Singapore Standard, 20 September 1950

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  • 18 1 Singapore Standard jl n m. \OL 1 NO. 80 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1950. 12 PAGES TEN CENTS
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  • 355 1 Standard Staff Reporter \N VSSI RANCE that Government will always t^. „i*iit the policy of appointment of local personnel t the >enior services of the Colony a» a normal .lure of future recruitment, was given by the V olonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe in
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  • Article, Illustration
    38 1 Mohammed Hum, Mii i i of Foreign Affairs in, K -public of Indonesia, pa>sed through Singa- esterday by KLM Lit ion from Amstern his way back to I'ntil recently. Dr. as the Indonesian U, Commissioner to the Netherlands.
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  • 58 1 > ti.iird Staff Reporter ttQ p:rrol cars. IWQ ,md a police jeep Lam Choon Rubber 7- -nile Bukst ■:;d at 8.30 last night Og that the s OB 4 there was found e h id broken out r.i am u g to a short was
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  • 62 1 THE AOC Malaya. AVM Sir Francis Mellersh (left) with his Senior Air Staff Officer, G Capt. P. H. Dunn, just before taking off from Changi yesterday to fly by helicopter to an army trainin? demonstration in Johore. Not lons after this picture was taken the
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  • 283 1 WHAT was to have been a demonstration of casualty evacuation by helicopter turned at the last minute into the real thing in Johore yesterday, the F.E.A.F. News Service reports. A soldier was injured in a hand grenade explosion during an army training demonstration. As a helicopter
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  • 440 1 Standard Staff Reporter THE incident in the Editorial office of The Singapore Standard last Friday, led to a protest hy Mr. Lim Yew Hock (Trade Union Member) at the Legislative Council meeting yesterday* The incident referred to was the assault on some
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  • 31 1 Standard Staff Rep •>••>* A breakdown at St J Power Station last night plunged almost entire Singapore into a black-out, lasting for about one and a ha'f hours.
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  • 190 1 Big 3 State Stand On W. Germany NEW YORK, Sept. 19— (UP) The United States, Britain and France pledged today that they will consider any attack on West Germany or Berlin "from any quarter" as an attack upon themselves. The announcement was made by the Big Three Foreign Ministers at
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  • 74 1 Standard Staff Reporter A GANG fight involving about 20 persons occurred at 8.15 last night in Have'oek Road, near the Singapore Immigration office, and one man was left injured in the leg whsn Police arrived. The man, 28-year-old Koh Eng Seng, a contractor's labourer,
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  • 204 1 S. Koreans Occupy Pohang ON THE NORTHERN FRONT IN KOREA, Sept. 19— (UP).— South Korean troops of the Third Division entered Rohang tonight from the south and south-west against moderate Communist opposition. The Third Division which has been trying to recapture Pohang for three days hoped to have at least
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  • 177 1 THE F.E.A.F. Sunderland flying-boat Squadron which left Seletar only a few days ago for the Korean warfront is already in the thick of air cover operations there, particularly in the Inchon beachhead area. An announcement from F.E.A.F. last night said that the two Sunderland Squadrons
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  • 108 1 Steel Nationalization Draws Churchill 's Ire LONDON, Sept. 19— UP— Winston Churchill charged today that Prime Minister Clement Attlee had dealt a "deadly blow" to the nation's unity and disrupted Britain's rearmament plans by insisting on socialisation of the steel industry. He launched an angry attack on the Labour government
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  • 306 1 Marines Making Preparations To Cross Han R. TOKYO, Sept. 19 (Reuter T AAP). Seoul, richest prize ©f Korea, tonight lay in sight of advanced United States Marine spearheads massed in suburbs west of Han River to cross and storm into the modern city. Patrols are already probing east of the
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  • 31 1 HONGKONG, Sept. 19 (UP)— Agents Wallem and Company said today that th.p Chinese Nationalists released the British ship, Caduceus. which has been detained En Formosa since February.
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  • 212 1 Yankees Retake Waegwan TAEGU, Sept. 19— (Reuter-AAP) Elements of the United Stair* 24th Division today retook Waegwan, key Communist strong-point north «»f Taegu. The town fell as the Americans, harked by British troops on their left flank, struck forward in their four-day-old offensive to link up with Gen. Mac Arthur's
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  • 219 3 IllHilllll Staff f!orrrs|»ondent "//ALA LUMPUR Tues. The President of the m Health And Strength Association, Wong Hoi the secretary, Thein Yit Fatt. the treasurer, Low Poh, and seven members of the committee, were iuced before Raja Suleiman, the first magistrate v on three charges of
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  • 53 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Shopkeepers in the Municipal area of Kuala Lumpur are warned by the Mentri Besar of Selaagor that they shall not buy, sell, exchange, barter, trade in or otherwise deal in rubber jungle boots without a permit in trriting from fhe District
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  • 139 3 KUAL A LUMPUR. Tues.— T«) show their appreciation for the magnificent assistance the Gurkhas are giving in the operations against Communist terrorists, three Chinese firms have undertaken to give all the goats required for this year's Dushera celebrations between October 11 and 20. The firms are Ban
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  • 61 3 K T A LUMPUR, Toes.— i esaful es rape of a latter who swam a river ter a hail of fa M May 12 led n in the Taiping n morning of Chai lOtUi btmdii to be the Emcjjopcy. I in the Ipoh High a July, Chai
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  • 635 3 We Could Help Govt, Police, Blood Bank The Poor'— President Singapore MCA Registered Standard Staff Reporter an rhin,^* 1 S lyf rl ed Stop*!*™ Branch of the Malaybodv inTh. A^ so wtlon yesterday became a recognised announce?* Societies oSfi£S£ registration under the Societies *in«Tnn^ m h £K OCCaS i2 n
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  • 32 3 KUALA I.UMPUR. Tues.— The first Confirmation Servi'-e at the Garrison Church of St. Martin at Headquarters Malaya will be taken by the Lord Bishop of Singapore, Dr. Baines tomorrow evening.
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  • 190 3 Standard Staff Reporter THE new $42,690 fire engine for the Singapore Municipal Fire Brigade has now been completely fitted by Brigade Engineer Mr. Angus and all that remains for it to be ready for the road is the training of crews to work it. Picture shows
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  • Article, Illustration
    133 3 Mr. Teo Peng Kai of Batu Pahat, bowing: to the Regent of Johore, after he had received the order of S.M.J., awarded to him on the occasion of the 77th birthday of the Sultan of Johore. R:J. ST. V. S'.nniah Pillai, a leading merchant of the Indian Community arrived in
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  • 190 3  -  H.L. HOPKIN BY. Standard London Correspondent. LONDON, Sept. 18— The Sultan of Johore rang me iup tonight to give me the 'news of the birth of a daughter to the Sultana. i He added that he was "im- mensely happy." The hapjpy event took place
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  • 137 3 Half Million Tons Cargo In A Month MONTHLY return of tonnage of cargo discharged and loaded at Singapore roads and wharves in August amounted to 559,484 tons, making 3,879,513 tons for the first eight months of the year. This figure represented the total tonnages for ships over 75 tons net
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  • 313 3 DISTRICTS OBSERVE SULTAN'S BIRTHDA Y THE 77th birthday of the Sultan of Johoie was Ittingly celebrated in *Muar. Batu Pahat, Segamat and other districts in the State At Muar, aquatic sports were held during the day followed by a dinner at the Muar Club. Over 200 people attended the least
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  • Article, Illustration
    51 3 Mr. W. D. Robinson, newly appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police in the Federation, arrived in Singapore yesterday by a BOAC Argonaut from London to take up his appointment in "a day or two." Mr. Robinson was formerly deputy Inspector General of Police in Pakistan. He will leave for Kuala Lumpur
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  • 55 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— A new market is proposed for Sentul Pasar near the Malayan Railways workers' quarterabout three miles from Kuala Lumpur. The project is estimated to rost about $10,000. Work on the market will start as soon as the Municipality has
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  • 178 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues For 15 minutes yesterday, a Sang of bandits and a security forces escort party exchanged fire when an attack was made on a quarry- in Selangor. There were no casualties to the security forces. A Chinese bandit armed
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  • 154 3 LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reutert Conservative Major Tufton Beamish askecl in the House of Commons today why British units fighting in Malaya were not allowed to be named in contrast to those in Korea. War Ministers John Strachey said permission was given as soon as
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  • 133 3 Daily Paid Men Standard Staff Correspondent K D A L A LUMPUR, rues.— The Government ot the Federation is oxoe'-tort to make an early decision on the recommendations of the Interim Joint Council on the Government daUjr rated workers' v. ages. Tin 1
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  • 89 3 K U A L A LUMPUR. Tues.— Mr. Leo Tham Yin ol Chan WTing Buildings, Kuala Lumpur, has bsen appointed Architect of Kuala Lumpur Coonerati% e Housing S >ciety Ltd. He is preparing the designs for various i rpcs of houi is and members wiU
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  • 1185 5  -  PHYLLIS BAT TELE By ]\EW YORK, Sept. If. The foundation- garment makers are so gleeful about the slim silhouette that they're bustin' out all over— though it's against in- dustry policy. All the top designers are showing dresses so skinny that lady clothes-horses
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  • 347 5  -  MARY NIRLAS TVYLON wigs for dolls are 1 the greatest improvement in doll manufacturing in over 100 years says Ben Michtom, president of a leading New York doll company. "Doll's hair, formerly marie out of mohair and human hair, has long been unmanageable
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  • 43 5 "Wno, me get the bird* Certainly not," say* this little Miss as photograph er Mollie Ross aims her camera at her. *'A> for the one in the piriure." she adds. "well, tha Is a different story. He SjifM me the giggle*.
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  • 457 7 LAKE SUCCESS,-Sept. 19 (AP)— Gen MacArthur charged Red China and Russia with having given major military aid to the North Koreans in a report to the Security Council which Russia's Jacob Malik vainly tried to pigeonhole. The Council, however,
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  • 176 7 France Is Blocking West Accord On European Army NFW YORK, Sept. 19 (I l>) The North Atlantic rraty < ouncil has recessed for about two weeks after I ing to reach firm agreements on the building of a i*<l European force, mainly bemuse of French position to participation of West
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  • Article, Illustration
    46 7 photo. m r Karopes bluest Bower rentre, in Holland showed .r 'dm is to the people of Amsterdam in a floral parade t "-h the main streets of the city. Picture shows a model si -Tuss-in-Boots" in flowers drawn by tractor driven by a "cavalier." A.P.
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  • 141 7 HONGKONG, Sept. 19 (AP) —French and other foreign diplomatic circles here discount Chinese reports that Chinese Red troops have attacked two French garrisons in Indo-China. The report that Chinese Red troops, after months of building up along the Indo-China border, had finally invaded Indo-China is believed
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  • 77 7 HONGKONG, Sept. 19 (Reuter-AAP):— The Shanghai city authorities have removed 1,346 unburied coffins to the Municipal crematorium for disposal, to eliminate a major menace to the health of the city. They were found to be without claimants. There are about 70,000 such coffins in
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  • 44 7 Old Sign Told Gl's, Come Again H N Sepi 19 <UP>:— The S ':om Inchoi is still k -13ns placed there > by the U.S. armed b Korea. nan >aid. "You are leaving Hooe You Enioyed nth USAFIK (United .ed Forces in Korea). \g .in
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  • 61 7 LONDON. Sept. 19 (Reuter): Preliminary talks between Britain and the UMted States on a Japanese peace treaty are expec iPd to begin in Washington at the end of this week, it is learned here. Similar bilateral talks are expected to open shortly between the United
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  • 99 7 WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (AP) President Truman is expected to propose about US$lO,OOO million in economic aid to 40 foreign countries in the next five years to help block off Communism. This recommendation is reported to be the theme of a comprehensive survey of
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  • 31 7 WASHINGTON Sept. 19 (UP) Mr. Louis Johnson, who bowed out of the President's Cabinet today as Defence Secretary, said last "nitjht thnt the Korean fighting may be Russia's "Waterloo."
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  • 129 7 TAEGU, Sept. 19 (ReuterAAP)— The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders last night repulsed an enemy raid on the British left flank. With small arms and machine-gun fire, they killed seven North Koreans. There was no British casualty. The North Koreans, who occupy an area
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  • 83 7 LUTOX. Sept. 18 (Reuter>: Doctors reporting "a slieht improvement" in Mr. Bernard Shaw's condition, said he was in a chatty mood today despite his kidney "trouble. Mr Shaw yesterday gave his doctors in Luton Hospital a lecture on Joan of Arc. Aristotle and George Bernard
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  • 93 7 'No Peace Feelers Yet'— US WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 9 (AP):— The U.S. State Department said there have been no known peace overtures from the North Korean Communists. Press officer Lincoln White said the Department has no con* firmation of a London report, that feelers had been put out. Mr. White
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  • 51 7 BANGKOK, Sept. 19 (AP):— A team of British engineers has begun dismantling the remains of the 1.443-foot-long Rama VI railway bridge, which was destroyed by allied bombers during the Japanese occupation. The bridge, longest in Thailand, is to be replaced with a new structure being fabricated in
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  • 30 7 NASIK. Sept. 19 (Reuter): The Indian Congress Working Committee has passed a resolution expressing the hope that foreign possessions in India "will end soon by peaceful methods."
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  • News Briefs
    • 116 7 WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (AP): President Truman has laid before Congress a blueprint for a vast civil defence programme to rally the nation for protection from atomic attack and to enable the nation to strike back swiftly and to destroy an aggressor. The programme was drafted
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    • Article, Illustration
      47 7 Bu-. br-iTCSS men who left thc-ir Mxr. r n r r-:id "iusi 8 ffw n'ui'jtcs" at a business efficiency exmbi.: n •ved longer tlian they intended— to watch Beryl Prlre, 21, pouniitts a «;-i\ ar-old tvpeuriter. She wore a Victorian full-length brown taffeta dress, complete with bustle.
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    • 33 7 Mr. A.C.S. Adams of the British Foreign Office is en route to Korea to take up a post as Charge d'Affaires ad interim. He was Charge d'Affaires in Bangkok in 1948. Reuter AAP
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    • 26 7 The Government Bill to lengthen military service in Britain from 18 months to two years has become law with the receipt of the Royal Assent. Reuter
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    • 18 7 A four-member Burmese delegation to the United Nations headed by U Tin is attending the General Assembly. U.P
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    • 58 7 Col. Walter H. Crichton, a former British Army medical j officer, who has been appointed i director of the World Health Organisation's mission to Korea. is already, on his way there by air. The WHO is recruiting five public health teams in Europe, South America and America to reorganise health
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    • 13 7 Mgr. Alcide Marina, 63, Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon, has died in Rome. U.P
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    • 52 7 Michael Lee, U.S. Commerce Department Far Eastern trade expert, has been suspended from his U.S. $10,000-a-year job following an "adverse report" by the Department's loyalty board. A Senator had accused Manchurian-born Lee of being: associated with subversive elements and was responsible in his commerce post for delaying: shipments to Nationalist
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    • 33 7 British Supply Minister George Strauss told Parliament that he was perfectly sure no Russian representative or a cent had been inside any factory in Britain carrying out secret work for the Government Reuter
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    • 12 7 Two light 'earthquakes were felt early Monday in Aquila Province, Italy. U.P
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    • 78 7 The Chinese Communists have announced plans to rebuild Yenan, the famous cave city ichich icas their refuge after the '"long march" of the 1930'5, and their capital until they conquered the Chinese mainland. Yenan, which teas largely destroyed by the Nationalists, is to be rebuilt by 1953 as a Communist
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    • 27 7 The joint U.S. State and Defence Department military survey mission has opened talks in Manila with the P.I. armed forces' leaders on the islands' defence needs. A.P
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    • 35 7 Prague avenues named after Field Marshal Lord Montgomery ;;nd Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ought to be rechristened, a reader wrote in to the O.^' lK.nslovak; newspaper Miadp Fronta. He accused them oi being "wartioneers." A.P
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  • 178 7 TOKYO, Sept. 19.— More ihan 7,800 Red Koreans have been killed, wounded or captured in action during the last 48 hours, figures issued by Gen. MacArthur's headquarters disclose, says Associated Press. Massive air strikes and severe fighting in the various sectors today
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    29 7 South Korean W.A.Cs., trained and ready to join their men folk at the front, disnZav military precision as they parade through Pusan, the main U.N. base in Korea. A.P
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  • 40 7 TOKYO, Sept. 19 Reuter- AAP Eritish marines are fighting alongside the Leathernecks near Inchon. A small party of Royal Marines who participated in the amphibious landin? operation went into action as soon as they were ashore.
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  • 113 7 LAKE SUCCESS, Sept 19 (Reuter):— As the nonCommunist powers manoeuvred here on the eve of the U.N. General Assembly opening to set up machinery for by-passing the Security Council, which has been persistently blocked by Soviet vetoes, Indian Premier Nehru at Nasik yesterday fierenued the institution of
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  • 186 7 Mao Gets Indian Backing LAKE SUCCESS, >< ,>t. 19 (AI») India has fornialiy propo*:-'! that the U..\. G<»n<Tal Amhb >ly turn China't* I JN> Meat c» r to the Communist regime of Mao Thi'-l!m<r. However, Indian Prime Minister Nehru has indicated that he would not object to a seat being
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  • 82 7 COLOMBO, Sept. 19 (Reuter): Ceylon will be the io;ale of a series of Anglo-American films, the first of which— "The Silver Nutmeg" is expected to go into production in November. Mr. George Maynard, of Associated British Pictures, is now in Ceylon for preliminary arrangements. Mr.
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  • 114 7 India Saving Peace, Nehru Asserts NASIK, Sept. 19 (AP) Pandit Nehru's foreign policy was unanimously approved last night by the 250 members of the All-India Congress Working Committee. The Premier, while admitting that India could not greatly influence world events, claimed that India's voice had helped some nations to determine
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  • 297 9 By DEREK DRABBLE, Standard Shipping Reporter RED PURCHASES of rubber— are they ended? Has Russia spent th< la.t of her annual allocation now that sweet September's here? I hi. time last year that was the case, and the last shipment went
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  • 108 9 Standard Shipping Reporter AFTER a brief stay of less than a week at Singapore Naval Base, the 13.500-ton aircraft carriers Warrior and Theseus, each of which arrived within a day of each other, are leaving jointly for Hongkong today. Their destination is Korea. Warrior and Theseus
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  • 143 9 P O's POST-WAR FASHION Standard Shipping Reporter THE P. O.'s post-war fashion of adopting whits, hulls and buff funnels for their passenger vessels travelling out East a fashion shown in Singapore Docks today by the Carthage was first started on the company's Australian run by the luxury liners of the
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  • 130 9 [INIUM LIFEBOATS times the passenger ity of the Santa Maria. p of Christopher Colum--3 first voyage to Amj. be installed on a .iner being built in ted States. the lifeboats wi'.l hold 150 persons, while the Santa Maria carried 52. Each 1 will weigh
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  • 50 9 TAIPEI. Sept. 19— (AP)-A typhoon blowing from the east passed between Luzon and Formosa and is now heading towards Hongkong and Macao, the Weather Bureau here reported today. It said another and bigger typhoon had developed in the Pacific and was now moving towards Southern Japan.
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  • 64 9 From the godowns of Singapore to the steppes of Russia goes the hevea brasiliensis born out of Amazonian rubber grown in the Malayan ulu. Here you see part of the documentary story. (Left) Sheet rubber being off-loomed into godown 25 for the Russian freighter
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  • 154 9 Flies Trans-Atlantic Route PAN AMERICAN World Airways will begin service on September 25 over the trans-Atlantic routes operated by American Overseas Airlines. On that date Pan American will formally take over AOA for U.5.517,450,00Q. The combined airlines will have behind them the exprience
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  • 115 9 MOFFETT Field, CALIFORNIA, Sept. 19— (AP) The airplane propeller is about to get a new lease of life despite the arrival of the jet age. A new laboratory creation called a supersonic propeller is being tested by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) for possible use on
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  • 103 9 LONDON. Sept. 19 (Reuter) Recent rough weather on the Kent and Sussex coasts has focussed attention on measures to combat the effects of winter gales on sea defences. Already some '£2,000,000 sterling has been spent on these defences since the war. and engineers all
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  • 43 9 HONGKONG. Sept. 19, (Reu-ter-AAP).—Peking trade agents are in the market for purchases of vessels which have been lying idle in Hongkong harbour for almost a year. Chinese sources today said two vessels have been bought and towed to Shanghai.
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  • 725 9 BLUE FUNNEL •^r PORT* Mentor (Capt D. W. Btroudl from Hongkong and Philippines for Liverpool and Glasgow, via Straits norts and Colombo. Sailing Sept. 20. Alcinoas (Capt. H. J. Landsman) from Indonesian ports for Continent London via Belawan and Aden. Sailing Sept. 22. Astyanax (Capt
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  • 816 11 A FINE of $500 was imposed on Mr. Kassim Angullia in the Sineapor B i ,rst Distort Court yesterday after he was found guilty on a sumS ffSS 8 0 rep rt the u fact that he hadreceived
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  • 60 11 Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH, Tues. Univerajy Fund donations received by the Ipoh banks for the week endin" Sept- 16 amounted to $6!*486.80. They are made up of convent School; Taiping b42 30; Len«gong sub-district collecUon'for July $206: Brick Fund Lenggong sub-district $1.^9BESS. »W?c£s; Tak Nam 51.008
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  • 202 11 Standard Staff Reporter A MARINE row boat with one or two Marine Police should be posted in the vicinity of the reclaimed land running immediately behind the Singapore Cenotaph, in case of emergency. This was called for in the Legislative Council yesterday by Mr. P.
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  • 204 11 Singer Loses Dresses In Dawn Fire Standard Staff Reporter SEVERAL expensive dresses of 19-year-old singing star. Miss Yong Lee, of the Night Cafe. New World, went up in smoke in a fire which broke out in her flat in Purvis Street. Singapore, early yesterday morning. The fire apparently started in
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  • 70 11 AT THE conclusion of a preliminary inquiry in the Singapore Relief Court yesterday, two British soldiers, Michael Frank Hickling and Derek James Nicholls, were committed for trial at the next Assizes on a charge of robbery of a taxi and causing hurt to the driver,
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  • 55 11 Clerk Freed Of Trust Charge A CLERK, Tay Kok Poon, employed at Messrs. Fraser Neave, was acquitted in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday of two charges of breach of trust. 4 The charges alleged that on April and June, Tay misappropriated $57.80 and $42, respectivel v Mr. C. H.
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  • 268 11 Marriage Bili Read First Time Standard Staff Reporter BILLS which were introduced for the first time yesterday in the Singapore Legislative Council were the Age of Marriage Ordinance, the Penal Code (Amendment) Ordinance and the Silver Jubilee Fund (Singapore) (Amendment) Ordinance. The first bill, proposed by Mr. John Laycock, Second
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  • 38 11 Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH, Tues. Chung Nyee Lan (77), who washed dulang without a permit was fined $10 or five days' imprisonment today. She told Magistrate Che Bahaudin that she was only learning to wash.
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  • 182 11 Standard Staff Reporter THE number of receiving orders made in bankruptcy during 1949 amounted to 6± cornered with 20 in 1948.30 rordme to the annual report of the Official Assignee and Public Trustee, issued yesterday. Of these. 14 were trade bankruptcies and 18 those of
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  • 48 11 THE fourth re-union dinner since the war ended, given by the Shell Co., Kuala Lumpur, was held at the Chan Cheok Restaurant last Saturday. Picture shows Mr. W. L. Cuscaden, the local Manager, addressing: the gathering of petrol dealers and petrol pump operators during the dinner.
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  • 310 11 Malayan Naval Force To Get Land For Barracks Standard Staff Reporter ADDITIONAL land is to be acquired at a cost of $30,000 by the Singapore Government for extensions to the Malayan Naval Force Shore Establishments at Woodlands. This was revealed in a report of the Finance Committee adopted by the
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    48 11 Mr. Tech Hua Xuaa, J5. Sc. (Eng), now on his way to the United Kingdom to further his studies in the University of Durham for two years. Mr. Teoh, who recently left on the Selandia, graduated in Civil Engineering: in the Hongkong University and is an Ipoh boy.
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  • 139 11 Standard Staff Reporter MRS. Shirin Fozdar. looking pretty in violet and silver sari and blouse, president of the Women's Progressive Group in India, arrived yesterday in the Carthage from Bombay to spend two months in Singapore. While here, she intends to spread the Bahai faith, of which
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  • 207 11 Levy To Be Used To Improve City Standard Staff Reporter MONEYS levied from the improvement rate of two per cent. on annual value of Municipal area properties will be used for improving back-lanes, providing open spaces in congested areas, and for the construction of houses for people de-housed by such
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  • 63 11 THE Public Trustee, at th* end of 1949, held assets valued at $338,045, of which $136,600 was invested in the Common Fund controlled by the Public Trustee Investment Board. This is stated in the Public Trustee's annual report for 1949 released yesterday. For the year, the
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  • 309 11 Standard Staff Reporter OCCUPATION period debtor-creditor dealings that are the subject of disputes and have not been submitted for legal action within the one year up to Sept. 30, 1950, prescribed under the Ordinance will now be allowed until the end of next
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  • 184 11 Jap Payments Must Await Peace Treaty THE CUSTODIAN of Boemy Property, Mr. D. H. Chapman. told The Standard yesterday that there was no machinery at present to deal with reparations Mr Chapman was answering a query from a Standard reader \\i. ■:> granted to know whether the dependants of Malayans
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  • 126 11 Standard Staff CorresDondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.-A claim for $14,G50 brought by Madam Chow E. Wah against the Kuala Lumpur millionaire. Mr. Loke Yung Hong, for "malicious" damage caused to her house in Hicks Road, was settled by mutual consent today before Mr. Justice C. H.
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  • 72 11 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues— A special constable. Mohamed Alam, claimed trial before the First Magistrate Raja Suleiman, today on a charge of committing criminal intinnidati a by threatening a fellow special constable, Sheraman. on Sunday at the Wireless Station in Coctirane Road, Kuala Lumpur It
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  • 210 11 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tuv< Two Brit ish and one Malay servie^mon wore this morning presented v"'.:i Commander-tn-Chief eert: i-'ates by the MajorGenera] Urquharl. (iUC Malaya. Driver Dennis Corrin of the 3rd Coy, RASC. gained his certificate for the part Inplayed in a bandit
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