The Straits Times, 13 October 1949

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  • 21 1 The Straits Times 13 Oct 1949 MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1949. PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 1141 1 RUSSIA-U.K. CLASH AT ECAFE Objection To Malayan As A Chairman Over-ruled In S'pore CLASH between the Russian and British delegates over the right of a Malayan to be chairman marked the, opening meeting in Singapore yesterday of the ECAFE (Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East) Committee on Industry
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  • 244 1 HONG KONG, Wednesday. of evacuees from doomed Canton, Nationalist China's temporary capital, were flooding into Hong Kong by all available transport today as radio telephone messages reported Communist forces within 30 miles of the city. Chinese newspapers said armed Communist "fifth columnists" were firing in
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  • 75 1 STRAITS TIMES PICTURES, 1949 Th« purple-green of the vegetation on the slopes of Penang Hill and the dazzling colours of sarong and kebaya at a Malay sultan's installation faithfully reproduced in COLOUR Nineteen full-colour illustrations in STRAITS TIMES PICTURES 1949 the most ambitious vet attempted The price remains the same
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  • 32 1 NEW DELHI. Wed.— lndian Government sources said today that India was cancelling the scheduled import of 40,000 tons of Siamese rice during the fourth quarter of this year.— U.P.
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  • 174 1 Dening For Singapore Conference LONDON. Wed. The British Foreign Office today announced that Mr. M. E. Dening. Under-Secre-tary of State for Eastern Affairs, would attend the Singapore conference of British representatives in the Far East to be held in November by the British CommissionerGeneral in South-East Asia. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald.
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  • 43 1 CANBERRA, Wed.—Australia's population is expected to increase by a record figure of 250,000 this year, Mr. Arthur Calwell, Minister for Immigration, said today. "The dangers confronting Australia today are a Communist China and a resurgent Japan," he added.— Reuter, A.A.P.
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  • 56 1 VIENNA. Wed. Austria's new government, following last Sunday's elections, is expected to be set up at the end of next week. According to Austrian constitutional law the new Parliament must be constituted and called together by Nov. 8 at the latest. Negotiations among party leaders are expected
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  • 227 1 From Our Special Correspondent HAADZAI, Siam, Wednesday. MALAYS from Kelantan are trying to cause i?l disturbances in the four south Siam provinces of Patani, Yala, Naradhavas and Setul, General Mom Luang Chuang Seniwongse, president of the South Siam Security Council, declared yesterday. He told a six-man
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  • 92 1 .....BUT MALAYS SAY OTHERWISE SIAMESE police and sol- diers are terrorising the Muslim population in the Southern States, the Penang Malay paper, Warta Negara, reports, quoting Malay refugees arriving in Kota Rharu, Kelantan. The Malay inhabitants are forced to keep indoors most of the day and at night because many
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  • 201 1 WASHINGTON. Wed. ORESIDENT Truman today told the Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, and a small group of dinner guests that "the world needs more men like Nehru who have the courage to live up to their ideals." This remark was made during the course
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  • 112 1 LONDON, Wednesday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, and the 1 Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, will discuss the general election timing tonight in a private talk following the Foreign Secretary's return from the United States. Mr. Attlee is likely to maintain complete silence
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  • 24 1 TOKYO, Wed.— About 6,440 foreigners visited Japan in the first nine months of this year, the Japan Travel Bureau announced today. Reuter.
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  • 289 1 FEDERATION SPONSORED RADIO MOVE From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. CONSULTATIONS are at present taking place between the Federation and Singapore Governments on the question of whether sponsored programmes should be relayed over Radio Malaya. A Federal Government spokesman told the Straits Times today that this action had been
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  • 40 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Wed. TIN shares were a very strong market on the stock exchange yesterday and today on hopes of an early settlement of the interim price, which is rumoured to be around £650.
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  • 141 1 Ceylon Decides To Hit Back COLOMBO, Wed. CITIZENS of countries dis criminating against Cey lonese may get similar treat ment in Ceylon under the Commonwealth Resident's (Citizenship) Bill now being drafted here, the Colombo Daily News said today The newspaper's influential political comn.entator "Memo" described the bill as "a buffer
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  • 26 1 MANILA, Wed.— Michael J. O'Doherty. 75-year-old Archbishop of Manila, was in a critical condition tonight. He 1s suffering from double lobar pneumonia.— A. P.
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  • 182 2 100,000 ACCLAIM NEW east German PRESIDENT BERLIN, Wednesday. THIRTY thousand blue-shirted Free German youth carrying torches marched in procession behind brass bands along the Unter Den Linden in the Soviet sector to celebrate the election of Wilhelm Pieck, 73-year-old Communist leader, as first President of the East German Republic, yesterday.
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  • 100 2 LAKE SUCCESS, Wed. THE United Nations Political Committee today set up a 21 -nation subcommittee to consider all proposals for the future of Italy's former African colonies. It also decided to suspend Its own meetings and to await a report from trie subcommittee by Saturday
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  • 93 2 WASHINGTON, Wed. THE Japanese American Citizens' League has protested against discrimination against Nisei officers in British rest-houses in Japan. (Nisei are Americanborn Japanese. Many served in the U.S. forces). The protest referred to "exclusion of men of nonCaucasian ancestry who, in the late war, gave
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  • 194 2 LONDON, Wednesday. MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, Conservative Party leader, yesterday condemned a proposal to promise British workers a national minimum wage of £6 a week, put forward by Lord Beaverbrook. Lord Beaverbrook, Conservative "rebel," published the proposal in a 10-point policy statement on the front page of his
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  • 44 2 BELGRADE, Wed—Yugoslavia has protested "most energetically" against the alleged ambush and murder of a Yugoslav frontier guard by an Albanian border patrol. In a Note handed to the Albanian Legation, Yugoslavia has demanded immediate punishment of "those who committed the revolting murder."—Reuter.
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    31 2 MAJOK-GhNtittAl. Vichien Su Tan, Chief of Technical Services of the Siamese, Army, records his impressions of a visit to the Swiss Army Mechanised Training School at Thun A.P. Picture.
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  • 92 2 Cable Flashes Rival's Heart Cost Him Wife And Life STANLEYVILLE (Belgian Congo), Wed. A NATIVE has been banged for killing his wife's lover and eating hb heart. It is the first ritual cannibalism death sentence for years. He said he ate the heart "to I become as beautiful and j
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    • 292 2 NOTICES SALE OF CIGARETTES AND TOBACCO The War Department may have available for sale between six and eight million cigarettes (Capstan, Players and Gold-Flake all packed In tins) and approximately 972 lbs Tobacco. Cigarettes and Tobacco are located In Singapore and any sale would be "in situ". Further details may
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    • 217 2 NOTICES HIRASONS& COMPANY wish to announce their removal to 30-1, RAFFLES PLACE (first Floor) operative as from 10th. October, IMS. Telephone— B2slB P.O. Box No. UN. Telegrams "OrtMu Singapore" BY OBOEK OF THE ASSISTANT COMPTROLLER OF CI'STOMS. SINGAPORE GRAND AUCTION SALE OF 263 "ROYCE" water-proof wristwatches (without straps). 17 jewels,
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  • 364 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. rpHREE U.S. Congress- men who recently passed through Singapore on a fact-finding tour of South-East Asia yesterday told America of their impressions. Representative Harold O. Lovre said: "There is a crying need for U.S. food and manufactured articles in every
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  • 38 3 US' IRON CURTAIN' ENVOYS TO MEET ROME, Wed. THE I S. Ambassador to 1 Britain, Mr. Lewis DouKlar. said yesterday that a London meeting of American diplomats from Eastern Euiope will plan coordinated counter-attacks against Communist propaganda. A.r,
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  • 158 3 LONDON, Wednesday. yHE opposition Conservative Party's biggest ever 1 annnal conference today unanimously adopted an emergency resolution condemning the Labour Government's economic conduct culminating in devaluation of the pound sterling. Meeting amid feverish speculation that a general election might be held earlier than next spring perhaps
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  • 92 3 Siam Has Paid £1,800,000 In War Claims From Our Own Corrtspomjent BANGKOK. Wk I PPROXIMATELY 1,80(3,000 has so far been paid by the Siamese Government for "personal prejudice" war claim? brought by British subjects in Slam, the Siamese Deputy Foreign Minister, M*. Pliot sarasin, said today. A number of war
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  • 294 3 'We Will Tell Atom Secrets' (If You Will Too) -Russia States will do the same, and formally proposed a United Nations am« census Mr Jacob Malik, Soviet delegate on the United NatSns Tsecnrit? Council, put forward the proposal last night after vetoinr an American Dr o posal for separating efforts
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  • 38 3 MR. ANEURIN BEVAN, Minister of Health, was among those who watched a demonstration of Yoga Riven by 25 Indians during- a reception held by Mr. Krishna Menon, Indian High Commissioner in London, iecently. AT.
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  • 145 3 NEW YORK, Wed. WO decision has been reached on the request of the crew of the American tanker, Saint Christopher, for repatriation from Singapore, a spokesman for Selling and Jarvls, operators of the vessel, said yesterday. Thirty-one members of the tanker's crew refused to sail
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  • 141 3 BATAVIA, Wed. THE Indonesian Repub- lie's Foreign Minister, Hajl Agoes Salim, said today that the roundtable conference on Indonesia at The Hague was proceeding "splendidly." He strongly deprecated the "conjecture and speculations made in the Dutch and Indonesian press." Meanwhile, five Dutch soldiers were
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  • 78 3 LAKE SUCCESS. Wed.—Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Andrei Vyshlnsky yesterday denied that Hungary, Bulgaria, and Rumania had violated human rights. He counter-charged that the working classes In "capitalist" countries were denied elementary rights to employment, equal housing and equal pay. Provocateurs had tried to undermine the struggle of
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  • 44 3 HONG KONG. Wed. The first batch of 42 Russian Embassy employees and their families returning to Moscow from Canton are due to arrive here this afternoon. Today's batch, numbering 21, will board the Soviet vessel Tsuchlma here for Vladivostok. Reuter.
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  • 58 3 "BIG BEN"— NOJ THE CLOCK-QUITS LONDON. Wed.— The British Parliament is losing "Big Ben"— not the famous clock tower, but police constable Benjamin Stebbings, 5 feet 11 inches, 17 stone, one of the biggest men in the force. P. C. Stebbings nas looked after M.P.'s for 20 years and has
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  • 62 4 CLOSE liaison work is being maintained between officers of the Frontier Branch. Federation Police, and Siamese officers on the Siamese-Ma layan border. Top picture shows a Malayan Fron tier Branch policeman checking the identity card of a lorry driver who has just crossed the Siamese border at Ayer-
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  • 81 4 Siam Navy Hunt For 500 Bandits From Oar Own Correspondent BANGKOK. Wed. TWO Siamese naval gun- hoaU> are patrolling the South Siam coast in search m a band of approximately 500 Ciiiiie.se and Malay fugitive* v-hu are believed to have escaped into South Siam from Malaya by sea. Simultaneously, Siamese
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  • 250 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE Emergency (Injury Allowances) Regulations, A 1949, which are to be gazetted soon, provide higher rates of pensions payable to dependants or officers where death or injury is caused by bandit activity, said an official announcement today. The
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  • 97 4 Up To 1/2 Pay For Injured Officers From Oar SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. UNDER the new Emergency pensions scheme, an injured officer who retires will be paid an injury allowance at the following rates: Where the injured officer's capacity to contribute to his support is— Slightly Impaired: yy 8
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  • 143 4 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. rO widows will call on the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, with the PanMalayan Pensioners' -Association delegation on Friday to express their grievances on pensions. One is Mrs. S R. Gabriel, the mother of 12 children,
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  • 40 4 Front Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. For sharing half a bottle of samsu on which duty not been paid, Weng Choh and Chan Hen. rubber tappers of Senal, were today fined $10 each by the magistrate.
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  • 374 4 BANDITS BURN BUS NEAR KUALALUMPUR t rom Uur Stan Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. VjLTEST Pahang went without sea fish and newspapers today because bandits held up and fired a bus carrying: them 16} miles north of Kuala Lumpur. The bandits stopped the bus at about 8.30 this morning along the
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  • 57 4 A "flying zoo" from Bangkok will land at Tengah on Subday with four elephants, four black panthers, a full-grown tiger, several pythons, and scores of monkeys. The animals, bound for Europe and the United States, will be joined at Singapore by about 150 monkeys. KLM's "flying
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  • 105 4 From Our Staff Correspondent GEMAS. Wed. OUT of 194 Malayan Railway signalmen. 25 have resigned, 30 have been "medically condemned" and transferred to other services and eight have died suddenly, a memorandum from the Signalmen's Union to the Bpnham salaries committee .states. The Union states that
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  • 46 4 From Oar SUB Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.Musllm bin Kassim and Md. Tahir, two special constables, were today charged in the police court with fraudulent possession of 75 katls of rice. Both claimed trial and the case was postponed to next month for hearing.
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  • 118 4 •THE love triangle and jeal- ousy play a smaller part in domestic troubles In Singapore than other causes, according to the.. Colony's Social Welfare Department Indulgence in vices, dissipation, unemployment and insufficient Income were the main causes of 81 family disputes which came before thp
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  • 33 5 Miol MARGERY CARTY and Mr. James Moore, who were married at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in Singapore yesterday, cutting the wedding cake at the reception. Straits Times pictnrsw
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  • 333 5 MALAYA CAN DEVELOP HER DEMOCRACY 'THE U.S. WAY' JHE Malayan can perhaps learn something from the American in the development of his democracy, because American democracy has had to meet the problem of welding different peoples into a nation. This statement was made by Prof. Ralph Turner, Durfee Professor of
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  • 61 5 Kamala Circus, the only Indian circus in the Far East, will open a season in Singapore within the next fortnight Mr. V. P Panlker. manager of the circus who arrived in Singapore from Kuchlng yesterday to finalise arrangements, told the Straits Times that the circus will be
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  • 133 5 THE Australian Govern- ment Commissioner in Malaya, Mr. Claude Massey, said yesterday that during his recent six-weeks visit to Australia he met more than 60 Malayan students. "I have messages for about 50 parents in Malaya and I am writing to them all personally this week,"
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  • 21 5 Fines totalling about $150 for infringements of regulations were imposed on SO cyclists in the Fifth Police court yesterday.
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  • 66 5 Celling prices of Jute goods as fixed by the Government of India, are:' Hessian of 40 Inches, 10 ounces. Rs. 55 for 100 yards; sacking Rs. 1,550 per ton. These are the prices at which mills will sell these goods. Exporters will be allowed to
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  • 114 5 A CTOR PRODUCER Anthony Quayle, director of the Stratford-on-Avon Memorial Theatre told the Straits Times that "it might be possible to sandwich in two or three performances" by the Stratford players at Singapore if the company broke its return air journey from Australia next February. Mr. Quayle said
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  • 85 5 MALAY TOST AID GLASS, Kota Raja Malay School. Victoria Street, 5.30 p.m. Y.W.C.A., 5, Raffles Quay, advanced Malay class, 8.30 pjn. POLICE BAND, Tiorfg Bahru, p.m. to 7 pjn. THBOBOFBICAL SOCIETY. Mesari K. N. Ramanathan and R. N. Vis wana than otf "The Pilgrimage," 8, Calrnhlll Road. 6.90
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  • 68 5 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHOBE BAHRU. Wednesday. 11/ HEN Cboog Ah Tee was charged before Ungku IsTf man. Circuit Magistrate, at Mcrsing witn being drunk and Incapable In public the prosecution stated that he was found trying to break Into a room In the building
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  • 150 5 WITH the Singapore Municipal elections only seven weeks oft, political parties have begun a preliminary survey of possible candidates to contest the six seals due to tall vacant Today, a committee of the Progressive Party holds it* Mrs pre-eleetiosi meeting name* of likely candidates will be
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    • 1028 6 Padi Field Reports Some of the most important work that is being done in Malaya today is described in the latest number of the Malayan Agricultural Journal. This is a special number devoted to mechanisation, and is the second of its kind, the first having been published in January of
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    • 69 6 From Our SUff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Hundreds of Chinese school children today visited the Chinese Assembly Hall where an exhibition of brush paintings by Mr. Chen Wen-hsi was opened by Mr. LI Chin. The Chinese Consul-General. Mr. Chen was born In Teochew, Kwantung, Province. In 1908 and
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  • 1249 6 fHE report of the first British Productivity Team to visit the United States, under the aegis of the Anglo-Ameri-can Council on Productivity, emphasises the lesson which must be learnt if the devaluation of sterling is to bring any benefit. Devaluation creates an opportunity to conquer
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  • 645 6 The Sultan and Dato Onn: A Kedah view YOUR editorial of October 7, styled "Dato Onn's Future" might, I suggest, more suitably have borne the heading "Have Your Cake And Eat It." You speak of the Sultan of Johore "demandIng" Dato Onn's resignation, but, unless I have missed some
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  • 289 6 ALTHOUGH Mr. Lim A Yew Hock himself Is silent on the point, your report of his resignation from the Progressive Party in order to join the Labour Party seems to indicate that every trade unionist who is not a member of the latter is
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  • 286 7 Must Move Out By Tomorrow Q( VU PANTS of more than 40 attap shacks in St. George's Road, who are holding up the erection of 70 labour quarters by their refusal to quit the land, have until tomorrow to make up their minds. Measures
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  • 138 7 SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners, who are depending on a firm of lawyers to carry out their legal work may have their own legal branch by 1951. A proposal to form the nucleus of a legal branch in the Municipal Secretariat v;is favoured by a committee of
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  • 12 7 The police band will perform at Tiong Bahru this evening.
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  • 212 7 TIME 'RIPE 'FOR LIFTING OF BAN LABOURERS FROM INDIA THE need for consultation between Malaya and India concerning the movement to this country of Indian refugees was urged yesterday by Mr. S. M. Sharma, an Ipoh lawyer who has just returned from India. M Sharma told the Straits Times that
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  • 52 7 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU Wed. Two special constables who had been under detention were produced in the Police Court today when the prosecution asked for their discbarge The application was granted. The men were Tik bin Jaffa and Hashlm bin Mh. Zin. both of Sungei Tiram.
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  • 135 7 Indonesian's Flag Plea THE leader of the Indonesian delegation to the ECAFE Committee on Industry and Trade in Singapore, Mr. Suradibrata, yesterday asked if an Indonesian flag could be placed in conference hall alongside the flags of other nations which were participating. On Monday, another Indonesian delegate, Mr. R. Sardjoo,
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  • 90 7 MEW Zealand's delegate and chairman of the ad hoc ECAFE Sub-Com-mittee on travel, Mr. J. S. Reid, won the "battle for tea" at yesterday's afternoon session of the meeting. When Mr. Reid proposed a break at seven minutes to four until 4.10 for
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  • 225 7 rpHE Radiologist at the Singapore Anti-tuber- culosis Association's treatment centre in Cantonment Road, Dr. G. H. Garlick, told the Press that a very high percentage of persons applying for help at the centre were found to be suffering from tuberculosis in an acute form
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  • 32 7 THE Asia Insurance Co. 1 Ltd., has donated a further $8,000, making $10,000 hi all, to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund. The total received by the fund is $1,319,430.
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  • 61 7 A 25-year-old Chinese told the Second Police magistrate yesterday that he tried to end his life because: His wife left him when he lost his job; His mother-in-law "chased" him out of the house when his wife "walked-out" on him. The man, See Kirn Seng,
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  • 301 7 Spotlight On The Men From Moscow THE leader of Russian dele- gation at yesterday's opening session in Singapore of the ECAFE Committee on Industry and Trade, Mr. S. 8. Nemtchlna, was the busiest speaker of all delegates, and his microphone wm continually being switched on and off. Two issues— the
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  • 37 7 A bill to make provision for safeguarding and disposing of property of persons unascertained, or absent because of hostilities In Malaya, will be introduced In the Singapore Legislative Council. Enemy property will not be affected.
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  • 128 7 Housewives' League? Not The Answer Miss Wee A HOUSEWIVES' Association, as suggested by Mrs. Robert Eu, Singapore's only woman Municipal Commissioner, will not solve the problem of high prices in Singapore, said Miss Wee Klat Neo. chairman of the Women's Section of the Army Civil Service Union, yesterday. Miss Wee
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  • 194 7 GUNS WILL GREET U.S. CRUISER r*IHE 16,500 ton United States heavy cruiser St. Paul will herald her arrival In Singapore Roads with a 21-gun salute at eight o'clock this morning. She is on a flve-day informal courtesy visit to Singapore. Vice- Admiral Russel S. Berkey, USN, Commander of the Seventh
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  • 100 7 At leasi 100 people will take part in the pilgrimage to Italy which the Singapore Roman Catholic Committee of the Holy Year Is planning for May next year. A spokesman of the Committee told the Straits Times it was difficult to ascertain what transport or shipping accommodation
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  • 55 7 The eleven Chinese, aged between 19 and 37. who appeared In the Singapore Fourth Police Court for alleged housebreaklng and theft from the Straits Trading Company on Aug. 25. were yesterday committed for trial at the next Assizes. They were alleged to have stolen 58
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  • 45 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Sir Ismail, the Regent of Johore, celebrates his birthday on Saturday, Oct. 29. The Royal Johore International Club, of which he is President, is holding a special dinner to be followed by a dance at the club.
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  • 87 7 npWO of the Singapore Chinese schools which flew the Chinese Communist flag on Double Tenth were tarred at dawn yesterday. They were the Sin Ming and the Phay Tao primary schools In Upper Serangoon Road. The Sin Ming school had Its big roadside signboard and
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  • 215 7 —Story In Court A HOUSEWIFE'S struggle with a masked intruder in her house in Broadrick Road, Katong, was related at a preliminary inquiry in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday. In the dock was an English-speaking Chinese, Harold Lim (28), tentatively charged with robbery of
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  • 115 7 ■THE first annual meeting since the war of the Salvation Army Boys' Industrial Home in Singapore was held yesterday. Mr. L. Raynrr presided. Brigadier F. W. Harvey said that the Home was faciir; tremendous financial problems. "We go on from month to month on
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  • Straits Times Thursday Magarzine
    • 719 8  -  K. KAYE By IN GARDEN, New Jersey, I.S.A. the other week, a 27 \ear-old American ex-service- man ran Hnok, shot gnd killed 12 people ■nd wounded live others. In Australia, a pyja-ma-clad man ran madly through the streets of Adelaide's suburbs, attacked a milkman, chased a cyclist and
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    • 981 8  -  CHARLES STUART OTS of people nave wondered why the elephant is not to be found on the island of Java, but still inhabits the island of Sumatra. Of course there is a very good reason for this and It can be better told in the
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    • 149 8 "A university should be a place of light, of liberty and of learning" Disraeli TVJOW that the first phase has elapsed we should *>: direct our efforts in such a way as to make an effective demand for a first class university equipped with all the proper facilities
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 211 8 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD >H STV. •SffVTV"""" CROSSWORD No. 214 ucularly <5». 11 A iun Hat to eormpond 3 I I* H 4 I C Songbird wltk i «bort with i treM (S-U. II II M| j I I Planet found In tb« m J 21 Disloyalty caa cauaa 10. Gazed
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  • 616 9 WHEN a baby's playpen or cot, or perhaps an armchair or book case is delivered to the buyer from the workshops of the Salvation Army Boys' Industrial Home in Singapore, it is brought personaly by the boy who made it. Thus the article on which
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    12 9 SALVATION ARMY Home boys seen at work yesterday in the tailoring workshop.
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  • 1149 9 Considerable interest was aroused recently by the presence of the Bearded Pig in Malaya. In these notes, which appeared in the Ma layan Nature Journal, Mr. J.A. Hislop tells of the seasonal migration of the pig. |)R. C. A. Gibson-Hill records that Mr. Mumford (of
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 92 9 Not every lay-down game can be bid It Is sometimes impossible for the partners to realise that they have a magnificent "fit." There U no excuse, however, when a team Is so shamefully out-bid u North-South was in today's dealt West, dealer Neither side vulnerable •iii PP.4 na e 9
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    • 165 9 ing himself. He ruffed dummy's three clubs and won, in all, six diamond tricks and two spades. Now observe the number of tricks that North-South could have made Just as easily at a club contract! Their only losers at that denomination were two spades! In all fairness there is great
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  • Commercial And shipping News
    • 201 10 From Our Market Correspondent WITH a rather more optimistic view taken with regard to the outcome of the discussions on the tin price, the share market both locally and in London was firmer yesterday and prices again showed improvement. Industrial shares were mainly unchanged. Price
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    • 219 10 NEED FOR WORLD TIN POLICY From Oav Own Coneapaoacal LONDON, Wed. MR. P. J. Burgess, chairman of Klnta Kellas Tin Dredging Co., in his circulated annual statement, refers to the international discussions regarding the future price of tin and says it is expected that some authoritative estimates for future production
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    • 86 10 RUBBER companies' output! for September are as follows: Brunei United Plantations 34.000 lbs, Changkat Serdang Estates 30.000 lbs.. Charmang Development 167,000 lbs., Haytor Rubber 15.600 lbs.. Indragiri Rubber 50.000 lbs., Lunas Rubber 68,000 lbs., Nyalas Rubber Estates 58,000 Riverview Rubber Estates 188,999 lbs., Tapah Rubber "States
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    • 264 10 QHICE3 in the Singapore 1 rubber market improved by slightly more than half a cent per Ib. yesterday on some support from New York and indications that stockpile buying was likely La the near future. The market steadied after Tuesday's easiness. Closing prices yesterday were:
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    • 137 10 TAKING part in the devaluation debate in the House of Commons recently, Mr. Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, said a number of the decisions reached at Washington, especially those relating to rubber and tin, to stockpiling as well as more general subjects, would
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    • 79 10 CHIPS in port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Main Wharf: Talangakar (33-34), Tjlpanas (38-39). West Wharf: Dymas (1-2), Rajula (8-9), Beleru (14). Empire Dock: AJax (17-18), Gorgon (19-20), Maxwell Brander (21-22), Benalbanach (29-30). Today's Wharf Arrivals: Bidor (14), Bruas (33-34),
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    • 347 10 LONDON, Wed. Thus London Stock Exchange has become election conscious. Continued reference by political leaders to the possibility of a general election in the near future has reduced stock market business but has brought rising prices to industrial issues. Higher levels were recorded yesterday by miscellaneous industrial leaders,
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    • 358 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA CEYLON, INDIA ICY FT ANO MEDITERRANEAN PORTS. S'Dore P STvam Penana Willamette Victonr 15/19 Oct 20/21 Oat. 32/24 Oct Pro*. PeSi 29 Oct./! Nev Oiatts. 4/7 Mac. Maaat Oaeae 9/15 Nev. 16/17 Nov. 18/21 Nev Meaat MaeiMeM 23/29 Nev. JO Nov./
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  • 405 11 Good Display By Leembruggen G.H.Q. FARELF 11; ASIANS Nil. ALTHOUGH Singapore Asians were beaten by G.H.Q. FARELF by eleven points to nil in a game played in a steady downpour of rain at Tanglin yesterday, they by no means disgraced themselves. Giving away about 251
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  • 27 11 PENANG and Talping swim men who took part in the University Endowment Fund Gala held at Coronation Pool, Talping, last Saturday.—Photoa y.— Photo by Kong Joo Hong.
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  • 101 11 The following are teams for the Singapore Admiralty Local Staff Union v. Navy hockey match to be played on the Suara ground today at 5 p.m.: S.A.L.S.r Bakar Hassan: Mehar Singh, Bakar Sidek; Mohd. All, Darshan Singh, Sol Yong; Khalaff, Mohd Jamat, Wong Slew Choon,
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  • 101 11 YESTERDAY'S rain, which deterred two men's teams from keeping their hockey date at the S.R.C. end of the padang. held no terrors for the women's team of the Singapore Cricket Club and the Changi W.A.A.F. Playing in a steady drissle throughout on the S.C.C.
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  • 157 11 Victorians Hockey Win THE first and second hockey elevens of St. Patricks and Victoria Schools met at St. Patrick's yesterday, resulting in Victoria School winning one-nil in the first eleven encounter and second teams drawing two-all. Rain made the ground very sloppy. In the first game Victorians' second team W
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  • 61 11 "Hie Indian Recreation club's soccer team to play against Combined Navy on Saturday at Farrer Park will be selected from:— K. Narayanan. S. Slhambaram, M. Razak, A. Rahim leapt.), s. Valoo, 8. Muthlah M. Oani, T. Nodrajah, S. Murugasu, N. Paramaslvam, M. Munlandy, A. Sallahudln, 8.
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  • 48 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Play in the men's monthly medal at the Royal Johore International Club, combined with the qualifying round for the Way Foong Cup, begins to-morrow and will be continued on Oct. 14 to 16. The women's monthly medal competition will be played on Tuesday.
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  • 5 11 MALAYS DEFEAT ROYAL NAVY 4-2
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  • 371 11 Malays 4; Royal Navy t. YIELDING their strongest side, Malays beat Royal r Navy four-two at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday in a Singapore A.F.A. Community League game. It rained throughout the game, but the heavy turf did not dampen the enthusiasm of the players, neither did
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  • 288 11 Dave Sands Wins Hard Battle LONDON, Wed. DAVE SANDS. Australian and British Empire middleweight champion, outpointed Pete Mead, of the United Btates, over ten rounds in their top of the bill contest at Harrlngay arena, London, last night. Bands had what must have been one of the hardest fights of
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  • 132 11 In a game of badminton played in aid of the University of Malaya Endowment Fund, the United B.P. of Pontian defeated the C.R.C. of Batu Pahat by stx matches to one on Monday last. Results (United players mentioned first) SINGLES: Syed Omar beat Ng Boon Hiong 5-15,
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  • 63 11 St. Andrews School were not disgraced when they lost to the R.A.F. SJeletar Second XV at rugger by 11 points (goal, try, penalty goal) to nil on the school ground yesterday. It was a very keen game, despite rain which fell throughout. The Airmen scored tries
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  • 31 11 Negrt as mhllan Malay Teacher 'beat On' aagapare Malay Teachers' Union by six goals to three in a friendly game of soccer olaved at Farm park yesterday
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    • 83 11 SINGAPORE 10.00 News from Kuala Lumpur; 10.05 Close; 10.55 For the Schools; 12.00 Programmes In Malay. 1.00 Light music; 1.30 News (also at 7 9.30); 2.00 Close; 6.00 Programme Summary; 6.02 Children's Programme: 6-20 Calling All Hospitals; 7.10 This is Communism; 7.30 O raldo Benny Goodman; 8.00 Forum of the
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    • 77 11 8i 9.30); 12.00-1.00 Malay Programme (As 8'pore); 1.00-2.00 English Programme (As S'pore); 2.00 Close; 6.00 Programme Summary; 6.02 Mall Bag; 7.10 This Is Communism; 7.20 Share Market Report; 7.90 Famous Jan Swing Combinations; 8.00 Forum of the Air; 8.30 Thursday Symphony; 9.46 American Favourites- 10.90 Happy Anniversary; 11.00 Close. B.F.E.B.S.
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    • 88 11 9.00 Kuoyu; 6.30 BurtOM*; t.48 English- 10.00 Radio Newt Reel; 10.18 "London Studio Concerts"; 10.46 Generally Speaking"; 11.00 Dance Music; 11.15 "Special Dispatch 1 11 JO News; 11.45 Light Music; 12.00 Close. AUSTRALIA 5.30 pjn. Forces Favourites; 6.00 The Swing Show; 6.30 Overseas to Australian News (also at 8.30, 10
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  • 2391 12  -  EPSOM JEEP Martini ($129) And John ($77) In Day Of Upsets By PENANG, Wednesday. J"HE INEVITABLE three-figure dividend winners cropped up on a heavy track at Penang today, the second day of the Penang Turf Club's Autumn meeting. Bright Mengseng (Little) beat the
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  • 151 12 DETROIT, Wed. TALMADGE Bussey, 26-year-old Detroit lightweight boxer, died yesterday of injuries received in a bout on Monday night. Bussey was taken to St. Mary's hospital where an operation was performed for removal of a blood clot from his brain. Coroner Samuel B. Milton ordered
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  • 164 12 DESPITE rain and a slippery I ball, the Singapore Cricket Club "A" XV and Nee Soon Ist XV had an enjoyable game of rugger on the padang yesterday which the Club won by six points (two tries) to nil. The Club had a noticeably heavier
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  • 27 12 SOCCER: Tlonff Ba.hr u Ranfer% t. Johore Prisons, Farrer Park (friendly). HOCKEY: S.R.C. T. Shell 8.C., padang; Navy v. Admir ally Local Staff, Snara ground.
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  • 67 12 Teams for tomorrow's hockey match between S.C.C. and A.C.8. Old Boys on the padang at ft. IB p.m. are: S.C.C: Margrave; Dennis, Reeves: Vanstolk, Low*, Home; Wills, Pekelharing. Pearcey, Smith, Andrews. ACS OB A Tang Chee Yuen; Dr. Ong Swee Law, Cheong Thlam Slew; Oob Chin Chye, K.
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  • 139 12 NEWMARKET, Wed. JOSEPH RANK'S four-year-olci J colt, Strathspey, ridden by E. Smith and starting at 25-1, won a thrilling race for the Cesarewltch run over two-and-a-quarter miles here this afternoon. Percy Thompson's Coubrador, starting 100-8, joint favourite, was a head behind second with Walter Hutchlnson's Blue Coral
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  • 210 12 BRITISH EMPIRE GAMES VTALAYAN prospects of representation at the iTI British Empire Games in New Zealand next February are brightest in weight-lifting events, it was stated at the Singapore Olympic Sports Council meeting yesterday. Besides weight-lifting, the only representation for Malaya at the meet will be
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  • 648 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. QNE HUNDRED and forty »lx horses, among them several who will be making their debut In Malaya, have been entered (or the three-day race meeting of the Selangor Turf Club beginning Oct. 2a for Class 2 and Class
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  • 217 12 SAFA Gives All-India Final List Of Dates TF the All-India football team are unable to be here to fulfil fixtures arranged for them at a S.A.F.A. emergency council meeting yesterday, their tour may have to be called off. A telegram to this effect has been sent to the manager of
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  • 56 12 TAN BENO CHIN— flfre 50, passed away peacefully on Wei. Utt. Oct., at 85-A Marine ParacK Leaving behind his beloved Wife, 2 sons, 8 daughters, 3 sons-in-law. Messrs. Koh Ah Kow. T;iy Leong Kee, Lim Boon Chuan, ;'nd 6 grandchildren. Funeral on F-i-day at 4 p.m. to Poh Kuk
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