The Straits Times, 15 July 1955

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    12 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1955 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon JAKARTA GOVT. TOTTERS
    210 1 fted-trained Minister quits cabinet g\TTA MAY STEP IN JAKARTA, Thursday. ommunist-supported Cabinet e tottering today as the MoscowMinister, Mr. Iwa Kusumasumced his resignation after army tit 1 interference in military mats supporting the Government said raw their support, thus cutting assured majority from 1(> to 10 the
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    Jockey Club cautions Aly Khan
    68 1 Jockey Club cautions Aly Khan LONDuN, T been tewards on the his hordes. today in i the ste- Lsned with red on his horse market on I with nine in at nine >aid: linded him in form running f racing running L diction of ild not be k evidence H.
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    Ex-Speaker dies
    10 1 [Senator tier Speak- nate died today, aged 82.
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    THE GULA MALAKA ALLIANCE
    55 1 I The chair- the UMNO women's Khadijah binte The Inind Malays ther id har- d Malaya I -The Alliance is like gula malaka. Take one of the ingredients away and it will not be good." She was speaking in support of Mr. Leon» Yew Koh, Alliance
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    Lock icon The flight of time...
    45 1 The flight of time BRISBANE. Thurs. A Royal Australian Air Force Canberra jet bomber flew the 6 000 miles round Australia in 16 hours 40 minutes today The first time a R.A.A.F. aircraft flew round the continent in 1924 the trip took 40 days.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Caviar for talks
    30 1 GENEVA. Thurs. A plane on the Soviet airlift from Moscow to Geneva for the Big Four "summit' conference arrived today with a cargo of caviar and vodka.-Reuter.
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    Lock icon Sir Donald delayed
    74 1 LONDON. Thurs.— Sir Don- i aid MacGillivray. who has been giving the British Gov- ernment a complete picture of i the situation in the Federation on the eve of the elections, expects to fly back to Kuala Lumpur next week. He originally intended to leave tomorrow, but
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    Colony Labour Party boss charged
    236 1 SEQUEL TO STRIKE AT TAJ CINEMA I EE YONG MIN, 34-year-old secretary of the Singapore Labour Party, and a defeated candidate in the Legislative Assembly elections, was charged in the Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday with extortion and attempted extortion. The case is a sequel to
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    UP AGAIN
    110 1 Rubber and tin hit new high By Our Market Correspondent WORLD demand for rubber and United States buying of tin yesterday took the prices for both to their highest level for the current year. Rubber was aided in its rise to $1,281 by added Australian interest and, after
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    Lock icon Paving stone was radio-active
    39 1 HUY, East Belgium, Thurs. A radio-active paving stone has been discovered in a main street here. The stone, which has been in the road for more than 15 years, was discovered by maintenance men. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Actress very ill
    35 1 NEW YORK, Thurs.— Susan Ball. 21-year-old actress who returned to film work after her right leg was amputated last year as a result of cancer, was seriously ill in California today.— Reuter.
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    Rubber, tin-and now a film boom
    287 1 Rubber, tin -and now a film boom ANOTHER EPIC PLANNED IN OUR TROPICAL 'HOLLYWOOD 1 -THIS ONE STARS AN OLD FRIEND, AVA GARDNER vtalaya'S film boom continues and Ava Gardner is coming i back. 1 Twentieth Century Fox i has engaged Ava, Spencer Tracy and Raymond Massey for a film
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    Lock icon Entombed miners released
    36 1 BERLIN, Thurs.— Three miners trapped 2,000 ft. underground for three days by a coal slide were freed unhurt today. Air and food had been pumped to them through a two-inch steel pipe.— Reuter.
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    Priests are back
    30 1 BUENOS AIRES, Thurs. Roman Catholic sources said last night that Catholic chaplains have resumed their spiritual duties in prisons throughout Argentina after a month's absence.— A. P.
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    CANDIDATE WANTS A CUT IN THAT TAX
    65 1 ENANG, Thurs. Mr. Cheah Phee Aik, independent candidate in .George Town, today said that there should be a flat rate for children's relief in income tax. "Whether you have nine or 10 children, there should y A relief at a flat rate," he
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    Lock icon THE QUEEN MISSES RACES-AND DEATH
    249 1 Liahtnina strikes at Royal Ascot man is killed and 10 injured LONDON, Thurs. ONE man was killed and about ten injured when lightning struck a crowd of .spectators at the Royal Ascot race meeting today. The lightning struck only a short distance from the Royal
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    COLONY BUSMEN DEMAND $130 PAY RISE
    406 1 COLONY BUSMEN DEMAND $130 PAY RISE They also want a yearly bonus of one month's salary CLAIMS for wage increases of from $100 to $130 for all conductors, drivers and inspectors of the Singapore Traction Company were made yesterday by the S.T.C. Employees' Union. The wage demands represent increases of
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    Peng Soon's decision: Time to quit
    115 1 Peng Soon's decision: Time to quit WONG PENG SOON has retired from badminton. Malaya's greatest plifyer, now 37, told the Straits Times yesterday: "I have made up my mind. I have reached the age whMi it is best for me to give up competitive play." The Badminton Association of Malaya
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    Lock icon Crash kills 4
    26 1 SHREVEPORT, Louslana. Thurs. Four men were killed when an air force B-47 StratoJet six-engine-bomber crashed 10 miles south of here early today Reuter
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    Lock icon For the record
    20 1 GENEVA. Thurs. Two post offices using distinctive postmarks will function during the Big Four conference here.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon 30 IN CROCODILE LAKE
    53 1 NAIROBI, Thurs. At least 30 people were feared drowned when a launch capsized on Kenya's crocodile-infested Lake Victoria today. First reports said the launch I v;as carrying Mr. Steve Martin, Australian commandant of "Devil's Isle for Mau Mau terrorists" —an island in the lake and about
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    Reply wanted
    42 1 LONDON, Thurs. Britain is pressing Egypt for an early reply to its protest over the shelling of the British pilgrim ship Anshun in the Gulf ot Akaba, the Foreign Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, told the House of Commons yesterday.—A. P.
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    Lock icon Something to...
    37 1 NORDERNEY ISLAND, Thurs. Authorities of this west German seaside resort have decreed that cocks must not crow between dawn and dusk. Cocks disobeying th» ban must be slaughtered or taken outside the residential area. Reuter.
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    Lock icon ...crow about
    30 1 INOOLSTADT, Thurs.— When one of his hens stopped laying, a German farmer here took It to a veterinary surgeon, who discovered it was turning into a cock. Reuter.
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    Minister quits
    15 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs.— Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby resigned yesterday as U.S. Secretary of Welfare.
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    Lock icon $11 mil. opium seized in Siam
    117 1 $11 mil. opium seized in Siam BANGKOK, Thurs. SIAMESE POLICE on Saturday seized 20 tons of opium which was being smuggled into northern Siam from Burma according to delayed police reports reaching The opium is worth about $11 million. Following a tip-off, police hid all night and watched packages being
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    Lock icon STOP PRESS
    66 1 M.P. IN JAIL: NEW ELECTION MOVE LONDON. Thurs.—Britain took action today to obtain a new Parliamentary byelection at Mid lister, Northern Ireland, where the elected member is di><iualifie<l from sitting because he is serving a 10-->.e;tr prison sentence for treasonable felony. The member is Thoma.l. Mitchell. 23, a
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    Lock icon France's day
    29 1 PARIS. Thurs.— Ten thoui sand French and colonial troops paraded in the Champs Elysees in torrid heat today to mark France's na- tlonal holiday. Bastille Day.— Renter.
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    Lock icon RUTH: THE LAST TO HANG?
    764 2 Nation^ conscience is shocked by execution of model Met her fate like a 'Cheyney heroine 9 LONDON, Thurs. T URID revelations J today of the hanging of lovely, ashblonde Mrs. Ruth Ellis have re-stoked the fires of one of the most bitter legal controversies in
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    Lock icon Commons query on S'pore schools
    175 2 'NONE CLOSED FOR POLITICS' LONDON, Thursday. rpHE COLONIAL secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd, told a questioner in the House of Commons yesterday that no schools had been closed because of political activities in either Singapore or the Federation Mr. Reginald Sorensen (Labour), had asked what
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    Lock icon FOREST FIRE MYSTERY
    88 2 FOREST FIRE MYSTERY NICOSIA, Thurs. A MYSTERIOUS forest fire broke out in the Cassilla area near the north Cyprus mountain range last night. Officials estimated it was raging through an area one and a half miles across. Firefighters were rushed to the area from all over the island. The blaze
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    Lock icon THEY DID NOT LIKE CHINA AFTER ALL
    75 2 rpHE three American soldiers who changed their minds about staying in China after being captured in the Korean war hold a press conference on their arrival in Hong Kong. They are on their way back to the United States at their own request.
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    Lock icon M.P.'s ask why—?
    169 2 BANDITS' LETTER IN COMMONS LONDON, Thurs. A LABOUR MJ, Mr. Fenner J\ Brockway, asked the Colonial Secretary why the Communist offer of negotiations to end fighting in Malaya had been rejected. Mr. Stan Awbery (Labour) asked if the secretary was aware that the insurgents had written to
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    Lock icon NOW AWONDER TYRE
    176 2 Goodrich makes test-tube rubber AKRON (Ohio), Thurs. rrHE B. F. Goodrich A Company announced today that it has put into service large truck tyres made with a new synthetic rubber that could make the United States virtually independent of natural rubber from abroad. The company's president, Mr.
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    Lock icon Schoolboy— aged 80
    79 2 Schoolboy aged 80 LA SPEZIA, (Italy), Thurs.— An 80-year-old man stroked his long white whiskers with pride today at last he had succeed in winning his elementary school certificate. Oaetano Barrili left school at nine to work In the fields for his poor family. After a lifetime in South America
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    Lock icon GIRL DRIVER, 2, KILLS WOM
    66 2 SAVANNAH, Georgia, Thurs. A two-year-old girl left alone in a car which was parked with its engine running stepped on the accelerator and killed a woman who was to take her for a ride. The police said that V: Beal, 52, a friend of the
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    Lock icon Marlene meets Bessie
    154 2 Marlene meets Bessie LONDON Thlm MARLENE DIKTRH 1| film actrtss v, m 'JH seeing in the House of v mons yesterday and V Z up holding an impromptu" ception for admiring j|," bers of Parliament. The glamorous grandma who is appearing in a Q don nightclub, was by "Battling Besvie'
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    20 DIE AS BRITISH FREIGHTER GOES DOWN
    213 3 20 DIE AS BRITISH FREIGHTER GOES DOWN I»OKT OF SPAIN, Thursday. tA TV p«"P |(1 ;ir(l fiared dead af f er the British r GeologM sank oflF Trinidad yesterrollided with the bauxite carrier Sun the Sun Princess picked up 22 survi- I c work was hampered by the heavy j
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    Aly Khan is kicked by horse: So stupid'
    81 3 Aly Khan is kicked by horse: So stupid' oT, Than. ||S( |L1 KMW WM i, one "i his rin« the Royal st*rdajr, rinded and the pound N* gone i»t. i the „-<• his horse before the Coro,ke> when the i nrreil. ii h.in i ailed over dspeaker hut refused tttenii(
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    Just in time
    24 3 MANCHESTER, Conn.. Thurs. Driving from her agent's office after renewing her car insurance. Mrs. Margaret Jones crashed into a tree here.
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    FIRST-BUT HE DIDN'T WIN
    54 3 Thurs N Goodflcei at- Cmbassj win th£ il Gliding tugh he contest Kempt Tragger, who finished second, was named 22nd U.S. National Gliding Champion 1 after the "nglishman was de--5 dared ineligible. Only Ameri- cans can hold the title says the rules of the Gliding Society
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    WIFE-HUNT ENDS IN HOSPITAL
    81 3 LONELY TAILOR WENT TO NAPLES BUT... NEW YORK, Thurs. T INCENT GUADAGNO, 79, a retired tailor who never married, arrived back from Naples yesterday regretting that he had been unable to find himself an Italian wife. He said he had made- the trip to hLs native
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    Never had time to marry
    123 3 Guadagno told newsmen h? just never had the time to marry since coming to t.ie United States in 1892. Much of that time, he said, was devoted to efforts to bring his late parents, three brothers and two sisters to America. The former tailor, who
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    Lock icon PRINCESS GETS A NEW HAIR STYLE
    97 3 It's the Imperial with the odd fringe PRINCESS MARGARET, at Leicester Show Jumping Festival. wears her new hair-do, the Imperial. Her other hair-dos in the past six months have included the Josephine, the Bun Penny and the Italian Cut. The Imperial features an unusual
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    Lock icon APPEAL PETITION REJECTED
    107 3 APPEAL PETITION REJECTED LONDON, Thurs. ITOE judicial committee of the Privy Council, the Supreme Court of Appeal, today refused a petition by two Australian journalists for special leave to appeal against a sentence of three months' imprisonment imposed on them by the Australian Federal Parliament last month for a breach
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    Silent star buys $2 million inn
    53 3 HOLLYWOOD, Thurs.— Miss Marion Davies disclosed that she has bought the Palm Springs Desert Inn for US$2.--000.000. Miss Davies, star of the .silent screen and known in thp film colony as one of its shrewdest real estate operators, said she would be the sole
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    Indians climb Kamet Peak
    29 3 NEW DELHI, Thurs.— An Indian expedition led by Maj. N. D. Jayal, chief of the Darjceling Mountaineering School, has climbed Kamet the 25.450--foot Himalayan peak.
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    Lock icon `Teddy Boy' report for Home Office
    56 3 `Teddy Boy' report for Home Office LONDON, Thurs. POLICE CHIEFS have asked for a report on the "Teddy Boys." many of whom roam London streets looking for trouble. Senior officers have been ordered to give accounts of the situation in all districts of the Metropolis. An overall report will be
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    Lock icon HEAT-WAYE GOES ONAND 60 DIE
    127 3 HEAT-WA YE GOES ONAND 60 DIE LONDON, Thurs. EUROPE'S heat-wave went into its sixth day yester- day with the death toll at least 60 and little relief in sight Temperatures were In the eighties over most of Europe. A haze covered London, but 77 degrees was recorded at mid-afternoon. The
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    Lock icon 'Gay girls' sue 13 mullahs
    94 3 'Gay girls' sue 13 mullahs CALCUTTA, Thurs. EAST Pakistan prostitutes opened a new drive today against Muslim mullahs who have forced "gay girls" from their homes and the city. Some of the prostitutes, who had been driven out of Calcutta, reappeared at their old brothels, only to be ousted. The
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    Lock icon Council reforms in Sarawak
    190 3 HOUSE TOLD OF BRUNEI PROGRESS LONDON, Thursday. TN the House of Commons today Mr. R. W. Sorensen x (Labour) asked the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd, what constitutional reforms have been proposed and are being implemented in British North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei. Mr. Lennox
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    Lock icon Plea to China
    30 3 COLOMBO, Thurs.— Ceylon has asked China to pay one penny more than the world market price for its sheet rubber purchases under the existing rubber-for-rice agreement. -U.P.
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    Lock icon Newsmen get out strike paper
    58 3 SYDNEY, Thurs. Sydney journalists, idle because of a dispute which has stopped publication of all the city's daily and Sunday newspapers, brought out their own evening paper. "The Clarion." yesterday. ft opposes a composite morning newspaper produced by the managements of Sydney's four newspapers whose
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    Lock icon Ow to get MBE from Queen
    42 3 LONDON, Thurs. Mr. Ow Kheng Law, of the Malayan Film Unit, will go to Buckingham Palace on July 19 to receive from the Queen the Honorary M.8.E., which he was awarded in her Birthday Honours. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Four terrorists die in clash
    34 3 CONST ANTINE, Thurs. Four terrorist were killed in a clash with troops in the Aures Mountain area today. One policeman was killed and another injured in another battle.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Hello Moscow
    15 3 BONN. Thurs. A direct Frankfurt Moscow telephone line was opened last night. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Exposure of vice 'public service'
    155 3 LONDON. Thurs.— Britain's Press Council yesterday said that the exposure of vice by a newspaper was often a service to the community. The Press Council had considered a complaint made by a member of the public about two articles in a Sunday newspaper, The People,
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    Lock icon 120,000 squatters
    28 3 LONDON. Thurs.— The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd, yesterday told the House of Commons that, roughly, there were 120.000 squatters in Hong I Kong.— Reuter.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    271 3 LONDON. Thurs. HPHE better trend wag continued on x the stock markets here today and selective buying brought some Rood gains. Giltedged were better on fair demand and Germans were supported among foreign bonds. Rails were quiet. Interest wa s selective in industrials with British Motors a firm
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    TINS
    33 3 Ampat (4/-) 8/9 Ayer Hitam S2/3 Kamuntlng (5/-) 7/9 London (4/-) 9/- —/3 Malayan i5/-) 9/9 Petaling 10/1% Pahang 13- Sn. Klnta 18/9 Tronoh 9/- S. Malay 7/7% S Tronoh (5/-) 9/4%
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    RUBBERS
    28 3 Batu Tiga 23/1% Chotas 1/- Jeram 3/4% Kepong (2/-) 2/4% Llnggi (2/-) 4/3 Port Dickson-Lukut 3'9 +/1% Rubber Trust 3/3 Sedenak 16/- utd. Sua Betong 55/6 +1/-
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    SOUTH AFRICANS
    29 3 De Beers £6 13/32 +3/32 Anglo-American 177/6 1/Freddies 6/3 President Brand 68/9 1/6 President Steyn 38/6 /9 Western Holdings 79 4% —1/10% P. S. Geduld 86/1% —11-
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    LONDON TIN
    26 3 LONDON. July 14— Cash Buyers £745: Sellers £746; Forward Buyers £739; Seller s £739> 2 Settlement £746. Turnover a.m. 110 tons. p.m. 150 tons.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    36 3 LONDON, July 14.— Spot 37% id., Aug. 37< 2 d., Sept. 36 d., Oct.-Dec. 35V4d., Jan. -Mar 32'1-ci., Apr.- June 30\d.. July c.ii. 36; b d., Aug. c.l.f. 35<,ci.. Sept. c.l.f. unquoted. Tone: Firm.
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    SEA DAMAGES PADI LAND
    62 4 ALOR STAR, Thurs. Sea water which got into padi fields in Singkiar district, 30 miles south of Alor Star, was causing considerable damage to craps, the Kedah state Council was told today. "Padi planters have petitioned the Government asking for assistance, but so far no action
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    STUDENTS END BOYCOTT
    263 4 Row over those letters caused by misunderstanding They can now go to party after all PENANG, Thursday. SENIOR AND JUNIOR Middle students of Han Chiang High School, who refused to attend classes yesterday because their headmaster had withheld two letters addressed to them, today accepted the advice
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    LIEUT. LAM AND ANCIENT CAR SIGN UP FOR 'ALICE'
    113 4 LIEUT. LAM AND ANCIENT CAR SIGN UP FOR 'ALICE' POMU. LIEUTENANT Pedro Lopez Lam who fought the Japanese in Burma and was with the British invasion forces when they landed at Morib beach in 1945, will play the part of a Japanese in the film "A Town Like Alice". Lt.
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    After wordy wars— still friends
    102 4 After wordy wars still friends ALOR STAR, Thurs. T<HE Mentri Besar, Tengku Ismail bin Tengku Yahaya, today praised Kedah State Councillors for their "never failing courtesy." "This ability to argue hotly and remain friends is something to be valued," he told the last meeting of the State Council today. Kedah
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    Malacca school registration
    45 4 MALACCA. Thurs. The Malacca Education Department announced today that registration for admission to Standard One in Government and Government-aided English schools will open on Aug. 1 and close on Aug. 20. Names will be registered daily between 8 a.m. and 12 noon.
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    Driver fined
    27 4 TEMERLOH, Thurs.-J*asir bin Ahmad, aged 20, a Malay Regiment drivej from Port Dickson, was fined $150 or two months' jail here today for negligent driving.
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    $2,289 goes into the kitty
    72 4 $2,289 goes into the kitty KUALA LUMPUR, Thura. AN APPEAL committee was set up in Selangor last year to raise funds to entertain visiting World Assembly of Youth delegates. A balance of $2,289 has now been put into a savings account for future visits by youth leaders or youth organisations.
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    Transferred
    28 4 KUALA KLAWANG. Thurs.— Capt. Hashim bin Hamsah, District Home Guard Officer. Jelebu, has been transferred to Tampin. His successor is Capt. Mohammed bin Ngah from Kuala Pilah.
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    Homes must go
    145 4 OWNER TOLD: PULL DOWN SHOPS TO MAKE WAY FOR NEW ROAD TRAWANG, Thursday. EN wooden shophouses on the main road from Rawang to Serendah are to be pulled down before the end of the week The owner and tenants of the shophcuses were warned six months ago
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    Girl killed by van
    67 4 KAJANG. Thurs. A girl tapper. Chew Slew Kiew, aged 17, died in the General Hospital. Kuala Lumpur, lasi night four hours after shewas knocked down by a van near the 12i mile. Sordanu Road. Chiew was going home ar ter work on a bicycle when the
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    RUNAWAY WIFE SAID NO
    205 4 RUNAWAY WIFE SAID NO So husband pointed knife, court told PENANG, Thurs. A HOUSEWIFE, Tan Ah Hong, told a court here today that her husband pointed a knife at her breast when she refused to go home with him. "I refused because he had beaten me the night before when
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    Two boys admit stealing fowls
    55 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— S. Arokianathan, 17, and R Rethinam, 18, both of Chan Row Lin Road, pleaded guilty here today to stealing 11 fowls worth $66 belonging to Fong Lai Pen e of Imbi Road on Tuesday night. Sentence was postponed to July 21. Ball
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    He had opium —fined $400
    50 4 TEMERLOH, Thurs.— Police raided a shop house here on June 25 and found a box containing 30 packets of opium and three opium pipes Tan Yip, 36, admitted in court here today having the opium and pipes. He was fined $400 or four months' Jail
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    BANDITS SLIP INTO VILLAGE TO ROB LAUNDRY
    64 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Twenty armed uniformed terrorists slipped into Yap Tan Sah new village in the Kluang district of Johore, last night. A laundryman told the police today that they had stolen 40 jungle green shirts and two pairs of jungle green trousers
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    $1,000 fine for road offences
    46 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Cpl. Robert Moncrieff, of Majrdee Barracks was fined a tota of $1,000 in the Sessions Cour (here for driving a car in a dangerous manner, for not having a driving licence and for not having an insurance policy.
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    Wanted: A deep river gorge
    203 4 Wanted: A deep river gorge KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. HOLLYWOOD film producer Mr Sam Spiegel left here for Perak today to look for a deep river gorge across which he hopes to build a 200--foot long railway bridge. The bridge is for his new film, "Bridge Over the River Kwai. ?>
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    Boy robbed of $50
    80 4 PENANG, Thurs. Alan, seven-year-old son of the Municipal Engineer, Mr. R. Bailey, was reported to have been robbed of $50 while playine in Brown Road yesterday. Alan said a Chinese boy with whom he was playing snatched away the money which had been given him by
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    Clerk admits $627 fraud
    45 4 IPOH. Thurs. Leong Chin Seng, 36. a clerk emj^oyed by the Ampang Bharu Local Council today pleaded guilty to criminal breach of trust of $627 belonging to the Council. Sentence was postponed till July 21 and Leong was allowed $1,000 bail.
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    Tapper fined
    43 4 TEMERLOH, Thurs— Wong Tai Lee, 40, a tapper from Sungei Kawang Estate, Mentakab. was fined $100 or one month's jail here yesterday for trying to remove four tahils of salt and four tahils of coconut oil from a food restricted area.
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    `I SAT WATCHING A KILLING'
    187 4 PENANO. Thurs.— a labourer sat quietly watching a man being stabbed by another labourer, the Penang Assize Court was told today. Sinnandy was charged with murdering T. Sathan in King Street on Dec. 23 last year. K. Kari, a shipping labourer, told Mr. Justice SpenserWilkinson
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    Are you a victim of a poor digestion?
    65 4 Are you a victim of a poor digestion? Trouhlesonn'ili caused by too mi excess acH tion and stomach upset heavy feel: meals. Worry: upset s only makes t bw Relief is simpk A safe, sure •Bismaff'. Taken after 0^ •Bisma-' stomach's Infla branes and neut i acid. Calmed a your
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    120,000 saw fair
    30 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. More than 120.000 people visited the Chinwoo Trade Fair here which closed last night. This was double the number the fair attracted last year.
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    CHANDU MAN TRIED A BRIBE
    59 5 TEMERLOH. Thurs.— After he Ba caught with four pills of i landu on June 14. Pans Sen, offered a police constable i cents not to arrest him. In the Sessions Court here yesterday, Pane Sen was fined $10 for having the chandu and, SlOO for
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    Those millions on tap now
    263 5 ESTATES MUST KEEP UP HIGH STANDARD OF REPLANTING LIMITS ARE IMPOSED TO MAKE SUPPLIES OF GOOD SEED GO ROUND KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. FEDERATION Government announced today that all replanting started by estates this year will be eligible for grants under the Government's $280 million "save
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    600 LATE BECAUSE OF LORRY STRIKE
    139 5 600 LATE BECAUSE OF LORRY STRIKE •THE Chuan Joo Trans--1 port Company of Singapore yesterday beat a of some of its lorry operators by transporting 1.000 out of 1,600 Army ily -employed clerks, and technicians to work In time. other 600 workers had to find their own way to work
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    $10,000 bail on lottery charge
    56 5 Tan Say Too. Low Ec Siong and Go Ah Saw claimed trial in the Singapore Fourth Mates Court yesterday to a charge of assisting in* the management of a chap-ji-kee at Coronation Road on Wednesday night. They were allowed $10 000 bail each and the
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    Purse found in a taxi
    35 5 A purse containing $5 and two keys was found in a taxi In Kallang Road. Singapore, yesterday. The owner is asked to claim the purse at Beach Road police station.
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    YWCA fair
    48 5 Lady Black, wife of the Gov- ernor of Singapore. Sir Robert Black, will perform her first public function .since her ar- i rival on June 30 when she i opens the Y.W.C.A food and' fun fair at the Victoria Me- morial Hall at 11 a.m. tomorrow
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    Negara plan to end terrorism
    103 5 KLANG. Thurs. rE Party Negara candidate for Selangor Bharat constituency, Inrhe Mohamed Rashid bi n Ahmad, last night disclosed the party's j plan to wipe out Communist terrorists in Malaya. Addressing a rally at Telok Pulai here he said that if Parly Negara came to
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    Troops find body of bandit
    62 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Men of the Somerset Light Infantry yesterday found the body of a terrorist. Low Wah. whom a patrol of the regi- ment wounded last month in the Bentong area of south Pahang. It was confirmed today that a bandit. Tuck Weng. was
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    Baby found dead in drain
    54 5 Singapore Police yesterday removed the body of a newborn baby girl found lying in i a drain at the junction of, Yeerasamy Road and Upper Perak Road. City Council labourers workIng at a sewer saw the body drifting In the drain. It was. ta!;en to
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    Social Welfare paid $398,000
    43 5 The Social Welfare Department in Singapore last month paid $398,453 in public assistance relief. This sum was divided among 12.709 cases. Tuberculosis treatment allowance given during the same period amounted to $140,281. The number of cases considered was 1.668.
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    He had 52,100 cigarettes
    44 5 Tan Choon Kee pleaded guilty in a Singapore Court yesterday to unlawful possession of 52.100 dutiable cigarettes and 17 quarts of liquor at Boat Quay on March 13. He was fined $12,000 for the cigarettes and S3OO for the liquor.
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    Picnic for blind
    27 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— i Thirty-five blind people from the Gurney Training Centre here will go on a picnic to Port Dickson on Aug. 7.
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    Union for talks
    25 5 Representatives of the City Council Labour Unions' Federation will discuss 12 grievances today with the City Council Finance and General Purposes Committee.
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    Four homes burnt: forty homeless
    115 5 FIRE-FIGHTERS SAVE THE KAMPONG PORT SWETTENHAM. Thursday. pORTY people were made homeless here tonight 1 when fire destroyed four wooden attap-roofed houses in Watson Road The fire, which threatened to spread to 200 other nearby attap houses, was brought under control before more damage was
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    Bangkok is on the phone again
    103 5 Bangkok is on the phone again 0 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. rpHE telephone link between 0 1. Malaya and Siam is to be j re-opened on Monday after j nearly 16 years. 1 The service will cost $12.90 1 1 f or a three-minute call to Bangkok and $4.30 for each
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    On holiday, Ann took nurse's course
    100 5 On holiday, Ann took nurse's course rpHE FIRST English girl to X qualify in Singapore as a staff nurse yesterday told the Straits Times that she had found the course "very interesting" and had "liked it very much." She is Miss Ann Myrnie i Herring. 20 (above), who I started
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    Bastille party
    31 5 The Governor. Sir Robert Black, and Lady Black were among the 300 guests who attended the Bastille Day cocktail reception given by the French Consul in Singapore last night.
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    DRIVER'S KEEN EYES LEAD TO ARREST
    94 5 THE keen eyes of Yusoff bin Awang. a taxi driver, helped the police to arrest a man in Still Road. Singapore, yesterday. Yusoff saw a man peering through the shutters of a coffee shop about 3 a.m. and drove straight to a police station
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    First aid plea
    24 5 Singapore organisers who want first aid officers at gatherings should give the St. John Ambulance Brigade at least 10 days' notice.
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    'USE THAT IDLE MONEY'
    154 5 'USE THAT IDLE MONEY' to develop Malaya IPOH, Thurs. rpHE millions of dollars lying idle in the banks and in the Government employees' provident funds could be used to develop Malaya, the secre-tary-general of the Malayan Chinese Association, Mr. Leong Yew Koh, told a rally of Government clerks and school
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    88 6 70 Wordt HO (minimum). FOLLOW PEDANT Every Day In the Malay Mall" if you want to win that $5,000 word puzzle. AFTER -SALE B-A-R-G-A-I-N S 1 Few Gowns almost Given Away Worth Seeing at »10 $30. Tommy Thomson, G.H. Bldg., Battery Road. MADELINES FASHION NEWS. Skiru and Blou.<«s Immaculately
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      Little Thaw on the Freeze
      719 6 On a first reading, the new Singapore Land Acquisition (Temporary Provisions) Ordinance appears to be a distinct improvement on the i highly controversial amending Bill that was held over from the old legislature. The same intention underlies both versions. Like its predecessor, the Coalition Government
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      Reduced To Smears
      591 6 The astonishing thing is that charges and counter-charges of filthy, vicious and scurrilous tactics should have come somewhat late in the Federal election campaign. For nearly a month the candidates have conducted themselves with the decorum of a school of mandarins dispassionately expounding this or that way
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    Enthusiasm must be kept within bounds
    677 6 LUN i.JI.UOI/\C)iVI IS WIG Ul the most endearing of human qualities. Mr. David Marshall has a lot of it, but it tends to E lose its attractiveness E now that he is in a i position of great reE sponsibility. S Of such responsibility,
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    Pathet Lao are trying to seize what they cannot get in conference
    1290 6 By a Diplomatic Correspondent Preparing far the eiertiwn Agreed ta hold talk* Ready ta an Claim far a half share jXnnthvr imlbim af riolitnv rpHE renewed attacks A by the Communist Pathet Lao in Northern Laos against Laotian
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      278 6 II7ITH reference to the item concerning: the appointment of a successor to Dr. D. R. McPherson as radiologist in the General Hospital, may I correct some of the false impressions that will arise in the minds of renders? It is stated that instead of appointing to the
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      79 6 •TN the Straits Times of July oVt he t new road named after the last Governor is reported to be Nicoll Drive In the Singapore Standard of July 8 it is Nicoll Road. Which is right? S. RAMACHANDRA. Singapore. (An official of the Rural Board states that the
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      131 6 I I j THE WAY TO CONFIDENCF j AT a time like this, when the barometer of public feeling, the share market, reflects little confidence in the eco- I nomic future of this country, the Chief Minister could re- assure the public. j I He has admitted that he is
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      128 6 'GRAND' ACHIEVEMENTS by PIANOS A Danemann Concert Grand is permanent installed at the Royal Festival Hall, London. 120 pianos supplied to the London Co""" Council. i Over sixty uprights have been supplied to Education Dept. Singapore and Malaya. UPRIGHT AND GRAM) MODE FULLY TROPICALISED AND GUARANTEE Easy twms by arrangement.
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    THE MAN WHO NEVER RESTS
    301 7 Tireless Tengku gulps his meals between wooing the voters K STA* ThurS \,sn .»r-iHont. Mul.il Kahrrne«° hl fcefW in covering villages the border, forgot- trenuoua riedly ils yet ■iiiiiiHinn he returned here tonight irrsh and cheerful. As I drove with him this afternoon from Nibong
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    ust a little amily row: ather, son iound over
    133 7 I MM \<< L ">" rs man *»>«* l» s .ir^umu. interrupted s mother: iel and 1 „n, him. It is f ;i knife 1.) Hell" Court I told tlil" today ulin!' l.unih hi v,)M .111(1 IVI c V i I'.il.in,
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    New premises
    10 7 Ii P pie's Edumoves into 35- A. today.
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    ROYAL BOMO TO RESCUE
    254 7 Pawang of 75 gives terrified boy treatment: lean beat ghost 9 Xl ALA LUMPUR, Thursday 4 ROYAL BOMO was confident today that the polter- seist which has terrorised a 12-year-old schoolboy, Chai Loon Kong, in Kuala Lumpur for three months can be driven away. Raja Allang
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    'Reduce fine' plea but he was rich
    116 7 'Reduce fine' plea but he was rich IPOH. Thurs. IVONG LAM. 24. Wong Sew Wan, 18, Leong Thai, 32, and Cheong Kok Ket, 22, p>aded guilty and were each fined $10 for gambling at the Chamberlain Road bus stop on Wednesday evening. Wong Lam asked the magistrate, Inche Abdul Kadir
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    $50 gift
    40 7 The Straits Times Press yesterday received a $50 gift from Mrs. C. K. Loke of Singapore for Mr. Ho Kam, 35, resistance hero who has been without work for over a year. Gifts received so far totalled $105.
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    Man denies sugar charge
    49 7 IPOH. Thurs. Yip Poong. 31. claimed trial here today to a charge of moving 70 gunny bags of sugar out of a food restricted area at the Chemor Gate without a permit from the District Officer yesterday evening. His case will be heard next Tuesday.
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    High tides
    59 7 TODAY: Singapore 6.23 a.m. (7ft. 3in.) 6.07 p.m. <Bft. 4in.); Port Diclcson 1.17 a.m. <6ft. 3in.) 2.30 p.m. (7ft. 6in); Penang 8.46 a.m. (6ft. 6int 9.16 p.m. (sft. sin.). TOMORROW: Singapore 8.16 a.m. (7ft. 2in» 6.07 p.m. (Bft. 4in.); Port Dickson 2.45 a.m. (6ft. sin.) 3.50 p.m. <Bft.i;
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    Stray cat saved
    38 7 A stray cat which had been trapped 50 feet from the ground in a durian tree in Duchess Road, Singapore, for a week was rescued by six men of the police and fire brigade yesterday.
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    Lock icon London wedding for Malayan
    129 7 T/CALA LUMPUK lawyer. IV Mr. Yong Pung How, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Yong Shook Lin, and Miss Cheang Wei-woo of Shanghai, after their wedding in London on Saturday. Mr. Yong met his bride, who has since graduated at the London School of Economics, in
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    2 years apart...
    231 7 2 years apart THEN HUSBAND BEAT ME UP' AY O U N G Indonesian woman. Theng In Nio, told a Singapore court yesterday that her Dutch husband J.M.A. Keyser, beat her up when they met again after being separated for more than two years. Theng said she was afraid of
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    NO SMEARS IN THIS POLL BATTLE
    185 7 IPOH, Thursday. ]t| AJOR political parties contesting the Federal elections in Perak are to keep their campaigning free from smears and personal attacks. Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang. leader of the National Association of Perak. said today: "There will be no filth and no smearing
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    TOLL OF TREES
    126 7 Jungle bombing it's the price of war KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE FEDERATION'S Secretary for Defence, Mr. A. H. P. Humphrey, admitted today that deep Jungle bombing by the Royal Air Force was damaging Malaya's forest lands. But he denied a charge In the Forester— a magazine published
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    Seminar delegate
    30 7 SEREMBAN, Thurs. Syed All bin Syed Abdul Rahman, a sanitary inspector, is being sent by the Federation Government to attend a World Health Organisation seminar in Colombo soon.
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    Girls who don't play the game
    236 7 Girls who don't play the game ALL BECAUSE HAIR IS WAVED Let them grow up naturally IPOH, Thurs. T*HE students of the 1 Raja Perempuan English School must not wave their hair, the headmistress, Mrs. A. Dara, confirmed today. A Straits Times reader had expressed the hope that the Raja
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    Blow at 'jaga kreta' boys
    47 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A new Kuala Lumpur bye-law has been passed which is aimed at stamping out the "jaga kreta" menace. Anyone who loiters around parked cars and solicits employment as a temporary car watchman is now liable to a $50 fine.
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    Councillor gets more leave
    39 7 SEREMBAN, Thurs.— Mr. A. S. Dawood, a nominated member of the Seremban Town Council, who is on a visit to India, has been given a twomonth extension of his leave of absence from council meetings.
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    Woman quits from town council
    93 7 Woman quits from town council SEREMBAN. Thurs. rSJGKU Asiah binte Tengku Muda Chik. Negri Sembilan's only woman State and Town Councillor, has resigned from the Seremban Town Council. Tengku Asiah. wife of Tengku Mustapha. former President of the Seremban Town Council, was elected to the Council for two years on
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    'Drastic effects of forgery': Judge
    160 7 GROCER, ONLY 'SMALL FRY', GETS 8 YEARS' JAIL KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The forging of currency could have a drastic effect on the whole economy of the country, the acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Pretheroe, said in the High Court here today. He found a 44-year-old
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    'Bank' reopens
    22 7 KLANG, Thurs. The blood bunk at the Klang District Hospital, which closed in February last year will reopen ju Saturday.
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    ALLIANCE KICKS OUT MEN WHO STRAYED
    268 7 ALLIANCE KICKS OUT MEN WHO STRAYED One said: 'Vote for Malays only' KUALA LUMPUR. Thursday. A MINOR "PURGE" has begun in the ranks of the UMNO-MCA Alliance. Two members who strayed from the party line are being expelled, and another, a woman, faces expulsion. The Kuala Lumpur Di expelled its
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    Murdergang charge on 2 boys
    82 7 Murdergang charge on 2 boys TUVO Singapore middle school students, l.im Soo Soy. 19, and Lim Thian Sang. 17. who were arrested in Hong Kong in connection with the May riots, were charged yesterday at the Seventh Magistrate's Court. They were charged with having been members of an unlawful assembly
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    Lottery man is fined $4,000
    61 7 Lai Van was fined $4,000 in the Singapore Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday for assisting in the management of a chap-ji-kee lottery at the junction of New Bridge Road and Pagoda Street. Chief Insp. Ramzan All told the court that slips for $2,664 bets were found
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    FUNDS FOR PLA YING FIELDS
    61 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Social and Welfare Lotteries Board is meeting here tomorrow to discuss one of its new aims— the provision of public playing fields. The Board has been given approval by the Federal Executive Council to help the Malayan Playing Fields Association from
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      67 7 The weather MINIMl'M TEMPERATURE: (7.30 p.m. on July 13 to 7.30 a.m. on July 14): Singapore 76 degrees, Penang 74, Kota Bharu 72. Kuala Lumpur 71. Ipoh 71, Kuantan 71. MAXIM I'M TEMPERATURE: (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on July 14): Singapore 88 degrees, Penang 89 Kota Bharu 88. Kuala
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    SCHOOL FOR CITIZENS
    355 8 But toe will not have political parties here, says Canon Adams T<HE PRINCIPAL of St. x Andrew's School, Canon R. K. S. Adams, yesterday told a speech day gathering of pupils, parents, friends and old boys. "There will be no political parties or influence in this school."
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    $7mil. project dropped
    393 8 'TOO MANY UNCERTAINTIES IN SINGAPORE' A $7,000,000 industrial undertaking in Singapore has been shelved because there are "too many uncertainties at the present time" in the Colony. The undertaking is a modern plant for the Alexandra Brickworks Limited, which earlier this year f suffered a 22-day strfke.
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    NEGARA DOES NOT WANT EARLY UNION WITH COLONY
    104 8 NEGARA DOES NOT WANT EARLY UNION WITH COLONY JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. DATO Sir Onn bin Jaafar. Party Negara's candidate for Johore Bahru. last night referred to the absence of any reference Ln the Negara and Alliance manifestoes on the question of union of Singapore with the Federation. He toid an
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    Murder charge
    30 8 Goh Ah Too was charged in Singapore yesterday with the murder of Chan Choo Yong at Chia Ken^ village on April 27. He was remanded till July 21.
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    TOP BOY IN HIS CLASS
    47 8 SEVEN -YEAR -OLD Chang Yuny How proudly receives his prize from Mrs. R.K.S. Adams, wife of the principal of St. Andrew's School. Singapore, at the annual speech day yesterday. Little Chang was first last year in Primary One A. Straits Times picture.
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    $60 SNATCHED FROM GIRL
    115 8 Man arrested after chase A MAN was arrested in Orchard Road market yester- day only a few minutes after a 14-year-old girl had been assaulted and robbed of $60. The arrest followed a chase through three Singapore streets. A constable was riding a motorcycle along Clemenceau
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    289 out from quarantine
    51 8 Two hundred and eightynine Indian deck passengers who arrived in the 8,500-ton ship State of Madras three days ago were released from quarantine yesterday. A large crowd of friends and relatives turned up at the Immigration Pontoon at East wharf to welcome them as they came
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    Settled—but strike still goes on
    121 8 Settled— but strike still goes on 'THE strike of 170 labourers employed by Mr. K.K. Mohamed Abdullah continued yesterday although a settlement had been reached between the men's union and Mr. Abdullah on Wednesday. "The strike will continue until an agreement on the terms reached has been drawn up and
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    PETROL FLASH KILLED BOY
    63 8 HAN HOW FONG, nine, poured petrol on burning rub- bish near his home in Seah Street on May 11 and was fatally burned in the flames that shot up. "There was a flash and 1 saw Han's clothes catching! fire," said Pratap Singh. 10. The Singapore
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      317 8 f l8 II ha s court connections and Straits Times Crossword 9 sffi s/nSEs s^ 20. Scottish castle sounds genuine II 1 Ki 2 HI 3 H 4 i! 5 M 6 7 MB 22 ri™ make them for home at MS y^| ES^ 23. Dress for the dance 8
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      London cheered ex-errand boy as modern Whittington
      1844 9 London cheered ex-errand boy as modern Whittington I Ii i I M3l f fl*T i ""sig^Ti 1 MM *1 1 ijl T *^KfcH 'Till ONE of the sights of Sydney in the mid1920's was an immaculately-dressed man puffing furiously at a big cigar as he sat on an old kerosine
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      48 9 Sherlock Mlolntos Mvlas blindfolded ins n 4 1 U mJUI J i I I \■w <l [S'ft COnAw POYlx I m<li Travy iVo vusuui trip I I^^Sdl^ 11 1 i^#^r«=H TME THROTTLE CX4 A v IvT^ MsJK A 1 1 1 1 J?™_^^^^-«^-^feS Id/ "J Stem* Bird's flown
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    47 11 kNE. Thurs. on the fading is- (■•.iirt-er Minan d quiet. Oils .re active £95 13/32 £96\ sale 71/TV4 unquoted 26/104 98/- sale 57/3 28/- sale 7/7 11/9 8/lO'i 1 53/3 22/8' 41/s'i 42/8' 2 17/10 M/ltt 50 3 buyer 'rM 20/1 45/6' i 9/5 >., 21/2';;
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    RUBBER PRICES
    54 11 buyers c erday 1 on per tt>. buyer.. 128' 4 B 8 July NO 1 .-.pliers 120, sellers 112 1, sellers of Commerce n on prices on I per lb Buyers Seller!. 126% 127 fob 127' 4 M«ust 122\ 122 s July 1183 119' a ill 112 1264
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    TIN, RUBBER PRICES HIT HIGHEST LEVEL FOR CURRENT YEAR
    362 11 By Our Market Correspondent 'f HE upturn in the price of tin continued in S i ll BII ??iS yesterday and a gain of $3.62} per pii-ul to $369 was registered following continued strong United States demand. The local market followed
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    500 11 March 31 after the deduction of preference dividends, but before the deduction of tax, amounted to $30,174 or 3.8 per cent of Issued ordinary capital as against $202,703 (22.2 per cent) In the previous year. The chairman, Mr. J. A. Donald, said profit for the year was disappointing, and was
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    163 11 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per P'cul yesterday were:Copra: steady; July $28 buyers, $283s- sellers; August $28'^ buyer*,! $28 :i 4 seller*. Coconut oil: steady quiet; bulk $42 > t sellers, drum $45 sellers. Pepper: quiet with no business reported: Muntok white $177, Sarawak $176. Special Sarawak
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    SHIPPING
    92 11 Ships lying: alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or exp*«led today are: Soudan 12, London Maru 45, Hoegh Trader C.P.. Mandowi 67. Annenkerk 8.9. Bali 11, Harunasan Maru 13.14, Ogeka Bakke 15 16, President Polk 18, State of Madras 19 20. Tung Song N. Wall 3 and 4, Bruas
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    35 11 On the free exchange market in Hong Kong yesterday the U.S. dollar was quoted at 5.80% cash and 5.82^ for T.T. Sterling was quoted at 15.57 ana one tael of gold at 25
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      652 11 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS PRINCIPAL SINGAPORE FOLYTECHNIC Applications are invited for the post of first PRINCIPAL of the SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC now being established under an autonomous Board of Governors to meet the Colony's needs for higher technical and commercial education. Candidates should have good degrees or equivalent diplomas and high-grade professional qualifications
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      Australia's 'wonder' butter for kampongs
      407 12 NEW Australian butter concentrate, which may revolutionise the food habits of kampong dwellers in the Federation of Malaya, is now being marketed by the Butter Marketing Board of Queensland. The concentrate, which is available in small packs for householders, will not melt at 100 degrees
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      NEW COLONY CINEMA WILL COST $1 MILLION
      190 12 NEW COLONY CINEMA WILL COST $1 MILLION WORK will begin soon on a 51,000,000 cinema complete with a bar and restaurant on a site at the junction of East Coast Road and Brooke Road in Singapore. Plans for the project have already been approved by the City Council, the sole
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      Plans ready for Indian textile team
      213 12 MEMBERS of the Indian textile delegation sponsored by the Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council, Bombay, are arriving on Sunday from Jakarta to make an on-the-spot investigation of market conditions in Singapore and the Federation. The five-man delegation led by Mr. Chinoobhai C. Javeri, a
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      Tea prices more stable
      123 12 rE Financial Times maintains that there are reasonable grounds for looking now to a period of greater stability m tea prices reports Reuter from London. The activity of dealers now suggests that grocers may now be buying more confidently, the paper said. Growers have been made
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      PAKISTAN CAMEL BONES TO AID RUBBER CROPS
      282 12 A FIRM in Pakistan has plans to market powdered bone fertilisers in Malaya for use in the cultivation of rubber, tea, rice and vegetable crops. Mr. M. Farooque, a partner of the concern, East Indian Export Company, flew into the Colony last week
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      Insurance company formed
      249 12 ANEW local insurance company has been established to operate In Singapore and the Federation of Malaya. It Is The Public Life Assurance Co., Ltd., which has an authorised capital of $5,000,000 of which $1,000,000 has been Issued and paid up. The company, which will be officially commence
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      ANOTHER GERMAN LUXURY SHIP DUE
      325 12 ANOTHER GERMAN LUXURY SHIP DUE rpHE last of the six new German liners specially built for the EuropeFar East run, the 9,000--ton Hannover, is expected to arrive in Singapore early next month on her maiden voyage. Mr. K. P. Golding, a director of Anglo-French Trading Co., Ltd. announced yesterday that
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      324 12 There's none better than a DONSON A There's something for everyone in the Ronson range of lighters. For instance, J^^ a Flo-line Princess (like the one this girl is getting) is the ideal gift! You J|^v can see other lovely Ronson >^P 3k vil models at all good dealers. .gj
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    4-2 WIN FOR SIGNALS
    78 13 Royal Signals beat Royal Army Service Corps 4-2 yesterday in their Div. 1 Services League soccer tie at Princess Mary Barracks. Signals scored through Betteridge (2) and NoTri.s, their fourth goal coming when a Wilson shot was deflected into the net by one of the fullbacks.
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    RAJAJI JUST WIN
    40 13 Rajaji S. C. beat Kebenaran Club 3-2 in SAFA Dlv. 3B: league game at the Clerical Union ground yesterday. Rajaji scored through Govlndasamy, K. Syed Osman, and a deflected goal. Ramlee and Ahmad replied for Kebenaran Club.
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    BOYS TOWN NET 6
    42 13 Boys' Town beat Pulo Bukom 6-1 in a soccer friendly at Pulo Bukom yesterday. Yeo Teng Yang, Koh Ah Hock and Cho Lai Sun scored two goals each for Boys' Town and Pulo Bukom had a deflected goal.
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    HAMID'S WINNER
    35 13 Star Soccerites beat Aston A. C. by the only goal of the match, •cored by Hamid In the 15th. minute of the first half, in the S.A.F.A. Div. 2A game at Geylang yesterday.
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    STRONG AND FREE IN SMART WORKOUT
    390 13 Final XX. gallops tor Saturday Only lightweights to trouble him By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. (CONSISTENT Strong and Free, with apprentice John Manning up, shaped like a winner on the training track at Kuala Lumpur this morning when he covered 3f. in a
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    Lock icon Sea of hats greets a Royal victory
    407 13 ASCOT, Berkshire, Thursday. QUEEN ELIZABETH saw her colt, Jardiniere, win the King George V Stakes here yesterday afternoon to the tumultuous applause of a record crowd. It was the first Royal victory of this year's Ascot Meeting. As the brown colt raced to
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    SBA junior meet gets good support
    289 13 SBA junior meet gets good support A RECORD entry of 350 has been received by the Singapore Badminton Association for their junior and schooU championships, which start on July 23. Last year's number was 340. The draw for the nine events will take place at the Singapore Badminton Stadium at
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    KL RACE WEIGHTS FOR TOMORROW
    313 13 WEIGHTS for aU eight races on Saturday, last day of the Selangor Turf Club's July Meeting, are: Cl. 4, Dlv. 1-6 V Rippling River 9.00 Ricky 813 Linkshir II 80S What Happened 8.07 Ajit 8.06 Trow Hill 8.06 Scots Grey 8.05 Forget-Me-Not B.M Red Wolf
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    'Sixes' will replace offseason lge.
    210 13 'Sixes will replace offseason lge. T*HE Singapore Hockey Associa ton will run a six-a-side tournament next month instead of the off-season league which was planned. The off-season league has been called off because of difficulties over grounds. The majority of teams entered for the league do not have their own
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    Singapore Gymkhana Meet entries
    310 13 WHERE will be eight races at X the Gymkhana Meeting of the Singapore Turf Club on July 23. One hundred and two entries have been received for the meeting, rhe polo pony scurry over 2f., which will be run In one division, attracted 25 entries and
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      95 13 SOCCER SAFA DIV. 2A: Argonauts v St. John S. C, Fairer Park. DIV. 2B: Buklt Timah S. C. v S.H.B. Police, Geylanf; Gymkhana t R.AJ-. SeleUr. M.F.A. ground; Halkowyn v Tlonf Bahm Banters, FAN ground. SBHFA GROUP 'E': Bouatead t O.C B.C. ATHLETICS SINGAPORE A. A. A. championships, Jalan Besar,
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      351 13 [IWaTlwialylsl fiu in i 2 |r| e c TflM missing i ZEhZ^qjjJiß iett »^K 1 5 i i R i E ifiyyjf au£s i WORD PUZrtE K5 Ux*»«ry tiniet^mM^n^ce^Yion. 4. Not likely to be known by 2. JJ* 3^c2K.. naturaf P pere- idler features Nightmares certainly aren't •Jf pleasant one*!
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    FOUR-GOAL EFFORT BY RAHIM
    333 14 FOUR-GOAL EFFORT BY RAHIM I^UR ASIANS suffered UatlT first defeat in the SAFA Communiu League this season when they went down by 7-2 to Malays, the defending champions, at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. This weus Malays' fifth victory in a row, and they are set for another good season. Their
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    111 14 LONDON. Thurs. Today's cricket tea scores were: At Lord's: Players 316. Gentlemen 249 for two, (Palmer not out 124, Insole not. out 71). At Liverpool: Lancashire 287. Middlesex 237 for seven (Robertson 79. Brown 83). At Taunton; Worcester 305. Somerset 203 for four (Wight not out
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    AT 37 IT'S TIME TO QUIT, SAYS WONG PENG SOON
    907 14 Malaya's greatest badminton player announeet nil retirement By The Sports Editor yyo\(i PENG SOON, I Malaya's greatest badminton player, has; announced his retirement. yesterday Peng Soon, now 37 years old, told the Straits Times, "I have made up my mind
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    Plans for Wong as official coach to be discussed soon
    489 14 Plans for Wong as official coach to be discussed soon BAM REACTION PENANG, Thurs. T*HE Badminton Asso- ciation of Malaya will meet soon to discuss terms to be offered to Wong Peng Soon as its official coach, the president, Mr. Heah Joo Seang, told the Straits Times here today. Mr.
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    LTAM ENTRIES CALLED FOR
    48 14 IPOH. Thurs. Entries for the Malayan Lawn Tennis Association open championships, to be played in Ipoh from Aug. 18 to Aug. 21, close on July 31. Entries should be addressed to Mr. Kok Ah Choon, secretary of the Perak L.T.A., at the Secretariat, Ipoh.
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    Lock icon ENGLAND'S TEST XI CASUALTY LIST GROWS
    161 14 ENGLAND'S TEST XI CASUALTY LIST GROWS LONDON. Thurs. rE CROP of injuries which overtook most of the England team during the third Test match at Manchester brought three more casualties today. Frank Tyson. Tony Lock and Colin Cowdrey all retired from play in the Gentlemen versus Players' match at Lord's.
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    Army edge Navy 2-1
    98 14 Army edge Navy 2-1 Army beat Royal Navy 2-1 at Friendly Hill yesterday in the first match of the Singapore Inter-Ser-vice s soccer Challenge Cup. Faster on the ball and neater with their passing. Army scored the winning goal seven minutes from time. Of the Army forwards best form was
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    JULY WINNER
    34 14 The winner of the Ladies July L.O.U. competition at the Royal Island Club was Mrs. N. H. McLachlan with a score of 07-30 67. Next best score was Mrs. W. McMullan. 86-13=73.
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    POLO TOURNEY BEGINS TODAY
    109 14 The Malayan Polo Association's annual tournaments will take place at the Singapore Polo Club ground, Thomson Road, today, tomorrow and on Sunday at 4.30 p.m. dally. The following nine teams will take part for the MacDougall Cup and the Victors Cup:- Sultan of Pahang's Team, Royal
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    FOUR MATCHES MORE, BUT Hong Kong Services won't be fully tested
    732 14 FOUR MATCHES MORE, BUT Hong Kong Services won't be fully tested By Our Cricket Reporter THE Hong Kong ComA bined Services cricket team can be said to have favourably impressed those who watched them in the drawn opening match of their tour, against Singapore Combined Services on Tuesday and Wednesday
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    Stars of merit for best Swifts
    232 14 T»HE SWIPTB will introduce a new 1 idea to local athletics today at the Singapore A.A.A. championships Athletes from this club will wear stars of merit on their vests. Some will sport one red star, others will have two, three or four. Awarded at
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    JANET v MARY IN SPRINTS MAY BRING RECORDS
    489 14  - JANET v MARY IN SPRINTS MAY BRING RECORDS MERCURY By By RIVALRY among the women at the Singapore A.A.A. championships at Jalan Besar Stadium today and tomorrow will be flercor than ever. The sprints will see a terrific tussle to displace Mary Klass, second fastest woman in Asia over 100
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    Forward changes bring HK Chinese four goals
    171 14 KLUANG, Thurs. AFTER holding off the Hong Kong Chinese raids for most of the first half, Kluang's Invitation XI were beaten 6-0 in their soccer match before a crowd of 2,000 on the town padang today. Hong Kone Chinese set the pace and
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