The Straits Times, 20 June 1950

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  • 19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1950. if PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 476 1 Levy To Back Opposition To Benham Scale OINGAPORE Government clerks yesterday launched a "Fighting Fund" at an extraordinary general meeting of their Union held at the Singapore Civil Service Association Canteen. The meeting unanimously reiterated the members' determination to reject, if implemented, the salary scales
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  • 105 1 MRS. Ruby Siddaway. of M.i iiiiy Road. Singapore, on her way io full recovery after a spinal operation in Britain, disembarked by stretcher from a QEA-BOAC Constellation at Kalians airport. Singapore, yesterday afternoon. Her husband and two-year-old daughter. Margaret, who h-^d not seen her for
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  • 49 1 LOS NEGROS. Mon. A War dimes Court today found Japanese. Major Hiroshi Itsui and Captain Hiraya,u Shina, guilty of murdering; eight Aui ra!i:M prisoners of war at Tavoy, Burma, In 1942, and gave them a life sentence and ten years res- !»■<■ i' y. Reuter.
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  • 36 1 SOUTHAMPTON. Mon. Prince Axel and Princess Margaretha of Denmark arrived in Southampton today en route to London to see their son Prince Georee and his bride to be Viscountess Arisen, niece oi Queen Eliza*.P
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  • 197 1 riE first combined exercises m Far Eastern waters m which ships of the Indian Navy will participate with those from the Royal Navy, begin next week. Aircraft of the Royal Air Force will also take part. The Indian naval squadron will arrive m Singapore
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  • 49 1 FE Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, left Singapore by air yesterday for a short holiday in Indo-China. He will be absent for about a fortnight. It is expected that Mr. Mac Donald will have some informal talks with French and Vietnamese authorities, an offlciaP announcement said.
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  • 20 1 PARIS. Mon.— M. Leon Pignon. French High Commissioner m Indo-China, left Saigon airport early today for Paris.— Reuter.
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  • 61 1 HOLLYWOOD, Mon. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer announced today that actress Judy Garland had been suspended for refusing to report ror work on "Royal Wedding" in which she was to co-star with Fred Astaire. It was Miss Garland's second suspension from the studio. She was dropped earlier this year
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  • 30 1 HONG KONG. Mon.— The Chinese Communists have closed Swatow, as a result of the recent Anhui mine incident, until it is finally cleared of any floating mines.— U.P.
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  • 143 1 DOME last-minute minor amendments to the much-criticised Benham Report on salaries are expected to be introduced by Unofficial Members in the Legislative Council meeting his morning when the report comes up for adoption. The acting Colonial Secre--tary. Mr. J. D. M. Smith, will move the
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  • 54 1 TRIER. (Germany). Mon.— Three German girls were wounded when a Luxembourg soldier on guard duty shot at them at Newerberg Castle. West Prussia. It Is reported. The soldier asked a group of children and young girls visitin* the castle to leave the area, but they did
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  • 62 1 PARIS. Mon. THK French industrialist, M. Andre Raphene, was killed last night by a bullet fired by a French patrol in Hanoi, north IndoChina. M. Raphene was driving home during the curfew hours. Apparently he either did not hear the patrol's order to stop or carried
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  • 152 1 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Monday. TWO Ceylonese government servants were killed in Ipoh tonight by a handgrenade thrown into their government quarter at Birch Gardens, off Connolly Road. They were V. Thambyah, financial assistant in the State Engineer's Office of the Public Works Department
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  • 125 1 A SERIES abridged from th. best teller "The Cod That Failed," starts tomorrow in th« Singapore Free Press. This book, which is not at present available in Singapore, is the testimony of six inter-nationally-famed writers who acquired and lost the Communist faith. In an introduction Mr. Richard Crossman
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  • 105 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon. rE death has occurred of Lieut.-Col. Donald MacLeod, 0.8. E., E.D.. who commanded the 2nd Btn. Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, during the Malayan campaign. He recently underwent an operation and went to the Isle of Wight last week to
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  • 43 1 ROME, Mon.— Screen starlet Linda Christian, wife of actor Tyrone Power, said on arrival here today that she had lost her second expected ohild by miscarriage 10 days ago in Manila. She suffered a similar lost last year. U.P.
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  • 83 1 HONG KONG, IfOB. JLfORE than six Chinese were injured, three seriously, today during a dayJong series of clashes between Leftist trade unionists and refugee Nationalist soldiers. The soldiers said that the unionists carrying red flags, tried to persuade them to join the Communists. The unionists
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  • 83 1 JOHANNESBURG. Mon.— General Smuts, as a result of new treatment, showed a very encouraging improvement yesterday, his doctor said today. He spent an excellent night. The Cape Town professor of medicine, who flew to Pretoria for the second time last week to join the Johannesburg specialist attending
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  • 173 1 FRANKFURT. Mon. T«HE Western allies are reM. ported to be mining key roads and bridges throughout West Germany and other parts of Europe to stall any possible Soviet attack. These preparations came to light on Sunday when a German magazine published pictures of a winding
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  • 171 1 rpHE first Dakota from No. 38 J. Squadron Royal Australian Air Force, with a crew and ground staff of 11, arrived in Singapore late yesterday evening to participate in anti-bandit operations in Malaya together with the R.A.F. and the Royal New Zealand Air Force. The
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  • 272 1 Bandits Kill Estate Manager from Our stair Correspondent IPOH, Mon. OANDITS this morning 13 killed Mr. R. S. Wallace, manager of the Sungei Kruit Estate, Sungkai, Perak, and wounded his three-year-old son. Gordon. Police jungle squads followed up immediately and battled with the bandits who fled in small part lea.
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  • 25 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. President Truman will i k Congress for S3OO,OOU,UJO to speed up work on the hydn>gen super-bomb. Concessional sources said today. Reuter.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 39 1 ..he's a cool customer and a satisfied one. Dropped in to say hello, but they stay to buy in the cool comfort of offices equipped with FRIGIDAIRE AIR CONDITIONERS MODEL SRA-5O MODEL ARL-100 5875 $1,225 (plus duty in Federation)
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  • 108 2 Tender for the supply of Cigarettes for a period of 7 months to the' Malay Regiment. Tenders are Invited for the supply of Cigarettes to the Malay Regiment. Approximate monthly requirements 760,000. Tender forms may be obtained on application to Regimental Headquarters, The Malay Regiment. PORT DICKSON.
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  • 31 2 ELIZABETH TAYLOR, British-born 18-year-old Hollywood film actress, and her bridegroom, Conrad Hilton, 23-year-old son of an American hotel millionaire seen on their honeymoon in London. Reuter picture.
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    • 211 2 FRAMiFURT, Monday. rjAUNT, but grinning Willy Schmitz, Frankfurt "hunger artist," came out of his glass case yesterday claiming a new world fasting record of 53 days. Schmitz, who is 48, claims to have lived on a diet of soda water and cigarettes since he entered
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  • 124 2 LONDON, Mon. THIRTY-FIVE Chinese ludents, some of them penniless, are stranded in London, waiting for flue lo take them home, according to the London News Chronicle. They applied wwki a o. The Foreign Office and iho Colonial Office could not hep. They said it was a matter
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  • 48 2 TOKYO, Mon— Two Japanese fishing-boats were seized by "an unidentified boaO flying a Red Chinese flag" on the sea east of the Chusan islands, reports Kyodo news agency, quoting the Maritime Safety Board headquarters in Nagasaki. The boats were fired upon previous to ooing seized. Reuter-AAP.
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  • 76 2 MANiLA, U n. ]yjR- John D. Youii£, an American Fulbri t Professor assigned to I State University of tis Phir^V-es, \v;>s fflsterd I) reported to have bssn assaulted by dru::k i soldiers and two civilians m the Pangasinan village < f Saitan, 50 miles nartta of
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  • 295 3 BERLIN, Monday. DEFYING a Russian protect, the West Berlin City (Jovernment has on forced a "little counter blockade", and yesterday refused passage to barges from the Soviet Zone trying to ply the canals m the Western sectors. Fifty-six barges were held up
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  • 36 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Mon. QUEEN Nazli of Egypt has given 55.000 for the construction of a mosque in San Francisco, in gratitude for her daughter's Muslim wedding ceremony here, It was announced yesterday. Reulrr.
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  • 57 3 PARIS, Sun. 1 FAULTY altimeter may have caused the Air France Skymaster crash m the Persian Gulf off Bahrein last Tuesday, reports from the island said yesterday. Pilot Jean Sladek told investigators that his copilot found the meter showing: the altitude as 800 feet when
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  • 105 3 AIRLINER TRAIN COLLIDE SYDNEY, Mon.— Fifteen passengers and a crew of four escaped injury when a D.C-3 airliner crashed into a stationary coal train at Mascot airfield, Sydney last night. The plane overturned five 10ton lorries. Its starboard engine was ripped off and it burst into flames. Passengers and crew,
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  • 132 3 FIFTY-NINE Dutch emigrants. Including eight families and 14 children, arrived at Kallang airport, Singapore, yesterday on their way to a new life In Australia. They are travelling m one of K.L.M.'s emigrant specials a Skymaster. Most of the menfolk are skilled men who
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  • 136 3 Plea For Overhaul Of C 'wea lth Co-operation SIDNEY, Monday. T<HE Sydney Morning Herald said in an editorial yesterday that a "complete overhaul of the creaking machinery of co-operation is long overdue" within the Commonwealth. The Herald was commenting on the visit here next month of Mr. Patrick GordonWalker, British
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  • 12 3 HAIFA, Mon.—Two-thou-sand Immigrants from Rumania and Poland have arrived In Palestine.—AP.
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  • 34 3 CATHOLIC PILGRIMS from Africa's Gold Coast approach the Basilica of St. Peter at Ron* before a mass audience (riven them and other pilgrims by Pope Pius. XII.— A.P. picture.
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  • 168 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. TWO Republican Senators yesterday accused the A United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Trygve Lie of being "a tool, if not an actual ally" of the Communists. I Senators Styles Bridges, of New Hampshire, and William Knowland, of California, urged the American Government to try
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  • 86 3 M PARIS, Mon. pRINCE Buu Loc, principal private secretary to Bao Dai, head of the Vietnam State, on arrival here yesterday from Saigon expressed optimism about the conference between France and the three Indo Chinese States to be held m Pau, In south-western France. "One does not
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  • 26 3 PRINCESS ELIZABETH and Princess Margaret In summer dresses and flowered hats at the official opening of the Royal Tournament in London. Reuter picture.
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  • 129 3 THE HAGUE, Mon. ROLE of the aeroplane in modern crime will be one of the main topics discussed at the three-day conference of International Criminal Police Commissioners opening in the Peace Palace home of the International Court of Justice —here tomorrow. The conference will
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  • 271 3 Money Bars May Be Raised From The Financial Corresnon leit LONDON, Mon. A PLAN for a European Payments Union of the Western European nations, which will in part be financed by Marshall Aid funds, was agreed in Paris during the week-end. The unanimous agreement on the major points of the
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  • 34 3 STOCKHOLM, Mon. A special Israeli envoy arrived in Stockholm last night to deliver Israel's reply to a request by Sweden for a new investigation of the murder of Count Folke Bernadotte.— A.P.
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    • 28 3 I II i ll— I I MUL DAGEN! fE CAR ™*CTOR BATTERIES Sold by all leading Motor dealers. Fac'C'y Kepresenfaiives:T. V. MITCHELL CO., LTD. SINGAPORE K. LUMPUR PENANG
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    • 147 3 We claim to have the largest stocks various types of watches on display E. Nassim Sons 381 North Bridge Road, Spore. Tel. 6701 CoVroCos\ JBL > M CU Al/ p- > g Where there's there's J| Health/ '^swJr-s- ,s/tfo^ TONIC WINI 1| IS THE BEST full-boW NATURAL Piii^Ji T ni
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  • 103 4 Even Venus couldn't getaway with that! To stay on her pedestal, (•'goddess should stay nice «o be near Your beauty will get a lift 'from that fragrant bath IBut what's to keep your freshness from fading after <he bath is over It i tt simple as this: Mum's [the word
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  • 214 4 STORE CATHOLICS TOLD: 'A SIN TO SEE SEX FILMS' "IT is a mater of common decency and good taste that such films should be avoided", said the Rev. Father Bonamy of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd to a Straits Times reporter yesterday, on the sex films at present being
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  • 138 4 But, Wait.... INHERE are 88 vacant pre1 mis?s in Singapore to-day —but this does not indicate that the demand for accommodation nas diminished in any way. Among them are 14 bungalows and 36 flats, with one terraced bungalow. The Municipal Assessor, Mr. J G Aspinall. told the
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  • 39 4 From Oar Own Correspondent JOriORE BAHRU. Mon. J. S Jordan, of the Kranji Wireless Station, who was found drunk and Incapable at 1 a.m. In Jalan Trus. was fined $4 In the Johore Police Court today.
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  • 31 4 From Omr Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Ng Teck Leong. who allowed his car to be used when mechanically unsound, was fined $60 m the Johore Bahru Police Court.
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  • 50 4 Fioro Our Own L'orrcsiionctent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Tan Ylew, a Chinese woman who was arrested at the Johore Bahru Railway Station yesterday, was today charged m the Sessions Court with importing four slabs of opium weighing one pound. Tan was allowed bail of $500 pending trail.
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  • 66 4 From Our Own torresp >mlent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Arrested when troops and Police were screening at Galan Patah. Chan Moi, Tan Chong Soo. Tai Peng Kang. Chin Chao and Pang Ah Heng were convicted In the Johore Bahru Police Court on charges of failing to notify their change
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  • 50 4 THE KING AND QUEEN OF LAOS, who arrived in Singapore yesterday in the French ship, Marseillaise, on their way to France. They were accompanied by me Crown Prince »nd Princess. During their short stop here, they took a short drive round the island.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 348 4 By Our Woman Correspondent DIKING the annual meeting of the Singapore Y.W.C.A. yesterday, Lady Gimson told older members of the association that as long as they continued to **aye the ability to see things with young eyes, and as lone as they were always ready
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  • 82 4 A CHINESE woman. Saw Too. was arrested at a police road-block on June 18 at the 8 milestone Bukit Timah Road and found to have round her waist three bicj cle tubes containing two-thirds gallon of samsu. She pleaded guilty before Mr. C. H. F.
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  • 202 4 MORE APPEALS TO DATO ONN REPORTS from Singapore and the Federation yesterday indicated a strong desire in Maay circles to have Dato Omi bin Ja'afar back as President of the United Malays' National Organisation. The Malay Graduates Association. Singapore, in a statement yesterday, re-affirmed its support for Dato Onn in
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  • 144 4 LONDON. Mon. In the Trinity General Examination of students of the Inns oi Court, the following students from Malaya were successful: Roman Law, Class S: S. Arulampalam. Robert Laycock. Raja Azlam Shah Constitutional Law, Class 2: F. B. de Souza. Class S: B. P. Dharmananda. Miss Joy
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  • 28 4 From Our Own Corresucndent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Tay Ah Hock was fined $25 in the Johore Bahru Police Court for driving a bus without reasonable consideration.
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  • 418 4 WHEN applied psychology was in its infancy, the practitioner used to (and may still) ask his subject for the name of his favourite colour. The answer gave a sidelight on the subject's character and taste as h« chose from the spectrum a warm red. or orange,
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  • 104 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. AN 11-YEAR-OLD Chinese girl was saved from drowning yesterday morning by a Eurooean of Kuala Lumpur. The European would not give his name, but the Straits Times learned today that he qualified as a King's Scout in the
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  • 148 5 INDIA'S Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, after two very busy days in Singapore, flew to Kuala Lumpur, and had another heavy programme in the Federal capital before taking; off in the afternoon for Penanr. In K.L. in the morning he addressed 15.000 Indians
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  • 455 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. JNDIANS were in Malaya as friends and they must co-operate with the people of the country in its advancement, the Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, told 15,000 Indians on the Selangor Indian Association padan? in Kuala I Lumpur
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  • 191 5 New S'pore Cigarette Prices THE prices of cigarettes and tobacco were officially Increased yesterday by Singapore distributing firms following the Government increase in tobacco duty. Cigarettes in tins of 50 now cost 15 cents more'per tin. packet cigarettes have been increased by three cents for popular brands like Player's Medium
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  • 80 5 A young Chinese stall holder, Cheng Tua Foo, was arrested for displaying American cigarettes, which were dutiable, on the five-foot-way m North Bridge Road on June 17. In the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday, Cheng, who pleaded guilty was allowed bail of $100 m one surety. He
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  • 156 5 Terrorism: 'Only Evil Results Fsom Our Staff Correspondent PENANQ, Mon. MALAYA's problems can be more speedily solved If all races and communities take a share in tackling them." Pandit Nehru, Prime Minister of India, told 6,000 cheering Indians in Penang this evening He gave a special message to Indians. He
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  • 24 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Dr. J. Cameron, Health Officer, Johore South, who has been on vacation in Sarawak, has returned to Johore Bahru.
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  • 110 5 M.Y.F. WEEK: Falrneld Girls' School Chapel Service, 8 a.m., Wesley Prayer meeting, 5.30 pjn. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Victoria Memorial Hall, 10 a.m. Y.W.C.A., 5, Raffles Quay, Wayfarers' meeting, 4 p.m., ballroom dancing, 5.30 p.m. CHINESE V.M.C.A.. Selene Road, basketball, 5.30 p.m., bodybuilding class, 7 p.m., mouth organ class, 7.30
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  • 243 5 r pHX following passengers were among those who disembarked at Kallang airport yesterday from points outside Malaya on the various air services. Passengers In transit are not Included In the list. QJE.A.— B.O.A.C. Ftom London: Messrs. Alan Llm. A. Hudson; Mis. iSlddaway, and MUs. Dlckson-Wright. From Calcutta:
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  • 56 6 MR. A MRS P NAVAHATNAM of Raub thank all friends •nd relatives who sent presents, tripernnu and attended the wrdriln* of their daughter on Juno 9th. MR. A MRS. PONO CHTI CHAI. thank all friends and relatives for their attendance, ssUstance, valuable glfU. and greetings on the occasion of
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  • 1081 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., June 20, 195 C. Colonials Or Communists? Once again the electoral rolls are open in Singapore, and 1 once again democracy in this < city and colony is offering its alternative both to colonialism and Communism. < The eligible electorate for the .legislative Council is
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  • 51 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Nearly 1,000 people attended the Koran reading contest for religious schools at Kota Tinggi and Johore Bahru held at the Jumma Mosque, Kota Tinggi. Of the 16 schools competing, the Tambatan Tinggi Religious School was winner, with Kota Tinggi second, and Ayer Moiek
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  • 451 6 The Old Houses In St. Andrew's Road SINGAPOREANA WE take such an interest m "Cecil Street's" column that we do not think h e will mind if we question one of his historical comments. On Saturday, June 17, he wrote There is a tradition that the house on the Cathedral
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    • 232 6 f T is encouraging to read in tne Press that Sir Henry Gurney has made provision for a Police Training School. But considering the strength of militant Communist banditry in Malaya, something more than that is required. Malaya needs, and always will need, a powerful
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    • 179 6 pi the small hours of Monday. June 12, the town people of Karak were awakened out of their beds by the military and police and marched to the adjacent padang, where enclosuies for screening had already been prepared. When* all had been herded together, the Officer-in
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    • 39 6 AFTER seeing the picture "Sins of the Fathers," I cannot see why the film censor ever prohibited the showing of this excellent film. The censoring of this picture shows anti-social and antieducational feelings. A EUROPEAN. Singapore.
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    • 306 6 I AM surprised that Mr. S S. Manyam, of all people, should m his reply of June 12 have so completely missed the ooint m mine of June 9 on Services civilian emoloyees. I do not disagree that a large percentage of Army workers m Singapore
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    • 137 6 IN view of recent acts of 1 sabotage. I think several matters require immediate attention by the Government: No man should be allowed to be employed as night watchman who is employed elsewhere during the daytime as jaga or watchman. For many years this business has been
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    • 117 6 MAY I. through your columns, express my appreciation of the lead taken by the Inner Wheel of Singapore in the tea-party Its members gave last Thursday evening to the Red Cross Old People's Club? It was Indeed an auspicious occasion for the old people
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    • 65 6 THE direct descendants of James Clark, mentioned by "Cecil Street" In "Singaporeana" In your issue of June 17 as the owner m 1828 of the block of land on which the Supreme Court and the Municipal Building stand today, still live m Singapore. One of these is
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    • 222 6 THE Singapore Municipal Commissioners should not permit any more "hotels" to be licensed, particularly in or around the area bounded by Racecourse Road, Lavender Street, Jalan Besar and Rochore River. x This small area now contains the largest concentration of brothels in Singapore. If the
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  • 337 6 The People And The Foreshore |\NE of the most objec- tionable features of the old Straits Settlements Government and of the East India Comoany was the indifference shown by them m alienating land right up to the foreshore and theredv denying the public the rinht of access to the sea
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  • 431 6 On the Margin The Old Bay TiHE huge concrete tubes called caissons which are being sunk behind the hoardings at the corner of Flnlajson Green and Raffles Quay- by the way how many years Is It since that street was really a Quay?— are Interesting not only because they are
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    • 722 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced between Mr. Bobby Tan. aon of the late Mr. Tan Ean Klam of Slngnpore, and Mis* Mary Wong daughter of Mr. Wong Jee Kee o.' Hong Kong. Marriage will take place In Hong Kong shortly. HOME LEAVE NORFOLK HOUSE—Mundesley Norfolk. Attractive fruest houseplentiful table
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    • 177 6 CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS Announce the mtroducton of a special excursion fare of Str $515 by 4-engined Skymaster from Singapore to Hong Kong and return within 28 days Flights leave Kallang and Ka.tak (Hongkong), every Tuesday and Friday. For part'rplars and bookings plr.r c apply Australian National Airways Pty. Ltd. 5
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  • 238 7 Move Into New Home Starts In Layang Layang ABOUT 20,000 squatters will be moved into 12 new "towns" that will spring up in Johore as the operations against the bandits progress. The first of these wired -in townships— in the notorious Layang Layang district— is
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  • 235 7 rE Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday returned a finding of suicide when a joint inquest was held on a trisha rider and his wife who were found drowned in the sea off Marine Parade, K:-'ong. The body of the wife. Tan Peck Neo. 34. was
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  • 30 7 A Westerland Sikorski helicopter, now undergoing trials in Malaya, will carry out test trials over Kuala Lumpur later this week. Another helicopter will do its trials from Chanet
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  • 76 7 FORGIVEN BY MAN HE HIT In the Singapore First District Court yesterday. Mr. H. E. Kingdon cautioned and discharged Assa Singh, a watchman, for causing grievous hurt with a piece of wood at Lam Choon Rubber Factory on Jine 2 Assa Singh said that he was under the influence of
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  • 46 7 -AUSTRALIA HERE I COM E"— A little Dutch girl, who arrived in Singapore yesterday by a X.L.M. "emigrant special" on her way with her parents to Australia, toddles out of Kalians airport to join a waiting bus. Straits Times picture.
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  • 223 7 But It Was A Toothache Case THE Singapore Press was out in force yesterday Ato meet a helicopter wh?ch, it was officially announced, was bringing the first casualty from the Federation to be evacuated by helicopter. The casualty was to be unloaded at the football
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    23 7 MR. D. GRAENTMAN (above) International Dutch ice hockey player, who arrived in Singapore by X.L.M. aircraft yesterday en route to live in Australia.
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  • 52 7 In the "Talk of The Town" programme of Radio Malaya at 8.30 p.m. today, Mr. J. L. Harrison will talk about "The Marking of Rats" in connection with scrub typhus research. There will also be talks on the Family Planning Association and the copra and coconut
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  • 43 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Sir Hilton Poynton, Economic Adviser to the Colonial Office In London, will broadcast tomorrow at 7.12 p.m. Sir Hilton has been touring Malaya and having discussions on economic questions affecting the country.
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  • 39 7 Three British sailors, P. Snaith, R. Cain and F. Ansello, were each fined $5 by Mr. S. E. Teh, Singapore Second Police Magistrate, yesterday. after pleading ruilty to a charge of disorderly conduct in the Criterion restaurant.
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  • 46 7 Dr. C. A. Gibson Hill leaves Singapore by plane tomorrow on leave In the United Kingdom. He is the Curator of Zoology at Raffles Museum and Acting Professor of Biology in the University of Malaya. He expects to return In September.
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  • 24 7 READING The Singapore Public Relations Office will open tomorrow a reading room at the ground floor of the Chinese Secretariat at Havelock Road.
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  • 219 7 Governor Asked To Close Two Chinese Schools •JHE Singapore Education Department is now seeking the approval of the (Jovernor-in-Council to close down the Singapore Chinese High School and the Nanyang Girls' High School, two of the Colony's largest Chinese educational institutions. Mr. R. W. Watson-Hyatt. Asst. Director of Education, (Chinese),
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  • 147 7 Scheme To Entertain Troops rREE Singapore societies are sponsoring a scheme for their members to entertain Servicemen in their homes. They are the Royal Society of St. George, the St. Andrew's Society and the Ex-Services Association. At the annual dinner of the Royal Society of St. George last month 12
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  • 78 7 •THE Singaopre Ratepayers Association is to appoint two advisers on legal and architectural matters. The names will be announced at the next meeting of the Association on Thursday week. Mr. B. R. Lowick, secretary of the Association, told the Straits Times that the Association felt that
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  • 18 7 The Y.W.C.A. Women's Club will hold a concert in Wesley Hall, Fort Canning at 8.30 tonight.
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  • 17 7 The Singapore Police Band will perform at King George V Park at 5.45 this evening.
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  • 232 7 mHE Singapore Hawker InX quiry Commission at a private meeting next week will discuss Uie report of the Hon X Kong Hawker Inquiry Commission of 1947. At the request of the Hawker Commission, the Singapore Government hai Just obtained a copy of the Hong
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  • 86 7 TTOE Inspector-General of X the Royal Air Force, 56-year-old Air Chief-Marshal Sir Hugh Saunders, arrived at Changi air base yesterday after visiting R.A.F. installations in New Zealand and Australia. Sir Hugh, after a few hours stop— over in Singapore, left yesterday evening for Hong Kong, where
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  • 53 7 Palanl Kandasamy, a 22-year-old Singapore Harbour Board labourer, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to the theft of an apple from the s.s. Hoegh Merchant on June 18. The case was postponed until June 26 when sentence will be passed. Palani was allowed
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  • 254 7 'Blackmail Threat Says Counsel AN allegation that his client, a Singapore medical practitioner, had received "blackmail threat" to quit his business premises, was made by Mr. D. S. Marshall yesterday when an injunction proceeding was heard before Mr. Tan Ah Tan, the Singapore Second District Judge. The proceedings arose out
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  • 27 7 A 17-year-old Chinese girl living in Pasir Panjang, opposite the Tiger Swimming Pool, was taken to the General Hospital last night suffering from caustic soda poisoning
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    36 7 MISS "MARGE" McGRATH, QANTAS Empire Airways Press Officer who arrived in Singapore yesterday by QEA from Australia. She is here for talks with Qantas officials in Singapore and with the Press. Straits Times picture.
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  • 140 7 —Still No Star CAROL Reed, one of Britain's leading film directors, on his arrival in Singapore yesterday afternoon by QEA-BOAC after a 12-day tour of Indonesia, told the Straits Times he liad not signed up any Indonesian actress for a part in "An Outcast of the
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  • 34 7 Lechimanan Narayanan, a 28-year-old Indian barber, was acquitted by the Singapore Fourth Police Court magistrate, Mr. P. Claque, yesterday on a charge of attempting to extort $50 from a fellow-barber on May 14.
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  • 331 7 False Entries: Major Guilty EONARD William Gen"ders, a Major in the RASC. appeared before a General Court-Martial in Jon ore Bahru yesterday, on four charges of making false entries in the account books of the Johore Sub-District Officers Mess to the effect that he had paid sums of money amounting
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  • 53 7 Two aircraft c H.M.S. Ocean and H.M.S. Unicorn, will arrive in Singapore today. H.M.S. Oc?an, which is on its way to Hong Kong, will regain here for two days. Unicorn, part of the first aircraft squadron of the Far East Fleet, may be in Malayan waters
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  • 779 8 Weaning Need Not Be Difficult MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA Says NURSE JANET IVEANiNti is not a <1 Klini It process, as is usually believed, unJcv, it is enforced ;it the wrong time, or l«m suddenly. In that < we, both child and mother suffer. Never commence to v m when the
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  • 582 8 S.C.s wanted 'leban' wood FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW yilE combined efforts of the family have resulted in the clearing of a small piece of what I j suppose you could call secondary jungle at the bottom of our garden. < 1 'link it must have < once been part of
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  • 379 8 DRESS of the WEEK by TIRESS OF THE WEEK is inspired by Dior's Chinese coolie style and appears in dull woven gold lame, scattered with blue gentians, In a smallsize collection for Autumn. BEST HAT ordered for Australia Is the lampshade beret, in mushroom felt underlined with black and edged
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  • 373 8 By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT IVD you think horses look smarter m stiaw hats than men? Nags m South and Central America are elegant when, to combat death m the afternoon front sunstroke, they wear coarse panama trilbys. Through the crown of each hat
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    • 78 8 m$ ISr*\ m FOR THE WORLD'S BABIES What o sturdy fellow with nice straight limbs. LACTOGEN has supplied Guy with the right nutriment which is so necessary^ for steady growth. H Bdby is fed on Lactogen and you ere journeying to the United Kingdom, ~e jugge»t that on arrival you
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    • 124 8 LOOK FOR THE NAME PLUMROSE WHEN YOU BUY CHEESE Here are just two of the many delicious cheeses we Import from Denmark: PLUMROSE GRUYERE PLUMROSE CAMEMBERT Sole agents m Singapore and Malaya for P. S. Plum, Ltd. Copenhagen: COLD STORAGE Singapore Cold Storage Co., Ltd. HPP^ JeF* Jh9 Ba^Sl ~£*>^
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  • 950 9 Ausl. Allan letter from... 808 GILMORE MhLBOUKNb, June 14. IF Indonesian President Soekarno ever again yells "New Guinea" ho can "say goodbye to his number one white friends. From the floor of Par liament, External Ailnirs Minister Percy SiH-nder has said, m fuirlv plain diplomatic language, that
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  • 360 9 AUCKLAND, MAORIS m New Zealand are intTeasing two and a half times as quickly as Europeans: one m every 18 persons m \Yv Zealand and <jiit m every nine m flu> North (slnnd is a Maori. After dropping to a third m the 19th
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    • 59 9 SIAMESE Iffll 1%,1 AIRWAY* SPEED 1^ SAFETY \\l I ;=^=s=?=^ .COMFORT rfi%^X SINGAPORE* agints PENANG ond SINGAPORE SIME,DARBY jt Ask your dealer about additional tizet. DWV HT T M% ID TRACTOR U Al MU If TYRES Built for* the job A Mf W Tfߣ OESERVeS A NEW DUNLOP TUBE THE
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    • 223 9 STRAITS TIMES CHOiS WOED A non-meUllie element <S>. CROSSWORD No. 81 'I. A woman 1 hair b tht 27. I Precede most of 26 lor wmj i rr— fr-l U I" BSJS» •one of fame (8. S). ee ta. a l4 >; .111 3 5 fl. Mr far back (71.
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  • 1145 10 Statement In Malacca Case From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Monday. rtENYING a suggestion put to him by Mr. Hugh v Shepherd, D.P.P., that he was "an insolent and arrogant man". Tan Kee Oak, defendant m the Malacca assault case, alleged that the complainant, Lim Kee Jin, manager
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  • 191 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LI MPUR, Monday. JUDGMENT m favour of a Kuala Lumpur business man. Mr. Tan Khiam Wan for $10,000 and costs was given today by Mr. Justice Taylor In the Supreme Court. Kuala Lumpur Mr. Tan Khiam Wall sued Mr. Chong Fong
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  • 58 10 Tree Fell On Cyclist's Head From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Mon. J^ labourer, Low Ah Lion, was seriously injured yesterday evening when a falling tree crashed on him during a rain storm. Low was cycling along the main Gurun Road when the tree was uprooted and fell on his
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  • 41 10 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— A record number of 209 candidates has entered for the School Certificate examination m Johore. Thirty arc from girls. Examination centres will be at Johore Bahru, Muar, Batu Pahat, Kluang, and Segamat.
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    28 10 THE INSPECTOR GENERAL of the R.A.F. Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Saunders, inspecting the guard-of-honour of the R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) at Changl yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 410 10 3 Weeks— And Only 2,807 REGISTRATION OF VOTERS REGISTRATION of voters for both the Legislative 1V Council and Municipal elections entered into its fourth week at the same slosv pace with which it began on June I, By Saturday last, only 2,807 people had applied to have their names added
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    38 10 MR. ALAN LIM, third-year law student of Nottingham University, and eldest son of Mr. Richard Chuan Hoe Lim of Singapore who arrived m Singapore by Qantas Constellation yesterday on a three-month vacation from his studies. Straits Times picture.
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  • 156 10 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. UNGKU Aminah, wife of the Regent of Johore. presented the badges and trophies to Girl Guides in Johore Bahru at the Nghee Heng School. Members of a fifth company of Girl Guides were enrolled. They are all from the State
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    • 165 10 LAST eA^ph©*- day i Plus! A new MARCH OF TIME! BOOK NOW FOR A \S^ TOMORROW HJPhII^A Told the M j| I way it happened! M J^Ssj Where it happened! -*m how it happened! Wr^i rTj^MuTaCLAUDETTE ■fimipieEßT --IFANNFGWFSCO NUNNALLY JOHNSON TODAY H—1.45 SHOWS NfMr'** 9.30 -k* PHONE 4042 £$fm THE
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    • 217 10 CATHAYhAUIAMBRA LAST DAY! at the Cathay Season to continue at the Alhamlmi rut tsis sr [Aiif-i/on Please note times CATHAY (5 Shows) 11a.m., 1.30, 4.00, 6.30 9.15 ALHAMBRA (4 Shows) 100, 4.30, 7.00 9.45 Children under age of 14 not admitted. MILES ABOVE BK ANVTWINB ELSE OPENING TOMORROW! I GREGORY
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 66 10 SPORE 10 a.m News from K.L.; 10.05 Close; 10.50 Schools; 12 Malay; 1 p.m Light Music; 1.30 Newt; 1.45 Dance Music; 2 Close; 6 Listeners' Choice; 7 News, Share Market. Interlude; 730 "Paul Temple and the Mad'scv Mystery"; tatlon to Malayan Navy: eye-wit-R "Music Shop": 8 3C Bell Presenncss account:
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    • 74 10 Hoffman'; 10 30 Uai^e Music; 11 Close. K. LUMPUR 9.5>5 a.m. Music; 10 Emergency News; 10.10 Close: 10.50-2 p.m. As Spore; 6 Mail Bag; 7 As B'pore; 7.12 Talk (Sir Hilton Povnton. Colonial Under-Secretary 7 20 London Concert Orch.; 7.30 "Joyously Yours": 7.45 Radio Doctor: 8 Sonata R-"' (Brahms. Medhtner);
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    • 73 10 8.F.E.8.5. 4.4 b p.m. From the London Editorials; 4.55 William Walton; 5.15 "Colonial Commentary"; 5.30 Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery": 6 Indonesian; 6. 50 Cantonese; 6.45 Music from the Screen; 7.15 French; 7.30 English Half-Hour; 8 "The Soloist Performs": 8.15 Thai; 8.45 Dutch; 9 Kuoyu: 9.30 Burmese; 9 45
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  • 288 11 Planters Despair In Indonesia From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon. A WARNING that rubber planters ln Indonesia may resign if conditions there do not Improve Is given by Mr H. Reside, chairman of the Langkat Sumatra Rubber Company, ln his annual statement. After referring to terrorist r attacks on the
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  • 124 11 From Our Own Correspondent CRrmi? i o LONDON, Monday. RUDE oil reserves in Seria (Brunei) have been substantially increased by successful outstep drillinr, according to Mr. Malcolm Maclachlan, chairman of the British-Borneo Petroleum Syndicate. Mr Maclachlan spoke at the annual meeting of the syndicate
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  • 190 11 From Our Marke ryHE Malayan share marl very quiet tone. Qu< inclined to be slightly easl transacted was small. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokecs' Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Bayer Seßer Fraser Near* PrtJ 7.«0 too zd O"U ».17» 3.22* xd Roblxuon Co lit Pref
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  • 101 11 Prom A Market Correspondent TKJKrr Kepong Rubber Estates made 916.004 (5.7 per cent.) for 1949. No dividend Is recommended. Net liquid assets, 952,509, are equal to 18.7 cents per share. Allin costs were 27.3 cents on a crop averaging 7191 b per acre. The company owns 75,000 »1
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  • 28 11 SINGAPORE, Mon., June 19— 5299.87^ (up $0.50). LONDON, Mon., Jane 19.— Spot: £596*— £597; Forward, £5971— £598; Settlement. £596|. Turnover: morning 140 tons; afternoon, 75 tons.
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  • 173 11 EXCHANGE quotations, as announced by the Malayan Exchange Banks Association, are: Free Market Currencies SelUnj T.T./OJ> London Js. 4 l/16d. Australia 3s. lid. New Zealand as. 4 l/32d. India, Burma Ceylon 155% Pakistan 108 ft Hong Kong 53% Baying T.T. OJ>. London 2s. 4 3 16d. 2s. 4
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  • 172 11 Singapore Rubber FERE was moderate support at the opening of the Singapore rubber market yesterday because of factory and trade buying but when purchasers were satisfied prices tended to ease again. Closing prices yesterday were, per 1b: No. 1 R.S.B. spot loose buyers 74% cents, sellers 74 '-i cents; No.
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  • 77 11 rjOPRA In the Singapore produce KJ market was steadier yesterday, buyers Indicating »35 and sellers holding off. Coconut oil had sellers at $57 without buyers. Cloves were quoted at Zanzibar •120 for June shipment and Madagascar 9112. Prices (per plcul) yesterday lor other commodities were: Gambler 1200 (round);
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  • 54 11 TTVATT At Company announce the following May rubber crops, in lbs.: Brunei Dtd. Plant. 34,000 Changkat Serdang Est. 34,100 Chermang Development 143,000 Hay tor Est. 15,000 Indraglri 56,140 Lunas Est. 58,400 Nyalas Est. 48,600 Tapah Est. ***** Rlverview Est. 175 000 TyiALAKA Plnda Rubber Estates in May produced
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  • 72 11 ClllC1111*8 ln Singapore Outer v and Inner Road* and along- slde Harbour Board godowns yesterday wereyest*raay wereOuter Road*: Hal Hsuan, Dr. Yersen, Siboroet, Chama, Ulysses, *mpu-« Pride, Burhill, Bolma. Marine Merchant, Inner Roads: Sin Soon Lee Kajang, Belaga Tavpe, Kan Soon. SS?fbrli U'°'in^*tf'i' >
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    • 1372 11 MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. llncoroocatao m Singapore) BLOB rUNNEL UNI Cirricr't •»:••>■ pr<xt,d vU uttfr p«rtt toad and «tckir«* "JfJSAILINGS t. LI»w<»OOL. O -A SCOW LONDON CONTININTAL M«TI. Ou« Sai P Sham ftnant A<'r>"*> for Liverpool Gla»«ow C. 44 t r- 22 |w»» 2*/25 2«/« l^rpool I.m 2i |yly 7
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    • 330 11 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINCS TO NEW rORK AND BOSTON VIA CtYLON INDIA. ICYPI m 4 MEDITERRANEAN PORTS. S'oor* P. Sham *>»n| S;!! 2'JC* iiv -T. 1»/19 l«n« 20/22 lune Mann* Sn.pp.r )7 /20 July 21/22 lyly 2J/24 uly Pr.tlohn.on 25/29 |«ll 10/Jl|iilJ 1/JAu« TO UJ.A., PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC PORTS Willamette Victory
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    • 359 11 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINCS FROM SCANDINAVIA, U.K./ CONTINENT SAILINCS TO CONTINENT/ m/i "India- SCANDINAVIA for Bangkok. Saigon. Mani a. Hong Kong. Kobe. Yokohama Loading at Singapore, Port Swettenham m/l fftßS, V -BingkiTk' Uhr m/g fe M °H c,e ,n J JL^ ■i: dv i bt 1"* l 5 m/> "Nordvest"
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    • 1018 11 McALISTER <Sc CO., LTD. (Incorporate*) m Singapore) TtUphonc No. s«o* KLLERMAN «k BUCKNALI KtVATBMUS UMB LONDON HAVRE, ROTTERDAM LOS ANCtLES. SAN FRANCISCO. HAMBURG PORTLAND StATTLI VANCOUVER «.™,5 l<nf °'w C l l J! LMSFOt0 o Accepting cargo for Ctntral South 2« S /ff'U "ilp TO Am.ncao Ports. S«,. CITIf ?S2L
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  • 578 12 BONG SOO LEADING KAMIS IN SLTA MEET Fails To Win Match Point INTEREST in yesterday's Singapore Lawn Tennis Association championships centred round the "come-back" bid of veteran Llm Bon* Soo who featured in a second round singles match. Nearly 50 years old, Bong Soo figured in a long drawn unfinished
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    31 12 KAMII.LES. winner of Race Four at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, being led in by Trainer Jack Manning. He was ridden by Jackie Jones and paid 554 and $17. Straits Times picture.
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  • 166 12 LONDON. Mon. rE Cambridge University batsmen Dewes, with 192 not out, and Sheppard (158) saw the University total at 362 for one wicket ir their match at Hove aeainst Surrey who had put up 312 in their first knock on Saturday. Scores at tea-time in the
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  • 35 12 The Island Club's- Ii.G.U. Competition for June, piJyed on Sunday, was won by Mrs. Burns with 98—29=69. Next best were Mrs. Levy with 90—19-71 and Mrs. San with 96—24 72.
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  • 109 12 LONDON, Mon. TWELVE players were named 1 yesterday for the Engiand team to meet West Indies m the second Test cricket match, which opens at Lord's ground, London, on Saturday, June 24. They are Norman Yardley (Yorks. 35) captain, W. J. Edrich (M'sex.,
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  • 147 12 Compared with the first Test, Washbrook and Parkhouse replace Dollery and Laker from the 12 selected for the Old Trafford Test. Bedser, twelfth man on that occasion, is again Included The omission of Dollery and Laker caused no surprise in view of their form In the flrsl
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  • 486 12  - Talbert Sedgman Tipped For Title BEN PHLEGARS, A.F., Sports Writer WIMBLEDON STARTS ON MONDAY By LONDON, Monday. TIIK ALL-ENGLAND lawn tennis championships 1 which have not been won by an Englishman in 14 years open on next Monday at world famous Wimbledon. Battles for the major titles men's and women's
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  • 217 12 LONDON, Mon. FE MOVES of cricketers from one County to another have become so frequent recently that some critics have grumbled that they are too reminiscent of the soccer transfer market. Players cannot, however, just be transferred from one county to another like footballers change
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  • 20 12 NEW YORK. Mon.— The Enelish all-staw soccer team beat the United States World Cup team I—o1 0 yesterday. A. P.
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  • 102 12 rE two touring basketball teams, Santo Tomas University and Mapua Institute of Technology, Manila, will be entertained to tea by the Studentr founcll of the University of Malaya, at the University Hall, Buklt Timah. at 4.00 p.m. today. Dr. O. V Allen, vice-chancellor of the
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  • 385 12 The following ties in the Singapore Junior badminton championships will be played at the Clerical Union Hall this weekend; Saturday at 2.30 p.m. Francis Cheng and Scan Soi Soon v Herbert lim and Henry Lim (SASU): A. Wahab Barkawl and Masrom Haji SiraJ v One Tiong Gee
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  • 57 12 SELANGOR Chinese' cen-tre-forward Chong Keng heads m the first of 6 goals scored against Sing Tao soccer tourists from Hong Kong m Saturday's match m Kuala Lumpur. Selangor CR.C.'s win by six-one was the second defeat Sing Tao had sustained m 19 matches
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  • 206 12 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Monday. WITH THE Hong Kong Sing Tao footballers due to open their tour here tomorrow, Penang soccer fans are asking whether the Settlement's big game temperament will again enable them to repeat their 1947 victory over the tourists. This
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  • 37 12 Mental Hospital Recreation Club soccer team wish to play some friendly soccer fixtures. Teams desiring to play af?alnst them are asked to write to Mr. J. W. T. Murray. Football Convenor, or telephne *****.
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  • 140 12 NOTTINGHAM. Mon. I*HE West Indies declared their 1 first innings closed at the Saturday total of 525 for five when they resumed their match against Nottinghamshire here this morning. Their opening pair Simpson and Harris made a slow start "against a fast accurate attack.
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  • 330 12 REME 4; BODCA 2. A VASTLY improved R.E.M E. team gained full, points at the expense of 8.0.D.C.A. in a S.A.F.A. Senior League game at the #alan Besar Stadium vpsterdav. Sam>ers won by four goals to two. BODCA were a completely disorganised side throughout and
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  • 392 12 LONDON. Mon. AUSTRALIAN umpires "■come under flre by Cyril Washbrook, the Lancashire and England opening bat, m a book to be published this coming week entitled "Cricket the Silver Lining". "I believe Australian um)lres would do better to concentrate more upon acquiring a thorough knowledge of
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  • 23 12 TODAY: 12.52 a.m. (9ft. 4m > and 2.30 p.m. (7ft. 9in.). TOMORROW: 1.35 a.m. Oft. I 2in.) and 3.10 p.m. (7ft. 81n/>.
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  • 36 12 SOCCER: Cup-Tie:. S.I S.H.B. Aux. Police »t S.C'.C; Stir. Lfr: Rovers S. C. v BODCA at Jalan Besar; Jnr. B 2: Town Rangers S.C. v Blue Rovers at CYMA. TENNIS: Singapore Championships at S.C.C.
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