Singapore Standard, 19 September 1950

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  • 16 1 Singapore tiger Standard yOL 1 NO. 79 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1950 12 PAGES TEN CENTS
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  • 230 1 Mkh SLCCESS, Sept. 18: (AP)— Diplomats of the 59 j i Nations converged on New York today for the crucial fifth i Assembly opening Tuesday afternoon. The Assembly is ,h uinl to be called to order by Carlos P. Romulo,
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  • 78 1 W A S H 1 N GTON, Sept. 19 (\P). The I'.S. Navy an* nouneeo! that the j 1.%,000-ton battleship New Jeraey in being taken from reserve to j return to the active Heet. The Mioiouri is the only battleship now in j ojm
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  • 83 1 LONDON, Sept 13. (Reuter). Air India International announced in London today that starting; on Oct. 15, the number ol flights between India and Britain will be increased from three to four a week in each direction. The air liners will leave London on Tuesdays, Thursdays.
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  • 236 1 SAIGON. Sept. 18— (Renter) French paratroops armed with submachineguns fought today along with a surrounded f garrison in the tiny outpost of Dong Khe on the CommunistChina frontier. They faced the strongest I attack ever made by Ho Chi j Minh's Vietminh guerillas. The paratroops, dropped
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  • 99 1 Standard Staff Reporter A CHINESE was arrested this morning In connection with the shooting of a police constable, 23-year-old Wahid bin Babu on quard duty near a Rediffusion junction box in Lorong 25. Geylang One Chinese youth, who had a knee injury, was arrested
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  • 55 1 Standard Staff Reporter DURING the early part of last week more than ten Rediffusion sets were wrecked by hooligans, mostly in coffeeshops. This wan revealed to The Standard last night by the Rediffusion authorities. Lengths of cable were also damaged but most of them
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  • 32 1 Standard Staff Reporter An 18-year-old Chinese girl. Lim Ah Choo. fell otf a thieestuiey building early yesterday morning at Beach Koad and sutfered slight injury. J
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  • 35 1 Photo IViajor-Gen. Ifobart R:*G*i\ commanding general, Ist Cavalry Division, is shown here pointing out the Korean battle lines to Brigadier-General Basil A. Coad, commander of the British troops in Korea.- AP
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  • 278 1 UK Gov't Decides Against General Election This Year LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter)— The Government has decided against a general election this year unless it is defeated is tomorrow's vote on steel nationlisation, it was authoritatively stated after today's Cabinet meeting. Unofficial quarters have been suggesting that the Government contemplated an
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  • 127 1 Mac Arthur To Make UN Report LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 18 (UP)— General Douglas MacArthur's unified command will report to the United Nations Security Council this afternoon that there is verified evidence that Russia has supplied munitions to North Korea in 1949 and 1950 and Communist China has sent '"trained manpower,"
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  • 44 1 Nine Detained Bv Anti-Vice Squad THE Singapore anti-vice squad last niaht raided a house in Tanjong Pagar Road and detained three girls, four men and two women. All were questioned by the C.I.D. last night. The women are to be charged in court today.
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  • 130 1 US Using Kimpo Airfield WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (UP). United Stales planes are using kimpo airfield near Seoul, the Army and Navy said today. A Navy spokesman said Marine planes were using the field, while an Army spokesman told a morning press conference that there was no indication that North Korean
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  • 215 1 ON THE MASAN FRONT, Sept. 18 (UP)— A special task force of the 25th Division was fighting one of the toughest battles this front has seen late today in an effort to offset strong enemy forces holding a ridge two miles southwest of Ham'an.
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  • 276 1  - GI-Erected Sign Reads: Welcome To Inchon— Best Damned Port In Pacific BILL ROSS, A.P. Mountainous Pile Of Smouldering Wreckage By Correspondent INCHON, Sept. 18, (AP). "Welcome to Inchon best damned port in the Pacific." That Gl-erected sign on a waterfront building blared its greeting to everyone arriving from the sea.
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  • 26 1 THERE were tep lallang flres in Singapore yesterday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. This was the Fire Brigade'.-; busiest day in months.
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  • 474 1 TOKYO, Sept. 18: (UP) The United States Marines readied the Han River just across from Seoul today and were probing for crossings under cover of fighter planes, using captured Kimpo airfield for the first time. xLnitetl Press correspondent Earnest Hol>ereclit reported that
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  • 55 1 Shaw's Condition Slightly Better LUTON. ENGLAND. Sept. 18, (AP). George Bernard Shaw's condition showed a "slight improvement" today, a medical bulletin announced. The 94-year-old playwright is recovering from an operation to mend a broken left thigh. Late last week a recurrence of a kidney and bladder trouble gave rise to
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  • 46 1 Standard Staff Reporter A 57- YEAR-OLD Chinese Tan Chiah. was found by his relatives suffering from poisoning early yesterday morning at Covent Street off Haveiuck Road. He was rushed to the General Hospital by ambulance, but died 20 minutes after admission.
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  • 168 1 Battalion Crosses Naktong WITH I.S. SECOND DIVISION IN kORE\. Sept. 18— (Al»).— A I.S. infantry Imitation trmmtd the \aklon» River today in captured Communist boats and established a solid beachhead on the we*l hank. Two hours later American pilots reported seeing a large force of Ri Koreans throwing up entrenchment*
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  • 134 1 TOKYO. Sept 18- -(AP) The British 27th Brigade if joining in the fighting on the north-west sector of the Rivei NaktoriL'. where a U.S. battalion., after 10-minute blasting by r )iio pounds of bombs, established a beachhead on the wrest hank today. A
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    • 80 1 |2 fer- _•«<£, On Other Pages Page Longest Airlift In RAF History Shop Assistants To Form I'nion 2 Malayan TIT Asks For More COL Allowances t Bus Companies Face Crisis t Perak Welcomes Sultan Home 4 Films, Entertainments Page f Fditorial. Letters To Iditor f Asian Questions Before INO 7
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  • 204 3 Malayan TUC To Meet MPs r Standard Staff Correspondent rtHHiii > in the last few months. The six-man Parliamentary delegation is expected in Malaya early next month. Three of the members are Labour representatives in Parliament. The MTUC hopes that the delegation, on its
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    33 3 1 i marriage »f Mr. P. K nan of th» Customs i tment. Kuala Lumpur. n t Miss K. Kukmani took tat Sentul. Kuala Lum- followed by a reception .it the Eastern Hotel.
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  • 111 3 Malaya To Get Cattle From Thais BANGKOK. Sept. 18 (AP) lhailand has agreed to the export of TOO head of cattle per month 10 Malaya. A committee, composed of representatives of the Interior. Commerce and Agricultural Ministries, granted the Malayan request after an investigation revealed that Thailand had enough cattle
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  • 37 3 BEXTONG. Mon. Inche Mohd. Xurin bin Imam Isa has been appointed Penghulu of Bentong Mukim in possession to his father-in-law, the late Datu Muda Xong bin Kathib Man, J.P.. who died here re- centlv.
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  • 81 3 Five Malay Inspectors Promoted Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Five Malay Inspectors in the Federation Police Force have been promoted to the rank of Assistant Superintendents of Police with erlect from July 1. it was officially announced today. They are Inche Salleh bin Abdul Rahman, at present attending a
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  • 77 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Kelantan's tirst trade union was registered last month. It is the Kelantan Teachers' Union. Altogether 171 trade unions were registered in the Federation in August, while 22 others, including a federation await registration. The total membership of all unions and
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  • 42 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Chegu Hassan bin Mohammed was elected Headman of the kampong at a public meeting here at which voting by secret ballot took place. Chegu Hassan received an overwhelming majority over his two other opponents.
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    34 3 The weddin? of Mr. Tan Teok Chee of Port Swettenham and Miss Lim Gek Hiok took place at the- Kuala Lumpur Registry, after which a reception was held at Rifle Range Road, Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 237 3 Federation Bus Companies Face A Serious Crisis Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Bus companies in tfi«Federation are threatened with a serious rri»in owing to mounting losses of buses through terrorist action ami refusal of gome insurance companies to accept insurance on buses to cover risks under civil riots and
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  • 315 3 1, 057 Malays Among 7,894 Being Held In Detention Camps Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Standard is reliably informed that there are 7,894 detainees of all nationalities in the various camps throughout the Federation. Of these .1,057 are Malays, the majority of whom 749 are at Tanjong Bruaa,
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  • 64 3 Standard Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 17— A party of 20 lunched at Grosvenor House in celeration of the 77th birthday of the Sultan of Johore. The Sultan is in radiant health. The Sultana, whose happy event is hourly expected, looked wonderful and chatted animatedly with
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  • 156 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— A special committee of the Malayan Trade Union Council is drawing up the full constitutional framework of the MTUC. It will be presented before the general assembly of the Council in March in Kuala Lumpur next year for approval.
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  • 82 3 Standard Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Mon.— The Combined Schools of Seremben will hold a variety concert in aid of Welfare Week funds on September 28 and 29 at King George V School hall. Seremban. The show on the first day will be for children. The St.
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  • 75 3 Standard Staff Correspondent MUAR, Mon.— Gan Beng Soo and his wife, Tay Kian, were charged before Inche Hamid bin Mustapha, President of the Sessions Court, with exposing their one-day-old baby in a rubber estate at Pengkalan Bukit. The husband Gan Beng Soo was sentenced to
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  • 34 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The local Muslim League of Johore Bahru has cabled the Sultan of Johore, who is at present in England, congratulating His Highness on the occasion of his 77th birthday.
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  • 37 3 All Smiles On 3rd Anniversary The 7th Group, Port Dickson, Scout Troop of the Chung Hua Chinese School, taken on the occasion of its 3rd Anniversary Celebration. S.M. Loh Kat Choon, is seen seated in the centre.
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  • 155 3 Labour Dept To Mediate In Mine Strike Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.—The Labour Department, it is stated, is taking active steps to arrange for a joint meeting between the Kalumpang Tin Dredging Co., Ltd. and the 230 tin mine workers Malays, Chinese and Indians, who have been on strike
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  • 349 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Lim Yoke Long, a 19--year-old student of a Chinese school in Kuala Lumpur, was today committed by Raja Sulaiman, the first magistrate, to stand trial in the Supreme Court on a charge of being found in possession of one
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  • 127 3 Rubber Men May Accept New Rates KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Standard understands that the long drawn out negotiations between the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association and the Rubber Workers' Union have concluded. The workers submitted a memorandum for increased wages setting $3 as the minimum ceiling for tappers and weeders
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  • 64 3 KLANG. Mon. A Chinese shopkeeper. Tee See Yen. of Kapar village, was fined $500 by the circuit magistrate. Raja Zainal, for selling toddy. It was stated that a jar containing 31 gallons of toddy was found at the back of Tee's shop. He was said
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  • 106 3 Children Spoil Shade Trees BENTONG, Mon. At the recent meeting of the Bentnng Town Board, the Senior Exe'-u--tive Engineer, Bentong and Temerloh. Mr. .1. R. Sperne stated that children are in the habit of playing in the streets and damaging shade trees. "It will not be possible to reI duce
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    85 3 Hadji Zainalabidin bin Mohamad Vunos. who was decorated recently, is 51 years old. He has served the Johore Government in various capacities since 1916 and is presently attached to the Sessions and Magistrates' Courts as Clerk. Special Grade. Hadji Zainulabidin. has been an Officer of the Johore Malay Forces from
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    • 136 3 F E DE &ATlO^|l|iil v WC OR— Today SHary 01 Tbt Siberia Russia 15. 7 and 1 Pall b F ill 3, 6.45 and I Warriors Chapter 2 I se) 1. I>o and 9 ■n Olrcfaid 2MO; 6.30 and M i tnb M .:^y> 12 30. .i p :n. 1
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    • 298 3 Soccer: Selangor Malays vs. SCRC at Kampong Bahru ground. SEREMBAX— Today Plaza: Reckless Moment 2.30. 7 and 9 30 pm. Sapphire: K',;m Satt Wah Meng and Lui Yan Sam 2 p.m. and 8 p m. Cathay: Adventures of Don Coyote 2.30: 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. Metropule: The Gal Who Took
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  • 758 5  -  DOROTHY MANNERS By iLLYWOOD, Sept 18 -Before Deanna Dur- D marries Charles Da- id in Paris this winter, p e U she doesn't tike a Hag on the London stage in Aleen Leslie's new day— untitled. en
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  • 407 5  -  JAMES PADGITT By I JOLLY WOOD. S*pt. 18 1J There are times when Aram PurJ&torian thinks tile is not really worth living because he has such a paradoxical movie job. Aram has earned his living for more than 16 years bringing coals
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    36 5 David Hand, the famous British animator, of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, checks with a stop-watch the running time of a cartoon sequence. Hand's. "Watercolour" series on Britain are welt-known to movie goers in Malaya.
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  • 737 5 RADIO MALAYA SINGAPORE ENGLISH PROGRAMME 10 a.m. News rrom Singapore and the Emergency News from Kuala Lumpur: 10.50 Schools Broadcast; 1 p.m. Light Music; 130 Time Signal and News; 1.45 Dance Music; 6 p.m. Programme Summary; 6 02 Listeners' Choice; 7 p.m. Time Signal, News. Singapore Share
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  • 54 5 TTOLLYWOOD, Sept. 18.— Ann Vernon, a French stage and cinema actress, has been given the principal feminine role in "Magnificent Heel," to be filmed at Universal-International Studios here. This will be her first picture in America. She has appeared in films in England as
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  • 71 5 Brown-haired Yola n d e Betbeze. "Miss Alabama," was named "Miss America" of 1950 in a recent annual nationwide beauty contest at Atlanta City. New Jersey. Weighing 119 lb.. Yolande has a 35-inth bust, a 24-inch waist, 35.5--inch hips, and is five foot 5.5 inch tall. As
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  • 721 5 Turntable Topics _D ISC -JOCK 6/' YT'HEN a song is issued by every leading reeord company and sung by their leaf* ing sifl&ers* it can only mean one thing: that song is or is destined to be a •hit!' Such a number is Ask Me No Questions (And I'll Tell
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  • 52 7 Red Chinese Army Has 'New Tasks' ON i'. KONG, Sept. 18 er-AAP):— The Comta plan *.o train 1.500,000 "ten in Kwangsi Pro- Um end of this year, -A lo Chinese reports. k at these militia- the suppression guerillas loyal to the ity of these militiad release Communist xz army men
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  • 140 7 WITH MAC ART HIIR ON i THE INCHON FRONT, Sept. I 18. (AP) North Korean taops are hor.dling their tank.; ami other equipment "very inefficiently" and Red morale as a whole appears "very low," Gen. MacArthur was told during a battlefront tour of over three hours.
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  • 266 7 -LI— to preven or conßne a war, and creation of a U.N Wion to il ,,..new.thm.htary force if necessary or act as a <Wld fi£ brigade/' Asian questions will dominate the three-month session and India is expected to play a decisive
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  • 60 7 sovern the whole of Korea alter hostilities end 2&SC John M Chan toM «5 Our Government should have jurisdiction over the rntory north of the 38th Paralleled election? should h he d there, observed by the United Nations, in nhr that representatives be found to occupy the
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  • 159 7 WOLMI-DO ISLAND, Sept. 18— (UP)— North Korean soldiers disarmed their officers and forced ih. »n to surrender as the U.^ Marines mopped up this UMMool high island fortress guarding Inchon harbour, it was disclosed today. The 400-man garrison, including a dozen officers, was the
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  • 87 7 Marshall 'Hates Chiang' :KE VILLA (Illinois). Sept. IP):— Senator Joseph R. :'ny said that new De--1 Secretary Gen. George »haH has a "dislike" k\- MacArthur and a hi Gen. Chiang Kai--1 red that Secretary of I in Acheson "was block- s attempt to sell out feo the Communist? bg» our
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  • 50 7 Sir George Ritchie Sanford, Governor or the Bahamas, who died at Nassau on Sunday of a heart attack, had served for 25 years in the colonial service. A .P photo. 'Aiie Fo^e, cj me o~-> *>. ui chair, blesses pilgrims assembled in St. Peter's Square in Rome.-
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  • 24 7 The Yak fighter shot down by a British cruiser off Inchon inflicted three casualties, one serious abonrd the warship.- A. P
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  • 39 7 LAKE SUCCESS. Sent. 18. (AP): When the Security Council meets tonight, the United States will present Gen MacArthur's report on the Korean operations from Aug. l r > to Scot. 1 as the first item of the agenda.
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  • 199 7 INCHON, Sept. 18— (Reuter-AAP)— Thousands of hungry citizens of Inchon, South Korean port captured by L.N. troop-, flocked to warehouses and walked off with sacks of rice. They claimed the rice belonged lo ihem and had been confiscated by the Communists. Meanwhile,
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  • 75 7 ROUE, Sept. IS—(AP) In naming a street in Rome after Cnvm Folke Bernadotie oj Sweden on the set g d anniversary of his assassination in Palestine while heading the U.N. mediation mission in the Jew-Arab conflict, Signor Giorgio Andreoli. ViceMayor of Rome, said "I speak for Romans
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  • 59 7 TOKYO, Sept. 18. (ReuterAAP) A former Japanese gendarme offi -er has been arrested on charges of disposing of huge quantities of petrol stolen from the .U.S. Army. He is said to have operated a gong of 150 Japanese drivers working for the Occupation authorities, causing them
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  • 40 7 Sir George Harvie-Watt, n Conservative M.P., left the liner Stratheden at Gibraltar to fly back to London to attend todays vote in the House of Commons at the request oi Opposition leader Winston Churchill. Reuter.
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  • 33 7 PARIS. Sept. 18 (Rcuter):— Police detained about 1,000 North Africans here after demonstrations against the recent ban on the Algerian nationalist paper Free Algeria. They are being held for *'identifi?jtion checks".
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  • 28 7 A- Bomb Shelters New schools containing atom bomb shelters have been proposed for New York City by J^r. Maximilian Moss, president of the Board of Education A. P
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  • 34 7 Chinese press reports say 12 Russian advisers have arrived at S':ek Ki to direct the buildins of a new airfield there. She Ki is it Kwangtung just across the border* from Macao A. P
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  • 412 7 SAIGON,- Sept. 18. v aP) French and Vietnamese police have smashed a Communistled plot to stage a general attack inside Saigon, authoritative sources disclose. The Red-led Vietminh of Moscow-trained Ho Chi Minh had planned to employ a battalion of terrorists smuggled into this capital of
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    38 7 photo. Prematurely born quads of Mrs. Elizabeth Coles (below) of London are here seen in special incubators in Westminster Hospital. The quads all girls who are doing quite well, have been named: Marie, Patricia, Frances and Edna. AP
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  • 33 7 TAIPEH, Sept. 18 (Reuter- AAP) It is reported here that the Chinese Communists on Hainan Island are mass-producing eombat rubber boats, lifebuoys and "Mae West" lifejackets under Russian supervision.
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  • 39 7 U.S. Gen. George C. Kenney, who commanded the Allied Air Forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the South-West Pacific during the liberation campaign from Australia to the Philippines, is in Manila on his way to Tokyo.— A.P.
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  • 68 7 Grab Berlin From West 4 BERLIN, Sept. 18 (UP)— Communist East Germany's Foreign Minister George Dartinger declared that Western Germany would be wrested away from the Western allies and tied into the Soviet bloc of East Eur.-n -an nations. West Berlin Lord Mayor Ernest Router demanded that the West German
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  • 84 7 US Planes Going To Indo-China SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1R (AP>— The 8.200-ton French carrier Dixmude arrived here today to load planes for In-do-China, the U.S. Navy announced. The announcement did not specify what type of planes the carrier is picking up. However, previous shipments under the Mutual Aid Programme have
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  • 49 7 There has been no significant change in the condition of Mr. George Bernard Shaw over the week-end. He is stated to be "comfortable :ind very cheerful**. Mr. Shaw's condition* after Us operation for a fractured hip. !nd been aggravated by a recurring kidney complaint. Reuter
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  • 131 7 Colony Advances To Self-Rule Goal LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter) Africans will play a greater part in the Government of Gambia, the West African colony, following constitutional changes under which an African will gradually assume leadership of the Legislative Council. The people of Bathurst. the colony's main town, will elect two
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  • 175 7 'Surrender Or Die* INCHONG, Sept. 15.— With U.S. reinforcement* steadily strengthen i 11 g the line of steel across the peninsula below the 38th Parallel, it has become increasingly evident that the 13 North Korean divisions trapped by Gen. Mar Arthur's, nutcracker manoeuvre
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  • 148 7 Han River Spans All Wrecked INCHONG, Sept. 18 (UP) U.S. Army engineers faced with the job of getting the Americans across the Han River to Seoul might have had an easier job if the Air Force and Navy bombers had been less accurate. The bridges at Seoul are a mess.
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  • 118 7 In c hong Was Held By Raw Recruits INCHON. Sept. 18 (ReuterAAPi: One of the oig mysteries of me Korean war so far is the w.iy the Communists allowed Inchon to fall. Trenches. machine-gun nests and barbed wire were strung out In depth al-ng the entire sea front of the
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  • 29 7 Dj- Yussul Djri.H). one of the first S:>uth Africans ■■named" under the suppression ot Communism bill has been elected president ol South A.frica [adxan in Reuter
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  • 327 9 Standard Aviation Reporter AN EMERGENCY CALL for 6,000 pounds of ...M-ii i.al ship from a British vessel lying hrlplcfll and disabled in Yokohama harbour, Japan „1 In answered by a POAS Skymaster, specially' j uu from Bangkok to Singapore, on Thursday
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  • 57 9 EfGLUUJ, Sept. 17 1 1 nol'dlu-bound fourned Navy transport crash-landed in the Ocean, about 47 s southwest of Midway .ind on Sunday, but first rts said all the seven a aboard had escaped life rafts. roc X'avy headquarters here 1 patrolling aircraft spotted D ir.en in three
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  • 93 9 A Seafire aircraft hits the deck of the aircraft carrier HMS Dlustrious. and the camera records the scene at the moment of impact. The pilot can be seen in the act of climbing out of the cockpit while fragments of the machine fly around the deck, and
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  • 59 9 Egypt Seeks Control Over R AF Planes Sept 18— (Renter)— h exercises control taking British "...res to and from nal zone wants to qperrisiaa to planes Royal Air Force in the area. thai British planes the Canal zone peeled by Egyptauthoritios. a man here Va BritiA troops are oming from,
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  • 40 9 NEW DELHI. Sept. 18.— The Government of India have decided to grant a subsidy of Rs 600 000 to the Bharat Airways during the first year of ©Deration nf their services from Calcutta to the Far East- GIIS
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  • 264 9 SHE Engineer's Repair Feat Will Clear King's Dock For Sirdhana Standard Shipping Reporter ONE OF THE most amazing repair feats in a Keppel Harbour drydock has been achieved on a damaged ship in record time. The vessel, the 5,166-ton Dalia belonging to the South African Governmentowned Railways and Harbours, is
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    191 9 This is the 8.1. liner Sirdhana, now being towed from Penang by the Singapore ifcrbour Board Itue Grioer. After sticking in the mud outside Penang last week, the Sirdhana had to be refloated. Her passengers and cargo were transferred ashbre. The Griper was sent from Singapore to her assistance. But
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  • 89 9 Handled With Speed, Efficiency TOKYO. Sept. 17— (ReuterAAP) The Americans are now moving half a million ton of supplies monthly from Japan to Korea by train, track, ship and transport train, Tokyo headquarters stated today. The modern Japanese-built port of Pusan, the main South Korean supply base for United Nations
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  • 72 9 A SYSTEM of underwater sound generators, developed in the United States, permits vessels to travel safely in foggy weather through crowded harbours and along narrow shipping lanes. They are made by the Raytheon Manufacturing Comyany of Waltham, in the State of Massachusetts. These generators, placed
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  • 48 9 AS of July 1, 1950, the pass-enger-canying fleet of the United States consisted of 52 vesj sels with a capacity of 15. .'j74 passengers. This is about onei half the vessels and capacity of i the 1939 fleet, according to the 'National Federation of American Shipping.
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  • 147 9 SWANSEA, Wales. Sept, i 18 (AP) Gales sweeping the Bristol Channel on Sunday failed to halt the once delayed marriage of Henry Hallin, 31-year-old engineer of the Swedish tanker St. Gobrin and 33--year-old Annelise Aahal, who had come from Gothernburg to marry him.
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  • 186 9 Samtruth Seamen Puzzled HONGKONG, Sept. 18. (AP)— The seamen aboard the American freighter, S.S. Samtruth, today expressed concern over their legal status if they refused to take the ship into a Communist China port. Some of them, said that the, owners had offered them a 100 r r bonus on
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  • 114 9 Balloons Pierce 'Curtain' THOUSANDS of balloon?, each carrying "friendly greetings to the finder," were released recently in Copenhagen and other cities in Denmark by the Economic Cooperation Administration's public relations service. An unusual yet simple way of getting a small word of hope and truth behind the Iron Curtain, the
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  • 52 9 OYSTER beds now can be charted through the use of depth-recording equipment developed in the United States. Teh portable apparatus sends out sound waves that are echoed back through the water from the ocean bottom and recorded. By checking differences in intensities, technicians can determine where oyster beds
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  • 253 11 ip of 300,000 guerillas in the South China "provinces Kvyinsjlung and I Kwanwi ha pledged full support to I .Irn Chiang Kai-shek in his plan to recover the itlanu. nan was identified tof the Defence Ministry L'hao-huang, one of the 3 >f the
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  • 117 11 NEW YORK. Sept. 18. (ReuSe< reiary of State Dean n has conferred with .Ir. Benegal Ran of India in I cf a series of talks I i Eastern diplomats •re on Asian issues which en discussed by the Foreign Ministers. Acheson also spoke to
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  • 104 11 TC IV\ Sept 18, (Reuter- ndran Leader R.C. newly appointed anding Officer of AusMustang Fighter No. 77, arrived here n A Talia today, it was nv BCOF. Air Commodore A. M. Charth, Chief of Staff. BCOF, veil on his arrival at dron airfield.
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  • 23 11 For the first time since the end of World War 11. the Seabees have been sent into combat in Korea.
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  • 179 11 MOSCOW, Sept. 18— (AP)— A dispatch in Pravda on Monday said the only reason the Americans succeeded in the Inchon assault was superiority in numbers 20 times as many as the North Koreans. The story said United States commanders, not relying on their own
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  • 78 11 BALLATER. SCOTLAND, Sept. 18, (AP).— Princess Elizabeth and her two children were cheered today as they arrived here by train en route to Balmoral Castle to join the King and Queen for an autumn holiday. The new Princess Anne a month and three days old was
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  • 60 11 LUXEMBOURG, Sept. 18. (Renter).— Luxembourg is to send a volunteer force to Korea—about 50 men— it was learned here today. Circles close to the Belgian Ministry of Defence gave this estimate, which equals one man for every 5,800 of the population. The force is
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  • 82 11 TAIPEI, Sept. 18 (AP) Official quarters here today branded as completely unrounded reports that the Nationalist Air Force bombed the mainland port of Swatow on Sept. 4. The reports in question said a bomb had fallen near the- British Consulate there. Officials here
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  • 150 11 K STOCKHOLM, Sept. lft— (AP).— Russia carried btfge-euJc combined V-weapon and radar ■▼W in the Baltic area last summer, the i"lni newspaper, Aftonbladet, reported on Sunday. g to what the paper "reliable information," o gui led missiles were r several weeks ases on the
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  • 80 11 4 "SK?* i8: ter-AAP)—Three correspondents were injured on Kimpo airport road north of Inchon today when a jeep crashed head-on into a truck in swirling dust. Lachie MacDonald of the London Daily Mail suffered a gashed head and an injured shin. fime and
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  • 156 11 Challenge To Nehru's Power Fading BOMBAY, Sept. 18, (AP).— The internal challenge to Premier Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's leadership of the Congress party seemed stillborn today as the ruling party's High Command 'ended discussions on the state of the Union. The party convention entered its second stage at noon today amidst
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  • 74 11 NASSAU, Sept. 18— Sir George Ritchie Sanford, Governor of the Bahamas' British colony, die'd on Sunday from a heart attack. The 57-year-old veteran of the British Colonial Service arose early, complaining of indigestion. He was found dead in his living room chair by Lady Sanford.
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  • 66 11 LONDON, Sept. 18: (Reuter) Ten Commonwealth countries will begin informal talks here tomorrow on the development of Commonwealth trade and Commonwealth economic and financial matters. They were to have started today but some of the Commonwealth Ministers who attended last week's Paris meetings of the
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  • 40 11 STOCKHOLM, Sept. 18— (AP) The Socialists today appeared easy victors in Sunday's nationwide local elections. Unofficial returns gave them almost 50 per cent of the total vote and indicate a crushing defeat for the Communists.
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  • 24 11 •,—v. fhoto. o j m a^« T*4 tanks were hit by American fire and destroyed during a recenl A.P
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    32 11 liie christening of Corraiae Gibb took place at the Ganison Church, H.Q. Malaya District, Kuala Lumpur. Picture shows Mrs. Gibb with baby, Capt. I. D. Gibb and Anthony Gibb, brother of Lorraine.
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  • 264 11 Bandits Attack Perak Squatters Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Bandits attacked a squatter area in Perak yesterday. At the same time, other bandits attacked a police post in the vicinity. One police constable and two Special Constables were killed, two Special Constables seriously wounded, and also a female Chinese
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  • 125 11 Standard Staff Correspondent MALACCA. Mon.— Yap Chee Seng was found guilty of possession of uncustomed tobacco in the Sessions Court and fined $5,000, in default, one year's rigorous imprisonment. Customs officers in a search of Yap's crockery shop found five baskets containing cups and uncustomed tobacco.
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  • 81 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Mentri Besar of Kelantan. Nik Ahmad Kamil bin Haji Mahmood, Dato Sri Stia Raja, has been appointed a temporary Unofficial Member of the Federal Executive Council in the place of Tuan Sheik Ahmad bin Sheik Mustapha, who is away from the Federation. A
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  • 110 11 Standard Staff Correspondent KOTA BAHRU, Mon.— Mr. Leonard Barnes, Director of Social Studies Oxford University and Chairman of the committee appointed to investigate the present condition of Malay Education arrived in Kota Bahru on Friday accompanied by Mr. E.M.F. Payne, a member of the
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  • 433 11 S Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. After hearing the evidence of two witnesses, a Malay rubber tapper, Yaman bin Khatib, pleaded guilty to a charge of extorting $100 from a Chinese, Chong Foot, by putting him in fear of arrest.
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  • 172 11 THE following are the results of the Normal Class Examinations held recently at the Seremban Centre: FIRST YEAR— Primary:— Miss M. Prout, Miss L. Leembruggen, and Miss Choy Hup Wan. FIRST YEAR— Elementary:— R. Annarasa, Tan Swee Hock, Lim Swee Yeow, Surjan Singh, S.
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  • 58 11 Standard Staff Correspondent MUAR, Mon. Two Malays. Daud bin Mustappa. 25, and Abu Bakar bin Ha.ii Hussain 30. were charged before Inche Rauf in the magistrate's court with assaulting a probationary Asiatic inspector while on duty in Jalan Sisi. They were allowed baii of $100 each
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  • 36 11 THE SINGAPORE Second Magistrate, Mr. S. E. Teh, yesterday acquitted a woman Yeo Ah Mui and her son Tan Ah Kow of a charge of causing hurt to a man Lau Cheng Nam.
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  • 130 11 Cheating Charge Is Withdrawn Standard Staff Correspondent MALACCA. i —Chan Yew Tiam was acquitted by the Magistrate. Mr. N. L. Cohen of a charge of cheating by dishonestly inducing W. W. Gawne to deliver to him a cheque for |13S. Chan had previously successfully appealed against two convictions on two
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  • 56 11 KLUANG Moo,— The foTlowing Ci y unent English School teachers have passed 'heir Normal Class Examinations: First Year Snc Boon Kui, Syed Ismail Bin Ahir.ad, Mohamed Zain Bin Ifohai -<\. Second Ve.ir Ifn x Xavier. Kernail Sii rh. Rattan Singh, K. Anth r..\. D. Joseph. Third
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  • 703 11 COST DOUBLED KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The rush for Federal Citizenship certificates has revealed the loss of birth certificates for a copy of which one usually paid one dollar. A communique issued today reminds the public of Perak. Sclangor. Negri Sembilan, Pahang. Penang and Malacca, that from Aug.
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    56 11 The wedding of Mrs. N. S. Cotter of the Legal Department. Kuala Lumpur, and Mr. W. H. Downs of Tebong Estate. Tampin. took place at St. Mary's Church, Kuala Lumpur. A reception was held at the residence of the Officer Administering the Governmrrit. Mr. S. W. P. Foster Sulion. Picture
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