The Straits Times, 19 July 1950

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED l» TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1950. if PRICE TEN CENTS
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    BRITAIN BANS OIL FOR CHINA
    141 1 LONDON, Tuesday. I>KITISH Service departments have cotnmandeer- ed all stocks of oil in the Far East theatre and exports of oil to China by British companies have ceased, a British Foreign Office announcement said today. The spokesman said the action had been taken to support
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    U.S. TROOPS HOLDING ALL ALONG THE LINE
    510 1 U.S. TROOPS HOLDING ALL ALONG THE LINE Red Pressure Slackens WASHINGTON, Tuesday. A MILITARY spokesman said today that the American and South Korean forces "are holding all along the line and enemy pressure has slackened. We are blunting the Communist attack". Asked if this meant that the turning point has
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    'Attacked By Mistake'
    57 1 Attacked By Mistake TAIPEI. Tues. A Chinese Nationalist cabinet spokesman said today a Nationalist plane attacked the British steamer Gleneurn on Saturday by mistake. The spokesman said the pilot mistook the Glenearn for one of 13 vessels vhlch had defected to the Reds at Hong Kong. The Nationalists have apologised
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    Cunard Denies 'Trooper' Story
    32 1 L ON DON, Tues. The Cunard Steamship Company yesterday denied a published report that one of its Queen liners may be used to transport American troops to Korea.—Reuter.
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    BRITAIN'S PEACE TERMS
    179 1 BRITAIN'S PEACE TERMS LONDON. Tues. BRITAIN joined the United States today in terming a Communist ceasefire and withdrawal to the 38th Parallel as the essential conditions for a solution of the Korean conflict. The position was affirmed in Parliament by the Prime Minister, Mr. Attl'ee. Emphasising that Britain sought a
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    MacA Bans Red Press
    98 1 TOKYO. Tues. pENERAL Mac Arthur today VJ ordered the indefinite suspension of the entire Communist Press in Japan. The order continued indefinitely a 30-day suspension first placed on the Communist Press on June 26. a day after the Invasion of South Korea, for "false, inflammatory and
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    Terrorist Attack On Editor
    97 1 SAIOON, Tues. A VIETNAMESE gunman today shot Henri Bonvicini. editor of Saigon Presse, one of the city's three biggest French language newspapers. The gunman was continuing the campaign of terror of the Russian-recognised Vietminh insurrectionary government against Saigon newspapermen. Bonvicini was found slumped across the driving
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    FREE ACCESS FOR JAP SHIPS
    40 1 TOKYO. Tues. Japanese ships have been granted free access to Egyptian ports. Kyodo News Agency reported today. Hitherto. Japanese had been required to obtain permission every time they entered or departed from Egypt ports.— U.P.
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    BIGGER NATURAL DEMAND LIKELY
    37 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. rE Natural Rubber Bureau here forecast that the United States might use 1.150,000 tons of rubber in 1950. This would be 175,000 tons more than last year, the Bureau said. —Reuter.
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    Mr. Strachey Disagrees
    123 1 LONDON. Tues. IT«HE War Minister, Mr. John J- Strachey, today contested the view that National Servicemen were unsuitable in the campaign against the Communist guerillas in Malaya. In the House of Commons, Mr. Raymond Blackburn (Labour) had urged a special volunteer force for Malaya of people experienced
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    TRADE PACT
    13 1 MOSCOW, Tues. Russia and Afghanistan} have concluded a four-year trade aereement.—Renter.
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    ARSONISTS USED JOSS-STICKS
    203 1 AN attempt was made early yesterday morning to bum down the Aik Hoe rubber factory at Kirn Chuan Road, off Paya Lebar. Singapore Workers going for breakfast saw two small fires In the drying shed. With office workers they put out the fires with gunny sacks. They
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    Detainees End Hunger Strike
    199 1 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Tuesday. A GROUP of 1,370 detainees at Ipoh detention camp, who have been on hunger-strike for the last six days, broke their self-imposed fast tonight. The Chinese detainees, at the instigation of a recent batch of Chinese brought into the camp,
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    Rubber Rise: London View
    111 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Tues. ONE of the factors responsible for the sharp advance in rubber prices Is continued buying on behalf of the smaller European countries. In London, today Spot closed at Sid., and in Singapore today at 95} cents. It is pointed out
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    NO SUPERIORITY
    33 1 PARIS. Tues.—Given equality of opportunity in life, no one at the races of mankind is mentally supeior to another, according to a biological, ethnological report issued here today by UNESCO Reuter.
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    Marines in Action Against Bandits
    170 1 Marines in Action Against Bandits From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. DOYAL Marine Com- mandos, operating under Army command, have been in action against the bandits "somewhere in Malaya". An Army spokesman said that they were co-operating; closely with the police and other security forces. They were getting accustomed
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    Time-bomb Explosion
    105 1 HANOI. T TWELVE trucks were blown up and several French paratroopers were injured yesterday in an explosion of Mme-bombs placed inside a French military camp by Communist -led saboteurs. The explosion *ci fire to a petrol dump and damaged the electrical plant. Oth- r bombs were discovered aid
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    SENATOR'S CHARGES 'A FRAUD'
    289 2 'You Lied, And Lied.... And Lied' No Disloyalty In State Dept. WASHINGTON, Tuesday. THE majority report of a Senate Inquiry Committee last night described Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy's allegations of the presence of Communists in the American Government as "a fraud and a hoax". Three Democrats
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    CHIANG IS SORRY
    35 2 LONDON, Tues.—Reliable sources said last night that Nationalist China has apologised and promised full compensation for the ma-chine-gun attack on the British steamer. Glenarn in which two crew members were seriously wounded.
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    NEVER TOO OLD TO FLY
    39 2 NEVER TOO OLD TO FLY FOURTEEN CHELSEA pensioners flew over London for an airview of their Home* at Chelsea, Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, and other well known places. They are seen with their air hostesses. A.P. picture.
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    ANOTHER A-BOMB SPY HELE
    96 2 ANOTHER A-BOMB SPY HELE NEW YORK. Tues. A BALDING manufacturer Julius Rosenburg, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation yesterday and charged with plotting to disclose bomb secrets to the Russians. Handcuffed FBI agents, the 32-year-old manufacturer was taken to the Federal buildIng for questioning and arraignment The charge
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    ROYAL GREETING
    32 2 THE QUEEN holds a parasol as she talks with guests in the grounds of Buckingham, Palace, London, during the Royal Garden Party last week. There were 6,000 guests. A.F. picture.
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    BIG U.S. MISSION FOR SAIGON
    215 2 SAIGON, Tuesday T»HE United States plans to establish in Saigon its ar Kest mission in South-East Asia as part of the State Department policy to hold the line in IndoChina against any further Communist encroachment southward in Asia. Official sources disclosed that between 150 and
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    Indian Trade Show In Sweden
    47 2 STOCKHOLM, Tues. Indian handicrafts and textile manufactures will be exhibited in Stockholm in September In a move to promote trade. The Commerce Ministry said cottage industries products, Benares brocades, enamel work and ivory, millmade textiles and Indian foods will be displayed. A.P.
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    A GARIABLDI TO BE TEACHER
    38 2 ROME, Tues.—Anita Italia Garibaldi, grand-daughter of Italy's hero, Giuseppe Garibaldi, has qualified as a teacher of English. She said she needed to supplement her income because of the reduced value of the lira.—AJ».
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      U.S. H-Bomb Scheme "Started Long Ago"
      215 2 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. A MEMBER of the Atomic Energy Commission, Mr. Thomas E. Murray, said yesterday that the atomic and hydrogen bomb programmes were proceeding "very rapidly." "We- are not just starting on the hydrogen programme," he said. "We started some time ago." Mr. Murray
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    TITO'S 'VISIT US' CALL TO SOVIET
    182 2 TITO'S 'VISIT US' CALL TO SOVIET BELGRADE, Tues. TH E Yugoslav Peace Committee proposed yesterday that a commission of Russians and other interested parties make a first-hand investigation in Yugoslavia of the Communist charges that Tito's Government is preparing an aggressive war against her Cominform neighbours. At the same time,
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    U.S. AIRLINE IS SOLD
    67 2 WASHINGTON. Tues.— The Civil Aeronautics Board yesterday issued an order approving the sale of the American Ovreseas Airlines to Pan American World Airways, for $17,450,000 cash. The sale involves 17 planes and several routes between the U.S. and Europe. The CAB's order includes a new assignment
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    ULSTER "FALLS IN LOVE" WITH QUEEN
    120 2 BELFAST, Tues. QUEEN Elizabeth yesterday ended her three -day visit to Northern Ireland with a triumphal tour through the streets of Belfast. Crowds K> deep lined the route, and the Royal procession was slowed down to walking pace by the onrush of enthusiastic youngsters.
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    NAVY BEGINS SABOTAGE HUNT IN DOCKYARDS
    357 3 NAVY BEGINS SABOTAGE HUNT IN DOCKYARDS LONDON, Tuesday. iX'AVAI. and military security officers today il launched a country-wide hunt for sabotage stis|>ects in British naval dockyards and aircraft factories. They were working on the theory that last week's explosions in Gosport harbour, Portsmouth —Britain's main naval base and three attempted
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    HUMAN CANCERS GIVEN TO MICE
    44 3 PARIS. Tues.—Dr. II Yunsun, of Seoul, reported yesterday that human cancers have been transplanted to mice and kept alive for a time in the animals. This is something not done before, the fifth International Cancer Research Congress was told.—A.P.
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    Australian SeamenSplit On RedMove
    175 3 Australian SeamenSplit On RedMove MELBOURNE. Tues. AUSTRALIAN mercantile seamen who met at all main ports today were divided on an executive motion asking them to brand the Korean fighting as "blatant United States armed interference in the domestic affairs of the Korean people." Sydney. Newcastle and Adelaide rejected the motion;
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    Stalin Reply Confirmed
    117 3 MOSCOW Tues THK Soviet official news y. Tass today issued toe text of the correspondence between Pandit Nehru, tuc Indian Premier, and Marshal Stalin on peace mov<w lor Korea. The text confirmed that S' alin called for the admission of Communist China to the United Nations Security
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    Truman To Demand New Arms Money
    151 3 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN will ask Congress tomorrow for about U. 5.55,000,000,000 for new military spending, curbs on consumer credit, and some controls over the civilian use of steel and other basic materials, usually well-informed sources said last I night. These sources said the
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    CAPTURE OF A RED
    26 3 PRISONER, with arms held high in surrender, brought in by a South Korean officer (left) and an American private. A.P. radio picture.
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    NO PROMISE OF AID TO U.S.
    181 3 NO PROMISE OF AID TO U.S. LONDON, Tuesday. T»HE Foreign Undersecretary, Mr. Ernest Davies, A yesterday side-stepped questions in the House of Commons about the use of British troops in Formosa. Major Tufton Beamish (Cons.) had urged the Foreign Office to instruct British military forces in the Far East to
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    FARMER SHOOTS HIS OWN SON
    63 3 GRAVENHURT, Ontario, Tues. A farmer, Maurice Lemay, pinned a target to the wall of a shack, backed off and fired his .22 calibre rifle. He heard a scream from within the shack and rushed inside. His flva-year-old son, Wayne, who had been changing his clothes
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    IN REBEL HANDS
    36 3 MANILA, Tues.— The town of Pinappagan in Neuva Ecija province, about 75 miles north of Manila, was reported today to be still in the hands of a band of 200 Huk rebels.— U.P.
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    ATLANTIC COUNCIL
    51 3 MR. CHARLES M. Spofford, the New York lawyer who has been appointed Mr. Dean Acheson's North Atlantic Council deputy. He served during the war with Allied HQ at Algiers and Caserta. and was responsible at staff level for the work of Allied Control Commissions. Rev t c r
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    GENERAL BOOTH DIES, 84
    193 3 NEW YORK. Tues. pENERAL Evangeline Booth, \I 84, retired head of the Salvation Army and daughter of the organisation's founder, died yesterday in her home in New York. The General, who became commander-in-chief of the international organisation in 1934 and retired In 1939, began her Salvation
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    14 DROWNED
    36 3 NEW DELHI, Tues.—Fourteen people were drowned in the Chenab River when a lorry carrying them to Srinagur crashed through a parapet and plunged Into the river 1,000 feet below Eight others were seriously injured.—A.P.
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    $341/2 Mil. For Point 4 Aid
    80 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. W/T/f the Korean war in mind, the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday reversed its previous decision and voted* 13 to 3 lor an outlay of $34,500,000 in "Point Four" funds. This was only $5,000,000 less than Congress had authorised for President Truman's programme
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    "MYSTERY" DISEASE
    59 3 BOMBAY. Tues. Thirty people died and 170 were taken to hospital in Bombay this month due to a "mysterious disease" akin to cholera which has baffled health authorities. It is still undiasnosed. Large-scale inoculation and disinfection of wells and water sources affected has been ordered and people asked
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    New Moscow Talks On
    82 3 MOSCOW, Tues. THE Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Gromyko, last night received the British Ambassador, Sir David Kelly, for a further talk on the Korean situation. Sir David left a dinner party to attend the conference after receiving a sudden request from Mr. Oromyko. The
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    EXECUTED
    29 3 TAIPEI, Tues.— Wang HsiehTao, former colonel in the Chinese Nationalist Army, has been executed as a Communist spy.' No details of bis allpsod operation* were made public— Ai>.
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    FASTER-THAN-SOUND PLANE CRASHES
    111 3 FARNBOROUGH, Tues. QNE of Britain's newest experimental Jet fighter planes, the Hawker P-1052, crashed into a shed near the Farnborough experimental airport yesterday killing a painter who was eating his lunch in the shed. The pilot. Flight Lieut. J. G. Harrison, was taken to tho military hospital
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    Moluccas Attack tainted To Be Success
    205 3 Moluccas Attack tainted To Be Success JAKARTA, Tues. ♦THE Indonesian Defence A Ministry today announced that its first phase of operations against the rebel "Republic of the South Moluccas" had been successful. A communique said landings on Buru Island— one of the main islands of the Moluccas group and adjacent
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    Siam Rubber Association
    110 3 BANGKOK, Tues. A NEW association has been formed in Siam 'to promote and protect" the rubber trade of the country and "to establish the good reputation of its members." Called the "Rubbc:; Association of Thailand," the new organisation will ensure that importing countries which buy Siamese rubber
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    Nehru's Secretary Killed In Crash
    162 3 BOMBAY, Tuesday. T^HE Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru's private A secretary, B. Katju, three United Nations observers and an Austrian Charge d'Affaires died yesterday in the crash of an Indian National Airways passenger aircraft flyine into Kashmir. The Dakota, carrying 18 passengers and four (irew,
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    PLEA FOR SMALL CLAIM PAYMENT
    138 4 PLEA FOR SMALL CLAIM PAYMENT AN appeal for priority to be given to small claimants ol war damage was made in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday by the Councillor for Rural East, Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir. During the adjournment, Inche Sardon drew Government's attention to the fact that there
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    Teacher Back From Talks
    85 4 MISS Pitt Chin Hui. Principal of Maha Bodhi School, returned to Singapore yesterday morning by air after attending the sixday World Buddhist Conference at Colombo. She was met at Kallang airport by Mr. Lee Choon Seng, President of the Buddhist Federation, and members of the Buddhist
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    Man He Helped Did Not Repay
    173 4 rO Indians, one of whom said he had known the other since his childuood, were the principals in a dispute over a loan of $2,500 which came up for hearing before Mr. Justice Evans in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday. The plaintiff, V. Anyappan,
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    EXTRA HOLIDAYS NOT JUSTIFIED'
    344 4 THE Select Committee appointed to consider the Holidays Ordinance, in a report to the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday, agreed unanimously that it would not be justified in recommending any changes in the number of public and bank holidays in the Colony. It added that the number
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    ORCHIDS FOR U.K.
    39 4 Two boxes of orchids one from the Gem Nurseries, the other from the Botanic Gardens left Singapore yesterday by QEA-BOAC Aircraft en route for London nd the "Evening News" iwer show to be held in mote.
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    Colony Government Sets Up Inquiry Committee To Find Out
    470 4 Colony Government Sets Up Inquiry Committee To Find Out IS 55 TOO YOUNG TO RETIRE? A MOTION by Mr. E. M. F. Fergusson (Chamber of Commerce), calling on Government to set up a committee to inquire into the retirement age of government servants,; was unanimously passed by the Singapore Legislative
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    MALAY BAND CONCENT
    25 4 MALAY BAND CONCENT AT THE HAPPY WORLD stadium last night— the Malay Regiment Band, playing at the Hari Raya celebrations in Singapore. Straits Times picture.
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    Acsu Plan For Welfare
    92 4 THE recently-formed Welfare Sub-Committee of the Singapore Army Civil Service Union is now considering a draft welfare scheme the Union wants, introduced in the War Department for industrial and non -industrial workers. The committee is also making an elaborate study of comparative welfare schemes in the
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    HIS EXCUSE: HARI RAYA PUASA
    58 4 "It was Hari Raya Puasa and I did not control myself In drinking," said a 32-year-old Indian Muslim, Abdul Rahman, when pleading guilty in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to a charge of being found drunk and disorderly In public on Sunday. The magistrate,
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    Gen. Booth: No Formal Mourning
    217 4 Gen. Booth: No Formal Mourning THE Salvation Army in Malaya will not go into mourning for the death of General Evangeline Booth, 84. retired head of the Salvation Army and fourth daughter of the organisation's founder, who died on Monday in N«w York. Brigadier F. W. Harvey, chief of the
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    DECREE MADE ABSOLUTE
    52 4 Kow Teow Chiang, a clerk, whose wife, Tan Siok Lim, deserted him after only four and a half months of married life, had a degree nisi made absolute by the Chief Justice, Six Charles MurrayAynsley, la the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday. The couple were married on April
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    LORRY OVERTURNS, 1 DEAD, 6 HURT
    63 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR,. Tues. QNE police constable was killed and one injured, and four special constables and one civilian driver were injured when an estate lorry in which they were travelling: in Johore yesterday overturned. The civilian driver and a police
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    $115,000 FOR KALLANG INQUIRY
    107 4 THOROUGH investigations to determine the suitability of Kallang Airport for development as a cirtt airport for Malaya, capable of accepting modern commercial aircraft, cost the Sin- gapore Government $115,000. A report of the Finance Committee, approving the application for this sum, was tabled In the Legislative
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    First Trial Under New Regulation
    217 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Tuesday. THE first case in Johore under the new Emergency Regulations which provide the death penalty for acting as a collector for bandits came up today before Mr. Justice Storr in the Johore Supreme Court. Wong Kong was charged with receiving supplies at
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    Naval Base Wages Not Govt Concern
    283 4 PROVIDED a Singapore employer complied with the laws of the Colony, the terms on which he engaged his staff were matters between him and his employees, said the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, in the Legislative Council yesterday. He was replying to Mr.
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    Passengers By Air
    304 4 THE following passengers were among thos? who arrived at Kallang >urpoit yesterday from points outside Malaya on the various iir services. Passengers in transit are not include-! in the Q.E.A.-8.0.A.C. Fr«m Sydney: Messrs. A. K. Jones. J. McCulloch, and Mai. HevwooJ-Lon!-dale. Frort Jakarta: MnriTll. F. C Henry.
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    CHARITY FILM DISPLAY
    46 4 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" will be screened In aid of the Singapore Branch of the British Red Cross Society at 9.30 p.m. on Aug. 3 at the Cathay Cinema. The show will be under the TMtronage of the Governor of Singapore and Lady Glrrson.
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    To Avoid Clashes
    35 4 To help planners of functions of public interest and public appeals for charities In Singapore to avoid conflicting dates the Public Relations Office has opened a diary of such appeals and functions.
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    Singapore Diary
    82 4 CHINESE YJW.C.A, Selegie Road, staff meeting 9 ajn.. badminton 5 3U p m., basketball 5.30 p.m. Y.W.C.A. Katong Groups' meeting, St. Hilda's School, Ceylon Road, 4 p.m. Y.W.C.A. extra-ordinary general meeting, 5, Raffles Quay. 5 p.m. V.M.C.A., Orchard Read. che«i club, 5 p.m.. art club, life class. 8
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    PROTEST AT HARDSHIPS IN IDENTITY CARD ISSUE
    391 5 KfO more hardships than are absolutely necessary should be inflicted on people wanting identity cards in Singapore, urged Mr. Tan Chin Tuan (Chinese Chamber of Commerce) in the Legislative Council yesterday. To his suggestion that the department required more staff to deal with
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    ENGINE OFF RAILS
    25 5 ENGINE OFF RAILS PILOT TRAIN preceding the northbound mail train was derailed between Tapah Road and Sungkai in Perak this week.— X. Y. Sam picture.
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    WRONG PERMIT
    41 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Choo Seng Choon, a Singapore driver, was fined $30 in the Johort Bahru Police Court today for driving a taxi in Johore Bahru without a Federation permit, and $10 for not having a Public Vehicle Licence.
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    Fewer Offenders In S'pore Gaols
    280 5 TWERE was a great reduction in the overcrowding A of Singapore's two prisons at Pearl's Hill and Changi last year, says Mr. H. A. Clow, then acting Commissioner of Prisons, in his annual report for 1949. The report says that prisons allowed more t prisoners
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    ENGAGEMENT
    45 5 MR. FREDERICK Lim C.tian, second son of Mr. I itn Choo Kiat and the late Madam Ec Poh Neo of Singapore, and Miss June Cheah Joo Nee. eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cheat! Ewe Chye of Kuala Lumpur, whose engagement has been announced.
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    'S'pore Is The Best' Teacher
    157 5 MISS Alice Jeanette Henry, a Unit.-d States A my teacher from Okinawa, pn'ters Singapore to any inner place she has visUcd even to Hong Kung. Miss Henry hails from Thomaston. Maine. She arrived in Singapore on Thursday quite by accident on the F>ochnw. She wa
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    Salesman On 3 Charges
    94 5 HTAN CHEE TECK. a .salesman ot Low Tantjchang Lid., was granted bail oi $5,000 in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday uiitn he claimed trial to charges of cheating and criminal breach of trust It was alleged that between. Apr. 3 and Apr. 11, Tan mis.i
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    NO DEFENCE CALLED
    56 5 Tee Kirn Jong. 25, of Balestier Road, was acquitt- Ed in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday of theft of a sports bicycle from L«»e Kian Ann Lee admitted that the bicycle had been purchased by his brother from Tee's employer in Balestier Road on the hire-purchase
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    P.C. SENTENCED
    56 5 Abdul Wahab bin Haji Abdul Hamid, who said that h>* was a member of the Federation police, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment by Mr. P. Claque in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday for stealing a $5 note and two pairs of grey trousers from a house
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    BREACH OF TRUST
    39 5 A young Malay Abdul bin Aijadah, who pleaded guilty yesterday in the Singapore Second Police Court, to committing criminal oreach of trust of a bicycle, worth $80, on July 10. will be sentenced on July 25.
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    Survey Of Life On Pulau Ubin
    180 5 Survey Of Life On Pulau Ubin THE Social Welfare Department Intends soon to carry out a survey of the conditions of Pulau Ubin inhabitants, the Singapore Government announced yesterday. In reply to questions in T,he Legislative Council by Che Sardon bin Haji Jubir (Rural East) relating to conditions in Pulau
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    ONE DAY'S GAOL
    54 5 Mariam bintl Ibrahim, a 20-year-old Malay girl, was sentenced in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to one day's imprisonment and a fine of $50 for stealing a gold brooch valued at $134 from a house in Geyljftig Road on July 7. She was bound over in
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    FEED THE MIND AS WELL AS THE BODY'
    96 5 From Our stuff C.i respondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. jy^RS. Shantha Ramachandran, wife of the Agent for the Government of India in the Federation, told a meeting of the women's section of the Young Men's Association in Kuala I umpur on Sunday "the
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    400 SHORT OF WATER
    98 5 The chairman of me Singapore Rural Board, Mr. J. A. Harvey, gave an assurance in the Legislative Council yesterday that he would go into the question of more water hydrants and standpipes for the 400 residents of the 15th mile, Seletar, whose supply had been stopped.
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    SUBURBAN RAILWAY PLAN IS "NOTED"
    158 5 riOVERNMENT has noted VJ suggestions that a suburban railway system should be established in Singapore for Investigation in connection with the Singapore Development Bill. This was stated in the Legislative Council yesterday in answer to questions on the traffic problem tabled by Mr. Balwant Singh
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    Union Plan For 'Co-op Training'
    336 5 'THE Singapore Urban Co-operative Societies Union will meet on Aug. 3to discuss a Pan-Malayan plan for an "organised co-operative education", designed to remove by gradual process present Government control of the affairs of co-operative unions in this country. Under this proposed scheme for co-operative education,
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    'Film Tax Cuts Must Go To Public'
    320 5 'Film Tax Cuts Must Go To Public' TO ENSURE that any A reduction in entertainments duty will benefit the Singapore public, the Select Committee on the Entertainments Duty Bill has recommended the inclusion of a provision in the Bill enabling the Legislative Council to impose conditions, such as fixing the
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    'Anti-Social' Habit Must Stop
    96 5 'Anti-Social' Habit Must Stop ACTION to stop spitting in Singapore is urged by the Select Committee appointed by Government to report on the Minor Offences (Amendment) Bill. Their report tabled at yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council, urges propaganda methods to be carried out by the appropriate departments "to make
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., July 19, 1950. "Slippered Ease"
    1054 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., July 19, 1950. "Slippered Ease" Mr. E. M. F. Fergusson and Mr. Tan Chin Tuan have given the Federation as well as the Colony something to think about with the motion which they sponsored in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday, and which the Council unanimously
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    DEATH
    62 6 MR. LIM SOON BEX, aged 70. passed away peacefully at his residence, 38. Lorong 25, Oeylang, on 18.7.'50, .leaving behind his beloved wife, 3 sons Teow Hln, Teow Hoe, Teow Slang, 4 •fitufhter.il, 3 sons-in-law, Chan Tham Choon Tan Soon Hln and 18 grandchildren to mourn hLs lose. Funeral
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    26 6 MR. MRS. TEO SWEE LIM Iliitnk those who sent senglays, wreaths, etc and rendered ser»lct>» at (he funeral of the late Mr-darn Wee Kee Neo.
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    A JAPANESE VOICE IN LONDON
    77 6 LONDON, Tues.— Mr. Chojiro Kuriyama, representative of the Japanese Prime Minister, said yesterday that the world must not permit Russian ideologies to rule the world. He called for closer ties between Britain and Japan to preserve "the old order." He said "England Is a great
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    U.N. FLAG GOES UP IN KOREA
    46 6 SQUTH KOREA, H.Q., Tues. —The blue and white United Nations flag was hoisted over the' Allied military operations lI. Q. in Korea on Sunday for the first time at a ceremony I at the American Bth Army Korea Headquarters. ReuterAAP.
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    THE ESTATE CLERK
    465 6 THE ESTATE CLERK Oil On Troubled Waters A REMARKABLE, and to a certain extent anbiased, commentary on present bickerings between employers in the planting industries and their Asian staff was made by "Forty Years' Experience" in your columns on July 11, and as an Asian employee, I would like to
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    Are The Troops Proud And Reserved?
    283 6 F CANNOT help com1 meriting on a report published in the Sunday Times of July 9 under the heading "Malayans Not Friendly Towards British Troops." In it Mr. John Le Grice aired his views at a discussion group sponsored by the Seremban Chinese Reading
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    British Propaganda For Asian Listeners
    855 6 "The East-West war has been transformed from cold to sizzling hot, yet the Voice of Britain calling the East remains as academic, remote and stony as ever.*' rrHE Voice of Britain 1 calling the Far East is heard but not listened to by Asians. This
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      Commissioners 'Pay: Is It Legal?
      256 6 IT is not clear to me how, or on what authority 1 our Singapore Municipal Commissioners can vote themselves remuneration for their services. From a business point of view, the Commissioners occupj a position similar to that of directors of a public company. I They
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      AVENUES OF MEMORY
      228 6 "fECIL Street" referred last week to "several young trees making a brave effort to grow" in Raffles Place. We are perhaps all agreed that the niore greenery we can get the better until the trees become old and dangerous. With this in view, I would like to
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      A FEDERATION OF INDIANS OPPOSED
      107 6 I NOTICE In your columns that certain individuals are trying to federate all the Indian organisations in Malaya. This move, I feel, is not going to yield any material benefits to the masses. The Malayan Indian Congress is a wholly representative body, through which any
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    On the Margin
    417 6 Our Tailors AS a talking-point for this column, a reader suggests our Singapore tailors. One prominent Chinese tailor advertises his business as "bespoke tailors." That is a new one to me. but it has an aristocratic air. I think it must be an old- term of the
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    'DICTATORIAL POWERS' CHARGE IN COUNCIL
    271 7 'DICTATORIAL POWERS' CHARGE IN COUNCIL 'MenSackedWith No Reason Given "DICTATORIAL powers" which enabled the Comptroller of Customs to dismiss his subordinates without giving any reasons, were questioned by Mr. C. C. Tan (Municipal South-West) in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday. Mr. Tan asked the Government to give the principle and
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    44 7 im&s N. INGE, Girl Guide District Commissioner for Singapore, photographed by the Straits Times yesterday, talking to the acting Australian Commissioner, Mr. L. H. Mrlntyre. and Mrs. Lira Kong Aik, leader of the party «f Guides who left yesterday for Perth.— Straits Times picture.
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    MIXED FEELINGS
    39 7 MIXED FEELINGS LAUGHTER AND TEARS. A contrast in facial expressions on boadr the Gorgon yesterday, when 47 Girl Guides from Malaya and Singapore left for Perth. Left: Lady Gimson, signs autographs for some of the Guides. Straits Times picture.
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    House Greets New Leader
    78 7 SINGAPORE'S newly-ap-O pointed Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe. "Is no stranger either inside or outside this House," declared ttte Governor. Sir Franklin Glmson, in welcoming him at yesterday's Legislative Council meeting. "We are especially pleased to have him in our midst as Colonial Secretary and
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    VAGRANT AT 76
    34 7 Seventy-six-year-old Lee Hock Lee was ordered to be sent to the House of Detention yesterday when he pleaded guilty to a charge of vagrancy in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday.
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    GIRL MAY ASK FOR £10,000
    251 7 Carol Reed's Borneo Film PETER KROS, the husband of Joyce Mouthaan, 34-year-old Dutch Eurasian, who flew to Labuan on Monday for talks with Carol Reed after being offered a star part in his film, "An Outcast of the Islands", is in Singapore en route for
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    Full Court Sees Nonis
    90 7 A PACKED Singapore Relief Court waited for more than an hour yesterday to catrh a glimpse of 25-year-rld Michael Joseph Nonis, vho is being tentatively charged with the murder of 10-year-old Winnie Spencer. Nonis spent three minutes in court. He was remanded lur another week by
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    CRICHTON MAY BE NEW P.R.D. HEAD
    61 7 From Oar SUIT Correspondent KUALA IYTMPUR, Tue*. ]VJR. David Crichton, the Commissioner General's Public Relations Officer, has been asked, it is understood, to act as Director of Public Relations in the Federation. Mr. A. J. W. Hockenhull, who was acting for Mr. J. N.
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    45 Clerks Study For $220 Exam
    183 7 I^XTRA seats were provided for a record number of 45 Municipal clerks attending their first lecture of an English refresher course at St. Joseph's Institution yesterday in preparation for their $220 bar examination on July 24 and 25. "Judging from the poor attendance at
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    Government Breaking Municipal By-Laws
    178 7 VI K. John Laycock (Municipality North-East) said iTI in an adjournment speech at yesterday's meetin; of the Singapore Legislative Council that Government was not complying with Municipal by-laws Mr. Laycock said the Municipality had sent out notices to private owners of houses at Mountbatten Road asking
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    Constable Freed
    35 7 FrO* Onr ("wo (01 trspnndcn t J6HORE, BAflRU,' *Tqeg.— stable, was acquitted, at Johore Bahr < wben the > pro* secutlon withdrew a charge of accepting a bribe of 70 cents from ft lorry driver.
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    PLAYS TOMORROW
    28 7 MR. GOH SOON TIOE Who will perform at the sonata recital of the Singapore Music Circle with Noreen Stokes (piano) at the Victoria Memorial Hall tomorrow.
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    Old Car Licence
    37 7 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues Tan Joo Hock, of Singapore, who was found driving a car in Johore .Bahru without having renewed his licence for 1950 was fined $20 at Johore Bahru.
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    ALLEGED CHOPPER MURDER
    291 7 AFTER slashing a A room-mate's throat with a meat chopper, 47-year-old Tan Joon Long woke up two other men also sleeping in the room and, according to the prosecution, said: "Don't be alarmed, I've Just murdered a man". This was alleged by Chief Insp. K. Ramakrishnan in
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    GUIDES LEAVE ON TRIP TO PERTH
    342 7 /CROWDS thronged the quayside yesterday to say goodbye to the 47 Girl Guides who have gone to represent Malaya and Singapore on a visit to the Guides of Perth, Western Australia. Before leaving the Guides were inspected by Lady Gimson, wife of the Governor
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    P.E.A. Class For UMNO
    164 7 A class may be conducted by the Singapore People's Education Association for 30 women members of the Johore branch of the United Malays National Organisation at UMNO head-quarters in Johore Bahru. The secretary of the P.E.A. Mr. J. Paul, said that the move was the result
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    U.S. CONSUL FOR PENANG HERE
    98 7 MR. L. R. LUTKINS, Who will -shortly re-open the United States Consulate Penan g, arrived ln<fiUnga» pore yesterday by BOAC Argonaut from Hong Kong. He wa» accompanied py his wife' their two children, Patsy, a#e4 five, and Chinton; aklfl four,; and \trfelr amah. < Mr.
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    Sweep Duties Bill In Council
    272 7 Sweep Duties Bill In Council THE Singapore Legisx lative Council yesterday referred the Betting and Sweepstake Duties Bill to a select committea of five members of th</ Council The Bill seeks to raise th« existing duty on iwecp~ slakes from 15 yei cent to 2tk per cent. It came up
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    ACQUITTED ON OPIUM CHARGE
    96 7 Lim Tian. a Chinese sam-» pan man. was acquitted by Mr. Tan Ah Tah in the Sii: gapore District Court y ester day of the charge of pos-» sessing five sacks of ooiur, which had been discover! 1 by a Customs officer in his» motor sampan
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    $1,000 BAIL
    47 7 Bail of $1,000 in one surely was granted Kok Kum Heng in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday when he' claimed trial to a charge of causing hurt«o Lai Ning Sim on June 30 with intent to extort. The case was postponed to July 22.
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    Govt. Reply On Utility Services
    129 7 Govt. Reply On Utility Services TTIE Singapore Government A will consider a suggestion that the public utility services in the Colony should be organised on an Islandwide basis, it was stated in a written reply to questions by Mr. Thio Chan Bee (Nominated) In the Legislative Council yesterday. So far.
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    Police Vigilance Is Keeping Peace In S'pore, Councillors Told
    298 8 EMERGENCY EXTENDED J MORE MONTHS Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, yesterday said the existence of emergency powers and the constant vigilance of the police were big factors contributing to peaceful conditions in the Colony. Moving the extension of the
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    K.L. MAN ON $1,500 TRUST CHARGE
    85 8 Yong Cho Kuan, alias Yong Say Ho, of Kuala Lumpur, was cnarged before Mr. S. E. Teh in the Singapore Second Police Court with committting criminal breach of trust of a pair of earrings, worth 51.500. belonging to Bo Jian Jit. Inspector Lai Behari
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    ROUND WORLD TOUR
    49 8 ROUND WORLD TOUR AMERICAN steel magnate Mr. J. J. Munn* and his daughter, Gertrude, who are on a round-the-world tour, pictured on their arrival at Kalian* airport, Singapore yesterday afternoon by BOAC Argonaut from Hong Kong. Mr. Munns is with the Weirton Steel Company, West Virginia. Straits Times picture.
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    POSTAL CHECK ATTACKED
    292 8 POSTAL CHECK ATTACKED "CENSORSHIP as complete v as in countries dur|ng the war" was how Mr. Ji)hn LaycocJc described new Government powers passed tit yesterday's Legislative Council meeting whereby any postal article can be examined to see whether Finance Regulations are violated. Although he was the lone opHW to the
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    38 M.P.H.-$20
    22 8 PARIT BUNTAR. Tues For driving his lorry at 38 miles per hour. Khor. Twee King was fined $20 here today.
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    $2,000,000 Allowances Approved
    107 8 $2,000,000 Allowances Approved FE Finance Committee reported to the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday that it approved a supplementary vote of nearly $2,000,000 for housing allowances during 1949, including arrears, payable to Government employees not provided with Government quarters. Of the total of $1,975,014, the amount of $590,420 represented arrears for
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    DID NOT REPORT BANDITS CHARGE
    74 8 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Tues. poi'K women and three men were remanded in custody by the Ipoh Magistrate today after they had been charged with failing to report the presence of armed persons at Simee Kapayong to the police. The won- en charged were
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    FED. GOVT. OWES STORE $9,500,000
    133 8 rpHE Federation Government owes Singapore about x $9,500,000 in respect of overcharge of the Colony by the Joint Supply Board. This was stated in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday, in answer to questions tabled by Mr. John Laycock (Municipal North-East In its reply. Government admittted
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    Seabed Will Become A Public Beach
    181 8 yHE Singapore Legislative Council yesterday gave 1 its assent to the reclamation of 19,000 sq. ft. of land at Kampong Loyang, fronting the Johore Straits, in ordsr to re-establish for the general public a passage along the foreshore. A motion to this affect was
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    Bandit Shot In Pahahg
    149 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues* SECURITY forces in O PAHANG yesterday shot and killed one of four Chinesf bandits. Four packs containing blankets, clothing and documents were recovered. Two people an Indian and Chinese, at different places ii< PERAK yesterday were held up by armed bandits and robbed
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    ALLOWEDGOAT TO STRAY-$1
    30 8 From Oar Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Tues.—The Segamat Magistrate yesterday fined 22-year-old Can Lian Siah $1 for allowing his goat to stray Into the police compound at Jementah.
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    GOVT SUBSIDY FOR SPORE HOUSES HINT
    333 8 GOVT SUBSIDY FOR SPORE HOUSES HINT 'THE possibility of Government subsidising public housing once the Singapore Development Bill is passed was indicated by the acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe, at yesterday's meelfng of the Legislative Council. Mr. Blythe was replying to Mr. Thio Chan Bee (Nominated), who asked
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    NO LICENCE
    24 8 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Tues.—Failing to take out a dog licence, Lee Kirn Lin, aged 26, was fined $5 at Segamat.
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    Hari Raya Folk Dance
    28 8 A MALAY Folk dance competition staged on Monday at the Happy World stadium, Singapore, in connection with the Hari Raya celebrations. Straits Times picture.
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    INTERPRETERS
    24 8 MR KOH POOI KEE, president of the Interpreters' Union in the Federation, addressing: delegates at the annual dinner at Penan*. Straits Times picture.
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    Praise For Kallang
    98 8 AUSTRALIA'S Director General of Civil Aviation, Air Marshal R. Williams, who left Singapore by air for Australia yesterday alter talks with the Colony Director of Civil Aviation and the Q. E. A. and BOAC manager. Captain R. Ambrose, thinks that Kallang airport is one of the most
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    PUBLIC DINNER FOR SIR ALEXANDER
    170 8 From Our SUIT Correspondent IPOH, Tues. F)URINO his flying visit to Ipoh tomorrow, Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders, Director of the London School of Economics, and Dr. O. V Allen, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, will attend two functions a Rotary lunchon and a public dinner.
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    The London Letter The Great Exodus From London
    1741 9 The London Letter The Great Exodus From London LONDON, July 10. yyK are now rapidly approaching the-climax of Ihe annual populationswop between London and The Kest. The signs are unmistakable. At all their vast and yootv railway termini, hundreds of thousands of Londoners are to be seen every day lining
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    THINGS THEY SAY....
    469 9 THINGS THEY SAY.... >> /*\NE of the reasons for X the happy appear y >s ance of babies today is that it is increasingly (< becoming the fashion in Britain for young parents >> not only to feel an affec- tion for their babies, but to show affection News ss
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      257 9 c'POHK K L. R Strauss); 9.30 News; 9.45 o« «,rr«. in Bs,,.™.«n» "PersonaliUes Parade"; 10 "The 10 urn. New., followed by a^ Music. »«-W OJjMWjj.^": 10.80 .Dance Emergency News from KX.; 10.05 As Spore; 6.30 "Happy Annlver- MU51C Iose Clow; 10.50 Schools; U Malay; "•Op 7 News; 7.12 Radio Sclen-
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    London Stocks
    330 10 LONDON. Tues. A BETTER feeling in all section of the London Stock Exchange today was materially helped by the absence of further shocks from Korea and by the reported efforts in various capitals to end the dispute. There was. however, no stepping up of activity owing; to normal
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    MALAYAN SHARES
    933 10 From Our Market Correspondent •pHE Malayan share market yesterday was still 1 governed by the news from Korea. There was a general marking down of prices. Transactions were restricted and cautious. Quotations announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were INDUSTRIALS Barer* SrUrn A, ex Bflcks Pref 2
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    TIN PRICES
    28 10 SINGAPORE, Tues.. July 18— $350.25 (up $3.25.) LONDON. Tues., July 18.— Spot: £680— £682; Forward. £680— 681; Settlement. £681. Turnover: Morning, 235 tons, afternoon, 90 tons.
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    Singapore Rubber
    231 10 CINGAPORE rubber dealers w yesterday were once again discussing the possibility of the commodity reaching $1 a lb. The price yesterday, after the.week-end and Harl Raya interval, registered nearly a four-cent jump over Saturday's close. The rise was attributed mainly to advices from New York. Trade buying was
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    Kesang Tin Tribute
    15 10 T^ESANO Tin's June tribute report figures are: tin-ore 232.79 piculs; tribute $5,468.
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    SHIPPING IN SINGAPORE
    156 10 CHIPS in the Singapore Outer and Inner Roads and alongside Harbour Board goaowns yesterday were: Outer Roads: Hal Hsuau, Chong Tong, Almeria Lykes, La Colorado, Marine Snapper. Demta, Inchmull, Benvractcie, Steel Executive, Hwang Hai. Ulysses. Titan Bank, San Roberto. Cape Tourane, Hai Heng. Baud. Inner Roads: Sumpitan,
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    DYSON: ALL STATES WANT HIM
    471 11 But Only Colony Offer To Pay ALL athletic controlling bodies in Malaya are unanimous that there is urgent need for a professional coach, reported Mr. E. Strickland, president of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association, at a committee meeting of the association held at the Singapore
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    SELANGOR WIN M.C.F.A. CUP TIE
    41 11 RAUB, Tues. TN one of the best soccer matches seen in Pahang for a long time, Selangor Chinese beat Pahang Chinese by three goals to one In their Malayan Chinese F.A. Cup tie here on Sunday.
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    OUT OF DATE
    44 11 Singapore A.A.A. last night decided that the term "flat race" is to be dropped in the future. Mr. E. Strickland, president of the S.A.A.A., pointed out that it is an "antiquity" no longer in use in any country in the world.
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    HO HO CUP DATE FINALISED
    105 11 TJONG KONG Chinese yester- day cabled acceptance of An*. 27 aa the date for their inter-port soccer match for the Ho Ho Cop against Malayan Chinese. The game will be played at Singapore's Jalan Besar Stadium. Hong Kong Chinese have also asked Malayan Chinese F.A.
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    S.H.B. Police Win 12-Nil
    122 11 TNGLIS and Morrisey scored four goals each when Singapore Harbour Board Auxiliary Police trounced Joililads by twelve goals to nil in a S.A.F.A. Junior A2 league fixture played at Geylang Stadium yesterday. This is the biggest margin of victory in all Singapore league soccer this season.
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    DUFFERS CUP QUALIFIERS
    227 11 'THE QmttUring Round of the R-S.G.C.'s Duffers Cup competition was played on Saturday afternoon and the following qualified for Match Play: N. McKee 91—24=67, H. Bowrev 92—22 70. R. G. L. Oliphant 90—20 70. T. A. Roper 90—20 =70. J. K. Gwinnell 95—24=71, J. A. van Heuven
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    SWIFT ATHLETES WIN EASILY
    425 11 WITH the services of several outstanding athletes, Swift Athletic Association easily won the Singapore A.A.A. Triangular Meet between Swift A.A., Indian Association and Singapore Chinese Amateur Athletic Association held on the S.R.C. padang yesterday. Tan Eng Yocn and Sgt. E. f. Roswell (Swifts) each won wo
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    W. Indies v Derby
    76 11 CHESTERFIELD, Tues. West Indies and Derbyshire had to be content with a draw In their match which was abandoned more than three hours before the time for drawing stumps today owing to rain. West Indies, with a first innings lead of 112, carried their overnight 40
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    B.O.D. TOO GOOD FOR CASUALS
    251 11 r> O. D. C. A. proved a shade too good for Chinese Casuals In a S.A.F.A. Senior League game at Jalan Besar yesterday whan they won by five goals to two. M. AnguUia turned in a KO° rI performance for the winners by scoring three
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    Lanes Join Warwick
    166 11 LONDON, Tues. Following their victory over Essex in the County cricket championship series ending today, Lancashire heve joined Warwicks In the lead. Each side now has 116 points, but Lancashire have two games in band. Scores: At Bristol, Gloucester beat Sussex by two wkte. (match decided on
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    GOH WINS BY ONE LAP
    111 11 FENTY-YEAR-OLD Goh Poh Soon, who won the 50-mile Road Race held earlier this month, took the 100-lap grass tracts race neld at the B.O.D.C.A. ground yesterday. Poh Soon, a member of the Cosmopolitan Cycling Club, beat the second man E. Peters by one full lap.
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    Y.M.C.A. Tennis Results And Ties
    314 11 OESULTS of the tennis ties xv played at V.M.C.A. courts yesterday were: Novices Open Singles: L. C. Loong and Lim Hwie Seng beat Scan Keng Loy and Lim Chio Leow 2-6, 7-5, 6-2. Class B H'cap Singles: Sangar Suwanasarl (scr.) beat Norman Llm (—15.3) 6-4,
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    TANGLIN CLUB TENNIS
    118 11 TANGLIN CLUB TENNIS "DESULTS of Tanglin Club Lawn Tennis tourney ties yesterday were: Men's Open Singles: G. T. HoUoway beat Maj. K. Greenwood 0-4, 6-4; G. K. Stein beat Capt. Turner-Cooke 6-4, 6-4. Men's H'cap Doubles: M. Buttrose and J. K. Shafer beat P. F. Kinsey and C. E. Collinge
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    BADMINTON TIES
    29 11 The following are amended ties in the Singapore «»Hmint^n Association's junior championships: Sunday, 7.30 pjn.: John Chua v Scow Watt Peng; Hussein Omar v Tan Ban Swee.
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    Sports Diary
    44 11 RACING: Singapore Turf Club 2nd Day, Buklt Timah from 2.15 p.m. SOCCER: Snr. )ge: Rovers v Tigers at Jalaa Besar stadium; Inter-Corps annual match: Royal Signals v Royal Engineers at Tanlln. TENNIS: Tanglln Club chain Raffle* Inst. v 31 Ouard Unit R.M.P.
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    4 Perak Men In North Side
    149 12 IPOH. Tuts. l^OUR Perak player* are included 1 in the North side against the South for the three-dav annual game to be played on tin- Ipoli p«.1;iiig on August 5, 6 and 7. They are the old caps' S. V Suppiah and M. Appunl
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    33 12 SNOWY OWL (J. Donnelly) teg led in by trainer M. \id Kreukelen after his I over (i-f. at I'ukit h in May. Snowy Owl > 'HifinVnt tip far the race today. Straits Times picture.
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    SNOWY OWL CONFIDENT TIP FOR TODAY'S MILE
    634 12  - SNOWY OWL CONFIDENT TIP FOR TOD AY'S MILE EPSOM JEEP By All-Weather Tara Street The Chief Danger TODAY'S GOING Rain has kept away during; the past 48 hours and, if the weather remains fine, the going at Bukit Timah today will be good. ONOWY OWL II is my tip to
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    Tudor Pride Has Stiff Task
    1491 12 SPEEDY TUDOR PRIDE tackles a top class sprint field for the first time in Class 1, Div. 2, 6-f Race Five) at Bukit Timah today. Admittedly this four-year-old son of Owen Tudor has been set a stiff task he has to concede 31b. to Dance
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    FLASHY SEBASTIAN DUE HERE TODAY
    161 12 PLASHY SEBASTIAN. the Filipino wizard of the left hook whose memorable battle* in Singapore 10 years afo with Som Ponf, Yonnf Frisco and Fahmy are still fresh In the minds of many boxing- fans, is expected in Singapore from Manila this morning. Sebastian, whose real
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    Straits Times Selection
    143 12 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOS POINTER RACE 1 2.19 RELEASE II Jo-Jo (ilencoe LITTLE BEAU Nero Jo-Jo LITTLE BEAU Net* Release II RACE 2 2.45 HARD CASH Brevity Egyptian Queen UNICORN Hard Cash Brevity HARD CASH Coastguard Unicorn RACE 3 S.15 TEXAS Empire Rose Moncade HECTOR Empire Ross
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    Today's Race Card
    1126 12 Double Totes: Races 5 and 8 Big Sweep: Race 7. Race 1—2.15: Class 2. Div. 5—6 Fur. 5 Yds. 440 Little Beau J. Donnelly 9.00 "Mr. Robert" Breukelen 000 Lucky Ace 8.13 "Epsom Stable" Heddle 000 Purple Knight 8.12 '"Mr. Mark" Breukelen 410 Caracalla Little 8.11 "Belmont
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    Malaya Win Inter-University Hockey
    299 12 Malaya Win InterUniversity Hockey Straits Times Special Correspondent HONG KONG. Tuesday. T»HE UNIVERSITY of Malaya, who are here to A engage Hong Kong University in their annual series of games, today won the hockey fixture by two goals to one after showing marked superiority in combination and stickwork. The Malayan
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    Tara Street To Win Main Race
    520 12 Tara Street To Win Main Race OUR staff correspondent NEAL HOBBS Jnr. has been following race form and watched the morning ivork done at Bukit Timah. In this column he sums up ihe chances as they appear to him at today's races. RACE ONE Glencoe, who has been a fairly
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    Gardner Wins Furious Fight
    110 12 LEICES I =-:h 1 JACK GARDNER. 24-year-o!d poultry farmer, last night rod the right to fight Brace Wocdro;--i for the British heavyweight championship when he outpointt-d Welshman Jolmnv Williams ;ift^' 12 rounds of furious ii«liUn',' here. This final eliminator for the British championship will long b»
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      422 12 <;lassff[ed ads. Continued man onue DEATH WFE CHIN EX. nged 10. died ii 18. 7. '50. at 51SA Geylant; P >>d. Spore. He leaves behind li beloved wife. 2 sons. 4 d ;hterg, 2 brothers, l sister. 2 n -in-law. and many grandrhtldren and great Riandchlldrer. In mourn his loss.
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      104 12 YOUNG RUB RER M onurin9 nomy It is now generally accepted that manuring is necessary from the time of planting if young rubber is to be grown successfully on the inland soils of Malaya. Accumulated evidence from experiments and manuring programmes has shown that nitrogen and phosphate are of major
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