The Straits Times, 8 March 1953

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    18 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT -ALES IN MALAYA No. 917. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1953. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    MALENKOV STANDS GUARD
    535 1 \«'w names, new jobs in the control of a nation— Molotov is back as Foreign Minister New leader pays tribute as thousands file past Stalin coffin MOSCOW, Saturday. QEORCI MALENKOV, new Prime Minister of Russia, was the first to stand guard over the body of Stalin lying
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    THE CHAMPION
    33 1 EIGHT MONTH OLD Francis Chen, champion of yesterday's baby show at the Chinese V.M.C.A.. points a confident finger at a "rival" after his victory. Sunday Times picture. Report in Page 11.
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    Just a name
    78 1 Just a name NEW YORK, Sat. RUSSIA'S new boss. Georgi Malenkov, has only an ordinary name without the significance of Stalin. Stalin was the shorter name taken from the Russian word for steel and substituted as a revolutionary term for the longer Ceorgian family name of Djugashvili. It was widely
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    U.S. envoy to Japan
    26 1 WASHINGTON. Sat—President Eisenhower yesterday nominated career diplomat Mr. John Allison, 47, as US. t Ambassador to Japan, succeeding Mr. Robert Murphy.— AP.
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    COVT. MEN ATTACK HOUSING SCHEME
    162 1 tJ EMBERS of the Singapore Senior Officers' Association at their annual meeting last night attacked the Co/ernment's scheme to lend its officers money to buy houses through the Federal and Colonial Building Society. I Members feared the scheme "must have a catch somewhere" because it
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    Airlines stop
    34 1 NEW DELHI. Sat. Air services between India and the riot-torn Pakistan city of Lahore were suspended today after Lahore authorities, acting under martial law, closed the airport to international traffic— A. P
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    Slow film taken of Padek's death fall
    550 1  - Slow film taken of Padek's death fall CUNN CHIT THYE By PENANC, Sat THE TRAGIC accident at 1 Bukit Timah last Saturday in which apprentice jockey Mohd Padek lost his life was "shot" in a slow motion film of the February Cup, taken whila the race was in progress "This
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    'All-out drive'
    34 1 NEW YORK, Sat. Representative Dewey Short said here today that he and General James Van Fleet are in agreement that the United Nations should go all out for victory in Korea.— AP.
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    The Duke off to U.K.
    66 1 NEW YORK Sat. rE DUKE of Windsor and his sister, Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, sailed aboard the Queen Elizabeth yesterday to the bedside of their ailing mother, Queen Mary. The Duchess of Windsor, accompanied the Duke and Princess to the pier. The Duke said
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    20 worried ' over husbands
    154 1 20 worried over husbands rjIWENTY anxious Dutch and English wives arrived In Singapore on the Nederland Lines vessel Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt yesterday wondering when they would see their husbands again. They were the wives of planters and businessmen In Indonesia who had been told by Indonesian authorities: *"You may leave
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    Conditions' prevented Lee Meng interview
    127 1 IPOH, Sat. AN interview which was to J have taken place today at Taiping Gaol between Lee Meng, who ls under sentence of death for unlawful possession of a hand-grenade, and her lawyer, Mr. S. P. Seenivasagam, did not take place. Interviewed by the Sunday
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    TWO SHARE THE $5,000 PRIZE
    372 1 Singapore, Penang winners 1 K/IR- Chung Ah Ngow of 9 Cheng Tuan Street, Singa- pore, and Miss Peh Hai Chooi of 80 Church Street, jPenang. in the opinion of the judges, submitted the best arrangement of seven of the 10 swim suits,, in last week's
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    BIG FIRE IN N. BORNEO
    67 1 A fire broke out at Tawau. North Borneo, yesterday. A large area of the town was threatened, it Ls understood. An intercepted radio message from the master of a British merchant vessel lying off the town said: "Tawau town burnt down. Rendering what aid I
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    No more barrier
    35 1 LONDON, Sat.— Britain's new swept back wing jet fighter the Supermarine Swift has exceeded the speed of sound on a number of occsions, Vick c r s Armstrongs, the markers disclosed yesterday.
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    MARSHALL FOR U.K.
    27 1 WASHINGTON. Sat—President Eisenhower yesterday appointed Gen. George C Marshall as his official representative to the June 2 Coronation of the Queen in London AP.
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    U.S. base may go
    32 1 WASHINGTON Sat.-«ena-tor Russell B. Lone (Democrat Louisiana i yesterday introduced in the U.S. Senate a bil! directing the American Naw to close its installations at Naples, Italy.— A.P.
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    Police plan to "trust the public9
    464 1 Police plan to "trust the public 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday TOMORROW, the Federation Police Force is starting a bold experiment. One-third of the cases normally brought to courts will no longer be heard by the magistrates, and offenders will go unpunished. The police are going to "trust the public." Announcing
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    NEW SPIRIT IN MALAYA
    94 1 Xl ALA LIMPIR, Sat. THE NEW spirit in Malaya was shown yesterday on a lonely road outside Kuala Lumpur. A British officer, driving into town, had his **re puncturM. As he started to take off the wheel, an elderly Chinese cycled towards him, stopped, and then
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    Tea party for Mrs. Chiang
    56 1 WASHINGTON. Sat. Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the wife Of the Chinese Nationalist leader, will be a White House guest lor tea on Monday. Both President and Mrs. Elsenhower wiX Kivp the for Madame Ch'.ane. who hasbeen a White House guest with two previous presidrr- tial families,
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    TAX EXPERT
    38 1 LOUISVILLE. Sat. .Mr. J. B. Thornbury. a public accp'intant. who helped other persoiu, calculate their city taxes, was fined $150 for failure to pay his own city occupational taxes of $300 over a fouryear period v.P.
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    STALIN, AS I MEW HIM'
    3309 2 The extraordinary story of my Uncle Sosso \y H AT manner of man was Stalin? Was he the amiable patriarch that Moscow painted him? WhaY~~did he think of Molotov, and Malenkov, the man who has succeeded him as Prime Minister? Here are extracts from the
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    The Dutch collect $160,000
    222 3 The Dutch collect $160,000 CONTRIBUTIONS to the v Dutch Relief Fund have passed the $160,000 mar. This is $32,500 more than the amount so far donated to the British Flood Relief Fund. The Dutch Consul-General in Singapore, Dr. F. A. van Woerden, said yesterday that every Dutchman in the Colony
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    Rubber up a little
    216 3 Although the Singapore Rubber Market opened yesterj day below Friday's closing price of 74% cents a lb. it later steadied and closed at 75% cents a lb.. a gain of of a cent. Sellers dried up on the report from Washington that Britain might reduce the
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    Says opium was for his stomach
    50 3 For possessing opium dross' at the Rifle Range, Singapore, i Tan Ah Mm was yesterday convicted and sentenced to one month's gaol by the Singapore Third Police Magistrate, Mr E. H. D'Netto. Tan said that the opium was a cure for his stomach troubles.
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    Man with hand of iron rules the village of no crime
    644 3 KINGDOM OF NEO TIEVT Sunday Times Reporter JUCKED away in the ulu off Lim Chu Kang Road, 18 miles from Singapore General Post Office, lies a village without crime, without deceit and without police, although it has a population
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    HE'LL CATCH THE BOAT
    66 3 Hui Tuck, a seaman, who pleaded guilty to smoking opium, was gaoled for 17 days instead of the normal 21 days, by Mr. D. H. Chapman in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday. Hui who missed his ship, said that the captain was willing to take
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    Trespassed: $10
    27 3 The Singapore Third Police Court Magistrate, Mr. E. H. D'Netto, yesterday fined V. Sathivelu $10 for trespassing on R.A.F. ground at Changi on Mar. 6.
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    Admiralty union wants to quit SFSU and TUC
    279 3 THE nJ^ APO h> E 1 Lo«' Staff Union representing the white collar workers in the Naval Base may break away from the Singapore Federation of Serves Union and the Trade Union Congress services Members of the union, assembled at its seventh
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    Win my-chum youth meeting
    41 3 The final special "Win-My-Chum" meeting of the Singapore Telok Ayer Methodist Youth Fellowship will be held in the Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church auditorium at 7.30 tonight. Mr. Paul A. Contento will sceak on "The Last Judgment."
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    GIRL BANDIT TELLS OF JUNGLE LIFE
    126 3 KUANTAN, Sat. A SICK and starving bandit tried to get some food from the camp store, and was executed by his comrades fo p doing so. The story was related by a girl bandit who surrendered near here recently. Her name is Yap Chiu
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    FLICHTSTOLONDON WILL BE CHEAPER
    172 3 Fares down by 25 per cent AIR FARES from Singapore to London will be cheaper by about 25 per cent, when the British Overseas Airways Corporation starts its Argonaut tourist service at the end of the month. The tourist rate will be €164 for a single
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    He dragged son by hair
    103 3 WHEN Kumarakannu, 42, of Srmb.iw.in? Road, Singapore, was charged yesterday with behaving in a disorderly manner at West HUI Road on March 6. he told the Singapore Third Police Court. "I have five children I will not drink after this.'" The magistrate. Mr. E. H.
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    Spat in court
    43 3 Tan Teik Thye. whose case came up for hearing in the Singapore Filth Police Court yesterday, on a charge of being in possession of five tahils of opium, was fined $10 by Mr. D. H. Chapman for spitting in court.
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    Her paintings brought sanity to a sick Malay girl
    1110 4  -  Ihnniht/ Thatcher IT'S StTOES OFF WHEiV YOU VISIT BORA GORMXE By LONDON. T)ORA GORDINE. who is possibly the >yorld's most revolutionary woman sculp tor today, virtually started her brilliant career in Singapore and is still inspired by the great beauty she
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    THE DURIANS ARE IN FLOWER
    664 4 >THE Incidence of rain around Kota Tinggi is by no means always the same as that on Singapore Island. We did not have those two heavy falls a few days ago; our first good shower occurred only yesterday. This rain had nothing to do with
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    PILOT WHO CRASHED IN JUNGLE HAD BIRTHDAY MEAL OF MONKEY
    490 5 Rescuer became the rescued in Borneo SERIA, Brunei, Saturday. y^FTER crashing on a mercy flight into the interior of Borneo, a young oil company pilot returned here today after a seven-day jungle trek under the guidance of the man he
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    26 5 Mr. Robert H. S. Bell of Hie Singapore Harbour Board and Mitt Elizabeth C. Kean were married *t Hie Presbyterian ChurcH. Singapore, yesterday Sunday Times picture.
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    79 5 reads a story in Braille. Others are Mr. Pho.i Tai Seng (third from left), treasurer of the Association, Mr. L. Crcsson (second from right). Chairman of the Appeal Sub-Commincc, and the Covcrnor's A.D.C., Lieut. -Com. W. L Clark (in dark glasses). Sunday Times picture. The Governor of Singapore, Sir John
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    DINNER—FOR THE MARRIED
    76 5 DINNER— FOR THE MARRIED The Wesley Homemakers of the Singapore Wesley Church will hold a special home-made dinner for married couples In the church hall, Fort Canning Road, at 7 p.m. on Mar. 14. The evening's programme will include a discussion on "Problems In Married Life' with the Rev. Tracey
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    Transferred
    18 5 KUANTAN, Sat.— inche Ammiruddln bin M, Hakim, Labour Officer, here, has been transferred to Sungel Patanl, Kedah.
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    SIR GERALD THANKED
    61 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat.— Th»l local Indian Congress has thanked General Sir Gerald Templer, High Commissioner for his interest in the wetfare or Indians, especially the labourers. Dr N. K. Sharma. the president, referred to th e Government's contribution, on Sir Gerald's initiative, of $25,000' to the Madras
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    Today's Radio SINGAPORE
    101 5 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 7.15 a.m. Morning Star; 7.30 News in English; 7.35 Bright and Early; 8 Waltzing Marching; 8.30 Breakfast with Thorne; 9.30 B.BC Variety Orch.; 10 First Rehearsal--10.30 Musicale; 11 Appointment with Music; 11.30 Service; 1 p.m. Eric Winstone Orch.; 1.30 News--1.45 Sports; 2 WalU Time; 230 Rendezvous Stars;
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    CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
    584 5 CHURCH OF ENGLAND St. Andrew's Cathedral: 7 a.m Holy Communion 8 a.m. Choral Eucharist. 10.30 a.m. Choral Matins, 11.30 ajn. Holy Communion. 5.30 p.m. Evensong. St. Paul's Church (Upper Serangojn): 8 a.m. Choral Eucharist, 5.:-0 p.m. Evensong. St. Hilda's r*- Katong: 7 a.m. Holy C-- <j a.m. Choral
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    Pay Commission? Paglar wants to know
    182 5 I question of pay, allowances and conditions of service, or review anything else. i Mr. Laycock Is a member of Govern nent's Finance Committee. ftR. C. PACLAR (Progressive-Changi) wants Covernment to confirm or deny that a Commission may be set up to inquire into
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    $2.01/ raised in scout job week
    52 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat.— Scouts in Johore Bahru district earned $2,011 during their job week. This year 25 per cent of collections will be kept for the district Scout Association. The rest will be sent to the central fund of the Boys Scout Association, Federation
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    'Tiong Bahru station'
    118 5 SINGAPORE Legislative Councillor, Mr. M. P. D. Nair. wants Government to set up a police station in Tiong: Bahru because of the recent crime wave in that district. In ,1 question which will be tabled at the next Legislative Council meeting, Mr. Nair suggests that either a
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    Boy hopes to get a new face
    154 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. MAHDEE bin Wan All, aged 12, is hoping to be cured of keloids which have disfigured him. A few years ago he was badly burned on the neck. The scars that remained have drawn his face down. j His case
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    BIT ROBBER'S FINGERS
    92 5 Chan Yoke Moi, a cabaret girl, was about to enter her house in Lavender Street, on Feb. 21 about 2.30 a.m. when she was suddenly grapped from behind by Yusoff Ismail, who snatched her handbag containing $18 with one hand and covered her mouth with the other.
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    The cheong sum is working wonders
    757 6 WHAT EVERY YOITXG GIRL SIIOII II KXOW JJOST girls would welcome an addition in the form of a cheong sam to their wardrobes. This national costume of the Chinese is still a favourite choice of teen-agers and, especially so, of grownups. The reason? The
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    Between you and me...
    584 6  -  BILLY BUDD By BRITAIN stopped all trade with Hungary after the imprisonment of Edgar Sanders. The Hungarians badly need British manufactured goods and raw materials. Late last year, the Communist Government offered Britain thousands of tons of poultry— which would have come in very handy around
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    MISS MALAYA
    26 6 Thi t week's Mis* Malaya is Miss Leon, Yin Peng of Kuala Lumpur. Send your entries re Miss Malaya, Sunday Times, Cecil Street, Singapore-!.
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    Spring Step
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    Sunday Dinner
    577 7 —ACCORDING TO THE TIME YOU GET UP! I DEDICATE THIS to those who have lost their appetite for meat at Sunday dinner. Today, each week, in millions of British homes the same sad incident recurs. The family gathered round the table, the brussels and the breadboard put in
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    BARER, BOLDER and more BRAZEN
    272 7 BARER, BOLDER and more BRAZEN LONDON: THE mood and move- 1 mmt of spring in her feet is pictured above by! the famous photographer. Zoltan Glass. This past week has seen the kick-off of the big spring shoe drive, the time when the makers showed all the new ways of
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    A VERY SSILL GIRL
    755 7 IAM a school-girl of 17. Recently I came to know a nice boy through a telephone conversation. We introduced ourselves to each other and had many pleasant conversations. I asked him to meet me at a certain place but I couldn't keep my promise. I asked
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    A DRESS FOR THE SUN
    85 8 A itraplcii sundress in Herrockses printed poplin. The ttraplcit bodice ii boned for comfort and to obtain fulness without bulk the skirt has many flat unpreticd pkatt. The wide stripes are in cither turquoue and white, tan and white, mauve and white or pink and
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    The Queen's shoes
    471 8 Women everywhere will be watching: the Queen this year. The styles she favours in every type of wear will become the latest fashion. In shoes, no less than dresses, coats, and hats, her approval will mean the acceptance of new trends. Here ELISABETH ANN discusses shoes which
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    YVONNE FINDS HER MAN AT LAST
    641 8  -  ilfoore Raymond By rfONNE DE CARLO has a secret love. So at last— hold your breath! she may get married. For years the world (well, a lot of us, anyway) wondered why "the most beautiful woman in the world" charming, talented, well-to-do should not
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    King set sail in a concrete 'tub'
    571 8 King set sail in a concrete 'tub' ONE of royalty's most overdue luxuries is soon to be realised. The hull of a new Royal yacht is being laid on Clydebank, in the self-same Scottish shipyard that built the big Cunarders and many people gladly i say, "And high time, too!"
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    Ah Ngow prays—&wins $2,500 in swim-suit contest
    412 9  - Ah Ngow prays— &wins $2,500 in swim-suit contest NAN HALL By ALL the children in Cheng Tuan Street a Chinatown cul-de-sac off Tanjong Pagar Road were alerted on Friday evening to find out what had happened at No. 9. Why had a reporter and photographer gone to Chung's house? Was
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    The winning entries
    56 9 The .incites of the Straits Times "Swim Suit" contest hold up the two winning entries. From left: >lrs. Best, supervisor of Robinson's Ladies Department; Mrs. H. Van Daatseelaar, Singapore's undefeated lady swimming champion for backstroke and frre style since 193fi; and Mr. Koe Soon B't. Honorary Coach
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    Fine acting in ghost play
    260 9 QLIVE Castle and Tony Harrison, turning m some of the best acting I can recall on the Singapore amateur stapp. helDed to make "Trespass" a great Stage Club success last week All chost stories are Incredible. This means that people acting in a ghost play
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    HAPPY' SOLDIER WAS FOUNDIN DRAIN
    258 9 DTE. Francis Cordon Brennan, 20, of the Singapore Engineers' Regiment, was in a very happy mood and looking forward to his return to Britain while he was out drinking with a colleague, Lance Corporal R. Brown on |FeK 12. In the early hours of the
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    ICFTU man for Johore Bahru
    50 9 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.— Mr T. S. Bavin, of the international Confederation °f ttee Trade Unions, will visit Johore Bahru on Monday. The Johore Bahru division of the Malayan Trade Union is giving him a dinner at the Johore Civil Service Association's premises at 7.30 p.m
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    Money for China
    20 9 Family remittances to China from, Malaya in February i totalted $1,673,571. Of this, $743,689 came from Singapore.
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    What to wear in the air
    158 9 What to wear in the air ABOAC sales executive will reach Singapore tomorrow on a round-the-world flight to test an allclimates 881 b. wardrobe of men's wear. He is Mr. H. Laird Loft is, of BOAC's New York office. His flight over five continents is to get practical information on
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    Gamblers pay $100
    33 9 KUALA KANGSAR. Sat..Cheah Peng Leong. Ong Yoke Wah. Wone Wcng Yoke and Kwone Ngor Mi were each fined $25 in the Magistrates Court for botting at a common betting house.
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    'Under influence' driving alleged
    66 9 J. W. van Daatselaar was charged in the Singapore First I Traffic Police Court yesterday with driving while under the influence of liquor at Beach Road. It was alleged that DaatI selaar was incapable of having I proper control of his car. He claimed trial and
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    Fought, fined
    34 9 For fighting in public at Dunman Road and Joo Chlat Road on March 6, Chong Ah Ler and Tay Whee Liat wer c each fined $10 in the Singapore Third Pilice Court.
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    He overloaded lorry: $40
    53 9 Lim Ec See was fined $40 by Mr R C. Hoffman in the Singapore First Traffic Police Court yesterday for overload i ing a lorry on Jan. 3. Lim's lorry carried 150 bags of cement weighing 10 tons 1 16 cwt. when his vehicle's limit was
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    Plenty of laughs in Travellers Joy'
    269 9 rpHE Island Players' present- i -i- ation of "Traveller's Joy" I last week at H.M..S. Terror and Pulo Buknm proved again that the theatre-going public today wants escapist entertainment. Arthur Macrae's amusing comedy about the trials and tribulations of the British traveller on the
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    90 10 TONIGHT "TRESPASS." The Stage Club present* special performance In aid of the British Flood Relief Fund 9 pjn. Victoria Theatre. Seats $3. S2. $1. FOR expert tailoring w« Invite you to bring your own material* to Duncan's 11, D'Almeida Street. For ready-to-wear maternity, morning, aft. frock*, we Invite you
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      The end of a colossus
      528 10 ANE of the titan? of our v time is dead. Absolute! ruler of 200,000,000 people, controller of the j destinies of 60,000,000 j more in Europe's satel-! Lite countries and big brother to hundreds of; millions of others in every Continent, his passing cannot fail
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      FINE SCHEME
      110 10 TOMORROW, the next phaae ■i- of Operation Service begins In the Federation— a splendid day for Malaya. The police and the people are now partners. Together they will strive to maintain the laws of the land which protect us all. The scheme continues until June 15. The system
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    Seven words—and this new village 'graduates'
    1068 10  - Seven words and this new village 'graduates' GEOFFREY GELDARD WHY THE PEOPLE OF BUKIT SIPUT ARE PROUD By THERE was no ceremony about the graduation, no certificate was given, and the speech was only seven words long, but the people of Bukit Si put have reason to be proud. The
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      193 10 MANY years ago an author used the words J'accuse to begin a chapter on the then rising Dal Nippon. Today that expresses th e Injured feelings of so many people. It is said that charity begins at home but your correspondents "R.S." and his ally "Another R.S." do not possess
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      R.A.F. promotion
      151 10 1 quite agree with RAF Clerk who wrote la the Bun- day Times. The new method of promotion In the RAF Is as thoughtless as It Is unsatisfactory. Complete Information about the actual Job done by a clerk who entered the department before the war does not exist
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      Going to Kirkby?
      116 10 AT the beginning of 1952 a large party of Malayan students arrived at Kirkby Teachers' Training College, near Liverpool, Lancashire. I made the acquaintance of two of these students and we became very close friends. They return to Malaya this year and I will be very sorry
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      Red dollar—l
      81 10 Red dollar— l I READ with Interest the Item In the Sunday Times about the green one dollar note, and would like to state that I have a 1927 issue of a red dollar bill in my possession. The colour and pattern are very similar to the present day ten
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      47 10 Red dollar— 2 I HAVE a piece of a one-dol-lar note which is light red in colour. It has the serial number L/ 70 ***** and Is dated Ist September 1927. I wonder if there's anyone who's interested In this old note. ISMAIL BIN MAHMOOD. Keta Bhara.
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      Green dollar
      56 10 IHAVE a green one-dollar note. It was given to me by a soldier sometime Id October 1945. mmm The number is A/B *****7. In 1946 I was offered $1,000 but I refused to sell It for sentimental reasons. Just for curiosity's sake, I would like to know the
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      For old times
      135 10 WITH reference to the Sunday Times picture, "For Old Times," showing Mx. Son Ohee Soon, a member of the Progressive Party, and Mr. Lee Choon Eng, a member of the Labour Party of Singapore, dressed in the old-style Mandarin dress, I am sure you will agree with
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    SHE PAINTED HUNDREDS OF PICTURES
    465 10  -  LILLIAN BUCKOKE By A TALENTED and energetic Singapore artist and part-time worker at a children's centre, Mrs. Jean Kinloch-Smith, left Singapore yesterday on board the Johan Van Oldenbarneyelt to settle in England after more than 20 years of wandering During this time she has followed
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    The drama of Sumla Strait
    428 10 The drama of Sumla Strait AUSTRALIAN NEWS-LETTER CRITICS hail as the best naval story to date a short ann vivid book by Ronald McKie. a Sydney journalist formerly on the staff of The Straits Times With a foreward by Vice-Ad-miral Sir John Collins, the book ("Proud Echo") Ls bas^d on
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    Scheme to turn pine waste into cattle food, alcohol $Im.FIRMTOBESETUP
    409 11  - Scheme to turn pine waste into cattle food, alcohol $Im.FIRMTOBESETUP CEOFFREY BOLAND By A NEW company, with a capital of $1,000,000, J is to be formed in Singapore soon to turn the 5,000 tons of monthly waste fruit from Malaya's pineapple canning industry into cattle food and industrial alcohol. Malayan
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    Outward bound: 1928
    124 11 In 1928, the maritime world watched with wonder the progress from Tyneside, one of Britain's great shipbuilding centres, of the two sections of the 25,000 ton 'wonder-of-the-world", the Singapore Xaval Base's huge floating dock. It came out in two sections, each being towed by four coal-burning Dutch
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    HEATH
    53 11 MR. ONT. SIOW OIAP passed «wav peacefully the General Hospital ace 49 leaving behind his wife. 2 50ns. Chon* Bee. Chong Bemr. and 1 feaghtar, Kheng Ngo to mn liis loss. Funeral on Nfonrlay. 9th March. The cortege leaving his residence No. 137, Haig Road at 4 p.m. to
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    Nett gain: 631
    41 11 Eight hundred and four babies wer c born in Singapore in the week ending Feb. 28. There were 173 deaths in the same week, 28 of them from pneumonia, one from dysen- 1 tery and one from malaria.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    38 11 M. APPIAH (of 199 A Bukit Bintanc Ro;;rti and family thank all relative* and friends who attended the funeral of Mrs M. Appiah fnee on 4.3.53. sent wreath*, mr ssaces of condolences, loaned cars, rendered necessary assistances <
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    Biggest baby show — and wettest
    161 11 Biggest baby show and wettest |T was Singapore's biggest baby show-and its wettest The babies cried Rain kept coming through the windows ot^the Lnmese V.M.C.A. hall where the show was held yesterday. One hundred and fifty-five babies competed. Each was stripped and weighed. And after four hours of weighing in
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    Homeward bound: 1953
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    VOYAGE OF 100 DAYS ON A HULK
    358 11 IUST before 10 a.m today, 14 Dutchmen will leave Singapore's Naval Base on one of the strangest voyages ever. They are the "jury crew" of the gaunt, rusted ruins of part of what was the biggest floating dock in the world. For a
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    Gaoled for theft
    41 11 Ahmad bin Hassan and Ghani bin Omar were yesterday sentenced to four months' imprisonment for the theft of a water pump valued at $1,600 on Jan. 3 from a site in Dunearn Road opposite the Singapore Turf Club.
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    Ran lottery: $200
    33 11 For helping to run a chap-Ji-kee lottery In Jalan Besar. Singapore, on Mar. 6. Gwee Chwee Seng wa s fined $200 by Mr. J. B. Jeyaratnam. the Fourth Police Magistrate.
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    RAF medical chief due
    87 11 rfIHE Director General of the 1 Royal Air Force Medical Services. Air Marshal J MacC. Kllpatrlck. will arrive in Singapore from Britain tomorrow to visit units of the Far East Air Force In the Colony and Malaya. He will then fly to Hong I Kong. Japan.
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    HASHIM GHANI HOLDS UP THE MEETING AGAIN
    197 11 HASHIM GHANI HOLDS UP THE MEETING AGAIN BUTTER WORTH, Sat. TPHE start of the general A assembly of the Peninsulo; Malays Union was again held up this morning because of the presence of Its former president, Inche Hashim Ghani. Inche Ghani, who had Insisted on addressing the assembly yesterday after
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      79 11 The weather Minimum temperature (7.30 p.m. on March 6 to 7.30 a-m. on March 7): Singapore (75 degrees), Penang (76). Kota Bahru (74). Kuala Lumpur (74), Ipoh (72). Kuantan. (73). Maximum temperature (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on March 1): Singapore (87). Penan* (86). Kota Bahru (87). Kuala Lumpur (81).
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      222 12 The N6W ST ANNIVFRSARY Hiilmciri Minx T<^^jSs^% introducing the all-new Calilornia^P^ hard -top coupe y«, «f rea/6> rs 2/ y?ars swe^ r/ze Hillman Minx made its first popular appearance! A fine car even in 1932, the Minx has been progressively developed and improved ever since; and today, with well over
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      Bette Davis is, oh, so brave!
      658 13  -  MM. Mil 111 W HAS SUE CARRIED REALMS3M A BIT TOO FAR? Bt \yHATEVER else is said about Bette Davis it must be admitted that the lady is brave. She is now 44, and she has made a film in which she allows herself
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      PERIL BEHIND THE TREASURE
      134 13 be sending to represent us? None. But there will be one British film on show at the festival. It will be the adaptation of Graham. Greene's "Heart of Matter." It has been made and entered by London Films. whose chief Sir Alexander Korda resigned from the
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      JUNGLE TREASURE HUNT IS RUGGED, REALISTIC
      742 13 (JUATLMALA is the background for Twentieth Century-Fox's "Treasure Of Th e Golden Condor", one of the most excitine'swashbucklers 1 have seen in months. Starring th e blue-eyed Irlsji beauty Constance Smith and a Cornel Wilde who puts his muscles to good use, it is
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      Spot the Star
      104 13 JTKRES another film «Ur "In rtvenn". Can you name him? Prizes of $25. SIS. FlO and S5 will b« awardrd to the first four correct entries opened on Thursday morning. Sent your entries to "Spot the Star." Sunday Times, Cecil Street, Singapore-! The answer to last we*%'i
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    156 14 UAVE you entered for the Sunday Times Camera Competition yet? A prise of $15 is being offered to the best picture of the week, with $5 for the runners-up. This week's first prize goes to Wan Keang Pui, of 230 South Bridge Road, Singapore, for his excellent
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    THE QUESTION OF ART
    962 14  -  Raymond Thomas PHOTOGRAPHY FROM SCRATCHS2 By A GREAT AMOUNT has been said and written in answer to the question "is photography an art?" I do not thinjt we can answer thr question in that form, but we have to get some clarity about it, as we
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      246 14 *-r^Ba^B*^H*mi I J. 9 'coated lent. Tftrce-lent turret 8 roB filw PEROMNIA: with magatine type The hifft-tpeed film for shape. poor liiht conditicllt. PERPANTIC: Enefe.jy, fuN view The fine-grain tAn, for Magna-finder, bu.'t top CUM rnfargemenrt. m t0 f^.r-e-a-d Hie PERCRANO: picture range. The ilow tpcrd tuprre*vHsrs "s-es-tJ-as PERSENSO: ilow
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    C. G. offers 'Cathedral' prizes to schools
    578 15  -  THE STROLLER By \JR Malcolm Mac Donald A President of the Singapore Arts Theatre, has offeree: prizes for a school essay competition on "Murder In The Cathedral", the play chosen as next production of tho group. Tne first prize Is $s(', the second
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      151 15 POPULAR CROSSWORD ACROSS DOWN 1. Rradi.ic for boys? (5) 6. l situaUon (S) 2 A area.! m.n Fasteners (5); I*. Increase (9); 5 sTato f«r reneUUM (7^4 11. Fart (5); 13. Once more (5); view (5)^5 stlt 8 Fit ('7, 15. Rale (5); 16. SU«-Tin»; (7l; 7 co-ncr" ?s>? 8
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      419 16 IjK)R PROPER palm-inspec-tion, let the victim wash his or her hand thoroughly with a strong detergent and deodorant. T ET HIM open and close his fingers about fifty times, and stnptch his whole hand afterwards. If the fingers are not trembling, you have to do with a first rate Tarzan-type.
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      331 16 Terrible Backache j^T^m GON E A Kruschen removed the cause Thanks to the advice of friends. who told him how to get relief, this man is quit.- better now. But for weeks ho WM ifr.iu) to stoop owing to the agonising pain In hts buck when he tried to straighten
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    How Mersing got its name
    361 17 How Mersing got its name DLACE names in many in•l stances are the index to their association with some historical fact or local legend. In other cases place names commemorate a person who did much service to the country. In the Federation we have such places as Port Swettetiham. Port
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    NATHANIEL GUBBINS
    385 17 RKPORT from Paris says: "Fath flashes into fashion with the new Pneumonia Line. His plunging necklines are the most daring ever seen in Paris. For his main theme he takes a fashion somersault through Uie years. Jackets ignore hips, coats fleetly by-pass the waist." Another report says "Paris
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    Britain to produce chemical suits
    497 17 Ersatz clothes— at half today's prices LONDON: BY next year men and women in Britain will be wearing clothes at half today's prices Ersatz clothes. A trickle of cloth that has just started to come from a British textile mill heralds a bie change in
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    Millions we ait have shared
    511 17  - Millions we ait have shared I I 'hompson He gave away 1^5,000,000^ Bt WHAT would you do if you had £150.000,000? John D. Rockefeller, called the richest man in the world, who died in 1937 shortly before his 98th birthday, gave more than half of it away. Wherever you live,
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    Alarm clock that won't stop until you get up
    518 17 SOME NOVEL AMERICAN INVENTIONS AN American, John E. Coogan, has solved th.ngs for the man who shits off the alarm and goes back to sleep, waking at 11 o'clock to find that he's missed four appointments. Mr Coogan patented last week
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      207 17 FAST DIRECT SERVICES TO EUROPE YOUR CHOICE of 4 ROUTES -CAIRO -BEIRUT •k FRANKFURT A ZURICH 1 LEAVE SINGAPORE TODAY; BE IN LONDON TOMORROW Six services a week to London! Two Qantas "Constellation" flights via Cairo; one Qantas and three 8.0.A.C. "Constellation" services via Beirut; a weekly Qantas "Constellation" flight
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    A ROLLS-BENTLEY, AND IT COSTS $36,500
    161 18 TMt it Hie $36,500 Bentley which hat Imt been delivered to a lohore planter.. A four-and-a-half litre* (4,566 c.c.) six cylinder Rolh-Roycc engine with twin wide bore S.U. carburettor* it the power-unit, and the body work is by Park, Ward. Reader R. B. Butter
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    STRANGE PUZZLE OF THE ZEBRA CROSSINGS
    851 18  -  Manning Blackwood By PASTER, and with less coercion than any other town I know, Singapore has taken the zebra crossing to its heart, and the idea can definitely be said to be working. Just why Singapore, with its contempt for almost every other rule
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    A YORKER' AT THE SHYLOCKS' OF SELANGOR CRICKET
    458 18 'CRUSADER' SENDS DOWN DOTH sides have put forward their views regarding the controversy over League cricket in Selangor. Those who are dead against a league contend that this is not conducive to bright cricket, whereas a knockout tourney will eliminate drawn matches.
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      85 18 CROSSWORD SOLUTION Across: 1. Paces; 6. Hasps; 10. Increment; 11. Apace; 13. A rain; 15. Canon; 16. Rollins; 17. Entrrat: 18. Tense; 19. Joists; 21. Hyphen: 24. Vlmr; 27. Arrests; 31. Eminent; 32. Octet: 33. Sense; 34. Seedy: 35. Centipede; 36. Abets; 37. Serse. Down: 1. Place; 2. Giant; 3.
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    BAKAR WAS THE SCORER
    17 19 B AKAR WAS THE SCORER AWANG BAKAR scores the fir st goal yesterday.— Sunday Tt mes picture
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    But Omar Awang was the star
    579 19 S.A.F.A 2; Europeans 0. SINGAPORE Amateur Football Association XI beat Combined Europeans today by two jjoals to nil in a game in aid of the European Flood Relief fund at Jalan Hcsar Stadium. A crowd of 3.700 enjoyed a game full of good soccer,
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    RAPC too good for Signals
    74 19 It"yal Army Pay Corps were too eood for District Signals in their Dnlted services (Singapore) Divl n>:i One soc-cer league match at Nee Soon yesterday. RAPC won by o-l. Highlight of the match was the I performance of Barrttt who yciired lour of the five
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    Penang women go down 4-1
    51 19 IPOH. Sat. CELANGOR women beat Penanj; women 4-1 in the first tie n the Inter-State triangular hockey competition on the Ipoh paii.mtoday. The game was played 20 minutes each way because the start was drlaved by heavy rain and the late arr.val of the Penang
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    WRESTLING
    35 19 night's wrestling results at the Happy World: Tlcer Ahmat knocked out AJit Singh in the fourth round; Nandor Ljako beat Prince Bhupinder by two straight falls; Blonde Tiger drew with Arabet Said— no falls;
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    MALAYA CUP DATE
    33 19 Kt'ALA I.IMPIR, Sat. Thiunrninr Kames in this season's Malaya I'up soccer competition will be played un Apr. 25. and not on Apr. 18. A lAM spokesman announced this alteration today.
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    McGLEW'S 255 N.O. SETS TEST RECORD
    316 19 WELLINGTON, Saturday. JACKIE McGLEW, 23-year-old opening bat, became the highest individual scorer in South African Test cricket history, when he carried his overnight score against New Zealand here. His marathon innings, to- 1 Rether with a fine IC9 by 30--year old Anton Murray, en-
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    UK SOCCER RESULTS
    310 19 LONDON, Sat. I I U.I K DIV. I Arensal 0 Cardiff 1 A. Villa i Liverpool 0 Blackpool 2 Tottenham 0 Bolton 1 Manchester C. harllon 0 Newcastle Chelsea 0 Burnley 2 Derby 2 ShefTirld Wed. I Manchester 1 5 Preston X Portsmouth 1 Stoke 1 Sundniand
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    THE HANDICAPPER WAS SEVERE ON NEO
    436 19 THE HANDICAPPER WAS SEVERE ON NEO VEO CHWEE KOK. Sincapores star swimmer, could not beat «e\-ere handicaps Imposed on him when competing in the 100 and 4dO metre freestyle events at the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club open handicap carnival yesterd.iy. Chwee Kok conceded a 31-3econd handicap In Hrn 100 metres
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