Singapore Standard, 13 October 1950

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  • 17 1 Singapore Standard fan m. VOL. 1 NO. 103 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1950. 12 PAGES TEN CENTS
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  • 246 1 Standard Staff Correspondent M \l ll MPI R, Thurs. The Standard learns following private information received from 11 ,-Imh (on thai the I nited States Government proto open all a\ailable synthetic rubber plants to I m lhe war effort, an emergency meeting of leading
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  • 116 1 May Hold Talks On Missouri )d 12 m the it President nference Arthur this place battle- Ati as j l of i lhe Pre- Arthur and foi a de- j miles waa the j g eur'.y ir. v ith the tl c more its to ac- i rs har i
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  • 78 1 SAIGON. Oct. 13. (APX French forces have withdrawn from Thainguyen. former principal Viet Minh base m North Ir.do-China. which the French seized on October 10. A French military spokesman said the withdrawal was made on Tuesday without any Vietminh pressure to a new defence line about
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  • 47 1 Fire broke out m a Chinese shophouse m Malay Street last night and destroyed part of a huge consignment of buffalo hide. Picture taken at the top of a staircase shows a portion of the gutted shop with firemen standing by. Standard Photo.
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  • 140 1 Output Of Power Reduced Standard Staff Reporter The output of the St. James' Power Station will be reduced until a new blading arrives from the manufacturers, the Singapore Municipal Electrical Engineer. Mr. C. C. Payne told The Standard last night, hinting that power cuts may be effected fron time to
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  • 133 1 Australian Budget Introduced CANBERRA, Oct. 12 (Reu-ter-AAP) Treasurer Arthur William Fadden today introduced m Parliament Australia's biggest peacetime budget. It proposes A £700,000,000 (£560,000,000) expenditure m the current financial year. Mr. Fadden is leader of the Country Party irr the coalition Liberal-Country Party Government. Mr. Fadden announced there would be
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  • 50 1 Standard Staff Reporter Eight Chinese taxi drivers and some passengers near the Southern Hotel. New Bridge Road, just before midnight last night, were involved m a street fight, with thfi result that three of them were injured and removed to the General Hospital.
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  • 221 1 Standard Staff Reporter ARSONISTS took advantage of the black-out last night and tried to set lire to a Singapore Municipal electric sub-station at the lonely Bendemeer Road off Lavender Street, but the attempt was foiled by the prompt arrival of the police.
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  • 109 1 BANGKOK, Oct. 12 (AP)— Jolted by reports that 200 Siamese students studying m England are not going to school but are living the life of "society butterflies," the Siamese government has ordered a committee representing four ministries to carry out an investigation. The
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  • 278 1 Standard Staff Reporter IF a sub-officer of the Fire Brigade is not p«"mitted to marry after his il itial three years' service it would be "inhuman and mos* i nnatural." Municipal Comn issioner P. J. Johnson told Tne Standard yesterday. Mr. Johnson was commenting on
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  • 203 1 PLANS are now nearly completed for the staging of tomorrow's gala reception given by Mr. Aw Boon Haw, Governing Director of the Singapore Standard, m honour of the winners m The Standard Essay Contest. With Dato C. J. Paglar. as Master of Ceremonies,
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  • 417 1 6 Divisions Push Within 70 Miles Of Reds' Capital TOKYO, Oct. 12-(UP)-Six United Nations divisions surged through North Korea today against diminishing Communist resistance. Five of the divisions— plus the British Commonwealth Brigade smashed toward Pyongyang, Red capital, on a 100-mile battle are stretching from the south to east. The
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  • 296 1 TOKYO, Oct. 12— (AP)— Big guns of the U.S. battleship Missouri, Allied warships and naval planes set fire today to Chongjin, a far northern part on the cast of Red Korea. The industrial port city of 190.000 inhabitants is 34 miles southeast of Red
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  • 182 1 1st Cavalry Captures Hanpo-ri WITH THE FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION, Oct. 12 (UP) Battle-seasoned First Cavalry Division troopers kicked oif at dawn today with a threepronged assault northward from the 38th Parallel and by nightfall their left flank elements had seized the town of Hanpo-ri, 20 road miles above the parallel.
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  • 26 1 WASHINGTON. Oct. 12--(Reuter)—The official list of American casualties m the Korean war rose to 24.163 last night, an increase of 3,407 m one week.
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  • 61 1 TOKYO, Oct. 12 (ReuterAAP) For "conspicuous gallantry m action" m last month's Inchon landing operation, Rear Admiral William G. Andrewes, C.8.E., D.5.0., has been awarded the American Silver Star Medal, General Mac Arthur announced today. Admiral Andrewes, Royal Navy Flag Officer, is Second-in-Command of the
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    • 72 1 On Other Pages Page Councillor Urges Alternative Site For International Airport 2 Torm Singapore Brigade Now' Plea 2 Indian Interpreters Seek Redress 3 Penang Shooting Outrage 1 Union Chief Warned.. 5 Living Costs Have Risen In Colony 5 Victorious GeneralEditorial 6 Move To Oust Nationalist China 7 Protest Against ProKsed
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  • 154 3 Standard Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. The Executive Committee of the UMNO has decided: (a) to form a delegation to interview and consult the authorities concerned on the question of State Nationality. (b) to form a committee to investigate and report on the question of
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  • 68 3 Standard Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs At the Executive Committee meeting of the UMNO held at Kuala Lumpur recently, 12 Advisory Committees have heen formed. They are: Working Committee; Finance; Political, Education and Election: Organisation and membership: Publicity and Information; Economic AtTairs and Rural Development: Religious
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  • 277 3 mdian Interpreters Seek Redress Standard Staff Correspondent KLALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Indian Interpreters m the Federation have drawn up a lengthy memorandum which they intend to submit to Government urging that their student interpreters be put on a commencing salary similar to that of their
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  • 60 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA PILAH, Thurs. Eleven Chinese and two Tamil labourers of Ladang Geddes Estate, were fined a total of $45 each for gambling at the central kongsi and breaking the curfew. In another case. 42 labourers, Chinese and Indians, of the same estate
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  • 190 3 Standard Staff Correspondent X U ALA LU M PUR. Thurs. The iMalayan Chinese Association is campaigning for more members. The association hopes by the end of this year to bring its membership total to 200.000. a Kuala Lumpur M.CA. official told The Standard.
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  • 80 3 dmdard Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Thurs.— Attaps >r thatching the -oofs of houses id bullock-carts a.c m demand i Negri Sembilan An official port released fc diy mentions at there was a great demand >r attap rumbia m the various districts. A Malay contractor m Rembau alone disp'-
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  • 100 3 Standard Staff Correspondent M A UMPfR, Thurs.— Representatives of Malay ta fi Parts of the Federation, except Perak |c v :abled m Seremban for an extraordinary j ed :Ml Uw Malay Teachers Association of the 1 re- t ted by 14 votes to nine the
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  • 110 3 photo. photo. pa t.re. Mr .:a! Ml* Yon? (liin Fah i after their wedding il k ilt I.umpur recently. j .■'nm is on the staff of Bin Huat Pottery H ks Ltd The bride was ran h Miss Yap Swee Bros:. C.F. Larm 1 redding of In;
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  • 146 3 Standard Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Thurs— "Many people are of the opinion that the British Council is merely a cultural organisation interested m art and exhibitions," stated Mr. J. W. L. Gale of the British Council, last night when he addressed Seremban Rotarians on
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  • 252 3 rnoto. Standard- Staff Correspondent KOTA BHARU, Thurs. In the Supreme Court. Keta Bahru, before Justice F. A. Briggs the first case here under the Debtor Creditor Legislation was heard when T.A.R.M. Annamalai, a moneylender of Kota Bharu, sued Munah binti Che Musa "for $9,839.79 and
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  • 88 3 Standard Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Thurs.— The president of the Se^si as Court, Inche Azmi bin M o hamed convicted and sentenced Gan Kit Leng. 21, two charges of abetting the offence of criminal intimidati n and with being found m possession of seditious publication on
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  • 103 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. An estate m Perak was raided by armed bandits yesterday. They burned two smoke houses, three labourers' lines, one house and a packing shed and also damaged the estate factory. There were no casualties. I Also m Johore, a
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  • 39 3 Standard Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Thurs.— There is demand for sago as livestock food m Negri Sembilan. an official report disclosed today. j This is due to the shortage of padi and other feeding* stuffs m the kampongs.
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  • 92 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA PILAH, Thurs. A Malay, Lebai Derman, was committed to stand his trial m the Supreme Court at Seremban, during the next Assizes, on a charge of murder of another Malay at Kampong Jumbang, Sri Menanti, m March. 1945. The case arises as
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  • 55 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KAJANG, Thurs. The District Officer, Tuan Haji Abdul Aziz, will preside at a meeting of heads of Government departments and pensioners to be held at the Broderick Club at 4.45 p.m. on Oct. 24. The meeting will discuss the formation of a
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  • 62 3 WSL Appeals For More Members Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Thurs. An appeal for new members is being launched by the Women's Service League Ladies' Rest Room (International) here. Subscription is f per mo:;lh. Besides providing refreshments at low cost, the Room also provides books and r. gazines and other amenities.
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  • 417 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. "However widespread the use of the English language, it is stilt a foreign tongue and will not be spoken by the masses of Malays In their homes", remarked Dato Haji Mohamed Eusoff, when asked for his views on Malay
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  • 78 3 MUAR. Thurs. Convicted on a charge ol giving Ca c information to the police, thereby causing tbe tnesl <>t n I I Teo Lam was sentenced i y I Inche Rauf. the Muar ma. tra to pay a fine ot $75 I t rgo 4n days' rigorous
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  • 48 3 KAJANG, Wed. —The President of the Kajang Sessions Court. Mr. D. M. K. Grant, sentenced Chong Ah Wong. 19, to six months rigorous imprisonment for stealing a bicycle and dishonestly inducing Yap Chiang to hand over to him $40. Chong had seven previoi 1 Lctions.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 401 3 <_*___ t> 1 Cathay: Give Us This Day: 2.30, WA 11_t\ir* T J SLLANGOR Today 6.45 and 930 om TAIPING Today Metropole: Haunted Mansion Majestic: Sweet Dream (Can- and Gold Lock (Chinese) 6.45 Lj do Jesse James: 3. 6.30 and tonese): 12. 3, 7 and 9.15 p.m. and 9 p.m.
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  • 1175 5 S'PORE UNION CHIEF WARNED AT INQUIRY 'You're Liable To Jail' President Standard Staff Reporter THERE WAS a dramatic turn at yesterday's meeting of the Seamen's Inquiry Commission m Singapore, when the President of the Indo-Malay Pakistani Union, Mr. M. A. Majid, asked to be allowed to withdraw from giving evidence.
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  • 81 5 Standard Siatt Reporter ol the Sißgapore Police Force will be i bia farewell parade for Singapore's Police Mr. R. E. Foulger. at tin* i>l on \o\ 2. years Mr 5 Commissioner ag< have C I -:0-'" s j his period l and eir own tele--<tem,
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  • 71 5 Standard Staff Correspondent TAIPING, Thurs A 52--vear-oUt cook Woon Seong Chow, was produced before gistrate Che Abdul Aziz j Mere Of) Tuesday on a charge of having terrorist documents i Wong was arrested on Mo:.-! day at the residence of the a c I i
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  • 267 5 Delegation Front Pakistan Standard Staff Reporter A T^ G-MAN delegation is now m Singapore to invite Muslim* m Malaya to the first annual session ot the Motamcr-E Alani-E Islumi (World Muslim Conference) to be held m Karachi from Dec. 29 to 31. The delegation,
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  • 29 5 SATA APPLE TO DOCTORS tfl Reporter Com- Anti offei li N three St iff, ii y need arises. >■ G H. Garts arc to one v- f sudden PI j
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  • 46 5 FOR TRIAL AT S'PORE ASSIZES Tan j stand Assizes i '..irv m i Court j he was with posi and six muni- aSI a pai'". X b laid Sl eet Sq t 13. ing on a the light, police I arrested Bed, Sm th s waist
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  • 11 5 eepers were S yeste ij ice durured by the
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  • 8 5 11 i sterge a ol i
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  • 149 5 THE story oi how a quarrel over a debt led to the death of an Indian fitter was told m Singapore Relief Court yesterday. In the dock stood a 26--year-old labourer, Velayudhan Bhanu tentatively charged with the culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Senior
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  • 264 5 THE GREATEST provocation for a Tamil is the brandishing of a broom on his face by a woman, argued Mr. A. P. Muthuswamy, counsel assigned tor the defence, m an appeal which was dismissed yesterday at the Singapore Court of Appeal. The appellant was a
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  • 150 5 Standard Staff Reporter A LETTER from the Singapore Commanfaf Party, changing the Seamen Employ iwt 111 Bureau v> iI li corruption and other practices, was handed over to the Seamen Commission of Enquiry at its sixth public session isi the Victoria Memorial Hall
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  • 96 5 Standard Staff Reporter A RUSH for the new telephone directory is expected at thc Oriental Telephone E ectrica] Company office today. Seven thousand five hundred post cards, have been sent to subscribers yesterday morning asking them to collect the directories. There are 40.000 to bo
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  • 26 5 THE S:hi-ap< re Co-op.. c Stores Society Ltd. will hold a luncheon party on Sunday ai 1 p.m. to celebrate its fourth anniversary photo.
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  • 213 5 Standard Staff Reporter THE COMMITTEE appointed by the meeting of delegates of Singapore trade unions to survey increase* m cost-of-living and make recommendations for increased allowances has found definite facts and figures to prove an increase m the cost-of-living, especially since June this year.
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  • 40 5 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG Ti. irs storms during Septe did some damage to vegi ta) gardens, and the reduced output resulted m all round i increases m the local markets, j states the monthly agi ici 1 -port
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  • 58 5 KK Gives 10.272 To Varsity Fund Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH. rhurs. -Kua i X Bar's contributions towards U University of Maiaya Endow ment Fund for the months of August and Septembei lounted to 110,272 Of the<e $902 came from the sa brick coupons. Donations received bi the Ipoh bank'; for
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  • 30 5 Standard Staff Correspondent TAIPING, Thurs -T. moration of La Saliian the St Geoi Institution will stage a concert iv i -hool ha s lay, Oct. S SQ p.m.
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  • 332 7 'Move gte Oust N'list China NEW YORK, Oct. 12 As the General Assembly Political Committee progressed with the Aeheson Plan for a L.N. army lo fight aggression, a cool reception was given to a formal Russian proposaf for a Big Five conference
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  • 334 7 photo. COPENHAGEN, On. 12 (Keuter): Although pointing out that K'.ii.i'o oligarchy* while frothing words of peace, has since 1945 armed force*, trained ami organised more than almost countries of the worid put together," Mr. Winston Chur jjjH i rapid creation
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  • 54 7 Second 'Korea' Looming LI > i utral miliay, pointregion •.-backed II Ri China, reported ..rms c most I Red q p] tea *.< i H .»f the lmh»-( hina tordrr rtjptm has shakes the •ntirf military balance that \y_ iu.fii the warns Fi> i, iminh. quip- Thatkhe Chi I h
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  • 12 7 w. Germany Waiting,' West Is Told a I he r man i
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  • 13 7 'helpful' Talks On Jap Treaty X Lit CAP, Deai h a p peao
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  • 6 7 1000 Rebels Are Repulsed L s*
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  • 131 7 RANGOON, Oy. .2 (AP):—\ S en-months-otd X:/ i >"' cii haa ior playmate It-foot boa coitstrictor. But the little boy'j porenti are* worrying. attachme it between child d make make a strangt itom Thm father, Maung Aye a "mw r hi the delta rillaye Shwepay, relate*
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  • 95 7 MANILA, Oct. 12 (Renter)— j Moro Congressman H. Gulamu] Rasul iia- petitioned the office •i: President to require; n m Mindanao, 90 per I oi whom are Muslims, to i a- iiy theii Koran when j iv court or taking r oaths. R n si
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  • 101 7 WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (AP) —With President Truman's departure for his dramatic top-secret meeting with Gen. Mac Arthur m the Pacific," speculation placed thc site of the rendezvous *at Honolulu. Wake Island. Manila or the baitieship Missouri, scene ol the Japanese surrender m World War 11.
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  • 173 7 CALCUTTA, Oct. 12 (AP) V correspondent of the newspaper Statesman has confirmed the Peking radio claim that Chinese Red forces had entered Tibet. Reporting Irom the North Bengal bonier town ol KaShnpong, he says that the Ked* bad penetrated ">0
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  • 75 7 WASHINGTON, Oct. vi iai-j j_U S State Secretary Dean Aeheson said he was disappointed .ncr the North Korean (Communists" rejection oi Gen Mac Arthur's surrender offer, but expressed hope, that the Reds might still take some peaceful action I The TJ.S Secretary of State De-. i f_ches
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  • Article, Illustration
    16 7 Seoul <m«en, f1...k to v l b.^ »a|-ket pS et up^a cora of^ ooe gttgj*^ A.P
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  • 62 7 TOKYO. Oct. 12 (Reuter): When a military plane from Korea crashed m Japan on landing, three crew men were killed, ar.d three war correspondents and two military passengers were injured. The correspondents wei c .John Colless of Reuter-AAP, John Jefferson of Columbia Broad casting Service, and
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  • 34 7 COVENTRY, Oct. 12 —(AP):— Home Secretary J. Chuter Ede said m _n address here that Britain aims to set up a civil defence force of about 800.000 within a few months.
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  • 260 7 Clerk Helped In Battle EIGHTH ARMY HQ. IN KOREA, Oct. 12 (UP)— lt is now disclosed that a fighting one-star general, with a decimated regiment and a handful of engineers and clerks, halted the main Communist drive on the night of Aug. 31 and thereby helped save the U.N. Pusan
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  • 52 7 OTTAWA. Oct 12 (AP): Canada's sp c cial 10.000-man force., recruited for s< rvice m Korea, is scheduled to sail for Okinaw a next month. Meanwhile, Greece has announced that a Creek brigade .'.ill leave early Ln November to join the Q.N. Forces
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  • 115 7 New Tale Of Mass Murders WONSAN, Ot. 12 (Reuter) The townspeople m Wonsan claim tiiat the Communists four days ago beheaded 500 anti-Red Korean prisoners, including women and children, when the fall of Won san seemed inevitable. The Reds are said to have buried the bodies j m river sands.
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  • 73 7 Kew YORK. Ot. 12 (Reuter) Coi. Alfred G. Katzin. persona! representative of the U.N. Secretary-General m Korea. said here there was little capaci'v for further resistance m North Korea barring unexpected assistance to the Communists. He had just returned from Korea. He told a press
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  • News Briefs
    • 101 7 W ASH] NC,T O N. Oct 1 2 (UP): -The U.S Defence Department announces that 24,163 casualties have been officially reported m the Korean fighting through Oct. 6. The Department said these figures do not reflect all the casualties which occurred up to the time
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    • 28 7 I Shah Mohammed Reza Pa- hlevi, ruler ot Persia, has been betrothed to Soyaya Eefandiari, beautiful 18-year-old Persian girl, m the Teheran Royal Palace's Hall of Mirrors.- Reuter
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    • 33 7 A.P A Joint US. Suite Departj ment-militarv mission under Mr. John Melby and U.S. Marine Corp S Major Gen. Graves Erskine has returned to Washington uy air alter n eight-day Stay at Jakarta.■i.
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    • 62 7 T.S. Amhassador Adm. Alan G. Kirk has left Moscow by air for iwo weeks m Western Europe on 'personal husiness."' He hopes to visit London. Paris and Brussels. Senator Claude Pepper (Dem >- crat Florida), m India on a tour, lunched with Pandit Nehru on Wednesday. Senator "ill report to
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    • 43 7 A 40-year-old (ireek. Loenidas Stryngos. identified by an Antwerp court as the former Minister of Food of the (ireek Communist Markos' government and a member of Markos* general staff was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and fined C14 living illegally in Belgium.- A.P
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    • 54 7 South African scientists an making v'..^* to use a tree to ight drought m various parts ■of the country. The tree i.s the j ordinary American mesquite which sends its roots down a(J for f>o feet for water and keeps flocks and herds alive through long droughts with heavy ;<>.jcb
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  • 49 7 The Pakistan Parliament has adopted a resolution supporting the U.N. Security Council '*m asking ior immediate cessation i ol hostiliUeS m Korea"' The resolution added. "The attack by North Korea on the' Republic ot South Korea constituted a breach oi the peace."' j A.P
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  • 163 7 NEW DELHI. Oct. 12 (AP)— lndian Prune Minister Pandit Nehru has told his Pakistan opposite number. Liaquat Aii Khan, that agreeing m advance on one rigid, uniform procedure foi the settlement of all disputes between India and Pakistan is "unrealistic. inaDtiroDriate and unworkable A c
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  • 266 7 USI Challenges UN Righ t To In tervene In 'Domestic Affair' JAKARTA, Oct. 12 (AP)t-— Aa ilu- L.N. tommission asked the Security Council for v.id**r Mwen to settle tile South Molucca* conflict, and the Indonesian Government challenged the I .V ri«rht to intervene m it* "domestic affair." rebel Amboina appealed
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    12 9 picture. d lYlix Koussel sweeps into Singapore harbour. Standard Shin- Standard
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  • 397 9 cl Shipping Reporter f PROI 1* moment yesterday for M.le f I „1 |b« Keliv Ronaocl when he brought the .kilL.whitc liner alongside al Singapore after nine i> i plain I u-rre \!i\ Has not m coni- Ke!i\ Ro«a»el visited lhe Colony
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  • 16 9 annotmcr eat e make a igat i o o r from airport
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  • 104 9 'ACE' MACHINE READY SOON SIR BEN Picture by ONE OF THE biggest undertakings m the electronics field, the British "ACE' machine, that has a storage capacity for about 8.000 binary digests and can operate with a million oi these is nearing completion. This was announced by Sir Ben Lockspeiser, Secretary
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  • 85 9 Standard Shipping Reporter The first Indian-owned passenger liner. Jalagopal. to ply regularly from Madras an»l Nagapattinam to Si .gapore, eagerly awaited by the Indian community here, arrived m the outer roads yesterday and halted at the Quarantine Anchorage. After being released by the fort Health authorities,
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  • 82 9 LONDON, Oc. .2.- R I'ter) The Indian National Steamship C-nnpany of Calcutta has purchased two more ships m London for their lines, the s s. "San George" (4.<i72 Ions) arid the s.s. "Custodian" (5.881 tons), it was announced here today by Air. T. S. Subramaniam, a
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  • 31 9 BOMBAY. Oct. 12 (AP)— The Bombay Seamen's Union on Wednesday placed a ban on Indian seamen signing for the s.s. John Lyras, which is under U.S. Navy Charter.
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  • 20 9 ALL POAS Skymasters have been chartered by the Siamese Government to carry United Nations troops to Korea.
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  • 149 9 THE UNITED STATES produced 475,569 metric tons of rosin and 108,266 metric tons of turpentine m 1949 the magazine Foreign Commerce Weekly, published by the U.S. Department of Commerce, reports. Twenty-nine per cent of the rosin and 25 per cent of thc turpentine were
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  • 694 9 Standard Aviation Reporter WITH JET POWERED aircraft destined to play a major role m international air transportation about two years hence, Department of Civil Aviation officials are faced with problems that are not likely to be solved until Singapore has built
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  • 173 9 Standard Staff Reporter AIRLINE staff m Singapore beware of a tall mustachioed man who may scrutinise you with narrowing eyes. He may with suddeness draw out an implement with a sharp point from his pocket Don't shy away. Just carry on working, for
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  • 59 9 ONE of the F.E.A.F. Sunderland flying: boats now operating: with the ILN. Forces m Korea starts her take-off run at Iwakuni, Japan. In the background is the American Flying Boat Control Ship. Operating with US air-boats, the F.E.A.F. Sunderlands are maintaining a day and night patrol
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  • 148 9 Airship To Guide Traffic I n Britain BOURNEMOUTH, Oct 12 (Reuter)- -A 108-feet non-rigid type of airship i.s to be used to j dire ct traffic here during next j year's Festival of Britain celeb- rations. This ship, first of its type to be buill m Britain for more than
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  • 26 9 TAIPEII. Oct. 12 (ReuterAAP)— Nationalist China today dispatched a Liberty ship with rice, sugar, salt and DDT as relief goods for South Korea.
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  • 28 9 LOS ANGELES, Oct 12-<AP> The American aviation industry's first long-term labour contract, and the firs! providing for cost of living increases, was signed on Wednesday
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  • 26 9 VERA CRUZ. Oct. 12— (UP)— Mexico's worst hurricane m ten years sank an estimated 20 small coastal fishing boats m the Gulf today.
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    • 124 9 HJLAB IVANS PACIFIC SERVICI Wn Overland >. Lo> Aagefcs, All American Canadian Cities e«-n.»ns 9 han <°MM aOd 27 Oct 28/30 Oct o for MmnAmHR Kobe Vnkoh»ma b| 1 ii»ub.ir Jk lMnstao. X St.KVH ISA (WEST COAST)»AH lit vb lAP V HONGKONG. r- nnuu 13 oct. for Colombo. Bombay. Karacbl.
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    • 990 9 SAILINGS tnOM SIANDLVAWA I X MMMW Spore P Sham *en»air "Nordvest" for Saigon Banttko* 1* 17 Oct. 13 14 Oct. taii Oct "Korea" for Bangkok. Manila. Hohk Kong. Kobe A: Yokohama. »-3u Oct. "Danholm" for Bangkok 810 Mov. ••Nordhval" for Bai«on &i Bangkok 17 18 Nov •Kina" for Manila. Hongkong
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    • 120 9 (air arrivals] 'j I [and DEPARTURES] \______s&~j!^ nreg<' Arrivals KLM CONSTELLATION from Jakarta BTA BJSb a.m. GABUDA INDONESIAN AIRWAYS. DOUGLAS from Jakarta. Bangfca I I •'-■"> pm. MALAYAN AIRWAYS DAKOTAS from Alor Star, PuUAMLg, laipinif. Ipoh. Kuala Lumpur ETA 8.15 p.m. from Kuantan. Mor Ster, PeuanCa Kuala I.umpur BTA <
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  • 286 11  - Your Marriage Samuel G Easter B. Kling !>'• tnd fill A Happ? Vslfr? .s chances be pictucted Authorita- .Ed the •'..iv.on to happily traits are marrir a single happiness avoid debt? I gs easily i :r h without I the c hi i "aa ke friends I to i n't
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  • 556 11 New Anti-T.B. Drug From Tropical Plant Other Antibiotics From Soil By ROBERT N. SCHWARTZ CHICAGO, Oct. (INS)-The discovery of a new antibiotic drug which shows high potency as a killer lof the tuberculosis .germ and fungus growth was reported by a biochemist. The new drug, tentatively called plumericin— from the
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    14 11  -  Ed Reed By "Well, what are you waiting: for a receipt?"
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  • 141 11 MACCLESFIELD, Eng. Oct. j 10, (INS) Forty-six-year-old Russell Wright of Macclesfield. Lancashire, performed one of the toughest endurance tests ever attempted m Britain when j he walked 12 miles backwards from his home town to the I nearby town to Buxton. Wright covered tTie distance m 3
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  • 232 11 i LONDON, Oct. 10 (Reuter) A one-acre farm m a London school is celebrating its first birthday. It started as an experiment at Lewisham, a South East suburb, to teach town-dwelling boys "life down on the farm," and is run with the help of
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  • 500 11  -  EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D. Muscular Spasms Around Person's Face Nothing More Than Habit By Written for NEA Service Ttf ANY people are troubled j by strange muscular move- j ments, particularly around the face. What causes a person to blink the eyes all the time? My eyesight
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    • 173 11 B/^vH fl ffilMi I 11ll 1 i— J I -,y>^yy— T /7gf_\\ I dagwood/ you no pear jI I i i MerreßGorl Si^s» A~~al _-JTy_ make a note) £2E» SggtJWR 1 CJ___2F____ r^ *^:'S™e___*>J yj'/it £\f \V > I OF rrAND PUTIT^L ao. J^7m J:r >^' at 1 I forget
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  • 370 12 ALL-INDONESIA, who wind up their tour today, with a match against Singapore Civilians played the Sino-Malays yesterday and drew twoall m a game which could have been highly interesting but became instead an exhibition of below-par soccer which a large crowd a little disappointed.
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  • 112 12 Brace (15) Plays For W. Australia PERTH. Oct. 12 (AP) Bruce Buggins. 15 yearold schoolboy, will keep wicket lor Western Australia m the game against English team starting October 16. Bruce is the youngest Australian ever to play m an official match against England. Bruce's only interest is cricket. He
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  • 106 12 LONDON. Oct. 12: (Reuter).— Jean Borotra, the famed Bounding Basque of French lawntennis, suffered his first defeat from an Englishman m the British covered courts championships for many years today when he was beaten at the London Queen's Club 3-6. 5-7. 6-1, 6-0, 6-3 by Geoffrey
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  • 398 12 TWO well balanced teams the /Colours and the Whites played themselves to a standstill when they sweated it out to a 0-0 draw m a keenly-contested hockey trial of the Singapore Hockey Association held at the S.R.C. yesterday. The Colours had the better •of the exchanges m
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  • 125 12 MALAYA ADMITTED PARIS. Oct 13 (AP) Singapore and Malayan weightlifting teams, with teams from Ireland. Guatemala, the Saai*. Costa Rica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, for the first time, were admitted to the membership of the International Federation of Weight, il'ters Thursday. Japan was admitted to the membership alter a ten-year
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  • 163 12 Sel. Club Trounce Guards KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Scots Guards were no match for the Selangor Glub m a friendly rugger match on the padang, this evening, the Club winning by 20 points (one goal and five tries) to nil. Skrine, the Club left wing three quarter, scored four of
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  • 132 12 PENANG, Thurs:— The Chinese Club drew one all with the Ferry Youngsters m thc semi-final of the Victory Cup soccer competition played on the Victoria Green yesterday. The Chinese Club had to play with only ten men m the later stages uf play when the
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  • 94 12 IPOH, Tues.— The Perak Badminton Association h; ye selected six players foi the match against Singapore oft Cctober 21 and 22 m the semi fi iai ol the Foong Seong Cup Competition which will be held at .he Happy World Stadium. They are Teoh
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  • 105 12 Following is the latest lasslfieation of horses sued by the Straits Racing Association. TRANSFERS From Class 1 to Class 2 Ouranos. From Class 2 to Class 1 Kaiserine; Springbok. From Class 2 to Class 3 Everest; Royal Borough; Raheen; Victorine; Ovatoin; Windy Island; Egyptian Queen; King Regards; Sisteron;
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  • 59 12 LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuter) Following are the latest U.K. football results: SOCCER Representative match: The Army 4 Civil Service 2 Ulster Cup (re-play) Linfield 4 Glenavon 1 RUGBY Rugly Union Surrey 10 U. Hospitals 5 U. Services 8 Rest of Hants 8 Staffords 6 Middlesex 25 Rugby
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  • 380 12 KUALA LUMPUR,. Thurs.— The first inter-school Rugby match of the season took place today on the Victoria Institution ground between the VI and Clifford School, Kuala Lipis, the VI winning by a penalty. A very large crowd mostly schoolboys cheered their respective teams lustily. Rain,
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  • 43 12 BLACKPOOL. Oct. 12 (UP) A Tory convention here was interrupted this afternoon to hear an announcement that Winston Churchilfs horse Colonist II had won at Newmarket. There were loud cheers. Churchill skipped the convention's opening to attend Jie race.
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  • 356 12 Perak Confident Of HMS Malaya Win By Leong Hew Meng IPOH, Thurs. Perak is out to win the HMS Malaya Rubgy com petit ior and Saturday's match against Penang on the Ipoii Padang will show hou strong the team really is. There is no thought of possible defeat here. The
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  • 297 12 picture. Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The third football "Test" match between Singapon ,1 th, Federation, for the Malayan Sportsmen** trophy, v l be played at the Jalan Besar Stadium on October 21. I 2 The donors of the trophy, Messrs. Isidore
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  • 36 12 IPOH, Thurs. The YMCA and the Commandos drew twoall m a hockey league match played on the Padang today Velupillai and Ferdinands scored for the V" while Capt Ramsden netted both the Commandos' goals.
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  • 209 12 I SINGAPORI s lor thii I competition of 44 proi at Farrer Park. Singapore i. makings of a tei which can be Ear year thank the influx of 3 S:. Andn a But there ig ever, m thai tunity hai tern a combined moo
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  • 236 12 RAJKOT. Oct. 11 (Reuter) Frank Worrell skippered the Commonwealth cricket team to the first victory of their tour today when they defeated Saurashtra by nine wickets with a day to spare. Saurashtra were all out m their first innings for 139, to which the Commonwealth
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  • 156 12 PERTH. Oct M ißeuterAAP)— The If.CC leave out Len Sutton, Trevor Bailey, Eric Ho! lies and Brian Close ior the one-day match against a Western Australia XI at Xortham on Saturday. The side will be selected from the remaining 12. m which both wicketkeepers
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  • 98 12 BOYS of the Malay Schools yesterday met at the grounds of the Geylang English School for their annual inter school sports. The events differed from those of English schools m that one of the Malay national games, Sepak Raga passing a wicker ball either with the
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  • 69 12 Injuries will < (>nt and possibly two changes 1 the Combined Services Rartj team due to m. n Malacca m the HMS Malaw competition tomorrou It was reported I that the RAF's I to rake for the Sei is injured and hiv j be taken by
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    • 66 12 S___\\t<s\ V rt TIMERS HIGH TIDFS at the principal resorts m Malaya: TODAY Singapore 11.27 Malacca 8.44 9.04 Port Dickson 7.25 7.45 Port S .am 6.27 6.54 Penang 1.30 1.44 TOMORROW: Singapore 12.09 11.57 Malacca 9.23 9.39 Port Dickson 8.04 8.20 Port Sham 7.07 7.36 Penang 2.05 2.21 SUNDAY Singapore
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