The Straits Times, 14 November 1953

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    NEW HOMES FOR 40,000
    225 1 People in cubicles and shacks to get priority DLANS to build 6,000 $20-a-month houses next year for 10,000 people now living in shacks or cubicles were announced yesterday by the Singapore Government. The Government will start with 3,000 houses on a 120-acre plot off Aljunied Road.
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    LORD SWINTON FLIES IN
    116 1 LORD Swinton, Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, arrived In Singapore yesterday by Qantas-8.0.A C. Constellation after a one-month tour of Australia and New Zealand. Lord Swinton, seen above at the airport, is on a Commonwealth tour at the invitations of the Prime Ministers of Australia, New Zealand.
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    MYSTERY MAN MUST GET JOB
    225 1 MYSTERY MAN MUST GET JOB KISHINO NASA.II. alias John Wannmaker. was picked up by the Marine Pollcp ofl" Pasir Panjang and brought to Singapore over eißht months ago. Kishino. a 22-year-old Brazil-born Japanese .stowaway, has provod a headache to Singapore authorities, who have made every effort to get him out
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    Reception for Queen
    83 1 COLOMBO. Fri Colombo Municipal Council iast night I decided by 17 votes to 13 to give a civic reception to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh when they visit Ceylon. All 13 who opposed the motion belong to the left wins group and Immediately after ithe
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    Marine missing
    32 1 PLYMOUTH. Fri.— Search was going on today for the body of a Royal Marine reported missing when a tank landing craft on night raiding exercises capsized in Plymouth Sound.— Reuter.
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    TRUMAN REFUSES TO ANSWER COMMITTEE
    66 1 WASHINGTON. Fri. ■FORMER PRESIDENT Harry -T Truman hn.s declined to honour a subpoena to appear before the House of Representatives' Un-American Activities Committee. Mr Truman's refusal to appear was contained In a letter delivered by Mr. Charles P Murphy, former White House counsellor to Mr
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    Mossadeq riots are put down
    123 1 TEHERAN, Frl. THE Government restored order here today and kept ?n armed watch against new riots by elements protesting against the treason trial of former Premier Mohammed Mossadeq. Two people were killed and 140 arrested yesterday when t-oops opened fire on demonstrators Ten miles away,
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    Secret talks in Paris
    63 1 PARIS. Fri. The British Chancellor of the Excheauer. Mr. R. A. Butler, last night gave evidence In a secret 45--minute session of President Eisenhower's special commission on foreign economic policy Mr Butler spoke as actinc chairman of the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation The commission is
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    Bantam title retained
    39 1 Jimmy Carruthers of Australia, bantamweight champion of the world, retained his title in Sydney last night when he outpointed Pappy Gault of America over 15 rounds. Carruthers was a unanimous winner. U.P. Full report —Pace 13.
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    NEW A WARD
    37 1 NEW YORK. Fri Dr. Hans Adolf Krebs. 1953 Nobel Prize winner and Professor of Bibchemistry at Sheffield University. Encland. yesterday received an Albert Lasker Award for 1953 for outstanding work in medical research.— A.P
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    Daughter for Virginia Mayo
    36 1 SANTA MONICA. California. Fri— A 71b. 3oz rlaujshter was born to film star Virginia Mayo list night. She i the first chile of jVirginia Mayo and her husband cctor Michael Oshea. Reuter.
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    Premier resigns
    100 1 PNOM PENH, Fri— Premier Pen Nouth and two Ministers in his Cambodian Cabinet resigned today, apprently because King Norodom Sihanouk resented the popularity they had iwon during his five-month self-imposed exile.— A.P. THKSE TWO-STOREY low-cost houses arc the type which (lie Singapore Improvement Trust will build for the
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    Search for Valetta will go on today
    137 1 Search for Valetta will go on today AFTER another unsuccesstui day's search for the RAF Valetta which vanished east of Singapore while on a test flight on Tuesday, plans were made last night to continue the search today. Valetta aircraft will be dispatched at daybreak to seaicn a small group
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    APPOINTED
    14 1 BUENOS AIRES. Frl.— Argentina has appointed Senor Carlos Quiros Ambassador to Japan.— Reuter
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    TEMPLER SILENT ON HIS FUTURE
    215 1 London rumours of move LONDON. Friday. pENERAL Sir Gerald Templer, refused to comment here today on rumours that he may be due to be promoted from his present post as Malayan High Commissioner. The reticence with which his latest visit to London i* being 'surrounded
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    MAGSAYSAY TO BE INVITED TO U.S. TALKS
    70 1 MAGSAYSAY TO BE INVITED TO U.S. TALKS WASHINGTON. Fn. The Eisenhower administration is likely to invite Mr. Ramon Magsaysay. victor in the Philippines' presidential election, to the U.S. soon for talks with government officials The move was being considered after Mr. Magsaysay's emergence as a new strong leader in non-Communist
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    From Korea
    21 1 PUSAN. Fri. The Ist Battalion of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment sailed today from here to Gibraltar A. P.
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    Flood aid
    17 1 BELGRADE, Frl.- Yugoslav war veterans will send a-id to flood-striken Italian veterans in Calabria.— U.P.
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    THEY ALL ADMIRE ARIS, 6
    298 1 tflX-YEAR-OLD Aris bin Kolop came home yes•erday with a cuddly koala bear, money to buy a tricycle, a fluent Knowledge of English ind a new face. The bear was his favourite nit of a basketful of toys :iven to him by friends in \ustralia. The
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    Property ban on Indians
    61 1 JOHANNESBURG Frl. proclamation under the Group Areas Act yesterday freezes Indian occupation of property in Vereeniging. an Industrial town 35 miles south of Johan- < nesburg. < This means that any pro- 1 perty now owned or occupied by Indians cannot be occupied i by them
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    SIAMESE KILL 4 BANDITS
    216 1 SIAMESE KILL 4 BANDITS BANGKOK. Fri. FOUR Malayan Chinese r terrorists, including two women, were killed by Siamese police while another woman Chinese terrorist suspect was taken into custody after short gun battle at a village in Betong district oi" Yala province bordering Malaya on November 10. according to a
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    STOP PRESS
    43 1 NEW KOREA PLAN REPORTED LONDON, Fri.— Forricn Office today declined to confirm reports that the 16 U.N. members with forces in Korea were studying plan for politic >1 meeting of Bin Five Powers Plus North and South Korea on Korea. Renter.
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    Aid for Korea
    40 1 NEW YORK. Fri.— Lieut. Gen. John B. Coulter, Agent Oe ieral of the United Nations' Korean Reconstruction Agency, reported yesterday that US$6B.--831.235 was collected up to September 30 toward the lUnited Nations U*****,000,000 Korean aid fund. A.P.
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    Miss Artist Model
    38 2 MISS JAN CALAMAR, chosen as "Miss Artist Model" for 1953 by the Artists' Equity Association of the United States who is in England to fulfil commitments with the J. Arthur Rank organisation. —Paul Popper photo.
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    Ritson talks to resume next week
    105 2 NEGOTIATIONS between the Singapore Government and the Joint Council of Action representing Government employees on more pay for higher income groups will be resumed next week. Since the last meeting about a fortnight ago, the Council of Action has been considering a new wage
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    Dock ordered
    20 2 COLOGNE. Frl.— lsrael has ordered a freighter and a floating dock, costing US$l. 940.000. from West Germany. -AJ>.
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    SINGAPORE MAY FIND TAXIS SCARCE
    312 2 SINGAPORE MAY FIND TAXIS SCARCE SINGAPORE may have a shortage of taxis from January 1 unless a small group of men can achieve an "impossible task." The fate of the Colony's 1,600 taxis now lies in the hands of the taxi-meter distributors who will have to pit their sicill and
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    Friday 13th fire destroys her home
    182 2 Friday 13th fire destroys her home rnHE unlucklest In Singax pore yesterday Friday 13th was a 77-year-old Chinese widow. The woman, Madam Kerk Char of Soon Hock Road. Thomson Road, returned home after sending some food to her grand-daughter, who was working at a rubber factory, to find her house
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    Red cell found
    31 2 KHARTOUM, Frl.— Police arrested two people at Orrdurman yesterday in a raid on a house and uncovered what they considered the biggest Communist cell in the Sudan —Reuter.
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    Commons query on China trade
    233 2 LONDON. Friday. VfR. S. T. Swingler (Labour) asked in the House of ifl Commons today why the Government's embargo on strategic goods to China was so much more stringent than that of other countries represented on the Consultative .Group Co-operation Committee on East-West trade. He
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    At expense of Asians, says report
    96 2 NATURAL rubber Is making gains in America at the risk of many Asian estates going under," says the latest Issue of the Natural Rubber News. Natural rubber's rising share of the income in the U.S. market is accompanied by starvation level Income for Asian
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    DIVORCED
    34 2 SANTA MONICA. California. Fri.— Actress Arleen Whelan got a divorce yesterday from Hugh Owen, film sales executive, and US$5OO monthly alimony, after she said that he "just wanted to be a bachelor". A.P.
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    Naval tour
    33 2 MANILA, Fri.— Admiral Robert B. Carney. U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, left Sangley Point naval air station yesterday to continue his Inspection of U.S. naval bases In the Far East. A.P.
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    Steel talks
    21 2 NEW DELHI, Frl— Six German steel magnates arrived here today to negotiate a 700.000,000 rupee steel mill project.— A.P.
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    Red official seeks safety in H. Kong
    125 2 HONG KONG. Frl. A CHINESE Communist security official ran across the Hong Kong border yesterday and was given political asylum, say British border police guards. He -was said to be 30 years old and came from Klang^l province The police said he threw
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    IndabaCamp next month
    72 2 PENANG. Fri— Ample time for fraternisation and games is provided in the programme foi scouters attending the first Malayan Indaba Camp to bheld at Jubilee Camp. Telok Bahang, next month. Campers will assemble in Dec. 18. The following morning there will be an opening ceremony at 9
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    UNIVERSITY STAFF TO LECTURE ADULTS
    131 2 IJV3UR MEMBERS of the Unlr verslty of Malaya staff will conduct lecture courses organised by the Singapore Council for Adult Education The lecturers and their subjects are: Dr. D. Johnson on "Local Zoology." Dr. Polunln on "Study of the Peoples of Malaysia." Mr. A. Plloto
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    PLOT TO ASSASSINATE SHAH ALLEGED
    92 2 THESE THREE men are accused of complicity in a plot to assassinate the Shah of Persia by throwing a grenade. From left to right they are Reza Eshghi. Ibrahim Saadat and Hossein Nazeri. The bomb, it is alleged, was to have been thrown into the
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    More opium found aboard • freighter
    126 2 More opium found aboard freighter A SECOND lot of opium was found yesterday aboard the freighter Maung Ruma. Singapore Custom officers discovered 421 b. beneath the floor of a cold storage room. The opium is worth $30,000 in the black market. A Customs spokesman told the Straits Times that six
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    Distortion, says Premier of Ceylon
    184 2 Distortion, says Premier of Ceylon COLOMBO, Fri. rE Prime Minister, Sir John Kotelawala yesterday emphatically denied British press reports that he wants the British GovernorGeneral, Lord Soulburv. to leave. In a press communique, Sir John described the reports as unscrupulous twist of what he had written in a, triendly letter
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    MARKET IS QUIETER
    203 2 Rubber report THE rubber market has been rather quieter this wrek and fluctuations narrower. The reports of possible Indonesian sales to China are now assuming their true proportions and the earlier enthusiasm shown here has been damjwd. say a Lewis and Peat's report. The undertone of the
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    Jap pearling fleet goes
    37 2 DARWIN. Fri— The Japanese pearling fleet, which Is estimated to have won abour 1,000 tons of pearl shells off 'he north Australian coast since May. is believed to have sailed for Japan.— Reutor.
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    HE RESIGNS
    29 2 NEW YORK. Fri.— Mr. Noor Mohammed Tarakl, Press attache at the Afghanistan Embassy- in Washington, .ad here he had resigned in prote^ against his dictatorial Government.— Reuter.
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    Meteor seen
    27 2 TOKYO. Fri.— Tokyo astronomical observatory yesterday said that the largest KCteot seen over Japan in the past :u years had streaked across the area.— UP
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    Pay your way or cut down, says the Bishop
    152 2 DAY your way or cut down— this is the warning given by the honorary treasurer, writes the Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Baines, in the current issue of St. Andrews Cathedral "Courier He says the subsidies which I
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    $4,600 from Singapore
    30 2 Singapore Gift Fund Committee for Indian troop% yesterday handed a cheque n^ $4.***** to the Representative of the Government of India in Malaya Mr. M. Gopala Menon.
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    30 fined $600
    31 2 A Singapore magistrate yesterday fined 30 people $20 each for building houses in Changi Road. I* milestone, for which no plans had been approved by the Rural Board.
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    Pakistan calls for arms pact to end war threat
    227 3 Pakistan calls for arms pact to end war threat NEW YORK, Friday. PAKISTAN yesterday asked the United Nations Political Committee for the great powers to get together and reach agreement over disarmament to remove the threat of war. Any scheme for disarmament, regardless of its merit, was foredoomed to failure
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    BOOKIE DENIES RACE SWITCH
    171 3 BOOKIE DENIES RACE SWITCH LONDON. Fri. A BOOKMAKER, one of five men alleged to have taken part in a racehorse switch, told a 1 detective who arrested j him: "I am* as innocent as you are," a magistrates court was told today. The five men are accused of taking part
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    Drummonds: new clue
    112 3 DIGNE. France. Fri. Gustave Dominici. key witness in the triple Drummond murder, confessed last night to moving Lady Drummond's body srvoral times on the night the murders were committed "to see whether she was still alive." a senior magistrate said here today. Police questioned Dominici, a farmer
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    For Stockholm
    22 3 STOCKHOLM. Fri. Lad/ Churchill will visit Stockholm next month to receive the Nobel Prize awarded Sir Winston Churchll for literature.—Reuter.
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    ODD-JOB MAN BARONET
    129 3 SIX ADRIAN Ivor lumbar, who before he inherited the Scottish baronetcy last January, did odd-jobs for neighbours round his home in Maryland. I'.SA.. is now in Britain. He sold up part of his farm stock there to pay the fares of his wife and himself to Scotland
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    BRITAIN FREES TRADE
    108 3 LONDON. Fri. BRITAIN yesterday took a further step towards freer i European trade when Mr. 1 Peter Thorneycroft. President of the Board of Trade, said j that he was freeing from quantitative restriction 75 per I cent of all British imports from Western Europe and j other
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    Novelist sues Churchill's son
    57 3 LONDON. Fri— Miss Ursula Bloom, the novelist, has istued a writ alleging libel against Mr Randolph Churchill, son of the Prime Minister. She has also issued writs against the British newspaper, the Recorder, which changed 18 days ago from a weekly to a daily, and against
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    New Minister
    17 3 BERLIN Fri— The East German Cabinet has appointed Heinz Winkler as Minister for Reconstruction.— Reuter
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    Going to Korea
    23 3 LIVERPOOL. Fri— The 42nd Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery embarked in the Empire Pride here yesterday for Korea.— Reiter.
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    Case put off
    31 3 ROME. Fri— A Rome ourt yesterday adjourned to Decamber 10 the hearing of law nilti brought by the AngloIranian Oil Company again.st Italian importers of Persian oil. Renter.
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    Hong Kong is hard hit
    89 3 HONG KONG. Fri. Hong Konps Governor. Sir Alexander Grantham. told an engineering society today that Hong Kong suffered more from the United Nations' embargo on trade with China than any other place in the world excepl Macao. ■We have loyally observec the United Nations' embargo
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    Unions are stronger
    42 3 LONDON. Fri— British tracir unions nave doubled the;r membership and quardruplcri their funds since 1937, according to an official report. Between 1937 and 195 LV membership increased fron 424.000 to 8.377.000. Union funds rose from £16,032,000 to 67.607.000— Reuter
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    VYSHINSKY IS AMUSED
    46 3 't III: Russian delegate to the United Nations, Mr. Vyshinsky, smiles as he talks with Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, of India, before a meeting of the Security Council. In the background is Mr. Osten I'nsen, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs. Popper pict ure.
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    INDONESIA TO SEND TRADE MISSIONS TO FOUR COUNTRIES
    107 3 INDONESIA TO SEND TRADE MISSIONS TO FOUR COUNTRIES JAKARTA. Friday. INDONESIA will send trade delegations to Latin America to expand trade with Brazil, Argentine, Chile and Mexico, the Economic Ministry said today A seven-man mission will be headed by Soesanto DJoJosoegito. Commercial Counsellor to the Indonesian Embassy In Ottawa. Canada.
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    Britain to review war sentences
    103 3 Britain to review war sentences LONDON. Fri BRITAIN has promised to review her sentences on 100 Japanese war criminals. Mr Yutaka Tsuchida. Tokyo's special envoy on war criminals, said here yesterady Mr. Tsuchida made the statement after talks with the Foreign Office. His Government he said wa,s appealing to six
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    STARS AT THE BALLET
    32 3 I 111 MARQUIS de Cuevas Ballet had its first performance at the Empire Theatre in Paris. Among those present were Leslie Caron and Ludmillatcherina, seen here. Popper picture.
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    Tories keep two seats
    60 3 Tories keep two seats LONDON. Fri.— The Conservative Party held two seats in Lancashire Parliamentary byplections yesterday. The result at Crosby was Mr R. Graham Page (Cons.) 18.614 votes. Mr. E. Adams. 'Lab.) 7.545 votes; Mr. J A Freeman <Ind Cons.) 1,180 votes The result at Ormskirk wasColonel Douglas Glove
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    Russia is to free soldier
    35 3 MOSCOW. Fri.— Russia has agreed to release a British soldier sentenced to 10 years' gaol for espionage The soldier. Private F J. W Kelly, will be deported from Russia— Reuter.
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    FREE TRAVEL
    24 3 BONN, Fri —The three Western occupation powers have decided to perm I free travel between Communist East Germany and West Germany A.P.
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    NATO inspection
    30 3 ROME. Fri— Admiral Arthur W. Radford. chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew from Rome to Naples yesterday to inspect NATO's southern Europe headquarters. A. P.
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    NO TALKS
    27 3 WASHINGTON. Fri.— A Stat? Department spokesman yesterday said there were no negotiations in progress between the United States and Pakistan for military bases In Pakistan..—Reuter.
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    'SMOG' WARNINGS ARE PLANNED
    165 3 LONDON. Fri. A SYSTEM of "smog" warnings was recommended by a London County Council Committee yesterday to avoid a repetition of the sudden jump in the death rate during the heavy fogs of last December. "Smogs" killed 12.000 people last December and brought a rise in
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    LONDON STOCKS
    291 3 LONDON. Fri. pRE-WEEKEND quiet spread over the stock market today but generally speaking the tone remained flrm. Far Eastern Issues were quietly flrm. The overall movement In tea* v.:is to higher levels and tin* and rubbers were steadier. Small adjustments In the RiltedKM section mnde for a rugged
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    10ND0N TIN
    28 3 LONDON, Nov 13. Cash Buyers €626: Sellers t62*i2; Forward Buyers £611: Sellers £612' 2 Settlement £625 (down £2' 2 Turnover a.rr 85 tons; p.m. 45 tons.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    33 3 LONDON. Nov. 13 —Spot 16 \d Dtr. !6 ,d Jan. -Mar 16'« d AprJune 176. July-Sept 17', d.. Nov. ci! 16\d Dec. c.i.f 16\d. Jan. rif 16 .ri Tone: Fully steady.
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    Regency Bill passed
    54 3 LONDON. Fri. The House of Commons yesterday passed a bill to make the Duke of Edinburgh Regent instead of Princess Margaret if the Queen were to dip or become incapacitated before Prince Charles is 18. It was given a third reading unopposed and now goes to the
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    Council officers criticise councillor on leave talk
    305 4 Council officers criticise councillor on leave talk PUBLICATION in yesterday's Straits Times of the news that the Singapore City Council Finance and General Purposes (Staff) Committee is considering a proposal to alter conditions of leave for senior offices of the City Council has caused alarm and annoyance among the officers
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    CHIEF OF DEAF SCHOOL NAMED
    256 4 CHIEF OF DEAF SCHOOL NAMED PENANG, Fri. A FULLY qualified teacher is expected to arrive from Britain in February to be principal of the proposed Federation School lor the Deaf. Dr. C Ealinc Field. ;i member of the school's central c,ommittre who returned recently I mm home leave said today
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    1954 Court sessions
    151 4 Dates of Singapore Assizes and Court of Criminal Appeal for 1954 are. First Assizes: Jan. 11; Second Assizes: Feb. 1; Court o Criminal Appeal: Feb 25 Third Assizes: March 1; Court of Criminal Appeal and Court of Appeal: March 22 to 26 Fourth Assizes: April 5; Court
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    Damages law may change
    78 4 An employee in Singapore, injured in an accident for which he is partly responsible, may soon by allowed to recover damages from the employer whose negligence was the main cause of thp lccident The Government will table before the Legislative Council a Bill which is designed
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    'Miss Spore beauty contest
    75 4 'Miss Spore beauty contest The Singapore Amateur Weißhtlifting Federation will hold a "Miss Singapore" contest at the Happy World Stadium on Dec. 14 Contestants will be judged on physical development, poise and general appearance. Entries with photographs must be sent to Mr. Chua Tye Juay. secretary, care of Frasrr Neave
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    COMPANY IS $140,000 IN DEBT
    111 4 At ADAM SO WEI PAO. a partner of Veritable and Company, told the Acting Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Brown, in the Slngaporr Hich Court yesterday that the firm ftarted with a capital of $100.--000 in 1948 and that its total liabilities now amounted lo I
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    THEFT OF CLOTH WORTH $26,000
    125 4 El (.MI cases of rayon worth $26,000 have been stolen from a Singapore Indian firm of importers and exporters. The theft was discovered in Hong Kong where the cases, which formed part of a consignment of ten cases, were opened and found to contain old
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    We couldn't escape from speech, 5 say
    125 4 We couldn't escape from s peech, 5 say B. MERTAJAM, Fri. FIVE cinema-goers complained in a letter to the Straits Tiires today that they were compelled to listen to recorded point ■il speeches in a Bukit Viertajam theatre. When one of them tried to get out. he said he found
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    Teachers games
    32 4 MALACCA. Fri— The Malacca Teachers' Union will be •at home to the Negri Sembilan Teachers' Union For a games weekend tomorrow They will meet at hockey, r.etball. tennis and badminton.
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    Rendel study on local Govt.
    82 4 The committee set up by the Constitutional Commission to consider the functions ant! powers of local government authorities in Singapore met yesterday under the chairmanship of Sir George Rendel. Other members of the com-m-Xtee are the President a the City Council (Mr. T. P F
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    Sioiils liel|i themselves
    67 4 SINGAPORE Boy Scouts, Rovers and Cubs observed Sacrifice Day yesterday. They made a collection among themselves for development of their 27-acre Jurong camp-site. Most of the Scouts contributed their cake money. l.im Giat Seng of the Anglo-Chinese Junior School donated all he earned by cleaning his father's
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    Ex-Malayan dies in U.K.
    42 4 Mr. William Moir McCrae. formerly of the Public Works Department. Malaya, died at his home in Jersey on Nov l Mr. McCrae joined the P.W.D in 1920 and retired a year or two ago as state Engineer Kelantan.
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    ARMED ROBBERS GET 7 YEARS
    138 4 ARMED ROBBERS GET 7 YEARS LIU WAH TONG and Lor Ah Seng, were each sentenced to seven years gaol at Singapore Assizes yesterday by Mr. Justice Buttrose for committing armed robbery at a house in Wareham Road on June 4. Liv pleaded guilty and Lr" not guilty. It was ajlegeri
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    Surrender flag: City agrees
    58 4 Singapore City Councils estates and firo brigade committee yesterday agreed to the restoration of <he Union Jack hanging in City Hall which was carried by a British officer when British troops surrendered to the Japanese in the Colony in 1952. The rost of the work will
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    Blind expert
    25 4 An international blind export. Sir Clutha MacKenzir. flew into Sincapore yesterday ,from Lone 1 1 1 by Qanta.s8.0.A.C. Constellation with his I wife.
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    SILENT BOY BAFFLES THE POLICE
    152 5 SILENT BOY BAFFLES THE POLICE |?OR MORE THAN an hour r yesterday, officers at the Central Police Station tried their best to cajole a Chinese lad to help them find out who his parents were. They spoke to him in all the Chinese dialects to be heard in Singapore. They
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    Little public interest
    140 5 The Commissioner of Lands, Mr. J. E. Pepper, is surprised that there has been very Mttle public reaction to the Land Acquisition Bill. The Bill, which has had its first reading in the Legislative Council, will stabilise land values in the Colony to help development under the
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    Fined $50 for negligence
    53 5 Goh Mong Geok, a taxi driver, was fined $50 and his licence was endorsed in Singapore First Traffic Court yesterday, for negligent driving. It was said that Goh drove along North Bridge Road on Sept. 6, and suddenly swerved causing other vehicles to brake violently to
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    His $10 offer is accepted
    46 5 Talib bin Ahmad, switchboard attendant, was adjudicated a bankrupt by the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Brown, in the Singapore High Court yesterday. Talibs liabilities amounted to $2,507. He offered to pay the Official Assignee $10 a month, which was accepted.
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    He queries validity of two charges
    191 5 He queries validity of two charges the prosecution had given an outline of its case against Leow Sze Meng who pleaded guilty in Singapore yesterday to three charges, under the Merchandise Trade Marks Ordinance. Mr Tan Ah Tah. the Judge, held that two of the charges might have been wrongly
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    LAND VALUE FREEZE ATTACKED
    236 5 Govt plan unfair, say ratepayers THE Singapore Ratepayers' Association last night attacked the Government's proposal to freeze land values before the Colony's "Master Plan" is carried out. Purpose of the proposal is to prevent land speculation. The Government wants to block owners of land under acquisition
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    95 5 MAJOR-GEN. A. G. O. Carroll-Scott, G. 0.( Sinßaporr Dis trict, is seen above inspecting a guard of honour of th» Singapore Harbour Board Reserves. Later he presentee Coronation medals to two officers of the Reserves, theii Commanding: Officer, Major A. Rhind. and Lieut. A. EUnkayer. Present at the ceremony were
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    RUSH FOR CONCERT TICKETS
    132 5 PR about five minutes this morning tickets will be on sale at Robinson's in Singapore for a pianoforte recital by Britain's most famous pianist, Solomon. It may even be less than five minutes, because there are only about 50 tickets available. The Victoria Memorial Hall, where
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    EX-POLICE OFFICER IS ACCUSED
    93 5 Wee Tlan Hui, an ex-detec-tive was charged in Singapore yesterday, with extortion and impersonating a public servant on two different occasions. Wee. it was stated, posed as a detective and extorted four packets of opium from Lay Ah Pang at Lorong Tai Seng on Oct 21.
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    Fined $5 on suicide charge
    89 5 A woman who previously claimed trial to a charge of attempted suicide in a Singapore, pleaded guilty again when she appeared in the same court yesterday. The accused. Tan Seor Swee told the Eighth Police Court magistrate, Mr. A W Ghows: "I wanted to die
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    Two charged with robbery
    56 5 Ibrahim bin Mohamed All and Oh Kirn Kee were tentatively charged in Singapore yesterday with armed robbery It was alleged that the two men robbed a Chinese of| $3,137.57 at 111 rnlle Changi Road at the point of a .38 revolver on Nov. 12 They were
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    ASSAULT CHARGE: 3 ACQUITTED
    97 5 SEGAMAT Frl /CLIFFORD G. Stanley 27 a rubber planter, was acquitted and discharged by the Segamat Circuit Magistrate on a charge of abetting a corporal of the Special Constabulary to assault the assistant manager of Chan Wing Estate Mr Chan Ah Soo. A second charge of
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    Dr. Ong's appeal is dismissed
    189 5 BUT SENTENCE REDUCED KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. DR. Ong Bak Hin s appeal against a conviction by Malacca High Court on a charge of causing a woman's death by performing an abortion, was dismissed here today. But the court reduced the five-year sentence to two years
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    PETITION IS WITHDRAWN
    58 5 A bankruptcy petition filed by the X.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlinesi against Walley Oakes Promotions on a judgment debt amounting to $16,926.50 was withdrawn in the Singapore Hish Court yesterday. Mr. Y. F Chen, for the petitioning creditor, told the Acting Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Brown, that the
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    VEGETABLE PRICES IN SINGAPORE
    122 5 Retail prices in cents per kati of vegetables at four Singapore markets yesterday were: nrarn turn- >imnn Ril borough Rd. K.R Celery 100 110 ISO 100 Chye'slm 30 35 30 35 Kang knns 25 30 20 25 Lettuce 70 80 50 e5 Peh chye 50 55
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    Swimmer lost
    43 5 Two Indian employees of tru> Singapore City Council Wat*r Department were swept away while swimming in the Tebrau River in the Johore Bahru District about 7.30 last night. One managed to struggle to the bank. The other. Abu Talib. is missing.
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      338 5 SINGAPORE DIARY dame at the .s.hool. Wood.sville. Chin™ Induslrl.l Comm,rri»l l.m p.m. •'Humiliation School- Old Boys' Day AmtTlran International Anuranre conrert in school hall 3SO OiitrVm Co. Ltd.: Opening of n»w offices at Road. 2 p m exhib ion of nliT Raffles Quay namto 1 p.m. S and &icraf£ P
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    IN MEMORIAM
    25 6 10 Worit $10 (minimum) IN V.VER loving merr.nr or Miss Catharine Ethel Jackson died tn 61me Road Camp. 14.11.1944. Gone but not fcrrotteti.
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    ANXOrX CEMENTS
    165 6 CHILDRENWEM: Nylon Bahy fiets. ."-Hi's. Frocks, Mans, Terir.d Shor^, c.ill early at G. RamrNvid Ltd 72. Huh Street. LLOYD TRIESTINO The nnn nger biV-.t-.n^ ofTice is now ted on the 3rd tloor MacDoraid House. Orel pore. DR. ft MRS M C HMN w'lli be "At Home" on No*'
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      'A Change of Emphasis'
      797 6 Forty senior agricultural officers finish this week-end a short course at the Department's headquarters in Kuahi Lumpur. They have been told by the Member for Agriculture of the good work the Department has done in encouraging the use of fertiliser, and in breeding better rice seed.
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      British Economic Progress
      483 6 British Economic Progress The outlook is not exactly set fair, but it is settled from the point of view of the balance nf payments, said Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer in reviewing for Parliament the financial and economic scene. Mr. Butler had much to be confident about, although there was
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    As I was Saying
    1112 6  -  FDR six months now there have been rumours that General Temple r is on to a new .job. For six months he has resolutely refused all comment: no denial, no confirmation and even do "no comment." That is probably the tw-t way out ol the riilrmma.
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    FIFTY YEARS AGO
    68 6 From the Straits Times of November. 14. 1903 ON the vote of $60,000 for thnew Raffles Library and Museum Mr. Napier said he mi opposed to the idea that the Museum ohould be placed ir. the Botanic Gardens, believing that it would be more useful in the
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    A MALAYSIAN NOTEBOOK
    879 6 A MALAYSIAN NOTEBOOK KIRKBY makes news. The doings of Malayans in London make news. The 'st of Malayans who pa.»s t Mr Bar exams make news, distance lends enchantment to the view. Young Malaya must prepare for many disappointments. And not only young Malaya overseas. Here, too, we have a
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    Singapore backs Sir Sydney's comments on university
    602 7 Singapore backs Sir Sydney's comments on university gINGAPORE doctors and other professional men yesterday supported the comments of Sir Sydney Cainc, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, on the establishment of a university in Singapore and another in Kuala Lumpur. Doctors considered that the medical faculty >hould stay in Singapore.
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    FASHION PARADE
    138 7 F ASHION PARADE WHERE are two new features J t o the John Little's fashion show this morning the new short hemline and some new talent among the mannequins. Day dresses and cocktail gowns have hems shorter by at least two inches than those worn last season. Of the six
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    Advice to those about to marry...
    262 7 GIVING advice to 22 young Singapore couples on marriage and family problems last night. Miss Irma Highbaugh told them- "make a list of the most annoying things about your mate and try to cut them down." Miss Highbaugh, a visiting American missionary, was giving
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    Union wants double rates
    45 7 The Singapore Workers Union yesterday demanded double the ordinary rate of pay for work on Sundays and public holidays by workers of Messrs. George Wimpey ana Company. The union also asked for double pay after 4.30 p.m on i ordinary days.
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    'OBVIOUS CHOICE' l-KUALALUMPUR
    249 7 'OBVIOUS CHOICE' l-KUALALUMPUR KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. A FEDERATION Education Department spokesman xx said today that Kuala Lumpur would be an obvious choice for the University of Malaya's expansion. "We have agricultural research .stations, a well equipped technical school, medical and rubber research centres which could be expanded to provide facilities
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    RICE RATION ISSUES
    104 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri—Following grades of rice will be issued to the public in the proportions shown against each Erade in Johore Bahru. Kota T.iißsi. Pontian and Mersing districts from Nov. 16 to Nov 29. Johore Bahru, Kota Tin^'i and Pon<ian: High grade Siam white rice brokens 10
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    AND NOW HE MUST PAY
    105 7 A man made a down payment i of $70 to a Singapore firm and had a sewing machine, bought on hire-purchase, sent to his home. But he left the house with the machine before the first Instalment fell due. After failing to trace the man,
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    RED 'BIG SISTER' IS KILLED
    158 7 RED 'BIG SISTER' IS KILLED KI'ALA M'MPI'R. Fri. "T>lC. SISTER" Lim Lian O Cheow. described as a senior woman terrorist in thr Triiiif. area, near Taipinc. Perak. was killed yesterday. She was killed by a patrol of Area Security Unit 58 on Chetia Estate. Aced 33. Lim was also known
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    Liabilities were $3,096
    46 7 Rerrivine and adjudication orders wcrp made apalnst Ja<-ob Ooh. a clerk, by the Acting Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Brown, in the Singapore Hich Court yesterday. Oohs total liabilities amounted to $3,096 He offered to pay the Official Assignee $in monthly, which Hi accepted.
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    brovt. guarantee fund to be wound up
    123 7 brovt. guarantee fund to be wound up THE Singapore Government plans to wind up the Public Officers' Guarantee Fund and the relevant law from Jan. 1 next year. A Bill to do this will be in- troduced "In the Legislative Council soon. A Government spokesman last night said that this
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    THE ARMY GIVES IN TO LOVE
    116 7 From HALL ROMNEY LONDON. Fri. rpHE wedding of Sgt. Jack X Anderson, 21. and his 19--year-old Singapore Chinese fiancee. Diana Lee. will take place after all. Sgt Anderson's commanding officer in the Ordnance Corps has consented to the marriage. On Tuesday, it is reported
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    Registration
    53 7 A birth can only be registered at a Police Station by either the parents or by someone who witnessed the birth a Police spokesman told the Straits Times yesterday. He was commenting on a reader's letter complaining that a constable at a station refused to register the birth of
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    TRISHA RIDER FINED $100
    95 7 Lim Seng Wang was fined $100 or 12 weeks' imprisonment in Singapore yesterday for riding a trisha without being licensed to do so and using a badge without having a licence in force. When asked how he got the badge which did not belong to him,
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    RAG SUSPECTS DOWN TO 22
    86 7 UNIVERSITY of Malaya authorities yesterday narrowed their searrh for the students who turn«\d one of the Dunrarn Road student*' hostels into a shambles on I Tuesday nlßht, to 22 men. The Straits Times irnder■tandi that nine senior students and 13 frrshmen have been pinned down
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    ONE-WAY STREET SHOPS PROTEST
    205 7 Stamford Road proposal TWENTY-FOIR hours after the Singapore City Council's Vehicles and Traffic Committee decided to make Stamford Road a one-way street the council received a protest signed by 31 businessmen. The traders, who have shops i in Stamford Road complain that their business will be
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    SIAMESE COINS WHOLLY OF TIN
    123 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. QIAM is the only country using coins made entirely of tin. says the Malayan Tin Bureau in Washington. Two of its coins contain 100 per cent and five other coins have 90 per cent tin. says the Bureau's latest issue of Tin
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    Income tax protest by chamber
    195 7 Income tax protest by chamber THE Income Tax (Amendment) Bill seeks to give the Income Tax Comptroller extensive powers of search and seizure unheard of in other I democratic countries, and to > empower him to call for addi- tional assessment at any time, i says the Singapore Chinese Chamber
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    The new St. John's will be biggest church in Malaya
    277 7 The new St. John's will be biggest church in Malaya KI'ALA MWITR. Friday. pLANS for a new St. John's Church, which will probably be the biggest in Malaya, have been approved by the Kuala Lumpur Municipality, the Straits Times was told today. Estimated to cost $500,000, the now St. Johns
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    GUARDED WRONG PLACE
    104 7 TANJONG MALIM. Fri. fWO market .stall holders, Lim Chenc Guan and Lim Yeow Yoke were awarded $10 car-h l>y Mr. E. Long, the circuit mapLs rate a.s compensation for expenses incurred in attending court. They were accused of rloin™ Home Guard duty in the wrong spot. The
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    He could drive buses—not cars
    72 7 He could drive buses not cars sani bin Haron, a Singapore Traction Company bus driver pleaded guilty yesterday in a I Singapore traffic court to driving a car without a licence and K r o n f C e 75. HC W finPd a Chief Inspector Ahmad oin Hussein, prosecuting,
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    HERE TO JOIN TRADE OFFICE
    52 7 Mr. S. C. Stout has arri/ed in Singapore to join the staff oi the United Kingdom Trade Commissioner. Mr Stout previously served with the General Port Office in Britain and the Admiraifv Since the war he worked in trie export trade department of tin Board
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      89 7 lIT'S IMPOSSIBLE > 1. To leave SINGAPORE at 7. 1S A.M. 2. Be In KUALA LUMPUR at 9.00 A.M. 3. Leave KUALA LUMPUR at 5.25 P.M the same day 4. Arrive back in SINGAPORE at 7.10 P.M. UNLESS YOU TRAVEL BY 1 MALAYAN P-r Round Trips to \J JAPAN A
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      152 7 THE WEATHER Minimum temperature (7.30 p.m. on Nov 12 to 730 a.m. on Nov. 13 >: Singapore 73 riParee*. PPnanc 73. Kota Bahru 74, Kuala Lumpur 73. Ipoh 71. Kuantan 70. M.iMii.i.m (rmprraturr /'.30 a m. to 7 30 p.m. on Nov 13': Sinsaporr 87. Ponnna 88. Knta Bahru 02.
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    Husband won MM here —now they are evicted
    291 8 From HALL ROMNEY LONDON, Friday. A WOMAN whose first husband was killed fighting the Japanese in Malaya and whose second husband, R. S. M. Robert Robertson, of the Argylls, won the Military Medal in Malaya, is to be evicted from Army married
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    CHURCH WILL BE AT HOME
    125 8 /"(ONGREGATION members V who find it difficult to attend St. Andrew's Cathedral. Singapore, can now worship j at horne either their own j or other congregation mem- 1 1 hers. This experiment of "taking j the church into the homes of the people" was recently
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    Johore talks on the Prophet
    83 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. -On Nov. 19. the Prophet's birth,day. there will be talks on the significance oi the occasion in English. Chinese. Malay. Urdu and Arabic, at the padang op- posite the Supreme Court. I Johore Bahru Tuan Abdul Jalil Hassan, the Assistant Mufti. Johore.
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    FIRST VISIT SINCE 1925
    55 8 B.\( K IN SINGAPORE for the first time since his wedding at St. Andrew's Cathedral in 1925 is Mr. G. F. Gardner, export sales manager of the Crittall Manufacturing Co. Ltd.. who is on a tenday visit to Malaya to gather first-hand information about sales and
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    VOTING CHARGE TO S.H.B.
    193 8 MR. S. Jaganathan, Singapore's South Ward 1 Labour City Councillor, yesterday complained to the Harbour Board chairman. Mr, P. A. T. Ch rimes. that petty officers of the board were interfering with the December election campaign. His letter sent yesterday to Mr. Chrimes claimed that two
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    Wanted—one gramophone
    43 8 Wanted— one gramophone Padre and Mrs. Daniels of the Havelock Road Mi-ssion Hall. Singapore, need a portable gramophone to help them in their evangelistic work. It will be used to play records giving simple instruction in Tamil. Hindustani. Malay, Hokkien, Cantonese and Hakka
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    66 from Borneo
    32 8 The Straits Steamship company ship Darvcl which ar rived in Singapore yesterday from North Borneo brought 22 saloon and 44 deck passengers Twelve are in transit to Red China.
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    275 RETURN FROM INDIA
    38 8 The 5.322-ton passenger freighter Jalagopal. which arrived in Singapore from Madras yesterday, brought 23 saloon and 252 Indian deck passengers. All the deck passengers were sent to the quarantine station on St John's island
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    Rotary party for welfare home
    56 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri.— The Johore Bahru Rotary Cub will give a party in December to the inmates of the Social Welfare Home and invalid children at the General Hospital and special treat for the leper settlement. The Majedee concert party will Rive shows on behalf
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    In hospital
    26 8 JOHORE BAHRU Fri.Inche Azman bin Hail Abdul Hamid. assistant secretary Service branch. State Secretariat Johore Bahru, is now in hospital suffering from a stroke
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    Federation to hold health week
    106 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. A MEETING in Johore Bahru elected Dr. Mohamed Sal- < leh. Principal Medical Officer. Johore, chairman of a committee to arrange a health week in the State in April next year. The health week is sponsored by the World Health Organisation to
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    Johore Council meets on Dec. 22
    47 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri The next meeting of the Johore Council of State will be held In Johore Bahru on Dec. 22. It is expected that the Select Committee's report on the Johore state Election Bill will come before the Council then.
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    U.K. holiday
    27 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. Mr. Justice Storr leaves by plane on Sunday fnr Britain on holiday During his absencr. Mr Justirp Buhagalr, from Penang to deputise.
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    LABOUR COUNCIL CANDIDATES HIT McNEICE SPEECH
    297 8 \IOST Labour candidates contesting the December City Council elections are making the budget speech of the City President, Mr T P. F McNeice. the main point of their sp^""**— Mr. MrNeice warned, in his speech, that any pay increase for City Council employees next
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    But thief was there
    68 8 A EUROPEAN couple living In Kay Siang Road, Singapore awoke at 3 a.m. and thought they heard someone moving. They went back to sleep after the husband had been downstairs and found everything in order. At dawn they found an electric kettle and a tin of
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    Scholarships for Sikh students
    85 8 SRI Guru Nanak Sat Sangh Sabha of Singapore has announced two scholarships for i Sikh students These will be awarded through the Director of Education to deserving and intelliIgent Sikh students of either sex studying at a secondary school in Singapore in Standard Six or a
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    SATA gets $1,592
    128 8 Donation^ totalling $1,592 havp been received by the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis AssoI elation. Details are: Imperial Chemical Industries (M) Ltd.. Malaya Purllshlng House $350 each: Mr. Chee Soon Keng $200: Dunlop Rubber Piuvhasinu Co. staff and operatives $147.17; Mrs. C. E Hudson $110: Mr. Khoo Teck Chuan. Anonymous
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      361 8 A m m n m curate (9). I'ill IS 1 NIK S < lOSSUOIU 26. Plant man with bird (8). 27. This could seem to sound like i a lord ifi>. 1 3 4 5 6 §§Jj g I 28. Animal turns the grass back 14). ssss Som# need them
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    Albuquerque won Malacca for Portugal, died disgraced
    1937 9 Straits Times DAILY Feature: TRUE stories of History, Adventure, Art, Geography, Science, Exploration. Disaster. MONDAY TORNADO— FIRE HITS TOWN— AND 1,152 DIE ALPHONSO d'Albiiqiicrquc, the man who won Malacca for Portugal, did so very much in such a little time. He was 50
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      312 9 THE AMABtAJV \KGHVS Prlnt-e A"m<-««. fulHllln* (he last ol llauihUly. shall)*, appioa. hrd Shaibar. quirk to anrrr was his Ulhrr, dj.mii.dv brou.ht.hr ihr Sulla... Von have sent for enraicd al thin beha»io,.r, and ?«J i r SUIU mr: he Ulld coWlv Wh l d<> SMun al ft lh ""«hty Iron
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      INDUSTRIALS AND' TINS ARE FIRMER
      348 10 TIN RISES, RUBBER FALLS THE Singapore share market had a rather better day yesterday. Industrials and tins were generally firmer and from the brokers' reports of business done the volume of turnover was larger and more widespread. Rubbers were still a neglected market. Tin rose
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      TIN PRICE
      18 10 The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was declared at $311.25 a pirul. up fl\t cents.
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      Australian stocks
      181 10 MELBOURNE. Fri. yHERE were lew lilghlleht in 1 steady investment mark.t nn ttM Stock Exchance today and rights to several new Issues were moderately busy. Xrv issues moved within narrow limits ;ind few moves exceeded 6d. a share. Bonds, metal and gold shares were quiet and irregular. Clnsinc
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      RUBBER PRICES
      175 10 The Singapore rubber market yesterday ignored a slight decline in New York and London and ruled generally steady but featureless. November first grade closed at 55 3 4 cents a pound, onequarter 'ent below Thursdays close. Business was done during the day up to 5614 cents. There was
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      Pahang Consolidated
      66 10 LONDON. F:l. A FALL of £272.169 in the profit and a cut of 35 per cent in dividend are shown in a preliminary statement of Pahang Consolidated for the year ended July. The final ordinary dividend h 30 per cent, making 55 per cent for the year, compared
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      Produce prices
      72 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: Noon prices per plcul wereCopra: steady: November *37 huvrrs. $37 sellers: December $37.. buyers. t sellers. Coconut oil: steady: $fil sellers Pepper: steai all varieties un *5: Muntok white $340. Sarawak $335. Lamponc biark $295. I^wis and Peat Closine prices were: Copra: quiet after
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      Exchange rates
      94 10 THE Malayan Exchance Banks 1 Association made the following chances in its rates to merchants yesterday:NIW YORK: buying T.T. 32 7R. air mail. O.D. ?3. 90 days. 33 1 R credit bills. 33 316 trade btlb: selling, T.T. or O D. 32 5 8 ready The selling rate.
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      Singapore shipping
      100 10 CHIPS Ixlll7 alongside the gingapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are U. Vivaldi 1-2. Orestes 4-5, Star Arcturus C.P.. Alcinovis *i-7. Brnlomond 8-9. Rlouw 11. MaeUuycker 13-14. President Van Buren 15-lfi. Awata Ma ru 18, Buloh 19-20, Sedll!. N. Wall 4. Permata N. Wall 6. Semenylh N.
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      982 10 NOTICES CHILDREN'S SCHOOL, ROYAL AIR FORCE, CHANGI A vacancy exists in the Secondary Department for a qualified teacher to take pupils In the age ran^c 11-16. Applications should be made in •vritlng to the Station Education Officer. AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE SINGAPORE PROPERTIES To be held at our saleroom Nos.
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      163 10 NOTICES NOTICE 132,000.000/-. Federation of Malaya t%% Loan 1961/71. Notice ls hereby given that the Register of the above-mentioned loan will be closed from 16th Nov ember to 30th November, 1953 (both dates inclusive), for preparation of Interest Warrants. E. A. JOY REGISTRAR. PUBLIC DEBT OFFICE. F-EDERATION OF MALAYA. KUALA
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      163 10 NOTICES BRIDGE ON MAIN NORTH SOUTH ROAD OVER BERNAM RIVER AT TANJONG MALIM. Road users are hereby notified that repairs to the above bridge will be carried out over the period 11th to 25th November, 1953. During this period traffic will be restricted to crossings of the bridge at halfhourly
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      861 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are lnvltea lor vacancies In the clerical branch oi the Sarawak Government. Salary scale $72 84 x 0 120 x 12 264. Points of entry dependent on applicant's educational qualifications and previous experience. Applicants appointed will be eligible for cost of living allowance from 10% to 50%
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      293 10 NOTICES NOTICE TO APPLICANTS ON THE HOUSING REGISTER OF THE SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST Houiinc Accommodation at PrinceM Elizabeth Estate. Buklt Timmh 9't nj. The Singapore Improvement Trust ls completing 84 three-roomed flats lin the above housing estate to let at a monthly rental of $44. plus $13. service and conservancy
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      257 10 TENDERS KUALA LUMPUR MUNICIPAL COUNCIL TENDERS Tenders are Invited for printing bill forms for the year 1954. Full rit tails from Municipal Treasurer. Closing date 19th November. 1953. (MOHAMED DIN BIN ALI) Municipal Secretary Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur. 11th November, 1953. P. W. D. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS from PWD. contractors
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      195 10 SINGAPORE RED FUNNEL LINES: HEAP ENG MOH SS CO., LTD. SOON BEE STEAMSHIP CO.. (S) LTD. 33/35. Teluk Ayer Street— 'Phone 3448. K.V. "GIANC. BEE" DIRECT SAILINGS TO DJAKARTA A CHERIRON FORTNIGHTLY SERVKK A. Spore appr. Nov. 21 1.. Spore appr. Nor. 27 M.V. "GIANO SENG" SAILINGS TO 81.1X.10E. PK.
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      1545 11 T.1241J MANSFIELD <Sc CO., LTD. 7^ 4os "Hy dncomoroted ,n Singapore, <«5 BLUE FUNNEL LIN* D# M Carriers' optton to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo SAILINGS to LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW, LONDON ft CONTINENTAL PORTS Due Soils P. Sham Penang Pcleu, for Marseilles, Liverpool Glosgow Nov. 14/14 Nov.
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      1011 11 aj^MMRMBJBjBJBJBJHBJBJPJB^^ EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINGS FROM SCANDINAVIAN/U.K./CONTININT Spore P. Shorn Penong "ManchurM" for Banokok, Saigon, Hongkong, Manila, Kobe, Yokohama V 1 Oee. 30/10 Nev. M/ I "Fehtrie" for Bonokok 7/ I Dm. 4 Dec "Lelondla" for Banokok 29/29 Dm. "Java" for Banokok, Saigon, Honokong, Manila, Kobe Yokohomo SI Dm/ 2
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      1102 11 BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. SAILINGS te U.K. and CONTINENTAL PORTS Spore P. Sham Penono ■cnlomond for Avonmouth, London, Rotterdom, Newcoitle G. 1/9 15/17 Nev. ■•nalbeneeh for Liverpool, Gkngow, Dublin, Antwerp 0. 25/24 19/21 Nev. 22/24 Nev. Benmner for Hovre. London, Rotterdom, Hull 21/27 Nov. 21/30 Nev. V 2 Dec. Bonwyvh)
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      1332 11 McALISTER tic CO.. LTD. EI.LERMAN BUCKNALL Til: N LONDON, HAVRE, ROTTERDAM, KLAVWEBI bIMB HAMBURG ft HULL LOS ANGELES, SAN FRAMCISCO, and for USA, North Atlantic Port, PORTLAND. SEATTLE ft VANCOUVER and Canada via Colombo Accepting cargo for Central ft Seojrn CITY Ot SWANSEA American Ports Spore P. Sham Penong BOUGAINVILLE
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  • The SATURDAY FORUM
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      Odds are on the races
      217 12 Odds are on the races THE recent alterr ations to the import duties require a deal of understanding. The Government has removed the import duty on field glasses, opera glasses and telescopes. This will presumably benefit the racing fraternity and opera goers, since all such articles for the Security Forces
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      TORNADO' FOLLIES
      375 12 "IT is obviously time that the x foolish youngsters who are studying at the University of Malaya were told exactly what the majority of the public here thinks of their hooligan antics. In the event of a repetition of Tuesday's "Operation Tornado described in your columns the university
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      'Zebra' needed
      63 12 MANY children have to cross the road at the Middle Knad Sclcgie Road junction and the|: parents will be grateful to the traffic police if thry could arrange for a pnlirrman to be on duty during busy poriods to holp the children to crass the road A zrbra
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      University factors
      189 12 rE statesmanlike announcement of the university favouring extension in Kuala Lumpur instead of going on with the fantastic Johore Bahru project is sure to revive interest in the University of I Malaya wkich nearly died away j last week. However it must be understood that any university centre
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      INDIANS LEARN ALL THIS
      407 12 INDIANS LEARN ALL THIS- I HAVE followed closely the interesting controversy appearing in the columns of our leading papers between the Indian graduates and the locally educated ones, on the question of the standard of education in the two countries. An Indian student becomes I the owner of a secondary
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      BY ALL MEANS GIVE A HOOJ
      187 12 BY ALL MEANS GIVE A HOOJ rE suggestion by AntiNoise was Indeed immaterial and inconsiderate. He suggested that the hooting of the engine should be banned while entering the Klang station and also when leaving the station. Undoubtedly, the hooting of the engine may cause disturbance to nearby residents, but
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      Thanks to police
      85 12 T would like to express my sincere thanks to the European police officer who so kindly helped my sister in an accident at Nassim Road on November 3, and also to the police at Orchard Road and Sepoy Line police stations: they were very courteous. The European
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      If he had hung on to seat...
      244 12 If he had hung on to seat. TIKE many people, I thought that Messrs. Narayanan and Rajagopal were wrong when they resigned from the Federal Legislative Council on a purely communal issue. However, since then I have tieard the real facts, and it seems to me that placed in the
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      6 12 WHEN WILL WE TWO MEET ACAIN?
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      ENGINEERS WHO DO NOT USE THEIR HANDS
      701 12 ENGINEERS WHO DO NOT USE THEIR HANDS LOCAL educated boys, from time to time, are urged to take up "boiler-suit" jobs if they wish to become professional engineers. None seem to follow this advice, with the result that skilled practical work in Singapore and the Federation is mostly in the
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      And I was left without a phone
      238 12 And I was left without a phone rE 'tida apa attitude' of the inhabitants of this fast-growing city has in the past condoned conditions which no civilised country in the world would tolerate. My grouse now Ls In connection with che telephone services of this Cclony. Over a year ago
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      93 12 CASTROL WINS! -^^E^Jm\ SIX CLASS I WORLD RECORDS Bctwocn the 1 2th jnd 1 5th October, 1953. the Tarf-Cilcra twin- I boom car 1 500 c.c. Cilcra Engine), driven by Picro Tjruffi created the R^^ Mlowini; world records in Clmj I »t Monflhcry, near P»n%:- I /^7^ kilometre* 114.84 mph.
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      749 12 NOTICES i NOTICE I have, as from Ist November. 1953. left the Nanyang Structural Co.. Ltd. and have now established my own company carrying on Civil Engineering and Building Works under the name of Chow Construe- tlon Co.. at No. 11. Robinson Road. Singapore. Tel. 5077.^ SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST KIM
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      591 12 NOTICE P. W. D. SELANGOR WATEBWORKS DEPARTMENT. KUALA I.tiMPIR NOTICE Consumer* In tbo arra SETAPAK. PAHANG ROAD, are advised that testinc of mains shall br carrlrH out betwrrn 16th 21st November inclusive. Consumers are advised to conserve water during that period as the supply may be intermittent. WATEFWORK ENGINEER. KUALA
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    Carruthers retains his world title easily
    572 13 Carruthers retains his world title easily GALLANT GAULT LASTS DISTANCE By A Special Correspondent SYDNEY, Friday. JIMMY Carruthers of Australia retained his world bantamweight title here tonight when he scored a unanimous decision on points over 15 rounds against Pappy Gault of America before crowd of 40,000 people. This was
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    WEEKEND SPORT
    156 13 TODAY HOCKEY SHA LEAGUE. DIV. I: SBC BODCA, padang: RAT SetoUr "A" v Khalsa Assn., Khalia ground; BNAS Sembawang y YJK.C.A., YMCA ground. OIV. 3: r.VV.i). v H.M. Customs, Farrer Park RUGGER S.C.C. r Setanrer Club, padang (Mr. Taylor) SINGAPORE ALL BLUEB v BeUngor All Bluet. Pollrr Depot
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    Archer & Burge hit centuries
    211 13 Archer Burge hit centuries BRI9BANE. Frl. (CENTURIES by Ken Archer, their captain, and Peter Burge helpI ed Queensland score 352 for nine on the opening day of their Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales here. Archer, who hit 118. and Burge. I with a knock of 103, brought the
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    C'WEALTH GET 396 FOR 5
    100 13 AMRIT3AR, Fri. tfELPED by :i bright century be--1 fore lunch by the West Indian. Frank Worrell, the Commonwealth (Ticket team totalled up 396 for five on the first day of their match against North Zone here. COMMONWEALTH— Ist Inns. R. Simpson c Adhikaii b Kumria
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    SJ.I ARE STILL UNBEATEN
    49 13 St. Josephs Institution kept up their unbeaten hockey record when they beat Cable and Wireless 3-0 in a frlenulv same yesterday. E Teasensohn. E Wicks and D Bcyd srered for the school. In another friendly on the pad»ng. SRC. "B" and RAF Tengah drew l-i.
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    5-1 FOR MARINES
    39 13 Marine Dept "B" beat Broadcasting Dept. 5-1 In the Singapore Civil Services Association"* Coronation Cup junior division soccer at Farrer Park yesterday. Munwary (2). Kalld. Aman an-! Ka.«sim Asat scored for Marine Dept.; Chandra for Broadcasting
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    JAMAL SCORES 3
    32 13 Taron Football Club of Johore beat Jacks B.C. 3-1 in a soccer friendly at Parrer Park yesterday. Jamal scored all three goals for Taron T.C.. and Clifton for Jacics
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    INDIANS NOW TOP SENIOR TABLE
    329 13 INDIAN ASSOCIATION wound up their Singapore Hockey A.vociatlon senior league programme with a deserving 3 l victory over bottom -of the league Singapore Cricket Club on the padang >r«terday. The victory takes Indians to the top of the league with 14 points I from their
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    SHA league positions
    311 13 T ATEST positions in the Singapore Hockey Association league are: FIRST DIVISION P W D L P A Pt. Indian Assn. 10 6 2 2 21 16 14 Ceylon S.C. 9 5 3 1 16 9 13 SRC Reds 8 6 2 24 13 12 University 7
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    VARSITY KO POLICE, KEEP IN TITLE BID
    347 13 DOLICE Sports Association, one of the early favourites for the SHA senior league title, dropped out of the championship race yesterday when they suffered a 1-0 defeat by University of Malaya at Bukit Timah Road. This victory puta the University right into the
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    Ruth Jennings will challenge the best
    640 13  -  EDIN PETERS MALACCA HILL CLIMB By AMONG the 60 competitors in the third annual 1 Malacca half-mile hill climb to be held tomorrow will be a woman competitor, Mrs. Ruth Jennings, wife of the President of the Malayan Motor Sports Club. Mrs. Jennings has
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    Only 10 enter for k.o. hockey
    103 13 The Singapore Hockey Amorlatlon had received only ten entries for their knockout competition up to last night 48 hours before entries close. This poor response has worried officials who are hoping for other league teams to make last-minute entries. The SHA hon secretary. Mr.
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    S.C.C. v SELANGOR CLUB TEAMS
    117 13 The teams for the annual trophy rugger match, on the 9.C.C paduig today (kick-off 5 p.m.). are S.C.C.: R. M Parker icapt); P. J. Henney, F J Baxendale. T. A. Roper. O. F Taylor; T. R. Wallen. i H. C. Plgou; S. F. Armitage. A
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    CRICKET MATCH
    42 13 The team to represent Insu Doshl s XI against Stndhl Merchants XI in a cricket matrh on the Indian Association ground tomorrow will be: Indu Doshi. Vijay Singam. Roy Sharma. Vijya Llngam. Verity 0111. Narayanan. DeveraJ. SevaraJ Shushlraj. Desal, Rajendran.
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    ITALY BEAT EGYPT |
    19 13 ITALY BEAT EGYPT CAIRO, Frl.— ltaly beat Egypt 2-1 In their world soccer cup elimination game here today UP.
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      216 13 \^r Don't let that COLD take hold! Joti ccw drop* ot Vapa on yon* handkerchief, and oo your pillow an ajgbu will dear chc head in•tanily Vapa relieves your cold Hxnn (he hr»i deep breath you take, Vapem ta highly cooceocrated, •oonomJcal, and pteaaani co oae. Gf* "^7^ e*s» fr^-^W^T
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    FLOWER HARVEST HAS BEEN SAVED FOR TODAY'S I'Am.
    347 14 FLOWER HARVEST HAS BEEN SAVED FOR TODAY'S I 'Am. By EPSOM JEEP PLOWER HARVEST was withdrawn from his mile race last Saturday and has been carefully prepared for the Class 3 trophy race over a mile and a quarter at Kuala Lumpur today, final day of the Selangor Turf Club's
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    Straits Times Selections
    147 14 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER R»rr 1. 2.M. PROCTOR Fairy Gift RoKallnd TORPEDO l.inkshir II The Minx ROSALIND Proctor Fairy Gift PROCTOR RowUn4 Fairy Gift Race 2. 3.00. RED HAT Torpedo The Minx TOLLANA II Ginseng Gay Carnival Race 3. 3.30. JACKPOT II GiUn Bobsworth MADLF.S Jackpot
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    Saigon Bran looks cut above Cl. 5
    228 14 CAIGON BRAN has found his right form and I think this three-year-old will prove today he Is a cut above this class by taking Race Seven to complete a double for the meeting. Saigon Bran was always going too well for his opposition
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    Back Bridge Law on Penang form
    573 14 DRIDGE LAW II is down 5 lb. after his first-run "failure last Saturday and I think he will make amends by taking the Class 3, Div. 1, 51-f. event (Race Eight) today. Bridge Law II lost his chance at the barrier last week when
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    TODAY'S GOING
    18 14 THE GOING at Kuala Lumpur today will at best be yielding. There was more rain yesterday.
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    Today's race card
    1159 14 Rfc DouDie rotes win oe neia on Kaces s ana 4. and 8. The Big Sweep will be drawn on Race 8. Race 1—2.30: Class 3, Div. 3— 5J Furs. 1 080 Pnnkawallah II Hudson 9.0n Chew St Tan Kongsl Heddle 2 864 Rosalind Russell 8.13 Mrs.
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    SHEILA SETS NEW INDOOR RECORD
    75 14 LONDON. Fri— Miss Sheila l.rru ill. British holder of the women's world high jump record, last night beat her own world record for an indoor leap when she cleared sft. 31 in at the Wembley Empire Pool. Miss Lerwill, whose world record is sft. 71
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    STUART WILL LEAD TOURISTS
    43 14 LONDON. Frl. R C. Stuart. cr plain of the New Zealand Rugby Union touring team, will lead the side against Western Counties at Bristol tomorrow. Stuart, bruised his cheekbone badly In the match against London Counties lust week. Renter.
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    Easy for US, Aussie stars
    127 14 N.S.W. TENNIS MEET SYDNEY, Prt. Australian and American tennis stars have got through the first round of the New South Wales championships, their first tournament before the Davis Cup battle. The only American who was extended was Tony Trabert who took Just over an hour
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    Bend Over's speed an advantage over K.L. 7 furs
    267 14 Bend Over's speed an advantage over K.L. 7 furs BEND OVER was taken out of her race over a mile last week and is being allowed to take her chance over 7f. In Race Four today. On her Penang August form, this Windsor Slipper mare has a very good chance.
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    PROCTOR TO TAKE RACE ONE
    200 14 I pROCTOR attempted to go wHM Ginseng on Wednesday and for half-a-mlle they fought a keen duel for the lead Proctor gave up the strugle at the top of ;hi straight and was beaten out of h place It was his first outing after a
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    Hurry Up can stay 9 furs.
    159 14 11l HKV IP did not have the best. of luck in the running when hr finished fourth to Queen t, Scholar over a mile last week. He ramr on nicely at the finish and just missed a place. I am confident this Bobsleii.-h gelding
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      773 14 TUITION to Word* tS (min.)— Box SO ct: txtrm. TAYLOR DANCE STUDIO, 33, Grange Road. Ballet. Tbp, Character Dancing. Adult Classes now forming. For particulars Phone 3369 or *****. HOME LEAVE J0 Word* js.i (mm.) Box SO cl: txtrm. LEAVE accommodation. Ideal position 20 miles from London In delightful country.
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      310 14 I CLASSIFIED AT)S. FOR SALE in Wordt tS (Mm.) Box m ri t txtrm. ALSATIANS Two sable coloured bitches one four other one year four months. Very affectionate. European bred and raised. Ring *****. FOR SALE: Prestcold Frlgidalre good condition $250. curvedwood bookcase. G. Electr. Sewing machine, camphorwood chest. 42.
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      70 14 MORE SPORT-P. 13 fa[\ f/6 COLLYCK QUAY, SPOK£ j ■■■■^■■■■■■■PmBP^BMSi with HONOLULU Stopover 4. Deluxe DC-6B cr DC-6 Sleeper Planes Twice weekly from Bangkok to Manila, trans-Pac.fic via Guam, Woke and Honolulu Famed PAI Service luxurious Sleeper berths Delicious cocktails, snacks and hot meals Convenient connections Irom Singapore lor oir
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