Singapore Standard, 16 July 1950

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  • 15 1 Singapore Standard VOL. 1. NO. 14 Singapore; Sunday, july ie, 195a. 12 PAGES TEN CENTS
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  • 369 1 SAN FRANCISCO, July 15 (UP)— The Ist Marine i-quipped with its ,vn air power, and the 1 tons aircraft carrier, ti\ are today at sea, q ing to the aid of the of the United Nan Korea. The Marines the first organised
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  • 114 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew, of Penang. has been awarded a British Trade Union Scholarship. He was selected this afternoon by a board presided over by the Trade Union Adviser, Mr. J. A. Brazier. The scholarship is available For one year m the
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  • 91 1 Romulo To Consult Quirino On PI Troops To Korea MANILA. July— 15(AP)—Foreign Secretary Carlos P. Romulo announced today he would confer with President Elpidio Quirino "ns soon as possible" on United Nations appeal for additional ground troops for Korea. The President's stand so far on sending Filipinos to Korea has
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  • 229 1 TOKYO, July 15 (UP)— A Headquarters report on the Australian fighter planes operating on the| Korean war, said that four Mustangs of the Australian fighter squadron, based m Japan, gave North Korean troops a savage mauling on Friday, during the course jof a swoop on the
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  • 313 1 THE WALK-OFF staged by the Radio Officer. Mr. N. N. Rao. and 14 Indian firemen crew of the Greek ship Persephone last weekend, culminated m the men being signed off at the Shipping Office yesterday afternoon. The Radio Officer and crew were
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  • 85 1 Who will be the «rouse of Princess Mitrgaret? An answer to this question will be found m the Sunday Magazine of today's Singapore Standard. The Maga- 2 ine comes FREE OF CHARCiE with every copy of the paper. The Sunday Magazine further contains
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  • 66 1 Hari Raya Greeting TO OUR MUSLIM READERS picture. The message that told Singapore Muslims today is Hart s^*<* V k ?M cf Kathi J? f SlWPore. Haji All bin Mohammed «Salleh, left, received the phone call from Kelantan informing him that the crescent had been seen and today Is officially
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  • 436 1 Standard Staff Reporter A TELEPHONE message received at 11 o'clock last night from the Chief Kathi m Kota Bahru m Kelantan to the Chief Kathi of Singapore, Haji AH bin Mohammed Salleh, confirmed that today is Hari Raya first day of the
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  • 136 1 THREE CARS were Involved m a collision at East Coast Road last night. A woman passenger m one of the cars was injured and she was admitted to hospital. Two of the cars were believed to have been involved m a head-on collision. One of
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  • 98 1 TOKYO, July 15: (ReuterAAP) General Mac Arthur's Headquarters have banned two American frontline newsagency correspondents from returning to Korea. They are the United Press's Peter Kalischer and Associated Press Tom Lambert, who recently went to Japan after covering frontline fighting. According
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  • 61 1 PORTSMOUTH, July 15 (UP)— The Royal Navy opened a top secret enquiry today, to dete-mine whether sabotage caused the explosion on Friday niijht of six barges, loaded with more than a thousand tons of ammunition m the h rbour here. The enquiry
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  • 419 1 WASHINGTON, July 15 (UP) The United States today refused to negotiate m regard to Korea, until the communist invaders have been driven out of South Korea. The United States also confirmed it opposition to the Chinese communist government being given a seat
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  • 379 1 Americans Stabilize Positions ADVANCED AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS I N SOUTH KOREA. July 15 (AP American forces were able to stabilize their positions today near the North Korea bridgehead across the Kum River. The Yanks were preparing to continue their holding action against the Communists who infiltrated m strength across the river
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  • 169 1 LONDON, July 15 (UP)— Reliable sources said today that Britain was hesitating to send ground troops from Hongkong to the war m Korea, for fear that it would invite a communist invasion of the strategic colony. They pointed out that the only other British
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  • 45 1 Taiwan 's Offer To Send Troops Said Accepted TAIPEH, July 15 (UP)— Reports reached here today that General Mac Arthur had accepted the Chinese Nation- alist offer to send troops to Korea. Chinese and Amerlcan officials however said that no such notification had been received.
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  • 241 1 BTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN KOREA. July 15 (UP)— The United States Bth Army, one of the two armies which helped General Douglas Mac Arthur's drive through the Philippines to Tokyo m World War 11, has allready established its headquarters for the task
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  • 144 1 j LONDON. July 15— (AP) ;Tin prices on the London market, rocketed by the Korean fighting, Saturday were £100 (pounds) per ton higher than one week ago. Rubber was 7J pence a pound (weight) higher than when the Korean affair began, although
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  • 71 1 PENANG, Sat.— Two cars, one driven by a European and the other by a Malay, were involved m a collision m Northam Road, near the junction of Transfer Road today. In trying to avoid the accident .the car driven by the European and a nearby
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  • 38 1 PENANG, Sat. Regular supplies of cabbages from Cameron Highlands have kept the price of leaf vegetables down m Penang and Province Wellesley. Tapioca mills m Penang continue to import much of their requirements from Kedah.
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  • 85 1 Singapore has just received one of the biggest "peacetime" shipments of bombs. A few days ago, the Benreoch arrived m the Singapore roads, flying the R (for Burgee) flag. She had 1.290 tons of bombs m her holds. They were half- ton bombs
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  • 307 2 Standard Staff Reporter TEMPORARY clerks m Government service In the Colony, numbering about 300, are to approach the Government for pension rights and security Of service. A group of temporary clerks recently held discussions with the Singapore Government Administrative and Clerical Services Union with
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  • 201 2 Co-op Men Welcome New Schemel Standard Staff Reporter LEADERS of the co-operat- J ive movement m Singapore are i m favour of the proposal to start a scheme to train personnel m co-operative work This follows a 'feeler' which has just been put out by the Commissioner of Co-operative Development
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  • 65 2 TWEHTY-ONE-ye*ar-old Koh Yong Itftng was sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment m the Singapore First District Court yesterday when he appeared the second time for not having an identity card. Koh served one month's imprisonment on his first convicion. Asked why he had not
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  • 35 2 Standard Staff Reporter THE SECOND Current Affairs lecture by Mr. G. G. Thomson will be given m the Singapore V.M.C.A. at 8 p.m. tomorrow* The subject will be."Eurofßaa Economic Union and Asia."
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  • 115 2 TWO OLD boys of Raffles Institution who are doing well m their studies m the United Kingdom are Dr. Lloyd Weerekoon and Mr. A.C.J. Weerekoon, sons of the well-known Singapore medical practitioner, Dr. Arthur Weerekoon. At an examination held m London last week-end, Dr. Lloyd Weerekoon
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  • 64 2 EE AH LEE, an inmnte of the Leper Settlement, pleaded guilty m the Sinsapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to a charge of attempted suicide by drinking caustic soda on July 8. Ec, breathing with difficulty, climbed wearily into the dock and told the court thnt
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  • 326 2 Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE had more than 21,000 new voters m the past six weeks, but a third of them rushed m their applications m the last 24 hours. It was the busiest day for all 12 registration centres. Centres were
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  • 188 2 Standard Staff Reporter MALAYS of the Residency of Riouw have petitioned the President of the United States of Indonesia, Dr. R. Soekarno, for an inquiry into an alleged move to restore the sultanship of Riouw and Lingga to the south of Sumatra. Their petition has
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  • 78 2 A YOUNG Chinese. Chng Pja Kv. ang was charged m the Singapore First District Court yesterday with having posted placards containing incitej merits to violence, near a marj ket m East Coast Road on June ID. Chnp was also charged with possession of two seditious poster*.
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  • 168 2 Robbed 'By Those He Met At Bar Standard Staff Reporter A SIAMESE student, returning to his country after studying m the United Kingdom, was assaulted and robbed by Europeans with whom he had been drinking m a bar m Sin--1 gapore. The student, a passenger m I the Danish ship
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  • 77 2 Standard Staff Reporter A STRONG protest against the attempts to re-open toddy .shops on estates was made at a public meeting at the Johore Indian Congress premises, Jdhore Bahru. The resolution that M as it was strongly felt the re-intro-duction of toddy drinking
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  • 63 2 THE SINGAPORE Branch of ,the Overseas league has orI Kanised a Dominion Film Show ■at i) p.m. on Tuesday, July 18 at the Victoria Theatre. Members of the Alliance Francaise. the China Society and the Film Circle have been j invited to be present. The films to
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  • 238 2 "AN astonishing record," said the Singapore First District Judge, Mr. H. E. Kingdon, yesterday when he was told of the previous convictions of 21-year-old V Suppiah who was before him forsentence for havine burgled three houses m one month Suppiah was sentenced to
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  • 570 2  - For This Mother And Daughter The 1 3 th Is A Lucky Day.... K. R. S. Vas Poverty Paired Them For 9 Years By Standard Staff Reporter THE thirteenth may be an unlucky day for many people, but for 12-year-old Shirley Ross and her mother, Mrs. Mary Ross, nee Tan,
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  • 121 2 TAN KHAY TECK, a partner of Chop Hock Tiong Guan of Havelock Road and Ec Swee Huat. an assistant m the firm. who were charged with possession of 7.200 tablets of morphine sulphate, m the Singapore First District Cot rt were acquitted yesterday. The
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  • 29 2 Standard Staff I THE OFFIf riran Con Singapore and Coiisulate m X will be rio^pj The USIS pore and X neual will bo closed ton n
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  • 101 2 YEO Kl'M KEE. a salesman of S:no-Bntish (Malaya) Ltd. pleaded guilty m the Singapore First District Court yesterday to cheating the firm of cement and tiles worth $3,060. Yeo was sentenced to one year's rigorous imprisonment on each count, the sentences to run
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  • 55 2 1 A 14-YEAR-OLD girl, Kow jSiew Toh, was bound over for three months m the Singapore j Second Police Court yesterday for attempting suicide. Kow said, she took poison because her mother scolded her. When asked if she was pre- pared to go back to her moth-
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  • 236 3 Standard Staff Correspondent JALA LUMPUR. Sat.-C. J. Seton-Browne a •lice sergeant attached to the Johore Bahru investigation Department Headquarters was sentenced to one day's simple imprisonment and or three months' rigorous imprisonment by lan m the first magistrate's court. He was on a
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  • 47 3 lj ;d Staff Correspondent >■ Sat-The Kajang Guides Company ./^Presented at the eJ t Perth, Ausi. Zainab binU jPUPU of the Malay •She ajang yesterday. Way ofl at th e railb?j a large numHoot v re she will sail Goide^ a olher Malayan
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  • 36 3 Sat.-Trage-a '^y hf ellknown Chinese X"*««K Scr JV esterd^y when «°aof sr* \V m 24-year-old J th« Kvvar Chee Wan. cr^. branch, was tan wh Sungei Karatfc^ero'i y as not y ei been
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  • 19 3 a *3 rd ~"v 1 f JJIU, leratioo Police f'* Vis l Lnke Gardens here
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  • 114 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— A bandits' arms dump containing 30,500 rounds of ammunition. S3 mines, five hand grenades, 30 detonators and three shells were found by security forces operating m Pahang yesterday. In the same State, yesterday afternoon, bandits fired on a
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  • 34 3 Four of the five Selangor Girl Guides who are proceeding to Australia for the Girl Guide Jamboree. They are. left t# right, fiaXuli Hassan, Chua Lian Hoon, SusheeU Vethafraiiam ao4 GoaneswadL
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  • 451 3 Continual Demands For Higher Wages Hamper 6- Year Development Plan ment servant, h"?w .eri^Hl.^'" 11 h M a •»<« woges of GovernThe proposals envisaged m Parts I and II of the Plan, other than those of the capital cost of which is to be financed from the 1 1181 De
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  • 1748 3 $40,000,000 m respect of re^ ceipts from Income tax which is the revenue expected to hi received m 1950 m respect o] one ai.d a half years' of assessment. It is, however, hoped thai with the increasing experience on the part of the Income
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  • 325 3 INCREASED taxation is likely if the Six- Year Development Plan for the Federation of Malaya is to be carried out. This is revealed m the preamble to Chapter 111 of the Plan, just released for publication. It states: "The development of
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  • 130 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Malays who are battling the terrorists will be able to celebI rate Hari Raya m the jungles. (Nearly $1,000 worth of parcels. each containing a tin of cigarettes, a tin of chocolates, a handkerchief and a cake of
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  • 114 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. —S. A. Young, assistant Controller ,of Supplies, Kedah, was sentenced to 18 months' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. D. M. K. Grant m the Sessions Court today. He was found guilty on two charges of accepting $1,500 without consideration
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  • 23 3 PENANG, Sat. Tobacco were harvested here last month and growers obtained an average of $85 per picul for cured leaves.
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    57 3 Studio picture. The district Welfare Committee. Muar donated $140 to the Muar Welfare Centre for Hari Raya. Clothing, rice and sugar were distributed to 34 workers, 8 Chinese and 26 Malays. Clothing: was also distributed to the deserving pupils of the Muar Convent Girls School. Picture shows the happy gathering:
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  • 292 3 Standard Staff Reporter A NATIONAL policy for trade and industry which, it is hoped, will commend itself to all three parties m the economic life of the country— Government, industry and the people— is outlined for the first time m the
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  • 48 4 MUAR, Sat. A Malay teacher, Sa'at bin Sikan of Satu Pahat was fined $40 for negligent driving. The magistrate, Inche Rauf bin Haji Mohd. Sa'at also ordered Sa'at to pay compensation of $50 to the trishaw-pedaller, Ramli bin Haron, whom he knocked down with his motor-cycle.
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  • 238 4 Standard S.atl Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sat Considerable develop-; ments have been proposed for civil aviation m Malaya, involving the expansion of existing airfields and development of emergency landing grounds. The developments will cost $12.9 million m terms ot capital and special
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  • 177 4 Ex-Chief Of Salvation Army Dying Standard Staff Reporter Salvation Army members m Malaya will pray today for their 84-year-old retired General, Evangeline Cory Booth, lying critically ill at her home at Hartsdale, New York According to an A. P. message, General Booth is expected to die m a "matter of
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  • 113 4 Officials Of H S Bank Staff Society THE following were elected office-bearers of the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation Local Stair Benevolent Society lor 1950 II: Patrons: Mr. C. L. Edwards. J.P. and Mr. Lim Bock Kee, J.P; president: Mr. Sim Miah j Kan; vice-presidents: Mr. j Choo Jim Teck
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  • 42 4 MUAR. Sat.— Two Chinese, Khoo Tan, 54, and Lim Ter. 49. were charged before Inche Hamid bin Mustapha m the Session Court with possession of Chandu. Khoo Tan was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, while Lim Ter was discharged.
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  • 28 4 IPOH, Sat.— The Mentri Besar, Perak, wishes everyone, particularly the Malays and the Muslims and those serving \vitfc the -curity forces, a '£ahMat Hn *Wa/*
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  • 109 4 I I SEVEN FISHERMEN found m a boat during curfew period m the Straits of Johore without a permit appeared m the Singapore First District Court yesterday Five, who hid previous convictions for a similar ofTence were *each sentenced to one month's rigorous imprisonment. They
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    154 4 Professor LEFT: Professor Brian Maepraith. Dean of the School of Tropical Medicine m Liverpool, who will stay five days to see "what's happening about malarial control m Singapore and the Federation. He will then leave for Australia to attend the Commonwealth Conference of Universities. Actress CENTRE: Actress
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  • 33 4 Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sat.— The Ipoh YWCA will be holding a charity dance m aid of their building fund tomorrow night at 8.30 p.m. at the Anderson School hall.
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  • 82 4 THIS TEN-TON steam roller fell Into a ditch at McKeast* Road yesterday wbes a 30 foot strip of concrete embankment cave way. The steam roller was repairing the road after It had been dug up to accommodate a gas main. A Municipal superintendent said that if it were
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  • 398 4 Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sat.— At the Sessions Court this morning, i in answer to three charges of accepting illegal gratifications while being a Government medical officer attached to the Ipoh District Hospital, Dr. C. Murugiah, stated m his defence:
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  • 81 4 Standard Staff Reporter THE VERY Rev. Brother Barmtus. who attended a .vorld meet-.-s m Rome of the Provincial Visitors returned by air to Singapore yesterday. This meeting was convened by the Superior-General m •onnection with the La Sallian ptflff the centenary of the Saint's birth
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  • 69 4 EIGHT policemen, m two I radio cars, armed with sten i guns, rifles and search lights surrounded the new block of flats at the third mile Serangoon Road. They went there m answer to a telephone message at 10 o'clock last night reporting that
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  • 190 4 'DON'T ADUSE OTHERS WIVES' magistrate tells woman t IN BINDING over a young English seaman, Leslie Cannon who was found guilty on a summons charge of assault, the Fourth Police Magistrate, Mr. P. Claguo, yesterday advised the complainant, a Chinese woman named Toh Wang Thye, to restrain herself m future
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  • 337 4  - ECAFE Invited To Hold Conferences In Spore Lokanathan K. B. S. Vas By Standard Staff Reporter ''SINGAPORE is likely to be the venue for two regional conferences to be convened by the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and Far East" the Executive Secretary of the ECAFE, Dr. P. S.
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    91 4 The Standard's woman reporter. Lilian Buckoke. had quite a job trying to take this picture of an Indonesian girl believed to be Carol Reed's discovery for his forthcoming film. "The Outcast of the Islands." There is a lot of talk that this IS t'-e tir l. but no
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  • 62 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sat. Alth< it is durian leajoa bere the prire is still h:gh owing to sparse supplies. They fetch anything from 50 cents to $1 f><> per fruit, aococding to >\7c. Kambutans and mangosteens are to be found m abundance m the
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  • 127 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sat. Thousands of Muslims will pay respevt to their dead on- the morning of Hari Rnya Puasa. which falls tomorrow or Monday. Alms will be given to the poor on that day. About 2.000 pilgrims from the Federation and Singapore
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  • 90 4 C.I.D. Chief On Chargas Against! PF Standard Staff Kop^ PEOPLE who h,,e any c^ plaint asainst the P make it to the Sir Chief, Dcpjty R C. B Will writing to »f. This request Mr. W:ltsh i told The St;,ndir' complaints were son responsible r brought to book delay. •'lndividun:
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  • 41 4 Standard Stall I ndrnt iroH. Sa- St. Xm\ nanj Bro. 1 it. to Last t me dtnl r. It app> v lin a bus. v a kei Two U and Mr I juivd.
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  • 14 4 The y S Jaml: held m Auj-tr..! r-1 In v, E
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  • 189 4 Standard Staff Reporter PENANG, Sat— Mr. Lim Lean Teng, well known philanthropist, today laid the foundation stone of the new $300,000 Han Chiang Hing School, using a gold In a speech before the ceremony, the Senior Inspector of Schools, Mr. C. P. Purcell, said,
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  • 70 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR. Sat. Three lorry drivers appeared before the Circuit Magistrate Inche Abdul Wahab bin Abdullah m Bagan Serai on Thurs- day for overloading, their lorries. All pleaded guilty. Loh Ghee i Cheong and Goh Lip Chin, who carried excess weight of two
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  • 44 4 Standard Staff Reporter CHAN WAI SUN. 38. was allowed bail of SI .OOO by the Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate yesterday after he pleaded not guilty to a charge of impersonating a detective. The case was postponed to a later date.
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  • 89 4 Standard Staff Corrcspondrnt PENANG. S«it.— A strong delegation to represent the Settlement Youth Couocil of Penang arid Province Wellesley has hi^eri elected for the forthcoming Malayan Youth Council annual conference tentatively fixed for July 29 and 30. The delegates are Mr. Samuel Abishegam. chairman of the Settlement
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  • 438 5 r N V 1 T E D by Singapore'^ French Consul General. re Guibaut, to be at the dinner party ■mating the 160 anI i he Fall of the two nights ago '.•.nig table echoed to _> thai rang m the 5 of Pans, towards the c
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  • 36 5 EDUCATION AL VIOLIN LESSON'S theory and by Julian Foorman Direct or -Sea View Limited pupils ac- preparation ror Royal Music, london, Fxam. 7 ::.c or studio 4. >ns (Cr. North Bridg-- eman St > Telephones X *****.
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  • 1863 5 I BABY m NOT COLD I served with sharksfin soup. Champagne with hors d'ouvres, and so on. Scotch whiskey was a 'finale* with the Marseillaise sung by all. Some of the dresses worn at the reception m the early evening were daring affairs, bearing the Fath and
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    216 5 A few days ago, Olivia Kristek had her first birthday. Many children came along to a wonderful feast, including Michael Taylor, Michael de Souza, George, Dorothy and Daisy Tan, Clifton Eber, Carole Wilkinson and Zienia Merton. Cakes and jellies galore. sandwiches that just begged to be eaten, lots
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  • 293 5 children seemed to think it an awful waste of cake, but the rest hugely enjoyed the incident. Two hours later, many tired kiddies were still firmly refusing to leave oil swings and roundabouts. There were no hangovers! Party With A Swing CUSAN DENTON, who lives
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  • 75 5 From left to right: S/S*t. BUI Clarke, S/Sgi. B. Hrtherington. Cpl. J. Joyce, Cpl. K.A. Roger*. S'Srt. P. Crouin. A.Q.M.S. F. Hen, S/S«t. W. Wilkinson. S S*t. F. Kinc AH ex-boys of the Army Technical School trained m Portsmouth, before the last war. This
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  • 76 6 K. S. Chang, Editor-in-Chief Published dally including Sundays by the Sin Poll (Star flews) Amalgamated. Ltd.. at 128 Robinson Road, Singapore Subscription rates: 10 cents per copy. $3 per month and $7 80 per three months m Singapore and throughout the Federation of Malaya, postage extra. Advertisement
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  • 350 6 SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1950 TN our efforts to serve the people of Malaya with 1 all the news that's fit to print, we naturally come across impediments some unavoidable, Others totally unnecessary. It is on the latter category of impediments that we wish to comment today. Certain
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  • 412 6 'FHE Korean war has undoubtedly overshadowed a shattering bit of news— shattering, that is, to the males who still go about complacent m the belief that they are lords and masters of creation. While the lord of creation is preoccupied with the fate of Korea, his fate
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  • 1887 6 ....An Elderly Eagle Among Roosters, Looking Away With A Distant Gaze, Somewhat Out Of Placs In The Barnyard Of American Life.... THE young G. 1.3 who A have been driven back or captured by the hordes of soldiers advancing through Korea have behind them
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    426 6 fAMON (INS). IWE are going to win. There can be no doubt of that. But my regret is that the Treation of the true* Korea must be achieved by surh savagery and carnage as we now are witnessing. My thanks and those of my loyal suffering people
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  • 50 6 MdJtd m r. rd:n| to a m#»rrher f of Ix>rria, is suhpptcr prayers". Lord Mbunfc mended this '< a sample: "Goii, give BM npathr and common "And h«!p r?^» f vi.'Ji my t*ourage high: "God, give me .aim and flden«*e. N "And. t>leas« a I c m my
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  • 308 7 WASHINGTON, July 15:— Hopes for settlement m Korea resulting from Pandit Nehru's imwTta Washington and Moscow slumped today when Britain virtually dissociated herself from the move and the IS. Government rejected any suggestion of Hir«w* Truman Stalin talks and
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  • 129 7 Greatest Damage By Jet- Fighters TOKYO. Juiy 15 (ReuterAAP):— The Shooting Stai ift-fighter has proven itself m the t UU ghest kind of combat 'ions. Lieut.-Gen. George Stratemeyer, Commander oi the U. S. Air Forces m the Far East, announced from his Tokyo headquarters. "The Shooting Stars have 70 per
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  • 59 7 RANGOON, July 15 (AP): Communist activity flared up m -entral B irma with an ■ttack by 600 R. ,i P on the town W -eve. 234 miles north of ngoon, rht Burma Army Army said Government Jroom def«nded the town throughout the night and
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  • 89 7 BHT SSELS, July 15.-CAP). ffrV v alarm bells suddenly 222 the su *P^sion 'or the f m d of the joint aswnblj of the Belgian ParliaSfif Ste rday vhen Socialist singing the d naXCd seri «S Of ormy scenes during which, £2?**2
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  • 13 7 q ia££ army head'r>m k aye denied tha^ Red A.P.
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  • 207 7 LOS ANGELES, July 15 (U.P.):— Brig Gen. William 1 Roberts, who was responsible for training the South Korean Army, said that America deliberately equipped it as a defence force only for fear that the South would attack the North He said the weakness of
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  • 43 7 WASHINGTON, July. IS (Reuter): President Truman is expected to announce next week further drastic steps to call up men into the armed forces and mobilise U.S. military and industrial resources m the international crisis resulting from the Korean war.
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  • 77 7 WASHINGTON, July 15. (UP):— Major-Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, draft director, said that he favoured registering women for national service "if the country gets so it needs everybody." He added that the first man under the new draft might "possibly" be m uniform m 21 or
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  • 113 7 PORTSMOUTH (H am p shire), July 15.— (Reuter): Revolvers were issued to normally unarmed police patrol; m this main British nava base, 60 miles from London early today after a series 01 mystery explosions had firec eight ammunition barges anc started several fires. The blast started
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  • 62 7 WASHINGTON. July 15. (AP):— The United States and France backed Britain on Friday m her proposal to set uj an international body to investigate the fate of German pri-soners-of-war known to have been m Russian custody. The three powers, m notes to the Moscow
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  • 87 7 i MANILA, July 15.— (AP): Four proposed bills calculated to tighten internal security has been approved by the House Committee on Un-Fili-pino Activities. They will go before Congress next week. They were the creation of Bureau of Ideological Information to combat Communjst propaganda; creation of screening
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  • 29 7 I A single-seater plane which [crashed m the Tyrolean Alps has been identified as a I U.S. fighter plane missing from its station Bear Munich. A.P.
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  • 272 7 ppoios. LONDON, July 14 <UF):-Therefc virtually no hope that European countries will be able to send any of theE combat troops to the Korean war m respond to the oifwit appeal of the U.N. Secretary GenenU M? £ysve Lte, for
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  • 59 7 THE HAGUE, July 15 (Reuter):— Dutch casualties 1b Indonesia from the Japanese capitulation on Auf. 17. I 1945 until June l»sd amount ed to 2,497, says a Dutch Government note. The note also said that the Dutch Army strength m New Guinea including the Papua Company, was
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  • 33 7 The Netherlands Indonesian Army will cease to exist as of July 26 and most of its soldiers should be back m Holland by September, it was announced m Jakarta today.
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  • 40 7 West Berliners told the Russians m East Germany "Ivan* go bone. This is not Korea** m slogans pointed on the Russian War Memorial, which stands on the Autobahn doverleaf linking West Berlin with the West Zone.
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  • 101 7 WITH THE U.S. TROOPS I IN S. KOREA, July 15.— (AP): A call by field telephone to his foxhole ended the Korean war today for Master Sergt. William Mosby of El Dorado. The 39-year-old veteran of 21 years m the
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  • 98 7 CAIRO, July 15, (A.P.)— Three British soldiers will appear before a British court martial at Fayid onWednesday on a charge of murder arising from the shooting of three Egyptian civilians m Cairo and" Ismailia last April. A British army spokesman said that the men
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  • 38 7 TOKYO, July 15.— (Reuter). Premier Shigeru Yoshida condemned "the sinister arm of Red aggression" m Korea m policy speech to m joint session j of both Houses of the Diet! (Parliament) here yesterday. I
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  • 143 7 Tension In Balkans Growing BELGRADE. July 15 UP. —Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Government charged that Bulgarian troops had crossed the Yugoslav frontier and fired on Yugoslav border guards. It demanded "an immediate end" to these provocations. The charge and demand were made in-a formal note delivered to the Bulgarian Le-, gation
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  • 70 7 WASHINGTON. July 15. j (UP): Defence officials here: said that Russia was obviously feeding additional supplies and equipment to the North Korean invaders. They said that, without such aid, it would have been impossible for the Reds to keep {up their sustained drive
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  • 22 7 Sir Aprmana Noata. 76, one, of the greatest leaders of the Maori race, died m Bisbome. Auckland yesterday.- A.P.
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  • 161 7 SOMEWHERE IN S. KOREA, July 15 (A. P.)— A small group of American volunteers "for "hazardous duty' have been flying U.S. and South Korean F-51 Mustangs from a second-rate field m South Korea since July 2 The group of 11 pilots, all World War
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  • 78 7 Trygve Lie Wilt Not Mediate Now LAKE SUCCESS. July 15.— (AP):— The United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Trygve Lie said today he would not undertake mediation at this time, but he would when the appropriate time came. In effect, he ruled out any concessions to the Soviet Union on admitting
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  • 118 7 SAN DIEGO (Cal.), July 15. (AP): Battle-ready units of the First Marine Division left here yesterday for the Korean war zone. Leathernecks who stormed the beaches of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester. Peleliu and Okinawa during World War 11 were among those who sailed aboard
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  • 104 7 LONDON, July 15.— (UP^: Field Marshal Sir William Slim, Chief of the Imperial General Staff said America's action m Korea had united the free peoples of the world against Red aggression. On his return from a flying inspection tour of British defence outposts m the
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  • 30 7 Twenty-three Labour M.Ps. m London have asked their Government to Vy to "limit the area" of the Korean war and persuade America to withdraw from Formosa.- U.P.
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  • 19 7 The U.N. Commission on Korea has left Japan to rvsnme its on-the-spot work m Korea.
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  • 226 7 Peking To Widen Conflict? f MANCHESTER, July 15 (Reuter):— "lt is not ineonI ceivablc that Peking rather than Moscow, may take some of the vital decisions m the next few weeks/ says the Manchester I Guardian, warning that the U.N. intervention m Korea might set off a third world war.
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  • 138 7 Red China Army Sent Northward HONGKONG, July 15 <AP): The entire Fourth Field Army of Red China is reported to have been ordered to transfer to Manchuria before the end of July. The big move is reporv?<! m pro-Nationalist Chinese newspapers 1n Hongkong. All this week there have been reports
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  • 37 7 LONIXJN. July 14.—(Routen. Britain today approved a new constitution for Sierra (Leone which will give the legislative council an unofficial majority m future. The new constitution is expected to come into forces early next year.
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  • 21 7 When Hongkong hospitals a.skt-d for girls to be trained as nurses. 1,354 ca^didatrs applied for 27 positions.- A. P.
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  • 76 7 Atom- Powered Sab. Soon WASHINGTON, July 15 < Reuter):— Work on a land bas«l model for an atoni-powrrrd submarine rnffinr begins at Arco (Texas) next month, announced Senator Brim McMalion. Chairman of the S^nate-Housr Atomic Committee, predicting "a trrmrndous improvement soon is submarine performance." The Arco prototype, from which other
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  • 517 8 Oversea-Chinese Bank Doubles Assets In 9 Years, Annual Meeting Standard Staff Reporter ASSETS of the Oversea-Chinese Banking: Corporation at $163,824,000 at the end of 1949 are more than double the total at the end of 1940, the chairman, Mr. Lee Kong Chian, told shareholders at the 13th annual meeting
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  • 99 8 OPENING easier yesterday morning, the Singapore rubber market became firm and prices j rose to around Friday's closing levels. There was moderate trading throughout the day. Singapore Chamber of Comnoon prices yesterday (July 15) were m cents per lb: Buyers Sellers j No. 1 Ribbed Smoked
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  • 17 8 SINGAPORE, Sat.— July 15 The price of tin today was $357, per picul. Down $8.
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  • 60 8 Prices (m Malayan dollars per picul) m tne Singapore produce market yesterday were: Betel Nut $24 (split). $21 (whole); Copra $38; Coconut Oil $58$, Gambia $220 (round), $65 (Java cube). $70 (Hamburg cube; Pepper $555 (Lampong black), $950 (Muntok white), $945 (Sarawak white); Sago Flour $17J (Lingga) $17i
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  • 54 8 MANILA. July 15.— (AP):— 4 Philippines foreign trade foM the fiscal year just ended wasj U*****,000,000 as against J U*****,000,000 during then same period In 1949, according^ to the Bureau of Census and^ Statistics. 4 Imports dropped from} U*****,000,000 m 1948 toH U*****.300.000 m 1949 and
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  • 71 8 MELBOURNE, (Airmail).— (Reuter-AAP) Australian exporters are hoping to make rabbit pie as popular m the United States as it is m Australia and earn dollars. Two factors m their favour are that Americans like thei flavour of Australian rabbit) and production costs here are 1
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  • 359 8 By Derek Drabble, Standard Shipping Reporter. WHILE Singapore went on its daily round with busy street traffic, m its outer harbour an old, greypainted British freighter was unloading, without fuss, a momentous cargo of bombs to blast the bandits. The freighter was the
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  • 186 8 TOKYO, July 15— (Reuter►AAP)— The United States of may shortly open its ►trade office m Tokyo as a ►result of increased trade between that country and Japan, reports Jiji news agency today. Mr. P. Mynarand. chief m charge of economic affairs of the Dutch
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  • 79 8 US Rubber Export Drop 38 Percent I WASHINGTON, July 15. f (UP). The Commerce Depart frinent announced on Frida^ that United States exports d T rubber, allied gums and manu frfactures were valued a U5534,644,278 m the first fiv of 1950. a drop of 38. p. per cent from $56,006,148
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  • 420 9 L AS J Sunday'! -Spot Th< Town' contest really, ha( you guessing. Believe it or not, despite the hundreds of entne:; that poured into this office, there wa^'t a single ail-eorrert solution Most of you tripped, up on Nc a which was the Lido. Malacca, while
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  • 950 9  -  OSWALD HENRY By iungle film which the lat« 'rank Buck had m mind. Studio commitments having held up Sabu m Hollywood all through June and July, it is now reported he will arrive at Kallang airport on August
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  • 320 9  -  ERSKINE JOHNSON IN HOLLYWOOD BY JJOLLYWOOD, July 15. John Dall is on strike against playing any more lip<iribblers on the screen. He's acting the role of an uncornplex homicide squad detective m "The Gun" and saying: "I was an All-American boy m
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  • 418 10 HONGKONG, July 12 (AP) Soviet Russian technicians and advisers m Shanghai are often seen m Shanghai's streets but never heard, according to a reliable source irom Shanghai today. arnvfn ce R ia Sia Shan W fi h^l *SSS livtag~out their semi-cloistered
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  • 173 10 LONDON, July 13 (IN T S)— Meet the British Medical Association's version of Dr. Superman. Arcording to 32 medical men and women reporting to the: B.M.A. only such a man could possess all the qualities desirablable m family doctor. The qualities listed are Tact,
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  • 92 10 INGLETON, Yorkshire, July 12 (INS)— For the first time on record Ingleton is without a town crier. The village bellman, 70-year-old Sidney Hobbs, retired coalminer, has resigned and there are no applicants for the ancient office. It carried no salary but the bellman
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  • 101 10 Athletics Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat— The Methodjst Boys' School captain. S. Arasaratnam won the championship athlete at the schools annual sports held here yesterday and today. He won the finals of the long jump and the 880 yards and was placed second
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  • 48 10 KAJANG, Sat— Mr. H. A. L. Luckham, District Officer, Klang, who was m Kajang on! temporary transfer has now! returned to Klang. Tuan Haji' Abdul Aziz who acted for him at Klang. has returned to Kajang to resume his duties as District Officer, Ulu Lama.
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  • 31 10 Standard Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Sat— The local branch of UMNO has donated $102 towards the Hari Ray a celebrations of Malay detainees at Tanjong Bruas Detaintion Camp, Malacca.
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  • 108 10 SRC's Strong Start In Clarke Cup Match THE SINGAPORE Recreation Club was m a strong position when they scored 74 runs for the loss of one wicket in 'their annual cricket against the Selangor Eurasian Association on the Padang today for the Conrad Clarke Cup. Batting first, the Selangor Eurasian
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  • 82 10 The new R. A F. Oflicers' club and swimming pool at Fairy Point m Changi was opened yesterday by the C.-in-C. Far East Air Force, Air Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty. Although the club Is meant exclusively for the use of RAF. and W.A.A.F. officers,
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  • 39 10 THE WINNER of the monthly Book Review Competition which was started last month by Radio Malaya was Miss Margaret Keel, of 405 Alexandra Road, Singapore, for her 'review of "Westmorland and Cumberland" by Norman Ni--1 cholson.
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  • 176 10 CHESTERFIELD, July l£(Reuter) West Indies had lost four wickets fo»* 109 runs |by lunch on the opening day of their match against Derbyshire here. West Indies chose to bat on a pitch that had dried after I overnight rain, and m the first three-quarters of
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  • 473 10  -  KEN JALLEH By On May 30, 1949, the Singapore Badminton As- 1 sociation launched their Building Hall Fund. The drums rolled out the triumphant return of the Malayan Thomas Cup team and amidst the cheering and the
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  • 95 10 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG. July, 14— A goal scored by A.S. Kupusamy five minutes before time enabled the Indian Recreation Club to i share honours with the Chinese Recreation Club m one-all draw m a first division soccer league game played this afternoon at
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  • 118 10 MCFA Cup Winners To Play Penang Indians Today Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG. Fri.— An interesting soccer match can be expected when the Penang Chinese Football Association, champions m the M.CJ.A. Cup i competition meet the Penang Indians on the Westlands School ground this Sunday. The P.C.F.A. have beaten the Kedah
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  • 225 10 Athletes Beat Sappers The Singapore Chinese Athletic Association beat Royal Engineers two-nil m a senior' SAFA League game at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. It was a good, fast game,' but, thrills were conspicuous by their absence. Athletes deserved the points., They played more constructive soccer and kept to the rules.
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  • 297 10  -  HERMAN RAPPA By yOUNG FRISCO. x Australia WtnU I Singapore again. Whether or not will depend on tion Singapore line up for him Sj OERHAPS Fri.- remembered .i with Mohamed f Egyptian who v d good enough to t m London and Neu Frisco and Fahmj four times, to
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  • 73 10 Orson Wells Sponsors Bike Race The Tour (fc F nual sport com holds the Fn during the hot Government I will be spo! Orson WtUes. Welles. who appearing m tw which he mrrote ects and acts Itfmti actly the type much time to out* cises. A u However, ho I
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  • 59 10 RAUB. Fri-r laya Cup team I matches on mix during the com inn The first two A Y tW Malaya Cup 11x1 third a friendly fr The following tures. -.^tcl Friday-M.. p 2£ against Penann Saturday July 22 jg match against Kr Star. m
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  • 46 11 "Ollie" Gets The Winners OLLIE DAVIES, Standards Racing Correspondent, was the most successful newspaper fore* caster yesterday. He named five winners Smiliag Through, Beauchamps, Ambassador, Beaeman and Chance Remarks. The "Best Bets' 9 he named were Smiling Through and Ambassador. Ollie will get more winners yet.
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  • 511 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Two valuable partnerships enabled the Rest to put up 220 runs when they took first lease of the padang wicket today m the annual match against the Europeans. A shaky start saw four wickets fall for 48 runs when Gurucharan
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  • 72 11 Standard Staff Correspondent TAIPING Friday: Kamuning Sports Club beat the B" Supply RASC by three goals to one m a 'B Divisior eague soccer match played or the Esplanade last evening. The winners netted two goal" m the first half through Soo Mm and Ah Teik. while Adarr
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  • 775 11  - Charts Took Honours, Punters Caught [Japping Yesterday At Bukit Timah OLLIE DAVIES By < JOCKEY CHARLES, who came back from Australia a week ago and who the Standard said was "all set for more winners" confirmed the light-hearted forecast to the hilt at Bukit Timah yesterday. Duly obliging on Smiling
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  • 353 11 SEREMBAN, Sat.— Rain delayed a start m the last state cricket match of the season when after absence of several years Perak were the guests of Negri Sembilan today. No play was possible till after noon but the wicket was not affected when Perak
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  • 142 11 100 Yards Record Equalled Singapore Swift Athletic Club's Tan Eng Yoon equalled the Malayan record for the 100 yards m an athletic match between the Swift A.C. and the R.A-F. Combined on the Victoria School ground yesterday. Tan ran the distance m 10 seconds dead, helped by a slight breeze.
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  • 214 11 Horses running on the second day of the Singapore July meeting were given their final gallops at Bukit Timah yesterday when the going was good but slightly on the soft side. The best time was the 37 4/5 seconds for three put up by Theatre (Ayres).
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  • 49 11 The Singapore AngloChinese School relay team added another victory to their long list today when they won the invitation event at RafTle* Institution's annual sports. Lim Boon Khiam, won the senior division "Victor Ludorum" Cup, while the junior champion was Li m Chuaa Poh.
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  • 49 12 Italian Road Burner The Ctampion ABOVE the Alfa Romeo 158, Italy's wonder rar, winner of more International Grand Prix races than any other raring car manufactured m Europe after the war. BELOW Britain's BKM. superb example of modern race car engineering embodying radical departures from accepted theories. The Challenger
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  • 258 12 BRITAIN'S challenge to Continental supremacy m motor racing the 400 horse-power, 200 miles an hour BRM— is expected to run its first race towards the end of next month. And it will challenge the reigning champion Italy's Alfa Romeo, on its own stamping ground,
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  • 114 12 Ninety competitors will take part the second Johore State annual athletic meet, to be held on Thursday and Friday. Among the youthful competitors are about 15 women who have entered for the high Jump and the Sprint events. A newcomer, D. Moore, who has done
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  • 664 12  -  LINESMAN By What is happening to sport talent m Mala\ j? This question looms big when he reads that m all major events m the Federation, cricket, football and lawn tennis States and Settlements have to depend on players who have
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  • 88 12 PENANG, Fr.day —Prominent residents have been invitei to witness the opening ceremony of the All-Blues ilub at Bagan Jermal Road on July 22. *T TJ 2f Resident Commissioner. Mr. R. P. Bin&ham. will perform the opening ceremony. There will be a
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  • 822 12 LORNIE ROAD, Kuala Lumpur's two-mile long bypass to Klang, wide, wellsurfaced and only half a mile from town, will be blocked off today and lined with thousands of spectators for the Malayan AAM (Selangor branch) "Lornie" mile motor
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  • 55 12 Indian Team For Athletic Match The Singapore Indian Association will be represented m .Tuesday's AAA triangular > athletic meet against the! SCAAF, and Swift A.C.. by the following: T. Miranda, Ibrahim Salli, I. C. Menon. L. Verfihosc, M. Balasubramnniam, K. R. Muthiah, A. P. Doray, T. Kanagasabai. Arjit Singh, A.
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  • 166 12 Results of Friday's ties m the Singapore YMCA tennis tournament were: < Class 'A* Handicap singles: Vn Hon Kun (-30) beat Dr. P L. Loh (-15) 6—o, f 2,; James Loh (-15) beat Freddie Tan (-15) 6—o, 3—6, 6 4. Novices open doubles: Henri Oh Chan Joo
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  • 405 12  - One Year's Hard Work Will Pay Off At This Week's Perak Sports LEONG HEW MENG By THROUGH sheer, hard work and persoverance, Perak athletes have now attained a standard which, one may reasonably expect will enable them to break records m next week's State athletic meeting at Inoh We have
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  • 79 12 The High School. Bukit Mertajam. will be holding its Annual Athletic Sports meeting on Jacob's Green, on Saturday. July 29, commencing at 2.30 p.m. The Resident Commissioner, Penang, Mr. R. P. Bingham M.C.S. will preside and Mrs. Bingham will give away the> prizes. All Old Boys and
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  • 147 12 9 Standard Staff Corr»s^4_ PENANG. Saturd" Penang badminton 0f.,.- rV T pionships will be em« second day tomorr'o.v further ties will by 5 the Chung Ling HiSfTfJS Hall. These ii es four men's sins doubles and a m doubles. m; *«a Ooi Teik
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  • 198 12 PARIS. (INS) Proof that Franco is a BQrtta nation, come what may, was given by the P the Republic himself Vincent Auriol left I desk a the Elysee Palace at the height of a Governi I —the eleventh since the liberation -and went oui Longchamp to
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  • 59 12 The fin.il of thi Si/i^' Boys' Clubs Table Tcnnii Com- petition for the Tan Tho.-ti Up Cup organised by the Bfofa- ]*>re Youths Council, will be i played between the Prince K.iward Road Boys' Chib and ti Singapore Harbour Boar. Roys' Club at the Clen
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  • 93 12 KA.TANC. n r.nyi^at Distri u-e«k will eoOHMBI I when the M<> ki rs for < out thoi;On J drums of 1 Guards ou the Kaj.iNij Jang. E U t the X nMnt of tht- S meet the U will go ri>i< is the I
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