The Straits Times, 23 June 1953

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  • 13 1 The Straits Times He**** Established 1845 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1953 15 CENTS
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  • 513 1 'Truce? I can sign anytime 9 SEOUL, Monday. (jJKN. Mark Clark, U.N. Commander, today flew here from Tokyo for a showdown with Pr> "ident Synjrman Rhee. Then after a 90-minute talk with him, Gen. Clark said: "I am encouraged. It was a friendly discussion."
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  • 53 1 I p in smoke goes a Com- munist propaganda booth, I burned by rioters and strikers in East Berlin. And looking on over the fence is a crowd in West Berlin. During the riots in other parts of the city, demonstrators attacked Soviet tanks with stones
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  • 92 1 l PUSAN". Mon. I A NTI COMMUNIST North Korean prisoners made two now breakout attempts todny but one was blocked by American guards, and only a smal] number escaped in the other incident, the Unitec Nation* PoW Command reported. The PoW Command .spc.ke.Tm«a could not
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  • 96 1 Communists 'repent' in Germany BERLIN. Mon. 4DMITTING grave errors in their former attitude to the workers, German Commu- i nist leador.s today promised to correct their lapses in a new programme. In a broadcast repeated several times the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Communist i Party said that if
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  • 43 1 NEW YORK. Mon. Mr Spyro s P Skeuras president of 2'ith Century Fox. said on his return from Europe yesterday that he had completed plans to equip movie theatres throughout the world for the showing of thret -dimensional films
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  • 30 1 ABINGDON. Mon— A Roya: Air Force Hastincs transport plane era-shed at Ablngdon, Berkshire, today, and burst inIto flames. The crew of six I were killed. Reuter.
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  • 99 1 Siam plans to reduce rice prices BANGKOK. Mon. THE Siamese Government, now that the rice trade i.charging from a seller's ,o i buyers marXet. plarrs to peD-its rice cheaper. The plan, to be financed by i the Government and the U.S. Mutual Security Administration, provides for co-operative societies to cut
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  • 113 1 6 rubber men begin search for facts Xl AI A I.I.MI'IK. Mon—The .six-man working party of thr rubber fact-finding mission held its first meeting in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend. It has nou begm to collate and iNM-mble information for the mission This joint working party consists tit thrre representatives
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  • 148 1 RIM A M MPIR. Mon—The fir^i copies of the "tenifyhag U.S. I impress Bill for the disposal of in- i- n synthetic rabbet plants to private hands have been received in the Federation. Meanwhile tlie I'.s. magazine "Nalural Rubber News" quotes si'icitor Paul W. Shafer ns
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  • 101 1 THI i <■' 0 I dragon made by the Singapore Lighter O\\ ners Association for the I at ion celebration is for a home. Government bai been a.^ked to take it over but h;i.s not done so yrt brcau.vr of lack borage facilities." Mr.
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  • 47 1 The Royal party strolls through the paddock at Ascot after the Queen's horse "Choirboy" had won the Royal Hunt Cup. Following her are the Princess Royal, the Quenn Mother. Princess Margaret and the Duchess of Gloucester, (More Ascot pictures in P. 3.).
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  • 190 1 LONDON. Mon. gIR inston Churchill told a cheering House of Commons today. "We have not committee! ourselves in aaj way to go forward and conquer the whole area of Korea and place it under the authority of Mr. Syngmjn Rhee." He also said
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  • 411 1 CHRISTIE WHAT HE WAS DOING'— 1 lOHX Christie, 55-vear-oI four women, sat calmly his counsel pleaded that h Christie, arrested thre wide hunt, was charged strangling his 58-year-old Britain's Attorney-General. Sir Lionel Heald. had earlier told the Jury at the Old Bailey that there was no "reasonable probability" that grounds
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  • 28 1 LONDON. Monday. I clerk accused of killing in the dock today while was insane. I months after a nationwith only one murder, a-ife Ethel
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  • 52 1 LONDON. Mon. The Courts Martiail Appeals Court today dlsnjMed an application by i Lance Corporal Arthur Turn■it 17th Hussars. fo r leave pfl appeal agalpst his conviction for murdering a German youth. TIMMr, 24. wa.s found Kuilty at Soltau, Lower Saxony November Of stabbing to rohmert.
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  • 38 1 HONG KONG. Mon.— China's worst floods in 20 years Inundated over 100.000 acres of the southern proveince of Hunan and drowned 84 people the Peaking Peoples Daily, the official Chinese Government newspaper, reported.
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  • 262 1 Tensing in another 'who was first?' wrangle KHATMANDU. Mon. OHERPA Tensing yesterday got himself involved in yet another wrangle about who was the first to set foot on the i top of the world's highest, mountain Mt. Everest. He said he lelt hurt by some statements at a news confer-
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  • 151 1 Bridge collapse hurls four to their death KLANG, Monchiv. FMH'R men were drowned yesterday in the heart o Kl.niK when the bomh-damatred Belfield Bridgi collapsed and pitched them into the swirling Klanj River. EiKht others wore swept downstream but cliini to the pontoons of the nearby Madras Bailey Bridec where
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  • 207 1 Even without a French premier ASIUMJTON, Mon.— The White House indicated today that the "Bis Three" Bermuda conference will start on July 8 regardless of whether the French have chosen a new premier by that time. The Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchil, President
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  • 40 1 WASHINGTON, Mon. Fifteen businesi leaders con- cerned with investments abroad, will tell the Unit, d States Government this week i on how more Americans may i be encuraged to Invest ovi r- i seas— Reuter.
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  • 52 1 LONDON, Mini Viscountess i :e. daughter-in-law of Mr. William Gladstone. Britain.-; famous 19th century Liberal leader, ilicd on Saturday at her London home. It was announced today. Her husband, the first Viscount Gladstone who died us years ago. was the first. Governor General of South
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  • 267 2 after week's 'exile f in Siam VWNG KING Norodon who suddenly left his <elf-imposed exile in Si; just abruptly as he had c fiven for his return. When he left, the 30-; jroposed to stay away vi dependence had been gran French officials only s
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  • 206 2 NOW THE WOMEN CAN BE M.P.s, TOO DAMASCUS, Mon. Syrian l women are for the first time ensured full rights, including that of sitting as members of parliament, in the country's new constitution an- nounced yesterday by Col. Adib Shishakli. Deputy i Prime Minister and Chief of Staff. Women were
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  • 31 2 LONDON. Mon— The Queen will bestow the Accolade on Gordon Richards and Jack Hobbs at Buckingham Palace on June 30. her first invvsU- ture ?:nce her Coronation. Reuter.
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  • 35 2 LINZ Mon.— A heavy explosion shook the United Austrian iron and steel works here tonight and flre brigades rush- i ed to fleht a bit: blaze in the centre of the plant.— Reuter.
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  • 26 2 BUENOS AIRES. Mon. A J nine-man Russian trade dele- e*tU)n arrived in Buenos Aires yesterday to comDletp work on a commercial treaty with Argentina.—A.P.
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  • 141 2 Envoys of 6 nations confer PARIS. Mon. TWE Foreign Ministers of six 1. European countries meet In Paris today to fix the date for a conference on plans to bring them together in a polii tical confederation. I The countries France, i Italy. Western Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg
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  • 166 2 SAN FRANCISCO. Mon. A SIX-POINT plan fcr sound durable economic relations" between the United States and the rest of the world was outlined yesterday by Mr. Harold Stassen. Director of the Mutual Security Administration. It was made at the Bth annual congress of the Junior
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    • 872 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS MALAYAN RAILWAY VACANCIES APPLICATIONS are Invited U.r appointment as Clerks In the Traffic Department of the Malayan Railway i.nder Ihe Rnilwav General Clerical Srrvirp Scheme, the .salary scale ol whlrh Is Probationer: $102x*6— $114. i Time Scale: |I32xS6— $156' Bar A «lfifixsl2— s264/Bar B/s276xsl2— $336. Special Grade: $372x518—
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    • 720 2 NOTICES BERJUNTAI TIN DREDGING LIMITED (Incorporated in the Federation of Malaya) Notice in hrrrby given that an Interim dividend, the nineteenth, of three shillings (35.) per share. I loss Income Tax at the rate of thirty per cent, ha* been declared due and payable to shareholders on the Register at
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    • 210 2 TENDERS RAILWAY Tondfr« »n> invited for the purchase of approximately 88 tons Cast Iron Scrap in pieces of approximately 8" x 8" x 8" and now lyinft at Sentul Work*. 2 For tender form, inspection and further particulars apply to the Stores Superintendent. Malayan Railway, Sentul. between the hours of
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    • 243 2 GEO. BASSETT CO., LTD. Manufacturing Confectioners HAVE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING THAT THEIR WORLD FAMOUS LIQUORICE ALLSORTS MIXED FRUIT PASTILLES SUGARED ALMONDS ETC. ARE NOW AVAILABLE SINGAPORE DISTRIBUTOR >UL#r HAK HUAT CO. Ijgjjjf 62. ROCHORE ROAD ■■L mm The O. t Ma««Jae ol Ntwi lumlk.nt. Newsweek What role does Nehru visualise
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  • 282 3 REDS REJECT WEST PROTEST ON RIOT 'HARSHNESS' BERLIN, Monday. RUSSIA yesterday rejected the Western Allied protests against the "harshness" with which -»he crushed last week's East Berlin riots and asked the West to keep out of East Berlin the "agents" whom the Communists hlame for the rising:. Major General P.
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  • 111 3 CAIRO. Mon. The Pakistan Prime Minister. Mohammed Ali, arrived in Cairo yesterday for five-day Uilks with >ti:m Officials. 1 ni'-t at the airport by Gen. NegOib. Il was expected that the Pakistani Premier would discuss the British-Egyptian dispute over the Sues Canal I Prime
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  • 29 3 TEHERAN. Mon— Police killed five Communists, seriously iniured richt others and arrested ten more today when they defied orders not to demonstrate in Babnl Mazandekan.
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  • 261 3 McCarthy on 'when a man is a Red' WASHINGTON, Mon. SENATOR McCarthy snid today (hat anyone who claims constitutional rights in refusing to tell a Congressional committee whether he is a Red "obviously i* a Communist." "If you ask a man whether he is a Communist and he is under
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    27 3 TOKYO. Mon. The news- paper Asahi said today that a nationwide poll just complrt- rd showed 57 per cent of the Japanese want rearmament
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  • 133 3 MA U MEN BLOCK ROAD THEN MURDER NAIROBI. Monday. \f AU MAU terror gangs launched their biggest 4?1 assault for more than two months this week-end. They burned down more nan 80 huts and homesteads n the Fort Hall reserve, murd'red at least seven loyal Ki:uyu. wounded three others, ibducted
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  • 59 3 OFF to thp races. But look at the weather! An English summer's day and Royal .Wot too. Nothing for it hut an umbrella. Arid the ge-.itlemcn in prey toppers (above) proTide the shelter for the ladies' finery' BBLOW: There was quite a gallery as Mrs. Robert McGill arrived
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  • 29 3 TEHERAN. Mon. The Shah )f Persia ha s telegraphed G<>n•ral Negulb congratulating iim o n becoming thp first Pre-^ ;:rl<>nt of thp Egyptian Repub- 1 ie Reutcr. I
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  • 99 3 SYDNEY. Mon ALL spilth -eastern Australia from Sydney round to Adelaide is cold today with icy I winds blowinc and snow falling in some parts. Hich winds from the Antarctic are lashing the southern coast, driving snipping to shelter. The snow is four feet deep I
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  • 70 3 PARMA. Mon.- Amleto Poveruomo. ono 01 thp n»n who pavrrt thp way for Italian Fascsm by murdrr'.ng Mussolini's most outspoken opponent, died i in prison in Parma but night Poveroumo was a n rmber °f a sang that kidnapped and later killed the Socialist De-
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  • 136 3 WASHINGTON, Mon. I EADING United States J plane manufacturers have rejected the offer of huge government loans to help them overcome Britain's five-year lead in commercial jet airliners. Manufacturers told a Senate Committee here that they would forego direct government aid in favour
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  • 279 3 LONDON. Mon. WITH little in the current outTT look to provide any Incentive :n either bulls or bears the Stock ■ix'-hsnee continued to mark time :'>-iay and business was exceedingly quipt. Prices were penerally well maln.i\w(\ however, under the leadership 4 British Government securities. which were widely 1
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  • 23 3 LONDON. June 22. Cash Buyers tfiflO; Sellers tfif>2' 2 Forward Buyers £687' 2 Sellers £6M. Turnover a.m. 4."> tons; p.m. 80.
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  • 39 3 LONPON. June 32 s»v»ot 20. d July 20i;d.. Aug 20', A.. Sept. 20' y d .lii'y-Sept 20'. rt. Oct. -Dec 20.d Jan-Mar. 20'^d.. June r1 f l!>'.»i.. July r.i.f. 19", d., Aug. cii. 19"* d Tone: Quiet.
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  • 81 3 HONOLULU. Mon.— Stoppase of work in protest against the conviction of the labour leader. Jack W. Hall, as a Communist •oaspirator disrupted operations at Hawaii's vital army port today and threatened all waterfront, sugar and pineapple plantation activity A spokesman for the post which handles careo for
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  • 263 4 DUG LAWN TO ANNOY ME, SAYS TENANT PENANG, Mon.— A lawyer, Mr. G. H. Goh. former chairman of the Penane Bar Committee, alleged in the Second Magistrate's Court today that the woman owner of the house in which he was staying had tried to plant in.in his garden to "annoy
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  • 50 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Fong Sicw. an old woman, was fined $300. In default, three months gaol, by the Sessions Court today for being in pos- session of 80 packets of chandu. She told the Court that the was a licensed smokrr prewar but nowadays only ate rhandu.
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    52 4 .MKS. Violet Coomarasamy, committee member and chairman of the activities section of the Penang Y.W.C.A, is leaving soon for Australia on a Y.W.C.A. world fellowship. Well known as a broadcaster and member of public beilios. Mrs. Coomarasamy will take a year's course in administration and youth work
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  • 31 4 KOTA BAHRU. Mon. fengku Yusoff. O C.P.D., Kota Jahru. has gone to Kuala T^unjmr to attend a course at *ho >olice officers training centre it Kuala Kubu Bahru.
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  • 137 4 HE SOUGHT 'EASTERN CURE'— IN VAIN Rare disease proved fatal PENANG. Monday. TWO months after he had been flown back on a A stretcher by Comet to seek an Eastern cure. Mr Lim Keng Eok. 41-year-old dental surgeon, died n Penane General Hospital last night from lymphatic leukemia, a blood
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  • 276 4 Driver's wife is elected to the council IPOH. Monday. pORTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Madam Wong Mook Yinp, 1 working as a "peeler" in a European firm of rubber packers in Ipoh, made history last night when she became the first elected woman councillor in Perak She was one of 12
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  • 72 4 SEAMEN'S FRIEND IS HERE PENANG. Mon. J^ former Royal Air Fore officer arrived in Penan.: from England by the Carthatv today to care for .seamen while their ships are In port. He Ls Capt. W. D. Frazer, new .superintendent of the Penan» Manners' Club, who formerly directed the Briti.sh tailors
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  • 113 4 TOOK WIFE OUT, THEN STABBED HER ALOR STAR, Men. Kasinattan Kula Devela, a labourer, took his wife. Malamah, to a friend's house where he beat and stabbed her three times. He then took her to hospital. Magistrate Inche Ahmad Hanafi, was told here today. Kasinathan pleaded guilty to voluntarily causing
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  • 47 4 A hotel assistant, Qurk Chuen Tee, was yesterday fined $3,000 in the Singapore Sixth PoHce Court for assisting to carry on a public lottery, chap ji ki. Polire found lottery slips on Quek when they arrested him in Lorong 24. Geylanp. in January.
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  • 20 4 On? hundred and thirty s:x docs were destroyed and 448 vaccinated in Sinapore's anti rabies campaign yesterday
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  • 136 4 A >lI{\M.I. hooded liKiire which aliKhted from an Air Ceylon Skymaster nn-liiu-ii people at Singapore's Kal lang Airport yesterday. The figure was (ihiilam Sun lira wife of Mr. Mohamed Amir, an Inspector of the Ami) Depot Police, Singapore. She was covered from head to foot
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  • 187 5 Assistants treated like merchandise, says union boss KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. \l.\\Y Selangor shop assistants are treated like "general merchandise" and have to sleep among stocks of onions, rice and sugar, a trade union leader said here today. The Selangor Shop Assistants' Union is
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  • 94 5 Fall as he washed cost his life I TELUK ANSON. Mon. rp\VO people were drowned in the Peralc River yesterday. Than K' ng Chlok. pight. was' drowned while swimming near his house at Durian Sebatang His body was recovered in the afternoon. At the Sabrang Estate jetty I Munusamy. son
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  • 145 5 rREE weeks after she had been held up by an armed i robber, a girl. Ng Ah Boh. helped the police arrest him. Inspector J. C. Cooke told the i Singapore Seventh Police Court magistrate. Inche A. W. Ghows. yesterday. Goh Yark Kee was charge! 1
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  • 68 5 Mr. E. H. D-Notto. Singapore Second Police Magistrate yes- terday sent ex-detectiv e Khoo Kee Glap and two other men Quah Slew Song and Poh Liang I Huat for trial, accused of ar Tied robbery Khoo and the other two were said to have robbed the Green
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  • 39 5 Methodist missionary the Rev Dr. Hobart B. Amstutz will give a talk about his holiday in the United States at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Singapore Rotary Club at th? Capitol Red Room toi morrow.
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  • 179 5 He promised driving test pass T^HE Singapore Third Disl A Forrer, yesterday sentei gaol on each of two char current. The sentences wi when a present one for tl The cheat Hashim bin Haji Isnta:; had four previous convictions for cheatirjg. criminal breach of
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  • 167 5 HI Ml MERTAJAM. Mon. /VNE "punishment" which telephone operators fear is to be sent to the Cameron Highlands exchange where no quarters are provided. Inche Mohd. Nawi bin Suha, a Perak delegate, said this to members of the Penang and Kedah branch of the Telecommunications
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    48 5 THESK FIVE MEN of the Ist Battalion the Gordon Highlanders quickly mane friends when they went to the village of Simpang Bekok. Malacca. Here, with some of their friends, are <left to right) Privates Devitt, Patterson. Goddard. Lance-Corporal Gollner and Private Wilson. D. H. de T. Reade picture.
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  • 71 5 Used rat poison to bake cake r INKING it was probably left over rice powder, a Malay woman used rat poison to bake cakes. This was told to the Singapore Assistant Coroner. Mr. Giam Chong Hlng yesterday, by Moonah binte Ha.ii Samad. at the inquest on Khasmon bin Sarpin. aged
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  • 331 5 Flier fined $500 on 'drink' charge A FLYING instructor who drove a oar while under the influence of drink to such an extent as to be incapable of controlling it was asked by the Singapore First Traffic Police Magistrate. Mr R. C. Hoffman, yesterday if he had any sptcial reasons
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  • 190 5 Special police guard at court THREE youths sent for trial to the June Assizes on charges ot Communist activity appeared in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday, and further statements they were alleged to have made were recorded. Extra police were on duty at the court for the hearing. A
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    • 137 5 raAdan an," „,,7 v,,\* Road an rt s. n Mm .Scho.>. 11» mi cI slime Wood.andx Koad '1 p m i 1.5.15.: Tim n m *ho« Coronacion Cvremonv. Om of thf Oarknpsc Ine Word al •von.- Door in air-condilinii-rd Thpu-.rntr 26 RnW.et. P.jcp 1 p m AM MM AMtUCIAfION, Kirn
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  • 32 6 wwvjwrv_mu noa jemima nriiri of P I Woodford (Paddy) aped 84. Cortege leaves Holy Family Church (Katonc> 5 p.m. for Interment at Bldadan today. Penang, Ipoh and Malacca Papers please copy.
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  • 92 6 THE funeral of the late Mr. Mm Kenc Eok will take place on Wednesday, 24th June. 1953. Th« cortege will leave the Tol Shan ;.-cent Home. Hutton Lane, Penan*:, for the Batu Gantong Crematorium at 1.30 p.m. 1 tm Kent; Eok Born Ist October. 1912 Hirri 21st June. 1953.
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  • 100 6 THE BRUNEI GOVERNMENT thanks applicant.s for the post of Police Teachers, the post has now been abolished THE FAMILY of the late Mr. V.p Kirn Pheng gratefully thank all friends and relatives who sent wreaths and a i tended his funeral. MR. K VENKATACHAI.AM (pro- I pnetor of K.
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  • 67 6 I FT TOMMY THOMSON advise you Just how to make up that piece of material yon are holdinc. G.H. Bldg., Battery Road, Singapore. kAPORE ARTS THEATRF 'Hie Road to Rome" at thr Victoria Theatre, 25th. 26th. 27th June. 9 p.m. Bookings at Robinsons. MOL'TRIES have received the eagerly-awaited stocks
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    • 763 6 The report of the British Rubber Development Board on its activities during 1952 b/ings home thr fact that while the industry in Malaya has been battling economic factors as well as bandits, the organisations which the companies finance in the United Kingdom and the United States
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    • 486 6 Singapore City's Vehicles and Traffic Committee has unanimously decided that the City Council should cease to be the highway authority. By giving up these powers, said the committee's vice-chairman, the Traffic Police will have a freer hand. That, of course, is obvious. But is a
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  • 426 6 YOUR CORRESPONDENT i "C.H.W." will be fortunate if his question as to what is j holding up the further dividend payments under War Damage is answered satisfactorily. I also remember i reading tha f Mr. R. Graham was reported in the Press as having announced
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  • man in the Streets
    • 283 6 I AM more amused than annoyed at your corres--1 pondent. S. Ramachanda. on his fruitless out cry about the so-called infiltration of a certain "type of immigrants" from Travancore and Cochin in Southwest India into the public services of Singapore, f should tell him first that
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    • 88 6 WHILE 1 deplore th< selfish and detestabli attitude of those men whi prevent their wontenfoll from registering as voter or voting. I do not thinl .Miss Amy Laycock's advlc< to her own sex, "Womer have every right to tel their husbands to mini their own business",
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  • 392 6 Familiar 'Old Timers of Malaya YOUR article in the Straits Times (June 16) about 1 Mr. P. Williams-Hunt neglects to mention Capt E. G. Edney-Hayter. who was appointed Protector ol Aborigines by Sir Edward Gent in 1946. retlrine *c England about 1949. Capt. Edney-Hayter was a real "old timer", a
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  • 164 6 f|PHE 'llnlng-up" of people u«- ing the Capitol -Changl bus service is not satisfactorily carried out. As a regular user of this service, I see that many people (especially Asian women > entirely ignore the queue. They board a bus hnmediately it arrives, in spite of the
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  • 34 6 I READ that motorists say we pedestrians take our own "sweet time" on tebra crossings. Do th«y expect v* to gallop across like zebras. What about the o.ri and crippled? PEDESTRIAN. Slnfapoxe.
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  • 286 6 WANTED: A RULING ON 'OBSCENE' AS the result of a test case in the Kuala Lumpur Session Court, almost all booksellers in Malaya are perturbed by the decision that certain books were obscene. Unless a definite ruling is made, prescribing which publications are obscene, any bookseller could be brought to
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  • 483 6 'Late comers and immigrants \f R. S. Ramachandra, 1 iTI (S.T., June 17) has commented on the 1 Colony's immigration control and has gone U) the extent of finding out some loopholes in the new Colony Immigration Con- trol Law. He has taken pains to study the statistics of the
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  • 95 6 WITH reference to Mr S Ramachandra's statement in your paper (June 17 1 that •the majority of white collar immigrants have their homes in Travancore and Cochin.' does he krow that the men in this category, who arp employed in military and civil establishment*, are well educated? 1
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  • 164 6 They toil to save AIILLIONS deposited in the J Post Office Savings Banks belong to the masse.s of Malaya who toil, sweat and save a few dollars monthly for a rainy day, as they have not forgotten the occupation period. Although postal charges I have risen all round after thr
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  • 471 6 TIAT famous corps, the 11th Hussars, now armourrd, who reached Sinpapore yesterday, had a Rrrat history even before they went with the Eighth Army from Cairo to Berlin They charged, for Instance, with the Light Brigade at Balaklava. Tiie small crimson trouera made an imposing effect with
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    • 655 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. BROOKS: lo Join, wife of Brooks, a son. OB 20.6.53. at Knnriang Keibau Hospital. VBO: To Rosalind, wife of Hon« Chuan, a son. Clifford, Yminubrr- Memorial Hospital, on June 201 Iv 1953. CROZIER: To Mary Lillian (nee! Samuel), wife of Brian R" Croater, a dnuohter. at Greenhill Nursing
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    • 50 6 The German 2xB mm cine Mza-MeiionuUic The only tint precision Bmm movie camera with built-in exposure meter to eliminate incorrect filming and 2 Unset (normal f 1.5 and tele 12.8). Price $725 including case NIZO PROJECTOR $500/- with case. Obtainable from Sole Agents:EVERBRIGHT OPTICAL CO. 19, CHUUA ST. S'r-o.v--l-Phone 4435
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  • 251 7 T«HE SINGAPORE First 1 Traffic Police Court yesterday found J. W van Daatselaar, an office manager, not guilty of driving whil>? under the influence Of drink and incapable of having proper control of hi.s car. Mr R. C. Hoffman, the magistrate, .said he agreed wuh
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  • 34 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon— Mr. R. A Coles. Chairman of the Jnhore Planters' Association, has been appointed a temporary member of Executive Council. Johore. during Dato H. E. MacKensle'a absence from the State
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  • 23 7 next public p<rfnrm:ince Singapore Police Bind will br ai K:ng Georse V Park from 5.30 p.m to fi :s(i pm. on
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  • 372 7 3 murder trial witnesses 'in danger of lives' give evidence in private MALACCA, Monday. THREE prosecution witnesses at a murder trial in the Malacca High Court today gave evidence in private, "to avoid danger to their lives" if they testified in open court. Mr. D. K. M. Grant. Deputy Public
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  • 215 7 ITALY'S NEW LINER HAS EVERY LUXURY LLOYD Triestino's first new liner on the Italy-Far East run since the war, the 11.600-ton Asia, borthed in Singapore yesterday on her maiden voyage from Genoa. The luxury liner, with her fister-ship the Victoria, expected here next month, will make the 21-day trip between
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  • 191 7 I'LL GIVE UP, SAID BANDIT K. Ll MPI'R. Mon. DKAINAGE and Irrigation Department workers at the fifth mile of the Klang-Banting road in BclaaffW were shocked on Saturday when a terrorist came up to them. But thp man told them: "I want to surrender." So the workmen took him in
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  • 131 7 FjXDR breach of trust of $900 belonging to the Royal S^igarAHt? AJnt'. -Tuberculosis Clinic, Agatha Cheong. a clinic receptionist, was sentenced yesterday by Mr. J. B. Jeyaretnam Fourth Police Mag'stratp. to nine n.-onths' simpe imprisonment on each of three charges, the sentences to run concurrently.
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  • 92 7 The appeal by the Nanyang Press Ltd., the editor and the printer and publisher of the Namyane Siang Pau against I the decision of Mr Just'ce 1 Whitton. i n the libefl action brought by Messrs. John Gibb and John K'.rkham trading as "Ideal Homes" wlj
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  • 26 7 PENANG, Mon.— Penang has i set un a Scouts' council to take the place of the Settlement Boy Scouts' Association which haj been dissolved.
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  • 108 7 Several hawkers at Malabar Street staged a fight last night when Dr. c. J Poh, chairman of Singapore City Council hawkers inquiry sub-commit-tee, toured the area to investigate a row over the allocation of 24 'popular" pitches. With Dr Poh were two othe city councillors. Mrs.
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  • 38 7 Former presidential agent Of the Theosophlcal Society in Malaya, Mrs. Hilda Moorheari will give a public lecture on "Cultivation of Happiness 1 at 8 Calrnhil] Road. Singapore, at 6 3 p m on Thursday.
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  • 146 7 AFTER SIX YEARS AS HOSTESS SHE'S IN SINGAPORE TO RELAX interesting arrivals in Singapore yesterday was Miss Betty McKell. daughter of Sir WilUam M-Kell, until recently Governui-General of Australia. Miss McKelj had for six years acted as hostess to her father. She arrived in the l'ner Nieuw Amsterdam on "a
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  • 51 7 A European woman's house in Stevens Road, Singapore. was entered by a tMef over the week-end who s tole jewellery and a camera worth $700 Police believe that a Chinese amah, employed by the householder, unwittingly wiped a j bnthroom window clean of the thief's
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  • 85 7 A Malay soldier. Hashin Mn Harun, 22, under five years' Imprisonment for committing armed robbery at a "la-long" 1 In the territorial waters of Singapore, had hi.s sentence confirmed by the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday. It was stated that Hashim removed two fish, valued
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  • 111 7 TO TALK BISINKSS is Mr. Leonard Darling, from Australia, here to meet Malayan clients of his various companies. TO II At 11 as soon as he gels back to his native North Kuriir., is Mr. Ho Yu Lin. "ii his way through after
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  • 393 7 TWO TOP UNIONS THREATEN TO LEAVE THE TUC THE Colony's two biggest unions are to ask the Singapore Trade I'nion Congress why it should not be wound up. These unions— the Army Civil Service Union and the Naval Base Labour Union, with a total membership of about 20.000— think that
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  • 55 7 The following have been elected officials of the Malayan Historical Society (Singapore branchi for 1953. Chairman. Professor C N. Parkinson, vice-chairman. Mr R C H Lim. treasurer. Miss E Sadka. .secretary Mr. G. Bogaars. Committee: Messrs Loke Wan Tho. Tan Soo Chye, MA. Mallal. P. V
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  • 56 7 While repairing his car in Alexandra. Singapore, on Sunday night, a Chinese motorist was held up and robbed by three men. Tcld to raise his hands by an Indian brandishing a knife, the motorist wfts searched by one of two Chinese accomplices. A wrist -watrh [and
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  • 54 7 The Tengku Mahkota of Johore was among the 150 guests who came to wish one-year-old Tan Soon Tiew many happy returns at h-ls birthday party in Singapore last night Soon Tiews father. Mr. Tan Boon Eng, is the managing director of the Savoy hotel where
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  • 229 7 A LOVERS' quam»] ended In a double tnmeriy. Ths was .stated in the Singapore Coroner's Court yesterday, at the Inquest on Leong Pak Ping 26. a musician, and Chan Wai Chens. 27, a waitress, both of whom died in Singapore on Apr IS Foo Suet
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    • 92 7 THE WEATHER MnwMiiim trmprr (Uirc: 1 7 30 p.m on June 21 to 7.30 a.m. on Ju H 22 > Singapore (78 dPfrees). PenaiM (75). Kota Buiiru (76>. Kuala Lumpur (76). Ipoh <78). Kuantan 1731 Maximum t<*mporaturc>: 1 7 30 a.m. to 7.30 pm. on Juno 22»: Slneapnr" 91 >
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  • 170 8 Two ASPs to train in Britain Mr. Ourdial Singh (left) and Mr. (hong Yue Kong. Two Singapore police officers will fly to Bmain on June 30 for 10 months, training at the police colleges at Ryton-on-Dunsmore and Hendon. They are Mr. Ourdial Singh. Assistant Superintendent of Police, and Mr. Chong
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  • 41 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon An application for an open air cinema at Jalan Kuel. here, has been refused by the Town Council. Reasons given were that the place is a residential area, and traffic congestion would be caused.
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  • 34 8 Five Malays, injured when their car collided with a lorry m Upper Aljunied Road. Singapore, on Sunday, are recovering in the General Hospital. Three women, passengers in the car. were killed.
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  • 66 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Yeo Pang Kui, the taikong of a tongkang, was fined $100 in the Police Court today for moving 19 katis of sweet potatoes and dry fish from Singapore to Johore without a movement permit. A Police marine patrol arrested him at Kuala Sungei
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  • 240 8 SINGAPORE road users, the Automobile Association and road safety officials yesterday welcomed the news that traffic authority i n the City was to be surrendered to the Government. The decision was made by the City Council's Vehicles and Traffic Committee, and will
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  • 43 8 j Full Moon tPusoni will be celebrated at the Buddhist Jf temple in Temple Road in r Kuala Lumpur on Friday. 5 starting at 6 a.m The celebrations are spon- j sored by Mr. A. P. L. Jayai wardena.
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  • 171 8 THE SLOGANS ARE UP: BE ON TIME THE Singapore Punctuality and Austrrity Council yesterday launched a «"<■ week drive to cure people of wasting; time and money. Slogans went up in coffee shops, on cinema screen* and °ver the radio. They say: Wilful waste makex woeful want Punctuality is the
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  • 495 8 HE WITHHELD WITNESS -NOW LAWYER IS SUSPENDED THE Singapore High Court yesterday suspended from practice for three months Mr. J. L. P. Harris, a Singapore lawyer who, according to the disciplinary section of the Bar Committee, deliberately withheld a witness from the prosecution in a case last year. But the
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  • 67 8 BfKIT MERTAJAM. Mon. BUKIT Mertajam police will relax the protected area order around St. Anne's Church on the night of July 25 and 26 so Catholic pilgrims may camp in the church compound. The annual feast of St. Anne, patroness saint of j Bukit Mertajam, falls on
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  • 227 8 rIE Singapore Volunteer Corps has asked the Government for a grant to help felebrate its centenary in March-April nsxt year. Plans for these will not be drawn up until a grant Ls Riven by the Colony Finance Committee. Lt.-Col. T. J. Hutchinson. commandant of the
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  • 50 8 Prize-winners of the SingaP° re b ra "Ch Young Malayans club talent-time contest held c\ .^K'o-Chlnese Junior School hall last Saturday are--Instrumental sections: Ist Benny Lian <accordlan> 2nd Johnny Le e (guitar. Singing sections: Men Ist. Subramanam 2nd. Sect Tiong H-in. 3rd Lee Wan Slew; Women— Eileen
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  • 84 8 Singapore's 51.000.000 children's hospital, which will have room for 200 beds, will be built in the grounds of the (.<■ner.il Hospital next year, and not in Thomson Road as planned. The site of this rour-storey builciing has bern changed for economy reasons, Mr. A. Wear. Director of Public
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  • 60 8 rpo help promote a greater social consciousness and under--l .standing between Malay boys and girls, a group of 60 Singapore Malays met in the Katong Restaurant, Singapore, on Sunday to form the Malay Social Association. Office-bearers rloctcd are: president. Abdullah Sanßguia; deputy presidents. Ruslan and Fatlmah Abdul
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  • 92 8 FOR CHILD HOSPITAL'ECONOMY MEASURE' The t'olotiy E.stimateit provide SIOO.OOO this year for preliminary work on this hospital. The Guillemard Road site for 350 police quarters has been changed to the Crown land reserve at Aljunied Road Mr. Wear said. Of other building works, he said Tenders have been called for
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    • 225 8 tj, j/' A VI RY SOUND fV&ICCtf INVESTMENT! potZcubw witk MAGIC MARGIN JNLT ROYAL HAS II f_l)rvk TC\ J'lrasr s«-nd me detail, ol the KOYAL r\V)/M| V) IUOMr MARGlN [portable typewriter I fc uu with parti, ulars of pbst method of luvment. Address: ST. 23.6.53 Si* John I !*»<>ul lI
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    • 267 8 ■r« ukrdfo. Hfnnn mmd tM t n afnttti, Mr There are certain pleasurable occasions -out of the ordinary, I and above the everyday which j deserve and command tributes only of the best; it is for these that Ri\SO\ ill Dt.l have so thoughtfully provided their Super Virginia cigarettes. BENSON
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  • 103 9 A CHARTER MEMBER QUITS UMNO IPOH. Mon Trngku Hussein bin Tengku Yahaya. a member of the Executive Committee of the Perak Division of the UMNO has resigned. The resignation has been accepted. Tengku Hussein has also resigned as a member of the Scrcmban branch of the umno. An MCS ollicer.
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  • 341 9 Labour walk-out from alliance 'gives Mentris Besar their chance' KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. THE Pan-Malayan Labour Party's "back out" on the UMNO-MCA alliance over policy matters might s renjjthen the hands of the Malayan National Conference if its sponsors, tt»? Mentris Besar, were quick to take advantage of the new situation.
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  • 259 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. ELECTION plans of the UMNO-MCA alliance differ radically from those of the Pan-Malayan Labour Part-UMNO-MCA .ources said today. This led to the first bit; clash between the 'bis three" last week after a preparatory meeting for the proposed Malayan
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  • 302 9 TAX DODGER IS FINED $4,500S'PORE RECORD A SINGAPORE Chinese bank director, whose taxable income was estimated at $100,000 a year, was fined a total of 54.500 in the City Police Court yesterday on six charges of failing to lodge income tax returns. The Administrative Ollicer of the Taxation Department. Mr.
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  • 181 9 HE STABBED FATHER IN A ROW OVER MONEY K. LUMPUR. Moil. A CLERK, K. Rasiah. 25. Stabbed his father. V. Wnnrfinh who asked the Kanaian. wno ds*ea vie army to deduct part uf the son's salary for maintenance of the family. Rasiah was today bound over In the sum '>'■
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  • 38 9 MAKKIKD: Miss lily I ..nt md Mr Loll K«.m. htn pastor of the Chinese i-ir.i--•;ri-!:*iiini of \Vtsii-\ Charrl Ku.ila I umpiir 1.\(.\(.1.1) Mlm Ti-h I'm ht, Kii.il l.iinipiii'. MM .Mr. tan ('ln. 'li'ii'-. It.ivi4ii.'. (ficfcl).
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  • 205 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. 4 N all-community tea party in honour of the knighthood conferred on Dato Sir Onn bio Ja'afar will be held in Kuala Lumpur on July 15. Sponsors of the party, which will ;>e at the Selangor Turf Club,
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  • 48 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Thr bolder of ticket No. *****7 won UM hand-made patchwork < quilt recently raffled on behul! of the BritLsh Red Cross func! in Kuala Lumpur. The holrinr of the tirkrt k a.skcd to npply to the British Red Cro&s (Selangor branchj—j
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  • 100 9 45 years in mission to retire IPOH. Mon. After nearly 45 years s'.rv.ce In missionary and educational fields in Ma- laya, Miss Norma B. Craven, t'.ll recently principal of the Methodist Girls" School at Raub will be leaving for the United Stales on retirement next month. Miss Craven, who came
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  • 49 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon Abba.s bin Suliinian wa.s aoqultted by the paMea court today on a elMkrpi of attempt- ing to evade Ciustom.s on v radio and recorder. Tha prosecution aliened that the articles were worth $731 and that Abba.s had declarer! their value at $600
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  • 53 9 JOHORE BAHRU Mon. Inche Hamid bin Katai.R. an fX-membcr ol the Johore Mihtary Force, ha.s been loaned S3BO by RIDA to help nim With i (anoint tnttrprtw. bMbc Hamid. who lives at Muar. wa.s inv.t'.ided out of the lone. He has started poultry icai:ng. and intends rearing
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  • 64 9 IPOH Mon. Mr. Anthony Douglas Scully, mine assistant at French Tekka Mines. Oopeng. and M.ss Yvonne Lo,& Onouse. third daughter of the late Mr. Maxwc.L (ihou.se a-nd Mrs. N. Ghouse ot Ip-'h were married at civil ceremony here on Saturday. The moom. who !.s a keen
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    • 178 9 A PROMISE GLORIOUSLY KEPT! General Jot Stilwell said it "I clriim we got a beating. We got run out of Burma. I'll go ovar the mountains into India and rake up en army. I'll supply them there, train them, and some day I'll lead them back into Burma!" "Wt MYARNtR
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    • 288 9 THE HAPPIEST, FUNNIEST PICTURE IN TOWN TODAY .V.M.. I X, 1.15. (-h.no 21.1 16 FOR BOOKINGS I. UPROARIOUS COMEDY THE FIRST ROAD SHOW in TECHN*COLOR=^ V MONSARRATS BEST KELLER COMES SI R'.l\(. in 111 f The ..Cruel $c* |p| t* JACK HAWKINS donald sinden DENHOUIJI EUJOTT VIRGINIA McKCNNaA^L 'I'wlJilulllkfil l:l
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 354 9 ■J^jLiMLuiiii!il -fill 3 1 1 It ™li 1 iffi SINGAPORE i~o lii(rrlu..e: 73d Jm/. .Si s.iiuii 71a Hadlu Dot-lor; 7 25-7. .30 Inei- I n Post Box For Ideas; 830 Tuesday lude; 8 Halls of Ivy; 930 News; iII a in. MoriiltiK BUr; 730 Nrws; n 3 Oivlwvni. 8 bauux..iii<t:
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  • 48 10 AU.S.S7S mUlion-a-year trade agreement signed ■I by Japan and the nationalist Government on Formosa will increase the annual volume of trade between the two nations from U.S.SSO million a year, the level under an agreement negotiated in lfl.iO. the For- 'elgn Ministry of Japan ya'.ri
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  • 541 10 be heard and its interests effectively safeguarded. Such questions as International policy and taxation which would be considered by Rubber Council affect all sections of the industry and not only parts of it. THE Malayan Rubber Export Registration Boar I at its last meeting,
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  • 413 10 Prices may be stabilised LARGE-SCALE production of synthetics may tend to stabilize the prices of natural products, notoriously subject to lhictuation, a new study by the United Nations Secretariat indicates. Prepared at the direction of the U N General Assevnbly. the new report points out that
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  • COMMERCIAL NEWS & VIEWS
    • 395 10 Chinese company celebrates its 90th anniversary A SINGAPORE company, belonging to a chain of world-wide companies, believed to be the >\nfr\c richest Chinese business unit in the world recently celebrated the ninetieth annivcrsan M the birth of the business in Indonesia. It was in 1863 that the late Mr Oei
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    • 34 10 The Indian Jute Industry is seriously thinking of catting down the cost of manufacture and in pursuance of this it recently had a conference with Government representatives for reducing the labour force.
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    • 194 10 'me directors of the General Accident Fire and Life As.su--1 ranee Corporation Ltd. recommend a final dividend of 4/- per £1 share on the ordinal v shares making a total dividend of 6/- per share for the year. They recommend the final dividend be paid June 1,
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  • 206 10 MR. W. J. M. Warden, managing director of the Successors Moine Comte and Co. Ltd.. first came to Malay* to join his company in 1927. The Company was originally founded by a Frenchman. M. Denis Moine Cnmtr in 1801. After 35 years in Singapore the
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 246 10 UNIQUE COMBINATION YOU MAVE BEEN WAITING FOR PERSTORP PLASTIC PANELLINC is available, ex stock, in a wide variety of colours and designs and can be supplied with a backing of "SINCAPLY" plywood in different thicknesses if so required. Tin* unique combination reduces construction costs, labour and time. Ideal for doors,
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  • 324 11 SHARE MARKET QUIET WITH VERY SMALL TURNOVER TIN AND RUBBER STEADY T*HE Singapore share market yesterday opened the A week quietly and little interest was shown in any section by either buyers or sellers. The volume of turnover was meagre and price changes were few and of little importance. Tin
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  • 150 11 MELBOURNE. Mon. IyfETAL shares brought better ITA prices on the Stock Exchange today on reports of Korean truce Mm Investments were steady to firmer. Boms moved Irregularly after last week s very strong showing Closing prices of selected stocks today compared with Friday were I/ianS 'a*; 1945-59 £93
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  • 86 11 MIDDLE East crude oil out- I put in April, for the first time in a single month, was over 10m. metric tons. the I Petroleum Information Bureau announces. The total, estimated at 10.015.375 metric tons, com-! pares with the previous highest output for one *onth of 9.400.000
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  • 20 11 The price of tin in Sineapore yesterday was declared at $349.87 2 a picul. up 12' i rents.
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  • 61 11 Singapore Chinese Chamber of 1 Commerce: Noon prices per picul were:Copra: jteady; $31 'i fob. buyers. *32';.. sellers Coconut oil: quiet: sellers *S3 Pepper: quiet, no business- $53(1 Muntok white seller.^: »525 Sarawaks47o Lampong blark. Lewis and Peat:- Closing prices were Copra: quiet: July buyers $32 sellers $32\.
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  • 185 11 Singapore rubber market was quiet yesterday after opening slightly steadier on the Korean news. The market later sagged away and interest was negligible.. Highest price for July first erade was 68 5 8 cents a pound. July first grade closed dull at 88 cents a pound, unchanged on
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  • 198 11 OHIPS lying along-slde the SlngaI pore Harbour Board wharves or I expected today are: Java 1 2. Asia 45, La rat and IL a n d a k C.P Kamuning 67, Glenartney 89. Benattow 11, Preslj dent HarrUon 13 14, Stanvac Sydney 15 16, Manchuria 18, Polydorus 19
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  • 159 11 THE Malayan Exchange Banks A Association made rhe following changes in its rales to merchants yesterday NEW YORK: buylnp. T.T. 32 13 16. air mail, O.D 32 15 16. 90 rt« vs. 33 1 16. credit bills. 3 1 trade bills: selling. T.T. or O.D. 32 S 8.
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    • 1520 11 ESS MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. ££2 Pesseg. (Incorrorcfod in Singopore) All oth*r D BLUB FUNNEL UM* Oeptt. Carriers' option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge caraa SAILINGS te LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW, LONDON 4 CONTINENTAL PORTS Dv« Soils P. Shorn Penong Ulysses for Holland, London, v Antwerp Hamburg C.
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    • 527 11 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINGS FROM SCANDINAVIAN/UK. /CONTINENT S'rore P S'hom Pr-v^ng "Manchuria" P*f Australia Gdn II "Meania" for Bangkok 29/29 Jun* "Kino" for Bangkok, So'gon. Hong k>- 5 Moiilo. Kobe, Yokohama 11/19 Jury 14/17 July 11/1$ July "Lalondia" far Bangkok 10/11 July "Mongolia" for Rongkok. Saigon, Mnngkong, Monila, Kobe ond
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    • 651 11 BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. For UK. /CONTINENT Spore P S'Njrr Penono I Bonrooth for Hovre, London, Rotterdom, Hull G. B/9 24/2« June 30 June/1 July t Bei»mhor tor Liverpool Antwern Rotterdom, Hamburo 21 June/ 4 July S/ 7 July B/10 July T Bcnrtnnes for Genoa Avonmouth. Liverpool Glasgow 11/17 Jury
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    • 1272 11 McALISTER <5c CO.. LTD. Ttl: No. 5V06 ELLERMAN <fa BUCKNALL KLWFNF.SS LIMB LONDON. HAVRE, ROTTERDAM LOS ANGELES. SAN FRANCISCO, HAMBURG PORTLAND, SEATTLE VANCOUVER ma for U.S.A., North Atlantic Ports Accepting corqo tor Ccrtrol South onrt Toncdo v!o Colomho American Ports "CITY OF SWANSEA Snore P Shorn Pervmej r m CAS7LEVILLI
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  • 615 12 Bring routine into your baby's life riVERYONE agrees that E* the second baby is easier to bring up than the first, but some mothers refer to this as if the difference was in the two children. Far more often, it is due to the fact that mother has worked out
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    11 12 This stratc boater supports a satin and organ: n rose in
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  • 289 12 Making the shoe fit SOME years ago in London an expensive and enterprising shoe shop used to alter the shoes I bought, tak- ing in the back seam to fit my narrow heels; but until the other day I had never thought, of getting shoe alterations done locally, though I
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  • 297 12 What they re doing Australia MISS Wallace. 17, Australia's hurdler has accepted an invitation to take part n the Sports Carnival to be heCd at Bucharest in August. Her lather, who is her trainer, will go with her. Shirley Strickland. Olympic hurdlinar champion, who is out of Australia at present,
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    • 207 12 KUNZLE CHOCOLATES QUALITY SUPREME DESSERT PRESENTATION 1 Ib. Box TUDOR ROSE ASSORTMENT 1 Ib. Tin RICHMOND CASTLE 1 Ib. WARWICK CASTLE 1 Ib. CITY ASSORTMENT 1 Ib. CHECK 1 Ib. PERFECT 1 Ib. SOLE AGEXT& JOHN LITTLE CO., LTD. SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR PENANG SDe WITT'S COUCH SYRUP with Cuaiacol Creosote)
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    • 250 12 t^B|P SisiP^BP^^»jii^^l»ial^k. ntvtr nr aJ r(l m v Wtf IMX ioilrl Snap," i says altrar/irt Joan WmF Ijslir. I always it: Jr^^^bk, 'I'^tltl .Sfiaf) lit it bath snap, lnn f WrWfWk < r v r m *SF*- jrfi\ n f nt lt beautifying ,are Be Invelier tof V i v
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    • 342 12 S| rails Times I'ritss^ «»ri| 9 H rl \t I I Id I I l ll II 13 il:f tgrk~il~^" l~ I I i-j" I i~l ll^ °l j~] I I \M d i IM I; 1 IH■. I I !1L I I "T-r I 1 I i- Fli "pi
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  • 543 13  -  JACK FINGLETON H> Australia hails inclusion of Freddie Brown (Special to the Straits Times) LONDON, Monday. ''HANKS England. That is the first reaction of Australian cricketers to the startling choice ot Ingland's Second Test team for Lord's next 'k..-.,i... nursday. Tho selection ot Freddie rown, who is
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  • 24 13 COPENHAGEN. Mon.— Sue- I den beat Denmark 3-1 in an International soccer match < here yesterday before a croud 000- Reuter. t
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  • 227 13 LONDON. Mon. AWN tennis history was made today when the 7th Wimbledon championlip.s opened on the pirlresque All-England Club round. For the first time in tlicse lampion shins virtually the mateur championships of the orid- thp respective top■eried players are bcth only J. K"n Rosewall, dark-haired ustralian
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  • 420 13 Cotton out of 'Open' —strong U.S. bid By A Special Correspondent. LONDON. Monday. II'ST over a year ago that great American golfer, Gene Sarazen, a very old and faithful friend, returned to this country at the age of 50 to play in the Open championship again. And how magnificiently he
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  • 81 13 SHEFFIELD. Mon. Colin vlcDonalci, the Australian pening batsman who twistpc! 113 left knee when firldi;.<; igainst Yorkshire here on Saturday, may be out of the ■ame for some weeks. This is bad luck for the Vicorian schoolmaster, whose lr.proved form in recent mat- i hes gave him
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    33 13 XXI.X ISSIMO A.MPON of the Philippines (left) and Kurt Nielsen, of Denmark, after their Davis Cup clash in Copenhagen. Nielsen won 8-6. 6-4, 8-6 and Denmark beat the Philippines 4-1. I. P. picture.
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  • 831 13  -  RANDOLPH TURPIN By VICTORY Is very sweet. I've always felt that way, and I've been led to believe that Is the general view of the British public. They were so kind to me when I licked Sugar Ray Robinson a couple of years ago to
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  • 237 13 Women 's cricket for the Queen LONDON. Mon. TWO teams of cricketing women civil servants are to play before the Queen. It will be the first time that women haw played before a reigning British sovereign. The Queen ha.s accepted the I invitation of the Civil Service Sports Council to
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  • 429 14 Great fighting display by Kota Raja TIGERS WIJS WITH TWO LATE GOALS O team that plays with the guts that Kota Raj:* displayed at Jalan Resar stadium deserves to lose. But in the last 10 minutes class counted for more than courage, and the Tigers unbeaten S.A.F.A. first division leaders
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  • 139 14 LONDON. Mon ■piYE more players tr complete the British Walker Cup coif team lo meet the United States In September were announced today They are: Gerald Mick'lem iWildemeaw>, J C. Wilson iCawden. Norman Drew 'Banpor*. A. H. Perowna ißoval NorwiclTT" and R. C McGregor (CMUfBWI The
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  • 86 14 lONDON Mon Ran-iolnh Tur- pin. European mlddleweicht cham- I pion and rer-ocnired in England rs i •vorld champion, will leave here on July 29 for New York. Neeotiations are under way for a world championship bout between I Turpin and Carl ißoboi Olson of Pun Francisco
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  • 330 14 AW BOON SEONG. has been dropped from Singapore's team for their first Malaya Cup match of the season, against Combined Services at Jalan Besar stadium next Saturday. Boon Seong has been a first choice for several seasons past. but this year he has been
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  • 65 14 St. Joseph's Institution beat St Andrews School by 110 runs at cricket on St. Joseph's ground yesterday. SJI ".ere all out for 146 runs and m Andrews replied with 36. A E. Delilkan hit 70 'retired) and P. Mar'ens 33 runs for SJI. Deliikan
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  • 58 14 Europeans will hold a soccer trial on the padang on Friday to select a team for the SAFA Community League. The two teams will be: Possibles: Scott; Boniface. Swartzenburg; Morton. Davids, Murphy: Dow:iton. Wright. Young. Harrison. Verrall r Probables: Lloyds; Parton. Benton; Math o t. Gutteridge.
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  • 27 14 The SAFA Dlv. 3B match between Blntang Bulan S.C. ana Woodbrldge Hospital, scheduled to nave been played at the MFA grouna yesterday •a as postponed.
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  • 91 14 OESULT3 of friendly soccer I matches played at Farrer Park f yesterday were Amicable Athletic Association beat Jollllads 1-0 William Tan scored. Rof-klitex beat Indian Brotherhood Soccerites 3-0. t Nadara.iah i2> and Choon Thlam 1 scored. i Guthrle S C drew :t-1 with KPM Omar.'Kok
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  • 113 14 LONDON. Mon Vinoo Mankan. I I the Indian test all-rounder who is Rt present a profeystonal with Haslingden. the Lancashire League CMb I today described as premature, rei ports that he is to retire from tart 'rri.-ket. I have not yet mtde a decision .one way
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  • 63 14 Aston S.C. suffered their first i defeat when they last to Post and Telegraph S.C. by 2-1 in their SAFA Div. 3C encounter at the i CYMA ground yesterday. Before this game P <St T had not earned a point. Omar scored the coals for
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  • 40 14 Serangoon English Scnool will noid their annual athletic meeting at the school ground at :< p.m. to- morrow. Royal Army Ordnance Corps will also hold their athletic meet at Nee j Soon at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow
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  • 113 14 WIMBLEDON Mon OESULTS of first round matches in the men's sinples here today verr J Drobny 'EKvpn beat B. Destre- nau iFranre' 8-0. 6-1. 8-2: Vie Seixas iUSA> beat R. J Lee Britain i 6-3 6-0. 6-1: C Wilder;pin i Australia i beat E. Burhholz Germany i
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  • 40 14 Pahang beat Combined Services i Federation i in a Malaya Cup match at Raub last Saturday by four 'goals to two. Scorers for Pahang were Chin Kit and Chin Wah; for Services. Turley and Hart.
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  • 36 14 j Genial Youngsters beat Silver Rangers 5-1 In a soccer game for the Coronation Clip at Farrer Pprx on Sunaay. Xavler <3i. Thamby and Nathan scored tor Genial Youngsters and Dalan for Rangers.
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  • 36 14 The annual athletic meeting of Raffles Institution will be held on Saturday at 3 p.m. There will be two event* for old boys: 100 yards handicap cover 30) and 4 x 110 yards relay.
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  • 327 14 IPOH, Mon. PERAK soccer selectors were still worried at the end of today's final trial played at the Chinese Assembly Hall ground preparatory to picking the team that will meet Krdah lin a Malaya Cup match on Friday at Alor Star. After the game the
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  • 335 14 SHEFFIELD. Monday. YORKSHIRE by scoring 377. hit the highest total of the tour against the Australians and the highest hey had made against an Australian team herr today. The county, who were all Otti at lunch, beat the total of 333 for seven wickets declared
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  • 298 14  - SINGAPORE TIDES Turf topics SRA TC DISCUS REBEL JOCKEY! EPSOM JEEP By TODAY: Huh ***** i6.B> and 936 |U)| Low. 0140 (3 3) and, 309 i 4.7). TOMORROW: High. OAI3 IT. II md III?* (8.4); Low. r>4o (2.7 1 Sid 1410 (4.9). tkdp of the agenda at Straits Racing A?
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  • 315 14 KIM. A LIMIMK. Mon<ia>. \IK. S. C. B. Singam, Football Association of SctU| ir i president, today challenged the decision by the F.A.M. Emergency Committee in awarding I walkover to Penang as a result of the non-playing of their Malaya Cup tie against Selangor last Saturday.
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  • 79 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.-T.P.C.A. moved to the top of the F.A.S. Div 2<Ni table with an easy fi-1 win over Selancor Chinese A. A. on the p.irianc today. Chenwu had difficulty in raising side and had to requisition Hie Mrvtm of a number of tnuchliners.
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  • 30 14 The Singapore women s golt Championship Has won hv Mrs Wendy Lumsden at the Tfland club on Sunday She beat Mrs. Ohlson six and five.
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  • 80 14 MOW EVENTS MALAYAN AND KUALA I UMPfJK, Mon Tl new women.- BTI in this years Mala A. A A. championships. which be held :n Ku.ila Lumpur on 14 and 15. They are javelin, j put' „ud dtseat, The BMBVI events will be tame ns last ye;ir. En'ries are to be
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    • 69 14 SOiCF.R Combined larvtasi I Manila at I.il.iii BaSar; SM l.e.igue. l»ix. ".B ImmiEratinn S.( K«\ers 'A' at BOIM BtV. IC: Hsloitls S( I Ralrstirr I niled at Ceytanc; Naval C-in-C Staff v Blue Rovers ..1 IIMI >lIHI l.easue. Dix I: Borneo Co. alilr A Wiielrs^ al S.R.C. Sri ices Leajue,
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