The Straits Times, 9 October 1953

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  • 13 1 The Straits Times flew*"** Established 1845 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1953. 15 CENTS
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  • 706 1 Assembly of 81— UMNO-MCA KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. fUK special committee appointed by the UMNOMCA sponsored National Convention to consider constituiiona! reforms has recommended a Federal Legislative Assembly of 81 members of whom 51 should be elected. This is six more members than the number recommended by the
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  • 119 1 THE 1954 1 ANNUAL I CHINESE DRACON BOAT RACE .if Kuchim From the 1954 straits times an- nual. FINE in S<--utri I ii The STRAITS TIMES ANNUAL. C I wit ire i n j mI colour <md slack I nnd white. vth a I t k,, s fmg p,irt of
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  • 75 1 DUTCH PLANE FIRST OFF IN AIR RACE I.OXDOX. Thurs. TIIF London to New Zealand air race began at midnight <Sin C apnre time) when a XI..M DC-8 airliner was Raffed ofT h> the Duke of Gloucester. ■ircond pi. me away was the British Kuropran Airways' Vickers Viscount turbo-jet "Kndeavour" only
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  • 35 1 PARIS. Thurs. -A new Allied radical Air Force will be set in in Izmir. Turkey, on Wednesday staffed by American. rurkish and Greek personnel. Supreme headquarters. Allied Powen in Europe, announced. AP
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  • 58 1 KUAI.A LUMPUR. Tbun. SIR Sydney Palmer is due in tporc in the Chusan iber 25 on his first visit t i Malaya since he retireo from the country In August. 1949. Sir Sydney Is expected to ■tay for about two months. Sydney is chairman of the
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  • 62 1 BANGKOK. Thurs. The Premier. Marshal Phibun Bonggram, said today the peneral world situation had deteriorated and indicated am was heading toward n national erne: At a Press conference, he added the Thai government was now studying the situation In Indo-Chlna and considering whether to renew
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  • 42 1 PROOREBO V U C A I A Mexico, Thurs. Reports reaching here from Belize, capital h Honduras, said the town had swept by a Ir.e which caused at lea.st one death. Damage was estimated at ussi.2on.nnn. a.p
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  • 56 1 SAIGON. Thurs. Mr. Maurice Dojean. French High Commissioner in Indo-Chin.\. left today for Hong Konc to confer with British officials. French quarters said Mr Dejean would follow this up' with a visit to Singapore next week to meet Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. British CommU-
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  • 35 1 LONDON. Thurs. The Brl tish and American Governments will announce today their decision to withdraw their forces from Zone "A" of I rie.ste and to hand the Zone over to Italy. -Reuter.
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  • 124 1 LONDON. Thurs. THE Malayan College at Kirk by will bo at its brightest on Tuesday when the Duchess of Kent will look in for half an hour to see the young men and women who will soon be teaching in the Federations national schools.
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  • 208 1 PENANG. Thurs. BURGLARS who broke into the Northam Road home of the Penang millionaire Mr. Khaw Joo Chic yesterday morning and stole about $150.--0(i(i worth of cash and jewellery overlooked a golden casket presented to the family by Siamese nvalty. "The casket, i ontaining a cold
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  • 346 1 SLUMP FEARS: UNEMPLOYMENT SURVEY IN K.L. JMIE price of rubber in Singapore yesterday broke new low ground for the third day in succession. Yesterday's price of 57* cents a pound was j new record low since early 1950. But It recovered one and three-quarter
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  • 206 1 MRS. LOBO WANTS TO KNOW MRS. Alary Lobo was last nieht wondering if she was eligible to stand as Singapore Progressive Party candidate for the City Ward in the December City Council elections. Her problem is: By moving Mssssfg Singapore's City boundary has she lost her Municipal vote and thus
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  • 59 1 PARIS. Thurs— France is letting only 7.500 Americans enter Morocco to rr.an the US. Air Force bases there. Three of the jet bomber and fighter bases will be finished scon. at a cost of nearly U553,000,000,000 US officers say they will need double the 7.500 men
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  • 51 1 Anti-vice squads of the Social Welfare Department and the police carried out 82 combined raids on hotels, brothels and other places last month, states the Department's report for September. Many of the raids were during the day. Seven girls were detained, and 36 different places were
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  • 28 1 RANGOON, Thurs.—Government forces routed a strong force of Karen rebels in a bat- tie near Thegon. 25 miles from Rangoon, today. The rebels lost 18. -A.P.
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  • 27 1 COLOMBO. Thurs. -Ceylon is now a source of supply to the United States of monazit.v the mineral used in making the atomic bomb. A.P.
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  • 141 1 GEORGETOWN. Thurs BRITISH troops landed today and mounted guard at Government headquarters h< re and sugar ettatea outside the capital or mis souin American Colony Small groups watched the Royal Welch Fusiliers disembark from the frigates Burghead Bay and. Bigbury Bay. which sailed into
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  • 11 1 RANTIAOO. ClY.lc. Thurs The Chilean Cabinet re-signed last night.— Reuter.
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  • 903 1 Mr. Gillon reaches Singapore MR. James Gillon, 50, father of Private Hammond Gillon, who will stand trial for the murder of dance hostess Doreen Pereira, arrived in Singapore by 8.0.A.C. Argonaut at 5.38 last night in time for his son's 24th birthday. As he
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  • 95 1 Govt. moves to heip jobless KUALA LUMPUR, rhurs. T*KE FEDERATION Govern 1 ment is taking steps to meet problems Of unemployment as Malaya's two major industries- -tin and rubberface a decline in prices. It has set up a permanent committed, headed by the Commissioner for Labour, to inquire into unemployment
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  • 53 1 Ceylon pays Rs. 1.20 alb. for rubber COLOMBO. Thurs. The Ceylon Government today decided to pay producers one rupep and 20 cents a pound of sheet rubber from December 21 under next year's rubber-rice barter agreement with China. At present the Government pays one rupee and 35 cent.s pound of
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  • 31 1 LONDON. Thurs. Britain and the United States today officially announced that they will withdraw their troops from Zone "A" of Tries) hand the Zone over to Italian control. Reuter.
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  • 227 1 We still want talks says Eden MARGATE. Thurs. MR. Anthony Eden, thr Foroipn Secretary said hero today that despitr J discouraging responses from tho Soviet Union Britain wi'l, persevere in efforts to fret talks on the main issues which divide the East and the West. Mr. Eden was speaking at
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  • 25 1 ATOM TESTS ADKI AIDE. Thins— Bri tain's latest atomic text' scheduled to take place a Woomera will not tak< place before Saturduv D.P.
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  • 36 1 CAIRO. Thurs.— The Egyptian Ministry of the Interior has refused to grant an exit visa to ex-King Bog of Albania. his family and members ot his suit?, pending settlement of tax -irrears. Reuter.
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  • 37 2 AUSTRALIAN Prime .M .'.lister, Mr R. G. Menzies (centre) congratulates Mr. I. B. Fleming (right), chief designer of the pilotless radio controlled jet plane, •vhich has been named the Jindivik, an aboriginal word meaning "weapon carrier."
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  • 168 2 Bandit shoots terror boss, then gives up KUALA LUMPUR. Thur&. ANOTHER Communist leader ha.s been killed by one of his own men. He is Kek Guan a leading district committee member and political com- missar of the Bth independent i Platoon, South Kedah. The man who shot him Wll Kok
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  • 397 2  - QUICK MEALS ON RACE ISLAND WILLIAM FISH Tiny sandwiches fit oxygen masks From Our Own Correspondent COCOS ISLANDS, Thursday. JHIS flat-topped island, nowhere more than 100 feet above sea level, will tomorrow become the serve-yourself meal counter of the Indian Ocean. Second-splitting aviators and their passengers in the London-Christchurch air
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  • 94 2 KLM route a secret AN official of the Dutch airline KLM loould not comment last night on a London report that "The Flying Dutchman," which will carry 64 passengers, may refuel at Singapore in the England New Zealand air race. The plane, a DC6 Liftmaster, is entered in the Transport
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  • 58 2 TAIPEH. Thurs— Press reports from the southern Formosa port of Kaohsiung today said 17 of the crew of the Polish tanker Praca. .seized by Nationalist warships, had been arrested by security authorities The 17 were described as Chinese Communists. The 30 other members of the crew
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  • 55 2 TOKYO. Thurs. Members of the U.S. Air Force Ninth Bomber Wing, equipped with B-20 medium bombers, have arrived in the Far East for three months' routine training -U.P. TOKYO, Thurs.— Ma J. -Gen. Horatius Murray arrived in Tokyo by air from Britain today to take command of the
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  • 93 2 Traders to talk to U.S. visitors KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. THE NEWS of the further drop in the rubber price to a new post-Korean war low ca«t gloom on Federation commercial and industrial circles. A leading businessman in Kuala Lumpur said: "There have been no signs so far of a slump
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  • 155 2 A SIX-MAN U.S. mission a sub-committee of the House of Representatives armed services committee flew into Singapore yesterday from j Manila. Headed by Congressman Leroy Johnson. Republican of I California, the group arrived i at Kallang airport in a special I United States Air Force Constellation
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  • 134 2 LONDON, Thurs. METEOROLOGISTS today predicted perrect take off conditions for the eight planes which will soar off the main runway here at duss jii a half-way-round-the-world air race to Christchurch, New Zealand. The stiffest ordeal faces thy thrre-man crews of the Canberra jet bombers who
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  • 21 2 HONG KONG, Thurs— Hone; Kong is having unseasonal hot nnd damp weather caused by southerly winds from Indo-Ci'lna.-U.P.
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  • 21 2 Chen Siew Sen was flnrrl a total of $50 in the Singapore City Policf Court yv.stcrday for building unauthorised shrr'.s.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 221 2 Straits Times Crossword 28 I 1 Hi 29 I ACROSS 7. Not onr of the down-to-earth 1. Divided in Yugoslavia (5) 'JfPf (7) I**** trees everywhere Vl». 9 Anaesthetic (7). 14 Juristic play opens in lma--10. Count in* recount in* <7K binary coun ry (9). 11. Conveys stron B emotions
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  • 240 3 CHURCHILL MAYFLY TO MOSCOW FOR TALKS LONDON, Thursday. CIR WINSTON CHURCHILL may fly to Moscow to try to case world tension if he ajfkin fails to have a meeting of the Big Four leaders, diplomatic observers here said. The Prime Minister was trying very hard to arrange a top-level meeting
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  • 137 3 Russia is silent on plan MOSCOW, Thurs. THE SOVIET reaction to the Western idea of great power talks suggested that negotiations are not likely to prove fruitful now, diplomatic observers said here last night. The Soviet Press has been unusually silent since Russi-.i sent out a Note 10 days tfO
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  • 39 3 MANILA. Thurs.— Two U. S Army officers have been recommended for the Philippines Legion of Honour for their issistance to Filipino units In Korea. They ire Col. Charles L. Kirkpatrick and Col. Robert Kreuger.— U. P.
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  • 28 3 VALETTA. Malta, Thurs. Malta's churches yesterday itsked for three days of public j prayprs as an expiation for the Polish Government's suspension of Cardinal Wyszyruski. AP.
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  • 32 3 TOKYO. Thurs. Major-; Gen. Horatius Murray arrived here yesterday from Britain on his wiy to replace Gen. M. A. R. West, commander of the, Commonwealth Division in Korea. Reuter.
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  • 35 3 NOTTINGHAM. England, Thurs. -A British trade fair is to be neld in Bagdad n the autumn of 1954. Sir Norman Kipping, Director -General of the Federation of British Industries, said here yesterday. Reuter.
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  • 26 3 TOKYO. Thurs— Gen John E. Hull, new UN and U.S. Far East Commander, attended a centuries old Japanese classical play last night.— UP.
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  • 32 3 NEW YORK. Thurs Patricia Wickers, aged 18. arrived here yesterday tn marry Sgt. Richard O'Connor, of ihf U.S. Air Force, whom she met in a London underground station A.P.
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  • 36 3 SWEET HOME. Oregon, Thursday. A LOADED lossin- lorry, its driver dead at the wheel, rrathed down a mountain road near here yesterday and hi; a bus. Twe've people were injured— A.P.
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  • 41 3 CAIRO. Thurs— Five more men will appear before Egypt's revolutionary court on Saturday. Four will be accused of high treason. The fifth will be charged with engaging in activities aiming at harming the state's interest.— A.P.
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  • 14 3 NANKING, Thurs.— A Sfwiet athletic delegation arrived here yesterday from Peking. A.P.
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  • 72 3 MRS. Ml mil ORR-EWING (right) gives a demonstration of tea-making in the Cha-No-Yu style at Bedford College. An audience of 300 watched. Mrs. Hannako Kodaki (left), wife of a Japanese official, plays the role of a guest. Mile. Josette Martin (centre), of Berne. Switzerland, plays
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  • 237 3 Boy found dead: Man anc woman admit kidnap— police ST. LOI'IS. Missouri, Thursday. A MAN and a woman here yesterday admitted kid- napping six-year-old Bobby Greenlease, whose body was found in a shallow grave at St. Joseph, Missouri, but they denied killing the child, police said. Under arrest were Carl
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  • 135 3 NEW YORK. Thurs GENERAL Mark Clark, until recently commander "f the United Nations forces in Korea, said today. "I do not think a shooting war »ill start as; tin in Korea. Grn. Clark, who signed thr Korean armistice tor the Lnitrri Nations, flew here from
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  • 196 3 MARGATE, Thurs. LORD Salisbury, speaking in the foreign affairs debate at the Conservative Party conference, today said that in any agreement signed with Egypt, there must be a clear rcaffirmation of the principles of free transit through the Suez Canal. Lord Salisbury, who spoke
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  • 86 3 JAPAN PLANS TO AVERT RICE RIOTS TOKYO, Thurs— Japan today made plans to buy rice from South Korea and Pakistan to fight black market prices and the threat of rice riots this winter. With the early harvest al- ready in the black market price of rice has risen to more
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  • 21 3 TAIPEH. Thurs. -Two piano loads of 63 anti-Communi.st Chinese soldiers escaped prisoners from South Korea landed here today.— A.P.
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  • 22 3 HEIDELBERG. Thurs.— U.S. soldiers in Germany are to be allowed to wear civilian cloth- j ing when off duty. Reuter.
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  • 131 3 WASHINGTON Thurs. SENATOR ESTES KEFAUVER today asked President Eisenhower to take immediate steps to clear up the confusion created by recent administration statements on Russian possession of the H-bomb. Quotliiß contradictory statements by high officials. Senator Kefauver said that the lack of co-operation between
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  • 244 3 LONDON. Thurs. /^LOSING prices of selected stocks were:LOANS Consols 63 t r.inrtinK 4% 100'« War 3V; 85' 3 BANKS Mercuntil. < 1 2 24 1 j Hunukonc I $125) 90 EiiMern (£;•> T« Chartered (£l> 41 6 6 INSURANCE Com. U'i. <ut.?.) 12 Royal 12 Prudential 38 +/0
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  • 30 3 LONDON. Oct. 8. Cash Buyers t6OS: Sellers CRO6; Forward Buyers C 592 1 Sellers C.W3' 2 Settlement Cfioa'o (down C 6' 2 >- Turnover a.m. 45 tons. p.m. 10.
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  • 42 3 LONDON Ort fl Spot 17.d No\ 17. d. Dec 17' id. Jan -Mar 17 T .d.. Apr-June 17 T «d.. .Tilly-Sept 18d Or* r LI. 17' d Nov r.i f. 17..d. Dec. c if. 11' 2 6. Tone: Unrert. :r.
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  • 43 3 BERLIN. Thurs. East German police killed one anti-gov-ernment demonstrator and arrested 30 others at Aue Saxony, according to the West Berlin Information Bureau Th" demonstrators demanded the release of colleague."--j irrcsted for joining in thr I June anti-Communist riots
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  • 27 3 TOKYO. Thurs. -The Com muni>t educators have opened a new university in North Korea to teach basic courses in Marxism. Peking Radio said today.— UP.
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  • 39 4 MISS BETTY DRIVER, a well-known British singer and television star, who arrived in Singapore last night by 8.0.A.C. Constellation from London with her husband. Mr. A. Patrrson. on their way to sing in Australia. Straits Times picture^
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  • 192 4 CHUA ENG GUAN alias Chua Heng Boon of East Coast Road was accused in a Singapore court yestrrday of unlawful possession of nrearms. Detective Inspector Patrick I David, attached to the Orchard Road police station, said he took four detectives with him in his car
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  • 112 4 THE Singapore Pollco Magis- trate. Mr. J. M. Devereux- Colcbourn. yesterday gav f Toh Khai Kok. who was "harmed with using a private jar for hire, a discharge not amount- ng to an acquittal. He held I the prosecution had not proved the casi? Toh
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  • 525 4 SHOT WIFE 'HIGHLY STRUNG' Inquest told: She dropped her cigarette... fADET A.S.P. Anthony Scott Sommerville, 24,, and his 25-year-old wife, Aletta, who were found shot in their quarters at New Bridge Road on Sept. 26, had drinks with three friends three hours earlier in Mount Pleasant Road police officers' mess,
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  • 125 4 LIQUOR STOLEN OFF BOAT "TVXJR cases of whisky were r stolen from a motor sampan in Telok Ayer Basin, Singapore, at midnight on Tuesday. They were part of a consignment of 30 cases. The theft was discovered yesterday when the consignment was loaded into the S.S. Marudu. From a farmer's
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  • 87 4 Caused hurt 3 gaoled Passing sentence on three Indians. R. Ramalingam. R. Velautham and P. Palani. charged with hurting R. Pillai and Valmani with a penknife, the eighth police magistrate, Inche A. W. Ghows said; The Chief Justice has made a ruling that whipping should be imposed only when the
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  • 24 4 Six Bearcat aircraft of the Royal Thai Air Force will fly over Singapore city at seven o'clock this morning in a demonstration flight.
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  • 123 4 SINGAPORE City Council's public works committee is not sure whether the Council should carry on providing car parks now that it has j decided to hand over the Highway Authority to the (iovernment. The Improvement Trust has a<reed to lease an open space in
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  • 144 4 JOSEPHINE JOHN, a 19--year-old Singapore schoolgirl thought things over for a fortnight after she was found guilty In the Fourth District Court of making alterations in her identity card illegally. When she was convicted on Sept. 24, the judge, Mr. J. B. Jeyaretnam,
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  • 64 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs The Sultanah of Johore will open a Bazaar and Sale of Work at the Johore Civil Service Association premises in Jalan Ayer Moleh at 4 p.m. on Saturday. The Bazaar is being organised by the Johore Bahru branch of the Women's Institute of
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  • 32 4 The death occurred on October 1 at Widford. Waro. Hertfordshire, of Mrs. Porcival. wire of Lt. -General A. E. Percival, 0.0.C. Malaya at the time of the Japanese Ibvimloo
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  • 109 4 SOLDIER FREED ON RETRIAL MAJID BIN AHMAD, a soldier, who was retried on a charge of armed robbery of $988 from the NAAFI canteen a* Kay Siang Camp, off Tanglin Road, was cleared of the offence at the Singapore Assizes yesterday. The jury returned a 5-2 verdict of not guilty
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  • 152 4 A SINGAPORE doctor last night named enteritis and hookworm as two common diseases in the Colony and gave hints on how to fight them. Dr. Meyer Marshall was giving a public lecture on "Hygiene" at the St. Joseph's Institution Hall. The lecture was sponsored
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  • 28 4 Telok Ayer Methodist Youth Fellowship Movie Circle, Singapore, will present an a'lterhnicolour free educational film show in the church hall at 7.30 p.m. on Oct. 15.
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    • 88 4 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 7.15 Morning Star 7.30 News; 7.35 Norrie Paramor Orchestra: 8 Hill Billy Half Hour; 8.30 M;ilay Housewives' Corner; 9 Music While You Work; 9.45 Housewives' Choice; 10.30 Morning Matinee; 1 Mantovani: 1.30 News; 1.45 George Barnes Octet: 5.02 The Under 21 Club: 5.30 V N. Album; 5.45
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    • 323 4 Singapore Diary POLICE BAND: Public perfor- tlsh News— at Collyer Quay 115 mancp al King George V Park 5.30 p.m. p.m. to 6.30 pm. Y.W.C.A.: Malay classes— be*lnTECHNKAL ASSOCIATION OK nprs "I* a.m.. advanced 10.30 a.m. MALAYA: Public lecture on Hous- 8t Rn*"™ Quay. Inp" by Mr. JM. Prasor. manager
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  • 235 5 Strengthened sea patrols learn to use guns JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. THE Johore Govern- I merit is stepping up action to seal off the coastal area to Communist infiltration, Customs evaders and illegal immigrants. Marine crews are being trained to use firearms for their Emergency patrols in the Straits of Johore.
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  • 154 5 $250,000 CHARGE UNFRAMED A CHARGE was left unframed at the close of a preliminary hearing yesterday after 23 witnesses has testified I against Loo Wee Wan, 52. accused of breach of trust of $250,000, belonging to Singapore Oversea-Chlnrse Bank. Lee was chief paying cashier of the bank and had held
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  • 64 5 A party of officers and 22 other ranks of the Siamese Army will arrive at Kalians airport. Singapore, today for a four- week course in jungle wafare at the Far East Training Centre in Johore. An army spokesman in Singapore last night said the Siamrsp
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  • 59 5 The foundation day of London University will be celebrated by Malayan graduates v ith a dinner at the Sea View Hotel. Singapore, on November 28. Tickets can be obtained from Mr. Cheong Hock Hai, 3. Leicester Road, Dr. Kiang Ai Kirn. at the University of Malaya and
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  • 41 5 The first Moore-MaoCormack owned ship to call in Singapore, the 7.606 ton Victory type vessel Mormacfir arrived in Singapore yesterday. Under charter to American President Lines the Mormacfir is loading rubber for Los Angeles and Atlantic ports.
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  • 35 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Ang Fook, a clerk in a Chinese I school, charged in the Police 1 Court with criminal breach of trust of $11,317, belonging to the school, was allowed $10,000 bail.
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  • 214 5 Mr. Philip Hoalim (Jr.) and Mr. Thampoe Thamby Rajah are seeking admission to the Singapore Bar. Their applications will come for hearing before Mr. Justice Taylor in the High Court this morning. rE Stage Club's production of the Paragon is a pleasure to see. Overcoming
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  • 48 5 The Governor of Singapore. Sir John Nicoll, who was admitted to the General Hospital on Wednesday for a final medical check-up following his recent illness, left the hospital yesterday. A Government spokesman last night said the results of j the medical examination were "satisfactory."
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  • 130 5 17-gun tribute on the Raja's birthday ALOR STAR. Thurs Al7-GUN salute will herald State celebrations of the 35th birthday of the Raja of > Perlis on Saturday. The celebrations committee has drawn up an elaborate programme which starts at '8. 40 a.m. when community leaders, councillors and heads of government
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  • 55 5 A brisk trade in Siamese ducklings was done yesterday as soon as the Messageries Maritimes chartered vessel Bagheera arrived. Hundreds of ducklings, bought in Phnompenh, Slam, by the crew, were sold in minutes to bumboatmen at $1 each. The crew is waiting to return to
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  • 8 5 OTHER CITIES SEE MASTER PLAN BUT NOT SINGAPORE
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  • 204 5 THE SINGAPORE City Police Court Magistrate. Mr. J. M. Devereux-Colebourn, said yesterday that it was rather unfair to Singapore that its Master Plan should be on display elsewhere and not in the Colony. He said this when Mr. S. E. Siddoas. the City Council's chief
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  • 28 5 SEGAMAT. Thurs. For driving a lorry negligently and knocking into a gate it Bulnh Kasap new village. Mokhtar bin Abdullah 29. was fined $35 at Segamat.
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  • 36 5 SEGAMAT, Thurs.— Muthlah, 35. was charged in the Segamat court with making a false declaration about his ration card. Bail of $200 was granted and the case adjourned till Oct. 18.
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  • 339 5 THIS is the true but sad story of a Ifi-year-old boy. born of a wealthy family, whom nobody loved or wanted because he was born uifly and has a squint. We shall call him Ah Tee. but that is not his real name. In
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  • 79 5 BANDIT BOSS AND AIDE KILLED GAN SIANG. closest companion and lieuten^". of Communist terrorist committee member Yew cheong Chee. alias Yew Khai was killed yesterday by the 4th Battalion Malay Regiment in the Triang district of Pahang. Yew was killed by the Battalion on Wednesday. Yew and Gan were contacted
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  • 179 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. A BRITISH soldier, Trooper, A. F. Essex, of the 22nd Special Air Services, was charged in the Kuala Lumpur First Magistrate's Court today with negligent driving, failing to stop after an accident, failing to report an accident within 24 hours and
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  • 22 5 The Penang Benevolent Society will hold a tea party at 915 Geylane Road. Singapore at 4 p m. on Sunday.
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  • 136 5 LIGHTS GO ON IN SUNGEI LEMBU I I SI T NGEI LEMBI\ Thurs. SUNGEI Lembu new villagers had their first experience of electricity this week when perimeter lighting, worked by a generator, was installed in their village. Mr. Ng Kee Siong, chairman of the village comnritee. told the Straits Times
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  • 49 5 A Malayan student. Chan Peng Fook, of Kuala Lumpur, will be sent to Kings Collesrv Newcastle, for a years lecture course to .study English town planning methods. He will pet practical experience in the department of Mr. W. A. Genty. Durham County Planning Officer.
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  • 218 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. A POLICEMAN Jumped for safety as a car mounted a roundabout, careered towards him and smashed into a stationary vehicle, the Sessions Court was told today. A European. W. F. Nattrass was gaoled for three months for driving while under the influence
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 296 5 3 Shows: 3, 6.15 9.15 p.m. Warner Bros. Piratr* ir N>w Comfdyl ABBOTT and COSTELLO in MEET CAPTAIN KIDD' ('o-«tarrinf C'harlr* Laufhlon In Super rlnerolor 3, 6.3(1 9.15 "HUJAN PANAS" (Malay) iLIAiL. 3* 7 3o pjn "MARUMACAL" (Tamil) Starring PadmJnl. Lalita, N. T. Rama Rao A S. V. Sahawanamam ItJl^^l^i
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  • 225 6 COME to the Cookery Demonstration. G EC. Showrooms, 12 Ba'tery Road, 10.30 a.m., S.iturday. 10th October "TANKERS" An Exhibition of Shell Photographs on Construction nnd life aboard a modern Oil Tanker at The Odeon Theatre dally from 10.00 a.m. THE STAGE CLUB present* "The Paragon" by Roland and Michael
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  • The Straits Times
    • 634 6 The rubber producer will get little satisfaction from being told that there is no obvious change in the statistical position to justify the latest decline in the price. But it happens to be true, and the conclusion is that the price may hold at something Ltt t
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    • 348 6 Almost everything which Si' Winston Churchill can say in his eagerly awaited speech to the Conservation Association has now been anticipated by the pundits. Only some unknown Everest can recapture the challenge which seized the world's imagination in May, and recent exploration holds little promise that such
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    • 297 6 India's "grave concern" about developments in Korea will not lead to Indian troops there doing less than their duty, but Delhi has the right to expect full United Nations support for the difficult and unpleasant task in which these troops are engaged. While South Korean threats to
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  • 1347 6  -  GORDON WALKER By T»HERE are few illuA sions in the capitals of the western world over the basic motives behind Communism's decision to bring a halt to the war in Korea. It is an accepted premise that the Korean truce is little
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  • 655 6  - Britain makes world 5 best planes, but HARRY DRAKE By A YEAR AGO this question was asked: With the finest designs in the world, could the British produce their planes in quantity? Only by doing so could Britain obtain both military security and vital foreign exports. For the past six
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  • 455 6 Pit appeal IT Js hard not to be movrri by an appeal from the colliers at Batu Arang to save our only pit. Malaya's railways may havr switched to oil, seagoing shfTi.s burn oil, but the experience ol Britain, though conditions arc different, shows that it can
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 648 6 Straiti Timct Free Preii for th« convenience at odvrrfuert, our representative at 111 floor, SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE, ORCHARD ROAD, will receive trnoll OfJvcr tisPfnentv eno onswen to bo« numben. alto be handed to: CITY BOOK STORE LTD., Winchester Houta, Collyer Quay, Singapore. CITY BOOK STORE LTD.. 93 Tanglln Road, Singapore.
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    • 37 6 READER'S Digest is the pocket-sized treasury of each month's best reading selected from leading magazines and current books and condensed to save your time. $1— A Month C. R. DAS ARATHA RAJ LTD SINGAPORE it K. LUMPUR
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    • 120 6 6 RAFFLES PLACE. 'PHONE ***** f r. \i,iHtUf(%f Xv OPTICIANS Kw K. E. MEYER o opt. ma op ftNo) K. BELL Dip OPT,. A S.T.C., FA.O.A. you can effectively COMBAT TOOTH DECAY Brvthing after every meal with IIMM Tooth Paste helps reduce tooth decay in 3 important ways! 1. It
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  • 366 7 Templer sees the slums of K. L. and says: Strewth SQUATTERS HAVE A VISITOR... KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. gIR Gerald Tcmpler today saw for himself the slums of Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown, (ioinjr upstairs in a Cecil Street shophouse he exclaimed: "Strewth." He walked down narrow corridors on the first and second
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  • 126 7 PROTEST CLEARS THE LANE THE RECENT protest of 50 residents of (iemmill Lane, Singapore, against Ihr City Council using their street M a rubbish (lumping centre, has had results. Yrstrrday. a hi« <r;inr-(itted lorry started clearing the rubbish soon after it was put in about 20 dustbins in the line.
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  • 117 7 T*HE prominent Singa- f 0 1? Indian who wants to educate a poor Indian boy or girl to "pay off a debt of gratitude" has received 20 applications. The lucky child will be Picked in the next few days. The Indian, who wishes to remain
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  • 59 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. Tan Woon Wah. who was charged in the Police Court today with evading $45 Customs' duty on 120 bottles of face cream, was fined $400 and the cream was confiscated. Tan told the court that he had no intention of evading riuty but
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  • 64 7 SEEKERS OF PUBLIC AID INCREASE A total of 660 new people required assistance In September reports the Singapore) Social Welfare Department. This was an increase of 58 over the August figure. Of the $230,077 spent on 7,813 people last month, $55,781 went to 2.921 who were sick and In need
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  • 38 7 Thirty-two members of Sin- gapore Social Welfare Department are undergoing training for Civil Defence and emer- 1 gency roles. Thus consists of lectures and practical work on registration, rest centres reception camps, feeding and welfare.
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  • 107 7 MORE and more Hindu marriages in Singapore are j being broken, and because of this. Mr. C. R. Dasaratha Raj i Labour-Rochore i is taking steps to make the marriage ceremony binding. At present, unless witnesses to a wedding appear in court, it is difficult
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  • 48 7 $2,300 fine in samsu case Tan Chiew, 37, was found guilty in a Singapore Court yesterday of having 6 2/3 gallons of samsu and 206 gallons of fermented rice, and a still for distilling, on Sept. 30 in Braddell Road. He was fined $2,300 or 11 months' gaol.
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  • 35 7 Private candidates from Singapore for the 1954 London Chamber of Commerce 1 Spring) Examinations should submit their entries between Oct. 10 and Nov. 30, 1953. Entry forms are available at the Education Office.
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  • 154 7 JHE SINGAPORE City Council's Kas department plans special services costing about $845,000 next year, and reports that the department faces a crisis w e "Iporrect. it was officially stated yesterday Mr. Chan Kum Chee, vice- 1 chairman of the Council's public utilities committee, said that
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  • 70 7 A new code for pensions and gratuities for Gurkha officers and other ranks serving in the British Army is to be I introduced soon, an Army spokesman from General Headquarters. Far East Land Forces in Singapore said yesterday. The pensions and gratuities would be 'broadly
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  • 117 7 k MAN in the Tanglin area, Singapore has struck on a bright idea to get rid of a 20-foot mound at the back of his house to make way f or a garden. He advertised in the Straits I Times an offer of 500 tons of
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  • 205 7 Pickering St. again-trishaman falls to his death A 33-YEAR-OLD trisha- rider, Ny Boon Cheng, fell ofT the sixth floor of the S.I.T. flats in Ipper li< kerine Street, Singapore, yesterday. He died on the way to hospital. It was the eighth death fall off the building. A minute before he
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  • 154 7 INCREASE in demand for admission at Kandanp Kerbau maternity hospital means that priority may to be given to poor people in peak periods said Dr. W. J. Vickers, Director of Medical Services, yesterday. Urgent cases, whether rich or poor, will continue to get admission all
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  • 74 7 rpwo men interrupted a Chinese woman praying at the Wong Koo Leong virgin goddess) shrine in the compound of the Hanc Seng Teng Temple in Silat Road. Singapore, yesterday afternoon and robbed her of $35. The robbers were a Malay, who was armed with
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  • 212 7 MAN IN COURT GETS HIS $35,000 THE Singapore fourth district judge. Mr. J. B. Jeyaretnam, yesterday ordered the Customs Department to return $35,000 to Teo Joon Hong who was convicted on Wednesday of offering a bribe to a customs officer. It was alleged that on August 25 when Teo was
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  • 213 7 They still bid high for land in S'pore THERE has been a slight 1 drop in property values in Singapore since the peak of the 1951 boom period. Mr. Yeo Wee Sect, general manager of Cheong Hock Chye Limited, auctioneers and valuers, told the Straits Times yesterday. But. Mr Yeo
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  • 59 7 Plans to raise funds for the 1954 general assembly of the World Assembly of Youth will be discussed at the monthly committee meeting of the Singapore Youth Council at 5.30 p.m. on October 13. The assembly will be held in Singapore next August. It will be the
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  • 33 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Thar*.— A seven-foot crocodile was caught alive in a trap set by Malays at Sanglang, Pontian, today. It was brought to Johore Bahru to be presented to the Zoo.
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  • 15 7 Family remittances to Chira last month totalled $1,876.--074. Of this $1,139,713 went from Singapore
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  • 51 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. For cheating his wife. Moharoecl bin Osman was bound over for $200 for two years in the Sessions Court today. HLs wife told the court that be askod for hrr rarrincs and gold eha'.n to Ret them repaired and then he pawned
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  • 210 7 They back F.P.A. but are not affiliated SEVERAL members of th O Singapore Chinese Ladto Association give active sup port to the Family Plannin Association, hut they are no affiliated. Mrs. Renee B. Yoi F.P.A's organising secretary told thr Straits Times yes terday. She was replying to a letlr published
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  • 68 7 IMM of rice in Muar District. Johoro. for tlr* ration Wftk beginning Octobrr 12 will be Hi;:h sradc: Siam white rice 'five per crnt bmkrnsi at 1 41 cents 1 kati 25 per rent. Hish grade; Slam white rice (IS por rmi brokens) at 41
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  • 45 7 News through co-op To hol.sier the co-operative movement, more than 1.000 members of the Johore Bahru Co-operative Society have decided to get their English and vernacular newspapers through the society. The society's stores, started in 1951. now has an average monthly turn over of $65,000.
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    49 7 A srrvice in memory of the lafp Fey Canon C. D Gnanamani will be held at Christ Church. Dorset Road. Singapore, at 5 0 m. tomorrow Extravagant embroidery of glistening black jett trim the halter of this evening gown worn by Esthw William* at a Hollywood patty.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 18 7 Obtainable In white and 18 attractive shades. Established for over fin A.CLOUET/g% CO.. LTD. SINGAPORE TEL: 3964 Cl-41
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    • 103 7 everyone fe'*/ m^can afford good yrfyi health #Here is thr now specially-designed economy pack for Scott's Capsules! One easy-to-carry. crllophane pack contains 12 capsules you need $ever be without them. Always look for the nshmanchop on the label. SCOTT'S /*i Cod Liver Oil i&r capsules H M Scott's Cnp\ules crvtnin
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 148 7 The Weather Minimum temperature '7.30 p m. on Oct. 7 to 7.30 a.m. on Oct 8t: Singapore 75 degrees, Penang 74, Kota Bahru 74. Kuala Lumpur 72, Ipoh 72, Kuantan 73. Maximum temperature a.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Oct. 8): Singapore 88, Penang 89, Kota Bahru 88, Kuala Lumpur
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  • 494 8  -  GEORGE EDINGER j y > DOTH films previewed °this week have a war theme. One recalls the last war. The other foretells the next. The unfortunate fact that a large portion of your 1953 film audience anywhere have probably known at least one war,
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  • 150 8 One-minute review FOR upcountry readers: cut out and keep this one- minute review of cur- rent films. It is brought to date week by week. Three stars: ourstand- j ing; two stjrt; above average: one star; average. THE DESERT RATS: Superlative war film based on the Austra- lians' defence of
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    23 8 First-aid workers rescue wounded during bombardment of Malta. Below, Muriel Pavlow and Alec Cuinness take time off from war in the Crand Harbour
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  • 229 8 BY contrast with Malta stoiy Time Bomb (Cathay is a gentle affair It depends N upon the well known British practice of sending truckloads of sea mines, fully charged, by rail across half England. This carelessness stimulates a Communist saboteur, perfectly portrayed, to set
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  • 701 8 T*HE coming of Xavicr Cugat. Catalan band leader who commands one of those fabulous U.S. dollar salaries that mount up to more in one week than the British Premier earns in a whole year, is going to be an event in the Singapore
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 274 8 [7|lf>^ 5 SHOWS DAILY UfiEICQT Iff IBJEO I SCREEN (42 FT. WIDE) in SINGAPORE! BIGGER ACTION! BIGGER THRILLS! wSi Z-!3b |BHkMaHMiZ> iiomimico s iuuious o»uc»' MMMMMMMMMBMjPfIMJ DIANA LYNN PATRICIA MEDINA -priiice i 'l 1 y J Tiipia- 1 Ml Tech. >> OMOHKOW ■>lII»\ITE[^^ TO OUTER SPACE /^*\i\ «V^ ONLY HAPPEN
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    • 273 8 CATHAY ORGANISATION JjL. rWg^ ATTRACTIONS TODAY oHONt^hT^V^—jTru^y- 11.00 a.m.- 1»5DAILY/ 03mk I 111 930 p.m. M-G-M's SPLASHY TK( HNICOLOR MI'SICAL LAI»US CARSON ON PANORAMIC SCREEN *^*NEXT CHANGE* Timed for ifjt THRILLS! L A//M M GLENN 4w ford ANNE nM VERNON JCi TOMORROW MIDNIGHT! ON THE GREAT PANORAMIC SCREEN MIGHTIEST >,
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  • 340 9 WHEN Maria Menado arrived in Singapore from the Celebes in 1950 she was a young village girl with no stage or film experience. And yet. within a year, she had won two beauty contests, appeared in 20 shows and completed two Malay films. This modern
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 216 9 1 i r •jjk^ HOXVKONG ■^iCJtr^-^k^sd Aif>T»^; Pj^bb^bb^B > t -*^;~i i£ l -aZfL/ i*^. jjJM U rA 30 DAY EXCURSION FARES SINGAPORE to HONG KONG with stop-over facilities in Bangkok and/or Saigon S*.T#.T return. B. N. BORNEO to HONG KONG with stop-over facilities in Manila S.ltJi return. Con«nll: Auvlralian
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  • 492 10 Around ntiirkfts TIN FALLS, RUBBER RISES THE Singapore share market continued to decline In all sections yesterday and a good few quotations were pruned in the industrial section in the absence of business. Tins were fairly steady at the previous day's price levels and rubbers were
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  • 31 10 The price of (in in Singapore yesterday was deila red at 1M2471 a pirn I down |LM This is thr lowest price since August 22 when it was S.lOO.
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  • 166 10 MELBOURNE. Thuri CHARE trading was on steady line* on the Stock Exchange today. Sales covered a wide range of .xt<x k*. bin most transactions were in small parcels and few minef. exrefdrd 6ti. Minnm scrip agiin moved quietly and varinhlv Bonds wrre steady three Issues rlslnjj and 'hree
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  • 166 10 NEW YORK. Thurs THERE was f>. more cheerful tone on the Stoc* Market yesterday following Tuesdays tax Jitt«r setback. Recover.es of fractions prevailed for the main body but activity remained subdued. A few selected Issues, lncludins aircraft s. developed Improvement ranging up to more than one point Heavy
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  • 173 10 October first grade closed I on the Singapore rubber mar- I ket yesterday at 59 cents a pound one-quarter cent above Wednesday's close after dropping tc a record post-Korean War low of 57 cents earlier in the day. Early selling was absorbed and there was some trade support.
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  • 72 10 Singapore liincsr Prodiirp Exchange: Noon prices per picul were: Copra: quiet; October $35', buyers. $36', sellers: November $36 buyers. $36-.. sellers. Coconut oil: $59 sellers Pepper: quiet: White up $5; Black up $10: small business reported: Muntok white $370. Sarawak $365. Lampong black $330. Lewis and Peat: Closing
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  • 36 10 During September, estates and mines in the Outhrie «roup produced 6.326.510 pounds of rubber. 145.000 pounds of black, tea. 1.059 tons of palm oil. 311 tons of palm kernels and 1.735 plculs of tin-ore.
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  • 35 10 MELBOURNE. Thurs BIHd ng for wool continued bri^k at Oeelonc today The record pric of 430 d. a pound wag paid for lambs wool. Good quality Merino fleece I Irt well.
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  • 38 10 On thr free exchange market in Hong Kong yesterday the U.S. dollar was quoted at 5 93fi25 for cash and 5.955 for TT Sterling was quoted at 15 86 and one tael of sold at 259.625.
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  • 44 10 The following rubber crops are reported for September > Lb. Allenby Rubber 33.000 Benta Rubber Estates fi.voon Jeram Kuantan Rubber 63.(100 Kundong Rubber Estate 35.5P.0 Mentakab Rubber Ti.zon Sungel Began Rubber 1.12.000 Tanjong Pau Rubber 49.800 Kempas 313 500 Radella Rubber 15 100
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  • 198 10 CHIPS lying alongside the SlngaXt pore Harbour Board wharves or I expected today are: Rio Aquapey 4 I Grenoble CP Ennerdale 67. London Maru 89. Mormacflr 11. Wonosart 13 14. Benlomond 15 16. Bracside 18. Merkur 19 20. Sedlll N Wall 4. SeiiKjiarang N. Wall 6 Mallm N
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 501 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS VACANCIES WAR DEPARTMENT APPLICANTS are Invited for the post, of a Civilian Stores Officer In an Army Depot in Kuala Lumpur. Applicants must be capable of identifying building, engineering, water supply and electrical stores and have a thorough knowledge of I the organization of a large stores depot
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    • 113 10 VACANCIES WAR DEPARTMENT APPLICATIONS are Invited from suitably qualified European Women for the post of resident Matron ai Slim School The. Army Secondary Boarding School, Cameron Highlands. Pay $280 to $300 basic plus Cost of Living Allowance at present $150 vtth deductions for accommodation and messing of approximately $205 monthly.
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    • 450 10 NOTICES IMITATION RED LEAD POWDER Made In Belgium 75 cwts. packed In 28 lb nett iron drums, $35 per cwt. P.O. Box 803, Singapore. NOTICE FEDERATION OF MALAYA Srci'RlTY LOAN (1952) $50.000.000— 5 r REGISTERED STOCK 1962 1972 Notice is hereby given that tho Rrtrister of the above-mentioned stock will
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    • 812 10 NOTICES NATURALISATION NOTICE is hereby given that I Arthur Perry of 26b, Orchard Road, Singapore, Is applying to the Governor for naturalisation, and that any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to the Colonial Secretary.
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    • 617 10 NOTICES MUNICIPALITY OF KUALA LUMPUR CLOSING OF SHAW ROAD Notice is hereby given that Shaw Road. Kuala Lumpur, in the vicinity of the bridge over the railway, will be closed to all I vehicular traffic from Saturday, i 10th October. 1953. until further i notice, in connection with the works
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    • 784 10 TENDERS SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST TENDERS are Invited from persons wishing to purchase one Horsfall Type Z.'D Refuse Destructor. Further particulars, and tender forms, can b* obtained on payment of a deposit of $25,'- which will be refunded if a bona flde tender is submitted Sealed tenders are to be deposited
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    • 30 10 MITSUI pQ LINE CASTROUND ROUND TMI WORLD SIRVICf ufO^# rtnonq Sin 0,4 pot Hnnq Kono, Jo pan A«*n»i C.F. SHARP 6c CO., (M) LTD. UNION lUIIDING. SINGAPORI TIL JJUII, 110*7
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    • 1576 11 |SJ«w MANSFIELD tfc CO., LTD. $£5 Passage (Incorporated in Singapore) All other Dtpt BLUE FUNNEL LINE OtpM Carriers' option to proceed via other ports to load end discharge cargo SAILINGS to LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW, LONDON A CONTINENTAL PORTS Due Soils P. S'hom Penong Aeneas for Genoa, London, Hollond Homburg "la>oO* O
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    • 1053 11 Bssf^#_^^^_w^^_sl Bssm^^^asT^'^BsT^^BsT/^JsBT^/^JsBT—sT^TJsBT^iE Bssav^_9a7^43a^^BßsT^^^_^*l_l EAST ASIATIC UNE SAILINGS FROM SCANDINAVIAN/U K /CONTINENT S'pora P Sham Panang "Indie" for Bongkok, Soigon, Hong Kong, Monila, Kobe, Yokohomo 11/12 Oct. 10/10 Oct. "Selendie" for Bangkok 14/18 Oct. 14/110ct. 11/llOct. "Keree" for Djakarta, Bongkok, Soigon, Hongkong, Manila, Kobe, Yokohama 22/21 Oct. 20/21 Oct. 19/19 Oct.
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    • 1123 11 BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. SAILINGS to U.K. end CONTINENTAL PORTS Spore P Sham Penang ■enovon for London, Hull, Rotterdam, Hamburg 11/17 Oct. 18/20 Oct. 21/22 Oct. Benarty for Genoa, Avonmouth, Liverpool, Glasgow 15/11 Oct. 22/24 Oct. 2S/27 Oct. "•nreoeli for r'ovre, London, Rotterdam, Hull 27 Oct/ 2 Nev. 1/ S
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    • 1260 11 McALISTER <Sc CO., LTD. TEL: No. 5906 ELLERMAN «Sc BUCKNALL KLAVENESS LINE LONDON, HAVRE, ROTTERDAM, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, HAMBURG PORTLAND, SEATTLE A VANCOUVER and for U.S.A., North Atlantic Ports Accepting cargo for Centrol A Seuth ond Canada via Colombo American Ports CITY OF BIRMINGHAM .n s. CASTLEVILLE Spore P.
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  • 347 12 THE BUSINESS WORLD ASKED if news of falling rubber prices travelled quickly through the Singapore business world, one businessman commented: "It broke the sound barrier". tAt SOME Singapore businessmen think the Colony should take a more active part In international trade fairs in surrounding countries. They commented that Singapore was
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  • 56 12 World trade deficit with U.S. is lower EXCLUDING aid shipments, the world's trade deficit with the United States declin--led from more than US$l,9OO million in the first seven months of last year to less than US$55O million in the comparable period this year. This was revealed in a report by
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  • 262 12  - INDONESIA GIVES MORE ASSISTANCE TO NATIONAL BUSINESSMEN Eric Woolnough Bu By a Special Correspondent THE Indonesian Government hns given more assistance to Indonesian importers with reduction of advance payments for purchase of a number of industrial and capital gexxis. Imporrers now have to pay only 50 per cent, of the
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  • 98 12 Reds are seeking Indonesian trading pOMMUNIST-dominated countries seeking trade with Indonesia— mainly exports of mechanical and heavy equipment in exchange for good quality rubber are making overtures to the Republic. The above photograph shows the pavilion erected by the Communist satellite state of Czechoslovakia at the recent International Trade Fair
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  • 172 12 A "LOOK AND LEARN" tour of South-east Asia is planned by Mr. Neil C. Hurley, president of Thor Power Tool Co., of Illinois, who is due to arrive in Singapore tomorrow. It will be his first visit to Singapore. But Mr. Hurley has
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  • 154 12 /COMMONWEALTH sales of tin, rubber and cocoa— at annual low points during July, August and September were to blame for only a small increase in gold and US dollar reserves of the Sterling Area during September, according to a Washington
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  • 71 12 A drop in the prices of cotton yarn and cloth In Japan is i forecast by officials of Japan's Ministry of International Trade following the Government's decision to Import 1,450,000 bales of raw cotton during the October March period. It had been planned to Import only 1,350,000
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  • 133 12 NEW GR-S PLAN TO FORECAST DEMAND THE United States Office of Synthetic Rubber has announced that revised purchase rules of synthetic rubber were set up to help the Government anticipate consumer demands, schedule production more evenly and avoid excessive inventories. The announcement followed the new sales policy for the Government's
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  • 97 12 SYNTHETIC RUBBER 'SALESMEN' PRESIDENT Eisenhower has appointed two of the three members of the Rubber Producing Facilities Disposal Commission which is to sell the United States Government's synthetic rubber plants to private industry. The commission must report to Congress by January 31, 1955, with recommendations and signed contracts from prospective
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  • 53 12 Hundreds of bales ol cloth abandoned by defalting dealers because of falling prices have been auctioned in the Bombay textile market, according to reports from Bombay. Textile dealers in Indiaone of the biggest textile manufacturing and exporting countries in the world—-, c failing to take delivery
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  • 120 12 TWO trees will be planted at the main entrance of the $1.5 million, four-storey block of 40 new flats in Dunearn Road, Singapore, to commemorate the official opening this afternoon. Half the flats will be occupied by officers and their families of the
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  • 107 12 BRITISH SHIP DELIVERIES UP IN AUGUST DELIVERIES of ships from British yards to foreign owners in August were more than double those of July and much more than in August last year. Board of Trade returns show that 54.346 tons three steamers of 40,448 tons gross, two motorships of 13,898
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  • 244 12 AUSTRALIA has always, regarded Malaya as its I traditional market, ac- 1 cording to a representative of one of Australia's largest flour exporters who has been visiting the Federation and Singapore. Mr. W. Oarrick Wilson, a director of Olllesple Bros. Pty. Ltd.. of Sydney,
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 219 12 AIR COMPRESSORS and PNEUMATIC TOOLS for MINES QUARRIES WORKSHOPS RUBBER ESTATES BUILDING CONTRACTORS Available Ex-Stock Singapore For Details consult: JflfflES MILLER E CO. LTD. POUTHBIi PUMPS •feroP* ALCON i PUMPS— ZJ\^~^aia Self-contained ALCON PUMPS, eiectrcally pow'ercd or De»'ol driven. «-c available in l-i- m., (outout 3.400 galls ocr hour, weight
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    • 216 12 THE KING OF CHAMPAGNES THE CHAHPAGNE OF* .KINGS MAGNUMS Tyt||r QUARTS $38 00 I $20 00 pc p PINTS BOTTLE %m() I PER if |l BOTTLE PL ifi&o^B The leading t hampaßiie supplied to (lulis Hotels and Bars throughout Malaya. Trade enquiries invited. SOLE AGENTS MALAYA BORNEO Feel at Ease
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  • 647 13  -  EPSOM JEEP VASE HORSES Race-morning check to be made on runners By IPOH, Thursday. CTRICT precautionary measures have been taken by the Perak Turf Club officials to safeguard the 16 Class 1 horses in the Sultan's Gold Vase race to be run over 5} furlongs straight
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    18 13 THE SULTAN S Gold Vase, a 14 -inch trophy valued at S4.ooo.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 85 13 LONDON. Thurs. There was j considerable support for Mr. S. I Ingham's four-year-old. Chantry. «t thr call-over on the Cewurewi'ch Ctakps at the Victoria Club her« last night. Chantry, who was bought as a yearling for only 35 guineas, rioted frm favourite for the race at 6-1
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  • 321 13 Vy EIGHTS tor tomorrow, last day of th* Perak Gold Vase meeting, •re: Club stakes Cl. 1, IMM Mubarak 9.03 Purmlter 9.01 Kincport R. 13 j RigolMto 8.12 Cat Whatnot 8.08 j Srntch Kxpresv 8.07 damhar Mriayu 8.0.» Ahhol's Havrn X.04 Douhlr Blue 8.04 lirsierrs 8.0? Roman Gallry
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  • 87 13 LLANELLY. (Wales). Thurs. Albert Jenkins, one of the greatest centre three-quarters In the history of rugby football, died In hospital here today. He was 58. Jenkins played 14 times for Wales. So great was his prowess that the New Zealand All Blacks touring team of 19i4
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  • 381 13 i I—^1 65 entries for Gap Racing SINGAPORE Motor Clubs 1953 racing season ends -> on Sunday. Oct. 18, when the club holds Its Gap hill climb championships. There are 16 events on the programme and. while all these will provide the usual keen
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  • 37 13 LONDON. Thurs. Remits of friendly soccer matches played yesterday were: Dundee United 2. Blackpool 5Queens Park Rangers: 1. Arsenai 3: West Ham 2. Sunderland 0: Mlllwall 2. Manchester U I; Doncaster 5. Falklrk 2— Reuter
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  • 44 13 PARIS. Thurs —The United States Ryder Cup team beat a European Oolf Association side drawn from France, Italy, Oermany, Spain Belgium and Holland— by 11 matches to two. with two halved, In the International golf encounter which ended here yesterday— Reuter.
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  • 27 13 LONDON. Thurs.— Liverpool, an English first division team, beat the South African touring soccer team by 3-2 yrstmlay. Score at halftlme was 2-2.— Reuter
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  • 179 13 'THE KUALA LUMPUR P.W.D. Sports Club women's hockey team will visit Singapore this weekend to play their two annual games. They meet Singapore Cricket Club I women tomorrow on the padang and 1 on Sunday morning will play Olrls Sports Club on the SRC. padang
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  • 50 13 LONDON. Thurs Yesterdays rugby union results were: County championship: Sussex 15 Dorset and Wiltshire 11; Lincolnshire 12 Norfolk 0 Club matches: Brldgend 6 Aberavon 6; Dolphin (Corki 8 Newport 13: Maesteg 8 Llanelly 3; Rlsca 5 Cross Keys 11. Other match:— Glamorgan 8 London Counties B. —Reuter.
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  • 106 13 LONDON, Thurs. rpWENTY-NINE horses have been left in for the Cesarewitch Stakes to be run over two and a quarter miles at New market on Oct. 14. Acceptors, with weights, are: Paillio 9-0, Bitter Sweet 8-12. Milcote Manor and Running Water 8-11, Pluchino I 18-9, Toreno, 8-8, Tilloy
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  • 202 13 pROBABLE Hne-up and jockeys for the $25,00u Suluns Gold Va«e to be run over s>*f. straight at Ipoh tomorrow are given below. 412 Forest Beau 9.07 (Daniels) 5 bah by Delville Wood-Best Wishes Whitney 415 Millionaire 9.04 (Bpencer) 5 breg by Persian Oulf Surplus Barratt
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  • 391 13 IPOH, Thursday. APPRECIATING the wet track, Dondang Sayang A (Charles) moved stylishly in a three furlongs sprint in 37 3 5 this morning. Dondang Sayang can be a live threat to Fairy Tale over the straight five and a half furlongs course on Saturday. Sandown
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  • 60 13 LONDON. Thurs. HAROLD HASSALL. Bolton Wanderers' inside left. will not be able to play for England against Wales in the international soccer match at Cardiff on Saturday, because of an injury received last Saturday. His plarr will be takrn by Dennis Wilnhaw of Wolverhampton Wanderers,
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  • 29 13 LONDON. Thur«. Luton Town an English second division club, beat the touring; Pener Bahce Club. Turklah champions, by 7-4 In a floodlit match last night— Reuter
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  • 430 14  -  SENTINEL But Federation had weak team By THE Jakarta soccer tourists leave Singapore today undefeated after four matches in the Colony. Their visit was a great success financially but in my view they are the weakest team to visit the Colony since the war.
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  • 81 14 Results of badminton matches In the SB. A. hall last night Inter-club: Sin Shcng B.P. beat Friendly BP. 5-0. Inter school Anglo Chinese School beat St.. Andrews 3-2: Vi--toria School (Redi beat St. Josephs 4-1. The ties for Wednesday. Oct. lt are Court No. 3: Greenwood v Swift
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  • 212 14 Rifle shoot title goes to Bent ley J ANCE Corporal B. Bentley, of the Manchester Regimert. won the individual event at the Malaya Rifle Meeting be'ng held at Kota Tmgti. Bentley is a 21-year-old national serviceman from Liverpool His runner-up was Cpl. Kainu bin Isaak. of the 4th Malay R<
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  • 66 14 Combined Schools team to meet RNAS Sembawanc in a hock< y friendly at St. Josephs Institution -round today is: Boon Leong <RliR. Stevens (SABS). Teck Kee (VS>Wijeysinghe iSJIi. D. Hay iVS' Eng Hoe iVS>: Lye Whatt (VSi V Quek (VS>. J Quek iSJI>. Foong Fong cVS),
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  • 114 14 SINGAPORE Rugby Union's All-Singapore XV (Civilians and Services) to meet the Fijians at Jalan Besar on Oct. 17 was announced last night. The team: R. M. Parker (SCO; P. J. Henney (SCO, F/O MrCowie (RAF), W. R. Watson (Army) capt., D. Darroch; O. W. Watson (SCO, S.
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  • 165 14 Bradshaw in the lead in Masters golf SUNNINODAU Berks >. Thurs XJARRY BRADSHAW. burly Irish professional golfer, led the 20--strong elite field by one stroke at the halfway stage in the 72-holes Dimlop Masters golf tournament here yesterday. Throning off the natural reactions to his great Ryder Cup achievements for
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  • 82 14 "THE Amateur Boxing AMMsatsM of Burma has invited the Singapore A.B.A. to send a team to Rangoon lor i contest e.irly in December. Seven boxers would make up the team— two flyweight*, two bantams. a featherweight, lightweight ana light-welter. The SABA, will discuss the lnv.'Hiion at
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  • 56 14 The first class for amateur boxing referees and judges, sponsored by the Singapore ABA. will be:r. the Police Training School on Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. under F Lt. H. Robinson. Those who pass the ex?.rr lnation will be awarded certificate- which will enable them
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  • 59 14 The Singapore Business Houses FA. annual dance will be held on Oct. 31 with the Sambodians Band in attendance. This year the programme contains a history of the Association. together with League and League Cup Tables for the current year. Requests for tickets and programme*; should be sent
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  • 31 14 Land Office beat Survey Depart- ment 2-1 in a soccer friendly at Farrer Park yesterday. Soo Chye and Yusoff scored for the winners, Johar Shukor for Survey Dept
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  • 20 14 The Singapore Rifle Association I will hold a spoon shoot at the Bukit I Timah Range on Sunday.
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  • 73 14 A TEAM that led by three to nil after 20 minutes were beaten by four goals to three in a soccer match played in Singapore yesterday. That was the penalty for overconfidence paid by R.A.S.C.. United Services (Singapore) Soccer League Dlv. I champions when they met the runivrs-up.
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  • 33 14 Raffles Institution A' beat AngloChinese School A' 2-1 in a hockey match at the R.I. ground on Wednesday. Sadool Singh and Kalid Ibrahim scored for R.I. and Kiok Meng for
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  • 64 14 Rulers 9 Shield cricket final KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The final of the Rulers' Shield Ticket competition between Perak Ma lavs and Johore Malays will be played 1 1. is weekend on the PWD Sport* Club ground in Cheras Road Kuala Lumpur Vie pnr.ual general meeting of the Malayan Malaya Crick.>:
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  • 35 14 The Singapore Hockey Association Div. 3 league match beiv.een the Naval Base Civilians and the Federation Customs. played at I Farrer Park on Wednesday, ended I in a scoreless draw.
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  • 274 14 OONGKONG BANK "A" -a- e x themselves the chance of performing a unique feat in local soccer when they eliminated Chartered Bank from the Business Houses knockout competition yesterday. Hongkong Bank are in line for the triple crown: they are present Dlv. A
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  • 160 14 S UP -BUT RASC LOSE (20th minute) and the bark-, slapping was over. R.A.S.C. eased ut> For a time nothing very exciting happened, and not even a penalty to Corinthians, turned to ac- 1 count by Jones, suggested there would be a rally by Airmen. But a rally there was,
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  • 358 14 INDIAN Association, who were second from last in the Singapore Hockey Association senior division league table last week, rose to fourth place yesterday with a 2 o victory over LatifT Wanderers at Balestier Road. Indians were on the defensive for most of the
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  • 73 14 Six players selected for the Singapore hockey trial tomorrow are unable to turn up and substitutes have been named. For Colours. V. Devadas. Dozey and Kulasingam will not be playing and their places will be taken by A. C. Shegaran, Chal Hon Yam and
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  • 74 14 Rex B.P. officials for 1953/4 are: President: Chee Yew Chew; vicepresidents: Tay Cheng Teow t reelected i. J. A. Perelra < re-elect erii. Llm Yew Hock, Madam Doreen Kiong; hon. secretary: Alladent Noontll (re-elected.) t'easurer: Jimmy Yeo (re-elected) ;,udi*or: Johnny Ang: capt Hoy Keaw Hing; committee: Tan
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  • 59 14 Teachers 1 Training College team to meet Khalsa Association in a hockey friendly at St. George's Road tomorrow will be selected from: SooceleraJ, A. Rajaretnam. A Gomes. H. S. Bajwa. S. Gill, Worn; Fong Weng, Scoundranayagam. Teoh Boon Wai, Teoh Boon Hal. Leone Kok Weng. Bala-slngam, W.
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  • 40 14 DETROIT. Thurs. Oil Turner U56 pounds) won a unanimous ten-round decision last night over Scorttchlnl r 155 pounds) of Italy. Turner slammed the Italian almost at will and Scorticlnni was backing up most of the way. A.P.
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  • 26 14 Sincapore Harbour Board Recreation Club beat Singapore Harbour Board Police 2-1 In a Dlv. 3 league hockey match played at Keppel around yesterday.
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  • 21 14 Wanderers beat RE M E 3-1 In a Dlv. 2 league hockey match at Ayer Rajah Rond ground yesterday
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  • 37 14 Raffles Institution and Singapore Recreation Club drew 1-1 in ,i hockey friendly at Raffles Inanition ground yesterday. A. Clarke scored for SRC and Jayathurai for the school. Lian Fook Shin and D. Hay umpired.
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  • 315 14 Holloway 2-1 in final set YMCA SINGLES By Our Tennis Reporter THE singles final of the Singapore V.M.C.A. t (Minis championships was left unfinished yesterday, owing to failing light, with G. T. Holloway leading Lim Hee Chin by 6--*. 4—6. 2- 1. The match will be continued today. At 48.
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  • 22 14 BRUSSELS. Thurs.— Belgium *-on today by 2-0 against Sweden in a soccer game counting for the World Cup Soccer championship.
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