The Straits Times, 13 November 1953

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    14 1 The Straits Times Nat*"* 1 Established 1845 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1953. 15 CENTS
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    TWO-UNIVERSITY SCHEME
    1682 1 $145 mi1. plan man be dropped THE $145 million scheme to move the University of Malaya to Johore Bahru may be droppec in favour of less expensive developments in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Developments in the Federal capital ma\ ultimately lead to the establishment of two uniyer sities
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    Mac Donald sees ; King of Laos
    53 1 Mac Donald sees King of Laos The Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. went on board the Cambodgp in Singaoore waters yesterday and called on King Sisavang Vong of Laos to pay his resDects. He later entertained the Crown Prince Tiao Savanc and the Crown Princesses to lunch his home. Mallaic.
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    $50 FOR A HERO'S WIDOW
    169 1 $50 FOR A HERO'S WIDOW UIANG BI'AY, a 32-year- old Singapore widow, yrsterday got $50 from a man she has never met. He is Mr. H. YV. Hamilton, of Timaru, New Zealand, a former Chanci internee. This brings to $1,330 contributions sent to the Stmils Times during the last six
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    QUIRINO CONCEDES ELECTION
    94 1 MANILA. Thurs. MR. Ramon Magsaysay, former guerilla leader against the Japanese, was saluted as the new President of the Philippines today after President Elpidio Quirino conceded him the election President Quirino in a nation-wide broadcast said" "My most fervent prayer at this hour is that the change
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    VALETTA SEARCH GOES ON
    227 1 IN a dawn to darkness search over 13,000 square miles of sea and jungle yesterday, RAF and RAAF planes failed to find any trace of the' Singapore based Valetta aircraft which has been missing since Wednesday. It has now been disclosed that the Valetta had seven
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    Talks proposed
    34 1 NEW YORK, Thurs I j United States. Britain and France have proposed -direct four-power talks with Russia in an attempt to break the deadlock on disarmament and atomic, weapon control measures. A.P.
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    Now for Nigeria
    33 1 Miss Constance Penny, a British Red Cross worker who has helped to organise branches in Malaya and Borneo, has left London to take up an appointment in Nigeria West Africa.
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    Atom station
    89 1 LONDON. Thurs. —Britain's first industrial atomic power station is likely to be established in Caithness, in the extreme north-east of Scotland, reliable sources said today.— Reuter THE GOVERNOR, Sir John Nicoll, (above) talks with Rear Admiral A. F. Pugsley, at Kallang Airport, when he returned yesterday from a
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    Tempier at the War Office
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    £600,000 gift
    30 1 LONDON. Thurs General Sir Gerald Tempier conferred with War Office officials here today. -UP. LONDON. Thurs.— Britain will give £600.000 In the coming year to the United Nations
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    News that s(e)ent them all happy
    230 1 CANBERRA, Thursday. MR. R. G. Menzics, the Prime Minister said here today that it would be an unfortunate thing if the existence of a common bond the Commonwealth was interpreted as a denial of independence. He was commenting on Oeylon's wish to be witho.it
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    BORDER FIGHTING REPORTED
    208 1 BANGKOK. Thurs. SIAMESE newspapers today reported fighting between Burmese and Chinese Nationalist affiliated troops about 100 m'les south west of the Burma-Slam borde r where 2.000 Nationalist troops are being evacuated to Formosa. Officials said they knew nothing to confirm the news- paper reports though one of
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    BACK WITH MORE TROOPS
    70 1 The 8.644-ton Eastern Queen, '."hich was specially chartered by the Sea Transport Office in Singapore to carry Gurkha troops and their families back to India last month, returned yesterday with 269 Gurkhis and their families. The Eastern Queen's charter for carrying Gurkhas expired a; soon as
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    ACCUSED
    33 1 CAIRO, Thurs.— Lieut. Gen. Gamal Abder Nasser, the Egyptian Vice-Premier, today said that Britain was fighting Egypt i" foreign markets by every m«ans to make Egypt kneel down and ask her assistance.—Reuter.
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    Spy charges
    21 1 HELSINKI. Thurs. Finnish security police have arrested five Finns on charges of spying for an unidentified foreign power— A.P
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    Three killed
    183 1 NAIROBI. Thurs.— Three Mau Mau convicts were shot dead and 14 wounded when warders opened fire on prisoners who rioted at a prison camp in north Kenya today. Reuter. BANGKOK, Thurs. SIAM'S Ministry of the Interior yesterday told the authorities in five southern districts bordering Malaya, where a
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    'British control must remain in Kenya'
    33 1 'British control must remain in Kenya' NAIROBI, Thurs. KENYA'S European political leaders Issued a political statement today demanding the maintenance of British control over all races In the colony. They rejected any partition
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    NEW MOVE IN TRIPLE SLAYING
    102 1 NEW MOVE IN TRIPLE SLAYING LURS. France, Thurs. IfRENCH detectives suddenly reappeared today on the sc.°ne of the 15-month-old Drummond triple murder and carried off five witnesses for questioning. Among them Gustave" Domintci, the man who first found the slaughtered Britons The police drove off to the law courts at
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    CURFEW TO BEAT SIAM'S TERRORISTS
    205 1 SIXTY University of Malaya students returned home on Tuesday night, tired but happy. They had spent a rollicking i evening at the freshmen's annual dinner party and they were ready for bed. The trouble was. they could hardly find their beds. In six hostels along
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    Malaya defence plan
    64 1 Malaya defence plan LONDON, Thurs. PROPOSALS for linking Australia and New Zealand with Britain. Malaya and the United States in the defence of the Pacific and thr Far East are being completed here by the Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Field Marshal Sir John Harding. He returned three days
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    STOP PRESS
    171 1 THIRTY DIE IH AIR CRASH BUENOS AIRES. Thurs. —Argentine fonr-engined transport plane and military aircraft collided In mid-air today. First reports said 3t persons were killed—A.P. reached with Chiefs of Staff during hi* tour, which included a visit to the Woomera rocket ran;:' The extent of common defence
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    2 shot in Teheran
    42 1 TEHERAN, Thurs. Troops opened fire on pro-Mossadeq demonstrators here today and killed two people, an army official said. Earlier tanks and troops took up positions in the centre of Teheran to quell trouble over the trial. Reuter. U.P.
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    PACIFIC PACT CALL
    239 2 NEW YORK, Thurs. CENATOR William P. Knowland, Republican leader in the United States Senate, yesterday called for a Pacific security system in which all nations would be accepted "as free and equal partners." He said the "age of colonialism" wa.s dead and said that the United States
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    165 2 SIXTY eight year-old i King Sluvang Vong of the Kingdom of Laos, accompanied by the Queen .arrived In Singapore yesterday in the liner Camhodee on his way back to Indo-China after a six months holiday in Nice. The King, who is also accompanied by his heir Crown Prince ShavangVathana, met
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    Big Muslim procession
    64 2 Singapore Muslims will hold a big procession beginning at 2.15 p.m. on November 22. in honour of Prophet Mohammed's birthday. The procession route will 6tart from Kandahar Street through North Bridge Road, Arab Street, Beach Road, Middle Road, Victoria Street,! Jalan Sultan, Rochore Canal Roaci. Kallang Road,
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    Radio-active fish caught
    33 2 PERTH. Thurs -British scientists at Monte Bello islands have found traces of radio activity in fish caught] more than a year after Britain's first atom bomb was exploded there.— Reuter.
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    COLONY WILL GET CHEAPER SUGAR
    129 2 CITGAR will be cheaper in Singapore next February when the Government passes its sale back to private firms. Several leading firms in the Colony have arranged to import sugar on private account when the Government control ends. Mr Jamnadas Mehta, a local Importer, told the
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    Timing gear was made in one night
    119 2 Timing gear was made in one night A GROUP of Singapore racing motoring enthusiasts spent the whole of last night making a complete electric timing gear which will be used at the Malacca speed trials on Sunday. The proper timing gear has "gone astray" somewhere on the railway line betwen
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    Old boys' day
    38 2 The Chinese Industrial and Commercial Continuation School. Singapore, will celebrate "old boys' day" with a concert and exhibition of naintings and handicraft by students at the school premises. Outram Road, at 2 p m Sunday.
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    Lebanon signs
    19 2 NEW YORK. Thurs. The Lebanon yesterday became the 25th nation to sign the UN. opium protocol.— UP.
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    Off to Rome
    18 2 LONDON. Thurs— Sir Ashley Clark, Britain's new Ambassador to Italy, flew to Rome today. Reuter.
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    Those trees won't grow here, says professor
    235 2 Those trees won't grow here, says professor PROFESSOR R. E. Holttum, Professor of Botany at the University of Malaya, yesterday described as "quite impossible" the proposal to plant at Kran.ji War Cemetery an avenue of trees from every country in the British Commonwealth. "It is out of the question." hr
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    Round-world ship arrives
    30 2 The 7,995 ton round-the-world freighter President Van Buren arrived in Singapore from Manila. It carried 800 tons of cargo for the Colony, including California grapes and apples.
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    iltristino nttitf marry
    84 2 WASHINGTON, Thurx— 26-year-old artist said yesterday that Christine Jorgensen the ex-Air«rican soldier who claims to have been transformed into a woman by surgery is wearing a threerarat diamond ring he gave her. Patrirk Flanigan wouldn't say his gift was an engagement ring. He's getting a divorce from
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    St. John dance at Christmas
    48 2 The St John Ambulance Brigade, Singapore, will hold a Christmas dance under the patronage of the Governor, Sir John Nicoll. at the Badminton Hall in Guillemard Road on December 19. Tickets are obtainable from members or at the brigade headquarters in Stamford Road.
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    ACSU now affiliated with British union
    189 2 ACSU now affiliated with British union 'THE Army Civil Services Union of Singapore is to be 1 affiliated with the International Federation of Unions of Employees in Public and Civil Services of Britain The Singapore union yesterday received a letter from the general secretary of the IFUEPCS. Mr. M C
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    2 PMU men sent to gaol
    93 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Thur.s. Ahmad bin Haji Abdul Rahim. president of the Peninsula Malays Union, who wjj yesterday fined $3,000 in Johore Bahru for conducting a public 'ottery without permission wa.s .illowed to pay $1,000 down and; Ihe balance in instalments on 1 executing a
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      278 2 Straits Times rro^nord "I I I (I "I SsSs j*S§ §ss| i'^§ §51 Ssss IiHH yHHiH II >H!lil H i 9 20 2i H§ 22 23 i| 26 *****111 I I I ACROSS peer (9). 1. Flower* certainly not unhesrd 14 n t n 1 d to drlnk; Bert R
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    US. SEEKING MORE BASES
    222 3 Pakistan is promised aid in exchange LONDON, Thursday. |'H K UNITED States is negotiating with Pakistan for permission to establish military bases there in exchange for defence aid. Pakistan and British informants said here yesterday that the agreement would set up American forces on the western
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    REGENCY PLAN IS APPROVED
    171 3 REGENCY PLAN IS APPROVED LONDON. Thurs. A BILL to transfer Princess Margaret's regency rights to the Due of Edinburgh was approved by the House of Commons without opposition on a second reading yesterday. Final passage comes on the third reading a— formality. The measure is an amendment to the Regency
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    The man who wanted to see action
    116 3 FORMBY. England, Thurs. PRIVATE Edward Roberts was sentenced to 56 days detention by a court-martial yesterday for deserting a soft job in the British Army to go fighting with the French Foreign Legion. Roberts, aged 34. appeared wearing the ribbons of French Croix
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    U.N. urges: 'End segregation'
    46 3 NEW YORK. Thurs.— The Grnrral Assembly today adopted by 42 votes to one with 17 abstentions a resolution urging South Africa to suspend her racial segregation laws and accept United Nations good offices in an attempt to solve the minority problem.— U.P.
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    U.S. GIFT
    19 3 BONN, Thurs— The United States is to give West Germany £5.357,000 worth of surplus farm products.— Reuter.
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    ACCENT ON YOUTH
    37 3 lIU.M. for the teen-aver K this hound's tooth check casual dress iieing modelled in London The youthful neckline and full skirt are matched by the novel bow motifs on sleeve and pocket. Reuter picture.
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    The Queen goes on holiday
    70 3 The Queen goes on holiday LONDON, Thurs. rE Queen yesterday went I to Sandringham, Norfolk, for a short holiday. She will join the Duke of Edinburgh who went there on Tuesday. The Queen, who travelled from Buckingham Palace by ear, spent some time at Newmarket where she has several horses
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    Going to Peking
    36 3 LONDON, Thurs. A North Korean Government delegation, led by Marshal Kirn II Sung, the Prime Minister, arrived in Mukden. Manchuria, yesterday on their way to Peking, the New China News Agency said.— Reuter.
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    A new oil record
    52 3 LONDON, Thurs. Commonwealth oil production j during the first nine months of the year reached a new record total for the period of 14.000,000 metric tons, compared with 12,440,000 metric tons in 1952. This was an increase of 14 per cent, the Petroleum Information Bereau said
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    GOVERNMENT POLICY ON FOOD BACKED
    100 3 LONDON, Thurs. rpHE Government yesterday rpceived the backing of j the House of Commons for it? food policy, on which it was i criticised by the Opposition I by a majority of 23. The policy includes derationing, removal of controls and allowing some goods to
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    FILM STARS FROM RUSSIA |
    29 3 FILM STARS FROM RUSSIA THREE of the 20 Russian ballerinas, film stars and musicians who have arrived in Britain as guests of thi British -Soviet Friendship Society —Popper picture.
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    Ready (or Christmas
    28 3 PANTOMIME season is approaching in Britain and these shapely girls of the chorus are put through their paces at a London theatrical school.— Reuter picture.
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    U.N. will discuss 'dark horrors'
    144 3 KOREA A TROCITIES ALLEGED NEW YORK, Thursday. THE I.N. General Assembly, by 53 votes to five, with A two abstentions, yesterday agreed to debate American charges that the Communists in Korea committed atrocities against prisoners. Russia had claimed that the only reason the U.S. brought
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    £530,000 DEATH DUTY
    145 3 LONDON. Thurs. DEATH duties have shrunk the Duke of Bedford's unsettled estate to little more than a quarter of its size, it was disclosed in his will His ordinary property, not settled upon anyone. wa« valued at £802.253 gross and £702.252 net. Duty paid totals t; 530.301.
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    Whitehall 'cracking the whip'
    89 3 N. RHODESIA, Thurs. CIR ROY WELENSKY, lea- der of the elected members of Northern Rhodesia Legislative Council who have refused to co-operate with the government told the Council here yesterday that the whip was now being cracked by 'the masters in Whitehall to bring us into
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    A premier resigns
    34 3 I TEL AVIV, Thura.— The Ma- pal Labour Party last night 1 decided to accept the resignation of the Prime MinLster, Mr. David Ben Gurion. He complained of mental strain. A.P.
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    Poison in the air
    43 3 LONDON. Thurs —More than 2.000 tons of sulphur dioxide and 2.000 tons of carbon monoxide pollute the air of Greater London every day in mid-win-ter, said Dr. E. T. Wilkins, of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, yesterday.—Reuter
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    Going home
    19 3 SEOUL, Thurs- -India's field ambulance unit goes home this month after three years' service in Korea— A.P.
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    Order for Japan
    13 3 HAVANA, Thurs. Cuba has ordered several tankers from Japan. U.P
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    Princess dies
    18 3 ECKERNFORDE. Thurs. Princess Irene of Prussia, aged 87. a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, has died.— Reuter.
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    Burma agrees
    19 3 TOKYO. Thurs. Burma has agreed to extend General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade treatment to Japan.— U.P.
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    BRITISH GOVERNMENT CHANGES
    98 3 LONDON, Thurs. rpHE Primt Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, last nigM appointed the Marquess of Reading as a second Minister or State at the Foreign Office to ease the burden on Mr. An- 1 thony Eden, the Foreign Secretary. The appointment was one of scvpral minor reshuffles. Lord
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    LONDON STOCKS
    279 3 LONDON, Thurs. THE London Strrk market wu generally firm today but activity was somewhat quieter. Far Eastern Issues generally were well maintained. A lew supporting orders came In for tea shares, but rubbers and tins were mostly quiet. Eastern oils, in step with other oil shares Improved to
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    LONDON TIN
    27 3 LONDON, Not 12 Cash Buyers €625; Seilers £6*7 Vfe; Forward Buyers £614; Sellers £615; Settlement £627' 2 (up £6Vfe). Turnover a.m. 10 tons; p.m. 45.
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    LONBCK RUBBER
    29 3 LONDON. Nov 12— Spot 16««d.. Der. 16'sd., Jan-Mar. 16* id.. AprJune 16 T »d.. July-Sept. 17d.. Nov. c.if. l6'-d., Dec. cif. l«-\d.. Jan. elf. 16-Sd. Tone: Easier
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    Adam and Eve —1953 version
    73 3 Adam and Eve 1953 version BRISTOL Thurs. -A butcher's assistant who took his 17--year-old girl friend away aftei her mother had stopped theii engagement, got her to live with him by telling her that Adam and Eve were not married. This was stated in court here when John Clifford Poulson.
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    S.E. Asia Rotarians to meet in Singapore
    148 4 ROTARIANS from various places in South-East Asia, including Saigon, Bangkok, Kuchmg and the main town.s in the Federation, will be in Singapore for the 1953 Rotary district conference on Nov. 28 and 29. Rotarian A. W. Frisby. District Governor and a former Director
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    They seek staff talks
    94 4 The service conditions of 350 continuation school teachers in Singapore wiU soon be brought to the notice of- the Colony's education authorities. The general secretary of the Singapore Continuation School Teachers Union, Mr. E. S. Moorthy. told the Straits Times yesterday that he had asked the
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    Tensing's story
    38 4 Sherpa Tensing, conqueror with Sir Edmund Hillary of Mount Everest, will write his autobiography, which is to be published by the London firm Of Harraps. The book is expected to be out in autumn next year.
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    British university experts are expected here soon
    258 4 British university experts are expected here soon THE three-man committee of experts from Britain, who will inquire into the future needs of university medical education, is expected to arrive in Singapore on Nov 24, said Dr. D. W. G. Faris, Dean of the Medical Faculty at the University of Malaya,
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    BUS PLUNGES INTO CANAL
    83 4 THIS BI S BELONGING to the Green Uus Company, Sinsapore, plunged into the Bukit Timah Canal near the seventh mile Bukit Tim.ih Road early yesterday. The driver. Tan Kirn Meow, was injured and admitted to th e General Hospital with burns on both hands. There were
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    BUILD NEW V.M.C.A. SOON PLEA
    199 4 BUILD NEW V.M.C.A. SOON PLEA TH E SINGAPORE Chinese YMCA's new million-dol-lar building must be built soon. Mr. Homer Cheng, the president, said last night. He told a Flag Day Committee meeting: "Dozens of young men are caught by the police for Rambling and being members of secret societies and
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    Firm owes $121,093
    79 4 Teo Hwee Guat, the sole owner of Chop Chong Bee. a firm of Iron dealers, told the Singapore High Court yesterday that the business, started by his father 40 years ago, now owed $121,093. Teo said this at his public examination which was taken before Mr. Justice
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    TEA PARTY AT CITY HALL
    50 4 Singapore City Councillors yesterday met 10 visiting Indian businessmen who are in the Colony on a goodwill mission. The visitors were guests at a party at the City Hall. Mr. M. Gopala Menon. the representative of the Government of India In Singapore, was also present.
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    More people get aid
    66 4 More and more people are getting help from the Singapore Social Welfare Department. Last month, a record of 770 new cases were registered This is 110 more than the September fieure. During October, the Social Welfare Department paid $236,214 to 8.045 people This includes $66,478 paid
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    CHILD HIT BY TAXI DIED
    73 4 Mr. Glam Chong Him:. Singapore Assistant Coroner, yesterday recorded a misadventure verdict at the Inquest on four-year-old Maimon blnte Japri, who was knocked down by a taxi at the Bth milestone Yio Chu Kang Road on Sept 17. Maimon died 'n hospital the next day.
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    Higher water charges
    59 4 The Public Utilities and Finance committees of the Singapore City Council have decided to increase water charges for coffee shops, hotels and boarding houses from $110 to $1.30 per thousand gallons from January next. The decision was made at a joint committee meeting early this week which
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    Three more members in Rendel committee
    110 4 Three more members in Rendel committee rREE additional members to the committee set up by the Rendel constitutional Commission to consider the functions and powers of the local government authorities in Singapore, were announced by the Government last night. They are the chairman of the Rural Board, Mr H J.
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    THESE 3 HELPED FOUNDNEWCHINA
    143 4 IN THE HALL of the Inited Chinese Library in Armenian Street, Singapore, yesterday morning, three men bowed before the portrait of Dr. Sun Vat Sen. father of the RemibUc of China. And as they dirt so. they remembered how they helped Dr. Sun plan in the
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    VEGETABLE PRICES IN SINGAPORE
    127 4 Retail prices in cents per kati of vegetables at four Singapore markets yesterday were: Hrarn turn- Mmon Rd. horoujh Rd X.X Celery 100 110 110 100 Chye Mm 30 35 30 35 Kang kong 25 30 10 25 Lettuce 70 80 60 70 Peh chve 50
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    PROPHET'S BIRTHDAY
    63 4 The Muslim Missionary Society of Singapore will cele- brate Prophet Mohammed's 1373 rd birthday on Nov. 18 and 22. There will be a recitation of the Koran by Mr. K Abdul Kadir Awang at the Sultan Mosque on Nov. 18 at 8 30 p.m A procession from Kandahar
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    POOL FOR K.L. THEIR PLEDGE
    121 4 POOL FOR K.L. THEIR PLEDGE KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. THE UMNO-MCA Alliance today pledged that it would fight for a municipal swimming pool for Kuala Lumpur It said this in its manifesto for the municipal elections on Dec. 5, in which it is to contest the two seats falling vacant in
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    Rotary gives scholarship
    58 4 Nine people have applied *o the Singapore Rotary Club for a fellowship to be awarded by Rotary International The successful candidate will study for a year overseas. Applicants must have quality of leadership and an aptitude ft r service. By granting this fellowship Rotary International hopes to
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    STABBED
    21 4 A coffee stallholder. Hoonu Mah Tian. was stabbed during a quarrel in Sungei Road. Singapore, yesterday and taken to hospital.
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    PERAK RAILWAY DAMAGED
    100 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. rE crew of an armoured trolley last night found a length of railway line removpd from the Klah— Trolak section, near Slim River in Perak The trolley replaced the line Hie track was repaired and the line cleared in less than two hours. It
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      197 4 15 HOURS WITHOUT FOOD f That's how long lots of people go without proper nourishment for their systems! TJligurk rr OUT. Let's say you have dinner at around 8 J^ o'clock tonight. Tomorrow morning for breakfast, all you have is a hasty cup of tea or coffee, and your ne>
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      269 4 SINGAPORE DIARY Malayan Christian (ounril: Dls- Raring Champ* (rolour) —a I ciisslon meeting on family life and Collyer Quay. 1 15 p.m. marriage problems In the Library Study <iroup Movement: Lecture Room. St Andrew* Cathedral. 8 courses at British Council Stamford pm. Leader: Dr. Irma Hlghbaugh. Road— English Literature 6
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    Council may cut down on long leave
    194 5 Council may cut down on long leave riE Finance and General Purposes (Staff) Committee of the Singapore City Council is considering a move to cut down senior officers' long leave. One suggestion before the committee is that the local senior officers now entitled from six to eight months' leave every
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    Air chief calls at jungle fort
    91 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. AIR Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Sanders, Commandant Designate of the Imperial Defence College, London, yesterday went by helicopter to visit a jungle fort in Pahang. When he was there a "voice" aircraft broadcast a message in Semelai, the aboriginal lan- guage.
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    Hewants Asiansin top jobs
    187 5 PENANG, Thurs. ABOUT 20 per cent of the 400 expatriate officers serving in Malaya at present are not qualified for the posts they hold. Mr. G. Leo, president of the Malayan Technical Services Union, claimed today. Mr. Leo urged a progressive system of promotion for drservlng
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    Shoe firm wins claim
    51 5 The acting Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Brown, in the Singapore High Court yesterday gavp judgment for the Zlin Shoe Co., Ltd., in the sum of $8,316 in a claim against the Universal Service Agency. The money was claimed as being the balance of payment for goods
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    Home-made cakes at charity drive
    55 5 The women's sub-committee of the Australian and New Zealand Association, Singapore, will hold their annual charity drive on Dec. 4. Dolls, novelties, home-made cakes, pickles, preserves and Christmas puddings will be on sale in Tomlinson Hall. Presbyterian Church, from 10 a.m. Proceeds will go to
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    83 bankrupt this year
    45 5 There were 83 bankruptcies in Singapore during the first eight months of this year. Mr W. G. Alcock. Official Assignee, told the Straits Times yesterday. Their total debts were about $2,000,000. In 1952, there were 103 banksKSoo with debts f ver
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    NEW TYPE EXAMS BEING TRIED
    137 5 PENANG, Thursday. riH. Education Department here is experimenting 1 with a new type of tests which may lead to a centralised examination for pupils of all local English schools. The first experimental test in English and arithmeticwill be held when end-of-term exams are finished. It
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    To appeal— $8,000 bail
    66 5 KUANTAN, Thurs.— A prominent Indian merchant and store manager, R. Veerappan, found guilty here today on three charges of misaopropriatinp; a total of $13,600. was sent to prison f or two years on each charge. The sentences on the first two charges are to run consecutively
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    5 DETAINED AFTER RAIDS
    70 5 As a result of information, Singapore Social Welfare officers made 64 raids on Colony hotels and brothels last month Five young girls were detained. The department's monthly report, issued yesterday, says that officers kept 25 places, suspected of being used for immoral purposes, under observation. A
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    Printing union plans levy
    39 5 The Singapore Printing Employees' Union is considering a levy of $5 per member to raise funds. A resolution urging the levy will '?e considered at an extraordh ary general meeting of the union on Sunday.
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    To train at the Yard
    174 5 FOUR Singapore Police officers have been picked for an intensive six -month training course at Scotland Yard. They leave in January by air to Britain. The Assistant Commissioner or Police, Mr. R. W. Calderwood, told the Straits Times that the officers are Mr. Cheam Kirn
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    Family lost $1,000 gems
    49 5 f A Ceylonese family returnling to their house at Llm Ah Pin Road, off the 6' 2 milestone, Upper Serangoon Road, yesterday evening found that the locked front doo r had been tampered with. They later found more than $1,000 worth of jewellery missing, i
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    200 want-to learn
    24 5 About 200 Singapore taxi drivers will attend the adult education classes at the Singapore Hire Car Association premises in Beach Road.
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    Eighty flee from shophouse fire
    117 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. rnGHTY people fled to safety early today from. a shophouse in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, crowded Chinatown when fire gutted the front of the building Crowds of early morning workers gathered in Petaling Street to watch two firebrigades fight the blaze.
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    MASKED ROBBER HOLDS UP FAMILY
    89 5 MASKED ROBBER HOLDS UP FAMILY BUKIT Ml KTX.I \M Thurs. A CHINESE family was held up by an armed highway robber early this morning. Police set up road blocks immediately but no arrest was made. The victims a man and three women had their car stopped by a masked man
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    Warning for T.B. patients
    76 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thur.« Tuberculosis victims should not go to Malacca to try and get admission to the hospital there until arrangements hay.: been completed, the acting Director of Medical Services, Federation, said today. Patients could not be admitted, he said, if there was no room. They
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    Johore visitor rescued
    31 5 Chee Hal Seng, 38, from Segamat, Johore, was rescued from drowning in the Singapore River yesterday morning. He was pulled out of the wafer by a sampan man.
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    Thief took beer, eggs
    102 5 A BURGLAR broke into a shop in Henderson Road. Singapore, on Wednesday night and stole 36 bottles of beer, 3A eggs, 20 bars of soap, 17 katls of rice, 3* tins of sardines, 340 packets of cigarettes and $30 from the till while the shopkeeper. Tan
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    Af KNOWI.EDT.MENT
    42 6 20 Horrf« ll* (minimum) MRS. ANNE BENJAMIN, widow Of thr late Mr. K.K. Benjamin, thanks all friends for their kind help in her sad bereavement, »hrlr expression of sympathy In messages and flowers and for their attendance at the funeral.
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    128 6 2n Worit til) (minimum) COME to O.E.C. Cookery Demonstrations 13, Battery Rd.. every Wednesday and Saturday at 10.30 a.m. ICE AT %\2 per ton. A saving of $10 on every ton you um>. Ring Bill Manning about, it. 419, Rlvei Valley Ro:iri. Tele. *****. "MARJOHIE" Ladles hairdresser of 260
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    LOST
    36 6 2n Wnril, $5 (Mirn.)— Fax j» rl>. rxlrm. LOST Orel, .rd Rond Market Bth November ladles cold Rolrx IIM watrh with strap finder will be rewarded plra-«» contact Telephone *****. 1 Kheam Hock Road, Singapore.
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      University Policy
      820 6 The memorandum of the Vice-Chancellor and administrative officers of the University of Malaya on the proposed moving of the University to the site acquired in Johore Bahru plainly amounts to a rejection of the scheme. It is not, of course, an expression of University policy, and it does
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      Trade with China
      265 6 Reports of Indonesia's big rubber deal with Communist China are reduced to their proper proportions with the statement by Peking's Ambassador that China would like to buy from 2,000 to 3,000 tons a month. The market will take this in its stride, disappointed no doubt that China's
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      A New President
      199 6 The young Philippines Republic is living in critical times, so critical that its new President, Ramon Magsaysay will need all the courage, resource and determination that made him a conspicuously successful Secretary of Defence. He will be encouraged, however, by the landslide that has sent him to
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    SUDAN IN MELTING POT
    814 6  -  JOHN BUTLER By UNDER the agreement signed between their Joint rulers, Egypt and Britain, the Sudanese are now holding elections for their country's first "All-Sudanese Parliament." After three years of self-government they will have the right to decide their own future probably through an internationally supervised
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      TOO NEAR SCHOOL'
      78 6 pLANR for a new cinema at Jalan Sayang arc still under consideration by Muar Town Council. I would like to express my agreement with Councillor Abdul Jabbar uin Abdul Maiid. who strongly opposed the proposal on the grounds of the proximity of the proposed hall to Chong
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      STOWED AWAY
      45 6 I SUGGEST that we should forget about the university at present; and devote that money plus the $230 million that the Government has stowed away somewhere to rebuild the slums. That. I think, would pay the highest and quickest dividends. A ROOMER. Singapore.
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      Loneliest road
      92 6 I FAIRLY often have to travel over the Tapah-Came-ron Highlands road. From the 6th nvile after leaving Tapah, up to Ringlet, a distance of about 24 miles, one cannot help feeling this must be the loneliest stretch of road in Malaya, steep and twisty, with interminable jungle At
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    Every modern device for TB patients
    888 6 By LT.-COL. S. MacKENZIE. O. C. the British Military Hospital, kinr.irn. who is on the organising committee of the FederationTß hospital VfODERN thought on the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis has moved a long way from the old idea that the disease is a plague
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    On the
    484 6 Not so belated BELATED, says a correspond pnt about my last week I remarks on the difficulty that. S.A.T.A. is finding in persuading local employers that therr is no danger of infecting other workers if they employ a man who has been cured properly of his disease at
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      62 6 X^ READER'S Digest The editors select from among hundreds of books and articles, those which hold the greatest interest. They condense and strip them of their trimmings that serve only to obscure the essential. The resulting pages make up the interesting compact magazine The Reader's Digest which millions find invaluable.
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    Two robberies: Police hold 5 after searches
    396 7 Two robberies: Police hold 5 after searches CINCiAPORE Police yesterday afternoon deploy ed 120 men from the rank and file in a search round Chanjfi Road near the prison for three men who had held up and robbed a cigarette distributor's van. Soon after the hunt started the police arrested
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    SKIPPER'S CARGO OF ICECREAM
    180 7 ABOUT once a month, a Scottish ship captain treats all the youngsters at the British Red Cross Home for Crippled Children at Changi to ice cream. Mr. Alan Oeddes. hew director of the Singapore branch of the British Red Cross Sdciety, told the story of the
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    Gaoled on cheque charge
    103 7 A merchant. D. M Abdul Wahab, was yesterday sent to gaol for eight months when ne pleaded guilty to using a forged cheque as genuine, at an Upper Pickering Street shop between August and September. Wahab admitted that he used the cheque amounting to $510 which
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    VARSITY LOSE IN DEBATE
    67 7 Thp motion "In Malaya, politics follow personalities instead of policies" carried the day in last nights debate between the East-West Society. Singapore, and the Debating Society of the University of Malaya. The proposers were Messrs. S. R Nathan. Hashim Sani and P. K. Hernon and the
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    Negligent bus driver fined
    54 7 Goh Tian Seng, a Singapore Traction Company bus driver. was fined $25 yesterday in the Singaporo First Traffic Court, for driving a bus negligently along North Bridge Road on Sept. 20 Goh pulled out suddenly into the road from a bus-stop causing a vehicle coming from
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    15th crime gets him 15 months' gaol
    124 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. rpAN AH HUI, 43, with 14 A previous convictions, the first in 1926, was sentenced by Mr. N. L. Cohen, president. Sessions Court, today to 15 months' gaol for cheating Lin See Tay, a cafe keeper, of $23 Tan went
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    82 7 ABOI'T 300 guests, including: the Commissioner-General, .Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, attended a cocktail party given by the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce in honour of the Indian trade and industrial delegation at the Sea View Hotel last night. Mr. R. Jumahhoy, the president (second from left) is introducing the delegation
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    50 girls in beauty semi-final
    256 7 50 girls in beauty semi-final OF 50 entrants from Singapore and the Federation who will take part in a semifinals contest at Raffles Hotel on Monday at 6.30 p. in., six finalists Will he chosen to compete with three previous winners for the •Miss Max Factor. Malaya." title. The three
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    150 want to join the Spore police
    108 7 150 want to join the Spore police NEARLY ISO boys from all] over Malaya have ipplior) i to join tho Sincaporr Pn]irr Force And fell <v thrm want' to bernmp inspectors, a Pnlirn spokesman told the Stn its Times yesterday. "This very good response tollowed an announcement in the straits
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    'Birthday' game leads to court
    61 7 'Birthday' game leads to court 1 CHARGED with permitting his house to be used as a common gaming house, Chunn Liang Cheng told the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday: "It was my father's birthday." He was allowed $500 bail and hearing was adjourned until Dec. 19. Chung's 12 guests on
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    Officer on hurt charge
    74 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs— Followinp a motor accident on Auk. 12 on the Batu Pahat Ayer Hitam road, Basil Gray, Johorc Btate Inlormation Officer, was rharsed in the Police court today with causing grievous hurt by a rash or negligent act. The prosecution applied for the case
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    $100 THEFT%
    41 7 $100 THEFT A ynunß Malay woman. Putch binte Daud, had a pair of earrings and two gold bracelets, valued at about $100. and cash stolen from her handbag while she was sleeping in a friend's house in Alexandra Road, Singapore, yesterday.
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    Housewife is fined 10 cents & costs
    110 7 Housewife is fined 10 cents costs MRS. Stella Manyam, was fined ten cents with costs when she pleaded guilty in Singapore City Police Court yesterday to erecting 42 brick tanks on a vacant lot in Somerset Road without the approval of the City Council. When the case came up for
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    $1,300,000 SEWERS CONTRACT
    144 7 $1,300,000 SEWERS CONTRACT HUME Industries (Far East) Ltd., have obtained a $1,300,000 contract to supply reinforced concrete mains for the Kuala Lumpur sewerage scheme. Mr. M. R. Swain, chairman of the firm, said yesterday that the whole of the mains for the scheme would be supplied by his company. Work
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    Going to U.S.
    33 7 A Singapore journalist, Mr. Ivor V. Kraal, has been awarded a grant to visit the Unites States for four months as a guest-employee of the GlobeDemocrat in St. Louis, Missouri.
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    SCOUTS SACRIFICE POCKET-MONEY
    94 7 ¥N Singapore t"day, 3,500 Scouts, Rovers and Wolf Cubs will observe Sacrifice Day. They will donate their porkpt -money and pay from odd-jobs to a fund which will go towards the development of a 27-acre camp-site at Jurong. The $32,000 Bcout camps will be the biggest in
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    Star seeks a leading lad?
    92 7 FINDING a leading lady can be strenuous but it can als.i be pleasant if the candidates are on hand for personal selection, according to Raden Mocktor, Indonesian screen star who flew in from Jakarta on Wednesday. He is shown in the Cathay restaurant yesterday with
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    Education rate 'bound to come'
    345 7 PROPOSAL WELCOMED Xl ALA LUMPUR. Thursday. L'Di CATION heads in Kuala Lumpur today welcomed the Federal Finance Committee's proposal for an education rate as a means of meeting rising educational costs. I They recalled, however, that such a rate had previously been proposed by the
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    Ex-Malayan I guerilla
    93 7 Ex-Malayan I guerilla MR. Peter Kite (above) is a sales executive of Penguin Rooks in Britain, but he is not an ordinary one. He was a guerilla in Malaya during the war. .Mr. Kite's first landing in Malaya was an unpleasant one. he recalled yesterday. Up had to hale out
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    New officials
    42 7 Mr. Cheong Koon Hong has been elected patron of the United Confederate Funeral Association for 1953-54. Other officials are: presidrnt. Dr. Chia Keng Ho: vice-presidents, Messrs. Tay Chim Bong. Lim Teck Whye. Tan Kirn Teck: secretary, Mr Khoo Kirn Chwee,
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    'WORK PARTY A FARCE'
    288 7 'WORK PARTY A FARCE' THE 13-page annual rrport of the Federation of Services Union, which represents 30.000 employres in Singapore, criticises the 'good employer" policy of the Army. Navy and Air Force authorities as being conflicting. The report draws attention to announcements by the Services that they would follow the
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    POLICE CPL. IS GAOLED
    104 7 Abdul Karim, a police corporal, was in the Singapore Fir.st Traffic Court yesterday sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment and disqualified from driving all types of vehicles for twelve months. He was convicted driving a car while under the influence of drink to such an extent
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    Retires after 31 years
    41 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs li<rhe Haron bin Hassan. Assistant Superintendent of Police, has retired after 31 years' service He joined the Johore Pollen Force when it was a separate 1 unit from the other police forces in Malaya.
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      156 7 THE WEATHER Minimum temperature (7.30 p.m. on Nov. 11 to 7.30 a.m. on Nov. 12): Singapore 74 degrees, Penang 74. Kota Bahru 75, Kuala Lumpur 74, Ipoh 73. Kuantan 70. Maximum temperature (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Nov. 12): Singapore 87. Penang 88, Kota Bahru 85, Kuala Lumpur 89,
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      They just miss being memorable
      712 8  - They just miss being memorable 'Gvneriorv' and m Thv Sea Around Us* -r ENEVIEVE" is a good nim. It just misses being a memorable film for the want of more imaginative direction and a producer of greater subtlety The French or the Italians would have made it a masterpiece, had
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      WORLD OF THE THEATRE
      651 8  -  VIC MAC BRITAIN'S greatest pianist. Solomon, gives a concert in Singapore on Sunday, November 29 His programme will include sonatas by Mozart and Brahms. Schumann* "Scenes From Childhood and two Chopin pieces. Solomon is 51 and at the height of his powers. He Is a Cockney—
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      Films to nt c • • •
      114 8 Films to nt c CAROLINE (HUM! I Love and action gaily coloured I against a convincing bark- ground of North Italy In the j tumultuous years between the fall of revolutionary France i E and the coming of Napoleon's Empire. COME BACK. LITTLE I SHEHA. Frustrated bHngs I over come
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      255 8 C\ CATHAY ORGANISATION ftl 4^ r ATTgACTIONS <^p FROM _cLI SHAKESPEARE'S IMMORTAL PLAY IN A NEW ERA... ON THE PANORAMIC SCREEN! fimillfllill M M UIUIiIMUU JMLWS CA£SM MARLON BRANDO JAMES MASON JOHN GIELGUD LOUIS CALHERN EDMOND O'BRIEN GREER GARSON IiiIUIDEBORAH KERRIIiHIi At PORT I* MIDNIGHT \m BLAZING SCREAMING thi tide
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    Failing sight gave fame to wild art student
    1951 9 Failing sight gave fame to wild art student StraitS TilTIOS DAILY F©3tlir©: Oeogra^y%^i i^phrar^n.^Uster. —TOMORROW—, The first Western settlement in Malaya Malacca Boulogne. In 1851 they returned to London. George was sent to study chemistry at London University College, but spent most of his time furtively sketching his tutors and
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      175 9 OKMINCi TO-DAY 3 shows Mi a m.i.i p.m. Distributed by Shaw Rro*. A Dazzling, i oloui f»l Story JOSi: IIIIKIK •\>HM lIN HOI UWr with Zsa 7.sa Su7anne <;arok n.o\ In Technicolor BY HKAVY PI BI.IC DKMAND! Daily: I.H flt f ,ll pm. South -Kast Asia Film Co's "JHANJAR" atau
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      385 9 'THE AH ABM A■% XMGHTS I uHMling his fallitr'* srxnid daiurioiis ililunuli I In- Sultan M-emtd .\fimrd hinisrli, on brarlnf Ihe rcqiicil, ft im I- \hnn il rode bark to giutt-fiil Im the ilask u( m.il.i rrqiK-st. thought Ilir task im tin- <it> .< i.m |i.< ni.rt by two of
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      TIN SHARES EASE:V SMALL TURNOVER
      436 10 TIN SHARES EASE: V SMALL TURNOVER TIN RISES, RUBBER STEADY F[E Singapore share market continued quiet yesterday when the volume of turnover in all sections was small. Tin shares were inclined to ease, industrials were steady and rubber shares were almost neglected. Tin Jumped $1.75 to $310. 87^ a picul
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      TIN PRICE
      19 10 The price of tin in Sineapore yesterday was declared at s:< 10.87' a picul, up $1 75.
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      Australian stocks
      210 10 MELBOURNE. Thurs SHARE trading covered wide rancr of investments i the Stork Exchange today, but t le volume of business was light. Front rank stocks moved narrowly. The feature of the mining section was a further rise in Hill 50 iWrsl Australia i Gold shares and a small
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      Produce prices
      74 10 Sineapore Chinese Produce K\rhange: Noon prices per pirul were Copra, steady: November $37 buyers. $37-, .sellers; December $37-, buyers. $37", idlers Coconut oil: steady: Shi ,ollrr<Pepner: quiet, no business reportici; unchanged: Muntok white <33S &'ira\\;i< $330. Lampong blark $20n I.emls and Peal. Closing pprn r r? were- Copra:
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      Latex shipments
      50 10 Shipments nf prrpared latrx from Malaya in October totalled 5.307 tons, of which I.sfifi tons wont to the United States 1.254 tons to the United Kingdom. 694 tons to France. 4W tons to Italy. 442 tons to Germany. 214 tons to Canada and smaJlor quantities to other countries
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      RUBBER PRICES
      167 10 November first grade closed en a leatureless Singapore rubber market yesterday at 56 cents a pound, unchanged on Wednesday's close. The closing tone was steady quiet. Closing prices were unchanged on Wednesday. Business was done in November during the day between 553 4 and 56 cents with little
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      Exchange rates
      67 10 THE Malayan Exchange Bank.s Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday: Selling. T.T. or OD ready. I francs 141%. Holland guilders. 131 On the free exchange marke' l.i Hon-i Koiig yesierdav the U.S. j dollar was quoted at 5.905 f( r ca«h and 5
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      Soap production <
      53 10 Soap production &lt; PRODUCTION of soap in Malaya x in September totalled 4n..=04 cwt. m.ikitie Jhe nine months' production 335.421 cwt. Ssiles of lociilly manufactured soap In Malaya in September was 31.255 rwt. making 270.454 rwt. for the nine months of this year. Slocks of soap at the end of
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      I .S. Rubber dividend
      44 10 NEW YORK. Thurs Th« B«&gt;.ird n( United Sates Ruhb^: Company yesterday declared i divi.lend of 50 rents a share fvr the common stock, making $2 to date for this year, payable r&gt;n December 12 to holders rCfMcrad on November 2n.
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      151 10 CHIPS lying alongside the Slnca- pore H:: i hour Board wharves or expected today are 0. Vivaldi 1-2. Orestes 4-S Rfat Arc-turns C.P.. Peleus 6-7. Benlomon4 8-9. Riouw 11, Corilla 13-14. PrrM-d-nt Van Buren 15-16. Awata Mnni 18. Tnmi.i-ima Maru 19-20. Sedlli N. Wall 4. Pertama N. Wall
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      845 10 NOTICES THE BANKRUPTCY ORDINANCE (Chapter 45) In thr High Court of the Colony of Singapore ISLAND OF SINGAPORE. In Bankruptcy No. 21z of 1953. Re: Thong Bee to Co. The Official Assignee Invites offers for the purchase nf an open shed located at Telnk Ayer S reet on Crown Land
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      779 10 NOTICES SIME, DARBY CO., LTD, Incorporated in Singapore; NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVKN that at the Annual General Me&lt;*?ing of the Company to be held on Trlriay, 27th November, 1953 at 12 noon, the Directors will rccom mend payment of a Final Dividend of 5 r r less Income Tax at
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      439 10 NOTICES NANYANG STRUCTURAL COMPANY LIMITED It is herrby notified that as from I Ist November, 1953 Mr. Chow You I Lee a!«o known as Mr. Y. L. Chow Is no longer a director of thia company or otherwise connected with it. Secretary: YANG TAI TAO. THE BANKRUPTCY ORDINANCE (Chapter 45)
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      853 10 TENDERS TENDERS will be received At Th« Colonial Secretary's Office. Singapore, up to noon on the Ist December. 1953, for the nupply oi j uncooked rations for the Ourk.ht» I contingent of the Singapore Police Force for the period from Ist Ja- nuary to 30th June, 1954. Tender forms and
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    THE WORLD BUSINEES
    412 12 COMMENT in one section of the Singapore business world on the United Nations' Tin Conference which opens In Geneva on Monday: "Let us hope that the final bulletin issued will be of a cadibre far removed from that of the recently published discouraging communique of the Rubber
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    'WAKE UP'—OR YOU LOSE MALAYAN MARKET
    330 12 'WAKE UP'— OR YOU LOSE MALAYAN MARKET Indian manufacturers warnea: THE Indian Chamber of Commerce in Singapore lias urged manufacturers in India to "streamline" their production, export and marketing organisations if thev want to hold their Malayan market. This warning has been given to the president and members of the
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    Malaya prepares for peace in the jungle
    295 12 ALTHOUGH armed guards still watch for Communist Terrorists, Malayan industry is steadily recovering from the rigours of the Emergency as valuable estates and plantations are being reclaimed for production. The accompanying photograph, taken on the; Roscote Estate, in South Johore, has captured this
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    Ceylon's sheet rubber exports were lower
    61 12 Ceylon's sheet rubber exports were lower CHILE was again the main buyer of Ceylon's exported sheet rubber in September, according to reports from Colombo. Total exports were 5.663.030 pounds of which Chile took 5.511.500 pounds. Canada was the main Commonwealth buyer with 67.500 pounds. August shipments from Ceylon were 16,874,238
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    £multi-million Burma project post for Colony businessman
    266 12 £multi-million Burma project post for Colony businessman A SINGAPORE businessman has been appointed general manager of the multi-million pound pharmaceutical industry project to be set up in Burma. He is Mr. R W. Oxtoby who has been manager of Evans Medical Supplies Singapore for the past two years. HLs appointment
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      U.S. FOREIGN AID POST-WAR RECORD
      113 12 UNITED States foreign aid for the 1953 fiscal year ended last June 30 was U557,030 million, the highest since the end of the war, the U.S. Commerce Department reported in Washington. Reverse grants and repayment of credits to the United States Government reduced the not
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      RECORD WORLD SUGAR OUTPUT
      146 12 RECORD WORLD SUGAR OUTPUT WORLD sugar production in the 1953-54 season Ls expected to be an all-time record, reports Czarnikov Ltd., in London. The crop Is estimated at 38.2 million tons. The 1952-53 crop was 35.7 million tons. This season's tonnage ls estimated at more than one million tons above
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    100 radio dealers for Colony convention
    137 12 100 radio dealers for Colony convention AfORE than 100 radio and radiogram dealers from Malaya, Borneo and southern Siam are expected to attend a Radio Dealers' Convention to be held in Singapore on Monday. Organised by William Jacks and Co (Malaya) Ltd., as agents or Philips radio players in these
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    Singapore charges are called "absurd'
    186 12 From a Special Correspondent INDONESIAN rubber e&perts describe as "absurd" the recent accusations by Singapore rubber circles that inducements given to some Indonesian exporters were to blame for recent selling in New York. Jakarta rubber traders fori the best which can be expected from the
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    Eating more biscuits means higher living standards
    208 12 Eating more biscuits means higher living standards -SAYS VISITING BUSINESSMAN INCREASED imports of British biscuits into Malaya 1 many times the pre-war figure are an indication of a greater spending power and increased standards of living. This Is the opinion of Col. H. Eaton Hart, a director of Peek, Frean
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    SAIGON BRAN LOOKS SET FOR A DOUBLE
    607 13  -  EPSOM JEEP By Gondolino also impresses KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. CAIGON BRAN, a convincing all-the-way winner last Saturday, galloped in attractive manner on the training track here this morning. With George West astride, this rapidly improving three-year-old skipped over three furlongs in 37 2/5
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    38 13 GLAZZARD, HuddersAeld centre forward (striped jersey) slams in the first goal past Charlton goalkeeper Sam Hart ram (right) after getting the better of a tackle by centre half Ufton during a first division, game on Saturday— Reuter photo.
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    Clayton to meet Sammy McCarthy
    51 13 LONDON. Thurs Ronnie Clayton. British featherweight champion, has signed to defend his title against Sammy McCarthy at Harringay Arena on Feb. 16. Clayton has been British champion for more than five years. He has been outpointed by McCarthy over 10 rounds In a non-title bout—
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    U.K. SOCCER
    29 13 LONDON, Thurs— Results of friendly football matches played under 'floodlights last night were: Southampton 6 South African touring team 2: Coventry City 2 East Fife 2.— Reuter.
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    8.8.8.C. ORDERS TURPIN INQUIRY
    83 13 LONDON. Thorn. RANDOLPH TURPIN. British middleweight champion, is to appear before the stewards of the British Boxing Board of Control on Dec 9 to explain his traininc methods in New York before his world title fight with Carl "Bobo" Olson last month. Olson beat Turpin on
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    Carruthers is title fight favourite
    177 13 Carruthers is title fight favourite SYDNEY. Thurs MOST Australian boxing writers today favoured Jimmy Carruthers. Australian world bantamweight champion, to retain his title here tomorrow night against the American challenger, Henry Pappy i Gault. Both men have completed their training and are now relaxing until the weigh-in at noon tomorrow.
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    Headley to play again
    118 13 KINGSTON .Jamaica), Thurs. GEORGE HEADLEY, the 44--year-old West Indies Test cricketer now living in England, has accepted an undertaking by the Jamaica selectors that he would be considered for selection if he proved fit and capable of sustaining good condition. He has replied accepting the terms
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    BIG BETS ON SUMMER RAIN
    77 13 LONDON. Thurs— Lord Milford's Summer Rain, last year's I winner, was the best backed horse at last night's Victoria Club call-over on Saturday's Manchester November Handicap. Summer Rain was supported to win £15,000. Others in demand were Calcium, backed to win £8.000. and Bondage, laid
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    LAST DAY'S WEIGHTS
    388 13 WT EIGHTS '.or fttturday, last day of the ."-UTitnr Turf Club's November meeting: CL. 5, DIV. I— 9F. Salvador 9 01 French Band 8.12 Jimson 8.19 Jimmy Boy II 8.07 Film Fan 8.06 The Wasp 9.05 Snowgrass 8.15 Tail Light "1 lie-Win 8.03 Palitoy 8.03 Pasamora 8.0?
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    Park II and Torpedo can be followed
    325 13 PARK II (late Red Sea) made an impressive debut when he finished second to Ginseng over six furlongs on Wednesday. This three-year-old by Seven Seas handled the heavy track admirably and across the line he was going every bit as well as Ginseng.
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    WORDEN II WINS BIG U.S. RACE
    183 13 BALTIMORE, Thurs. RALPH B STRASSBUROERS Worden 11, trained in France, won the $85,000 Washington international race over one mile four furlongs yesterday. Second in the field of ten runners from seven nations was Iceberg 11. bred In Chile and owned by W. A. Hanger
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    England qualify for World Cup finals
    251 13 England qualify for World Cup finals LIVERPOOL. Thurs. ENGLAND defeated Ireland by three goals to one in an international soccer match at the Everton F. C. ground yesterday before 70,000 fans and qualified for the finals of the World Cup series in Switzerland next June. The two countries who finish
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    OLYMPIC FINANCE
    100 13 MELBOURNE, Thurs. MR. EDGAR TANNER, secretary of the Australian Olympic Organising Committee, said tonight it had cost Australia £750 for each competitor sent to the Olympic Games in Helsinki last year. He was commenting on overseas discussions about the cost of sending competitors to the 1956 Games in
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    Peng Soon's action hasty, unorthodox -BAM chief
    595 14  - Peng Soon's action hasty, unorthodox -BAM chief GUNN CHIT THYE By PENANG, Thursday. THE PRESIDENT of the Badminton Association of Malaya, Mr. Heah Joo Seane, said today he would be calling an early meeting of the standing committee to consider possible action against Wong Peng Soon and other members of
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    30 14 TRAINER J. R. RODGERS leads in Dynasty (Hudson) ftrr Dynasty had won Rare One at Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. This was Dynasty's first win in 20 starts. Straits Times picture.
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    RED BOUQUET FOR STANLEY MATTHEWS
    166 14 RED BOUQUET FOR STANLEY MATTHEWS LONDON, Thurs. SERGEI Savin, a referee and vice-president of the International Football Association, speaking on Moscow rnrlin last night, praised ■the seemingly tireless energy. skill and tactical mastery of that most popular footballer, Stanley Matthews." Mr. Savin, who visited Britain several weeks ago for the
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    Colony Asian XV v S'gor All Blues
    272 14 Stnuapore Asians to meet Selaneor All Blues team in the opening match of the southern cone of the All Blues rugger competition to be played at the Police Trainlne School. Otnzapore. tomorrow will be: Yap Boon Kenc fcapt&gt;: Robert Low. Kassirp Hussein. Ronald
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    N.Z. 'KEEPER' IS INJURED
    96 14 BLOEMFORTEIN. Thurs —Frank Mooney. the New Zealand wicket-keeper-batsman, has chipped a bone in the third finger of his right hand and another wicketkeeper may have lo be flown out to the touring side. Mooney has proved one of the I most dependable batsmen in the. New
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    OXFORD TACTICS UPSET TOURISTS
    171 14 OXFORD. Thurs. rE New Zealand All Blacks touring team defeated Oxford University by 14 points (goal, penalty goal, two tries) to five points (goal) yesterday but it was their most unimpressive performance so far. They seemed confused and thrown out of their stride by the speed
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    Seletar 'A' get to Junior Cup final
    216 14 p A.F. (Seletar) "A" outplayed Haikowyu S.C. and won by six *oals to nil in a S.A.F.A. junior cup semi-final at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. On this form, the airmen will provide tough opposition for Singapore Corinthians when they clash in the final
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    Carter k.o's Savoie to retain title Singapore go into training
    192 14 Carter k.o's Savoie to retain title Singapore go into training SINGAPORE'S state hockey candldatrs will undergo intensive training and tenmbuilriing in the next fortnight in oreparaton for the Malayan hockey tournament, in which thr Colony v/ill be engaged in the South Section matches against Negri Semiblan. Malacca and Johore at
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    Swee Toh wins Mersing 'open'
    108 14 MERSING. Thurs.— Th* resul's in the Mersinjs Rifle Association annual championship shoot held recent ly: Class \V: winner. Sheikh Hassan bin Awab: runner-up, Abd. Rahman bin Md. Salleh. Class "B": winner, Poh Swee Toh; runner-up. Koh Ah Ngow. TYRO: winner. Satan bin Hj. Yahya: runner-up,
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    S.B. A. TOURNEY FIXTURES
    106 14 WEEKEND fixtures for the Singa- pore Badminton Association's open championships, which will start at 7.15 p.m. each night, are: TOMORROW Men s singles Robert Lim v S. A. Dural; Ismail Marjan v Leow Kirn Fatt; Ong Poh Lim v Andrew Tan. Women's doubles (semi-final) Mrs. Teo
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    CENTRAL TAKE POLICE TITLE
    67 14 i Central Police Station won the Singapore Police inter -division I second division league soccer championship when they drew 1-1 with Kandang Kerbau Police Station In I the final at the Police Depot yesterday. Central Police had two point* more than Kandang Kerbau Police Da wood
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    SECOND WORKOUT FOR TOUR BOXERS
    62 14 The Singapore amateur boxers selected to undergo training toi final selection for the Singapore Youth team to Australia at the end o.' this year were given their second workout ff.r the week at the Poilce Depot yesterday. The boxers were given light exercises, bag punching,
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    MERSING HOCKEY
    34 14 MERSING. Thurs. Tigers bent Tyros by 5-1 In a hockey leacue match at the town padang on Tuesdpy Scorers for Tigers: Stephen Murugesu &lt;4i ti Hassan Ka-wlm 1 1 &gt; Satari for Tyros.
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    Two 'problem' teams should win
    447 14 LONDON, Thurs. COCCER-MAD fans In England's North East are worried and puzzled. They are worried because their soccer Big Three glamorous Newcastle United, Middlesbrough and Sunderland are near the foot of the First Division. They are puzzled because each team Is loaded with star names
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    MALAYAN HOCKEY v STANDARD IS FAST IMPROVING
    305 14  - MALAYAN HOCKEY v STANDARD IS FAST IMPROVING Our Hockey Reporter H\ KIM A LI T MPI T R. Thursday. MANY shrewd judges of the game said after thr recent hockey quadrangular at Kuala Lumpur between Perak, Ncgri Sembilan, Singapore and Selangor, that the standard of hockey seen at thr meet
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    ACS OLD BOYS FOR ANNUAL HOCKEY
    63 14 The Ancln-Chinpse P 4L^a\ n stiifl will meet Old Bo»*Tn^^nir annual hockey m.-itch today on the school ground. The Old Boys team will be: Choc Teow Toh; Teo Kah Hin. Eltin Doralsamy; Edwin DoraJaaav, I im Pook Sau. PYeddy lee, Maurto Nicholas, Tan Soo
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    LANCERS STAR' TO PLAY FOR WALSALL
    104 14 irOll. Thurs. Dan Turlpv. "slar" of thp 12th Ijm rf&gt; mat* tram, will join Walaall. English third division team, on his rrIrave from thr Army. Vurley flies bark io Britain this wrrkrnd after completing his tour of scrvirr in Malaya. He has represented t!ie
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