The Straits Times, 1 September 1956

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  • 13 1 He**** The Straits Times Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1958 15 CENTS
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  • 179 1 MalayanisatJon— Rahman reveals a new three-phase take-over [Tie job should ledone v 1965 lEMBAN, Fri j The Chief MinisTt n .ku Abdul Li, today fixed Eg* fete tor the l|Mala.\ani>.ition of ie Federation's flic unices te n-oce?s ill bo rarMtin three states: ]<isfi fi« i very
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  • 32 1 IBLNING. (New York*. Joseph Reade. 27. died *etrtc chair last Uie rape and mur■Ms brother's wife and of her baby S»» Was to see his J*« ignored the
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  • 105 1 EGYPT'S "DEATH squads" are training at a secret place somewhere between Cairo and Ismailia for ambush warfare. The aquad* were originally formed from the 3.W0 men who took part in the hit-and-run attacks on British troops in the
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  • 81 1 AN UNHAPPY HEROINE WHO COULD ONLY CRY PARIS, Fri. Anne-Marie Trinquesse, nine, snatched her three-month-old sister to safety seconds before an 85-mile-an-hour express train smashed into the baby's pram on a level crossing near here yesterday. With her free hand, AnneMarie pushed to the side of the track her 83-year-old
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  • 38 1 MELBOURNE, Fri. The Commander in Chief of R.A.F. Bomber Command, Air Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst. will be one of the pilots bringing the R.A.F. Vulcan jet bombers from England to Australia in a fortnight.— Reuter.
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  • 42 1 WICKET No. *****49 sold in Perak won the first A prize of $350,000 in the Social and Welfare lottery draw which took place at Kuala Krai, Kelantan, yesterday. Full list of winning numbers in Page 7 column 7.
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  • 106 1 ONE KILLED, SEVERAL INJURED LONDON, Friday. AN explosion rocked the liner Himalaya in the western Mediterranean today, killing one person and injuring several, according to the P O line. The 27,995-ton liner had just passed the Straits of Gibraltar on a voyage from Tilbury to
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  • 112 1 Gas strike: Inquiry demanded "THE Singapore City Council, A at a private session last night, decided to refer the gas workers' dispute to a court of inquiry. The Council will today ask the Minister for Labour Mr. Lim Yew Hock, to set up the court of inquiry. The acting City
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  • 52 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Pri. Forty-eight estate labourers were today ordered by the Sessions Court here to quit their quarters at Seaport Estate by midnight of Sept. 1 They were sacked after they went on strike on June 7 over the dismissal of three other labourers ,tb.e court
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  • 50 1 MARSEILLES, Pri The French Office of Under-Sea SSSarch is doping,, ffi ing saucers" which will hold two people and photographic equipment for under-water "'commander Cousteau the under-water explorer, told a press conference here that a new laboratory ship for marine research was also Sfder construction. Reuter.
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  • 304 1 Russians call off athletics match BECAUSE POLICE WART DISCUS TMOWEI T ONDON, Fri. Russia today called off a big athletics match against Britain because police are seeking their star woman discus thrower on a charge of stealing five hats from a London store. Mr. Konstantine Krupin, leader of the Russian
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  • 35 1 MANILA Fri.— General Jira Vichit Songgrom, chief of staff of the Siamese armed forces, said here today that Burma and Communist China had agreed to settle their border dispute "by peaceful means." Reuter.
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  • 26 1 WASHINGTON, Fri. Pre. sident Eisenhower today emphatically refused to change his mind about the ban on visits by U.S. newspapermen to Communist China.—Reuter.
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  • 39 1 A 40-year-old woman. Low Chye Chin, was killed in a 15-foot fall off the first floor of a house In Sago Lane. Singapore, at about 2 a.m. yesterday. Low had been ill for some time.
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  • 38 1 WASHINGTON, Pri. President Eisenhower said at his Press conference today that Egypt under the Constantinople Treaty of 1888 "cannot now, or in the future, Jeopardise" the rights of other nations in the Suez Canal. Reuter.
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  • 192 1 LONDON, Pri. A man had borne such a grudge against the British colonial administration that h e had been writing ofenslve letters to prominent officials in Singapore since 1955. had smashed a window at the Colonial Office in Whitehall and damaged a telephone kiosk
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  • 230 1 A CLAMP ON FLOW FROM RED CHINA Hong Kong to cut immigration rpHE Hong Kong GovA ernment announced tonight that it will stop free immigration of Chinese from next Monday because large numbers are flocking here from Communist China. An official announcement said more than 54,000 were known to have
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  • 269 1 IT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU LIVE VROM tomorrow, Shell petrol and other fuel pror ducts will cost more to people living away from the main ports of the Federation and less in places near the ports. The Shell Company yesterday announced that "laddered" prices would replace
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  • 60 1 MALACCA. Pri. Three hundred employees of five Malacca bus companies went on strike today. They are demanding negotiations with the Malacca Omnibus Operators' Association on 16 claims. Hundreds of office, factory and shop workers were caught without transport today. So were communities living in the districts
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  • 26 1 ISRAEL KILLS 13. EGYPT CHAKGtS JERUSALEM. Fri Egypt charged that Israelis killed 13 Egyptian soldiers and wounded two others in a clash today. UP.
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  • 166 1 Gunmen blaze away in hospital VTICOSIA, Fri. Two people were reported shot dead today and a third wounded when gunmen opened fire in Nicosia's civil hospital. Patients and nurses screamed as shots rang out in the hospital corridors. Several members of the hospital staff were also reported wounded in a
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  • 258 2 DIPLOMATIC TIT-FOB-TAT COMES PI WAKK OF SPY AIXEOATKMS EMBASSY OFFICIALS IN CAIRO SEE TWO OF JAILED BRITONS LONDON, Friday. BRITAIN expelled two Egyptian diplomats last night in retaliation for Egypt's action against Britons in Cairo. The Foreign Office announced that the commercial attache and an attache
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  • 28 2 CANBERRA. Fri. Australian scientists, after 10 years' research, have evolved a method of killing mistletoe, a parasytic weed which retards growth and sometimes kills eucalyptus trees.—Reuter.
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  • 98 2 Now it's 'Antiboredom clinics' BRISBANE, Frl. Churchrun "Anti boredom Clinics could counter the Australian's Inbred mania for gambling, according to the Anglican bishop of North Queensland, The Right Rev. Lan Shevill. Australians were still in a period of national adolescence, he said last night. They were generally content to watch
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  • 37 2 BANGKOK. Fri. Japan Is stopping her purchases of rice for the rest of this year, Mr. Morio Oaki. counsellor at the Japanese Embassy here said today. Japan is harvesting a bumper crop.— Reuter.
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  • 30 2 BUENOS AIRES. Fri. Government security forces were reported to have carried out mass arrests before dawn today to forestall possible strikes and disorders by Peronlsta labour leaders. A-P.
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  • 34 2 JAKARTA, FrL A Government commission today announced It saw no reason why the Foreign Minister. Mr. Ruslan Abdul Ohani, should be charged with "corruption or any violation of the law." Reuter
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  • 34 2 WASHINGTON, Frl.—General Claire L. Chennalt, airline executive and former head of the famed "Flying Tigers" in China during World War n, was reported in satisfactory condition today following a chest operation.—U. P.
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  • 26 2 HOLLYWOOD, Fri. Actress Joan Bennett became a grandmother for the second time when her daughter, Mrs. Melinda Hayden, gave birth to a son. Reuter.
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  • 84 2 LARGE hats like this face-shading giant are in vogoe in Australia now. Bat although milliners are delighted that the eye-catching styles have made the public "hat-conscious" not every woman will follow the new fafashion. Those who like the large hats say, they are attractive and feminine. Others
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  • 195 2 —The prospect in Holland H MW THE HAGUE, Friday. OLLAND, without a Government for 11 weeks since the general elections in June, may not have a new cabinet by Sept. 18 when Queen Juliana opens the new parliamentary session, political sources said here yesterday. The sources said
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  • 38 2 SYDNEY. Fri.— Guilty wives who have good lobs should pay their husbands' divorce costs. Mr. Justice McClemens said In the Divorce Court here today. He ordered costs against a pharmacist, Palma Learmonth. Reuter.
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  • 20 2 STOCKHOLM, Fri. Six Poles, missing from a wisitingr Polish tourist liner, have asked for political asylum -^A.P.
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  • 18 2 NICE, Fri. Forest fires skirted dozens of Isolated villages just north of the French Riviera.— AP.
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  • 20 2 KARACHI, Fri. President Iskandar Mirza today suspended the constitution of East Pakistan and took over the Government.— A.P.
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  • 272 2 The grand tour of China for Mr. M PEKING, Fri.— Former K Singapore Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, left here this morning for a four-week tour of China during which he will travel more than 7,000 miles. He will return to Peking before the national day celebrations on Oct. l,
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    • 104 2 TLfELBOURNE, Frl. SlxIT *teen of Australia's toughest men yesterday received the coveted green beret, famous emblem of the commando. The men, whose Jobs range from doctor to builder, are members of a commando corps In the Citizens' Military Forces They qualified after a
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    • 47 2 The only way— the musk way MANILA: Gregor Piatlcorsky, world famous cellist, said yesterday that the "only way International music can bring people together In closer understanding" Is through cultural exchanges between nations. He added: "I prefer that kind of export and import to any other."— UP.
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    • 162 2 Senor Civil Servant must not be insulted— it's a law RIO DE JANEIRO: The Government sent the Chamber of Deputies a Bill defining new press "crimes." They would Include Insults to public officials.— A. p. JAKARTA: The Indonesian Chief of Staff. General Abdul Haris Nasution, met representatives of 5.000 Borneo
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  • 227 2 QUIET AT COLOUR BAR' SCHOOL Negroes slip i n s i de i CTRONG police S s Ts' t erd ennCS^^'l £of Clinton High Sch Oo f w£ f V I the first admitted under »I l 2 Nel -I order, slipped in through asfi? racia Sil °°n» e 200
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  • 13 2 TEHERAN '"ternationV has been a ':r. age, thf 'hg* i«5^J
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  • 49 2 The odd box Bob, a cro« i; fter h «*n e S VS He was the i(>l "disposed of. V Bu t yeMerdiv L oWl >«r, Mrs R r,, 1 l! ts a miracle- A colour fi| m of the colours a idt ca| He knows us t»» —Reuter.
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  • 42 3 I today disdfW s rite:nent b> States State, Mr. Dulles. lt ed States 11 to ignty n :r Panama to the every enting when •.rison 1 Sovereignty Boyd, Panama she lished her the zone. this eating •tions
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  • 223 3 Panama is angry with Dulles ing was unfortunate The Panamanian view was that the U.S. was granted treaty rights to exercise certain powers in the zone as if she were a sovereign but limited to spheres of activity directly connected with the operation of the canal. Panama is most sensitive
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  • 77 3 Trouble-on-the-roads corner: -.R-OLD Louisville man is dead, victim of -ramming duel, nery wasi r. a hieh- a couple a battle m»" f CaTS. iuel grew err. ££ht between r.- and fvo unktan7=c WhenMontgo- .>.« v.:. rr.en chas;el began. t Bd Mrs. Harry Blair i
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  • 75 3 I CANBERRA, Fri. Australian beer drinkers will make a contribution to this year's Federal budget only £1 million (Australian) l^ss than the amount of the re- cord Federal surplus of 108 million for which the trea- surer. Sir Arthur Fadden. has budgeted. The be»r excise collections for
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  • 34 3 ALGIERS. Fri. French marines killed 50 rebels and lost about 10 dead near Nedromah in one of the most bitter battles of the Algerian insurrection, reports reaching here tonight said. —Reuter.
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  • 45 3 Fri. The Nasi Safety Coond! yesterthat road two erim M taring July, US. tra- r.th— 3.570 In history. Eh waa 3.419, I r the seven- period that ended set a record::"3o fatalities, rease over period last year. j*5«W WM 20,739 in
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  • 107 3 FLORENCE. Fri.— Guiseppe j Fraschettin. 77, painter of religious subjects, died yester- day.— AJ>. Vlady, Poland's 'gentleman 9 killer, to die WARSAW, Fri. Poland's most publicised criminal trial since World War II ended yesterday with a dearth sentence for VUdyslaw MazorkJewies. the city of Krakow's "gentleman murderer." The
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  • 36 3 WHITTIER, Ca li fornia) I FrL— Mr. Frank Nixon, 77--year-old father of VicePresident Richard Nixon, was reported to be weaker today. His doctor described his I condition as very, very crii tical."— Reuter.
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  • 33 3 NEW DELHI, Fri. Mr. T. T. Krishnamachari, India's Minister for Commerce, was last night appointed Finance Minister, succeeding Mr. j chintaman Deshmukh, who 'resigned after a disagreeIment with Mr. Nehru. Reuter.
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  • 59 3 CAGLLARI (Sardinia*, Fri. Police yesterday shot and killed Giovanni Masuri young Sardinian sought since July 2 for the slaying of ihis mother, father and three brothers in a property dispute. He threw a dozen grenades in a frantic attempt to avoid capture, in the rugged hills
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  • 51 3 THE VICE-PRESIDENT TAKES A REST AND WEIGHS ORANGES THE UNITED STATES Vice-President, Mr. Richard Nixon in the apron of a grocery assistant weifhs oranges in his brother's store at Whittier. Calif ornia. as he takes a rest from his election campaign. He was a grocer before he entered politics.— A.P.
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  • 152 3 PEKING WARNS SOUTH VIETNAM LONDON, Friday. pHINA warned South Vietnam today that the reported landing by a Vietnamese naval force on the Nansha (Spratly) Islands was a "serious challenge to peace in Asia." The Spratly Islands are part of an archipelago in the South
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  • 62 3 PHILIPPINES ASKED FOR RADAR LAND MANILA, Fri. American military negotiators have asked the Philippines for land for a warning radar network and strategic dispersal air strips. The proposal was made yesterday during a meeting of the UJB.-Philipptne panels discussing modernisation of American bases here. Colonel Edward Black, for America, said:
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  • 35 3 SANTIAGO, Chile, Fri— A walkout of employees of the Chilean State Bank yesterday swelled the ranks of striking bank workers to approximately 20,000 and virtually paralysed banking activities throughout the country.—A. P.
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  • 21 3 CALCUTTA, Fri. The cabinet of East Pakistan submitted its resignation to the governor, Abu Hussain Sarkar today.— U. P.
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  • 107 3 Radios in cigarette lightersatomic heated homes CINCINNATI. Fri. John S. Morgan, associate managing editor of "Steel" magazine, yesterday predictAtomic powered planes in the air by next spring. Transistor powered radios in cigarette lighters within 10 years. Atomic heat for homes within the next decade or two. Mr.
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  • 249 3 LONDON, FrL CLOSING middle prices of selected stock not Including stamp duty were: LOANS Consols -H Funding 4«« £874 War 34% «1 BANKS Mercantile (£5) £4 1/16 ■astern (£6) iH Chartered (£1) 36/9 Hongkong (9129) £914 -rl INSURANCE Com. Un. (uU.) W/10H -1/3 Royal »4/14 1/14 Prudential £43T.
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  • 211 3 India told: Keep up with the Reds TtfEW DELHI, Pit A high-level Indian agricultural mission which has Just ended a tour of China emphasised yesterday "the imperative need of bending all our energies" so as not to be left behind by the Communists' agricultural and industrial advancement. It warned India
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  • 111 3 STEEL FIRM MONEY FOR POLITICS BOMBAY, Fri- The Tata Iron and Steel Company, the largest in India, today authorised Its board of directors to contribute to the funds of political parties which they thought could "serve the Interests of industry In general and the steel industry in particular." Only one
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  • 27 3 OTTAWA, FrL Canada Is to make a gift worth $3,750,--000 of 25,000 tons of wheat— 925,000 bushels— to relieve a food shortage In Pakistan.
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    • 291 3 is the v^^i^^^ THE MONTH ON KEY by ordering your Keillers tinttt JAMS AND MARMALADES (Regularly Served to Royal Households) AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT MALAYA DINE, WINE DANCE IN THE SINGAPORE HOTEL We ipfHiHf In "CANTON- mm%« taiaii est* food reEPA&ED by Miss. RUBY WAH COOKS ROM HONG*SS£ «i" *i«« for to.
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  • 57 4 MAN FAINTS IN STORE COURT ROOM An elderly man fainted in the packed gallery of a Singapore courtroom yesterday while waiting for his case to be called. He was Quek Tee Tsin who faces charges of riding a trisha without a licence and without a rider's badge. Quek was taken
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  • 44 4 Only five candidates had applied to the Singapore Education department for this year's Queen's Scholarship and Queen's Fellowship when applications closed yesterday. The Fellowship is open to University of Malaya graduates and the scholarship to Higher School Certificates holders.
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  • 44 4 An attempt by Singapore City Councillor, Mr V. K. Nat, to have his motion to delimit the number* of taxis debated upon was defeated at the Council's ordinary meeting yesterday. The matter was referred back to the vehicles and traffic committee.
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  • 296 4 CITY PRESIDENTS APPEAL FOB HELP IS MET WITH a t HR LABOUR BOSS REBUFFS COUNCIL THE executive com- mittee of the Singapore City Council Labour Unions Federation will meet tomorrow to consider sympathy action if the fas strike is not settled today. This decision is a
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  • 65 4 FLYING THROUGH: ENGLISH FILM ACTRESS WITH TOP SECRET STATISTICS keep a record of her vital statistics wIU play a sheep farmer's daughter She once acted opposite Richard Barton in "Desdemona" at London's Old Vie Theatre. Straits Times picture. BRITISH actress, Rosemary Watson, who Sew into Singapore by BOAC yesterday on
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  • 183 4 too busy mm my own work' pROF. B. A. SHEARES said yesterday he had not agreed to be Minister-designate for Health in the "Shadow Cabinet" of a new party Mr. C H. Koh intends to form. On Thursday Mr Koh named Professor Sheares. with lawyer Mr.
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  • 113 4 Who wants a pork-loving python? 11/ ANT to bay a python, 20 feet long, weighing about M Ib. and in excellent condition? Apply to Tan Kai Ng at 514-A Bast Coast Road, Singapore. Mr. Tan makes a speciality of nabbing snakes. He caught the python when it started getting designs
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  • 57 4 Quit ship fined $15 Able Seaman James Paterson, of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, who deserted his ship— the Wave Sovereign on Monday, surrendered himself yesterday afternoon to the Singapore Marine Police Brought up before Colony magistrate later, Patterson pleaded guilty to being unlawfully absent from his ship which is at
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  • 32 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri.— Johore Bahru UMNO want the annual bicycle tax of $3 to be abolished. As a substitute it suggests a registration fee of $3 on a new bicycle.
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  • 77 4 MALAY TAKES OVER AS POLICE CHIEF KOTA BHARU, Fri. A Malay superintendent has been promoted assistant commissioner to take aver as Chief Police Officer, Kelantan from the former C.P.0., Mr. j. R. H. Burns, who has gone on leave. He is Inche Mohamed Din bin Mohamed Shariff who has been
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  • 109 4 Delegates see housing estates FIGHT delegate, nen and gara?** arc attending he gional conferer,/ 0 Commonwealth p a *Lj ay "*ti The delegates were panird by Mr. Chian?. Assistant V 5 for Lands an d Lim Koon Teck. y&2 Assemolyman !o r Pavlu and Mr. F. J. Trus" gaP relmproT
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  • 101 4 The Young Women's Christian Association in Singapore and the Federation will send three delegates to the SouthEast Asia and Asian T.W.C.A. conference to be held in Japan from Oct. 15 to 28. They are Miss P. M. Lowe. the association's national secretary for the Colony
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  • 37 4 The Geographical Soc of Malaya will present free public film lecture "Elementary geo?:apM aspects of soil erosion Mr. A.J.F. West at the Brit Council, Stamford Road, 8 gapore, at 8.30 p.m. on ft nesday next.
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  • 46 4 Aussies band! concerts The regimental band oil 2nd battalion. Royal Aust Han Regiment, will ir.axe debut in Singapore witl concert at the Botanic Q dens from 5 p.m. to I p.m. on Sept. 9. The band will play again the same place and time Sept. 23.
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  • 102 4 THE Singapore Factory and Shop Workers' Union want lorry contractors to Increase transportation rates so that lorry drivers can benefit from it.. In statement yesterday, the union's lorry transport section said that the present pay of lorry drivers was inadequate. The section
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  • 154 4 CHINESE schools represenv/ tatives and the Education Ministry have straightened out their differences over the part the Ministry should play In the future of Chinese education in Singapore. They had a two-hour meetIng yesterday with the Education Minister, Mr. Chew Swee Kee, and accepted his
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  • 205 4 THE STRUGGLE FOR MEN'S MINDS-BY LEE 'Organisation is easeni' i< TOE leader of the Peoples c tin Singapore Legislative Assembly art Yew, yesterday spoke on the importanr ing the people in the "battle fnVm Cc of «&S loyalties" in South-East Asia s m *bZ Addressing members of the Commonwealth Parliamentary
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  • 77 4 THE 500-PASSENOER ferry x Penang, built by the Singapore Harbour Board, will be launched next Saturday by Mrs J. W. JefTord. wife of Rear-Admiral Jefford. chairman of the Penang Port Commission. The new ferry, first of five .modern "end-loading" to ches, can carry
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  • 176 5 OVERHEARD TALK gOUT STRIP 'shows' glfi testffl® 1 >t<ll ing case IPOH, Friday. ,f Malaya's strip tease queen, Rose i nitne 'as mentioned in a murder inquiry than. JJ wh j c h a youth was chargec lf?te lllin>i of a 16-year-old girl. the rf \J View Fye Chin, 19,
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  • 200 5 A woman lost 1801 b -just by relaxing A YOUNG Dutch woman wants to introduce to Singapore a system of medical gymnastics through which she once reduced a woman patient's weight from 360 lb. to 180 lb. in six months. Mrs. Margaretta GroeneveldAsselberghs, who has only recently come from Europe
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  • 48 5 hildren have the interna-r.e.-t for children's 1 the theme of tnntted by rr.r.i:a Society for Mothers in Tokyo. Jw Terence Reutens, Kindergarten, I Bey Kai Poh. Iwe School; Sim Kok School, SinJosg Wing Hong, we School. Kuala Jffld Nr Jin Fong, S F School.
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  • 28 5 ication head says no' t^'MPUR. Fri.-The £?ctor of Ecucation *»cs, today rejected ren demands *!»Wm by an 11--■n of teach- vernacular :f er of the delegaHo Thong, re-
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  • 31 5 A youth, Abdul Ohani bin Najir was fined $100 by a Singapore Court yesterday when he pleaded guilty to stealing a purse from a watchman's pocket. It contained nothing.
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  • 49 5 SEREMBAN. Fri. The head of UMNO Kaum Ibu (Women's Section), Che Khadijah Sidek. today rebuked UMNO men for not paying their membership dues. The women she said, had always been prompt in payment. "Our money has been used whenever UMNO headquarters wants cash," she said.
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  • 181 5 AT LAST NIGHT'S CONCERT worthy tribute to mozart "'taion to b MoC eleF sa s Ration Mass" They were sung by the society's full choir and the four Dutch artists specially flown to Singapore for these works. The orchestra, under Gordon van Hien. was inclined to raggedness, especially the woodwind
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  • 114 5 She will head for blind school MRS. ELIZABETH CHOY, (above), a Colony war heroine, first woman nominated to the former Legislative Council and prominent social worker, has been chosen from a considerable number of applicants to be the principal of the Singapore School for the Blind. Mr J. Swist, a
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  • 23 5 Two Singapore City Councillors yesterday asked that transport allowances given to Council employees be investigated as they were "not properly distributed."
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  • 143 5 CITY Councillor, Mrs. Robert Eu, wants the "policing" of Singapore Improvement Trust tenants to be relaxed. Speaking on the adjournment of yesterday's City Council meeting. Mrs. Eu said she would like Council representatives serving on the S.I.T. board, to consider whether it was still
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  • 143 5 NEARLY 200 trisha riders, wearing indigo-blue jackets, packed the gallery of the Singapore City Council yesterday to listen to a debate on whether they should be banned from plying in some of the city's more congested streets. They left quietly after the Council had
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  • 120 5 SUNGEI PATANI, Fri. 'THE Mentri Besar of Kedah, x Tengku Ismail, today paid tribute to the British— "especially their women" for pioneering social work in Malaya. "Let us remember their services," he said. "We must emulate their example and expand the
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  • 205 5 By HOW POW PECK PENANO, Friday. tEE ENG TEE, eight-year-old girl whom police round wandering in a street on Wednesday, slept last night in her home— with a dog's chain round i her article. "What can I do? If I remove the
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  • 110 5 It was accident, boy admits ABU BAKAR bin Abdullah, whose father recently complained that a school principal had brutally beaten him, has admitted that his Injuries were not caused by caning, the deputy Director of Education, Mr. RJS. Ince, said yesterday. Mr. Ince said that after an investigation,
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  • 26 5 RAUB, Fri- Mr. J. R. Whimster, the President of the West Pahang Sessions Court, Raub, has left for Britain on six months' leave.
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  • 144 5 MR. GOH AND THE COCKLES THAT VANISHED Ttf ALACCA, Fri.— The first and only cockle farm to be started in Malacca became a dead loss because people just waded into the sea at low tide and took away cockles by the sack load. Mr. Ooh Joon Hoe, former Malacca Settlement
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  • 49 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The National Union of Government Office Workers, with a membership of 973, will hole its first annual delegates conference here tomorrow. The union, which caters for all Government office employees particularly members of the clerical services, has a potential membership of 20,000.
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    • 634 5 Meet The Mft^S of CINEMATOGRAPHY At last, the most complete system of CiNomatograsAy is now at year disposal. From camera to projector yo» will find none better at any price. Below are Hie imNvieteal items that make ap the Elmo system. Check each featare ami compare with other system of
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    • 43 5 TODAY Inaugural meeting of Buklt FsnSINGAPOEE AGRICULTURAL Jang division. Am Keng Road. l^SL^^^n^&^OiiMOS^ALTß FARLIASBK: SEE: «3? 20. j-jr-p^ Me-orua Road): Movie Park Hotel 8 pjb. to «Avi m LEBAR M.TJ.: Song orchestral concert— lfpaart's "RefglßM THB-TOKT mi TWW«M»I RADIO PROGRAMMES IN PABE EIBHT
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  • 87 6 iv HonU $lt (minimum j. EDDISON: We wish to thank all our friends and relations for their wonderful gifts and Rood wishes on the occasion of our marriage: Barbara and Brian. MR. MRS. N. C. ROY thank all friends and relatives for their valuable gilts, good wishes, messages of
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  • 99 6 to Words ii (Min.)-BoxSOcU. txtn. TO LET— IS October 1»56 to April 1957— Furnished House in the new forest "The Cottage", Bank, 1 mile Lyndhurst, 3 Reception, 6 Bed (4 smaU), 2 Bathrooms, Kitchen (Aga), Oarage (2 Cars), small Garden, Forest at backdoor. Ttt Guineas ($B4) per week.
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  • 55 6 20 Word, fit (minimum). YEO SENo LEE: Suddenly at No. 5 Road, 52 Petaling Jaya on 30.8.56 beloved husband of Ong Soon Neo and Father of Beng Poh, Beng Chye, Ben? Swee, Lin Eng, Beng Kong, Beng Klat. Cortege leaving above address, same day at 4.30 p.m. for Interment
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  • 210 6 :u Words no (minimum). FOLLOW PEDANT Every Day In the "Malay Mall" if you want to win that $5,000 word puaale. SIMON AND LAURA— use Airwiek in their kitchen— Do you?... Air-wick kills all unpleasant odours. Sold by all good Stores. JANE is the woman you must meet at
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  • 551 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat. Sept 1, 1956. Thunder On The Left It is one of the more plausible myths in Singapore politics that, unlike other local parties, the People's Action Party is free of serious internal dissension, and is united from top to bottom by agreement on methods as
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  • 280 6 The Farmers 9 Day w Singapore's Agricultural Show, which opens to-day, will be the finest ever to be held on the island if only because it is the first that the Colony has organised. For five days city dwellers can feast their eyes on a rich variety of fish, flesh
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  • 172 6 The Alliance National Coun. cil will meet tomorrow to consider the draft memorandum to be submitted to the Reid Constitutional Commission. Although there may be disagreement on some details, the main recommendations should meet with general approval It should be borne in mind when considering the Alliance plan
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  • 122 6 Two years ago the Singapore Ministry of Labour and Welfare set up employment exchange branches in Serangoon, Siglap, Joo Chiat and Pasir Panjang areas for the registration of unemployed. Unfortunately the response was so poor that these rural .centres had to be closed. The Ministry now sends
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  • 939 6 THE PROBLEM OF RUSSIA 'GOLDEN YOUTH' Thmg emit themselves the Jet set 9 mmd their seureh is for 'forbidden deiighf THE sons of two Soviet x Cabinet Ministers are implicated in a case .in which three girls, the daughters of high Soviet officers, have been arrested for larceny and debauchery,
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  • 839 6  -  VERNON BAHTUETT —B» r OLONEL NASSER is to blame if I am regrettably late in commenting on the Merdeka Bridge. But, in our worries about the Suez Canal, we ought not to overlook the remarkable change to Singapore's waterfront. And the crowds that cross it at
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  • 107 6 (From the Straits' Times of August 26, 1906) PNANG'S new Commissioners were all safely elected on Tuesday, some 180 ratepayers recording their votes. 80 Penang was able to have a real Municipal meeting on Friday. The new men shaped well, for they all talked at the meeting
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    • 389 6 I Straitt Time* k Free Prett j F Far Hia canvenienee or aoVar- j I titan our itpmawlatl— at Ist I floor, SINGAPORE COLO STORAGE, ORCHARD ROAD, wNI raaalva I small advartbamrarf and mwn r to DOX numben. I Ckmifi.d ainHliianari mm* aba be hondad tat j CITY BOOK (TOM
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    • 31 6 CIIMAN MM Viniite Incomparable for visible Me filling capacity, reliability price-worthiness. Agents A> Service Stations:— IVERBRICHT OPTICAL CO.. 19, Chulla 81, S*pore-1. ENC SENC MIDICAL CO., g. Ah Qme St. PMUg.
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    • 122 6 A Miscellany o Piano Music. A Cheoin Rtcital Ot 28 Nw Vladimir Horowitz (Chopin* I Rubinstein Concerto No, j WalUtt No. 1 to 14 ißKhmininovl I Anda Ph"-<-' (Chopin) I Orchestra Dinu Lipatti d..lu^m ißttlw'Jg 33CX.1032 Ceia Andj HCX.IM Sonata in B minor (Lint) R^chmanj^li^-' Bachauer I Horsley Ca-position. by
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  • 129 7 ARMY IS ACCUSED OF MA«m« .c^ BOU# fISBS IN FORTNIGHT-OR ELSE* «r War Department Civilian Staff Association decided -f here toiUt to call its 10,000 member* out oTstrike if th?t^! thor o in the Federation fail to meet their wa£ clTimVby^tTs 7 arc sought
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  • 133 7 The man with the eyes of a thief who started at 13 IPOH. Frl. a man who "could not look people in the face and had the eyes of a thief," was ordered to be given six strokes of the rotan, Jailed for a year, and
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  • 130 7 The man who wasn't sure how many times he went wrona IPOH, Fri.— A man stood in the dock of the Ipoh Magistrate's Court today, looked thoughtful for a moment and said: "I think I have eight previous convictions: not nine. "You have lost count," said
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  • 169 7 All ready for the big farm show SHEARS TO CUT THE RIBBON ALL is set at the old Kallang airport for today's IX opening of the Agricultural Show, the biggest rural display ever held in Singapore. The Governor, Sir Robert Black, will perform the openIng ceremony at 2.30 p.m. Appropriately
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  • 60 7 $324 DODGE COSTS MAN $1,800 BUTTERWORTH. Fri. A man who hid $1,561 worth of gold In his underpants was today fined $1,800 or, in default, six months' Jail. Chee Sam Yoong, 40, pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to evade customs duty of $324 at Mitchell Pier on Aug.
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  • 50 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A lorry driver, Choo Kirn Soong. S3. who had been fined $1,000 for causing the death of Mrs. A. H. T. Hogge, wife of an Army Colonel through negligent driving, had his convic(tlon and fine quashed by the /Selangor Criminal Court of Appeal today.
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  • 41 7 Financial aid to trade unions in the Colonies will be recommended In the report of the general council of the British Trades Union Congress to be discussed at the 1956 session which begins at Brighton on Monday.
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  • 58 7 po Officer Writer Rldp; Mo Saheran. 27, of pibch Dr;ve. Bukit Timah x Singapore, was yesrav promoted to acting \-t Officer, Royal Malathird Malayan to ath commissioned rank tower deck in the JLS He icined the R.M.N. n probationary writer In Hi became a lead|writer In Sopt«mber
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  • 38 7 kr::: W strikers at the ■Btp Seng Sauce Factory nib Road. SlngaP BWI rejected an offer the management of iW a.: compensation and Eft Of wages. 1 workers have been on bout four months.
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  • 23 7 S.r.gapore City CounRtrdaj rejected a mocv a councillor, Mr. Sim log it to conthe Colony's Nfc Fund.
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  • 57 7 Professor of dentistry at toe University of Columbia Dr. Frank McCombl, flew into Singapore by BOAC yesterday to assume the newly created preventative dentistry chair at the University of Malaya. Dr. McCombi, who was accompanied by his wife and their daughter, Jill, is on "loan" from
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  • 42 7 The Singapore Government may set up a permanent census unit. Census work has so far been carried out by the Department of Statistics, but It is now felt that It should be dealt with by a separate department.
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  • 71 7 FILM STAR HELPS TO GET MORE MEMBERS FOR X-RAY CLUB ABOUT 350 employees of Fraser and Neave Ltd. Singapore yesterday became members of the XBay Club. Film stars Roomai Noor and Uml Kalthwn of Kris Films and wrestler King Kong helped to "enlist" them. It was the dub's lint big
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  • 62 7 The Singapore Chamber Ensemble and the British Council are Jointly presenting four illustrated lectures on styles and periods in musical history (1550-1950) at St. Andrew's Cathedral War Memorial Ball at 6 p.m. on Tuesday and Friday, Stpt. 11 and 14. Tho lecturer will be Mr. Graham Carritt,
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  • 41 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Shell Company Is to put up a five-storey building In Kuala Lumpur for $1,000--000. The building will be hi Birch Road near the Chinese Assembly Hall. Work is expected to. begin soon.
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  • 155 7 MTV ALA LUMPUR, Fri. H. —Malay girt, are chary about showing their carves at the "Mfcs Selangor" beauty contest next Saturday they remember the barrage of criticism by relifiou leaders last year for sporting bathing; suits at the parade. The organising committee
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  • 68 7 Twelve professional models from Singapore will stage a fashion show on Oct. 6. It will coincide with a cocktail party in aid of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association at the Singapore Club. Unlike any previous shows In the Colony, the mannequins will parade on a twofoot
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  • 37 7 KAJANO, Frl.— The District Officer, Ulu Langat, Raja Asam bin Raja Kamaralzaman, has been elected president of the District Boy Scouts Association. It has been without a president for the last year.
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  • 161 7 PKNANO, Fri. Penang Municipal Councillors today signed a petition to the Queen seeking city status for George Town next year centenary of the Straits Settlements Municipal Act. A motion to send the petition was Introduced by the Alliance Whip, Mr. A. M. Abu Bakar,
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  • 84 7 Ticket to end strip shows' SEREMBAN. Fri.— The Assistant Minister for Commerce and Industry. Inche Mohamed Khir bin Joharl. today told how Malay women should fight to end strip-tease shows: Ticket outside the places where such shows are held." Inche Khir was addressing a meeting of 200 delegates of the
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  • 273 7 The tipsy cyclist— now there's a law for 'riding under the influence 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Frl,—Riding bicycle while under the influence of drink is to be made an offence under a new regulation drafted by the Selangor Traffic Branch. The draft, pawed by the State Legal Adviser, tightens the control
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  • 256 7 ABOUT-TURN ON THAT CINEMA: IT'S 'YES' City Council makes up its mind rnHE nine-month Katong cinema row was revived by Singapore City Council yesterday and ended this time with the Council giving Its approval to build. Bat Mr. Sim Beng Seng, who had opposed the cinema last year, gave notice
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  • 55 7 Have you Been this girl? SEE BEE HOON, 19, a daaghter of a contractor in Lavender Street, Singapore, has been missing from her home since Au»--12. The girl disappeared wearing Jewellery worth more than $500. Her mother, Madam Tan Soo Ens;, yesterday offered a reward of |5« for information which
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  • 193 7 Girls now on a "no English' strike THE 65 Singapore x schoolgirls »who staged a sit-down strike on Monday, In protest against an English teacher, returned to their classes yesterday but refused to have English lessons. The girls are from two classes of the Nanyang Girls' High School In King's
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  • 165 7 RESULTS of the draw in the 40th ocial and Welfare lottery, held at Kual* Krai. Kelantan, are: FIRST PRIZE $350,000) No. *****49 (Perak). SECOND PRIZE ($125,000) Wo. *****87 (Johore). THIRD PRIZE ($50,000) No. *****35 (unknown). foukth prizes ($25,000 each) *****37 *****84, *****75.
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    • 70 7 **i O*OXX' mm v^lllElll |nF V th«fs rightl When you eat iKz/TTjSJ B«»chelor» Peas you know fhey an 0» IK "*y »_^_dii b«jt peas you'vo over tasted. Plump, HE] ••nder-and oh, so delicious I llH&^m And nouri hln 9» teo b%caut lh# lm^m.f are rich in P rofeint Batchelors Pca
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  • 50 8 A petition for a winding up order against the Sky Palace Restaurant, Singapore, by Teck Joo It Co., a Judgment creditor, was mentioned again in the High Court yesterday before Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tab. The case was adjourned till Sept 14 by consent of both parties.
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  • 35 8 KLANG, Fit— A Klang hospital assistant, Mr. C. Gomarasamy, 48, died suddenly today at the hospital. Gomarasamy who had been with the medical department for 28 years, collapsed In bis quarters.
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  • 173 8 Apex men get first 'job' offer r[E newly formed Apex Club of Singapore, which has "service" as its motto, was yesterday invited to do its first "hand-blister-ing" Job for the public. The Director of Social Welfare. Mr. T- P. Cromwell, who made the Invitation, told members: "Your first Job should
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  • 45 8 RAUB, Fri. A three-man team in three days registered 419 children in Sempalit New village near here for admission into schools under 'Operation Torch.' The Chief Registration Officer of Raub District, Mr. M.T. Pillay said it was a record for new villages.
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  • 33 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri.— Mr. Justice Good will be leaving Johore for Britain at the end of next week on vacation. He will be succeeded by Mr. Justice Buhagair from Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 47 8 Bee Thiam Urn was remanded at the Woodbridge Hospital yesterday on the order of a Singapore court. He is on a charge of causing mischief by fire, with the intention of destroying a house In Bukit Panjang Village on Wednesday. No plea was recorded.
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  • 231 8 Factory project will cost $500,000 ANEW SCHEME which may produce some of Singapore's future industrial "giants" is being fostered through the Colonial Development Cor- poration. Malaya Developments Ltd., the Malayan subsidiary of the corporation, is making available 28 factory sites on a six-acre
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  • 279 8 John Todd was hwky-but not others KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— lf planters and miners— the civilians in the front line of the jangle war— are given escorts they are expected to use them. "If they don't they are going against the policy laid down
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  • 121 8 No funds, he went on strike, stole pen then seeks leniency A FOUNDRY worker, who admitted a theft charge, yesterday told a Singapore court that he committed the offence while he was on strike with other colleagues. Tan Quee Eng, 24, msked the magistrate, Mr. En Cheow Chye, to be
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  • 185 8 ALLIANCE TO DISCUSS MEMO KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. rpHE President of the Malayan Indian Congress A and Minister for Labour, Mr. V. T. Sambanthan, said today that he foresaw no difficulty in the Alliance national council adopting the UMNO-MCA-MIC memorandum to the Reid constitutional commission when
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  • 73 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. INDIANS In Selangor are to ■L be given cultivable land under a pilot scheme for land settlement. The Minister for Labour. Mr. V. T. Sambanthan said today that two possible sites each of more than 1,000 acres had been chosen near
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  • 31 8 India's Ambassador to Slam, Mr. P A. Menon, who has been appointed Indian High Commissioner in Australia, will arrive in Singapore by X.L.M. this afternoon for a five-day visit.
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  • 53 8 A party of detectives and police officers, led by Superintendent J. H Davies. raided an attap hut at Paslr Panjang Road on June 8 and recovered 150 lb. of raw opium. Yesterday. Chan San, a poultry farmer, was Jailed for nine months for possessing the opium
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  • 36 8 IPOH, Pri. The Perak Government is to spend $230,000 In opening up 2.000 acres of virgin jungle land in the Durian Sebetang area of Teluk Anson for cultivation of pineapples by smallhold-
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    • 377 8 SHAW BROTHERS ORGANISATION ATTRACTIONS NOW ftAPlTfll y tf£& n ajl, im, ♦showing! WMrl l vL jgjf €M t "THE ARTS OTCHWESE FOLKS" j! JJ!Ki qkssesgo o jj H *J-J} A Mandarin Plctnre-EwiUh SubUUe.. I I j^JJ^'AMARA DEEPAM' <™>|; I TODAY 8 «jn.: "I SHOT JESSE JAMES". i TOMORROW 9 mjn.:
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    • 245 8 cathay oiKZassy Pin.! Tom Jerry Carton ■fWkTT^^^H: COMING! Kay Kendall aj^ Finch n TODAY 9 JOH\NY~7T, '-I 1 1 I*.!1 SUNDAY: 9am- 't»f Cllt ~^<! >♦♦♦ -^^g^^t^t^ J today! -^kSJIIEH "^i THE EPIC SAGA OF THE FASTEST GI MME X 0 H Robert Ryan h^9 I f^H P^^^^^^^i Plus! "LADY
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    • 330 8 radio malaya Regional •Prttnunon thus marked can SINGAPORE be receded by listener, in Maiaeca BUlwiacwsw Short ware 49 A CSm. Medium Short wave 62m. ware 47* m., 343 m., 366 m, and Medium wave 47« m. >» m«. i! 5!!: AM V l5 <rta ai a^ Pit M.OO Programme Sum-
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  • 1350 9 Captors refused to yield to thread* bribe and war t Pin the jungle of P l i Sumatra, on tnl f a qUl6t f %erc are seven iventy-two Caeo. when they w a neat bamf o' surrounded k» tenr d wooden them ;>>mate
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    • 208 9 mm mm mm m* MB M4i mm^ Hk. riytno nsn irf |p MUVIftV *„.,k.ul UMAYA a^^^T^^^^X^^V^^M^. \i\ (r fay TsrlJlf m^^k^B vWHBWHb^^B jy V MMMiMVMMi MIBMIAVt*Z^K^ •/fnotlm WINNER from the RENAULT Tin Doimlm |g j za I^hy a v^s^l ■^=^===^^g^^ > _„_.j t. a.. »y?^Tr^^~ HrMAUH _^t^ •ration WiflM tviy.
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    • 63 9 Hex Morgan* MM. Liia speaks out r^WMY DIP «U 1 VtCJMt \1 ONLY PROV6 riJW^MSm^\\ ULA *M*WT COULD H*V6 CO*«« )f WANTB7MS J Dick Tracy J» d course l^^f^^^l \(r^^-^^^l Qggg££»^%£ ■NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. wS.BE JUDa WANT_ M V auOsW **£££££2?* M WOMB* AND TAKES OUGBtT UZZ-THE DEPARTMENT OJN
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  • 450 10 By Our Market Correspondent RESPITE an easing commodity price in Sin gapore yesterday, rubber counters on the local share market continued steady and in several cases improved due to a more optimistir attitude produced by the reports from the Malayan trade mission now
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  • 378 10 Quiet rubber trading rTHE slight improve--1 ment in the Middle East political news, has been received here without fireworks, report Bolitlay, Cutter, Bath ft Co. Ltd. in their current rubber review. It is felt that the promise of a peaceable settlement is more likely, but since one word out of
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  • 241 10 In Malayan Shar c Broker, AssoeUUon reported: The market generally was steady with small selecUve support and prices In a few counters hardened" Singapore and Federation brokers reported the following business ■one yesterday:— Praser Neave ords SStSi W. Hammer $2 87*! cd; Hume Industries ss. 4%t 6s. 5d.:
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  • 49 10 The proposed sale to Llnggl Plantations of Kombok (P.M.S) Rubber Company's estate has been approved by Kombok stockholders and will take effect on November 1 next. The terms were 800,000 ordinary 2s. shares of Llnggl plus £13,000 cash and LJnggi's assumption of Kombok debts of somr £5.000.
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  • 149 10 Bapt—ew first grade rubber kayers f.o.b. closed In Singapee yesterday at 95 cents per lb: down 3*4 cents on Thursday's closing price. The fleeing tone was uncertain. Closing prices in cents per lb. yesterday were: No. l R.S.S. Spot f.o.b buyers 95. sellers 95 v (Norn); No. 1
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  • 85 10 The Malayan Exchange Banks made the following changes In Its rates to merchants Canada: buying airmail: T.T. 31 15|16, OJ>. 32 1116 90 dst 32 H credit bills, 32 7|16 trade bills. Boning T.T. er O.D. ready: Canada 31 9|16; Swiss Franca 141%; Belgian Francs 1608\; Italian Lire
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  • 212 10 Bhlps lying alongside the Singapore Harkeor Beard wharves er expected today are: Asia. 1-2, Tegefcerg 4-5. Ettrlckbank C.P., Rebeverett 6-7, Agamemnon 8-9, Benmhor 11, Laertes 13-14, Glenggary 15-16. Mmdoro 18, John Bakke 19-30. Rengam N. Wan 2, Larantuk» N. Wall 4, Rokan N. Wall 6. Senggarang N. Wall 8,
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  • 31 10 AUSTRALIAN STOCKS Co.i. Zinc 19oa^;,\ Bank of jj Svi Mourn L yen w tet Search jf Bradford 18. Hill Pro Cowtauld 1 Dunlop 9 Ker. zinc"." *F, SSgJ."««-..fj Woolxnr-h VSwan Brwerte."':
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  • 106 10 Sintapor, Chinfy hl fh»nee: r.oon &*?**< terdav wereCopr»: quiet- A ujw J $26 buyers. $vi oil: quiet: bulk i sellers. P^.f bißiness reports l dr, 1 white $123. &r, "'.special Sara (unrhiinged). Sinnpore' Copra l«^,« pm. prices: strait 5 Sept. $26', buTertSr" Oct. $26', buyeit nK 1 Tone
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  • 44 10 COLOMBO, Pr: in Ceyion during j;; 7 iJS million lb. compa-ec rift I lion lb. In July last yti: Total tea producticr. I:: a seven months of M ~x 228.3 million lb.. compaV. 219 million lb Ing period of last jm. If
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    • 450 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS applications are invited for appointment as Lecturers In Day Training Centres, Department of Education, <■ hich are expected to open In January. 1957. Candidates may be men at women who must be Federal ClUsens. with Normal Class training (or Chinese Senior Normal Class and Senior Middle III) who
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    • 175 10 NOTICES 84. GOVERNMENT 1% 194e WAR LOAN (1888-1818) Notice Is hereby given that the Transfer Register of the above Loan will be closed from 18th to 30th September 1956 both dates inclusive, for tbe preparation of Interest Warrants. By Order The Hongkong aria Shanghai Banking Corporation Singapore P.WJ). NOTICE Timber
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    • 858 10 NOTICES HUME INDUSTRIES (FAR EAST) LIMITED (incorporated in tbe Colony of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Interim Dividend of 8% free of tax (equivalent to 7.14% less tax at 80%) has been declared in respect of the first six months of tbe Financial Tear ending 31st December 1966
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    • 774 10 NOTICES ANNOUNCEMENT Tal Joo ft Company, Ltd., Staga-' pore, and their former Director. Mr. Tan Kah Keng. baiebj announce that as from the Ist day of September, 1954, Mr. Tan Kah Keng has relinquished bis appointment as **«"«g»*»g Director of tbe Company. TAX JOO ft COMPANY, LTD. MR. TAN KAH
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    • 361 10 NOTICE RUBBER ESTATE NORTH BORNEO Directors of British Company otter for sale Rubber Estate to North Borneo total area of estate 3340 acres of which approximately 750 acres planted ♦««^'~"^r 18S acres replanted with modem high yielding rubber. Unptanted area carried valuable Umber stand. Estate is on main railway one
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    • 334 10 Going on Leave? KEEP IN TOUCH WITH.. THE STRAITS BUDGE Sis Months Air Freight Subscription (C.K. only) $21 Six Months Sea Mail Subscription (Anywhere) SI3J KNUTSEN LINE orient servici PROM CANADA /US, PACIFIC PORTS— 3O DATS Sailing San Arrium Vancouver Francisco S pore P. Swct. Pawn > Elisabeth Bakke M
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    • 713 11 B^Hum BWWBBWBißißHiiM—^—^t^s «A«T ASIATIC UNES ™Z***Um*. tot B^k* OM/., p., v* "JUTLANBIA** •onong P. S'hom S'poro %/%u Z££ vu urnu wuu A U/.7Sept IS/IB Bspt 19/20 Sept J^IWAJD, MHW^ cmttmtm MOMI U S >« p Shorn Penang *owt to tor SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM w «bs«is«fiMu •RODENT HARD,^^ Col ta p
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    • 990 11 Slu'.'tolMo THE BEN UNE STEAMERS LTD "ii,?* 1 SINOAPORE (Incorporated in the United Kingdom) S UNES SAIUNOS TO UK AND CONTININTAL PORTS S'por. P. Sham Penong DENATTOW for London, M^ieitMir/i asesilseiaieia* lam etaiaO rwiwiyijrpi **vii wti p rwn •BENDORAN tor London. Rotterdam 6. 3* sells 4 Sept Direct arrives Leitdea
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  • 663 12 Deliver us from dogs and cockerels 1?OR the sake of people's r health my own included, it is high time, something was done about the dog-menace on this island. It is overrun with horrible strays or dogs that are not strays, but of which, the so-called owners either don't know
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  • 381 12 I AM of the opinion that the majority of your readers, especially those who are able to manage so admirably on $150 a month, have lost the point of Mr. Hamilton's original letter. I consider that his main object was to convey the misleading impression gained
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  • 214 12 I HAVE been a dally passenger in the "Green Bus" since January, 1955. For the past six months, every morning and evening, I have had to wait for more than 30 minutes to get in a bus because of the failure of drivers to stop the
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous

  • 417 13 PRAISE FROM CECILIA FOR H.K. It was close in the Über Cup singles matches HONG KONG, Friday. IijALAYA qualified to meet India In the second round of the Über Cup badminton competition for women when, as expected, they beat Hong Kong 6-1 before a capacity crowd at the French Convent
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  • 199 13 Eng Cheng shines in Fed. hockey trial M KUALA LUMPUR. Frl. AIN Interest in today's two Olympic hockey trials was the second one in which Whites beat Colours 2-1 In a fast and interesting game In spite of a slippery ground. Most of the prospective Olympic candidates played in this
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  • 128 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Frl. IfEDERATION'S final hockey r trial will be played on the H.Q. Malaya ground at 4.30 pjn. tomorrow. The teams: Colours: Amar Singh (PK); M. Shannuganathan (Sel), Chua Eng Cheng (Sel); Glan Singh, (Sen, S. Selvanayagam (PK), Sittampalam (PK); Hamsah Shamsuddin (PK). S. Devlndran
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  • 58 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Frl. Federation beat Singapore 4-1 In the Customs annual soccer match at Pudu Road today. Federation led 3-0 at half tine with goals by In side- left Rejab (2) and centre-forward Ismail. Singapore reduced the deficit through inside-right Rawt, but conceded a penalty near the
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  • 147 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. LOCAL Police have been asked to be on the lookout for black market ticket "spivs" at tomorrow's Malaya Cup Final at Princes Road, here. A F.A. of Malaya I spokesman today warned football fans against being hoaxed Into buying tickets on
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  • 97 13 WOOD BEATS HALL FOR FEAF TITLE LAC Peter Wood of R.A.P. Changl, Singapore, won the Far East Air Force golf championship played at the Royal Singapore Oolt Club yesterday, beating Fl. lit. Kirn Hall of Hong Kong two and one. Hall was two up at the turn but thereafter Wood
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  • 76 13 Fire Demons won the Singapore i Harbour Board Recreation Club's uinual soccer league 1956 for the foundation Shield presented by the members of the Singapore Harbour Board. Traffic Department were run-nera-up. The League Champions will play a match against The Rest at Keppel Harbour Recreation
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  • 78 13 LONDON Frl.— The Hungarian soccer team will not defend their Olympic title at Melbourne. The decision was taken by the Hungarian Olympic Committee because of "changes in the management of the team and the results In International matches this year." Hungary have only won one match this
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  • 9 13 LONDOm^TrI.— TLK. <> Lett* 2\souwKhL, United^, My. 3
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  • 242 13 HONG KONG Frl. Nationalist China or South Korea. TSRAEL, favourites for the title. The tournament Is to be held I will meet thel r hosts. Hong every four years and organised Kong when the finals of the first by the Asian Football ConfederaAslan
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  • 6 13 HELEN SCORES A POINT HELEN KWONG
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  • 132 13 SIKHS BREAK TWO RECORDS AT PENANG PENANG, Frl. T*WO new records were set up x on the first day of the AllMalaya Sikh athletics meet which started at the Municipal Stadium here today. Gardev Singh clocked 55.3 sec— one second faster than the existing record— in the fourth heat of
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  • 52 13 SELANGOB have brought in Low Hock Chye at outside left and shifted Govindarajoo to inside left for the Malaya Cup Final against Singapore in Kuala Lumpur today. The line-up will be: Lourdes; Sai Chonf, Cheok Foo; Man Keai, Fob Chiew, Dutton; Sulaiman, Boon Hee, A. Ghani, Govindarajoo.
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 145 13 TODAY ATHLETICS: Malayan Ckineee meet. Jalan Besar. 7.10 pjn.; Singapore Teachers' Union meet (Heats), Victoria School groan*. 4.30 pjn.; Federation of Boys' Clubs Championships (Heats), Thomson Bead, 2.30 P '™W IHMINC: Chinese Swimming Club's annual championships. Amber Road, S.IS pjn. CRICKET: Johore v Singapore, at C.8.C.; Gandhi Cap: S.C.C. v
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  • 90 14 By EPSOM JEEP THE van Breukelens' team is in tip-top form and Marinus's Rough and Ready (Race Three), and Rinus's paybrook (Race Eight) should make a sound each-way double at Bukit Timah today, first day of the Singapore Turf Club September Meeting. DAYBROOK proved too good for his Class
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  • 148 14 Straits Times SELECTIONS EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER Race 1. TUFTON TUFTON TUFTON 2.15. Invincible Caracas Prise Entry Caracas Priie Entry Arc'i Side Race 2. HONEY BIRD HONEY BIRD WINTERDRINA 2.45. Winterdrina Great Saxon Honey Bird Arryll Winterdrina Golden Melody Race 3. ROUGH it Ready ROUGH tt Ready ROUGH Ready
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  • 510 14 UP against a field dominated by newcomers. Tufton stands out as the best bet in today's card (Race One This Flocon three-year-old has improved tremendously since his promising first-up effort at Kuala Lumpur in June when he finished fourth with 8.8 to Air Rate
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  • 32 14 YESTERDAY was bright A and sunny and the going up to last evening was good. TODAY'S Best Bet: Tufton in the 2.15. Best Longshot: Scone Stone in the 6.00.
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  • 544 14 Confident vote for Be Careful in top mile DE CAREFUL won in the style of a tipt o p middle-distance horse when he outsmarted a Div. 2 field over the Bukit Timah mile in lmin. 39 4/5 with 8.13 in July. This Magic Red grey has done well since and
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  • 33 14 DOUBLE TOTE will be held on Races Four and Seven; Big Sweep will be held on Race Eight. THE Winner, Bon Tresor and Goiden Cloud have been scratched from all engagements.
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  • 249 14 TRY THIS VAN BREUKELEN DOUBLE FOR TODAY GREATLY IMPROVED SINCE LAST RUNS Daybrook has made further headway since his track form has been flawless. The challenge is likely to come from Diamond Jubilee. This handsome Panorama four-year-old gave a tip-top showing at Penang last month
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  • 1538 14 Race 1 2.15: Class 3, Div. 4 6 Furs. 1 765 Arch Side »y »00 Capt. H. P. Bloxbam Rodgers 3 -8 Freeman 6y Oeyer 8.13 Mrs. M. Martin Martin 3—4 Invincible 4y Bougoure 8.12 FCL Stable R. Breukelen 4 —8 Caracas 3y Jones 8.12 Amazon Stable Yong
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  • 62 14 DEL MAR, California. Frl.— Jockey Johnny Longden, nearing the world's record for total winning rides, brought In only one winner at Del Mar rare track yes- terday. His one lucky mount was Liberal Policy. The veteran Jockey now has 4 864 winners (or his career,
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  • 124 14 NO PLAY-SO TITLE REMAINS WITH SURREY SURREY made English cricket^ 1 F- f coming the first team hlst °ry \m l pionship for five years in^ the C^ **n was abarirjr title, k,j 7 'or thj jj tut in G ;^o h points 1 8urrf 1. «lck»hire. W(dne *Tij^ snd'
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  • 257 14 INDONESIANS, i n the x lower half of the S. A. F. A. Community League Table, took another tumble at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday when the Royal Air Force riddled their defence to the tune of seven goals to one. The Indonesians began well and
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  • 28 14 FOREST HILLS. New York. Frl. Rain prevented play on the opening day of the United States national term's championships here today— Reuter.
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  • 62 14 LONDON, Fr: -Tl-.e sal ween the Atttn Gentlemen i abandoned \h;,. saturated pitih a: Lees c ground here. The Australians Kiit a eight declared on Vkm when rain stopped play alt: and no play «a« posubit ji day. This vras the I cricket lorn by
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  • 77 14 LONDON. Pri DARON Guy de Rothschilds French colt. Pont Levis, joint favourite at the previous callover, was Installed clear favourite for the St. Leger when the card was called over at the Victoria Club here. Closing prices for the race, to be run at Doncaster on Sept
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