Singapore Standard, 29 July 1954

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  • 18 1 SINGAPORE STAND ARD m m Vol. V. No. 27. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1954 TWELVE PAGES IS CENTS.
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  • 131 1 $100-A-DAY (Quick— Quiz) CONTEST RESULT THE first Malay :irl win the >re Standard .-Quiz Contest nun binte A. tab, of 462-A iVray Road Batu ,h, Perak. She .von Contest No. 18. ch< iue for $100 I been Tl i Mr. Tan Colony sprint and Asian Games representative. Thr correct answers
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  • 53 1 July 28 Pre .dent EisenI today that the i were attempting th over the ><s in the South also told his weekly nee that the d States v/as not being i truculent in the it was determined fend it, rights and its wherever they were
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  • 19 1 AMERICAN evangelist Billy will return to Great next spring for three months of revival ng A.P.
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  • 406 1 ■*;«u«7!?- An gjo-Egypt.an agreement initialled in Cairo last night climaxed the three years of talkative tussling spotted by ugly incidents between British troops and Egyptian natives in the canal zone that followed Egypt's abrogation of the Suez treaty in 1951 BRITAIN QUITS CANAL ZONE 80,000 Troops To
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  • 82 1 CAIRO GOES 'GILA' YIRO, July 28, (Renter) Egyptians congratulated each other and embraced and kissed in the squares and streets of Cairo today as the capital celebrated the agreement with Britain initialled *ast night. Cairo Radio broadcast hundreds of words of news of the coming evacuation of British troops followed
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  • 557 1 Right Man For The Job, Say Leaders SINGAPORE'S first Speaker, who will preside over the -ew Legislative Assembly proposed for the Colony under the Rendel constitutional reforms, has been named. He is Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers, a prominent Colony I lawyer and a senior nominated City
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  • 292 1  -  BOB PERIES By GOODS alleged to have been stolen, and worth $60,000, were unearthed by Singapore Police in a bungalow in the Bukit Timah area yesterday. This follows an intensive two-day operation by officers of three divisions of the Colony Police. Three people including a
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  • 25 1 MR. Malcolm MacDonald. Commissioner General for South-east Asia, arrived in Singapore yesterday from Ifton after ?onsultatton> with the Governor of North Borneo.
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  • 87 1 Marjories Job Offer HOLLYWOOD, July 28, (UP) Marjorie Wee of Singapore was among 16 of the "Miss Universe" contestants today who were offered Jobs as show-girls at $150 a week in a fancy Hollywood night club. Owner Frank Sennes of the Moulin Rouge Supper Club said one of the beauties,
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  • 35 1 BERLIN, July 28 (AFP) —Dr. Otto John, the "runaway" security chief of West Germany, spoke over the East Berlin Radio tonight. LONDON, (Reuter)— The British Govt. announced the resignation of Mr. Oliver Lyttelton.
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  • 96 1 A BRITISH Naval diver was believed to have been attacked by a shark while carrying out a diving operation in the sea off Telok Ayer Basin Singapore, yesterday. He died later in the General Hospital. The diver, using frogman attire had just
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  • 91 1 HONGKONG, July 28, (Reuten— An American pilot. Mr. Perry B. "Mo" Cutburth said here today he had hopes that Captain Leonard Parrish missing with his two small sons from the shot down British Skymaster, is alive. Mr. Cutburth said he was willing to fly alone to Sanya
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  • 232 1 Villaaers Worship Siamese Twins As Kramats BEREMBAN, Wed.— Residents of Kampong Semerbok, Rembau, believe that the Siamese twins born to a Malay woman in the kampoiiff last m< are "kramats." The twins who have since died were buried last Sunday. But during the last week they were in their p;ircrS
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  • 40 1 Attack Red China— Rhee WASJIIiXGTON. July 28. <Reuter) South Korean President Syngman Rhce proposed today that an Asian army of more than two million men helped by United States guns, planes and ships should launch a "counter-at-tack" on Communist China.
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  • 156 1 Floods Spread Death In N-E India PATNA, North-east India, July 28 (Reutor) Nine flooded livers spread death and devastation -ion -A million Indians and swept away entire villages in north-c. India today. Bodios of people and animals w floating on the rush in in the north ol Bihar S* after
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  • 47 2 KOTA BHARU. Wed.— The Tengku Mahkota will perform the rare ceremony of pulling out the first crop of groundnuts, planted by the rayaat.s of Kampong Talang, Kota Bharu, on Friday at 10 a.m. The proceeds of groundnut sales will go to the Kalot Daerah Council.
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  • 678 2 Judge Tells DCA Official At Air Crash Inquiry MR. JUSTICE KNIGHT, Commissioner at the inquiry into the accident of the BOAC Constellation at Kallang on March 13, told Mr. R. Rendle, Chief Operations Officer (Navigation Service), Department of Civil Aviation yesterday, he was carrying his
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  • 88 2 MISS HELEN DALE, :nt General Secretary of the World Assembly of Youth who arrived in Singapore yesterday by K.L.M. plane to help organise the world meet in Singapore starting the first week of August Delegates from 62 countries will take part in the Assembly
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  • 218 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed— The film of the biggest inter-Service campaign in Malaya to wipe out Communist terrorists Operation Termite will be screened at King's House tomorrow. In just over 620 feet, the epic, filmed by four men of the Malayan Film Unit from both land
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  • 40 2 KOTA BHARU, Wed —Miss M. Liecester, Headmistress of the Zainab School, Kota Bharu, leaves by plane tomorrow for Singapore en route to Europe on six months' study leave. She intends visiting Italy Switzerland, France and England.
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  • 103 2 MALACCA. Wed. Thr Sett lenient Youth Council still short of its $5,000 goal for the entertainment of WaY delt gates when they the Settlement next month, will stage a youth I variety concert this weekend at the Methodist Girls' School Hah at Tranquerah. The
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  • 74 2 TAIPIXG, Wed.— ln aid of their club funds, the Larut and Matang Malay Youth Club will stage a grand variety concert at the St. George's School Hall on Aug. 9 and 10. Two orchestras will be in attenda.ice and the highlights of the programme will be
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  • 54 2 IPOH. Wed.— A contribution of $1,000 has been made by the Perak Government to the Artisans* Training School in Telok Anson. This school is run with the support of private funds, which have been exhausted. Recently a deputation appealed to the Mentri Besar for funds to
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  • 37 2 HONGKONG. July 28 Special Standard Service; Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were $15 68 to £1 sterling; $5.78 to US$l--$l,BlB to Malayan $1; 0.193 to one Indonesian Rupiah, Gold $250,625 to 1 tael.
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  • 123 2 Higher Services Want More Pay THE Singapore Government Higher Services Association wants the Government to revise the salary scales of its members without further delay. At the annual meeting of the Association held recently the members decided to press Government for revision of their salary, to bring it in line
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  • 100 2 PEXANG, Wed.— The Penang Camera Club has sell four photographs belonging to Mr. Chun E. Yoong as exhibits for the Malayan Agrihorticultural A><ociation Exhibition to be heid in Kuala Lumpur on Aug 7. Five members of the club have been awarded cups for the best
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  • 35 2 THE Penang Young Malayans Club will be presenting 24 items in a variety show to be held in aid of the Queen's Hall fund at Westland's School on Friday and Saturday
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  • 183 2 WHEN a prisoner has served his term, he has expatiated his wrong and society must accept him back into its fold. But Singaporeans pass two sentences on fallen men one to be served behind bars and another to be served in life outside. This pricking of
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  • Article, Illustration
    59 2 picture. MR. JOS KEYSER. a Dutch artist who has exhibited his works in Europe and the s"ar East, shows Mrs. Mary Kraal one of his oil paintings with a Javanese motif. He has a number of oil paintings depicting Eastern and Westei n scenes on show at John Little's. They
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  • 104 2 CLOSI\(i -i bber prices (cents per I in Sinea pore on Wednesday were: •>rn ■teHrr» No I Ks >, in No. 1 K.S.S. 691 No. 2 R.S.S. H No. 3 R.S.S. Ml Tone: Slightly easier. TIN PKKr I'hr prue ol tin *es ti'rday wa s 5371; per puiil.
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  • 50 2 IPOH. Wed.— A Porak Stall g to be erected in the Chen Wu Stadium. Kuala Lumpur, for the display of arts and tfts of this 'silver' State at the Malayan Agri-Horticul-tural Exhibition from Aug 7 to 9. The State Government has provided $1,500 towards I co^
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  • 69 2 Ex-Civil Aviation Chief To Testify MR. A W on, former Doctoral of civn a: for the MalaW b'. region, i s e^,.,'. arrive in today from B appear before mission of Inquiry he BOAC r t.on crash 0 learnt howi rid > tha his p, otherwj Ir s > whose
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  • 50 2 KOTA BHARZalnai Abidin. Dep man RIDA RID A here. Hp v. Sungei Teka Dua I scheme. B.ichok. an i Meh.r W iter Suj In honur Hashim bin H i newly appol] lopinent Omc •'sataf par!- H.M.N.Z.S. T HER M;i land Ship. P in Pena; Thursd
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    • 278 2 Asthma Mucus Dissolved First Day A»'.' 1 Bron.hi", >our -yntem. sap your your tiealih In 3 mil Iptl n of fam late* through c Ing the attacks < strangling my giving free, easy h. ful sleep N<* dopes, n Injections Just take pi less MENDACO t» ,< s t n4
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  • 31 3 neral from n on Saturday, and ill be i with tig Bahru ■700 -iat D< v v. Ich 11 remain rings be the Air will be de-
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    123 3 HVPPY.' You hot tkej are. Th.» family O f Mr Md Mr> I han Hip is the managing director of the Chung Khiuw «ank, Singapore) have every reason to be Two of the family returned from fcngbnd wta trrday— Waster Lee Ten* iv and Mis N \vr Teng The former
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  • 43 3 ndit, I Nav. ho S the fo!B Sir John Nicoll, will preside at T1 i.in community will also "entertain her to a •i party at the Seaview Hotel on Aug. 12, where government o;" diplomatic and commue invi*
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  • 266 3 RIDA May Get Ten If Tests Are Successful AUSTRALIAN windmills are to be used by the Rural Industrial Development Authority to help the Federation padi farmers irrigate their fields. The first of these windmills was yesterday erected at the Australian Pavilion of the Singapore Trade Fair,
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  • 37 3 AHAMEED wa s acqui and discharged in the Si pore Second criminal Dlsl Court yesterday on a charge of robbing N. Muthiah, a cook, of $6.30 at Chena Yan P: on the night of June 14.
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  • 163 3 DROP IN ILLEGAL BUILDING THERE are fewer unauthorised buildings now in Singapore than last year. Court fines have dropped from $43,921 at this time last year to $15,079 this year, according to the half yearly report of the City Architect. Mr. W. Irving Watson. This drop in court cases reflects
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  • 99 3 Hawkers Are Urged To Vote Standard Staff Reporter THE ."i.OOO-siroug Singapore Hawkers' Union, at a meeting held recently, decided to call upon all its members to vote in the City Council and Legislative Council elections. Building of co-operative markets to be run by the hawkers, like the projected Somerset Road
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  • 236 3 LARII ICATIOxN of the manner in which the $155,000 Malaya War Distress (Singapore) Fund would be distributed after final applications were received by Sept. 30, and exactly who was eligible, was given at a press conference yesterday by Mr. E.F. Middleditch, Assistant Secretary, Social Welfare Department,
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  • 203 3 MIC Men To See Higham On Polls Standard StalY Reporter TWO representatives of the Malayan End Congress in Singap will see the Colony's Under Secretary, Mr. J.D. Higham, today and discuss the problem of istration of J citizens as citizens of the United Kingdom I Colonies. The two representatives are
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  • 46 3 LEE Heng Sim was chai in the Sin Fifth I 1 Court yesterday with cheating K. Chandra Trading Co., of $2,348.50 worth of blankets ikorchiefa on July Bail of $10,000 was aIU. after Lee claimed trial. incs up for mention .IV.
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  • 30 4 THE Women's Section of UMNO in Johore Bahru. will hold a Bazaar and Fancy I Dress Competition at the <O premises today from 1 p.m to 11 p.m.
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  • 462 4 Labour Group Wants Strikers Pay Demand Met SIX Singapore City Councillors who form a Labour Group in the Council plan to walk out from a meeting tomorrow and boycott further sessions, if their bid to end the 10-day-old strike of 10,000 daily rated workers is turned down.
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  • 185 4 Socialist Leaves Too MR PETER M. WILLIAMS, president of the Singapore Workers' Union, was ordered out of a meeting, which was arranged to meet the visiting Asian Socialist Study Group Mission, by about 50 Colony trade unionists last night. The incident took place at the
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  • 161 4 THE appeals of nine SingaChinesc schoolboys for ponetneni of National Serwill be heard before the Appeal Tribunal on Aug. 10. Their appeals were to be i last Tuesday, hut their Mr C H. Koh. was not able to attend. The students are Chua Kok
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  • 51 4 SI (I LAP Boys' Club will Mcmorate its first anniry with a concert at the Siglap Community Centre, Palm Road, on July 30 (for parents) and on July 31 for Government, City officials and prominent citizens. The concert will start at 8.30 p.m. on both
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  • 28 4 THE Chairman of the Singapore Rural Board, Mr. E. V. G. Day. will attend his last meeting of the Board today before he leaves on retirement.
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  • 93 4 PENANG. Wed Reports that plans for national schools and free primary education may be shelved and fet secondary schools increased, have begun to circulate here. These reports spring from recent discussions between top Government officials and Federal Legislative Councillor the increasing cost of education in
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  • 29 4 DID you leave a Swiss Opal watch behind in Mount iLmily swimming pool recently? The watch is now at the Kandang Kerbau Police Station.
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  • 292 4  -  BERNARD WILLIAMS By Standard Shipping Reporter THE romance of a young British soldier and a Singapore Chinese girl, which had its beginning in the Colony a year ago, had a typical story book ending, when the trooper Lancashire docked here enroute to England
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  • 152 4 Standard Staff Reporter THE Working Committee of the Singapore Joint Relief Organisation yesterday rei demands of Kampong Bugis fire victim^ for a reduction of rent for those allocated houses and a mor ft eqm HO years' rent for those without The house? wer e built
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  • 76 4 SINGAPORE City Council'? Cleansing Department prosecutor Mr. D.E. Joshua, yesterday told the City Polic* Court Magistrate, Mr. J.M DevereuxColebourn, he hoped the strike of 10,000 labourers would be over in two weeks' tir He made this remark when he asked for two weeks' adjournment for a
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  • 22 4 THE body of a new-born baby was found wrapped in a piece of newspaper in Upper Duxton Road. Singapore, yesterday.
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  • 186 4 We Have Lovely Girls, Says Beauty Expert CHINESE girls in Singapore look most attractive and lovely, said Miss Shirley Nock, a Cyclax beauty consultant who arrived in Singapore yesterday on the Oranje from London An Australian, Miss Nock is in the Colony for a few months to start a Cyclax
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    • 111 4 Now thc^'s a Ronson every pocket person XgM 111 v) I Ronson Whir^w.nd A real man's light and stays alight nd shield tn satin or Chrcm.um, or lecher co Ronson Standard Pop to plea F I var ...Press. k out! Ronson Ad: Slim as a fine for dis« ng people
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  • 372 5 LI AN MET HIGH GOVT. OFFICIALS' DSP Tells Court In Bribery Case MR. RAY William Waters, Acting Deputy Superintendent of Police, Singapore Harbour Board, yesterday admitted that he met high "Government officials with Lion Teck Chew, now facing trial in the Assizes on three charges of corruptly giving a sum
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    26 5 Photo THE model oi the "Floatation Oil." through Which Mines Departures! experts have helped to turn "problem dumps" i» the Federation into potential dollar earners. Standard
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  • 62 5 treet in Singapore :ited tempo--11 the latter fall B > out of the Colony >ne of the recom- the Health City Council ip for conit a Council meeltempt i art licences ted for six months further six a maximum th case of illIntends to licence
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  • 43 5 KANAIYAN, was yesterday a former sweeper employed by the R.E F. was entenced to six months' rigouroug imiti the Singapore First Criminal District Court ••relay for stealing a camera worth t4O from an cxschoolmate on Nov L'ti. last
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  • 361 5 Standard Music Critic THE MUSICAL Society's Chopin. Festival opened in the Victoria Memorial Hall last night with the first of three concerts, with Jan Smeterlin, the eminent Polish-born pianist, as the guest artist. Smeterlin's performance of the P minor concerto was at once dramatic and tender.
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  • 95 5 THE Dutch passenger vessel. Tegelberg which berthed yesterday in Singapore brought yet another batch of 'White .an" refugees who are tleeing the terrors of Red China, to seek asylum and i new life in South America. The refugees who hail from the Red ports of Dairen.
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  • 85 5 .lOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— A new magneto offered for sale in a repair shop led to the arrest and conviction of mechanic in the Sessions Court here today. Miranda was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment to be followed by a year's police supervision on a charge
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  • 63 5 THE Standard yesterday received another 1212 for Mrs. Lum Wong Kee. the destitute I poh widow with seven children. This brings the total received so far to sr>4. "Anonymous'* of Messrs. Ritchie Bisset. Consulting Engineers and Marine Surveyors, Singapore, sent a cheque for S200; Mr. M.
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  • SINGAPORE STANDARD
    • 909 6 /\N our right, ladies and gentlemen, is Two-Gim Bam, as tough as they can make them in God's Own Country. He has wire bristles on his chest and drinks nothing but cyanide cocktails. He never opens a door: he just crashes his way through it He sleeps
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  • 937 6 India's 300 Million Illiterates Education's Struggle: Finance Main Obstacle To Advance Teachers Are Listless, Apathetic, Their Teaching Dull And Mechanical. Says An Educational Correspondent "AN the attainment of independence, India was faced with the task of remodelling: her system of education In the national interest, wrote Professor Humayun Kabir, Educational
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  • 474 6 Review of Views Socialist Labour Parties 'OMMENTING on I'tii i ted out a! a near. A: other timrs no one be inten The paper how on all >uc>' the Ma ial Party is trying to ch an agreement with the form a "uniti I to the e "ons. Such a
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  • 11 6 "So he refuses to have his bath, does he!
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  • 13 6 We cannot be just unless tie are kindhearted. Vauvenargues.
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  • 144 6 We, the PEOPLE Sir; With reference to ling the allow to in students in UK. which appeared in your issue of the L'ti'.h of July, I have this to add. 1 am i of the "local col.< studying at the University of Malaya" which Mr. ley was gracious enough to
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  • 335 6  - They 're Peeved At Ike £COME leading American women, a woman said 1 are peeved at President 2 Eisenhower, its because he J keeps giving informal stmi 2 dinners and never lias one for the ladies. i Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, a newspaper correspondent and columnist, said in a nationwide
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  • 481 6  - A Drop of INK R.B. Ooi by 'T'HE floods on the Kuala A Lumpur-Klang road this week brought some pocket money to .iterprLsing persona who helped to push cars stuck in the i Under .such circumstances car drivers would ungrudgingly pay a dollar or two to those willing to get
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  • 266 6 will be sum i to knowthat tin mo arships a* y computed on costs ol living in the Union the best way of making a given sum of money gu the longest way. Take the case ol the Penang ement Scholarship. Be--1950 ii was
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  • 303 7 US DEMANDS PUNISHMENT OF RED PILOTS WASHINGTON, July 28 The United Stores yesterday demanded "appropriate punishment" fcr o\\ Chinese Communists responsible for what it termed the "barbarous and lawless" attack on American and British planes in the South China Sea. In two sharply woraea protests to the Communist Chinese Government,
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  • 50 7 rnoio. BRITISH screen star Viriea Leigh, holidaying in Italy with her actor husband. Sir Lauraaee (Mirier is shown buyin a table cloth hand-embroidered by local arris, at I'ortifino. Sir Laurence and Lady Olivier are guests of British actor Rex Harrison and his actreal Wife Lili Palmer.- AP
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  • 222 7 UK Overseas Telex Network To Open This Autumn LONDON. July :J8 (Renter)— it new telex net-' work which will give instantaneous written communication between business offices through Britain and worldwide links with overseas Arms is lie opened this autumn by the British Tost Office, ii was announced today. The n-
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  • 207 7 SYDNEY. July 28 (Reut.r» The Sydney Morning Herald declared yesterday: "Nothing surely could be more ill advised. what >ver l*i provocation, than Admiral Stump's orders to American Pacific Fleet pilots to bo "quick on the t "gger." It added: "It is precisely because Chinese pilots are doubtless under similar
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  • 62 7 SAN DIEGO. California. July 28. <Reuter> A dog whose bite indirectly led to his mistress" death has been left $3,000 in her will with instructions that he sleep in her bed for the rest of his life. Mrs Mae Murry Green, 61. made the provisions
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  • 66 7 !ORE. I in, July m p» A 15-year-old i] ompletely without \n\i major i r at the rnment College h< Khalida Bhafqual i shortly Ac ate rer change ol 11 < rnment ..i authi told newsmen that i d experiencing a ins last Janulually
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  • 54 7 SANTA ANA. California, July 28 iAP' A physician removed an Inch-long needle erday from the right foot Of Guy J. Gilbert. 83. Gilbert recalled he accidentally swallowed tho needle 76 years ago when he 7. Abotit six months ago he began feeling a dull
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  • 28 7 MOSCOW. July 28 »AP» rsized newspaper advermenla in the Soviet pr< announced yesterday the opening tomorrow of a n< w British film, "Pickwick Papers."
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  • 233 7 WASHINGTON, July 28 (UP) Americon officials declared today that the United States will keep its carriers and planes in the South China Sea "as long as necessary", despite Red China's warning to get out or suffer the consequences They said this country Is not going
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    34 7 photo. PHILIP BLOWN pilot of the British Skymaster shot down in the China Sea on July 23, sits up in a Hongkong hospital to te!l how he < rashlanded after being hit. AP AP Radio
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  • 142 7 GOANS ARE READY FOR 'INVASION' NEW DELHI. July 28 ißeuter) Pro-Indian Goan nationalists were today poised along the borders of the Portuguese enclave of Nagar Haveii. ready for a new "invasion" of Portuguese territory. Nagar HaveU, with an urea of 148 square miles, is part of the Portuguese territory of
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  • 262 7 Sabotage Of E. Windrush Ruled 'Improbable' LONDON, July 28 (Reute r) Sabotage was ruled "improbable" yesterday as the cause of the fire which guttod the 14.650-ton troopship. Empire Windrush, in the Mediterranean last March when there were 1.489 people on board. Four of her crew died in the engine room
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  • 69 7 r Standard London Correspondent LONDON, July 78. The following *re the closing prices of rubber and tin on the London Market. LONDON RUBBER Spot ZO2d. August 20id September 20}d. October/December 20 !d. January/March 20i<J. April/June 20'd Aug. c.i.f. 20 5/16d. Tone: Very Quiet. LONDON TIN Spot
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  • 59 7 Photo. USUALLY it s the photographer who turns his camera on odd type subjects but this time this lovely group of |apancse starlets were the ones that wire surprised when they saw who w.is taking their picture. It was none other than
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  • 345 7 Lennox Boyd May Take Lytteltoris Job Cabinet Reshuffle Likely From Andrew Roth Standard Staff Correspondent LONDON, July 28. Speculation about a successor to Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whose imminent resignation is widely reported, centres around Mr. Lennox Boyd, the present Minister for Transport. Mr.
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  • 48 7 LETHBKIIKiK C.mada. Inly :!8 (AP)— A man here already has two ft- «"t in the grove. His legs were anipui.ited several months aK<>. and he had them embalmed and buried in the family plot. Now thry're lying there, waiting for the rest of Mam.
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  • 180 7 HANOI, July 28 (Reuter) The French High Command here last night announced details of its plans to evacuate the Red River delta and the shores of Tonj;kinft Gulf in 300 days. The official spokesman said units had already begun to abandon outlying posts and would congregate
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  • 27 7 I Mr. I :y. Mm Boai today thai b b pc perh ivertioilit within ths. "1 do underline the he a ink
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    • 84 7 WHICHEVER YOUR BUSINESS IS, be it:REFRIGERATION EXPERTS OR DEALERS BICYCLE TRADERS OR REPAIRERS AEROPLANE MAINTENANCE CREWS MOTOR VEHICLE PAINTERS HOUSE DECORATORS OR PAINTERS AMATEUR HOBBYISTS HORTICULTURISTS ELECTRIX Industrial All -Purpose SPRAYER "A^WIA ii«rr4iM«M( wll Give Yuu ProSBfi £_?/J I'M fessioyial Resv!' ffiy*^jk Satisfaction ihu/ £f(si<\itl GUN amaze you at an
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    • 749 8 NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD AND I HAMBURG AMERIK A LINIE lOINT SERVICE To Colombo. Genoa Marseilles. Antwerp. Rotterdam. Hamburg Bremen S pore P Sham Penang A tMOSELSTEIN (LLOYD) 3O|uly/5 Aug. 6 Aug. 7 Aug. A SCHWABENSTEIN (LLOYD) ...12/15Aug. 16Aug. Aug H6SSENSTEIN (LLOYD) 1/4 Sept 5 Sept 6 Sept c FRANKFURT (HAPAC) 26/29
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    • 1140 8 tltft BLUE FUNNEL UNIT Jg'iSS aci *«w Passage in unei) MANSFIELD CO., LTD. De«. incorporated In Singapore Carriers opilo* to proceed ?la other porta to Joart and «llscliart« carto SAILINGS to LIVERPOOL GLASGOW LONDON CONTINENTAL PORTS Due Sail* P S'ham Penang for Liverpool Glasgow tiitometlon for Uverpool Avonmoutto c. :w
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    • 993 8 SHIPPERS ELATED OVER R.I. TRADE PROSPECTS Standard Shipping Reporter MEMBERS of the shipping community in Singapore, who have recorded a slack shipping trade between Indonesia and the Colony during the yrear welcomed the news that trade between Indonesia and the Colony, which has been virtually at a standstill, can expect
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    • 725 8 EAST ASIATIC LINES SAILINGS TO CONTINENT /SCANDINAVIA For Aden. Port Said, Cenoa. Antwerp Rotterdam h Cdynia. Copenhagen. Gothenburg and O«| O t|% SWe P Vh, m x) "ASIA" Cdn: 23/24 -xx) KAMBODIA" 1/2 Aug 3/J m) "SELANDIA" 19/22 Aug 23/23 A«* ,iV, 4A «l "SAMOA' 25/31 Aug x) Calls Leixoes
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  • 334 9 CONVERSION RIDDLE IN RUBBER INDUSTRY ALTHOUGH the latest actual consumption figures available show that the percentage of natural to total new rubber in May actually increased fractionally to 49.5 per cent, it seems unlikely that, in the coming three months, improving total consumption could keep pace with the indicated rise
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    53 9 MR. lAN TANNER. (left) one of the owners or the Tanner Baftaeen Ltd.. Auckland. New Zealand, ar 1 in Singapore by (Juntas BOAT, plane recently to suprrvise his trat!e stall in the International Trad* Fair to be opened in Singapore on Saturday. Mr. It firm specializes in manufacturing wood working
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  • 88 9 LONDON. July 28. (Reuter) A significant increase in the total of sterling transferred between countries outside the sterling area i s noted by tho Bank of England in its report for the vear ended Feb. 28. 1954. No changes were made during the year in the list of
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    48 9 pirture. MR. GEORGE D. BURNS, Far East Sales Manager of Peter J. Schweitzer, one of the world's larpest manufacturers of cigarette paper, and who is now in Singapore on a routine visit. i s shown with Mr. H.G. Roclofs, Manager of Rotterdam Trading Company, the local agents. Standard
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  • 220 9 THE chairman of Klang River Tin Dreduin* Company Ltd., Mr. 11. M. Fuller, states that apart from the lower returns from the commodity, operating costs at inflationary levels still persists and in present circumstances reductions in that direction are most difficult to achieve so that
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  • 22 9 TWO proposals for the establishment of sugar fa< Uties in Ceylon are now the government, it was Ftated today.— UP.
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  • 99 9 RUBBER prices on the gapore market y a I ed slightly easi for first g: for August shipnvi' a drop cent on T Small business was n'p rlid during the day. Prices opened slightly er. but eased dunn»; the on some trade Some factory buy ported, while up< on
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  • 118 9 THE produce market In .«pore remained erally yesterday with passing. Copra, howa easier market all day. Coconut oil sellers at P.'nang indicated SSOJ per picui ing to Holiday, Cutler. I Co. Ltd 1.'.C.8 Co. Ltd. copra t (per picul) yesterday v Singapoie price* quoted Dy the Chinese Produce Excr-ange
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  • 117 9 N r \'\\Y. ,ket ay most ii were quietly steady, tins continued I t but presented ance at th e shares remained Alexandra Brick I ed a sharp decline wi' tracting buyers following the omission last year of cent, bonus divide i (iay's announcement ol l per cent final
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 351 9 111 flbner "go ahe/> *ni'"'i r-r V J r rr By Al COPI BABV, SEPCEAMT.7- BUT- DO IT hrTK?J^ EPE GOTS) >UT VOU HE V IJA^ T'^ru n r^l^T RX <t, l^/K^FfiFlJ :r^E GON TO a ELS J 1 FREE.ff- |T% OUR DCOTW X LOVES TH LI L _-X A<s
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    • 884 9 LIIM): "Gulnaar" H MMMiiwi— ii i 2.30. IJO. Ml5 pm Mjk f/^VS WKr^^T*. 7/1 l(l\: The Command CinemaS. JB^ Mm\ Lat^Vy |JIN<iAPOREj s.;U 2 30 '-ih^°K a^>J 5 n. s J/gJfWffi kl ET^^f^"^^ "^fl v l N: "An American in o. 4P BcJ td^^LY 1 KUALA M*™ S«TC4i>O*F M-MIKW Panggilan
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  • 160 10 Radio star Joy Nichols received a "welcome home" hug from Dick Bentley when she arrived back in London after a year's absence in Australia and America. And she said: "I've been a silly girl. I made a big mistake. It won't happen again." Joy's
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  • 685 10 K MOHAN KUMAR, !)OA, High Street Singapore. I am interested in receiving correspondence from pen-na's in Singapore Malaya Hong Kong and Japan, between the age s 18 to 25 years of either sexes. >ies: Swimming. reading, movies, picnics. e;e of stamps, viewcards, personal photograph, books and spo:
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    • 133 10 Sir; The "tidapathy" spirit seems to grip certain Government departments here. Public Relations is no exception, as certain of its publications will show. In the glass encased "City Guide" exhibited outside the office in High Street, is a map of the City pin-pointed with flags Indicating places of
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    • 71 10 Sir;— The Social V/elfare Department has done another good thing by providing the poor with In j legal advice. To extend this needful •ervice, I would like to suggest that it should be printed and be made available to the public as cheaply as possible or free of
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  • 435 10 Tensing Norkav may r.ot be as brilliant in the Alps as he is in the Himalaya, but he still is a good man to have at the end of one's rope, says one of Switzerland's topnotch climbers. Tensing, wh9 climbed Everest with Sir Edmund ary
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    • 366 10 CATHAY ORGANISATION ATTRACTIONS Phone ***** FOR BOOKINGS J <x^xxxxxv% AT 11 AM 1.45, 4.15, 8.45 9.30 P.M. Y<s(<-rdi>'s Premiere Completely Sold-Out Book Now And Be Sure Of Your Seats THE MIGHTIEST OF MOTION PICTURE s Cinemascope FLOODING THE SCREEN WITH EXCITEMENT AND UNEQUALLED ACTION! I 2O»ti C«ntvryfo« pitwnlt ,n j
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    • 239 10 v ifiV/ TODAY! I ri. J R I THE FRENCIiTINE I with GILBERT ROLAPiD An R.K.Oladio Pirture in TECHNICOLOR pi M.F.l.s MALAYAN GAZETTE TOMORROW MIDNiGHI^^ I "AVAN" with RAJKAPOOR I tN 7AMiL PARTLY in r SATURDAY MIDNIGHT I (SEASON FROM SUNDAY AUGUST Ist, AT THE R£\) I YOL'LL SHIVER with
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 414 10 TODAT'I wi ni \TION: Don t let the future ion you; its just as 5 i «.haky as mmi are." Uora C Harnaril H irri-<>n\ ille. m o x THURSDAY FOB EVERY- ONE: Defer decisions, under- takings until late afternoon 2 or evening. Keep clear of 1 sets, changes. Use
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  • 146 11 Guthries Spring A Surprise GUTIIRIE Sports Club sprang a surprise when they defeated league leaders Ford Sports Club. 2—l in the second round of the SBHFA Group "C" League and Cup match at Farrer Park yesterday. The first half was goalless and in the 35th minute. Guthrie were opened the
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  • 38 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Johore Rugby Union's delegate to the Malayan Rugby Union will be Mr. PGM. Lee. Mr. J.F.M. Roualle. President of the Johore R.U. has been nominated as one of the Vice-presidents of the M.R.U.
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  • 94 11 Asian Table Tennis To Be In Colony The third Asian Table Tennis championships will ta staged in Singapore from December 11-19 at the Singapore Badminton Stadium. This was the decision of the STTA who met at Dr. Paglar's residence yesterday. The meeting also elected the following as organising committee for
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  • 90 11 Negri 's Foong Seong Cup Team SEREMBAX. Wed. The following will represent Negri Sembilan against Johore in the Foong Seong Cup competition to be played at the King George V School Hall on Thursday and Friday: Lee Si Min. Lai Swee Peck, Tan Lai Chong. Lim Chin Tar. Lee Boon
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  • 560 11 seem i, thi y P <Reuter)-Pace it would S h m IS l 4 hc m <V n instrument of attack in England's T ai e Ashes in th Test cricket series against Australia next winter. In announcing the nL P r ye k
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    39 11 Tom Graveney. whose 65 in the third Test was the second highest score of the opening day, pets home as his wicket is thrown down from a throw-in. He was stumped by Imtiaz Ahmed off a ball by Shu.iauddin.
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  • 1045 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Two hundred and eight athletes an all-time record have entered for the Amateur Athletic Association of Malaya's 33rd annual championships to be held on the padang here on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 13 and 14. Selangor with 47 entrants T
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  • 530 11 Lim Wei Lon. 19 year old schoolboy from Methodist Afternoon School, will be the only player among the team of schoolboy shuttlers to represent Singapore for the second time in succession in the ond annual Malayan schoolboys championships at Penang next month. Wei Lon will be entering
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 437 11 SITDAfIONS VACANT r.,NGAPOR! CITY COUNCIL I DEPARTMENT: invited from h "A" C Ural Midd for post of Scheme m Bar/264x Bar/312 x Al2Livirv. ing t Allowances e Council from e also payable. ra and app] -able from City Applications to <ncil by 4th rMNGAPORE CITY COUNCIL H DEPARTMENT: j d
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    • 90 11 Grand Opening: Today 3 Shows: 3.15— 6.30— ».!:> p.m. Madhubala Nasir KHhn "KHAZANA" Now in Hindustani with 100'f English Subtitles (BRAND NEW COPY) Music: C. Ramchandra Sat: a.m.: 'BELLE OF NEW YORK" P.WD. TENDER NOTICE rpENDERS will be received 1 from Contractors Class •C* above at the Office of the
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    • 357 11 t si* fIM THE tASN K) WINY <~t}J SINGAPOHE STANDARD! YOU ENTER TODAY— YOU GET PAID BY RETURN! Wtt€» ntli>M €tr** Hint pi** I. We give below three clues to certain advert isemenr* »n TODAY'S pages of The Stondord Ml you have to do >to find the correct nomes of
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  • 352 12 Visiting Teams Are Now Handicapped KITALA iiimpUß Wed. The newly elected chief of the Selangor Rugby Union Mr G W. Sommerville, will urge the Malayan Rugby Union at its forthcomine meeting, to adopt a Selangor proposal that the MRU revert to the "rewa™ system
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    28 12 The World bantamweight championship f Thailand's Chamkern Sonffkitrat in training ah ft v.» 1 Robert Cohen, of France, definitelj his h.en IZIL "U from A i q P
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  • 628 12 A SOLITARY goal scored by spearhead Tommy i Misson, early in the second session of this hard i fought SBHFA Group "A" League Cup game at Jalan Besar stadium, yesterday, enabled Oriental Telephone Electric Company to edge out Shell SC and keep intact
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    52 12 THE football team of the m.v. Bouganville who have played with success in many ports of the world and recently defeated the team of another ship. tVe Thermopylae, 3 o in Singapore. Two strong supporters of the ship's team Captain N. Olsen (left) and Chief Engineer E. Guttormsen flank the
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  • 357 12 Popmen Go Down To A Gift Goal I A GIFT goal made all the i difference between victory i s and defeat to Fraser Neave, 1 who. demoralised by this un- expected turn of events, eventually lost their SBHFA's i group "A" league cup game to Hongkong Bank 4-3 at
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  • 485 12 Pulo Bukom Taste Own Medicine PULO BUKOM who have beaten strong tei if ed big upsets in Bus:: M soccer this seaon, could j not repeat their feat ag. Mercantile Bank to whom they lost 4 1 In their opening second round S.B.H.F.A. league and cup-tie at Keppel Harbour erday.
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  • 63 12 BANGKOK, July 28, (Reuter) Indian Thomas Cup badminton team headed by nonplaying captain Mr. Casmiro Gomms. Secretary of the AllIndia Badminton Association, arrived here today by air. The players are A.L. Dewan (aged 28) P.S. Chawla (26), R.A. Dongre (26) N. Natekar (22), T.N.
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  • 37 12 A FRIENDLY soccer game played between Federation of Malaya Air Training Corps "E" (Batu Arang) Flight, and KX. Van Dott's XI at Batu Arang on Sunday ended with F.M.A.T.C. beating K.L. Van Dott's XI B—l.
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  • 283 12 Penang AAA To Clash With Boys PENANG, Wed.— The Penang 1 and Province Wcllesley Combined Schools will meet the Penang Amateur Athletic As- < sociation in a contest to be held at the Penang Free School on \ug. 2. The following will represent the schools In the fifteen events. 100
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  • 363 12 THE dissolution of the Malayan Hockey Council was the inevitable result of a ruling of the International Hockey Federation and the International Olympic Committee that under no circumstances could the Federation and Singapore compete as one Malayan team in the Olympic Games, expressed Mr. G.
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  • 187 12 Watch For Mubarak Firebird PEN ANG. Wed.— The weather has lifted and conditions for track work have improved. Training: activities were mostly confined to pace work and barrier practice. Ra Li (McCloud) sprinted three furlongs in 39-2 5 and worked impressively. Thi s was the only last trial of the
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  • 64 12 TAIPING, Wed. The date of the visit of the Kowloon Bus Coy soccer tourists to Taiping has been acceler: ted to Aug. 5 instead of Aug. 8. The visiting footballers will meet a Taiping Invitation XI at the Regimental ground. As a concession to schoolboys to see
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  • 42 12 TAIPIXG. Wed.— Before large crowd at the Jalan Padan? yesterday. Kila won the annual six-a-side soccer tournev beating the In- i dian Association A" in final by IT points «4 g corner^ to 7 < 1 goal, 3 corn.' Kilat
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