The Straits Times, 27 July 1949

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1949. PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 485 1 Siatn Asking: "Are We Included WASHINGTON, Tuesday. pAR East representatives here who hope their countries may be included in President Truman's U. 5.51,450,000,000 arms aid programme were today showing intense interest in the proposal. In Far Eastern diplomatic circles two questions were uppermost:
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    8 1 •SELAMAT HARI RAYA".— Picture by K. F. Wong
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    41 1 I ADI SONG, widow of Sir O\g Siang Song, the iirst Malayan Chinese to be knighted was greeted by her sister, Mrs. Kion* Chin Eng (left) when she arrived en the Carthage after 10 months holiday in England. Straits Times picture.
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  • 239 1 AMERICANS TOLD: 'QUIT S. CHINA WASHINGTON, Tuesday. THE State Department announced today that the I'niti'd States Embassy in Canton had warned a.l Ampricans living in five southern Chinese provinces to leave for safer areas in view of the renewed Communist hostilities. The warning was Issued to Bn estimated 1.000 Americans
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  • 72 1 KARACHI, Tues. MILITARY representatives m of India and Pakistan reached full agreement on the cease-fire line for the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir, it was announced tonight. Today's meeting was the first after consultations at the weekend between the delegations and their respective governments. The
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  • 73 1 SYDNEY, Tups—Australia's month old miners' strike, reported yesterday to be "cracking up." showed no further signs today of a quick end. There was nothing to suggest that the miners' leaders on the eve of tomorrow's conference between the Combined Mining Union Council and the Executive
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  • 88 1 First of a series of four articles by noted colum- nist and novelist Beverley Nichols on the American scene will appear in to- day's SINGAPORE FREE PRESS. Written with his —I pungent directness, "These Amazing Americans" takes the lid off portions of American life not
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  • 217 1 OPPOSING TRUMAN PLAN WASHINGTON. Tues. nnHE Senate's two most in1 fluential Republican leaders today opposed President Truman's arms programme as too big In scope and giving the President too much power. Senators Arthur Vanden- 1 berg and Robert Taft both i announced their opposition to the plan only a few
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  • 76 1 (HOUSTON. uai. Tues.— A 23-year-old pilot, despondent over his wife's death, terrorised residents here by flying low over their homes and then power-dive .1 ti his d ath in the graveyard where she was buried. The man roared over a section of the city it "hair
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  • 55 1 CHIANG FOR KOREA TALKS SEOUL, Tues. Generalls- simo Chiang Kai-shek will I visit South Korean President Synßman Rhee in Seoul for Pacific Pact talks, It was stated here today by Chinese Ambassador Mr. Shao Yu-lln President Rhee stated today that President Qulrlno of the Philippines had not yet accepted th«
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  • 34 1 LONDON. Tues. Government tests of whalemeat have proved it to be "approximately equivalent" to beef In nutrl- 1 tional value, It was stated In the House of Commons last night. -U. P.
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  • 338 1 PLEA TO U.K. GOVT LONDON, Tuesday. A PLEA for close contact between the British, French and Dutch Governments in combatting Communism in South East Asia as a whole instead of treating it as a separate problem in different regions is to be made in the
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  • 37 1 LONDON, Tues. SAMB ASI V AN, Indian trade unionist sentenced to death under the Malayan emergency regulations for carrying arms, was today granted leave to appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Reuter.
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  • 97 1 200,000 Lose Homes In Typhoon SHANGHAI, Tues. TWENTY persons were kill- ed, 70 Injured and 200,000 were made homeless today when the typhoon, Gloria, hit Communist-held Shanghai after smashing two big American bases on Okinawa. Marked by 60-mile per hour winds and torrential rains, the typhoon howled northward into the
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  • 41 1 TOKYO, Tues. One hundred and eight Japanese have now been arrested following the posting of Communist wall newspapers In Osaka last week implying that American troops were guilty of a "raping spree" In Tsuruga, Western Honshu. Reuter.
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  • 96 1 SANTA MONICA. (California). Tues A FIGHT between two men passengers contributed to the crash of an airliner near here on July 12. Mr. Stanley Weiss, President of Standard Airlines, said during a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing here. Mr. Weiss said he believed the tight, which
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  • 80 1 Australian Flood Warnings MELBOURNE Tues. PR the second time in six weeks, people in the lowlying areas of Maitland. New South Wales, have been evacuated in face of flood danger. Maitland has had four inches of rain In 24 hours. Reports today from centres on the Hunter River above Maitland
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  • 233 1 Banks Win Their Case LONDON, Tues. T^HE Privy Council u>J day upheld an Australian High Court decision that the Government's Bill to nationalise Australian banks was unconstitutional. Rejecting the Australian Governments appeal aeainst the decision the Privy Council said the reasons would oe Riven later. Th^ question of costs would
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  • 24 1 LONDON, Tues.— The Government today ended the state of emergency which gave it extraordinary powers foi handling the recent dock stoppage.— Reuter.
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  • 13 1 HARI RAYA The Straits Times wishes all its Muslim readers "Selamat Hari Raya".
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  • 228 2 CHINESE DRAFT PACT AIMED AT HALTING ASIAN REDS TAIPEH (Formosa), Tuesday. THE Chinese Foreign Ministry is drafting detailed plans for a Far East anti-Communist union, well-informed sources said here today. They added that the plans are in accordance with the joint Statement issued from Baguio, on July 11 by Marshal
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  • 32 2 PARIS, Tues. A weekly magazine says that Russia has exploded its first successful atomic bomb and that was the reason for President Truman's conference with top American atomic "uthorities —UP.
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  • 52 2 HOLLAND EAST ASIA LINE SS. "AMSTELDIJK" due Singapore 30th July 1949. Loading alongside S.H.B. wharves for:— Colomnc Aden Port Said Alexandria Genoa Marseilles Antwerp f Rotterdam Amsterdam -'Hamburg. For cargo and particulars Dlease apply to:— N'EDERI.AND LINE ROYAL DUTCH MAIL Agents: Holland East Asia Line. 41. Robinson Road
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  • 119 2 G.B.S. AT 93 TURNS TO PUPPETS LONDON, Tues. r"EOROE Bernard Shaw, 93 today, had his birthday party 10 days ago In the garden of his biographer and neighbour, Mr. Stephen Wlnsten. He sampled all the pastries and sandwiches and drank his usual apple juice. True to form, Mr. Shaw brushed
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    58 2 c 11 VA T E MARGARET L< UGHLAN WILLIAMS. aged 21, of the Women's Royal Army Corps, on her way to a London court where she was charged with the murder of her husband. C. S. M Montague Cyril Williams 35, Royal Corps of Signals, at their quarters at the
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  • 98 2 Taught 'Red Charge MANILA, Tues. I MRS. MARIE LOUISE Fernandez, Professor of French at the Far Eastern i University, has been charged by members of her class with j teaching Communism and the university has appointed three > members of the Faculty to conduct an investigation. Mrs. Fernandez, who denied
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  • 51 2 CARY GRANT IN HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, Tues. Tin. British-born film star, Cary Grant, entered the John Hopkins Hospital In Baltimore j yesterday for a 10-day physi- 1 cal overhaul. His doctor said that there was no indication of any serious illness but Mr. Grant's health has been troubling him since 1947.
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  • 36 2 NEW YORK, Mon.— Three members of a Pakistan military mission have left for London after six weeks' study of U.S. army techniques. Major General Mohamed Istikhar Khan said "we have more volunteers than necessary."—A.P.
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  • 120 2 LONDON, Tuesday. /OFFICERS of the Grenadier Guards have been told to mend their manners since speakers were heckled when Princess Elizabeth, Colonel of the Regiment, went to the annual banquet of the Officers' club. The Princess was not amused. The committee has therefore written to
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  • 172 2 U.K. TEAM 'ROYALLY' CLOTHED I LONDON, Tues. I*HE King's outfitters and the Queen's dressmaker made the clothes for a British team of 700 gymnasts who will compe f e at the World Sesison of Gymnasts, whicii opens In Stockholm tomorrow. Denied a grant from the Government to outfit thteam, the
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  • 87 2 StIOKMAKKU OEOPGE CHAPMAN of Cottcs Western Australia, ovrrcomes the power crisis with a one-wife-power plant. When his business was menace*! by the cuts arising from the Australian coal strike h« borrowed a bicycle from a neighbour, jacked up the back wheel to drive h s only machine
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  • 166 2 Soviet Fears Arms Census, U.N. Told LAKE SUCCESS. 'I ie.i PUSSIA and the Ukraine opposed the plan lor a United Nations censu* of world arms md mlliUiy forces because they \\.>re unwilling to "let the rest of t: c world know how far he» have gone in arming thtniselves for
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  • 145 2 LONDON, Tues. MIDDLE Eastern diplomats, conferring at the Foreign Office yesterday, were reported to favour increased royalties to the Arab Governments for foreign oil concessions. The purpose of the iiicrea.se was said to be the creation of a fund for the resettlement of 900,000 Arab refugees,
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    • 223 2 SYDNEY, Tuesday. AS a substitute for beer or whisky eat pie made from galah, a pink and while bird of the parrot family. The people of Gu ft. Queensland, say ualah Die is tempting and tasiy. and Xiv 8 them a strange
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  • 122 2 CANBERRA, Tues. I*HE British Medical Association in Australia today i filed a writ in the Australian High Court challenging the validity of the Federal Government Pharmaceutical Benefit Act which came into force today. The writ is directed to the Federal Government, the Director-General of Health,
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  • 53 2 LONDON, Tues.— More than 170,000 table tennis balls have been Placed in the hull of Bluebird II to give extra buoyancy to the speed-boat in which Mr. Donald Campbell, son of Sir Malcolm Campbell, hopes to beat his father's record of 141.47 m.p.h. Mr. Campbell will revert to
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  • 51 2 PANDIT NEHRU (centre), Prime Minister of India, wears a Lama's robe, presented to him during his visit to Leh, Ladakb, Buddhist province of Kashmir in the Himalayas. Ladakh, which once threatened to join Tibet, on which it borders, has strengthened its ties with India. A.P.
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  • 366 3 BACKWARD AREAS: U.K. SUPPORT "But No Dollars For Aid Scheme GENEVA, Tuesday. PRITAIN has promised her support to the proposed U. 5.536,000,000 United Nations plan to aid backward countries but says she cannot spend dollars on the scheme. Meanwhile, India today strongly opposed a United States proposal to cut the
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    57 3 JAL'NTY STYLE: The jaunty coat is a good fashion idea and here are two ways of looking at it, On the left is a loose coat in multi-coloured black check, whose flared back starts at the yoke and falls in pleats. On the right is one in gaily-coloured check with
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  • 325 3 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. TOO much is at stake for the British Government to remain passive any longer warns the Financial Times in an editorial today discussing the crisis in Malayan rubber industry. The United States should be approached but with caution. The
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  • 99 3 LONDON, Tues. THE Government today defeated a Conservative bid to delay nationalisation of the steel industry until after the 1950 General Election The Conservatives fought through an all-night session of 21 hours 18 minutes for an amendment to the Government's nationa! ;^3"on bill which would have pjstponed
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  • 85 3 LONDON, Tues— Lord Addison, Lord Privy Seal, reaffirmed in the House Lords last night that the British Government had "no intention whatever of entering into this rash experiment of devaluation of sterling." He was glad to find support for the policy on both sides of the House, h
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  • 57 3 KARACHI, Tues The Pakistan Cabinet yesterday discussed an ordinance for the sale of property of nonMuslims who fled to India in 1947. according to a usually reliable source. The ordinance, made as a result of the breakdown in negotiations with India about the property, Is likely *o
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  • 81 3 LOS ANGELES, Tues.— The first hearing in the paternity case brought against Sabu. 1 Indian film actor, by a London I ballet dancer, has been adI lourned until May 2. 1950. The suit against the "eleI phant boy" star was filed by j Miss Benda Marian Julier,
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  • 121 3 FORMING ANTI-RED UNION LONDON, Tues. PFTEEN union leaders began work here yesterday on a constitution for a new world anti-Communist trade union organisation. The organisation is so far known as the "Preparatory International Trade Union Organisation." The unlor leaders, representing 50,000,000 workers In Europe, North and South America and the
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  • 79 3 BOMBAY, Tues.— An epidemic of infantile paralysis has struck overcrowded Bombay and hospitals were yesterday turning away suspected victims through lack of accommodation. Fifty-two cases were reported during the past fortnight, nine of which were fatal The Christ Church High School is closed for three weeks,
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  • 53 3 TRADE DELEGATES FOR KARACHI KARACHI, Tues— A RusI sian delegation, now at Pesh- awar, in the North-West Frontier Province, was expected to fly here today to negotiate a trade agreement with the Pakistan Oovern- ment During their three weeks' stay n the Dominion, the Soviet delegates will visit commercial and
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  • 50 3 WASHINGTON Tues.— The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a US$lO,OOO,OOO aid programme for American educational and charitable institution? which suffered losses in the Japanese Invasion of the Philippines. The Bill would orovide payments for the American operated schools, hospitals, orphanages and other nonprofit^ institutions.— A.P.
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  • 38 3 NEW YORK, Tues.— Underwater atomic bomb tests at Bikini showed that no major revision of ship design Is necessary to withstand such blasts, according to Admiral William Blandy, C-ln-C of the United States Atlantic Fleet— Reuter.
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  • 45 3 GLASGOW, Tues. The Burma Oil Company stated here today that 2,000 Burmese and Indian employees have been thrown out of work owing to the disturbed situation in Burma. An earlier report of the company's annual meeting had Incorrectly described the emplrvees as British.—Reuter.
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    43 3 A MEMORIAL to British troops in the 1944 liberation of Belgium was unveiled at the village of Her tain on the Franco-Belgian frontier. The ceremony was attended by Field Marshal Lord Montgomery. Picture shows Lord Montgomery talking to Belgium's Queen mother Elisabeth.—A.P. picture.
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  • 43 3 LONDON. Tues.— Mr. Humphrey Verdon Roe, a pioneer of British flying, has died suddenly here, aged 71. H«was the brother of Sir A. V Roe and in 1918 married Dr Marie Stopes, pioneer of birth r- -r~i in Britain. Reuter
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  • 152 3 WASHINGTON. Tues. A PROPOSAL was made in the United States Senate today that Marshall Plan aid shorld b* withheld from Britain and aL other countries which nationalise their basic industries. Senator James Kern told the Senate that "several" of th Economic Cooperation Adm jiis'ration
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  • 386 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THE Federal Legislative Council will next week be asked to set up a select committee to go into the question of a Housing Trust which the Malayan Union Housing Committee recommended two years ago. The Deputy
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    38 4 THE NEW SENIOR AIR STAFF OFFICER in the Far East, Air Vice-Marshal R. L. Ragg, C.8., C B E A.F.C., and Mrs. Ragg, who arrived in Singapore yesterday in the Carthage from the United Kingdom. Straits Times picture.
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  • 189 4 Surrendered After Flame Thrower —Court Told From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. STATED to have surrendered after a flame thrower had been used, a middle aged Chinese, Chang Sin Piau with three aliases, today appeared before Mr. Justice Spenser Wilkinson at the Selangor Assizes charged with consorting with a
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  • 48 4 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Tues. When the president of the United Malays National Organisation, Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, visits Malacca on Saturday, members of the Malacca branch will hold a tea party at the home of Tuan Haj Abdul Rahman bin Mohd.
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  • 33 4 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Tues.— Mardan bin Hajl Hassan and Abdui Hamld bin Ali were acquitted by the Muar Magistrate for voluntarily causing hurt to Haji Hassan bin Tawi.
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  • 68 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Practical examinations of the Associated Board of .Royal Schools of Music. London, will be held at Penang. Talping, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur. Seremban and Malacca this year. The Associated Board has appointed Mr. C. H. Stuart Duncan as examiner to tour the
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  • 331 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. VfALAYAN tin production increased by more than iT1 a thousand tons during the second quarter of 1949, states the quarterly Bulletin of Statistics issued by the Mines Department. The report states that the total production of tin-ore
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  • 114 4 SELANGOR FREE OF FAST BREAKERS From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THERE have been no prosecutions in Selangor against Muslims for breaking their fast during the Puasa month, the President of the Courts and Religious Affairs Department. Inche Patch Akhir, told the Straits Times today. No cases had come
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  • 105 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, rues. SIR Sydney Palmer at his las' Federal Legislative Council meeting next Wednesday will move that the Federation should have separate representation at all meetings of the Rubber Study Group. His motion points out that the Federation produces annually
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  • 31 4 ANNUAL MEETING KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The annual general meeting of the Malayan Suguna Vilasa SamaJ will be held at the Town Hall, Kuala Lumpur, on Friday afternoon, July 29 at 4.45.
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  • 281 4 Ambush Bravery Full Story From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THE body of Mr. A. C. Amies of the Geological Survey Department was found today in the Kemaman River where a party was ambushed yesterday on its way to a tin mine in Trengganu. I Mr. Amies was a
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  • 138 4 FUNERAL OF BANDIT VICTIM From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. POLICE Officer John Arthur I Embery. who was killed in yesterday's river ambush in Trengganu, was buried today at Kuala Trengganu. A handful of English soil was sprinkled Into the grave by the British Adviser, Trengganu, Mr. I. W.
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  • 65 4 'SPECIAL' WAS DROWNED From Our Own Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR, Tues.Death by misadventure from drowning was the verdict at an inquest Into the death of a spelal constable, Salleh bin Mat Duri It was stated that Salleh and two other special constables at Sungei Krian Estate, heard a gunshot across the
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  • 55 4 From Our Own Correspondent BUTTERWORTH, Tues.— A Gurkha, Marbah Addarthappa claimed trial today to a charge of attempted murder He was alleged to have shot with a rifle a Malay, Mohamed Noor bin Ismail Markan at Prai on July 10. The Circuit Magistrate, Mr. E. M. Smallwood
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  • 36 4 From Our Own Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR. Tues For keeping a mcc stall In Nibong Tebal without a licence, Lim Thonc Glm was fined $15 by Mr. E. M Smallwood In the Nibong Tebal Court.
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  • 810 5 Counsel On Sovereign Rights After War fHE Sultan of Johore's position as an independent sovereign monarch was stronger today than it was before the war, said Mr. E. D. Shearn continuing his arguments yesterday before the Full Singapore Court of Appeal in the Sultan's appeal against the
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    53 5 MR. AND MRS. CHUA KIM KIAH after their wedding in Singapore over the week-end. Mr. Chua is the elder son of the late Mr. Chua Seng Kee and Mrs. Chua, while his bride was formerly Miss Lim Poh Chin, elder daughter of the late Mr. Lim Buan Long and Mrs.
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  • 152 5 ANOTHER ATTACK ON SAKAIS From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. BANDITS made another attack on Sakais in the south Tapah area of Perak on Sunday Police have gone to investigate a report by a Sakai who escaped when the attack started Yesterday morning Gurkhas in the Segamat area of
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  • 117 5 SIKHS TO AID UNIVERSITY From Our Staff CotrapondeNt KUALA KANGSAR, Mon. Tne Khalsa Diwan Malaya at Its annual meeting decided, on the proposal of the President, Dr. Jagat Singh of Penang, to contribute to the Malayan University Fund. It was also decided to hold an annual conference, as was done
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  • 40 5 UIS BIG DAY: A little Malay boy, who won the infants race at the Garrison Sports hi Koala Lumpur recently, receives a handshake from the wife of Brigadier Jones who presented the prizes.— Pß. picture.
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  • 247 5 IF 75 per cent of Singapore children had antl1 diphtheria injections instead of the 20 per cent, at present, the disease could be completely eliminated here, said the senior assistant Municipal Health Officer, Dr. H. R. Morrison, yesterday. Against an estimated birth r of 30,000 in
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  • 98 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. AMOVE to have all (roods for the Federation imported through Penang: and other Federation ports will be made at the meeting of the Federal Legislative Council ntxt Wednesday. Many goods lor the Federation at present pass through Singapore. Dr. Lee Tiang Keng
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  • 71 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THE Acting Commissioner of Police, Mr. B. M. B. O'Connell, has exempted from the provisions of the Emergency Regulations all employees of the Malayan Railway who carry or possess detonators, verey light pistols and cartridges in the course of
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  • 61 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues Two Indians, Ramachandram Pillay and Ambalavanam, who were each sentenced to six months imprisonment and a fine of $750 in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Courts on July 15. for selling seditious miblirations, have lodced formal notice of appeal. They were
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  • 60 5 Singapore Diary TODAY MEDICAL COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Southern Branch) Symposium Department of Pathology. General Hospital, p.m. Y.W.C.A. Katong Group* meet at St. Hilda's School, 4.30 p.m. THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, Singapore Lodge, discussion. Y.M.C.A.-Y.W.C.A. Picnic, 8 a.m. SINGAPORE CBE S 8 CLUB, V.M.C.A., Orchard Road, 3 p.m. SINGAPORE ARTS CLUB, V.M.C.A., Orchard
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  • 19 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENT MR. P. W. SHEARLAW and f;imilv thank their many friends for their kind letters of sympathy iinrt rondolenees.
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  • 990 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., July 27, 1949. RECONDO OR RUBBER? An experiment will be made at a cost of rather more than a quarter of a million dollars to find out whether the re-sur-facing of the worn-out roads of Singapore by the "Recondo" process can be done more cheaply
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  • 158 6 1 J WAS struck with the 1 heading "Remembrance In Malaya" in your issue of July 22. While on leave in Australia 1 attended the Malaya Remembrance Service, held annually on Feb. 15 in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney. The service was taken by an ex-P.O.W clergyman, and
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  • 36 6 LONDON, Wed. -The City will resound with music again shortly. The Royal Exchange bells, silent since 1939, are to be replaced by a new electric carillon to o!a.v four times a day. Reut»r.
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  • 907 6  - The Feast of St. Anne at Bukit Mertajarn KHOR CHEANG KEE, By Straits Times Staff Correspondent in Penang BEFORE a picturesque grotto built on an ideally-situated rock and completed only a few days ago, hundreds of Catholic pilgrims from all parts of Malaya will kneel down in prayer this weekend
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  • Labour's war damage scheme: Party points of view
    • 476 6 J HA v h received a pamphlet troni the Singapore Labour Party on the War Damage Compensation Scheme, and I think no time should be lost in commenting on that pamphlet. On Page Five the following statement is made: "It looks disastrous
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    • 103 6 rTH the increased use of air conditioning in Singapore homes, it is possible that In such cases where this has been installed, the mosquito net has been relegated to the cupboard snd unlikely to be male use of again. The Y.W.C.A. is in very urgent need of
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    • 269 6 jl/IAN out of the goodness of his heart has decided to shelter the horse from the hazards of the humid plains of Malaya. He has built a sanatorium for the poor animal, just off Ringlet, at Cameron Highlands. He is building 14 air-con-ditioned stables at
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  • 218 6 FIRST THINGS FIRST IN LOWER PERAK "LMRST THINGS FIRST" —T he s c excellent words have recently appeared several times in the Press. May I suggest that this principle be adopted by Government when dealing with all the major questions waiting to be solved today, not in word but in
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  • 61 6 HERE'S to those who are risking their lives I daily for us—the men ol the Army. Thrpe cheers for our police, too In these days of terrorism, robberies and murders, th^v are doing a great service for us. and risking much that oui live*- may
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 815 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. SITUATIONS VACANT WANTTT) by European Import flrm. young billing, filing and rT'-rai offVe clerk knowing tyoewrtHn*. Apply Box A7099. S.T. WANTED rrief officer BO T. rrr-iftcntp and chief engineer vi'ti diewl experience Apply Moton 1 <Malava> Ltd. 10 C"\pr Ounv. WANTFD by Insurance Company tynist (or Policy Deparkmr>nt:
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    • 49 6 Wl.l! Still WinJinj? moot** MOM SMITHS SECTRIC CLOCKS sit n m"" 7 "DURBAN" A popular Electric Wall Clock which matches beautifully with tasteful colour schemes in bathrooms, kitchens, or other rooms. Overall dimensions 6%". For A.C. Mains only. $22.50 EACH T. M. A. LTD. 61 63 High Street, Singapore.
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    • 10 6 fheNICFST I^ \brini} §[A fttSH favour to your table j
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  • 359 7 Govt. Delay In Accepting Pay Report Flayed QVER 300 members of the Singapore Medical Services Union, at a meeting yesterday, threatened to picket the next meeting of the Legislative Council, if the Government did not "immediately" implement the Cowgill Report revising salaries of Government servants. Slogans
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  • 186 7 Report May Go To New Committee From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THE Cowgill Report and the report of the Court of Reference on the salaries of Government servants may bo referred back to a special committee by the Federal Legislative Council when It meets next Wednesday. The Financial
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  • 51 7 The -iriver and three pashad a narrow escape yesterday when a taxi, in trying to avoid a dog, ran Into the drain at 12$ mile Chun Chu Kang Road and overturned. One of the passengers, a Chinese woman, was treated i at the General Hospital for slight
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  • 44 7 s a. P. Rajah, Tey j Bay Kuo and J. F. L. Cowin have been nominated to the Malayan Board of Income >T *nx in place of Messrs C. H. la Silva, Chew Hock Leong and A. F. Taylor, who have ..ed.
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  • 65 7 TWO more gifts of $10,000 each have been promised to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund. They are from: Mr. Robert Tan Hoon Siang, of Malacca, and Messrs. Quek Shin and Sons, of Singapore. The gift of Messrs. Quek Shin and Sons, will be paid in annual
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  • 89 7 IPOH, Tues.— The distinction of being the first officer in the Malay States to be made a Justice of the Peace while still in service has fallen to Inche Megat Yunus j bin Megat Haji Mohamed Isa Inche Megat Yunus, an officer of the Malayan Civil Service
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  • 328 7 Forged Letter Allegation A 26-YEAR-OLD European, Thomas John Davies, A of the staff of United Engineers Ltd., Singapore, was yesterday in the Second Police Court committed for trial at the next Assizes on a forgery charge. It was alleged that Davies forged a letter which
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  • 72 7 fHINESE sacrificial offerings to the dead commenced yesterday, the iirst day of the Seventh Moon, when many streets in Singapore's Chinatown were lit with randies. Joss and incense fumes filled the air as worshippers laid rice, meat and vegetables, wine and cakes at each of their doorsteps
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  • 96 7 F>R the first time in its history, the Singapore Cooperative Stores Society Ltd. has thrown open its Han Raya and August Bank Holidays clearance sale to nonmembers. The sale is being held to encourage more of the Society's members to vat ronise Co-op shops and
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  • 92 7 MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE of the Lotus Club who are organising the Gala which is to be held at the South Winds Hotel on August 7 in aid of the University of Malaya Fund. Left to right: Miss N. Pillai, Miss J. Proctor, Mrs. K. K. Ramchandan, Miss Ganga Ramchand,
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  • 94 7 HPHREE men were found 1 guilty in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday of theft of 1.070 katies of Government rice from a lighter anchored off Telok Ayer Basin. The first accused, 13-year-old Chng Peng Choon, was bound over for six months. The second accused, Lav
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  • 42 7 Owing to Hari Raya, today's Rotary Club meeting j has been postponed till tomorrow, when Mr 1 A. Bland Calder, head of the Economic Section of the U.S. Con-sulate-General, Singapore, 1 will talk on "Some Cheerful I Thoughts on Rubber.."
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  • 46 7 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA Tues.— An exhibition of 60 water colour paintings by Yong Mun Sen of Pcnang will be held in Meng I Seng Hall from Aug Ito 4. j Pirt of the proceeds will go to th.3 Malacca anti-tuberculosis rund
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  • 96 7 MISSING GIRL DEAD IN POND HO In Choo, a 15-year-old Singapore Chinese school girl, missing from her home yesterday morning was found a few houis later drowned in a pond »n Kallang Road. In Choo is believed by her parents t>j have gone to the pond to fetch weeds for
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  • 111 7 Hari Raya Message From Our Own Correspondent IPOH. Tues. WE wish one and all, par- I ticularly our Muslim subjects, Selamat Hari Raya,' the Sultan of Perak says in a Hari Raya message. He adds: "To those Mus- 11ms who are In the Security j Forces and who. during the
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  • 115 7 World Food Talks In Singapore WORLD food problems will be discussed at the Food Bnu Agricultural Organisation regional conference, which will be held in Singapore from Sept. 27 to 30 Representatives of 14 member nations will attend the meeting, which will be held in the Victoria Memorial Hall Discussions will
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  • 29 7 Tan Jit Tong, of Grange Road, who pleaded guilty in the Third Police Court to theft of a bicycle, was yesterday sentenced to two months' rigorous imprisonment.
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  • 128 7 A SINGAPORE trisha rider, wwoh o alleged last week that he was assaulted by detectives after surrendering a Communist pamphlet he found, was yesterday paid $50 r 4i d by the C.I.D. Chief, Mr. E. V. Fowler. "You wen doing your duty as a
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  • 63 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tars. A maintenance allowance of $10 a month has been approved by the state Council for three children of Inche Mohamed Salleh. They are Ungku Salim, Ungku Khalid and Ungku Sadiah, who are the great grandchildren of Vemenggong
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  • 45 7 Mr. Francis Thomas, chairman of the Singapore Labour Party, will talk on "Is Citizenship a Right or Duty?" at the discussion group meeting of the. Army Civil Service Union to be held at 331, North Bridge Road at 10 a.m. on Sunday.
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  • 60 7 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Tues. The British Adviser, Negri Ssmbilan, Mr. H. P. Bryson, and Mrs. Bryson were among those who attended the cinema show held here last night at the Cathay Cinema and sponsored by the Seremban Rotary Club in aid of anti-T.B. funds. The Negri
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  • 45 7 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Tues. An Indian shopkeeper who failed Co display the maximum sale price of sugar was today fined $25 with the option of three weeks' gaol in .".he Sescamat Court. Accused was M. Kunchi Ahmed Kutty of Labis.
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  • 28 7 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA. Tues.-Yeo Ah Kit was granted $500 bail on a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to Lee Hock Lee with a parang.
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  • 114 7 INSTEAD of providing any large central market, the Municipal market committee is experimenting on the provision of shops at Tiong Bahru and at Kirn Keat Road for the sale of fish, meat and pork. One of the aims of providing these shops, a Municipal spokesman
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  • 181 7 1,000 Men Accept Pay Cuts To Save Industry' /\NE thousand sawmill workers employed la 13 Singapore mills yesterday accepted wage cuts ranging from 10 to 12 per cent, "to give the industry a fair chance to compete with sawmills In Siam, Borneo and other South-East Asia countries." The cuts will
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  • 91 7 "Salhurthi' Jay do nth day of the new moou will je observed and selebraird oy the Hindu staff of Singapore Government Je rartmen's at the Sree Se.io-ivi Temple at 19 Cev.m Roac:, Katong, on Friday from 9 pm. The "Abishhe.-a.ri (installation) ceremony wnl start at 5 p.m.
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  • 46 7 From Our Own CnrrespoririVnt JOHORE BAHRU. Tuea Ne; Lee Yon?, an ouium addict, who was convicted in the Sessions Court today nn a charge of possession of chandu, w?s bound ovpr in the sum of $100 to be of good behaviour for 12 months.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 53 7 {cujsberg THE KING OF BEERS I Be sure that your investment is sound. You cannot do belter than select any of the following I Quality Pianos BROADWOOD IEKDHI 'BRINSMEAD cSS^I -MONINGTON W-M\ WESTON Wl •KEM B L E I* Sole Agents Distributors:-— J THE EAGLE PIANO CO. VIH Serant.iofi Road.
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    • 72 7 DAFLONA A BLEND OF WOOL COTTON IDEAL FOR HOME WEAR j" I In Plain Colours >/ Lingerie and Bain s- xS^Vlin'R 1 -ill n Gaily Coloured vßlli 'Mf Tdbfied Blouses Hllri tl fl^ Kiddies Dresses. IN NURSERY DESIGNS FOR ATTRACTIVE KIDDIES SLUMBER WEAR. 36" Wide. $4.50 per yd. A TOOTAL
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  • 300 8 Govt Aid Sought for Rubber Plan ¥om Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. THE Federal Legislative A Council at its meeting next Wednesday will be asked to approve financial support for the fiveyear development and research plan of the British* Rubber Development Board. One of the aims of the plan
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  • 170 8 COLLEGE PLAN HELD UP DECAUSE of lack of funds, plans to build a Malay Women's Religious College in Johore Bahru have been held up. So far only $8,859.71 has been collected and the cost of building is estimated at $200,000. Che Hajjah Zalnun binte Sulaiman, Malay woman educationalist and a
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  • 43 8 l\i£ nrt-.tKi.ist scene ironi .No i coward's play, Hay Fever, presented by the Seletar Theatrical Society at the Naval Base Left to right, the players are Bob Allen, Monica Williams. Margaret Boyce, Joyce Perkins and Douglas Grundy. Straits Times picture.
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  • 199 8 TWELVE British airmen and 13 Asians who run the Royal Air Force's only printing press in South-East Asia at Chai\i do all the printing necessary for R.A.F. stations throughout Malaya, Ceylon and Hong Kong. The men who run the Changi press are specialised Air Force
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  • 86 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Tues. T?OK making a false deF claration before the Penang Commissioner of Oaths, that he had owned a piece of land in Province Wellesley for 15 years, a padi planter. Osman bio I.amin. was today sentenced to six months'
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  • 44 8 From* Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— A 62-year-old Chinese, Wong Kam, pleaded guilty In the First Magistrate's Court to stealing a duck. Wong refused to admit four previous convictions against him and the case was postponed to Aug. 3 for sentence.
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  • 99 8 THE 12th general assembly of the United Malays National Organisation will be held at Bukit Mertajam, Province Wellesley, on Aug. 27 and 28. This will be preceded by a women's conference on Aug. 25 and a youth meeting on Aug. 26. The youth meeting will
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  • 59 8 From Our Staff Correspondent BUTTERWORTH, Tues As a result of the screening at Tasek Glugor last week 17 Chinese were charged with failing to report changes of addresses. Because of his youth, 17-year-old Loh Ah Ow was acquitted and discharged. Twelve were fined $10 each; three $5 each,
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  • 38 8 R.M .P. PARADE INSPECTED -ROYAL MILITARY POLICE were inspected at a Taiping parade by Brigadier R. A. Skone, D.5.0., Commanding North Malaya Sub-district, accompanied by Captain L. Hunt, Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal North Malaya Sub-district. Straits Times Picture.
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  • 112 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. EIGHT hundred police recruits will take part in the last big passing out parade at the Police Training Depot here on Saturday morning. The G.O.C. Malaya District, Mai. -Gen. C. H Boucher, will inspect the urn le and
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  • 204 8 A FTER living as .many as 40 years in Singapore several people applied for inclusion on the Singapore electoral rolls and forgot that they had never been naturalised. This was the cause of disqualification of 35 of the 125 people whose applications have been
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  • 122 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. EH)UR years after the Allied bombing of Penang in 1 1945, the skeleton of a woman, believed to have been killed by a direct hit, has been dug out from the bombed-out site of St. Xavier's Institution
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  • 108 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Oaths of office and of allegiance to the Sultan of Selangor will have to be taken by members of the newly constituted Council of Religion and Malay Custom, if an amendment to the enactment constituting the Council is approved by the
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  • 50 8 From Our Own Correspondent KLUANG, Tues.— For building a house at Jalan Ayer Itam within 100 feet from the centre line of the ma.n road without approval of the Town Board, Chong Sow Sioiig, was hned $10 or one week's rigorous imprisonment and ordered to demolish the building
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    • 148 8 I Bs I TmM fm\ I t CTBfl I IK Hi 8 ■■Hi f^^B SWITCH FUSBCEAR BY MEM from all good dealers. > BORNEO j. v mil— L-omjKUty c< united, Engineering Department liauMg.aHacM CH OCO LATE S 1 1 1 (.••••••tin.- JIM E Dk» 8 V w 9 A sore
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  • 1094 9 DON'T BLAME THE U.S. A. Economic Spotlight By Richard Denman LONDON, July 19. NOTHING is more calculated to infuiiiik' the average American than the accusation that his country is responsible for the balance of payincuts (liflieulties that a fflid the non-dollar and, particularly, the sterling world. The christening of the
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  • 71 9  -  AUSTRALIAN Northern rt Territory cattlemen, faced with the long-standing problem of satisfactorily transporting beef to market, have begun experimenting with aircraft to preserve their cattle from loss of condition on long treks. A scheme for flying beef has begun with Government co-operation in the Orde River area,
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  • 728 9  -  SOUTH AFRICAN LETTER By G. W. SEABRIDGE RHODESIA, July 13. fTHIS continuation of effort to depict the South African scene is being written nearly 2,000 miles from the Cape Town base, on a farm about 30 miles from Salisbury. After hectic wartime
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  • 218 9 Guide to crisis talk T Here is a man-in-the-street's guide to the baffling sort of economists' doubletalk or "gobbledygook" which peppers the crisis news •"Conditional Aid. Marshall aid with strings to it. The British Government gets some Marshall-aid goods and sells them to British businessmen for pounds sterling. Then Britain
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 94 9 Modern Dentist* mjt Your Gums, as well as Your Teeth need special care d and hasty eating are responsible for th» great increase in gum troubles. Both prevent your gums from receiving the stimulation they need to keep them in health. What can you do to correct this condition. You
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    • 105 9 rALHAMBRA-i (Air-Conditioned Tel. 6909) SELAMAT HARI RAY A TO ALL OUR MUSLIM PATRONS TODAY! 1.45. 4.15, 6.45 9.30 p.m. The ORIGINAL TARZAN! M-G-M rt-introduces the greatest Tarzan hit of all! if* TARZAIV* Igij SECRET TOEASUiiE t^mm.&''- itv weissmuller MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN JOHN SHEFFIELD Special Morning Matinee Today 11 a.m. Warners' "APRIL
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 649 9 n is not pleasant to pick up a at his leisure establish two diahand containing only one Jack, mond tricks In dummy, and these but nothing can be further from would be ample to fill out the the truth than to assume that a contract. player Is helpless under these
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  • 196 10 rE Singapore rubber market was quiet yesterday at opening prices slightly below the previous day's levels but steadied towards the close on some short covering Closing pries yesterday were. No. 1 sheet fob. buyers 33 cents, sellers 33^ cents; spot loose buyers 33% cents, sellers 33% cents per
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  • 151 10 PRODUCE MARKET M From A Market C 'orre-ii .ndent I A firmer tendency was seen in a number of sections in Singapore produce markets. There were n signs of liquidation before the holidays. Trading was quiet and conditions were largely optimistic. Small #»>ns were recorded in transacted prices. Yesterday's quotations
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  • 24 10 NORTH HUMMOCK North Hummock Selangor Rubber— Profit to March 31 £6.662 (£6 441). To taxation £1.736 (nil), replanting provision £3,575 (nil), forward £13,704 (£12,353).
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  • 76 10 CHIPS in port alongside the Sin- gspore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godoxns in brackets) were Main Wharf. Ferslde (31-32), Star Betelguese (33-34), Benvorlich (36-37) Mount Mansfield (38-39), Somali (42-43). West Wharf: Carthage (1-2*. Malacca (6-7), Bengal (8-9). Eu- ryplus (13-14), Steel Admiral (1516). Empire Dock: Gorgon (19-20), Frederick
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  • 47 10 LONDON Tues.— The MinlsI try of Supply announces lncrerser 'n the price of lead and zln i effective today. Good soft, lead Is raised from £81 a ton to £82 7s. 6d. and good ordinary brand zinc from £60 15s. to £63 10s.— A. P.
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  • 762 10 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Tuesday. WITH London again a better buyer for selected tin shares today local shares hardened slightly in sympathy. Industrials were very steady. The Malayan share market will be closed tomorrow. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association today were: INDUSTRIALS
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  • 349 10 LONDON STOCKS LONDON, Tues.. PRICES of British Government securities sagged on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, writes Reuter's financial correspondent. Losses ranged up to half per cent, with nationalisation issues the chief sufferers. Other sections .jenerally were easier and unsettled. The prospect of further labour disputes on railways and in
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  • 50 10 NEW YORK. Tues -President TrumaiVs request for $1,450,000,000 in new funds for the West Furope arms aid programme c>me in for careful study on W^ll street yesterday but its fimediate Influence on the markets wis small and at the end of business prices were described as very steady.
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  • 22 10 July 22 .Tuly 25 'Industrials 174.53 175.12 Rail roads 45.02 45 ?2 Domestic Bonds 98.63 98.59 Utilities 35.37 35.48
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 1323 10 MANSFIELD *c CO., LTD. (Incorporated m Singapore) BLUB FUNNSI LIMB STRAITS STBAMBHIV CO.. t*rn«i t option f. hikhO via other LTD. ««rt< to load .no discharge cargo COAST MALAYA •MUBJfJi MOM UK UVA M»*H» for Muat luly 27 M nom UK. luly 28 Merlimau for Malacca jury 28 SpMai >ni
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    • 292 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW YORK ANO BOSTON VIA CEYLON INDIA ICYPT AND MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Soore P Sham Penang Mount Mansfield ii u y 26/29 Pres Monroe Aug 5/11 Omit Aug 12/15 Pres Buchanan Aug 18/23 Aug 24/25 Aug 26/29 Pres Harding Aug 31 /Sept 6 Sept 7/8 Sept 9/12
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    • 374 10 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINCS TO CONTINENT/ SAILINCS FROM SCAND.NAV.A/U.K./ Loadinß f^r^PoftSwettenham CONTINENT Penan* m.j "Blankvann" due abt July 30 "Malaya" In Port >ot Cotorr'txj Aden Port Sam. Arhus Copenhagen 6 ..dvnia S.s "Tranqucbar" due abt. Aug. 17 m.s "Manchuria" due abt Aug. 23 for Colombo Aden Port Sudani?) fo, Sai*on
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    • 1028 10 McALISTER <Jc CO.. LTD. (Incorporated In Singaoore) BLUERMAJI *k BUCKMAU KLAVINBSs LINE lONDON. HAVRI. ANTWERP, ft" HOTTIRDAM b HAMBURG. o fo American Potts CITt Of LIVERPOOL BOUCAINVKLI ipoie f jVn •"e,.v-» Spore X >t\am fenang 31 luly 4 Aug 5 Aug 6 ->■ c 18-24 Aug 2S-26Aug 27-28 Aug. SUNNY
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  • 1253 11 Haydee Best Bet In Penang Today By EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Tuesday. AFTER Princess Guinevere's failure to concede 21 lb. to Silver Spear in the mud on Saturday, lam not at all enthusiastic of the chances of No Regrets or Kinder Gold against King Arthur
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  • 138 11  - Straits Times Selections EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER DOITBLE NINE PRINCESS NUFFIELD Saldan Totland ATLANTAS Princess Nuffield Saldan ACE 1 1 2.30 Totland Northwell ACE 2: 3.00 KAISERINE Good Newt Trousers KAISERINE Hunter's Call Good News KAISERINE Hunter's Call Good News RACE 3: 3.30 JIMMY Rochdale Skymaster MONT BLOT Jimmy
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  • 65 11 SOM PONG, welterweight champion of Singapore, and Nai Perg fought a drawn decision at Bangkok last Saturday. Som Pong entered the ring untrained and was given a good fight. In the meantime efforts are being made by promoter Razak to match Som Pong
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  • 835 11 Today's Race Card BELOW is the card of events for today's races in Penang The Big Sweep will be drawn on race eight. Horses scratched from all engagements are Happy Quadrant and Lynchburg. Race 1—2.30: Class 2, Div. 3—s* Furs. 000 Atlantas Jones 8.12 "Kongsi Internationale" Rodgers 000 SUeatfleld Stirling
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  • 93 11 By beating H.Q. Johore Subdistrict by 60 runs at Alexandra on Sunday, 30th Battalion RAOO have qualified for the final of the Singapore District cricket competition. Scores of the game on Sunday were as follows: 30th Battalion R A O C —173: (S/Cdr. Kelly
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  • 105 11 The United Lads 8.P., 'B defeated the Roxy B.P. 'B* in a friendly game of badminton by six games to one on Sunday. Results, (United Lads pliyers mentioned flrst>: Seah Thlam Chwee beat Tan Seng Ser 10-15, 15-3, 15-3; Yap Peng Seah beat Sood bin Star 15-8,
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 261 11 COLUMBIA'S JUNGLE JIM THK. MWAt.KMKM OF THE GafHtM TtiedDie viISH ALL MISLIMS IN SINGAPORE SELAMAT HARI RAYA ikiiii EID MOBAREK ENTIRELY M/&a*u!e%' MEW, 1949 *^r HiFyti ATTRACTION GRAND HOLIDAY (srCr/fAffr f- SHOWS II ».m. P. DEVIL DOCTORS IN HIS NEW ROLE AS JUNGLE JIM ■Iml LITA BARON MOST EXCITING flfa
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    • 276 11 *\V//. 4\W> Mill* ')Wjt- ..I//// A\\U* Selamat Hari Raya To All Our Muslim Patrons. DAILY FIVE SHOWS 11 a.m., 1.45, 4.15, fi.45 9.10 o trVYV\Ui\ s /V Jfe 4m afSSM t r#( iWUQQ 01 COmtOJJT > Next Change l Mjjk leSfranjest JOHN WAYNE GAIL RUSSELL Republic's VIOLENT SEA DRAMA SWEEPING
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 252 11 TODAYS RADIO 9.45 Personality Parade; 10.00 PUm Album; 10.30 Music for your 10.00 News from Kuala Luni- dancing; 11.00 Close, pur; 10.3 a.m. to 12 noon Pro- a k R s grammes in Malay; 1.00 Danc« m music; 1.30 News (also at 7 and Including B.B.C relays; 5.30 9.30); 2.00
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  • 711 12 LEFT-HANDERS FOIL BID BY ENGLAND Bert Sutcliffe Scores Century lefthanders took command and long before tea an innings defeat was averted. Brown himself went on and the combined legsptn attack of Hollies and Brown kept the batsmen quietpr, but did not prevent Sutcliffe from entering the nineties soon after the
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    33 12 FKINCK IWKAKOM.SK of Siam at speed in his superfhar»rrd U litre Maserati while competing in the French Grind Prix at lUuims. ll f finished second to Louis Chiron of Franre. A. P. photo.
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  • 153 12 N. ZEALAND—IST. INNS. Z»3 ENGLAND—IST. INNINGS. Ration it. Mooney b Burtt 73 Wuhbrook c Mooney b Cowl* 44 Edricb c Rabanr b Bi.rU Compton b Cowlc Simpson c Donnelly b Burtt 103 Bmtlej not oat Brown c Wallace b Bartt 22 F.van» c Moonej b Bartt I: Clok 0
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  • 329 12 Game Without A Single Foul SEAFORTHS RALLY TO WIN SHIELD JOHOKE BAIIKI, Tnesday. OTA(;iN(i a splendid rally after being three goals down "C" Co., Seaforth Highlanders today defeated the "B" Coy Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers by four goals to three to win the Duke Shield, presented by Brigadier Duke for competition
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  • 108 12 Indonesians Meet ArmyNavy Today AT Jalan Bcsar Stadium today, the touring Indonesian soccer team meet the powerful Army-Navy combination. The visitors have won their first two games here, beating Singapore Chinese three-one and R.A.F. Combined one-nil. Army-Navy are probably the best combination In Malaya today, but that does not mean
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  • 105 12 The following are S.C.C. teams for today's home-and-home match on the Padang:— W. K. Jaggers XI: W. K. Jagger. Rev. W. E. Y. Browne. R. A. Murray. R. M. Nelson O. Hyslop. J. A. Court, J. C. O. Pierce. Capt. A. E. Sowrny, J. Morrison, L. Holllday and
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  • 85 12 MELBOURNE. Tues.—Australian aborigines will carry the Olympic torch across Aus- j tralla from Darwin to Mcl- bourne In 1956. If the proposal before the Games' Organising i Committee Is accepted. It has the support of Sir Frank Beaurepaire, one of the delegates who stated Melbourne's case
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  • 44 12 Slong 800 B.C. beat Comimnd Royal Engineers by four goals to one in a friendly game of soccer played at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers for the winners were Ah Qoo, Keng Hoe. Sect Yin and Poh Seng. Sabin scored C.RE.'s only goal.
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  • 251 12 Outschoorn 94 Not Out v Middlesex LONDON. Tuesday. LADDIE OUTSCHOORN, the former Singapore cricketer, scored 94 not out today, but his fine Innings did not prevent Middlesex from winning by an Innings and Joining Worcester at the head of the County championship table with llfl points. Yorkshire, who are third,
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  • 197 12 THE quilUyi'ig rouiid of the Koyal Slnt,i»P<»r« Gclf Clvb 1 nufTor OMB rompet.M.^n pl»yad at Buklt T.nnh on Saturday «n<l Sunday atvi the following quaiined tat iru I.'1 li play: J. E. Witt 82— 13 -70 C. Barry 86-15---71 R P. E>^ns 89—18^71 K. F,. Iniri.- 89-
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  • 48 12 In a friendly game of i>occer played at Fairer Park y ester da). Slnie Darby. Sporu Club beat Owen Youngsters by the odd groal in five. The scorers for Rime Daiby 8.0. were Titoln. 8. Chandr* and Att*n. Param scored both giwls for Owen Youngetera.
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  • 16 12 Y.M.C.A. TENNIS Owing vo rain. *est«rd^y'i tt<* in Lhr V MCA t«nnli tourna-nn-nt were not played.
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  • 523 12  -  HALLIDON H> MANY reqursU have come to me from Interested persons and tlii*e kien to learn tlw Art of Reffreetng to Inform them of the way to become a football referre I am morr than pleased to offer the required Information The First Essential Step:
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  • 76 12 examiners on a miniature football field. The candidate* quickness of decision is assessed as well as the correctness of the decision. TEST THREE PRACTICAL: The most important division of the examination. The candidate is siven a game to referee. The examiners award points to the candidate for:
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  • 251 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday, QNE point from a scoreless draw against the Tamilian Physical Culture Association today has assured the Selangor Chinese Recreation Club "A" I team of the Selangor Football Association's First Division championship. The Chinese have lost only one league game
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  • 33 12 Sports Diary SOCCER: Indonesians v. Army-Nayy Jalan Besar. CRICKET: Johore t. Singapore Johore Bahru; S.C.C. home-and-home SCC; SCRC t. Raffles lnsl-S R C GOLF: R.J.I.C. (Johon* v. Island Club— lsland Club. 8 a.m.
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  • 98 12 TAST week's soccer piobiejn set by Hallidon waa: The Attacking 1 team have been awardd an indirect free-kick within their opponents' goalarea. Where may the players of the defending team stand/ Answer: The defending players may not stand within It yards of the ball, unless they
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  • 47 12 Jagio: Singh and Mok Kal Khoon are on their w«.y back tc Singapore from Manila where they were both defeated recently. The two boxers will arrive in a few days and will probably appear at the Happy World Stadium on Aug. 13.
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  • 346 12 R.A.F. (Changi)...... 3; Chinese Casuals 2. A GLARING display of frayed tempers occurred in the Singapore A.F.A. Senior League game between R.A.F. (Changi) and Chinese Casuals at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Airmen won by the odd goal in five a victory which was well deserved,
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  • 120 12  - One Division Only For C1. 1 Stayers By EPSOM JEEP PENANG. Tues. I\UE to Insufficient entries to v make up two races, Class 1 horses entered for the 114 mile races on the last day of the current Penang meeting will be handicapped only In the Gold Cup race. Of
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  • 129 12 RACE REVIEW AND SELECTIONS- P. 11 Prix, Indian Heather, Ra-11, and Royal Borough. The remalnine; horses to be handicapped for the Gold Cud are therefore: Blue Print, Byron, C'.ynor. Consistory, Dakota, Double Aries, Double Five, Fortune's Favourite, Friar's Last, Gamelaw, Glendale, Little Ned. Longchnmp's 11, Madasarl. Silver Spear. The weights
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  • 72 12 TTNABLE to get air passages at Bangkok and also at Batavia. Siamese boxers Nai Phol and Chal Sltphon and the Java champion, Bobby NJoo, and his stable companion Tan Qa Tek, have not yet arrived In Singapore for their fights scheduled for Friday at the Happy World Stadium.
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