The Straits Times, 16 September 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times. MAI^iYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    ALLIES LAND BEHIND RED LINES
    788 1 US Spearheads Thrust Towards Seoul: South Koreans Take Kunsan TOKYO, Friday. T TNITED Nations forces have landed in the heart of Communist South Korea, and were tonight driving for Seoul, the capital, spearheaded by paratroops. Kimpo town and airfield, only 1O miles from Seoul, was
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    FORTY YEARS A SAILOR
    44 1 AN OI l» SALT flri h ni-»r-f.rin i ir» .>i .s-a. < tp'iin Nil>, Lakrn of the T>-ifa. now atongftMf K tinrr stoi >;>t tin »'»ies fi mi i;;r l.iliO \i-,ir oM \ikii.!; town "f Tniis--I»t<. in Nsrwa?.- Straits Times picture.
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    NEW RED DRIVE IN CENTRE
    167 1 TAEGU FRONT. Friday. n'HK Communists launched a full scale attack tuday along tlie west and part of the northern sectors of the Ijviited Nations front in South-east Kurea. By nightfall, however. Allied troops had regained most of the lost ground. An Eighth Army spokesman said
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    INDIAN STABBED
    34 1 PTfltfTWiy. a 42-year old Indian fitter employed by thei P \F in SmTanore. vas last i I stabbed on the .s ■> inch, shoulder, left eye itnH nose. Police have arreste an Inrit?n.
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    Lightning Strikes 60 Senseless
    75 1 Lightning Strikes 60 Senseless GAUHATI. (Assam*, Fri. TWO teachers and a pupil v eve killed when lightning struck a hicli school 20 miles from here today. Doctors who rushed there found 60 boys unconscious. Thirteen tremors shook the Upper Assam town of Dibrugarh thi s morning The epicentre was believed
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    AIR AGREEMENT
    19 1 RANGOON. Fri. Sweden Ia nd Burma have concluded a reciprocal air t ran. sport i agreement. Reuter.
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    Home One Hour, Back With Navy
    226 1 EXACTLY one hour after he had reacned home with his demobilisation papers in his pocket. Marine David Lynch was called up again, and arrived at Singapore yesterday to serve in H.M.S. Unicorn "until the present emergency is over." H* was one of 800 naval
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    RED DIPLOMACY
    23 1 HONG KONG. Frl Peking Radio, in a broadcast today, announced the establishment of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and Communist China. Reuter.
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    G.B.S. IS NOT SO WELL
    58 1 LUTON, Fri.— Doctors said today that the condition of Mr. Oeorge llernard Shaw was "rather less satisfactory." A eurologist (specialist in diseases of kidney and bladder» will see Mr. Shaw today. —Reuter. The Singapore Animal Lovers League has telegraphed to Mr. Shaw the 2,000 members'
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    N.Z., Australia Dock Strikes
    59 1 SYDNEY, Frl. Dock, labourers at all New Zealand ports and In Australia's biggest port Sydney— are on strike. The Sydney strike U over the suspension of 50 men who demanded eight hours pay for five hours' work on Wednesday. The New Zealand strike Is In support
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    18-7 FOR MARSHALL
    25 1 WASHINGTON. Fri. The House Armed Services Committee today approved 18-7 the bill to allow General Marshall to become Secretary of Defence. UP.
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    NEW DEPUTY TO C.-G. NAMED
    137 1 VjR. W. Addis, Colonial SeITI cr? tary f or Bermuda, has been selected as deputy Commissioner General for Colonial Affairs South-East Asia in succession to Sir Ralph Hone, who assumed office in January M Governor and Coramtn-der-ln-ChJei of North Borneo. Mr. Addis is married and
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    Reds Plan Blow At U.K. Industry
    198 1 LONDON, Friday. r PHK Labour Minister, Mr. George Isaacs, today confirmed reports that Communists are planning to cause serious industrial unrest in Britain. He told Parliament: "Meetings are being held this' Weekend with only one object to disorganise our essential services". The Labour Minister
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    51 KILLED BY P.I. QUAKE
    76 1 MANILA. Fri. piFrY-ONE persons were killed by an eruption nf tlitxik Hibok volcano, in the Philippines, it was announced here tonight. The volcano is on Camiquin Island, near the north coast of Mindanao, on the southern Philippines. *rr onslv injured, the Ph. lippinrs presidential palare
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    AIR FLOW FROM U.K. BEGINS
    35 1 LONDON. Fri The first detachment of British troop reinforcements f'^r Korea 33 men of the Argyll and Suther and Highlanders left Lyneham airfield. Wiltshire. i Hastings aircraft early jr.- Reuter.
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    'Warned Of Attack 6 Weeks Before'
    324 1 'Warned Of Attack 6 Weeks Before LAKE SUCCESS Frl. r PHE United Nations x Korean Commission yesterday disclosed that South Korea's intelligence chief had warned it six weeks in advance that a Communist attack was imminent, but that the U.S officials did tnt believe him. Tltta was revealed in ttM
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    "Look After Munitions"
    78 2 HONG KONG, Fri. A SPOKESMEN for the Chinese Foreign Ministry today said that the People's Government has instructed the Bank of Canton to Hong Kong to "safeguard a shipment of munitions" now stored to a Colony godown. The bank, the spokesman said, bought the arms shipment from
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    Pharoah's Bean Weighed 31 Ib, Fed 26
    245 2 PITTSBURGH Fri. A SUBURBAN Pittsburgh gardener boasts that he apparently has the direct descendant of the fairy-tale beanstalk. The Pittsburgh beanstaik. climbing a tall poplar tree, is more than 50 ft. high and has beans 4 ft. lons, weighing up to 31 Ib.
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    80LettersOf Love, Hate At Appeal CABLE PLASHES
    166 2 80LettersOf Love, Hate At Appeal CABLE PLASHES LONDON. Fri. MORE than 80 letters of mingled love and hate written from his home In Frederick-street, Sittlngboume. Kent, were read to Toronto when an ex-RAF man James Fosbraey, aged 29, appealed against the death sentence. Fosbraey stabbed his Canadian red-hatred wife June,
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    UNPAID PHONE BILLS—£7OO,OOO
    33 2 UNPAID PHONE BILLS— £7OO,OOO wniw% TOKYO, Friday. UNPAID phone bills in Japan up to Sept. It amounted to about 7-0.W0.000 yen (£7W,oof Sterling- the Telecommunications Ministry an nounced on Sept IS Rev ter.'
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    RED MISTAKES LED TO | LANDINGS
    383 3 RED MISTAKES LED TO LANDINGS Waited To Assess Allied Strength By HUGH BAILLIE, President of UP. SOMEWHERE IN KOREA, Friday. fENERAL MAC ARTHUR is known to believe that the North Koreans made a fundamental mistake in extending their supply lines in Korea until they are dangerously thin, and of this
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    Funeral Of Gen. Smuts
    112 3 PRETORIA. Fri. 1 THOUSANDS of mourner? stood In silence today a; the funeral service for Oen. Smuts wa s held here In the Transvaal Mother Church of the Dutch reformed faith, the Oroote Trek. Among the mourners were the Prime Minister of South Afrca. Dr. Danlei
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    CAPTIVE RED RIDES ON TANK
    25 3 NOUTH KOREAN prisoner rides the turret of a U.S. tank after brim: flushed .mt of padi fields. A.P. radio picture.
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    WELCOME TO THE HOME GUARD
    131 3 LONDON, Friday. THE Conservative Daily Telegraph, commenting today on the Malayan Home Guard. we»f o ";*J the provision t*.»t part-time service would be both compulsory and selective. Thus are removed the only i g'.ounds on which the wis- dom of setting up the Home Guard
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    Free World Must Be Stronger
    99 3 NEW YORK. Fri. THE Big Three Foreign Minlsters agreed last night that immediate effective j steps must be taken to i strengthen the defence of the free world in Asia and Europe They said that this is the most urgent problem confronting them now. i
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    LOYAL TOAST OUT
    29 3 NEW DELHI. Pri. The President of India, rather than a King of England, will be toasted at Army regimental dinners henceforth, a new order states. A.P.
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    60 Western Union Divisions Is Aim
    386 3 LONDON. Friday. BRITAIN'S Defence Minister, Mr. Emanuel Shin- well, revealed last night that the target of the Western Union defence organisation was close to 60 divisions, but thi, force would not be assembled he said, until 1953 and 1954. This announcement was made shortly
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    SYDNEY FAREWELL
    37 3 MISS NOLDAH WATSON bids farewell to her fiance, Set. J. R Graham, before he loives by plane from Sydney for Korea. He is a Tetetan of the Middle Cast and New Gainea campaigns. A.P pirlurr
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    PRINTERS FOR U.S.
    23 3 LONDON, rrl. British printers will send a delegation to the United States next year to study Uthographich printing methods. A.P.
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    S. Africa May Send Indians Home
    135 3 DURBAN, Friday. A RESOLUTION urging the deportation of Indians from South Africa is one of the proposals on racial segregation to be discussed at the Nationalist Party conference in Durban next Tuesday The conference will be at- tended by Dr R. E. Malan, the
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    SCANDAL IN JAP DIET ALLEGATIONS
    116 3 TOKYO, Frl. CTRONG rumourg of a scandal allegedly Involving Diet members and possibly leaders of the Liberal Party, which la In power, made front-page headlines in Japanese newspaper yesterday. The rumours alleged that the Japan Electric Generation and Transmission Company had distributed from 10,000,000 to
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    BID TO END DISPUTE
    64 3 NEW DELHI. Fri.— A Foreign Ministry official last night announced that the Indian Government is "anxious to settle all outstanding disputes with Pakistan by peaceful methods, negotiation, mediation and arbitration" and has begun correspondence with the Paki.s'an OoTernment. He said that Kashmir, the main bone of
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    ANTI-WOMEN BUS STRIKE
    56 3 LONDON. Fri— More than half of central London's bus routes were crippled today as 14,000 of the city's 40,500 bos drivers and conductors defied a union order to return to work. Several hundred women conductors also stopped although the strike started on Wednesday as a protest against
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    Denationalisation
    24 3 WELLINGTON. Frl^-The Conservative Premier. Mr. Sidney Holland, today Introduced a bill to restore I unworked coal In N«W Zm*-\ (and to private ownership.—
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    Help East Or 'It May Turn Away'
    225 3 Help East Or 'It May Turn Away' PARIS Fri. 1 1 R D. R. Jayawardene, Ceylon's Finance Minister. jsterday warned developed countries of the West that if more substantial help was not forthcoming from them for the under-developed countries of the East, a population of 600,000,000 would "find that primal
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    U.S. To Discuss Jap Treaty
    172 3 U.S. To Discuss Jap Treaty WASHINGTON. Friday. PRESIDENT Truman said yesterday he has in- structed the State Department to start discussions concerning a peace treaty with Japan. He told a news conference also, in a formal statement: "We have long pressed the U.S.S.R. for an Austrian treaty and we are
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    GOODS ON HARD TO GET LIST
    72 3 PHILADELPHIA, Kri ".IK BENJAMIN FairItl less, president of the U.S. Steel Corporation, hint ed yesterday th»t mounting drmands for steel may put supplies for automobiles and refrigerators on the hard to get list. He said that military demands for steel so far have been
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    MYSTERY BLASTS
    46 3 LIVERPOOL. Frl.— Blx mysterious explosions In the Irish Sea rocked the 869-ton coasting vessel Baronscourt, its captain reported on arrival yesterday. The explosions occurred In quick succession about 150 yards from the ship when she was about 12 miles off the English coast.— Reuter.
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    'TOO TIRED'TO MOVE ON
    68 4 'TOO TIRED' TO MOVE ON "Why did you not leave the premises when ordered to do so?" the Singapore Second Police Magistrate. Mr. S. E Teh, asked Tan Woon Taw who was charged yesterday with trespassing in a sawmill at Tanjong Rhu on Sept 9. Tan, pleading guilty, said that
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    NO LICENCE
    30 4 From Our Owa nrrrspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Frl— For selUng vegetables In his shop without a licence, Wong Peck Hua was fined $10 in the Johore Police Court yesterday.
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    GREEN FOR A-BOMB MINERAL
    184 4 I From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. \jINERS In the Federation are urged to keep a close watch for green flakes of torbenlte. a uranium-bearing mineral used for atom bombs, says the 1949 annual report of the Geological Survey Department published today. "Although the prospects
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    Kallang Air Arrivals
    175 4 *pHE following were among those who arrived all i Kallang airport yesterday. i Passengers in transit are not included in the list. K.LJM. From Jakarta: Messrs. D. T. Atkins. T. B. Bhoj anl, Jose M. Briones. Chan Chi Kong. J. Dlpomall. 8 R. OulrajanJ. P. H. Hopkins.
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    UNLICENSED SHED
    30 4 Lowtoo Singh, a milk seller living in Lorong J, Telok Kurau, was fined 125 in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday for keeping cattle in an unlicensed shed.
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    M.Cs TO SPEND $375,000 FOR A BRIGHTER li SINGAPORE
    310 4 VINE more of Singapore's main city thoroughfares and two in the rural districts are to be lit up next year under a proposed $375,700 electricity street lighting programme now before the Municipal Commissioners. The 1951 programme will complete the first Five-Year
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    LIGHT STATUE MAY BE MOVED AGAIN
    155 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. U IIK.V the Penang Esplanade is renovated, the Settlement Government and the George Town Municipality may choose a new site for the statue of Captain Francis Light near where the Settlement's founder hoisted the British flag. The Settlement
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    Penang May Get Own Mayor Soon
    284 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. IF the response by the Penang electorate at next year's Municipal elections is sufficiently enthusiastic, there is no reason why George Town should not have an elected mayor "in the near future". Th» vinnirinal Prpslrlpnt. i The Municipal
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    SINGAPORE UMNO TALKS ON SUNDAY
    32 4 THE Singapore Malay Union is to hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to consider a proposal by a group of Malays in Singapore to form an UMNO brancti.
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    MALAYAN MONEY
    26 4 The Commissioners of Currency announce that at the end of June. $461,597,044.50 was in circulation, comprised of $429,306,018.66 in notes and $32,289,025.84 in coins.
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    Tribute To Bus Employees
    113 4 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri A TRIBUTE to bus com- pany employees in the Federation lor carrying on despite the risks involved is paid by the Commissioner for Road Transport, Xr. A. A Forward, in hit annual report for 1949 issued, today. "Bus company
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    Awards To 19 S'pore Scouts
    158 4 Awards To 19 S'pore Scouts NINETEEN boy scouts in Singapore will on Oct. 7 be presented with King's Scout Certificates by the Chief Commissioner at a parade at Government House after being inspected by the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson. Another scout. Patrol Leader V. Samson de Silva, will be presented
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    STOLE PLANKS
    41 4 Llm Say Kee, a 50-year-old labourer, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to theft of four planks valued at $2 from Sber Bahadar In Depot Road on Aug. 18. He was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.
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    RABBI ELECTED PRESIDENT
    166 4 OABBI Jacob Shababo. of the Singapore Jewish community, has been elected president of the Inter-Rell-glous Organisation of Singapore and Johore Bahru. at meeting held this week He succeeds Mr. Sek Hong Choon. Mr. A. K. Isaac, a Christian. tMSkinf at 'the meeting OH "Religion and Nationalism In
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    URGENT CALL CAME TO S'PORE
    352 5 Trainees 'Bagged 9 A Johore Bandit fTHE Ist Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, at present operating in the Bentong area on the Siamese border, claimed their first terrorist two months ago, it can now be revealed. The Battalion was then in Singapore on jungle training. On July
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    FIRST KILL FOR HIS BATTALION
    29 5 I'M V ATE BRIAN CiUIFHTHS was 18 whrn he claimed the first kill for the Ist Battalion Worcestershire Regiment in Malaya.—Army P. R. picture.
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    BUSMEN DEMAND DAYS OFF
    163 5 A TOTAL of 367 employees of six bus companies '.n Singapore are demanding weekly holidays and .will seek Government legislation. If necessary, to achieve their purpose. They said they were at prtsfnt having to work seven <Jaya in the week and had to "keep very late
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    2 Printers Fined
    86 5 TWO men appeared in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday In three separate cases of printing documents without the names of the printer and of the Sett:e:r.ont in which they were printed. Lew Kee Cheng, manager of the Singapore Royal Printers. Jalan Sultan, was nned $500 and
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    Caught Plane After Car Accident
    141 5 WHEN the police van in which he and others were travelling crashed into a tree yesterday morning a British police officer from the Federation, Sgt C M. Cook, emerged shaken but unhurt and was rushed to Kallang airport to reach it Just in time to
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    TWO WIN MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY
    72 5 From Our BUff C«rre«*«aa>at KUALA LUMTUR, Fri. FLICE Corporal Sa'at bin Abdul Rahman and Constable Zainuddin bin Hajl Kerhil. attached to Kerbau Police Station. Johore. have been awarded the Colonial Polite Medal for gallantry. Corporal Sa'at was in charge of the station when it was
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    FUNERAL OF BUS OWNER
    48 5 Singapore's 11 private bus companies cent 20 omnibuses to the funeral of Mr. Chung Pah Heng yesterday. A pioneer bus owner. Mr. Chonfc died on Saturday. He was one of trie founders of the Green Bus Company. The funeral procession was two miles lone.
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    15 MONTHS' BOND
    51 5 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. The See Koon who pleaded guilty to possession of fire packets of chandu and 23 pllis of chandu. was conditionally discharged by the Be*sions Court on his entering Into a bond tv $100 to be o/ good behaviour (or 15
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    HARBOUR BOARD
    25 5 Mr. D. H. Palmer has beeni appointed a member of the' Singapore Harbour Botrd for a farther three years from I Sept. 15.
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    Yesterday's Singapore Brides
    50 5 PICTURED AFTER their weuding at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, yesterday, are (left) Miss Kathleen Asthore Doherty of Batu Pahat, and Mr. Kenneth Gordon Fenwick Irwin, a police officer; and (right) MsH Joan Wallace Baldwinson. of Singapore, and Mr. Geoffery William Morton, of Nottingham, England.— Straits Times pictures.
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    Court Dismisses $30,000 Claim
    321 5 I CANNOT doubt that, at any rate for some time, there existed the relationship of principal and agent between the defendant and the plaintiff", said Mr. Justice Thorogood yesterday in the course of a written judgment dismissing a claim for $30,000 brought by Lim Eng Slang
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    WORKERS WANT BENEFITS SCHEME
    91 5 WHEN Singapore Municipal employees hold their annual conference on Sept. 30. a resolution will to moved to press their union the Municipal Services Union to formulate immediately the Benevolent Benefits Scheme provided under the union's roles. This Is one of the resolutions to be introduced at
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    Week's Rise In Rubber
    206 5 RUBBER prices have again Improved during the past week, with a fair turn-over, says Lewis -and Peat's market report, issued yesterday. BeUer inquiries tor remilied grades hare beea received from ali consuming centre* for near and early-next-year shipment. Large quantities of rubber cjd•inue to arrive from
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    JUDGE LEAVES SINGAPORE
    60 5 Mr. Justice Thorogood, wjjp leaves Singapore today with Mrs. Thorogood on leave before retirement, delivered his final judgment In the Supreme Court yesterday. Mr. J. K. Gale wished him a happy retirement. Mr. Justice Brown, who has been acting as Attorney-Gen-eral in the Federation for the past
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    DEFEATED M.C. QUITS PARTY
    93 5 DEFEATED M.C. QUITS PARTY MR. Hassan All Jivabhal, who was returned to the Singapore Municipal Commission In 1948. but was defeated as Progressive Party candidate In the 1949 elections, yesterday announced his resignation from the Progressive Party. He told the Straits Times yesterday that he proposed to stand for Municipal
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    ACTOR'S WIDOW IS SENT FORTRIAL
    150 5 ACTOR'S WIDOW IS SENT FORTRIAL T»AN Ah Lek, a 25-year-A old woman, waa yesterday committed for trial on a charge of assisting in the disposal of her husband's body, which was found more than two years ago in a disused air-raid shelter at Bukit Timah. The hearing was before the
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    JUNE EXAM RESULTS
    62 5 At the June examination* of the Society of Commercial Accountantg, Bristol, held in the Unive^lty of Malaya, the following were successful Intermediate. Ng Soo Peng. Final Part One: Tay Choon Woo; Lee Chin Seng; Chiang Kalr Tong; Kee Gim Huat; I- |m Khoon Chua; Final Part Two:
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    HARI RAYA HAJI
    44 5 JOHORE BAHRTJ. Fri The Religious Affairs Department, Johore, has notified. Muslims that Harl Raya Hajl falls on Bept. 23. which will be a public holiday in the Btate. Harl Raya Haji on Sept. 22. will be a public holiday In Selangor.
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      159 5 Spore Week-End Diary SINCAPOBt TEACHERS darln $rrvl'-e. 4 p.m.. Special film CNION. protest meeting. 331. show for members of Cosmopolitan North Bridge Roid. 930 a.m. Club, 7.30 p.ii. t HIVEBK y.M.C.A.. Bel;gip Road. BUDDHIST UNION, «5- A. music claw, 2M p.m.. baaketball. Mann« Mrada, Buddlust Cat*--5 p.m., badminton, (.30 p.m.,
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  • Obituary
    DEATHS
    83 6 KEMP. On September 13. 1950. in London. Sir Joseph Kemp. C.8.8., late Chief Justice, Hopsikonß, father of ASH. Kirrp. M.C.S., Segamat. Johore. THAM POH LORE. ipe 84 MO! BMBSd away peacefully at Jvs residence. No. It, Bencoolen Street on »hi» 15'h Instant. He leavM N-1-iind his bt-lov^d wife. 3
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    39 6 MEMBERS of ihe bereaved family thank friend* and relatives who n't'ncled the Mineral of the 1:> P M'<'.::n Mall Kirn Lian nee Tun of T. WUklc Terrare. paid \i |ti -in! w.iaihs. scrolls. Ican«ii v |i:rlec. o'her thincs.
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    The Straits Times. Singapore, Sat., Sept. 16, 1950. Uncle John Laycock
    868 6 The Straits Times. Singapore, Sat., Sept. 16, 1950. Uncle John Laycock When Mr. John Laycock moves the first reading of his Age of Marriage Bill at the next meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council he will breach the ancient walls of Asian custom not only in the Colony but in
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    fifty years ago. THE SINGAPORE RAILWAY
    271 6 fifty years ago. THE SINGAPORE RAILWAY (From the SlraiU Ttmes of Sept. 11 15. 1900.) THE preliminary work in connection with the conitraettoD of th»> Johore railway goes on apace. After passing BukU Timah. the course of lh p line can be easily followed by the clearing 6t timber, the
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    As I was Saying
    1341 6  -  Cynicns r by IN the normal course a strike which gave rise to almost daily acts of abotaee and intimidation would be expected to attract Government attention if not Govern- meat action. But no lUtfltpt is bring made to bring the Rediffusion strike to an end.
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    Singaporeana
    855 6 CINCE writing about Lieut. Jackson's town plan of 1827. I have been favoured with a copy of G. D. Coleman's map of the town of Singapore as it was In 1845. The most remarkable growth is seen north of the Singapore River. The area between North Bridge Road and
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      666 6 CLASSIFIED ADS, IX3KE. To Low Cheng, wife of loicc Mun Seng, on Sept. 12tli, »t Salmon's Maternity Home, a daughter Belinda— Poh Kum. THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced between James Alexander Hlslop. M.C., eldest *e» of the late Mr. A Mrs. J. Turnbull Hislop or Lochfltty. Plfei>hire. and June Barbara, only
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    AFTER THE SHOW-RAIDS ON THE BANDITS
    357 7 AFTER THE SHOW-RAIDS ON THE BANDITS RAF Honours 'The Few' Of 1940 By A Special Air Correspondent AFTER air and ground ceremonies in Singapore and the Federation yesterday to mark the tenth anniversary of the Battle of Britain, the R.A.F. flew many fighter and bomber strikes against the bandits, culminating
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    $1.53 MIL. TURNOVER EVERY 10 DAYS
    181 7 $1.53 MIL. TURNOVER EVERY 10 DAYS fFHE capital of Mcx Alister and Company Limited $1,535,000 ■was turned over every 10 working days during the Jast financial year of the company, it was stated at the annual meeting In Singapore yesterday. The chairman. Mr. W McGregor Watt, revealed this when he
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    Sarongs Fell From Shirt
    86 7 AFTER looking at five sarongs in a shop, a Malay put two of them under his shirt and walked out. When he was called back by the chop-keeper who said he had left, his identity card behind, the two sarongs fell out. Yesterday in the Sir.papore
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    Maria Not For Welfare Department
    155 7 MR. JUSTICE Brown yesterday refused an application on behalf of Maria Hertogh's parents to place her in the custody of the Singapore Social Welfare Department, pending the hearing of their suit to restore her to the Hertogh family. The application was made by Mr. J
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    NO CARD: GETS ONE MONTH
    66 7 'I had been to the Registration Centre on four occasions to apply for a card and was turned down each time, said Chng Soon Eng, 25, when he pleaded guilty in the Singapore First District Court yesterday to failing to register. Chng. wh.o told the
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    P.R. TO START FREE LIBRARY IN S'PORE
    120 7 "I^HE reading room operated -L by the Singapore Public Relations Department next door to the Labour Exchange In Havelock Road will soon loan out books to the put/lie free of charge. The free books scheme will be operated with the assistance of the
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    No Discrimination, Nurses Told
    217 7 DR. R. D. Gross, Singapore's acting Director of Medical Services, yesterday denied there was discrimination against local nurses in the Government decision to recruit 25 supernumerary sisters from holders nf the State Registered Nurse CertlHe also denied that the recruitment was meant for expatriate personnel alone.
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    REDIFFISION SET SMASHED
    35 7 A Redlffuslon receiving set In Llan Soon Pineapple Store at Omar Road wa s smashed up by two Chinese youths on Thursday night. The Incident was reported to the poll©* yesterday mornIng.
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    Every dog has his day—and yesterday was Jerry's....
    110 7 Every dog has his day and yesterday was Jerry 's.... YESTERDAY was a red letter day far little Jerry '♦trie pop who scared a burglar). And when it was all over he still hadn't the haziest idea what the fuss, was all about. After all, barkinr at burglars is such
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    TERRIER 'HERO' IS HONOURED
    310 7 lERRY, a Singapore terrier who recently barked a warning when burglars broke into the home of his mistress, was elected first "Honorary Member" of the Animal Lovers League at its meeting in the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday. Six hundred members, whose ages ranged from 8 to
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    Lim Sung Wants To Stay Home
    339 7 ASOCIAL Welfare Department investigator was sent to Orandma Ong Kirn's house behind the Changi Prison to persuade her crippled daughter, Lim Sung, to return to hospital for a thorough examination. But Lim Sung would not change her mind, not through stubborness but more for
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    236 DEATHS LAST WEEK
    63 7 In the Singapore Muni lal area during last week there were 23« deaths 137 males and 99 females compared with 665 births. There were 70 more deaths during the week than In the previous seven days when the figure was IW. Of the people who died
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    14th CONVICTION
    37 7 Lee Joo Wah, of Tanjong Rhu, was fined $100 in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday for continuing to operate his sago factory without a licence. He had 13 previous cqnTfctlons for a similar offence.
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    Wife who aided 'mystery man' to steal is gaoled
    244 7 Wife who aided 'mystery man to steal is gaoled A YOUNG Malay woman, Habash binte Hassan, who assisted "a mystery man" in burgling a house, was yesterday sentenced to three months' simple imprisonment. The prosecutor. Mr. M. C. Boyle, A.S.P.. told the Singapore First District Judge. Mr. H. E. Kingdon,
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    60 Yards In Her Skirt
    71 7 T»HE MARRIAGE took place 1 at the St. Andrews Cathedral yesterday of Miss Kathleen Asthore Doherty, of Batu Pahat. and Police Officer Kenneth Gordon Fenwick Irwin, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The bride wore a three tiered crinoline lace and ninon skirt made of 60 yards ot material.
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    2 KILLED IN JEEP ATTACK
    206 7 Knim Our Staff Correspond^*! KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. I*WO British soldiers were killed in Perak when bandits fired on a Jeep last night. One police driver was seriously wounded and two other constables slightly wounded in Selangor today. An auxiliary policeman was kiMed in JOHORE in
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    Landowners Appeal Against Govt. Assessment In Transfer Deal
    543 8 Landowners Appeal Against Govt. Assessment In Transfer Deal From Our Staff Correspondent j KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. AN appeal against the assessment of the A Collector of Stamp Duty in a land transfer deal was heard before Mr. Justice Taylor in the Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court today. Judgment was reserved. The
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    CALL UP OF GUARD HAILED
    225 8 CALL UP OF GUARD HAILED From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Fri. J THERE is universal acclaim I in Perak over the introduction of the principle of 1 compulsory part-time service < in the Home Guard, regul/- 1 tlons concerning which were gazetted yesterday. Inche CM. Yusur. President of UMNO Perak,
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    TOSSED COINS
    33 8 For gambling in public by tossing coins, at the bu& terminus in Geylang Serai on Sept. 14, 22-year-old Lao Eng Kiat was fined $20 in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday.
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    ICFTU DECISION 'GREATEST GIFT'
    278 8 (SINGAPORE trade union leaders yMtf'day haiiea SZ the greatest Sinfapore Labour can They said thla was what Singapore Labour leaders had been waiting for "for quite a long time The establishment of a Labour college in Bin«apore, they said, would mean that the Malayan trade union
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    2s. Rubber Lowest, Say Brokers
    218 8 2s. Rubber Lowest, Say Brokers LONDON, Fri. THE view that rubber wa* 1 unlikely to be obtainable under two shillings a pound b fore the second half of next year Is expressed by the rubber brokers. Oeorge White Yuille and Co. in their monthly report. The report esi nates Production
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    $110,000 SCHOOL LAB OPENED IN S'PORE
    158 8 A $110,000 laboratory— the first specially erected in a Government English school in Singapore was declared open at the Victoria School last night by the acting Director of Education, Mr. R. M. Mr. R. F. Bomford, the prrnclpal or the school, said at the
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    LORRY OFFENCE
    22 8 TAIPINO. Fri.— For allowing person to sit on tht hood of h's lorry. Sln*Cheonf Boon wti fined $25 tt T»JpIng.
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      417 8 TODAY'S RADIO „»,,,<>.. 10 -10 10 a m., 1-6.10 pin. As 10 a.m. News lo" 1 1 ""J spore; 6.80 "Hit Parade". 7. New?. Emergency Nevs from X.L 10 10 ResulU" 715 "Piano PlayClose: 12. Malay: 1. pjn. Dance J^.. l^ variety: t. "Paul T«nMosic: »30 News Weekly Share the
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      SWEET SIXTEEN IN THE LAYCOCK BILL
      422 9 SWEET SIXTEEN IN THE LAYCOCK BILL WITH regard to Mr. John Laycock's Marriage Bill, of which we have read and heard such a lot lately. I find that most people who are in favour of the Bill appear to accept the age of 16 as a safe age tor a
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      PROGRESSIVE ISLAM
      139 9 itfß. John Laycock has i 1 quailed, not "before the onslaught of religion" (as a correspondent has put it), but before the pressure of a group of oldfashioned clerics. These reactionaries stand in the way of such a progressive idea as the abolition of child-marriage on the ground
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      BUT WHAT OF THE RIGHTEOUS?
      57 9 SINCE reading your articles on the Squatter Resettlement Scheme in Johore and the Approved School at Telok Mas. Malacca, which closely followed each other, one question has puzzled me. We are doing so much for those who have done wrong; are we doing as much
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      Rediffusion And The Neighbours
      180 9 Rediffusion And The Neighbours r)ESPITE the com- plaints which have been voiced against Inconsiderate Rediffusion listeners, who keep their sets on at full blast nightly, Rediffusion Ltd. has done nothing about it The company has not even adopted the simple expedient of making regular announcements asking listeners to tone down
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      ARE COMPLAINTS FRIVOLOUS?
      65 9 QNE wonders whether "Also Wonder ing's" complaint published in last Saturday's Forum under the heading "The Fish Market Next Door' not to mention a previous one is frivolous. One cannot see why these "wonderers" should not stay in a rural area if they cannot put up with
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      Chinese Unions In The Colony
      284 9 IT is a misnomer to call the newly proposed Singa--1 pore union combination a Trades Union Congress. Only a few local union leaders are really interested in forming it. One can readily see that all the 17 representatives who attended the meeting convened by Mr.
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      THE PEOPLE'S ROAR
      70 9 f t i c t toil Al never be»or« la Singjporc, For Hoarders store More j"d more. This we drplore And abhor. And, being sore. We implore Those responsible for Our soaring sore Not to ignore The unrest galore! Therefore, Fathers of Singapore, Please hear fh« people's
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      12 HOURS AT A STRETCH
      109 9 Malaya, and especially in Singapore, Southern Indian Muslim merchants do large and small-scale business. One can realise how keen and intensive they are in their work. Generally, they get their workmen and salesmen from India under agreement for a year or two These men work
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      GRATITUDE FROM PARIT BUNTAR
      85 9 fj[ AY I express my sincere gratitude to the Hospital Assistant In charge and his staff at Parit Buntar Hospital for the very sympathetic and I energetic treatment rendered to my son, wnose life was saved? My son had developed tetanus a few days after haying
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      THREE EXTRA CENTS
      135 9 AS all licensed coffee-shops obtain their sugar from Government at the controlled I price ($2B per plcul). I don't understand why the price of i a cup of coffee with sugar added has soared to 13 from 10 cents. Even if they have to buy sugar at
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      WORD AT ISSUE
      59 9 JN order to settle an argument, I should be very grateful if you would give the correct pronunciation of the word "ISSUE." I underi stand that this word Is pronounced "IS-U" or "IBH-U." Which Is the accepted form, the Oxford or the Cambridge? NOXF THE- WISER. Katong,
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      Methodist Broadcast
      169 9 I LISTENED last Sunday to a religious broadcast from Radio Malaya. The BBC, tactfully, does not encourage controversial church matters to be the subject of sermons. In the light of last Sunday's sermon I think that Radio Malaya might well be guided by the same principles. The allegation
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      IN KAMPONG BAHRU
      171 9 JT gave me the shock of my life to read a statement by a responsible member of the Board of Management of the Malay Settlement, Kampung Bahru. Kuala Lumpur, reported In the Sunday Times of Sept. 10 to the effect that: "Any person considered undesirable by the
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      Funny things in J.B.
      209 9 (TRAVEL frequently to i Johore Bahru. All the I way from Singapore to the I Customs office on the Slnga- pore side of tht Causeway, j the policemen on road-check and ldentlty-card-check duty are very polite. But as soon as one gets Into Johore Bahru one
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      BRASS BANDS OR TIN TRUMPETS?
      669 9 BRASS BANDS OR TIN TR UMPETS? TN a recent leader headed 'In Albert Sireet" you 1 reminded readers that the right way to stop Communism in Singapore is not to keep on telling people how dreadful life is in Russia, while your admirable sponsorship of Grandma Ong at Changi has
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      32 9 45 ft. Shallow Draft Pamngtr and Cargo Launch built bf THORNYCROFT in Singapore L JP- TBJW|^^BBMa^ataSßßiateifttff--l^'' I flfißr '/&Y_ I^B^HI vnior njTittWTa lit^^^ khsSrjgf"" II HI6HE*T QU*L 11 Mil ftUHT};- •>< WOP*** 11
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    London Stocks
    318 10 LONDON, Fri. T*HE possibility of an early I general election in the United Kingdom checked interest and encouraged advance end of account and weekend levelling In the London Stock Excnange today. A slightly lower trend was fairly widespread. Closing mldd.'e prices ot selected stocks M supplied to the
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    MALAYAN SHARES
    896 10 From A Market Correspondent VLTITH further Tin dividend announcements in T London and maintained buying interest at tnat end. the Malayan share market followed suit yesterday. Prices appreciated slightly. Industrials were ft flrmi spot and there ni renewed interest In some Rubber shares. Prices quoted yesterday by the
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    TIN: $396|5/8 A PICUL I
    35 10 SINGAPORE, Fri.. Sept 15— 5396,821 (down ft.) E786V2 i tan in Lm4m LONDON, Fri., Sept. IS. —Spot £755— £788. Forward £7*4— £785. Settlement £755. Turn-over: ».m. 225. p.m. 71, tons.
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    Singapore Rubber
    258 10 PUBBER went up as high as i $1.58 a lb. at one stage hi Singapore yesterday. The day was featured by minor fluctuations and moderate trade inquiries. Th« market opened steady, with i prices rising slightly through sailers' reserve. Spot rubber changed hands at Sl.56V* at noon. A
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    80 10 I rum A Market i orrMponar-nt •pHE copra market waa very dull I in Singapore yesterday with few inquiries at S4B per picul and sellers standing at S4B'j. No business was reported. Coconut oil waa alight ly firmer with buyers at S74', and sellers >t 175 In this
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    65 10 HONO KONO PH. PBK market currency exchange for Hong Kong dollars tv quoted today as follows: USSI. not at»ted: tl. HKSIS 60: one Uel of gold HKS294 U P. rpHK Malayan Exchange Banks Association announces that the free market currency exchange rate for Hong Kong do;- lan U
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    PERAK TO MEET SINGAPORE IN CUP BADMINTON
    106 11 From Oar Stall Correspondent IPOH. Fri. pERAK wiU meet Singapore In the semi-final of the Foong Seonc Cop inter-state badminton at Singapore on Oct. 7 and S at the Great World. Singapore entered the semi-final after Johore had beaten Negri but were disqualified
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    DYSONDUE IN COLONY TODAY
    489 11  -  ROBERT C. DOWSON Coaching Begins Tomorrow By LONDON. Friday. DRITAIN'S ace athletic coach Geoffrey Dyson left **for Malaya on Wednesday to run a nine-day "coaching course for coaches" in Singapore and a similar sesson in Kuala Lumpur. He arrives in Singapore tomorrow. D son appointed by
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    Lionel Chee's 3 Records
    145 11 YELLOW House, with 59 points, were champions at St. Patrick School's swimming carnival held at the Cninrv Swimming Club yesterday. Green House (61 points) were runners-up. St. Andrew's School won the inter-school medley relay with a time of lmin if 2 ssec. Runnersup were Anglo-Chinese School.
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    SCFA Beaten In Burma: Pak Tong Injured
    156 11 RANGOON, Prl. DURMA Chinese beat Binga- pore Chinese P.A. by two goals to one In the first of the tourists' four matches here today. Singapore's goalkeeper Lee Pak Tong was injured trying to prevent Burma scoring a few minutes before the end. He
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    WINS GRAND PRIX ON NORTON
    64 11 DOUOI.AS, ISLE OF MAN, Fri. —Peter Romaine, a 20-year-old engineering apprentice from Derby. led all the way to win the 228-mile Manx Senior Grand Prix motorcycle race yesterday. Romaine, on a Norton, pipped five other Norton riders with an average speed of 84.123 miles per
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    RECS. WIN FOUR-NIL
    141 11 I CiNe VPORE Recreation Club lO beat J. Stanley's XI four-nil in a friendly hockey match played on the padang yesterday. SRC. centre forward B. Coutts showed snatches of his masterful sticknork. while inside forwards J. de Souza and O. Rosario gave him excellent support. For the
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    21 11 TODAY: 1.01 a.m. (10ft.) and 1.05 p.m (9ft. 41n). TOMORROW: 1.47 a.m. (9ft tin.) and 1.39 p.m (Bft. tin.).
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    PRESS WIN 4-1
    47 11 Straits Times Sports Club easily defeated Cable Wireless Sports Club by four goals to one in a Singapore Business House "B" soccer tie played at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers for the Press were Tahlr (3) and M. Pasqual. Cablemen's goal was scored by Ismail.
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    MOOLENBURG SHINES
    140 11 r\NE man stole the show in KJ yesterday's padang hockey game between the S.C.C. 'A' and a strong Sherwood Foresters XI, which ended in a scoreless draw. He was Moolenburg, the Club's usual Inside left, who yesterday made his first appearance as a goalkeeper in Singapore. Showing remarkable
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    Combined Airmen Beat Eurasians
    190 11 R.A.F. Combined 2; Eurasians 1. JN a Singapore A I .A. Community League game 1 which certainly does not rank with the best to date, Combined Airmen scored a narrow win by two goals to one over Eurasians at Jalan Besar yesterday. Neither side displayed any
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    Airways Had Better Attack
    118 11 T\ETERMINED forward play enabled Malayan Airways to defeat Malayan Publishing House by two goals to nil In an interesting Singapore Business Houses "A" soccer fixture played at Geylang yesterday. Though beaten, Publishers were never disgraced. Had they more luck, the score would have been different. Airways
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    FAREWELL MATCH TO DR. LOWSON
    87 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Prl— Johore Cricket Cluo wind up their ISSO cricket season with a match ■gainst the Singapore Cricket Club tomorrow The match will also be in the nature of a farewell to Dato Dr. Lowson. the Club's president, who Is retiring from Malaya at
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    Welsh Title Fight
    35 11 SWANSEA, Fri.— Eddie Thomas of Merthyr last night retained his British welterweight title by outpointing his fellow Welshman, CUfi Curvlss of Swansea over IS rounds at the Saint Helen's Football Ground Reuter.
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      146 11 TODAY RACING: Slncapore Gold Cap Day. SOCCER: BtiaineM Hse A: Fraaer A Neave v Borneo Motor* at Gejrlaiif; friendly. Volunteer Police t R.A.F. Police, Thomson IW 5.15. HOCKEY: Sherwood Foresteis v rear hers I nion at Farrer Park; PoaU Telegraph* v REMt ClTilians. PAT ground RUGGER: R.A.S.C. v RJM.P. al
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    Straits Times Selections
    156 12 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER RACE 1 2.15 PKINCK EIGKNE Jack's Darling Tesaa JACK'S DARLING Texas Ourmnos JACK'S DARUNG Tezaa Arctic Lord RACE S 2.45 MAYFAIR Gancbo Lord Frederick MAYFAIR Lord Frederick Tiberias M XYKAIR Lcbombo Lord Frederick RACE S 3 15 MB, AGE Athllle* Keel R*m
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    Today's Race Card
    1120 12 CART) of events for today's races is given below. Double tote will br on Races Five and Eight: Big Sweep on Rate Seven. Race 1—2.15: Class I. Div. 3— 6 F. &19 Yds. 1 000 Cabaret t 9.00 Ms. R. Shaw Browning Spenrer 2 COO Oregon Healey
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    I AM PLUMPING FOR TAR A STREET TODAY
    1115 12 'Epsom Jeep 9 Sums Up Gold Cup Prospects AHORSE who has never run the Cup distance may win the most open Gold Cup race for rears at Bukit Timah today, final day ot the Singapore Turf Club Autumn (Gold Cup) Meeting. On
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    TODAY'S GOING
    24 12 The weather throughout yesterday was tunny, and there is every prospect of fast track on (.old Cup day at Bukit Timah today
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    Snowy Owl Nap For Sprint Cup
    370 12 By EPSOM JEEP I NAP Snowy Owl II to win the biggest sprint prixa lof the season the Liberation Cup— at Bukit Timah today. Attach no importance. to his defeat in the "Cup Trial" on Wednesday. The trey probably needed that race to sharpen
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    JONES WINS BY A "HEAD"
    110 12 JACKIE JONES beat CharJ lie Ellery by m "head" for the right to ride the probable Gold Cup favourite. Four O'Clock 11, in the Bukit Timah "classic" today. With Herb Charles, who piloted Four o'clock II to victory in the Penang Gold Cup last month,
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    Steel Age And Nerolia Best
    801 12 A GOOD thing beaten over a mile on Wednesday. St?el Age locks an ideal proposition for the Class 1, Dlv. 2. P.m. i:anu:cwp (Race 3) at Buklt Timah today. Congo is not accepting and I doubt If Happy Travt-llcr can give Stefl Ag? 81b. for
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    HONG KONG WIN 8-1
    51 12 From Oar Own Correspondent MALACCA. Fri. THE Hong Kong Chinese tourists trounced Malacca by eight goals to one here today. Dln-kee <3>. Chun-fat »4» and Tai-fai scored for the tourists. Malacca "ot tr>"ir only goal through Tarn Thp« Lim. Hong Kong led six -nil at half
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