The Straits Times, 22 April 1948

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABUSHED 184S TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS
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    1,000 S.H.B. MEN BACK TODAY
    496 1 Board's Protection Guarantee MORE than 1,000 Chinese harbour labourers gave a verbal undertaking to the Singapore Harbour Board last night that they would return to work today. Those returning consist of 55 gangs of stevedores and 48 gangs of wharf -workers. In return, the Board
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    Australian Policy Is Criticised
    113 1 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Wed. "THE current wave of banishments from Australia purely on grounds of colour is a danger to peace," Professor Thomas Griffith Taylor of Toronto University said here today. He told a Melbourne UniversU> audience that he knew from personal observation that
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    B-29 BOMBER MISSING
    85 1 TOKIO. Wednesday. Far East Air Forces headquarters m Tokio announced today that a B-29. with a crew of ten aboard, had been missing since yesterday. The plane left the 20th Air Force Headquarters at Quam on a routine bombing and photo mission and has not returned A
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    LESS RUBBER USED IN U.S.
    90 1 NEW YORK. Wednesday.— Rubber consumption m the United States this year will decline to 940.000 tons from the record 1.122,000 tons used m 1947. Mr. John L. Colly, president of Goodrich, predicted at the company's annual meeting today. This total would still be 44 per
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    BIG BANGKOK AIRPORTPLAN
    61 1 BIG BANGKOK AIRPORT PLAN BANGKOK. Wednesday. The Siamese Royal Air Force yesterday signed a contract with the United States-owned Far East Airport and Airways Company for a U.S. $1,500,000 expulsion of Bangkok's Don Muafflg Airport. Improvements will include a new runway for 100-ton airliners. The programme is expected to make
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    HIGH-LEVEL TALK IN JOGJAKARTA
    84 1 BATAVIA, Wednesday. The first high-level meeting between representatives of the Netherlands Kingdom and the 1 Indonesian Republic since November 1946 took place at Jogjakarta today. Mr. Raden Abdulkadir Wir- dj oat mod jo, Dutch East Indies Deputy Lieutenant-Governor- General, paid a courtesy call on President Soekarno
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    Chinese Traders Hit
    244 1 BATAVIA, Wednesday. I THE value of the Straits 1 dollar on the Batavia black market has dropped rapidly since the institu-l tion of new exchange con-^ trols, and Chinese traders m the city have been btt nard, the Dutch-language newspaper Nieusgier reported today. The paper said that
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    "Italy's Lead May Be Felt In Asia "— Washington
    373 1 "Italy's Lead May Be Felt In Asia Washington WASHINGTON, Wednesday. A MERICA regards the defeat of the Communist Popular Front m the Italian elections as one of the sharpest blows dealt to International Communism and Russia m the 'cold war.' "I believe that the results will even outweigh the value
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    23 1 LONDON, Wednesday.— The Governor of Cyprus arrived here by air yesterday for consultations with the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Arthur Creech Jones).— A J».
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    33 1 Miss Barbara Ann Scott, the young Canadian bolder of the world Olympic and European figure skating titles, has turned down a $7,500 a week contract with a Hollywood film company, according to Reuter.
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    Churchill's 'Unite' Call To Europe
    182 1 LONDON, Wednesday. MR. Winston Church 11 today called on Europe's peoples to "unite {together to preserve their freedom," and warned that "there will never be a set-j I tied peace m Europe while Asiatic imperialists and Communist domination rule over the whole of ceni tral
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    Gunman Wounds U.S. Labour Leader
    170 1 DETROIT, Wednesday. WALTER P. Reuther, one of America's most important labour leaders, has been wounded by an unidentified gunman who fired through a window m his house here. Mr. Reuther, a Socialist and president of the United Auto Workers, was said by his wife to
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    British Troops Leave Haifa
    361 1 HAIFA, Wednesday. THE British authorities today ordered virtually all of their troops to abandon this big port city The spokesman admitted that the surprise move was an "open invitation" for the Arabs and Jews 10 fight it out for the city. The move, which came without
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    MacDonald Returning
    33 1 I' ruin Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. Pis reliably learned li.at Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the CommissionerGeneral m South-East As a. will leave Britain for Malaya on April >9. Straits Time* Copyright
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    Communism Repugnant To Siam
    112 1 Communism Repugnant To Siam BANGKOK, Wednesday. "pOMMUNISM is completely alien to UN Asian concept," declaied Siam's new Prime Minister (Field-Marshal Ph bun Songkram) m an m erview today. "It is particularly repugnant to Siam, which is a monarohy by tradition." he said Field-Marshal Phibun, commentlns on the Nanking proposal for
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    'REVIVE TIN CARTEL'
    94 1 WASHINGTON. Wecnusday. —Bolivia feels tha f if thj pre-war international *,m cartel cannot be revived, a new and similar organisation of producers should be formed as swiftly as oossible The Bolivian Ambassador (Don Ricardo Martinez Vargas) made this statement after he was asked to elaborate upon earlier
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    BRITAIN BLAMED
    39 1 LONDON. Wednesday. The Soviet news agency Tass said today that a Russian commission had found that tr.c- British transport plane was responsible for the plane collision above Berlin on April 3 m which 15 persons died.— A.P.
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      4 1 CHURCHILL MEMOIRS —PAGE 5
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      3,000 Railwaymen Lie Down On Train Tracks
      113 2 SHANGHAI, Wednesday. THREE THOUSAND railway workers disrupted train services for over 1 three hours yesterday when they all lay down on tracks of the Shanghai Nanking railway m protest against a sudden cut m wages. The chairman, of the Railway Workers Union (Chow
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      Mine Disaster
      31 2 LIMA. Wednesday Six miners were killed and 50 are missing m a copper mine explosion near the town of Casa Palca. hiKh m the Andes, officials said yesterday. —AP.
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      Died At Sea
      50 2 AMSTERDAM, Wednesday. —Ten babies of repatriation families aboard the Dutch troop transport Volendam which recently left Batavia. have died of enteritis, the newspaper Trouw reported yesterday. Medical personnel of the hospital ship Grote Beer have gone aboard the Volendam m the Indian Ocean to render assistance. A.P.
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      Boy Murderer
      36 2 CHICAGO, Wednesday A 13-year-old boy was sentenced to 22 years' gaol here yesterday for murder. The boy, Howard Lang the youngest confessed killer m Chicago criminal history, admitted having murdered a seven-year-old playmate. C.P.
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      Mrs. Roosevelt
      52 2 UTRECHT, Holland, Wed- nesday Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was yesterday made an Honorary Doctor of Laws m an old cathedral church here. She is the first woman to j Ret this hißh honour. Queen Wllhelmina. the Crown Princess and her husband and several cabinet members were present at the
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      Truncheon Ruling
      79 2 LONDON, Wednesday.— Britain's War Minister (Mr. Shinwell* told Parliament yesterday that he had ordered rubber truncheons to be taken away from British soldiers serving m Germany. Replying to a question by Wing Commander E. R. i Millington (Lab.) Mr. Shin- well said that truncheons were not authorised Issue
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      German Weddings
      58 2 LONDON. Wednesday. The War Minister (Mr. Shinwell) told the House of Commons yesterday that 3,400 German women had married members of the British, Occupation Army. Including those whose husbands were non-Army men, he said, a total of 4,694 German women had been admitted to Britain for marriage to
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      Surprise Visit
      71 2 LONDON, Wednesday.— j Princess Elizabeth made an unexpected visit to a factory m the East End yesterday. It is part of her plan for I learning about various as- j pects of the country she will I some day reign over. The Princess, who is 22 today, will
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      Food Relief Plan
      81 2 NEW YORK, Wednesday.— The National chairman of the American Overseas Aid and the United Nations Appeal for Children (Mr. Lee Marshall) has announced that food relief for 230.000 children m China will be speeded up. He said the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund had allocat- Ed
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      Pope Criticised
      52 2 WARSAW. Wednesday— The Polish press bitterly assailed the Pope yesterday for his plea to forgive and forget Nazi war crimes and for his declaration that expulsion of Germans from their former Eastern territories was unjustifi«d. Government sources reiterated that nothing short of war would change Poland's new western
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    British Exports Record
    145 2 British Exports Record LONDON, Wednesday. JJJRrnSH exports m D March totalled £121,i 000,000 a record [for the past 27 years— J —but her unfavourable I invisible trade balance was £61,100,000 the largest for any month since September. Announcing these figures yesterday, the Board of Trade said that March exports exceeded
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    ACTOR MARRIES
    24 2 LONDON, Wednesday. Donald Wolfit, Shakespearian actor, was married yesterday to his leading lady. Miss Rosalind Iden. It was his 45th birthday.— A.P.
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    Army Deserter Convicted Of Killing U.K. Policeman
    124 2 LONDON, Wednesday. npHE first death sentence 1 Imposed since the House of Commons last week decided to abolish' capital* punishment was passed last night on Donald George Thomas, 22-year-old Army deserter, who was found guilty of slaying a police constable. The policeman, Nat
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      676 2 NO I ICES HONGKONG UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SINGAPORE The Annual General Meeting ptu Re-union Dinner will be held OH Thursday 29th April, 1948 at 1 3n p.m. sharp at Cecils Cafe, Finlavfon Green. 'Vtil members who are coming Inform the hon. Secretary Mr X K. Tan c/o. Slno-Malayan Fngineers. Medetros
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      459 2 NOTICES VEGETABLE OILS B* India. Bookings accepted for Oastor Oil, Linseed Oil, Groundnut Oil it Mowha Oil. Reply ANBAKK CO., 50, The Arcade, Singapore. SOUTHERN KINTA CONSOLIDATED, LIMITED. (Incorporated m England) Section 69 of the U.K. Companies Act 1947 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Southern Kinta Consolidated
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    "UPROOT MILITARISM"
    240 3 China Wants 50Year Jap Control NANKING, Wednesday. [HE National Assembly today laid down a 1 blueprint for a Japanese peace treaty which rvould place China's former enemy under Allied control for the next fifty years. It stressed that long control was needed to iproot militarism in the Japanese
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    58 3 FOR OLYMPIC JUMPS: Britain's best horsemen and hones are training at Aldershot for the equestrian events of the Otymvie Games and for the International Horse Show at the White City, London. immediately after. The picture shows Tankard, owned by Mr. Brian Butler, jumping m fine style with hi* owner during
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    Picket List Produced In S.H.B. Case
    208 3 A LIST stated to be of names of Singapore Harbour Board strikers and of times for their picket duties was produced as an exhibit m the District Court yesterday. The case was one In which two Indian labourers, Gurusamy and Ramasamy, were alleged to
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    Singapore Shipping
    126 3 Ships alongside the Siarapore Harbour Board wharvca yesterday (codown nnmbfrs .m brackets* were:— Main Wharf: Glenstrae (33-34). Breconshire (42-43). West Wharf: Rajula (1-2). Islander (3). Benarty (4-5), i Glengarry (11-li). President Tyler (15-16). Empire Dock: Asia (17-lt). Taitan (23-24). Bheers Wharf: Eknplre Humble At the Wl.arrei: To-day Kajang
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    DRAFT BILL INTRODUCED
    109 3 day.— A bill to draft men from 18 to 30 years of age was introduced yesterday by Representative Walter G. Andrews. New York Republican and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. The measure is the first to reach either the House or Senate since President Truman
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    BURMA TAKES OVER U.K. Co.
    65 3 RANGOON, Wednesday. The Burmese Parliament yesterday passed the Inland Waterways Nationalisation Bill empowering the Government to take over the Britishowned Irrawaddy Flotilla Company on June 1. A three-man committee it being formed to consider equitable compensation, Burmese informants stated. The Company's British employees will be
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    EXCHANGE OF DIPLOMATS
    31 3 NEW DELHI. Wednesday.— The Governments of Indian and Trans Jordan have agreed to exchange diplomatic rei presentatives on a legation I level, an official communique announced yesterday. AJP
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    'Go Back', Lewis Tells Miners
    219 3 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. ]yiR. John L. Lewis last night appealed to his soft "1 coal miners to go back to work, after he had been fined US$2O,OOO and- the United Mineworkers U551,400,000 for criminal contempt of court. in^a?a^tnersiePrne^ ing against tne neavy penalties, had refused to
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    New Services For Malayan Airways
    212 3 New Services For Ma layan A irways From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. \jfALAY AN AIRWAYS are planning to extend their services to Taiping, Alor Star, and North Borneo. rhese services will be started before the end of the year. The airline already nuu regular services to Kuala Lumpur,
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    JUDGE ON ARMS
    608 4 'Trea t Them L ike Hot Briek 9 A NYBODY who has arms m his possessioi should treat them lik» a very hot briek 1< be dropped at once and avoided at all costs/ said Mr. Justice Thorogood m the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. The judge made
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    P. BUXOM STRIKE
    62 4 With rererence to a report m the Straits Times of April 16 headed "Return To Work Ultimatum" the Shell Company wishes to state that 60 carpenters and builders who stopped work over claims for wages from a contractor are employed by a contractor undertaking work for the
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    Accident Finding In Fatal Crash
    233 4 Accident Finding In Fatal Crash THE Singapore Coroner (Mr. W. G. Porter) yesterday conducted part of an inquest m a ward m the General Hospital and m a ward m the Alexandra Military Hospital. The inquest was on three Europeans Mr. A. H. Hunter, Capt. C. G. Skelley and Mrs.
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    Singaporean Spirit Urged
    128 4 T*HE development of community spirit m Singapore was urged by the Information Officer to the Australian Commissioner m Malaya, (Mr. R. D. B. Mitchell) at the Singapore Rotary Club luncheon yesterday. Mr. Mitchell said that although there were many clubs m the city, most of them were
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    Educationist Here On S.E. Asia Tour
    271 4 Educationist Here On S.E. Asia Tour By Our Woman Correspondent A WOMAN educationist spoke to Raffles College students yesterday on the need to lower schoo and university fees am abolish any rules that "en courage racial or class discrimination amongst students." She is Miss Carmel Brickman, 22, a graduate of
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    Singapore Diary
    148 4 TODAY Police Band, Jalan Besar, 5.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Young People's meeting, Mr. M Plnlay on "The "^Ui of Qod Bethesda, Bras Basah Road. 6 pjn Pull Moon Day celebration, Slnhala Buddhist Temple. Outram Road, 6 p.m. Sermon by Yen. M. M. Mahaweera Thera. All are welcome.
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    Graduates As Teachers
    213 4 SIXTY per cent or 213 of the total number of 376 of Raffles College graduates are m the education service of Singapore or the Federation of Malaya, accordIng to the first register of graduates to be compiled In Singapore. Nine graduates are m the Straits Settlements Civil
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    The Fight Against Disarmament
    2076 5  -  The Right Hon. Winston Churchill THE SECOND WORLD WAR— 6 -s By THE German General 1 Staff did not believe that the German Army could be formed and matured on a scale greater than that of France, and suitably provided with arsenals and equipment, before 1943.
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    Costa Rica Civil War Ends
    241 5 Costa Rica Civil War Ends SAN JOSE, Wednesday. ¥)ESPITE a peace agreeMJ ment aimed at ending Costa Rica's civil war, more than 500 armed men broke into the streets of San Jose, the capital, last night and sporadic shooting was heard throughout the city. Former Guveiwi-iii officials were fleeing tile
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      228 5 'Round the Clock 'Round the Globe KLM is m the Sky ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES i? .'ik mm mi seats on plane tearing July 3»th. from 0.X./ Malaya for IK. Annual School holidays. Guaranteed, limited number m both directions. Closing date for bookings June 15th. TOWN QflKl) Katlang Airport 1 Hnlayson
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      209 5 enough to test the quality of i any paint— that is the time tsiJerosthen has been on the market, and it* reputation is higher li^E^ r-J now than ever, it* colour* undimmed LJm and unsullied at it were. mM^ iint and norm. ul( tea air. ha»e so effrrt on SidcroMhcn.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. Apr. 22,1948. BEHIND THE STRIKES
    820 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. Apr. 22, 1948. BEHIND THE STRIKES After having been comparatively free from serious strikes for some months, Singapore may be entering upon another period of industrial unrest, although we need not yet be so pessimistic as to suppose that 1948 will equal the disastrous record
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    The Schools Are Still Waiting
    370 6 The Schools Are Still Waiting At the end of November, *****,1 1947, many hundreds of boys and girls sat for the School Certificate examination m Malayan secondary schools. Those boys and girls are still waiting to know whether they passed l or not. This extraordinary delay m publishing the results
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    AMAZING EXPERIMENT ON KEDAH ESTATE
    2306 6  - AMAZING EXPERIMENT ON KEDAH ESTATE M. J. KENNAWAY 6,000 Pounds Of Rubber Per Acre By [Before the war Mr. M. J. Kennaway, one of Malaya's most experienced planters, was the regular Planting Correspondent of the Straits Times, and many of our readers will remember the weekly page which he contributed
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      256 6 JEWELS I crewels are chemical products. The natural stone is the product of Nature's laboratory, fused into a thing of beauty as the result of centuries of mineral alchemy. But the chemist can now make gems of the same chemical composition, colour, and lustre. As far back as 1880 on
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    MUNICIPAL WORKERS TO STRIKE
    337 7 Committee Acts On SFTU Call THE secretary of the Singapore Municipal Labour Unions Federation (Mr. M. Sundararaju) said yesterday that an executive committee of his union had informed the Municipality that its 7,000 members would be on strike tomorrow. The Singapore Federation of Trade Unions, to
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    30 7 RECEIVED AWARDS: Two Malay recruits who received certificates of special merit at the passing out parade m Koala Lumpur yesterday: Abdul Maulod bin Ujang (left) and Abdul Aziz bin Ismail.
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    Unite With Reds, Says SFTU
    204 7 •rut Singapore Federation of Trade Unions yester1 day issued a May Day (May 1) manifesto calling on labourers "to unite more closely with Communist circles m Malaya, to strengthen the labour front, and to be prepared to face the British imperialistic anti-Communist campaign." About 100,000
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    SERVICE ON ANZAC DAY
    68 7 The Deputy Governor of Singapore (Mr. P. A. B. McKerron) will take the salute it the Anzac Day service at the Cenotaph on April 25, at 7.45 a.m. The service will last nearly half an hour and will be attended by the Army, Navy, Air Force,
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    C.O.L. DECISION IN 14 DAYS
    148 7 The Government Clerical Services Union of Singapore exrects a decision by the Cost of Living Allowance Commltteo "within 14 days' time." Speaking at a meeting of tr-- Union m the Government buildings last night, the Presioent of the Union, (Mr. C. A. Tessensohn) told the
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      Hunters Break Up Elephant Herd
      99 7 From Our Own Correspondent KUANTAN, Wednesday. GAME officers have shot the two bull elephants of a small herd doing damage m the district for several years. They shot "the first elephant, and also a tiger, at the 18th Mile, Pekan Road, and the second a
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      Protest
      43 7 OENANG, Wednesday.—The IJT python experiment egainst rate m Kedah has failed according to Mr. Tan Seng Keat. leading rice miller m AlorA1or Star. Mr. Tan says godown labourers protested against the snakes. Rats destroyed 1,000,000 gsntangs of rice *n Kedah last year.
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      Russians Leave
      68 7 TWO Russian women touring Burma and Malaya re-! turned to Calcutta yesterday j "because of delays to ge*tin« visas from the Dutch and i Frecch to YiMt their territories m he Far Bast." Miss Tatiana Mirskaia, m- I terpreter to Madame Tamara MoroßOva. told the Straits j Tunes
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    H.K. BUYS OUR FIREWOOD
    97 7 "It is cheaper for the War Department to buy firewood m Singapore and have it shipped to Hong Kong than it is to buy supplies m Hong Kong," an Army spokesman told the Straits Times yester- day. Tenders to supply the Hong Kong War Department are
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    35 7 A Chinese living m Boon Teck Street was robbed of j more than $400 worth of cash and Jewellery by three Chinese at 3 ajn. yesterday. One of the robbers was armed with a pistol.
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    Singapore Cargo For H.K.
    218 7 Singapore Cargo For H.K. A BLUE Funnel ship left the Singapore wharves yesterday afternoon for Hong Kong with a cargo of merchandise for this port which she could not discharge. Held up at the Harbour! Board wharves for several j days because of the stevedores strike, the Euryplu3 will now
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    Prison For Picketers
    247 7 PUR Singapore Harbour) Board strikers who went on cycle patrol picketing workers on Saturday were given prison senten ces by the District Judge (Mr. E. P. Shanks), yesterday. They were Nalathamby, who was sentenced to ten months' rigorous imprisonment for threatening a working party at Gate 4,
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    28 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday.—The Kedah Agri-Horti-cultural and Livestock Exhibition this year is to be: held on July 2, 3 and 4 In the Sultan Abdul Ham id College erounds.
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    Park Shows To Aid T.B. Funds
    67 7 Park Shows To Aid T.B. Funds Over 14,000 people visited the Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association's enter-ta-nmint which was held m the Great World Amusement Park last night. Visitors paid $2 admission, and were afforded exhibition badminton, table t<nnis. boxing and all-in-wrcstling matches. "We had sold SIO.OOO worth of tickets by five
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    Tale Of A Fish
    203 7 By A Staff Reporter QOMEWHERE m Malacca. ♦J thiere ie a fisherman who can tell a tale thart leaves Izaak Walton, the master fisherman, completely outclassed. This it the story, told m the British Medical Association Journal: The fisherman wa« netting m a padi field. Open-mouthed,
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    Ratepayers Protest Against Blackouts
    172 7 »T»HE Singapore Ratepayers Association has protest- ed against the frequency and extent of blackouts m Singapore. The protest is contained m letters to the Colonial Secretary (Mr. P. A. B. McKerron) and the Municipal President (Mr. L. Rayman). The Association says that more could and should
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    R.A.F. Malays Parade
    242 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. FHE RAJP. Regiment 1 (Malaya) youngest unit of the R.A.F.— held its first passing out parade m an historic ceremony at the airfield here today. Before the Sultan of Selangor and other distinguished guests, the 240 Malays of the regiment,
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    Five Singapore Asian A.S.P.s
    578 7 Five Singapore Asian A.S.P.s npHE Secretary of State for Colonies has approved A the promotion to gazetted rank Assistant Superintendent of Police on one's year's probation of five Singapore Police officers, it was officially announced yesterday. The officers are Senior Inspector Sardar Singh, md Inspectors John Le Cain, Cheah Teng
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      TRACKING THE "TIGER TAMERS" IN SELANGOR
      1590 8  -  W. F. Stafford By Officer-in-Charge of Detectives, Selangor. Mr. W. F. Stafford, who has played a considerable part m restoring law and order m Selangor told an intensely interesting and revealing story of "Malaya's Lost Generation" to the Kuala Lumpur Rotary Club recently. This
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      Making A Living On Discarded Tin Cans
      394 8 EMPTY tins by tiie hundreds collected by the "tin-tin-bottle" men clutter the little wooden shacks by the roadside and from Jthem are manufactured a miscellany of articles which find their way into Chinese homea and sundry shops to serve as containers, water cans,
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      37 8 DTAK PAW POUNDERS: These two Dy»k women are seen separating husks from grain m a Dyak noose on the Upper Rejang. The pad! is pounded with big poles and the husks winnowed away. Photograph by Hedda Morrison.
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      WORLD'S LARGEST DIAMOND
      259 8 .THE largest uncut diamond m the world— the 770 carat stone found by the Sierra Leone Selection Trust m the gravels of the Woyie River, Sierra Leone, West Africa, m January 1945— wi1l be among the exhibits which will attract the attention of the world's trade buyers
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      Can Mankind Avert The Catastrophe?
      1083 9 Can Mankind Avert The Catastrophe? MAN'S LAST CHOICE by E. M. Friedwald (Heineman, $5.10) THE ANATOMY OF PEACE by Emery Reves (Allen, $4.50) MOW that the fulcrum of international politics has shifted again to Berlin, the similarity between 1948 and 1938 becomes startling. There is only one clears difference 1938
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      To Be Read But Once
      206 9 To Be Read But Once MASTERLESS SWORDS, by Donald Suddaby (T. Werner Laurie, London. Bs. 6d.) |\ONALD Suddaby m this book, his first full-length one, deals with three phases of war-like irresponsibility and derring-do— that of the worldconquering Alexander the Great, that of the world encompassing Sir Francis Drake, and
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      Grim Tale
      51 9 The Seven Who Were Hanged, by Leonid Andreyev (Lindsay Drummond, 55.). A grim tale about the emotions of five men and two women Just before execution. In the New Statesman Philip Toynbee wrote: Th» author's tumultuous passion make 6 him for one moment a giant m a desolate
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      Secrets Of The Brain
      308 9 CONQUEST OF BRAIN MYSTERIES, by George Bankoff, M.D., F.R.C.S. London: MacdonaJd and Co., Ltd. UAVE you ever seen n a monkey looking at himself in a mirror for the first time? Often he reacts by trying to smash the mirror. In the same way even today
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      411 9 The winning Hue of play In today's deal, though actually Quit* simple, was too obscure (Or the declarer. South, dealer. NORTH 8 7 5 H 7 3 2 D 5 3 2 C K Q 6 4 WEST EAST S Q J 9 8 6 S10 H 10 H 8
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      205 9 South was acutely unhappy about the club tricks in dummy that he would be unable to reach, but he proceeded to draw trumps In the desperate hope that West would let go acme spades and thus permit South to steal an extra spade trick to make the contract. Obviously, declarer
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    HUGE CLOTH SALE BID
    766 10 50,000,000 Yards Jap Textiles From Our Bombay Correspondent INDIA has 50,000,000 yards of grey, unbleached Japanese cloth to sell to any country except Pakistan and .South Africa. Although the cloth has been paid for in scarce dollars, India is prepared to receive payment for it in
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    Methodist Rally Ends
    174 10 From Our Staff 1 Correspondent L IPOH, Wednesday. I, PIE five-day rally of the j All-Malaya Methodist j i Youth Fellowship ended J; at noon today with an address by the dean of the rally, the Rev. Ho Seng Ong. There will be two district rallies next
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    RICE CHARGE
    66 10 The Second District Court Judge (Mr. A. D. Farrell) yesterday found Ng Ah Bah guilty of exporting a controlled article without a permit and fined him $2,500, m default three months' rigorous imprisonment. It was alleged that Ng Ah Bah on April 13 exported 20 bags of Rangoon
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    General Ong In Malaya
    124 10 GEN. Ong Chao-huan, commander of the 19th Route Army, is now on a I tour of Malaya. He arrived in Penang on Tuesday by plane from Hong Kong via Bangkok where he had been more than four weeks surveying the rice supply position in Siam. Gen.
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    39 10 PARIS. Tuesday Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder and the French Foreign Minister (Georges Bldault) yesterday siened a new Franco-British air agreement whereby military craft of the two nations will enjoy reciprocal landing and flying rights— A.P.
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    48 10 MOSLfcY MEETS PIROW: Oswald chairman of South Africa's New Order Movement (left), meets Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the Union Movement to JWUin. at London Airport. Mr. Plrow was South African.Minister of Defence from 1933 to 1939, bat resigned when the war against Na*i Germany began.— AJ. picture.
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    Plan For New KL Building Estate
    217 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. GOVERNMENT is at present considering a proposal by a private company for a land development; scheme, which, if adopted, would give Kuala Lumpur a new 200-acre residential area for private building. Site of the proposed i and
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    Focal Point For Culture In Singapore
    131 10 rHE British Council will I open Ka new headquarters in the old St. Andrew's School Hall, Stamford Road, in June. "Headquarters will be a focal point for reviving and developing cultural organisations ia Singapore." the Council's Regional Representative (Mr. J. P. Lucas) said yesterday.
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    'KEPT LORRY' CHARGE
    100 10 THE case of David Wolf Ginsberg, charged with I dishonestly retaining RAP. lorry No. BA *****, complete with dlesel generating set, was on Tuesday transferred from the Second District Court to the Seventh Police Court for preliminary enIquiry. It is alleged that Ginsberg committed the offence on
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    PUTERA-AMCJA CONFERENCE
    38 10 PUTERA and AMCJA will hold their annual delegates' conference at the Malayan Democratic Union hall over the week-end. The conference will decide upon the policy of the movement for the coming year, and will eleot office-bearers.
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    PREPARED FOR GANG FIGHT
    110 10 A 33-year-old Chinese, Tan Ah Lak, of Java Road, was sentenced to six weeks' rigorous Imprisonment in the Fourth Police Court yesterday for carrying two wooden poles at the Java Road-Crawford Street junction on Feb. 13 with intent to use them in a gang fight. Inspector
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      118 10 __l RADIO MALAYA tVPORS 1 p.m. Radio Orchestra; 1 .30 j 'News; 140 Carroll Gibbons Orchestra; 2 Close. 8.15 News; St Announcements; 8.18 "Let's Go TO The Pictures"; 8.25 Calling All Hospitals: 9 I.T.M.A.; 9.30 News; 9.45 Forum of the Air; 10. 30* Ivor Novello Music; 11 News Close. RADIO
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      107 10 nt— an. 8.<5 Dutch; 9.00 Kuoyu; B 30 Burmese; 9.45 English: News ti Rubber Prices; 10.00 "Thi* England a St. George's Day programme; 10.30 Davis CupGreat Britain v. India (Commentary from BBC); 10.45 Science Review 1100 Dance Music; 11.30 News* News Analysis; 11.45 British Economic Commentary by Gordon Schaffer; 12.00
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    LONDON STOCKS
    391 11 LONDON, Wednesday. A FIRMER note was evident n on the London Stock Exchange yesteray on unofficial reports of pro-Right Wing results of the Italian general election. However, although this stimulated sentiment, it failed to produce an Increase in business, says Renter's financial correspondent. Robbers were irregular while Tins
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    Sigapore Shares
    171 11 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Wednesday. rTH-BE was a better enquiry for Tins in the x Singapore Share market today, and prices advanced In many countries. Industrials were firm with some Improvement in prices. Changes in quotations given by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS B. B. Petrol
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    RUBBER GAINS
    128 11 NO. 1 Sheet *.o.b. buyers gained a quarter of a cent at the close of the Singapore rubber market yesterday. The market was very quiet with prices slightly above Fuesday's. Sellers were somewhat reserved. Closing prices were: No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers 41| cents sellers 42 cents. Spot
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    Produce Market
    106 11 From A Market Correspondent VERY steady conditions prevailed m the sago market yesterday, business mainly centring m the Siak variety on forward arrangements. The only movement of quotations on the Sngapore produce markets, however, were In coffee beans, although no partioular demand was m hand. It was possible
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    Dow Jones Averages
    61 11 NEW YORK. Wed.— Stocks backed down slightly after touching new highs for the year m yesterday's market Even the highly favourable results of the long awaited Italian elections failed to stem the decline due to profit cash- ing. < Transfers totalled 1,700,000 shares. The Dow Jones Averages
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    Record Wool Price
    53 11 DTJNEDIN. Wed.— A record price of 86 cents (US) a pound for New Zealand wool was paid at the Dunedin auctions on Monday. The wool was quarter bred Marino and went to French buyers. Traders said all types of fine wool were finding a ready market in
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    ROUGH PLAY IN SOCCER FLAYED
    422 12 SAFA Threaten Suspension THE President of the Singapore Amateur Football Association (Mr. Frank C. Sands) last night said that if rough play continued m Singapore League football he was prepared to propose the suspension of the offending team. Mr. Sands was speaking at an emergency
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    Greyhound Racing Not Permitted
    125 12 Greyhound Racing Not Permitted From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. COMMERCIALLY run L/ greyhound racing wiU not be introduced intc Malaya. The Government has Informed a syndicate which sought to open a track In Kuala Lumpur that it i« not prepared to amend the law to permit this type
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    Mills Stops Ken Shaw
    79 12 LONDON, Wednesday. PREDDIE Mills, -Britain's light heavyweight champion, beat Ken Shaw Scotland's heavyweight champion, who did not come out for the second round m their Britist heavyweight championship eliminating contest a' Harringay yesterday night The French and European welterweight champion Robert Vlllemain gained a notable victory
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    BRITAIN MEET INDIA TODAY
    68 12 LONDON, Wednesday. rE draw for the order of play m the European zone first-round Davis Cup tie between Great Britain and India, beginning at Harrogate (Yorkshire) tomorrow, was made todayas follows: Howard Walton (Britain) v. Dilip Bose; A. J. Mottram (Britain) v. Sumant Misra. Doubles: H.
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    Fast Soap Wins & Suburban
    62 12 Fast Soap Wins Suburban EPSOM, Wednesday. Mr. R. Jarviss's Fast Soap won the City and Suburban Handicap here this afternoon. Mr. Stanhope Jed's Refresher was second, and Mr. C F. Jerdoln's Twenty third. The betting was 11-4 favourite Fast Soap. 8-1 Refresher and 100-6 Twenty. The race was won by
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    SINGAPORE A.A.A.
    23 12 The annual general meeting of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association will be held at the S.R.C. next Wednesday at 5.30 p.m.
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    INTER-COLLEGE CRICKET
    90 12 THE 14th. annual Inter -college 1 cricket match for the Allen Cup will be played thta week-end, beginning at 4.15 p.m. tomorrow. Both co'leges will be fielding strong teams, but Raffles College appear to have the better attack, with the two South bowlers, M. C. Kailasapathy and Car.
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    EPSOM RACE
    55 12 EPSOM, Wednesday— Now i Or Never, a four-year-old carrying 9 st., won the 212 1 4 mile Great Metropolitan Handicap yesterdp.y. The race was worth 1,000. Now Or Never was a six to t one chance. Duces Wild was second and Avon Prince th/rd. Fr?- master, the 100-30
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    A.A.A. Rally Beats C.A.
    250 12 LA.A.....2; 0A.....11 A FTER being a goal down J m the first half, the Amicable Athletic Associaion made a fine recovery n the second session to seat the Chinese Athletic \ssociat on two-one m an S.A.F.A. Div\ I jrame at falan Besar Stadium yesterday. Soon Tood,
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    CHARLTON WIN
    41 12 LONDON, Wednesday. Yesterday's first division English Football League results are* Burnley 0, Charlton Athletic 2: Scottish League Division "A" Queen's Park 2, Alrdrieonlans 1: Rugby Union Denvonsport Services 6, Gloucester 8; Rugby League: Rochdale Hornets 19, Swinton 0. A.P.
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    Sports Diary
    63 12 TODAY SOCCER. S.A.F.A. Leacne, Div. I— RAF. Se'eUr v. Seaforths, SeleUr, 5 15 p.m.. Rovers v. R.A.F. Chanel. Jalan Flfiir stadium, 515 p m G.H.Q. Signals v. Navy, Signals ground. 5.15 p.m.; Div. II Rovers v. Sfnrapore District Signals, Geylant stadinm, 5.15 p.m.: I)rv HI Customs HaikowyH. McNalr
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    Burma Champion K.O.'d
    223 12 SGT. Bulat, the Singapoie weKerweight champion, knocked out O. Marshall, welterweight champion of Burma and that country's representative m the Olympic Games, m the first m'nute of the third round m the exhibition boxing contest held at "the Great Wortd last night. This wa« the climax to
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    Australians Reach U.K.
    41 12 Australians Reach U.K. AUSTRALIANS ARRIVE: Bill Bowes (right) of Yorkshire greets Lindsay Hassett and the other members of the Australian cricket team »n their arrival at Tilbury docks on board the Strathaird. The tourists' first fame, against Worcestershirr, begins next Wednesday.
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    Records Of New English Horses
    686 12 By EPSOM JEEP SEVERAL well-bred English horses are having their initial runs on the Malayan Turf at the Singapore Summer Meeting opening on Saturday. One of the most pi-ri-mising of th_ English batch is High Street, a three-year-old son of the wartime Derby winner, Watling
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    Photo-Finish For Races
    56 12 From Oar Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. THE Perak Turf Club is 1 proposing to instal photo-finish equipment at the racecourse here m conjunction with the other associated dubs. The cost to the Club, including share of equipment, building: a camera room and alterations to rails, etc., is
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    2-1 VICTORY FOR DEVONS
    119 12 rTTHE Devonshire Regiment X beat the Katong Eurasians two-one in a Div. II S.A.F.A. League soccer game played at the Geylang Stadium yesterday. A feature of the game was the sound goalkeeping of Gammel for the Katong Eurasians. In the eighth minute of the first half
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    C.V.M.A. LOSE Div.3 GAME
    134 12 rHE Postal Telecommunications XI dominated ?lay in yesterday's Div. Ill League game at St. George's Road to beat the Catholic foung Men's Association by three clear goals. Scheeder gave the P. T. side a two-nil lead in the first half. The C.Y.M.A. rallied in the second
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    Weights For 2nd And 3rd Days
    525 12 Weigh ts For 2nd And 3rd Days FULL weights for Wednesday, the second day of the Singapore Turf Club Summer Meeting; are below: given m «.i_ n CUaa 2, Div. 5 51 Fan. Indian Oklahoma Heather 9.00 (late Romance My of Devon) 8.10 Bachelor 8.13 Kandy Kid 8.09 Windsor Royal
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