The Straits Times, 11 August 1951

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, I§sl. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 515 1 For two hours the truce men just stared TOKIO, Friday. A LLIED and Communist ceasefire officers faced each other in complete silence for more than two hours today when the Communists "adamantly refused" to discuss anything but their own plan for a buffer zone on
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    25 1 MRS. EMMA NEPOS who was injured on the lets, being helped to an imbalance by Mr. B. N. Finch, ASP Straits Times jjilbih picture in
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  • 223 1 LONDON. Fri. EARTH tremors, torrents of rain, hailstorms and river floods were Europe's summer weather yesterday. Floods killed 20 people in Italy and Austria during the last 24 hours. Villages and farms on both sides of the Alps took the brunt of the rough weather. Latest reports
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  • 20 1 SYDNEY, Fri. Labourers unloading Japanese onions in Sydney today were granted "smell" money of 4%d. an hour.— Reuter.
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  • 1208 1 PILOT CHILD DIE, HURT IN AIR CRASH A TWIN-ENGINED R.A.F. Horeet, world's fastest piston-driven plane, crashed on the East Coast Road, Singapore, yesterday afternoon at an estimated speed of 2«0 miles per hon r after performing aerobatics over the sea. The British pilot was killed instantly, and tight people, including
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  • 93 1 NEW DELHI. Fri INDIA has called Britain's attention to the presence in Pakistan of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck and General Douglas Gracey "during a critical period of tension." This was disclosed in Parliament ttoflw? by the Premier. Mr. Nehru. Mr. Nehru said uut -c
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  • 173 1 300 piculs rubber lost in blaze qpHREE hundred picula of rubber belonging tp the Lam Hong Rubber Factory were destroyed yesterday morning in a smokehouse fire off the 12%-mile Chua Chu Kang Road, Singapore. Fire engines from the Central Fire Station, under the charge of Division Officer Phipps and a
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  • 28 1 TAIPBH, Fri. A Chinese M.P. has committed suicide m protest lo the United States against Nationalist China's exclusion from the Japanese treaty signing. Reuter.
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  • 65 1 RANGOON, Fri.— U Thin, Inspector-General of Police in the Mandalay division, led his men to shoot their way to safety when they were ambushed by 60 North Burmese Communists today. This was the third attempt on U Thin's life this year. The police convoy hit a
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  • 36 1 CAIRO. Pri— Ahmed Khas.haba Pasha, Egypt's Foreign Minister during the Palestine war, said today he favoured a peace treaty with Israel "taking into account the existing situation and to avoid further misfortune*." Reuter.
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  • 87 1 Robots will giro order in air raids NEW YORK, Fri. UNITED States Air Force pilots and navigators in future may have to take orders from a new type of bombardier a machine. According to a reliable source, the robots put planes on their courses and make adjustments and automatically wsrk
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  • 98 1 GENEVA, Fri. rE Chief British delegate. Mr. G. T. Corley Smith, today described a Russian decree abolishing aSovlet MjjsHrn community ai a trous document" when he addressed the Economic and Social Council during a debate on the Middle East. The decree, promulgated after the war. said these
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  • 56 1 BATON ROUG^, Louisiana, Prl. Police estimated 12 people wore killed and 40 injured when a dlesel express and a troop train carrying 300 marines crashed head on in a remote swamp area northwest of here today. Ambulances raced to the desolate area to find passengers and
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  • 257 1 Stokes seeks stop-gap oil pact TEHERAN, Fri. lyiß. Richard Stokes, iTI Lord Privy Seal and Britain's "oil peace" emissary to Teheran, has suggested a provisional agreement to enable tankers to resume loading oil at Abadan as soon as possible, Persian sources said last night. In an aide memo're to the
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    • 139 2 AUCTION SALE of AGRICULTURAL LAND, (999 yean Leasehold) Situate at SARIMBUN AVENUE •off 18 m.s Lim Chu Kang Road. to be held In our Sale-Rooms. No» 4 4-1 Collyer Quay, on TUESDAY, 14th AUGUST. 1951. at a. 30 p.m. 1. Private Lot 51. Approximate area 66a. Or. 25. 6p a.
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    • 130 2 11 a.m., 1.45 4.M 6.30. 9.30 p.m, I Universal-International's f p|g#____ V^^li_fc_L if M O itonatd REAGAN M MM^^4^% Charles COBIKN MwjmM^^^^^m Edmund GWENN WW^*^^^ Ruth HUSSEY OPENING TOMORROW H MEN without HONOUR... ,A WOMEN without SCRUPLES .dM in a CITY without SOUL] fk cn e Sigrid Mischa iB^VOM RAYMOND
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  • 210 3 Labour combines to fight anti-red law CANBERRA, Friday. A I STRALIAN industrial and political labour combined today to fight a Government referendum asking for power to outlaw the Communist Party. Representatives of the Federal Parliamentary Labour Party, the executive of the Australian Labour Party, the Australian Council of Trade Unions
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  • 30 3 HE MAY BECOME KING.... This is Prince Hussein or Jordon, 16-year-old son of the eldest son of murdered Kin; Abdullah. Prince Talal. who may become kin* of Jordan. A.P. picture.
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  • 34 3 WASHINOTON, Fri.—President Truman said yesterday that he plans to Invite Governor Thomas Dewey of New York to a conference where they can discuss Mr. Dewey's Far East trip— UP.
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  • 29 3 ROME, Fri.— ltalian deputies yesterday voted confidence In Premier Alclde De Gasperi's seventh successive government after a near free for all on th floor of the Chamber. Reuter.
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  • 31 3 NICOSIA, Cyprus, Frl.— Two British Jet fighters left here this morning for Baghdad on their way to Karachi to form part of the expanding Pakistan Air Force— Reuter.
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  • 210 3 Russia knew of our war plans Jap WASHINGTON, Fri. JAPAN'S chief investigating officer yesterday said that the Russians knew a month before Pearl Harbour of the Japanese plan to strike at tiie United States and Britain in the Pacific. The House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee heard this testimony from
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  • 25 3 NEW YORK, Fri. The new Czech Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Vladimir Prochazka, arrived here yesterday on the British liner Caronia.—A F.P.
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  • 141 3 BIG CUTS IN U.S. AID PLAN WASHINGTON, Fri. 'THE House Foreign Affairs Committee last night cut $651,250,000 from the Administration's proposed $8,500,000,000 1952 foreign aid programme and recommended that it be placed under single administration. The Committee decided to rut $550,000,000 from the $6,968,000,000 "mutual security programme" of economic and
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  • 43 3 TOKYO, Frl.— A Court of nquiry was proceeding at >usan, Korea, today in conlectlon with the shooting > flair which caused the death >f two British soldiers, callld out to Investigate reports )f disturbance at a place of >:i:prtainment outside Pusan.
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  • 360 3 A CHINESE apprentice j Sing Lo, sings lullabii horses to put them to sle "The horses seem to them more easily when Tommy. "Other than Chinese songs, the favourites are "Clementine" and "Slow Boat to China." I translate the European songs into Cantonese.' Stablemates
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  • 43 3 THE SCENE of yesterday's c rash at East Coast Road, Singapore, when an RAF. fighter plunged into the road. The hole made by th c crash was more than 40 feet long and eight feet deep. Straits Times picture.
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  • 57 3 COLOMBO, Fri. WHEN a revision applica- tion came up before Ceylon Appeals Court, the following telegram from the applicant was submitted to the judges: "Prostrating your feet another date postponement .case 4472 D. C. Galle, still broken lc*,-. not better, unable appearance." Th e
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  • 65 3 ERNEST STROBEL has left Wiesbaden for France to attempt a two-way swim across the English channel. Fire destroyed the Metropolitan Cathedral and National Theatre in San Salvador, injuring 80 people. Damage was estimated at about tfSs2,ooo,ooo. FRENCH police have seized the camera and Him of a Londoner, Mr.
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  • 83 3 MRS. V. N. HEWITT, wealthy 52-year-old British immigrant, has been foundmurdered on a smouldering divan on the verandah of her remote farmstead home in southern Swaziland. Bank and business clerks on Thursday began a nationwide strike in Chile, crippling all businesses. A VOLUNTEER Dutch battalion in Korea has
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  • 40 3 SYDNEY, Fri— The British cargo vessel. Stanflrth, adrift i since yesterday off southeast Australia, today radioed that i she was out of fuel and was closing down auxiliary engines and radio. There are 42 i nboard. A.P. I
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  • 35 3 NEW DELHI, Fri— lndian Premier Nehru told Parlla- vent today that India would have favoured a conference )f all interested powers to iiscuss the terms of a Japan:se peace treaty. A. P.
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  • 247 3 NEW DELHI, Fri. TIE Indian Premier, Mr. Nehru, addressing a mammoth meeting in memory of Mohandas Gandhi, refused yesterday to withdraw Indian forces from the borders of Kashmir so long as there was a cry of "holy war" in Pakistan. Mr. Nehru repeated that any attack
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  • 52 3 MONTREAL, Fri. "pHE Canadian Communist Party leader, Fred Rose left prison yesterday after serving a 6-year-sentence for stealing atomic secrets for Russia. Rose was described by a Canadian commission of inquiry at the time of his sentence as the key man of the Soviet spy ring.—
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  • 47 3 COLOMBO, Fri— Lord Enniskillen, an Irish peer, has given the Colombo Museum a gigantic fossil head of the extinct Irish elk, worth £1,500. The head Is of the giant deer which roamed Eire and Europe towards the close of the Ice age. Reuter.
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  • 135 3 NEW YORK, Frl. NINE-MAN delegation of Ryuku Islands officials called yesterday for an end io U.S. military occupation and the return of their Islands to Japan. The group, which has been touring the United States since early July, told a press conference that the majority of
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    • 274 3 'Susan, I'm waiting! "What on earth for?" "Your regular parsimonious rebuke en my eating too much pie "Oh, that] You can eat the wnole dish if you like!" "You're positively abandoned, Susan!" "No, John just economical that's Cold Storage Puff Pastry you're enjoying so much for tiffin." "I thought it
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  • 220 4 THE Singapore Secretariat has come to an arrangement with the Sumatran authorities as a result of which it is expected that the Colony will get a larger and more dependable supply of fresh vegetables frt>m Sumatra. The Assistant Secretary (Indonesia), of the Singapore
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  • 406 4 ANGLICAN Si. Andrew'! Cathedral: 1 am Holy Communion: 8 a.m.. Choral Eucharist Preacher: Rev. Q Hvslop; 9. 30 a m Sunday SchooJ; 10.30 a.m.. Chora; Miiiins Preacher: The Archdeacon' 11.30 a.m.. Holy Communion; 5.30 p.m Evensong ana Sermon PreacherRev Canon R. K. S Adams St. Paul's Church: 8
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  • 30 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri Wong San, a wholesale liquor dealer .who failed to keep hi* stock book up to date was fined $25 in the Police Court yesterday.
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  • 190 4 TOD A* festival ot Britain Exhibition U.E huilding: 9 a.m. 6 P-m. V.W.C.A. Raflles Quay: Women s business and professional lunch. I p m speaker, Dr. Chris. Young. V M.C.A., Orchard Road: Cnckel. Y.M.C.A. v. R.N. 2 pm; Singapore Chess Club. 3 pm.: Movie circle, 8 p.m. Chinese
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  • 65 4 MUAR. Fri. A 21 -YEAR-OLD planting assistant, John Evan Jones pleading guilty at Muar to a double charge, was allowed $750 bail. Sentence was postponed for a week. Jones was charged with house trespass by night on August 7, when he entered the quarters of Engku
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  • 56 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. •pHE Rotary Club of Kuala J. Lumpur is planning to hold the biggest beauty competition ever held in Malaya, to Pick Miss Malaya of 1951. The contest will be held in conjunction with an international ball in aid of Brickfields House, a youth
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  • 21 4 SEREMBAN. Fri. A check of tenants' registers by the Home Guard begins this week in Seremban Town Board area.
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  • 126 4 fENGKU Ahmad, the Tengku Makota of Pahang, 1 is making a tour of his State "to study conditions at first-hand." an official release said last night. On Wednesday he met the Penghulus of Lipis district at the Kuala Lipis courthouse and discussed matters regarding the Emergency
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  • 64 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A CHINESE woman was .sent for trial at Kuala Lumpur today on a charge of consorting with armed persons. The woman. 44-year-old Neoh Chin Pit, is alleged to have been found in the comnany of Goh Ah Ban and Ah Han at Segambut, Selangor.
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  • 156 4 Blackout areas Substations liable tc load-shed-ding today: Boon Tat Street. Rangoon Road, Towner Road. Serangoon Road Kolam Aver, McPherson Road, Kim Chuan Road. Boundary Road, Ipper Serangoon. Yio Chu Kane Rd., Govt. Printing Office, Woodleijh Paik, BraddeU Heights. Arthur Road. Tanjonr Katoog. Broadrick Road, Telok Kurau. Bedok, < hangi 9>
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  • 282 4 DLANS for the new $600,000-tuberculosis centre of 1 the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association have been passed by the Municipality and construction work should begin either next month or in October. The Centre, which will be built in Telok Aver Reclamation, Is expected to be completed
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  • 65 4 PENANG, Fri. MUNICIPAL clerks, who do not possess Cambridge school certificates, have been transferred to the same salary scales as holders of school certificates. About 40 clerks, most of them old-service employees, will benefit by this transfer which gives them average increments of $30 to $40
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  • 26 4 JOHORE BAHORU, Fri Tan Hoe Guan, of Batu Pahat, was fined $90 in the Johore Bahru Police Court for carrying an overload in his lorry.
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  • 47 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Federation Police headquarters today abandoned its policy of anonymity in its round-up of Emergency incidents and identified units taking part in engagements as "military" or "police" instead of the usual "security forces" which it had insisted on using the past year.
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    • 302 4 SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR S pore U Dance U.30 10-10 10 ajn. News from K.L.; cl0 1 p.m. "Saturday Ballroom"; 1.30 idfy'Ma'tnTee"? 8 -^Great BBC «O« News; 1.50 Plantation Music; 2 Exhibition of 1851"; 5 Chinese; 7.30 a.m. "Radio Newsreel": •Album of Harmony"; 2.30 6 Radio Malaya Trio; 6.15 At 7.45
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  • 281 5 'Stop rebuilding those shacks in the ruins jy|R. George Webb, Secretary for Chinese Affairs in Singapore, yesterday warned victims of the Kampong Bugis fire that they should not rebuild temporary shacks among the ruins. He had just tour ed the ruins with Mr. Homer Cheng, Assistant
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  • 188 5 RUBBER HAS BEEN STEADY THE undertone in the Singa1 pore rubber market this week has been steady, with minor fluctuations, says Lewis and Peat's market report, issued yesterday. Short-covering and a fair demand for off-grades from the United Kingdom, the Continent and South American oorU caused Drices to harden; recent
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  • 21 5 An unidentified 80-year-old Chinese woman was found hanging in her lonely attap hut In Silat Road, Singapore 'esterday evening.
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  • 51 5 NOT ACCEPTED When Chooi Choy pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to stealing a bicycle, the prosecutor. Inspector Michael Chong told the Court. "'I have been instructed not to accept the plea." Mr R. b: I. Pates, the Magistrate, ordered Chooi to be remanded until
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  • 221 5 "MEMBERS of the Singapore Progressive Party are A at liberty to support or oppose any premium bond bill or lottery, an extraordinary general meeting of the Party at St. Joseph's Institution decided last night. Two motions introduced by Mr. John Lay cock were: "The Progressive
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  • 39 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. The trial of nine Malay Other Ranks, charged with unlawful assembly at the Rex cinema, was fixed for Sept. 11. Two of them, All bin Kassim and Hamzah bin Jaffar, were released on bail.
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  • 81 5 Mr. Cyril La Brooy, a Malayan printer, who is now in London will shortly visit printing works in England and Scotland on a tour sponsored by the British Council. Mr. Brooy is accompanied by two friends, Mr. T. S. Chin a rubber planter, and Mr. San
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  • 51 5 Sixteen of this year's arts and science honours graduates of the University of Malaya have applied for admmistra- tive jobs to the Customs, the Meteorological Department, the Department of Chemistry, the Immigration Department and other departments. Their applications are now being reviewed by the Public Services
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  • 241 5 AN increasing number of Asians with long years of service are being promoted to European-held posts in rubber estates in Perak. The reasons are: difficulty of getting suitable Europeans, and meritorious service of senior Asian staff. No agreement has yet been reached between the
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  • 79 5 While the fire at Kampong Bugis. Singapore, was raging on August l, a detective arrested,. a young Chinese Low Tee Chee. who was behaving suspiciously and carrying a tin containing 1.452 one-cent coins. Low. pleading guilty before the Singapore Second Police Magistrate. Mr. R. B. I Pates
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  • 66 5 A proposal by the Commissioner of Lands to allocate Crown land at Tanjong Rhu for playing fields will be considered by Singapore Traffic Advisory Committee. The Committee has been told that the Colonial Secretary has. approved the Guillemard Road site for the badminton hall. It was felt
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  • 60 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri.— Tan Chai, a trishaw pedlar, of Kuala Lumpur, was fined $2,000 on Thursday in the Police Court for carrying cosmetics valued at $437 on which duty amounting to $323 had not been paid. Tan Chal told the Court that he had been given
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  • 34 5 Seventeen year old Teo Kow Tai of Amoy Street slipped in the bathroom and fractured his skull. He died m the General Hospital. Singapore inquest verdict yesterday: death by misadventure.
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  • 97 5 A FREE trip on a Straits n Steamship Company vessel was one of the prizes offered at the Boys' Town Masquerade Ball held in Singapore on June 2. As yet, no one has called at the company's office to exchange the voucher for a ticket.
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  • 572 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., Aug. 11, 1951. Ulu Tiram's Example chairman at that irst meeting The approval of the State War Committee was sought and gladly given; and all Government departments concerned played their part in the advisory planning and in the necessary new works with speed and thoroughness.
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  • 66 6 ACKNOWLEDG MENTS MRS. HILDA WITTI and Jean wish to express grateful thanks lor t)i» kindness and sympathy extended to them In their sudden bereavement, also for n» many flowers and messages. MRS. A. W. FERNANDO and children thank all who rendered aw-Ulance. sent floral tributes messages of condolence In their
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  • 372 6 The acting President of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners, Mr. Norman Ward, M.C.S., gave an informative review of plans for new communications along the city waterfront in his speech at the opening of Shenton Way last week. In particular, he recalled the opinion .strongly expressed by the Waterfront Development
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  • 138 6 Fifty years ago HOOVES OUTSIDE THE COURT From the Straits Times of Aug. 4-11, 1901. IN consequence of complaints made as to the difficulty of hearing, in the temporary building used as the Supreme Court, owing to the noise from traffic, a police notice makes it known thu all vehicles
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    16 6 Photograph by C. A. Gibson-Hill The temple of the Goddess of Heaven, Telok Ayer Street, Singapore.
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  • 1017 6 A I .he back oi Raffles Mus- cum there is a huge old ships anchor, with a wooder stock and iron flukes, preserved in a special shed of its own. Two letters have been received recently asking for a note in 'Singaporeana" on this object. This anchor was brought
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  • 1115 6  -  -by~ Cynicus VO doubt it would be ■^untrue to say that only the Singapore Government has remained unmoved by publication of the Riots Inquiry Commission Report, but it is certainly true that only the Government is silent. The PreSs has spok'en with unusual unanimity, although some
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  • 325 7 We can all help each other in SE-Asia' 'THE Mayoress of Baguio, Mrs. Virginia de Guia, suggested yesterday to Singapore Acting Municipal President, Mr. Norman Ward, that there should be an annual conference of Mayors and local government administrators of SouthEast Asia. Accompanied by
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  • 234 7 SAFETY RULES TO BE RELAXED RULES for safety at sea will be relaxed as a result of aKerations to the Merchant Shipping Ordinance approved by Government and awaiting legislation. Capt. A. Benfield. Secretary of the Straits Merchant Service Union, said ■\r-terdav. The alterations will increase the number of "gunners" locally-certificated
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  • 53 7 A 44-year-old woman. Wee Mvi Kiah. pleaded guilty yesterday to being in possession cf one gallon of dutiable jamsu at the junction of Tras and Tapah Streets on the night of Aug. 2. The Singapore Third Magistrate, Mr. H. R. Livingstone, fined Wee $100 or
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  • 58 7 A BOLT 930 copies of the Singapore Riot Inquiry Commission's Report have, so far. been sold in the Colony. More than 2.000 copies of the Report were sent to the Government Publications Bureau, in Fullerton Building for public sale. Since its publication, the Government Printer
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  • 64 7 Ong Thin Chor. aged 25. a biscuit factory worker, was sent to prison for four years b y Mr. Justice Whitton in Singapore Assize Court yesterday for causing grievous hurt to his bsother. Ong Thin Slew. Ong Thin Chor was alleged to have stabbed Ong Thin
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  • 56 7 An argument between two seamen, Tan Geok Wuan and Yeo Eng Chin, at Lorong 3. Geylang, at 3.30 a.m. on June 25 ended in Tan attacking Yeo with a stick, it was stated in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday. Tan, who pleaded guilty to causing
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  • 165 7 TELUK ANSON. Fri.-Fnl storing rubber without a licence, Tai Hooi Pan was fined $400 or four months' lmDrisonment at Teluk Ans^n (Continued from previous column) capable of firing a bullet by ItseU and that something else in us' be used to strike the plunger *o elect the bullet.
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  • 130 7 TWO former members of Singapore Police Force, a detective and a police constable, were yesterday produced before the Singapore Third Police Magistrate on two tentative charges of armed robbery at Seletar Road. The detective, Kang Tian Poh, and the constable, Abdul Rahman bin Puteh. are alleged
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  • 94 7 2,500 WAIT FOR POWER r'O thousand five hundred applicants for electricity will have to wait until Singapore Municipal Commissioners have decided on supplies available. The question of restrictions on new users has been referred to the Special Electricity Committee. The committee has bew flsked to examine the question of the
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  • 70 7 Mr. A. D. Farrell. Crow.i Counsel, has been appointed to act as Senior Crown Counsel from June 14. Mr. F. E. Mack, Assistant Controller of Posts Malayan Postal Service, will act as Controller, 'Savings Bank. Malayan Postal Service, from July 18. Mr. A. W. Hodges will act
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  • 24 7 Four Chinese, two Indians and a Malay were each fined $10 in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday for spitting in public.
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  • 292 7 Former lawyer had thirty -two creditors DOON Hoe Chia, a Singapore lawyer who had been struck off the rolls, told Mr. Justice Brown, the acting Chief Justice, in the Bankruptcy Court yesterday that out of his 32 creditors not one was his dlient. Chia, whose total indebtedness amounted to $83,836.55
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  • 72 7 Talks on pay dispute x the workers will meet at the Singapore Labour Department on Monday to negotiate the settlement of their disputes. of M than 100 employees tne company served a strl Ke notice on Wednesday following a break-down in negotiations. ™e"z*?*ol^ lnclud 30 D" cent- wa «c increase,
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  • 189 7 teachers' trade unions, representing the Singapore and the Federation teachers, will ask the Governments of the Federation and the Colony to "revise the conditions of service of married women teachers employed on a temporary basis." This decision was reached at the last day's session
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  • 49 7 Nearly 1.900 pilgrims win sail from Singapore by the Tyndareus this evening on the last voyage to Mecca this season, a spokesman of the Pilgrim Control Office said yesterday. There will be 793 pilgrims on board from Singapore South Malaya, Sarawak. North Borneo and Brunei.
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  • 34 7 For being cruel to fowls by carrying 912 of the in 25 baskets in Jurong, Lim Yeng, aged 38, was yesterday fined $50 by the Singapore Fourth Magaistrate, Mr. P. Claque.
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    4 7 Miss Marguerite Horrigan
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  • 167 7 A WELL-KNOWN Singapore nursing sister who was awarded the M.B.E. for her work during th ft occupation in organising nursing staff and helping internees died recently one day before she arrived in Australia on retirement. She was Mrs Adelaide Palmer Benjamin (nee Hunter) who wa
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  • 151 7 AN order was made by the Singapore First District Judge, Mr. W. G. Alcock, yesterday that $2,240, produced as exhibit during the re-trial of Ong Teck Hock on Oct. 30 last, should be paid equally to two applicants, Lim Kirn Peow and Chia Oh Kang. Mr.
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  • 60 7 The Singapore Master Attendant's Office has started operations to remove the wrecked boats, junks end small ships at the bottom of Kallang and Rochore Rivers. Very few owners have come forward to claim these wrecks despite an advertisement in the press about a month ago. Owners, however,
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  • 131 7 A SINGAPORE business girl, Miss Marguerite Horrigan, i s shortly to produce the comedy, Quiet Weekend by Esther McCracken at the Victoria Theatre. The cast will include members of the Y.W.C.A Business and Professional Women's Club. are for Y.W.C.A funds Miss Horrigan had a year's
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    46 7 THE MAYORESS of Baguio City chatting with Mr. Norman Ward, the Singapore Acting Municipal President, when she paid a courtesy call yesterday morning. Extreme left is Mr. P. G. Peralta, a member of the local Filipino community, and right Mr. Victor de Guia. Straits Times picture.
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  • 458 7 AUSTRALIANS, CHINESE ON ARMS CHARGE KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. J»WO Australians, John Williani Rayfleld and A Thomas Nunan, and a Chinese fitter, Wong Hee today appeared before Inche Ibrahim bin Abdul Manan in the Kuala Kubu Bahru police court or charges connected with the unauthorised manufacture of a firearm. Wong was
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  • 130 7 Gardener gets $2,000 damages PH Cheng Yew, aged 20. a market gardener, was awarded $2,000 damages by Mr. Justice Fletcher Rogers in Singapore High Cflurt yesterday for injuries in a lorry accident. The accident occurred in Tampenis Road on February 8, last year, when Peh Cheng Yew, who was riding
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    • 144 7 |3 Tl ESDAY. AUG. 14 at «U0 p m. |3 ?S Gala Charity Performance in aid of 3^ CO the Singapore Branch of the Red CO C 3 Cross Society under the distinguished CO patronage of H.E. The Governor of 2\ 52 Singapore. Sir Franklin Gimson, CO £3 K.C.M.Q. CO
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  • 274 8 MINISTER 9 IS TOLD OFNEW SAVING PLAN Move to help smallholders KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A DRAFT scheme for the collection of additional funds from smallholders for replanting and new planting of rubber was outlined by the Rubber Producers' Council" at a meeting with the Member for Economic Affairs, Mr. Oscar
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    32 8 AFTER THE FIRE THE LAM HONG RUBBER Smokehouse in Chaa Chu Rang Road, Singapore, which wsc destroyed by fire yesterday. Three hundred picuis of rubber went up in smoke Straits Times picture.
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  • 298 8 'THEY LOST- LA UGHJNG '—Govt. KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. OIXTEEN shopkeepers who have been virtually put out of business by a new phase of "Operation Starvation", today took part in a "displaced" dealers lottery, a Selangor Government statement said. The 16 shopkeepers had their businesses in the
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  • 34 8 Examinations in Igv, for cadets in the Malayan Civil Service, the Malayan Police Service, the Malayan Customs Service, and for officers In the Immigration Department ended yesterday. They be?an on Wednesday.
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  • 138 8 LIFTING of the ban on the re-export of textiles will gradually bring the textile trade in Singapore back to normal a leadin? merchant told the Straits Times yesterday. Piece-goods, except cotton drills and duck, can now be sent to any destination. So far, there has been
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  • 152 8 DOLICE, A.T.C. Cadets, R.A.F. men and aircraft of the M.A.A-F.. will combine today and tomorrow in a large scale "jangle" exercise in the Nee Soon area of Singapore. Seven groups, each of three R A Jl.J 1 aircrew, will set out from positions on a line, roughly
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    • 271 8 27. Oval (7) 18. Bounds' fail? to sc*n rep Straits Times Crossword eve^ <«•• (Tennyson) ■■iii u|ii. II I, 1 L- I 30. Never red (anas.) (8). 1 I 1 I j 1. "When to battle fleree'came o f""T Jl II KsS i 3. Rug remade (anag.) (>) I I
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  • SATURDAY FORUM
    • 388 9 %JEMAMBU", whose letter in last Saturdays Forum criticised Dato Tan Cheng Lock's plea for exemption of "only sons" from call-up duty, does not seem to appreciate the sanctity of the ancient ral worship. is sacred duty and respontradition of his forbears, i Huang, who conscripted reat Wall
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    • 246 9 BUSINESS AS USUAL WITH THE 5.H.8.? YOU own a small and ancient grocers shop In a village of 200 inhabitants. You have done well out of it and employ an old and honest gentleman as manager. He started with you as errand-boy and has never been out of the village
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    • 78 9 JT is high time the Singapore authorities banned thr building of attap houses ir> the Municipal area. Attap houses can be death traps in case of fire; even if people escape with their lives in such a case, they stand to lose alt their
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    • 117 9 The test of police efficiency TODAY (Thursday) you re- port the "defence," by Mr. Pennefather-Evans, of the senior police officers blamed by the Riots Commission. It is astonishing that such a preposterous "defence" should be put forward by anybody at all, let alone the Commissioner himself. I have perused the
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    • 251 9 I FULLY endorse the appreciation of Dato Panglima 1 Bukit Gantang's attitude towards Perak UMNO in particular, and the Bjain body of UMNO in general, given by "Tulus Ikhlas" in his letter of Aug. 6. I too am one who joined UMNO right at
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    • 110 9 MAY I use your columns to pass censure on those competitors who, not satisfied with such a wonderful day's sport last Sunday, spent Monday morning tearing round the roads of Singapore with their competition numbers sail displayed? I- refer in particular to the three or
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    • 48 9 |T Is most astonishing to see old ladies and school children thrown here and there inside S.T.C. buses while the company's own employees in uniform sit down like dukes paying no attention to them. Can't the company do something: about, it? FRANCIS KOH. Singapore.
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    • 256 9 P 1 seems an opportune time to record a few plain facts concerning the general exodus of certain professional people from this country without the necessary replacements coming forward. There is the Government's grossly unfair form of income tax gathering; which gouges money from the salaried
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    • 295 9 A LAUNCH service between Clifford Pier and Katong Park would go a long way towards relieving a chaotic situation by diverting part of the traffic from Kallang Road. If one looks from Clifford Pier across the Kallang Basin towards Katong the prospect of crossing this
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    • 193 9 IN your issue of Aug. 2, under the heading "Asian Gets Top Perak Health Post," your Ipoh correspondent wrote. Malayan Medical service history will be made. This is the first time that an Asian doctor will be made chief of the Medical and Health services in a State
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    • 182 9 T REFER, with disgust, to several letters criticising Mrs. Robert Eu in her publicspirited efforts to gain popirlar support in her campaigit against soaring pnees. Lest any critic should be under any false impression, let me say that I know Mrs Robert Eu only as I
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    • 235 9 EDUCATION UTOPIA |Y|R. R. E. Ince, Singapore's Deputy Director of iTI Education, disposed of the question ot afternoon schools by a statement, quoted by you on Aug. 3, that these schools would "eventually" be abolished as they were an emergency measure. If all things could be disposed of as easily
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    • 377 9 A 'RACKET' IN BIRTH CERTIFICATES THE report. in last Sunday's 1 Sunday Times, "Racket In Birth Certificates." is typically Singaporean. T:. of the report appears to infer that spivs, presumably by means of bribery, are able In accelerate the processes of certificate issue at the Registry of Births and Deaths.
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    • 111 9 In Wednesdays Straits Times there was a report to the effect that the Stamford Club, Singapore, was asking the Governor to implement the Unified Scheme for teachers. We hope that the Club, which represents graduates, will insist that only Honours graduates of recognised universities will be permitted to
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    • 130 9 LAST Saturday's letter on iniquitous taxation, headed "Fair play for the children," surprised me. In England, the owner of land who retains it for sporting purposes has to pay tax on what is known as Schedule A and Schedule B. and the percentage paid is about 45
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    • 60 9 I SUGGEST that "cheap matinees" should be introduced in Muar cinema halls at week-ends with charges cf, say, 25 cents for a seat downstairs and 50 cents for one upstairs. This is done in Malacca, where people of all clmm a and occupations flock to the
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  • 338 10 T\HE London Stock Exchange 1 ended the week on a quietly firm note with recent improvements In leading industrals generally well maintained and occasionally ex tended. There was some hesitation in the early stages of the day following official warning ol the possibility of a Winter fuel crisis but
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  • 65 10 CHIPS aloogsirle the Singapore Harbour Board gpdowns at 4 p.m. yesterday included: 40-41 Charon. 36-37 Glenorchy. 33-34 Bradeverett. 29-30 Kurrmedon. 2728 Benlomond. 25-26 Seneearang. 23-24 Malaya. 21-22 Reginald Kerr. 15-16 AutomedoD. 13-14 Stymus. 8-9 Ternate. Coal Plant Hoegh Silvercloud, 4-5 Tyndareus. 1-? Wave Monarch. Albert Dock: KLstna. Ban
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  • 463 10 r^EMAND for Rubber shares continued with very few offerings in the Malayan share market yesterday. Industrials were a firm market, while a greater interest was* taken in Tins. Transactions were at slightly better prices. Quotations announced oy the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were: IMHSTKULS •aren oeHrra Airx Brlrn fret
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  • 485 10 TIN: $405 1/8 A PICUL SINGAPORE. Fri.. Aug. l*-*4«5.12i (up M.75.) London: £826 a ton LONDON Fri. Cash Bayers £826. Sellers £828; Forward Buyers £807. Sellers £809; Settlement £320 (down £1*). Turneret; «-m. 2t. p.m. 40 tons. ■Uamea* XZ/o 21/6 Mono l/t Southern Kinta 13/3 13/9 4 MalMvao 28/- 5
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  • 180 10 •THE position in the Slnga- pore rubber market yesterday was roughly the same as on Thursday. At the quiet close August first-grade stood at $1.45 a lb.. buyers, half a cent below, -Thursday's close Very little business was done. Closing prices yesterday were per lb.: No 1 R.S.S. Spot
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  • 73 10 f¥IHE Singapore pepper maxKet 1 was quietly steady yesterday on evidence of more overseas inquiries, scarcity of stock and sellers' reserve. There was no change in prices with Muntok at $895, Barawak at $890 and Lampong black at $690 a pfcul. The copra section of the produce
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  • 35 10 HONG KONQ. Pri. C"REE market currency exchange (or Hong Kotig dollars was quoted at the close today as follows* US$l HKs6.33<' 3 (cash). HKS6.36H <T>: £1 HKSIS.W: one tahU of (told HK3I2U-— UP.
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  • 35 10 HPHE Malayan Exchange Banks Association announced yesterday that control direct rates for Canadian dollars were: Buying TT 34 11/16, Airmail (OJD.I 34 13/16. (90 days> 35 1/16; Selling T.T.'O.D. ready 34 5 16.
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    • 425 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS To New York mni Botran via Ceylon India. Egypt and Mediterranean Ports. Singaoore P Swettenham Penang II PRESIDENT lOMNSON" 11/12 Aug. II "PRESIDENT MONROE" 12/19 Aug. 20/21 Aug. 22/23 Aug >.i. "PRESIDENT HARRISON" 15-23 Au«. 24/26 Aut >.s "PRESIDENT 6UCHANAN 10/18 Sept. 19/20 Sept. 21/22 Sept To
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  • 389 11 ONL V FUTURE FOR MALA YA '-Gilmour VI K. Andrew Gilmour, retiring* President of the 111 Singapore Olympic and Sports Council, warned yesterday at their annual general meeting in Singapore that the future of athletics iir Malaya depended "on our reaching an agreement with the Federation
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    42 11 BRITAIN'S jounsest fully- Hedged jorkcy, Lester i'tggott, fights a neck and nee k battie to win the Chesterfield Cup on Grani (centre) at Goodwood. Sussex, on Ati* 3 A short head separated the winner from Stromt*oli with Meysey Hampton third— Popper picture.
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  • 128 11 pOMBINED RAF. cake-walked V yesterday's S.A.F.A. Community League match at Jalan Besaj Stadium with a five-nil win over Eurasians XI. Combined Schools' goalkeeper. Wilfred Skinner, who was tried out in place of Jimmy de Silva. was never at ease with the poor defence in front of
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  • 53 11 In a Division 3A S.A.P.A. League soccer match between R.N.A.S. Sembawang and Aston AC. on the CYMA ground yesterday, Sembawang netted six times, Walters, their inside-left, scoring four goais. Sembawang won 6-1. Frldd and Christie scored the other goals for the winners, while Arthur Lim got
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  • 112 11 Singapore Cricket Club teams for the weekend are: TODAY v R.A.F. (Tengab) at Ten- Gi.mour leapt J. Bumski. W Dodgeon A. N. Fiber I F Pack. A. W- Haves. H. B. Noon.' F R. M:issev. P. Sougham. N. Bradbury and J. W. Ewart. .»™P A1 X**'** Association
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  • 215 11 N.S. Wise Bong Soo surprise 'pHE biggest upset so far in the S.L.T.A. championships on the S.C.C. courts was the threeset defeat of top favourites, Lim Hee Chin and M. K. San. in the semi-final of the men's doubles yesterday. Hee Chin and San lost 6-2, 5-7, 2-6 to veterans,
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  • 138 11 BIRMINGHAM, Pri 'THE match between the South I Africans and Warwickshire was drawn here today. Warwickshire declared their second innings at 210 for seven wickets today, leaving the South Africans five hours to get 355 runs for victory. When the tourists went In to bat the
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  • 213 11 Worcestershire Urrbykhire (Chetlerflead): Worcestershire beat Derbyshire by 139 runs. Worcestershire 268 and 78. Derbyshire 141 and 66 (Perks 5 for 33. Howarth 5 for 32). Essex Surrey (Sovthead match drawn. Surrey 432 for 9 declared and 177 for 2 dec. iMay n.o 103. Constable n.o. SU. Essex 356
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  • 190 11 MALAYA'S best swimmer. Neo Chwee Kok of the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club, who on Thursday act a new Colony record for Hhe 1.500 metres freestyle, will today attack, the 50 metres and 100 metres freestyle records held by Wiebe Wolters. His targets for today are the
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  • 27 11 Headquarters Block scored a six-nil win over Army Depot Police in a BOD inter-depot NonGladiators Cup league soccer competition match on the BODCA ground yesterday.
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  • 54 11 Singapore Chinese R.C. cricket team to meet S.C.C. on the padanK in a senior tournament fixture is: Wee Chong Jin leapt). Ong Swee Law. Khoo Ong Lee. Ang Earn Rock. Cheong Thiam Siew. Wong P{)ng Weng. Chua Eng Cheng. Qhg Bfnji Bee. Chua Kee Meng. Llm Chiang
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  • 51 11 Fraser Neave Sports Club trounced Shell Sports Club by four goals to nil In a Business House League and Cup fixture played at F. A N. ground yesterday. All the goals were scored in the first half. Scorers for F N were: Samad, Yassin (2) nnri Alan
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  • 146 11 SOCCER: Malaya Cup-tie: Singapore v Malacca, Jalan Besar; Second Div.: Chinese Athletic "A" v R.A.F. Tengah, Geylang. ATHLETICS: Shell Sports Club meet, Paya Lebar Road, 2.30 p.m. AQUATICS: Chinese Swimming Club championships, Amber Road, 4 p.m. TOMORROW SOCCER: Com. League: Chinese v Navy, Jalan Besar; Second Div.:
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  • 49 11 Yesterday's Business Houses League and Cup match at Geylang yesterday was notable for a fine display by Yin Kee who scored three goajs in $tanvac's six-riqe victory over Malaya Publishing House. Stinvac's other scorers were Dollah AnguUia (2), Param and Omar. Hamid scored for M.P.H.
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  • 63 11 Dunlop S.C. defeated Malayan Airways S.C. one-nil In a Singapore Business House League and Cup match played at Farrer Park ■yesterday. Zamal scored the wining goal for Dunlop S.C. Kr.inn W.T. Station, ne.dlpK two reserves, beat Far Eastern Secretariat by five Koals to one in a
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  • 424 11 By Our Cricket Reporter rpOMORROWS matches in the Singapore Cricket Association's tournament the last round but one may virtually decide the senior championship, or lead to a fitting last round on Sunday-week. 1 The championship hangs on tomorrow's padang match between Singapore Cricket Club
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  • 538 12 Heavyweights have done poorly in the Cup races From EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Friday. CURLEW, a handsome Irish-bred five-year-old, appeals to Me tremendously J as a "classic" proposition, and with his big weight advantage I make him my irst selection in the Penan*
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  • 24 12 GALLOPING eandlttiHM should be perfect on G«M Cap Day at Penang today, reports Epsom Jeep. Yesterday waa a bright and sunny day.
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  • 165 12 Penang Cup should go to Noble Lad PENANG Fri. >CRATCHING of Tara 6tree has left the way opei >r Noble Lad to score hi rst win in the country ii ace Five today. Noble Lad has struck font i n Saturday I thought he wa good thing over 7f. bu
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  • 78 12 MALAYAN turf officials, trainers and Jockeys bade fareweU to retiring Straits Racing Association official Major D. M. Patrickson on board the Canton at Penang yesterday. Major Patrickson had been associated with Malayan racing for about 20 years, first as handicapper and later as acting Stipendiary Steward. Mr.
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  • 866 12 PENANG, Friday. f ADIES Flame looks set for an easy double in the Bank Holiday Cup over six furlongs (Race Four). This brilliant, speedy daughter of Flamenco established herself as a sprinter of quality when she outsped River Patrol, Trigger and No Regrets last
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  • 142 12 ursom mm V ALL BOT PMMffim CHANCE Recovery II WILD JINKS WILD JINKS U5 np»tode*l Chance Remarks ChMiee Rrauu-ks Pippindeal Race I 2.44 nmaT Film Studio moDtaemr Fkvsi Steda* C Morsel 1H atmocHT CnmeC in ■Ml 3.U mmx riAsa u Rise Print Caastrnard MASTER. MICE Little Ned
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  • 1179 12 BELOW is the card of acceptors with probable jockeys for today's Penan* races. The Big Sweep will be on Race Eight. Race 1—2.15: Class 2, ©iv. 4— Furs. I—o Oceaa rride Spencer 8.12 "B.T.L. Kongsi" Tankard 2 000 Chance Remarks EUery 8.11 Mr. C. C. Loke Vjoa
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  • 97 12 A proposal to go on a Federation tour was turned down by the hockey section of the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club which met on Thursday far its first, meeting of th* year. The meeting agreed to buy a complete new set c* jerseys for the
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  • 71 12 Latest S.R.A. transfers are: From Class 3 to 3: Pam Green, Captain Tule, Lord Dhoti, Pot Luck, WHite Lilac, Ouranos, Quicksilver, Magic Oak, La Traviata, Binnton, Harcourt, Flylite. Bull, LaWan, Smiling Through and Asia. From Class 4 to 5: Princess Beau, Actress, Hyperia, Sunny Valley, Merlin, So Black, Big
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  • 297 12 By SENTINEL IF Sisßfapsre win their Malaya Clip match against 1 Malacca at Jafcin Besar statins this rve*iag the Sinfap*re Amateur Football Awciati— i wiß fcnmediateiy ask the Perak A.F.A. to agree to the Cap Final being staged in Singapore.
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  • 281 12 Meanwhile K.L. plan to put on final lCfTR4ITS TIMES Kuala Lum- par correswmdent reports that "the Malaya Cup final betueen P«rak and Stnaaeafe this vtnr will be clayed on Scot. 2 and not Sent X aa ociainaHV dectried bv the FAJM. 1 Tennkti Abdul Rahman, president of the Association, states
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    • 399 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from previous Col.) VEHICLES FOB SALE CHEVROLET Fleetmaster 1948. 2 tone green in excellent condition, comp. lnsur., regularly serviced. Best offer over $6,000 secures. Box No. A6961, S.T. MORRIS BsSALOON '40, $2,350; Humber Hawk Late '50. $8,500; Morris Minor '50, $4,300, tax. insurance paid, owner driven. Inspection:
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    • 73 12 HAPPY WORLD STADIUM TONIGHT AT 9 P.M. TWO FAVOURITES CLASH Jfcf lILfC fIF Ba^Ln. a^H m BARRETT HBI D U A Wm^^^^ Mike BurreU Bowa Boa (Bondl Beach Mfegaars (Chinese Flying WMatfer) Kick Star) CHARLHE GAMAGE vs. HARDIT SINGH (A Beat Brute) (Touch Sikh Hillman) PUK 2 OTHER FIGHTS Bookiaga:
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    • 34 12 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 4.02 a.m. 17.8) and 3 VI p.m. 18.61 938 a.m. |4.3) and 12.43 p m 13.O1. TOMORROW: 5 29 p m. I7.D and 4.53 p.m. 18.34". 1029 a.m. 1 5.4 1
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