The Straits Times, 2 December 1950

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  • 20 1 The Str ai ts Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1950 PRICE TEN CENTS. TWELVE PAGES
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  • 455 1 U.S. Talks Bring Ray Of Hope For Last Minute Compromise LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. THE British Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee who is leaving for Washington on Sunday night for talks with President Truman, was expected to counsel caution in handling the Sino-Korean issue which has
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  • 70 1 RED BID TO CUT OFF U.N. TROOPS TOKYO. Fri. STILL twinging the main weight of their offensive on the left in jKorea today, the Chinese Communists drove hard towards the f-ast coast in an attempt to cut oft* the .scattered United Nations t em to the north-east. In considerable strength,
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  • 135 1 Their advance units were t i to b*> unlv 30 miles from the twin east coast towns H unhung and Hungham. The war-weary Bth Army In the north-west, after pullins south or the Chongchon nvpr. had temporarily lost contact with most of the •upplv starved enemy attacking their
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  • 113 1 Ch urc hill Consulted Mr. At 'lee had a Ion? telephone conversation with the Conservative leader. Mr. Winston Chun-hill. President Truman is expected to send a cable today or tomorrow 'ellinK Mr Attlee in advance what subjects he would like to raise. Though the talks will be completely informal and
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  • 25 1 LONDON. Fri. The Director of Operations Lieut. -Gen Sir Harold Briggs. saw the Prime Minister. Mr. Attlee. at Downing Street today. Reuter
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  • 73 1 WASHINGTON. Fri. PRESIDENT Truman to1 day put before Congressional leaders a $18,200.000.009 programme to expand the Armed Services and boost atomic weapons production. The Forces would get 517.000.000.000 and the Atomic Energy Commission SI. 200.000.000. Congressmen said the President did not ask for immediate steps
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  • 68 1 NEW DELHI, Fri— lndia has pointed out to France cases of repression and intimidation in French India of elements advocating a merger with India, Mr. Nehru told Parliament today. He said that France has replied to the Indian protest over harsh sentences given to pro-Indian elements
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  • 39 1 WASHINGTON, Fri.— T! United States administration last night sent to Congress a Bill to establish a Civilian Defence Administrator at top level with unparalleled powers tn th« event of an enemy air attack. Reuter.
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  • 99 1 IS 1 KAMA were all out x\ for 228 runs when the first Test Match began at Brisbane yesterday. On a perrect pitch. Bailey (three for '28), Bedser (four for 45) and Brown (two for 63) were backed by fielding; which confounded all the criticism
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  • 214 1 FRANKFURT, Germany, Friday. /JEN. Mac Arthur today said that the United Nations forces in Korea were fighting against "military odds without precedent in history" and if the battle there was lost it would be "fought and possibly lost on the battlefields of Europe." Gen.
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  • 25 1 NEW DELHI. Fri.— The Deputy Prime Minister, Sardar Patel, is under medical treatment for abdominal trouble. He is not seriously ill.— AP.
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    41 1 CHINESE COMMUNIST debates mcX the United Nations secretary, Mr. Tryrve Lie (centre). From left: Messrs. Pu Shen. Interpreter, Wu Hsiu-Chuan. head of the delegation, Trygve Lie, C hiao Kuan-hua, adviser, and Madame Kung Pu-sheng, technical counsellor to Mr. Wu.— A.P. picture.
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  • 155 1 CITY ELECTIONS TODAY SINGAPORE municipal ballot boxes will be taken under armed guard from the 18 polling stations when the 12 hours polling finishes at 8 p.m. today. Counting will start immediately in the Victoria Memorial Hall. No one who has not taken the oath
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  • 57 1 NEW DELHI. Fri. Sin-kiang-based Chinese forces, fighting their way savagely across western Tibet, are inflicting heavy casualties on Tibetans defending the western approaches to the capital of Lhasa, unconfirmed reports from Kalimpong said yesterday. The Chinese objective Is Shigatse, 150 miles west of Lhasa and
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  • 45 1 WASHINGTON. Fri. A meeting of North Atlantic leaders has been arranged to seek Immediate agreement on creation of combined defence force in Western E'#rope. usually well-informed sources said here today. A formal announcement was expected within the next 24 hours. Reuter.
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  • 40 1 NEW ©ELHI, Fri—Fortyseven persons lost their lives in railway accidents in India during three months ending September, the Railway Minister, Mr. K. Santhanam, told Parliament. Of 653 accidents, 57 were serious, he said.— A.P
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  • 26 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Fri.— Cuba and Pakistan have been elected to the special U.N. committee charged with rxamining reports of powers with trusteesnip territories.- -U.P.
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  • 164 1 ETNA LAVA NEARS VILLAGE CATANIA, SICILY, Fri. THE population of Milo, tiny village on the slopes of Mt. Etna, threatened by the advance of a 300-foot wide stream of lava took out the painting of St. Andrew, their patron saint, In a procession which lasted several hours yesterday. As they
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  • 89 1 WASHINGTON. Fri. U.S. Senate Committee A declared that U.S. Government officials "using less horse sense than if they were running a charity bazaar." blundered badly when they sold war-useful synthetic rubber plants as surplus. In a caustically-worded report the Armed Services Preparedness sub-Committee said government agencies concerned
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  • 84 1 rpHE first flight of six Vampire jet fighters for the Far East Air Force will leave Bangkok this morning for Butterworth, where they will halt for refuelling before taking off on their final "leg" to Singapore. The Vampires in formation are due to .pass over Singapore early
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  • 97 1 HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Fri. J^INE bedies were recovered on Thursday from a flre"i!'rd department itore in the main street of Halitax, Nova Scotia. Five hours after tht flf't outbreak, firemen were still biinging bodies out of the ruins. Damage to the four-storey building is estimated
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  • 501 1 DIRECTOR DIES IN AMBUSH NEAR KA. From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. |yjR. J. H. Clarkson, executive director anc manager of J. A. Russell and Co., Kuala Lumpur, a director of Malayan Collieries and a director of Boh Plantations, was killed and an Indian special constable fatally wounded on
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  • 97 1 ATRISHA, with the rider and three passengers— a Chinese mother and her two children went into the Rochore Canal yesterday. Thirty-seven-year old Ho Seng Kirn and her son, sixyear old Kok Kirn Poh, and daughter, five-year old Koic Kirn Seng, had just got into
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  • 56 1 LONDON, Fri. Dori.-j Yvonne Compton, wife of Denis Compton. the England cricketer, who is taking part in the Test match at* Brisbane, was granted a decree nisi today on the ground of Compton's adultery. They were married in 1941. Mrs. Compton, who was given custody of the
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    • 266 2 A SAN FRANCISCO exporter has lefused to comply with a U.S. Customs order to mutilate a shipment of 400 used tyres to Communist China, says Pau!a Leake, a Customs collector. Instead, the exporter withdrew the shipment and said he would send it to Los
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      34 2 PRINCE BEENHARD of the Netherlands kissing the hand of Queen Elizabeth as she arrived f*r the banquet at Claridge's Hotel given by Queen Juliana last week. The King is in the background.
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    • 206 2 Arrested U.S. Priest Identified HONG KONG, Fri. 'PHE American national arrested by the Chinese authorities in Chungking on Nov. 16 has been identified here as the Reverend Olin Stockwell. of the American Methodist Mission in China. In first reporting the arrest, Leftwing papers in Hong Kong gave the American's name
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    • 404 2 NOTICES AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE FREEHOLD SINGAPORE PROPERTIES To be held at our saleroom, No. 10 Chulia Street. On Wednesday, 6th December 1950. at 2.30 P.M. Lot 1. Freehold land and house No. 42 Scotta Road, approximate area 26.870 sq.ft. Monthly rent $144/- Vacant possession to be given within 4
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    • 175 2 U.S. MEETS RED MALAYA THREAT' WASHINGTON, Fri. THE U.S. State Department announced that United States Information Service men have met a threat by Malaya's Communist terrorists to discredit America in the eyes of Malayans. Communist* propaganda had made numerous enemies among the working classes by proclaiming that the United States
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    • 191 2 STORK W_ MARGARINE jVgjgj^k Kiddies love Stork Margarine RC^| spread on bread or biscuits! K^J| Mother gives it to them becu^e i^~\ she knows it's nourishing as: v wc u as delicious. Stork, you^ B> '^^JJSp^^x*' see, is made of the finest inB^. •*^^^?5 '*lJ gredients and contains vitamins that
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  • 292 3 Prime Minister going to Washington for vital meeting with Truman Attlee Urges 'Full Talks 9 Before Any Decision To Use Bomb LONDON, Friday. THK Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, is flying: to Washington on. Sunday for emergency talks with President Truman on Korea and the nut of Hi
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  • 110 3 SOVIET VETOES KOREA PLAN LAKE SUIX-h-SS, Fri. 'THE Soviet Union last A night vetoen a sixpower resolution calling on the Chinese Communists to withdraw their troops from Korea. It i Russia"s 47th veto In the UN Security Council and was not. therefore, em i rely unexnpfted. Blocking of the Council
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  • 247 3 LONDON, Fri. MR- Attlee's decision to confer with Mr. Truman which the London morning papers played under their biggest headlines was hailed editorially, even by the Communist Daily Worker. Some typical comment is: DAILY TELEGRAPH says: The Prime Minister's announcement will be heralded with joy
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  • 140 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Fri. ]yjRS. Eleanor Roosevelt was booed yesterday by a group of some 150 college men and women who, under the leadership of Paul Robeson. Jnr., staged a sit-down "peace" demonstration here. The former first lady American delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, was
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  • 37 3 G O A. Portuguese India, Fri.— Representatives of German firms have visited Goa to appoint pgents and revive trade m "bemi.cals, pharmaceutlcals and other goods. Several German firms are already active in Portuguese India.— AP.
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  • 202 3 LONDON. Frl. jyjß. Geoffrey De Freitas told the House of Commons yesterday that an experimental Civil Defence Mobile Column of part time volunteers, ready to give fuil time service in case of war, was being formed In Britain. Mr. Harold Watkinson. Conservative, said that in
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  • 37 3 PRESIDENT TRUMAN, who alone can order the use of the atom bomb, with the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Nsrollah Entezam (centre), and the Secretary-General, Mr. Tryffve Lie. USIS picture.
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  • 530 3 LONDON, Friday. \|K. Tom Driberg (Labour) said in the House of Commons last night that a iTI great deal ol harm has been done and alarm caused by reports of President Truman's statement that the use of the atom bomb in Korea
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  • 92 3 HONG KONG, Fri. HONG KONG'S pro-Com-munist Press this morning completely Ignored Presid»nt Truman's statement that the United States may use the atomic bomb in Communist China. Despite the /act that o'l.er English and Chinese language dailies "splashed" the story, the colony's two pro-Com-munist vernaculars devoted most
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  • 72 3 PARIS, Fri. THE French National Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday in secret session adopted a resolution calling on the United Nations to negotiate with the Chinese Communists for a demilitarised zone along the Manchurian frontier. The resolution said the V.N. should follow up the recent Anglo-French
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  • 47 3 WASHINGTON, Fri— American sources disclose that the United States has urged Pakistan and Afghanistan to hold a formal conference to try and find a peaceful solution of their border dispute in the northwest frontier territory, only a short distance from Russian territory.— U.P.
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  • 195 3 WASHINGTON. Friday. THE Soviet Union yesterday reiterated in the 13-nation Far Eastern Commission its charges that the United States is using "Japanese military personnel" in the Korea fighting in "gross violation of the Potsdam Declaration" and occupation directives, which prohibit any Japanese military
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  • 327 4 Asked gods to help in search SEARCHING for his missing daughter, in a wooded area at the 18 mile stone. Jurong Road, on Nov 22, a Chinese squatter called upon the eods to help him as he feared his daughter might have Deen taken away by "devils in the jungle."
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  • 45 4 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Fri.— Tan Beng Liong, of Kampong Bukit China. Malacca, was charged in the Sessions Court with having in his possession inside his car one round of ammunition. He claimed trial and was aliowed bail of $200.
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    40 4 IM'HE ALI bin Mustapha having the Iron Medal (First Class) pinned to his chest by the Regent of Johore at Muar. An auxiliary policeman at Bukit Keponsr, he was one of 16 policemen decorated for gallantry Lim Photo Studio picture.
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  • 332 4 LONDON, Friday. rFHE President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Harold A Wilson, said today that he was well aware of Malaya's need for newsprint and would do what he could to help. Major Niall Macpherson, National Liberal-Conservative, had asked in the House of Commons how
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  • 75 4 STARS ARE ON AT NINE The musical show "Stars of Indonesia 1951" will start the first of tnree performances in the Happy World tonight at nine. Produced by A. Razak and Tjan Kwan, Tjwan, the show comprises screen, stage and roadio personalities from Indonesia. The star is Miss Fifl Young,
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  • 31 4 Lira Chew, aged 43, care- taker of a Singapore Chinese i :anhouse, vas acquitted in (he Singapore Second Police Court yesterday on a charge of assisting in a chap-ji-kee lottery.
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  • 383 4 ONE MONTH'S GAOL FOR ELECTION CANDIDA TE A CANDIDATE in today's Municipal elections, M. Ali Abdul Rahim Khan, was sentenced in the Singapore First District Court yesterday to one month's simple imprisonment tor delivering to the Returning Officer of the Municipal Roqhore Electoral Ward a nomination paper which he knew
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  • 241 4 THE Acting Superviser of Elections, Mr. G. G. Thomson, told the Straits Times last night that the court's decision in the case of Mr. A. A. Rahim Khan did not affect the election as there was no provision under the Municipal Elections Ordinance for a candidate
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  • 368 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. vt OHAMAD Yusoft* bin Haji Mohamad, a former Seremban magistrate, had his eomiction and sentence to six months' imprisonment quashed on appeal by Mr. Justice Taylor in the Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court today. The Deputy Public Prosecutor said that he
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  • 78 4 \V ITH whisky supplies to India and Pakistan reduced to a trickle by prohibition, Singapore this year will enjoy a slightly more bibulous Christmas. Distributors said yesterday that part of the quotas previously sent to the two Dominions was now being; diverted to the Colony. Most
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 158 4 The noise of the door opening Hor-Rid led the children Into woke All sad Roktah early next King NuT«s throne room morning. They Mt op rubbing «Oh!" whUpered Radish, "what their eye*. "Come alone" croak- nasty thrase room." "WHAT ed a Tolce. "I am taking you to UID yOD SAY?-
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  • 464 5 S'PORE TO ASK FOR MORE TAX MEN "No Hold Up In Colombo Plan (SINGAPORE is to ask for more income tax k experts i< its first requirement under the '<>mmon wealth's Colombo Plan for economic aid to South-Kast Asian countries, Mr. C. C. Tan, the Legislative Councillor, disclosed ;>t Press
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  • 146 5 Market Is 'Highly Sensitive' Rubber Report 'THK grave crisis in Korea naa been responsible for a sharp re-action upwards, s< Lewis and Peal (Singai Ltd.. in th(<ir weekly r n\ the rubber market, i festerday. ti highly i trad ire very iiations In nrtce are to be expected. i i
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  • 110 5 JUDGMENT WU reserved by Mr Justice Evans in the js ;,t)or»- High Court yesterdiv in th< claim for damages brought by The paren« of a I (Her, v ho was killed in a <• illis on be; ween a lorry and a car on May 4 la.s*.
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  • 21 5 SEGAMAT. Fri.— For stealing clothing from a house. 19-year-old Lee Su Chong I utenced to 18 months" hurl labour.
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  • 165 5 IN celebration of Prophet Muhammad's birthday on !>ec. 2». Singapore Muslims will take out a large procession and jjive a party to Muslim children at the Jalan Besar Stadium. The procession committee of tn All-Malaya Muslim MisSociety hopes to lnn this Year's procession mbers of
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  • 48 5 The case against Rashid Rastonj: Irani, an Indian, •harged with being concernd in the importation of jpium into Singapore from India on June 20. was adlourned yesterday until MonJay. by the Singapore Second District Judge, Mr. Tan Ail T.i\\ aa Irani, who was ill was absent.
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  • 46 5 Kroni Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Fri.— The Convent. Johore Bahru. held a successful exhibition of its pupils' needlework at a garden fete today in aid of the Convent school's building fund. Tungku Tun Aminah. Consort of the Regent oi Johore. attended the fete.
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  • 133 5 4 MIDDLE-AGED Chinese woman, Chan Lai Wan, told the Singapore First District Court yesterday how she overpowered a man armed with an axe after he had attacked her sister In the dock was Low Chak Man. charged with causing grievous hurt to Chan Lai Choo
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  • 68 5 'J'HE conference of British information officers and public relations men from South-East Asian countries, scheduled to open yesterday at Phoenix Park. Singapore, was postponed until today. The postponement was to enable two officers of the British Foreign Office to be present. The conference opens today with the following
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  • 21 5 $500 BAIL From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. Fri.— Bail in S5OO was offered 38-year-old Mohamed Raus bin Ma'at. charged with misappropriation.
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  • 134 5 TODAY MUNICIPAL 8 BJB. to 8 p.m. X V.W.C.A.. Raffies Quay, Mandarin class. 11 a.m. CHINESE V.M.C A.. Seleg.r Road, music class, 2.30 p.m., body building. 4 p.m.. basketball. 5 p.m.. badminton, 5.30 p.m., film show 7.30 p.m. V.M.C.A., Orchard Road, choss club, 3 p.m., tennis tournament. 5
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  • 55 5 MR. J. PATRWBATHER. Prrak Agricultural Officer, who was awarded the M.B.E. for services during the occupation as "Chief Police Officer" of the internment camp at Changi and Sime Road, has retired after 30 years in Malaya. He and Mrs. Fairweather will sail by the Gorgon to live
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  • 108 5 HE HAD 131 PAIRS OF CORSETS From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Fri A 29-YEAR-OLD Ceylonese clerk attached to the artificial limb factory, Paul Nesarajah, pleaded guilty to three counts of theft and of possession of skirts, sarongs, corsets, knickers and skirts. He was alleged to have stolen a skirt
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  • 63 5 An application by the Official Assignee for the administration in bankruptcy of the estate of Lim Nget Mm, was allowed by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in the High Court yesterday. Mr. T. Kulasekara, Assistant Official Assignee, told his lordship that claims against the dead
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  • 238 5 JUDGMENT IN MARIA CASE TODAY MR. Justice Brown will deliver judgment today in the Hign Court in the Maria Hertogh case. The hearing lasted five days and ended on Nov. 24 The suit was brought by Mr and Mrs. A. P. Hertogh. of Holland, parents of 13-year-old Maria, for her
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  • 61 5 From Our Own Correspondem JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. UANSOOR bin Salim, charg- ed at Johore Bahru with causing the death of Manlshah binte Salim by a rash act firing a rifle was fined $150 or, in default, one month's gaol. Pleading guilty, Mansor said the woman was
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 239 5 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD h n mi., mi CROSSWORD No. 233 > Cfii>kP little yarn (aiuji jj. Qtone j the »lurl lo ft! on* > bit ileep «6l 1 i|l I§ J §1 M* y|' :f| h T .ir Tigz <>•*■•' "> p -J^-i^ n 10 The> m» bt uull* M
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  • 945 6 Difficult though it is at a time of acute crisis in the Far East. Singaporeans are called upon today to perform their civic duty by turning their eyes from the wider world towards their own parochial but nonetheless important affairs, for this is Elections Day in the
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  • 178 6 Fifty Years Ago. TOPPERS AT THE CATHEDRAL From the Straits Times of Dec. 4-8, 1900) gT. Andrew's Cathedral was crowded with pretty Trocks, and dreamy toques and hats, and ungodly frock coats and "toppers," and various other conventional symptoms of a gala festival, at the unusual hour of four o'clock
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  • 35 6 Photograph by Ma jor P. D. R. Williams-Runt. NECRITOS at home ncjr Lenggong, Perak. Originally wandering hunters, this community has never settled down to build substantial houses. (The Aboriginal Studies" series ends today.)
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  • 1396 6  -  by testy remark by one of today's candidates that neither heroes nor heroines are required on the Municipal Commission apparently stands in need of correction, i Only the dauntless could i have voted themselves on the eve of this election $300 a I month each for
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  • 835 6 JN Dr. J. G. Reed's articles on Joseph Conrad in the Malay Archipelago which we published on Tuesday and Wednesday there was a reference to Captain David Craig, under whom Conrad served in the Singapore steamer Vidar. By an extraordinary coincidence, this very week I have received a letter
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  • 340 7 Bandits Defied In His Blazing P. O. Prom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. WITH the village post office where his wife and five children were hiding already in flames, a Pahang postmaster stood with a gun behind a barricaded door and refused to surrender
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  • 101 7 BUSY DAY FOR BURGLARS SIX cases of burglaries were reported in Singapore yesterday. The burglaries were at Ty< i sal! Camp where Major Chapman and Mr. S. K. Miller lost about $550 worth of articles. From a flat at Heeren Building in Orchard Road. watches, rings and cash anviunting to
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  • 60 7 A Boyanese, Hamid bin Hnji Jalil. was robbed of a v. list watch. some sarongs H rash at his room in [rants' Quarters of I boose in Dunearn Road yes- Hamid said that he woke ai. about 130 a.m. to find two Chinese in his room. They
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  • 126 7 St. Nicolas Travels Incognito AY.I.P. known to all Dutch children St. Nicolas and his servant. Black Peter had a big reception from cheering; schoolchildren at Jakarta airport yesterday when they alighted from a KI,M Constellation from Singapore. St. Nicolas, attired in traditional robes, carried a crozier and Black Peter had
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  • 196 7 'Hoots, Mon, Bring On The Haggis' TJOZENS of pounds of haggis from Glasgow and more than 200 bottles of Scotch whisky gave the 600 Scots and their guests at the Singapore St. Andrew's Society annual dinner at the Victoria Memorial, last night, a real flavour of home. Dressed in kilts
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  • 72 7 A FTER chasing a taxi for more than a mile along Woodlands Road, two customs officers found a woman passenger with 80 lb of dutiable cigars. Yesterday in the Singapore Third Police Court, Lim Siok Khim was fined $2,500 or four months' imprisonment. Mr. M. Sldek,
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  • 66 7 The China Society and the Chinese V.M.C.A. are giving a cocktail party on Monday in honour of Mr. E. C. S Adkins. the Secretary of Chinese Affairs. Singapore, who is shortly going on leave to Britain. The party will be held at the residence of Mr.
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  • 24 7 GURKHA, CHINESE and Malay members of the Singapore Police Force who marched through Chinatown yesterday evening.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 154 7 A REALISTIC display of fighter aircraft "attack- ing" an "enemy" bomber formation will be given in Singapore on Air Day next Saturday. Three Lincolns and three Brigands, representing the "enemy" bomber formation, will fly over Kallang airport at approximately 4.50 pjn. Eight R.A.F. fighters will
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  • 131 7 'YOU LIE, JAG A IS TOLD \JAGA who said he had "not touched liquor for six months" was told by the Second District Judge. Mr. Tan Ah Tah. that he was "not telling the truth". The judge made this comment when acquitting four Chinese on charges of theft and assault.
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  • 87 7 2 Bandits Starve To Death From Our Staff ('r-rr«ryin<lrnt IPOH, Fri. UNABLE to get food in the villages of Upper Perak twe men, believed to be bandits, and a woman wandered deeper and deeper Into the jungle. When a survey party found them near the Perak-KeJan-tan border the men were
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  • 78 7 A warrant for the arrest of Tengku Mohamed bin Tengku Mahmud, a judgment debtor, when he failed to appear in court yesterday was issued by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley. Tengku Mohamed had been summoned in respect of a debt of $799.78 due by him, on
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  • 45 7 One of the eight cases of polio reported during the week was fatal, it was announced yesterday. There were nine cases last week, with one death. During the week there were 737 births against 183 deaths 104 were males and 79 females.
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  • 38 7 V. Subramaniam was sentenced in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to four months' imprisonment, to be followed by a year's police supervision, after pleading guilty to stealing three ducks. He admitted five previous convictions.
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  • 108 7 FOUR Chinese, one "armed" with a three cornered 1 file, held up and set fire to a Singapore Traction Company trolley bus at the Purvis Street-North Bridge Road junction early yesterday. The bus. which had just left the MacKenzie Road depot for Collyer Quay, was
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  • 41 7 "You must not gamble In a public street," Mr. P. Claque, the Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate, yesterday warned Lim Kwee who pleaded guilty to gambling on a fivefoot way at Bukit Timah Road. He was fined $10.
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  • 120 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Frl. EXPATRIATE Government £j officers in the Federation have not yet, been asked to curtail their leave "still further." This was proposed last week by the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. S. W. Foster Sfltton, In the
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  • 136 7 Thousands see police route march QNE hundred and fifty Police, led by their own band, went on a route march through Singapore's Chinatown yesterday evening as part of a drive to get more Chinese recruits for the force. The parade was headed by a unit of Chinese police who marched
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  • 80 7 Ten candidates were successful in the Intermediate Arts and Science examinations of London University held in Singapore in July. Intermediate Examination in Arts. Mr .Gwee Yee Hean, MrKhoo Swee Cheong and Miss Wong Sau Chlng (Supplementary). Intermediate Examination in Science: Mr. Arumugam Paramsothy and Miss Chua Sui
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  • 49 7 MR. J. L. TWITCHIM and his bride. Miss Elizabeth Anne Balfuur Laird, daughof Dr. and Mrs. W.B. Laird of Dover, after their wedding at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Singapore, yesterday. Mr. X uitchim is an engineer at riu Remis Estate, Joh ore. Straits Times picture.
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  • 181 7 M.Cs TO PaY THEMSEL VES $300 A MONTH gINGAPORE Municipal Commi-oioners, by secret ballot at a private meeting utter their open monthly session on Thursday, decided that they should be paid $300 a month for their services, wUh effect from July 1 this year. The Commissioners were told that the
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  • 56 7 Thirty-nine girls from St. Anthony's Convent, accompanied by two teachers. Miss Quah and Miss Lim, visited the High Court yesterday and were shown round the building by Mr. A. P. Rajah. The girls sat in the gallery of the Chief Justice's court for a while watching
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  • 30 7 Chua Ah Bah. a lerk. yesterday was bound over in $50 to be of good behaviour In the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday for stealing two flower pots.
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  • 22 7 The annual chess match between the University of Malaya grads and undergrads will be held tomorrow at Harrower Hall, Singapore.
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  • 129 7 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Fri. DEVISED bonus rates air to be paid to all Asian employei 5 d; .i ,i nl Chinese mines lrom today. the Malayan Mining Employers' Association decided at Ipoh. An association statement says. "In view of the unprecedented and unforseen
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  • 52 7 Two women of Buklt Timah Road, Bong Kiev and HenK Ah Yen. promised the Singapore Fourth Police magistrate. Mr. P. Claque. yesterday, that they would license their dogs, when charged with keeping them without a licence Bong and Heng, who hart pleaded guilty, were cautioned
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    • 36 7 ScONTAWs A PRODU CT UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA sole distributors: S I M E, DARBY TBI-2 E »»»««««*»>«♦»««♦♦ M FLINTER S GRINBERG Diamonds and Jewellery Telephone 7923 i 67. STAMFORD RD.. iEu Court Bldg) a 'ORE
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  • 168 8 fi'.IKKI. are 18 polling 1 stations for today's .;>:»l fU-clions in the s wards as followsII Y: St. Andrew's (Municipal building*. South Bridge (Social Welfare I ,-n lre. :i'i New Bridge Road). Teluk Ayer <B"\s' Club. Prince Edward Road). KOCHORE: RalTles (St. i\ Institution. Bras
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  • 206 8 Federation Sends Observers SIN J APORE S M uiiH'ipai ions today ;up beiiv^ i by n 0 Municipalities of Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Malacca v ire come :o ice "how thinca are done" in preparatlon for their own Municipal oru nexi year. dates, the Straits t learned yesterday, tot 1i
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  • 59 8 r»\»io Malaya, SineaV pore, will interrupt the rvrnine programme to broadcast the results of the Si'i :;i|>ore Municipal FleeIS llu'v tome to hand tm<i»ht 'I ho station will keep •pen until all results have It, vn received. lltr end of the results Mr. George Thomson. Supervisor of
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  • 183 8 but at the end of it there it the light of the hope of better days for all in this country." TWE final election broadcasts by the Labour and A Progressive Parties were made over Radio Malaya last night. The President of the Labour Party
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    • 159 8 The MM s KARDEX HHf, L or complex, they will be easier sB 4 TToßj*^BtVM a method whereby cardi can be Cm (tL-^^yBUH unit- rmly spaced and held in l^ing. J^n^ Yg||^JiTgS^S|7 Visible Control M Lock /^msm^^^^/ p^o nn U of and Steel Slide Signal* 1/ f« n aw P
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    • 176 8 LABOUR'S MANIFESTO ALL Labour Party candidates, if elected, will work for the following: 1. A fully elected Municipal Commission with an elected Mayor. 2. Municipalisation of the Singapore Traction Company. 3. Licensing of all hawkers and more public market* and hawkers shelters. I More SIT houses for workers at cheaper
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    • 100 8 T'HF Progressive Party, if elected will work for: 1. Votes for all. 2. Water-borne sewerage for all. 3. Marketing facilities properly organised. 4. Safeguards for public health and adequate town cleansing. 5. Better street lighting. FUTURE AIMS 1. Additional playgrounds for children. 2. Loans for Municipal Staff housing. 3. A
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    • 269 8 "Annie Get Your Gun I "OKLAHOMA" in Singapore! for 1 night only! -Saturday, 2nd Dec. A special appearance of "BETTY DORINAV in songs and dances from these highwide n-handsome shows. Book your table now, "pardners"! Phone: ***** RESTAURANT Ponson y] vff TJOR FRIENDS who »moke, af^ I Q^^A Ronson it
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  • 330 9 Finally just one irrelevant reminiscence. I had once been tp.lking business at some considerable leneth on the telephone to a Malay clerk In the Land O~ c and at the pnd of it he said. Ta'apa lagi ya 'Bang i never mind, brother.* It was with
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  • 39 9 gURELY something can be done about these awful pet shops in Rochore Road, which are supposed to be supervised by the Municipality? Singapore hes a few uncivilised sights, and this is one of them. L.W. Singapore.
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  • SATURDAY FORUM
    • 184 9 I HAVE been following with great interest and'satisfaction the idea of setting up Government shops for the sale of rationed and pricecontrolled commodities. It is astounding to learn now that certain members opposed this move in the Federal Legislative Council on Nov. 22. They gave
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    • 570 9 The Big Families Are Malaya's Headache T»HE great difference in fundamental economic outlook between East and West remains that in ed standard of living will overnina factor prescribA Woman At A Wayside Station "WEARY Way's" letter of Nov. 28. headed "12Hour Shift A Day." spoke the truth, which the General
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    • 290 9 A Stranded Player In Brunei T>HE Government of Singapore may be ■taking a right step in tightening the conditions of immigrant entry to the Colony by enforcing the new visa rules from Oct. 1. 1950. But as a layman I think the Government, or those who have formulated the new
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    • 105 9 A LTHOUGH 1 am in com plete agreement with everything your correspondent "Jehu" had to say about Singapore driving on Tuesday, I consider his choice r> r Dspurtonyrn to unfortunate for one campaigning for safe driving. The Bible character Jehu is described thus: "The driving is the
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    • 234 9 A CONVALESCING T.B. patient asks me to write, for the information of himself and some of his unfortunate friends, to ask whether T. B. vaccine fT.C"*.! i .j be distributed evenly among all the States in the Federation for the Injection of the children and wives
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  • 251 9 ON-, of your correspondents, writing last Monday on traffic conditions in Singapore, has mentioned the overloaded lorry; that menace of the highway is to be seen everywhere in Singapore every* minute of the day. Not only does it hug the middle of the road, but because
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  • 326 9 brethren in Singapore, Wr:o are the people who have betamarrying, under one pretext or another, the young daueh-. ters of poor, icrnorant Malays 1 and leaving them after a lew months?" Do they not form the majority of the active opponents ni the Bill? Are the
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  • 52 9 TT is indeed deplorable to observe -that 5-rent. 10cent and 20-cent coins are Oi>app?arins; in Muar, and I am in doubt whether the other towns in Malaya are experiencing the same fate. It is hoped that the Government will pay early attention to this kind of raclr<
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    • 17 9 It P£KI6 48 FT. Diesel'kingined Launch Built 1n Singapore Thornyarofh ife Ji IS ■■■5338^'"" A 'Perfect Success
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    • 59 9 Good food tastes all the better with Colmans Mustard *mm ■a pb*. oujuxam oa im, «bwm fm sensation I "Jkm? '7*- icy. KEMT HAIR GLORIFIER >6|ffiM^gpjpW^B or secretly blended oils as a r?\ HL -W f yOOy 00 n lwo «h«des— dark und I YXa mist GUQfciFYjVQUR HAIR IN ONC
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  • 266 10 London "Stock Exchange LONDON, Fri. CLOSING middle prices today of selected stocks as supplied to the Straits Times by special arrangements with The Financial Times follow: Cnnso'j* 711 xd Funding 47. 10S| W«r 31% Mi i! BANKS Chartered <• pd.) 91 Mercantile (£25) c£12 pd.) 221 Hongkong iS125l 824 Eastern
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  • 32 10 HONG KONG. Fri. FKfch marker currency exchange toi Hong Kong do! lars was quo'ed today as followsUSS1 HKS6.46 (cash). HK$6.46' 2 (T.>: £1 HKM6.10: one tael of eold HK$313.— U.P.
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  • 38 10 I'PHE Malayan Exchange BanKs Association announced yesterday that control direct rates for Canadian dollars were: Buying T.T. 34 9 16. Airmail (O.D.) 34 11 16. (90 days) 34 1516; Selling T.T. P.P. ready 34 3 16.
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  • 35 10 irLUANG Rubber Company nos sold forward 15 tons of standard quality R.S.S. for delivery in bales into godown Singapore, at the rate of five tons monthly AprilJune 1951, at $1.33 per lb.
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  • 494 10 From A Market Correspondent T»HE Malayan Share Market yesterday opened on a steady tone, but the few buyers were quickly satisfied and the market closed very hesitant. Price quotations announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: buyers SeHers Alex. Bricks. Pref 1.85 Ord, M 1.921 At:a» ice
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  • 475 10 SINGAPORE, Fri., Dec. 1 —$495.75 (down $34.62'^ £1,125 a ton in London LONDON, Thurs., Not. 30. —Spot £1,120 £1,130; Forward £1,025 —£1,030; a.m. settlement £1,150 (up £5). Turn-overs: a.m. 120, p.m. 15 tons. 3 Malayan 25/S Tronoh »>.. 22/S'lngri Brtl 15/Sungei Bidor 41/6 Suiwei Ktnta 15/6
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  • 267 10 Singapore Rubber At 51.821/2 HEAVY selling featured the Singapore rubber market yesterday afternoon, causing a sharp breajc in the price levels. The market had opened steady in the morning with prices around Thursday's closing levels. There was a certain amount of business, and by noon, December firstgrade buyers stood at
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  • 99 10 From A Market Correspondent •pHE copra section of the Singa pore produce market was stagnant yesterday due to lack of advice from London. The tone was hesitant during the afternoon and the price eased from $49 a picul to $48, but buyers were considerably lower. No business was
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  • 20 10 Yesterday's London tin and rubber prices nave not been received up to the time of going to press.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 1159 10 MAN«f I ELD 6. CO., LTD rated in Singapore) BLUB rUNNBI LlNt Cimei I wl>on to proceed via other oorti to load and dxcharga cargo. V».li«O> to LIVtRPOOI CLASCOW LONDON CONTINtNTAI «*T* rr*.* cum oii" p o.rr/ii o.rrs.4 01 n& C»/14 0... 5 J O.« 12 O.c. 16 0... 17/18
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    • 416 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA CEYLON INDIA ECYPI and a MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Spore P Sham Kenang Pres. lohnson 5/10 Oec. 10/11 Oec 12/13 Dee Pres. Monroe 13/18 Oec. 17/18 Oec Mt. Davis 22/27 Dec. 28/29 Oec. 30/31 Dec Pres Buchanan 30 Dec/5 lan 6/7 |an 8/9
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    • 501 10 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINCS FROM SCANDINAVIA UK CONTINENT: Soore P Sham Penang "Kina tor Manila riong Kong. Takubar. Kobe Yokohama In Port "Falstria" for Saigon Bangkok 4-5 Dec. 3-3 Dec. In Port "Malacca" for Bangkok. Manila. Hong Kong Kobe Yokohama 11.13 Dec. -Selandia" for Saigon Bangkok 19-21 Dec. 18-18 Oec.
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    • 971 10 McALISTLR <Sc CO.. LTD. TaUehon* No 5906 CLLEHMAIS dOLKNALL ftUVMtM UNI t.t CITT 0* LIVfRPOOI <.„,. m.» BOUCAINVILLI > por* i ham fanant C-TT Of COVINTRY °17 18/4 <>« «>««. S'Por. P. Sham P.rw.g ln M SUNNY VIILI 20/26 |an 27/29 |an JO/31 fan '0 Dtc/4 |an 51 5 lan
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  • 752 11 IPOH. Fri. 'pHERE has been good weather since yesterday and if rain keeps away, the going: for tomorrow's raeing will be good. He never bad a chance but be battled on well enough at the end to finish right on top of the unplaced horses. Rigoletto's Improvement since
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  • 128 11 EPSOM JEEP CALX HOY POINTER ACE 1 X.1S BASHFIJ, BEAUTY Amusement (iarnfalr GARNFAIR Amusement Double Nine AMUSEMENT Garnfalr Typhoon RACE 2 2.4S INDEPENDENCE Ovation Jancle Path COASTGUARD 'ndependence Ovatios COASTGUARD Blue Print Bow Legs RACK 3 3.15 PirriNDEAL Constanre Pennyworth PIPWNDEAL Fair Flower Constance P1PPINDEAL Constance Wonder
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  • 1088 11 Double Totes are on Races i and 4. and 6 and 7; fii* Sweep on Race 8: Race 1—2.15: Class 4, Div. 1— 5 Fuis. Str. 1 004 Airpal Mawi 9.00 "Ontan Kongsi" Breulcelen 2 000 Bob- light Woods 8.11 Capt. H. F. Bloxham Fox 3 000
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    • 397 11 THRILLING THOUSANDS! l^^^i BOOK EARLY AND BE POLICE/ SURE OF YOUR SEAT! THE BLUE LAMP WITH A FOREWORD BY MR. R. E. FOULGER NOW MTOTI INSPECTOR GENERAL, COLONIAL POLICE -This Modern Ace Latest lssu« "Th« Riddle of Japan CATASIAV TODAY 11 am.. 1 45. 415. -pfTT7Nt_o^uu. 6.45 9.30 p.m. MIDNIGHT
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    • 224 11 GjTTf "TTI toda\ a* ■■■■■-"""■■l 11 -1.45-4-6.3 \3O Breath-taking story of POLICE WORK in PARIS! Filmed in the French Capital IN COLOR! CHARUS IAUGHTON HKHB 1 M FRANCHOT TONE -Jr '.•'.<' v'2\ BUR6CSS MEREDfTH -W»z»lTo^^» ROBERT HlffTOH M fcH^.r-.v'*^ \i mi ih. cm o* pa«« JOT -A fi/B''-^\& -i| Photaj-^hed
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  • 445 12  -  JACK FINGLETON By Jittery Batting Against Convalescent Wright: Harvey To Rescue (Exclusive to the Straits Times) BRISBANE, Friday. THE MOST criticised touring team in England's history today staggered the cricketing world in Brisbane by running out the strong hatting Australian Test team on a Perfect pitch
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  • 271 12 LONDON, Frl. TWO star games on tomorrow's English soccer programme are likely to affect the leading spots in the First Division. Fourth-place Tot- enham Hotspurs receive second place Middlesbrough, and Newcastle United, lying third, travel to Manchester United, currently fifth in the League
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  • 291 12 FLETCHER K.O's WELCH AUSTRALIAN middleweight Tommy Viatts, after making Orient triple title holder Hoy Brooks look like a novice, got himself disqualified in the second round by swinging a low left blow in the main fight at Happy World stadium lasl night. It was
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  • 128 12 In the main supporting boul, Fletcher used a long left and 'a fast moving right to advantage *gainst a waiting Welch. Both were content to box each other until the fifth round when Welch opened up with a fierce two-han-ded attack which drove Fletcher to a neutral comer.
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  • 30 12 In a friendly hockey matoh played at Hong Lim Green yesterday, Singapore Chii ese Recreation Club b?at the Commanding Royal Engineers (South) by five goal? to three.
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  • 32 12 TODAY: 4.04 a.m. (7.5) and 3.05 p.m. (8.2); 9.0U a.m. (5.3) and 10.00 p.m. (2.5). TOMORROW: 5.01 a.m. (7.5) und 4.17 p.m. (7.8): 10.16 a.m. (5.2) and 11.03 p.m. (3ft.).
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  • 386 12 AUSTRALIA— Ist Inns. Mor^ney c Hutton b Bailey Morris lbw b Bedser 25 Harvey c Evans b Bedser 74 Miller c Maclntyre b Wright 15 Hassett b Bedser 8 Loxton c Evans b Brown 24 Lir.dwaU c Bedser b Bailey 41 Tallon c Simpson b Brown 5 Johnson c
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  • 211 12 By REGINALD HAYTER HIGHLIGHTS of yesterday's Test match between England and Australia: Australia lost a wicket before a run was scored, Trevor Bailey, Essex fast bowler, dismissing Jack Moroney with the fourth ball of the match. England's selectors took a bold gamble by including Douglas Wright, Kent
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  • 345 12 ENGLAND SUPERB IN THE FIELD By REGINALD HAYTER BRISBANE, Friday. J7NGLAND were superb in the field. Every man ran AJ at top speed and there was not one instance of bad fielding but many of brilliant stops and throwing in. It was perfect co-ordination in
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  • 242 12 Letter To The Sports Editor ON Tuesday a small tea-party was held at Raffles Institution by the Inter-School Sports Committee. The occasion was to present colours Colony Colours to members of the Combined Schools Cricket team. The function was nothing short of a farce and a disgrace
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  • 68 12 BOMBAY, Fri INDIA were all out for 82 in their first innings of the second 'Test" against the Commonwealth XI today. VI jay Merchant. India's captain, won the toss and decided to bat first. The wicket at the Brabourne stadium had been expected to afford a
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  • 125 12 Results of V.M.C.A. tennis tournament ties played at Bras Basah courts yesterday were: MEN-SINGLES: (Semi Finalsi Lim Hee Chin beat H. Khamis. 6-0; 6-3-MEN "B" SINGLES: (Semi Finals): Freddie Tan beat H. L. Wee. 6-3, 6-2. MEN DOUBLES (Semi Finals): O. T. Holloway and C K.
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  • 314 12 PENANG PICK BEST SIX TO PLAY COLONY Foong Seong Cup Match From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. DENANG'S Foong Seong Cup team to meet 1 Singapore in the final here on Dec. 9 and 10 was announced this morning. The State have selected six of their best badminton players headed
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  • 150 12 CINGAPORE Cricket Club won the first round of the Singapore Hockey Association Knock-Out Tournament when they easily beat R.EM.E. by four goals to nil at Ayer Rajah yesterday. S.C.C. had their own wav almost throughout the game. Within the first five minutes nf play
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  • 63 12 TODAY RUGBY: H.M.S. Malaya lixtum —Singapore Civilians v Combined Services, I'adans; Kriendlirs— <.IIQ 'A' v RKME A'. REME; RAF Changi A' v RASC A', Nee Soon; SHB v Chasers, SHB. HOCKEY: Knockout tournament —SRC Whites v RAF Seletar. SeleUr; REME v Sherwood Foresters, Farrer Park. TENNIS: YMCA Single
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    • 169 12 ■mriRnac Children; 6.45 Organ Melodies: 5.15 "World Affairs"; 5.30 •wuArwM 7 Hews Ipoh Race Results 715 "classified Ads." Pt II (play); 10 a.m. News. Emergency News <The Police the People"; 7-20 6 Indonesian; 6.30 Cantonese; 6.45 from K. L.; 10.10 Close 12 Malay; "Listeners' Choice"; 8 ITMA"; "Bandstand"; 7.15 French;
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