The Straits Times, 8 August 1955

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    16 1 The Straits Times Mat"!*'' I New**** Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1955. it I* CENTS
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    Lock icon REDS TORTURED AIRMAN
    410 1 FREED U.S. FLIER TELLS OF JAIL ATR(X:iTIES 1 CAN'T DESCRIBE THE PA1N... 1 WAS SCREAMING' TOKYO, Sunday. rjNEL JOHN ARNOLD of the United States Force said today his Communist captors i tortured him until "I was streaming:." ribing for the lirst time liis experiences xo and-a-half years
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    The sacked 50 and 6 supremos';
    103 1 i.UMPUR. Sun. |t QENCY meeting Department Anoclation'i uncl] was held J to discuss d sacking of 1 1 employed as fit- t n and clerks. gallon was powers" by take what- thinks fit to i dismissal. T ition will ask for with senior mill-
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    Spartak beat!; Wolves 3-0 :
    53 1 Spartak beat!; Wolves 3-0 MOSCOW. Sun. A capa- 1 f, 80.000 packed r imos 1 stadium tak beat the Engli.sh m, Wolverhampton 3-0 in a return Batch hrro today. beat Spartak Wolverhampton, last I j ""vcrtibrr. ad played -God *u«en- as the Ens- i t took the Held. R'Port in
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    Lock icon Roads into rivers
    38 1 CALCUTTA, Mon. The streets of Decca in Eastern Pakistan, are flooded and boats are the only means of transport as the waters of the River Buriganga continue to rise, reports reaching here tolay said. UP
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    Lock icon How two jets shot us up by a skipper
    133 1 HONG KONG, Sun. CAPT. STANLEY SLOAN, the 47-year-old master of the 1.900-ton British freighter. Inchwells. told here today how two Jet fighters bombed and machinegunned his ship off the Chinese Communist port of Foochow last Wednesday. The Inchwells is in dry
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    Lock icon Teachers there
    24 1 LONDON. Sun. A plane carrying 50 Malayan teachers arrived here today from Kuala Lumpur. They will attend a two-year training course Reuter.
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    The dockside vigil of an anxious father
    341 1 The dockside vigil of an anxious father HE SEARCHES CHINA-BOUND SHIP FOR DAUGHTER A 58- YEAR-OLD labourer, Lian Fong, searched the Tjiluwah yesterday for his 16-year-old daughter. Relatives helped him in the search, but they failed to find the girl before the ship sailed. The girl, Teng Vat Kiauw, left
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    Lock icon Rugger fans cheated
    66 1 JOHANNESBURG, Sun. Several thousand people who bought "black market" tickets for the Rugby International I match between Britain and South Africa yesterday found the tickets were counterfeit. Hundreds more who climbed fences stopped people with tickets from gaining admission and many were unable to get within a
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    Airman hurt
    46 1 L.A.C. Knight of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Tengah, was admitted to the British Military Hospital last night in a serious condition after his car had been involved in a collision with a lorry at the 12 V 2 milestone, Woodlands Road, Singapore.
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    ZOOM! A VALIANT WONDER IS IN
    194 1 Now for that Darwin record ORITAIN'S first four-engined heavy jet bomber, the 13 Vickers Valiant, swept into Singapore yesterday on its way from England to Woomera. Australia, for secret tests. Although the Valiant is already in squadron service with the RAF, this is the
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    Lock icon Pilot killed
    25 1 KATMANDU. Sun. -The pilot of an India Airlines Dakota was killed today in a crashlandinc at Bhairawa airfield 150 miles from here.— U.P.
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    Last wish is kept ISRAEL BURIAL FOR COLONY MAN
    181 1 Last wish is kept ISRAEL BURIAL FOR COLONY MAN THE body of the late Mr. S. E. Sherida, a wellknown Singapore racehorse owner and businessman who died nine days ago, is to be exhumed and flown to Israel for re-burial. The exhumation has been ordered by the executors of Mr.
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    Lock icon Twenty killed
    24 1 ALGERS, Sun. Twenty people were killed and six wounded in two clashes between French forces and rebels In North Africa yesterday. U.P.
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    CAR CRASHES INTO HOUSE: MOTHER, SON HURT
    121 1 11 RS- Barbara Yolanda Gibbons, a director of the Barretto Shipping and Trading Company, Singapore and her son Robert, aged 5. were seriously injured yesterday when their car crashed into a house in Trafalgar Street. They were admitted to the General Hospital with
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    Lock icon Hong Kong lifts ban
    51 1 HONG KONG. Sun. The Hong Kong Government today relaxed restrictions on immigration from China to enable Chinese residents of the Colony now stranded in Canton to return home. The Government also said it would issue frontier passes to Chinese who want to visit China on business.
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    Lock icon Texas honours Magsaysay
    57 1 MANILA. Sun.— The president of the Philippines, Mr. Ramon Magsaysay. is now a "citizen" of Texas. Brig.-Gen. William Lee. who commands the U.S. 13th Air Force based at Clark Field :n the Philippines, presented President Mag.saysay with a certificate signed by the Governor of Texas, Mr. Allan
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    Bosses boost boozing, says the MTUC
    168 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Malayan Trade Union I Council said today that toddy drinking was a "racket" encouraged by employers and supported by the Government. It should be abolished. In a report circulated to MTUC members, the council said it deplored the attitude of
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    A RED STUDENT'S LIFE IS SO ROSY MALAYAN
    447 1 A RED STUDENT'S LIFE IS SO ROSY MALA YAN Ex-detainee attacks ban on visits to Communist countries A MALAY student leader just back from Moscow and Peking yesterday attacked restrictions preventing some Malayan students from visiting Communist countries. Inche Abdullah Majid, 28, former secretary-general of the Pan-Malayan Students' Federation, said
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    Naval rating drowned off Colony
    64 1 Naval rating drowned off Colony A NAVAL rating, Indros bin Jamrak, 27, was drowned while swimming off Raffles lighthouse. Singapore, yesterday Lt. E. Puilen and a coxswain went to the help of Idros when he got into difficulties, and put him in a boat. Artificial respiration was applied as the
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    Ex-planter dies in England
    48 1 The death occurred at Surbiton, England, on July 31 of Mr. O. W. P. Brown, for many years a leading planter in Selangor. Hi.s last appointment was as manager of Dusun Durian Estate, of Golden Hope Rubber Estate Ltd., at Banting. He was 47.
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    Lock icon Murder trial wife freed
    456 1 SENDAI, Japan, Sun. AU. S. ARMY, court martial today freed Mrs. Romola Abidin, who was accused of slaying her husband after he forced her into sexual indecencies and threatened to kill their three children. The 26-year-old mother stood motionless before a BrigadierGeneral and six Colonels, her
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    STOP PRESS
    31 1 SPECIAL MEETLNG OT CM. URGED NEW YORK. Sun Secretary General I) a llanunarskjold IIH today I'nitcd Nations should tall a special Security Council meeting on major world problems. U.I".
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    Pilots warned of new airport
    281 2 'NOT YET IN USE' MESSAGE SENT AFTER WRONG LANDING AVIATION experts dis- agree on whether pilots might land at Changi airfield by mistake when Singapore's new international airport at Paya Lebar Is opened. In the meantime, however, following the unscheduled landing of a Changi-bound Hermes
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    Lock icon Rice husk bricks for atom bomb defence
    168 2 Rice husk bricks for atom bomb defence BATON ROUGE, (Louisiana), Sun. RICE husks could be made into a lightweight brick which would be useful in atomic defence because it would absorb radiation, it was announced Mr. John Hough, a Louisiana State University agriculture engineer, said that when rice husks were
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    Lock icon Mirza installed
    25 2 KARACHI. Sun. MajorGen. Iskander Mirza. 56. was sworn in today as acting Governor-General of Pakistan as Mr. Ghulam Mohammed is seriously ill. Reuter.
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    Lock icon KOREANS ATTACK TRUCE TEAM
    258 2 War veterans accuse 'Red spies 9 INCHON, Korea, Sunday. VIOLENCE flared in this port city today as 600 antiCommunist Koreans tried to storm the compound of the neutral nations truce inspection team and hurled stones and broken bottles at American guards. The Eighth Army placed the
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    Lock icon Big call for Viscounts
    52 2 RANGOON, Sun. Burma, one of 20 countries which has ordered Viscount aircraft from England, will have to await delivery till 1957. The British makers have to meet heavy bookings from Holland, Canada, Australia and America. Union of Burma Airways officials, however, say: "It is worth waiting
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    Lock icon Sydney's radar
    37 2 CANBERRA, Sun. A new radar station, capable of detecting jet aircraft flying at supersonic speeds nearly 10 miles up, is to be built in the Sydney area, Mr. Athol Townley, the Air Minister, announced. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Sorry, wrong ship
    35 2 SAN FRANCISCO, Sun. Moon Soo Park, 22, a South j Korean university student, arrived here as a stowaway on a freighter from Pusan. He thought the ship was going to Japan.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon 7 Bahai killed
    27 2 LONDON, Sun. Leaders of the Bahai community announced here today that seven of their members had been killed In Persia under "religious persecution." Reuter.
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    SINGAPORE GRADUATE
    43 2 RICHARD SENG HOON CHONG, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Chong Lion* Kwee of Singapore, has graduated in civil engineering at the University of Michigan (U.S.A.) after a five-year course. Mr. Chong is now with the Ford Motor Company in Detroit.
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    Lock icon THE LITTLE BOY WITH TWO 'DADDIES'
    196 2 SACRAMENTO, (California), Sunday. IiIRS. UNA SCHMIDT said yesterday that she and the IT man she "married" thinking her husband, airman Daniel C. Schmidt, was dead, will meet him when he returns to the United States next week after two years as a captive of
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    Lock icon Body from river solves mystery
    67 2 ROUEN, (Prance), Sun. A gold-finished dental plate, found in a body fished from the River Seine here, has enabled French police to solve one of their greatest riddles since the war the disappearance of a magistrate. The body was identified late last night as that
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    Lock icon Amok shoots 5
    28 2 MELBOURNE, Sun. A Lithuanian immigrant ran amok In the upper class suburb of ivanhoe yesterday and shot five people, killing one before killing himself.— U.P
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    Lock icon R.A.A.F. EQUIPMENT ON WAY
    61 2 BRISBANE. Bun. The freighter Tyalla sailed from Townsvllle today for Malaya with heavy equipment which will be used to prepare Butterworth Airfield on the mainland opposite Penang for the arrival next year of Royal Australian Air Force fighter and bomber squadrons. Departure of the Tyalla had
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    Lock icon Britain and U.S. still bar Peking from U.N.
    328 2 Britain and U.S. still bar Peking from U.N. QUESTION TO BE POSTPONED LONDON, Sun. BRITAIN and the United States will almost certainly agree in the next few weeks to blocK Communist China's admission to the United Nations for another year, diplomatic "Sources here said yesterday. The General Assembly will meet
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    A FOX'S HEAD IS NOW A HAT
    49 2 A FOX'S HEAD IS NOW A HAT AMONG the new fashions shown by Paris designer Bn'f ciuga in his autumn collection, is this dinner hatteatm a white fox's head toith a five-carat diamond eyes o baguette diamond eyelashes. In his teeth he holds a blue velvet bow. AJ>. picture.
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    Lock icon '$4,500,000 buried in graveyards'
    198 2 '$4,500,000 buried in graveyards HIDDEN BY VILLA, SAYS WOMAS LOS ANGELES. Sunday. A UTHORITIES here are investigating a woman's stir of hidden treasure— s4,soo,ooo worth of gold co::j which she said was buried in Texas graveyards Pancho Villa, the Mexican bandit-revolutionary. The woman, Mexican-born Miss Dolores Vasques, 76, said from
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    Four nation; join in Navy 'game*
    109 2 Four nation; join in Navy 'game* SHIP and aircraft 0 Commonwealth HtM are assembling at tin bour of Trincomalee. C>to take part in fxw? which will stretch over weeks it was annnuncd the Of f ice of the Command--in-Chief. Far East Stay: Singapore, yesterday. Units of the lioyal Indian Navy,
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    Lock icon 'SEVER AGAIN, SAY HIROSHIMA PEOPLE
    289 3 'SEVER AGAIN, SAY HIROSHIMA PEOPLE Ten years ago the age of atom war began THFRKII* ru- v TOKY0 Sunday. HBi HIiLiUS of Hiroshima rang out yesterday at 8.15 a.m., marking exactly the moment ten yean ago when for the first time an atom bomb exploded over a populated city. The
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    Cupid flies round the law
    67 3 OWNER of an undertaking business, Mr. Edward L Williams, 52, kisses his bride, Marion Sutton, 27, as they leave the chartered airliner "Cupid's Express' in Minneapolis alter being married in the plane while it was flying at 5,000 feet over lowa. Mr. Williams, a divorcee,
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    The world confers on atoms for peace
    161 3 The world confers on atoms for peace OENEVA, Sun. ntista from j nation in a ill exchange n and views eful use of at a conopening here outcome December mbly of itii that an hnical con(tovernments held to explore ng the tomic energy :.!< inational con the news Chronicle amounts
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    Lock icon Come to Britain' books in Russia
    40 3 Sun. Twelve official holiday Fleetwood, Bngeen posted to ie.s to tell Rusf it a British .seaside tter from Mr. in Smith, the tainments dlrec"The growing tween people of i opens up possibilities of Renter.
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    Lock icon HOW TO DROWN ALL IN LONDONBY A SCIENTIST
    83 3 NEW YORK. Sun. DR VICTOR LEVINE, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Science, said in Omaha yesterday that a simple way to annihilate much of the human race would be to drop a nuclear bomb on polar ice. This would
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    Lock icon Jet splinters, but pilot is unhurt
    218 3 NEVILLE DUKE HITS A SEAWALL LONDON, Sunday. 'PEST pilot Naville Duke crashed a supersonic jet x fighter into a seawall in a forced landing yesterday and emerged from the wreckage unhurt. The engine of Duke's Hawker Hunter caught flre on a flight from the
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    The laughing princess
    28 3 PRINCEBS Irene of the N<tlirrlands. second daughter of (jm-rii Juliana and Prince Bernhard. who was I<> on Saturday a special birthday picture by A. P.
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    Lock icon Women go on Mau Mau hunt
    120 3 Women go on Mau Mau hunt NAIROBI. Sun. MORE than 8,000 African women from one of the toughest Man Mau strongholds jin Kenya turned out armed with knives and spears to help security forces in a big sweep 100 miles from here. Three gangsters were killed in the sweep, including
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    Lock icon 10 die in smash
    18 3 SEOUL, Sun.— Ten American .soldiers died when a truck plunged off a bridge. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Polio in Britain
    33 3 LONDON. Sun.— A total of 164 cases of acute poliomyelitis were notified in the 160 principal towns of England and Wales in the last week in July. Two died.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Nehru: Ignore Africa at your peril
    135 3 NEW DELHI. Sunday. •pHE Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, warned yesterday 1 that a bloody struggle might become inevitable in Africa if humiliation and exploitation of Africans did riot stop He said the world could ignore the feeling and aspirations of the African people at
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    Lock icon Trade pact
    23 3 COLOMBO. Sun.— The draft of a trade agreement between Czechoslovakia and Ceylon is now being studied by the Ceylon Government.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon TANKS ON GOA BORDER
    125 3 TANKS ON GOA BORDER LISBON, Sun. PORTUGAL said that India had concentrated fresh troops and 15 tanks near the northern frontier of Goa. A statement by the Portuguse Overseas Ministry said that according to frontier reports the population there were prohibited from moving about and trenches were being dug in
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    Lock icon Search for servant
    72 3 CALCUTTA. Sun.— Police investigating che disappearance of Mrs. Edna Mary Dixon a British housewife living about 10 miles from here, are .rying to trace an Indian servant of the Dixon family who Is also missing. Mrs. Dixon. 34-year-old wife of the British foreman at a locomotive boiler
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    Lock icon Angry wife took on the law
    51 3 MANCHESTER. Sun.— A wife who hit a policewoman and bit a policeman, who were ejecting her from court after her husband had been jailed for two years, was fined £1 for assault. A charge of disorderly conduct against Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, 42, was dismissed.
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    Lock icon COUNTER-REVOLUTION
    118 3 Arrests made i HONG KONG, Sun. Communist public security auI thorities have arrested 14 members of a counter-revolu-tionary gang in Chengteh. Jehol Province of North China. Peking Radio said. The broadcast said the gang was led a captain of the Chinese Nationalist Military Intelligence Service. The radio gave no
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    Lock icon ILLEGAL—BUT TAXABLE
    72 3 ILLEGAL— BUT TAXABLE OTTAWA, Sun Canada's Income Tax Appeal Board has ruled that earnings from unlawful acts such as prostitution are taxable. The board rejected the appeal of an unidentified woman, described as a prostitute, whose earnings, as estimated by the Revenue Department, had increased to $26,475 in 1952. The
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    $17m. PLAN CAN'T WAIT FOR U.N. MAN
    323 4 $17m. PLAN CAN'T WAIT FOR U.N. MAN We have our own experts, says the Municipal chief Request for green light KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. THE Kuala Lumpur Municipality wants to implement the town's $17,000,000 development plan without waiting for the advice of a United Nations town planning expert. It is now
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    S.S. Goodwill slips out of port
    149 4 S.S. Goodwill slips out of port A 44-TON Shell Company launch, the Andrew, left Clifford Pier, Singapore, yesterday on a 1,000-mile goodwill cruise to the Rhio and Lingga Archipelagos. The launch with five men aboard and a crew of nine, will visit all the firm's agents and customers and Government
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    Father told: You pay the fine
    65 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. After fining a young Malay boy $150 in the Juvenile Court at Kluang yesterday, Mr. N. L. Cohen ordered the fine to be paid by the boy's father because he had not looked after the boy as well as he should
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    Church social
    29 4 KAJANG, Sun. More than 300 people attended a dance and social at the High School here last night in aid of the Holy Family Church building fund.
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    Rotary talk
    30 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Mr. A. Renwick, of the Geological Survey Department, will give a talk on geology to the Johore Bahru Rotary Club on Tuesday at 5 p.m.
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    CATHEDRAL WEDDING
    28 4 MR. CHEW CHIN JIN and his bride, the former Miss Lim Swee Kiok, after their wedding at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, on Saturday —Straits Times picture.
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    TEACHERS LIVE IN LABOUR LINES
    146 4 Union to urge probe on estate life KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. T*HE Selangor Indian School Teachers union is to ask 1 the Minister for Labour, Mr. V. T. Sambantham, to appoint a commission to inquire into the living conditions of estate teachers. "Many of the teachers
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    O.C.P.D. leaves
    24 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Mr. W. J. Robertson, 0.C.P.D., Johore Bahru, has gone on leave to Britain. Mr. P. w. Giles takes over.
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    'Thinking Aloud' an address
    39 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Mr. Lan Howard, State Information Officer, will give an address on "Thinking Aloud" at the Bukit Zahrah School here on Wednesday at 6 p.m. The Johore Psychology Club is sponsoring the lecture.
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    TO THE MEMORY OF GALLANT MEN
    183 4 A MEMORIAL to Admiral Sir A Tom Phillips and the officers and men of the Prince of Wales and Repulse was dedicated at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore yesterday. The C-in-C, Far East Station, Vice-Admiral Sir Alan Scott Moncrieff, handed over the memorial— two candle-sticks
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    Ewing tilts at union outsiders
    282 4 Ewing tilts at union outsiders rpHE general manager of the Singapore Traction Company, Mr. A, A. Ewing, yesterday hit out at "outsiders" for meddling in the affairs of the S.T.C. Employees' Union. Mr. Ewing said: "I personally feel that there is no need for intervention by any outsider in the
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    of 400,000
    93 4 of 400,000 on move fc citizenship x Chamber fjf Lt N metre has cX, local guilds and U dations for cr BJ*8 J* on its demand fo r a > gapore citizenshin 8t Representatives of »'k ganisations, which membership O f 'm^- meet chambr., morrow for discussSSJ 1 Eleven chamber
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    Co-op society officials
    66 4 KUALA LUMPUR <;,. At tho general the Kuala Lumpur Co 5- r tive Stores Society Ltd following were committee: Messrs. Khon? Ron n Chin Yoon Thye r^ Singh. Jagir Singh P Paul. V. Markandi varatnam. MohWd nZ him. Ibrahim Ahmad Abdul Wahid Abu Bah- "V M. Vasasam,
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    Coffee shop is robbed
    30 4 Coffee shop is robbed A coffee-shop owner day reported the cash from thp shop's r Banda Street. Singapore The money, which rew sented the prevlou lection, was kept and key
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    Clerk fined §,1
    24 4 JOHORE BAHRU Sr.. Tan Buan Hock, a clerk, n fined $500, or four months')!. today for having chandu i July 14.
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    LEO FOR 1.L.0. CONFERENCE
    57 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The central executive committee of the Malayan Trade Union Council today nominated Mr. G. Leo, to represent the M.T.U.C. at the International i Labour Organisation confe in Rangoon. Mr. Leo Ls the ehainr.: the national Whitley C; (staff .side i. The conference will
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      Lock icon Man waiting for death saw hearse stop at his door
      1717 5 Man waiting for death saw hearse stop at his door liiiiiiiii: ftijiuj i iii i iJp 1 lluK^liliHili ||1 *****11 IN June, 1947, a short, pudgy international confidence man, gambler, cheat, thief and informer wan living in a hell of fear. His name was James Coates, and he knew he
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      92 5 Shcriark Hi>lnu>s Thy viu*> IPicii Truvy 4 <stiiit<s J2 I "I TDLD HIM TO GET LOST cj-a iat> amp> amri n ak^p M LATER tS^^SZZ^^I LZ°^? S we 29 I!I^I r™ E stpetTher bctvs! AND RUGMEAD RELAXES. I TINCj OUT ONLY AMATEURS ■^rfrr-TTT^-TcALIJNGI I TWIS IS^^A" 1 I'VE OCTT A
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    56 6 20 Wmrdt tit (minimum). MR WOON YEE NYOOK and thank all Relatives and Friends for th*lr Kind Attendance. ::ce. Condolence. Scrolls and Tribute on their Bereavement MR KRISHNA. PeUling Tin Limited, wish to thank all friends, who attended the funeral, cars, on the death of his belo\ed wife who
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  • The Straits Times Singapore, Mon. Aug. 8, 1955.
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      Foot Of The Summit
      617 6 The world has gone about with a less anxious look since the four Western leaders talked j things over at the summit in Geneva. For the first time since the war ended ten years ago peace is no longer regarded as the foolish waitings of chicken-hearted
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      Short Shrift for Advise?
      368 6 Quite a number of odd things have happened in Kuala Lumpur since it became a municipality, but the request to the Federal and State Governments for permission to go ahead with its $17,000,000 development plan without waiting for the arrival of the United Nations town planning
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      312 6 Pity the poor film producer and exhibitor. Success depends entirely on forecasting public taste and when the forecast goes wrong, down goes the income the cinemas draw -in. Ever since 1946 cinema takings in Singapore have steadily increased until last year, when they declined for the first
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    White cold war wan this is amnesty tims VERNON BARTLETT
    703 6 White cold war wan this is amnesty tims VERNON BARTLETT WHILE the small events H of Singapore have taken up all our at- tention, the most 5 startling events have 1 taken place in the world outside, and as a result of them the cold war has died down to
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    The Reds have organised for victory in Indonesian polls
    1272 6 The Reds have organised for victory in Indonesian polls The Communist organisation to f.ght the elections n Indonesia is here described by P. A. VAN DER POEL He says they are attracting support through sport, through religion and by an special appeal to the noparty" man rHDR years the need
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      343 6 pOR some twenty-flve r years I have been driving in many countries, and recently I drove my car some 60,000 miles in 18 months in England, some 40 per cent of this in London itself. and a large percentage of the mileage at night.
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      What off Chinese Muslims?
      41 6 DATO ONN advocated the immigration of Sumatrans. His supporters say Sumatran immigrants into Malayan are favoured because they are Muslims. May I know whether the Muslims from mainland China would also be welcome? Y. F. CHUNG. Singapore.
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    Railmen rout Red gang—twice
    255 7 Railmen rout Red gang— twice TERRORISTS TRY TO DERAIL ARMOURED TROLLEY RAW, THEN ANOTHER line blasted at 2 places —radio SOS sent out KUALA LIMPIR, Sunday. ST gaiif* niadc two attempts last nipht i armoured Wickham trolley patrmilwa} line between Slim River and Ihnnn in soutli Pen*. about a mile
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    Chambers' party for C-G
    34 7 The Singapore Chinese and Indian chambers of commerce will hold a combined farewell reception in honour of the Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. at Raffles Hotel at 6.30 p.m. today.,
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    'Less than an amah' men seek more pay
    197 7 THE Singapore Tamil x Teachers' Union, taking a cue from its Chinese i and Malay colleagues, I plans to press for a re-! view of Tamil education j in the Colony. Tamil teachers, who allege i that they are paid "less than
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    Tengku goes into new house
    122 7 Tengku goes into new house KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. THE Federation's Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, moved into his new home at Hose Drive in Kuala Lumpur today. He arrived here by air from Singapore this afternoon. His wife and children followed latPT by road from Johore Bahru. The Tengku drove
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    Don't sleep too long, say bells of Katong
    357 7 Don't sleep too long, say bells of Katong 'rHE bells of tnc A Church of the Holy Family in Katong peal loudly at an hour's interval for two hours every morning, beginning at 5.20 a.m. And some families living nearby are annoyed that the bells should ring "a; such an
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    THEY RAN AWAY FROM CHINA, NOW SENT BACK
    363 7 THEY RAN AWAY FROM CHINA, NOW SENT BACK Two Indonesians plead: 'We want to go home to our families' TWO Indonesian Chinese, Sem You Huy (left) and 1 Liem Tjie Yun, both aged 25, who stowed away on the liner Tjiwangi from Hong Kong after escaping from Red China, arrived
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    Top Negara men meet
    60 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.-The executive committee of Party Negara held a meeting at the house of Mr. W. M. MacLeod, the party treasurer, here this afternoon. Dato Sir Onn bin Jaafar. secretary-general of the party, declined to comment on the meeting. It is believed that plans to
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    BRIGADE'S TRIBUTE Sir Charles shakes hands with 150
    131 7 BRIGADE'S TRIBUTE Sir Charles shakes hands with 150 rpHE CHIEF Justice of SingaI J pore. Sir Charles MurrayAy nsley, said goodbye to Ido members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and shook hands with each of them at a farewell tea-party in his honour at Robinsons Cafe yesterday. Sir Charles
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    RAHMAN'S MINISTERS OUTLINE THEIR PLANS
    612 7 Labour chief promises a 'fair deal for the workers' KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. TViE neicly appointed Ministers in the Federation Government yesterday outlined their plans for the future. LABOUR: No trouble expected The Minister for Labour, Mr. V. T. Sambanthan, said he did not expect any
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    'Now the tin can men threaten: Give in or face a strike
    156 7 DEADLOCK TODAY DECISION DAY? TWO HUNDRED workers in seven Singapore Chinese tin can ,flrms yesterday threatened to serve a 24--hour strike notice on their employers today if their claims were not met. This followed a deadlock in the
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    Cruel to fowls: $70 fine
    43 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. uau Yee Seng, of Singapore, was fined $70 in the Magistrate's Court here today for causing unnecessary suffering to 15 fowls. He was found carrying the fowls in a small basket. O-ic I had died.
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    Lecture
    25 7 Professor S. R. D. Sastri gave a lecture on "The Greatness of Lord Vinayagar" at the Sri Scnpaga Vinayagar Temple. 1 Singapore, last night.
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    Trade show
    21 7 The Singapore Trade and i Industries Exhibition will open at the Great World amusement park on Oct. 8. I
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    New Govt: It makes no difference
    117 7 TUC STATEMENT KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. THE central executive committee of the Malayan Trade Union Council today said that an Alliance controlled Government would make no difference towards its representatives' policy in the Legislative Council. "Our attitude will be the same as before," the TUC
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    Ipoh wins school debate
    46 7 TAIPING, Sun. In the first inter-town combined schools debate held here during the weekend Ipoh combined schools beat Taiping combined schools. The visitors' team of five spnko against the motion that 'Western influence has done more good than harm to the East."
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    Coffee shop strikes are brewing in S'pore
    145 7 QTRIKES in Singapore coffee i J^ shops are brewing because 10 claims submitted by the Singapore Coffee Shop As- sistants' Union were rejected by their employers. The employers have agreed to provide sleeping quarters for the workers. (About 300 coffee shop owners, members
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      174 7 The weather MIXIMI'M TEMPER ATI'RE (7.30 p.m. on Aug. 6 to 7.30 a.m. on Aug. 7 1 Singapore 71 degrees. I Penang 73. Kota Bahru 73. Kuala Lumpur 73. Ipoh 71. Kuantan 70. I MAXIMIM TEMPERATIRE: 1 7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Aug. I Singapore 86, Penang 87. Kota
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    Rubber scrip scarce
    555 9 I tl i* SHARK MARKET REVIEW HOLDERS HANG ON By Our Market Correspondent A S^ AS on ly to be expected main interest in the Singapore Share Market was concentrated last c n tne rubl *r action in view of the sharp rise ot I i cents
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    38 9 ftOMriai H.vidrnds ..nnouncrd last npaafei operaiya:— Mend of bd rear ended iMc in F.ng- ieu t 1«. I! I KIT KATI ESTATES LTD.: of I** inronc tax. for \nril 30. payharPholders on lurust 20. August 12.
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    Lock icon GOODRICH'S SEW PLANT
    26 9 GOODRICH'S SEW PLANT M.inufaclurouilt by the ■;-als IncorII new a inch synthetree rubber. The crn Ohio Is ex-,-.i 4 inK in about rordlng to the neuter.
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    38 9 I\c haner Hanks following merchants on 1 1 l' 4 i 12; O.D -'4 3 in. 45 dst. :!4 38. 60 4 J 2 120 180 ri st or r niiirket In the U.S. 59 and
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    Uneasy end to hectic week
    540 9 owHoniiY \i\miiT noi wn-rn spectacular price (luring rubber was 3 iturday morn:losed at $1.48. turnover was there vaa some a certain ..bout the market with heavy selling at the close. The closing price was easier on Saturday morning for the first time since July 26.
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    BUSINESS DONE
    393 9 THE following business done In the Singapore Share Market i last week was reported by one firm ol brokers, for the period August 1 to August 5: INDI'STRIALS: British Borneo Pets. 51s. lncl. stamp. 495. 9d.. Fraser Neave Ords. $1.67 "a to $1.72'j. Gammons $2,574 tos2.B2'a. Hammers $2
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    871 9 THIE Malayan Share Brokers Association. Singapore section, issued the following full list of revised quotations on Friday: INDISTBIALS Alex. Bricks Pref IBS 1.95 Ords 2.10 2.25 Atlas Ice 1300 (buyers) 8.8. Petrol 46/- 49/BM Trustees «so 7.00 Con. Tin Smelt p ref a/Ords 32/8 338 zd Intern OnlUd
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      1007 9 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS VACANCY for a Temporary Confidential Stenographer in the State Engineer's Office. Kedah/Perlls Alor Star. Salary $250 x 15 310. 324 x 14 352 '366 x 14 422 plus Cost of Living Allowance at current rates. Qualifications: Citizenship of the Federation. School Certificate with credit in English Language; Shorthand
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      672 9 NOTICES SALE OF APPROX. 135 TONS RUBBER DAMAGED BY FIRE The above rubber will be open to inspection by authorized represent- atives of interested parties from 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. at Godowns 147 Sc 149. Singapore Harbour Board, on Wednesday, Aug. 10. I Sale will be by sealed bids
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      745 9 TENDERS NOTICE As from the Ist of August, 1955, Our Branch Office will be located at NO. 18. BISHOP STREET. PENANO, (Bishop House) First 1 Floor. REMINOTON RAND OP MALAYA i LIMITED. SINGAPORE. DJ.D. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS from Class E and above registered D.I.D. Contractors will be received at the
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      550 9 TENDERS P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS from CkM 'E' and above registered contractors will be received by the Executive Engineer. Tampin up to NOON on 15th August. 1955 for the Construction and completion of a Three Bedroom Class D' Quarters (Bungalow Type) Including Sanitary Installation at Oemns. Plans and specifications can
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    (Politics and commerce in early Borneo
    551 10 (Politics and commerce in early Borneo I NINETEENTH CENT- URY BORNEO. By Gra- i hame Irwin (Donald Moore I $6). IJAPPY is the land that has no history. Bor- neo, the world's largest i island or smallest conj tinent (you can take your choice) may have I had a history,
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    'Revolution of love9 finds land for the Indian poor
    510 10 'Revolution of love 9 finds land for the Indian poor SAINT ON THE MARCH. By Hallam Tennyson (Collancz, 13s. 6d.) IT IS remarkable that almost nothing seems to have been heard outside India about Bhoodan. It is to be doubted whether anybody outside the Indian community in Malaya could say
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    THRILLER CAN BE INTELLIGENT
    370 10 A BULLET FOR CHARLES by Hugh Walter (Macdonald, 9s. 6d.) DEATH OF A CODMOTHER, by John Rhode (Geoffrey Bles, 10s. 6d.) INTELLIGENT action A thrillers are not so common that a new writer in this escapist field finds it difficult to make an impression if he
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      278 10 I Your "Dream-House" ls complete without j "FRES-BRIZ" M Z VENETIAN BLto (Fully Tropicalised) KNOWN IN U.S.A. AS" HBXALUM c "FRES-BRIZ are made to fit any m:c ufefe j SPOTRADIO LTD., 58. orchard road s p O r Are you collecting *^W^ Dinky Toys? There's an amazing variety of vehicles
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    BRITAIN WIN FIRST TEST BY A POINT
    697 11 BRITAIN WIN FIRST TEST BY A POINT World's best kicker tails with last-second effort and... JOHANNESBURG, Sun. j IN the most dramatic rufcby union Test 1 ever seen in South Africa, the touring Brl- tish Isles team beat the j Springboks by 23 points (four goals and a try) to
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    Harith to lead Selection XI
    55 11 Harith will captain a Singapore I Selection against Kelantan at Jalan Besar stadium at 8 p.m. today. The team will be chosen from: Arshad. Skinner. Ariffln. Kok Cheng. Kirn Beng. Rashid Giman, Harith. Boon Khim, Radln All, Arthur Koh. Tahir. Pelaniappan, Kee Senc. Kok Peow.
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    BRADDELL OUT FOR 11 RUNS
    44 11 Woodbridpe Hospital beat Braddell C.C. by 77 runs in a friendly cricket fixture at Yio Chu Kang Road yesterday. Woodbridge 88 <R. Pereira 46 H. Pereira 21. Mackay 6-14 >. Braddell 11 iH. Pereira 6-4. C. T. Foster 2-6 1.
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    Lock icon Surrey all out 171 after first four wickets fall for 6
    388 11 Surrey all out 171 after first four wickets fall for 6 LONDON, Sun. CURREY, reigning English county cricket champions who are currently fighting out the 1955 lead with Yorkshire, received a severe jolt when they lost their first four wickets, including England captain Peter May, for only six runs against
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    Salzburg beat Penang XI 5-2
    85 11 PENANO. Sun. fHE Austrian Salzburg footballers opened their Penang tour with a 5-2 victory over Penang state reserves on Victoria Green today They opened scoring in the 13th minute and piled up a 4-0 lead in the first half, scoring through Fleck (2). Konig and
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    Another triple crown for Gladys
    95 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun:—Partnering veteran Goon Kok Ylng in the mixed doubles. Mrs. Gladys Loke Chua took her third title this morning at the Selangor lawn tennis championships. Goon and Mrs. Chua won 6-4, 8-6, 6-1. She previously beat Mrs. M. W. Hay 6-0. 6-1. In
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    Williams drops only one point
    73 11 C. D. Williams, drtvln* an M.0., won the Singapore Motor Club's rally from Johore Bahru to Batu Pahat and back. Williams lost only one point over the 160-mile course. His navigator was A. Tydeman. Second was D. K. Gudgeon in a T.R. 2 with Miss
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    SINGAPORE GOLD CUP ZABAGLIONE'S NEXT?
    376 11 By EPSOM JEEP /ABAGLIONE Mas fulfilled his mission winning the Penang Gold Cvp on Saturday and. I think, he will not be raced again until the Singapore Gold Cup race at Bukit Timah in September. Zabagllone's win gave popular veteran owner, Mr. T. H. Menzies.
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    Apprentice Leong, Geyer share riding honours
    164 11 ONE of the highlight* of the j Penang August Bank Holiday Meeting was the success of the new partnership between trainer Jimmy Martin and Jockey Sheldon Oeyer. They won five races. Geyer shared riding honours with apprentice Kltson Leong. who also rode five winners.
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    101 11 Lt. CHAT AW AY Wins mile, second in 440 LONDON. Sun. CHRIS CHATAWAT, one of the world's five under four-minute milers and world three miles record holder, ran over three distances—mile, half mile and quarter mile yesterday. A- lieutenant in the Queen's Westminster, Chataway was competing at the 56th (London)
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    SHB SCORE THREE OFF SOCCERITES
    45 11 S.H.B. Police beat Star Soccerites "A" 3-0 in a SAPA Dlv. 2B match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday Scorers were Ismail, Jalil and MlriJoot. Soccerites 1 goalkeeper. Marzukl. was Injured in the sth. minute and had to leave the field.
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    296 11 Springboks show up Gloucester's poor batting CHELTENHAM, Sun. GLOUCESTER failed to make the most of their chances against the touring South Africans yesterday when they chose to bat on a firm, easy wicket on the Cheltenham College ground. Gloucester were all out for 184 runs and in the last 75
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    68 11 LONDON. Sun. pOR the decisive fifth Test match at The Oval here next Saturday between England and South Africa. T. J. Bartley and D. Davies have been appointed umpires. This will be Bartley's third Test this summer for he "stood" in the first match at Nottingham
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      508 11 CLASSIFIED ADS. VEHICLES FOR SALE to Word, SS (Mi*.)— Box SO eU. txtrm. 1951 HILLMAN. Singer. Skoda. Coi.pes: Consul. Wolseley 1949 M.G. Vauxhall. M.O. 4/seater Tourer j 1948 A/Siddeley Vanguard, A4O 1947 Standard "Easy Terms and Trade-ins The Auto-Mart, 9-11 Penhas Road *****. FOR SALE to Wordt SS (Min.)— Box
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    118 12 MOSCOW Sun. VyoiALH HAMPTON Wanderers. English league runners-up. were beaten 3-o by '.lie crack Moscow Spartak football team at I the Dynamo Stadium here thi.° afternoon. A crowd of 80.000 saw the RurTtMH produce some brilliant footba'l to outplay the Wolves and avenge their 4-0 beating
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    593 12 victory SANDOSHAM ROUTS SRC, GETS HAT-TRICK SINGAPORE Cricket o Club, bidding for their first success in the SCA senior tournament, maintained their lead with a 100-run victory over University of Malaya on the padang yesterday. Behind them follow the holders, Army, who beat Royal Navy
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    877 12 SCC v Varsity SINGAPORE Cricket Club beat Iniversity by 100 runs on the Pa s*N«APORE CRICKET CLUB Sheppard lbw Delilkan 52 Arkell c K. T. Retnam b Delilkan «6 Cobley b Delilkan Barker c Sethupathy b K. T. Retnam 32 Kirkham not out 40 j Olendenning n
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    ENTRIES FOR MALAYAN AAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
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    EASY VICTORY FOR CHANGI
    65 12 RAF Changi "B beat RAF Tengah by five wickets in an SCA Junior tournament cricket fixture at Tengah yesterday. Tengah 111-7 (Jecl. (Platt 51 no.. Magee 18, Monk 15 Hodgson 4-34 Kingdom 2-25». Changi 113-5 (Kingdom 45 no.. Pickett 22. Roper 15. Magee 3-30) Singapore Glass
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