Singapore Standard, 1 September 1950

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  • 14 1 Singapore TIGER standard \OL.INQ. 61- SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1951>. 12 PAGES TEN CENTS
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  • 136 1 \IKO. Aus. 31 (IP) fi\e pefsans including BUtriODH were killed t(M jj, uhni i crippled Tri n> World AhrfißO Constellation crasher! and burnt- .1 in t'io Nile River id ixu r 3 Vlai and. r K H la, 22
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  • 155 1 SUNDERLAND, Lincoln and Dakota aircraft under the control of Air Headquarters, Malaya, are now conducting a search off the East Malaya coast for a British Dakota Courier aircraft, which was reported missing in the South China sea after taking off from Cnangi, Singapore early yesterday
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  • 173 1 Bombay Riot Quelled By Tear Bombs BOMBAY, Aug. 31: (Reu- ter) Police fired tear gas shells on strikers stoning buses and trams in Northern BomI bay today Groups of workers collected at street corners in pouring rain and booed police who chased them with bamboo staves when they tried to
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  • 33 1 LISBON. Aug. 31— (UP)— A strong earthquake rocked Lisbon at 0500 local time today. Many people left their homes into the streets in panic but no casualties were reported.
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  • Article, Illustration
    10 1 LSI President Soekarno. .revive the spirit o; muel/isliiiess.
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  • 127 1 DJAKARTA. Aug. 31 (Reu-ter-AAPi Indonesian President Soekarno. addressing a mass gathering in Malang. East Java, on Wednesday morning called on his audience to revive the spirit of the proclamation of Aug.* 17. 1945 and revive the spirit of unselfishr:. Aneta reports today. Speaking on
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  • 186 1 Stands Firm WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (UP) Defence Secretary Louis Johnson flatly rejected a demand for his resignation today and asserted he has "no apology" for his record as chief of the nation's military forces. He likened himself to the former Defence Secretary James Forrestal, who broke
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  • 120 1 LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 (AP)— A Los Angeles firm on Wednesday closed a U5515,000,--000 deal for the construction of seven dams in Pakistan. Vice-President Arthur Allen of the Continental Commerce Company announced the contrart after negotiations with Pakistani representatives. Dr. Murabeli Ali
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  • 452 1 TOKYO, Aug. 31 (UP)The swiftly changing tide of the battle for beleaguered Pohang swung to the allied side today. American tank-led forces made gains of up to two miles on the west while the South Koreans held firm on the north. The
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  • 287 1 TOKYO, Aug. 31 (Reu-ter-AAP) The first two plane loads of Australian troops for Korea landed in Japan today from Australia. They were believed to number about 80 men. The incoming troops will make up the half battalion of Australian occupation forces in Japan to a full
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  • 53 1 RAOC, REME Men Going To Korea A SMALL detachment ©f men from the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers are proceeding to Korea, it was officially announced yesterday. They will handle maintenance and repairs for British arms there. The men are being selected from units in
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  • 304 1 WASHINGTON. Aug. 31 (Reuter)— British, American and French officials were seeking a formula to harmonise the three nations' policies on Formosa at talks they opened here yesterday to prepare a proposed agenda for the Western Foreign Ministers opening in New York on
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  • 120 1 Standard Staff Reporter Five persons were injured, two seriously, between 1.30 and 2 o'clock this morning during a heavy shower of rain, when the cars in which they were travelling met with accidents. In one instance, a car. with three Indian occupants, was
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    • 69 1 On Other Pages Page New Retirement Rule J Diphtheria Appeal 2 Air Sirikc in K.L. 3 Big Johore Drainage m Scheme Heated Municipal Debate More Houses For Penang J Film, Record Review 5 Leader, Features 6 •N. Korean Collapse 7 Peking Army Threat S'pore Re-exports Hit J 9 Sugar Statement
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  • 567 2 City Father Adopt New Retirement Rule To Speed Promotion Standard Staff Reporter TO ENCOURAGE the promotion of junior officers, retirement in the Singapore Municipal service will be automatic whenever an officer reaches his retiring age. This was unanimously decided by the Commissioners at their monthly meeting- yesterday, following adoption of
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  • 86 2 Standard Staff Reporter A COMMITTEE decision to allow the building of temporary kennels within the grounds of the Municipal Animal Infirmary at Kampong Java Road by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimaN, was referred back on a motion by Mr.
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  • 664 2 Save Your Children From Diphtheria' Appeal To Mothers Standard Staff Reporter MR. SANDY G. Pillay (Progressive City) made a strong and earnest plea to Singapore mothers to save the lives of their children by immunising them against diphtheria. lie pointed out at yesterday's meeting of the Municipal Commissioners to the
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  • 41 2 Fined $1. 300 A CHINESE, Seel Mok Choon, 4 B n s Street, was fined $1,500 in the Singapore Fourth Police C uri yesterday for assisting in running a cr..;p- i-ki lottery. One third of the fine goes to the informer.
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  • 405 2 IX SPITE of her plea that she was old enough to be his mother, a 57-year-old woman failed to -ton a young Malay bora assaulting her. This was alleged in the Singapore Relief Court yesterday v.-hen 23-year-old Salleh bin MO hamed, was
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  • 69 2 Standard Staff Reporter THE building of more bus Shelters had been held up by Jack of funds But the necessary provision had been agreed to for 1951 By the relevant committee. This was stated by the Acting Municipal President." Mr. T. P F McNeice. yesterday
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  • 65 2 THIRTY-seven-year-old Quck Quak was charged in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday with abetting bribery by offering a police corporal $1.50 so that he (corporal* would refrain from taking action against a gambling which was alleged going on at Arab Street on Aug. 30. Quek claimed
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  • 55 2 TANG YAN KWAI, 35, admiti^ d m he Singapore Second Police Court yesterday that he stole two petticoats and two bottles of medicine belonging to a woman, Bianaca Maris Consiglire. The theft was stated to have taken place on Aug. 30. Tanc was offered bail of $200. Sentence
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  • 446 2 TIME-SERVING R.A.F. men in the Far East Air Force who jeered good-naturedly at downcast National Servicemen today when the news of the six months' extension of service became known were soon laughing on the other side of their face. F.E.A.F. Command Hea
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  • 111 2 THE ROYAL Air Force authorities will keep an eye on traders, boarding h o u s e keepers and any others who try to make quick profits out of fie services pay increases j ist announced. An R.A.F. spokesman at F.E.A F. said yesterday, "We have machinery
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  • 24 2 Ramasamy Arumugam pleaded not guilty in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to a charge of stealing a $70--bicycle at Stanley Street.
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  • 162 2 SUGGESTING that certain private street names off Braddell Road which have been approved in committee were "nostalgic," Mrs. Robert Eu, Progressive Commissioner asked the President Mr. T. P F McNiece yesterday if the Municipality could not see to it that appropriate names be given. The question
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  • 629 2 WHKN Mr. Anthony Brooke, Raja Muda of Sarawak, Jeaves Singapore this morning by plane for England, he will be taking with him a first-hand impression of Sarawak given by two Malay anti -cession leaders. The leaders are Tuan Haji Abang Rassim Taha. president of the
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  • 150 2 Fined For 'Holiday Offences THE FIRST prosecutions under the Singapore Weekly Holiday Ordinance came up in the Thi: d Police Court yesterday. Two shopkeepers, who pleaded guilty to opening their shops on a day they had chosen as 'closing day"' were each fined $10, by the Magistrate, Mr. R. B.
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  • 126 2 ABOCT 100 National Servicemen and 25 regular airmen were the most disappointed men in the Far Exst Air Force today. They are the unlucky ones who have mussed release by the skin of their teeth those whose release dates were fixed for within a few
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  • 66 2 AN Indian, Eteja Ratna Selangor Strc. i seotei three moaths i|g ous in menl in the Sing pore F Police Court v« sterd fo« thi Eleja stole a pair ol shoes clothing and bj ng ma lodg< rs in a 1 •i» in Ani on
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  • 48 2 Appeals Against $5.000 Fire a fink oi s;-. I vac i n an Indian, P< iman, of lands R. id, in the Sim 1h rd P-hce Court <- p tssessi of 200 pounds abli Leaf t "ha ceo Duty pas bl« .> Bail of $5,000 > as fixed i app<
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  • 409 3 Special To The Standard nSE of the most concentrated attacks of its kind yet mad* K~ *u m« Sand in support of Federation ground anti-bandit toZSZ^L^L^ I*^1 Air ss^S meilium bombera piBPOUlt *"**^^^^^t«^ L urn ur n f the bombing was clearly heard
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  • 74 3 *undard <uff Correspondent PUR, Thurs.— p mg Chinese i fe had a rude g when they rs to about uniformed r« a cap with armed StiH in bed a knock on g >peaking in v ife, who had k, to open she did into the rig oto
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  • 138 3 is the colourful autobiography of Has Prince Monolulu, the dusky, woolly-haired tipster who is a familiar sight in the racecourses of Europe, the streets of London and the police-courts of Britain. In a career of adventure and misadventure on sea and land, he amassed a fortune of
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  • 70 3 iuidard Staff Correspondent 17MPUR Thurs.— j •-.:> even- the first Exhibi- Assembly nipping a >"!gth o f film 'retrhed trance to the ex- he con--7: rie Fonmittec for i m opporoi ap- ting ex- gr pby in aid -.-7 B F rod and
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  • 45 3 MUAR. Thurs. A Chinese, Goh Peng Khoon. who pleaded 1 guilty to a charge of possessing chandu and smoking at Sri Menanti Parit Jawa, was senJ fenced to five months' hard labour by the President of the Sessions Court, Inche Hamid fbin Mustapha.
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  • MALAYAN NEWS ROUND-UP
    • 17 3 N'Sl BRAXTON, C -Trier S ngapare d on a vd by wrfl] be s
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    • 7 3 is. from liable con-T-.e fine
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    • 16 3 S -amat in the padang at the on tion o! the 76th birxh-
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    • 5 3 Chinese Muar
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    • 20 3 .rs.— J .i.van the Tan Inspeo-I the; meet■i the A. to ve ht prove e fight
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    • 25 3 rs.-^ Three iiargects of 1 nb had :ea for '■■■V in •4 re. They inta a 8 Of 10 years. 1
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    • 49 3 SEREMBAX. Thurs. The funeral of Mr. P. T. Mirandah. an estate conductor of Rhu Estate. Sepang. took place on Aug. 19. He was laid to rest at the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Sikamat. Deceased was found strangled and beaten to death a little distance away from his home.
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    • 44 3 SEREMBAX. Thurs. For hawking milk without a licence, Ramasamy, a Tamil, was fined S5O by the Seremhan magistrate. Sheik Abdullah. Ramasamy was t arrested at Rahang and in the bag were two large and five small bottles of milk.
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    • 46 3 SEOAMAT. Thurs.— A total sum of $52,204.26 has been paid out by the Federation Government to dependants of 19 Chinese killed as a result of bandit activities in this district. Compensation for the dependants was secured through the efforts of the Malayan Chinese Association.
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    • 51 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— A Chinese kepala of an estate in Aver Puteh. who transported 12 pikuls 85 katies of rubber and two bags of scrap in a lorry from the estate without the knowledge of the owner, was sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment in the police court
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    • 94 3 PENANG. Thurs. Local amateur ballroom dancers will be competing for the Tiger Beer Challenge Cup, presented by Malayan Breweries Ltd., on the nights of Sept. 3 and 3 at the City Lights Dance Hall. Competitors are as follows: Miss Betty Ng and Mr. James Poh. Miss Florence Lau
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  • 60 3 SEREMBAN. Thurs. Goh Sin Fook. a Hainanese, was committed to stand his trial at the High Court by the Seremban magistrate, Tuan Sheikh Abdullah, on a charge of carrying firearms. Goh was arrested on Aug. 14 near the fifth mile Pantai to Kuala Pilah Road.
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  • 62 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs In Selangor yesterday, security forces contacted two Chinese. One dressed in jungle green ran away on being challenged but the other was captured and items of equipment, food and documents recovered. Also in Selangor yesterday, a Chinese bandit agent was arrested This morning, in the
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  • 181 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The manaqing committee of the Selangor Government Servants' Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society. Ltd., at their meeting yesterday bade farewell to Mr. T F Carey, Commissioner for Co operative Developm en t, prior to his departure to England on furlough. Mr
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  • 371 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs A preliminary inquiry into an allegation of theft of $34,365 worth of jewellery against Low Poh Mun, a former manager of a goldsmith's ship in High Street, Kuala Lumpur, opened before Mr. A. P. Jack, the
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  • 153 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The former Kampong Kuantan Club empty and neglected since 1927 will house Selangor's most remote Government English School. On Monday morning, the Mentri Besar of Selangor, Raja Uda bin Raja Muhammad, will officially open this new institution, which
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  • 44 3 MALACCA, Thurs.— A mid-dle-aged Indian dresser employed on a large rubber estate in a mukim of the Alor Gajah district, was abducted by bandits last night. The dead body was recovered this morning. The military and police are following up.
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  • 58 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Members of the Kuala Lumpur airport staff entertained Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Ford to a tea party this evening prior to their leaving for Singapore. Mr. Ford who has been air traffic control officer in charge of Kuala Lumpur airport is proceeding
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  • 30 3 KUALA LIPIS. Thurs.— The Jelai River here has been steadily rising and now has reached 20 feet, resulting in the flooding of low-lying areas outside the town.
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  • 206 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Several million dollars is being spent on the West Johore drainage scheme, planned before the war, and embracing 800 square miles of land and the 80 mile coast line from Batu Pahat to Pontian. This
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  • 149 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Ten welfare officers from various States and Settlements attended the first conference on the Federation's probation plans, at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The conference centred on discussions on the Juvenile Courts ordinance and the setting up of juvenile courts
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  • 101 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A large area of Ampang conies under curfew from tomorrow and every person in the area, unless in possession of a written permit, must remain indoors between 8 p.m. and 5.30 a.m. The area affected Is from a point where the electric power line
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  • 92 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— A 28-year-old Chinese, Chang Kim Yew, was today convicted and fined $1,200 by the President of the Sessions Court. Mr. D. M. K. Grant, on a charge of being in possession of 56 watches and 6 alarm clocks on which
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  • 93 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs While inspecting a part of his estate near the edge of the jungle this morning. Mr. G.A. Denne was killed by a burst of sten gun fire directed at him from the jungle. Mr. Denne was inspecting his estate
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  • 62 3 PLANS have now been finalised for the construction of a Mahatma Gandhi memorial building at Sitiawan in Perak A life-size statue of Mahatma Gandhi will be erected in front of the building, the construction of which is expected to begin next month. Estimated to cost
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  • 72 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs The dead body of a Chinese tapper was found on an estate, yesterday. Bandits in Pahang also fled when they met security forces, who found two camps and a quantity of food supplies. In Province Wellesley, an estate lorry was set on fire
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  • 24 3 The Mayfair Musical and Dramatic Association. Singapore will hold a dinner and concert at their premises tonight to celebrate "Chinese Journalists Day."
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  • 1364 4 Standard Staff Reporter A HEAIBD debate ensued at yesterday's ordinary meeting: of the Municipal Commissioners over the question of deferring and/, or referring back Committee decisions over and over again. The first signal for the debate came from Mr. G. H. Kiat
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  • 33 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thurs— Health statement for the week ending Aug. 26 shows there were 179 births here and 39 deaths. Two cases of chicken pox were reportea this week.
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  • 455 4 Co-op Members Urged To Promote Thrift Learn Democracy Standard Staff Reporter MEMBERS OF co-operative societies were like democratic voters, the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, told members of the Singapore Government Servants Thrift and Loan Society at their Silver Jubilee dinner at the Victoria Memorial Hall last night. "Although
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  • 63 4 Standard Staff Correspondent BUTTERWORTH, Thurs.— Khalid Menon Mohamed, a former chief clerk of Messrs. Stevedoring and Transportation, Ltd., Butterworth. was sentenced to six weeks* imprisonment yesterday. Khalid was convicted on a charge of criminally misappropriating two registered letters, one containing a cheque for $10 and the
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  • 115 4 Two Hurt As Car Hits Tree Standard Staff Correspondent BUTTERWORTH, Thurs.— A car travelling from Butterworth to Tassek Glugor in Province Welleslej r North crashed into a tree on the side of the road after having been involved in collision with a 13-year-old Malay boy cyclist at about 8.30 last
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  • 87 4 PENANG, Thurs.— A 26--year-old Chinese, Lau Boon Lok, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment on each of two charges, to run concurrently, by the Sessions Court President Mr. M. R. F. Rogers today. He was found guilty of dishonestly misappropriating one blank cheque belonging to Tan
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  • 54 4 TAIPING, Thurs. The Larut and Matang Town Board has adopted the recommendations of the Hawkers' Committee for a 10 per cent increase in the total number of hawkers in the district, with the exception of push carts. Push cart owners, however, were allowed to convert their
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  • 224 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thurs.— Another $200,000 housing project has been launched on a piece of land at the junction of Ayer Itam Road and Rifle Range Road by Towkay Lim Cheng Chuan. About eight or nine houses will be built, all
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  • 66 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thurs.— Magistrate Mr. D. R. Home ordered the court to be cleared when a Malay woman. Siti Sahnah. was giving her evidence today in the case in which a 27-year-old Malay, Hamid bin Ismail, was charged with enticing a married woman
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  • 165 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thurs.— The Federal and Colonial Building Society is prepared to advance the Penang Green Lane Housing Estate 75 per cent of the total selling price of the houses proposed to be built. The Municipal President. Mr. H. G. Hammett, announced this today
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  • 198 4 Mr. in t&\ ag. said r> that i oin of I suad< shopb hall. c Road Standard Staff Corn rI PENANG, Thurs. Plans lor the an air-conditioned talkie hall in IV, proved by the Municipal Commissar i i> meeting today. The motion was
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  • 39 4 Sugar Unions May Act Standard PEN and aj easy i the i Hi of th< thi.> in i I present temp'.- g I crea eriii.. 01 sirv;r S sugar Tuesday. ard I further four to W\ at 44 P
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  • 66 4 Soprano To Give Recital At ACS Standard Staff Correspondent PEN A NO, Thurs Ellen Wang, 24-year-oid ?<:\n~ano, who graduated from th* National Conservatory Music in Shanghai and the Shanghai college of fine arts. will be giving a vocai recital at the Angio-Ch.iiiese scho< Hall, Pykett Avenue, on S u day.
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  • 52 4 Standard Staff Correspondent TAIPING. ThuFS— The ftfl-year-old disused Convent building in Klian Pauh. Taiping. is helping to ease the bousing problem to some extent. Thank? to the generosity of the Mother Superior, a large number of homeless families are staying in the qpa building as a
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    • 138 4 AITHENTIO! I AKIN in U.S CAMERAMEN DURING A« il VERY SOON CAPITOL r NOTE: Closing dote for ent <► changed to SEPT. 15 and not a K previously announced. Ret I Essay Contest will br pub ished T Sunday, Oct. 7 in Th «s t SINGAPORE STANDS Z c j
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  • 617 5  -  Dorothy Manners By r WOOD, Ang. 31 iftk Sinatra reLondon in the co-star with is in "Androthe Lion" for I Pa *al with the liag straight Lion," George pet Skawl Mittons with I the news, the house
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    31 5 The famous Harry James family, showing the bandleader with his wife, film star siren Betty Grable and daughters Vicki and Jessica. Betty is under contract to 20th Ceatury-Fox.
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  • 66 5 HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31.— Production of motion pictures in other countries by American film companies reached its highest peak in recent years during the first half of* 1950, according to a survey compiled by the U.S. trade paper, Daili, Variety. During the first half of 1950. film scenes were
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  • 102 5 WASHINGTON. Aug. 31 The United States has followed Britain in officially denouncing the Soviet film. Secret Mission, which has opened in 25 Moscow cinemas. A British Foreign Office spokesman condemned the film as "a falsification of history" and "a disservice to the cause of peace."
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  • 334 5 Don 't Be Greedy If You Want Contract BRIDGE CORNER r FHE declarer is not the only one who can make a safety play. Very often, as a defender, you may otlset a good safety play on the part of the declarer by making one yourself. That is what happened
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  • 103 5 XTOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31— xx Br oder iik Crawford is taking no chances on his physical prowess when it comes to tangling with William Holden. In one scene of Columbia's "Born Yesterday" the script demands that Brod beat-up on Bill. "Do you mean that Bill Just stands there
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  • 29 5 IVTEW YORK, Aug. 31.— There are 384 radio stations in the United States that broadcast foreign language programmes. This compares with only 126 stations carrying such programes.
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  • 536 5  -  "Disc Jockey" WILLIAM E. McKENNEY by By T'UNES from movies as recorded by the original actresses or actors starred in the films are always popular, and two recordings of this nature have recently arrived in Singapore. The first of these comes from that handsome singing discovery, Gordon Macßae.
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  • 101 5 HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31.— Swedish actress Maria Toren has learnt how tough movie-making can be. For a scene in the film *'Mystery Submarine" Mart a got a blow on the chin from Robert Douglas that was so powerful that Marta ended up flat o.n
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  • 81 5 HOLLYWOOD, Au« 31 British film comedian David Tomlinson has been assigned an important role in "Calling Bulldog Drummond." currently in production at Boreham Wood Studios in England co-starring Walter Pidgeon and Margaret Leighton. Considered one of England's leading exponents of the drawing-room comedy, Tcmlinson
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 552 5 YOUR RADIO PROGRAMMES L RADIO MALAYA Quest; 8.15 News: 8.30 Musical PENANG Variety. (234 METRES) SINGAPORE CHINESE PROGRAMME uam News and Emerg ency ENGLISH PROGRAMME 104 5 am t0 12 noon Schools News; 1—2.15 p.m. As Singapore; 10 a.m. News from Singapore Broadcast; 12.45 Sig Tune, Open- 6 p.m. Programme
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  • 701 6 IT is a full-time job serving one master. It is a ticklish business serving two masters. It is disastrous to serve three masters. Yet seventy-year-old General Douglas MacArthur seems to have taken upon himself the unique task of serving three masters. He is the Commander-in-Chief of
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  • 487 6  -  CASSANDRA By rpilE other day it was Leopold'. x Now it is Farouk. The Kings shuttling to and fro across Europe today are not cutting very regal figures the Belgian one a mournful prototype for the come-back that never ought to have been tried; the Egyptian one
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  • 686 6  - Home Guards: A wward Of Warning A. Gunasekera By KUALA LUMPUR AFTER reading Sir Harold Briggs details for Home Guards, and the statement he made at the recent Press Conference, one pauses to think if this countrywide organisation to fight the bandits is going to be successful as the author
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  • 5 6 Ripley's Believe It or Not
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  • Article, Illustration
    1265 6 But why quit? THE striking article by Mr. Austin Lee, "So I Quit," must move anyone who has the imagination to realise the sense of frustration which lies behind it. To abandon one's lifework, as he says, is a grievous thing and particularly when it is a work one believed
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  • 152 6 Review of Views Unalterable THAT TAlWANterrit O ■ble fad Wstory, ired P-.h T, 001 Eerenci i up t:., can u;., that B i confirm da, POSti Now I ial th< of tht Soviet U m 1; Am making si Bbou W; shington d <;o with T; wan > i rirtu
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  • 267 7 strength." One thousand North Korean Communist soldiers nave surrendered or have been captured by UN forces in the past fortnight and Gen. MacArthur's communique issued today said that South Koreans had captured "considerable enemy arms and ammunition on the north-eastern Korean
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  • 203 7 LONDON, Aus. 31— (IP)- As Australian External Hun Minister Percv Spender urged here the forma- ;l n o\ i Pacific defence pact, with America and the British Commonwealth participating, Canberra's Army ■i .N.i\\ Minister Josiah Francis, accusing Stalin of backing leading and driving the
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  • 106 7 T I Aug. 31 (Reu- Dil ai ciiclca here the outspoken Ml Ptn-y Spender. External Affairs or, for Di fa efforts to Htm Guinea, has ted the Dutch to stand ■si anj Indonesian I item New Guinea. Sp- i beMeved to Dutch Government ia adamantly
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  • 46 7 CHINSURAH Bengal). Aug. 31 Reuter":— All persons arrested in connection with the murder of Mr. L. A. L. Cameron, pn>i minent British businessman of Calcutta and president of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, have been discharged because of lack of evidence.
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  • 89 7 Truman Sounds Warning WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (Reuter) President Truman today declared Communism was violating the peace of the world and warned that "armed aggression" would be met with •'armed defence." President Truman said the United States and its free allies were increasing and organising their common strength as a shield
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  • 266 7 Services Pay Increased LONDON, Aug. 31 (Reuter) Seventy-seven thousand trained men in Britain will remain in uniform for another six months, instead of returning to civilian life, under the Government decision, announced last night by Prime Minister Clement Attlee, to extend the
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  • 39 7 CAIRO, Aug. 31 (AP)— Three British soldiers were hanged at Fayid today for the murder last April of an Egyptian night watchman. They were gunners R. E. Smith, 23 John Golby, 30, and driver Hensman, 22.
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  • 78 7 SOMEWHERE IN KOREA Aug. 31. (Reuter-AAP)— Four Mustangs caught a Communist troop concentration just north of Pohang on Wednesday, killing an estimated 500 Communists, the sth Air Force Headquarters announced today. A total of 459 sorties was flown by the combined air forces on
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  • 423 7 Woman 's In tuition Was Right BOSTON Aug. 31: The intuition of a woman has brought about a reunion here with her husband whom she had to leave behind Europe's Iron Curtain two years ago. Mrs Ansis Tipanus, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a 63 ft. ketch with 28
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  • 202 7 'Fight Huks' Call To PI People MANILA, Aug. 31 (AP)— As strong Government forces stood poised for a new campaign against the Communist-led rebel Hukbalahaps, President Quirino called on civilians to form local "battalions. of peace" to aid the army, which, he admitted, was not large enough to afford protection
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  • 23 7 Eighty out of 1.500 fishermen caught in a storm off Ceylon are still missing. Two bodies have been recovered. UP.
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  • 52 7 Dog Prodigy Named Wise Scholar TAIPEH, Aug. 31 (ReuterAAP):— A Chinese zoo keeper claims he has taught a dog in three months to add and subtract any number below 100 and to remember the names of nine Formosan cities. The dog, formerly named "Beauty" has now been additionally named "Wisdom"
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  • 98 7 WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. (Renter)— The U.S. State Department is to distribute secretly 200,000 medium and short-icave wireless sets "to key persons or key organisations" in "critical areas" throughout the world as part of its propaganda tear. About 50,000 sets will go to Soviet satellite countries in
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  • 73 7 More than 50,000,000 workers in about 50 countries have pledged "continued steadfast support" for the United Nations on Korea, through the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.— Reuter. Pakistan, being unable *to send armed forces and military equipment to Korea, will instead offer 5,000 tons of wheat.— Reuter.
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  • 61 7 WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. (UP)— President Truman said in a Labour Day proclamation that Communism is the "false friend" which reduces the working man to slavery. He asked the working men and women of Tica on tnis years •r Day, next Mon- no dedicate thems: >:s to
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  • 63 7 RANGOON, Aug. 31. (AP)— Snarled communications in Central Burma have produced a rice shortage over widelyscattered areas verging upon famine. The district most seriously affected is pro-Communist Yamethin, deep in Burma's dry zone. Most of the dry zone's supply of rice is got from South Burma. It
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  • 41 7 Britain has asked Russia for information of the arrest and imprisonment of a British seaman, Vivian Versailles Barnes, of the British steamer Titan Abbey, at Archangel. He was charged with hitting a Russian stevedore over the head. Reuter
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  • 118 7 HERAKLION (Crete), Aug. 31— (UP) —The Prime Minister of Greece has sent an envoy to the island of Crete to ask the modern "Helen of Troy," Tassoula Petrakogeorgis (seen on left), whether she wants to marry Costas Kefaloghianos, her abductor. J f
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  • 107 7 WITH THE B.E.F. IN Korea, Aug. Si. (Reuter-AAP) The Middlesex Regiment and Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders bivouacked near the Korean fighting front, ready for instant action, have already won the friendship of Gl's and the Southern Koreans. Apart from their cheerfulness, the compassion shown
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  • 304 7 HONGKONG, Aug. 31— U.S. State Secretary Desi Acheson's statement, that the United States was doing its utmost to keep Red China out of the Korean war, has been greeted by Peking with an outburst of antiU.S. abuse. Charges that U.S. planes had carried out
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  • 161 7 EIGHTH ARMY HQ. IN KOREA, Aug. 31 (Reuter-AAP) With the arrival of British reinforcements and the steady build-up of the U.N. forces in South Korea, Gen. MacArthur is believed already to be planning a strong amphibious blow well behind the North Korean front lines. The
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  • 346 8  -  M. T. YONG By Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Considerable quantities of felled logs are left in forests in Johore and other States owing to a shortage of railway wagons to deal with the "traffic of logs to Singapore. The Malayan Railways have had difficulty
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  • 75 8 NEW YORK. Aug. 30 (Renter) American businessmen have been invited to take up oil mining concessions in Pakistan. "The Govf wnent ol Pakistan would welcome the partkipat: d i I experienced American organisations in the developm.-:;: of the country's oil reI trees, hich in
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  • 190 8 SYDNEY, Aug. 31 (AP)— Another record toppled at the Sydney wool sales on Wednesday when creasy Merino sold as high as 183-3/4 Australian pence (nearly US$l.73 cents) a pound. The previous Sydney record was 178 pence last year. Since the sales opened on Monday,
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  • 49 8 HONGKONG, Aug. 31— (UP). —Gold speculators were hard at work today in an effort to drive up the price of cold which weakened during the holiday on Wednesday. This morning, the market opened at HK?299 per tael the lowest price all week but closed at HK$3O5.
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  • 791 8 SINGAPORE. Thurs,—Malayan tin shares were quieter and easier today. Rubber sr n s had little business. Wh e Industrials remained Stea Clowns quotations were: 1 K. Lanjut 15 15/6 Kamra 13 1 fi Kamunting 9 9 ti Katu 15/- lfi/. xd Kent fF.M.S.) 2/4 2/7 Kepon? 10
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  • 160 8 KL Dealers Are Forcing Govt's Hand Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs Sugar dealers in the Federation are forcing the hand of the Government to re-introduce rationing of this important foodstuff by their greed to rake in as much as possible now that sugar has been decontrolled. The price of
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  • 148 8 MUNICIPAL Spore 5 <"o 1920 105 00 10fi 50 4|% 19:>0 105 50 10H50 a o 19;i.=» BHOO 87 00 3 1937 92 SO 9:{ 50 xi 3 T, 1938 92 50 93 50 xj 4 1939 100 50 102 50 j Wo 1948 90 00 91
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  • 369 8 Standard Staff Reporter THE Governments of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya are expected to make a joint statement on sugar rationing tomorrow. The Secretary for Economic Affairs, Singapore, Mr. A. Gilmour at a Press conference yesterday said: ''Government Is considering the situation,
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  • 192 8 ft /i i EXCHANGE rates now in force, as supplied by the Malayan Exchange Banks Association are as follows: FREE MARKET CURRENCIES SELLING RIVING Tr,ou. it. ou. so a m 1 oi, d'». tSS a l/ie S£ 8 f £s 2/4 9/32 a/4 6/16 New ?ea
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  • 295 8 By Ng Sek Yew, Standard Skiff Reporter A GLUT of textiles in Indonesia is affecting Singapore's re-export trade. To make things more difficult, prices of textiles in the Colony are much higher than they were two months ago. This development in Malaya-Indonesia trade
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  • 212 8 LONDON, Aug. 31— (Reuter>. —By and large, it has been an uneventful day on the London Stock Exchange, with coppers and oils recording no quotable price alterations. Giltedgeds were marked higher in the early stages in anticipation of a continuance of yesterday's support, but this
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  • 93 8 EC A Spends $1,000,000 On Bridge WASHINGTON} Aug. 30 (Reuter)— The United States Economic Co-operation Administration today announced it would finance the building of a $1,000,000 steel bridge on Formosa, last stronghold of the Chinese Nationalist Government. The ECA issued an authorisation for $970,000 worth of steel to build the
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  • 96 8 FRANKFURT. Aug. 31 (Reuter)— The Allied High Commission is considering a ban on shipments of strategic materials from Western Germany to the Soviet Union. A United Stales High Commission spokesman said the "certain number" of wagons with such materials have been stopped at the
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  • 42 8 RUBBER PRICE IS DOWN THE n warn market a sharp ber p. vlr opener: 11, be quotati s Up- carried *<: In ro drier: inclined Singap n merce R i were per lb. n, i r s Sbeel S r.srs il". (nom.) Tone
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  • 195 8  -  G. M. Pillay By Pan-Asia Newspaper Alii .wu BANGKOK, Aug. 31.— The Thai Government in a ligfatn to curb hoarding and profiteering sent its police into tt% throughout the capital to take inventory of all stocks n li A short while aco,
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  • 322 8 CEYLON Customs returns j for July record a favourablebalance of trade, amounting to Rs 118.297.000 for the first I seven months of this year, as I compared with an unfavour- able balance of Rs 60,450.000 during the corresponding period last year. The balance for the month
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  • 31 8 WASHINGTON. Aug. 31 (AP) -The Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) has uiiocuted to Formosa US$2OO,OOO for the acquisition of phosohate rock from the United States. Indonesia and Christmas Island.
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  • COMMUDITY PRICES
    • 54 8 The latest Singapore rubber prices yesterday (Aug. 31) were per lb. Buyers Sellers No. 1. RSS Spot loose $1.30 $1.31 No. 1. RSS fob in bales Sept. $1.30 51. 31 No. 2. RSS fob in bales Sept. 51. 29 $1.30 No. 3. RSS fob in bales Sept. SI .28
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    • 46 8 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Aug. 31. The price of tin today was 5380.50 per picul. Down $7 .5*. LONDON. An*. 31 (UP) —This morning's closing tin prices were: Buyers Sellers Spot £765 £770 Three Months £759 £760 (Turnover 220 tons, of which only 5 tons were spot).
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  • 94 8 Standard Staff Reporter NEARLY $200.00(1 worth of blade pepper changed hand ;n the Singapore ptodu marjeet yesterday. Pepper prices continued to fanprove, particularly black pepper, 15 tons of which were transacted at 5755 per picuL Coconut oil had buyers at |70 3 4 and sellers |72.
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  • 372 9 Wi lts, Hu ssars Get Brave Send-Off By Devons' Band M.mdard Shipping Reporter (GLE-GREEN clad band of the Devons iture tune of the Wiltshires. the march- Army.'" from the quayside as the -w away for Hongkong at four E. afternoon. Devon at .-I the >-r territo I ship came along-
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  • 63 9 Collision Death Toll Rises To 23 VNCISCO, Aug. Apparent in the collision g ol the hospital nee climbed > Government aled that i seize the rammed her. thai > Bgu showed rri< d 528 I w and five y C, L kenbach Thursday bo id Court to p until a
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  • 63 9 g3D (AP)— tardaaoen of were feared hip accidents in I European Tuesday night. a Yugoslav d with the -i.p Eugene Lykes. Nine guardsmen were believed drowned. Off the Swedish west coast. a coast guard tug capsized during a 55 m.p.h. gale. Ten coast guardsmen were
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  • 101 9 SOME TIME ago. through the co-operation of K.L.M., a number of ajtists were enabled to put on canvas their impressions of the Dutch landscape as seen from the air. This collection of paintings is at present on tour through Europe and the works have already been
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  • 352 9 Vessel Slips Out Of HK Harbour; Believed To Have Joined N'lists HONGKONG, Aug. 31 (AP) A 298-ton L.S.M. was believed to have defected from Chinese Communists to the Chinese Nationalists. It was reliably disclosed that the ship, motor vessel Hwa Fu, slipped out of Hongkong harbour on Monday night without
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  • 485 9 Shipping Aviation Standard Shipping Reporter AN AMERICAN freighter which early last month had a miraculous escape from mysterious shells— believed to be fired by the Chinese Communists came into Singapore Docks yesterday. The Isthmian Line's Steel Rover was only two
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  • 63 9 'Armed Red Junks Near Hongkong' THERE are numbers of armed merchant junks, belonging: to the Chinese Communists, plying up and down tear Hongkong harbour, according to Capt. D. A. Preble, of the Steel Rover. "It is very odd that on the day when the Rover was attacked, there was a
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  • 254 9 CAPTAIN D. A. Preble, of Wareham, Massachusetts, Master of the American freighter Steel Rover, said in Singapore last night "I do not see how the Steel Rover could have been shelled by shore batteries on Tamkan Island, one of the Lima group, which
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  • 122 9 New Ship To Sail For India THE BRITISH INDIA Company's new cargo liner, the &S. Ordia, successfully completed her trials on the Clyde on August 25 and will shortly be leaving the U.K. for employment on the Company's Eastern services for which she has been designed. The Ordia, a single-screw
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  • 42 9 On April 5, Messrs. Cammell Laird Co.. Ltd., Birkenhead. launched their 1.200th ship, and. incidentally, their first this year. The vessel an oil-tank motorship of 12.250 tons deadweight for the British Tanker Co.* Ltd. was named the British Trust, *A
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  • AIR ARRIVALS and DEPARTURES
    • 43 9 KLM CONSTELLATION from Jakarta ETA 6.30 a.m. GARUDA INDONESIAN AIRWAYS DOUGLAS from Jakarta, Bangka ETA 6.25 p.m. MALAYAN AIRWAYS DAKOTA from Alor Star, Penang, Taiping, Ipoh, Kuala LumPenang, Kuala Lumpur ETA 6.35 p.m. from Penang. Taping, Ipoh. Kuala Lumpur ETA 11.50 a.m.
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    • 21 9 KLM CONSTELLATION For Bangkok, Calcutta, Karachi, Basra, Cairo, Amsterdam ETD 7.45 a.m. AIR FRANCE DOUGLAS for Saigon ETD 8.30 a.m.
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    • 50 9 for Kua'a Lumpur, I poll Taiping. Penang. Alor Star. Kuantan ETD 7.30 a.m. for Kuala Lumpur, Kuantan, Alor Star, Penang ETD 7 a.m. for Kuching, Labuan, Jesselton. Sandakan ETD 7 a.m. for Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh. Penang ETD 3 p.m. pur ETA 6.15 p.m. from Kuantan, Alor Star.
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    • 56 9 Trading profits for the rwist year of £84.075 before providing for taxation, were announced by the director! of the Airscrew Co. Jicwood. Ltd. at the annual general meeting held at Woybridge last month. Resolutions were submitted to shareholders regarding .--.n increase In the company's capital and the capitalisation
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    • 34 9 RCGDLAI TRANSPACIFIC SERVICE I Overland <•> Ui Angeles All American Canadian s -S. WILLIAM LUCKENBACH" l "H Particulars of dry Cargo, Deep Tanks, A: Passenger Bookings etc. Agents A^LO- FRENCH BENDIXSENS LTD. *****/3 Penang' 875
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    • 522 9 SAILINGS FROM SCANDINAVIA SAILINGS TO COVTINKNT/ UK CONTINENT lI— IMH m.s. "ANNA.M" due rbt Bent 24 ms "SELANIHA" Gdn< Ji'Bo for Honekong. Kobe YoKohama ror rf| i"mt>o Aden Port Satd. Or--io;i fjonrton 'n^-^pnijer* m.s. KAMBOniA"— due abt. Sept. 26 onivl Antwero. R.'ttrrrtam. for Bangkok.. Manila and Hamtnre o«lo not'-r^bure. Honekong
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 315 9 fMl^^S^Wzn& OUT OF HARBOUR W S&jwmi*^^^ mHK//J^*a*. *> x^ 1 —■■■I, j T^^^^^.*^fcjcj^^frk^^*^^^^^^4. L. "n JANSSENS (KPM) verett for Penang, Rangoon and go^, g M^Bra^r.^ Jcsan. ShIDS Due w«AVr Ja (Bou a ,teid> SWT: *l Glengyle for UK/ r WASANO (tJousteaa; Continent' Nordstjerman for iMMtB kuaus TODAY ASPHALION f ro
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  • 341 10  - Your marriage Samuel G Bv Esther B. Kling. Seek Expert Outride Advice Q Can an unhappy marriage be improved through expert outside advice? A Yes. Many unhappy mates are defeated from the start by their false belief that they simply aren't suited to one another and that nothing can be
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  • 187 10 Water Lilies For Strength LONDON. Aug. 31. (INS)— The Rev. W.M Falloon eats water ies for strength. Every morning in the lily sea- tn the 78-year-old rector of S "Vet. Kent county. ch i es a lily from his goldfish pond, Inserts ii between s of bread an I ;<
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  • 641 10 'Watchdog' Commissions Urged too, Soviet-made arms can be made to pass as in the case of Korea, to several of the Southeast Asian danger spots, without involving Soviet Russia in any political complications. The Chinese Communist Army, tested in long years of battle, is
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    26 10  -  Ed Reed By "I never rea'isc^ how mivh a child br^'jli^s rn a home until I added up all these electric light bills."
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  • 260 10 HONGKONG, Aug. 31 (UP) The joss shop, colourful symbol of China's age-old Buddhist ancestor worship, is being driven out of existence by the Communist authorities, according to Ta Kurj.g Pao. Joss shops are those which sell candles, incense and objects made of paper, which
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  • 144 10 BANGKOK. Aug. 31 (ReuterAAP) A bridge which is being built on the road from Bangkok to the seaside resorts of Saensuk and Siracha, the fishing village of Chelburi and the fruit-producing provinces of East Thailand, has given rise to lively and fearsome rumours that an
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  • 43 10 'Saucepan Radios r r here. v For i mere i native can man s am isen •i does, with m a The sau at the tactoi and i owners an nol J tamper. African to poke abo i cio to "see what" i-ak-
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  • 14 10 LONDON B J. Joint B delegates to I ran meat
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  • 321 10  -  EDWIN P By I?VEN when there is a good J deal of polio in a community not every illness in a child means that disease. Parents, however, should be alert to the danger and should not ignore any suspicious symptoms. The first symptoms of polio may be
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 269 10 Crosswoif H Puxxlt an wer to T" PrzzLl KMI 31-Africantre. |T|H|A|W| [a|T~] ITIEIIIL 32-Cliclt beetle A I ID AMLII ITIEIRIA T E t? :fe e i»«_» 3t W^man »-C*s:v,.te 37- Fart of church I-[SIAU|IHJI ,P| lj-was born« 3s Change color of _-l~NjTll JRJEBC AIBJL E a-Fi.hPCKs 4" rrampleon SA TBL-'i
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    • 115 10 Br ™3?\ II /v v V 111 il I SHOULDN'T BE IN HERE ffifH I I THE WRESTLING MATCHES I -i^' /^>bL J^^T r DONG NOTHING WHILE APE ON MY TELEVISION T^ i /C.;-- -3) 1^ BLOND! E'S OUT THEPE 'WASHING L —.COME OVER y— t f r^O LW^ i
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  • 369 11 Johnson Alleges Standard Staff Reporter MK pat JOHNSON yesterday described as M a nA s en*e of humour* the remarks alleged to have £?n (1 bv certain Mimi 5 i P al employees in clinics jUt.nit mothers and others tu r at these Municipal employees, among
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  • 49 11 -e .itY Reporter v -K1 LI put a the Municipal !t n she asked is ;i!>idrr is resd.imaffe to a x .1 outside his tkta case bemeter has irresponsible otorists B«'cause Ma compound. i r^ponsible Pre- 1 P F. McNeke. he a unable to Q Lilil
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  • 126 11 v 1 >ufF Reporter ppon Municlners 1 meeting Mi F. C. James East) wanted to whj the comU> look into •rs re-sett iement lot yet held any ottos ago. a .;5 appointed to g question of the of squatters or either beiti m 9 r^er
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  • 41 11 NARAYANA MISSION TO CELEBRATE R"" v a Mission In brate the 9COi v ut their „:.a Gurudev i etuog a1 the rrJs- Hill Road. n, g, Sir.s.ipore. I toe Li:r. Q] preside nd wvcral speeches in fostani and ts progmßßM ildren.
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  • 42 11 Than. A white the led's mind m a unbalanclun r i by the Anjan Saith. at I C ion of the inquiry I a European lU-:.ry James. listed to have :^'n the mouth at the Rasah T C S;>reniban.
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  • 114 11 THE Resident Commissioner. Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom, has accepted the post of President of the Settlement Youth Council. The Council has been able to I form a strong advisory body. Several members of the Malacca Community who have associated themselves with youth movements ?re on
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  • 58 11 Fiona Special Corr S r ondent MUAR. Thu r s. Ho Hua Siang was fined $lix». or 50 days hard labour, for negligent driving at Jalan Arab, Muar Town. on June 24. He was also ordered to pay compensation of $n0 to Chew Tong Heng whom he
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  • 185 11 Standard Staff Reporter IN THE light or suggestions rrude by two Municipal Commispie President. Mr. T. P. c N'eice, vesterday proposed to place the matter on the agenda S the Establishments Board. It would then be possible for the Board either to work'ng committee to
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  • 461 11 centre, the Malayan Chinese Association is giving ft party to the patients in the camp, and the Al-Hana Party are going out to entertain them with Malay music. At night Shaw Brothers are fiving a free cinema show,
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  • 130 11 Standard Staff Correspondent MUAR, Thurs. Armed with a parang, Choan Sen, chased his cousin Koh Yang through the village of Telok Sengat on July 15 until he was arrested by a policeman. Earlier, they had an argument over a soccer match which both had seen the
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  • 29 11 Standard Staff Reporter DR. ABDUL SAM AT (Progressive. South) has tendered his resignation from the Singapore Municipal Commission, the acting Municipal President, Mr. T.P.F. McNeice, announced yesterday.
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  • 86 11 DELEGATES Standard Staff Reporter MR. SANDY G. Pillay (Progressive Citv) and the Assistant Municipal Secretary (Welfare), Mr. J. L. Byrne, were yesterday nominated as the Singapore Municipal Commissioners' representatives at the forthcoming delegate meeting to be convened by the Education Department in connection with adult education. The acting
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  • 269 11 Claims From Army, Call For New Law AT yesterday's meeting of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners, Mr. A. P. Rajah asked why some legislation could not be introduced to facilitate the ordinary citizen to sue the military for their misdeeds. The question arose during the ordinary meeting when confirmation was needed
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  • 216 11 MR. D. ROBERTSON (Progressive, South), did not mince words in his criticism of what he described as "a very high handed action" by the Commissioner or Lands in 1947. He was referring to ft road reserve situated on crown land in the Kampong Silat/Henderson
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  • 54 11 MUAR, Thurs. Lim Tao Teck of Jalan Jorak Bukit Pasir, was sentenced to two months' simple imprisonment and seven months' hard labour by Inche Hamid bin Mustapha. President of the Sessions Court, on two charges of possession of chandu dross and opium. He had a previous
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  • 278 11 Standard Staff Reporter i THE acting Municipal President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, stated yesterday that he would investigate the possibilities of setting up sub-stations to receive payments of consolidated accounts in some districts away from town. He was replying to a suggestion made
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  • 559 11 'Gutter Press' Charge At Commissidners 'Meeting Standard Staff Reporter TWO Singapore newspapers (The Standard not included) were criticised by Municipal Commissioners at their meettaf yesterday. Mr. Sandy G. Pillay (Progressive, City) complained of uie reporters of a newspaper Jfawing wrong conclusions; Mr. Pat Johnson described the methods of one of
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  • 237 11 'Insulting Modesty' Trial In Camera THE SINGAPORE First District Court went into camera yesterday when the case against a European, Leonard Fred Phipps, who faced three charges of in* suiting the modesty of a woman, came up for hearing. The allegations against Phipps were that, on Sept. 22 and Oct.
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  • 193 11 AP Rajah On 'Undesirable' SMC Power Standard Staff Reporter v MR. A. P. RAJAH (Pro. gressive Smith) su essfu y moved reference buck of a Dammittee decision to amend the Ifun cfpal Ordinance to incluc'c an additions! t iause empowering Commissionen to exempt any premises from payment of rates. Mr.
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  • 27 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs •The Malayan Railway Administration has introduced a meal service for Muslims on the day mail trains on the northern i\nd southern lines.
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  • 127 11 TWO bullock-carl ftrtven .>.er# fined 525 each in the S-r. ..port Fourth Police Court <t -i« rday for cruelty their bulis. The first accused, R Ramakrishnar.. w.ts seen beatinf on* of two bulis harnessed to hla cart. The bull was limping. A veterinary officer, who
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  • 66 11 Standard Staff Reporter A TWO-YEAR-OLD Chinese boy. Koh Kah Hoe. died last night soo'j niter admission to hospital, following a fail into a pond in a kampong at Potong Pa^ir. 3rd mile. L'pp«r Serangoon R -ad. The child is believed to have) playing outside
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    • 139 11 1 315 645 and 9 p.m. I ground. r.uinp.- a*. Sui: Nilam (Malay) 12.45, 3, 645 V -"'■-'oday P-. o^e, o« C t r H«, Part cc-DFUBAN— TodaV Blood .> Sapphire: Nasib (Malay) 2.30. 7 g^^ on the padang Sherwood Fores* 1 and 9.30 p.m. ri^ t general meeting of
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