Singapore Standard, 3 August 1954

Microfilm: NL9001
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    19 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD «l it m s Vol. V. No. 32. SINGAPORE. TUESDAY, AUGUST, 3, 1954 TWELVE PACES 15 CENTS.
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    $100-A-DAY (Quick-Quiz) CONTEST RESULT
    125 1 Mr. Ch'ng Kah Tay IS, Beach Street. Penang. wins the Standard Quick-Quiz Contest No. 2'2. A cheque of SlOO has be< n sent to him. The contest was judged by Mii-s Kitty Matheson The correct answers: CLUE No. 1- "TANGLIN SAUSAGES" »Ifs a matter of taste,
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    Reds Will Free Taiwan —Gen. Chu
    127 1 LONDON. Aug. 2 »Reuter»— Genera] Chu Teh. Commander in Chief of the Chinese Communist Army. $a: i ovei Pefc;ng Radio today that the Chinese people would iterate' Formosa and other nations would not be, all v.vd to Interfere. Addressing a nvting marfcin^ the 27th
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    N LISTS SINK RED GUNBOAT
    46 1 TAIPEI. Aug. 2. Reuter* The Central news agency, official organ of the Chinese Nationalist Government, reported today Chinese National i.-.t warships early yesterday morning .-ank one Chinese Communist gunboat and damaged another in a 60--minute clash off the central Chekiang coast.
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    10 EXECUTED
    37 1 BERLIN. Aug. 2 «AP» ADN. the official East German news ag :y, said '.oday in a Peiping dispatc'.i that 10 armed Nationalist Chinese agents" who '"invaded" the China mainland have been executed in Red China.
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    MARJORIE TAKES ON HOLLYWOOD NIGHT CLUB JOB
    124 1 MARJORIE Wee. the pretty Malayan Airways air hostess who represented Singapore in the recent Miss Universe con; *at Loi Beach, California, has accepted a USSi:O a week job at a famous night-club, the Moulin Rouge, in Hollywood. This was told to The Standard
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    SINGAPORE
    3 1 MARJORIE WEE
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    ANOTHER REVOLT IN GUATEMALA
    140 1 ANOTHER REVOLT IN GUATEMALA A.P. GUATEMALA. Aug. 2 —Cadets and officers of Guatemala's Military Academv revolted this morning. Forces of the Government of Lt.-Col. Carlos Castillo Armas moved to put down the rebellion. New York radio reports said that Colonel Castillo Armas was ducting his forces. Several sources were quoted
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    Brando As Gambler
    36 1 HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 2 (AP). Actor Marlon Brando has been signed to play the role of the romantic gambler, Sky Masterson. in a film version of Guys and Dolls." producer Samuel Goldwyn said today.
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    GOANS HOLD TWO WOMEN HOSTAGES
    156 1 NEW DELHI, Aug. 1, Goon Notionalists were today holding as hostage Madame Fidelgo, wife of the administrator of the Portuguese enclave of Nagar Haveli, east of Daman. According to Indian reports, Madame Fidelgo was captured when driving out of Selva.ssa. the main town of Nagar
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    NEW PREMIER FOR TUNISIA
    72 1 TUNIS. Aug. 2 (AP)— Tahar ben Amman, a wealthy 68--year-old Nationalist landholder, was named Premier of Tunisia today to negotiate for increased self-government with the real ruler of the protectorate France. President of the Tunisian Chamber of Agriculture, known for his friendship toward France and the
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    ONE ALIVE IN TRAIN CRASH
    46 1 MADRID. Aug. 2: (Reuter) Thirteen people were killed today when a bridge collapsed while a mixed freight and passenger train waa passing over it between Huelva and Afra in southern Spain. It is believed only one person in the train survived.
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    GOVT. TO FREE RICE
    299 1 Good News For Wives This Week By HSU TSE KWANG Standard Staff Reporter HERE IS GOOD NEWS FOR SINGAPORE HOUSEWIVES. Singapore Government will end its nine-year-old control of rice probably during this week-end. An official announcement to this effect is expected some time this week, The
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    Who Is He?
    10 1 See Top O£ PS For The Answer
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    Peer Still Gravely 111
    79 1 DEVIZES, Wiltshire. Aug. 2. (Reuter)— Lord Vivian, wellknown English impressario who was shot in the stomach last Friday night is "still gravely ill." an official at Devizes district hospital said here today. I The condition of the 48--year-old Peer was "unchanged" although yesterday there was some
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    F.B.1. HOLDS 5 TOP U.S. REDS
    28 1 WASHINGTON. Aug. 2, (AP) —The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced yesterday the arrest of five Communist Party leaders In the United States.
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    Air Fares Increased
    40 1 MELBOURNE. Aug. < AFP Major Australian airlines will increase their fares by five per cent tomorrow to meet increasing costs, was announced today. However, an airline spokesman claimed that their fares were still the lowest in th? world.
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    500 WOMEN ATTACK A FRENCH PATROL
    187 1 HANOI. Aug. 2. (UP) Widespread fighting with fists and bamboo sticks broke out between French troops and Vietminh supporters in the Red River delta, French authorities reported today. They feared serious trouble was ahead. So far the Communists had interfered only with Vietnamese. French
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    Jobless Miners Plan A 37-Mile 'Hunger March'
    213 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. —Union leaders of 1,709 colliery workers of Batu Arang are planning to stage a 37 -mile "hunger march" to the Federal capital to protest against the mass retrenchment in the mines now under way. This march was the subject of
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    29 Saved From Blazing Vessel
    271 1 Salvage Rights Contested FELIXSTOW, Suffolk, Aug. 2, (Reuter) Shortly after the dramatic rescue of 29 people from the blazing Norwegian steamer, Mildrid in the North Sea early yesterday, rival British and French seamen were contesting salvage rights of the fire-wrecked ship. Last night the 2.055-ton
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    Pak May Be A Republic
    79 1 KARACHI. Aug. 2 (AP) The Constituent -?> bly of Pakistan today -dopted a clause by which it could clare the country an independent sovereign republic under the new constitution n w being drafted. Minister of Law A.K. ""rohi. winding up the debate, observed: "it now
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    Trainer Fox Is Laid To Rest
    255 1 Trainer Fox Is Laid To Rest LIEUT-COL. Thomas Lawrence Fox, 0.8.E a leading racehorse trainer, died in Singapore early yesterday morning and was buried at Bidadari Cemetery. Although Lieut -Col Fox has been in poor health for some time the news of his death yesterday morning came as a shock
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    STATE VISIT ENDS
    21 1 EMPEROR Haile Selassie left Athens yesterday for Ethiopia at the end of his four-day state visit to Greece.
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    Youth Council's Appeal To Public
    159 2 Youth Council's Appeal To Public KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —The Malayan Youth Council today appealed to the public to offer their homes to the delegates of; T ne World Assembly of Youth congress who will be visiting the Federation ooitly. Mr. Charles Hon. General 8* eretan ol tlw Malayan Tooth Council,
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    Arson Fails To Prevent Fun At Fair
    102 2 Arson Fails To Prevent Fun At Fair TWO fire engine raced through the .sii^nt and deserted streets of Singapore to the Christ Church Girls' School in Dorset Road in the early hours of yesterday. A mystery fire had broken i Ml in the school compound at 2 10 a.m. and
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    BORNEO CO. DEALERS FETED
    78 2 THE Borneo Company Ltd., save a dinner on Sunday night to dealers from Singapore and the Federation Standard picture sbow s the representatives of (left to right): Poey Siaug Company. Chean Seng Teng Company. Eu Yan Seng Company, Fai Wah Min Company, Mr. Kob Lian Seah
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    India To Build Own Warships
    124 2 Standard Shipping Reporter INDIA'S Navy will have another cruiser in the near future when the Nigeria, which was recently acquired from the British Admiralty and is now being: modernised, joins the Fleet. This was disclosed to The Standard yesterday at a press conference aboard the
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    BLAZING SHIP DRAMA
    143 2 From Page 1 ton and Gai Floreal put 1 two men aboard. Hrr master wanted to tow her into the French territorial waters bat the Turmoil after bringing the flames under control, took over the tow. Then the Gai Floreal made fast astern and was also j
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    Sir John Calls 5-Power Meet
    44 2 Sir John Calls 5 -Power Meet COLOMBO, Aug. 2. <AP).— Ceylon's Premier, Sir John Kotelawala. said today he will summon the five Colombo powers to sound out their views on Britain's invitation to attend a meeting In September on a South-east Asia Treaty Organization.
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    'Mock Battle'
    89 2 A •"mock battle" was staged between frigates of the Royal Navy and ships or the Indian Navy when the flotilla was on its way here from Hongkong. Asdic .screening exercises also formed part of the programme of the cruise while the ships were in the China Sea prior
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    GOC Sees Malay Battalion Troop The Colours
    215 2 GOC Sees Malay Battalion Troop The Colours KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The G.O.C. Malaya. Lt. General Sir Geoffrey Bourne, flew in an RAF Devon to Taipinj? today to take the salute at a ceremonial parade of the Second Malay Battalion's trooping the colours. The Raja Muda of Perak and the Officer
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    ALLIANCE COMPLETES RETURN TO GOVT.
    333 2 ALLIANCE COMPLETES RETURN TO GOVT. Status Quo Restored KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. —The UMNO-MCA Alliance completed today its "Operation Return"' ending the boycott of Government with Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman and Colonel H. S Lee resuming charge ol the Natural Resources and Transport portfolios. The Federation Government last week
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    Red On Trial At Assizes
    134 2 Red On Trial At Assizes IPOH. Mon— A captured terrorist. Chai Kong, appeared before the Perak Assize Court today on capital charges relating to possession of a revolver and 23 rounds of ammunition. The prosecution said that Home Guards captures i'h-j as he was hiding in a niimugj pool at
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    Lum Fund Goes Up
    60 2 I THE Standard yesterday j received another SI 9 for the i destitute Ipoh widow. Mrs. Luna Wong Kee With this sum. the total now stands at $522. excluding the $211.50 which Ipoh residents gave her directly. Members of the Singapore Harbour Board Kitchen stafT gave
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    Two-Hour Pageant In Convent
    94 2 Two- Hour Pageant In Convent PENANG. Mob.— The Mari-.-.v. year was commemorated here thii evening with 0 iT tableau* pagerni "Tne Gattae Of Our Happiness* in the Convent .s noo' hall Trie Emmaculate Conception, the Nativity and the Der.'!'! of Jesus Christ, were enacted with sii'iT aalminity and gra« e
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    Workers' Earnings Show Drop
    107 2 Workers' Earnings Show Drop THE Rverace ing.s of inanu... vork« i Singapore Last year v--<\ << slight decifiw In aa I the previous y> ar I lony'.s annuaJ report states. The av. ragl year was S3! against i i952 But average ho»Fij <;•• ing.s increased rrom G2 an hour in
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    Emergency Union Talks
    57 2 KUALA LUMPUH Sion Tne b<- i-.,:ti Fi»- T r .v Worker- Un ou ea!ttßfi a« emergency meeting tonifch* to nskler tvha! a tioo will Lake ovei \:x <•■■ nissa^ of Mi !j« ong Hung Aag H*es««« I of Lever Brothers V."«,><f Uhkm. Me onf i e i
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    Colony Greets Indian Flotilla
    219 3 SINGAPORE has in recent months played host to American and British naval units. Yesterday the Colony welcomed the arrival of an Indian Naval Flotilla. The Flotilla comprises the cruiser INS Delhi, flying the flag of Rear Admiral F. A. Ballance. C.8.E.. D.5.0., six destroyers, the Godavari,
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    'Golden' Voice Contest
    105 3 'Golden' Voice Contest KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Thirteen honey-toned telecoms operators will comnete for the coveted '"Calliope" statuette here Thursday at the annual contest for the Federation's "Golden Voice Girl." These finalists have been ch «en in regional heats held recently in Penang, Ipoh. Kuala Lumpur, Seremban. Malac a. Kluang and
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    8 Feet 2 And Still Growing
    112 3 BERNARD WRAY of Drypool, Hull, is 18 years old and 8 ft. 2 ins. tall. He's said to be the tallest schoolboy in the world, and what's more, he's still growing. "Doctors say I'll just keep on and on," says Bernard. His height doesn't
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    A Price Index Survey Planned For S'pore
    324 3 A Price Index Survey Planned For S'pore Standard Staff Reporter A PILOT survey to provide the basic information required for compiling a retail price index for Singapore will be launched as soon as Government approves the necessary funds, the Acting Registrar of Malayan Statistics, Mr. R. Dow, told The Standard
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    They're Mothers Earlier
    71 3 They're Mothers Earlier T OCAL women become mothers after marriage at an earlier age than their European counterparts, Singapore's annual report for 1953 revealed. They first give birth around 20 whereas European mothers have their first babies at 25 years of age. Three "extremes" were reported last year when three
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    'Citizen Centres'
    57 3 THE Singapore Progressive Party is campaigning to register Commonwealth citizens in the South Ward, as citizens of the United Kingdom and the Colonies. It will use the Party office at 19, Kampong Bahru Road as the main "registration" office for this purpose. The Party will open similar "registration"
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    Penang UMNO Hall Ready
    58 3 PENANG, Mon.— The official opening of the new UMNO Hall at the junction of MacAlister Road and Jahudi Road by the UMNO President. Tungku Abdul Rahman, will be on Sept. 23. The new hall is now nearing completion and the UMNO, Penang Division, is shortlyholding a
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    Fined $600 For Having Chandu
    50 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. In the Sessions Court, Mersing, yesterday, Tan Siong Loh, of Singapore, was fined $300 for being in possession of 17 pellets of chandu. He was fined a further $300 for being in possession of four chandu smoking pipes and other smoking utensils.
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    Airmen Jumped Into A Taxi And Drove Off
    173 3 FOUR Royal Air Force servicemen were fined $100 each yesterday in a Singapore Court for driving a taxi, last Friday, without the owner's consent. The men were John Redpath, James Charles Lawtcn. Dou-rlas Hallet and .Votherspoon. The Magistrate, Mr. M. Karthigesu. was
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    Body Of Slain Red Is Found
    48 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The body of a Communist terrorist killed by security forces was found by a patrol of the 2nd Kind's African Rifles in the Kuantan area, Parian^, yesterday. A shotgun. 10 rounds ot ammunition and a cooking pot were recovered.
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    He Presented New Zealand To The Soviets
    253 4 trained group tn 90 artists in the slate 'j'blicity Studios. lie and his staff tell the people how the Government spends their money. He uses the press, th** radio and various visual aids such as models and exhibitions lut when he first started
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    MADRAS CUSTOMS LAWS HIT VISITORS
    230 4 MADRAS CUSTOMS LAWS HIT VISITORS Protest To Indian Govt. MALAYAN Indians visiting India often experience untold difficulties because of the Customs authorities at Madras their port of disembarkation. This was slated in a seven-point memorandum submitted to the Government of India by the Tamils* Representative Council of Singapore, representing 28
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    MALAYA TO BE PUT ON U.S. TV
    174 4 MALAYA TO BE PUT ON U.S. TV A\" American correspondent wiio will fio a 30-mlnute telecasi on Malaya lor an esti- mated 2- million American audience, arrived in Singapore yesterday by a Pan American J Airways plane. j Mr. Eugene Jones. 31-year-lold National Broadcasting Cor-' poration special correspondent j told
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    Wm. Jacks Win Trade Fair Trophy
    89 4 MESSRS. Wi liara J acks Ltd., won the first pri/p in the Singapore Trade Exhibition for the mo-; artistic and selfadvertising stall. A close second was General Electric Company. Third was the Amoy Canning Corporation, who had carried the first prize in this exhibition
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    $10 Fight: Two Injured
    69 4 Ten dollars and r. public holiday resulted in two men ending .> in th<; Singapore General Hospital yesterday. This is what was alleged to bare happened: The chief tenant of a house in Cro.ss Street asked his subtenant, a labourer, for his $10 rent. The labourer
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    Message To World Youth
    57 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Dato Ibrahim bin Abdul Rahman. Deputy Mentri Besar, Johore. who is also Chairman of t!ie Johore Youth Council, has sent a message of welcome (a the delegates attending the meeting of the World Youth Assembly in Singapore. The message is on behalf of
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    Woman Dies
    31 4 A YOUNG Singapore Chinese housewife of Choon Guan Street died on the way to hospital yesterday evening after being taken from her home suffering from suspected corrosive acid poisoning.
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    Johore Wields The Axe
    85 4 JOIIORE BAIIRU. Mon i About 40 temporary Government servants employed in the Johore Food Control Supply Department were retrenched at the end of last month. The. Standard was told today. No reason was given for i their dismissal but The Standard understands that the reduction of
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    Lab.Attendants Want Uniforms
    211 4 i LABORATORY attendants, cooks, sweepers and gardeners, employed by the Faculty ot Medicine, University of Malaya, want free uniforms. Standard rrMnh;* k lAN "WARD with their hildren photocraphed at Kalians airport on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Howard were at the airport to welcome back their t™ suns
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    Tobacco Row: Ten Quit Council
    271 4 Tobacco Row: Ten Quit Council TELUK ANSO.W Mon —Six Chinese and four Mala. elected local Councillors ol Langkap new village in Lower Perak have decided to resign their seats in sympathy with a number of inhabitants of the village over a "tobacco row" with the authorities. Yesterday and today Indian
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    A Report On The Colony In Technicolour
    284 4 A Report On The Colony In Technicolour Standard Staff Reporter THE 1953 annual report for Singapore can be described as an excellent piece of work both from the standpoint of text and selling the Colony to visitors abroad in glowing technicolours. For this, the Government Printers are to be congratulated.
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    Lunch With The Governor
    84 5 t 1 .111 warships of the I r.Utan Vi\y. under the »»\rrall command of Ki-ar \>lmiral S.A. Ballance t U.K. D.5.0.. and led kg th«- light crui>«r iviht. arrived in SinxuPWI vi-Nlerda.v mumin; ir.ini Prnans un the ontl sta«e of their 4rui>«- to the M lUvjii
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    18,000 New Settlers In Colony
    114 5 18,000 New Settlers In Colony MORE than 18.000 personover 12 years of age from the Federation, settled in Singapore last year, while 13.000 people trom the Colony mov- r-d northwards, according to flirt lwUTT provided in the Co■.'inv'.-, annual report. The Singapore Registration' I Centre afen issued about 60--000 new
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    COLONY HAS NO ROOM FOR LAZY BONES
    411 5 Annual Report States SINGAPORE has no room for the lazy or those who wilfully compromise with what is evil, states the Colony's annual report for 1953, issued yesterday. "The tempo today is fast and Singapore has need of the full vigour of all
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    A CLOUT FOR THE PERSISTENT PEDDLER
    133 5 A CLOUT FOR THE PERSISTENT PEDDLER FOR being too persistent a man got a clout on the head in Singapore yesterday. And the man who d; vered the blow was the one who is alleged to have owed him more than S2OO. The injured man was a lowgay dealer and
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    Chinese Ask More Trade Institutes
    710 5 Chinese Ask More Trade Institutes THE Singapore and Federation Governments will be asked to build more traaY schools. A resolution to this effect was passed at the recent annual meeting of the Kwantung Huay Kuan Federation of Malaya in Singapore. In his opening speech. Mr. Lim Choo Meng. who presided
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    57 5 LADY LOEWEN. wife of I the Commander-in-Chief. Far East Land Forces. Sir Char les Loewen. tries her hand at a Lucky Dip. soon after declaring open the Christ Church Fun Fair and Fete, in Dorset Road, yesterday. The Fair held in the church compound in aid of the church's building
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    WILL THIS LEGEND HOLD TRUE?
    1034 6 iXotv It Has HappeneiE By A Manchester Guardian Correspondent The Legend That the Portuguese will lose Goa If the Viceregal arch falls If corruption sets in a saint's body Now What....? BOMBAY. 'THERE is a legend that the Portuguese will hold Goa so long as
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    Atom Age Comes To St. Helena —
    631 6  - Atom Age Comes To St. Helena JOHN WORRALL Prison Island Of Napoleon Says Cape Town. IT lias come as a shock to the quiet people living: quiet lives on the lonely island of St. Helena famous as the place of NapoIcon's exile and death i to learn that their forty
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    2 6  - Mf VICKY
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    We, the PEOPLE Grateful
    47 6 We, the PEOPLE Grateful Sir: My son and I are very grateful to the Management of the Odeon Theatre, especially Mr. Lim, for their kind thought and trouble they took in finding the purse lost by my son during a recent matinee show. YEO KIN POK. Singapore*
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    Review of Views
    494 6 Review of Views Capitalism Socialism i/^APITALISM and socialism must co-exist, says Nani yang Siang Pau. Men today 1 are split into these two ideologies and if these two i camps cannot learn to live peacefully side by Bide, then there will b^ no world i to disagree in. [Socialism emphasises
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    USELESS EUSTACE
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    Red Bid To Stave Off A Trieste Settlement
    212 7 TRIESTE. Aug. 2, (UP)—! Trieste's pro-Kremlin Gomnnuusta served notice yesterday of an in new phase in tb campaign to stave oM' a settlement o| the n.::f-\ eai ItaJo-Yugo-afaw dispute ©vei the '>< >: lei territory. 11 11l possible to -top the bar
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    Iran Will Pay Less Than £30 M
    130 7 Iran Will Pay Less Than £30 M rEHERAN, AUI 2 ReuIran will pay "less ..in L 30.000. 000" compensation to the Anglo-lranlan Oil Lompany whose hi ldings nationalised by Iran in 1951. ihe Finance Minister. Dr. All Amlni, >aid here y> terday a final announcement will be Issued on Toesday,
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    5 Killed In Air Crash
    54 7 STRASBOURG. Aug. 2 \b?< wttt people were kill- <r here yesterday when yiarw-s collided In i.:- .ind crashed .n the Rimbdorl h the prints were killed 1 pec^de .n the v:i- also killed. Two a re set en fire plunes were from a ic!:an air
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    TUNISIA MOVE ASSAILED
    499 7 A HUGE ■■Mountain of rock sKfH 'ron^ the i:p of the ,-iiff reside fiie United S'ate-. side of Niagara Falls qH -fion called Prospect Point. Another section ;s r-:cd\ ro ra'l alongside. Prospect Pomt is a rvotion pomr. A", ntimotcd 18 000 to^s h and d'rr tell
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    PRO-VIETMINH! CELEBRATION
    90 7 PRO-VIETMINH CELEBRATION PARIS. Aug. 2. (Renter) Police fired warning shots to I break up a crowd of 1,000 1 men. women and children waving Vietminh flags and banners who thronged Sai- gon's central market place j yesterday to mark the first day of the cease-fire in Cen- tral Vietnam, according
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    Duke Flies To Victoria
    50 7 VICTORIA. 'British Columbia >, Aug. 2 <AP>— A smiling Duke of Edinburgh stepped from his special RCAF aircraft last night and within minutes was whisked away to the seclusion of Government House. The Duke is in Canada on a visit. Today the Duke will inspect naval
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    Ship Collision: 3 In Hospital
    41 7 RIMOUSKI. (Quebec), Aug. 2. iAP.) Three merchant .seamen, injured in a collision in the foggy St. Lawrence River on Friday night between the U.S. warship Pittsburgh and the British freighter Slaney. were in hospital here today.
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    Withdraw Recognition —Knowland
    100 7 WASHINGTON". Aug. 2: ■Reut»r> Senator William Knowland. Republican Senate leader. lasi night advocated withdrawing recognition from any Communist country where an American was involved in any future incident and we don't get a completely satisfactory answer." Answering questions on a television programme, he said that this included
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    Cyprus Warns Of Seditious Activity
    185 7 NICOSIA. Aug. 2 (AP)— The Attorney-General today published an extra issue of the official Cyprus Gazette warning that anyone convicted of seditious conspiracy aimed at changing the sovereignty of this British Colony would be jailed. Th<-r»' has long beep, agitation botli on the island and
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    A Community Of Violence
    59 7 NEW YORK. Aug. 2. <AP>. Poiicr Commissioner Francis Adams says Nf\v York City b ■■mi the verge oi becoming i community <>t violence and crime" ami needs 7.000 more policemen to curb law-break-ers. Ad.ur..". whose force now nunibeiN 19.800 nun. also dedares higher police salaries j
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    41 7 photo. VU IN WIKSK piouii>ed by the French ta be take* to South Vietnam ,li»» perilously to the tail-board of an already t-des i-oach for a lift from Hanoi to Haiphong, followiuf <rs»a 9t Um iuily Liiiae>« tea >c -lift.- AP
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    More Shootings Are Predicted
    174 7 US Won't Be Intimidated' WASHINGTON. Aug. 2, (UP)— Undersecretary of State Walter Bedell Smith yesterday predicted more shooting incidents between the United States and the "belligerant" Chinese Reds but said "we are certainly not going to be intimidated." •'We will continue 10 taxe whatever action seems
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    Sacked Farouk, He Now Kisses Babies
    122 7 THE Egyptian ''iron man" who helped to throw out King Furouk, is kissing babies to support Pits nenregime, reports Bob Hewett of A.P. He is Lieut. Col. Nasser. Having learned that it takes more than army bayonets to make a social revolution, Xasser and
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    PAKISTAN FLOODS
    36 7 FAST- RISING flood waters in Ea.st Pakistan yesterday threatened cities, disrupted j communications and forced j the evacuation of women and children from the hardest hit areas. There were no reports of any deaths.
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    Queen Of The Nudes
    60 7 ST. ALBANS. England Aug. 2. (AP)— lvy. a blonde 22-year-old London Secretary, was named Britain's nudist beauty queen at the Spielplatz Nudist Resort near here yesterday. Ivy. whose last name was not disclosed, also won the title last year. Her measurements: 5 ft. I ins. tall.
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    50 Cars Got Flat Tyres
    47 7 SAN T DIEGO, California. Aug. 2 (AP).-A truck loaded with roofing nails hit an embankment and overturned yesterday. Before police, aided by volunteers, could sweep up the kegs of nails, about 50 motorcars got punctures. One police car had four flat tyres.
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    He Crossed The Atlantic Alone In 42 Days
    174 7 He Crossed The Atlantic Alone In 42 Days CORK. Ireland. Aug. 2: ißeuter). Sven Jofi's, slightly built 33-year-old American, sauntered off his seven-ton Bermudan cutter •Area" at Cobh near here yesterday and casually told bystanders: Tve justcrossed the Atlantic singlehanded." IBs first words were: "Where can I have my beard
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    Corporal Died Fighting
    154 7 Corporal Died Fighting HONGKONG. Aug. 2 Hongkong Police sources revealed today that Police Corporal Cheng Pin Chung of the missing patrol Launch whose body was found Hosting in the waters off Shark Island, yesterday, had put up a gallant fight against hijackers of the Launch before being hacked up and
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    Censor Left Nothing
    50 7 PARIS. Aug. 2 i APIAssociated Press Correspondent John Roderick cabled a story from IndoChina to Paris today. It was only 67 irords. The Vietnamese military censor deleted all ol them. The dispatch arrived as follows: "Saigon, August 2 <AP>— 67 words cen>or<d by the Vietnam military censor."
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    TRUCE MEN
    27 7 NEW DELHI. Aug. 2 <AP> Two French, tour Vietnamese and two Cambodian delegates to the Indo-China Supervisory Commission preliminary conference flew here today from Saigon.
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    Pole Goes Into Hiding In London
    179 7 LONDON, August 2 (Ke liter)— Scotland Yard officers were today interviewing 26-year-old Antoni Klimowicz, a stowaway removed by police from a Polish freighter in the Thames on Saturday night The young Pole is to appear befon a judge in ehamb« -privately tomorrow niorn.ng on
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    Border Plan Rejected By Israel
    68 7 JERUSALEM. August 2 ißeuter) Israel Las rejected an 11-point Anglo-Ameri-can plan for reducing border tension between Israel and Jordan, it was disclosed her' yesterday. The plan was submitted to both governments in Jun< The Israeli rejection KM handed to the diplomatic envoys ol Britain, tin
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    AIRLINE STRIKE
    26 7 ALL planes of A.mei i a Airlines, one o! the •■r d v largest companies. wrew grounded yesterday iv, a labour dispute. A. P.
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    A Breath Of Air-Then A Shot
    115 7 BERLIN. Aug. 2. <AP'— I Somebody .-.hot at Willie Besener, 82, former chief of the Russian Zone railway system, in the garden of I his British sector home on Saturday night. But the I aim was poor. West Berlin police jiav« this account Besener
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      R.I. Money Law Hits Malayan Film Trade
      286 9 -SCARES AWAY FOREIGN CAPITAL By HSU TSE-KWANG, Standard Staff Reporter FOREIGN capital and capitalists ore being forced out of Indonesia by currency restrictions. The film industry is specially hard hit, a wellknown film executive in Singapore told The Standard yesterday. But. he added,
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      Returning From Tour
      56 9 MR. YUJIRO Iseki, (above). Director of Internationa] Corporation Bureau, Foreign Ofliee, Tokyo, who arrived in the Colony from Colombo, by BOAC Argonaut. He is on his nay back to Tokyo after a tour of Europe. Mr. Iseki was met at the airport by Mr. T. Matsuo. the
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      SHIPS ALONGSIDE
      23 9 THE following ships are alongside the Singapore Harj bour Board wharves today: Antilochus Godowns 4/5. Tjibadak Godowns 29/30, Benreaorh Godowns 15/16.
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      £100,687 Profit For Rawang Con.
      238 9 £100,687 Profit For Rawang Con. THE profit of Rawang Concessions Ltd., for the year ended March 31, 1954. amounted to £100.687 after providing for depreciation and depletion. l according to the Secretaries. Messrs. Anglo-Oriental (Many a) Ltd.. Kuala Lumpur. After deducting Malayan income tax amounting to £38.000 (less adjustment for
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      Largest tanker Fleet
      57 9 WASHINGTON, Aug. t, (UP) The United Kingdom's tanker fleet will soon surpass th»« country's as the largest the world; the Auieric-.iti Merchant Marine Institute predicted today. Britain has an order for tankers with a deadweight tonnage of three mi Dion. The United States is building only ::.">(»,
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    RUBBER, TIN AND JUNGLE
    230 9 RUBBER, TIN AND JUNGLE THE yield from 3; million ocres of rubbe plontations ond rich clluvial deposits of tin in Malaya is of high importance to the country's economy ond exports go to world markets. Rice, coconut and palm oil crops ate also grown The Federction occupies some 51,000 squcre
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      25 9 Jt's important to take rare of the body BUT THE ENGINE NEEDS CARE I TOO! Have it serviced regularly. Bring it for (SHELU |^S^|.v^y lpiuiMC«oiJ
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    Models Put These Gowns On The Map
    275 10 t^HOWN on right are some of the outstanding gowns, displayed at Datin E. Paglar's fashion parade repeated at Ra fries Hotel on Saturday night. <1) "Quicksilver." a Beaumelle of California model, presented by Madeline Ltd. and worn by Joan Booty, features an alluring
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    IS S'PORE TAKING ITS PLACE IN THE FASHION WORLD?
    810 10  - IS S'PORE TAKING ITS PLACE IN THE FASHION WORLD? KAY SABAPATHY asks IS SINGAPORE towing the 4 ttM with the rest of the lion world? The an.v.V'T is definitely yes, ii one la to judge by the lav.^h display of local crear. ms, featured in la.->t Wednesday and Saturday nights"
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    DESIGN IS WHAT MAKES LIFE INTERESTING
    445 10 DESIGN IS WHAT MAKES LIFE INTERESTING ytW things today are safe from the roving eyes of N>w Vork s top designers. The astute Klsa Schiaparelli has turned her talent toward practically everything you ran mention, from men's shirts to mattress ticking, and heads an American corporation organised to keep her
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    THE STARS AND YOU
    86 10  -  Rita Del Mar in© 1101© town would l><* clt*«iii "—-Polish Proverb I h.i«s,l? SJs;, IiTjVT" me witll I 1 B. re^'? e v, 2 r 3 s t 3«o^ s 22 Grt e e b"o P u r f SS L V e 6 efo,E! 1
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    When Love Is A Tyrant
    472 10  -  MARY BROWN wwwwvw 3QVIS6S A x TJOVV far should duty to xx parents go? Take the case i of Kate who writes: "Andrew and I are thirty- four. We've known each i other a year. He has divorced his wife BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO LIVE
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    SERVE SPAGHETTI ITALIAN STYLE
    294 10 pOOD Italian spaghetti with sauce the authenic recipe is hard to find, but here are two examples. They come from the new "Talisman Italian Cook Book" by Ada Boni. This is the first American edition of the famous II Talismano, the outstanding cook book of Italy.
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    HOME HINT
    57 10 BED pillows may be aired either by hanging upon a clothesline or by spreading upon a clean :>heet upon the ground. A shady spot should be chosen, since the sun's heat tends to destroy the natural oil s in the feathers. Pillows should be fluffed periodically during the
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    SHUTTLERS FOR IRELAND
    54 11 IPOH, Mon: Two leading, junior players of Peruk will shortly leave for Ireland for higher studies. They are Cheah Fook Sen. who recently annexed all the Junior and Schoolboy titles in the State and Lee Toong Soon, his part- ner. Cheah Fook Sen is an AnIdersoman while
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    'Best Bat' Khoon Leong Gets An Outfit
    254 11 'Best Bat' Khoon Leong Gets An Outfit KOAY KHOON LEONG of tfn-m;'. who made It9 runs ia tlir North v« tmis South "Irst vvus :.\\ariird the best I" toniMn»e prize in a prcNrntation cfrfnionj aftfr a tl.nmer party held at tb« station Hotel last night. lull set of cricketing outfit
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    Italian Title To Drobny
    63 11 CAVA Dr TiRRENI. Italj K t, (AP) Witnbiwion tvin- 1 ret- Jaruslav Drotny 3estentay t-u? I f a:y'«t Giu>*ppc Mer'o 'J. «-8. 4-«. tf-4. «-l in ?ne f:en's s-'ngies linars of an i I Itrnatiooa] Traaia r G'.-ina-' «at nt-re. Drobiiy an: C'lice- i. v. «>ii
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    AUSTRALIANS TO DOMINATE
    488 11 Swimming And Cycling Are Main Events At Empire Games Today By JACK HEWINS VANCOUVER (Canada), Aug. 2 (AP)— With two of their favourite sports dominating today's calendar in the British Empire Games, the Australians hope to skim away some of the cream from the English cup of
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    Recs Were Down But Not In Spirits
    186 11 Recs Were Down But Not In Spirits BOTTOM-OF-THE-LKA-GUE Singapore Recreation Club .suffered their 11th defeat from 12 outings in the SAFA Division 1 League when they were beaten 6 l by Chinese Athletic at Jalan Besar stadium yesferday. The Athletics, capitalizing on fewer opportunities through the medium of sharpshooting forwards,
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    Civilians In For Tough Opposition
    204 11 SINGAPORE Civilians will not have things their way when they meet the Combined Services in their annual athletic encounter at Changi on August 7 at 3 p.m. For the first time, the Services will field a 'slar-studded 1 .side in Cpl. Kilmartiii. LAC Slirk, de
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    Rugby Meet
    30 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. South Johore Rugby Football Club will hold its annual general meeting on Aug. 9 at 6.15 p.m. at the Johore Civil Servicc Club. Johore Bahru.
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    MARY TAKES TOP PRIZE IN ACHILLES MEET
    841 11 MARY TAKES TOP PRIZE IN ACHILLES MEET CHEW HAI YUEN, former Malayan pole vault champion, gave promise of a better height when he cleared 10 ft. 9? ins. in the Singapore Achilles' Club third annual athletic meet at Raffles Institution ground yesterday. Hai Yuen improved on his J recent Singapore
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    FIRST LIM BEATS DAD -THEN WINS MALAYA'S CHESS TITLE
    190 11 gIXTEEN-year old Richard Lim, who earns his daily pocket money by beating his father at chess, became the Malayan chess champion yesterday when he beat a former all-England Women's Champion and current Singapore runner-up, Mrs. D. E. Z. Pritchard. She quit
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    IA TENNIS
    36 11 INDIAN Kt tataoa pfajtmpioasliip* I lit <*run i-!> Handicap Sinjl**: IVmrira v G. Mather S R.-<; i «>S Giil. M^ndi.-ip HmHmk TJ K.»^.r «nd H. G. --.<. v I•:..--1 ihr li r hh" B.< .1.
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      168 11 Ul By Al Caf? HA.7HA.?- US GREATEST 5 HAtV/rHAW.O' N I VOUR PAW-^K?*Ki fc 6ROW*N<S I I BECAUSE NOU RE kfTHAT^^tilpttAV^.* TOLD N»^ S\ STUFF WE. EVER MEARWf HORMS-AND- tfA.'M? AOLW VffPft BOUND TO WIN THI Vh K> -4j» r OOSS NOU« 1 V VOU« BABV. AmU MOJ?- > STARVING'.'-
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    TURF TALK
    214 12  - TURF TALK BILL McCREA gcfhyktl;hy TH nlsc ol Superiority at Pniaai has b<-fn rtportt*d. It Is aiM) learnt th Tahiti (by C -rr.on fr n Hokey Pokey is soon to end his racing days. New Year, one of the Bagby string, has been suffering from a painful abscess on the
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    PENAKS RACE WEIGHTS
    554 12 PENANG, Mon.— Weights fur eight race s for Wednesday, second day of the Penang Tur f Club meeting, and three races for the third day. are: Cl. 5. Div. I— si F. Saigon Bran 9.00 Strung Jb Free 8.13 Ra Ii 8.11 Donzella 8.10 Master Toach 8.09
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    34 12 ;...a THERE WAS LIGHT Jalan Besar Stadium took on a new look when the sivitch went on, and the four pylons supporting the 80 bulbs for a lighting power of 80 kilowatts went ablaze.
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    Smart Sprints By Bras Queen & R. Exporter
    326 12  - Smart Sprints By Bras Queen R. Exporter BILL McCREA By PENANG, Monday: Track conditions have improved here but the majority of the candidates for the second day were confined to strong pace work. Bras Queen and Rubber Exporter pleased most in their trials and Ukelele also impressed by working better
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    Ooi Retains Penanq Titles
    89 12 PEXAXG, Mon —Malaya's hero of the first Thomas Cup competition Ooi Teik Hock. giving a display reminiscent of I the days when he ruled the roost in the badminton courts ;of the country, became the 1 triple champion of Penang, when the annual open badminton championships
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    TENNIS MEET, NEW DATES
    91 12 IPOH. Mon. This year's Malayan Open Lawn Tennis Championships, scheduled for Kuala Lumpur from Aug. 21 !to 30. will now start on Aug. 27 and end on Aug 30. This shortening of days is ito make the application for leave easier on the intending participants. I
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    Pudu Score 4
    29 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Pudu Road Sports Club beat Police Volunteer Reserves 4-1. in a FAS. Division three league match on the Railway Institute ground. Brickfields, to'dav.
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    BEAMISH IS S'PORE CHAMP
    90 12 WING Commander C. Beamish yesterday bagged his fifth major golf title this year when he beat the Colony's 1952 champion. J. C. Stirling 7 and 6 in the finals of the Singapore golf championships played at the RSGC yesterday. Beamish won th e Hong Kong, Ceylon
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    Mary Had A Little Bag
    60 12 THE Asian Games sprint medallist, Mary Klass won the best performance award at the annual athletic meet of the Achilles Club yesterday. She won all the women's sprints and proved herself a worthy woman champion. Here is Mary making up before her event. Only this
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    STADIUM LIGHTING A FAILURE?
    409 12  - STADIUM LIGHTING A FAILURE? VERITY GILL By Players Say Yes, Architect Says No "LET there be light," the City Architect, Mr. W.I. Watson, said at Jalan Besar stadium last night— and THERE WAS LIGHT! But if he was satisfied with the floodlighting trial at the Stadium, 22 players taking part
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    SHE BEAT 80 HOME
    89 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Miss Chan Siew Foong won the annual Khuan Seng Girls' School cross country race yesterday, when sh e beat 80 other competitors who took part in the event. Only 72 entrants completed the course. The first ten in the race were: 1. Chan
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    TEACHERS BEAT THE SCHOOLS
    394 12 A good bowling by Colony cricketer Harbaiis Singh, who took six wickets for 23 runs, enabled the Combined Teachers to beat the Combined Schools by 29 runs in their first annual encounter at Balestier Road yesterday. The teachers batting first, scored a century before the lunch
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      108 12 Holiday] floodlit Trial Penang Workouts Race Weights McCreas Turf Talks Other Malayan Sport Empire Games Malayan Chess Final Achilles Club Meet Award To Khoon Leong FOR TREATMENT OF Diabetes LOBULINA TABLETS PXpand by the Swiss Sk'ru.:i Vaccine Institute (..aaer Govt Control > on th» basis of active extracts of frtsh
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