The Straits Times, 14 August 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 PRICE TEN CENTS. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1950.
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    REDS MASS FOR BIGGEST DRIVE
    453 1 Aircraft Quit Pohang, But Army Stay On TOKYO, Sunday. 1?IVE Communist divisions today massed west of Naktohg River for, the biggest drive of the war down a natural corridor leading to Taegu. A sixth division may now be switching from the north to the Waegwan
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    PLEA TO STALIN
    27 1 DURHAM, Sun.— A hundred thousand British coal miners sent a cable to Marshal Stalin today asking him to stop the fighting in Korea. A.P.
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    DEATH SLEEP
    37 1 TOKYO. Sun. Sleeping sickness has taken a toll of 25 lives this year, and is spreading at more than seven times the speed of last year, according to the Metropolitan Disease Prevention Bureau today.— Reuter.
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    30 1 SOUTH KOREANS greet a U.S. tank crew a s they move up to the front lines. Heavy tanks and flame-throwers, have been among the recent equipment arriving. A.P. radio picture.
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    37 DIE IN TRAIN CRASH
    134 1 37 DIE IN TRAIN CRASH NEW DELHI, Sun. ruiRTY-SEVEN persons were killed and more than 100 injured today near MogJnilsarai, India's biggest rail junction, when an express from Calcutta to New Dei hi ran into a' goods train derailed a few minutes earlier. The crash occurred near a jnail bridge
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    Oldest 'Blue Baby'
    72 1 AUCKLAND Sin. V 37-YEAR-OLD woman Blue Baby" has been successfully operated on at Gicenlane Hospital here. She is among the oldest known patients to have undergone the operation to deal with the narrowing of the outlet from the heart to the main arteries supplying 'he lungs. Sufferers
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    27-MILE PUSH IN FOUR DAYS
    253 1 MASAX FRONT, Sunday. •pHE First- Marine Brigade has made a 27 -mile A advance, neutralized and routed the Sixth North Korean Division and destroyed more than a hundred enemy vehicles in the past four days. in addition, large quantities lof enemy equipment ranging i from
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    TRADE ACCORD
    15 1 BELGRADE, Sun. Yugoslavia has signed a new* one-year trade agreement with Egypt— A.P.
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    PRINCESS GOES TO PALACE
    90 1 LONDON. Sun. pRINCESS Elizabeth, icho is awaiting the birth of her second child, today went to Buckingham Palace to lunch with the King and Queen. Dressed in' a floral sum-* mer frock she was unrecognised by the croicd as she left her home, Clarence House, driven
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    FOUR MEN STABBED IN S'PORE
    133 1 rUR people— two Chinese, a Malay and an Indian —were stabbed in separate incidents in Singapore yesterday.' The Indian, M. Arumugam, of Tras Street, who was wounded in the stomach, was said to be in a serious condition. Arumugam was attacked in his house in
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    US Squadron Off S'pore
    71 1 AN American Naval Squadron, consisting of one heavy cruiser and four destroyers, passed Singapore yesterday afternoon on its way from the Mediterranean to join the U.S. Seventh Fleet in Korean waters. The squadron, which consisted of the heavy cruiser Worcester, and the destroyers Berry, Keppler, Norris
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    PAPAL AUDIENCE
    30 1 VATICAN CITY, Sun.— Two thousand deaf-mutes from Europe and America were among 30,000 Holy Year pilgrim* received in general audience at St. Peter's by Pope Pius XII.— AJP.
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    AUSSIES GET MORE PRAISE
    121 1 AUSSIES GET MORE PRAISE SOUTH KOREA. Sun. A USTRALIANS in Korea A have been praised again for the way they have shot up targets. Congratulations have also come to three of the Mustan? Squadron's ground staff for chopping an hour off their own record ,for au engine change. r Three
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    KOREA WAR UPS PRICES
    75 1 LONDON, Sun.— Wholesale prices in Britain, according to the Economist's fortnightly index, haye risen about 2.4 per cent, since the outbreak of the Korean war. The index stood at 194.0 on Aug. 8, compared with 189.5 on July 27. Of the sub-indices, that for textiles has
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    RED ENVOY
    25 1 JAKARTA. Sun.— The first Ambassador of the Chinese People's Republic, Mr. Wang Yen-shu. arrived in Jakarta this morning by air from Singapore. Reuter.
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    Conscription Plea
    40 1 LONDON, Sun.— The conservative Sunday Times today urged Britain to give a clear cut lead to the Brussels treaty countries in the matter of defence by raising the national service period from 18 months to two years.— Reuter.
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    THE CUP IS BACK
    44 1 lIARITH. skipper of Singapore's Malaya Cup team, proudly carries the trophy as be is chaired off the field by his exuberant team-mates after they had beaten Penang by two goals to nil at -Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Straits Times picture.
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    Malaya Cup Is In Singapore Again
    264 1 AFTER nine years, the H.M.S. Malaya €up returned to Singapore yesterday. A crowd of supporters at Kallangr airport applauded as Harith, captain of the victorious Singapore side, alighted on the tarmac carrying the trophy. Looking tired but happy, members of the team were congratulated
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    SHIP LOCATED
    34 1 HONG rIONG, Sun. The &6-ton British cargo ship Jean Moller today radioed Hong Kong that she had located the 737-ton tanker Caltex 11, yesterday reported overdue, in the Gulf of Slam. —Reuter.
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    T.K.K. IN S'HAI
    35 1 HONG KONG, Sun.— Mr. Tan Kah Kee, well-known overseas Chinese leader in Singapore, arrived in Shanghai yesterday from Ningpo in the course of a China-wide tour, according to a Chinese report. Reuter.
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    S'PORE TRIBUTE TO JOURNALIST
    265 1 'pHE Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, yesterday paid a warm tribute to Mr. Ian Morrison, who was killed in Korea on Saturday while serving as The Times special correspondent with the United Nations Forces. Of Mr. Morrison, Sir Franklin said: "He had studied our problems at first
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    'Enemy Was Lying In Wait"
    586 1 'Enemy Was Lying In Wait" r rHIS delayed despatch from Sydney Smith. London Daily Express correspondent in Korea who has just returned from Pohang. tells how a U.S. tusk force rushing to strengthen Pohang bumped into a series of ambushes and received a severe mauling. PUSAN, Sat. AT 6.30 .p.m.
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    Delay Family If You Survive A-Bomb, UNPlea
    217 2 Delay Family If You Survive A-Bomb, UNPlea WASHINGTON, Sun PJ is not difficult to design atom bomb shelters which would save life directly below an aerial explosion, says a report published by the United Nations Atomic Energy Committee. However, it suggests that persons who have been exposed to atom bomb
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    RED NEWSPAPER OFFICE WRECKED
    31 2 PARIS. Sun.— Twelve youths who broke into the editorial offices of the ro-CommunM weekly pacer Action yesterday wrecked furniture, and threw two typewriters out of a window.—U.P.
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    IRAQI QUEEN ILL
    43 2 LONDON. Sun. The condition of Queen Aliyah of Iraq, who had an abdominal operation in London on Monday, continues to cause anxiety. She is the mother of 15-year-old King Feisal II of Iraq, who is being educated in England. Reuter.
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    FAROUK MAY CALL OFF WEDDING
    55 2 LONDON. Sunday. PRESSURE of public opinion may force Kin; Farouk of Egypt to abandon his plans to marry 16-year-old Narriman Sadak. according: to a newspaper report here. The Star said that Kin? Farouk was expected to make his decision known after he returns to Egypt
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    32 2 TURTLE RIDING, two visitors from California start a trip across the sands of the Great Barrier Reef Australia. The turtle, which weighs 3001 b.. should have plenty of staying power. Reuter picture.
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    Keep Robeson Out Of Italy Request
    253 2 Cable Flashes Keep Robeson Out Of Italy Request ROME, Sunday. A MERICA has asked the Italian police to prevent the entry of the Left-wing Negro singer Pau! Robeson into Italy. A directive sent to all frontier police posts by the Italian chief of police,
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      589 2 NOTICES NOTICE R.M.S. Canton will now arrive in Singapore from the United Kingdom at 5 p.m. on Monday, 21st August. ISLAY KERR CO.. LTD., Agents. TALISMAN RUBBER CO., LTD. (Incorporated in Singapore) INTERIM DIVIDEND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Interim Dividend of 5% less Income Tax. has been de^
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    MOVES TQ INCREASE U.N. TROOPS "EFFECTIVE"
    261 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Sunday. fpHE MOVES of United Nations members to reinforce U.N. ground force troops in Korea are going on quietly but effectively, said a U.N. source yesterday. Fifty-three of the 59 United Nations are supporting the campaign to throw back the North Korean
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    BACK FROM RED CHINA
    45 3 HONG KONG. Sun.—Twen-ty-five members of a Chine.se trade mission which left Hong Kong for a tour of Communist China last May have returned to the Colony. They issued a statement saying: "Everywhere we went we saw reconstruction in full swing."— Reuter.
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    KASHMIR MAN FOR U.N.
    46 3 KASHMIR MAN FOR U.N. KASHMIR, Srinagar, Sun. -Sir Owen Dixon, United rations mediator in Kashmir, 5 flying to United Nations leadquarters at Lake Success i omorrow to report to the lecurity Council, it is learned, j Hi- will take his entire i taff with him.— A.P.
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    CHINESE STUDENT FOR AUSTRALIA
    4 3 CHINESE STUDENT FOR AUSTRALIA
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    'UN Force In Korea Will Hold'—Lie
    158 3 'UN Force In Korea Will Hold Lie COPENHAGEN, Sun. T^HE United Nation* Secre-tary-General, Mr. Trygve Lie. said today: "As far as Ii can see there is no chance I for any mediation proposals as regards Korea." On his way from Luke Success to Oslo, he told rers he did not
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    FLOTSAM ON THE TIDE OF WAR
    39 3 SOUTH KOREAN boy curries all his possessions on hi liai-k as he trudges resignedly along a road where thou sands of other South Koreans are fleeing; from th< invaders. A. P. radio picture.
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    Esperanto For Everyone
    56 3 PARIS, Sunday. r £iiE World Esperanto Congress ended here yesterd icith a firm resolve to insist on everybody in th-. world learning Esperanto us an auxiliary language. The meetings were ron-'ueted in Esperanto, a 63-year-old simplified phonetic language. Songs and plays the 4 vmde wp between-testi >ns
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    ARMS AID FOR DUTCH
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    Ceylonese Told 'No' By U.K.
    149 3 COLOMBO, Sunday. THE Ceylon Government is considering the case of a 17-year-old Ceylon youth, Manthi Ranawake, who has been rejected by the British War Office for a" commission in the British Army. The case has led to unofficial charges of race discrimination. Ranawake, who had
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    Deadlock In Brussels
    91 3 BRUSSELS. Sun. TNVESTED Belgian Chief of 1 State on Friday, 19-year- j old Prince Baudouin last j night faced a political deadlock. The All-Catholic Govern- i ment which recalled his father, King Leopold, to the throne three weeks ago, resigned three hours after the King was formally
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    YEMEN MINISTER
    24 3 JUDGE MUHAMMAD bin Ahdallah Al-Amri. Minister of State and Under-Secre-tary to the Foreign Office of the Yemen, speaking in a BBC programme.
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    REDS MISS INVASION WEATHER
    128 3 TAIPEI, Sun. pHINA's Red armies missed the best period for an invasion of Formosa,— May and June and if they do not try an assault near the end of next month they will almost certainly have to wait until next spring. As September draws to a
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    "Red Armies March Towards Tibet"
    104 3 HONG KONG, Sunday. /CHINESE Communist armies totalling 800,000 have been advancing towards the borders of Tibet in the past six weeks, according to a traveller who has reached here. The traveller said thai by June 60,000 troops had already passed through Kangting towards Tibet from
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    JAP POLICE SCREENED
    62 3 JAP POLICE SCREENED TOKYO, Sun.— Officers purged from the Japanese Army and Communist will be kept out of the projected National Police Reserve Force, declared the Attorney-General. He was referring to rumours that former Japanese Army officers, who after the war were restricted from filling public posts, were going to
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    Churchill Plan For United Army Backed
    300 3 Churchill Plan For United Army Backed STRASBOURG, Sun. OELGIAN Socialist lea- der, M. Paul Henri Spaak, speaking as president of the Consultiative Assembly of the Council of Europe, yesI terday defended the conception of a European army sprung on the Assembly by Mr. Winston j Churchill. At a Press conference
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    "HANGMAN MURDERED BY NAZIS"
    108 3 LONDON, Sun. gGT. John Woods, the soldier hangman who executed the top Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, may have been killed by tne Nazi underground movement on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific, the News or the World said today. The newspaper quoted a report from the
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    RED INTRIGUE IN COURTS
    45 3 VIENNA, Sun. Russia openly admitted last night that she is interfering in Austrian courts to protect Communists. The admission was made by Gen. V. P. Sviridov, chief Russian Commander in Austria, at a meeting of the four-power Allied Control Council. A.P.
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    INDONESIA 'HAS NO TIME FOR KOREA'
    205 3 JAKARTA, Sunday. INDONESIA, absorbed with the problem of con1 solidating its eighUmonth-old independence, has adopted the role of a neutral spectator in the Korean conflict. A high Indonesian official said: "It is none of our business". •Many of Indonesia's teaming millions— the illiterate labourer
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    METHODS 'UNWISE', GOVT. IS TOLD
    831 4 METHODS 'UNWISE', GO VT. IS TOLD Colony Development Bill Criticised 'Make Room For Needless Control T»HE Singapore Association, in a report to Government on the Singapore Development Bill, describes the trend of the Bill "in so far as it seeks to compel the public to accept its principles and its
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    Singapore Diary
    65 4 RED CROSS WORKING PARTY. Guide Hut, Clemenceau Avenue. 10 ajn. to noon. Y.W.CJL. Raffles Quay, American cooking, by Mrs. W. R. Lancdon. 5 v.m. ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION, first-aid class. HaStamford Road, 5 pjn. SINGAPORE ART SOCIETK. life class, British Council Hall. Stamford Road, 6 pjn. to 8.30
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    PILGRIM OFFICER OFF TODAY
    160 4 PILGRIM OFFICER OFF TODAY THE acting Malayan Pilgrim Office. 37-year-old Haji Mohamea All bin Mohamed Rouse, who will look after 4.000 Malayan pilgrims now awaiting him at Mecca, arrived in Singapore yesterday by air from Penang. Immediately on his arrival at Singapore he paid a visit t the General Hospital
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    FLYING CLUB VISITOR
    78 4 FLYING CLUB VISITOR THE GOVERNOR. Sir Franklin Gimson. paid a brief. informal visit to the Royal Singapore Flying Club at Kalians yesterday. He was shown round the club-house and the hangar and met several of Singapore's leading pilots. In the picture, Mr. J. W. Satchell. the club's engineer, is explaining
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    Quotas For Jap Goods Out Soon
    138 4 SINGAPORE and Federation importers will be shortly issued with provisional quotas covering goods worth $36,600,000 for purchases from Japan. This is pending a further trade agreement between Japan and the Sterling Area for the year ending June 30. 1951. Singapore's share is understood to
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    Dutch May Recall Destroyer
    247 4 Dutch May Recall Destroyer 'THE Netherlands Govern ment has told the Indonesian Government that it will consider recalling the Dutch destroyer Kortenaer from Macassar, following a request from the U.S.I. Prime Minister. Dr. Hatta. to this effect. A spokesman of the Dutch Consulate in Singapore told the Strait* Times that
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    CHINESE RECRUITS
    58 4 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Sun. Recruitment of Chinese for the regular Malayan Police Force will take place at the Seremban Police Station at 9 a.m. on Monday week. Intending recruits in Malacca and Negri Sembilan should see the OCPDs in their own areas for guidance and further
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    KEDAH GANGSTER CHIEF ARRESTED
    160 4 From Our Own Corre«pondesrt ALOR STAR. Sun. ALOR STAR police last night arrested a Siamese, believed to be the leader of a gang responsible for numerous robberies and housebreakings in Northern Kedah. The Siamese was picked up together with one of his men, a Malay, at
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    Muslims Pray For Pakistan
    156 4 Muslims Pray For Pakistan ABOUT 2.500 Muslim* who gathered at th« Jalan Besar stadium yesterday for the third anniversary of Pakistan stretched out their hands in supplication while the Chief Kathi oi Singapore recited a Orayer The meeting opened with a reading from the Koran by Mr. Raflz Mohamed R;.m
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    School Gives Book Tokens
    81 4 From Our Mall I -i 1 respondent SEREMBAN. Sun. SCHOOL book tokens to the value of about $500 wero given as prizes at the annmtl sports of the Port Dickson Government English School. "We feel that the school ought to encourage pupils to build up their
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    OFFICER ON LEAVE
    33 4 KOTA BAHRU. Sun. Mr. J. S. Addison, State Forest Officer, Kelantan and Trengganu, will shortly go home on leave and Mr. C. O. Flemich has arrived to take his place.
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    MALACCA RACIAL HARMONY PLEA
    192 4 From Our Staff Correspondent T MALACCA, Sunday Ht Eurasian community has always lived harmoniously and amicably with other communities in Malaya Mr. V. E. Dias, president of the Malacca Eurasian Association, said at a dinner hold last ni ff ht in honour of the delegates to
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    H.K. UNIVERSITY CANDIDATES
    54 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LyMPUR. Sun.— The following candidates for the University of Hong Kong were selected from applicants interviewed in Kuala Lumpur by Professor Banflll recently. Chua Cheng Kirn, Chan Kong Lam, Dalip Harigopal Singh Gill, Wong Kong Meng, Pong Wing Sen, Van Meng Choy,
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    BACK FROM ROME
    36 4 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPINO. Thurs. Two Taiping residents, Rev. Fr. J Aloysius and Blss G. Xavler, have returned from Rome. They have brought back souvenirs of their totrr, Including soipe Lourdes water.
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    Dutch Governor
    69 4 THE GOVERNOR of Dutch New Guinea. Mr. Van Waar den Burch on his arrival at Kallang Airport yesterday from Biak in a KLM Special Service Skymaster. He is on bis way to The Hague on official business. Mr. Vao Waar den Burgh was greeted by Mr. T. W.
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    TODDY FOR CAKE
    58 4 From Our Own Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR, Sun "If you wish to use the toddy for making cakes you must get permission of the Customs officer to take toddy away from the toddy shop," acid Inche Abdul Wahib bin Abdullah, Circuit M~~!straie at Parit Buntar, "n he fined
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    PANDIT NEHRU ANSWERS HIS CRITICS, SAYS— Independence of action is India's policy
    1371 5  - PANDIT NEHRU ANSWERS HIS CRITICS, SAYS— Independence of action is India's policy FRANK MORALS By (By Air Mail) BOMBAY. I^HH special session of India's Parliament called to discuss Hie Government of India's poll C y on Korea has focused attention on that unhappy country. As was expected, Pandit Nehru's policy
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    ROMANTIC FISH
    306 5 PORT SUDAN. LMSH kiss! Dr. Hans Haas. Austrian explorer of the underwater world, says he observed parrot fish take each other by the mouth and remain together in kissini? position. Dr. Haas mado the disc >very while filming life b'-neath the Red Sea near Port Sudan. The Vienna
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    INDIANS SEEK EXCLUSION OF S. AFRICA FROM U.N.
    103 5 NAIROBI. TVIE annual session of the East African Indian A National Congress has passed a resolution urging the exclusion of South Africa from the United Nations so long as the Union's present racial policy continues. The session, held at Eldoret, 250 miles
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      297 5 uftyi lu 50 Schools; 12-7.12 p.m. As 10. IS -Floor-Show 11 10 30 Dance rvmm Spore; 7.12 Tango and Samba Music 11 Close. 10 a.m. News, followed- by Kmer- P^i. J 3 J t ay ur str i? RS: eency New.s from K.L 10 Close- 8 WorId Affairs (Alllngton Ken-
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  • Obituary
    DEATH
    37 6 MORRISON. On Aug. 12, 1950, lan E. M. Morrison, beloved husband of Maria and father of Nicholas and Petra, killed in •< tion in Korea while serving as The Tim* jpecial correspondent *lth the United Nations Forcef.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Aug. 14, 1950. 90,000 Men
    656 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Aug. 14, 1950. 90,000 Men Even in normal times the annual report of the Federation's Commissioner of Police has an importance all its own. The Emergency, of course, has greatly increased this normal interest, and it is a matter for regret that we have had
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    Obituary lAN MORRISON
    450 6 Obituary lAN MORRISON IAN MORRISON, who died in Korea on Saturday, was not a man of war. He was a man of peace, of infinite charm, a solid wisdom that appraised his fellows objectively, and of a directness of approach and judgment that made him, worthily, one of the most
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    RAAF COMMANDER
    40 6 MANILA. Sun.— Air ViceMarshal George Jones, Commander of the Royal Australian Air Force, spent last night In Manila on his way to Japan and Korea to visit Australian air units participating; In the defence of South Korea.— A.P.
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    COLOUR BAR IN U.S.A.
    505 6 COLOUR BAR IN U.S.A. A Singapore Observer I HAVE read "Skippy's" 1 letter about the "Bill of Human Rights" and "Cecil Street's" comments about the colour bar in the Southern States of America. "Cecil Street" said: "So what validity or legality or binding force this document has in the divided
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    56 6 "RHYTHM C AFRICA" The Nigerian sculptor Ben Enwonwu. seen above, opened his second exhibition in London last month. He received his early training at Government schools in Nigeria and went to the famous Slade School of Art at Oxford in 1944. His lecture tours and exhibitions have been enthusiastically received
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      The Child Who Was Lost
      263 6 AS an //.sian, I express my sympathy to Maria Hertogh's parents. Unforgivable sins have been committed by the foster-mother, as follows: 1 She converted an innocent child's religious faith, inherited by birth. 2 She failed to notify the authorities of the girl's whereabouts when times
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      ANY FATHER'S FEELINGS
      426 6 AFTER the war, did Maria's parents try to find out the whereabouts of their daughter? I thins now it is too late to claim their daughter because Maria does not know them. So therefore the fault Is entirely theirs. The foster-mother should be congratulated upon looking after
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    On the Margin
    461 6 In Your Garden tlTOULD you like to know more about the common flowers In your Malayan garden? II so, a little book appeared several months ago which will be useful to you. This is "An Introduction to the Study of Malayan Flowers", by Professor R. E. Holttum.
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    HELICOPTER'S 1,000-MILE AID FLIGHT
    448 7 Village Clears Landing Space For Mercy Plane From A Special Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. HELICOPTER of R.A.F. Far East Command's Casualty Evacuation Flight landed at Kuala Lumpur late today on the last lap of 1,000-mile mercy flight to aid a Malay soldier dangerously wounded by bandit
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    HOUSING TALKS TO RESUME
    122 7 HOUSING TALKS TO RESUME »rHE Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association may re-open negotiations *kh the employers on housing allowance for It's 800 clerical members 'within a lortnight." At their recent negotiations hoth labour and management fiiled to agree on the question of details, although the r.anugement aßrccd to provide housing
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    Accused Of Graft
    75 7 from Our On Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. SR LEO, an employeee of thf Road Transport Dept hailed here this afternoon with corruptly accepting $50 from Tham Ah Fook j as an inducement to pass as fit a motor lorry. Leo claimed trial and the prosecution opposed bail.
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    FOR RUSSIA
    34 7 i 12.000-ton Russian J reighters, the Ribinovsk and Gurozaodsk. each loaded iih about 4.000 tons of gencargo, left Singapore beloie dawn yesterday for Vladivostok. The ships called here for r and bunkers.
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    TO SEE S'PORE FOUNDRIES
    72 7 MR. WILLIAM GIBSON, managing director of Gibson Engineering Company, one of Australia's largest foundry moulding equipment manufactures, who is on his way back to Sydney after a tour of America and the I'.K in which he has seen the latest operating equipment in bis field. Mr.
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    A Case To Answer
    67 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. »T the resumed trial here today of Omar bin Tahir, 21erk of Works, Malayan Railway, charged with accepting 5100 from a contractor, the naglstrate said that Omar lad a case to answer and calied for his defence. As Mr.
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    WANT TO BE LIKE CLERKS
    124 7 •pHE War Department authorities In Singapore are now Investigating hours of work and other conditions of service of their storekeepers. The investigations followed recent protest from the Stores Personnel Group of the Army Civil .Service Union against a new system which made storekeepers worV longer
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    CARD WAS IN HIS KONGSI
    70 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— Remarking that the Police should exercise more discretion in such cases, the magistrate today cautioned and discharged Ang Kirn Swee accused of failing to produce his identity card. Ang said that he was at work when a police
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    TREVOR MAC HAS LUCKY ESCAPE
    71 7 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Sun. Trevor Mac, the dance-band leader, narrowly escaped serious injury yesterday when his car went off the road into a ravine four miles from Ayer Hitam, on the way from Singapore to Malacca. Trevor Mac sustained bruises, concussion and a
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    Bandit Hideouts Raked With Fire
    155 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. ORIGAND medium bombers and Spitfire flghter13 bombers of the R.A.F. today made a concentrated attack upon a small area of jungle and scrub in the Serendah area of Johore. After their bombing attack the fighter-bombers dived to rake
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    BODY FOUND
    34 7 A body believed to be Lim Yoke Seng, of Geylang Road, was found lying at the junction of Lorong 24 and Padang Giullemard Road at yesterday morning. Llm disappeared two months ago.
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    Tamil Hall Dedicated
    104 7 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sun. A LARGE congregation including representatives from the local English and Chinese Wesley Churches and Ministers from other towns attended the dedication of the Edward Isaac Memorial Hall in the Tamil Settlement, Ipoh, yesterday by Bishop R. L. Archer of the Malayan
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    BACK FROM KOREA
    46 7 H.M.S. Belfast Is due to arrive at the Singapore Naval Base this morning after nearly seten Weeks duty with the United Nations naval forces in Korean waters The 10,000-ton cruiser is unofficially reported to be en route to the United Kingdom for recomniissioning.
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    Joke With Her Boss
    51 7 THE COMMISSIONER OF POIICE. Mr. R. E. Foulger, enjoys a joke with Inspector Mary Voon, just before she boarded a plane at Kail ang for the United Kingdom. Under a police scholarship plan, Miss Voon will spend four months in England sUidying police methods. Straits Times
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    Many Soccer Fans Are Indignant
    307 7 CUP FINAL: K.L. CRITICISM From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. 11 j ANY football fans in Kuala Lumpur are indigniTl ant about the pandemonium which characterised the final of the Malaya Cup at the Malaya District ground yesterday. It was the main topic of
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    U.S. MISSION IN K.L.
    92 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. T^HE American Mission A headed by Mr. John F. Melby which arrived in Kuala Lumpur yesterday visited Malaya District Headquarters in the afternoon. Thty met the G.0.C., MajorGeneral R. E Urquhart, the Chief of Staff. Brigadier R. C. Cottrell
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    GAMING HOUSE
    35 7 TELUK ANSON, Sun. A fine of $100 or two months' simple imprisonment was imposed on 36-year-old Choo Soo Lam, for permiting her room at Teluk Anson to be used as common gaming house
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    To Talk To Troops
    74 7 PROFESSOR T. E. Jessop, Professor of Psychology at Hull University, arrived yesterday by QANTAS Constellation to give an extensive series of lectures to the Forces in Singapore and the Federation on behalf of the War I Office. The professor will talk on j current international affairs
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    CHINESE GIRL MISSING
    54 7 A 21-year-old Cantonese girl, Chan Kuan Moy, of 63 Cantonment Road. Singapore, has been reported missing since 6 a.m. on Friday. She was last seen wearing a green and white flowered Chinese costume. She is 4ft. 9in. tall, has a round face, bobbed hair and good teeth.
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    DIES IN CEYLON
    53 7 Tl^R. V. Supramanyam, lorm1 erly a Singapore chemist who was living in retirement at Jaffna, Ceylon, died .on Saturday at the age of 75. His son-in-law, Dr. P.T. Nathan practices in Singapore. Mr. Supramanyam was a member of the Ceylon Tamil community In Singapore. He leaves a
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    WILL CELEBRATE QUIETLY
    132 7 TNDIANS in Singapore will 1 celebrate the third anniversary of Indian Independence Day tb-morrow with simple ceremonies in homes and clubs. At India House, the Representative of the Government of India, Mr. J. A. Thivy. willhoist the flag of ths Republic at 9 a.m. Indian leaders In
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    ASSN. FORMED TO COMBAT ILLITERACY
    218 7 EDUCATION FOR WORKERS r) combat illiteracy, improve general knowledge, and develop the cultural potentialities of the people of Singapore the Workers' Education Association was formed yesterday. The meeting at Race Course Lane was attended by the acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya, Professor T.
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    FAREWELL TEA
    37 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.—The parishionprs of the Church ot the Immaculate Conception here are entertaining Father T. Chin, the parish priest, to tea on Aug. 17 btfore his departure to Balik Pulau. PfMiiing. on transf* r.
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    DEATHS
    75 7 The death occurred at thanai. Kayts. Ceylon of M<«. Nasamma Ayampiliay, aged mother of Mr. A. Rajah, 15 Pcmng Road, Singapore Mr. A. Nonathuray Kuala Pi!ah. and Mr. A. Ramanathan and Mrs. Kumanab. Klang and Mrs. R. Soma-im-dram. Kuala Lapis, and sister tit the late Mr. R. A. Naganather.
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    BUSY DAY FOR T.U. MISSION
    124 7 THE International Confederation of Free Trade Unions delegations, which is on a fact-finding tour of trade union problems in Asia, spent a busy day in Singapore yesterday. At the Sea View Hotel, Katong, where the members are staying, there was a steady flow of trade
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    8 LALLANG FIRES
    60 7 Eight lallang fires broke out in Singapore vest-rtiay between 11 a.m. and 8.37 p.m. and were put out by Central. Army and Naval Base fire engines. Two occurred at Changi Road. The others were at Alexandra. Yio Chu Kang Road, 10th mile Bukit Timah Road, Queen Aslrid
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    A great car lies rusting in London junk yard
    610 8  -  BASIL CARDEW By V()U can glimpse her from a bus ambling down High-street, Wembley, London. She lies only 200 tod off the road, her 28 feet of body derelict and rusting, exposed to all weathers in a car dealer's backyard at
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    According to Culbertson
    353 8 rpHERE are several possible lines of play in such a 'deal as today's but one plan offers the best chance. South, dealer North-South vulnerable NORTH kTTT* J 10 4 > I »Q1 WEST E*2l o Q 10 I 1 T9 «Q1 1 10 1 4 O j
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    Won Campbell his knighthood
    37 8 When the Bluebird was a name known to every motor racing; enthusiast and school-boy in Britain Sir Malcolm Campbell takes his car out for a trial run at Brooklands. The year is 1933.
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    IT WAS TEA TIME IN THE JUNGLE...
    780 8  -  Frank Owen By ABOUT four-thirty when you are putting the tea kettle on the patrol halted. They were 13 men with their young officer, gunners of the 26th Field Regiment, R.A., turned into infantry for this job. Since late noon they had been
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    Fathers fame is a drawback
    340 8 LONDON: CIRL who finds tha family fortune a hindrance to fame is 26-year-old Elizabeth Firestone (pictured here), whose father is the multimillionaire head of a U.S. rubber company. Elizabeth blue-eyed, with copper gold hair is a composer. She has written a piano concerto, one newly
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      250 8 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD SSRSffSW- CROSSWORD No. 139 run? A near thing (5-3-2). (3.51. 3 j 9 t 5 8 1 Is ll appears on the surface 28 Soda bun (ana* > <7*. 10 Creature., organised la ll n bin a b eS K M I 9 H b, dies? (7).
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      PRODUCE MARKET
      134 9 From A Market Correspondent THE copra market in Singapore opened on Friday rather inactively, with buyers at around $42*4 per picul and sellers at $42 34.3 4 Coconut oil was easier, with sellers at $68 per picul. There was a dearth of buyers. Prices for Muntok and Sarawak
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      GOLD PRODUCTION AT RAUB
      118 9 J3AUB Australian Gold Mining Company's profress report for the period Mar. 26 June 17. 1950, gives the following fourweekly figures: Four weeks to Apr. 22, 3,763 tons I crushed, 1.126.340 oz. fine gold produced- to May 20. 3,783 tons, 1.103- 435 oz.; to June 17, 4.185
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      NEW BUCKET DREDGE PONTOON
      70 9 J3AWANG Concessions worked the sluicing plant in the year to Mar. 31. 1950. :jmJ showed a profit of £18.218 (9.1 per cent). Net liquid assets show at £80. 177. or Bs. per share. The company's bucket dredge pontoon was afloat on the new property at Ulu
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      Hong Kong Exchange
      27 9 HONG KONG. Sa» pREE market currency exchange for Hong Kong dollars was today as follows: DS*l HKs6.4o',i: £1. HK515.65: one tael of gold HKS3IB.SO.—U.P.
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      IMPROVEMENT IN MOST SECTIONS OF THE MARKETS
      692 9 From A Market Correspondent TVHE volume of trading on Malayan markets in the 1 four business days after the August Bank Holiday must be regarded as satisfactory and on balance all sections, save loans, show improvement. The metal rose £31 25 Der picul
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      Business Done
      316 9 INDUSTRIALS. Fraser and 1 Neave $2.87 y 2 Hong Kong Bank (Colonial Register) $620, William Jacks $2.00, Overseas Bank $62, Robinson Second Pref. $9.90, Singapore Cold Storage $4.40, Straits Trading $12.50 to $12.75, Uniteer Ord. $8.45 and $8.50, Henry Waugh $1.82 l/ 2l /2 to $1.85, Wearne $2.2'/
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      WEEK-END RUBBER PRICES
      51 9 London Rubber LONDON, Aug, 12.— Spot 43Jd. Sept. 4lV 2 d, Oct.-Dec. 36^. Jan.Mar. 32' id, Apr.-June 28^d. Nominal, Aug. c.i.f. 37d, Nominal Aug.-Sept. cJ.f. 35 s ;d, Sept.-Oct. ci.f. 35d. Market: Erratic. New York Rubber Aug. l*i. Aug. 12. No. 1 R.S.S. Aug. unquoted unquoted. Market:
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    THE MALAYA GUP FINAL IN PICTURES
    158 10 Straits Times Staff Photographer Yong Peng Seong took these pictures of the Malaya Cup final at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, when Singapore beat Penang by two goals to nil. ABOVE: The Penang goalkeeper. Tan Swee Hock,- saves a high shot during a strong Singapore
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    COLONY CUP XI TOOK THEIR CHANCES WELL
    1170 11  -  NORMAN SIEBEL Bakar's Amazing Goal Has No Precedent Bv II OW easily the carefully-laid plans of football strategists can be swept aside by circumstance has seldom been better demonstrated than it was in the 24th H.M.S. Malaya Cup Final at Kuala Lumpur on
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    A Tight finish
    45 11 KEDAH'S SINGHAM (No. 61) won in this close finish to the 880 yards race at the Malayan P.W.D. sports held in Ipoh over the week-end. Abdul Aziz (45) was second and R. Munusamy (46) third. Report in Page 12— Straits Times picture.
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    Non-Benders DrawAtK.L.
    283 11 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. fHE ANNUAL cricket match between Federation and Colony Non-Benders ended here In a draw today, the batting dominating the bowling so much that only an innings each was possible in the one and a half days' play. The Singapore men made
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    UK County Positions & Cricket Averages
    344 11 UK County Positions Cricket Averages LONDON. Sunday. POSITIONS m the County cricket championship table and the leading batting and bowling averages after the matches ended on Friday are: F *V Lancashire H 14 Surrey M 13 Yorkshire *S II U arwlckabfre i 8 Somerwl M 7 Worcestershire 0 6 Orrbysnlre
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    Shackeleton's 5 Wickets In 9 Balls
    347 11 LONDON, Sun. DAIN called a halt at some time or another in all but one of the eight County cricket championships matches yesterday. The only game to escape was that between Sussex and Kent at Hastings. No play was possible before lunch In the
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    Will Try For The S'pore Gold Cup
    482 11 FOUR O'CLOCK'S NEXT MISSION By EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Sunday. pLASS, after all, triumphed in the Penang Gold Cup race on Saturday. Four O'Clock II won the richest ever Penang race in storming style and in record time. It takes a very good horse
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    Australia 2-1 v. Sweden
    97 11 RYE, NEW YORK, Sun. A US-KRALIA took a J-l lead over Sweden yesterday in the intercone Davis Cup tennis here. John Bromwlch and Prank Sedgman defeated Lennart Bergelln and Sven Davidson in the doubles 6-1, 7-5. 7-5. The two final singles matches in the beat of
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    20 11 Today: Kaon (Bft. On.) ano 11.14 p.m. (IWt.). TOMORROW: II.M «jn. (Bft. Bin.) and 11.54 p.m. (10ft. Sin.).
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    Big Success For Penang Stables
    271 11 Big Success For Penang Stables I PENANG, Sun. T^HE PENANG Turf Cub's 1 four-day August Bank Holiday Meeting turned out a most happy one for Penang stables. Trainer Chum Wadworth scored another "classic" success with his stable pride Four O'clock in the Gold Cup. Apart from Wadsworth's notable win. Penang
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    Sidwell & Quist Win German Title
    41 11 Sidwell Quist Win German Title HAMBOURG, Sun.— Australia's Billy Sidwell and Adrian Quist won the men's doubles title at the International German tennis championships here yesterday. They defeated Gottfleld von Cramm and Jack Harper, the defending champions, 6-4, 8-6, 6-2.— UP.
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    Season's First Goal Scored By Penman
    384 11 Season' s First Goal Scored By Penman SCOTTISH SOCCER STARTS LONDON. Sun. IbCOTTISH football fans showed their entlmsiasm in the League Cup series which opened the newseason yesterday. Capacity crowds attended most of the games though light rain fell throughout most of the afternoon. Penman, Ralth Rovers' outside left, shot
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    PENANG BADMINTON Ooi And Miss Cheah Take Mixed Event
    240 11 PENANG BADMINTON Ooi And Miss Cheah Take Mixed Event From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sun. QOI TEIK HOCK and Miss Cheah Kooi See retained their 1948 Mixed Doubles title today when they defeated Gan Teng Seang and Miss Teoh Siew Huah in the final at the conclusion of this year's
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    Singapore Rugby Referees' Meeting
    74 11 The Singapore Society of Rugby Union Referees will be holding iis second discussion meeting in the reading room of the Singapore Cricket Club this Thursday, August 17 at 5.30 p.m. The last meeting was a gr^flt success and many points in H» laws of the came
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    S.R.C. RETAIN CRICKET TITLE
    591 12 S.R.C. RETAIN CRICKET TITLE Ceylonese Again Runners- Up By OUR CRICKET REPORTER SINGAPORE Recreation Club yesterday yielded seven points to Ceylonese in the Singapore Cricket Association's senior tournament at Balestier Road, but the three points they earned were enough to make them the champions again this year, Recs. having won
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    Andrew Tan Wins Easily
    278 12 flOn Tian Chye (Useful B.P.) and Andrew Tan (Diehard B.P.). favourites for the Singapore men's junior singles badminton championship, both won their ties over the week-end and have qualified for the quiter-flnals. Tian Chye defeated Sean Kee Kwang (Marigold B.P.), an up-and-coming young player, 15-9, 15-13.
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    S.C.F.A. WIN 4-0
    52 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.—Displaying good combination and understanding, a Singapore Chinese PJV. team beat Johore Bahru District team four-nil at soccer today on the Istana padang. Attacking right from the start Singapore kept the home defence vary busy, especially Altken In goal who gave a brilliant display between
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    Sports Diary
    47 12 SOCCER: .fnr. Cup-tie: R.A.P.C. (N.S.) v Star Soccer ites at 8.0.D. ground; Business Use. B: Chartered Bank v O.T.C.C. at Geylang; Straits Times v Cable it Wireless at C.V.M.A. TENNIS: T.M.C.A. and Tanflin Club tournament (cant). CRICKET: St. Joseph's Inst. v. McNair Juniors at S.J.I.
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    39 12 MRS. THOMAS puts in a final burst of speed to win the 100 yards for Women at the Malayan P.W.D. Annual Athletic Sports held at Ipoh on Saturday. Miss Colleen Boyle came in a close second. Straits Times picture.
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    R.O.V. Win Junior Cricket Tourney
    1075 12 WITH ANOTHER round to go, the junior S.C.A. tournament was also decided yesterday, Registrar of Vehicles Sports Club, winning the honours in this inaugural year of the junior competition. With a lead of 11 points over Y.M.C.A. in the morning R.O.V. entered into their tie
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      258 12 CSC v SRC S.C. deefated SRC. by 36 runt the flr$t Innini, at Baletller Road. S.H.C.— 1ST INNS. Bain b Nagalah IS Gaiistan c D-vadas b S. K R'--riram 26 1 Le Mercier b R. V. S. Sundram 13 Rozarlo b R. V. 8. Sundram 3 Sc-wly b S K.
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      246 12 Seletar v IA RAF Seletar defeated Indian Auoclaliun by J3O runt at Seletar yesterday. RAF SELETAR Sgt. Bowman b Gurdiai Singh 0 F/Sgt. Wright c Abasbhoy b Yusof Madari 14 F/O Dandekar b Sltharam WO Hevwood run out 7 F/O Clayneld c Darmara] b Sltharam 1 W/O Duff b Sltharam
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      270 12 Sitharam c and b Bristow 8 Thangathurai c and b Bristow S Gurdlal Singh b Howard 8 Sundram Ibw Howard 10 Thivy c Clayfleld b Lee 12 Yacob Madari b Howard 3 Yusof Madari b Lee 4 All c Lee b Hudson 12 Abasbhov b Cayfleld 10 DarmaraJ b Lee
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      254 12 SCRC v CCC COLONIALS C. C defeated 8.C.R.C. bjr JIU ran. on first Innlnc* si Hoag Lim Grren. COLONIALS C.C. Martens c Tong Bee b Thlam Slew 42 O. Woodford c Tong Bee b Kim Swee 6 H Shah b Thlam Slew 87 W. Ratnayake *w Ong Lee 84 F.
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    SELANGOR WIN MALAYAN P.W.D. ATHLETIC EVENT
    288 12 From Our Staff Correspondnt IPOH, Sunday. T<HE MALAYAN P.W.D. sports were won by Selanx gor (25 points) with Negri Sembilan (22)] runners-up at the conclusion yesterday, Singapore failed to gain a single point. The sports saw over 100 athletes compete N. Selvarajah of Negri
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    BRITAIN WIN AT WHITE CITY
    63 12 LUINIJUN. SUII. BRITAIN won the international triangular athletic contest during the British games at the White City stadium. London, yesterday. They scored 76 points to 74 by the United States and 40 by Benelux— made up from Dutch Luxembourg athletes. In another match which was
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    Furuhashi Sets 500-yd. Record
    92 12 Furuhashi Sets 500-yd. Recor d TOKYO, Sun.— Hironoshm Furuhashi tonight redeemed himself by beating American high school star Ford Konno in the 500-yard freestyle event at Osaka. Furuhashi set a new world's record for the event in the 50-yards pool with the time of 5 mm. 18.8 sees. Last night
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