The Straits Times, 29 June 1949

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1949. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    BRITAIN MAY HAVE POLITICAL CRISIS
    593 1 Cripps 9 Stand Against Devaluation LONDON, Tuesday. AN internal British economic crisis which might develop into a political crisis was forecast by well-informed financial quarters here today. Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is believed to be studying some very drastic proposals for internal
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    55 1 A VCKAITS TIMES ertal sistuic «i flre bwb broke out yesterday on the derelict British oil tanker Solcn. being broken np for scrap at Sunge Pandang, on the west coast of Singapore. The cause of the outbreak is unknown. Despite the rest cloud of smoke the lire was confined to
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    Securities Drop Another £100,000,000
    145 1 LONDON. Tues. ANOTHER £100.000.000 was wiped off the market value of British Government securities when prices shed as much as 30 shillings on the London Stock Exchange today. Government stocks have lost about £450.000.000 since the collapse— Induced by growing fears over Britain's gold and dollar
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    LINER IN COLLISION
    46 1 Nh*v iORK, Tues. The Dutch liner Nieuw Amsterdam collided in dense fog early today with an 84-foot fishing vessel, 20 miles southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The fishing vessel's crew of 13 men are saf« and the boat U In no danger of sinking—UP.
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    EVATTSMOVETO BREAK STRIKE
    206 1 CANBERRA, Tuesday. DR H. V. Evatt, Australian Attorney-General, today gave notice In the House of Representatives of a BUI to prohibit the contribution,, receipt or use of funds by organisations registered under the ConcUiation and Arbitration Act to aid the 23,000 striking coal miners. Dr. Evatt a
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    Triumph For Liberals
    67 1 OTTAWA, Tue*. THE liberal Party of Canada won yesterday's Federal elections with the biggest Parliamentary majority In the country's history. Final results gave 191 seats to the Liberal Party, which stands for a policy of ending wartime restrictions and cutting taxes. The Progressive Conservatives got 42 seats,
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    LORD KILLEARN
    20 1 Lord Klllearn. the former Special Commissioner for South East Asia leaves Singapore this morning by Constellation foi London.
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    6 lb. Baby Born To Polio Victim
    334 1 COURAGE OF A SINGAPORE MOTHER By Our Woman Correspondent A 61b. baby girl born last Saturday has caused more excitement than usual at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, Singapore, for her mother, Mrs. Annetta Dickson, the wife of Mr. W. N. Dlckson of the Chartered
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    HE SENT THEM BACK TO WORK
    138 1 LONDON. Tues. BRITAIN'S mounting dock strike was virtually stopped early today by a docker who stood before 2.000 other dock workers and dema that they return to ti b» but continue to refuse unload Canadian ahlpa. Nobody knew who he was but In five
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    FORCES KILL 5 BANDITS
    247 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. /GRENADIER Guards killed two of the notorious Kajang bandits, wounded two more and captured a camp during fierce engagements In a rubber estate within a mile or so of Kajang town yesterday afternoon. Three other uniformed ban- dlta were
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    BRITAIN TO IGNORE CHINA BLOCKADE
    252 1 BRITAIN TO IGNORE CHINA BLOCKADE LONDON, Tuesday. jJRITAIN has now definitely decided not to recognise the Chinese Nationalist Government's closing of territorial waters in Communist administered areas to foreign shipping, it was learned from a usually reliable source today. The decision to send the British naval sloop Alacrity to stand
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    "Not Anti-Chinese"
    80 1 "Not AntiChinese" LONDON. Tues. THE Foreign Under Secre--1 tary, Mr. Christopher Mayhew yesterday denied in Parliament that the Br% ish Governmen' 's policy was anti-Chinese. Tills was the "reverse of the truth." he said. Mr. Mayhew declared "Our policy is to maintain friendly relations with the Chinese people and I
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    Stop Press
    60 1 "iVo Pressure," —Cripps LONDON, Turv SIR Stafford Cnpps. denied in the House of Common* today that the United States had put pressure on him to devalue sterling. Mr. John Platts-Milis, Left-Wins Labour Independent asked what proposals he had received from the Marshall Aid authorities to the effect th%t
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    FOR SIAM
    29 1 TOKYO. Tues. Kan way equipment valued at U.S.SB 886.518 Is being loaded at Kobe for shipment to Slam soon. SCAP's foreign trarie and commerce divlsioi innounced. A.P.
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    U.S. JUDGE ATTACKS TOJO TRIAL AS POLITICAL
    217 2 U.S. JUDGE ATTACKS TOJO TRIAL AS POLITICAL WASHINGTON, Tuesday. glX months after siding with the U.S. Supreme Court majority in denying a hearing to convicted Japanese war criminals, Justice William O. Douglas has delivered an opinion describing the December action as potentially dangerous. He said that the power of tribunals
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    CHILDREN REMEMBER THE BLITZ
    161 2 lAjnuun, iiiea. "THE first phase of air exer- clses to test the defences of Industrial Britain against an atom-bomb blitz ended yesterday with one major complaint London residents said the exercise was too realistic. Many said their children, reminded of wartime blitzes, ran screaming from their
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    GRENADE CASE FAILS: 3 FREED
    53 2 Fr«m Oar Own Corrwpomlrnt KLUANO, Tues.— The case against One 8wee Ho (49), i Ylo Klan Leon? (19), and Tan Chlew Ho (29), charged with unlawful possession of a hand grenade, was withdrawn In the Kluang Magistrate's Court and they were discharged. There was no
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    ILO TRAINING SCHEMES
    108 2 GENEVA, Tues. The Director -Oenerax of the International Labour Organisation, Mr. D. A. Morse, said yesterday the 1.L.0. Was considering extension of Its "programme for vocational trainIng and migration." He added that training centres were operating In Europe and Latin America, and that the 1.L.0. was studying
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    210 Rebels Killed In Fight For Burma Town
    178 2 RANGOON, Tuesday. THE Burmese Army has recaptured the town of Nyaungu, 90 miles south-west of Mandalay, it was officially revealed yesterday. Fierce flf hting preceded the town's recapture in which 210 rebels were killed. Nyaungu was a strenghold of renegade White Band
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    TWO BESIDE THE DRIVER
    41 2 From Ow Own (Jorrnnonjcu KLUANO, Tues— A motorcar driver. 8ee Chons?, was fined $15 by the Kluang Magistrate for allowing two Persona to be seated beside him, in front of the 7on* p e ng Police Station.
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    TYRONE POWER IN LONDON
    50 2 HULL.! VYiiui/ nim siar xyrune rower, picwrea on arrival at London Airport with his wife, Linda Christian (left), and the 19-year-old French film discovery Cecile Aubrey. Power and Miss Anbrey have been making the flint "The Black Rose" In the Atlas mountains of Morocco. A.P. picture.
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    CATHOLICS WIN BELGIAN VOTE
    189 2 BRUSS2LS, Tues. /\FFICIAL Belgian election results announced late last I night showed a victory for the Catholics In both Houses i of Parliament. I The Catholics— supporters' of exiled King Leopolds return failed to secure a majorlty over all other partlea in the Chamber of Deputies,
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    ESCAPE BID FAILS
    30 2 ARRESTED in connection with kidnapping, assault and robbery in New York, Joseph Giarlno, ared 18, tries to break away from guards at a police station. A P.
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      Queen Mary Lookout For Drifting Mine
      269 2 SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday. rIE luxury liner Queen Mary with 2,000 passengers aboard felt her way Into Southampton yesterday with special lookouts and detector apparatus alert for a drifting mine. The ship was warned on Sunday night that a floating mine lay between 12 and 15
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      Turks Face A Crisis
      79 2 ISTANBUL, Tues. A SERIOUS political crisis developed rapidly in Turkey last night over the Government'g internal policies. The Grand National Assembly, It was reported, might be called into extraordinary session to cope with what was l called "a revolutionary movement" by the opposition Democratic Party. The
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      Strachey Inspects
      30 2 DAR ES SALAAM. Tues. Mr. Strachey, British Food Minister has begun an Inspection of the ground nut and sunflower areas in Tanganyika after meeting heads of departments. A.P.
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      CZECH TRADE CONTINUES
      77 2 LONDON, Tues. Britain will not suspend trade negotiations with Czechoslovakia for political reasons, Mr Christopher Mayhew, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, told the House of Commons yesterday. Replying to a Conservative demand that suspension should be made because of the persecution of the Catholic Church leaders In Czechoslovakia,
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    S.Korea Asks U.S. To Stay On
    209 2 WASHINGTON. Tues. VIR. John M. Chang, South Korean Ambassador to the United States, yesterday asked President Truman to delay withdrawal of American troops from South Korea until the latter was adequately armed. Conferring with Mr. Tru- man for half an hour, Mr. i Chang
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    New Greek Cabinet
    79 2 ATHENS, Tues. ANEW Greek Cabinet, under M. Tsaldaris, consistIng entirely of Populist (Monarchist) Party members was sworn in last night. The complete list of Ministers will be announced later. Former Populist Ministers will be retained and vacancies created by the resignations of Liberal Party and other members
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    DEFIED THE SERGEANT
    50 2 From Oar Own Correspondent tfLUANG. Tues Eju btn Salleh, aXed 24, was sentenced to six weeks' rigorous imprisonment by the Circuit Maids'rate for defying the orders of Musa bin Emo.i, a sergeant of the SDecial constables on Buklt Benut Estate, and for using c-i/r.lnal force aeainst him
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    Red Czech Priest Missing
    73 2 PRAGUE, Tuesday. FATHER Josef Fials, pro-Government priest and founder of the excommunicated Catholic Action Committee, is missing from his office and may have fled from CtechoslovaJria. It Is bettered that he may have fled rather than face excommunication for working with the Communists. The Vatican intends
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      857 2 NOTICES notice"" ninpoMl of Vehicle*. Surplus W.D. Vehicles located at 221 Vehicle Battalion R.A.O.C., 7th Milestone KoU Tlnggl Road Johore will shortly be sold by tender by the Officer Commanding 321 Vehicle Bn. R.J.O.C. Non Registered Contractors wishing to make t.ds should apply in writing to the Officer Commanding 221
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      255 2 NOTICES Re NELSON HORRIS SUPERLU! WILSON Deceased All persons having any claim against the estate of the *bove namrd deceased, late of No. 2( Oxford Road, Singapore, who dlei on tha 7th day of May, 1949. ar required to tend particulars o their claims In writing to th Public Trustee,
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      510 2 NOTICES j Estate •fMn. M. A. MARTIN Deceased. He executor of the above estate ts proposing to sell property s belonging to the estate situate at Tanglln Road, Singapore, known I as Lot 666 of Town Subdivision d' XXV. This piyuetty oontalna e four Urge bungalows known aa I No*.
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    LOSSES OF £450,000,000 IN TEN DAYS OF U.K. SLUMP
    569 3 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. A NXIETY felt by the Cabinet about the drain on Britain's gold and dollar reserves which caused a £200,000,000 slump in gilt-edgeds yesterday bringing total losses to £450,000,000 in ten days, is indicated by hurried
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    100 DEFIED POLICE
    71 3 CALCUTTA. Tues.— A hundred demonstrators. who defied a ban on processions bv trying to march into the Bengal Secretariat yesterday I were Communist-Inspired, ac- cording to police officials. The demonstrators shouted slogans protesting against po- lice firing on Communist prisoners who mutinied in Calcutta gaols. An Assistant
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    I SUEZ STOPPAGES: U.K. DISSATISFIED
    76 3 JX>NDON. Tues. The Foreign Under-Secretary, Mr. Christopher Mayhew, told the House of Commons yeaterday that Egypt had agreed to eliminate some Inspection requirements when stopping British ships in the Suez Canal and to speed up others. But he added: "We do not consider these concessions
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    The Royal Baby
    23 3 A NEW picture of Princess Elizabeth and her son, Prince Charles. It was taken at Backing ham Palace by Baron.
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    Senate Annoyed At Meat Pact
    234 3 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. rpHE American Senate Appropriations Committee A yesterday closed its hearings on the European Recovery Programme with bitter criticism of the new "meat pact" between Britain and Argentina. Mr. Paul Hoffman. Econo-i mlc Co-operation Administrator, who spoke to the Committee, said that though he
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    UK To Arm Burma, Repay British War Losses There
    229 3 LONDON, Tuesday. A RKANGEMENTS are in hand for Britain to supply the Government of Burma with arms and military equipment. Britain is to make an ex-gratia payment of £10,000,000 to British business interests whose property was damaged by the war in
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    Policeman's "Revenge"
    106 3 LONDON, Tues. A 23-year-old London police constable. aliened to have confessed to lighting fires "to get my own back on the Jews," was sentenced I yesterday to five years lm- prisonment. The constable, Clifford Alexander Weallans, stationed at West Ham, was found Kuiity. after a three days' trial,
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    'USE A-BOMB ONLY TO RETALIATE'
    65 3 WASHINGTON. Tues. Senator Ralph Flanders yesterday Introduced a resolution to forbid United States armed forces from using atomic weapons in war unless an aggressor nation used them first. The resolution provided, however, that American armed forces should be prepared "to retaliate with overwhelming force" against
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    TASS IMMUNE'
    75 3 LONDON. Tues. The Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court decision that the official Soviet news agency Tass is an organ of the Soviet state and therefore. under dlplomalc immunity laws, could not be sued for libel.— A.P, INDIAN GENERAL'S wife, Mrs. Khub (hand, admires a German
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    BRITISH AND ISRAELI TALKS SOON
    87 3 LONDON Tues. MILLIONS of pounds are at stake in the Anglo-Israeli talks which begin In Tel Aviv on July 1. and which may lead to a settlement of the two countries' claims. Britain will ask njmpi-n--satlon for capital assets such I as buildings, Installations and
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    LONG-TERM POLICIES FOR SQUATTERS BEING SOUGHT
    349 4 LONG-TERM POLICIES FOR SQUATTERS BEING SOUGHT From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. LONG-TERM policies in connection with land titles for squatters are being considered at "a high level", a senior Government official said today. Decisions were sought which should assist in settling the problem "for a long time to
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    FAREWELL TO 3 TEACHERS
    57 4 THREE SI.SOAfOKE I v CHERS in honour of whom the Anglo-Chinese School held a farewell party on Saturday last. Mr. Lim I'm Tien (top) Is retiring after 35 years' service. Mr. K Hannam (bottom) after 39 years' on the staff, and Mrs. Tay (centre) is leaving
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    TEXTILES TRADE SCHEME
    120 4 TEXTILES TRADE SCHEME ANEW Indonesian plan to allow greater purchases of textiles from Singapore can be expected In two or three months, the Straits Times learnt from official sources yesterday. Singapore textiles re-ex-ports to Indonesia have decreased because of stringent control of foreign exchange for textiles purchases. Small purchases have
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    TAPPING COSTS VERY HIGH
    47 4 rnHE 1948 report of he DeX partment of agriculture says that rubber tapping costs in Singapore were very high during last year owing to labour shortage. Many estates leased their holdings to tappers or entered into partnerships with them to ensure regular tapping.
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    BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
    100 4 The following are the officers of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Local Staff Benevolent Society for the year 1949-50: Patrons. Mr. C. L. Edward* and Mr. Llm Bock Kee; president, Mr. H. E. Cordeiro. vice-president, Mi-. Sim Miah Kiaii; secretary, Mr. Chla Poh Thlk; asst. secretary, Mr.
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    METHODIST YOUTH
    83 4 Oeylang Straits Chinese Methodist Youth Fellowship officers for the nnrt half year are: advisers: Rev. Chew Hock Hln and Mr. Harry Song, president: Mr. Johnnie Chew, vice-president: Mr. "Cob Kong Choo, secretary: Mr. Edmund Khoo, treasurer: Mr. Harry K«h. aasistant treasurer: Mr. Charlie Llm and auditor: Mr. Charlie
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    THE HUNTER AND HIS KILL
    60 4 THIS TIGRESS, shot in Sungei samak Kampong, Ltan Melintanjf. Lower Perak, by Inche Jasar bin Haji Abdul Jalal (above), is believed to be the mate of a tiger shot by the same hunter last month. The tiger measured 9f. sin., tip to tall. The tigress
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    NEW VICAR FOR SELANGOR
    58 4 rE Rev. B. J. G. Fox has been appointed to ucceed the Rev. Canon R. C. Moore as Vicar of the ptrish of Selangor. The Rev. Fox will rrive in Singapore at the beginning of November with his ufc and four-year-old son. He is at present
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    More Bullet-Proof Trucks For Army
    155 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. rpHE Army in Malaya is now fitting a growing 1 number of its vehicles with bullet-proof cabs, specially designed and built to protect vehicle crews I from road ambushes*. A spokesman of Malaya District said today that originally
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    22,500 ACRES FOR LAND SCHEME'
    119 4 1-rt.m our Man I ormpomtent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. SELANGOR will need about 22,500 acres of land to settle its special constables after the emerrency. if the scheme to provide live acres for each demobilised special constable is agreed to, Inche Ifahya bin Sheikh Ahmad told
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    Spore Grows More Food
    114 4 S pore Grows More Food THERE are at present 15,300 1 acres of land in Singapore on which foodcrops are grown, compared with 5,202 acres before the war, states the 1948 report of the Department of Agriculture, Singapore This increase has resulted from the policy of cutting down large areas
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    5 BANDITS KILLED
    336 4 (Continued from Pace 1) woman, moving through the rubber, but at long range. Both sides opened tire and there was a fierce battle. Two of the bandits were believed to have been hit but the rest of the gang carried them away. Later a camp for more
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      243 4 Coughing -Full 8h»p! ring cough, re udden «nd with Hudton'i Eum.nthol' Jujube. B.H.r (till, dor»'f g.r «ought tuck Hudton'a Eumenfhot' Jujub*t rtgybrly, »-.d io prtv.nf caught, cold., 'flu. IU<n«mk«r Hudton'. art th* only jujubai confining 'lumtntSol', Hi* Mil ■•rmicid* n4 int .aptie. Hi A/Mfa y us UCISOIl IS rrOP AND
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    Chief Justice On Chinese Marriages
    368 5 Chief Justice On Chinese Marriages Woman Held To Be Widow OBSERVATIONS regarding Chinese marriages in the Colony were made by the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray -Aynsley, in a judgment delivered yesterday in the Singapore Supreme Court The Issue before the court was whether Er Oek Cheng was one of
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    17 5 THEIR DREAM VMI TRUE: Florence Evei and Marian Mahncke. In Town Tonight DR. JAMES YE ING WANG
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    Dream Come True For Two Girls
    190 5 Dream Come True For Two Girls "TWO ambitious young American women, Miss Florence Eves and Mlu Marian Mahncke, who are sailing round the world in the President Polk, said in Singapore yesterday that their trip was "a dream come true." Both Miss Eves and Miss Mahncke, who lire in Tacoma,
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    DEADLINE FOR T.U. RETURNS
    166 5 MR. S'ng Choon Yee, Slnga pore Registrar of Trade Unions, yesterday Issued a warning that trade unions tn the Colony which failed to submit annual returns by tomorrow would be liable to a One of up to $500. Up to yesterday, said Mr. S'ng. only 60
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    CO-OP PRESIDENT
    41 5 KUALA LUMPUR. TU"8. Mr. E. C. O. Barrett, of the Federal Secretariat, ha* oeen elected President of the Kuala Lumpur Co-operative Stores Society Ltd., 'n olace: of Mr. C. R. Howltt who has! left the country on reMre- ment.
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    Jungle-Green Uniform For Abdul Again
    193 5 A FORMER member of Force 136, now in the Royal Military Police, was yesterday in jungle-green uniform again at a passing out parade at Nee Soon Barracks. He was 25-year-old Abdul Kadlr bin Ismail, from Negri Sembllan, who spent the last 10 months of the
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    3,000 IN HONG KONG'S NEW DEFENCE FORCE
    110 5 CHINESE response to the Hong Kong Government's appeal to join the Hong Kong Defence Force was described as stood by the Commandant of the Force, Col. L. T7 Ride, now on a visit to SlnKaDore The Hong Kong Defence Force is a combined
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    Doctor's Action Against Tenant
    396 5 A LLEGING that the tenant, Mr. Koh Kens Chong, iX had done certain unauthorised alterations and repairs to a block of his houses, Dr. Chen Su Lan, on behalf of his son, Chen Chee Wei, brought an action in the Singapore High Court, yesterday, for possession
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    FOR ARTISTS
    26 5 Mr. Charles Salisbury, known to many amateur painters In Singapore, will oroadcast on "Talking of Painting" over Radio Malaya, Singapore at 10 o'clock tonight
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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      60 5 TODAT Y.W.C.A., conversational Mandarin class. 8, Raffles Quay, 10.30 a.m. Raffles College, graduation day. College Hall, J p.m. Y.M.C.A.. Orchard Road, art club, S p m. District Methodist Youth Fellowship, film "Changed Lives," Y.M.C.A., Orchard Road. 7.80 ML East-West Society Oulld debate on "Liberal education Is ultimately more useful than
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    DEATH
    46 6 THEIR MANY FRIENDS In Singapore will lenrn with deep refret of the death of Wlm van Havel t (brother of Miek van Wien-v.in HasselO, his wife Con van Hsvsselt and their three year old son, on 23rd June In an aircraft disaster over Bart, Italy.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    81 6 THE FAMILY of the lat« Madam Mah Im Neo gratefully thank ell friends and relatives Who sent wreaths, loan of cars fend attended her funeral. MR. C. M. WONG, Miss Lena Wong and Mr. Wong Choy Kay, Children of the late Madam Wong Keng Mun, of 59 Eng Hoon
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  • The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., June 29, 1949.
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      CONFERENCE ON STERLING
      791 6 It is a moot point whether the widening difference between British and American trade philosophies or the failure to close the dollar gap in Britain*! balance of payments is the main reason for the coming conference on sterling. There is, of course, a third dark cloud the
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      Books In Klang
      333 6 In June of last year attention was drawn in these columns to the official opening of the Klang public library, as a pointer of some significance in the cultural development of the Malay States. It was remarked then that the tctal lack of public libraries in almost
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    UNIVERSITY MYSTERY
    213 6 Is It "Subtle Propaganda?" AS an old citizen of this still no mean city, and one who was taught by his Englir'i school masters to "think In English." I feel I must write this brief note to say thKw Mr. E. E. C. ThuralMngham was himself taking "an
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    SIR ROLAND & SECESSION
    111 6 SIR ROLAND SECESSION I NOTICE a statement of mine quoted in your Issue of June 28. What I said actually to the Penang interviewer was that I thought It unwise to have Included Penang and Malacca In the original Malayan' Union and that it would have been better to have
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    PLEA FOR MORE BUSES
    161 6 TVER since the Improvement Trust built artisans' quarters at Balestler Road this locality has been thickly populated, but I regret to note that the Traction Company hat not provided ample buses foe this particular route. One has to wait for 15 to 20 minutes for a
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      INCOME TAX IN SEPTEMBER
      357 6 Some calculations THE decision that Income Tax for 1949 will be collected as from September this year, especially when one has just paid the same tax for 1948, is surely a hard one, and what makes this burden even harder is the implication of Mr. T.
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      OH, MR. CHARITY!
      66 6 A FEW days ago. I read in the Government Gazette that Mr. Charity had been appointed Assistant Comptroller of Income Tax. I felt very grateful to the Government for its kindness of heart. Today, I received a shock to learn that I have, very soon, to pay
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      THEY WILL REMEMBER
      93 6 WE be .u> bt allowed to offer our sincere thanks to the Chief Medical Officer of Tan Tack Seng Hospital, Dr. R. J. Grove-White, on the eve of his departure for Great Britain on long leave. He ha been working very hard to Improve the medical facilities
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      "All a question of qualifications "
      260 6 "All a question of qualifications rpHERE seems to be little or no sense of values in -L the prevalency of resentment against Europeans in Jobs which, It is maintained, can be performed Just as competently by Asians; because certain Government posts are advertised in England, and now because a European
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      Employees Not whining for alms
      194 6 Employees Not whining for alms VOUR correspondent "Kultur's" letter, although primarily directed \s an attack on the Army Civil Service Union, applies to the Services' employees in general. His knowledge of trade unions, their orUin, their tradi ions, aims and functions seems to be so woefully superficial that he cannot
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      WASHING, COOKING, SCRUBBING
      367 6 WASHING, COOKING, SCRUBBING As servants see it ALLOW me to have my say about the critic clsms of Singapore domestic servants made by "One of the Bodies" lit your Saturday Forum. By using such harsh expressions as "impudent, dirty, sulky" this correspondent would appear to have been nursing a grudge
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    TB IMMUNISATION OF CHILDREN BEGINS
    484 7 Treatment By SAT A Approved By All Parents VACCINATION with d.C.G. yesterday of 21 Chinese children— 10 girls and 11 boysmarked the beginning of the anti-tuberculosis immunisation programme launched by the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association. "It Is significant that In all cases recommended for BCO vaccination
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    37 7 SIR ROLAND BRADDELL returned to Singapore yesterday in the Canton after a six-month tour of Britain and the United States. Sir Roland is seen with his daughter, Mrs. Joan Hobbs. and son-in-law, Flight Lieutenant L. G. Hobbs.
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    MADE OFF IN A CAR
    53 7 Singapore Police want to arrest "two Malays speaking Teochew" who waylaid a Chinese hawker in Pickering Street early yesterday, and lobbed him of a belt containing $60, some coins and an Identity card. The hawker say* one of the men pointed a revolver. They made
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    He Showed Jury How Wife Was Stabbed
    375 7 -FORGOT HE HELD A KNIFE** A SHOEMAKER, Tan Kirn Fung, demonstrated to a Singapore Assize Court jury yesterday how in pushing away his wife who, he said, had struck him, he accidently stabbed her with his cobbler's knife. He told the court that
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    'Army With You 100 Per Cent'
    149 7 'Army With You 100 Per Cent —Says Dunlop qiHE G.O.C.. Singapore Dis1 trlct. Mnj.-Oen. D. Dunlop, has sent his good wishes for the successful revival of the Singapore Volunteer Corps which began enrolling rt'cruits last week. Up to yesterday 120 applications had been received, not Including those which came by
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    Chinese Chamber Appeal For Mr Aw
    314 7 THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce has decided to make representations to the Commis-sioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, and the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney asking for the lifting of the ban on the entry of the Singapore millionaire, Mr. Aw Boon Haw, into the
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    $30,000 BAIL FOR BUSINESSMAN
    64 7 BAIL of $39,000 was offered a Singapore Chinese businessman, Tan Soo Puan, who claimed trial In the First District Court yesterday on a charge under the Finance Regulations involving the sum of $271,872 which he Is alleged to have paid to Man'it in h wi"iout the
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    WOMAN HAD MORPHIA
    80 7 Raiding a house in Queen Street recently, Customs officers found 22 phials of of morphine sulphate In a room occupied by a young Chinese woman. Pleading guilty in the First District Court yesterday to possessing of the drug, the woman, 21-year-old Iim Ah Hian, said that her
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    ON RUBBER SURVEY
    60 7 Mr. Edward Jago, a former member of the Malayan Civil Service, arrived in Singapore last night by BOAC-Qantas Constellation on behalf of the British Rubber Development, Board and is making a three- week survey in connection with the American aspect of the Board's work. He Intends spending
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    FAREWELL
    35 7 From Our Own ormpondtnt JOHORE BAHRU, Tuea.— Girl Guides. Rangers and Brownies entertained Mrs. H E. MacKenzie. State Commissioner, Olrl Guides. Johore, to a tea party on the eve of her departure on leave.
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    U.S. ENVOY HERE
    29 7 The new United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, Mr Louis Dreyfus. Jr. arrived In Singapore yesterday from San Francisco In the President Polk. He Is accompanied byMrs^Dreyfus^
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    BIG OPPORTUNITY FOR SCHOLARSHIP NURSES
    173 7 "IT is now that their big opportunity begins to pass on the benefits of their training to the sick people of Malaya", said the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, in a message read at a tea party given yesterday to Miss Alice Chia and
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    TECHNICAL TALK
    45 7 Mr. V. Cockayne of the Oriental Telephone and Electric Company will speak on "Automatic Telephones" when he addresses the Technical Association of Malaya next Tuesday at 7.15 p.m. at the Singapore Junior Trade School, Balestler Road. The meeting is open to the public.
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    OVERSTAYED
    24 7 -A 23-year-old Indian Abdul, Rahman who overstayed nisi term of temporary residence In Singapore was fined $200 in the First District Court yesterday.
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    CHURCH FESTIVAL
    30 7 The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Singapore, will celebrate Its paternal festival on Sunday. Over 500 children will be given a treat at 9 30 a.m.
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    INDIES TALK
    38 7 I Mr. Christopher Buckley, correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, who his Just returned from Batavla, will give his Impressions and discuss the Indonesian situation over the Blue I Network of Radio Malaya at 7.10 p.m. tomorrow.
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    Crown Closes Case
    364 7 Crown Closes Case CAPT.S TRIAL From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. AT the close of the case for the prosecution, in which Capt. Ernest Marion, R.E. is charged with abetment of theft of a cinema projector and Lily Sons; Lai Chan is charged with retaining stolen property, the Court
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    THEY 'SACKED' THEMSELVES
    128 7 FIFTY-FOUR Chinese millers and "carriers" of the Nam Alk rubber milling factory, in Geylang, yesterday decided to "dismiss themselves" because there is no work available for I them. The woikers will each be paid 'compensation" of one month's wages, and 10 days' food money by the management,
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    ARAB UNION
    52 7 Officers of the Arab Union of Singapore elected recently were presid nt, 8. A. btn Yahya; vict- president. S. Abdullah tejMB, .«ecretary. 8. Hamed AlkeB; ir«'asurer, 8. Mohamad Alhadad: commltte?, Messrs. Mohamad bin All 1 Alsagoff. Abubakar Aljunled, Ko;aln FraiJ, Awad Hamel. All \lrldn. Al«l Alsagoff, All Alhaddad.
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    He Cheated A Widow
    99 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Abdullah bin Awang, a 20year- old R A.F. cadet of Sembawang, was today sentenced in the Sessions Court to two months' rigorous imprisonment Tor cheating a widow. Rapiah binte Yahaya. U was staled that Abdullah told the widow that
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    6 MONTHS FOR 'SNATCHER'
    65 7 Osman bin Mi. aged 22. stopped a school boy In 3eylang Road on June 16 and isked him the time. He matched the boy's watch and ran off. La er the watch was recovered from a pawnshop. In the Second Police Court yesterday Osman was sen;enced
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      84 7 and > s J^_— a^^ fcO4W« [the broadwood piano] I <tn«l as the years •I pass It will excerclse < an even more subtle M I I fascination. It will I^^^H Hi I become a part of its JH owner, an lnstru- B^hI' ment with an almost B^^H. human personality,
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    New Factories Going Up In Singapore Rural Areas
    439 8 New Factories Going Up In Singapore Rural Areas NEW factories for industrial gases, soap, electric batteries, gum base?, latex, sago, rubber and rattans have been or are being erected in the rural areas of Singapore, the chairman of the Rural Board, Mr. J. A. Harvey, reveals in his 1948 report
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    MORE HOUSES BUILT
    187 8 MORE HOUSES BUILT THE quick growth of the 1 Singapore rural area— with a population of more than 250,000 people— Is shown by comparative figures of building plans passed for the three years, 1946 to 1848. These figures show that plans approved were 184 in 1946. 239 In 1947 and
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    WORLD TRIPPERS
    24 8 Several millionaires were among the 50 American tourists who arrived in Singapore from San Francisco yesterday tn the round-the-world liner President Polk
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    More Kampong Clinics Will Stop Infant Deaths
    225 8 rriHE building of more clinics in kampongs and other remote communities are the only way to bring down Singapore's Infant mortality rate, which was 57 per 1.000 last year compared with 187 per 1,000 in 1944, says Mr. J. A. Harvey, chairman of
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    TWO DRIVERS
    64 8 From Our Own Correcpoudemt SEGAMAT. Tues.. A collision between a lorry and a motor car three miles south of Segamat had its sequel when both drivers appeared in court. Mohamed Yasslni bin Sinln. driver of the lorry, was offered ball in $300 on a charge of dangerous driving,
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    RETIRING
    24 8 MB. K COOMBS, Fenanj Municipality's Acting Electrical Engineer, who retires at the end of this month after 26 years' service. Straits Times picture.
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    "SPOTLIGHT ON NEE SOON"
    38 8 (APT "EGGIE" Amlot of 2nd Echelon, and (apt. "loothie" Woods, who took part In comedy items in "Spotlight on Nee Soon" which was presented at the Garrison Theatre, Nee Soon, Singapore, on Monday night.
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    Two Brassieres In "Dead" Letters
    276 8 rVO pairs of brassieres, 5,000 French francs, a tin of curry powder, a sample tin of Japanese tea and a razor are lying unclaimed at the General Post Office, Singapore, because the people to whom they were sent or their Singapore senders cannot be found.
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    LUXURY ONFRENCH LINER
    131 8 LUXURY ONFRENCH LINER PANCE'S newest luxury liner. La Marselllilse. (16,000 tons) will sail on Its maiden voyage to Singapore from Marseilles In the middle of August. It win operate on the regular Marseilles -Singapore Saigon run. Average speed willi be about 20 knots and the passage from Franc* to Malaya
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    CONCERTSFOR SINGAPORE
    155 8 CONCERTS FOR SINGAPORE The Singapore Music Circle and the British Council Intend to Dromote a series of concerts which will be held In the British Council Centre. It is hoped to arrange a series of three concert seasons a year. The first season will open on July 2 with a
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    ONE SAGO MILL LEFT OF SEVEN
    99 8 One of the two sago mills still working In Singapore has decided to close next month after being on a part-time basts for several months. Five sago mills employing 1,000 workers ceased operations earlier this year. The industry was hard hit when the United
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    MORE DOG GUARDS FOR COLONY DUTY
    114 8 FVE Alsatians Mac, Bruce, Duke, Ouy and Nipperwere the first passengers ashore from the Nleuw Holland when It docked at Singapore on Monday. They were all -.olng to join the British Army's Guard Dog Unit Soldiers of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps muzzled them.
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      REVIVAL OF THE B.I.S.
      1231 9 THERE have been few revivals in the post-war world so striking and significant as that of the Bank for International Settlements. This institution, centred in Basle, was l)orn in the early 19. f *0\s after the collapse of Germany, and in an attempt to rescue what
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      43 9 i minis of the ship's company ot the UM> ban.' •■■•m Missouri, acted as hosts to British children when they visited Portsmouth recently. This sailor soon had a queue of youngsters in front of him waiting to be spoon-fed with Icecream. Reuter photo.
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      DOWN UNDER
      459 9  -  Bob Gilmore by mMiL,aKJ\jt\nci, June 20. A NY lingering doubts as to whether the Calwell colour-purge represented the official attitude of Australian Socialism were dispelled by last week's resumed debate on the "Wartime Refugees Remova Bill" and the Immigration Act Amendments Bill. By agreement, between Government and Opposition
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      84 9 FIRST CHOICE OF LEADING MUNICIPALITIES COMMER HARRIER A** fOU Th tommer and Kami i range— built b> Kn^neir> with wide experience of municipal needs— include* Jjgl' >fhides for each purpose. Inequalltd in reliabilit> rMJ and economy, and capable of giving long periods of trouble-free service with the minimum of attention,
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      253 9 I SQUARE,HAIRY INCHEl 'yXX^^It may surprise you to know that the shaving area of the average man's face is 40 square inches but it is a fact. Every morning your razor blade must •have one day's growth of hair from /yflP't^ the uneven surface of your face. #/4sf°/'» ■'•I Such
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      562 9 It Is reaUy remarkaDle, how, of the three spades and thre* close a declarer may be to we- Ulul*. In both hands the slam cess without even realising that 'would have been a laydown. As he has a chance for his contract! It was— but that's the storyt Observe South's
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    London Stocks LONDON, Tues.
    349 10 London Stocks LONDON, Tues. 4LL sections of the London Stock Exchange eased yesterday as heavy selling ol British Government stock was renewed, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Closing middle price* erf selected stocks, m supplied to the Stralu Time* by special arrangement wlUi The Financial Times, follow. Unless otherwise marked, ■bam
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    MALAYAN SHARE MARKET EASIER
    781 10 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Tuesday. vyiTH conditions unsettled in the London market, the Malayan share market position was inclined to be easier today. The Australian Tin section re- 1 1 mained fairly steady. i Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Assodai tlon were: INDUSTRIALS Buyer
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    Shipping In Singapore
    98 10 SHIPS in port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Dolhu (31-32). Antilochua (38-39). Kampar (40--41). Nleuw Ho.land (42-43). Weai Wharf: Canton (1-3). Glenearn (4-5). President Polk (6-7). Idomeneiu (8-9). Benvrackle (11). Surat (13-14). Empire Dock: Benavon (17-18), Senggarang (23-24), Serampore
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    Singapore Rubber SMALL business passsed in
    181 10 Singapore Rubber SMALL business passsed in the Singapore rubbe market yesterday at arounc Monday's price levels. Thi market wan quiet throughou the day. Closing priced yesterday were No. 1 sheet fob. buyers 32* cents, sellers 12% cents; spa loose buyers 32% cents, sellers 32:cents per lb. The Singapore Chamber of
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    254 10 rrom A MttM CorTes»»no>M« 1*HB Singapore coconut >U 3iar1 ket continued act' .e Testerday with a fairly large volume ol spot dealing*. Delivery of the Snt hipmen t ol copra bought from the Indonesia Copra Pund on the same day kept copra quotation! down. Little activity was reported
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    'Prince Of Bowlers' Has A New Love
    617 11  -  ALAN HOBY By LONDON, Tuesday. [|E was the "Prince of Bowlers." When he stripped off his sweater everything happened. Great batsmen blanched and went sick in the stomach. Tempers became as taut as cellostrings. The red sign was up. For Harold Larwood was
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    N.S. Training Centre Opens Today
    223 11 N.S. Training Centre Opens Today From Ov SUff Correspondent SKKEMBAN, Tueb TN an effort to improve the standard of »thletlc* In Negrl SembUfln. a tralni-ig centre will be opened at the N.8. Club P»danc tomorrow »t which instructions In training will be given three time* a we«k-on Mondays. Wednesdays and
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    42 11 1 liis diagram illustrates the extensions to the penalty area some soccer experts are sungestlnj One school is in favour of a semi-circular are* as shown by the dotted lines; the other to for extending the penalty box to the touch -lines.
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    HARRISON WINS CANADIAN TITLE
    76 11 TORONTO. Tues: The American professional. Dutch Harrison, won the Canadian open golf championship on the St. Oeorges course here yesterday with an aggregate of 371 for 79 holes. His total was only three strokes off the record set up in 1947 by the South African Bobby
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    Problem 6t Answer
    287 11 IN iMt weak'* notes on the Laws of Football. Halbdou set the following problem:— The Whit* Team (»ttaykln») UN been penalised In their opponent* penalty area far handling the ball. The Bed Team (defending goalkeeper takes the free Lick awarded aad the ball Hit* the referee and
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    The Penalty: Some Vital Factors
    884 11  -  HALLIDON LAWS OF FOOTBALL Sy r pHE penalty kick Law as written is still the subject 1 of serious discussion by football pundits. This fact suggests only one thing and that is there is dissatisfaction with the scope of the Law. Dissatisfaction not so much
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    SHELL S.C.
    66 11 THE following will represent the Shell Sports Club against the B.O.D. Civilians Association in a friendly game of badminton at the Victoria School Hall at 7 p.m. today: Ismail Din Marjan, Heng Slak Thlang, Ng Heng Kwang, Choo Plan* Llm, Arzls bin Mohd L. Edwards, and I. Ooonesagaram
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    S.I.T. SOCCER XI
    57 11 The following playeri hav» been selected to represent the 8.I.T. Sports Club In a soccer match ajmlnat FAN Sport* Club at Farrer Park today: Chee Swe« Yuen; Daud b. Kuno*. Choog Kian Fay; Thomas Chenj, Chow Weog Kal (capt), Ismail KaMim; Ynoff, 8. Oroose, Chan Fook Choy,
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    S.R.C. SPORTS
    30 11 IJKAT8 (or the Singapore Recreatlon Club's annual athletic •ports meet will be held on July T. Entries dOM on Friday. Further details can be obtained from Secretary, 8.R.O.
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      93 11 >WfiAl>OtU 10.00 News Irom Kuflla Lumpur; 10.03 Upprox.) Close; 10.56 For the Schools; 13.00 noon. Programmes la Malay; 1.00 Dance music; 1.30 News (also at T and 9.30); a. 00 Close; 0.00 Program Summary; 6.02 Children's Programme: 6.20 R^dlo Orchestra; 7.10 Singapore Share Market Report; 7.30 Being Club: 8.00 Radio
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      89 11 1.00-3.00 Englifcn Programme (As VPOC*); I. Of Ohm; 6.00 Programme Summary; 6.02 Children's Programme; 6. SO Radio Orchestra; 7.00 New* (also at 9. SO); 7.10 Share Market Report; 7. SO Swing Session, 8.00 Radio Fifty; 9.00 Music through the Alphabet; 9. Personality Parade; 10.00 Film Album; 10. 30 Music for
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      95 11 lish; 8.00 Siamese; 8 JO New*; 8.45 Dutch; 9.00 Kuoyu; 9 10 Burmaw; s 48 English; io 00 Radio News Real; 10. IB 'Grand Hotel'; 10.45 'Generally speaking': 11.00 Dance Music; 11.15 'Balance Of Europe'; 11.30 News: 11.45 Light Musv 12.00 Cloee. AUSTRALIA 5.30 Forces Favourites; 6.00 Concerto Half Hour;
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    FOUR RECORDS BROKEN IN 2nd TEST
    921 12 FOUR RECORDS BROKEN IN 2nd TEST Donnelly's 206 Best In Series LONDON, Tuesday. rpHE second of the three-day Test cricket matches J- between England and New Zealand ended In a draw at Lord's today, but four records were broken during game in which England scored 313 for nine dccl. and
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    48 12 TED SCIIKOEDER (U.S.) who meet* Sturgess in lue semi-final of the Wimbledon singles today after a great victory over Australian Frank Sedgman on Monday. Schroeder is seen here in action against Gardnar Mulloy (U.S.) whom he beat 3—6. 9—l. 6— l, ft— o, 7—5 on Jnne 20. Reuterphoto.
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    Colleges Lead HK Univ. On Ist. Inns
    543 12 U'ITH two hefty sixes, one of which landed in the Cathedral grounds at Stamford Road, M. C. Kailasapathy broke an afternoon-long spell of over-cautious batting 20-minutes before stumps to pave the way for a 24-run lead for the Combined Colleges in their match
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    617 Clubs For F.A. Cup
    103 12 LONDON. Tue». I THE long trek to Wembley In quest of the Football Association challenge cup will begin when the new season It only a fortnight old. Entries for the competition this year total 617 compared with 614 last yenr. Originally 631 clubs applied, but
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    SOCIAL A.P. BEATEN 5-1
    49 12 DISFLAYINO better finishing the Chinese Hurricanes defeated the Social A. P. s—l in a Junior B Oroup 1 soccer match at Orylaog BUdlurn yesterday. Anthony Ohong played a good g*me as goalkeeper fur Social A.P mid kept his side from losing by a (renter maiglL.
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    WEIGHTS FOR 12 SINGAPORE RACES
    467 12 WEIGHTS for all eight races* on Saturday first day of the Singapore Turf Club's July meet, and four races on Wednesday, July 6, are riven below. :i. 1. o. 14 l.ron ».M urlunr F»rourtU K "1 ..uural KM Ecliptic l.lt lynor Him U-LI R-M .onichampi
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    T. Bahru Rangers
    89 12 me team to repre^nt th» Tlong Jahru Ranger* In a friendly iocc«r natch against the Slong 800 XI it Farrer Park tomorrow, will be elected from: Cheong Mln, Chun loony. Took Sing. Shoe Wah, lee on, Fook Tan, Ah Chong, Cal Seng, Toon Cheong, (capt.), ;hong Mun,
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    ELLERY, HARPER SHOW PROFIT
    282 12 By EPSOM JEEP SYSTEM backers who pick out a particular Jockey to follow will be "In the red r> \n the long run as latest turf statistics show. It does not pay even to follow Wally Bagby or Frank Flarnery. two of the leading jockeys this
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    Fortune's Fav. Rated Above Natural
    409 12 By EPSOM JEEP PORTLNE'S Favourite has been penalised to the 1 "hilt" after his splendid double at Kuala Lumpur earlier in the month. The handicapper has rated him only Ilb below Byron and 21b above Natural in Saturday's seven-furlong race at Bukit Timah. and I
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    Conzales & Parker Win Easily
    90 12 Conzales Parker Win Easily WIMBLEDON. TUN. RICHARD OON2 ALES and Prank Parker scored an easy victory in the men's doublet, beating Gianni Cuoelll a ad Marcrllo Del BeUo Italj 6— ft— 1; 6—3. The wea'her was hot and humid for the eighth day of the tournament. In women's singles, Mrs.
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    OTHER SPORT IN PAGE ELEVEN
    72 12 Mottram and Oeoff Palih of Britain, 6— 1; 2— 6—3 and 10-8. >- Other result* were: Wom'a'i double* Tblrf round; Mrs. N. Blair and MIm J. Quertler (Brit.) beat Mrs. N. Adamaon and Mrt. C. Boegner (Prance) 6—0; 7—9; 6—3. Fourth round: MIm L. Broun
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    PENALTYGOAL WIN FOR ARMY
    366 12 Army (S'pore District)... 1; RAF Combined... 0. A PENALTY goal scored early in the second hall gave Army (S'pore District) a hard-earned one-nil victory over K.A.F. Combined in a Singapore A.F.A. Community League fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. It was Army's second successive win. They
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    Derby And Sussex Win
    238 12 DERBY and Sussex were the oirly Counties to win their crirket championship frames ending today. Middlesex had beaten Somerset yesterday. Results la the series were: At Buxton Derbyshire beat Lancashire by 110 runs. Derby 302 and 91. Lanes 193 and 90. At Wrctcliff, Ewiex vi. North,
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