Singapore Standard, 23 August 1954

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    19 1 SINGAPORE STAND A RD n. it Vol. V. No. 52. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1954 TWELVE PACES 15 CENTS.
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    $100-A-DAY (Quick-Quiz) CONTEST RESULT
    131 1 $100-A-DAY (Quick-Quiz) CONTEST RESULT Mr. Ooi Cheng Yean of 131-F, Muntri Street. Penang, is the winner of the Standard Quick Quiz Number 30. The judge was Mrs. Sfow Peck Leng. A cheque tor $100 has been sent to the winner. The correct answers *CLUE NO. I.—BERTRAM CHROLON EXPOSURE METER. (Sun
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    Reds Return HK Launch And 8 Men
    80 1 HONGKONG. Aug. 22. <UP>— The Communists today handed back to the British a police launch and euht of the ten-man crew aboard which they vanished on July 29. The Government announced that one police constable "is missing." The Chinese corporal In charge of
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    14-Inch Baby
    42 1 LONDON. Aug. 22. »Reuter> Pamela Ycung. 14 inches long when she was born three m mths prematurely five days asto. is 111 alive and t i;:r.2 increased nourishment through a pfn-filler here. Pamela weighed one pound 12 ounces at birth.
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    2,000 FEARED DROWNED
    262 1 TEHERAN FLOODS: Death Struck While They Prayed 1000 Bodies Of Pilgrims Recovered TEHERAN, Aug. 22, (Reuter)— Nearly 2,000 pilgrims ore now feared to hove been drowned when 90 feet deep flood waters swept over them as they prayed m a Moslem shrine near here last Tuesday. More
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    Sumptuous Chow For 3,000 On The Padang
    746 1 12-Course Dinner Plus Side Shows THE Singapore Padang was transformed into a brilliantly lit banquet hall last night when Mr. Tan Lark Sye. the well-known rubber millionaire, gave a banquet m honour of the World Assembly of Youth delegates. Three thousand people sat
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    THE HOST SPEAKS
    34 1 THE HOST, Mr. Tan Lark Sye (left), addresses the gathering m Hokkien, with Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, chairman of the Singapore WAY fund committe standing by to read the English translation
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    MUTINY ON PoW VESSEL
    104 1 MUTINY ON PoW VESSEL SAIGON, Aug. 22— (Reuter)— Guards on board the Norwegian ship, Skaugum, opened fire to break up a mutiny attempt by 2,500 Vietminh prisoners being repatriated from Haiphong to Sam Son, the French News Agency reported here today. The French Navy had sent a landing ship to
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    DATO ONN RUSHED TO HOSPITAL
    146 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Dato Sir Onn bin Jaafar, Federal Member for Home Affairs and Party Negara's Council Group Leader, was admitted into the Bungsar Hospital today after a heart attack last night. Following a heavy day m which he was drenched m the rain, the
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    STOP PRESS
    42 1 BRUSSELS, Aug. 22 (Reuter)—M. Mendes France, sprang a surprise tonight by suddenly announcing that he would fiy to London tomorrow morning for consultations with the British Government following the collapse of the European Defence Community conference here. (See Page 5).
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    Chopsticks
    41 1 photo. FOR their first attempt with chopsticks these two West African WAY delegates are not doing so badly. From left: Miss M. Azang and Mr. Urbain Nicoue, both from West Africa, seen at last night's banquet with another guest. Standard
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    50 Drowned
    26 1 DACCA, East Bengal. Aug. 22 (Reuter) More than 50 people were reported drowned yesterday when four river boats capsized m Karnaphully River, near Chittagong.
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    Two Rail Mishaps
    119 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun— A Gemas-Singapore "mixed" train rammed into a .stationary freight train at the Niyor station loop this morning, and threw the Malayan Railways southern day mail schedules out of gear temporarily. Luckily, however, there was no loss of life or injury to person. The accident
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    COUNCILLOR GETS A MONTH TO PROVE HIS LOYALTY
    346 2 COUNCILLOR GETS A MONTH TO PROVE HIS LOYALTY MUAR. Sun. The Muar District Branch of the Malayan Chinese Association at a special meeting today decided not to expel State Councillor Goh Chee Hian bat to allow him one month m which he could either resign or prove his loyalty to
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    MOVE TO RESCUE DESTITUTE GIRLS
    436 2 Muslim Welfare Probe IPOH, Sun. Eighty pioneers representing over ten Muslim organizations m Perak today, formed a committee to "curb the flow of recruits into the army of prostitutes" and also to probe the welfare of Muslim women m the State. The committee was formed
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    Woman Is Ordered Out Of Court
    143 2 Woman Is Ordered Out Of Court JOHORE BAHRU, Sob. While the Police Court was m session here today, the Magistrate, Mr. Sheikh Abdul Rahman, noticed a European woman m court munching. He called her up m front of him and asked if she know where she wa s and what
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    Concert For WAY Delegates
    72 2 THE Singapore Junior Symphony Orchestra staged a choral orchestral concert yesterday evening m the Vic™?S. Memoria l Hall for the WAY delegates. The Combined Girls Schools' massed choir joined m helping to give this treat Mr. Paul Abisheganaden conducted the orchestra During the interval' Mr «r
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    Free-For-All At Union Meeting
    84 2 Free-For-All At Union Meeting MORE than 60 Indians, all members of the Singapore Lighter Workers- Union, had a free-for-all at the Union premises last night during a meeting. Five of them, suffering from head and hand injuries were treated as out-patients' at the General Hospital. The fight was said to
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    Councillor In Kedah Cites S'pore Legco
    231 2 ALOR STAR, SUN. The Town Council which met yesterday was asked by Mr Mohamed Khir Johari. an elected member, to have an unofficial as Deputy President m place of an official member, and cited the Singapore Legislative Council. Mr. Johari also suggested that the
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    20 DELEGATES ENTERTAINED
    51 2 THE Kiwi Club of Singapore entertained about 20 World Assembly of Youth delegates to a lunch at the Social Welfare Centre m Prinsep Street The delegates were representatives of seven nations £l end A ng the WAY sessions. Ine Madagascar and French Nigerian delegates spoke at the
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    TEMPLER T.B. FUND NOW $1,721,313
    180 2 FURTHER donations to the Lady Templer T.B. Hospital Appeal Fund have bee n re- 1 SCI5 C l. 1 721 d 3l3 b 5r ng thC tOtal t0 A combined basket ball match between the Batu fzi mmunities recently netted $856.50 for the Fund This
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    Negri Ruler Going To UK
    110 2 SEREMBAN, Sun. The Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan will be leaving for the United Kingdom by sea for a short holiday soon after the official celebr n i0 P °l his 59th birthday hI PSn?« te s tay Wand ne wiU take the opportunity
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    11 For Canada
    69 2 1 1 For Canada MR. ANTONY SANTIAGO, a science graduate of the University of Malaya and an old boy of the Government English School, Batu rahat, ,who ha s been awarded a World University Service scholarship to the University of Alberta, Canada, to pursue a postgraduate course m Plant Genetics
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    Labour Backs The Aid For Malaya
    167 2 Hails Steps To Independence conshtutionol odroncemcnt m Moloyo tOWOrds The Opposition party's Na- tional Executive said this m a policy statement on colonial affairs, issued for its annual delegate conference opening at Scarborough, North-east England on Sept 26. The Labour Party, it said was
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    8 Rulers Gather In Johore
    160 2 8 Rulers Gather In Johore JOHORE BAHRU Sun Considerable interest has been aroused m political cirf e s here regarding the visit of the Sultans from the Federation to Johore Bahru aJ^ W S°, have arri ved are the Rulers of Kedah Kelantan, Trengganu pf" hang, Perak, IJkngbr an*d J*
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    Leaders Are Too Many In Malaya
    168 3 Pr.NANG. Sun. The A an Socialist Mission, m a statement to the press remarked that Malayans should be more »«arc of ;heir weaknesses rather than quarrel among mseives on small matI as Malayans forget about :na n, positions ar.J .r.d get united on c
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    Klang Slow In Responding To Elections
    90 3 &NG S in.— With fora ys 40 for the closes oration for this 1 er X.ang Town Cu:> "i »na there are ooljp nan on the register. ..s very disappointing." t_ne S ervisor of E.e.:--r .a:' Haih.:n, "for a l "r 1 eni rate
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    'An Ideal Weekend'
    112 3 MRS. V. C HEELEY and her husband Bombardier Heeley (above) had an enjoyable weekend yesterday at the luxurious Ocean Park Hotel m Siglap. She was the lucky winner of the 'Vacation" Movie Quiz, which was co-sponsored by the Siglap Development Co.. M.G-M.. Cathay Organization and The Singapore
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    Social Worker Gives Party
    70 3 MRS J. S. SILVERIO. the head of the School of Social Work m the Philippine Women's University, is now m Singapore on her way back from a conference m Canada, i Yesterday evening. Mrs. Silverio entertained Singapore's leading social workers to a tea party at the
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    TWO EXPELLED FROM UMNO
    68 3 IPOH. Sun. The Batang Padang division of UMNO, today, announced the explusion of two of i:s prominent members from the organization for their political affiliations with the National Association of i Perak. They are Che Shamsuddin bin Haji Hamzah, a State Councillor and former member of
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    Back From Kirkby
    29 3 photo. SOME of the 48 student teachers who returned to Kuala Lumpur on Saturday after completing their course at the Kirkby Training College m Liverpool. Standard
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    New Chinese Schools Body
    279 3 For Efficiency And Harmony KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Chinese school committees throughout the Federation yesterday formed themselves into an association to strive for greater uniformity of conditions m their schools. The Chinese School Com- 1 mittee's Association will a!?o work towards development of Chinese schoo.s and to
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    SCRAP THE NATIONAL SCHOOL PLAN'
    485 3 SCRAP THE NATIONAL SCHOOL PLAN' AACA's Education Policy KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The Malayan Chinese Association set up a seven-man subcommittee yesterday to frame an education policy for its election manifesto. Heading this committee is Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan. Its members comprise Mr. Leung Cheung Ling, Mr. T. K. Wen, Mr.
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    Cheng-lock To Attend Celebration
    115 3 Cheng-lock To Attend Celebration IPOH, Sun.— Dato Sir Chenglock Tan, President of the Malayan Chinese Association, will be m Ipoh next Saturday to attend the celebrations of the Perak State Alliance to mark its total success m the recent Town Council elections. It is not known yet whether Tengku Abdul
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    No Revision Of Pay Yet
    125 3 ALOR STAR. Sun. In December. 1948. the Kedah State Council resolved to adopt a scheme to revise salary scales of clerks m Kedah. This resolution has not been implemented to date. This was the subject of much discussion at the seventh annual meeting of the
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    $75,000 Is Still Needed
    93 3 PENANG, Sun. In appealing to members for funds for the building of their new club house m Tanjong Bungah, the president of the Chinese Swimming Club, Mr. Heah Joo Seang, stated that they were anxious that tha new edifice of the club would be the venue
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    MIC Asked To Ally I tself With Some Other Party'
    283 3 MIC Asked To Ally I tself With Some Other Party' KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Malayan Indian Congress, whose demand for reserved sea:s for the community m the Federal Council has been turn- j ed down by the government and the Rulers, was advised i today to consider alignment with other
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    Police Killed Bandits
    88 3 Police Killed Bandits KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A patrol of the No. 9 Police Area Security Unit has killed two terrorists m the Bahau district of Negri Sembilan. A third terrorist, injured m the engagement, escaped. The policemen retrieved a rifle, ammunition and a hand-grenade. A Gurkha soldier of the 2
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    FUN FAIR AT B. MERTAJAM
    38 3 BUXIT MERTAJAM. Sat Mrs. Kidner, wife of the Dis- trict Officer, this afternoon. declared open a two-day fun fair organized by the District I Welfare Committee at the Jit I Sin School grounds.
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    SOCIETY ASSETS FOR $LBM. LOAN
    213 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Malayan CoOperative Wholesale Society agreed at its annual meeting here today, to surrender its entire assets to the Federal Government m return for a guarantee of its $1,800,000 loan from the Chartered Bank. The Directors also agreed that so long as
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    'CRIME PASSIONEL' AT A SURREY INN
    1069 4  - 'CRIME P ASSIONEL' AT A SURREY INN RONALD TRENT By This is the third truelife story m our series They Killed By Poison YTHEN Mrs. Mabel Jones, the wife of a middleaged Surrey hotel-keeper was ordered to Biarritz for a rest cure m January 1942, she little knew that within
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    BOOKS of The WEEK
    880 4  - BOOKS of The WEEK WALL Y CROUCH I Reviewed by He's Hunted By The M.V.D. COMEWHERE m Vienna, that sliced-up, tense metropolis struggling to regain its charm and gaiety of bygone days, there skulks a man to whom capture is a more dreaded fate than death itself. For Erwin ("Pepi")
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    New Campaign Against Diamond Smugglers
    689 4  -  FRED ZUSY CULLINAN, South Africa. The diamond industry is matching wits today with leaders of a world-wide smuggling racket. Millions of dollars m gems are involved. Some recent published estimates m this diamond-producing country run as high as USSIuO.OOO.--000 yearly. Spokesmen for the industry pooh
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    24 Hours To Marry ...Or A Long Wait
    336 5 THE boy m the man>i«in m M il l ionai r e s' Row Kensington Ptaee-gardens. London has just twenty Hrn hours m which to wed his blonde fiancee from Kvnsham-road. Oxford. Rut it tim'sn't look as if he's 4i>ing to make
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    Underworld Murder
    67 5 CHICAGO. Aug. 22. <UPI Frank <The Immune) Maritote. a henchman of the late Al Capone. last night was the victim of a gangland assassination reminiscent of the oil-out mob warfare of the prohibition era. Maritote. alias Frank Diamond, whose brother married Capone's sister, was felled by a burst
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    $700 Million 5-Year Plan For Sarawak
    457 5 $700 Million 5 -Year Plan For Sarawak THE Sarawak Government has prepared a Five Year, (1955-1960) $100,000,000 Development Plan which will be tabled tomorrow before the Council Negri at Kuching. The Plan has these objects: 0 To increase, with the aim of self-sufficiency, the production of foodstuffs, the most important
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    U.S. Trials Aid Malaya Decide On Rubber Roads
    611 5 Xl ALA LUMPUR, Sun. —A series of experiments j stimulated m America durI ing the recent visit of the Federal PWD Chief, Mr. j •N. Nankivell, should, m the next six weeks, help Malaya to decide on her future policy on rubber
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    Princess Margaret is 24 |
    52 5 Princess Margaret is 24 photo THIS portrait of Princess Margaret was made m the Morning Room at Clarence House, London, especially for her 24th birthday which fell last Saturday. The Princess is wearing a white silk dress patterned with pink roses, and a necklace of pearls. The photographer was Cecil
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    EDC Talks A 'Complete Flop'
    449 5 BRUSSELS. Aug. 22— (Reuter) A "complete breakdown' m the sixcountry talks here on the future of the European Defence Community was reported early this morning by the French Ambassador to Belgium, M. Jean Riviere. He made the announcement after a last minute attempt to heal
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    Catholics Celebrate A Festival
    87 5 KUALA LUMPUR Suu More than 2000 devout Catholics today made their wav to Petaling Jaya by buses, cars and motor cycles to join an impressive procession En celebration of Marian year and to witness the opening ot a chape!. Dres-ed m purple robes, the BLshop oi
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      335 5 i '|MH>\Y > tjliUMlov and invitations which come < I "Cent i- hunl «t»rk<-r through acquaintances Be but h»- lilse* to hr ltH|»- with mends; oromote hopes Ku«t|iie Proverb wishes xiOM»\\ |OK r.WK\- I.IKK Seot. 23 to Oct I i ONK: Ttua :s constructive —Enhance your socia! pres- i >:■
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      374 5 ITINGAPOREJ Wsssn LSIS: Free film show at Raffles place— Afghan students m the US and Afghanistan 1 p.m i SUELL CO.: free film show Our I world friendship and Jones Beach at Collyer Quay at Mo p.m YWCA: Katong club meet 5 p.mEngiish 4-5 p.m.. Indian dance 4-G p.m.. Cooking
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    SINGAPORE STANDARD Sarawak Looks Ahead
    884 6 SINGAPORE STANDARD Sarawak Looks Ahead Hij Office 23 Lim T_ v-< X.m Road, Singapore 2 T phon< Nos :54$T— 5 felegraphic Address TICERNEWS Singapore r |*HE British Territories m Borneo were regarded by Malayans before the war as reserved areas which would be developed as a last resort The time
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    ALAS, POOR WHALE
    417 6 ALAS, POOR WHALE j "l)Y SALT AND HEMP," as Stubb exclaimed m Moby Dick, it is a queer and a sod report thai comes from Albany m Western Australia to remind doubters that fish stories never j grow stale. Fish is not strictly the right word for a forty-one-ton humpbark
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    Home From The Hills
    1441 6 Home From The Hills Sir Edmund Hillary has a last look round at the Makalu Expedition AUCKLAND, Aug. 22 r pHE Indian National Airways DC 3 roared along the muddy strip at Katmandu and climbed effortlessly out of the murky valley and up into the clouds. We came through into
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      Why Wait?
      117 6 Sir:— lt is disappointing that the Muslim Community m Malaya is not able to raise the necessary funds to start their plan for an All-Malaya Muslim College, since the building was donated by the Sultan of Selangor four years ago. Out of $100,000 so far collected $80,000 came
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      Half-An-Hour Wait For A Bus
      247 6 Half-An-Hour Wait For A Bus Sir;— The news published m your Papers on 18th instant that Tay Koh Vat Bus Company will have 19 Buses running from Bartley Road to Havelock Road soon, makes heartening reading, particularly to those who reside along this route. It is said that this route
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      How Was The Money Used?
      344 6 Sir;— Permit me, through your valuable columns, to give vent to the exasperation of the thousands who went to hear Madame Pandit at the Selangor Turf Club recently The reception committee displayed a childish mentality m organizing the public meeting. As a common man. I
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      Railway Must Not Be Complacent
      195 6 Sir;— Must our government departments wait lor untoward inciden. of a major nature to occur, such as, for instance, the Singapore riots and the Kallang air disaster, and for a commission to expose the defects and deficiencies m their machinery before steps are taken to
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      Ridiculous
      146 6 Sir, Kindly allow me to extend a word of appreciation for your editorial '"One is Enough" m the Sunday Standard of Aug. 15th. The views expressed are not your views alone, but the views of many many people. It is hard to find a sensible man who will, even
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    Eve-Ooener For Govt. ?
    258 6 Eve-Ooener For Govt. Sir: The distinguished guest faced a tumultuous and disorderly assembly at a public reception given last Saturday at the Selaagor Turf Club. It is imaginable what would happen ii an ocean of people were compressed into a very limited space. Personally I had a miraculous escape from
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    German Deputy Deserts To East
    176 7 BONN, Aug. 22 (AP) Communist East Germany announced last night that a member of the Adenauer regime's lop-secret parliamentary committee on European security has gone over to the Communists. iii. Western German Security Chief. Dr. Otto John, deli rteti to Communist East Germany fast a
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    SAFETY DRIVE IN RUSSIA
    80 7 MOSCOW. Aug. 22: .AP> I"tae Soviet Union la waging big auto traffic safety campaign -going after drunken drivers and also demanding higher standards of training for anybody qualifying for a chauffeur's or private driving licence. In fact \hvx practically are demanding nowadays thai m order to
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    Taipei Told —Be Ready
    38 7 TAIPEI. Aug. 22: Renter Nationalist China's Premh Mr O.K. Yui. yesterday appealed to soldiers and civi;);;n> m Formosa to bo prepared tax any eventuality m vteyr of Communist Chinas 10 "liberate^ the Is- land.
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    Formosa Builds Landing Craft
    183 7 TAIPEI. Aug. 22 (UP) Nationalist China was reported yesterday building 200 assault landing craft with parts shipped from the United States for an attack on the mainland of China. President Eisenhower had announced that 100 craft had been contracted lor Formosa, but local press dispatches claimed
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    'Kill For Thrills' — 160 Held
    102 7 'Kill For Thrills' 160 Held NEW YORK. Aug. 22: Reiner > -New York police made 160 arrests yesterday m a sweep through the city's parks and docks. The action followed public indignation at the activities of a "kill for thrills" gang of four teenage boys. The boys are held here
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    HIGH TREASON
    25 7 A WARRANT was issued yesterday against Max Reimann. West Germany's top Communist, charging him with piottin? hijjh treason against th»- Bonn Government AP
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    A FATAL FALL
    36 7 ANDRE Kopzynski. a British climber who fell 300 feet while climbing Mount Blanc m France, died yesterday as guides battled through a -now storm to reach him 9.000 feet up the mountain. Reuter
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    Soviet Air Chief Dies
    56 7 MOSCOW. Aug. 22: <AP) Red Star announced yester- day the death of Air Forces Major General Peter Belichenko. Belichenko. presumably m his 50s. entered the Soviet Armed Forces at the age of 19 and served m the civil war and World War 11. He held the
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    A Fight Against Immodesty
    104 7 V\ ;r,\\ CITY, a.4 lAP] Pope Piua Xii tea t'. erywhere *o wage deni and petsmtsive" I against immodest v m The PontiflTs directive I w;<^ contained v a letter to bishops by the Vatican's Prefect for the Sacred Congregation of the Council, Pietro Cardinal Ciriaci
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    146 7 Conference To Cleanse' Churches EVANSTON. Illinois. Aug 22, <AP>— A world team of Christian leaders went to work yesterday to frame methods for cleansing churches of what was called their "great scandal"— racial segregation. But there were differing shades of view on how it should be accomplished With a critical
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    A Bosom To Cry On
    75 7 TORONTO. Au?. 22. (AP) Children m hospitals need a substitute bosom to cry on, a psychologist said yesterday Mrs Dorothy G. Loeb of Children's Mercy Hospital m Kansas City, m a speech to the International Congress on Mental Health, suggested a ward mother with no
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    JAP EMIGRANTS
    25 7 JAPAN hopes to start sending 10.250 emigrants to the United States and South American countries next year, n Foreign Ollice otticial said AP
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    HITLER'S GUARD
    29 7 WILHELM Brueckner, 70. former personal adjutant, and bodyguard to Adolf Hitler, has died of a heart attack. He was known as the man who never talked.— Reuter
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    'Goa Fight A Success'
    80 7 BOMBAY. Aug. 22: (Renter) Mr. Peter Alvares. president of the "National Congress of Goa." which is campaigning for the merger of Goa with India, said m Bombay yesterday that the first stage of the. struggle for the "liberation" of Goa. was a success. Mr Alvares who
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    'VETO THAT BILL'
    29 7 THE American Civil Liberties Union has urged President Eisenhower to veto the bill just passed by Congress outlawing the Communist Party m the United States.— UP
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    Magistrates End Strike
    60 7 DAMASCUS, Syria, Aug. 22 (AP)— Syrian magistrates, who struck on July 29 for higher pay, agreed yesterday to return to their courts. President Hachem Bey El Attassi mediated the settlement, which provides the magistrates will continue at their present pay scales until their demands can be considered
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    The $1,900 Pay-Off
    99 7 NEW YORK. Aug. 22: «APi —Honesty paid ott yesterday to the tune of US$l,9OO for taxi driver Fritz Morris, who had turned over to police a bag of jewels he found m his car. The jewellery had been lost by Mrs. Abraham Scheer. wife of a sth
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    A MOUTHFUL OF EXPLOSIVES
    80 7 VILLACH. Austria. Aug. 22. (AP) Postman Thomas Giant- j sching attempted to kill him- self by putting three .spoonsful of explosive powder into his mouth and setting it of! with j a lighted match, city autho- rities reported yesterday. Seriously injured- the 44--year-old postman was taken
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    Negro Family Forced Out Of House
    189 7 Negro Family Forced Out Of House PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 22, (AP) Their new home menaced for the second successive night by a street crowd muttering and shouting threats, a Negro family who moved into the house last week decided against sleeping there on Friday night. About 8 p.m. Wiley J. Clarke
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    Enough Royalty To Turn The Blood Bank Blue
    474 7 Enough Royalty To Turn The Blood Bank Blue A 12-Day Regal Cruise MARSEILLES, Aug. 22, (AP)— The regal cruise ship Agamemnon steamed majestically out of Marseilles yesterday with enough royalty aboard to turn a blood bank blue. Kings, queens, princes and princesses employed and unemployed are off on a 1
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    C'wealth Talks, But No India
    114 7 C 'wealth Talks, But No India NAIROBI. Kenya. Aug. 22 j (AP) Ninety delegates from 50 members of the British Commonwealth attended opening sessions of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference here yesterday. Only India was not represented/ The Australian chairman. Mr. Harold Holt, read a message from Senator Alexander j
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    The Only Woman On An Ice Floe
    110 7 LONDON. Aug. 22, (UP) Russia has flown a woman to .join Soviet scientists drifting On an ice floe near the North Pole. Moscow Radio announced yesterday. The broadcast quoting Pravda said: "A radio message from the iiead of the two drifting stations m
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    Requiem Mass For De Gasperi
    90 7 TRENT. Italy. Aug. 22 CAP) A sorrowing tunerai procession yesterday brought the body of A '-ide De Gsspeii to Trent's Cathedral, where a pontifical requiem ma.-- \v:.s <•< ebrated i^r Italy's p'...-!-w. r statesman. Hushed thousands, some < f whom wept, linec the ptreets <
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    Altitude Record
    87 7 BOYS TOWN. Nebraska. Aug. 22: <AP>— The U.S. Air Force announced last nijiht thai one of its test airplanes has s«t a new altitude record. It was unable to identny the plane or pilot, time or place. or lo £■'><-' the altitude re^ Tied. The information w&z Rlthheld
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    DEATH SENTENCE
    65 7 RAFAEL Lac^on. suspended governor oi Negros oociden- tal province m the Philippines and his 21 co-delVndant^ were sentenced to deuth for the murder ot Moists Padi!- AP THE vessel Pasoso which has left Singapore to begin direct regular coaster service to the Rhio Archipelago The coaster be'ongs to
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    27 7 photo. AT the Boys' Brigade Founder's Camp ot Eton, George Hodgson of Howick, Scotland, is tossed m a blanket by his comrades on his 21st birthday. AP
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    FISHERIES MEN END COURSE
    46 9 THIRTY fisheries officers from ten South-east Asian countries, including Malaya. have completed a six-week course of training m Hongkong on fish marketing techniques. The course was held under the auspices of the U.N. Food und Agricultural Organization m conjunction with participating governments.
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    Firm's New Chief
    112 9 "who AN uni ßl i S SlV\, (l? ft) who Hill leave Malaya; shortly on leave prior to retirement, has been con- nected with the Oriental Government Security Life Assurance Company. Ltd. for over 37 years He came to Vialava m 19. .as Branch Secretary ©f the
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    Plea For Cut In Tin Export Duty
    300 9 THE crisis which now confronts the Malayan tin industry had rendered the immediate reduction of the Malayan tin duty an urgent necessity, stated Mr A.G. Glenister, Chairman of the Malayan Chamber of Mines m London recently. A strong plea tor a reduction m
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    Finance...Commerce...Shipping
    469 9 Industrial Activity Seen In Malayan Share Mart Standard Market Correspendent h« i ner vo sne ss regarding the international situation which caused Lonuon stock markets to ease was not apparent here where a week of above average industrial activity took place. However, at the close there were ominous signs
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    NEW CUNARDER FOR CANADA
    83 9 P first British passenger ■uilt for the Canadian >r many years, left the k Yard of the U.K. ders John Brown and cently and anchored ourocl:, m readiness to undertake her speed trials over the Arran measured mile, and a 12-hour endurance test. She is the
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    $67,000 Profit For New Scudai
    188 9 $67,000 Profit For New Scudai NEW SCUDAI LTD reported a prom of $67,209 tor the year ended March 31. 1954. according to the report of the directors. The balance brought forward was $81,028 and the amount from war damage claim received was $85,925. making a total of $234,162. The following
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    BANK RATES
    48 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association buying rates to merchants for Canadian dollars are: 32 (T.T.), 32 1/8 (0.D.), 32 3 8 on credit bills and 32 7/16 on trade bills (90 d/st). The selling rate (T.T./ 0.D.) is 31 5/8 ready. Other exchange rates remain unchanged.
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    SOVIET PAVILION
    41 9 JAKARTA. Aug. 22 (AFP) The Soviet Union's pavilior. at the Indonesian-sponsored International Trade Fair here was officially opened today It displayed Russian made heavy industrial machineries, electrical supplies, automobiles, printing machines, textiles, canned food, medical supplies and other goods.
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    RICE ROW
    84 9 A HEATED controversy now rapes m Japan over 56,000 tons of rice which are lying m 81 warehouses throughout the country. This rice, imported from Burma. Indo-China. Peruvia, and Thailand, has turned yellow. The Japanese Government, which controls the rationing of rice, claims the discoloured rice i s
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    Talks To Prepare For GATT Session
    132 9 LONDON. Aug. 22, (Reuter) British Commonwealth officials will begin private talks here on Oct. 5 to review their countries' respective policies towards the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). according to authoritative sources here today. The meeting, expected to last for about a
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    'TRADERS COULD HAVE AVOIDED LOSSES'
    386 9  -  PETER KUM Lack Of Facts Blamed BY Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The lock of accurate information on world market trends m Malaya has caused many traders to stock blindly m the face of general commodity depreciation. r Trading, under such conditions, is like
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    More Super Connies For KLM
    73 9 More Super Connies For KLM X.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlines) announced it has ordered three more Super Constellations from Lockheed Aircraft Corporation of the In: ted States, according to an Associated Press report from New York The new planes to be delivered early m. 1956 will bring KLM's fleet of Super
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    NEAR RUBBER IN SHORT SUPPLY
    301 9 Standard Market Correspondent UNCERTAIN conditions prevailed m the rubber market m Singapore towards the close of the week, during which current month's shipment was reported to be m short supply, resulting m a premium for near rubber. The sale and production figures of synthetic rubber
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    BUSINESS DONE DURING WEEK
    395 9 Business done m shares from Aug. 14 20: Industrials: Alexandra Brick Prefs $2.02*. British Malaya Trustee and Executor Co Ltd j56 50. Consolidated Tin Smel- ters 28/- and 28/3. Frzser j. jNeave Ords $1.95 to SI 97i. I Gammons $3.17$ to 53.35 to j $3.28, Hammer?
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    Revenue Up $2.6M.
    16 9 XL ALA I.I'MPCR. Sun A total «f 527.645.4t? m mL?li Fedp ral Govern
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    Japan Does Not Expect China Trade
    206 9 Japan Does Not Expect Chi na Trade TOKYO. Aug. 22: C OP F?S*->ff Office Spokesman cL?\ l>Uo Tanaka toid a Cabinet meeting it would be dangerous to expect L oo much from trrde with C munist China Mr Tanaka. m a feonH on the official views ofihe Foreign Ministrj declared
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    I-C Capital Raises Values
    72 9 HONGKONG. Aug 12: Rentor) Local investment of money brought into the country Iron Indo-China recent f had he lpcc to raise a&d iraluet here, the China Mai] asc Quoting s leading real estate authority ;hi: Ms:, m d 'and iraluec were al pre i)ro:;sbi.y as bigh
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    38 9 MOBILE crauea A I ••> typ» operating at trie Pon of Basra, with the Iraq: State R.. *ray%, will i.c shown b\ Lneir B itish man -> irer^ at I c b ,sh rra Fail R d- {ro-
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      453 9 THE UNITED MALACCA RUBBER ESTATES. LIMITED (Incorporated mi n th c Federation of Malaya) NOTICE IS HEREBY x GIVEN that the Fortieth Annual Ordinary Genera i Meeting of the "Shareholder cf The United Malacca Rubbet Estates, Limited wi.i c held at Xo. 96, First Cross Street. Malacca, on Monday 6th
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    ARMY WIN SCA TITLE
    683 10 HUSSIEN SHAH HITS CENTURY THE Army won the Singapore Cricket Association's senior championship to make it their farewell gift to their popular skipper, Major B. G. Duggan, who leaves for Britain this week. The Army had merely to draw with the Police to win the title,
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    TOP PERFORMANCES
    68 10 BATSMAN: Hussien Shah 106 for Indians vs RAF (Singapore). BOWLER: Durrant five wickets for 31 runs for RAF (Singapore) vs Indians. PARTNERSHIP: H. Sheppard and John Kirkham 96 runs for the Opening Stand for SCC vs SCRC. QUICKEST FIFTY: Muraille 50 runs m 30 minutes for SCC vs
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    SCOREBOARD
    752 10 IX v RAF Indian Association beat RAF (Singapore) by 16 runs at Changi. INDIANS Hussien Shah c Durrant b Burton 106 Balachandran b Burton 5 Lall Singh c Dunn b Lewis 66 Freddie Vias c BlLssett b Durrant 7 V. Gill c Perry b Durra*ht 1 Vythalinaam c Powell
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    PUBLIC INVITED TO SBA DRAW
    45 10 THE draw of the Singapore Badminton Association's junior inter-club and schools events will take place immediately after the exhibition matches featuring Wong Peng Soon and Ferry Sonneville at Guillemard Road on ug. 25. The draw is open to the public.
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    RAF TENGAH WIN JUNIOR TOURNAMENT
    269 10 ROYAL Air Force (Tengah) became the junior tournament champions, when they beat a starstudded University of Malaya team by eight wickets at the Indian Association ground yesterday. The Varsity were expected to win the tournament, being unbeaten m all their previous outings. The Varsity batted
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    MALAYA COMMAND RIFLE MEET RESULTS
    874 10 Results of the Malaya Command Rifle Meeting, with list of prize winners, were: MATCH I Individual Rifle Championship: Ist— The Campbell Cup— Cpl. Nickson (1 Queen's)— lß3; 2nd— Tankard— Cpl. Bryant (1 W. Yorks)— 180: 3rd— Tankard— Lt. Collyer <1 Bn. Queen's) 178. 11. 11.
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    85 11 TAIPING. Sun:— Entries for tht Taiping Hockey League c o>e <»n Aug. 31. Fo lowing were elected office bearers of Taiping Hockey Association for 1954/55: President: Mr. A. E. Durairctnam: Vice-Presicients: Mr D E. Martinz and Mr. H. D. M. Thomas; Hoii. Secretary/ Treasurer: Mr. Joe
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    HANIF MOHD. (142} SAVES SIDE FROM UTTER COLLAPSE
    387 11 HANIF MOHD. (142} SAVES SIDE FROM UTTER COLLAPSE SOUTHEND, Aug. 22 (Reuter)-Hanif Mohammad, the 19-year-old Pakistan opener saved his side from a complete batting breakdown on the first day of their match with Essex here yesterday. snowing the composure and skill of a veteran he carried his bat throughout the
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    WOMEN'S 440 TIME EQUALLED
    82 11 LONDON, Aug. 2, (Reuter).— Miss Diane Leather, English 1 holder of the women's world mile and haJf-mile running records, eaualled the unofficial i world's best for the women's 440 j yards with a time of 56.6 at an athletics meeting at the White City Stadium here
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    180 GOALS SCORED IN FOUR LEAGUES
    650 11 Attack, Attack Is The Emphasis In U.K. Everton Whip Sheffield U. LONDON, Aug. 22 (Reuter)— Well over a million fans packed the grandstands and terraces for the opening of the English football season yesterday despite appalling weather at many of the 46 venues. The
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    OLSON RETAINS M'WEIGHT TITLE
    352 11 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21 (AP)— Middleweight Champion Carl (Bobo) Olson remained the king m the world's 160-pound division today after having turned back the threat of the top challenger, m the United States Rocky Castellani of Cleveland. Balding Bobo of San Francisco captured a unanimous decision
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      283 11 FOLKESTONE. Aug. 21: (Reuter) Batista Pereira, 33-year-old Portuguese swimmer, beat 15 other contestants m a cross-Channel marathon today after leading them all the way from Cap Gris Nez to the English coast. His official time for the 20 odd mile feat was 12 hours 25 minutes 1
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      LANDY'S MILE IS RATIFIED BY THE IAAA
      115 11 LANDY'S MILE IS RATIFIED BY THE IAAA BERNE, Aug. 22. (Reuter)— The world mile record of 3 minutes 58 seconds made by John Landy of Australia at Turku, Finland, on June 21 has been ratified by the International Amateur Athletic Association, it was announced here last night. The rules and
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    UK SOCCER RESULTS
    377 11 FIRST DIVISION Arsenal 1 Newcastle U. 3 Aslon Villa 2 Tottenham 4 Bolton W. 3 Chareton 3 Burnley 1 Cardiff C. 0 Huddeisfield T. 1 Blackpool 3 Leicester C. 1 Chelsea 1 Manchester U. 1 Portsmouth 3 Preston N.E. 5 Manchester C. 0 Sheffield U. 2 Everton
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    115 11 Lew Ken In US Final I BROOKLINE Massachusetts. Au?. 22. <AP.».— Australia's Lew' Hoad and Ken Ro.sewall. the top steded foreign team, yesterday advanced to the finals of the national double^ tennis tournament with a 6—2. 6—4. 12—10, victory over America Vs No. 2 two some of Bill Talbert and
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    Ong Is Malaya's Badminton 'King'
    515 12  -  LEONG HEW MENG Old Stalwarts' Still The Best by Standards Special tieponer at we maiayun Badminton championships. PENANG, Sunday.— The old stalwarts of Malayan badminton once again dominated play m the 13th Malayan open badminton championships which ended today at the Han Chiang School Hall.
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    Final Results
    206 12 Mei't Singles: On* Poh lam <Spore) beat Ooi Teik Hock tPe:.ang) 9-15 15-1 15-7. Men's Doubles: Chan Kon Leone and Lim Kee Fong (Sel.) beat See Chim Leong and Lim Say Hup (Penan?) 15-10 18-13. Mixed Doubles: Chan Kon Leong and Mrs. Cecilia Samuel (Scl> beat Tan Jin
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    Poh Lim's Day, Says Teik Hock
    447 12 PENANG, Sun.— Ong Poh Lim, the new Malayan badminton champion used just one stroke to win the coveted title which had eluded him for the last six years. It was the smash, lie literally smashed his worthy opponent, Ooi Teik Hock of Penang to
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    WITHOUT STARS, SINO MALAYS MASTER UMS
    393 12 SINO-MALAYS— 4 UMS— O Scorers: Boon Seong, Johan, Boon Leong and Awang Bakar. Referee: S/Tech Wringe. SALAAMS and salutations to Sino -Malays Singapore's soccer invincibles, who though somewhat "star" less, starred m yet another show of supremacy against the might of touring teams at
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    BAM Most Criticised, Says Heah
    221 12 PENANG. Sun. Confidence m Malaya's victory m next year's Thomas Cup competition was expressed by Mr. Heah Joo Seang, President of the Malayan Badminton Association today, when he was host at a dinner given m honour of all those who participated m the badminton championships
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    297 12  - Sarawak Boy Who Made Good JEFFERY JAMES After Fourteen Years... Fourteen years ago, a group of Sarawak badminton fans got together passed the hat around and bought a badminton racket. They packed it up, and sent if iff with a tall, slightly limpi.ig lad the badminton world knows today as
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    MCFA Plan Tour After Ho Ho Cup
    198 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— [The eighth Ho Ho Cup InterIPort soccer competition between Malayan and Hong Kong Chinese will be played at Hong Kong on Oct. 2. This was' decided at a meeting of j the Council of the Malayan Chinese Football Association held
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    K.L. RACE WEIGHTS
    452 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Weights for the second day, Selangor Turf Club meeting on Wednesday, are as follows* Cl. 4. Div. I— SJF. I Fish's Kuda 9.00 Linkshir II 8.13 Sealed Orders 8.12 Film Studio II 8.11 Mata Hari II 8.10 Cabinet 8.09 Remarkable 8.08 Summer Cora 8.07
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    PENANG MEETS S'PORE AGAIN
    632 12 Selangor Lose Cup Replay PENANG 8 SELANGOR Scorer,: Siang Teck <md Scorer: <*«* Fo« (P c Hock Siang Referee: Mr. John Ferguson of Singapore. KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— Penang will meet Singapore for the Malaya Cup again. This was decided m the Northern HMiqjV here when Penang
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    Woodbridge Hold Meet
    302 12 SWIFT A.A., who have more often than not swept aside all opposition m m- i vitation relays m Singapore, chalked up their third successive relay victory at j the Woodbridge Hospital Annual Athletic Sports held at Yio Chu Kang Road yes- terday. RAF Seletar ran a poor
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