Singapore Standard, 7 July 1950

Microfilm: NL2275
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    17 1 Singapore Standard fa n VOL. 1, No. 5 SOJGAPOBE, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1955. 12 PAGES TEN CENTS.
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    US Body To Probe Military Needs In SE Asia Due
    258 1 US Body To Probe Military Needs In SE Asia Due An American survey mission is scheduled to leave hington by air today for Southeast Asian countries hiding Malaya^jto^check on the military needs of Communist-menaced areas This follows President Truman s recent statement to speed up military assistance to Indonesia and
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    Pakistani Premier Given Audience By King
    56 1 LONDON, July 6 (UJ» Pakistani Prime Minister Lia--Buat Ali Khan was received m n audience by King George at Buckingham Palace today He arrived at the Palace at 11.30 G.M.T. and was received by the King's "Genttemen of tne Household." Palace Officials said that
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    UP Newsman Said Captured By North Koreans
    155 1 Captured I :YO, July 6-(UP)— The Communist Radio y that two Ameriassociation corres*ad been captured S .von front, but at known to be A broadcast from the apital of PvongPeter Kalischer of the I. Press and Tom of the Associated een taken prisoner
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    A Nation's Fate In Balance
    59 1 i V olli r i J bclleved ke the prelude of the third World War. fightin? ia Korea is bring closely watched all fhe^t r i?*"?** thc S°»*hern Korean Repnhlie. vifitln* rh.,rrh i Md with Briff.-Oeneral Johi Church Lower picture, by PANA, shows a truckload
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    Menzies Due Monday On Mission For Snowy River Project
    389 1 THE AUSTRALIAN Prime-Minister, Mr R G Menzies who will stay m Singapore on Monday night is on his way to Britain to "try to get more dollars" from the pool. This is of special significance to Malaya as Malaya herself is
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    HK Pins Blame On Reds For Border Incident
    134 1 HONGKONG, July 6, (Reuter-A.A.P.)— The Hongkong Government today accused members of the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army of firing indiscriminately during an incident on the ChinaHongkong border this afternoon. In an official statement on the incident issued here today announcing there were no
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    Arms Arrives In PI
    38 1 MANILA. July 7.— (AP).— The first shipment of American arms aid to the Philippines arrived on Thursday aboard the U.S. Army Transport General Gaffey. It included small arms and fire control equipment for artillery.
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    Three Believed Dead As Brigand Aircraft Crashes
    52 1 Three Believed Dead As Brigand Aircraft Crashes A Brigand aircraft of Tea-jrah-hased No. 45 Squadron crashed while on an airstrike m the northeast Pahang area yesterday morning. Pilot, navigator and stenaller were believed dead. Overland > <v v-at'ons v?re y t < t 1 oml aid r n \A of
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    US Troops Make General Retreat Fall Back 25 Miles From Suwon Area
    363 1 TOKYO, July 7— (UPJ— North Korean tanks and troops rolled the key United States salient In Korea back more than 29 miles from its high water n rk today and threatened the vital American communications from the port
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    Americans Beaten In 1st Round
    298 1 ..NEW YORK, July 6 up The Americans took a beating m their first big battle m the Korean war. That was one of the few facts to emerge today from scrappy and confused reports on the fighting. The Americans seemed to be heavily outnumbered and
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    US Navy To Set Up Liaison With Formosa
    215 1 TAIPEI, July 6-(AP)— A 10-man team from the U. S. naval forces m the Philippines 'arrived m Taipei today to set up a radio signal centre for speedy liaison between the Nationalists and the U. S. Seventh Fleet. Through thij centre the
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    Truman Confident Of Winning Korean War
    155 1 WASHINGTON, July 6— (UP)— President Truman expressed confidence today that despite the initial reverses, American and South Korean troops will defeat the North Korean invaders and drive them back. The President was asked at his weekly news conference if he still was hopeful of
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    Carrier Planes Strike Again In North Korea
    132 1 ABOARD THE USS Valley Forge, July 4 (U.P.) —Raiding the west coast of Communist Korea for the second consecutive day, carrier planes of the joint United States Seventh Fleet and the British Task Force representing the United Nations, today destroyed railroad bridges and
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    Briggs' Remark Censured By Government
    121 1 LONDON, July 7 (AP).— Th« Government has asked a British general to explain a news report quoting him as saying the Korean war may compel Britain to revise her Chinese policy. The general. Sir Harold Briggs, who is m charge of British operations against guerillas
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    7 Went In Search Of Professors
    208 2 (Standard Staff Reporter) SEVEN promiment Indonesian educationists, returning from a two-month search for University professors and technicians for Indonesian Universities m Europe, passed through Singapore yesterday by KLM constellation on their way back to Jakarta. Headed by Dr. Abu Hanifah, Minister for Education m
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    RAF To Use Jet Fighters In Far East
    139 2 Standard Staff Reporter NO amplification has yet' been received from the Air, Ministry m London on the report that jet planes would be j used m Royal Air Force fighter squadrons m the Far East, an authoritative R.A.F source told The Standard
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    FAILED TO OBEY
    29 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— A young Chinese Tong Say Swee of Kulai, was fined $7 for failing to stop his car when ordered by a Police Officer.
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    116 DAYAKS HERE
    31 2 The Secretary of State lor the Colonies Mr. James Griffiths told the House of Commons yesterday, m answer to a question, that 116} Da yaks, all from Sarawak,'
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    Hawkers Causing Concern, Huge Increase Since Police Stopped Raids
    342 2 I THE MUSHROOM growth of hawkers In Singapore during the last two months, when the Police suspended their raids because of the sitting of the Hawkers Inquiry Commission, is causing concern to the Municipality. Interviewed by The Standard, yesterday acting Municipal
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    SCAWU Meeting
    26 2 THE SINGAPpRE Clerical and Administrative Workers Union will hold their fourth" general meeting at their premises at 172-A Rangoon Koad at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow.
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    Court Gives Man $10 To Get Card
    107 2 SEVENTEEN-year-old Koh An? Choo wore a relieved look when he was sentenced m the Singapore First District Court yesterday for not having an identity card. The sentence: cautioned and discharged and an award of $10 from the Magistrate's poor box. Koh was sick
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    Not Raising Army, Says Chinese Leader
    163 2 Standard Staff Reporter Mr. Tan Kok Chor, a Chinese leader m Singapore and member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang yesterday deniecx rigorously the statement published m a newspaper that he was "ready to organise an army" to fight the bandits m Malaya
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    80 2 photo. photo. This far Tr«Bggaaaa Street i» Singapore badly eosues4ed with hawkers that no vehicles ca» pass through,— Standard Company S/Major G. Ward is beta* laid into the cocoon-like pannier of a "Dragonfly" West land Sikorski helicopter at a display given by the RA# m the FARELF Training Centre m
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    More Books For USIS Library
    161 2 Standard SUIT Reporter MISS MARGARET K. Beadles, well-known American librarian, arrived m Singapore i yesterday by KLM Constellation with "good news'* for hundreds of Singapore USIS library members who have been unable to borrow books since it opened at Rallies Place ,on May 4 this
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    Helicopter Gives Display At Johore
    203 2 Standard Staff Reporter THE WESTLAND-SIKORSKI "Dragonfly" helicopter, now doing an airlift ambulance service m the Federation, gave a demonstration at the FARELF Training Centre, Johore Bahru, yesterday to members of the press. A bandit "casualty." Coy. S/Maj. G. Ward, was evacuated from a nearby clearing
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    Nonis Spends Hour In Court
    76 2 MICHAEL Joseph Nonis. 25-year-old Eurasian held by police on a charge of murdering 10-year-old Winnie S}>encer, sobbed bitterly when he appeared for the second time m a Singapore police court yesterday. Without handcyffs, Nonis spent an hour privately \cith the Fourth Police Magistrate, Mr. Peter
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    'THIRD MAN' CAMERAMAN
    48 2 (Standard Staff Reporter) JOHN Wilcox, Carol Reed's cameraman of "Third Man" fame, arrives m Singapore by air from London tomorrow afternoon. He will stay overnight and leave for Brunei on Sunday i morning. Wilcox will handle the en- j meras for Reed's location tour. I
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    DOUBLE SEVEN TODAY
    36 2 (Standard staff Reporter) SINGAPORE police will be taking "usual" precautions today, being the "Double Seven", thirteenth anniversary of the outbreak of the Si no-Japanese j war. a police spokesman told the Standard, yesterday.
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    India Not Likely To Mediate In Korea War
    202 2 Standard Staff Reporter THE Australian High Commissioner to India, Mr. I H. R. Gollan said m Singapore yesterday that he be-' lieved that there was no truth m the report that India had offered her services as mediator m the Korean war.
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    Roof Collapses, Car Damaged By Masonry
    124 2 (Standard Staff Reporter) A Chinese received minor injuries and a motor car was slightly damaged when the front portion of the roof of a house m Telok Ayer Street, i Stagapore. collapsed at 3.30 p.m. on Wednesday. The man, who was standing on the
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    Engineer Found Dead, Drain A 'Public Danger'
    412 2 Standard Sports Reporter THE EIGHT-FOOT-DEEP monsoon drain In KUliney Road, Singapore, into which Charles Short, 48-year-old Malayan Airways engineer, fell and died last Saturday was described by the police as i s> "danger to pedestrians, 99 I During the occupation the Japanese removed
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    Scared Woman, Soldier Is Bound Over
    167 2 SINGAPORE Police were summoned on Wednesday night to the residence of Mr. J. M.< Fraser, Manager of the Sing-! apore Improvement Trust, to deal with a soldier who "frightened" Mrs. Fraser. Inspector Balakrishnan, prosecuting, said Mrs. Fraser was aroused from her sleep by a
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    Hears Murder Charge Read Fifth Time
    108 2 (Standard Staff Reporter) I FORTY-FOUR-YEAR OLD* Kg Kai Sung, who was alleged to have been concerned m the death of Mr. Yong Yit Lin on May 25. appeared m the Singapore Relief Court yesterday. Ng heard a tentative charge Df murder read out to
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    $10,000 BAIL IN OPIUM CASE
    54 2 Standaid Staff Reporter Chiang Ah Kirn. a 44-year-old Cantonese, was charged m the Second District Court yesterday with being m possession of 21 pounds of opium m Magazine Road at 6.55 a.m. last Wednesday. On claiming trial. Chiang was offered bail m $10,000. The case
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    Wanted Red Killed In Gun Battle
    232 3 police hunt for the Indian wh.^E.SS? §1* rv c f he Mala y an Communist ftu? y at tlf. R.A.F. Singapore and was later President «r 111 «;f;^ Employees' lT» lon VS3 TyesteJav M?»^S battle c Mr forces contacted a party of At 7.
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    Woman Gets 8 Yrs. For Consorting
    253 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— c of eight years' rigoprisonmeat was passed by Mr. Justice E. N. Taylor m the Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court today on Phang Yong. a -i Chinese woman, on I being found m of another person carrying arms and exBt the 9th
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    35 T.B. DEATHS IN A WEEK
    79 3 TUBERCULOSIS took a toll or 35 Hves during the week ending July 1~ against 26 lor the week previous. Pneumonia! and enteritis deaths also showi increased from 26 to 33. and 16 to !'6 respectively. v According to the weekly 1 health statement of
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    UMNO Delegations To Call On Onn, Big Meeting On July 28
    84 3 UIIOHE BAIIRU. Thurs. Delegates of the in.nd Malay National Organisation will call at of DaU> Onn bin Ja'afar on July 28 r^is?/ 1 tO nn to resume leadership of the r Jni cie §ates will frt arSm.^??^" 7^ will
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    DRIVER PAYS FINE WITH A SMILE
    42 3 JOHORE BAJiRU. Wed.— "l am gu.lty. your honour, but I did not know what the weight of the load was". saiJ a Malay lorry driver to the Johore Magistrate today when charged with carrying excessive load
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    85 3 Group photograph of the staff taken m Muar prior to the departure to Endau on transfer of the Technical Assistant, Mr. Chong Choy K.\\, who was m charge of Drainage and Irrigation Department, Muar. Sitting from left to ri?ht: Inche Khalid bin lUss;in !\lr. Chon? Choy Kai and Inche Abdul
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    Charged With Possession Of Grenade
    41 3 s ff Correspondent -A 29-v 2 ar-old, by th? o^ was X?K ?L the Police at: anthan yesterday.; .•;;^;re .the Ipoh today where J«*» Possession of a WU preferred se wai postponed till Bail wai allowed.
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    MONTHLY LECTURES
    17 3 irict Society of 25* Ol Certified be held today, "TO lecture^n 1 <. holti on Tuesday
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    10 Police Officers Receive Medals At Impressive Parade
    241 3 Standard Staff Reporter hnn TEr SINGAPORE police officers who wen BiShSfv i?/? c and 195 New Years list and iSS recPivpH }l f r '"pished and meritorious service cTm, >n l^ ir m<?dals frOm the hahds of Sir Franklin PoH^ T. an
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    41 3 S?" received medals from the Governor Sir Franklin S^SSi Parade ln%w. Cc I ralni School i ms <>» Road yesterday. Pictures show Sir Franklin sKStL Distinguished fWre (left) Deputy Commissioner C.I.D.aBd to Mr. WJ. Parks. Deputy Commissioner of Police. fri*ht?_ Standard photos.
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    Bandits Are Losing Confidence
    317 3 Bandits Are Losing Confidence Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs Evidence that bandits are getting fed up with their life m the jungle and losing confidence is provided m document which Security Forces capture recently The document carries a report prepared by the leader on members of his gang. According
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    Buddhist Delegates
    25 3 BSSS"* Sta5 v Correspond PENANG. Thurs The 11 Penang delegates who attended the Buddhists Conference of World Fellowship sh U arC expected back
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    Free Unions' Delegates Due Here On Aug. 6
    82 3 Standard Stair Reporter THE FIVE-man delegation to the International Confedfration of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), now touring the Far East, is expected to roach Singapore on August 6. The delegation, which is made up of an Indian, a Britisher, a Belgian and
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    BUS STAND FOR BAHAU
    34 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs The Bahau bus stand which is under construction would be completed within a fortnight. It if almost similar to that of the Seremban bus sta-' tion. j
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    All-Time Record Rice Output In Malaya Expected This Year
    272 3 T- Standard Staff Correspondenf M«i a LA *k, A LUM ™K. Thurs.-Rice product*** to Malaya this year is expected to reach an all-tira* record of 400,000 tons, an increase of nearly 9C MM tons over last year's production. The reasons for
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    European Faces 2 Charges
    331 3 A European Assistant Food Controller, Stewart Arnold X oun form «rly attached to the Food Control Department m Selangor. was charged m th? Sessions Court here today on two counts of accepting a total of $1,500 without consideration from Goh Tiang Ena an agent of the
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    Judgment Reserved In Malay's Appeal For Duch Girl
    539 3 rfpaitq* ndard SUff Reporter n..*nK T E re 1S no such thin 6 a s adoption m Dutch law, a married Malay woman Che Aminah cannot adopt Maria Hertogh, a Dutch girl ThTs was the submission made by Mr. Kenneth Gould on
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    GIRLS HOME TO GET $3,000 FROM SHOWS
    88 3 i Standard Staff Reporter I VARIETY concerts staged by the girls of the Good Shepherd Convent at the Victoria Theatre, Singapore, on Tuesday and Wednesday realised a sum of $3,000. This mone y will help to build a new $250,000 Girls Home m
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    Many Peeping Toms At ATS Barracks
    128 3 MANY complaints have been received by the Singapore ?°i^f members of the u in to Tan g»n BarS*Sf •k^ 01 1 "Papers" and l¥hSf S l S vmg 'J he Singapore Third PoUce Court was told yesterday. J"^? d^ was 30-year-old Tahb bin Sahad
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    Auxiliary Air Force Will Have Vital Part In Malayan Defence
    282 4 I PENANG, Thurs. The Auxiliary Air Force Squadron will play a very vita! part in the defence of this country. This was the statement made by Air Marshal Sir_F. J. Togarty, Commander-ir£Chief of the Far East Air Force, when he
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    Province Will Be En Fete Today: 150th Birthday
    277 4 Standard Staff Reporter TODAY, July 7 marks the 150 th anniversary ot the foundation of Province Wellesley. The day has been officially declared a public holiday for this year only. The .District Officers of Butterworth, Bukit Mertajam and Nibong Tebal, will be
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    Sequel To Cigarette Looting
    253 4 Sequel To Cigarette Looting Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The looting of a railway goods wagon between Port Swettenham and Kuala Lumpur m April this year was referred to m the Second Magistrate's Court today when two railway employees, Arokianathan and Tambirajah were charged before Inche Mohd Annuar, the
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    2 Recitals And Film For S'pore
    193 4 Standard Staff Reporter MR GOH Soen Tioe, wellknown Singapore violinist, and Xorcen Stokes, the pianist. will make their first appearance together m a sonata recital at the Victoria Memorial Hall at 9 p.m. on July 20. The programme will consist of Dvorak's Sonatina m
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    SEREMBAN TO HOLD FASHION SHOW
    30 4 SEREMBAN. Thurs. Seremban is to have a fashion show for the first time some- time this month as part of the i Welfare Week programme.
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    Segamat MCA Official Named
    114 4 SEGAMAT, Thurs. Mr. Quek Kai Kee has „een appointed chairman of the Segamat district branch of Malayan Chinese Association. Messrs. Kuan Chan Sun, Tan Siong Liaa and Chin Chin Koon wore elected vice-chairmen. Or her office-bearers are: hon secretary; Mr. Pee Kang Hai; assistant hon. secretary;
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    China-born Germans
    109 4 Standard Shipping Reporter The Danish East Asiatic liner Korea brought to Sia|apore yesterday four rather frightened little people. They told the Standard they had spent all their lives m Tientsin, North China. Now they hate North China. "Oh yes, there is plenty to eat, but notV"~ do," they
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    Clerks' No To Benham Pay Scales
    299 4 Standard Staff Reporter EVERY one of the 660 Government clerks, who have re-i turned the questionnaire circulated by the Government! Administrative and Clerical Services Union, has rejected the Benham Salary scales for clerks. And everyone of them has, agreed to stand by the dcci-
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    Citizenship Papers For Family Of 18
    135 4 Standard Staff Correspondent I PENANG, Thurs.— A man' and 17 of his children, all under 18, recently applied to the Assistant Registrar of Federal Citizens, Mr. R. L. Peel, for Certificates of Federal Citizenship. Revealing this to The Standard today. Mr. Peel said, "This
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    54 4 The A.0.C., Malaya. Air Vice Marshal F.W. Mellersh takes the salute as No. 91 K.A.F. Regiment (IVlalaya) Squad rat march past the saluting dais ft* Chanin ym~ terday. This was a ceremony marins the return of the squadron from Hoagkong. To tfce A.O.C.s left Is Group Ciptain Fuller-Good, station commander
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    $500 Bail For American
    83 4 Standard Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— An American, C V. Davis, appeared m the Magistrate's Court yesterday, charged with having obstructed a public servant. It was alleged the accused at 10.30 a.m. on June 27, obstructed a Labour Officer m the course ol his duty. Mr.
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    Johore Sends More And MoreFishHere
    159 4 Standard SUIT Reporter JOHORE is supplying to Singapore increasing quantities of fish, the Fisheries Officer, Mr. T. W. Burdon said, re- 1 viewing the quantities auc- tioned m Singapore fish markets during the past five months. The east coast of Johore, In particular, sent 550,403
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    Doctor Wins Tenancy Suit
    79 4 MR TAN AH TAH. Second District Judge, allowed Dr. Goh Kok Kee continued use of a South Bridge Road premises, yesterday. Tenancy was disputed by an Indian business man, R. A. Vadivelu, who claimed that a three-year agreement for Dr. Goh's joint use of the premises
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    UMNO'S GIFT TO DETAINEES
    36 4 Standard SUIT Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— A donation of $75 from the Johore Bahru, U.M.N.O. has been sent to the Tanjong Bruas, Detention Camp, as a Hani Raya gift to Malay detainees.
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    Chinese Charged With Cheating
    78 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed— A 30-year-old Chinese Hoo Yuen Lim of Kota Tinggi, appeared before Inrhe. A. .Kadir Yusof, Johore Magistrate, today, charged with cheating. On the application of the Court Inspector, the case was transferred to the Johore Session Court. It was alleged that on May
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    Rev. Hanson Jones
    36 4 PENANG. Thurs.— rne Rev. P. Hanson Jones of Yunnan will be the guest speaker at the Anglo-Chinese chapel service on Friday next. Rev. Jones has served as missionary m Yunnan for 17 years.
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    Ipoh Gets Talented Pianist From S'hai
    231 4 Ipoh now has a young and talented piano teacher m pretty 22-year old Mrs. Anna Leong, who recently evacuated frrm Shanghai to take i up residence here with her former CNAC pilot husband Mr. Leong Ming Sen. Anna, as she is known to most
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    AOC Welcomes RAF Malay Regiment Back From H.K.
    240 4 Standard Staff Reporter THE AIR Officer Commanding Malaya, Air-Vice-Marshal F. J. W. Mellersh yesterday morning inspected No. 91 Squadron, R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) at Regiments Tclok Paku depot m Singapore, a ceremony marking the squadron's return from duty m Hongkong. No. 91 Squadron
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    Malay Had Ammunition Fined $150
    149 4 SUNGEI PATANI, Thurs— < Pleading guilty to a charge of possession of five rounds of rifle ammunition, a 22-year-old i Malay. Abdul Raham bin' Abdullah was sentenced to pay a tine of $150 or to undergo three months' rigorous imprisonment by Circuit Magistrate. Tuan Syed
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    No Indian Card Yet For Rediffusion
    62 4 IT WILL be quite some time before Indian programmes are introduced over the network of the Rediffusion. "Until we are sure of being able to give our listeners the full worth of their money, we cannot introduce a new programme. "We are finalising arrangements
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    5 Masked Men Take $1,400
    279 4 Standard Staff Reporter Five Chinese PObber^ three armed with pistolt, calmly walked into a house m Owen Road, Singapore, yesterday at 7.15 p.m. and decamped with about $1,330 worth of jewellery and $70 cash, belonging to a salesman of a goldsmith shop. The robbers wore
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    Penang To Pick 4 For Malayan Youth Council
    92 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PEN AN G Wed— 'Plans are underway for the Sfttlemen' Youth Council to attend the Malayan Youth Council at Kuala Lumpur at the end of July. Mr. S A Abish. >,'am. tra.'t union officer revealed f h»t Mm selection
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    FINED FIVE CENTS FOR LESS WEIGHT
    70 4 Standard Staff Corn PBfANO, Thin- A Chinese lorry driver. On* I Iltiat. was fined five cents m the Magistrate's Court tt* when he pleaded guilt y to fc charge of failing to comply with the conditions vt his haulage permit, by psjii incorrect figures
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    Alicia Pins A New Sparkle On An Old Wardrobe
    456 5  -  ALICIA HART BY 7»»Pii&! h ne 7 tnrks wlth old tr!n^ts pulled from her jewellery box (centre). Tiny goM circlets pin a charm braCft? m»r Uirie the pocket (u «>«* r left). The cho£r™low"r left) makes imaginative use of a small
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    McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
    271 5 Experts Make Use Of The End Play la the third of a series end plays taken from championship ent* played recently York. .'< hind came from A. Ol Brooklyn, N. V., 1 fio senior master* Individual tournai ,en the individual .tournwas first started, it was > find
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    Would You Be A Good Wife? Here's Where You Find Out
    497 5  -  Samuel G. Esther B. Kling By And Q. flow can you tell whether you're equipped to make a good wife? A. Here's a simple te.-t to help you judpe how sucressful you'll be as a wife, li you can
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    HOME HINTS
    100 5 To separate two glasses which are stuck together, put the outside glass m warm (not I hot) water and at the same i time, put cold water into the I inside glass To renew the gloss on a straw hat. either black or coloured, go over it lightly
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    It's An Idea!
    14 5 It's An Idea Hie young things are wearing brocaded skirts with their cashmere sweaters.
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    Baked Apples Are Novel Dish
    320 5  -  GAYNOR NADDOX By APPLES are abundant 1X and good. It's feflciotll economy to use them often, But use then intelligently and give them new interest Marsh mallow Nut Baked Apples Four large apples. J cup brown sugar, J tearoom cinnamon, i cup fceodad raisins, 4
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    You Can Knock Out That Fat
    286 5  - You Can Knock Out That Fat Josephine Lowman By Bu! (ing at the? MM? Instead ft beaUnf yourself over iht- hi- id it is much better to beat youratll over the thighs! Don't beat yourself up but accomplish a brisk tatoo vvith your fists over the fatty drp -sits on
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    Out Of Control
    759 6 '"THERE is one aspect of the orean war which has not attracted much attention. It has very little to do with the immediate situation m Korea, but it, nevertheless, reflects a significant aspect of world history. Korea is a little country of just over 27,000,000 people. It
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    Malaya Is The Pivot Of The Pacific
    826 6  -  WOO KYATANG By (of the Pofi-Asion Newspaper Alliance). I T^HE Kremlin-backed blitz I m Korea has spurred the 5 people here to review the > key military position of Malaya, which, m the event of an Asia-wide armed flares up, will inevitably become
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    ELECTRONIC BRAIN IS HERE
    261 6 by HAL BOYLE NEW YORK —CAP I The era of the electronic brain is getting oil' to an eerie start. Ihe experts are soing ii-'^it it all wrong I knew they would. They keep tuning out machines that will think. That's all right, but that isn't
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    Its The Talk Of The Town
    531 6  -  OBSERVER By GOING UP 1 EVERYTHING is going up S and up and up. From the average man's estimation of his worth to the price of ci- garettes, the tendency is upJ wards. And this going up S business, tor is it a disease
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    BANDIT GIULIANOS LAST BATTLE
    364 6 PALERMO (I N S) CALVATORE Giuliano the Sicilian outlaw who wa3 shot dead by the police on Wednesday attracted worldwide attention m his campaign of crime throughout this Mediterranean Island. In fact the once proud bandit kingdom has for sometime been steadily on the wane against
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    We, The People
    521 6 Penang' > Harbour Board Sir: I do not agree with the statement made by the Secretary of the Penang Harbour Board m a letter to The Petiang Harbour Board Stall Association, that the Harbour Board is a commercial undertaking and as such is not bound to follow
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    Review Of Views
    314 6 Review Of Views Vterrs our co ifcnpnro Chinese, Indian and Mai editors are given daily tit t> column. Nonintervention COVIET Russia today c«m€ I for its share o( m able criticism m local vernacular pn Independent Sin Chew Poh commented on m\ Andrei (iromyko h;id s. •about American *i intervention
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    HAPPY SIXTEEN
    67 6 Man> happy returm Tamil Murasu. on \our m\ ternth birthday. Nixt.-rn >r.irx aRO >OU werr. likr us t«>da>. a rub but it was no boast w hrn fN Naid m your editorial >»s trrday that you "now srr\ the trr.iWr part of !h# Tamils residing' m Mal.o.i You
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    Chase Reds Out, Then Open Talks With Russia, Says Churchill
    318 7 House Backs Attlee On Korea Mr. Winston Churchill, m supporting the Attlee RuLYa n rTt n n tS f. U Un° n Ca e d for tafks wit£ thl S ?s l elc g en eral settlement before they Th<f-
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    No Separate Peace Talks Pledge To UN
    79 7 i SU( CESS. Uiiy ♦> 1 Korea yesterday ••ige to the United die would usiee rate peace with the rth Koreans :i Korean Fon-igu Mr. B. C. Limb, m to the r.N. SecreIr. Trygve Lie. ipport wili be the people of X >th
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    Senate Said To Be Restricting Point 4 Funds
    66 7 PON, luiy -The U.S. Senate Com nilttit ed to have voted S.slo million* <or Truman's '•Pbirit programme for aid I ii thu The group also strictioDs on h« is e c man a d 5.555 for he rich is olt'-.l a 5e
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    Mr. Eden Sounds Warning
    155 7 Mr. Eden Sounds Warning LUWUON, July 6 (Renter): —Speaking m the debate on Korea, the Opposition deputy leader, Mr. Anthony Eden, said the situation m Korea was "merely an extension of the existing events m Indo-China and Malaya." It would be the "height of folly" if. m any very proper
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    Reinforcements On Way
    111 7 PHILADELPHIA, July 6 (API As the U.S. air raft carrier Bataan left here on a <•rui.se, presumably for the Pacific, three Canadian destroyrrs left Victoria (Canada) lor Pear) Harbour. m Washington the Nuvy confirmed that the Bataan is hndad for Pacific service and |that she had been
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    Elephant Smugglers
    32 7 BANGKOK. July 6 (Router) The current brisk overseas demand and high prices paid for 7.00 animals has led to smuggling of elephants into Siam from Burma to avoid import duty.
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    Chiang To Resist If Reds Attack Isles
    194 7 TAIPEH. July 6 (UP):— The Chinese Nationalists have announced that they will fight despite President Truman's "cease-fire" request if the Chinese Reds attack any of the few small islands the Nationalists still garrison off the mainland. Th€ Government spokesman, said, "If the Chinese
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    Bandits Get Away With Rs. 60,000
    57 7 CALCUTTA, JulyW> (AP)— Five armed bandits escaped with the 60,000 rupee payroll of the National Carbon Factory m Calcutta yesterday. As the stationwagon with the payroll approached the factory the bandits stopped the car. The driver and the five company employees m the ear
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    Bevin Optimistic
    56 7 LONDON, July 6 (Reuter): The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, "does not despair" of Russia eventually becoming a full working number of the United Nations, cooperating with other countries m the interests of peace. Tin's was stated by Lord Henderson, Foreign Affnirs Under Secretary, replying to a question
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    Britain's Secret Jet Planes Tested — 'Best In The World'
    193 7 Britain's Secret Jet Planes Tested 'Best In The World' FARNBOROUGH, July 6 (IP) l n her greatest peacetime show of strength, Britain tested some of her latest secret jet planes, which designers believe will match or surpass any aircraft m the world. With these planes, aviation sources said, Britain is
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    I Know When To Stop: Stalin
    93 7 LONDON. July 6 (UP):— The Deputy opposition leader, Mr. Anthony Kdrn. told Parliament last night that Marshal Stalin had told him m December, 1941 that, unlike Hitler, he knows when to stop. Mr. Kden quoted .Marshal Stalin as sayin?, "We should not underrate Hitler.
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    U.S. Ordnance Dept. Orders 8350 Jeeps
    33 7 TOLEDO (Ohio). Juiy 6 (AP):— Willys Overland Motors received ah order from the U.S. Ordnance Department for 8.350 jeeps. The order represents a total cost of U5522,291,330.
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    Rubber As Ally Of Church
    123 7 MELBOURNE, July 6 (Reuter-AAP):— Cat naps m comfort will soon be possible m Wesley Church, Melbourne. Seats are to be cushioned with inches of non-slip sponge rubber. Rubber on footrests will help the church's hold on its followers. Chief cleric Dr. Irving Benson, who stages
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    U.S.I. Starts Siege Of The Moluccas
    84 7 U.S.I. Starts Siege Of The Moluccas THE HAGUE, July ti (Reuter):— The Indoit^i-iri Cabinet is reported lo ha\o declared a "state of war and siege" m the Moluccas. It is believed here that the order applies to the South Moluccas round the Amb-t--ina area, where a "Republic of South Moluccas"
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    S. Korea Got Large Arms Gift From U.S.
    209 7 WASHINGTON, July 6 (IP):- The I nited States turned over I SSIIO millions worth of anti-tank weapons, artillery and other equipment to the South Korean forces when American occupation troops left a year ago, it is disclosed here. This was considered sufficient
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    BED SAFEST PLACE
    33 7 The safest place during a lightning storm is on a metallic bed as a lightning bolt entering a room would follow the metal bedstead and leave its occupant unharmed. A.P.
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    Red Adventure In Greece And Yugoslavia?
    96 7 ISTANBUL, July 6, <AP):Observers here are wondering whether a Communist offensive aimed at Yugoslav and Greek Macedonia is planned as the result of reported troops and supply movements m Bulgaria. These sources say a Bulgarian attempt to unite Yugoslav. Greek and Bulgarian Macedonia might
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    2 WOMEN EJECTED
    39 7 During the House of Commons debate on Korea, several women m the public galleries began shouting "Hand off Korea" and threw pamphlets into the press gallery and am ng the legislators. Two women were ejected. U.P.
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    Soviet Use Same Lies As Nazi Germany Did, Acheson Charges
    205 7 WASHINGTON, July 6 (UP):- The IS. Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, said yesterday the Russian charge that South Korea started the war was just as false as Nazi Germany's claim that Poland started World War 11. Mr. Acheson said that
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    Communists Fire On British Ship Off Amoy
    71 7 HONGKONG. July 6 (APJ:, The British coaster Cheung Hing returned to Hongkong yesterday alter being twice fired upon by Communist snore batteries off Amoy. The skipper said Red nat-, teries first fired at them wi'h machineguns when the ili'p was entering Fukien port
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    Truman's Aide Faces Racket Charge
    98 7 Truman 's Aide Faces Racket Charge SAN FRAiVCISCO, July 6 L'P Attorney George T Davis, Northern California campaign manager for President Truman during the last election, was indicted yesterday by the Federal Grand Jury on charges of defrauding the Government m fake passport racket for Chi Davis, well-known criminal attorney,
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    All Jews Allowed To Enter Israel
    45 7 JERUSALEM. July 6 (AP)— "The Return to ]>r.icl Bill" decreeing the ba»ic inherent right of every Jew to immigrate to Israel and become a citizen of the Jewish state was unanimously adopted by the Hebr»-w Parliament m Jerusalem yesterday.
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      US Steel Dividend May Go Up
      226 8 NEW YORK, July 6, (INS) 1 Wall Street expectations that directors of the United States Steel Corporation will order an increase m the divij dend on the common stock at i their July meeting, has lent j weight to recent estimates that I corporate
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      Latest Malayan Share Prices
      768 8 Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE, Thurs. The tendency m the Malayan share market today was slightly easier, the market being still under tne influence of the political situation. Closing prices were: INDUSTRIALS Alex Bnck. SeUer R e J 2.25 230 At ld T 22 5 230 «i
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      Exchange Loopholes Cost S'pore Govt. Thousands A Month
      507 8  -  P. H. Goh By Standard Staff Reporter HUNDREDS of thousands of dollars are being lost each month by the Singapore Government through evasion of foreign exchange for goods illegally exported to Indonesia. The Standard understands that this development is nothing new to
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      NY Trading Back To Normal
      78 8 NEW YORK. July 4— (A.P.) —The Stock Market slowly pulled out of a quiet morning decline on Monday. Closing prices showed a clear majority of losses running to around one U.B. dollar a share. Early losses amounted to as much as two dollars a share.
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      Ceylon Rubber Workers Will Get More Pay
      172 8 COLOMBO. July 6, (Reuter) —Employers' representatives on the Rubber Wages Bo;.rd are not expected \o oppose the m. -leased wages proposed for rubber workers m Ceylon. The proposed increases m the basic wanes of the various classes of rubber workers are: Male workers,
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      Rubber Jumps 2-3/4 Cents, Fair Demand But Sellers Reserved
      177 8 RUBBER prices m Singapore appreciated by about 2f cents a lb. yesterday, business being done at 84J cents per lb. for first grade July shipment. The rise was attributed to moderate trade and factory demand for nearby shipments with sellers somewhat
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      79 8 Chief of Singapore's entrepot produce is rubber, which pours into the Colony 's many mills, parking and grading godowns from the Federation of Malaya, the neighbouring Indonesian territories, and British North Uoreno and Sarawak. Pulse of the world's rubber markets, the Colony occupies a dominant position m the Commonwealth as
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      Reports Of Malayan Companies
      82 8 Reports Of Malayan Companies KATU TIN Dredging Limited. The approximate value of the company's claim for war damage compensation m Siam has been assessed at Ticals 460,167, plus SlsT.r>:")3. Rehabilitation advances already received by the company, total Ticals 836.452 land £2.500/- Sterling, rejspectively. and the balance to be reecived by
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      Renong Consols
      77 8 Tin Dredging Company Limited: Th 1 approximate value of the Company's Claim for War Damage Compensation m Siam has been assessed at TicaLs 806,750 plus $317,038. Rehabilitation Advances already received by the company, total Tical.; 1,084,413, and the balance to be received by the Company m respect of
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      RUBBER OUTPUTS
      39 8 SIME. Darby 6c Co. Ltd.. report the following rubber outputs: May 1950 June 19S0 Kempa*. Limited 417.500 Ib. 405.700 lb Hadtlla Rubber Estate Ltd. 17..500 lb ***** lb Bukit KB. Rubber £o Ltd. 8,100 Ib. 8,6001 b.
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      JIMAH RUBBER
      14 8 The output of Jimah Rubber Estates for May, 1950, was 27,895 lbs.
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      DEBENTURES AND LOANS
      126 8 MUNICIPAL Spore 5-* 1920 ***** 106.50 4*% 1930 103.50 10G50 3% 1935 89.00 91.00 3% 1937 9250 93 50xi •3^ 1938 92 SO 9.i 50xi 4% 1930 100.50 ***** 3i% 1948 90.00 92 00xi Penang ft% 1926 105 00 10G50 4f% 1929 104.00 10(3 OOxi 3% 1935
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      N. Y. RUBBER
      42 8 NEW YORK, July 6 -f A.P.) I- Crude rubber futuios No. 1 closed G3 to 95 points higher In Now York Wednesday OfTers were: July 31.80 nominal; September 28.30; Decrmber 2678-fiO. Spot No. 1 R.S.S. Jl 7 'B nominal.
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      PRODUCE PRICES
      115 8 PRICES of pepper m Singapore rose sharply yesterdny. Market circles attributed the r; c to strong buying demand from Europe and low stock. Copra remained steady throughout the day with buyers up to $:J4^ but no ■•liars m evidence. Small parcel* of business was done m coconut oil
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      TIN PRICE
      10 8 (v $310.62^ per picul— Up $1 874 CCillS.
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      India-USI Wireless Link
      33 8 India -USI Wireless Link NEW DELHL July 6.-Tests have been carried out for a direct wireless link between India and Indonesia. The wireless link between India and J»pm will be reopened *oon. iGIIS)
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      U.S. Urged To Produce More Synthetic
      123 8 NEW YORK, July S— (UP.) ■—The Chairman of Flrett ,ne Tire and Rubber Company, Harvey Firestone inr., unjed at least two of the United States standby rubber plants be "prepared for production at once to avert a possible "rubber crisis". A statement issued by
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      PLENTY OF TYRES
      61 8 NEW YORK. July G— »AP> —The President of the General Tyre and Rubber Company. Mr. William O'Neil. said on Wednesday, them WMM no tyre shortaKe and no threat of one. '"Thanks to American research and industrial knowledge, our supply of rubber for tyres va.stly superior to pre-war
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      COPRA PRICES UP
      56 8 MANILA. July 6— <A.P.) The Philippines Bureau of Commerce announced today copra is the first major Philippines export pioduct to show a favourable market reaction to the Korean hostilities. During the week ending July l. the Bureau said, copra price jumped from US $14 50 cents to
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      $ FOR GERMANS
      29 8 FOR GERMANS BONN, GERMANY. July 8 (A.P.)— Allied officials on Tuesday night authorised German exporters to use 20 per cent of their dollar earnings for their own purchases abroad.
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      Ruling Money Exchange Rates
      120 8 EXCHANGE rates now m force, as supplied by th» m, layan Exchange Banks Association, aro as "follow? muS? 1 M R n K^ F!?^ RENCIFS |H* tih &Vk New Zealand 2/4 1/32 j\ India Ceylon 155 34 1M S 4 T57 8l M and Burma I0
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      Britain's Gold $ Surplus Up, But Figure Stil Low
      390 8 Britain's Gold Surplus Up, But Figure Stil Low LONDON, July s— (Reuter) The Chancellor <[ the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, announ Parliament today that the Sterling areas net gold a- i dollar surplus amounted to $180,000,000 m the ie quarter of 1950 This compared with a surplus $40,000,C00 m the
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      Canada's $ Reserve Ail-Time Record
      92 8 Canada's Reserve AilTime Record OTTAWA, July |_(fl Canada's re.sr i yes of and United Stat. i dollars h risen to a r< I $1,255,000,000 by June 30 Government announced day. In a quarterly r- the country's dollar the Finance Departmei that reserves had Inci iby $63.000 000 since Mai On
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      H.K. Credit Letter Margin Unchanged
      60 8 RONO KONG, July f A. P.)— Responsible b; official* In H Koi; monifnff dr led a Hi H ng i. ing firms were i .margin of deposit on of credit from 2t per C( i1 40 per cfMU "because ni ipresi lit u-i.rlrt situation Offl(
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      Thailand Frees Import Control
      36 8 BAN M .nd tion of certain con. sued Juno If, Only ai;t... and pain' with the oil with an fading v.i •..< < leu than 170, and tun still remain under Die I bun.
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      Jute Quota For USI
      33 8 NEW DELHI, .1 fl The Government of India lmve lixed the |olt r ods quota of 10.000 t«)ns for export to Indonesia for the period ending Dei-ember lj>so. (GIIS)
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      71-Year-Old Sea Dog Crossing Atlantic In Three-Ton Sloop
      327 9 I ,<:. m Tom Eastwood, 71-year-old Hull sea dog here on the Atlantic with the bow of his tH™? it. saifing sloop "Raffee" pointed towards ier merchant captain t aims to cross alone m eighty tiny ciaft without dio, "just to fulfill
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      New U.S. Device To Improve Flying Safety
      182 9 i AVIATION" medicine rearch scientists m the United at oa i are experimenting on a w device to improve flyine fety. w a This device is known as the aircrew decelerator and is a rocket-propel led sledge mounton metal slides, or skis, on
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      Stratocruiser Sets West-Bound Record Ireland To Boston
      87 9 AN AMERICAN Overseas Airlines stratocruiser flew from Shannon, Ireland, to Boston. MasMchusetti m 10 hours" 51 minutes and the pilot claimed a trans-Atlantic Wesbound record. The pilot. Edward Stewart, arriving m New York after his landing at Boston, said that he made the
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      Woman. Gives Up Motoring
      98 9 Reuter Seventy-four-year old Mrs. Fehr found her 30- horse power Fehr who had found her 30--horse power American limousine could not nip m and out of England's crowded traffic quickly enough, had returned to her horse-drawn carriage. With a top hatted coachman at the reins, Mrs.
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      Potsdam As Empire Fowey Visiting Here Next Week
      249 9 This Was The Potsdam TROOPSHIPS come and troopships go. Every week at least one large, white-painted, reconverted liner slides into Singapore requistioned for H M purposes through Islay, Kerr. The Lancashire, oldest of the troopsh.ps which have been bringing troops to fight
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      Russian Naval Aviation
      90 9 Russian naval aviation Is assumed to be entirely landbased. There are no aircraft carriers, although individual Russian warships may carry reconnaisance aircraft. Naval aviation may have an important role to play m any future conflict. Since the Russian surface fleets are too weak to obtain any but
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      1,000 Tons Oil For Tientsin
      75 9 HONGKONG. July 5 (Ren-ter-AAP)—An Asiatic Petroleum Company's oil tanker, carrying about 1,000 tons of oil, is en route to Tientsin and is expected to arrive there within two days, according to the Hongkong Standard, quoting tiie General Manager of the Company. Another tanker of the
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      Luxury Liner Caronia
      39 9 Five hundred wealthy Saloon passengers many of them m the millionaire category— and 600 ship personnel will be arriving m Spore on Friday, March 2, 1951 by this ship. It has a gross tonnage of 34,000.
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      Helicopters To Be Used To Fight Fire
      47 9 As a result of recent trials carried out by the Royal Australian Air Force and the Victorian Forestry Commission, helicopters are to be used m combatting the forest fires which each summer scourge the highly-inflammable eucalyptus forests of south-east Australia.
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      International Date Line Is No Puzzle
      306 9 WAKE ISLAND. (INS) Philippine Air Line pilots who fly across the International Date Line m the Pacific twice every week lose Sundays and gain more Wednesdays than some salary earners would care to remember. In fact, the imaginary line of time division has served
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      Germans To Build 24 Ships For Foreign Countries
      77 9 WEST GERMAN shipbuilders have signed contracts to construct 24 ocean going vessels for foreign countries. Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard told Parliament today. He said orders came from France, Brazil, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Thailand and Aden. Under Allied regulations, Germans must obtain special
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      French Freighter
      28 9 A new French twin-engine freighter of the Dakota class with an ultra high-aspect ratio wing, the Hurel-Dubois HD-31 is now on the drawing boards m France.
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      .....And This Was Pretoria
      46 9 .And This Was Pretoria picture. The Empire Orwell ClB.OOO tons cross) was the rreatert and most elaborate British troopship— nnti! now. Bat the Empire Fower is on her way. Orwell was the Pretoria of the German-African Ltaes; Fowcy the Potsdam of th« North German Lloyd. Standard
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    Singapore's Popular Bandmaster Retires
    653 10  -  PHILIP GOH J. C Hitch Returns To Australia After Fifteen Years Here Bf Colourful Career In Sports And Music Recalled In Article (Standard Staff Reporter) JTOR fifteen years the short and portly figure of Band-master Mr. J. C. Hitch was a familiar figure at all the
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    THE DOCTOR SAYS
    438 10  -  EDWIN P. JORDAN Treatment Of Bright's Disease Depends On Victims Condition By M. D. Written for NEA Service BRIGHT'S disease or nephritis can be either acute or chronic and the symptoms, treatment and outlook vary accordingly. In a typical acute case the symptoms come on suddenly but
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    Weights For Lost Day Of Ipoh Races
    204 11 ng are the weights for all the eight races or day of the Perak Turf Club July meeting: 1 DIV i M.le 1 Furlong rio 8 9 OB m m 0.0 wmk II 8.6 I I 8-5 t 8.4 te Final Star) 8.4
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    Artie Bell Not Yet Out Of Danger
    97 11 VERVIERS, BELGIUM. July 4. (AP) British motor, cycle ace Artie Bell winner of last month's Junior T.T. at the Isle O* Man was still "dan- gerously ill" today after a crash m Sunday's Belgian j Grand Prix. A Sister at St Elizabeth's I
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    Trufine Impresses In Gallops
    226 11 (From OLLIE DA VIES) II'OII. July 6— Most impressive of the horses that did fast work on the track this morning were Trnfine (Turner). Bashful Beauty and Blank Spec (Jones), all of whom clocked 38 seconds for three. New Verse (Turner) could not be faulted as
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    The Trainees Are Happy
    68 11 Aborc: •Trainer" Choo Seng Quee and his men pause m a lecture. Below: One of the twins, Hussein, goes through a popular drill, dribbling between sticks to develop ball control and a body swerve that is already highly efficient. The lower picture stars the other twin,
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    Troon Golf Second Round
    149 11 TROON. Scotland, July 7.— (AP) The weather was porfect at Troon on Thursday for low scoring m the second round of the Open Golf Championship. A warm, bright sun was tempered by a light breeze from the east. Bill Branch, the 39-year-old English pro, set an
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    American Sport Frees Racial Bars
    311 11  -  CANNIE RYAN B 3 united Press Foreign Sports tditor YORK-(UP»— With' «pitulati on of bowling baskettSuT T> V bars. Bowling Conhad a "White lause since 1916,: en's international ngress both have racially restrictive now Negroes, Pinoa and Amecan be members and can. national tourna-i itini
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    Singapore Week-End Cricket
    84 11 Singapore Week- End Cricket CEYLON S.C. v. CUSTOMS S.C. at C.S.C. on Saturday from 2 p.m.: K.V.S. Sundram (Capt.), C. Cooke, Kulnsingham, A. C. Shegraran, N. BalasiMffham Velautham, Thiasarajan, Thevarajan, K. Sinnathamby. Ralafcrishnan and Thamby. v. R.A.F. SELETAR m the senior tourney on Sunday on the C.S.C. ground: S. K.
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    Our 1955 Soccer Stars Have Started Training
    478 11  -  Herman Rappa The Young Idea In Action... By Singapore's 1955 Malaya Cup "stars" have started training. You will see them at Farrer Park any morning if you get up early enough. You will see them running. drilling, kicking and generally working through a
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    Comb. School To Meet University Cricket XI
    74 11 ,The Combined Schools meet the University of Malaya m a cricket fixtuie at Raffles Institution ground today. The Combined Schools aie field* ing a strong side and expect to beat the Univei&ity Following are the Combined Schools team: Chin Yoon Fok, (capt.), R.
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    Peacocks Last Minute Dash Gives Changi Win Over Sluggish Rovers
    318 11 R.A.F. Chansi-1 Rovers-0 i R.A.F. Changi beat the j Rovers one goal to nil \yhcn they met m the S. A.F. senior league at j Jalan Besar stadium yes- terday. Play was fairly even but both sets of forwards were
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    Big Part For First-Aiders In Civil Defence In Malaya
    258 11 More Malayan News MEMBERS of the St. Johns Ambulance Association will be able to play an important part m the proposed organisation of civil defence m this country, Mr. J. G. Black, President of the Perak Association said his foreword for
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    2 Years For No Identity Card
    70 11 MUAR, Thurs.— For failing) to register and obtain nn [identity card, See Yew Teck,, [a 30-year-old Chinese was sen-, tenced on Tuesday to two years rigorous imprisonment, by Jnche Abdul Hamid bin iMustapha, President of thej Session Court. In another card case A tan;
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    Bus Men Want Weekly Day-Off
    69 11 EMPLOYEES, of four bus companies m Singapore decided yesterday to request their employers to Rive Them a day-oil m a veek and to change their daily-pi., d system to weekly, so that they would not lose a day's pay by having a day-oflf. This decision
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    2 Jailed For Army Theft
    148 11 TWO CHINESE, Ng Lian Wee and Chai Koon Tin. were sentenced m the Singapore First District Court yesterday to nine months' rigorous imprisonment for theft, and a third man, a Malay, Ruma bin Adam, aged 16 was cautioned and discharged. All three were found guilty'
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    Coming Home
    22 11 PENANG. Thurs. The 11 Penang delegates who attended the Buddhists Conference of World Fellowship m Ceylon are expected back shortly.
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    Louise Brough Triumphs In Women's Semi-Finals
    419 11 Wimbledon Tennis Results WIMBLEDON. July 6 (Reuter) Miss Louise Brough, reigning champion, beat her co-American Dons Hart m their s«. -mi-final match at Wimbledon today. The score was b" 4. 6—3 In the other women's semifinal Ifn. Margaret Dv Font beat Mrs Pat Todd
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    Frank Worrall Reaciies His Third Century
    348 11 LIVERPOOL, July 6 (ReuV ter) —Frank Worre'l and Ken Trestrail gave the West Indies a first innings lead of 96 runs by lunch on the second day oC their match here against Lancashire Continuing their innings this morning Worrell took his score to 143
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    Negri A.A.A. Has Electric Timer On Trial
    154 12 SEREMBA N.Wednes- day— The Negri Sembilan Amateur Athletic Associa-| tion is considering using an electric timing apparatus made by the technical staff of the Telecom-! munications Department m Seremban. At the next' state athletic championship. But the timer will only be used rf
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    Chinese Surprised By T.P.C A
    151 12 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 The Selangor Chinese Recreation Club suffered their first defeat m the first division of the Selangor Soccer League today when they went down to the Tamilian Physical Culture Association .by two goals to one m their second round
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    Entries For S'pore Races
    843 12 No fewer than 186 horses ;75 m Class one and 111 m Class two have been entered for the Singapore Turf Club meeting to be held at Bukit Timah on July 15, 19 and 22. The programme consists of' eight races on the first and second
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    14 12 The Green Howards soccer team winners 4f the Koala Pilah league which concluded recently.
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    Sedgman Had Uphill Battle, While Drobny Provided The Drama
    409 12 WIMBLEDON, July 5— (UP)— Top seeded Frank Sedgman of Australia and Budge Patty of the United States advanced today to the finals of the Wimbledon lawn tennis championships Sedgman, who Is a two-to-one favourite, beat Egypt's Jaroslav Drobny, S-6, 3-6. 6-3.
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    Alice Marble Speaks Her Mind
    144 12 NEW VORcv, July 4.— (Reuter) American tennis star Alice Marble today demanded an end to the unofficial bar that keeps coloured players out of the American Lawn Tennis Championships at Forest Hills. New York, every year. Miss Marble, winner of the Wimbledon women's singles title
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    Locke Trails Arthur Lees In Golf Open
    237 12 TROON. AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND. July s— (Reuter) The first blow m the British open golf championships on the Old Course here was struck by Britain for at the end of the first round m the championship proper today Arthui Lees was leading with 68
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    Jack Gutteridge Dead
    38 12 LONDON, July 5 (AJ>.) Jack Gutteridge, 52, the famous British boxing trainer and second, died on Monday Among those he trained were Primo Camera, former world's heavyweight boxing champion, and Billy Thompson, British lightweight champion.
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    Badminton Eliminations On Sunday
    146 12 An elimination contest will be held on Sunday! among four of the competitor* from Singapore to the, ninth Malayan badminton j championships to be held at Ipoh during the forth-' coming August holidays. Singapore is allotted four entries but five were received for the men's singles.
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    SELECTED FOR PERAK SPORTS
    43 12 The following competitors have been selected to represent the Lower District at the Perak Amateur Athletic sports meet at Ipoh on July 21 and 22: Alexander Jacob. A. Santhanam, Mohd Kassim, Wong Yoke Lin, T. Thambyrajah, A. Dairiam. j
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    34 12 Finalists m the Singapore lawn tennis women's doubles championships. Mrs. A. Greenhill and Miss R C. Khoades (right) were the winners against Miss L. WalkerTaylor and Miss I. L. Butt 6— 1. 6— t.
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    Olympic Boxer Turns Professional
    63 12 SYDNEY. July 4:— (i _uterAAP).— The Olympic Games boxer and former amateur bantamweight champion of Australia, Jimmy Carruthers has turned professional. Carruthers was forced out of the 1948 Olympiad with an eye injury after he had beaten the Argentine boxer who iater beat the South African.
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    Science Rescues Golf Duffers
    287 12 CCIENCE has come to the rescue of the "duffer" with the development of a non-losable "atomic" golf ball. The new ball can be found within seconds by the new method demonstrated at the Portage Country Club m Akron, by Dr. William Davidson. Director of Physical Research
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    Team Work Gives Title To Ong, Mrs Greenhill
    330 12 Displaying good understanding «f each others play, and driving and serving with plenty of force, Ong Chew Bee and Mrs. Greenhill captured the S.L.T.A. mixed doubles championship, yesterday beating veteran Lira Bong Soo and Miss R. C Rhfcades, 6—3, 6—l on the
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    Golden Boy Meets Prasert
    106 12 After a fairly lons interval, fight fans are promised some good fights at the Happy World Stadium tonight. Heading the card are Golden Boy, the lightweight champion of the Federation, and Nai Prasert of Bangkok. The Siamese is rated among thej best lightweights m his coun*
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    Singapore F.A. Plans For Visitors, Tours, New Stadium, New Tourney
    307 12 Singapore F.A. Plans For Visitors, Tours, New Stadium, New Tourney There is nothing known definitely about teams from India, Denmark and Sumatra visiting Singapore. This was disclosed at a Council meeting of the S.A.F.A. yesterday. i Mr. Q. McGregor Watt. 1 presiding, said that the SAFA had heard of the
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    Penang Gets Home Venue For Cup Tie
    129 12 PENANG. July 4 The Malaya Cup match between Pahang and Penang has been "**s, to be played m Penang at Victoria Green on July 21 The Football Association of Malaya allowed the Pahang to play the game either at Raub on July 8
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    May Win Triple Crown.
    31 12 Mrs. A. Oreenhill. winner of the doubles and miv^d doubles titles at thr current Singapore championship*, will m< <*t Miss J. Taylor toda> >r the singles title.
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    English Players For Rio
    117 12 English Players For Rio RIO DE JANEIRO J (U.P.)— A director of ombian football team. Fe confirmed on I night that fuubai k As ton and halfback II r fc. burn are under contr his team and will m I the English players I Mountford and Mi' The club dlrectot
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    Wimbledon Fans Would Like Doris Hart To Win
    260 12 (By Jim Chambers, Associated Press Staff Correspondent). WIMBLEDON. July 6. (AP)— The American Wightman Cup players who have monopolised the women's singles m the All-English Championships, fight it among themselves on Thursday for entry into Saturday's final. In two matches on the
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