The Straits Times, 26 July 1952

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  • 23 1 The Straits Times £6 JUL 1952 MALAYA S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 if PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1»52. TWELVE PAGES
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  • 409 1 Both sides accept Government compromise KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. WAGE negotiations affecting the Federation's 327,000 rubber estate workers reached a settlement today after seven weeks of tough bargaining. The rates paid will be $3.40 a day for con tract tappers, $2.90 for checkroll tappers and $2.20 for
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  • 41 1 LONDON, Fri. The Prime Minister, Mr. Winston 1 Churchill, promised trade union leaders last night that the Government would carefully consider their recent protest against the offic.V. i holdup of a wage increase for 1,500.000 British shopworkers—Reuter.
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  • 128 1 KILLER OF GIRL TO HANG LONDON. Fri. JOHN THOMAS Straff en. 21- ye3r-old strangler of two little girls, was sentenced to-, death here today for the nmrder of a third. I Straffen was found guilty of murdering flve-year-old Linda Bowyer during a fiverorr break from the Broadmoor cr minal institution
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  • 24 1 BUENOS AIRES. Fri—Eva Peton's condition has undergone no change in the past 24 hours, a bulletin Issued late last night said.—Reuter.
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  • 182 1 Boy hero may go to school rpERENCE EDMETT, aged 14, A hero of a bandit ambush on Nanyo Estate. Kota Tinggi. Johore, on Wednesday, will come to Singapore today with his mother and younger brother. Bryan, to try and get a Dlace in a Colony school. The Deputy Director of
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  • 29 1 LONDON. Fri. William Marshall, Foreign Office, radio operator, convicted of •diving official secrets to a Russian Embassy secretary, has applied to appeal against his five-year sentence. Reuter.
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  • 31 1 SOURABAYA, Fri. Sourabaya is banning the import of American neckties, defined as those "with strange designs and with girls who are not troubled by too much clothIng."— U.P.
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  • 33 1 ISTANBUL, Fri. At least 20 people were drowned and scores injured in a flood which swept the valley of the Kizll Irmak River after heavy rain, it was reported today.— A.P.
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  • 21 1 'LONDON, Fri— Japan !w placed aircraft orders totaljin<? £1.500.000 "/Uh r»» villands. manufacturers of "the Comet jetliner.— Reuter.
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  • 85 1 THIS PICTURE made tindy Remigino. of the United States, the "fastest man in the world." The photo was called for to decide the placings of the 100 metres sprint in the Olympic Games at Helsinki. Remigino was placed first. Herb McKenley of Jamaica second, and
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  • 132 1 CLACTON-ON-SEA, Friday. DOLICE, R.A.F. and United States Air Force officials today tried to trace two unidentified planes which on Wednesday machine-gunned Clacton and other nearby coastal villages. Several houses were hit and residents have turned over several tracer bullets to the police. Th e
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  • 45 1 Two women, Ah si a binte Abdullah, 23, and Romi binte Garani, 32. were sent to hospital this morning after a car in which they were travelling crashed against a lamp-post at East Coast Road. The driver, a European was sJJghttv injured.
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  • 108 1 MONTREAL, Pri. T^HE bomb-maker in Quebec's 1949 air crash murder. In which 22 people died; was hanged here this morninß. He was Gcnereux Ruest, 51-year-old crippled watch- maker, the second ma» to be executed for this murder, which was arranged to destroy the wife of
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  • 182 1 Woman held may be $1 20,000 terrorist KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. rH police last night arrested a woman suspected to be a $126,000 terrorist. Federal Police headquarters told the Straits Times today: "Ipoh town police yesterday arrested a woman who is altered to be Lee Meng. "Lee Men* is alleged to
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  • 67 1 NINEHURT IN ROAD CRASH KLANG, Fri NTNE persona were admitted to KJang General Hospital this afternoon, when a bus. travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Klang, was In collision with an armoured car coming from the opposite direction. The accident occurred at the 2 1/2 mile Batu Tiga Road. The injured
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  • 53 1 RUBBER gained two cents in the Singapore rubber market yesterday when news of the U.S. steel strike settlement was received. The long term view was taken, that with more steel motor car production could get under way agate and more rubber tyres would be needed. Prices
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  • 32 1 TEHERAN, Fri. National Front supporters today removed the nameplate in Churchill Street near the British Embassy in Teheran and put in its place another bearing the words "Mossadeq Street."— Reuter
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  • 121 1 'Home rule' inquiry on Scotland LONDON, Prl. AIR. Churchill announced in the House of Commons last night the Government's decision to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry into arrangements for governing Scotland A Scotsman. 49-year-old Earl of Balfour. will be chairman. The terms of the RoyaJ Commission would be
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  • 58 1 Seven Chinese youths suspected of being members of a secret society In Singapore were arrested by the CID. in a village off Alexandra Road, near the British Military Hospital, last night. The youths were surprised by a police party of 20 detectives who raided an attap
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  • 46 1 Mr. Harold Holt, Australia's Minister of Immigration and National Service, arrived in Singapore by Qantas-BOAC yesterday on his way to Europe. Mr. Holt, who is accompanied by his wife and private secretary. Mr. N. Flanagan, will spend a few days in Singapore.
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  • 29 1 TOKYO, Fri.— Japanese alrines will be allowed to fly to Honolulu, San' Francisco and to pouits beyond under a Japanese-American air agreement signed here on Wednesday Renter
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  • 23 1 TOKYO. Fri.— United States army authorities today put a large area of northwest Tokyo out of bounds to American troops.— Reuter.
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  • 16 1 SAN JUAN. Fri. Puerto Rico today becomes a selfgoverning Commonwealth within the United States
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  • 285 1 ARMYARRESTS 5 EGYPTIAN POLICE CHIEFS CAIRO, Friday. rIE EGYPTIAN ARMY today announced the arrest of five high police officers said to have been planning "to disturb public ord»r which the army and police, in full co-operation, maintained throughout the capital". The men arrested, three generals and two colonels, are: Gen.
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  • 30 1 PARIS. Fri. The next Ministerial meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisatlon will probably oe heild in Paris late in Sept- j ember or early in October. Reutei.
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  • 84 1 Allies get a Red offer PANMUNJOM, Fri. ITNITfcD Nations armis*J tice negotiators today said that the Coniutunists had offered an agreement on the exchange of prisoners the last issue delaying the truce The offer has not been accepted. Maj.-Gen. William Harrison, senior United Nations delegate, said that the Communists wanted
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  • 53 1 Five members of King Farouk s royal household staff, including personal pilot and his physician, resigned last night. Reuter. a plenary session would convene tomorrow morning. Gen. Harrison said: "We are no nearer solution of the problem than we were on July 4" (when the latest series of secret
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  • 55 1 Important naval talks ;>n defence of the Pacific will be held in Singapore today between Vice-Admiral Sir John Collins. Chief of the Australian Naval Staff, and Admiral Sir Guy Russell, C-in-C Far East Naval Station. Admiral CoiCins arrived 'n the Coiony by Qanta«-BOAC yesterday on his
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    • 120 2 NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE Notice Is hereby given that Mr. Isaac Bsekiel Jacob has left the employment of Mr. Isaac Manasseh Mtyer son of Sir Manasseh Meyer deceased of No. 3, Oxley Rise, Singapore, and that the Power of Attorney dated the 2nd July 1951, given by the said Mr. Isaac
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    • 257 2 NUTICt CHUA AND HO KNTEItPUI. NOTICE. IS HEREBY GIVEN that HO BAN THYE carrying on the business under the style of Chua and Ho Enterprise at tire Bilver City Theatre, Happ7 World Amusement Park, Singapore, Intends to wind up the said firm of Chua and Ho Enterprise. All debts &\k
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  • 152 3 WASHINGTON, Fri. rrHE United States State Department said yesterday the reported inti-American riots in Teheran, were primarily nationalistic and directed against the former Prime Minister, Ghavam Es Sultaneh, who was forced to resign earlier this week. Mr. Lincoln White, State Department spokesman, told a news
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  • 32 3 ToKYO, Fri.— An official Ja,3 i.ese report said today that out of the 400,000 inhabitants of Hiroshima when thr atom bomb was dropped, 15.757 are still alive.— Reuter- AAP.
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  • 90 3 PEGU, (Burma), Fri. THE psychic powers of the wife and family of a murdered man helped police track down the alleged murderer in a village near here. After Maung Tin, the murdered man was buried, nis wife z.nd two other members of his family fell
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  • 23 3 MANILA, Fri.— Philippines marines yesterday seized a launch and four junks with 19 Chinese and Malaysians aboard near Jolo island. AP.
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  • 22 3 SRINAGAR. Fri.— Chinese Communist forces are buttding an air base in western Tibet, according to reports by travellers. AJ».
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  • 221 3 Many more days before production is resumed WASHINGTON, Friday. THE WAGE policy committee of the United States Steelworkers Union meets in Washington today to ratify the White House agreement announced last night to end the strike of 650,000 American steelworkers on its 54th day. Several
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  • 54 3 BERLIN, Fri. The East German Government today decided to set up a uniformed, semi-military youth labour corps on the lines of those of Poland and other people's democracies. The corps, to be called •'Service for Germany," will channel East G man youth into works of
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  • 30 3 SAN FRANCISCO, FrLThe carrier Oriskany, first to round Cape Horn, arrived In San Francisco yesterday. It was too wide to p^ss through the Panama Canal.— AJ\
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  • 13 3 HONG KONG, Fri. The Amethyst arrived yesterday from Korea.— AP.
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  • 137 3 LONDON, Friday. THE Colonial Secretary, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, said m the House of Commons last night he had received reports that Africans were being intimidated not to support proposals for a central African federation of Nyusaland and North and South Shodesia. I The Governor of Nyasaland
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  • 18 3 LONDON. Frt.-Sir Ralph 3tevenson. Ambassador to Egypt, is to return to his post immediately. Reuter.
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  • 28 3 LONDON, Thuis.— The big two-day debate on the financial and economic .situation will take place in the House of Commons on Tuesday and Wednesday next.— Reuter.
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  • 106 3 LONDON. Fri. ■BRITISH Overseas Airways plan to introduce the Comet iet airliner into regular sendee between London and Coicmbo on Aug. 11 The Corporation propose* to operate this service once weekly in each direction through Rome, Beirut, Bahrein,^ Karachi and Bombay. The Comet's actual flying time
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    22 3 TH£ AGA KHAN and the Begum descend from their plane at London airport after flying from Geneva for a holiday in Britain.
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  • 172 3 CHICAGO, Friday. TUIF Democratic convention adjourned hurriedly A today without choosing a presidential candidate on the insistence of the fire department, after a small fire had broken out in the hall. The fire was quickly put out but fire officials feared fatigue and nervousness after 14
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  • 95 3 U.S. ASKS RUSSIA TO AID PoWs WASHINGTON, Fri. I^HE United States has ask- ed Russia to nse her influence to get the Communists in Korea to comply with the Genera Convention rules for the treatment of war prisoners. The State Department announced that the United States had also asked the
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  • 35 3 WASHINGTON^ Fri.—President Truman today commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence on Oscar Collazo, a Pnerto Rican who killed a White House guard in an attempt to assassinate the President in November. 195©.— UJP.
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  • 103 3 LONDON, Fri. ANA N Indian student yesterday rescued a twj-and-half-year-old boy from a blazing bungalow in which the child's mother, Mrs. Penelope Bowers, lost her life. Mrs. Bowers ,a writer of children's books, lived at Faxuham, Surrey. She had with her a 17-year-oid Indian student,
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  • 52 3 TOKYO, Fri.— The United Nations Commander. General Mark Clark, and the United States Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Robert Murphy, flew Into Okinawa air base today. The U.S. Embassy said Mr. Murphy went X) Gen. Clark's invitation taking the opportunity tc see the base for the first
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  • 46 3 LONDON. Fri.— Two British freighter planes carrying French cavalry officers and horses to the Olympic Games have been held up ut Helsinki at the request of the Russian authorities. It is understood the Russian authorities complained that they flew over Soviet territory.—Be uter.
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  • 62 3 TOKYO. Fri.— United Nations forces in Japan will not have to pay Japanese Income tax and will be permitted i* enter and leave the country subject to certain conditions. Agreement on these two points was reached today by representatives of Japan and the United
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  • 334 3 Firm tone continued LONDON, Ri. ALTHOUGH far from active. most of thr Stock Markets continued arm. with buying interest as regards the better claas shares. Some weekend seOfng waa comfortably absorbed and brought only veiy small setbacks In Talues I Glltedged Issues were one- sixteenth higher or balance.
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    • 129 3 LONDON TIN PRICE LONDON, July 25.— C»sh Bayers £M 9; Sellers £97»H; Forward Buyers JE§*36%; Seflers Settlement £970«4 (*9 «IV4). TurnoTer: a.m. S5 tons; p.m. 5 tons. U.K. RUBBER LONDON, July Spot 26% d., Sept. 26>itd., Oct.-Dexr. 3«d., Jan.Mar. 25d.. Aprtt-June 24>4d., Aug. c.i.f. 26d., Sept. cxl. 2&%<L, Oct. cJ.f.
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  • 230 4 Rubber Market rnHERE was little movement in the rubber market during the week and, with no particular tendency, trading was on narrow margins, with operators generally very csutiou?, fays Lewis and Peat's weekly report. Yesterday morning the 40ud news from the U.S.A. that the steel strike
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  • 35 4 PENANG. Fri. Penang UMNO will give a party for Inche Abdul Majid bin Haji Mohci. permanent chairman, on Aug. 3 at the Piccadily Hotel on his award of the M.B.F by the Queen
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  • 274 4 Govt. union men victimised, says leader PETTY OFFICIALS WAKE LIFE HARD' KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. yiCTIMISATION of active members of (Government unions existed but it took on a subtle form and was more difficult to prove, Mr. Lee Moke Sang, the general secretary of the Federation of Government Administrative and Clerical
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  • 120 4 ITRISHNASAMY Sinnathamby. a mandore, has a son he has not seen for 18 years. On the evening of July 6, a man walked up to him and claimed that he was his son and that he had arrived with the Indian Navy. Krishnaiimy
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  • 53 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Three Chinese robbed the occupants of a shop in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur. last night, of $180 and jewellery One of the robbers had a Kun. Ten of the 11 persons detained in co election with the Batu Road Hotel hand grenav> Incident,
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  • 77 4 Call for bright sermons PENANG Fri. THE Penang UMNO Youth League last night called for "brighter sermons" at weekly mosque services in the Settlement. The League unanimously approved a resolution by its leader. Inche Ismail Idris, urging that sermons "repeatedly used and read by Imans oT various mosques at Friday
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  • 60 4 PARIT BUNTAR. Pri. Muniandy. a labourer, was fined $50 at Bagan Serai for using criminal force on a woman. Murugamah, with intent to outrage her modesty. It was, alleged that accused caught hold of the woman's hand in front of a shop on Gula
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  • 44 4 MUAR. Frl. Charged at Muar with theft of sand belonging to Ban Heng Estate Yap Chee Sen, Mak Hin Tee and Sin Joo Song .were each allowed ball of $150. All pleaded guilty and the case was postponed to Aug. 7.
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  • 30 4 PENANG. Frl.-Thp Federation's Commissioner of Police. Col. A. E. Youn*. who Is in Penang on a visit of insDection. called at several Dolicp districts in the Settlement today
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  • 299 4 Sub-Vatiors liable to load shedding today ac: DAY Armenian St. Static Prince St./ Market St.. Raffles Plae/Malarra St.. Boat Quay. Hume Pipe. Rheem. Ford. Bin Seng. P.W.D. Quarry. Nanyang Mfg., Buklt Pan fan*. Nitiinal Carbon. Prlnr s Elisabeth Est. Dairy Farm.. U> Pandan. in-on» 1. 2 A
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  • 298 4 i\SE HUNDRED AND TEN graduands of the of Malaya will receive degrees and diplomas from their Chancellor, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, at the third annual Convocation at the Oei Tiong Ham Hall this afternoon. Seven of the degrees will be conferred in absentia. Dato
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  • 77 4 PENANG. Fri— More than 300 teachers and students, attending a piano recital by Dr. C. Thornton Lofthouse. Royal College of Music examiner, sang in chorus last night as he played pieces from Handel. Bach and Purcell. The concert was sponsored by the local Education Office. Dr
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  • 67 4 Mr. M. Gopala Menon, Representative of the Government or India in Malaya, is leaving Singapore tomorrow on his first tour of the northern parts of the Federation. He will be in Penang on Monday, in Alor Star on Thursday and Kangar on Saturday. He will
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  • 58 4 PENANG, Fri.— Tb«> whole fleet of eight Yellow Top taxis has been sold for about $1,500 each. "They have already served their purpose," Mr. A. Milne, manager of Universal Cars, which operate the taxis, told the Straits Times. With more people now owning cars, the company decided
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  • 126 4 A DRIVE in Johore to recruit Chinese youths for the Federation Police J-'orce has resulted in 97 being selected. Thiry-five are now beinn trained at the Police Depot in Kuala Lumpur. On Thursday. 19 were se'ected from 49 applicants at Batu Paha' and Kota
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  • 69 4 Improvement of retirement benefits for aided school teachers will be discussed by the Singapore Ttuchers' Union at an extraordinary general meeting on Saturday next in St. Joseph's Institution school hall. The onion will consider a resolution calling for the reduction of the union's quorum at annual general meetings
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  • 48 4 IPOH Fri. Ibrahim.bin Hassan, 46 years, was today sentenced to a total of six months' imprisonment by Mr. J. R. Whimster, president of the Sessions Court, when he Dleaded guilty to stealing three leather brief cases on two different occasions from Whiteaway Laidlaw and Company.
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  • 35 4 PARIT BUNTAR, Fri. SAMYNATHAN was charged at Bagan Serai with riding his bicycle while under the influence of liquor. Samynathan. who pleaded guilty, collided with a motor-cyclist. He was fined S2O.
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  • 156 4 RAUB, Friday. jl/IR. E. M. Smallwood, President of the Sessions i Court, Pahang, today committed A. G. Rozario, chief clerk of the Labour Office, Bentong, to stand trial in the Supreme Court on a charge of criminal breach of trust of $400. Mr.
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  • 238 5 Passengers would fight on the stairs, says Mr. Ewing ]yjR. A. A. EWING, general manager of the Singapore Traction Company, said yesterday that double-deck bases in Singapore might aggravate the whole traffic situation by creating obstruction and interfering with visibility. He was commenting on a
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  • 91 5 Miss Mabel Lee Soo Bee, the soprano soloist, stole the show at the Singapore Music Society's presentation of Cole-ridge-Taylor's choral work "Hiawatha" at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore, last night. Miss Lee had amazing control and displayed competent musicianship and great clarity of tone. Her only
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  • 47 5 A City Council labourer, Maruthamuthu Ramasamy, who was on trial at Singapore Assizes on a charge of raping his step-daughter, who was under 14 years of age, was acquitted yesterday. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty by a majority of 6-1.
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  • 26 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri.— fhe third class maternity ward in the General Hoapital, Johore Bahru, Is to be extended at a cost of $68,200.
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  • 109 5 IPOH, Fri. pONVICTEIX on an unanimV/T oos verdict, 40-year-old Suni bin Uda Roman and his 26-year-old son, llasbim. were today sentenced to death for the murder of Mat Lodin after their twoday trial in ihe Perak Assize Court before Mr. Justice Pretheroe. Suni
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  • 80 5 The well-known Indonesian dancer and film star, Osman Gumanti, and several Malay radio and screen artistes gave a variety concert to 150 Malay patients in the British Military Hospital, Singapore, last night. The concert was the first to be organised by the Department of Emergency and
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  • 146 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. A PETITION to wind up the -company which publishes the Federation's oldest Malay newspaper, the Majlis has been made by the Income Tax Department. The petition will be heard before the Kuala Lumpui Supreme Court on Aug. 8, says a notice
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  • 346 5 TODAY UN1VEESITY OF MALAYA: Convocation for conferment ot degrees at Oei Tiong Ham Hall. Bukit Tlmah. 3.30 p.rj.; Convocation dance at Harrower Hail. Sepoy Lines. 8.30 p.m. to 1 a.m. STORE LABOUR PARTY: General Council meeting at 743, North Bridge Road. 6 p.m. H.M.V. STUDIO: Programme of recorded
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  • 81 5 A $500,000 SHIPMENT ot giant earth-moving equipment for Singapore's new airport at Pays Lebar was unloaded yesterday from the freighter Silver Walnut. The consignment of seven power units and earth scrapers some weighing op to 17 tons each was the biggest to arrive in Singapore and
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  • 26 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Deputy High Commissioner. Mr. D. C. MacGillivray returned to Kuala Lumpur this afternoon by air from his east coast tour.
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  • 20 5 .iir-E. A. Parker was admitted to the Singapore Bar yesterday to practise as an advocate and solictor.
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  • 74 5 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News; 10.05 Housewives' Choice; 11— 11J0 New Records; 1 pjn. Harry Hackmeyer, piano; 1.30 News; 2 Album of Harmony; 2.15 Racing Penang; 6.17 Children; 7 News; 7.10 Spotlight on the Emergency; 7.20 Listeners' Choice; 8 P.C. 49: 8.30 Music in the Modern Mood: 9 Rays
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  • 107 5 'J'HIRTEEN sailors of the American freighter Steel Apprentice gave their skipper, Captain H. C. MeckJem, a disapoointment in Singapore yesterday. They failed to keep an appointment at the Singapore Blood Transfusion Centre. Only Captain Mecklem and six other members ot his crew attended. Captain Mecklem
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  • 190 5 AIR 'PLAYROOMS TO FLY THEM FOR HOLIDAYS SEVERAL BOAC four-engined Argonaut aircraft are being converted into "flying playrooms" to fly British schoolchildren to spend their summer vacations with their parents in Malaya and elsewhere. Argonaut will carry about 50 children. On board will be extra rations of biscuits, chocolates and
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  • 49 5 The Catholic Young Men' Association is staging a con cert in aid of the Convent o the Holy Infant Jesus A ban doned Babies Fund at thi Victoria Theatre, Singapore on Thursday at 8 pjn. Tickets at $5, $3 and $2 wil be available at the Victor!: Theatre.
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  • 60 5 The Singapore Registrar of Societies has approved the formation of the Tamil Diffusion League, an organisation to spread Tamil culture and art. Office-bearers of the league are: President, Mr. S. K. Shanmugam, secretary and treasurer. Mr. S. Soundara Rajan; council members, Messrs C. V Kuppusamy.
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    • 244 5 Ikfi/eu/ PRESTCOLD M WITH A HOST OF 8k •U B J J-41 Se*en cubic feet capacity in small floor L-^ss^Sjl, Trigger-type door latch BIfSM flllllils^^ Extra large Froxen Food Locker (26 Ib. Ik liiiiiiiiSl »U Automatic Interior light W Wt^i W"*^^/^^ W Tw neW desi n ice tra s <»
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  • 83 6 MR. MRS. M. D. SAMUEL family, thank all those who attended the funeral of their belovfri daughter. Indranl, recently. THE FAMILY of the late Mr Guan Kirn Lee. thank all relatives and friends, who sent wreaths, condolatory messages, gave helD. lent cars, paid night visits and attended the funeral.
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  • 589 6 &he Simrs Singapore, Sat., July 26, 1952. Good News Of Steel Steel is big news today, but it will seem less important to Singapore thai President Truman has ended the long strike in the American steel works than that Mr. Pavne has been able to arrange for the delivery of
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  • 530 6 It might be thought, from reading Labour criticisms in the Commons, that the work of the Rural Industrial Development Authority in Malaya was still being held up by disputes at State level as to how the authority's operations are to be carried out. It is much to
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    8 6 Pho tograph by Birte Steincke. WASHING THE CLOTHES
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  • 1023 6  -  STOIC —by- VOTHING has been heard lately from the Government officers' wives who, promised housing accommodation when they arrived in the Federation, found that, owing to the shortage of quarters, they had to spend their days in the depressing surroundings of a Government rest-house. They were
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  • 662 6 T*HE two men whose names are linked with the Cocas Keeling Islands Hare and Clunles-Ross, could not have come from more different backgrounds. Clunies-Ross was born in a little turf-roofed cottage amid the heather and bleak winds of the island of Yell in the Shetlands, well to
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    • 678 6 PROUT- DUNCAN: The engagement was announced between Maisle A Prout. of Seremban, •nri Mayford R. Duncan, of North Queensland. Australia. THE engagement was announced on 25th July, 1952. between Ob* Tr-k Chuan. elder son of Mr. St Mm One Sionu Bee of 42. Blair Road, and Tan Kirn Liang, youngest
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    • 38 6 GERMAN PEN New Piston Filling System and Transparent Large Quantity I n k Holding Reservoir. PBICES: $6 50 7.50 EVERBRIGHT OPTICAL CO., 19 Chnlia St.. Singapore- 1. Penang Distributors ENC SENC MEDICAL CO. 8. Ah Quee St.. Penan*
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  • 211 7 Society may have to j close: 'Members being disloyal 9 CINGAPORE Co-operative Stores Society yestcrday appealed to the Government to save it from a threat of liquidation. A spokesman of the society told the Straits Times that it had been asked by the Malayan
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  • 48 7 Mr. Choong Kok Swee, editor of the Penang Gazette and the Penang Sunday Gazette, has been awarded a grant to visit the United States as a guest-employee of the Riverside Daily Press, Riverside, California. He will stay in the United States for four months.
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  • 34 7 The Governor of Singapore. Mr. J. F. Nicoli. has been adj mitted by the Queen as a Knight of the Order of St. j John of Jerusalem, it was announced last night.
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  • 196 7 A row, then stabbing one month MOHAMED Shaw bin Krupp, a man, whom the Magistrate called "a terror," was sentenced to one i month's imprisonment in Singapore yesterday, for stabbing Kasthus bin Jailan- I .«=ha with a knife on the niRht of Feb. 29. The Singapore Relief Magistrate, Mr. J
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  • 34 7 The governing council of the Singapore Trade Union Congress will meet Tomorrow to make arrangements for the annual delegates' conference, to fcff held in the first week of September.
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  • 68 7 "'INGAPOKE SENIOR SCOU li^KS reheirse their 'Lion Dance" at the First World S couters Camp at Gilwell, Park, London, for their television show this week. Seated on the ground with the drum is Lawrence Koh, of the Singapore Education D epartment, who is studying arts at
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  • 172 7 'THE CARD' COMING BACK TH E British-made Alec Guinness film. "The Card," which was taken off without notice on Thursday after only a two-day run at the Cathay cinema, Singapore will start a three-day run next Tuesday at the Alhsmbra. Mr. John Ede, spokesman for the Cathay Organisation yesterday told
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  • 60 7 Tuberculosis killed 16 people in the week ending July 19, five fewer than in the previous week, says a Singapore City Health Department statement. Sixty cases were reported, against 78 the previous week. Pneumonia k'Cled 20 peopHe in the week, eight fewer than in the previous
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  • 28 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri— The Johore Government has agreed to take over responsibility for the maintenance of the new villages in the State from this year.
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  • 154 7 Army to look after the poor triplets IPOH, Friday. JYONATIONS poured into the Perak Chinese Cham*J ber of Commerce today for the triplets born to a poor Chinese family at Ipoh Hospital last week. Heading today's list was a $100 cheque from Mrs. R H. Legge, of Kuala Lumpur with
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  • 33 7 An inaugural meeting of the Kampong Silat Community Centre, Singapore, will be held today at a playirg field in the kamnong. A tea party will be held later
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  • 27 7 Plans are under way for a general expansion of the Xray facilities in Singapore's Kandang Kerbau Hospital the Government announced last night.
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  • 312 7 'SECRET SOCIETY 9 CHARGE CHAN Bak Choon alias Hou Lou, aged 40, said to be head of the Colony's secret "Sar Jee'' society, was in Singapore Third District Court yesterday charged with helping to manage an illegal society. He pleaded not guilty. I Mr. L. W.
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  • 71 7 The Bishop of Singapore the Rt. Rev. H. W. Baines, accompanied by Mrs. Barnes. left the Colony oy 8.0.A.C. plane yesterday on a routine ten-day tour of parishes in Java, which forms part of the Diocese of Singapore He will visit churches in Jakarta, Subang
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  • 24 7 JOHORE BAHRU, FTI. Ang Seng Moh. of Pontian. was acquitted at Johore Bahru on a charge of corruptly giving $io to a constable.
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  • 123 7 ANA N Indian bankrupt, T. ft. Samiwalla, was let off with a warning yesterday when he appeared before the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in the Singapore High Court on a motion that he be committed to civil prison for contempt or court. The Assistant Official
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  • 192 7 The AttorneyGeneral apologises to photographer Attorney-General of Singapore yesterday apologised to a Straits Times staff photographer, Mr. Sam Kai Faye, for the action of subordinate police officers in arresting him on June 30 after he had taken a photograph of the City Council meeting following a walkout of nine members.
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  • 76 7 The St. John Ambulance Brigade will hold the annual cadet day celebrations today at the Victoria School. Singapore. The cadets will parade at 4 p.m. Mrs. W. J. Vickers president and Mr. L, A Marcus. District Superintendent, will receive visitors. Mr. T. P. F. McNeice. president
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  • 216 7 INDONESIAN police seizures have resulted in a temporary hold-up in rubber shipments from Indonesia to Singapore. The police action was taken following recent discoveries of rubber cargoes loaded in Indonesian ports for Singapore in excess of the amounts declared on ship's manifests. Singapore rubber merchants
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  • 66 7 On the first day of Savings Week in Singapore yesterday. $60,000 wao deposited and 64 new accounts opened at the 21 Post Offices with savings facilities. A Post Office spokesman said Savings Week started '•steadily with no report of pressure" at any Post Office. "We do
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  • 23 7 About 1,000 men of the Ist Battalion Royal Fusiliers bound for Korea passed through Singapore yesterday in the trooper Empire Halladale.
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  • 55 7 The 1952 Malayan professional ballroom dancing championships will be held in Singapore in September under the joint auspices of the Federal Association of Teachers of Dancing, Australia and New Zealand, and the Singapore Dance Association. Mr. Frank Webber, Fellow and Examiner, F.A.T.D. and vice-president of the Federal
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  • 56 7 Singapore Rent Conciliation Board yesterday approved an application to raise the rent of premises 1h Orchard Road from $87.50 to $120 a month from Apr. 1 this year. The landlord is the Great Eastern Life Assurance Co., Ltd. The tenant is Mo Ah Say, who
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  • 141 7 ALLEGING that he had paid very high rent for two rooms which he occupied as a sub-tenant in Newton Road, Sgt. J. Mackinson applied to Singapore Rent conciliation Board yestaday to recover rent which he said he had paid hi excess. The tenant is Madam
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  • 48 7 The Singapore Civil Defence Association hoTd its first tea party and social! at the CD. Training School Koiam Ayer Lane, this afternoon. The programme includes a performance by the we'Crr c now Singapore illus'on£L!£ Tan Hock Ch »an. a oe«na show and a dance.
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  • 166 7 Boycott exam is scrapped T*HE Singapore Govern- ment Chinese Junior j Middle School examination, which was boy- cotted by 200 students I last year, has now been discontinued. The Singapore Education Department yesterday said that the main reason lor abolishing; the exam was that, unlike the Federation, "ih-re are no
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  • 52 7 A City Council employre, A. G. de Alwls, who appeared on a judgment debt of $816 in the Singapore High Court yesterday, offered to ?ay $30 monthly in repayment. The offer was accepted and a bankruptcy petition filed by him against the debtor was adjourned
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  • 23 7 The Singapore Court of Criminal Appeal will sU for hearing in the Supreme Court Building at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday next.
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  • 24 7 Singapore Governor. Mr. John F. Nicol] yesterday visited the Hume Industries (Far East) Limited. He toured the plant for one-and-a-half hours.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 24 7 "MALAYAN AIRWAYS WEEKLY SERVICE ON SUNDAYS MANAGERS: MANSFIELD COMPANY, LTD. TELEPHONE 2412 TELEGRAMS TERBANC Now at 159, North Bridge Road, f (Capitol Bldg.) Singapore~6.
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  • 386 8 IT'S ENTERTAINMENTS TURN Should avenge nose defeat by 12th of August By EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Friday. ENTERTAINMENT II, that likeable four-year-old by Mirza II, may gain consolation for his nose defeat by Twelfth of August in the valuable Singapore Cup at Bukit Timah by taking- the Penang Cup over a
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  • 869 8 PENANG, Ftiday. GAT CO-ED came from a long way back to finish a gallant third to Par miter over the Bukit Timah 6f. earlier in the month and on that performance I make her my choice in the Class 1, Div. 1, 6f. event
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  • 144 8 PBNANO, Prl. ]y|Y BEST-of-lhe-day et Penang iTX tomorrow Is Qwkrter Deck In the Class 1, Div. 2 6f. sprint (Race Four). This nlcely-actioned foar-year-old has all the appearances of a quality sprinter and I predict a bright future for him. Quarter Deck was heavily backed
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  • 25 8 PENANG has been enjoying a spell of sunny weather and the going for today's races should be very good, reports Epsom Jeep.
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  • 151 8 r,<-.SOM JEEP 'Alt HOT POINTKK KINGIMMf DANCE HALL D KABAKA IUec 1 Kabaka Kakaka Kinrdom 2.15 Dance Hall II Klnraoai Dance Han II Race S FUB FANCY FAB S» FRENCH BAND 2.45 Fair Mr French Band Free Fancy Haydee Free Fancy Resalt Bsee 3 N. CIRCUIT^ N.
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  • 985 8 Race 1—2.15: Cl. 2, Div. J— SJF. 1 Break of Dawn Lansdown 9.00 Mr. C. C. Loke Tjoa 2 Trimstyle Rus ell 8.12 "Ong Yap" Daniels 3 Dance II Tullch 8.12 "Brilliant Kongsi 1 Martin 4 |t.h«b» Flannery 8.11 Mrs. A. Gordon Hobbs Master Teach Woods 808
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  • 271 8 HELSINKI. Frl. r International Amateur Swimming Federation (FINA) meeting bere hit recognlied 12 new worjd record*. They are: 80* metrei free ityU: 9 mm. 307 sec. by Ford H. Konno. United States, at Honolu^i on July 1. Ml. IN jatds tree *tj>te: 4» 2 sec. bj Dick Cleveland.
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  • 377 9 itlALAYA could view its future with a little more equanimity were it ruled 1T1 that the performances of its elected Municipal Councillors, trade union leaders, Members with this and that portfolio and so on were for the time being Just shadow play, having no
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  • 120 9 I APPEND the following translation from a littleknown, Chinese poet: "It is indeed remarkable "How Homo SaDiens strug- gles to exist; "Planting and tapping rubber trees; "Scratching in the good earth for tin, "Running to and fro furiously in the biR cities; "Buying and selling merchandise, "In
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  • 98 9 XTEITHER Mr. Dasaratha Raj, in using the term "Indian race 1 of himself, j nor Mr. Vadivelu, in his impression that Mr. Raj be- longs to the Telugu race, is right. Experts classify four j major races the Aryans j iwith fair skin, wavy or straight hah
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  • 182 9 ACCIDENT PRONE DRIVERS STATISTICS prove that, of' the total number of accidents in any one town durmg i the course of the year, a I great many are "repeats." In j other words, there are a great number of accident! pron c drivers who are repeatedly involved in acci- i
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  • 43 9 IT is very discouraging to note that the Kelantan Co-operative Stores Society, Ltd.. Kota Bahru although started with the Rood intention of promoting the wel- I fare of the public, has obviously not succeeded in its aim. DICK. I Kota Bahru. <
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  • SATURDAY FORUM
    • 379 9 ilI r JI.-\T a ludicrous siiua- tion Br-ons in a British Colony are deprived of seeing British films such as "The Card", "The Man in the White Suit", "Appointment with Venus", "Hifh Treason", and others of the same hieh standard ;of humour and intelligence, apparently
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    • 133 9 MAY I reler to "Dlsgusted's" letter in last Saturday's Forum and inquire from your Federation readers if it is a fact that labour appointments in the Federation are "confined rightly to officers of South Indian origin"? I thought all appointments in the Federation were confined
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    • 85 9 WAS annoyed to read in your issue of July 17 that in a friendly soccer match Penang trounced an Indian Navy eleven by 17 goals to nil. I wonder whether inflicting such an inconsiderate defeat on a visiting team drawn from a naval detachment adds to the glory
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    • 52 9 J CANNOT think of a greater nuisance than that caused by a few radio sets to a man in a Singapore flat. The worst hour is late in the evening when two vernacular programmes cln«* with one another. The re^i't is a terror to one's stud'p.s.
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    • 290 9 A GRANT FROM THE M.C.A. T AM sure many people in Singapore were even more grateful than before to the Malayan Chinese Association when they read the announcement in the Straits Times on July 23 that it would grant gifts of $5,000 to the Family Planning Association and $3,000 to
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  • 340 9 Malays on the Council I AGREE wih "Angry Smallholder," who said, in a recent letter, that the Federal Government was most unwise in passing the Money Lenders Ordinance, which has deprived the small man of his one possible source of credit. But I disagree with him when he say.; that
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    • 320 9 The Straits Times Crossword T~ 2 3 lj 4 5 6^ m I 8~" 9 '0 Ta" i' 3 ml 4 aT" 24 25 28" 29 SO* 31 ACROSS o eagle's claw s I6>. 1. lii norn Is cornucopia <6>. 11. But lt can be worn in the 4. Nearly
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