The Straits Times, 7 November 1953

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  • 14 1 The Straits Times fiat**** file****" Established 1845. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1953. 15 CENTS
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  • 679 1 Would mean bigger rates or cuts in services WARNING that any pay increase for Singapore City Council employees next year would mean either increased rates and charges or a curtailment of the Council's activities was given by Mr. T P. F. McNeice. the President, when he presented
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  • 212 1  -  W. E. TRKVOR ItV /CORPORAL Larry Buckley of V» the R.A.F., Hong Kong, sat moodily in a small Singapore cafe last nicht. On Tuesday he was happy in Hong Kong. Today he is gloomy in Singapore. Three years ago he went to Hoiik Kont with the RAF.
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  • 34 1 LONDON. Fri Negotiations for the sale of American surplus foodstuffs have begun in Europrm capitals, the Treasury announced Friendly countries may buy surplus commodities with their own currency— Reuter.
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  • 30 1 WASHINGTON. Fri. Philip Chormrr. aged 49 of Los Angelrs. described by the Justicp Department as a loni-timn Communist, has been ordered to bo deported to his native Russia. -A.P
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  • 29 1 NEW DELHI, Fri —The Indian Government and Imperial Chemicaj Industries plan to set up a £3 million company to I make commercial high explosives in India. Reuter.
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  • 124 1 RUBBER UP OVER 2 CENTS FIRST GRADE rubber yesterday reached the highj est price on the Singapore I rubber market since October 8. November first grade closed at 58 cents a pound— two and three-eighth cents above Wednesday's close The price had reached 58 i cents during the day The
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  • 95 1 Prices rise on London market LONDON, Fri. J^UBBER prices continued to move upwards here today gaining one farthing per lb in conformity with the rise in Singapore A fair volume of business i done at higher level including No RSS January/March at 17-3/8 d per lb. compared with 1 17'nci
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  • 73 1 HONG KONG. Fri. Mr Richard Nixon, vire president of the United States, said after vLviting Hong Kong's frontier with China today that if China would cease aggres>ion in Indo-China and Malaya and discuss the Korean question, the possibility would exist for reopening communications. But Mr. Nixon
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  • 53 1 Policy in reverse NEW YORK Fri— US Secretary of Defence, Mr Charles E. Wilson, last night said that the United States now had a policy of "colonialism in reverse." Under it, it was spending significant part of its time, money and other resources for other peoples in hope of having
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  • 22 1 COLOMBO. Fri. The Cevlonese Government ha-s allowed private traders to import rice again after a lapse of 12 yeans. -Reuter.
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  • 171 1 STUDENTS MOB BOW STREET LONDON. Fri. SHOUTING, hymn singing students turned Bow Street court into a bedlam today when hearings began on mass arrests resulting from the most riotoir. Guk Fawkes Night in London's history "Singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers." they marched through the Covent Garden market area, strewing firecrackers in
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  • 29 1 TAIPEH, Fri— Senator H. Alexander Smith. (Republican. New Jersey), of the U. S Senate's Foreign Relation* Committee, arrived here yesterday for a three-day tour of Formosa Reuter.
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  • 219 1 MISS ETHEL Deh Yuen Low. 23, of Singapore, presents a bouquet to the Queen Mother at the prize-giving ceremony of the Royal College of Music In London on Thursday Miss Low won a senior prize for the violin. "She has not been
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  • 41 1 Chong Shin the pigeons (HONG SHIN, a seven-year-old Singapore student, recently flew unaccompanied to England to enter the Hurworth Preparatory School. Here he is making friends with the Queen's pigeons in Trafalgar Square on the day of his arrival in London.
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  • 70 1 France to cut cash for forces PARIS, Fri. PANCE will cut her military budget next year by 10 per cent, the Finance Minister. M. Edgar Faure, announced today. He said this had been made possible by extra United States aid for Indo-China of about £138.000.000. He told the National Assembly
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  • 16 1 HELSINKI. Fri, -Four Finnhave been arrested on espionage charges at an air base. Reuter.
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  • 121 1 LONDON. Fri. AUTHORITATIVE quarters here said today that reports that General Sir Gerald Templer. the High Commissioner, was being transferred to another post now that the Communist menace was under control in Malaya were "premature guesses." Authoritative quarters said he would bp returning to Malaya on
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  • 117 1 A 26-YEAR-OLD medical student was critically in- jured when he was struck in the stomach by a Javelin during a throwing practice at the University of Malaya's ground at Bukit Timah, Singapore, yesterday afternoon. The student, Mr Jerry Tan Keng Wah. was practising with
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  • 34 1 BERLIN. Fri— The West Berlin anti-communist agency .said today that two East German police had been killed in a quarrel near Magdeburg between Soviet soldiers and member? of the people's police. --Reuter.
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  • 205 1 ALLIED SOLDIERS OUT IN TRIESTE Bomb, gun fight with mob I TRIESTE, Friday. BRITISH AND AMERICAN troops with bayonets fixed rushed to the centre of Trieste today to help police who had fought a gun and grenade battle with Italian demonstrators. First reports said that four demonstrators and three Bri-tish-commanded
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  • 58 1 He is Red McCarthy NEW YORK. Fri— Senator McCarthy last night said he had evidence that a former leading U. S. Army radar -n gineer is a member of the Communist underground. He also demanded that Harvaici University dismiss Prof. Wenbill H. Furry, who. w alleged, refused to say whether
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  • 27 1 THE HAGUE. Fri— The rtoyal Dutch Airlines iKLMi Is to train personnel and overhaul aircraft for the future Pakistan Airlines at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.— A.P.
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  • 53 1 A 27-year-r>ld Malay, on remand at the Outram Prison Singapore, was seriously iniured yesterday when he was struck in the back with a kanda r stick by another prisoner. The victim. Noordin bin Hussein, was washing clothes when he was attacked from behind. Thp two men
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  • 29 1 JOHANNmBUROH. Fri A das pockrt rxplnrird in the St Helena unld m;nr. Oranee Free State, yesterday, killing at least eight and injuring more than 30.— A.P.
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  • 190 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. A LOOPHOLE which has enabled gold from mines to get into the treasury of Malayan Communists is to be closed Regulations controlling; the purchase and movement of raw gold and jewellt-ry have been introduced by the Federation Government. A Government spokesman told
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  • 30 1 U.S. DEVELOPING I'KR BOMB WASHINGTON, Fri. United States is believed U» be preparing to test new super bomb. Tests will be conducted at Bikini next next spring.— U.P.
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  • 25 1 LONDON. Fri. Sir Oiiver Goonetilleke, Ceylon's Finan -e Minister, arrived here by air from Colombo last night for economic and financial talks —Reuter.
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  • 17 1 LONDON. Fri The British Government yesterday said that food rationing would end next summer-Renter.
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  • 270 2 From Our Own Correspondent JAKARTA, Friday. THE DECISION of the government to send a mission to Communist China to discuss the possibilities of Indonesian rubber export to that country has been received without enthusiasm here. At the same time a number of newspapers
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  • 167 2 WASHINGTON, Fri. OFFICIALS of the Foreign Operations Administration yesterday said that the United States was greatly concerned at the decision of the Indonesian Government to export rubber to China. "This type of trade will conflict directly with the United Nations embargo on strategic materials to the
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    187 2 YOUNG Australian artist who has found fame in Europe has bren commissioned by the Sultan of Selancor to paint in Malaya. He is Paul Fitzgerald the artist who painted Field Marshal Sir William Slim Lady Slim and their dauchter. Tna. Mr. Fitzgerald who studied at the National Gallery School of
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  • 76 2 LONDON, Fri— Robert Sweeny, aged 42, winner of the 1937 British amateur golf championship, wants to divorce Mrs. Joanne Sweeny -New York's most beautiful debutante of 1948" The petition cited as corespondent Porflrio Rubirosa. aced 40. former husband of three of the world's most wealthy women—
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  • 14 2 SAN FRANCISCO, Frl. -Pan American World Airways will dismiss 89 junior pilots
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  • 89 2 SWANSEA, Fri. A WORLD BOOM in tlnplate has sent British employers and Ministry of Labour officials scurrying to recruit Italian workers for the Welsh tinplate mills. About 150 Italians are to be brought here In batches frcm the beginning of next month. 1 They will
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  • 161 2 MR. VAUGHAN JONES DIES IN LONDON MR. PATRICK VAUGHAN JONES. 58. well-known in Malaya for 30 years, has died at Hindhead, Surrey. For some months he had t b^en taking treatment for a thmat infection. Mr. Vaughan Jones, known M "V-J" was a keen sportsman and an ardent Rugby football
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  • 254 2 F[E GOVERNOR OF SINGAPORE. Sir John Nieoll. is appealing to the public to give generously "as a thanksgiving" towards the Poppy Day Fund. Poppies will be on sale in the Colony today. In a recorded broadcast last 1 night. Sir John said: 'Each year
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  • 81 2 LOS ANGELES. Fri— Mr. William Jevne. 58-year-old retired businessman told ■> Los Angeles divorce court that his 26-year-old French bride danced exclusively with a food-looking Paris barman on their wedding night. "When I objected she told me to go drop dead" h<- said. "She said she
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  • 149 2 GOLD GIRL FINED WONG WEN HA. 29, daughter of a Singapore businessman, was fined $3.000— t h r e c r months in default— for importing $12,000 worth of gold bars without a permit. Mr C E. J. de R. Lock, senior customs officer who prosecuted, said that Wong's luggage
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  • 275 2 Rubber report rvISAPPOINTMENT at thr \J statement issued by the Rubber Study Group again carried the market to the low levels reached earlier in October. We refrain from commenting on this and no doubt intending buyers likewise refrained from making thrir purchases, says Lewis and Prats
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    • 309 2 Straits Tinies crossword 8 ill" 13 $Ss| 1 "5 6 17 HH 18 '9 T~ 22 23 2* 25 |H 2« 7 "Z I —m— -«-<« ACROSS IS. One might be working at a bar i ggSfsst; ft* sai-i an*. 12. Bottom iv fated to be this 22 product of
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  • 201 3 U.S. TRYING 'TO TEAR DOWN THE EMPIRE' LONDON, Fri. A CONSERVATIVE M.P. yesterday said American imperiali-m was trying to oust Britain from the Mediterranean and had been trying to tear down the British Empire for 10 years. The accusation was made by Brig. John E. Powell in the House of
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  • 285 3 Red scheme to throw bomb fails, says city boss TEHERAN, Friday. THREE MEN have been arrested after a plot to assassinate the Shah of Persia with a handgrenade on October 26. the Military Governor, General Farhad Dadsetan, said today. The men, all members of the
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  • 77 3 LA PAZ. Friday. THE Lloyd Aereo Boliviano Airline last night said that 25 passengers and the crew of three were killed when a plane crashed and burned near 7 ara V) UC o. Rescue teams found the charred wreckage of the plan* The crash
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  • 74 3 BRIDGEND 'Wale.s.. Fri Police witnesses told a judge here how three men drank 78 pints of stolen ridrr in a nisht. The men were Alfred Saco. 55. Russell David. 29. and Jrnkin Williams, 41. They worn accused of stealing an 80-pint barrpl of cider from a bar.
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  • 59 3 LONDON. Fri. A courtmartial yesterday found Capt. Richard Ivan Alexander Sarell. of the British destroyer Dia mond. guilty of negligence which led to a collision with the 8.000-ton cruiser Swiftsure during "Exercise Mariner." He pleaded not guilty to having negligently or by de fault hazarded his ship
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  • 36 3 LONDON. Fri— Air Vice Marshal Richard Atcherley a former Commander-in-Chief of i the Pakistan Air Force, has 1 b?en appointed head of the Air Force staff with the British Joint Services Mission ti. Washington.— Reuter
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  • 39 3 LONDON, Fri— The House of Commons yesterday gave a formal first reading to the Regency Bill by which the Duke of Edinburgh will become Regent in the event of the death or incapacity of the Queen.— Reuter.
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  • 137 3 38 millon people uprooted NEW YORK. Fri. MR. JAMES NORRIS. a refugee expert, said here yesterday t:.at there were probably as many as 38,000.000 uprooted people in the world. Mr Norris is president of the Standing Conference of Voluntary Agencies working for refugees which co-operates with the United Nations High
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  • 35 3 MUNICH. Fri.— A German court yesterday sentenced 35 European Jews from Israel from six to 14 days' gaol for illegal entry. They will be expel-, led after serving the terms. i A.P
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  • 192 3 BRITAIN TOLD OF ODDS LONDON, Friday. MR. PETER Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade, last night said that man-made obstacles, tariff barriers, government restrictions and the cold war were holding up Britain's essential exports Though she was still holding her own share of trade,
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  • 63 3 LONDON, Fri— Emergency Defence Regulations surviving in Britain since the end of the i war are to be further cut down. A White Paper said that by December 10. 76 regulations out ,of 173 in force on December 15 I iast year will have been
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  • 28 3 ROLLA. North Dakota. Fri Four children aged from two to eight were burned to death in a farm fire near here early todav.— AJ».
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  • 34 3 itncriAiN, m. me lormer Persian Prime Minister. Dr i Mossadeq, will stand trial on Sunday instead of on Wednesday as originally fixed, the chief prosecutor. Brig. Hussein Azemoaeh, said yesterday. Reuter
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  • 33 3 BACKROOM girls of the Women's Royal Army Corps inspert hand grenades in an ordnance depot before they are sent to British troops all over the world, including Malaya. Reuter picture.
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  • 115 3 'Deserter' was in Army hospital LONDON. Fri. r£ WAR OFFICE has apologised to a mother, whose son they had sought as a "deserter" while all the time he was lying wounded in an Army hospital in Japan Four months ago tne Army searched for Private Thomas Gunn, of the Ist
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  • 97 3 Crosby in £375,000 action LOS ANGELES, Fri. BING CROSBY testified here yesterday that he had three, may be four" whi.=ky and sodas in about eight hours before a car collision This was contained in a deposition m connection with a £375,000 damage suit filed by three occupants of a car
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  • 67 3 NSW YORK, Fri— Raymond Co&me, encased in a plaster cast and unable to move his head, was wheeled into court on a stretcher here yesterday and sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for murderlne his wife. He was crippled when he fractured his spine in
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  • 20 3 LONDON, Fri. MoscowRadio last night said that Russia had agreed to join thr International Labour Organisation. A P.
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  • 25 3 BUENOS AIRES, Fri.— ltaly and Argentina have agreed tn exchange goods valued at US $56,000,000 between now and the middle of 1954.— Reuter.
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  • 189 3 LONDON, Fri. SEVENTY-SEVEN judges and high judical officers in Britr.n are to get an increase in salary of £3.000 a year— less tax. it was announced <ast night. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Simonds. and the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Goddard, are to get increases of
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  • 272 3 LONDON, Fri. 'I'HE Stool: Exchange finished an outstandingly, good week on a rather quieter note, but the undertone continued firm In most sections British Government stock* were well maintained but Industrials encountered a little weekend profittaJtinii which particularly aflectert electrical equipment Issues and the list closed raggedly. Far
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  • 29 3 LONDON. Nov. 6 Cash Buyers £620; Sellers £625, Forward Buyers £608; Sellers V 1609; Settlement £617< 2 (down £2' 2 Turnover a.m. II tons; p m 40.
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  • 34 3 LONDON. Not. 6 Bpot 17d.. Dec 17d Jan. -Mar. 17", d.. AprJune 17 ',d.. July-Sept. 17> 2 d.. Nov. c.l.f. I'd. Dec c.l.f 17' id.. Jan Bit ."!«d. Tone: Quiet after steady
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  • 18 3 COLOMBO. Fri. Ceylon is to sell 3.000 tons of China rice to a unnamed European country.—Rmter
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  • 24 3 VATICAN CITY. Fri. A memorial library bearing the name of Pope Pius XII, is to be built at St. Louis. Montana. A.P
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  • 165 4 rE Britannia Club now has only three dance hostesses. "Since the days of the Shackle Club, we have had dance hostesses and continued to do so when the Britannia Club was opened last December," the NAAFI supervisor, Mr. R. W. Meyers, said yesterday. "We
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  • 64 4 A Flight Lieutenant missed his fountain pen and wallet on reaching his office on Thursday morning. He rang up nts wife in Chancery Lane. Singapore, to check up. She searched the house and found her handbag was alsn missing A thief had broken into their room
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  • 40 4 Tan Yam Koon. a binder, whose total indebtedness amounted to $2,213. was adjudicated a bankrupt in Singa-I pore yesterday. Tan, who is rereivinc <i salary of $293. will pay the Official Assignee $20 monthly from Dec. 1.
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  • 60 4 The Singapore Government has been asked to send delegates to World Health Organisation dental health seminar in Wellington. New Zealand, in May next year One of the aims of the seminar is to assess the needs and d'scuss the methods by which dental health programmes
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  • 72 4 Salleh bin Hassan, of thf Dockyard Fire Brigade, pleaded euilty in Singapore yesterday to driving a Royal Navy jeep without a licence and without permission and while not covered by third party insurance Inspector Bansi Singh, prosecuting, said that on October 2, 1953. Salleh while
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  • 30 4 TAIPING, Fri— Raja Bendahara of Perak will attend the Remembrance Day parade on Sunday. He will head the laying of the wreath ceruiiony at the memorial.
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  • 161 4 Duty of everuone to figh t for Colony TT la the duty of every loyal resident to volunteer to fight in the defence of the Colony, says the annual report of the Straits Chinese British Association of Singapore. It says thut every support, co-operation and encouragement should be given to
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  • 44 4 The following tickets won prizes at the Christ Church School. Dorset Road, Singapore. Funfair and Fete: First. *****4; second *****6: third *****3. fourth. *****1. consolation. *****3. *****7. *****4. *****0. ******. and *****« Prizes should br collected within a fortnight.
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  • 178 4 IPOH, Friday. THE IPOH Co-operative Housing Society has comDleted ten houses at a cost of $180,000 on a 5* acre v -plot in Kampar Road. Mr. K. Ayadurai. president of the Society mid the Straits Times today that as the site was a little way
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  • 43 4 p. Veerappan, a linotype mechanic, whose total liabilities amounted to $9,434. was adjudicated a bankrupt in Singapore yesterday. Veerappan, who filed his own petition offered to pay the Official Assignee $40 a month The offer was accepted.
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  • 234 4 He did not say how much he spent, fined WHEN Abdul Shukoor, a contractor, was yesterday found guilty in a Singapore court, on two charges under the City Council Elections Ordinance, the prosecution said it had been told by the Deputy Public Prosecutor to say, on conviction: "Let this be
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    69 4 .MR. HOWARD de S. HUDSON, a retired American busi ness executive, and his wife, have a novel way of spending their vacation outside the United States. At the rnri of each year since lMfi they have (jnne round thr world. Yesterday, they were in Singapore after travelling haH-wav. They arrived
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  • 119 4 Economic stability of Malaya is of the greatest importance to the free world, Dr Maurice L. Perlzweig. a director of the World Jewish Congress, said In Singapore yesterday. Dr. Perlzweig. who i.s on a world tour for the Congress, said that when he returned to America
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  • 24 4 The UMNO-MCA Alliance ,n Singapore has given $444 to the Social Welfare Department for victims of the recent fire at Aljunied Road.
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  • 252 4 SINGAPORE'S Public Services Commission may mini be asked to agree to a new system of promotion procedure for Government employees which is being overhauled jointly by the Government and its employees' organisations. Some of the unions and associations have been given revised forms for confidential reports
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  • 94 4 When Selamat bin Rnkri was charged in the City Police Court with erecting a house for which no plans or specifications had been approved by the Rural Board he told the court that h. had sold it to a woman for $3,500. To this the magistrate.
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  • 88 4 Nah Chiang Loons, a storrkorprr employed by the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Company Limited, who pleadr-rl guilty In Sinsaporr to three ehargM of mlsappropriatinc 17 tyres valued at $2,507 was .sentenced to ten months' gaol on each charge, the .sentences to run concurrently. Before pa.ssin<; aentenee,
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  • 65 4 Leper patients at the T:;ifalgir Home. Yio Chu K:m. Road. Singapore, were given food, clothes soap and money"! as Deepavali presents by th" 1 Ramakr:shn;i Mission on Tuesday evening. A party consist inc of B*aml j Vamadevananda. Swami Bfcatmananda. Mr V. Pakirisamy. Mr P. Govindasamy Pillai. mi
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  • 54 4 Thirty Wolf Cubs from the Majedi Detainees' Camp in Johor» Bahru yesterday came to Singapore to see an aircraft. The cubs, led by Inrhe R:i den Jaffar, a hospital attendant, visited Kallanc airport for an hour and were taken to the control towej and parkins
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  • 30 4 A Malay lodger in a hotel n Ra^e Course Road. Singapn lo.st 548 and a $37 wristi on Thursday nicht when a hureiar broke into his room
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  • 372 5 Mr- Yap warns City Council of rising water cost MR. YAP PHENG GECK, nominated City Councillor, told yesterday's budget meeting: "There are already signs that your citadel is crumbling under your very feet." He and Mr. P. R. Williams were discussing the rising cost of producing water. The point in
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  • 86 5 Inche Mahmood bin Abdul Wahab, who retired from the Singapore Police Force as Assistant Superintendent of Police in 1949 after 36 years service, is back with the Force. Inche Mahmood. who was the first locally recruited officer to be placed on the gazetted rank, was
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  • 69 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. NEARLY 600 troops, drawn from British, Gurkha, Malay and Fijian regiments and Sappers of the 50 Field Engineer Regiment and Engineer Training Centre were inspected recently at Kluang by Major Gen. G. N. Tuck, Engineer-in-Chief, now touring FARELF. Gen. Tuck, who was Inspecting
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  • 61 5 SEREMBAN, Fri.— Mrs. A. B. Ponniah, 60. mother of Mr. Stanley Ponniah, the Seremban Town Councillor, died at the; Seremban General Hospital yesterday. Mrs. Ponniah, who had been ill for some time, leaves her husband. eight sons five daughters and many grandchildren. The funeral took place
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  • 86 5 Fining a hawker. Kwek Joo Koon. $25 for selling unauthorised ice-cream in Kampong Bahru Road on Wednesday, the Singapore City Police Magistrate, told him: "People like you who sell unauthorised ice-cream are a menace to the public and the medical authorities. I am therefore im--1 posing
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  • 152 5 MARKET A PARTY ISSUE— MR. NAIR MARKET BUILDING is becoming part of Party politics in Singapore City Council, Mr. M. P. D. Nair (Labour-South) said at yesterday's budget meeting. 1 He was opposing an item providing for the building of a market at Dorset Road. The City President. Mr. T
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  • 59 5 A Chinese, who owns a coconut plantation off Lorong Stangee. East Coast Road, Singapore, saw a boy coming I down a tree, while visiting the plantation on Thursday He gave chase when the boy picked four nuts on reaching the ground. The boy i dropped
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  • 121 5 McNEICE AND THE CUP OF COFFEE rENTY cents more on 1,000 gallons of water amounts to one 1600 th of one cent more on a cup of coffee, said the City President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, at the Singapore City Council's budget meeting yesterday. He could not see the
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  • 76 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— The War Damage Commission had spent $298,429,125 up to the end of September, it was officially stated today. Expenditure for July 1 tOi Sept 30 was $17,107,295. The amount paid to claimants totalled $290,902,737 until the end of September During the third quarter $1'J.585.324
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  • 58 5 Candian geologist, Mr. George Shaw, left New York on Wednesday for Malaya to see whether aircraft can be used to make a geological survey of eastern coastal areas in the Federation. Mr. Shaw Ls coming to Malaya at the request of the Federation Government as a
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  • 150 5 Rhumba king to help Services welfare THE South American rhumba king, Xavier Cugat. will give a free performance of his road show in Singapore next month in aid of the Armed Services Welfare Association. On the afternoon of Dec 2. Cugat will give a show at the Happy World exclusively
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  • 52 5 Thieves stripped some corrugated iron sheet which walled off a store in Clyde Terrace. Singapore, on Thursday night but were beaten by wooden boxes which had been placed next to the iron. They founo the boxes, which contained glassware, too heavy to move. They left without
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  • 96 5 THIS IS THE banana tree which bore fruit for the first tirre after six years. Its owner. Mr. Ng Kirn Hock, a Straits Times machine-room worker, who lives in Upper Serangoon Road. Singapore, said that the plant never bore fruit until one day last week whe
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  • 35 5 Chong Ah Long, a provisional driving licence holder, was fined a total of $60 in Singapore yesterday for not displaying "L" plates, and not having a licensed driver beside him while driving.
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  • 120 5 rE famous German classical dance tram of Alexander Van Swaine and Lisa cxobel arrived in Singapore yesterday in the Tjiluwah from Djakarta after giving 26 displays all over Indonesia. The first dertnan dance team to call in Singapore since the end of the war. they anon
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  • 63 5 An 18-yrar-old girl. Jiang Sew Eng. was rescued from the Stamford Canal. Singapore, at noon yesterday by a Malay lorry drivrr. The driver. Selamat bin Haji Abdul Manak. was driving along Stamford Road when ho saw the gin fall off the bank of the canal. He
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  • 53 5 Francis Gromer, who permitted his friend, Teo Hock Kirn. to ride his motor-cycle while not covered by third party insurance, was fined $50 in Singapore yesterday. He said that he sprained his ankle at the car park in Happy World Amusement Park and so was unable to
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  • 32 5 SEGAMAT. Fri.— Two ous conductors. Lee Geok Chuan, 24. and Lim Hen Keng. 21. were fined $10 each at Segamat for obstructing the gangways of their vehicles with baskets.
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  • 98 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— The Llpis District Development Board is to provide $5,750 towards the building of seven four-foot wide bridges In rural kampongs. The money will be used to buy materials and penghulus in kampongs where the bridges are to be built have agreed. to provide
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  • 91 6 20 H'nrrf, fin (minimum) VAUQHAN JONES, Patnrk in London on Wcrlnrsd;iy. Nov. 4t.h. THE dfath took plarp of Mr. K. K. Ben.iamln In Kuala Lumpur yrstrrd.ay. Funeral from houw today at 4 p.m. to Clipras Road Omiptrry i Prolcst;inl Sidri. No wreaths by nqottt. CHEOK. M.iflam Lronc film Chye
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  • 28 6 2(1 W itttis J/fl ffifftiffiMfft J S 'SOT. GHANI thanks all Officers and other ranks of Singapore Police Force and frlrnds for attending his late wife's funrnil.
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  • 36 6 ZD Unrdi $10 f minimum) GRACE. Frederick. Charles. In very ri^ar memory of my beloved husband and constant pal nnd that his many friends may recall the days of his happy presence Wttft them.
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  • The Straits Times
    • 856 6 Hints of a coming American contribution towards relief for the rubber producer have accompanied the return to Washington of the American delegation to the Rubber Study Group conference in London. But the hints are vague, and the rWree of assistance uncertain. One H r"posal by the
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    • 460 6 The President of the City Council, Mr. T.P.F. McNeice, is now sufficiently used to record city budgets to be able to introduce another one without conveying undue sense of alarm. He was perhaps a little too reassuring yesterday in presenting expenditure estimates on revenue accounts totalling $84.9
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    8 6 AT THE MARKET. KUALA LUMPUR. Yong Peng Seong.
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  • 1077 6 SB IN Parliament last week the Colonial Secretary gave a list of nine British territories which have full adult suffrage in elections to their legislatures, and 14 territories which have no elected membership. The Federation of Malaya, North Borneo, Brunei anc Sarawak were four of the
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  • 83 6 From The Straits Times of November 7, 1903 rE new iron pier at Penang was used for the first time on Friday, when the s.s. Hebe was brought alongside and the 39 Penang griffins were discharged in exactly one hour. The Harbour Master and his staff superintended
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  • 865 6 A MALAYSINA NOTEBOOK ONCE, many years ago, walk ing along the Irknieid Way. the ancient track along thr downs of western England, I met a "Chinaman". I say it was many years ago, and so, to me, then he was "a Chinaman." He wore the loose blue dress, the conical
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    • 854 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. 2» Wnr4t $10 (minimum) COOK: To Vina, wife of Bob Cook, lit Kandanp Krrbau Hospital, on fill 53, a son. LEWIS: On 8th November, at the British Military Honpttal. Singapore, to Jo?n, wife of Squadron Leader Howard Lewis, n «>n. it Wordu SI* (minimum) THE Engagement is announced
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    • 65 6 YOU CAN'T 1. Leave SINOAPORE at 8 30 A.M. on a Saturday 2. Arrive In PENANG at 11,00 AM. 3. Leave PENANG at 7.45 AM. on Monday 4. Arrive in SINGAPORE at W.M AM. I 5. Having spent so mu<h time in the WEEKEND a' PENANG < <AU(7^JWAYS> EXCEPT BY
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  • 296 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. pOUR central Pahang villagers hacked to death with parangs two Chinese terrorists who were trying to get food from them. The bandits were Chin Loh Kok, a branch committee secretary, and Seng Nam. The villagers handed to the
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  • 219 7 ELECTION PLANS UNCERTAIN KUALA LI'MPITR, Fri. LEISURELY efforts arc being made by political parties in Kuala Lumpur to deride plans for Derembcr's municipal elections. Except for the I'MNO-MI Alliance which has already named its candid;! .rs no parties are vet certain of thrir intentions. The Independence of Malaya Party has
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  • 276 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. J^ TERRORIST killer, who has been responsible fin the murder of six Europeans and a Malay Special Ccnstablc in the last five years, was killed by security forces near Rasa, Sclangor on Monday. He was Ah Ngan, alias Chin Chong. commander of
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  • 30 7 Singapore Government plans to acquire about 19 acres of land at Tampenis for a beach resort with sea-bathing facilities for the public and roads leading to it.
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    28 7 MADAM CHANG CHEN-YU, wif 0 of the newly-appointed lecturer in Chinese Studies, look* at one of the 80.000 Chinese hooks which her husband has bought. Straits Times picture.
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  • 170 7 MAURICE CLARE'S violin recital at the St Andrews War Memorial Hal: last night waa triumph both of artistry nnri technique. There were suspicions of the dreaded "buzz" in his Guarrtenus durinc his npming work, the melodious but ovorrepciitive Sonatina in D Maior by Schubert, but
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  • 69 7 He had gun five years Found guilty of unlawful possession of a revolver, Chua Hong Boon was sentenced to five years' gaol to be followed by two years Police supervision by Mr. Justice Taylor at the Singapore Assizes yesterday. Chua. against whom a number of previous convictions were proved, was
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  • 123 7 RENO KM i; is only two years old, but she knew what to do when she met a saint in Singapore yesterday. The saint was Sant Ham.mi Singh Ji. a holy Sikh from F. ist Punjab, who arrived by Indian Airways Skymaster from Amrltsar yesterday. Reno
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  • 171 7 Detour in convoy ends IPOH. Friday. ONE LANE ot a temporary road at the 21st mile on the main Ipoh-Kuala Lumpur Roari was opened to throueh traffic today ending the convoy system on a sixteen-mile detour which had been in use for the past fortnight. A
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  • 132 7 TALKS ON CONTROL OF TIN KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. MR. H. S. LEE, president of the All-Malayan Chinese Tin Miners' Association, said today that he would lay the plight of the Malayan tin :n--dustrj before the United Nations Tin Commodity Conference at Geneva. "The tin situation in Malaya Is very serious,
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  • 49 7 I Oon Lin, 62-year-old painter I was in collision with a City Council lorry while cycling along oeylaiig Road. Singapore at 5.45 p.m yesterday. He died on the way to hospital. Eye-witnesses are asked to contact Inspector A. Kadir Bakar at Traffic Accidents Branch, Sepoy Lines. Singapore
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  • 74 7 Samples of Malayan worr«n a traditional crafts and of new handicrafts which they ar° now developing through the Women's Institutes were displayed at a meeting recently of the Wisbech Women's Institute at Cambridge. The occasion was the visit of Miss M. O. Herbertson. of the
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  • 29 7 Robbery charge Lee Heng and Tan Ho Lan. charged with armed robbery in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday, were remand- ed in the Central lock-up till 9m. 13
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  • 77 7 The Acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice Brown, told a young clerk. Lim Sim Tien, in the Singapore High Court yesterday that it would take 13 years to pay back $1,521 at $10 a month. Receiving and adjudication orders werr made against Lim who filed nis own
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  • 46 7 Fire broke out at the workshop of the Singapore Glass Manufacturers Company Ltd.. Henderson Road last night and damaged oil. The ground floor bedroom of a block of flats in Orange Grove caught fire last night. The fire did little dama.?r
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  • 20 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.-ln-come tax collections in the Federation for the six weeks ended Oct. 31 amounted to $14,900,885.
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  • 282 7 THE I'niversity of Malaya is becoming Hooded with parking cases. They contain renturics of China's learning—in hook form Thirty->rx big cases have already arrived. Some are in the basement and some in the photography room. Within the next 10 days 150 rrore are dm-
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  • 291 7 K.L. 'NIGHTMARE' JUNCTION PLAN IS TURNED DOWN KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. A REVOLUTIONARY scheme to provide a pedestrian subway for "nightmare" junction at Mountbatten Road bridge here has been rejected by the Municipality as being impractical and too costly, the Straits Times learned today. The plan of the subway, as submitted
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  • 195 7 K.L. Indian lawyer dies at 66 KUALA LUMPUR. Frl. MR K K. BENJAMIN, a Kuala Lumpur lawyer, died today at his home In Boon Kirn Road. He was 66 Mr Benjamin died from a heart attack while restinc after lunch, his wife told the Straits Times Mr Benjamin, the son
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  • 56 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Frt -An amendment to the Emergpnc\ Regulations enables a persn-i to buy and stock any quantit\ of rice. But "it must be certified by a Government health officer to be unfit for human consumption or be certified by an assistant supplies officer to be unfit
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  • 36 7 A burglar broke into a room in a house in River Valley Road. Singapore, occupied by l Chinese from Batu Pahat. ot: Thursday night and stole h.foat. insurance card, two fountain pens and $H
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 99 7 WHO'S AIR CONDITIONED FOR COMFORT? AERTEX Aertex keeps children at a healthy even temperature right round the clock. In the heat of th« day the special Aertex cellular weave ventilates and cools the body But if the temperature drops it acts as an insulator, keeping out the cold and preventing
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 146 7 The Weather Minimum temperature: (7.30 p.m. on Nov. 5 to 7.30 a.m. on Nov. 6>: Singapore 74 degrees. Penang 77, Kota Bahru 75, Kuala Lumpur 74, Ipoh 75, Kuantan 74. Maximum temperature: (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Nov. 6) Singapore 91, Penang 88, Kota Bahru (not received), Kuala Lumpur
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  • 264 8 Market prices daily fHE retail market prices of vegetables in Singapore will now be issued daily for farmers who are I unable to attend the market. For the benefit of the housewife, the Straits Times will also publish the prices. The prices— for 18 varieties of common vegetables will be
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  • 48 8 Rengam Murugan and Rama Narayan were fined $2 each in Singapore yesterday for behaving in a disorderly manner and fightir.c with each other at 10> 2 milestone Woodlands Road on Thursday. They told the Magistrate, that th3y were having only a friendly quarrel" on Deepavali.
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  • 62 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. I 1 Chun Ah Kee. a lorry driver, was fined $100 -n the Police Court for overloading his vehicle one ton three hundredweight. He denied that the lorry was overloaded. He said that he had paid duty on the timbpr load and the
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  • 53 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri— Lt. Col. RAJ. Wiggins will preside at a symposium to be held at the English College. Johore Bahru, tomorrow when the youth leaders in Johore Bahru for a leadership course will discuss whether youth clubs should organise sports sections affiliated to and assisted
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  • 394 8 SINGAPORE FACTORY SHUTS ITS DOORS SINGAPORE'S trade recession has hit another factory more quickly than was expected The Concrete Industries of Malaya Ltd. closed its factory at Swanage Road yesterday instead of on November 23 as announced earlier. I As a result, the Colony's unemployment figure win go up by
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  • 203 8 NEW STATE HOME FOR CHILDREN JOHORE BAHRI'. Fri. rE State Government has allotted 14 acres of land in Jalan Larkin for a state home for children. Work will begin in the new year on the construction of the home for which tenders have already been invited. The buildings, to cut
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  • 125 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. A DEMAND for immediate and direct negotiation between representatives of political parties in Malaya tnd the British Government on selfsovernment for Malaya will be •nade at a meeting of the Malay Congress in Johore Bahru on Nov. 20. The meeting, sponsored
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  • 27 8 MR. AND MRS. A. W. BOYER returned to Singapore yesterday in the TJiwangi from a honeymoon trip to Hong KonK— Straits Times picture.
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  • 163 8 AFTER receiving a letter complaining of lack of water at. the Singapore Harbour Board's Morse Road artisan quarters, the board and the Municipal Water Drpartment have begun an inquiry. The letter, signed by arti sans employed by the board says that water can only be
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  • 82 8 The City Police Magistrate Mr J M Devereux-Colebourn issued dispossession ordt l i against Padoo Singh. Bidya Dcvi and Koh Soo Ming. wh<> were charged yesterday with unlawful occupation of crown i Land in Havelock Road. It was stated that Padoo. Bidya and Koh had
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  • 162 8 FIVE creditors who received preferential payments totalling $34,0000 from Koh Liang Hwee, a bankrupt, were ordered by the Acting Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Brown, in the Singapore High Court yesterday to repay the money to the Official Assignee. Mr. S E. Teh. for the Official
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  • 46 8 B. Thomas was fined $50 in Singapore yesterday for noplijtent driving, resulting in thy collision. At the junction of Cavanagh and Bukit Timah Roads, he collided with a car that had stopped at a traffic signal, it was stated
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  • 21 8 TAIPINO Frl. -Mr. Yep Yin Kong has been appointed assistant state replant.ng officer. Dindings. He is stationed at Lumat.
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    • 293 8 LilfyJ.iu.Ld™] SINGAPORE 7.15 Mornim; Star; 730 News; 7.35 Boston Promenade Orchestra; 8. Take lt from Here: 8.30 Hospitals Half -Hour; 9. Close Down: 1 Programme Summary: 1.02 Lieth I Stevens Orchestra; 1.30 News; 1.50 1 Interlude; 2 Racing Commentaries 5 Sport- 6.30 Between You and Me; 7 News; 7.10 Spotlight
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  • Straits Times DAILY Feature:
    • 1882 9 Thousands crowded in to watch grisly spectacle of death ,-MONDAY-, The mass suicides of Bali TIIK link- South Wales mining town of Senghenydd, in Glamorgan, seethed with sullen anger as streams of morbid sightseers poured in on Sunday, October 19, 11)13.
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    • 267 9 -CHUNGKING THEATRE-* Brtwrrn Tanjonc PagAr Kd. and Maxwell Rd. Telephone No. 3327 TODAY DAILY 11AM 2.30PM 6PM 9.30PM. UIMIHII "AYVAIYAR" (Tamil) 4 Stiirrinc: K B. Sundaramhal M K. Radha $2/- Scats Bookahlr in advance For Cash SPiftr gf J Iff OPf;MN«, TODAY S ShoMs: .1, fi.i:> Ml p.m. Wo nor
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    • 341 9 rThe Ideal Gift tor X'mas at an Ideal Price of $/25C RCA 400 /'<%WX\ 'JUNIOR' |(JK THE FINEST QUALITY PROFESSIONAL <_ mm PROJECTOR FOR SUPERIOR 16 no MOVIE SHOWINGS SOUND OR SILENT. V <S>' The R.C.A. 400 Junior' i t the finest quality single case sound morion picture projector. Brilliant
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 463 9 THE \lt\Hl\X XHiUTS E.ich of the princei. Houtsain, Ali and Ahmed, believe* When Ahmed demanded proof of the he has found the world's greatest treasure with which boast, a passer-by took them to a house in the nearby neighbourhood where a to win the Princess Nouronmhar. All has bought the
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  • 354 10 Around the ninrk«>lw RUBBER JUMPS, TIN FALLS "THE Singapore share market showed a marked improvement yesterday, caused by the sharp risr in the price of rubber, and industrials and tins were firmer. More interest was shown in these sections and hence there was a welcome increase
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  • 69 10 Singapore Chinese Produce E\rhanse: N<v>n prires per pici:! wpre: Sopra: steady: November $37\ buyers. S3B sellers- December $37 buyers. $38', sellers. Coconut oil: fearly. unchanged $61 sellers. Pepper: quiet, no business reported: Muntok whit» $330. Sarawak $325. Lamponc black $290. Lewi* and Peat: Closlnz prices were: Copra: steady:
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  • 34 10 The following output* of tin-ore are reported for October Piculs Thabawellek Tin 979 Pungah Tin 1.042 Austral Amaltrmated Asam Kumbang < Tribute 1 174 Puchong 1 .525 Renong Tin 389 Rahman Hydraulic 587
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  • 38 10 On the free exchange market in Hong Kone yesterday the U.S. dollar was quoted af 5 895 for cash ann 5 9425 for T.T. Sterling was quoted at 15.73 and one tael of gold .1' 257.25.
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  • 20 10 The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was declared at $309.12' 2 a picul, down 62' 2 cents.
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  • 159 10 MELBOURNE. Frl INVESTMENTS had another stron: market on the Stock Exchange today. Trading again covered a wide flelri of industrial issue.s but there werp few bit; parcels on offer and sale-; were mosfly in small lots Metal leaders made small recoveries. Closing prices of selected stocks today compared
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  • 209 10 November first grade closed on the Singapore rubber market yesterdm at 58 cents a pound two and three-elßlnhs cents above Wednesday's close and the highest prior since early October. The mnrkel opened at 57 cents after the holiday and reports th*t Indonesia was considering sellinc rubber to Red
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 358 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS MALACCA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL APPOINTMENT Ol MI'XM IPAI, SECRETARY AND TKKAStUU: Applications for the nbo\> appointment In the salary Male i Consolidated t $960 3fiA njM are Invited from British Subjects or Federal Cltiwns with a sound knowledge nnd experience of Local Government administration, preferably solicitors. Associates of the
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    • 291 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS MUNICIPALITY OF GEORGE TOWN, PENANG I APPOINTMENT OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANTS (CADET) AppUcattOßS are invited from ■federal Citlxrns or British subjects f>>r two posts of Technical Assistant I (Cadet i in the Elrctrlcitv Supply l>rp;irtnirnt on the salary scale of $252 12A $276 per monln. Candidates should be between
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    • 327 10 NOTICES HOME GUARD QUOTATION Contractors residing In Bentong or Raub Districts are Invited to submit quotations up to 1200 hrs. on Friday 13th November for the construction of one brick wall 105 ft. x 12 ft. x 3 ft., adjacent to the Bentong air strip. Further particulars may be obtained
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    • 667 10 I NOTICES AUSTRAL AMALGAMATED TIN LIMITED The Directors of the above Company announce that the Ulu Yam dredge resumed productive operations on Ist November follow Ing reconstruction. Re: OSWALD ERNEST GALISTAN, Deceased ALL PERSONS having any claims against the estate of the abovenamed deceased, late of No. 203, Dorset Road,
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    • 330 10 NOTICES LANDS AT FRASER'S HILL The following adjoining lots of land, with wooden bungalow erected thereon consisting of lounge dining room, two large bedrooms, two small bedrooms, two bathrooms kitchen, pantry, servants' quarters :md storerooms, and modern sanitation, are for sale by private bargain, via: Mukim Of Tras. Lot No.
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    • 749 10 TENDERS TENDERS are Invited from bonn flde contractors (Classes A, B and C Registration P.W.D.) (or the construction of a number of build incs being the first contract forming the first part of Phase 1 of Lady Templer's Hospital tor Tuberculosis at Cheras Road. Kuala I, umpur. Specified Bills of
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    • 303 10 SINGAPORE RED FUNNEL LINES: HEAP ENC MOH SS CO LTD. SOON BEE STEAMSHIP CO., (S) LTD. 33/35, Teluk Aver Street 'Phone 3448. *.V. "GIANC BEE" DIRECT S.MI.IXCS TO DJAKARTA CHERIBON FORTNKiIITI.Y SERVICE A. Spore appr. Not. 10 1.. Spore app. Nor. 13 M.V. "GIANC. SENG" SAILINGS TO RI.IN.IOF. PK PINANG
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  • The SATURDAY FORUM
    • 187 12 IT is admitted that the American synthetic rubber industry is a strategic "must", but would a 50 per cent, cut in production endanger the U.S. and the free world? If it would, then why should not the U.S. Government stock-pile a further quantity of natural rubber to last
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    • 345 12 r FHp; cartoonist in last Satur- f -I day's Forum hit the nail on the head. Ramasamy. the I Indian rubber tapper, rightly Corrves the title deed of the estate where he has spent his life-time. U.S. Supremo Court. Justice w O. Douglas in an article on
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    • 89 12 A NOTICE issued by <he r J' s H f UI Morr.inß School. S'"caporp. to parents whose children are accepted for classes -.n 1954 contains the fnllowHill Morninß School will function in the afternoon I think the Education Department owes perplexed parents an explanation. Most parents prefer to
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    • 191 12 YVETTE LESFRSJM states: A .six or nine month ccirse m a good commercial school is all that any well-mannered, intelligent Asian girl with, of course, a good knowledge of English needs" to become a secretary. From my 20 years' experience I as a shorthand writer, and as
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    • 270 12 Keeping Templer in jungle? PR the higher education ol an estimated maximum of 3,000 during a stated period— $145 million (roll it around your tongue, Sir). For the elementary education of an estimated 3,000,000 during the same period $nil. If there is anything In this world more calculated to keep
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    • 462 12 TAKE WARNING FROM BRITISH GUIANA "THE happenings in A Guiana and the astonishing behaviour of I some of our Malayan representatives .should strike a note of warning. Switzerland and Belgium are j today the only countries with 1 elected governments and '< municipalities which are re- I prcsentative of the
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    • 162 12 rdoes seem an amazing thing that at this stage of the emergency an argument should have arisen as to what is to prevent the Sakai from producing food for the bandits, and to give information about him Can the Sakal be expected to leave his family in the
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    • 251 12 MUCH uneasiness has been felt over the building of the "new university." While there is reason to believe that it is extravagant, there is little doubt that this new university is to be the site of progress for Malaya and its people. We stress the need of
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    • 168 12 CAN the supporters of bi-lingual schools give as some idea as to how such a scheme can be carried out? From my experience as an English language teacher in Chinese schools for a considerable period I daresay it is high r:ch impossible to teach in two
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    • 265 12 ...THEN A FILM OF OUR OWN 1 WOULD like to refer to Why not Singapore?" in Stanley Street's column. Why not indeed! We at Seletar have taken the film society question very seriously, in fact, that we have formed one. We understand that we are the first service group in
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    • 98 12 IT is surprising that a London firm of architects have been asked to plun Malaya's university. Surely this should be an opportunity for Malaya's architects to help build a national university. There is ample talent in the architectural firms here, as u>ell as among the younger
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    • 119 12 Meaning of Ke lan tan ONE of your readers in Kelantan wrote suggesting that the name Kelantan was derived from the word "kelat". meaning lightning, due to the heavy incidence of lightning in the state. The Kelantan branch of the Malayan Historical Society has now received a letter from school
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    • 134 12 WHILE maintaining the action of the Tungku as nothing strange, "Not Shocked" feels it strange enough that the Government has not taken official action against Qalam and Warta for their policy. Let "Not Shocked" learn that the Government know? its path of action without having to be reminded
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    • 302 12 WE. the Qalam Press, Ltd.. publishers of the monthly magazine, Qalam and the bi-weekly newspaper, Warta, both of which are Malay publications, are a private limited company free from any subsidy, other consideration or influence either local or foreign. Our publications, while maintaining a policy
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    • 200 12 IF TWO papers have abused freedom, was Tungku Abdul Rahman's method of dealing with the papers the best? I believe that the constitutional way of doing things is the best. So, if, as "Not Shocked' suggests. "Qalam and Warta havr abused that freedom;" or, as another correspondent states,
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  • VIEWS in brief...
    • 49 12 Business premises WITH reference to the resolution passed by the committee of the Singapore Ratepayers' Association advocating the gradual decontrol of business premises. I would like to point out that this is a majority decision and does not represent the unanimous opinion of the committee. CHIN CHYE FONG. Singapore.
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    • 59 12 Railways /CHANGES to be introduced \j shortly by Malayan Railways are very welcome indeed but to make them complete, prevailing defects should be put right. Exorbitant charges, drinks served without even straws and quite often without ice. unresponsive waiters. If these faults are adequately met with, public appreciation will result
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    • 26 12 Village schools rE Government has spent a handsome amount to produce qualified teachers. These teachers should go to the remotest villages' Malay schools. O. K. Peril*.
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    • 36 12 Zebra crossing 1ITOULD the Singapore auTT thoritles please consider the advisability of zebra crossings for pedestrians along Battery Road, Orchard Road, (say. outside the Hongkong Shanghai Bank). Borneo Motors and Singapore Cold Storage? NARROW SHAPE. Singapore.
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    • 70 12 Bicycle curfew OINCE the "bicycle curfew'" *J started in Ipoh it has brought a great inconvenience to the public, especially night workers who have to travel by bus, which is very expensive to them. Previously, the bicycle restriction was meant to blockade the bandits' escape by night, but now the
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    • 66 12 Hooting KLANO, in line with other up-to-date towns has banned hooting. To achieve the object someone must appeal to the Malayan Railways for their cooperation. At present their trains give a blast on the whistle when about to leave the station, a big farewell blast when they are moving from
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    • 53 12 The gap REGARDING the letter written by an ex-teacher about a headmistress. I would like to ruggest a way to bridge the gap between the modern teachers and the old, fussy types. All principals should be trained in Teachers' Training College for one year before they are appointed officially. J.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous

  • 376 13 Singapore start well but go down 3-1 to Selangor KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. CELANGOR scored a convincing 3 l win over Singapore to become favourites for championship honours in the inter-State hockey Quadrangular Tournament which started at the Kuala Lumpur padang today. Selangor were slow to get into their stride and
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  • Article, Illustration
    45 13 NEW Zealand* Rugby Football representatives, the All B<acks. who recently arrived in England, get in some traininr. V. D. Sevan, the All Blacks half-back gets a way with the ball during a spirited practice fame at Eastbourne, in preparation for their forthcoming matches. Fox photo.
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  • 78 13 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. South Johore beat East Johore. who were making their first appearance at rugger, by 21 points (six tries and a penaltvi to three itryi yesterday. In the first half Bridge (2i. Roberts. Ungku Ibrahim and Salleh scored tries and Roberts kicked
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  • 183 13 WEEKEND SPORT TODAY HOCKEY LEAGIE. DIV. .1: Naval Base v P.W.D. S.C. Naval Base. FRIENDLY: Celyon S.C. v RAF Seletar. Seletar. RIGGER HMS MALAYA COMPETITION: Singapore v Johorr padang 5 p.m. (ref. Maj. Durrani. RNAS Sembawanr v RAF Tengah Tenrah (Mr. Readies): POLICE S.A. v RASC— Ayer Rajah Road (Sq
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  • 258 13 NS RALLY TO HOLD PER AK 2-2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri A STORMING second-half rally helped Negri Sembllan to overcome a 2-0 deficit and hold Perak to a 2-2 drawin the opening match of the quadrangular tournament played on the padang today. Perak's powerful forward line, brilliantly led by Thillianathan, attacked
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  • 62 13 JOHORE BAHRU Fri —The English College. Johore Bahru. Past and Present Combined play the Singapore Combined Schools at hockey at Singapore on Tuesday The English College team will be Foong Kong Chee; Urn Eng Huat. Md. Kasnawl: Salleh. Ang Boon Hool. Yap Chai Socn;
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  • 51 13 Singapore Amateur Boxing Association has received an invitation from the Federation Regiment Depot to send a youths' team for a match against the Depot's youths at Taiplng on Dec. 16. SAB. A has agreed to send a team provided F.R D. meets part of the
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  • 30 13 LIVERPOOL. Prl Major Dermot McCalmont's five-year-old Durante won the Liverpool Autumn Cup over 10 lurlor.gs and 170 yards here this afternoon. Osborne was second and Beddington third. Renter.
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  • 209 13 HAIKOWYU Sports Club qualified for the semi-final of the Singapore Arr«teur Football Association Junior Cud tournament wnen they I convincingly defeated Gym- khana Sports Club 4-0 at Jalan Be.sar stadium yesterday. Halkowyn will now meet RAF (Seletar) next Thursday. Haikowyu'g victory yesterday was not as easily
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  • 215 13 PENANO, Fri. |t| SADALI has been named I"! to play as second singles for Singapore against Penang in their Foong Seong Cup zone final at the Han Chiang School Hall here tomorrow and Sunday night at 7.30 p.m. Sadali will meet Lee Hoo Chye
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  • 61 13 BRISBANE. Fri. The first raajer upset of the Australian tennis season occurred today with the defeat of Australian champion Ken Rosewall by his Davta Cup teammate Rex Hart wig in the singles semi-final of the Queensland championships. Hartwig won 2-6. 6-3. 7-5, 6-2 In the other
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  • 440 13 Wai Hong breaks Varsity shot Dutt record PERAK hammer throw champion Chan Wat Hong broke the University of Malaya shot putt record at Buklt Tlmah yesterday This Is the third record to go In the University of Malaya athletic championships. On Wednesday, first dny of the championships. Neela Rajaratnam set.
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  • 373 13 TWENTY-FOUR Singapore Amateur boxers, all under 20 years, were named last night to undergo training at the Police Training School from Monday onwards for final selection in the Singapore Youth team to tour Australia at the end of this year. The
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  • 147 13 T*HE Singapore Amateur Swimming 1 Association will meet at the end of this month to decide whether Neo Chwee Kok should acceDt the invitation of the Australian Swimming Union to take part in a series of swimming championships. Mr. Tan Sin Whatt. the honorary
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  • 319 13 AUSSIE TEST MEN REPLY TO BARNES' CRITICISM MELBOURNE. Fri. LINDSAY Hassett, captain of the 1953 Australian Test team. Keith Miller the allrounder and Mr. George Davies the team's manager yesterday replied to criticism of the team in Sid Barnes's latest book "Eyes on the Ashes'. The book which U to
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  • 117 13 IPOH. Fri. OERAK Chinese Recreation Clvi who will play their 21st Sultan's Cup tennis final tomorrow when they meet Ipoh YMCA, have a good chance of regaining the troprr. which they have held 17 times sinct the competition was Inaugurated in 1928. The final will take
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  • 95 14 i \SY change has been announced v in ;he Singapore Civilians' rugby side to meet Johore in the first H.M.S. Malaya Cup competition fixture this season to be played on the Slnrapore Padang. Douglas, selected as a wingfnrward, is now unable to play, and his
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  • 263 14 By EPSOM JEEP CWEET DREAM has been a model of consistency, her form figures reading *****332, and on her favourite course I rate her chtmce highly in the Class 3, Div. I—6-f.1 6-f. handicap (Race Seven) at Kuala Lumpur today, opening
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  • 222 14 King Crow better for mile MAGNIFICENCE and King Crow, who flniihed half a length and a short head behind Shangrila in the Autumn Cup over Sfol. at Penang a fortnight ago, have been closely handicapped and it toofcs to be a near thing between them in the Class 3, Div.
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  • 186 14 gKYRIDER has been working in such great heart that I make him my best of the day in Race One at Kuala Lumpur today Skyrider. a Fairev Fulmar geld|lmr. went every bit as well as Goidrn Dolphin, a recent Class 3 winner Rt r»enang. on two mornings
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  • 26 14 RAIN fell last night and the goinu for today's races will be slightly yielding. Radio Malaya will broadcast commentaries on the first six races.
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  • 114 14 The Perak Turf Club will hold its final meeting of the season on Dec. 5. 9 and 12. There will be two runs for Cl. 3 and 4 horses. Entries close on Wednesday, Nov. 25. Distances and stakes are: Class 3. Ist run 5f str.
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  • 47 14 SEOAMAT. Fri.— North Johore will meet the Fljlans In a return rugger match at Gomall tomorrow. Both teams will not be at full strength as eight Fljlans and three North Johore players will be representing Johore State against the Singapore Civilians In Singapore.
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  • 148 14 Rare 1 2.30 SKYRIDER Pandora Demonic PANDORA Skyrlder Oreiron SKYRIDER Pandora Oregon Race 2 3.00 SAIGON BRAN Falrhead Sabak Barnam SAIGON BRAN Fairhead F.a*lr Hawk niKiimi Kabak Rernam Salmon Bran Race 3 3.30 DONCASTER P.t-.imiir.i Motion Picture DONCASTER r.i-.imm.i Lillypad DONCASTER Motion Picture Paxamora Race 4 4.00
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  • 1232 14 THE Double Totes today will be held on Races 3 and 4, and 7 and 8. The Big Sweep will be drawn on Race 8. The following horses have been scratched from all engagements: Another View, Academy Award and Zalovix. Race 1—2.30: Class 5, Div. 3 -5J
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  • 237 14 LAUREL. (Maryland). Fri. STAR horses from the United States. England. Ireland. France. Argentina and Chile, meet here tomorrow In one of the greatest international races ever run. The race, the Washington International Stakes, will be run over one mile and a half on a grass course
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  • 964 14 Hutan Melintang has trained on since Penang By EPSOM JFEP HUTAN Melintanß attempted to make all thr running: in a Div. 3, SA-f. r£cr at Penang last month, but Colleague beat him in the last 100 yards or so. The race was Hutan Mellntang'.s first in Malaya and he has
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  • 74 14 SYDNEY Fri Manager Chn Clme s;'id veslrrdav that he hv. accepted odd s of five to two tli.it American rhailencer Pappy QauM will bc.,t Australia's Jimmy Carruthers in their world biintamucicht title richt here on Nov. 13. The bout, scheduled to bc~in n: fi 4.=) p.m.
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