The Straits Times, 29 April 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1950. PK1CE TEN CENTS.
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    MIDNIGHT BOMB ATTACK ON GIMSON
    536 1 Hand Grenade In Tin Rebounds From The Governor's Leg A S^H^ bomb WIW the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin (;im>on, as he left the Happy World stadium just before midnight after presenting priae* at the Singapore Amateur Boxing; Association s champion *=hif>6. The bomb struck
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    RED REPLY TO OUTLA W BILL
    284 1 rjTHE President of the Australian Communist party 1 tuday answered the Liberal Government's bill to outlaw the Communists by declaring the party wo'ild continue to function. T t is one thing to pass latlon to dissolve the Community Party, but another th.n» to dissolve
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    59 1 CAPTAIN JOHN B. MOSS, in command of the aircraft carrier, Boxer (left) and Captain W. C. Wtnn, commanding the destroyer squadron (right) with their host and hostess, Lirut Commander W. Gordon Cornell, IS. Assistant Naval Attache, and Mrs. Cornell, at a cocktail party for senior officers of the visiting I.S.
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    TRADE PACT?
    41 1 BERLIN. Frl. East Germany is to send a trade delegation to China next month to negotiate a trade agreement, the East German deputy Premier, Walter Ulbricht, stated in an interview, according to the official Soviet Taegliche Rundschau today Reuter.
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    2 Americans Killed Near Sumedang
    155 1 2 Americans Killed Near Sumedang JAKARTA, Frl. AN American press correspondent, Robert Doyle, representing the American magazines Time and life, was murdered near Sumedang in West Java. A second man. reported to be Raymond Kennedy, a Prefessor at Yale University, was murdered at the same time. The Counsellor of the
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    Reds Kill Saigon Police Chief
    169 1 MMM M SAIGON, Friday. Marcel Bazin, 45-year-old Deputy Chief of the French Police Security Services in South Vietnam, who was "condemned to death" by Moscow-trained Ho Chi Minh's insurgent Government, was assassinated here today. A Vietnamese fired four shots at him at point-blank range as
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    'CIVIL JETS SOON'
    23 1 CANBERRA, Frl.—Commercial Jet aircraft will be flying on Australian air routes in 1953. said the Air Minister. Mr. Whit*.— A.P.
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    LOOT SENT BACK
    20 1 TOKYO, Fri Japan has returned about US$2OO,OOO worth of looted copper and brass to the Chinese Government.—A.P.
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    Plane Sights Missing Ship
    69 1 LONDON, Fri.-The British trawler MUford Vis*mimt, which with a crew of 13 had been missing for 10 daps, was sighted by a search plane early today. A taint distress call from the trailer was intercepted last night. The 'plane located the trawler in the Atlantic Ocean,
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    SEA, AIR ATTACK ON REDS
    100 1 HONG KONG. Fri. Nationalist warplanes and ships today took advantage of the first day of clear weather in weeks to launch furious bombardments against a Communist invasion fleet assembled in Shanghai for an attack on the Chusan Islands. Reports from Formosa said that endless waves
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    ARGENTINE BILL
    24 1 BUENOS AIRES. Fri.— A BUI to permit legalised prostitution in Argentina has been drafted by a member of President Perons party.— AP.
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    DETAINEES TO BE SEGREGATED
    148 1 Fran Our SUff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Pri DETAINEES under the Emergency Regulations will be segregated and trouble makers in the camps will be under stricter discipline hi future. To make this possible, the Emergency Regulations have been amended te provide for detainee* being graded on a
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    "ABOLISH LEGCO"
    30 1 WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Prl. In the new seae&om of the New Zealand Parliament a Bill will be Introduced to abolish the Legislative Council, the cowrtHr'. Up?** ■owe. aswtor-AJ#.
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    Mail Train Warned By Verey Signal
    206 1 From Owr Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Friday. 'THE driver of a pilot engine blown up by bandits x over a small bridge 70 miles north of Johore Bahru fired a Verey pistol Just in time to save, the north-bound mail train from being derailed.
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    KEATING GETS KOREAN POST
    55 1 WASHINGTON, Fri.— MaJ.Gen. K. Keating has been appointed chief of the United States military advisory group to the Korea Republic, formerly American oocupied Southern Korea, the American Defence Department announced today. Gen. Keating formerly commanded the Office of the MtMtary Government in Germany and was Deputy
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    Nine Police Die In Two Ambushes
    258 1 From Our Staff Correspondent S__ KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. IX special constables, one Malay auxiliary police man and a Tamil foreman were killed and a ?i A y K SI !f/l ial constabl e fatally wounded when 30-40 bandits armed with Thompson sub-mach \ie guns,
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    QUEEN TO LAUNCH NEW CARRIER
    94 1 LONDON, Fri. THE 36.800-ton aircraft 1 carrier Ark Royal, second of two giant postwar carriers for jet planes and one of the most powerful maritime fighting units in the world will 4>e launched at Birkenhead by the Queen on Wednesday. Like her sister carrier. Eagle,
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    Aduldet & Sirikil Wed
    633 1 Aduldet Sirikil Wed From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Fri. A ROYAL romance which began in Lausanne, Switzerland, had a happy ending today when 22-year-old Siamese King Phumipnnn Aduldet was married to Princess Sirikit Kiuiyakara, 17-year-old daughter of Prince NaKknat Kittiyakara, Siamese Ambassador in London, at a simple ceremony A very
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    'Lured' To Church With Beer, Sherry
    316 2 LONDON, Friday. TEETOTAL parishioners at Handsworth, Staffordshire, are protesting against church people "luring others to church with sherry and beer." A "come to church" campaign has Just been held in the pariah, as pan of which churchgoers gave parties in their homes to non-church
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    SHOOTING STAR
    42 2 MRS. LL'LAH SKVTRSKY, of Atlanta, U.S.A., who promises to be one of America's top pistol experts. She has won several medals and badges, and captured second place in the Women National Overall Championship at Tampa, Florida, this year. A.P. picture.
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    REDS LOSE SEATS
    28 2 THE HAGUE, Fri.— Dutch Communists lost nearly half their seats in the provincial elections. The largest gain went to the Liberals, a right-wing party.— Reuter.
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    MALAYA NEEDS FUNDS FOR ARMS, SAYS GRIFFIN
    317 3 MALAYA NEEDS FUNDS FOR ARMS, SAYS GRIFFIN LONDON, Friday. jyjß. Robert Griffin, American Minister instructed by President Truman to report on SouthFast Asia, described the Malayan situation as "out and out bandit warfare," when he arrived In London by air yesterday. "More funds must be made available for war materials
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    LONDON BANS TWO MARCHES
    84 3 LONDON. Fri. SCOTLAND Yard today ex-tt-nded for three months its present ban on political -professions In the London area. The present ban was due to end on May 2 The ban. which had the consent of Home Secretary. Mr Chuter Ede. follower protests against a proposed
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    NOT LAST BABY?
    73 3 LONDON. Fri. Princess Elizabeths second baby due late in August, probably will not be her last. Buckingham Palar-e sources hinted yesterday that Printum Elizabeth and her husband. Prince Philip may go wvll beyond Britain's new fungled "two babies a family" average. "There is no question but that
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    ANTWERP STRIKE
    24 3 ANTWERP, Fri. Dockers In Antwerp are expected to resume normal work today after their week-long strike dock officials said last night -A.P.
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    SOCIAL CLAMBERS
    38 3 NEW YORK. Fri—Thousands of Manhattan flat dwellers and many tenants of skyscraper luxury suites have begun walking up and down stairs as 1.800 liftmen and other service- employees went en strike over a \vaee dispute.— A.P.
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    FOUR WANTED REDS SHOT NEAR MADRAS
    105 3 MADRAS, Friday. pOUR "wanted Communists" were shot down in a clash with police yesterday in a village In the Krishna district on the east coast north of Madras, it was officially reported here today. This brought the total number of Communists shot down In
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    LONDON SHOW
    33 3 THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'S daughter. Miss Alison Attlee, sells the Italian Ambassador in London, Duke Tamasso Gallerati-Scottl, a profrar.«ne at the premiere of an Italian show In London. Daily Express picture.
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    H.K. Closes Its China Border
    160 3 HONG KONG. Friday. npHE Hong Kong Government today, in an almost 1 unprecedented move, revoked the long-standing right of Chinese subjects to enter or leave the Colony from the Chinese mainland without restriction. By order of the Governor. Sir Alexander Grantham, the Colony's border police
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    REDS AGAINST CHURCH WEDDING
    28 3 MOSCOW, Fri. X EARLY all of Russia r Corr.munist youth are against church weddings, according to letters received by the newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda. U.P.
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    POPE DEFENDS FREE TRADE
    62 3 VATICAN CITY, Fri. -Pope Plus XII yesterday defended private enterprise and tree trade, but urged businessmen to act with a high sense of their social responsibilities. Addressing delegates to the first World Congress of Chamber of Commerce, the 74-year-old Ponjlff criticised the concentration of commvee in
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    JAP SEIZED SHIP RETURNED
    25 3 TOKYO. Frl.-A Chinese Customs boat, seized by the Japanese during the SlnoJapanese war has been refitted and returned to the Chinese?—A.P.
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    GAOL FOR FRAUD
    33 3 NORBERT ERLEIGH, for. mer joint managing director of the New Union (ioldfields. South Africa. who was recently sentenced to gaol for "stealing and fraud on a gigantic scale." A.P. picture.
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    U.S. WANTS CARRIER
    63 3 WASHINGTON, Fri. The UJS. Navy still wants and eventually "must have" a super-carrier. Admiral Forest Sherman, Chief of Na/al OpI eratlons, said yesterday. He told the House Armed Services Committee the development of big Jet planes necessitated a large "flush deck" carrier. He said that the United
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    INDIAN MUSLIMS
    46 3 NEW DELHI, Fri.— Space has been provided for 15,000 Muslim pilgrim* to sail from Bombay to Jedda during May. The Government Is arranging to sell pilgrims the necessary food for their stay In the Hedjaz because of the high prices in Saudi Arabia. A.P.
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    Bao Dai Calls For A New Cabinet
    157 3 Bao Dai Calls For A New Cabinet SAIGON Fri. CVMPEROR Bao Dal of Vietnam signed decrees yesterday dissolvtng the government of Nguyen Phan Long and appointing Tran Van Huu to form a new Cabinet. Nguyen Phan Long had Insisted that American economic and military aid should be sent directly to
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    LONDON DOCKERS RETURN
    89 3 LONDON, Fri. FIRST signs of a break in London's 10-day-old dock strike came today when 2,000 of the 14.000 strikers voted to return to work tomorrow. Dockers flocking to the mass open air meeting filed I past notices carrying last night's ultimatum from the Dock Labour Board
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    RED SCIENTIST MAY LOSE JOB
    44 3 PARIS, Fri— Members of the National Assembly said last night that the Cabinet may fire M. Frederic Jollot Curie, the Communist who heads France's atomic energy programme. The Cabinet may announce Its decision within the next few days. U.P.
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    Yugoslav-Russian Relations 'Sharper'
    113 3 BELGRADE, Friday. DELATIONS with the Soviet Union and the 1V so-called people's democracy were petting "sharper", Marshal Tito told a joint session of the Yugoslav Assembly. The newly-elected Assembly confirmed Marshal Tito as head of the Government and Minister of Defence and also approved a cabinet list
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    COMMISSIONERS' PAY PLAN FOR STUDY SOON
    531 4 THE question of an allowance for Singapore Municipal Commission1 ers as suggested in the Legislative Council will be discussed by the Commissioners' finance committee at an early date, the acting Municipal President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, said yesterday. He was replying to Mr.
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    YOUNG DEBATERS DISCLAIMER
    176 4 Miss Jane Wu Keng Chee of 1 Mount Sophia. Singapore writes to tuc Straits Times as follows: "I would like to correct a misstatement in the Straits Times reort of the debate at the East-West Society on Thursday night between that organisation and Trinity College students I
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    Escaped, Free 18 Months
    93 4 EIGHTEEN months ago Ab£j dullah bin Haji Yussof slipper off a pair of handcuffs while being escorted in a Jeep to a police station. Yesterday in the Singapore Fourth Police Court, the 20-year-old Malay pleaded guilty to escaping from cust*\ly. He also pleaded guilty to stealing
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    Singapore Diary
    152 4 DISTRICT M.V.F., At Home, 9, St. Thomas Walk, 2.30 p.m. CHINESE V.M.C.A., Eelegie Road, music class, 2.30 p.m., basketball, 5 p.m., film show, 7.30 p.m. BROADWAY MUSICAL PARTY anniversary celebrations, 189, West Coast Road. Transport will leave 61, Duku Road at 5 p.m. STRAITS CHINESE M.Y.F., Institute Echoes.
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    KINTA OF OLD
    35 4 KINTA SWIMMING POOL a s it used to be before the war. Now no longer avaiable for the people of Ipoh, it forms the subject of a reader's letter in page nine.
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    GUNMAN DRIVEN TO THE POLICE
    257 4 A COURAGEOUS Singapore Chinese taxi driver yesterday crashed his vehicle into Beach Road police station hoping to have a gunman seated bC When h l m ted sentry gabbed hi-. He aid not see ww j *i? P 0 1106 sentry gunman "crouched low" In
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    COWS STRAYED
    22 4 Vijagarson Singh was fined $10 in Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday for allowing his cows to stray alongside Bartiey Road.
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    STORE HEARS A FINE QUARTET
    248 4 rE Masters Quartet last night gave the first of its concerts at the Victoria Hall. So large an audience turned out to welcome the players that quite clearly Singaporeans have outgrown the belief that music for small groups is highbrow. The players are well matched
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    Labour To Send Protest To Whitehall On Lotteries
    235 4 Labour To Send Protest To Whitehall On Lotteries From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. JABOUR members of the Federal Legislative Council will hold a conference in Kuala Lumpur within the next few days to draft a memorandum to be sent to Whitehall petitioning against the Lotteries Bill passed by
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    DIED AS CROSSED 'THE LEW'
    100 4 JUST afte*fthe crew of the visitijftg American destroyer. John R. Craig had celebrated wie crossing of the Line cfllremony on Wednesday morning. 3rd Class Waterman Pierce fell overboard and was drowned Pierce was "larlcin r about" with another sailor after the ceremonies had ended, according
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    667 Born, 215 Die
    22 4 Babies born in Singapore in the week ended April 22 totalled 667. The number of deaths was 215.
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    'Tiff Over Clothes
    65 4 A SLIGHT tiff arose in the Singapore Municipal Commissioners yesterday, when they came to consider a motion concerning four Municipal officers accepting scholarships under the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund scheme. Approval was sought for £35 for warm clothing allowances if these four officers were awarded the
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    MUNICIPAL PRESS CONFERENCES?
    71 4 IT may be possible to hold weekly Press conferences to give municipal new*, said the acting Municipal President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeiee, at the Commissioners' meeting yesterday, in replying to a suggestion by Dr. P. T. Nathan (Independent Roehore Ward). "It is the duty of a
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    COLONY 'ON THRESHOLD OF HER DESTINY'
    675 5 Sir Patrick McKerron fayi Goodbye To Singapore Pays Tribute To His Helpers M J LEAVE Singapore full of optimism— a qualified optimism but nevertheless, optimism. I think Singapore, if world conditions permit, has a great future ahead and is only on the threshold of
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    QUALITY SHOES WILL SELL IN UK'
    140 5 jyjALAYAN manufacturers of rubber shoes who concentrate on quality .till find promising opportunities In the United Kingdom market, Mr. Shum Yip Leong, a Klang manufacturer, told the Straits Times yesterday. Mr. Shum was m»~"Un( go statements by other manufacturers that the freeing 0* tbe
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    High Prices In Rubber
    211 5 THE past week has seen a 1 rubber market subject to violent fluctuations, with the commodity reaching a new ►height of 76^ cents per Ib. for May shipment. After hovering uncertainly around that prioe, says Lewis A Peat's weekly market report, heavy profit-taking caused the market
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    HE TOOK GOODS, SENTENCED
    40 5 A trlsha rider, Ng Khim Seang, was sentenced yesterday to six months' rigorous imprisonment in Singapore Second Police Court for absconding with goods belonging to a passenger. He was ordered to undergo one year's police supervision.
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    HOUSE ALLOWANCE TO CONTINUE
    91 5 rrWE Municipal Salaries X Ke vision Committee reviewing an earlier decision to discontinue housing allowance to married women officers, has decided to contintu; this aHwwanee to Madam I.eonr. Foong Sim, Sister, Infant Welfare Department. Singapore, as a special case. This was approved by the full board
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    Cheaper SMC Staff Flats
    128 5 irONSTRUCTION of smaller L and cheaper flats at staff of the Singapore Municipality—saving nearly $10,000 on each flat— has been agreed to by a committee of Municipal Commissioners investigating the possibility of cheaper quarters for both Junior and senior staff. Bungalows for senior officers have been
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    NOT THE MAN
    32 5 Thomas Dean, who appeared as a complainant In a Singapore Court on Thursday, is not an engineer on board the Frederick Glover. Hels a resident at the Marine Hostel.
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    CHINESE CofC. DISPUTE TAX
    199 5 T«K INCOME Tax DepartA ment has asked pay ment of taxes for IM7 and 1948 from the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce. It was disclosed at the Chamber's monthly general committee meeting yesterday evening. The secretary. Mr. P. T. Tens, said the Income Tax Department informed
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    Johore's $70,000 For Varsity
    97 5 Johore' s $70,000 For Varsity From Onr SUff f u«Mii*« JOHOKfc BAHRD, Friday. rpHK Cnirersity Appeal Fond. Johvre, has m far collected X nearly S7t.tf* and another drive is to be made this year. Inche Seth, District Officer, Batu Pahat, announced at a meeting of the State Appeal Committee meeting
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    New Attack On Benham Plan
    191 5 From Onr Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. TEACHERS in Government-aided English schools today organised a trade union, to be known as the Malayan Teachers Union, and immediately passed a resolution criticising the new salary schemes for Singapore teachers contained in the ~~i Ben ham report.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    38 6 MR. A MRS. W. 8. JONES, thank all those who attended their wedding at 721 Serangoon Road, i>rnt presents messages. Owing ir the large number of guests present, they much regret being vnable to thank everyone Individually.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., Apr. 29, 1950. The Malay Economy
    838 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., Apr. 29, 1950. The Malay Economy insisted that if the Malays are to give up their traditional and privileged status as the subjects of the Rulers for the sake of Malayan nationality, then the non-Malay communities must give them a fairer share of the economic
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    Fifty Years Ago. MR. BARKER IN BATTERY ROAD
    310 6 Fifty Years Ago. MR. BARKER IN BATTERY ROAD (From a report of a meeting at the Municipal Commissioners In the Straits Times of April 27. 1900.) MR. Barker wished to bring to the notice of the Commissioners the present system of street-watering and to suggest that something be done to
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    26 6 Photograph by Hedda MorrisonThe magnificent peak of KINA BALU, the highest mountain in Borneo (13,000 feet), here seen rising abruptly out of the North Borneo plain.
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    SINGAPOREANA
    1276 6 On Fountains BETWEEN the Padang and the sea In Singapore there is an old fountain, and in a comer of the Selangor Padang in Kuala Lumpur there la a very similar one. Few people ever pause to look at the»e relics of the past, but both of them represent
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    765 6 rrHE Benham Com- 1 mittee must have known it was thrusting its head into a hornet's nest when' it recorded Its opposition to equal pay for women. My own views have been coloured, perhaps unfairly, by a fifteen minutes scrutiny of three young ladies, of three nationalities, all of
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    WATER RATION SCHEME NOT TO BE CHANGED
    533 7 WATER RATION SCHEME NOT TO BE CHANGED Disadvantages Of Alternatives INHERE will be no change in the water rationing scheme proposed by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners, but not yet put into effect. The acting Municipal President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, indicated this yesterday when he answered the criticism made
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    FIRST WOMAN CHOSEN
    44 7 FIRST WO MAN CHOSEN MISS Q. S. THAM. the first woman to be. appointed an Inspector of Labour in Singapore! She was selected out of 39 women who applied for the post. Miss Tham is now undergoing a course of training. —Straits Times picture.
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    MORE COMMUNIST POSTERS FOUND
    71 7 SINGAPORE Police yesterday seized another 79 -Communist May Day posters in various parts of the Colony, in addition to 136 found on Thursday. They were found in Coleman Street, Tiong Babru, Henderson Road and Holland Road. Police have appealed to the public, to help with information
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    $5 A COPY PLAN IS OPPOSED
    109 7 WHEN A MINUTE came before Singapore Municipal Commissioners yesterday disapproving of free copies of the verbatim reports of the Commissioners' meetings being sent to Singapore Municipal Services' Union, Mr. Yap Pheng Geek strongly opnoseu the morion. After discussion the motion Wua referred buck. He
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    CREDITORS TO GET $500
    68 7 Out of a gratuity of $2-,500 paid to A. E. Delilkan by the Government, $500 was ordered to be paid for the benefit of his creditors, in Singapore Bankruptcy Court yesterday. Making the application, the Assistant Official Assignee. Mr. Thiliampalam Kulasekaram, said this was Delilkan's second
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    $10,900 FINES
    54 7 Pines totalling $10,900 or 14 months' rigorous imprisonment were imposed on Tan Kee Song, aged, 28. in Singapore Second District Court yesterday for possession of 674 lb of tobacco and 47 bottles of liquor, on which duty amounting to $3,676 had not been paid. A second accused, Koh
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    Commissioners Allow Water Charge Rebate
    263 7 T'HE Singapore Municipal Commissioners yesterday x agreed to give a rebate in respect of 6,950 gallons of water to Mr. Low Ah Tow, who claimed he was over-charged for several months when his water meter could not be read. This decision was taken on a
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    Staff For Fish Survey Sought
    222 7 rpHE Singapore Government is recruiting staff to survey the fishery industry of the Colony. A personal assistant to the Fisheries Officer, eight fishery inspectors, two statistics clerks and a stenographer are required. Applications should be made to Fisheries Officer. Fisheries Department. P.O. Box 749, Singapore,
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    AM: BANDIT AGENT PM: WATCHES. GOLD
    65 7 From Oar Staff Correspondent K. LUMPUR. FrL OOLICE at Sasa in Selani gor had a highly successful road block yesterday. In the morning, they arrested a Chinese woman bandit agent. At one p.m.. they searched a car and found 600 watches which were allegedly
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    INCREASE IN T.B. FIGURES
    91 7 INCREASE IN T.B. FIGURES AT yesterday's meeting of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners, Mr. Frank James asked if anything was being done to counteract the rise in tuberculosis last month. He pointed to the figures 425 cases of T.B. were reported in Singapore in March and 197 in February. The acting
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    "Workmen Lazing Around" Charge
    288 7 TTOE question of the creation of a Deputy Water x Engineer (Construction) post in Singapore Municipality— subject to Government sanction— starting at $1,200 a month, for the Johore waterworks scheme was referred back at yesterday's Commissioner's meeting. When this point came before the Commissioners for approval,
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    PENANG TO VOTE IN DEC.
    172 7 From Oar Staff Correspondent B PENANG, Pri. V eight votes to two, Penang Municipal Commissioners yesterday favoured that the first elections to the Municipal Commission be held in December, 1951— and at the end of this year. The Municipal President, Mr. H. G. Hammett, said:
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    CINEMA QUESTION REFERRED BACK
    44 7 The question of a new cinema in Singapore at the corner of North Bridge Road, Cashin Street and Carver Street was at the Singapore Municipal Commissioners yesterday referred back to a committee, on a motion by Mr. Yap Pheng Geek.
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    TIN PRODUCTION
    20 7 Malaya produced 4,729 tons of tin in March. Stock at the end of the month was 19,099 tons.
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    Here's One Nice Girl Who Lores A Sailor
    76 7 EVEN a three-year-old Malay toddler knows that all the nice girls love a sailor. So little Zubaidah, seen here cementing U.S. Malayan relationships with Fireman Anthony J. Lombardo of Los Angeles, lost no time in (/fitting together with the crew of UJS.
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    BENHAM REPORT "SHOCKS" ACSU
    151 7 THE Singapore Army Civil Service Union is shocked at the recommendations made by the Benham Committee, the President of the Union, Mr. V. K. Nair said' yesterday. Government, he said, should act immediately on the report, and in dealing with It, "should give its most serious
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    MURPHY FINED $500, TO PAY $5,000
    502 7 MURPHY FINED $500, TO PAY $5,000 taking an hour to read out a 30-pa?e j written judgment, the First Traffic Court Magistrate, Mr. E V. A. Peers, yesterday found Denis Hubert Murphy, a 43-year-old Singapore lawyer, guilty of having driven a car while under the influence of drink and of
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    Singapore Application Deferred
    81 7 Singapore Application Deferred IN application for permisI** sion to use the traffic island at Finlayson Green lor the storage of the structural steel to be used to erect the new Asia Insurance Building, was deferred a; yeslerdav s meeting of Sintj-.ipore Municipal Commissioners. Mr. Yap Phens; Geek said the motion
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    INQUIRY STARTS
    29 7 The Court of Inquiry into conditions and wages in lite Singapore rubber milling industry meets at 10 a.m. today in the board room of the Chinese Secretariat.
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    A girl with Ambition
    278 8 A girl with Ambition BY OUR WOMAN CORRESPONDENT 'pWENTY-one-year-o!d University •jnd^rsraduate. Miss M>i.<ca Morsingh, is a |pn with an ambition. M >ro than anything he wants to teach m» i youth of Malaya to be upright, independent a fi God-fearing. Monica, who Is very proud r h v fact that
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    The Bride wears Blue today
    862 8  -  DEREK DRABBLE by TN a simple little ceremony at the Singapore Registry Oifice this morning, a girl who has led an elaborate international life will marry before settling down in Kuala Lumpur. Nothing Louise Carriere has done has been strictly conventional in the dull sense
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    Lady Mc Kerron asks for more help
    634 8 Lady Mc Kerron asks for more help QN the eve of her departure from the Colony, Lady McKerron, wife of the Colonial Secretary, Sir Patrick McKerjon, toW the Straits Times that she would like to make an appeal for more women to do voluntary and social work in Singapore. "It
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    Malay Colours In Library
    217 8 Malay Colours In Library jyjATERIALS and labour employed in Singapore's first free public library, which the United States Information Serk. vices is launching, are costing $600,000 in thU k country's currency. The library will open early next month with 2,000 books— and more to come. Throughout the full floor occupied
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      197 8 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD t^TL, "-I*. STperk CROSSWORD No. 45 fszzszszzzls w ssss <«. r Mao PTTTTTTTI M M I* 10 Postpon*. (5. to. Audibly Igj UgJ M J I— .JoBUJ Lr-J LjJ 11 Boredom (3) <*• Foot cured. In a way. camel (5). >* Irony trit» a chaos* fS» «O
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    NAN CHIAU JIT PAO TO THE STRAITS TIMES
    478 9 NAN CHIAU JIT PAO TO THE STRAITS TIMES IN your leader of Apr. 2S, and in the article entitled Patrolling the Hot Areas" by an anonymous person published in your paper of Apr. 28, the view was expressed that action should be tiiken by the British Government against two Chinese
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    COPIES IN THE CLASSROOM
    148 9 THE writer of 'Patrolling the Hot Areas", in the Straits Times of Apr. 26, should be congratulated for pointing out to the Government the newspapers that are spreading Communlsn among the Chinese. Why should the Government allow them to? In every edition of the Nan Chiau
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    A PLEA FROM MERSING
    140 9 HPHIS letter is written A trom the point of view of simple folk living in the north-eastern corner of Johore, where the Jungle is wide, and where bandits are creating havoc and terrorising the oeople. Alone the Mersing-Kluang road and the Mersing-Kota Tinggi road almost every
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      381 9 I AM a recent arrival in the Colony of Singaj pore, and for three I months I have read daily, in the Straits Times. lettefs from various civilian stratej gists criticising the Army land its methods. Normally, the right to criticise should warrant at least
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      "OPEN THE EYES"
      38 9 DESPITE the fact that we have qualified Social Welfare Officers in the Federation, the number of prostitutes seems to be increasing day by day. Will the authorities please open their eyes? ANAK MELAYI'. Kuala Lumpur.
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      On The Other Side Of The Causeway
      180 9 T MAY be wrong, but I really cannot helD wondering 1 why the Government still pays an extra allowance of 10 per cent., called "Singapore allowance", to Singapore Government servants. People in Johore Bahru are paying more for their daily needs than those
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      O FOR A SWIM IN IPOH!
      176 9 I SHOULD like to draw 1 your readers' attention to the fact that Ipoh, or the better part of its population, has no swimming pool. The Ipoh Swimming Club does exist, but it is for the use of Europeans only. Just less than nine
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      THE U.S. FLEET ON THE AIR?
      74 9 IT is really interesting to hear of the United States Fleet's short visit to Singapore. I understand that a big sports programme is being arranged for the men, but I don't know whether any arrangement is being made for them to put on a
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      RUBBER BOOM: ASIAN STAFF?
      177 9 J.TT is well-nigh a year since estates staff were told that their Federation of Staff Unions had suomitted a memorandum to the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association, appealing for salary and allowance revision for estates staff. To date, we have heard nothing further about the negotiations
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      "WHAT SHALL I DO?"
      185 9 T SHOULD be obliged if 1 you, or anyone else, could tell me what I (and many others i n the same boat) should do in the following cases: I have been Indebted to a moneylender for $80 for two years. For the first six months
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      BANNING OF THE M.N.P.: A PROTEST
      256 9 IT is shocking to learn that the High Commissioner in Council has refused approval of registration of the Malay Nationalist Party. At a time when the Government is doing all in its power to wean the people away from the Communists, it is questionable
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      IT'S NOT ONLY TEEN-AGERS
      134 9 vyE must admit that, as this Champuration of languages is common not only among the teenagers but also among the oldsters, we are all generally guilty of the same mistake. Had this subject never been brought up, I am sure, many of us would never have
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      THANK YOU, MR. AMBROSE!
      346 9 I)I. EASE allow me to comI pliment Mr. L. R. Ambrose, manager. BOAC (Jl Singapore. for his very comforting and iifmn ing letter neaded v "BOAC Staff In Singapore," which appeared in the Straits Times of April 26. In these troubled time* it is very heartening
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    A EUROPEAN WIFE OPENS HER HEART
    451 9 I AM writing as the \\\[e u\ a member of the most despised of all. Government departments a department in which we nre supposed lo have a much lower standard of living, but one which collects most of the revenue from which other departments
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    London Stocks
    371 10 LONDON Frl. RUBBER shares lost ground on profit-taking In \he London Stock Exchange yesterday. The Exchange as a whole was in a subdued mood. Trading was small Industrials, however. were quietly maintained and displayed underlying firmness, which was particularly marked In Tobaccos and Textiles. Elsewhere the tendency was
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    TINS STEADY IN A QUIET DAY
    521 10 Prom Our Market Correspondent T<HE Malayan share market ruled very quiet in all 1 sections yesterday. Certain market favourites for Tin shares, however, showed a steady undertone. Industrials were inclined to be slightly easier. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS
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    TIN PRICES
    390 10 SINGAPORE, Frl., Apr. 28 $294 (up $1.12%). LONDON. Fri.. Apr. 28.— Spot: £592— £592 J. Forward: £5921— £593 i. Settlement: £593. TarnoVer morning. 95 tons; afternoon. 5 tons. 3uo k el War 1 BO 1 70 duiwei muu l«/k l»« lalplag Coniol I.9ft 2.00 Tiniong TID 7/3 7/9
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    TIN FIGURES: A SLIGHT FALL
    102 10 From Oar SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Frl. MALAYAN tin-ore production showed a slight decrease In the first quarter of 1950 as compared with the last three months of 1949. according to the Mines Department's quarterly bulletin of statistics. Total January, February and March output this
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    Three Cent Rise In Rubber
    229 10 rE Singapore rubber market steadied yesterday afternoon on short covering. There was moderate Inquiry for the lower grades. In the morning the market was quiet, with small business passing. Noon quotations were fractionally higher than those prevailing on Thursday, with the market tone uncertain. The
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    101 10 From A Market Correspondent COPRA In the Singapore produce market was easier yesterday with buyers at $38 *i and sellers at »39V». Coconut oil was unchanged with buyers at $62 and sellers $62 in second-hand drums. Prices in cloves were slightly lower, but the market was fairly
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    CLONAGH SHOULD MAKE AMENDS
    1249 11  - CLON AGH SHOULD MAKE AMENDS EPSOM JEEP Lord Frederick, Unless Good Bets By KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. fLONAGH wag a "certainty" beaten on Wednesday and I regard him as the best bet on the card at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow, last day of the Selangor Turf Club April Meeting. Badly away he
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    Today's Going
    38 11 Today 's Going From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. AFTER two days of bright sunshine yesterday and today, the track has dried np considerably. Provided there Is no rain, the going should be good for tomorrow's races.
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    CLONAGH SCHOULD MAKE AMENDS
    141 11 CLONAGH SCHOULD MAKE AMENDS CPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER RACE 1: t.39 TYPHOON Ganymead Epsom Down* EPSOM DOWNS Typhoon MarcbeU HI TYPHOON Epsom Downs Ganymead RACE t: 1.00 TOTXAND Content Show Boy SHOW BOT ToUand Stymie SHOW BOY Tolland Content RACE I: I SO SKYSCRAPER La Traviata Sanlana LA TRAVIATA
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    Today's Race Card
    862 11 BELOW is the card for today, third and last day of the Selangor Turf Club April meeting. The Double Totes will be held on races three and four, seven and eight. Tho Bijf Sweep will be drawn on race eight. Race 1—2.30: Class 3, Div. 5—6 Furs.
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    Soon Teck In Negri Team
    142 11 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Fri. KWAN SON TECK, Malaya Cup soccer veteran who had announced his decision to retire from State soccer, last night agreed to the request of the Negri Sembilan State selection committee to play In tomorrow's Malaya Cup match here against
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      272 11 TODAY'S RADIO SINGAPORE BFEB» 4.45 pjn. From the London 10 ajn. News from K.L.; 10.05 Jliltori&ls: 4.55 Schumann; 5.15 Close- 12 Malay- 1 pm Dance World Affairs; 5.30 "Waxworks Music (Oscar Rabin Lou Preag- Mystery": a play; 6 Indonesian: er); 130 News* Weekly Share 6.30 Cantonese; 6.45 'Band Call Market:
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    RONALD TAN WINS WITH ONE BAD HAND
    423 12 RONALD TAN WINS WITH ONE BAD HAND Gamest Loser Was Bates By EDIN FsWERS nONALD Tan, now known as "The K. O. King of 1V York Body Building Club/ was the night's best winner last night when the finals of the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association Championships were concluded at the
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    39 12 THE Hon» Konr Berrlcea soccer team who meet Sinrapore at Jalan Besar stadium tomorrow. In their two Kuala Lumpur fames this week, the tourists drew one-all with Selanfor on Wednesday and beat Federation Services four-one yesterday Straits Times picture.
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    Mrs. Greenhill & Chew Bee Win Title
    176 12 Mrs. Greenhill Chew Bee Win Title pOMBINING good underKj standing with their superior play, Mrs. A. Greenhill. the Colony's singles champion, and Ong Chew Bee took very little time to beat their opponents, Mrs. P. Sewell and H. Khamis In the V.M.C.A. tennis mixed doubles final ypsterday. Taking the title
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    1,000 Guineas To Camaree
    144 12 NEWMARKJiTT, Fri. /"iamaree, at ten to one, V* won the 1.000 Guineas here today. In a photo-fin-ish for second place, Catchit and Tamara dead-heated. Camaree won by three lengths. Brilliantly ridden by Johns tone, Camaree, advantageously drawn No. 2, left the English fillies standing in the
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    ALFIE BEATS GOLDEN BOY
    96 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A "disappointing fight" was how Alfle Bands described his fight with Golden Boy whom he beat on points In the main event of the boxing at BuUt I Bintang Stadium here tonight 1 over 10 three minute rounds. Alfle
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    Sports Diary
    79 12 TODAY CRICKET: RAF Chantf T. SCC *t Ch»n*i; Non-Benders r. Chine— at Hone Un Green; Straits Times T. RAF SeleUr 2nd XI Bt SeleUr. BASKETBALL: VS. N»ry T. Ho Ho Temm at Great World. *M pjn. BADMINTON: MaUy championships at Clerical Hall S and 7 p.m. TENNIS: TMCA
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    Two Johore Players Hurt
    262 12 From Oar Own Correspondent MUAR, Fri. rOUGH Dollah Don is back to lead the attack, Johore suffers a new blow in that two of their forwards, Jalil bin Majld and Syed Hassan, will not be able to turn out for the State tomorrow when they meet
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    4-1 WIN FOR H.K. SERVICES XI
    260 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. rnHE Hong Kong Services deX feated the Federation's Combined Services* by four goals to one in their soccer match played on a water-log-ged ground at Rifle Range today. The Federation side did well to hold their opponents
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    S.R.C. Without Colling Tomorrow
    228 12 AP the three leading teams V —Ceylonese, the S.R.C. and the Indians- -who go into their S.C.A. senior tournament matches tomorrow, i Eurasians will have the I hardest job keeping within striking distance of the leaders for they will be without their star bowler Charlie Colling.
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    Expects Winner's Medal Today
    745 12 DENIS COMPTON HAS A THEORY By JOHN HADDON LONDON, Friday. TODAY at Lord's, the M.C.C. will be playing YorkA shire at cricket. Amonx the names of the M.C.C. players should have been that of Denis Compton. But he will be missing. He has a priority engagement
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    CYCLING ASSN. FOR SINGAPORE
    78 12 The Cosmopolitan Cycling Club, organisers of all cycle races held in the Colony since the liberation, will hold a meeting to form a Singapore Cycling Association early next month. The proposed Association, which has already been promised support by local bicycle firms, will be the controlling
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    MALAY CRICKET
    25 12 KUALA LUMPUR Fri.—Delegates from Malay Cricket Associations In the Federation and Singapore will meet In Kuala Lumpur tomorrow to form a PanMalayan Body.
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    Batting Strength Was Evident
    665 12 RECORDS OF SCHOOLBOYS' TOUR rpHE SINGAPORE combined schools cricket team, who returned to Singapore by the s.s. Gorgon from Perth on Sunday, won nine and lost three of the 12 matches they played. The Singapore batting strength was evident. Lowest total made was 82 for eight,
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    U.S. BASEBALL RESULTS
    117 12 NEW YORK, Fri. A WEIRD fifth Inning In which Boston scored five runs on one hit, enabled the Red Sox to defeat the New York Yankees, 7 to 2. yesterday in the American Baseball League. The Boston pitcher, Ellis Kinder, scattered eight hits for his first hurling
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    RIFLE SHOOT
    26 12 The Singapore Rifle Association will resume its fortnightly .30J spoon shoot at the Seletar range, 9H* milestone Thomson Road on Sunday at 8.30 a.m.
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