Singapore Standard, 13 August 1950

Microfilm: NL2275
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    11 1 Singapore Standard foTINOj? SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, AUGUSTUS, 1950." 13 PAGES TEN CENTS
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    ICFTU Delegates Arrive On Survey Tour
    29 1 photo. arrived a f t*Kll£il?l!SL^i* hetote r luao lK I CoufcderaUw of Free Trade BBUmT* 'who the delegation. (Story on Page 4).- Standard
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    Malaya Facing Acute Mice Lack Imports Unlikely; McNee Urges More Padi Lands
    448 1 Standard Staff Correspondent KIALA MMPIR, Sat.— "lt is extremely unlikely that Malaya can hope again to get from overseas, rice to meet two-thirds of her requirements, as was possible before the war." This is stated by the Director,
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    USI Appeals igainst Turko' Writ
    131 1 Standard Staft Importer. THE S eniment iced 'hat the of the Indonesian Government yesterday t>r exe- prohibintinuation of kgainst "Turko" Westerlinf. Aim will be heard in .pore High Court on \ug lti Mr. Ju.-tke Evans, on August i "Turko" Westerling's in for a writ of
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    Dance Hostess Stabs Man, Gives Self Up
    57 1 Standard Staff Reporter yL^ 1 W jr]d ca °aret hinl/v n e hostess N °rah SV u i off surrendered at S^n andan^ Kerbau Polic Mon early this morning ■IT being involved in a mm at Rangoon Road last the'V as f an
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    Singapore Tiger Standard Sponsors Essay Contest
    286 1 Cash Prizes Ottered Malayan Students TO encourage literary talent and constructive thought among the youths of Malaya, The Singapore Standard is sponsoring an essay competition in which big cash prizes are offered. Results will be announced on Sept. 15V 1950 e im P«tttk»toopeii to
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    Chinese Reds Quit Border Of Indo-China
    200 1 oaiijuin. Aug. iz cneuier) Authoritative French sources said here today that Chinese troops had last month began withdrawal of their 22,000 troops along the Indo-Chinese frontier. They said the Chinese withdrawal was about 100 kilometres (about 60 miles) which was "nothing" in modern war-:
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    4 Masked Chinese Rob Woman Of $2,300 In Cash, Jewellery
    94 1 Standard Staff Reporter Four masked and goggled Chinese, ".with their faces painted black, robbed a 60--year-old Chinese midwife of The WeftjClinic. Madam Boey Pui Seonf; of $300 in cash and $2,000 worth of jewellery at Serangoon Road last night. The
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    People Gather To Greet News Of Royal Birth
    123 1 LONDON, Aug. 12— (AP)— A busload of people came 250 miles this morning to stand outside Princess Elizabeth's home, hoping they will be on hand when the birth of her second child is announced. The birth of a little brother or sister
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    Bomb Explodes In Belaian Red Hq.
    38 1 BRUSSELS. Aug. 12 (Reutei) A bomb blasted the headquarters of the Belgian Communist Party in the centre of Brussels early this mornng. There were no casualties but police said damage was 'considerable.**
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    New Sabotage Attempt Made On Illustrious
    103 1 New Sabotage Attempt Made On Illustrious LONDON. Aug. 12— (Reuter) i British Navy intelligence i officers and dockyard police at Devonport, leading British naval station and dockyard site, are investigating a case of suspected sabotage in the j 23.000 ton aircraft carrier Illustrious the Admiralty disclosed last night. This is
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    38 1 Admiral Sir Patrick Brind, Commander in Chief, Far East Station, arrived by a special Royal Air Force Dakota from Borneo yesterday. The Admiral is seen/in this Standard picture chatting with naval chiefs who met him at the airport.
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    US Tank, Infantry Rescue Column Saves Pohang Airfield
    404 1 TOKYO, Aug. 12 (UP)— An American rescue column of tanks and infantry today saved the big allied airfield south of burning Pohang, on the east coast of Korea, A spokesman for General MacArthur said that at the opposite end of the embattled
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    Reds Mass Troops For TaeguPush
    277 1 TOKYO, Aug. 12 <AP>— General Douglas MacArthur's reported tonight the North Koreans continued to throw reinforcements across the Naktong river in both the Changnyong and Waegwan sectors. There have been indications for some time that the Reds are building up forces for a push in
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    USAF Calls Up 42,000 Men, 8,000 Officers
    59 1 WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (AP) The United States Air Force and Army announced Friday night they are calling up 59,444 reserves. The Air Force headquarters said it expects to have an "initial requirement" of 8,000 officers and 42.004 men in service by the early
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    War Briefs
    267 1 B-29's Raid Seaport WITH M AC ARTH IRS HQ FOR KOREA, Aug. 12 (Reuter-AAP) A large force of B-29 Superfortresses today bombed the important northeast Korean seaport of Hajin-Dong, 20 miles from the Soviet border, a Far East Air Foree communique an- nounced. I Canada's Air Aid VANCOUVER,
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    Two London Newsmen Killed In Korea
    103 1 LAKE SUCCESS. Aug. 12— (UP) The Indian delegate with the United Nations Commission in Korea, and two British newspaper correspondents, were killed when their jeep was blown up on m land mine near Taegu. the United Nations secretariat announced today. The United Nations delegate
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    UN Plan For Korea
    36 1 IN SOUTH KOREA. Aug 12-(AP)- The United N?. tions Commission for Korea is reliably reported discussing a plan for U.N vigilance over Snt^«i e^ lon 6 f ter the present fighting ends.
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    Welfare Home Girls Weep At Secrets Of Life
    125 2 Standard Woman Correspondent THIRTY-FOUR girls, with tear swollen eyes, filed out of the Singapore Film Censor's preview theatre yesterday. They were from the Pasir Pan- jang Girls' Home and had just; seen the film. "Secrets of Life." An official of the Department
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    Singapore Police To Teach All Constables English
    321 2 Standard Staff Reporter THE SINGAPORE Polke Faroe plans to teach Eagtish to every member la the rank and file of the Force. The Force has appointed an Education Officer to take charge of the present English classes which will be increased and made
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    13 2 A UNION Member distribntta* bottle, of aerated water to the Bediffashm striken yesterday,
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    97 2 RED CHINA'S ambassador to Indonesia, Sumatran born Mr. Ouan Jun Ctaou. seen with his wife as they drove from Kalians airport yesterday soon after his arrival by BOAC Argonaut from Hongkong Mr. Ouan was accompanied by seven "silent" members of his staff. There were special plain clothes mem on duty
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    WOMAN ACQUITTED
    37 2 TEO AH TOH, a 36-year-old woman, who was charged with being in possession of 110$ Ib. of opium on April 11 at Kampong Heap Guan San, was ccquitted in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday.
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    Plans For Lady Of Fatima's Visit
    75 2 THE CHURCH of Our Lady of Lourdes at Ophir Road is to hold a "triduum" beginning from Aug. 20, in preparation for the visit of the "Pilgrim Virgin", Our Lady of Fatima, to Malaya in October. On Aug. 22. after two days of prayer,
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    HAD NO DOCK PERMIT
    28 2 FOR ENTERING the Singapore Harbour Board without a permit, 5 1 -year old Namasivayam was fined $2 in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday.
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    VISIT TO PRISONERS
    26 2 The Aftercare Association made 10 visits to prisoners in July, interviewed 96 prisoners, assisted 25 and visited the relatives of 16 of them.
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    Spores Only Woman Insp. Leaves For UK
    156 2 S pores Only Woman Insp. Leaves For UK Standard Staff Reporter THE ONLY woman inspector in the Singapore Police Force, 21-year-old Inspector Mary Voon, leaves the Colony this morning by plane for England where she will be attached to the women police force for four months on a scholarship awarded
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    reclaimed 39 Lives Last Week
    80 2 TUBERCULOSIS once again took the highest number of lives in Singapore for the week ending Aug. 5, when there were 39 deaths against the previous week's 25. However, it showed m decrease in the number of cases reported over the previous week when there were
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    Traffic Police To Install Automatic Lights At All Main Junctions
    380 2 Standard SUIT Reporter ALL MAIN road junctions in the Colony will be fitted with automatic traffic control lights. This was decided by the Singapore Traffic Police after an eight-month test with an automatic light at the i unction of Serangoon
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    23 2 M. PIERRE Salade, French Charge de Affaires in Jakarta for two years, arrived in Singapore by BOAC Constellation yesterday en route to Paris.
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    Bound Over For Attempted Suicide
    55 2 A MAN, who drank poison after a quarrel with his wife told the Singapore Fourth Police Court Magistrate, Mr. P. Clague yesterday that he was "ashamed" to have tried to end his life. The man, 27-year-old Sethu Raman of Bukit Timah, was bound over for
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    Posed As Tec, Goldsmith Jailed
    419 2 A 38-YEAR OUy goldsmith, Chan Wai Sun, who thought he could make money the easy way by posing as a detective and an Income Tax Inspector, will now' have to spend one year of his life the hard way in prison. Yesterday he pleaded guilty
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    Expectant Mothers Deserted By Fiances
    72 2 TWO cases of women who became expectant mothers while being engaged, and were later deserted by their fiances were brought to the notice of the Singapore Social Welfare Department. In the Department's July report is was stated that one of 'women was unwilling to be[conuiiihe
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    Engaged
    81 2 TWO YOUNG Chinese lawyers, who studied together at Cambridge, and returned to Singapore early this month by the Willem Ruys announced their engagement on Friday. Picture shows the couple, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew and Miss Kwa dnik Choo after their engagement reception at Oxley Road. Mr. Lee is the
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    Did Not Bother To Obtain Card, Woman Jailed
    119 2 Did Not Bother To Obtain Card Woman Jailed A 20 YEAR-OLD Ma'av h woman. Hasidah binte Mohamed Din of Lxirong 27 t lang was sentenced in the Singapore First Distn* Court yesterday to one month's imprisonment for not having an identity ra: J. jlt was Hasidah's second nppearance in the
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    'Girls Born This Year Are Unlucky'
    183 2 MORE infant girls born this year are given awav in adoption because, according to a Chinese belief, this is the Tiger Year and an inauspicious year for girls to be boFn. This is stated in the July report of the Singapore Department of Social
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    Strikers Get Food Drinks From Trade Unions In Spore
    252 2 Strikers Get Food Drinks From Trade Unions In Spore Standard Staff K jpoi THE SINGAPORE RechfTu^ strike entered its second week gifts of biscuits, fruits, soft drinki various trade unions in .the Colony. Headed by officials of the Singapore Motor Vehicle Drivers' Union, representatives of the unions visited the strikers
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    Less Free Meals Served In July
    93 2 A NOTICEABLE f.'.il in ti number of meals itrvd at ti Sorial Welfare DepartfMQt Children's Centres during July was attributed to Hari Rava Puasn, when most of the Malay children did not turn up for. theif meals for several days. This was stated in
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    $12,000 Bait Cheatim Case
    28 2 BAIL 23-yfir > I Raj in Pohco > ne wa K. O text '•■< down in on .lii.y 2 livery .'J'"'* 1 Ion? to I w T
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    US Ready To Assume More Responsibility In Far East
    418 3 teW Brands_RttMia 'Trouble MaW Standard Staff Reporter \MfcRK A \S new world outlook, as represented bv ii» f AM i m U njirt of the American people and that policy «&Su£^St Y^Z 9 E Js out to destroy man's fundamental freedoms
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    Free Radio Sets For Kampongs
    64 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat— At :g of the Johore Bahru Welfare Co*ninittee N'o. 361 Jalan Tonska was unanimously de- supply to all the kam- n the Johore District free radio sets for the- benefit kampong community .■-committee has been ippointed to work up a plan and
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    IN KUALA LUMPUR
    80 3 Standard Staff Correspondent TT KUALA LUMPUR Sat. The United States survey mission visited the Headquarters, Malaya District, this afternoon. Major General R. E Urquhart, GO C s"Badier R. C. Cottrell Hill! Chief of Staff and the Headquarters intelligence officer spoke on the military situation to the members
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    Man Given A Typewriter To Earn Living
    134 3 Standard Staff Reporter A SUM of $9,763 was expended by the Social Welfare Department on relief to 442 families, in July. An applicant was given a typewriter valued $295 to enable him to earn a living. Another applicant was provided with a "Sonomax"
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    N. Sembilan Councillor To Fly To Mecca
    83 3 N. Sembilan Councillor To Fly To Mecca Special To The Standard SEREMBAN. Sat.— Federal Legislative Councillor and prominent rubber planter of n Sembilan. Tuan Sheikh A P™ad bin Sheikh Mustapha will fly to Mecca early next month for his pilgrimage. The Nesri Malay leader will go by 8.A.0.C. aircraft to
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    AGRICULTURAL OFFICER WEDS IN KELANTAN
    97 3 Standard Staff Corresponded* KOTA BAHRU, Sat.— At the Residency, Kota Bahru, last Tuesday afternoon Mr. Hugh King Ashby. State Agricultural Officer. Kelantan, married Miss Berthe Rentse, Secretary to the British Adviser, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rentse, popular residents of Kelantan. Mr. J. G.
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    Malay Handicrafts Impress US Expert
    157 3 photo. Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Malay handicrafts, it is hoped, will be another dollar-earner as a result of the visit to this country of Mr. William Awad, the American marketing expert of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. Mr. Awad
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    99 3 The American marketing expert of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, Mr. William Awad, visited the Malay Handicrafts Society's Centre in the Municipal Offices during his brief visit to Kuala Lumpur on Friday. Picture shows Mr. Awad (second from right) admiring a $66 cocktail shaker of Kelantan
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    Made No Report, Two Jailed
    91 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. Sentences of three years' rigorous imprisonment were passed on each of the two Chinese who came up for sentence today before Mr. W. B. Sutherland, the President of th: Johore Sessions Court. Lee Khai Tee. 61, and Chiam Choon Hock. 15. had
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    Kajang Scouters Get Warrants
    77 3 KAJAKG. Sat.— The State Commissioner for Scouts. Mr. R.E. Ince, presented Scouters' Warrants to 15 scouters from the different scout groups, English and Malay speaking, at a presentation ceremony held at the Kajang Malay Girls School. A guard-of-honour was provided by the 3rd Ulu Langat Group,
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    BANDIT KILLED, JAP RIFLE RECOVERED
    142 3 VIT A T Standard Staff Correspondent in P*ha A LUMPUR Sat.-Security forces operating in Pahang yesterday, shot and killed a Chinese bandit Ja i? a nese nf e was recovered. This morning, a police party searching a squatter area m Pahang saw a male Chinese
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    Flew 8,000 Miles To See Grand-daughter
    44 3 Mrs. A. Bostock, who flew 8,000 miles- to Singapore to see her two-year-old grand-daugh-ter, arrived at Kallang Airport by KLM Constellation on Friday. She was met by her son-in-law, Mr. I. Renken, ASP, Police Headquarters, Kuala Lumpur. j
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    Aussie Mission Leaves: Has Clear Picture Of Malaya
    323 3 Standard Staff Reporter THE Australian military mission to Malaya left Singapore for Australia by Qantas Constellation "fully satisfied with the picture they have obtained of the situation in Malaya today Major General W. S. Bridgeford, head of the eightman mission, told The
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    56 3 -Standard photo. The Australian Military Mission to Malaya pictured at the airport with Major General W. S. Bridgeford. head of the mission, seen second from left. Others are, left to right: Major General J.11.N. Poett, FARELF Chief of SUIT. Air Vice Marshal Sir Francis Mellersh. A.O.C. Malaya, and Sir John
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    58 3 The United States Military Mission arrived in Kuala Lumpur by plane yesterday. The mission members were met by Mr. Richard A. Foole, American Consul in Kuala Lumpur, the Federation's Defence Secretary. Mr. D. C. Watherston, Mr. W. N. Gray, and senior members of the army and R.A.F. Picture shows the
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    ANTI-TV DRIVE INNEGRI
    117 3 ANTI-TV DRIVE INNEGRI Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— The Negri Sembilan State Medical Department has started a drive to X-ray all school teachers in the State as an anti-tuberculosis measure. Between 1,250 and 1.300 teachers from the. English and vernacular schools will be X-rayed from now till the end
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      376 3 W F EDERATI<^jA£g/y SBLA NGOR— Today Odeon: Madame Bovary 3.15, 6.45 and 9.15 p.m. Cheap Matinees: Africa Screams 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Pavilion: Captain Carey USA 3, 630 and 9 pm. •T,.-es: The Unfinished Dance 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Rex: The Reckless Moment 3. 6.30 and 9.15 p.m.
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    Married Nurses Want A Better Deal From Govt.
    321 4 Standard Staff Reporter THE SHORTAGE of nurses in the Singapore Government medical service can be ended if married nurses are given the same conditions of service as unmarried nurses. This was the reply of some Of the married nurses in the medical
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    30 4 Mrs. Chan Ah Kow, wlf> of a Singapore Chinese doctor who returned to the Colony by BOAC Constellation yesterday. Mrs. Chan spent two months in the United Kingdom on holiday.
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    47 4 -Tictare by These three womem, Mrs. m. OHridfe, Mrs. B. M. Jones and Mrs. P. Adams, of the Singapore Branch of the Re* Cross Society yesterday soU sore thaa half their quota of "flags" within a few hours after "settia* n» sW^ Tt Clemencean Avenue.- Michael Goh
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    64 4 Pic ture by These children attending the kindergarten at the Nanyang Girls' School sing a song with a "handful" of expressions. From left to right they are Ling Siew Wang, Hwang Hui Yong, Sxe Ling Yuen and Liew Chye Sim. The kindergarten and the primary classes in the Nanyang Girls'
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    CIGARETTES STOLEN.
    39 4 CIGARETTES to the *alue of $275.95 and some tins of Ovaltine and condensed milk valued at $6.80 were stolen from a shop at Westhill Road, 13 J mile Sembawang, in the early hours of yesterday morning. i
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    ITS BRANDY!
    31 4 EIGHTEEN bottles of a popular brand of brandy wefe found by a police constable in the early hours of yesterday morning beside the Clementi Road Bukit Timah Boys' Home.
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    Cored To Death By Wild Boar
    88 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PARfT BUNTAR. Sat.— A verdirt of death as a result of being gored by a wild boar was retained by the Parit Buntar Coroner. Inche Abdul Wahab, at the end of the inquest into the death of 70-year-old Haji Baijuri bin
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    Penang Welfare Work Ahead Of Other States
    297 4 t^xtaxt/S*? 111 1 1 SUtt Correspondent p™ NA^'i S t T That welfare work in Penang and Province Wellesley is today very much ahead of any other states m Malaya is the opinion expressed by Dr. CH. Williams, Chief Medical Officer, in an
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    Communists Losing Grip On Asian Workers, Scope For TU Movement
    525 4 Standard Staff Reporter ASIAN WORKERS do not favour Communist ideas and the Communist influence in the Asian trade unions Is declining. This opinion was expressed by the seven-mail delegation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, who arrived in
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    48 4 director of s. tnii,; oxford t-ni,,, T tr ;Sjy oj the Cmmitti rons^«.,to,, from Vf He iv .is mrt bi ThomM.on i to f.ovrrn«r-nt llovw Mr. I*, trnts w, v m of tv Crrsl h t P d (l N mhs llr, linn mn mc^ «oinc to t!
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    Big Gaming Raid In Ipoh: 29 Held
    242 4 Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sat. In one of the most successful gaming: raids conducted by Police in Ipoh since the liberation, 29 persons 23 women, five men and a young girl aped about 15 were arrested last night in a house at Lau
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    Shipwrecked Men Allowed To Land
    71 4 Standard Staff Reporter THE SIX shipwrecked In-' donesian seamen. who were rejewed and brought to Singapore on Tuesday from Banjermasin by Capt. C. H. Turner of the Tong Snn. are now guests of Mr. M. A. Mnjid. President of the Indo-Mnlay-Pakistani Seamen's I'nion. The seamen
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    Malay Teachers To Join Trade Union
    158 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sat— The Penan g and Province Wellesely Malay School Teachers* Association, ftre to join a trade union. This was agreed at its 26th annual general meeting yesterday. A five-man committee elected to prepare the work concerning the registration were Messrs.
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    'Walk-off Crew Sail
    92 4 Standard Staff Reporter THE INDIAN R.iriio < and crew of the Greek ship Persophone, who were signed off in Singapore on July 15, after their 'walk-off' a w eek before that, will today leave for Madras by tiie Rjjula Yesterday. Mr. N. N. R,,,) the Radio Officer,
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    frade Unions 'Deliberately Kept Apart,' ICFTU Told
    156 5 frade Unions 'Deliberately Kept Apart, ICFTU Told Federation «t_Cotangr Gorts. Accused -WSW the FedeWi though they are themselves pan-Malavan Uni^^S? "h™ 6 ln w the F^e P ration cSvices gates mero <>randum to the visiting I.C.F.T.U. dele- The memorandum points out that although politically, SingaP°l* an tke Federation are independent
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    13 5 f.ik t:»kinv: up positions for a blow pipe shooting competition at Jasin District.
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    TU Adviser's Dual Post Criticised
    110 5 Standard Staff Reporter THE TRADF Union Adviser must be m*de responsible to those whom he is expected to advise, states the memorandum of the Singapore Federation of Services Unions to the I.C F.T. U. delegation. In support of this, the memorandum quotes extensively from Professor
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    Perak Family Society Has 1300 Members
    138 5 Perak Family Society Has 1300 Members Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH. Sat. The Perafc Family Benefit Society which was established in last April, with headquartres at Ipoh has now 1 ,300 members. Its object is to encourage thrift and to make provisions for dependants It Is open to all communities in
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    26 5 Chi M. S. Tajuddin of the Treasury Department, Penan*, who has been awarded an Administrative Scholarship. He is an old boy of the Pevang Free School.
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    SIA MEETING ON INDEPENDENCE DAY
    54 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— ln commemoration of Indian Independence Day. the third anniversary of which falls on Tuesday, a meeting will be held at the Selangor Indian Association premises at 5.15 p.m. Mr S. G. Ramaehandran. Agent of the Government of India in Malaya, will review
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    27 5 A SAGO factory owner. Lee Joo Wan, was fined $750 in the Singapore Third Polica Court for operating his factory without a Municipal licence.
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    160 5 Penang Will Not Have Planner Yet st andard Staff Correspondent .PENANG, Sut. TheMunicipahty of Georgetown baa decided for the present not to have a fully qualified town planner from the United Kingdom to prepare a town planning scheme in view of an ordinance to extend the Municipality. This is stated
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    Eurasian Union Meeting Today
    59 5 MALACCA, Sat.-Delegates of member associations of the Eurasian Union of Malaya will meet tomorrow at the St. Francis Institution at 10 a.m. A dinner and dance will be held at night. Among matters to be discussed by the Union are the statement by the Communities Liaison
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    MAS Men Have Claim Against Government
    84 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Members of the Malayan Auxiliary Service who served from Dec. 1, 1941, to the end of the war in Malaya can put in their applications for Civil Liability Claims if they received less pay in the MAS. than they did in
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    HONG KONG TIGHTENS CONTROL ON SHIP & AIR MOVEMENTS
    178 5 HONG KONG TIGHTENS CONTROL ON SHIP AIR MOVEMENTS HONGKONG. Aug. 12 (AP) New emergency lave been put into effect here empowering the irmy and police to comandeer all means of transportation close and control all roads and vehicular all movement within territorial or coland search all roads, rail or sea
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    Art Show For Anti-TB Fund
    110 5 Standard Staff Correspondent PEN' S -Che Abdullah An: 1 local artist and an teacher ol the Ang-D-Chine.se give an of some 85 wrterotoot paintings, a few cartoon? and some posters in aid g the Penan* and Province ition for the prevention of Tuberculosis fund v
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    Scholarship Winners leave For UK
    152 5 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sat. A good number of well-wishers were at Swettenham Pier last evening to bid farewell to friends and relatives who left Penang for the United Kingdom by the Corfu today Among those who sailed were Dato Zalnal Abidin bin Haji Abbas,
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    Youths Elect Advisory Board
    110 5 PENANG. Sat— An Advisory Sub-Committee has been set up by the Settlement Youth Council, Penang and Province Wellesley. Dr. (Miss) Elaine Field, Children Health Specialist, has been elected secretary. Invitations have been sent to Dr. Ho Seng Ong, Principal of the Anglo-Chinese School, Mr. R. Gibson,
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    Klang Road Indian Congress Officials
    71 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. At the annual general meeting of the Klang Road Local Indian Congress under the presidency of Mrs. R. Arulnathan, the following officials were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mr. A. Raman hon. secretary, Mr. S. Kaivelu, hon treasurer, Mrs. R Arulnathan.
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    POPE INTERESTED IN SE ASIA
    172 5 Standard Staff Reporter POPE PIUS XII is "very interested" in the Far Eastern situation, Monsignor O. 6e Jon«he D'Ardoyne, Vatican Envqj Extraordinary to Indonesia said here on Friday on his way to Jakarta from Rome by KLM Constellation, after attending the Holy Year celebrations. He
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    29 5 The Sultaa of Kelantan. accompanied by Inche Was F Ibrahim, Assistant Superinj tendent of Police, inspecting the fniard-of-honour formed by picked members the Kelantan Police Force oa his birthday.
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    Kelantan Observes Sultans 53rd Birthday
    375 5 Standard Staff Correspondent KOTA BAHRU, Sat. The Sultan's 53rd birthday was celebrated at the Balai Besar Kota Bahru on Aug. 9. Coloured embroidered uniforms and decorations of Malay Officers and Sultan's body-guards added splendour to the colourful scene. His Highness the Sultan declared three days
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    33 5 His Highness the Sulian otf Kelantau addressing tix» gathering at the Balai Besau after the presentation of addresses by representatives of the various communities and others on the occasion of hi* 53rd. birthday.
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    Senior Penang Pilot Retiring
    153 5 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sat. After 21 years as pilot during which time he had guided over 7.000 ships safely into harbour, Capt R. P. Burton, senior Penang pilot will be leaving by the Telemachus for Australia tomorrow on retirement. Capt. Burton will be accompanied by
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    The "Prince" Sails For New York
    53 5 PENANG, Sat.— "Chinese Prince," which had been lying along Swettenham Pier for many days left yesterday on her way to New York. Apart from many passengers some of whom will embark at Singapore, "Chinese Prince** carried with her 790 tons of tin and 870
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    TWO-YEAR SENTENCE
    32 5 FOR DISPOSING of four car lyres which did not belong to him. Lee How Hong. 22, was sentenced in the Singapore First District Court to two t years' rigorous imprisonment.
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    GOES ON LEAVE
    36 5 Standard Staff Correspondent KOTA BAHRLT, Sat— Mr. J, S. Addison, State Forest Officer. Kclantan and Trengganu will be going home on leave and Mr. C. 'O. Flemich has arrived to take his place.
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    721 6 JPuul Jennitugs 5a~~.% •'"MONEY," said Emerson, "is as beautiful in its operations and effects as roses." The more I see of economic writing, the more I am convinced that the financial world is streaked with poetry. One of the poet's gifts is condensation, the
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    Russia Ready For 'Kill' In Asia, Britain Warns Free Nations Of Orient
    392 7 Russia Ready For 'Kill' In Asia, Britain Warns Free Nations Of Orient I \u.> SUCCESS, Aus. 12 (Reuter) —In t h c llrM 7^ ■^■■li mi Mot the Security Council yesterday, in wMc? SLi. 0 anoth «r fruitless an V proVess in the U.N move to restore &a™ in Koril
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    VS Witt Break With Kremlin'
    72 7 VS Witt Break With Kremlin' WASHINGTON Aug. 12 (Reuter): -Congressman Paul Dague yesterday demanded that America immediately break off diplomatic relations with Russia "and thus announce to the world that we will no longer traffic with these international pariahs in the Kremlin Mr. Dague predicted that, "because of the just
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    3 7 MR. DEAN ACUESON
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    49 7 British Corporal John Keith I WcUer (left) and U.S. private Robert Natzkakula, who I deserted their units in West Berlin and sought asylum in Communist East Berlin "to live in peace," are here seen at a press conference given by East German propaganda chief Gerhard Eisler (centre).— A.P. Photo.
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    Acheson Exposes Red Aim
    188 7 Acheson Exposes Red Aim WASHINGTON, Auk 12 (Reute r.s. SccreCu/ of State Dean Aoheson said yesterday th.it Mr. Jatob Malik's tactics as President of the Security Counril Hire intended to thuart the United Nations' effort to rt\siore peace and vcurit\ in Korea. In a statenv nt at h& weekly conference,
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    US Air Force Calls Up 59,000 Reserves
    31 7 SHINGTON, Aug 12 «AP> Tie US Air Force is calling up i***** reserve officers and Of these about v will be officers, mostly cap-
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    Woman Is Held In US Atom-spy Round-up
    174 7 UANIIINGTON, Aug. 12 (Keuter) The F.8.1 has arrested >Irs. Ethel Jbrecnglass Rosenberg, 34 t will of Ju ms Rosenberg and the sister of David Greenglass, oo h of whom were arrested last month on charges of staining highly classified atomic information for Russia.
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    Aussies Won US Applause
    67 7 TOKYO, Aug. ]2.-(Reuler-i J£* -Australian Mustang •eMrrday g ave a dazzlL iaV of marks nanship «£en thej knocked cut thm rSSSffi^ tanks and damped «->n T V Sortie near Wae 2*.««M Leader claimed "toJSS? th j s vt? U K h Commonwealth n here added that
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    New Red Weapon
    31 7 KOREA WAR FRONT. Aug. 12 (AP> U.S. troops have captured a new Russian-made automatic weapon that fires five shots at once and is similar to a pom-pom machine-gun.
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    Churchill Plan For Unified European Army Is Approved
    187 7 STRASBOURG, Aug. U <AP) As the European Consultative Assembly adopted Mr. Winston Churchill's motion, calling for the creation of a European Army under a European Defence Ministry to meet the threat of Russian aggression, the British wartime Premier announced last night that
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    19 7 pmwo. A fuel and ammunition trmfai turns near Enmohn. \2 fiootk J£orea after Seventli Fleet carrier'*!-* 2sfe? ta A.P.
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    Indian Acts As UN Chief
    75 7 LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 12. (Reuter) —Mr. S. Lall of India, who is acting for Mr. Trygve Lie during the Sec-retary-General's absence in Norway, sat yesterday at the Security Council table in the Secretary General's seat by the side of the President, Mr. Jacob Malik of
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    Reds Use Soviet 120 mm. Mortar
    89 7 WITH U.S. HQ. FOR KOREA Aug. 12 (Reuter-AAP>: The North Koreans are widely using I the Russian 120 mm mortar, often substituting it for the 122 mm. howitzer. It is allocated in the proportion of six to a North Korean regiment and fires a
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    Malik Gags Anti-Red Gallery
    118 7 LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 12— (UP): Four electric signs j reading "Silence" were erected in the Security Council chamber yesterday to assist Russian delegate Jacob Malik in stop- 1 ping pro- West applause from the public gallery. Mr. Malik has on several occasions shown annoyance when the
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    37 7 The U.S. D«feoee Department's denial thai the Army was concealing Korean war casualitics, was in reply to a Senator, who had alleged that the nation would be "shocked when the whole truth about losses become* known.**— Reuter
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    27 7 Premier Naha« Pasha has ordered new photographs of Kins Farouk to be sent to all Egyptian embassies and legations to replace old picture* of the Kine. A.P.
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    37 7 A troman in Darwin, need' ing a 50-yard approach shot to I give her par, became so excited that she threw up her 1 hands—and fell ower a golfbag behind her. breaking both her arm*. Reuter AAP
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    20 7 The Jordan- Israel Armistice Commission has approved mint Jordanian-Israeli border patrols, effective from Monday, to prevent further frontier clashes.— A.P.
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    26 7 Mr. Andrew Elphinstone, second son of Lord Elphinstone i j and a jiephew of Queen Elizabeth, is to becorpe a Church of England clergyman soon. Reuter
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    43 7 The White House has announced that President Truman will not ask Congress at this session I ito pass a universal military j training bill as pressure for this, i legislation might interfere with 1 other vitally-needed action on I Korean war needs.- Reuter
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    30 7 Mr and Mrs. Hutchings of Dogmersfield Hampshire, v>ho are setting off to bicycle round the world, hope to reach Ceylon early next year. Mr. Hutchings was born m Cevlon Reuter
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    81 7 Dr. V. Lai. technical director, and Dr. P. B. L. Vermo, chemical technologist, of the New Delhi Blood Bank and Blood Transfusion Service, claim to have successfully treated 50 ulcer cases this year by application of blood and cell jelly, which it prepared by "a special chemical process for each
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    45 7 Known dead in Central Luzon floods have been placed at 15.— A.P. A Dutch ambassadors' conference, to be held in The Hague on Aug. 16 and 17, will be attended by envoys to France. Western Germany. Belgium. India, Britain, Russia and America. A.P.
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    Lottery To Pay For Korea War
    51 7 Lottery To Pay For Korea War WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. (Renter). Congressman Gary Clements has proposed a national lottery to help pay for the Korean war. Under a bill he introduced in Congress, the proceeds of the lottery would, swell disability and hospital benefits for ex-Service-, men when the campaign is
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    16 7 The Regent of Iraq visited King George and Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace on Friday. A.P.
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    19 7 The condition «f <!••«• Mother Aliyah of Iraq is "mncn improved" following an operation in a London wmnfag home. Reuter
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    Tragic King's Plea: 'Rally To My Son'
    188 7 Tragic King's Plea: 'Rally To My Son BRUSSELS Aug. 12 (Reutcr) 'Tragic King" Leopold, who remained at Laeken Palace while his son. Prince Baudouin. was installed in Parliament as Regent, gave a nationwide broadcast last night, appealing to all Belgians to "rally around the Prince so that my gesture of
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    Parliament Recalled For Defence Talks As UK Widens Emergency Laws
    200 7 Parliament Recalled For Defence Talks As UK Widens Emergency La ws LONDON, Aug. 12 (Reuter) As the British Cabinet last n!-ht recalled wuamern to meet on Sept 18 one month earlier than scheduled to discuss we defence situation, Hongkong extended emergency regulations, giving the police powers to commandeer means of
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    PICKETS WITHDRAWN"
    25 7 Striking painters at the Oak Ridge »Tenn.) atomic plant have withdrawn their pickets after th*\v had kept 1.700 persons from their jobs.- U.P.
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    21 Korean Towns In Flames
    105 7 SOMEWHERE IN KO* REA, Aug. 12.— U.S. ami Australian warplanes started fires in 21 Red held Korean towns as they fiew the highest number of night Intruder misstons yet in a stepped-up air war against enemy sup- ply areas, commuiucaiioiis and troop concentrations, dropping explosive,
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    84 7 When L.S. Marines on Friday captured Kosong. the biggest town to fall to the Americans in their current attack on the southern flank of the Korean front, four leathernecks rode grandly into the city In a Russian made jeep which the driver. Lieut William Lutnirk, ■aid "was not worth a
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    29 7 The U.S. advance into the eity was made easier by the action of a Marine patrol which spotted a Eed ambush and killed all ZZ North Koreans. A .P.
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    61 7 Colonels and cooks were through the night digging in for a grim fight for a major U.S. airbase six miles south of Communist-captured Pohang as U.S. tanks, which had fought their way out of an ambush nine miles to the south-west, reached the field as darkness fell and immediately wheeled
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    36 7 Sections of South Korean troops retreating from Pohang set fire to the town as they got out. Some ammunition was taken off in tank landinr ships. while thousands of Korean civilians fled in small boats. Reuter
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    48 7 Gen. Mat-Arthur's midnight communique said. "A report states that the North Koreans are preparing to move the seat of their Government to Seoul on \ug 15 in a bid to demonstrate to the world the unity of North and South Korea and justifying their 'liberation' policies.' 1 Reuter
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    'Hand That Needs Him'
    67 7 HONGKONG, Aug. 12 (AP) An English-language newspaper yesterday frontpaged a picture of Gen. MacArthur gallantly kissing the hand of Madame Chiang Kai-shek in Taipeh. A heading above the picture, referring to the General's denial of si)eculative stories concerning his Taipeh trip, real "MacArthur hits back." Quipped
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    116 7 BANGKOK. Aug. 12. (AP): The prediction that Soviet Russia will attempt the same tactics in Germany as in Korea is made in the Siamese Royal Navy monthly, by Adm. Sindh Kamolnavin, C.-in-C. of the Navy. The Admiral said it can be expected that
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    106 7 Defences Of Sian Going Up BANGKOK, Aug. 12 ;APJ With Chinese and Burmese troops skirmishing on the other side of the border, Siamese police are throwing up entrenchments along their portion of the border opposite the fighting. A military spokesman here .said that more than 100 Burmese and Chinese, the
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    UN Recognition Of Formosa Threatens War
    129 7 LONDON. Aug. 12. (UP); Sir John Pratt, former Foreign Office expert on Asian affairs and wartime chief of the Far Eastern section ot the Ministry of Information, said that United Nations' continued recognition of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime threatens the whole world with war.
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    719 8 WHEN Mr. W. O. Grut, manager of Bern am Oil Plantations, fties out of Kallang tomorrow in his smart blue Auster, history will have been made. It wij! be the first aircraft completely re-built and as* I sembVed in Singapore and the distinction of building it within its own
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    368 8  - Insurance Firms Will Not Extend Rubber Stork Cover P. H. GOH SPECIAL FEATURE By Standard Staff Reporter RUBBER dealers are worried because insurance c ompanies at present will not accept additional coverage for their stocks. As a re* suit, they are being left with part of their rubber uncovered for
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    German Industry Virtually Stripped
    168 8 FRANKFIRT, Germany, Aug. U (AP>— Western 3 Allied authorities said the dismantling of German in-J dustry will be completed by Oct. 1 except for one plant. This coincided with authoritative reports that Eri-J tain. United States and France are considering indus-J trial rearmament of the Germans
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    US Rubber Supply Position Is Now Safer
    166 8 AKRON, Ohio. Aug. 11.— (UP) An industrialist said today the United States is presently in a far safer position in regard to rubber supplies than it was in 1940 despite the rise in annual consumption from fiso.<Mo tons to 1. 000.000 tons in
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    Whale Meat Serious Rival' To Beef
    57 8 A Brisbane businessman, Mr. L. Bird, claims whale meat will soon be a serious rival to beef on the Australian market. Whale meat had a similar flavour to beef and was mora tender, he said. Properlj exploited, whale meat would retail more cheaply. It
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    355 8 United States ProducesMore And Better Rice RICE production in the United States has been increased and iraprmed by the mechanisation of planting, harvesting, and other crop operations, and by scientific seed selection which has developed new rice types especially adapted to the ditierent rice-producing areas of the country. In California,
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    QUIET TONE IN RUBBER MART
    113 8 NOT much business was done on the Singapore rubber market yesterday. Prices fluctuated between $1.20 and $1.24 per lb. for first grade rubber, steadying at noon when the quotation was around $1.22. Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association noon Alices vesterday (Aug 12) were per
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    SMALL DEALS IN PEPPER
    117 8 Pmduce Standard Staff Reporter BOTH the copra and coconut oil market in Singapore yesterday was quiet, with very littJe doing. Copra was quoted at buyers $43 and sellers SISJ. Coconut oil had buyers at $68 buyers and $69 sellers. Small business was done in black peppor
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    US $35 Million For More Hemo
    81 8 WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. (UP).— President Truman today signed into law an authorization to double abaca production in Central America through a $35,000,000 United States Government subsidy. The investment will permit the United Fruit Company to expand from 25,000 to 50.000 acres its five abaca
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    Caitex Accused Of Overcharging
    65 8 WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UP>. The Economic Cooperation Administration accused the California-Texas Oil Company of overcharging $1,185,117 for petroleum shipments sent to China. The EC A demanded that the company make an immediate refund The ECA said that Caitex charged teo much for '42 consignments of gasoline
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    30 8 T?m YO 4n. Aug 12 -<Reuter AAP)— The Japan-West Germany trade agreement, due to expire on July 31, has been extended until the end of this year.
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    32 8 CANBERRA. Aug. U. (AP).— Australia's favourable trade balance with North America decreased during the 11 months ending in Mav to U5530,000,000. It was US$35--000.000 for the corresponding period of 1948-49.
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    DRUG PRICES SOAR IN HK
    44 8 HONGKONG, Aug. 12. <AP>. —Prices of imported medicines and drugs have risen steadilj in the past two months. Penicillin has doubled in price and sulpha drugs have risen by 20 percent Both penicillin and sulpha are used extensively here.
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    18 8 SINGAPORE, Sat— Au« 12. —The price of tin today was $404.12| per picul. Up $4.12*.
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    106 8 Ken Jalleh's AVIATION TOPICS everyone f meet Is so kind •nH honest" Hanso. who speaks Mandarin and English eqn.^'v well, was educated at St. Joseph's Convent in Bangkok. Tailpiece TNTERVIEWS at the airport can be very amusing sometimes! Yesterday, a short, bespectacled Chinese reporter interviewed a Dutch passenger from i
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    Balfast Reported Leit Hongkong
    57 8 HONGKONG, Aug. 12 (AP) H.MS Belfast is reported to! have Jeft Hongkong for Singapore- on Friday night after returning from nearly seven weeks duty with allied naval ion os oil Korea. Although the Royal Navy declines to comment, tne 10.0<H)--ton cruiser Is said to be en
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    84 8 MALAYAN imports of tin and tin ore last nionih at 1.378 tons were the highest since June last year July imports, which showed an increase of 54 tons over those of the previous month, included 1,237 tons from Siam, 78 tons from Bnrma and
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    Glimpses Around Town
    2015 10 WITH Some Ball Of Fire TIIEET Miss Wee Kiat Neo only 23 years old but she's got brains and uses them. When studying at the Fairfield Girls' School. Kiat Neo was considered a good type of scholar. But the war interrupted those days. Like many another person,
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    — AMD DON'T FORGET US KIDS
    214 10 AMD DON'T FORGET US KIDS To Blow Or Not To Blow I" AST Monday, Judy PonM J niah of Seremban was a happy little two years old!, But not quite. Her 12 year old brpther, Anton, had stuck to his Boy Scout rules, and was away at Port Dickson, taking
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    Pardon My Sarong
    151 10 which indicated that, in IIWB he had accurately forecast within a reasonable date, the outbreak of world war three. In 1941. he had predicted hard times ahead for the Allies but, when Hitler thought he was in view of conquest, tTm« would change, and the Allies would
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    First Flight To Success
    53 11 First Flight To Success For the firM time in the history or the Malaya cup soccer final, both teams travelled to the final by plane. Above are members of the Singapore team, together with reserves »nd offm.il> photographed at Singapore airport before they boarded the specially chartered Malayan Airways plane
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    Worrell And Rae Score Centuries
    467 11 L'inal Test Match Starts OVAL. London, Aug. 12— At close of play today the West Indies had scored 295 for three wickets in the final Test against England. Rain stopped play. ather conditions prevailed half an hour, England need to win this Test to save'
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    Better Team Work, Faster Forwards Give Singapore Victory In Malaya Cup Final
    498 11 By "LINESMAN" Singapore had been attacking and the ball went for a goalkick. Tan Swee Hock took the kick and ballooned the ball and it dropped near Bakar, about 25 to 30 vards away. The diminutive, nippy Tiger
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    25 11 The very determined and fully prepared Penan* Malaya cup soccer team, together with reserves and officials, photographed on arrival at Kuala Lumpur airport yesterday morning.
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    Badminton Finals In P'ng
    84 11 PENANG, Sat.— Tomorrow t will see the close of the < Penang open badminton cham- < pionsnips when the three re- maining finals will be decided. The three finals are: 11 a.m. < women's singles final: Miss Cheah Kooi See v Miss Lam Kit Lin. 11.30
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    Reg Harris Qualifies
    87 11 ROCOUR, BELGIUM, Aug. 13 <AP)— Reg Harris, Britain's present world professional cycling sprint champion, qualified for the next round with seven other sprinters out of 22 hi yesterday's preliminary heats at the Liege world cycling championship. The others were: Arie Van Vltet, Holland; Louis Oerradin, France; Jan
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    Cup Cricket In Negri
    91 11 SEREMBAN, Sat.— Tampln Cricket Club placed themselves in a comfortable position in the final of the Strahan cup cricket match at Seremban today when they scored 101 runs for three wickets in reply to the Negri Sembilan Cricket Club's total of 83 runs. A feature of
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    Title Holders Pose A Problem In Indonesia
    518 11  -  Herman Rappa *i MALAYA'S Jagir Singh and Indonesia's Tan Gwet Tek are scheduled shortly to meet in a fight in Jakarta which has enough interesting points to make a porcupine envious. The position is this. Jagir Singh is Indonesian featheri weight champion, having
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    Penang Makes Early Attacks
    625 11 Singapore kicked off and ini the first minute were awarded, a corner. Shariff Madon centred and Tiang Loke cleared! the ball. Penang tried to trans-! 1 fer play but were checked in midfleld and the Southerners got across and Awang Gabos i took a shot at
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    Scottish League Starts
    99 11 Scottish League Starts ..LONDON, Aug. 12: Renter). Following: are today's result* in the Scottish league: "A" DIVISION Aberdeen 4 Clyde 2 Celtic 2 Fast Fife 0 ,Falkirk 1 St. Mirren 1 Hibernian t Dundee 0 Morton 1 Rangers 2 Mother* Hi 3 Airdrieonians 1 Parti, k T. 1 Hearts 1
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    N.Z. Win Rugby
    71 11 AUCKLAND, Aug. 12— (Reuter-AAP) New Zealand won the second and last Rugby League Test against Britain here today by 20 points (four tries, four goals) to 13 points (three tries, two goals). Twenty thousand watched the match which was played in ideal conditions. New Zealand's tries came
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    PWD Sport
    75 11 I POH, Sat. Selangor emerged champions in the i annual P.W.D. sports held on the Anderson School ground today. Some fast times were returned though none of the exisiting records were broken. N. Selvarajah of Negri Sembilan won the individual championship, being first in the 100 yards and
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    YMCA Tennis Finals
    71 11 THREE finals in the Y.M.C.A. Lawn Tennis 'Handicap* Tournament were played off yes- j terday evening. Results were: Novices Singles: W. E. Tan beat Nayagam 6 o. 7—5. Novices Doubles Final: Dr. Ong Swee Law and Un Hon (Kun beat Poh Guan Chwee land Poh Guan Cheng
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    Scots Guards Win 8-1
    133 11 KAJANG. Sat.— The Kuala Kuhu Bahru detachment of Scrjts Guards yesterday trounced tlie Ulu Langat District XI at football by eight goals to one on the Kqjang padang in a friendly march. The district did well to hold the visitors to a 1-1 draw during the
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    Spore Asians Prepare For Rugby Season
    401 11 display between the uprights. He was the only man in the Penang side who did anything; worthy of mention. It looked as if Singapore would have to be satisfied with one goal, with the possibility always present of Penang upsetting their calculations, and then
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    Community Soccer Surprise In S'pore
    223 11 EUROPEANS beat the Royal Air Force two-nil in a Community League soccer game at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. This was the second surprise in the competition, for Rafs were strongly represented and were generally expected to win. Eurasians sprang the first surprise on Wednesday, beating
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    Gay Reveller Does It Again
    98 11 Standard's racing tip I ster "Gay Reveller" enjoyed another field day yesterday, scoring* four straight wins in his selections. They were Ramilllw. Azad, Grecian Prince and Permita Dormex. Ramillies and Grecian Prince were his best bets. Ollie Davies scored I three straight wins Ramillies, Grecian
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    YESTERDAYS CRICKET
    175 11 Three friendly cricket fixtures were played at Balostier Plain yesterday. Four batsmen topped the half-century mark but no bowlers succeeded in captiuinf more than four wickets S. Nagaiah the C.S.C bowler was undefeated with fitf t.. hit credit while Eddie Fung ,<;<>) G. Holloway (53) and Tail Huck
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    YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS
    1119 12 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS Race One HORSES CL. 3 DIV. 2: 6 FURS. 308— RAMILLIES 7.10 (10) Mr Yeap Hock Hoe J (Jones) 83- Hvperia 805 (2* Simmons Wills (Tulloh 2 140— Ascot Vale 8.09 (6) "Lugano Stable" (Lans- I down* 3 215— Merlin* 8.13 (9) Madam Id* Oei (Healey) 4
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    Aussies, Swedes Level In Inter-Zone Tennis
    88 12 NEW YORK, August 11--(Reuter). -r- Sweden won the j first match against Australia! ;in the interzone final of the 1 Davis Cup here today when I Lennart Bergelin beat Frank Sedgman by 2-6, 6-2, 7-5, 1-6, 6-3. j The second singles match to be
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    T.M. Hart Scores Century In Annual Non-Benders Game
    324 12 I KUALA LUMPUR, Sat —Playing on a wicket that was of very little help to the bowlers, the Federation Non-Benders knocked up 310 runs for the loss of six wickets before declaring their innings today against the Singapore non-benders in their two-day
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    Four O'Clock Beats Clynor With VVe!l-Timed Run To Win Gold Cup
    778 12  -  OLLIE DAVIES Bv FINISHING with a terrific burst of speed in IJ>e last furlong ol "ijock, quickly passed the leaders Clynor, Kia Ora. and Silver Spear to win this years Penang Gold Cup race by the comfortable margin of
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    Big Sweep
    631 12 Total Pool: $376,200. First Prize: No: *****5 ($97,812). Second Prize: No: 2622% (848,906). Third Prize: No: *****7 (§24,153). Starters: ($6,986 each) Nos: *****8, *****2, *****8, *****2, *****0, *****5. *****7 Consolation Prizes: ($2,445 each) Nos: *****5, *****1, *****4, *****1, *****1, *****6, *****3, *****3, *****9. *****4, *****9. A\\\\\\\\\\\\>\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"V\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Bronze Flash
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    Spore Team For Seletar Athletic Meet
    250 12 THE following athletes have born selected to represent the Singapore A. A. A. in the 'Singapore Representative Athletics Team Championships' to be held at RAF. Svletar on Saturday August, ly 4 X 110 Yards Relay Tan En* Voon; A. Nunes; Yeo Choon Bet, Ng
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    All Broke The World Record
    215 12 OSAKA, Aug. 12 (UP)— An overcapacity crowd of 25,000 at the municipal pool here saw all four competitors in the 800 yards free style event clock faster times than the previous world record. a o i5 d K OO0 Hawaii, finished first, two yards in
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    Race Bight
    168 12 Gold Medallist was the first to move out followed by Minstrel Boy, Nessus, Tudor Pride. Theatre, Billy Carol, King Arthur, Prince Charming, Double Aries with Dance Hall last. When the field settled down, Nessus went to the front followed by Gold Medallist, Theaj tre, Ministrel Boy, Tudor Pride.
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    Schroeder Ready To Play For America
    47 12 Aug. H-tAP.-?s»J*« ftSt 1 2 the phallen*. *5 he said ta jrrin^ interview. latcd fteji Schroodrr r nnetsn» u first grass r H the season, m f ed the Mmi.fi, Port invitnti:: tourn.l e^ scoring a r ««j \j keying sharper.
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    Shell Sports Club Athletic Meet
    30 12 THE si,. r be holduig •nnual athld their Sport, c The pr« ir APC r m sports r,,. popular foi ttandard val«-!i, ci a tDhere
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