The Straits Times, 8 June 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 SIXTEEN PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    CHIEF JUSTICE AND AIR C-in-C KNIGHTED
    418 1 C.M.G. For Del Tufo, Vickers And Benham gINGAPORE'S Chief Justice, Mr. Justice CM. Murray-Aynsley and the Commander-in-Chief, Far East Air Force. Air Marshal F. J. Fogarty, are both knighted in the King's Birthday Honours list announced today. Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley becomes a Knight Bachelor
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    PEERAGE FOR REESWILLIAMS
    152 1 LONDON, Wed. MR. D. R. Rees-Willlams. former Colonial Undersecretary and once a Penang lawyer, is made a baron In the Birthday Honours list. Altogether there are seven new peerages. They are all baronies and, in addition to Mr. ReesWllliams, go to: Lt. Col. H. Morris whose resignation
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    WARNINGS FOR JOHORE CURFEW BREAKERS
    248 1 WARNINGS FOR JOHORE CURFEW BREAKERS ]y|ORE than 500,000 people living in the southern half of Johor- last night came under curfew which started at. 7 p.m. and will last every night until 6 a.m. This is the biggest area to be placed under curfew since the emergency began two years
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    Transport Costs May Increase
    110 1 Transport Costs May Increase CINGAPORE hauliers fear that a direct effect of the curfew which commenced last night la the State of Johore, will be a gradual increase in the cost of lorry transport charges for goods carried between the Colony and towns in the curfew area. The fact that
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    U.S. DOPE RING
    28 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. Turkey was alleged today to be the chief source of supply of a multi-million dollar traffic in narcotics in the United States.— Reuter.
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    DESERT CRASH
    27 1 CAIRO, Wed. Eleven Egyptian passengers died and 18 were injured today when a bus collided with a petrol tanker on the Cairo-Fayum desert road.— Reuter.
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    Griffiths At Bukit Serene
    101 1 \JR- .James Griffiths, Secretary of State for the Colonies, yesterday attended a conference at Bukit Serene whmm he had t final opportunity before he leaves tomorroic of re-vten-ing generally the sitnation in the Federation tnd Singapore. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, the Commissioner General, presided over the
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    TRIBAL M.P.s
    33 1 BENGHAZI, Wed.— The third general election in the history of Cyrenaica ended peacefully last night. Fifty members, all but three of them tribal leaders, were elected to the Housl of Representatives.—Reuter.
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    Tibetan Delegation Held Up In India
    122 1 NEW DELHI, Wednesday. TIBET'S official delegation travelling to China was held up in Calcutta because the British authorities cancelled their visas for Hong Kong, it was authoritatively learned here today Visas, it was stated, had been granted to the delegation members by the Government
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    Protest To King On Brunei Sultan
    249 1 VI R- Gerard Macßryan, former political adviser to the Rajah of Sarawak, yesterday sent a telegram to the King protesting against the proclamation of Omar Ali Saifudin, Dull Pengeran Bendahara, as Sultan of Brunei. I Mr. Macßryan signed the telegram as guardian of the
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    WOULD SUPPORT MALAYA FORCE
    51 1 MELBOURNE. Wed. A GALLUP poll here shows that 63 per cent, of the Australian public would support a Federal Government move to raise a volunteer force actually to fight in Malaya. Of those questioned. 27 per cent, were opposed and 10 per cent, had no opinon.
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    "NO THREAT"
    31 1 PARIS. Wed.— Parliament's Upper House last night defeated legislation aimed at banning Coca-Cola, criticised by Conservative wine growers and anti-American Communists as a threat to French drinking habits.— A.P.
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    GENERAL SMUTS
    24 1 PRETORIA, Wed. Gen. Smuts had a very good night last night and continued to make progress, according to today's official bulletin. Reuter.
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    RED WOMEN SMUGGLE MEDICAL SUPPLIES
    105 1 RANGOON, Wed. TWO women, trying to smuggle drugs and medicines through government lines to a communist hospital camp deep in the jungle, were captured by a Burmese army patrol 70 miies north of Rangoon. THe women «ald they were nurses In charge of sick and
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    Big Loan For Indies
    107 1 THE HAGUE. Wed. TTOiE Netherlands Govern1 ment has submitted a bill for a 200,000,000-guilder loan to Indonesia to the second Chamber of the Dutch States General. The Government said in an accompanying note that refusal of the loan might force Indonesia to reduce her trade deficit
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    World Cannot Ignore Asia, Says Nehru
    176 1 JAKARTA, Wednesday. pAMDIT Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister, told the. Indonesian Parliament here today that Asia's "struggle to throw off colonialism" was one of "the events of this age of ours." The Indian Prime Minister, who was cheered by crowds estimated at 50.000 as
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    EPIDEMIC HITS N. SUDAN
    71 1 KHARTOUM, Wed. Hundreds of people have died and thousands been stricken by an epidemic of deadly cerebrospinal meningitis, now sweeping vast areas of the Northern Sudan. Medical authorities nere, declaring the whole Khartoum Province an "infected area," warned people not to kiss their wives or children
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    MARGOT AND HER DOLLS
    57 1 MARGOT VOSS aged 10 comes from Berlin and speaks no Knglisn. She arrived in Singapore yesterday by Q.E.A. 8.0.A.C. Constellation on her way to friends in Australia Around Margot's neck was hung a printed notice giving details of her journey and in her arms she clutched
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    Australian Air Chief 'Pleased'
    136 1 A IR Vice-Marshal J. I. J McCauley, Australia's Air Officer Commanding the Eastern Area, told the Straits Times yesterday, just before he flew back, that he was very pleased with his visit because "I have accomplished what I came to do." He flew to Singapore on
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    FENCING FOR NAVAL WOMEN
    31 2 WRENS practise fencing for the Royal Tournament after elimination bouts between women from all naval commands. Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory, is in h e background. A.P. picture.
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    MacBride Says Eire Will Not Join Atlantic Pact
    245 2 MacBride Says Eire Will Not Join Atlantic Pact 1 ;|M Jt i\ TTT— rt CCMMiikiST' INVASItW Whl BE RESISItD, BUT— PARIS, Wed. MR. Scan Macßride, Minister for External Affairs, said here yesterday that Eire will not Join the North Atlantic Pact while a part of "our territory" remains under British
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    DOMINIONS TOUR FOR MINISTER
    47 2 LONDON, Wed.— Mr. ratrick Gordon-Walker, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, has accepted invitations from the Australian and New Zealand Governments to visit the dominions this summer. He will go by way of Canada in July and return via Ceylon in September.— Pouter.
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      Cable Flashes Piratin Sued By Police Officer
      325 2 Cable Flashes Piratin Sued By Police Officer LONDON, Wednesday. A CHIEF Superintendent of London's Metropolitan Police Force yesterday brought an action for damages against Mr. Philip Piratin, former Communist member of Parliament alleging slanders uttered at political meetings last October Counsel for the Chief Superintendent, Mr. Charles Frederick Satterthwaite. said
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    WIGS OFF IN U.K. HEAT WAVE
    79 2 LONDON, Wed. rwas so hot in London yesterday 83 degrees fahrenbeit was the highest recorded that lawyers taking part in an inquiry removed their wigs. But London, enjoying its fourth day of heat wave, was not the hottest place in Britain. Southport, Lancashire, reported
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    SIAM KING, QUEEN IN SWITZERLAND
    54 2 GENEVA, Wed. King Phumiphon Aduldet and Queen Sirikit of Slam arrived by air here yesterday and left by car for Lausanne with their suite. The King Is returning to Lausanne University to resume his studies which he recently Interrupted to go to Bangkok for his
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    INDIA TO QUIT S.A. SEGREGATION TALKS
    157 2 NEW DELHI. Wednesday. 'THE Indian Government has informed South Africa that "there would be no point in their participation" in the proposed round-table conference on the Indian question in view of the South African Government's Group Areas Bill, it was authoritatively learned here today.
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    LIAQUAT ALI MAKES 'GOOD PROGRESS'
    128 2 BOSTON. Wed. PRIME Minister Liaquat All Khan of Pakistan was last night "in good condition and making good progress" after an operation performed at the New England Baptist Hospital, according to Dr. Frank Leahy, who performed the operation. The Prime Minister was operated yesterday morning
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      663 2 NOTICES A.C.S, OLD BOYS Old Boys of the Anglo-Chine.se School are informed that enrolnont for First Year Primary 1951 vill open on Thursday, Ist' Juno, 1950, and close on Friday, 30th lurH\ 1950. Application Forms may be ob- 1 ..lined from the Headmaster, Street. Only boys born in 1943 and
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    Royalty Greeted
    28 3  -  Red Dean I By PRINCESS MARGARET was escorted by the Dr. Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean." during her official visit to jntrrhury last week. A.P. picture.
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    AIR PASSENGER SLAIN BY SHARK
    183 3 MIVMI, Wednesday. |>\m I fc ships searching the Atlantic off Florida have picked up 37 survivors from the twinengined plane which went down in the sea with ♦>> aboard early today. The bodies of nine others Were recovered, including one savagely torn by a shark,
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    EGYPTIAN POLICE FIGHT WORKERS
    41 3 CAIRO, Wed. -Police clashr vrstcrtiay with 400 dealing railway workers, who were marching on i. house of the Egyptian I Nahas Pasha. demonstrators and policemen were inThree of the del onstratora are in a serious condition. ap.
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    Karens Suffer Defeat
    130 3 RANGOON. Wed. FE Burmese Government's increased assault on the rebel Karens, has resulted in their retaking the important centre of Kyauggon, 30 miles north-east of Bassein town, an official communique said yesterday Government troops nave also reached south into Pyapon district and overrun several Karen villages, inflicting
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    LIE LAUNCHES HIS PLAN FOR PEACE
    450 3 Details To Be Put Before U.N. NEW YORK. Wednesday. DREAKWC his silence for the first time since he completed his five-week "pilgrimage of peace" late in May, the U.N. Secretary-General, Mr. Trygve Lie, last night launched what he called a "20-year programme of peace"
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    Bradley: 'Europe Can Be Held'
    243 3 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. pENERAL Omar Bradley told the U.S. Congress yesterday that the Western Allies can hold their area of Europe if given time and the full help of American land, sea and air forces. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that, as
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    SLIM AT CAIRO CONFERENCE
    76 3 CAIRO, Wed.— Field Marshal Sir Willian Slim, Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, held further military and political discussions with the Egyptian Prime Minister, Nahas Pasha, the Foreign Minister. Salah El Din Bey, and the War Minister, Mustefa Nesrat, yesterday. The Acting Minister of State.
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    Morrison Bids For Liberal Backing
    193 3 TAIN, Scotland, Wednesday. TPHE Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Labour Government's chief strategist, tonight made a flat-out appeal to "progressive Liberals" to vote Labour at the next general election. Hitherto most political wooing of the Liberals- who polled 2,500.000 votes it the February
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    EGYPTIAN ROMANCE
    21 3 PRINCESS FATHIA dances with her commoner husband, 31-year-old Riad Ghali, after their Muslim wedding at San Francisco. A.P. picture.
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    THE ROAD TO ROME
    55 3 HOLY YEAR PILGRIMS flock to St. Peter's. Rome, by varied means. A legless Italian is seen in the invalid chair in which three dogs drew him 370 miles in 31 days. RIGHT: On roller skates another Italian travelled 400 miles. He changed the wheels of his
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    FAROUK WAS WARNED
    73 3 FAROUK WAS WARNED LONDON, Wed. KING FAROUK postponed his marriage to beautiful 17-year-old Narrlman Sadek only because his family councillors warned that a marriage now would mean the end of his dynasty, the weekly Picture Post reports. The article said the King agreed only to a postponement and added, "It
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    CRUELTY PLEA
    34 3 LAS YEAS, Wed. Film actress Joan Blondell will go to court tomorrow to divorce her third husband, Broadway show producer Mr. Mike Todd. She is to accuse Mr. Todd of cruelty.— U.P.
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    S. AFRICA TO OUTLAW COMMUNISTS
    78 3 CAPE TOWN. Wed. rE South African Government's new anti-Communist bill, in place of another which the Opposition criticised as giving the government "tyrannous control over political activity," specifically outlaws the Communist Party of South Africa. The new measure was given a first reading in the
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    JAP REDS TO STRIKE OVER MacA. ACTION
    234 3 JAP REDS TO STRIKE OVER Mac A. ACTION TOKYO, Wednesday. •JHE Japanese Communist Party yesterday defiantly called for a general strike to protest against Gen. Mac Arthur's purge of 24 of its leaders. Four Communist Party members of the DietJ Lower House lodged a protest with the Government. The four
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    Sterling— Jap Trade Talks
    158 3 Sterling Jap Trade Talks TOKYO, Wed. k TRADE conieience between Japan and the Sterling area will begin today, said Mr. R. W. Hale, chief of Gen. Mac Arthur's Foreign Trade and Commerce Division, yesterday. He said Japan's trade with Sterling area countries has been most gratifying," under the 1949-50 agreement
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    GERMANS WANT KILLERPARDONED
    71 3 GERMANS WANT KILLER PARDONED BONN, Wed.— The State Government of North Rhine Westphalia, has requested the British Commnnder-in-Ov.pf in Germany to pardon Private Gordon Kenneth Linsfil of the Black Watch, oomdemned to d^ath last month for the murder of a German policeman. Linsell is at p ror.t \<\ Bielefeld Gaol
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    Nationalists Out Of I.C.A.O
    56 3 MONTREAL. Wed. 'VUE Chinese nationalist Government yesterday withdreic from tht International Civil Aviation Organisation. The resignation, to be effective in one year, followed by four daf% a demand by the Communist Government that Na*loTm'lil delegates be thrown out of the ICAO Assemhbi n&r in sisikm. No
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      108 3 King's Birthday Celebrations at SOUTH WINDS HOTEL on Thursday Sth June 1950 DANCE TO RUDOLPH BEA VENTURA'S NEW ORCHESTRA MORNING and TEA DANCE KOLEH RACE BY MALAY FISHERMEN "A YACHTING EVENT YOU WILL NEVER FORGET" AND NUMEROUS OTHER ATTRACTIONS Prizes Presented by KING KONG of HAPPY WORLD (Ex World Champion]
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    Reds Want Trade With H.K.: Yangtse Now Reasonably Safe
    277 4 HONG KONC, Wednesday. fHE safe return of two ships from Shanghai yesterday brought strong indications that the Chinese Communists are anxious to resume trade with Hong Kong and that such trade can be carried out safely without fear of the Chinese
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    REDS SWITCH POLICY
    127 4 HONG KONG. Wed. RADIO Peking indicated today that the Communists wire mapping major revisions nt China's economic policy inc'uding possible temporary relief lor foreign businessmen. The nature of the new provisions was not announced, but it seemed certain that ibry have deferred the "death senxnee" tor private
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    POLICE CHANGES
    41 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed Mr W. Dvapkin. Jtt nis re-'uin from leave, will succeed ASP A 1 mad as Officer— in-charge <•! Police Dis'rict. Jnhore U;.h:u. ASP Ahmad is going I<> Kuala Lumpur to become it Adjutant at the Police Depot.
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    SPEEDING FINE
    39 4 From Our Own Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR, Wed.— Chew Bon Sun, a lorry driver was fined $20 in the Parit Buntar court when lip pleaded guilty to a charge of having driven his lorry at an excessive speed.
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    Malaya Statement Needed
    154 4 Malaya Statement Needed LONDON, Wed. THE need for a formal and 1 unequivocal declaration by H.Ai. uuvenmieiii s>o long as Malaya needs a protector we should not surrender to any other Power, whatever its historic responsibilities in that capacity" is stressed by Sir Eric MacFadyen, chairman of the New Crocodile
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    L.C.C. EXAMS
    27 4 Private candidates in Singapore who wish to take the London Chamber of Commerce (Autumn) examinations should send their entries this month to the Education Office.
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    PAPER FROLICS
    26 4 PAPER FROLICS A MOONLIGHT social of the Malacca Broadcasting Recreation Club was the occasion for women competitors to make clothes with crepe paper. Yong Heng picture.
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    Tin Industry Is 'Over-Equipped'
    180 4 Tin Industry Is 'Over-Equipped From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. THHERE Is general agreement that the tin industry x is at present somewhat over- equipped, and some contraction is necessary, says the Tin Study Group in a special review outlining the current position and examining the prospects of the industry.
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    Robbers Get Four Years
    87 4 PANG WEE JEE and Lee Wah Seng, charged at the Singapore June Assizes with voluntarily causing hurt, while robbing Abdul Mutaliph at a public lavatory in Liang Seah Street on April 8 last, were unanimously found guiity by the jury yesterday. Mr. Justice Thorogood sentenced the
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    RURAL BOARD
    18 4 The Singapore Rural Board will meet at 10 a.m. on June 15 at the Land Office.
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    BISHOP PREACHES TO ARMED STAFFS ON ESTATES
    320 4 PREACHING to heavily armed rubber planters and their staffs, and with Tamils and Europeans travelling for four hours by boat and road to hear him, the Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Baines, has just concluded a second most successful tour
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    STORE USIS MEN IN AMERICA
    54 4 Two members of the Singapore staff of the United States Information Service Mr. Matthew Chandy and Mr. Cheng Tsl Van, are starting this week on separate trips across America after attending a series of conferences in Washington. D C They will return to Singapore at
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    'Sabotage' Bid On British Carrier
    157 4 LONDON, Wednesday. rpHE Admiralty yesterday confirmed that there had been a n "incident", reported by some quarters as a sabotage attempt, in the 23,000-ton aircraft earner Illustrious on May Day. "It Is confirmed that there was an incident in the Illustrious on May 1 when
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    NOT NEGLIGENT
    27 4 SEGAMAT, Wed.— Charged with negligent driving, 24-year-old Omar bin Mohamed was acquitted at Segamat. He was driving a police van which collided with a car.
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    Emergency Decrees In Indo-China
    132 4 SAIGON, Wed. THE Bao Dai Government yesterday prepared to impose new authoritarian controls as a counter-measure to the underground activity of the Communist-led Viet Minh. The Government, it wa* stated, is ready to proclaim emergency decrees permitting internment without trial of individuals charged with subversive political
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    NO PARADE FOR PENANG
    74 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wed.— Owing to the emergency, there win be no King's Birthday parade in Penang this year. The Resident Commissioner, Mr. R. P. Bingham, however, will present an award to a constable, Bakar bin Abdullah, at the Police Headquarters, Penang Road, at
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    BROKE CURFEW
    41 4 JOHORE BAHRU. wed Found out of doors at Kulai yesterday during curlew hours. Lee Kin, in the Johore Bahru Police Court today said that he was visiting a friend who lived a few doors away. Lee was fined $6.
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    Retrial Is Ordered
    128 4 A RETRIAL was ordered by the Chief Justice. Mr Justice Murfay-Aynsley, in an appeal by Syed Anwar bin Nadar Shah against his conviction and sentence of two months imprisonment for nlleged breach of trust of $347, being sub eric lew by him on behalf of Muslim benevolent
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    STRACHEY TOURS H.K. DEFENCES
    142 4 HONG KONG, Wed. MR. John Strachey, Secretary of State for War, who arrived here yesterday, had a busy day today conferring witti Service chiefs and inspecting military installations. Mr Strachey is on a tour of the Far East to assess local defence problems. He inspected army
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    Paper Accuses War Office
    209 4 Paper Accuses War Office LONDON, Wed. T»HE Yorkshire Post yesterday compared the statement in Singapore by Mr. John Strachey that Malaya must have priority for general duty medical officers and must receive more doctors entering the Army under the National Service scheme with the assurance given by his predecessor in
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    GARDEN PARTY
    35 4 From Our Own C'orr.>v|n>ni'etit RAUB, Wed. The acting British Adviser, Pahang Mr. A. Hyde, and Mrs. Hyde will hold a garden party nt ii l ">e Residency, Kuala Lipis, tomorrow, the King's birthday.
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    MPIEA CLARIFIES ASIAN ESTATE MEN'S PAY POSITION
    712 5 THERE is a wide misunderstanding* over the position of the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association in relation to Asian Estate Staff, the association's Secretary, Mr. R. Boyd, says in a letter to the Straits Times today. The letter, commenting on an editorial in
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    72 5 AT THE Old Rafflesians Association annual dinner in the Capitol Blue Room, from left to right: Mr. M. R. Holgate, Director of Education in the Federation, Mrs. C. J. Poh, the Bishop of Singapore, the Rt. Rev. H. W. Baines, Mr. A. W. Frisby, Director of Education, Singapore, Mr. K.
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    LOSES GOODS INSTEAD
    35 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wed.— A junk owner, Ong Bah Chooi. who attempted to export prohibited Roods without a licence, had part of his cargo confiscated instead, and was fined $40.
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    Singapore Diary
    93 5 PRINCESS ELIZABETH FLATS, opening ceremony by Sir franklin Gimson, Fairer Park. It a.m. RKD CROSS OI,D PEOM.K'S CLl'B. Wesley Hall, Tort Canning. 4 30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Y.W.C..V. 5, Raffles Quay. Bible c! 'ss. 5 p.m. THEOSOPHH'AL SOdKIV 8. Cmrnhlll Road, discussion on Throsophlcal Fundamentals, 6 30
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    ARM IN PLASTER, FINED $200
    387 5 ARM IN PLASTER, FINED $200 A COLLISION on Mountbatten Road in which two cars were almost totally wrecked and one person was seriously Injured, was described in the Singapore Second Traffic Court yesterday by Mr. Kingsley Morrando, a Radio Malaya announcer. The driver of one of the cars, English speaking
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    HAWKER FINED
    48 5 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Tan Yew Cheng, a howker, found doing business in an area prohibited to hawkers, was convicted in the Johore Bahru Police Court today and fined $15. On a second charge of hawking without a licence he was fined $10.
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    SERVED MALAYA 43 YRS.
    202 5 SERVED MALAYA 43 YRS. From Our Staff Corre^uiident PENANG, Wed. CATHOLIC clergy from all parts of Malaya, including the Vicar-General, the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Bonamy, attended the funeral in Penang yesterday evening of Rev. Father Jean-Baptiste Souhait, Vicar of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Pulau Tikus. Parishioners were in
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    TELOK DATOH SHOW ON SAT
    82 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Kuala Langat district combined agricultural show and athletic championship meet will be held at Telok Oatoh on Saturday. The Raja Muda of Selangor will open an exhibition at 11 a.m. and is expected to present prizes in
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    S'pore Farewell Dinner
    53 5 MORE THAN 100 people attended a farewell dinner givrn to Mr. A. D. Anderson at the Tai Tong Restaurant on Monday night by the staff of the New Zealand Insurance company. Mr. Anderson, the Far East manager of the company, will shortly be leaving for Auckland to
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    KALLANG AIR ARRIVALS
    211 5 KALLANG AIR ARRIVALS THE following passengers were among those who disembarked at Kallang airport yesterday from points outside Malaya on the various air services. Passengers in transit are not included in the list. Q.E..V 8.0.A From London: Messrs. J. Beckitt, Dorm, J. Munro, Col. Goodwin, and Giddings; Mr. and Mr*
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    37 CHILDREN BEFORE COURTS
    134 5 THIRTY SEVEN boys and two girls were brought before the Singapore Juvenile Court last month, for offences ranging from theft to the hawking of dutiable samsu. Out of ten who were charged with theft, five were bound oyer, two were committed to institutions, two were fined
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    Suffolk Patrol Slays Bandit
    218 5 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. 4 PATROL of the Ist SufYolks have killed an armed bandit in the LABIS area of Johore. One carbine, some 'ammunition ami documents were recovered. Air strikes were made in the BENTONG area of Pahang yesterday and a mortar
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    RUBBER APPEAL
    97 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. 'pwo leading rubber company officials, Mr. Paul, Litchfield, chairman of the Goodyear Tire Rubber Co., and Mr. John Collier, president of the B. F. Goodrich Co., yesterday called for a big increase in the Government's stockpile of synthetic rubber to meet a possible shortage of natural
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    Indians Seek Aid To Plan Families
    128 5 Indians Seek Aid To Plan Families WESTERN scientific methods of birth control have been successfully taught to many Indian women in Singapore, a women doctor connected with the Family Planning Association told the Straits Times yesterday. She was commenting on a recent statement by India's woman Minister of Health, Rajkumari
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    K.K. FUN FAIR
    56 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA KANGSAR, Wed.— At the Iskandar Polo Club, Kuala Kangsar, a fun fair and jumble sale was organised by Mrs. A. Ibrahim and members of the Kuala Kangsar Girls' Club in aid of the Kuala Kangsar District Welfare Fund. The fair was opened
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    Perak War Committee Will Hear Planters' Views—Black
    541 6 Perak War Committee Will Hear Planters' Views— Black From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. PLANTERS are disappointed at the failure to invite them to sit on the Perak War Executive Committee, Mr. J. S. Ferguson, senior Unofficial member, said at yesterday's meeting of the Perak Council of State. They regarded
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    WEDDING BELLS
    44 6 MR. AND MRS. CHEW CHONG SOON after their wedding in Singapore. The bride is the second daughter of the late Mr. Yap Kee Kok and Madam Tan Kirn Eng. The bridegroom is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Chew Sitw Siong.
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    $10 MILLION FUND EXHAUSTED
    199 6 rpHE $10,eO0,00O tuml given to the Singapore A Improvement Trust on its formation in 1927, for slum clearance. Is for ail practical purposes exhausted and is now bein? wound up. This is stated L>y the manager of the Trust, Mr. J. M. Fraser, in his annual
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    No Torture Acts For Temple God
    156 6 No Torture Acts For Temple God THE high price of charcoal and the prohibitive cost of irt-cting a ladder with 32 sword blades as rungs have led to the abandonment of nrew.ilking and sword-climbing' ceremonies when the birthday (i l the Chines.' warrior god, Kuin Tec Kong, is celebrated at
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    Engines Case Decision
    86 6 A dispute over the nondelivery of two 10.000 horse power clipsel engines, from a former Japanese warship at the Singapore Naval Base jiiid which forni3d the subject of a claim in the Singapore Supreme Court, was cU-cided yesterday by the Chief Justice, Mr Justice Marray-Ayn-xley. His lordship
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    10 Teachers For Johore
    99 6 ■pEN probationer teachers of 1 English who recently passed their final examinations have been posted to Malay schools in Johore where they will teach English to pupils in Standard Three. This is the first posting of teachers under the new scheme to teach English in all
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    DRIVER FINED $80
    48 6 From Our Mail Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— R. Singaram. a taxi driver, was fined $50 In the Johore Bahru Police Court today for carrying for hire two passengers in an unlicensed taxi. In addition, he was fined $30 for not having a public service licence.
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    GLASS IN BANK FOR VARSITY
    199 6 ?TAINED-glass panes depict0 ing peoples of the world which were a feature of the Interior decoration of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Collyer Quay, Singapore, have recently been removed. The stained-glass Is being offered to the University of Malaya, and instead the bank will have
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    Cheated 3 Hawkers
    67 6 WEBSTER Smarten Noordin, who cheated three Indian hawkers of $570, by promising them, coffee stall licences, was sentenced to a total of three months' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. H E. Klngdon, the Singapore First District Judge, yesterday. Noordin. who had a previous conviction, pleaded for leniency, saying
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    Joget Girls Battle On Penang Stage
    167 6 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. THHREE "joget modern" dancers started fighting 1 after the throwing of a cigarette stub, the Penang First Magistrate's Court was told today, and during the fight one girl dancer stabbed the other with a penknife. Ramleh binte Darus
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    41 Years'
    7 6 MR. M. P. N. SAMY
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    ....25 YEARS IN THE SAME BUILDING
    183 6 ....25 YEARS IN THE SAME BUILDING THE cashier's counter at Standard Oil Company, Singapore, was converted i.ito a bar yesterday afternoon when the company held a party to mark the 25th year of their occupation of the fifth floor of Union Building. When the company first moved into Union Building,
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    F.P.A. WANT TO SEE BANNED FILM
    56 6 -MOMMITT..: members of the Singapore Family Plan\j ning Association hope to see the banned sex-hygiene film "Secrets of Life" in the Colony next we«k. Then spokesman, Mr. Homer Chen*, sa»d the film had particular interest f^r *««*n **><» --...a ask permission frwa tlii Film
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    Schools Draft Replies To Govt.
    188 6 Schools Draft Replies To Govt. BOTH manage ment committees of the Chinese Higl* School and the Nanyang Girls' School in Singapore have met to draft replies to Government, which has asked them to show cause why the schools should not be declared unlawful. Mr. R. W. Watson-Hyatt, Assistant Director of
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    'Unwanted' Children
    96 6 rE position in Singapore of unwanted or abandoned children below the age of five years is serious. The Department of Social Welfare in Singapore states this in its May report and explains it was necessary to refuse applications for the admission of seven such children last month owing
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    Johore Timber Output Up Despite Crisis
    146 6 From Our Staff Correspondent JOIIORE BAHRU, Wednesday. DESPITE the emergency, Johore's export of logs to Singapore sawmills last year rose by almost 1 500,000 cubic feet 3,875,935 cubic feet compared with 2,398,000 in 1948. In addition 1,011,(192 cubic feet of sawn timber was exported
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    STORE ART EXHIBITION
    65 6 The Singapore Art Society is holding an exhibition In Singapore in conjunction with the British Council, at the British Council Centre from June 17 to June 25. The exhibits will consist of 35 contemporary Australian paintings, examples of fine book production from 1890 to 1940, and a
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    TWO GAMBLERS
    28 6 from Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Wed.— Lim Slew Tct and Ong Yeng Hua were each fined $10 or five days' hard labour by the Muar Magistrate
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    THE MEN (AND WOMEN) HONOURED BY THE KING
    1334 7 Full Singapore List KNIGHTHOOD lor the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray- Ay nsley and Air Marshal F. J. Fogarty, C.M.G. for the Director of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers, four 0.8.E.5, five M.B.E.s and six Colonial Police Medal awards figure in
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    North Borneo Awards
    58 7 The following residents of North Borneo are included in the king's Birthday Honours List: M.8.E.: Miss Hilda Eleanor Bates, Health Officer, Keningua; Orang Kaya Kaya Sidelis Tei.ibakau. Deputy Assistant District Officer. Tambunan. King's Police and Fire Services Medal: John Bartholomew Atkinson, Commissoiner of Police. Colonial Police Medal:
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    CERTIFICATES OF HONOUR
    35 7 The Governor has awarded Singapore Certificates of Honour to the following: Mr. Ong Piah Teng, Mr. Yeo Chan Boon, Mr. Alfred Charles Willis. Mr. Leorig Hou Chou and Mr. V. Pakrisamy J.P.
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    AUSTRALIAN AIR CHIEF FLIES HOME
    66 7 AIR VICE-MARSHAL J. P. J. McCAULEY, Australia's Air Officer Commanding Eastert (centre) photographed at Changi Aerodrome with the Station Commander, Group Captain Fuller-Good (left) and Air Commodore Opie, Senior Technical Staff Officei v just before leaving for Sydne y, following a visit to arrange for
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    Awards For Emergency Work In Federation
    1091 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. fWENTY residents in the Federation have received King's Birthday honours. The awards include a Companionship of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George and three Memberships of the Order of the British Empire. A
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    K.B.E. AWARD TO AIR CHIEF
    155 7 HEADING the list of awards 11 to personnel ol the Far East Air Force in the King's Birthday Honours is the award of the KBE to »«r Marshal P. J. Fogarty, CB, DFC, AFC, Commandrr-in-Chief. Far East Air Force. The lull list of awards is:
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    39 8 THE FAMILY of the late Mr. i el Mrs Chew Cheng Bow wish to thank all relatives and friends »ho sent wreaths, lent cars. \r and those who at-l.-nded the funeral of their beloved bi «>ilt r Hrnrv
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. June 8, 1950.
    753 8 Because of the allegations of American rubber manufacturers, the May rubber export figures have been awaited with unusual interest. They confirm the market's expectation that exports in May would show a substantial increase over April, and that the American share would refute
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    MacA & The Reds
    331 8 MacA The Reds No doubt it was the shorter arm of coincidence which brought General Douglas MacArthur's purge of Japanese Communist leaders so closely on the heels of Communist losses in the Upper House elections. It is at any rate a convenient coincidence for Japan's Prime Minister, who now has
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    Malayan Timber Trade
    715 8 V"OU quite rightly wrote in your editorial of June 1 ("The Timber Squeeze") that, barring a few in the building trade and timber business, there are not many who know about the various kinds of Malayan timber and their uses. There are, I believe, over some thousand
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      Two bus lines on one route: A "Kangka" plea
      427 8 VME live near mile 7i on the Upper Serangoon 11 Road. Some of us are working and others schooling, in town. As we cannot afford a car, or to travel by taxi, we have to depend entirely on the buses to
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      PRUDES IN THE COLONY?
      162 8 I WAS impressed by the opinions of people who have seen the film "Secrets of Life" as reported In the Straits Times of June 6. Screened first in Kuala Lumpur, to be seen generally throughout the Federation, it is banned in Singapore. What differences exist between
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    On the Margin
    420 8 Gcmmiirs Hill ¥F you recall the recent mus- ings in this column on John Gemmill, who lived in Singapore during the first halfcentury of its history, you may be interested in the pictures which we publish in Page Twelve today. I had these pictures taken because, in
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    COME AWAY, JACK. YOU'RE TOO YOUNG FOR THIS!
    75 8 'Secrets of Life,' the sex hygiene film banned in Singapore but allowed in the Federation, startled the 40 men and women who saw it at a preview at the Pavilion Cinema in Kuala Lumpur this morning but most of them left the
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    RUBBER EXPORTS UP BY 10,500 TONS
    297 9 RUBBER EXPORTS UP BY 10,500 TONS Figures Refute "Hold-Up" Slur MALAYA'S rubber exports in May totalled 78,427 tons, an increase of nearly 10,500 tons over April, bringing the five-month total to 382,039 tons, states the Department of Statistics in its new monthly return. Exports to America were 29,471 tons, making
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    MPs GET READY
    45 9 THREE ROYAL MILITARY Policemen, (left to right) L/Cpl. Jones, L/Cpl. Moss, and L/Cpl. Devlin, polishing their brass and boots for today's King's Birthday Parade when 2,000 men of the armed forces and police will parade on the Singapore padang. Straits Times picture.
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    27 9 It was quite a tangle uhrn the boys of the AngloChinese School at Serem- ban became involved in the stilt race at their sports. K.S. Kong picture.
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    KNIFE ATTACK
    34 9 A 45-year-old Indian, Kuppiasamy, who knifed two men at the naval base, was sentenced to six weeks' rigorous Imprisonment in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday on two charges of causing hurt.
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    'STORE PEOPLE DON'T LIKE US"
    127 9 f MHIPORAL C. J. Keel, of the Seaforth Highlanders, stationed at Selarang, drew laughs, and applause from Singapore Rotarians yesterday when he said: "Singapore people give us the impression that they don't like us." Corporal Keel was responding to a request by Mr. L Cresson.
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    APPEAL COURT
    19 9 file Court of Criminal ApP Ml will sit in the Supreme Court bui'ding, Singapore, on June 12.
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    Jury Clears Two Men
    79 9 TWO Malays, Salehan bin Darsln and Supardl bin Sakawi, were yesterday acquitted in the Singapore Assizes on a charge of causing hurt In committing robbery. They were found not guilty by six-to-one verdict of the jury. The two men were alleged to have stopped a Chinese
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    APPOINTMENT
    15 9 Mr G. D. A. Fox has been appointed an Assistant Controller of Immigration. Singapore.
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    MR. GRIFFITHS TO BROADCAST
    32 9 The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, will broadcast to the people of Malaya at 9.45 o'clock tonight over the Blue Network of Radio Malaya.
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    PRODUCER IN SINGAPORE
    95 9 MR. PAUL FOULY, American stage producer who arrived in Singapore by Q.E.A.-8.0.A.C. from Sydney yesterday. He produced a straight comedy entitled "Harvey" in 1944 which ran for five years and four weeks in the United States, where comedian Joe E. Brown was then one of his 'stars.'
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    BOUND OVER
    18 9 Lee Hee Moay, a trisha pedaller. was yesterday bound over for fraudulent possession of scrap iron.
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    BARBELL THEFT
    24 9 Kwok Ah Poh was sentenced to three months' rigorous Imprisonment in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday for theft of a barbell.
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    BUS DRIVER WAS NOT SPEEDING
    192 9 T»HE Singapore First Traffic Court magistrate, Mr. x E. V. A. Peers, yesterday acquitted a Singapore bus driver, Tay Chin Chye, of a charge of speeding along the Bukit Timah Road on Feb. 13. Two police officers who gave evidence, alleged that they followed Tay's
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    Schoolgirl Drowned At Ponggol
    125 9 Schoolgirl Drowned At Ponggol FINDING of death by drowning was returned at the end of the inquest on Bek Hwee Cheng, 16, a pupil of the Methodist Girls' School, Paya Lebar. Three school-girls told the Coroner that Hwee Cheng, while collecting shells at Ponggol beach, waded at low tide far
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    UNEMPLOYED: SUICIDE
    46 9 A finding of "suclde by hanging" was returned by Mr. Choor Singh, Singapore Assistant Coroner, yesterday, at the end of an inquest on 69-year-old Tan Ah Doh. Tan's widow said her husband had been very worried because both he and his son were unemployed.
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    AEROMODELLERS
    25 9 An extraordinary general j meeting of the Singapore Aeromodellers' Society will be held at Gan Eng Seng School, Queen Street, tomorrow at 6 p.m.
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    THEIR AIM: TO TRAIN LEADERS
    249 9 HHO train pupils "here and A now" for leadership is an important part of a schoolmaster's work, Mr. E. H. Wilson, Principal of Raffles Institution, declared yesterday. Mr. Wilson was speaking at the Singapore Rotary Club lunch at the Capitol Blue Room on what Singapore
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    TALK OFF
    20 9 The talk by Dr. Harold Ehrensperqer, arranged for today at the Singapore Tamil Methodist Church, has been cancelled.
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    57 FINED AFTER SCREENING
    64 9 From Our SUIT Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— After screening operations in the Plentong area yesterday, 54 Chinese and three Indians were charged in the Johore Bahru Police Court today with falling to notify the Registration Officer of their change of address. The accused, most of whom
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    GREETINGS TO THE KING
    50 9 THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, has sent a message of greet ings to the King on behalf of the people of Singapore. T he message was sent through the Secretary of State for the Colonies. The High Commissioner, Federation, has also sent s message.
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    Princess Flats Opening Today
    203 9 TPHE Governor of Singapore will open the Princess A Elizabeth Flats, Fairer Park, at 11 a.m. today in the presence of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths. There are 72 flats at Farrer Park. These, with 28 workmen's flats and 84 artisans'
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    HAD DRUG: GAOL
    34 9 A Chinese shop-keeper, Kang Thiam Soon, was stntenced to four months' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. P Claugue, in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday, for unlawful possession 46 ampules of morphine.
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    OBSCENE PHOTOS
    34 9 For trying to sell obscene photographs in North Bridge Road, two Indians, Abdul Kadir and Mad] id were fined $500 each or one month's hard labour, in the Fourth Police Court yesterday.
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    YOUTH CENTRE PLAN FOR SINGAPORE
    157 9 By Our Woman Correspondent IF FHE Singapore Youth Council is asking Government for a site and building near the heart of the town to establish a youth centre, the president of the Council, Mr. L. Rayner, told the Straits Times yesterday. The Council is also
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    "MASTER PLAN" FOR HOUSING TO START IN 1950
    288 9 "MASTER PLAN" FOR HOUSING TO START IN 1950 on a master plan for housing in Singapore is expected to be begun this year, the Manager of the Singapore Improvement Trust, Mr. J. M. Fraser, indicates in his annual report for 1949. Mr. Fraser states that proposals for the appointment of
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    BOOK REVIFW CONTEST
    50 9 Radio Malaya, Singapore, last night announced a book review competition, open to non -professionals in Singapore. A prize of $15 will be given each month to the best review of a book originally published within the last five years. The review should be about 500 words long.
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    Subsidised Meals Hit Profiteers
    176 9 A TOTAL of 3.397 454 full meal were supplied by the People's Restaurants in Singapore which operated from June. 1946, to August, 1948. The government subsidy for all these meals worked out at 0.59 cent, or a little over half a cent per meal, stales that
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    $2,000 BAIL
    42 9 Bail in $2,000 was offered in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to Lim Be Tow, who claimed trial to a charge of being found with 81 lb. of dutiable tobacco. The case was postponed for hearing to July 5.
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    'Padre' is the seaman's friend
    822 10  - 'Padre' is the seaman's friend ROY FERROA SINGAPORE'S PORT CHAPLAIN LOOKS AFTER THE NEEDS OF THOUSANDS OF MEN WHO SAIL THE SEVEN SEAS A FAMILIAR figure on ixwrd ships that have sailed the Seven Seas and put in at Singapore harbour is a bush- jacketed Welshman wearing a cleric's collar
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    He was there when the atom-bomb went off
    636 10 He was there when the atom-bomb went off MR. S. V. Nathan is ITJ perhaps the only Malayan who is able to lay claim to the following rattier unusual and interesting experience. For on the precise day when an American oomber took off and headed toward Nagasaki on its mission
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    Penang worries about its poor animals
    292 10 IyiUCH has been said about kindness to animals in Singapore and the work of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It may not be known generally that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Penan,g and Province Wellesley
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    TheOldFort Gate
    168 10 THIS gate, th» only part of tli* old fortress of Malacca which survived the demolition by the British in 1807, is popularly supposed to go back to Portuguese times. Actually -it was built by the Dutch, and it bears the date 1670 and the coat-of-arms of the Dutch
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    Singer "Babs" realises her ambition
    565 11  - Singer "Babs" realises her ambition LIAU NYOK OI WHEN Evelyn "was bom 23 years ago to Mr. and iKfrs. Victor de Souza, hei delighted parents never dreamt that the dav would come when "Babs", as she is known among her friends, would be acclnimed a talented singer in Singapore. The
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    A forgotten statue may bring him wealth
    382 11 By R. G. PILLAI AWAY from the hub-hub of Singapore a statue lay forgotten for months "by the Indian community of Singapore; perhaps, In fairness to them, th?y did not know of its ex'stence. This forgotten statue, made of marble powder and cement,
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    The Princess Will Not Ride Today
    422 11  -  DEREK DRABBLE by TODAY, at London's brilliant military spectacle of Trooping the Colour, there will be no gallant, upright figure side-saddle on a great charger riding behind His Majesty the King. For Princess Elizabeth, Heiress-Presumptive to the Throne of England, is going to have
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    In Your Garden
    486 11 f\ 1 am very much interested in starting a rockery. Would you please advice me. A A rockery in the first place must be well drained and when you are laying the foundations this is one thing you must bear ln mind. It is not necessary to
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      149 11 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD imAi o»« tftSsaagiT: crossword no. 73 increase* tacrgy no red 30. Ponderi-w tl to make f^T""Tn^^ a I 5 4 1 Ba' goddess tcem> Id dl» pio&e «V Mttittof order i~> legendary BgUrt tl). iSSS sp> 10 Non-metallic element C7>, Dfrectlcf on Ugktf lH_i| 11|1 H H_
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    930 12  - The Battle of the Bus Companies G. T. BOON BUS TRANSPORT IS THE COLONY'S THIRD MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRY THE problems of amalgamating all private bus interests into one strong central company; replacing petrol driven omnibuses with Diesel engine types, and urging unification of public transport regulations in tl>o Colons are
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    A Bygone Singapore European
    201 12 THE two pictures above show two places in Singapore where John Gemmill, an English businessman who lived in Singapore during the first half-century o* the city's history, is commemorated today. Gemmill Lane is a street at the foot of Ang Siang Hill, linking Club St., with
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    Why they dance
    254 12 jHORTY-TWO men and women go to the Singapore Y.W.C.A. every Tuesday for dancing lessons. Taught by Mrs. Elizabeth Lee, these men and women, from all walks of life, hasten to the class from their offices in the city and from their homes in the suburbs. Most of
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    Much Better Than Wells
    398 12 [Recently "Cecil Street" expressed surprise at the discovery that a whole village at the 15th mile Sembawang was dependent for its water supply on a subsoil pipe (which happened to be blocked or to be running dry at the time he wrote). Consequently the Government Health
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      69 12 SINGAPORE a.m. Military Band; 9 30 Peter Yorke Orch.; 10 News,* from KX.: 10.05 Theatre Organ 7 (Reginald Dlxon); 10.15 "Spice of I Life" (variety): 11 Rene tiavard x Orch.: 11.30 Malay; 1 p.m. Li^hi I Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 Uancr C Music; 2 British Danrp .*»nds; t 9.30 Concert
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      55 12 Range: 4.30 Tea Dance; 5 Chinese: 6 Children; 0.20 Calling All Hospitals: 7 Newt, Share Market; 7.12 "ThU U Communism", I.'jO Interlude; 7.80 Hit Parade; 8 Forum of the Air; 8.30 David Grenville Ensemble; 9 "Riddle of the Sands"; 8.30 News; i.45 Talk- 10 "Take It Prom Here"; 10. SO
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      43 12 K. LUMPUR 0 a.m.— 6 pjn. As S'po: Mall Bag; 7 As S'pore; 7.25 Hawaiian Interlude; 7. SO B.B.C. Midland Light Orch.; Forum of the Atr; 8.30 Thursday Symphony (Hosslnl Moxart, Janacek); 9.30 Newt; 1.49 Piano Playhotm; It H»ppy Annlve .frary; 11 CIom.
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    Democracy in a modern Muslim State
    2205 13  - Democracy in a modern Muslim State ANDREW ROTH TURKEY AWER THE ELECTIONS MhHSINA, Turkey: p()K two months the cafes of this sleepy little port have buzzed with politics. Its whole population hus been cuusht up, lirst in the heady excitement of their iirst democratic election and later, in its even
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    New Drug For Dogs May Cure Cold
    264 13 URITISH scientists, working in a first-floor laboratory fn Park-lane. W., believe they have discovered a drug— provisionally named CF9— which may be a cure for the common cold. It was first used to treat a form of distemper in dogs. Mr F. J.
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    London Stocks
    237 14 LONDON, Wed. ARISE in Industrial share prices was the feature of yesterday's end-of-account trading in the London Stock Exchange. Early demand for Motor issues broadened to include Brewenes. Electrical Equipments, Textiles and miscellaneous leaders anJ useful gains were shown, says Reuter Base Metal shares were siuhtly higher where
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    Anglo-Oriental Tin Outputs
    91 14 ANGLO-ORIENTAL (Malaya) announce the following May tin-ore outputs, In plculs: Ampat Dredging 1.654 Batu Selangor Dredging 220 Berjuntai Dredging 1.153 Jelapang Dredging 405 Kamunting Dredging Including Slam) 4.623 Klang River Dredging 353 Kramat Dredging 86S Kuala Kampar Tin Fields fNo. 3 Dredge worked through tailings for part
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    LARUT SEEK NEW PERAK PROPERTY
    273 14 t>'r«*"i Uur Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. LARUT Tin Fields may acquire a new dredging property in Perak at a cost in the region of £175,000, according to the chairman, Mr. W. M. Warren. This sum would include generous compensation to the present occupants of
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    MAY TIN-ORE OUTPUTS
    101 14 AUSTRAL Malay Tin announces the following May tin outputs, in hours run, cubic yards dug and piculs of tin-ore recovered: Kampong Kamuntinn Tin Oredgtng—64o. 157,000, 443. Thabawleik Tin Dredging 560. 163.000. 1,562. Pungah Tin Dredging 607. 217,000, 1,110. Austral Amalgamated Tin Asam Kumbang section. 429, 8.000, 65;
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    TIN PRICES
    30 14 SINGATORE, Wed., June 7 $302.6214 (up $0.87 V4.) LONDON. Wed., June 7.— Spot: £609i— £610; For ward. £6101— £610}; Settlement. £610. Turnover: morning. 145 tins; afternoon. 219 tons.
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    GOOD DAY IN SHARES
    177 14 I-rum Our Market Correspondent TINS, Rubbers and Industrials in the Malayan share market came in for increasing attention yesterday. A fair volume of business-was transacted at Improving prices. Price changes announced d> vie Malayan Sharebrokers' A5.70.-rv-tion yesterday were: I.NIII >TKI M > B.B Petrol 33/Fraser it
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    RUBBER CROPS
    38 14 TJARRISONS Ciosfleld (Malaya) announce the following May rubber crops, tn lbs' Allenby 4> 790 Benta Est 9n,000 Jeram Kuantan Est 7O.!h)(. Kundong Est 31.l!9o Mentakab 9^200 Sungel Bagan moot) Sandycroft 21.700 Tanjong Pau Est 6'< SM
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    Rubber: 97 Cts. Peak Yesterday
    218 14 RUBBER prices in Singapore reached a new peak yesterday, business being done early in the day at 97 cents per lb. for first-grade July shipment. The market opened firm. Later, however, sellers <*ame out. and buyers withdrew. There was a fairly sharp reaction. The market
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    75 14 From A Market Correspondent /^OPRA In the Singapore produce market yesterday was quiet, buyers indicating $36>; and sellers $37. Coconut oil was easier, sellers quoting $60 Cloves steadied slightly, business being transacted at $111'/. Prices (pei plcul) yesrerdav fot othPt commodities wereGambier $200 (round); *82 (Java cube)
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    SHIPS ALONGSIDE AND IN THE ROADS
    126 14 CHIPS ln the Singapore uut;r 13 and Inner Roads and alongside Harbour Board godowns ve*terday were: Outer Roads: Hal llsmn, Dlysses. Hoi Wong. Van der Hagen, Van Rlemsdyk. Empire Trooper Chip Lam. Ville de Bnieirp Atlanta. Inner Roads: Sin Soon lee. Stia. Kajang. Rajah
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    VICTORY MARCH SHOWS TOP FORM
    627 15 Barrier Position A Big Factor Bv KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE luck of th e draw has always been a winning factor in sprint races on the sharp Kuala Lumpur course and the three 5A furlong races on Saturday, with their jam packed fields, may be
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    45 15 AWANG BAKAR, Singapore's centre-forward, heads in the second goal to catch Johore goalkeeper Bakar Jusoh and .full-back Jamak on the wrong foot during the Sultans' Gold Cup soccer m atch at Muar last week. Singapore Malays beat the Johore Malays 3-2. Lim Photo Studio picture.
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    International Archery For Malaya
    220 15 International Archery For Malaya THE Archery Association of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya, which was recently formed, is confident of putting Malaya on the archery map this year. By the formation of this associa^ tion, a Malayan team can be selected to take part in international competitions. Mr. Tony
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      Perak T.C. Move Is Thoughtless'
      832 15 T»HE Perak Turf Club has devised a new scheme A abolishing- what has been a satisfactory, smooth-ly-working system of Stake and Added Money and substituting instead of the usual Added Money, a definite and totally inadequate rate of graded Stake money only. I This thoughtless
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    Full Bloom Filly To Run In K.L.
    537 15 KUALA LUMPUR Wed. rULL STOP, one of the new horses entered for the Selangor Turf Club June meeting, won two races Hn four starts as a two-year-old in England last season. This brown filly by Full Bloom out of the Fairway mare Wedding
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    SAFA TO SUGGEST NEW BASIS FOR CUP FINAL
    370 16 SAFA TO SUGGEST NEW BASIS FOR CUP FINAL If Colony Penang Qualify IF SINGAPORE and Penang are the finalists in this year's Malaya Cup competition, Colony soccer fans may get a chance of watching a final in Singapore for the first time in 12 years. Singapore Amateur Football Association plans
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    34 16 JAGIR SINGH (left) and Jimmy Welch go hammer and tongs at each othei during an exhibition bout at Seletar on Monday. Both boxers will be fighting in tomorrow's card at the Happy World Stadium.
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    All Badminton Stars Accept For Exhibition
    204 16 All Badminton Stars Accept For Exhibition BARRING any last-minute change, the card for the big badminton exhibition at Singapore's Happy World covered stadium on Sunday, starting at 8 p.m., will remain the same as it was announced last Friday, as all the players have accepted the invitations. Wong Peng Soon
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    P.I. Basketball Champs Here
    203 16 ■TWELVE members of the OfMk 1 basketball team of the Mapua Institute of Technology of Manila, accompanied by their coach Mr. Johnny Schlobohm. arrived In Singapore yesterday afternoon -by Pan-American Airways. The team last year won the championship of the Rational Collesiate Athletic Association of Manila
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    SPOTTING THE WINNERS
    266 16 SPOTTING THE WINNERS By EPSOM JEEP MY ten horses to follow at the Kuala Lumpur June meeting, starting on Saturday, are: Rob Roy: Well-bred four-year-old by St. Leger winner Scottish Union: ran splendid race against Mata Had at Penang last month has trained on since. Mata Hari: On the upgrade;
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    FEDERATION TENNIS Kee Onn In Perak Final
    171 16 FEDERATION TENNIS Kee Onn In Perak Final PHIN KEE ONN, former MaJayaa singles champion who left Singapore on transfer back to Perak early this year, entered the final of the Perak awn tennis final yesterday by beating N. Caleb, former Perak champion 6-1, 7-5 in their semi-final played in Ipoh.
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    K. Sajarah Wind Up Unbeaten
    192 16 K. Sajarah Wind Up Unbeaten KATONG Sajarah maintained an unbeaten record when they swamped the Singapore Medical Workers' Union eight-one at Geylang stadium yesterday in their last fixture in the Junior B-2 section of the SAFA league. Katong Sarajah team have thus qualified for the final, early in August, against
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    'Bell Will Not Save Jagir Again'—Tek
    189 16 'Bell Will Not Save Jagir Again'— Tek "IF JAGIR SINGH thinks he can be saved by the bell again, he is miistaken. This time when he goes down, he will stay there," said Tan Gwat Tek, featherweight champion of all-Indonesia yesterday when he discussed prospects of his Singapore featherweight title
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    Goldies Unbeaten
    48 16 Glowing Goldles basketball team of the Santo Tomas (J ilversity of Manila were successful it: keeping their unbeaten record in Singapore last night when they defeated a Singapore comolned team in a return match by 46 points to 43 at the Happy World before 6,000 spectators.
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    N.B.A. RATES LEE TOP CHALLENGER
    303 16 PATERSON, New Jersey, Wednesday. ABE J. GREENE, Commissioner of the National Boxing Association, announced today that the NBA will recognize Lee Savold as No. 1 challenger for the world heavyweight crown because of his impressive victory over Bruce Woodcock in London last night. In London,
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    MCFA TEAM v SING TAO F.C.
    65 16 TTHE Malayan Chine. ••■c P.A. team to meet Sing Tao P.C. at Jalan Besar stadium on Sunday will be selected from: Chee Seng, Yew Chang, Kai Sow, Sal Cliong, Tiang Lok, Kok Tong, Poh Chlew, Hee Jong, Hin Weng, Poh Beng, Slang Hock, Ah
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    SAFA PROGRAMME FOR SATURDAY
    72 16 THE Singapore Amateur Football Association has prepared a special programme for Saturday's Malaya Cup match between Singapore and Negri Sembilan at Jalan Besar Stadium. The programme is an improvement on the one for Singapore's Malaya Cup game against the ArmyNavy. In addition to the teams, league
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    Sports Diary
    74 16 CRICKET: Non-Benders v S.R.C. on padang; S.C.C. Johore on padang: St. Andrew's Old Boys t V. I. Old Boyi (Evan Won* Shield) at Khiliu ground; S.C.S.A. v Ceylonese ml CSC GOLF: Island Club, Men r Women, S p.m. BASKETBALL: Mapua lnst (Manila) v Chinese High School Old Boy*
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    BOYS' CLUB CUP
    40 16 The fi«> round of the Boyj Club Soccer Clip competition for 1950 will be played at Singapore Hirbour Board ground on Sunday between the holders, the Singapore Harbour Board Boys' Club, anu the Queen Street Boys' Club.
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    Fight Would Have Gone To Savold
    253 16 LONDON. Wed. DOXING writers this morn- ing are generally agreed on three things In commenting on last night's Wood-cock-Savold fight. Firstly that the Englishman was ahead on points when his left eye was. cut open; secondly, that Woodcock fought better than he has ever
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    S.C.C. XI TODAY
    33 16 S.C.C. cricket t > lay Johore C.C. on the padang .jday at 11 t.m. is: Sowray leapt.) Smith, Pierce J. G.. Hvs 1 v Grant, Lloyds, Heard, Murray, Hunt and Davies.
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    TIGERS TOO GOOD FOR ENGINEERS
    281 16 Tigers 6; R.E.M.E 0. A LEAD of four-nil by the first quarter of the game indicated Tiger Sports Club's supremacy over R.E.M.E. in yesterday's S.A.F.A. senior division tie at Jalan Besar. Tigers went on to a six-nil victory. Whitehorn, the Army-Navy centre-half returned to soccer
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    W. Indies Get Sun For First Test
    284 16 MANCHESTER, Wednesday. WEST INDIES will start the first of the four fiveday Tests against England at Old Trafford tomorrow with Increased confidence following their decisive win yesterday over Lancashire On th e same ground. The heatwave has come Just at the right time
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    St.Anthony's Bt. Old Boys
    137 16 TN a keen and spirited game of soccer played at Bras Basah Road ground yesterday, the St. Anthony's School Present Boys beat the Old Boys by three reals to two. The Old Boys opened the scoring in the first half through Klass and followed up shortly
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    Three New Events For AAA Meet
    274 16 new events— 44o A yards hurdles (men). 80 yardes hurdles (women) and 220 yards flat (women) have been added to the list of events for this year's Singapore Amateur Athletic Association championships to be held at the University of Malaya grounds, Bukit Timah on
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    Colony Tennis Results
    127 16 TSESULTS of the Sir.gnpo., lawn tennis championship fixtures played yesterday on the S.C.C. grcund are ns follows: Men's singles: Yadi beat W Kermer 6-3, 6-3: Capt. M. S. Turner-Cook beat K. S. Pang, 6-1. 7-5; Kamis beat Ching Kv.on j Nam, 6-2, 6-1, Tan Hock Sent; W.
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    22 16 TODAY: 4.09 a.m. (7ft. 8m and 5.52 pun. (7ft. 4in.) TOMORROW: 5.35 a.m. lift. 4in.) and 6.41 p.m. (7ft. MnJ
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