The Straits Times, 25 August 1950

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED W45 WEI.VE PAIiES SINGAPORE. FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1950 PRICE TEN CENTS.
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  • 432 1 Briefing To Men For Korea At Hong Kong HONG KONG, Thursday. QENERAL Sir John Harding, Commander-in-Chief of the British Ground Forces in the Far East, today ordered British troops on the eve of their departure for Korea to "shoot fast, shoot straight and shoot to kill".
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    36 1 V..\ Vl( \K ol Penan;;, the Rev. I) ;!■■> llobson. Mrs. Hnbson. and their "!1 -month-old son. Peter, at Kallang I yesterday on arriva from Sydney. They will go ta Penan)? early next week. Straits Times picture.
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  • 170 1 MORE PLANES SHIPS FOR KOREA TOKYO, Thursday. |\IORE Marine planes and United States warships are on their way to Korea, Admiral Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval O"«"*!»Hrt«c MiH t.winv '..nrial J. Law ton Collins. 1 Chief of Staff, predlet- I hat the United Nations (round forces will hold their in
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  • 35 1 NICOSIA. Thurs —Sir Owen Dixon, United Nation* m iiator in Kashmir. and I n members of his staff arrived here by air today on their journey to London and Likr- Success. Renter.
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    59 1 I'M CANDIDATE: Mrs. Edith Sampson, a Chicago lawyer, who will be a deleKate to the United Nations Assembly at New York next month. President Truman is reported to have nominated her as a way of refuting Russian propaganda saying that negroes are an oppressed people without opportunity, influence
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  • 65 1 TOKYO. Thurs. MR. Randolph Churchill, 39-year-old son of Mr. Winston Churchill. was wounded In his right leg when he and Mr. Frank Empry. correspondent for 1.N.5.. accompanied an American patrol across the Naktong River into enemy lines last night Mr. Churchill, war correspondpnt in Korea for the
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  • 112 1 From Our staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Thurs ««t» VT Y~' f rpHE first batch of more than 50 police sergeants i— i to leave for England on termlnation of their two-year contract left Kuala Lumpur yesterday and will leave for th? United Kingdom trom Singapore
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  • 183 1 BRUSSELS, Thursday. r»APT. "Turko" Westerling landed in Brussels today on his way back from Singapore. He was told that he would not be allowed to stay here. Westerling was met by a large group of reporters and a few security men. He said he would like
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  • 20 1 TOKYO, Thurs.— An earthquake of "light Intensity" shook buildings in Tokyo at today but caused no damage. U.P.
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  • 25 1 THE HAGUE, Thurs.— Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, Pakistan Foreign Minister, will pay a three -day visit to Holland early next month. Renter.
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  • 94 1 "AMERICA is ready to send a tosen iorce lo A Malaya if Britain agrees", according to the Daily Graphic cables the Straits Times London correspondent. Singapore reaction wa:s "Why send troops to Malaya when American troops are badly needed in Korea? Mr. John
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  • 326 1 Boy Injured As Bomb Explodes A 15-YEAR-OLD breadseller, Koh Ah Mv, was severely injured yesterday afternoon when he tried to open what is believed to be a home-made bomb at his home in the squatter area at the 10th mile Bukit Panjang Road, Singapore. Outside the house
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  • 41 1 NEW DELHI Thurs.— The ashes of the late Colonel Unni Nayar were brought to New Delhi yesterday. The ashes were received at the Willlngdon aerodrome by representatives of the External Affairs Ministry, the Com-mander-ln-Chief and the Press.— GllS
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  • 76 1 LONDON, Thurs. A STRONG rumour that Princess Margaret is engaged to the Earl of Dalkeith swept London yesterday. The Evening Star said that official word of the betrothal "will be the next important event in the Royal Family." As its authority, the Star quoted "friends
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  • 222 1 Malaya Can Aid UK Arms Drive SINGAPORE and the Federation, if given assist the British Government in its nnw the opportunity could defence and re-armn-ment programme, say engineering experts In Singapore They ma'.ntain that Mil can handle $24,000,000 worth of production a year on armament. Small Craft Malaya can build
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  • 47 1 HONG KONG. Ttiura Tha Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonakl. discussed Far Eastern problems day with Hong Koii". civil and military authorities. Presumably, th» dlncuxslon I included problems arising from the dispatch of British forces to Korea, but no official statement was forth" coming.— DP.
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  • 132 2 UK- YEMEN TALKS ON AUG. 29 LONDON, Thurs. BRITAIN and the Arab state of Yemen begin talks next week to improve their uneasy political and economic relations. A Foreign Office spokesman yesterday announced details of the three point agenda which will confront the two countries on Aug. 29. They were:
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  • 76 2 NEW YORK, Thurs.— Mr. Henry Wallace, Progressive Party candidate in the 1948 United States Presidential elections, claimed today that one half of the party's members supported him In his break wtfh the party over Korea. Mr. Wallace recently resigned the leadership of the Left-wing Progressive
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  • 105 2 MADRID, Thurs. pORTY-THREE Spanish youths in General Franco's Fascist Falange Party were drowned in a boating accident. They capsized the launch when they all rushed to one side to save one who fell overboard. More than 70 children were rescued by fishermen. U.P. CALAIS, Thurs pO/JT
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    • 280 2 CAPETOWN, Thursday. a EUROPEAN Muslim, Neville Ormonde, aged 38, and a coloured woman, Dorothy Jobelin, aged 19, were yesterday sentenced to three months' hard labour for contravening the Immorality Act and their wedding was annulled. The orison sentences were suspended for three years on evidence being
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    34 2 PRINCESS ALIX, 20-year-old fifth daughter of the Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, and Prince Antoine de Llffne, 25-year-old Belgian Air Force pilot, leave the Cathedral in Luxembourg after their wedding. A.P. picture.
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  • 28 2 PARIS Thurs.— The former Vichy Vice-Admiral Jean Pierre Esteva, sentenced to life imprisonment for treason in 1945, was today released from prison near here. Reuter.
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  • 41 2 LONDON, Thurs. The 4,892-ton Swedish motor vessel Sven Salen, which yesterday struck a submerged wreck in Manila Bay, was freed from the wreck this morning, a Lloyds' report from Manila said. Damage was confined to the propellor. Reuter.
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  • 181 2 REDS HUNT A-BOMB MATERIAL BERLIN, Thurs. THE British say thai So- viet Russia has stepped up its search for uranium In East Germany to a frantic pace far beyond peaceful needs. A ragged army of 300,000 German men, women and childrei has been drafted by the Russians and their German
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  • 65 2 KARACHI, Thurs. Premier Liaquat All Khan of Pakistan is awaiting an invitation to visit Moscow, he said yesterday. He received an invitation in May of last year, he said, and was asked to go there before Aug. 14. He said that he was unable to
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  • 53 2 TOKYO, Thurs. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry is preparing'to send "comfort bags" to the United Nations troops fighting in Korea. Beginning next week, the Chamber will accept from the Japanese people "pictures of pin-up girls, letters, drawings, souvenirs, trinkets etc," which will be packed into
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    • 420 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS DRAINAGE k IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT PERAK, IPOH Applications ar e Invited for filling four post, as Temporary Surveyors on a salary scale of ($7O A5 85 1 Bar 90 AS J2O Bar 130 AlO 150 B.ir 160 AlO $200 p.m.) plus current rate of c. U of living allowances,
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    • 834 2 NOTICES NOTICE TO IMPORTERS FITTER AND CHEESE Applications for licences to import butter and cheese from Australia/New Zealand, outside the quotas, will now be considered. Applications must be supported by proof that the appropriate authority in Australia/ New Zealand has Issued to the intended supplier a relevant permit to export
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    • 287 2 NOTICES NATURALISATION NOTICE Is hereby given that TAN SEX HERN of No. 3. Ord Road, Singapore, merchant, is applying to the Governor for naturalisation and that any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be zranted should send a written signed statement of the facts to the Colonial
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  • 346 3 India Pakistan Charge Kashmir Is Fault Of The Other KARACHI, Thursday. THE Pakistani Premier, Mr. Liaquat AH Khan, said yesterday that the failure of United Nations mediator, Sir Owen Dixou, to settle the Indo-Pakistani dispute over Kashmir "lies squarely on the shoulders of India." He said: "India put forward demands
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  • 147 3 NEW DELHI. Thursday. pANDIT M 111(1. Indian Prime Minister, today blamed Pakistan for the failure of the United Nations-sponsored negotiations on Kashmir, but added: "There is no intention on our part to indulge in military operations.'* As both an overall plebiscite and a partial plebiscite
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  • 126 3 NEW TIN TALKS IN OCT. lii. Onr Own C >rir»pondrnl LONDON. Thurs. ARRANGEMENTS are being made by the European headquarters of the United Nations for a tin conference c! 50 nations and internai">nul bodies at Geneva on Oct. 25. Reports from Geneva state that the conference will bluffy as its
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  • 59 3 WASHINGTON. Thurs.— The U.S. Senate has passed and sent to the White House a bill extending to June 30, 1956 the authority of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to maintain the domestic tin smelting industry. The House earlier had adopted the Senate-Honv.- conference report which followed
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  • 43 3 LONDON, Thur.s The Admiralty announced yes'.erday that one si>ilor was killed when Russian built Yak fighters bombed and strafed the destroyer Comus off Koroa on Tuesday nisht. it added the damage to the Comm was not yerlous.— UP.
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  • 85 3 DOVER. Thurs. Philip Mickman. 19-year-old British schoolboy today gave up his attempt to swim the Channel from Britain to France only 500 yards off the French coast. For three hours the swimmer tried to reach shore, arguing his father, accompanying him In a launch, who wanted
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  • 68 3 LAKE SUCCESS. Thurs.— Mr. Jacob Malik. Soviet President of the Security Council for August, has informed his Council colleagues that he will observe the usual practice of giving a dinner for them before stepping down from the presidency. It will be held at the
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  • 218 3 SAIGON, Thursday. THE office of the French High Commissioner said x yesterday that captured documents indicate that Communist China has signed a military pact with the Moscow-backed Ho Chi-Minh regime providing for direct intervention in the Indo-Chinese war by Chinese Red troops in support
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  • 42 3 The flag which President Soekarno hoisted on Aug. 17, 1945, when Indonesian independence was first proclaimed, is seen being hoisted m front of the presidential palace m Jakarta on the fifth anniversary of the republic's independence day. —AJ>. picture.
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  • 57 3 DIALIA G.i <Til. heanttfnl 26O year-old Egyptian dancer, who is favourite of Egypt's Kin- larouk (below), dances for her kins during the Franco- Egyptian gala at Deauviilr. where Farouk is holidaying. She is performing a ilancf chosen by Farouk, "Fianree of the Nilr." which tells of
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  • 174 3 NEW YORK. Th\ys. AMERICAN railwaymen last night called a nationwide strike to begin on Monday morning. The call was issued after the collapse of White House negotiations to settle their dispute with the railway companies. About 300,000 trainmen and conductors are involved. They are demanding
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  • 73 3 n.AVBUP.i. Connecticut. Thursday. THE life <-' little Joe Kcrczynski, whose father jesi terday admitted boring: two holes in his chest with a drill, hunt in the balance today at Danbary hospital. Snrgrons said the 3/16 inch bit had narrowly missed the fonr-and-a-harf-ye»r-old boy's heart, and
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  • 212 3 LAKE SUCCESS. Thursday. DRITAIX, France and Belgium yesterday denied charges by the Indian delegate in the United Nations Special Colonial Committee that they were spending money out of proportion" in educating European children in African colonies while neglecting the native population. Mr. Shiva Ran, of India,
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  • 136 3 LONDON, Thurs. F REIGN Office specialists are inrestigating a Peking radio broadcast which they said strongly indicated that the Soviet Deputy Chairman, Mr. V. M. Molotov, was recently in the Chinese Communist capital. The broadcast, in the Tiberat language on Aug. 14. said that "five-nation discussions"
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  • 100 3 PARIS. Thnrs. DE ARMAMENT talks open here today between the British Defence and Economics Ministers, Mr. Shinwell and Mr Hugh Gaitskell. the British Ambassador, Sir Oliver Harvey, and the French Finance and Economics Minister, M. Maurice Petsche. Meanwhile, the Royal Navy is to refit 80 ships
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    • 211 3 )i you want to save money and who doesn't' these days? have some of our under-a-dollar fish every week. There are several delicious yet cheap fish you've probably never tried. Ask the counter assistants to tell you about them GOOD CHEAP FISH COLD STORAGE Singapore Cold Storage Co., I A
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  • 248 4 PLAYERS TO BE INSURED News In Brief SINGAPORE'S FOOTBALLERS are to be Insured against injuries under a scheme proposed by the Singapore Amateur Football Association. The scheme Ls estimated to cost about SlO.000 a year. The association also plans tc engage a coach from Britain at a co.st of another
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  • 131 4 SINGAPORE Malays are making a move to form a 'language council" "to foster and enrich the Malay language". At a meeting called by the Singapore Malay Teachers' Union recently, wellknown Malay literary figures expressed the view that a "language council" was badly needed to meet
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  • 112 4 TO STAND TRIAL AT ASSIZES J£ A. Padmanabhan, a 44- year-old part-time accountant, was yesterday committed to stand trial at the next assizes on two main charges and an alternative charge in connection with a cheque alleged to have been forged for $360. The preliminary inquiry into the case was
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  • 24 4 Singapore had 640 births and 169 deaths in week ending Aug. 19. Chief cause of death was again T.B. with 20 cases.
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  • 122 4 A CONFERENCE of Far East experts on handi- capped children proposed to be held in New Delhi towards the end of this year, may be attended by Malayan delegates. India has expressed a desire to invite the United Nations to organise such a conference
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  • 89 4 from Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. VURTHER supplies of but- ter and cheese qff the quota are obtainable from Australia. Quantities of "free" butter and cheese—obtained outside the British Ministry of Food contract and at a higher price were also bought last year. As a rgsult,
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  • 30 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The price of rubber for assessment of export duty from Aug. 24 to 30 has been fixed at $1.40 per lb.
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  • 27 4 POLICE LANCE CORPORAL training Malay, Indian, and Chinese probationary Asian inspectors at the Federation Police Depot at Kuala Lumpur.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 320 4 Reader's Allegation Answered AN allegation by a Chinese woman who travelled by night mail from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur that she had to pay duty on three used sarongs at Johore Bahru has been investigated by the Comptroller of Customs. He is satisfied that they were
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  • 55 4 I 'rum Our Own Correspondent BL'KIT MERTAJAM. Thurs. A MALAYAN RAILWAY mechanic. Iman Din, told the Province Circuit Magistrate. Inche Abdul Rahman, yesterday that he was "prepared to be "beheaded" if certain tools alleged to be stolen property could be proved to belong to the Malayan
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  • 349 4 War Not Absolutely Inevitable gERTRAND RUSSELL, the famous British philosopher, takes a "very gloomy view" of the world situation today but does not regard another war as absolutely inevitable. Lord Russell arrived in Singapore yesterday from Australia. He is on his way home
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  • 176 4 pASTOR V. T. Armstrong of Thomson Road, Singapore, president of the Far Eastern Division of the General Conference of SeventhDay Adventists, was reelected president by the world delegation of Adventists recently convened in San Francisco. Also re-elected at the session were Pastor C. P. Sorenson, division
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  • 85 4 T'HE new Vicar of Penang, the Rev. Douglas Hobson, arrived in Singapore yesterday with Mrs. Hobson and their 21-month-old son, Peter, by QEA-BOAC Constellation from Sydney. They were met at Kallang airport by the Rev. Kinross Nicholson and Mrs. H. W. Baines, wife of the Bishop of
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  • 61 4 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. Thurs.— Found tapping toddy without a licence. 51-year-old Thamboo was fined $250. with the option of five months' gaol by the President of the Segamat Sessions Court, Inche Abdul Hamid. On a second charge of illegal possession of 10 pints of toddy he
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    46 4 MR. N. S. MENON of the B.M. H. Singapore and Miss X Padmavathi, niece of Mr. K.V. Menon of Singapore, who were married at their home in McPherson Road on Wednesday. There were more than 200 guests at the reception which was held at Cathay Restaurant.
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  • 211 4 rpHE following passengers wen among those who arrived at Kallang airport yesterday from point* outside Malaya on the varlous air services. Passengers in transit are not included in the lUt Q.E.A.-8.0.A.C. From London: Messrs. H. L Crowther. J. D. Kelly, Q.C.M. Strachan E. C. Dewsnup, and MC.
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  • 117 4 Electricity Supply To Hotel MUNICIPAL Commissioners in committee have recommended the expenditure of $115,000 by the Electrical Department for Improving the electricity supply to the Adelphi Hotel. This recommendation will go before the Commissioners for confirmation at their monthly meeting on Thursday. It is proposed to spend $66 000 on
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  • 214 4 Move To Help Welfare Bodies SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners in committee have approv n a draft amendment to the Municipal Ordinance which would exempt properties used for welfare purposes from p:v. of assessment The suggested amen will yo before the full board of Commissioners for confirmation at their monthly nrdinary meeting
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  • 85 4 KUALA LUMPUR Thurs pOLICE are offering a reward- of $2,000 for formation leading to im arrest of two Malay and one Chinese bandits in th»- I.; chang area of Mcntakab in Pahang. The bandits are Samah in Mat Kassim. Mansor bin Abu. and 800 Hce alias Wahid
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  • 28 4 frruni Oji <..-. orrespondem SEGAMAT. Thurs. For falling to take out a licence for his dog 63-year-old Hln Bee was fined $5 by the Segamat Magistrate.
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  • 178 4 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Thursday. I EICESTERSHIRE County Council is having stretch on one of the county's principal trunk roads between Hinckley and Ibstock laid with rubberised asphalt. The stretch Is being divided into four sections of which the first will be normal
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  • 319 5 Concentrated Heavy Dawn-To-Dusk Pounding From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. gOMBERS of the Far East Air Force ran a shuttle service from a Singapore airfield today to pound bandit hide-outs in Johore in attacks which lasted from early morning until well into the evening. After
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  • 191 5 t n.m Oar Own <»t respondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. rpYE TECK HON. clerk and interpreter, Kluang Detention Camp, was charged in the Sessions Court today with having cheated a worn in detainee by falsely telling her that he was in charge of the Mawal Re-settlement (amp,
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  • 37 5 I mm Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Thins.— For abetting an eight-year-old girl to enter the Federation illegally. K >k Chwee Ann, taikong ol ;i vo&sel, lined $25 in the Batu Pahat police court vesterda*
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  • 67 5 V.W.C.A., Raffles Quay. Malay brcinnen class, 9.15 a.m. and o.!3 l< r.i.. Malay advanced class. 10.3J i- in.. Town Pioneers' meeting, -i SINGAPORE CHRISTIAN < Ol NC1L, meeting. Tamil Meihodi.v Church. 1, Short S reet, 5.30 p m. CHINESE Y.M.C.A.. Selegie Rnad. basketball. 5.30 p.m.. Boaia t.f Directors'
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  • 171 5 A REVENUE officer, Leong Seng Wah, was acquitted in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday on a charge of criminal intim fiction by threatening a stallholder with injury and by causing him alarm at the Peoples' Park on June 8. The migistrate. Mr. S. E. Teh, said
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  • 35 5 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The sale of Victory savings certificates, the Income from which is not subject to Malayan income tax. is to end at the end of the year.
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    65 5 THREE VICE-CHANCELLORS of Commonwealth universities arrived in Singapore yesterday by QEA-BOAC from Australia. From left are Dr. S. M. Hussain, Vice-Chan-cellor of Dacca University. Mrs. Faris. Dr. F. C. James, Vice- Chancellor of HIcGM University. Dr. D. W. G. Faris. the Dean of the Medical Faculty of the
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  • 536 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. INHERE there was knowledge of income tax evasion it was the duty of a citizen to report the matter, the Comptroller-General of Income Tax. Mr. R. B. Heasman, told the Straits Times. Mr. Heasman was replying to questions
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  • 142 5 THE Governor has appointed Mr. Paul Sammy to preside over the Juvenile Court constituted under the "Children's Charter." Mr. Sammy has been acting as honorary magistrate trying Juvenile offenders v.nder the criminal laws for the last three years. Under the children and Young Persons Ordinance, the
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  • 48 5 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Thurs. r FHE crew of a tongkang reported yesterday that they had been held prisoners by armed Chinese off the coast of Perak since Ausr. 18. The pirates had stolen their cargo or 35 tons of Sumatra rubber.
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  • 259 5 AN R.A.F.. policeman with a 3,000-mile "beat" will be presented with the Long Service Medal byGroup Captain B. W. S. Smith, Provost Marshal of the Far East Air Command, at a parade at the F.E.A.F. Police School. Telok Paku. Changi tomorrow. He is Warrant Office
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  • 62 5 A 28-year-old Indian, who pleaded guilty to three charges of theft, was sentenced in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to three months' imprisonment on each charge and one year's police supervision. He was Raja Retnam, of Selangor Street, who admitted that he stole two shirts, a
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  • 102 5 THREE vice-chancellors of Commonwealth universities arrived in Singapore yesterday by QEA-BOAC Constellation from Australia eager to take a quick look at the University of Malaya. They were Dr. Cyril James of McGill University, Montreal, Professor J. McKinnell of Natal University, and Dr. S. M.
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  • 29 5 For possessing one gallon of dutiable samsu, Ang Choon, a 33-year-old woman, living in Buona Vista Road, was fined $39 in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday.
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  • 90 5 TpWENTY-FIVE new foreign A companies were registered in the Colony last year. During the same period. Ill local companies with a total nominal capital of $80,940,000 were also registered. The Increase in local companies is a significant indication of the local traders' appreciation of limited
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  • 34 6 I)R MRS. S. SATHIAB, Dr. Mrs. V. Rhjaretnam of late H. M. Hoisington thank all friends Si relatives who fnt wreaths messages of con<"nlenre at the b-.-reavement of their r Mr-- Hannah Sundram.
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  • 655 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Aug. 25, 1950. Seats And Parties A new phase has opened in ihe political development of Singapore with the announcement this week that the Secretary of State for the Colonies has approved the increase in j elected seats in the Legislative Council for which the
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  • 392 6 One recent development in Malay education which Mr. Leonard Barnes will have to consider during the inquiry on which he has embarked at the equest of the Federal Government is the decision to teach English in the Malay primary schools, starting in Standard III. "The introduction of English
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  • 66 6 MALACCA. Thurs. Dr Wilfred Nicholas, senior lecturer in public health at the University of Malaya, arrived at Malacca yesterday on a tour of the Federation to study anti-tubercuiosis work. Today he met Dr. A. L Shield, tuberculosis specialist in the Settlement, Dr. W. Glyn Evans, the Chief
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  • 1775 6 Fourteen Million Dollars A Year An address given by Mr. C. E. Courtenay, Government Adviser to the Malayan pineapple industry, to the Singapore Rotary Club on Wednesday was the most authoritative review of the industry that has been made in public since the war,
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    • 509 6 I NOTICE with some interest that two of your readers, "Symphonic-Minded" and "John TwoDollars." have in Wednesday's Straits Times been so good as to draw attention to certain matters connected with the Singapore Musical Society. "Symphonic-Minded" was of the opinion that the Singapore Press had in its
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    • 168 6 AUR attention h^s been KI drawn by our clients. the Lim Seng Bus Company, Penang, to a letter signed by "Action Please" appearing i n your issue of Aug. 21. Our cllems operate the Green Line route and are obviously the alleged offending transport operators referred
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    • 63 6 I WAS surprised to read in the Sunday Times of Aug. 20 that the Community Church is for sale, and that the reason for its sale is not known even by members of the local church board. You reported that this decision was personal. If so, I
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  • 410 6 On the Ma rgin Export Holiness QUR younger son., who is already showing .signs of money-making ab liry totally lacking in his father, Is now opening up an entirely new line in Singapores export trade with Australia. He orders Chine.se joss sticks at five cenus a packet through his mother,
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    • 83 6 IN RESPONSE TO NUMEROUS r REQUESTS, I Decca has pre-releasfd a SPECIAL RfCORDS of the CAPTIVATING SONGS In that Famous Film: fk WaltDisnevs INDERELi Decca Record F 9449 CINDERELLA' -Selection Intro: "Cinderella": "The Work Song"; "A dream Is a wish your heart makes"; "Bibbidi-Bibbidi-Boo"; "So this is love"; "A dream
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    • 124 6 fr» #^0PTiaiw Fellow Institute Ophthalmic Opticians (bng Fellow Worshipful Co of Spectacle-Makers (EnR << Freeman of the Cifv of London By Appointment to H M Forces. South East Asia 6 Raffles Place Singapore Phono ***** ...~L ~~~i MERTOK BROwST CO. i MARINE ENGINEERS Designers ft Builders of all Types of
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    27 7 A SINGAPORE motor firm has applied for permission to «fll these Czech motor trishas for about 51 .825. One was tested in Orchard Road yesterday.
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  • 149 7 LM.YINCi boats like the Princess, a 10-engined turbo |e| aircraft carrying 110 passengers, may be nut hack on the England-Australia air route hy ltS2. i J Binghan*., station manager for BOAC in Southampton, forecast this on hla arrival In Singapore j i *terda y afternoon
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  • 64 7 FAMILY of 12 lias umong the 65 passengers of a chartered X.L.M. Skymaster ivhich landed at Kullang Airport yesterday on three engines. The plane was carrying Dutch immigrants to Australia and developed engine trouble when it was still an hour off Singapore. But the aircraft
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  • 31 7 An Indian trade delegation to promote trade relations between India and Indonesia, is expected to arrive in Singapore, during the second week of September, on their way to Jakarta.
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  • 342 7 NEW MARRIA GE BILL PUZZLES THE BISHOP THE Methodist Bishop for South-East Asia, Dr. Raymond L. Archer, yesterday said that he was at a loss to understand the bill, gazetted three days ago in the Federation, which validates marriages hitherto solemnised by Methodist ministers Dr. Archer said that he could
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  • 121 7 Labour To Discuss 'Ultimatum' 'THE general council of the Labour Party of Singapore is to meet today to discuss the "ultimatum" given to the Party by its former member and Municipal Commissioner, Mr. Pat Johnson. Mr Johnson has asked the Party to clarify a statement made by its vice-president. Mr.
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  • 50 7 A concert in aid of the church funds will be held tonight at the Foochow Methodist Church, Race Course Road. The concert, which is organised by Mrs. R.N. Fox and Mr. Homer Cheng, features Professor and Mrs Otto Foorman and their students and other guest artistes.
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  • 66 7 The attack on Mr. Chong Thutt Pitt, the Singapore lawyer and president of the Singapore branch of the Malayan Chinese Association, does not appear to bear the Communist stamp, said Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, the Deputy Commissioner, C.1.D., yesterday. Mr. Chong, who was attacked by a
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  • 53 7 A 20-year-old Ceylonese, B. A. Benjamin, of Tanglin Road, was charged in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday with criminal breach of trust of $562.60 on Aug. 23 while In the employ of Messrs. Gattey and Bateman He claimed trial and was granted ball of $250
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  • 136 7 MUNICIPAL labourers who use electricity supplied to their quarters for radios, irons and other power appliances, will have to pay extra for the additional electricity they use. The finance committee o» Municipal Commissioners has approved a warning notice in this connection which will be
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  • 87 7 rE Singapore Dairy Farm Labour Union has asked for a 25 per cent, increase in daily wages, and a housing allowance for employees not provided with housing. The union is also asking for a night allowance and bonus. The management, it is understood has agreed to
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  • 50 7 A 45-year-old woman, Lan Leong Mvi, was yesterday sentenced to one year's simple imprisonment in the Singapore Second District Court for possessing 154 tahils of opium in a house in Neil Road. Notice of appeal was given by Mr. C. H. Koh who appeared for Lan.
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  • 54 7 Ten Indians claimed trial in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to being members of an unlawful assembly and rioting at the hospital attendants' quarters in Tlong Poh Road at midnight on Aug. 23. Bail of $200 was allowed to each man and the case was
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  • 32 7 Mr. Mohammad Razif, the new Indonesian ConsulGeneral in Singapore, is expected to arrive from Jakarta tomorrow to assume his post, says an announcement by the Republic of Indonesia Office yesterday.
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  • 24 7 Surjan Singh was acquitted in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday of behaving in an unruly manner at the Rochore Road police station.
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  • 19 7 Mr. John Dew Haskings, M.C.S., an Assistant Commissioner for Labour, Singapore, has been appointed a Commissioner for Oaths.
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  • 62 7 through the back door A GOOD number of shopkeepers are carrying on business through the back door, with a holiday notice hanging in front of the shops, the Deputy Commissioner of Labour. Mr. C. W. Lyle. told the Straits Times yesterday. He said that checks on shops
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  • 75 7 S.Q.M.S. Watterson of 443 Base Ammunition Depot, has a close look at the second Bukit Panjang bomb before exploding it. With him are the investigating officer, Inspector Zain and a British soldier. The firs! bomb home made injured a 15- year-old boy when n« tampered with
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  • 139 7 They Want To Join The MAAF SIX women and 25 men were interviewed in Singapore yesterday for selection to do radar work in the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force. The women were Mrs. Richard Gray, a 40-year-old mother. Miss Marjorie Bartels. a dancing teacher; Miss E. Lim, a stenographer. Miss Florence
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  • 186 7 MR. Henry Hockstadt, a teacher at the Geylang English School, has returned to Singapore after a year's study of speech training and dramatics in the United Kingdom under a British Council scholarship. Mr. Hockstadt graduated in voice training, phonetics, movements, verse and choral speaking
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  • 38 7 Lee Kah Meow, 21, of Anson Road, claimed trial in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to theft of a fountain pen from Ang Thian Yew. Bail of $200 was allowed until Aug. 31.
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  • 254 7 THE Royal Navy in Singapore wishes to trace a little girl's daddy. Carol, the little girl, has sent her daddy in Singapore a letter and addressed it simply: "To my daddy in Singapore. H.M.S. HUNNO". I Unfortunately there is no such ship in Singapore or
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  • 107 7 Mrs.TanKah Kee For Hong Kong MRS. Tan Kah Kee, wife of the former Malayan Chinese leader, who is now touring Communist China, left on the Canton yesterday for Hong Kong. She was accompanied by two grandchildren, the son and daughter of Mr. Tan Kok Kheng, her eldest son. The party
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  • 41 7 Mr. Edward J. Trost, a new United States vice-consul in Kuala Lumpur, arrived In Singapore yesterday. He succeeds Mr. Allan Mac Lean who has been transferred to Mexico, and will leave for Kuala Lumpur in about a week.
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  • 26 7 Princess Elizabeth has conveyed her "deep appreciation" of the message of congratulations sent by the Singapore Municipal Commission on the birth of her baby.
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  • 50 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.Ng Yew Liang was charged here today with behaving in a disorderly manner by interfering with people quelng up at a cinema. He was fined $3. Ng told the Court that he only climbed the rails and interfered with no one in the queue.
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  • 21 7 Full moon clay celebrations will be held tomorrow at the Buddhist temple, 263 Outram Road, Singapore at 7.15 p.m.
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  • 278 7 AMONG the 30 boys who will report to the Singapore Police Boys' Cadet School when 'it opens o n Sept. 1 will be 12-year-old Chinese twins. The twins, Yap Chew ;m 1 Yap Sun, are bright boys, but like many other Sinp;;ipore youngsters, they fell
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  • 36 7 Fong Peng Fung, manager of the Thai Seng pawnshop in Selegie Road, was fined $100 in the Singapore Fourlli Police Court yesterday for failing to report stolen property lodged with him to the police.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 324 8 FEDERATION SETS UP BODY ON MALAY EDUCATION From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. A COMMITTEE on Malay education, under the chairmanship of Mr. L. Barnes, Director of Social Welfare at Oxford University, has been set up to inquire into "the adequacy or otherwise of the educational facilities available for
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  • 213 8 Yam Tuan At Parade In Seremban 55th BIRTHDAY From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Thurs. A TRIBUTE to the security forces for their "fine work" during the Emergency was paid here this morning by the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan when he addressed the Police and the Malay Regiment at
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  • 87 8 From Our Own Correspondent I JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. WHEN loggers returned to their kongsi after the day's work in a jungle, between Jemaluang and Mercing, they found that one of their party was missing. Owing to the curfew being in force, they were unable to go out
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  • 50 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thurs.— Penant,' Municipal Departments are preparing budget estimates for next year. The Finance Committee will hold a special meeting early next month to consider the 1951 draft budget. This will be formally introduced at the Municipal Commissioners meeting in early November.
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  • 61 8 DRANK- BUT ONLY ONCE A YEAR From Our Own Correspondent BUKIT MERTAJAM. Thurs. /CHARGED with having hidden five pints or toddy among \j some weeds. Thalakodi, a fortune teller, said in court yesterday that bis income was so small he could not afford to drink. "I drink but once a
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    56 8 SIR HOWARD FLOREY, Professor of Pathology at Oxford University (left) who played a big part m the discovery of penicillin, pictured at Kallang airport, Singapore yesterday afternoon with Professor R. G. S. Macgregor of the University of Malaya who met him on his arrival from Australia. He is on hia
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  • 180 8 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Thursday. MR. Justice Charles Abbott, at the Seremban High Court yesterday, sentenced Juhin bin Hassan, a kampong Malay, to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for attempted murder by shooting a woman. Ho Lin Yin, aged 20, a rubber tapper, with
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  • 107 8 Crowd Says Farewell To Students TtfORE than 300 people gathered at Singapore docks yesterday to bid farewell to 90 Malayan students returning to Hong Kong in the Canton. As the liner drew away from the quayside a few excited spectators almost fell into the sea in enthusiastic attempts to yell
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  • 20 8 The annual meeting of the Mohammedan Starlight Club will be held at 101 Onan Road, Singapore, on Sunday.
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  • 78 8 From Oar Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Thurs. An Indonesian woman, Latifah binte Omar, who pleaded guilty to a charge of illegal entry into Malaya was fined $50 at Malacca. The prosecution said that Latifah came to Malacca from Indonesia in a fishing boat. When she applied for
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      43 9 A scene from Paramount's thrill-a-jninute drama "Captain Carey. U.S.A." Alan Ladd gets Francis Lederer in a corner and lets him have it. Some of the other characters who appears in the film are seen on the right. CELIA LOVSKY WANDA HENDRIX LUIS ALBERNI
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      842 9 Cinema news by J. C. BEHAGUE r»HILD prodigies! So often has this critic had to endure the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune listening to the squeaks and squawks of mothers' darlings— usually spoilt brats quite devoid o f any sense of true musical appreciation that it was
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      128 9 CARL "Alfalfa" Switzer of "Our Gang" fame celebrated his 15th year as a screen personality by joining the cast of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Cause For Alarm." The young actor, remembered as the freckle-faced boy of the famed Hal Roach comedies, will play the role of a reckless driver in the
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    • 317 9 ><+r*jjjfW ATM AS <4j!i&Ly& TODAY! STOP! LOOK! T and laugh tsJ^r-aSjM//, with RED SKELTON (^m^ THE VEIIOW m mm m CAB MAN PIUS! "MOMENTS IN MUSIC Featuring Jose lturhi, Stokowski, Nelson Eddy and Jranrttr .Mac Donald. Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Mario Lanza etc. An M.G.M. TECHNICOLOUR CARTOON "Heavenly Puns" and
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    • 166 9 s^Tn^ mil Now showing BETTY at her Bubbling Bumptious Be-Dazzling Best/ .■'^mßff 1 SIMCAPOHK A COLON BY VICTOR _______i Tr*i||t|fini nn v *m _H____ h'L EXTRA THE SPECTACULAR "WilKemina" Dance Number will be staged on the Ma^nascreen, TOMORROW M'NITE! Belvedere is Back! this, my great- k mtgKfa __B_Di_r <st ptrform-
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 217 9 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD _w. _T5_n M VfiSrUST of op CROSSWORD No. 149 s.^ anu d r:™,^, ub r M 2 M' LJ 4 LJ_LT LJ 7 ET •£r^=.^ b sl gfF'-^" IHIi_i_ilI_i_I_ 10. Large game-fish (6). sl Dislike a tranilatlon (8). i T §§8 10 12. Thl» rose ii affected
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  • 696 10 Island wo man does a man's job 'I^HIS is the story of a woman who was born and brought up on the little island of Pulau Sudong about ten miles away from Singapore. A idas parents and grandparents have also been inmates of that island all their lives. When Aida
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  • 280 10 Cookery Corner CJOME books bid you use a *>• custard foundation; some cream; and some even flour! But what I do use is half a teaspoonful of dissolved gelatine or two tablespoonsful sweetened calve's foot Jelly and I beat mv Ice at least twice during the
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  • 418 10 MO matter what its colour or texture, hair can be beautiful If it is healthy and kept in immaculate condition. Shining lustrous hair is a tremendous asset to good looks, so many styles are possible with it, and a permanent wave wi.'t take so tiuch
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    51 10 Phyilis Battleson, centre, was chosen as "Miss New York City 1950" m a beauty contest at the Riti-Carlton Hotel, New York She will compete for the "Miss America" title next month m Atlantic City. On left is the first runner-up. Gloria Olson, and right. Jacquie Jouffhrey, second runner-up. Paul PoPPer
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  • 527 10 MONEY may be the roo of all evil, but the lack of money Is the cause of even more evil and distress. Take the Y.W.C.A. for instance. In order to carry on its work every year, it has to appeal for funds, and to augment
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 246 10 S'PORB I»OMFO» Newt: 9.45 "Just Unpacked"; 955 am. Music; 10 Emergency 10 JO Dance Music; 11 Close, 10 a.m. News, followed by Emer- News- 10.10 Close; 12-2 p.m. As gency New. from K.L, 10.10 Clo*; J^/lJV^VKilJ 4.45 PJ n. "F^'the London 12 Malay; 1 pjn. Light Music; 1.30 Vorhe e
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  • 310 11 LONDON, Thurs. PAUTION and hesitancy In the London Stock Exchange today followed the warning given by the Prime Minister to trade union chiefs of the grave international crisis facing Britain. Business m all sections was small and m some instances the trend was to lower levels. Closing middle
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  • 118 11 From A Market Correspondent T'lN shares remained quietly steady yesterday, with 1 some small London Interest. Industrials were very steady, Rubbers had practically no interest. Price chaftiges announced r yesterday by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: I MM MKU1.1 Bayers B.B. Petrol 28/Fraser Neave Ords
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  • 177 11 From A Market Correspondent T<HE oopra market opened at $45 A per plcul In Singapore yesterday and some business was reported at $45%. With the steady tone, buyers went up to $45%, but sellers withdrew. The coconut oil section was nrm yesterday with the better copra price,
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  • 186 11 SHIPS in the Singapore Outer and Inner Roads and alongside Harbour Board codowns yesterday were: Outer Roads: Hal Hsuan, Chip Lam, Chanpara, M. Brander, Audex, Madoera. Dukat. Toboali, Straat Malakka, Ionian Moon. Kocho Maru, Waiwerang. Inner Beads: Man tin. Tung Hua. Kotanlca, Kelantan, Tung
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  • 33 11 Singapore. Than., Aug. 24— $390.62i (down $6.37i.) £810 a ton in London LONDON, Thurs.. Aug. 24. Spot: £805— £815; Forward, £805— £815; Settlement. £810. Turnover: a.m. 10 tons.
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  • 107 11 58 Per Cent. In Taxation From Our Own correspondent LONDON, Thurs. AT the annual meeting of Din- dings Rubber Estates the chairman, Mr. W. O. T. Packard announced that £3,696 had had to be provided out of the profit of £0,334 to meet Malayan income tax and United Kingdom
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  • 32 11 JJEW SCUDAI shareholders, at the annual meeting in Singapore, adopted the report and accounts and approved payment of a first and final dividend of five per cent, less Income tax.
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  • 30 11 HONO KONG, Thurs. ■pREE market currency exchange A for Hong Kong dollars was quoted today as follows: US$l, HK56.32. £1, HK515.50; one tael of gold HKS3OO.— UP.
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  • 271 11 RUBBER JJUBBER took another big price jump (12 cents a lb.) in Singapore yesterday, partly as a result of the rise in New York, and partly as a result of some factory and near shipment buying. In two days, the market has Improved by 22 cents.
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    • 423 11 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA CEYLON. INDIA. ECYPT and MEDITERRANEAN PORTS b'-jore P S'ham Pansng Pres. Buchanan Cdns. 4/5 Sails 27 Aug. 28/29 Aug. JO Aug./1 Sept. Pres. Harding 6/10 Sept. 11/12 Sept 13/15 Sept E ref Y<? Mren 20 24 *••>♦• 2 5 /26 *««>♦
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  • 633 12 Pegasus A Iso Has Trained On By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. LM I I- TILL, a handsome three-year-old bay by Full Bloom, did a splendid gallop this morning when he left another newcomer, Independence, standing in a smart sprint down the straight. Mickey
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  • 60 12 BOMBAY, Thurs. MALAYAN badminton player Tan Jin Eong joined his countryman A. PiruE in the quarter-finals of the Cricket Club of India championships today by defeating G. P. Shirke of India. 15—6. 15—4. Piruz qualified for the quarter-finals on Wednesday with an overwhelming victory of
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  • 359 12 Zatopek And Holden Score Great Wins Brussels, Thurs. EMIL Zatoj.ek, Czech Olympic champion, broke his owr official work' record in winning the 10,000 metre in 29 min. 12 sec. on the opening day of the European athletic championships yesterday. The official lecord is 29 min. 21.2 sec. but the Czech
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  • 198 12 DLAYING fust, snappy footI ball, Fraser and Neave Sports Club defeated Simc Darby Sports Club by five goals to one in a Business Houses "A" league game at Oeylang stadium yesterday. Though Sime Darby scored first hrough Hussein In the opening minutes ol the game,
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  • 188 12 R.A.F. Combined 2; Indians Combined 0. /COMBINED Airmen defeated Indians by two goals J to nil in the Community League match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. It was Indians' first game in the League. Param and S. Y. All, Indians' chief goal-scoring hopea for their Bardhan
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  • 31 12 THE FREE PRESS Form Guide for the Selangor Turf Club meeting which begins tomorrow appears today in a special supplement which includes turf features by Allan Lewis.
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  • 163 12 ELEVEN schoolboys from all parts of the United Kingdom who are now on their summer vacation in Singapore enjoyed a rollicking boys' golf competition played over nine holes at the Island Club yesterday. The ages of the competitors ranged from nine to
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  • 313 12 The second round draw for the S.A.F.A. Junior Cup competition is: R.A.F. Tengah v Town Rangers or Blue Rovers; Cosmos or C.8.A. v Police. 8.HJB. Aux. Police or 30 Bn. R.A.O.C. v IRC "A"; H. M. Dockyard or Cheerful Lads v CYMA; Mental Hospital v Aston or
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    46 12 F Ait M Blackpool goalkeeper, savins from Bennett. Tottenham Hotspur inside-left m the Football League (First Division) match at White Hart Lane, London, last Saturday. Spurs, promoted from last year and making their first appearance m the First Division for 15 years, lost four-one. Reuter photo.
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  • 323 12 LETTERS TO THE SPORTS EDITOR f N WEDNESDAY'S Straits Times, there was a 1 report about the Singapore Chinese A.A.F. barring the Swifts from competing in the Malayan Chinese Athletic Meet. I have followed athletics in Malaya very closely and I have noticed the successes of
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  • 91 12 O.C.A.A.F.'s decision to bar the KJ Switt Athletes from competing In the Malayan Chinese A.A.A. meet, harsh though it may seem, is fair under the circumstances. S.C.A.A.F. cannot be expected to sacrifice their regular and loyal athletes for those who throughout the season found it more convenient to
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  • 246 12 New I.A.A.F. Rule Affects Colonies BRUSSELS, Thurs. COMMONWEALTH athletes A* will be affected by a nev rule, governing international athletic meetings and qualifications of competitors, which was passed when the International Amateur Athletic Federation Congress continued here today. In future, In Olympic Games and European championships, citizens of a colony
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  • 102 12 "THE Hong Kong Chinese football team have cabled the Malayan Chinese F.A. hon secretary, Mr. Choo Kwai Low, that they will leave Hong Kong today at 7 a.m. to arrive in Singapore this evening. Eight fixtures have been tentatively allocated to the tourists. The inter-port Ho
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  • 724 12 By OUR BADMINTON REPORTER HPHE Singapore badminton season enters a most x interesting phase this week-end with the Singapore Badminton Association's junior championships reachng their final stages and the open championships starting. For the past few years the open event has always posed the
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  • 42 12 LONDON. Thui. and Surrey, wfcti are r^h the County crlcke, champions!<io. botb lined Bni Innln i today. Scorp; wereAt Manrheslrr. Warwick M, I-ancs 87 for 1 irain». At The Oval. Surrey Bad in for 8. Worcester 175. Heater.
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  • 28 12 SOUTHENI Thursday. Bno* ained a lead of 16 runs on West :ndies today. Scores: Bsaex md 49 for 3. W. liul ißailev 5 for 44). Reuter.
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  • 42 12 SOCCER: Community 1,.;*: Kurasians v CMmm a( I -'m Besar stadium: Business Hs^ B: Cable TTtllllM v Borneo v('. al C.pylang; Jnr. Cup-tie: C'>*mos S.C. v Chinese S. V il 8.0.D.; Business Bm. R: Btrtlla rimes v Chartered Rank. CYMA.
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    • 695 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from page ff) ACCOMMODATION WANTED KUROPEAN Company urgently i ■niires furnished or unfurnished ii" or house. "Phone 5217 OFFICER and family require 111 1 c or bungalow. Furnished or nished. For Ist Sept. or Box No AlB7O. S.T. '•IKRICAN Company urgently I «mall modern house or flat
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    • 20 12 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 10.24 a.m. (8ft. 2in.) jnd 9 p.m. (8ft.). TOMORROW: 11.02 (8ft. Sin.) ar.d 10.01 p.m. Oft. 4in.).
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    • 14 12 1, Vfer N E DICTI ME DOM I* Ai.«». THE EASTERN A6ENCIES (1946) LTD.
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