Singapore Standard, 21 May 1953

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  • 16 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD mm'M.B. Vol. HI No. 31d. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1953. TWELVE PAGES 10 CENTS.
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  • 29 1 COMEIJRASH I c t 3re in I ling "er a fa I e to ti. r to sh >w thi been hit by o:
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  • 39 1 lay 20 (AP)—Pr«atta d the BrlSir -n a speech riding German exports ith tl l lib in a nat timentSir Win- Dr. K -thing ployed I H■ I n sine .jnger i e im rights."
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  • 79 1 Crowds thousands strong saw the second successive Sunday Coronation rehearsal, last week. The purpose of the rehearsal was to practi s e assembling at Buckingham P a lace and dispersing and reassembling at Westminster Abbey. Photo shows: Passing beneath the elegant triumphal archways with guilded
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    77 1 Coronation Week has yet to come, but already the members of the Foo Chow Association have perfected their "Land Dragon Dance". Last night in th e compound of the San Shan School, members of the association delighted a large crowd with their rehearsal. Dressed i& gleaming white costumes. 75 men
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  • 171 1 TOKYO, May 20.— Consultations continued here today between the chief Allied armistice negotiator Lieut.-General William Harrison and his seniors in Tokyo. Tokyo was also in continuous touch with Washington. Authoritative sources said it was expected the new series of discussions during
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  • 36 1 HANOI. May 20 (AFP) Vietminh forces have overrun the outpost of Muoncrkhua. about 105 miles north of Luang Prabang. the French High Command announced tonight The fate of the garrison is not yet known.
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  • 471 1 the PciUh aVfoJI h 23 V ar ld r m i!S t Jarecki < "'"tenant of the nlanTZf f ,8W f he surrendered XfinanMW m f ft hi ™elf. Yesterday another young pilot m an MIG made the tame flight to freedom. Dash To Freedom By
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  • 135 1 LONDON May 20. (Renter) A Foreign Office spokesman today categorically denied a press report that the British frime Minister Sir Winston Churchill is in contact with Russia about the possibility of "a b '4 Hume meeting." "l am authorised lo stale that no approaches have
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  • 60 1 LONDON. May 20 (AP) Queen Elizabeth had a preview in Westminster Abbey today of a part of the Coronation ceremony. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh dropped in at the Abbey, where the Archibishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, and others taking part in
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  • 159 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth, Lord Rowallan, has awarded the Scout Gilt Cross for gallantry to 16-year-old patrol leader Omar bin Kamal of the 7th Segamat Scout Group in Johore. Several months ago Omar was being taken to school on
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  • 34 1 ALY Khan and film star Gene Tierney, who has been a guest at his stud farm in County Kildare for the past month, left Dublin last n _;!it for Paris. AP
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  • 75 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The cabinet of the Malayan Chinese Association has completed its investigation into alleged irregularities in the Singapore branch of the MCA. An MCA cabinet official said today developments could be expected in the very near future, but he was not prepared to state
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  • 148 1 IPOH, Wed— Eight branehef of UMNO have broken aw;_v from the Perak Division and aligned themselves with the newly formed Lower Perak Division of the organisation. This new UMNO Division which will deal direct with the central organisation, he'.d its first general meeting on Sunday to
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  • 84 1 HANOI, May 20. (UP)— French and Vietnam troops smashed a new mass Communist attack todav on the vital French "maginot line" defences south of Hanoi. The assault by Vietminh rebel forces was their second large-scale attempt in a week to breach the steel and concrete defence
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  • 38 1 GENERAL .lames A. M Fleet former Command* i ol the United States Eighth Ai my In Korea, was elected lo tha Board of Direr-tors of 'jnth Century Fox Film Cor; in New York yesterday UP
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  • 29 1 A BOY who is 14 in line of succession to the British throne was born in London last night. to Mrs. Gerald Lascelles. cousin of Queen. Reuter
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  • 20 1 A CRUDE home-made exploded outside the Com, nist directed labour ofll ..t Rho near Milan last night Reuter
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  • 124 1 SINGAPORE, which has been free of rabid dogs for many years, had its first case yesterday. Rabies was diagonised in a dog from the Geylang area. Government is therefore advising owners of dogs and cats to present their animals for anti-rabic vaccination between
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  • 87 1 NEW DELHI. May 20 (Reuter) Mr. John Foster Dulles. United States Secretary of State, paid a courtesy call on Mr. Nehru. Prime Minister of India, today soon after arriving here by plane on his Middle Eastern tour. Red turbaned Indian police armed with lathis lined the
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  • 25 1 FIRE engines rushed to the House of Commons er.r'.y y. terday to tackle a fire .Tted by a faulty televisior ict.— Reuter
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  • 227 2 Standard Staff Reporter HUSKY Jacob Vouza, a British Solomon Islander who was bayoneted and left for dead by Japanese soldiers ten years ago. Is today flying to London for the Coronation. yesterday this holder of Britain's George Medal and America's Silver Star flew into Singapore
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  • 175 2 'Don't Let C- Week Delay Case'-Unions LEADERS of four industrial unions, representing more than 10,000 Government employees in Singapore, yesterday appealed to Government to make the Coronation celebrations an excuse for delaying in appointing an independent arbitrator to settle their demand for an Merlin increase in their allowances. f THP:
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  • 84 2 SINGAPORE firms and industries which have installed generating sets to ofltsel blackouts, need not iii. mantle their now thai Pasir Panjang Power Station is beginning to meet the demand. "We cannot force people to use our lectricity/* the City Electrical Engineer, Mr. C. C. Payne explained.
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  • 75 2 THE Malayan Chinese Association, .lohore State branch. will h<>Ul it., yearly general meeting In Johore Bahru on Sunday, May 24. Several important matters are expected to be discussed during the meeting besides the 1 •lions cf office bearers. Last week, a permanent l:aiion < ommittee drawn irom
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  • 44 2 THF Rev. Father John Chan, for the past few years assistant to Father Lee of the Church of St. Teresa. Kampong Bahru. Singapore, died in his parish at noon on Tuesday. Fr. Chan was 38 and was a missionary from China.
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  • 47 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— ln response to an appeal made by Dr. J. Lennox, Medical Superintendent. Tampoi Mental Hospital, the Johore State Welfare Committee has formed a committee to give assistance in promoting the welfare of patients in the hospital as well as helping them financially.
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  • 146 2 THE Singapore Larmur Department has put forward certain proposals before the Lighter Workers' Union and the management of the General Lighterage and Transport Company, to start negotiations to avert a threatened strike by more than 120 workers employed by the G.L.T.C. The Assistant Commissioner for
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  • 306 2 Single Case Found In Geylang Section A VACCINATION drive for oil dogs in fhe Singapore City area will begin today following the discovery of rabies in a dog in the area. Mr j c Drake, the City Veterinary Surgeon, told 'The Standard yesterday that vaccination would be
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  • 144 2 THE Joint Council of Action representing '12 Singapore Government employees' trade unions and associations, yesterday told Sir Edward Ritson their views on the expatriation allowances with special reference to its effect on increasing the gap between rhe total emoluments of lo.nl officers and expatriates.
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  • 130 2 SINGAPORE'S new government offices will not be built on the site of the old Shackle Club in Beach Road, said Mr. J. A. Harvey, Commissioner of Lands, yesterday. Mr. Harvey said for the time being the land at Beach Road would be retained
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  • 71 2 NO SPECIAL arrangements will be made to allow Government clerk? or workers and their families to watch the Coronation procession from the windows of Government offices flanking the procession route. Mr. John Ward, Government Establishment Officer, told The Standard yesterday it will be up to
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  • 107 2 A MAN believed to be wanted" bv th e Selangor Police in connection with a robbery of $8,000 from a woodcutter who had won a $400,')'.0 MCA lottery first prize was arrested by th e Singapore Police. The man. Liew Ah Htaw, alias Ah Sim.
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  • 71 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Peh Peng Hock was fined SlO in the Police Court today for driving a public service vehicle without a licence Mid $5 for failing to produce the licence for inspection. On this charge, he said, he could not produce it because it had
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  • 128 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed Members of the Muar Hospital Board appointed for the current year are Dato Ottoman bin B-jang, Datin Aminah binte Mohamed Shah. Mrs. Goh Chee Hian. Mr. S. Ponnampalam. Inche Salim bin Sabtu, Rev. Father L. Cordeiro. Inche Hussein bin Mohammed, Mr. Chan Shi
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    25 2 THIS large standard, a crown flanked by two Inion Jacks is part of the Coronation decorations over the door of the Overseas Chinese Bank, Singapore.
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  • 83 2 NO SPECIAL framing course in economy, courtesy and efficiency for Government clerks is planned in Singapore, as is being arranged by the Federal Government in Kuala Lumpur. Mr. John Ward. Government Establishment officer told The Standard yesterday that it is the responsibility of the departmental chief
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  • 219 2 WHILE all Singapore will be celebrating Coronation Dav on June 2, there will be at least one home in the Colony where the Coronation will take second place. The house is the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Mo bergeris m Queen Street.
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  • 31 2 ONLY 10 WOMEN WILLING 11! a *> P 1! i 01 w Thi en T> 1 i i i tr. m Th.. v Th n I 1 Mi ti I) r I
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  • 8 2 1 s to Day Dir
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    • 225 2 World Tour Contest OEADERS of the Singapore Standard arr asked to vote for the man or woman who. in their opinion, ha* contributed most lo tbe enrichment of the social cultural political economic or sporting life of Malaya. The winner will be riven a two months' Vacation round the world
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    • 167 2 CIRCUS BUSCH BERLIN «l Jmrftal \i«h»ria Sire.'! an.l l| 2 shows daily 6.00 p.m. and 9.00 p.m. EA f mmT SEI THI V ILDEST ANIMALS FROM ITALY f IVE UOM TRAINED AND SHOWN BY Mr. vMLDtO ERAttt vrngm attexyiox nu isr The lion* art bu Amrdro tierardi pai ail] De
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  • 7 3 CROSS OF SACRIFICE FOR HEROES I h
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  • 20 3 Traffic Plans For C-Day Under Study Di v be by R i lh, I The Si I- V I <• t
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  • 109 3 Rotarians Relieved Of $185; Pledge More Michael IMtfAH» and a pro- .i" 1 tou id I ..,!>. nd ,'.,1';;:":." were ,,ovv riitfri d thr rollecK,! 'u'" for t»- f Tra !«KJ of notarial- Ml isCd I" cakes, ices, sweets and toys for the party given h> the Rotary Club to
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  • 250 3 U.S. Report On New T.B. Operation TUBERCULOSIS sufferers in Singapore are being saved trom becoming respiratory cripples by operations involving the removal of parts of both lungs, Dr. G. 11. Garlick. Director of the Royal Singapore Tuberculosis Clinic, told The Standard yesterday. Commenting on news
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  • 104 3 MR. Tan Chin Tuan. deputy president of the Singapore Legislative Conn-: I will open the "Queen and Commonwealth" Poster exhibition presented by the Public Relations Office at the Victoria Memorial Haii at noon on Saturday. The Exhibition consist! of posters; on the Queen sent to Singapore
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  • 58 3 A CORONATION Memorial Service in honour of the Queen will be held at the Maghain Aboth Synagogue, Waterloo Street, at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday .lune 2. at which a spet ial prayer prepared by the Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth will be read. All members of
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  • 109 3 IT IS enough to say that we realize that carbonated beverages when properly made from pure ingredients belong in the class of health foods, writes Dr. Edward H. Cary. a past president of the American Medical Association in an article, "Carbonated beverages have
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  • 65 3 A CHINESE, who broke Into a coffee shop in Kitchner Road, Singapore, on Tuesdav took away $200 from the till but left behind a basket of cigarettes. He ua_ disturbed in his work by the appearance of the coffi e -hop assistant who woke "P at
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    66 3 ALTHOUGT the Singapore Asia Insurance Company's building i n Finlay•son Green is far from complete this haa not stopped them erecting the largest crown yet seen in Singa pore's Coronation decorations. In the crown alone, there will be 4,500 electric light bulbs, and il will be realistically made with a
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  • 33 3 SINGAPORE'S Girls Sports Club, will hold a Coronation Ball at the Badminton Stadium in Guillemard Road, on June 6 between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. The Sambodians will be in attendance.
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  • 97 3 A SINGAPORE student who is working his way through college in the United States finds the average American quick to accept any visitor into his group. The student, Mr. Wan Pin Chin en. to the U.S. as a Rotary International Fellow under the sponsorship of the
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  • 167 3 THE Deputy City President. Singapore, Mr. j. t. Rea told lhe Standard yesterday that !he of Cfity Coun-'-l1 Labour Unions should be [Jj™* for the delay in setCou g ncil lU di^ 1 with the o_sjLf ai _L Council has on* aW certa i" concesilons
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  • 435 3 WOMAN EXPERT WILL ADVISE MEDICAL DEPT. Standard Staff Reporter ATOMIC treatment, the latest advance in medical science, will be introduced into Singapore soon to help fight cancer. Dr. W.J. Vickers Director of Medical Services, disclosed at a press conference yesterday. A woman radio-therapist with some
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  • 37 3 SINGAPORE Police have found a duplicating machine along Veerasamy Road. It is a Horii Myriagraph. Rotary No. 40. No. 3647. Claimants are asked to get in touch with Inspector Mehta. c/o Kandang Kerbau Police Station.
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    45 3 photo. ALICE in Wonderland" presented by the Island Havers and a cast of more than 100 will be staged at the Singapore Victoria Theatre beginning Saturday. Picture shows on. of *he girls of Maudrene Yaps School of Dancing doing a ballet turn at rehearsals. Standard
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  • 480 3 THE POLYTECHNIC PROJECT -WHAT IS WRONG? NOT ONE member of the committee appointed to look into the question of a polytechnic institute in Singapore has been present during the enrolment of students for the government technical evening classes. None have ever visited the classes to see at first hand the
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  • 87 3 NEWLY elected members of the management committee of the Jewish Welfare Board, the controlling body of all Jewish charitable and religious affairs in Singapore, for the year 1953/1954 are:— President— Mr. S. E. Sherida, Vice-Presidents Mr. M. Lewis and Mr. E E Nathan. Hon. Treasurer Mr.
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  • 180 3 AS A result of the Singapore Government's decision to exempt entertainment duty on theatrical and musical performances, the public may now expect a larger share of entertainment. The chairman of the Singa- pore Music Society, Mr. John Ede, said yesterday: "In view of
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  • 83 3 PROFESSOR C. N. Parkinson, of the University of Malaya, is convening a meeting at the Singapore British Council Centre on May 22 at 6 p.m. to start a branch of the new Malayan Historical Society, which was founded at Kuaia Lumpur on April 30. The society was
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  • 228 3 THE new Nanyang Ur:iv*»r« sity Council will apply to tha Federation Government for permission to open a branch office in the Federation. Dr. S.Y. Wang, secretary to the University, told The Standard yesterday. The establishment of this branch office will 'egahse the formation of
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  • 52 3 SINGAPORE Customs men raided two houses in Boon Teck Road and Braddeli Road yesterday ;nd seized a total of six stills. In the house at Boon Teck Road, they found four still* m .operation, five gallons of duti- able samsu and 800 gallons rl fermented
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  • 83 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed The Chief Scout for the Federation. General Sir Gerald Templer. has told Scouts in every district to light big bonfire- on top of hills and other prominent positions, to form a a chain of bonfires throughout the country on Coronation Day. The bonfires
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  • 267 4 II OH, Wed.— Salary negotiations between the Malayan Teachers Union and Government were broken off because the official side turned down practically ever request of vital importance to the profession states the annual report of the Teachers Cnion of I erak whose annual general
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  • 305 4 ELECTION CANDIDATES OF ANY NATIONALITY KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Malayan Chinese Association will ftut up candidates of any nationality for elections to the Federal Legisative or State Councils when these are introduced into Malaya. This will be the result of its "open door" policy which
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  • 116 4 ALOR SJAR Wen Fifty families of about 200 people, mostly Siamese and Samsams, who A'ere moved :o Naka village have petitioned the Mentri Be.ar saying thev are Starving and asking for relief. They say they are at preaent living on lhe charity of. eiei^hbours and
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  • 126 4 COLOMBO. May 20, (UP)— There is yet quite a deal to be done in the control of oidium. the rubber disease, according to Dr W. E. Ripper. the Cambridge expert on plant pest.., now in Ceylon, who has concluded a survey of several rubber plantations here.
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  • 126 4 IPOH, Wed. -At a meeting sponsored by the AngloChinese Schoo l teachers fraternity on Monday, over one bundled teachers of Ipoh English Schools heard a very interesting pane] discussion on the suhject of civics in schools. The president, Mr. D. R. Daniel introduced the panel stating
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  • 162 4 Another Temple Damaged? ALOR STAR Wed The head priest of the Alor Star Siamese Temple has sent a petition o the Sultan of Kedah complaining that another temple in Kedah has been damaged It is in Titi Akar and is one of the oldest temples in Kedah Previously he had
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  • 26 4 AN elaborate programme has been drawn up for the Coronation celebra'ions in Alor Star Fireworks displays are arranged in Sik. Baling and T.angkawi districts
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  • 47 4 MR. YUSOP ABUBAKAR, Philippines Consul in Malava M es Singapore by air this morning o n a week's visit to British Worth Borneo. lie will be the jwest of the Governor. V r Ra,f h Hon at Jesselton for a day. before flying to bandakan
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  • 34 4 uerman legionnaires who lumped ship m the Straits of Ma.utra rectotly were each convicted and fined fn deJjujt one moth's iniprisontment for entering the FederaJ>n without a permit by ££<™t| ;*^.ath«a I^er
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  • 81 4 AT the recent executive committee meeting of the newly-formed Malay Culture Society of Singapore, the following were elected as members of the publicity board under the chairmanship of Tuan Syed Ahmad Aljamalulil: Inche Gu Buyong bin Adil. Che .Tah Lilawati. Inche Talib bin Yasin, Inche Abu
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  • 26 4 THERE were b'7 convictions out of a total of 118 cases of infringement of food and price control regulations in the Federation las: month.
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  • 83 4 fon rd U "<*°" Correspondent ,»d A i M y 120l 20 r The foMowin 9 ore he c, ™"9 Price, of rubber and tin on the Lo .don market: LONDON RUBBER Spot 2i;<f. July/Sept. 211*. Oct. /Dec 21 d. Jon/Mar. 202d. June/c.i.f 204d. Morket: Quiet.
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  • 24 4 THE second meeting of the sixth session of the Penang Settlement Council will be held on Monday, June 29 at 2.30 p.m.
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  • 171 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.-For having suDDlie. Sf Hew\t n n di^ 17yCar ol Chine g se S rK i PI F .i "^Y 00 Fon^ wa s convicted bv the Chief Justice, Mr. Charles Mathews, at the High Court here and ordered to
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  • 129 4 Students Disturb Meeting MALACCA. Wed. Several girl students who attended the monthlv Municipal meeting today were told by the president, Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom, not to come late to the meeting and disturb the proceedings. At the meeting, Mr. C. H. C. Kinahan suggested that tht Municipality should provide
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  • 86 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed Zakariah bin Dyah was sentenced yesterday to nine months' imprisonment by the President of the Sessions Court. Mr. J. G. Adams, on a charge of dishonestly inducing Juliana binti Abdulla to deliver to him a motor cycle valued at $380. The president
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  • 227 4 PENANG, Wed. Normal holiday hours of business will b e observed by all post offices in Penang. Kedah and Perils on Coronation Day. the acting Controller of Po.ts. Northern 2/ V A"T' e an i Province Wellesley, Kedah and Perlis ImYamaa*: 'a E SaU
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  • 239 4 TRAFFIC PLANS FOR IPOH' S C-DAY IPOH, Wed.— A number of roads here will be closed at various times on Coronation day, June 2, in connection with the Combined Services parade and the All-Communities Lantern Procession. For the Combined Services parade. traffic arrangements will be as follows:— Beifield Street from
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    44 4 -Pholo by MEMBERS of the Anglo Chinese School Art Club. Penang. under the supervision of Mr. A. Ariff, the art teacher, are busy paintin tbe Queen's portrait and several colour paintings for decorating the school building during the Coronation.- Sam Kai Yee
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  • 168 4 Vet. Dept. Building WORK will be started on Singapore's new 8250,000 Veterinary Department buildings in Kampong Java within the next two months, an official of the City Architect's Department said yesterday. The new infirmary will be a two-storey building. On tne ground fioor will
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  • 83 4 AN OFFICIAL of the Singapore branch committee of the Malayan Chinese Association told The Standard yesterday no obstacles will be put in the way of "anyone who volunteers to resign." A month back, there was every indication that the committee would remain desf to hints from
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  • 33 4 CWE HUNDRED attendants from hospitals in Butterworth and Bukit Mertajam will take a pledge in connection with "operation service." in front of the Butterworth Hospital Padang at 2.30 p.m. today.
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  • 180 4 IPOH, Wed.— A responsible government officer should know better than to criticise sentences passer 1 by courts of law, said Mr. D. R. Seenivasagam in reply to the remarks made by the chairman. Kinta Town Board. Mr. J. M. Brander, at yesterday's monthly meeting of
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  • 69 4 ALOR S'IAR. Wed— The case of three S:amr. n. al s charged last week with importating aid be:- m possession of 236 lbs of opium worth about 1100.000 came up mention in the Sessions Court Today. Hearing was fixed for July 11. Bai! for the
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  • 369 4 MALACCA, Wed.-After a stron* DuKl and a personal one from Sir IP <n» Malacca hawkers in the Municipality iU their case reviewed by a special commlH^ N This morning at their month]-.-cipal Councillors decided to npp mittee to investigate the hawker p. recommendations to
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  • 56 4 1st. Prize Is Still *****0 The vl., ting or suspei lowing the G on I Th. M prize o! est iweepst Bi' lotterv ne li Vain flit today tions s he!;) did I The sper.t fare the imi that thi MCA org a: In I the b Perak ICA Chen
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    62 5 photo. Heroes all who carried the fight to the Vietminh during the Red s big push in Laos last month, these officers (in uniform) of the French aircraft carrier Lafayette wore big smiles at a cocktail party in their honour in Singapore yesterday. From left: Cmdr. Lt. T. SanguineUi, M.
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  • 185 5 Eindard Shipping Reporter spot" French aircraft carrier rived in French Indo-China waters Communist Vietminh rebels di in Laos last month, and helped lh her two squat. rons of fighters arrived in Singapore yesterday. on her wav home to !.< r bat! le-tried lit cats
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  • 26 5 10 Months For Attempt To Rob Taxi Driver ng in Mr. n e 5) I I 7 Ti I i P ran t Ser I .ad
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  • 37 5 arade of e of ike y ht i r< nation I'• :ruit tl A.O.C. re W. J on i 21 ree are i the f> I of the Base. trsc 260 F. (Malaj
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  • 20 5 T HREE SIKHS GI VEN BAIL part •riot l_ r -ins Aehandas four was ■••-ed. offl-J i $500 j notice
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  • 11 5 Killed A Deer, With out Licence Et -I i i I
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  • 229 5 Clarification On Retirement Age Report THE statement iii a Singapore newspaper (noi The Standard) yesterday to the effect that Singapore Government officers may re: ire at the age of _:> or after completing 20 year?' service is not correct, an official release Jast night states It adds: "Although a recommendation
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    50 5 A TIGER, weighing 180 katis a nd about eight feet long, was shot by hunters last Saturday in the jungle near the village of Ayam Sooda. six miles from Batu Pahat The tiger was taken to the Batu Pahat Police Station. Photo shows the I 'inter* who shot the tiger.
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  • 201 5 TAX Siong Kok who described himself as a broker appeared in the Singapore Six tii Police Court yesterday on a summons charge of neglecting to maintain his wife. Phang Ah Kia. and their three-year-old child. since November last. Phang said that when he
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  • 142 5 THE R.A.F. (Malaya) has vacancies tor a limited number of applicants for the next course which will commence at the R.A.F. Maintenance Base Seletar on June 15. A recruiting team of an officer and an airman will be present at the following places on the dates
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  • 60 5 A SINGAPORE labourer. Mah Meng Chee. of New Bridge Road, was seriously injured when he fell 50 feet on to a pile of bricks while working on the roof of a fourstoreyed block of flats under construction in Dunearn Road yesterday morning. He was found unconscious
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  • 201 5 LONDON, May 20 (Reuter) Aboriginals deep in the Malayan jungle now work with the Police whereas formerly they lived under the domination of the Communist terrorists, Colonel A.E. Young said here yesterday. The City of London Police Commissioner who went out to Malaya to
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  • 134 5 LONDON. May 20, (AP) The London Communist newspaper. Daily Worker, on Tuesday told General Sir Gerald Templer. High Commissioner for the Federation, that it intends to send its correspondent Arthur Clegg, to Malaya td cover the fight against Communist terrorists there. At a press conference on
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  • 347 5 'Bruises On Our Children' JOHORE BAHRU, Wed— Several J<_h«r« nanr over the methods of pt_^K?«£S i?\V U l° rents rc indi 9certain teachers an school ihs£j ta an SS.h T Sff P raef «>y Parents of little girls in a pdmarv cllss M?i ls
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    42 5 Photo by Mr. Roland Perera. son o! Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Perera of s.nffapore and Mis s Nancv de Silva. niece of Mr. and Mrs. B.R. Samarawhkrema of Kuala Lumpur, whose cnqaccimnt was announced in Kuala lumpur on Sunday. Yong Peng Seong
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  • 79 5 MALAYANS ARRIVE IN BRITAIN LONDON, Wed —The troopship Empire Trooener arrived in Southampton today bearing the Malayan contingent for the Coronation on June 2. They are expected to disembark to-morrow. The Malayan Rulers' address of loyalty to the Queen secured brief notice in todays Times as hundreds of colonial and
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  • 70 5 MRS. M.G. Macvicar. London Representative of the British Red Cross Society and Miss M.T. Watherston. Asst. Sec. of the Federation Br. Red Cross Society, visited the first District Red Cross link at Mentakab. They presented membership certificates and badges to twenty-four boys and four girls of
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  • 38 5 PICHAY soi. of Adaikalam was found guilty of voluntariYAP Pei Inn was committed Nagappa Marie with a knife on Aug. 18. at about 10.00 p.m. at Oxley Rise. Singapore. He was sentenced to five months jail.
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  • 69 5 YAP Pei Inn was committed to stand trial in the Singapore Assizes on a charge of armed robbery at the conclusion of a preliminary inquirv in the Sixth Police Court yesterday. It was alleged that Yap and another man, armed with knives and revolvers, entered a flat
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  • 38 5 TWO BROTHERS of Mr. James Roxas, a Manila businessman, who was killed in the Comet jetliner crash near Calcutta early this month, arrived in Singapore by air yesterday. They will visit their brother's grave in Calcutta.
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    46 5 MR. C. V. Devan Nair. the released detainee from St. John's Island, whom the Singapore Government refused to allow to be reinstated as a school teacher, now lies in the "poor ward" of the General Hospital He was admitted to hospital yesterday morning, suffering from malaria.
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  • 165 5 Standard Staff Reporter MORE than 100 Hongkong fishermen employed by three Singapore fishing companies denied they were on "strike" and had refused to go to sea. They told The Standard they were only too willing to fi^h but their employers would not
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  • 124 5 Councillor Charges Evasion SINGA PORE Legislative Councillor. Mr. C. R. Dasaratha Raj (Lab. Rochore) yesterday charged the Acting Colonial Secretary. Mr. W. C. Taylor, with giving aggressive and evasive replies to his questions on the new Immigration Law raised during adjournment at Tuesday's Council meeting. He pointed out that the
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  • 126 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed: Tuan Haji Ahmad Shah, the Khati of Johore Bahru, wan! ed a divorce to a young Ma. ay wife whose husband refused to sleep with her immediately after their marriage. The wife. 16-year-old Salma binte Abu Bakar. told the court that after her
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  • 63 5 THE Chinese community in Mentakab and Temerloh will hold a lantern procession to celebrate Coronation Day. The Mentakab New Village Chinese will also hold a Hokkicn Music procession. The Abu Bakar School will be decorated with an arch at the entrance. The school children will be
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  • 66 5 ONC; KHOON Lim of AulOHf was charged on thiee coin's! belore the Taiping magistral, of not being a holder cf a liqror licence. having wo stills, six tins of liauor duU on which not proved 'o h _vc been paid, and 138 gallons of fermented mash. He pleaded
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  • 89 5 IPOH. Wed— A combined Method ist-Anglir:ir i service will be held In s\ John's Chunh at 11 a.m. 0 n Coronagpn Dav Jllne attended bv Military contingents. At Kampar. the Coronation church service will be in the Kampar Club at 11.18 am on Sunday, May .71 Tc.nk
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    • 226 5 Is i *9\t()l*t *A I 7_f«l* _,»*•/> km****** ar U tylW-ri of Chinese n FATHER OF MEDICINE/ Fnß^k IfiW hua toh \Mmy^ Huo Toh lived 0 long lim; ogo rxJ^W.i\« JsE* V but many Chinese rcmemfc r fCl_______vl Mr^*^^ him a$ the discovcici n. m-« ISI herbs some ot which
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  • 775 6 J^ MOTION that was to bo the prelude to the eventual abolition oi the three Chamber of Commerce seats in the Singapore Legislative Council has been ingeniously amended to give a new lease of life to representatives of the Chambers of Commerce. We cannot help but admire
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  • We, the PEOPLE
    • 132 6 Sir; What's all the fuss about smoking in the buses and the arguments over the prohibition of same. The City Councillors should first try to ban the overcrowding in the S.T.C buses. The Councillors will never find the buses owned by the companies other than the S.T.C.
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    • 64 6 Sir:— Reference Mr K. C. Ng's letter on the subject of smoking in buses. I am entirely in agreement with his views. As there are many women smokers, why shoujd not some of them voice their opinion on the matter? It is ridiculous to say that the smell
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  • 1215 6  - THE OUTCASTES FROM PRIVA TE SCHOOLS Aster Gunasekera By r\o you know that in this great domain of democracy the Federation of Malaya one who completes his or her studies in a private school and has not obtained a Senior Cambridge certificate, is regarded as an outcasts by the Government?
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  • 1046 6  - From Tanglin Club To Changi Prison Michael Goh By The story of JOHNEBER a controversial political figure who leaves for Britain tonight JOHN Francis St. John Eber, of Harrow and Christ'a College, Cambridge, and more recently, a detainee in Singapore's prisons, who was promised a brilliant career at the bar
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  • Review of Views
    • 165 6 UTUSAN Melayu yesterday described as ridiculous the fears of the Selangor Muslim Organisation (Pertubuhan Islam Selangor). a semi-official religious and 1 political body in Belangor' that a self-governing Malaya 1 would constitute a danger to Islam. The Organisation in a pamphlet recently warned Muslims that elections for the
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    • 79 6 SIN CHEW JIT POH commenting on the review of the three Chamber of Commerce seats in the Singapore Legislative Council says that unless the percentage of voters is increased the Chamber representatives are best-fitted to represent a major portion of the public. The daily stresses that a large
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    53 7 photo A cylist rides past a British army barricade C made of jerricans and J 2 sandbags at the entrance of the British Military t S police building on "Sten Gun Alley' at Ismailia, 2 J scene of recent bloody 2 battles between Egyptians J 5 and
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  • 165 7 mho Mas (AP)— Britain's action in send.Lhiii. ind commandos to the troubled Suez J« V' n- u,s scoffed at last night by Egypt's Minisvltional Guidance, I'ouad Gala, as "ridiculous t« f Vltl demonstrations." Gala was answering a qucson whether ther e were new developments in
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  • 102 7 LONDON, May 20, (AP).— Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill has ordered full texts of opposition leader Clement Attlee's foreign affairs speech- 0 be cabled to the U.S. to avoid future t^rms-Atlantic sparring matches. He indicated in the House of Commons the order has gone out
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  • 7 7 Soldier's Mother Drowned by I th in
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  • 14 7 Plane Flies Through Atomic Fire 3 four I exith -1 the St. in- AP
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  • 18 7 Inspector Charged (I (Rei on had the v Ir, n without Hippardi, 'TSS Pari and tfTBE ine 9.
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    45 7 MOST people go to the beach for fun. Not Dianne Sena, hard-working beach peach. She pukes for those pictures calculated to empty real factories and offices. She and the cameraman put in a tough day at their piedpiper trade carried on at Miami Beach, Florida.
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  • World News In Brief ...
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    • 40 7 down I 1 Seflale VO d n r b 4> votes *o 41. a 2? a 4 8ive the President to frec/e wages, prices an I rents tor 90 days iX the em.V. f a frave national '"crjfency.— A. P.
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    • 17 7 "TED NATIONS SecretP«n«ral, Mr. Dag Ham- iocid will attend the U)ronatk.n of Q uee n Elizabeth Reuter
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    • 24 7 noUff nil<( .Nations Fco- Commission for Asia „1 P«r East ,i;r F a««i'P!ed the Mysor *te iist-wt s invitation hin «*aduuarters from Urn*- Reuter
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    • 30 7 GENERAL Charles F. Coleman. British Commandant in Berlin has given the city 38 cases of clothing for East German refugees, collected by British soldiers and civilian* in West Berlin.— Reuter
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    • 29 7 MR. Oliver Lyttelton. who returned from Kenya yesterday will go to Paris today for talks on African colonial problems with M. Louis Jacquine French Minister for Overseas France.- Reuter
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    • 51 7 The official newspaper of the ruling Sorialist Unify <romni._f_i.st) Party, Neuos Ji'titMlil.iiid. explained the state needs billion* ot marks for investments to industry, for stockpiling of important materia Is and foodstuffs as "state reserves," and, finally, "for the defence of our Socialist state against the aggressive plans of the imperialist
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    • 40 7 ACTING Prime Minister of Australia, Sir Arthur Fadden has told a private meeting of State Premiers that the U.S. had aaked for the cooperation of the Australian State Governments to prevent a leakage of information on Australian uranium uuning.— AFP
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  • 148 7 NEW YORK. May 20. (UP>— Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt reprimanded Senator Joseph McCarthy in her syndicaicd column yesterday for bis attack on former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote: "In the past few days some of our Senators and Congressmen in their statements
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  • 78 7 LONDON. May 20, (AP)— The Churchill Government had a close call in the House of Commons last night and came within four votes of going down to defeat bringing Socialist cries to "resign." The issue: A Labour party proposal to exempt amateur theatricals from entertainment tax
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  • 164 7 BUENOS AIRES, May 20, (Reuter)— Failure of terrorists to secure the clock mechanism prevented them trom exploding a bomb in Congress while President Peron of Argentina was speaking there on May 1, the authorities disclosed yesterday. Federal judge Miguel Vig- no!a told newsmen that
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  • 21 7 h ,W franklin D. Roosevelt nas informed the Queen that she will be unable to attend xnc Coronation on June 2
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  • 420 7 U.S. IS BEING KEPT INFORMED OF ALL MOVES LONDON, May 20 ..AP)_p rime Minister Sir Winston Churchill is reported to be in informal touch with Russia with the idea of arranging a Big-Three parley to insure world peace. Responsible British informants said Sir Winston's move has
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  • 193 7 WASHINGTON. May 20 (Reuter) President Eisenhower said yesterday that: "The United States, if forced to total mobilisation today, could meet and win any military challenge from the Soviet leaders. In a fireside chat broadcast to the nation. President Eisenhower warned that Soviet policy had not
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  • 40 7 A ROME Tribunal has postponed until June 18 the AngloIranian Oil Company's case against an Italian Company for possession of about 5,000 tons of Persian fuel oil brought to Venice by the Italian tanker Miriella last February. Reuter
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  • 70 7 MEXICO CITY, May 20. (AP) Police yesterday arrested Major Emiliano Buenaventura Salcedo, a teacher at the army's military acadsmy and an expert in explosives, in the plot to blow up an. airliner in Bight He is the fourth person arrested in the fantastic plot in
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  • 60 7 WASHINGTON, May 20. (AP).— President Eisenhower said at a United Negro College Fund luncheon yesterday there can be no second class citizenship in this country. Speaking informally at the National Press Club. Mr Eisenhower told his audience he has always preached "against the theory" that there
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  • 185 7 PARIS, May 20, (Reuter)— Hundreds of cars, lorries and private buses, brought into Paris to thwart a public transport strike, yesterday tangled up the capital's traffic causing delays and jams at every busy cross-road. Bus and underground train workers, striking I>r the second time in
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  • 64 7 LONDON, May 20. (AP) The Queen yesterday appointed her husband. the Duke of Edinburgh, as Grand Master and First Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. The Duke succeeds the Queen's grandmother, the late Queen Mary, as Grand Master of the Order
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  • 24 7 PAKISTANI soldiers are to mount guard at Buckingham Palace later this month fo.fthe first time since Pakistan became a Dominion. AFP
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  • 26 7 BRITISH Labour leaders today approved a new five-year plan aimed at wresting power from Sir Winston CnurchiU's Conservatives at the next general elections. Reuter
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  • 25 7 BEER has helped to cure liver and bile diseases, a professor told 600 delegates trom 18 nations attending a European Brewery Convention at Nice.- Reuter
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  • 251 7 'We Can't Go It Alone,' Gen. Ridgway Matth^ SI SS GTON May 20 General r«m^_i Rld 5 Wa J' re ri ng Supreme Allied F2SK Bd if. Euro e to,d lhc Senate Foreign Relations Committee vesterdav wo a ild th L a t dOPti "5 5 Bo alone" S would
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  • 254 7 KaMgffiifttfr thC WeUare Chinese __tlo^t_; f Vgjj Immediately, the Philippine press and officialdom rose in indignation and In effect told Nationalist China to mind her own business. Bone of contention was the continued detention by the Philippine government of about 200 Chinese Communist suspects.
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    38 7 photo. KAKIM Aga Khan, elder son of Prince Aly Khan and grandson of the Aga Khan pictured at the Institute Rose> in Ra 1 1 e west Switzerland, where Karim is studying He rows for his college. AP
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  • 73 7 WASHINGTON, May 20, (Reuter)— Mr. Michael McDermott, the State Department spokesman, declined to comment on whether his Department was preparing another note to Russia requesting the return of 186 small ships supplied under lend lease during World War 11. He disclosed that the United States
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  • 196 7 LONDON, May Ml (AFP', Reports about Uftdl in aid Ml the Alau Man tor: m Kenya are lief, said a I ber of Kenya live Council, Mr. Ibrahim Nathoo, yesterday. Mr. Nathoo is a pr l Asian leader in Kenya* told a press couferen (hai
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  • 24 7 THE U.S. State Departmen said on Tuesday tha« .*>,::<.' persons who claim America. citizenship are being Km i seven Communist-ruled i ries AP
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    • 47 7 I I J Patent moii llipirrc prevent* siiiok" I touching Ihe tongue I Smoke }>a- -age always free of moisture Permanently sweet smoke SMOKES DRY SMOKES COOL SMOKES SWEET J Prices from $8/50 to $9 /so j I &< ''*^_l e£a* *Sr*t m *jm WW _a____________^^^S* 2 Bwa___Li__y____a^_y_l-S_pK
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  • 233 8 WASHINGTON, May *0, (Renter)— United States air power has been almost doubled since the Republican Administration took over in January. Mr. Dewey Short, chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, told reporters yesterday. His comments followed White House conference during which President Eisenhower briefed
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  • 205 8 LONDON, May 20: (Reuter)— A 500 m.p.h. Comet will create new air records next week as the first "pure iet M passenger transport to fly th e Atlantic. The aircraft, one of two ordered by the Royal Canadian All Force, is due to kvve London
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  • 102 8 i MOSCOW. Ma; 20: (Reuter) The Soviet President, 'arshal K. E. Voroshilov, reaUnmed the Soviet Union's policy for peace when he received the credentials of the new Siamese Minister, Mr. S. Setabut. at the Kremlin, Moscow newspapers prominently reported yesterday. Marshal Voroshilov said the Minister's efforts
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  • 19 8 THE British motorship Lady Wolmcr. ran aground yesterday near the Korean prisoner Island of Cheju. A. P.
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  • 824 8 THE following is the full D.isscnger list of the P O Canton for Penang and Singapore. The Canton is due at Penang on Saturday and in Singapore on Monday, May 25. FOR PENANG Mrs. M L. Abrams. Mrs E. A Davies an 2 children. Mr G. W
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    • 730 8 Fast Iran .pacific- Service to San Franc Is. o and Los Angeles, via Hongkong and Japan. Penang P. STiam Spore CANADA BEAR 21 25June ANGLO— FRENCH «5c BENDIXSENS LTD. 11l K l.umpur 311 Spore K22KI/3 P S'bam 295 Vlaiaxa 45h Penang 875 BZJ^INE FOK UK /CONTINENT S'pore P Svrett. Penang
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    • 1115 8 ».i >«* BLUE FUNNEL LINE a* tm n "> MANSFIELD CO., LTD. i^JST Incorp<»rsted ln Singapore Dent Carriers' option to proceed rla other ports to load and fli-charce carfo HAILINUB to LIVERPOOL. GLASGOW LONDON <ft ONIINKNTAI. PORTS Due Sails P. 9 t\*m Penans Clytoneu. for Livarpooi Ulaa..guw MaySS Mi'iiinii for
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    • 131 8 JAVA NEW YORK SAILINGS ROyal RMtSuE Uo,d Ho,, d America Line Nederland Line Rotterdam Rotterdam Amsterdam HALIFAX BOSTON. NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA BALTIMORE. MOBILE NEW ORLEANS OVERUSEL (RL) P B*haß,8 haB, iS_S_^^ A^AL) :::_"*TOBr fi=l n 7 QAROET (RL) t/ltJely 17JnIy lg/lftjriw Bare ent passenger arrommodatSn ,8/,9Ju, J Alsc accenting Montreal
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  • 199 9 Standard Special Correspondent y] lN 20— Yugoslavia and Indonesia ,vKAK tiitin. their first trade pact and inlit ne t p r here id Yugoslavia has expressed ri n 0a indonesiaji rubber. ->t W in to the Indonesian scheme wherever possible. Earlier this Indonesia
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  • 9 9 P-AAHas Set New Records ol It of i Dur-
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  • 106 9 LONDON. May 20. (Renter) Some British working men's clubs in Yorkshire and Durham i'i the north of England are giving 15 to 20 pints of e to each member on Coronation day. inouncing this In the e of Commons, Mr. .lames /il c. a Labour Member
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  • Article, Illustration
    63 9 photo. A STRETCH of country typical of that over which a new 35 kilometre road linking Kurnub with Sodom, which is situated at the southern tip of the Dead Sea. has Just been completed. It was built over some of the worst country in the world. The road
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  • 131 9 ne- 1 Putting re iproral li ;;de on a perm.. p. ent basis. Overhauling of custom .ts 10 obtain simplifiesOl pro(.-c_i.:res 'o increase "Any loss in our Govern- j ment income, by reason ol re- j duction in rate of import duties authorised for
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  • 210 9 WASHINGTON, May 20, (UP).— Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, urged today that the United States foreign trade policy should help the growth of underdeveloped areas. Johnston appeared before th e House Ways and Means Committee and supported President
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  • 123 9 Unilever's Coronation Dividends The directors of Unilever Ltd and Unilever N.V. propose declarations of final dividends for 1952 payable on June 22. For Unilever Ltd the directors recommend dividend of S\ per cent actual (l/8.4d per £1 of stock) less income tax at 9/-d in the making 13| per cent
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  • 31 9 TECHNICIANS of ten wartime Japanese aircraft builders are al present conducting eight months' study of modern foreign jet engines to pave the way for Japanese jet engines production. Reuter
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  • 336 9  -  ARNOLD C. BRACKMAN U.S., Singapore, Japan Head List For Ist Quarter By i a jV_T d S P eciol Correspondent JAKARTA, May 20— The United Stotes Singopore ond Japan proved to be Indonesia's ton rubber customers in the first quarter of IV 53. They accounted for
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  • 174 9 Standard Market Reporter RUBBER prices in Hc< Singapore market rose by 1 1/8 cents to 71 3/8 rents per lb. lor first grade rubber for June shipment yesterday. Good trade upport was evident in the mormng but only small business was reported. Prices opened at
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  • 162 9 LONDON, May 20, (Renter)— The loss of oil fields and the A bad an refinery in Persia caused a fall of £111 million sterling in the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's gross trading profit for 1952, it was announced today. It was the first
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  • 49 9 NEW DELHI, May 20. (Renter).—The Government of India yesterday announced new controls over five substances used for the production of atomic energy radium, zirconium, graphite, lithium and deuterium. Substances already under government control, under the Atomic Energy Act of 1948. are uranium, thorium. Plutonium, neptunium and beryilium.
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  • 92 9 THE produce market In Singapore was quietly svac'y in copra and dull in coconut oil with no business pawing. Copra quotations were s.ig'itly higher, buyers for Mav shipment quoting 39 With sellers at $391 per picu.. Coconut oil buvers indicated $58 with sellers at $60.\. Singapore
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  • 58 9 TULSA. May 20. (AP).— A new electric hand with fingers to te" men how to draw more oil Iron, the earth was shown at the International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa. The hand is a long tube which can be lowered thousands of feet through two-inch
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  • 38 9 HONGKONG. May 20—Special Standard Service Closing prices on the Hongkong Exchange today were $15.87 to £1 sterling $6.05 to U.S dollar: .1.827 to Malayan $1: $0,238 to one Indonesian Ruppiah Goid: $275. .7.. to one tael.
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    27 9 photo. —lIM I A WORKMAN puts tbe finishing tenches aa the Coat of Arm:, set up on one of the lamp-pos.s ai ine Orchard Circus, Singapore. Standard
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  • 15 9 JAPAN wiil exp<i' to Formosa 200.000 tons of fertiliser in August. A P
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  • 115 9 it Cl USING rubber prices irenta per Ib la Sincjpore reMrrdj. were: Buyer*. Seller* No I Rs s gpol Loose 70,' HI No. 1 R.S.S. 7K .K No. I R.S.S. US. Rg| No. 3 R.S.S. (32 *5| Tone: Quiet. SIM^PORF m 1Th r price of lin i<»«i i\
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  • 114 9 Standard Market Reporter SINGAPORE Wed Malayan share mar*'.; I dull in all section- ay. Little interest was shown in tin shares where ra] counters were marked up Industrials were quiet a n 1 business passing i lev els. while rubln continued neglected. Changed nricei were. Bu*<.»-Ts
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  • 70 9 IPOH, Wed. Tlu .-MHO strong Perak Estiv K nploye* i I Jnion h.i i Standi ofltea in B to serve the Mad ft its memben in the Krii i> trict Two permanent orf have appoir.' Mke charqc i I this br n oil < wh. h
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  • We, the PEOPLE
    • 786 10 Sir: To smoke or not to smoke? That is a question which everyone is entitled to. answer for himself. But what is very noticeable, however, is the increasingly inconsiderate attitude of smokers towards non-smok-ers. Because the former are in the majority, many of them have no
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    • 256 10 Sir: I have been criticized in several anonymous letters sent to me privately for saying in the commentary I wrote recently about "Laos and Malaya. that 'Hailing the communist attackers as liberators, Laotians rose against the French.' I have been accused of foLiowing the communist line. My
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    • 127 10 Sir; Your lady reporter who has taken so much trouble in exposing vice deserves to be congratulated for doing something for the domiciled people of this city. The officials of the Social Welfare Department who conducted your lady reporter round the "vice" areas, have unknowingly encouraged the vice
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    • 440 10 Sir: Some time ago. the Education Department put up an advertisement in the local Press, inviting applications from suitably qualified persons for the Posts of Probationer Teachers in the Normal Training Scheme. It is the Department's policy to accept for Training students with Senior Cambridge Qualifications, preference being
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    • 205 10 Sir. Our compatriot Tiira Ensio left Singapore on very short notice and did not have the opportunity of expressing his gratitude to the various people and institutions who have rendered him invaluable help during his 44 days stay here. During his visits to our mission Mr. Tiira
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    • 35 10 Sir; Parcels addressed to me from countries, whose postage stamps are considered valuable by Malayan Philatelists, always arrive without any stamps on them. Whom may I hold responsible for tnis robbery? L.D.A Butterworth.
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  • 251 10 LONDON. f^RUEL fathers escape court punishment too often while their children "are meted out the very severe punishment of being taken away from mothers," says the Association of Children's Officers. In a criticism of Britain's way of tackling cruelty to children the Association declares
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    • 365 10 ScSr. s>___L -x*' 'i *> TO O A s QIOIVHON: Moniirnt'iitv arc the grappling-iron* that hind one generation to another Jouhert. ,iJ_ ,l snA Btonr. <»>h: Attend to routine and ordinary interests during the daytime Defer important decisions and contacts until evening Circulate as widely as passible: or promo e
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  • 297 11 Standard's Cricket Reporter hted last weekend's SCA pnM< thiifi successive outright victory— lth f ii« time being the Ceylonese, who have ire disappointinf performance. I performance he has! ...to the Rest side. j But problematical if he tally successful on CC. turf wicket. the
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  • 70 11 KUANTAN, Wed. Pekan District, all out for 11 runs in a match airainst Krian Recreation Club. set. it is believed, a record for low scores in Malayan cricket. KRC howlers were in top form. Tengku l_ori s took seven wickets for 3 runs while <> las
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  • 272 11 OXFORD. May 20 (Reuter) The Australians won the toss and put Oxford University in to bat on a drying wicket when their match began todav. Tn 90 minutes Oxford were all out for .0 runs. It was the eighth time in 12 innings that they
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  • 25 11 Choong Wah Athletic Association beat Titi New Village by three games to two in the quarterfinal of the Coronation Cup badminton tournament.
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  • 407 11 LONDON, May ZO, (AP).-The cricket guts of Merry England came out in the MCC defiance of the Australians' demon attack Tuesday. Trevor Bailey and Dennis Compton put the word fight back into English cricket— and stopped the tourists all-conquering run. For the record, the same
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  • 146 11 TAIPING. Wed. Honours were shared in the first division league soccer match yes terday between the 2 Supply Depot and the Chinese Recreation Club, each side scoring a goal. The Depot had the bet f er of the exchanges but thev found th e Recs' defenders
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  • 436 12  -  "WINDSOR LAD" By OF th* newcomers who will be making their AfotU at the forthcoming Coronation meeting at Bukit Smart, considerable interest is centred on BRITISH PARAGON, a four year old gelding by The Phoenix Tlrish Guineas and Derby winner) out of
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  • 305 12 STC Find Ford Hard To Beat SINCAPORE Traction Company had to fight very hard for their B—l8 1 victory over he •Ford Sports Club in a SBIIFA Div. 2 league match at Farrer Park yesterday. Traction now have 14 points from eight outings. Play was keen and test, with Ford
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  • 86 12 IPOH. Wed.— The following have been selected to represent a PA. FA. ::i againsl Taiping on Saturday May 23 at Taiping. Chin Toong Son. Foong Kam Choy, Chan Tuck Kong. Chan Tuck Choy. Loh Hon Vian, P. Sankey, Lee Chee Kiong, P. Krishnan, Liev Fee Yuen,
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  • 44 12 PENANG, Wed. Pen mg Chinese will play a < ...i.ity Soccer match again a Province Wcllesley XI on Victoria ureea at 5.15 p.m. on Saturd a y The game will Vie played in aid of the British Red Cross Society. Penang.
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  • 51 12 photo. Jersey Joe Walcott falls to canvas with Rocky Marciano standing over him during their world heavyweight title bout al Chicago last Friday. Marciano scored one of the quickest world championship victories on record by knocking out Walcott in two minutes 25 seconds to retain his title.
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  • 642 12 PILOT PITEH (late Duty Dance) is a four-year-old gelding by Denturius out of the Flamenco mare Flamalia arid is under the wing of trainer Major Heddle. He showed pretty consistent form at two years and ran in very good company. Although he finished unplaced
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  • 997 12 BORDER SCOT, who galloped three in 37 sec on Tuesday morning with Scordance as companion, is a a four-year-old gelding by Chanteur II out of Robin's Girl (Bold Archer) Last season Border Scot won three races in succession after running: without success in his early engagements.
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  • 83 12 KUALA KLAWANG. Wed.— Yuk Wah Chinese School defeated Kuala Klauan^ Malay School 3—o In the semifinal of the Inter School soccer competition for the Coronation Cup. Yuk Wah will now meet the Government English School Jelebu, in the final on June 2 at 4 p.m. 1/7 Gurkhas
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  • 623 12 Penalty Saves HK Band A DREARY evening greeted the Wednesday Singa por Houses soccer fixtures, but to compensate for this, those vh 0 t n weather— and there were many saw some fast and liv c which the cream of the first division soccer teams, nomcl
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  • 45 12 Div. 1 OTEC drew with Hong Kong Bank A 3—3. F. N. beat Mala van Airways 4 o. stanvac beat Sime Darby 4—o. Div. 2 STC beat Ford 3—l. 1(1 v Hon? lh. Hone Ron? ink KTr k EjM 1^ poned.
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  • 155 12 MALAYAN Airways suffered their wrath sive defeat when they went down to insJIS by 4—o in their Singapore Business Hous/nT.^* soccer fixture at the F. &N. ground v.strr.l i aerated men took the field without their h and fleet-footed Awang Chik hut Alan Km iarewell
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  • 440 12 Yin Kee Was The Star Of This Match STANVAC Sports Club scored a convincing 4 o ictory over Sime Darbv Sports Club in a keenly contested Division I league encounter on the Padang yesterdav. Stanvac fielded a (en men team against Sime Darbv but was ably Ird to vietorv hv
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  • 31 12 Badminton In Kuantan Kf 1 ten Po i Bl the Ab four gai ton mat The n cd first) Tbeem S Cho..- Fn.].., IS beei I 17—14 Sulein Wong <S. Y
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  • 18 12 Johi of 1! here a l a!mn I to li.r SllM Th,. I confn 1
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  • 226 12 IPOH, Wed. Four penalty goals were scored in today's first division league soccer match between the Cheng Wah and the Tamilians which ended in a 5 3 victory for the Chinese. Rough play crept in during the closing stages of the game when Cheng Wah
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  • 127 12 THREE class 3 horses— Many Thanks. Ivernia and Badaiona have been promoted to class 2. according to the latest classification list issued by the Straits Racing Association. Other transfers are from class 3 to class 4— Nerolia. Regal Link, Canoe, Dinar and Loveset. NEW CLASSIFICATIONS
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  • 208 12 THE draw of th e Singapore AFA Challenge and Junior Cup Competitions held at the stadium yesterday, resulted as follows: CHALLENGE CUP Preliminary round: Kota Raja v Tiger SA; Katong Sajarah v Star Soccerites; Pulau Brani United v Police SA; Hi\l Dockyard v Rovers SC; AAA
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