The Straits Times, 25 January 1953

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    22 1 E5 JAN I*s The Straits Times LARGEST NEXT SALES IN MALAYA No. 911 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, JANUARY 25. 1953. if PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    HUNT FOR THE LIMPING MAN
    441 1 Passenger in a bus may have been one of the Communist gang 300 police cordon off the city EARLY 300 Singapore police clamped an eight-mile cordon around the centre of^rhe city yesterday in search of a man said to look like the wounded Communist gunman
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    Malaya gets a mighty midget'
    215 1 Malaya gets a mighty midget' CANBERRA, Sat. AUSTRALIA has developed a midget radio which may radically alter field communications in jungle warfare, it was announced today. Prototypes of the set have already passed tests In the Malayan jungle. The Australian Minister for Supply, Mr. O. Howard Beale. said a signaller
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    ROBBERS STRIKE AGAIN
    94 1 fFiHTE first serious crime in X Singapore since the big police manhunt began on Thursday was an armed robber* at Bukit Panjang village e*rl> yesterday morning Six masked Chinese all carrying kniTes. entered a corTe*shop by thr bark door and heid up the proprietor, his wife and
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    US WARNS ITALY ON OIL DEAL
    105 1 LONDON. Sat. ffIHE UNITED STATES has X warned Italy that she could lose American aid :f Persian oil aboard the tanker Mineila is sold to a Communist nation. The Miriella. chartered by an Italian company. :s nosing it*, way out of the Persian Gull
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    ANOTHER TWO BANDITS DIE
    62 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. TWO MORE terrorists have been killed— one In Trengganu and one in Johore by Security Forces In the Federation. A terrorist has been captured at George Town, Penang, and a Red gave up at Tanjong Malim in Perak. Three terrorists, armed with rifles,
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    THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY: C.-G SPEAKS
    136 1 THE Chancellor of the University of Malaya, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, yesterday called upon the Chinese in Malaya not to rush through with the proposal for setting up a Chinese University. In a statement to the Press last night. Mr. Ma-Donald said he hoped that
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    Guess who!
    31 1 EX-KING Farouk of Egypt is well protected against the cold with a muffler and stocking cap as he watches an ice revu c at St. Moritz, Switzerland. A.P. picture
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    Crackers ban off
    62 1 rE Singapore Police have relaxed the ban on flrecrackers durin a Chinese MM Year between 7 a.m. and 7 pm. Announcing this yesterday, the Deputy Commissioner of Police. Mr. D. K. Broadhurst, said that sand crackers are still banned. No fireworks should be let off near any
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    Rajah wins his appeal
    58 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— The appeal of S Rajah. Senior Health Inspector at Port Dickson. against a sentence of 18 months rigorous Imprisonment for corruption was upheld in the Federation Court of Appeal today. Rajah was alleged to have aro>r>ted $500 from Chua \ha Kheng on June
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    North routs South
    51 1 North trounced South by 17 points (a goal, three tries and a dropped goal) to nil yesterday in their 21st annual rugby meeting on the Singapore Cricket Club ground. North led at the end of the first half by a try scored by Brett. Full report Page
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    No talking
    34 1 WASHINGTON. Sat. President Elsenhower and his cabinet held their first formal meeting on Friday a twohtmr and ten-minute session which the new administration's high command left under orders not to talk.— A.P.
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    THE JAWS OF A MAN-EATER
    63 1 Charles McCamley and Bill lotinsoM cjiigft riiis 15 -foot man-eating tiger shark off Bondi beach, Sydney's mos: popular surfing playground. The two fishermen, in a 12-ft. dinghy, took the shark lfter a terrific struggle. Ir took three boats more Hun an hour to haul it
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    Mite Jacobs dies
    18 1 NEW YORK. Sat. Mike Jacobs, famous boxing promoter, died today in Miami, Florida.— Re uter.
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    The and Mamie
    35 1 PRESIDENT DWIGHT EISEN HOWER makes the "V" sign as he stands with his wife Mamie on the rear platform of their train at New York en rc.ute to Washington for his inauguration.
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    MAKE OPERATION SERVICE SUCCESS'
    249 1 Sultan ie.'.s police KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE SULTAN OF PAHANC today promised his full support to make "Operation Service" a success in Pahang when he addressed 1 500 men of the Federation Police Depot in Kuala Lumpur. He said "Operation Service" was one of the most
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    THEY BLAME IT ON A-BOMB
    49 1 SYDNEY, Sat.— Angry holi-day-makers in Sydney are blaming Britain's Monte Bello atomic explosion for ruined summer holidays. A newspaper survey showed that, despite denials by scientists, the bomb wa s the only explanation for unseasonal gates, rain and sudden cold t changes this summer.
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    Vaccinators
    19 1 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat Sisters S. M. Parnell and E. E. Birks have been appointed public vaccinators In Johore.
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    Forged ten-cent notes circulating in S'pore
    117 1 FORGED ten-cent notes are in circulation in Singapore, but the forgers are ''on a bad wicket" because the Malayan Currency Board does not intend to print any more. Mr. C. H. F. Blake, secretary of the Currency Board, yesterday told the Sunday Times: "The
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    Van Fleet to retire
    61 1 WASHINGTON, Sat.— The U S Army announced yesterday that James A. Van Fleet. Eighth Army Commander in Korea, will be retired on March 31. He will be succeded Dy Lieutenant-General Maxwell D. Taylor. Taylor is the present Deputy Chief-of-Stalt for Operations and Administration of the Army.
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    TYRES 'WILL OUTLAST CAR
    100 1 NEW- YORK, Sun.— Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. said yesterday that it ha s basic patents o n a new type of synthetic rubber to make car tyre treads which "could easily outwear the automobile itself." Before the new synthetic rubber can be made for wide
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    EXPERTS SEE WRECKAGE
    70 1 IPOH. Sat— A Royal Airl, Foce team of experts flew from Singapore yesterday to investigate the cause of the crash of the helicopter at Chemor last Wednesday, when three were killed. Following an on-the-spot investigation, the team flew back today, taking with them parts of the wcecked
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    Churchill goes home
    60 1 NEW YORK. Sat. The Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, sailed for Britain yesterday after a West Indies vacation that featured "a little rest— a little change." Mr. Churchill, looking fit, boarded the Cunard liner Queen Mary with his wife, their daughter. Mrs. Christopher Soames. and their son-in-law. Capt.
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    Ike's speech in Chinese
    53 1 Ike's speech in Chinese TAIPEH, Sat.— The inaugural address Of President Dwight D. Elsenhower was broadcast in Chinese last nightbeamed for audiences in Red China as well as Nationalist territory. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek had lauded the speech as 'the first ray of hope to mankind since the end of World
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    Fall in Red industries
    47 1 MOSCOW, Sat— Lagging output in several Soviet Industries was described as "intolerable" by Pnavda, the Soviet Communist Party newspaper, today. The paper demanded an improvement from these industries, notably timber and fisheries, which fell 10 and 6 per cent behind last year's targets.
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    Kashmir talks
    43 1 NEW YORK. Sat.— lndia and Pakistan agreed yesterday to begin new talks at Geneva on Feb. 4 on the question of demilitarising their truce areas in disputed Kashmir. Talks were ordered by the United Nations Security Coun- cil in December. A.P.
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    The clerks say we are disgusted'
    329 1 The clerks say we are disgusted' AFTER 14 months, negotiations between the Singapore Government and its clerks over increased pay claims have reached deadlock. And yesterday, at an extraordinary general meeting of the Singapore Government and I Clerical Services Union, the clerks said they were "disillusioned and disgusted" by the
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    G.O.C. visits Fed. Regiment
    32 1 TAIPING, Sat,— The G. O.C. Malaya, Major General Sir Hugh Stockwell, today inspected the Ist Company of the Federation Regiment which have completed 17 weeks" initial training here.
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    HARWELL
    1783 2  -  ALAN MOOREHEAD By Since the war an airfield on a hill-top has been transformed into a scientific institution IT will be remembered that when Or. Klaus Fuelis was arrested he had just one thing to s;iv: "You utilise what this will mean at Harwell?" When he arrived at Harwell
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    THE LAST ARTICLE
    79 2 THIS* article concludes our series of extracts from Mr. Moorehead's book, "The Traitors." Widespread interest has been aroused by them, but we must now, regretfully, bring them to a close on the appearance in Malaya from Hamish Hamilton, of the book which is priced at 12s. 6d.
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    Johore Communists terrified of the fighters from Fiji
    585 3  -  CEOFFREY CELDARD ly CANNIBAL' RUMOUR NAILED KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. THE COMMUNISTS must be terrified of the men of the Ist Fiji Island Infantr. Regiment. Why else would they spread the vile rumour that the Fijians are cannibals, and eat smal children? Many
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    WILLEM RUYS SAILINGS
    57 3 rE Rotterdam Trading Company, agents for the Willem Ruys. the Dutch liner which was in collision in the Red Sea recently with the Oranje say that the ship will leave Rotterdam on Mar. 7, arriving in Singapore on Mar 26 The Willem Ruys will sail from Singapore
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    Escaped from police, leapt to his death
    201 3 A FEW HOURS after a suspected "car stripper" escaped from police custody, he leapt to his death from the S.I.T. flats at Upper Pickering Street on the afternoon of Dec. 15. This was revealed at the Inquest on the suspect, a taxi owner
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    RETIRES AFTER 51 YEARS OF MISSIONARY WORK
    184 3 AN INDIAN missionary, a **pioneer in Christian church and school work among Chinese and Malays of Sumatra in the early years of this century, retires this month after 51 years' service with the Methodist Mission. He is the Rev. S. S. Pakianathan. who.
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    NEW CHEE FAH CHIEFS READY FOR WAR'
    158 3 NEW CHEE FAH CHIEFS READY FOR WAR' KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE new chee fah syndicate in Kuala Lumpur is heading for a showdown The three secret societies running it cannot agree and gang warfare may break out at •any time. The new syndicate, although using the machinery handed over by
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    Rubber is easier
    198 3 rE price of rubber in Singapore eased slightly yesterday when unofficial reports put Malayan production for December at 8.000 tons above the November output of just over 50,000 tons. February first grade closed at 84 c cents a lb. 3 n of a cent below Friday's close
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    TIN PRICE
    11 3 SINGAPORE. Sat. Jan. 24: $471.25 > pliul (up 25 rents).
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    Annual meeting of community centre today
    96 3 THE annual general meeting of- the Princess Elizabeth Estate Community Centre will be held today at No. 8. Princess Elizabeth Drive, Singapore, at 1 p.m The community centre has 192 members, whose affairs are managed by sub-commit-tees for finance sports and social welfare. The
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    Cabaret girl says: He hit me
    105 3 Cabaret girl says: He hit me Mil Choon Keng, 26, was J in a Singapore court yesterday charged with causing hurt to a Happy World cabaret girl. Chan Lin Nan. He claimed trial. Chan said she was booked out on Dec, 10 with another dancer, M«. Mi mi Ng, by
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    Road offence
    35 3 Tan Chin Guan was fined $30 by Mr. R. C. Hoffman in the Singapore First Traffic Court yesterday for cutting across the double white lines when overtaking another vehicle in Bukit Timah Road.
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    The trials and troubles of a Singapore 'bouncer'
    752 4 BOWS AND BRAWN... A CORRESPONDENT recently wrote to the Sunday Times under the pen-name "Newcomer," and suggested that professional chuckers out" be employed in Singapore bars and restaurants. If this suggestion was adopted, it would not be an entirely new innovation in
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    13 4 This week's nature study Is "Water Ladies". The photographer: Freddy Oey of Singapore.
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    The Countryman's Journal
    573 4 NO FLOOD A WEEK AGO, owing to the drought, we expected to be soon rationed for water, as was the case some years ago when there was barely enough in the well for cooking and drinking, and bath water had to be drawn from a small shallow
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    DR. GRACIAS THE FIRST INDIAN CARDINAL
    322 4  - DR. GRACIAS THE FIRST INDIAN CARDINAL XAVIER MOM TEIK HONG BY rpHE Catholic Church In A Bombay has struck a deep root. The Archbishop, Dr. Valerian Gracias. a son of India, who was born and nurtured in the Archdiocese of Bombay has been nominated the first Indian cardinal by Pope
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    Miss Malaya
    156 4 The accessories had not yet been fitted and were lyinc loose in the bathroom. The three soldiers ran for it when they saw me, but not before one of them had picked up a complete lavatory bowl He ran out of the hotel with it. placed it firmly
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    Encores at 'Pinafore'
    158 5 SINGAPORE must have more Gilbert and Sullivan. The rj capacity audience at "H.M.S. '<< Pinafore on Friday night was unanimous on this point. This delightful entertainment went < with a swing from start to finish. J True, some of the singers were occasionally on* key and the
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    Indian Congress to celebrate
    63 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat. —The President and committee members of the local Indian Congress are giving a tea party on Monday at the public English School in celebration of the third anniversary of the Indian Republic. This will be followed by a musical entertainment Speakers will be
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    Police will now carry out 'Operation Service' with a song
    302 5 Police will now carry out 'Operation Service' with a song KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday JHE FEDERATION Police Forces "Operation Service courtesy campaign has been set to music in a rousing ten-verse marching song. .And from next Monday, the campaign is to be plugged, with »he song, at State as well as
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    'Alice' to help the blind
    158 5 'Alice' to help the blind HTHE rros' ambitious entertainI ment so far announced for the Coronation period in Singapore it "Alice In Wonderland", a spectacular production planned by Donald Oaviet, cofounder of rhe Island Player*. Ait proceedr from "Alice" will go to the Singapore Association For The Blind. The play
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    TRAINING GROUND FOR NEW LEADERS'
    241 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. ADULT education in Malaya will be the training ground for the leaders of tomorrow, said Mr Heah Joo Seang of Penang, president of the Adult Education Association in the Federation, during the tenth executive committee meeting tt the Association held at the
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    Fraud costs $750
    59 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat—Telling Thio Toh Chee, a coffee shopkeeper, that he had entered into a conspiracy with a clerk in Singapore to defraud the Customs, Mr. N. L. Cohen in the Police Court today fined him $750 for attempting to evade duty on a brass coffee boiler
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    Youth for trial
    38 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat. A 17-year-old youth was charged in the Police Court today with committing housebreaking to steal jewellery and clothing at Gelang Patah. He was allowed $500 bail pending trial in the Sessions Court.
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    SPORE—INDONESIA TRADE TO RESUME
    237 5 SPORE— INDONESIA TRADE TO RESUME By Our Market Correspondent TRADE SHOULD FLOW ACAIN between Malaya and Indonesia as the result of the decision in Jakarta to make availab'e foreign exchange for imports into Indonesia. Two months ago Indonesia limited foreign exchange for imports to medicines, dyes and cotton yarns, and
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    53 5 Complete with Hawaiian rraa> skirt and garlanded with a lei, lovely Ilen«. Martin of Singapore sets her hips swinging to a hula hula rhythm. Uene will dance at The International Nieht at Victoria Theatre on Feb. 6. The show has been arranged by Elite Enterprises in aid of The Madras
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    INDIA'S DAY
    28 5 TELUK ANSON. Sat— A flag hoisting ceremony will open this year's Indian Republic Day celebration at the Lower Perak Indian Association on Monday at 5 p.m
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    Leave for Mrs. Cerrity after 2 years' work
    137 5 ■JI/TRS. Pauline M. Oerrity, London headquarters' representative of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in Singapore, will leave for England soon after two years' service in the Colony It is not yet certain whether she will return for another tour of duty. Yesterday,
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    INDIA LOOKS BACK ON A YEAR OF PROGRESS
    1099 6 Out of the woods, end of uncertainty Tomorrow is Indian Independence Day. In the article below, P.N. Chopra surveys the past year and the year ahead. rIE transition from 1951 to 1952 marks an important dividing line, the end of one phase
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    Between You and Me
    644 6  -  BILLY BUDD By T*HE British soldier, thank A heavens, never changes Throughout the centuries his cynicism has been the wonder of the world. Neithe' Swift nor Vultaire ever h:d quite the same ability to see through life s facades. Three young members of the Suffolk Regiment,
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    FROM BLUSHES TO BIKINIS
    902 7  -  MARK PRIESTLEY By JUST over 50 years ago a bevy of hatless young ladies paraded shyly past a batch of beauty judges and launched a newsworthy modern rraze thai has set hearts beating faster ever since. There were cries of "Shameless!". "Disgraceful hussies!", yelps of scandalised
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  • JANE LEE'S 'HUMAN CASEBOOK'
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      LOVERS' PROBLEM
      744 7 MY flame and I love each other, but we cannot marry until next year. The trouble is that we become very emotional when we are together, and although we have done nothing really wron< the situation worries us. How can we hive more control of ourselves?" "MISS J.
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    TALE BEHIND THE 'TESTIMONIALS'
    940 8  -  NAN HALL MR. B ULL THE BROKER WAS GIVEN A FREE BEER PARTY By DEHIND the Tiger Testimonial advertisements, which have been appearing in the Sunday Times and other Far Eastern newspapers for many years, hangs quite d tale. After all these years we feel a
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    WATCH THOSE WRINKLES
    27 8 Ward off Hie wrinkles by creaming around your eyes (left) but to prevent them, forming take pretty June Baker* advice and wear tun glasses.
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    Shameful neglect by a housewife
    477 8 LONDON. T" KNOW or a small family In 1 London that Is rapidly lallinß apart but the husband Ls still saying "My wife Is a slave, works until midnight every day. I feel so guilty, yet I do all I can for her". The wife
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    HAJI WITH A 100-YEAR-OLD MEMORY DIES
    388 9 HAJI WITH A 100-YEAR-OLD MEMORY DIES BATU CAjAH, Saturday DERAK'S oldest resident died here on Wednes day at the age of 130. He was Haji Sulaiman bin Bendera Raja, who was born in Klang about 1820 and survived 11 sultans in Perak. His grandch ;dren and great grandchildren recall the
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    POLICE HAD TO FORCE ENTRY
    111 9 POLICE had to break down wooden bars erected in front of a house in dimming Street to get in. a Singapore court was told yesterday. In the dock was Lav Kirn Heok. the female chief tenant of the house. charged wi'h possession of opium ciross.
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    Bus driver inconsiderate
    70 9 A bus driver. Wong Chon? Gok. was fined $25 by Mr. A. W. Ghows In the Singapore Second Traffic Police Court yesterday for driving his bus In an Inconsiderate manner in Bukit Timah Road. It wxs saici that Wong pulled out the bus from a bus stop,
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    $1000 bail on theft charge
    48 9 On* Bee Hiang. aged 35. pleaded not guilty in Singapore Third District Court yesterday to stealing 20 wooden poles at Tanah Merah on Dec. 1 and a water meter, worth $50. on D< <\ 4 She was granted bail of $1,000 until Mar. 23.
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    Singapore wedding
    27 9 Mr. and Mrs. Louis Almasi after their wedding yesterday at the Cathedral of the Cood Shepherd, Singapore. The bride w.is formerly Miss Lorna Joyce Thornton.
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    SHE WOULDNT SAY SORRY'
    378 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. THE pretty wife of a Chinese business man today preferred to be bound over by the Kua'a Lumpur Second Magistrate rather *han say "sorry" to her husband's firs* wife. Chin Lai Wan. the first vile, had summoned the second wife, Poon Siew Lin.
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    CANTEEN AT GARDENS
    63 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. A PUBLIC canteen Is to De built at the Kuala Lumpur Lake Gardens, the president of the Municipal Council, Mr. A. D. York, said today. He added it would be about five months before the canteen was built. Meanwhile, approved hswkers would be allowed
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    42 9 Cispjr Castado. the celebrated ccUitt (teftl who arrived in Singapore by Comet in) night with his accompanist, Mr. Karl Willy Hammer. He wit met at KaUang Airport by Miss Christine Kieftr of Hi« H.M.V. S udioj. Sunday Times picture. See Page 14.
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    They all want to drive the engine
    283 9 They all want to drive the engine KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. THE trouble with trade unions n Malaya is that too many people want to be presidents, Mr. P. P Narayanan, the Federal Legislative Councillor and trade umon leader, said today. This clamour for leadership had caused much damage and had
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    Churchyard being made into a public park
    181 9 TjVDRT Canning Churchyard ■T in Singapore is gradually brin^ converted into a public park Mf,T. H. H. Hancock, senior architect, Public Works Department, said yesterday: "The Singapore Committee for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments intended that this should serve as a useful and
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      190 9 Burns broadcast tonight Tonight at 10.15 Radio Malaya is broadcasting over th.> blue network an anthology of songs and poems to mark the anniversary of the birth of the Scots poet, Robert Burns. Th? anthology, which will be j an uninterrupted progression from poem to song, is called; "There was
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    21 10 SEE HOW THEY RUN A Comedy presented by the Stage Club at Victoria Theatre 9 pm. Jan. 29. 30. 31.
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, JAN. 25, 1953. The Chinese University
    662 10 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, JAN. 25, 1953. The Chinese University A CHINESE University in Malaya? This is fast becoming one of the most controversial issues for years. Most Chinese are eager that such a University should be established; no-one doubts the money would be easily obtainable. But most non-Chinese are
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    Dear Joe... let me tell you about a supply drop
    1196 10 THINK OF IT: MEALS COOKED ON A STOVE SAFE CONDUCT. ~?05 Wl r <> SW«A**C1S Hf fSURAT AKUAN »N« VAHO MfMIOANC SV*AT AKUAN (i»« »;r- -,,v HY«M*H «M«H. H«NOA«-tAM tA WHAYAw nVnc* ***HA«AN,OAN BOKGK $H»^* c!^ SUNDAY TIMES OFFICE Kuala
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    OVERTURE TO 'THE DEATH OF STALIN'
    564 10  -  Charlotte Haldane Ny O/HO is Stalin s doctor NOW? Or does he *V no longer need a medical adviser? For lie nine leading medical men and specialists i.i the Soviet I nion are under arrest and being softened down for a treason trial. Of
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      No lights
      312 10 MAY I ask you, through the courtesy of your popuCar newspaper, to help us to obtain a supply of electricity for us residents of the non-Seacon bungalow* on Frankel Estate. Slg 1 a p (Changi Road side). We have been waiting for a year now. and besides finding
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      Water buses
      127 10 IN the Btraits Times, of August 7. 1952. Mr. M. P. D. Nalr (City Councillor for South Ward and now Legislative Councillor for Seletar* said that he was investigating the feasibility of introducing a "water-bu*" service betwepn Clifford Pier and Katong and that he had written to the
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      Pharmacists
      290 10 "pHE Government of the Federation of Malaya deserves to be heartily congratulated on its proposed legislation to enable all qualified dressers or hospital assistants, as they now prefer to be called, to be registered as pharmacists. This is especially praiseworthy because there is at present a shortage of pharmacists,
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      Rising sun
      148 10 I HOPE the re-entry of the Japanese Embassy is not the forerunner of the second coming of Dai Nippon The Japanese Flag will for long be remembered as an emblem of rape, murder and the most inhuman atrocities The Kempetai and the Nip Soldiers by their actions soaked
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    THE HEIR
    52 10 This is Malen k o v, strongly tipped as Stalin's "heir". He is said to be cc!d to the point of inhumanity, but also a realist who knows that an atomic war would mean destruction for Russia. He is reported to be a "Russia first" Communist rather than
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    Private builders housed record number in Colony last year
    351 11 No slackening in 7953 PRIVATE enterprise built an all-time record number of homes of all types in the Colony in 1952. The total of homes increased 1.657, excluding those built by the Singapore Improvement Trust, the Governmtnt. the City Council and
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    28 11 The Reverend A. Sampson, curate of St. Andrew's Cathedral. Singapore. and Miss Rosemary Russell, the Archdeacon's governess, who were married at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday. Sunday Times picture.
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    2 POLICE OFFICERS ON TRIAL
    394 11 I*, A Johore towkay told the Ses- j V mors Court in Johore 1 Bahru yesterday that no one ought to fool with his family "toa-peh-konR 1 igodi and four other nncr.stral Mola wliirh. be .said, jrk stolen from his estate housr at Kanftkar Pulai.
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    Fighters fined
    36 11 F.»r lisihting at a kampon^ In Lorong 27. Geylang. Singapore, last Friday. Tan Ah Lay and Lim Shieh Goah wore ea/h lined $5 by the Singapore third police court magistrate. Mr. T. Kulasekaram. yesterday.
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    INTIMIDATION CHARGE
    85 11 Phang Kah Heng, alias Koay Kia, a detective of the antlvice branch of the Singapore C.1.D.. was charged yesterday with criminal intimidation. He plvaded not guilty. It was alleged that Phana went to the home of Soh Ah Lian early on Christmas Day and invited her to go
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    More nurses for villages
    51 11 Two more trained nurses of the St. John Ambulance Bripade will arrive in from Britain this evening. Tomorrow they will fly to Kuala Lumpur for duties in tlement areas. With then arrival 35 nurses have come to Malaya since last October to work in the new
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    MEET THE POLICE OVER TEA
    158 11 MEET THE POLICE OVER TEA ALOR STAR. Sat. NORTH Kedah police are conducting "Operation Service with tea and cakes. To tell the people more about the new policy launched by the Police Commissioner, Col. A. E. Young;, police in this district have given several tea parties to villagers. Two officers
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    Taxi driver fined $20
    56 11 A Singapore taxi-driver. Thanpasamy, who parked his laxi in a prohibited area in Hastincs Road on Nov. 30 was fined $20 by Mr. R C. Hoffman in the First Traffic Court yesterday. Thangasamy left his taxi there unattended for 10 minutes. Defendant said he was helping
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    Opium house 11 charged
    48 11 Ten men and one woman were yesterday charged In the Singapore fourth police court with frequenting a house In Bali Lane, Singapore, which was used for smoking opium. Bail of $250 in one surety was allowed and the case was postponed to Feb. 2.
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    A MAGISTRATE'S $1,000 DECISION
    285 11 Note goes to money lender THE tortuous travels of a stolen $1,000 bill occupied six hours of Singapore magistrate, Mr. D H. Chapman's time before he decided who had a legal title to it Yesterday, in the Singapore Fifth Police Court. Mr. Chapman awarded the note
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    Four women cut down trees
    52 11 Four women, Teng See Lai. Tay Choo Choon. Neo Ah Moy and Wai Yuet Eng. told the Singapore third police court yesterday that because they wanted some fire wood they cut down four sapplings at the ninth-mile Bukit Timah Road forest reserve. They were each
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    Negligent driving
    39 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat Awang bin Rahman, a driver, was fined $100 and had his driving licence endorsed by the Police Court for negligent driving. He nad knocked down and i killed three-year-old girl, i Ramlah binte Abdullah.
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    $1 gifts can put up a building
    156 11 JOHORE. BAHRU Sat. /GOVERNMENT have plans for the extensive lay-out of a labour settlement at Kebun Teh. a suburb of Johore Bahru, Mr. All Hassan told delegates at a meeting of the Johore divisional branch of the Malayan TUC. z The statement was
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    THEY PRESENT A WEIGHTY CASE FOR LIGHTER BADGES
    186 11 SINGAPORE S taxi drivers want to get rid of the j heavy metal licence plate they are at present required to ■trap to their arms. They ad- I vocate a lighter, plastic badge. They have asked the City Council and the Registrar
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    Cargo was pillaged in Jakarta
    109 11 Cargo was pillaged in Jakarta Looters in Jakarta pillaged the cargo of the damaged Dutch liner Oranje while it was being transferred from the ship to the Dutch freighter iTabinta. Yesterday In the Singapore Harbour Board godowns many opened cases of merchandise brought from Holland in th* Oranje showed signs
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    I SAW THEM MAKING LOVE, SAYS WIFE
    159 11 I SAW THEM MAKING LOVE, SAYS WIFE KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. MRS. Mary Van Rooyen. mother of three younu children. told the first magistrate's court today that she had often seen her husband lying in bed beside a woman who was staying with them. Mrs. Van Rooyen summoned 29 year old
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    NANYANG KEE OFFICERS
    111 11 Officers of the Nanyang Kee Sle Kong Huay, Singapore, for 1953. arePresident, Mr. Kee Koh Keong: vice-presidents Messrs Kee Chai Tn? and Kee Menu Teck: secretary. Mr. Ke e Boon Tie; assistant secretary. Mr i Kee Boh Juat; treasurer, Mr. I Kee Nai Sione: assistant tieasurer. Mr.
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    BUDDHISTS TO GET A RELIC
    42 11 A relic of Buddha will be presented to the Kong Beng Sia Buddhist Mission. 4 Puiasan Road, by the Yen. M. M. Mahaweera Thero, today at 10.30 a.m. A special procession and ceremony will accompany the presentation.
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    Retires after 39 years
    39 11 MALACCA. Sat.— Mr. G. A Vengadasalam. 55; Grade 1 i Overseer, on the eve of his retirement after 39 years' ser- vice, was entertained by the Malacca P.W.D staff He i served under 40 engineers.
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    your picture page.
    121 12 your picture page THE Sunday Times is awarding $15 for the best picture of the week. with $5 prixes for runners up. This week's first prixe goes to F. H. C. Wagner. C.E.C. Ltd., Ipoh, for his fine portrait, "Barbara," left. The runners-up were: "Kampong Girl", below- by A. Napawongse.
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    CHOOSING THE CAMFRA
    929 12  -  Raymond Thomas PHOTOGRAPHY FROM SCRATCH 46 By READERS frequently writ.asking for advice on the best type of camera to buy. The question is not quite s<> simple, for the answer is dependent on a number of considerations, and personal lik<\> and dislikes are bound to influence the
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      Mr. Christian misses a lovely opportunity
      1041 13  -  JOHN BEHAGUE By VUHAT fatheads these storybook heroes are! When they are not flaunting TT the comforts of the fireside for the icy wastes of sqme Never Never Land, they are either mooning disconsolately over some female we all know to be a scarlet
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      Spot the Star
      97 13 STILL popular after 20 years of film-making. Can you spot this shy little man with the wiggling ears? Prizes of $25, Sl5, $10 and $5 will be awarded to the first four correct entries opened on Thursday morning. The answer to last week's competition was "Bine Crosby",
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      Rasho-Mon
      56 13 NEXT week, |ohn Behague will be reviewing "RathoMon i rtic JspjHCsc picture which in 1951, won Hie firat prixe at the Venice Film Festival and has since gained a special Academy Award. He describes it as the most surprising film tinea Welle*' "Citixcn Kane." "Ratho-Mon" is being screened at
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      Critics 'off the beam' says Eric Mitchell
      506 13 DEAR Mr. Behague, I don t mind, of course, your "having a go' at me in your column last Sunday. However, I do think you and your colleagues were a little off the beam so far as this film "The Planters Wife" is
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      THREE MEN (AND A GIRL IN A BOAT
      348 13 LONDON. LIOW would you, miss 11 or madam, like to find yourself adrift on the South Seas in a vessel manned by a, pirate crew? Exciting, eh? But suppose you were the only woman on board with Forrest Tucker. James Craig and
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      370 13 LIMITED ENGAGEMENT— DAILY AT 10-1.45-5.15-8.45 \YABISJ PUBLICLY ACCLAIMtI) "COLOSSAL" Hill 1 11 1 1 HILL NOT 81. SHOWN AGAIN IN SINGAPORE AT LOWER PRICES. FOR AT LEAST SIX MONTHS. PRICES $3; $5; $7 ONLY THE $7 SEATS RESERVABLE. FREE LIST DEFINITELY ENTIRELY SUSPENDED V'!l^" M y 6.45 9.30 P.M. THt
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    THE LOCAL THEATRE LOOKS UP
    666 14 Five plays in two months and all are well worth seeing By The Stroller THE Singapore theatre is more "alive" than ever before. At least four major productions are scheduled within the next two months "See How They Run" this week. "Antigone" and "A Village
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    RANTIN' ROVIN' ROBINTHE REAL BURNS
    584 14  - RANTIN ROVIN' ROBINTHE REAL BURNS W. Graham Jack). by (An essay on the poet, Robert Burns, the anniversary of whose birth in 1759 occurs today. It is written There was a lad was born I in Kvle But ichat'n a day o' what'n a style 1 doubt it's hardly irorth
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    Two chocolate recipes
    275 14 rjHOCOLATE flavouring is a universal favourite. For richness use good bitter chocolate, grated. For a similar effect at a smaller cost use a mixture of cocaa and sugar Here are two recipes In which the respective use of both are Involved. (HIM ULATE LAYER CAKE Cream a
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    PACHINKO, the game that may sweep all Asia
    665 14 PACHINKO, the game that may sweep all Asia A SIMPLETONS game of chance called pachinko has swept the four islands of Japan. It has grown from a rash into a national craze that now threatens to become an export item to the rest of Asia. Pachinko is the poor man's
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      169 14 POPULAR CROSSWORD 2 3*l \S 6 1 8 9 10 IT" 12 "TBaa^ aW^~ "is 1/6 H/7 IB 1/9 M 2O 32 i$ IB 3 1 ACROSS Stupidity (13). 1. I'nimporunt 13 13. Prinri- DOWN l*>'.* Porm <*>! I4 T T lrt I- AH"" (>3>: 2- C'Uw (4); 3. It:
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    ITRAPPED AT SEA BY A FIERY THUNDERBOLT
    1443 15  - ITRAPPED AT SEA BY A FIERY THUNDERBOLT BENG SWEE 'King of the Straits'— serial with a Singapore setting By rpHE tide was rising rapidly. When they had entered the cave the water had been barely up to their knees. Now it was up to their waists and creeping higher. In
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    12 15 "Please come and talk to me." said the GiraHe. "I'm so lonclv
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    25 15 "New, who are you?' *teem» to be the thought of Guy Hit goriHa at the London Zoo m rh« photographs mown in tor a clo»«-yp.
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    Shorty the cat meets a tall friend
    463 15 Shorty the cat meets a tall friend Short story for the under-sevens SHORTY the Uttk bbrk and white cat had coire to live near Regan's Park which is in London. B hadn't been in the house for more than ten minutes when ho decided to go out for a walk
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      333 16 THE WATSONIAN CLUB OP MALAYA The Hon. Secretary Treasurer fa 1953 is:— S D K PEDDIE, Eaq.. P.O. Box 148, Kuala Lumpur. For various roasons the club re cords arc incomplete and all 'So nians 1 in Malayan territory are re quested to send full details of t.r.p: own name,
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    SITTING on the FENCE
    740 17  -  NAT GUBBINS By Maii.u,,i- HIM aniriuiini iii.j a tl.xiou, bkUlelirld where you have father, mother and each member of th family seeking to dominate e»ch other." The Rev. Lewis harlr-s Kdward*. vicar of St. Mar tin -in ne -Fields. CULKY Mabel hates her mother Sullen Raymond
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    H-Bomb cheapens massed killing
    893 17 HYDROGEN-BOMB development his cost th«I.S. Government perhaps SI 000,000,00). but the tragic significance of the new weapon is that it will actually give to warfare the cheapest method of killing people that human beings have ever had. The first atomic bomb cost approximately $2,000,000,000 (I.S.) in
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    FEWER WILL BE PILOTS
    109 17 JTEWER RAF. National Servicemen are to become pilots and not one is to be a navigator. The seven flying schools opened two years ago to train them are to be closed. Alterations in defence plans require fewer aircrews, the present need Ls for highquality men signing
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    In defence of club cricket
    700 18 A READER TOSSES A FAST ONE AT CRUSADER' CRUSADER'S" support for league cricket i in this page last week) and his reasons tor it. arc net very convincing. When one considers that thousands of clubs in the Sou h of England have no desire to
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    630 18  - BACKYARD BADMINTON BOYS HAVE WRONG IDEA CRUSADER' Says A YEAR AGO. I wrote in these columns about a possible Malay challenge for badminton supremacy in this country. Today there are no Fiens of that challenge materialising. Yet a le* months ago two Muslim players got places in Malaya's Thoma.s Cup
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    WHY NOT A FLAT TAX RATE FOR CARS?
    858 18  - WHY NOT A FLAT TAX RATE FOR CARS? Man nine Black wood By MR. P. J. Darnell would '4 appear to have a point in his latest suggestion that 3 there are anomalies in the Jj Singapore Vehicles Regis- j trar's system of measuring horsepower for taxation pur- poses. Mr.
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      101 18 POPULAR CROSSWORD SOLUTION ACROSS: l. Insignificant; 12. Mf>in: 13 Ode; 14. Area: 15 Pick: 16 Gin: 17. Loss; 18. Elk*; 19. God: 20 Must: 21. Cited; 23. Sunken: 24. Reveal; 25 Nebula; 28. Cache*; 30. Spear; 32. Tram: 35. Par; 36 Amen; 38. Oow; 39. Ego: 4«V Name; 41. Rues;
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    ALL-STAR NORTH BEAT SOUTH 17-NIL
    1077 19 By THE SPORTS EDITOR North 17; South 0. "^'ORTH handsomely justified their position as favourites in their 21st annual Malayan Rugby jjame against South on the Singapore Badanff yesterday. They won by 17 points to Fnil to equal their 1935 margin— the widest in the
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    FARRER PARK SOCCER RESULTS
    68 19 day's results of socrer matrhni al Farrer Park were: C.A. I and B.iles:ie:- United drew Jul i Kirn for CA. and Heck Seng fm i r RAF Jurong drtw with TOAn Rangm 1-1 Sy«-d '.ot Junni j and bBMII for Rangers. Singapore C^ld Storage beat Gyir.nk..
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    Chee Seng & Harith save Singapore
    527 19 Chee Seng Harith save Singapore AW HOE CUP SOCCER From a Special Correspondent HONG KONG. Saturday. CINGArORE and Hong Kong battled to a two-all draw in the annual soccer match between the ports for the Aw Hoe Memorial Cup at the Hong Kong Football Club ground today. As arranged before,
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    VICTORIA OUT 169 v NSW
    162 19 SYDNEY. Sat. CENT in to bat on a spinners 1 uirlcet. Victoria were dismissed for the moderate total of 169 by New South Wales, the Sheffield Shield champions, on the second day of their match here. New South WMes had replied with M for one
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    YOUTH BOXING WEDNESDAY
    66 19 /■OMPETITORS ln the Singapore ABA. youth boxing championships must be at the Singapore badminton stadium at 5 p.m sharp on Wednesday for medical inspection :ind wrl-h-in. Late-comers will be disqualified, and no time for taking oil weight will be allowed. The championships will bo held on W<
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    U.K. SOCCER RESULTS
    337 19 LONDON*. Sat. I 1 V.l I DIVISION 1 Aston Villa 1 Chelsea 1 Hi. linn 2 Manchester I". 1 Burnley 0 Cardiff I li.tr hen 2 Arsenal 2 Manchester C 5 Middlesbrough 1 Portsmouth 3 Liverpool 1 Preston 2 Newcastle 1 Stoke 5 U Bromwirh 1 Sunderland
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    Cargantua beaten
    74 19 jJERT Assirati. sft. 6in. wrestling champion of the British Empire, jast night beat the 7ft. 7> 2 in. German. Garguantua, at the Happy World Stadium. Assirati won by a pinfall and a submission to one pin fall. In the main supporting bout, Blond Tiger and Corrie Prei torious
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    BIG KL CARNIVAL FOR CORONATION WEEK
    282 19 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. PLANS for a lavish sports carnival to be held in Kuala Lumpur during coronation week in June were discussed yesterday at a meeting of sports representatives. A special attraction will be arranged by the newly-form-ed Central Malaya Archery Club. Archers dressed
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    3 WINNERS FOR TRAINER FOX
    2158 20  -  KPSOM JEEP B> Runaway Seronok hangs on to beat off Auld Reekie MAKING a spectacular ten-length break in the first two furlongs, Seronok (Franklin) hung on grimly to his lead to beat Auld Reekie by no more than a length in the Class 4, Div.
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    50 20 George Robb. Sports Master at Christ's College, Fincbley. Middlesex instructing boys in the correct way to head the ball. Robb, England and Finchley amateur ouLsideleft. is one of th e best leftwingers in British soccer. He has also distinguished himself as an amateur in the Tottenham Hotspur League team. Reuter.
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    Weekes & Walcott stop rot
    230 20 Weekes Walcott stop rot PORT OF SPAIN, Sat. T»HE first cricket Test between West Indies and India here is running very evenly and at close of the third day's play yesterday. West Indies had scored 205 for the loss of four wickets. This was in reply to India's 417 which
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    Australia 182 for one
    143 20 ADELAIDE. Sat f EADING 2-1 in their five-match Test series asaiast South Africa. Australia were 182 for one wicket when the first day s play in the fourth test ended here today. McDonald played sound enrket for his first Test century, after Morris had been dismissed
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    SCOREBOARD
    49 20 AUSTRALIA— Ist INNINGS McDonald not out 107 Morris c Endean b Fuller Hassett not out "3 Extras 1 Total (for 1 wkt) Ml BOWLING: Melle 11— 1—24— n Fuller 12— 2—18—1 Tayfield 19— j 51 o. Mansell 11 o—30 38 McGlew 2 o—9 0; Watson 4 o— 11—0.
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    LANDY FAILS IN 4-MIN. BID
    28 20 PERTH. Sat. \ICTORIAN John Landy failed to accomplish a four-mimitc mile in the Australian championships hero today. He clocked 4min. 4-2 lOsec Reuter-A.A.P.
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    RAAFv. SCHOOLBOYS
    37 20 Australian schoolboys now holidaying in Singapore will meet the Rnyal Australian Air Force .Tensah) in a football match played according to Australian rules on the Unlvers.ty of Malaya ground, Bukit Tunah, at 5 pjn. today.
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    Selangor Club against league
    87 20 KUALA LUMPUR Sat. AT their annual general meetinc yesterday, the Selangor Club Cricket section decided against con- j tinulng League cricket in the State. But they agreed to take part if the Selanßor Cricket Association decided on Monday to carry on with the League. In that
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    Orient champion to Fight Kee Chan
    171 20 MANILA, Saturday. A RRANGEMENTS are being made for a fight hen A between Orient bantamweight champion Flasr Elorde of the Philippines and Singapore bantam weight title holder Lim Kee Chan. If an agreement is reached the fight may be held here some time during
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    Dave Freeman in comeback
    181 20 SAN DIEGO, Sat. ONETIME badminton champion of the U.S., Dr. Dave Freeman, will return to the game today after several years retirement. Freeman became unofficial world champion in 1949 when he won the All-Eng-land open badminton singles title, beating both the top-ranking Malayans Ooi Teik Hock
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