydney Cainc, said at a Press conference yesterday. This
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    Varsity will sell hostels
    95 1 THE DITNEARN ROAD hostels in Singapore, which house students of the I'niversity of Malaya, will probably be sold when the students move into the new university buildings in Johore. the Vice-Chancellor. Sir Sydney Came, said yesterday. The hostels cost $2,000,000 to build. He said there were
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    Pakistan is now a republic
    105 1 Pakistan is now a republic KARACHI, Mon. 'PHE Constituent Assembly X today decided to make Pakistan a republic. Amendments calling for the addition of the words "outside the Commonwealth" to "the Islamic Republic of Pakistan" were not moved. Earlier, Hindu opposition n.embers walked out of the House, refusing to take
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    Unbroken record
    40 1 WASHINGTON. Mon.— Dis- crimination against Negro workers has remained virtual- i ly unbroken in four southern I states "through 15 years of I depression, war, and cold war." a study by the National Planning Association said here.— Reuter.
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    Defence cost
    28 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. The United States spent £14.285.714.--000 on national defence in 1952. out of a total public expenditure of £36.017.428.600. the Census Bureau said yesterday. —Reuter.
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    The3ooothat got away
    76 1 HELSDALE. Scotland, Mon Some 3,000 bic ones got away from the fishing boat Jeannio Macka> last night. The boat had such a haul of cod while 40 miles offshore that the crew could not pull In the net. The skipper decided to tow the catch, estimated to
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    Mystery blast
    22 1 JERUSALEM. Mon. An cxplnsinn of undetermined origin wrecked a section of the Jeru- i salem water supply pipeline tod;r. \.r
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    More planes
    18 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. —The Air Force is sendins another lump rarricr win:; of planes to Europe.- A.P.
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    Royalty feted
    24 1 NEW YORK. Mon. Kinp Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece last nieht attended a dinner party at U.N. headn v arter.s. UP.
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    NIXON TO VISIT THE MAIN BATTLEFRONT
    114 1 HANOI. Mon. JTRENCH security authorities in northern Vietnam have decided to go ahead with plans for Mr. Richard Nixon, \'u-v-President of the United States, to vi.sii the most dangerous j b: ttlefront in Indo-China despite the ri.sk to his safety. The decision to take
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    They want his remains
    82 1 LARNE. Northern Ireland. Mon.— The 37-year-old fight to have the remains of Sir Roger Casement removed from the presincts of London's Pentonville Prison, where he was executed for high treason in August. 1916. may go to the International court of Justice at The Hague. A committee
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    Yam Tuan has restful day
    36 1 The Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan spent a a quiet and restful day and his condition is satisfactory. Professor G. Ransome of the General Hospital, in Singapore, said last night.
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    ANNIVERSARY
    26 1 ADDIS ABABA. Mon. The booming of guns at daybreak marked the 23rd anniversary of the coronation of Emperor Hailr Selassie and Empress Menen today.— A.P.
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    Pipe blasted
    28 1 JERUSALEM. Mon. -An explosion under the main water pipeline leading into the Arab section of Jerusalem today cut off water supplies from the Holy City. U.P.
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    Too strenuous'
    24 1 MELBOURNE. Mon.— London Press criticism that the Australian Royal tour Itinerary was too strenuous was echoed by morning papers here today —Reuter.
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    MEMORIAL TO START AT LAST
    161 1 MEMORIAL TO START AT LAST A FTER A DELAY of more than seven years, the Commissioner-General, Mr Malcolm Mac Donald. will lay the foundation stone of the $50,000 pagoda memorial to the late Major-General Lim Bo Seng, on the Singapore Esplanade today. Maj.-Gen. Lim was the leader of the Chinese
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    Thames killer to hang
    40 1 LONDON. Sun. Alfred Charles Whiteway. 22, a labourer was sentenced to death here today for the murder of Barbara Songhurst, 16, who was raped and stabbed to death on a River Thames torvpafb last summer. Reuter
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    NEW RAID
    23 1 ALEXANDRA, Mon— Police yesterday said that they had searched ex-King Zog's villa for a second time and had seized arms. A.P.
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    Nicoll arrives
    30 1 HONG KONG. Mon. Sir John Nicoll, Governor of Singapore arrived here tonight for a brief holiday. He is expected to stay for a week or 10 days— A.P.
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    Students mob court near riot Varsity
    135 1 Students mob court near riot Varsity LUCKNOW, Mon. I CTUDENTS In Kanpur today mobbed courts and manhandled court officials in protest at the police firing on riot crowds in Lucknow yesterday. They forced people to take off "Gandhi" caps and made a bonfire of the Congress Party flag. i Lucknow
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    PROPOSED PLAN DISAPPOINTING, SAY RUBBER MEN
    384 1 PROPOSED PLAN DISAPPOINTING, SAY RUBBER MEN RI'BBER and commercial circles in Singapore yesterday expressed disappointment with the International Rubber Study Group's proposed plan to relieve conditions in the industry. 1 The disappointment was reflected in Singapore rubber prices where November first grade cropped one and onequarter cents from Saturday to
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    Red Chinese gunboats seize junk
    89 1 Red Chinese gunboats seize junk MACAO. Mon. TWO COMMUNIST Chinese patrol boats fired on and seized a Hong Kong-registered cargo junk last Flday near Lapsapmei. 20 miles South WVU of Hong Kong, usually reliable sources said here today. Two of the junks crew of eleven were reported Injured. The junk
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    35 1 HR. ISMAIL bin Dato Abdul Rahman, the new Member for Lands, Mines and Communications, looks at his first Ale in his new job when he started work in the Federal Secretariat yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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    New ambassador
    19 1 NEW DELHI, Mon.— Mr. M. A. Manshikov today presented his credentals as Russian ambassador to India— A.P.
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    New Duke leaves
    65 1 LONDON. Mon. The 13th Duke of Bedford, who succeeded to the title and estate on the death of his father in a shooting accident last month, left London airport today to rejoin his wife and family on their fruit farm in South Africa. They are expected to
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    Police are bombarded
    61 1 MACAO. Mon.— Workers on a sitdown strike in Macao's Grand Hotel today bombarded Portuguese police from the seventh floor with dishes, lamp bulbs and loaves of bread The workers, said to be backed by Chinese Communist unions, had refused a police request to quit the premises by
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    MR. NOONE TO BE NEW ABORIGINES ADVISER
    227 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. 4 YOUNG man has emerged -V from the anonymity of Xi deration intelligence headquarters to tread in his dead brother's footsteps and look after the aborigines. He is Mr. R. O. D. Noone, broiher of the late Mr. H. D.
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    52 1 THIS is a perspective of part of the first stage of the new University of Malaya to be built in Johore. In the rentre is the 14-storey library building on the left are the administrative buildings and on the right the Faculty of Arts. Straits Times picture. Other pictlres in
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    Rubber talks end, but no progress
    153 1 Rubber talks end, but no progress (From Hall Romney) LONDON. Mon qiHE international rubber conference has endca here without making any apparent progress towards the main objective of the buffer stock scheme. There is little comment on the outcomes of the long discussions, which in the words of the Daily
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    Korea ROW shot in rush at guard
    204 1 Korea ROW shot in rush at guard PANMUNJOM. Mon. A CHINESE prisoner was A shot dead here today Ahen he rushed at Indian custodian forces organising an identification parade to discover mm accused by the Communists of murdering fellow prisoners. The Incident occurred a frw /it lines before the parade
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    STOP PRESS
    29 1 DISPUTE WITH JAPS FOR WORLD COURT CANBERRA. Mon—Australia agrees to submit pearling dispute with Japan to International Court of Justice. Commerce Minister John McEwen said today.— A.P.
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    SUCCESSFUL
    29 1 CHICAGO, Mon. Experi ments in transferring portions of arteries taken from pigs and calves to human Datients with arteries injuries have been successful at Georgetown University HosDital.- Reuter.
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    Police alerted for vital days in Trieste
    321 2 TRIESTE, Monday. A THREE-DAY special alert order to police goes into -t* operation here today as allied authorities wait for the tensost period since the British and Americans announced they would leave. The next three days will provide excuses for demonstrations by nationalist
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    91 Years old, he flies a jet
    99 2 SAN DIEGO. CALIF., Mon. A 91-YEAR-OLD pilot flew a jet airplane here yesterday at speeds up to 500 miles an hour. Mr. James W. (Dad) Montee of Los Angeles, who got his pilot's licence at 65 while running a Santa Monica, California airport,
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    30 will speak for varsity students
    85 2 30 will speak for varsity students UNIVERSITY of Malaya students are preparing to elect 30 representatives t» the Sixth Students' Councir on Nov. 25. Nomination of candidates will be made on Nov. 18 The register of voters was j opened yesterday morning and will be closed at 1 p.m. on
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    More trade
    38 2 NEW YORK. Mon. Mr. Harold E. Stassen, director of the U.S. Foreign Operations Administration, arrived from Paris conferences yesterday and said that America's relations with Europe were becoming characterised by more trade and less aid.— Reuter.
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    Friends again
    12 2 TOKYO. Mon— Persia and Japan have resumed diplomatic relations.— A.P.
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    Pakistan plea
    35 2 KARACHI. Mon. Mr. Mohammed Ali. Pakistani Prime Minister, last night said that he had written to Mr Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, urging that Pakistani -Indian committees on Kashmir be set up soon.— Reuter.
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    Trade mission
    14 2 LONDON. Mon. An official Bulgarian trade delegation has left for Greece.— Reuter
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    They criticise the burning of papers
    308 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. POLITICAL leaders and observers here today criti- cised the United Malays National Organisation foi burning copies of two Singapore Malay periodicals for their attacks on UMNO policy and leaders The papers concerned are the 1 1 monthly "Qalam" and the 1
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    400 NEED HELP TO CROSS ROAD
    57 2 University of Malaya students living in Dunearn Road hostels are appealing to the Singapore traffic police to provide a pedestrians' crossing for them. Mr. Hsu Tse Kwang, chairman of the hostels, said yesterday that nearly 400 students daily cross Dune a m and Bukit
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    Women in unions
    21 2 WASHINGTON, Mon. Nearly 3,500,000 American women are members of trade union organisations, the Department of Labour said. Reuter.
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    Gaol story
    30 2 SRINAGAR. Kashmir, Mon. —Sheikh Mohamed Abdullah, former Prime Minister of Kashmir, who was deposed and detained last August, is writing his autobiography in gaol, his son said.— Reuter.
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    More freedom
    27 2 AMMAN, Jordan, Mon. King Huasein yesterday opened a new session of Parliament with a promise that new laws will give more freedom to Individuals.—A. P.
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    New money plan
    17 2 KARACHI. Mon.— Pakistan Ls considering a proposal »o have a decimal coinage system. A.P.
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    WAR DEPARTMENT PAY TALKS
    61 2 A SIX-MAN delegation, representing War Department workers In the Federation and Singapore, met Army authorities at OHQ, FARELF. Singapore, yesterday. The conference, called by the Command Secretary, is understood to have discussed the workers' salary scales. The meeting veswrday lasted seven hours. The workers' delegation refused
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    University library can hold 1,OOO.OOO books
    87 2 IIIE NEW UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA buildings in Johore wil have a 14-storry library <top). It will have room for 1.000,000 books. The library will he one of the main features of the first stare of the scheme which will also include the administrative and
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    HOUSE OF HISTORY LIES DERELICT AND DUST-COVERED
    382 2 ONE of Singapore's most historic houses is today little more than an empty shell. In the large rambling bungalow where one of the world's great revolutions was planned, dust and cobwebs now flght for pride of pace. Forty-flve years ago it wv the
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    £500,000 for this journey
    93 2 NEW YORK, Mon. A PERSON who would like to a make a world tour on the scale of that of the Queen, which begins on November 23. would need between £500.000 and £517.000. an American travel consultant said yesterday Mr. Joseph Brooks said that a private
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    He wants colour bar to stay
    135 2 He wants colour bar to stay I HOT SPRINGS. Virginia, Mon. GOVERNOR Herman E. Talmadge. of Georgia, declared yesterday that a SupremeCourt decision to end racial segregation In Southern US schools would be "nothing les j than a major step toward national suicide." Talmadge, chairman of the Southern governors' conference
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    Civvies again
    28 2 BERLIN, Mon. American soldiers stationed in West Germany can wear civilian clothes off duty for the first time since the occupation began eight years ago— Reuter.
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    Defence test
    22 2 NAPLES. Mon. —Air defences of Malta and five other countries will be tested in exercise "November Moon," beginning today. Reuter.
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    15,000 RED TROOPS, POLICE HUNTING I PARTISANS
    165 3 15,000 RED TROOPS, POLICE HUNTING I PARTISANS BERLIN, Monday. FIFTEEN thousand Soviet and East German police and troops yesterday hunted antiCommunist resistance fighters. East German police-army units were on tne move again in the wooded Spreewald area south of Berlin as the Russians, through their official newspaper, called for the
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    THE QUEEN AT FILM SHOW
    35 3 THE QL'EEN being greeted by Mr. Reginald Bromhead. chairman and president of the Cinematographic Traders Benevolent Fund, at a Royal Film performance at the Odeon, Leicester Square. London. Popper picture.
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    PARALYSED, SHE HAS TRIPLETS
    93 3 BOWLING GREEN. Ohio. Mon. A 28-YEAR-OLD woman whose legs have been paralysed since she was 12 has given birth to triplets. Hospital authorities said Mrs Delia Gean MiKenzie and her children were in s»od condition. The mother and her 26-year-old husband, Paul, a factory worker, said
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    'Penniless' married women
    109 3 'Penniless' married women LONDON, Mon. BRITAIN'S Council of Marri- I ed Women yesterday asked i Uie Government to bring in a law making It compulsory tor part ot the family income to be handed over to the wife for pocket money. The president, Mrs. Helena Normanton. Q.C said the fact
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    Trip delayed
    31 3 TEHERAN. Mon.- Mr. Her-! brrt Hoover. U.S. State De- 1 partment oil consultant, haa postponed hi.s trip to London at the request of the Premier, Field Marshal Zahed:.— U.P.
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    , U.N. told: Be careful on colonies
    101 3 U.N. told: Be careful on colonies I MONTEREY, Califorina, Mon. A U.S. State Department official yesterday said that if the United Nations I was given too much power on 'colonial matters "you will probably be writing the death knell of the U.N." Mr. Harry Byroade, Assistant Secretary for the Near
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    Pick a tune, says Moscow
    70 3 LONDON, Mon. Moscow radio will run a request programme for British listener.after November 5 to mark "friendship month," organised by the British-Soviet Friendship Society and the Scottish USSR. Society. In an English broadcast the radio said: "If there is anything special you would like ito
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    Commonwealth 'neglected'
    49 3 CLACTON. Mon.— Mr Arthur Bottomley Labour M. P. and a former Secretary for Overseas Tradr. last night said that the Conservative Government was neglecting the Commonwealth because of its doctrinaire views. Increased tariffs would only hamper trade and increase still further the rising cost ■•f living.— Reuter.
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    Trial date
    25 3 TEHERAN. Mon.— The trial of the former Premier. Or Mossadeq will begin on November 11 in an officers' club near his prison. UP.
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    Ex-Minister dies
    19 3 Ex-M inister dies DUBLIN. Mon. Dr. Thomas F. OHiggins. former Irish Defence Minister, died yesterday. He was 65.— A.P.
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    Sugar deal
    15 3 TOKYO. Mon.— Japan will buy 10.000 tons of unrefined sugar from Indonesia.— UP.
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    Editor is murdered
    51 3 KINGSTON, Jamaica. Mon.— I Jamaican police are hunting the killers of Charles Chang, editor of Pagada Magazine and a night club proprietor. Chang died in hospital after being beaten up. His four-year-old son said he had seen his father struggling in the bedroom with two men. -A
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    Mystery mine
    23 3 SAN FRANCISCO. Mon. A mine, the mechanism of which is unfamiliar to Navy experts, has been washed ashore near here— A.P
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    WHISPERS AT CONFERENCE I
    28 3 THE INDIAN Premier, >lr. Nehru, whispers with .Mr. Escott Reid, Canadian High Commissioner to India, at the Colombo Plan talks in Delhi. —A.P. picture.
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    India is opposed to Communism
    166 3 SAYS MADAME PANDIT NEW YORK, Monday. MADAME VIJAYA LAKSHMI Pandit, president of the I.N General Assembly, yesterday said that Indians had declared themselves against Communism. "We have taken ample step* against Communism in our country to show that we don t hold with it. but
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    ABBEY MYSTERY SOLVED
    176 3 ABBEY MYSTERY SOLVED LONDON, Mon. A MYSTERY tomb found beneath the floor of Edward! the Confessor's chapel in West- minster Abbey was identified today as that of Richard Courtenay. Bishop of Norwich, who died in 1415. The Dean of Westminster, Dr. A. C. Don, said the identification was made sure
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    Crew of 13 feared drowned
    93 3 Crew of 13 feared drowned OSLO. Mon. THE 376-ton Norwegian ship Rimfrost. missing on a voyage from Belgium to Oslo, is believed to have sunk with her crew of 13. The Rimfrost left for Oslo lasi Monday. Last right Lyngby radio in Denmark reported it had r.eiiro indistinct distress sipna'.s
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    Bomb near a university
    37 3 HAVANA. Cuba. Mon. A small bomb has exploded in a building adjoining the University of Santiago. It was the fourth reported in Santiago in two days. None cause casualties or serious damage.— A.P.
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    Visit to Nice
    22 3 NICE, Mon— The Aga Khan, spiritual head of the millionmember Ismaili sect of Muslims arrived here yesterday.— A P.
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    Soviet war plans go on, he warns
    63 3 Soviet war plans go on, he warns ANKARA. Mon PRESIDENT Celal Bayar of Turkey yesterday voiced scepticism of the Russian peace offensive and said that behind the peace drive wai preparations continued. He told Parliament that Turkey wanted deeds, not only words. Turkey had no intention of cutting back its
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    Police find stolen guns
    48 3 STIRLING. Scotland. Mon Police yesterday recovered stolen weapons, including 12 Sten guns, four Bren guns, two anti-tank guns, two rifles and eight bayonets from the river Forth. After the weapons were recovered, police arrested a 25--year-old man. He will appear in court tomorrow. Reuter.
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    Flyer gets medal
    47 3 HONG KONG. Mon— North Korea will award the "National Flag Medal Second Class" to a former South Korean Air Force Officer. Capt. Kirn Sunp Bai. who crossed over to North Korea with a Mustang plan» on October 19. the Communirt news agency reported yesterday.—Reuter.
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    Malta visit
    24 3 VALETTA. Mon. Gen. S:r Charles Keightley. Comman-der-in-Chief in the Middle East, flew to Malta from Suez yesterday on a short visit. A.P
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    Envoy on tour
    22 3 DAMASCUS, Mon.— Mr. Eric Johnston, President Eisenhower's personal representative to the Middle East, left Damascus yesterday for Beirut. A.P.
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    Millions see TV. actress 'hanged'
    115 3 LONDON Mon. MILLIONS of Britons saw Ann Hanslip, TV actress, "hanged" on gallows once used in Newgate gaol. Ann. aged 19, confessed afterwards that she fainted "just for a minute through strain as she dropped through the trap in the final instalment of a serUl
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    LONDON STOCKS
    235 3 LONDON, Mon. Closing prices oi selected .-.locks were LOANS Consols 63 "i Funding 4 r o 100-', War 3% 84 BAtitLß :lTi .ililll 1t12>4) 24 S Hongkong ($125) 90 tasiern (£5) 7% I Chartered (£1) 40 6 INSURANCE Com. Un (uta.) 12-. 'i Royal 13^ Prudential 3»Vs BAILS
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    LONDON TIN
    26 3 LONDON. Nov. 2. Cash Buyers £615; Sellers £620; Forward Buyers £606; Sellers £607; Settlement £615 (down £10). Turnover am. 60 tons; p.m. 45 tons.
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    LONDGN RUBBER
    42 3 LONDON. Nov 2 —Spot 16 id., Now 16 \d Dec. 16' ,d.. Jan.-Mar. 16-\^. Apr -June 16* id.. July-Sept. 16 v ,d.. Nov elf. 16' id.. Dec. c.i.f. 16', d.. Jan c.l.f. 16 :l sd. Tone: Steady at lc^er level.
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    RAIN DEATH
    27 3 LONDON. Mon.— Albert Edward Hall slipped in the rain In London and an umbrella stay entered his eye and killed him. He was 82 AP
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    3 SUFFOCATED
    18 3 NEW YORK. Mon. Three airmen were suffocated yesterday in a fire in a wooden barracks. A.P.
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    13 executed
    16 3 VIENNA Mon. Thirteen Rumanians, charged with spying for the West havp been executed.— UP
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    Naval trials
    18 3 HAIFA. Mon. Israel's annual naval manoeuvres start. -rj yesterday and will continue until Nov. 10.— A.P
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    COMMUNALISM WARNING Politics must keep apart
    220 4 COMMUNALISM WARNING Politics must keep apart IPOH, Monday. ]yjR. Chin Swee Onn, secretary of the National Association of Perak, warned today that if politics were run on a communal basis, "this country is in for trouble." He was speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Ipoh and Menglembu branch of
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    80 4 DR. E. W. SKINNER, uf Sins; ipore with a four-root IM-11, yu kentajan. caught after a 20-minute fi.M at Loyang near the Pulau I bin coast on Sunday. The fnrivarit part of the fish resembles a ray and the tail end is plainly shark. A feature of interest to anglers
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    'Jinx train will stop
    93 4 'Jinx train will stop KUALA LUMPUR. Mon rE "Jinx" train— the Port Dickson special will run no more, at least not this year. The Malayan Railway hopes, however, to give the special another trial next year when the monsoon season is over. The train has always left Kuala Lumpur halfempty
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    Nomination papers on Wednesday
    64 4 Nomination papers on Wednesday MR. H. D. E. MacVitie will receive nomination papers from candidates for the forthcoming City Council election in the Council Chamber between 11 a.m and 12 noon on Wednesday. Candidates may now make deposits of $250 in cash at the City Council Secretariat. Nomination forms can
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    Died after stab in leg
    98 4 Soon after escaping from four assailants, M. Rengasamy. a newspaper vendor, ran into another man. V Vadlvelu and was stabbed it was stated at a Singapore preliminary inquiry yesterday in which Vadivelu. formerly of Kuala Lumpur, was accused of murder Mr. D McConnell. A.S.P.. said
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    HOTEL MAN FINED $100
    95 4 When a police party, headedby Inspector Sunny Tan. checked the Soo Hai Hotel in East Coast Road at 11.30 p.m. on August 13, particulars of ai couple and a Chinese woman were found to have been not entered in the hotel register, a Singapore Court was
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    Brothers fought until arrested
    39 4 Two brothers were fighting each other at Cuff Road. Singapore, on Sunday until a constable arrested them. In the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday the eldei brother was fined $1. and the younger brother $5
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    Road flooded
    41 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Senior Executive Engineer of Muar reported that at 9 a.m today the MuarParit Sulong Road was flooded 15 inches at the 92nd mile and 12 inches at the 93rd mile The wate r was subsiding
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    Acquitted
    28 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Sin Yoke Chee of Ampang Road, Kuala Lumpur, was today acquitted of causing the death of another woman, Yap Fong Lan by driving negligently.
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    Unarmed, he robbed 2 by threats
    112 4 Unarmed, he robbed 2 by threats T"AN Seng Kie. 23, pleaded guilty at the Singapore Assizes yesterday to robbing a young Chinese couple in the old Shackle Club grounds and was sentenced to six yearsgaol. The couple were sitting on the sea wall on the night of August 9. when
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    Hawker refused protection
    64 4 When Goh Boon Hoo, a hawker, refused to pay protection money to three Chine.se in a back-lane in Beach Road. Sinijapore. three months a»o. he was assaulted by one of I them. This was stated in the First District Court yesterday when Yap Kirn Hock, a labourer,
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    Clinic struck by lightning
    41 4 JOHORE BAHRU. MonDuring a rainstorm last night, lightning struck the Jalan Tangga Duke clinic of the Johore Bahru District Association for the Prevention of T.B. The parapet facing the Johore Straits was damaged No one was Injured.
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    Corporal stole pen: gaol
    43 4 Corporal Abdul Samad bin Selat, stationed at Pulau Tekong with the Marine Division was found guilty in Singapore yesterday of stealing a pen worth $31 belonging to police constable Bakari bin Sarmani. He was sentenced to two months" imprisonment.
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    25 4 THE DISTRICT OKFICEK. I ppcr Perak, Mr. R. J. C. Wait, hands over the mace to Major P. B. Winstanley at the padang in Grik.
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    VILLAGERS GIVE MACETOGURKHAS
    252 4 VILLAGERS GIVE MACE TO GURKHAS In gratitude, they say GRIK. Monday. VILLAGERS and kampong folk of Grik and Lenggong sub-districts in Upper Perak crowded round the padang, here yesterday afternoon to see a silver mace presented to the First Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles. The presentation was made by the District
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    THE ODDS APPEALED TO HER
    68 4 THE ODDS APPEALED TO HER IjVDR five cents, one could win 40 times that much, a young woman. Lim Ah Luan. who pleaded guilty to Rambling in public at Oxford Road .Singapore, told the Sixth Police Court yesterday. This was one of the masonshe gave when Mr. R.W.11 Da vies,
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    'Blitz' for good cause
    72 4 KUALA LUMPUR Mori Car owners in firms, banks, small offices and shops all over Kuala Lumpur have been giving money away today. All the money has gonr Into the collecting tins of 36 Poppy Day housewives. The Poppy Day hrlpors today made a blit/kreii?' on businessman
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    Woman gets thanks
    70 4 When a woman inlornv-i the Singapore City pniir-t-Court yesterday that hrr hus band was taken ill \hr day bfforr. and was therefore unable !o attend court, thr Ma (titrate said- "Thank you [or -ominK to Court.H r husband. Lim B"rk Tick was charged with |U tinning his
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    Robbed 2 women —gets 7 years
    153 4 Robbed 2 women gets 7 years WOO Peng Hung, a carpenter was gaoled for seven years at the Singapore Assizes yesterday for robbing two I women at a house In Oeylang Road on June 5. The two women robbed were i Tham Lai Yong and Chan Ah Woon. While Woo
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      110 4 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 7 15 Monvng Star; 7 30 News- 7 3.i Philip Oreen Orchestra. R m Comedy Memories: 830 v Housewives Corner: 857 Srhool.--945 Close Do«n: 11. in s<iioolv l Radio Malays Orchestra. 1 30 Ne\^ 1 45 Rtnthm Corner: 2 s< hooU 3 10 Clasp Oowm: 5.02 i>a
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    Labour chooses 2 teachers, accountant
    227 5 Labour chooses 2 teachers, accountant PENANG, Monday. DOMINATIONS for the municipal elections close tomorow and the names of all the can didates are not yet known. The rest will be known by noon tomorrow. After an 8-hour meeting which ended at 1 a.m today the Labour Party chose two teachers
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    SCHOOL LOST BUT SHE WON
    53 5 ALTHOUGH her school lost tne argument, Lim Keow Kheng, of the Convent won over the audience of 400 boys and girls with her contention that "fear of punishment influences the human mind more than the hope of reward." The Penang Free School won the debate.
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    SA VINGS BANK MEN SHOW WAY
    58 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.The staff of the Post Office Savings Bank here today gave a lead to other Government departments in responding to the High Commissioner. General Sir Gerald Temper's and Lady Templer's appeals for the blind and the tuberculosis hospital About 65 people gave
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    HIS PLEA MADECASE WORSE
    92 5 HIS PLEA MADECASE WORSE rA STORM were to break out, would you rather &cc children drown or adults, Mr. R. W. H. Davies, the Singapore Sixth Police Magistrate, asked a sampanman, Lim Teng Khoo. yesterday. Lim was fined $25 for carrying 20 excess passengers in a motor sampan on Sunday.
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    Unilever talks in K.L.
    100 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— A i conference of Unilever execui tives from Britain and Southi East Asia begins in Kuala Lumpur this week. Mr Sydney van Den Bergh. I a director, arrived in Kuala Lumpur today to lead the conI ference of chairmen and managements of Unilever
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    Rendel arrives today
    53 5 Sir George Rendel. chairman of the nine-man commission appointed to renew the constitution of Singapore, arrives by BjO.A.C Comet this morning. On the same aircraft will be Legislative Councillor, Mr. C C. Tan. who is returning from New DeJhi where he attended the Colombo Plan conference as
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    Driest October
    26 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Last month was the driest October for 65 years. Rainfall was 590 inches against an average of 11.03 for previous Octobers.
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    Klang gets 2
    25 5 KLANG. Mon Two fire engines have arrived in Klang. They will be in use here and at Port Swettenham They cost $57,000.
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    City Council men may get house loans
    57 5 A SINGAPORE City Council sub-committee yesterday made minor changes to the draft rules for the Council's $1,000,000 scheme to lend workers the money to buy or build their own houses. The rules will be sent to the Council's legal advisers. The Federal and
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    Shopkeeper is charged
    40 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Abdullah bin Abdul Kadar, a shopkeeper, was charged in the Police Court today with possession of 24 stolen exercise books belonging to the Sultan Ibrahim Girls' School. He was allowed $250 baii ponding trial
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    $43,000,000 exports
    60 5 I KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Federation of Malaya Imported $3,241,778 worth of copra, coconut oil and coconuts and exported $43,155,403 worth of these commodities during January to September this year. A total of 189.314 long tons of copra, coconut oil and coconut cake was produced during the same
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    Talk on MRA
    39 5 KUAN T A N, Mon.— Dato Mahmud bin Mat, Speaker of the Federal Legislative Council will talk on his experience at the moral Re-Armament World Assembly at Caux, Switzeland. at the Kuantan Recreation Club on Wednesday.
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    $3 mil. college nearly finished
    169 5 OFFICIAL OPENING IN MAY KOTA BAHRU, Monday. yHE new $3 million teachers' training college at A Pengkalan Chepa, on the outskirts of Kota Bahru in Kelantan, will be finished by the end of the year. The official opening will be in May. The Federation Director
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    Band at padang
    20 5 RAUB. Mon.— The Regimental Band of the 12th Royal Dancers played on the Raub padang on Friday.
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    This is bad for trade, court comments
    122 5 This is bad for trade, court comments rE action of the Singapore Marine Police in arresting Lim Yu Seng, who was bringing in a cargo of fish, appeared to b< against the interests of trade, Mr. R. W. H. Davies. Sixth "olice Magistrate, said yesterday. If such action were continued,
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    POLICE WIN CAR CHASE
    124 5 POLICE WIN CAR CHASE CINGAPORE Police cap- tured a man whose car was trapped in a blind alley in Kempas Road after a two-mile chase from MacPherson Road Just before dawn yesterday. A police radio patrol saw a car driven by a Chinese chasing another car in which there were
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    $444 gift for fire victims
    45 5 Singapore branch of th« MCA. has given $444 to th» Social Welfare Department to aid the Aljunied Road fire victims The money is 50 per cent o" the profits of the Sino-Malav variety show held in the Singapore Badminton Hall.
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    Toddy offences:
    35 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Onakam was fined $250 in the police court today for tapping toddy without a permit and having four gallons of illicit toddy. Daulat Ram, who helped Onakam, was fined $500
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      176 5 SINGAPORE DIARY Lim Bo Senj Memorial: Laying of i Y.W.C.A.: English class 9.30 am foundation stone by Commissioner- ballet danee four to six years 3 Oeneral. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, i p.m.. six to ten yean 3.45 p.m.; at Singapore Esplanade 530 p.m. Square Dance Club meeting 8 p m.
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    DEATHS
    22 6 2n Worit till (minimum) WILFRED SIMMS on 2.11.5 J. Cortege leavlnp General Hospital for Bldadarl Ccmetry 4.30 p.m. A?e 65 yean.
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    25 6 10 Hurtu Sill < minimum) MR. AND MRS. William Frederick thank everyone wtiu assisted at their wedding and all their friends lot their beautiful gifts.
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    100 6 •ii Hurri* tin minimum SALE AT Mulchands. 82-1. Bras Basah Road. Your Seasons Frocks at reduced prre. SEE HEROISM of Mmlc, French Resistance leader, to kill or not to kill, in River I ine-Read here tomorrow EXCLUSIVE selection in morning and afternoon frock rveninc and cocktail dresses on display
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      University Site
      682 6 The University of Malaya's 15-year building programme, co.'ting $145 million, goes before the University Council tomorrow. This mammoth project has never ceased to weigh heavily on the minds of the Council, but by the public in general has been almost forpotten since th« first excited reaction to that
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      Synthetic Plants Programme
      391 6 The Commission which is in charge of the disposal of the American synthetic rubber plants has now begun work, and although only two of its three members have been appointed, is reported to have impressed the rubber industry by its quick appreciation of the problems involved. A*
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      Siamese Rice
      236 6 There is further evidence of the easing of the rice market in reports from Bangkok that with the new harvest about to begin there are still 300.000 tons of the old crop available for export, and another 200,000 tons of padi in the provinces. While rice millers are
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    Behind Russia's H-bomb stands this strange man
    765 6 Behind Russia's H-bomb stands this strange man By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT RUSSIA'S advance to the atom and hydrogen bombs Is no surprise to those who know the strange story of Dr. Peter Kapitza "the man in the velvet cell." It is 19 years since the West last saw the shy,
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      THIS WOULD HELP THE ESTATES
      265 6 DURING the boom days, the Government raised the quit rent of estates by 50 per cent., but surely it is now long overdue to bring down quit rent to give a helping hand to estates. What Is the Government trying to do? Is it trying
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      SAVE LIFE
      89 6 a regular blood donor, I appeal to young and old to donate a pint of blood. Your blood will be tested first, and If you are not strong enough your blood will not be taken. The pint of blood given may save a person's life. And a donor's
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      Aid for rural people
      217 6 I AM directed to refer to letter headed "The end- all of RIDA?" and sipned by Malay Whip, who has not apparently taken the trouble to examine the true position of RIDA assistance in Kelantan. The following facts and figures may assist in presentIng a balanced
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      'Give Asians a chance'
      102 6 rls Indeed very disappointing to learn that the Government intends importing European stenographers into this country. Stenography can easily be tackled by Asians. The Government demands that stenographers pass the examination which Is held annually to qualify f or competency. Yet they are deprived of their
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      Rice from Burma
      171 6 YOUR Industrial correspondent wrongly quoted the report of an Interview made with a spokesman of this Consulate appearing In a story entitled "Rice going down." The following is the correct version of what was told by the .spokesman of this Consulate to your correspondent: The Burmese Government,
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    On the Margin
    441 6 So much to learn IT IS disheartening, eight years after the defeat nf Nazism, to read that Mao Tzetung is burning books as Hitler did and that our UMNO politicians are fuming against unwelcome journalists, as Juliu* Streicher did. We can take comfort from the fact that
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    RUBBER PLAN 'LITTLE USE'
    233 7 Not much new in it, says I trade president KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. M R. TEE TEH, vice-president of the Federation of Rubber Trades Association, today described the Rubber Study Group's three-point plan as "disappointing." "In any case, we have never hoped for very much from Rubber
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    PLEA FOR TRISHA RIDERS
    115 7 IF illiterate trisha riders were allowed to carry on working, It would help to reduce crime in the Colony, the Trisha Dealers' Association said in a petition to the Governor. Sir John Nlcoll, and the City President. Mr T P. F. McNeice. The petition said the
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    Charity show
    22 7 KUANTAN. Mon— A film show in aid of the U.M.N.O Fund was presented here. There was a fun fair yesterday.
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    Chinese drive to cut lavish spending
    129 7 Xl \l M'MPt'R, Mon. MORE than twelve Chinese guilds and associations in Selangor have agreed to sponsor an austerity drive among Chinese. They will moot soon to consider how to Rpt thr Chinese to stop spending large sums on marriages, funerals and other functions.
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    FREE TRII TO MECCA
    42 7 PENANG. Mon. Prnang's Malay newspaper today said it would give a free pilgrimage trip to the "mast popular Malay or Muslim personality" chosen by its readers. The one chosen will go to Mecca during the next Haji •eason.
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    Gurkhas kill woman Red at 80 yards
    149 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A WOMAN terrorist has been killrd by a Gurkha patrol In the Sungri Raja area of Ipoh. in Prrak. She was hit at 80 yards range across a river. Two othrr terrorists escaped. Trip body of a dead terrorist. who
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    Indian found stabbed in theatre
    186 7 Indian found stabbed in theatre AT the inquest yesterday on an Indian, Unni Vasudhevan, who was found dying at the Atlantic Theatre in the Great World ParK. Abdul Razak. a salesman in a shop in Change Alley, said he saw four or five men quarrelling in the theatre. He said
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    Rice output goes up
    80 7 Rice output goes up KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Rice statistics for the Federation issued today showed an increase of 1.632 tons in production in this year's off season crop. The output was 3,436 tons compared with 1,804 tons last year. Penang and Province Wellesley produced 2.555 tons, the highest in the
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    Back from K.L.
    28 7 KOTA BAHRU. Mon. Mr. K. K Nathan technical assistant. P.W.D Kota Bahru. who attended a graduation ceremony at Kuala Lumpur, has returned tr> Kota Bahru
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    PENANG DUTY ON SPORTS TO STAY
    100 7 PENANG DUTY ON SPORTS TO STAY PENANG, Mon.— The Settlement Government is of the opinion that entertainment duty on amateur sports should be abolished, the Resident Commissioner, Mr. R P. Blngham, said today "The question of abolishing or continuing this tax is left to each individual State and Settlement." he
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    She gets $26,200 for loss of husband
    151 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. MR. JUSTICE Wilson in the Supreme Court today awarded Choi Yuen Fong $26,200 damages against Mailvaganam Vadivelu for being responsible for the death of her husband, Yap Pow Yoong in an accident in Dec. 1950. A claim against the Central
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    Religious film being shown
    47 7 Singapore branch of the Malayan Christian Council last night introduced religious film shows in the first of a series of five evangelistic meetings at the St. Andrews Cathedral ground. The film .show will be repeated at 7.30 p.m. every night I until Friday.
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    War hero's memorial
    74 7 OUR ARTIST'S impression of the Lim Bo Seng memorial, the foundation stone of which will be laid by the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, at the Singapore Esplanade at 5.30 p.m. today. The memorial is designed by Mr. Ng Keng Siang. a local architect, after the Victory
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    $200 missing
    21 7 About $200 was reported mussing from a drawer in the Malayan Brewery Office in Alexandra Road, Singapore, on Sunday.
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    Mr. Mac Donald gives party for actors
    116 7 TIIK COMMISSIONER-GENERAL. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. leave a tea-party at his home yesterday for the cast of The Yellow Jacket a play produced by the Singapore Arts Theatre In Sept Virginia Jonnson, who produced the play "aid that the cut will put on
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    DEEP A VALISALES DOWN THIS YEAR
    154 7 DEEP A VALI SALES DOWN THIS YEAR Not so much money around KIWI. A I.r.MIM It. Monday. KUALA 1.1 MIT K textile merchants told the Straits Times today that Deepavali sales this year are much lower than last year. They said that the rubber i drop in price had considerably
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    50 nurses to train in Australia
    144 7 PENANG, Mon. THE Australian Government has agreed to train 50 nurses from Malaya as part of its contribution to the technical co-operation scheme under the Colombo Plan. The Federation Medical Headquarters will select candidates soon, a spokesman told the Straits Tirr«s today. Nurses who
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    Poppy Day golf
    24 7 RAUB, Mon.— Poppy Day programme at Fraser's Hill includes a golf competition for all visitors and a dance at the Tavern.
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    DEATH
    56 7 PO KIM YONO. »r«! 67. passed away peacefully at his residence. i«i Pa sir Panjantr Road. 81n.apore. on Nov. 2. leaving beh'nd hla wife, three son* Whatt Chye. Whutf Sene. Whatt Kirn. one dauchter. Choo Neo. one daughter-ln-lnn nnd one son-'n-law to mourn his low Funeral on Nov. 4
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    Big development schemes for satellite town
    227 7 Big development schemes for satellite town KUALA LIMPl T R, Monday. PETALING JAVA, Kuala Lumpur's satellite town, will become one of the richest concentrated industrial units in Central Malaya, if plans to develop it are approved. Three firms and the Federation's Telecommunications Department have applied for factory sites in the
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    $60,000 ART WORK ON SHOW
    104 7 $60,000 ART WORK ON SHOW IPOH. Mon. ABOUT $60,000 worth of paintings and scrolls went on show this evening at the Perak Library when the Sultan openpd an international art exhibition sponsored by the Ipoh Rotary Club. The 80 exhibits, ranging from the 12th century to contemporary work, were selected
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    CENTRE GETS NEW LEADER
    88 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. "Women have greater responsibilities than the men in everyday life," Mrs. Ramachandram. of the State Velfare Committee, told more than 100 women of the Setapak community welfare centre at the 6th mile. Gombak Road, yesterday, when the new leader. Che Enjah, was installed.
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    Teacher fined
    20 7 IPOH. Mon. Lee Cheng Seoh, a schoolteacher, pleaded guilty here today to lnconderate driving and was fined #15
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      157 7 The Weather Minimum temperature: •7 30 p.m. on Nov. 1 to 7.30 a.m. on Nov. I): Singapore 79 degrees, Penang 73, Kota Bahru 76. Kuala Lumpur 75, Ipoh 73, Kuantan 72. Maximum temperature: (7.30 a.m. to 7 30 p.m. on Nov. I): Singapore 88. Penanß 88, Kota Bahru 88, Kuala
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    $2,000 fund
    114 8 Mr. Kalf regards him aa such a promising pupil that he has started a fund, which now stands at about $2,000. to send Alphonso abroad to study when he leaves school In two years. On Sunday, Alphonso is giving a solo recital in the officers' mess at Blakanij
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    Prayer week in Singapore
    113 8 Speci-.il meetings to commemorate thp V.M.C.A.V W C.A Week of Prayer and World Fellowship will be held in Singapore from November 8 The two associations will hold separate and combined devotional meetings every nißht, speakers leading meditation on the same subject. Theme for the Week is
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    Rice issue for Segamat
    110 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon Rice on Issue for Segamat district for ration period beginning today to Nov. 15 U: Places in which ration 'scales were reduced: 1 Siam 10 per cent.. B 3o per cent., at 41 cts. a kati. Slam 15 per cent. C 30 per
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    G.P.O. to open on Deepavali
    81 8 General Post Office. Singapore, will be open from 9a.m. to noon on Thursday, the Deepavali holiday. Other post offices and postal agencies in the Colony, except those at Tiong Bahru. Towner Road. Kandang Kerbau and Maxwell Road which will be closed, will open from 9
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    Speeding: $40
    21 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Lim Loo Guan was fined $40 In the police court today for speeding In the town.
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    HUMANE PIG KILLING PLAN IS REJECTED
    73 8 HUMANE PIG KILLING PLAN IS REJECTED JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Johore Bahru Town Council has turned down a proposal to nstal electric stunning equipment at the big slaughter house. The proposal would require an extension of the slaughter house which the Council was not prepared to undertake because of the small
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    Linen Guild
    20 8 St. Andrew's Mission Hospital Linen Guild will meet in the Cathedral War Memorial Hall at 9.30 a.m. tomorrow
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    The Master listened—and then he praised the boy
    239 8 The Master listened and then he praised the boy ALPHONSO felt terrib- ly nervous. You can see him on the right, standing on the platform of the St. Andrew's War Memorial Hall yesterday, playing his violin while the great master, Maurice Clare listens. The master not only listened, but watched
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    More first class berths on liners
    105 8 More first class berths on liners FIRST class allocations for Malayan passengers on the luxury liners Asia and Victory will be increased by 35 per cent from January. The liners have been on the Genoa-Far East run for th« past five months. The Straits Times was told of the increase
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    Johore court clerk dies
    55 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— Mr S. N. Kanapathy. a clerk of the Pontian Magistrate's Court, died at the General Hospital last night He had been ill for two weeks He was a son of the late Mr j Nadeson Pillay. land owner of Johore Bahru. The funeral
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    Youth course
    28 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon— A three-day youth fellowship course beigns in Johore Bahru on Thursday under the direction of Mr. A. R. Allen, youth services adviser. Federation.
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    Workers plan to form new party
    142 8 ABOUT 1.000 workers in Singapore will meet today at the Victoria Memorial Hall to form a political party, called the Democratic Labour Party. A spokesman of the conveners, Mr. S. Jaganathan, told the Straits Times yesterday that the party will pledge to get social
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    Who's lost six photos?
    45 8 The secretariat staff of Singapore City Council wants to do a good deed. It wantd to return to the owner six photographs showing a European, his wife and his son. They were found in the corridor outside the secretariat offices yesterday.
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    FIVE MURDER CASES IN ASSIZES LIST
    69 8 FIVE MURDER CASES IN ASSIZES LIST With 23 cases o:i tha calendar, the Singapore Assizes for the month opened in the High Court yesterday, MrJustice Taylor presiding. Five out of the 23, are cases of murder and 11 others an> cases of armed robbery and robbery. There is one case
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    Public lecture
    38 8 Mr Keith Payne. Education Officer of the British Council, will give a public lecture on "Local Government What It Is" at the St. Joseph's Institution hail in Bra? Basah Road, Singapore, at 8 p.m. on Thursday
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    THEY MAY SUSPEND MR. RAJ
    175 8 MR. C. R. Dasa-atha Raj. I Colony Legislative Councillor, may be suspended from the Labour Party of Singa- pore. A resolution urging this will be moved by a member of the party's General Council. at its next meeting. The mover of the resolution, Mr. V.
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    CITY ASKED TO PROVIDE LIBRARIES
    77 8 CITY ASKED TO PROVIDE LIBRARIES Mr. M. P. D. Nair will move at the Singapore City Council meeting on Nov. 30 that the Council institute and maintain public libraries within city limits without delay. In a second resolution, he will ask the Council to construct, maintain, supervise and control public
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    YOUNG REDS SAIL IN SINGING
    58 8 rpWENTY-NINE Sarawak Chi- nrsp students sang Communist snngs as their ship, the Rajah Brook, yesterday steam- ed Into Singapore Irom Kuching. Of 90 dock passengers, 55 were bound for Red Chin*. Twenty-nine are young Communists, including eight girls. All 55 will leave for Red China
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    Manager of car firm dies
    118 8 Manager of car firm dies MR. Wilfred Simms. 55. general manager of Universal Cars Limited. Singapore, died in the General Hospital yesterday morning. Mr. Simms. who had been ill for several months, was due to retire at the end of this j month. He is survived by his wife and
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    $16,800 given for drainage
    63 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon Johore Government has provided $16,800 to maintain the Sri Menanti drainage area In Batu Pahat. The maintenance of a drain, age area is usually met by imposing a drainage rate but in Sri Menanti the drainage scheme has not yet been completed. The
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    SOUTH KOREANS LAY A WREATH AT CENOTAPH
    101 8 rr. first South Korean Navy tanker to call in Singapore arrived over the weekend. Yesterday officers of the 2,257 ton Phunji paid their respects to the Colony's war dead by placing a wreath at the Cenotaph (left). Bdllt in Norway in 1951 the
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    Australian carrier visits Colonu
    98 8 Australian carrier visits Colonu H. M. A. S. Sydney, flagship and first aircraft carrier of the Royal Australian Navy, arrives with the Tribal class destroyer, H.M.A.S. Bataan, in Singapore boday for a threeday viait The Sydney, which carried the Australian contingent to the Coronation, is on her way to the
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      263 9 CI'RRKNTI.V THE SMASH HIT OF A1.1.-MALAYA Soutli-1 ijst Asia Film Co.'s "AURAT" India s •'Samson Drlilah" With 100' r Knßlish Subtitlr.i *jo ho hi: h \ii hi Broadway Theatre 6th Day of Packed Shows! Dally: 3.15-6.15-9.15 p.m. Xl ALA LI.IIPI R Hindustan Theatre On W-l-D-K BCMM Today at 3.00-6.15-9.15 pm.
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      422 9 TtlF MIMUIA \IGHTS Enraged at the betrayal of hit Silently Shahieman left the The King taid nothing of hu love. Shahieman. King of Palace and began the lonely night tragedy, but during rt. c long Tartary, slew both his fairiilest rid* back to hit camp. The journey to Persia he
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      SMALL TURNOVER IN SHARES
      396 10 RUBBER AND TIN FALL CHARES are becoming an almost unsaleable com- modity in the Singapore market and yesterday the volume of turnover was the smallest for some weeks. Neither buyers nor sellers were interested and brokers had a difficult and discouraging time. Tin fell 50 cents
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      TIN PRICE
      18 10 The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was declared at $302,874 a picul, down 50 cents.
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      Australian stocks
      217 10 MELBOURNE, Mnn /^JENERAL Investment prlrrs VI moved within narrow limits on the Stock Exchange today. Therr was no price trend and most transfers were in small parcels of shares. Hlil 50 (West Australia) Oold shares have now been split into Is. shares which had fir?! sales at 245.
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      Exchange rates
      146 10 'J'HE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday NEW YORK: buyinp TT 32" alr mail. O.D 33. 90 days 33 V cred't bills. 3.1 3 16 trade hills selling TT. or O.D 32 ready CANADA: buying. TT. 32', air mail. OD.
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      RUBBER PRICES
      185 10 Disappointment at the announced findings of the Rubber Study Group meeting in London was reflected on the Singapore rubber market yesterday where November first grade closed at bb^a cents a pound— one and one-quarter cents below Saturday's close. During the day the price had fallen to one and
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      Produce prices
      70 10 Singapore Chinese Produce E\rhsn*e: Noon prices per picul were: Copra: steady; November $37' 2 buyers. $38 sellers: December $37* buyers. $38 sellers. Coconut oil: steady: $61 sellers. Pepper: steady: small business reported: Muntok white $345. Sarawak $340. la n, pone black $310. Lewis and Peat: Closing prices were:
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      Kesang Tin tribute
      22 10 In October Kasang Tin Ltd. received tribute amounting to $4 fi49 on a production of 189 plculs of tin-ore.
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      Uranium Mines
      37 10 MELBOURNE. Mon The directors of Uranium Mines N.L. say that the issue on flotation has been quiclclv over-subsrribed and ihe list has closed. The company Issuing a million ss. shares. 2s beiig payable on application.
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      Singapore shipping
      216 10 CHIPS lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are:— Asia 12, Lamongan 3. Nissan Maru 45. Fernsea C.P., Bfnm. li 67. Steel Traveller 89, Benvenwe 11. Calchas 13 14. Glenartney 15 lfi. Mentor 18, Bolma 19 20 Salong N Wall 3, Petaling N. Wall 4
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      490 10 NOTICES MUNICIPALITY APPLICATIONS for the renewal of licences for 'he year 1954 should be forwarded to the Ag. Municipal Secretary, Malacca, not later than 30th November. 1953. T. J. MATHIAS. Ag. Municipal Secretary, Malacca. Municipal Office. Malacca. 2nd November, 1953. THE MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE (Oiaptrr 133) MALACCA MUNICIPALITY, AS SESSMENT LIST,
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      350 10 NOTICES REWARD A REWARD of $500 will be paid tor information leading to the recovery of the bracelet described hereunder. which was lost between 11.00 and 11.30 p.m. on 27th October. 1953: between Pierce Road and West Coronation Road, Singapore. One Platinum Diamond Bracelet containing 135 Diamond Brilliants and 15
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      821 10 NOTICES 4 NOTICE Notice, is hereby given that Mr. Tay Cheng Kang of Llong Hln St Co.. Singapore Is no longer In our employ and he Is not authorised to transact any business whatsoever on our behalf. LIONO HIN CO.. 28 Phillip Street. Spore. THE MALAYAN EXCHANGE BANKS ASSOCIATION All
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      496 10 NOTICES SELANGOR ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY ANNUAL CELEBRATION Members are Informed that the number of Applications for Tickets received up to 29th October inclusive has exceeded the number of seat* available. It is regretted, therefore, that no more Applications can now be considered. (D. C. W BELL) Hon. Secretary. UNIVERSITY OF
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      742 10 NOTICES THE TOWN COUNCIL ELECTIONS (TOWN COUNCIL OF BANDAR PKM.I.ARAM REGULATIONS. 1951. (Reculatlon IS) NOTICE OF ELECTION THE TOWN COUNCIL OF BANDAR PENGGASAM. Election of Councillors for the Kampong Petani. Ounong Soga and Jalan Suitanah Electoral Wards of the Town Council. NOTICE 18 HEREBY OIVKfc THAT: 1. An election of
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      667 10 PU n? (C APPOINTMENTS SINGAPORE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Qualified experienced Teachers of Chinese are required for the Chinese Teachers' Training Classes in January, 1954. These appointments are on probation for one year, after which permanent non-pen-sionable appointment will be considered. i Salary Sealr: $108x6A-144/Bar/ < 156x6A-198/Bar/216x12A-276 p.m. < plus Cost of
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      THE BUSINESS WORLD
      413 12 THE BUSINESS WORLD ONE FEDERATION Government office wrote to a business organisation in Singapore: "Port Swettenham has the reputation of being the worst port in the world for the Incidence of damage to glass. AN AIRLINE official who flies between Australia and Singapore reports "amazing developments" in deep freeze storage
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      Malaya is Britain's main market for sugar confectionery
      457 12 Malaya is Britain's main market for sugar confectionery MALAYA is the biggest overseas market for British boiled sweets, says Mr. G. Kenneth Homer, head of one of Britain's largest sweets manufacturing companies. 1 Malayans have a "sweet tooth," he said. Mr. Homer, 27-year-old managing director of George W. Homer and
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      Natural rubber could benefit
      308 12 Natural rubber could benefit U.S. SYNTHETIC SALES POLICY: TIE new sales policy of. United States' synthe- j tic rubber, which requires j 90 days' advance placement of orders by large consumers and 30 days for small consumers, can be an advantage to the natural rubber industry, according to the U.S.
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      DEVELOPMENT IN MALAYA NEEDS PLANT
      375 12 FiEVELOPMENT projects such as drainage, sewerage and roadworks make Malaya one of the most important markets for British compressed-air equipment produced by Holman Bros., Ltd., of Camborne This is the opinion of Mr. P. M. Holman, joint managing director of Holman Bros., who is now
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      Smaller surplus of tin forecast
      199 12 Smaller surplus of tin forecast A SMALLER surplus of tin next year is forecast by th» Financial Times. The newspaper reported that "there has been an encouraging improvement in United States consumption in the earlier part of this year and at the present price tin is a much more economic
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      better outlook expected for tyre industry
      77 12 A BETTER outlook In the tyre replacement business next year is expected by B. F. Goodrich Company, according to reports from Los Angeles. One official of the company estimated replacement passenger tyre sales this year 49 million and 12 per cent, more than last
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      NEW INDICATOR AID TO PUNTERS AT BUKIT TIMAH
      248 12 A NEW 10') ft. -long indicator giving all the information needed fay the punter is to be "V. installed at Bukit Tiniah racecourse carlv in the New Year. i This was revealed by Mr. R. A. Pedlingham, sales manager of Automatic Totalisators
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      Japanese Consul off to London
      93 12 A MEMBER of the pre-war Japanese Embassy staff in London. Mr. Tadao Ka'.o. who has been a consul in the Japanese Consulate in Sing- Mr. Kato left by sea last week to take up an appointment at the Japanese Embassy in London as first secretary
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      Deflation of £A unjustified —SAYS BANK
      116 12 Deflation of £A unjustified —SAYS BANK i^URRENT Australian condiv/ tions do not justify depreciation of the Australian pound, reports the National Bank of Australasia Ltd., in it 3 latest financial review. The bank adds that the main reason why depreciation has recently been canvassed as :i possibility is because of
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    A city built by the finest architects
    573 13  - A city built by the finest architects T. VOIIIt A By L_ Lett i s Clynis |ohns in tha role of Helm Mary in Waif Disnay's "Rob Roy," »hi» year's Royal Command film, seen by the Queen in London last week. ALL the pleasant fantasies of the fictional Shangri-la have
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    WHEN COOKIE TAKES LEAVE
    425 13 WHEN COOKIE TAKES LEAVE COOKIE rarely asks for leave. When he does. I grant it to him. This has its advantages fot once or twice a year it leaves me alone and gives me chance the check the culinary equipment. As I am fond of cooking I soon know if
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    Treating bites and blisters
    716 13  -  SISTER CLARE IN this country, partix cularly, we are continually faced with bites blisters, spots and boils And any neglect of these troublesome things can turn a happy toddler into an irritable one Let's deal with blisters first. You may have difficulty in getting the tinies
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      398 13 Straits Times Crossword ll.llTu^r^^^ I 27 Mathematician's stone (B). 3 H 4 I] I 28. Offer a cape as a sign of affe--§§S tion (10). W! S?" 3SS £*s5 29. Mariners looV to this stone tor HI HI HI 111 iH ill guidance <4i. S^y? RS3S KSSS IS^Sj DOWN i^J
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    University surprise champion Recs by 3-0
    575 14 University surprise champion Recs by 3-0 SENIOR LEAGUE IS WIDE OPEN SINGAPORE RECREATION CLUB "Reds", strong favourites to retain their Singapore Hockey Association first division title for the second year running, were roundly beaten by University of Malaya by three goals to nil on the padang yesterday. Recs were tactically
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    42 14 AN INCIDENT in yesterday's annual Past v Present rugDy match at St. Andrew's School, Woodsville, which was won by the school by 20-6. Old Boys' wing-forward, Vijay, makes a desperate attempt to stop Soo Chye, schoolboy frant-row forward, from kick ing ahead.
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    GAMES BODY MAY LEAVE THE 1.0.C.
    216 14 MANILA, Mon. rE ASIAN Games Federation will convene here this month to consider withdrawal from the International Olympic Committee <lOC>. the Games Organizing Committee disclosed last night. The Federation is staging the Second Asian Games in Manila next May 1-9. Fifteen nations have entered
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    Khamis and Junied win
    180 14 H. KHAMIS and L. Junied won the open doubles title at the Malay Sports Associa- tion's annual tennis tournament when they beat A. G. B. j Pakir and Said Sulaiman by 6-4. 6-4 in the final on Sunday, j Pakir and Khamis won their way to
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    Police keep in the hunt with 2-0 win
    225 14 DOLICE Sports Association kept their chances alive In the senior hockey league when they beat O.H.Q. FARELF by 2-0 at Police Training School ground yesterday Police took the field with ten players, their Colony centre half Vellupillal being alxwt eight minutes late,
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    Services XI to meet Civilians
    68 14 The Combined Services team to meet Civilians in the annual Poppy Day hockey fixture on the SC.C. padang today will be: > Sgt. Baph (RAF). Major Singleton (Army>. WO Evans (Army); SAC Kerry <RAF> Sgt. Scrase (RAF i. RYMS Etherington (Army>; iW'O Durrant (RAF) FO
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    Naval Base top Div. 3 table
    57 14 Naval Base CC. went to the top of the SHA Dlv. 3 league table when they beat Young Men's Sikh Association 2-0 at Farrer Park yesterday. Bhajan Singh scored both goals. Naval Base are now three points ahead of SHB Police and Ceylon S.C.
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    S.C.C. WOMEN LOSE TO G.S.C.
    30 14 Girls' Sports Club beat Singapore Cricket Club women 3-0 In a hockey friendly on the padang yesterday. Scorers were Maureen Clarke (2) and Anita Ess.
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    SUMATRA TEAM WILL COME FOR 4 MATCHES
    222 14 A NORTH Sumatra soccer touring team, reputed to be stronger than the Jakarta team that was recently in Singapore, will play four matches at Jalnn Besar stadium at the end of this month. This was decided at a S.A.P.A. Council meeting yesterday Other
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    SAFA should try out newcomers
    452 14  -  SENTINEL By 'THE decision or me Mnsapore a.r.A. wauuw i m< i> Sporting Association to go on a tour of Indonesia is a clear indication that S.A.F.A. regards next Sunday's "Poppy Day" match against Combined Services as an unimportant affair. The Tigers touring team, in-
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    Business Houses lucky numbers
    87 14 The Singapore Business Houses Football Association's souvenir programme lucky number draw, which took place at the annual dance on Saturday, resulted: Ist No. 2552: 2nd No. 2226: 3rd No. 2665. Consolations: No*.: 2122, 2321. 2201, 2220. 2278. 2470 and 2619. The medals which were to have
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    RONGGENG PARTY
    37 14 The Malay Sports Association will hold n Buffet and Ronggeng party on Saturday. Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. at No 62. Lorong K. Telok Kurau. on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the Association.
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    One change in Singapore F.S. Cup team
    296 14 One change in Singapore F.S. Cup team fINLY one change has been made In the Singapore Foong Seong Cup team to meet Penang In the Inter-zone final at Penang on Nov. 7 and 8. Quek Keng Chuan who played for Singapore against Negrl Sembllan and Malacca has been replaced by
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    CORINTHIANS SET FOR A 'DOUBLE'
    259 14 SINGAPORE Corinthians. SAFA third division champions, brightened their prospects for a ■double" when they beat RAF Tengah by a solitary goal scored by Halim in a semi-flnal of the SAFA Junior Cup competition at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. RAF kicked off and thr game soon
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    OLD BOYS WERE SHOWN UP IN LAST QUARTER
    560 14  - OLD BOYS WERE SHOWN UP IN LAST QUARTER W. E. TREVOR By ('resent 20; Fast b. P? was the old. old story all over again when Past met Present In the St. Andrew's School annual rugby match played at Woodsville yesterday. For a while though, it looked as if the
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    JOHORE INCLUDE 8 FIJIANS IN XV v SINGAPORE
    105 14 JOHORE INCLUDE 8 FIJIANS IN XV v SINGAPORE EIGHT Fijian* have hern named for the Johnrc XV to meet Singapore in the first H.M.S. Malaya ruyby fixture in Ihe Southern section this season. The match will be played on the S.C.C. padang on Saturday. The teams n.rc: JOHORE: Edington (capt.):
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    S.B.A. tourney fixtures
    76 14 Fixtures for the S'ngapore B'r:mlnton Association championship tomorrow at 7.15 p.m are Women's doubles (*emi-flnal) Helen Heng and Baby Low v Jes.-ir Ong and One Slew Yong; Mrs. To Tlang Seng and Mrs. Chionh H><>l. Chor v Mrs. L. M. Pennefather and Mrs. P. M. Pennefather. Men's
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    GOLF WINNERS
    32 14 Dr. R. A. Mallal and Jlmmv RaKKi won the Island Club Colonial Cap foursome competition when they beat Gecrge Addlson and Dr. N. S L'm by two and one yesterday.
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      267 14 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from Pace 6) VEHICLES FOR SALE Hortf. Si (mim.)-Box M rxlrm. CHEVROLET 47. 48 Oood Condition Comprehensive Insured till August 54. Black. $2,500. Phone *****. Ask Chan, after office hours. 1950 SINGER 9 Sport* excel. -r.; condition low mileage European owner comprehensive ins'irnr.ct best offer over $1650.
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      264 14 FOR SALE 20 Wordt Si < Win.;— Box in rtt txlrm. XMAS present to your Ladies friends English msde portable hand sewing machine r.ew $39.50 selling below cost. Box AllB2, S.T. AVAILABLE few tame African Grey Parrots make good talkers $175* each."Mavfield Kennels 589 East Coast Road. Singapore phone *****
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      35 14 HOCKEY Poppy Da; match: Civilian* Services, S.C.C. padanf. RUGGER Raffles Inst. v st. Andrew's School, Woodsville. (Capt. Kellett); Iniversity Medicals v Dentals. Sepoy Lines, I Mr. McKeiMdeh TENNIS MALAY S.A. ilnfles final. 5.1S p m.
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