Singapore Standard, 17 October 1950

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  • 17 1 Singapore TIGER Standard n m. VOL. 1 107 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1950. 12 PAGES TEN CENTS
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  • 305 1 French Quit Another I-C Border Town SAIGON, Oct. 16 (Reuter) French troops in lntlo-(.hina have evacuated their fourth border fortress in a month and withdrawn from all their positions on a 60-mile stretch of the frontier with Communist China, it was officially announced here today. The latest withdrawal was from
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  • 97 1 Pj.ird St. iff Krporter on the V ien Sien. •N ing Girls' ..y mornLiu sus* oed burns the left si -e of her I thnt the acid a Chin- red in full i m '-ind. the gates d Kong's Road. E >l com-
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  • 310 1 UN Force Opposed By Nehru NEW DELHI, Oct. 16 (UP) Prime Minister Pandit Nehru at a press conference today opposed the creation of a United Nations armed force as contemplated in the sevenpower resolution. Nehru said, "We do not agree to the proposals to create separate armed forces on behalf
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  • 115 1 Arson At Dockyard Suspected Standard Staff Reporter ARSON was suspected in last night's fire which broke out in an electric store in the Keppel Harbour Dockyard just before nine o'clock. An Indian watchman, Abu Bakar, gave the alarm and as sirens sounded, all entrances to the Singapore Harbour Board were
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  • 62 1 A 27-Y E A R-O L D Indian Municipal sweeper. Savoo, was involved in a road accident in which a taxi was involved near the junction of Orchard Road and Grange Road. Savoo sustained a fractured leg and head injuries. He was admitted into the
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  • 93 1 HONG KONG, Oct. 16 (AP) Five Chinese cooks and coolies were frantically searching today for the ticket which won the annual Hongkong racing sweepstakes, "Kwangtung Handicap." The ticket, whi«h was worth US$l5O,OOO, had been lost or stolen. The Jockey Club,
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    253 1 MR. H. G. TURNER, who recently returned to Singapore from leave, has been appointed to act as Secretary for Defence and Internal Security, Singapore. An M.C.S. officer, Mr. Turner first came to Malaya in 1929 at the age of 23. Mr. Turner's previous appointment was that of Deputy
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  • 243 1 THE OFFICER Administering the Singapore Government, Mr. W. L. Blythe on Saturday at the Victoria Memorial Hall will open an exhibition to commemorate the fifth anniversay of the first meeting of the United Nations Organization, which falls on Oct.
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  • 354 1 TOKYO, Oct. 16 (Reu-ter-AAP) All roads led to Pyongyang tonight for American and South Korean troops racing in for the kill along four lightly defended route* I* the Communist capital. South Koreans, just over 30 air miles from
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  • 207 1 TOKYO, Oct. 16 (Reu-ter-AAP) A South Korean mercy patrol tonight sped towards a railway tunnel prison where 800 American prisoners of war are reported entombed after a 170 miles death march from Seoul. The handful of survivors from the massacre of 500 South Koreans who
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  • 66 1 The Guild of Graduates to the Court and Council of the University of Malaya yesterday announced the election of tw^ new members to fill vacancies caused by resignations. Dr. Allan W. E. Moreira takes the place of Dr. A. W. D. Thevathasan and Mr. Yong
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  • 48 1 DJAKARTA, Oct. 16 (Reuter* AAP)— The Chinese-owned Indonesian language daily Keng Po, quoting the Attorney General, wrote today that the Indonesian Government would submit a request to the Belgian Government for the extradition of Capt. Turko Westerling according to Aneta news agency.
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  • 34 1 JAKARTA, Oct. 16 (AP) An economic agreement between the United States and Indonesia was signed here this morning by Foreign Minister Mohammed Roem and American Ambassador H. Merle Cochran.
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  • 48 1 MR. William Addis, whose appointment as Deputy Commis-sioner-General for Colonial Affairs, South-East Asia, was recently announced, wiK ar ive in Singapore on board the "Corfu" which is due this morning. Before being appointed to Singapore. Mr. Addis was Colonial Secretary in Bermuda
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  • 51 1 photo. British Naval Units have been playing: an important role in the Korean war, carrying out air and sea bombardments and covering the flanks of the attacking forces. One of the ships taking part was the cruiser HMS Jamaica, a part of whose personnel is shown above.-
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  • 220 1 MONTE CARLO, Oct. 16 (AP)— Soviet Russia today asked the International tied Cross to promote the outlawing of the atomic bomb. Russian delegate Boris Pachkov submitted a resolution to the 21st meeting of the Board of Governors of the League of Red
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  • 216 1 LONDON, Oct. 16 (Reuter) j Mr. A. Crawley, Under- j Secretary for Air, told a press conference here today that Royal Air Force strength in the Far East was adequate to meet a probable air threat from a potential enemy. Summing up the results
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  • 58 1 NICE, Oct. 16 (UP) Emperor Bao Dai, Vietnam Chief of State, will leave here Wednesday morning by plane for Indo-China with his personal secretary and members of his Cabinet. He has been vacationing several months in Paris and on the Riviera while the
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    • 102 1 P^ On Other Pages Page Doctors Warn Government I New. Air Officer Commanding for Malaya 2 MCA Replies To SCBA 3 Nine Killed In Johore Ambush 3 Clerks Accept Govt. Offer 4 Financial Aid For Squatters 4 Tone Yit Lin Shooting Trial Opens 5 Pilgrim Virgin Due on Nov. 5
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  • 721 3 'MCA Is Open To ALL, But SCBA Caters For A particular Class' Says Tan Siew Sin Standard Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Mon. "According to Mr. T. W. Ong, President of HBV Chinese British subjects are something like Class II citizens I Miait-l><>rn Chinese are Class I citizens," states the Chairman of
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  • 84 3 MCA To Open More Classes For Adults picture. V:l M.ltY CMTCSpOMnI [tor, Moo. d ol the Nation five s for adults in S par?< f I >• gar. be >pened H Is b tended ODen the es to all Chinese be taught adults ted in ir by the Malayan I
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  • 36 3 Mtndard Star!" Correspondent PUR. M xl I P Puteh. •wre asked to advise I h to be prepared seas n, by the Dis- Che Mohamed > said that the Sup- approved if rice.
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  • 371 3 Perak on Saturday night when they were accompanying a survey party are: E.P.C. Itam bin Haii Abdullah. S.C. Ya'acob bin Haji Mat Asif, S.C. Mohd. Zain bin Yop Mat, S.C Salleh bin Abdul Ghani, S.C Suleiman bin Nlat and S.C. Yok bin Kulop
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  • 403 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Mr. Justice E. N. Taylor today dismissed a petition for divorce which a 26-year-old Eurasian girl, Gwendoline Jasmine Bates nee Pinto, sought from her European husband, Desmond Alfred Bates, a shift engineer on a mine.
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  • 127 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Sentence of three years' rigorous imprisonment on each of two counts was passed by Mr. Justice Paul Storr in the Supreme Court today, on thcformer chief clerk of the ECluang P.W.D., Mohamed Dome bin Mohamed, who was found guilty of using
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  • 59 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. For the great courage and devotion to duty which he showed on the night of Jan. 26 last, when the goods train he was driving from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur was fired on by bandits. Mr. Gurusamy Ragavadoss has
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  • 71 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Ah letters and clubbed packets addressed to places in China and intended for transmission should, in future, bear the special superscription "By air to Hongkong only." The air mail rates of postage for China and Formosa are: letters per half
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  • 76 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.-— Five *curfew areas have been declared in Pahang from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. dally They are the whole of the Raub Australian Gold Mine lease, from the 35 h to 37th mile Kuala Lipis to Raub Road; from the half
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  • 555 3 Appeal Against Assessment Fails 'Altruistic But Misguided' Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Dismissing an appeal by the well-known Chinese land owner, Cheong Yoke Choy and iiis son, Cheong Wing Chan, against the assessment of a piece of land at $56,000 by the Collector of Land Revenue, Mr. Justice E.
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  • 147 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LbMPUR, Mon. Four persons were injured early yesterday morning at the 10th mile Kuala LutnpurKajang Road when an Austin A4O driven by an Eurasian, came into collison with a cyclist and then ended up against r* large roadside shade tree.
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  • 116 3 2 Malacca Girls Die Of Stab Wouuds Standard Staff Corresponded MALACCA, M on. Molly Tan. a mute girl of 9 who was admitted to the General Hospital, after having been found stabbed, died this morning. Molly and her sister. Tan Sua Roo. 13, lived with their foster mother in a
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 281 3 FTPE 8 A T IffigjjgßJg SELANGOR— Today Majestic: Fashion Parade (Cantonese): 12, 3. 7 and 9.15 p.m. Odeon: Nancy Goes To Rio: 3, 6.45 and 9.15 p.m. Pavilion: Neptune's Daughter 3, 6.30 and 9 p.m. Rex: City Lights: 12.30, 2.30, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. Madras: Bantam (Indonesian) 12.30 2.30, 6.30
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    • 64 3 Grand: April Showers 3, 7 and 9 p.m. League Hockey: Hussars vs Ladreme: KIA vs Ramblers 'A' Both games on the Pudang. TAIP/NG— Today Carlton: Broken Heart (Cantonese) 3, 6.45 and 9.15 p.m. Lido: Gung Ho 12.45, 3.15, G.30 and 9.15. Rex: Ngip Hoi Chee Wan < Cantonese >: 3,
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    • 65 3 PENANQ— today Rex: Counterblast: 3.15, 6 1?S and 9.15 p.m. Cathay: Silent Dream (Cantonese) 3.30. 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. Odeon: Paid In Full 3.15, 615 and 9.15 p.m. Windsor: Magic Horse < Tamil) 3 and 8 p.m. Lido: The Return Of Chandu 3.15. 6.45 and 9.15 p.m. Globe: Trader Horn
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  • 674 4 KLMassMeeting Rejects Report Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— A call to Government to break away from old traditions and to take a more realistic view on the matter of salaries for the clerks was made by Che Saman bin Mohammed, representing die Selangor Government Clerical
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  • 324 4 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Posters with slogans like "We Are Through With Paternalism,'' "Benham Report Imposes Social Injustice" and "Clerks Are Most Exploited Class Of Workers" were displayed at the Chinese Assembly Hall here todav al the mass meeting of Government 1 Clerical Unions.
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  • 170 4 Ignorant A bout Malaya Standard Staff Reporter TJNGKU AZIZ, Economics Statf Assistant at the Malayan University, said on his return to Singapore ysterday, that the Lucknow conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations had "shocked him by the ignorance of its members concerning Malayan affairs". "With the exceptions of Dr.
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  • 104 4 Johore Clerks Adopt Four Resolutions OHORE BAHRU, Mon. Clerks m Johore at a mass meeting today unanimously protested against the Benham Committee's recommendations on salaries for them as totally unfair, inequitable and unacceptable. The meeting adopted four resolutions: (a) to reject the Benham recommendations; (b) to demand direct negotiations with
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  • 32 4 PENANG. Mon.— An Indian detective of the C.I.D. accidentally shot his own right Erm when his revolver fell his trousers pocket at Int Police barracks about 7 30 last night.
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  • 295 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Mon. In any wage dispute, it is the duty of the employer and the employee to arrive at a satisfactory solution, yet we find that a democratic Government which avowedly encourages the growth of trade unions, is unilaterally attempting to impose
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  • 68 4 Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH, Mon. An Indian textile merchant, V. Pillai, was' fined $750 by Magistrate Che Bahaudin this morning, on a charge of making a false declaration to a senior customs officer. The Magistrate also ordered the forfeiture of 1,300 yards of doth. Mr. B.
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  • 171 4 Open Verdict On Seamen's Drowning Standard Staff Correspondent TAIPING, Mon.— An open verdict of death by drowning was returned by Coroner Abdul Aziz bin Mohd. Zain at the end of the inquest into the death of a member of a Penang tongkang crew near Port Weld, early this year. The
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  • 64 4 MALACCA, Mon. At the mass protest meeting of the Malacca Government Clerical Service Union this' afternoon, the union president, Mr. Siew Mun Fook urged the Government to set up negotiating machinery to settle questions relating to salaries and conditions of service by direct negotiation to their mutual satisfaction.
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  • 97 4 IPOJf. Mon. Three cars were badly damaged in two accidents here during the week-end. On Saturday afternoon, it new Plymouth crashed into an electric post at Kuala Kangsar Road. The driver escaped unhurt, but the owner, Mr. Looi Bean Cheah, a Penang business man and
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  • 250 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Mon.— Aboard the 14,293 ton RMS Corfu which arrived here from the United Kingdom yesterday are a number of Britons who have come to join various Government departments in Malaya. Among them are Mr. W. Addis, Mr. and Mrs.
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  • 78 4 TAIPING. Mon.— A Taiping Prison sub-warder, A t m a Singh was acquitted by Magistrate Abdul Aziz on a charge of theft of a motor cycle on Aug. 8 but was convicted on his own plea on two summons charges, one for negligent driving and the
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  • 187 4 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG. Mon.— A scheme to kelp instil in the children, wh» may be the drivers of the future, a greater interest in traffic and safety first matters besides promoting civic consciousness among them may shfgfe to Introduced here. Mm k§ revealed in
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  • 91 4 Standard Staff Correspondent KOTA BAHRU, Mon.— With a view to establish mutual friendship between the security forces and the public, a grand fete will be held here on Oct. 30 at which more than 700 persons from the Malay Regiment. Police. Government officials and leading members
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  • 52 4 SEREMBAN, Mon. At a meeting of the Negri Sembilan branch of the M.C.A. working committee, the recent restriction imposed on business in Kuala Pilah was discussed. According to Mr. Yap Mau Tatt. the hon. secretary, it was decided to approach government to withdraw
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  • 265 4 Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH, Mon. The proposal to form a Chinese Education Association here to supervise and maintain the 16 public schools in Ipoh will be discussed at a meeting of representatives of Chinese school* on OcL. 19 in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
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  • 497 4 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Government confirm* the announcement mads exclusively in The Standard yesterday that the Federal Legislative Council meeting to discuss the Benham Salaries Commiwion reported on October 23 has been cancelled. The Federal Legislative Council will assemble next month for the Budget
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  • 111 4 Financial Aid For Squatters Standard Staff U rrHk PENAN and Pr. v fare C Ltt.ee d finance i a ese squar Province v. meeting I School 11. The V. arrange t staged by the Ch< the Pttig s Dramatir S y cent of the pr the Squatted I Mr. R.
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  • 71 4 Engineer Answers Complaint Standard Staff orrespondftt IPOH. M low wal-i j there is a da supply being < tial to Its installed wrater-bor than cn i p. This ttati ment was today by i Perak. it plaint thai were Le with a provisioi In t State I provision tanks is
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  • 121 5 ÜB dird Staff Reporter j e Admiralty in a memo- Dockyard, B :am salary ttfafl Aimiralrgjn that the .:a::y to- c put down g ntended •ve re- j the Benham mmittee's cial staterti ol salarited workers I t memoran- in Om past awaya kept the
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  • 26 5 I -d IT of I $30 in F: District 't havini cautioned and the a me Court in j dm ofler.ee.
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  • 28 5 Band who has f I act M Sec- Affairs, t Mb A i> m acting 51 a.i.y has 19 Deputy mic Affairs >re He I Mr. Band
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  • 18 5 nfl Ah Thiani. fined -575 re First Disti let for noi taking nncc arnv- i ince.
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  • 84 5 PLEADING guilty to attempted suicide, a 59-year-old woman. Phooo Ah Tai. told the Second Police Magistrate Mr. S. E. Teh. in Singapore yesterday that it •va> because she was "afraid" to go to hospital. Phoon said she had been ailing and her husband decided to
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  • 338 5 1"^ tod Stel Reporter rust Isador who arrived in r iv by BO AC m London. ntribute tor^e /.'...re of the nn. who had just (tenshre tour of a on his way to New Zealand" for ncerts, told The the hoped to re--3 after his
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  • 23 5 T b calling members National t> on Oct. Missionary «12 Geylang. at decide among e time is ranch i r UMNO.
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  • 66 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. A young Chinese rubber tapper, Pang Yok Lam, was sentenced to 15 days' rigorous imprisonment when he pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing three katties of scrap rubber on June 6 last. The police brought to the notice of the Magistrate
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  • 527 5 Standard Staff Reporter MORE THAN 20,000 Roman Catholics in Singapore and many thousands more in the Federation art* anxiously looking forward to the arrival of the Lady of Fatima statue, which is expected from Rome on Nov. 5. Arrangements have heen made for a
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  • 417 5 Written and Illustrated By CapU D. H. de T. Rade A PIECE of military equipment that has been specially evolved for troops fighting Communist terrorists in Malaya is the Poncho cape. Manufactured in Great Britain and of all rubber consstruction, it weighs just over three
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  • 961 5 FINANCIAL transactions running into thousands of dollars between Yong Yit Lin, a Singapore contractor who was president of the Tong Lam Club and a former president of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, and Ng Kai Sung who was alleged to
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  • 205 5 MR. W. L. BLYTHE, acting Colonial Secretary. took the oath of allegiance and office a« (Mfoer Administering the Singapore Government at Government House yesterday. He will be OAG during the absence of the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson. who left for London on Sundav. i On Mr.
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  • 98 5 If you are a reader of mystery stories, you will enjoy "So Long At The Fair**, a fascinating tale of a man who vanished without a trace in Paris during the Great Exhibition of 1889. Beginning tomorrow. The Singapore Standard wiil publish on its Film Page
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  • 65 7 Truman Speaks Tonight ties said ttjei* •i dons Arthur-u*-q e, w }*?ch I p. U 9 I g was ie m s e'en i an i.: i.i siiiilrd rrpi 1 'tedI j >„ rv.d highly poised m -,Ui a toeH plaee. 6em v MM rt-porters i ■:>.■ irt-d impatient to
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  • 22 7 We Must Be Ready, Says Attlee R i .V ■norc enci i h Korea lolc KUddc Q IC God bid e skill
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  • 73 7 NEW DELHI. Oft. 16 (AP)[ndiac E*remier Nehru has <- to join the Executive ol Congress Party. Congress President Tandon announced ben dit Nehru, who had an <m .crd his untention <>t keeping away from the party t titive, is said *o have re- r» f his
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  • 425 7 'MacA. Was Told To Keep UN Army Away From China Border' Watte Is. Talk Speculation ISHINGTON, Oct. 16. As world speculation on the four-hour iliai „M;H Vitliur talk on Wake Island ranged all the way from possible |hc atomic bomb or any big-scale Red Chinese entry into Korea to J
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  • 80 7 US Develops Device To Defeat Subs. WASHINGTON, Ocl lti i(AP): U.S. Navy Secretary Francis Matthews >aid in a broadcast thai the United States is on the verge of sulving the submarine defence problem "There are devices now emerging from the experimental stage which promise to return to anti-submarine warfare the
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  • 36 7 Correspondents in the Seoul area are forbidden the use of ;irmv telephone to Tokyo except i between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. daily. They have protected against this restriction. I- UP
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  • 215 7 WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (AP) The recent severe French reverses at the hands of the Chinese-armed and trained Communist-led Vietminh forces have of late been given almost the same prominence in the Soviet press as the Korean wai, according to reports from Moscow. Meanwhile. reports
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  • 105 7 2 Japs Posed As Burmans RANGOON. O» t. it) (AP):— The police at Prome. Irrawaddy city, have arrested two former members of the Japanese Army on charges of collaborating with Burmese rebels. The men, Lieut. Yoshoka and Private Homada of the 54th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, have been brought to Rangoon. The
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  • 29 7 AMRITSAR Oct. if.. IAF): The stars say the North Koreans will surrender between Nov. 13 and 23, according to Raj Ramduti Jaitli. an /imntsar as trologer.
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  • 36 7 HONGKONG. Oct. 10 (AP) A Peking broadcast said the Communist Chinese Government had arrested 28,000 persons since January 15)49 on charges of spying for the United States and Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government.
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  • 190 7 JAKARTA, Oct. 16 (AP)— After warning the l.\. Commission on Indonesia that the Indonesian military action against the separatist South Mohiecan regime at Amboiua is likely to touch off an uprising in Araboinese army camps in Java, the South Moluccan Secretariat
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  • 44 7 HONGKONG, On. 16, (A.P.)i-For a dollar ticket, a Chinese amah who lied Shanghai ajt,?r the Communist "liberation" has won £3 MO in a Hongkong sweepstake, reports the Hongkong Standard. The p%pe* said it icas withholding the amah's name "for her protection."
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  • 646 7 News Briefs KAESONG, Oct. 16 (Reuter-, AAP) A rugby tackle by an j Australian lieutenant picketing j a battalion headquarters a few i miles north of here last night I saved the life of one of the] guards when a Red guerilla attempted a one-man
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  • 55 7 Israeli PM Resigns JERUSALEM. Oct. t6 (AP) Prime Minister David Ben. Gurion's Government has resigned, plunging Israel inlo the first, cabinet crisis in it.s history. Mr. Ben-Gurion has been Prime Minister ever since the new state was founded in May. 1948. Religious bloc members ol the cabinet resigned in protest
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  • 28 7 NEW DELHI. Oct. 16 tUPV The Indian Government >.nd yesterday that its representative in Peking could not confirm reports of Chinese Communist invasion of Tibet.
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  • 106 7 WITH THE BRITISH BRIGADE IN NORTH KOREA. Oct. 16 (Reuier-AAP) A British Siaff Sergeant and an Australian private risked their lives today to give a North Korean farmer the chance of feeding his family ibis winter. The two men 90-year-old Staff Sergt. John Scofield
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  • 80 7 BERLIN. Oct. 1« (AP): East Germany has now surrendered unconditionally 'O Communist dictatorship five years a Her the downfall of Hitler's Nazi Reich. Pledged to unswerving Loyalty to Moscow, Red leaders were swept back into office y more than 97 per cent, of the vote
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  • 198 7 TOKYO, Oct. 16 (Reuter-APP) The last major battle of the Korean war is looming hourly nearer. It will he fought either on the dose approaches or in tke streets of the Communist capital of Pyongyang, Bt>w threatened by U.N. forces less
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  • 105 7 Russians Massing On Border ISTANBUL, Oct 16 (AP):— Russia is massing troops on her frontiers with Turkey and Iran, usually reliable sources report. A estimated six division* from Leninakan were said to have drawn up along the Turkish border Just east «>f Kars. Four of these divisions, trained in guerilla
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  • 122 7 Disowning Ot Indian Citizenship NEW DELHI. Oct. L6 (APV Acquisition of citizenship in India and Its disownment by Indians overseas will form part of a bill *o be introduced in the budget session of 'he New Delhi Parliament early next year The bill will rove*" acquisition of Indian citizenship by
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  • 60 7 1000 Africans Wage 'War' UMTATA (Eastern Cap Province), Oct. L6 (Reuu-ri Twenty-two Africans ha\« been killed and many wounded in one of the bloodiest (action tights in this district for years About l.ouo Pondos, a local tribe, look part in the ifjM which went on tor about wek in the
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  • 67 9 Sh ips of thf jN munition" «ir to > in 1 ?\£l (foiled !n >t ttt'tkend theßrn».»rlic-h unlo-i d f d numbrrs Arm? ep> and A I J trucks bearins cycks "S«>nn' oi in»* une r are un o d'' ready to play their
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  • 189 9 Standard Shipping Reporter THE GOVERNOR of Hongkong, Sir Alexander Gran-tli-un. k.C.'.M.G., and Lady Grantham head the lengthy passenger li.t ot the 14,500-ton P& O liner Corfu, which is expeeted to berth at Godowns 1 2, Singapore, shortly after 10 a.m. today.
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  • 227 9 DETAILS OF A new fitment for cargo— ships enanying capacity of vehicles to be in,ed by as modi as 50 per cent have been announced shipping company. The change can be* v m plans for new cargo ships, but also og
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  • 62 9 NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (Reuter) —Hans Hotter, 41 -year-old opera singer from Munich, was prevented from entering the United States today when he arrived aboard the liner America. He and his wife, Helga, former German actress, were detained under America's new Internal Security Law barring entry
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  • 63 9 Standard Staff Reporter THE BODY of an American. Fred Newland, who died in Pakan Baroe, Sumatra, was brought to Singapore by a Qantas freighter for transhipment to Los Angeles. Pie tun- D> Above is a picture of a new: 70-ton traUer which has been stfyially constructed by
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  • 27 9 LONDON, Oct. 16 (Reuter)— I Thick fog in the Thames Estuary and East England today held up shipping, aircraft and land i traffic. *>i±
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  • 163 9 This Scot Found A Colony A SCOT had spent part of his holiday in Holland. He was so full of enthusiasm that he gave a detail account of his sojourn to the K.L.M.-ste-wardess on his return trip to Prestwick. One thing had been disappointing, he added, namely, that he had
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  • 66 9 Standard Staff Reporter A FREIGHT CARRYINCx BO AC York aircraft attempted two landings on Kallang Airstrip yesterday evening in the face of a sand-laden lorry which developed engine troubb and stopped close to the runway. The vehicle failed at one corner of the airstrip-Mount-batten Road crossing. The
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  • 93 9 COPENHAGEN, Oct. 15 (Reuter) A scientific expedition left here todaj' to sail round the world investigating sea life more than 4J miles down in the ocean. Dr. Anton Bruun, Danish leader of the expedition, said before leaving "over one-third of the earth's surface is
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  • 307 9 HONGKONG, Oct. 16 (Reuter-AAP)— The Chinese authorities in Canton yesterday released a set of regulations for foreign vessels plying in the haul River. t •v. authorities ha ve also standar dined passenger ireignt charges of river steamers. Any violations will be severely punished. Foreign vessels
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  • 98 9 HOXG KONG, Oct. 16 (AP) -—The British cruiser, Jamaica, which shot clown a North Korean Stormovik plane off Inchon during the United Nations landings on Sept. 17, returned to Hong Kong on Sunday for refitting. She is expected to rejoin U.N. naval forces off
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  • 103 9 DIEGO GARCIA AIR BASE PLAN OFF— ERASMUS JOHANNESBURG. Oct. 15 (Reuter) South African Defence Minister Mr. Francois Erasmus said here today that his government would not proceed with its plans to establish a flying base, at Diego Garcia, a British atoll in the Indian Ocean. Mr. Erasmus reiused to comment
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  • 574 9 THE AVRO YORK, which gave such outstanding service to 8.0.A.C. for more than six years, wa^s withdrawn from the Corporation's passenger carrying operations on Saturday (7th October) when the last service by this type of aircraft was completed between Santiago (Chile) and Nassau. The Yorks
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  • 70 9 SYDNEY, Oct. 16, (ReuterAAP).— Major George Lewis, formerly of the R.j/al Corps of Signals, will leave Sydney soon in his 24 ft. yacht Sundowner to sail around the world. First leg of the lone voyage will be the 7000-mile tri^around Cape Horn to Falk-and Islands. He
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  • 26 9 HONGKONG. Oct. 16, (Reu-ter-AAP). The United States Consulate General here yesterday invalidated the visas of 46 America-bound passengers mostly Chinese, aboard the President Cleveland.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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    • 114 9 Despatches TODAY— Pontianak t a.m. by Toboali. Palembang noon by Tosari. Keiantan i parcels only) noon by Sirusa. Christmas Island, Eastern Australia, New Zealand (letters only) and Western Australia noon oy Charon. Pakistan (parcels onlyt noon by Norhtwestern Victory. Gt. Britain. N. Ireland. Eire, Europe. North and West Africa. West
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    • 136 9 i \amr arrivalsX^j^sC'. f [and DEPARTURES H^ r w7^ n W"-' -•r, ff''-5' i Arrivals AIR CEYLON DOUGLAS DC4 from Colombo ETA 6.30 a.m. K.L.M. CONSTELLATION from Amsterdam. Rome. (from Sydney-Darwin (fortnightly). ETA 4.30 p.m from Jakarta. Bill-ton, Bangka. Singkep. Tg. Pinnnj? ETA 4.20 p.m. Cairo. Basrah. Karachi. Calcutta. Bangkok
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    • 93 11 Child Born With A Tail IS Od l") (AP)— J b a h.iby bora c rhicfe he could rr;rv cat was i vi.iv in the Joannl \ii>us mother Uwdmi h»>pi- c i i 1 months. C :>-n ii^t nvor inch i M| wktM pull- I Instk. :fn r^ leased, it
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  • 725 11  -  H. L Hopkin Students Ash Searching Questions By LONDON, Oct 8. \T 44. Bryanston Square, not far from Marble Arch, is Malaya Hall, the excellently equipped head- quarters of Malayan students in Britain. There too the members of the Malayan Forum have their meetings. for
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    14 11  -  Ed Reed By That new groundskeeper has Uh> most wonderful ideas."
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  • 252 11 I NEW YORK, Oct. 15, (AP). j— More foreign students are < enrolled in American colleges J and universities than in those Jof any other country. And no other country has sent ?o Jmany students abroad. 5 The possible exception might be Russia. Just how
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  • 384 11  -  EDWIN P. JORDAN By MD. Written for NEA Service Many Cancer Patients Saved By Successful Removal Of Lung TN 1933 Dr. Evarts Graham 1 of St. Louis removed a lung from a follow physician who had a cancer. The patient was cured and has remained in active
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