Singapore Standard, 11 August 1950

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  • 15 1 Singapore Standard VOL. 1 NO- 40 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11. 1950. 12 PAGES TEN CENTS
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  • 754 1 THE Russian GovernJnt is not only the evil S. wMeh inspired the ;,ression, but also the nversal provider which, lent experienced military, advisers to direct the cam-; paign and Rave heavy tanks and other military equipment
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  • 74 1 Situation Better But Dangers Still Exist— C.G. THE Commissioner General in South East Asia, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald in a radio talk last night summed up Communist menace in South East Asia in this sentence: "The situation is at least no worse, and on the whole is better th?n it was
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  • 1072 1 NEW DELHI, Aug. 10— (UP) Police fired today on demonstrators in Gwalior, capital of the former Mahratta state killing two and wounding 22 to raise the casualty toll to five deaths and 29 injured in two days. Daylong curfew was imposed
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  • 65 1 LONDON, Aug. 10— (UP) The Foreign Office today denied reports that Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had told Prime Minister Clement Attlee that he wanted to retire. "There is no truth in it at all," a Foreign Office spokesman said. The afternoon London Star
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  • 26 1 Standard Staff Reporter A HOUSE in Stevens Road was broken into on Wednesday night and jewellery to the value of $3,153 was found missing.
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  • 41 1 Standard Staff Reporter A middle-aged European woman of Tanglin Road was found in a state of collapse about 12 o'clock last night it is reported, suffering from the effects of poison. She was immediately taken to tn« General Hospital.
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  • 47 1 In no uncertain terms, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald last night lashed out at Soviet Russia for her designs in Korea and warned his radio audience that although the situation in Southeast Asia has shown some improvement lately, dangers of Communist invasions still exist.
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  • 531 1 THE Singapore Government announced last night that application made by the Registrar of Schools to declare the Chinese High School and the Nanyang Girls' High School unlawful had been withdrawn. Mr. Lee Kong Chian, acting for the Joint Committees of the schools,
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  • Article, Illustration
    3 1 "TURKO" WESTERLING
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  • 168 1 Standard Staff Reporter. "TURKO" Westerling. for- j mer leader of the Indonesian i Army of the Heavenly Host, expects to leave Singapore this week. The Standard understands j that he has provisionally book- j ed an air passage on a plane bound for Holland. There
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  • 116 1 THE Singapore Government last night announced that flags will be flown and a2l gun-salute will be given on the birth of the second child to Princess Elizabeth and Pl The salute P 'will be fired immediately on receipt of the news if it arrives
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  • 368 1 TOKYO, Aug. 10 (UP)— American forces fought within three miles of burning Chinju on the Korean coastal front today and to the north wiped out a Communist bridgehead across the Naktong river near the emergency capital of TaeThe crucial battle
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  • 213 1 KOREA WARFRONT, Aug. 10 (AP> American Army units joined forces east of Chinju today, drawing a noose around at least 1,000 trapped communists. Marine patrols, meanwhile, entered the town of Kosong, 20 miles southeast of Chinju, on their southward drive. These represented the greatest gains
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  • 148 1 WASHINGTON, Aug. 10— (UP) President Truman told a news conference today that the United Nations forum is the proper place for any high level consultations between Russia and the Western nations and that there is not going to be any meeting of heads
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  • 76 1 LONDON, Aug. If— (Reuter) Moscow Radio today described American air raids on Pyongyang, Northern Korean capital, yesterday and Tuesday as "exceeding anything the Germans did in Leningard." The Radio Quoted Alexander Chaykovsky, a Soviet Journalist who saw the German raids on Leningard during the
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  • 207 1 TOKYO, Aug. 10 (ReuterAAP)— Seventy B-29 Superlasts today dropped 625 tons 01 bombs on major North Korean targets in the heaviest 'strike to date, announced Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters to* night. More than 400 tons of bombs were dropped on three separate targets in the
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    • 56 1 Oft Other Pages Page Million-dollar Hotel 2 Singapore Piracy 1 Briggs Weakening Bandits 3 Federation Police Report 3 Gurkha To Hang 4 Death Sentence on Penang Youth 4 North Koreans Cracking Up 1 UK Main Stockpile Supplier 8 Italian Ship For Singapore 9 Govt. Staff Union Meeting 11 Nadra: Governor
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  • 117 2 A taxi robbery was reported in Singapore early yesterday morning. A Chinese hailed a taxi near the Happy World Park at 1.30 a.m. and directed the driver to Jellicoe Road. There the fare stooped the taxi, drew a pistol and robbed the driver of $30.
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  • 408 2 Work On Singapore's Million Seaside Hotel Has Started Standard Staff Reporter WORK HAS started on Singapore's million-dollar seaside residential hotel which will rise on a Urge estate in Sfelap. The hotel will be named the Ocean Park Hotel and is expected to be completed "in the very near Mm." The
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  • 57 2 Blindfolded Man Falls 3 Storeys Standard Staff Reporter A Chinese, who was fouad blindfolded with a handkerchief, fell from the third floor of a building opposite Beach Road police station yesterday. He was rushed to hospital where he died shortly after admission. The man is said to be Soh Kee
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  • 32 2 FOUND coming out of the Singapore Harbour Board area with an expired pass. 47-year-old Tham Chan, of Hylam Street, was fined $5 yesterday in the Singapore Third Police Court for trespass.
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  • 43 2 TWEXTY-two-year-old Tahir bin Omar pleaded guilty in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to stealing two fowls in a house in Ulu Pandan Road on Aug. 8. Tahir will be sentenced on Aus. 17. Bail was fixed at $100.
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  • 169 2 Standard Staff Reporter PIRATES raided a tongkang in the early hours of yesterday morning in Singapore harbour, robbed a Malay sailor at the watch and took away spanners worth $100 from the engine room ine piracy took place 500 I yards off Beach Road
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  • 582 2 I THE SINGAPORE Relief Court Magistrate. Mr C H. F. Blake yesterday committed Ho Lee Kwee for trial at the next Assizes on a charge of having murdered jLee Kim Wan, a Chinese wayang actor in February 1948. m k At the
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  • 74 2 While malt in* a voluntary stair men t in the Singapore R«liH Court yesterday after he was committed to stand trial at the Assiies on a murder charge, a Chinese Ho Lee Km ee said he was feeliag hungry and did not wish
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  • 38 2 HO PIN KIM (36). was offered bail of $2,000 in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday when he pleaded not guilty to a charge under the Trade Marks Ordinance. The case was postponed to Aug. 17.
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  • 45 2 FIVE Malayans, Chla Cheong Fook, Lim Tee Heow, Tan Khia Fatt, Mrs. Tan Soo Lan and Mary Yeoh from Malaya are among the 1,200 delegates from nearly forty countries who have arrived In London for the Salvation Army's first International Youth Congress.
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  • 156 2 Standard Staff Reporter MR. LEONARD BARNES. Director of Social Welfare Training in Oxford University and a member of the CarrSaunders Commission, who will risit the Federation as Chairman of the Committee on Malay Education, will spend a week in Singapore to advise on the further
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  • 299 2 Staafei* Staff Reporter TO THE strains of the Malay serenade, Terang BuLui, 71 khaki-clad new Malay aircraftmen of the Royal Air Force Regiment (Malaya) marched past the A.0.C., Malaya, Air Marshal P. J. W. MeUersh, in their passing out parade at
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  • Court Briefs
    • 46 2 NINE men and four women were each flned $25 lo the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday after they pleaded 1 guilty to a charge of gambling on Aug. 9. One-third of the fines went! to the informer, and $11.85 Co jthe Magistrates' Poor Box.
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    • 32 2 j FOR allowing three goats to' stray in Changi Road on Wed-1 nesday last, 22-year-old Jaalar bin Suiong was fined $15 in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday.
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    • 36 2 TAN SAM MOI. 39 who pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to stealing an orange valued 10 cents on board the Boissevain on Aug. 9, was cautioned and 1 discharged.
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  • 247 2 ELDERLY Chin Seng Chee told the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday that he was "very happy*' that his son, 23-year-old Chin Swee Sin, had died. He said this at the inquest into Chin's death. "I'm very happy because he was a
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  • 205 2 Standard Staff Reporter "SAMMY* Crocodil. paid a visit to the Royal Singapore Flying Club at Kalians air port yesterday but he did sot stay lour enough to be Flying Club nemben found Sammy taking a snooze in the open drain in front of the
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  • 80 2 St. Johns Flag Day Raises $2,825 THE proceeds of St, ,1 Ambulance Association P Day held on Ju'y 22. n %2.825.W. The total is I up as follows Singapore Districts HjPif 16, Singapore S°hoo!s $^.17RLT. P ival N'nvy and Royal Air Force $I*.2:'<*. 1. o- $7«1 00. Donations were receives
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  • 43 2 rORTY-sbc-year-old w Ah Yuk. who ttied to the Cuslcuii? at the S Harbour Bo^rd tici round his tl ghs -md v on July ?>{). api ;x>re v Court poasesaloa of 2 lb. of opium. W sentenced to eiqv.t mo rigorous impnsonn.t'nt.
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  • 54 2 Standard SUIT Reporter CATIKY Pacific Airways la Singapore received a cable from Hongkong ye>t stating that the missing nn consignment of watches worth $;i().ooo to Singapore had been found there. Two Singapore traflic clerks reported the loss otr rht> king the freight when the piano
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  • 38 2 Standard Staff Reportrr The PmnmiMltr In Oifc East Air Force, Air Marshal }Sir F. J. Fogarty, returned by air to Chan^i from Saigon ytar terdtjf after a six-djy visit to the French Indo Chinese capital.
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  • 246 2 A YOUNG Eurasian techni.cal assistant of Messrs. Carrier International Ltd., Richard Paul Herrman. was charged in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday with breach of trust of two air-conditioning units from his firm. It was alleged that Herrman I sold the units to Mr. Robert
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 165 2 AUCTION NOTICE AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE FREEHOLD LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES To be held at our saleroom Not. 14 16 Robinson Road, Singapore On THURSDAY 17Ui AUGUST 1950 7u tun. FREEHOLD land situate at SHELFORD ROAD. cornVrDunearn/ Adam Road. Area 40.622 sq ft (VACANT POSSF^IOnY FREEHOLD land situate at SHELFORD ROAD^orner Dune??n/
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    • 74 2 and i,: paper > fa NOTICE^ MALAYAN CHlfc |i ASSGCIAiICH I $IMIHLIM;TEDCttPj.sn j *W*| K'.alaU^ NOTICE' Pci y at Lumpur TENDER NOTICE Trnd.- m ,y«ri m purtlii^. la v2 HAULAGE NOTICES' nif mmimr rani K Mwracm m R»',l I ITIONS n<»ii« m inn \n* FOR II 1 \<.» pn^ n
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  • 140 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— ils officers and Federation of ice Force at the -an increase of i previous year. predominated the Ith VAMI on the ent and 12.549 on the of 25.913. re. not surprisin the adminis- for 1949 that Malaya were guilty of
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  • Article, Illustration
    35 3 yflm Miry Tai. receiving her orifp »<>' the spot dano< the Malacca Welfare Wee* dame from Che Hawa binte in an*, wile of the Distrid Officer Muar. Miss Tai is a daughter of Mr. Tai Kiat
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  • 171 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— j -i of Mulaya Police administrative report for last year states that the special constabulary has continued to g: r e very valuable service in the defence of estates, mines. Government buildings and inions. In most areas selected Special Constables
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  • Article, Illustration
    44 3 phot*. S*g for i, "of Sir Edward Gent, late High Commisir >Ir and m; s >4 "jarried Cari Ten Bokkel. only daughter '-aitcaa, Jm' \V T^? B »kkel of Haarlem, Holland, at rr.mn Photo Shows tfiP hrlH* and bridetroom after the ceremony.- A P.
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  • 209 3 ro Standard Staff Reporter well under 4adZ£lK lUld id S c Bri s PJan was Federation. beginning to weaken the terrorists in the side mK, would ?haTSS£e£ S^SL^^m""* 11 1 said, "in the meantime the Governments and Legislatures JL* he F^ erSition and
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  • 117 3 Appeal Court Confirms Sentences Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs The Federation Court of Appeal today dismissed the appeals of two Chinese, Chai Fatt and Kok Seng against the death penalty imposed on them, under the Emergency Regulations, for carrying arms without lawful authority Mr. Ng Kok Thoy who appeared
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  • 143 3 t KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— A large building project by the Malayan Association for the Preventiotj of Tuberculosis is being held up because the association cannot get the land to go ahead with its scheme. It has applied to Government for a 50-year lease of
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  • 83 3 William Jacks and Co. (Malaya) Ltd. sained first prize for their display stand at the Happy World Trade Exhibition on Wednesday, Aug. 9. All departments covering a wide ranee of products were represented but the dominating feature was the Philips tower a giant replica of
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  • 71 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— In order to improve the standard of driving in the Federation Police Force, a training school was opened here last year. Instruction in maintenance of vehicles was included in the course. In spite of this, the accident rate was high during the
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  • 47 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Security forces who have been engaged in a 12-day operation in Trengganu have completed their task. They found numerous camps and recovered food, Clothing and equipment. A number of bandit supporters and bandit cultivators were arrested.
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  • 27 3 THE next meeting of the Council of State of Perlis will be held at the Balai Besar, Arau, on Wednesday, Aug. 23, at 10 a.m.
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  • 242 3 Standard Staff Reporter THE Permanent Way Officers' Union in Kuala Lumpur have written to the Government and to the Trade Union Adviser on what it describes as the "unfair" salary scale that had been fixed for the Permanent Way Staff of the Malayan
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  • 105 3 More Chinese Apply For Citizenship Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Up to the end of June, 97,985 certificates of citizenship were issued in the Federation, the highest being in Perak with a total of 33.957. Negri Sembilan and Penang came next with 14,217 and 11,874 respectively. Figures for the
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  • 55 3 Standard Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— In the Magistrate's Court, today, three Singapore taxi drivers, Tang Ger Hiok, Lim Kim Sing and Goh Ah Kang. were fined a total sum of $100 for carrying passengers into the Federation and for running their taxis in
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  • 29 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The general meeting of the Selangor Youtn Council will be held on Sunday, Aug. 13, at 10 a.m. in the Batu Road School.
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  • 17 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The curfew enforced in certain areas of Kuala Selangor, was lifted today.
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  • 143 3 MISS BETTY KENNEISON of 1057, New Area Road, SenItUI, Kuala Lumpur, will leave (shortly for the United States on a scholarship which she iwon through USIS. She will study for a year at the New York State Teachers* College in New Platz, New York, about
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  • 151 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Fifty more wireless sets were installed by the Federation Police last year giving a total of 80, these included four sets on mail trains and seven on marine ctaft. "Police headquarters is directly linked with all contingent headquarters and Singapore on
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  • 140 3 LONDON, Aug. 9. (UP)— Lord Mancroft, chairman of the Conservative Speakers Association, left London by air on Wednesday on a private visit to Malaya. Before leaving, Mancroft said that not one British soldier can be transferred from Malaya for service elsewhere until the security
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  • 285 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The internal si<nation in Malaya remains sorious. but it can fairly be said that vigorous action and sustained efforts, coupled with courage and determination, have disrupted the expressed Communist aims to break down the Government and
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  • 51 3 Standard Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs Two Chinese, Hoo Kee Wall and Lim Liang Chua, of 10th milestone Scudai and Singapore respectively, appeared this morning before Inche A. Kadir Yusof, the Johore Magistrate, and pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking the curfew. They were fined $10
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 281 3 SELANGOR— Today 6 Bovary 3 15t 6 15 rrir.ir..». mine r» ta t Windsor: Naga Kannika (TamiH MR? or M ,?5 Ra fleS at I 330 and 830JP m p*E£? d «o« J Lido: Flash Cordon (Serial* Bex. Rebecca 2.30. 630 and 12. 3.30 and 8..H0 pm. M ;P,P m
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  • 501 4 Round The World In Jeep, —£100 Reward Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thurs.--Trayel-ling round the world to Jeep, two Army captains. Peter Munro Blake and Jota Keith Harvey Cocks, b«Jj aged 31 years, w j£»"E2. here by steamer goon this afternoon told Tkm Standard, "it's tough gotojr in certain parts of
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  • 60 4 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— From seventeen different areas in the Federation last year. 6,355 squatters and their families were removed. Government expenditure Incurred in these operations, states the Federation Police administrative report, may be set olf against the success achieved in denying the
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  • 199 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thurs. The Russian ship' Voroshilov caused quite a stir in Penang harbour today just by painting its creom funnel black. The Voroshilov, dropped anchor here to unload 500 tons of ?alt consigned to a Chinese firm, Chee Seng and
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  • 277 4 Standard Staff Corresponded! KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.-! Seizable offences reported to] the Federation Police last yearf were 19,207, an increase ofl 1,830 over 1939. Of these con-] victions were obtained in 41.2J per cent. The annual administrative report of the Police Force explains this increase as
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  • 125 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, ThurT-The President of the Penang Rubber Exchange, Mr. Heah Joo Seang, told The Standard today that the Federation Government's proposed compulsory insurance scheme on stocks which may suffer damage or loss as a result of Communist terrorism in Malaya, was
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  • 55 4 St s?frrt ?V* ff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tburs A lecture on "Our Hold on DesH?SI ""ft be d<*vered by Mrs. 2iii ♦i do^ h ad Presidential Agent for Malaya and Si am Jheosophical Society at tSJ T V m kananda o Ashrama, KualS Lumpur on Saturday, at 7
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  • 102 4 Ibrahim OB A Meet Group photograph takes at the third aomoal geaeral m&Aimg mad re-miiom dinner of the Siuuei Patanl Ibrahim School Old Boys' Association recently. Seated (left to right): Che Patch bin Matt, Mr. Ooi Chooi Kuaa, Mr.. Tan Peng Earn, Che Abdul Rahman bin Haji Md. Re jab.
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  • 130 4 A LARGE number of patients with leprosy in Malaya are now undergoing treatment with the basic diamino diphenyl sulphone the drug discovered 43 years ago by an obscure chemist which is now giving new hope to lepers all over the world. The use of sulphone drugs
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  • Article, Illustration
    39 4 MR. VINCENT Goh and Miss Lucy Cbong. of Penaac, Malayan Dancing Champions for 1948 and 1949 seen with their trophies. They are now practising nightly to retain their, trophies. They will be defending their title at this year's championship.
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  • 32 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs Security forces operating in Johore, yesterday, shot one of the three Chinese bandits they contacted. A pistol, a handgrenade and ammunition were recovered from the dead man.
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  • 38 4 Standard SUIT Correspondent IPOH, Thurs— Three Indians who pleaded guilty to breaking the curfew in the Jelapang area last night, were fined $50 or two months' imprisonment each by the Ipoh Magistrate, Che Arshad this morning.
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  • 60 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PENAN G, Thurs. The Malay School Teachers' Association, Penang and Province Wellesley, will hold its 26th annual general meeting tomori row morning at the Chowrasta Malay School. Hutton Lane. The Senior Inspector of j Schools. Mr. C. P. Purcell, and jTuan
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  • 213 4 Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH, Than. With a view to promoting goodwill and harmony among all communities, particularly the Chinese and the Malays, the "Paloh Club" was formed at a meeting held at the Perak State Secretariat yesterday with the Mentri Besar Tuan Haji Abdul Wahab in
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  • 94 4 Standard SUIT Correspondent PENANG. Than.— The m.v. Rim Srng with a cargo of copra has been located off the coast of Trong in Perak. midway between Penan* aad Teluk Ansoa. according to the shipping agents Messrs. Kim Hoe Hoag Company of Beach Street. The
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  • 357 4 Penang Chinese Sentenced To Death, 'It's A Frame Up Case': To Appeal Standard Staff CorresponHont PENANG, Thurs. The death sent. u by Mr. Justice Jobling at the Assi^^s i»t on Wa ofd Chinese, Lim Chiat Seng, who was ?o U n3 two charges of possession of .32 revolver md of
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  • 14 4 O'J. r. I n Pie loncents: 4 < The dratri s?
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  • 62 4 Alth- l| < w.r m i the Fe.i.-T tod.v This whi'-M had r t o h < to i M theirs IB of torn* He the law Ri case. Mr. H the pro-, I tin was It n t the h Tli<- be s« raK. told moron hi<
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  • 41 4 Stand.ird v S.i [AM Dmo. 1 8 begun thi Th. Win an in w c 1 other Includii ft: Thi MCA lowini Seok K. T.'.»h Ki-n If" B i 1 s Ah 1
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  • 32 4 Fine, Cc For Huting Woman h\>h. hurt 10 I b;»r. a Tfcam M aw bad. romp Chin< On An woman bark t* sawiv. < m pic* ]cr*. A < > Than A palm oi bar.
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  • 291 4 KUALA LUMPI'R, Thurs.— The death sentence pawd on a Gurkha soldier. Pall Singh, for the murder of his mother, wife and child in Pahang on Dec. 22. IJH9 was upheld by the Federation Court of Appeal today. An insanity plea was rejected by the court on the
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  • 314 4 Housing Scheme On Prangin Site Abandoned Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG. Thurs. The final stages of the Prannin Ditch scheme of 32 houses consisting of the Mb* division, survey and issue of sub-leases were completed, states the Municipal Engineer's report for IMa\ The adjoining site reclaimed largely by the Mum* cipality
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • 383 5 Working Wife Needs Hubby's Help A t Home Says JOSEPHI jiTOST men look a little [ij when doing the fishes, lint they look kind I cote, too, and this sight i i most women feel ll'rrtionate! an article recently helping at home they have working Tins column brought of interesting
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  • 66 5 Hollywood Is not the only city where one can find beautiful girls. The Standard cameraman on his rounds of Singapore discovered this shapely pair at Changi Beach. The Such sisters Pamela (above) and Shirley (on top) are typical outdoor girls. They are both keen cyclists and have
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  • 440 5  -  GAYNOR MADDOX By (Our Cookery Correspondent) TT'S always pleasant to serve good food to old friends. Makes life warmer. But there need not be a lot of fuss and expense. Try this chicken and macaroni salad some time. Serve it la a large bowl
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  • MAINLY FOR WOMEN
    • 115 5 Y°U wouldn't have A dreamed that rain water would ever be sold Price tar on New York's Fifth Avenje. But it's the actual truth. That same soft water Jhat grandmother saved the barrel for her hair washings now sells for 10s. a bottle. Its sales
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    • 149 5 tuntans. and bib-effects are plentiful and new. COMPACTS have been flat for jo long that anyone coming up with a new type u bound to be encouraged. A new barrel-shaped powder container ha* ribbed, gold-toned sides and dome' shaped, mother-of-pearl ends. Part of the barrel
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    • 168 5  -  ALICIA HART BY 'im^K, luxuriant lashes A are the dream of every woman who doesn't own them. With patience, you can do lot to transform thin, short lashes Into thicker, longer fringes. Each night before you go to bed, dip a small, clean mascara brush
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    • 213 5  -  WILLIAM E. McKENNEY BRIDGE CORNER By 'T'HE most important play in a hand is the play to the first trick. Perhaps that first trick can be won in cither declarer's hand or in dummy, or perhaps for safety's sake it should not be won
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 749 5 Radio Programmes RA l x^^Jt AYA Une 5 pm Tim Signal. OpenSINGAPORE ln -?uA?. nct m a* 1 Pro S: Summary I. ii. ENGLISH PROGRAMME fi? g Tun 5.02 Film Songs; RadiO Highlights 10 a.m. News from Singapore and the Emergency News from Party: 6 p.m. felugu Songs bv Cmg
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  • 768 6 IT is a pity that Dr. Benham and Mr. T. P. Carey did not compare notes before the former came out with his rather controversial report. Whereas Dr. Benham has based his report on the hypothesis that the middle-class salaried workers in Government service are enjoying decent
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  • 861 6  - And Now... THEY WANT A DAUGHTER Lillian Buckoke fry J WITHIN the next few days. ?T we might hear a salute 5 of 21 guns being fired. And flags will be flying over I public buildings Ships in harbour will be dressed. That is all! There will be no other
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  • 17 6 rrcnisionc But the paint's still wet Reckon there's more behind this than meets the ♦•ye!"
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  • 382 6 \Jo The Wrong ZAddress Sir; In rep'y to your correspondent "S.I. A. Member" whose letter appeared in your Paper. I wish to express my utter contempt for him as a fellow member of the above Association for resorting to the Press for an interpretation of the Association's
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  • 598 6  - THE BOY WHOM NOBODY KNOWS DAVID WALKER by AT dawn one day last week, a haggard man threw down his pen. turned^ to his eldest son and said. "May God preserve our country." His son, nineteen-year-old Prince Baudouin, Duke of Brabant peered shortsightedly across the lawn, strewn with withered flowers
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  • 191 6 review of Views Whither Britain? PROKU)M;-. IV Shir.K Jit p rhi t review <>• ws the there i* "n t.'iin stands fr. anti I constitutes a < v n Britain fe nfy the oosit Chung S^inc li*n* .k* world. either t either it tari..ri („mp w t < •"Brit.nii cupi,
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  • 278 7 WITH GEN. MacAKIHIK'S HQ FOR KOREA, Au* 10 #w 3 J troops are pulling back on a major front today for the first time L this 47^23 war, < ays Re«ter-AAP Reconnaissance pilots now confirm earlte^ :i«ttrliStf
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  • 132 7 RE. Aug. HI (Reuter-i About 08 per cent 'n.lians In combat the British Commoncupatioa Force in' have already volunt.eerservice in Korea. {C rn.^n have offer* e Communists, inmg Regimental SergeantHT. Harwood, who fouyht t World War ;jnd Indian «i Frontier wars j about 80 per
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  • 109 7 JAKARTA, Aug. 10 (Keutef-AAP) Indonesia, protesting to Holland over the dispatch of the Soerabaya-based Dutch destroyer Kortenaer to Macassar, main port oi the Celebes, has demanded immediate withdrawal of the warship, reports the Indonesian news agency. Former K.NIL Netherlands Indonesian Army) men and guerilla forces
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  • 73 7 I VAUOR (Central India) 10 'Reiner)— A nine-hour was imposed on Gwaity last night following bv police on demonsQg students near the nent Secretariat Three ts died, two on the spot Iter in hospital ladhyabhhrat Governxing a departmental to the incidents said •al
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  • 14 7 -i f ,> Palp stine ConciliaCommission in Jerusalem ai resumed talks with the Arab, A.P.
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  • 65 7 Rags' Turned Out To Be Good Clothes LONG BEACH (Catt. Aug 10. <AP) Seven hundred bales labelled "rags" for export to Italy are being held by the U.S. Government after customs inspectors found they contained clothing worth perhaps US$35O.--000 at retail abroad Inspectors said that, inside outer linings of rags,
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  • 160 7 /TT^AKE SUCCESS, Aug 10 V P) "T T I S« s Ponding to the cali ot U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie. eight nations have pledged almost 30.000 fullyequipped ground troops for the Korean war and more offers are expected soon. latest tabulations disclosed fl Pk I? addition
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  • 42 7 LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 10. (UP)— The Soviet Union continued its boycott of the U.N. Commission for Conventional Armaments when it met yes- 1 terday to approve its working' committee's progress report' and to send it to the Security Council
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  • 49 7 KARACHI. Aug 10. (UP).— Professor Arne Nness, leader ofi a Norwegian expedition that! conquered a loftv mountain peak of the 23.283 ft. Tirich Mir in the northwest area of Pakistan, said that his party had sighted another apparently unknown peak about the same height in nearby Afghanistan.
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  • 190 7 LAKE SUCCESS. Aug. It (Reuter) Security Council members were today expected to tell Mr. Jacob Malik, chief Soviet deleg grate, how they will defeat hi* "obstruction! ism" unless he agrrees to co-operate during (M rest of his term as president of the CouncM The presidency
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  • 137 7 PATNA (BIHAR), Aug. 10. (Reuter) The Indian Socialist leader. Mr Jayaprakash Nara- yan. yesterday urged Asian, nations to administer m "quit Asia" warning to the Western Powers and to form a third camp against U.S. and Russian "interference." At a meeting here
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  • 22 7 The diary of the late Count Bernadotte. U.N. mediator murdered in Israel, is to be published shortly in Stockholm.— A-P-
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  • 23 7 A Japanese dairy in Hokkaido f will present one ton of butter to. tbm U.S. force* fighting ia Korea.!
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  • 195 7 WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (AP) -Presidential adviser Averell Harriman, who returned from Tokyo yesterday, reported tnat there has been "absolutely no change" in U.S. policy toward Formosa and that Gen. MacArthnr's recent conference in Formosa with Gen. Chiang Kai-shek concerned "entirely military matters." Americas policy
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    50 7 Gen. K. M. Cariappa, C-in-C of the Indian Army Is seen laying a wreath on the grave of Brig. Angle UN observer in Kashmir, who was lulled in the PatXniot ai? croh The funeral took place in New Delhi in to? preieniJTof diplomatic officials and high military offlcew -aT photo
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  • 63 7 THE HAGUE, Aug. 10 (Reuter):— Dutch and Indonesian members of the New Guinea Commission have been unable to agree in their recom- mendations on the colony's fu- ture and have drawn up separate reports. The Dutch are firmly oppos- ed to the transfer of new I
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  • 33 7 The U.S. Senate has approved drastic changes in Americas immigration law to make it possible to exclude from the country any alien, including diplomats, on grounds of public safety.. Reuter
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  • 80 7 Atlantic Pact Defences 'Unsatisfactory' WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. (UP): The military readiness of the European members of the Atlantic Pact is "not satisfactory." said Mr. Charles SpofTord, chairman of the Atlantic Pact Nations Council of Deputies, here yesterday. However, Mr. Spofford added that the Council or Deputies has "made a good
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  • 41 7 HONGKONG. Aug 10 iR.-i--ter-AAP^ —The Chinese Comi.iunists have officially announced! occupation of all islets off the Pearl River estuary in Kwaimtung Province Latest to be ocrupied were the Tamkon and Kaifung j?rouo« on Aug 3
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  • 30 7 WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. (Reuter) President Truman has signed a bill giving him authority to take immediate steps to safeguard U.S. ports against a possible sneak atomic attack.
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  • 25 7 Five people were killed and two injured in central Calcutta yesterday when an old threestoreyed structure collapsed, trapping occupants under the debris Reuter
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  • 150 7 COLOMBO, Aug. 10— (UP): —Governor-General Soulbury and other high officials were standing in a stockade during' a round-up of wild elephants deep in the jungle yesterday, watching the Singhalese try to lasso 16 captive elephants, when one big bull trumpeted furiously and charged for the Governor-General.
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  • 27 7 wind up its work in Tel Aviv after having examined 300,000 Israelis for tuberculosis since the health campaign was started on Nov. 1, 1949- A.P.
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  • 38 7 The Catholic Church has always opposed war and defended peace. Pope Pius XII said on Wednesday at his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Basilica at which he urged some 30,000 pilgrims present to pray for peace A.P.
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  • 27 7 Mexico and India have agreed to establish diplomats relations at Ambassadorial level. Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit. Indian Ambassador in Washington, is to be Ambassrior for Mexico concurrently.- A.P.
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  • 32 7 Turkey s admission to th« Atlantic Pact will be discussed by signatories of the pact at their next meeting in New York, starting on Sept. 15 it is learned in London.- U.P.
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  • 14 7 M Henri Gauquie. French Minister to Hungary, has been appointed Ambassador to Indonesia. Reuter
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  • 23 7 Vice-Adm Roger l^ambert. 62. has been appointed Chief-of-StatT «f the French Navy He has been Commander of Frances Mediterranean Fleet since last A.P.
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  • 63 7 It is now learned that the suitcase containing a briefcase filled with secret atom information, which was stolen from a first class compartment of the London -Black pool train, uelonged to a British scientist and not to an American as was first believed. He is Mr. Frank Miller Greenless. a
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  • 29 7 The U.S. Federation ot Laboui plans to raise a US$l. OOO.OOO political *'*ar chest" to defeat Republican Senator Robert Taft and other "reactionary candidates' in the November elections. U.P.
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  • 51 7 Ihe Philippine Air force has sent a light plane to Echague, in j Caguyan Valley, to investigate the report of a plane crash on i Aug 8 It is believed to be the second of the two jet fighters which went down on a routine flight over northern Luzon. A
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  • 30 7 t Six men were seriously hurt in i Cairo's Ezbekich district before i the police stopped the fighting which started when one man refused to pay another bit rent— A.P.
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  • 83 7 MELBOURNE, Aug. 9. WP):r- Dr. V. Collins o/ the Children's Hospital here said yesterday that the first of three operation* Jo separate the VSiuinete twin girls bom in Tasmania last May had bfen perfornved and their condition is "totisidtctory." A He said a small part of the
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  • 68 7 NEW YORK. Aug. 10 (AP) Ex-British War Minister Leslie HoreBelisha called for an Anglo-American union involving, among other things, "common citizenship and common currency Mr Hore-Belisna, leaving here by plane after a trip to the West Indies and America, said the Western world is "being challenged
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  • 261 7 Call For Churchill As Super War Minister Of Unified European Army STRASBOURG, Aug. 10 (UP) Former French Premier Paul Keynaud called last night for a super War Minister with power to weld a unified European army against Communist aggression and pointed to Britain's wartime leader, Mr. Winston Churchill, who was
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  • 139 7 Grave Split Within The Council STRASBOURG. Aug. 10. (AP):— A bitter struggle within the Council of Europe is threatening to wreck efforts to unite Western Europe. The Upper and Lower Houses of the .vear-»Jd Council split in an atigry dilute over how much authority should be P'vM the Lower House
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  • 53 7 The U.S. Senate has approved without dissent a bill which would make espionage for a foreign power punishable by death or up to 30 years' imprisonment in time of peace. Rruter. MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, to whom Europe is turning as its dc'^nce chief in the event of
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  • 104 7 LONDON, Aug. 10 (AP) When the Commonwealth countries meet here next month to map out a six-year economic development programme to aid South and South-East Asia stave off Communism, announcement is expected that the original €8.000.000 fund may be increased by an additional €15,000,000.
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  • 287 8 LONDON, Aug. 10— (Reuter)— The British Ministry of Supply warned tin dealers this morning that they must no longer rely on the Ministry for supplies of tin. The announcement came after the end of morning dealings, in which prices had risen a further
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  • 62 8 Kubber The latest Singopore rubber price yesterday (Aug. 10) were, per Ib. ti t Mi Buyer* Scllert No. 1.RSS Spot loose $1.27 $1.28 No. 1.RSS fob in bales Aug. $1.27 $1.28 Jfo. 2. $1^6 $1.27 No. 3. $1.25 $1.26 Tone Steady ot Hie close. Tin SINGAPORE, Thurs.— Aug.
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  • 782 8 SINGAPORE. Thurs.— Better war news today and London interest caused a slight improvement in Malayan tin shares Rubber shares had only little changes while Industrials were firmer. Closing quotations were:— Bukit Kepong 43 53 Bukit llmah 27 00 80 00 Changkat Serdang .40 .43 Connemara 47 .58
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  • 80 8 FREE MARKET CURRENCIES asa. IP* M,t| V.vsnrri. W»Jf Zealand l/« l/M 1/4 ji/M ■■a ass iw 3/^ w av/n Pakistan 108 1/t Ida tna im Buying rate* tor Alt Mai) trmosmlaslo*. CONTROL DIRECT SATES BDTIMQ SSJT S tS 'CJ i It? T 12 <*«« n sa
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    45 8 photo. M. Charles Rene Saldou. a senior representative of the French firm of Miehelin Tyre Co. in Singapore, who returned to the Colony in the liner La Marseillaise this week He is seen here with Madame Saldou. They have been on leave in France.- Standard
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  • 311 8 w^j^kJJL jf? fi^^^^^^^^^L jt£^LJ^^oJm^^n^M^^BH LONDON, Aug. 16.— Out of Counterpart Funds, money In European currencies accumulated in the Bank of England and representing the proceeds of the sale of Marshall Aid goods to the peoples of Europe, a sum equivalent to U5561,000,000 was
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  • 174 8 RANGOON, Aug., 10— (AP) Burma's exportable rice surplus for 1951 is estimated to be 600.000 tons 200.000 tons less than this year's exports. Associated Press learned authoritatively today. Final figures remain unknown until next January when the full harvest is completed, but they are
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  • 175 8 NEW YORK. Aug. 10— (AP) At their present capacity, America's steel mills could I produce in a year 13,600.000 more tons of steel than wore turned out last year in all the rest of the world combined, including Russia and Commu-nist-dominated
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  • 133 8 Standard Staff Reporter THE SINGAPORE rubber market fluctuated violently yesterday, dropping by about 21 i cents per lb. for first grade. After opening easier, prices steadied during the morning, but eased again in the afternoon on better news from Korea. i Later the market
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  • 38 8 Last month's rubber output i from Alor Pongsu Amalgamated Estates amounted to 143.142 lb. Other rubber estates production were Be- dong (Malaya) Rubber 87.488 lb., Temerloh Rubber Estates 52.100 lb. and Trong Rubber Estates 32.350 lb.
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  • 42 8 LONDON, Aug. 10.— (AP)— British bicycle and motorcycle exports during the first half of 1950 totalled £15.896,421. These goods were sold to Australia, the US, Canada Switzerland, Pakistan, Malaya Brazil. Eire, British Africa and the Belgian Congo.
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  • 89 8 WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. (AP)— The U.S. Commerce Depratment has revoked all exist- ing licences to ship American goods to Communist China. The Department said this action was in line with current policy of barring exports of strategic materials to the general area of
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  • 92 8 MANILA, Aug. 10. (AP)— Philippines foreign trade for the fiscal year just ended was U*****,000,000 as against U*****,000,000 lor the same period last year. The Bureau of Census and Statistics also announced imports dropped to U*****,000,- 000, so did the unfavourable I trade balance down to
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  • 90 8 ABOUT 4.538 kilograms of copper and nickel coins looted from North Borneo and Sarawak during the war haw been ordered restored to the United Kingdom. 3rig. Gen. John F. Conklin. SCAP« Civil Property Custodian, has announced. The coins, stored in the Ki/.ugawa Looted Property
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  • 192 8 HONGKONG, Aug. 10 (Reuter-AAP) The Fung Keong Manufacturing Company, the Colony's leading rubber foanufacturers, closed its doors yesterday. Business depression was the cause of the suspension. With a capital of HK52,000,000, the company was established 30 years ago, and is known for its rubber
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  • 144 8 GENEVA, Aug. 10 (Reuter) The United Nations Economic and Social Council (UNESCO) today condemned certain government methods of controlling newsprint as "contrary to the freedom of the Press." The Council declared, in a resolution, that the serious economic situation had caused some governments to intervene in
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  • 111 8 HONGKONG. Aug. 10: (Router-AAP). The I'nitcd States Minister-Designate to the Nationalist regime in Formosa. Mr. Karl Rankin is leaving here this motning by air to take up his post Mr. Rankin told a reporter ye.>terday he was Quite optimistic about the security of Hon£jkf)ng.
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  • 47 8 NEW YORK, Aug. 10. (AP) Westinghouse Electric International Company announced an order from the National Railways of Siam for 45 dieselelectric locomotives. They will replace «team engines destroyed or confiscated by the Japanese during the war. Delivery is scheduled for January 1951^
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  • 60 8 WASHINGTON. Au*. 10— (Reuter) Despite years of search for domestic deposits. the I'niti'd States remains almost wholly dependent on other countries for tin supplies, a high Govrrnment official told a Congrevsional Committee here. The official. Dr. James Boyd. Director of the Bureau of Mines,
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  • 25 8 BELGIUM exi>orlcHl 33.693 metric tons of window i during the first five months of 1950. Holland was tho la: purchaser, taking 16,189 tons.
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  • 75 8 SCARE BUYING SAVES CUBA HA VAN* A r (AP>-;v ir 'sugar is ke, <, in Cuba. The Wn In second gj»»l is thr v. producer bi kot for evei this year lone ton- Th-- od the Cuba's ecoi movt o\-, ri K it Bl n 1950 ton The K r
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  • 41 8 Produce Stind.ird Suff K;'P' I COPRA l and bH businra was n Coconut n round $71 prwftilii Pc] in pi Prices in prod uc yefttrdv Oil 5 $r.5 (Jayi burg (Lan p «m B tok whit (Lin
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  • 26 8 HONGKONG CAP).— Thirty Hongkong Airlines Intern I Cii.. Thf gl stay one month Thi! for tho t $> left on A I
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  • 355 9 M W YORK Aug. 10-(UP)-Indicating that the Trans-Siberian railroad is v occupied with transportation of military materials, a "sizeable iwrLimf" if mystery-shrouded merchant fleet has been reported bound foVv?adivoSiberia s chief port which is only 80 miles from theNorth Korean border
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  • 74 9 Stajklard Shipping Reporter TWO RUSSIAN freighters, with rattier tongue -twisting names, the Gornozavodsk and Rivonovsk, are bow in Singapore Outer Harbour on their way to Vladivntock. They have arrived here in the course of a world voyage, picking up general cargoes. While at Singapore, they are
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  • 110 9 THIS is 16-year-oW Terence Humphreys, of Brentford, London, who is the youngest rating to have takes part in the Korean War. He is now hack at Singapore Naval Base, with his ship, the Frigate Alacrity, of the Far Eastern Fleet. Terence arrived in Japan aboard the troopship Devonshire
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  • 371 9 Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE rec ently has had its full quota of Russian merchant ship callers. How many more of the mystery fleet will pass through this busy gate- way of the Far East none can tell, except perhaps Stalin and his comrades j Some
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  • 36 9 HAMBURG, Aug. t (AP) German shipping authorities said on Wednesday that 4he American freighter Planter had run on to. a mine in the North Sea early today. The ship left Hamburg on Tuesday.
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  • 617 9 s^JfUiJ^aj^^^^Bß^^jf^nf^ To explain my "more than usual interest" «tatem*nt I olu t pure ana ouezadd this fact which may be of interest "o local S W^rs and j passengers alike. The Surnento and Napoli whicii are own^rf and operated
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  • 116 9 AIR ARRIVALS and DEPARTURES Arrivals KLM CONSTELLATION from Jakarta ETA 6 a.m. GARUDA INDONESIAN AIRWAYS DOUGLAS from Jakarta, Banska ZTA 6.25 pan. MALAYAN AIRWAYS DAKOTA from Alor Star, Penang, Taiping, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur ETA 6.15 p.m. from Kuantan. Alor Star. Penang, Kuala Lumpur ETA 6-35 pjn. from Penang, Taiping, Ipok.
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  • 24 9 The Isbrandtsen Line freighter Flying Arrow is due to leave New York on a new trip to the Far East— UJ\
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  • 68 9 Despatches TODAY: Pontianak noon by Demta; Thailand (parcels only) noon by Kepong; Ceylon 6 p.m. by Willem Ruys; Gt. Britain, N. Ireland, Eire, Europe, North and West Africa, West Indies and Egypt (letters only) pjn. by Willera Ruys; Arrivals TODAY: Medan by Van Riebeeck; United States of I
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  • 159 9 I PAN American Worrd Airways has proved the recent statement of its Presi- dent, Juan T. Trippe that! "America's merchant air fleet is a vital second line of national defence." Within four days of June 25 Pan American organized and put into operation under contract to
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    110 9 THE CHINA Navigation Co roaster Hanyang <IK>2 tons gross), which has arrived at Singapore on her first 7. i s l t h re sl re to the Tr^ rw <* pafwnifffM of the ill-fated Atthui. of the sain* company no June IB this year. The Anhui hit a mine
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  • 233 9 Standard Staff Reporter THERE WAS an unusually large number of coastwise passengers for Penang on the Corfu which sailed from Singapore yesterday for the United Kingdom. This was due to the nervousness on the part of many people to travel by rail or
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  • 38 9 HONGKONG, Aug. 10 (AP) The 10,000-ton British cruiser Belfast, which has been taking part in the Korean War as flagship of the Far Eastern Fleet, is reported likely to sail soon from Hongkong for England.
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  • 179 9 Arrivals YESTERDAY TOSARI (KPM) from Palembang Ships Dim TODAY MODJOKKRTO (Rotterdam Trading) from Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Port Said and Aden YJIKAMTCK (KPM) from Japan and Hongkong MEOtHA (East Asiatic) ttOTT6candinavia/UJC/.Ccmlinent. FALSTRIA (East Asiatic) from Continent/Scandinavia AUG. 12: SELANDIA (East Asiatic) from Bangkok. MEONIA (East Asiatic* from
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  • 773 10  - Your Marriage Samuel G. and Esther B. Kling By How Should Girls Behave On Dates Q. What should every gir know about dating etiquette' A. First, don't break a dat« merely to keep one with an other man. Don't keep your date wait ing unduly, not only because it's inconsiderate
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  • 540 10 Controversies Raging In Johannesburg JOHAX\ESBL T RG, Aug 9 JSSUff^rS a youn s man obliged to kiss a girl after taking her out and should he ask her to pay for the bus rides, dinners and entertainment she has in his company? lhese two questions are the subject of major
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  • 358 10  -  FRANK EMERY A Miracle Every 5 Minutes (by A U.S. AIR BASE IN KOREA, (INS)— A new miracle happens every five minutes in this muddy, dirty, flat place in Korea where Americans live in pup tents and American equipment forms a jungle of
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  • 163 10 By ROBERT N. SCHWARTZ INS Staff Correspondent CHICAGO Aug. 6 (INS)— One of America's top chemists has revealed that the development of a new type of, synthetic rubber may end the tire industry's dependence oni natural rubber imports from the Far East. Prof. Carl Marvel,
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  • 257 10  - US Lady Cops Resent Movie Counterparts James Padgitt By HOLLYWOOD, (INS)— Los Angeles policewomen are all steamed up over the way they are depicted as "ogres, wildcat helions and dowdy-looking strong arm girls" on the screen. The girls in uniform are particularly stirred up by what they saw in "Outrage,"
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  • 354 10  -  EDWIN P. JORDAN M.D. Sit Down To Serious Eating If You Want To Put On Weigh By FAR more people suffer ill effects from being over-' weight than from being underweight. H«wever, it is astonishing how many people inquire about how they can add to their poundage.
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    • 173 10 B^N>TW J L-L I J' I (CM BCV A NIGMT C-F-- M^^**^"^ sil Iy'[C'* i I I'LL FIX r^V^cr, c 1 iJ/?3{ ™%SSSmAM Jfffwhr-, H f^> TODO VvMATI WANT 1 I K\v> NWHAT VII f /^D GO T^RFD I N^' J I ape at aunt lous. \SJ)U~I \W s!Vy^ i
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  • 268 11 Standard Staff Reporter THE Secretary of State for the Colonies Mr James rriffith has wired the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, asking for a rIS!u n Mr. Baron Gevers, the Dutch Charge d'Affaires in London, yesterday called at the Foreign
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  • 94 11 idird Staff Reporter. THE Representative of the lea of Indonesia In Singapore will a today from a authorities for an shipwrecked in Singapore. I were rescued J Banjermasin river, H. Turner of the h arrived in| Tuesday with mi go. Xht W St. John's; The
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  • 140 11 Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH. Thurs. Remarking, that the prosecution had failed negligence on the defendant, the Ipohj Che Arshad acThomas B. Cox! i DCRK on a charge of .ing. The prosecution stated that ce agent was travelling in his car towards Penang on June
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  • 178 11 Quirinos Envoy Feted "tJ^jt Fre^ luxury !mer La Marseillaise" brought to Singapore on Wednesday, President Quirino's special envoy. Ambassador-at-large Jose Avelino, who is en route to Manila after his round-the-world goodwill mission tour. Ambassador Avelino was accompanied by his wife, Senora Trinidad Roxas, wife of the late President Manuel Roxas,
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  • 208 11 Standard Staff Reporter THE Singapore Federation of Services Union, representing about 30,000 Asian workers, last night offered to mediate in the dispute between the management and employees of the Rediffusion (Singapore) Limited. In a statement issued by the Secretary General Mr. P. S. i Sivaswamy,
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  • 25 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Damage estimated at $16,000 was suffered in Province Wellesley early this morning when a fire destroyed seven shophouses.
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  • 747 11 A SUGGESTION that the Singapore Administrative and Clerical Services Union should be closed down was made at an extraordinary general meeting of the Union yesterday. "This step, it was stated, should be taken if the Union was placed in a "helpless position" by
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    53 11 Roy Sutter. 33, of Denison, Texas, USA. the first to attempt the Channel crowing this yea? roodJuck wtohes of Britain's Philip MickSSi, 7w£S the channel in 1949, as he prepares to take off from (Sid Grte Ne*. Shutter gave up after an hour and a h2? H? entered the water
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  • 88 11 WHAT is believed to be the biggest arms hoard in recent months in Singapore was discovered by a Chinese yesterday near the junction of Upper Serangoon Road and Braddell Road. The Chinese, Wong Ying Kai, of Geylang Road, together with other workers were I levelling a
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  • 53 11 A FINE of $330 was imposed on 28-year-old Chua Kit Leng in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday for possession oZ 16 pounds of dutiable tobacco and cigarettes. Chua was arrested in Mill Lane on Aug. 1, in a trishaw. The duty on the tobacco and cigarettes
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  • 29 11 A SINGAPORE Press photographer fractured a leg yesterday afternoon when his motor cycle was involved in a collision with a van at the Orchard Road roundabout.
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  • 51 11 Major-General Bridgeford and the military members of the group of Australian observers returned to Singapore by air yesterday, after visiting the Federation. Today they will visit the Far East Training Centre and tomorrow will be spent on final discussions. MR. G. A. TESSENSOHN MR. S.
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  • 86 11 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Malaya District Workshops REME Sports Club became champions in the second division northern section of the Selangor soccer league competition today by defeating the SCAA two— one in the final played at Prince's road. REME opened the scoring
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  • 386 11 BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 10— (Reuter)— Warwickshire had a first innings lead of 128 runs over West Indies at the end of their first innings. At close of play the West Indies in their second Innings had scored 134 for 4 wickets. A crowd
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  • 16 11 HONGKONG. Thurs.—Singapore's Chinese basketball te-im ton: v in defeated linn* shrn til 41.
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  • 444 11 Cheerful Lads Saddened As Sun Dazzled Keeper DISPLAYING better combination Katong Sajarajah beat the Cheerful Lads by one goal to nil when they clashed in a Singapore Junior "B" league match at jJalan Besar yesterday with this win Katong Sajarajah emerged champions in the Junior league. The Katong Sajarajah play-
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  • 107 11 PENANG. Tnurs Tho Fook Hung. Penang's British Empire Bantamweight weight-lifting champion, will be attempting to break his own record of 653 lbs for the three lifts at Kunla Lumpur on Aug. 26 during the Health tnd Strength Association display in aid of the Sclangor
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  • 79 11 Standard Staff Correspondent kIALA LUMPUR, VV, I The final of the southern tmn of the annual P\vn ,oaii comoetiiioa bctu.-n bingapore and Selan^or will >* ;playe' at Cheras Ro.vl. Ki^la (Lumpur tom now. The Selangor side will t>« .selcrted from Tan Kin H<>. k, Mohd. Ali. ..lohd. Said.
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  • 81 12 Locke Coming Here ILLINOIS. Aug. 10— Re liter)— Bobby Locke, South African holder of the British open title, who yesterday won the AllAmerican section of the Tarn O'Shanter golf tournament after a playoff with Lloyd Mangrum, leaves England by air on Sept. 4 for Singapore. Locke will appear in an
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  • 107 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The Selangor P.W.D. played good football today to beat the Singapore P.W.D by four goals to ni! in the final of the southern section of their interstate annual soccer competition at Cherai Road today. StMangor will now meet Kefiah in
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  • 90 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— l The Sultan of Selangor will present the cup and medals after the Malaya cup final between Penang and Singapore at Kuala l.umpur on Saturday on the Malaya District Headquarters ground Tickets at $3 and $2 are on sale from today at Robinson's and
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  • 27 12 Entries are invited for the Chinese Swimming Club billiards rompetition. Entry forms are available at the club. The closing date is August 31. I
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  • 270 12 By GLUE DA VIES PENANG, Thurs. Some rousing gallops were seen this morning when the course opened for fast woik The track was in very good condition, and some fast times were returned. Permita Dormez (Ayres) covered 3f in the good time of
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  • 83 12 Drobny Defeats Dav is Cunoer Bose HAMBURG. Aug. 9 (UP)—! Jaraslov Drobny, self-exiled' Czech playine for Egypt, enter- 1 ed the last eight of the men's singles in the German inter--national tennis tournament on Tuesday; defeating India's Davis Cupper Philip Bose, 6-2. 6-3. 6-1. Gottfried von Cramm beat youthful Naresh
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  • 228 12 MtMR. Aug. 9— Several hund-, red people attended the St Andrews School Annual Sports, held at Jalan Hashim. last, week. Results were: 100 \d; A— Jaffar b Yunos. 75 yds C— Hassan bin Ahmad. 220 yds B— Ng Siow On*. Relay (Inter house: A Section Purple
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  • 59 12 Standard Staff Correspondent KLANG. Wed.— The Klang district Amateur Athletic Association, through the efforts of their chairman Mr. W. H. E. Whitehouse. and his committee,, have arranged an athleticl match with the Mercury Ath-i letic Club of Kuala Lumpur.: The match takes place on Saturday
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  • 44 12 SEREMBAN. Wed. The Negri Sembilan Football Assoiciation Six-a-side tournament: 'for the Taylor Shield began yesterday when the Negri Sem-i bilan Indian Association "C"l team defeated the Negri Sem-i bilan Chinese Recreation Club ,"D" by the only goal of the I match.
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  • 132 12 xne ionowing will repiesent the Anglo Chinese School Old i I Boys' Association in their Evan Wong Shield Tournament r v! Ck^ match against the Christian Brothers' Old Boys 'Association on the SCRC ground on Saturday:- Cheong Thiam Siew E Doraisamy. E. Ebert. Ha >ook Siaii Knm fJim
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  • 52 12 photo.) New world flyweight champion Dado Marino of Honolulu accepts the cheers of the crowd after his 15-round, punchpacked decision over former champion Terry Allen of London, at Honolulu Stadium on Aug. 1. Walter Cho, referee, is at left. Marino's manaeer. Sad Sam Ichinns* is at
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  • 208 12 NEW JERSEY, Aug. 10 (AP) Sugar Ray Robinson retained his world welterweight championship on Wednesday with a cleancut 15-round decision against Charley Fusari before a capacity crowd of more than 30,000 people in the Roosevelt Stadium. Robinson weighed in at 147 pounds and Fusari
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  • 125 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Ong Chew Bee. the newly- 1 crowned tennis champion of Malaya, was seen in action to-, day when he played a series of' exhibition matches on the Sungei Ujong Club tennis courts. In the singles he beat the! Penang
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  • 65 12 SITIAWAN, Tues. The Sitiawan Police "A" drew with the Dindings Indians when they met for the MarableBurns Shield soccer competi-; tion on the Sitiawan Recreation Club padang on Monday. The score was one all. The Police led in the first 1 half through Rashid. In
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  • 268 12 CAMERON HIGHLANDS, Wed— The first athletic meeting in Cameron Highlands took place in Tana Rata on Sunday and was an outstanding success. The meeting sparkled with good performances of some of the military, the Royal Marines, RASC and the RAMC. despite the very limited period for
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  • 170 12 Detention Camp Win Gout Dept Soccer Final MALACCA, August 9.— The Detention Camp beat the Stadthaus 'B* team in the Government Departmental Shield Soccer Final at the Stadium by 3—l this evening. At the conclusion of the match the Resident Commis-i sioner, Mr. G E. C. Wisdom presented the shield
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  • 193 12 THE first round of the Singapore Chess Tournament will be played on Sunday. Aug. 13 from 2.30 p,m to 5.30 p.m. at the Chinese Swimming Club and the Y.M.C.A. The Singapore Chess Club is making a determined elTort to win the Lee Geok Eng Shield this year.
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  • 728 12 Standard Special Correspondent FOR Asian rugby players all over Malaya and particularly those front \egri Sembilan this season will have special significance, for it is the "silver jubilee" of the Negrl All Bines, pioneer Asian rugby team in Malaya. It
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  • 140 12 Sebastian To fight Tonight FLASHY SEBASTIAN, Filipino scrapper who created a sensation in America two years ago. and who decisively beat Som Pong and Mohamed Fahmy in Singapore eight years earlier, makes a- reappearance in the Colony tonight when he clashes with Nai Tawan. hard-hitting Siamese middleweight from Bangkok at
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  • 41 12 Mr. W. J. Wight, the Commodore of the Naval Base Sai lineClub presenting his cup to Mrs. A. A W. Baker, the winner of the "Ladies Race' at the Naval Base Sailing dub competition on Wednesday.
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  • 111 12 NEW YORK, Aug. 9. (Reuter).— Frank Sedgman of Australia and Lennart Bergelin of Sweden have been drawn to meet in the tirst singles match on Friday in the Davis inter Cup zone final at the Winchester Country Club here The second singles on the same day
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  • 283 12 HQ SINGAPORE District beat Customs Sports Club four goals to two at Geylang Stadium yesterday in a junior! cup tie. The exchanges in the first half were fairly even with the District more in the picture. About midway through this half Cheng Kee opened the scoring,
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  • 248 12 Diesel Car To Try For Speed Records NEW YORK. (AP):-TEIE Cummins P S cial, which competed in the Indianapolis i will try for six international speed ipowered cars. Officials of the Cummins Engine Columbus, Indiana announced that the I place on the straightaway runs on tho IHats. 100 miles west
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  • 78 12 SEGAMAT, Thurs. Batu Pahat has provisionally been fixed as the venue for the 1951 Johore State A. A. A. Meet. Mr. F. J. Thomson, a representative of Segamat. proposed that Mr. D W. Grehan. present Executive Engineer of Batu Pahat be asked to organise the
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  • 74 12 Aussies Win At Hamburg HAMBURG A i* -Australia's v *7! AP Billy Sjdwe per all m the tollman. or finals^'"'' 52S the former cv in Germanj ner. of Ha-> j h 6—3 Harper ,'V" over Jost S S *JJ land wher, the r SJ after losinc „7J Others wit 3
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  • 29 12 Tho trial mil i reprc nese team to 1 kong Chin< nese In*. turn in S The trla Klialt Lumpur ing team Authentic-, team.
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  • 39 12 MANILA one of the m«»s' ever expert „r pines, fivo the husir:. capital of t*< Province nila wer. causlnc 1 .0(1 s.soo.ooim tir i. t a 1.0O<) pci-MUll IB tm^ bumelc**.
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